Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on May 6, 2008
Average score: 6.33/10 (12 teams)

From the audio clip, identify the TV show and the speaker (half point each).

1) TV Speeches: Clip 1
2) TV Speeches: Clip 2
3) TV Speeches: Clip 3
4) TV Speeches: Clip 4
5) TV Speeches: Clip 5
6) TV Speeches: Clip 6
7) TV Speeches: Clip 7
8) TV Speeches: Clip 8
9) TV Speeches: Clip 9
10) TV Speeches: Clip 10
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From the vaults! This is one of the first pub quiz rounds I ever wrote, back a few years ago when a friend of mine was hosting at the Old Pequliar. I’m posting the questions as I wrote them; in the next few days, I’ll go through and revise them applying what I’ve learned since then. (I don’t think it’s a bad batch of questions, but there is, as they say, room for improvement.)

1) What was the name of the big dance at Hill Valley High School back in 1955?
2) Sunnydale High School attracts more than its fair share of vampires, demons and other paranormal bad guys because it sits on top of what mystical/geographical feature?
3) The Ramones’ visit to Vince Lombardi High School was immortalized in what 1979 movie?
4) Students of Tromaville High School are exposed to radioactive waste from the neighboring power plant in what 1986 b-movie?
5) Riverdale High school is home to a multi-decade romantic triangle: Archie Andrews can never choose between Betty and Veronica. What are Betty and Veronica’s last names?
6) What series of over 150 books, centered around the lives of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, ended in 1998?
7) What TV show featuring a petite blonde heroine fighting for justice in Neptune High School did Buffy creator Joss Whedon refer to as “Best. Show. Ever.”?
8) Before moving to Lawndale High School and getting her own MTV animated series, this brainy student was a foil to Beavis and Butt-Head. Name her.
9) What’s the name of the Twin Peaks High School homecoming queen who turns up dead, wrapped in plastic?
10) Molly Ringwald and George Clooney were two stars of what TV series set at Eastland Academy?
11) Ms. Chandler, Ms. Duke, and Ms. McNamara are the most popular girls at Westerburg High School – and all share the same first name. What is it?
12) What 1934 James Hilton novel set at Brookfield School has been adapted into two movies, a TV movie, and a miniseries?
13) What movie set at Shermer High School was promoted with the tagline “They only met once, but it changed their lives forever”?
14) Self-proclaimed boozer, user, and loser Jerri Blank becomes a 46-year-old freshman at Flatpoint High School in what Comedy Central series?
15) Which Canadian city is the series Degrassi High set in?
16) What TV series about students at Bayside High School was originally set in junior high, when it was called Good Morning, Miss Bliss?
17) What Midtown High School student and future superhero was bitten by a radioactive spider during a field trip to a science exhibition?
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What do these works have in common?

Tom and Jerry, Peanuts, Cowboy Bebop, Happy Days, All My Children, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Revenge of the antagonists! I’ll name a well-known antagonist; you tell me the hero this villain usually antagonizes. For example: Lex Luthor = Superman.

1) Jafar, Grand Vizier of Agrabah
2) The Red Skull
3) Glorificus, goddess from a hell dimension
4) Simon Bar Sinister
5) Biff Tannen
6) The Once-Ler
7) the Cavity Creeps
8) Arvin Sloane
9) The Sorcerer, The Pharaoh, Glitter Rock, and Spider Lady
10) Rosalyn
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1) Buffy’s little sister doesn’t want to go to Harvard — she wants to skate! At least, she does in what 2005 family film?
2) Britney Spears doesn’t sell her soul to the devil for talent. Obviously. But what pre-K-Fed film shares its title with a Ralph Macchio film that’s chock full o’ Satan?
3) “You can have fun with a baby as a movie character. Look Who’s Talking was an entertaining movie in which we heard what the baby was thinking. Baby’s Day Out, with its fearless baby setting Joe Mantegna’s pants on fire, had its defenders. But those at least were allegedly real babies. [This film] is about toddlers who speak, plot, scheme, disco dance and beat up adults with karate kicks. This is not right.” Roger Ebert wrote this in his one-and-a-half-star review of what 1999 film?
4) What 1996 thriller shares its title with the father/daughter duet that won the 1992 Grammy for Song of the Year?
5) What 1990 satire, one of the most famous flops in Hollywood history, features Morgan Freeman as a judge who’s Jewish in the novel it was based on?
6) What 1986 action film, directed by John Carpenter, inspired the TV show MythBusters to investigate whether or not you can really shoot locks off of doors?
7) What 1991 science fiction sequel popularized the modern proverb “Only Nixon can go to China”?
8) What 1984 comedy inspired 6 sequels, including City Under Siege and Mission to Moscow, as well as an animated TV series?
9) What 1982 high-school comedy was the highest-grossing Canadian film until 2006, and is possibly going to be remade by Howard Stern?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these movies?

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1) Who is the mayor of Springfield, hometown to the Simpsons?
2) Who was mayor of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit?
3) What epic novel and long-running musical center around the hidden past of the mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer?
4) In a 1989 movie, Da Mayor gives Mookie this piece of advice: “Always” what?
5) Mayor McCheese was dropped from McDonald’s advertising campaigns because of a 1973 lawsuit that found him too similar to what Sid & Marty Krofft character?
6) What British new wave group had their biggest US hit with the 1989 single “Mayor of Simpleton”?
7) Rudy Giuliani would become the first former mayor in the White House since 1923, when what former mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts, became president?
8) Mayor Richard Wilkins III was a memorable villain on what television series?
9) In 1910, Emil Seidel became the first Socialist mayor of a major US city. What city was it?
10) Who was mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988?
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Every question or answer features a name short for, derived from, or a variation on Elizabeth.

1) Elizabeth I of England was the last monarch in which dynasty?
2) Who played Lizzie McGuire on the 2001-2004 Disney Channel series?
3) In the book Little Women, what illness does Beth die from?
4) Nina Simone had her only top 40 US hit with a song from what George Gershwin opera?
5) Dave Stevens, who created the graphic novel The Rocketeer, modeled the hero’s girlfriend after what 1950s pin-up queen?
6) What computer program, written in 1966, is a chatterbot that mimics the behavior of a Rogerian psychotherapist?
7) What company’s stock ticker symbol is LIZ?
8) Which Apple computer was supposedly named after Steve Jobs’ daughter?
9) Isabel Archer is the main character in what Henry James novel?
10) What role do Giselle Loren, Kristy Swanson, and Sarah Michelle Gellar have in common?

Average score, among 13 teams: 7.00.

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