Trivia 1/15/08

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1. Which of the following is not an example of "defictionalization" [items created first in a movie, then in real life]? a) Red Swingline stapler; b) Holiday Inn hotel; c) Bubba Gump restaurant; d) Spinal Tap; e) that breathable pink liquid in The Abyss; f) Willy Wonka candy bar
   e
2. Who was the first person depicted on a Wheaties box?
   Lou Gehrig (1934)
   Bonus: Who was the first woman?
   May Lou Retton (1984)
3. Knifemaking companies in the Portland area support an industry of over 3,000 jobs. Name two of these companies.
   Benchmade Knife Co., (Oregon City)
   Columbia River Knife and Tool (Wilsonville)
   Gerber Legendary Blades/Fiskars, (Wilsonville)
   Kershaw Knives, (Wilsonville)
   Leatherman Tool Group, (Portland)
4. Who was the only character played by the same actor in both the M*A*S*H* movie and TV series?
   Radar O'Rielly
5. What is the [naughty, unethical, greedy!] bioengineering pharmaceutical company in the Resident Evil games & movies?
   Umbrella Corporation
6. The gabelle was an unpopular tax in France from 1286 until 1790 on what?
   Salt
7. What is the proper term for feathers on an arrow?
   Fletching (fletch singular)
   Bonus: What is the only type of bow shot at the Olympic games?
   Recurve bow
8. Regarded today by some to be the the forerunner to the Italian Mafia, what Spanish royal family held a corrupt rule of the Papacy during the Renaissance?
   The Borgias
9. In the novel A Wrinkle in Time, the children travel between planets with Ms Whatsit using a what?
   a tesseract
10. A type of tree, a peak in the Smoky Mountains and a proposed US state in 1907 as 1/2 of Oklahoma were all named after this man [who invented the Cherokee writing system]?
    Sequoyah
11. Spermology is the study of what?
    Seeds, or trivia
12. Name the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    Little Boy and Fat Man
13. What was the first movie released with a PG-13 rating?
    Red Dawn (July 1984)
    Bonus: What was the first film to receive an NC-17 rating?
    Henry & June (1991)
14. What is the term for the earliest bicycle design featuring one large wheel and one small wheel?
    penny farthing
15. Who won the 1990 Prime Minister election of Myanmar [by 82%!], only to have the results nullified by the military junta, and has been under house arrest for 12 of the past 17 years? (She is also the world's only imprisioned Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1992)
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Bonus: What actor released a video on YouTube in Aug 2007 on behalf of the U.S. Campaign for Burma to raise awareness of [this person]?
    Jim Carrey
16. Name all the US states beginning with the letter M and their matching postal abbreviations.
    Maine (ME), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Maryland (MD), Montana (MT), Missouri (MO), Mississippi (MS), Massachusetts (MA)
    Name those beginning with the letter N
    Nebraska (NE), Nevada (NV), New Hampshire (NH), North Dakota (ND), New Jersey (NJ), New Mexico (NM), New York (NY), North Carolina (NC)

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