Every question or answer features a name short for, derived from, or a variation on Elizabeth.
1) Elizabeth I of England was the last monarch in which dynasty?
2) Who played Lizzie McGuire on the 2001-2004 Disney Channel series?
3) In the book Little Women, what illness does Beth die from?
4) Nina Simone had her only top 40 US hit with a song from what George Gershwin opera?
5) Dave Stevens, who created the graphic novel The Rocketeer, modeled the hero’s girlfriend after what 1950s pin-up queen?
6) What computer program, written in 1966, is a chatterbot that mimics the behavior of a Rogerian psychotherapist?
7) What company’s stock ticker symbol is LIZ?
8) Which Apple computer was supposedly named after Steve Jobs’ daughter?
9) Isabel Archer is the main character in what Henry James novel?
10) What role do Giselle Loren, Kristy Swanson, and Sarah Michelle Gellar have in common?
Average score, among 13 teams: 7.00.
1) Tudor
2) Hilary Duff
3) scarlet fever
4) Porgy and Bess
5) Bettie Page
6) ELIZA
7) Liz Claiborne, Inc.
8) the Lisa
9) The Portrait of a Lady
10) Buffy (Summers, the Vampire Slayer)
Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on February 27, 2007.