Pub Quiz
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Round 1: Geography
1. In 2010, Vancouver will become the most populous city to host the Winter Olympic Games. What city currently holds that record?
2. Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain, is the capital of what autonomous region?
3. The largest county by area in the United States is California’s San Bernardino. The second largest county is Coconino County in what state?
4. In 1873, this capital city on the Danube officially became one city.
5. Like the US, South Africa has three branches of government. Unlike the US it has separate capitals for each of them. Name any two of the three capitals of South Africa.
6. The University of Washington is in Seattle’s University District, but what Midwestern city’s “University City” district is home to Washington University?
7. This deepest lake in the world contains 20 % of the earth’s fresh surface water and a species of seal found nowhere else, hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean.
8. Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines was closed in 1991, shortly after what volcano dumped several feet of ash on the base?
9. What aptly named region in Eastern Washington shows the signs left by the rapid drainage of Glacial Lake Missoula in the Pleistocene?
10. The Sea of Marmara, between the Aegean Sea from the Black Sea, is bordered by the Dardanelles and what other narrow channel that separates the city of Istanbul from its Asian suburbs?
Round 2: Jewish Sports Legends
1. In 1934 what Detroit Tiger first basement, who hit 58 home runs in 1938, was the first major League player to refuse to play on Yom Kippur?
2. In 2006, snowboarder Shaun White announced that he wouldn’t mind dating this American figure skater, who bears no relation to the voice of King Julien in Madagascar.
3. Israeli athlete Gal Fridman won his country’s first ever Olympic gold medal in 2004 in what sport? This sport was also associated with 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.
4. After Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said that the NBA’s officiating director couldn’t manage one of these restaurants, Cuban worked there for a day as penance.
5. This American swimmer won 7 gold medals at the Munich Olympics, the most of any athlete at a single Olympiad.
6. This General Manager of the Boston Red Sox became the youngest GM ever when he was hired in 2002 at the age of 28.
7. Jay Fiedler, one time quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, is a distant relative of conductor Arthur Fielder. Fiedler was the conductor of what orchestra, later helmed by John Williams?
8. Olympic Gymnast Mitch Gaylord was the stunt double for Robin in the film Batman Forever. What actor, who desperately needed a competence double, played Robin in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin?
9. Larry Brown is the only head coach to win both the NBA and NCAA championships. He won with the Pistons in 2004, but what current Big XII team did he coach to the NCAA championship in 1988?
10. In 2003, Sandy Koufax briefly broke off ties with the L.A. Dodgers. The Dodgers were at the time owned by what man, whose paper, the New York Post, printed rumors that Koufax was gay?
Bonus. On September 9, 1965, Koufax pitched a no-hitter against Bob Hedley of the Cubs. How many total hits were there in that game?
Round 3: Big in Japan
1. For what Japanese Pacific League team did Ichiro Suzuki play from 1992 to 2000?
2. If it is not produced in Hyogo Prefecture, “Wagyu” is the proper name for what type of food named for the capital of Hyogo?
3. What Tokyo arena, built to host judo at the 1964 Olympics, is known in the U.S. as the site of live albums recorded by Bob Dylan and Cheap Trick?
4. What name is given to the 1274 typhoon that helped Japanese defenders fight off a Mongol invasion?
5. Maya Chino, Jennifer Kita, Rino Nakasone, and Mayuko Kitayama are the four members of what group of Gwen Stefani’s backup singers?
6. What is the name of Hiyao Miyazaki’s film studio that has produced such films as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away?
7. Which Iron Chef cast member owns an eponymous restaurant located at 723 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia and recently published a book on “The New Art of Japanese Cooking”?
8. The first act of Japanese aggression in World War II took place in 1931, when Japan invaded and annexed what region of China?
9. According to the 2007 Fortune 500, what automobile company is the largest company based in Japan and the 6th largest in the world?
10. An annual festival held at Seattle Center since 1976 commemorates Tokyo mayor Takeo Miki’s gift of 1000 of what item to the city of Seattle?
Round 4: Age of Discovery
Picture Round
Round 5: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
1. The phrase “lies, damn lies, and statistics” is attributed to what Conservative British Prime Minister of the 19th century? (and rival of Gladstone)
2. The author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right is currently seeking the Democratic nomination in what state to run for the U.S. Senate?
