mighty fine trivia by James Callan

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Quiz: Famous Duos

1) What are the original Bennifer’s last names?
2) De La Soul, 2 Live Crew, Simply Red, and the Notorious B.I.G. have all sampled the song “I Can’t Go For That,” by what Philadelphia duo?
3) What duo made a cameo appearance in the 1986 sex comedy My Chauffeur as Bone and Abdul, and now host the show Bullshit! on Showtime?
4) Hooked on Phonics worked for a lot of kids, but it ended the careers of what fun duo who debuted in the 1930s?
5) When Coy and Vance drove off in 1983, they were replaced by their cousins — who?
6) Viewers made what cop show a top 10 hit after CBS uncancelled it in 1983?
7) Commonly known as the Wonder Twins, what brother/sister team graced the Super Friends with their shapeshifting powers, purple bodysuits, and chattery blue monkey?
8) Fictional versions of what 19th century linguists were portrayed by Matt Damon and Heath Ledger in a 2005 film directed by Terry Gilliam?
9) They may sound like a pharmaceutical company, but this research duo actually wrote the book on human sexual response, called Human Sexual Response.
10) Before The Graduate and Ishtar, what comedy duo performed a Broadway show and released a comedy album about “An Evening With” them?

Average score (21 teams): 5.81

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Quiz: The End of the World

1) According to Christian tradition, which apostle wrote the Book of Revelation?
2) Which Stephen King novel was his self-described attempt to “do the Lord of the Rings with an American background”?
3) What bestselling series of novels, named after the first book in the series, includes Tribulation Force, Soul Harvest, The Indwelling, Armageddon, and Kingdom Come?
4) After writing his post-apocalyptic novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize and had his first television interview. Who interviewed him?
5) What movie ends with these lines: “You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
6) What 1983 foreign-language song did VH1 select as #10 on their list of the 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders?
7) R.E.M.’s song “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” mentions four famous people with the initials LB. Name two of them.
8) Henry Bemis had all the time he wanted to read — but now he’s “just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself.” What ironic thing happened to Henry Bemis that inspired these closing comments on The Twilight Zone?
9) “This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper” are the last lines of what TS Eliot poem?
10) In May of this year, CBS canceled Jericho. To protest, fans sent over 20 tons of what to CBS headquarters?
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Quiz: TLA

Every answer will be a three-letter acronym.

1) What’s the airport code for Portland International Airport?
2) What simple philosophy is shared by Home Depot, punk music, zines, and the modern arts and crafts revival?
3) What CBS series has the highest Nielsen ratings for a show with an abbreviation for a title?
4) What standardized test is a requirement for most graduate schools in the US?
5) What academic abbreviation stands for the Latin phrasing of “which was to be demonstrated”?
6) What was the most common radio distress signal before SOS?
7) If you’re using Adobe Acrobat, what kind of file are you most likely creating?
8) What pop group recorded “Making Plans for Nigel,” “Senses Working Overtime,” and “Dear God”?
9) “Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation” is the motto of what media company?
10) What three-letter abbreviation, increasingly common since 1990, takes three times as many syllables to say in full as the phrase it stands for?

Average score, among 13 teams: 7.46.

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Quiz: Movies

1) What 1980 drama follows a new kid at a Chicago-area high school who hires a fellow student to protect him from bullies?
2) What 1988 comedy centers around a mafia widow being wooed by the man who killed her husband and the FBI agent investigating the killer?
3) What 1984 teen comedy was named after a 1958 hit song by the Crests, rerecorded for the movie by the Stray Cats?
4) Ellen DeGeneres is stalked by an obsessive boyfriend in what 1996 satire of romantic comedies?
5) What 1995 comedy about unexpected fatherhood had scenes of Hugh Grant being arrested cut out because of his real-life arrest for soliciting a prostitute?
6) What 1997 farce was inspired by Tom Hanks’ Oscar speech in which he outed his high school drama coach?
7) A slacker poaches his roommate’s teaching gig in what 2003 comedy?
8) Jennifer Aniston cleans houses but still socializes with rich people in what 2006 film?
9) What 1987 film about a romantic triangle among TV journalists was partly inspired by massive layoffs at CBS?
10) What actor or actress do all 9 of these movies have in common?

Average score, among 16 teams: 7.19.

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