Ye Olde Quiz
Finally posting the pub quiz from 3 weeks ago.
Round 1: Geography-Secret Theme
1. This one-time capital of Poland was the setting for most of Schindler’s List.
2. A monument between this city’s Sheremetevo Airport and the city itself marks the extent of German advances in 1941.
3. This capital city of one million makes up one-third of its nation’s population and is the coldest world capital. In the suburbs most people still live in traditional felt tents.
4. A 1931 flood of this river may have caused upwards of four million deaths. This information brought to you by I. P. Freely
5. This world capital on the Tigris lies 55 miles north of the site of ancient Babylon
6. The city of Alamut, in what is now Iran, was home until 1256 to what militant Islamic sect whose name is today more associated with people like Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman?
7. This largest lake in the world is the only home to the sturgeon that produces top-quality beluga caviar.
8. If you ask Hu Jintao, La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s highest capital. If you ask Richard Gere, this Tibetan city is.
9. This second largest city in Afghanistan was founded in the 4th century BCE by Alexander the Great and was originally named for him.
10. All of the above places lie in area conquered, or at least pillaged, by what man and his descendents?
Round 2: God Bless us, Everyone!
1. What title character of a John Irving novel see his own name and future date of death engraved on a tombstone while playing the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in a school play?
2. Some researchers have posited that this character suffered from renal tubercular acidosis, which could have been successfully treated in the Victorian Era, if one had the money.
3. What two Muppet characters “play” the brothers Marley & Marley in A Muppet Christmas Carol?
4. Ebenezer Scrooge reluctantly allows Bob Cratchit to have Christmas, but tells him to show up all the earlier on the 26th which is known as what in England?
5. On what household object does Scrooge originally see the ghost of Jacob Marley?
6. In a 1988 Christmas special, what character played by Rowan Atkinson starts out kind and generous and is then shown how successful he would be if he started being an asshole?
7. Ebbie, a 1995 adaptation with a female Scrooge, starred what actress with one win out of 19 nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award?
8. An episode of Xena: Warrior Princess focuses on a miserly king and the efforts of the Three Graces to change his ways. However, since Christianity wasn’t around, the show referenced this holiday, which in 2007 will occur on Dec. 22nd.
9. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows the Cratchits dining on roast goose and what traditional dessert often served with brandy butter?
10. Finish this classic Scrooge quote: "If they would rather die ... they had better do it, and decrease” what?
Round 3: Tis the season to watch the Food Network
1. This proprietor of the Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah Georgia and fan of lots of butter was the first Food Network personality to be bleeped.
2. Alton Brown was a cinematographer, before becoming a food personality. He did the cinematography for what R.E.M. video from Document?
3. Everyday Italian host Giada de Laurentiius is the granddaughter of movie mogul Dino de Laurentiius. De Laurentiius produced what David Lynch bomb featuring a performance from Sting?
4. Before each episode of the original (i.e. Japanese) Iron Chef, Chairman Kaga bit into what food item?
5. What Seattle restaurateur and author of I Love Crabcakes defeated Iron Chef Morimoto in a chinook salmon battle?
6. Emeril Lagasse will be the 2008 grand marshal of what annual parade that airs before the “granddaddy of them all?”
7.Tyler Florence, host of Tyler’s Ultimate, created dishes for what chain restaurant in 2006?
8. Nigella Lawson is the daughter of what former Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher?
9. In 1999, Marc Summers, the host of Unwrapped, revealed that he suffered from what mental illness that must have made hosting Double Dare rather difficult?
10. Duff Goldman, star of Ace of Cakes lives and works in what city, which is also the setting for HBO’s The Wire?
Round 4: Identify the TV movie
Picture round is here.
Round 5: Christmas Music (Audio Round)
Name the “popular” artists performing these holiday songs.
1. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
2. Takin’ Care of Christmas
3. Rock of Ages (Ma’Oz Tzur)
4. Silent Night
5. The First Nowell
6. O Come All Ye Faithful
For each of the remaining selections, you will only need to give one of the two possible performers. That’s our Christmas gift to you.
7. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
8. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
9. Fairytale of New York
10. Little Drummer Boy
Round 6: Hold Your Horses
1. Washington State Initiative 831 was proposed in 2003 and, if ratified, would have declared what anti-tax activist who spearheaded Initiative 960 to be a “horse’s ass”?
2. What building at Pike Place Market, home to Metsker Maps and The Crumpet Shop, took its name from the fact that horses were not allowed inside?
