Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
Winter is upon us, and that means that we should all get look forward to a vacation, or at least a break. Many Americans are such accomplished consumers that they have taken on shopping as a second job, and our economy is picking up pace because of it. Because we spend so much money on our vacations, however, many Americans are just “pushing through,” mostly because they can’t afford to be frenetic consumers for two weeks a year (and to think that many Europeans can anticipate off a month a year – for most of us, that would bean bankruptcy). Nevertheless, I hope you get a break, if only to maintain your equanimity. As Earl Wilson once said, “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”
During my break, I typically research new readings to assign to students in my winter Technocultural Studies class: Writing Across Media. I find new and challenging essays to make students think critically, creatively, and bravely as they imagine themselves working for that Emeryville dream factory known as Pixar. Like my classes, at Pixar the people in charge encourage a culture of dissent, one of my favorite American values. Although we may see less dissent on campus and in the city of Davis over the holiday break, we can look forward to new dramas in 2012, locally and in national politics. Meanwhile, as I conduct my winter break research on creativity and technology, we’ll see how much of it will appear in the de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz! I look forward to all our Monday evenings together.
Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature questions on the remaining Republican presidential hopefuls, car companies, Atlanta, courtroom dramas, space travel, New Jersey, baseball, great rock and roll songs, words that begin with Q, Orange County, people with fins, The Brain, nets, people who act phony, television, insects, people with alliterative names, really small things, more Charlie Brown, Academy Award nominated-films, string worms, fondly-remembered prime ministers, water, popular books, football, and Shakespeare comedies.
See you tonight!
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
1. American Inventors. Dean Kamen’s most famous invention was what?
2. Korea. North Korea borders the eighth most populous nation to the northeast. Name the nation.
3. Pop Culture – Television. What current CBS sitcom features Patrick Warburton and David Spade?
4. Big City Mayors. Jean Quan is the mayor of what northern California city of 390,000?
5. Another Music Question. What is the best-selling Outkast song of all time?