Night 6: May 8th, 2006
Category 1: Current Events
1. What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby this year?
A: >Barbaro<
2. In a recently released report, which pharmaceutical company – the world’s largest – was found to have illegally tested an unapproved drug on children in Africa?
A: >Pfizer<
3. Who announced his resignation as director of the CIA on Friday?
A: >Porter Goss<
4. Which baseball team has the best win-loss record so far this season?
A: >Chicago White Sox<
5. Which South African archbishop will be appearing in Seattle this week?
A: >Desmond Tutu<
Category 2: Cartoons
1. What was the name of Barney & Betty Rubble’s adopted child?
A: >Bamm-Bamm<
2. What legendary voice actor voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat and many others?
A: >Mel Blanc<
3. In 2005, Forbes released a list of the 15 richest fictional characters. Which was the wealthiest animated cartoon character (in third place): C. Montgomery Burns, Richie Rich, or Scrooge McDuck?
A: >Richie Rich (Burns was 5th and Scrooge McDuck was 6th)<
4. Who was Dudley Do-Right’s archnemesis?
A: >Snidely Whiplash<
5. On what show did The Simpsons get its start as a series of animated shorts?
A: >The Tracey Ullman Show<
Category 3: Parallels and Meridians
1. Through which three South American countries does the equator pass?
A: >Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil<
2. Is the Pacific island nation of Kiribati located east or west of the International Date Line?
A: >West<
3. Does the Tropic of Cancer pass through any portion of the US?
A: >Yes – through Hawaiian waters<
4. The area north of the line marking the Arctic Circle is known, obviously, as the Arctic. What is the area immediately to the south known as?
A: >The Northern Temperate Zone<
5. Through what English town does the Prime Meridian famously pass?
A: >Greenwich<
Category 4: Bond villains
Using the photos provided, name the villains from the James Bond movies.
1.
A: >Auric Goldfinger<
2.
A: >Jaws<
3.
A: >Dr. Julius No<
4.
A: >Ernst Stavro Bloefeld<
5.
A: >Odd Job<
Category 5: Celebrity marriages
1. Who was Julia Roberts’ first husband?
A: >Lyle Lovett<
2. To which director/writer/actor has Jamie Lee Curtis been married since 1984?
A: >Christopher Guest<
3. How many times was Elizabeth Taylor married?
A: >8<
4. How many wedding ceremonies did Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have in 2002?
A: >3 – At an Anglican church in London; at the home of Jimmy Iovine in Los Angeles; and in an L.A. cathedral.<
5. Musician Tommy Lee has been married three times. To whom was he married the longest?
A: >Heather Locklear (1986-1993)<
Category 6: Name that poet
Name the author of each of the following excerpts from poems.
1. “Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table.”
A: >T. S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)<
2. “I met a traveler from an antique land / Who said: - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert.”
A: >Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ozymandias)<
3. “it may not always be so;and I say / that if your lips,which I have loved,should touch / another's,and your dear strong fingers clutch / his heart,as mine in time not far away;”
A: >E. E. Cummings (Sonnets – Unrealities XI)<
4. “’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimbal in the wabe: / All mimsy were the borogroves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.”
A: >Lewis Carroll (Jabberwocky)<
5. “It is an ancient Mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three. / `By thy long beard and glittering eye, / Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?”
A: >Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)<
Category 7: For the Birds
1. In biological taxonomy, what class do birds belong to?
A: >Aves<
2. What is the collective noun for a group of ravens?
A: >Unkindness, murder and conspiracy are all valid.<
3. What is the Washington State bird?
A: >The Willow Goldfinch (aka the American Goldfinch)<
4. What jazz saxophonist was nicknamed “Bird”?
A: >Charlie Parker<
5. Which is the largest flightless bird?
A: >The ostrich<
Category 8: Goth
Name the artist for the following song excerpts.
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
A: >Joy Division<
2. March of the Pigs
A: >Nine Inch Nails<
3. Love Song
A: >The Cure<
4. Kiss Them For Me
A: >Siouxsie and the Banshees<
5. Bela Lugosi’s Dead
A: >Bauhaus<
The winning team tonight was Flying Vomit Things That Attack Spock with 27 points. The second place team was Where's Tim with 22 points. The best average score went to Celtic United, a one person team with a score of 8.
Congratulations to the winning teams and thanks to everyone for playing!
1. What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby this year?
A: >Barbaro<
2. In a recently released report, which pharmaceutical company – the world’s largest – was found to have illegally tested an unapproved drug on children in Africa?
