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Quiz: Seattle Food

Round 5 at Post on October 20, 2008

The final round for the Yes on Seattle Prop. 1 fundraiser. All local again — sorry, out-of-towners and new transplants!

1) If you were going to Ricardo’s Club 19, where were you going to eat?
2) What local bean-to-bar chocolate factory was the first to roast Fair Trade-certified cocoa beans in the US?
3) In January 1990, Ezell’s Famous Chicken was first mentioned to a national audience by what celebrity?
4) What local chain took part of its name from the lyrics to the folksong “Old Settler’s Song”?
5) What local restaurant was founded and is still run by chef Mario Batali’s father?
6) Name one of the two seasonal pizzas currently being offered by Pagliacci.
7) Back in 2001, local writer Bethany Jean Clement competed in — and won — a pageant to become the real-live face of the babe promoting what local restaurant chain?
8) As of 2000, what’s the name of the restaurant at the top of the Space Needle?
9) In a battle centered around wild Chinook salmon, Iron Chef Morimoto was defeated by what local chef?
10) Matt Canlis, a Scottish chaplain, works at Canlis restaurant as what kind of consultant?

Tiebreaker: According to the 2008 Zagat, what’s the average price of a meal at Seattle’s 20 most expensive restaurants?

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Quiz: Filthy Stinking Rich

1) John D. Rockefeller, by most measures the richest man in American history, earned his money in what industry?
2) What slang term based on sound effects from dental commercials was popularized in the late 1990s by hip-hop artists like the Cash Money Millionaires, Lil Wayne, and B.G.?
3) Who’s been the only African American listed on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans every year since 1995?
4) According to Forbes magazine, who is the wealthiest: the richest person in Canada, Japan, Mexico, or Russia?
5) What fictional character’s wealth was once calculated as “one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents”?
6) What 1987 movie paraphrases a speech made by Ivan Boesky before he was jailed for insider trading?
7) At the end of every episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Robin Leach wished the viewer “champagne wishes” and what kind of dreams?
8) In 2004, Bill Rancic became the first person to win what television show?
9) Republican pollster Fred Luntz popularized what alternate name for the estate tax?
10) According to Forbes magazine, what British archaeologist is the wealthiest fictional woman in the world?

Average score: 8.4

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Quiz: The End of the World

1) According to Christian tradition, which apostle wrote the Book of Revelation?
2) Which Stephen King novel was his self-described attempt to “do the Lord of the Rings with an American background”?
3) What bestselling series of novels, named after the first book in the series, includes Tribulation Force, Soul Harvest, The Indwelling, Armageddon, and Kingdom Come?
4) After writing his post-apocalyptic novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize and had his first television interview. Who interviewed him?
5) What movie ends with these lines: “You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
6) What 1983 foreign-language song did VH1 select as #10 on their list of the 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders?
7) R.E.M.’s song “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” mentions four famous people with the initials LB. Name two of them.
8) Henry Bemis had all the time he wanted to read — but now he’s “just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself.” What ironic thing happened to Henry Bemis that inspired these closing comments on The Twilight Zone?
9) “This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper” are the last lines of what TS Eliot poem?
10) In May of this year, CBS canceled Jericho. To protest, fans sent over 20 tons of what to CBS headquarters?
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