PUB QUIZ: JUNE

• ROUND ONE – THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

1. 1374: The first major epidemic of “dancing mania” in what is now western Germany, which many historians attribute to exposure to what fungus species?
2. 1925: The formation of the third and final “Big 3” Detroit automaker by this industry pioneer.
3. 1989: The end of several weeks of widespread student protests when the Chinese government deployed troops and tanks to this plaza in Beijing’s city center to quash the unrest.
4. 1987: The birth of this Argentine forward and captain of Inter Miami.
5. 1633: The Catholic Church forces this Italian astronomer to recant his belief that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe. a) Leonardo da Vinci b) Galileo Galilei c) Giovanni Magini
6. 1893: The trial – and acquittal – of this Massachusetts woman for the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother.
7. 1920: The term “smoke-filled room” was coined by United Press reporter Raymond Clapper in reference to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, which ultimately chose what ticket for the general election? a) Coolidge/Dawes b) Harding/Coolidge c) Hughes/Fairbanks
8. 1978: This American comic strip, created by Jim Davis, went into nationwide syndication (after a name change from Jon).

• ROUND TWO – COMMON THREAD

1. This ship carried Greek mythological hero Jason and his crew on their journey to capture the Golden Fleece.
2. The first name of the protagonist of the Back to the Future film franchise.
3. This historic resort on Michigan’s Mackinac Island has hosted five U.S. Presidents, Mark Twain, and Thomas Edison.
4. The name of this Moroccan city literally translates to “White House”.
5. Following an 1871 fire that destroyed much of this Midwest city’s central district, a donation from the United Kingdom funded a new public library.
6. Wolfgang Mozart’s middle name.
7. This U.S. Army General, who served in both World Wars, competed in the first modern Olympic pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Games.
8. This rose variety was bred in France in 1875 and later popularized in the United States by Orland P. Bassett.
9. This theoretical physicist was the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos laboratory.
10. Among the victims of this 1912 shipwreck were John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isidor & Ida Straus.
11. What is the common thread?

• ROUND THREE – SLIDING INTO SUMMER (NAME THE FILM BY ITS SUMMER SCENE)

• ROUND FOUR – OUT AND PROUD ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩷🩵

1. The title track from her 2011 album Born This Way celebrates the empowerment of marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ+ community, women, and people of color.
2. This Secretary of State was the first openly LGBT person elected to statewide office in Michigan.
3. This EGOT winner’s “Candle in the Wind 1997” is the highest-selling single of the Billboard era.
4. A pioneer for LGBTQ+ visibility in sports, this British freestyle skier also made headlines at the 2014 Winter Olympics when he brought attention to the plight of stray dogs in Sochi.
5. This transgender trailblazer, celebrated for her performance on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, just released a memoir titled Transcendent.
6. This Macedonian king, famous for his military prowess, was known to have relationships with both men and women.
7. Filmmakers Lily and Lana Wachowski, who both came out as trans in the 2010s, have admitted that this 1999 sci-fi action masterpiece is an allegory for gender transition.
8. This journalist and news anchor was the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the Washington, D.C., snipers in 2002.

• ROUND FIVE – FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS

1. Lunch atop a Skyscraper was taken in 1932 to promote the construction of which famous NYC building?

2. Hair Like Mine, like most of the official pictures of President Obama, was taken in 2009 by this man, who also served as Reagan’s chief photographer.

3. Cottingley Fairies, one of a series taken by two young cousins in 1917, purported to prove the existence of fairies; the photos were published in The Strand Magazine after they came to the attention of what author?

4. Photographed for the Dallas Times Herald by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert H. Jackson, this image captured the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by what man?

5. Widely misattributed to mission commander Frank Borman, Earthrise was taken by William Anders while aboard this lunar orbit mission in December, 1968.

6. This photograph, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize, was taken before a major WWII battle on which Japanese Island?

• ROUND SIX – WATERGATE IN POP CULTURE

1. One of the less credible candidates for the identity of the confidential Watergate source Deep Throat was this Nixon speechwriter who later made a memorable cameo in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and hosted a Comedy Central game show where you could win his money.
2. What pair of actors played Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in the film adaptation of their book, All the President’s Men?
3. Though some rightfully critiqued his hammy performance – particularly his bafflingly bad accent – this English actor was nonetheless nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a SAG for his role in 1995’s Nixon.
4. Martha Mitchell, who at the time of the Watergate break-in was married to Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell, is played by what Oscar-winning actress in the 2022 Starz limited series Gaslit?
5. This American actor, a four-time Tony winner best known for playing Dracula in a 1979 film, received his sole Academy Award nomination for 2008’s Frost/Nixon, in which he portrayed the former president.
6. In 1999’s Dick [featured image], two fictional teenage dog walkers, played by which future Oscar nominees, assume the role of Deep Throat.

• ROUND SEVEN – STRAWBERRY SEASON

1. This actor, who also co-starred in the M*A*S*H movie, played a Vietnam War vet named Strawberry in Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke.

2. This right fielder, the National League Rookie of the Year in 1983, won the World Series as both a Met (1986) and a Yankee (1996 and ’99).

3. This psychedelic rock band is best known for the 1967 #1 single, “Incense and Peppermints.”

4. Strawberry Peak, located ten miles north of Pasadena, is part of this California mountain range that has the San Andreas Fault as its northern border.

5. Like the Beatles song that inspired it, this Central Park memorial to John Lennon is named after a children’s home in Liverpool.

6. Despite its name, the Strawberries and Cream Tree is actually what type of fruit tree?

7. This character, first conceived by artist Barbi Sargent for American Greetings cards, has siblings named Apple Dumplin’ and Pineapple Cobbler.

8. Nicknamed “Electric Strawberry” for its logo, the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army was activated in response to which event?

• ROUND EIGHT – WHO’S YOUR DADDY? (NAME THE FATHER OF THE GIVEN INDIVIDUALS, REAL OR FICTIONAL)