2009_07_15_Pub_Quiz
General Knowledge 1
- Located on the Fox River and featured in the Wayne's World movies, what is the second most populous city in Illinois?
[ANSWER] Aurora, Illionis
- What special ice cream flavor did Ben and Jerry's release to commemorate Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election?
[ANSWER] Yes, Pecan!
- In Dante's Inferno, which mythical Cretan king sits at the entryway to the second circle of Hell judging the damn and assigning their punishments?
[ANSWER] Minos
- Boiling point elevation, osmotic pressure, and freezing point depression are examples of what type of property determined by the number of particles present in a given system rather than the properties of the particles themselves?
[ANSWER] colligative properties
- Which country won the first World Cup soccer championship in 1930?
[ANSWER] Uruguay
- Which British-born architect was responsible for designing the United States Capitol building?
[ANSWER] Benjamin Henry Latrobe
- What 1974 comedy includes a musical number entitled "I'm Tired," performed by "The Teutonic Titwllow," Lili Von Shtupp?
[ANSWER] Blazing Saddles
- Which hip-hop artist won a 2008 Grammy with Kanye West for their single "Good Life" shortly before appearing on Saturday Night Live to inform us that he was on a boat?
[ANSWER] T-Pain
- According to Suetonius, the Roman defeat at what 9 AD battle prompted Emperor Augustus to bang his head against the wall while yelling for his general to "give me back my legions"?
[ANSWER] Battle of Teutoberg Forest
- Norm MacDonald, Britney Spears, and Tatyana Ali were all contestants on what talent competition hosted by Ed McMahon?
[ANSWER] Star Search
Audio Round
Handout Round
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[ANSWER] Emmett Brown (Back to the Future)
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[ANSWER] Seth Brundle (The Fly)
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[ANSWER] Dr. Clayton Forrester (MST3K)
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[ANSWER] Herbert West (Reanimator)
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[ANSWER] Dr. Mephisto (South Park)
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[ANSWER] Dr. Blight (Captain Planet)
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[ANSWER] Dr. Walter Bishop (Fringe)
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[ANSWER] Dr. Thaddeus Venture (The Venture Brothers)
- See handout
[ANSWER] Dr. Sherman Klump (Nutty Professor)
- See handout
[ANSWER] Dr. Arliss Loveless (Wild Wild West)
Theme Round
- In 1947 George VI created what title for Philip Mountbatten before he married the future Queen Elizabeth?
[ANSWER] Duke of Edinburgh
- In organic chemistry, what doubly eponymous reaction uses a Lewis acid to attach an alkyl to an aromatic ring?
[ANSWER] Friedl-Crafts
- In the opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten, what occupation is the title character?
[ANSWER] fisherman
- What product sold by Joseph Enterprises sells terra cotta sculptures with seeds for salvia hispanica?
[ANSWER] Chia
- What fictional private detective's first case was the investigation the death of her best friend, Lilly Kane, in the town of Neptune?
[ANSWER] Veronica Mars
- What novel with protagonist Grady Tripp grew from the Michael Chabon's inability to finish the novel Fountain City?
[ANSWER] Wonder Boys
- In the Magritte painting Time Transfixed, what object is emerging from the room's fireplace?
[ANSWER] Locomotive
- Who represented the newly formed Soviet government during the negotiations for the treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
[ANSWER] Leon Trotsky (born Лeв Давидович Бронштéйн)
- In Basketball, what is the term given to when a player crosses the foul line before the freethrow shot is released?
[ANSWER] lane violation
- What sixteenth century church council held in Italy condemned the Protestant reformation and saw the inauguration of the Tridentine mass?
[ANSWER] Council of Trent
General Knowledge 2
- What term is used in hospitals to refer to an obscure or unlikely diagnosis derived from ordinary symptoms?
[ANSWER] Zebra
- In Act III of Romeo and Juliet, which character informs Juliet in that her cousin Tybalt has been killed?
[ANSWER] The Nurse
- Which American league baseball team's minor league affiliates include the Salt Lake Bees, the Cedar Rapid Kernels, and the Arkansas Travelers?
[ANSWER] The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
- Grapher, Automator, and Dashboard were all new applications included in what Macintosh operating system released in 2005?
[ANSWER] Tiger (ACC: Mac OS X v10.4)
- James Earl Jones won a Tony award for his portrayal of boxer Jack Johnson in what 1970 Howard Sackler play?
[ANSWER] The Great White Hope
- What popular candy was invented in the kitchen of German confectioner Hans Riegel in 1922?
[ANSWER] Gummi Bear
- The video for what U2 song, which appeared on the album Zooropa, was filmed in black and white and included captions such as "Man with electric guitar spinning through 360o" and "Man pulling self up microphone stand"?
[ANSWER] Lemon
- In the Harry Potter novels, what type of creatures are responsible for most of the daily operations at Gringotts Wizarding Bank?
[ANSWER] Goblins
- Which Japanese actor, who used only his first name in most of his credits, portrayed both the wizard Akiro in Conan the Barbarian and Admiral Yamamoto in Pearl Harbor?
[ANSWER] Mako
- What NBC-produced television program hosted by Roger Lodge ran a total of 1300 episodes between 1999 and 2006?
[ANSWER] Blind Date
Mystery Round
- In the Star Trek Universe, what Klingon leader faced off against Captain Kirk on Organia, Captain Sulu in the Azure Nebula, and Curzon Dax at the Korvat Conference?
[ANSWER] Kang
- In what poem does Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae describe the title locale as strewn with poppies that blow between the crosses row on row?
[ANSWER] In Flanders Field (Ned Flanders)
- What author of Walden Two and Beyond Freedom and Dignity helped design pigeon-guided missiles for the US Navy?
[ANSWER] B. F. Skinner (Seymore Skinner)
- What US President born in West Branch, Iowa translated Agricola's Latin mining textbook De re Metallica into English, which is still the authoritative English translation?
[ANSWER] Herbert Hoover (Miss Hoover)
- Whose HBO show "Real Sports" is the only sports show to have won the duPont award for investigative journalism?
[ANSWER] Bryant Gumbel (Barney Gumble)
- What trilogy directed by Satyajit Ray begins with Pather Panchali, about the precarious financial situation of a struggling brahmin family?
[ANSWER] Apu Trilogy (Apu Nasee ... whatever)
- What Presbyterian liberal arts school in the midwest that boasts Walter Mondale and Kofi Annan as alumni takes its name from a Philadelphia shipping magnate?
[ANSWER] Macalester College (Captain Macalester)
- In Eugene O'Neil's The Emperor Jones, what white trader hired Brutus when he first got to the island and later serves as the emperor's lackey?
[ANSWER] Smithers (Waylon Smithers)
- What graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary was killed when a pro-slavery mob stormed the offices of his paper, the Alton Observer?
[ANSWER] Elijah Parish Lovejoy (Reverend Lovejoy)
- MYSTERY!
[ANSWER] Characters on the Simpsons