Coleman For Redondo: DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION SUPER ULTRA-REMIX EDITION DUO

Welcome to the EF Trivia Competition.

Modeled on Chicago's Town Hall Pub's Thursday Trivia Night:
RIDDLE ME THAT?

brought to you by Jake Penzell,

Mark Beers, and Mr. J!!!!

Jake Penzell, also known as, the Beardy Penguin...

In groups no larger than 4 people, please write your team's name on a sheet of paper and number down the page

1 through 15 for answers.

PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!!!

Pin the Beard on Castro!

One contestant from each table is blindfolded and spun

around once. Land on the page 1 point, face 3 points.

Now on to the Trivia...

This is Dance Dance Revolution...

1. What year did Dance Dance Revolution hit the arcade floor?

(3 points for the exact year, 1 point for the decade)

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2. As a member of the Committee of Public Safety, he was an important figure and the mob's chief executioner during the period of the French Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended a few months after his arrest and decapitation by guillotine in July 1794. What is his name?

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3. This Russian ballerina is the most famous classical ballerina ever,

having danced many of the major ballet roles.

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4. This revolutionary figure who gained fame in Cuba shows up on T-shirts a lot.

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5. What does the ballet term "tombe" mean in English?

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PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!!!

Pay close attention to the following video...

DANCES: The monkey, the shopping cart, the Pee Wee, the Watusi, the Cabbage Patch, the Macarena, the Halted Step, the Sprinkler, the Charlie Brown, Belly Dance, The Swim, the Seeing Eye, the Cool Jerk, the Shift-Faced, various Peanut Dances.

Do the Dance!

One player from every team comes up.

They are asked, one at a time, to do a particular dance move,

e.g: the monkey, the twist. If they can do it, they get two points.

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MORE TRIVIA!!!

6. This Austrian composer, famous for his waltzes was known as “The Elder.”

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7. This is an iconic image that defined courage and defiance for a generation around the globe. Over the years he has come to be known as the "Tank Man," the "Unknown Rebel," or the "Unknown Protester. The man successfully blocked the path of a tank column in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, June 5th 1989. What happened to the man after this photo was taken?

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8. This band was famous for their one hit song... The Macarena.

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9. People in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen primarily used these two social networking sites to organize protests and share censored information during the recent ARAB SPRING revolution.

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10. What is the traditional dance of Brazil?

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PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!!!

MID-AIR HIGH FIVE!

Two players from every team face each other a short distance apart. They have one chance to

do the famous “Mid-air High Five” as they pass each other. They must have both feet off the

ground when they connect and are not allowed to use verbal cues to start the process.

Two points if you can do it!

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LAST ROUND OF TRIVIA!!!

11. For the second year in a row this Dutch born DJ is the richest in the world with a net worth of somewhere around 65 million dollars, often getting $250,000 per night.

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12. After riots, factory occupation, machinery destruction, and shops looting,

which two colonial powers did Belgium break away from, succeed from, abandon or otherwise ditch on August 25th 1829 in order to declare independence?

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HERE ARE THE MOST POPULAR DANCES IN THE WORLD:

13. A point for each of the ten most famous dances in the world right now?

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14. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded by Abdulaziz bin Abd al-Rahman Al Saud (known for most of his career as Ibn Saud) in 1932. Ibn Saud united the separate regions of Hejaz, Nejd, Al-Hasa and Asir into a single state through a series of conquests beginning in this year, when he captured Riyadh.

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