Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Jan. 6, 2009
Average score: 7.67/10 (21 teams)
1) Thanks to a corrupted computer file, Pyro Spectaculars had to manually do what?
2) Who declared on Western Washington billboards that “four dollars is dumb” and “large is the new grande”?
3) What local sports franchise was defeated in round 1 of the Northwest Knockdown championships by a team from Chicago?
4) In January, local women Anne Levinson, Lisa Brummel, Ginny Gilder, and Dawn Trudeau banded together to buy what?
5) After Bill Gates mostly retired from Microsoft, he appeared in a TV commercial shopping for shoes with what ’90s celebrity?
6) What were Barons, Bison, Energy, Marshalls, and Wind?
7) Two Seattle-based Fortune 500 companies were acquired by other companies last year. Name the two companies, for a half point each.
8) A Rainier Beach resident died after being punched in the face during an argument that started because he was tending a garden he’d planted where?
9) Local resident Casey Knowles made news when footage of her sleeping turned up in a commercial for what?
10) Which presidential candidate won February’s Washington Republican caucus?