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)
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| 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 4th.
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 10th 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.
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| 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!
