Your The Dozen Daily Trivia Quiz for this Monday, October 30th, 2023 was pretty brutal. We had wordplay, esoteric 90s knowledge, and indie rock.
How did you do, Frank?: You don’t want to know. I needed to apply a bandage to my grid, it was bleeding so much.
Here we go..
Subject: NFL
After throwing 135 TD’s from 1999-2005 with a current-day NFC North team, what QB played his final three seasons with Oakland and Detroit from 2007-2009?
Answer: Daunte Culpepper
Explanation: I don’t know why they threw “current day” in there. And Culpepper gets blurry after he leaves Miami.
Subject: NBA
At age 34, Pau Gasol averaged a career-high 11.8 RPG while playing for what Eastern Conference team during the 2014-2015 season?
Answer: Chicago Bulls
Explanation: Wasn’t basketball better with Pau Gasol? I think so.
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Subject: MLB
What American League team did Steve Pearce win World Series MVP with during the 2010’s?
Answer: Boston Red Sox
Explanation: Stumped. Don’t remember him.
Subject: History
In what current-day U.S. state did the Salem Witch Trials take place?
Answer: Massachusetts
Explanation: Should have been a Halloween question.
Subject: Celebrity Mashup
Answer: Matt Damon and Michael Douglas
Explanation: Just looks like a regular picture of Alan Tudyk
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Subject: Snacks and Candy
ScaryCakes and Glo Balls are Halloween editions of snack cakes made by what company?
Answer: Hostess
Explanation: Lucky guess. Have you ever had the chocolate Twinkies? Love em.
Subject: Television
In this 1998 Disney Channel made-for-TV movie, 13-year-old witch Marnie Piper gets transported to a land where ghouls, ghosts, werewolves, and witches live separate from humans.
Answer: Halloweentown
Explanation: The first television question I’ve gotten wrong in a very long time.
Subject: Movies
The 2009 film Zombieland starred Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and what actor as Tallahassee?
Answer: Woody Harrelson
Explanation: Speaking of Twinkies.
Subject: Music
Ezra Koenig is the lead vocalist and guitarist of this indie rock band whose 2008 debut self-titled album included songs such as “A-Punk”, “Campus”, and “Oxford Comma”?
Answer: Vampire Weekend
Explanation: Dead to rights
How did you do? Let me know in the comments below.
And if you cats are coming in everyday and bouncing, could you help me out below? I’m a struggling writer.
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