2008_08_20_Pub_Quiz

General Knowledge 1

• The narrator joins what part of a room's decor in a Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story of the same name? [ANSWER]
  The Yellow Wallpaper
• The McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act were signed by what US president from Indiana, leading to his defeat by a former president in the next election? [ANSWER]
  Benjamin Harrison
• What does the "S" stand for in SQUIDs, devices which use the Josephson effect to measure magnetic fields? [ANSWER]
  Superconducting
• The tallest mountain in Australia is named after what hero of the American Revolution and a hero of a 1794 Polish independence movement? [ANSWER]
  Tadeusz Kosciuszko
• What is the name of the incomplete mansion where Charles Foster Kane dies? [ANSWER]
  Xanadu
• What Baseball closer with the Yankees from '78-'83 and the Padres from '84-'87 was the only player inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008? [ANSWER]
  Rich "Goose" Gossage
• Thomas S. Monson, who was president of the quorum of the twelve from 1995 until the death of Gordon B. Hinkley, is the leader of what religion? [ANSWER]
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Who served as Chief Minister of France after Richelieu's death and assisted Anne of Austria during her regency for Louis XIV? [ANSWER]
  Cardinal "Jules" Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino
• How many possible first moves for white are there in a game of chess? [ANSWER]
  20 (each pawn and knight have two possible moves)
• Who wrote the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, God's Trombones, and Lift Every Voice and Sing? [ANSWER]
  James Weldon Johnson

Handout Round

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  What is the largest province in Canada by land area?
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  Which Volkswagen car was sold as the Rabbit in the United States?
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  What city was founded by in Pizarro in 1535 and was originally called La Ciudad de los Reyes?
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  What character spoke the lines "O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"
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  Cetshwayo was the last ruler of what independent nation until defeated at Ulundi?
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  What airline, begun as Huff Daland Dusters, has hubs at Atlanta, Salt Lake City, and Cincinatti?
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  The Purna Swaraj was the declaration of independence of what nation?
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  North Korea's largest building, the Ryugyong, was meant to be what type of establishment?
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  What computer company founded by Ken and Roberta Williams took its name from the mountain range they lived next to?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  MYSTERY

Theme Round

• Quebec [ANSWER]
  Chicago
• Golf [ANSWER]
  Spam-a-lot
• Lima [ANSWER]
  South Pacific
• Romeo [ANSWER]
  Avenue Q
• Zulu [ANSWER]
  Rent
• Delta [ANSWER]
  Young Frankenstein
• India [ANSWER]
  A Chorus Line
• Hotel [ANSWER]
  Wicked
• Sierra On-Line [ANSWER]
  Legally Blonde
• NATO Phonetic Alphabet [ANSWER]
  Gypsy

General Knowledge 2

• Who works as detective Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon? [ANSWER]
  Miles Archer (Sagittarius)
• A Picture of Nectar, The Story of the Ghost, and Billy Breathes are all studio albums by what group? [ANSWER]
  Phish (Pisces)
• Which English king spent less than 6 months of his reign in England and allegedly commented that he would have sold London if he could find a buyer? [ANSWER]
  Richard the Lion-hearted (Leo)
• Who hires Spongebob Squarepants to work in his fast food restaurant? [ANSWER]
  Mr. Eugene Krabs (Cancer)
• What Edward Albee play, subtitled "Who is Sylvia?" centers upon the relationship between a middle-aged architect named Martin and the titular animal? [ANSWER]
  The Goat (Capricorn)
• By what name is Harvard professor turned spiritualist Richard Alpert better known? [ANSWER]
  Ram Dass (Aries)
• What musical instrument associated with the Australian aborigines consists of a weighted piece of wood attached to a cord which is whirled around the player's head? [ANSWER]
  Bullroarer (Taurus)
• Who runs the Globex Corporation and blew up the 59th Street Bridge before seizing control of America's east coast and giving the Denver Broncos to a former employee? [ANSWER]
  Hank Scorpio (Scorpio)
• What international chain of record stores opened its first branch in London in 1971? [ANSWER]
  Virgin Megastores (Virgo)
• Which baseball team was the first to lose three away games and still win the World Series? [ANSWER]
  Minnesota Twins (Gemini) (did it 1987 and later in 1991)

Mystery Round

• In chemistry, whose principle states that when a stress is placed on a situation in equilibrium, the equilibrium will shift to relieve that stress? [ANSWER]
  Le Chatelier
• Released by Atari in 1989, what was the first handheld video game system with a full color display? [ANSWER]
  Atari Lynx
• The Strait of Messina connects the Ionian Sea to what other section of the Mediterranean? [ANSWER]
  The Tyrrhenian Sea
• What Hollywood production company was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford? [ANSWER]
  United Artists
• Which Philadelphia native painted The Gross Clinic, Between Rounds, and a series of watercolors portraying rowing scenes? [ANSWER]
  Thomas Eakins
• As of this year, only five countries have hosted the Summer Olympics exactly twice. Name any four of them. [ANSWER]
  Australia (1956, 2000), Germany (1936, 1972), Greece (1896, 2004), France (1900, 1924), United Kingdom (1908, 1948)
• Who served as chief artillery officer for the Continental Army during the American Revolution and later became the United States' first Secretary of War? [ANSWER]
  Henry Knox
• What was the name of Norm Peterson's seldom seen wife on Cheers? [ANSWER]
  Vera
• What George Eliot novel published in serial form between 1871 and 1872 focuses on the marriage of Dorothea Brooke to aging scholar Reverend Causabon? [ANSWER]
  Middlemarch
• Which title character from a Jan and Dean song raises white gardenias when she isn't racing her super stock Dodge down Colorado Boulevard? [ANSWER]
  The Little Old Lady From Pasadena