Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
When I lived on the east coast as a child, I would attend the local Waldorf school’s Harvest Festival every year, so it was bizarrely familiar to return to the Sacramento Waldorf School Saturday to attend another such festival, or “vegetable” as my five-year-old calls them. Many of the harvest themes and the classroom art projects were just I remembered them at the Washington Waldorf School, but here in California we hardly have a defined “fall” as our eastern autumn promised us every year. The restaurants and shops in downtown Davis must adorn their window displays with artificial red and yellow leaves, for none can be found locally in the wild. Now that the rain has stopped, and the late afternoon sunlight fills the day so diffusely, it almost feels like earthquake weather, as if some sort of meteorological suspense hangs in the air.
The last earthquake that I remember experiencing intensely was the Loma Prieta Earthquake, the one that interrupted the Bay Area World Series back in 1989, just a few months after I moved to the East Bay. That Halloween one boy came to my Berkeley doorstep dressed as a tremor, a concept that was still frightening to us who tried to sleep through those evening’s aftershocks. Many people are thinking anew about Giants baseball, and about earthquakes, in part because of the new challenges facing the earthquake-stricken people of Haiti, this time in the form of cholera. If you are wondering how you might find out more about, and renew your support for, the most destitute people on our continent, consider visiting the website for Partners in Health: http://www.pih.org/haiti/news-entry/cholera-in-haiti-in-the-media/.
Tonight’s Pub Quiz will ask an unexpected series of Halloween questions, as well as questions about the creators of popular and essential websites, celebrity criminals, Pierce Brosnan’s past side-gigs, two people with recognizable last names (Zuckerberg and Jeeter) as well as two with more recognizable first names (Keanu and Denzel), aquaria, early hominids, the Blues (can you sing the blues?), the Giants, meteorology, London tourist traps (such as Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum), Glee, David Cronenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning books published in your lifetime, money, spices, vampires, spookiness, Louisiana, fairies, architecture, travel overseas, some of my favorite poets, celebrities, Shakespeare “in” Love, and Hawaii.
I hope you can join us tonight! We expect a few new faces, but we will still have plenty of room for you at tonight’s Pub Quiz!
Your Quizmaster
Five Questions from Last Week’s Quiz:
9. Science. The largest living rodent in the world has a scientific name of Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris. By what four-syllable name do we know this South American animal?
10. Great Americans. What was the highest government office achieved by Abraham Lincoln before becoming President of the United States?
12. Another Music Question. What musician is the only girl in the world to appear on two of the top 10 hits at the top of Billboard’s pop music charts this week?
13. Pop Culture – Television. What seeming remake of The Brady Bunch was a part of ABC’s TGIF lineup from 1991 until 1997?
14. The Language of Love. According to scholars, what language did Antony and Cleopatra use to talk to one another?
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/.