2001 National Scholastics …



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Round 14 (Finals). Related Tossup/Bonus

01 Called a troscad in Celtic myth, in real life, its practitioners have included Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, who died after 74 days; Emmeline Pankhurst, who often did so when imprisoned; and Mohandas Gandhi, as a form of ahimsa, or “nonviolence.” For 10 points—name this form of political protest by voluntary fasting.

ANSWER: hunger strike

01 BONUS. Name the following people associated with hunger strikes, 10 points each.

[10] His first novel was Your Granny's a Hunger Striker. Name this Irish author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, whose novel The Commitments inspired a movie.

ANSWER: Roddy Doyle

[10] In retaliation for his human rights efforts, which included occasional hunger strikes, this Soviet physicist was denied permission to receive in person the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.

ANSWER: Andrey Dmitryevich Sakharov

02 In the classic example, Portugal’s opportunity cost for producing wine in terms of lost potential to produce cloth is less than England’s opportunity cost, in terms of wine, to produce cloth. Thus, even if one country can produce both cloth and wine at a lower absolute cost, the countries will both benefit if England produces cloth, Portugal produces wine, and the two states trade. For 10 points—name this situation, proposed by David Ricardo as the method by which free international trade allocates resources efficiently.

ANSWER: comparative advantage [do not accept “absolute advantage”]

02 BONUS. Name these other kinds of economics advantage using the England-Portugal model, 10 points each.

[10] Ignoring the effect on cloth production, Portugal can produce wine at a lower gross cost than England can. Portugal has this kind of advantage in terms of wine.

ANSWER: absolute advantage

[10] Despite Portugal’s repeated efforts to lower the price of producing cloth, the English cloth industry develops new techniques and otherwise innovates, always maintaining the prime position in the world cloth market. England has this kind of advantage for cloth.

ANSWER: national competitive advantage

03 He criticized the war in Vietnam in Wichita Vortex Sutra. Other later works can be found in Planet News and Iron Horse. He was influenced by William Carlos Williams, who wrote the introduction to his best known work, which states: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." For 10 points—name this Beat poet who penned Howl.

ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg

03 BONUS. The howler is one variety of monkey. Name these others, for ten points each.

[10] The pygmy variety of this long-tailed tropical New World monkey is the smallest monkey species. They have claws rather than nails, and nonopposable thumbs.

ANSWER: marmosets

[10] This type of macaque [muh-KAHK] is considered sacred by Hindus. They have a decent physiological similarity to humans, and are known for their use in blood chemistry research.

ANSWER: rhesus monkeys

04 According to the original plan of this response to the Recussancy Acts, derived at Robert Catesby’s house in Lambeth, a tunnel was to be dug from a building next door to the target; the tunnel eventually hit the wall of a cellar in which the strike was to take place. For 10 points—name this failed 1605 attempt to destroy the British Parliament, whose namesake substance was to be ignited by Guy Fawkes.

ANSWER: the Gunpowder Plot

04 BONUS. Name these other attempts to kill British leaders for 10 points each.

[10] Named for a domicile near Hoddeston, this plot’s goal was to kill Charles II after a horse meet.

ANSWER: Rye House Plot

[10] Aimed at Prime Minister Castlereagh and the cabinet, this scheme was led by Arthur Thistlewood, who became the last person ever imprisoned in the Tower of London. Its namesake was the Roman-inspired location of the London house in which it was planned.

ANSWER: Cato Street Conspiracy

05 The decision in this case drew on Trop v. Dulles, which asserted that “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society” must be considered. This decision found inconsistent and racially biased application of the process in question and asserted that the American people considered that process cruel and unusual. For 10 points—name this 1972 decision which briefly outlawed capital punishment.

ANSWER: Furman v. Georgia

05 BONUS. Name the literary works in which these descriptions of executions may be found, for 10 points each.

[10] “Many years later, as he was facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude or A Hundred Years of Solitude or Cien Años de Soledad

[10] “The man who was engaged in being hanged was apparently about thirty-five years of age. He was a civilian, if one might judge from his habit, which was that of a planter.”

ANSWER: “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge”

06 At the Rivonia trial in 1964, he gave his “I am prepared to die” speech. Found guilty of sabotage in the Sharpeville Massacre, he was imprisoned fro m1964 to 1990. For 10 points—name this man who became president of the African National Congress within a year of his release, who later served as president of South Africa.

