The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>When we get bored my friend and I play Simpsons Trivia. We take turns asking and answering questions and the first person to miss five loses. I'm gonna try and remember some of our better questions and give them to y'all to answer...

(Most of these are two-parters so you can get half or full credit)

1.) At the Springfield Swap Meet Homer finds and discards four extremely valuable items from the "Five Cent Box." Name 2 of those items.

2.) When Sideshow Bob has Bart cornered on the houseboat Bart asks him to sing the score to a musical play to stall him. What is the name of that play?

3.) Which professional baseball player gets into a fight with Barney in the bar over the greatest English Prime Minister, and which Prime Minister was Barney claiming to be the greatest?

4.) Name 2 of Homer's alternate name-choices in the "Max Power" episode.

5.) What's the name of Luanne VanHouten's new boyfriend (after divorcing Kurt)? Also, what is the name of his friend whom Luanne has been seeing on the side?

6.) According to Mr. Burns, who is the World's Most Devious Assassin, and whom does that assassin assume Burns to be from the initials "M.B."?

7.) "Mr. Sparkle" dish detergent is a joint venture of two Japanese coporations. Name 1 of them (I would say name both, but I couldn't so I decided it was unfair :)).

8.) What is the purpose of the ants on board the space shuttle in the Deep Space Homer episode?

9.) What is Principal Skinner's real name and before assuming the name of Skinner what did all his dreams involve?

10.) What is Jimbo spraypainting on the wall before Homer's vigilante group catches him?

I know a lot of you are better at this than I am, so go to it...</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>1.) At the Springfield Swap Meet Homer finds and discards four extremely valuable items from the "Five Cent Box." Name 2 of those items.

<b>Action Comics #1, some stamps where the airplanes are upside down, and a Stratavarius ("Strata-who-vius?") violin. I don't remember the fourth</b>

2.) When Sideshow Bob has Bart cornered on the houseboat Bart asks him to sing the score to a musical play to stall him. What is the name of that play?

<b>I'm probably going to butcher the spelling... The H.M.S. Pinnafore</b>

3.) Which professional baseball player gets into a fight with Barney in the bar over the greatest English Prime Minister, and which Prime Minister was Barney claiming to be the greatest?

<b>Wade Boggs, and Palmerston. I remember looking up both PMs after that episode... but I don't remember the one Boggs was going on about.</b>

4.) Name 2 of Homer's alternate name-choices in the "Max Power" episode.

<b>Rembrant Q. Einstein, Hercules B. Wonderful... I think</b>

5.) What's the name of Luanne VanHouten's new boyfriend (after divorcing Kurt)? Also, what is the name of his friend whom Luanne has been seeing on the side?

<b>Pyron (or Pyro), I do believe. His buddy from the American Gladiators knock-off was Gyron (or Gyro). "How could you, Gyron? After all the times I fought by your side..."</b>

6.) According to Mr. Burns, who is the World's Most Devious Assassin, and whom does that assassin assume Burns to be from the initials "M.B."?

<b>Some Latin guy... Carlos something, perhaps. He hires him to kill Grandpa in the Hellfish episdode. Was it Marion Barry? I don't remember. Fuck you, Gentz.</b>

7.) "Mr. Sparkle" dish detergent is a joint venture of two Japanese coporations. Name 1 of them (I would say name both, but I couldn't so I decided it was unfair :)).

<b>It was a fish company and an electric company (represented by a lightbulb during the merger clip of how they came up with the Mr. Sparkle episdoe). I'm going to say... Yakahama Electric. Fuck you, Gentz.</b>

8.) What is the purpose of the ants on board the space shuttle in the Deep Space Homer episode?

<b>To see if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space</b>

9.) What is Principal Skinner's real name and before assuming the name of Skinner what did all his dreams involve?

<b>Armen Tamzarian (do you have another way to spell it, ho?). Don't know. I know he was a biker and then hit an old lady or something, and his options were apologize or go join the army. "Had I not known there was a war going on, I probably would have apologized." Fuck you, Gentz.</b>

10.) What is Jimbo spraypainting on the wall before Homer's vigilante group catches him?

