Trivia at Moynihan's: Spring League Week Eight: 3/18/15

Round 1: Let’s get physical

1. One of the most physical things you can do is touching things. But if you get your arm amputated you can’t touch things with that hand anymore. But patients who have gone through with amputations have said they experience nerve sensations in what their brain perceives as their hand even though it’s not there anymore. What is this sensation called

Phantom limb (Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit)

2. Another type of feeling you can have is being happy. But unfortunately for some people they have lost the ability to feel happiness from pleasurable experiences. In the psychiatric field this would be defined as what?

Anhedonia (Danza Kuduro - Don Omar)

3. After a long day of watching the leaves fall in november one of my favorite things to do is eat Thanksgiving dinner. Fortunately that happens every year and my family still likes me enough to invite me to eat with them. Rumor has it that turkey makes you sleepy because it contains a certain amino acid. Can you tell me what the name of this amino acid is that makes us sleepy?

L-Tryptophan (Don’t Move - Phantogram)

4. A man known for his advancements in the field of Physics was Lord Emperor Albert Einstein. But before he was supersmart theoretical physicist he had another less glamorous job. What was his job before he was a physicist

Worked in Patent Office (Patiently Waiting - Emienem & 50 Cent)

Bonus Round: If you wanna get physical you gotta make sure you don’t break any laws in the process. Some of the hardest laws to break that actually have never been broken before by a person on earth are Newton’s 3 laws of motion. Could you briefly explain each one. Bonus points for a silly textbook illustration for 2 of them.

An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This law is often called "the law of inertia". (The Future Freaks me out - Motion City Soundtrack)
Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed (to accelerate the object). (Paradise Circus - Massive Attack)
For every action there is an equal and opposite re-action. (Easy Rider - Action Bronson)

Round 2: The Luck of the Irish

1. So obviously yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day, which is filled with drinking and wearing Green. The actual reasons for celebration are of course to celebrate Irish heritage and for a religious reason. What momentous religious event is a reason of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day?

Arrival of Christianity in Ireland (Beautiful - Christina Aguilera)

2. So the Irish are well known for loving their whiskey. I just want to know the best selling brand of whiskey in the world.

Jack Daniels (Black or White - Michael Jackson)

3. The Luck of the Irish is an awesome Disney Channel Original Movie about a kid playing basketball who loses his coin and slowly turns into a leprechaun. What was the most watched Disney Channel Original Movie ever?

High School Musical 2 (Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers)

4. Another awesome movie surrounding the Irish that I love is of course The Boondock Saints. I just want to know what well known Walking Dead actor also stars in this movie?

Norman Reedus (Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper)

Bonus Round: So one leprechaun that isn’t very lucky is Lucky The Leprechaun. He’s always trying to protect his Lucky Charms from those troubling kids. Name me 5 of the original marshmallow shapes in the cereal.

Hearts (Heartbeat - Childish Gambino)

Shooting Stars (Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship)

Horseshoes (A Horse with No Name - America)

Clovers

Blue Moons (Shut Up and Dance - Walk the Moon)

Rainbows (Fire And Rain - James Taylor)

Balloons

Hourglass

Round 3: Slang

1. In the graveyard shift episode of spongebob Squidward tells a terrifying story of a fry cook who came back to haunt the krusty krab. he was dropped off by the bus that ran over him, the lights would flicker three times and the phone would ring but there would be nobody there. What was this spooky frycooks name?

The Hash Slinging Slasher (Anastasia - Slash)

2. Rae Strummund came out with a banger this year, it’s called “no flex zone” and I hear that gyms around the USA have banned it from playing since gyms are literally by definition a flex zone. (kidding) What does “no flex zone” mean in the context of the song?

Don’t show off (No Flex Zone - Rae Strummund)

3. I remember back in the day when I was in middle school I got my hands on a bottle of this fancy new energy drink which had 3.5 times the caffiene of redbull in the same size can it and it actually stung my throat as i drank it. unfortunately it quickly got banned in 2007 in the united states. What was the name of this deliciously dangerous soda?

Cocaine (Don’t Panic - Coldplay)

4. The term blockbuster is a well known and now closed down chain of DVD rental stores and it also refers to a movie that Blows Up in the theatres. What was the original blockbuster that this term got it’s name from?

Bombs dropped by the Royal Air Force. (Bombay - El Guincho)

Bonus Round: Can you name 5 common words that don’t rhyme with any other words in the english language

Orange (Home on the range - Bing Crosby)

Silver (My Heroine - Silverstein)

Month (Employee of the month - 2 chainz)
Bulb (Toes - Lights)

Angel (The Adventure - Angels and airwaves)

Round 4: It’s A Very Very Mad World

1. So if you aren’t aware March Madness starts tomorrow for real so fill out your brackets. What school has won the most Division 1 Men’s Championship titles?

UCLA (L.A. Woman - The Doors)

2. An awesome song called M ad World was featured at the end of the cult film Donnie Darko. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and a giant creepy bunny. What was the name of that giant demonic bunny?

Frank (Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood)

3. In a month or so there will be a new movie coming out as a reboot of George Miller’s Mad Max. In the new movie Tom Hardy stars as Max. Who played the original Max?

Mel Gibson (The Cave - Mumford & Sons)

4. One thing that makes me really mad is the show Dance Moms. The fact that it’s popular and small girls dancing, everything about it just makes me want to vomit. Recently Sia came out with a couple of music videos featuring a girl from the show. What is her name?

Maddie (Like A Virgin - Madonna)

Bonus Round: So all around the world and especially here, insurance companies make people mad all the time. They say they’re here to help us and then their customer service people are the worst people in the world. Name me the 5 largest insurance companies in the US in terms of total net premiums written.

State Farm (The State Of Massachusetts - Dropkick Murphys)

Allstate (All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix)

Liberty Mutual (Dirty Harry - Gorillaz)

Berkshire Hathaway/Geico (Pretty Fly For A White Guy - The Offspring)

Travelers Group (Billionaire - Travie McCoy)

Scores

1. I Wish This Horse Was A Giant Horse Penis: 89 pts.

2. Prostate Of The Cock Squad: 81 pts.

3. Kevin Forti Realty Trust: 80 pts.

4. Oswald Cobblepot: 79 pts

4. #PleaseAcceptMyResume: 79 pts

5. Crunchy Roll: 77 pts.