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Quiz: Triangulation

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on October 7, 2008

Triangulation is the product of an unholy union between Wikipedia’s disambiguation pages, seldom-used dictionary definitions, Urban Dictionary, and whatever words catch my fancy. 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) An SUV, a bar on Capitol Hill, and an East Coast WNBA team
2) The opposite of double, an indefinite pronoun, and the force that threatens Fantasia
3) A honeycomb holder, a story that contains stories within itself, and 1/24th of a second of a movie
4) The average value of a force multiplied by the time during which it acts, a jazz record label, and when a man you never met before suddenly gives you flowers
5) A Unix command, an octothorp, and a kind of brown
6) Police Woman, a warm-up exercise, and a Gwyneth Paltrow character
7) A British lad mag, a really good poker hand, and a WWII quote
8) Two out of three games of bridge, a gumshoe, and a french letter
9) Clarissa’s last name on Clarissa Explains It All, Lady’s owner in Lady and the Tramp, and a Julie Christie film
10) Chutzpah, the website that described itself as “literate smut,” and what the Cowardly Lion sings for

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Quiz: All or Nothing

1) The New York Times‘ motto is “all the news that’s” what?
2) What 1984 film is about a young boy’s efforts to save Fantasia from The Nothing?
3) Name two of the three artists who sang “All for Love” on the soundtrack of 1993’s The Three Musketeers.
4) The anti-consumerist protest Buy Nothing Day takes place the day after what holiday?
5) What All My Children actress was nominated for a Daytime Emmy 18 years in a row before winning in 1999?
6) Being and Nothingness, the treatise that kick-started existentialism, was written by what French philosopher?
7) The All Blacks are the rugby union team for what country?
8) Cordelia is told that “nothing will come of nothing” in which Shakespeare play?
9) Dennis Haysbert, who tells you that “you’re in good hands with Allstate,” used to play the president on what TV show?
10) What word completes these Talking Heads lyrics? “From the age of the dinosaurs / Cars have run on gasoline / Where, where have they gone? / Now, it’s nothing but” what?

Average score: 7.3

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