Pool Play - Round 1
Pool Play - Round 1
9:20:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. Where does the next batter wait for his turn at bat in baseball? |10 |10 |
|Answer: In the on-deck circle | | |
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|Question 2. How many points are scored for a football field goal? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 3 | | |
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|Question 3. Which American president has a varied career as a Navy officer, nuclear engineer, successful farmer, businessman, and |10 |10 |
|governor? | | |
|Answer: Jimmy Carter | | |
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|Question 4. What instrument was the first means of telling time? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Sundial | | |
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|Question 5. The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, served as a fort, and many men died defending it. What was the Alamo before it was |10 |10 |
|turned into a fort? | | |
|Answer: Mission or church or convent or hospital | | |
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|Question 6. What South American country is largest on the continent? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Brazil | | |
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|Question 7. A shaggy, gigantic, manlike creature is known as Sasquatch to the Pacific Northwest Indians. What do we call this |10 |10 |
|legendary creature? | | |
|Answer: Bigfoot | | |
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|Question 8. An ailing worker rescued by Canadian pilots from what place, after five days of weather delays, is back in the USA? |10 |10 |
|Answer: The South Pole | | |
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|Question 9. I'll name the first half of three famous pairs, and you name the other half: Sacco and ________; Tweeldedum and |10 |10 |
|__________; Amos and ____. | | |
|Answer: (In order) Vanzetti, Tweedledee, Andy | | |
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|Question 10. Keith Lockhart is the current conductor of which orchestra, previously under the baton of such notables as Arthur Fiedler|10 |10 |
|and John Williams? | | |
|Answer: Boston Pops Orchestra (He also serves as conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra.) | | |
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|Question 11. An adjective modifies a noun. What three parts of speech does an adverb modify? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Verb, adjective, or another adverb | | |
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|Question 12. An alphabetized list of the fifty states of the Union would begin with Alabama and end with what state? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Wyoming | | |
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|Question 13. Madison Avenue represents the American advertising industry. Another New York street represents American finance and the|10 |10 |
|stock market. What is it? | | |
|Answer: Wall Street | | |
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|Question 14. What is the difference between cavalry and Calvary? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Cavalry is a mounted military unit. Calvary is the hill where Jesus Christ was crucified. | | |
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|Question 15. Prince Henry the Navigator |10 |10 |
|Answer: Portuguese | | |
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|Question 16. The United States Supreme Court opens on the traditional first Monday in October. How many justices are there on the |10 |10 |
|Court? | | |
|Answer: 9 | | |
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|Question 17. Antoine Lavoisier has been called the Father of Modern Chemistry. Who is called the Father of Psychoanalysis? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Sigmund Freud | | |
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|Question 18. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER is a ballad depicting the trials and tribulations of some oysters. Who wrote the poem? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Lewis Carroll | | |
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|Question 19. Stone Mountain, Georgia, measures about two miles long, one mile wide, and is the largest stone mountain in North |10 |10 |
|America. What kind of stone is it? | | |
|Answer: Granite | | |
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|Question 20. Saudi Arabia’s religious police have declared what dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of |10 |10 |
|the toy—already banned in the kingdom—are offensive to Islam? | | |
|Answer: Barbie | | |
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|Question 21. A baseball player comes to the plate 5 times. He is hit by a pitch, he strikes out, he draws a base on balls, he |10 |10 |
|singles, and he knocks a sacrifice fly. What is his batting average for the game? | | |
|Answer: .500 | | |
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|Question 22. The first commercially successful steamboat was designed and built by Robert Fulton. What was the name of the vessel? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Clermont | | |
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|Question 23. Ben is 9 years old; Sam is 7; Greg, 4; and Marvin, 8. What is the average age of these four boys? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 7 | | |
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|Question 24. A father and son made wings of wax and flew with them. The son flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax, and he |10 |10 |
|plunged to his death. Can you identify this mythological pair? | | |
|Answer: Daedalus and his son Icarus | | |
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|Question 25. Numerous new Internet “foliage cams” are giving viewers daily or weekly updates as well as live looks at what annual |10 |10 |
|event, popular especially in New England? | | |
|Answer: The changing of the autumn tree colors | | |
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|Question 26. In 1628, an English doctor demonstrated how the human blood circulates. Who was he? |10 |10 |
|Answer: William Harvey | | |
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|Question 27. What unit of mass is abbreviated by the letters kg? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Kilogram | | |
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|Question 28. It's the eighth largest country in the world. Its neighbors are Bolivia and Paraguay to the north; Chile to the west; |10 |10 |
|Uruguay to the east; and Brazil to the northeast. What is the country? | | |
|Answer: Argentina | | |
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|Question 29. How many others were crucified with Jesus Christ? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 2 | | |
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|Question 30. Is the heroine of PETER PAN named Becky Sharp, Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale, or Lorna Doone? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Wendy Darling | | |
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|Question 31. Ted Turner has started a restaurant chain, Ted's Montana Grill, where he is turning what animals into burgers and, in the|10 |10 |
|process, hoping to build what he calls "another great fortune"? | | |
|Answer: Bison (Accept buffalo.) | | |
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|Question 32. The United States participated in World War II for a period of how many years: one, two, three, or four? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Four | | |
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|Question 33. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, and 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA,|10 |10 |
|are all books that have been made into adventure movies. Do you know the 19th century French author who wrote the novels? | | |
|Answer: Jules Verne | | |
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|Question 34. Known as the crossroads of the Pacific, this port city serves as the stopping point for ships and planes crossing the |10 |10 |
|Pacific Ocean. Located on the island of Oahu, it is the capital and largest city of Hawaii. Name the city. | | |
|Answer: Honolulu | | |
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|Question 35. What world leader said that he would have resigned had there been any truth to a report that his government had |10 |10 |
|embellished an intelligence dossier on Iraq with dubious information? | | |
|Answer: British Prime Minister Tony Blair | | |
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|Question 36. What TV quiz show did blind sportswriter Eddie Timanus become a five-day champion on, in 2001? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jeopardy | | |
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|Question 37. What period of the year begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Lent | | |
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|Question 38. What do we call a natural electrical discharge in the sky? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Lightning | | |
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|Question 39. Sometimes it is possible to use exact numbers, but when numbers become very large or change very fast, exact numbers may |10 |10 |
|be impossible to arrive at. Data is often reported in this way. What mathematical term describes these estimates? | | |
|Answer: Rounded numbers | | |
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|Question 40. Who had a teddy bear named Winnie the Pooh? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Christopher Robin | | |
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|Question 41. Who attempted to turn West Point over to the British in 1780? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Benedict Arnold | | |
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|Question 42. Prior to this year’s victory over the Atlanta Braves, when was the last time the Chicago Cubs won a postseason series? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1908 | | |
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Lightning Round
|LETTERS-Each of the following descriptions leads to a single letter of the-alphabet. For example, if I said niacin, you'd say B as in |1 |2 |
|B-12. | | |
|Question 43. Operation Overlord |5 |5 |
|Answer: D (D-Day) | | |
|Question 44. The time for an attack to begin |5 |5 |
|Answer: H (H-hour) | | |
|Question 45. An elementary particle |5 |5 |
|Answer: Z or W | | |
|Question 46. A military food |5 |5 |
|Answer: K or C (K/C rations) | | |
|SHAKESPEARE-Name these Shakespearean characters. |1 |2 |
|Question 47. She was driven mad by Hamlet. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ophelia | | |
|Question 48. He kills his wife, then executes himself when he learns of her innocence. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Othello | | |
|Question 49. Hamlet kills this king. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Claudius | | |
|RED, WHITE, AND BLUE- The three colors of the flag appear in other places, too. In this quiz I want you to tell me what color is: |1 |2 |
|Question 50. A sapphire |5 |5 |
|Answer: Blue | | |
|Question 51. Which is hottest--red, white, or blue? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Blue | | |
|Question 52. Turquoise |5 |5 |
|Answer: Blue | | |
|Question 53. Azurite |5 |5 |
|Answer: Blue | | |
|SUN-Louis XIV was called the Sun King. Come up with these other sunny items. |1 |2 |
|Question 54. Prostration from extreme heat is . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Sunstroke | | |
|Question 55. An ancient instrument for measuring time |5 |5 |
|Answer: Sundial | | |
|Question 56. Norway |5 |5 |
|Answer: Land of the Midnight Sun | | |
|Unique is what you seek in this category. |1 |2 |
|Question 57. The only metal that is a liquid at room temperature. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mercury | | |
|Question 58. The only four-letter word ending in eny. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Deny | | |
|Question 59. The oldest living thing in the U.S. is named for a Civil War general. It is located in Sequoia National Park. What is |5 |5 |
|its name? | | |
|Answer: General Sherman Big Tree | | |
|Question 60. Identify the only President who served more than two terms. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Franklin Roosevelt | | |
|EXECUTIONS- Here's a list of people well-remembered by history, some for their crimes, some for their goodness, all executed by the |1 |2 |
|legal system of their day. How were they executed? | | |
|Question 61. Jesus Christ |5 |5 |
|Answer: Crucifixion | | |
|Question 62. Nathan Hale |5 |5 |
|Answer: Hanged without a trial | | |
|Question 63. Maximilien de Robespierre |5 |5 |
|Answer: Guillotined | | |
|WHOSE WHAT?- The answers are things that belong to someone; for example, if I said Aesop's, you'd say Fables. |1 |2 |
|Question 64. Halley's |5 |5 |
|Answer: Comet | | |
|Question 65. Pandora's |5 |5 |
|Answer: Box | | |
|Question 66. Dante's |5 |5 |
|Answer: Inferno | | |
|LEGAL TERMS- Provide the word or expression used by the legal profession to describe the given data. |1 |2 |
|Question 67. An individual's assets. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Estate (net worth) | | |
|Question 68. To revoke an attorney's right to practice. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Disbar | | |
|Question 69. Money paid for support of spouse. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Alimony | | |
|Question 70. A document issued for purpose of travel outside the country. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Passport | | |
|I will name four trophies and you name each sport. |1 |2 |
|Question 71. Davis Cup |5 |5 |
|Answer: Tennis | | |
|Question 72. Walker Cup |5 |5 |
|Answer: Golf | | |
|Question 73. America's Cup |5 |5 |
|Answer: Yacht racing | | |
|Question 74. Stanley Cup |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ice hockey | | |
Pool Play - Round 2
9:40:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. Tell me exactly where the earth, sun, and moon are during both a solar and lunar eclipse. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Solar eclipse--the moon passes between the earth and sun. Lunar eclipse--the earth passes between the moon and sun. | | |
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|Question 2. Edward Gibbon wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Who wrote THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USSHER? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Edgar Allan Poe | | |
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|Question 3. New textbooks are being printed but they are not expected to be available until November, so until then Iraqi students |10 |10 |
|will tear out pictures and draw lines through references to whom in a de-Baathication process? | | |
|Answer: Saddam | | |
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|Question 4. The English colony at Fort Rawley on Roanoke Island failed after many hardships. Roanoke Island was then considered part |10 |10 |
|of an area called Virginia. What state is it part of today? | | |
|Answer: North Carolina | | |
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|Question 5. The U.S. will impose economic sanctions on Cuba, North Korea and Myanmar for failing to take steps to stop what sort of |10 |10 |
|trafficking? | | |
|Answer: Humans for modern-day slavery | | |
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|Question 6. Which American President lost a great deal of popularity because of the failure of his attack on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba? |10 |10 |
|Answer: John F. Kennedy | | |
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|Question 7. A group of similar cells is called a tissue. What do scientists call a group of similar tissues? |10 |10 |
|Answer: An organ | | |
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|Question 8. This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Little League | | |
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|Question 9. October 4, 1957, was the day the Space Age started with the launching of a Russian spacecraft. What was it called? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Sputnik | | |
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|Question 10. Who is zero called the identity number of addition? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Adding zero to any number of any number to zero does not change the value of the number. | | |
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|Question 11. I am; he is; they ___? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Are | | |
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|Question 12. Late maturity or old age in a river is characterized by : (a) a straight course, (b) rapids, (c) meanders and oxbow |10 |10 |
|lakes, or (d) sharp divides? | | |
|Answer: (c) meanders and oxbow lakes | | |
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|Question 13. The prime minister of which Southeast Asian nation recently told a summit of Islamic leaders that Muslims should unite |10 |10 |
|nonviolently against "Jewish domination"? | | |
|Answer: Malaysia | | |
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|Question 14. Both he and the headless horseman were in love with Katrina, in the story THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington |10 |10 |
|Irving. Name this character. | | |
|Answer: Ichabod Crane | | |
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|Question 15. Name the capitals of these three states: Florida, Vermont, Delaware. |10 |10 |
|Answer: (In order) Tallahassee, Montpelier, Dover | | |
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|Question 16. It's 1/4 the size of the earth, has 1/6 the gravity, has no weather, no sound, no light. What is it? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Moon | | |
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|Question 17. An early Gothic cathedral completed in 1250. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Notre Dame | | |
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|Question 18. Name the immortal literary character who exchanges his mother's cow for a handful of beans. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jack | | |
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|Question 19. Which planet has the most moons? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Saturn | | |
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|Question 20. Stephen was the first Christian martyr. Who was the first of the twelve apostles to be martyred? |10 |10 |
|Answer: James | | |
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|Question 21. There are two types of breast stroke used in the National Swimming Championships. One is the regular breast stroke. |10 |10 |
|What's the other? | | |
|Answer: Butterfly | | |
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|Question 22. Who is the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt | | |
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|Question 23. What company introduced its new combination cell phone and game console, in attempt to wrest control of the market from |10 |10 |
|Nintendo? | | |
|Answer: Nokia | | |
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|Question 24. Radio stations throughout the United States must have a name that contains three or four letters in the alphabet, the |10 |10 |
|first of which must be one of only two letters allowed by the FCC. Name these two letters. | | |
|Answer: K, W | | |
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|Question 25. Peking is the capital of China. What is the capital of Taiwan? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Taipeh | | |
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|Question 26. In what play by Arthur Miller is Willy Loman the title character? |10 |10 |
|Answer: DEATH OF A SALESMAN | | |
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|Question 27. Typically, it is made of diced apples, celery, and nuts dressed with mayonnaise. This salad was named for a famous hotel|10 |10 |
|in new York City. Can you name it? | | |
|Answer: Waldorf Salad | | |
