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Quiz: Seattle 2008

18-January-09 / James Callan

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Jan. 6, 2009
Average score: 7.67/10 (21 teams)

1) Thanks to a corrupted computer file, Pyro Spectaculars had to manually do what?
2) Who declared on Western Washington billboards that “four dollars is dumb” and “large is the new grande”?
3) What local sports franchise was defeated in round 1 of the Northwest Knockdown championships by a team from Chicago?
4) In January, local women Anne Levinson, Lisa Brummel, Ginny Gilder, and Dawn Trudeau banded together to buy what?
5) After Bill Gates mostly retired from Microsoft, he appeared in a TV commercial shopping for shoes with what ’90s celebrity?
6) What were Barons, Bison, Energy, Marshalls, and Wind?
7) Two Seattle-based Fortune 500 companies were acquired by other companies last year. Name the two companies, for a half point each.
8) A Rainier Beach resident died after being punched in the face during an argument that started because he was tending a garden he’d planted where?
9) Local resident Casey Knowles made news when footage of her sleeping turned up in a commercial for what?
10) Which presidential candidate won February’s Washington Republican caucus?

Quiz: Vending Machines

14-May-08 / James Callan

Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on May 6, 2008
Average score: 6.33/10 (12 teams)

1) In Toy Story, the little green aliens who live at Pizza Planet believe they’re destined be chosen to go to a better place — by what?
2) If you’re using a MetroCard vending machine, you’re probably planning to take public transit in what metro area?
3) “I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man” is the opening lyric to what 1996 Sheryl Crow song?
4) If you travel to Japan to indulge your buru-sera fetish, you might be disappointed to discover that it’s against the law to stock vending machines with what?
5) Contestants competed to create the best amuse buche using $10 worth of ingredients from vending machines on an episode of what reality show?
6) You can buy black-and-white photos wrapped in cellophane from the original Art-O-Mat machine, a vintage vending machine that originally sold what?
7) AltaVista’s translation service takes its name from what small, yellow, highly improbable creature sold in vending machines in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
8) What 1927 Edward Hopper painting is set in a restaurant where you could buy an entire meal from vending machines?
9) In the movie Airport, just before boarding an airplane with a bomb in a briefcase, D.O. Guerrero buys what from an airport vending machine?
10) Last week, over 700,000 people watched a video on YouTube of Hillary Clinton attempting to do what with a machine in a convenience store?

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Quiz: Geography

8-May-08 / James Callan

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on May 6, 2008
Average score: 6.42/10 (12 teams)

1) Which neighborhood was known as Brooklyn at the time Seattle annexed it in 1891?
2) What’s the most populous country in the world that considers English an official language?
3) What country contains the site of the ancient city of Ur?
4) What part of Massachusetts became the 23rd state in 1820, becoming the largest in New England?
5) Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania are the three countries that border what lake?
6) What’s the most populous city in Ohio that doesn’t begin with the letter C?
7) Hillary Clinton’s strongest victory so far came when she won 69.7% of the Democratic primary vote in what state?
8) What region of South America uses the Euro as its currency?
9) O. Henry coined the phrase “banana republic” to describe what Central American country, where these days a $140 dress from Banana Republic costs 2650 lempiras?
10) There are 16 mountains in the US taller than Mt. Rainier. In what three states will you find them?

The 2008 presidential race

5-March-08 / James Callan

1) John Edwards began and ended his 2008 presidential campaign in what city?
2) Supporters raised over $350,000 to put the message “Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul” on what unusual advertising location?
3) Mike Huckabee wrote a book about weight loss called Stop Digging Your Grave with what?
4) Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and what other declared candidate are still actively seeking the Democratic presidential nomination?
5) Bill Richardson was born in California but raised in what foreign capital?
6) According to campaign staffers, as of fall 2007, what had Rudy Giuliani done more than 40 times in the middle of speeches?
7) When Dennis Kucinich saw a UFO in Washington State, what actress’s house was he staying at?
8) What non-candidate quoted General William Tecumsah Sherman on Face the Press in 2006, stating that “If nominated, I will not run, If elected, I won’t serve”?
9) Christopher Dodd and Joe Biden both announced their decisions to run for the presidency on what radio show?
10) In a May 27, 2007 debate, three Republican candidates admitted that they do not believe in evolution. Name two of them.

Average score (20 teams): 3.73! Too hard.