Ace any trivia quiz you bring on
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urbpanI finally went to a work related but non-work social event, and I'm still all excited about it, though that could be all the damn soda I drank during the night.
We had our AAZK trivia night!*
My friend Dr. B, freshly back from Panama where he was studying amphibian decline, couldn't stay for the trivia, but suggested the team name Beelzebufo, which we accepted. Much of the fun of the night was being teamed with (among other good folks) Jake. At work, Jake is consistently referred to as 'a character,' and I now realize, not always positively. Jake, dressed in his vintage Star Wars iron on t shirt and rebel alliance logo jacket, would stand up and whoop when we got a correct answer. He wasn't gloating, really, I think he was just really happy and has very poor social filters.
Jake got to whoop a lot, because we were kicking trivia ass. What's the meaning of "Caveat Emptor?" What canid is known as the "prairie wolf?" What was the first sport shown on American television? What number is referred to as a gross? Who was the only actor to speak in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie?
Then there were the really hard visual tests: in the first, a group of 10 celebrities pictures and a list of 10 names. The catch? All the celebrities had changed their names and we had to match the original names with the movie stars: Tony Curtis, George Burns, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Mel Brooks, Michael Caine, Brigitte Bardot, and 3 I can't remember. And then a sheet with 10 cartoon pets--we had to name the pet, and then name the owner of the pet. Azrael and Gargamel I got, as well as Astro and the Jetsons, and the Grinch and Max, but most of the rest were Disney characters.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bellelvsbeast would have done a lot better than me on this one. Gepetto's cat? The raven from Sleeping Beauty? The pug from Pocahontas? Cinderella's stepmom's cat? The dog from Mulan? No chance. It's good we guessed that it was Garfield's teddy bear and Betty Boop's cat, or we would have fallen way behind.
There was a "Who am I?" section, where we got biographical hints between each round. He was born in 1898, his education had to stop when his father died, he shod mules for the military during WWI, he moved back to Italy and started a machine shop and an auto racing club...
We had to get the first and last names, and we only got the last. Who would guess "Enzo?"
Finally, we could wager up to 20 points on the final question; the subject: Art. Despite the fact that Jake and I both have art school backgrounds we weren't confident. We dickered about, but finally decided to go for it: bet the full amount.
What art movement was named for a French nonsense term for hobby horse.
We got it right.
Our prize? The money collected at the door was to go to the conservation organization of our choice. In honor of our team name, we chose El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center. It is, after all The Year of the Frog (sorry, rats), as far as zoos are concerned, and the plight of frogs is pretty alarming. Amphibians are the only class of vertebrates for which extinction is real possibility within our lifetimes. (For comparison, the other classes of vertebrates are fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals.) I always root for the little slimy guys, anyway.
Dr. B saw many lemur frogs, like this one, in Panama. When I get access to Dr. B's photos, I'll put one of his lemur frog photos in here.
more links to El Valle:
http://www.greendecade.org/news/news_frogs.html
http://www.waza.org/conservation/projects/projects.php?id=93
A fun time, and I can't wait to do it again!
*(still not sure when they're rescheduling Bowling For Rhinos.)
We had our AAZK trivia night!*
My friend Dr. B, freshly back from Panama where he was studying amphibian decline, couldn't stay for the trivia, but suggested the team name Beelzebufo, which we accepted. Much of the fun of the night was being teamed with (among other good folks) Jake. At work, Jake is consistently referred to as 'a character,' and I now realize, not always positively. Jake, dressed in his vintage Star Wars iron on t shirt and rebel alliance logo jacket, would stand up and whoop when we got a correct answer. He wasn't gloating, really, I think he was just really happy and has very poor social filters.
Jake got to whoop a lot, because we were kicking trivia ass. What's the meaning of "Caveat Emptor?" What canid is known as the "prairie wolf?" What was the first sport shown on American television? What number is referred to as a gross? Who was the only actor to speak in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie?
Then there were the really hard visual tests: in the first, a group of 10 celebrities pictures and a list of 10 names. The catch? All the celebrities had changed their names and we had to match the original names with the movie stars: Tony Curtis, George Burns, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Mel Brooks, Michael Caine, Brigitte Bardot, and 3 I can't remember. And then a sheet with 10 cartoon pets--we had to name the pet, and then name the owner of the pet. Azrael and Gargamel I got, as well as Astro and the Jetsons, and the Grinch and Max, but most of the rest were Disney characters.
bellelvsbeast would have done a lot better than me on this one. Gepetto's cat? The raven from Sleeping Beauty? The pug from Pocahontas? Cinderella's stepmom's cat? The dog from Mulan? No chance. It's good we guessed that it was Garfield's teddy bear and Betty Boop's cat, or we would have fallen way behind.There was a "Who am I?" section, where we got biographical hints between each round. He was born in 1898, his education had to stop when his father died, he shod mules for the military during WWI, he moved back to Italy and started a machine shop and an auto racing club...
We had to get the first and last names, and we only got the last. Who would guess "Enzo?"
Finally, we could wager up to 20 points on the final question; the subject: Art. Despite the fact that Jake and I both have art school backgrounds we weren't confident. We dickered about, but finally decided to go for it: bet the full amount.
What art movement was named for a French nonsense term for hobby horse.
We got it right.
Our prize? The money collected at the door was to go to the conservation organization of our choice. In honor of our team name, we chose El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center. It is, after all The Year of the Frog (sorry, rats), as far as zoos are concerned, and the plight of frogs is pretty alarming. Amphibians are the only class of vertebrates for which extinction is real possibility within our lifetimes. (For comparison, the other classes of vertebrates are fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals.) I always root for the little slimy guys, anyway.
Dr. B saw many lemur frogs, like this one, in Panama. When I get access to Dr. B's photos, I'll put one of his lemur frog photos in here.
more links to El Valle:
http://www.greendecade.org/news/news_frogs.html
http://www.waza.org/conservation/projects/projects.php?id=93
A fun time, and I can't wait to do it again!
*(still not sure when they're rescheduling Bowling For Rhinos.)
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Date: 2008-03-12 06:33 am (UTC)Also, you're obviously not listening to enough Car Talk if you missed Enzo Ferrari.
I wana guess on this list, because I'm annoying that way. What's the meaning of "Caveat Emptor?" What canid is known as the "prairie wolf?" What was the first sport shown on American television? What number is referred to as a gross? Who was the only actor to speak in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie? Let The Buyer Beware. Coyote? Boxing? 144 (and how many is a quire, pray tell?). Marcel Marceau, He said one word in response to being asked if he would appear in the movie. "No."
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Date: 2008-03-12 09:34 am (UTC)And all the rest are right except it was baseball.
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Date: 2008-03-12 11:39 am (UTC)And you're right I DO know all those animals...here you go:
Gephetto's cat is named "Figaro", the name of the Raven from Sleeping Beauty never really had his name mentioned, but the animators referred to him as "Diablo"...
The pug from Pocahontas has a "wuss" name of "Percy", Cinderella's Stepmom's cat is "Lucifer" (very aptly named :P) and the cute little dog from Mulan is "Little Brother"...
AWESOME :)