Trivia 3/11/08

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1. According to "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl" ... where did Ferris pass out last night?
   31 Flavors
2. What is the name for the ancient form of measure from the elbow to the fingertip?
   a cubit
   Bonus: In the bestselling cross-genre thriller-songbook-memoir-historical-record-self-help-guide The Bible, how many [of these] in length does the character God tell the character Noah to build the ark?
   300 cubits
3. A giant mansion — featuring 160 rooms, 40 bedrooms, 2 ballrooms, 47 fireplaces, 17 chimneys, 2 basements and 3 elevators — in San Jose CA was continually under construction from 1884 until 1922 by the widow of whom (or: owned by what family)?
   William Wirt Winchester
4. In what U.S. state is the highest speed limit in the country?
   Texas (Hwy 10, at 80 mph)
5. What is the name often given to the supercontinent that existed about 250 million years ago, before each of the component continents were separated into their current configuration?
   Pangea
6. What is the old circus culture slang term for a local, a farmer, an easy customer?
   a rube
7. Who produced the TV shows HR Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Land of the Lost?
   Sid and Marty Krofft
   Bonus: What was the name of the Marshall family's caveman friend in Land of the Lost?
   Cha-Ka
8. Gary E. Gygax, who died Mar 4, 2008, was known as the creator of what?
   Dungeons & Dragons
9. On what is the stately bird perched for the majority of Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven"?
   "perched upon a bust of Pallas, (1pt) just above my chamber door" (1pt)
10. In a 1993 Simpson's episode, Sideshow Bob has what tattooed on his knuckles? (spelling counts!)
    LUV, HAT (with macron over the long A)
    Bonus: What film first featured a character with words tattooed on his knuckles (1955, Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters)
    Night of the Hunter
11. Paleontologists did not have a term for the spikes on the tails of the Stegosaurus until a 1982 Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson. What is this arrangement of spikes now called?
    the thagomizer
    Bonus: For whom are they are named?
    Thag Simmons
12. What band's accomplishments feature the albums America Must Be Destroyed, This Toilet Earth, and Scumdogs of the Universe, as well as the home videos Live from Antarctica and Surprising Burst of Chocolaty Fudge?
    GWAR
13. What unit of length is 3.261 light years?
    a parsec
14. What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
    Arizona
15. Match the following martial arts forms with their countries of origin?
    savate, taekwondo, sambo, eskrima, karate, glima, capoeira
    Brazil, Philippines, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, Iceland
    savate (France), taekwondo (Korea), sambo (Russia), eskrima (Philippines), karate (Japan), glima (Iceland), capoeira (Brazil) - (1pt for 3, 2pts for 7)
16. In the Shel Silverstein poem, who would not take the garbage out?
    Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout

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