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Quiz: Fairy Tales

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 3, 2009

1) According to one of the Grimms’ fairy tales, who is Snow White’s colorfully named sister?

2) Disney did two short films based on “The Ugly Duckling,” but what was the first full-length Disney movie based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale?

3) Gregory Maguire’s second novel, after Wicked, was Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, a revisionist version of what fairy tale?

4) “Red Hot Riding Hood,” Tex Avery’s cartoon featuring a lustful, bug-eyed wolf visiting a nightclub, was parodied in what 1994 comedy/action film?

5) Slavic witch Baba Yaga’s house walks around on what kind of legs?

6) Four old animals decide to travel to Bremen and become town musicians. What kind of animals are they? For one point, name two; name all four for a bonus point. (Write down no more than 4 species.)

7) Giants, soldiers, and kings assumed the brave tailor who killed “seven with one blow” killed seven men. But he actually killed seven what?

8) In the Hans Cristian Andersen tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” the solder falls in love with what kind of paper doll?

9) The only Razzie award won by an animated film went to “Marry the Mole,” a song from what 1994 Don Bluth movie?

10) What Disney movie is based on the tale called “Briar Rose” by the Brothers Grimm?

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Quiz: Triangulation

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.07/10 (15 teams)

Triangulation is the product of an unholy union between Wikipedia’s disambiguation pages, seldom-used dictionary definitions, Urban Dictionary, and whatever words catch my fancy. I’ll give you three definitions, you tell me the word or phrase that fits them all.

Example: A Canadian music award, a Roman goddess, and Roger Ebert’s favorite film of 2007: Juno

1) a kind of wine, a kind of rock, and where Hewlett-Packard got its start

2) a British drink made of fruit juice and soda water, a non-Olympic racquet sport, and a zucchini

3) something you build while hunting, a forced bet, and a slat-driven device

4) five and a half yards, something you’d find near a cone, and a character from Avenue Q

5) Snoopy’s sister, a Disney princess, and Sebastian’s dog

6) a wrestling lineup, a wag or wit or joker, or something you punch

7) a kind of bug, a field, and Jennifer’s middle name

8) part of a whip, a British crime TV series, and a racial slur

9) a tour guide, to summon someone, and a 1950s Playmate of the Month

10) a porn studio, Elphaba’s story, and Bostonese for “extremely”

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The Wizard of Oz

Used Jan. 9, 2007, at the Old Pequliar.

  1. The title of L. Frank Baum’s first Oz novel is slightly different from the movie. What word from the book’s title is not part of the movie title?
  2. What’s Dorothy’s last name?
  3. In the movie, Dorothy wears ruby slippers. What are they made of in the book?
  4. What comedian plays the title character in the 1978 musical film The Wiz?
  5. Wicked lost the 2004 Best New Musical Tony Award to what parody featuring “full puppet nudity”?
  6. What future witch played Dorothy in the 1985 sequel Return to Oz?
  7. Pink Floyd denies that they deliberately recorded what album as an alternate soundtrack for the 1939 movie?
  8. In Baum’s novel, Munchkin Country is one of four countries in Oz. Name one of the other three.
  9. According to historian Hugh Rockoff’s interpretation of Baum’s first book as a political parable, what character represents the Prohibition Party, or teetotalers?
  10. If you’re a “friend of Dorothy,” what are you?

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