April 15, 2009 – Dress for Less

The theme for this weeks quiz is Ross.

Round 1 (59% correct)

1. For a point each, name the 5 freedoms outlined in the 1st amendment to the US constitution.

2. For what game show did Hot Springs, New Mexico rename itself after an episode was filmed there?

3. Who rules in a kakistocracy [kak-uh-stok-ruh-see]?

4. What flavor is the liqueur Midori?

5. How pure, according to Proctor and Gamble, is Ivory soap?

6. When President John F. Kennedy welcomed 49 Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962 he said, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House with the possible exception of when who dined alone.”

7. It is generally believed that what Philadelphia widow created the first Stars and Stripes in 1776?

8. What is the common name for the disease hydrophobia?

1. Leprosy
2. Rabies
3. Shingles
4. Sleeping sickness

9. What bones meet at the elbow?

10. Name the book and the author: “Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday.

Round 2 (70% correct)

1. According to John Gray, where are women from?

2. Which herbivore has fingerprints so identical to those of a human that even with an electron microscope, it can be difficult to distinguish them?

1. Honeycreeper
2. Koala
3. Lemur
4. Possum

3. According to witnesses, what did John Wilkes Booth shout after shooting Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865?

4. What do all the following people have in common: Ben Franklin, Mao Zedong, J. Edgar Hoover, Marcel Duchamp, Laura Bush, Batgirl?

5. What is Mexico’s best selling beer?

6. For a point each, name the 5 members of the 60’s era phenomenon known as the Rat Pack?

7. What singer, who headed The Supremes, is credited with helping to shape the Motown Sound?

8. Two people who signed the Declaration of Independence went on to be president. For a point each, name them.

9. After being snubbed by the SS Californian, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia was the only ship to respond to what April 15, 1912 disaster?

10. FDR took his last breath on April 12, 1945. Who succeeded him?

Round 3 (69% correct) – Theme Round There was a hidden theme to these questions, which was American serial killers.

1. A-1 Steak Sauce, Boca Burgers, Grape-Nuts, Oscar Mayer, and Tang are all brands owned by what company, the 2nd largest food and beverage company in the world?

2. Often used for presenting debutantes, what is a cotillion?

3. In the 1986 film Highlander (and it’s subsequent worse sequel ever Highlander II: The Quickening), Christopher Lambert starred as the hero, MacLeod. What Spanish character was portrayed by Sean Connery?

4. What is the last name of family immortalized in TV’s greatest show ever, Married with Children?

5. What was the name of Monica’s brother, played by David Schwimmer, on the TV show Friends?

6. On April 11th, 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of overall command of the Korean War effort. Which Matthew was appointed to replace him?

1. Brady
2. Broderick
3. Perry
4. Ridgway

7. In late 2007, British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons was caught up in an international incident when she was arrested in Sudan for allowing her class of 7 year olds to name a class teddy bear what?

8. Which chess piece is limited to diagonal movement only?

9. What is the halo of sunlight seen during an eclipse called?

10. In honor of Easter, name the invisible rabbit Jimmy Stewart imagines he sees in a 1950 movie based on a Pulitzer prize winning play by Mary Chase?

Round 4 (76% correct)

1. Vietnam War Hero Admiral James (Bond) Stockdale was the vice presidential running mate of what 1992 independent candidate?

2. For a point each, name the 7 original colors that M&M candies came in

3. By population, what is the largest city in Europe?

4. Which U.S. president had the nickname “Dutch”?

5. The US Mint produces coins, bills, or both?

6. KFC is the undisputed champion of the fast food chicken world. What chain, founded in Arabi, Louisiana in 1972, comes in second?

7. Which are there more of? Burger King? Or Starbucks?

8. Living in the Mushroom Kingdom, what profession does Mario (of Super Mario Brothers fame) hold?

9. What new game piece was added to the Monopoly board game in 1999?

1. Bicycle
2. Cell phone
3. Computer monitor
4. Sack of money

10. RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom on April 15, 1912. What does the RMS stand for?

Answers:

Round 1

1. Religion, Speech, Assembly, Press, and Petition

2. Truth or Consequences

3. The worst

4. Melon

5. 99 44/100% pure

6. Thomas Jefferson

7. Betsy Ross

8. (B) Rabies

9. Humerus, radius, and ulna

10. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming

Round 2

1. Venus

2. (B) Koala

3. Sic semper tyrannis (Thus always to tyrants)

4. They were all librarians. It’s National Library week. Do you part and do a librarian.

5. Corona

6. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop

7. Diana Ross

8. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams

9. Sinking of the Titanic

10. Harry Truman

Round 3

1. Kraft (Randy Kraft)

2. Ball (Joe Ball)

3. Ramirez (Richard Ramirez)

4. Bundy (Ted Bundy)

5. Ross (Michael Bruce Ross)

6. (D) Ridgway (Gary Ridgway)

7. Muhammad (John Allen Muhammad)

8. Bishop (Arthur Gary Bishop)

9. Corona (Juan Corona)

10. Harvey (Donald Harvey)

Round 4

1. H. Ross Perot

2. Blue, Brown, Yellow, Orange, Red, Green, and Violet

3. Moscow

4. Ronald Reagan

5. Coins. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing does bills

6. Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits

7. Starbucks. Starbucks has over 15,000 stores worldwide, Burger King more than 11,000

8. Plumber

9. (D) Sack of money

10. Royal Mail Ship