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[Pub quiz] Americana: See the USA

16-August-09 /

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

1) Get a look at the Transamerica Pyramid, drive the “crookedest street in the world,” and eat dessert in Ghirardelli Square in what city?

2) Tour the Molly Brown House Museum, Coors Brewery, and a branch of the US mint in what city?

3) To take in the Tech Museum, tour the Winchester Mystery House, and see the original state capitol of California, you need to go where?

4) SEE the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historical Site! The original Erie Canal Harbor! And Niagara Falls! All when you visit what city?

5) You can catch a live show at First Avenue and 7th Street Entry, stop by the largest literary and book arts center in the US, and watch the North Star Roller Girls tear up the track in what city?

6) Where should you go to tour the World War II destroyer USS Kidd, visit the Shaw Center for the Arts, and see the tallest state capitol building in the US?

7) If you’ve toured historic Quapaw Quarter, see the Central High School National Historical Site, and stroll along President Clinton Avenue, where have you been?

8) If you want to see the Sedgwick County Zoo, the original Pizza Hut, and the birthplace of Cessna, were do you need to go?

9) If you want visit the western edge of the Great Basin to attend a hot air balloon race and see the birthplace of Harrah’s Entertainment, what city is your best bet?

10) Visit the Hayden Planetarium, the International Center of Photography, and Grant’s Tomb in what city?

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Quiz: Americana (Special Abraham Lincoln Edition)

6-February-09 /

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 3, 2009

1) Lincoln Logs were invented by the son of what American architect?

2) Over 14,000 feet high, the tallest mountain named Lincoln in the United States is part of the Mosquito Range in what state?

3) Abraham Lincoln’s image was added to the front of the penny in 1909. Until 1958, the back of the penny depicted what agricultural product?

4) Which Seattle park is named after a survivor of Booth’s assassination plot, Lincoln’s Secretary of State?

5) Lincoln, featuring the songs “Purple Toupee” and “They’ll Need a Crane,” is the second album by what alternative rock band?

6) John Keating’s students could tell you: Which Walt Whitman poem includes the line “The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won”?

7) The Lincoln Highway, the US’s first coast-to-coast highway, connected Lincoln Park, San Francisco, to what New York City landmark?

8) Two ships in the US Navy have been named the USS Abraham Lincoln. For a half point each, what kind of vessels are they?

9) “The Apotheosis of Lincoln” and “Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious” are among the pictures that show Lincoln being welcomed into heaven by what politician?

10) “If she were a president, she’d be Baberaham Lincoln,” says Garth about Wayne’s unbelievably hot girlfriend. What’s her name?

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Quiz: Seattle

3-September-08 /

Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 2, 2008
Average score: 4.59/10 (11 teams)

1) Bumbershoot 2008 just ended. For half a point, name two of the six bands that played an evening mainstage show. For a full point, name three.
2) Roethke Mews is the official name of the alley bordering what tavern?
3) In 1983, what business took over the Manning’s Cafeteria location at 5501 15th Ave NW?
4) What media company has owned the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1921?
5) What local website describes itself as “Seattle’s sparkly indie-pop press”?
6) Seattle is part of the Ninth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals. What city is the Ninth Circuit headquarted in?
7) The first Cinerama screen in Seattle was added to what performing arts venue?
8) The Seattle Storm won the 2004 WNBA championship, defeating what team two games to one?
9) We all know where Benaroya Hall is. But which local hospital do we go to to visit the Benaroya Research Institute?
10) What fraternal organization, once based in the building that’s now home to A Contemporary Theatre, was founded by six theater owners in 1898?

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Quiz: Geography

8-August-07 /

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: Geography

18-July-07 /

1) Which suburb south of Seattle uses the slogan “More than you imagined”?
2) What’s the most densely populated city of 500,000 residents or more that’s west of the Mississippi?
3) By population, what’s the largest city in Canada?
4) What’s the most populous city in the US that starts with a vowel?
5) Cuba’s total land area is closest to which of these states: Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, or Wyoming?
6) The most populous city in the US named Springfield is located in which of these states: Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, or Oregon?
7) What country contains the easternmost point on the continent of Africa?
8) The Kingdom of the Netherlands is made up of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and what Caribbean island?
9) The French call this region Côte d’Azur. In English, we know it as what two-word phrase?
10) What city, incorporated on January 8, 1904, was annexed by Seattle on March 29, 1910, and is now a neighborhood?
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Quiz: Shot on Location

27-June-07 /

I’ll name a TV series, you tell me where it’s set. For example, for Frasier, the answer is Seattle.

1) Magnum, P.I.
2) Charmed
3) Alice
4) The Bob Newhart Show
5) Matlock
6) Nip/Tuck
7) Murphy Brown
8) The Wire
9) The Office (US version)
10) Ally McBeal
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