POP CULTURE
Which Sitcom theme song is this lyric from: “Your mother warned you there'd be days like these. But she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees.”
What is Friends
What is the translation of the term "prost"?
A. cheers
B. to your health
C. raise your glass
D. down the hatch
What is B. to your health
Which of the following is NOT one of the names of the three ‘Darling’ children in J.M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’?
A. Wendy
B. John
C. Christopher
D. Michael
What is C. Christopher
In the sport of Judo, what color belt follows an orange belt?
A. Black
B. Brown
C. Green
D. White
What is C. Green
How many letters are there in the German alphabet?
A. 26
B. 30
C. 36
D. 19
What is B. 30
What is Paul McCartney's middle name?
What is Paul (his first name is James)
DAILY DOUBLE: Beer is served in a standard-sized mug called a “Maß” at Oktoberfest. How much beer does it hold?
A. two liters
B. a half liter
C. a liter and a half
D. a liter
What is D. a liter
Who is the artists that did the famous painting, "Two Sisters (on the Terrace)"?
A. Renoir
B. van Gogh
C. Monet
D. Rembrant
Who was A. Renoir
Who was the first baseball player to have his number retired?
A. Babe Ruth
B. Ty Cobb
C. Mickey Mantle
D. Lou Gehrig
What is D. Lou Gehrig
What do you call a group of unicorns?
A. a miracle
B. a blessing
C. a army
D. a crash
What is B. a blessing (army is a group of frogs and a group of rhinos is a crash).
Who is the oldest man to win People Magazine’s sexiest man alive?
A. Sean Connery
B. Johnny Depp
C. George Clooney
D. Denzel Washington
Who is A. Sean Connery (59 when he won)
Who is in charge of tapping the Oktoberfest festival’s first beer keg each year?
A. the city mayor
B. the German Chancellor
C. the Oktoberfest Queen
D. the owner of the Hofbräuhaus
Who is A. the city mayor
What is the first name of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter books?
What is Minerva
How many track events are there in a decathlon?
What is four
What is the largest two digit prime number?
What is 97
What is the name of the band that made history when it became the first to have a K-pop album enter the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart?
A. Red Velvet
B. BTS
C. Girl's Generation
D. EXO
Who is B. BTS
What cocktail is made with white cream de menthe and brandy?
What is a Stinger
Which one of John Steinbeck's short novels was originally called "something that happened"?
What is Of Mice and Men
What Chicago Bears running back was known as "The Galloping Ghost?"
A. Walter Peyton
B. Jim Brown
C. Harold Grange
D. Gayle Sayers
Who was C. Harold Grange
Which book of the New Testament comes after the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
What is Acts
DAILY DOUBLE: Millennials were the first generation to grow up with easy access to computers and game consoles, bringing gaming into the mainstream. Which of the following is the highest-grossing video game franchise to date?
A. Mario
B. Call of Duty
C. Pokemon
D. FIFA
What is A. Mario
The first Oktoberfest was held in 1810 in honor of the marriage of what couple?
A. King Conrad II and Gertrude von Komburg
B. Herman of Luxembourg and Sophia of Formbach
C. Prince Ludwig and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen
D. Frederick I Barbarossa and Beatrice I of Burgundy
Who were C. Prince Ludwig and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen
Which novel begins with the line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?
What is "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
What was the first sport televised in the U.S.?
A. football
B. tennis
C. golf
D. baseball
What is D. baseball
Who was the Greek god of dreams?
Who is Morpheus