Seattlest Trivia: October 24 Wrapup

Round 1: Geography -- Special All Islands Edition
1) What is both the county seat of and the largest town in San Juan County?
Friday Harbor
2) What's the largest city on Vancouver Island?
Victoria
3) Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the two countries on what island?
Hispaniola
4) What island, part of Australia until about 5000 BCE, is the largest in the southern hemisphere?
New Guinea
5) Indonesia's Molucca islands are better known by what name that touts their major export?
the Spice Islands
6) The Cauto River, which empties into the Caribbean, is the longest river in what country?
Cuba
7) Japan's Seikan Tunnel, the longest railroad tunnel in the world, connects Hanshu and what other island?
Hokkaido
8) What member of the Marshall Islands was the site of 23 nuclear and atomic bomb tests between 1946 and 1958?
Bikini Atoll
9) What country is the world's largest producer of vanilla?
Madagascar
10) There once was a man from Nantucket -- which means he was from what state?
Massachusetts

Round 2: Mysteries (hardest category of the night, and the one that stumped Seth)
1) According to RadioTimes magazine, which version of CSI is the most-watched TV show in the world?
CSI: Miami
2) The Mystery Writers of America named their highest award after what pioneering mystery writer?
Edgar Allan Poe
3) In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, what real-life figure treats Sherlock Holmes for cocaine addiction?
Sigmund Freud
4) In the American version of the board game Clue, who is murdered?
Mr. Boddy
5) In the early '70s, TV Guide coined the term "howcatchem," the opposite of "whodunnit," to describe shows featuring what detective?
Columbo
6) Who wrote -- and solved -- The Chinese Orange Mystery, The Greek Coffin Mystery, and The Siamese Twin Mystery?
Ellery Queen STUMPER!
7) What film features Kate Winslet playing British mystery novelist Anne Perry as a young woman?
Heavenly Creatures
8) What hardboiled private eye novel was filmed the second time as Satan Met a Lady?
The Maltese Falcon
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?
Encyclopedia Brown
10) What detective has been played by the Swedish Warner Oland, the Scottish-American Sidney Toler, and Irish-American Ed Begley?
Charlie Chan

Round 3: Speed
1) Who does DC Comics promote as "the fastest man alive"?
The Flash
2) What horse won the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a record time that hasn't been beaten since?
Secretariat
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"?
The Velvet Underground STUMPER!
4) What zippy character was introduced in the 1953 cartoon short "Cat-Tails for Two"?
Speedy Gonzales
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.
constant or celeritas
6) In the American version of the series, what is the name of Speed Racer's car?
Mach Five
7) What did physical chemist Gilbert Lewis call the time it takes for light to travel one centimeter?
a jiffy STUMPER!
8) At the 2000 Olympics, who waved both the Australian and the Aboriginal flags after taking Gold in the women's 400 meter sprint?
Cathy Freeman
9) If you visit the skyscraper Taipei 101, you can ride the world's fastest what?
elevator
10) On October 14, 1947, who broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 aircraft?
Chuck Yeager

Round 4: Candy (picture round)
1) Snickers
2) Mr. Goodbar
3) Jolly Rancher
4) Necco Wafers
5) Cherry Chan
6) Andes Candies
7) Valomilk STUMPER!
8) Sour Patch Kids
9) Junior Mints
10) Heath Bar

Round 5: Breakfast
1) What's the name for an Italian open-faced omelette?
fritatta
2) In 1963, Ocean Spray introduced what juice blend?
Cran-Apple
3) In Kurt Vonnegut's book, a waitress says "breakfast of champions" whenever she serves what?
a martini
4) In 1984, who became the first woman pictured on the front of a Wheaties box?
Mary Lou Retton
5) Three international pancake styles are always available at IHOP. Name two of them.
French, German, Swedish
6) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, how many slices of bacon make up a rasher?
one
7) Post Cereal's Country Squares inspired Kellogg's to invent what product?
Pop-Tarts
8) In the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, what two things does Holly Golightly eat for breakfast at Tiffany's?
coffee and a danish
9) What kind of cereal is flavored to make Maypo?
oatmeal
10) What country singer, who had a #1 hit with "Big Bad John," founded a pork sausage company in 1969?
Jimmy Dean

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"?
The Lusty Lady
2) What's the name of The Stranger's amateur porn film festival?
Hump!
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?
The Museum of History and Industry
4) When it opened, Seattle's first brothel, the Illahee, was staffed entirely by women of what ethnicity?
Native American
5) What Seattle native's striptease routines inspired H.L. Mencken to coin the word "ecdysiast"?
Gypsy Rose Lee
6) According to the Underground Tour, prostitutes in the 1890s commonly listed what as their profession?
seamstress
7) When it opened in 1986, what Seattle business was called Marzi Tarts?
The Erotic Bakery
8) Between 1991 and 1999, every letter to advice columnist Dan Savage started with what greeting?
Hey, Faggot
9) Last year, Kenneth Pinyan died of a perforated colon after having sex with a horse in what city?
Enumclaw
10) In what became known as Strippergate, the owners' of Rick's strip club allegedly paid bribes to get permission to build what?
parking spaces

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?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2) Director Tinto Brass and screenwriter Gore Vidal disavowed their participation in what 1979 epic?
Caligula
3) What 1986 drama, named after part of Nicaragua, is based on a 1982 book by Paul Theroux?
The Mosquito Coast
4) Choreographer Twyla Tharp was behind the fancy footwork in several dance routines in what 1984 Cold War drama?
White Nights
5) What 1984 sequel tells the story of an interplanetary mission on the Alexei Leonov?
2010: The Odyssey Continues
6) What 1981 fantasy features three of the director's children in minor roles, including his 22-year-old daughter in a sex scene?
Excalibur
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.
The Madness of King George
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"?
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
9) What 1989 film is director Peter Greenaway's greatest box office success?
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
10) What actor or actress do all 9 of these movies have in common?
Helen Mirren

Round 8: Ghosts (picture round)
1) Casper
2) Spooky, the Tuff Little Ghost
3) Banquo
4) Nearly Headless Nick
5) Sadako (STUMPER! -- but we gave .5 points for Samara)
6) Jacob Marley
7) Clyde or Pokey
8) Boo Berry
9) Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit
10) Madame Leota STUMPER!