A: >Pfizer<
3. Who announced his resignation as director of the CIA on Friday?
A: >Porter Goss<
4. Which baseball team has the best win-loss record so far this season?
A: >Chicago White Sox<
5. Which South African archbishop will be appearing in Seattle this week?
A: >Desmond Tutu<
Category 2: Cartoons
1. What was the name of Barney & Betty Rubble’s adopted child?
A: >Bamm-Bamm<
2. What legendary voice actor voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat and many others?
A: >Mel Blanc<
3. In 2005, Forbes released a list of the 15 richest fictional characters. Which was the wealthiest animated cartoon character (in third place): C. Montgomery Burns, Richie Rich, or Scrooge McDuck?
A: >Richie Rich (Burns was 5th and Scrooge McDuck was 6th)<
4. Who was Dudley Do-Right’s archnemesis?
A: >Snidely Whiplash<
5. On what show did The Simpsons get its start as a series of animated shorts?
A: >The Tracey Ullman Show<
Category 3: Parallels and Meridians
1. Through which three South American countries does the equator pass?
A: >Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil<
2. Is the Pacific island nation of Kiribati located east or west of the International Date Line?
A: >West<
3. Does the Tropic of Cancer pass through any portion of the US?
A: >Yes – through Hawaiian waters<
4. The area north of the line marking the Arctic Circle is known, obviously, as the Arctic. What is the area immediately to the south known as?
A: >The Northern Temperate Zone<
5. Through what English town does the Prime Meridian famously pass?
A: >Greenwich<
Category 4: Bond villains
Using the photos provided, name the villains from the James Bond movies.
1.
A: >Auric Goldfinger<
2.
A: >Jaws<
3.
A: >Dr. Julius No<
4.
A: >Ernst Stavro Bloefeld<
5.
A: >Odd Job<
Category 5: Celebrity marriages
1. Who was Julia Roberts’ first husband?
A: >Lyle Lovett<
2. To which director/writer/actor has Jamie Lee Curtis been married since 1984?
A: >Christopher Guest<
3. How many times was Elizabeth Taylor married?
A: >8<
4. How many wedding ceremonies did Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have in 2002?
A: >3 – At an Anglican church in London; at the home of Jimmy Iovine in Los Angeles; and in an L.A. cathedral.<
5. Musician Tommy Lee has been married three times. To whom was he married the longest?
A: >Heather Locklear (1986-1993)<
Category 6: Name that poet
Name the author of each of the following excerpts from poems.
1. “Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table.”
A: >T. S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)<
2. “I met a traveler from an antique land / Who said: - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert.”
A: >Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ozymandias)<
3. “it may not always be so;and I say / that if your lips,which I have loved,should touch / another's,and your dear strong fingers clutch / his heart,as mine in time not far away;”
A: >E. E. Cummings (Sonnets – Unrealities XI)<
4. “’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimbal in the wabe: / All mimsy were the borogroves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.”
A: >Lewis Carroll (Jabberwocky)<
5. “It is an ancient Mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three. / `By thy long beard and glittering eye, / Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?”
A: >Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)<
Category 7: For the Birds
1. In biological taxonomy, what class do birds belong to?
A: >Aves<
2. What is the collective noun for a group of ravens?
A: >Unkindness, murder and conspiracy are all valid.<
3. What is the Washington State bird?
A: >The Willow Goldfinch (aka the American Goldfinch)<
4. What jazz saxophonist was nicknamed “Bird”?
A: >Charlie Parker<
5. Which is the largest flightless bird?
A: >The ostrich<
Category 8: Goth
Name the artist for the following song excerpts.
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
A: >Joy Division<
2. March of the Pigs
A: >Nine Inch Nails<
3. Love Song
A: >The Cure<
4. Kiss Them For Me
A: >Siouxsie and the Banshees<
5. Bela Lugosi’s Dead
A: >Bauhaus<
The winning team tonight was Flying Vomit Things That Attack Spock with 27 points. The second place team was Where's Tim with 22 points. The best average score went to Celtic United, a one person team with a score of 8.
Congratulations to the winning teams and thanks to everyone for playing!
posted by Colin at 10:18 PM
4 Comments:
I got 17.... thank god for the Goth category.... I would have done better had I ever seen (or remembered seeing) any James Bond movies!
Wow. It's really good I wasn't there. James Bond?! Goth?! (I guess I would've known Joy Division...)
The (temporary!) Utah contingent (L, C, and M) was able to put together a 27 point performance, thanks to a strangely complete knowledge of goth music. (We're tempted to award ourselves a bonus point - e.e. cummings was our inital guess on 6.3, but we were dissuaded by the typography.) Great questions as always, Colin. We're all looking forward to next Monday.
It was indeed a challenging night, as the final scores indicate.
And as far as the e.e. cummings goes, the participants at Kozak's didn't have the advantage (or disadvantage) of seeing the typography. I think that was probably the hardest (and most commonly missed) of the poet questions.
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