Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Collective Trivia Quiz Does Dallas!



POSTED ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26th, 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!
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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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Sunday, September 5, 2010

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.


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.



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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Abbott and Costello Meet the Collective Trivia Quiz

Posted Sunday August 22, 2010


The Rules of the Game:

And here we go with this week's quiz:

  1. This radio show had a character that was touted as being able to rip a crocodile's jaws apart or break the back of an anthropoid ape. What was the name of this radio show?


  2. This fictional character was known for his brutality and his marksmanship. His very presence caused men to get out of his way and made women seclude themselves. His final, famous battle was noted for two gunshots. What is the first and last name of this fictional character?


  3. What is the name of the animated series in which you would find the characters pictured below?







  4. What is the name of the fictional television series that was canceled after four episodes when the host planned to modernize the garage of homeowner Don Lee (using a backhoe and forty pounds of TNT)?


  5. In what motion picture would you find a character who claimed "I saw two men carrying no man!"?


  6. "Hot Stuff" and "Bummers" were regular features of what magazine?


  7. What was the name of the product, which when introduced in the late 1880's, featured a label that offered a $500 reward for anyone who could provide evidence of any impurity or alteration in the product?


  8. What is the name of the performing group shown in the photograph below?







  9. According to a poster, what motion picture did NASA claim could set the space program back by at least fifty years?


  10. The cover of this classic album features a spindly man in a room that is empty save for a hanging light and the window he is looking out of. A different reflection peers back in the window and a neon sign reading "The Dark" can be seen, along with a crescent moon. What is the title of this album?

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Collective Trivia Quiz II: Electric Boogaloo

Posted Sunday August 15, 2010




The Rules of the Game:



And here's this week's quiz:




  1. What is the name of the big screen character that avowed "I'll run on this river if I'm the only passenger on the boat!" Please be complete and give the character's full name, not his nickname.

  2. Guests say a lot of odd things on The Tonight Show. (You know, the real one with Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson or Conan O'Brien?) In fact, one guest once told Johnny that he was going to be promoting unsportsmanlike conduct for kids in Craters of the Moon, Idaho. What was the first and last name of that guest?

  3. What are the first and last names of the two men featured in the photograph below? Please give their character names, not their actual names. Two unknown guys hanging out with a lady


  4. This fictional super-hero is probably the only one who came into existence because he was a little clumsy and dropped a screwdriver at a very inopportune moment. He was able to retrieve it but wasn't able to get out of the Atlas rocket he was working on before it was launched. After a near-death experience, what was the codename adopted by this fictional super-hero?



  5. Thomas Kinkade is probably the modern master of tacky Christmas ornamentation. His "The True Meaning of Christmas" Narrative Santa Figurine is no exception. Along with recording the narrative that plays with the statuette, he even includes a recreation of one of his own paintings in the piece, hanging on the wall above the fireplace. The fireplace also has a stocking hanging above it as well. What name is on that stocking? Please be complete.



  6. Back in the late seventies, Fan Club Corporation of America had a sweet deal: If you joined the Official Hardy Boys Fan Club AND the Official Nancy Drew Fan Club, you got a free door banner for your room! What a bargain! If you were to have joined both clubs, how much would it have cost to pay for a year's membership?

  7. Leapin' Lizards, Sandy! The still below is from a cliffhanger chapter play of the forties. What is the complete title of that movie serial?

    It's a movie, I think
  8. What were the last number one single of the seventies on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first number one single of the eighties on the Billboard Hot 100? Please be complete.

  9. What is the name of the friendly, gun-toting character who promoted ecological awareness with the motto "Give a larbage, throw out your garbage"? As always, please be complete.


  10. The photograph below shows a section of the play area of a classic TV-themed board game. What is the complete name of that board game?


Some board game




As always, good luck to everyone, and keep 'em flying!










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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

2010: A Collective Trivia Quiz Odyssey

Well, well. It’s been a few months now since the Big Show. WWSP’s The World’s Largest Trivia Contest has come and gone, we kinda rocked this year, and by now you should all be trivially rested by now. I think it’s time for a new quiz to make sure everyone’s still got their heads on straight and thinking about the important things in life: Namely, trivia.


We’ve got a couple of little changes for this quiz. First of all, you’ll notice we have fifteen questions instead of ten, so it’s a little bit longer. Secondly, instead of being a weekly quiz, this is going to be one that lasts a whole fortnight. That’s right, you have two weeks ... a mere fourteen (count ‘em, 14) days to finish this one. (Yeah, I know, actually you have about seventeen days with this one. I just decided to start it today after finishing the last question. So sue me.) And lastly, there’s going to be a prize for the winner. Yep, an honest-to-bogey physical prize for the winner. Whoever comes in first place for this quiz will get a DVD crammed full of cool movies. Well, at least I think they’re cool. The disc will be playable on your home computer or any Divx-compatible stand-alone DVD players. So now you at least got a little something to fight over.


And now, please stand for the National Anthem, and the Rules of the Game:

  • You can use any source for your answers: Wikipedia, Google, notes, DVDs, your memory, your grandpa’s memory … anything goes. You can even use those archaic things I think they called “books” back in the day.

  • Points are scored on a parimutuel 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.

  • The contest will end at 11:59pm on Friday, August 13, 2010. So get your answers to me by then.


  • And, of course, only you can prevent Forrest Tucker!

And awaaaay we go!


1. This classic album cover features the artist standing in front of the French doors of a studio. There are several dancers stretching and preparing for a dance class in the same room with him. What is the title of this classic rock album?



2. Only a true Bronco fan would wear that hat. What is the full name of the person in the photograph below?



3. What comic book magazine would you be reading if you were following the adventures of a character nicknamed “the screwball o’ the hills”?



