Seattlest Trivia December Wrapup

Round 1: Americana

1) What US president, called Sharp Knife by the Creek indians, is the subject of the recent biography American Lion?
2) A Squared, The Breakfast Capital of the World, and the Paris of the Midwest are nicknames for cities in what state?
3) "Little Twelvetoes," "Them Not-So-Dry Bones," and "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" all aired as part of what series of animated short films?
4) What famous Red Sox partisan was the most recent American to be named sexiest man alive by People magazine, before being displaced this year by Hugh Jackman?
5) Sherman's March to the Sea covered the 300 miles between what two Georgia cities? (Half point each)
6) The Kim Carnes song "Above the Waterline" was the original theme song to what iconic TV series?
7) Machias Seal Island, the Dixon Entrance, and North Island are all areas currently subject to boundary disputes between the US and what other country?
8) What Beach Boys album, featuring "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" and "Sloop John B," was named the second greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone, and spurred the Beatles to record Sgt. Pepper's in an effort to equal it?
9) Flag, an encaustic, oil, and collage painting mounted on plywood, became a major influence on US pop art when it was released in 1955 by what artist?
10) Who Would Buy This?is the recently released story of what local business?

1) Andrew Jackson
2) Michigan (Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit)
3) Schoolhouse Rock
4) Matt Damon
5) Atlanta and Savannah
6) Baywatch
7) Canada
8) Pet Sounds
9) Jasper Johns
10) Archie McPhee

Round 2: Batman

In honor of Batman RIP.

1) Biff, pow, urkkk, glipp, zgrupp, and other words chosen to imitate the sounds in Batman fight scenes are examples of what literary device?
2) The mayor of Batman, Turkey, is suing Warner Brothers and what director for stealing his city's name?
3) According to the comics, the last movie Bruce Wayne's parents saw was about what masked adventurer?
4) Super-hacker and information broker Oracle is the current crimefighting identity of what Batman ally paralyzed by the Joker in 1988's Killing Joke?
5) A scene of Batman debating what crotchety nemesis became popular on YouTube in October because of its amusing echoes of the Obama/McCain debates?
6) In the 1987 Batman story A Death in the Family, readers called 1-900 numbers and voted to kill what character?
7) What fan-favorite director and comic book writer named his daughter Harley Quinn, after the Joker-obsessed villain from Batman: The Animated Series?
8) According to Frank Miller, Gotham City is New York at night, while what other comic book city is New York during the day?
9) Two long-standing members of Batman's rogue gallery were introduced in 1940 in Batman #1. For a half point each, name them.
10) What go-go dance, introduced in the first episode of the Batman TV series, was nominated for TV Land's Greatest TV Dance Craze, but lost to The Fonzie?

1) onomatopoeia
2) Christopher Nolan
3) Zorro
4) Barbara Gordon or Batgirl
5) the Penguin
6) Robin (or Jason Todd)
7) Kevin Smith
8) Metropolis
9) The Joker and Catwoman
10) the Batusi

Round 3: Triangulation

1) a kind of wine, a kind of rock, and where Hewlett-Packard got its start
2) a British drink made of fruit juice and soda water, a non-Olympic racquet sport, and a zucchini
3) something you build while hunting, a forced bet, and a slat-driven device
4) five and a half yards, something you'd find near a cone, and a character from Avenue Q
5) Snoopy's sister, a Disney princess, and Sebastian's dog
6) a wrestling lineup, a wag or wit or joker, or something you punch
7) a kind of bug, a field, and Jennifer's middle name
8) part of a whip, a British crime TV series, and a racial slur
9) a tour guide, to summon someone, and a 1950s Playmate of the Month
10) a porn studio, Elphaba's story, and Bostonese for "extremely"

1) garage
2) squash
3) blind
4) rod
5) Belle
6) card
7) love
8) cracker
9) page
10) wicked

Round 6: Chess

1) "One Night in Bangkok," the hit single from Chess, featured music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, former members of what band?
2) The Amar Opening, Réti Opening, and Dunst Opening all start with white moving what piece on their first move?
3) What Lewis Carroll novel takes place on a series of fields resembling a giant chess board?
4) The bishop in modern chess is a modern version of what piece in chaturanga, which represented one of the four classical divisions of the Indian army?
5) Bobby Fischer died in what European country, which had awarded him citizenship because he "put it on the map"?
6) The book Poems and Problems combines chess problems with poems originally written in Russian and translated into English by what author?
7) If you'd like a bunch of bored white-collar workers to transcribe audio, label pictures, or other human-necessary tasks, you could use what Amazon web service, which was named after an 18th-century chess-playing automaton secretly controlled by a human?
8) Pixar's short film "Geri's Game" was theatrically released before what film, their second full-length feature?
9) In 1999, MSN Gaming Zone hosted "the greatest game in the history of chess," where Gary Kasparov spent 4 months playing -- and eventually defeating -- what credited opponent?
10) In The Seventh Seal, a knight plays a game of chess with Death. During their Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted play four different games with Death, winning them all. Name 1 for one point, and all 4 for two points.

1) ABBA
2) knight
3) Through the Looking-Glass
4) elephant
5) Iceland
6) Vladimir Nabokov
7) Amazon Mechanical Turk
8) A Bug's Life
9) the world
10) Battleship, Clue, electric football, Twister

Round 7: Movies

1) Queen's song "Keep Passing the Open Windows" was originally written for what 1984 movie, which featured Nastassja Kinski as a woman who dresses in a bear suit?
2) What 1998 thriller, directed by Tony Scott, stars Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert similar to the character he played in The Conversation?
3) What 1990 Christian Slater film about a mysterious high-school rebel won the Golden Space Needle award at SIFF, defeating Jesus of Montreal?
4) Billy Crystal originally wrote what 2001 comedy "about celebrity, family, and other forms of insanity," so he could play the romantic lead, but ended up playing John Cusack's publicist instead?
5) What 2001 comedy was the first film made featuring two African-American Oscar winners, specifically Whoopi Goldberg and Cuba Gooding, Jr.?
6) According to Salon.com's critic Stephanie Zacharek, the real stars of what 2003 caper are the Mini Coopers involved in the chase scene?
7) What 1999 comedy/horror movie about a boy who accidentally kills his parents and best friends had its release date pushed back because of the Columbine massacre?
8) What 1998 big last-day-of-high-school party movie includes nine actors who appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and four that appeared on Six Feet Under?
9) What 1997 movie features a British spy foiling the nefarious Project Vulcan, a subterranean delivery system for nuclear warheads?
10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these movies?

1) Hotel New Hampshire
2) Enemy of the State
3) Pump Up the Volume
4) America's Sweethearts
5) Rat Race
6) The Italian Job
7) Idle Hands
8) Can't Hardly Wait
9) Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
10) Seth Green