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How Would You Have Fared At ATL Trivia?

Test your knowledge by playing the home version of the ATL/Kaplan Bar Review trivia night.

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ANSWERS TO ROUND 1

  1. Known for playing a lawyer in a Peter Pan movie, which actor was sued for allegedly giving a cocktail waitress the Herp?
    Robin Williams
  2. This Kardashian’s husband allegedly cheated on her with a lawyer. Which Kardashian?
    Khloe Kardashian
  3. This isn’t SPARTA, this is LAW SCHOOL. Which 300 actor is a law school graduate?
    Gerard Butler
  4. That’s hot! Which celebutante could sue me if she found out I was diluting her trademark?
    Paris Hilton
  5. In a real Mean Girl move, Lindsay Lohan once gave her sentencing judge a manicured message. What’d it say?
    F**k U.
  6. What is the name of the pop princess who’s been under a conservatorship since 2008 after she notoriously shaved her head?
    Britney Spears
  7. This Law & Order star who once sang about killing cops shares the same name as a drink you’d sip on your porch on a hot summer day.
    Ice-T
  8. Which Article III judge – one that our managing editor may have an unhealthy obsession with — has had a minor role in a feature film?
    Chief Judge Alex Kozinski
  9. She’s a new mother of a child with a multi-directional name. How many days did her failed marriage to Kris Humphries last before she filed for divorce?
    72 days
  10. Which law school graduate is best known for hosting a talk show with episode titles like “I Slept With 251 Men in 10 Hours!” and “I’m Proud To Be A Homewrecker”?
    Jerry Springer
ANSWERS TO ROUND 2
  1. What year were D.C. residents first allowed to vote in Presidential elections?
    1964
  2. What Metro station boasts the longest escalator in Western hemisphere at 508 feet?
    Wheaton
  3. District denizens consume more of which beverage per capita than residents of any state?
    Wine
  4. Which city was one of the first planned communities in the United States, designed to provide homes and jobs to low-income families under the New Deal?
    Greenbelt
  5. How many columns are on the Lincoln Memorial?
    36 +/- 2 (the number of states at the time of Lincoln’s death)
  6. How many paintings by Leonardo da Vinci are housed at the National Art Gallery?
    1 (indeed, the only DaVinci outside Europe)
  7. How tall is the Washington Monument?
    555 feet +/- 5
  8. Metro construction broke ground at this red line stop in 1969.
    Judiciary Square
  9. What GOP presidential candidate got the lowest percentage of the DC popular vote?
    John McCain
  10. What four letters of the alphabet do not have a street named for them in any of DC’s four quadrants? (One point for 3 and two points for all 4)
    J, X, Y, Z

ANSWERS TO ROUND 3
  1. The Supreme Court
  2. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (if you got “Jr.” you are super smart and deserve a pat on the back)
  3. The Watergate
  4. Ted Olson
  5. Williams & Connolly
  6. Representative Aaron Schock
  7. Department of Justice
  8. Covington & Burling
  9. D.C. Circuit
  10. Justices O’Connor, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan
BONUS: Jabot

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ANSWERS TO ROUND 4
Law & Order
Ally McBeal
Boston Legal

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Perry Mason
L.A. Law
The Practice
Franklin & Bash
Matlock
Night Court
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
ANSWERS TO ROUND 5
  1. While playing law school Bingo, when Glenda Gunner raises her hand for the fifth fucking time today, you mark off the appropriate coordinate on your grid — an homage to what French philosopher?
    Rene Descartes
  2. Larry  Lawstudent and Sally Slacker are standing in the library. If they are at a perfect right angle from the Shepardizing books that no one uses, what theory would you employ to find the distance between them?
    Pythagorean Theorem
  3. It’s hard to get, but many law students are hoping for that sweet in-house job with a tech giant named after a number. Correctly spell the number I’m asking for…which is not the same as the tech firm.
    Googol
  4. Victor Victim is pushed to the ground by a person fleeing the police carrying a bag of money lifted from the local bank. Victor hit the ground with enough force to break his arm. What formula would you use to calculate the force involved.
    Mass x Acceleration
  5. Walter bequeaths Whiteacre to Winnie and her heirs. Soon after taking possession, Winnie finds gold on the premises, which may be subject to a separate deed for mineral rights Walter assigned long ago. Not knowing this, Winnie shouts, “Eureka!” just like what ancient mathematician?
    Archimedes
  6. French police find a dead body on the floor of the Louvre. Written in blood around the body 0,1,1,2,3,5,8 because the victim had nothing better to do as he was dying that scribble on the ground. What’s the name of the number pattern outlined on the floor?
    Fiobinacci Sequence
  7. At a Supreme Court nomination hearing, you might overhear conservative Senators railing about pro-Choice leanings being what kind of test – which determines whether something is an acid or a base?
    Litmus Test
  8. As you sit at your Biglaw firm desk, mulling the weekend plans you made months ago, a partner walks into your office and informs you of the warehouse of documents in Wichita you’ll be flying out to look at over the weekend. It forces you to remember that everything tends toward disorder, which is commonly given what physics term?
    Entropy
  9. A favorite contract law fact-pattern is the jilted fiancée seeking the return of the diamond engagement ring. Diamond is an allotrope of carbon – what’s Carbon’s atomic number?
    6
  10. An actual legal question – in last term’s Myriad case, the Supreme Court banned the what?
    Patenting naturally-occuring genes or the BRCA genes, etc.
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