An Tobar Pub Quiz 10.9.04

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2004

An Tobar Pub Quiz 10.9.04

Round One

1. Who said, "I tell you, since I was a kid, women always gave me a hard time. My mother never breast fed me. She told me she liked me as a friend." Moreover, "My old man didn’t help either. One time I was kidnapped. They sent a piece of my finger. He said he wanted more proof."?

2. What structure, built to attract visitor to Paris for the 1889 World’s Fair, was the world’s tallest structure for 42 years?

3. What is a baby peacock called?

4. Who was known as the Sun King of France and ordered the construction of the palace of Versailles?

5. What TV character was a dock foreman for Prendergast Tool and Die Company before he opened a bar?

6. What word was invented by Democritus and is Greek for “unable to cut”?

7. What are robots made of flesh called?

8.What is “this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore?

9. By what title is Indian philosopher Gautama Siddhartha better known?

10. What is the length of a U.S. dollar bill? (U.S. measurement please)

Round Two

1. [Bring squirt gun] I need a volunteer from each team that knows and loves alcohol. What kind of alcohol is considered to be a tasteless, odorless, and colorless spirit?

2. Who owns 88,000 brown vehicles?

3. In the movies, how did Marian Crane meet her untimely death at the Bates Motel?

4. What name did artist Dominico Thesto Copoulus use to sign his paintings?

5. What is another name for the Mission San Antonia de Valero?

6. Who celebrated her 100th birthday on October 28, 1986?

7. What is the only agricultural product that bears its seeds on the outside?

8. For what war was the first U.S. military draft enacted?

9. What country won soccer’s last World Cup?

10. In what film did William Shatner make his motion picture debut?

Round Three

1. What do you break when you crack the whip?

2. What is xenophobia?

3. What is par of St. Andrews old golf course?

4. In what year was the TV bar, Cheers, established?

5. What injury did John Wilkes Booth incur while fleeing after shooting President Lincoln?

6. What was the only Shakespearean play that mentioned America?

7. Who defended the Boston Strangler?

8. Which date is in the middle of the year?

9. Who penned "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper" and for a bonus, what was the name of this poem?

10. John Astin, the actor who played Gomez Addams in the TV show The Addams Family is the father of the actor who played which Lord of the Rings movie Character?

Bonus

1. What does EPCOT stand for?

2. Playing the roles of 'Dap' and 'Leeds', which two often-confused actors appeared in the 1988 Spike Lee movie School Daze?

3. In what three states are this year’s presidential debates taking place?

4. According to infoplease.com, as of 2004, what are the four most populous cities in the world? (I am asking about cities proper--as opposed to urban agglomeration, which would also count the surrounding urban areas in the total.)

5. Who are the five chief meteorologists of Central Florida Television (WESH-2), Local 6, Channel 9, Fox 35 News, and Central Florida News 13?

Tiebreakers

1. What is the white, crescent-shaped area at the base of the fingernail called?

2. What was James Rodgers' last request before confronting a firing squad in 1960?

3. Who wrote the books Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives?

4. What is the world’s tallest nationality?

5. What is the number of the beltway surrounding Washington D.C.?

Round One Answers

1. Rodney Dangerfield

2. The Eiffel Tower

3. Peachick

4. Louis XIV

5. Archie Bunker

6. atom

7. androids

8. the raven

9. Buddha

10. Six inches

Round Two Answers

1. Vodka

2. UPS

3. Stabbed in the shower (scene of Psycho played by Janet Leigh)

4. El Greco

5. The Alamo

6. The Statue of Liberty

7. the strawberry

8. The Civil War

9. Brazil

10. The Brothers Karamazov

Round Three Answers

1. The sound barrier

2. Fear of foreigners or strangers

3. 72

4. 1895

5. A broken leg

6. The Comedy of Errors

7. F. Lee Bailey

8. July 2

9. T.S. Eliot; The Hollow Men

10. Samwise Gamgee

Bonus Round Answers

1. Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow

2. Laurence Fishburne and Samuel L. Jackson

3. Florida, Missouri, and Arizona

4. Shanghai,China; Mumbai (Bombay), India; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Moscow, Russia

5. Dave Marsh; Tom Sorrells; Tom Terry; Jeff Day; Glenn Richards

Tiebreakers Answers

1. lunule or lunula

2. A bullet-proof vest

3. Ira Levin

4. the Dutch (Netherlands)

5. I-495