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

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