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Quiz: Americana (Tourist Edition)

25-March-09 / James Callan

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?

Quiz: Geography

8-August-07 / James Callan

1) There are two King Counties in the US. We’re in one of them. The other is one of the 254 counties in which state?
2) 48 US states are divided into counties. Louisiana is divided into parishes. Which state is divided into boroughs?
3) Which of these cities is closest to Tokyo, as the crow flies: San Francisco, Portland OR, Seattle, or Vancouver BC?
4) The Minoan civilization, one of the oldest in Europe, originated on which Mediterranean island?
5) What Russian city is the world’s northernmost city with a population greater than 1,000,000?
6) By population, what country is the world’s largest constitutional monarchy?
7) What island nation, conquered by the Japanese in 1942, was renamed Shonanto until the British repossessed it in 1945?
8) The Blue Nile and White Nile rivers meet to form the Nile in what country south of Egypt?
9) What city, recaptured by the Union in 1862, was the most populous in the Confederate States of America?
10) If you start in Bellevue and drive north on I-405, what’s the next city you’ll come to?

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Quiz: Nudity

27-June-07 / James Callan

1) In August 1991, Demi Moore appeared nude and 7 months pregnant on the cover of what magazine?
2) What common term for a voyeur invokes the name of a tailor who got an eyeful of Lady Godiva?
3) What alt-porn site was founded in Portland in 2001 because the founders wanted to see “hot punk rock girls naked”?
4) Janet Jackson had a famous breast-exposing wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Who won the game?
5) What pair of lovebirds appears naked on the cover of the 1968 album Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins?
6) Who wrote and illustrated In the Night Kitchen, a frequently censored picture book about Mickey, a naked boy who falls into a big bowl of dough?
7) Who painted The Luncheon on the Grass (Le dÃ©jeuner sur l’herbe), a famous painting featuring a nude woman having a picnic lunch with two fully dressed men?
8) Two actors get naked in the first episode of NYPD Blue: David Caruso, and who?
9) Louise Bourgeois’s statue Father and Son in the Olympic Sculpture Park, depicting a naked man and a naked boy, inspired Seattle resident Judy Fenton to do what?
10) In 1991, Piero Cannata attacked Michaelangelo’s famous statue of David with a hammer. What body part did Cannata break?
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Quiz: Geography

24-January-07 / James Callan

From the Old Pequliar on Jan. 23, 2007

1) What’s the most populous city on I-5 between Seattle and Portland?
2) As of 2006, according to the Economist Intelligence Group, what Scandinavian city is the most expensive in the world?
3) The total land area of Japan is closest to the total land area of which state: California, Michigan, Montana, or Oregon?
4) What river forms part of the border between Ontario and New York?
5) Which California city is the most populous city in the US that doesn’t contain at least 1,000,000 people?
6) Name one of the two Central American countries that borders Mexico.
7) Land’s End, the westernmost point in England, is located in which county?
8) Measured by total passenger traffic, which airport is the busiest on the European continent?
9) Name one of the two countries in the world that borders 14 other countries.
10) Seattle’s Empire Way was officially renamed in 1982. What’s it known as today?