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Quiz: Seattle Institutions

Round 4 at Post on October 20, 2008

Fourth round of local trivia for the Yes on Seattle Prop. 1 ballot measure.

1) In 2003, Fantagraphics Publishing saved itself from going out of business by starting to publish a complete collection of what newspaper comic strip?
2) What local website describes itself as “Seattle’s sparkly indie-pop press”?
3) Hankblog is the official blog for what local institution?
4) What fraternal organization, once based in the building that’s now home to A Contemporary Theatre, was founded by six theater owners in 1898?
5) In 1993, Ben and Jerry’s launched what rhyming, caramel-cashew-Brazil nut-chocolate-hazelnut-fudge-almond ice cream flavor at Archie McPhee?
6) When it opened in 1986, what semi-kinky Seattle business was called Marzi Tarts?
7) When the Storm won the 2004 WNBA championship, what team did they defeat in the finals?
8) In a recent ad campaign, an animal named Leonard demands that the Seattle Aquarium let him in. What kind of animal is Leonard?
9) According to legend, a customer in Alaska successfully returned to Nordstrom a set of what product that the store has never actually sold?
10) The Green Lake branch of the Seattle Public Library has been closed since October 2 because they found what in a crawlspace?
11) As of December 2007, what was the circulation of the Seattle Weekly?

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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4) What database claims to be the “world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information”?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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