For my 1,000th post, I started a super-tough trivia contest, which I posted some of in a thread last week. Here’s more, and I’ll continue to post additional questions in this thread.
What is the most common slang term for Tosevites?
What book advises you not to hire normal modern teenagers as babysitters, but instead to hire the kind of teenager who attends “Our Lady of Maximum Discomfort” high school, and who wants to grow up to be a nun?
What is the alma mater of famous rich old guy J. Howard Marshall (of Anna Nicole Smith fame)?
What is the significance of the supreme court case “Hazelwood vs. Kuhlmeier”?
What is the name of the award that the National Scholastic Press Association bestows on the best high school newspapers in the country?
Fill in the blank in this (paraphrased) quote from the controversial Andrew Dice Clay-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live: “…Jeers to SNL for its sexist employment agency skit, in which a woman is offered the job of hooker, while a man is offered the higher-paying job of lookout. What’s next, _____________?”
Who was the first team that Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls played against after he came out of his first “retirement”?
What was the clock speed of the 80286 chip in the original IBM PC AT?
What event cost $500 to attend in San Francisco on Sunday, May 16, 1999?
What later-famous actress starred in The Next Karate Kid?
What book features the line “They licked their spoons and looked around and licked their spoons again”?
What was the first book in the now-omnipresent “__________ For Dummies” line?
Four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk in the decisive Battle of Midway. Name them.
In the board game Acquire, is it possible to achieve a board state in which the game can not be finished? If the size of the board changed, would that affect the answer? Explain.
What novel has a main character whose name is a delightful play on words, in that both his first and last names are (perhaps with minor spelling modifications) English words which mean “main character of a book”?
What scifi novel’s climax involves a courtroom revelation in which indistinguishable high-frequency sounds are pitched down until they are human-audible?
Who travels in Riverworld via the “Suicide Express”?
What is the name of the simple “trick” deck which allows a quite inexperienced magician to make every card in the deck appear to become the same card, and then revert to normalcy?
What does “Baki’s Curse” do?
What is the name of the girl for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland?
And here are as-yet unanswered questions from my previous thread:
How was Poll different from his 9 “siblings”? (For extra credit, name them)
What is the name of the scifi series whose first book is The Breaking of Northwall?
What is the name of the bad guys in the classic computer game LodeRunner?
What is the significance of the following collection of names: Dave, Maxine, Herman, Bob, Johnson, Dennis?
After the network switch, what was Peggy the Foul Mouthed Chambermaid known as?
What were the 4 original model numbers of IBM’s PS/2?
What is the origin of the name “Emond’s Field”?
According to the rules of Hearts used at the national championships held in Las Vegas in 1999, to what score is a game played?
When Brian asked Graham Chase for romantic advice, what did he pretend he was asking about?
J. Barkley Rosser, Sr., held what controversial post during the late '60s? And (this one requires either remembering every fact about myself that I’ve ever posted on the SDMB or some good guessing) why do I, personally, care?
What misreading of handwriting contributed to Grace’s teacher being falsely accused of having an inappropriate relationship with her?
What is the name of the male cat in the Cats who isn’t the subject of a specific song, but is one of the leaders of the Jellicle Cats, and fights Macavity?
What will happen if all the ploys we’ve picked to really work to bring to pass occur?
Name two video games that John Connor was seen playing in the arcade in Terminator 2: Judgment Day [One of them was identified as Afterburner, the other has not yet been named]
One of the main characters in SM Stirling’s excellent Island in the Sea of Time was named after a real, but little-known, historical figure who was in many ways similar. (At least, I assume the naming was intentional… I doubt it’s just a coincidence). Name him.
What is a “Fyunch Click”?
What major, but fictional, contribution did Pug Henry make towards the US success in World War II?
This one I knew by heart from the stunning narration of Leonard Graves in “Victory at Sea.” It goes something like this: “Kagi – sunk. Soryu – sunk. Akagi – sunk. Hiryu – smashed and sinking.”
The Hiryu was damaged badly, then actually sunk 3 days after the battle by a Japanese submarine on June 7 because it was adrift and uncontrollable.
I knew the Hillary Swank one, but otherwise my only other decent guess is “DOS for Dummies”. There are a couple of others in there that I knew and have since forgotten, but most I have no clue.
He was, I believe, head of the Center for Mathematics @ UW-Madison. As to why this was controversial, I haven’t a clue. Counting on his hands too often? I’m guessing you currently serve in said post, or enjoy cheese.
Haverford or TCU.
Hilary Swank.
Contact? It didn’t happen in the movie, but it sounds right.
14. After the network switch, what was Peggy the Foul Mouthed Chambermaid known as?
Peggy the Foul Mouthed Chambermaid was a CBS Late Show with David Letterman Character. Before that she was the ‘Bookmobile Lady’ on the Late Show when it was on NBC.
**55. What novel has a main character whose name is a delightful play on words, in that both his first and last names are (perhaps with minor spelling modifications) English words which mean “main character of a book”?**Hiro Protagonist in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
39. What is a “Fyunch Click”?
A Motie mediator assigned to study and emulate a master or human. From Larry Niven’s (& Pournelle’s?) “Mote in God’s Eye”. Go read it, all of you philistines
What is the alma mater of famous rich old guy J. Howard Marshall (of Anna Nicole Smith fame)?
Yale, class of 1931
What is the name of the award that the National Scholastic Press Association bestows on the best high school newspapers in the country?
Pacemakers
What book features the line “They licked their spoons and looked around and licked their spoons again”?
The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in it
And here are as-yet unanswered questions from my previous thread:
11. What is the name of the bad guys in the classic computer game LodeRunner?
The Mad Monks