3. What early Christian philosopher, who lived in the city of Hippo, categorized lies into eight categories of differing severity, ranging from “lies in religious teaching” to “lies that harm no one and save someone’s purity”?
4. To get the view of Seattle’s skyline where the Space Needle appears in the foreground and appears far taller than all the buildings downtown, you can visit what park on Highland Avenue in Upper Queen Anne?
5. Who “betrayed millions of readers,” according to Oprah Winfrey, for making up most of his “memoir” A Million Little Pieces?
6. Statistician William Sealy Gosset published his work under the pseudonym “Student” in order to not reveal his employer. Gosset worked in Dublin for what business that was founded in 1759?
7. What term for a “Gaussian distribution” was used by Richard Hermstein and Charles Murray as the title of (a scientifically vacuous) 1994 book arguing that IQ scores were correlated with race?
8. In order to produce an opinion poll with a 3% margin of error, a polling group must survey approximately: A) 100 people, B) 1000 people, C) 10000 people, or D) 100000 people?
9. A classic probability puzzle is named for what longtime host of Let’s Make a Deal?
10. The U.S. Census Bureau, collector of many statistics, is part of what Cabinet department whose secretary is Carlos Gutierrez?
Round 6: There is a film, a certain film...
1. The 1999 HBO movie, RKO 281, based on the making of Citizen Kane, stars what American actor who would later direct Everything is Illuminated and father a child with Naomi Watts?
2. Agnes Moorehead, who plays Kane’s mother, would go on to play what meddling character in the sitcom Bewitched?
3. Continuing with the theme of Mongols and bad movies, what is the name of Kane’s mansion, which shares its name with a stately pleasure dome decreed by Kublai Khan, and a really bad Olivia Newton John movie?
4. The White Stripes song, “The Union Forever,” which primarily consists of lines from Citizen Kane, is from what 2001 album, their third and first major commercial success?
5. Citizen Kane is based on the life of media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Of the A. San Francisco Chronicle, the B. Louisville Courier Journal, the C. Houston Chronicle and D. the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is not operated by the Hearst Corporation?
6. Kane’s telegram to his reporter in Cuba “You’ll supply the prose poems, I’ll supply the war” is a reference to Hearst’s role in urging what 1898 war?
7. Welles claimed that he originally intended to base Charles Foster Kane on this mogul, later portrayed in 2004 by Leonardo DiCaprio.
8. One of Welles’ final requests was to keep this man and “his godamn Crayolas” away from his movie.
9. Citizen Kane’s only Oscar was for its screenplay. What 1941 John Ford film about a Welsh coal mining family won the Oscar for Best Picture that year?
10. William Randolph Hearst carried on a long time affair with actress Marion Davies According to Hollywood legend, what was Hearst’s nickname for Miss Davies’ clitoris?
Round 7: The Movie Round
1. Catherine O’Hara received some Oscar nomination buzz for this 2006 film in which her character, Marilyn Hack, also received some Oscar nomination buzz.
2. Diane Lane buys a fixer-upper Italian villa in this 2003 film.
3. Samuel L. Jackson stars in this 1998 Canadian-Italian co-production as a badass… antique dealer who, like many others before him, becomes entranced by the title instrument.
4. Subtitled “The Ultimate Disaster Movie,” this 1997 film’s plot starts with the title character supervising the transfer of Whistler’s Mother to Los Angeles, although the plot is mainly an excuse for zany slapstick hijinks.
5. Ben Stiller stars in this 1998 film based on the autobiography of TV writer Jerry Stahl and his struggle with heroin addiction.
6. Mia Thermopolis discovers she is royalty in the kingdom of Genovia in the plot of this 2001 film.
7. An essay belonging to Frankie Muniz is stolen and turned into a movie starring Jaleel White in this 2002 film.
8. In this 2006 film based on an Armistead Maupin novel, Robin Williams plays a gay radio host who travels to Wisconsin investigating the story of a teenager suffering form AIDS.
9. This 2004 film has the tagline, “In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.”
10. What actor or actress has appeared in all nine of these films?
Round 8: 2007 Deaths
Picture Round
Answers here.
