Trivia Rounds - March: Round 7 (Mar. 7th) RESULTS:9 players participated


QUESTION 1

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An official original member of the group of Canadian painters, The Group of Seven

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10 points: A.Y. Jackson, Art Lismer

5 points: Lawren Harris (4), Fredrick Varley (3)

Not Mentioned: Franklin Carmichael, Frank Johnston (only showed in the Group's first exhibit), J.E.H. MacDonald, Tom Thompson (Although he died before the Group formally formed, he is almost always included as a member of the Group of Seven, therefore I would have accepted him as an answer as well)




QUESTION 2

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A book written by Emily Carr

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10 points: Klee Wyck, Heart Of A Peacock

5 points: Hundreds And Thousands (2), The Book Of Small (3), Growing Pains (2)

Not Mentioned: House of All Sorts, Pause: a sketchbook, The Complete Writings of Emily Carr



QUESTION 3

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A song on the Coincidences & Likely Stories album by Buffy Ste. Marie

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10 points: Disinformation, Fallen Angels

5 points: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee(2), The Priests Of The Golden Bull (2), Emma Lee(3)

Not mentioned: The Big Ones Get Away, Bad End, Starwalker, Getting Started, I'm Going Home, Goodnight


QUESTION 4

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A Major League Baseball player (active or retired) who won a Gold Glove as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays

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10 points: Nobody

5 points: Shawn Green (2), Jesse Barfield (3), Tony Fernandez (2), Vernon Wells (2)

Not Mentioned: Devon White, Roberto Alomar, Kelly Gruber


QUESTION 5

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A place in Canada that has a monument of a Canada Goose as a roadside attraction

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10 points: Sault au Mouton, Quebec; Portneuf Sur-Mer, Quebec; Cabri, Saskatchewan (this roadside attraction also includes an antelope and wheat); Kindersley, Saskatchewan; Kerrobert, Saskatchewan; Quill Lake, Saskatchewan; Wawa, Ontario (Also Wawa, Ontario and Wawa, Ontario --- I believe there have been three different Canada Goose monuments in Wawa over the years and that these are just the different versions of the Canada Goose roadside attraction in Wawa --- "Wawa" is Ojibway for "Wild Goose".

5 points: Lundar, Manitoba (2)

Not Mentioned: Hanna, Alberta

Results

bracklaman: 35 points
gatsby722: 35 points
santana2002: 35 points
Mugaboo: 35 points

cinnam0n: 30 points
Exit 10: 30 points
littlewoman2: 30 points
ozzz2002: 30 points
Spanishliz: 30 points


Congratulations to bracklaman, Mugaboo, gastby722, and santana2002 who each collect a point for this round.

Thanks for playing everyone!

*edited to add links to the Canada Goose Roadside Attractions

Friday's round is a bit early, so enjoy! I will post results on Sunday.

Round 11

1. Name a poet or writer who is buried in Westminster Abbey.
2. Name a mark of punctuation used in the English language.
3. Name a book of the Bible (an epistle) that was written by Apostle Paul.
4. Name a celebrity who appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine in 1953.
5. Name an actor or actress who received an Academy Award when he or she was 18 years old or younger. The award can be for a competitive acting Oscar or an honorary statuette.

Have fun! If you have any questions, just send me a PM.

Edited to clarify question 3.

Round 8 is now over... I'm going to a concert, so I am in a generally good mood - ergo, late answers will be accepted.

Au revoir.

Round 9 is now closed. Results will come soon.

ROUND 9 RESULTS

Seven players played this round.

Question 1:

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Name a performer who is nominated for at least two of this year's Academy of Country Music awards.

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For 10 points:
Terri Clark (nominated for 2 awards), Big & Rich (3), Rascal Flatts (3), Kenny Chesney (5), Gretchen Wilson (5), Tim McGraw (6),

Not Accepted:
Montgomery Gentry (only up for Vocal Duo of the year)

Not Mentioned:
Toby Keith (4), Brad Paisley (4), Alison Krauss (5), to name a few

Question 2:

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In the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, there are 10 players that will not play the first round, because they received byes into later rounds. Name one.

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For 10 points:
Robin Carroll, Bob Verini, Tom Walsh

For 5 points:
Eric Newhouse [2 people], Ken Jennings [2]

Not Mentioned:
Frank Spangenberg, Brian Weikle, Sean Ryan, Brad Rutter, Chuck Forrest

Note: Ken Jennings will play in the final round, all others will play in round 2.

