The Slanted Daffodil Edition of the de Vere's Irish Pub Pub Quiz Newsletter
Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
If you saw the cover of yesterday’s Davis Enterprise, you probably spied, and perhaps even recognized, members of Portraits O’ Muhammad, the winningest team in the history of the Pub Quizzes that I have hosted. They won the most points / quizzes in February, and are due “full respek,” as Ali G would put it. They won’t be basking in any glory this evening, however, for most of the team’s members will be attending Human Rights and Humanities Week, an effort of The Human Rights Initiative at UC Davis. Congrats to Keith David Watenpaugh and the other scholar heroes of human rights who live right here in Davis.
So if you’ve ever yearned for an opportunity to win the de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz, tonight might give you even more opportunities than usual. We may have a crowd tonight because of the extra local press, so please plan accordingly.
Do you think of Winston Churchill when you think of the English Bulldog? Is that because Churchill looked somewhat like a bulldog, or because he once said that “The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go”? In any event, my family and I will pick up our new bulldog on Saturday, my birthday, and to celebrate these two events, I will be throwing a party of sorts next Monday night after the Pub Quiz. Starting at 9pm, I hope as many revelers will arrive as typically exit at that time, if only for the extra finger food that we’ll be providing. You’ll be responsible for your own drinks, should you still be thirsty. I will most likely have iPhone pictures of Daffodil Jones to share for those who stick around for the party.
Tonight’s quiz will feature questions about British people, but no bulldogs. I’ve also saved a bunch of questions for an evening when I knew that POM would be gone, so expect questions on Star Trek, the Middle East, and the southeast US. Additionally, expect questions on anodynes, social media, “accidents” and “blessings,” favorite movies of recent years, illnesses, fictional people, Canadian musicians, basketball and baseball, American cities, greatness in size and degree, great apes, short song titles, brotherly love, birds that we have never seen in person, vegetable plants, abandonment, supreme beings, caterpillars and butterflies, expanding, canonical works of British literature, Irish politics, the US government, chemistry, the iPhone, home, once-recent history, sports and Shakespeare.
See you tonight for the de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz!
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
2. Fashion. The fashion designer who is the creative director of Liz Claiborne was the subject of the 1995 documentary film Unzipped. Name him.
3. Unusual Words. What British slang term that starts with the letter G and has the word SMACKED in it means “astounded or astonished”?
4. Pop Culture – Music. Which of Beethoven’s odd-number symphonies is considered The Eroica Symphony, originally to be dedicated to Napoleon?
5. Great Americans. Two living men with the same last name have run unsuccessfully for President of the United States. They spell that last name differently, and one lost part of his leg in combat. Name either of the two men.
6. Science – Geology. There are three classes of rock: sedimentary, igneous, and WHAT?