Hole(s) by BruceM

Champion(s):

UllspergerA


Runner(s)-Up:

KitchenB
Flattery will get you everywhere.


Quiz Description

Is there a hole in your trivia knowledge? Let's find out!

Full Results:

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1 UllspergerA 464 98 15
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2 KitchenB 417 96 15
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3 MajewskiK 401 94 15
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4 DoyleE 387 92 15
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5 MoyseyC 377 89 00
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6 Vintsanity 358 87 00
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7 BarthR 351 85 15
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8 VenguswamyK 349 81 15
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8 quarterrican 349 81 15
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10 DreierR 343 78 00
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11 LiptonM 342 76 15
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12 Tortoise 341 73 15
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13 YuC 335 71 00
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14 RJRouge 330 69 15
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15 SizemoreM 327 67 15
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16 casketromance 322 63 15
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16 AnthonyBianca 322 63 15
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18 ElendilPickle 317 60 00
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19 ShapiroA 312 57 15
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20 RabinK 307 55 15
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21 SokolM 286 53 15
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22 LynchT 268 51 15
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23 GrahamJ 260 48 00
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24 Michalle 250 46 15
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25 JudyD 235 44 15
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26 ArunH 231 42 00
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27 DreyfusB 207 38 00
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29 KonkelT 200 35 15
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30 Ren 199 32 15
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31 akambour 196 30 15
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32 DFisher 192 27 15
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32 FauxD 192 27 15
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34 EggCzar 190 23 00
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35 randalleng 183 21 00
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36 BClemens 174 19 15
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37 AmmermanA 163 17 15
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38 MitchellWA 150 14 15
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39 PipkeR 145 12 00
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40 HoH 140 10 00
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41 DouglasLovesVixey 128 7 00
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42 HightB 68 5 00
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43 BIngram 65 3 00
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Questions:

Two answers required.

"Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather [BLANK]
Than give you [BLANK]"

What two words fill in those blanks from the Nine Inch Nails song "Head Like A Hole"?

Click to Reveal Answer
die, control

Please give the first and last name of the unlucky protagonist of Holes, wrongfully convicted of selling shoes.

Click to Reveal Answer
Stanley Yelnats

Either of two answers is acceptable. The troops of Siraj ud-Daulah kept British prisoners of war at Fort William in the so-called Black Hole of Calcutta. Give either Siraj's title (a five-letter word literally meaning "viceroy") or the province that (like Orissa) holders of Siraj's position ruled

(The last [BLANK] of [BLANK] was Mansur Ali Khan, who abdicated and whose son, Hassan Ali Mirza, took a somewhat lesser title named for the town of Murshidabad.)

Click to Reveal Answer
Nawab (of) Bengal

What 2009 Diablo Cody feminist horror movie takes its name from a track on the Hole album Live Through This? This film stars Megan Fox as a cheerleader and Amanda Seyfried as a nerdy teen (who recounts the plot in flashback while confined to a mental asylum).

Click to Reveal Answer
Jennifer's Body

Which German physicist gives his name to the size of the event horizon of a (non-rotating) black hole?

Click to Reveal Answer
Karl Schwarzschild

"Every time that I stare into the sun
Angel dust and my dress just comes undone.",

Which track on the album Live Through This contains that lyric, as well as "If you live through this with me I swear that I would die for you"? (Live Through This has no title track but this is the next best thing.)

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Asking For It

Johnson County, in which U.S. state, contains the Hole-in-the-Wall pass that gave the Hole-in-the-Wall gang of outlaws its name?

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Wyoming

The thinning of ozone over Antarctica (commonly known as the "hole in the ozone layer") led to the signing of a 1987 protocol restricting the use of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), named for which North American city?

(Unrelatedly, the "Great Peace of" [this city] was a treaty signed in 1701.)

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Montreal

An amendment to that 1987 protocol took effect on January 1, 2019, restricting the use of HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons). That amendment is named after what capital of Rwanda?

Click to Reveal Answer
Kigali

The name's the same, A song on Hole's Celebrity Skin asks, "How'd you get so desperate? How'd you stay alive?" An unrelated 2017 Miley Cyrus song refers to a "brand new start" and a "dream come true." Both are named for which California city?

Click to Reveal Answer
Malibu

The soundtrack for The Crow: City of Angels contains Hole's cover of which Fleetwood Mac song? In a 1997 Spin magazine interview, Stevie Nicks confirmed that part of the title of this song is a reference to cocaine.

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Gold Dust Woman

Louis Sachar, author of Holes, also wrote a series of books about what fictitious educational institution with one classroom per floor (but no 19th floor)?

Click to Reveal Answer
Wayside School