Question 3:

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Name a color in a standard package of M&Ms.

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For 10 points:
Brown

For 5 points:
Red [2], Green [2], Orange [2]

Not Mentioned:
Yellow, Blue

Question 4:

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Name one of the ten cities in the state of Washington that has the highest population.

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For 10 points:
Tacoma (#3, pop. 193,556), Vancouver (#4, pop. 143,560)

For 5 points:
Spokane (#2, pop. 195,629) [2], Bellevue (#5, pop. 109,569) [3]

Not Mentioned:
Seattle (#1, pop. 563,374), Everett (#6, pop. 91,488), Federal Way (#7, pop. 83,259), Kent (#8, pop. 79,254), Yakima (#9, pop. 71,845), Bellingham (#10, pop. 67,161)

Question 5:

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Name someone who was the President of the United States at any point between the start of World War I and the end of World War II.

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For 10 points:
Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Warren Harding

For 5 points:
Calvin Coolidge [3]

Scores:

40: littlewoman2
40: cinnam0n
40: ElfTwinkle
35: gatsby722
35: Mugaboo
35: trident87
25: bracklaman

Thanks to everyone for playing!!!

Round VIII - March 8th, 2005...

The Results!

9 people played this round...

Question I: Name a book written by Michael Crichton not originally published under that name...
For 10 points: Binary, The Venom Business
For 5 points: Zero Cool (3), A Case of Need (2), Scratch One (2)
Not mentioned: As a student, J. Michael Crichton wrote a bunch of mystery novels that wer mildly successful under the pseudonym of John Lange. He also wrote the novel A Case of Need nder the pseudonym of Jeffery Hudson, his first book to win an award. The novels not mentioned were: Odds On, Easy Go, Grave Descent, and Drug of Choice.

Question II: Name a ductless gland...
For 10 points: Spleen
For 5 points: thyroid (2), paraganglia (2), pineal (2), thymus (2)
Not mentioned: aortic, parathyroids, glomus, suprarenals, pituitary
I had no idea what a ductless gland was until I wrote the question. These are glands that do not possess any ducts by which their secretion is discharged. They basically absorb their own waste.

Question III: Name one of the original members of the European Union...
For 10 points: Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Ireland
For 5 points: France (3), Luxembourg (2)
Not Mentioned: Germany, Belgium, UK, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Finland

Question IV: Name the highest point of any continent...
For 10 points: Nobody
For 5 points: Anconagua - South America (2), Vinson Massif - Antarctica (3), Mt. Everest - Asia (2), Kilimanjaro - Africa (2)
Not mentioned: Mt. McKinley - North America, Elbrus - Europe, and Kosciusko for Austraia/Oceania

Question V: Name an NBA/MLB/NFL team named for something that flies...
For 10 points: Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Falcons, St. Louis Cardinals, and Arizona Cardinals
For 5 points: New Orleans Hornets (2), Baltimore Orioles (2)
Not mentioned: Seattle Seahawks, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles (NFL)
Atlanta Hawks (NBA)

The Results:
Our winners: Julia103, ElfTwinkle, and Mugaboo with 35! points...
All the rest had 30 points:
gatsby722, bracklaman, littlewoman2, ozzz2002, Exit10, and cinnamOn

Thanks to all for playing.
Congratulations to Julia103, ElfTwinkle, and Mugaboo.
Have a great week and see you all next Tuesday!

Round 10 is now closed. Results in a few hours.

Round 10 results

Wow! I learned a lot from the answers in this round. Thanks to everyone who participated.

1. A woman who has served as president or prime minister of her country
10 points for everyone!
Helen Clark (New Zealand), Hanna Suchocka (Poland), Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway), Sylvie Kingi (Burundi), Milka Planinc (Yugoslavia), Benezir Bhutto (Pakistan), Kim Campbell (Canada)
There are many others. A partial listing can be found here.
No one mentioned Margaret Thatcher (England), Golda Meir (Israel) or Indira Gandhi (India)

2. A man who signed the “Declaration of Sentiments” at the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848
10 points: Jacob Chamberlain, Frederick Douglas, David Spalding, James Mott, Joel Bunker
5 points: Jonathan Metcalf (2)
A facsimile of the "Roll of Honor" listing all the signers can be found here.