ANSWER: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

06 BONUS. For 10 points each, identify these other anti-apartheid activists.

[10] He was the deputy president under Nelson Mandela and is now president of both the African National Congress and the Republic of South Africa.

ANSWER: Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

[10] A law partnr of Nelson Mandela, he was president of the African National Congress from 1969 to 1990.

ANSWER: Oliver Tambo

07 The complete short score of this work was completed in 22 days. First performed at a Dublin charity concert to benefit “the prisoners of the several gaols [jails],” it is a three-part work based on a Charles Jennens libretto. For 10 points—name this 1741 work most noted for its choruses, including “Glory to God,” the concluding “Amen,” and the infamous “Hallelujah.”

ANSWER: Messiah by George Frederick Händel

07 BONUS. Answer these questions about other musical works associated with the Passion narrative, 10 points each.

[10] The Swiss composer Frank Martin took the title for his Passion setting from the name of this hill, also called Calvary, on which the crucifixion allegedly took place.

ANSWER: Golgotha

[10] La Rédemption, by this operatic composer of Faust [fohst] and Roméo et Juliette, is a massive three-part oratorio which starts in Golgotha and ends with the Pentecost.

ANSWER: Charles-François Gounod

[10] This Estonian composer of Frâtres, Summa, Magnificat, and Trisagion wrote an austere Latin setting of the St. John Passion for the unusual combination of tenor, baritone, solo quartet, chamber chorus, oboe, bassoon, violin, cello, and organ.

ANSWER: Arvo Pärt

08 Kay Redfield Jameson linked this mental disorder to the “artistic temperament.” It has periods of excitability, insomnia, and increased mental capacity, separated by episodes of depression. In some cases, excitable periods degenerate into psychosis. For 10 points—name this disorder once called manic depression.

ANSWER: bipolar disorder (I or II)

08 BONUS. Answer these questions related to bipolar disorder, 10 points each.

[10] In this form of bipolar disorder, the patient will quickly alternate between high and low moods, even in the context of a larger mania or depression.

ANSWER: rapid-cycling [accept word forms]

[10] Though less severe than rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, this disorder is more severe than normal mood swings and tends to interfere with the patient’s daily life.

ANSWER: cyclothymic disorder or cyclothymia

09 Having fled the battle of Philippi in 42 BC, he returned to Rome under the general amnesty, where he began his literary career. He soon befriended Virgil, and gained the patronage of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, who provided him an estate in the Roman countryside where he wrote many of his finest works. For 10 points—name this writer who imitated Anacreon and Sappho, and inspired many later writers with his four books of Odes.

ANSWER: Horace or Quintus Horatius Flaccus

09 BONUS. Name the following works or ideas associated with classical notions of tragedy, for ten points each.

[10] Aristotle proposed in this work the “unity” theory of drama, which stated that the entirety of a tragedy must consist of a single conflict which unfolds and is resolved in a single location in the course of a single day.

ANSWER: Poetics

[10] In the Poetics, Aristotle introduced this term to denote the inherent defect or shortcoming in the hero of a tragedy.

ANSWER: hamartia [huh-MAR-sha]

10 Developed in 1912 by physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, this device originally used a piston or an elastic membrane to create a supersaturated vapor. Now, dry ice or liquid helium can be used as coolants to create the vapor, which is quickly cooled to form tiny liquid droplets. For 10 points—name this device used to detect energetically charged particles as they pass through a chamber.

ANSWER: diffusion chamber or cloud chamber

10 BONUS. Identify these clouds, 10 points each.

[10] This is the term for the white lines of condensed water vapor that jet engines sometimes leave in the sky.

ANSWER: contrails

[10] Usually forming on the bottom of cumulonimbus clouds, they appear like sacks or quilted pouches and, despite their ominous appearance, actually signal the weakening of the storm.

ANSWER: mammatus

Allow substitutions if any. THEN distribute handout with Category Quiz topics, as you read the categories:

American History: A Congressman from Vermont

American Literature: I Think That I Shall Never See . . .

Biological Sciences: The Wind Beneath My Wings

Entertainment & Sports: Once Slimed . . .

