An Tobar Pub Quiz 5.15.04

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 5.15.04

Round One

1. A man pointed to a picture and said "Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s father is my father’s son." Whose picture was the man pointing at?

2. Who was Janet Jackson performing with when she showed off her right breast during halftime at this year’s Superbowl?

3. Who was Al Gore’s famous roommate at Harvard?

4. Cinco de Mayo (or as the Mexicans like to call it, the fifth of May) commemorates a Mexican military victory over what country?

5. Prince’s album 1999 was released on October 27 of what year? (2 pts. for exact year, 1 pt. for being within 1 year either way)

6. What rapper features a Rolls Royce in his video P.I.M.P.?

7. What was the real identity of late-night TV clairvoyant Carnac the Magnificent?

8. Which of these is not a Dr. Seuss title?

A. Cow goes Pow

B. Fox in Socks

C. Hop on Pop

D. Hunches in Bunches

9. What 1999 Matt Damon film usually has the adjectives Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted and Passionate truncated from its title?

10. On the TV show Laverne and Shirley, what was Laverne’s favorite drink?

Round Two

1. What is the only U.S. state without interstate highways (built to interstate highway standards)?

2. What was Nemo’s father’s name in the movie Finding Nemo?

3. What actress was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for her work on Melrose Place, and one for her work on Spin City?

4. What is the name of Erich Maria Remarque fictional book about World War I?

5. According to the German magazine Men’s Car, drivers of what make of automobile have the most frequent sex (2.2x week)? [Three times a week is more ideal—like fundamentalist churchgoing—twice on the weekend and one midweek service]

HP6. What do J.K. Rowling’s initials stand for?

6. What movie introduced the Sylvester Stallone character Rambo?

HP7. What’s the name of the curse that killed Harry Potter’s parents?

7. Which day is not mentioned in the Beatles' song Lady Madonna?

HP8. Who was Harry Potter’s first defense against the dark arts teacher?

8. Besides its two title characters, what Shakespeare play also features Octavius Caesar, Ledipus, Octavia, and Pompey?

HP9. In Goblet of Fire, who was Harry Potter’s date for the Yule Ball?

9. What American painter began his career with Civil War prints for Harper’s Weekly and then went on to paint Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide), and The Herring Net?

HP10. Who killed Sirius Black?

10. What is the capital of Afghanistan? (the other war, remember?)

Round Three

1. The web-based company Google is looking to raise $2,718,281,828 in its initial public offering, where did they get such an irrational number from?

2. What comedian died of complications from lung cancer on May 16, 1984, and promised to come back twenty years to the date if he was faking?

3. What United States presidential election was the only one where there was a tie in the electoral college which had to be decided by the House of Representatives? (Give the year of the election or the two men who tied)

4. Who will be playing the role of Daisy Duke in an upcoming film adaptation of The Dukes of Hazard?

5. When Wild Bill Hickok was shot in Deadwood while playing poker, what hand was he holding?

6. During the Civil War, General McClellan was made aware of the details of General Lee’s planned invasion of Maryland after a Union private found Lee’s Special Orders lying in some grass wrapped around what?

7. What was the first film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula? (It was not called ‘Dracula’ due to copyright problems with Bram Stoker’s widow.)

8. Give me the title or author of the current number one, bestselling, non-fiction hardcover on the New York Times best seller list?

9. Who was the greek god of the underworld (I’ll accept his Greek or Roman name)?

10. Who has replaced Casey Kasem as host of the weekly pop countdown show American Top 40?

Bonus

1. Who is the only driver to win the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, and the 24 hours of LeMans?

2. In 1937 a baseball player and a horse both won triple crowns, name them.

3. Kill Bill Vol. 1, was billed as Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film. What were the movie’s marketing people considering Tarantino’s first three films?

4. What are the four tallest buildings in the world (based on height in feet, not necessarily stories; order is not important)?

5. Excluding Andy Rooney, name the five current correspondents mentioned at the beginning of every 60 Minutes Program?

Round One Answers

1. A picture of his son [If you don’t get this one substitute the word "myself" for the phrase "my father’s son". This man’s father is myself. Therefore it’s his son.]

2. Justin Timberlake

3. Tommy Lee Jones

4. France

5. 1982

6. 50 Cent

7. Johnny Carson

8. Cow goes Pow

9. The Talented Mr. Ripley

10. Milk and Pepsi

Round Two Answers

1. Alaska

2. Marlin

3. Heather Locklear

4. All Quiet on the Western Front

5. BMW

HP6. Joanne Kathleen

6. First Blood

HP7. Avada Kedavra

7. Saturday

HP8. Professor Quirrell

8. Antony and Cleopatra

HP9. Parvati Patil

9. Winslow Homer

HP10. Bellatrix Black-Lestrange

10. Kabul

Round Three Answers

1. e (the value of the natural logarithm function, a transcendental number with the first ten digits of 2.718281828)

2. Andy Kaufman

3. 1800 or Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

4. Jessica Simpson

5. Two pairs, aces and eights

6. cigars

7. Nosferatu (Eine Symphonie das Grauens)

8. Plan of Attack (Bob Woodward) (Richard Clarke’s Against all Enemies is number 4 and John Dean’s Worse than Watergate is number 6).

9. Hades or Pluto

10. Ryan Seacrest

Bonus Round Answers

1. A.J. Foyt

2. Joe Medwick and War Admiral

3. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown

4. Taipei 101 (1667 ft.; Taipei, Taiwan), Petronas Tower 1, Petronas Tower 2 (1483 ft.; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Sears Tower (1450 ft.; Chicago) [5th Jin Mao Building Shanghai 1381 ft.]

5. Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace