It's my birthday, and I'll give a trivia quiz if I want to

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Well, I just got back from my birthday party, which every year is a complex game show/fundraising event. The winning team gets to pick the charity, and this year, the money is going to the Multiple Sclerosis society.

Oh, and I turned 30 today. Woo-hoo! Or perhaps D’oh!
Anyhow, I thought you geeky SDMB types might enjoy the relatively geeky set of trivia questions that made up much of the party. (Actually, it was much more fun in the party itself, because each team, in turn, would pick one and only one question to answer, and if their answer was wrong, I wouldn’t say so… rather, another team would have to challenge them. If a team is challenged succesfully, or challenges unsuccesfully, they’re out (actually, the first time a team is out, they can get back in by singing Karaoke). Last team standing wins).

Anyhow, here’s most of the quiz. A few parts involved pictures and so forth… and now I’m off to watch one of my presents, the extended edition Two Towers DVD. Woo-hoo!

Category 1: People with weird names

Identify the following real people (living or dead) with weird names:
1.Veerle Casteleyn

  1. Siri Mullinix

  2. Reinhold Weege

  3. Mildred Didrikson Zaharias

  4. Gavrillo Princip

  5. Essa-Pekka Salonen

  6. Tenzing Norgay

  7. Calvert DeForest

  8. Ruth Plumly Thompson

  9. Andre Rene Roussimoff

Category 2: Geography

  1. Name all the countries of mainland Central America, not counting Mexico.

  2. What is the geographical meaning of the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?

  3. What is the claim to fame of Billund, Denmark?

  4. Where is the strait of Magellan?

  5. What is the nation of Upper Volta now called?

Category 3: Movies

  1. What was the previous, and first, movie from Peyton Reed, director of the frothy romantic comedy Down With Love?

  2. What was the last movie that Raul Julia appeared in before his untimely death?

  3. What was the last movie that Phil Hartman appeared in before his untimely death?

  4. Name at least 6 characters from one of my favorite movies of all time, Wayne’s World

  5. Three of the voice actors from another of my favorite movies, The Iron Giant, are quite well known. Name two of them.

  6. The worst movie I can ever remember seeing in the theater, the only movie I can recall ever falling asleep during, starred Alec Baldwin as “Mr. Conductor”, and Peter Fonda as “Grandpa Burnett Stone”. Name that movie.

  7. What is Inigo Montoya’s father’s first name?

  8. During the filming of what movie (one of my father’s favorites) did Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins fall in love?

  9. What John Boorman epic features stars the obscure Nigel Terry, but also features Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart?

  10. Name the Asian character actor who has played a thug in just about every movie imaginable, including The Scorpion King, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and Big Trouble in Little China, but whose arguably greatest role was as Genghis Khan in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Category 4: The Simpsons

  1. What’s the worst name Moe ever heard?

  2. What recurring character was introduced as a one-shot joke at a street sale in the episode when George Bush moves in across the street?

  3. What should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who marathon?

  4. What does Ralph Wiggum’s cat’s breath smell like?

  5. What famous actor was credited as “Sam Etic”, a play on “semitic”, when he guest voiced?

Identify the speaker of the following Simpsons quotes:

  1. I was so gay… but I couldn’t tell anyone

  2. Ach du lieber! Das is nicht eine booby!

  3. Oh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!

  4. This chair be high, says I

  5. Oh, hi, Mr. Burns. I’m the worst worker in the world. Time to go home to my mansion and eat my lobster. [walks up to some dangerous-looking wires] What’s this? [reads sign] “Extremely High Voltage.” Well, I don’t need safety gloves, because I’m Homer Simp–

Category 5: History

  1. Name the decisive World War II naval battle in which the US, which had previously never achieved more than a draw, crushed the Japanese, sinking four carriers.

  2. Name the top Nazi, generally believed to be Hitler’s chosen successor, who was killed by Czech partisans in 1942.

  3. What New York City celebration, on Thursday, May 24, 1883, was later compared in scope and excitement to the ticker tape parade that greeted the returning moon astronauts.

  4. Who was the biggest star on the minor league Montreal Royals in the 1946 season?

  5. With what historical event are Ferdinand De Lesseps and Philippe Bunau-Varilla associated?

Category 6: Tricky Math

  1. A school has 100 students, numbered 1 to 100, and 100 lockers, also numbered, one for each student. The lockers are all closed. Student #1 then opens all the lockers. Student #2 then closes all the even numbered lockers. Student #3 then goes to all the lockers whose numbers are multiples of 3 and swaps their state. That is, closes them if they’re open, and opens them if they’re closed. Similarly, student #4 does the same thing for all the multiples of 4, and so forth, for all 100 students. At the end of this process, which locker doors are open?

  2. Here’s an example of two triangles being drawn using 4 straight lines (the triangles overlap, obviously). {Here there is an illustration of what is basically a capital “A” sitting on a line). What is the greatest number of triangles that could be drawn using 5 straight lines?

  3. There’s a famous, and difficult, math puzzle in which you have 13 coins, one of which is counterfeit, and is either lighter or heavier than the others, but you don’t know which. You have a standard balance scale, and are asked to determine which coin is counterfeit using the scale only 3 times. It’s difficult, but solvable. If you had 14 coins, it would be unsolvable. What’s the greatest number of coins for which the problem could be solved if you could use the scale 4 times?

  4. The number 12345678901234567899876543210987654321 is a multiple of 11. In fact, it is 11 times 1122334445566778899988776655544332211. Suppose we wanted to add a digit to the middle of it, ie, make it 1234567890123456789?9876543210987654321 and have it still be a multiple of 11. What digit(s), if any, would work?

  5. What is the next number in this sequence: 10001, 122, 101, 32, 25, 23, 21, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10…

Category 7: Fun with Words

  1. What is special about the country name UNITED ARAB EMIRATES?

  2. What is unique about the word UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY?

  3. What is the significance of the following collection of words: DUMBBELL, OCCURRENCE, MEMENTO, FRUSTUM, COLLECTIBLE, AMATEUR, DAIQUIRI, PASTIME, ACCIDENTALLY, PLAYWRIGHT, EMBARRASS, ACQUIT, HARASS, and PRONUNCIATION?

  4. What is the largest number whose name, when written out as words (ie “seven hundred twelve”) does not include the letter “n”. (Using the standard “million-billion-trillion” scheme… no “googol” or other such things allowed).

  5. What is the meaning of the following table of words and numbers?
    THE 64,041
    AND 51,714
    OF 34,755
    TO 13,643
    THAT 12,916
    IN 12,674
    HE 10,432
    UNTO 9,002
    I 8,853
    HIS 8,478
    A 8,284
    LORD 7,836
    THEY 7,377
    BE 7,012
    IS 6,992
    HIM 6,667
    NOT 6,597
    IT 6,131
    WITH 6,015
    ALL 5,621

Category 8: Things I actually know about Pop Music

  1. What is the name of pop group Salt n’ Pepa’s DJ/third member?

  2. What alternative band sang “Take the Skinheads Bowling” and “Where the Hell is Bill”?

  3. What song begins “Now here’s a little story I’ve got to tell/ About three bad brothers you know so well”?

  4. What group performed “Whoomp, there it is”?

  5. What song begins "(One) day when I was chillin’ in Kentucky Fried Chicken/ Just mindin’ my business, eatin’ food and finger lickin’ "

  6. What one hit wonder group also sang “Good Ship Lifestyle” and “Drip, Drip, Drip”

  7. What is the name of the most famous song by the group Barnes and Barnes?

  8. What is Vanilla Ice’s real name?

  9. Name at least two groups who have had a hit song called “Jump”

  10. What pop group was briefly known as Johnny and the Moondogs?

Category 9: Sports

  1. Who hit the 3-pointer which won the 1993 NBA finals for Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls over Charles Barkley’s Phoenix Suns?

  2. Who holds the record for the highest single-season batting average in major league baseball since 1920?

  3. What is the name of the obscure but ancient sport whose unique asymmetrical playing area, which includes doors and windows which have specific meanings when the ball hits them, is said to be modeled after a medieval town square, or perhaps the courtyard of a castle or monestary?

  4. When the NBA named its 50 greatest players of all time, 47 of the 50 assembled at the NBA all star game. Of the three who were absent, one was dead, one was old and infirm, and one was severely criticized for his absence. Name him.

  5. What country won the 2003 Soccer Women’s World Cup?

Category 10: Children’s Books

  1. Name the 3 original books in the “Tripods” series by John Christopher

  2. What famous children’s series was written by Hugh Lofting?

  3. In what book does the famous poem “Jabberwocky” occur?

  4. My favorite Dr. Suess book introduces the character of Bartholomew, later featured in “Bartholomew and the Oobleck”. Name it.

  5. What collection of children’s poems includes classics such as “The Dirtiest Man in the World”, “Hector the Collector”, “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too”, and “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”?

Category 11: Musicals

  1. Why did the kids put jam on the cat?

  2. What musical includes the lyric “I’ll live inside you forever/ With Satan himself by my side”

  3. What musical’s main character is named Zach, and spends almost the entire show as a disembodied voice from off-stage?

  4. In what popular musical does a character show up who is also featured in the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  5. On the Iberian peninsula, where is most of the precipitation concentrated?

Category 12: TV Shows

  1. Friends and ER, the two cornerstones of NBC’s “must-see TV” Thursday, have something odd in common. One of the main characters from one show has precisely the same name, first and last, as a recurring character (across multiple seasons) from the other. What is that name?

  2. What TV show featured “Pea Boy” and “Peggy, the Foul Mouthed Chambermaid”?

  3. Who plays Triumph: The Insult Comic Dog?

  4. On SNL, what was The Church Lady’s first name?

  5. What actress first gained fame as Angela Chase, the protagonist of my all-time favorite non-Simpsons TV show, My So Called Life?

Category 13: Video/Computer Games

  1. In the classic text-graphics dungeon adventure games Hack and Nethack, what object is the player attempting to retrieve from the dungeon?

  2. What early arcade fighting game featured a judge awarding half and full points?

  3. My all time favorite arcade game is Streetfighter II. Between Streetfighter II itself and Streetfighter Alpha, which came out 5 or so years later and which I never really played, there were four other updates to SF2. Name at least 2 of them.

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Here’s what I can think of tonight, without looking things up:
Category 1:
8. Calvert DeForest
Larry “Bud” Melman from Late Night with David Letterman

Category 3:
7. What is Inigo Montoya’s father’s first name?
Domingo

Category 4:
2. What recurring character was introduced as a one-shot joke at a street sale in the episode when George Bush moves in across the street?
Disco Stu

  1. What does Ralph Wiggum’s cat’s breath smell like?
    cat food

Identify the speaker of the following Simpsons quotes:

  1. Oh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!
    Homer Simpson

  2. Oh, hi, Mr. Burns. I’m the worst worker in the world. Time to go home to my mansion and eat my lobster. [walks up to some dangerous-looking wires] What’s this? [reads sign] “Extremely High Voltage.” Well, I don’t need safety gloves, because I’m Homer Simp–
    Frank Grimes Jr?

Category 10:
5. What collection of children’s poems includes classics such as “The Dirtiest Man in the World”, “Hector the Collector”, “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too”, and “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”?
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Category 12:
5. What actress first gained fame as Angela Chase, the protagonist of my all-time favorite non-Simpsons TV show, My So Called Life?
Claire Danes

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Tenzing Norgay accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest.

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Off the top of my head:

Category 1:
3. He was somehow or other involved in Night Court. Creator or producer or director or writer or something. But he showed up in the credits.
10. Andre the Giant?

Category 2:
4. Between South America and Antarctica.
5. Burkina Faso

Category 3:
2. It was a Nintendo game made into movie. Final Conflict or something like that.
6. Thomas the Tank Engine
7. Domingo Montoya
8. Bull Durham

Category 4:
4. Cat food

Category 6:

  1. The squares. (1, 4, 9, 16…)

Category 7:
5. The number of times the word appears in the bible?

Category 8:

  1. Spinderella
  2. Paul Revere
  3. Tag Team
  4. You be illin’
  5. Fish heads
  6. Kris Kross and VanHalen
    (I’m feeling really shallow right now - history, nothing…but this, I know.)

Category 10:
3. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
5. Where the Sidewalk Ends

Category 11:
4. Les Miz
5. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

Category 12:
5. Claire Danes

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Category 1: People with weird names

I know absolutely none of these.

Category 2: Geography

  1. Name all the countries of mainland Central America, not counting Mexico.

Let’s see…Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama. Did I get them all?

  1. What is the geographical meaning of the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?

They are the furthest north and south that the sun shines directly upon, during the solstices.

  1. Where is the strait of Magellan?

The Southern tip of South America, but just a tad north of some other islands down there.

Category 3: Movies

  1. Name the Asian character actor who has played a thug in just about every movie imaginable, including The Scorpion King, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and Big Trouble in Little China, but whose arguably greatest role was as Genghis Khan in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Jet Li?

Category 4: The Simpsons

  1. What does Ralph Wiggum’s cat’s breath smell like?

Cat food.

  1. Oh, hi, Mr. Burns. I’m the worst worker in the world. Time to go home to my mansion and eat my lobster. [walks up to some dangerous-looking wires] What’s this? [reads sign] “Extremely High Voltage.” Well, I don’t need safety gloves, because I’m Homer Simp–

Grimes

Category 5: History

  1. Name the decisive World War II naval battle in which the US, which had previously never achieved more than a draw, crushed the Japanese, sinking four carriers.

Midway!

Category 6: Tricky Math

  1. A school has 100 students, numbered 1 to 100, and 100 lockers, also numbered, one for each student. The lockers are all closed. Student #1 then opens all the lockers. Student #2 then closes all the even numbered lockers. Student #3 then goes to all the lockers whose numbers are multiples of 3 and swaps their state. That is, closes them if they’re open, and opens them if they’re closed. Similarly, student #4 does the same thing for all the multiples of 4, and so forth, for all 100 students. At the end of this process, which locker doors are open?

Okay. For a door to be open at the end of this endeavor, it had to be changed an odd number of times. Each door is also changed whenever a student with any of its factors drops by. For instance, #24 would be changed when students 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 came by. Adding these two prepositions together, the doors that are changed have to be numbers with an odd number of factors. Numbers with odd numbers of factors always have to be square numbers. Thus, the numbers that are open are 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, and 100.

Category 7: Fun with Words

  1. What is the largest number whose name, when written out as words (ie “seven hundred twelve”) does not include the letter “n”. (Using the standard “million-billion-trillion” scheme… no “googol” or other such things allowed).

Eighty-eight?

Category 9: Sports

  1. Who hit the 3-pointer which won the 1993 NBA finals for Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls over Charles Barkley’s Phoenix Suns?

Could it have been John Paxon?

Category 10: Children’s Books

  1. What collection of children’s poems includes classics such as “The Dirtiest Man in the World”, “Hector the Collector”, “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too”, and “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”?

Where the Sidewalk Ends- Shel Silverstein

Category 11: Musicals

  1. On the Iberian peninsula, where is most of the precipitation concentrated?

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

Category 12: TV Shows

  1. What actress first gained fame as Angela Chase, the protagonist of my all-time favorite non-Simpsons TV show, My So Called Life?

I’ll take a wild stab and say Claire Danes.

So, how did I do?

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Cat 1:
4) Babe Zaharias, famous female athlete.
5) shot archduke Franz Ferdinand

Cat 2:
2) Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama. I think that’s it.

Cat 3:
2) Mortal Kombat, I think. He was also in an HBO movie for which he won an Emmy, but I’m not sure which was filmed/ released first.

Cat 4:

  1. Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo.
  2. Dustin Hoffman
  3. Adolf Hitler
  4. Seacaptain McAllister
  5. Frank Grimes, Sr., not Jr.

Cat 5:
4) Jackie Robinson

Cat 7:
4) 88

Cat 9:
2) Rogers Hornsby, .424 in 1924.

Cat 12:

  1. Rachel Green, I think
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Category 3, #2: I thought it was Streetfighter.
Category 3, #3: Small Soldiers or Jingle All The Way (without looking it up).
Category 3, #10: I know who you’re talking about, the guy with a high hairline and fu manchu mustache. Wielded double hatchets in the Big Trouble in Little China alley brawl. Sorry, don’t know his name.

Category 6, #1: The lockers numbered with square numbers.

Category 7, #4: Eighty-eight

Category 8, #9: The Pointer Sisters and Van Halen (IIRC the songs came out about the same time too).

Category 11, #5: Spain

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Cat 3 - 9. What John Boorman epic features stars the obscure Nigel Terry, but also features Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart?

Excalibur

And I knew that without looking it up. :smiley:

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by MaxTheVool *
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Category 1: People with weird names

Identify the following real people (living or dead) with weird names:

  1. Siri Mullinix
    Plays (backup) goalkeeper for USA Women’s soccer team.

  2. Mildred Didrikson Zaharias
    Babe Didrikson, probably best female athelete in the first half of the 20th century.

  3. Calvert DeForest
    Just an old countyr doctor

Category 2: Geography

  1. Name all the countries of mainland Central America, not counting Mexico.
    Does this include all of the countries of the Caribbean?

  2. What is the nation of Upper Volta now called?
    Burkina Faso
    Category 3: Movies

  3. What was the previous, and first, movie from Peyton Reed, director of the frothy romantic comedy Down With Love?

  4. What was the last movie that Raul Julia appeared in before his untimely death?
    Some movie based on a video game, I forget the name.
    (Seeing the last question here, was it Streetfighter?

  5. During the filming of what movie (one of my father’s favorites) did Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins fall in love?
    Bull Durham

  6. What John Boorman epic features stars the obscure Nigel Terry, but also features Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart?

  7. Name the Asian character actor who has played a thug in just about every movie imaginable, including The Scorpion King, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and Big Trouble in Little China, but whose arguably greatest role was as Genghis Khan in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Category 5: History

  1. Name the decisive World War II naval battle in which the US, which had previously never achieved more than a draw, crushed the Japanese, sinking four carriers.
    The Battle of Leyte Gulf?

Category 6: Tricky Math

  1. A school has 100 students, numbered 1 to 100, and 100 lockers, also numbered, one for each student. The lockers are all closed. Student #1 then opens all the lockers. Student #2 then closes all the even numbered lockers. Student #3 then goes to all the lockers whose numbers are multiples of 3 and swaps their state. That is, closes them if they’re open, and opens them if they’re closed. Similarly, student #4 does the same thing for all the multiples of 4, and so forth, for all 100 students. At the end of this process, which locker doors are open?
    The first and last locker?

  2. Here’s an example of two triangles being drawn using 4 straight lines (the triangles overlap, obviously). {Here there is an illustration of what is basically a capital “A” sitting on a line). What is the greatest number of triangles that could be drawn using 5 straight lines?
    11

Category 7: Fun with Words

  1. What is special about the country name UNITED ARAB EMIRATES?

  2. What is unique about the word UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY?

  3. What is the significance of the following collection of words: DUMBBELL, OCCURRENCE, MEMENTO, FRUSTUM, COLLECTIBLE, AMATEUR, DAIQUIRI, PASTIME, ACCIDENTALLY, PLAYWRIGHT, EMBARRASS, ACQUIT, HARASS, and PRONUNCIATION?

  4. What is the largest number whose name, when written out as words (ie “seven hundred twelve”) does not include the letter “n”. (Using the standard “million-billion-trillion” scheme… no “googol” or other such things allowed).
    Eighty-eight?

Category 8: Things I actually know about Pop Music

  1. What is the name of pop group Salt n’ Pepa’s DJ/third member?

  2. What alternative band sang “Take the Skinheads Bowling” and “Where the Hell is Bill”?

  3. What song begins “Now here’s a little story I’ve got to tell/ About three bad brothers you know so well”?

  4. What group performed “Whoomp, there it is”?

  5. What song begins "(One) day when I was chillin’ in Kentucky Fried Chicken/ Just mindin’ my business, eatin’ food and finger lickin’ "

  6. What one hit wonder group also sang “Good Ship Lifestyle” and “Drip, Drip, Drip”

  7. What is the name of the most famous song by the group Barnes and Barnes?

  8. What is Vanilla Ice’s real name?

  9. Name at least two groups who have had a hit song called “Jump”
    Pointer Sisters, Van Halen,

  10. What pop group was briefly known as Johnny and the Moondogs?

Category 9: Sports

  1. What country won the 2003 Soccer Women’s World Cup?
    Germany

Category 10: Children’s Books

  1. In what book does the famous poem “Jabberwocky” occur?
    Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

  2. What collection of children’s poems includes classics such as “The Dirtiest Man in the World”, “Hector the Collector”, “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too”, and “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”?
    Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

Category 11: Musicals

  1. On the Iberian peninsula, where is most of the precipitation concentrated?
    On the plains.

Category 12: TV Shows

  1. What actress first gained fame as Angela Chase, the protagonist of my all-time favorite non-Simpsons TV show, My So Called Life?
    Claire Danes
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Good quiz! I’ll try to avoid repeating other answers.

Category 1:

  1. There’s only one S in Esa-Pekka Salonen’s first name, and he is (or was; I’m not sure if he’s still there) the chief conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. I’ve actually performed on stage with him. Young, brash, confident, and Finnish.

Category 3:

  1. For the avoidance of doubt, it was indeed Street Fighter, which also featured Jean-Claude Van Damme and Kylie Minogue. Julia played M. Bison. There is a Mortal Kombat movie (and a sequel), but it starred Christopher Lambert and a bunch of other people not worth remembering.

  2. Um… Wayne, Garth, Noah Vanderhoff (who ran “Noah’s Arcade”), Benjamin [lastname] (who, if he were an ice cream, would be “Pralines and Dick”), Stacy (aka “Psycho Hose Beast”), and Frankie Sharp (the record exec). Oh, and Chris Farley as the unnamed security guard.

Wow – that’s really sad.

  1. At first I was thinking Krull, which does have Liam Neeson in an obscure role and some actor I can’t remember in the lead, but after some consideration I think it’s Excalibur. Didn’t Helen Mirren play Morgana?
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Some more:

Category 7:

  1. I’m guessing it’s the longest word not using the letter E.
  2. Another guess: most common misspelled English words?

Category 8:

  1. The Beatles.

Category 10:

  1. The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins. Doesn’t the character also appear in The 5000 fingers of Dr. T?

Category 11:

  1. A Chorus Line – he’s the guy auditioning people.
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Category 4: The Simpsons

3. What should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who marathon?
100 tacos for 100 dollars.

**Identify the speaker of the following Simpsons quotes:

  1. Ach du lieber! Das is nicht eine booby! **
    Hitler

8. Oh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!
Homer

9. This chair be high, says I
Blackbeard the pirate

10. Oh, hi, Mr. Burns. I’m the worst worker in the world. Time to go home to my mansion and eat my lobster. [walks up to some dangerous-looking wires] What’s this? [reads sign] “Extremely High Voltage.” Well, I don’t need safety gloves, because I’m Homer Simp–
Frank “Grimey” Grimes Jr.

**3. My all time favorite arcade game is Streetfighter II. Between Streetfighter II itself and Streetfighter Alpha, which came out 5 or so years later and which I never really played, there were four other updates to SF2. Name at least 2 of them. **
SFII-Hyper edition and SFII-Turbo edition

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This has already been answered (with correct spelling and all), I just want to point out that once, when I was going to work, he sat in the seat in front of me in the bus. :wink:

The home of Lego.

Sounds like Real Tennis.

Germany with Sweden coming second.

Doctor Dolittle

Alice Through the Looking-glass

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OK, a rundown on where we stand… here are correct answers that have been given

Category 1: People with weird names

Identify the following real people (living or dead) with weird names:

  1. Siri Mullinix
    —>The backup goalie for the US women’s soccer team

  2. Reinhold Weege
    —>Created Night Court

  3. Mildred Didrikson Zaharias
    —>“Babe” Didrikson, one of the greatest female athletes of all time

  4. Gavrillo Princip
    —>Shot archduke Ferdinand, triggering the start of World War I

  5. Essa-Pekka Salonen
    —>Conductor of the LA Philharmonic (pay no attention to the misspelling behind the curtain)

  6. Tenzing Norgay
    —>along with Edumund Hillary, was the first to climb Mt. Everest

  7. Calvert DeForest
    —>Played Larry “Bud” Melman on Late Night with David Letterman

  8. Andre Rene Roussimoff
    —>Andre the Giant

Category 2: Geography

  1. Name all the countries of mainland Central America, not counting Mexico.
    —>Opus1 got them all… Beliza, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama

  2. What is the geographical meaning of the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
    —>Furthest north and south latitudes where the sun is ever directly overhead

  3. What is the claim to fame of Billund, Denmark?
    —>Home of the Lego corporation, and Legoland theme park

  4. Where is the strait of Magellan?
    —>In the southern tip of South America, between the mainland and various outlying islands, probably including Tierra Del Fuego

  5. What is the nation of Upper Volta now called?
    —>Burkina Faso

Category 3: Movies

  1. What was the last movie that Raul Julia appeared in before his untimely death?
    —>Street Fighter

  2. What was the last movie that Phil Hartman appeared in before his untimely death?
    —>Small Soldiers

  3. Name at least 6 characters from one of my favorite movies of all time, Wayne’s World
    —>Gyrate gave a correct answer… Among others, there’s Wayne, Garth, Cassandra, Stacey, Benjamin (Rob Lowe), Russell (Benjamin’s sidekick), Noah and Mimi VanderHoff, Officer Koharski, Phil and Terry (two of Wayne and Garth’s buddies), and Old Man Withers, the guy who runs the haunted amusement park

  4. The worst movie I can ever remember seeing in the theater, the only movie I can recall ever falling asleep during, starred Alec Baldwin as “Mr. Conductor”, and Peter Fonda as “Grandpa Burnett Stone”. Name that movie.
    —>Amarinth almost got this one… the correct answer is Thomas and the Magic Railroad

  5. What is Inigo Montoya’s father’s first name?
    —>Domingo

  6. During the filming of what movie (one of my father’s favorites) did Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins fall in love?
    —>Bull Durham

  7. What John Boorman epic features stars the obscure Nigel Terry, but also features Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart?
    —>Excalibur

Category 4: The Simpsons

  1. What’s the worst name Moe ever heard?
    —>Opus1 almost got this one… the correct answer is Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo

  2. What recurring character was introduced as a one-shot joke at a street sale in the episode when George Bush moves in across the street?
    —>Disco Stu

  3. What should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who marathon?
    —>100 tacos for 100 dollars (or as it was put during my party, “a wheelbarrow full of tacos”)

  4. What does Ralph Wiggum’s cat’s breath smell like?
    —>cat food, of course

  5. What famous actor was credited as “Sam Etic”, a play on “semitic”, when he guest voiced?
    —>Dustin Hoffman

Identify the speaker of the following Simpsons quotes:

  1. Ach du lieber! Das is nicht eine booby!
    —>Hitler

  2. Oh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!
    —>Homer

  3. This chair be high, says I
    —>Blackbeard the Pirate

  4. Oh, hi, Mr. Burns. I’m the worst worker in the world. Time to go home to my mansion and eat my lobster. [walks up to some dangerous-looking wires] What’s this? [reads sign] “Extremely High Voltage.” Well, I don’t need safety gloves, because I’m Homer Simp–
    —>Frank “Grimey” Grimes. (Although a bunch of people seem to think it was Frank Jr. Am I missing something? Was the original Grimey actually Frank Jr. and his son was Frank III? In any case, this was definitely famous original Grimey.)

Category 5: History

  1. Name the decisive World War II naval battle in which the US, which had previously never achieved more than a draw, crushed the Japanese, sinking four carriers.
    —>Battle of Midway

  2. Who was the biggest star on the minor league Montreal Royals in the 1946 season?
    —>Jackie Robinson
    Category 6: Tricky Math

  3. A school has 100 students, numbered 1 to 100, and 100 lockers, also numbered, one for each student. The lockers are all closed. Student #1 then opens all the lockers. Student #2 then closes all the even numbered lockers. Student #3 then goes to all the lockers whose numbers are multiples of 3 and swaps their state. That is, closes them if they’re open, and opens them if they’re closed. Similarly, student #4 does the same thing for all the multiples of 4, and so forth, for all 100 students. At the end of this process, which locker doors are open?
    —>the perfect squares

Category 7: Fun with Words

  1. What is unique about the word UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY?
    —>The longest word in the English language without the letter E

  2. What is the significance of the following collection of words: DUMBBELL, OCCURRENCE, MEMENTO, FRUSTUM, COLLECTIBLE, AMATEUR, DAIQUIRI, PASTIME, ACCIDENTALLY, PLAYWRIGHT, EMBARRASS, ACQUIT, HARASS, and PRONUNCIATION?
    —>A collection of the most frequently misspelled words

  3. What is the largest number whose name, when written out as words (ie “seven hundred twelve”) does not include the letter “n”. (Using the standard “million-billion-trillion” scheme… no “googol” or other such things allowed).
    —>Eighty-eight

  4. What is the meaning of the following table of words and numbers?
    THE 64,041
    AND 51,714
    OF 34,755
    TO 13,643
    THAT 12,916
    IN 12,674
    HE 10,432
    UNTO 9,002
    I 8,853
    HIS 8,478
    A 8,284
    LORD 7,836
    THEY 7,377
    BE 7,012
    IS 6,992
    HIM 6,667
    NOT 6,597
    IT 6,131
    WITH 6,015
    ALL 5,621
    —>The words which appear most frequently in the bible, with their frequencies

Category 8: Things I actually know about Pop Music

  1. What is the name of pop group Salt n’ Pepa’s DJ/third member?
    —>Spinderella

  2. What song begins “Now here’s a little story I’ve got to tell/ About three bad brothers you know so well”?
    —>Paul Revere (by the Beastie Boys)

  3. What group performed “Whoomp, there it is”?
    —>Tag Team

  4. What song begins "(One) day when I was chillin’ in Kentucky Fried Chicken/ Just mindin’ my business, eatin’ food and finger lickin’ "
    —>You be illin’

  5. What is the name of the most famous song by the group Barnes and Barnes?
    —>Fish Heads

  6. Name at least two groups who have had a hit song called “Jump”
    —>There are many correct answers. The two I actually knew about were Van Halen and Kriss Kross

  7. What pop group was briefly known as Johnny and the Moondogs?
    —>The Beatles

Category 9: Sports

  1. Who hit the 3-pointer which won the 1993 NBA finals for Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls over Charles Barkley’s Phoenix Suns?
    —>John Paxson

  2. Who holds the record for the highest single-season batting average in major league baseball since 1920?
    —>Roger Hornsby

  3. What is the name of the obscure but ancient sport whose unique asymmetrical playing area, which includes doors and windows which have specific meanings when the ball hits them, is said to be modeled after a medieval town square, or perhaps the courtyard of a castle or monestary?
    —>Floater called it “Real Tennis”, but it’s better known as “Court Tennis” in the US

  4. What country won the 2003 Soccer Women’s World Cup?
    —>Germany

Category 10: Children’s Books
2. What famous children’s series was written by Hugh Lofting?
—>Doctor Dolittle

  1. In what book does the famous poem “Jabberwocky” occur?
    —>Through the Looking Glass (or, to be precise, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There)

  2. My favorite Dr. Suess book introduces the character of Bartholomew, later featured in “Bartholomew and the Oobleck”. Name it.
    —>The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

  3. What collection of children’s poems includes classics such as “The Dirtiest Man in the World”, “Hector the Collector”, “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too”, and “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”?
    —>Where the Sidewalk Ends

Category 11: Musicals
3. What musical’s main character is named Zach, and spends almost the entire show as a disembodied voice from off-stage?
—>A Chorus Line

  1. In what popular musical does a character show up who is also featured in the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    —>Les Miz

  2. On the Iberian peninsula, where is most of the precipitation concentrated?
    —>On the Plain

Category 12: TV Shows

  1. Friends and ER, the two cornerstones of NBC’s “must-see TV” Thursday, have something odd in common. One of the main characters from one show has precisely the same name, first and last, as a recurring character (across multiple seasons) from the other. What is that name?
    —>Rachel Green(e)

  2. What actress first gained fame as Angela Chase, the protagonist of my all-time favorite non-Simpsons TV show, My So Called Life?
    —>Claire Danes

Leaving the following unanswered questions
Category 1: People with weird names

Identify the following real people (living or dead) with weird names:
1.Veerle Casteleyn

  1. Ruth Plumly Thompson

Category 3: Movies

  1. What was the previous, and first, movie from Peyton Reed, director of the frothy romantic comedy Down With Love?

  2. Three of the voice actors from another of my favorite movies, The Iron Giant, are quite well known. Name two of them.

  3. Name the Asian character actor who has played a thug in just about every movie imaginable, including The Scorpion King, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and Big Trouble in Little China, but whose arguably greatest role was as Genghis Khan in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Category 4: The Simpsons
Identify the speaker of the following Simpsons quotes:

  1. I was so gay… but I couldn’t tell anyone

Category 5: History
2. Name the top Nazi, generally believed to be Hitler’s chosen successor, who was killed by Czech partisans in 1942.

  1. What New York City celebration, on Thursday, May 24, 1883, was later compared in scope and excitement to the ticker tape parade that greeted the returning moon astronauts.

  2. With what historical event are Ferdinand De Lesseps and Philippe Bunau-Varilla associated?

Category 6: Tricky Math
2. Here’s an example of two triangles being drawn using 4 straight lines (the triangles overlap, obviously). {Here there is an illustration of what is basically a capital “A” sitting on a line). What is the greatest number of triangles that could be drawn using 5 straight lines?

  1. There’s a famous, and difficult, math puzzle in which you have 13 coins, one of which is counterfeit, and is either lighter or heavier than the others, but you don’t know which. You have a standard balance scale, and are asked to determine which coin is counterfeit using the scale only 3 times. It’s difficult, but solvable. If you had 14 coins, it would be unsolvable. What’s the greatest number of coins for which the problem could be solved if you could use the scale 4 times?

  2. The number 12345678901234567899876543210987654321 is a multiple of 11. In fact, it is 11 times 1122334445566778899988776655544332211. Suppose we wanted to add a digit to the middle of it, ie, make it 1234567890123456789?9876543210987654321 and have it still be a multiple of 11. What digit(s), if any, would work?

  3. What is the next number in this sequence: 10001, 122, 101, 32, 25, 23, 21, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10…

Category 7: Fun with Words

  1. What is special about the country name UNITED ARAB EMIRATES?

Category 8: Things I actually know about Pop Music
2. What alternative band sang “Take the Skinheads Bowling” and “Where the Hell is Bill”?

  1. What one hit wonder group also sang “Good Ship Lifestyle” and “Drip, Drip, Drip”

  2. What is Vanilla Ice’s real name?

Category 9: Sports
4. When the NBA named its 50 greatest players of all time, 47 of the 50 assembled at the NBA all star game. Of the three who were absent, one was dead, one was old and infirm, and one was severely criticized for his absence. Name him.

