Trivia at Moynihan's: March 2016

Friday, March 25, 2016

Spring League Trivia 3/23

Notes: We’re looking for a new trivia host for next year! So if you will be around for all of next year and are interested, let us know!

Rounds: Easter, Cell Phones, Spring, Dirty Dancing 2 Havana Nights

Picture Question: What would you hate to find in your easter egg?

Round: Easter

Easter sunday- culturally christian, really just for chocolate.

76% of people eat which part of chocolate bunny first?

Ears (I’ve Got All this Ringing in my ears and none on my fingers- FAll Out Boy)

What is the name of a female rabbit?

Doe (John Doe- BOB)

What is the first biggest candy eating holiday in US?

Halloween (Rather Be- Clean Bandit)

What does the word Easter come from?

Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love and fertility, also known as Astarte. Astarte became the Anglo-Saxon Ostara, goddess of fertility, spring and dawn (Senile- Tyga, Yung Money)

Top Selling Easter Candy

Peeps (Beep- PussyCat Dolls)

Jelly Beans (Netflix and Chill- Nick Bean)

Chocolate Bunnies (Bun up the Dance- Dillon Frances)

Chocolate Eggs (Six Little Eggs- Otis)

Reeses (Peanut Butter Jelly- Galantis)

Round: Spring

First day of Spring! Celebrated it with snow

What is the official first day of Spring called?

Vernal Equinox (The Power of Equality- Red Hot Chili Peppers)

What day is mother’s day?

Second Sunday in may (Call Me Maybe- Carly Rae Jepsen)

April Showers bring May flowers. Rainiest city in US?

Mobile, AL (Mobile- Avril Lavigne)

Hoping for a snow day monday- what place calls itself “home of the world’s worst weather”?(Hint NE)

Mt. Washington (Washington on Your Side- Hamilton)

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Spring League Trivia 3/16

Rounds: St. Patrick's Day, Food, Riddles, Bad Movies

Picture Question: What accomplishments do you have that won’t go anywhere?

Round: St. Patrick’s Day

What did St. Patrick do that we celebrate?

Drove the snakes out of Ireland (Snakes on a Plane- Cobra Starship)

Where was the first St. Patrick’s day parade?

Boston, 1737 (Shipping up to Boston- Dropkick Murphys)

What does kissing the Blarney Stone supposed to do?

Make you eloquent and persuasive (Confident- Demi Lovato)

What does Erin Go Bragh mean?

Ireland forever (Forever- Drake)

Name me five irish pubs in worcester.

Moynihan's (Five More Hours- Chris Brown)

Letrims (Let her Go- Passenger)

Blarn (Dance to the Music- Sly and the Family Stone

Fiddler Green (When I Come Around- Green Day)

O’Connors (Connor McDees- Christon Grey)

Round: Riddles

For this round, I am going to read you a riddle and you will have to answer it.

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

A Coffin (Satin in a Coffin- Modest Mouse)

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

A Towel (Fireflies- Owl City)

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a few minutes?

A Breath (Every Breath You Take- The Police)

You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?

The Match (Disease- Matchbox 20)

One of batman’s rivals is the riddler. Name me five people who have played batman.

Ben Affleck (Bend Ova- Lil Jon, Tyga)

Christian Bale (Ooh- Jon Bellion, Christianne Johnson)

Adam West (Gold Digger- Kanye West)

Val Kilmer (Valerie- Amy Winehouse)

Michael Keaton (Careless Whisper- George Micheal)

Round: Food

Marmite is a rather strange British "food" that I just don't understand. What is Marmite made of?

Brewer's Yeast (Yesterday - The Beatles)

Kobe Beef is supposed to be really high quality from Kobe, Japan, but before 2012 you couldn’t actually get it outside Japan, except for one place. Where could you eat Kobe Beef, outside of Japan?

Macau (MacArthur Park - Richard Harris) or Something by Macklemore?

Surstromming is a Swedish dish that has a very powerful aroma and usually need to be eaten outside. Thankfully, Sweden doesn’t export much of this stuff so you don’t have to worry about accidentally stumbling across it. What is Sweden’s primary export?

