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Quiz: “Religious” Songs

Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 7.6/11 (15 teams)

Tuesday Evening Revival Service

Brothers and sisters! Tonight we’ve been mucking around with the devil. Yes, the devil. He lives in the details, and trivia is all about details. All about the devil. The devil in the details.

But that’s gonna change. That’s gonna change right now. Because we’re going to listen to some religious music. Listen closely, brothers and sisters. Each and every one of these songs is has a religious term in its title.

You need to tell me who’s singing, and the name of the song. The artist and the song title are worth a half! point! each!

Can you give me an amen? Amen!

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Quiz: Mayors

1) Who is the mayor of Springfield, hometown to the Simpsons?
2) Who was mayor of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit?
3) What epic novel and long-running musical center around the hidden past of the mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer?
4) In a 1989 movie, Da Mayor gives Mookie this piece of advice: “Always” what?
5) Mayor McCheese was dropped from McDonald’s advertising campaigns because of a 1973 lawsuit that found him too similar to what Sid & Marty Krofft character?
6) What British new wave group had their biggest US hit with the 1989 single “Mayor of Simpleton”?
7) Rudy Giuliani would become the first former mayor in the White House since 1923, when what former mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts, became president?
8) Mayor Richard Wilkins III was a memorable villain on what television series?
9) In 1910, Emil Seidel became the first Socialist mayor of a major US city. What city was it?
10) Who was mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988?
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Quiz: TLA

Every answer will be a three-letter acronym.

1) What’s the airport code for Portland International Airport?
2) What simple philosophy is shared by Home Depot, punk music, zines, and the modern arts and crafts revival?
3) What CBS series has the highest Nielsen ratings for a show with an abbreviation for a title?
4) What standardized test is a requirement for most graduate schools in the US?
5) What academic abbreviation stands for the Latin phrasing of “which was to be demonstrated”?
6) What was the most common radio distress signal before SOS?
7) If you’re using Adobe Acrobat, what kind of file are you most likely creating?
8) What pop group recorded “Making Plans for Nigel,” “Senses Working Overtime,” and “Dear God”?
9) “Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation” is the motto of what media company?
10) What three-letter abbreviation, increasingly common since 1990, takes three times as many syllables to say in full as the phrase it stands for?

Average score, among 13 teams: 7.46.

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