2008_05_20_Pub_Quiz

General Knowledge 1

• Which French composer created a tone poem entitled "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"? [ANSWER]
  Paul Dukas
• Robert Baden-Powell, the future founder of the international scouting movement, first gained fame during the siege of Mafeking, a decisive British victory in which war? [ANSWER]
  The Boer War
• Which actor's lesser known roles include the title character's son Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy and Grocer, a hit-man in Grosse Pointe Blank? [ANSWER]
  Dan Aykroyd
• What four-letter adjective is used to describe the weaker tides that occur when the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon on the earth are perpendicular to one another? [ANSWER]
  Neap
• At 8:36, what is the longest song to reach #1 on the billboard charts? [ANSWER]
  American Pie
• Which Italian architect was responsible for designing the Uffizi Palace in Florence and writing Lives of the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors? [ANSWER]
  Girogio Vasari
• By what nickname is Tennessee Titan Frank Wycheck's controversial 75-yard lateral pass to Kevin Dyson during a 2000 playoff game against the Buffalo Bills better known? [ANSWER]
  The Music City Miracle
• The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Last of the Mohicans are all part of what series of novels by James Fenimore Cooper? [ANSWER]
  The Leatherstocking Tales
• According to both the original TV series and the recent movie, who was the captain of the Starship enterprise immediately prior to James T. Kirk? [ANSWER]
  Christopher Pike
• What city is home to the Stockyards Museum, the Colonial Invitational Golf Tournament, and the main campus of Texas Christian University? [ANSWER]
  Fort Worth

Audio Round

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  Jackie Brown
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  Phantom Menace
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  Pulp Fiction
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  Snakes on a Plane
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  Do the Right Thing
• [ANSWER]
  Jurassic Park
• [ANSWER]
  Incredibles
• [ANSWER]
  Sphere
• [ANSWER]
  Die Hard with a Vengeance
• [ANSWER]
  The Negotiator

Theme Round

• Composed of a filament topped by an anther, what is the name given to the male reproductive organ of a flower? [ANSWER]
  stamen
• On the Sci-Fi show Dr. Who, what is the name of the Doctor's larger on the inside time-machine/spaceship? [ANSWER]
  TARDIS
• Six Characters in Search of an Author is a play by what Italian author? [ANSWER]
  Luigi Pirandello
• The involvement of what daughter of James V in the Babington plot lead to her excecution? [ANSWER]
  Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotts
• A 1778 painting by John Singleton Copley depicts Brook Watson's encounter with what animal near Havana? [ANSWER]
  shark
• Carlo Ancelotti is the manager of what football club owned by Italian president Silvio Berlusconi? [ANSWER]
  AC Milan
• What is the largest number that cannot be expressed as the sum of distinct primes? [ANSWER]
  11
• What French composer wrote the Turangalîla symphony and the Quartet for the End of Time? [ANSWER]
  Olivier Messiaen
• In what nation is the novel The Power and the Glory set? [ANSWER]
  Mexico
• The 1937 incident that triggered the second Sino-Japanese war occurred near a bridge named after what explorer? [ANSWER]
  Marco Polo

General Knowledge 2

• In 1817,Sir William Cubitt introduced what type of exercise equipment to British prisons as part of a broader plan to reform incarcerated offenders? [ANSWER]
  Treadmill
• The music video for what 2008 Kanye West song required a staff of over sixty animators to create? [ANSWER]
  Heartless
• The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential are two parts of what author's L.A. Quartet of crime novels? [ANSWER]
  Ellroy, James
• What syndicated television courtroom program has been nominated for 11 Emmy Awards since its premiere in 1996? [ANSWER]
  Judge Judy
• Which fictional character makes her first friend, Helen Burns, while attending classes at the Lowood school and later inherits a fortune from her uncle in Madeira? [ANSWER]
  Eyre, Jane
• What jewelry company's flagship store is located in New York City at the corner of 5th Avenue and 57th street? [ANSWER]
  Tiffany & Co. (ACC: Tiffany's)
• What mathematical term refers to a set containing exactly one element? [ANSWER]
  Singleton
• British actress Vanessa Branch is best known as the pitchwoman for what brand of sugar-free gum produced by the Wrigley Company? [ANSWER]
  Orbit
• Anthropologist George Murdock coined what two word term in 1949 to refer to a household consisting of only a mother, father, and their children? [ANSWER]
  Nuclear family
• What Saturday Night Live sketch featured a theme song by Kraftwerk and a regular segment entitled "Germany's Most Disturbing Home Videos?" [ANSWER]
  Sprockets

Mystery Round

• What was the first name of the urinal-cake heiress who was the wife of Niles Crane on the TV show Frasier? [ANSWER]
  Maris Crane (Roger) 9
• What E.M. Forster novel is about the struggle of Schlegel, Wilcox, and Bast families to get the titular structure? [ANSWER]
  Howards End (Elston) 32
• The Chikyu Hakken was ship designed to investigate what part of the earth for the first time? [ANSWER]
  Mantle (Mickey) 7
• What English novelist wrote The Good Soldier and changed his name from Hueffer during World War I? [ANSWER]
  Ford Maddox Ford (Whitey) 16
• What book of the bible concerns how the widow of Mahlon marries a man named Boaz? [ANSWER]
  Book of Ruth (Babe) 3
• Who wrote the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile and the screenplay for the film Shopgirl? [ANSWER]
  Steve Martin (Billy) 1
• What German engineer is nicknamed "the guru of rollercoasters," inventing the horizontal launch rollercoaster, the first inverted rollercoaster, and the now-standard klothoide loop? [ANSWER]
  Werner Stengel (Casey) 37
• Who founded both Operation PUSH and the National Rainbow Coalition, which merged in 1996? [ANSWER]
  Jesse Jackson (Reggie) 44
• What model is depicted in the Plaza Hotel Fountain, "Civic Fame" atop New York City Municipal Building, "Beauty" in front of the New York Public Library, and the "Columbia" figure atop the Maine Memorial in Columbus circle? [ANSWER]
  Audrey Munson (Thurman) 9
• Mystery [ANSWER]
  NY Yankees (whose numbers have been retired)