Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
Seeing the film Super 8 recently reminded me of how much I loved monsters as a child. My father the movie buff (and reviewer) kept many books in the house about Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney (among others). I delighted in reading about and watching the cinematic evidence of their raw power, their other-worldliness, and their amoral ferocity. Perhaps my interest in monsters began with all the stories and myths we reviewed in my Washington Waldorf School classes – stories of medusae and minotaurs, and the heroes who defeated them. Perhaps in my lifetime the only the match for the myth-making resonance of those old stories was the title character of the film Alien. Do you have another candidate?
We’ll be reviewing some monsters this evening at the Pub Quiz, along with a number of bigshot authors, video games, singer-songwriters, Franklin and Houston and Gray, rom-com stars, the Universities of California, great guitarists (can you play air guitar?), actor-directors, basketball centers, blue fish but no red fish, blue eyes and brown eyes, shiny elements, Revolutionary War veterans, people who are always on time, Spielberg films, variety shows, wan sealants, Nobel laureates, superheroes, Native Americans, men who play in the sand, metropolitan areas by population, the Super Bowl, famous Italians (according to Shakespeare), and Central Valley cities. Which is your favorite, after Davis?
This coming Thursday the longtime Professor of Design and author of more than 20 books, D.R. Wagner will be reading his poetry at the John Natsoulas Gallery at 8pm. To find out more about this poet and publisher of works by Rexroth and (Jim) Morrison, please visit http://bit.ly/drwagner, and to find out about the Poetry Night Reading Series, visit http://www.poetryindavis.com.
I look forward to seeing you this evening.
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
1. Internet Culture. What social network recently surpassed MySpace in US traffic to become the second most-used in the Untied States?
2. Newspaper Headlines. What is the name of the British weekly tabloid newspaper, that began publishing in 1843 and ended its run yesterday?
3. Four for Four. Which one of the following comedians spoke Spanish as a first language? Lenny Bruce, Louis C-K, Chris Rock, Carrot Top.
4. Film. The cast of what 2003 film included, in alphabetical order, Alec Baldwin, Dakota Fanning, Sean Hayes, Mike Myers, and Kelly Preston, as well as the voice of Dan Castellaneta?
5. Founding Fathers. Who famously said that “Those who would give up some of their liberty in order to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”?
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/.