Trick Questions by Hupfen

Champion(s):

VenguswamyK
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Runner(s)-Up:

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Quiz Description

Not questions meant to deceive, just questions around tricks and various things using the term.

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Questions:

"Bullet Catch", "Table of Death", and "Battle of the Barrels" are examples of what specific category of magic trick?

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Stage illusion

The term "hat trick" emerged to describe HH Stephenson's 1858 feat in what sport?

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Cricket

Often used for on-screen death, a primitive version of the "stop trick" - a quick cut to remove or replace an actor in-scene - appears in a film depicting the 1587 execution of what ruler?

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Mary Queen of Scots

A Trick of the Tail is the first album by what group to lack their original drummer, who left for a solo career?

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Genesis

Trick or treat! Who directed the 2007 remake of Halloween?

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Rob Zombie

In nautical terms, a "trick" is a period of time spent doing what on a ship?

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Steering the ship (at the wheel)

What group created the song (remixed by K-Rec) that appeared prominently throughout the video game SSX Tricky?

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Run-DMC

In 1982, street skateboarder Rodney Mullen proved that what trick - a vertical 360 degree board rotation - could, in fact, be done?

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Ollie Impossible

Of Hat Trick Productions' eight current TV shows, two of them appear on American TV stations. One is Episodes, airing on Showtime. What is the other show, its current version airing on The CW?

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Due to Br'er Rabbit and Renard, we consider rabbits and foxes to be trickster animals. Stories of Sang Kancil cause the same reputation for mouse deer to speakers of two related languages of southeast Asia, where kancil means "clever person". Name either language.

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Malay / Indonesian

A literary trope of romantic deception, the "bed trick" appears in two Shakespeare plays, both problem plays. (Similar scenes, not technically bed tricks, also appear in Much Ado About Nothing and The Two Noble Kinsmen.) Name both plays.

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All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure

The classic trick question (which means I'm looking for the factual answer): who was buried in Grant's Tomb?

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Nobody; tombs are above ground