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Quiz: Triangulation

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on October 7, 2008

Triangulation is the product of an unholy union between Wikipedia’s disambiguation pages, seldom-used dictionary definitions, Urban Dictionary, and whatever words catch my fancy. I’ll give you three definitions, you tell me the word or phrase that fits them all.

Example: A Canadian music award, a Roman goddess, and Roger Ebert’s favorite film of 2007: Juno

1) An SUV, a bar on Capitol Hill, and an East Coast WNBA team
2) The opposite of double, an indefinite pronoun, and the force that threatens Fantasia
3) A honeycomb holder, a story that contains stories within itself, and 1/24th of a second of a movie
4) The average value of a force multiplied by the time during which it acts, a jazz record label, and when a man you never met before suddenly gives you flowers
5) A Unix command, an octothorp, and a kind of brown
6) Police Woman, a warm-up exercise, and a Gwyneth Paltrow character
7) A British lad mag, a really good poker hand, and a WWII quote
8) Two out of three games of bridge, a gumshoe, and a french letter
9) Clarissa’s last name on Clarissa Explains It All, Lady’s owner in Lady and the Tramp, and a Julie Christie film
10) Chutzpah, the website that described itself as “literate smut,” and what the Cowardly Lion sings for

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Quiz: Ten Rounds of Boxing

1) On June 28, 1997, Mike Tyson bit off part of the ear of what opponent?
2) On Valentine’s Day, 1951, Sugar Ray Robinson became the Middleweight Champion of the World when he defeated what frequent rival?
3) Boxing Day usually falls on what date?
4) Spoilers! In the movie Se7en, what actress’ head ends up in a box?
5) In 1968, what music group had a top 10 hit with “The Boxer”?
6) According to the song “Dick in a Box,” what 6-word phrase is step 2 when making a special gift to impress the ladies?
7) Shoebox is a “tiny little division” of what company?
8) According to Hesiod, Pandora didn’t open a box — she opened a pithos, which is a kind of what?
9) Box Tops for Education lets you earn cash for your school by collecting box tops from what food company’s products?
10) A flight data recorder, known as a black box recorder, is usually painted what color?

Average score among 13 teams: 7.62.

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