Trivia Questions 9/19/12

Here's the exact list of questions we used for Trivia on 9/19/12. Bring some friends, come hang out, and challenge yourselves every Wednesday night at The Sports Page, 7pm!

Round 1: (highlight next to the question to reveal the answer)

1)      What movie starts out with the quote? "As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster" (Goodfellas)

2)      McDonald’s recently put calorie counts on all of their menus. Put the following in order from highest to lowest in calorie counts. Big Mac, McRib, Happy Meal w/ Chicken McNuggets (Big Mac – 550, McRib – 500, Happy Meal – 410)

3)      In the Berenstain Bears books, most of the characters are just referred by their family status name i.e. Brother Bear, Sister Bear, etc. Papa Bear has an alphabetical initial between Papa and Bear. What is it? (Q.) Q is short for Quail according to our pal Cory.

4)      This specialty mall store was founded in 1977 by Roy Raymund in Palo Alto, California. Raymund sold his company to Limited Brands while pursuing another venture that ended up leaving him bankrupt and committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. What hugely popular mall store did he create? (Victoria’s Secret)

5)      What famous musician is married to Somali super model Iman? (David Bowie)

6)      The girl’s name Melissa comes from the Greek word for what flying insect? (Honey Bee)

7)      Norah Jones hit the charts with her first single titled what off the album "Come Away With Me"? (Don't Know Why)

Whatever happened to this guy?

8)      John Wayne was a top box office draw for the better part of three decades. However, all that box office draw only made for one Academy Award win. What is the name of the only movie John Wayne won an Oscar for? (True Grit)

9)      In the 90's film, "Hook", one of the characters, "Toodles", spends the movie searching for a bag of something particular. What is it? (Marbles)

10)   Which Dakota County suburb is home to the largest oil refinery in Minnesota and was home to KFAN morning talk host/former Viking “Superstar” Mike Morris? (Rosemount)

 

Round 2:

11)   Three US presidents have died on July 4^th. Name one. Hint: All three were presidents within the first ten. (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe)

12)   This long time standing NBC sports analyst might be in trouble for bashing NBC's coverage of the Olympics and how they didn't show "The Who" performance at the closing ceremony. This took place on the Conan O'Brien show (Bob Costas)

13)   Movie Roll Call: (2011) Kevin Bacon, Ryan Gosling, Josh Groban (Crazy, Stupid Love)

 

14)   It's not called the Sears Tower anymore in Chicago. What is it? (Willis Tower)

15)   Today marks the 10^th anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day. In honor of that, when using the phrase “Thar, she blows”, what item has a pirate just sighted? (Whale)

16)   When making a tweet what is the character count you are able to use? (140)

 

17)   What home improvement store currently uses the slogan “Never Stop Improving”? (Lowe’s) Personal opinion, the previous slogan "Let's Build Something Together" was far better.

A good moon, but not one of the counted phases

18)   According to The Kinks' song "Lola" (one of the first lines of the song) if you drink this alcoholic beverage it will taste like Cherry Cola. (Champagne)

19)   Waxing Gibbous is an example of one of them, how many total phases of the moon are there? (8)

20)   Peyton Manning - the #1 overall pick of the 1998 draft. Which one of these players was not apart of the 1998 first round draft class? Charles Woodson, Randy Moss, Antoine Winfield, Ryan Leaf
(Antoine Winfield - 1999)

Sound Round: Songs with "Fall" in the title (Click to play, 1 point for song, 1 point for artist)

21) Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces”

22) Coldplay “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

23) Tom Petty “Free Fallin’”

24) UB 40 “(I Can’t Help) Falling In LoveWith You”

25) Alicia Keys “Fallin’”

Image Round: French or U.S. What is the origin of the following, French or America?

26) Roulette (France)

27) Taxicab (France)

28) Vaseline (U.S.)

29) Polo shirts (France)

30) WD-40 (U.S.)

31) Stethoscope (France)

32) Ferris Wheel (U.S.)

33) TV Dinner (U.S.)

Tiebreaker:  A marathon is 26.2 miles. How many inches is that? (1,660,032)

It was a tough week as 29 was the high point total. If you want to try this live, come join us at The Sports Page! We hope to see you there!