An Tobar 7.13.14

An Tobar 7.13.14

This was the last day of Nadaam in Mongolia, so that prevented the nearly 3 million Mongoloids from attending.

Round One

1. Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
 cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two?

the candy man

2. Who did the voice of Shaggy on the original cartoon series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!?

Casey Kasem

3. Which is larger in area, Brazil or the contiguous United States?

Brazil (3,287,357 mi²; contiguous-U.S. 3,119,884.69 mi²)

4. Which country has McDonald's McRib sandwiches year-round?

Australia

France

Germany

Japan

5. When petroleum refiners invented a process to turn oil into kerosene, what lucrative by-product did they initially discard?

gasoline

6. In public swimming pools, how are the highest percentages of trichloramine and cyanogen chloride commonly formed?

by peeing in them

7. Who is the richest man in the world again?

Bill Gates

8. After keeping its ingredients secret for decades, what major brewery finally disclosed its simple recipe for its top-selling beer of water, barley malt, rice, yeast, and hops after 40,000 petitioners demanded it do so in June?

Budweiser

9. What happened to Cleveland's Cuyahoga River in 1936, 1952, and 1969?

It caught on fire.

10.  What name does actress and comedian Stephanie Courtney go by when she does commercials for Progressive Insurance?

Flo

Round Two

1. What was called "Adam's Ale" in old-time diner's lingo?

water

2. What late actor appeared in movies such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent Seven, Godfather III, and yet was probably best known to many for playing Mr. Freeze on TV's Batman?

Eli Wallach

3. Which is the largest kind of deer in North America, if not the world?

moose

4. What is the only on-the-field position not given in Abbott & Costello's bit "Who's on First?"

right field (First Base--Who; Second Base--What; Third Base--I Don't Know; Left field--Why; Center field--Because; Pitcher--Tomorrow; Catcher--Today; Shortstop--I Don't Care/I Don't Give a Darn/I Don't Give a Damn)

5. In which Shakespeare play would you find the phrase, "there's the rub?"

Hamlet

6. Being Swiss, Catholic, and at least 5’8” tall are requirements to join what small army?

The Swiss Guard

7. In what year did Seinfeld premier on NBC and The Simpsons debut on Fox?

1989

8. Who has won the most FIFA (Soccer) player of the year/Golden Ball [Ballon d'ors] awards?

Lionel Messi

9. What is the scientific term for a rain cloud?

nimbus

10. Queen Elizabeth II always has at least four of which type of dogs in her retinue and has owned more than a sum total of 30 of this kind of dog since 1952?

[Welsh] Corgis (She currently keeps two corgis and two Dorgis [corgi/dachshund cross])

Alternative Round Two Questions

Mad Men

1. Whose psychiatrist said of her, "she seems consumed with petty jealousies and overwhelmed with every day activities?

Betty Draper

2. After giving Don Draper a $2500 performance bonus [1960 dollars] Bert Cooper advised Don to take a $1.99 from it and buy what book?

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

3. What did Roger Sterling conclude from this Bert-Cooper anecdote: "Stop smoking so much! It's a sign of weakness! Do you know how Hitler got Chamberlain to give him everything at Munich? He held a conference at an old palace that forbids smoking. And after an hour and a half of not smoking, Neville Chamberlain would've given Hitler his mother as a dance partner.?"

All I can get from this story is that Hitler didn't smoke. And I do.

4. Why did Mad Men character Michael Ginsberg cut off his nipple and hand it to Peggy in a jewelry box?

so his feelings can flow for her or because the office's new IBM computer has a plan to "make us all homo" and/or he need's to procreate

5. In which season finale of Mad Men was Don Draper fired?

Season 3

Harry Potter Question (for chocolate)

What team defeated Bulgaria in the Quidditch World Cup that took place during The Goblet of Fire?

Ireland

Round Three

1. What word is defined by Grolier's Dictionary as, "The property or quality manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, response to stimulation, and reproduction."

