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Quiz: Triangulation

6-May-09 / James Callan

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on March 3, 2009
Average score: 6.71 (14 teams)

Premise: Given three definitions (in the loose sense of the word), give me the term that fits them all.

Example: an after-dinner cocktail, a kosher insect, and a pop cultural synonym for padawan are all “grasshopper”

Here we go:

1) a type of photography, a Rick Astley album, and the opposite of landscape

2) a Samsung cell phone, a kind of Mac OS file, and an espionage TV series

3) a kind of dog collar, something you might see in a parking lot, and part of a volcano

4) a kind of steak, an Adam Ant song, and a daily dose of Peanuts

5) a kind of wire, a thorn in Robin Hood’s side, and something you might burn in Britain

6) a piece of chocolate, Dale’s partner, and a buffalo byproduct

7) a kind of play, an episode of Buffy, and Peter Gabriel’s soundtrack to Last Temptation of Christ

8) a typesetting term, having a lot of money, and a poker hand

9) Wonka’s successor, a kind of list, and something a walrus might have

10) a Thomas Pynchon novel, the middle of many court cases, and the invasion of the lizard people

1) In 1966, the Ku Klux Klan burned Beatles records after who said the group was “more popular than Jesus now”?
2) The Depeche Mode song “Personal Jesus” was inspired by the autobiography Elvis and Me, written by whom?
3) The Jesus and Mary Chain’s song “Just Like Honey” appears in the closing scenes of what 2003 drama?
4) Before Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice collaborated on what other biblically inspired musical?
5) In the short film “The Spirit of Christmas,” when Jesus and Santa are kicking the crap out of each other, who reminds the South Park kids that “This is the season just to be good to each other”?
6) What Pulitzer-winning novelist and one-time New York mayoral candidate published The Gospel According to the Son in 1997, told from the point of view of Jesus himself?
7) Victor Garber, Jennifer Garner’s dad on Alias, plays Jesus in what musical film that climaxes on top of the World Trade Center?
8) The shortest verse in the New Testament, John 11:35, is “Jesus wept.” Whose tomb made Jesus cry like a little girl?
9) Supreme Court case Morse v. Frederick determined that a school can restrict student speech at a school event that can be seen as promoting drug use. What did Joseph Frederick’s controversial banner say?
10) In 1899, journalist Louis Klopsch came up with the idea for what biblical innovation?

Average score: 5.9

Quiz: The Loyal Opposition

18-July-07 / James Callan

Revenge of the antagonists! I’ll name a well-known antagonist; you tell me the hero this villain usually antagonizes. For example: Lex Luthor = Superman.

1) Jafar, Grand Vizier of Agrabah
2) The Red Skull
3) Glorificus, goddess from a hell dimension
4) Simon Bar Sinister
5) Biff Tannen
6) The Once-Ler
7) the Cavity Creeps
8) Arvin Sloane
9) The Sorcerer, The Pharaoh, Glitter Rock, and Spider Lady
10) Rosalyn
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Quiz: Triangulation

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Quiz: The Loyal Opposition