2009_06_03_Pub_Quiz

General Knowledge 1

• In Norse myth, what kind of animal is Ratatösk, who carries messages between the eagle at the top of the tree Yggdrasil to the serpent Nidhögg at the bottom? [ANSWER]
  squirrel (of discord)
• What English novelist wrote the twelve volume saga Dance to the Music of Time? [ANSWER]
  Anthony Powell
• Pablo Casals is best known for performances on what instrument? [ANSWER]
  violincello
• In what novel is Bezukhov exiled from St. Petersburg because he tied a policeman to the back of a bear? [ANSWER]
  War and Peace (Vonya I Mir)
• In the 1824 US election, who won the plurality of both the popular vote and the electoral college? [ANSWER]
  Andrew Jackson (but JQA won the presidency)
• What knight of the round table did William Palin, Michael Palin's infant son, play in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail? [ANSWER]
  Sir Not Appearing in this Film
• What was the name of the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb? [ANSWER]
  Enola Gay
• After scoring an own goal in a 1994 World Cup game, Andres Escobar, a defender for what nation's team, was murdered in Medellin? [ANSWER]
  Columbia
• What peripatetic Hungarian mathematician and prolific collaborator developed the probabilistic proof method? [ANSWER]
  Paul Erdos
• What is the name given to the process where plants grow in the direction of light, enabled by auxins? [ANSWER]
  phototropism

Handout Round

• See handout [ANSWER]
  Chile
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Namibia
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Israel
• See handout [ANSWER]
  New Zealand
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Haiti
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Panama
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Ukraine
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Eritrea
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Indonesia
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Turkey

Theme Round

• As of May 29th, what religious organization founded in 1953 has been banned from editing articles on Wikipedia? [ANSWER]
  The Church of Scientology
• Which French artist won a gold medal at the Paris salon for his 1819 work, "The Raft of the Medusa"? [ANSWER]
  Theodore Gericault
• Who preceded Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show" from 1957 to 1962? [ANSWER]
  Jack Paar
• Foams, emulsions, and aerosols are all subcategories of what general class of heterogeneous mixture? [ANSWER]
  Colloids
• "Crown of Love," "In the Backseat," and the four part "Neighborhood" series are all featured on what debut album by Arcade Fire? [ANSWER]
  Funeral
• In which Shakespearean sonnet does the speaker ask, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" [ANSWER]
  Sonnet 18
• Jeff Bridges is slated to reprise the role of Kevin Flynn in the 2011 sequel to what 1982 film? [ANSWER]
  Tron
• Kamaran and Perin are islands in the Red Sea controlled by which country, the only republic located on the Arabian peninsula? [ANSWER]
  Yemen
• Which former Laker and coach for the Washington Wizards was recently hired as head coach for the Philadelphia 76ers? [ANSWER]
  Eddie Jordan
• British monarch Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936 in order to marry which American divorcee? [ANSWER]
  Wallis Simpson

General Knowledge 2

• Who founded the Nasjonal Samling with Johan Hjort and was appointed Minister-President of his nation by Josef Terboven? [ANSWER]
  Quizling
• What figure from mythology has a twin brother named Xolotl? [ANSWER]
  Quetzalacoltl
• What Harvard philosopher attacked logical positivism in his paper The Two Dogmas of Empiricism? [ANSWER]
  Quine
• In what film did Ralph Fiennes portray Charles Van Doren? [ANSWER]
  Quiz Show
• What state had George Bowen as its first governor and has Penelope Wensley as its current? [ANSWER]
  Queensland
• What novel by Polish Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz that describes the relationship between Ligia and Marcus Vinicius during the time of Nero takes its title from a question posed to Jesus? [ANSWER]
  Quo Vadis
• Who voiced Spongebob Squarepant's grandfather in the episode "Grandpappy the Pirate?" [ANSWER]
  Dennis Quaid
• The thirtieth Goldberg Variation is titled with what Latin term describing a mixture of playful melodies? [ANSWER]
  Quodlibet
• What monster from Arthurian myth has the head of a snake, the body of a leopard, the butt of a lion, and the feet of a deer? [ANSWER]
  Questing Beast
• In the novel Lolita, Humbert Humbert is imprisoned for the murder of what Dramatist? [ANSWER]
  Clare Quilty

Mystery Round

• Who took advantage of a 1987 furlough from a Massachusetts prison to commit both rape and armed robbery, leading some to attack that state's governor Michael Dukakis for being soft on crime? [ANSWER]
  Willy Horton (Willy Gilligan)
• What doll was created by Mattel in 1964 to serve as a little sister for the more popular Barbie? [ANSWER]
  Skipper Roberts (The Skipper too)
• Which left-handed pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays had an ERA of 0.77 during the 2008 World Series? [ANSWER]
  J.P. Howell (The Millionaire)
• Marion Cotillard won a Best Actress academy award for her portrayal of French singer Edith Piaf in what 2007 film named after Piaf's signature song? [ANSWER]
  La Vie en Rose (And his wife..."Lovey"="La vie")
• Which former Spice Girl has gone on to release solo albums entitled Schizophonic, Passion, and Scream if You Want to Go Faster? [ANSWER]
  Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell (The movie star)
• Isaac Newton and Steven Hawking have both held what academic position established at Cambridge in 1663? [ANSWER]
  Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (The professor...)
• Who became the first African-American to perform at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in January 1955? [ANSWER]
  Marian Anderson (..and Marian)
• Pugnose, suckermouth, and cutlips are all varieties of what small freshwater bait fish? [ANSWER]
  Minnow (The tiny ship)
• Captain Nemo rescues several stranded Confederate soldiers trapped in the South Pacific in what 1874 sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? [ANSWER]
  The Mysterious Island (Here on Gilligan's Isle)
• THEME [ANSWER]
  THEME