Refined Petroleum [Oil] (Royals - Lorde)

What is the best selling cookbook of all time?

Betty Crocker’s Cookbook (Black Betty- Ram Jam)

Hormel says there are only six ingredients in Spam Classic, name me five?

Pork/ham -Pork and Beans by Weezer

Salt - Shoop by Salt-N-Pepa

Sugar - Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard

Water - Doctor Jones by Aqua

Potato starch - Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones

Sodium Nitrate

Round: Bad Movies

Who is the only actor to win both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same weekend? Bonus points if you can name me the movies.

Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side and All About Steve (Sandstorm -Darude)

In 2011 at the Razzies Jack and Jill swept all the categories. Try doing that with the Oscars. For those of you who don’t remember Adam Sandler played his own twin sister, and by all accounts it was a terrible movie. What country has the fewest twins per 100 births?

China- China Grove, The Doobie Brothers

Sharknado is a pretty awful movie, but in a great way. What is a baby shark called?

A Pup - (Puppy love - This Wild Life)

Johnny Depp has starred in some really unpopular movies, too many to name right here and now. What is his most recent major movie in wide release?

Black Mass (Don’t Phunk With my Heart - Black Eyed Peas)

What are Adam Sandler’s highest grossing movies?

1 Hotel Transylvania 2 (Hotel - Kid Ink, Chris Brown)

2 Big Daddy (Big Pimpin’ - JAY Z, UGK)

3 Grown Ups (Grown Up - Danny Brown)

4 The Waterboy (Uma Thurman - Fall Out Boy)

5 The Longest Yard (The Longest Time - Billy Joel)

League Standings:

The Team Whose Name I Can't Pronounce - 53

Sexiest Ladies in Keno - 50
Lost Profits - 50
Nacho Weincruz - 45
Dead Last - 44
The Notorious RBG - 40
We Love Sports Friends (And We Don't Care Who Knows it) - 39
Gravity Falls Harder Than My GPA - 37
Lizard Squad -28
Faith + 1 - 24
The Late Arrivals - 15
Calder's Team Name is Lame (2016) - 11
J.A.G. - 8

Crime Lords - 7

Pampered Lil pups - 7
D$ - 7
Crunchy Roll - 3
Cool Rummings - 1

Catscratch - 1

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Spring League Trivia 3/2

Picture Question: What does Super Wednesday look like?

Rounds: next lines, really america, women rappers, didn’t know they were books

Round: Next lines to songs

I say a line, you write down what is next.

He was a skater boy

She said see you later boy

He wasn't good enough for her

Now he's a super star

Slamming on his guitar

Does your pretty face see what he's worth? (Old Guitar- BUNT)

Oh, baby girl, what's yo' name?

Let me talk to you, lemme buy you a drank

I'm T-Pain, you know me

Konvict Music, Nappy Boy (Good Day- Nappy Roots)

Nah, walk up to the club like, "What up? I got a big cock!"

I'm so pumped about some shit from the thrift shop

Ice on the fringe, it's so damn frosty

That people like, "Damn! That's a cold ass honkey." (Lunacy Fringe- The Used)

A singer in a smoky room

A smell of wine and cheap perfume

For a smile they can share the night

It goes on and on, and on, and on (In the Night- The Weeknd)

For the bonus question, I will read lyrics and you need to name me the band members.

Bye Bye

Don't wanna be a fool for you

Just another player in your game for two

You may hate me but it ain't no lie,

Baby, bye, bye, bye...

Chris Kirkpatrick (Drink in my cup- Kirko Bangz)

Joey Fatone (Uncool as Me- Bloodhound Gang, Joey Fatone)

Justin Timberlake (Where are U Now- Justin Bieber)

JC Chasez (Blowing me Up With Her Love- JC Chasez)

Lance Bass (Super Bass- Nicki Minaj)

Round: Women Rappers

I’m a big fan of women rappers because I think they face a lot of challenges men don’t face.

Missy Elliot is amazing, of course. What does the Missy stand for?

