Questions Round 4 by jsparkyp

Champion(s):

AdamKing


Runner(s)-Up:

Snuffleupagus


Quiz Description

A few weeks ago at our monthly gathering, I gave an evening of questions in five rounds. The third round was the Mystery Catagory (in which the subject was Perfect Game pitchers). This was Round 4.

Full Results:

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1 AdamKing 404 98 00
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2 Snuffleupagus 370 94 00
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3 DoyleE 330 90 25
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4 LuskT 319 87 00
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5 AronPollack 318 83 25
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6 rouquinne 305 79 00
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7 SchefkeB 289 75 00
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8 rwv37 286 72 25
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9 KearnsT 258 68 00
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10 GrahamJ 247 64 00
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11 CoenM 242 61 00
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12 Vintsanity 238 57 25
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13 akambour 220 53 00
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14 SeigelK 214 50 00
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15 DouglasLovesVixey 210 46 00
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16 VenguswamyK 202 40 25
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16 TimL 202 40 00
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18 Tarn 188 35 00
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19 KreitzerJ 183 29 00
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19 GoodmanDL 183 29 00
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21 BringMoreLegos 173 24 00
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22 quarterrican 170 20 00
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23 KPope 159 16 00
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24 DFisher 129 12 00
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25 JonesRW 128 9 00
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26 MilgromM 103 5 00
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27 RichmondJ 44 1 00
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Questions:

Music - What do these songs have in common: “Pressure”, Billy Joel; “Howling for You”, Black Keys, “Rocky Mountain Way”, Joe Walsh; and “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, Meat Loaf?

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Baseball References

Television, The Simpsons – What business is often found to the right of Moe’s Tavern?

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King Toot’s Music Store

Hockey - Between 1980 to 1989, Wayne Gretzky won the Hart Memorial Trophy, the NHL MVP, every year - except for 1988, where it was won by whom?

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Mario Lemieux

Geography – Dahomey is the former name of what present day west African nation?

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Benin

Movies - What actress’s final film role was in 1947’s A Kiss for Corliss, although she lived until 2014?

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Shirley Temple

Defunct Businesses - Radio Shack has recently closed a good many, if not all, of its stores. What was the brand name of their home audio equipment that was begun in the 1950’s until its phasing out in the 1990’s?

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Realistic

Baseball – As of January 1, 2017, there are only three players who were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in the 1970’s who are still alive. Name the three.

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Sandy Koufax (1972), Whitey Ford (1974), Willie Mays (1979)

Rappers - Chris Bridges goes by the what name as a rapper?

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Ludicris

Television – Three cast members of NBC’s Saturday Night Live were also cast members of ABC’s Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, which ran from September 1975 to January 1976. Name any one.

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Bill Murray, Brian-Doyle Murray, Christopher Guest

Geography – What is the capital of French Guyana? It’s also the name of kind of pepper.

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Cayenne