2008_07_02_Pub_Quiz
General Knowledge 1
- What nation borders Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador?
[ANSWER] Honduras
- What Muslim caliphate saw the construction of the Dome of the Rock and the reign of Yazid II, who ordered that all Christian images be destroyed?
[ANSWER] Ummayid Caliphate
- What Elizabethan dramatist created the works The Noble Spanish Soldier and The Shoemaker's Holiday?
[ANSWER] Thomas Dekker
- Who directed the films Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song?
[ANSWER] Melvin van Peebles
- What constitutional amendment limits the president to ten years in office or two elected terms?
[ANSWER] 22nd Amendment
- Don Glaser created what piece of physics machinery to record the trajectory of charged particles through a liquid?
[ANSWER] Bubble Chamber
- What author of the Labyrinth of Solitude is the only Mexican to have won the Nobel Prize for literature?
[ANSWER] Octavio Paz
- In mathematics, what theorem states that the order of a subgroup of a finite field divides the order of the group it came from?
[ANSWER] Lagrange Conjecture
- Ralph Wilson stadium is where what NFL team plays their home games?
[ANSWER] Buffalo Bills
- What British philosopher wrote the posthumously titled work Sense and Sensabilia?
[ANSWER] John Langshaw Austin
Audio Round
Africa Theme Round
- Which Verdi opera is primarily set in Africa also premiered there in 1871?
[ANSWER] Aida
- What nation won the 2000 men's soccer gold medal during the Sydney Olympics?
[ANSWER] Cameroon
- Trypanosomiasis, a parasitic infection, is transmitted by what organism?
[ANSWER] Tsetse (Glossinidae Glossina)
- What founder of the negritude movement was the first president of an independent Senegal?
[ANSWER] Leopold Senghor
- Arthur Eddington's observation of what event in 1919 on the island of Principe helped verify Einstein's theory of general relativity?
[ANSWER] Solar Eclipse
- Specimen 288-1 discovered by Johanson and Gray in 1972 is better known by what name?
[ANSWER] Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis)
- The Man Died is the prose account of the twenty-two month imprisonment of what writer of Kongi's Gift?
[ANSWER] Wole Soyinka
- What gay Methodist minister became the first president of the nation known as Zimbabwe in 1980?
[ANSWER] Canaan Banana
- Sonni Ali brought what Western African empire to prominence with the capture of Timbuktu in 1468?
[ANSWER] Songhai
- What African born designer rebuilt the house of Dior before forming his own label with Pierre Berge?
[ANSWER] Yves Saint Laurent (Oran, Algeria)
Theme Round
- The six year old protagonist of The Velveteen Rabbit suffers from what disease, leading his nurse to burn all of his toys?
[ANSWER] scarlet fever
- Russian pyramid, five pins, cutthroat and straight rail are all variations of what family of games?
[ANSWER] billiards
- Following his discovery of the electron, J.J. Thomson proposed what model of atomic structure named after a traditional Christmas dessert?
[ANSWER] the plum pudding model
- What Billy Idol song reminds us that there is nothing fair or safe in this world before suggesting that "it's a good day to start again"?
[ANSWER] White Wedding
- Which sidekick of Captain Kangaroo drew his name from his distinctly colored denim overalls?
[ANSWER] Mr. Green Jeans
- The largest model of what tool, produced by the Wenger company in 2006, sells for $1200 and possesses over 85 different implements including a flashlight, a telescopic pointer, and a tire tread gauge?
[ANSWER] Swiss Army Knife
- If a gaggle describes a group of geese and a pride describes a group of lions, a group of what kind of animal is called a "muster"?
[ANSWER] peacock
- What 1959 event gained its name from the room, designed by All-State Properties, in which its two participants argued the merits of capitalism?
[ANSWER] kitchen debate
- What chemical weapon first used at Ypres in 1915 has the formula Bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide ?
[ANSWER] mustard gas
- THEME
[ANSWER] Clue
General Knowledge 2
- What Tennessee Williams play centers upon the internal conflicts of the Pollitt family including aging football hero Brick and his wife Maggie?
[ANSWER] Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Which switch-hitting member of the Atlanta Braves hit the first home run ever at Washington D.C.'s Nationals Park?
[ANSWER] Chipper Jones
- In 1953, the CIA sponsored a coup d'etat against the government of which Prime Minister of Iran?
[ANSWER] Mohammad Mossadeq
- An apartment building designed by Ivo Shandor to create a portal to another dimension is featured in the climax of what 1984 movie?
[ANSWER] Ghostbusters
- What enzyme, present in human saliva, begins the process of digestion by breaking starches into sugar?
[ANSWER] Amylase
- Which television family resided at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?
[ANSWER] The Munsters
- During the early 1990s, which artist appeared on the French 100-franc note alongside his painting, Liberty Leading the People?
[ANSWER] Eugene Delacroix
- What 2003 song written by Andre 3000 was the most recent to appear on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time?
[ANSWER] Hey Ya!
- In Egyptian mythology, which falcon-headed son of Osiris was often represented by a hieroglyphic of his eye?
[ANSWER] Horus
- The cuisine of which Himalayan nation features a mixture of cheese and chili peppers called ema-datsi which is often served with tea made from yak butter?
[ANSWER] Bhutan
Mystery Round
- Who is the only actor to portray one of the title characters in both The Dirty Dozen and The Magnificent Seven?
[ANSWER] Charles Bronson
- Tradition holds that which Christian saint, associated with librarians and chefs, was grilled to death on an outdoor iron stove?
[ANSWER] St. Lawrence
- Which literary villain is known as Marten Asmodom Vilijn in the Netherlands, Romeo G Detlev, Jr. in Denmark, and Tom Elvis Jedusor in France?
[ANSWER] Lord Voldemort (Tom Marvolo Riddle in English, leading to anagram "I Am Lord Voldemort.")
- All Jacked Up, an album by which (female) artist, reached #1 on both the Top 200 and Country Music charts following its release in 2005?
[ANSWER] Gretchen Wilson
- Who created the 11 foot bronze sculpture Oval With Points which is currently located on Princeton's campus between Stanhope Hall and West College?
[ANSWER] Henry Moore
- In regular D.C. comics continuity, how many different people have taken on the identity of Batman's sidekick, Robin?
[ANSWER] Four (Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Stephanie Brown)
- What measurement of an atom's ability to attract electrons towards itself in a covalent bond was first proposed by Linus Pauling in 1932?
[ANSWER] Electronegativity
- Name either of the two teams which competed in the finals of this year's College World Series.
[ANSWER] Georgia, Fresno State (Both have the bulldog as their mascot.)
- Who was the first female prime minister of Canada?
[ANSWER] Kim Campbell
- Who hosted the 1975 premiere episode of Saturday Night Live?
[ANSWER] George Carlin