Life

2. PHRASE JUMBLE (two words): A-L-A-R-G-E-B-E-L-L-Y (Hint: A 5-4 Supreme Court decision)

BARELY LEGAL

3. Which U.S. state consumes the least alcohol per capita, and for a bonus, which U.S. state consumes the most? (2 pts.)

Utah; New Hampshire (Florida ranks 13th nation wide)

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/blogs/the-list/os-drunkest-states-in-the-us-20140602,0,543792.post

4. Why is Sesame Steet's Count called "The Count"? And for a bonus, what is the name of the mental disorder that would account for his obsession with this? (2 pts.)

because he loves to count things; arithmomania

5. Who was known as avuncular and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age?

Milton Berle

6. Who became the first female co-host of any network news or public affairs program in 1974?

Barbara Walters (Jessica Savage was the first female weekend new anchor)

7. Which actor made guest appearances as Professor Proton on TV's Big Bang Theory?

Bob Newhart

8. Monseigneur Georges Lemaître's 1927 "hypothesis of the primeval atom" soon thereafter became known as what?

the Big Bang Theory

^SF9. What is the only North American city to have one professional football team win a Grey Cup and another that won the Super bowl?

Baltimore (Stallions 1995, Ravens 2001, 2013)

10. Which does not study osteopathic medicine, an M.D. or a D.O.?

Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.)

[Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree (D.O.)]

Bonus Round

1. Who was the first president born in the then newly independent United States of America?

Martin Van Buren

2. In reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, name the two Greek gods who formed the archetypal embodiments of reason and order and chaos and disorder respectively.

Apollo and Dionysus (Bacchus)

3. Name three golfers who have won multiple majors since Tiger Woods crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant outside his Lake Isleworth home at 2:30 AM on November 27, 2009?

Bubba Watson (Master's '12 and '14), Phil Mickelson (Master's '10, British Open '13), Rory McIlroy (U.S. Open '11, PGA Championship '12), and Martin Kaymer ('10 PGA Championship, '14 U.S. Open)

4. Name four members of the rock group KISS.

Paul Stanley – rhythm guitar, lead vocals

Gene Simmons – bass guitar, lead vocals

Ace Frehley – lead guitar, vocals

Peter Criss – drums, vocals

Tommy Thayer – lead guitar

Eric Singer – drums

Vinnie Vincent – guitar

Mark St. John – guitar

Bruce Kulick – guitar

Eric Carr – drums

5. Name 5 of the historical figures Bill & Ted abducted through time in the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Any 5: Napoleon, Billy the Kid, Socrates, Freud, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Beethoven

An Tobar Trivia 6.14.14

An Tobar Trivia 6.14.14
Round One

1. What was the occupation of the person who designed the current American flag?

Seamstress

Student

Marine

Producer for the Colbert Report

2. During the 1936 Olympics it was discovered that Lichtenstein and Haiti had the same what?

3. There is a patch of lily pads in a lake. The patch doubles in size every day. If it takes 16 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?

4. Which recently deceased poet said, "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated," and, "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them?"

5. According to a new World Health Organization Report, Which of the following countries consumes the most alcohol per capita? (Belarus drinks the most alcohol per capita 17.5 liters)

Australia

Russia

South Africa

United States

6. If today [June 14] were your birthday, which [western] astrological sign would you be?

7. How many sides are there on a heptagon?

8. The words quixotic ["foolishly impractical in pursuit of ideals], Dulcinea ["mistress or sweetheart"], rosinante [an old, broken-down horse"] all come from a 17th-Century Spanish novel about what character?

9. "Ring around the collar" was an ad for what laundry detergent?

10. Are chimpanzees monkeys or apes?

Round Two

1. After ordering a vodka martini and being asked if he wanted it shaken or stirred, the James Bond portrayed by which actor replied, "Do I look like I give a damn?"

2. In what late-70s and early-80s highly-rated TV show did the coolest character wear leather and the other characters euphemistically tell each other to sit on things?

3. Which of the major gods of the Greek pantheon known as the Twelve Olympians has the same Greek and Roman name?

4. Which U.S. state was named after the mythical island of the Amazons?

5. How many of the Supreme Court's nine justices concurred in the Brown v. Board Education's ruling that separate but equal schools are unconstitutional?

6. What is the most common job in the U.S.?

7. Before he was an academy-award-winning actor, stand-up comedian Eric Bishop changed his name to this because he thought female comedians received preferential treatment?

8. Which medieval saint so identified with the poor that he legendarily gave all his possessions to his bishop then danced away naked down the street?

