2016 WoV Spring Fling Trivia Challenge
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Here were the questions:
- According to the song Ride Captain Ride, how many men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay?73
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The second line* of the Battle Hymm of the Republic was the inspiration for the title of what American novel?The Grapes of Wrath (lyrics)
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What was the name of the character Johnny Carson played who could devine the answer to questions written on cards in a sealed envelope?Carnac the Magnificent
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In the 1963 Academy Awards, which actress, and for which movie, gave the shortest acceptance speech at just two words, "thank you."Patty Duke for the Miracle Worker (half point for getting one or the other right).
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According to a Bruce Springsteen song, how many years in prison might one get for shooting a night clerk?99
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On which Hawaiian island is the leper colony?Molokai
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What does ISIS stand for?Islamic state of Iraq and Syria
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On Mr. Roger's Land of Make Believe, who lived in the Museum Go-Round?Lady Elaine Fairchilde (half point give for first or last name only).
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Name five television shows to star Lucille Ball with "Lucy" in the titleI Love Lucy, The Luci-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, Life with Lucy (Half a point for four correct answers). Note: Had quite a few groans with this question.
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What was the name of Thomas Jefferson's slave by whom he had six children?Sally Hemmings
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Which president was the first to be proven to grant clemency to a Thanksgiving turkey?Kennedy
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Where would you find the wreckage of the Sloop John B.?Nassau (somebody spelled it Nasa).
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What is the name of the gorilla who knows about 1,000 words in sign language? Coco
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In 1966 in New York City, what was the name of the so-called "Party of the Century," and who threw it?Black and White Ball -- Truman Capote (Note: I got some boos for this one being allegedly too hard).
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To within ten minutes, how many minutes long was the movie Gone with the Wind? 238
* Note: The wording used in the actual challenge was "second verse" instead of "second line." There was some controversy over where the second verse starts, so I think, in retrospect, "line" is the better way to ask the question.
The question for the poll is how many would you have got right. Be honest.
The punishment for anyone who missed number 9 is to watch this video:
I still cant believe that hostess didn't know how many points you get for a field goal. SMH. Axel was happy about that one.....
Quote: WizardFor what it is worth, I screened about 20 questions off of TeddyS a couple weeks ago. He got all these right or at least came close. Anything I he totally didn't know I either eliminated or reworded to make easier.
Is that supposed to make me feel better or worse about my one correct question??
Congrats to the winner!!
Nope, not I. It was someone sitting to your right. I didn't have an answer at all for that one. And I got the "how many years" answer (#5) correct completely by a wild guess.Quote: WizardI think it was Doc who was off by one on question one. Ouch!
Thanks for posting the quiz. Congrats to sunshine!
Quote: beachbumbabsI thought Katherine graham threw ir, not truman, there's a famous picture of them at it .
This one? The party was in Katherine's honor but Truman threw it.
I have noticed a definite bias in your trivia questions. For years now it seems like a disproportionate amount are in the "Entertainment" category (movies, music, and TV shows). I don't watch movies, i don't listen to music, and I only watch one TV show a week. I also don't recall any sports questions in the past.
In the future I would like to see more diverse categories. If for any reason you want to placate me, include as many sports questions as you do entertainment questions.
Quote: DRichI have noticed a definite bias in your trivia questions. For years now it seems like a disproportionate amount are in the "Entertainment" category (movies, music, and TV shows).
That's a fair complaint. I'll try to make the questions more diverse next time. BTW, anybody is welcome to host the trivia challenge in the future. Volunteers?
It wouldn't help with more sports questions, I'd do worse.
Especially:
Horse racing, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, tennis, skiing, aquatics ( is that the word ).
Worse than all the above, golf.
Mountaineering might get me to 3 or more out of 15, if all 15 were mountaineering. Prolly not.....
I've always read the paper daily, also a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction.
I think what helped the most was my reading World Book encyclopedia regularly (and intently) for many years as a lad.
IIRC, of the five answers to #9, you can make a case for three of them being the "odd one out" without having anything to do with the cast or the fact that they have different titles or aired in particular years. Which ones?
