2009_03_18_Pub_Quiz

General Knowledge 1

• In chemistry, what reaction allows you to make an alkene by combining a ketone with a phosphonium ylide? [ANSWER]
  Wittig
• What doctrine named after Hoover's secretary of state enunciated that the U.S. does not recognize changes in national borders brought about by violence? [ANSWER]
  Stimson Doctrine
• The poet John Suckling created what card game where the object is to lay down cards so that the total of all cards discarded is less than thirty-one? [ANSWER]
  Cribbage
• In materials science, what adjective describes the ability of a metal to be drawn out into a wire? [ANSWER]
  ductility
• What Yale psychologist studied the influence of authority on the willingness of subjects to administer electric shocks to confederates taking a quiz? [ANSWER]
  Stanley Milgram
• What Roman soldier is venerated as the patron saint of England, Greece, and Ethiopia? [ANSWER]
  St. George
• In what Poe short story does the title event parallel the reading of a story called The Mad Trist by the story's narrator? [ANSWER]
  Fall of the House of Usher
• What goalkeeper for the German national team from 1994 to 2006 is the only goalie to win the FIFA Golden Ball? [ANSWER]
  Oliver Kahn
• What reformer ruled as emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912? [ANSWER]
  Meiji / Mutsuhito
• Harrison Ford plays detective Rick Deckard in what 1982 film? [ANSWER]
  Blade Runner

Handout Round

• See handout [ANSWER]
  Fuselli
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Hokusai
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Bosch
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Michalangelo
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Boticelli
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Kahlo
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Picasso
• See handout [ANSWER]
  van Eyck
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Hopper
• See handout [ANSWER]
  West

Theme Round

• What World War II atrocity involving 76,000 Allied troops began at Marivales and ended at Camp O'Donnell? [ANSWER]
  The Bataan Death March
• What John Philip Sousa march is used as the theme song of both the Philadelphia Pops and Monty Python's Flying Circus? [ANSWER]
  The Liberty Bell March
• "March of the Pigs" was the first single released from what group's 1994 album, The Downward Spiral? [ANSWER]
  Nine Inch Nails
• Contrary to its name, what 2000 event intended to promote tighter gun control laws, only gathered 750,000 people on the National Mall? [ANSWER]
  The Million Mom March
• Actress Stephanie March returned to NBC last week to play Alexandra Cabot on what series? [ANSWER]
  Law and Order: SVU
• While every month on the Roman calendar had Ides, only 4 had Ides on the 15th day of the month. March is one. Name any of the other three. [ANSWER]
  May, July, October (the rest are on the 13th)
• What medical foundation conducted the largest clinical drug trial in American history, involving nearly 2 million school children? [ANSWER]
  The March of Dimes
• The March, a novel whose events take place during William Sherman's 1864 Civil War campaign, is the most recent book by what author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate? [ANSWER]
  E.L. Doctorow
• What word, referring to a performance by a military marching band, shares its name with a Samoan term meaning "open wound"? [ANSWER]
  tattoo
• Who has held the individual record for the most points scored during a Final Four basketball game since March 1965? [ANSWER]
  Bill Bradley

General Knowledge 2

• Five active NFL teams have never competed in a Superbowl. Name any three of them. [ANSWER]
  Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints (The Chiefs and Jets haven't appeared in the Superbowl since the 1970 merger between the AFL and NFL)
• In Gulliver's Travels, the kingdom of Lilliput is involved in a long-standing war with what other country, whose inhabitants are also 6 inches tall? [ANSWER]
  Blefuscu
• On Home Improvement, which company sponsors Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor's television program, Tool Time? [ANSWER]
  Binford Tools
• According to the California Department of Finance, if that state were an independent country it would have the seventh largest economy in the world, right behind what other country? [ANSWER]
  Italy (1466 billion=Italy, 1446 billion=CA, 1410=China excluding Hong Kong)
• Who played Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future trilogy? [ANSWER]
  Thomas Wilson
• Which Russian ballet dancer collaborated with composer Igor Stravinsky to choreograph the latter's Rite of Spring? [ANSWER]
  Vaslav Nijinsky
• What band was originally called "Pineapple" before lead vocalist Robin Pecknold decided upon a new name that was, in his words, "evocative of some weird English activity"? [ANSWER]
  Fleet Foxes
• In 1370, Tamurlane decided to make what city, located in present day Uzbekistan, the capital of his new empire? [ANSWER]
  Samarkand
• Name either of the two states whose legislatures have defied the international astronomical community by declaring that Pluto should still be considered a planet. [ANSWER]
  Illinois, New Mexico
• What fifteen-letter word refers to the motion of dispersed particles in a fluid under the influence of a uniform electric field? [ANSWER]
  electrophoresis

Mystery Round

• Bhuna in Indian cuisine, kwek-kwek in the Philippines, or Caille en Sarcophage in French all use the meat of what animal? [ANSWER]
  Quail (Dan Quayle)
• What blues guitarist named his guitar Lucille after he ran into a burning dance hall in Twist, Arkansas to retrieve it? [ANSWER]
  B.B. King (Rufus King)
• In the novel "Catcher in the Rye," where does Holden take Sally Hayes to go ice skating? [ANSWER]
  Rockefeller Center (Nelson Rockefeller)
• Containers of what brand of salt feature a girl carrying an umbrella and pouring salt on the ground? [ANSWER]
  Morton (Levi P. Morton)
• With a total of over seventy million spent, who won the most expensive senate race in history by defeating Rick Lazio in 2000? [ANSWER]
  Hilary Clinton (George Clinton)
• What architect designed the Seagram building, the Glass House, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Wells Fargo center in Denver? [ANSWER]
  Philip Johnson (Richard Mentor Johnson / Lyndon Johnson / Andrew Johnson)
• Carousel Club, managed by Jack Ruby, was a nightclub in what southern city? [ANSWER]
  Dallas (John Dallas)
• The events in the novel "A Brave New World" take place in AF 632, which corresponds to 2540 AD. What does "AF" stand for? [ANSWER]
  After Ford (Gerald Ford)
• Who served as the starting quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 2006 to 2009? [ANSWER]
  John Parker Wilson (Henry Wilson)
• Mystery Theme [ANSWER]
  U.S. Vice Presidents