May 20, 2009 – Don’t mean to horn in, but

the theme word for this quiz was horn.

Round 1

1. If blue litmus paper stays blue, is it in an acid or base solution?
    A. Base (alkaline) solution

2. The Ryder cup is presented as trophy in what sport?
    A. Golf

3. Who is the most famous character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
    A. Sherlock Holmes

4. At what Montana battle did Lt. Col George Custer famously loose his life?
    A. Battle of the Little Big Horn

5. On this date in 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.  Where did he land?
    A. Paris

6. Of the 4 states making up the Pacific Northwest, which one leads with an unemployment rate of 12%?
    A. Oregon

7. Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
    A. Shaft

8. Who said “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”

1. Dwight Eisenhower
2. Franklin Roosevelt
3. Mark Twain
4. Winston Churchill

    A. (C)Mark Twain

9. The ancient Aztecs called it the testicle tree.  What do we know it as?
    A. The Avacado

10. In Geology, what is longer? An era? Or an epoch?
    A. An era. It’s several hundred million years while an epoch is tens of millions of years

Round 2

1. The act, often illegal, of parachuting from manmade or natural structures is known as what?
    A. BASE jumping

2. The ESRB provides ratings for what?
    A. Video Games

3. For a point each, name the rights detailed in the 6th amendment to the US
    A. Speedy, public trial, jury trial, Notice of accusation, Confrontation, Counsel

4. We know it as Myanmar today.  By what name was it known before 1989?
    A. Burma

5. Because the sheep is in the meadow and the cow is in the corn, what, according to the nursery rhyme, is Little Boy Blue asked to do?
    A. Come blow his horn

6. Name the book and the author: ‘Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building in Quantico, half-buried in the earth’
    A. The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris

7. Name the year: Paula Jones makes some unpleasant accusations against Bill Clinton; Monica Lewinsky affair broke; anti trust case is launched against Microsoft; Google is founded;
    A. 1998

8. Oil is traditionally sold in barrels.  How many gallons in a barrel of oil?
    A. 42

9. What cereal has long been promoted as “the breakfast of champions”?

1. Life
2. Product 19
3. Total
4. Wheaties

    A. (D) Wheaties

10. May 22, 1826 saw Charles Darwin leaving on his first voyage.  Aboard what ship was he sailing?
    A. HMS Beagle

Round 3 This week, Round 3 was a theme round. The idea was to come up with the underlying theme that all of the words had in common, which was Pipe.  Nobody got it. And nobody thought very highly of it.  I should go back to more boobies or something.

1. Thomas Lipton was the first to commercially offer tea in what?
    A. Bag

2. The Beaufort scale is used to measure the speed of what?
    A. Wind

3. If you have a small red heart on your Washington State drivers license, what have you agreed to be a donor of?
    A. Organs

4. What is the name of the field on which a rousing game of Cricket is played?
    A. Pitch

5. In addition to being a character in that shitty movie trilogy known as The Matrix, Morpheus was the Greek god of what? Sleep, Dreams, or Wine?
    A. Dreams

6. Hailing from the Isle of Man, what differentiates Manx cats from all others?
    A. Tail

7. What is the last name of the performer mauled by Montacore, one of his very special white tigers, in Las Vegas on October 3, 2003?
    A. Horn

8. Often used in making pillows and comforters, what are the small feathers of the eider duck known as?
    A. Down

9. Where do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live and train?

1. Pizza Shop
2. Sewer
3. US Army Base
4. Wayne Manor

    A. (B) Sewer

10. Which of the Nobel prizes is awarded in Norway, not Sweden?
    A. Peace

11. What is the theme to all of these answers?
    A. Pipe. The word pipe can precede or follow any of the words in the answer.

Round 4

1. Which companies advertises it “gets the red out”?
    A. Visine

2. Deficiency in which vitamin causes Beri-Beri?
    A. B1 (thiamine)

3. For what annual competition are cub scouts given a block of wood, 4 wheels and 4 nails?
    A. Pinewood Derby

4. For a point each, name the states that made up the 13 original colonies.
    A. Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut,    Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island

5. Marking the separation between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, what name is given to the southernmost piece of South America?
    A. Cape Horn

6. How many herbs and spices make up the secret blend used on Colonel Harland Sanders’ most famous creation: his Original Recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken?
    A. 11

7. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in August of 1963 on the steps of what Washington D.C. landmark?

1. Library of Congress
2. Lincoln Memorial
3. The Capitol
4. The White House

    A. (B) Lincoln Memorial

8. What bones meet at the shoulder?
    A. Scapula (shoulder blade), clavicle,  and humerus

9. What is the deepest male singing voice?
    A. Bass

10. Name the races that make up horse racings triple crown
    A. Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes