Seattlest Trivia: November Wrapup

Round 1: American Geography

1) 43 companies in the 2008 Fortune 500 are headquartered in what city?
2) The Sunshine Factory, the Heart of Historic Route 66, and the Town Too Tough to Die are all nicknames for cities in which state?
3) Before Obama, the president born furthest west came from Yorba Linda, California. Who was he?
4) What body of water is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, which once covered the area now known as the Great Basin?
5) According to the 2000 census, what is the most commonly spoken Native American language in the US?
6) If you start in Georgia and walk the entire Appalachian Trail, you'll end up at Mt. Katahdin in what state?
7) Sugar Land and Baytown are the two smaller cities in the metropolitan area that includes what Texas city?
8) Eight of the ten largest islands in the United States are located in what state?
9) The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is stored in underground salt caverns at four sites located in what two states? (half point each)
10) The Bible Belt is bursting with Protestants. The Rust Belt is losing jobs in the steel industry. What's the defining characteristic of the Jell-O Belt?

Round 2: Chocolate

1) Barack Obama's favorite sweets come from what local chocolatier?
2) If you're eating something that's at least 13% milk solids, 3.5% milk fat, 20% cocoa butter, and no more than 55% sugar, according to US regulations, what is it?
3) Daniel Peter invented milk chocolate, applying skills he used in what other profession that worked with what other melted material?
4) Nestle Quik chocolate milk mix was first introduced in 1948. What flavor came next, in 1959?
5) What former cast member on In Living Color hosts Comedy Central's Chocolate News?
6) What West African country is the world's leading exporter of cocoa, a crop introduced during the French colonial period?
7) What funk album by Parliament shares its name with a controversial phrase used in a 2006 speech by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin?
8) Roald Dahl's sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is called Charlie and what unusual mode of transportation?
9) Hershey's Kisses were originally only wrapped in silver foil. What two additional colors did Hershey first use in 1962?
10) According to McSweeney's, what famous horror writer might have described a Whitman's Sampler chocolate cherry cordial with this copy: "You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon's true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate."

Round 3: Triangulation

Three definitions, one term that fits them all.

Example:
Something you’d see on a slot machine, a U2 song, and a name you’ll hear on Must-See Thursday: Lemon

1) Part of an engine, a Chuck Palahniuk novel, and what the Patriots did in Superbowl LXII
2) A Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album, paramnesia, and home of 1000s of beautiful girls and 3 ugly ones
3) A Radiohead song, a project management hazard, and the Committee to Re-elect the President
4) A kind of bowl, a kind of bunny, and the source of T.S. Eliot's fear
5) An infantry weapon, a freshwater fish, and a starfleet captain
6) The fictional criminal agency opposed by MASK, a toxin, and a Topher Grace role
7) Mr. Wilson, a cocktail that includes an egg, and a somersault
8) Burt Reynolds' autobiography, a Michael Keaton film, and a presidential autobiography
9) A Cirque du Soleil show, a hug, and Mr. Henry
10) A key, a Prime Minister, and a resident of Fawlty Towers

Round 5: Tuesday Evening Revival Meeting

Brothers and sisters! Tonight we've been mucking around with the devil. Yes, the devil. He lives in the details, and trivia is all about details. All about the devil. The devil in the details.

But that's gonna change. That's gonna change right now. Because we're going to listen to some religious music. Listen closely, brothers and sisters. Because you need to tell me who's singing, and the name of the song. The artist and the song title are worth a half! point! each!

And each and every one of these songs is has a religious term in its title.

Can you give me an amen? Amen!

Round 6: Series Business

I'll name several or all of the novels in a series. For a half point each, tell me the author and what the series is known as.

Example: The Waste Lands, Song of Susannah, and Wolves of the Calla -- Stephen King, The Dark Tower

1) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless
2) On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, and The Long Winter
3) Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso
4) The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz
5) Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World
6) Master and Commander, The Surgeon's Mate, and The Far Side of the World
7) The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, and First Among Sequels
8) The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, and The High King
9) Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer
10) New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn

Round 7: Movies

1) Stephen King wrote the miniseries Rose Red after he left working on what similar 1999 horror film based on a novel by Shirley Jackson?
2) What 2006 Robert Altman comedy is set at a farewell performance at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota?
3) John Grisham's favorite adaptation from any of his novels is what 1997 Francis Ford Coppola film co-starring Danny DeVito?
4) What Rob Reiner movie dramatizes the 1994 trial of Byron de la Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of assassinating Medgar Evars in 1963?
5) According to the poster, what 1995 horror film that spawned four sequels features "an evil born in heaven ... about to be unleashed on earth"?
6) Alan Smithee and Judas Booth are credited with directing and writing a longer cut of what David Lynch film, which he turned down Return of the Jedi to film?
7) Until this year's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, what 2006 thriller, set in Seattle, was the last Harrison Ford film in theaters ?
8) Mr. Skin's favorite movie for seeing Jennifer Connelly naked (butt and breasts!) is what 1990 neo-noir directed by Dennis Hopper?
9) What 1992 horror film, inspired by the legend of Mary Worth, spawned two sequels, subtitled Farewell to the Flesh and Day of the Dead?
10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these movies?

American geography answers:

1) New York
2) Arizona (Tucson, Kingman, Tombstone)
3) Richard Nixon
4) Great Salt Lake
5) Navajo
6) Maine
7) Houston
8) Alaska
9) Texas and Louisiana
10) Mormonism

Chocolate answers:

1) Fran's Chocolates
2) white chocolate
3) candle maker
4) strawberry
5) David Alan Grier
6) Côte D'Ivoire (or Ivory Coast)
7) Chocolate City
8) the Great Glass Elevator
9) red and green
10) H.P. Lovecraft

Triangulation answers:

1) choke
2) déjà vu
3) creep
4) dust
5) pike
6) venom
7) flip
8) My Life
9) O
10) major

Music round answers:

1) Praise You (Fatboy Slim)
2) Kyrie (Mr. Mister)
3) Crucify (Tori Amos)
4) Monkey Gone to Heaven (Pixies)
5) Church of the Poisoned Mind (Culture Club)
6) Jesus, Take the Wheel (Carrie Underwood)
7) Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)
8) Heaven (Talking Heads)
9) Jesus Is Just Alright (Doobie Brothers)
10) Dear God (XTC)
11) Faith (George Michael)

Series Business answers:

1) Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Hitchhikers Trilogy
2) Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Little House series
3) Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (or Commedia Divina)
4) James Ellroy, L.A. Quartet
5) Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle
6) Patrick O'Brian, the Aubrey-Maturin series
7) Jasper Fford, the Thursday Next series
8) Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
9) James Fenimore Cooper, Leatherstocking Tales (or Natty Bumppo series)
10) Stephanie Meyer, Twilight series

Movie answers:

1) The Haunting
2) A Prairie Home Companion
3) The Rainmaker
4) Ghosts of Mississippi
5) The Prophecy
6) Dune
7) Firewall
8) The Hot Spot
9) Candyman
10) Virginia Madsen