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TOSSUPS
1. Its President Benigno Aquino [ba-neen-yo a-KEE-no] has made peace with the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front whose guerrillas now control much of its southern island of Mindanao. Name this Asian
nation, south of Taiwan and north of Indonesia, whose capital is Manila.
answer: the Philippines
𝟐
2. Pencils and paper ready! Solve for x in the equation 𝟑 𝒙 − 𝟕 =
answer: x = 18
1
(3
𝟏
𝒙−
𝟑
𝟏.
𝑥 = 6)
3. Donated by King Louis XVIII to the Louvre, this marble artwork was originally made of several parts
that were put together with vertical pegs. Give the most common 3-word term for this ancient sculpture,
found off the coast of Greece in 1820 without any arms.
answer: Venus di Milo
4. After his wife Letitia died and left him with 8 children, he married a much younger woman named Julia
and had 7 more children with her. Name this U.S. President who later became a member of the
Confederate Congress and became President only after the death of William Henry Harrison.
answer: John Tyler
5. Its new logo will change the white letters in its signs to red and totally get rid of the yellow section of
the sign that said “Old Fashioned Hamburgers.” Identify this nationwide fast-food chain whose signs will
still feature the red hair, freckles and pigtails of the daughter of its founder, Dave Thomas.
answer: Wendy’s
6. Pencils and paper ready! The average of 3 numbers is 15. What is the new average after a fourth
number, 23, is added in?
answer: 17 (3 x 15 = 45, 45 + 23 = 68, and 68/4 = 17)
7. Formed from rapidly cooling lava, it forms the famous Giant's Causeway in Ireland as well as the dark
areas of the moon, called “seas” or “maria” [ma-RYE-a]. Name this volcanic rock that also forms most of
the floor of the ocean.
answer: basalt
8. His recently-discovered play Is He Dead? tells of a painter who fakes his own death to increase the
value of his paintings and is as funny as his travel books like The Innocents Abroad. Name this American
author of The Prince and the Pauper, as well as a novel about Huck Finn.
answer: Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)
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9. Born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, he crowned his wife Josephine Empress while he
was Emperor of France. Name this world leader who is probably most famous today for his invasion of
Russia in 1812 that caused Tchaikovsky to write his famous overture.
answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
10. One new TV series this fall features a man named Sherlock with substance abuse problems who is
forced to live with an Asian lady named Dr. Watson. Identify this CBS series, based on Sherlock Holmes,
whose title completes a phrase the original Holmes never actually said: “[blank], my dear Watson.”
answer: Elementary
11. The Rimsky-Korsakov musical suite Scheherazade [sha-hair-a-ZOD] is based on this set of Middle
Eastern legends and has a first movement called “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship.” Name this set of stories,
said to have been told by Scheherazade, one at a time each evening, to keep the Sultan from killing her.
answer: 1001 Arabian Nights
12. In 2003, he became the first man to skydive across the English Channel; thus, he’s had practice in
doing stunts where you fall a long way in a short time. Name this Austrian daredevil who did it again in
October 2012 when he jumped out of a helium balloon and safely skydived more than 24 miles to Earth.
answer: Felix Baumgartner
13. It requires Congress to meet at least once a year --on January 3rd at noon, 17 days before any new
President is inaugurated. Identify this Constitutional Amendment that moved Inauguration Day from
March 4th to January 20th and was the last Amendment passed before the one that ended Prohibition.
answer: 20th Amendment
14. Its viral type is no fun to get but is milder than its bacterial type. But getting one of those is better
than getting the fungal version that was spread around in steroid shots in 2012. Name this deadly disease,
diagnosed by a spinal tap, that causes a very stiff neck and swelling in both the spinal cord and the brain.
answer: meningitis [men-un-JYE-tuss]
15. One theory of their existence is that when people who had never seen a horse first saw a man riding a
horse, they thought the man and horse were just one creature together. Name this group of mythological
beings, including Chiron [KY-ron], that all have human heads and torsos but the lower body of a horse.
answer: centaurs
16. Pencils and paper ready! One formula for the area of a triangle is to subtract each individual side
from the triangle’s semiperimeter, multiply the 3 results together, multiply that number by the
semiperimeter, and then take the square root of the whole thing. If the semiperimeter is half of the
triangle’s perimeter, use this formula to find the area of a triangle with sides 5, 8 and 9. Give your answer
as a square root.
answer: √(396) or 6 √11 [semiperimeter = 11, so √((11)(6)(3)(2)) ]
17. When Bobby Hogg died in 2012 at age 92, he took this country’s Cromarty dialect with him. Name
the country where Hogg had lived in the Highlands as the world’s last native Cromarty speaker, a country
north of England whose capital is Edinburgh.
answer: Scotland
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18. Found in oceans but not in freshwater, its crown-of-thorns variety eats algae and coral at such a rate
that it now threatens the ecosystem of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Name this symmetrical sea creature
that can regrow any of its five arms.
answer: starfish
19. Its epilogue was written by Jonathan Harker, who tells of his return trip to Transylvania and quotes
the celebrated Dr. Van Helsing. Name this novel by Bram Stoker, originally titled “The Un-Dead”, whose
title character is a vampire.
answer: Dracula
20. It has a surface area almost as large as South Carolina. Cities on it include Marquette, Michigan and
Duluth [da-LOOTH], Minnesota, while Isle Royale is in the middle of it. Identify this northernmost and
largest of the Great Lakes.
answer: Lake Superior
21. It is getting its own pavilion in the California Science Center, which it reached in 2012 by a slow
journey on city streets. Identify this space shuttle, named by American schoolchildren, that carried Mae
Jemison into space and orbited the earth more than 4,000 times.
answer: Endeavour
22. After winning a World Series with the Florida Marlins, this Venezuelan was traded to his current
team, changing leagues in the process. In 2012, he moved to third base so his new teammate Prince
Fielder could play first base. Name this Detroit Tigers star who, in 2012, became the first player in 45
years to win the Triple Crown.
answer: Miguel Cabrera
23. The fovea [FO-vee-a], the macula [MACK-ya-la], the iris [EYE-rus], the lens, the retina [RET-na]
and the cornea [COR-nee-a] are all major pieces within—what part of your body that can be damaged by
glaucoma [glaw-CO-ma] and allows you to see things?
answer: the eye
24. It reached a deal in 2012 to extend the range of its ballistic missiles. But it notified China and Japan
beforehand, telling them the move was directed only against its neighbor to the north. Name this Asian
country whose northern neighbor hasn’t actually attacked since the armistice in 1953—but could at any
moment.
answer: South Korea (both words needed)
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Name these countries that are, like the U.S., trying to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil:
A. This island off the coast of Florida has a Communist government, so its best players leave when they
can.
answer: Cuba
B. This Central American country is bordered by Mexico on its north and west and Belize on its east.
answer: Guatemala
C. This Caribbean island’s capital is Kingston.
answer: Jamaica
D. This tiny Caribbean nation within the British Commonwealth whose capital is St. John’s plays its
home soccer games in “Sticky Wicket Stadium.”
answer: Antigua & Barbuda
2
4
2. Pencils and paper ready! Fraction X is 3 and fraction Y is 7 . Give each of these quantities in lowest
terms and as a mixed number if necessary:
A. X + Y
𝟓
answer: 1
𝟐𝟏
B. X - Y
𝟐
answer: 𝟐𝟏
C. X times Y
𝟖
answer:
𝟐𝟏
D. X divided by Y
1
answer: 1 6
3. Like The Nutcracker, it is often performed at Christmas.
A. Identify this German “fairy tale opera” by Engelbert Humperdinck about two children who get lost in
the forest.
answer: Hansel and Gretel
B. This character in the opera puts Hansel and Gretel to sleep in the forest, just like he is said to put
children to sleep at night.
answer: the Sandman
C. This character in the opera owns a house that is designed to attract small children for her to eat.
answer: the Witch
D. Children come and eat pieces of her house because it is made of this food.
answer: gingerbread
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4. His home, which also served as headquarters for the union he organized, became a National Monument
in 2012.
A. Name this Hispanic labor organizer.
answer: Cesar Chavez
B. Name the union he organized.
answer: United Farm Workers of America (or UFW)
C. Name the U.S. state where you’d find his home in the tiny town of Keene at the southern end of the
San Joaquin [wah-KEEN] Valley.
answer: California
D. This current Interior Secretary was happy about the new Monument because he is of Hispanic descent.
answer: Ken Salazar
5. Pencils and paper ready! The width of the rectangular penalty area on a soccer field is 8 yards longer
than twice its length. The perimeter of the penalty area is 124 yards.
A. If the length is x yards, what expression describes the width?
answer: (2x + 8) yards
B. How long is the penalty area?
answer: 18 yards [2 (x + 2x + 8) = 124]
C. How wide is the penalty area?
answer: 44 yards [2(18) + 8)
D. What is the area of the penalty area in square yards?
answer: 792 sq. yds. (18 x 44)
6. Name these common parts of a home heating system:
A. This should be cleaned or changed regularly to keep dirt and dust out of your system.
answer: filter
B. When one of these “blows”, electricity stops flowing; to get electricity going again, you either replace
it or (in some houses) reset it.
answer: fuse
C. This part allows two fluids to change places and flow through the system in different directions;
sometimes, a “fluid” is actually a gas.
answer: heat exchanger
D. This part turns on to move warm air from the place it’s generated into the ducts and through the house.
answer: blower
7. Name these 19th -century works of American literature from pairs of their characters:
A. Katrina van Tassel and Brom Bones
answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
B. Henry Fleming and Wilson
answer: The Red Badge of Courage
C. Eliza and Topsy
answer: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
D. Aunt Polly and Becky Thatcher
answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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8. In 2012, its Vice-President Alvaro Garcia married a journalist half his age in an ancient stone temple at
Tiwanaku [tee-wa-NAW-koo].
A. Name this small South American country whose city Sucre is one of its capitals.
answer: Bolivia
B. Tiwanaku is about 40 miles west of this Bolivian city, the country’s other capital.
answer: La Paz
C. Bolivia is one of the world’s leading producers of this metal, found in cans of food you open.
answer: tin
D. Garcia picked Tiwanaku because his ancestors were from this indigenous Bolivian group that used
Tiwanaku for religious rites and still speak their native language.
answer: Aymara
9. Singer Sarah Brightman has announced that after her album tour next year, she will spend 6 months in
a Russian training center preparing for a future flight to the International Space Station.
A. Brightman became famous in this starring role in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera.
answer: Christine Daaé
B. This ex-husband of Brightman’s wrote the role of Christine just for her.
answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
C. Brightman made her stage debut in London playing Jemima in this musical by Webber about felines.
answer: Cats
D. One of her singing partners has been this blind Italian tenor you see on PBS all the time.
answer: Andrea Bocelli
10. A recent rock musical tells his life story, from his childhood to marrying his wife Rachel to beginning
the Democrat Party to becoming President of the United States.
A. Give the first and last name of this 19th- century President, the subject of the musical whose title begins
“Bloody Bloody.”
answer: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
B. As in real life, Jackson became a national hero by winning this battle at the end of the War of 1812.
answer: Battle of New Orleans
C. Jackson accused this son of a former President of making a “corrupt bargain” in 1824 to get himself
elected as President even though Jackson had more votes.
answer: John Quincy Adams (ensure it’s not John Adams)
D. Andrew Jackson grew up in this Southern state that’s much longer than it is tall.
answer: Tennessee
11. Answer these about the Edward Munch painting The Scream:
A. Munch said he was inspired by a blood-red sunset while walking along a fjord in this Scandinavian
country where he was born.
answer: Norway
B. This is the capital city of that country.
answer: Oslo
C. The four versions of The Scream include two paintings and two in this brightly-colored medium.
answer: pastel
D. The work shows two people walking behind the screamer and two of these objects in the background.
answer: boats
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12. In 2012, people leading the ENCODE project announced that most of the human genome actually
does serve some purpose—in contrast to past ideas.
A. The D in the acronym ENCODE stands for this substance studied by Watson and Crick.
answer: DNA (or deoxyribonucleic acid)
B. These 46 structures that contain DNA decide our hair color, eye color and other things about us.
answer: chromosomes
C. To the nearest 10%, this is the percentage of the human genome that now has a known biochemical
function.
answer: 80%
D. It is now known that most of the human genome can be transcribed into this substance whose name
starts with R.
answer: RNA or ribonucleic acid
13. Pencils and paper ready! Evaluate these exponent expressions:
A. x cubed, squared
answer: x6
B. the square root of x18
answer: x9
C. x to the eighth, times x to the fifth, divided by x to the third
answer: x10
D. x to the zero power
answer: one (anything to the zero power is 1)
14. Spell these words from French:
A. “mirage” [ma-raazh], what you think you see in a desert
answer: M-I-R-A-G-E
B. “fatigue”, the tiredness you feel after a long day
answer: F-A-T-I-G-U-E
C. “souvenir”, what you buy to remind you of a trip
answer: S-O-U-V-E-N-I-R
D. “boutique”, a small, fancy and expensive store
answer: B-O-U-T-I-Q-U-E
15. As of October 15, 2012, several states seem to be locked up for Democrats in the upcoming
presidential election.
A. Even though Mitt Romney once governed it, he’s widely expected to lose there.
answer: Massachusetts
B. This state typically goes Democrat because of its largest city; the fact that President Obama
represented it in the U.S. Senate is just a bonus.
answer: Illinois
C. This Eastern state is home to Vice-President Joe Biden.
answer: Delaware
D. Solidly a Republican state until 1988, it hasn’t gone Republican since. Mitt Romney’s doing well to be
even within 15 points there.
answer: California
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16. Name these Greek gods or goddesses:
A. Goddess of marriage and wife of Zeus
answer: Hera
B. God of music and of the sun
answer: Apollo
C. Goddess of wisdom and warfare
answer: Athena
D. Goddess of love and beauty
answer: Aphrodite [aff-ra-dye-tee]
17. Name the capital cities of these South American countries:
A. Colombia
answer: Bogota [bo-go-TAW]
B. Guyana
answer: Georgetown
C. Suriname
answer: Paramaribo
D. French Guiana
answer: Cayenne
18. Name these major Protestant religious denominations. (accept all forms of each term)
A. Its roots are usually traced to the Wesley brothers.
answer: Methodist
B. Its roots go back to Scotland.
answer: Presbyterian
C. This group requires joining adults to be immersed in water.
answer: Baptist
D. This church, called “Anglican” in England, was started by England’s King Henry VIII>
answer: Episcopal
19. Name the starting quarterbacks of these NFL teams as of October 15, 2012:
A. New England Patriots
answer: Tom Brady
B. New York Jets
answer: Mark Sanchez
C. Philadelphia Eagles
answer: Michael Vick
D. San Francisco 49’ers
answer: Alex Smith
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20. Answer these about the Scotia Sea:
A. It lies between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego, an area on this continent.
answer: South America
B. This country whose capital is Santiago owns part of Tierra del Fuego.
answer: Chile
C. This South American country that owns the rest of Tierra del Fuego names the Scotia Sea for itself.
answer: Argentina [“Mar Argentino”]
D. Species of this flightless bird found near the Scotia Sea include “Chinstrap”, “Macaroni” and “Adelie.”
answer: penguin
(Areas that do not use these 60-second rounds in their local format can use them as extra bonuses or as
warm-up “speed check” questions to improve buzzer speed.)
LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS
Name these comic book characters that Stan Lee had something to do with creating.
1) His real name is Tony Stark.
Ans. Iron Man
2) This former Soviet spy’s real name is Natalia Romanova.
Ans. Black Widow
3) This fearless man’s real name is Matt Murdock.
Ans. Daredevil
4) The real name of this man with anger issues is Dr. Bruce Banner.
Ans. the Incredible Hulk
5) Named for a Norse god, his real name is Donald Blake.
Ans. Thor
6) He got his name for his skill at archery—not his great vision.
Ans. Hawkeye
7) This enemy of Spider-Man is named William Blake.
Ans. Sand-Man
8) He edits the Daily Bugle, Peter Parker’s newspaper employer.
Ans. J. Jonah Jameson
9) His name is the same as the man of myth who performed 12 labors.
Ans. Hercules
10) This mutant is the father of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
Ans. Magneto
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LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –BOOKS THAT SHAPED AMERICA
Name the authors of these books on the Library of Congress list of “books that shaped America.”
1) Charlotte's Web
Ans. E. B. White
2) Silent Spring
Ans. Rachel Carson
3) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Ans. L. Frank Baum
4) Little Women
Ans. Louisa May Alcott
5) A Grammatical Institute of the English Language
Ans. Noah Webster
6) Experiments and Observations on Electricity
Ans. Ben Franklin
7) Gone With the Wind
Ans. Margaret Mitchell
8) Goodnight Moon
Ans. Margaret Wise Brown
9) The Catcher in the Rye
Ans. J.D. Salinger
10) To Kill a Mockingbird
Ans. Harper Lee
LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH C
1) State whose capital city is Hartford
Ans. Connecticut
2) Shape that names a school of art started by Pablo Picasso
Ans. cube (Cubist)
3) Innermost layer of the earth
Ans. core
4) Arch-rival of Pepsi-Cola
Ans. Coca-Cola or Coke
5) Longtime leader of Venezuela, re-elected again in 2012
Ans. Hugo Chavez
6) A small hard square of bread, often tossed into a salad
Ans. crouton
7) The white moon-shaped surface at the base of your fingernail
Ans. cuticle
8) One of these is held every 10 years to count America’s population.
Ans. census
9) NHL franchise that plays home games at the Pengrowth Saddledome Ans. Calgary Flames
10) In the Aesop’s fable, mice want someone to put a bell around the neck of this animal.
Ans. cat
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BASIC SET 2
TOSSUPS
1. Once ruled by the Romans, the Ottomans, the Italians and the British, it joined Libya in 1951. Name
this city, the origin of the rebellion that finally killed Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi, where U.S.
Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in September 2012.
answer: Benghazi, Libya [ben-GAW-zee]
2. In Hindu mythology, it is an appearance on Earth by the goddess Vishnu. Give this 6-letter word that is
also the name of the picture next to a user's name on an Internet discussion board and a popular movie
directed by James Cameron about the planet Pandora.
answer: avatar
3. The current exhibit of his work in Denver, Colorado includes his 1888 Wheatfield in Sheaves , a couple
of self-portraits, and his 1885 painting The Potato Eaters—but not his painting Starry Night. Name this
Dutch artist, famous for slicing off part of his left ear.
answer: Vincent Van Gogh
4. Thomas Jefferson said of him, “[He] was so honest that if you turned his soul inside out, there would
not be a spot on it.” He ran unopposed for his second term and received every electoral vote except one.
Name this U.S. President who succeeded James Madison and whose time in office was called the “Era of
Good Feeling.”
answer: James Monroe
5. The deeper you go, the hotter it gets. It is much thinner under the ocean than under land—but still
extends more than 6 miles underneath the ocean floor. Name this part of the earth that must be dug
through to reach the mantle.
answer: crust
6. Pencils and paper ready! The longest side of a triangle is 9 inches longer than its second side and 5
inches longer than twice its shortest side. Give the shortest side of the triangle if the perimeter of the
triangle is 51 inches.
answer: 10 inches [2x + 5 + (2x – 4) + x = 51, so x = 10]
7. The "World's Worst Weather" is said to be found atop Mount Washington. In what northeastern state
would you find Mount Washington surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest, a state just east of
Vermont and just southwest of Maine whose motto is “Live Free or Die” ?
answer: New Hampshire
8. Typically built in a pyramidal shape to be the home of a god, it had a shrine as its top level, which was
smaller than each of the levels below it. Name this type of elevated religious building, part of large temple
complexes built by the ancient Sumerians and Assyrians.
answer: ziggurat
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9. Though he has added new teams to his organization and increased revenue by a factor of seven, he has
also been criticized for locking out players three different times, including one that cost a whole season
and the lockout going on now. Name this commissioner of the National Hockey League.
answer: Gary Bettman
10. Its “subordinating” type brings together an independent and a dependent clause, while its “correlative”
type is used in pairs like “neither” and “nor.” Identify this part of speech whose “coordinating” type
brings together phrases or sentences and includes “yet”, “but”, “for” and “and.”
answer: conjunction
11. When Mitt Romney spoke at a recent dinner, he mentioned Big Bird and Sesame Street and then said,
“[President Obama’s] remarks tonight are brought to you by the letter O and—what number” that , to the
nearest trillion, is the current amount of America’s national debt?
answer: $16 (trillion) [“trillion” is optional]
12. Each of its episodes is called a “job” because it features its five main characters working together to
trick someone. Those characters include the martial artist named Christian, the thief named Parker, the
computer genius Hardison, and the head of the group, Nathan Ford. Name this TV series on TNT.
answer: Leverage
13. Doctors generally recommend removing them just to prevent problems—and always recommend
removal if an infection they develop begins to spread within your mouth or if they come in “impacted” (or
non-straight). Give the common 2-word term for these “third molars.”
answer: wisdom teeth
14. It is surrounded on the north by Ethiopia, on the east by Somalia, on the south by Tanzania and the
Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Uganda and Sudan. Name this African country whose capital city is
Nairobi.
answer: Kenya
15. Pencils and paper ready! What is 2xy times 5yz ?
answer: 10x2yz
16. Because of the bad economy, it is closing more than 100 of its campuses around the country. Name
this largest for-profit college in America, headquartered in the southwestern state capital for which it is
named.
answer: University of Phoenix
17. The new novel Son is the final book in a quartet named for this novel about a boy named Jonas who
escapes to the land of Elsewhere after being assigned to be his community’s “Receiver of Memory.”
Name this story by Lois Lowry whose title is that of the person who gives Jonas the memories to receive.
answer: The Giver
18. Though given off by termites and rice paddies, more concern is given to its emission by coal mining,
landfills, cows and fire. Give the name of this chemical compound whose molecules have one carbon
atom and four hydrogen atoms and that, when refrigerated, is transported as “liquefied natural gas.”
answer: methane (not CH4)
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19. It provides an accused criminal “the right to a speedy and public trial”, allows him to be “confronted
with the witnesses against him”, and allows him “to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”
Identify this Constitutional Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights.
answer: 6th Amendment
20. Its prelude, called “The Representation of Chaos”, is followed by two parts that detail its title
happening and then a final section where Adam and Eve sing about being in the Garden of Eden together.
Name this oratorio by Franz Josef Haydn [HIDE-un] that tells about the first 6 days of Earth’s existence.
answer: The Creation
21. George McGovern, who died at age 90 in October 2012, served three terms as a U.S. Senator from
South Dakota but is most famous today for his Presidential run in 1972 when he lost a landslide to-what
President who resigned the Presidency two years later as a result of the Watergate scandal?
answer: Richard Nixon
22. One TV guide, accurately but strangely, described this movie’s plot as, “A young girl lands in a new
place and kills the first person she sees. She then joins up with three strangers to kill again.” Name this
1939 children’s film that starred Judy Garland as “the killer” named Dorothy and includes the song “Over
the Rainbow.”
answer: The Wizard of Oz
23. Antoni Dobrowolski was its last survivor when he died in Poland in October 2012 at age 108. Name
this Nazi concentration camp where more than a million Jews were murdered during World War II.
answer: Auschwitz-Birkenau
24. Pencils and paper ready! The amount of heat Q in Joules needed to raise the temperature of a stainless
steel oven with mass M by T ºC can be estimated by the formula Q = 0.5MT. Sherona turns on her
electric 100-kg stainless steel oven to heat it from 25ºC to 175ºC and bake cookies. How much electrical
energy must be converted into heat before the cookies can be baked if the oven is 100% efficient ?
answer: 7,500 J or 7.5 kJ (0.5 x 100 x 150)
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1. Its ancient area is one of 6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites within Syria.
