Last night at the Old Pequliar, eight teams competed for cash at Seattlest's debut quiz. With Newcastle's doubling of the prize pool, that left $80 to be divvied among the top three teams. The results:

1) Friendship Is a Weapon: 66 points, won $60
2) Faust: 62 points, won $15
3) Fighting Amsih: 53 points, won $5
4) Pasargada: 51 points
5) The Newbies: 48 points
6) Team Awesome: 45 points
7) Mixology: 39 points
8) Walrus: 29 points, won swag (a Jagermeister hat and t-shirt and some other t-shirt)

And here's the complete Q&A part of the quiz. Rounds 4 and 8 are picture rounds, and we don't have 'em uploaded. Questions that stumped everyone are in bold.

Round 1: Geography
1) Which US state shares the longest border with Mexico?
2) What’s the largest island in the world?
3) What is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
4) As of 2005, what country is ranked #1 on the United Nations’ Human Development Index?
5) What mountain’s peak is the tallest point in British Columbia?
6) What’s the longest river in Japan?
7) If you start in Singapore and drive north on the Johor-Singapore Causeway, which country will you arrive in?
8) Russia is the largest country formed out of the breakup of the Soviet Union. What’s the second-largest?
9) What are the Canadian islands in the San Juan Archipelago called?
10) What county are Chehalis and Centralia in?

Round 2: Seattle
1) Who is Seattle’s current mayor?
2) How long does it take the restaurant at the top of the Space Needle to complete 1 revolution?
3) Who designed the Experience Music Project?
4) What was radio station KEXP’s call sign before it became KEXP?
5) On July 20, 1994, Seattle experienced its record high temperature. Within 2 degrees Fahrenheit, how hot was it?
6) Who was the original host of Almost Live?
7) What is Seattle’s official flower?
8) Which local author wrote The Stranger Beside Me, about her relationship with Ted Bundy?
9) The Lusty Lady peep show downtown is one of two Lusty Ladies in the country. In what city can you find its sister club?
10) What business started at 1912 Pike Place in 1971, and still has a store there today?

Round 3: Famous Duos
1) Many people believe this sandwich, very popular with kids, was invented during WWII, but there are recipes in cookbooks that date back to 1931.
2) Most Beatles songs are credited to what songwriting duo?
3) What Chicago movie critics were the original co-hosts of the PBS movie review show Sneak Previews?
4) Who are the fez-wearing, hut-owning brothers-and-or-gay-lovers featured in Matt Groening’s comic strip Life in Hell?
5) Who are the young male costars of Highlights for Children’s long-running series that teaches children good manners and social skills?
6) These Italian designers ended their romantic relationship last year, but as business partners they continue to create “molto sexy” fashions popular in Hollywood.
7) According to Greek mythology, these brothers of Helen of Troy are the twins represented by the constellation Gemini.
8) Who are the creative team behind legendary alterna-comic Love and Rockets?
9) What outlaw couple inspired a 1967 pop song by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigette Bardot, and a 1967 film directed by Arthur Penn?
10) Perhaps the most famous twin cities in America, these are the two largest cities in Minnesota.

Round 5: Time
1) Who wrote the book A Brief History of Time?
2) In 1967, the General Conference on Weights and Measures redefined the second based on the properties of what element?
3) Who wrote and originally performed the song “Time in a Bottle”?
4) On what day of the year does the US government’s fiscal calendar begin?
5) What present-day month was originally called Sextilis on the Roman calendar?
6) In their book Generations, what name do William Strauss and Neil Howe use for people born from 1925 to 1942 -- the generation that comes after the G.I. generation and before the Baby Boomers?
7) What time signature are waltzes, minuets, and scherzos in? (the number, like 1 over 1)
8) What unit of measurement, common in British and Australian English, is equal to two weeks?
9) It’s 1985. You order a pizza from Domino’s. How long do they have to deliver it to you before you get it for free?
10) In the movie Back to the Future, what gizmo does Doc Brown invent that makes time travel possible?

