Trivia 4/8/08

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1. The limb of an amoeba is called a what?
   pseudopod
2. The first modern Olympic games to include the running of the torch was in what city in what year?
   Berlin, 1936
3. On Mar 26, a federal judge determined that the heirs of Jerry Siegel are now the rightful owners of one-half of the copyright of what Time-Warner property?
   Superman
4. In Gulliver's Travels, what was the name of the village where he encounters diminished people?
   Lilliput
   Bonus: What are the name of the land where he encounters giants in his second voyage?
   Brobdingnag
5. What term is used for the period of sectionalism leading up to the U.S. Civil War?
   Antebellum
   This period is considered to have begun with what nation-dividing Act of 1854?
   Kansas-Nebraska Act
6. How many ounces are in an imperial pint?
   20 oz
   Bonus: What is a unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation ... and/or the name of a 1986 movie about one young man's desire to win a BMX race?
   rad (Rad!)
7. What is the proper response to this question, "Conan! What is best in life?"
   (with appropriate Austrian accent) "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
8. The 2-, 3- and 4-wheeled Victorian age human-powered vehicles that preceded the bicycle where called what?
   velocipede
9. In Die Hard, when the elevator door opens and the bad guys see one of their own slumped dead in a chair, what message is written in magic marker on his shirt?
   (with appropriate German accent) "Now I have a machine gun. Ho, ho, ho."
10. What was the first professional football team to sport a logo or insignia on their helmets (1948 or 1950)?
    LA Rams
    Bonus: What was the first pro football team to feature cheerleaders in 1960?
    Dallas Cowboys
11. Name the two main characters in the 1977 TV show CHiPs.
    Officer Francis Llewellyn 'Ponch' Poncherello and Officer Jon Baker
    Bonus: What does CHiPs stand for?
    California Highway Patrol
    Bonus2: What was their callsign?
    Seven Mary Three
12. Dinosaurs lived primarily in what era (240 – 65 million years ago)?
    Mesozoic Era
    Bonus: Name (2 of 3) periods within this era?
    Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous
13. What two words were created in The Simpsons episode 16, season 7 "Lisa the Iconoclast" (...one of which is featured in Webster's New Millennium Dictionary and one of which enjoys frequent internet geek use)?
    "embiggens," "cromulent"
14. What is... (song title)
    "Needlework the way, never you betray
    Life of death becoming clearer
    Pain monopoly, ritual misery
    Chop your breakfast on a mirror"
    Master of Puppets
15. Who is the Norse god of mischief, strife and fire?
    Loki
    What is the name of Thor's hammer?
    Mjolnir
16. What is the largest mountain range on Earth? (Also the largest geological feature).
    Mid-Ocean Ridge (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
17. In the second feature of Grindhouse "Death Proof", Quentin. Tarentino appears as a bartender, and introduces his late-staying female customers to what (green) drink?
    chartreuse
18. His likeness recently released as a postage stamp, what native Oregonian is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes?
    Linus Pauling
19. In the BDSM community, CBT stands for what?
    cock and ball torture
    
20. What author's final words were, "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
    Oscar Wilde

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