Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
I write this morning’s newsletter with deep concern and a heavy heart, for two of our fellow Davisites were found killed in their South Davis home last night, a home just a few doors down from what my wife and I called “The Geneva Park,” a beautiful neighborhood sylvan retreat that we once visited every day with our new daughter. The motives or victims of this crime are not yet known; while the police do their work, all of us should be grateful for the safety of our local family members. We can expect coverage of this unfortunate story from The Davis Enterprise and Davis Patch throughout the day.
It’s Tax Day, National Poetry Month, as well as KDVS fundraiser month (that starts next Monday). Expect a poetry question tonight, this time on a British poet. Here are a few definitions of poetry to put you in a creative mood for this evening:
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~Novalis
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats
“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. ~André Gide
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ~Carl Sandburg
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau
This coming Thursday night at 8 Davisites will get to enjoy a reading by Sacramento Poet Laureate Jeff Knorr. A Sacramento City College professor, Knorr is the author of three collections of poetry: The Third Body, Standing Up to the Day, and Keeper. I saw Knorr read recently at the delightful little bookstore Logos Books, and am pleased to have a chance to introduce him to a larger audience at the John Natsoulas Gallery on Thursday night. You should join us.
Tonight’s Pub Quiz will feature questions about North Carolina, baseball, films that spawn sequels, romances, John Travolta, automobiles, potatoes, The Beatles, Aggies, excitable cells, apples, Pirates, breathlessness, The Today Show, brouhahas, the US military, home-spun anagrams, ballistics, energy security, standing armies, famous characters, Danny DeVito, population drops, jewels, the Mediterranean, big (but not biggest) cities, identifiable insects, presidential inaugurations, justice icons, athletes, de Vere’s Irish Pub, and Shakespeare.
Thanks again to Nat for subbing the Pub Quiz last week. Tonight, I shall lead the fun myself, and I expect a full house. Please plan accordingly.
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
1. Mottos and Slogans. According to the old commercial slogan, “Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.” What candy bar would you choose if you wanted to feel like a nut?
2. Newspaper Headlines – Today’s Obituaries. Annette Funicello and Roger Ebert were the same age when they died, both 17 years younger than Baroness Margaret Thatcher when she died today. How old was Annette Funicello this morning?
3. Food and Drink. What is the shape of the variety of pasta known as farfalle pasta?
4. Sports. David Beckham played the last two years on what LA-based soccer team that is the reigning MLS Cup champion?
5. Medicine. The medical condition “Median Neuropathy at the Wrist” is better known as what?
P.S. The KDVS Fundraiser is coming up. Please set an alarm for April 24 at 5PM, for at that time I will try to raise $1,000 for the station where I have volunteered for the last 13 years. I could use your help!
P.P.S. Happy Picnic Day on Saturday! Be safe!