Category 10: Children’s Books

  1. Name the 3 original books in the “Tripods” series by John Christopher
    Category 11: Musicals

  2. Why did the kids put jam on the cat?

  3. What musical includes the lyric “I’ll live inside you forever/ With Satan himself by my side”

Category 12: TV Shows

  1. What TV show featured “Pea Boy” and “Peggy, the Foul Mouthed Chambermaid”?

  2. Who plays Triumph: The Insult Comic Dog?

  3. On SNL, what was The Church Lady’s first name?

Category 13: Video/Computer Games

  1. In the classic text-graphics dungeon adventure games Hack and Nethack, what object is the player attempting to retrieve from the dungeon?

  2. What early arcade fighting game featured a judge awarding half and full points?

  3. My all time favorite arcade game is Streetfighter II. Between Streetfighter II itself and Streetfighter Alpha, which came out 5 or so years later and which I never really played, there were four other updates to SF2. Name at least 2 of them

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Vin Diesel is the Giant
Jennifer Aniston is the mom.

Chumbawumba

Robert Van Winkle

Karate Champ?

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Correct, correct, correct, and correct.

(For the record, the other well-known voice actor in The Iron Giant is Harry Connick Jr. as the beatnick.)

18

Dellesupps and Varilla -Panama canal

19

  1. Tenzing Norgay
    Mount Everest - Edmind Hillary’s companion.

  2. Name all the countries of mainland Central America, not counting Mexico.
    Nicaragua, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala

  3. What is the geographical meaning of the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?

The Northern and Southern boundaries of the sun’s arc.

  1. What was the last movie that Raul Julia appeared in before his untimely death?
    The Addams Family.

  2. Three of the voice actors from another of my favorite movies, The Iron Giant, are quite well known. Name two of them.
    Harry Connick, Jr. and Vin Diesel

  3. The worst movie I can ever remember seeing in the theater, the only movie I can recall ever falling asleep during, starred Alec Baldwin as “Mr. Conductor”, and Peter Fonda as “Grandpa Burnett Stone”. Name that movie.
    Thomas The Steam Engine?

  4. What is Inigo Montoya’s father’s first name?

Domingo

  1. During the filming of what movie (one of my father’s favorites) did Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins fall in love?

Dead Man Walking
9. What John Boorman epic features stars the obscure Nigel Terry, but also features Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart?

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover?
4. What does Ralph Wiggum’s cat’s breath smell like?

Cat food.

  1. A school has 100 students, numbered 1 to 100, and 100 lockers, also numbered, one for each student. The lockers are all closed. Student #1 then opens all the lockers. Student #2 then closes all the even numbered lockers. Student #3 then goes to all the lockers whose numbers are multiples of 3 and swaps their state. That is, closes them if they’re open, and opens them if they’re closed. Similarly, student #4 does the same thing for all the multiples of 4, and so forth, for all 100 students. At the end of this process, which locker doors are open?

The prime numbers.

  1. Here’s an example of two triangles being drawn using 4 straight lines (the triangles overlap, obviously). {Here there is an illustration of what is basically a capital “A” sitting on a line). What is the greatest number of triangles that could be drawn using 5 straight lines?

4

  1. What is special about the country name UNITED ARAB EMIRATES?

It has a business name in it.

  1. What is the meaning of the following table of words and numbers?
    THE 64,041
    AND 51,714
    OF 34,755
    TO 13,643
    THAT 12,916
    IN 12,674
    HE 10,432
    UNTO 9,002
    I 8,853
    HIS 8,478
    A 8,284
    LORD 7,836
    THEY 7,377
    BE 7,012
    IS 6,992
    HIM 6,667
    NOT 6,597
    IT 6,131
    WITH 6,015
    ALL 5,621

of times in the Bible.

  1. Name at least two groups who have had a hit song called “Jump”
    Van Halen and that other band with a hit “Jump.”

  2. What pop group was briefly known as Johnny and the Moondogs?
    The Beatles.

  3. Who holds the record for the highest single-season batting average in major league baseball since 1920?

Ty Cobb

  1. When the NBA named its 50 greatest players of all time, 47 of the 50 assembled at the NBA all star game. Of the three who were absent, one was dead, one was old and infirm, and one was severely criticized for his absence. Name him.

Michael Jordan

  1. What country won the 2003 Soccer Women’s World Cup?

The U.S.

  1. In what book does the famous poem “Jabberwocky” occur?

Through The Looking Glass.

  1. My favorite Dr. Suess book introduces the character of Bartholomew, later featured in “Bartholomew and the Oobleck”. Name it.
    Red Fish Blue Fish?

  2. What musical includes the lyric “I’ll live inside you forever/ With Satan himself by my side”

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

  1. On the Iberian peninsula, where is most of the precipitation concentrated?
    The Plains.

  2. What actress first gained fame as Angela Chase, the protagonist of my all-time favorite non-Simpsons TV show, My So Called Life?
    Claire Danes.

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Category 5: History

  1. Name the top Nazi, generally believed to be Hitler’s chosen successor, who was killed by Czech partisans in 1942.

Reinhard Heydrich

Category 7: Fun with Words

  1. What is special about the country name UNITED ARAB EMIRATES?

I would guess that it’s not the name of an actual country. IIRR, Egypt and Syria united under that name. Isn’t it still used by one of those country’s that border Saudi Arabia on the South, near Yemen?
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