Super-Tough Trivia, Final Questions

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here are the remaining 15 questions of my super-tough trivia challenge:
86. Who is Shawn Eckhardt?

  1. In what college town will you find the (imho) greatest sandwich shop in the world, Hoagie Haven?

  2. In what computer puzzle game do many of the levels involve, as their goal, getting Mel home?

  3. Who’s first name (or perhaps middle name, it’s a bit vague) is “Cantabrigian”?

  4. What classic computer RPG has its climax at “Base Cochise”?

  5. What is TMA-1?

  6. What’s the great controversy, with many scientists weighing in on both sides, in James P. Hogan’s scifi novel Inherit the Stars?

  7. Who wrote Bowling Alone?

  8. Who is Sudsy Monchik?

  9. Who was the most succesful third party candidate in the 1980 presidential election?

  10. What’s more powerful than Madalto, Mahalito and Makanito? So powerful, in fact, that its name is untranslatable?

  11. What do the numbers 956, 8860, 8880, and 8448 have in common?

  12. In Back to the Future, the street that Doc lives on in 1955 has what name in 1985?

  13. After Buffy’s pom-pom blew to bits, what happened to Mitsy?

  14. Before Drummer Hoff fired it off, who brought the rammer?

As-yet-unanswered questions from previous round (come on, someone on the dope has to know these things…):

  1. What is the name of the scifi series whose first book is The Breaking of Northwall?

  2. What is the significance of the following collection of names: Dave, Maxine, Herman, Bob, Johnson, Dennis?

  3. After the network switch, what was Peggy the Foul Mouthed Chambermaid known as? [Additional info: shortly after moving to CBS, the character’s name was changed, at least for a while. It was later changed back. I’m looking for the name it was briefly changed to. And it was not the Bookmobile Lady, who was played by the same actress.]

  4. According to the rules of Hearts used at the national championships held in Las Vegas in 1999, to what score is a game played?

  5. When Brian asked Graham Chase for romantic advice, what did he pretend he was asking about?

  6. 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?

  7. What misreading of handwriting contributed to Grace’s teacher being falsely accused of having an inappropriate relationship with her?

  8. 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?

  9. 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.

  10. What major, but fictional, contribution did Pug Henry make towards the US success in World War II?

  11. 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, _____________?”

  12. What is it that Wes Harrison said he’d always love to see happen involving a cop car?

  13. What relatively well known type of animal has a little known variety called the “Pink Fairy”?

  14. What is the “Frenet Trihedron”?

  15. In what part of the thespian arts does Mortimer specialize?

  16. Who misspelled “Conklin” as “Konklin”?

  17. In Carmina Burana, there are two male soloists, one of whom sings a bunch of songs, and one of whom sings only one song. What is that one song about?

  18. What arcade game featured characters such as Pink Leopold, Don Pacos and Sheila the Thief?

  19. In the Bio of a Space Tyrant series, who lived on earth?

  20. What is the Space Infrared Telescope Facility now known as?

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62 is the family Dasyatidae, specifically Dasypus, the armadillo.

Is 85 the Very Large Array of Antennas, better known as the VLA?

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Aaackk. Got my vertebrate classifications mixed up. Family Dasypodidae, genus Dasypus. Dasyatidae are the skates and rays.

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91 : TMA-1 is the monolith found on the moon in “2001 : A Space Odyssey”

99 : Mitsy’s head just did the splits.

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Upon googling, I see that it is genus Chlamyphorus, not Dasypus.

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In Back to the Future, the street that Doc lives on in 1955 has what name in 1985?
Tannen Street?

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I really don’t know any of them, but points to you for including My So-Called Life as a question. I think the answer to #27 is something about the wallpaper they were putting up in Angela’s parents’ bedroom.

#31–damn me for not remembering! Something about her eyes–“you have the brownest eyes?”

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Princeton, NJ

Robert Putnam

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  1. Wasteland.
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he is a professional racquetball player

11

The song is Olim lacus colueram (“once I dwelt on a lake”), and is sung by a swan being roasted on a spit.

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77. In the Bio of a Space Tyrant series, who lived on earth?

India + everyone who didn’t fancy colonising a planet. (I assume that’s what you’re asking - or do I have to try to remember specific people.)

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Captain Bammer brought the rammer.

14

That would be The Incredible Machine, by Dynamix. I remember one of the levels involved feeding five Mels to five alligators.

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  1. Wasteland? (It’s been ages…)

  2. It’s a nifty little spirally 3D curve. Don’t remeber much else…

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  1. John Anderson

Haj

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He’s the guy who was hired to whack Nancy Kerrigan on the knee. Coincidentally, 5 years earlier, the movie Batmanfeatures a crooked cop named Eckhardt, and the actor playing him bears a striking physical resemblance to Tonya Harding’s future hitman.

Darn you Antonius Block, this was the only other one I knew!

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  1. Anderson wasn;t a third-party candidate, was he? I don’t think he had a party; he was merely an independant. I’m going to guess either Gus Hall or Ronald Regan (on the assumption that Regan was also the nominee for some small statewide parties, like New York’s Conservative Party).

  2. John F. Kennedy Street. Or maybe Blvd.

–Cliffy

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  1. I think it’s John F. Kennedy Drive
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  1. An astronaut was discovered on the moon, an astronaut who’d obviously been dead for millennia. The controversy lay in the explanation: were there humanoids travelling in our solar system while Earth humans were still primitive?

  2. His address is 1646 Riverside Drive, Hill Valley, California 95420