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour is the only hour-long one
The Lucy Show is the only one with both black-and-white and color episodes
Life with Lucy is the only one not to air on CBS
On a related subject, if I may, here's one:
Which of these sitcoms is the odd one out:
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Gilligan's Island
The Lucy Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle, USMC
F Troop
My Three Sons
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
Green Acres is the only one not to have at least one season in black and white and at least one season in color
I knew that I had heard the second verse before, but I had no idea of those lyrics. I do/did know the first verse and am confident I would have gotten that one right if the question had been worded as on the list in this thread. Of course, getting that one would have increased my 4.5 second-place finish to 5.5, still far short of the winning score, so it's only nerdiness that gives it any importance to me.
Quote: ThatDonGuyI got 3, 6, 7, 9 (yes, 9 - it helps to be a Known TV Addict), 10, and 13. I would have gotten 2 as well, except that I confused The Battle Hymn of the Republic with America, the Beautiful. (And yes, "grapes of wrath" is in the second line of the first verse; the words appear nowhere else in the song.)
IIRC, of the five answers to #9, you can make a case for three of them being the "odd one out" without having anything to do with the cast or the fact that they have different titles or aired in particular years. Which ones?
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour is the only hour-long one
The Lucy Show is the only one with both black-and-white and color episodes
Life with Lucy is the only one not to air on CBS
Quote: ThatDonGuyOn a related subject, if I may, here's one:
Which of these sitcoms is the odd one out:
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Gilligan's Island
The Lucy Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle, USMC
F Troop
My Three Sons
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
Green Acres is the only one not to have at least one season in black and white and at least one season in color
I am totally worthless at this crap, but my guess for the newest list was the same as Doc's. I watched black and white, I watched color, 3D does weird things to my head. Progress is progress, I wish I could just keep up.......Quote: AyecarumbaQuote: ThatDonGuyI got 3, 6, 7, 9 (yes, 9 - it helps to be a Known TV Addict), 10, and 13. I would have gotten 2 as well, except that I confused The Battle Hymn of the Republic with America, the Beautiful. (And yes, "grapes of wrath" is in the second line of the first verse; the words appear nowhere else in the song.)
IIRC, of the five answers to #9, you can make a case for three of them being the "odd one out" without having anything to do with the cast or the fact that they have different titles or aired in particular years. Which ones?Quote: ThatDonGuyOn a related subject, if I may, here's one:
Which of these sitcoms is the odd one out:
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Gilligan's Island
The Lucy Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle, USMC
F Troop
My Three Sons
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
Now how in God's name did my response wind up over there instead of where it' supposed to be over here? Apparently I broke the damn thing. Going to hide under the fridge now before the grapes of wrath track me down.....Quote: TwoFeathersATLI am totally worthless at this crap, but my guess for the newest list was the same as Doc's. I watched black and white, I watched color, 3D does weird things to my head. Progress is progress, I wish I could just keep up.......Quote: AyecarumbaQuote: ThatDonGuyI got 3, 6, 7, 9 (yes, 9 - it helps to be a Known TV Addict), 10, and 13. I would have gotten 2 as well, except that I confused The Battle Hymn of the Republic with America, the Beautiful. (And yes, "grapes of wrath" is in the second line of the first verse; the words appear nowhere else in the song.)
IIRC, of the five answers to #9, you can make a case for three of them being the "odd one out" without having anything to do with the cast or the fact that they have different titles or aired in particular years. Which ones?Quote: ThatDonGuyOn a related subject, if I may, here's one:
Which of these sitcoms is the odd one out:
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Gilligan's Island
The Lucy Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle, USMC
F Troop
My Three Sons
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
Quote: TwoFeathersATL
I am totally worthless at this crap, but my guess for the newest list was the same as Doc's.
Does that mean you didn't make a guess? I didn't.
I guessed. Does my response look as odd ( on the wrong part of the screen ) to you as it does to me? I'm responding from under the fridge, I'm gonna hit 'post', then I may run for the hills....Quote: DocDoes that mean you didn't make a guess? I didn't.
<edit> That looks better. I wasn't sure my old truck would get me all the way to the hills....
<2nd edit> seriously now, did my last couple posts appear under the Avatar on the left side of the screen, instead of in the normal flow of posts, quotes, and responses on the right side of the screen? That is the way they appeared, and still appear, on my screen. I swear I am mostly sober. I will attempt now to take a screen shot of my previous screens. Maybe I can sell them on E-Bay ;-)
<3rd edit> screen shot saved. I am not as crazy as I feared. Still, I broke the damn thing.
