Wednesday, December 28, 2005

See if You Can Beat Tieche at Trivial Pursuit

When you're in the Midwest, and you can't sleep at night, there's not a lot to do to keep busy. Unless you happen to find a 20th Anniversary Edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit and begin quizzing yourself to see how many questions, out of 6, you can get per card.

After about 250 cards, I got all 6 correct on only 2. Two. Out of 250 cards. That's pretty pathetic. Jeopardy I will not be winning anytime soon. With Trivial Pursuit, with hard questions, sometimes you have to make good guesses based on accumulated knowledge. But here are the questions. See if you, like Tieche, can get the answers to all 6.

CARD 1
BLUE: What city's gold-rush-era landfill did Levi Strauss pick as the site for its new headquarters in 1982.
PINK: What cartoon characters are "three apples high"?
YELLOW: What annual awards, given in recognition of folks who enhance the lives of others, were founded by the heir to a ketchup fortune.
BROWN: What literary character is credited with boosting boarding-school enrollment in Britian.
GREEN: What's known as a "donorcycle" in ER's.
ORANGE: What 520-pound wrestler's heart gave out while he was in France to attend his father' funeral.

Card 2
BLUE: What Asian nation's people traditionally ring in the New Year by gorging on banh day and banh chung, traditional rice and pork dishes.
PINK: What fitting name did four-foot-nine Kimberly Jones pick when she launched her rap career?
YELLOW: What four-word-phrase received 6,923 votes in the 1988 U.S. Presidential election?
BROWN: What 1862 French novel did Francois Cesera pen a controversial modern sequel to, angering Victor Hugo's heirs?
GREEN: What musical instrument's 250 stainless steel pipes are played with flaming torches?
ORANGE: What was the 1983 University of Houston hoops squad dubbed, to earn ESPN.com's accolade for best team nickname of all time?

Submit your answers. If I got 6-6 on any others, I'll keep you posted, but don't cross your fingers.

1 Comments:

Blogger Missy said...

Card 1:
blue - san francisco
pink - chip & dale
yellow - heinz awards?
brown -
green - motorcyle
orange - your mom

Card 2:
blue - vietnam
pink - lil kim
yellow - uh, i was 3 in 1988.
brown - les miserables
green - the torch-pipe organ.
orange - wasn't alive in 83...

Good questions. Tough ones for me. My cousin won Jeopardy in 1999 and I beat her at Trivial Pursuit in 2000. Points for that?

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