Game of 10/05/2020
We continue to play trivia each week online - no prizes, just pride. Here are the results from this week's game.
Team Name | Game Score | Rank |
---|---|---|
Yung Pervs | 39 | 1 |
Social Masturbation Leads to Chronic Isolation | 38 | 2 |
Trash Can Girls | 38 | 2 |
On the Trophy | 34 | 4 |
Tickin Time Bags | 29 | 5 |
Bitter Wisdom | 29 | 5 |
Round 1 - Grab Bag
- In what city did the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occur?
- In what sport would rikishi wear mawashi?
- Who did Jimmy Carter defeat to become President?
- Ewoks are found on the forest moon of what planet?
- In the realm of standardized testing, what does "SAT" stand for?
- What Ernest Hemingway novel depicts the lives of rebels during the Spanish Civil War?
- The Hugo Award is given annually for recognition of excellence in what field?
- What Swiss company formerly known as Richterich & Compagnie Laufen was renamed with a shorter name in 1967?
- What is the name of the lifestyle website started by Kourtney Kardashian?
- What is the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature?
Round 2 - Movie Title Drops
I give you a year and a line or lines from a film. You guess the name of the film that fills in the blank.
I give you a year and a line or lines from a film. You guess the name of the film that fills in the blank.
- 1985: “But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, _____.”
- 2006: “Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call _____.”
- 2003: “If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that _____ is all around.”
- 1974: “Forget it, Jake. It's _____.”
- 2005: “Tell you what, we could a had a good life together, fuckin' real good life. Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis. So what we got now is _____.”
- 1987: “Are those... live rounds? / Seven-six-two millimeter. _____.”
- 1998: “Someday we might look back on this and decide that _____ was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, shitty mess.”
- 1997: “l'd like to take his... his _____. Yes. Now, if you'll excuse me, l have to use the little boy's wee-wee room.”
- 1995: “I was wrong about Elton, I was wrong about Christian, now Josh hated me. It all boiled down to one inevitable conclusion: I was just totally _____.”
- 2000: “People say that it can't work, black and white. Here, we make it work every day. We have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always, we _____.”
- 2003: “I am _____. My will be done.”
- 2007: “Hey, Pam, remember when I said this car was _____? Well, that wasn't a lie. This car is a hundred percent _____. Only to get the benefit of it, honey, you REALLY need to be sitting in my seat.”
- 2011: / “What’re your chances? What’re your odds?” / “I dunno. I mean I looked it up and it said ____ but that’s like, the internet, so…” / “It’s not that bad! That’s better than I thought.”
- 1992: “Tell them to be patient and ask death for speed; for they are all there but one - I, Chingachgook - _____.”
- 1959: “Syncopated, does that mean you play that very fast music, uh, jazz?” / “Yeah, real hot!” / “Oh, well I guess ______. I personally prefer classical music.”
Round 3 - Bird is the Word
- What blonde actress starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie?
- What type of bird is depicted on Canadian coinage?
- In Greek mythology, which monster had the head of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of a bird?
- In golf, the name of what bird is used to indicate the hole score of 3 under par?
- What type of bird is considered sacred in South American culture (especially Peru)?
- Useful as fertilizer, what is the excrement of seabirds and bats called?
- Who were the rivals of the T-Birds in the movie Grease?
- What well-known band emerged from a renaming of the New Yardbirds?
- Who played Boo Radley in 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird?
- What number did Larry Bird and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar both wear?
Round 4 - Dead as a Dodo
- What country’s national flag features an eagle and a snake?
- What recently released Netflix show features a character from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
- What English nursery rhyme contains the lines “…a pocketful of rye / four and 20 blackbirds / baked in a pie.” (Hint: It’s also the first line)
- The largest city in Turkey is located on an isthmus with the Sea of Marmara to the south and what body of water to the north?
- In Harry Potter series, what item of Rowena Ravenclaw’s did Voldemort turn into a horcrux?
- What ‘60s TV family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?
- What Ancient Egyptian god had the head of a falcon and was the god of kingship and of the sky?
- In NBC’s iconic peacock logo, there are six colors. What color is farthest to the right?
- Which Swiss artist, born in 1879, painted such works as Landscape with Bluebirds, Falling Bird, Bird Garden, The Twittering Machine, Cat and Bird, Waterbirds, and Blue-Bird-Pumpkin?
- By the end of the 12 Days of Christmas, how many birds in total had “my true love [given] to me”?