Last Night's Quiz: All Questions, No Answers

Answers will be forthcoming this afternoon, along with final standings and any other information we feel like we can cram into a post. In the meantime, entertain yourself with the questions from last night's quiz at the Old Pequliar:

Round 1: Geography
1) What is the busiest airport in Europe, measured by passenger traffic?
2) What glacier created Lake Washington, Puget Sound, and Green Lake?
3) What country is home to the tallest skyscraper in the southern hemisphere?
4) The Humboldt ocean current runs parallel to the coast of which continent?
5) The site of the ancient Native American city Cahokia is in what state?
6) What lake was briefly classified as the US's sixth Great Lake for a couple of weeks in March, 1998?
7) What country declared its independence from China on July 11, 1921?
8) What country is the world's leading producer of olive oil?
9) What lake was formed by the Grand Coulee Dam?
10) What is the busiest airport in Africa, measured by passenger traffic?

Round 2: Failed Presidential Candidates
1) Which Saturday Night Live guest host played Willy Wonka's accountant brother Glen in a skit?
2) Eugene V. Debs ran for president five times between 1904 and 1920 as the nominee for which political party?
3) Who received about 6 million votes in the 1980 presidential election?
4) Who wrote the book Baby and Child Care?
5) What newspaper printed the famously incorrect headline "Dewey Defeats Truman"?
6) When Progressive Party candidate "Fighting Bob" LaFollette ran for president in 1924, he won 13 Electoral College votes from which state?
7) Who fell off the stage while campaigning during a pancake-flipping contest?
8) A famous campaign commercial juxtaposed a young girl with nuclear armageddon to imply that which candidate was too dangerous to elect?
9) In 1984, Ross Perot bought an original copy of which historic political document?
10) What 1976 movie was partly inspired by Arthur Bremer's diary about his quest to assassinate presidential candidate George Wallace?

Round 3: Better Known As...
I'll name an alternate name for someone or something, you tell me its more famous name.

1) Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor
2) fluoxetine hydrochloride
3) Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
4) The Battle of Pittsburg Landing
5) Trimountaine
6) The Leather Girls and The Mankillers
7) Roshambo
8) The Cynic's Word Book
9) Shoeshine Boy
10) Elizabeth Short

Round 4: Awards (picture round)

Round 5: Blood
1) What protein makes red blood cells appear red when exposed to oxygen?
2) What Catholic doctrine holds that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are converted into the body and blood of Christ?
3) The Bloods street gang formed in the early '70s in what city?
4) "The Bloodhound Gang" was a segment on what children's television show?
5) The ancient Greek physician Galen proved that arteries were full of blood instead of what other substance?
6) Throne of Blood is Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
7) According to Greek mythology, what kind of flower grew from each drop of Adonis' blood?
8) In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, what's actually swirling down the drain at the end of the shower scene to represent Marion Crane's blood?
9) To spare themselves from the tenth plague, death of their firstborn, Jews in biblical Egypt marked their doorsteps with blood from what kind of animal?
10) In humans, what type of blood vessel links capillaries to veins?

Round 6: Mars
1) What spacecraft took the first photographs of Mars' surface in 1965, proving that the planet's fabled canals were just optical illusions?
2) Which god was the Greek equivalent of Mars?
3) What candy bar is the closest US equivalent to the European Mars Bar?
4) What David Bowie album introduced his song "Life on Mars?"
5) Introducing the character John Carter, what is the first title in Edgar Rice Burroughs' series of Martian novels?
6) Who plays Mars Blackmon in the film She's Gotta Have It and several classic Nike commercials?
7) What is the full title of the Mars movement in Gustav Holst's suite The Planets?
8) When the third season of Veronica Mars debuts on Oct. 3, what show will be its lead-in?
9) In Looney Tunes cartoons, why does Marvin the Martian want to blow up Earth with his lludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
10) What are the names of the two Mars Exploration Rovers that landed on the planet in 2004?

Round 7: Movies
1) This 2003 children's film, based on a book that's only 1623 words long, includes a cameo by Paris Hilton.
2) This 1996 action/horror film inspired two sequels, subtitled Texas Blood Money and The Hangman's Daughter.
3) The release of this 1986 Space Shuttle-themed comedy-suspense film was delayed for months because of the Challenger disaster.
4) This 1988 Ivan Reitman comedy almost starred Hulk Hogan and Christopher Lloyd, instead of two much bigger stars, as long-lost brothers.
5) Subtitled A Saga of the Year 3000, this 2000 science-fiction film is widely considered one of the worst movies ever made.
6) In this 2003 film, a bohemian American teenager discovers that she's the daughter of an aristocratic British politician.
7) This 1983 movie is the only film directed by John Carpenter that's based on a Stephen King novel.
8) Janet Maslin of the New York Times compared this 1985 coming-of-age comedy to Norman Rockwell's version of Porky's.
9) Mission Impossible: 3 will be the second DVD to have an audio commentary track featuring Tom Cruise. What 1996 film's special edition DVD was the first?
10) What actor or actress do all 9 of these movies have in common?

Round 8:Album covers (picture)

Photo by Dan Gonsiorowski.