8.29 trivia

TriviaAugust 29, 2011

Rules16 Questions with 4 Categories

Random, Sports, Music and Movies

4 Questions per Category

The last question in each category will be worth 2 points. All other questions will be worth 1 point

There will be a Final Question in which you can wager up to 10 points

Rules Grab a stack of paper and a pen from the bar.

Turn your team’s answer into the pitcher on the bar.

Choose a team name. Right your team name on EACH answer you turn in. If there’s no team name, you get no points.

I will read the question then play a song. You will have until the end of the song to get your answers into the pitcher. If your team doesn’t have a response when I collect them, sorry, your team is too slow and you get no points.

If a question requires a name, you must provide a first AND last name.

Spelling does NOT count

NO cell phones, computers, iTouches, etc.

Round 1: Random Trivia

Question 1What planet is the Earth closest in size to?

AnswerVenus

Question 2What is the longest running TV comedy of all time?

AnswerThe Simpsons

Question 3What is the slowest fish?

AnswerA Sea Horse

Question 4Not counting vowels, what is the most frequently

used letter in the English language?

AnswerT

Round 2: Sports

Question 5Who is the youngest winner of the Daytona 500

and how old was he when he won?

AnswerTrevor Bayne, 20 years old

Question 6What major league soccer team does David

Beckham currently play for? (city and team name)

AnswerLos Angeles Galaxy

Question 7The 2003 National Championship for college

football was shared between the USC Trojans and which team from the SEC?

AnswerLSU

Question 8What position did Hank Aaron primarily play?

AnswerRight Field

Round 3: Music

Question 9Beyonce Knowles was a member of what band

before she started her solo career?

AnswerDensity's Child

Question 10True or False: N*SYNC performed the track

"Somewhere, Someday" for the soundtrack of Pokémon: The First Movie.

AnswerTrue

Question 11 What was Aerosmith’s first #1 hit?

AnswerI Don’t Want to Miss a Thing

Question 12Who holds the title of Guinness World Records’

most successful female recording artist of all time?

AnswerMadonna

Round 4: Movies

Question 13In the movie, Little Miss Sunshine, what state does

the Hoover family call home?

AnswerNew Mexico

Question 14What was the highest grossing film of 2009,

making $2,471,000,000?

AnswerAvatar

Question 15How many names of the Disney’s Seven Dwarfs

end in “y”?

AnswerFive (Happy, Dopey, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy)

Question 16Who played the voice of Dory in “Finding Nemo?”

AnswerEllen Degeneres

FINAL QUESTIONList these continents in order from largest to

smallest based on land mass:

Africa

South America

Antarctica

North America

AnswerAfrica (30,065,000 km2)

North America (24,256,000)

South America (17,819,000)

Antarctica (13,209,000)