Michael D. "Stew" Stewart

QUESTIONS

1. Name the three Oscar winning films with a city in the title.
2. Which religious group started life as the Millennium Dawnists, and then was called the International Bible Students?
3. Who wrote the following tales?
   a. Billy Bud
   b. Captains Courageous
   c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
4. Which Philosopher said ‘Hell is other people’?
5. If you turn this three digit number 180 degrees it’s a number full of hope; if you turn it 180 degrees again, it’s a number full of despair.

ANSWERS

1. Three Answers:
   Chicago, 
       An American in Paris, 
       Casablanca
2. Jehovah’s Witnesses
3. Three Answers
   a. Herman Melville  
       b. Rudyard Kipling  
       c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Jean Paul Sartre
5. The number of the beast 666 (999 if it turns 180 degrees)

QUESTIONS

1. What sort of establishment is the setting for the movie the China syndrome?
2. In Greek Mythology, what hung from an oak tree in the grove of Ares in Colchis, guarded by a dragon?
3. Which canal links the Red sea to the Mediterranean?
4. Who was the only person to win Nobel prizes for Physics and Chemistry?
5. What does the Roman Numerals MCLXV represent?

ANSWERS

1. Nuclear power plant
2. The Golden Fleece
3. Suez
4. Marie Curie
5. 1165

QUESTIONS

1. Which Rock group performed the score for the 1980 film ‘Flash Gordon’?
2. In which much told legend does a magician sell his soul to the devil?
3. What was the name given to corsairs and pirates operating from out of the North African coast?
4. In which sport did Eddie the Eagle represent Britain in the Winter Olympics?
5. Which month gets its name from the Latin meaning ‘ten’?

ANSWERS

1. Queen
2. Faust
3. Barbary
4. Ski jumping
5. December

What is the only hard part of an octopus’s body?

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Answer: (It’s beak)

1. Which color of blue has been named after a mecca for surfers in Australia?
2. What Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government after it became an anthem for black school children?
3. Chicken is the leading cause of what food born illness?
4. In the movie The Mask what kind of dog was Milo?
5. Can you name the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions whose names contain a cardinal direction?

1. Bondi Blue
2. Another Brick in the Wall
3. Salmonella poisoning
4. A Jack Russell Terrier
5. NORTH-5 Northwestern, Northern Illinois, North Carolina, North Carolina State, North Texas
EAST-2 Eastern Michigan, East Carolina
SOUTH-5 Southern Florida, South Carolina, Southern Mississippi, Southern Methodist, Southern Cal
WEST-4 Northwestern, Western Kentucky, Western Michigan, West Virginia

1. Circles, dots, arcs and other non-representational designs engraved into rock and cave walls are called what?
2. What musical instrument’s sales escalated from 228,000 in 1950 to 2.3 million in 1971?
3. What type of oven will not brown foods?
4. Complete this famous line from Stephan Vincet Benet. “Bury my ….”
5. In which film does Robert De Niro play a homosexual pirate?

1. Petroglyphs
2. The guitar
3. Microwave oven
4. Heart at Wounded Knee
5. Stardust, he plays the role of Captain Shakespeare.

1. What is the sum of Charles, Williams and Henrys that have been King of England?
2. What patriotic song was originally titled “The Defense of Fort McHenry?
3. What vegetable is never sold frozen, canned or cooked? It is only sold fresh.
4. Which actor starred as the Count in the movie Love at First Bite?
5. List the 12 members 1992 Dream Team Roster

1. 2 + 4 + 8 = 14
2. The Star Spangled Banner
3. Lettuce
4. George Hamilton
5. Charles Barkley, Phoenix Suns
Larry Bird, Boston Celtics
Clyde Drexler, Portland Trail Blazers
Patrick Ewing, New York Knicks
Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers
Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
Christian Laettner, Duke University
Karl Malone, Utah Jazz
Chris Mullin, Golden State Warriors
Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls
David Robinson, San Antonio Spurs
John Stockton, Utah Jazz

1. Which hero’s arch enemy is Dr. Robotnik?
2. What 1976 chart-topping song did Barry Manilow sing, but not write?
3. What food was considered the food of the Gods, and was said to bring eternal life to anyone who ate it?
4. In the film The Princess Bride who plays the role of the princess ?
5. Name the 2012 Chicago baseball all-stars

1. Sonic the Hedgehog
2. I Write the Songs
3. Ambrosia
4. Robin Wright
5. White Sox: Paul Konerko, Adam Dunn, Chris Sale, Jake Peavy CUBS: Starlin Castro, Bryan Lahair

1. The Daiquiri cocktail was named after a village on which island country?
2. What nuts are used to make a Satay sauce?
3. What is the minimum number of musicians a band must have to be considered a “big band”?
4. What was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles favorite food?
5. Actress Sharon Stone plays a gunfighter in which western film?

1. Cuba
2. Peanuts
3. Ten
4. Pizza
5. The Quick and the Dead

Which of her signature phrases did TV cooking star Rachael Ray use in naming her child-oriented healthy eating charity?

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ANSWER (Yum-o! Her charity is the Yum-o! Organization.)