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|Question 28. What familiar zoo animal has an appetite for insects, especially termites and ants? Its long snout and tongue enable it |10 |10 |
|to burrow under the earth for dinner. | | |
|Answer: Anteater | | |
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|Question 29. A recent report in the journal Nature finds that certain wide-ranging carnivores do so poorly in captivity that zoos |10 |10 |
|should either drastically improve their conditions or stop keeping them altogether. Name any two of the wide-ranging carnivores | | |
|mentioned in the report. | | |
|Answer: Polar bears, Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs | | |
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|Question 30. Who is called the Father of our Country? |10 |10 |
|Answer: George Washington | | |
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|Question 31. Identify the grammatical error in the following sentence: "I wanted to just shake his hand." |10 |10 |
|Answer: split infinitive | | |
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|Question 32. Killing an albatross causes disaster in what famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge? |10 |10 |
|Answer: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER | | |
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|Question 33. What street is celebrated as the Cradle of Jazz? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Bourbon Street | | |
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|Question 34. John Milton wrote PARADISE LOST. Who wrote PARADISE REGAINED? |10 |10 |
|Answer: John Milton | | |
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|Question 35. Students arriving at what Ivy League university found more than 2,500 workers on strike, adding to the reputation as |10 |10 |
|having the most contentious labor relations of any university in the nation? | | |
|Answer: Yale University | | |
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|Question 36. Whom did Stephen Foster dream of "with the light brown hair"? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jeannie | | |
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|Question 37. Winnie the Pooh's donkey friend likes to eat thistles. What is the name of this strange creature? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Eeyore | | |
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|Question 38. Today we shop in a variety of stores and we pay with cash, checks, or charge it. But in the simpler days of our |10 |10 |
|country's economy, when most Americans lived on farms, much trade involved the exchange of crops, such as corn or tobacco, for cloth | | |
|or nails or sugar or other goods. What term describes this simple method of trade? | | |
|Answer: barter | | |
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|Question 39. Kilauea is a volcano located on what Pacific island? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Hawaii | | |
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|Question 40. If one box of saltines weighs 1 1/3 pounds, how much do five boxes weigh? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 6 2/3 pounds | | |
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|Question 41. Tell me the difference between a carnivore, a herbivore, and an omnivore. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Carnivore eats meat. Herbivore eats plants. Omnivore eats both. | | |
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|Question 42. Alabama’s suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore is sending an offer of giving what item to the Congressional leadership, and |10 |10 |
|the office of Rep. Tom DeLay is researching who has the authority to decide whether to accept it? | | |
|Answer: Ten Commandments monument | | |
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Lightning Round
|BIBLICAL “REGRETS”- We're going to take a less-than-serious look at Bible characters who made famous mistakes. In fact, imagine them |1 |2 |
|saying, “I have but one regret. Next time . . . “ | | |
|Question 43. I won't taunt any little kid with a slingshot. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Goliath | | |
|Question 44. I won't start to doubt until I'm back in the boat. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Peter | | |
|Question 45. I won't eat fruit off strange trees. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Adam and Eve | | |
|U.S.A.-I'll give you product-clues, and you name the state. |1 |2 |
|Question 46. The pineapple center of the United States is in what state? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Hawaii | | |
|Question 47. Of Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, and New York, which state makes more than one-half the firearms and ammunition in the |5 |5 |
|United States? | | |
|Answer: Connecticut | | |
|Question 48. What state is largely known for raising race horses? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Kentucky | | |
|MAMMAL, BIRD, OR FISH?-I'll name it and you classify it. |1 |2 |
|Question 49. Cassowary |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bird | | |
|Question 50. Skate |5 |5 |
|Answer: Fish | | |
|Question 51. Petrel |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bird | | |
|Question 52. Chamois |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mammal | | |
|AFRICA |1 |2 |
|Question 53. Name the mountain range located in the northwestern part of the continent. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Atlas Mountains | | |
|Question 54. Rank Africa among the seven continents in terms of size. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Second | | |
|Question 55. Papyrus is a water plant that now grows mainly in the upper Nile Valley. Ancient Egyptians used this plant for what |5 |5 |
|purpose? | | |
|Answer: Paper | | |
|Question 56. What animal is generally associated with desert travel? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Camel | | |
|ELEMENTS-The names of elements of the Periodic Table are contained in the words and expressions here described. Identify the elements.|1 |2 |
|Question 57. A tissue used for copying. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Carbon, as in carbon paper | | |
|Question 58. A color of women's hair popular in the 30's. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Platinum, from platinum blonde | | |
|Question 59. California electronics manufacturing region. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Silicon, as in Silicon Valley | | |
|FLORIDA |1 |2 |
|Question 60. This large city is close to Disney World. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Orlando | | |
|Question 61. This is the largest city. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Jacksonville | | |
|Question 62. This is the southernmost city. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Key West | | |
|WHERE-Where are these volcanoes? |1 |2 |
|Question 63. Mauna Loa |5 |5 |
|Answer: Hawaii | | |
|Question 64. Kilimanjaro |5 |5 |
|Answer: Africa | | |
|Question 65. Mt. Etna |5 |5 |
|Answer: Sicily | | |
|Question 66. Paricutin |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mexico | | |
|ALPHABETICS- Each answer will begin with a different letter: the first with an h, the second with an i, and so forth. |1 |2 |
|Question 67. One of the most important drugs used for heart disease. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Nitroglycerine | | |
|Question 68. Word which describes massive bleeding. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Hemorrhaging | | |
|Question 69. This major port is the capital of Ukraine. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Kiev | | |
Pool Play - Round 3
10:00:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. Rudyard Kipling's short story called RIKKI TIKKI TAVI is a fable about a lot of animals. What kind of animal is the title|10 |10 |
|character? | | |
|Answer: A mongoose | | |
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|Question 2. It contains more 3 1/2 million letters, 700,000+ words, more than 30,000 verses, more than 1,100 chapters, and 66 books. |10 |10 |
|What am I talking about? | | |
|Answer: The Bible | | |
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|Question 3. Subtract 42.67 from 38.5, and give me the answer to the nearest hundredth. |10 |10 |
|Answer: -4.17 | | |
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|Question 4. What is a mixed number? |10 |10 |
|Answer: An integer with a fraction | | |
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|Question 5. What's the Earth's nearest neighbor in space? |10 |10 |
|Answer: The Moon | | |
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|Question 6. Which member of the Bush administration visited a mass grave site and a Saddam Hussein execution chamber, paying grim |10 |10 |
|homage to atrocities of the deposed Iraqi president’s rule? | | |
|Answer: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld | | |
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|Question 7. The process of forcing milk through a strainer fine enough to break up the fat globules, is called what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Homogenization | | |
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|Question 8. Lord Kelvin was the British physicist who devised the absolute temperature scale. What scientist developed the Centigrade|10 |10 |
|scale? | | |
|Answer: Celsius | | |
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|Question 9. Hewlett-Packard, setting its sights on customers of struggling rival Sun Microsystems, offered them $25,000 in free |10 |10 |
|services to switch to H-P PCs that run what operating system? | | |
|Answer: Linux | | |
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|Question 10. Find the next number in this sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 . . . |10 |10 |
|Answer: 21 | | |
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|Question 11. If you were offered your choice of a Bartlett, Bosque, or Anjou, what is it you would be choosing? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Pears | | |
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|Question 12. He is the subject of some of the poems in A. A. Milne's WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. He was Winnie the Pooh's human friend. |10 |10 |
|Name him. | | |
|Answer: Christopher Robin | | |
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|Question 13. Scotland is most famous for what musical instrument? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Bagpipes | | |
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|Question 14. Hu Jintao has called for a larger public role in democratic election processes and in that country’s government. He’s |10 |10 |
|the president of which country? | | |
|Answer: China | | |
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|Question 15. "I know there's a need for news conferences in the morning, but we've got breakfast to put out." That's a school lunch |10 |10 |
|lady in Minnesota dutifully serving up French toast fingers just a day after she and 14 of her cafeteria coworkers did what? Hint: | | |
|The odds that they would do it were something like 120 million to 1. | | |
|Answer: Won the lottery (Powerball; almost all the winners say they will keep their jobs, but from now on, nobody will dare complain | | |
|about the potatoes.) | | |
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|Question 16. In what story would you find the Cheshire Cat? |10 |10 |
|Answer: ALICE IN WONDERLAND | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. A 1997 news story referred to the Tienanmen Square massacre as "the late one's darkest hour." Who was the late one? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Deng Xiaoping | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. The noun "altar" means the raised platform where religious sacrifices were made. What does the verb "alter" mean? |10 |10 |
|Answer: To change | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. Logging in Indonesia is threatening the existence of what primates which live only there and in Malaysia ? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Orangutans | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. Its chemical formula is FeS(2). Technically, it's called iron sulfide, or iron pyrites. It is shiny yellow; it occurs |10 |10 |
|abundantly as a native ore. In popular terms, what is it called? | | |
|Answer: Fool's gold | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. Divide 45 by 1/5. What's the answer? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 225 | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. Who said he won’t rule out recusing himself or appointing an outside special counsel to investigate the leak of a CIA |10 |10 |
|officer’s identity? | | |
|Answer: Attorney General John Ashcroft | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. She was chained to a rock to be devoured by a sea monster, but was rescued by Perseus. Daughter of Cassiopeia, she was |10 |10 |
|placed among the stars after her death. What is her name? | | |
|Answer: Andromeda | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. Many kings named Edward have ruled England. Which one abdicated his throne in favor of marriage to the American woman |10 |10 |
|Mrs. Allis Warfield Simpson? | | |
|Answer: Edward VIII | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. Which explorer first explored New Zealand and surveyed the east coast of Australia: was it Captain Bligh, Captain Cook, |10 |10 |
|Captain Kidd, or Captain Hook? | | |
|Answer: . Cook | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. Which of the following figures represents the number of inches in a meter: 29.27, 36.92, 39.37, or 43.46? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 39.37 | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. General Grant and General Lee fought on opposite sides during the War Between the States. In what war did they fight on |10 |10 |
|the same side? | | |
|Answer: Mexican War | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. Botany is the branch of science dealing with the study of plants. What branch of science involves the study of fossils? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Paleontology | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. Most American Presidents have been elected by either of which two political parties? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Republicans or Democrats | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. Gov. Gray Davis received help in his recall election from what former president? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Bill Clinton | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. Only one of our fifty states was an independent country, recognized by the United States, before it became a state. Was |10 |10 |
|that state Alaska, Arizona, or Texas? | | |
|Answer: Texas | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. Popular among Italian Renaissance artists was art in which the Virgin Mary was the central figure. What are such |10 |10 |
|portraits called? | | |
|Answer: Madonnas | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. What left-handed professional golfer has been pitching batting practice (throwing right-handed) for the Toledo Mud Hens, |10 |10 |
|a minor league baseball team, in hopes he can actually pitch in a game? | | |
|Answer: Phil Mickelson | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. What state capital is the home of Vanderbilt University? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Nashville | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. If the sum of the edges of a cube is 48 inches, what is the volume of the cube? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 64 cubic inches | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. Who led the German Nazi effort in World War II? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Adolf Hitler | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. What part of an insect corresponds to the human chest? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Thorax | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. What country put the first man on the moon? |10 |10 |
|Answer: United States | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. Gorilla, the ape, is spelled G-O-R-I-L-L-A. How do you spell guerilla, the fighter? |10 |10 |
|Answer: G-U-E-R-I-L-L-A or G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. This word describes the code of honor of the knights during the Middle Ages. Blameless behavior, courtesy, and respect |10 |10 |
|for women are among the elements of the code. What word am I looking for? | | |
|Answer: Chivalry | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. Modern machine gun |10 |10 |
|Answer: Gatling | | |
| | | |
|Question 42. What was the largest city in Europe in the 1700's? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Paris | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|ANIMALS |1 |2 |
|Question 43. Which of the following is not a type of whale: humpback, bowhead, pygmy, bluenose? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bluenose | | |
|Question 44. Which of the following is not a breed of beef cattle: Hereford, Guernsey, Shorthorn, or Brahman? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Guernsey | | |
|Question 45. Were cats first tamed by the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, or the Siamese? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Egyptians | | |
|RUSSIA |1 |2 |
|Question 46. What is the official language of Russia? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Russian | | |
|Question 47. The Soviet Union was known by what initials? |5 |5 |
|Answer: U.S.S.R. | | |
|Question 48. Name the first popularly elected President of Russia. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Boris Yeltsin | | |
|YOUR WARSHIP |1 |2 |
|Question 49. The first warships recorded sailed on what river? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Nile | | |
|Question 50. Did the early Norsemen invade the British Isles, Rome, Egypt, or India? |5 |5 |
|Answer: British Isles | | |
|Question 51. During World War II, the conflict in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack against what site? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Pearl Harbor | | |
|U.S.A.-Name the large city from its location. |1 |2 |
|Question 52. In southeastern Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Houston | | |
|Question 53. At the east end of Lake Erie, on the Niagara River. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Buffalo | | |
|Question 54. In southwestern Tennessee, on the Mississippi River. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Memphis | | |
|ANIVERBS- Human behavior can often be described most vividly by using a verb derived from the name of an animal. |1 |2 |
|Question 55. To trick by using ingenuity or cunning |5 |5 |
|Answer: Fox | | |
|Question 56. To move, crawl, or drag with a serpentine movement |5 |5 |
|Answer: Snake | | |
|Question 57. To mimic |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ape | | |
|CALIFORNIA-Answer these questions about the Golden Bear State. |1 |2 |
|Question 58. This is the state's most famous bridge. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Golden Gate Bridge | | |
|Question 59. What took place at 5:13 A.M. on April 18, 1906? |5 |5 |
|Answer: San Francisco earthquake | | |
|Question 60. What Steinbeck novel deals with people moving from the dust bowl to California during the Depression? |5 |5 |
|Answer: THE GRAPES OF WRATH | | |
|Question 61. This Neil Simon play is set at the Beverly Hills Hotel. |5 |5 |
|Answer: CALIFORNIA SUITE | | |
|GALS-Name these gals--words that begin with G A L. |1 |2 |
|Question 62. A festive occasion |5 |5 |
|Answer: Gala | | |
|Question 63. A sailor's name for the kitchen |5 |5 |
|Answer: Galley | | |
|Question 64. The fastest pace of any animal |5 |5 |
|Answer: Gallop | | |
|CHILDREN-Name these famous children or teenagers. |1 |2 |
|Question 65. The child who on August 18, 1587, became the first English baby born in America. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Virginia Dare | | |
|Question 66. She lived in the White House during the Clinton administration. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Chelsea | | |
|Question 67. The Austrian prodigy who at the age of 5 composed “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” |5 |5 |
|Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | | |
Pool Play - Round 4
10:20:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. Was Peru once ruled by the Aztecs, the Toltecs, the Incas, or the Mayas? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Incas | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. What state capital is nearest the equator? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Honolulu | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. What is the product of .831 and .30? |10 |10 |
|Answer: .2493 | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. He was born in 1847 in Missouri. At the age of 15, he joined the Confederate forces and earned a reputation for |10 |10 |
|marksmanship and great daring. At the end of the war, he was declared an outlaw, and with his brother Frank, he formed a band of bank| | |
|and train robbers. Name him. | | |
|Answer: Jesse James | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. In the Bible, who received a kiss just before his betrayal? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jesus Christ | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. Several congressmen at the time of the Civil War felt that the states should keep many rights, such as the right to secede|10 |10 |
|from the Union. Which state was the first to vote to secede? | | |
|Answer: South Carolina | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. Which of these words is out of place: sway, stride, saunter, stroll? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Sway (The others are ways of walking.) | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. If a car can travel 12,000 miles on a set of four tires, how many miles can the same car go using five new tires and |10 |10 |
|changing them from time to time? | | |
|Answer: 15,000 | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. One summer week 2,191 persons visited the community swimming pool. If the pool is open daily, what is the average number |10 |10 |
|of people who visited the pool each day? | | |
|Answer: 313 | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. Name the fur-trading post established in 1811 by John Jacob Astor, of New York, in the Oregon territory. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Astoria | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. George contracted to drive his own truck to haul oranges from Miami, Florida, to Bangor, Maine--a distance of 2,800 |10 |10 |
|kilometers. If George averages 52 kilometers per hour, how many hours should the trip take? | | |
|Answer: 54 hours | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. Add 4 1/3 + 5/6 + 6 5/8. |10 |10 |
|Answer: 11 19/24 | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. Former POW Jessica Lynch has agreed to a $1 million book deal with which publishing house? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Alfred A. Knopf | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. Panama hats are made from toquilla fiber, but they are not made in Panama. Where are they made? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Ecuador | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. Three customers entered the convenience store. Now there are 11 customers in the store. How many were there before the |10 |10 |
|3 entered? | | |
|Answer: 8 | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, winding up a two-day visit in Iraq, came to Halabja on Sept. 15 to the site of the |10 |10 |
|mass graves and a memorial museum dedicated to the 5,000 people who lost their lives in what kind of attack in 1988 -- a reminder, he | | |
|said, of why the United States went to war to oust Saddam Hussein's regime. | | |
|Answer: Chemical attack | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. Every complete sentence must contain a subject and this part, containing the verb. Name it. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Predicate | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. If a rancher has 37 cattle and then buys "x" more, what mathematical expression would represent the rancher's total |10 |10 |
|livestock? | | |
|Answer: 37 + x | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. Name either one of the two official languages of Belgium. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Flemish or French | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. Maurice Clarett, the suspended sophomore running back for Ohio State, sued the National Football League, asking that a |10 |10 |
|judge throw out a league rule that prohibits a player from entering the League until how many years after high school? | | |
|Answer: Three | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in America. What was the second? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Plymouth, Massachusetts | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. The Intel Corporation said its third-quarter profit more than doubled and exceeded its own forecasts based on strong |10 |10 |
|sales to which two continents? | | |
|Answer: Asia and Europe | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. Although executives admit that the changes may be extreme, many companies are reducing or eliminating what method of |10 |10 |
|communication in order to stop the spread of disruptive viruses and spam? | | |
|Answer: E-mail | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. A study released by the United Nations labor agency reveals that what nation’s workers are the world’s most productive – |10 |10 |
|at $60,728 output per worker last year? | | |
|Answer: The United States | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. According to The Princeton Review, the five toughest colleges to get into are two service academies and three Ivy League |10 |10 |
|schools. Name them all. | | |
|Answer: West Point (Army), Annapolis (Navy), Princeton, Harvard, Yale | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. MARSEILLAISE |10 |10 |
|Answer: France | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. A character in a famous American novel survives a shipwreck by clinging to a coffin. The author is Herman Melville. The|10 |10 |
|title is MOBY DICK. Who is the character? | | |
|Answer: Ishmael | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. There are 16 ounces to a pound. How many pounds make up a short ton? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 2,000 | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. Proliferate means to spread rapidly. What does prognosticate mean? |10 |10 |
|Answer: To predict or foretell | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. Mr. Kendall is eleven times as old as his daughter Lynn. If Lynn is four years old, how old is Mr. Kendall? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 44 | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. The esophagus is the tube joining the throat and the stomach. What is a sarcophagus? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A tomb or stone coffin | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. What two ‘80’s bands – one with Steve Tyler and the other with Gene Simmons – are having such a successful tour together |10 |10 |
|that they have extended their schedule of performances by adding 24 dates? | | |
|Answer: Arrowsmith and Kiss | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. This word has two meanings. As a verb, it means to shudder or tremble. As a noun, it names the container in which an |10 |10 |
|archer carries his arrows. What is the word? | | |
|Answer: Quiver | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. What do the names Amenhotep III, Akhenaton, and Ramses III have in common? |10 |10 |
|Answer: They were Egyptian pharaohs or kings. | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. What musical instrument did the famous Benny Goodman play? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Clarinet | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. Giraffe |10 |10 |
|Answer: Africa | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. Who is Captain Flint in TREASURE ISLAND? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A parrot | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. Did the Christian church have its beginning in Antioch, Rome, Athens, or Jerusalem? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jerusalem | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. A federal judge ruled that which NFL team could keep its trademark name and logos because a group of activists didn’t |10 |10 |
|provide enough evidence that the team’s moniker insulted a substantial number of Native Americans? | | |
|Answer: Washington Redskins | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. What is the opposite of "amateur"? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Professional | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. How many decades are there in a century? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 10 | | |
| | | |
|Question 42. What biblical lad dreamed that his parents and brothers bowed down before him and worshipped him? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Joseph | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|BY GEORGE!-These questions concern famous George's. Identify: |1 |2 |
|Question 43. The actor who won an Academy Award for his role in PATTON. |5 |5 |
|Answer: George C. Scott | | |
|Question 44. The controversial owner of the New York Yankees. |5 |5 |
|Answer: George Steinbrenner | | |
|Question 45. The Russian-born choreographer of the New York City Ballet. |5 |5 |
|Answer: George Balanchine | | |
|EARTH |1 |2 |
|Question 46. Within 5 years, when was the great San Francisco earthquake? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 1906 | | |
|Question 47. The setting for Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Middle Earth | | |
|Question 48. In what month is the earth closest to the sun? |5 |5 |
|Answer: January | | |
|CHILDREN'S LITERATURE |1 |2 |
|Question 49. What did Jack get for his cow? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bag of beans | | |
|Question 50. According to Aesop, which insect starved when winter came? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Grasshopper | | |
|Question 51. How many thieves did Ali Baba have to hide from? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 40 | | |
|WINTER & SUMMER |1 |2 |
|Question 52. In which month do we celebrate Father's Day? |5 |5 |
|Answer: June | | |
|Question 53. In ancient England, it was believed that birds chose their mates on what day? |5 |5 |
|Answer: St. Valentine's Day | | |
|Question 54. How did August get its name? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Emperor Augustus | | |
|Question 55. What is special about December 21? |5 |5 |
|Answer: The first day of winter | | |
|MEN WHO MEASURE UP- These men all have first or last names which sound the same as a unit of measure. |1 |2 |
|Question 56. The man who invented the telephone. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Alexander Graham Bell | | |
|Question 57. The Virginia patriot who cried, “If this be treason, make the most of it.” |5 |5 |
|Answer: Patrick Henry | | |
|Question 58. The English physicist who formulated the Laws of Motion; he is said to have discovered gravity. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Isaac Newton | | |
|FOREIGN WORDS-Many foreign words have entered the English language. Identify these. |1 |2 |
|Question 59. The Hindi word for a spiritual leader. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Guru | | |
|Question 60. The French expression used during revolutions. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Coup d'etat | | |
|Question 61. A French phrase meaning love of life; joy of living. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Joie de vivre | | |
|M & M- Here are some mental mysteries for masterminds. All answers are common two-word names or phrases each beginning with the letter|1 |2 |
|M. | | |
|Question 62. Changing horses in mid-sentence |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mixed metaphor | | |
|Question 63. Great Yankee slugger |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mickey Mantle | | |
|Question 64. Famous for song “Wild Fire” |5 |5 |
|Answer: Michael Murphy | | |
|Question 65. Cartoon character famous for “Here I come to save the day.” |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mighty Mouse | | |
|ANATOMY-You've got 60 seconds and 10 guesses to give me three-letter words for parts of the human body. No slang allowed. |1 |2 |
|Question 66. List in any order: |5 |5 |
|Answer: arm, ear, eye, gum, hip, jaw, leg, lip, rib, toe | | |
Pool Play - Round 5
10:40:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. What does valour mean? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Courage or bravery | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. Kenya |10 |10 |
|Answer: Nairobi | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. The strongest evidence yet has now linked malignant melanoma skin cancer with what method of tanning? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Using artificial tanning equipment | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. Man belongs to the biological order, Primates. To which genus and species does man belong? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Homo sapiens | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. Match these verbs--ration, ravage, ratify, ransom--with their meanings--rescue, limit, approve, plunder. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Ration--limit; ravage--plunder; ratify--approve; ransom--rescue | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. Name any three of the five US states that grew the fastest between 1990 and 2000, according to the 2000 census. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. Completely enclosed shelters for automobiles are called what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Garages | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. Constantine was the first Christian Emperor of what Empire? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Roman | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. What celestial object did Edmund Halley correctly predict to appear in 1758? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A comet | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. The atomic number of hydrogen is one; helium is 2. What chemical element possesses the atomic number 3? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Lithium | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. If a passage of music is marked "pp," what does it mean? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Pianissimo, or "play very softly" | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. Bruce Wayne's aunt and housekeeper was ignorant of his true identity, Batman. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Aunt Harriet | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, as the world’s two biggest |10 |10 |
|suppliers of what agreed to work on easing rules for setting up joint ventures and to promote joint research? | | |
|Answer: Oil | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. French |10 |10 |
|Answer: Monsieur | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. Which company recently announced that it would discontinue its Internet chat rooms in 28 countries, saying that the |10 |10 |
|forums have become unsafe? | | |
|Answer: Microsoft (MSN) | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. Who wrote the novel THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS? |10 |10 |
|Answer: James Fenimore Cooper | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. Petrology is the study of what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Rocks | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. Is the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation: ultraviolet waves, cosmic rays, infrared waves, or X-rays? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Cosmic rays | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. Into which river was Achilles dipped by his mother Venus? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Styx | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. What kind of mile did the crooked man walk? |10 |10 |
|Answer: a crooked mile | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. How many minutes are there in a quarter hour? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 15 | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. Who composed over 30 piano sonatas, including the PATHETIQUE, the APPASSIONATA, and the MOONLIGHT? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Beethoven | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. In an agreement reached by environmentalists and PPL power company, dams will be removed and others changed on the |10 |10 |
|Penobscot River in what state to save the Atlantic salmon population? | | |
|Answer: Maine | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. He was perhaps the first scientist to give the human mind a proper conception of the immensity of the universe. He |10 |10 |
|contributed greatly to our understanding of astronomy, and in 1781, he discovered the planet Uranus. Name this famous English | | |
|astronomer. | | |
|Answer: Sir William Herschel | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. As you climb higher up a mountain, the reading of a barometer . . . |10 |10 |
|Answer: Decreases | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. After the Spanish-American War, what President was authorized by Congress to build the Panama Canal? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. According to the poem DAYS OF BIRTH, "Monday's child is fair of face./ Tuesday's child is full of grace." What about |10 |10 |
|children born on Wednesday and Thursday? | | |
|Answer: "Wednesday's child is full of woe,/ Thursday's child has far to go." | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. Andrew Jackson was a famous President. Identify Andy Warhol. |10 |10 |
|Answer: A modern American painter and experimental filmmaker. | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. "They also serve who only stand and wait." This line was penned by the blind poet of England. Who was he? |10 |10 |
|Answer: John Milton | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. By acting as huge magnets, the sun and the moon pull the earth toward them. The earth's solid land is not visibly |10 |10 |
|changed, but the water moves because of the moon's pull. What do we call this effect? | | |
|Answer: Tides | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. The Bush administration assured what “Axis of Evil” country that the U.S. does not favor “regime change,” and signaled a |10 |10 |
|new willingness to engage in dialogue? | | |
|Answer: Iran | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. What crop is a special target of the boll weevil? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Cotton | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. Who heads the U.S. agency that is a compilation of 22 government agencies, including the Coast Guard, Secret Service and |10 |10 |
|Border Patrol, and is now the second-largest federal department? | | |
|Answer: Tom Ridge | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. In poetry, what do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Alliteration | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. July 4, 1776 was the date of the historic signing of the Declaration of Independence. What event of worldwide |10 |10 |
|significance took place in the U.S. on October 24, 1929? | | |
|Answer: The stock market crashed. | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. One member of the animal kingdom with a very strange and very short name is the emu. Is the emu an antelope, a bird, or |10 |10 |
|a rodent? | | |
|Answer: Bird (like the ostrich) | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. His stories put men and dogs against the frozen wilderness, as in his story TO BUILD A FIRE. His most famous novel is |10 |10 |
|THE CALL OF THE WILD. Who is this writer? | | |
|Answer: Jack London | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. He captured 132 Germans by himself and also an important machine gun post. He was honored as the greatest American hero |10 |10 |
|of the First World War. Later, he became a minister. Who was he? | | |
