The Collective Trivia Quiz Does Dallas!

POSTED ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26^th, 2010

First of all, here are last week's Top 3 Finishers:

In THIRD PLACE with 157 points, BILL KIEL!

In SECOND PLACE with 203 points, MALCOLM BONDON!

And in FIRST PLACE with 257 points, TERRY WIEGERT!

Congratulations to the folks on our podium, and thanks to everyone who played!

I'd also like to congratulate the winners of Saturday's Trivia Unplugged contest, Rebel Rousers. They're a conglomeration of the Collective and the nigh-legendary CNOF. A great way to start off the Trivia Season proper! Good job, folks!

And now, the starting line-up for your Milkwaukee Brewers, and The Rules of the Game:

• You can use any resource to find your answers: Google, Wikipedia, books, magazines, crystal balls, bribes ... it's all good to me. Especially the bribes bit.


• Points are scored on a pari-mutuel basis. Each question is worth 100 points, divided by the number of correct answers for that question.
  


• Do not post your answers here to the comment section of this blog! People will steal your answers and laugh at you. EMAIL your answers to me at vigilante407@gmail.com. Please make sure you number your answers correctly to correspond with the questions. Also, please send all your answers together in one email! (Otherwise, only the answers in the first email I get will count.)
  


• You do not have to answer ALL the questions to enter. Feel free to answer as many as you know or just guess. You never know when you'll pull the proverbial flying monkey out yer butt and get it right!
  


• The contest will end in seven days (one week) at 11:59pm on Saturday October 2nd, 2010.
  


• And please remember that only you can prevent Forrest Tucker!
  

And here's this week's quiz:

1. The morning after that lowdown sidewinder Black Pete robbed the Gower Gulch Bank, he calmly sang a song while making breakfast. What song did he sing?
   


2. What was the name of the seedy establishment that was owned by big screen character Henry Gutterman?
   


3. Yogi Bear has a good friend who lives in the very small town of Hobo Corners. What is Yogi's friend's name?
   


4. What is the first and last name of the hoopy frood in the photograph below?
   
   
   

   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   
   



5. What animated character's motto was "hero work done cheap – all credit cards accepted"?
   


6. What is the name of the character represented by the action figure in the photograph below?
   

   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   



7. What did humorist and actor Robert Benchley describe (in a quote from a book) as "the finely pulverized product resulting from the calcination to incipient fusion of an intimate mixture of properly proportioned argillaeceous and calcareous materials and to which no addition greater than 3 percent has been made subsequent to calcination"?
   


8. The Tubes have had a long career in show business. In fact, they once even appeared on a fictional television show broadcast by a fictional television network. What was the name of the song that they performed on that fictional TV show?
   


9. What is the name of the fictional ruler of Celesteville, which was named after the ruler's beloved wife?
   


10. Y'know, I've heard that the lunatic is in my hall, but the picture below is part of a poster for a popular motion picture. What is the title of that film?
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    Good luck to everyone this week! Take care and have fun!
    
    
    
    

The Collective Trivia Quiz: The Undiscovered Country

POSTED ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19^th, 2010

First, here are last week's winners:

In THIRD PLACE with 200 points, TERRY WEIGERT.

And tied for FIRST PLACE with 250 POINTS each, BILL KIEL and KRIS SCHAUT!

Congratulations to everyone on the podium this week!

And now, the regular rigamarole ...

The Rules of the Game:

• You can use any resource to find your answers.
  
• Points are scored on a pari-mutuel basis. Each question being worth 100 points, divided by the number of correct answers for that question.
  
• Do not post your answers here to the comment section of this blog! People will steal your answers and laugh at you. EMAIL your answers to me at vigilante407@gmail.com. Please make sure you number your answers correctly to correspond with the questions. Also, please send all your answers together in one email! Otherwise, only the answers in the first email I get will count.
  
• The contest will end in at 11:59pm on Saturday 25th, 2010, so get your answers in to me before then!
  
• And please remember that only you can prevent Forrest Tucker!
  

And here's this week's quiz:

1. When television character Dennis Mitchell entered a soap box derby, he got help building his racer from his father and his next-door neighbor. What brand of soap was originally contained in the crates that they used to build the racer?
   