A. Name this capital city of Syria.
answer: Damascus
B. The ancient markets in this second-largest Syrian city have been heavily damaged in the current civil
war.
answer: Aleppo
C. The Crac des Chevaliers was a medieval castle built by Christians in Syria during this series of
religious wars.
answer: the Crusades
D. Many Syrians are fighting to get rid of this dictator.
answer: Bashar al-Assad [a-SOD]
2. Answer these about the planet Jupiter:
A. This Italian scientist saw its first 4 satellites in 1610 with a telescope.
answer: Galileo Galilei
B. Name any one of those four.
answer: Io, Ganymede, Europa or Callisto
C. In 1973, this NASA spacecraft flew past Jupiter and was the first to pass the asteroid belt.
answer: Pioneer 10 (number needed)
D. This solar-powered NASA spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter and is named for Jupiter’s wife in myth.
answer: Juno
3. Answer each of these about literature:
A. This Madeleine L’Engle novel includes Meg Murry and Mrs. Whatsit.
answer: A Wrinkle in Time
B. This Robert Cormier novel includes Emile, Obie, and Archie Costello.
answer: The Chocolate War
C. This Klondike half-dog, half-wolf ends his days in California in a Jack London novel.
answer: White Fang
D. This spider stars in an E.B. White novel.
answer: Charlotte
4. The original version of Upstairs Downstairs is still the most beloved series in the history of television’s
PBS Masterpiece , as shown by a past viewer poll.
A. The series takes place at 165 Eaton Place in this capital city.
answer: London, England
B. The 2012 version of the series is set in 1938, just before this major conflict.
answer: World War II
C. The house at 165 Eaton Place is owned by Sir Hallam Holland, who is the only man in England who
mistrusts this German leader.
answer: Adolf Hitler
D. Sir Hallam’s butler is Mr. Pritchard, who as a Quaker had this non-fighting status during World War I
but drove an ambulance so he could still contribute to the war effort.
answer: conscientious objector
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5. Answer these about traditions:
A. What is the U.S. flag never supposed to touch?
answer: the floor or ground
B. What name is traditionally given to a group who carries the U.S. flag in a parade?
answer: color guard (or colorbearer)
C. What type of clover is supposed to bring good luck?
answer: four-leaf clover
D. Traditionally, where do you throw spilled salt to prevent bad luck?
answer: over your left shoulder
6. Finish these folk-song phrases by Stephen Foster:
A. “I’ve come from Alabama, with…”
answer: a banjo on my knee
B.”I dream of Jeannie with the…”
answer: light brown hair
C. “Camptown ladies sing this song”
answer: Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
D. “The sun shines bright on…”
answer: my old Kentucky home
7. Pencils and paper ready! Give the four consecutive multiples of 9 whose sum is 486.
answer: 108, 117, 126, 135 [x + (x + 9) + (x + 18) + (x + 27) = 486]
8. Though she has enough money never to write again, she decided to write an adult novel and get away
from her 7 previous volumes of fantasy.
A. Name this British creator of Harry Potter.
answer: J.K. Rowling
B. Name her 2012 novel about a local election that is called after the death of a Parish Councillor.
answer: The Casual Vacancy
C. At the end of the novel, a girl named Krystal overdoses on this drug whose addicts are often treated
with methadone.
answer: heroin
D. Heroin is made from the poppies of this plant.
answer: opium poppies
9. Answer these about U.S. President Herbert Hoover:
A. He was the first President to use this word for a really bad economic period instead of “panic.”
answer: depression
B. Hoover won his term in 1928 by defeating this New York Governor, the first Roman Catholic to run
for President.
answer: Al Smith
C. Hoover served as this Cabinet Secretary under both Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
answer: Secretary of Commerce
D. Hoover lost his re-election bid to this former New York Governor.
answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt or FDR (first name/initial needed)
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10. He was thrown into an abandoned cistern and left to die, being saved only by an Ethiopian eunuch.
A. Name this Old Testament prophet whose book follows Isaiah.
answer: Jeremiah
B. Name the righteous king of Judah who reigned during the life of Jeremiah but whose reforms were not
enough to keep Judah out of captivity.
answer: Josiah
C. Jeremiah died in this country where he was taken away, the same country where Jesus was taken for a
time as a baby.
answer: Egypt
D. During Jeremiah’s life, Israel was taken over by this ancient city.
answer: Babylon
11. Answer each of these about a court trial:
A. This group of citizens determines if there is enough evidence to try a person for a crime.
answer: grand jury
B. This person is the one who initiates a lawsuit.
answer: plaintiff
C. This is the amount of money paid to let you out of jail before your trial.
answer: bail
D. This is both “a crime you’re accused of” and “the judge’s final set of instructions to a jury.”
answer: charge
12. Name the major U.S. river that serves as part or all of the border between:
A. Washington and Oregon
answer: Columbia River
B. Kentucky and both Indiana and Illinois
answer: Ohio River
C. Texas and Oklahoma
answer: Red River
D. California and Arizona
answer: Colorado River
13. Give the correct word that would fix the grammatical error in each of these sentences:
A. Identify the state in which each of the following buildings are located.
answer: is located
B. Each pronoun must agree with their antecedent.
answer: its antecedent
C. Don’t use no double negatives.
answer: any double negatives
D. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
answer: have to agree
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14. Name the NFL teams who played home games in these cities before settling in their current location:
A. Baltimore
answer: Indianapolis or Colts
B. Cleveland and Los Angeles
answer: St. Louis or Rams
C. Chicago and St. Louis
answer: Arizona or Cardinals
D. Houston and Memphis
answer: Tennessee or Titans
15. Name these chemical elements:
A. This lightest noble gas is lighter than air.
answer: helium or He
B. This makes up most of the air we breathe…
answer: nitrogen or N
C…but if we can’t breathe at all, we get this gas instead.
answer: oxygen or O
D. With chlorine, this makes up the table salt we eat.
answer: sodium or Na
16. Each of these answers rhymes with the others:
A. A loop at the end of a rope
answer: noose
B. Father of the Greek gods
answer: Zeus
C. Largest member of the deer family
answer: moose
D. Color halfway between yellow and green
answer: chartreuse [shar-troos]
17. Answer these about the theft of paintings from the Kunsthal [kunst-hall] museum in October 2012:
A. The museum is in this Dutch city.
answer: Rotterdam
B. This French Impressionist’s 1901 painting Charing Cross Bridge, London was stolen.
answer: Claude Monet [mo-NAY]
C. So was this Spanish Cubist’s 1971 painting Harlequin’s Head …
answer: Pablo Picasso
D. …and this Frenchman’s Girl in Front of an Open Window , painted in 1898 while he lived in the
Marquesas Islands.
answer: Paul Gauguin [go-GAN]
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18. Name these famous Indians:
A. Chief of the Ottawa tribe, or a former General Motors brand
answer: Pontiac
B. An Apache warrior, or a cry used by paratroopers and sky divers
answer: Geronimo
C. Indian woman in Virginia who saved Captain John Smith’s life
answer: Pocahontas
D. The name of this Shawnee chief, killed in 1813, is the middle name of General William T. Sherman.
answer: Tecumseh
19. Name these plants in the same botanical family as your Halloween pumpkin:
A. This long green vegetable, often in salads, is less prolific than zucchini.
answer: cucumber
B, Zucchini is one example of this vegetable whose types also include crookneck, summer and winter.
answer: squash
C. It’s round and green on the outside, red in the middle, and is eaten in the dead of summer.
answer: watermelon
D. This plant is rarely eaten but can be made into a drinking vessel or a percussion instrument.
answer: gourd
20. Pencils and paper ready! The pyramid where visitors enter the Louvre Museum in Paris has a height
of about 21 meters and a square base.
A. Give the expression used to calculate the volume of a pyramid in terms of its base and height.
answer: V = 1/3 times base times height
B. If the volume of the pyramid is 8,400 m3 , what is the length of each side of the base in meters in
square root form ?
answer: √𝟏𝟐𝟎𝟎 or 20 √𝟑 [1/3 Bh = 8400, so area of base is 1200 m2]
C. To one decimal place, what is the length of each side of the base in meters?
answer: 34.6 meters (20 x 1.73)
D. To the nearest whole number, what is the length of each side of the base in feet?
answer: 113 or 114 feet (1 m = 3.28 ft, so 34.6 m = 113.5 ft)
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1. U.S. GOVERNMENT
In honor of Newsweek magazine ending its printing of weekly magazines,
answer these from a recent Newsweek quiz about U.S. government.
1) Date when the Declaration of Independence was accepted
Ans. July 4, 1776
2) He was President during World War I.
Ans. Woodrow Wilson
3) Country the U.S. fought in the Cold War
Ans. Russia or Soviet Union
4) Person in charge of the executive branch of the federal government
Ans. the President
5) Length of a U.S. Senator’s term
Ans. 6 years
6) Number of voting members in U.S. House of Representatives
Ans. 435
7) Number of total amendments in U.S. Constitution
Ans. 27
8) He is Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2012.
Ans. John Boehner [bay-nur]
9) He is Vice-President in 2012.
Ans. Joe Biden
10) Pictured on a U.S. coin, she fought for women to get the vote.
Ans. Susan B. Anthony
LIGHTNING ROUND 2. THREE-DIGIT NUMBERS
Pencils and paper ready! Each of these answers is a 3-digit number.
1) Remainder when 1,426 is divided by 835
Ans. 591
2) Third angle of an isosceles triangle with angles 37º
Ans. 106º
3) Number of degrees in a straight angle
Ans. 180º
4) Least common multiple of 12 and 25
Ans. 300
5) Sixteen squared
Ans. 256
6) Average of 400, 500 and 750
Ans. 550
7) Number of degrees in each angle of an octagon
Ans. 135º
8) Largest prime number that fits the category
Ans. 997
9) Largest power of 2 that fits the category
Ans. 512
10) Area of a square with sides 28
Ans. 784
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH F
1) Capital of Kentucky
Ans. Frankfort
2) Last name of Atticus and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
Ans. Finch
3) A large building where products are made in mass quantities
Ans. factory
4) The F-major scale has only one of these.
Ans. flats
5) For a rectangle’s area, it’s base times height.
Ans. formula
6) Adjective meaning “cat-like”
Ans. feline
7) Home stadium of Boston Red Sox (2 words)
Ans. Fenway Park
8) Part of your car that may get bent in a minor accident
Ans. fender
9) Hood, Ticonderoga and Benning, for example
Ans. forts
10) Form of quartz, often used with steel to start a campfire
Ans. flint
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BASIC SET 3
TOSSUPS
1. The governors of Delaware, Connecticut and Maryland shut down all state highways for it, while New
Jersey’s governor told his population, “If you do not have power, please do not choose today to tap into
your creative juices and jerry-rig a solution.” All of these state governors were planning for the expected
effects of—what “frankenstorm” slamming the East Coast this week ?
answer: Hurricane Sandy
2. Pencils and paper ready! Michael has 10 coins, all either dimes or quarters. How many dimes does he
have if his total amount of cash is $1.60 ?
answer: 6 [6 dimes, 4 quarters; 10x + 25 (10 – x) = 160, so -15x = -90]
3. The current owners of a house he designed in the Arizona mountains want to knock down that house,
originally sold by his granddaughters. But they may be prevented from doing so if the city declares it a
landmark. Name this “greatest American architect of all time” whose Arizona home was called Taliesin
[tal-lee-ESS-un] West.
answer: Frank Lloyd Wright
4. This only President born on the Fourth of July was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts before
becoming its Governor and breaking a Boston police strike. Name this U.S. President who got the job
after the death of Warren G. Harding and held it through most of the Roaring Twenties.
answer: Calvin Coolidge
5. It requires the people it helps to spend time working on the house that others are helping them build.
Name this worldwide program that creates new home owners and whose well-known volunteers include
former President Jimmy Carter.
answer: Habitat for Humanity
6. Pencils and paper ready! The first number in a pattern is 1. Each number in the pattern is 7 greater than
3 times the number before it. What is the 4th number in the pattern?
answer: 118 (1, 10, 37, 118)
7. It can only have electrical charge, mass, and angular momentum. Name this astronomical object whose
singularities prevent anything from ever escaping them—even light.
answer: black hole
8. It ends with George Shelby returning to Kentucky after his father dies and setting all of his slaves free.
Just before that, its title character is killed by the evil plantation owner Simon LeGree. Name this classic
19th-century novel written to inform the world of the evils of slavery, by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
answer: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
9. This chemical process begins when you take an antacid to counteract heartburn caused by the digestive
acids in your stomach. Name this process by which acids and bases cancel each other out to create either
water or a chemical salt.
answer: neutralization (accept forms of the word)
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10. A new low-frequency model, called LOFAR, has been studying the “bubble” of particles that come
out of some black holes at about 100 megahertz. Name this device whose “reflecting” and “refracting”
types both try to look as far into space as possible.
answer: telescope
11. To increase sales, its founder Steve Ells is now considering things he said at first he’d never do,
including breakfast food and drive-through lanes. Name this Mexican restaurant chain, famed for its
organic food, whose motto is “Food With Integrity.”
answer: Chipotle
12. Dedicated to a Polish countess, it was inspired by a dog chasing its tail. Give the common nickname
of this piece in three-four time by Chopin [sho-PAN] that was not written to be played in only 60
seconds.
answer: "Minute" Waltz
13. Originally, it described only a moral crime like adultery. Now, it generally describes any crime whose
punishment is either death or more than a year in either state or federal custody. Give this legal term for
any crime that is more serious than a misdemeanor.
answer: felony
14. Before you get one, you may be told to sleep less than usual. As part of one, you may be asked to
sleep or to look at a strobe light while electrodes are attached to your head. Name this medical test, a type
of recording that shows the electric currents generated in your brain.
answer: electroencephalogram [ee-LEK-tro-en-SEF-a-la-gram] (or EEG)
15. It comes from Greek mythology—specifically, the king who was kept hungry and thirsty in the lower
world because food and drink were always very near to him but just beyond his reach. Today, the scent
of hamburgers or fried chicken might do it to our taste buds. Give this verb that means “to excite a hope
but then prevent its fulfillment.”
answer: tantalize (accept all forms of the word)
16. Pencils and paper ready! The larger of a pair of complementary angles is 6º more than twice the
smaller angle. Give the measure of the smaller angle.
answer: 28º [x + (2x + 6) = 90, so 3x = 84]
17. It can introduce objects of certain verbs like “glance” or “laugh” but is most often used in expressions
of time or place. Name this part of speech whose common examples include “since”, “below”, “above”
and “on.”
answer: preposition
18. The longest one on record is a 14-foot-long version grown by a man from India. Worn by actor
Charlie Chaplin, its types include the Walrus, the Fu Manchu, and the handlebar. Name this item of facial
hair.
answer: mustache (not beard)
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19. Its characters include the longtime prisoner Dr. Manette, a Frenchman who changes his name and
moves to England, and a man named Sydney Carton who dies in place of someone else. Name this
Charles Dickens novel that takes place in both London and Paris.
answer: A Tale of Two Cities
20. Its website suggests traveling along Crater Rim Drive if you don’t have much time to see anything
there. Give the 2-word name of this National Park whose first word is the state where it’s located and that
is home to Mauna Loa and Kilauea [kill-a-WAY-a], among other natural phenomena.
answer: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
21. Its species include “African bush” and “African forest.” Name this mammal whose “Asian” species
includes the one named Koshik at South Korea’s Everland Zoo that can now say several Korean words by
sticking its trunk in its mouth.
answer: elephant
22. To try and get its football team back to prominence, it hired former Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly -and now has a top-5 ranking again. Name this Catholic college in South Bend, Indiana.
answer: Notre Dame
23. Its 27 regions include Picardy, Upper Normandy, Lower Normandy, and its overseas regions of
Martinique and Guadaloupe. Name this European country whose other regions include Burgundy,
Aquitaine, Alsace and Lorraine.
answer: France
24. From the Latin word for “barricade”, give the 7-letter word for a ban on trade placed on one country
by another.
answer: embargo
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. In the fall of 2012, Maya Allende [ay-YEN-day] was elected mayor of an area of the capital city where
her grandfather Salvador once served as her country’s President.
A. Name this long and narrow South American country along the Pacific Ocean where Salvador Allende
was President.
answer: Chile
B. Name the capital of that country.
answer: Santiago
C. What nation borders that country on its direct north?
answer: Peru
D. What nation mostly borders that country on its east?
answer: Argentina
2. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate each of the following and then give each result in scientific
notation:
A. (2 x 102) x (4 x 10-4)
answer: 8 x 10-2
B. (3 x 103) + (5 x 102)
answer: 3.5 x 103
C. (6 x 10-4) / (3 x 10-6)
answer: 2 x 102
D. (104) – (2 x 103)
answer: 8 x 103
3. Name the countries where these composers were born:
A. Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov
answer: Russia
B. Henry Purcell [PURSE-ull]
answer: England or Great Britain
C. Johannes Brahms
answer: Germany
D. Giacomo Puccini [poo-CHEE-nee]
answer: Italy
4. Signed at a 1941 shipboard meeting, the Atlantic Charter was a blueprint for Allied action after World
War II.
A. It was signed by this U.S. President…
answer: Franklin Roosevelt (or FDR) (first name/initial needed)
B. …and by this British Prime Minister.
answer: Winston Churchill
C. The Allies were allied against this leader of Nazi Germany.
answer: Adolf Hitler
D. The shipboard meeting was held off the coast of this country that is still part of the British
Commonwealth.
answer: Canada
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5. Pencils and paper ready! Line T connects the points (3, -8) and (-3, 10).
A. Give the slope of line T.
answer: -3 (18/-6)
B. In slope-intercept form, give the equation of line T.
answer: y = -3x + 1 (use y = mx + b)
C. In slope-intercept form, give the equation of a line parallel to line T that goes through the point
(2, -11).
answer: y = -3x – 5 (parallel lines have same slope)
D. In slope-intercept form, give the equation of a line perpendicular to line T that goes through the point
(9, 9).
answer: y = (1/3)x + 6 (perp. line has slope 1/3 in this case)
6. Go on a camping trip, and you might use a propane stove to cook your food.
A. Propane has only these two chemical elements in it.
answer: carbon (or C) and hydrogen (or H)
B. Getting the propane to catch fire and burn is equivalent to adding this chemical element to it.
answer: oxygen (or O)
C. Burning propane gives you two products: one, this substance that you exhale…
answer: carbon dioxide (or CO2)
D. … the other, this common liquid.
answer: water (or H2O)
7. His 1915 novel The Scarlet Plague imagines the year 2012 as the year Morgan the Fifth was appointed
President of the United States by the Board of Magnates.
A. Name this writer whose Scarlet Plague title page calls him “author of The Sea Wolf and The Call of
the Wild.”
answer: Jack London
B. The old man in the story tells his grandson what life was like in this northern California city before the
scarlet plague.
answer: San Francisco
C. One boy is from the tribe of the Palo-Altos, named for the home town of this major university.
answer: Stanford Univ.
D. This is the name of the dog in the novel The Call of the Wild.
answer: Buck
8. The 2012 film A Royal Affair tells the real-life tale of Count Johann Struensee, a German doctor who,
in 1769, became the royal physician of the mentally ill King Christian VII.
A. Name the Scandinavian country of which Christian was King.
answer: Denmark
B. Christian’s wife Caroline Matilda, the sister of this British King during America’s Revolutionary War,
had an affair with Struensee.
answer: King George III
C. After Struensee was executed, Caroline was exiled to the Electorate of Hanover in this present-day
country.
answer: Germany
D. One of the main actors in the movie is Mads Mikkelsen, who played the bad guy in this first James
Bond movie with Daniel Craig.
answer: Casino Royale
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9. Answer these about things recently found to be missing from America’s National Archives:
A. Their 1903 patent for the airplane is missing.
answer: the Wright Brothers
B. So is this man’s patent for the cotton gin.
answer: Eli Whitney
C. The bombing maps used to bomb this nation at the end of World War II are gone.
answer: Japan
D. Eventually, the Archives did get back an eyewitness radio report of the explosion of this airship in
New Jersey in 1937.
answer: Hindenburg
10. Name these movies with music composed by John Williams:
A. He won his first Oscar for adapting the score of this Broadway musical about Tevye, set in Russia.
answer: Fiddler on the Roof
B. His score for this film, the fourth in a 6-movie set, is #1 on the American Film Institute’s list as the
greatest score of all time.
answer: Star Wars
C. This movie was about a boy named Elliot and a small creature from outer space.
answer: E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
D. This 2012 Steven Spielberg movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the title U.S. President.
answer: Lincoln
11. I will name pairs of artists; you name the school or movement of art that they belonged to:
A. Rene Magritte [ra-nay ma-GREET], Salvador Dalí
answer: Surrealism
B. Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin [go-GANN]
answer: Post-Impressionism
C. Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque
answer: Cubism
D. Gustav Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley
answer: Art Nouveau
12. Name these parts of a flower:
A. The stamen consists of the filament and this part.
answer: anther
B. This part consists of all of the petals.
answer: corolla
C. The calyx [KAY-lix] is made up of the outermost whorl of these parts.
answer: sepals
D. The female part of a flower contains the stigma, the style and this.
answer: ovary
13. Pencils and paper ready! Give the four integer values in the solution set for the system of inequalities
"12x - 6 is less than 61" and "2x + 7 is greater than or equal to 11."
answer: 2, 3, 4, 5
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14. It is officially held in mid-December in presidential election years, and its results are counted by
Congress on the January 6th after each election.
A. Identify this political process that now involves a total of 538 votes.
answer: Electoral College
B. To win the Presidency, Barack Obama needed this number of electoral votes.
answer: 270 (half of 538, plus 1)
C. and D. Most states give all of their electoral votes to the person with the most popular votes. Name the
two states that give them proportionally instead, allowing multiple candidates to get at least one vote.
answer: Maine or Nebraska
15. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Russell Means spent his life fighting U.S. injustice
against Native Americans until he died in October 2012.
