Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 3, 2009

Eleven songs about love, or that at least sound like they might be about love. Name the title and artist for a half point each.

1) Love Songs: Clip 1

2) Love Songs: Clip 2

3) Love Songs: Clip 3

4) Love Songs: Clip 4

5) Love Songs: Clip 5

6) Love Songs: Clip 6

7) Love Songs: Clip 7

8) Love Songs: Clip 8

9) Love Songs: Clip 9

10) Love Songs: Clip 10

11) Love Songs: Clip 11

ANSWERS:

1) “You’re Still the One,” Shania Twain

2) “Be My Baby,” The Ronettes

3) “Desire,” U2

4) “My Funny Valentine,” Frank Sinatra

5) “Kissing the Lipless,” The Shins

6) “Oh Yoko,” John Lennon

7) “Cupid,” Sam Cooke

8) “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” Joy Division

9) “Dyslexic Heart,” Paul Westerberg

10) “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover,” Sophie B. Hawkins

11) “Let My Love Open the Door,” Pete Townsend

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on July 1, 2008.
Average score: 6.41/10 (17 teams)

Triangulation is my tip of the hat to Wikipedia’s disambiguation pages and those seldom-used tertiary and sub-tertiary definitions in the dictionary. 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) a kind of wrench, something you can make from socks, and something you spank
2) a novel by Irvine Welsh, a byproduct of horses, and the opposite of rubber
3) a documentary by Diane Keaton, a place where nothing ever happens, and a place on earth
4) the author of The Bonesetter’s Daughter, a key on a calculator, and a George Hamilton accessory
5) the shipboard computer in a science fiction classic, a John Lennon song, and something that turns wine to vinegar
6) one third of a popular hip-hop trio, a product formed by the neutralization of an acid by a base, and what we talked about when we talked about nukes
7) something you’d see on a slot machine, a U2 song, and a name you’ll hear on Must-See Thursday
8) an Edith Wharton novel, a lake in Oregon, and a lifeguard on Baywatch
9) Christopher Martin’s hip-hop alias, the NY Times’ online sports magazine, and “the work of children”
10) a celebritot, a unit of Smurf measurement, and a Newtown Pippin

Answers:

1) monkey
2) glue
3) heaven
4) tan
5) mother
6) salt
7) lemon
8) summer
9) play
10) apple

1) In 1966, the Ku Klux Klan burned Beatles records after who said the group was “more popular than Jesus now”?
2) The Depeche Mode song “Personal Jesus” was inspired by the autobiography Elvis and Me, written by whom?
3) The Jesus and Mary Chain’s song “Just Like Honey” appears in the closing scenes of what 2003 drama?
4) Before Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice collaborated on what other biblically inspired musical?
5) In the short film “The Spirit of Christmas,” when Jesus and Santa are kicking the crap out of each other, who reminds the South Park kids that “This is the season just to be good to each other”?
6) What Pulitzer-winning novelist and one-time New York mayoral candidate published The Gospel According to the Son in 1997, told from the point of view of Jesus himself?
7) Victor Garber, Jennifer Garner’s dad on Alias, plays Jesus in what musical film that climaxes on top of the World Trade Center?
8) The shortest verse in the New Testament, John 11:35, is “Jesus wept.” Whose tomb made Jesus cry like a little girl?
9) Supreme Court case Morse v. Frederick determined that a school can restrict student speech at a school event that can be seen as promoting drug use. What did Joseph Frederick’s controversial banner say?
10) In 1899, journalist Louis Klopsch came up with the idea for what biblical innovation?

Average score: 5.9

Answers:

1) John Lennon
2) Priscilla Presley
3) Lost in Translation
4) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
5) Brian Boitano
6) Norman Mailer
7) Godspell
8) Lazarus
9) Bong hits 4 Jesus
10) printing Jesus’ words in red

Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 25, 2007.

1) Given that little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, what three ingredients make up little boys?
2) “The boy who lived,” saved from certain death by his mother’s love, is a popular nickname for what fictional character?
3) In 2006, Jacob was the most popular name for baby boys in the US. What name, derived from the Hebrew for “Who is like God,” was second most popular?
4) The holidays Vesak, Hanamatsuri, Bucheonim osin nal, and Lễ Phật đản all celebrate the birth of what religious figure?
5) What fictional boy was born in Rome at 6:00 a.m. on June 6, 1966?
6) What man-cub, one of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ inspirations for Tarzan, was raised in the jungle by Father and Mother Wolf?
7) What character, introduced on commercials for Freeinternet.com, ended up with his own sitcom and as a spokesman for Quizno’s?
8) The song “Baby Boy” was the second #1 hit off of the album Dangerously in Love, the solo debut for what singer?
9) What holy relic was allegedly a Christmas present from Charlemagne to Pope Leo the III, and in 1983 was allegedly stolen out of a priest’s closet by agents of the Vatican?
10) According to John Lennon’s song “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),” a lullaby written for his son Sean, life is what happens to you while you’re busy doing what?

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on August 7, 2007. Average score (18 teams): 7.56

Answers:

1) snips and snails and puppy-dog tails (I accepted several variations on this–slugs and frogs were common subs for snips)
2) Harry Potter
3) Michael
4) Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha)
5) Damien Thorn (the Omen)
6) Mowgli
7) Baby Bob
8) Beyoncé
9) the Holy Prepuce, a.k.a. the Holy Foreskin or Jesus’ Foreskin
10) making other plans

1) In August 1991, Demi Moore appeared nude and 7 months pregnant on the cover of what magazine?
2) What common term for a voyeur invokes the name of a tailor who got an eyeful of Lady Godiva?
3) What alt-porn site was founded in Portland in 2001 because the founders wanted to see “hot punk rock girls naked”?
4) Janet Jackson had a famous breast-exposing wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Who won the game?
5) What pair of lovebirds appears naked on the cover of the 1968 album Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins?
6) Who wrote and illustrated In the Night Kitchen, a frequently censored picture book about Mickey, a naked boy who falls into a big bowl of dough?
7) Who painted The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe), a famous painting featuring a nude woman having a picnic lunch with two fully dressed men?
8) Two actors get naked in the first episode of NYPD Blue: David Caruso, and who?
9) Louise Bourgeois’s statue Father and Son in the Olympic Sculpture Park, depicting a naked man and a naked boy, inspired Seattle resident Judy Fenton to do what?
10) In 1991, Piero Cannata attacked Michaelangelo’s famous statue of David with a hammer. What body part did Cannata break?

1) Vanity Fair
2) peeping Tom
3) SuicideGirls
4) New England Patriots
5) John Lennon and Yoko Ono
6) Maurice Sendak
7) Edouard Manet
8) Amy Brenneman
9) run for Seattle City Council
10) toe (on the left foot)

(Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on June 26, 2007.)