Tarrasque Wrangler
First Post
Went to my third Trivia Bee benefitting Project Literacy last night. There were about thirty teams of three, and we squeaked by into the finals, only to tie for 4th with about four or five other teams with an 8/10 on our final round answers. Let's see how you guys do.
First Round (These ones were pretty easy IMO, we got 28/30)
Do drone bees have stingers?
Who played Pvt. Ryan in Saving Private Ryan?
Jimmy Carter was governor of which state?
What does GPS stand for?
Name either of the two Texas baseball teams.
Is a Chinese checker board square- or star-shaped?
Jared Fogle is the spokesman for which fast food eatery?
What class of vertebrates has a name which means "double life"?
To the nearest mile, what is the length of a marathon?
Barry Manilow, before he became a star in his own right, was an accompanist for which famous woman singer?
What current talk show host was a star on Taxi and Who's the Boss?
What city changed the name of their airport to John Lennon Airport?
Who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Eels can swim the same speed forward and backward, true or false?
Which star of That 70's Show was a bio major at Univ. of Iowa?
First it was Candlestick, then 3Com. Now which company recently bought the naming rights to the San Francisco 49er's stadium?
Who was the voice of Donkey in Shrek?
Who is the first woman to hold a leadership position in the House of Representatives?
Who is Spongebob Squarepants's starfish friend?
What national cooking contest was won by a man for the first time in 1996?
What state is Long Island in?
What president's state aircraft was called the Independence?
What singer recently married Jennifer Lopez?
What team beat the Lakers to win the 2004 NBA Championship?
What space station, completed in 1986, crashed to Earth in 2001?
What restaurant was created by Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis?
What kind of animal is a shoat?
What is Montana's postal abbreviation?
What movie did Sean Penn and Tim Robbins both won Oscars for in 2004?
What kind of car did Claire Fisher drive to high school in Six Feet Under on HBO?
Round 2 (We did alright. 12/20. Barely enough to advance)
What is the Beehive State?
What show was the surprise Tony winner for best musical?
What ancient Egyptian word means "one who lives in the palace"?
Who won the Senate seat vacated by Barry Goldwater in 1986?
What lightweight gas makes up 90% of Jupiter's mass?
What hockey team is named after the nickname for the U.S. Army's 85th Division?
What Doonesbury character recently lost a leg in the Iraq war?
What current country were both chocolate and vanilla first discovered in?
Who played the president in Dr. Strangelove?
Who won the 2004 Grammy for Album of the Year?
Who is the current mayor of NYC?
Sirius Satellite Radio is named for a star in a constellation that resembles what kind of animal?
What two world figures met for the first time in June 1997 and died within a week of each other in August of that year?
Joe Klein (as Anonymous) wrote what thinly-veiled account of the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign?
What dirge-like US military bugle call was written by General Daniel Butterfield in 1862?
Prior to 2004, what was the last year the Olympics were held in Greece?
North Dakota is nicknamed the Flickertail State for what kind of animal?
What are the colorful cloths worn by Survivor contestants called?
Who invented the rocking chair, Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson?
I forgot to put that last one in and one other. I'll edit it back in when I remember what it was.
Round 3
Who's on the $50 bill?
What sports league's 16th annual championship game was won by the San Jose Sabercats in 2004?
Which car color recently eclipsed white as the most popular?
What "sweathog" actor and pilot had a hit album in 1976?
What first-year show won Best Comedy at the 2004 Emmy Awards?
Violetta Chamorro is the leader of what Central American country?
What inner-city comic strip features the characters Huey and Riley Freeman?
What Constitutional amendment abolished slavery?
What is Luke Skywalker's home planet?
What man is both the youngest and oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense?
Sudden Death (three teams tied for first place at the end of round three)
"Rocket Boys", NASA engineer Homer Hickam's biography, was made into which film whose title is an anagram of Rocket Boys?
"There's No Business Like Show Business" is from which Broadway musical?
Now no fair googling.
First Round (These ones were pretty easy IMO, we got 28/30)
Do drone bees have stingers?
No
Matt Damon
Georgia
Global Positioning System
Houston Astros & Texas Rangers
Star
Subway
Amphibian
26.2
Bette Midler
Tony Danza
Liverpool
Washington Irving
True
Ashton Kutcher
Monster Cable
Eddie Murphy
Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader
Patrick
Pillsbury Bake-Off
New York State
Harry S. Truman
Marc Anthony
Detroit Pistons
Mir
Planet Hollywood
Pig
MT
Mystic River
A hearse
Round 2 (We did alright. 12/20. Barely enough to advance)
What is the Beehive State?
Utah
Avenue Q
Pharaoh
John McCain
Hydrogen
Chicago Blackhawks
BD
Mexico
Peter Sellars
Outkast
Michael Bloomberg
A dog (Canis Major)
Princess Diana and Mother Teresa
Primary Colors
Taps
1896
Squirrel
Buffs
Benjamin Franklin
Round 3
Who's on the $50 bill?
Ulysses S. Grant
Arena Football League
Silver
John Travolta
Arrested Development
Nicaragua
The Boondocks
The 13th Amendment
Tatooine
Donald Rumsfeld
Sudden Death (three teams tied for first place at the end of round three)
"Rocket Boys", NASA engineer Homer Hickam's biography, was made into which film whose title is an anagram of Rocket Boys?
October Sky
Annie Get Your Gun
Now no fair googling.
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