mighty fine trivia by James Callan

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Quiz: All or Nothing

1) The New York Times‘ motto is “all the news that’s” what?
2) What 1984 film is about a young boy’s efforts to save Fantasia from The Nothing?
3) Name two of the three artists who sang “All for Love” on the soundtrack of 1993’s The Three Musketeers.
4) The anti-consumerist protest Buy Nothing Day takes place the day after what holiday?
5) What All My Children actress was nominated for a Daytime Emmy 18 years in a row before winning in 1999?
6) Being and Nothingness, the treatise that kick-started existentialism, was written by what French philosopher?
7) The All Blacks are the rugby union team for what country?
8) Cordelia is told that “nothing will come of nothing” in which Shakespeare play?
9) Dennis Haysbert, who tells you that “you’re in good hands with Allstate,” used to play the president on what TV show?
10) What word completes these Talking Heads lyrics? “From the age of the dinosaurs / Cars have run on gasoline / Where, where have they gone? / Now, it’s nothing but” what?

Average score: 7.3

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Quiz: TLA

Every answer will be a three-letter acronym.

1) What’s the airport code for Portland International Airport?
2) What simple philosophy is shared by Home Depot, punk music, zines, and the modern arts and crafts revival?
3) What CBS series has the highest Nielsen ratings for a show with an abbreviation for a title?
4) What standardized test is a requirement for most graduate schools in the US?
5) What academic abbreviation stands for the Latin phrasing of “which was to be demonstrated”?
6) What was the most common radio distress signal before SOS?
7) If you’re using Adobe Acrobat, what kind of file are you most likely creating?
8) What pop group recorded “Making Plans for Nigel,” “Senses Working Overtime,” and “Dear God”?
9) “Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation” is the motto of what media company?
10) What three-letter abbreviation, increasingly common since 1990, takes three times as many syllables to say in full as the phrase it stands for?

Average score, among 13 teams: 7.46.

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