<b>"Bite me", maybe? I can't remember. Fuck you, Gentz. Whatever it was, his excuse was that it made him feel like a big man, and after checking his excuse list, Homer deemed it a good one.
Jimbo: Wow, you're that drunken posse! Can I join ya?
Homer: Can you swing a sack of doorknobs?
Jimbo: Can I!
Homer: You're in.
Moe: Here's the bag, but ya gotta supply your own knobs.</b></div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>1) merchandise from Bart's "I didn't do it" catchprase, and an album of the B Sharps

Besides this I don't know any of the others, I can picture what episodes most are talking about, but COME ON NOW! It's one thing to be like me and watch / enjoy every episode but it's an entirely different thing to waste brain matter on such useless trivia. Mrs. VanHouten's boyfriend's names?! Come now! WAit... wasn't it Turbo or Blitz? One of those gladiator names.... anyway I'm getting off the topic. A whole new meaning to the word trivial, or uselss, information... my god.

If you can answer more than 50% of these questions you may want to look into getting a life</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Why do you think they call it "trivia" in the first place? :)

Anyway, they may be difficult but they're at least all valid "worthy-of-the-asking" questions. Answering them requires a pretty intense level of Simpsons watching but it's not like I'm asking "What color was the tie of the third man from the right in the mob?" or "what's the third word spoken in such-and-such episode?"

Also, between my friend Chris and I we can answer every one of these questions - except the last one, maybe...I looked that one up just to be a bastard :)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Gosh Gentz, you do didn't have go that extra mile, you've always been a bastardly man as far as I'm concerned :)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I simply restate the last sentence of my previous post</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Simpsons is life, you savage.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, I gotta do something to defend my title here...can't just go around CLAIMING to be the biggest bastard in the world, I gotta do something to SHOW you bitches : )</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You guys out there in the Atlantic provinces REALLY need to get a life :-)</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Agreed. Simpsons is life. Anything else is just the time between watching Simpsons.</div>

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...Ahem...

<i>1.) At the Springfield Swap Meet Homer finds and discards four extremely valuable items from the "Five Cent Box." Name 2 of those items.</i>

Any 2 of...

- An original copy of U.S. Declaration of Independence
- Action Comics #1
- Sheet of stamps with an airplane misprinted upside down
- Stradivarius violin

<i>2.) When Sideshow Bob has Bart cornered on the houseboat Bart asks him to sing the score to a musical play to stall him. What is the name of that play? </i>

The H.M.S. Pinafore

<i>3.) Which professional baseball player gets into a fight with Barney in the bar over the greatest English Prime Minister, and which Prime Minister was Barney claiming to be the greatest?</I>

Wade Boggs, Lord Palmerston

(Boggs was arguing for Pitt the Elder...which is just lunacy, quite frankly!)

<i>4.) Name 2 of Homer's alternate name-choices in the "Max Power" episode. </i>

Any 2 of...

- Hercules Rockefeller
- Rembrandt Q. Einstein
- Handsome B. Wonderful

(Bonus Point: He gave him Max Power because it was the only one Homer spelled correctly)

<i>5.) What's the name of Luanne VanHouten's new boyfriend (after divorcing Kurt)? Also, what is the name of his friend whom Luanne has been seeing on the side? </i>

Pyro, Gyro

<i>6.) According to Mr. Burns, who is the World's Most Devious Assassin, and whom does that assassin assume Burns to be from the initials "M.B."? </i>

Fernando Vidal, Marion Barry

<i>7.) "Mr. Sparkle" dish detergent is a joint venture of two Japanese coporations. Name 1 of them (I would say name both, but I couldn't so I decided it was unfair :)). </i>

Mr. Sparkle is a joint venture of Matsumura Fishworks (the fish) and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern (the lightbulb)

<i>8.) What is the purpose of the ants on board the space shuttle in the Deep Space Homer episode? </i>

They were to be trained to sort tiny screws in space

<i>9.) What is Principal Skinner's real name and before assuming the name of Skinner what did all his dreams involve? </I>

Armand Tanzarian, and all of his dreams invovled combing his hair

<i>10.) What is Jimbo spraypainting on the wall before Homer's vigilante group catches him?</i>

Carpe Diem


BL, not counting spelling errors (which would just be ridiculous), you got 6.5 out of 10 which I think is very good....You've won my heart

Tessian, you got zero which makes sense because you're a stupid dumb loser who sucks. Get a life!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I should get a present.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I'm leaving you un-smoten. consider yourself grateful</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Cram it, ma'am.</div>