mighty fine trivia by James Callan
Mental Floss regularly produces great quizzes, but I thought this one was especially fun: Identify the book given a vertical strip photocopied from the text.
How’d I do?
Score: 90% (9 out of 10)
I could’ve gone 10/10, but second-guessed myself on the last question.
What literary work inspired a Spider-Man villain, an episode of Gilligan’s Island, paintball, and a Jean-Claude Van Damme film?
That question, again:
If you’re looking for pad kee mao at your favorite Thai restaurant, you’ll usually find it listed under what more colorful English name?
Let’s lower the brow a little:
In the movie version of The Shining, Jack Nicholson goes after his family (and Scatman Crothers) with an axe. But not in the book. What piece of sporting equipment is his weapon of choice in the Stephen King novel?
That question, again: What line from the poem “Sacred Emily†is ten words long, but contains just three different words used several times each?
Captain Hook shares his first name with the man who created him. What is it?
The question: Originally designed by the French poster artist O’Galup, a character named Bibendum is the symbol for what company?
Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on May 2, 2009
Stuff that happened in May in American history.
1) On May 1, 1992, who appeared on TV and asked “Can we stop … making it horrible for the older people and the kids”?
2) What annual sporting event was nationally televised for the first time on May 3, 1952?
3) The 1886 rally at Chicago’s Haymarket Square that turned into a riot was one incident in labor unions’ long struggle to achieve what goal?
4) The headline on the May 8, 1915, New York Times said what vessel was “twice torpedoed off Irish coast”?
5) What building was the tallest in the world from late May 1930 to early May 1931?
6) In May 1932, who entered the US Penitentiary in Atlanta to serve an 11-year sentence for tax evasion?
7) In May 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel, the last published in his lifetime?
8) On May 11, 1996, everyone aboard flight 592 of what low-cost airline was killed when it crashed into the Everglades?
9) The White Night riots broke out in 1979 when what killer was convicted of voluntary manslaughter?
10) What popular combination of ditali, ditalini, tubetti, and tubetini made its debut on May 16, 1965?
ANSWERS:
TODAY’S QUESTION:
If you’re using SOWPODS, you’re probably playing what board game?
THURSDAY’S ANSWER:
TODAY’S QUESTION:
The 1991 book Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals is a sequel to what semi-autobiographical bestseller published in 1974?
YESTERDAY‘S ANSWER:
Round 8 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 4.8/10 (15 teams)
Google’s got a funky logo — what’s the occasion?
You know how Google likes to play with its logo to commemorate special occasions? Here’s 10 of those decked-out presentations. Your job: Identify the occasion being commemorated.
Note: Some are holidays, i.e. Ash Wednesday. Some are milestones, i.e. the anniversary of the sinking of the Maine. All are real Google logos.
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TODAY’S PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION:
Thanksgiving derailed the “question a day” project for a few days. Go back and fill in, or plunge on ahead?
Practicality dictates: Plunge on ahead. Sorry for the hiatus.
TODAY’S TRIVIA QUESTION:
Toni Morrison has two novels with related names. The title of the later one is entirely contained within the title of the earlier one. Can you name the two books?
TUESDAY’S ANSWER:
Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 5.1/10 (15 teams)
I’ll name several or all of the novels in a series. For a half point each, tell me the author and what the series is known as.
Example: The Waste Lands, Song of Susannah, and Wolves of the Calla — Stephen King, The Dark Tower
1) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless
2) On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, and The Long Winter
3) Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso
4) The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz
5) Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World
6) Master and Commander, The Surgeon’s Mate, and The Far Side of the World
7) The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, and First Among Sequels
8) The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, and The High King
9) Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer
10) New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn
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