Teams vs. Teams

(Furthermore, many teams had many complaints to make about the details of the trivia offered by their worthy opponents. The limited timeframe in which to vet these questions indicates one reason why "Challenge Trivia" eventually faded from the contest the first time. These have been noted by NITPICKs below.)

Compliments of "Chlamydia is Not a Flower":

1. While endlessly quoted by Bob Costas and other famous sportscasters, what is determined by completion percentage, distance, and attempts, in some strange algebra?
   "Quarterback rating."

2. What was it that led to the Simpsons getting an all-expenses paid trip to a foreign land?
   Bart's prank phone call to Australia.

3. This is the highest mountain on Earth. What?
   Mauna Kea.
   (NITPICK: Manua Kea is the TALLEST mountain in the world; that is, it covers the largest vertical distance when measured from its base. However, since it's mostly under the ocean, it is not the HIGHEST mountain -- that would indeed be Mt. Everest.)

4. What famous painting's Christ figure is missing his feet, as a result of the expansion of a doorway to the chapel?
   Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper."

5. Two Lions stood on the Peloponnesian peninsula as sentinels for the dead King Leonidas, over what battlefield?
   Thermopolyae.

Compliments of "Dead Squirrels Can't Jump":

1. Why are Pringles all shaped the same, while other brands of potato chip have more variation?
   They're made of liquid potato, in a mold.
   (NITPICK: Some say the content is potato flakes.)

2. Which political party advocates Transcendantel Meditation to cure the terrible epidemic of stress hurting America's government?
   The Natural Law Party.

3. After Pat Buchanan compared himself to Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate," whom did Tom Tomorrow caricature as his Mrs. Robinson?
   Ronald Reagan.

4. Stuff this team is drinking RIGHT NOW: list the two words that appear on the front of a bottle of Kahlua.
   "Liquor delicioso."
   (NITPICK: You mean, apart from all the other words on the front of a bottle of Kahlua? Such as, for instance, "Kahlua"? Whoo! The "not the particular correct answer we wanted!" syndrome strikes again.)

5. Name the band whose prolific lead singer has referred to himself as the "Matter-Eater Lad."
   Guided By Voices.

Compliments of "Sage F":

1. What is Cary Grant's only Oscar for?
   Lifetime achievement.

2. Who drove Andre the Giant to school, when he was a child?
   Samuel Beckett.

3. What is Voldemort's real name?
   Tom Marvolo Riddle.

4. Who inspired John Lennon to write "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?
   A painting by his son, Julian.

5. What color can bees not see?
   Red.

Compliments of "The Thirsty Goatblowers":

1. What was the first product to have a barcode?
   Wrigley's gum.

2. In what year did the first Jew graduate from Williams, and what year was it?
   1876; Emmanuel Cohen.

3. In what musical key do most American horns beep?
   F.

4. Who was the only real person to have their head on a Pez dispenser?
   Betsy Ross.
   (NITPICK: This is only true if you don't think Daniel Boone was a real person. For further elucidation, see: http://www.pez.com/pages/collectorsdispensers.html)

5. Who are the only two Presidents whose full names contain all the letters in the word "criminal"?
   William Jefferson Clinton; Richard Milhous Nixon.

Compliments of "Neutered Vampires Who Cheat at Kitten Poker":

1. How did Chicago's AL baseball team first obtain the nickname "Black Sox"?
   Nope, NOT from the 1919 fixed Series; the term first came into use in 1917, when in protest of owner Charles Comiskey's policy of charging players for laundering their uniforms, the players simply stopped turning them in for washing.

2. At the beginning of the very first issue of "The Tick," in what predicament do we find our intrepid hero?
   He's in an insane asylum.

3. According to a 1991 American Library of Congress survey, the Bible was the book which had influenced the most American lives. What book was second?
   "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

4. Melvin Burkhart, a performer known as "the human blockhead," passed away last month. For what was he best known?
   Hammering a nail into his own nose.

5. What were the first words spoken by Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson?
   "You've been to Afghanistan, I perceive?"

Compliments of "Symphony of the Damned":

1. Who wrote the parody of Barrett's Privateers, called "Garnet's Homemade Beer"?
   Ian Robb.
   (NITPICK: With Garnet Rodgers' help, and his beer.)

2. What ski resort will host the 2002 Olympic downhill?
   Snow Basin.

3. Which narrator is first in "The Sound and the Fury"?
   Benjy.

4. Where was astronomer Maria Mitchell born?
   Nantucket.

5. Do juice guys from Nantucket Nectars wear ties to work?
   No.

Compliments of "Please Don't Shoot the Violist":

1. In Tolkien's Middle Earth, who was the brother to Gwahir the Windlord, lord of Eagles?
   Landroval.

2. Who was the only person ever to guest-star on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as themselves?
   Prof. Stephen Hawking.

3. Simpsons Trivia! Who is the Pizza Boy's mother?
   Lunchlady Doris.

4. In the 1986 World Cup, one of the quarter-finals matches ended with the score 2-1. The same player scored both goals for the winning side, and each was remarkable. One of the goals, a brilliant dribbling run between 4 defenders, was chosen as the greatest goal in World Cup history. His other goal, however, may have been more remarkable. Who scored the goals, and describe the other.
   Argentina's Diego Maradona; he punched the goal in with his fist, yet was somehow not penalized. (The infamous "Hand of God" goal.)

5. Which horse ran the Kentucky derby in the SECOND-fastest time, and in what year?
   Sham, in 1973 (the same year as Secretariat). His place time (1:59 3/5) was faster than any other horse's winning time (next-fastest: Northern Dancer at 2:00 1/5).

(NOTE: The above bonus was constructed by asking all teams to submit 8-10 trivia questions. Duck Season then selected 5 questions from each team and compiled them into a single bonus. Thus, for the first time in Trivial battling, a team could inflict direct and specific damage upon its nearest competition. Well, back in the 1970s, teams used to cut each other's phone lines, or break into the phone system and impersonate the running team so they could "award credit" that the true hosts never knew about, and other evil shenanigans. But this was the first above-board method.

Dead Squirrels Can't Jump's name got dropped off the bonus as printed/posted; we've restored it here.

Also, "We Keep Getting Older, But the Girls on Campus All Stay the Same Age" submitted a series of borderline pedophilic trivia (about Britney Spears, Mary Lou Retton, Kitty Pryde and more), which, while it amused them, Duck Season felt it could not include. Not out of any misguided sense of human decency, but because "Getting Older" was a subset of "Neutered Vampires," and they felt it wasn't fair to hand Vampires another 5 guaranteed answers.)