3. A leader of the Womens Social and Political Union in England during the fight for women’s suffrage
10 points: Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Teresa Billington, Kitty Marion
For two of the answers given I couldn’t find record of their connection with the WSPU so I’m not allowing them. If the people who sent these answers (or anyone else with information) can send me a link about this I will revise the scores:
Millicent Garrett Fawcett - from what I found she was active in the London Suffrage Committee and the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, but not the WSPU.
Emily Gowan Murphy – She supported women’s suffrage in Canada, but I didn’t see anything relating her to the movement in England

4. A woman airplane pilot prior to 1930
10 points: Baroness Raymonde de Laroche (the first woman in the world to earn a pilot's license), Anita “Neta” Snook (she gave flying lessons to Amelia Earhart), Helene Dutrieux, Julia Clark, Faye Gillis Wells
5 points: Bessie Coleman (the first African-American, female or male, to earn a pilot's license)
Additional information about women pilots can be found here.

5. A founding member of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the U.S. in 1966
10 points: Gene Boyer, Rev. Pauli Murray
5 points: Betty Friedan (3), Aileen Hernandez (2)


Bracklaman 45
Cinnam0n 45
Ozzz2002 45
ElfTwinkle 40
Littlewoman2 40
Mugaboo 35
Gatsby722 35

Congratulations to bracklaman, cinnam0n, and ozzz!

ROUND 14 - Monday

I'm posting this early due to computer problems. I've just reformatted, and am in the process of getting everything up and running again, though it's never as straightforward as it aught to be. If I'm late with the results that'll be why, and I apologise in advance

Please give me:

1) A type of Irish Dance
2) A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
3) A painting by Salvador Dali
4) A novel by Charles DeLint
5) A regular host of Trivia Rounds

Round 11 Results:

Eight players participated!

1. Name a poet or writer who is buried in Westminster Abbey.

10 points: John Masefield, Ben Jonson, Charles Dickens, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
5 points: Geoffrey Chaucer, Rudyard Kipling

Not mentioned: Edmund Spenser, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and others

2. Name a mark of punctuation used in the English language.

10 points: period, hyphen, quotation marks, colon
5 points: dash, ellipsis

Not mentioned: apostrophe, comma, question mark, exclamation point, parenthesis, semicolon, bracket, and others

3. Name a book of the Bible (an epistle) that was written by Apostle Paul.

10 points: I Corinthians, II Corinthians, Romans, Titus, Galatians, I Thessalonians, II Timothy, Philemon

No repeats!

Not mentioned: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, II Thessalonians, I Timothy

4. Name a celebrity who appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine in 1953.

10 points: Richard Nixon, Sigrid Soelter, Marlon Brando, Cyd Charisse, Joseph Stalin, Tenzing Norgay, Queen Elizabeth II, Roy Campanella

Again, no repeats!

Not mentioned: Audrey Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, Donna Reed, and others

5. Name an actor or actress who received an Academy Award when he or she was 18 years old or younger. The award can be for a competitive acting Oscar or an honorary statuette.

10 points: Shirley Temple (1934), Claude Jarman, Jr. (1946), Judy Garland (1939), Patty Duke (1962)
5 points: Anna Paquin (1993), Tatum O'Neal (1973)

Not mentioned: Deanna Durbin (1938), Margaret O'Brien (1944), Peggy Ann Garner (1945), Bobby Driscoll (1949), Hayley Mills (1960), and a few others

And now for the scores:

50 points!
Gatsby722
Mugaboo

45 points!
ElfTwinkle

40 points!
Bracklaman
Ozzz2002
Exit10
Cinnam0n

35 points!
Julia103

Thank you all for playing, and congratulations to our two winners, Gatsby722 and Mugaboo!

Other rounds may be early, but this round, Round 12 is late. It'll close about 48 hours or so from now.

Give:

1. A word containing three consecutive vowels
2. A contract in bridge which is higher than 1 spade but lower than 3 spades.
3. An instrument/group of instruments that represents a character in 'Peter and the Wolf'
4. A team seeded either first or second in its region in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament.
5. A Nation sharing a land border with France.

If you have any questions about any of these, or need an explanation of bridge contracts for #2, just let me know. Thanks, and sorry for being late!

