2009_11_17_Pub_Quiz
General Knowledge 1
- Yesterday was Bloomsday, an annual celebration of what novel first published in its entirety in February 1922?
[ANSWER] Ulysses
- Which rock group, founded by Australian brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, traces its name to a sewing machine owned by their older sister, Margaret?
[ANSWER] AC/DC
- In what Asian capital could one watch the sun set over the Mekong River after visiting the Wat Si Saket temple and the Patuxai Victory Gate?
[ANSWER] Vientiane
- Which Pittsburgh Penguin center won this year's Art Ross trophy for the highest individual scorer in the league as well as the Conn Smythe Trophy for being his the most valuable player for his team?
[ANSWER] Evgeni Malkin (113 points this season!)
- Which Michel Foucault work begins with a description of the violent 1757 execution of the Robert-Francois Damien following the attempted regicide of Louis XV?
[ANSWER] Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la Prison)
- With 214 total episodes produced on two different cable networks, what is the longest running American science fiction television program?
[ANSWER] Stargate SG-1
- Which liberal arts college located in the town of Brunswick was chartered in 1794 by Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams and named after another former governor whose son was a major benefactor?
[ANSWER] Bowdoin
- Which series of LucasArts computer games centers upon the efforts of Guybrush Threepwood to thwart the machinations of the ghost pirate LeChuck?
[ANSWER] Monkey Island
- Audrey Hepburn won her only Academy Award for her portrayal of Princess Ann in what 1953 movie?
[ANSWER] Roman Holiday
- Which gland stimulates metabolism, regulates body growth and development, and gets its name from the Greek word for "shield"?
[ANSWER] Thyroid
Audio Round
General Knowledge
- What painter, confined to bed, used paper cutouts to complete his series "Blue Nudes" and the illustration book Jazz?
[ANSWER] Henri Matisse
- By definition, how many quarks are in a baryon?
[ANSWER] 3
- What Tuscan family's name is associated with the plot to murder Lorenzo and Guliano de Medici in 1478?
[ANSWER] Pazzi
- Sleeping Beauty is an artificial example of what type of DNA sequence first discovered during an investigation of dicentric chromosomes in maize?
[ANSWER] Transposon / Jumping Gene
- Because he had made claims of being a deity, what Spanish explorer's men had to pretend he was alive ("Weekend at Bernie's" style) after his death near the Mississippi river in 1542?
[ANSWER] Hernando de Soto
- Who co-wrote the alternate history novel 1945 with William Fortschen, describing a German plot to disrupt America's nuclear research program?
[ANSWER] Newt Gingrich
- Lord Justice Jacob of the UK High Court ruled that what Proctor and Gamble product is a potato crisp in a 2009 case, overturning a lower court's ruling?
[ANSWER] Pringle's
- At what stadium did Carlos Zambrano pitch a no-hitter against the Houston Astros in 2008?
[ANSWER] Miller Field (because of Hurricane Ike)
- What Keats poem about a shepherd wooed by Cynthia begins "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever?"
[ANSWER] Endymion
- In go, what Japanese phrase describes a sequence of stones with only one available liberty?
[ANSWER] Atari
"Disney's Biggest Hit in 1989"
- What term refers to debris found floating in the water without being thrown in deliberately, such as one might find after a shipwreck?
[ANSWER] Flotsam
- Which German surrealist often included a bird-like alter ego named Loplop in his paintings, as seen in La Foresta Imbalsamata and The Angel of Hearth and Home?
[ANSWER] Max Ernst
- According to the end credits of Animal House which member of Delta House portrayed by Stephen Furst, went on to become a sensitivity trainer in Cleveland?
[ANSWER] Kent "Flounder" Dorfman
- Who represented the NFL in its dog fighting case against Michael Vick in 2007 before serving as senior legal advisor for Barack Obama's presidential campaign?
[ANSWER] Eric Holder
- What word can be used as a noun to describe a bucket used to carry coal as well as a verb meaning "to run with short, hurried steps"?
[ANSWER] Scuttle
- In 1964, a letter from an outraged parent prompted attorney general Robert Kennedy to launch a federal investigation into the alleged obscenity of what song most famously recorded by the Kingsmen?
[ANSWER] Louis, Louis
- Which Christian saint is sometimes thought to have been martyred twice, since the arrows fired into his body by Emperor Diocletian's soldiers were not enough to actually kill him?
[ANSWER] St. Sebastian
- Which waitress and future governor of New York adopted her twin sister's first name in the credits of such pornographic films as Buffay the Vampire Layer, Sex Toy Story 2, and Inspect Her Gadget?
[ANSWER] Ursula Buffay
- What is the largest moon in the solar system with an orbit in opposition to its planet's rotation?
[ANSWER] Triton
- Which sprite was trapped in a "cloven pine" by the witch Sycorax until freed by Prospero?
[ANSWER] Ariel
Mystery Round
- What nickname was given to the olympic event where a squad led by Herb Brooks defeated a squad led by Viktor Tykhonov?
[ANSWER] Miracle on Ice
- What Faulkner short story describes the hunting trip of a boy named Ben trying to track down an animal known as "Old Ben?"
[ANSWER] The Bear (By Fauklner)
- On the TV show Dollhouse, by what codename is Caroline Farrell known?
[ANSWER] Echo (Dollhouse)
- In 2008, Boris Johnson replaced Ken Livingstone as mayor of what city?
[ANSWER] London (CE)
- What one word title is shared by Better than Ezra's first album and Paul Simon's 2006 collaboration with Brian Eno?
[ANSWER] Surprise
- What everyday item appears on the cover of every issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists?
[ANSWER] Clock (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- What Lexington, Virginia school was burned down by Union forces during the Shenandoah Valley campaign in 1864?
[ANSWER] Virginia Military Institute
- Frederic Henry is a volunteer ambulance driver in what 1929 novel?
[ANSWER] Farewell to Arms
- In Weird Al's parody of "Subterranean Homesick Blues," called "Bob," what property do all of the sentences share?
[ANSWER] Palindrome
- MYSTERY
[ANSWER] Haydn Symphonies