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TeamTrivia Top 150
Tournament, 8/17/2013
Round
1
Royalty:
Recently, photos
of the Royal baby’s (George Alexander Louis) birth certificate surfaced. On it, Kate’s occupation is listed as what?
Music Quotes: Regarding
her nominations at this month’s MTV Video Music Awards, what singer tweeted,
“If you vote and get us one, I promise to keep a firmer grip on the mic this
time”?
Beverages: According
to a June 2013 press release from Coca-Cola announcing the debut of Coke in
Myanmar, there are only two countries where Coca-Cola is not currently
sold. Name one.
Round 2
Advertising Icons: What
advertising icon is the subject of the Tumblr account titled “Robble Robble”?
Movie Plots: In
Erin Brockovich, what is the name of the California town with the contaminated
water supply?
Sports
Logos: According to owner
Robert Kraft, the face in the current New England Patriots’ logo is a depiction
of the face of what entertainer?
Round
3
Mascots: Named in honor of a
famous athlete, what is the name of Twitter’s bird mascot?
Traditions: Each year on March 19, the
swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
In what month are they reputed to leave?
Authors: What
author used the pen name Robert Galbraith in writing the 2013 crime fiction
novel The Cuckoo’s Calling?
Half-time
For
2 points each:
Since the creation of the National Toy Hall
of Fame in 1999, only five board games have been inducted. Name them.
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There have been six sports figures –
individual or group – to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Time,
and Newsweek in the same week.
Who are they? You don’t have to
match them to the correct years, but the years were 1973, 1976, 1984, 1994,
1996, and 1999.
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Round 4
Tributes: What Italian’s death in
Rome in 1937 was observed with two minutes of silence on the radio the next day
throughout the world?
Bridges: The bridge that
crosses the Hudson River between Hudson and Catskill is named after what
fictional character?
Directors: Simon
Wells, great-grandson of H.G. Wells, directed what 2002 film?
Round
5
Cartoons: In
one issue of a Looney Tunes comic book, what cartoon character’s middle name
was said to stand for Ethelbert?
American
Politics: Founded in 2009, the
Modern Whig Party uses what type of bird as its symbol?
Science: In 2011 the world’s
largest sperm bank announced it would no longer accept donations from men with
what physically recognizable trait?
Round
6
Entertainers: In January 2001 what woman
became the first to have a #1 album and a #1 movie simultaneously?
The
Braves: This season,
in what city did the Atlanta Braves play a regular season game for the first
time in the history of the franchise?
Vegas: On October 18,
2000, Barbara Eden helped reopen what Las Vegas hotel/casino by crossing her
arms and blinking?
Final
You
do not have to answer all the answers; put down as many as you’re comfortable
with. You will receive 2 points for each
correct answer but lose 2 points for each incorrect answer. (Those left blank will not count against
you.)
The 1997 family
film Air Bud features a dog who plays basketball. Including direct-to-video releases, name the
sports featured in the first four sequels to Air Bud.
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Since Billboard
magazine debuted its first “Music Popularity Chart” in 1940 (eventually
morphing into the Top 100 singles chart and Top 200 Albums chart), name the top
solo artist each of the following decades, based on chart performance:
1940s, 1950s/1960s (same person for both decades), 1970s, 1980s, 1990, 2000s
(2000-2009). There is only one female.
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1940s 1950s and 1960s 1970s
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1980s 1990s 2000s
Name the five
US Presidents to have served as president, or “rector,” of a university.
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