Fall League Trivia 9/5/2013

Round 1 – Back to School

1.  What company is the Clark University book store affiliated with?

Barnes and Noble – Meet in the Barn by Jason Michael Carroll

2.  Name of Stephen King’s most recent novel.

Joyland – U and UR Hand by Pink

3.  FOIL is a common method for multiplying two binomials together.  What does the mnemonic FOIL stand for?

First Outer Inner Last – Last Resort by Papa Roach

4.  What school was Animal House filmed at?

University of Oregon at Eugene – Gone, Gone, Gone by Phillip Phillips

Bonus Round

Power Rangers names

1. Jason Lee Scott (Red Ranger) – Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys MONO

2. Zack Taylor (Black Ranger) – Symphonies by Dan Black and Kid Cudi

3. Trini Kwan (Yellow Ranger) – The Jean Genie by David Bowie

4. Kimberly Ann Hart (Pink Ranger) – The Fighter by Gym Class Heroes

5. Billy Cranston (Blue Ranger) – It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me by Billy Joel

Tommy Oliver (Green Ranger)

Round 2 – Freshman Year

1. Second leading cause of death among college freshmen.

Suicide – Beach Side by Kings of Leon

2. Vice President Al Gore was famously roommates with another well-known person at Harvard. They remain friends to this day. Who was Al Gore's freshman-year roommate?

Tommy Lee Jones – Tommy Chong by Blue Scholars

3. Freshmen are the youngest college students. I want to know who the youngest man to serve as President of the United States was.

Theodore Roosevelt -- Roses by Outkast

4. During freshman year, many impressionable students pick up new philosophies. We all knew one annoying communist kid in our first-year dorm that we wanted to kill. What weapon was used to kill one of the most famous communist thinkers, Leon Trotsky?

Ice axe (ice pick okay) – Cold as Ice by Foreigner

Bonus Round

Freshman year is a time many people reinvent themselves. That's something a lot of musical artists have done literally, by taking different names. List the real names of the following musical artists.

1.  Jay-Z -- Shawn Carter (Band on the Run by Paul McCartney & Wings)

2.  P!nk -- Alecia Beth Moore (What More Can I Say by Jay-Z)

3.  Eminem -- Marshall Mathers (Misty by Johnny Mathis)

4.  Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey (Baby You're a Rich Man by The Beatles)

5.  Lady Gaga -- Stefani Germanotta (The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani)

Round 3 – Greg’s Childhood

1.  What company did Bill Nye the Science Guy work for before getting his own TV show or what field?

Boeing (aeronautics) – Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO

2.  Lead singer of Good Charlotte.

Joel Madden – 19-2000 Soulchild remix by the Gorillaz

3.  Name one of the first three American Girl Dolls ever made (1986, the Pleasant Company).

Kirsten Larson, Samantha Parkington, Molly McIntire -- First Date by Blink 182

4. What car company is now using hamsters in their commercials? Bonus point for the model of the car.

Kia Soul – Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall

Bonus Round

Names of the character’s from Bored of the Rings

1. Frodo – Frito – Free to Decide by the Cranberries

2. Bilbo – Dildo – Kill the Director by the Wombats 

3. Merry – Moxi – Fox on the Run by Sweet

4. Legolas – Legolam – Black Betty by Ram Jam

5. Gandalf – Goodgulf – Good by Better than Ezra

Round 4 - SENIOR CITIZENS

1. Senior year is scary for a lot of reasons, one of them is that you feel really old. Lots of people have gone to extreme measures to avoid feeling old, and one of those is Dorian Gray. I want to know who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde (No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z & Kanye West)

2. You know what's really old? Stars. I want to know the furthest galaxy from Earth that's visible to the naked eye.

Andromeda galaxy (Roxanne by The Police)

3. Oldest winner of best actress? Bonus points if you know the name of the movie.

Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy – Price Tag by Jessie J

4. Who was the oldest person to ever live, according to the Hebrew bible?

Methuselah at age 969 (Bring the Pain by Method Man)

5. If you love funny news, you know that there's an senior citizen STD epidemic in Florida retirement communities. I want you to name the top 5 most common STDs overall in America. This was difficult to Google at first, until I realized I shouldn't be searching for "most popular STDs."

1.  HPV (Papa's Song by Gym Class Heroes)

2.  Genital Herpes (I Used to Love Her by Guns n Roses)

3.  Chlamydia (Clampdown by The Clash)

4.  Syphilis (You’ll Be in My Heart by Phil Collins)

5.  Gonorrhea (Gone Daddy Gone by Gnarls Barkley) 

Pitcher Question

Poem about your first experience at college

Winner - I Saw Jimmy Fallon at the Food Emporium:

I thought being a child genius was cool,

until I got my,

period,

in front of Noam Chomsky,

blood on my Amerian hands

Runner up - Looking to Score:

I went to a pantsless party one night

I drank skittles vodka, it was alright

Tasted the rainbow twice

not quite so nice

...everybody saw my balls

Runner up - The French Toast Mafia:

Fields of green so pure

the space ah what an allure

so clean and demure

Blacklights and blackout

Mary, Molly, scream and shout

brain cells lost no doubt

Scores

1.  Lookin’ to score – 78

2.  I saw jimmy fallon - 76

3.  Moynihan Job – 71

4. French Toast Mafia – 70

5.  crewgars – 67

6.  Frisky Dingoes – 63

7.  Marurice Spicer is our savior – 62  

8.  Welcome to the Jam? – 57

League Standings - NEW SYSTEM

1.  Lookin’ to score – 8

2.  I saw jimmy fallon - 7

3.  Moynihan Job – 6

4. French Toast Mafia – 5

5.  crewgars – 4

6.  Frisky Dingoes – 3

7.  Maurice Spicer is our savior – 2  

8.  Welcome to the Jam? – 1