Burning Questions: Last Night's Trivia Quiz

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event.

Round 1: Geography
1) What's the largest city in Pierce County, Washington?
2) What is the longest mountain range in the world?
3) What is the largest county in Washington State, by area?
4) Name one of the four Mexican states that border Texas.
5) Stewart, Portland, Rangitoto, and North are islands in which island nation?
6) In 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became the first known person to swim across what body of water?
7) What's the smallest US city with a population greater than 1,000,000 people?
8) What country is the world's largest exporter of rice?
9) Mt. Elbrus, the tallest mountain in Europe, is in what country?
10) The longest scheduled nonstop flight from Sea-Tac lands in what city?

Round 2: Recipes
1) From the 1930s through the '90s, what recipe was featured on the back of Ritz Cracker boxes?
2) What's the #1 ingredient in Cracker Jack, by weight?
3) What drink is made of chocolate syrup, milk, and seltzer water?
4) In 1997, the Sea Turtle Survival League asked that a recipe for cooking Green Sea Turtle be removed from what cookbook?
5) Theodora Smafield's No-Knead Water-Rising Twists was the first recipe to win what contest?
6) Which US First Lady said her recipe for Pedernales River chili was "almost as popular as the government pamphlet on the care and feeding of children"?
7) Bananas, tofu, and flax seed are some vegan baking replacements for what ingredient?
8) In response to an urban legend, what department store created a chocolate chip cookie recipe to give away for free?
9) Some people believe this 1970 cookbook was written by the CIA, who included deliberate errors intended to injure would-be terrorists.
10) Melba toast and peach melba were named after Nellie Melba. What was her occupation?

Round 3: Beauty
1) What branch of philosophy deals with the nature of beauty, especially as it applies to the arts?
2) Who wrote the book Black Beauty?
3) In the 1959 Disney film, what is Sleeping Beauty's real name?
4) Esquire magazine declared Scarlett Johansson the sexiest woman alive in 2006. Who won that honor in 2005?
5) Helen of Troy was the daughter of which Greek deity?
6) Who's appeared on the cover of Playboy 11 times, more than anyone else?
7) In 1854, who organized the first modern beauty pageant?
8) In 1996, who became the first (and so far only) African American selected as People's sexiest man alive?
9) The first line of "America the Beautiful" is "Oh beautiful, for spacious skies." What's the first line of any other verse?
10) Who wrote the 1991 feminist book The Beauty Myth?

Round 4: The wealthy (picture round)

Round 5: Office Supplies
1) In the movie Office Space, what brand is Milton's beloved red stapler?
2) In Swedish offices, what common item is known as a gem?
3) Because of its innovative design, the Herman Miller Aeron office chair was added to the permanent collection of what museum?
4) What two words did Arnold Neustadter combine to come up with the name "Rolodex"?
5) What's the British term for binder clip?
6) What kind of book was Art Fry using when he got the idea for Post-it notes?
7) What's the present-day name of the company founded in 1906 as the Haloid Company?
8) What company's framed motivational artwork is parodied by Despair, Inc.'s Demotivators?
9) Name three of the four programs contained in the first version of Microsoft Office. (Office 1.0 for Mac) (Don't need version numbers)
10) What retailer is known as Bureau en Gros in its Quebec locations?

Round 6: J.C.
Every answer this round is a person with the initials J.C.

1) Who loved Chachi?
2) Who represented Abner Louima, Todd Bridges, Tupac Shakur, and Reginald Denny in various trials?
3) Who was nominated for Best Actress Oscars for Darling, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and Afterglow?
4) In a 1966 Time magazine cover story, who was dubbed "Our Lady of the Ladle"?
5) What short story writer, a regular New Yorker contributer, was mentioned in a Seinfeld episode title?
6) Who played Danny Zuko in Grease on Broadway, but had to settle for playing Kenickie in the movie?
7) What Seattle native played "Amazing Grace" and "Chelsea Morning" at Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration?
8) What NBC News correspondent--and future news anchor--was arrested at the 1964 Republican National Convention?
9) Who cowrote the song "Ring of Fire" with Merle Kilgore, which was later performed by Johnny Cash?
10) What actor made his US movie debut in 1980's The Big Brawl?

Round 7: Movies
1) What 2001 blockbuster was nominated for 4 Oscars, winning 1, and for 6 Razzie awards, losing all 6?
2) What 2004 comedy centers around a romance between a marine veterinarian and someone with anterograde amnesia?
3) What 2000 historical drama, based on a 1905 novel, did Roger Ebert call "one of the saddest stories ever told about the traps that society sets for women"?
4) What 1979 Steven Spielberg film featured an appearance by legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune?
5) Jackie Mason replaced Rodney Dangerfield in the lead role for what 1988 sequel?
6) What 1995 comedy had a special "Holy Schnike" edition released on DVD in 2005?
7) What 1992 caper was director Phil Alden Robinson's next film after Field of Dreams?
8) What 1984 sequel kicks off with a sequence in Club Obi Wan?
9) What 1997 black comedy features a hitman in need of shakabuku?
10) What actor or actress appeared in all nine of these movies?

Round 8: Skylines (picture round)