|Answer: Alvin C. York | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. If one square meter of carpet costs $6.40, how much would enough carpet to cover the floor described in the last question|10 |10 |
|cost? | | |
|Answer: $253.44 | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. What continent surrounds the South Pole? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Antarctica | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. Thanks to Russia’s Labor Ministry, what theater was ordered to reinstate ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, who was fired |10 |10 |
|amid allegations from other dancers that she was too heavy to lift? | | |
|Answer: The Bolshoi | | |
| | | |
|Question 42. A power outage darkened the courtroom of the trial of Washington-area sniper suspect John Muhammad, but what two-day act |10 |10 |
|by him worried his lawyers? | | |
|Answer: He acted as his own attorney. | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|ANALOGIES |1 |2 |
|Question 43. A rainbow is to the east as the Aurora Borealis is to what? |5 |5 |
|Answer: North | | |
|Question 44. Gutenberg is to printing as Mercator is to what? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Maps | | |
|Question 45. Daimler is to automobiles as Hughes is to . . . ? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Airplanes | | |
|Question 46. Stalactites are to stalagmites as ceiling is to what? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Floor | | |
|SONG QUESTIONS-Now, for some questions about questions. Complete the following “questionable” song verses. |1 |2 |
|Question 47. Baa baa black sheep . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Have you any wool? | | |
|Question 48. Do you know the way to . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: San Jose? | | |
|Question 49. Pardon me, boy, is that the . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Chattanooga Choo Choo? | | |
|Question 50. How are things in . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Glocca Morro? | | |
|WATER |1 |2 |
|Question 51. Name the watery mammal that is the Miami football team nickname. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dolphins | | |
|Question 52. Water with a lot of deuterium and tritium instead of regular hydrogen. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Heavy water | | |
|Question 53. What is the seafaring nickname of the Seattle baseball franchise? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mariners | | |
|Question 54. Name any of the astrological water signs. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces | | |
|SOLID, LIQUID, OR GAS?- Classify these elements as to whether they are solid, liquid, or gas at room temperature. |1 |2 |
|Question 55. Iridium |5 |5 |
|Answer: Solid | | |
|Question 56. Argon |5 |5 |
|Answer: Gas | | |
|Question 57. Barium |5 |5 |
|Answer: Solid | | |
|Question 58. Krypton |5 |5 |
|Answer: Gas | | |
|CALIFORNIA- Tell me if these cities are near Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or in the Central Valley. |1 |2 |
|Question 59. Burbank |5 |5 |
|Answer: Los Angeles | | |
|Question 60. Berkeley |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bay Area | | |
|Question 61. La Jolla |5 |5 |
|Answer: San Diego | | |
|PLACES |1 |2 |
|Question 62. The three cities of Oea, Lebda, and Sabrata merged to form what city in Libya? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Tripoli | | |
|Question 63. Where did Robin Hood supposedly live? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Sherwood Forest | | |
|Question 64. Where was Captain Cook killed? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Hawaiian Islands | | |
|MEDITERRANEAN CITIES- The city of Istanbul used to be called Constantinople. I'll give you other old or native names for capital |1 |2 |
|cities of Mediterranean countries. You give me the name most Americans know it by. | | |
|Question 65. Roma |5 |5 |
|Answer: Rome | | |
|Question 66. Alger |5 |5 |
|Answer: Algiers | | |
|Question 67. Angora |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ankara | | |
|Question 68. Aelia Capitolina |5 |5 |
|Answer: Jerusalem | | |
|SISTER CITIES- Many metropolitan areas consist of more than one central city, such as Dallas and Fort Worth. I'll give you a central |1 |2 |
|city in a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and you give me its sister city with the larger population. | | |
|Question 69. Everett, Washington |5 |5 |
|Answer: Seattle | | |
|Question 70. Davidson, Tennessee |5 |5 |
|Answer: Nashville | | |
|Question 71. Boulder, Colorado |5 |5 |
|Answer: Denver | | |
Pool Play - Round 6
11:00:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. I've got a list of three names who are always associated with another person. You give me the other half of each famous |10 |10 |
|pair. Cain and . . . ; Laurel and . . . ; Samson and . . . | | |
|Answer: (In order) Abel, Hardy, Delilah | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. Monday's child is fair of face; Tuesday's child is . . . what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Full of grace | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. How much is a baker's dozen? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 13 | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. The Supreme Court will rule on whether what four-word phrase will remain as it is recited in the Pledge of Allegiance in |10 |10 |
|most classrooms? | | |
|Answer: "one nation under God" | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." What Union Army general said this to President Lincoln |10 |10 |
|in 1864? | | |
|Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. The first declaration of war leading to the First World War was made on July 28, 1914. Who declared war on whom? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Austria-Hungary on Serbia. | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. The Republican chairman, Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), and the ranking Democrat, Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), seem to|10 |10 |
|dislike each other intensely, making the atmosphere in what Senate Committee the worst in modern times, according to congressional | | |
|analyst Norman Ornstein? | | |
|Answer: Judiciary | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. What are the three things you must to find the average of a set? |10 |10 |
|Answer: (1) Add the numbers of the set to find the sum. (2) Count the numbers in the set to determine how many there are. (3) Divide | | |
|the sum by how many numbers there are in the set. | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. Absolute zero equals -459 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale. What is absolute zero on the Celsius scale? |10 |10 |
|Answer: -273 degrees | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. Congressman Luis Gonzalez Posada, who heads the Peru-Morocco Friendship League, said in a radio program in Lima that King|10 |10 |
|Mohammad VI of Morocco was sending Peru 20 of what animals as a gift? | | |
|Answer: Camels | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. Richard Grasso resigned as the chairman and CEO of which financial entity after an uproar over his recently disclosed |10 |10 |
|$140 million pay package? | | |
|Answer: New York Stock Exchange | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. The single foremost motive which Christopher Columbus acknowledged as his purpose for undertaking his voyages of |10 |10 |
|discovery was which of the following: unlimited wealth, worldwide fame, challenge and adventure, or the spreading of Christianity? | | |
|Answer: Spreading of Christianity | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. Scotland |10 |10 |
|Answer: Edinburgh | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. Name the current commissioners of the NBA, the NFL, and Major League Baseball. |10 |10 |
|Answer: David Stern, Paul Tagliabue, Bud Selig, respectively | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. At the end of the movie THE WIZARD OF OZ, one of the characters misquotes the Pythagorean Theorem. This error is |10 |10 |
|actually a reflection on the brains of the screen-writer, not the character. In any event, name the character. | | |
|Answer: Scarecrow | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. Six of the nine planets have been known since ancient times. The seventh was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. |10 |10 |
|Name it. | | |
|Answer: Uranus | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. He is talking about returning to his home state of South Dakota and running for governor. Name this host of “Access |10 |10 |
|Hollywood,” who is scheduled to anchor a portion of NBC’s Olympics coverage next year. | | |
|Answer: Pat O’Brien | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. During what battle was our National Anthem composed? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Battle of Fort McHenry | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. The Republican-controlled Senate dealt a blow to the Bush administration on Sept. 16, voting to rescind new Federal |10 |10 |
|Communications Commission rules that would allow what? | | |
|Answer: Large media companies to get even bigger. | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. In the number .4, what is the dot written before the 4 called? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Decimal point | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. Name the first five presidents of the United States in order of their inauguration. |10 |10 |
|Answer: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. In a standard basketball court, the rim of the basket is elevated how many feet above the court? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Ten | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. A marsupial is an animal that carries its young in a pouch on the abdomen. What is the largest marsupial? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Kangaroo | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. This five-letter word may be defined as the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds in varying melody, rhythm, and |10 |10 |
|tone, in order to form emotionally expressive compositions. What is it? | | |
|Answer: music | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. What is the greatest common divisor of 12 and 8? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 4 | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. When is it possible to add 5 to 8 and get 1? |10 |10 |
|Answer: When looking at a clock: 5 hours after 8 o'clock it's 1 o'clock | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. A piece of molding 75 inches long is to be cut into small strips each 8 1/3 inches long to make picture frames. How many|10 |10 |
|strips can be cut from the long pieces? | | |
|Answer: 9 | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. Give me the names of Noah's three sons. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Shem, Ham, Japheth | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. Ariel Sharon plans to become the first sitting prime minister of Israel to visit what nation since both nations were |10 |10 |
|carved from the former British empire more than 50 years ago? | | |
|Answer: India | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. John W. Snow has predicted that the American economy will grow at an annual rate of nearly 4 percent over the next year |10 |10 |
|and will add two million new jobs before next year’s election. Who is he? | | |
|Answer: Secretary of the Treasury | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. The greatest story that literary history records from Anglo-Saxon days is about a loyal and good warrior. What is the |10 |10 |
|name of this hero? | | |
|Answer: Beowulf | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. A rectangle measures 6 inches by 3 feet. Calculate the area of the rectangle, in square inches. |10 |10 |
|Answer: 216 | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. Recite the first verse in the Bible. |10 |10 |
|Answer: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. Which President of the United States has handled war relief in Belgium during World War I before he became President? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Herbert Hoover | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. What is the plural of the word "mouse"? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Mice | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. What does M stand for in Roman numerals? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1,000 | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. What is the property of gold which permits it to be hammered into thin sheets? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Malleability | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. Lake Placid was the host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Where is Lake Placid; that is, in what state? |10 |10 |
|Answer: New York | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. On May 16, 1865, a five-cent coin was issued, and we still use it. What is it called? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Nickel | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. What are you given if you win an event in the Olympics? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Gold medal | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. What famous landmark was re-erected at Lake Havasu City, Arizona? |10 |10 |
|Answer: London Bridge | | |
| | | |
|Question 42. What are the three flavors in Neapolitan ice cream? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|DOG-You will in this series come up with, not breeds, but figures of speech containing the word dog. |1 |2 |
|Question 43. Small shark |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dogfish | | |
|Question 44. They come out in the midday sun. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mad dogs and Englishmen | | |
|Question 45. Elementary swim stroke |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dog paddle | | |
|AMERICAN POETRY-Name the poem or the poet. |1 |2 |
|Question 46. It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea |5 |5 |
|Answer: “Annabel Lee” by Poe | | |
|Question 47. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! |5 |5 |
|Answer: “Chambered Nautilus” by Holmes | | |
|Question 48. So live, that when thy summons comes. |5 |5 |
|Answer: “Thanatopsis” by Bryant | | |
|POLITICAL PARTIES-Identify the political party of each of the following U.S. Presidents. |1 |2 |
|Question 49. John Adams |5 |5 |
|Answer: Federalist | | |
|Question 50. Zachary Taylor |5 |5 |
|Answer: Whig | | |
|Question 51. Benjamin Harrison |5 |5 |
|Answer: Republican | | |
|NAPOLEON |1 |2 |
|Question 52. Who led the English forces at Waterloo? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) | | |
|Question 53. What region in North America did Napoleon sell to the United States? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Louisiana | | |
|Question 54. Napoleon's second reign lasted for how many days? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 100 days | | |
|CHARACTER |1 |2 |
|Question 55. They rode "into the jaws of death." |5 |5 |
|Answer: The Light Brigade | | |
|Question 56. Deformed, and apparently brutish, he loved Esmeralda. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Quasimodo | | |
|Question 57. He is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge | | |
|GEOLOGY-Give the geological term from these descriptions. |1 |2 |
|Question 58. An open place for the extraction of stone. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Quarry | | |
|Question 59. Areas of soil permanently frozen. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Permafrost | | |
|Question 60. Unburned, sun-dried bricks used in Mexico and the southwestern United States. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Adobe | | |
|Question 61. Fluid rock from a volcano. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Lava | | |
|FACE THE MUSIC |1 |2 |
|Question 62. What instrument does the concertmaster of a symphony orchestra play? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Violin | | |
|Question 63. The sound of a violin is produced by drawing what object across the strings? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bow | | |
|Question 64. What kind of reed does an oboe player use: single, double, triple, or straight-edged? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Double | | |
|VOCABULARY |1 |2 |
|Question 65. Does effulgent mean brassy, brilliant, brittle, or bruised? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Brilliant | | |
|Question 66. Does puerile mean valuable, childish, enamel, or sterile? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Childish | | |
|Question 67. Does recidivist mean Democrat, habitual criminal, socialist, or front-desk secretary? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Habitual criminal | | |
Pool Play - Round 7
11:20:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. What must an athlete not do in order to be called an amateur? |10 |10 |
|Answer: He must not earn money from his sport. | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. President Bush spoke to a subdued crowd in Richfield, Ohio in early September and said, “Things are getting better.” What|10 |10 |
|was the topic? | | |
|Answer: The economy | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. Name the author of the popular book ROOTS. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Alex Haley | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. Canadian officials say getting a flu shot is even more important than usual this year because it will help distinguish the|10 |10 |
|flu from what other similar disease that surfaced last year? | | |
|Answer: SARS | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. Queen Anne of England belonged to the House of Stuart. Of what royal house was King Henry VIII of England a member? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Tudor | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. The Institute of Sports Medicine claims that it is second only to football in the severity of its physical requirements. |10 |10 |
|Edward Villela says that it takes more strength to get through a six-minute pas de deux than four rounds of boxing. What activity is | | |
|it which takes this terrific toll? | | |
|Answer: Ballet | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. What is the name of the star which is closest to the earth? |10 |10 |
|Answer: The sun | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. Horses run in herds. Fish swim in . . . ? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Schools | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. Mademoiselle |10 |10 |
|Answer: French | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. The NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. What is the NCAA? |10 |10 |
|Answer: National Collegiate Athletic Association | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. A small study of heart disease patients has found that an experimental drug reversed what may be the equivalent of years'|10 |10 |
|worth of _______ in coronary arteries. Fill in the blank with a six-letter word starting with P. | | |
|Answer: Plaque | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. Fears of attacks against international media in Baghdad were heightened after a bomb damaged a hotel housing the offices |10 |10 |
|of which news network? | | |
|Answer: NBC News | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. Which country recently told the U.S. and four other nations that it has nuclear weapons and will prove it by conducting a|10 |10 |
|test unless the U.S. gives up its “hostile policy”? | | |
|Answer: North Korea | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. What are the only two numbers that will divide into 17 evenly? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1 and 17 | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. In what city does the Mardi Gras take place? |10 |10 |
|Answer: New Orleans | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. What TV series did Bill Clinton thank Rob Lowe for, saying it was “renewing people’s faith in public service”? |10 |10 |
|Answer: West Wing | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. Which is the only country on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist sponsors with whom the U.S. has diplomatic |10 |10 |
