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Tribapalooza '95
Trivia Questions (updated 8.3.95)
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1. The name of the first copyrighted motion picture?
4. The original name of the soft drink 7-Up?
5. Briefly explain why the practice of items being priced with
.99 and .49 started.
9. This female poet was asked to come up for names for Ford
Motor Co.? (Her suggestions were all ignored and in stead
the Edsel was born)
10 What woman was married to George Harrison and later to
his best friend Eric Clapton?
11 What famous British musician of the 80-90's was an extra
in the movie "A Hard Day's Night"?
12 How did the sphinx's nose fall off?
16 What Beatles song was banned from being played on the BBC?
17 What famous product did Mike Nesmith, of the Monkeys, mom invent?
18 Who was the candy bar Baby Ruth named after?
19 Who was the spirit of Seattle?
21 What is the address of the Munsters?
22 What is the name of the wooden indian from Cheers?
23. What is the job of the Gaffer's Best Boy on a movie set?
24. Who is a Foley Artist, and what does he do?
25. How did the nickname for the Academy Award, OSCAR, get it's name?
26. While shooting a film, the director views his Dailies. What are the
Dailies?
27. In what film did Donald Duck make his first appearance?
28. What was the only Donald Duck short that won an Academy Award?
29. In what short did Minnie Mouse make her first appearance?
30. In "Pinocchio", a sly fox befriends the little puppet Pinocchio by
calling himself "Honest John". What is the fox's real name?
31. What famous star of the stage voiced the Queen/Witch in "Snow White
and the Seven Dwarves"?
33. In "Lady and the Tramp", what are the names of the two mischievious
Siamese cats?
34. Who was the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during World War II?
35. On June 22, 1941 the German offensive against Russia began on the
Eastern Front. What was the German code-name for the offensive?
36. Operation "Overlord", the name for the Allies' European invasion of
France in 1943, targeted the beaches of Normandy. Name two of the five
code-names for the beaches in which the combined U.S., Canadian and
British forces landed?
37. Who said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed
by so many to so few."?
38. Who said, "Damm the torpedoes! Full speed ahead."?
39. What were the circumstances that lead to General Thomas Jonathan
"Stonewall" Jackson death during the American Civil War?
40. What was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima?
41. The Japanese surrendered to the Allied powers in Toyko Bay aboard
which U.S. battleship?
42. The White House was burned down only once in it's history. During
what war did this happen?
43. What is the name of the battle where Colonel George Armstrong Custer
and his 226 men died?
44. How long did the ground war of Operation "Desert Storm" last?
45. What famous Chicago mobster was interned on Alcatraz as prisoner #85?
46. This broadway star played Dolly in the original production of "Hello
Dolly!", and graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco?
47. Alcatraz is Spanish word meaning?
48. What famous architect designed the Marin Civic Center?
49. What's the name of Francis Ford Coppola's San Francisco- based motion
picture company?
50. What famous author was quoted as saying, "The coldest winter I ever
experienced was a summer in San Francisco"?
51. George Lucas filmed this low-budget, science-fiction movie in the
uncompleted BART tunnel under Market Street in San Francisco. What
movie was it?
52. Out of the four alien species of the Borg, Cardassians, Ferengis, and
Romulans (listed here in alphabetical order), in what order did the
Enterprise D first encounter them in. Encounter means that they were
an important part of the story, not just that they were seen walking
around in the background. Extra point if you know the name of the
episode.