A. Means was a member of this Indian tribe that defeated Custer at his Last Stand.
answer: Sioux Indians
B. This chief and medicine man was the leader of that tribe at Custer’s Last Stand.
answer: Sitting Bull
C. In 1969, the American Indian Movement that Russell Means joined began an occupation of this San
Francisco island that was once a federal prison.
answer: Alcatraz
D. In 1973, Means helped to seize and occupy this “injured” South Dakota town on the Pine Ridge
Reservation for more than two months.
answer: Wounded Knee
16. Answer these from the New Testament:
A. Saul was headed to this city to persecute Christians when he literally “saw the light.”
answer: Damascus
B. This first Christian martyr was stoned in Acts, chapter 7.
answer: Stephen
C. Along with his wife Sapphira, he was struck dead by God for lying about some money they had made
by selling a field.
answer: Ananais
D. The book of Acts and the book of Luke are both addressed to this person.
answer: Theophilus
17. Name the western U.S. states where you’d find these local mountain ranges:
A. Black Mountains, Elko Hills, Las Vegas Range
answer: Nevada
B. Gila [HEE-la] Mountains, Superstition Mountains, Phoenix Mountains
answer: Arizona
C. Gallatin Range, Bitterroot Mountains, Anaconda Range
answer: Montana
D. Wasatch [WASS-atch] Range, Oquirrh [O-ker] Mountains, Uinta [yoo-IN-ta] Mountains
answer: Utah
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18. Name these specific types of wind:
A. The warm, dry winds on the east side of the Rocky Mountains.
answer: Chinook
B. The warm, dry winds off the northern slopes of the Swiss Alps.
answer: foehn (fain)
C. It is channeled through France's Rhone Valley by the mountains on each side of it.
answer: mistral
D. The hot wind that blows dust from the Sahara Desert to the Mediterranean Sea.
answer: sirocco or scirocco
19. Name these San Francisco Giants who helped them sweep the 2012 World Series:
A. This third baseman hit .500 in the Series, including three home runs in Game 1.
answer: Pablo Sandoval
B. This second baseman was traded from the Colorado Rockies at midseason.
answer: Marco Scutaro [SCOOT-a-row]
C. This outfielder and former Astro was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies at midseason.
answer: Hunter Pence
D. He is their young All-Star catcher.
answer: Buster Posey
20. Give the English names of these fruits from their Spanish names:
A. manzana [mon-SONN-a]
answer: apple
B. naranja [na-RON-haw]
answer: orange
C. durazno [doo-ROSS-no]
answer: peach
D. sandía [son-DEE-a]
answer: watermelon
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(Areas that do not use these 60-second rounds in their local format can either use them as extra bonuses
or as warm-up “speed check” questions to improve buzzer speed.)
LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – THE DICTIONARY
Name these words or phrases added to the printed Merriam-Webster dictionary for 2012.
1) A song or melody that you can’t get out of your mind
Ans. earworm
2) Element 112, named for Poland’s most famous astronomer ever
Ans. copernicium
3) “Something created by combining elements from 2 or more sources” Ans. mash-up
4) Red Bull or Monster, for example (2 words)
Ans. energy drink
5) The state of owing more on your house than you could sell it for
Ans. underwater
6) Two-word phrase for a room in a house especially designed for males Ans. man cave
7) Two-word Oprah Winfrey phrase for a sudden inspiration
Ans. aha moment
8) A set of things you want to accomplish before death (2 words)
Ans. bucket list
9) 6-letter adjective meaning “totally out of energy”
Ans. gassed
10) 2-word phrase for "storing regularly-used data on multiple servers that can be accessed through the
Internet" Ans. cloud computing
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –EUROPEAN CITIES
Name the country containing each of these major cities.
1) Liverpool
Ans. England
2) Brussels
Ans. Belgium
3) Geneva
Ans. Switzerland
4) Lisbon
Ans. Portugal
5) Rotterdam
Ans. Holland or the Netherlands
6) Marseille [mar-SAY]
Ans. France
7) Milan [ma-LON]
Ans. Italy
8) Glasgow
Ans. Scotland
9) Cologne [ka-LONE]
Ans. Germany
10) Barcelona
Ans. Spain
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH N
1)Planet with a "Great Dark Spot"
Ans. Neptune
2) 5-letter word meaning "not sophisticated”
Ans. naive
3) Fourth book of the Old Testament
Ans. Numbers
4) Chemical symbol for sodium
Ans. Na
5) Home city of college football’s Music City Bowl
Ans. Nashville, TN
6) Small Asian country whose capital is Katmandu
Ans. Nepal
7) Addictive drug found in tobacco
Ans. nicotine
8) To shake your head, indicating “yes”
Ans. nod
9) Place to see plants—or to tend babies
Ans. nursery
10) In a novel, the person who tells the story
Ans. narrator
END OF BASIC SET 3
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BASIC SET 4
TOSSUPS
1. It is a result of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide reacting in the atmosphere with water and sunlight. Its
result over time can be damage to buildings, statues, aquatic life and forests. Give the 2-word term for this
“non-basic” type of precipitation.
answer: acid rain
2. In October 2012, an archaeologist claimed to have found a cave where the “Lone Woman of San
Nicolas” lived by herself for 18 years on a California island in the early 1800’s. That “Lone Woman” was
the basis for the character named Karana [ca-RON-a] who lives alone in the same way in—what classic
children’s novel by Scott O'Dell ?
answer: Island of the Blue Dolphins
3. It is combined with carbon to make drill bits used in mining and has the highest melting point of any
metallic element. It is also used to make the filament in an ordinary light bulb. Name this chemical
element, called “wolfram” in German, whose symbol is a capital W.
answer: tungsten
4. Its recent imposition of martial law in 2011 has only increased the number of protests against its King
Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. In November 2012, one of its citizens who insulted the king on Twitter was
sentenced to 6 months in jail. Name this tiny Middle Eastern country whose capital is Manama.
answer: Bahrain
5. Many things are claimed to help you feel better when you have it, including echinacea [eck-a-NAYsee-a], chicken soup, and zinc lozenges. Name this common ailment, caused most often by a rhinovirus,
that brings a runny nose, a sore throat and general misery.
answer: the common cold
6. He kept it from raining for more than 3 years and was taken up to heaven on a chariot of fire—leaving
his mantle behind for his successor. Name this Old Testament prophet who still has a place set for him
during the Jewish Passover feast.
answer: Elijah
7. Pencils and paper ready! John was making $8 an hour until he got a raise to $10 per hour. What
percentage increase was John’s raise?
answer: 25% (2/8; not 2/10, which is 20%; it’s always based on original value)
8. In 17 of the last 18 elections, the incumbent U.S. President has retained his job if this NFL team wins
on the final Sunday before the election. If it loses, the President loses too —which is bad news for
President Obama—because it lost this week to the Carolina Panthers. Name this team coached by Mike
Shanahan [SHAN-a-han] and quarterbacked by Heisman winner Robert Griffin III.
answer: Washington or Redskins
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9. In its “dramatic” version, a character says something that the audience knows to be wrong. Its
“situational” version happens when a person says one thing but means something else—as in when a dog
on a leash pulls its owner backwards and someone says, “I see your dog is taking you for a walk.” Name
this figure of speech.
answer: irony
10. Since 1966, it has been supervised by the Department of Transportation. States don’t have to adopt it,
but if they do, it can last only between the first Sunday in November and the middle of March. Name this
concept that has given most of the U.S. the twice-a-year motto “Spring ahead; fall back.”
answer: Daylight Savings Time
11. I just passed the Presidio and am on my way to the “crookedest street in the world” before making a
stop at Fisherman’s Wharf. Later, I might ride a cable car up to the 9th-largest suspension bridge in the
world. What large California city am I visiting that was the site of a huge earthquake in 1906?
answer: San Francisco
12. Pencils and paper ready! The lateral area of a right circular cylinder is two pi, times the height, times
the radius. In terms of π, give the lateral area of a right circular cylinder with height 6 inches and radius 4
inches.
answer: 48π in2 (2π x 6 x 4)
13. It is used in many other languages as the unconjugated meaning of verbs, as in the Spanish verb
“hablar” [aw-BLAR] meaning “to speak.” Name this verb form that can be used as a noun, an adjective,
or an adverb and usually contains the word “to”—as in the sentence, “John helped to write the song.”
answer: infinitive
14. Its characters include Neff the rhino, Sergeant Calhoun and Fix-it Felix, Jr. Its title character, voiced
by John C. Reilly, is a bad guy who wants to become a hero. Name this new Disney animated movie, set
in Litvak’s Family Fun Center, which is a video-game arcade.
answer: Wreck-It Ralph
15. The lap variety of this instrument has 6 strings, while the pedal variety has between 9 and 13. Give the
2-word name for this musical instrument whose forms include the “dobro” and, when used in country
music, is often put on a flat surface so it can be played with a metal pick.
answer: steel guitar (prompt on “guitar”)
16. It has recently stopped the opening of windows in taxis and removed knives from some shops in its
capital city to improve security around its 2012 Communist Party Congress. Name this Asian nation,
scheduled to announce that its Vice-President Xi Jinping [shee jin-PING] will ascend to its presidency.
answer: China
17. He was the Emperor of Rome when Jesus was crucified. Identify this ruler whose name was also the
middle name of Star Trek captain James T. Kirk.
answer: Tiberius
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18. Written in 1924, some parents are only now finding out that yes, many kids do still read this short
story that includes the henchman Ivan and General Zaroff. Name this short story by Richard Connell
whose main character, Rainsford, is hunted all over the general’s island until he fights back.
answer: The Most Dangerous Game
19. When groundwater does it, the result is two zones: an “aeration zone” where pore spaces are filled
with air and a “saturation zone” where pore spaces are filled with water. Give this term for the seepage of
groundwater through a permeable material, also used to describe how coffee is made.
answer: percolation (accept forms of the word)
20. Painted in 1863, it was inspired by Titian’s Venus of Urbino. It shows a fully-clothed maid in the
background and a nude woman staring at the viewer in the foreground. Identify this painting by Edouard
Manet [man-NAY] that shares its name with the capital of Washington state.
answer: Olympia
21. Pencils and paper ready! If “f of x” is x2 + 5x – 7, what is “f of 3” ?
answer: 17 (9 + 15 – 7)
22. His wife “Lemonade Lucy” added running water to the White House—but subtracted alcohol. Often
called “Old 8-to-7” and “His Fraudulency”, he obtained office in the 1876 election by a controversial
victory over Samuel Tilden. Name this U.S. President.
answer: Rutherford B. Hayes
23. Conquered by the British in the early 1800’s, it has been ruled by a military junta for most of the last
50 years. Name this Asian country whose new capital territory at Naypyidaw [nep-YEE-daw] has
replaced its former capital Yangon.
answer: Myanmar (the former Burma)
24. His General Bernadotte was installed as King of Sweden in the early 1800’s. Exiled to the island of
Elba after his first period as leader of France, he died on the island of St. Helena in 1821. Name this
dictator who sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States.
answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate the areas of these objects in square inches. Use square-root form as
needed:
A. Trapezoid with bases 8 inches and 6 inches and height 5 inches.
answer: 35 sq. in. (14/2 x 5)
B. Kite with long diagonal 14 inches and short diagonal 12 inches.
answer: 84 sq. in. (14 x 12 x ½)
C. Triangle with base 6 inches and height 12 inches.
answer: 36 sq. in. (1/2 x 6 x 12)
D. Rectangle 11 inches by 17 inches.
answer: 187 sq. in.
2. Name these ballets:
A. It features Clara and a very large Christmas tree.
answer: The Nutcracker
B. It has two mean and ugly stepsisters—and a glass slipper.
answer: Cinderella
C. In Greek myth, he tried to rescue Eurydice from the underworld.
answer: Orpheus [OR-fee-us]
D. Its title character doesn’t want to grow up.
answer: Peter Pan
3. He sold his namesake company in 2012, including his special-effects firm Industrial Light and Magic.
A. Name this acclaimed director of Star Wars.
answer: George Lucas
B. Name the major film studio that bought Lucasfilm.
answer: Disney
C. When the deal closes, the only entity who will own more Disney stock than George Lucas will be the
estate of this late computer genius.
answer: Steve Jobs
D. The George Lucas firm that does post-production sound is named for this Star Wars hero.
answer: (Luke) Skywalker Sound
4. Name the capitals of these Asian countries:
A. Pakistan
answer: Islamabad [iz-LOM-a-bod]
B. Vietnam
answer: Hanoi
C. Lebanon
answer: Beirut [bay-ROOT]
D. Bangkok
answer: Thailand
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5. I'll name a star; you name the Zodiac constellation that contains it:
A. Pollux
answer: Gemini
B. Spica
answer: Virgo
C. Antares
answer: Scorpio
D. Canus Major
answer: Sirius
6. Answer these about Newbery Award-winning novels:
A. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze is about a boy in this country.
answer: China
B. Johnny Tremain lives in this city during the American Revolution.
answer: Boston, MA
C. Secret of the Andes is set on this continent.
answer: South America
D. Julie of the Wolves is a girl who leaves this group of people in Alaska to come to the “lower 48” states.
answer: she’s an Eskimo(s)
7. Name these major monuments on the ancient Acropolis, as defined by the Greek government:
A. This temple was dedicated to the goddess Athena, the patron saint of Athens.
answer: the Parthenon
B. This is the gateway to the Acropolis.
answer: the Propylea [pro-pa-LAY-a]
C. This temple contains the tomb of its namesake; its south side contains six "caryatid" [care-ee-AT-id]
figures as supporting columns.
answer: the Erechtheum [a-RECK-thee-um]
D. A temple to the goddess Athena is there, dedicated to Athena in this “victorious” form of hers.
answer: Temple of Athena Nike
8. Name these federal Cabinet departments:
A. It manages the printing of money and the nation’s finances.
answer: Dept. of the Treasury
B. It supervises America’s national parks.
answer: Dept. of the Interior
C. It supervises American wage earners and ensures they’re treated fairly
answer: Dept. of Labor
D. It supervises drilling for oil and natural gas
answer: Dept. of Energy
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9. Name these U.S. states where the Mormons lived before moving to what is now Utah:
A. They built their first temple in 1836 in the town of Kirtland in this state.
answer: Ohio
B. They moved out of this state after its Governor Lilburn Boggs issued an "extermination order" in 1838.
answer: Missouri
C. Joseph Smith was murdered in this state in 1844.
answer: Illinois
D. The Church began in this state in 1830.
answer: New York
10. Give these words that include either the Greek or Latin root for the word “star”:
A. Printed sign that looks like a small star, found on the 8 of a computer keyboard
answer: asterisk
B. An event like Hurricane Sandy that causes great hardship and suffering
answer: disaster
C. A person who travels in outer space
answer: astronaut
D. Medieval device used to measure the altitude of a celestial object
answer: astrolabe
11. Name the countries where you’d find these amusement parks:
A. Gorky Park, named for a famed author
answer: Russia
B. The Wiener Prater [vee-nur PROT-ur], within the 2nd district of a European capital city
answer: Austria
C. Carthage Land, probably named after the rival city of ancient Rome
answer: Tunisia
D. EuroDisneyland
answer: France
12. Name these shows on the Disney Channel:
A. A canine named Stan can talk and write.
answer: Dog With a Blog
B. A male singer teams with a female songwriter.
answer: Austin and Ally
C. Milo and Oscar live in an aquarium in a pet store.
answer: Fish Hooks
D. A girl from Texas becomes a nanny to four children in New York City.
answer: Jessie
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13. Spell these words on the study list for the 2013 National Spelling Bee:
A. “cucumber” [CUE-cum-bur], a green vegetable
answer: C-U-C-U-M-B-E-R
B. “obliterate” [a-BLIT-a-rate], to totally destroy
answer: O-B-L-I-T-E-R-A-T-E
C. “predicament” [pre-DICK-a-munt], a serious problem
answer: P-R-E-D-I-C-A-M-E-N-T
D. “optometry” [op-TOM-a-tree], the study of eye diseases
answer: O-P-T-O-M-E-T-R-Y
14. Pencils and paper ready! Convert these fractions to decimals:
A. 3/4
answer: 0.75
B. 9/20
answer: 0.45
C. 1/16
answer: 0.0625
D. 11/40
answer: 0.275
15. Only five men have a granite block honoring them in the New York Yankees’ Monument Park.
A. This pitcher, turned outfielder, held the career home-run record for nearly 40 years.
answer: George Herman “Babe” Ruth
B. He held the record for consecutive games played for more than half a century.
answer: Lou Gehrig
C. After Mickey Mantle received a plaque from this Yankee center fielder, Mantle gave him one back and
told him to hang his a little higher than Mantle’s.
answer: Joe DiMaggio
D. Miller Huggins never played for the Yankees but is there because he was good at this job.
answer: manager
16. Name the 19th-century British authors of these works
A. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
answer: Lewis Carroll (or Charles Dodgson)
B. Great Expectations
answer: Charles Dickens
C. Frankenstein
answer: Mary Shelley
D. Pride and Prejudice
answer: Jane Austen
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17. Give these algebra terms:
A. A number, like 5 or 13, that never changes no matter what
answer: constant
B. A set of elements that two other sets of elements have in common
answer: intersection
C. One-word term for the coordinate point (0, 0)
answer: origin
D. A relation where a domain element matches up with only one range element
answer: function
18. Name these Broadway shows that had at least one performance canceled because of Hurricane
Sandy—from the plot synopsis furnished by Playbill:
A. “A spunky orphan girl finds a home with a New York millionaire during the Depression…”
answer: Annie
B. “This is the story of the Banks family and how their lives change when [a] nanny arrives at their home
at 17 Cherry Tree Lane in London.”
answer: Mary Poppins
C. “Simba grows up in the African heartland until tragedy forces him to run away.”
answer: The Lion King
D. “An obscure and ambitious actress becomes the powerful and controversial first lady of Argentina.”
answer: Evita
19. Name these chemical elements; do not give just the symbol.
A. Its allotropes include graphite and diamond.
answer: carbon
B. Its dioxide compound helps cause acid rain.
answer: sulfur
C. Combines with sodium to create table salt
answer: chlorine
D. Its German name is Kalium, which starts with K.
answer: potassium (whose chemical symbol is K)
20. Its 500th anniversary was marked in 2012 with concern that its visitors may eventually need to be
limited to prevent damaging its priceless artwork beyond repair.
A. Identify this religious building in Rome, named for the uncle of Pope Julius II.
answer: Sistine Chapel
B. Name the painter who created the priceless artwork, much of it while lying on his back.
answer: Michelangelo Buonarroti
C. The central ceiling vault contains 9 scenes from this Biblical book.
answer: Genesis
D. Some of those scenes feature this natural disaster.
answer: the flood for which Noah built his ark
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS
Identify the expression containing the name of an animal that means:
1) One stroke under par on a hole in golf
Ans. birdie
2) To sleep for just 10 minutes
Ans. catnap
3) A person who likes to stay up very late (2 words)
Ans. night owl
4) Three strikes in a row in bowling
Ans. turkey
5) An informant for the police
Ans. stoolpigeon
6) Romantic movie that appeals mostly to girls (2 words)
Ans. chick flick
7) Two strokes under par on a hole in golf
Ans. eagle
8) Rich and privileged person (2 words)
Ans. fat cat
9) Driver who uses his lane—and yours, too (2 words)
Ans. road hog
10) Unknown political candidate who just might win (2 words) Ans. dark horse
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –PLANETS
Answers may appear more than once.
1) The one closest to Earth
Ans. Venus
2) Farthest planet from Sun between 1979 and 1999
Ans. Neptune
3) It orbits the sun once in 88 Earth days
Ans. Mercury
4) Known as the “red” planet
Ans. Mars
5) The only planet not named for a Greek or Roman god
Ans. Earth
6) Its moons include Io and Callisto.
Ans. Jupiter
7) In 2011, it had a “Great White Spot.”
Ans. Saturn
8) Planet between Saturn and Neptune
Ans. Uranus
9) Called both the “evening star” and the “morning star”
Ans. Venus
10) Called the “blue planet” because of the water on its surface Ans. Earth
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH D
1) Language spoken in the Netherlands
Ans. Dutch
2) Where the water runs out of your bathtub
Ans. drain
3) Spanish word for “two”
Ans. dos [dose]
4) General term for information a computer might use
Ans. data
5) The numbers 6 and 8 have only one of them; 14 has two
Ans. digits
6) Camel species with one hump
Ans. Dromedary
7) Adjective describing a super-messed-up family
Ans. dysfunctional
8) A road you take to get around road construction
Ans. detour
9) Capital of Bangladesh
Ans. Dhaka [da-KAW]
10) Adjective meaning “not sharp” or “not smart”
Ans. dull
END OF BASIC SET 4
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BASIC SET 5
TOSSUPS
1. As it becomes more popular, its chairman Chung Mong-koo is restraining production to try and avoid
the quality issues that have plagued Toyota. Name this South Korean firm, a partner with Kia, whose U.S.
car brands include the Tucson, the Santa Fe, the Accent, the Elantra and the Sonata.
answer: Hyundai
2. Pencils and paper ready! You have 100 mL of a solution that is 25% nitric acid. How many milliliters
of water must you add to make the solution into a 5% solution of nitric acid?
answer: 400 mL [100 (0.25) = (100 + x) (0.05), so 20 = 0.05x]
3. Lorenzo de Medici [MED-a-chee] was the patron of this Renaissance painter whose last name is Italian
for “Little Barrel.” Name this contemporary of Raphael and Michelangelo who painted Primavera and
Birth of Venus.
answer: Sandro Botticelli
4. It first came to America without the aid of the ship Speedwell that was supposed to accompany it. It
made its most famous voyage in just 67 days. Name this sailing vessel that dropped anchor near Cape
Cod, Massachusetts on November 11, 1620 and was carrying a group of Pilgrims to the New World.
answer: Mayflower
5. European scientists have discovered a way of making it by changing the atomic structure of a liquid
without waiting for nature. Identify this common material, created for centuries by heating and the
cooling, that “flows” like a liquid but has the mechanical properties of a solid –including fragility.
answer: glass
6. Pencils and paper ready! Convert 32% to a fraction in lowest terms.
answer: 8/25 (32/100 = 8/25)
7. Israeli researchers have created a way to trap light within ultra-thin film of this chemical compound
whose varieties include hematite and magnetite. Name this substance, commonly found on metal objects
that are exposed to rain and snow for a period of time.
answer: iron oxide (or rust)
8. Though he wrote the Johnny Cash hit song “A Boy Named Sue”, he is more famous for cartoons and
for children’s books. Name this American poet who wrote A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends
and The Giving Tree.
answer: Shel Silverstein
9. During the 30 years he led the Soviet Union, many cities changed their names to honor him—partly,
perhaps, because they were afraid not to. Name this short dictator with a big mustache who succeeded
Lenin and kept power by killing millions of people who might have tried to stop him.
answer: Josef Stalin
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10. It looks like a cross between a lizard and a bird, and its males have sharp venomous spurs on their
hind legs to defend themselves. Name this mammal, the only one to lay eggs.
answer: duck-billed platypus
11. Their original reality show has created spinoffs in which two of them “take Miami” and “take New
York” while the third one shows married life with her husband, NBA player Lamar Odom. Give the last
name of this set of three celebrity sisters whose first names all start with K.
answer: the Kardashian sisters
12. Sung in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, the title of this work by Henry Lyte
comes from what two men said to Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Name this hymn whose second verse
says, “Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away; Change and
decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not…”
answer: Abide With Me
13. Oregon’s Measure 80 legalizing it failed in 2012, but Washington’s Initiative 502 legalizing it passed.
Identify this substance whose known physical effects and illegality under current federal law caused
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to say, after Amendment 64 legalized it in his state, “Don’t break
out the Cheetos or Goldfish [crackers] too quickly."
answer: marijuana
14. Its bones include the hip bones, the sacrum [SAY-crum] and the coccyx [KOCK-six]. Its structure
forms a cavity that, in pregnant women, widens to allow the baby to be born. Give this general term for
the set of bones between your abdomen and your legs.
answer: pelvis
15. He is said to have loaned Perseus his winged sandals and his helmet of invisibility. A sculpture of him
carrying the infant Dionysus was found in 1877. Name this Greek messenger god and conveyor of souls
to the Underworld.
answer: Hermes [hur-meez]
16. Pencils and paper ready! In square-root form, what is the distance between the point (2, 6) and the
point (5, 10) ?
answer: 𝟓 [square root of (9 + 16)]
17. It can mean “a coat of arms or an emblem” and can also mean “the top of a mountain or of a wave.”
Give this 5-letter word that is also the brand name of a best-selling toothpaste.
answer: Crest
18. He spent 5 years as Governor of Massachusetts after 1776 and became known as a great fund-raiser
for American troops. Name this man who signed the Declaration of Independence before anyone else-using his normal, very large signature.
answer: John Hancock
19. In Shakespeare plays, this title is held by Duncan, several Henry’s, John, Lear, and Richard the Third.
Name this royal title whose holder is typically married to a queen.
answer: King
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20. Settled by the Dutch, it was called “Richmond” until 1975. Unlike the rest of New York City, it often
votes Republican. Identify this borough, the only one not connected to the city’s subway system, that is
connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
answer: Staten Island
21. Once called 34 Tauri, its discoverer thought it was a comet at first even though it lacked a coma or a
tail. German astronomer Johann Bode noted that it circulates beyond the orbit of Saturn. Name this first
planet to be discovered with a telescope--the telescope of British astronomer Sir William Herschel.
answer: Uranus
22. After his days as a top athlete, he became a doctor and was the first to begin testing athletes for steroid
use. But he was not using steroids on May 6, 1954 at Oxford University, when he did something no other
runner had ever done before. Name this British track star, the first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
answer: Sir Roger Bannister
23. For most of the 19th century, it was ruled by the King of Holland. It is now the second-smallest
country by population in the European Union and the world’s only grand duchy. Name this small nation
north of France, west of Germany and east of Belgium.
answer: Luxembourg
24. It was to include a payroll tax hike, an income tax hike and a sequester that would cut billions in
government spending. Give the common 2-word term for this set of economic circumstances that would
have hit America on January 1, 2013 if nothing had been done.
answer: fiscal cliff
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. He spent nearly 40 years in the Army before retiring to take over as head of another government
organization.
