Trivia 1/16/07

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1. What is Barbie's full name?
   Barbie Millicent Roberts
2. According to the latest Oxford English Dictionary, what is the most common noun in the English language?
   time
   Bonus: what is number 2?
   man
3. How many spaces after a period are considered proper typography (in published work)?
   One (source: Chicago Manual of Style, AP Writing Style)
   Bonus: In what instances should this number differ?
   When using monospaced typefaces, or a typewriter
4. What author has won the Hugo Award eight and a half times; the Nebula Award three times; the Bram Stoker Award five times; the Edgar Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice; the Georges Méliès fantasy film award twice; the Silver Pen for Journalism; and the Writers' Guild of America Award for Most Outstanding Teleplay (solo work) four times.
   Harlan Ellison
5. What is the deepest known point in the Earths’ oceans?
   Challenger Deep (or Vitjazdepth, 36,198 feet, in the Mariana Trench)
6. Who is the only US President to hold a patent?
   Abraham Lincoln
   (Improvement for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals  - On May 22, 1849, he was granted Patent No. 6469 by the U.S. Patent Office (USPO) in Washington, D.C.)
7. The canine featured in the RCA logo is an illustration of whose dog?
   Thomas Edison’s
8. What is the only US state with a unicameral legislature?
   Nebraska
9. "Spork," "blaxploitation," "cyborg," "smog," "frumious," and "motel" are what type of words?
   Portmanteau
10. In Return of the Jedi name the character who plucks out C-3PO’s eye.
    Salacious Crumb
11. What TV writer co-wrote the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes?
    Rod Serling
12. In what year and location were the first modern Olympic Games held?
    1896, Athens, Greece
13. In 1932 the Purple Heart medal replaced what badge worn by Allied soldiers on the lower right cuff who were wounded in battle?
    Wound Chevron or wound stripe
14. What 1974 cult film stars Sean Connery alongside Charlotte Rampling in one of his first post-Bond roles?
    Zardoz
    Bonus: the film takes its name from what source?
    Wizard of Oz
15. In knitting, what does "c3b" stand for?
    Cable three stitches, holding cabling needle behind the work
16. What is the longest road in the world?
    Yonge Street (Toronto to Rainy River, Ontario)
17. In the movie The Matrix, while Neo waits to see the Oracle — and converses with a young boy who teaches him there is no spoon, — what movie is playing on the TV?
    Night of the Lepus
18. In the sport of Ultimate ([Frisbee], UPA rules), how many players can a team have on the field?
    seven
19. What three herbs are called "the holy trinity" in making absinthe?
    grande wormwood, florence fennel, green anise
20. With what type of weapon is the Jabberwocky slain?
    Vorpal blade
21. Until May 30, 1948, what was the second-largest city in Oregon?
    Vanport City (flooded on that date when levee broke at Columbia River)
22. The phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" originates from what movie?
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
23. What is a group of ferrets called?
    business, (or: cast, fesnying)
24. The first intercollegiate football game was played between what two teams?
    Rutgers University and Princeton
    Bonus: In what year?
    Nov 6, 1869
25. On Sept 11, 2001, Chilean human rights lawyers filed a criminal case against several former South American presidents and generals and what former US official for alleged involvement in Operation Condor?
    Henry Kissenger
26. What is the study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon?
    Selenography
27. Chloe Anthony Wofford is the real name of what author?
    Toni Morrison
28. Who is the oldest artist to hit number one on Billboard Hot 100?
    Louis Armstrong in 1964 with "Hello, Dolly!" at the age of 62
29. The 1989 Pop Will Eat Itself song "Can U Dig It" takes its title and multiple samples from what movie?
    The Warriors
30. The construction of what dam on March 10, 1957 caused the submergence of Celilo Falls?
    Dalles Dam

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