Tuesday Trivia: May 12, 2008

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL “TRIVIA”
We have all longed for different lives at some point or another. The lure of the unfamiliar has captured many a person, and propelled them into lives of distinction and sometimes disappointment. What would happen, however, if we were constantly faced with individuals as opposite from ourselves as day is to night? In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Café, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family who bought it as an attempt to renew themselves it was home, a place they desperately tried to hold on to and yet, after seventeen years of living there, the very place from which they wanted to escape. Growing up under its leaking roof, Enders Hotel author Brandon R. Schrand watched a cast of broken characters pass through the hotel doors—an alcoholic artist, a forgotten boxing champ, an ex-con, a homeless family—and tried to find his own identity among those revolving faces. Haunted by a father he had never seen, he tested the faces of those drifters for familiarity. Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, The Enders Hotel reveals the promises and warnings of western boomtown life—stories of alcoholism, murder, betrayal, hope, and finally, redemption.
This week TT is going to honor the timeless tradition of providing residence for strangers (at a small fee) by testing our knowledge on all things Hote
1.    The oldest hotel is the Hoshi Ryokan in Komatsu, Japan. It was built in what year?
2.    True or False: There are three underwater hotels in the world today and they are located in                          Sweden, Dubai, and Florida.
3.    The President Wilson Hotel in Switzerland boasts how much a night for their royal suite.
4.    True or False: Room 217 of the Stanley Hotel where Stephen King wrote The Shinning, is actually             haunted.
5.    Which of these hotel movies were nominated for a razzie, and which for an Oscar?
         A. Grand Hotel
        B. Hotel Rwanda
        C. Four rooms and a hotel
        D. Holiday inn
        E. Hotel Pariaso
6.    The Lizzie Borden bed and breakfast is home to the 1892 famous double murder of who?

*Now, a few questions about one of America’s most famous hotels. Can you guess which one it is?*
7.    Both Sir Arthur C.  Clarke who wrote the Short Story 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stanley Kubrick            who directed the film, lived here.
8.    Americas oldest living person, Alpheas Cole, died here in 1988 at the ripe old age of 112.
9.     This hotel has been home to such famous people as
        A.    Mark Twain
        B.    Bob Dylan
        C.    Allen Ginsberg
        D.    Edie Sedgwick.
10.    1978 Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in room 100.

Check back tomorrow for your results!