A. Name this former general who suddenly resigned from that organization in November 2012 after the
FBI discovered he was having an affair.
answer: David Petraeus [pa-TRAY-us]
B. What government organization had he been the head of?
answer: Central Intelligence Agency or CIA
C. His mistress wrote his new biography with this 2-word title, a term often used in high-stakes poker.
answer: All In
D. He spent a year and a half as head of the multinational coalition forces in this country that executed its
former dictator Saddam Hussein.
answer: Iraq
2. Pencils and paper ready!
A. Write the number 0.00357 in standard scientific notation.
answer: 3.57 x 10-3
B. Give the ones digit of the number that equals "11 to the fourth power."
answer: 1 (all powers of 11 end in 1)
C. Number of items in a bakers' dozen?
answer: 13
D. If A is the sum of all negative integers greater than -4 and B is 32, calculate A times B.
answer: -192 (-6 x 32)
3. Answer these about composer Johannes Brahms:
A. He was born in this European country.
answer: Germany
B. He became close friends with this composer’s wife Clara—especially after that composer was confined
to a mental hospital.
answer: Robert Schumann
C. His Wiegenlied [VEE-gun-leet] contains this famous nighttime tune.
answer: Brahms’ Lullaby
D. Brahms wrote this number of symphonies, five fewer than Beethoven wrote.
answer: four
4. Answer these about former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower:
A. He was President for most of this decade of the 20th century.
answer: 1950’s
B. These two states joined the Union during his time in office.
answer: Alaska and Hawaii
C. After World War II, he served as President of this Ivy League school in New York City.
answer: Columbia Univ.
D. He was the first President specifically limited to two terms by this Constitutional Amendment.
answer: 22nd Amendment
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5. Pencils and paper ready! A circle has radius 10 inches. In terms of π:
A. What is the diameter of the circle?
answer: 20 in. (10 x 2)
B. What is the circumference of the circle?
answer: 20π sq. in. (C = πd)
C. If a 90º sector is removed from the circle, what is the length of the arc between the two endpoints ?
answer: 5π in. (20π x 90/360)
D. What is the total area of the removed sector?
answer: 25π in2 (100π area x 90/360; accept clearly equivalent answers)
6. I'll name a planet; you name its satellite that has the largest diameter:
A. Mars
answer: Phobos
B. Jupiter
answer: Ganymede
C. Saturn
answer: Titan
D. Neptune
answer: Triton
7. Name the 19th-century American authors of these works:
A. The Courtship of Miles Standish
answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B. The Ransom of Red Chief
answer: O. Henry (or W.S. Porter)
C. The House of the Seven Gables
answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. The Outcasts of Poker Flat
answer: Bret Harte
8. Answer these about "operations" from World War II:
A. In 1940, Hitler planned Operation Sealion to invade this island country.
answer: Britain or England
B. In 1941, Hitler used Operation Barbarossa to unsuccessfully attack this country.
answer: Russia or U.S.S.R or Soviet Union
C. In November 1942, the Allies used Operation Torch to invade the northern part of this continent.
answer: North Africa
D. In September 1944, the Allies used Operation Market Garden to capture bridges in this country that
had been under Nazi control for more than four years.
answer: Holland (or the Netherlands)
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9. It describes how electoral votes are to be counted—and that the votes for President and for VicePresident are to be counted separately.
A. Identify this Constitutional Amendment.
answer: 12th Amendment
B. That Amendment says the President of the Senate counts the votes, who is this man right now.
answer: Joe Biden (the Vice-President)
C. If no one had gotten a majority of electoral votes in 2012, the election would have gone to this
chamber of Congress , with each state getting one vote.
answer: House of Representatives
D. In that case, this number of votes would be needed to select the President.
answer: 26 (half of 50, plus one)
10. Name the European countries famed for each of these sets of cheeses:
A. Gorgonzola and Provolone
answer: Italy
B. Limburger and Passendale
answer: Belgium
C. Emmentaler [em-un-TALL-ur] and Appenzeller [OP-unt-sell-ur]
answer: Switzerland
D. Stilton and Cheddar
answer: England (accept equivalents)
11. Name these styles of artistic handicraft:
A. The craft of tying or knotting cords in geometric patterns.
answer: macramé [MAK-ra-may]
B. This Indonesian technique of dyeing fabric requires certain areas of the cloth to first be covered with a
dye-resistant substance so they will not be dyed when everything else is.
answer: batik [ba-TEEK]
C. This method of adding color to clothing may use string or rubber bands to keep the color from reaching
certain areas of the fabric.
answer: tie-dye
D. Webster's defines it as "the art or process of forming decorative designs with hand or machine
needlework."
answer: embroidery
12. Answer these about your circulatory system:
A. This disease is often called “hardening of the arteries.”
answer: arteriosclerosis or artherosclerosis
B. This chest pain comes from a lack of oxygen to the heart muscle itself.
answer: angina pectoris
C. The superior and inferior of this vein returns blood from the body to your heart’s right atrium.
answer: vena cava
D. These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
answer: arteries
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13. Pencils and paper ready!
A. Calculate the slope of the line 2x - 16y = 96 in lowest terms.
answer: y = 1/8 x - 6
B. Give the result when x to the 9th power is cubed.
answer: x27
C. Solve for y in the equation 5y - 2 = -2y - 23.
answer: -3 (7y = -21)
D. Solve for x in the equation 2/5 x = 12.
answer: 30 (12/0.4)
14. Give these words that come to English from Dutch:
A. The dental version of this thread is used to remove food from between your teeth.
answer: floss
B. You could be arrested for this crime if you are hanging out on a street corner with nothing to do.
answer: loitering
C. A triangular device to hold the canvas an artist is painting.
answer: easel
D. A sharp spear used to catch a whale or other large fish
answer: harpoon
15. Put the chemical symbols for these sets of elements next to each other in the order given, and then
give the word that is spelled out:
A. carbon, oxygen, phosphorus, selenium [sa-LEE-nee-um]
answer: copse
B. beryllium [ba-RILL-ee-um], neodymium [nee-o-DIM-ee-um]
answer: bend
C. copper, rhenium [REE-nee-um]
answer: cure
D. tungsten, iodine, nitrogen, potassium
answer: wink
16. Answer these about Islamic literature:
A. The Koran has 114 of these; in English, they might be "chapters".
answer: suras
B. A Shi'ite Muslim should pay a "khum" [koom], or this percentage of his earnings, to his leaders or to
the poor.
answer: 20% or one-fifth
C. The Koran chapter on this Old Testament prophet says he was swallowed by a whale.
answer: Jonah
D. One Koran chapter on this Old Testament character tells how he was sold into slavery by his brothers.
answer: Joseph
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17. Give the capital cities of these Asian countries:
A. Japan
answer: Tokyo
B. Mongolia
answer: Ulaanbaatar [oo-lon BAW-tur]
C. Jordan
answer: Amman [a-MONN]
D. North Korea
answer: Pyongyang
18. Answer these about types of snowflakes as defined by the International Commission on Snow and Ice:
A. This type looks like something you’d see on a pine tree.
answer: needles
B. This type looks like part of a neuron.
answer: dendrites
C. This type can be solid or hollow (as well as Doric, Ionic or Corinthian).
answer: columns
D. A “stellar” snowflake is shaped like one of these astronomical objects.
answer: star
19. Just 5 games into the current NBA season, and after a winless preseason, the Los Angeles Lakers fired
their head coach.
A. That coach was this man who formerly coached LeBron James in Cleveland.
answer: Mike Brown
B. Most fans were sure the Lakers would re-hire this coach who led them to 5 NBA titles.
answer: Phil Jackson
C. This Laker star really wanted Jackson to be re-hired.
answer: Kobe Bryant
D. Instead, the Lakers hired this former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks coach.
answer: Mike D’Antoni
20. It is getting a new set of eight bells in 2013 to replace the four that were hung there in 1856.
A. Name this famed Catholic cathedral in Paris.
answer: Notre Dame
B. Name the author of the classic novel set in that cathedral that features a hunchbacked man.
answer: Victor Hugo
C. What was the name of that hunchbacked man?
answer: Quasimodo
D. The four bells replace a set of bells removed during the French Revolution and melted down to make
this heavy metal armament.
answer: cannon
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1. AMERICA’S RICHEST COUNTIES
Name these states where you’d find the 10 richest counties in America, as measured by CNBC.
Some answers may appear more than once.
1) Nantucket County
Ans. Massachusetts
2) Fairfax County
Ans. Virginia
3) Westchester County
Ans. New York
4) Marin [ma-RIN] County
Ans. California
5) Somerset County
Ans. New Jersey
6) Fairfield County
Ans. Connecticut
7) Loudoun [rhymes with “cowden”] County
Ans. Virginia
8) Morris County
Ans. New Jersey
9) Pitkin County
Ans. Colorado
10) Hunterdon County
Ans. New Jersey
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –COMPLETE THE SAYING
1) You can lead a [blank] to water, but you can’t make it drink
Ans. horse
2) April [blank] bring May flowers
Ans. showers
3) As the [blank] flies, meaning “the most direct route”
Ans. crow
4) Make a mountain out of a [blank]
Ans. molehill
5) Great [blank] from little acorns grow
Ans. oaks
6) Every [blank] has a silver lining
Ans. cloud
7) Like a [blank] in a china shop
Ans. bull
8) A [blank] out of water, meaning “someone unable to cope”
Ans. fish
9) Eat [blank], a bird, meaning “to take back something you bragged about”
Ans. crow
10) [Blank] sky at morning, Sailor take warning; [blank] sky at night, Sailor’s delight”
Ans. red
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH T
1) Major part of a cooked chicken besides breast, leg and wing
Ans. thigh
2) A rock with an inscription—or a computer device that looks like it
Ans. tablet
3) Little Miss Muffet sat on one of these.
Ans. tuffet
4) Giving aid and comfort to a national enemy
Ans. treason
5) What an airplane does on the ground before liftoff
Ans. taxi
6) Machine used to produce neat print before computers came along
Ans. typewriter
7) Capital of Florida
Ans. Tallahassee
8) Astronomical device made in “reflecting” and “refracting” types
Ans. telescope
9) Small sharp object that sticks paper to a bulletin board
Ans. thumbtack
10) Fish sold under the brand names Star Kist and Chicken of the Sea
Ans. tuna
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BASIC SET 6
TOSSUPS
1. The new paper currency it released in 2012 was designed with blind people in mind; thus, it has small
raised lines on the front that indicate how many “rand” each bill is worth. Name this country where
sighted people can tell bills apart by their color, by the game animal displayed, and by the picture of
Nelson Mandela on each one.
answer: South Africa
2. Told to a small white boy by an old black servant, they were originally written in black dialect that is
hard for people today to read. Name this set of stories by Joel Chandler Harris that includes several tales
about Brer Rabbit, including the one where he met the tar baby.
answer: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings
3. Originally presented by the Downtown Athletic Club, only one defensive player has ever won it; the
vast majority of winners are running backs or quarterbacks like former Baylor star Robert Griffin III, who
now plays for the Washington Redskins. Name this trophy given annually to America’s best college
football player.
answer: Heisman Trophy
4. During his time in office, the Adams-Onis Treaty was signed that obtained Florida from Spain. He
helped engineer the Louisiana Purchase while Minister to France. Name this fifth U.S. President.
answer: James Monroe
5. After he realized what he had done in turning over an innocent person to Jewish and Roman authorities,
the Bible records that he took his own life. Name this subject of the Giotto [joe-toe] painting The Betrayal
of Christ who stands in the foreground, facing Jesus and about to kiss him.
answer: Judas Iscariot (both names needed)
6. Pencils and paper ready! What is the height of a trapezoid whose bases are 6 centimeters and 8
centimeters and whose area is 63 square centimeters?
answer: 9 cm [63 = h (6 + 8)/2]
7. Surfers love the North Shore of this Hawaiian island, while beachgoers love Waikiki [wye-kee-kee],
history buffs love Pearl Harbor, and shoppers love the capital city of Honolulu. Name this main island of
Hawaii, the state’s most densely populated.
answer: Oahu [o-AW-hoo]
8. Russia used a version of it called a tachanka [ta-CHON-ka] during its Civil War, though it contained a
machine gun instead of a man with a bow and arrow. Name this vehicle whose usefulness in warfare was
ended after the horses that pulled it started to grow so large that they could actually be ridden in battle.
answer: chariots
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9. It can be seen in the movement of wind and ocean current and by trying to throw a ball straight while
moving in a circle. Name this effect that produces a clockwise flow in the Southern Hemisphere and a
counterclockwise flow in the Northern Hemisphere.
answer: Coriolis effect
10. In the sentence, "Watching her new television, Juanita became sleepy," the participial phrase in the
first part of the sentence is classified as-- what part of speech because it describes the noun “Juanita” ?
answer: adjective
11. In 1995, it bought its biggest competitor from Ralston Purina, who had been making its most popular
brands. Less than a decade later, it filed for bankruptcy. Name this firm, once known as Interstate Baking
Company, that declared bankruptcy again in 2012 after many years of making Wonder Bread, Dolly
Madison fruit pies, Ding-Dongs, and Twinkies.
answer: Hostess Brands
12. Pencils and paper ready! When a driver traveling at x miles per hour on dry pavement puts on his
brakes, the car needs a “stopping distance” in feet S to come to a complete stop that is found by the
formula S = 0.0515x2 + 1.1x. To one decimal place, what is the stopping distance in feet needed for a car
going 20 miles per hour?
answer: 42.6 ft (20.6 + 22)
13. A biologist using an electron microscope might notice a mitochondrion inside this cell organelle. The
mitochondrion would be old and worn-out and in the process of digestion by enzymes. Name this
organelle that generally handles a cell’s digestion and removal of waste products.
answer: lysosome
14. Named for the day a Dutch explorer first arrived there, it lies 2,000 miles west of Chile, to whom it
has belonged since 1888. Give the English name of this Southern Hemisphere island, renowned for the
large stone heads once created by its inhabitants, that is sometimes called “Rapa Nui” or “Isla de Pascua.”
answer: Easter Island
15. Pencils and paper ready! Over four weeks, a factory coming back online can make 300 cars one
week, 700 cars the second week, 1,200 cars the third week and 1,800 cars the fourth week. Using these
trends, how many cars would be made the fifth week?
answer: 2,500 (adds 400, then 500, then 600…)
16. Her most recent acting job is as Elizabeth Taylor in a 2012 TV movie, but her acting is now lessknown than her police record that includes substance abuse and theft charges. Name this 20-something
star of the films Herbie: Fully Loaded, Freaky Friday, The Parent Trap and Mean Girls.
answer: Lindsay Lohan
17. Its characters include a wild boy named Dan and a quiet violinist named Nat who are both part of a
small boarding school run by Fritz Bhaer and his wife, who is the sister of the former Meg March. Name
this Louisa May Alcott novel, subtitled Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys and the sequel to Little Women.
answer: Little Men
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18. In optics, it is measured in diopters [dye-OP-turz]. In other branches of science, it can be measured in
horsepower. Give this physical quantity, defined as “work per unit of time”, whose SI unit is the watt.
answer: power
19. This agency of the U.S. Justice Department often works with the FBI in trying to keep cocaine and
other illegal substances out of America. Name this agency, typically referred to by its acronym DEA.
answer: Drug Enforcement Administration (prompt on “DEA” before it is read)
20. It has announced plans to start building a 220-floor skyscraper in December 2012 and have it finished
in only 3 months--though like all Communist countries, it tends to exaggerate a lot. Name this Asian
nation where the skyscraper, when finished, will stand near the Xiangjiang [zong-zhong] River.
answer: China
21. Botswana produces more valuable ones than anywhere else in the world. Those sold at auction in
recent years include the Graff Pink, the Sun-Drop, and the Archduke Joseph sold in November 2012 for
more than $20 million. Identify this precious gem, the hardest mineral known to man.
answer: diamond
22. It features the heads of Macy’s and Gimbel’s department stores shaking hands and ends with Doris
agreeing to marry her neighbor, a lawyer named Fred. Name this classic Christmas film where a man
named Kris Kringle tells everyone, including a judge, that he’s the real Santa Claus.
answer: Miracle on 34th Street
23. Researchers have never studied (until now) how these glands can help heal human skin wounds like
burns and ulcers, partly because the animals used in research don’t have these glands. Identify these
glands that, if proven useful in healing, could be stimulated by having patients sit in a steam room or
undergo vigorous exercise.
answer: sweat glands
24. In 2012, it publicly apologized after an investigation found that its subcontractors in the former East
Germany used political prisoners in the 1980’s as unpaid labor to put together many of its sofas—which
is one way to keep prices down. Name this Swedish furniture giant.
answer: Ikea
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. It is less than 10 miles wide at the point where southwestern Europe gets closest to northwestern
Africa.
A. Identify this narrow strait between the two continents.
answer: Strait of Gibraltar [ja-BRAWL-tur]
B. The Strait separates this European country from Africa…
answer: Spain
C. …and this African country from Europe.
answer: Morocco
D. The island of Gibraltar is owned neither by Spain nor by Morocco, but by this European country.
answer: England (accept equivalents)
2. Give the words that fit each of these definitions from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. Don't
think about these too hard; these aren't meant to be particularly tricky.
A. "One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided."
answer: half
B. "A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness."
answer: manna
C. "A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but
gestures, and no postures but attitudes."
answer: an opera
D. "To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication [mast-a-KAY-shun],
humectation [hyoo-meck-TAY-shun], and deglutition [dee-gloo-TISH-un]."
answer: to eat
3. A boulder 10 feet in diameter begins to fall through Earth's atmosphere.
A. As the boulder falls, its edges do this, causing the gas along its path to glow.
answer: they increase in temperature (accept "heats up", "gets hot" or equivalents)
B. The visible trail created by the glowing gas is called either a "shooting star" or this more formal 6letter word.
answer: meteor
C. This term, related to the last answer, is given to the falling boulder itself.
answer: meteoroid
D. If any part of the boulder reaches Earth, that part of the boulder is called this.
answer: meteorite
4. It is home to more than a million Palestinians, some of whom began firing rockets on Israel in 2012.
A. Name this area of land bordered by Israel and Egypt.
answer: Gaza Strip
B. Gaza is also bordered by this major body of water.
answer: Mediterranean Sea
C. Israel retaliated for the rockets by destroying the headquarters of this government/terrorist group that
has ruled Gaza for the last 5 years.
answer: Hamas [ha-MOSS]
D. Hamas has fired rockets at this Israeli city, the country’s second-largest by population after Jerusalem.
answer: Tel Aviv [tell a–VEEV]
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5. Answer these about birds:
A. This small bird is Snoopy’s friend and secretary in the comic strip Peanuts.
answer: Woodstock
B. These mythological sea nymphs, part bird and part woman, lured sailors to their death on the rocks by
their singing.
answer: sirens
C. This National League baseball team has a bird for a nickname.
answer: St. Louis Cardinals (prompt on St. Louis)
D. This grayish European bird has a well-known two-note call and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.
answer: cuckoo
6. New York City's Carnegie Hall has been the scene of some great music.
A. Its opening night in 1891 featured this legendary composer of the 1812 Overture as a conductor.
answer: P. I. Tchaikovsky
B. In 1893, it was home to the premiere of Dvorak's [VOR-zhox] 9th Symphony, known by this 2-word
nickname.
answer: From the New World
C. In 1925, this American composer premiered his Concerto in F, the year after he wrote Rhapsody in
Blue.
answer: George Gershwin
D. In 1943, this American composer made his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York
Philharmonic.
answer: Leonard Bernstein
7. Answer these about U.S. President James Buchanan:
A. He was the last President born in this century.
answer: 18th or 1700’s
B. He is the only president born in this Eastern state.
answer: Pennsylvania
C. During the War of 1812, he helped defend this Maryland city from the British.
answer: Baltimore
D. He was succeeded as President by this man.
answer: Abraham Lincoln
8. Answer these about an energy pyramid:
A. The bottom of the pyramid is this group of organisms, such as plants, that make their own food.
answer: autotrophs
B. This type of animal eats autotrophs.
answer: herbivore or primary consumer
C. This type of animal eats herbivores.
answer: carnivore or secondary consumer
D. This type of animal eats carnivores.
answer: tertiary consumer or secondary carnivore
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9. In a recent interview, its director talked about the visual effects he used to create a tiger named Richard
Parker.
A. Name this 2012 film that stars Suraj Sharma as a boy on a lifeboat with Richard Parker.
answer: Life of Pi
B. Name the movie’s director who won an Oscar for Brokeback Mountain.
answer: Ang Lee
C. Who wrote the novel Life of Pi ?
answer: Yann Martel
D. In what country was Pi born?
answer: India
10. Answer these about George Orwell's novel 1984:
A., B. and C. Name the three supercontinents mentioned in the story.
answer: Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia
D. One of Big Brother's mottoes is "Ignorance is [this]."
answer: strength
11. Name the countries where each of these hockey stars were born who were inducted into the Hockey
Hall of Fame in 2012:
A. Joe Sakic [SACK-ick]
answer: Canada
B. Adam Oates
answer: United States or U.S.
