TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Two 8-Week Challenge
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TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Two 8-week challenge This is the collected version of an 8-week challenge that was run from Wednesday, April 27 to Sunday, June 21, 2020. It’s collected here for anyone who would like to play it now for fun. If you like this, there may be a new season of the home game going on or the live version. You’re welcome to join either. For more info, contact [email protected]. If you don’t get an answer, then at least you’ve got this set of games. How it worked: • Each Wednesday a new set of 60 questions was posted at trackstrivia.com. • Players could play in teams with the people they live with or people over the internet or by themselves. • Teams would write their answers on the answer sheet provided and email a photo of their answers to [email protected]. • They’d receive a score out of 60 for the week. • At the end of 6 weeks, each team’s top 4 score were counted toward an overall total and an overall winner was crowned. • For teams with fewer than 4 players, a bonus was applied to their scores. How it really works: Play however you want. Have fun. TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game NAME/TEAM: _____________________________________ 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12 13 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 19 20 20 20 TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Two Week 1 of 8 Host: Bobby TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game | Season Two | Week 1 of 8 ROUND 1 Category 1 - Art Category 3 - Entertainment 1. What two biblical figures are depicted 11. What comic book character and in the sculpture “Pieta”? sidekick did Burt Ward play on television from 1966-68? 2. What Chinese-American architect designed the glass Louvre Pyramid that 12. Other than the 6 leads, what character opened in 1989? appeared in over 140 episodes of “Friends”? 3. What Dutch painter of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” lends his name to a 13. What 1990s horror thriller was the last Michael Connelly detective? film released in the month of February to win a Best Picture Oscar? 4. In printing, what do the letters “CMYK” stand for? 14. Meaning “placing on stage”, what French term from film criticism 5. What Mexican portrait painter was describes the composition of all the married to muralist Diego Rivera from elements of a film frame? 1929-1939 and again from 1940-1954? 15. 1984s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was the first time that what Category 2 - Culture director made a sequel (or prequel)? 6. What defunct chain of video stores was “the home of free popcorn!” from 1987- Category 4 - Games 2018? 16. If you added up every number in a 7. Although it did not feature moustaches complete sudoku puzzle, what would of any kind, “Aaron Burr” was the title of the total be? the first commercial in what popular ad campaign? 17. Red, Chuck, The Blues, Bomb, and Matilda are the names of the projectiles 8. The Aesir and Vanir are the warring in what popular game and mobile app? pantheons of what pagan culture? 18. In what tabletop game are small 9. What two-word Latin phrase for meeple placed on tiles depicting an “genuine” literally means “good faith”? expanding medieval French landscape? 10. What clothing store is the world’s largest retail apparel company despite 19. 17-letter words that contain “qu” like, appearing near the bottom of most mall “inconsequentially” are the longest directories? words in what dice and word game? 20. Three 5s and a Jack of the fourth suit are the makings of a perfect hand in what card game? April 29, 2020 TracksTrivia.com TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game | Season Two | Week 1 of 8 ROUND 2 Category 1 – Geography Category 3 – Literature 1. The Galapagos Islands are part of what 11. What American newspaper uses the equatorial country? slogan “All the news that’s fit to print”? 2. Name 2 European capital cities whose 12. Aslan and Jadis are the title characters names are a single syllable. of what CS Lewis novel? 3. What Michigan river takes its name from 13. The Robert Browning poem “Childe the French for “the Strait”? Roland to the Dark Tower Came” inspired an 8-novel fantasy series by 4. What common element is shared what prolific author? between the flags of: Guatemala, Eswatini, Kenya, Mozambique, Oman, 14. What ~800-word long children’s book and Saudi Arabia? about a finicky eater contains just 50 different words? 5. What second largest African country covers ~1,000,000 sq. km but has only 15. What “Mrs. Dalloway” author appears 37 km of Atlantic coastline? in the title of a Tony award-winning Edward Albee play? Category 2 - History Category 4 - Miscellaneous 6. Typhoid fever, meningitis, pancreatitis, and poisoning are among the suspected 16. What one word can mean all of the causes of death of what Macedonian following: a profligate man; a toothed King in 323 BCE in Babylon? lawn tool; the house’s cut? 7. What 20th century American President 17. What Oscar winning actor has a name had a cat named Socks? that would roughly translate into English as “Brave Lion of Goat”? 8. What British shipping company commissioned the Titanic and her sister 18. What three words that are anagrams ships in the early 20th century? of each other can mean: a teacher’s vocation; warned; sold to the highest 9. What structure that ultimately measured bidder? ~155km long began construction in Europe on August 13, 1961? 19. How much money, it total, is in: 1 roll of toonies, 1 roll of loonies, 1 roll of 10. What decisive 1745 battle during the quarters, 1 roll of dimes, and 1 roll of Jacobite rising was the last pitched nickels? battle fought on British soil? 20. What contranym can mean both: something well done, as with an Emmy award; or something not yet done, as with an unpaid balance? April 29, 2020 TracksTrivia.com TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game | Season Two | Week 1 of 8 ROUND 3 Category 1 - Music Category 3 - Science 1. What 2013 hit song references the 11. What two chemical elements have luxury brands Grey Goose, Cadillac, symbols that are also common English Cristal, and Maybach? pronouns? 2. What unaccompanied singing style 12. What SI derived unit of electrical takes its name from the Italian for “in the resistance is represented by a letter of manner of the chapel”? the Greek alphabet? 3. What rapper and winner of a Best Rap 13. What one word can be: the throb of Album Grammy takes her stage name arteries; a single abrupt emission of from a brand of rum? radiation; or a legume? 4. In 2003, what US agency mailed cease 14. Found in everyday objects like and desist letters to Ben Gibbard and appliances, what does the initialism Jimmy Tamborello over the use of a “IoT” stand for? trademark in their indie band’s name? 15. What instrument, used by mariners for 5. What Alaskan singer songwriter celestial navigation, is made of a frame released the album “Picking up the that is a 1/6th segment of a circle? Pieces” in 2015, 20 years after her debut “Pieces of You”? Category 4 - Sports Category 2 - Nature 16. What three weapons are used in modern fencing? 6. What growths do dendrochronologists study? 17. What is the name of the trophy awarded to the team that wins the 7. Originally published in 1839 as “Journal Superbowl? and Remarks” what naturalist wrote the book more commonly known as “The 18. What Ontario University has varsity Voyage of the Beagle”? teams called “The Thunderwolves”? 8. The English name for what woody herb 19. With 8 medals, what short track comes from the Latin for “dew of the skater is the most decorated American sea”? Winter Olympian? 9. Red, antelope, eastern grey, and 20. What star pitcher of the Negro League western grey are species of what large became the oldest rookie in Major bipedal marsupial? League Baseball when he joined the Cleveland Indians at the age of 42? 10. Named for its pale crescent shape, where on/in the human body could you find the lunula? April 29, 2020 TracksTrivia.com TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Two Week 1 of 8 | Answers The answers to week 1 are on the next page. Don’t continue if you haven’t played week 1. TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Two Week 1 of 8 | Answers ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 1. JESUS AND MARY 1. ECUADOR 1. ROYALS 2. I. M. PEI 2. BERN; MINSK; PRAGUE; ROME 2. A CAPELLA 3. HIERONYMOUS BOSCH 3. DETROIT RIVER 3. CARDI B (BACARDI) 4. CYAN; MAGENTA; YELLOW; KEY 4. WEAPONS; WHITE 4. THE (US) POSTAL SERVICE (or BLACK) 5. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 5. JEWEL 5. FRIDA KAHLO CONGO; CONGO 6. TREE (RING)S 6. JUMBO VIDEO 6. ALEXANDER III (THE GREAT) 7. CHARLES DARWIN 7. GOT MILK? 7. BILL CLINTON 8. ROSEMARY (ros marinus) 8. NORSE 8. WHITE STAR LINE; OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY 9. KANGAROOS 9. BONE FIDE 9. THE BERLIN WALL 10. (BASE OF) FINGER/TOE NAIL 10. ZARA 10. THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN 11. HELIUM (He); IODINE (I) 11. ROBIN; DICK GRAYSON 11. THE NEW YORK TIMES 12.