Fine Arts: Table for Two

General Knowledge and Trivia: Feet

Geography: European Waters

Mathematics: Set

Physical Sciences: It’s a Gas!

Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Mother of (a) God

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Round 14 (Finals). Category Quiz Tossups

11 The Abbasid leaders of the effort to overthrow the Umayyad (oo-MY-ad) caliphs prophesized of a man who would rise in Khorasan in the east, carrying a black banner. Spanish Muslims told similar tales after their loss of most of Spain at Las Navas de Tolosa. Though invoked by Sunni Muslims, his place in Shi’ite eschatology is more pronounced, but nowhere is he mentioned in the Qur’an or in any known hadith of the Prophet. For ten points, name this figure, a deliverer of justice and equity and bringer of a short golden age before the end of the world, whose name translates as “divinely guided one” or “messiah.”

ANSWER: Mahdi

12 This ship was christened in 1994 by Tipper Gore. Recently captained by Joseph Waddell, the results of that captaincy have sparked a forty million dollar recovery operation. FTP, name this submarine which collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat.

ANSWER: USS Greenville

13 He may have cost himself the election in his response to a single question by Max Frankel of the New York Times in a debate, when he cited the “independent, autonomous” nature of several nations, each with its own “territorial integrity,” in claiming that “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” For ten points, name this man known for physical as well as verbal pratfalls, and for losing to Jimmy Carter.

ANSWER: Gerald Ford

14 A museum dedicated to it is housed in Syracuse’s 1850 National Register Landmark Weighlock Building. It was championed by Governor DeWitt Clinton, who garnered the financial support of the New York state legislature. It increased the number of settlers in the Midwest and caused the growth of New York City. For ten points, Buffalo and the Great Lakes were linked with Albany and the Hudson River by what canal?

ANSWER: Erie Canal

15 In the simplest mixture of two mutually soluble liquids, the volatility of each is undisturbed by the presence of the other. In such a case, the boiling point of a 50-50 mixture, for example would be halfway between the boiling points of the pure substances. For ten points, identify this simple relationship first stated by its eponymous French discoverer.

ANSWER: Raoult’s Law

16 He was born in 1784 in Minden, Brandenburg. At age 20, he wrote a paper on Halley's comet, which led to a career choice of astronomy over shipping. In 1810, the Prussian government charged him with construction of an observatory at Königsberg; later, he would explain parallax and was the first to calculate distances to stars other than the sun. These are some of the career highlights of, for ten points, what man who first derived the solution to Laplace's equation in cylindrical coordinates?

ANSWER: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

17 His team lost by 11 points in the second round of this year’s NCAA tournament after beating Wisconsin by only 1 point. His last job was as the head coach of the team that beat him. FTP, name this Georgia State coach, forced to resign from Maryland’s coaching staff in the wake of Len Bias’ cocaine-induced death.

ANSWER: Lefty Drisell

18 This man, who had commanded the first steamship in the US Navy, the Fulton, arrived in Yedo Bay in order to begin trade negotiations with the local government as President Fillmore had directed. Internal conflict stemming from his demands led to the fall from power of the Tokugawa Shogunate, but eventually was resolved by the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1858. FTP, name this American commodore who succeeded in opening Japan to the rest of the world.

ANSWER: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry

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Round 14 (Finals). The Category Quiz

American History: A Congressman from Vermont

After 12 years in the House of Representatives, this Republican was appointed to the Senate in 1867, spending 31 years there. For 15 points—name this Vermont legislator best known for sponsoring an 1862 act granting land to the states for agricultural and mechanical schools.

ANSWER: Justin S(mith) Morrill

American Literature: I Think That I Shall Never See . . .

“All I could see from where I stood/Was three long mountains and a wood;/I turned and looked the other way,/And saw three islands in a bay.” So begins—for 15 points—what poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay that lent its name to the title of one of her collections?

ANSWER: “Renascence” [re-NAY-since]

Biological Sciences: The Wind Beneath My Wings

Warning: two answers required. An American scientist found that in fruit flies, the traits of black bodies and vestigial wings tended to be inherited together; as a result, he postulated that they were carried on the same chromosome. For 15 points—name the scientist, and the term given to this phenomenon.