C. Pavel Bure [ba-RAY]
answer: Russia
D. Mats Sundin [sun-DEEN]
answer: Sweden
12. Pencils and paper ready! When a driver traveling at x miles per hour on wet pavement puts on his
brakes, the formula you heard before changes to S = 0.1x2 + 1.1x.
A. What is the stopping distance in feet now needed for a car going 10 miles per hour?
answer: 21 ft (10 + 11)
B. What shape is the graph of S ?
answer: parabola
C. If the two parabolas for “wet S” and “dry S” are graphed in the same plane, tell which parabola is
steeper and which one is wider.
answer: “wet S” is steeper and “dry S” is wider
D. Which way do the parabolas open ?
answer: they both open upward
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13. Name the country where you’d find these major art museums:
A. the Louvre [loov]
answer: France
B. Tretyakov Gallery
answer: Russia
C. Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
answer: Australia
D. CaxiaForum Barcelona
answer: Spain
14. In South Africa, the so-called “Big Five” of wild animals appear on the country’s currency and are
those most desired by both hunters and photographers. Name any four of the Big Five.
answer: Cape buffalo, African elephant, leopard, lion, rhinoceros
15. In any order you want, name the four stages in the life of every butterfly.
answer: egg, larva (or caterpillar), pupa (or chrysalis), adult
16. Pencils and paper ready! The U.S. Consumer Price Index was valued at 100 in 1967 and 585 in 2005.
A. If this is graphed as a straight line with the year as horizontal, what’s the slope of the line to the nearest
integer ?
answer: 13(485/38 = 12.76)
B. Using that integer, what was the Index in 1977 to the nearest integer?
answer: 230 (100 + 130)
C. What was the Index in 1987 to the nearest integer?
answer: 360 (100 + 260)
D. What was the Index in 1997 to the nearest integer?
answer: 490 (100 + 390)
17. It marks the end of the financial year for businesses in India, and business owners nationwide pray to
a goddess during this time to bless their efforts in the coming year.
A. Identify this major holiday season, celebrated each autumn by lighting rows of clay lamps.
answer: Diwali [da-WALL-lee]
B. Name the goddess of wealth and prosperity who is prayed to.
answer: Lakshmi
C. Name the religion whose followers pray to that goddess.
answer: Hinduism
D. This religious sect, famed for wearing turbans and carrying small daggers, celebrates Diwali as the
time when its Sixth Guru, Har Govind, was released from prison.
answer: Sikhism
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18. Answer these, based on questions from the first round of the 2012 National Geography Bee:
A. This state’s major cities include Tampa, St. Petersburg and Orlando.
answer: Florida
B. This state’s major cities include Billings, Bozeman and Miles City.
answer: Montana
C. This is the set of hundreds of small islands off the southwest coast of Alaska.
answer: Aleutian [a-LOO-shun] Islands
D. This state is home to White Sands National Monument.
answer: New Mexico
19. Answer these about diamonds:
A. Many diamonds come from mines in this country’s Northwest Territory.
answer: Canada
B. This Belgian city is famed for its diamond trading center.
answer: Antwerp
C. Though Botswana produces more valuable diamonds than anywhere else, this European country
produces the largest number of uncut diamonds each year.
answer: Russia
D. The De Beers Company, a major diamond firm, is headquartered in this South African city.
answer: Johannesburg
20. The Oxford Dictionary has announced its Words of the Year for 2012.
A. The winner in the American division is this 3-letter acronym that has been around since the 1980’s for
a specific computer image format.
answer: GIF
B. The winner in the British division is this word, coined by a British TV show for a complete and
unmitigated disaster in every possible way.
answer: omnishambles
C. One of the contenders was the acronym YOLO, which stands for this phrase and is used by people to
justify irresponsible decisions.
answer: You Only Live Once
D. Another contender was this word used in the media to describe Hurricane Sandy.
answer: superstorm
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1. THANKSGIVING
1) The first Pilgrim Thanksgiving feast was in this year, 1 year after the Mayflower arrived. Ans. 1621
2) That feast featured a lot of the “Eastern wild” species of this fowl.
Ans. turkey
3) This U.S. President made Thanksgiving the last Thursday in November.
Ans. A. Lincoln
4) But he first declared a Thanksgiving in August 1863 after this Union victory. Ans. Gettysburg
5) The first Pilgrim Thanksgiving feast was eaten with this Indian tribe.
Ans. Wampanoag
6) He was the great King of that Indian tribe.
Ans. Massasoit
7) The first feast was described in this Pilgrim’s History of Plimouth Plantation. Ans. W. Bradford
8) Visiting Plimouth Plantation today, you can see this animal’s Wiltshire Horned species... Ans. sheep
9) … and this animal’s San Clemente Island species.
Ans. goat
10) This U.S. President made Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November.
Ans. F. Roosevelt or FDR
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –BIBLE STORIES
1) He and his three sons lived on an ark for months.
Ans. Noah
2) These 2 Old Testament cities were destroyed because of wickedness. Ans. Sodom and Gomorrah
3) He got a coat of many colors from his father Jacob.
Ans. Joseph
4) She committed adultery with King David.
Ans. Bathsheba
5) She gave her son Samuel to God so he could serve in the temple.
Ans. Hannah
6) Prophet who saw a vision of dry bones
Ans. Ezekiel
7) She died after giving birth to her son Benjamin.
Ans. Rachel
8) This prophet had 450 prophets of the idol god Baal [BAY-ul] killed.
Ans. Elijah
9) Roman ruler who washed his hands in the matter of Jesus
Ans. Pontius Pilate
10) He saw a bright light that blinded him on the road to Damascus
Ans. Paul (or Saul)
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH S
1) Matter that is neither liquid nor gaseous
Ans. solid
2) Alter-ego of Clark Kent
Ans. Superman
3) Number of eggs in half a dozen
Ans. six
4) Type of bank account where money stays until needed
Ans. savings account
5) Nickname for the state of Oklahoma
Ans. Sooner State
6) Liquid in your mouth that helps you digest food
Ans. saliva
7) Powdery substance, often put on breakfast cereal
Ans. sugar
8) Country whose capital is Edinburgh
Ans. Scotland
9) Seventh month in the old Roman calendar
Ans. September
10) Metalloid element used in semiconductors
Ans. silicon
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BASIC SET 7
TOSSUPS
1. He taught college in California before returning to his native land to teach college and join Parliament.
In 2012, he became his country’s first civilian President ever. Name this leader, now under fire for his
wish to shield his policies from judicial review in his native Egypt.
answer: Mohamed Morsi
2. Pencils and paper ready! Give the two factors of the polynomial x2 + 2x – 15.
answer: (x – 3) and (x + 5)
3. It was largely centered in America, where advertising was widely available, and depicted big-city and
media culture as the culture of everyone. Name this 20th-century art movement, practiced by Claes
Oldenburg and Andy Warhol.
answer: Pop art
4. His father Joseph was Boston’s youngest bank president and an ambassador to England. Name this
Democrat who wrote Why England Slept and Profiles in Courage before assuming the presidency in 1961
that he held for almost three years before he was shot and killed.
answer: John F. Kennedy or JFK
5. Its popular types include Rainier and “bing.” To eat them fresh, you typically have to remove their
stems and eat around the little stone in the middle. Name this popular but expensive dark-red fruit.
answer: cherry
6. Pencils and paper ready! A knife is used to cut a piece of rope in such a way that 1/3 of the existing
rope is cut off with each cut. What fractional part of the original rope will be left after three cuts?
answer: 8/27 [(2/3)3]
7. Like a desert, it doesn’t get much rain or have much vegetation. Unlike a desert, however, it is very
cold and has types known as “Alpine” and “Arctic.” Name this biome, best known for its layer of
permafrost.
answer: tundra
8. He and his offspring Satan and Bonfire are the subjects of more than a dozen novels by Walter Farley
that tell how he came from the Arabian desert and was trained by Alec Ramsay to become the greatest
racer of his time. Name this “colorful” fictional horse.
answer: The Black Stallion
9. Though its sailors went all the way around Africa, they always stayed within sight of shore in case of
problems. Name this ancient civilization, based in modern-day Lebanon, that contained the city of Tyre
and is famous today for its skills in trading and for its phonetic alphabet.
answer: Phoenicians [fa-NEE-sha]
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10. As a teenager, she played Sabé in Episode I of Star Wars and the soccer player Jules Paxton in Bend It
Like Beckham. Name this young British actress, perhaps more famous in America for her portrayal of
Elizabeth Swann in three Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
answer: Keira Knightley
11. One exhibit of its artifacts is now being advertised by saying, “[Its] farmers…didn’t know…that
[there was] an active volcano in their backyard. Like many Italian cities, it was renowned for its wine. AD
79, however, was not a good year.” Name this ancient city, destroyed in that year by Mount Vesuvius.
answer: Pompeii
12. Its verse that talks about storm clouds far across the sea has never been as popular as its chorus. Name
this classic song by Irving Berlin, sung at many baseball games since September 11th, that talks about the
mountains, the prairies and the oceans white with foam.
answer: God Bless America
13. This status is sometimes granted for medical reasons but can be revoked if a prisoner doesn’t get a
job, begins using drugs or alcohol, or contacts his past victims. Name this legal concept that lets inmates
out of jail before the official end of their sentence.
answer: parole
14. What major biological characteristic is generally true of people who have two X chromosomes and no
Y chromosome?
answer: they're all women (or girls or female)
15. In a novel by Terry Deary, he escapes from the rock he is chained to and comes to Eden City looking
for a human hero. Name this “Fire Thief” of myth, destined to have his liver constantly chewed on by a
bird for giving fire to mankind.
answer: Prometheus [pro-MEETH-ee-us]
16. Pencils and paper ready! If the two legs of a right triangle are 16 feet and 12 feet, what is the length of
the hypotenuse?
answer: 20 feet [√(256 + 144)]
17. The verbs “swim”, “spin”, “drink”, “fling” and “sink” all have an irregular past participle in which the
letter “i” changes to—what other vowel ?
answer: u (swum, spun, drunk, flung, sunk)
18. Developed by its namesake to travel along a telegraph wire, it was printed out at first and used only
to transmit numbers. When it began use in radio communication, the printouts stopped --but the dots and
dashes remained. Name this communication system whose letters SOS still mean someone’s in trouble.
answer: Morse code
19. In ancient Greece, it described the main character or “good guy” in a tragedy who has to overcome a
situation or person. Today, this term still describes the main character in a story—even when he is
actually a bad guy or anti-hero. Give this long word beginning with P.
answer: protagonist
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20. This setting for the novel Where the Red Fern Grows includes the Springfield Plateau and Boston
Mountains but is nowhere near Massachusetts. Name this “hillbilly” mountain range that covers tiny areas
of Oklahoma and Kansas and much larger areas of Missouri and Arkansas.
answer: Ozark Mountains
21. In nutrition, it is a chemical element like zinc that your body needs to stay healthy. To a geologist, it is
a crystalline solid that is formed through natural processes and has a definite chemical composition that
can be identified by its physical properties. Give this 7-letter word that describes substances like quartz
and diamond.
answer: mineral
22. Its original members included the University of Chicago. Today, it has nearly half again as many
members as its name indicates—including the two added in the fall of 2012. Name this Midwest college
athletic organization whose members include Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio State.
answer: Big Ten conference
23. They are thought to have arrived from eastern Polynesia and avoided contact with whites for centuries
until the British came and eventually took them over in 1840 by signing the Treaty of Waitangi [wyeTONG-ghee] with them. Name this indigenous people of New Zealand.
answer: Maori
24. It may have been set in motion by child abuse, fortune-telling or even a fungus that caused
hallucinations. A governor finally brought an end to it in 1692, but only after 20 people had been hanged
and 5 more had died in prison. Name this period of Puritan hysteria.
answer: the Salem witch trials
FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Name these very expensive foods that you can now buy from a vending machine in a Beverly Hills
mall:
A. Special tongs and forks are used to eat this French appetizer, removed from its large shell to cook and
then replaced in its shell to serve.
answer: escargot (or snail)
B. The Caspian Sea is the world’s most common area to obtain this black paste, made from sturgeon eggs.
answer: caviar
C. Specially-trained pigs are used to find the black variety of these prized mushrooms--just make sure the
pig doesn’t eat what it finds.
answer: truffles
D. These Russian pancakes are a little thicker than crepes.
answer: blintz or blini
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2. Pencils and paper ready! Give these percentages as a fraction in lowest terms:
A. 24%
answer: 6/25
B. 70%
answer: 7/10
C. 50%
answer: ½
D. 41 2⁄3%
answer: 5/12
3. He gave only 30 public concerts in a 30-year career; fortunately, his works were far more numerous.
A. Name this 19th-century composer who left his native Poland at age 20.
answer: Frederic Chopin [sho-PAN]
B. He composed nearly 30 of these pieces, from the French for "studies."
answer: etudes [AY-toodz]
C. All of his pieces were written for this instrument, either by itself or in combination.
answer: piano
D. Many of his pieces were written for this popular dance in three-four time.
answer: waltz
4. Name the states represented by these statues in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall:
A. Roger Williams, who left Massachusetts looking for religious freedom
answer: Rhode Island
B. King Kamehameha [ka-MAY-a-MAY-a] the First
answer: Hawaii
C. William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential candidate of the early 1900’s
answer: Nebraska
D. Former U.S. Senator Sam Houston
answer: Texas
5. Pencils and paper ready! A square has sides 7 inches long.
A. What is the square’s perimeter ?
answer: 28 in. (7 x 4)
B. What is the square’s area ?
answer: 49 in2 (7 x 7)
C. In square-root form, how long is each diagonal of the square ?
answer: 7 √𝟐 in.
D. When the square is cut in half along the diagonal, what is the area of each half?
answer: 24 ½ or 24.5 in2
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6. In astronomy, the degree of brightness of a star can be measured in either "apparent" or "absolute"
magnitude.
A. On the "apparent" scale of magnitude (where the less the quantity, the brighter a star is), this celestial
object has a rating of -26.5.
answer: the sun
B. This object has an apparent magnitude of -12.5.
answer: the moon
C. This "dog star" , the brightest in the night sky, has an "apparent" value of -1.5.
answer: Sirius
D. The "absolute" measure of magnitude is taken from a reference point of 32.6 light-years, or 10 of these
larger units.
answer: parsecs
7. A famed American poet included part of this speech by God in one of his works: “Too long I've owed
you this apology /For the apparently unmeaning sorrow /You were afflicted with in those old days./ But it
was of the essence of the trial /You shouldn't understand it at the time.”
A. To which long-suffering Old Testament character was God talking?
answer: Job
B. Name this American poet who also wrote The Gift Outright.
answer: Robert Frost
C. Which of his poems contains multiple uses of the phrase, “Good fences make good neighbors” ?
answer: Mending Wall
D. Give the 4 words that complete this phrase from another of his poems: “Whose woods these are…”
answer: I think I know
8. Answer these about the geography around ancient Phoenicia:
A. Since Phoenicia covered most of modern-day Lebanon, this body of water served as its western border.
answer: Mediterranean Sea
B. One of Phoenicia’s major trade routes included this island, now divided between Greece and Turkey.
answer: Cyprus
C. Phoenicia also traded with this island, now part of Greece, that was the center of the Minoan
civilization.
answer: Crete
D. Phoenicia bordered on this country, now in the middle of a civil war.
answer: Syria
9. It is generally made of glass enclosed in a sheath, so it does not suffer the damage common with
metallic cables.
A. Identify this type of communications cable.
answer: fiber-optic cable
B. That type of cable does not carry pulses of electricity, but pulses of this instead.
answer: light
C. That type of cable typically replaces cables made of this metal.
answer: copper
D. Signals through cable suffer from “attenuation” [a-TEN-yoo-ay-shun], meaning that they do this as
they travel farther.
answer: get weaker (accept forms of the concept)
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10. Name these currently popular movies:
A. This animated film has characters named Jack Frost and North.
answer: Rise of the Guardians
B. This is the final Twilight movie.
answer: Breaking Dawn: Part 2
C. Teenagers fight against North Korean invaders.
answer: Red Dawn
D. This fantasy movie, subtitled An Unexpected Journey, won’t be released for 2 more weeks yet but is
bound to be popular.
answer: The Hobbit
11. Name the cities where you’d find these art museums:
A. Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum
answer: Toronto
B. Holland’s Van Gogh Museum
answer: Amsterdam
C. Russia’s Tretyakov Gallery
answer: Moscow
D. America’s Guggenheim Museum
answer: New York City
12. Answer these about families of dicot [DYE-kot] plants:
A. The Asteraceae [a-STAIR-a-say] family includes dandelions, daisies and these flowers that are popular
in Kansas and have edible seeds.
answer: sunflowers
B. Flowers in the Apiaceae [A-pee-a-see-ay] family typically contain this number of petals.
answer: five
C. Strawberries belong to the same family as this flower popular with lovers.
answer: roses
D. Acacia trees and lupines belong to the same family as this green vegetable, grown in pods.
answer: peas
13. Pencils and paper ready! Michael is 25 years older than his son Richard, 49 years older than his
grandson Grant and 76 years older than his great-grandson David. Give the ages of the four if the sum of
their ages is 198.
answer: Michael 87, Richard 62, Grant 38, David 11 [x + (x – 25) + (x – 49) + (x – 76)= 198]
14. Give these words from the list for the 2013 National Spelling Bee. Note you don’t have to spell them
this time.
A. To kill all of the bugs in a house in a short time, especially with poison
answer: exterminate
B. Type of sentence that ends in a question mark
answer: interrogative
C. An animal without a backbone
answer: invertebrate
D. A place where you look into a large telescope to see the stars
answer: planetarium
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15. Its M23 rebels have now taken its city of Goma and won’t leave until its demands are met.
A. Give the official name of this African country that is just east of a country sharing part of that name.
answer: Democratic Republic of Congo (which is just east of the Republic of Congo)
B. Name the President of that country who refuses to negotiate with M23.
answer: Joseph Kabila
C. What is the capital city of that country?
answer: Kinshasa
D. What is the capital of the Republic of Congo?
answer: Brazzaville
16. Name these writers who have craters on the planet Mercury named for them:
A. He wrote Les Miserables.
answer: Victor Hugo
B. He wrote Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
answer: William Shakespeare
C. He wrote The Lord of the Rings.
answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
D. He wrote Don Quixote.
answer: Miguel de Cervantes
17. Name these world rivers from two of the cities they border on or run through:
A. Khartoum, Sudan and Cairo, Egypt
answer: Nile River
B. Oxford, England and London, England
answer: Thames [temz] River
C. Dandong, China and Sinuiju, North Korea
answer: Yalu River
D. Basel, Switzerland and Bonn, Germany
answer: Rhine River
18. It extends below sea level and fills up with sea water as the glacier that created it retreats.
A. Name this long, narrow ocean inlet, typically surrounded by cliffs.
answer: fjord [fee-YORD]
B. Name the European country most famous for such inlets.
answer: Norway
C. Some of these inlets contain large sections of this type of "sea garden", created by the bodies of small
dead marine creatures.
answer: coral reef
D. Give the term for the dirt and rocks left behind by a retreating glacier.
answer: moraine
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19. The Big 10’s two new members added in 2012 will officially join at a later date.
A. One is this state’s major university, located in the town of College Park.
answer: Univ. of Maryland
B. The other is this state university of New Jersey.
answer: Rutgers
C. Before those two, this state’s major university was the most recent to join the league.
answer: Univ. of Nebraska
D. This Big 10 member recently lost its longtime football coach, Joe Paterno.
answer: Penn State Univ.
20. She spent the late 1990’s as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
A. Name this woman who is now America’s Ambassador to the United Nations.
answer: Susan Rice
B. Some Republicans have refused to support her if she is nominated for this Cabinet position until they
hear more about what she knew about the Benghazi attack.
answer: Secretary of State
C. This woman currently holds that Cabinet position but has announced she will leave it in 2013.
answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton
D. This Massachusetts Senator and former presidential candidate would really love to be Secretary of
State himself.
answer: John Kerry
LIGHTNING ROUND 1. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Identify the Amendment that:
1) Allows women to vote
Ans. 19th
2) Allows freedom of assembly
Ans. First
3) Began Prohibition
Ans. 18th
4) Allows an income tax
Ans. 16th
5) Prevents self-incrimination
Ans. 5th
6) Prevents poll taxes
Ans. 24th
7) Grants citizenship to those born in the U.S.
Ans. 14th
8) Abolished slavery
Ans. 13th
9) Keeps soldiers from living in people’s houses
Ans. 3rd
10) Delays Congressional pay raises until after the next election Ans. 27th
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LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –POSSESSIVE PHRASES
Give these phrases that have apostrophes in them to indicate possession.
1) A set of thirteen cookies or donuts
Ans. baker’s dozen
2) Fungus killed by Tinactin
Ans. athlete’s foot
3) Story collection including Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel Ans. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
4) Protection for the larynx at the front of a man’s neck
Ans. Adam’s apple
5) Comet that reappears every 76 years
Ans. Halley’s Comet
6) Full name of the YMCA
Ans. Young Men’s Christian Association
7) Lewis Carroll book introducing the Mad Hatter
Ans. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
8) Original name of the high mountain near Colorado Springs
Ans. Pike’s Peak
9) Traditional day each spring to carry out practical jokes
Ans. April Fool’s Day
10) E. B. White novel with Fern, Templeton and Avery
Ans. Charlotte’s Web
LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH L
1) Zero in a tennis game
Ans. love
2) In math, 3⁄4 is this for 6⁄8 or 15⁄20 (2 words)
Ans. lowest terms
3) Vertical lines on a globe
Ans. longitude lines
4) Trash collection and holding facility
Ans. landfill
5) In Genesis, the father of Jacob's wives Leah and Rachel
Ans. Laban
6) Small music holder used by marching-band participants
Ans. lyre
7) It works with your cornea to refract light onto your retina.
Ans. lens
8) Home city of the University of Wyoming
Ans. Laramie
9) Northernmost part of both Sweden and Finland
Ans. Lapland
10) First name of Madeline author Bemelmans and composer Beethoven Ans. Ludwig
END OF BASIC SET 7
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BASIC SET 8
TOSSUPS
1. 65 years to the day after the United Nations voted to recommend a partition of this land between Jews
and Arabs, it voted in November 2012 to support a state by this name that would contain only Arabs.
