Something Familiar, Something Peculiar: Last Night's Quiz

Round 2: Sleep

1) Who wrote Rip Van Winkle?
2) What song is played whenever pitcher Mariano Rivera enters the game at Yankee Stadium?
3) Cartoonist Winsor McCay published a comic strip about the adventures of Little Nemo in what place?
4) What stage of sleep, also known as paradoxical sleep, is most closely associated with dreaming?
5) In 1956, General Electric-Telechron introduced the first alarm clock with what feature?
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?
7) What company, founded in 1992, sells mattresses made of visco-elastic memory foam?
8) What lullaby became a top 10 hit for James Taylor and Carly Simon in 1974?
9) What's currently the most-prescribed sleep medication in the US?
10) In 1916, William L. Murphy patented his design for a bed that could be stored where?

Round 3: Better Known As

1) Yusuf Islam (musician)
2) Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web (website)
3) S. S. Kresge Company (store)
4) UH-1 Iroquois (vehicle)
5) Hansen's disease (disease)
6) augmentation mammoplasty (medical procedure)
7) Tenzin Gyatso (person)
8) First Impressions (novel)
9) Ehrich Weiss (performer)
10) Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (emperor)

Round 5: Seattle Architecture

1) What Seattle building was designed by Rem Koolhaas?
2) On April 19, 1999, what iconic Seattle building was officially designated a city historic landmark?
3) The first live event shown on ESPN Classic was the demolition of what local landmark?
4) Smith Tower was the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi until 1963, when the Humble Building was built in what city?
5) Steven Holl designed Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ignatius, as well as what local museum?
6) Which current city council member is an architect?
7) In 1903, John Olmstead arrived in Seattle to design what city features?
8) There are no buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Seattle. Name one of three Washington cities with a Wright building in them.
9) Who designed the Experience Music Project?
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?

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?
2) What movie dramatizes the harrowing experiences of hashish smuggler Billy Hayes in a Turkish prison?
3) In the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues," why did the singer shoot a man in Reno?
4) Jake Blues was an inmate in the same prison they escaped from on the show Prison Break. Which prison is it?
5) Who wrote the poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"?
6) In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran a famous experiment, with subjects playing guards and prisoners, at what university?
7) On June 12, 1964, what political figure was sentenced to life in prison for "sabotage, treason, and violent conspiracy"?
8) In The Shawshank Redemption, when Andy starts digging his tunnel, he hides it behind a poster of who?
9) What musical features the number "Cell Block Tango"?
10) The Pretenders had a hit in 1982 with what prison-themed song?

Round 7: Movies

1) What 1995 Jim Jarmusch film was Robert Mitchum's last western?
2) What 2000 film centers around a waitress obsessed with the soap opera A Reason to Live?
3) What 1991 music biopic features Native American scenes that were parodied in Wayne's World 2?
4) What 1990 film based on a novel by Barry Gifford won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes film festival?
5) What 1993 drama earned Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar nomination?
6) Scenes from what 1986 movie were featured in the video for Madonna's song "Live to Tell"?
7) What 1996 anti-censorship drama features the real-life person named in its title in a cameo role as a judge?
8) The sequel to what 2000 action movie was subtitled "Full Throttle"?
9) What 1985 film prominently features a car with a vanity license plate reading O-U-T-A-T-I-M-E?
10) What actor or actress do all 9 of these films have in common?