|relations? | | |
|Answer: Syria | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. What great American said, "With malice toward none, with charity for all"? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Abraham Lincoln | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. Nile |10 |10 |
|Answer: Mediterranean Sea | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. Ken is an artist who gets paid for each painting he paints. Next month he needs to paint twice as many paintings as he |10 |10 |
|did this month. That will be 52 paintings. How many paintings did he complete this month? | | |
|Answer: 26 | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. Who was Romeo's lover, in the story by Shakespeare? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Juliet | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. In which city is the White House located? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Washington, D.C. | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. What was ended with the Treaty of Paris signed 20 years |10 |10 |
|later? | | |
|Answer: American Revolution | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. What is the word that means the opposite of another word? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Antonym | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. The garbage collector's morning route is 16 blocks. On every fourth block, there is only one trash dumpster, but every |10 |10 |
|other block has 21 trash cans. How many containers will he empty? | | |
|Answer: 256 | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb. Who invented the lightning rod? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Benjamin Franklin | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. What gas makes up about 78% of the earth's atmosphere? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Nitrogen | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. In which U.S. city did voters recently go to the polls to decide whether or not to tax espresso drinks 10 cents per cup |10 |10 |
|in order to raise money for early childhood programs and higher salaries for daycare workers? | | |
|Answer: Seattle | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. The force with which bodies are pulled toward the center of the earth by gravity is called what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Weight | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. What two states border on Florida? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Georgia and Alabama | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. The highest peak in the world is Mt. Everest, located in Nepal. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls, |10 |10 |
|located in what country? | | |
|Answer: Venezuela | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. Eight quarts equals a peck. How many pecks make a bushel? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Four | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. If you have ever been to the national capital building in Washington, D.C., you have probably stood in the circular hall |10 |10 |
|under the massive central dome. What is this interior space called? | | |
|Answer: Rotunda | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. Born in Haiti, he died in 1851 after pioneering American bird study. He was also a famous painter of birds. Who was he?|10 |10 |
|Answer: John James Audubon | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. Which great political document begins with these words, "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one |10 |10 |
|people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to another . . . " | | |
|Answer: Declaration of Independence | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. The male partner of a doe is a buck. What is the male partner of a duck? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Drake | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. "Slide" is a word used in the game of baseball. But what musical instrument has a slide? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Trombone | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. "All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion |10 |10 |
|against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth, and forever free." The preceding announcement was issued on September 22, | | |
|1862, by President Lincoln. What is it called? | | |
|Answer: Emancipation Proclamation | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. What star of Phone Booth has been dubbed “the Irish Brad Pitt”? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Colin Farrell | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. This country was carved from Prussia and Austria due to agreements made in the 18th century. The nation gained |10 |10 |
|independence after World War I. Name it. | | |
|Answer: Poland | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. In 1972, Rod Carew came to bat 535 official times and had 170 hits. What was his American League-leading batting |10 |10 |
|average? | | |
|Answer: .318 | | |
| | | |
|Question 42. What is the word for a Swiss mountain home? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Swiss chalet | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|WHOSE WHAT?-These answers are things that belong to someone. You must complete the statement; for instance, if I said Adam's, you'd |1 |2 |
|say Rib or Apple. | | |
|Question 43. Finian's |5 |5 |
|Answer: Rainbow | | |
|Question 44. Roget's |5 |5 |
|Answer: Thesaurus | | |
|Question 45. Noah's |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ark | | |
|CHRISTMAS CAROLS-Give the next line of each song. |1 |2 |
|Question 46. Joyful, all ye nations rise, |5 |5 |
|Answer: Join the triumph of the skies | | |
|Question 47. Was to certain poor shepherds |5 |5 |
|Answer: In fields where they lay | | |
|Question 48. O holy night! the stars are brightly shining, |5 |5 |
|Answer: It is the night of the dear Savior's birth. | | |
|POTPOURRI |1 |2 |
|Question 49. “The New Frontier” was the slogan of whose Presidency? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Kennedy's | | |
|Question 50. What country has the largest cat population? |5 |5 |
|Answer: United States | | |
|Question 51. Which state is the leading cattle producer in the United States? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Texas | | |
|MOTHER'S DAY |1 |2 |
|Question 52. Whose cupboard was bare? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mother Hubbard | | |
|Question 53. In which film did Anthony Perkins think he was his own mother? |5 |5 |
|Answer: PSYCHO | | |
|Question 54. Certain sea animals line their shells with a layer of material called . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mother of Pearl | | |
|POLITICAL LEADERS |1 |2 |
|Question 55. He headed the Senate Select Committee investigating Watergate. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Sam Ervin | | |
|Question 56. He was seized by Israeli agents in Argentina and executed as a Nazi war criminal. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Adolf Eichmann | | |
|Question 57. He returned to Iran after the overthrow of the Shah. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ruholla Khomeini | | |
|Question 58. This Egyptian king built the Great Pyramid at Giza. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Cheops or Khufu | | |
|ZERO-How many zeroes do each of these numbers have? |1 |2 |
|Question 59. Million |5 |5 |
|Answer: 6 | | |
|Question 60. Quadrillion |5 |5 |
|Answer: 15 | | |
|Question 61. Nonillion |5 |5 |
|Answer: 30 | | |
|KNOW YOUR BIBLE-Give me the next word or phrase in each of these familiar biblical quotations. |1 |2 |
|Question 62. Blessed are the poor in . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Spirit | | |
|Question 63. Behold a virgin shall . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Conceive | | |
|Question 64. He who has ears, let him . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Hear | | |
|Now, to prove that your team is for the birds, answer these questions about our feathered friends. |1 |2 |
|Question 65. What is the name of the world's smallest bird? |5 |5 |
|Answer: hummingbird | | |
|Question 66. Which member of the starling family is renowned as a talking pet? |5 |5 |
|Answer: mynah bird | | |
|Question 67. What sea bird, renowned in marine lore, has the greatest wing spread? |5 |5 |
|Answer: albatross | | |
|Question 68. Which is the largest bird? |5 |5 |
|Answer: ostrich | | |
Pool Play - Round 8
11:40:00 AM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. What is the F.B.I.? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. The watchword for the Camp Fire Girls is WOHELO. What does it mean? |10 |10 |
|Answer: It comes from the first two letters of three words: work, health, love. | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. A rod is 5.5 yards long. How many yards deep is a fathom? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 2 | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. From what part of the elephant do we get ivory? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Tusks | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. An airplane flew at an average speed of 386 miles per hour for .275 hours. How far did the plane fly? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 106.15 miles | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. What is the name of Yasser Arafat’s ruling party that recently confirmed the nomination by consensus of Ahmed Qureia to be|10 |10 |
|the next Palestinian prime minister? | | |
|Answer: Fatah | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. President Bush recently gave her the authority to manage post-war Iraq and the rebuilding of Afghanistan. Name the |10 |10 |
|national security advisor. | | |
|Answer: Condoleezza Rice | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. Which month was named for the Roman god of war? |10 |10 |
|Answer: March (for Mars) | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. What nation is the largest in Africa: Chad, Somalia, Sudan, or South Africa? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Sudan | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. History reveals that black people, on the average, vote Democratic, Republican, or Independent? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Democratic | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. On consecutive games in September, the Dallas Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells defeated two of his old teams in the |10 |10 |
|Meadowlands. Name those opponents. | | |
|Answer: The Giants and the Jets | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. What is the main vegetable ingredient of a coleslaw salad? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Cabbage | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. A closed figure having many sides is called what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Polygon | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. What kind of weapon does Darth Vader use? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Laser sword | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. The Great American Pastime during the years right after the Civil War was not baseball, but which of these sports: |10 |10 |
|soccer, boxing, or trotting races? | | |
|Answer: Trotting races | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. The first black man to play major league baseball. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jackie Robinson | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. Yangtze |10 |10 |
|Answer: Yellow Sea | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. When the chief priests realized that the crucified Jesus Christ had risen from the dead, they bribed some soldiers to |10 |10 |
|circulate a false report in order to explain away the resurrection as a hoax. What was this false theory? | | |
|Answer: His disciples came by night and stole him away while the soldiers slept. | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. Who was the giant hunter who was placed among the stars by Diana with the dog Sirius following him: was it Hercules, |10 |10 |
|Gemini, Orion, Sagittarius, or Saturn? | | |
|Answer: Orion | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," are the opening words of what familiar song? |10 |10 |
|Answer: BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. What does Wordsworth describe as "fluttering and dancing in the breeze" and "tossing their heads in sprightly dance"? |10 |10 |
|Answer: daffodils | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. It's sometimes called the "weather sphere" because most weather phenomena are found there. This layer of the atmosphere |10 |10 |
|is next to the earth's surface. Is it called the ionosphere, troposphere, exosphere, or ozone layer? | | |
|Answer: Troposphere | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. Perseverance and justice |10 |10 |
|Answer: Blue | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. A nail is driven into a tree 4 feet above the ground. How far above ground will the nail be in 20 years, if the tree |10 |10 |
|grows 6 inches taller each year? | | |
|Answer: The same 4 feet (A tree grows in diameter, but in height by the top branches only.) | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. Although he says he is ready for peace talks, Israel and the United States have refused to negotiate with what |10 |10 |
|Palestinian leader, saying he is tainted by terrorism? | | |
|Answer: Yasser Arafat | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. The reign of Augustus began a 200-year period of peace in Rome. During the two centuries, commerce flourished and the |10 |10 |
|standard of living got better. Historians use a Latin phrase to describe this period. What is it? | | |
|Answer: Pax Romana | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. The head of the U.S. Cavalry regiment was killed by a combined Sioux-Cheyenne force in the Black Hills in 1876. Give me |10 |10 |
|his first, middle, and last names. | | |
|Answer: George Armstrong Custer | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. What is the chemical symbol for iodine? |10 |10 |
|Answer: I | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. President Bush acknowledged on Thursday that efforts toward peace in the Middle East had stalled and he blamed whom? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. What handyman has hosted “Home Again” and “This Old House”? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Bob Vila | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. Name three of the six categories for which Nobel Prizes are awarded. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics, and Medicine-Physiology | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. As a singing cowboy, he appeared in nearly 100 motion pictures, and his recording of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER has |10 |10 |
|sold more than 12 million copies. He owned six radio stations, two television stations, and the California Angels. Can you name him?| | |
|Answer: Gene Autrey | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. Here's a puzzler: what is the closest relation that your father's sister's sister-in-law could be to you? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Your mother | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. Ida Fuller became the first retired U.S. citizen to receive what benefit on January 1, 1940? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Social Security | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. Divide 2/3 by 5/6. What's the quotient? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 4/5 | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. Why were the American soldiers at Breed's Hill ordered not to fire "until you see the whites of their eyes"? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Because the muskets' effective range was only 100 yards. | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. Cardinal Francis Arinze, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, and Cardinal Christoph Schonborn are four|10 |10 |
|papabili on everyone’s list. Papabili is Italian slang for the front-runners for what? | | |
|Answer: To be the next pope | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. The quest of this object is the subject of such masterpieces as Wagner's opera PARSIFAL, Tennyson's poem IDYLLS OF THE |10 |10 |
|KING, and Malory's book about the death of King Arthur. In medieval legend, it was the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. | | |
|What was it? | | |
|Answer: Holy Grail | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. What figure sits on guard over the Great Pyramids? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Great Sphinx | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. The President of the United States lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Who lives at Ten Downing Street? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Prime Minister of Great Britain | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. Who replaced Jesse Helms in the Senate? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Elizabeth Dole | | |
| | | |
|Question 42. Ave Maria University, the first new Roman Catholic university in the U.S. in four decades, recently opened. Thomas |10 |10 |
|Monaghan, the founder of which pizza chain, established this new university? | | |
|Answer: Domino’s Pizza | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|SPORTS |1 |2 |
|Question 43. In tennis, when the ball is returned before it touches the ground, it is called a . . . ? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Volley | | |
|Question 44. Where do relief pitchers warm up? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bull pen | | |
|Question 45. A punter may aim to kick the ball out of bounds within the 10 yard line, an area known as what? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Coffin corner | | |
|WEIGHTS AND MEASURES |1 |2 |
|Question 46. How many ounces in a pound? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 16 | | |
|Question 47. How many tablespoons in a cup? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 16 | | |
|Question 48. How many pecks in a bushel? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 4 | | |
|Question 49. How many grams in a decigram? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 1/10 | | |
|CENTURY-Events from history. You name the century in which they took place. |1 |2 |
|Question 50. Columbus discovered America. |5 |5 |
|Answer: 15th | | |
|Question 51. The Battle of Jutland was fought. |5 |5 |
|Answer: 20th | | |
|Question 52. The Post Office Department was established in this country. |5 |5 |
|Answer: 18th | | |
|Question 53. Sir Isaac Newton announced his theory of gravity. |5 |5 |
|Answer: 17th | | |
|THE GOOD BOOK |1 |2 |
|Question 54. Who wrote the second-to-last book in the Old Testament? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Zechariah | | |
|Question 55. On the death of her husband, this biblical heroine went to live with her mother-in-law and an alien people. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ruth | | |
|Question 56. What short man climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Zaccheus | | |
|Question 57. Name the first Christian martyr. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Stephen | | |
|SPORTS |1 |2 |
|Question 58. How many yards is a team penalized for being offside in football? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 5 yards | | |
|Question 59. What is a piece of turf knocked into the air in golf? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Divot | | |
|Question 60. What is a race involving factory-made cars called? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Stock car race | | |
|WAR |1 |2 |
|Question 61. The Treaty of Greenville followed what decisive action in American history? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Battle of Fallen Timbers | | |
|Question 62. In what state did the Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg occur? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Maryland | | |
|Question 63. The U.S. had no women soldiers in its Army until what war? |5 |5 |
|Answer: World War II | | |
|TOM-Identify the following well-known Toms and Thomases. |1 |2 |
