Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
As most of you know by now, tonight’s Pub Quiz at de Vere’s Irish Pub will begin late. I will be attending The Sacramento Poetry Reading for Autism III at the Sacramento Poetry Center. At that event, I will probably read this poem of mine, the comical (until the last line) “My Entropy Elephant”:
My Entropy Elephant
He is my entropy elephant, my kangaroo of chaos.
The contents of all drawers will be revealed!
All the shirts become T-shirts! All the gowns strapless!
Water seeks its own level, and this boy is a guide!
If a tree falls in the forest, run to take the axe from his hands.
If the water main has broken, then he has taken a break.
Left-handed people are sinister and clumsy, they say.
Well our little lefty hoorays the lightning strike, the wind shear.
We get no rest from this tempest. The nanny cries.
It’s not their stuff, so the neighbors just sit back and watch,
Thinking “With that arm he could pitch for the Reds.”
“I never knew that pliers could be used in that way.”
We can find no matches for his socks, his shoes, his mittens.
He plays with matches; how will we ever find him a match?
As is the case with my Pub Quiz persona, my Featured Poet Persona actually doesn’t talk much about himself. What’s the opposite of a confessional poet? Maybe an obscurational poet? Microsoft Word doesn’t care for that coinage, but I will leave it in. If you would like to join me at the reading tonight, then I will see you at 1719 25th Street in Sacramento at 7pm. I will be rushing back to Davis after I perform, and expect to start the Pub Quiz around 8:30 tonight. I hope you can join us.
Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature questions about mid-western states, billion-dollar companies, Davis buildings, modern Christianity, blades, canines, blaring your jig, people who spend more than 280 weeks at #1, matter, grouchy royals, colors, great presidents, jeans, Dublin, NASA, Annie, wastelands, hooky, Mars, successful sequels that none of my friends have seen, Nazis, kingfishers, wells, friends of Obama, dragonflies, Africa, textiles, gold records, late novels, heads of state, football, Autism, and Shakespeare.
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
1. Mottos and Slogans. “It’s Time to Fly” is the commercial slogan of an airline that merged with Continental in 2010. Name it.
2. Internet Culture. What does SOPA stand for?
3. Newspaper Headlines. We learned today that supermodel Heidi Klum is separating from her husband. What is his name?
4. Four for Four. Which two of the four surviving Republican candidates for President, surprisingly, were born in Pennsylvania? Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum.
5. Film Quotations. In what film does Bruce Willis say “I love the music of the 20th century”?
P.S. Alan Williamson reads his poetry this Thursday night at 8 at the John Natsoulas Gallery. See http://www.poetryindavis.com for details. He directed Dr. Andy's dissertation, so the gratitude from the Quizmaster will be palpable at this event.