Guamming up the works

This quiz was meant for the start of soccer season a couple of weeks ago, hence all the soccer-related questions. Guam isn't a soccer power, but made the news for the first time in many years this month when North Korea, well, threatened to blow it up. What did the people of Guam ever do to Kim Jong-Un? People of Guam? Isn't there a shorter way to say that? Keep quizzing and find out...

GUAM

1. The United States gained control of Guam during what conflict?

2. Who was the first European explorer to visit Guam?

3. Formerly known as Agana, what is the capitol city of Guam:

Agat, Barrigada, Dedeno, Hagatna?

4. The back of the 2009 Guam commemorative quarter shows a flying proa. What is that?

5. Which is the proper term (demonym) used to describe a person from Guam:

Guamian, Guamese, Guamanian, Guamesian?

SOCCER

1. What Brazilian star transferred from Barcelona to Paris-St. Germain before this season for an all-time record 222 million Euros ($265 million)?

2. Which La Liga club is currently the defending UEFA Champions League champion?

3. Which now-Everton player is both the Premier League's active career leading scorer and the England national team's all-time leading scorer?

4. What current MLS player was the last player other than Cristiano Ronaldo (the current holder) or Lionel Messi to win the Ballon D'Or honor as the world's best soccer player?

5. Which country won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in July?

DIRECTIONAL ANSWERS

Each answer will contain one or more points of the compass

1. Who was born June 15, 2013, to Kanye and Kim Kardashian West?

2. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have both spoken at what annual Austin, TX music/film/technology gathering?

3. The Perfect Storm tells of the 1991 sinking of the Andrea Gail due to what weather phenomenon?

4. Which Steinbeck title comes from the fourth chapter of Genesis?

5. Alice Braga stars in what USA Network narco-thriller series that first aired in 2016?

ALSO A SOCCER TEAM

Each answer is or includes the name of a Premier League team but you don't have to know any soccer to get the answers. (Not that it hurts)

1. The Cavern Club is a favorite site for music fans visiting what city on the Mersey River?

2. What verb can mean to shake up the coals of a fire?

3. Who did investment banker Mark Mezvinsky marry in December 2010?

4. What port did the Titanic depart on its only voyage?

5. What building was originally built in Hyde Park to host the Great Exhibition of 1851?

GUAM
1. the Spanish-American War
2. Ferdinand Magellan
3. Hagatna (you can kind of see Agana hiding in the new name)
4. a sailboat
5. Guamanian
SOCCER
1. Neymar
2. Real Madrid
3. Wayne Rooney
4. Kaka'
5. USA
DIRECTIONAL ANSWERS
1. North West
2. South By Southwest
3. a nor'easter
4. East of Eden
5. Queen of the South
ALSO A SOCCER TEAM
1. Liverpool
2. Stoke
3. Chelsea Clinton
4. Southampton
5. Crystal Palace

Totality awesome!

Since I've been writing quizzes about as often as there's a major solar eclipse in the United States, I thought my first quiz in a blue moon should be themed around the eclipse coming to America next Monday. I hope that'll be worth your while even if this quiz isn't:

TOTALITY CITY
questions involving cities in the path of totality of the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse

(the number after each indicates how long it will experience total solar eclipse)

1. What two state capitols named for Presidents are in the path of totality?

2. Fairview, Kentucky (2:40) is the birth place of what American president named after another president?

3. Which former terminal of the Pony Express is in the path of totality?

4. The campuses of which current NCAA (Division I) champions in football and basketball are in the path of totality?

5. Chester, Illinois (2:40) is the birthplace of cartoonist Elzie Segar. What Segar character debuted in the funny pages in 1929 with the line, “Ja think I'm a cowboy?”

6. What author had a home in Ketchum, Idaho (1:04) from 1939 until his self-inflicted death there in 1961?

7. Hermitage, Tennessee (2:17) and Hillsboro, Missouri (2:39) are named after the homes of which two Presidents?

8. What Missouri city is named for the patron saint of Paris?

9. What Tennessee city is named for America's longest-serving Treasury Secretary?

10. What lead actress of the Alfred Hitchock film Lifeboat got her name from a Georgia city in the path of totality?

ECLIPSES

1. Which automaker produced a 2-door compact car called the Eclipse from 1989 – 2011?

2. What Welsh singer hit #1 on the Billboard pop chart with “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983?

3. Which of the following is not the name of a visual effect of a solar eclipse?

a) shadow bands

b) umbrella effect

c) Baily's beads

d) diamond ring

4. In what novel does main character Hank Morgan avoid being burned at the stake by predicting a solar eclipse?

5. The next total solar eclipse in North America will occur in the same year Paris is scheduled to next host the Summer Olympics. What year will that be?

“SUN” SONGS

Name the song (or songs), given the artist, year and that the word or syllable “sun” is in the title

1. Soundgarden, 1994

2. Katrina and the Waves, 1985

3. Donovan, 1966

4. Bobby Hebb, 1976

5. The Beatles, 1964, 1966, 1969

“MOON” TITLES

Name the title of the work, given the year, author or lead actor, and that “moon” is somewhere in the title

1. novel, Stephenie Meyer, 2006

2. movie, Roger Moore, 1979

3. movie, Nicolas Cage, 1992

4. album, Ozzy Osborne, 1984

5. movie, Jim Carrey, 1999

Should I ever make it back over here to write a quiz again, it's likeliest to be in this format, 20-25 questions in 4-5 different categories.

TOTALITY CITY 1. Lincoln, NE (1:25) and Jefferson City, MO (2:29)
2. Jefferson Davis
3. St. Joseph, MO (2:38)
4. Clemson (2:37, football) and South Carolina (2:30, women's basketball). Sorry, Tar Heels; most of North Carolina is not in the path.
5. Popeye
6. Ernest Hemingway
7. Andrew Jackson for Hermitage is the easier one; Hillsboro is supposedly the English translation of the Italian for "little mount", or Monticello, so Thomas Jefferson is the other answer
8. Ste. Genevieve (2:40)
9. Gallatin (2:40). Albert Gallatin was Treasury Secretary for 14 years under three Presidents, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.
10. Tallulah Bankhead, whose grandmother Tallulah was named for Tallulah Falls, GA (2:21)
ECLIPSES 1. Mitsubishi
2. Bonnie Tyler
3. b) umbrella effect
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
5. 2024
"SUN" SONGS 1. Black Hole Sun
2. Walking On Sunshine
3. Sunshine Superman
4. Sunny
5. I'll Follow The Sun, Good Day Sunshine, Here Comes The Sun
"MOON" TITLES 1. New Moon
2. Moonraker
3. Honeymoon in Vegas
4. Bark at the Moon
5. Man on the Moon