Game of 04/13/2020
We continue to play trivia each week online - no prizes, just pride.
Team Name | Game Score | Rank |
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Bitter Wisdom | 56 | 1 |
Yung Pervs | 54 | 2 |
Stanford Quizinn Experiment | 53 | 3 |
Social Masturbation Leads to Chronic Isolation | 50 | 4 |
Trash Can Girls | 47 | 5 |
On the Trophy | 40 | 6 |
Death to Carlos | 38 | 7 |
Franklin's Parents | 36 | 8 |
Round 1 - Grab Bag
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Round 2 - Song/Movie Titles
I will loop a video with a song playing over a movie clip, where the name of the song is the name of the movie.
For each:
I will loop a video with a song playing over a movie clip, where the name of the song is the name of the movie.
For each:
- Name the song/movie title. (1 pt)
- Name the artist performing the song. (1 pt)
Round 3 - Anagrams
All answers in this round are stores, restaurants, or similar establishments.
Use the provided clue to help unscramble the anagram.
Example: Unit No. - they're what a hamburger's all about
All answers in this round are stores, restaurants, or similar establishments.
Use the provided clue to help unscramble the anagram.
Example: Unit No. - they're what a hamburger's all about
- crab tusks - their original logo had exposed nipples
- sorta ugly - we can’t be there right now
- damn colds - founded in 1940 by brothers Richard and Maurice
- road jester - two bells mean there’s a question at checkout
- hoofed owls - they have a store brand called “365 Everyday Value”
- a goblin’s model - there’s one of these dept. stores at the Beverly Center
- Arab cleanup bin - there’s one of these clothing chains at the Beverly Center
- sandpaper sex - fast food place founded in Glendale, CA
- orange devil - since 2013 their slogan has been “we’re all family here”
- Japan shop - no Japanese food, but a folded pizza
Round 4 - The "Pen" Is Mighter
Each answer in this round contains the letters "p-e-n", in that order.
Each answer in this round contains the letters "p-e-n", in that order.
- What is the capital of Denmark?
- What term means the next-to-last item in a series of things?
- Alexander Fleming is credited with discovering what antibiotic?
- Comparing the appearance of and relative sizes of its wheels to British coins, the high wheel bicycle was familiarly known by what name?
- Also Harry and Lloyd’s destination in Dumb and Dumber, what popular Colorado ski resort town has been home to the Winter X-Games since 2002?
- Starring Kurt Russell, the 1982 remake of The Thing was directed by whom?
- As the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, what physicist is known as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb”?
- Shakespeare famously used what type of metric line using feet consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable with the rhythm “da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM”?
- Symbolizing that “love should have no boundaries and should flow unconditionally”, what is the name of Jane Seymour’s jewelry collection?
- What five-member a cappella group, sometimes abbreviated “PTX”, rose to national prominence when they won Season 3 of NBC’s The Sing-Off?
Round 5 - Than The Sword
- What classic video game begins with an old man saying "It's dangerous to go alone" and gifting you a wooden sword?
- Forty years ago, of whom did Dustin Hoffman say, “He has no genitalia and he’s holding a sword”?
- In Disney’s The Sword in the Stone, what is the name of Merlin’s owl?
- In a well-known poem, what creature is killed when a “vorpal blade went snicker-snack”?
- What do the words “Sword”, “Gold” and “Juno” have in common?
- An allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power, what character was seated under a sword suspended by a single hair?
- Which is the only NBA team with a sword depicted in its primary logo?
- The name of what body part comes from the Latin word for “sheath” or “scabbard” of a sword?
- What Japanese martial art makes use of bamboo swords?
- In Game of Thrones, what is the name of Jon Snow’s Valyrian steel sword?