9. The 2008 Detroit Lions finished 4-0 in NFL preseason. What was their final regular season record?

10. Where would you find the nearest hammer, anvil, and stirrup?

Round Three

1. How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man (According to Bob Dylan)?

2. Phrase Jumble: L-I-E-S-B-U-I-L-T-O-N-C-R-A-P clue: Samantha from Sex in the City had this occupation

3. Which beer began being brewed first, Guinness or Yuengling?

4. Who was considered the "King of Rock 'n Roll," and who was the "prime minister?" (2 pts.)

5. What dinosaur was on the cover of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, and for a bonus, in which geologic period did it live? (2 pts.)

6. When two then-unknown assailants attacked journalist Dan Rather in New York City in 1986, what phrase did they keep repeating?

7. In what year was the original Japanese Godzilla released, and for a bonus, what group performed the Godzilla rock song released in 1977?

^TM8. The Frankish King Charles earned what nickname after the Battle of Tours in AD 732?

^AI9. What planet did Carl Sagan say is "Hell" in his book, Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective?

^TM10. What 1967 #1 Billboard hit rhymed "together" with "weather" in its waning verses?

  

Bonus Round

1. Horses with exceptionally large hearts such as Secretariat, which hearts enable them to pump more oxidized blood through their bodies and thus make them able to run faster are said to have the "x-factor." Why is this called the x-factor in horses?

2. In the movie The Matrix, what are the blue pill and red pill for respectively?

3. Name the top three greenhouse gases being emitted into the earth's atmosphere?

4. In this year's FIFA World Cup, what four country's soccer teams are in the so-called "Group of Death?"

5. Name the five largest cities in Florida in terms of population.

Sudden Death Overtime

Are the following five famous dead or alive:

1. Hank Aaron 

2. Carol Burnett 

3. Johnny Carson 

4. Larry King

5. Lawrence Welk

Closest to the pin

How many days after the moon landing was the first Manson family murder committed?

Answers:
Round One
1. Student* *Robert G. Heft, who originally received a B^– on the project
2. flag
3. 15 days
4.  Maya Angelou (not Ruby Dee)
5. Russia (15.1 Liters)
6. Gemini
7. seven
8. [The Ingenious Gentleman] Don Quixote [of La Mancha]
9.  Whisk
10. apes

Round Two
1. Daniel Craig
2. Happy Days
3. Apollo
4. California (Queen Calafia was the fictional warrior queen of this island written about in Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo's The Adventures of Esplandián)
5.  all 9
6.  retail sales person
7. Jamie Foxx
8.  St. Francis [CSB p. 71]
9.  0-16
10.  your ear (inner ear, from the Latin malleus, incus, and stapes)

Round Three
1.  The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind
2. PUBLIC RELATIONS
3. Guinness (1759) [Yuengling (1829)]
4. Elvis Presley; Chuck Berry
5.  Tyrannosaurus Rex; Cretaceous (which was part of the Mesozoic era, which was part of the Phanerozoic eon)
6. "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" ("What's the frequency Kenneth?" is also acceptable.)
7. 1954; Blue Oyster Cult
8. "Martel" or "the Hammer"
9.  Venus
10.  Happy Together

Bonus Round
1. the female X chromosome is responsible for the large hearts found in outstanding racehorses

2. The BLUE PILL would allow Neo to remain in the virtual reality of the Matrix, therefore living the often blissful "illusion of ignorance."

The RED PILL would lead to Neo's leaving the Matrix and living in the real world, thus having to face the sometimes painful "truth of reality."

3. Carbon Dioxide (CO₂), Methane (CH₄), Nitrous Oxide (N₂O) [the Fluorinated gases (Hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride) combined, rank fourth]

4. United States, Germany, Portugal, Ghana

5. Jacksonville (842,583), Miami (417,650), Tampa (352,957), Orlando (255,483), St. Petersburg (249,688)

Sudden Death Overtime
1. A (b. 1934)
2. A (b. 1933)
3. D (d. 2005)
4. A (b. 1933)
5. D (d. 1992)
Closest to the pin
7 (Moon Landing: 20 July 1969; Gary Hinman murdered 7 July 1969)

