Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
Today I wore my artsy American flag tie. I get it out for special occasions, and to show off that it was autographed by former football star and Vice-Presidential candidate Jack Kemp. I unearthed it a decade ago, when Kemp’s signature was worth a little less than it is now, in a box of ties at a Sacramento thrift store, and was happy to pay $4 for the collector’s item. Kemp once said that “Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.” That’s exactly the sort of sentiment – the faith in everyday people, commitment to democracy, and shared appreciation of justice – that would have made Osama bin Laden really uncomfortable. Kemp died two years ago today, the same year that he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Although always more interested in economic opportunity at home than military might overseas, Kemp would have been proud to wear an American flag tie on this day.
Tonight’s Pub Quiz will cover topics in cosmetics, internet videos, Tennessee, military victories over the French, popular beverages, Cassius Clay, comedy duos, reveille songs (what song would you most like to wake up to?), baseball, fruits and vegetables, windows, Presidents of the United States (my wife can name them all in order – a useful skill at a Pub Quiz), opera, Rhode Island, bicycles in Davis, thin items (anagram hint), butterflies and other bugs, superheroes (because that was so popular last time), Friends, Oceana, the King of Lilliput, the ingredients in agricultural fertilizers, Osama bin Laden (who was buried at sea), famous Brits, nefarious villains, journalism, upcoming holidays, and Shakespeare.
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
1. Mottos and Slogans. What Japanese motorcycle company that has produced motorcycles since 1954 has used the commercial slogan “It lets the good times roll”?
2. Internet Culture. You may have heard that Apple profits grew an astounding 95% in the second quarter of 2011. Sales of which of the following provided the driving force behind this profit growth? Computers, iPads, or iPhones.
3. Newspaper Headlines – A Silly Royals Question. According to the 127,000 people surveyed by the website beautifulpeople.com, this coming weekend Kate Middleton will become the third most beautiful royal. Neither the first nor the second most beautiful royals were British. One is still alive, though a widow, and the other died the year Middleton was born. Name either royal that was judged to be more beautiful than Kate Middleton.
4. Four for Four. Which two of the following Charlie Chaplin films were released during the 1930s? City Lights, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, Modern Times.
5. Superheroes – The Fantastic Four. What member of the Fantastic Four apparently died earlier this year while fighting a horde of aliens from the otherdimensional Negative Zone?
P.S. Poet Greg Glazner reads on Wednesday night at 8:30. Born in Anson, Texas, Greg Glazner earned a BA from Hardin-Simmons University, and an MA and MFA from the University of Montana. Glazner’s books of poetry include From the Iron Chair, which won the prestigious Walt Whitman Award, and Singularity, both published by W.W. Norton. He has also been awarded the Bess Hokin Award for Poetry and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Glazner is completing a multi-genre novel, Rag in a Loud Wind. Sections of the novel have appeared in magazines including Seneca Review, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Idaho Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review. He is currently a visiting writer teaching advanced poetry seminars at UC Davis. More information at http://www.poetryindavis.com.