Trivia 11/22

Fun crowd, last night. Lots of teams, good turnout. Hopefully Rulloff's made theirs, I feel a mite guilty when they shell out a hundred bucks for me to lead one of three teams to a fifty dollar gift certificate. Last night had twelve, I believe, and a few extra splinter teams that only played the bonus rounds for beer. God bless 'em. 

Enjoy! 

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1. Kicking things off with a sobering metaphor for our political landscape in 2015, a Democratic candidate in Mississippi won a seat in the state house of representatives this past week by performing what feat in order to break an electoral tie?
2. Continuing our theme of end of the world shenanigans, what is the first genetically modified food animal approved for sale in the united states? Your hint is that dolly the sheep died a long time ago, and that’s gross.
3. Add a four letter word to the beginning of the following four words in order to create four entirely new words! Back, fish, hard, job.
4. During the Cold War the US government in its infinite wisdom considered dropping enormous WHATs on the soviet union, each with the label ‘Medium?
5.  The literary review awarded which self-obsessed, hyper-judgemental and permanently sad, melancholy, depressed, PAIN IN THE ASS singer the Literary Review Bad Sex Award for the ‘egregious passage of sexual description’ in said singer’s debut novel, List of the Lost.

 
1.2

1. It takes approximately what fraction of a second for a ninety-five mile an hour fastball to travel the sixty feet six inches from the mound to the plate, and yes, this is a round one question because you can just do the math if you’re so inclined.
2. Scientists this past week revealed in a paper that they had trained what sort of animal to correctly identify benign or malignant tissue in mammograms?
3. The phrase, “Do geese see god,” is an example of what?
4. What common physical term comes from a root Latin word meaning “to throw out, shoot out, hurl, cast or dart?”
5. Clark Kent is to Superman as Robert Zimmerman is to whom? 

2.1

1. The first ever WHAT was created in 1991 to watch the coffee pot in the Trojan Room, a break room in the computer lab at Cambridge University?
2. The failure a company manufacturing miniature WHAT’S has prompted calls for stricter controls and vetting processes by the Kickstarter crowdfunding organization.
3. A version of Mattel’s famous toy, 1965s Slumber Party Barbie came with a  book called ‘How to Lose Weight’ that featured which two word weight-loss tip?
4. The second largest WHAT was discovered this past week at a mine in South Africa?
5. Louis Reard, the inventor of the bikini, said that a two piece bathing suit could not be called a bikini unless it could be pulled through what piece of matrimonial accouterment?

 

2.2 SUPER SECRET BONUS ROUND
There's a theme linking all of these answers. Can you tell me what it is? 

1. What was the first film created entirely from computer-generated imagery?
2. What is the more common name of the Beatles album entitled, “The Beatles?”
3. This volatile, toothy boxer defeated Trevor Berbick in 1986 to become the youngest ever heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
4. James Franco is starring in the currently filming adaptation of which recent Stephen King novel?
5. What American non-profit organization was created in 1954 by Fred Myers, Helen Jones, Larry Andrews and Marcia Glaser to address animal-related cruelties and animal welfare problems on a national scale?
6. WHAT IS...this weeks super secret bonus theme? 

 
3.1

1. After 40 years Carly Simon revealed this past week which man was the subject of her hit song “you’re so vain,” which famously features the line, ‘You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you.” For three points, is You’re So Vain about Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson or Mick Jagger, all of whom Simon knew…BIBlically?
2. G-Mail was originally a service offered by which website?
3. Richard Nixon delivered his famous line, “I am not a crook,” at a resort in which famous theme park?
4. Due to lyrics that may have misled careless consumers, camera company Polaroid was forced to release a statement clarifying that “Shaking or waving can actually damage the image” following the release of this song in 2003.
5. A 2002 paper from astronomers at Johns Hopkins University clarified that the light of 200,000 galaxies, taken together, colors the universe a shade of beige called WHAT?

 

3.2

1. The city of Detroit presented which middle eastern dictator with the Key to the City in 1980, after he donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a struggling church?
2. This ex-Python, that is, Monty Python cast member, is the director of such films as Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Fischer King.
3. Who is the only non-human to testify before Congress?
4. What is the only word that rhymes with Orange, and for two bonus points, what color is a polar bear’s fur?
5. No republican has been elected to the office of President of the United States since 1928 without what or what on their ticket? 

Answers after the break. 

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