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Quiz: Seattle 2008

18-January-09 / James Callan

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?

14-November-08 / James Callan

TODAY’S QUESTION:
If your butt were parked behind the wheel of a 1976 Chrysler Cordoba, your seat would be cushioned by what legendarily soft material?

Look for the answer with tomorrow’s Question of the Day.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER:

13-November-08 / James Callan

Quick and … well, maybe easy, maybe not:

Who’s the only musical artist to be featured in an iPod commercial and as the musical guest on Yo Gabba GabbaI‘s Super Music Friends Show?

Quiz: Superman

30-May-07 / James Callan

1) As a wee baby, Kal-El (a.k.a. Superman) was adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent. What was Martha’s maiden name?
2) Christopher Reeve broke two vertibrae in an accident while he was doing what?
3) In the video for the Genesis song “Land of Confusion,” what world leader dresses up as Superman?
4) What well-known alternative rock band covered The Clique’s song “Superman” on a 1986 album?
5) Who costarred with Superman in an American Express commercial that aired during the 1998 Super Bowl?
6) In the movie Stand by Me, Vern wonders if what cartoon character could beat up Superman?
7) What 1999 comedy involves a computer-based interest-skimming theft that was inspired, as one character says, by Superman III?
8) In the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which of Calvin’s alter egos used his powers to spin the earth backwards and give Calvin an extra day off from school?
9) Author Larry Niven explored the rather messy problems involved if Superman had sex with a human woman in his essay “Man of Steel, Woman of” what?
10) When Superman died in 1992, what character killed him?

Quiz: Science Fiction Authors

12-February-07 / James Callan

Team-requested round topic!

1) L. Ron Hubbard’s book Dianetics laid the foundations for what religion he went on to create?
2) Before writing the post-apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban wrote several childrens books about Frances, who was what kind of animal?
3) Which of these authors had the highest-grossing movie, adjusted for inflation, adapted from one of his novels: Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Crichton, Philip K. Dick, or H.G. Wells?
4) Which of these words was coined by Isaac Asimov in 1941: android, doohickey, positron, or robotics?
5) What novel, sometimes called the first science fiction novel, did Mary Shelley write in an effort to scare the bejeezus out of Lord Byron?
6) In the movie Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown and Clara share the same favorite author. Who is he?
7) Ray Bradbury has appeared in one television commercial, a funny take on “the food of the future.” What food was it?
8) In Back to School, what author does Rodney Dangerfield’s character hire to write a paper on his own novels?
9) Aldous Huxley took the title of Brave New World from what Shakespeare play?
10) What competitive reality show takes its name from a phrase in one of George Orwell’s novels?

Average score, out of 16 teams: 5.81.