|Question 64. The 13th century Dominican friar who wrote SUMMA THEOLOGICA. |5 |5 |
|Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas | | |
|Question 65. The Kansas native named Golfer of the Year from 1977 through 1981. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Tom Watson | | |
|Question 66. American clock manufacturer. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Seth Thomas | | |
|Question 67. The circus midget whose real name was Charles Stratton. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Tom Thumb | | |
|Months |1 |2 |
|Question 68. Which month was named for the Roman god of war? |5 |5 |
|Answer: March (for Mars) | | |
|Question 69. Which month was named after the man who said, "The die is cast. I have crossed the Rubicon"? |5 |5 |
|Answer: July (after Julius Caesar) | | |
|Question 70. Which month was named after an ancient god who presided over gates and doors? |5 |5 |
|Answer: January (after Janus) | | |
|Question 71. Which month was named for the emperor who ruled when Christ was born? |5 |5 |
|Answer: August (for Augustus Caesar) | | |
Round of 16 - Top Half
12:40:00 PM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. How did Jack's mother react when he sold the cow for five beans? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Angrily | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. What NBA star withdrew his debut rap CD after league commissioner David Stern called it “coarse, offensive, and |10 |10 |
|anti-social”? | | |
|Answer: Allen Iverson | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. In the United States, they're called astronauts. What are they called in the Soviet Union? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Cosmonauts | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. How many days are there in a Leap Year? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 366 | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. What is the smallest whole number that you can express using each of the digits 6, 4, 3, and 7 only once? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 3,467 | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. What is Smokey the Bear's motto? |10 |10 |
|Answer: "Only you can prevent forest fires." | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. How many basic food groups are there? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 4 | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. In August, 1945, two cities in Japan were destroyed by nuclear bombs. Name either one of them. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Hiroshima, Nagasaki | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton recently accused President Bush of breaking a personal “president-to-president” promise |10 |10 |
|made to protect which federal program that provides stipends and scholarships to young people in exchange for community service? | | |
|Answer: AmeriCorps | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. If there are 61 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and 38 Republicans, how many independents are there? |10 |10 |
|Answer: One (Because there are 100 Senate members in all.) | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. Right after the Civil War, many northern politicians went South to take advantage of the confusion left after the war. |10 |10 |
|What were these scoundrels called? | | |
|Answer: Carpetbaggers | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. In sewing, what is the most common seam width? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 5/8 inches | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. Stanley Cup |10 |10 |
|Answer: Ice hockey | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. This red-haired general of the American Revolution was the only president of the United States who did not live in the |10 |10 |
|White House. Name him. | | |
|Answer: George Washington | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. How many original American colonies were there? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 13 | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. Which of the following cities is the farthest south: Key West, Florida; Brownsville, Texas; San Diego, California? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Key West | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. What ghost, according to Shakespeare, appeared to Brutus? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Julius Caesar | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. What familiar saying is hidden in the following words: "The place 16 miles from the Tiber River's mouth took more than 24|10 |10 |
|hours to construct"? | | |
|Answer: "Rome wasn't built in a day." | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. In THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, Injun Joe kills the doctor--but who is blamed for the crime? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Muff Potter | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. Mindy bought a 10-pound bag of dog food. At his first feeding, her dog ate 1 3/8 pounds of food. How much dog food was |10 |10 |
|left? | | |
|Answer: 8 5/8 pounds | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. What is another name for a Jack-o-Lantern? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Pumpkin | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. What pro golfer, who made news last spring with his criticism of Annika Sorenstam, defeated Tiger Woods on Oct. 26 to |10 |10 |
|move into the lead on the money-winning list? | | |
|Answer: Vijay Singh | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. The Pashtun, who speak Pashtu and are dominated by the Durrani and Ghilzai tribes, are which country’s largest ethnic |10 |10 |
|group? | | |
|Answer: Afghanistan | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. Give the formula for finding the area of a rectangle. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Length x width | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. Another long wall--between England and Scotland--which was erected by a Roman emperor. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Hadrian's Wall | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT is the title of a book written by what federal judge who presided over the important Watergate|10 |10 |
|hearings? | | |
|Answer: John Sirica | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. How many syllables are in the word "deliverance"? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Four | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. Compute the square of 24. |10 |10 |
|Answer: 576 | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. What is an anthology? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A collection of stories or poems | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. Which Asian athlete won both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors during the 2001 major league baseball |10 |10 |
|season? | | |
|Answer: Ichiro Suzuki | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. What sitcom will continue despite the sudden death of its star, John Ritter? |10 |10 |
|Answer: "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. The main character takes a voyage to the land of the Brobdingnags, Glubdubdrip, Houynhnms, and Lilliput, in an 18th |10 |10 |
|century satire. Identify both the author and the title of the work. | | |
|Answer: Jonathan Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. What is Condoleezza Rice’s position? |10 |10 |
|Answer: U.S. National Security Advisor | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. What country's navy was defeated by England in 1588? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Spain's | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. How many colors are there in a monochrome painting? |10 |10 |
|Answer: One | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. What is 33? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 27 | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. What are catalogued under the Dewey Decimal system? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Books | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. FIDELIO is the title of the only opera by what famous composer? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Beethoven | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. An elephant, walrus, and wild boar will have this orthodontal problem. What do we call a long tooth that extends out of |10 |10 |
|the mouth? | | |
|Answer: Tusk | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. Noah's Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. In what modern-day country is Mt. Ararat located? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Turkey | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. What game show host claimed in his 1982 autobiography that he was once a CIA assassin? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Chuck Barris | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|U.S. GEOGRAPHY |1 |2 |
|Question 42. The only state that touches the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Florida | | |
|Question 43. Crater Lake National Park is located in what state? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Oregon | | |
|Question 44. Name the state that contains Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Minnesota | | |
|NAMES-What word or phrase was coined after or is identified with each of the following names? |1 |2 |
|Question 45. Buckminster Fuller |5 |5 |
|Answer: Geodesic dome or Spaceship Earth | | |
|Question 46. John Philip Sousa |5 |5 |
|Answer: Sousaphone | | |
|Question 47. Jack Bibb |5 |5 |
|Answer: Bibb Lettuce | | |
|IRISH |1 |2 |
|Question 48. What is the capital of Northern Ireland? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Belfast | | |
|Question 49. What is the major religion of the Republic of Ireland? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Roman Catholicism | | |
|Question 50. Who was made a bishop and labored for the conversion of Ireland? (His feast day is March 17.) |5 |5 |
|Answer: St. Patrick | | |
|GOOD DAY-Identify these literary and historical allusions to the word day. |1 |2 |
|Question 51. What proverb means “things take time”? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Rome wasn't built in a day. | | |
|Question 52. Novel and film about an assassination attempt on Charles DeGaulle. |5 |5 |
|Answer: DAY OF THE JACKAL | | |
|Question 53. Proverb meaning “Even the downtrodden have times of joy or revenge.” |5 |5 |
|Answer: Every dog has his day. | | |
|PREFIXES-From the following, identify the scientific prefixes which mean these numerical values. |1 |2 |
|Question 54. Thousandth part |5 |5 |
|Answer: Milli | | |
|Question 55. Thousandfold |5 |5 |
|Answer: Kilo | | |
|Question 56. Tenth part |5 |5 |
|Answer: Deci | | |
|WHAT'S WRONG?-Correct the error in each statement. |1 |2 |
|Question 57. The flag officially adopted for Canada shows a single oak leaf. |5 |5 |
|Answer: It's a maple leaf. | | |
|Question 58. Medicare is a health insurance program for the poor run by the U.S. government. |5 |5 |
|Answer: For the elderly (Accept “Medicaid.”) | | |
|Question 59. Salvador Dali is a leading Spanish Cubist. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Surrealist | | |
|Question 60. The capital of Russia is St. Petersburg. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Moscow | | |
|AFRICAN-AMERICANS |1 |2 |
|Question 61. The first black to play Major League Baseball on a regular basis. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Jackie Robinson | | |
|Question 62. The educator who founded Tuskegee Institute. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Booker T. Washington | | |
|Question 63. The civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr. | | |
|Little Boy was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Your next four questions require other identifications sharing |1 |2 |
|the word "little." | | |
|Question 64. This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Little League | | |
|Question 65. A statue by Edvard Ericksen at the water's edge in Copenhagen harbor depicts the heroine of one of Hans Christian |5 |5 |
|Andersen's stories. | | |
|Answer: Little Mermaid | | |
|Question 66. Napoleon Bonaparte, at 5'6" tall, was given what nickname? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Little Corporal | | |
|Question 67. Black Jumbo was his father, Black Mumbo his mother. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Little Black Sambo | | |
Round of 16 - Bottom Half
1:00:00 PM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. Pork is what we call meat from a pig. What kind of meat do we call venison? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Deer meat | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. Originally the word "stadium" was a Greek measure of length (about 600 feet). What does the word mean today? |10 |10 |
|Answer: a sports arena | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. Each angle of an equilateral triangle measures what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 60o | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. What is H2O the symbol of? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Water | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. The scale of a map is: 3/4 of an inch = 10 miles. If the distance on the map between two towns is 6 inches, what is the |10 |10 |
|actual distance? | | |
|Answer: 80 miles | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. Thailand used to be called Siam. What did Kampuchea used to be called? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Cambodia | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. John Paul Jones is noted for saying, "I have not yet begun to fight." Who said, "We have met the enemy and they are |10 |10 |
|ours"? | | |
|Answer: Oliver Hazard Perry | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. What is the all-time bestselling book? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Bible | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. The friends Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, are better known by what collective name? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Three Musketeers | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. How did a pizza delivery man, since killed, say he was forced into robbing a bank? |10 |10 |
|Answer: He had a bomb strapped to his body. | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. This man thought up the modern idea of what Santa Claus looks like. He also created the symbols of the Democratic and |10 |10 |
|Republican parties--the donkey and the elephant. Name this political cartoonist. | | |
|Answer: Thomas Nast | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. Dill pickles are made from what vegetable? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Cucumbers | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. In the earlier days of the automobile, what was the platform motorists mounted to step into the car? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Running board | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. In a speech to the nation, President Bush said he would ask Congress for $87 billion to fight terrorism and continue |10 |10 |
|operations where? | | |
|Answer: Iraq | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. In an address to the opening session of what United Nations body, President Bush offered no apology for ordering the |10 |10 |
|invasion of Iraq. Instead, he reiterated his case against Saddam Hussein? | | |
|Answer: General Assembly | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. Give me the name of the tallest building in the world and tell me where it's located. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Sears Building in Chicago | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. A sports arena built by the Emperor Titus year A.D. 80 still stands despite centuries of pillage and earthquakes. Name |10 |10 |
|this tourist attraction and the European city where it's located. | | |
|Answer: Colosseum in Rome | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. What nation billed the U.S. a million dollars for maintenance of a downed spy plane? |10 |10 |
|Answer: China | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. When Hurricane Isabel first hit U.S. soil, it hit where? |10 |10 |
|Answer: North Carolina coast | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. The federal government is evaluating technology that would put what aboard commercial flights: a. A mechanism to |10 |10 |
|automatically seal the cockpit door in the event of an emergency, b. A computerized autopilot that could land the plane, c. A sniffer | | |
|to detect explosives, or d. Video cameras to monitor pilots and passengers? | | |
|Answer: d. Video cameras to monitor pilots and passengers | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. What Walt Disney cartoon character has three pesky nephews? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Donald Duck | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. An odometer measures car mileage. What does an anemometer do? |10 |10 |
|Answer: It measures wind speed. | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. A senator from Kentucky was the chief architect both of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and of the Great Compromise of |10 |10 |
|1850. Who was he? | | |
|Answer: Henry Clay | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. Castor and Pollux are the names of two stars in what constellation? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Gemini | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. He recently became the first Democratic contender to end his presidential campaign. Name the U.S. senator from Florida. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Bob Graham | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. In 1644, Peter Stuyvesant lost what in a battle with the Portuguese? |10 |10 |
|Answer: His leg | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. Islam is the religion of Arabia, founded by Mohammed. What is the name of the God of the Moslems? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Allah | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. What did Benjamin Franklin invent because he got tired of having to carry two pairs of glasses with him--one for close-up|10 |10 |
|and the other for distance? | | |
|Answer: Bifocals | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. As stated in the popular proverb, what does haste make? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Waste | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. In heraldry and mythology, what is the horse with a single horn called? |10 |10 |
|Answer: unicorn | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. Is the Hoosier State Indiana, Iowa, or Illinois? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Indiana | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. He led the Nationalist forces to victory during the Spanish Civil War, and ruled Spain from 1936 to 1975. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Francisco Franco | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. Identify the respective family names of Romeo and Juliet. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. Biologists have a word for the offspring of two animals or plants of different species which are crossbred. What is the |10 |10 |
|word? | | |
|Answer: Hybrid | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. New Hampshire is called the Granite State. What state is called the Sunflower State? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Kansas | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. A new book says the year before Princess Diana died, she was alienated from a family member who wrote to her saying she |10 |10 |
|had mental problems. Who was it? | | |
|Answer: Her brother, Earl Spencer | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. The third leading cause of death in the United States is stroke. Do strokes occur in the heart, the liver, the stomach, |10 |10 |
|or the brain? | | |
|Answer: Brain | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. What state has the largest population? |10 |10 |
|Answer: California | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. Multiply a baker's dozen by a score; divide by the number of boroughs in New York City; and subtract the number of keys |10 |10 |
