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Trivia quiz: Best pub quiz round … ever!

30-May-09 / James Callan

Round 6 at the Old Pequliar on May 5, 2009

Superlatives! Some of these contain a superlative in the question, some in the answer.

1) Many journalists writing about bad news in April call it “the cruellest month,” a literary cliche lifted from what poem?

2) “With Burt and Dolly, this much fun just couldn’t be legal” is the tagline for what musical?

3) Some people call them The Veterans, some call them the G.I. Generation, but Tom Brokaw calls them what?

4) The Netherlands’ De Afvallers, Mexico’s Â¿CuÃ¡nto quieres perder? and Israel’s Laredet Begadol are versions of what US series?

5) U2’s “The Sweetest Thing” was the B-side to what single from The Joshua Tree, later covered by Pet Shop Boys?

6) What fumble-fingered actor was The Shakiest Gun in the West?

7) “Theyâ€™re giving you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them.” Comic Book Guy responds with what three-word phrase?

8) The 1962 film The Longest Day gathered “42 international stars” to tell the story of what event?

9) Paddington Bear arrived at London’s Paddington station after emigrating from?

10) According to Life.com’s count of popular tags, what European capital is the most-photographed city on Flickr?

ANSWERS (no peeking!)

What do these cities have in common?

10-March-08 / James Callan

Berlin, Germany; Bristol, Virginia; Fukuoka, Japan; Hollywood, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; London, England; Munich, Germany; San Francisco, California; Stockholm, Sweden

Quiz: Geography

4-April-07 / James Callan

1) The girl from Ipanema was from a neighborhood in what city?
2) What is the largest city in the United States named after a place in Africa?
3) The capitol of the Incan empire was located in what present-day country?
4) 16% of Alaskans claim Native American or Alaska Native ancestry. At 10.2%, what state has the second-largest Native American population per capita?
5) In the year 1900, what national capital was the most populous city on earth?
6) Which of these cities is the highest above sea level: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Banff, Canada; Berne, Switzerland; or La Paz, Bolivia?
7) Lake Gatun, at one time the world’s largest artificial lake, was formed during construction of what engineering project?
8) The Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara connect the Mediterranean to what body of water?
9) What state has the shortest distance between its capital city and its most populous city? (Must be two separate cities, distance between city centers as the crow flies.)
10) What city in the Seattle metropolitan area is the most populous in Washington that doesn’t have a population of 100,000?
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