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Milwaukee’s Hardest Trivia from 10-18-10

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Round 1
B Movies

1. What B movie sub-genre featured the films Coffy, Cotton Comes Home, and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song?
2.What B-movie actor is best known for his roles in the the Evil Dead series, Bubba Ho-tep, and Sundown:The Vampire in Retreat?
3. What B Movie director is credited with directing Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait, and Orgy of the Dead?
4. What B Movie spoof ends with a carrot rising out of the ground and saying, “All right, you guys, They’re gone now?”
5. What B-movie follows the adventures Melvin Ferd of Tromaville, New Jersey who becomes a superhero after suffering a chemical burn and being lit on fire?

Round 2
Literature

6. In what early-American novel would you find the sisters Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy March?
7. Henry Chinaski is the protagonist of several stories by what American writer?
8.Who wrote The Human Stain, The Plot Against America and American Pastoral?
9.What 1953 Arthur Miller play was based on the Salem witch trials and was an allegory of McCarthyism?
10. Who wrote the tale The Call of Cthulhu?

Round 3
Wild Card

11. What former Milwaukee Brewer was nicknamed “Gumby?”
12. How many sides make up a hexadecagon?
13. How many Euro would you have if you had one of coin each denomination minted?
14. Rank the following in terms of world population, from lowest to highest: cattle, chickens, humans.
15. What country was ranked last in the US-based Fund For Peace’s Failed States Index, making it the most sustainable country in the world?

Round 4
Explorers

16.What Spanish Explorer led the first European expedition of Florida
17. What European explorers were the first to map the upper portion of the Mississippi River?
18. What American naval engineer is often credited with being the first to reach the North Pole?
19. Who led the Norwegian expedition that was the first to reach the South Pole
20. Name the Sherpa that accompanied Edmund Hillary during the the first summitting of Mt Everest?

Round 5
Current Events

21. What popular clothing retailer recently bowed to consumer outrage over their new logo and reverted to their 20 year old logo of a solid blue box with their name in a capitalized serif font?
22. A hiker in Washington state died on October 16th after being gored by what animal in Olympic National Park*?
23. Mary MacKillop was recently canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XVI. She is the first canonized saint from what country?
24. Scientist working for the UN recently claimed to have wiped out Rinderpest, only the second viral disease to be eradicated. What was the first?
25. What visionary mathematician, who discovered the mathematical shapes known as fractals, passed away on October 14, 2010?

Round 6
Casting Call -name the show they were in together

26. Seth Rogan, Busy Phillips, Linda Cardellini
27. Judd Hirsch, Tony Danza and Christopher Lloyd
28. Mike Sorrentino, Jenni Farley, Sammi Giancola
29. Max Wright, Benji Gregory, Liz Sheridan
30. Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Ricky Gervais

Round 7
WTF
31. Visual
32.Visual
33.Visual
34.Visual
35.Visual

Round 8
Famous Horses

36. What horse won the 2010 Kentucky Derby?
37. Who wrote the Black Stallion?
38. In what year did Secretariat win the Triple Crown?
39. In the TV series The Lone Ranger, what was the name of Tonto’s horse?
40.What horse is credited with playing Mr. Ed?

Round 9
Know Your Berries

41. What flowering, evergreen shrub, native to Arctic regions throughout Europe and Asia, is also called the cowberry?
42. The appealing, plump fruit of what berry was on display in the movie Swordfish?
43. Marion Barry was the disgraced mayor of what US city?
44. What Barry composed the jingles for Band-Aid, State Farm and the Dr Pepper song?
45. In what state would you find Barre, the self proclaimed ‘Granite Center of the world”?

Round 10
The Great Irish Trivia Famine

46. Using the most common explanation for the colors of the Irish flag, the orange represents Protestants and the green Catholics.  What does the white represent?
47. Which of the following years did not feature an Irish rebellion: 1594, 1641, 1753, 1803, 1916?
48. Which king of England handed rule of Ireland to the Irish with the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1922?
49. What did Irish teenager Annie Moore became the first person to do on January 1st, 1892?
50. Cobh, Co. Cork, formerly known as Queenstown, was the last port-of-call for the Titanic and what other ill-fated ship, sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th, 1915?

