The Mad Trivia Party

with Chris Played by Charles Berman

Where we get mad, and you get trivial!

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CHRIS PLAYED BY CHARLES BERMAN

1. What is a maidenhead?

2. What does USS or HMS mean in front of the name of a ship?

3. What is the difference between silver and sterling silver?

4. What is Queen Elizabeth II’s husband’s name?

5. Where is Timbuktu?

6. What is the difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

7. It is not uncommon to hear economists or bankers refer to “the footsie.” What is it?

8. Please describe the plot of the movie “A History of the World: Part I.”

9. Many experts have come to believe that Shakespeare was in the habit of drinking beer morning, noon, and night every day. Why?

10. What does a news agency do and what are the major ones?

11. What is the difference between an astronaut and a Huguenot?

12. What country intentionally introduced hyperinflation?

13. One could get a Man Booker Prize for doing what?

14. Establishments such as Subway and Blimpie sell a certain type of sandwich. What are these called and where?

15. What is a bad lip reading?

BONUS: Quote one.

16. What is a King Cake?

17. How old do you have to be to be US president?

18. What city is Monopoly based on?

19. What is both a kind of comma and a kind of shirt?

20. What is both a way of freeing slaves and a way of getting to work?

21. Name something only one of us has read/heard/seen.

22. Heads or tails?

23. What does Nova Scotia mean?

24. Describe the plot of the poem “Evangeline.”

DALLAS “NO MENTION OF FRANK ZAPPA HERE” HOGAN

When was the first human embryo cloned?

What country was it cloned in?

Why is the Roman Catholic Church against cloning?

Which has more sugar: A bottle of coke or a can of Monster Energy Drink?

Which has more calories: A bottle of coke or a can of Monster Energy Drink?

What percent of people who climb Everest die during the ascent?

Why was Magellan not actually the first person to circumnavigate the Earth?
Hint: Aliens.

Explain the premise of the movie Iron Sky?

Why is Rick Santorum the best GOP candidate?

What is the actual meaning of John Cage’s 4’ 34’'?

What was the name given to Germany and its allies in World War 1?
Bonus: What was the name of the initial 3 powers (France, Russia, England) allied against Germany?

Astrophysics: What is a Supervoid?

How many years are in a Giga-Year?

WIth that logic firmly in hand: How many Bowsers are in a Giga-Bowser?

What is apiculture?

Beaver, Tree, Car?

BIC DITCHES

1. What renowned drum tech and producer helped record and tech for danny carey and john bonham?

2. Who was the studio drummer for alanis morisettes jagged little pill?

3. What band is known for its revolving door of musicians?

4. What dubstep artist is know for songs like “love” and “act like a ho” ?

5. Who ...

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CHRIS PLAYED BY CHARLES BERMAN

1. What is the most popular hobby in the USA?

2. What was Old Frothingslosh?

3. What country had a leader named Postumus?

4. Describe any play by Eugene Ionesco.

5. If you were in ancient Rome, what could you do with an denarius, a sesterius, or an antoninianus?

6. Former presidential candidate and TV host Donald Trump became rich in what industry?

7. What is both an award and a nickname for a family member?

8. Quote a Kanye West lyric and explain it in your own words.

9. What is the difference between an immigrant and an emigrant?

10. Why had Zaire not participated in the last 3 Olympics?

11. Some electric sockets have two prongs and some have three. What is the third for?

12. What Americans call a flashlight, the British call what?

13. Please describe the plot of the play Oedipus Rex.

14. Explain a math concept so that I can understand it.

15. Name a defunct Major League Baseball team.

16. In the 1920s, Valentine’s Day celebrations were often in honor of what saint?

17. Name a person who started in show business and then became a politician.

18. What country does golf come from?

19. What country introduced the use of forks?

20. What is the name of the cartoon bear that lets you know that “Only you can prevent forest fires?”

21. Name something only one of us has read/heard/seen.

22. Heads or tails.

DICK BITCHES

1. what are midiclorians?

2. what two jedi have the most midiclorian?

3. in order to travel the speed of light, what would you need to be equipped with to be able to handle the friction of the molecules around you?

4. name two items that you can unite?

5. name two items that you can ignite?

6. what is a name a given to a person who makes guitars?

7. what three things does superman fight for?

8. who wrote the song princes of the universe?

9. in the george of the jungle movie, characters don’t die, but what do they get instead of dying?

10. what physical feature is the lead singer from the counting crows known for ?

POOTY

1. Backstreet Boys or N Sync?

2. How many separate pieces of of wood are used to make a violin?

3. What percentage of the brain is made up of H20?

4. Which lung takes in the most air?

5. Recite the Greek alphabet?

6. How many calories are in a bottle of Coke?

7. What is the name of the “woman in the tank” in the web series Red vs Blue?

Squire Mickey Wants to know

1. Adele recently got 2 top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart. Name the only other band to have done that
2. In what play does Shakespeare mention Valentines day? Where and who?
3. How did Vanentines day Originate? Details=points ...

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CHRIS PLAYED BY CHARLES BERMAN

1. What is a Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?

2. Tell us the punch line; we’ll tell you the joke.

3. What is a granfalloon?

4. Name a country that has been autonomousbut not internationally recognized.

5. When did the Korean War officially end?

6. What do the words armada, mosquito, Colorado, and burrito have in common?

7. What is both a biblical character and a necessary element of air travel?

8. A nickle is made of what?

9. A cent is made of what?

10. In fiction, who is Flashman?

11. What was the charge of the light brigade?

12. Please describe the plot of the film “You Got Served.”

13. What is both a part of a laptop and a musical instrument?

14. Society frowns on people who practise usury. Why?

15. What is both a kind of legislature and a kind of funkadelic?

16. Name a part of the US that is not a state or within a state.

17. Name a current monarch.

18. What is hummus made of?

19. What is Tin Pan Alley?

20. The British Navy used to practise something called conscription. Why did the people affected sometime disapprove of this?

21. Name something only one of us has read/heard/seen.

22. Heads or tails.

OTHER PHILIP GLASS

1. How many chance spaces are there on a monopoly board?
2. What year did the Binghamton mets come to Binghamton?
3. Who would prefer not to?
4. Lacan couldn’t drive, how did he get around this impediment?
5. What is the real name of the estate seen on BBC and Masterpiece Theater’s downtown abbey?
6. How many delegates will the winner of today Missouri Primary get?
7. What was the name of Fry’s dog on Futurama?
8. What was Ayn Rand’s birth name?

DICK BITCHEES

1. What song are these lyrics from? I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my daddy’s cue and make a living out of playing pool.

2. In 1957 John Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church picnic during a performance by Lennon’s band. What was the name of the band?

3. Which artist played his hit version of “the star spangled banner” at a music festival in Atlanta in 1970 and prompted the governor of Georgia to state that he would seek a law banning rock festivals?

4. What two artists wrote the song. We are the world?

5. What drummer loaded his drums with explosives that went off at the end of a live performance on the smothers brothers show, causing Pete Townsend serious hearing damage ?

6. Damn the torpedoes, released in 1979, was the third album by what band ?

7. “Sometimes when we touch” was a hit song for this Canadian Singer songwriter?

8. Jeff lynn played electric violin for what group?

9. This one hit wonder by starland vocal band was about making love in the afternoon ...

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Spring 2012

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