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Trivia Quiz: Notes on Camp

Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on March 3, 2009
Average score:  6.57/10 (14 teams)

1) The Foo Fighters’ video for “Big Me” parodies commercials for what candy?

2) What flamboyant singer is the godfather to Sean Lennon, Elizabeth Hurley’s son, and two of David and Victoria Beckham’s kids?

3) Richard Simmons had a recurring role as himself on what soap opera, a favorite of Dr. House?

4) What Coors Light spokeswoman and spoof presidential candidate made her debut as the host of Movie Macabre in 1981?

5) What Razzie Award-winning biopic from 1981 does John Waters describe as “The first comedy about child abuse”?

6) A kitschy lawn ornament became an international celebrity when the “roaming gnome” became the mascot for what online company?

7) In the notorious final scene of Pink Flamingos, Divine eats fresh dogshit while what 1953 hit song by Patti Page plays on the soundtrack?

8) Pop quiz, Batman: Julie Newmar is to Eartha Kitt as Frank Gorshin is to what Addams Family star?

9) Scott Thorson, Liberace’s driver and bodyguard, sued the entertainer in 1982 for what?

10) According to Susan Sontag, the ultimate camp statement is “it’s good because it’s” what five-letter adjective?
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Quiz: James

Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on June 3, 2008
Average score: 7.06/10 (16 teams)

1) The novel Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, published last week, continues the adventures of what famous hero?
2) Gerald Posner’s book Killing the Dream argues that James Earl Ray acted on his own when he assassinated who?
3) Six US presidents have been named James. Which two served consecutively?
4) In the Brady Bunch episode “Bobby’s Hero,” Bobby unsettles his parents when he starts to idolize who?
5) A 1991 techno song by the group L.A. Style declared that what musical icon “Is Dead”, though he didn’t actually die until 2006?
6) What song, the only Billboard hit for the band James, begins “The bed is on fire with passionate love, the neighbors complain about the nosies above, but she only comes when she’s on top“?
7) In 2006, who became the first British artist since Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997” to achieve a Billboard #1 single with his song “You’re Beautiful”?
8) When he wrote the book Pragmatism in 1907, which American philosopher established himself as a leading proponent of the theory of pragmatism?
9) The poem “Disobedience,” about James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree, comes from the collection When We Were Very Young by what British author?
10) Who played a fictionalized version of reclusive author J.D. Salinger in the movie Field of Dreams?

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