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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What city comes next in this sequence

San Francisco
Atlanta
Houston
San Diego
Los Angeles

(If you know the next one, you can probably also figure out the preceding one — this sequence extends back further than San Francisco.)

Berlin, Germany; Bristol, Virginia; Fukuoka, Japan; Hollywood, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; London, England; Munich, Germany; San Francisco, California; Stockholm, Sweden

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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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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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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