Quiz Night 2: Electric Boogaloo by AlexanderD

Champion(s):

Mark


Runner(s)-Up:

DoyleE
Oscar Wilde said, "One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead." I should've been the one to get to say that.


Quiz Description

Because the first one went off so well, here's another 12 night questions.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 56 78 99 67 89 99 34 45 34 78 89 89
1 Mark 370 94 15
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2 DoyleE 333 83 15
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3 CutlerA 288 72 15
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4 wheelz 240 61 00
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5 Consigliari 206 50 00
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6 quarterrican 173 38 00
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7 jrwofuga 153 27 00
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8 JonesRW 71 16 15
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9 RaiaB 0 5 00
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Questions:

When NBC premiered its "Nightly News" in 1970, David Brinkley was retained from its predecessor program, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report". Name one of the other two anchors that shared duties with him.

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John Chancellor, Frank McGee

Peter Vincent - a former movie-vampire-turned-horror-movie-host - was played by David Tennant in the 2011 remake of "Fright Night". Who played him in the original?

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Roddy McDowall

What annual WWE event - originally known as "Vengeance" in 2001 - will be held this year on September 25 in Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis? The premise of the event is that all WWE titles are defended.

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Night of Champions

What Whodini song from 1984 features the following lyric?

"So if you wanna live a nice quiet life
Do yourself a favor, don't come out at night."

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Freaks Come Out At Night

From the looks of it, you would think that the title of Mozart's "Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major" would translate into "A little night music". But the more accurate translation from the German would be "A little..." what?

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Serenade

A surprisingly effective way of staving off execution, the 1001 Arabian Nights was told by Scheherazade to her husband (AND father). Name him.

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Shahryar

What Comedy Central panel show begins with the host saying, "It's 11:59 and 59 seconds. This happened on..." followed by some website?

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@midnight

The David Mamet play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" gave rise to a 1986 film and a 2014 remake called... what?

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About Last Night

"Night Shift" is a SoapNet original series that aired for 2 seasons from 2007 to 2008. It was spun off from what daytime serial?

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General Hospital

In the digital TV transition of 2009, what was the rhyming name given to the National Association of Broadcasters looping a feed - in both English and Spanish - on analog TV signals telling viewers who had not yet converted how to do so?

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nightlight service

A style parody of Soul Asylum's "Black Gold" with nods to Greg Lake's "I Believe In Father Christmas", what was the final track on "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bad Hair Day" album?

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The Night Santa Went Crazy

Ronnie Milsap samples "In the Still of the Night" for what 1985 hit that topped the Billboard Hot Country charts and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary charts?

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Lost in the Fifties Tonight