Round 1: Geography
1. In 2010, Vancouver will become the most populous city to host the Winter Olympic Games. What city currently holds that record?
2. Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain, is the capital of what autonomous region?
3. The largest county by area in the United States is California’s San Bernardino. The second largest county is Coconino County in what state?
4. In 1873, this capital city on the Danube officially became one city.
5. Like the US, South Africa has three branches of government. Unlike the US it has separate capitals for each of them. Name any two of the three capitals of South Africa.
6. The University of Washington is in Seattle’s University District, but what Midwestern city’s “University City” district is home to Washington University?
7. This deepest lake in the world contains 20 % of the earth’s fresh surface water and a species of seal found nowhere else, hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean.
8. Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines was closed in 1991, shortly after what volcano dumped several feet of ash on the base?
9. What aptly named region in Eastern Washington shows the signs left by the rapid drainage of Glacial Lake Missoula in the Pleistocene?
10. The Sea of Marmara, between the Aegean Sea from the Black Sea, is bordered by the Dardanelles and what other narrow channel that separates the city of Istanbul from its Asian suburbs?
Round 2: Jewish Sports Legends
1. In 1934 what Detroit Tiger first basement, who hit 58 home runs in 1938, was the first major League player to refuse to play on Yom Kippur?
2. In 2006, snowboarder Shaun White announced that he wouldn’t mind dating this American figure skater, who bears no relation to the voice of King Julien in Madagascar.
3. Israeli athlete Gal Fridman won his country’s first ever Olympic gold medal in 2004 in what sport? This sport was also associated with 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.
4. After Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said that the NBA’s officiating director couldn’t manage one of these restaurants, Cuban worked there for a day as penance.
5. This American swimmer won 7 gold medals at the Munich Olympics, the most of any athlete at a single Olympiad.
6. This General Manager of the Boston Red Sox became the youngest GM ever when he was hired in 2002 at the age of 28.
7. Jay Fiedler, one time quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, is a distant relative of conductor Arthur Fielder. Fiedler was the conductor of what orchestra, later helmed by John Williams?
8. Olympic Gymnast Mitch Gaylord was the stunt double for Robin in the film Batman Forever. What actor, who desperately needed a competence double, played Robin in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin?
9. Larry Brown is the only head coach to win both the NBA and NCAA championships. He won with the Pistons in 2004, but what current Big XII team did he coach to the NCAA championship in 1988?
10. In 2003, Sandy Koufax briefly broke off ties with the L.A. Dodgers. The Dodgers were at the time owned by what man, whose paper, the New York Post, printed rumors that Koufax was gay?
Bonus. On September 9, 1965, Koufax pitched a no-hitter against Bob Hedley of the Cubs. How many total hits were there in that game?
Round 3: Big in Japan
1. For what Japanese Pacific League team did Ichiro Suzuki play from 1992 to 2000?
2. If it is not produced in Hyogo Prefecture, “Wagyu” is the proper name for what type of food named for the capital of Hyogo?
3. What Tokyo arena, built to host judo at the 1964 Olympics, is known in the U.S. as the site of live albums recorded by Bob Dylan and Cheap Trick?
4. What name is given to the 1274 typhoon that helped Japanese defenders fight off a Mongol invasion?
5. Maya Chino, Jennifer Kita, Rino Nakasone, and Mayuko Kitayama are the four members of what group of Gwen Stefani’s backup singers?
6. What is the name of Hiyao Miyazaki’s film studio that has produced such films as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away?
7. Which Iron Chef cast member owns an eponymous restaurant located at 723 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia and recently published a book on “The New Art of Japanese Cooking”?
8. The first act of Japanese aggression in World War II took place in 1931, when Japan invaded and annexed what region of China?
9. According to the 2007 Fortune 500, what automobile company is the largest company based in Japan and the 6th largest in the world?
10. An annual festival held at Seattle Center since 1976 commemorates Tokyo mayor Takeo Miki’s gift of 1000 of what item to the city of Seattle?
Round 4: Age of Discovery
Picture Round
Round 5: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
1. The phrase “lies, damn lies, and statistics” is attributed to what Conservative British Prime Minister of the 19th century? (and rival of Gladstone)
2. The author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right is currently seeking the Democratic nomination in what state to run for the U.S. Senate?
