Trivia at Moynihan's: SpRiNg LeAgUe 2017 Week 1

Spring League 2017 Week 1

Week 1 Trivia

BYBYE 2016

Lets talk about the good things that happened in 2016!

Q1:

Earlier this year a new type of glasses were put out by enchroma to reduce “color vision deficiency” aka color blindness in those with a certain color vision deficiency type. These glasses cost around 40-80$ and work with a certain color deficiency I want to know which color deficiency this glasses work with

Red-Green UNder the bridge red hot chilli peppers

Q2:

I’m not a yuuuge baseball fan, but the cubs won this past year for the first time in a little bit. When was the last time the cubs won the world series? Other than 2016

1908 eight days a week beatles

Q3:

Matts loooooves hamiltion! That happened last year and I’m still waiting for ticket prices to come down in price. Anyway heres an easy one who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton

Aaron Burr Burn by andra day

Q4:

I try to keep up with scientific discovery, this is usally done through r/science on reddit for me. But I thought it was pretty cool when gravitational waves were discovered even if I didn’t really understand them. Who wrote about grav. Waves in 1916

Albert Einstein Einstein by Kelly Clarkson

1893 by Oliver Heaviside using the analogy between the inverse-square law in gravitation and electricity.[1] In 1905 Henri Poincaré

The 100 year anniversary of national parks was a year ago! Name me 5

Acadia Acadia by marianas trench

Zion otra vez by zion & lennox

Yosemite enter sandman by metallica

Yellowstone stone cold Demi Lovato

Redwood go robot red hot chilli peppers

2017 in politics

1. 2017 is a fairly big year for politics, worldwide and locally. First things first, come 11 months or so from now Bostonians will be voting for a new mayor or re-electing the current mayor. Who is the current mayor of Boston?

Marty Walsh

The One with my Friends - Marty

2. Moving globally – what country, which has its general elections in March of this new year, could be the next country exiting the EU? As a hint – this action was promised by the far right ‘Party for Freedom’ or (PVV) led by Geert Wilders.

The Netherlands

Never too Late - Three Days Grace

3. Moving further south and west we turn to Iran. What is the name of the Iranian president who is up for re-election in 2017? He’s got a lot of work to do if he wants to restore Iran’s economy and might have his hands full with Trump as president.

Hassan Rouhani

Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes

4. Speaking of Trump – he’s been nominating his cabinet positions and their senate hearings have been dominating much of this week providing some very fascinating instances to watch. Despite all the nominees I think I’m most curious to see how his Press Secretary not only handles his job but how his job changes with Trump wanting to dominate the creation of his own image outside of the dishonest and corrupt media. Who’s the guy that gets to deal with all this?

Sean Spicer

Bounce Back - Big Sean

Bonus: In 2017 we also say goodbye to our good friend Chris Christie who has to step down because he is limited by terms of service as governor of New Jersey. Fun facts for you – Chris Christie has received degrees from 4 different universities – most of them fairly close to New Jersey. Name me those 4 schools.

1. University of Delaware (BA) - Where are you Now by Jack U, Skrill, Bieb

2. Seton Hall (JD) - All Night by the Vamps, Matoma

3. Rutgers University (Honorary Doctorate) - New Low by Middle Class Rut

4. Monmouth University (Honorary Doctorate) - Mouthful of Diamonds by Phantogram

Coming soon near you:

Hey it's a new year! How much longer can I say happy new year? Whether you’re into cars, technology, or space new cool things are happening this year!

Q1:

Near my house there was a classic cars seller. I remember as a kid one day a DeLorean showed up and I ALMOST convinced my mom to get it (not really). Anyway this year the old car is going to be produced again at about one per month. What year did the first DMC-12 get produced?

1981 (prototype 1976) 81 by Yo Gotti

Q2:

I tried reading them once but couldn’t remember everyone's names and shortly gave up. George RR. Martin’s sixth book is supposed to be released at some point in 2017. What's the name of the sixth book?

The Winds of Winter Winter things ariana grande

Q3:

A friend of a friend of mine recently just got offered a job by Elon Musk, so therefore I’m helping send people to mars right? Anyway Spacex recently launched up 10 communication satellites successfully furthering their goals of sending people to mars, which I’m completely responsible for.

Anyway I want to know the name of the company which satellites SpaceX put up

Iridium Iridium by dark tranqulity

Q4:

Googles continuing to develop drones and recently has been working towards regulations allowing for the free use of air space 500 feet and below to anyone opening up drone usage to everyone. This is combination with amazons project means drone delivered beer!

What is the name of the project by google to free up airspace for the use of drones?

Project Wing wings by macklemore

Bonus:

VRs been around for a little bit now, but 2017 should be an interesting year for future games and increasing development. I want you to name me at least 5 different VR systems.

Morphous Morphine by The Nijas

HTC Vive Viva la vida coldplay

Oculus Rift Rift by phish

Gear beer for my horses toby keith

Daydream daydream by ciele

Trivia 2017

So you should all know that I do trivia for the love of trivia. So this round is going to be a serious of questions that I was asked while attending trivia nights in Milwaukee over break. There will be 5 questions total for this round so you’ll also be scoring them differently with either 9-7-5-3-1 so keep that in mind! There are also several questions that have multiple parts so your points will be divided accordingly.

1. John Williams and Steven Spielberg have been a formidable combination in terms of producer and music scorer. In fact Spielberg has only done 2 films without Williams. One from 1985 and the other more recent one from 2015.

The Color Purple & Bridge of Spies

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

2. So I’m a big fan of Planet Earth and the 2nd series is currently coming out. It features Locusts which is recorded as a plague from the infamous 10 plagues of Egypt. What number out of 10 was locusts?

Eight Second Ride - Jake Owen

3. Staying in the Middle Eastern scene – and going back a few years is Aladdin. Name me the 3 rules that your wishes must abide by when dealing with the Genie of the Lamp.

No Killing, No Making People fall in Love with You, No bringing back people from the dead

Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys

4. So I had a lot of questions about South America while attempting to answer trivia questions – so here’s one for you. What are the two landlocked countries in South America?

Paraguay and Bolivia

Way Away - Yellowcard

5. Here’s my favorite question from my trivia adventures over the break. What synonym for the word line sounds the same when you remove the last 4 letters?

Queue

Man of the year

Picture Question: New Year, New You. You could make it better orrrrr you could make it a lot worse. What is the worst resolution you could make for yourself this year? Get creative..

WINNER: hightiiIiiiIiiiiiIiiiiTide!!