Do You Know More About Seattle than Greg Nickels?
"If I were still mayor, and I knew I was coming to an event like this," Charley Royer told us before last night's political fundraiser pub quiz, "I'd make sure there wasn't a question about Seattle that I didn't know the answer to."
Nice in theory. Mayor Nickels' team won the night (we swear we didn't rig it!), but he was only able to get 6 out of 10 on our Seattle round. Can you do better?
Round 1: Seattle
1) On April 19, 1999, what iconic Seattle building was officially designated a city historic landmark?
2) Within Seattle city limits, Washington State Route 522 is known as what street?
3) What business was founded on the site where Waterfall Park is today?
4) In 2001, the downtown neighborhood between Belltown and Pioneer Square was given what new name?
5) Six companies headquartered in Seattle made the 2007 Fortune 500. Name four of them. Bonus point: name the one that's new to the top 500 this year.
6) What Seattle native inspired H.L. Mencken to coin the word "ecdysiast"?
7) What album, first certified platinum in 1995, is the best-selling album released by Sub Pop?
8) Between 2002 and 2006, which Seattle street had the most traffic accidents involving jaywalkers?
9) In October 1970, the Seattle City Council made it a crime, punishable by a $100 fine, to climb what local natural landmark?
10) There are four Seattle strip clubs in which it's legal to get a lap dance. What's the only one offering male dancers?
To be fair, no other team did better than hizzoner on that round, though several teams tied him with 6 correct answers. And team Openin' a Can on Your... won two pitchers of beer in the tiebreaker because they knew the April 1, 2006, estimated population of Bellevue. Exactly. (Nickels' team overguessed by 70,000 people.)
In the end, Mayor Nickels' team first place overall. Charlie Royer's team came in second -- Nickels dominated them in the sports round, and they couldn't quite overcome that deficit. And event organizer Viet Shelton's team took a respectable third place.
We don't often get to ask the mayor a bunch of questions. And we don't often get to award people Gwen Stefani tickets for winning a round of trivia. That's the kind of night we had last night -- and it was a great time.
The rest of the quiz, and the answers to round 1, are after the jump.
Round 2: Sports
1) Name two of the four franchises the Mariners have faced in post-season play.
2) What number did Steve Scheffler wear when he played for the Sonics?
3) Which team were the Mariners playing when the Griffeys became the first father and son tandem to hit back-to-back home runs?
4) In the documentary Heart of the Game, what high school did the Roosevelt Roughriders beat to win the state championship?
5) In 2004 Ichiro broke the record for hits in a season. How many hits did he finish with that year?
6) Who is the only Hall of Famer to play for the Mariners?
7) Which pitcher started the first post-season game in Mariner history?
8) What year did the Sonics become the first number-one playoff seed in NBA history to lose to the number-eight playoff seed?
9) Name one of the MVPs of the 1992 Rose Bowl (that is, the game played on January 1, 1992).
10) Name the current or former Husky coach who is the only man in NCAA history to play in the NCAA basketball championship game for two different teams.
Round 3: Mayors
1) Who is the mayor of Springfield, hometown to the Simpsons?
2) Who was mayor of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit?
3) What epic novel and long-running musical center around the hidden past of the mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer?
4) In a 1989 movie, Da Mayor gives Mookie this piece of advice: "Always" what?
5) Mayor McCheese was dropped from McDonald's advertising campaigns because of a 1973 lawsuit that found him too similar to what Sid & Marty Krofft character?
6) What British new wave group had their biggest US hit with the 1989 single "Mayor of Simpleton"?
7) Rudy Giuliani would become the first former mayor in the White House since 1923, when what former mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts, became president?
8) Mayor Richard Wilkins III was a memorable villain on what television series?
9) In 1910, Emil Seidel became the first Socialist mayor of a major US city. What city was it?
10) Who was mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988?
Round 4: In the Seattle of Make-Believe
1) The episode titled "The 1000th Show" was what series' only episode that was actually filmed in Seattle?
2) The characters in Grey's Anatomy work in what Seattle hospital?
3) What 1999 comedy adapts the action of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew into a local high school?
4) In what 1992 film does a fictional mayor veto the idea of a Supertrain to address Seattle traffic problems?
5) Max, resident of Seattle in the year 2019 and the main character in the show Dark Angel, was played by what up-and-coming movie star?
6) In the 2002 film The Ring, Seattle journalist Rachel Embry attempts to save her son from the ghost of a girl named what?
7) In the 1983 film WarGames, David Lightman challenges a computer named Joshua to what game?
8) Dr. Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist from Seattle, stars in what video game series?
9) In the 1973 film The Night Strangler, Carl Kolchak tracks an undead alchemist through the Seattle Underground. What city was he living in in The Night Stalker when he tracked down a vampire serial killer?
10) In DC Comics, what member of the Justice League moved to Seattle in 1987, though he's now the mayor of Star City?
Round 1 answers:
1) The Space Needle
2) Lake City Way
3) UPS
4) The West Edge
5) Washington Mutual, Amazon.com, Nordstrom, Starbucks, Safeco, Expeditors International (Bonus: EI)
6) Gypsy Rose Lee
7) Bleach (Nirvana)
8) Rainier Avenue
9) Wedgwood Rock (or Big Rock)
10) Centerfolds
(Which ones stumped the mayor? 6, 8, 9, and 10)
Round 2 answers:
1) Yankees, White Sox, Orioles, Indians (someone might try the Angels. but that was a one play off game which is officially part of the regular season)
2) 55
3) The Angels
4) Garfield HS (it pains me to write this)
5) 262
6) Gaylord Perry
7) Chris Bosio (again, someone might try Randy Johnson in the one game playoff vs the Angels, but that was a one play off game which is officially part of the regular season)
8) 1994
9) Steve Emtman or Billy Joe Hobert
10) Bob Bender
Round 3 answers:
1) Joe Quimby
2) Ray Nagin
3) Les Miserables
4) Do the Right Thing
5) H.R. Pufnstuf
6) XTC
7) Calvin Coolidge
8) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
9) Milwaukee, WI
10) Clint Eastwood
Round 4 answers:
1) Frasier
2) Seattle Grace
3) 10 Things I Hate About You
4) Singles
5) Jessica Alba
6) Samara
7) Global Thermonuclear War
8) Half-Life
9) Las Vegas
10) Green Arrow
