mighty fine trivia by James Callan

Tag: variety

Los Angeles

1) What over-the-top F/X drama, set in Miami for its first four seasons, moved its characters to Los Angeles for the fifth?
2) What LA punk band with a very short name released the album Los Angeles in 1980 and had their highest-charting album with 1983’s Under the Big Black Sun?
3) What series of conflicts between sailors and young Mexican-Americans was used in the James Ellroy novel The Black Dahlia and immortalized in a 1997 song by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies?
4) What’s the electricity-themed name of Los Angeles’s WNBA team?
5) What former LA Lakers cheerleader regularly appears on a reality show that airs on the Fox network?
6) What landmark Seattle building was designed by the same genius architect who designed LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall?
7) What LA-born musician, also known as Makaveli, is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s best-selling rap artist?
8) There are two daily newspapers based in LA that cover the film and entertainment industry. Name one of them.
9) Los Angeles mounted a bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, but the United States Olympic Committee chose to back what other major city?
10) According to MSN.tv, L.A. Law featured one of TV’s most shocking deaths when Rosalind Shays, a character viewers loved to hate, did what?

Average score, 17 teams: 7.65

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Quiz: Rhyme Time

1) What’s the only Schoolhouse Rock! song from the Science Rock category that has a rhyming title?
2) What “frozen novelty product” made by Good Humor mimics the appearance of a Mexican entree?
3) What recurring Daily Show segment used to pit the stars of The Office and The Colbert Report against each other?
4) What database claims to be the “world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information”?
5) Which Beatles song is an ode to an amusement park slide?
6) When Mr. Jinks says “I hate those meeses to pieces,” who are the meeses in question?
7) What 1992 indie rock classic was the debut album by Pavement?
8) What Ben & Jerry’s flavor was named after the clown who was chief of the Please Force at Woodstock?
9) What famous four-word headline in Variety used their slanguage to say that rural audiences rejected movies about rural life?
10) What sportscaster claimed in a Saturday Night Live skit that he would eat the moon if it were made of barbecue spare ribs?
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