May 2014 An Tobar Pub Quiz

May 2014 An Tobar Pub Quiz
Round One
1. Who's the leader/ of the club/ that's made for you/ and me?
M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E
2. What do the Gaelic words An Tobar mean?
the well
3. What is the annual date of International Workers' Day or May Day?
May 1
4. Which one of the following people did not win a Nobel Peace prize?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mother Theresa
Nelson Mandela
Adolph Hitler
5. True or False: Scientist Albert Einstein failed at least one math class.
False
6. What is the next number in this sequence of numbers:
2, 3, 5, 7, ___?
11
7. Approximately how many cups are there in a liter (answer to the nearest whole number)?
4 [One cup = 8 ounces. 1 liter = 33.81/8= 4.23 cups]
8. Which sky condition has more cloud cover, partly cloudy or partly sunny?
partly sunny
9. Which U.S. state extends farther west: Minnesota or Texas?
Texas
10. Which U.S. President selected the Twinkie to be put in a millennial time capsule?
Bill Clinton


Round Two
1. What was comedic actor and writer Albert Brooks' given name?
Albert Einstein
2. What liquor was declared by a 1964 congressional resolution to be "America's only native spirit?"
Bourbon
3. During the heyday of the Roman Empire, what body of water was known as "the Roman Lake"?
The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum = "our sea")
4. According to research by ESPN The Magazine and Sportingintelligence, and as reported by the BBC, which sports team has the highest wages per player in the world?
Manchester City
5. Acrophobia is the fear of what?
heights
6. "Go and tell your momma what the big boys eat" was a 1980s commercial for what cereal?
Wheaties
7. In which Brooklyn Academy of Music's Shakespeare play did Kevin Spacey star in shortly before House of Cards premiered on Netflix? His House of Cards' character, Francis Underwood, reflects a lot of this character.
Richard III
8. Which is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Greek or Roman god or goddess?
Earth
9. According to his obituary in the New York Times, who was “The only person” to serve in professional football as a personnel assistant, an assistant coach, a head coach, a general manager, a commissioner and as an N.F.L. team owner and chief executive?
Al Davis
10. Who claims to have invented the phrase "bad hair day" while talking with her co-host Bryant Gumbel during the 1980s?
Jane Pauley


Round Three
1. According to the Beatle's Revolver album, where were Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison taking up residence (at least) in 1966?
a Yellow Submarine
2. WORD JUMBLE: G-R-O-W-A-P-E-N-I-S hint: vice president
Spiro Agnew
3. What is the only industry specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights?
the press
4. Where is Creighton University located, state and city (two points)?
Omaha, Nebraska
5. What 1960s TV series was originally pitched to the networks with the title "Wagon Train to the Stars"? Bonus Question: What is the Latin phrase for "to the stars"? (2 pts.)
Star Trek; ad astra
6. Which eye does Sesame Street’s Count von Count where his monocle, left or right; and for a bonus, how many eyebrows do Bert and Ernie have between the two of them (two points)?
Left; 1
7. What is the hard part of the outer ear immediately in front of the ear canal called?
Tragus
8. Which Catholic cardinal did Andrew Greeley call, "the Lord High Inquisitor" in his 1986 book Confessions of a Parish Priest? [p. 332]
Cardinal Josef Ratzinger [who later became Pope Benedict XVI]
9. Nigeria recently overtook which other country to become Africa's largest economy as measured in GDP?
South Africa
10. Named after a famous composer, what do you call a modern tuba a bandmember plays while marching?
a sousaphone (it's predecessor was the helicon)


Bonus Round
1. What three-lettered, often interrogatory, word is most universally used in conversation1? [1According to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics]
huh

2. Which is the newest Monopoly piece, and which piece did it replace?
Cat; Iron

3. According to Germany's Purity [Reinheitsgebot] law, what are the only three ingredients allowed to be used to make beer (not counting yeast)?
water, barley, hops

4. As the United States was in the preliminary stages of fighting a literal war against fascism, What four freedoms did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delineate in his 1941 State of the Union address? Four fundamental freedoms FDR said people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy. [Hint: President Ronald Reagan replaced two of FDR's four freedoms with "freedom of enterprise" when he revised the list to three freedoms in his 1988 farewell address.]
Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear

5. Name five NFL players who have participated in Dancing with the Stars. Keyshawn Johnson, Jacoby Jones, Donald Driver, Hines Ward, Kurt Warner, Chad Ochocinco (Johnson), Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Jason Taylor, Lawrence Taylor, Emmitt Smith, and Jerry Rice.

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

An Tobar Pub Quiz 9.19.04

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2004

 An Tobar Pub Quiz 9.19.04

Round One

1. If there's something strange in your neighborhood…If there's something weird and it don't look good…Who you gonna call?

2. Invented by John "Ol’ Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap’n Slap Happy" Summers in 1995, today’s national holiday became what international holiday when Australia learned about it from a Dave Barry column in 2002?