Round 11
Finance

51. What measure of a country’s economic output is defined as the ‘market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a given year’?
52. What do the ‘p’ and ‘e’ stand for in a stock’s p/e ratio?
53. What is the name for an economic policy that restricts free trade between states to discourage imports and prevent foreign take-over of domestic markets?
54. What company, included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, uses the NYSE ticker symbol KO?
55. What term, meant to compare it to the growing economies of East Asia, was used to describe Ireland’s rapid economic boom from 1995-2007?

Round 12
Star Wars

56. Who provided the voice for Yoda in the original trilogy and The Phantom Menace?
57. What race of bipeds was from the planet Kashyyyk?
58. The Children of the Green Planet, indigenous to Brodo Asagi, make a cameo in The Phantom Menace, but they are better known for starring in what movie?
59. Name this Trandoshann Bounty Hunter:
60. In the 1977 version of A New Hope, who shot first?

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Tr-Tr-Tr-Trivia

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Here’s your weekly Trivia smash. It seems the Red Dot’s outdoor heaters work like a gem. The place was rather full last night people seemed to be warm enough. There was some frustration as one broad tried to argue that the word “caravan” was plural. I sent her ass back to her ESL class. Told her to get more intellects.

Apart from that the night went off well. Here’s what you missed.

Video Games
1. In what game would you find the characters Rash, Pimple and Zitz?
2. Ryu Hayabusa is the protagonist of what classic video game?
3. Name the two main characters in the arcade version of Double Dragon.
4. Sue is to Ms. Pac Man as [who] is to Pac Man?
5. Keith Courage in Alpha Zones was the original pack-in game with what video game system?

Logos
6. Visual
7. Visual
8. Visual
9. Visual
10. Visual

Wild Card
11. Name the largest former Soviet Republic.
12. Grendel is one of the antagonists in what Old English epic poem?
13. What famous store opened at 611 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in September of 1924?
14. This is the proper equation to find the speed required for water activity (participants weight in lbs/10) + 20 mph?
15. The now famous phrase “All your base are belong to us” was taken from what video game?

Food
16. Improper home canning can leave traces of Clostridium botulinium, which produces a toxin known to cause what illness?
17. The leaves of the coriander plant are better known as what herb?
18. Poi is a traditional Polynesian staple made from what plant?
19. What culinary term is used to describe parts of a meat animal used for food, but not skeletal muscle?
20. What cultivar is the most commonly grown banana in the world?

Cults, religions. Religions, Cults.Whatever
21. David Koresh was the leader of what religious sect near Waco, Texas?
22. Jonestown, where 909 followers of Jim Jones died from cyanide poisoning, is located in what country?
23. Members of what church are known as “Moonies?”
24. The UFO based religious sect, Heaven’s Gate, identified by their black and white Nikes, believed by committing mass suicide they would be able to board a spaceship trailing what comet?
25. The Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas is home to what religious sect?

Know Your Former Soviet Republics
26. Visual
27. Visual
28. Visual
29. Visual
30. Visual

Ancient Egypt
31. Pharaohs were thought to be reincarnations of what god?
32. Spell the word used to describe Ancient Egyptian writings.
33. During which of Ancient Egypt’s “Kingdom” periods were the pyramids of Giza built?
34. Name the containers ancient Egyptians used to store organs removed during mummification?
35. The first known Egyptian royal tombs were known as what?

Cars
36. What are Acura cars known as in Japan?
37. What was the Nissan Fairlady known as when it is sold in the US?
38. What German car company has, over it’s lifetime, produced Isetta, Range Rover and Mini?
39. What European car company has produced the Ami 6, the Dyane 6, and the DS Pallas?
40. Name three cars in which the model names are plural.

