The Delicate Adventures Edition of the Pub Quiz Newsletter
Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
How do I know that summer has come? Because of news of sellout crowds planning to descend upon the Pub Quiz in Davis tonight. Here’s a message that I received today on the Facebook account for Your Quizmaster.
In Vino Veritas wanted one to come one last time before we move to Oklahoma, but all the tables are full! We’re still going to try to come before the end of the month, but my husband won’t be able to come, so we’d have to be In Vino Veritas Light.
I so appreciate teams like In Vino Veritas, because they attended the Pub Quiz every Monday for about two years, because they brought multiple generations from the same family, and because some of their members (including the author of this message) came all the way from Sacramento.
I’m hoping that all of you will feel inspired to show that sort of loyalty in the coming years of the Pub Quiz. With that goal in mind, I have begun talks today with one of my favorite San Francisco artists, Pete Glanting of the historical celebrity-egg-inspired Delicate Adventures Project, to create a comic book that explains the Pub Quiz, and provides tips and strategies for doing well at our weekly competition. Look for that by the end of the summer.
Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature questions on The Beatles, Greek mythology, four-syllable words, Republican presidential hopefuls, guys named Stuart, freckled man-beasts, Twitter, $100 billion, Colorado, somnolence, movie stars with hit records (can you sing a song by a movie star with a hit record?), American generals, the NBA playoffs, German words, boats, coenzymes, drummers, American poets, really big whales, crops, the public collapse of Newt Gingrich, charming adjectives, situation comedies (do people watch those anymore?), famous islands, a kitten jihad, backward and forward movement, Rosh Hashana, linguistics, Illinois, trees, American and British holidays, drowsy students, authors whose books you should recognize, baseball, basketball, coffee beans, and antagonists in the plays of William Shakespeare.
I hope you will join us tonight for a raucous edition of the Pub Quiz!
Your Quizmaster
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
1. Mottos and Slogans. The Olympic motto is “Citius, Altius, Fortius.” These three Latin words mean “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.” How many rings are there on the Olympic flag?
2. Internet Culture. Apple, Inc. is now worth more than the combined value of two companies whose names can be spelled with the letters in the words FLIMSIER COTTON. Name the companies.
3. Newspaper Headlines. Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he maintained he did not commit, died last week at the age of 63. With what organization was Pratt most famously associated?
4. Four for Four. Parts of which of the following Davis streets, if any, are situated within four blocks of the Cranbrook Apartments? Anderson Road, Covell Boulevard, J Street, Oak Avenue.
5. The Final Frontier. Who was the first man in space?
P.S. I’m hosting a poetry reading Thursday night at 8 at the John Natsoulas Gallery (521 1st Street). You should join us for this special evening featuring the work of two UC Davis graduates who have hit the big time: Briony Gylgayton and Patricia Killelea. Details below and at http://www.poetryindavis.com.
A recent graduate of UC Davis, Briony Gylgayton has won multiple awards for her writing, including placing second for the University of California system-wide 2010 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, and placing for both creative writing categories in the 2010 Pamela Maus Contest for Creative Writing, winning first in fiction and second in poetry. Her Creative Writing Honors Thesis, a manuscript of poetry about psychological disorders, was awarded the 2010 Elliot Gilbert Memorial Prize for Best Undergraduate Honors Creative Work. Briony Gylgayton will begin her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in August, 2011.
Patricia Killelea is the author of the new poetry collection Other Suns, now available from Swan Scythe Press (2011). Originally from the Bay Area, California, Patricia has placed her poems in The Seizure State, The Tule Review, and Suisun Valley Review, among others. She is currently a doctoral student in Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis, and holds an M.A. in English & Creative Writing, also from the University of California at Davis. She has taught the Introduction to Native American Literature course at UCD since Fall 2009.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at the John Natsoulas Gallery to secure a seat, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series occurs on the first and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery.
Friends of the Pub Quiz, and those curious about all the fun and fuss associated with the Pub Quiz, should come to de Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis (217 E Street), the highly esteemed pub and restaurant that fills up every night because of the superb quality of food, drink and company that can be found there. The de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz takes place every Monday at 7pm, though players are encouraged to arrive early to claim a table. As always, find out more about the Pub Quiz by visiting https://www.yourquizmaster.com. For more on de Vere’s Irish Pub, visit http://deverespub.com/.