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Quiz: Triangulation

4-July-08 / James Callan

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on June 3, 2008.
Average score: 6.13/10 (16 teams)

1) the Segway, one of the Spice Girls, and a castaway
2) a DC Comics supervillain, a children’s television show, and a kind of camera lens
3) a fruit-based dessert, a geologic term, and something a baseball player wants to avoid
4) Beatrice’s cousin, a role playing game system, and what they call a grinder in New York
5) a sign in the Chinese zodiac, something you’d find at a mall, and Splinter
6) a monster that lives in a maze, something funky you might see on TV, and a Whoopi Goldberg film
7) a women’s basketball team, a Peggy Lee song, and something to starve
8) an episode of the series Rome, an automotive company, and a Conan O’Brian character,
9) a recent celebrity autobiography, a truly creepy Japanese horror film, and an Adobe software title
10) a baseball stadium, a jazz-era synonym for hunky-dory, and the alligator man

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Quiz: Geography

24-June-08 / James Callan

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on June 3, 2008
Average score: 3.38/10 (16 teams)

So, yeah, this round’s a little too difficult.

1) None of the United Nations member states start with the letter X — or what other letter?
2) What’s the most populous country in the world where Spanish is a national language?
3) Name one of the two largest islands in Washington’s Island County.
4) 37 towns share the most popular place name in the US. Which founding father inspired most of them?
5) After the breakup of the Soviet Union, what country became the world’s leading producer of potatoes?
6) Put these three places in order of total area, from smallest to largest: the city of Juneau, Alaska; King County, Washington; and the state of Rhode Island
7) Maracaibo, Valencia, Barquisimeto, and MÃ©rida are cities in what South American country?
8) Which US city contains the world’s largest population of Iranians outside of Iran?
9) Birthplace of Goethe, Bach and Nietzsche, what was the second-most-populous city in East Germany?
10) After the 1861 unification of Italy, two cities were capitals before Rome. Name one of them.

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Quiz: Five-by-Five Time Travel

4-April-07 / James Callan

1) On March 21, 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was charged with the kidnapping and murder of who?
2) On March 22, 1997, what 14-year-old became the youngest women’s world figure skating champion?
3) On March 18, 2002, who announced on Larry King Live that he would run for president as an independent?
4) On March 19, 1987, “cancer and a scab on the face of Christianity” Jim Bakker resigned from what religious group?
5) What country occupied South Georgia island on March 19, 1982?
6) A&M Records signed what band on March 10, 1977, but dropped their contract six days later after a band member vomited on a bigwig’s desk?
7) In 1972, the short British novels If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet were published in the US as one book. What was it called?
8) Alice B. Toklas died on March 7, 1967. Who wrote her 1933 autobiography?
9) What country artist, sometimes known as Chris Gaines, was born on February 7, 1962?
10) The European Economic Community was founded on March 25, 1957, with the signing of the Treaty of what city?