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Quiz: Americana (Tourist Edition)

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on March 3, 2009
Average score: 7.5/10 (14 teams)

Each correct answer is a US city.

1) If you want to gorge on museums and visit the Carnegie Science Center, the National Aviary, and the Andy Warhol Museum, where do you need to go?

2) If you want to hear some blues on Beale Street, stop by the historic Sun recording studio, and catch an NBA game in the FedEx Forum, where should you go?

3) To take in the Diamond Head State Monument, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, and a genuine royal palace located in the US, you need to head where?

4) To visit the Rice Eccles Olympic Stadium and Temple Square, then slather some fry sauce on your fries, where do you need to go?

5) If you’re in the Duke City to visit the National Atomic Museum and see the Isotopes play baseball, where are you?

6) If you want to see Ansel Adams photographs at the Center for Creative Photography, check out the Titan Missile Museum, and get to Saguaro National Park, what city should you visit?

7) If you’re visiting the American Jazz Museum and take the Hallmark Cards tour in the City of Fountains, where are you?

8) If you fly in to Mitchell International Airport to attend the Summerfest music festival and stop by the Bronze Fonz, where are you?

9) If you want to listen to the Kotzschmar Organ, take the Lucky Catch Lobster Cruise, and see the Sea Dogs play AA baseball, what city do you need to visit?

10) If you take TriMet to get married at Voodoo Doughnuts before visiting the Expose Yourself to Art statue, you’re in Little Beirut, better known as what city?

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Quiz: Cops & Robbers

1) (multiple choice) The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre clinched Al Capone’s victory over which rival gangster: Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugs Moran, Abe Sarkis, or Dutch Schultz?
2) On May 10, 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Bureau of Investigation by which US President?
3) Who was shot not long after seeing the movie Manhattan Melodrama?
4) What wild west lawman was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979, the year it was created?
5) What 1970s bank robber was pardoned by Bill Clinton on his final day in office?
6) What NBA player is a reserve police officer for the city of Miami Beach, Florida?
7) Which Steven Spielberg film is based on the autobiography of Frank Abagnale?
8) Which US president was a former New York City police commissioner?
9) Local labor leader Dave Beck was convicted in 1957 of stealing $1900 from the coffers when he was president of what union?
10) Who was the Seattle police chief during the WTO protests?

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