Misdemeanor (Doesn’t Mean Anything- Alicia Keys)

Lil Kim rose to fame after meeting Christopher Wallace in high school. Who is Christopher Wallace?

Notorious BIG (Girl Crush- Little Big Town)

Nikki Minaj- who is she dating?

Meek Mill (Donald Trump- Mac Miller)

Salt and Peppa- what was there first band name?

Super Nature (Superstition- Stevie Wonder)

Top five selling rap songs

Love the Way You Lie (Hips Don’t Lie- Shakira)

Lose Yourself (lose yourself to dance- daft punk)

Lollipop (I Love it- Icona Pop)

I’ll be Missing You (Miss You- Blink 182)

Dilemma (My Dilemma- Selena Gomez)

Really America?

There are some really stupid politicians doing really stupid stuff out there, including Aaron Schock of the Illinois 18 district. Now Illinois has some great political scandals, but this guy is one of the best. He had shirtless photospreads and a fine Instagram presence, and also spent $40,000 to redecorate his office to look like what TV show?

Downton Abbey - Downton by Macklemore

Another dumb politician was Anthony Weiner. What nickname did he use for his sexting?

Carlos Danger - Danger Zone, Kenny Loggins

There are, of course, all sorts of examples of comedians going out on the street and asking questions that are supposed to be easy, but nobody seems to know the answer to them. There was one though that I didn’t think was particularly obvious, so I’m going to ask you all now. What is the largest organ in the body?

The Skin - Skin, Rihanna

OJ Simpson has done some pretty stupid stuff, even the things that weren’t felonies. He wrote a book with a pretty strange title, what was his book called?

If I did it: Confessions of the Killer - Oops I did it again, Britney Spears

I also think there are some really questionable reality TV shows out there. Granted I haven’t seen many of these so I can’t really judge, but what I have seen I kind of question. Name me five locations of The other Real Housewives.

Orange County - Orange Blossom Special, Johnny Cash

NYC

Atlanta

New Jersey - Jersey, Future and Drake

DC- You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC

Beverley Hills - Insane in the Brain, Cypress Hill

Miami - My oh My, The Punch Brothers

Potomac

Dallas

I didn’t know they were books!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, that loveable movie starring Dick Van Dyke, but it was apparently also a book written by a well known author. What other major works is the author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang known for?

James Bond- James Brown by Cage the Elephant

Irene Adler is often the love interest in Sherlock Holmes movies and TV shows, even though she only appeared in one book and wasn’t really a love interest at all. What short story did she appear in?

Scandal in Bohemia (Bohemian Rhapsody)

Forrest Gump was also a book before it was a movie, and apparently it was a little raunchier than the movie. Where is Forrest Gump born?

Greenbow Alabama - Basket Case, Green Day

Shrek is apparently a children’s book, and not just a product tie in, it was actually a book first. The name Shrek itself actually is a Yiddish word, what does it translate to in English?

Monster - The Monster, Eminem

I don’t know how many of you have seen the movie there will be blood, but that too is based on a book. The book is Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it’s very 1920’s activist. What are the five largest oil companies in the world by revenue, according to the Fortune Global 500?

Sinopec Group - Single Ladies, Beyonce

Royal Dutch Shell - Gimmie Shelter by The Rolling Stones

China National Petroleum - I Need My Girl, The National

Exxonmobil - Ex’s & Oh’s, Elle King

BP - Beat It, Michael Jackson

Picture Winner:

League Standings

Sexiest Ladies in Keno - 50
Lost Profits - 50
Nacho Weincruz - 45
The Team Whose Name I Can't Pronounce - 44
Dead Last - 42

The Notorious RBG - 40
We Love Sports Friends (And We Don't Care Who Knows it) - 33
Gravity Falls Harder Than My GPA - 32
Lizard Squad -28
Faith + 1 - 21
The Late Arrivals - 15
Calder's Team Name is Lame (2016) - 11
Pampered Lil pups - 7

D$ - 7
Crunchy Roll - 3
Cool Rummings - 1