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posted: Jul. 11, 2024

The winners of the July 2nd, 2024, quiz were Lakers Bring Your Kid To Work Day with 49 points in a tiebreaker over I Gotta Gag Order In The Olympic Trial. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Lady Liberty Requests Deportation Back To France.

Round One: Futuristic Films

1) In what 2006 comedy film, starring Luke Wilson and mostly set in the year 2505, do all the citizens of the United States wear Crocs?

2) Released in 2009, what movie, whose title is the year in which the film's story takes place, tells of humanity trying to survive a series of environmental disasters in an end of the world scenario which was allegedly predicted by the Mayan calendar?

3) Snake Plisskin is the hero of what 1981 movie, and its subsequent sequel released in 1996?

4) In the 2013 movie Her, set in the not-too-distant future, a lonely man played by Joaquin Phoenix, develops a relationship with an artificially intelligent virtual assistant, who uses a feminine voice and calls themselves Samantha. What actress provides the voice of Samantha?

5) Moneyball Question: The 1973 movie Soylent Green was the last film appearance of what major Hollywood star who appeared in such films as 1931's Little Caesar, 1944's Double Indemnity, and 1948's Key Largo?

Round Three: July 2nd - The Day In History

1) A group of Africans, illegally abducted from their homeland, overcame their captors on board the ship Amistad in 1839. Having later been recaptured, what former US President successfully argued their case in front of the Supreme Court, which allowed the survivors to return to Africa?

2) In 1896 who received a patent for the first wireless telegraph?

3) In 1985 the European Space Agency launched a probe named Giotto, whose mission was to take photographs of and collect data from what celestial body which is named for the scientist who first worked out its trajectory through the solar system in 1705?

4) In 2002 Steve Fossett completed a circumnavigation of the globe by what means?

5) Moneyball Question: Sam Walton opened the first Walmart in 1962 in what state?

Round Four: Sit-Com Parents

1) What were the names of Eric's parents on That '70s Show?

2) In the sit-com Modern Family, who are the parents of Lily?

3) Hal and Lois, a couple from a sit-com that aired in the 2000s, had how many sons?

4) What 1950s sit-com, featured mother, Margaret, and father, Jim, who referred to his three children by the nicknames Princess, Bud, and Kitten?

5) Moneyball Question: The title characters in what Nickelodeon sit-com from the 2000s become stepbrothers when mother, Audrey, marries father, Walter?

Round Five: Alliterative Literature

1) Irish American Frank McCourt published what Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir in 1996 at the age of sixty-six?

2) What English born novelist was known for such thrillers as Day Of The Jackal published in 1971, The Odessa File published in 1972 and The Dogs Of War published in 1974?

3) What nursery rhyme character "runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown"?

4) Who is the creator of the stage show, The Vagina Monologues?

5) Moneyball Question: Who is the title character in an 1838 Charles Dickens novel that features the Squeers family, the Crumbles family and the Cheeryble family?

Round Six: Rock Anthems

1) Written by frontman Dee Snider and released in 1984, what song is Twisted Sister's biggest hit to date?

2) The song We Are Young was released in 2012 by what band whose name appears on their recordings in all lower-cased letters and with a period on the end?

3) Written by John Lennon and released in 1969, the song Give Peace A Chance was credited to what band?

4) Originally released by the British band Argent in 1973, the song God Gave Rock And Roll To You was covered by the band Kiss for the soundtrack of what 1991 science fiction comedy film, which was a sequel to a 1989 movie?

5) Moneyball Question: On the 1975 song It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock And Roll) by the band AC/DC what band member, who was their front man at the time, played the bagpipes on the recording?

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