TODAY’S QUESTION
(Literature) Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack are the title characters of what book?
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That question, again: What is Sasha Obama’s actual first name?
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TODAY’S QUESTION
Editor Steve Dunleavy could’ve written something sober and tasteful — like his facetious suggestion DECAPITATED CEREBELLUM IN TAVERN OF ILL REPUTE. But that wouldn’t have sold papers.
Instead, what notorious five-word headline greeted New York Post readers on April 15, 1983?
You can answer in the comments for public glory (or perhaps humiliation), or email james at quizquizbangbang.com if you’re shy.
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That question, again: What nineteenth-century technology is the subject of Tom Standage’s book The Victorian Internet?
Mental Floss regularly produces great quizzes, but I thought this one was especially fun: Identify the book given a vertical strip photocopied from the text.
How’d I do?
Lit Slits, Volume I
Score: 90% (9 out of 10)
I could’ve gone 10/10, but second-guessed myself on the last question.
Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on April 7, 2009
Theme of the round: All about duos.
1) What Disney movie has a direct-to-video sequel wherein one of the main characters “has a glitch”?
2) What TGIF comedy on ABC featured Kelly Ripa as one of the title characters?
3) What literary detectives cracked the cases of the Tower Treasure, the Mystery of Cabin Island, and the Missing Chums, among many others?
4) “The Mac Dad will make you jump jump” and “the Daddy Mac will make you jump jump” according to the 1992 hit by what group?
5) If last names had been used in the title, what 1986 biopic about a doomed love affair would’ve been called Ritchie and Spungen?
6) Frank Sinatra pulled some strings to reunite what comedy team on a televised benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association?
7) What gourmet grocery store first opened in SoHo in 1977, but hasn’t gotten any closer to Seattle than the Napa Valley?
8) Before they become a Saturday Night Live star and a Mystery Man, what comedy duo had their own Nickelodeon sitcom and starred in Good Burger?
9) The 1962 film Send Me No Flowers was the last of three films featuring what popular on-screen couple?
10) “A bad imitation of Peter Lorre” hangs out with “an amped-up Larry Fine” according to the voice actors behind what zany cartoon duo?
ANSWERS:
TODAY’S QUESTION:
If you’re using SOWPODS, you’re probably playing what board game?
THURSDAY’S ANSWER:
TODAY’S QUESTION:
The 1991 book Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals is a sequel to what semi-autobiographical bestseller published in 1974?
YESTERDAY‘S ANSWER:
Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 2, 2008
Average score: 5.95/10 (11 teams)
Given the famous spoiler or plot twist, tell me what work it comes from. (Spoilers ahead, naturally.)
1) (movie) Keaton wasn’t the mastermind after all — it was Verbal all along.
2) (graphic novel) The bad guy destroys New York City to avert nuclear war. But as one of the heroes reminds him, “Nothing ever ends.”
3) (movie) Katherine is her sister and her daughter. And her father-slash-babydaddy gets custody.
4) (TV) Number 1 is a chimpanzee. Or Number 6. Or maybe the screenwriter. It’s open to interpretation.
5) (book) He finds himself back in the desert where it all began, but this time he’s carrying the Horn of Eld.
6) (TV) She moves to New York, becomes a photographer, and dies in 2085 at age 101.
7) (novel) Each of the 12 suspects stabbed Mr. Ratchett once.
8) (play) Technically, he says he could have asked for the moment to go on forever — so he gets to go to heaven after all.
9) (movie) When Diane — or maybe she’s Betty — finds a blue key, she shoots herself. No one agrees what it all means, though.
10) (web series) Captain Hammer gets hurt, Penny gets killed, and the main character gets his wish: joining Bad Horse in the Evil League of Evil.
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David Israel’s “Who Am I?” quiz on Mental Floss asks you to identify 10 books based on 10 clues written in the first person.
I scored 70%, though I think I’ve only read 35%. Thank you, general knowledge!
One peeve (with spoilers):
Team-requested round topic!
1) L. Ron Hubbard’s book Dianetics laid the foundations for what religion he went on to create?
2) Before writing the post-apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban wrote several childrens books about Frances, who was what kind of animal?
3) Which of these authors had the highest-grossing movie, adjusted for inflation, adapted from one of his novels: Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Crichton, Philip K. Dick, or H.G. Wells?
4) Which of these words was coined by Isaac Asimov in 1941: android, doohickey, positron, or robotics?
5) What novel, sometimes called the first science fiction novel, did Mary Shelley write in an effort to scare the bejeezus out of Lord Byron?
6) In the movie Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown and Clara share the same favorite author. Who is he?
7) Ray Bradbury has appeared in one television commercial, a funny take on “the food of the future.” What food was it?
8) In Back to School, what author does Rodney Dangerfield’s character hire to write a paper on his own novels?
9) Aldous Huxley took the title of Brave New World from what Shakespeare play?
10) What competitive reality show takes its name from a phrase in one of George Orwell’s novels?
Average score, out of 16 teams: 5.81.