Subject: Trash Bash 11
Date: 2 Oct 1995 02:56:05 GMT
Here it is... TRASH BASH 11
Rules are same as always: 20 questions with a base value of 100
points and a bonus with a base value of 200 points, with final points
awarded being the base value divided by the number of people with the correct
answer.
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 08:54:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark Coen
Subject: Trash Bash 11 - RESULTS
After much delay, here are the answers to Trash Bash 11:
1. What Canadian musician added vocals to the Dave and Doug Mackenzie
tune "Take Off?"
A: Geddy LEE, of Rush. (7 points)
2. Who is The Saint?
A: Simon TEMPLAR (although I had a number of people answer Roger
Moore, who of course _played_ The Saint for a while on TV). (6 points)
3. What are the names of the two geriatric hecklers who sit in the
balcony on _The Muppett Show_?
A: STATLER and WALDORF (5 points)
4. Name the Rhodes Scholar who wrote the Janis Joplin hit "Me and Bobby McGee."
A: Kris KRISTOFFERSON (6 points)
5. Who was the last Boston Bruin (current player or alumni) to skate
publicly on the ice at Boston Garden?
A: Bobby ORR (of course!). (10 points)
6. What child's toy found use in the Vietnam War as a radio antenna or
entension for a radio antenna?
A: SLINKY (7 points)
7. Name the greasy Italian bohunk on _Friends_ who used to date Rachel
but couldn't keep his hands off of Phoebe.
A: PAOLO (numerous spellings accepted). (11 points)
8. Name the only team to lose a WFL championship game.
A: FLORIDA BLAZERS (25 points)
9. What did the acronym D.A.R.Y.L. stand for in the movie _D.A.R.Y.L._?
A: DATA ANALYZING ROBOT YOUTH LIFEFORM (25 points)
10. What group's albums include _Stain_ and _Biscuits_?
A: LIVING COLOUR (11 points)
11. Who is Dirk Pitt's short, stocky, Italian-descended sidekick in
Clive Cussler's series of novels about Pitt?
A: Al GIORDINO (33 points)
12. What NCAA division 1 school is the only one to have two players in
the top 20 all time in career scoring in men's basketball?
A: University of HOUSTON (50 points)
13. While Tommy Lee Jones played Harvey "Two Face" Dent in the recent
film _Batman Forever_, who played Harvey Dent in the first _Batman_ film
starring Michael Keaton?
A: Billie Dee WILLIAMS (6 points)
14. Who was the producer behind shows like _Cannon_, _Streets of San
Francisco_ and _The FBI_?
A: Quinn MARTIN (8 points)
15. For whom is the school with the fake bomb named for in _Die Hard:
With a Vengance_?
A: Chester A. ARTHUR (20 points)
16. Who, in 1916, sponsored the Cinderella Foot Contest, checking the
feet of thousands of women to find the perfect foot, which he used (at
least in part) to promote his line of products?
A: Dr. William SCHOLL (9 points)
17. Who, besides Michael Jackson, is the only artist to have a single
debut at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart?
A: Mariah CAREY (who did it last week with her single
"Fantasy"). (17 points)
18. What was the last town east of the Mississippi River to be the home
of the winning team in the Little League World Series?
A: TRUMBULL, CT (in 1989). (14 points)
19. What is Norm Peterson's real first name?
A: HILARY (20 points)
20. Name the film currently in the works, a sequel to _Terms of
Endearment_, which will have Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson
reprising their roles.
A: _THE EVENING STAR_ (25 points)
BONUS: Name the performing group from the original members: Chris Wink,
Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton
A: BLUE MAN GROUP, a performance art-type group now running shows
in both New York and Boston. Congrats to Chris Morse and the Delphi
Trivia Club for getting this correct! (100 points)
Before the scores, a correction from last week. Due to a
transcribing error, I incorrectly tallied David Goodman's point total.
He actaully scored 31 points, up from the 14 I said he scored. The
management once again apologizes for the error.
A big upswing in attendance this week, with 25 entries! The results:
Delphi TC 415 points
Greg Sorenson 315
Chris Morse 253
Joshua Kreitzer 110
David Holden 109
James Quintong 85
Paul Herzog 82
W. Scott Monty 75
Bob Jewett 74
Pat Burns 73
David Goodman 72
Michael Sanderson 70
Mike Sutton 59
Tim Young 59
Lori Bailey 55
Ender Wiggin 45
Bruce Bowler 39
R. David Kaleida 39
Eugene & Chuck 37
James Torrence 35
Anton Sherwod 27
BlueFunk 24
msb 21
John Thornton 18
Susan Groppi 12
Thanks for playing... Trash Bash 12 follows!
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Mark Coen
Boston University
1995 Ice Hockey NATIONAL CHAMPS
STOP THE SWOOSH!