2008_12_03_Pub_Quiz
General Knowledge 1
- Which team defeated the New York Red Bulls on November 23 to win the 2008 Major League Soccer championship?
[ANSWER] Columbus Crew
- In The Lord of the Rings series, how many total rings of power were distributed to the various races of Middle Earth?
[ANSWER] 20 (3 for elves, 7 for dwarves, 9 for humans, and 1 for Sauron)
- Which president of Paraguay oversaw the construction of the Itaipu Dam, but became infamous for the civil rights abuses which occurred during his fifty-five year rule?
[ANSWER] Alfredo Stroessner
- What European capital city is located on the banks of the Dambovita River?
[ANSWER] Bucharest
- If one adjusts for inflation, what was the most financially successful James Bond movie of all time?
[ANSWER] Thunderball
- What is the charge of a dichromate ion?
[ANSWER] -2
- The final episode of what 1980s television show had the title character meet Lt. Worf on the bridge of the USS Enterprise thanks to a malfunctioning video game?
[ANSWER] Webster
- Who dramatized the relationship between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in the play Copenhagen?
[ANSWER] Michael Frayn
- Which artist, who served in the court of Henry VIII, included the distorted image of a human skull in his painting, The Ambassadors?
[ANSWER] Hans Holbein the Younger
- Which future Grammy winner was inspired to pursue a country music career while serving a ten year sentence for robbery in San Quentin Penitentiary, where he and his fellow inmates watched Johnny Cash perform?
[ANSWER] Merle Haggard
Audio Round
Handout Round
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[ANSWER] Stanford Cardinals (The Stanford Tree)
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[ANSWER] Vanderbilt Commodores (Mr. C)
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[ANSWER] University of Miami Hurricanes (Sebastian the Ibis)
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[ANSWER] Georgetown Hoyas (Jack the Bulldog)
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[ANSWER] Purdue University Boilermakers (Purdue Pete)
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[ANSWER] University of Alabama (Big Al)
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[ANSWER] Wake Forest Demon Deacons (nameless)
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[ANSWER] Virginia Tech Hokie (HokieBird)
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[ANSWER] University of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (Big Red)
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[ANSWER] UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs (Sammy the Slug)
Theme Round
- Badger, Mole, Rat, and Toad are the principal characters in what Kenneth Grahame work?
[ANSWER] The Wind in the Willows
- What American artist created such boxing themed pictures as Stag at Sharkey's and Both Members of this Club?
[ANSWER] George Bellows
- In Greek mythology, who was the god of the North wind?
[ANSWER] Boreas
- The Breeze was the last mid-size sedan to be sold under what Chrysler marquee?
[ANSWER] Plymouth
- What Japanese name was given to the storms that destroyed the Mongol invasion fleet in 1281?
[ANSWER] Kamikaze
- What is the name of the Alice Randall's 2001 retelling of a Marget Mitchell work through the eyes of Cynara, the half-sister of Scarlett O'Hara?
[ANSWER] The Wind done Gone
- Operation Frequent Wind was the code name for the evacuation of what city in 1975?
[ANSWER] Saigon
- What is the name of the scale used to measure the destructiveness of a tornado?
[ANSWER] Fujita
- The 2003 album The Wind was the last album of what artist who had earlier gained notoriety with 1978's Excitable Boy?
[ANSWER] Warren Zevon
- What is the name of the device that is used to measure wind speed?
[ANSWER] Anemometer
General Knowledge 2
- The plays Dog Beneath the Skin and The Ascent of F6 were collaborations between Isherwood and what poet who wrote September 1, 1939?
[ANSWER] W.H. Auden
- What Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop and one of the initial inductees into the baseball hall of fame demanded that American Tobacco stop producing baseball cards with his likeness?
[ANSWER] Johann "Honus" Wagner
- What broad class of immune system cytokines that includes T cells got its name because they were thought to be messages between white blood cells?
[ANSWER] Interleukins
- In what city is the play Romeo and Juliet set?
[ANSWER] Verona
- What symphony, which premiered in 1876 in Karlsruhe conducted by Dessoff, is often referred to as Beethoven's tenth?
[ANSWER] Brahms' First in C minor
- The Goryeo Dynasty ruled what penninsula until the 14th century?
[ANSWER] Korea
- In astronomy, what term derived from the Latin word for "white" is used to describe how much light is diffusely reflected from an object?
[ANSWER] Albedo
- Who served as president of Cuba until overthrown by revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro in 1959?
[ANSWER] Fulgencio Batista
- Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome commemorates four rivers on four continents. Name three of them.
[ANSWER] Rio de la Plata, Ganges, Nile, Danube
- Alan Arkin won a best supporting Oscar for portraying a grandfather and choreographer who overdoses on heroin in what 2006 film?
[ANSWER] Little Miss Sunshine
Mystery Round
- What Animal Planet television series centers upon the work of Capt. Paul Watson and the Sea Shepard Conservation society?
[ANSWER] Whale Wars
- What Gilded Age financier was renowned for his penchant for fine jewelry, his affair with singer Lillian Russell, and his extravagant dining habits?
[ANSWER] James "Diamond Jim" Brady
- What song has Van Morrison performed in concert more than any other as of October 2008?
[ANSWER] Moondance
- What military honor, first issued in 1932, is awarded to soldiers who demonstrate gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States?
[ANSWER] The Silver Star
- What marine arthropod in the family Limulidae has frequently been utilized to study the physiology of vision?
[ANSWER] Horseshoe crab
- Conducted between 1942 and 1944, Operation Outward was an effort by the British military to drop explosives on Germany using what unique delivery system?
[ANSWER] (Hydrogen-filled) Balloon
- What is the name of the spaceship, powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive, which is stolen by Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
[ANSWER] The Heart of Gold
- Plautus' unfinished comedy Aulularia describes the efforts of a miser named Euclio to protect what titular treasure?
[ANSWER] The Pot of Gold
- What 2008 film is shot largely from the perspective of the T.J. Miller's character Hudson Platt?
[ANSWER] Cloverfield
- THEME
[ANSWER] Lucky Charms Marshmallows