CW Trivia

Supplies: Music, centerpieces, paper/pens for scoring at each table
Set up 7 tables with 6-10 chairs 

1. Add Aims/Means centerpieces to the tables.

2. Gather everyone.
3. Have people move to their  (favorite tenet. If the table is full, go to your second favorite! meet people
4. Once the tables are settled, time for introductions (20 min)
●	Who are you?  
●	What house are you associated with?
●	Tell us about the house.
●	What is the funniest thing that has happened at your house in the past year?
●	Decide on a team name

5. Trivia Introduction & Rules:  Five rounds, with five questions in each round. After each question, we’ll hear your answer. Keep track of your team’s score!

1. We Love Dorothy!
1. Q: What is the name of Dorothy’s ex-husband?  Peter Maurin, Brian Terrell, Berkeley Tobey, Lincoln Rice, or Eugene O’Neill?
A: Berkeley Tobey

2. Q: To which order was Dorothy a lay oblate?  The Franciscan Order?  The Jesuit Order? the Benedictine order?, or the Jedi Order?
A: Benedictines

3. Q:  What is the name of Dorothy’s first published book? The Eleventh Virgin, The Long Loneliness, What am I Getting Myself Into, or Loaves and Fishes?
A: Eleventh Virgin

4. Q:  Who wrote this to Dorothy: “Intercede for me, a stuffed shirt in a place of stuffed shirts and a big dumb phony, who have tried to be respectable and have succeeded.” John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Merton, Phil Berrigan, or Karl Meyer?

5.  Dorothy spent the first month of her sabbatical year in 1944 with a women’s group in Wheeling, IL, concentrating on prayer and learning how to make butter, cheese, and bread. The group was known as the Ladies of the _______?.  Ladies of the...Cross, Ladies of the...Grail, Ladies of the...Holy Mother of the Dairy, or Ladies of the...Sword?
A:  Grail

2.  Speed Round: In 30 seconds, name as many as you can:
1. Catholic Worker Farms
2. Worker-owned cooperatives
3. Popular Movies of 2012
4. Places that Peter OR Dorothy lived
5. Countries the U.S. has invaded

2. CW Odds and Ends
1. Q:  What did Judith Malina, who was arrested with Dorothy at the first Civil Defense drill protest in 1955, say when the judge asked her if she’d ever been in a mental institution? Hint: her reply earned her a trip to Belleview, the local mental institution, for observation. 
A: She answered, “No, have you?”

2. Q: What was Peter Maurin’s middle name?  Peter...Jacques Maurin? , Peter....Aristide Maurin?, Peter... Papa bear Maurin?, or Peter... Ammon Maurin?
A: Aristide

3.  What is the name of the Catholic Worker Farm in Luck, Wisconsin?  New Hope Farm, Damn Hippy Commune Farm, Anathoth Farm, Peter Maurin Farm
A: Anathoth Farm

4.  On what annual occasion does the community of the Tacoma CW get naked and jump into Puget Sound?
A: The Feast Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe

5. How do you know when you’re a successful Catholic Worker?
A: Any answer is correct, we like “When you are mistaken for a guest”

4.  The Charade Round
Intro: Five rounds of charades, folks will come up to front to act.  Wouldn’t hurt to pay attention to what other people are acting out!  

Round 5: Finish the Lyrics - You name the next line...
1.  Sweet Caroline:  “we fill it up with only two”
Start   :42 
Stop: 1:33

2. The Gambler: “is knowing what to throw away, and knowing what to keep”
Start 1:08
Stop 1:41

3. Amazing Grace “We've no less days to sing God's praise, Than when we first begun”
Start 2:05
Stop 2:35

4. Me and Julio Down by the SchoolYard  “papa said oy if i get that boy, i’m gonna stick him the house of detention”
Start: Beginning of song
Stop: 0:42

5. Bad Romance “cuz you’re a criminal as long as your mine”
Start  1:00
Stop 1:47
Charade Round #1

1.	The Mass wine is spoiled 
2.	Hiding beer while trying to get into your house of hospitality
3.	Leading a yoga class for guests
4.	Breaking up a fight while dinner is burning
5.	The power goes out in your house of hospitality
6.	Running out of Toilet Paper in your house
7.	An unexpected volunteer group arrives, and you make up things for them to do

Charade Round #2

1.	Hauling in food donations that are spoiled and smelly
2.	Realizing your sandwich is moldy and eating around it
3.	Facilitating an affinity group
4.	Biking while exercising your dog
5.	Dumpster diving
6.	Composting
7.	Setting mouse traps

Charade Round #3

1.	Trying to explain what a Catholic Worker is
2.	Coming home late, and finding a puddle of pee/vomit
3.	Mid summer with no Air conditioning, eating the hot soup that the volunteers brought
4.	Weeding without gloves
5.	Trying to discreetly wake up a fellow community member who has fallen asleep during prayer
6.	Answering the phone while holding a screaming baby
7.	Canning tomatoes

Charade Round #4

1.	Setting mouse traps...and getting arrested
2.	Cooking dinner....and getting arrested
3.	Running out of TP....and getting arrested
4.	Eating around moldy food... and getting arrested
5.	Canning tomatoes...and getting arrested
6.	Leading a yoga class for guests... and getting arrested
7.	Composting...and getting arrested

Charade Round #5
1.	 Scavenge and chopping wood
2.	 Explain to a guest why we don’t allow moms to hit their kids
3.	 Imitate the person to your right
4.	 Write your newsletter article while taking house
5.	 Playing charades at a Midwest CW Gathering
6.	 Writing a song about your latest protest
7.	Imitate the person to your left