Give this term for the area of the Middle East, now officially a non-member state of the United Nations,
that consists of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
answer: Palestine
2. Its main character chooses a bell from a reindeer’s harness as the first Christmas gift and finds the bell
can only be heard by those who believe in the spirit of Christmas. Name this award-winning story by
Chris Van Allsburg, made into a movie starring Tom Hanks, whose title object is a train that goes to
Santa’s workshop.
answer: The Polar Express
3. Leon Foucault [FOO-kaw] famously used one of these objects that come in “bob” and “torsion”
varieties to study the earth's rotation. Identify this object, first used in accurate clocks in the Middle Ages,
whose “bob” variety is a long string with a weight on its very end.
answer: pendulum
4. Concertos written for it include one by Dvorak [vor-zhock], one by Schumann, two by Haydn [HIDEun] and a set of six suites by Johann Sebastian Bach. Identify this stringed instrument, played today by
Yo-Yo Ma, that is pitched higher than a string bass but lower than a viola.
answer: violoncello
5. It can refer to either a creek whose height changes with the tide—or to a very slow-moving river. You
can often find alligators and shrimp in it. Give the Southern term for this type of swampy water, found
mainly in Louisiana.
answer: bayou
6. Pencils and paper ready! Bill’s first four exam scores are 76, 80, 83 and 75. What will he have to score
on his final exam to average exactly 80 over all 5 exams?
answer: 86 (sum must be 400 so that 400/5 = 80)
7. While Vice-President, he wrote a Manual of Parliamentary Practice still used by Congress. He sent
Lewis and Clark on their Voyage of Discovery to the West. He rested from his Virginia residence
Monticello at his other house, Poplar Forest. Name this third U.S. President.
answer: Thomas Jefferson
8. It gave us the phrase, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path“ and the phrase “Out
of the mouth of babes…” Name this Old Testament book of poetry, largely written by King David, whose
23rd of its 150 chapters gave us the phrases, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil.” and “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
answer: Psalms
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9. Since being created by Congress in 1969, it has never been adjusted for inflation. Thus, it requires
complicated calculations by more and more people each year to see if they have to pay it. Identify this
federal tax, originally created so that even rich people couldn’t totally avoid their tax obligations, that is
commonly abbreviated AMT.
answer: Alternative Minimum Tax (accept AMT before it is read)
10. Commonly used in many Western languages, it’s only used in English when a foreign word has one.
Give the common term for this diacritical mark that is usually placed over a vowel to indicate which
syllable of the word should receive the most emphasis when the word is said aloud.
answer: accent mark
11. It includes the planets Uriel and Camazotz, as well as the angels Mrs Who and Mrs Which. It tells of a
boy named Charles and his neighbor Calvin who travel through a “tesseract” of space to battle a cosmic
evil led by the giant brain IT. Name this Newbery-winning novel by Madeleine L'Engle.
answer: A Wrinkle in Time
12. Pencils and paper ready! Solve for x in the equation “the cube root of the quantity (x + 1) = 3.”
answer: 26 [cube both sides to get x + 1 = 27]
13. His “schiacciato” [skee-aw-chee-AW-toe] technique lends spatial depth to his work that includes a
“pumpkin” sculpture of the bald prophet Habakkuk. His most famous statue today is the one of King
David as a young boy wearing a hat. Give the most common name of this Florentine sculptor of the early
Renaissance, a name shared by a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
answer: Donatello
14. Because sulfur dioxide is destroyed by sunlight, and because its atmosphere has a million times as
much sulfur dioxide as Earth’s, scientists now think some of its many volcanoes may be active. Name this
planet that spins in the opposite direction from Earth and came between Earth and the sun in 2012.
answer: Venus
15. Though supported by Pope Sixtus IV to root out people who pretended to be Catholic but weren’t, it
was also used by the Spanish government to punish political enemies. Name this medieval court
established to find and prosecute heretics [HAIR-a-tix], a court led in Spain by Tomas de Torquemada.
answer: Spanish Inquisition
16. Between 1875 and 1900, the eruption of its Askja volcano caused the emigration of thousands of its
citizens, leaving it as the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Name this small country, southeast
of Greenland and northwest of England, whose capital city is Reykjavik [RIKE-ya-vick].
answer: Iceland
17. He was given Kennedy Center Honors in 2012 for his decades of work in television, which include
his production company called “Worldwide Pants.” Name this late-night host and Ball State University
alumnus who gave us the nutty announcer Alan Kalter, Stupid Human Tricks and a nightly Top 10 List.
answer: David Letterman
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18. Originally called the “Titans”, it played home games at the Polo Grounds until moving to Shea
Stadium. When it finally made the playoffs in 1968 led by Joe Namath, it shocked the football world by
being the first AFL team to defeat an NFL team in what became the Super Bowl. Name this present-day
NFL team whose longtime quarterback is former USC star Mark Sanchez.
answer: New York Jets
19. As a verb, it means “to use in an improper or unworthy way.” As an adjective, it means “marked by
contempt or irreverence for what is sacred.” Give this 7-letter word beginning with P.
answer: profane
20. Time does it as speed approaches the speed of light. The pupils of your eyes may do it when treated
with some types of eye drops. Give this term that means “stretching” and describes what happens in math
when points on a graph are multiplied by a common factor to make the graph larger or smaller.
answer: dilation (accept forms of the word)
21. Pencils and paper ready! If two lines are perpendicular and one has a slope of 7/5, what must the slope
of the other line be?
answer: -5/7 (negative reciprocal)
22. Claimed by the Spanish, it was ceded to the United States after the Spanish-American War, and those
who live there are considered U.S. citizens. Name this island whose capital is San Juan.
answer: Puerto Rico
23. It contains the Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary Periods and began at the end of the Cretaceous
Period. Name this geologic era of time, which began about 65 million years ago after the dinosaur
extinction and is the era in which we currently live.
answer: Cenozoic [sen-a-ZO-ick] Era
24. Construction on it began in 1891 and wasn’t completed for more than 20 years. It allows passengers
to travel more than 5,700 miles in a week --from Moscow on one end to Vladivostok on the other. Name
this world’s second-longest railroad that shares its name with a popular orchestra led by Paul O’Neill.
answer: Trans-Siberian Railroad/Orchestra
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Pencils and paper ready! You buy a shirt for $20 from a table that says, “Marked down 20%!”
A. How much was the shirt originally ?
answer: $25 (20/0.8)
B. If sales tax is 6%, how much do you pay in sales tax when buying the shirt ?
answer: $1.20 (20 x 0.06)
C. Thus, how much is your total purchase?
answer: $21.20 (20 + 1.20)
D. If you give the cashier a $20 bill and a $10 bill. how much change will you receive ?
answer: $8.80 (30 – 21.20)
2. Name any four of the five U.S. states that border Georgia.
answer: Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
3. It adds a third dimension to many art works by showing a huge contrast between light and dark.
A. Name this artistic technique, from the Italian for "light" and "dark."
answer: chiaroscuro [kee-ar-a-SCUR-o]
B. That technique was often used in this 16th-century style of art, more rebellious against the past than its
predecessors.
answer: Mannerism
C. Caravaggio used chiaroscuro a lot, including in a painting of this Biblical figure being crucified.
answer: Saint Peter (not Jesus)
D. The style of “tenebrism” also used chiaroscuro a lot and was most popular in this country that has
given artists like Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.
answer: Spain
4. A tropical cyclone is defined by the federal government as “a rotating, organized system of clouds and
thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has a closed low-level circulation.”
A. What is the term for a tropical cyclone with winds 38 miles per hour or less?
answer: tropical depression
B. Which way do tropical storms usually rotate in the Northern Hemisphere?
answer: counterclockwise
C. What is the term for a tropical cyclone with winds greater than 74 miles per hour?
answer: hurricane
D. What is a hurricane generally called in the Pacific Ocean when it gets near Japan?
answer: typhoon
5. Give the nationality that precedes each of these sets of terms:
A. Dressing, Revolution, fries
answer: French
B. measles, shepherd
answer: German
C. lantern, beetle
answer: Japanese
D. Orthodox Church, roulette, wolfhound
answer: Russian
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6. Name these men involved in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ:
A. This Roman governor literally washed his hands of the matter of Jesus.
answer: Pontius Pilate
B. This high priest was the last Jewish official Jesus saw before being delivered to the Romans.
answer: Caiaphas [KY-a-fuss]
C. He took Jesus's body and laid it in a new sepulchre.
answer: Joseph of Arimathea [air-a-ma-THEE-a]
D. He was made to carry Jesus’s cross.
answer: Simon of Cyrene
7. You are given a scatterplot with a bunch of points and asked to find the line of best fit for all of the
points.
A. The process of doing this is known as “linear [blank].” Fill in the blank.
answer: linear regression
B. This is the term for any points that seem to be far, far away from the line you’re calculating.
answer: outliers
C. The [blank] of your line is usually considered the “rise over the run.”
answer: slope
D. Part of the process is calculating this value, represented by a small r and usually close to +1 if your x
and y values are both generally increasing.
answer: correlation coefficient
8. Answer these about the classic TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:
A. Rudolph is the son of this one of Santa’s 8 reindeer.
answer: Donner
B. This is the doe that likes Rudolph, even when her parents forbid her to see him.
answer: Clarice
C. Near the end, Rudolph visits this island ruled by a lion and meets a Charlie-in-the-box.
answer: the Island of Misfit Toys
D. This elf wants to be a dentist and removes the teeth of the Abominable Snowman.
answer: Hermey
9. Starting up a business involves a lot of paperwork with the federal government.
A. For one thing, you need an Employer Identification Number from this tax entity.
answer: Internal Revenue Service or IRS
B. and C. That number allows you to begin paying your FICA tax every 3 months, which is partly paid by
employers and partly paid by employees to fund these two federal entitlement programs.
answer: Social Security and Medicare
D. On top of that, employers also pay FUTA tax, which can be several hundred dollars per year per
employee, in case this unfortunate event occurs.
answer: FUTA is unemployment tax
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10. Answer these about Newton’s Laws of Motion:
A. This one talks about equal and opposite reactions.
answer: Newton’s Third Law
B. This one talks about inertia.
answer: Newton’s First Law
C. The Second Law says mass equals force, divided by this.
answer: acceleration
D. “Force over a unit of time” is one definition of this concept, indirectly related to the Second Law.
answer: impulse
11. Name any single year during which these wars took place:
A. the U.S. Civil War
answer: any year from 1861 through 1865
B. World War I
answer: any year from 1914 through 1918
C. World War II
answer: any year from 1939 through 1945
D. the American Revolution
answer: any year from 1775 through 1783
12. Name these characters from Alice in Wonderland:
A. It smokes a hookah while talking to Alice.
answer: the Caterpillar
B. His theft of the tarts is the subject of the trial.
answer: the Knave of Hearts
C. It tells Alice that since she doesn’t care where she's going, it doesn't matter which way she goes.
answer: the Cheshire Cat (both words needed; prompt as needed)
D. This small lizard is picked by the other animals to go down the chimney of the White Rabbit's house
and try to force out Alice, who kicks him out of the chimney.
answer: Bill
13. Name these Congressional leaders as of March 2013:
A. This Ohio Republican is Speaker of the House.
answer: John Boehner [BAY-nur]
B. This Nevada Democrat is the Senate Majority Leader.
answer: Harry Reid
C. This California Democrat is the House Minority Leader.
answer: Nancy Pelosi
D. This Kentucky Republican is the Senate Minority Leader.
answer: Mitch McConnell
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14. It has a head, a neck and a body.
A. Name this longest bone in the human body.
answer: femur (prompt on "thigh bone")
B. That bone is a major part of this part of your body.
answer: leg or thigh
C. Many older women that fracture that bone when they break their hip suffer from this ailment.
answer: osteoporosis
D. The two "branches" that protrude from the femur and help rotate the thigh are called these.
answer: greater and lesser trochanters [tro-KAN-tur]
15. Some 5 miles below the earth's oceans, seismic waves suddenly change velocity.
A. Name the discontinuity that causes this change.
answer: Mohorovicic [mo-ho-RO-va-sitch] discontinuity
B. This outermost surface of Earth is above that discontinuity.
answer: crust
C. This middle layer of Earth is below that discontinuity.
answer: mantle
D. This innermost layer of Earth is below both of the last 2 answers.
answer: core
16. His tomb, kept a local secret for centuries, may now have been found by scientists using radar in the
Khentii mountain range.
A. Name this medieval Asian conqueror, said to have had everyone killed who might know his exact
burial spot.
answer: Genghis Khan
B. Name the Asian country that considers Genghis Khan a major symbol of its independence.
answer: Mongolia
C. This capital city of Mongolia has an airport and a hotel named after Genghis Khan.
answer: Ulaanbaatar [oo-lon-BOT-ur]
D. This neighbor of Mongolia also honors Genghis Khan as one of theirs.
answer: China
17. Pencils and paper ready! You buy a 3-pound package of raw hamburger at your grocery store.
A. How many ounces of meat is that?
answer: 48 (3 x 16)
B. If the package is 20% fat, how many ounces (to one decimal point) are fat ?
answer: 9.6 (48 x 0.2)
C. Thus, how many actual ounces of meat are in the package?
answer: 38.4 (48 – 9.6)
D. How many actual pounds of meat is that?
answer: 2.4 (38.4/16, or 3 x 0.8)
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18. Name the countries whose major cities include:
A. Amadora, Braga and Porto
answer: Portugal
B. Nakuru [na-KOO-roo], Kisumu [kiss-OO-moo] and Mombasa [mom-BOSS-a]
answer: Kenya
C. Cali, Medellin [may-da-YEEN] and Barranquilla [bar-on-KEE-ya]
answer: Colombia
D. Yokohama, Osaka and Sapporo
answer: Japan
19. Identify the meanings of these musical symbols:
A. In a song, it is indicated by a comma above the staff.
answer: a breath mark (or where you should breathe) (accept equivalents)
B. The symbols "8va" [spell out] above the staff.
answer: play it an octave higher (if an octave lower, the "8va" appears below the staff)
C. A set of three eighth notes with a "3" over them means they should be played like this.
answer: as a triplet(s)
D. A “less-than” sign, like the one used in math, means the music should do this.
answer: get louder (a “greater-than” sign means to get softer)
20. Answer these about Mark Twain's story The Prince and the Pauper :
A. This is the first name of the Prince.
answer: Edward Tudor
B. This is the first name of the Pauper.
answer: Tom Canty
C. At the end of the story, the Pauper is given this position.
answer: King's Ward
D. Give either name of the man who is allowed to sit down in the King's presence.
answer: Miles Hendon (accept either one)
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1. DR. SEUSS BOOKS
1) Gerald McGrew wants to run this type of establishment.
Ans. a zoo
2) This elephant hatches an egg.
Ans. Horton
3) He’s a big-hearted moose.
Ans. Thidwick
4) He stole Christmas.
Ans. the Grinch
5) Two colors in the title One Fish Two Fish…
Ans. Red Fish Blue Fish
6) First name of McBoing Boing
Ans. Gerald
7) Some of these creatures had stars on their bellies; others didn’t.
Ans. the Sneetches
8) Meat that goes with green eggs
Ans. ham
9) Yertle is this kind of animal
Ans. turtle
10) One title asks this man to please go home now
Ans. Marvin K. Mooney
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWLS
Name the states where each of these 2012 college football bowl games will be played.
1) Rose Bowl
Ans. California
2) New Orleans Bowl
Ans. Louisiana
3) Las Vegas Bowl
Ans. Nevada
4) Liberty Bowl
Ans. Tennessee
5) Fiesta Bowl
Ans. Arizona
6) Chick-Fil-A Bowl
Ans. Georgia
7) Alamo Bowl
Ans. Texas
8) Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl
Ans. Florida
9) Pinstripe Bowl
Ans. New York (at Yankee Stadium)
10) Belk Bowl
Ans. North Carolina
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH D
1) Macy’s, Kohl’s and Target, for example (2 words)
Ans. department stores
2) A mule is a cross between a horse and one of these animals.
Ans. donkey
3) Scandinavian country that borders on Germany
Ans. Denmark
4) Share of the profits given to a company’s shareholders
Ans. dividends
5) Genetic opposite of "recessive"
Ans. dominant
6) Adjective for someone deprived of their chance to vote
Ans. disenfranchised
7) NHL Pacific Division team that plays home games in Central Time
Ans. Dallas Stars
8) Home city of Duke University
Ans. Durham, NC
9) Frank Herbert’s first novel about the planet Arrakis
Ans. Dune
10) Spanish word for 200
Ans. doscientos [dose see-EN-tose]
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BASIC SET 9
TOSSUPS
1. Its particles can be made of silicon carbide, garnet or emery, while its backing is usually made of cloth
or fiber. Name this abrasive substance, usually measured in “grit” (or particles per inch), that is used to
smooth out the rough edges of your woodshop project.
answer: sandpaper
2. Pencils and paper ready! Give the values of x and y that satisfy the two equations
5x + 6y = -1 and -3x - 9y = -21.
answer: x = -5, y = 4 (multiply 1st eq’n by 3 and 2nd by 2 and then add them together to get 9x = -45)
3. Located in Milan’s Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, it was created by an artist who had never
worked in that medium before. Name this mural, painted on a dry wall by Leonardo da Vinci, that shows
Jesus and his apostles eating a Passover meal together.
answer: The Last Supper
4. His original plan was to get Confederate POW's released by capturing Abraham Lincoln. But at some
point, he decided that Lincoln’s plan to grant citizenship to all blacks was more than he could stand.
Name this struggling actor who decided, in April 1865, to just shoot Lincoln instead.
answer: John Wilkes Booth
5. Its mayor is longtime NBA star Dave Bing, who is trying to keep it out of bankruptcy by restructuring
its government and its heavily unionized work force so that neither a bankruptcy judge nor its state’s
governor Rick Snyder will have to do it. Name this largest city in Michigan.
answer: Detroit, MI
6. Pencils and paper ready! How much money do you have in your pockets if you have 6 quarters, 8
dimes, 9 nickels, and 12 pennies?
answer: $2.87 (1.50 + 0.80 + 0.45 + 0.12)
7. In physics, its “potential” type is measured as the product of mass, height and the gravitational constant
g. What physical parameter has a “kinetic” version that you possess while going down a hill on your skis
that is calculated by multiplying your mass and the square of your speed?
answer: energy
8. Its details of 19th-century Dutch family life and history are amazing--especially considering that Mary
Mapes Dodge had never been to Holland. Name this children’s novel where the good deeds of Gretel and
her brother restore their father’s health and bring them good fortune.
answer: Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (prompt on "silver skates")
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9. Once partitioned between the Ottomans and Habsburgs for almost the entire 17th century, it was
forcibly broken away from Austria after World War I and then occupied by Soviet forces until the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Name this European country, roughly trisected from east to west by the Tisza and
Danube Rivers.
answer: Hungary
10. This cartoon character's PBS TV series features the same characters as his books, including Francine,
Mary Alice (nicknamed "Muffy"), Binky, Buster, and of course, his little sister D.W. Name this aardvark
created by Marc Brown.
answer: Arthur
11. Begun by the Johnson Publishing Company in the 1940’s, it sponsors an annual Fashion Fair and calls
itself “the heart, the soul and the pulse of Black America.” Identify this magazine, published by the
creators of Jet magazine and named for an Asian tree whose wood is black.
answer: Ebony
12. During the three years he spent in Paris with his wife Minna, he finished his opera Rienzi that led to
an eventual job as court musician for Bavaria’s “Mad” King Ludwig. Name this German composer, most
famous today for his extravagant Ring cycle of operas.
answer: Richard Wagner [vog-nur]
13. You can choose one based partly on what it invests in—like stocks or bonds. Give the 2-word term for
this investment vehicle that gets its name from the way that it brings together money from many investors
into one large pool from which to buy things.
answer: mutual fund
14. If a normal adult male, at age 25, has all of his wisdom teeth removed, how many teeth should be left
in his mouth?
answer: 28 (32 - 4)
15. He gave Artemis her hunting dogs and taught Apollo to prophesy. Name this Greek nature god who
had the horns of a goat and played the pipes.
answer: Pan
16. Pencils and paper ready! Two angles combine to create a straight line when added together. If one
angle is 107º, what is the other angle?
answer: 73º
17. As a verb, it can mean "to cause annoyance or irritation.” As a noun, it is "a framework of iron bars
that keeps the fuel within a fireplace." Give this 5-letter word that can also be “what you do to a block of
Parmesan cheese before putting it on Italian food.”
answer: grate
18. Known as “poor knights” in several European languages, many chefs recommend it be made with
day-old bread because that holds more egg without falling apart than fresher bread does. Name this
common breakfast recipe that involves frying bread after soaking it in a mixture of eggs, cinnamon and
sugar.
answer: French toast
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19. Its main character leaves a small town in Scotland to seek his fortune from his Uncle Ebenezer –only
to have Ebenezer put him on a ship headed for Carolina. When the ship is blown back toward Europe, that
main character joins forces with Alan Breck Stewart and eventually receives his fortune from his uncle.
Name this novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about young David Balfour.
answer: Kidnapped
20. Thought to be a remnant of the Ice Age’s Lake Bonneville, it is heavily populated by brine shrimp and
brine flies that don’t mind its lack of fresh water. The sand on its Bridger Bay Beach is made of lime, and
the water there actually keeps you afloat. Name this huge body of water in north-central Utah.
answer: Great Salt Lake
21. The most historically active volcano of this type is Cerro Gordo in Nicaragua, while the famous
volcano of this type is Mexico’s Paricutín [par-ree-coo-TEEN]. Give the two-word term for this simplest
type of volcano, which forms when material is blown into the air, breaks up, falls to the ground, and then
solidifies.
answer: cinder cone (or scoria cone) volcano
22. The rule-makers of golf want to ban this specific type of club from the game by prohibiting the
“anchoring of the club in making a stroke.” Give the specific 2-word term for this club with an extra-long
handle that allows even a new golfer to hit the ball into the hole more often because his stomach helps
keep the club in the right place.
answer: belly putter
23. This home of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus [doy-chuss SHAU-shpeel-house] is now the third most
popular city for Broadway musicals after New York and London—provided that those musicals are heavy
in visual effects. Name this large city in northern Germany, sometimes called “Broadway on the Elbe.”
answer: Hamburg
24. Sometimes called “the blond” because its water looks yellowish, it drains into the Tyrrhenian [tyeREE-nee-un] Sea. Still crossable by both the Milvius Bridge and the Ponte Sant’Angelo, it contained the
harbor of Ostia that helped supply ancient Rome with wheat. Name this river that still goes past the city of
Rome.
answer: Tiber River
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. For President Obama’s second inauguration, he is actively seeking corporate donors. Identify the four
available donor packages, which are based on how much you donate and named for the first four U.S.
Presidents.
answer: George Washington, John Adams (first name/initial needed), Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison
2. Pencils and paper ready! You have 7 coins in your pocket: 3 quarters, two dimes, a nickel and a penny.
If you pull coins from your pocket without looking, what is the fractional probability, in lowest terms,
that:
A. The first coin will be a quarter?
answer: 3/7
B. The first two coins will total 15 cents?
answer: 2/21 [2 x (2/7 x 1/6)]
C. The first coin is not a penny?
answer: 6/7
D. The first 3 coins you get are a dime, a penny and a nickel in that order?
answer: 1/105 [(2/7 x 1/6 x 1/5)]
3. Name the home countries of these 20th-century composers:
A. Darius Milhaud [mil-O]
answer: France
B. John Corigliano [ca-rig-lee-ON-o]
answer: U.S. or United States
C. Sergei Rachmaninoff [rock-MON-a-noff]
answer: Russia
D. Manuel de Falla [mon-well day FY-a]
answer: Spain
4. Answer these about U.S. President James Polk:
A. He succeeded this President who was the first to get the job after a President died.
answer: John Tyler
B. Polk was buried in this Southern state where he was raised.
answer: Tennessee
C. Polk is still the only President who ever served in this position that is the first in Presidential
succession after Vice-President.
answer: Speaker of the House of Representatives
D. Polk sent John Slidell to try and buy what is now the southwestern U.S. from this country.
answer: Mexico
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5. Pencils and paper ready! Give each of these geometric quantities:
A. The side of a cube with volume 729 cubic inches.
answer: 9 inches (cube root of 729)
B. The radius of a sphere with surface area 100 π square inches.
answer: 5 inches (4 π x r x r = 100 π)
C. One diagonal of a rhombus if the other diagonal is 10 inches long and the area of the rhombus is 160
square inches.
answer: 32 inches (1/2 x 10 x diagonal = 160)
D. The height of a pyramid with base 18 square inches and volume 360 cubic inches.
answer: 60 inches (1/3 x base x height = 360)
6. When sperm whales rise too quickly to the surface, they can die from the same disease that may also
kill human scuba divers who come up to the surface too quickly.
