Round 1



Round 1

|1. What two animals appear on the flag of Mexico? |___ |___ |

|Answer: An eagle and a snake | | |

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|2. The title of this 1965 Frank Herbert novel refers to the desert planet of Arrakis. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Dune | | |

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|3. For all intents and purposes, Basra is the only port city of which country? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Iraq | | |

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|4. Modeled after TIME, it is the highest-circulation news weekly in Indonesia. Identify this news magazine, whose name means "time" |___ |___ |

|in Indonesian. Hint: the Indonesian word for "time" is borrowed from Portuguese and is also the same word in Italian. | | |

|Answer: TEMPO | | |

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|5. Identify the animals referred to by these four adjectives: canine, equine, feline, bovine. |___ |___ |

|Answer: (In order) dog, horse, cat, cow | | |

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|6. With which wars would you associate these four U.S. ships: MAINE, LUSITANIA, ARIZONA, BONHOMME RICHARD? |___ |___ |

|Answer: (in order) Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, American Revolution | | |

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|7. This sound and the island with which it shares its name lie south of Cape Cod. Can you name it? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Nantucket | | |

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|8. What is the next prime number after 50? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 53 | | |

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|9. Russia, in its educational system, mainly emphasizes: (a) literature and art, (b) scholastic philosophy, (c) sociology and cultural|___ |___ |

|anthropology, or (d) physical science and mathematics? | | |

|Answer: (d) physical science and mathematics | | |

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|10. Which geological time period has been called the "Age of Fishes": Ordovician, Pleistocene, Jurassic, Triassic, or Devonian? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Devonian | | |

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|11. The members of the House of Hanover reigned over Great Britain from 1714-1901. Name any five of them. |___ |___ |

|Answer: George I, George II, George III, George IV, William IV, Victoria | | |

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|12. According to scholars, which city probably had no more than 15 male children two years old or younger when King Herod ordered the |___ |___ |

|deaths of all male children that age in search for Jesus? | | |

|Answer: Bethlehem | | |

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|13. Its four basic types are, in decreasing order of size, beefsteak, medium, plum, and cherry. What's this common home garden crop? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Tomato | | |

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|14. Molten rock material flowing on the earth's surface is called lava. What is it properly called before it erupts at the earth's |___ |___ |

|surface? | | |

|Answer: Magma | | |

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|15. Which of the following monarchs was not a member of the Tudor family that reigned in Great Britain throughout the 16th century; |___ |___ |

|Edward V, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Mary I, or Mary Queen of Scots? | | |

|Answer: Mary Queen of Scots | | |

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|16. On October 22, 1946, Chester Carlson inked the date and place on a piece of glass. Then he electrostatically charged a chemically|___ |___ |

|treated metal plate. He aimed light on the glass and plate, sprayed the plate with dye and pressed a piece of paper to the metal. | | |

|When the sheet was pried off, the date and place was visible. Thus was born a process. Name the process. | | |

|Answer: Xerography (accept Xeroxing or photocopying), | | |

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|17. Abdicating in 1795, Stanislaw II Poniatowski was the last king of which country? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Poland | | |

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|18. What two-word term designates negotiations conducted by an intermediary who travels between the nations involved? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Shuttle diplomacy | | |

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|19. Where would you find a PCV valve: kitchen sink, toilet tank, car, or outdoor faucet? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Car | | |

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|20. Adenosine diphosphate is an important component of: lava, CFCs, living cells, jet fuselage, or marble? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Living cells | | |

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|21. Which of the following is the major feature of Euripides' work: biting satire, buffoonery, tragic content, protagonists, or |___ |___ |

|animals? | | |

|Answer: Tragic content | | |

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|22. What is the common name for magnesium sulfate, often used as a medicine? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Epsom salts | | |

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|23. It's the Hindu prince next in rank from a rajah. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Maharajah | | |

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|24. Mississippi is the Magnolia State. Identify the Pine Tree State. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Maine | | |

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|25. What do the following sentences have in common? "The computer is down." "I was in the shower." "My dog ate it." "My alarm |___ |___ |

|didn't go off." "It's in the mail." "I've got a headache." | | |

|Answer: They're all classic excuses. | | |

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|26. The interplanetary explorer with the greatest longevity was launched on March 2, 1972, and on June 13, 1983, became the first |___ |___ |

|manmade object to travel beyond the known solar system. It was retired in March 1997. Name it. | | |

|Answer: Pioneer X | | |

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|27. Members of the palm family of plants yield all of these products except: coconut, dates, cashews, or thatch? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Cashews | | |

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|28. Hole man, driver, lead break, ball under, four-meter, wet pass, and flat are terms from what rugged aquatic sport? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Water Polo | | |