Kevin

I'm late too. This is Round 13 (Sunday 13 March)

Name:
1. Something a dressmaker would use.
2. A Rolls Royce model of car.
3. A type of shark.
4. A Queensland University
5. A type of natural disaster (if a disaster has two names for the identical happening both will be counted as separate entries to give you the chance of more points) Erm.. that didn't read correctly - you are still only allowed one entry though.

This will close in about 48 hours.

I'm on time... although 14 may be late...

Welcome to another round of: The Tuesday questions!

So without further ado, I give you:
Round XV - Tuesday March 15th, 2005. Provincial Trivia!

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The Questions:

1. Name the official state tree of any American state beginning with an 'M'...
2. Name the capital of any Dutch province...
3. Name a Swiss canton with an animal on its flag...
4. Name a French region bordering on salt-water...
5. Name the official provincial bird for any Canadian province...

Good luck and have a great week!

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Round 14 was posted about 5 posts back --- definitely not late.

Round 12 is now closed. Results will be up soon.

Round 12 Results

There were 8 participants this round

1. A Word containing 3 consecutive vowels
10: Beautify, Fleeing, Gateaux, Milieu, Onomatopoeia (not just 3, but 4!), Seeing, Sequoia, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Everybody got 10's in this one, with a nice variety of words. I hadn't encountered the word 'Gateaux' before, but a quick search on google convinced me I should make an effort to encounter them in the future (the word refers to a type of cake).

2. A Bridge Bid between 1 Spade and 3 Spades
10: 1 No Trump, 2 Hearts
5: 2 Spades (5 people)
One answer was not accepted.

My apologies to everybody for what was probably an overly difficult question (especially if you wanted to find an answer other than 2 spades). For the curious, the bids in bridge go: 1 club, 1 diamond, 1 heart, 1 spade, 1 no trump, 2 clubs, 2 diamonds, 2 hearts, 2 spades, 2 no trump, 3 clubs, ... etc.


3. An Instrument from 'Peter and the Wolf'
10: French Horns (representing the Wolf), Timpani (representing the Hunter)
5: Flute (representing the Bird, 2 people), Oboe (representing the Duck, 4 people)
Unmentioned: Strings (representing Peter), Bassoon (representing his Grandfather), Clarinet (representing the Cat)

'Peter and the Wolf' was originally composed by Prokofiev as an introduction to the orchestra for children. Although the original debut was not a success, it has gone on to become quite popular.

4. A team seeded #1 or #2 in the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament
10: Duke, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma State
5: Connecticut (2), Washington (2)
Unmentioned: North Carolina, Wake Forest.

Duke and North Carolina would also have been acceptible if I had asked about the women's tournament instead of the men's. There's a tipping competition going on next forum over if you want to make your predictions as to tourney results.

5. A Nation Bordering France
10: Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Italy
5: Spain (4 people)
Also acceptible: Luxembourg, Switzerland


Final Scores:
45: Littlewoman, Mugaboo
40: Exit10, Ozzz2002
35: Elftwinkle
30: Cinnam0n, Gatsby722, Kuu

Thanks to everybody who participated!

Round 13 closed, results in two hours, late entries accepted.

Results of Round 13 (10 players)

1. Something a dressmaker would use.

10 Points: buttons, shears, dummy, thimble, tracing wheel, iron, needle
5 Points: Tape measure (3)

Not mentioned: needles, pins, scissors, fabric, thread, unpicker, sewing machine et al.

2. A Rolls Royce model of car.

10 Points: Camargue, Silver Cloud Phantom III,
5 Points: Wraith (2), Silver Ghost (3), Flying Spur (2)

Not mentioned: Corniche, Silver Shadow, Flying Spirit, Silver Dawn, Silver Seraph, and others

3. A type of shark.

10 Points: Bullshark, Mako, Mackerel Shark, Cowshark, Wobbegong, SandTiger Shark, Reef Whitetip Shark, Tiger Shark, Grey Reef Shark, Carpet Shark

Not mentioned: Amongst others, White pointer, Nurse, Hammerhead, Angel, Blue, Basking, CookieCutter, Goblin, Zebra
http://www.kidzone.ws/sharks/facts9.htm has some sharks with some potted trivial facts.


A Queensland University.

