Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
I have been trying to work this extended saying by Mohandas Gandhi into a Pub Quiz question, but I haven’t figured out how:
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
I’d appreciate your advice on that.
Happy Picnic Day aftermath! I hope you enjoyed Saturday. I realize that people in our town have different attitudes towards Picnic Day. Most UC Davis students participate eagerly in the variety of available activities, some of them elicit, but most licit. Some townies, who I suppose prefer to be called long-time residents of Davis, stay away from the entire downtown, especially after the parade has concluded. I heard somewhere that some Davis residence rent out their homes for the weekend, and use the profits made to take a short vacation elsewhere in California.
I myself had the pleasure of officially announcing the Picnic Day Parade down on 2nd and D streets, right around the corner from our favorite Irish pub. I enjoy yelling out the names of friends and friendly organizations, such as the gay veterans organization that led the parade this year. One of the best things about being a volunteer announcer for the Picnic Day Parade is the expectation that the California Aggie Marching Band will surely stop and perform right in front of you. We could hear the marching bands’ faraway drums just at about the time that the locals were growing eager and restless. I appreciated the late start, for that gave me an opportunity to catch up with some old friends, and even to sell a few books.
Speaking of which, the book release party of my new book Where’s Jukie? takes place this coming Saturday at 8 at the John Natsoulas Gallery, and I hope you will join us. The book-buying prize for last week goes to The Mavens, one of the most devoted teams who participates in our Pub Quiz, because I think every team member purchased a book for $10 knowing that all the proceeds would go to medical research. I hope to mention the name of you or your team in next week’s newsletter. I will bring some more copies of the book with me this evening.
Tonight’s quiz will feature questions on additives, faults, fictional (?) California cities, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, cell phones and email, the word “love,” spices, year of the Tiger, rivers in the east, Canadians (Hi Dianna!), astronomy, a bonus sports question, new things, southern cities, killer governments, four-syllable adjectives that start with the letter C, Ellen and her friends, valuable commodities, needful fees, spell-checked anagrams, love songs, depth, translation problems, Lawrence Fishburne films, boneless chicken, big cities in the (really) deep south, diversity in sports, bones, NPR, first couples, Hippolyta’s playground, Shakespeare, the book release party Saturday night, and Picnic Day.
See you tonight!
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
- Gambling on TV. Gambling website Bovada has released its odds for the next host of the Late Show on CBS. What 49 year-old is leading the pack, with 5/2 odds? Obviously the odds-makers were correct. Did any of you place a bet?
- Science. What, specifically, does an animal known as a “folivore” eat? I like everyone to score in double digits.
- Current Events – Names in the News. What alleged arms trafficker with a three-letter last name describes himself on Twitter as “Father, husband, educator, child psychologist, reformer, #CA Senator and Candidate for #California Secretary of State”?
- Sports. With a single to right field in the 4th inning of a game against Toronto yesterday, what member of the New York Yankees passed former World Series MVP Paul Molitor for 8th on the all-time hit list?
- Shakespeare. What were the four letters in the name of the Shakespeare character most famously played by Mickey Rooney in a 1935 film? Name the character.
P.S. Beloved Davis poet Hannah Stein will be reading at the John Natsoulas Gallery this coming Thursday at 8. I hope you can join us!