2002 Finals
Trivia Challenge

Our Finals Trivia Challenge took place in a park in the middle of the "labyrinth" of houses in suburban Las Vegas. Questions were run through a tv in the trunk of race creator Kevin McCarthy's car, and the Magnificent Seven took a step forward for every answer they got correct. The last five questions were sudden death tiebreakers. (Please note that the trivia in our regular season races are much easier.)

1. This psychologist is credited with pioneering the theory that all humans are connected by "six degrees of separation":
   1. Phil Bellows
   2. Carl Jung
   3. Ed Maslow
   4. Stanley Milgram
2. The indentation in a champagne bottle which keeps the pressure from blowing out the bottom is called the:
   1. Mull
   2. Punt
   3. Shank
   4. Wink
3. Bill Gates paid a reported 30.8 million dollars for the "Codex Hammer," a scientific notebook that once belonged to this man:
   1. Leonardo Da Vinci
   2. Albert Einstein
   3. Galileo
   4. Stephen Hawking
4. Gene Rodenberry's first choice for the part of Spock on TV's Star Trek was this actor:
   1. Elliot Gould
   2. Martin Landau
   3. Leonard Nimoy
   4. Abe Vigoda
5. In auto racing, a black flag means this:
   1. Caution
   2. Leave the track
   3. Move to the outside
   4. Stop
6. Which of the following is not considered a "spaghetti western?"
   1. A Fistful of Dollars
   2. For a Few Dollars More
   3. Hang 'Em High
   4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. According to the official rules, this is the score of a forfeited NFL football game:
   1. 2 to 0
   2. 3 to 0
   3. 6 to 0
   4. No score is recorded
8. Who is the only U.S. president who was a life long bachelor?
   1. James Buchanan
   2. Grover Cleveland
   3. Howard Taft
   4. John Tyler
9. Clinophobia is the fear of:
   1. Doctor's office
   2. Driving
   3. Going to bed
   4. Wearing Shoes
10. This man was the first "Ronald McDonald":
    1. Ray Kroc
    2. Jerry Lewis
    3. Paul Lynde
    4. Willard Scott
11. Which of these early explorers was not reported to be a red head:
    1. Christopher Columbus
    2. Eric The Red
    3. Cpt. Miles Standish
    4. Amerigo Vespucci
12. If a Civil War soldier were to ask you for an "Arkansas Toothpick," what would he be asking for?
    1. Firewood
    2. Hammer
    3. Knife
    4. Packing rod
13. What candy replaced the cigarettes given away in the White House starting in 1988?
    1. M & M's
    2. Jelly beans
    3. Hershey's Kisses
    4. Junior Mints
14. Coming to an end in 1911, this was the last of the Chinese dynasties:
    1. Jin
    2. Ming
    3. Qing
    4. Yuan
15. Checkmate, meaning the end of a game of chess, comes from the Arabic shåh-måt, meaning:
    1. Nowhere is safe
    2. The king is dead
    3. [what's] yours [is] mine
    4. You lose