Standard Trials Pub Quiz
Lab Coat Guy, Game Guy, Beer Guy.
We scored 11 out of 20. One team scored 12, and two tied with 13.
The Missed Questions
- What play based on 'The Knight's Tale' in Chaucer's 'The Cantebury Tales' is attributed to Shakespeare and John Fletcher?
- In which country were the 1994 Winter Olympics held?
- What actor plays a game of chess against Death in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 masterpiece 'The Seventh Seal'?
- Tashkent is the capital city of what country that was formerly part of the Soviet Union?
- Name the 1999 Tim Burton film starring Johnny Depp.
- What sauropod dinosaur was first described based on fossils found in the Grand River Canyon as 'the largest known dinosaur' in 1903?
- Name the Oakland A's veteran center fielder who stars most games.
- What John Carpenter film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2006?
- Who wrote 'Just So Stories for Little Children', published in 1902?
- (Tie Break) Miguel Cabrera had the highest batting average in the 2013 Major League Baseball season. Michael Cuddyer came in second. What was his batting average?
- Twelfth Knight. I think we'd have a chance if Book Guy was in for this week. Unfortunately, it's left to three people who only know the really common plays. We figured that it was probably a mistaken identity play, and/or a comedy, so we flipped between As You Like It, and our actual answer. They key fact is probably the dual attribution thing that I haven't seen before.
- I am proud of this one. I was pretty sure that the 1994 Winter Olympics were in Lillehammer. I remember this from when I was in high school, and late-night host David Letterman sending his mother to do live reports from Lillehammer all during that time. We even worked out every summer and winter Olympics from 1988 to 2014. And then we wrote Lillehammer because we didn't read that the question asked for the country.
- Börk B. Börkman. We passed on this question repeatedly, having little chance of getting the right answer. We even tried the gambit of 'Name any Swedish actor' from that time, and drew a blank. In this case, just make up something. And talk about the Swedish Chef from Muppets Most Wanted
- Turkmenistan. There is a map of Europe in the pub, and the rules openly state that consulting it is allowed. Unfortunately, Tashkent is outside the boundaries of the map. It was a toss-up between Uzbekistan and our answer, and we guessed wrong.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Yes. Another week of a Johnny Depp / Tim Burton question. I even looked up a list of films they've done together while writing the last blog entry. But I didn't have the years off hand, so I took a guess again.
- Ultrasaurus. I remember this from a book that I read as a kid, as many kids do, because I like dinosaurs. Unfortunately, the history is more complicated, and the bones that were called an Ultrasauros (note the spelling) was actually part of two difference species, including the Brachiosaurus. (Also note that the Grand River is now called the Colorado River, but the Grand Canyon and the Grand River Canyon are two different things)
- [Yoenis] Cespedes. Even our baseball guy does not followed the Oakland A's, so we had to take an educated guess. And it was not correct. And sadly, he is no longer wearing the afro.
- The Thing. We read the question correctly to note that 2006 was the year it was selected for preservation, not the year it came out. So we thought about his most well-known movie. Alas, Beer Guy actually mentioned "Wait, he didn't do Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street, right?" Apparently, he had an inkling that it was a horror film franchise, but didn't think of another.
- L. Frank Baum. This was an attempt to name a contemporary author who wrote something for children. Although, after we learned the answer, Game Guy did mention that reading Rudyard Kipling now is a little be uncomfortable, concerning some of Kipling's views towards minorities. I tend to agree with my friends view. Some of the poems do not suit me today.
- (Tie Break) .328 We weren't in the tie break, coming in fourth. But we were in a previous tie-break about Cabrera's batting average, so we played for fun. We were actually closer than both teams, so that's some comfort.
- What name is available on mini-license plate souvenirs in Itchy & Scratchy Land much to the chagrin of Bart on TV's 'The Simpsons'?
- Who co-wrote and produced Iggy Pop's late-70s albums 'The Idiot' and 'Lust for Life'?
- Bort. My son is also named Bort.
- Davie Bowie. Look! We finally got a music question correct! Without our music guy! (This was a very educated guess, since Bowie did a whole lot of things during that era).
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