ANSWER: Thomas Hunt Morgan and linkage [accept word forms]

Entertainment & Sports: Once Slimed . . .

“Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie” is a lyric in—for 15 points—which song from Alanis Morissette’s album of the same name, the video for which has Alanis morphing through different time periods and styles, dancing with actor Dash Mihok?

ANSWER: “So Pure”

[HN: Lyrics include the gem, “You from New York you are so relevant/You reduce me to cosmic tears”]

Fine Arts: Table for Two

Two bearded Frenchmen stand, while between them is a table with shelves full of instruments and books, including a lute, representing the earthly love of music. For 15 points—name this painting by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Jean de Dinteville [DANT-veel] and Georges de Selve.

ANSWER: The Ambassadors

General Knowledge and Trivia: Feet

For 15 points—what metrical foot in poetry contains two long or two accented syllables?

ANSWER: spondee

Geography: European Waters

Its tributaries include the Bug, Nida, and Pilica [pih-LEE-tsa]. For 15 points—name this river that empties into the Baltic Sea at Gdansk.

ANSWER: Vistula or Wisla River

Mathematics: Set

Pencil and paper ready. In the game “Set,” there are 81 different cards, each of which bears a design with four distinct characteristics: color, shape, number, and pattern; there are three choices for each characteristic. If you pick a card from the deck at random—for 15 points—how many of the remaining 80 cards will have exactly two characteristics in common? You have 30 seconds.

ANSWER: 24 or 30% [1/3 x 1/3 x 2/3 x 2/3 x 4!/(2!)(2!)]

Physical Sciences: It’s a Gas!

Pencil and paper ready. A cylinder with a leak-proof piston at one end contains 5 liters of a gas at 400 Kelvins and 3 atmospheres of pressure. Six hours later, you find that someone has lowered the temperature of the gas to 300 Kelvins, and compressed the volume to 3 liters. For 15 points—what is the new pressure of the gas, in atmospheres?

ANSWER: 3.75 atm [from the ideal gas equation; n is constant]

Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Mother of (a) God

The daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, she caught Zeus’s lustful eye. He swore in the River Styx for her, and when she requested he come to her in all his glory, he did—incinerating her. For 15 points—name this woman, whom Zeus made a star after he saved her child, Dionysus.

ANSWER: Semele

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Round 14 (Finals). Stretch Round

19 His work emphasizes humility and passivity and is regarded as both a mystical text and a political handbook. Translated almost as often as the Christian Bible, his only work is made up of eighty-one paragraphs of verse and prose. FOR TEN POINTS—name this philosopher whose name means “old child,” referring to the legend stating that he was born an old man, the author of the Dao de Ching.

ANSWER: Lao-tzu

19 BONUS. Identify the following acts of Congress, all passed in 1906, FTPE.

This act was passed in response to the publication of Sinclair's The Jungle.

ANSWER: Meat Inspection Act

This act established the creation of National Monuments.

ANSWER: Antiquities Act

This act helped to reinforce the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, dealing mostly with railroad rates.

ANSWER: Hepburn Act

20 Constituent tribes include the Rif, Kabyle [kah-BYE-leh], Shawia [shah-WEE-ah], and Shluh. Divided into tribes such as the Haratin and the Tuareg—FOR TEN POINTS—name this ethnic group of Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya, whose name comes from the Roman word for barbarian.

ANSWER: Berbers

20 BONUS. [FOR AHMED]

21 This man’s accomplishments include founding the first psychological journal, Studies in Philosophy (1881) and establishing the first experimental psychology lab in 1879, where he conducted a great deal of research on perception and feeling. FTP, name this man, regarded by many as the father of modern psychology.

ANSWER: Wilhelm Wundt

21 BONUS. Identify these parts of the eye, for ten points each.

This is the five-layered membrane through which light is admitted. Located in front of the aqueous humor, it is reshaped in the surgery known as radial keratotomy.

ANSWER: cornea

Behind the pupil, in the center of the macula lutea, this spot is the area of greatest acuity in the eye.

ANSWER: fovea centralis

This muscle surrounds the lens, and changes the shape of it to adjust the focal length.

ANSWER: ciliary muscle

22 This enzyme is activated by hydrochloric acid from the parietal cells. It is most effective at catabolizing proteins. FOR TEN POINTS—identify this enzyme which is deactivated by the basic environment of the duodenum after leaving the stomach.

ANSWER: pepsin

22 BONUS. Megatron leads the Decepticons, the ethnic group that comprises 100% of the state of Cybertron. Cybertron borders Autobotstan, which also contains members of the Decepticon ethnicity (among many other ethnic groups). Given each of the followiong actions, identify the term from International Relations that describes it for ten points each.

a. Megatron annexes the part of Autobotstan containing the highest concentration of ethnic Decepticons, claiming responsibility over members of his nation-state's ethnic group outside its formal borders.

ANSWER: irredentism

b. Leaders of Junkionia allow the above irredentism in the hopes that such an action will prevent Megatron from further attempts to seize territory, an example of this method of attempting to contain expansionist desires.

ANSWER: appeasement

c. If Quintessa wishes to challenge Cybertron's actions as far as possible without actually causing a war, they are engaging in this other strategy for keeping peace between nations.

ANSWER: brinksmanship

23 In 2000, it ended the day after Kwanzaa did. At the festival celebrating its conclusion, the finest clothes are worn, and cities throughout the Arab world are draped in colored lights. The festival is known as the Eid al-Fitr. FOR TEN POINTS—name this Islamic month of fasting.

ANSWER: Ramadan

23 BONUS. Identify these groups associated with the French Revolution, for ten points each.

Taking their name from a monastery that they used as a headquarters, this political club favored a constitutional monarchy. They seceded from the Jacobins, but were ultimately abolished by the Jacobins.

ANSWER: Feuillants

Created by the National Convention in 1793, its membership was expanded to 12 with the addition of such radicals as Couthon and Robespierre. It was responsible for the Reign of Terror.

ANSWER: Committee of Public Safety or La Comité de la Sûreté Publique

This executive branch of the Republic was established in 1795, with five members, who rotated the presidency every three months. It was replaced in 1799 by the three-person Consulate that included Napoleon.

ANSWER: the Directory or Directoire

24 In this country, prime minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi was overthrown in 1989 by the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, led by Hassan al-Bashir. John Galang leads the People’s Liberation Army, a Christian group which controls much of the south of this country. FOR TEN POINTS—name this African country, bombed by the US in 1998, with capital at Khartoum.

ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Sudan

24 BONUS. Identify these French playwrights for ten points each.

While his first drama Les romanesques, or The Romantics, was adapted into the musical The Fantasticks, he is better known for his verse play Cyrano de Bergerac.

ANSWER: Edmond Rostand

The comedies Le barbier de Seville and Le mariage de Figaro by this playwright were later made into operas by Mozart and Rossini, respectively.

ANSWER: Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais

The son of a novelist, his first novel Camille was turned first into a play and then into Verdi's opera La Traviata.

ANSWER: Alexandre Dumas fils [accept Dumas the younger or equivalents]

25 When a controlling magnetic field is adjusted to make self-interactions repulsive, this material swells up as expected; but if one makes the self-interactions attractive, after a period of shrinking, the material will explode like a supernova. FOR TEN POINTS—name this phase in which all the atoms share the same quantum mechanical state, named after the two physicists who predicted their behavior.

ANSWER: Bose-Einstein Condensate

25 BONUS. This Christmas, get ready for the onslaught of home entertainment systems made by various companies. Answer these questions for ten points each.

Due out in October in the United States, this Nintendo replacement for the N64 cannot play DVD’s but allows for wireless game playing.

ANSWER: GameCube

Due for a November release is this Microsoft Home Entertainment System.

ANSWER: X-box

This company has announced that Linux will be the operating system for its Media Terminal system.

ANSWER: Nokia

26 The title structure is actually a bar named “The Cathedral” in his book Conversations in the Cathedral. He has written humorous novels such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, but has left his foremost mark with innovative, sometimes dark works such as The Time of the Hero, The Green House, and Death in the Andes. FOR TEN POINTS—name this author and politician who, in 1990, finished second, on a Thatcherite platform, in the presidential election in Peru.

ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa [prompt on Llosa; accept Conversations in the Cathedral before the first “his”]

26 BONUS. Identify these winds, for ten points each.

In the Rocky Mountains, this warm, dry wind melts the snow quickly in the springtime.

