An Tobar Pub Quiz 7.10.04

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 7.10.04

Round One

1. Who wrote this song?

The Detroit Pistons former champs of basketball

I have so many souvenirs it’s hard to list them all

I have Piston pants

I have Piston shorts

I have Piston beer mugs

Sometimes people don’t even notice...

A. Tim Cavanagh

B. Adam Sandler

C. Weird Al Yankovic

2. Since 1958, where has the Hope Diamond been principally displayed?

3. In what movie did Marlon Brando’s character say, “I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.”?

4. Who wrote the play The Importance of Being Earnest?

5. What movie inspired Rodney Dangerfield’s famous phrase "I don’t get no respect"?

6. Did Ty Cobb bat right-handed or left-handed?

7. After a decade without one, a new Police Academy movie is currently in the works, what number Police Academy will it be?

8. The Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of whom?

9. What was Marilu Henner’s character’s name in the TV show Taxi? (1 point for first name, 1 point for last name)

10. WTKS FM 104.1 replaced Howard Stern with seven radio hosts after he was fired. What is this morning show called?

Round Two

1. What was the name of the Greek prophetess, who, after avoiding amorous advances from Apollo, had her gift twisted so that everyone who heard her true foretellings of future events believed that they were instead hearing lies?

2. Florida is known as the sunshine state, but actually ranks sixth in number of clear days per year, what state ranks number one?

3. What was the name of the first privately developed manned spacecraft?

4. What politically-incorrect term describes the Shakespeare characters Edmund in King Lear, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Thersites [ther-si-tees] in Troilus and Cressida, and Philip Falconbridge in King John?

5. In what John Steinbeck novel did the characters Lenny and George dream of living off the fat of the land?

H6. What should you eat when you feel like you’ll never be happy again?

G6. Dartmouth College is located in what U.S. state?

H7. What was Gilderoy Lockhart’s autobiography called?

G7. Unsolicited e-mail is called “spam”, what is “spim”?

H8. What did the spots on Marietta’s face spell out after she tried to tell Umbridge what Harry and the others were up to?

G8. Which former president died while in office five days after getting sick at a Fourth of July celebration?

H9. In book four, what is the name of the muggle that Voldemort murdered?

G9. In the TV show Sergeant Bilko, what was Sergeant Bilko’s first name?

H10. In book one, what did Fred tell Ron he had to do to get sorted into one of the Hogwart’s houses?

G10.In World War II, what did ETO stand for?

Round Three

1. What was the first United States railroad company?

2. Dwarf Blue, American Copper, and Little Metalmark are all types of what?

3. According to recent news reports, and based on the State Farm’s danger index, what is the most dangerous intersection in Orlando?

4. Who is the only historical character to appear in both Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the 1981 film Time Bandits?

5. The Crimea Peninsula is at the northern part of what sea?

6. Spell the word “luau” as in a Hawaiian feast.

7. Chromatophobia is the fear of what?

8. What human bone is technically called the coccyx?

9. Around the bar, what eight-letter word precedes "napkin", "shaker", "stirrer", and "waitress"?

Question 10: Complete the rhyme, Seuss or Shady. (one or the other—1 point question)

DR10. I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.

An elephant's faithful, _____ _____ _____.

MM 10. I was playin’ in the beginnin’, the mood all changed

I been chewed up and spit out and _____ _____ _____.

Bonus Round

1. What NFL QB started in the most Superbowls?

2. Name the prime minister of Canada and the president of Mexico.

3. In the formula e=mc2, what do the letters "e", "m", and "c" stand for?

4. Prior to Fahrenheit 911, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore directed four movies. Name them.

5. Name the five members that the Continental Congress in 1776 appointed to form the committee to write the Declaration of Independence.

Round One Answers

1. Tim Cavanagh

2. Smithsonian Institute

3. On the Waterfront

4. Oscar Wilde

5. The Godfather

6. 8

7. Left-handed (though he threw right-handed)

8. Mary

9. Elaine Nardo

10. The Monsters

Round Two Answers

1. Cassandra

2. Arizona

3. Spaceship One

4. Bastards

5. Of Mice and Men

HP6. chocolate

6. New Hampshire

HP7. Magical Me

7. Unsolicited instant messages

HP8. sneak

8. Zachary Taylor

HP9. Frank Bryce

9. Ernest

HP10. Wrestle a troll

10. European Theatre of Operations

Round Three Answers

1. The B(altimore) & O(hio) railroad (1830)

2. butterflies

3. Highway 50 and 436

4. Napoleon

5. Black Sea

6. l-u-a-u

7. colors

8. tailbone

9. cocktail

DR10. one hundred percent (Horton Hears a Who)

MM10. booed off stage

Bonus Round Answers

1. John Elway

2. Paul Martin, Vicente Fox

3. energy, mass, speed of light

4. Roger and Me, Canadian Bacon, The Big One, and Bowling for Columbine

5. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston