Christmas Day Picture of Jukie and his Dad
Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
Facebook makes it easy to review your friends’ holiday traditions. Children seem concerned primarily about the timing and quantity of presents to be opened, while many of the rest of us are more concerned with the timing and attendees of meals and reunions.
I hope your holiday break was filled with joy.
I look forward to welcoming back some VIPs tonight, including the folks who represent us in the Mayor’s office and the California State Senate (both named Wolk). Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature questions on Einstein, the chase, animals, storied franchises, dark protagonists, things made of pewter, yellow foods, the products of two prime numbers, observed rituals in Ireland, films that are aggressively scandalous, books with shared titles, mathematics in 2015, winter on stage, Pamela Anderson, world sports, Russians who sway kinda slinky on the dance floor, games, Italy, the White House, Wilt Chamberlain and what follows, knights, dogs and sports, current events, groups of four, changing fortunes in Europe, and Shakespeare.
This is probably the best time for me to wish you a happy new year. I hope we get to see much of each other in 2015.
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
- Mottos and Slogans. With a Panda as its logo and using a three-letter acronym, what international non-governmental organization with a focus on conservation has used the Christmas slogan “Consuming the earth is consuming our future”?
- Internet Culture. LinkedIn recently published its list of the “hottest skills of 2014,” and you don’t need A GIANT MIND to guess which one came in first. Name the skill.
- Gifts. What gift did Herr Drosselmeyer give to Clara?
- Four for Four. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, borders which of the following countries, if any? China, Mongolia, Russia, Vietnam.
- The New Republic. What is the missing four-letter word from the headline of this article that ran last week in The New Republic? “Stephen Colbert Didn’t Change the World, But We Wouldn’t Have Survived the BLANK Years Without Him.”
P.S. Poetry Night returns on January 15th with Emily Hughes and Lauren Swift.