3. In The Godfather, a horse loses his head. That horse shared its name with what African capital city?
4. Eleven years after his debut, what video game character was given a horse named Epona in 1997’s Ocarina of Time?
5. Horses, zebras, and donkeys are members of what genus?
6. Horse-like creatures named Houyhnhms (Whinyms) look down on the Yahoos in what 1726 work of English literature?
7. According to sports legend, a surprising loss is called an “Upset” because, in 1919, Upset was the name of the only horse to ever beat what thoroughbred?
8. The height of a horse is measured in hands. How many inches in a hand?
9. “Gloria” is the first song on what musician’s 1976 album Horses?
10. What Portland based independent comic publisher’s list of releases includes Barb Wire, Sin City, and Hellboy?
Round 7: The Movie Round
1. Dudley Moore plays the misguided elf Patch, whose shoddy mass-produced toys and candy canes nearly ruin Christmas for everyone, in this 1985 film.
2. The first adaptation of a John Steinbeck novel was this 1939 film about George and Lennie.
3. John Landis was charged with child endangerment and involuntary manslaughter after a helicopter accident killed three on the set of this 1983 film.
4. Sean Penn and Robin Wright first appeared together in this 1990 film as an undercover Boston police officer and a member of a family of Irish-American gangsters in New York, respectively.
5. What 1962 Otto Preminger film starring Henry Fonda as a nominee for Secretary of State takes its name from the clause in Article II of the Constitution that specifies the Senate’s role in the nomination process?
6. The name “Homer Simpson” comes from this 1975 film, in which Donald Sutherland plays an everyman by that name living in 1930s Hollywood. The film is based on a 1939 Nathanael West novel.
7. Walter Matthau was hospitalized with pneumonia following filming of this 1993 film, in which his character loses a fight - with Jack Lemmon, of course - for the heart of Ann-Margret.
8. Fans of this 1966 film based on a TV series often append the number “66” to its title, in order to distinguish it from 1989 Tim Burton film with the same title character?
9. Hulk Hogan and Mr. T made their film debuts in this 1982 film as the wrestler Thunderlips and the boxer Clubber Lang.
10. What actor or actress appeared in all these films?
Round 8: My My My My Mitchell!
Picture round is here.
Answers here.
Round 1: Geography-Secret Theme
1. This one-time capital of Poland was the setting for most of Schindler’s List.
2. A monument between this city’s Sheremetevo Airport and the city itself marks the extent of German advances in 1941.
3. This capital city of one million makes up one-third of its nation’s population and is the coldest world capital. In the suburbs most people still live in traditional felt tents.
4. A 1931 flood of this river may have caused upwards of four million deaths. This information brought to you by I. P. Freely
5. This world capital on the Tigris lies 55 miles north of the site of ancient Babylon
6. The city of Alamut, in what is now Iran, was home until 1256 to what militant Islamic sect whose name is today more associated with people like Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman?
7. This largest lake in the world is the only home to the sturgeon that produces top-quality beluga caviar.
8. If you ask Hu Jintao, La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s highest capital. If you ask Richard Gere, this Tibetan city is.
9. This second largest city in Afghanistan was founded in the 4th century BCE by Alexander the Great and was originally named for him.
10. All of the above places lie in area conquered, or at least pillaged, by what man and his descendents?
Round 2: God Bless us, Everyone!
1. What title character of a John Irving novel see his own name and future date of death engraved on a tombstone while playing the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in a school play?
2. Some researchers have posited that this character suffered from renal tubercular acidosis, which could have been successfully treated in the Victorian Era, if one had the money.
3. What two Muppet characters “play” the brothers Marley & Marley in A Muppet Christmas Carol?
4. Ebenezer Scrooge reluctantly allows Bob Cratchit to have Christmas, but tells him to show up all the earlier on the 26th which is known as what in England?
5. On what household object does Scrooge originally see the ghost of Jacob Marley?
6. In a 1988 Christmas special, what character played by Rowan Atkinson starts out kind and generous and is then shown how successful he would be if he started being an asshole?
7. Ebbie, a 1995 adaptation with a female Scrooge, starred what actress with one win out of 19 nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award?
8. An episode of Xena: Warrior Princess focuses on a miserly king and the efforts of the Three Graces to change his ways. However, since Christianity wasn’t around, the show referenced this holiday, which in 2007 will occur on Dec. 22nd.
9. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows the Cratchits dining on roast goose and what traditional dessert often served with brandy butter?