10 Points: Griffith, Central Queensland Uni, Uni of the Sunshine Coast, Bond University
5 Points: James Cook Uni (3), Queensland University of Technology (3)

Not mentioned: The University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Australian Catholic University

To the person who submitted Queensland Institute of Technology I have allowed this for two reasons - that used to be its previous name and there isn't any other one, and I knew what you meant.


5. A type of natural disaster.

10 Points: hurricane,
5 Points: avalanche (2), mud slide (3), drought (2), bushfire (2)

Not mentioned: tsunami, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, earthquake

Scores
45 Points: ozzz, littlewoman
40 Points: Gats, Julia
35 Points: Cinnam0n, Elftwinkle, Kuu, Mugaboo, Beaker
30 Points: Kevin

Congratulations to Ozzz and Littlewoman and thanks for playing.

Thanks to the vagaries of world time, it is already the 17th here, so here we go with Round 17. Good luck, all!

Q1- Name a category that features in the "Who's Smartest?" hourly quiz tournaments.

Q2- What is a national capital and country that both start with the same letter (eg, Georgetown, Guyana)?

Q3- Give me a three letter word with the pattern 'consonant-vowel-consonant', where all five vowels can be substituted to make a real word. An example would be 'bag, beg, big, bog, bug'.

Q4- A type of electronic communication between two or more people.

Q5- Any team that won their match in Round One of the 2005 NRL (Rugby League) season that kicked off last weekend.

Results will be posted sometime Saturday, Aussie time.

He is Round 16. Late by Australian time but on the right day American time

I ask people to excuse if I repeat questions that have been posted before. Because of real life time constraints I don't get to come to Fun Trivia as much as I did so I don't see every question asked.

ROUND 16

1) A illegitimate child (reputed or acknowledged) of King Henry VIII of England.

2) A movie filmed in New Zealand

3) A country that was hit by the tsunami on the 26 Dec 2004

4) An island located in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria (you might have to go to a map for this one)

5) A victim (not a possible victim) of the Zodiac Killer.

Apologies anyone who tried to reply to me and couldn't - I have now tidied up my mailbox and can accept PMs again. Results will be available sometime over the next 24 hours but entries are accepted throughout that time.

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

Here is Round 18.

1. Let us pretend that plastic surgery is both free and painless. What part of your body would you have worked on?

2. According to CNN/Money Magazine what is one of the top 6 most expensive colleges in the U.S.? [1st year full time students; tuition only]

3. Not much of a golfer myself but was wondering a Masters Tournament winner from 1994 to the present.

4. A movie released in the 1990s in which the late River Phoenix was in.

5. Here's the Google one : Baseballer Mickey Mantle opened his own restaurant in NYC - named, of course, "Mickey Mantle's". Name an entree that is available on 'The Little League Menu' there (for kids 12 and under).

Have fun and see you on Sunday!

As I have to go out for a couple of hours I will leave my round open until I get back in case anyone wants to put an late entry in.

Round 16 is closed. Answers and score up as soon as I check on a couple of answers.

Answers to Round 16

1) A illegitimate child (reputed or acknowledged) of King Henry VIII of England.

Worth 10 points
Catherine Carey, Henry Fitzroy

Worth 5 points
Etheldreda Malte (2), Sir John Perrot (3)

I disallowed Mary (daughter of Catherine) as history does not regard her as being illegimate. Henry did have her declared illegimate at one stage but legitimacy was restored.


2) A movie filmed in New Zealand

Worth 10 points
The Piano, Once Were Warriors, The Sands of Iwo Jima (partly filmed in NZ), LOTR: The Two Towers, Willow (Partly filmed), Angel at my Table

Worth 5 points
Lord of the Rings (2)


3) A country that was hit by the tsunami on the 26 Dec 2004

Worth 10 points
Malaysia, South Africa, Indonesia, Somalia

Worth 5 points
India, Thailand

4) An island located in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria (you might have to go to a map for this one)

Worth 10 points
Walker Island, Craggy Island, King Island, Vansittart Island, Hogan Island, Cape Barren ISland

Worth 5 points
Three Hummock Island

5) A victim (not a possible victim) of the Zodiac Killer.

Worth 10 points
David Faraday, Betty Lou Jensen, Darlene Ferrin

Worth 5 pointd
Paul Stine (2), Cecilia Sheppard (3)


SCORES

40 points - littlewoman2, ozzz2002, Mugaboo, Ceci1980

35 points - cinnam0n, SRR Trekker,Julia103, Elfwinkle