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[Pub trivia] Triangulation (June 2, 2009)

Featured as round 3 at the Old Pequliar on June 2, 2009

I’ll give you three definitions (in a fairly loose sense of the word). You tell me what word or phrase fits all three of them.

Example: an after-dinner cocktail, a kosher insect, and a synonym for padawan? Show ▼

1) a season, something Reagan forgot to do, and a Groucho prop

2) Oscar Zeta Acosta’s more famous name, the Muppets’ most famous Frackle, and a porn genre

3) half of a Neil Diamond song, a bomb, and an action figure in its original packaging

4) to buzz, to piss, and someone good at math

5) an elf, an inexpensive camera, and one way to get your THC

6) balderdash, a bed, and a fictional Baltimore detective

7) congestion, a slang term among fans of The Office, and something Phish is known for

8) a kind of mouse, a kind of flight, and to be smitten

9) Allison DuBois, pink in the center, and a synonym for message

10) a fictional mother, Maverick’s partner, a bump … and the opposite of question 1

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Quiz: God Bless the USA

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on July 1, 2008.
Average score: 7.59/10 (17 teams)

1) Since 1996, four fourth of July weekends have kick-started blockbuster films starring what actor?
2) What’s the short, popular name for the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001?
3) What Tom Cruise film takes its title from George M. Cohan’s song “The Yankee Doodle Boy”?
4) Which Democratic presidential candidate used Neil Diamond’s song “America” as a campaign theme?
5) The July 2005 issue of GQ magazine featured what blonde performer on the cover wearing dog tags and an American flag bikini?
6) Tom Petty knows that Felicity Merriman, Josefina Montoya, Addy Walker, and Ivy Ling all belong to what series?
7) “The Star Spangled Banner” is our national anthem, but what’s our national march?
8) The Knights of Columbus added the words “under God” to the pledge of allegiance, quoting a phrase used by a former president in what historical document?
9) What Howard Zinn book does Tony Soprano think is “bullshit,” but Will Hunting declare will “knock you on your ass”?
10) According to Charlie Daniels, “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s a” what?

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Simply Red

Note: All answers contain the word “red.”

1) What Neil Diamond song became a #1 hit for UB40 in 1983 and 1988? Bonus hint: this may be my least favorite song in the history of recorded music.
2) On TV, her name was Heather, but Charles Schulz never named her in Peanuts. Who was the unrequited object of Charlie Brown’s affection?
3) What song was Prince’s first top-10 hit in the United States?
4) What city, known as the “bicycle capital of the Northwest,” is home to the only velodrome in Washington State?
5) What future sitcom star was a dishwasher in the 1940s at the speakeasy where Malcolm X waited tables?
6) What 1990s Showtime series featured David Duchovny running a personal ad asking for “stories of love, passion, or betrayal”?
7) The 1920s Yankees were Murderers’ Row. The 1930s Cardinals were the Gashouse Gang. What were the 1970s Cincinnati Reds?
8) What 1983 U2 album became the United Kingdom’s best-selling live recording ever?
9) What 1994 song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which takes its name from the epic poem Paradise Lost, was featured in all three Scream movies?
10) Sam’s Tavern near the University District [in Seattle, out of towners] eventually became what restaurant, the first in a chain of 307 nationwide?

Average score, 17 teams: 8.00

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Quiz: True Colors

1) What Neil Diamond song was a #1 hit for UB40 in 1988?
2) Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner have all been known by what heroic name?
3) What popular program, known for airing the same episode Monday through Friday of a given week, debuted on Nickelodeon on September 8, 1996?
4) In the United States, conjunctivitis is better known as what?
5) What song composed by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, and Irving Mills was originally called “Mexican Blues” and “Dreamy Blues”?
6) What college football game played on January 1 has been sponsored by FedEx since 1989?
7) What three-word phrase, coined in the 1880s, describes southern voters who always voted for Democratic candidates?
8) What popular Australian candy bar says on the label “It’s the way it shatters that matters”?
9) In physics, what term describes the random motion of microscopic particles in a liquid?
10) What steakhouse was founded in 1964 in Seattle’s Caledonia hotel?
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