ANSWER: Chinook

Similar to the Chinook, this wind is observed in the Alps.

ANSWER: foehn

In the spring and summer, this hot and dry wind blows from the Libyan Sahara towards the Mediterranean, affecting Malta, Italy, and Sicily.

ANSWER: sirocco

27 An Italian anarchist bomber may have simply tripped on something when he blew himself up outside of this man’s house. Nicknamed the “Fighting Quaker,” he failed in his attempt to gain the 1920 Democratic presidential nomination. FOR TEN POINTS—name this man who recruited J. Edgar Hoover to help him in a campaign against radicals whose height was the warrantless arrest of thousands in anti-Communist raids.

ANSWER: (Alexander) Mitchell Palmer

27 BONUS. Answer the following about a Hindu deity, for ten points each.

Often seen holding a book and a musical instrument, or sitting on a lotus flower in meditation, this goddess of the arts, music, and literature and is the center of the spring festival, Vashat Panchami.

ANSWER: Sarasvati

Sarasvati is the consort of this god, who had one of his five heads destroyed by Siva. In older Vedic literature, he is identified with Prajapati, the father god.

ANSWER: Brahma

Sarasvati is said to have invented this language, used in Vedic religious texts.

ANSWER: Sanskrit

28 When Michelangelo heard that this contemporary and his workshop had completed a massive commission in less than one hundred days, the master snidely remarked, “So it seems.” A major proponent of the Mannerist style, he painted over Leonardo’s deteriorating fresco of the Battle of Anghiari and produced many other works for his patron, Duke Cosimo I in Florence. FOR TEN POINTS—name this sixteenth-century Italian, author of the two-volume biography of artists, Lives.

ANSWER: Giorgio Vasari

28 BONUS. Identify the following about the works of an American novelist, for ten points each. [Moderator: Do not mention the author until the bonus is finished]

The main characters in this novel include Countess Ellen Olenska, her cousin May Welland, and May’s husband-to-be.

Answer: The Age of Innocence

This character dies of an overdose of chloral after putting her $10,000 inheritance check in an envelope for the bank and another check in an envelope for Gus Trenor.

ANSWER: Lily Bart (from The House of Mirth)

Ethan Frome is lamed and Mattie Silver injures her spine in an accident concerning what mode of transportation?

ANSWER: sled or sleigh

Opening Round: Related Tossup-Bonus Section

In this round, each tossup question is worth 10 points. Upon getting the tossup question correct, a team question worth a maximum of 20 points will be read. The topic for the bonus question will somehow be related to the tossup question. Both teams get an opportunity to answer after each prompted section of a bonus question, with the team getting the preceding tossup getting the first opportunity.

Category Quiz

In this round, each tossup question is worth 10 points. Upon getting the tossup question correct, the team gets the opportunity to choose a 15-point team question based on the list of topics handed out before the round. If the bonus question is missed, the opposing team gets the opportunity to answer.

Stretch Round: Unrelated Tossups and Bonuses

In this round, each tossup question is worth 20 points until the reader completes the phrase “for ten points,” after which the tossup is worth 10. Upon getting the tossup question correct, the team gets the opportunity to choose answer the associated bonus question for a maximum value of 30 points. Both teams get an opportunity to answer after each prompted section of a bonus question, with the team getting the preceding tossup getting the first opportunity.

Category Quiz Bonus Topics: Round 1

American History: A Congressman from Vermont

American Literature: I Think That I Shall Never See . . .

Biological Sciences: The Wind Beneath My Wings

Entertainment & Sports: Once Slimed . . .

Fine Arts: Table for Two

General Knowledge and Trivia: Feet

Geography: European Waters

Mathematics: Set

Physical Sciences: It’s a Gas!

Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Mother of (a) God

Category Quiz Bonus Topics: Round 1

American History: A Congressman from Vermont

American Literature: I Think That I Shall Never See . . .

Biological Sciences: The Wind Beneath My Wings

Entertainment & Sports: Once Slimed . . .

Fine Arts: Table for Two

General Knowledge and Trivia: Feet

Geography: European Waters

Mathematics: Set

Physical Sciences: It’s a Gas!

Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Mother of (a) God

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