Standard Trials Pub Quiz
Lab Coat Guy, Game Guy, Music Guy
We scored 11 out of 20, which was enough for a tie for First Place (eventually losing on a tiebreaker question)
The Missed Questions
- What was Elvis Presley's father's first name?
- Who scored the lone goal in the brutal men's semifinal Olympic hockey game played between the US & Canada this past Friday?
- Name the Miami Marlins superstar pitcher who was named the 2013 National League Rookie of the Year.
- What's the name of the Irish Pub featured in TV's "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"?
- How many sides does a triacontagon have?
- The smallest species of sharks known to exist belongs to what canine-named family of sharks?
- What was the name of the fauxhawked idiot in the ShamWow! ads?
- What band shirt does Beavis wear on "Beavis and Butthead"?
- What's the name of Google's biotech company focused on anti-aging science?
- (Tie Break) San Jose Sharks Center Joe Pavelski (yay) and Anaheim Center Ryan Getzlaf (boo) are tied for fourth place for number of goals this season. How many goals did they score?
- Vernon
- Jamie Benn
- Jose Fernandez
- Paddy's Pub
- 30
- Dogfish Shark (the smallest shark is the Dwarf Lanternshark)
- Vince Offer (give yourself full marks if you got either name)
- Metallica
- Calico
- (Tie Break) 29 (as of February 24, 2014). Current stats at NHL.com
- Aaron. We had no idea on this. The guess was that maybe Elvis's middle name was from his dad, but actually "Elvis" is his dad's middle name.
- Parise. That was a panic answer. Zack Parise was the captain of the US Olympic hockey team (as given on a previous quiz), so really, we had no idea. (I couldn't be bothered to actually watch the game. Or read on it.)
- Chuck Kensington. Music Guy and I are both fans of the San Francisco Giants. However, neither of us follow other teams in the baseball (occasionally our rivals). Also, no one cares about the Miami Marlins (if there is anyone good on that team, they get traded for money). So, this is a literal "couldn't be bothered" question.
- Flaherty's. None of us watched the show, so we picked a plausible name of an Irish pub.
- 300. The math questions usually go to me. "Tri" of course means three, but I've never seen "cont" as a root. Perhaps this was a typo for "centi"? Really, no proper idea. Which is why reading the higher names for polygons (or higher alkanes) was kinda neat.
- Wolf. This turned into "name an canine word". Our paper had "wolf", "dingo", "hyena", "dog", among others. We hadn't gotten to compound words, before running out of time. I don't think we would've said "dogfish" even if we wrote it down.
- Chuck Kensington. We vaguely had a sense of the guy, but other than "Billy Mays 2.0", we had nothing. So we made up a name. Poorly.
- Megadeth. We knew that one of the shirts was AC/DC. I guessed Megadeth, Music Guy went for Metallica or AC/DC. After a lot of back-and-forth, we conclused that Butthead wore AC/DC, but took a guess on the "M" band.
- Lazarus. No idea. "Name something that sounds life extending". I still have no idea what Calico is going to do.
- (Tie Break) 19. I immediately guessed 28, but then withdrew the guess on perhaps being too high. Game Guy guessed 18. The hockey season was more than half over, so I wanted to go a little high, but wasn't sure. I was happy with the team vote of 19, though. (Really, I should've stuck with the fact that if you're fourth on the overall list, you're probably really high. Oh well)
What electronic prog band performed the scores for the movies "Thief", "Legend", and "Sorcerer", among others.
Tangerine Dream. We never score on the music questions, but today we had a Music Guy filling in. This was a desperately needed point, and I was so glad to get a music question right for a change. (I only recognize the name from my knowledge of the Homestar Runner universe, and the computer of The Cheat)
Post your scores in the comments! Tell me how much smarter you are!
