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[Pub quiz] “I’m not an animal! I’m a pub quiz round!”

Featured as round 1 at the Old Pequliar on July 7, 2009

Every question has something to do with elephants.

1) What elephant, named by London zookeepers, probably got its name from the Swahili words for “hello” or “chief”?

2) For a half point each, name the two Dr. Seuss books starting Horton the elephant.

3) What song from the album Elephant was the White Stripes’ first #1 single in the US, and includes the line “I’m going to Wichita”?

4) In 1985, what talk show host visited Sesame Street to report on the first time grownups ever saw Mr. Snuffleupagus?

5) In the movie Animal Crackers, Groucho Marks claims to have shot an elephant where?

6) What animal do Pooh and Piglet decide to capture using a Clever Trap — specifically, honey at the bottom of a pit?

7) In 1903, Thomas Edison filmed the execution of the elephant Topsy. How was the elephant killed?

8) What general won the Battle of Ticinus in 218BC?

9) In the Rudyard Kipling story “The Elephant’s Child,” what does the title character get from the “Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River”?

10) Michael Jackson dances with the bones of the Elephant Man in his video for what song?

ANSWERS (no peeking)

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Quiz: The White Round

1) What is actor Jaleel White’s most famous role, which he played from 1989-1998?

2) It’s been covered by Ringo Starr, Iron Butterfly, and Sheryl Crow, but the song “White Room” was originally a hit for what band?

3) Inspired by the United States’ conquest of the Philippines, what poet wrote “The White Man’s Burden” in 1899?

4) Which Stephen King novel deals with the unusual life of the White family?

5) What short, frequently cited writing guide was co-authored by E.B. White?

6) In 1963, the White Revolution kicked off a series of 19 reforms, eventually halted by a revolution in 1979, in what country?

7) Betty White met her future husband Allen Ludden when she appeared on what game show that he hosted?

8) Don DeLillo wanted to name his novel White Noise something else, a word derived from Greek and Latin meaning “all sound.” The word was already trademarked by the Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. What brand name is it?

9) In 1948, photographer Margaret Bourke-White became the last journalist to interview what world leader?

10) What’s the actual title of the Beatles’ album popularly known as The White Album?

Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.

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