Forum Trivia Contest: June 19, 2023

Tom Davis and Ellyn Bush

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  1. Forum: Which Forum building is finally getting a fire sprinkler installed?

  2. College: What is the mascot for UC Santa Cruz?

  3. Music: What is a gu-zhang?

  4. Agriculture: What country is the number 1 producer of cashew nuts?
    1. Brazil
    2. Ivory Coast
    3. India
    4. Ghana
    5. Vietnam

  5. Crime: Who is prisoner number 24965-111 in the Bryan, Texas, Minimum Security Camp?
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  6. Juneteenth: What is the actual date for this new Federal holiday?
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  7. Animals: What is the official animal of San Francisco?

  8. Rock: Who is the lead singer in the rock group Blondie?
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  9. Oscars: Who won the most Oscars of all time?

  10. Sports: The surface of a standard soccer ball is composed of hexagons and pentagons. How many pentagons?
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  11. Poetry: Which poet is credited with the line, “the best-laid plans of mice and men?”
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  12. History: Who said, “Have you left no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”
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  13. Civil Rights: Who was the lead attorney arguing in Brown v Board of Education?

  14. Geography: What is the smallest (in area) country in South America?

  15. Law: What are the dimensions of the paper in a yellow legal pad?

  16. Literature: Cormac McCarthy died recently. What is the name of his novel that was made into an Oscar-winning movie?

  17. Metric System: What are the three countries in the world that do not use the metric system?

  18. Politics: Who were the 11 non-Trump GOP challengers in the 2016 presidential primaries? Those who dropped out before the primaries do not count. (5-7: 1 point, 8-9: 2 points, 10-11: 3 points)

  19. Geography: The Principality of Liechtenstein lies between which two countries?
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  20. Odd man out: Which actor has not played the Joker?
    1. Jack Nicholson
    2. Sean Penn
    3. Jared Leto
    4. Mark Hamill

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