Wednesday Night Trivia

1. What series is Gary Larsen responsible for creating, which first appeared in 1980 in the San Francisco Chronicle?

2. Cookie and Alexander are the children of the title character of what comic strip, which will celebrate its 80th anniversary this year?

3. Featuring a cat named Bill, a dog named Rabies, and a penguin named Opus, what was renamed Outland when it became a Sunday only comic strip?

4. What is the name of the evil HR director in the comic strip Dilbert?

5. In 1975, what creator of the politically charged series Doonesbury became the first comic strip artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning?

1. What term, used in a snowboarding context to describe any maneuver in the halfpipe where one rotates 180 or more degrees in an uphill direction, also describes a pass made to set up a slam dunk in basketball?

2. In baseball, what is it called, when a baserunner is caught between two or more defensive players who narrow the running area by throwing the ball strategically back and forth while coming together, thus pinching the runner for an out?

3. What word, which means to move in a zigzag fashion, is used in football to describe a movement by a player designed to misdirect or fake-out the other opponent?

4. When playing tennis, what is the name for a shot made between the legs as you are running back towards the baseline?

5. What is the name of the position held by a figure skater while executing a “sit-spin”?

1. What country borders both Greece and Iraq?

2. Before separating into the continents we have today, what was the name of the giant land mass that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

3. Gary, Gurnee, and Oak Park are suburbs of what major US city?

4. What river carries the greatest volume of water of any river in the world?

5. Before winning its independence in 1971, Bangladesh was part of what country?

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1. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”

2. “Call me Ishmael.”

3. “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”

4. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

5. “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

1. What 1975 movie warned “Don’t go in the water”?

2. Directed by Richard Donner, what 1976 film was remade and released on June 6, 2006?

3. What actress was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for The Exorcist as Linda Blair’s mother, Chris MacNeil?

4. In The Shining, what room number did Jack enter to find a naked beauty in the bathtub, only to discover while embracing her that she was actually a rotting corpse?

5. In 2002’s The Ring, the role of Rachel Keller, which was first offered to Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale, was ultimately played by whom?

1. Who first gained his fame with his invention of the phonograph in 1877, and eventually became known as “the Wizard of Menlo Park?”

2. Who invented the cotton gin?

3. What transportation device was unveiled by Dean Kamen in December of 2001?

4. Who received a US patent for using copper rivets for strengthening pants pockets in 1873?

5. In 1852, who invented a device that made elevators much safer by preventing them from falling if the hoisting cable parted, then in New York in 1857, installed the first ever passenger elevator?

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