TODAY’S QUESTION:

The easier question: What was the first film nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar based on a comic book or graphic novel?

The harder question: What was the first film nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar based on a comic strip?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:

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Round 4 at Post on October 20, 2008

Fourth round of local trivia for the Yes on Seattle Prop. 1 ballot measure.

1) In 2003, Fantagraphics Publishing saved itself from going out of business by starting to publish a complete collection of what newspaper comic strip?
2) What local website describes itself as “Seattle’s sparkly indie-pop press”?
3) Hankblog is the official blog for what local institution?
4) What fraternal organization, once based in the building that’s now home to A Contemporary Theatre, was founded by six theater owners in 1898?
5) In 1993, Ben and Jerry’s launched what rhyming, caramel-cashew-Brazil nut-chocolate-hazelnut-fudge-almond ice cream flavor at Archie McPhee?
6) When it opened in 1986, what semi-kinky Seattle business was called Marzi Tarts?
7) When the Storm won the 2004 WNBA championship, what team did they defeat in the finals?
8) In a recent ad campaign, an animal named Leonard demands that the Seattle Aquarium let him in. What kind of animal is Leonard?
9) According to legend, a customer in Alaska successfully returned to Nordstrom a set of what product that the store has never actually sold?
10) The Green Lake branch of the Seattle Public Library has been closed since October 2 because they found what in a crawlspace?
11) As of December 2007, what was the circulation of the Seattle Weekly?

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Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on August 12, 2008
Average score: 6.55/10 (11 teams)

1) According to a chatty zombie in Return of the Living Dead, what’s the only thing that gets rid of the pain of being dead?
2) The classic 1943 film I Walked With a Zombie was partly inspired by what classic 1847 Gothic novel?
3) What 2006 comic book by Robert Kirkman features brain-craving undead versions of Hulk, Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, and more?
4) There are many recipes for the zombie cocktail, but they all involve what liquor?
5) In 1994, what Irish band asked “What’s in your head?” in their international hit song “Zombie”?
6) George Romero’s Land of the Dead features cameos by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the creators of what zombie spoof released the year before?
7) British pop group The Zombies landed three singles in the US Billboard top 40 between 1964 and 1969. Name any one of them for one point.
8) What music video begins with this disclaimer from the artist: “Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in theoccult”?
9) The phrase “klaatu barada nikto” turned off Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still. In what 1992 horror sequel does a mangled version of the phrase raise a legion of hostile zombies?
10) The hilariously gory 1985 film Re-Animator, which brought a whole new meaning to the term “giving head,” was based on the story “Herbert West: Reanimator” by what American horror author?

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1) What 1996 comedy gave Jim Carrey his first $20,000,000 paycheck — but didn’t earn quite that much in its opening weekend?
2) What 1995 film stars Quentin Tarantino as the embodiment of luck, who robs banks, picks up hitchhikers, and swims in electical swimming pools?
3) What 1996 comedy reworks Cyrano de Bergerac to tell the story of a veterinarian and a model in love with the same person?
4) What 2001 film, based on a comic book, used the tagline “accentuate the negative”?
5) What 2006 animated film had a soundtrack album by Jack Johnson called Sing-A-Longs and Lullabyes?
6) What 1997 mockumentary contains the line “I’ll tell you why I can’t put up with you people. Because you’re bastard people, you’re just bastard people, and I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna, I’m gonna bite my pillow is what I’m gonna do!”
7) The cast of The Dirty Dozen hunts for the cast of This Is Spinal Tap in what 1998 action film directed by Joe Dante?
8) Will Smith won a Best Rap Solo Performance Grammy for the theme from what 1997 science fiction film?
9) What 2004 romance takes its name from a poem by Alexander Pope and a major character’s name from one of Huckleberry Hound’s favorite songs?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these movies?
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1) Marvel Comics had its first major success in 1961 with an issue detailing the origin of what super group?
2) What scrappy X-Man first appeared October, 1974, brawling with the Hulk?
3) The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in the same accident that created what Marvel superhero?
4) What word, also the state motto of New York, did Stan Lee end most of his Bullpen Bulletins with?
5) What iconic superhero was recently shot to death in front of a federal courthouse?
6) Which of these Marvel characters was not co-created by artist Jack Kirby: The Black Panther, The Hulk, Spider-Man, or Thor?
7) Name two of the five founding members of the Avengers.
8) If a Marvel comics fan pointed out a mistake in an issue and came up with a plausible explanation for it, what did he win?
9) What occupation do the secret identies of She-Hulk and Daredevil have in common?
10) Which mystical Marvel character is most likely to say “By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth”?
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1) What band had a top 10 hit in the US with the song “Devil Inside”?
2) Devil’s Tower National Monument, the famous landmark from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is located in what state?
3) What 2006 film was based on a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisburger?
4) The Vertigo comics series Lucifer was a spinoff of what earlier series created by Neil Gaiman?
5) What’s the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world?
6) The Rolling Stones song “Sympathy for the Devil” debuted on what album?
7) In the story “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” what name does the devil use?
8) What’s the name of the devil who makes a deal with the title character in Goethe’s Faust?
9) What household gadget was introduced by Royal Appliance Manufacturing in 1984?
10) Who referred to George W. Bush as “the devil” in a speech before the UN General Assembly?
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1) What Neil Diamond song was a #1 hit for UB40 in 1988?
2) Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner have all been known by what heroic name?
3) What popular program, known for airing the same episode Monday through Friday of a given week, debuted on Nickelodeon on September 8, 1996?
4) In the United States, conjunctivitis is better known as what?
5) What song composed by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, and Irving Mills was originally called “Mexican Blues” and “Dreamy Blues”?
6) What college football game played on January 1 has been sponsored by FedEx since 1989?
7) What three-word phrase, coined in the 1880s, describes southern voters who always voted for Democratic candidates?
8) What popular Australian candy bar says on the label “It’s the way it shatters that matters”?
9) In physics, what term describes the random motion of microscopic particles in a liquid?
10) What steakhouse was founded in 1964 in Seattle’s Caledonia hotel?
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I’ll name a villain, you name the hero that (usually) fights them.

1) Professor Moriarty
2) Dr. Evil
3) Brainiac
4) Boris and Natasha (name two heroes)
5) Grendel
6) Princess Ardala
7) Nag and Nagaina
8) King Ghidorah
9) Hordak and his evil horde
10) Flattop Jones

Average score out of 22 teams: 6.18.

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