Seattlest Trivia: Last Night's Quiz (10/24)
A record-setting 20 teams competed in Seattlest trivia at the Old Pequilar last night. The winning team scored 64.5 points (out of 80) and toook home $150. We'll post complete results this afternoon.
Want to give it a whirl? Here are the 60 regular questions. Look for the answers later, too.
Round 1: Geography -- Special All Islands Edition
1) What is both the county seat of and the largest town in San Juan County?
2) What's the largest city on Vancouver Island?
3) Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the two countries on what island?
4) What island, part of Australia until about 5000 BCE, is the largest in the southern hemisphere?
5) Indonesia's Molucca islands are better known by what name that touts their major export?
6) The Cauto River, which empties into the Caribbean, is the longest river in what country?
7) Japan's Seikan Tunnel, the longest railroad tunnel in the world, connects Hanshu and what other island?
8) What member of the Marshall Islands was the site of 23 nuclear and atomic bomb tests between 1946 and 1958?
9) What country is the world's largest producer of vanilla?
10) There once was a man from Nantucket -- which means he was from what state?
Round 2: Mysteries
1) According to RadioTimes magazine, which version of CSI is the most-watched TV show in the world?
2) The Mystery Writers of America named their highest award after what pioneering mystery writer?
3) In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, what real-life figure treats Sherlock Holmes for cocaine addiction?
4) In the American version of the board game Clue, who is murdered?
5) In the early '70s, TV Guide coined the term "howcatchem," the opposite of "whodunnit," to describe shows featuring what detective?
6) Who wrote -- and solved -- The Chinese Orange Mystery, The Greek Coffin Mystery, and The Siamese Twin Mystery?
7) What film features Kate Winslet playing British mystery novelist Anne Perry as a young woman?
8) What hardboiled private eye novel was filmed the second time as Satan Met a Lady?
9) Who is responsible for the low crime rate in Idaville, Florida, cracking the Case of the Civil War Sword, the Case of the Knife in the Watermelon, and the Case of the Champion Egg Spinner, among others?
10) What detective has been played by the Swedish Warner Oland, the Scottish-American Sidney Toler, and Irish-American Ed Begley?
Round 3: Speed
1) Who does DC Comics promote as "the fastest man alive"?
2) What horse won the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a record time that hasn't been beaten since?
3) What amphetamine-fueled band sang a song with the lyrics "Watch that speed freak, watch that speed freak, yeah, we're gonna go and make it every week"?
4) What zippy character was introduced in the 1953 cartoon short "Cat-Tails for Two"?
5) In the equation e=mc2, c represents the speed of light in vacuum. Name one of the two words that c is believed to stand for.
6) In the American version of the series, what is the name of Speed Racer's car?
7) What did physical chemist Gilbert Lewis call the time it takes for light to travel one centimeter?
8) At the 2000 Olympics, who waved both the Australian and the Aboriginal flags after taking Gold in the women's 400 meter sprint?
9) If you visit the skyscraper Taipei 101, you can ride the world's fastest what?
10) On October 14, 1947, who broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 aircraft?
Round 5: Breakfast
1) What's the name for an Italian open-faced omelette?
2) In 1963, Ocean Spray introduced what juice blend?
3) In Kurt Vonnegut's book, a waitress says "breakfast of champions" whenever she serves what?
4) In 1984, who became the first woman pictured on the front of a Wheaties box?
5) Three international pancake styles are always available at IHOP. Name two of them.
6) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, how many slices of bacon make up a rasher?
7) Post Cereal's Country Squares inspired Kellogg's to invent what product?
8) In the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, what two things does Holly Golightly eat for breakfast at Tiffany's?
9) What kind of cereal is flavored to make Maypo?
10) What country singer, who had a #1 hit with "Big Bad John," founded a pork sausage company in 1969?
Round 6: Sexy Sexy Seattle
1) In 1991, what business greeted the new Seattle Art Museum with this message: "Once you've seen their nudes, come in and see ours"?
2) What's the name of The Stranger's amateur porn film festival?
3) The blue flame from the Washington Energy building, widely believed to resemble a 26-foot tall blue-and-white neon vagina, can now be found where?
4) When it opened, Seattle's first brothel, the Illahee, was staffed entirely by women of what ethnicity?
5) What Seattle native's striptease routines inspired H.L. Mencken to coin the word "ecdysiast"?
6) According to the Underground Tour, prostitutes in the 1890s commonly listed what as their profession?
7) When it opened in 1986, what Seattle business was called Marzi Tarts?
8) Between 1991 and 1999, every letter to advice columnist Dan Savage started with what greeting?
9) Last year, Kenneth Pinyan died of a perforated colon after having sex with a horse in what city?
10) In what became known as Strippergate, the owners' of Rick's allegedly paid bribes to get permission to build what?
Round 7: Movies
1) In 2005, what comedy was finally adapted into a film after having been a radio show, a series of books, a tv show, a text adventure, and a comic book?
2) Director Tinto Brass and screenwriter Gore Vidal disavowed their participation in what 1979 epic?
3) What 1986 drama, named after part of Nicaragua, is based on a 1982 book by Paul Theroux?
4) Choreographer Twyla Tharp was behind the fancy footwork in several dance routines in what 1984 Cold War drama?
5) What 1984 sequel tells the story of an interplanetary mission on the Alexei Leonov?
6) What 1981 fantasy features three of the director's children in minor roles, including his 22-year-old daughter in a sex scene?
7) According to rumor, the title of this 1994 film was changed from the play it was based on because audiences might think it was a sequel.
8) After the Columbine massacre, one word in the title of what 1999 high school comedy was changed to get rid of the word "killing"?
9) What 1989 film is director Peter Greenaway's greatest box office success?
10) What actor or actress do all 9 of these movies have in common?
