1. (Geography): What Thames River bridge is nearest the Tower of London?
A: The Tower Bridge. Maybe that's the one you were thinking of, but that's the Tower Bridge.
2. (Entertainment): What father and son won Oscars for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
A: Walter Huston (Best Supporting Actor), and his son John (Best Director). Humphrey Bogart, as Fred C. Dobbs, did not win an Oscar.
3. (History): Who won the 1968 California Democratic primary?
A: Robert F. Kennedy.
4. (Arts & Literature): What is Juliet’s last name?
A: Capulet.
5. (Science & Nature): What’s the most common color of garnet?
A: Red.
6. (Sports & Leisure): What American won the world Grand Prix driving championship in 1978?A: Mario Andretti.
7. (Children’s Literature): What novice Keeper is hailed as Gryffindor’s “king” after winning the Quidditch Cup in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
A: Ron Weasley.
8. (Classics): What fearless Prince of the Geats gets munched by a dragon, in an old English poem?A: Beowulf. (Block IV, I'll give you a pass on this. Block II, you should nearly be ahamed of yourselves.)
9. (Non-Fiction) What 72 year-old feminist rallied for the rights of the elderly in The Fountain of Age, in 1993?A: Betty Friedan. (Click here for a little social commentary from our friends at The Onion.
10. (Book Club): What novel by Peter Carey finds an imaginary poet created by Christopher Chubb coming back to haunt him?
A: My Life as a Fake.
11. (Authors): What bit actor ran the Playhouse-on-the-Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, before penning, at age 40, the first of his twenty-plus best-selling thrillers?
A: Robert Ludlum. (Like Mr. Blais, Mr. Susla, Bill Belichick, and myself, Robert Ludlum has a degree of Wesleyan University.)
12. (Book Bag): What Dan Brown thriller pries into the secrets of the Priory of Sion after a murder at the Louvre?
A: The DaVinci Code.
The Results: Block II -- 8 correct answers, Block IV -- 6 correct answers.
(Block II caught a very lucky break in Beowulf, which you are just starting but Block IV has not come to yet. So toss out that question and all that stands between the two classes is "Betty Friedan".)
5 comments:
Good Job everyone. I thought Block Two did a great job working as a team. It was kind of hard to incorporate everyone because we have like 21 people; but still, good job to all. And i am really happy that there was a Harry Potter on there!!!
a valiant effort by block 4, though i'm not speaking about our answer to the question about the prince being eaten. Perhaps if we had done Beowulf already we would have had the advantage. A tip of the hat to whoever got Betty Friedan in block 2.
Block 4 will come back and be victorious.
FOR SPARTAAAA!!!!!!
Mr. Mac, This inter class competition was a blast. I would like to do it again. so...not to be pushy or anything but when could we do another one?
I SO SAID IT WAS MARIO ANDRETTI.
MAN...being a Republican, Nascar-loving hick DOES come in handy.
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