December Meeting:
Objectivist Trivia Night
and our Annual Holiday Dinner
***Please note dinner is at 7:00, trivia at 8:00***
At our December meeting,
we will play Objectivist Trivia and have our annual holiday dinner. GO
member John Drake is organizing the trivia game, but the questions will
be written by you. See the article below for more information on
bringing your questions for our trivia game. If you don’t bring
questions, we won’t have a game, so start that trivia research now! You
will also be able to answer your own questions, so if you bring a
question for every category, you’ll get at least one correct answer in
each category.
For this year’s holiday
dinner, our theme will be Russian cuisine, in celebration of Ayn Rand’s
heritage. Our hosts, Joy & Jeff Kiviat, will be providing the main
dish, as well as borscht. Everyone is asked to bring a Russian side dish,
Russian salad, or Russian dessert. Russian recipes and food ideas can be
found at http://www.russiansabroad.com/cuisine/.
According to Joy, typical Russian dishes include potato or egg salad,
borscht (red cabbage soup), dark rye bread, beef stroganoff, lamb,
pirogies (meat-filled pastries), blini (little pancakes with sour cream),
kasha, and anything with mushrooms. Common desserts are blintzes, sponge
cakes and fruit pies.
Join us on Saturday,
December 20, at the home of Joy & Jeff Kiviat, for this fun-filled
evening of delicious food at 7 p.m. and trivia at 8 p.m. Call Joy &
Jeff at (618) 288-2330 for directions or more information.
What You Need to Know for Objectivist Trivia
Night
At our December meeting,
after stuffing ourselves with food, we’ll start the games – we will
split up into teams to play Objectivist trivia. However, at this trivia
night, instead of using somebody else’s questions, we’re going to
create our own. We request that everyone attending the meeting bring at
least one trivia question (and answer) from each of the 11 categories
below. The questions and answers will be re-used for a fundraiser for
Camp Indecon scheduled at the 2004 TOC Summer Seminar. (Sorry, no
royalties will be paid if your questions are used!)
When deciding on the
difficulty of a question, try to pick something that some, but not all,
of the GO members may know.
For each question, please
write:
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the category,
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the question,
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the answer, and
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the source, if applicable,
all together, so our trivia moderator can separate
everyone’s questions by category and have the answers easily accessible
for each question.
For those of you who
can’t make it to the meeting but still want to contribute, we welcome
any submittals to john@webdesign-jrd.com or
gwobjctvst@aol.com, and
we’ll add them to the list of questions we use.
Here are the categories
and some sample questions:
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Ayn Rand – questions about Ayn Rand’s life, novels, and
philosophy
- What is Ayn Rand’s birth date?
- What are the seven Objectivist virtues listed in The
Virtue of Selfishness?
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The Objectivist movement – questions about the people,
events, literature, web sites, philosophic disagreements, etc.,
surrounding the Objectivist movement
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Who founded what eventually became the “We The Living”
email lists?
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Who wrote The Ideas of Ayn Rand?
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General Philosophy – questions about famous philosophers
and their philosophies
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Who is widely regarded as Aristotole’s teacher?
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Who said, “I think, therefore I am?”
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Sons of Liberty – questions about famous political
figures that fought for liberty (i.e. Thomas Jefferson, George
Washington, Thomas Locke, Cato, etc.)
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What famous Virginian said in 1775, “…as for me, give
me liberty, or give me death!”?
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Who asked Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of
Independence?
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Capitalism: Past and Present – questions about businesses
and the men or women that run them
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In what year did Microsoft go public?
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What type of vehicle did Honda first build?
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Heroes of Fiction – questions about literary, movie, and
TV heroes
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In The Lord of the Rings, to what elfish safe-haven
did Strider lead the four hobbits?
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In The Clan of the Cave Bear, what is the main
character’s name?
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Science and Technology – questions about science and
technology (i.e. theories, scientists, inventions, inventors, etc.)
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Who invented the microprocessor?
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In chemistry, what formula is used to relate gas pressure,
volume, and temperature?
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Name that Fallacy – identify the type of fallacy in
statements that contain a logical fallacy
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“Brad is a scientist. So we when he says that global
warming is a caused by carbon dioxide, we know it is.”
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“We know the Republicans are wrong when they say they
caused the great economic boom of the 90’s, because Republicans are
greedy.”
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Health and Fitness – questions about health and physical
fitness (i.e. diets, types of exercise, world records, etc.)
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To the nearest minute, what is the world record marathon
time?
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What percentage of calories should you receive from
carbohydrates in the ZONE diet?
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Personal Finance – questions about personal finance (i.e.
ways to become financially independent, stock investments, insurance,
real estate, accounting, etc.)
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Who wrote the popular personal finance book Rich Dad,
Poor Dad?
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As of the last closing bell, what is the value of the Dow
Jones Industrial Average? (To the nearest 100)
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U.S. Constitution – questions about the U.S. Constitution
and the resulting law
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Including the Bill of Rights, how many amendments have been
added to the U.S. Constitution?
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In which amendment were women given the right to vote?
If you have any questions
about the questions, email John at john@webdesign-jrd.com.
We welcome submissions of reviews, articles, columns and commentary.
Direct all correspondence to gwobjctvst@aol.com.
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