10. Finish this classic Scrooge quote: "If they would rather die ... they had better do it, and decrease” what?
Round 3: Tis the season to watch the Food Network
1. This proprietor of the Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah Georgia and fan of lots of butter was the first Food Network personality to be bleeped.
2. Alton Brown was a cinematographer, before becoming a food personality. He did the cinematography for what R.E.M. video from Document?
3. Everyday Italian host Giada de Laurentiius is the granddaughter of movie mogul Dino de Laurentiius. De Laurentiius produced what David Lynch bomb featuring a performance from Sting?
4. Before each episode of the original (i.e. Japanese) Iron Chef, Chairman Kaga bit into what food item?
5. What Seattle restaurateur and author of I Love Crabcakes defeated Iron Chef Morimoto in a chinook salmon battle?
6. Emeril Lagasse will be the 2008 grand marshal of what annual parade that airs before the “granddaddy of them all?”
7.Tyler Florence, host of Tyler’s Ultimate, created dishes for what chain restaurant in 2006?
8. Nigella Lawson is the daughter of what former Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher?
9. In 1999, Marc Summers, the host of Unwrapped, revealed that he suffered from what mental illness that must have made hosting Double Dare rather difficult?
10. Duff Goldman, star of Ace of Cakes lives and works in what city, which is also the setting for HBO’s The Wire?
Round 4: Identify the TV movie
Picture round is here.
Round 5: Christmas Music (Audio Round)
Name the “popular” artists performing these holiday songs.
1. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
2. Takin’ Care of Christmas
3. Rock of Ages (Ma’Oz Tzur)
4. Silent Night
5. The First Nowell
6. O Come All Ye Faithful
For each of the remaining selections, you will only need to give one of the two possible performers. That’s our Christmas gift to you.
7. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
8. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
9. Fairytale of New York
10. Little Drummer Boy
Round 6: Hold Your Horses
1. Washington State Initiative 831 was proposed in 2003 and, if ratified, would have declared what anti-tax activist who spearheaded Initiative 960 to be a “horse’s ass”?
2. What building at Pike Place Market, home to Metsker Maps and The Crumpet Shop, took its name from the fact that horses were not allowed inside?
3. In The Godfather, a horse loses his head. That horse shared its name with what African capital city?
4. Eleven years after his debut, what video game character was given a horse named Epona in 1997’s Ocarina of Time?
5. Horses, zebras, and donkeys are members of what genus?
6. Horse-like creatures named Houyhnhms (Whinyms) look down on the Yahoos in what 1726 work of English literature?
7. According to sports legend, a surprising loss is called an “Upset” because, in 1919, Upset was the name of the only horse to ever beat what thoroughbred?
8. The height of a horse is measured in hands. How many inches in a hand?
9. “Gloria” is the first song on what musician’s 1976 album Horses?
10. What Portland based independent comic publisher’s list of releases includes Barb Wire, Sin City, and Hellboy?
Round 7: The Movie Round
1. Dudley Moore plays the misguided elf Patch, whose shoddy mass-produced toys and candy canes nearly ruin Christmas for everyone, in this 1985 film.
2. The first adaptation of a John Steinbeck novel was this 1939 film about George and Lennie.
3. John Landis was charged with child endangerment and involuntary manslaughter after a helicopter accident killed three on the set of this 1983 film.
4. Sean Penn and Robin Wright first appeared together in this 1990 film as an undercover Boston police officer and a member of a family of Irish-American gangsters in New York, respectively.
5. What 1962 Otto Preminger film starring Henry Fonda as a nominee for Secretary of State takes its name from the clause in Article II of the Constitution that specifies the Senate’s role in the nomination process?
6. The name “Homer Simpson” comes from this 1975 film, in which Donald Sutherland plays an everyman by that name living in 1930s Hollywood. The film is based on a 1939 Nathanael West novel.
7. Walter Matthau was hospitalized with pneumonia following filming of this 1993 film, in which his character loses a fight - with Jack Lemmon, of course - for the heart of Ann-Margret.
8. Fans of this 1966 film based on a TV series often append the number “66” to its title, in order to distinguish it from 1989 Tim Burton film with the same title character?
9. Hulk Hogan and Mr. T made their film debuts in this 1982 film as the wrestler Thunderlips and the boxer Clubber Lang.
10. What actor or actress appeared in all these films?
Round 8: My My My My Mitchell!
Picture round is here.
Answers here.