Friday, September 14, 2007

Weekend trivia

To entertain yourselves while I camp at the lovely Cape Lookout State Park, you might want to answer these trivia questions. I am shooting for hard, but not so hard as Jimmy's at Beulahland (although question six is straight from Beulahland.) Email or post your answers below. No Internet use allowed.

1) With which number album did Danzig stop using numbers in the title?

2) What are the names of the main character elves in a Year Without Santa Claus? Bonus, what former Portland band shares a name with another character?

3) Which war was ended by the Peace of Westphalia? In what year was it signed?

4) What is oxygen's atomic number?

5) What is the longest river in Europe?

6) In what country would you find the Rub' al Khali? What is it called in English?

7) Who is the current prime minister of Germany?

8) Necco, the candy maker, is a contraction of what name?

9) Who appeared in all of the following films? Alien, Singles, Steel Magnolias and the Rookie.

10) What is the publication order of the following Stephen King books: Tommyknockers, Carrie, Cell, 'Salem's Lot and Insomnia.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) With which number album did Danzig stop using numbers in the title?

I want to say "Three" but I believe that others had a number in them (666 perhaps). Does that count?

2) What are the names of the main character elves in a Year Without Santa Claus? Bonus, what former Portland band shares a name with another character?

No idear

3) Which war was ended by the Peace of Westphalia? In what year was it signed?

Thirty Years' War - sometime around 1650

4) What is oxygen's atomic number?

8. How many moles is that?

5) What is the longest river in Europe?

Danube?

6) In what country would you find the Rub' al Khali? What is it called in English?

Somewhere in the Middle East. The Arabian desert?

7) Who is the current prime minister of Germany?

That woman that Bush groped?

8) Necco, the candy maker, is a contraction of what name?

New England Candy Company

9) Who appeared in all of the following films? Alien, Singles, Steel Magnolias and the Rookie.

I believe that was Chris Cornell.

10) What is the publication order of the following Stephen King books: Tommyknockers, Carrie, Cell, 'Salem's Lot and Insomnia.

Carrie; 'Salem's Lot; Tommyknockers; Cell; Insomnia

Tripp said...

Not bad Harris. I give you 4 points. I suppose these were a wee bit hard.