Fall League Trivia 12/4

Round 1 – Irony

1.  The founder of match.com lost his girlfriend to someone she met on match.com.  What is the name of the founder of match.com?

Gary Kremen – Marry the Night by Lady Gaga

2.  What album is Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” on?

Jagged Little Pill – A Little Party Never Killed Nobody by Fergie

3.  Paul Walker, Fast and Furious star, died in a car crash last week.  What kind of car was his friend driving?

2005 Porsche Carrera GT – Howling for You by the Black Keys

4.  Who wrote the book “The Irony of American History”?

Reinhold Niebuhr – Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore

Bonus Round

Beethoven went deaf.  Five richest musicians of all time.

1.  Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim

2.  Paul McCartney – Death Valley by Fall Out Boy

3.  Bono – Bon, Bon by Pitbull

4.  Bing Crosby – Heavy Things by Phish

5.  Sean “Diddy” Combs – We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel

Round 2 - THANKSGIVING

1. What is the amino acid existing in turkey meat that is usually said to make you tired after eating it?

** Tryptophan (Power Trip by J. Cole)

2. Which American president was the first to declare Thanksgiving a public holiday?

** Abraham Lincoln (Lisa Baby by Walk the Moon)

3. What was the first balloon created for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

** Felix the Cat (Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta by Geto Boys)

4. What well-known action movie involves a group of criminals holding mall employees hostage on Black Friday?

** Paul Blart Mall Cop (New Shoes by Paulo Nutini)

Bonus Round

Name the 5 states that produce the most turkey.

** Minnesota (Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway)

** North Carolina (I Don’t Care I Love It by Icona Pop)

** Arizona (Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins)

** Montana (Breathe by Anna Nalick)

** Virginia (Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve)

Round 3 – And We Danced

1.  At the beginning of the song “And We Danced” by Macklemore there is a monologue.  In the monologue it states that Macklemore was exiled from Great Britain and that he came to America with the only woman he ever loved.  But it wasn’t a woman, it was something else.  What was it?

A horse named Tyrone – What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes   

2.  In the movie The Green Mile, Paul Edgecomb is brought to tears in the beginning of the movie by a song called Cheek to Cheek (I’m in Heaven) that he sees on TV.  Who sings the song Cheek to Cheek?

Fred Astaire from the movie Top Hat with Ginger Rogers – Stare into the Sun by Grafitti6 

3.  Tchaikovsky is famous for creating the music to the Nutcracker.  Name one of the other ballets that he composed the music for.

Swan Lake – Fake It by Seether

Sleeping Beauty, Danse des petits cygnes, Tchaikovsky pas de deux

4.  What’s Pitbull’s real name?

Armando Christian Perez – Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan

Bonus Round

Ice dancers are becoming used by NHL hockey teams as a form of cheerleading squad. Name the top 5 NHL teams with the most Stanley Cup wins

1.  Montreal Canadiens – Sex and Candy by Marcy’s Playground

2.  Toronto Maple Leafs – The Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother

3.  Detroit Red Wings – We Are the Free by Matt Redman

4.  Boston Bruins – In the Meantime by Spacehogs

5.  Edmonton Oilers – Jet Boy Jet Girl by Elton Montello

Round 4 - BLACK WEDNESDAY

1. Who was the first African American man to have his face on a stamp?

** Booker T. Washington (Book of Love by Jimmy Eat World)

2. What was the name of the man who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr.?

** James Earl Ray (Living in America by James Brown)

3. What was the name of the actress who participated in the first interracial kiss on a national television drama? Half-credit if you can only name the character she was portraying.

** Nichelle Nichols as Uhura (Starships by Nicki Minaj)

4. Who was the first African-American mainstream comic book superhero? The word "mainstream" here means by one of the two dominant publishers, Marvel or DC.

** The Falcon (This Too Shall Pass by OK Go)

Bonus Round

I want you to name five members of the hip-hop group N.W.A., bonus points if you can name all six of them.

** Arabian Prince (Kiss by Prince and the Revolution)

** Dr. Dre (Dr. Feel Good by Cee Lo Green)

** Ice Cube (Cold as Ice by Foreigner)

** Eazy-E (Take it Easy by the Eagles)

** MC Ren (Renegade by Styx)

 DJ Yella

Scores

1. French Toast Mafia - 63

2. Clarissa Explains My Balls - 60

3. Where's Billy? - 51

4. Sex and Candy - 51

5. Big Will Pants aka Paul Walker's Crash Bandicoot- 51

6. I'm 23 Bitches! -11

League Standings
1. Frisky Dingoes - 44 + 2 = 46
2. Lookin’ to score – 43 + 2 = 45
3. Clarissa Explains My Balls - 28 + 3 = 31
4. French Toast Mafia – 22 + 4 = 26
5. My Grandma loves scrabble... - 20
6. Every Twerkin for the Weekend - 17
7. I saw jimmy fallon - 16
8. The Ross McAllister Experience - 7
9. Moynihan Job – 6
10. We Need Pencils, Many = 4