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Quiz: The Pike Place Market

29-October-08 / James Callan

Round 2 at Post on October 20, 2008

The second round of the Seattle Prop. 1 fundraiser went hyperlocal — a Market round for the Support Our Market initiative.

Turns out the two teams comprising people who workat the Market almost tied for victory — saved by the tiebreaker! (Which they were also quite close on.)

No questions were adapted from any used before. Non-hyperlocals beware.

1) In 1971, the Market became Seattle’s second designated historic district. What was the first?
2) In 1985, what park was renamed Victor Steinbrueck Park?
3) In 1971, coffee beans sold at the original Starbucks originally came from what future competitor?
4) The finale of last year’s Centennial Days concert featured a supergroup of local musicians, including Mike McCready, playing what song famously re-interpreted by Jimi Hendrix?
5) Spike Lee filmed a commercial at the Pike Place Fish Market promoting what brand?
6) What retail company, founded at the Market by Shirley Collins in 1972, operates over locations throughout the nation?
7) In Sleepless in Seattle, Tom Hanks and Rob Reiner discuss tiramisu while sitting in what restaurant?
8) In 1950, Harlan Edwards suggested tearing down the Market and replacing it with what?
9) The idea for a public farmers market was proposed in 1907 because middlemen had driven the cost of what produce item from 10 cents to 1 dollar per pound?
10) At the Old Seattle Paperworks, it costs just a few quarters to get a peep at what collection?

Tiebreaker: In 1971, how many votes were cast in favor of Initiative No. 1, establishing the market as a historic district?

Theme: You’ll Figure It Out

8-April-08 / James Callan

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on April 1, 2008
Average score: 6.48/10 (21 teams)

1) When members of U2 and R.E.M. played at Clinton’s inaugural festivities as Automatic Baby, what U2 song did they play?
2) China discovered it had a population of about 60 million people when its first-ever census concluded in what year? (Julian calendar)
3) According to the Greek poet Hesiod, how many gorgons were there before Medusa got her head lopped off?
4) In English, what’s the only number with a name spelled with exactly as many letters as the number itself?
5) How many pillars of Islam are there?
6) According to musical superstition, a composer will die shortly after completing how many symphonies?
7) What song was the biggest hit from Prince’s “love symbol” album?
8) If you’re raised Mormon, how old are you when you hit the age of accountability, when you know the difference between right and wrong in the eyes of God?
9) What Jimi Hendrix song, which turns a couple of numerals upside-down, was featured on the Easy Rider soundtrack?
10) What risquÃ© 1979 comedy was marketed as “a temptingly tasteful comedy for adults who can count”?

Quiz: Answers Phrased in the Form of a Question

5-September-07 / James Callan

1) Comedian Ryan Stiles frequently appeared on both the British and US versions of what improv comedy show?

2) On April 24, 1992, ABC aired the final episodes of Growing Pains, MacGyver, and what long-running sitcom, ending the popular career of Danny Pintauro?

3) What catchphrase, later quoted by Walter Mondale, was first heard in a commercial called “Fluffy Bun”?

4) What’s the first album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, later spoofed on a collection of Get Fuzzy cartoons?

5) Someone beat up Dan Rather in 1986. Inspired by the incident, R.E.M. wrote what song, the first single off their 1994 album Monster?

6) What four-word question from the 1933 version of Island of Dr. Moreau was answered “We are Devo” in 1978?

7) The ACME Detective Agency tracks a criminal mastermind around the globe in what software game series and educational children’s game show?

8) What’s the love theme from Superman, spoken by Lois Lane in the film, the title of which could also make a good icebreaker with Professor X?

9) What advertising slogan was introduced in a TV commercial set in an Alexander Hamilton museum?

10) What 1987 book made the American Library Association’s “most frequently banned books” list because, in addition to the main character, you can find a topless woman “On the Beach”?

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.

Quiz: Kissing Booth

5-March-07 / James Callan

1) Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman spend three minutes nibbling on each other between bites of chicken in what Hitchcock movie?
2) At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna kissed Britney Spears and then what other woman?
3) When Prince performed “Kiss” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he changed “you don’t have to watch Dynasty” to “you don’t have to watch” what risque sitcom?
4) In the TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, which band member has super strength and the ability to breathe fire?
5) In 1994, in a controversial episode, Roseanne kisses what female guest star?
6) Some people hear “‘scuse me while I kiss this guy,” but Jimi Hendrix actually sang “‘scuse me while I” what?
7) Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse on VJ day was originally published in what magazine?
8) Hershey’s Kisses were all chocolate until 1990, when Hershey’s released kisses with what?
9) Brokeback Mountain, Hustle and Flow, Just Friends, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, or Sin City: which film won Best Kiss at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards?
10) The Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate is based on which Shakespeare play?

Average score among 13 teams: 7.23.