3. Which speaker at the last Republican National Convention said the objective of a good life is, "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"

4. What continent spans all twenty-four time zones?

5. What celebrity will be the first to be featured topless in Madame Tussaud's (too-sows’) wax museum?

6. Peanuts, along with beans and peas, belong to what plant family?

7. Beginning June 1st, the U.S. hurricane season extends to the end of what month?

8. In the Bible, is the Book of Hebrews in the Old Testament or the New Testament?

9. Who is the Miami Dolphins’ all-time leading rusher?

10. What is Florida’s largest lake? (in surface area)

Round Two

1. What kind of aftershave is on my shirt?

2. True of False. The Koala Bear is really a marsupial?

3. What country artist’s jinglistic jingoisms suggest American enemies take “a boot up the ass” courtesy of the red, white and blue?

4. Who wrote the book Crossing Over and has a TV talk show of the same name?

5. In what year was the original Manchurian Candidate movie released? (2 points for correct year; 1 point for being off by one year either way)

6. What will be Shaquille O’Neal’s jersey number for the Miami Heat?

7. Which Italian family ruled Florence during Renaissance times?

8. Who portrayed the artist Jackson Pollock in the 2000 movie Pollock?

9. Viagra was originally invented by the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer as a treatment for what condition?

10. Which is the brightest star in the night sky?

Round Three

1. What is currently the longest-running program on U.S. network TV?

2. Who coined the phrase, “never got a dinner''? Was it Red Barber, Red Buttons, or Red Skeleton?

3. According to Ulf Erlingsson’s upcoming book called Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land, What myth probably originated from the fate the Dogger Bank--an isolated shoal in the North Sea near Ireland?

4. In the TV show I Dream of Jeannie, what was name of Jeannie’s dog?

5. Who was John Q. Adams vice president, forming the only “John and John” President-V.P combo?

6. Here’s an “Amazing Richard” Legacy Question: In what country are Altoids made?

7. Winning a Grammy for best new artist of 1976, What number one hit did The Starland Vocal Band have in July of that year? (hint: this band was definitely a one-hit wonder)

8. In 1938, What pilot was supposed to fly from New York to Los Angeles but flew to Ireland instead?

9. In what U.S. state would you find persons called "Yoopers" and "Trolls"?

Seuss or Shady: Write the three-word answer to one of these questions.

10. Seuss: BOOM BOOM SPLATT SPLATT TICK TICK TOCK

SIZZLE SIZZLE BLURP BLURP _____ _____ _____

Shady: the FCC won’t let me be or let me be me so let me see they tried to shut me down on MTV but it feels so _____ _____ _____ empty

Bonus

1. Who was the only U.S. first lady not born in America?

2. What two NFL teams have helmets in their helmet insignia?

3. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, after English and Spanish, what are the three most common languages used by households at home?

4. How many teams are there in each of the four major sports: NFL, MLB, NBA, and the NHL? (In the NBA count the Charlotte Bobcats, in the NHL, assume the league still exists)(Give the answers in the order I asked the question or specify NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL)

5. List five of the affirmative responses a person can get from a Magic Eightball. Write down only five; exact wording will be necessary for answers to be correct.

Round One Answers

1. Ghostbusters!

2. Talk Like a Pirate Day

3. Arnold Schwarzenegger

4. Antarctica

5. Brad Pitt

6. (Leguminosae) legume

7. November

8. New Testament

9. Larry Csonka (6,737 yards)

10. Lake Okeechobee

Round Two Answers

1. Old Spice

2. True

3. Toby Keith

4. John (or Jonathan) Edwards

5. 1962

6. 32

7. The Medici

8. Ed Harris

9. High blood pressure

10. Sirius

Round Three Answers

1. Meet the Press (1947)

2. Red Buttons

3. Atlantis

4. Djinn-Djinn

5. John C. Calhoun

6. Britain

7. Afternoon Delight

8. Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan

9. Michigan

DR10. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK (Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?)

MM10. without me (Without Me)

Bonus Round Answers

1. Louisa Adams

2. Miami and Oakland

3. Chinese, French, German

4. 32, 30, 30, 30

5. Outlook Good; You May Rely On It; Most Likely; Yes; Yes Definitely; It Is Certain; It Is Decidedly So; Signs Point to Yes; Without a Doubt; As I See It, Yes;