Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Collective Trivia Quiz: The Undiscovered Country

POSTED ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19th, 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 1,000,000,000th DVD disc rented from a Redbox kiosk? Please be specific.


Good luck to everyone!

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