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|29. Probably the most outdated of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights is that which states that soldiers may not be quartered in any |___ |___ |

|house during times of war unless prescribed by law. Which amendment is it? | | |

|Answer: 3rd Amendment | | |

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|30. What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (2,3) and (8,3)? |___ |___ |

|Answer: zero | | |

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|31. It is within the realm of possibility to escort Equus caballus to a site supplying a potable quantity of dihydrogen oxide; |___ |___ |

|however, one cannot coerce said quadruped to imbibe." What familiar maxim says it better? | | |

|Answer: "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink." | | |

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|32. What did Aaron do while Moses was away at Mount Sinai? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Built a golden calf. | | |

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|33. Starting in northern Indiana, in the vicinity of Fort Wayne, this river flows southwest past Kokomo, through Lafayette and West |___ |___ |

|Lafayette before turning south and running through Terre Haute, Indiana, and forming the southwest border between Indiana and | | |

|Illinois. Name this tributary of the Ohio, famed in song and legend. | | |

|Answer: Wabash River | | |

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|34. Which city is considered to have the most mystifying street network: Washington, Moscow, Tokyo, Mexico City, or London? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Tokyo | | |

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|35. John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. What jurist served the longest term as Chief Justice? |___ |___ |

|Answer: John Marshall | | |

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|36. What is the three-word name for the specific time during a baseball game when "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is sung. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Seventh Inning Stretch | | |

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|37. Bill Monroe introduced the world to a new musical form with his first appearance at the Grand Ole Orpy in Nashville in 1939, |___ |___ |

|playing the tune "Mule Skinner Blues." The music combined elements of folk, blues, jazz, gospel, and the Scottish and Irish ballads | | |

|of Appalachia. He is known as the father of the genre. What is it? | | |

|Answer: Bluegrass | | |

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|38. Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine had five sons, but only Richard the Lionhearted and ___ became king. |___ |___ |

|Answer: John | | |

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|39. As an adjective, it means "loathesome"; as a noun, it's a generic term for game birds. |___ |___ |

|Answer: FOUL (FOWL) | | |

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|40. If I mentioned after, main, half, quarter, forward, forecastle, and poop, what would I be discussing? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Decks of sailing ships | | |

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|41. Give me the nicknames of these three famous men of the Old West: James Butler Hickock, William Cody, William Bonny. |___ |___ |

|Answer: (In order) Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid | | |

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Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus. All answers must be answered without stalling.

|Blitz Round - All 10 Point Tossups |1 |1 |

|Baseball | | |

|42. Fenway Park's green monster is 37 feet tall and painted green. Is it the wall for left field, center field, or right field?|___ |___ |

|Ans: Left field | | |

|43. What baseball team last won a World Series the year it last had Babe Ruth? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Boston Red Sox | | |

|44. What was lowered five inches when only six full-time players batted .300 or better in 1968? |___ |___ |

|Ans: The pitcher's mound | | |

|45. What was Carlos Baerga the first major league baseball player to do? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Hit a home run from both sides of the plate in the same inning | | |

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|Middle Names: I'll give you the middle names of some famous people who were known by three names, and you give the first and | | |

|last names. | | |

|46. Conan |___ |___ |

|Ans: Arthur Doyle | | |

|47. Chandler |___ |___ |

|Ans: Joel Harris | | |

|48. Boothe |___ |___ |

|Ans: Clare Luce | | |

|49. Brinsley |___ |___ |

|Ans: Richard Sheridan | | |

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|Royals: How well do you know royal history? I'll name the year and the country, and you name the monarch in power at that time| | |

|and place. | | |

|50. Russia, 1900 |___ |___ |

|Ans: Nicholas II | | |

|51. France, 1700 |___ |___ |

|Ans: Louis XIV | | |

|52. England, 1500 |___ |___ |

|Ans: Henry VII | | |

|53. Spain, 1600 |___ |___ |

|Ans: Philip III | | |

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|Classical Mythology | | |

|54. What happens to mortals who eat ambrosia, the food of the gods? |___ |___ |

|Ans: They become immortal. | | |

|55. Of her suitors, it was said Leiodes was the only one who was righteous at heart. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Penelope | | |

|56. In Book 12 of The Odyssey, Circe warns of what women, who bewitch every man who approach them? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Sirens | | |

|57. Ariadne supplied Theseus with a ball of thread that led him out of what? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Labyrinth | | |

|58. Identify the avenging Roman goddess whose name has come to mean any enemy. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Nemesis | | |

|59. As god of which type of weather did Jupiter have the epithet "Pluvius"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Rain | | |

|60. These attendants of Dionysus, part-man and part-animal, were famous for chasing nymphs. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Satyrs | | |

|61. What goddess brought to life Pygmalion's statue of Galatea, which was so beautiful he fell in love with it? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Aphrodite | | |

|62. Asclepius, son of Apollo, was the Greek god of what? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Healing or medicine | | |

|63. What one-time king of Corinth was punished in Tartarus by being compelled to eternally roll a huge stone up a hill? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Sisyphus | | |

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