Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
It’s always exciting for a Quizmaster to walk into an Irish Pub full of anticipation and trivia wonks, as happened for the first time in Davis last Monday. It must be like attending a TED Conference, only with Guinness. Every time I visit de Vere’s, and I seem to have dropped by a couple times a week since the soft opening, I’m struck by how many friends I run into. What is it about the place that draws crowds of thinkers and laughers? When I told my six-year old Truman that it was the Mayor of Davis that I had just introduced him to, he admitted that he thought Barack Obama was the Mayor of Davis. He and I listen to more NPR together than watch TV, so I suppose such misapprehensions are understandable.
I think one reason de Vere's Irish Pub is so popular is the evident attention paid to the quality of the ingredients in the food. As a July de Vere’s Irish Pub blog entry put it, de Vere's chefs "have sourced the most satisfying ingredients from local growers." By contrast, members of Congress have caved to food industry lobbyists and have allowed American schoolchildren to have access primarily to cafeteria food products that will make them unhealthy.
This article by food writer Kristin Wartman argues that the industrial "pizza" served in America's school cafeterias is not even pizza. And now Congress wants to redefine this frozen chemical concoction as a "vegetable." On some days I feel like the food our schoolchildren eat is being "regulated" by Veruca Salt and Augustus Gloop.
If you read that article by Wartman, you’ll encounter an answer to a question on tonight’s de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz. You can also expect questions on dragons, sandwiches, shopping (America’s Pastime), the roots of American music, horror comedies, prison, bombs, short actors, members of the Baseball HOF, California, liquid resistance, the judiciary, television shows that females in my family never miss, lowered wreaths, Baghdad, Frasier, Kung Fu, scarecrows, Hugo, movies from 2011, Ireland, cities and more cities, Linnaeus, college football, San Francisco, and Shakespeare.
I hope you can join us when we start at 7 tonight at de Vere’s Irish Pub for the Pub Quiz!
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
1. Unusual Words. What C word means “likely to make a grating noise” and “showing signs of age and deterioration”?
2. Animated Movies from 2010. Who was Megamind’s nemesis?
3. State Capitals. What is the capital of South Carolina?
4. Pop Culture – Television. What Freaks and Geeks actor appeared in the 2011 films The Muppets, Friends with Benefits, and Bad Teacher?
5. California Geography. What Orange County city of 190,000 is known as Surf City?