Round 6: Vice
1) What drug is sometimes called brown, scag, dust, junk, or horse?
2) Which constitutional amendment established Prohibition in the United States? Extra point: which amendment repealed Prohibition? (Looking for the number -- 1st, 2nd, etc.)
3) In 1990, San Luis Obispo, California, became the first city in the world to ban what activity in all public buildings, including bars and restaurants?
4) Bourbon whiskey must be produced from a sour mash made up of at least 51% of what grain?
5) What’s the primary chemical compound in marijuana that gets you high? (1 point for the abbreviation, bonus point for the whole word.)
6) A “lot lizard” is a prostitute who primarily services what kind of customer?
7) What kind of poker is played at the main event of the World Series of Poker?
8) You’re in Las Vegas. You’d like to hire a prostitute. There’s a copy of the yellow pages in your hotel room. What category do you look under to find one?
9) In this confidence game disguised as a card game, suckers try to follow the queen while a dealer shuffles three cards in front of them.
10) Known as “Miss Spontaneous Combustion,” what stripper gained extra notoriety for her affair with the governor of Louisiana?

Round 7: Movies
1) The title of this rich girl/poor guy romance was taken from a 1981 song by the Psychedelic Furs, which was re-recorded for the soundtrack.
2) Because it was featured in this comedy, the Beatles’ version of “Twist and Shout” hit #23 on the US pop charts over 20 years after it was first recorded.
3) Arguably the most memorable scene in this 1986 Wes Craven film features an old woman being murdered by a basketball thrown at her head.
4) Fans of the book this 1987 film was based on complained that a lot of the really good stuff was left out—like the consensual brother/sister incest.
5) Previews for this 1991 comedy claimed Saddam Hussein played himself, but the Iraqi dictator was actually played by Jerry Haleva.
6) Hijinks ensue in this 1997 comedy when a luggage mixup entangles a mob hitman with a med student, his girlfriend, and her parents.
7) This 1999 comedy, the most successful movie of Adam Sandler’s career, grossed $234 million worldwide.
8) This cult comedy, released in 2000, features aliens, pudding, breast-enhancing necklaces, and an apocalyptic Rubik’s cube.
9) The screenwriter wasn’t happy with this 1992 comedy/horror movie, so he turned the premise into a critically acclaimed TV series that ran for 7 seasons.
10) Which actor or actress do the previous nine movies have in common?

Answers:

Round 1 (average score: 3.5 points)
1) Texas
2) Greenland
3) Abu Dhabi
4) Norway
5) Mount Fairweather
6) Shinano River (367km long)
7) Malaysia
8) Kazakhstan
9) The Gulf Islands
10) Lewis County

Round 2 (average: 7.125)
1) Greg Nickels
2) 1 hour
3) Frank Gehry
4) KCMU
5) 100 degrees (98-102 OK)
6) Ross Shafer
7) the dahlia
8) Ann Rule
9) San Francisco
10) Starbucks

Round 3 (average: 7.625)
1) peanut butter and jelly
2) Lennon/McCartney
3) Siskel and Ebert
4) Akbar and Jeff
5) Goofus and Gallant
6) Dolce and Gabbana
7) Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces)
8) Los Bros Hernandez
9) Bonnie and Clyde
10) Minneapolis-St. Paul

Round 5 (average: 6.5)
1) Stephen Hawking
2) cesium
3) Jim Croce
4) October 1
5) August
6) the Silent generation
7) 3/4 time
8) the fortnight
9) 30 minutes
10) the flux capacitor

Round 6 (average: 8)
1) heroin
2) 18th, 21st
3) smoking
4) corn
5) THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol
6) truckers or truck drivers
7) no-limit Texas hold’em
8) entertainers
9) three card Monte
10) Blaze Starr

Round 7 (average: 5.625)
1) Pretty in Pink
2) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
3) Deadly Friend
4) Flowers in the Attic
5) Hot Shots!
6) 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
7) Big Daddy
8) Dude, Where’s My Car?
9) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
10) Kristy Swanson

Congrats to the winners. Seattlest Seth will be asking the questions next week -- don't miss it (and be sure to bone up on your sports knowledge).