WTF?
41. Visual
42. Visual
43. Visual
44. Visual
45. Visual

Star Trek Deaths
46. Who is killed by Armus in the Next Generation episode Skin of Evil?
47. In J.J. Abram’s Star Trek, Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson,dies in front of her son while Spock tries to rescue her. Who portayed her?
48. Who killed the Borg Queen at the end of Star Trek: First Contact?
49. On what vessel does Data die in the movie Nemesis?
50. As Spock sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise and her crew in the climax of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, what famous line does he utter to Kirk before his last words “Live Long and prosper”

Current Events
51. What Canadian province recently overturned it’s prostitution ban because the laws forced workers into the streets and unsafe working conditions?
52. Officials at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi have brought in Langurs to drive out what pests?
53. The Stuxnet Worm recently attacked Nuclear and Industrial computer systems in what country?
54. A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental has recently caused a delay of what practice in the United States?
55. What philanthropic foundation recently gave out it’s annual Genius Grants, each worth $500,000?

South Park
56. What is the full title of the band that Timmy makes famous?
57. What is Cartman’s full name?
58. Piledriver, Virginia Ham, Filthy Sanchez, Glass-Bottom Boat, or Donkey Punch: which is not a sexual position taught by Mr. Garrison to his kindergarten class?
59. In the episode Chef Aid, what now famous defense does Johnnie Cochran use first to defeat, then to assist Chef?
60. What is Mr. Garrison’s first name?

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Trivia Recap for 9-27-10

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Alright welcome back to Trivia.
It was a rough showing last night as we were competing against the Packers-Bears futbol americano extravaganza. Rough showing for the Packers.  I hate Chicago. Not really the city,  just the people. Most of them.

Anyway we had just about every kind of problem imaginable last night. 50% of which were due to Apple and their amazing design choices in the video output department. At one point there was a near death experience as Larsma had to drive me back to the Estate to pick up the back up macbook. Fucking Apple. But big thanks to Larsma’s rally skillz. And her offer to give me two tickets to the Film Festival. She’s pretty much top notch.

Round 1
Lakes
1. Largest lake by volume in Canada?
2. By volume, what is the largest lake in Nicaragua?
3. Venn diagram: South American Lakes and Catchphrases of The Great Cornholio
4. The shores of what lake are at the lowest elevation on the earth surface on dry land?
5. By volume what is the largest lake in the world?

Round 2
Current Events
6. The Papal visit to what country last week was marred by comments made by one of his closest advisers which described it ‚ “ A third world‚ country marked by‚ a new and aggressive atheism?”
7. According to a report published by a hardline newspaper, seven American soldiers were detained by the government of what country after illegally crossing the border with Pakistan?
8. A rookie outfielder for what team was hospitalized after a freak accident in which he was impaled in the chest with a shard of a broken bat?
9. After two Republican Senators last week signaled their intention to support the Obama administration’s initiative, a new arms control treaty with what country appears to be closer to reality?
10. A recent study by UC San Diego reports a link between Adenovirus-36, which causes the common cold, and what other epidemic?

Round 3
The Goonies
11. According to Mikey Walsh, who was the first Goonie?
12. Who played Stef Steinbrenner?
13. Who’s image is on the framed newspaper in Mikey Walsh’s attic
14. Corey Feldman played “Mouth” Devereaux in the movie. What was Mouth’s real name?
15. Name Lotney “Sloth” Fratelli’s two brothers?

Round 4
1990s Rock
16. The Grunge Music movement of the early 1990s was often credited as beginning in what city?
17. Who released the albums Exile in Guyville, Whip Smart and Whitechocolatespaceegg?
18. Name the band and album that won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 1995?
19. Which of the following bands was not in the line-up of the first Lollapalooza Festival: Souixsee and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, The Violent Femmes, The Jesus and Mary Chain?
20. What iconic grunge band released an EP in 1992 entitled Satanoscillatemymetallicsonatas, which included a cover of the DEVO hit “Girl U Want?”

Round 5
Children’s Books
21. What series of children’s books were originally based around Stacy, Kristie, Mary Anne and Claudia?
22. Who wrote The One in the Middle is a Green Kangaroo, Wifey, and Are You There God? It’s me Margaret?
23. What was the name of the vampire bunny that sucks the juice out of vegetables in the books Celery Stalks at Midnight, Howliday Inn, and Nighty Nightmare?
24. What were the names of the brothers in The Hardy Boys series?
25. Who wrote Watership Down?

