Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 4.93/10 (15 teams)
1) “One Night in Bangkok,” the hit single from Chess, featured music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, former members of what band?
2) The Amar Opening, Réti Opening, and Dunst Opening all start with white moving what piece on their first move?
3) What Lewis Carroll novel takes place on a series of fields resembling a giant chess board?
4) The bishop in modern chess is a modern version of what piece in chaturanga, which represented one of the four classical divisions of the Indian army?
5) Bobby Fischer died in what European country, which had awarded him citizenship because he “put it on the map”?
6) The book Poems and Problems combines chess problems with poems originally written in Russian and translated into English by what author?
7) If you’d like a bunch of bored white-collar workers to transcribe audio, label pictures, or other human-necessary tasks, you could use what Amazon web service, which was named after an 18th-century chess-playing automaton secretly controlled by a human?
8) Pixar’s short film “Geri’s Game” was theatrically released before what film, their second full-length feature?
9) In 1999, MSN Gaming Zone hosted “the greatest game in the history of chess,” where Gary Kasparov spent 4 months playing — and eventually defeating — what credited opponent?
10) In The Seventh Seal, a knight plays a game of chess with Death. During their Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted play four different games with Death, winning them all. Name 1 for one point, and all 4 for two points.
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