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Quiz: Why We Fight

27-January-07 / James Callan

I’ll name a villain, you name the hero that (usually) fights them.

1) Professor Moriarty
2) Dr. Evil
3) Brainiac
4) Boris and Natasha (name two heroes)
5) Grendel
6) Princess Ardala
7) Nag and Nagaina
8) King Ghidorah
9) Hordak and his evil horde
10) Flattop Jones

Average score out of 22 teams: 6.18.

They Come in Threes

10-January-07 / James Callan

Used Jan. 9, 2007, at the Old Pequilar.

Who are Donald Duck’s identical triplet nephews?
The 1940 film You Nazty Spy!, the earliest Hollywood film to mock Hitler, was a vehicle for what comedy group?
What group had a hit in 1963 with the song “Puff the Magic Dragon”?
What 1970s and ’80s American sitcom was adapted from the British series Man About the House?
What superheroes protect the city of Townsville from villains such as Mojo Jojo?
With a $2.92 billion worldwide gross, what’s the highest grossing film trilogy of all time?
DJ Spinderella is the third member of what hip-hop group?
Twenty Years After is the sequel to what adventure novel?
What Christian author wrote Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength, known as the Space Trilogy?
What kind of ice cream features vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry in one package?

The Wizard of Oz

10-January-07 / James Callan

Used Jan. 9, 2007, at the Old Pequliar.

The title of L. Frank Baum’s first Oz novel is slightly different from the movie. What word from the book’s title is not part of the movie title?
What’s Dorothy’s last name?
In the movie, Dorothy wears ruby slippers. What are they made of in the book?
What comedian plays the title character in the 1978 musical film The Wiz?
Wicked lost the 2004 Best New Musical Tony Award to what parody featuring “full puppet nudity”?
What future witch played Dorothy in the 1985 sequel Return to Oz?
Pink Floyd denies that they deliberately recorded what album as an alternate soundtrack for the 1939 movie?
In Baum’s novel, Munchkin Country is one of four countries in Oz. Name one of the other three.
According to historian Hugh Rockoff’s interpretation of Baum’s first book as a political parable, what character represents the Prohibition Party, or teetotalers?
If you’re a “friend of Dorothy,” what are you?