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Quiz: Current Events (Oct. 1-7, 2008)

15-October-08 / James Callan

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Oct. 7, 2008

1) Last week, the third grade class at Gladys Wood Elementary school could earn extra credit by doing what?
2) Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa were just awarded the Nobel Prize in what category?
3) Last week, the McCain campaign pulled out of what midwest state, basically conceding its 17 electoral votes to Obama?
4) What two financial service companies are currently battling to take over Wachovia? (half point each)
5) What happened in Vegas led to charges of armed robbery, assault, and kidnapping, which may mean life behind bars for what now-convicted criminal?
6) Bill Ayres, Barack Obama’s terrorist pal, cofounded the radical left wing group the Weathermen. What Bob Dylan song gave the group its name?
7) Apple’s stock price fell 10% on Friday after a “citizen journalist” claimed who had suffered a severe heart attack?
8) Nickelsville, currently located in Discovery Park, has until Wednesday to move to a new location. What is Nickelsville?
9) Last Friday, about 50 women tried out for the Seattle Mist, an expansion team in what sports league?
10) You can no longer get a fish pedicure in Washington State because the Department of Licensing doesn’t believe you can properly do what to a live fish?

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The Business of the American People

6-December-07 / James Callan

1) Lipitor, the best-selling drug in the world, is a product of what pharmaceutical company?
2) In 2003, after doing business under the founder’s name for over 150 years, what Dow Jones Industrial Average company renamed itself Altria Group?
3) See’s Candies, Fruit of the Loom, World Book, Dairy Queen, and Nebraska Furniture Mart are all subsidiaries of what insurance company?
4) According to the 2007 Fortune 500, what company based in New York City is the largest telecommunications company in the world?
5) Two companies used in the Dow Jones Industrial Average are traded on the NASDAQ, rather than the New York Stock Exchange. Name one of them.
6) Grinding It Out is the autobiography of the entrepreneur responsible for the success of what company?
7) The largest retail company in the US, Wal-Mart, is a general merchandise retailer. What specialty chain of big-box stores is the second-largest?
8) The Ford Motor Company owns two vehicle brands from the UK. Name one of them.
9) Steve Jobs got the idea for the mouse and graphical user interface when he saw the Alto computer while touring what company’s research facility?
10) Which broadcast network is owned by General Electric?

Quiz: Elizabethtown

1-March-07 / James Callan

Every question or answer features a name short for, derived from, or a variation on Elizabeth.

1) Elizabeth I of England was the last monarch in which dynasty?
2) Who played Lizzie McGuire on the 2001-2004 Disney Channel series?
3) In the book Little Women, what illness does Beth die from?
4) Nina Simone had her only top 40 US hit with a song from what George Gershwin opera?
5) Dave Stevens, who created the graphic novel The Rocketeer, modeled the hero’s girlfriend after what 1950s pin-up queen?
6) What computer program, written in 1966, is a chatterbot that mimics the behavior of a Rogerian psychotherapist?
7) What company’s stock ticker symbol is LIZ?
8) Which Apple computer was supposedly named after Steve Jobs’ daughter?
9) Isabel Archer is the main character in what Henry James novel?
10) What role do Giselle Loren, Kristy Swanson, and Sarah Michelle Gellar have in common?

Average score, among 13 teams: 7.00.