The Dressed as a Wizard Edition of the de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz Newsletter

D.R. Wagner as a Wizard!

Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,

 

Kate and I got to see former Poet Laureate Rita Dove perform her poetry Friday night. Here’s a favorite Rita Dove poem, titled “Exit”:

 

Just when hope withers, the visa is granted.

The door opens to a street like in the movies,

clean of people, of cats; except it is your street

you are leaving. A visa has been granted,

‘provisionally’-a fretful word.

The windows you have closed behind

you are turning pink, doing what they do

every dawn. Here it’s gray. The door

to the taxicab waits. This suitcase,

the saddest object in the world.

Well, the world’s open. And now through

the windshield the sky begins to blush

as you did when your mother told you

what it took to be a woman in this life.

 

And then Saturday night, we saw a play at the B Street Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Here’s what the LA Times said about this inventive play: “Rarely has middle-aged despair over dashed dreams and squandered hopes been put to more hilarious effect than in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang’s giddy farce on Chekhovian themes that won the Tony for best play last year.

 

One of the best parts was running into my old friends Bruce and Diane, two members of the Pub Quiz team The Ice Cream Socialists who ruled the Quiz for an entire summer. Bruce and Diane were ushering, and they seemed to be having more fun than anyone else in the theatre, at least until the play began. I encourage you to go see it.

 

Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature no Chekov questions tonight. Instead, think Megalodon. Also expect questions about repeated words, beverages, Apple, Germany, Sam’s date, Spain numbers, Prince, astronomy, freed slaves, musical notes, simple jewelry, art history, big films, story time, colors, TV shows that I don’t watch, oases, Brazil, actors who were also soldiers, words lacking an I (such as “team”), a hero’s enthusiasm for couches, famous authors, young adults, little creatures, dead Brits, current events, Chicago, Juan Carlos, and Shakespeare. Also, Lupita Nyong’o has joined the recently announced cast of Star Wars: Episode VII – that won’t be on the Quiz, but I just wanted to be the first one to tell you.

 

Thursday night at 8 the great Design professor D.R. Wagner will be performing his poetry at the John Natsoulas Gallery. Wagner has written more than 20 books, and has won many important prizes. He also looks great when dressed as a wizard (but then don’t we all?). I hope you can join us.

 

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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:

 

  1. Mottos and Slogans. What beverage is known as “The Uncola”?

 

  1. Internet Culture. You would think that with its 250 million users Pandora would be the top source of streaming music, but it’s not. What is the #1 source of streaming music?

 

  1. Pop Culture – Music. The singer who has a big hit this week with the song “Fancy,” and who features on the hit “Problem” shares a first name with one of my favorite punk rockers. Tell me the singer’s first or last name.

 

  1. Sports.   A three-time world champion, Elvis Stojko competed in what sport?

 

  1. Science.   By what monosyllabic word do we know the fluid that circulates throughout the lymphatic system?