Round 6
Grown Up Books
26. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson are known as what trilogy?
27. What was the best selling fiction book of 2009?
28. Who wrote the 2009 best selling non-fiction book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man?
29. Who wrote the Jason Bourne series of books?
30. Who wrote Infinite Jest, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, and Brief Interviews with a Hideous Man?

Round 7
Know Your Dinosaurs
31. Brontosaurus is now considered an obsolete synonym for what species of dinosaur?
32. What well-know dinosaur’s name translates to “Roof Lizard?”
33. Which of the following dinosaurs is not classified as a sauropod: Antarctosaurus, Camptosaurus, Diplodocus?
34. During what geologic period did Tyrannosaurus Rex live?
35. Paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh mistook the skeleton of what dinosaur for a bison when he discovered it in 1887?

Round 8
We’re In The Band!
36. Inspecta Deck, U-God, Masta Killa
37. Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo, Eric Kretz
38. Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Zoot, Lips
39. Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Dave Kushner
40. Ted Logan, Bill Preston, Princess Elizabeth

Round 9
WTF?
41. Visual
42. Visual
43. Visual
44. Visual
45. Visual

Round 10
Wild Card
46. Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only diamond-producing site in the work open the public. In which US is it located?
47. What is the Jewish day of atonement?
48. Polydipsia is the medical condition in which patients have an excessive craving of what?
49. Coprophagy is defined as eating what?
50. Who won the 1976 and 1977 World Series of Poker in no-limit Hold ‘em, both times converting a 10-2 hand into a full house?

Round 11
Know Your Wrestlers

51. 52.
53.
54.
55.

Round 12
Name That Tune
56. Audio
57. Audio
58. Audio
59. Audio
60. Audio

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Hold it there, kitty cat, OR Milwaukee’s Difficultest Trivia vs Toronto

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Palabra en la calle is that Torontario is looking to be Jack Nicholson to my Roman Polanski AKA Somebody’s looking to get cut AKA Biggie Smalls AKA Ready to die.

You see, I got word late last night that a certain chi-chi bar in Toronto is making trivia questions outta questions created deep in the depths of the brains of Co-Host and myself.

Broder Wu reports that The Ossington dropped this trival bomb “What time is displayed on timepieces in watch ads?” Broder Wu thought, “blobviously it’s 10:10, and blobviously they have heisted this question from Milwaukee Difficultest Trivia.”

Who the Schlitz does this place think they are? I’ve seen their menu. I’ve seen their decor.  I’ve seen their serious lack of skate photos in the background. It’s tragic, really. Though they do have this:

Now there is a slight, SLIGHT, possibility they came up with this question on their own. Highly unlikely. To settle the score I’m proposing the Ossington fly us up to Toronto for a trivia question creation match. They we’ll see who get’s their nose cut.

Part Second:

I think this is some sort of trompe l’oeil, and that everyone in this picture is the same size.

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600 is Cool aka Consecutive Executive Brewer Action

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

I’m about to double you up on some BaseBallBloggin, because Co-Host is the fucking salt of the earth and offered me some Brew Crew ticket action. Broder txtd me up about noonish and says he’s got some businessman seats, if I want to fill one of them.

“Hmmm,” I thought as I stared into the jar of mayonnaise, still sweating booze from the Brew Crew encounter the previous day, “It will be best if I attend this sporting event with you.”

Had I known what kind of evening it was going to be I would have brought a real camera, but I never really count on Brewer’s games being exciting anymore.

So evening comes around and I fire up the Silver Spurt, pick up co-host and should have immediately stopped for Chinese, parking lot food. Instead I found myself eating some crap sandwich from Health Code Violation Central in Walker’s Point.  I’d never previously considered it, but I can now safely say I don’t care to have my food prepared or served to me by a 16-year old in a tube top (yes, a tube top), leggings, and Goosefeather’s flip-flops.