A. Name this ailment that can cause gas bubbles to form in your joints.
answer: decompression sickness (or the bends or Caisson's disease)
B. What gas is formed in your joints while you suffer from that ailment?
answer: nitrogen
C. Another gas that may cause the disease is this one, found in the compound "Trimix" [TRY-mix].
answer: helium
D. The only real way to feel better is to do this.
answer: go back into recompression
7. Answer these about Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women:
A. She gets a family house left to her in a will and decides to make a boys' school out of it.
answer: Jo March
B. That girl's father is gone from home, taking part in this war.
answer: the Civil War
C. The boy named Theodore Laurence goes by this "feminine" nickname.
answer: Laurie
D. Meg gets married to a boy with this common first name.
answer: John
8. Its website divides it into its main sections, including the garden, the estate and the Grand Trianon.
A. Name this palace of the last French kings before the French Revolution.
answer: Palace of Versailles [vur-SIGH]
B. One part of the palace grounds contains a small estate given to this queen and wife of King Louis XVI
who is quoted as saying, “Let them eat cake.”
answer: Marie Antoinette
C. In this century, the French ruler Louis-Philippe made Versailles into a Museum of the History of
France.
answer: 19th or 1800’s
D. In 2012, the Royal Opera of Versailles performed a one-act farce by this composer of The Barber of
Seville.
answer: Gioacchino Rossini
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9. At Standard Temperature and Pressure (or STP), give the pressure reading in:
A. atmospheres
answer: 1 atm
B. millimeters of mercury
answer: 760 mm Hg
C. kilopascals (to three decimal places)
answer: 101.325 kPa
D. torr
answer: 760
10. Answer these about gifts on Dave Barry’s 2012 Christmas Gift Guide:
A. You can buy a horn to put on your cat’s head to make it look like one of these mythical creatures.
answer: unicorn
B. You can buy a “tattoo” of your favorite entertainer to place on this bathroom fixture.
answer: Toilet Tattoo
C. You can buy flip-flops covered with an artificial version of this plant.
answer: artificial grass
D. You can even buy one of these that will burn the logo of your favorite NFL team right into your bread.
answer: toaster
11. Answer these about the late architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died in December 2012 at age 104:
A. He was born in this largest South American country.
answer: Brazil
B. He designed many of the government buildings in this current capital city of that country.
answer: Brasilia
C. He helped design the United Nations Headquarters building in this city.
answer: New York City
D. He even designed buildings in this north African country, controlled by the French until the 1960’s.
answer: Algeria
12. Identify these common skin conditions:
A. Chocolate really doesn’t affect this teenage skin condition much for most people.
answer: acne
B. This 6-letter word is a fancy name for "dermatitis" [dur-ma-TIGHT-us].
answer: eczema [EK-za-ma]
C. Caused by a fungus that can be picked up from your dog, its variations include "jock itch" and
"athlete's foot."
answer: ringworm
D. Small children get this one from a staph or strep infection that causes itchy blisters on the skin.
answer: impetigo [imp-a-TY-go]
13. Pencils and paper ready! A sequence follows the formula 3t2 - 49t + 108, where "t" is an integer. Give
the four numbers in the sequence that correspond to t = 11, 12, 13 and 14.
answer: -68, -48, -22, 10
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14. Give the correct spellings of these food-related words:
A. "cannoli", an Italian dessert
answer: C-A-N-N-O-L-I
B. "fricassee" [FRICK-a-see], a meat dish served in a white sauce
answer: F-R-I-C-A-S-S-E-E
C. vinaigrette [VIN-a-gret], an oil-and-vinegar sauce
answer: V-I-N-A-I-G-R-E-T-T-E
D. rotisserie [RO-tiss-a-ree], an appliance that rotates food on a spit
answer: R-O-T-I-S-S-E-R-I-E
15. Name these singers or groups who have agreed to perform for free at this week’s concert for
Hurricane Sandy victims:
A. This former drummer for Nirvana is the lead singer for the Foo Fighters.
answer: Dave Grohl
B. This founder of the band Coldplay is married to Gwyneth Paltrow.
answer: Chris Martin
C. This New Jersey native whose hits include “Livin’ on a Prayer” has done country duets with Jennifer
Nettles and LeAnn Rimes.
answer: John Bon Jovi
D. Mick Jagger is still this very old British band’s lead singer.
answer: The Rolling Stones
16. He died in battle, immediately after being named Marshal of France.
A. Name this hero and friend of the Three Musketeers.
answer: D'Artagnan [dar-TAN-yun]
B. Name the author who created him.
answer: Alexandre Dumas pere
C. His death is told at the very end of this other novel by that author.
answer: The Man in the Iron Mask
D. Name any one of the Three Musketeers.
answer: Athos or Porthos or Aramis
17. The North Country National Scenic Trail stretches more than 4,000 miles across seven states from
New York to North Dakota. Name the state where the Trail goes through:
A. Allegheny [al-a-GAY-nee] National Forest
answer: Pennsylvania
B. Wayne National Forest
answer: Ohio
C. Chippewa [CHIP-a-wah] National Forest
answer: Minnesota
D. Manistee National Forest
answer: Michigan
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18. Launched in 2012 by NASA, this pair of space probes has already examined in detail the two
radiation belts surrounding Earth.
A. Identify these probes—or the American namesake of those radiation belts.
answer: Van Allen Probes/Belts
B. Those belts are created by this area surrounding Earth that separates the ozone layer and the solar
wind.
answer: magnetosphere
C. The belts are affected in large measure by plasma ejections from this celestial body.
answer: the Sun
D. The inner belt contains many of these positively-charged particles.
answer: protons
19. In December 2012, he capped off a sensational season by becoming the first freshman ever to win
college football’s top award.
A. Name this star quarterback at Texas A&M.
answer: Johnny Manziel
B. What award did he win ?
answer: the Heisman Trophy
C. This defensive star at Notre Dame finished second in the voting.
answer: Manti Te’o
D. This quarterback at Kansas State finished a distant third.
answer: Collin Klein
20. The San Sebastian Fortress stands on this island that bears the name of the southeast African country
of which it is a part.
A. Name this country whose capital city is Maputo.
answer: Mozambique
B. What European colonial power owned Mozambique for many years ?
answer: Portugal
C. The Island of Mozambique was discovered by this Portuguese explorer in 1498.
answer: Vasco da Gama
D. That Portuguese explorer was on his way to this large Asian country.
answer: India
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – COMMON CORE
Name the authors of these works listed as acceptable reading in the under-8th-grade Common Core
standards for English now used in most U.S. states. Note that some of these authors are not American.
1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Ans. Samuel Clemens (or Mark Twain)
2) The Dark is Rising
Ans. Susan Cooper
3) The poem Jabberwocky
Ans. Lewis Carroll (or Rev. C. Dodgson)
4) The poem The Road Not Taken
Ans. Robert Frost
5) The poem Casey at the Bat
Ans. Ernest Lawrence Thayer
6) The poem The New Colossus
Ans. Emma Lazarus
7) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Ans. Mildred Taylor
8) Tuck Everlasting
Ans. Natalie Babbitt
9) The poem O Captain! My Captain!
Ans. Walt Whitman
10) The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
Ans. Katherine Paterson
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –MENTAL MATH
Do these without pencil or paper.
1) 20% of 360
Ans. 72
2) Remainder when 99 is divided by 6
Ans. 3
3) 5 x 104, as an integer
Ans. 50,000
1
4) 2 +
4
9
𝟏𝟕
Ans. 𝟏𝟖
5) Least common multiple of 9 and 12
Ans. 36
6) Complementary angle of 21º
Ans. 69º
7) 523, as a Roman numeral
Ans. DXXIII
8) End time of a movie starting at 8:20 that runs 3 hours, 40 minutes
Ans. 12:00
2
9) 3 ×
8
13
𝟏𝟔
Ans. 𝟑𝟗
10) Solve for x if 7x + 3 = 66
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH O
1) The beginning of most fairy tales (4 words)
Ans. Once Upon a Time
2) Having to do with the mouth
Ans. oral
3) Broadway musical with songs "Who Will Buy?" and "Consider Yourself"
Ans. Oliver!
4) State whose major colleges call their annual football rivalry "the Civil War"
Ans. Oregon
5) Adjective meaning “unwilling to compromise”
Ans. obstinate
6) Implement used to row a boat
Ans. oar
7) Olive, canola, palm or crude, for examples
Ans. oils
8) Password used by Ali Baba to enter his cave (2 words)
Ans. Open Sesame
9) Nasty stuff dealt with by Dr. Seuss’ Bartholomew
Ans. oobleck
10) The song "Maryland, My Maryland" has this Christmas carol’s melody (3 words)
Ans. O Christmas Tree
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BASIC SET 10
1. In December 2012, it may elect its first woman leader ever, Park Geun-Hye, a fact heartening to
feminists but also discouraging --because that woman only got to this point because of her father. Name
this Asian nation that selects its leaders partly on their ability to deal with “the North.”
answer: South Korea
𝟏
2. Pencils and paper ready! Solve for x if 𝟒 𝒙 + 𝟐𝟐 =
answer: x = 60 (25 =
5
𝑥)
12
𝟐
𝟑
𝒙 − 𝟑.
3. Credited to the Abbot Suger [soo-zhay] in the mid-12th century, it features pointed arches and flying
buttresses and received its “barbaric” name because it looked so different from the Romanesque style that
preceded it. Name this architectural style illustrated by London’s Westminster Abbey.
answer: Gothic
4. This 1898 conflict was fought by two countries, though no military action was ever seen on the soil of
either one. Name this war of the late 19th century that ended with the Treaty of Paris and resulted in the
freedom of Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines.
answer: Spanish-American War
5. It has four teeth in its upper jaw and doesn’t eat meat, making it different from a rodent. To get enough
nutrients from plants, it must eat much of its own droppings. Name this animal, known for its short
gestation period, that often falls prey to foxes and wolves and has a species known as the “cottontail.”
answer: rabbit
3
6. Pencils and paper ready! Convert the fraction 25 to a percentage.
12
answer: 12% (100)
7. Scientists have found seven of them with the Hubble Telescope that were formed more than 13 billion
years ago but whose light is just now reaching Earth. Name this astronomical object, defined by NASA as
“a large system of stars and gas, held together by gravity”, whose examples include the Milky Way.
answer: galaxy
8. His Key West, Florida museum, still home to the 6-toed cats he liked, has been told by a judge to
follow the Animal Welfare Act that regulates circuses and zoos. Name this American author who was
living in Key West when he finished his novel A Farewell to Arms and also wrote The Old Man and the
Sea.
answer: Ernest Hemingway
9. Its White Desert is located in its Farafra [far-AW-fra] depression that is inhabited mostly by Bedouins
[BED-oo-unz] and is considered part of its “red” land. Name this northeast African nation whose “black”
land is the fertile soil that allows crops to be grown each year after the Nile River floods.
answer: Egypt
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10. His Wardenclyffe facility on New York’s Long Island was intended to create a worldwide wireless
communications system. Identify this Serbian electrical engineer who came to America and developed the
AC induction motor.
answer: Nikola Tesla
11. Their “Magical Mystery Tour” movie, made for British TV in 1967, was the subject of a 2012
documentary shown on PBS. Name this legendary rock group made up of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
answer: the Beatles
12. Though born in Russia, he grew up in the U.S. and wrote more than 20 #1 songs, including “White
Christmas.” Name this legendary composer who also wrote the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun
and the song “God Bless America” and whose last name is a European capital city.
answer: Irving Berlin
13. Its first passenger flight in 1929 went from Dallas, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi. In 2012, it bought a
sizable chunk of Virgin Atlantic Airways as well. Name this oldest continuously- operating U.S. airline,
headquartered in Atlanta, that now uses the slogan, "Keep climbing.”
answer: Delta Airlines
14. Problems within its “spectrum” include Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder and
Asperger’s syndrome. Name this mental disorder that may prevent children from dealing well with other
people or even talking to anyone else at all.
answer: autism (accept forms of the word)
15. In Russian myth, he is a father figure and blacksmith who forges chains that keep the Earth and the
oceans in place. Name this folk figure, depicted as an elf in some nursery rhymes, who is the
personification of cold and, as “The Christmas Song” says, may be "nipping at your nose" in winter.
answer: Jack Frost
16. Pencils and paper ready! A right circular cylinder has a volume of 160π square inches. What is the
height of the cylinder if the diameter of the cylinder is 8 inches?
answer: 10 inches (radius is 4 and πr2h = 160π, so 16πh = 160π)
17. One word is wrong in the following sentence; you tell which word is wrong, and what it should be
changed to: “Neither my grandparents nor my brother are coming to see my football game.”
answer: change “are” to “is” (verb should agree with the subject closest to it)
18. A Dutchman named Johan Huibers has built a life-size version of this historical object but included
some plastic animals. Some 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high as measured in “cubits”, it is
discussed in the first chapters of Genesis as the only way to avoid a rainstorm that flooded the whole
earth. Identify this object that completed its journey by landing on Mount Ararat.
answer: Noah’s Ark
19. Mercutio is the first of six characters to die in this Shakespeare tragedy. Based on an Italian story and
set in Verona, this play tells about the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues. Name this
Shakespeare tragedy that ends with the deaths of its title lovers.
answer: Romeo & Juliet
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20. Its current President has announced plans to build hundreds of regional airports so that each of its
cities with more than 100,000 people will eventually have its own airport within 40 miles. Name this
South American country that is expanding its Guarulhos [gwa-ROOL-yose] International Airport to be
ready for both soccer’s next World Cup and the next Summer Olympics.
answer: Brazil
21. In spite of some scientists’ concerns about it, recent reports indicate that it hasn’t actually increased
any in the last 15 years or so. Name this process in which changes in rainfall patterns and a rise in sea
level are attributed by extreme environmentalists to an average increase in Earth’s temperature.
answer: global warming
22. It has gone into complete disarray over the last few years, and the Catholic schools in it that are now
leaving it to form their own league is the last straw for it to totally fall apart. Name this college athletic
conference whose past members have included Villanova, Providence, Syracuse and Georgetown.
answer: Big East
23. The piano used in this film had only 58 keys but still sold for more than $600,000 in 2012. Name this
classic movie in which actor Dooley Wilson, as Sam, sits at that small piano and plays the song “As Time
Goes By” for Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick and Ingrid Bergman’s character Ilsa.
answer: Casablanca
24. Home of the world’s oldest university, it is famed for its spaghetti sauce made with meat that its
residents call “ragú.” The lunchmeat called “mortadella” that is made there contains actual pig fat, a
substance removed from the cheap American version that is still named for it. Identify this Italian city.
answer: Bologna [ba-LONE-ya]
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Begun by Dr. Maulana Karenga, it begins the day after Christmas and continues through New Year’s
Day.
A. Name this 7-day holiday, celebrated by some African-Americans.
answer: Kwanzaa
B. During Kwanzaa, greetings are given in this language that gave English the word “safari” and The Lion
King names Pumbaa and Simba.
answer: Swahili
C. and D. Name any two of the three official colors of Kwanzaa.
answer: red, black and green
2. Pencils and paper ready! Set A is “multiples of 8.” Set B is “positive even integers less than 90.” Set C
is “two-digit numbers whose first digit is odd.” Take the intersection of sets A and B. Then give the 4
elements that make up the intersection of that result with Set C.
answer: {16, 32, 56, 72}
3. Name these things you need to play some musical instruments:
A. A snare drum is hit with a drumstick; a marimba, bass drum or kettle drum is hit with a stick that goes
by this name.
answer: mallet
B. The thing you push with your foot while playing a piano to make a note last longer.
answer: pedal
C. You need one of these thin pieces of material to vibrate in order to get any sound out of a clarinet or
saxophone.
answer: reed
D. A trumpet commonly has 3 of these, pushed down in various combinations to produce different notes.
answer: valves
4. In recent days, he has been touted as a possible U.S. Senate replacement for John Kerry if Kerry
replaces Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
A. Name this former Massachusetts Governor, the longest-serving in the state’s history.
answer: Michael Dukakis [doo-KAW-kuss]
B. Dukakis ran for President in 1988 and lost to this Republican.
answer: George H.W. Bush or Bush 41 or Bush I
C. He is only the second governor of a U.S. state to have this ethnic background.
answer: Greek-American
D. The first governor with such an ethnic background was Spiro Agnew, who governed Maryland and
then became Vice-President under this Republican President.
answer: Richard Nixon
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5. Complete these sentences that were part of Euclid's ancient geometry:
A. A [blank] is a plane figure contained by one line, such that all straight lines falling upon it from one
point among those lying within the figure equal one another.
answer: circle
B. A [blank] triangle has its three sides unequal.
answer: scalene
C. [This adjective] describes straight lines which, being in the same plane and indefinite in both
directions, do not meet one another in either direction.
answer: parallel
D. All of these 90º angles are congruent.
answer: right angles
6. More than 99% of the salt in seawater occurs as one of six different ions dissolved in the water. Two of
the six ions are sodium and chlorine, which together make up more than 85% of those ions. Name the
next four largest ions by concentration, three elemental ions and one compound.
answer: potassium, magnesium, calcium, sulfate
7. Answer these about American author Washington Irving:
A. In 1832, he wrote a book with the same name as this Spanish museum, built by the Moors.
answer: Alhambra
B. In 1859, he wrote a 5-volume biography of this famed U.S. President.
answer: George Washington
C. His story about Sleepy Hollow is contained in the "sketch book" of this fictional character.
answer: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Canyon
D. Charles Dickens said that Irving's books about British Yuletide celebrations influenced Dickens'
writing of this story.
answer: A Christmas Carol
8. He served as governor of Louisiana from 1710 until about 1717, when he was returned to his native
France.
A. Identify this 17th-century French explorer who made his travels without using a DeVille or an
Escalade.
answer: Antoine de Cadillac
B. He is credited with founding this major American city.
answer: Detroit, Michigan
C. After he was sent to France, he spent time in this infamous prison, stormed some 70 years later.
answer: the Bastille [bah-STEEL]
D. In his early days, he owned land in the Acadia area of what is now this U.S. state.
answer: Maine
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9. Name the states where you’d find these National Monuments:
A. Mount St. Helens, a Monument created after the huge volcanic eruption there in 1980.
answer: Washington
B. Walnut Canyon, a set of cliff dwellings created by the Sinagua [seen-OG-wa] Indians
answer: Arizona
C. Little Bighorn Battlefield, where Custer made his Last Stand
answer: Montana
D. Statue of Liberty National Monument
answer: New York
10. His 2012 Christmas special for television included Rod Stewart.
A. Name this popular Canadian singer whose albums include Crazy Love and Call Me Irresponsible.
answer: Michael Bublé [boo-BLAY]
B. His show also included this fellow Canadian singer of Call Me Maybe.
answer: Carly Rae Jepsen
C. On his Christmas album, he sings “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”, written by this
composer more famous for his Broadway classic The Music Man.
answer: Meredith Willson
D. He also sang this “unfinished” German composer’s version of Ave Maria.
answer: Franz Schubert
11. Answer these about the art style known as Art Deco:
A. It got its name from an exhibition in this European city.
answer: Paris, France
B. Touches of Art Deco can be seen in this San Francisco bridge.
answer: Golden Gate Bridge
C. The Canadian Supreme Court building in this city is also Art Deco.
answer: Ottawa
D. Art Deco can even be seen in this famed New York music hall.
answer: Radio City Music Hall
12. Frequent infections may require them to be removed.
A. Name these tissues at the back of your throat.
answer: tonsils
B. If they get inflamed, you get tonsillitis [ton-sa-LITE-us]. Spell “tonsillitis.”
answer: T-O-N-S-I-L-L-I-T-I-S
C. They are part of this system of the body that helps the immune system guard against disease.
answer: lymphatic system
D. The pharyngeal [fair-in-GHEE-ul] type of tonsils are often called by this other term.
answer: adenoids
13. Pencils and paper ready! Angles A, B, C and D combine to form a straight line. Calculate the values
of A, B, C and D if A and C are complementary, C is 14 degrees greater than A, and D is 22 degrees less
than B.
answer: A = 38º, B = 56º, C = 52º, D = 34º [A + C = 90º, so B + D also = 90º; thus B = 56º and D is 34;
also, C = 52 and A = 38º]
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14. Give the correct spellings of these words from the study list for the 2013 National Spelling Bee:
A. “compendium” [kum-PEN-dee-um], a shorter version of a much longer work
answer: C-O-M-P-E-N-D-I-U-M
B. “depilatory” [da-PILL-a-tor-ee], a product that removes hair from your body
answer: D-E-P-I-L-A-T-O-R-Y
C. “baccalaureate” [back-a-LOR-ee-ut], a religious ceremony as part of a high-school graduation
answer: B-A-C-C-A-L-A-U-R-E-A-T-E
D. “geologist”, a person who studies rocks
answer: G-E-O-L-O-G-I-S-T
15. Answer these about the film Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail:
A. This is the castle where Galahad meets all the pretty girls.
answer: Castle Anthrax
B. When a shrub is needed to satisfy the Knights of Nie, one is obtained from this shrubber.
answer: Roger the Shrubber
C. When the wooden horse doesn't work to get inside the French castle, a large wooden one of these
animals is suggested as the next possibility.
answer: a wooden badger
D. This member of the Python cast played King Arthur.
answer: Graham Chapman
16. Identify these Greek gods or goddesses:
A. God of the underworld
answer: Pluto or Hades [HAY-deez]
B. God of war
answer: Ares [AIR-eez]
C. God of wine
answer: Dionysus [dy-a-NYE-suss]
D. God of shepherds
answer: Hermes [HUR-meez]
17. Answer these about the history of Alaska:
A. This Danish explorer came to Alaska in 1741 and died there soon after.
answer: Vitus Bering
B. In 1784, this country created a settlement on Alaska’s Kodiak Island.
answer: Russia
C. This is now the capital city of Alaska.
answer: Juneau
D. The famed Iditarod [eye-DIT-a-rod] dog sled race honors the dogs who carried medicine to fight this
deadly disease across the ice when planes couldn’t get to the Alaska town of Nome.
answer: diphtheria
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18. Name these types of glaciers:
A. These obviously-named glaciers can be found in the Andes, Alps and Himalayas.
answer: mountain glaciers
B. Huge continent-size glaciers, known by this 2-word term, are found only in Antarctica and Greenland.
answer: ice sheets
C. Alaska's Malaspina is this type of glacier, caused when a valley glacier spills into a flat plain and
spreads out into lobes.
answer: Piedmont glaciers
D. These glaciers are named for the hollows they occupy that are shaped like a bowl.
answer: cirque glaciers
19. Since the San Francisco 49ers lost their #1 quarterback to a concussion in 2012, their backup has
played so well that he is now the starter even though the #1 quarterback has been cleared for duty.
