Your Quizmaster

Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

Tonight’s Pub Quiz will be sub-hosted by the amiable and able Nat — the teacher, actor, and Gandalf impersonator — for he received so many stellar reviews the last time he guest-hosted, that I thought it would be wise and responsible to turn to him again. After the last time he ran the show, Nat said that he prefers being an audience member to being the center of attention, and who could blame him?. Hosting the Pub Quiz is an endurance event, much like the endurance needed to survive four days in Disneyland when the itinerary is being set by a seven year old. I’ve only been recognized here once.

Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature only one question on Disney topics, and that one has been relegated to the “Great Americans” category. Expect also questions on 2008, digital sounds, Republicans with aspirations, cyborgs, civil rights leaders, Australians, nobles and Nobels, word games, musical cities, anagrams, slings and arrows, Argentines, talons, caterpillars, moving violations, short time periods, party founders, shoes, portmanteau words, the guardianship of children, basketball, CNN, bears, the best-selling songs of American icons, all sorts of music, banana slug poets, hammers, Abbey Road, legitimacy, forging, progressive movements, silver, big cities, fathers day, Euroleague titles, and Shakespeare.

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads who join us on Monday nights at the Pub Quiz. I will return to all the fun next week!

Best,

Your Quizmaster

And here are five questions from last week:

1.         Mottos and Slogans.    The motto of the city of San Francisco is Oro en Paz—Fierro en Guerra. Translate this phrase into English.

2.         Internet Culture. What is the name of the home-grown e-book application by Apple Inc. for its iOS operating system and devices?

3.         Newspaper Headlines: Leaker Edition.   29-year-old intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is holed up in what location today? Hong Kong, Reykjavik, San Francisco, or Guantanamo.

4.         Four for Four.     Which of the following astrological and meteorological terms (in singular or plural form) appear in the lyrics of “Over the Rainbow”? Clouds, Raindrops, Skies, Stars.

5.         Parachute History. The oldest parachute design appears in an anonymous manuscript from the 1470s. In what country was this parachute sketched?

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