   

   
   

   
   

2. What are the names of the two adorable little characters in the picture below?
   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

3. This actor portrayed villains on the big screen who bedeviled two heroes that were featured in Action Comics, led the military forces investigating grave robbers from outer space, and starred in a film serial featuring the son of a master detective (as the movie studio couldn't afford to buy the rights for the father character). What is the first and last name of this actor?
   
   

   
   

   
   

4. When Barney Fife first auditioned for the Ladies' League Musicale, what song did he tell Andy and Rafe he performed?
   
   

   
   

   
   

5. What were the names of the twin sisters who were known as the Gypsies of the Air?
   
   

   
   

   
   

6. According to a popular 80's music video, what performer eventually became the host of a game show called "The $20 Million Jackpot"?
   
   

   
   

   
   

7. What is the name of the big blue fellow who's giving Ol' Shellhead a hard time in the following picture?
   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

8. What brand of cookware was noted for having Copper Coats and Perma-Loc Teflon?
   
   

   
   

   
   

9. It was election time on the radio back in 1939. Who did "Human Chatterbox" Arlene Harris say that both her kid and her husband wanted to vote for in the House election?
   
   

   
   

   
   

10. What movie was the 1,000,000,000^th DVD disc rented from a Redbox kiosk? Please be specific.
    

Good luck to everyone!

The Collective Trivia Quiz and the Monster from Hell!

Posted Sunday September 5th, 2010

PLEASE NOTE:

BECAUSE I HADN'T REALIZED THERE WAS A TRIVIA CONTEST THIS FRIDAY TO SATURDAY NIGHTS, THE COLLECTIVE TRIVIA QUIZ WILL BE EXTENDED AN EXTRA WEEK. YOU HAVE UNTIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH TO GET YOUR ANSWERS IN!

Good Luck!

The Rules of the Game:

• You can use any resource to find your answers. I seem to remember they used to have these things called “books”, but I might have them confused with Victrolas.

• Points are scored on a pari-mutuel basis. Each question is worth 100 points, divided by the number of correct answers for that question.

• Do not post your answers here to the comment section of this blog! People will steal your answers (and more than likely laugh at you; I know I will). EMAIL your answers to me at vigilante407@gmail.com. Please make sure you number your answers correctly to correspond with the questions. Also, please send all your answers together in one email! Otherwise, only the answers in the first email I get will count.

• The contest will end in seven days (one week) at 11:59pm on Saturday, September 18th, 2010.

• And please remember that only you can prevent Forrest Tucker!

And here’s this week’s quiz:

1. What was the name of the prehistoric comic strip character that was best known for writing poetry and having an irrational fear of water?

2. What was the name of the spaceship flown by Chris Conway, Rocket Ranger?

3. What is the name of the following song? To listen to it, please right click on the link below and choose “Save as …” and play the song in the mp3 player of your choice.

Right Click and “Save As” to download and play the Mystery Song

4. What company uses the somewhat suggestive logo printed below on some of its products?

5. This classic 80’s video follows the adventures of the lead singer of the band on the way to a concert. Instead of riding inside the car with the others, the singer is made to travel in a crate in the trunk. Soon after they start off for that night’s venue, the crate falls out of the trunk. It is hit by a car, lands on a skateboard, splashes in a pool, and lands on a teeter-totter before, miraculously, the crate crashes through the ceiling of the concert hall. The band itself has a cult status and was known for all the members adopting the same last name. What is the name of this rock video?

6. The menace in this movie is as big as a battleship, flies four times the speed of sound and can’t be hurt by atomic weapons. According to the poster for this movie, from what year does this winged monster come from? Naturally, this particular blurb had pretty much nothing to with the actual film.

7. I’m sure most folks have read at least a couple Little Golden Books when they were kids. I know I remember the first one I ever read (which, incidentally, was the first book I ever read) because it was based on one of my first favorite TV shows. After Jonathan Zero and Loonie (his pet Lazoon) helped get the ship they were passengers on off Venus (and getting bags of precious stones to be used to set up a Space School for Earth boys and girls), a big parade was held in their honor. What was the name of the cookie treat that Jonathan and Zoonie munched on while they sat atop the spaceship that led the parade?

8. What motion picture is featured in the screen shot below?

9. What was the first and last name of the fictional character who was known, among many things, for having fists the size of hams and the propensity for breaking out panels of the stoutest wooden doors with those fists?

10. The picture below is an example of the artwork of what legendary cartoonist? Please give his first and last name.