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THERE IS NO CHANGE TO TRIVIA THIS WEEK! COME ONE, COME ALL Tuesday: Who Wants to be a Belgianaire? Weekly Trivia Contest. Winner gets a six pack of Abbeys and Trappists. Top two teams compete at end of Summer to win a trip to Belgium! Up to four members per team. STARTS AT 8:30 PM EVERY TUESDAY in The Lowrider.
Thursday: Live Music (New Blue), 10:00 PM, No Cover
HAPPY HOURS: M-F 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM: $2 off all Drafts, Double Strength Well Drinks - $5
Monday: Tango with Annatina. Learn to Tango in The Gallery, $10 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM and FREE DANCING from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Tuesday: Who Wants to be a Belgianaire? Weekly Trivia Contest. Winner gets a six pack of Abbeys and Trappists. Top two teams compete at end of Summer to win a trip to Belgium! Up to four members per team. STARTS AT 8:30 PM EVERY TUESDAY in The Lowrider
Thursday: Live Music (New Blue), 10:00 PM, No Cover
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Saturday: reBar Welcomes the MTA Crowd for another old school hip hop late night at reBar (gets going around midnight - there is a cover)
HAPPY HOURS: M-F 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM: $2 off all Drafts, Double Strength Well Drinks - $5
Monday: Tango with Annatina. Learn to Tango in The Gallery, $10 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM and FREE DANCING from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Tuesday: Who Wants to be a Belgianaire? Weekly Trivia Contest. Winner gets a six pack of Abbeys and Trappists. Top two teams compete at end of Summer to win a trip to Belgium! Up to four members per team. STARTS AT 8:30 PM EVERY TUESDAY in The Lowrider
RESULTS POSTED BELOW
Thursday: Live Music (Blues), 10:00 PM, No Cover
Friday: MC Extra Cheese and DJ Nappy G. No Cover. 11:00 PM.
Saturday: Funky Sugar: DJs Thomas D and Mickey Dulanto offer the best of US/UK Funky Soulful House. 10:00 PM, No Cover.
Shephard’s Bush was near perfect - they’re moving up in the world.
Standings, After 8 Weeks:
Team Rebel Alliance (nee Awesome): 1st Place, 4 Wins
Team Shephards Bush: 2nd Place 2 Wins
Team Witcheads: 3rd Place (Tie), 1 Win
Team Vinegar Hill: 3rd Place (Tie), 1 Win
Food/Drink – Fad Diets/Diet Drugs
1) Created by cardiologist Dr Arthur Agatston based at
2) It would have been ironic if he died of liver or heart disease, but instead, this creator of his eponymous diet slipped on ice and cracked his head open, slipped into a coma, and eventually died of kidney failure.
3) Created by Dr. Barry Sears, this diet requires 40% carbs, 30% fat, 30% protein at every meal. It is one of the most popular fad diets.
4) This diet’s spokespeople include Valerie Bertinelli, Kirstie Alley, and Queen Latifah.
5) This fad diet’s motto “A shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, then a sensible dinner”
6) A powerful stimulant similar to amphetamines, this drug has been included in many weight loss pills, despite the significant risks of overdose and heart attack, especially when combined with caffeine.
7) These two drugs have been on the market since the 1970s, but were only prescribed in combination for weight loss purposes in the 1990s. Because of cases linking the drug combination to pulmonary hypertension, the drug combination was pulled off the market for further research. The combination of the two drugs is colloquially known as:
‘8) This diet requires the consumption of a specific piece of citrus fruit at every meal.
9) When all else fails, many people have turned to this type of surgery, creating a new stomach from the top of the old one, and connecting this directly to the middle section of the intestines.
10) ( 2 Points) Daughter of 60s pop icon Brian Wilson, she famously underwent the procedure in question 9 live on the internet, and subsequently lost half of her body weight.
General Knowledge – Space Programs
11) The acronym NASA stands for:
12) What is the furthest destination for human spaceflight to date?
13) In 1957 the launch of this first Russian satellite threw the entire American military and scientific community into chaos
14) Travel to distant galaxies in search of other life in the universe is theoretically difficult, because the maximum speed attainable for any object is the speed of what in a vacuum?
