September’s Old Pequliar quiz as a Wordle piece.
(And here’s August’s. This month, I stripped out the round titles.)
Tag: art (Page 2 of 2)
Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on July 1, 2008.
Average score: 6.94/10 (17 teams who know quite a bit about Ms. Spears)
1) The Daniel Edwards sculpture “Monument to Pro-Life” depicts Britney doing what?
2) Spears won a Worst Supporting Actress Razzie for her appearance in what documentary, where she encouraged us to “trust our president in every decision he makes” and “be faithful in what happens”?
3) Rumor has it that Justin Timberlake sang about Britney cheating on him in what 2004 Grammy-winning song? (Arthur Hamilton’s 1953 song does not involve Ms. Spears, however)
4) “My baby is my religion,” declared Britney in 2006, adding that she no longer studied what practice that she was introduced to by Madonna?
5) Before she became a Mouseketeer, Britney competed as a singer on what television series?
6) Britney’s first two albums include what punctuation mark in their titles?
7) Curious, Fantasy, and Believe are the names of three of Britney Spears’ what?
8) Newsstand sales for what 150-year-old magazine took a nosedive when they put Britney on the cover of their April 2008 issue?
9) Britney took two of her favorite places and combined the abbreviations for them to create what four-letter name for what Manhattan restaurant that she opened in 2002?
10) “Easy, boy,” says what Viagra spokesman, calming down his dog at the climax of a commercial where Britney sings an ode to the joy of Pepsi?
Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on May 6, 2008
Average score: 6.33/10 (12 teams)
1) In Toy Story, the little green aliens who live at Pizza Planet believe they’re destined be chosen to go to a better place — by what?
2) If you’re using a MetroCard vending machine, you’re probably planning to take public transit in what metro area?
3) “I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man” is the opening lyric to what 1996 Sheryl Crow song?
4) If you travel to Japan to indulge your buru-sera fetish, you might be disappointed to discover that it’s against the law to stock vending machines with what?
5) Contestants competed to create the best amuse buche using $10 worth of ingredients from vending machines on an episode of what reality show?
6) You can buy black-and-white photos wrapped in cellophane from the original Art-O-Mat machine, a vintage vending machine that originally sold what?
7) AltaVista’s translation service takes its name from what small, yellow, highly improbable creature sold in vending machines in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
8) What 1927 Edward Hopper painting is set in a restaurant where you could buy an entire meal from vending machines?
9) In the movie Airport, just before boarding an airplane with a bomb in a briefcase, D.O. Guerrero buys what from an airport vending machine?
10) Last week, over 700,000 people watched a video on YouTube of Hillary Clinton attempting to do what with a machine in a convenience store?
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1) In August 1991, Demi Moore appeared nude and 7 months pregnant on the cover of what magazine?
2) What common term for a voyeur invokes the name of a tailor who got an eyeful of Lady Godiva?
3) What alt-porn site was founded in Portland in 2001 because the founders wanted to see “hot punk rock girls naked”?
4) Janet Jackson had a famous breast-exposing wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Who won the game?
5) What pair of lovebirds appears naked on the cover of the 1968 album Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins?
6) Who wrote and illustrated In the Night Kitchen, a frequently censored picture book about Mickey, a naked boy who falls into a big bowl of dough?
7) Who painted The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe), a famous painting featuring a nude woman having a picnic lunch with two fully dressed men?
8) Two actors get naked in the first episode of NYPD Blue: David Caruso, and who?
9) Louise Bourgeois’s statue Father and Son in the Olympic Sculpture Park, depicting a naked man and a naked boy, inspired Seattle resident Judy Fenton to do what?
10) In 1991, Piero Cannata attacked Michaelangelo’s famous statue of David with a hammer. What body part did Cannata break?
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