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posted: Apr. 17, 2025

The winners of the March 18th, 2025 quiz were Frisch's Big Boy To Replace The Statue Of Liberty (France Wants It Back) with 28 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Gaza Strip Mall.

Round One: Movie Numbers

1) How many minutes are in a reel of celluloid film?

2) Prior to his untimely death in 1978 the actor John Cazale had appeared in only seven films. How many of these films were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?

3) The experimental 1965 movie Empire, which consists of a view of the Empire State Building filmed with one static camera that lasts eight hours and five minutes, was produced and co-directed by whom?

4) How many Bond movies have the word "Die" or "Dies" in the title?

5) Moneyball Question: At the most recent ceremony, Adrian Brody set the new record for the longest speech at the Oscars with one lasting 336 seconds. It beat the previous record of 330 seconds by what actress in 1943 which was the direct reason speeches have been limited to roughly 45 seconds since then?

Round Three: March 18th - The Day in History

1) In 1766 what act of Parliament was repealed following violent protests by American colonists?

2) In 1902 what famed operatic tenor made his first phonograph recording?

3) In 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became the first man to do what?

4) In 1969, during the Vietnam War, the United States started to secretly bomb the Sihanouk Trail, which was located in what country?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1844, what Russian classical composer, known for composing The Flight Of The Bumblebee, was born?

Round Four: SNL Sketches

1) In a sketch where an interviewer does a word association test with a job applicant that becomes increasingly racist, Chevy Chase plays the interviewer, who plays the job applicant?

2) As part of the Weekend Update, in a section called Point Counterpoint, who did Dan Aykroyd often call an "Ignorant Slut"?

3) What is the name of Eddie Murphy's character that is a parody of Mr. Rogers?

4) Kristin Wiig starred as a character in a series of sketches who was unnaturally happy to be working in what real-life store?

5) Moneyball Question: What two members of SNL did a series of sketches where they played the co-heads of a high school music department, who believe they are cool, but are anything but, and do terrible medleys of contemporary hits for the student body?

Round Five: Country Facts

1) What is the largest country to only use one time zone?

2) Nauru, Greenland, San Marino, Qatar and Gibraltar are the world's only countries to have zero percent of what kind of ecosystem?

3) What island has the lowest population of any country or protectorate, whose 35 permanent residents are mostly descendants of the nine HMS Bounty mutineers and the twelve Tahitian women who accompanied them to the island?

4) What European principality has the world's highest life expectancy with men averaging 85.6 years and women averaging 93.5 years?

5) Moneyball Question: What Asian country, whose capital is Tashkent, is one of two landlocked countries in the world that is completely bordered by other landlocked countries?

Round Six: Instrumentals

1) The 1962 instrumental by British band The Tornados was named for what famous American telecommunications satellite that was launched less than two weeks before the song was recorded?

2) Green Onions is a 1962 instrumental hit credited to Booker T. And The M.G.s. What guitarist and bassist, both of whom were also part of the Blues Brothers Band, made up the M.G.s?

3) What instrumental by Van Halen, featured on their eponymously titled 1978 debut album, is essentially a guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen that leads into their cover of The Kinks' You Really Got Me?

4) What 1973 instrumental by the Edgar Winter Group was given its name in part because they had to splice together numerous parts from the original recording of what was an extended jam session to shorten it enough to make it into a single?

5) Moneyball Question: The 1973 instrumental Jessica by The Allman Brothers Band was used as the theme to what long-running British magazine program which became hugely popular in the US when it started being shown on BBC America in the 2000s?

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