3. What early Christian philosopher, who lived in the city of Hippo, categorized lies into eight categories of differing severity, ranging from “lies in religious teaching” to “lies that harm no one and save someone’s purity”?
4. To get the view of Seattle’s skyline where the Space Needle appears in the foreground and appears far taller than all the buildings downtown, you can visit what park on Highland Avenue in Upper Queen Anne?
5. Who “betrayed millions of readers,” according to Oprah Winfrey, for making up most of his “memoir” A Million Little Pieces?
6. Statistician William Sealy Gosset published his work under the pseudonym “Student” in order to not reveal his employer. Gosset worked in Dublin for what business that was founded in 1759?
7. What term for a “Gaussian distribution” was used by Richard Hermstein and Charles Murray as the title of (a scientifically vacuous) 1994 book arguing that IQ scores were correlated with race?
8. In order to produce an opinion poll with a 3% margin of error, a polling group must survey approximately: A) 100 people, B) 1000 people, C) 10000 people, or D) 100000 people?
9. A classic probability puzzle is named for what longtime host of Let’s Make a Deal?
10. The U.S. Census Bureau, collector of many statistics, is part of what Cabinet department whose secretary is Carlos Gutierrez?
Round 6: There is a film, a certain film...
1. The 1999 HBO movie, RKO 281, based on the making of Citizen Kane, stars what American actor who would later direct Everything is Illuminated and father a child with Naomi Watts?
2. Agnes Moorehead, who plays Kane’s mother, would go on to play what meddling character in the sitcom Bewitched?
3. Continuing with the theme of Mongols and bad movies, what is the name of Kane’s mansion, which shares its name with a stately pleasure dome decreed by Kublai Khan, and a really bad Olivia Newton John movie?
4. The White Stripes song, “The Union Forever,” which primarily consists of lines from Citizen Kane, is from what 2001 album, their third and first major commercial success?
5. Citizen Kane is based on the life of media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Of the A. San Francisco Chronicle, the B. Louisville Courier Journal, the C. Houston Chronicle and D. the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is not operated by the Hearst Corporation?
6. Kane’s telegram to his reporter in Cuba “You’ll supply the prose poems, I’ll supply the war” is a reference to Hearst’s role in urging what 1898 war?
7. Welles claimed that he originally intended to base Charles Foster Kane on this mogul, later portrayed in 2004 by Leonardo DiCaprio.
8. One of Welles’ final requests was to keep this man and “his godamn Crayolas” away from his movie.
9. Citizen Kane’s only Oscar was for its screenplay. What 1941 John Ford film about a Welsh coal mining family won the Oscar for Best Picture that year?
10. William Randolph Hearst carried on a long time affair with actress Marion Davies According to Hollywood legend, what was Hearst’s nickname for Miss Davies’ clitoris?
Round 7: The Movie Round
1. Catherine O’Hara received some Oscar nomination buzz for this 2006 film in which her character, Marilyn Hack, also received some Oscar nomination buzz.
2. Diane Lane buys a fixer-upper Italian villa in this 2003 film.
3. Samuel L. Jackson stars in this 1998 Canadian-Italian co-production as a badass… antique dealer who, like many others before him, becomes entranced by the title instrument.
4. Subtitled “The Ultimate Disaster Movie,” this 1997 film’s plot starts with the title character supervising the transfer of Whistler’s Mother to Los Angeles, although the plot is mainly an excuse for zany slapstick hijinks.
5. Ben Stiller stars in this 1998 film based on the autobiography of TV writer Jerry Stahl and his struggle with heroin addiction.
6. Mia Thermopolis discovers she is royalty in the kingdom of Genovia in the plot of this 2001 film.
7. An essay belonging to Frankie Muniz is stolen and turned into a movie starring Jaleel White in this 2002 film.
8. In this 2006 film based on an Armistead Maupin novel, Robin Williams plays a gay radio host who travels to Wisconsin investigating the story of a teenager suffering form AIDS.
9. This 2004 film has the tagline, “In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.”
10. What actor or actress has appeared in all nine of these films?
Round 8: 2007 Deaths
Picture Round
Answers here.