From Steve Jacobs and Chrissy Kirchhoffer:

Trivia Questions:
There have been drone trial in 3 states- In which state was international law not allowed?
A NV
B NY
C MO*
 
Which of the following men was Dorothy Day not romantically involved?
A Lionel Moises
B Forreter Batterham
C Groucho Marx*
 
What crime did Dorothy commit in which she was not prosecuted?
 A Failure to obey a civil defense block captain
B Failure to disperse during United Farm Workers Pickets
C Biting the warden after arrest for a demonstration at the white house*
What was the mile marker nearest to the nuclear weapon or Intercontinental ballistic missile in which Carl Kabat and 3 others as the Silo Pruning Hooks?
Mile marker 45
 
Dorothy Day has been quoted for several famous statements which of the following was not attributed to her?
A “the church may be a whore but she is still our mother”
B “If assholes could fly there would be not sunlight over the Vatican”*
C “You must always have time for the pain”
D “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy rotten system”
 
The title of Dorothy Day’s auto-biographical novel was
A Virgin in Paradise
B The reluctant virgin
C Voluntary Virginity
D 11th Virgin*
E 12th Virgin
F The Manhattan Project
 
What year did CW members invade and occupy an island at the Strategic Air Command at Offuit AFB?
A 1982
B 1984*
C 1986
 
Which of following items did Helen Woodson, of the Silo Pruning Hooks action, not send to a judge?
A A birthday cake
B Coffee creamer
C A bullet
D None- all of these items were sent*
 
What eventual fate of Claire, the paraplegic dog of St. Francis Community in Columbia MO?
A She was able to miraculously walk again after many novenas were offered serving as yet  another miracle attributed to Dorothy Day
B She died instantly after being struck by a car a second time
C After dying of natural causes, she was freeze dried and taken on tour by Lana Jacobs*
D After an “accidental poisoning” of anti-freeze she was laid to rest in the backyard Nixon monument

From Phil Runkel:

On rereading my questions for the 1987-1991 gatherings, I’m not sure any meet your criteria.
Here are a few, though, which you are welcome to use or adapt:
 
Dorothy spent the first month of her sabbatical year in 1944 with a women’s group in Wheeling, IL, concentrating on
prayer and learning how to make butter, cheese, and bread. The group was known as the Ladies of the _______.
(Grail)  
 
This Worker, a member of the Army Reserve, wrote:  “On drill nights I felt myself an outcast. I would wait until everyone
was at dinner and then sneak out of the house in my uniform, the livery of my compromise. There was constant discussion
of how I could be so unprincipled.” Who was he? (Hint: This was during the Korean War) (Mike Harrington)
 
What Broadway comedy of the 1930s might have been inspired by the Catholic Worker? (You Can’t Take It with You)
 
Who wrote this to Dorothy: “Intercede for me, a stuffed shirt in a place of stuffed shirts and a big dumb phony, who have
tried to be respectable and have succeeded.” (Merton)
 
Early Worker Ray Scott made this assessment of his movement. Fill in the blanks: “The _____ is ejected but the ____ remains.”
(gold/dross)
 
The first movie review to appear in the CW was published in the July-August 1944 issue. The critic admitted that he hadn’t seen
the film and didn’t intend to see it, but asserted that this fact didn’t disqualify him. He concluded: “Let Catholic reviewers, before
praising…or other stories of the same kind, see if they meet the Church’s high and austere requirements. And if these requirements
seem harsh and inhuman to us, it could be that the cause is our own effeminacy and our inability to rise to any genuine high
religious ideal.” Who was the reviewer and what was the film? (Fr. Hugo/ Going My Way)
 
She wrote Ammon Hennacy: “I was rather surprised to find that you have among your co-workers members of the radical Catholic
group. I confess that is a new one on me of I have never known of Catholics being radical.” “Who was she?  (Emma Goldman)
 
This combative right-wing columnist attacked Dorothy for “moral frowziness.” Who was he? (Westbrook Pegler)
 
Arrested with Dorothy at the first Civil Defense drill protest in 1955, when the judge asked her if she’d ever been in a mental
Institution, she replied. “No, have you?” This earned her a trip to Belleview for observation. Who was she? (Judith Malina)
 
The far right Catholic paper The Wanderer attacked Dorothy and the CW many times before according her “grudging respect”
(Nancy Roberts) after her death. Perhaps its best put down, which earned its editor a letter from Ammon Hennacy, was
“It is rumored that Dorothy Day is a ___________.” (communicant)
 
Some contributions for the court-ordered fireproofing of the Chrystie Street house in 1956 came as a result of publicity on
this audience participation program, which was CBS’s counterpart to Queen for a Day. What was it? (Strike It Rich)

From Eric Anglada
What community hosted the first ever Midwest CW Retreat?
St. Louis

Who  did Ammon Hennacy meet in prison in 1917 who converted him from a socialist to an anarchist?
Alexander Berkman

Which CW “went plain” so that homeless poeople would recognize him as “that Amish looking guy”?
Ross Martinie Eiler

What was Peter Maurin’s middle name?
Aristide

What current CW has written a series of books on assassination conspiricies? 
James Douglass

What CW Community is named after a married couple?
Franz and Franzeska Jagerstatter CW in Lake City, MN

Who was Frank Cordaro speaking to with a squeaky, high pitched voice while holding a sweaty clump of ash?
Jimmy Carter

What town was the site of the first ever Plowshares action?
King of Prussia, PA