4. Perfect Tommy is, well, decidedly less-than-perfect in some ways. What was the name of the media personality that he initially believed Emilio Lizardo used to be?



5. In print advertising that challenged the consumer, a particular example of this product was advertised as having many features, including universal joint, two-speed adjustable transmission, shock absorber, rack and pinion steering system and crown gear turns rear axle. What was the name of this product? Please be specific.



6. What is the complete name of the motion picture in which you would find the following scene?



7. The only way to positively identify this animated character from the character’s evil twin is the fact that the evil twin sat on a waffle iron as a child. What is the name of this animated character?




8. The “firepower engine” was touted as the sensation of the year it debuted. What were the names of the two radio personalities who once touted the virtues of the firepower engine while eating moo goo gai pan and butterfly shrimp during the broadcast?




9. What television show features the following scene in its opening credit sequence?




10. The front cover of this legendary album features three photographs of the same man. Two images of the man are struggling in a tug of war, one being in a small waterway and the other in a chair in a fairly featureless room. The third has come out of his photograph and is watching the conflict. What is the complete title of this classic record album?




11. This fictional character was the coach of an informal athletic team. He once went down to his neighbor’s apartment to borrow an apple to give to his team captain for hitting a home run. He had run out of apples upstairs and also took two for himself, claiming he had hit a couple of home runs as well. His neighbor’s husband also had tickets to a theatrical production that had a title that had a baseball connotation. The character almost didn’t take the ticket he was offered, as he had been planning to watch a popular children’s show of the day. What was the first and last name of this fictional character?




12. Among the many roles taken by this versatile actor was one in which he was the special guest star on the premiere episode of a television show. In that role, his character was thrown out of a car and stabbed to death, practically before the show started. What was the first and last name of this actor?




13. What is rank and name of the valiant aviator pictured below?




14. This classic low-budget film begins at 2:45 AM, which was about two hours before an important event that occurred in Desert Rock, Nevada. What was the title of this movie?



15. This fictional character looks as though he is always wearing a tie and is a real go-getter in business. He has a great relationship with the women in the secretarial pool at the advertising agency where he works, who seem to just know he is going places. This character also single-handedly invented an important time-keeping device, which enraged people so much he was forced him to flee into the wilderness. What is the first and last name of this fictional character?



Good luck to everyone, and see you in two weeks!. And remember, many Bothan spies died to bring you this trivia quiz.



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Monday, February 15, 2010

The Collective Trivia Quiz #5 for 2010

This week's quiz has been guest-written by Gary Renard, with his own themed questions!

The Rules of the Game:

  1. You can use whatever source material you would like to for finding the answers: Google, Wikipedia, your own notes, books, or most anything else. Even your little gray cells.
  2. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS TO THE COMMENT SECTION OF THIS BLOG! Email them to vigilante407@gmail.com. Make sure you include your name with your answers so I know who you are and you can get your share of those big trivia points.
  3. Answers are due in by Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 (11:59pm) Eastern Standard Time, or by the time I check my email on Wednesday morning.
  4. The game is scored on a pari-mutuel system, like the WWSP 90FM contest. Each question is worth 100 points, divided by the number of people who get it right. If you're the only one to get the answer, you get the whole 100 points for yourself. If five people get it right, the point value is down to 20 points.
  5. After the quiz is over, you will receive an email with the correct answers, point values and final standings. You can also usually see the final standings on Facebook, posted on my profile.
  6. Have fun with this! Don't be discouraged if you can't find every answer. Remember, we're doing this to keep in practice for the Big Show – the 54-hour long contest held by WWSP 90FM. Hopefully it will also sharpen your research skills for many a trivia contest out there as well.
  7. And as always, remember ... only you can prevent Forrest Tucker.


And now, faster than you can say "Jack Robinson" … this week's quiz!


  1. What happened on October 9th, 1890 to cause Jabez Wilson great consternation?


  2. Who is the rather dastardly fellow in the photograph below?


    Who am I?


  3. Victoria Grant was down on her luck, stuck in France with no money and no prospects. She was behind on her rent and offered to sleep with her landlord, for a price. What did she ask for?


  4. This twenty-four-year-old played a bit of right field for the New York Yankees a year before they signed Babe Ruth. Who is this Hall of Famer?


  5. Flight Lieutenant Peter Marlowe was captured by the Japanese during World War II and placed in a prison camp. What is the name of the real Singapore prison camp that was placed in this fictional story?


  6. One famous director wanted Edward G. Robinson for this role, but the film was given to another director. One studio head insisted on Danny Thomas but was talked out of it. The director who got the job initially wanted Sir Laurence Olivier, but he was too ill to take the job. He then got his second choice. What was the role?


  7. I threw this photo in because this is who my wife and I saw a couple of Saturday nights ago at a comedy show. Name this performer, shown during their successful Broadway debut in "Hairspray").



    Who am I?

  8. San Marino will issue postage stamps to commemorate almost anything. This fictional character, portrayed on radio, TV and movies, was honored on a 150-Lira stamp issued introduced July 12, 1979. Who is this character?


  9. He was arrested for a minor crime and cracked so many one-liners on his way to jail that the arresting officers thought he should be on stage. There were two things that really hurt his chances: His name and a medical condition that wouldn't go well with stand-up comedy. What was his name and what condition did this small-screen character have?


  10. Glenn Allison was the first bowler to ever throw a 900 series for three games in sanctioned league play. What type of ball did he use? Please give the brand name and model.


Thanks to Gary for another great quiz, and good luck to everyone playing this week!
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