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Trivia quiz: The Duality of Man

15-May-09 / James Callan

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?

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Trivia 101

17-April-08 / James Callan

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 5, 2008
Average score: 4.67/10 (9 teams)

1) How do you write the number 101 in binary?
2 ) Who plays the title character on the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101?
3) In the movie One Hundred and One Dalmatians, what’s the name of the hit song that Roger composes?
4) In 1989, what band chronicled their Music for the Masses tour with a live album and a documentary both called 101?
5) The world’s tallest completed skyscraper is Taipei 101, in Taipei. In 2009, a taller skyscraper will be completed in what Arabic city?
6) What controversial general commanded the 101st Airborne Division during the drive to Baghdad at the start of the Iraq War?
7) When you’re traveling north, US Route 101 ends in what Washington city?
8) In 1981, Simon Bond included boxing gloves, violin bow, helicopter landing feet, objet d’art, and falsies in his book 101 Uses for what?
9) According to the book 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived, what advertising icon is history’s most influential fictional person?
10) How do you write the number 101 in Roman numerals?

Quiz: True Colors

4-April-07 / James Callan

1) What Neil Diamond song was a #1 hit for UB40 in 1988?
2) Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner have all been known by what heroic name?
3) What popular program, known for airing the same episode Monday through Friday of a given week, debuted on Nickelodeon on September 8, 1996?
4) In the United States, conjunctivitis is better known as what?
5) What song composed by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, and Irving Mills was originally called “Mexican Blues” and “Dreamy Blues”?
6) What college football game played on January 1 has been sponsored by FedEx since 1989?
7) What three-word phrase, coined in the 1880s, describes southern voters who always voted for Democratic candidates?
8) What popular Australian candy bar says on the label “It’s the way it shatters that matters”?
9) In physics, what term describes the random motion of microscopic particles in a liquid?
10) What steakhouse was founded in 1964 in Seattle’s Caledonia hotel?
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