Trivia 12/6

Trivia time it's trivia time it's tri vee ah TIIIME!
Sorry I'm late this week folks, I was stuck in 1871 making sure that President Arglaban's (#68) great^9 grandfather wasn't crushed by a rolling ball of moose parts. Long story. 

Let's get started!
Bear in mind, this was a game for SUNDAY, 12/6

1.1

1. Kicking things off with a nod to the Christmas Season, what did Saint Nikolaos the Wonderworker, the famously generous saint who was the inspiration for the modern santa claus, do today in 343?
2. In how many forms of communication is famous droid C-3PO fluent?
3. In current events news that isn’t going to be a total downer, NASA released more photos of what this week?
4. This multi-volume encyclopedia set was first written in 1768 by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, along with several others.
5. Which animated comedy boasts the “first known mathematical theorem to be created entirely for the purpose of entertainment in a TV show?”

 
1.2

1. Groups of stray dogs in which Eastern European city have been observed using the metro (or subway,) to commute between comfortable areas and prime scavenging areas.
2. What life affirming foodstuff do we get from pig belly?
3. The name of what wine grape varietal means Black Pine in French?
4. Which alliteratively-named famous woman had a baby yesterday?
5. Complete this sentence: “And in the frozen wastelands of the North, they were forced to eat Sir Robin’s __________, and there was much rejoicing.”

 
2.1

1. This contemporary film director, who gave us Forgetting Sarah Marshall, (which I decided was a nice, safe not quite too obvious hint for you,) developed such cult classic TV shows as Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks and Girls, is considered to be the creator of the modern Bromantic Comedy.
2. This US President, who was once portrayed on SNL by Dan Ackroyd, called in a UFO sighting at one point preceding his presidency.
3. The Great Wall of China is known for being constructed to keep out this invading army, above all others.
4. This British Claymation comedy series follows the exploits of a harebrained inventor (aren’t they all?) and his long-suffering canine protector.
5. Which animal has the longest known gestation period in the world? The African Elephant, the Frilled Shark, or the Fruit Fly?

 
 
2.2 SUPER SECRET BONUS ROUND
                  This week we are gonna switch things up. I’m gonna read you ten titles of movies. Except these movie titles have been translated into another language, and then translated back into English. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell me what these movies were called originally.

1. This hitman is not as cold as he thought.
2. Vaseline
3. He’s a Ghost!
4. Mom, I missed the Plane
5. The Young People Who Traverse Dimensions While Wearing Sunglasses
6. Urban Neurotic
7. Captain Supermarket
8. Zany Son-in-law, Zippy Grandkids, Sour Father-in-Law
9. Pigs and Diamonds

 
3.1

1. What was the first city in the world to host LICENSED taxicabs? Note that taxicab does not have to mean “automobiles.”
2. On this day in 1969 the Hell’s Angels, who had been hired as private security, accidentally killed a woman at a concert for which famous rock and roll band?
3. What did the NYTimes put on their front page today for the first time since 1920?
4. What does Sting play in the Police?
5. Which comic book anti-hero has been played by both Carl Urban and Sylvester Stallone?

 

 
3.2

1. What is the Capital of Ecuador?
2. What is the common colloquial name for the ethno-nationalist conflict fought along ethnic and sectarian lines, that is, catholic vs protestant, in Northern Ireland and surrounding countries that went on between the late 1960’s and Good Friday 1998?
3. Who was the only president never to marry?
4. Moving to the world of pseudonyms, an old standby: Clark Kent is to Superman as George Nelson is to whom?
5. According to legend, who wrote the words “For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never Worn,” when pressed to write a novel in only six words? 

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