|on a piano. What is the answer? | | |
|Answer: -36 (13; 20; 5; 88) | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. What ancient people worshipped Anubis, God of the Dead, who was reputed to be the inventor of embalming? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Egyptians | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. What is a geometric figure with eight equal sides called? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Octagon | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|DOG- In this series you must identify, not breeds, but expressions containing the word dog. |1 |2 |
|Question 42. In disfavor |5 |5 |
|Answer: In the doghouse | | |
|Question 43. Aerial skirmish |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dogfight | | |
|Question 44. Sirius |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dog star | | |
|Question 45. A fairway angle, in golf |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dogleg | | |
|PRO-All of these answers begin with the prefix pro. |1 |2 |
|Question 46. A prediction of how a disease will develop |5 |5 |
|Answer: Prognosis | | |
|Question 47. Marx's class of wage earners |5 |5 |
|Answer: Proletariat | | |
|Question 48. An official of the Senate |5 |5 |
|Answer: President Pro Tempore | | |
|ANALOGIES |1 |2 |
|Question 49. The Nile is to Egypt as the Volga is to . . . ? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Russia | | |
|Question 50. Mary Ann Evans is to George Eliot as Charles Dodgson is to . . . ? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Lewis Carroll | | |
|Question 51. Watergate is to Nixon as Teapot Dome is to . . . ? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Harding | | |
|Question 52. McKinley is to Roosevelt as Roosevelt is to . . . ? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Truman (Accept Taft.) | | |
|AFRICAN AMERICAN |1 |2 |
|Question 53. What do we call the slave songs that combined African rhythms with biblical scripture? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Spirituals | | |
|Question 54. Who was the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? |5 |5 |
|Answer: General Colin Powell | | |
|Question 55. Booker T. Washington was the first black to receive an honorary degree from what Ivy League school? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Harvard | | |
|RIVERS-In which country are the following rivers: |1 |2 |
|Question 56. Yangtze |5 |5 |
|Answer: China | | |
|Question 57. Thames |5 |5 |
|Answer: England or Canada | | |
|Question 58. Darling |5 |5 |
|Answer: Australia | | |
|Question 59. Ganges |5 |5 |
|Answer: India | | |
|CITIES- In these countries, the capital city is not the largest city. Identify both the capital city and the city with the largest |1 |2 |
|population. | | |
|Question 60. U.S.A. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Washington and New York | | |
|Question 61. Australia |5 |5 |
|Answer: Canberra and Sydney | | |
|Question 62. India |5 |5 |
|Answer: New Delhi and Bombay | | |
|ASSORTMENT |1 |2 |
|Question 63. The hamburger was not invented in Germany, as one might guess, but in the United States. In what country did the hot dog|5 |5 |
|have its origin? | | |
|Answer: Germany | | |
|Question 64. Identify the part of the world where one would most likely find a nation scornfully called a “banana republic.” |5 |5 |
|Answer: Latin America | | |
|Question 65. What was the costliest war ever in terms of money? |5 |5 |
|Answer: World War II | | |
|I'll describe four men who were known as famous "firsts" and you supply all four names. |1 |2 |
|Question 66. The first signer of the Declaration of Independence. |5 |5 |
|Answer: John Hancock | | |
|Question 67. The first man to set foot on the moon. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Neil Armstrong | | |
|Question 68. The first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Charles Lindbergh | | |
|Question 69. The first black man to play major league baseball. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Jackie Robinson | | |
Quarterfinals
1:20:00 PM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. If you sailed from Trieste to Corfu, you would cross the Adriatic Sea. What sea would you be on if you went from Helsinki|10 |10 |
|to Copenhagen? | | |
|Answer: Baltic Sea | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. A man bought a cow and a calf for $85. The cow cost $55 more than the calf. How much did he pay for the calf? |10 |10 |
|Answer: $15 | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. Divide 36 by .9. What's the quotient? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 40 | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. What is a tomahawk? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A small ax | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. Where in the human body would you find the cerebrum? |10 |10 |
|Answer: brain | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. Mars was the Roman god of war. Who was his Greek counterpart? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Ares | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. This branch of engineering deals primarily with the design, construction, and maintenance of public works such as |10 |10 |
|highways, bridges, and waterways. What is this discipline called? | | |
|Answer: Civil Engineering | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. What do we call a mountain of ice, once part of a glacier, that floats in the sea? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Iceberg | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. Who was elected president of his nation by a margin of 11 million-to-0 in October 2002? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Saddam Hussein | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. Define and spell HYGIENE. |10 |10 |
|Answer: It means cleanliness. | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. China said it would launch a satellite to survey what heavenly body within three years? |10 |10 |
|Answer: The moon | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. What do we call the important muscle which is between the chest and the abdomen and helps us to breathe properly? Is it |10 |10 |
|the diaphragm, the triceps, or the solar plexus? | | |
|Answer: Diaphragm | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. In what year did Columbus discover America? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1492 | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. How many World Wars have there been? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 2 | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. A college student accused of carrying or hiding banned items aboard six passenger jets told of his actions originally in |10 |10 |
|an e-mail to the TSA, the agency created after the 9/11 attacks that oversees 50,000 government-paid airport security screeners. The | | |
|initials TSA stand for what? | | |
|Answer: Transportation Security Administration | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. What does 1/2 x 1/2 equal? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1/4 | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. Identify the Stephen Vincent Benet story on which was based the 1941 film ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY. |10 |10 |
|Answer: THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. What do the following snakes have in common: copperhead, water moccasin, coral snake, rattlesnake? |10 |10 |
|Answer: They're all poisonous. | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. Brazil and Colombia supply about 50% of the world's resource of what product: bananas, coffee, or sugar cane? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Coffee | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. What do you get when you churn milk? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Butter | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. Roentgen is chiefly remembered for the discovery |10 |10 |
|of what? | | |
|Answer: X-rays | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. The term of office for the United States President is four years. How long is the term of a United States Senator? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Six years | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. Equal air pressure is controlled inside and outside the human body by means of a tube connecting the inner ear with the |10 |10 |
|throat. What is this channel called? | | |
|Answer: Eustachian Tube | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. Solve the following problem: .39/6 = ? |10 |10 |
|Answer: .065 | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. When Pinocchio told a lie, what happened? |10 |10 |
|Answer: His nose grew. | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. Pencils are not made of lead at all. Of what substance are they made? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Graphite | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. King Ahab was a wicked ruler whose story is told in the Bible. Captain Ahab is a fictional character. Name the book by |10 |10 |
|Herman Melville in which he appears. | | |
|Answer: MOBY DICK | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. What is the name of the world's smallest bird? |10 |10 |
|Answer: hummingbird | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seemed to reverse course when he said he had no reason to believe that who had a hand |10 |10 |
|in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.? | | |
|Answer: Saddam Hussein | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. Heat may be transferred in three basic ways. Convection is one of them. What are the other two? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Conduction and radiation | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. A race of monsters in Greek mythology had the chest, arms, and head of a man, and the belly and legs of a horse. Members|10 |10 |
|of this race were called what? | | |
|Answer: Centaurs | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. Who is the only woman vying to become the Democratic presidential candidate? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Carol Moseley-Braun | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. This American author is known for helping to make the surprise ending popular. He wrote the short stories THE LAST LEAF |10 |10 |
|and THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF. Can you name him? | | |
|Answer: O Henry | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. Arrange these four immortals in chronological order: Franz Josef Haydn, composer; Sir Isaac Newton, scientist; Rembrandt,|10 |10 |
|artist; Shakespeare, author. | | |
|Answer: Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Newton, Haydn | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. The government is preparing to color-code what in addition to terror-alerts? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Air travelers | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale on campus run by Young Conservatives of Texas who sold cookies at |10 |10 |
|different prices based on what two factors, which they claimed showed the flaws in affirmative action? | | |
|Answer: Customer’s race and gender (from $1 for white males down to 25 cents for African-Americans) | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch recently agreed to a $1 million deal. What kind of deal is it? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A book deal | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. What does the verb rejuvenate mean? |10 |10 |
|Answer: To make new | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. Often called The Gateway to the New World, this was the U.S. Immigration Station from 1891 to 1954. What was it called? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Ellis Island | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. An emu is a creature that lives in Australia. What is the name of a similar animal that lives in Africa? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Ostrich | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. Subtract 5 3/4 from 7 3/8. Express your answer in whole numbers and fractions. |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1 5/8 | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|SPIRIT OF 76-Identify these personalities from the American Revolutionary War period. |1 |2 |
|Question 42. The Vermont renegade who led a successful attack against Fort Ticonderoga. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Ethan Allen | | |
|Question 43. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer who gave his name to a series of 1767 duties on lead, paint, paper, glass, and |5 |5 |
|tea. | | |
|Answer: Charles Townshend | | |
|Question 44. The Virginia legislator who cried, “Give me liberty or give me death.” |5 |5 |
|Answer: Patrick Henry | | |
|CON-The following descriptions fit words beginning with the prefix con. |1 |2 |
|Question 45. A secret or closed meeting of Catholic cardinals |5 |5 |
|Answer: Conclave | | |
|Question 46. A clear soup made of meat or vegetable stock |5 |5 |
|Answer: Consomme | | |
|Question 47. A resolution passed by both houses of Congress |5 |5 |
|Answer: Concurrent | | |
|Question 48. A mode of transport found along the Oregon Trail |5 |5 |
|Answer: Conestoga | | |
|WHEN HAVOC STRUCK |1 |2 |
|Question 49. Although hurricanes are not as violent as tornadoes, they have greater destructive potential, for two reasons. Give one.|5 |5 |
|Answer: They last longer and cover more area. | | |
|Question 50. What country was saved by a “divine wind” in 1281? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Japan | | |
|Question 51. What European country has historically been most affected by flooding? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Holland | | |
|WORD GAME-After each word, give a word with the same meaning that starts with d. |1 |2 |
|Question 52. Elude |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dodge | | |
|Question 53. Argument |5 |5 |
|Answer: Debate | | |
|Question 54. Goal |5 |5 |
|Answer: Destination | | |
|Question 55. Postpone |5 |5 |
|Answer: Delay, defer | | |
|P.S.- Each of the following words begins with that curious ps spelling. Identify each from its description. |1 |2 |
|Question 56. A Greek maiden |5 |5 |
|Answer: Psyche | | |
|Question 57. A mental disorder |5 |5 |
|Answer: Psychosis | | |
|Question 58. A pen name |5 |5 |
|Answer: Pseudonym | | |
|TWO-TIMERS-Don't be a dumb-dumb and do so-so with these repetitive expressions. |1 |2 |
|Question 59. A rhythmic Latin American ballroom dance. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Cha Cha | | |
|Question 60. An artistic movement of the early 20th century. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dada | | |
|Question 61. A German town known for its mineral baths. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Baden-Baden | | |
|BIG APPLE-Describe briefly the following sections of the New York City. |1 |2 |
|Question 62. Broadway |5 |5 |
|Answer: Theater district | | |
|Question 63. Tin Pan Alley |5 |5 |
|Answer: Haven for songwriters and publishers | | |
|Question 64. Park Avenue |5 |5 |
|Answer: Wealthy residential area | | |
|Question 65. The Bowery |5 |5 |
|Answer: Area for saloons, cheap hotels, and derelicts | | |
|Name these gods or goddesses from classical mythology. |1 |2 |
|Question 66. Who was the goddess of love and beauty? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Venus or Aphrodite | | |
|Question 67. Who was the messenger of the gods? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Mercury or Hermes | | |
|Question 68. What god ruled the seas? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Neptune or Poseidon | | |
|Question 69. Who was the ruler of the underworld? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Pluto or Hades | | |
SemiFinals
1:40:00 PM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. What war did Billy Yank and Johnny Reb fight? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Civil War | | |
| | | |
|Question 2. A piece of wire 37 inches long is bent successively in the shape of an equilateral triangle, a square, a regular hexagon, |10 |10 |
|and a circle. The plane surface of the largest area is included when the wire is bent into which shape? | | |
|Answer: circle | | |
| | | |
|Question 3. A board of inquiry blamed the Columbia shuttle accident on bad management at NASA as well as what physical cause? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A 1.67-pound chunk of foam insulation that hit the shuttle's wing | | |
| | | |
|Question 4. What country celebrates Bastille Day? |10 |10 |
|Answer: France | | |
| | | |
|Question 5. The three secondary colors are orange, green, and purple. What are the three primary colors? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Red, yellow, blue | | |
| | | |
|Question 6. "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." Was it Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Ogden Nash, or Dean Martin, who penned |10 |10 |
|this line? | | |
|Answer: Ogden Nash | | |
| | | |
|Question 7. What country will become the world's first to make cannabis available for the chronically ill through pharmacies? The |10 |10 |
|nation had already become the first to legalize physician-assisted suicide. | | |
|Answer: The Netherlands | | |
| | | |
|Question 8. The GNP is the market value of all goods and services produced by a nation in a given year. What does GNP stand for? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Gross National Product | | |
| | | |
|Question 9. "Old Marley was dead as a doornail." This quotation is taken from what book? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A CHRISTMAS CAROL | | |
| | | |
|Question 10. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is a novel which recounts the experience of river-boating in the 19th century. What famous |10 |10 |
|American author wrote this book? | | |
|Answer: Mark Twain | | |
| | | |
|Question 11. In what city is Disneyland located? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Anaheim | | |
| | | |
|Question 12. American soldiers at the Shkin airbase in Afghanistan, located just two miles from the border with what country, are |10 |10 |
|targets for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters who launch frequent attacks from the neighboring country? | | |
|Answer: Pakistan | | |
| | | |
|Question 13. If someone has a "Cockney" accent, where was he likely born? |10 |10 |
|Answer: England | | |
| | | |
|Question 14. The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that what country halt construction of a barrier|10 |10 |
|intended to cut it off from the West Bank and dismantle the portion already built? | | |
|Answer: Israel | | |
| | | |
|Question 15. What is the sum of 10 1/8 and 3 1/3? Reduce your answer to its simplest terms. |10 |10 |
|Answer: 13 11/24 | | |
| | | |
|Question 16. The sister of actress Joan Fontaine is a two-time Oscar winner for TO EACH HIS OWN and THE HEIRESS. She also starred as |10 |10 |
|Melanie Wilkes in the classic movie GONE WITH THE WIND. Name her. | | |
|Answer: Olivia de Havilland | | |
| | | |
|Question 17. The first and last letters of our alphabet are A and Z. What are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Alpha and omega | | |
| | | |
|Question 18. Omar Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and poet of the Middle Ages. His most famous volume of poetry was translated into |10 |10 |
|English in 1859. What is the title? | | |
|Answer: THE RUBAIYAT | | |
| | | |
|Question 19. What does invulnerable mean? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Indestructible; cannot be harmed | | |
| | | |
|Question 20. In how many different ways can you arrange five different books on a shelf? You can work out this problem by multiplying|10 |10 |
|5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1. | | |
|Answer: 120 | | |
| | | |
|Question 21. In 1848, Brigham Young founded this state capital as the center of the Mormon community. Name this city in Utah. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Salt Lake City | | |
| | | |
|Question 22. What communications giant had acquired 1,200 American radio stations by 2002, to control 60% of all rock music |10 |10 |
|programming? | | |
|Answer: Clear Channel | | |
| | | |
