Pub Quiz Answers
The number after the answer is how many teams at the bar (out of 17) got it right.
Round 1: Geography
1. Salt Lake City (7)
2. Catalonia (10)
3. Arizona (1)
4. Budapest (12)
5. Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein (1)
6. St. Louis (15)
7. Lake Baikal (8)
8. Mount Pinatubo (7)
9. Channeled Scablands (2)
10. The Bosporus (7)
Round 2: Jewish Sports Legends
1. Henry Benjamin “Hammering Hank” Greenberg (6)
2. Sasha Cohen (10)
3. Mistral Windsurfing Sailing (8)
4. Dairy Queen (6)
5. Mark Spitz (16)
6. Theo Epstein (9)
7. The Boston Pops (10)
8. Chris O’Donnell (17)
9. University of Kansas Jayhawks (9)
10. Rupert Murdoch (10)
Bonus. one (8)
Round 3: Big in Japan
1. Orix BlueWave (9)
2. Kobe beef (11)
3. Budokan (10)
4. kamikaze (8)
5. Harajuku Girls (7)
6. Studio Ghibli (4)
7. Masaharu Morimoto (11)
8. Manchuria (10)
9. Toyota (10)
10. cherry blossoms (12)
Round 4: Age of Discovery
1. (Newfoundland) John Cabot (2)
2. (Hawai’i) James Cook (15)
3. (Brazil) Pedro Álvares Cabral (0)
4. (Philippines) Ferdinand Magellan (8)
5. (Florida) Juan Ponce de León (13)
6. (Tasmania) Abel Tasman (5)
7. (Arkansas) Hernando de Soto (3)
8. (Jamaica) Christopher Columbus (15)
9. (Staten Island and Long Island) Giovanni da Verrazzano (4)
10. (Idaho) Meriwether Lewis or William Clark (15)
Round 5: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
1. Benjamin Disraeli (9)
2. Minnesota (15)
3. St. Augustine (8)
4. Kerry Park (10)
5. James Frey (12)
6. Guinness (15)
7. bell curve (13)
8. B) 1000 (12)
9. Monty Hall (12)
10. Department of Commerce (2)
Round 6: There is a film, a certain film...
1. Liev Schreiber (10)
2. Endora (12)
3. Xanadu (13)
4. White Blood Cells (9)
5. B) Louisville Courier-Journal (9)
6. The Spanish-American war (13)
7. Howard Hughes (17)
8. Ted Turner (13)
9. How Green Was My Valley (8)
10. Rosebud (16)
Round 7: The Movie Round
1. For Your Consideration (15)
2. Under the Tuscan Sun (17)
3. The Red Violin (14)
4. Bean (11)
5. Permanent Midnight (9)
6. The Princess Diaries (15)
7. Big Fat Liar (6)
8. The Night Listener (5)
9. Sideways (17)
10. Sandra Oh (9)
Round 8: Dead People
1. Tammy Faye Bakker or Tammy Faye Messner (17)
2. Leona Helmsley (16)
3. Marcel Marceau (17)
4. Norm Maleng (4)
5. Luciano Pavarotti (17)
6. Robert Jordan (9)
7. Lady Bird Johnson (12)
8. Charles Nelson Reilly (10)
9. Ingmar Bergman (6)
10. Bill Walsh (12)