To each their own I guess. Also the “Secret Sauce” at that other sandwich place is just Italian dressing. Yup.

Then Silver Spurt got stuck behind a train. It was a long one too. With only one good piece of graffiti. It was two whole cars. And on the first car in small letters it said, “all you see is..” and then you know. Big, big, you know some block silver lettersthat said “..crime in the city’ right”

Actually it said, “impeach.”

We eventual landed in the Yount lot, drank our beers fast like college kids, and headed into the game. Macha got tossed, the Cardinals pitching coach got tossed, Dickerson (not Eric) got tossed, some dude in the stands got tossed by the ump. It was bizarro. Then At some point it dawned on Co-Host that the Cerveceros were prepping the game to bring Trevor “Heck’s Becks” Hoffman in for his 600th save. MF, this game just turned legendary.

Then it happened, top of the ninth and old 51 comes rolling out. Saves the game and his banner drops. 600. Rad.

I think it’s important to note that we got complimentary jewelry cleaning rags from Robert Hack diamonds. Word to the wise: Don’t buy diamonds from a dude named Robert Hack. Also never get your car worked on by Jamie Brakefailure.

PSA: If you’re interested in buying advertising space in Miller Park the space where that countdown to 600 was just opened up. Perhaps we’ll see a Rumorator.com logo up there next year.

After the game we celebrated, like proper gentlemen, in the parking lot.

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Hopping on that Bandwagon.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Finally got into AJBombers for some food. I mean i’ve been in there to get drinks and start fights before but I haven’t had the food. This place has been blowing up the internets in Milwaukee and since the internet is worldwide, it’s been heating things up enough to land in the Wall Street Urinal a couple month ago. I chewed up a Barrie Burger, which is a burger with queso, bacon and peanut butter. It was a solid burger and given that there was peanut butter on it, strangely tasty. As the staff there is solid, the dude behind the bar was like “Oh. it’s you. I supposed your going to punch people again.” Luckily for him I didn’t. Mostly because there was no one feeble enough for me to knock-out. But the real appeal of this place are the Schlitz Tall Boys.

That’s the slop that makes Milwaukee Famous right there.

Meanwhile:

Here’s a little something to help you beat the heat and get back into that winter mindset:

Starring Freddy Krueger, some kid who just reached the pinnacle of his career, and enough talking dogs to distort the reality of any kid young enough to it.

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Get Sprung

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Ahhh it seems Spring has returned. Again. And with that returns Schlitz Trivia at the Red Dot. Of course that means the super team is back together.

About a year ago I compiled a team of the world’s deadliest assassins most average dorks—@keith_lipski, @the_boss_of_you, @larsma and @gmachotka— for a trivia team with unmatched trivial knowledge. I was like the Malcolm McLaren of pub trivia teams. Chances are Greg Machotka will be the Sid Vicious. Of course we dominated. This year we are back to defend our title. It all begins tonight. Now we only need to come up with a solid name.

Here are some options for tonight:

  • She Swore It Was Razor Burn.
  • So Then the Black Dude Dragging a Pick Yells “We ain’t found shit.”
  • Ex-girlfriend Crazy or Like Navajo Blanket Crazy.
  • The Aldo Leopold National Deforestation Area.
  • Like You Never Smoked Weed Out of a Sunkist Can?
  • The Women of Brewster Place.
  • Pooh’s Honey Stash.
  • My Porno Name is Comstock Load.
  • I Like the Way Lot’s Wife Shakes.
  • This Kind of Filth Doesn’t Just Wash Off.

In other news:

If you’re a denim head you’re probably well aware of Context, the denim store in Madison, WI. Well it seem like those dudes Sam, Ben and Ryan laced up a pretty slick collab. Nudie Jeans Regular Alf + Context. I understand not everyone is into denims, but if you are these are a great piece to have. I’m on one pair of RRDS pushing 4 years, and they are my go-to pants. You’ll never regret these jeans Besides look at this hang tag:

There are only like 4 things radder than that.

Get above the grit.

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