Trivia from July

Hey! Trivia was fun last week. I wrote my questions at the last minute, but I ended up really liking a lot of these questions; so even though only a few teams showed up to play, it was still a fun night. Most of the answers are Google-able, so I’ll just post the questions below. If you’re reallllly wondering about an answer, post in the comments and I’ll help ya out!

By the way, Round 4 was a “picture round”, where they had to name some movies and stuff.  For that, I mostly took screenshots from the awesome Name-That-Film Flickr group.

Remember: Trivia is always the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Hopvine! It’s fun!

Click below to read the questions…

Round 1

• Which of these bands didn’t play at the first Lollapalooza? Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Butthole Surfers, Motorhead, Violent Femmes
• Give an example of a “spoonerism”
• Name the two prime numbers that are below and above 67
• Which president was the “Democratic donkey” first used to represent, or which cartoonist popularized the association?
• Who was it that “did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels”?
• Name the 2002 dark comedy and box-office bomb starring Edward Norton, Robin Williams and Jon Stewart.
• What’s the title of the Harry Potter book with the highest page count?
• In 1965, William Shatner starred in Incubus, a horror film where all the dialog was spoken in what unusual language?
• John Coltrane’s Giant Steps  was released, the Olympics were held in Rome, and Gary Powers’ U2 spy plane was shot down over Russia… what year was it?
• Which movie has the final lines “Take care, you two. May the Force be with you.”

Round 2

• Name 2 of the 4 US states that are also commonwealths
• The peace symbol was based on semaphores for which two letters?
• Plunge, Cataract, Punchbowl and Cascade are different types of…?
• What’s the formula for deciding which day is Easter?
• In what year was the first Super Bowl, the Summer of Love, and the birth of the Seattle SuperSonics?
• Name the seven dwarves from Snow White
• What was the name of the Democratic VP nominee who was kicked off the ticket when it was discovered that he’d had shock therapy?
• If you take the seven highest peaks of the seven continents, which continent has shortest tallest mountain?
• In which movie did air from a subway grating blow Marilyn Monroe’s dress around?
• In what 1999 movie did Alanis Morissette play God?

Round 3

• The first Unabomber explosion, the acceptance of blacks into the Mormon Church, Pope John Paul II becomes the first Polish Pope, and The Police release their first album. What year?
• In the Pixar movie WALL-E, what 1969 musical does WALL-E watch over and over again?
• Which 1916 novel has the final line: “Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
• Which spelling of ‘bated’ is correct: “He is waiting for the lottery results with bated breath”. Baited or bated?
• Which of the following did Mel Blanc NOT provide the voice for?
• The Kingdome got demolished, Charles Schultz stopped drawing Peanuts, and Elian Gonzalez returned to Cuba
• Which is the seventh planet from the sun?
• Since 1960, which two sitting Presidents did not debate their main opponents?
• What days are the summer and winter solstice this year?
• The tallest year-round waterfall in the US is Yosemite Falls. The next-tallest is in Oregon… what’s its name?

Round 5

• Name the two NASA Mars landers that were launched in 2003 and are still operating on the surface.
• In what book were there Seven Commandments, including “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” and “All animals are equal”?
• Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, and Robin’s secret identity was ….
• Which gunfighter met his maker in an early episode of the TV show Deadwood?
• Which city does Ferris Bueller’s Day Off take place in?
• Correctly name 5 of these 7 wedding anniversary gifts: 1st, 5th, 10th, 20th, 25th, 50th, 75th (two points for getting them all!)
• How many times has Elizabeth Taylor been married?
• In which movie does Robert Mitchum have the words LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles?
• Seattle hosted the World’s Fair, the first James Bond film premiered, and the Beatles released their first single… what year was it?
• There are four people who have won two Nobel Prizes. Name one of them. (Name two for two points!)

Round 6

• What particle do scientists hope to discover when the Large Hadron Collider starts operating later this summer?
• Depending on which biologist you ask, there are either 5 or 6 biological kingdoms: name 4 of them
• Which of the following chemicals is used by ants for defense: formic acid, acetic acid, ethylene glycol or glycine?
• Name as many of the 7 actors who were “The Magnificent Seven” as you can. The team with the highest score gets the point, and incorrect names count against correct names…
• Which Democratic presidential candidate did Arthur Bremer shoot?
• What’s the origin of the phrase “Beyond the pale”?
• Which animated movie has the line: “More people will come if they think we have punch and pie.”
• Name the Dr. Seuss book that has these lines: “You can make a quick trick chick stack. You can make a quick trick clock stack.”
• Which 1925 novel has the final line: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
• Sun Yat-Sen became the first president of the Republic of China, Roald Amudsen reached the South Pole and a fire killed 145 in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NYC. What year was it?