15) This
16) This NASA program, from 1963 to 1972, was designed to land humans on the moon and bring them back safely. Six of the missions, numbers 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17, were successful.
17) Continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000, this joint venture orbits the earth at an altitude of 350 km, and completes 15.77 orbits per day.
18) Originally dubbed Mariner 11 and Mariner 12, these missions, later numbered “1” and “2” were launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn, were able to continue their trek into the outer solar system
19) This telescope was launched into orbit in April, 1990.
20) (2 points) Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space and back. It happened on the 12th of April of what year?
Worldwide – Currency
21) Although the official currency of the European Union is the Euro, this EU country chooses to use its traditional Kroner instead
22) Prior to currency, this exchange of goods and services served humankind since the first recorded history.
23) In 1971, what
24) Coins in
25) The prices at which currencies can be sold for one another are called:
26) The official currency of
27) In
28) Wonga, Sovs, and Bob are all modern slang terms for what Country’s currency?
29) Gold Coins issued by the Government of South Africa are called this.
30) ( 2 Points) Money backed only by the credibility and taxing power of the government that issues it is called _______ currency. It’s also the name of an Italian Automobile manufacturer.
Pop Culture – Japanese Toys
31) Released by Hasbro in the
32) These action figures were released to the
33) The currently popular toys are part of Nintendo’s second most successful video-game based media franchise in the world, behind Mario Brothers. Their name is a Romanization of the words “Pocket Monsters”
34) Before Sony and Microsoft entered the market, this game console manufacturer held the number two ranking worldwide behind Nintendo throughout the 1980s. By 2001 they were moving out of the console business and into the software business almost exclusively, beaten by their rivals
35) These gaming devices, traditionally strictly manual in nature, can be found in gaming parlors throughout
36) Originally aimed at the pre-adolescent female market, this Sanrio brand now adorns products for all ages, and has become so popular in
37) The Nintendo Gameboy, released in 1989, was originally bundled with this maddeningly addictive Russian Puzzle Game
38) Sony’s Handheld gaming device is known as the PSP. What does the acronym stand for?
39) Many Japanese toys are related to Japanese cartoons. These can be found on the Disney Channel, the Sci-Fi channel, and this adult-oriented television network sharing channel space with the Cartoon, Network, late nights.
40) (2 Points) This Handheld Virtual Pet was released in the
Grab Bag – Dead or Alive
41) Star of Ben-Hur
42) Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer
43) Star of Spartacus, Father to Michael
44)
45) Bob Newhart
46) Son of The Godfather, Christian
47) Robert Goulet
48) Stacey Keach, star of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
49) Jackie Mason
50) Carl Sagan
1)
2) Atkins
3) Zone Diet
4) Jenny Craig
5) Slimfast
6) Ephedrine
7) Phen-Fen
‘8) Grapefruit Diet
9) Gastric Bypass Surgery
10) Carnie Wilson
11) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
12) The Moon
13) Sputnik
14) Light
15) John Glenn
16) Apollo
17) ISS
18) Voyager
19) Hubble
20) 1961
21)
22) Barter
23) Nixon
24) Rope
25) Exchange Rates
26) Ruble
27) Weight
28)
29) Kruggarands
30) Fiat
31) Transformers
32) Power Rangers
33) Pokemon
34) Sega
35) Pachinko
36) Hello Kitty
37) Tetris
38) Play Station Portable
39) Adult Swim
40) Tamogotchi
41) Dead
42) Dead
43) Alive
44) Alive
45) Alive
46) Dead
47) Dead
48) Alive
49) Alive
50) Dead
VINDICATION!
Team Rebel Alliance stormed back to another win after last week’s setback. Kudos to them for rallying the troops, so to speak.
Team Rebel Alliance (nee Awesome): 1st Place, 5 Wins
Team Witcheads: 2nd Place (Tie), 1 Win
Team Vinegar Hill: 2nd Place (Tie), 1 Win
Team Shephards Bush: 2nd Place (Tie) 1 Win
Food/Drink – Poisons, Bacteria, Viruses and Disease
1) These fish, considered an Asian delicacy, are poisonous if prepared incorrectly as the organs contain tetrotoxin
2) In September and October, 2006, there was a multi-state outbreak of infection from this bacteria, found, in this case, in tainted spinach
3) This disease, colloquially known as Mad Cow Disease, can be passed to humans if infected cattle are slaughtered and eaten by humans.