|Question 23. Which chemical element has the highest melting point? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Tungsten (3,417 degrees Centigrade) | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. Shakespeare was born in what country? |10 |10 |
|Answer: England | | |
| | | |
|Question 25. The ship of Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Who was the first English captain to |10 |10 |
|sail around the world? | | |
|Answer: Sir Francis Drake | | |
| | | |
|Question 26. Which is the largest bird? |10 |10 |
|Answer: ostrich | | |
| | | |
|Question 27. Akron is known as the Rubber Capital of the World. Which Ohio city is called the Glass Capital of the World? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Toledo | | |
| | | |
|Question 28. "The problem with [it] isn't just its price or its bulk or its battery life -- it's the irrefutable argument that when |10 |10 |
|one rides [it], one looks like a major dork." That was Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times, giving what may be a eulogy for what | | |
|two-wheeled technological wonder that suddenly isn't so wonderful. What? | | |
|Answer: The Segway (Sometimes the batteries run down and you just... fall over. Which makes you look even less cool.) | | |
| | | |
|Question 29. 2 1/2 divided by 5 = ? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1/2 | | |
| | | |
|Question 30. What's the capital of Indiana? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Indianapolis | | |
| | | |
|Question 31. Of cirrhosis, meningitis, cystic fibrosis, and multiple sclerosis, which disease is an inflammation of the membranes |10 |10 |
|surrounding the brain or spinal cord, and caused by virus, bacteria, yeasts, fungi, or protozoa? | | |
|Answer: Meningitis | | |
| | | |
|Question 32. Who was the ruler of the underworld? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Pluto or Hades | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. Dozens of U.S. Marines who were in Liberia in support of a West African peacekeeping mission contracted what disease? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Malaria | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. Julia Child is a winner of Emmy and Peabody awards. In what field has she achieved prominence? |10 |10 |
|Answer: cooking | | |
| | | |
|Question 35. A triangle with all three sides congruent is called an equilateral triangle. What do we call a triangle with no sides |10 |10 |
|congruent? | | |
|Answer: Scalene | | |
| | | |
|Question 36. To rid their nation of the monarchy during the Reign of Terror, French revolutionaries used what popular mode of |10 |10 |
|execution? | | |
|Answer: Guillotine | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. Forbes magazine released its annual ranking of the nation’s 400 wealthiest individuals and the top three spots remained |10 |10 |
|the same. Name two of the top three. | | |
|Answer: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Paul Allen | | |
| | | |
|Question 38. In 1922, an English archeologist named Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon discovered one of the richest finds in|10 |10 |
|history. What did these two men find? | | |
|Answer: The Tomb of King Tutankhamen | | |
| | | |
|Question 39. Which of these capital cities is the northernmost: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, or Stockholm? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Helsinki | | |
| | | |
|Question 40. When a person gives false testimony under oath in a court of law, it's called what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Perjury | | |
| | | |
|Question 41. THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS, HORTON HEARS A WHO, and THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS, are among the books of what |10 |10 |
|author? | | |
|Answer: Dr. Seuss | | |
| | | |
Lightning Round
|VARIETY |1 |2 |
|Question 42. They used to be called airplane flight stewardesses. What are they called now? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Airplane flight attendants | | |
|Question 43. Maple syrup is produced only in the United States and what other country? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Canada | | |
|Question 44. Identify the year following 1 B.C. |5 |5 |
|Answer: A.D. 1 | | |
|ARITHMETIC |1 |2 |
|Question 45. What is 4 divided by 1/2? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 8 | | |
|Question 46. At 50 miles per hour, how long will it take to go 325 miles? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 6 1/2 hours | | |
|Question 47. How many quarts are in 2 1/2 gallons? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 10 | | |
|WORD POWER |1 |2 |
|Question 48. Does arbiter mean judge, worker, counsel, or fighter? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Judge | | |
|Question 49. Does atrophied mean drugged, relaxed, wasted, or frozen? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Wasted | | |
|Question 50. Does blatant mean noisy, fearless, swollen, or gaudy? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Noisy | | |
|PSYCHOLOGY |1 |2 |
|Question 51. What is the term for the transference of a suppressed desire to a new object? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Channeling or sublimation | | |
|Question 52. A complete or partial loss of memory is called what? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Amnesia | | |
|Question 53. A feeling of well-being which is exaggerated and not in touch with reality is called happiness, euphoria, joy, or |5 |5 |
|pleasure? | | |
|Answer: Euphoria | | |
|Identify these q words. |1 |2 |
|Question 54. To drink deeply |5 |5 |
|Answer: Quaff | | |
|Question 55. 25 sheets of paper |5 |5 |
|Answer: Quire | | |
|Question 56. A waiting line or a pigtail |5 |5 |
|Answer: Queue | | |
|Let's test your I.Q. about famous doctors. |1 |2 |
|Question 57. He was also Mr. Hyde. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dr. Jekyll | | |
|Question 58. Name the hero of a book that won the Nobel Prize for Literature. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dr. Zhivago | | |
|Question 59. This English physician discovered the circulation of the blood. |5 |5 |
|Answer: William Harvey | | |
|Question 60. The doctor aboard the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE was . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Dr. McCoy | | |
|ANIMAL |1 |2 |
|Question 61. This animal is found at the beginning of an encyclopedia. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Aardvark | | |
|Question 62. A beast of burden in Peru is . . . |5 |5 |
|Answer: Llama | | |
|Question 63. This bird sings its name at dusk. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Whippoorwill | | |
|Tell me who was responsible for these inventions. |1 |2 |
|Question 64. Battery |5 |5 |
|Answer: Volta | | |
|Question 65. Wireless telegraphy |5 |5 |
|Answer: Marconi | | |
|Question 66. Modern machine gun |5 |5 |
|Answer: Gatling | | |
|Question 67. Photography |5 |5 |
|Answer: DaGuerre | | |
Finals
2:00:00 PM
|Tossups |1 |2 |
|Question 1. Name the movie in which we hear TARA'S THEME, or the movie in which we hear LARA'S THEME. |10 |10 |
|Answer: GONE WITH THE WIND and DR. ZHIVAGO, respectively | | |
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|Question 2. Sandy baked 4 1/2 pounds of cookies. If she divides the cookies evenly among herself and two friends, how many pounds of |10 |10 |
|cookies will she get? | | |
|Answer: 1 1/2 | | |
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|Question 3. Roald Amundsen |10 |10 |
|Answer: Norwegian | | |
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|Question 4. Give me the nickname of the London murderer of at least six women in 1888, who was never apprehended. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jack the Ripper | | |
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|Question 5. The official name for the Soviet Union is the U.S.S.R. What do these letters stand for? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | | |
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|Question 6. One yard equals 0.914 meters. How many meters are there in 75 yards? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 68.55 | | |
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|Question 7. Only one king of England was not able to speak English. He reigned from 1714 to 1727. Was he George I, George II, or |10 |10 |
|George III? | | |
|Answer: George I | | |
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|Question 8. "Would you like some freedom fries with your crow, Mr. President?" That's 's headline describing President |10 |10 |
|Bush's recent turnaround, asking what group to help the United States rebuild Iraq? | | |
|Answer: The United Nations | | |
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|Question 9. What TV show did Newsweek characterize as “Comedy Central’s burpfest”? |10 |10 |
|Answer: The Man Show | | |
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|Question 10. Multiply 5.209 by 1.086. What's the product? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 5.656974 | | |
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|Question 11. How much money would I have if I possessed six bits? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 75 cents | | |
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|Question 12. If a car travels 300 yards in 10 seconds, how many feet does it travel in a fifth of a second if its rate does not vary? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 18 feet | | |
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|Question 13. Here are some of the best-known trails: Appalachian Trail, Chisholm Trail, Santa Fe Trail. Now match them with their |10 |10 |
|start and stop points: Texas to Kansas; Missouri to New Mexico; Maine to Georgia. | | |
|Answer: Appalachian--Maine to Georgia; Chisholm--Texas to Kansas, Santa Fe--Missouri to New Mexico | | |
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|Question 14. He addressed a Richmond convention with the famous speech, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Who was this patriot? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Patrick Henry | | |
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|Question 15. The study of word origins is called etymology. What is studied in the science of entomology? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Insects | | |
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|Question 16. A 16th century scientist put forward the then absurd notion that the sun, not the earth, was the center around which the |10 |10 |
|planets revolve. Name this Polish astronomer. | | |
|Answer: Nicolas Copernicus | | |
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|Question 17. Two senior Bush administration officials urged patience with the American occupation in Iraq, comparing the attacks |10 |10 |
|against U.S. forces there to guerrilla strikes by member of what political party that fought on after World War II ended? | | |
|Answer: Nazis | | |
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|Question 18. If I were cautious, I would be very careful. What would I be like if I were precocious? |10 |10 |
|Answer: A person of premature development; advanced for age | | |
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|Question 19. Taco Bell must pay an additional $11.8 million in interest to two Michigan men who successfully sued the fast-food chain |10 |10 |
|for stealing their idea of an ad campaign featuring a talking what? | | |
|Answer: Chihuahua | | |
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|Question 20. A frightening fracture in the earth's crust is located in the state of California. What is this geological feature |10 |10 |
|called? | | |
|Answer: San Andreas Fault | | |
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|Question 21. How many sides does a heptagon have? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 7 | | |
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|Question 22. Nine ounces is what fraction of a pound? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 9/16 | | |
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|Question 23. A new book titled, “Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good,” is a new book written by which actor and his |10 |10 |
|business partner, about the success of their company that started with the sale of the actor’s homemade salad dressing with all the | | |
|profits given away to charity? | | |
|Answer: Paul Newman | | |
| | | |
|Question 24. His ship was named Argo, and in it he sailed to find the Golden Fleece. Name him. |10 |10 |
|Answer: Jason | | |
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|Question 25. A state of lawlessness or political disorder within a country--in short, the lack of any governmental authority--is |10 |10 |
|called what? | | |
|Answer: Anarchy | | |
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|Question 26. In geology, the wave-washed sediment along a coast extending throughout the surf zone, is known as what? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Beach | | |
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|Question 27. America's Unknown Soldier is buried at Arlington National Cemetery; France's, at the Arch of Triumph. Where is England's|10 |10 |
|Unknown Soldier? | | |
|Answer: Westminster Abbey | | |
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|Question 28. A bear had three cubs. Each of the cubs weighed 1,457 grams. What was the total weight of the cubs in kilograms? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 4.371 | | |
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|Question 29. In arithmetic, what do we call the quantity from which another quantity is subtracted? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Minuend | | |
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|Question 30. Name the song sung by Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO. |10 |10 |
|Answer: WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR | | |
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|Question 31. What government department controls the food stamp program, school lunches and breakfasts, and meat and poultry |10 |10 |
|inspection? | | |
|Answer: U.S. Department of Agriculture | | |
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|Question 32. The duckbilled platypus, the koala, and the kangaroo you find on which continent? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Australia | | |
| | | |
|Question 33. The 3-judge ruling on California's recall election was related to voting irregularities in what other state during the |10 |10 |
|presidential election of 2000? | | |
|Answer: Florida | | |
| | | |
|Question 34. Fred, a traveling salesman, spent 1 3/4 hours driving on Mondays, 2 1/3 hours driving on Tuesday, and 2 1/6 hours driving|10 |10 |
|on Wednesday. How many total hours did he spend driving those three days? | | |
|Answer: 6 1/4 hours | | |
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|Question 35. According to the Bible, what was man made from? |10 |10 |
|Answer: dust | | |
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|Question 36. Cell phone companies are attacking each other with ad blitzes as they brace for a new rule beginning Nov. 24 that will |10 |10 |
|let customers keep what when they switch providers? | | |
|Answer: Their phone number | | |
| | | |
|Question 37. What philosopher spoke of a cave in which people are chained and in which they see shadows, thinking these shadows to be |10 |10 |
|the only reality? | | |
|Answer: Plato (Accept Socrates.) | | |
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|Question 38. The cotton wedding anniversary is celebrated in the first year of marriage. In what year is the golden wedding |10 |10 |
|anniversary celebrated? | | |
|Answer: 50th | | |
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|Question 39. In geology, the Moh's Scale measures the hardness of rocks and minerals. What does the Richter Scale measure? |10 |10 |
|Answer: Intensity of earthquakes | | |
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|Question 40. What does the Roman numeral M stand for? |10 |10 |
|Answer: 1,000 | | |
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|Question 41. In the closest race for the National League batting title in history, what St. Louis Cardinal won the crown when |10 |10 |
|challenger Todd Helton of the Rockies was intentionally walked in his last at bat? | | |
|Answer: Albert Pujols (He won by a margin of .00022, or .3587 to .3585.) | | |
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Lightning Round
|Y1K-All questions relate to the state of the world 1,000 years ago. |1 |2 |
|Question 42. At the end of the 10th century caravans from Ghana crossed the Sahara carrying this metal. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Gold | | |
|Question 43. Many religious Europeans and Byzantines were surprised when the end of the year 999 did not result in what? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Judgement Day (The Apocalypse or end of the world). | | |
|Question 44. In England, King Ethelred “The Unready” paid tribute to these marauders. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Danish Vikings (Accept either) | | |
|WRITING-One word in each sentence is incorrect. Give the correct word which should be used in place of the error. |1 |2 |
|Question 45. Divide it between the six of them. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Among | | |
|Question 46. It's imperative that you are on time. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Be | | |
|Question 47. In 1936 Edward VIII fabricated the throne of England. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Abdicated | | |
|MATH |1 |2 |
|Question 48. If hamburgers sell at 2 for $5.00, how much would half a dozen hamburgers cost? |5 |5 |
|Answer: $15.00 | | |
|Question 49. What's the simplest fractional form of the square of four-eighths? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 1/4 | | |
|Question 50. What mathematical term is defined as the ratio of the number of favorable outcomes to the number of possible outcomes? |5 |5 |
|Answer: Probability | | |
|Question 51. If a hen can lay an egg every day and a half, how many eggs can three hens lay in three days? |5 |5 |
|Answer: 6 | | |
|WHO'S WHO-Here are 10 people better known by their middle names. Give me those middle names. |1 |2 |
|Question 52. William Rains, British actor |5 |5 |
|Answer: Claude | | |
|Question 53. Leroy Cleaver, U.S. civil rights leader |5 |5 |
|Answer: Eldridge | | |
|Question 54. Achille Debussey, French composer |5 |5 |
|Answer: Claude | | |
|SCIENCE-Give me the name of each of these sciences. |1 |2 |
|Question 55. The study of man. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Anthropology | | |
|Question 56. The branch of medicine dealing with curing by operative procedures. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Surgery | | |
|Question 57. The study of building design. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Architecture | | |
|Question 58. The study of outer space. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Astronomy | | |
|JEOPARDY- They give you the answers and ask you to come up with the questions. I've got a 10-part Jeopardy series for you, but |1 |2 |
|remember--your answer must be in the form of a question. | | |
|Question 59. Any plant-eating animal. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Qstn. What is a herbivore? | | |
|Question 60. Nectar and ambrosia. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Qstn. What did the Greek and Roman gods live on? | | |
|Question 61. Billy and nanny. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Qstn. What are male and female goats called? | | |
|NUMBERS GAME-What number is associated with each of the following words? |1 |2 |
|Question 62. Unicycle |5 |5 |
|Answer: 1 | | |
|Question 63. Quarantine |5 |5 |
|Answer: 40 | | |
|Question 64. Pentecost |5 |5 |
|Answer: 50 | | |
|Give me the names of these four 20th century dictators, all notable for their long terms. |1 |2 |
|Question 65. He assumed power as Cuba's head of state on January 1, 1959. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Fidel Castro | | |
|Question 66. He led the Nationalist forces to victory during the Spanish Civil War, and ruled Spain from 1936 to 1975. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Francisco Franco | | |
|Question 67. From 1945 to 1980, he ruled Yugoslavia. |5 |5 |
|Answer: Tito | | |
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