Tag: dance

Quiz: Batman

4-December-08 / James Callan

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.93/10 (15 teams)

1) Biff, pow, urkkk, glipp, zgrupp, and other words chosen to imitate the sounds in Batman fight scenes are examples of what literary device?

2) The mayor of Batman, Turkey, is suing Warner Brothers and what director for stealing his city’s name?

3) According to the comics, the last movie Bruce Wayne’s parents saw was about what masked adventurer?

4) Super-hacker and information broker Oracle is the current crimefighting identity of what Batman ally paralyzed by the Joker in 1988’s Killing Joke?

5) A scene of Batman debating what crotchety nemesis became popular on YouTube in October because of its amusing echoes of the Obama/McCain debates?

6) In the 1987 Batman story A Death in the Family, readers called 1-900 numbers and voted to kill what character?

7) What fan-favorite director and comic book writer named his daughter Harley Quinn, after the Joker-obsessed villain from Batman: The Animated Series?

8) According to Frank Miller, Gotham City is New York at night, while what other comic book city is New York during the day?

9) Two long-standing members of Batman’s rogues gallery were introduced in 1940 in Batman #1. For a half point each, name them.

10) What go-go dance, introduced in the first episode of the Batman TV series, was nominated for TV Land’s Greatest TV Dance Craze, but lost to The Fonzie?

Quiz: Seattle Landmarks

28-October-08 / James Callan

Round 1 on Oct. 20, 2008

I hosted a quiz to benefit the Yes on Seattle Prop 1 campaign (Support Our Market — fund infrastructure investment). By request, all the rounds were related to Seattle, so you out-of-town readers are in for a difficult slog. (I suspect I would’ve been lynched even on my home turf, actually.)

Since the crowd wasn’t the usual from the Old Pequliar, some questions have been refurbished.

The Tiebreaker is there because prizes were awarded after each round, rather than for the whole night, so a built-in tiebreaker saved a lot of time.

1) Roethke Mews is the official name of the alley bordering what tavern?
2) In 1983, what business took over the Manning’s Cafeteria location at 5501 15th Ave NW?
3) For one point, name two of the three Seattle streets given the first names of members of the Denny Party. For two points, name all three.
4) Smith Tower was built as the tallest building west of the Mississippi, replacing the National Real Estate Building. That building, now known as Key Bank Center, is located in what Washington city?
5) The Space Needle didn’t make the American Institute of Architects’ list of America’s Favorite Architecture. For one point each, name the two Seattle buildings that did.
6) The first Cinerama screen in Seattle was installed in what venue originally built for vaudeville and movies?
7) The Bubbleator was moved out of the Center House at Seattle Center in 1984 to make way for what still-operating cultural institution?
8) The implosion of the Kingdome was the first live event to be broadcast on what cable network, which specializes in sports reruns, movies, and documentaries?
9) In August 2006, Chris Brugo decorated the outside of his house in the Roosevelt district with a mural depicting what sex symbol?
10) PK Dwyer’s band Felix & the Freelicks claims the distinction of being the first band to do what, back in 1971?

Tiebreaker: How many dances are commemorated in the “Broadway Dance Steps” installed in Capitol Hill sidewalks? And which ones can you name?

Quiz: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

5-September-07 / James Callan

1) The first-ever Electric Boogaloo was a sequel to what film?

2) In 2003, what game was registered as an official sport in Norway, under the name “machine dancing”?

3) Fuse TV’s show Pants-Off Dance-Off was hosted during its second season by Jodie Sweetin, formerly a child actor on what sitcom?

4) What scantily-clad Prince protege and rumored romantic partner of Joan Jett released a series of aerobic striptease DVDs?

5) The phrase “it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it” came from the “Rate-A-Record” segment of what TV show?

6) The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack includes an instrumental disco version of what symphony?

7) David Rose’s instrumental “The Stripper,” along with a woman encouraging you to “take it off–take it all off,” was featured in a commercial for what kind of product?

8) According to a 1990 movie title, what is “the forbidden dance”?

9) What pop hit by the Spanish group Los Del Rio was originally choreographed as a rumba?

10) Former musician Jack Mackie is the mastermind behind what whimsical pieces of local public art?

Round 2 at the Old Pequilar on Sept. 4, 2007.