February 4, 2009 – Lucy! I’m home!

The theme word for this quiz was Lucy.

Round 1 (78% correct)

1. What is the name of the anthropologically significant skeleton currently on display at the Pacific Science Center, perhaps its only stop on an expected 6 year tour of the United States?

2. In what city does Romeo woo Juliet?

3. In the zoological hierarchy, which classification is the most general?

1. Family
2. Genus
3. Kingdom
4. Phylum

4. For a point each, name the two people who appeared on the first postage stamps issued by the United States, in 1847.

5. The Mozambique Channel separates which large island from the mainland?

6. What kind of star is our sun?

7. Who sang the national anthem at this years Super Bowl?

8. Name the book and the author: ‘Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.’

9 According to Punxsutawney Phil, are we due for an early spring? Or 6 more weeks of winter?

10. Harold Angstrom is the protagonist in a series of 5 books by what recently deceased multiple Pulitzer prize winning author?

Round 2 (68% correct)

1. Members of the group known as prosimians, those delightful little primates known as lemurs are native only to what country?

2. Who was the only US president to marry his cousin?

3. Alan Shepard became the first man to golf where?

4. In which country is the fabled city of Timbuktu?

1. Mali
2. Nepal
3. Peru
4. Tunisia

5. In the United States, an album that sells 500,000 copies goes gold and 1,000,000 copies goes platinum. How many copies need to be sold to attain diamond status?

6. In the game of Monopoly, how much is a player awarded for drawing the Community Chest card that announces, “you have just won second prize in a beauty contest”?

7. What is Indiana Jones’ real first name?

8. Home to Phil, the most famous groundhog in the world, in what state is Punxsutawney?

9. The Motorola DynaTAC was the first mobile phone to receive FCC acceptance (and the first to make a commercial call). In what year was it released?

10. 5 facts. For this question, the goal was to name the 1950’s TV character from the clues given. 5 points were given for getting it after the first fact, 4 points after the second, etc. No points were given for an incorrect answer at any time.

• Born Aug. 6, 1921 in West Jamestown, N.Y
• Debuted in the radio series “My Favorite Husband” before making the switch to CBS in 1957
• Best friend is Ethel Mertz.
• Real life husband Desi starred as the characters husband on the show.
• Starred everyone’s favorite redhead, Lucille Ball

Round 3 (70% correct)

Round 3 this week was an audio round. These were the audio track for movie trailers. All of the movies are those that are currently playing at local theatres. (ed: this was rather well received, but note that the audio tracks are upwards of 2 minutes long)

1. Wendy and Lucy

2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

3. Slumdog Millionaire

4. Defiance

5. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

6. The Wrestler

7. Revolutionary Road

8. Taken

9. The Reader

10. The Uninvited

Round 4 (67% correct)

1. Which Carthaginian general led his army across the Alps with a contingent of elephants?

2. Feb 3, 1959 is known as the Day the Music died, following a small plane crash in a field near Clear Lake, Iowa. For a point each, name the people on the plane who perished.

3. The bark of which tree is used to make Aspirin?

4. Pittsburgh now has won a record 6 Super Bowls. What team leads the league in Super Bowl appearances?

5. What African country did the American Colonization Society found in 1821 as a haven for freed American slaves?

1. Algeria
2. Gambia
3. Liberia
4. Mauritania

6. For a point each, name the only 2 non-presidents to be represented on currently produced U.S. bills?

7. Following a tradition started by Jim Kelly in 1997, both Super Bowl winning quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and MVP Santonio Holmes announced they were going where?

8. Honored at the Super Bowl was the crew of Flight 1549, for their work in rescuing all of the passengers from the plane that landed in the Hudson River last month. For what airline where they employed?

9. For a point each, name the four Pevensie children in the Chronicles of Narnia series.

10. Due to its significance in the production of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and pepper, which African island is still nicknamed ‘The Spice Island’?

Answers:

Round 1

1. Lucy

2. Verona

3. (C) Kingdom

4. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin. George was a dime, Ben a nickle

5. Madagascar

6. Yellow Dwarf

7. Jennifer Hudson

8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (the Chronicles of Narnia), by C. S. Lewis.

9. 6 more weeks of winter

10. John Updike

Round 2

1. Madagascar

2. FDR. Eleanor was his 5th cousin, once removed.

3. On the moon

4. (A) Mali

5. 10,000,000

6. $10.00

7. Henry

8. Pennsylvania

9. 1983

10. Lucy Ricardo

Round 4

1. Hannibal

2. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. “Big Bopper” Richardson, Roger Peterson

3. Willow

4. Dallas Cowboys

5. (C) Liberia

6. Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin

7. Disney World

8. US Airways

9. Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy

10. Zanzibar

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