Trivia 3/37/07

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1. What are the "Seven Dirty Words You Cannot Say on Television" that George Carlin performed on the radio and became the basis for landmark 1973 court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (and defined the FCC’s power over "indecent material" in broadcasting)?
   Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits
2. Who is the only woman to have twice won the Nobel Prize?
   Marie Curie (1903 physics, 1911 chemistry)
3. What is Capt. James Kirk's middle name?
   Tiberius
   Bonus: Who is the only being to refuse a seat at the United Federation of Planets? (source: Kirk to Bones, TOS "Amok Time")
   T’Pau
4. What is the most distant human-made object in the cosmos?
   Voyager 1
   Bonus: On Aug 15, 2006 it reached 100 astronomical units from the sun, which means how far?
   100 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun
5. When Snoopy becomes the World War I Flying Ace and battles the Red Baron, what type of plane does his doghouse become?
   Sopwith Camel
6. Name two directors who helmed movies in the Alien franchise.
   Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Paul WS Anderson
   Bonus: In the movie Aliens, the android Bishop says, "Ripley, in nineteen minutes this area is going to be a cloud of vapor the size of ______"?
   Nebraska
   Bonus2: Name the two actors who have the distinct honor of being killed by an Alien, a Predator, and a Terminator.
   Bill Paxton, Lance Henricksen
7. Complete the missing words in these lyrics by Irish rap group House of Pain.
   "Word to your _____ I came to drop _____
   I got more _____ than the _____s got _____"
   moms, bombs
   rhymes, Bible psalms
8. Who killed Laura Palmer?
   Her father, Leland (and BOB?)
   Bonus: Who does Agent Dale Cooper address his investigative recordings to when speaking into his portable recorder?
   Diane
9. What property does Count Dracula purchase in London?
   Carfax Abbey
10. What is the nickname of the serial killer sought by the FBI in Silence of the Lambs?
    Buffalo Bill
    Bonus: What is the nickname of the serial killer sought by the FBI in Red Dragon?
    Tooth Fairy
    Bonus2: What physical trait does Hannibal Lecter have in the original novels Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs that is not featured in the movies?
    He is polydactyl
11. What numbers appear on the side of the General Lee in the Dukes of Hazzard?
    01
    Bonus: What were the names of Bo and Luke’s seemingly clone cousins who took their place while their real-life actor counterparts negotiated a salary dispute?
    Coy and Vance
12. What 1939 James Thurber short story about a daydreamer was adapted into a 1947 movie starring Danny Kaye?
    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
13. What is the answer to the riddle Bilbo Baggins asks Gollum in the Hobbit?
    "Box without hinges, key or lid/Yet golden treasure inside is hid."
    Eggs
    Bonus2: And what is the answer to the riddle Gollum asks ze Bagginsez?
    "This thing all things devours;/Birds, beasts, trees flowers;/Gnaws iron, bites steal;/Grinds hard stones to meal;/ Slays king, ruins town;/And beats high mountain dowwwwwwwn." (read dramatically, channeling 1977 Rankin-Bass voice actor + shot of JB)
    Time
14. Who said, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
    Theodore Roosevelt
15. What is a group of porcupines called?
    A prickle
    Bonus: What is a group of hyenas called?
    A cackle

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