Something Appealing, Something Appalling: Last Night's Trivia
Best thing we learned at last night's quiz: Gabriel Garcia Marquez looks like "Agatha Christie on a bad day."
The Old Pequliar's own version of Ken Jennings, Hüsker Don't, returned to the playing field last night and promptly (well, in two hours) won by 7 points over Who'll Stop the Crane? Seattlest is currently in negotiations to produce Win Hüsker Don't's Money -- stay tuned.
Oh, and where are the video games? Round 8, people, round 8. "Identify the arcade game from a screenshot" inspired 3 perfect rounds.
Final standings:
1) Hüsker Don't, 67 -- $130!
2) Who'll Stop the Crane?, 60 -- $35!
3) We Could Trap a Bear, 54 -- $15!
4) (tie) Too Uninspired to Come Up with a Team Name and Brit Brit's Panties, 53
6) (tie) Apocalypto Now and Kosher Magic, 51
8) Bubu Lubu, 47
9) (tie) Cool Whip and Great Space Coaster, 46
11) Greer's Not Here, 41
12) Piranha Farm, 40
13) Four-Foot Rule, 39
14) PDC, 33
15) Sexual Inintendos, 32
16) The Deuce, 31
17) LBB, 30
18) Lost Buford, 27 -- swag!
Round 1: Geography
1) The mouth of the Mekong River is in what country? Vietnam
2) What's the largest lake in the United States that isn't one of the Great Lakes? Great Salt Lake
3) Which Canadian province or territory contains Mt. Vancouver? Yukon
4) Volcán Tajumulco, the tallest mountain in Central America, is located in what country? Guatemala
5) What peninsula is shared by Norway and Sweden? Scandinavian peninsula
6) Chile's Chuquicamata mine is the world's largest open-pit mine for what mineral? copper
7) The Spoon, Sangamon, and La Moine rivers flow into what larger river, which shares its name with a state? the Illinois
8) Name one of the three countries that contains part of the Kalahari Desert. Botswana, Namibia, or South Africa
9) In what sea would you find the West Indies? the Caribbean
10) To take a Washington State Ferry to Sidney, British Columbia, what mainland city do you need to depart from? Anacortes
Round 2: Sleep
1) Who wrote Rip Van Winkle? Washington Irving
2) What song is played whenever pitcher Mariano Rivera enters the game at Yankee Stadium? "Enter Sandman"
3) Cartoonist Winsor McCay published a comic strip about the adventures of Little Nemo in what place? Slumberland
4) What stage of sleep, also known as paradoxical sleep, is most closely associated with dreaming? REM or rapid eye movement
5) In 1956, General Electric-Telechron introduced the first alarm clock with what feature? snooze button
6) According to a 1980s commercial for Time-Life's Old West books, John Wesley Hardin was "so mean he once shot a man just for" doing what? snoring
7) What company, founded in 1992, sells mattresses made of visco-elastic memory foam? Tempur-Pedic
8) What lullaby became a top 10 hit for James Taylor and Carly Simon in 1974? "Mockingbird"
9) What's currently the most-prescribed sleep medication in the US? Ambien
10) In 1916, William L. Murphy patented his design for a bed that could be stored where? in a wall
Round 3: Better Known As
1) Yusuf Islam (musician) Cat Stevens
2) Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web (website) Yahoo!
3) S. S. Kresge Company (store) Kmart
4) UH-1 Iroquois (vehicle) Huey
5) Hansen's disease (disease) leprosy
6) augmentation mammoplasty (medical procedure) breast augmentation
7) Tenzin Gyatso (person) Dalai Lama
8) First Impressions (novel) Pride and Prejudice
9) Ehrich Weiss (performer) Harry Houdini
10) Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (emperor) Caligula
Round 4 (photo): Nobel laureates in literature
1) Samuel Beckett
2) George Bernard Shaw
3) Nadine Gordimer
4) Winston Churchill
5) William Faulkner
6) Rudyard Kipling
7) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8) Ernest Hemingway
9) Albert Camus
10) Toni Morrison
Round 5: Seattle Architecture
1) What Seattle building was designed by Rem Koolhaas? Seattle Central Library
2) On April 19, 1999, what iconic Seattle building was officially designated a city historic landmark? the Space Needle
3) The first live event shown on ESPN Classic was the demolition of what local landmark? the Kingdome
4) Smith Tower was the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi until 1963, when the Humble Building was built in what city? Houston, TX
5) Steven Holl designed Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ignatius, as well as what local museum? Bellevue Art Museum
6) Which current city council member is an architect? Peter Steinbrueck
7) In 1903, John Olmstead arrived in Seattle to design what city features? parks
8) There are no buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Seattle. Name one of three Washington cities with a Wright building in them. Normandy Park, Issaquah, or Tacoma
9) Who designed the Experience Music Project? Frank Gehry
10) What store now occupies the terra-cotta covered Coliseum Theater building at Fifth and Pike, one of the finest movie palaces in the country when it opened in 1915? Banana Republic
Round 6: Prison
1) Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, shoe bomber Richard Reid, and FBI mole Robert Hansson are incarcerated in the ADX Florence Supermax prison in what state? Colorado
2) What movie dramatizes the harrowing experiences of hashish smuggler Billy Hayes in a Turkish prison? Midnight Express
3) In the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues," why did the singer shoot a man in Reno? just to watch him die
4) Jake Blues was an inmate in the same prison they escaped from on the show Prison Break. Which prison is it? Joliet
5) Who wrote the poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"? Oscar Wilde
6) In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran a famous experiment, with subjects playing guards and prisoners, at what university? Stanford
7) On June 12, 1964, what political figure was sentenced to life in prison for "sabotage, treason, and violent conspiracy"? Nelson Mandela
8) In The Shawshank Redemption, when Andy starts digging his tunnel, he hides it behind a poster of who? Rita Hayworth
9) What musical features the number "Cell Block Tango"? Chicago
10) The Pretenders had a 1982 hit with what prison-themed song? "Back on the Chain Gang"
Round 7: Movies
1) What 1995 Jim Jarmusch film was Robert Mitchum's last western? Dead Man
2) What 2000 film centers around a waitress obsessed with the soap opera A Reason to Live? Nurse Betty
3) What 1991 music biopic features Native American scenes that were parodied in Wayne's World 2? The Doors
4) What 1990 film based on a novel by Barry Gifford won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes film festival? Wild at Heart
5) What 1993 drama earned Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar nomination? What's Eating Gilbert Grape
6) Scenes from what 1986 movie were featured in the video for Madonna's song "Live to Tell"? At Close Range
7) What 1996 anti-censorship drama features the real-life person named in its title in a cameo role as a judge? The People vs. Larry Flynt
8) The sequel to what 2000 action movie was subtitled "Full Throttle"? Charlie's Angels
9) What 1985 film prominently features a car with a vanity license plate reading O-U-T-A-T-I-M-E? Back to the Future
10) What actor or actress do all 9 of these films have in common? Crispin Glover
Round 8: Video games
1) Joust
2) Missile Command
3) Qix
4) Donkey Kong
5) House of the Dead
6) Galaga
7) Gauntlet
8) Pole Position
9) Street Fighter II
10) Tempest
