Pop Quiz: Pride Edition

Seven rounds of Pride-themed trivia. Come back tomorrow for the answers and some fun facts!

ROUND ONE: NAME THAT LGBTQ+ THEMED MOVIE (PICTURE ROUND)

I’ll give you the year of release and a factoid about the film, you come up with the title.

ROUND TWO: WHAT A DRAG!

1. This American drag queen, whose 1993 debut single reached #2 on the Billboard Dance Club Hits chart, is the recipient of 14 Primetime Emmys, three GLAAD Media Awards, and a Tony.
2. It’s not certain whether she was a trans woman or a drag queen, but there’s no doubt the titular character in this song by the Kinks blew our protagonist’s mind.
3. I Like to Watch, a web series created by Netflix for their YouTube channel, is hosted by which two iconic drag queens and RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants?
4. What actor and playwright won two Tonys at the age of 30 for Torch Song Trilogy, about a Jewish drag queen and torch singer, and another at age 50 for portraying Edna Turnblad in Hairspray?
5. This 1990 documentary feature, filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, is an essential record of the Golden Age of drag balls in New York City, as well as an examination of the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
6. What is the name of the Peabody, Emmy, and GLAAD Media Award-winning HBO series that features drag queens traveling the country and recruiting small-town residents for drag shows?
7. This heroine of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, who disguises herself as a young man named Cesario, shares her first name with the female protagonist of 1998 Best Picture Oscar winner Shakespeare in Love.

ROUND THREE: LGBTQ+ HISTORY

1. This ancient Greek poet, who lived on the island of Lesbos, was sometimes referred to as “The Tenth Muse”.
2. The first US pride parades, timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, were held in which two American cities?
3. Speaking of the Stonewall uprising, what drag queen and activist, known as “The Mayor of Christopher Street”, was an instrumental figure in the riots and later co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) with her close friend and fellow activist Sylvia Rivera?
4. She was the first American woman to fly in space and the youngest American to do so, having completed her first spaceflight at the age of 32.
5. The 2003 Supreme Court ruling Lawrence v. Texas decriminalized what sex act in the US?
6. The self-proclaimed “Mayor of Castro Street”, he served for eleven months on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, sponsoring a bill to ban discrimination in public accommodations based on sexual orientation, before his assassination on November 27, 1978.
7. This English mathematician and computer scientist, who was instrumental in the breaking of Nazi Germany’s Enigma codes during WWII, was prosecuted in 1952 for the crime of homosexuality.

ROUND FOUR: ICONS

1. This English pianist, singer, and songwriter had a great year in 1994, winning an Oscar for Best Original Song for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from The Lion King and getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
2. The 2013 HBO film Behind the Candelabra, which won eleven Emmy Awards, dramatizes the relationship between Scott Thorson and this flamboyant pianist and nightclub entertainer who died of AIDS in 1987.
3. In 2014, who became the first transgender person to be nominated for an acting Emmy, as well as the first to appear on the cover of Time magazine?
4. Widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era, this Irishman is best known for the 1890 novella The Picture of Dorian Gray and the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as his 1895 conviction for “gross indecency.”
5. Born Farrokh Bulsara, his family fled the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964 and moved to Middlesex, England. In 1970, he formed an iconic rock band with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor.
6. Her novel Orlando: A Biography, about an Elizabethan-era nobleman who spontaneously changes genders and lives for centuries, was inspired by her close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West.
7. This transgender woman, who helped develop the Moog synthesizer, is best known for her 1968 album Switched-On Bach and for scoring films like A Clockwork Orange, Tron, and The Shining.

ROUND FIVE: PRIDE ANTHEMS BY LYRICS

I’ll give you a snippet of lyrics along with the artist and year of release, you come up with the song’s title.

1. “When we’re out there dancin’ on the floor, darlin’ / And I feel like I need some more / And I feel your body close to mine / And I know my love, it’s about that time ” – Sylvester, 1978
2. “I’m up and jaws are on the floor / Lovers in the bathroom and a line outside the door / Black lights and a mirrored disco ball / Every night’s another reason why I left it all” – Chappell Roan, 2020
3. “You can get yourself clean / You can have a good meal / You can do whatever you feel” – The Village People, 1979
4. “God bless Mother Nature, she’s a single woman too / She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do / She taught every angel and rearranged the sky / So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy” – The Weather Girls, 1982
5. “Don’t be a drag, just be a queen / Whether you’re broke or evergreen” – Lady Gaga, 2011
6. “Holly came from Miami, F.L.A. / Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. / Plucked her eyebrows on the way / Shaved her legs and then he was a she” – Lou Reed, 1972
7. “I’ve got to show the world / All that I wanna be / And all my abilities / There’s so much more to me” – Diana Ross, 1980

ROUND SIX: PRIDE FLAGS (PICTURE ROUND)

ROUND SEVEN: LGBTQ+ FIRSTS

1. The first openly LGBTQ+ candidate to successfully run for political office in the U.S. was college student Kathy Kozachenko, who in 1972 was elected to the city council of what Michigan city?
2. This northwestern European country was the first nation to recognize same-sex marriage in 2001.
3. The first onscreen kiss between two men takes place in the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
4. Intersex but assigned female at birth, this German-Israeli man was the first person to receive gender-affirming surgery AND one of the first to gain legal recognition of their chosen gender identity.
5. In June 1964, which magazine became the first national publication in the U.S. to report on LGBTQ+ issues?
6. In 1971, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell became the first American same-sex couple known to have obtained a marriage license. In what Midwest U.S. state did Baker and McConnell reside?
7. He was the first openly queer winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which he was awarded twice: in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.