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Quiz: Movies with a Common Actor

19-March-14 / James Callan

What 2006 horror remake replaced Edward Woodward with Nicolas Cage, and spawned the meme known as â€œnot the beesâ€?
What 2007 drama was the first film directed by Paul Haggis after Crash, and tells the story of a veteran played by Tommy Lee Jones trying to find out who killed his son, an Iraq War vet?
What 2000 high school romantic comedy is based on Cyrano de Bergerac, with Shane West wooing Jodi Lyn Oâ€™Keefe with the help of Marla Sokoloff?
What 2014 mystery was greenlit because it earned $5,702,153 on Kickstarter last year?
What 2013 drama is based on the life of Linda Boreman, who made the film Deep Throat before going on to condemn the pornography industry?
What 2010 drama is based on a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, and was Julia Robertsâ€™ second most successful film that year after the ensemble piece Valentineâ€™s Day?
What 2008 bio-pic won Oscars for its star and screenwriter, and tells the story of the political career and assassination of a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
What 2003 movie, Robert Altmanâ€™s second-to-last film, centers on the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, and is based on an idea by the movieâ€™s lead, Neve Campbell?
Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens have a dream, and that dream is to spend a week in March wearing bikinis while partying in St. Petersburg. Name that 2013 crime drama!
Who appears in all nine of these movies?

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Quiz: Chocolate

19-November-08 / James Callan

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008

1) Barack Obama’s favorite sweets come from what local chocolatier?

2) If you’re eating something that’s at least 13% milk solids, 3.5% milk fat, 20% cocoa butter, and no more than 55% sugar, according to US regulations, what is it?

3) Daniel Peter invented milk chocolate, applying skills he used in what other profession involving melted material?

4) Nestle Quik chocolate milk mix was first introduced in 1948. What flavor came next, in 1959?

5) What former cast member on In Living Color hosts Comedy Central’s Chocolate News?

6) What West African country is the world’s leading exporter of cocoa, a crop introduced during the French colonial period?

7) What funk album by Parliament shares its name with a controversial phrase used in a 2006 speech by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin?

8) Roald Dahl’s sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is called Charlie and the … what unusual mode of transportation?

9) Hershey’s Kisses were originally only wrapped in silver foil. What two additional colors did Hershey first use in 1962?

10) According to McSweeney’s, what famous horror writer might have described a Whitman’s Sampler chocolate cherry cordial with this copy: “You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon’s true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.”

Quiz: Geography

5-September-07 / James Callan

1) Metro Transit is to King County as Community Transit is to what?

2) What state has been the nation’s leading producer of milk since 1993?

3) In 1282, which neighboring country was the first future member of the UK to be conquered by England: Ireland, Scotland, or Wales?

4) What two countries occupy the vast majority of the Iberian Peninsula?

5) If you flew to the busiest airport in the country named after someone who’s still alive, what state would you be in in?

6) If you want to visit the site of the Battle of Waterloo, what country do you need to visit?

7) What country, the most populous member of the European Union, also contains its geographic center?

8) Four Asian countries belong to La Francophonie, a group of countries whose culture, language, and history have been influenced by France. Name two of them.

9) Iraq called it their 19th province. What do we call it?

10) Which Seattle neighborhood is named after a chief of the Nisqually tribe who was hanged for murder in 1858 but exonerated by a Historical Court of Inquiry in 2004?

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.