RR+1
Gosh darn it Face! I asked a serious question for a change, and I know you were looking at the thread. Did you see anything weird, or you didn't see anything weird, or are you just ignoring the question? Gosh dag nabbit! You see, the Internet with it's friends in the the clouds, along with the NSA, are conspiring against me. I thought at least YOU would understand. I'm on my own it seems. I'm still here, but I'm preparing for instantaneous evacuation/relocation to elsewhere. It's taking a bit longer than I expected (sigh).Quote: FaceThat was brutal. I'm usually good for a handful, but this one smoked me. I might (MIGHT) have guessed Kennedy for the turkey, but even that was a long shot. That aside, the only one I got was Coco the Monkey, and that was solely because of my knowledge of Kruger Industrial Smoothing.
Quote: ThatDonGuyedited
Literally right now, trying to reply to you, it's done something weird to me, too. All the ads are on the left and overlapped over the avatar and onto the text portion.
Just a funky bit of code. Used to see it a lot with tables, but those were mostly user error. Occasionally someone will come in and break something just by doing something that hasn't been done before. Perhaps a bug in all of the spoilers and quotes of spoilers? Who knows. But I suspect it'll clear up once we go to a new page. If it doesn't or if it becomes common I'll go shake JB out of bed =)
Quote: TwoFeathersATLI guessed. Does my response look as odd ( on the wrong part of the screen ) to you as it does to me? I'm responding from under the fridge, I'm gonna hit 'post', then I may run for the hills....
You had one too many close-quote ([/q]) blocks. What the board software thought was the last one was inside a spolier block. That's what caused the problem.
Speaking of problems, why is it that this particular thread is putting up a floating "Recommended Online Casinos" box along the left side of the page?
Quote: FaceNeither, I was waiting. I had no idea what you were talking about so didn't have anything to say, figured I'd just keep my eyes open.
Literally right now, trying to reply to you, it's done something weird to me, too. All the ads are on the left and overlapped over the avatar and onto the text portion.
Just a funky bit of code. Used to see it a lot with tables, but those were mostly user error. Occasionally someone will come in and break something just by doing something that hasn't been done before. Perhaps a bug in all of the spoilers and quotes of spoilers? Who knows. But I suspect it'll clear up once we go to a new page. If it doesn't or if it becomes common I'll go shake JB out of bed =)
I am also seeing the ads on the left side of the page. This in Firefox.
Apparently I broke the damn thing, once again it's all my fault.. I lashed out at Face, my bad, I'm still up for the upcoming coup. My screens from a page or two up in this thread still are indecipherable, I must not have the proper decoder ring.Quote: AyecarumbaI am also seeing the ads on the left side of the page. This in Firefox.
I read, sometimes I post, if the end is coming right now, well, it was fun! Cheers, 2F.
Quote: TwoFeathersATLApparently I broke the damn thing, once again it's all my fault.. I lashed out at Face, my bad, I'm still up for the upcoming coup. My screens from a page or two up in this thread still are indecipherable, I must not have the proper decoder ring.
I read, sometimes I post, if the end is coming right now, well, it was fun! Cheers, 2F.
I fixed it for the most part. It was a misplaced close quote inside brackets. For future reference...so you can come out from under the fridge. :)
Quote: FaceThat was brutal. I'm usually good for a handful, but this one smoked me. I might (MIGHT) have guessed Kennedy for the turkey, but even that was a long shot. That aside, the only one I got was Coco the Monkey, and that was solely because of my knowledge of Kruger Industrial Smoothing.
Same here, I'm usually about 50% on these, got the monkey, but I would have also spelled it Koko. And Lady Elaine for 0.5 points. I knew 3 of 5 Lucy shows. :(
My educated guess for "Gone with the Wind" was off by 13 minutes. :(
Nope. That was me. I said 72. But since I am disqualified for being a prior winner, it didn't hurt much. (Yeah, right)Quote: WizardI think it was Doc who was off by one on question one. Ouch!
On the other hand, I got Carnac The Magnificent, in full, as well as Koko, spelled right. But that's where it ended. I only got 3 Lucy's and a fairly blank page for the rest.
But what I DID get was a Wizard autograph on the answer sheet used when I won the trivia challenge at the 2014 G2E dinner. Yeah, I still carry that answer sheet with me! :D
