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Triviotic: Last Night’s Answers

April 29, 2008 – 8:27 am

The returning champion, the Dirty Hoes, were victorious again this week, narrowly defeating the second-place team, Shake-N-Bake, by one question in the last round.

If you missed it, you missed out on a good time. After the jump, the questions from last night (and the corresponding answers below):

I. Current Events

The following ten items are statements about the week in news. Tell me if the statements are true (a) or false (b).

1. About 1,000 people have been evacuated in wildfires in the Sierra Madre mountains of Southern California.
2. Oil prices soared on Monday to an all-time high of $150 per barrel.
3. Barack Obama declined an invitation for a face-to-face, unmoderated debate with Hillary Clinton.
4. After a shark attack on Friday morning, officials near San Diego closed a long stretch of beaches for three days.
5. A Killer Whale at Orlando’s Sea World died on Saturday after colliding with another whale in mid-air.
6. 39 workers at a Whirlpool plant in Evansville, Indiana have been suspended for drinking on company property.
7.  The strongest earthquake in more than 50 years hit Reno, Nevada on Friday night, measuring 4.7 on the Richter Scale.
8. Actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for perjury.
9. The White House revealed intelligence that suggests that Syria was developing a nuclear reactor with the assistance of Iran.
10. Sam’s Club and Costco announced last week that they were limiting bulk rice purchases because of recent supply and demand trends. 

II. Geography

The following ten items are names of neighborhoods in New York City. Choose the location of the neighborhood based on the borough in which it is located. For Manhattan, choose A. For Brooklyn, choose B. For Queens, choose C. For The Bronx, choose D. For Staten Island, choose E.

11. Inwood
12. Bayside
13. Marble Hill
14. Richmond Hill
15. Throgs Neck
16. East New York
17. Stapleton
18. San Juan Hill
19. Wakefield
20. Brownsville

III. Art

Below are ten letters. Identify the corporate or product logo in which they are contained.

IV. Before & After School Activities

In this round, I will provide a clue with two answers and a common word. You will have to answer with the correct phrase that combines the two answers. For example:

- Danny Tanner sings the 1992 hit “Jump Around”

Answer: Full House + House of Pain = Full House of Pain.

31. Secretary of State snaps, then crackles and pops
32. Military Action figure coaches the Penn State football team
33. Pulp Fiction star plays 11 seasons behind home plate for the Yankees
34. The Color Purple author will give you a roundhouse kick on her CBS TV series
35. Animated MTV teens join Howard Hesseman’s 1980s high school honors program
36. Pete Townshend answers a question asked by the Baha Men in 2000
37. Jason Lee sitcom serves as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969
38. Elton John party tune about the Notre Dame football team
39. Top-Dollar bridal gown designer scores a top-ten hit with “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”
40. Big-top Montreal-based Performance troupe stars Punky Brewster in the center ring

V. Study Hall

This is the miscellaneous trivia round, coming from all subjects. Each question in this round is worth 2 points, so it’s anybody’s game.

41. What is the name of the star more commonly referred to as The North Star?
42. The term Acrophobia is used to describe the fear of what?
43. What Major League Baseball team plays their home games at Progressive Field?
44. What two bands were honored on the t-shirts worn by MTV’s Beavis and Butthead?
45. Who was the youngest-ever network news anchor when he began anchoring ABC’s network news in 1965?
46. In finance, what does the abbreviation IRA stand for?
47. Name two of the six sovereign European nations that are smaller than the state of Rhode Island.
48. Who preceded Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show from 1996 to 1998?
49. What country’s dollar is the least-valued currency, valued at an exchange rate of 100 million to 1 U.S. dollar?
50. What other Playboy Playmate replaced Jenny McCarthy as host of MTV’s Singled Out?

Answer Key 

1. a  /  2. b ($120)  /  3. a  /  4. a  /  5. b (dolphin)  /  6. b (smoking)  /  7. a  /  8. b (tax evasion)  /  9. b (North Korea)  /  10. a 

11. a  /  12. c  /  13. a  /  14. c  /  15. d  /  16. b  /  17. e  /  18. a  /  19. d  /  20. b

21. Dell  /  22. Wal-Mart  /  23. Kool-Aid  /  24. Virgin  /  25. Ikea  /  26. Gap  /  27. Subway  /  28. Wendy’s  /  29. Fedex  /  30. Burger King

31. Condoleeza Rice Krispies /  32. G.I. Joe Paterno  /  33. Uma Thurman Munson  /  34. Alice Walker Texas Ranger  /  35. Beavis and Butthead of the Class  /  36. The Who Let The Dogs Out  /  37. My Name is Earl Warren  /  38. Saturday Night’s All Right for Fighting Irish  /  39. Vera Wang Chung  /  40. Cirque du Soleil Moon Frye   

41. Polaris  / 42. heights  /  43. Cleveland Indians / 44. AC/DC & Metallica  /  45. Peter Jennings  /  46. Individual Retirement Account  / 47. Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra, the Vatican / 48. Craig Kilborn  /  49. Zimbabwe  /  50. Carmen Electra