An Tobar Pub Quiz 1.10.04

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 1.10.04

Round I

1. According to the rappers Outkast, what's cooler than being cool? (this has a definite two-word answer)

2. What famous actor is Angelina Jolie's father?

3. Which NCAA Division I college football team plays its home games at Beaver Stadium?

4. What two-word phrase is Chinese for "wind and water"?

5. A person suffering from ballistophobia is afraid of what?

Round II

1. An internet question: When you do a Google search on the words 'miserable failure', what's the first result you get?

2. What is the late Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow's name? (three names here: first, middle or maiden, and last name are all needed for credit)

3. What pro-Ku Klux Klan movie was the first feature length silent?

4. Who painted Madonna on the Meadow, School of Athens, and The Transfiguration?

5. Who lives in a pine-apple under the sea, absorbent and yellow and porous is he?

Round III

1. A CIA killer wants out of the agency, is killed by his boss, goes to hell, and then makes a deal with the devil to lead the forces of evil in Armageddon in order to see his wife again. Which comic-book superhero does this describe?

2. Which Shakespeare play ends with Vincentio the Duke proposing marriage to the virtuous Isabella, after giving orders for Claudio to marry Juliet, and Lucio to marry his whore?

3. What is the smallest U.S. state west of the Mississippi River? (in geographical area)

4. Clomicalm is the canine version of what human, prescription drug?

5. Greek for 'Heaven', he fathered the Titans, who fathered the Greek gods.

Round IV

1. Ending with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, this war is sometimes considered by historians to be the last religious war of Western civilization.

2. What is the capital of Libya?

3. What was the specific location of zip codes 10047 and 10048?

4. What TV show's final narration was 'Tuesday, August 29, 1967. The day the running stopped.'?

5. What was invented by William P. End? (hint: This is a case where the

inventor's name fits his invention)

Round V

1. Which is correct to say, 'The yolk of the egg are white' or, 'The yolk of the egg is white'?

2. What actress's real name was Linda Marchiano (although she starred in one well-known movie, I use the term 'actress' loosely here)?

3. What bandleader remarked: 'When I go I'm gonna take New Year's Eve with me'?

4. What animal is known as a polecat?

5. [Prior to John Kerry in 2004] Who was the last democrat the Orlando Sentinel endorsed for president?

Bonus~Round VI

1. Who is the only NFL player to have played for both the undefeated Dolphins of 1972 and the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976? (this guy went from 14-0 to 0-14)

2. What are Siegfried and Roy's last names?

3. According to the movie Scream, what are the three rules for a character to survive a slasher flick?

4. What are the four fundamental forces of nature that the theory of everything seeks to unify in theoretical physics?

5. What are the five points of Calvinism as summarized by the acronym TULIP (T-U-L-I-P)?

Round I Answers

1. Ice cold

2. Jon Voight

3. Penn State Nittany Lions

4. Feng Shui (pronounced "fung shway")

5. missiles ( I also accepted ammunition, bullets, or guns)

Round II Answers

1. The biography of George W. Bush at http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Bomb_Miserable_Failure.png

2. Coretta Scott King

3. The Birth of a Nation

4. Raphael (Sanzio)

5. Sponge Bob Square Pants

Round III Answers

1. Spawn

2. Measure for Measure [It's that classic play that inspired Cliffs Notes on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure]

3. Hawaii

4. Prozac

5. Uranus

Round IV Answers

1. The Thirty Years' War [The Hapsburg (Austrian) dynasty, Spain, and the German Catholic princes vs. France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, England, and the German Protestant Princes]

2. Tripoli

3. World Trade Center

4. The Fugitive

5. The Stop Sign

Round V Answers

1. Neither. [The yolk of the egg is yellow; or, as a copy editor put it more fully: I'd say either "The yolk of the egg isn't white" or "The yolks of the eggs aren't white." I'd try to avoid making both of the statements (you presented).]

2. Linda Lovelace

3. Guy Lombardo

4. A skunk [in the U.S., ferret is Europe but I will take that too]

5. Lyndon Johnson (1964) Manning Pynn acknowledged this in October 12, 2003's Orlando Sentinel (he is Public Editor of the Orlando Sentinel, and he ougtht to know)]

Round VI Answers

1. Larry Ball (LB)

2. Fischbacher, Horn

3. never have sex; never drink or do drugs; and, never say 'I'll be right back.'

4. gravity, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force

5. Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistable Grace, Perseverance of the saints