4) Montezumas Revenge, a reference to Aztec ruler Moctezum II, is the colloquial term for any form of travelers diarrhea, contracted while traveling in what country
5) This bacterial infection is most often caused by the consumption of undercooked turkey or chicken, or undercooked eggs.
6) Occuring most commonly in conditions of poor sanitation, crowding, war, and famine, this bacterial infection of the small intestine results most often from drinking contaminated water, and it’s endemic areas include India, Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean.
7) Toxic to dogs in high levels because their inability to efficiently break down Theobromines, we humans consume it regularly, as it causes a pleasure response in our brains greater than the response from kissing.
‘8) This nut, native to northeastern
9) Harmful Algal bloom, an event in which marine or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in a water column, can kill marine animals and sicken humans who eat seafood contaminated with the algae, especially mollusks. It’s commonly called Red what?
10) 90% of all food allergens fall into this list of top eight: Milk, Eggs, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Fish, Shellfish, Soy, and this grain.
General Knowledge – Greek Mythology
11) This Olympian God is a Son of Zeus and Leto. One of his more important jobs is to harness his chariot to four horses and drive the sun across the sky.
12) This wife of Zeus, she is the supreme goddess, and goddess of marriage and childbirth
13) Goddess of Wisdom, she sprang forth fully grown and in a full suit of armor from her father Zeus’ forehead.
14) God of war, his roman planet is Mars
15) Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was abducted by what brother of Zeus and forced to spend six months of each year in the underwold.
16) Guarding the gates of the underworld, this three headed dog was wrangled by Hercules as his final task.
17) For giving fire to humans, and for tricking Zeus into eating the worst parts of sacrifices, Prometheus was punished, chained to a rock and forced to have his what devoured for all eternity by an eagle? That is, of course, until Hercules rescued him.
18) Daughters of Zeus, there are nine of them, including Clio, Urania, Thalia, Calliope and Erato.
19) They are the daughters of Atlas seven in number: Electra, Maia, Taygete, Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, and Sterope. They were always persued by Orion but, they always fled him successfully. Zeus took pity on them and placed them in heaven as stars, to keep them out of Orion’s reach.
20) They are three in number and predate even the gods – Clotho the spinner, Lachesis, the measurer, and Atropos, the shearer of the thread.
Worldwide – Recreational Drugs
21) This production of Heroin from Poppies fell off dramatically during whose rule of
22) What US Organization has been accused of selling drugs in the
23) Peyote, a cactus found primarily in the
24) Tending to cause overwhelming feelings of euphoria, this semisynthetic member of the phenethylamine class of psychoactive drugs has been used in clinical settings to treat post traumatic stress disorder.
25) Some Robitussin medicines are used in high doses to produce a disassociative effect, due to the presence of what drug in the medicine
26) This strong alcoholic liqueur is made from an extract of herbs, including wormwood, and is green in color due to the presence of chlorophyll.
27) This potent form of cannabis is obtained by eliminating the plant material and collecting the trichomes from the flower tops of the female cannabis plant, and then pressing them into a cohesive mash
28) One of the most extensive Opium producing areas in the world, this 350k sq kilometer area overlaps
29) (2 points) The head of the office of national drug control policy is nicknamed The Drug Czar, and this current chief recently referred to marijuana growers as “violent criminal terrorists”. He has held the office since December 7, 2001.
30) This Yemeni leaf is chewed, producing an effect similar to a mild amphetamine.
Pop Culture – Celebrity Spokespeople
31) William Shatner, never afraid to make fun of himself, pitches for this online travel reservation site.
32) Kirstie Alley pokes fun at herself by pimping what diet plan?
33) Quaker oats continues to develop its wholesome
34) From Michael Jackson to Michael J Fox, from Brittney Spears to Madonna, this Beverage Giant has used them all.
35) There’s been a long list of gorgeous women representing cosmetics giant lancome before Kate Winslet, notably, for years, this “Cousins” star.
