Who Kicked Ass at Seattlest Trivia?

Round 1: Americana: See the USA Edition

Each answer is a US city.

1) Get a look at the Transamerica Pyramid, drive the "crookedest street in the world," and eat dessert in Ghirardelli Square in what city?
2) Tour the Molly Brown House Museum, the Coors Brewery, and a branch of the US mint in what city?
3) To take in the Tech Museum, tour the Winchester Mystery House, and see the original state capitol of California, you need to go where?
4) SEE the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historical Site! The original Erie Canal Harbor! And Niagara Falls! All when you visit what city?
5) You can catch a live show at First Avenue and 7th Street Entry, stop by the largest literary and book arts center in the US, and watch the North Star Roller Girls tear up the track in what city?
6) Where should you go to tour the World War II destroyer USS Kidd, visit the Shaw Center for the Arts, and see the tallest state capitol building in the US?
7) If you've toured historic Quapaw Quarter, seen the Central High School National Historical Site, and strolled along President Clinton Avenue, where have you been?
8) If you want to see the Sedgwick County Zoo, the original Pizza Hut, and the birthplace of Cessna, were do you need to go?
9) If you want visit the western edge of the Great Basin to attend a hot air balloon race and see the birthplace of Harrah's Entertainment, what city is your best bet?
10) Visit the Hayden Planetarium, the International Center of Photography, and Grant's Tomb in what city?

1) San Francisco
2) Denver (ACCEPTED: Golden or Boulder, because people got all picky about the Coors tour)
3) San Jose
4) Buffalo
5) Minneapolis
6) Baton Rouge
7) Little Rock
8) Wichita
9) Reno
10) New York

Round 2: I'm not an animal, I'm a pub quiz round!

All about elephants.

1) What elephant, named by London zookeepers, probably got its name from the Swahili words for "hello" or "chief"?
2) For a half point each, name the two Dr. Seuss books starting Horton the elephant.
3) What song from the album Elephant was the White Stripes' first #1 single in the US, and includes the line "I'm going to Wichita"?
4) In 1985, what talk show visited Sesame Street to report on the first time grownups ever saw Mr. Snuffleupagus?
5) In the movie Animal Crackers, Groucho Marks claims to have shot an elephant where?
6) What animal do Pooh and Piglet decide to capture using a Clever Trap — specifically, honey at the bottom of a pit?
7) In 1903, Thomas Edison filmed the execution of the elephant Topsy. How was the elephant killed?
8) What general won the Battle of Ticinus in 218BC?
9) In the Rudyard Kipling story "The Elephant's Child," what does the title character get from the "Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River"?
10) Michael Jackson dances with the bones of the Elephant Man in his video for what song?

1) Jumbo
2) Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!
3) "Seven Nation Army"
4) Phil Donohue
5) in his pajamas
6) heffalump
7) electrocution
8) Hannibal
9) his trunk
10) "Leave Me Alone"

Round 3: Triangulation

Example: Wonka’s successor, a kind of list, and something a walrus might have? Bucket

1) a kind of poll, swine construction material, and where you might find a turkey
2) a single, a Nobel Prize-winning author, and Mr. Rogers
3) a kind of postage stamp, part of a Star Trek warp drive, and something mortal
4) an album by the Cure, a bone, and something that comes in threes
5) a variety of blues, to capture your opponent's piece, and something crowds might yell
6) something you can do with a TV signal, to take off quickly, and Motocross
7) one way to sell, a vowel sound, and 8 oz. of espresso
8) a mille-feuille, a famous pig, and Pedro's friend
9) a kind of touch, a metaphorical hand, and an asset not found in financial statements
10) a smidgen, to steal, and an emergency

1) straw
2) buck
3) coil
4) wish
5) jump
6) scramble
7) short
8) Napoleon
9) invisible
10) pinch

Round 6: "as easy to use and as addictive as any drug"

All about Facebook.

1) Who went on Facebook this weekend to claim that "every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it's right for all, including your family"?
2) If you had one of the original Facebook accounts, what university would you have attended along with Mark Zuckerberg?
3) In 2007, what company paid $240 million to purchase a 1.6% share in Facebook?
4) Facebook acquired the URL facebook.com in 2005. Before then, what URL did you have to visit to use the site?
5) Twitter asks "What are you doing?" What four-word question does Facebook ask these days?
6) In 2007, mothers unhappy that their photos had been pulled from the site started a protest group to let Facebook know that what activity was not obscene?
7) In early February 2009, Slate magazine attempted to find the "Patient Zero" who started what Internet meme?
8) Susan Kare designed the trash can, Chicago typeface, and Dogcow for Apple. In 2007, she started designing icons for the launch of what Facebook feature?
9) What profile feature did Facebook create because they "thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose"?
10) What company had to shut down their Facebook app that rewarded you with a free burger if you de-friended 10 people?

1) Sarah Palin
2) Harvard
3) Microsoft
4) thefacebook.com
5) "What's on your mind?"
6) breastfeeding (ACCEPTED: nursing)
7) 25 random things about me (ACCEPTED: any reasonable variation on "random things")
8) gifts
9) poke
10) Burger King

Round 7: Movies

1) Maybe he was filming Marley and Me -- or maybe he didn't want suicide questions. Either way, Owen Wilson didn't do interviews for what 2008 comedy produced by Judd Apatow?
2) What 1990 science fiction sequel starring Kevin Peter Hall as the title character was promoted with the tagline "He's in town with a few days to kill"?
3) What 2000 epic's title character was based on American historical figures Thomas Sumpter, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox?
4) What 1996 action film inspired a marketing campaign by Apple Computer with the tagline "The Power to Save the World"?
5) What 1994 western features David Andrews, Linden Ashby, Michael Madsen, and Kevin Costner as famous brothers?
6) What 1992 drama has Elijah Wood grow up into Tom Hanks, and ends with a young boy escaping from an abusive father in a homemade airplane?
7) What Stanley Kubrick movie was based on the Gustav Harsford novel The Short-Timers?
8) What 1980 high school drama features Matt Dillon as a bully who steals other kids' lunch money?
9) What 2005 science fiction film fond of the phrase "can't stop the signal" continues the story of some veterans of the Unification War?
10) What actor or actress appeared in all nine of these movies?

1) Drillbit Taylor
2) Predator 2
3) The Patriot
4) Independence Day
5) Wyatt Earp
6) Radio Flyer
7) Full Metal Jacket
8) My Bodyguard
9) Serenity
10) Adam Baldwin