TRIVIA!

From 8 - 9ish

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Tonight’s theme is ?

Current Events!

5 questions

1 point each

1. What upstanding, nothing-wrong-here---move-along organization recently called the events of Jan 6 'legitimate political discourse?'

2. Oh Canada. In what city have vaccine mandate protests been ongoing for 12+ days, involving truckers blockading the city?

3. On Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II (who's 95 and has served for 70 years) announced that if she's succeeded by her eldest son, Charles, the Prince of Wales, his wife Camilla should be known by what title (2 words)?

4. Speaking of Royals, this year's Razzie Award nominations were announced with Diana the Musical leading the way. What actor receieved their own new special category titled WORST PERFORMANCE by _________________ in a 2021 MOVIE for bad acting in eight 2021 movies?

5. This year's Super Bowl halftime show will feature 5 artists from the world of rap - name them (Hints: there's a physician, an animal, a candy, a woman that has an initial in her name, and a more recent rapper who won at least one Grammy every year b/t 2015 and 2019)?

Review your Current Events round answers:

1. What upstanding, nothing-wrong-here---move-along organization recently called the events of Jan 6 'legitimate political discourse?'

2. Oh Canada. In what city have vaccine mandate protests been ongoing for 12+ days, involving truckers blockading the city?

3. On Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II (who's 95 and has served for 70 years) announced that if she's succeeded by her eldest son, Charles, the Prince of Wales, his wife Camilla should be known by what title (2 words)?

4. Speaking of Royals, this year's Razzie Award nominations were announced with Diana the Musical leading the way. What actor receieved their own new special category titled WORST PERFORMANCE by _________________ in a 2021 MOVIE for bad acting in eight 2021 movies?

5. This year's Super Bowl halftime show will feature 5 artists from the world of rap - name them (Hints: there's a physician, an animal, a candy, a woman that has an initial in her name, and a more recent rapper who won at least one Grammy every year b/t 2015 and 2019)?

MYSTERY ROUND

Nobel laureates in Literature

I'll give you their name in anagram form, the year, and the citation for why they won the prize, you tell me who it is.

For example, if the clue is baldy nob - 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

You would answer Bob Dylan

1. April dinky drug - 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration that characterize the creations of this world-famous author"

2. swear mullet ability - 1923 "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"

3. headbangers regrow - 1925 "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"

4. will is arsenic - 1930 'for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters'

5. nulls with chronic - 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"

6. minion rotors - 1993 "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"

Review your Mystery round answers:

1. April dinky drug - 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration that characterize the creations of this world-famous author"

2. swear mullet ability - 1923 "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"

3. headbangers regrow - 1925 "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"

4. will is arsenic - 1930 'for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters'

5. nulls with chronic - 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"

6. minion rotors - 1993 "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"

MUSIC ROUND

Name the song title and artist - 1 point each

And name the theme that permeates these songs for a bonus point

Song 1

Song 2

Song 3

Song 4

Song 5

Song 6

What is the theme that permeates through all six of the songs?

Review your Music round answers:

PICTURE ROUND

Constellations

I'll show and ask about a constellation - you give the answer.

For example, what is this one?
Answer: Pisces

Picture 1 - In what city is the USS Constellation a permanent fixture?

Picture 2 - Who is this guy?

Picture 3 - What is the Latin name for these two?

Picture 4 - Who is this?

Picture 5 - Trying to throw in a tougher one here - what is this one?

Picture 6 - Four characters from this movie became constellations - name any 2 (1/2 point each)

Review your Picture round answers:

GENIUS ROUND

Hard questions from all over

2 points each

1. In 1931, every night after Bela Lugosi, cast and crew were done for the day, another director - George Melford - and another cast and crew filmed a similar version of Dracula on the same set - but in what language?

2. Before forming his own company and creating the iconic DeLorean car, John DeLorean worked for what large company? (Hint, it's really not Coke)

3. What is the only NFL team to sport an emblem/logo on only one side of their helmets?

4. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole borrows its title from the 1703 satirical essay Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting by what Anglo-Irish writer?

5. What creature mentioned in the King James version is - in most modern translations - referred to as a “wild ox” or “buffalo,” is called a re'em (or reëm) nine times in the Hebrew Bible, and in some Christian Bible translations called an "oryx?"

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