36) This desperate housewives star is being sued for 2.4 million over lipgloss – for violating the terms of her contract with Hydroderm by also pitching Citylips
37) Nike and Reebok both pulled endorsement deals after .Altanta Falcon’s QB Michael Vick’s Federal Indictment for what crime?
38) Named by People Magazine as the 2007 Most Beautiful Person, she’s was named as a celebrity spokes model for covergirl in April, 2007
39) For years WKRP in
40) Even diseases have spokespeople! A few years ago, Dorothy Hamill emerged as one of the most effective celebrity spokespersons, with her trustworthiness and likability translating into robust sales for this prescription drug. Too bad is was withdrawn from the market shortly thereafter after clinical trials confirmed an increased risk of heart disease and strokes. Whoops!
Grab Bag – 1 or 0
41) The number of subway lines that service red hook, Brooklyn
42) Any number raised to the power of 0
43) The number of times John Adams was re-elected
44) Baseball players with more career home runs than Hank Aaron
45) Number of Plays Shakespeare wrote after The Tempest
46) Skyscrapers taller than the UAE’s Burj Dubai
47) The acceleration, in meters/second/second, of an object traveling in a straight line with constant velocity
48) The number of times Elizabeth I of
49) The square root of 1
50) Number of people who have eaten more hot dogs in 12 minutes than Takeru Kobayashi
1) Pufferfish
2) E. Coli
3) BSE
4)
5) Salmonella
6) Cholera
7) Chocolate
‘8) Cashew
9) Red Tide
10) Wheat
11) Apollo
12) Hera
13) Athena
14) Ares
15) Hades
16) Cerberus
17) Liver
18) The Muses
19) The Pleiades
20) The Fates
21) The Taliban
22) CIA
23) Mescaline
24) MDMA
25) Dextromorphan
26) Absinthe
27) Hashish
28) Golden Triangle
29) John Walters
30) Khat
31) Priceline.com
32) Jenny Craig
33) Willford Brimley
34) Pepsi
35) Isabella Rossellini
36) Teri Hatcher
37) Dog Fighting
38) Drew Barrymore
39) Maytag
40) Vioxx
41) 0
42) 1
43) 0
44) 1
45) 0
46) 0
47) 0
48) 0
49) 1
50) 1
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Monday: Tango with Annatina. Learn to Tango in The Gallery, $10 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM and FREE DANCING from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Tuesday: Who Wants to be a Belgianaire? Weekly Trivia Contest. Winner gets a six pack of Abbeys and Trappists. Top two teams compete at end of Summer to win a trip to Belgium! Up to four members per team. STARTS AT 8:30 PM EVERY TUESDAY in The Lowrider. Topics this week: Celebrity Spokespeople, Greek Mythology, Recreational Drugs, Poisons Bacteria Viruses and Disease and the Grab Bag category: 1s and 0s
Thursday: New Blue - Classic Blues, 10:00 PM, No Cover
Friday: Crooked Spine Presents OUTPUT: 8:00 PM, NO COVER
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It looks like a few more people want to be Belgianaires! In a nice twist, I walked into a room packed with trivia officianados, and we played a hotly contested round. “Shephard’s Bush” swept three categories cleanly, and romped to a two point win over game “I F*cked Your Mom” and contenders “Brelentines” were a mere 3 points further behind. “Team Awesome”, holders of an impressive 4 wins to date, have renamed themselves “Rebel Alliance” (In response to the dark forces now at play in the room?) , and “Witcheads”, previous winners as well, showed gamely, but newcomer “Umberto Echo Chamber” stunned with a fourth place showing despite only one team member. Bravo. Team “Cecelia and Mike” rounded out the crowded room.
Standings, After 7 Weeks:
Team Rebel Alliance (nee Awesome): 1st Place, 4 Wins
Team Witcheads: 2nd Place (Tie), 1 Win
Team Vinegar Hill: 2nd Place (Tie), 1 Win
Team Shephards Bush: 2nd Place (Tie) 1 Win
Food/Drink – Being Green
1) Vegetarian diets consist mainly of plant foods. A diet consisting of no products derived from animals at all (including honey, because it comes from the labor of bees) is called:
2) A Pesco-Vegetarian eats plant foods, dairy, eggs, and what other food?
3) The UK Soil Association reported that 50 to 93 percent of these residues remained on non-organic potatoes, apples and broccoli after washing.
4) Although Organic labeling in the
5) The two biggest food lobbys in the
6) This New York Jets Quarterback once famously guaranteed a victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, and he delivered. Also, he’s a Vegetarian
7) Vegetarians find it difficult to obtain sufficient quantities of this in their diets, because it is only found naturally in animal derived products. Named cobalmin, give its common vitamin name.
‘8) Of the four primary religions in
9) This type of agriculture is a method of organic farming that treats farms as unified and individual organisms,[1] emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a closed, self-nourishing system.
Biodynamic Agriculture
Aquaculture
Horticulture
Animal Husbandry
Intensive pig farming
10) An internal bath that helps cleanse the body of poisons, gas, and accumulated fecal matter is called _______________ irrigation.
General Knowledge – Authors, AP English
11) This Ancient Greek Epic Poet wrote both The Iliad, and The Odyssey
12) Although his novel ‘Native Son”, written in 1940, might be his most powerful work, the autobiographical “Black Boy” contains the unforgettably gruesome, imagery of him hanging a stray cat as a young boy.
13) Dominican-born author Jean Rhys wrote “Wide Sargasso Sea” as a postcolonial parallel novel to what famous female author’s Jane Eyre?
14) In 1859, Charles Dickens wrote this historical novel detailing the events leading up to the French Revolution. It ends with the line “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
15) Most of his works are set in his native state of Mississippi, and he is considered one of the most important “Southern writers,” along with Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, and Truman Capote. While his work was published regularly from the mid 1920s to the late 1940s, he was relatively unknown before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Critics and the public now favor his work,[1] and he is widely seen as among the greatest American writers of all time.
16) The Brothers Karamozov was his final work, culminating a life of writing, but he is far better know as the 19th century author of Crime and Punishment, an early work exhibiting the philosophy of Existentialism.
17) Hemmingway’s first serious novel, The Sun Also Rises, details the travels of Ex-Pat Americans in Europe, whooping it up in
18) This American poet and essayist, and father of “free verse” bridged transcendentalism and realism while writing in
19) The Cherry Orchard was his last play, premiering at the
20) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s most famous novel – an Ironic Dystopia, takes its title from the this poet’s The Tempest:
“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world
That hath such people in’t!”
Worldwide – Communism
21) This man is often identified as the father of communism
22) Communism is actually a particular branch of a wider political ideology called:
23) Marxism-Leninism, heralded the possibility of building communism via a massive program of industrialization and collectivization. It was launched as the national ideology of the
24) There are five countries in the world that currently identify themselves as communist. They are
25) He led the Communist Party of China to victory over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War in the early 20th century, establishing
26) The period of intense anti-communist suspicion in the
27) The FBI director during this time was one of the country’s most fervent anti-communists, using illegal wiretaps and opening people’s mail to try find communists
28) This Argentianian Marxist Revolutionary, known by a single name, rose to the rank of commander in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary army that eventually overthrew the Cuban dictator Batista
29) The
30) (2 Points) This German Social scientist and philosopher was a co-founder of the communist theory.
Pop Culture – Celebrities
31) In 2007, Forbes released it’s first ever list of most bankable movie stars, as measured by the return received by the producer for every dollar spent. Who topped the men’s List?
Harrison Ford
Will Smith
Tom Cruise
Matt Damon
Mike Myers
32) Actor Daniel Radcliffe is best known for his recurring movie roll as what Boy Wizard?
33) According to the
34) Why has Jessica Alba been shunned by the Spanish Community
35) Heather Mills recently gained almost $50 million in a divorce from Paul McCartney, but that’s not going to bring her what back?
36) Ashley Alexandra Dupree, better known as Spitzer’s $1,000/hour whore, was recently offered $1 million to pose nude for what gentleman’s nudie mag
37) What boxer, nicknamed “Smokin Joe” still takes pride from his defeat of Ali at mSG in 1971?
38) 13 employees from UCLA’s medical center were recently fired for peeking into what superstar pop singer’s personal medical files?