A. Name the #1 quarterback who is now on the bench.
answer: Alex Smith
B. Name the former backup who now starts each week and led the 49ers to the 2013 Super Bowl.
answer: Colin Kaepernick
C. Name the 49ers’ head coach.
answer: Jim Harbaugh
D. Which NFL division contains the 49ers ?
answer: NFC West (prompt on “NFC”)
20. Answer these about the novel The Catcher in the Rye:
A. What state is home to the school that Holden Caulfield leaves?
answer: Pennsylvania
B. Name Holden's brother who died from leukemia.
answer: Allie
C. Name Holden's little sister.
answer: Phoebe
D. Name Holden's brother who writes for Hollywood.
answer: D.B.
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1. GOOGLE’S ZEITGEIST
Answer these about the most popular searches on Google during calendar year 2012.
1) This British band’s singers include Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.
2) This little girl’s real name is Alana Thompson.
Ans. One Direction
Ans. Honey Boo Boo
3) The 3rd version of this video game includes Witch Doctors and Demon Hunters. Ans. Diablo 3
4) This songwriter’s real name is Elizabeth Grant.
5) The most recent Brazilian version of this reality series is abbreviated BBB12.
Ans. Lana del Rey
Ans. Big Brother
6) This U.S. airline was the most-searched.
Ans. Southwest Airlines
7) This American gymnast became famous for her “not impressed” look.
Ans. McKayla Maroney
8) This is Google’s series of smartphones and tablets.
Ans. Nexus
9) This former San Diego Charger linebacker took his own life.
Ans. Junior Seau
10) This video by South Korean singer Psy is the most-viewed YouTube video ever.
Ans. Gangnam Style
2. ENDANGERED PRIMATES
Answer these about Conservation International’s 2012 list of the top 25 endangered primates.
(See http://www.conservation.org/Documents/CI_Primates-in-Peril_25-Most-EndangeredPrimates_2012-2014.pdf )
1) The capuchin and brown howler are types of this small primate.
Ans. monkey
2) Grauer’s, a species found in the Congo, is a type of this larger primate.
Ans. gorilla
3) One species of this primate is “ring-tailed.”
Ans. lemur
4) Four species of endangered lemurs are found on this African island.
Ans. Madagascar
5) One of them is found near this capital city of Madagascar.
Ans. Antananarivo
6) The Javan slow loris is found on the island of Java, part of this country.
Ans. Indonesia
7) The Roloway monkey has a long white one of these at the bottom of its head. Ans. a beard
8) The lemur with this “rodent” name is the world’s smallest primate.
Ans. mouse lemur
9) One species is found on this Asian island, once called Ceylon.
Ans. Sri Lanka
10) Five species are found in this country where the U.S. fought a long war.
Ans. Vietnam
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH E
1) Political poll that asks people about their votes after they've voted
Ans. exit poll
2) First name of Mr. Scrooge
Ans. Ebenezer
3) James Bond title: The World is Not…
Ans. Enough
4) The more common term for a negatively-charged beta particle
Ans. electron
5) To breathe out
Ans. exhale
6) Country ruled by Alfred the Great beginning in 886
Ans. England
7) Breakfast dish with English muffin and hollandaise sauce (2 words)
Ans. eggs benedict
8) 90% of coal is used to create this other energy source .
Ans. electricity
9) A female sheep
Ans. ewe
10) Donkey friend of Winnie the Pooh
Ans. Eeyore
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BASIC SET 11
TOSSUPS
1. He is estimated to have received about $100 million when he sold his television channel “Current TV”
in January 2013 to Al-Jazeera, a television network in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar. Name this
former U.S. Vice-President and presidential candidate.
answer: Al Gore
2. Pencils and paper ready! A boat going downstream with the help of a 3-mile-per-hour current can cover
a 20-mile distance in 2 hours. But when going upstream at the same speed, it takes 5 hours to go the same
20 miles. What is the speed of the boat in miles per hour ?
answer: 7 mph [2 (x + 3) = 5 (x – 3)]
3. It gets its name from an exposition at the 1925 World’s Fair and has since been expanded to include
most French art between the two World Wars. Give the 2-word name for this style of design whose main
architectural examples include the Chrysler Building in New York City.
answer: Art Deco
4. At Lawnfield, his Ohio farm, he conducted the first “front porch campaign” for President years before
William McKinley. Alexander Graham Bell used an electrical device to try and find the bullet that killed
him. Name this President, assassinated in 1881 by Charles Guiteau so that Chester Arthur would become
President.
answer: James Garfield
5. Its current revolution, seeking to establish an Islamist republic there, has even caused its former owner,
France, to now send in troops in hopes of keeping it from becoming a training ground for terrorists. Name
this African nation whose cities include Timbuktu and its capital, Bamako.
answer: Mali
6. Pencils and paper ready! A 5-pound roll of ground beef is advertised as 73% meat and 27% fat. To two
decimal places, how many pounds of fat are in the roll ?
answer: 1.35 lbs. (5 x 0.27)
7. It does not dissolve in nitric acid but does dissolve when the nitric acid has hydrochloric acid added to
it to make “aqua regia.” Name this official state mineral of both California and Alaska, a precious metal
whose chemical symbol is Au.
answer: gold
8. People he meets include the Indian named Gray Beaver, the cruel white man Beauty Smith, and the
nice white man Weedon Scott. Name this title character of a Jack London novel who has several puppies
after keeping the convict Jim Hall from killing the judge who is Weedon’s father.
answer: White Fang
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9. The 2,500 people who live there receive no financial aid from Great Britain --other than the cost of
defending it from countries like Argentina that want it back. Give the English name for this group of
islands in the South Atlantic, long known as the “Malvinas” in Argentina, whose capital is Stanley.
answer: Falkland Islands or Falklands
10. When describing an environment, it means “has conditions that allow for fantastic growth”. It can
also mean "something that is always prolific" (like an imagination) or soil that is very productive. Give
this 7-letter word that also means "capable of reproducing."
answer: fertile
11. To celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2013, General Motors is revamping it and making it look more like
its old Sting Ray versions of the 1960’s. But it will now go from zero to sixty in less than 4 seconds.
Name this popular Chevrolet sports car.
answer: Corvette
12. Popular in the early 1900’s and sometimes heard on player pianos today, its piano pieces typically
have a steady beat in the left hand and lots of syncopation in the right hand. Name this American musical
style whose most famous composers included the great Scott Joplin.
answer: ragtime
13. One of its versions from 1789 included the phrase “no person religiously scrupulous shall be
compelled to bear arms”—a phrase removed before final ratification. Identify this Constitutional
Amendment within the Bill of Rights that says, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security
of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
answer: Second Amendment
14. They all have curved beaks, all have four toes on each foot, and all prefer seeds as food above
anything else. Give the non-scientific name for this order of birds that includes macaws, lovebirds and
cockatoos and whose members like the African Grey can often imitate human sounds.
answer: parrots
15. Different versions of her story all agree that she died unhappily, perhaps because of her non-marriage
to Theseus. Name this woman of myth, the daughter of King Minos of Crete, who helped Theseus escape
his fate by providing him both a weapon to fight the Minotaur and a thread to help him find his way out
of the Labyrinth.
answer: Ariadne [air-ee-AD-nee]
16. Pencils and paper ready! Each interior angle of a hexagon equals 180 times the quantity (n – 2),
divided by n, where n is the number of sides in a hexagon. What is the measure of each interior angle of a
hexagon ?
answer: 120º [180 x 4/6]
17. In the sentence, “I wanted to see the end of the movie.”, the phrase “to see the end of the movie” can
be described by this 2-word term because seeing the end of the movie is what is wanted. Give this 2-word
term from grammar for something that has something done to it, such as the ball in the sentence, “John
caught the ball.”
answer: direct object
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18. The Civil War battles of Cedar Mountain, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Chancellorsville and
Williamsburg all took place in—what state where, in April 1865, Robert E. Lee officially surrendered to
Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War ?
answer: Virginia
19. Its characters include Nancy, her boyfriend Bill Sikes, an old thief named Fagin and the Artful
Dodger. Name this novel by Charles Dickens whose title character is underfed in a workhouse and
memorably asks for more food.
answer: Oliver Twist
20. Located on the Adirondack [add-a-RON-dack] Coast, part of it is actually in Quebec. You can see part
of the Green Mountains from its shores. Name this lake near the cities of Plattsburgh, New York and
Burlington, Vermont.
answer: Lake Champlain
21. The constellation Pavo contains the galaxy NGC 6872, which spans more than 500,000 light-years
and is now officially the largest galaxy to be described by—what adjective that, as a noun, is the shape
formed by a well-thrown football ?
answer: spiral galaxy
22. Its techniques include playing both “stand-up” and “butterfly”, covering the five-hole, learning how
to use a blocker, and even trying to “stand on your head” for short periods of time. Identify this sports
position, played by Henrik Lundqvist and Martin Brodeur, that also requires some ice skating to help
keep a hockey puck out of the net.
answer: goaltender or goalie
23. Its prequels include Skyward Sword and Ocarina of Time, two more products that have made bundles
of money for Nintendo. Identify this series of more than a dozen video games, set in the land of Hyrule,
that features the Gerudo chief Ganon Dragmire, the hero named Link, and the title princess.
answer: The Legend of Zelda
24. Its government may re-evaluate its forest management policies now that temperatures of more than
100º F this summer have contributed to “bushfires” that have burned dozens of homes. Name this country
whose fires like the one within Warrambungle National Park present challenges to the people running the
New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
answer: Australia
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
(NOTE: Areas that use 2-part bonuses should split these in half; couple those with the lightning rounds
and you’ll have enough bonuses for every correct tossup above.)
1. Name these members of Barack Obama’s Cabinet who have announced they will stay on for at least
part of Obama’s second term:
A. Attorney General
answer: Eric Holder
B. Secretary of Homeland Security
answer: Janet Napolitano
C. Secretary of Agriculture
answer: Tom Vilsack
D. Secretary of Health and Human Services
answer: Kathleen Sibelius
2. Six honor students are sitting in a room and will all be speaking at graduation.
A. In how many different orders can the six speeches be given ?
answer: 720 (6!)
B. That number is equal to 6 with an exclamation point after it, where the exclamation point represents
this function.
answer: factorial
C. In the end, the students are told there will only be time for three speeches. How many possible
combinations of three students can be chosen?
answer: 120 (6 x 5 x 4)
D. After the three students are chosen, in how many different ways can their speeches be ordered at
graduation—given that they will speak one at a time ?
answer: 6 (3 x 2 x 1)
3. A museum honoring him in his home city has found a new portrait of him, dating from 1783—a
portrait that appears on the tin box containing a popular product.
A. Name this legendary Austrian composer who died in 1791 at age 35.
answer: W. A. Mozart
B. Name the west Austrian city where he was born that is home to the museum.
answer: Salzburg
C. Name the popular product found in the tin box.
answer: snuff or tobacco (it’s a snuff box)
D. What type of musical composition did that composer write more than 40 of, including those
nicknamed “Jupiter”, “Prague” and “Haffner” ?
answer: symphonies
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4. Answer these about former U.S. President John Kennedy:
A. 2013 marks 50 years since he was shot and killed, meaning it happened in this year.
answer: 1963
B. He had been a Congressman from this state before being elected President.
answer: Massachusetts
C. Kennedy’s Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was from this state.
answer: Texas
D. Give the 8 words that finish this quote from Kennedy’s inaugural address: “Ask not what your country
can do for you…”
answer: ask what you can do for your country
5. Pencils and paper ready! A triangle has angles that measure (x2 + 2x), (4x) and (5x) degrees.
A. Write an algebraic equation to find the value of x.
answer: x2 + 11x = 180 [sum of 3 angles = 180º]
B., C. and D. Solving the equation gives x = 9, meaning these are the measures of the three angles.
answer: 99º, 36º, 45º
6. Its layer over tropical oceans is being depleted, a fact viewed with alarm by many environmentalists.
A. Identify this chemical, formed by a combination of ultraviolet light and oxygen.
answer: ozone
B. What is that chemical’s formula ?
answer: O3
C. The depletion seems to be mostly the result of hypoiodous [hye-po-EYE-a-duss] acid being emitted
from the ocean, an acid that contains hydrogen, oxygen and this chemical element.
answer: iodine or I
D. That chemical element is often added to this common condiment so that when you eat it on your food,
you get a tiny bit of that element.
answer: table salt
7. Identify the American authors of these short stories:
A. Rip van Winkle
answer: Washington Irving
B. The Masque of the Red Death
answer: Edgar Allan Poe
C. The Monkey’s Paw
answer: W .W. Jacobs
D. The Gift of the Magi
answer: W. S. Porter or O. Henry
8. The ancient city of Myra was buried by 18 feet of mud from the Myros River in the Middle Ages.
A. Name the country on the edge of both Europe and Asia where Myra is now being excavated.
answer: Turkey
B. Name Myra’s most famous bishop, now the Santa Claus of Christmas fame.
answer: St. Nicholas
C. Myra was a city in ancient Lycia and was thus close to this major body of water.
answer: Mediterranean Sea
D. Until it was buried by mud, Myra had been part of this medieval empire.
answer: Byzantine Empire
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9. Name these common fruits from some of their types:
A. Navel and Valencia
answer: orange
B. Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Pink Lady
answer: apple
C. Bartlett, Bosc, Anjou
answer: pear
D. Royal Ann, Bing, Rainier
answer: cherry
10. Answer these about the 2013 Golden Globe Awards:
A. This female star of the sitcom 30 Rock was one of the co-hosts.
answer: Tina Fey
B. The other co-host was this star of NBC’s Parks and Recreation.
answer: Amy Poehler
C. Jessica Chastain won Best Actress in a Drama film for this movie about finding Osama bin Laden.
answer: Zero Dark Thirty
D. This film about a girl named Merida won for Best Animated Picture.
answer: Brave
11. Artist Jan van Eyck’s 1433 painting Portrait of a Man in a Turban is thought by some to be a selfportrait.
A. Van Eyck was Flemish, meaning he lived in this European country next to France…
answer: Belgium
B. …but spoke this language of Holland.
answer: Dutch
C. What primary color is the turban in the painting ?
answer: red
D. In what European country’s National Gallery would you find the painting now ?
answer: England (accept equivalents)
12. Give these terms from the U.S. Geologic Survey's online paleontology dictionary:
A. A microscopic, one-celled animal consisting of a naked mass of protoplasm
answer: amoeba
B. A mollusk having two shells hinged together, as the oyster, clam, or mussel
answer: bivalve
C. Plants of a given region or period of geologic time.
answer: flora
D. Solid unconsolidated rock and mineral fragments that come from the weathering of rocks and… form
layers on the Earth's surface.
answer: sediment
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13. Pencils and paper ready! For the straight line 2x + 6y = -6, give the:
A. x-intercept point
answer: (-3, 0)
B. y-intercept point
answer: (0, -1)
C. slope of the line
answer: -1/3 (y = -1/3 x – 1)
D. point where it crosses the line y = -2
answer: (3, -2)
14. Name these books of the Old Testament that, in the King James Version of the Bible, are in
consecutive order:
A. Its title character is a priest who brings the Torah back to Jerusalem after the Jewish exile to Babylon.
answer: Ezra
B. This cupbearer to a king is allowed to supervise the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
answer: Nehemiah
C. This Jewish woman becomes queen after Vashti is removed from the position for disobeying the king.
answer: Esther
D. This man was cursed with boils and the deaths of his children but remained patient without cursing
God for what happened to him.
answer: Job
15. It has long been one of America’s most vocal critics of any kind of gun control.
A. Name this political organization that offers its members “24/7 defense of your Second Amendment
freedoms.”
answer: National Rifle Association or NRA
B. Name the current Executive Vice-President of that organization.
answer: Wayne LaPierre
C. That organization has been heavily criticized since the December 2012 shooting at this elementary
school in Newtown.
answer: Sandy Hook Elementary
D. Newtown is in this Eastern state.
answer: Connecticut
16. Name the official language shared by each of these sets of countries:
A. Mexico, Peru, Argentina
answer: Spanish
B. Angola, East Timor, Brazil
answer: Portuguese
C. Egypt, Yemen, Morocco
answer: Arabic
D. Austria, Switzerland
answer: German
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17. Spell these words that came to English from Japanese:
A. sushi [SOO-shee]
answer: S-U-S-H-I
B. tsunami [tsoo-NOM-ee]
answer: T-S-U-N-A-M-I
C. sayonara [sy-a-NARR-a]
answer: S-A-Y-O-N-A-R-A
D. karaoke [cair-ree-O-kee]
answer: K-A-R-A-O-K-E
18. Name the U.S. states where you’d find these lakes:
A. Lake Okeechobee
answer: Florida
B. Lake Pontchartrain
answer: Louisiana
C. Lake Winnebago
answer: Wisconsin
D. Yellowstone Lake
answer: Wyoming
19. Answer these about football in December 2012 and January 2013:
A. This Denver Bronco ran back both a punt and a kickoff for touchdowns in the same game—but his
team still lost to the Baltimore Ravens.
answer: Trindon Holliday
B. Baltimore will play this AFC team next week for a trip to the Super Bowl.
answer: New England or Patriots
C. This Notre Dame coach announced he would stay in South Bend and not leave for the NFL even
though Alabama cleaned his clock.
answer: Brian Kelly
D. Florida State beat up on this Midwestern college in the Orange Bowl.
answer: Northern Illinois Univ. or Huskies
20. He has expanded his literary output to include a teenage boy who helps solve minor criminal cases.
A. Name this American author, famed for his legal novels like The Pelican Brief and his 2012 book The
Racketeer.
answer: John Grisham
B. Name his teenage detective character.
answer: Theodore Boone
C. Both of that character’s parents have this job.
answer: lawyer or attorney
D. That character lives in this fictional town.
answer: Strattenburg
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1. PLACES TO VISIT IN 2013
Name these places recommended by the New York Times.
1) This country’s Ningxia [ning-shaw] region now contains many wineries.
Ans. China
2) Peninsula that juts north from southeast Mexico
Ans. Yucatán
3) Capital city of Ghana
Ans. Accra
4) This Asian capital features a “Siam Hotel”.
Ans. Bangkok
5) City/state/country recently voted the “greenest in Asia”
Ans. Singapore
6) Brazilian city, site of the next Summer Olympics
Ans. Rio de Janeiro
th
7) Dutch city celebrating the 400 anniversary of its Canal District
Ans. Amsterdam
8) Central American country whose capital is Managua
Ans. Nicaragua
9) Largest city by population in Turkey
Ans. Istanbul
10) Second-largest city by population in India
Ans. New Delhi
LIGHTNING ROUND 2. NASA SCIENCE TERMS
1) The part of an atom with positive charge
Ans. proton
2) Branch of biology that studies plant life
Ans. botany
3) A star with large diameter and cooler temperatures (2 words)
Ans. red giant
4) General term for moisture falling from clouds
Ans. precipitation
5) Plasma, regularly “blown” away from the Sun’s surface (2 words)
Ans. solar wind
6) An object, made of ice and dust, that orbits the Sun
Ans. comet
7) A star that increases light output by a lot and then returns to normal
Ans. nova
8) Physical state where conditions within a fluid don’t change
Ans. equilibrium
9) Layer of the Sun from where Earth gets its visible light
Ans. photosphere
10) Branch of astronomy that studies the origins of the universe
Ans. cosmology
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1) Largest organization of veterans in U.S. (2 words)
Ans. American Legion
2) Ancient object that slides beads along rows to make calculations
Ans. abacus
3) Title character with a daughter Rilla and a husband Gilbert (4 words) Ans. Anne of Green Gables
4) Math concept, expressed by a pair of vertical bars (2 words)
Ans. absolute value
5) Semiprecious light-blue gem
Ans. aquamarine
6) Adjective for an organism that must live without oxygen
Ans. anaerobic [ANN-a-row-bick]
7) 5th-century warrior nicknamed "The Scourge of God" (3 words)
Ans. Attila the Hun
8) In an airplane, the instrument telling the height above sea level
Ans. altimeter
9) Mesoamerican civilization with capital at Tenochtitlan [ta-NOAK-teet-lawn] Ans. Aztecs
10) Continent whose native human population is zero
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BASIC SET 12
TOSSUPS
1. Controlled by the French until 1962, it has been relatively stable in recent years. Name this north
African country where, in January 2013, more than two dozen terrorists were killed in a police raid to free
a group of hostages at its BP-Statoil-Sonatrach gas complex.
answer: Algeria
2. Pencils and paper ready! Give the two factors of the polynomial x2 + 4x – 32.
answer: (x + 8) and (x – 4)
3. His work Gare St. Lazare is set in a train station in Paris, where the smoke from the trains creates an
effect of clouds. He also used this cloud/ fog effect in his paintings Rouen Cathedral and Houses of
Parliament. Name this French artist, considered the founder of Impressionism.
answer: Claude Monet
4. During his full term in office, the U.S. bought the Philippines for $20 million. He is often considered a
puppet of businessman Mark Hanna, who ran his presidential campaigns. The slogan “Remember the
Maine!” was popular during his term. Name this President who decided to attend the Pan-American
Exposition in Buffalo, New York in September 1901, where he was shot by Leon Czolgosz [chawl-gosh].
answer: William McKinley
5. As of January 2013, you can no longer buy the 75-watt “incandescent” [in-can-DESS-unt] variety of
these objects, and in 2014, you won’t be able to buy the “incandescent” 60-watt type any more, either.
Name these common objects that make it easier to see things in your house—including your homework.
answer: light bulbs
6. Pencils and paper ready! A recipe makes two dozen rolls with 4 cups of flour. How many cups of flour
do you need for a big party where you need to make 180 rolls ?
answer: 30 cups (180/24 x 4)
7. Its main dog is shipped to Seattle in a crate and eventually ends up in the Klondike, where he meets
John Thornton and kills a dog named Spitz. After Thornton is killed by Indians, that character avenges his
death and then goes off with the wolves. Name this story by Jack London.
answer: The Call of the Wild
8. Pencils and paper ready! Homer and Jethro sit on opposite sides of a see-saw. Homer has a mass of 70
kilograms and sits 100 centimeters from the middle of the see-saw. If Jethro has a mass of 50 kilograms,
how far, in centimeters, should he sit from the middle for the see-saw to work best?
answer: 140 centimeters [70(100) = 50(X)]
9. Given a hull number of SSN-571, it served U.S. military interests for nearly 30 years before being
moved to Connecticut and converted into a museum. In 1958, it became the first vessel to reach the North
Pole underwater. Identify this first nuclear-powered submarine, named for the fictional Jules Verne sub
that went 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
answer: U.S.S. Nautilus
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10. Its American branch filed for bankruptcy in January 2013, hoping to go private and become profitable
again with a new game after 5 years of being owned by a French company that ran it into the ground.
Name this video game maker whose classic titles include “Asteroid”, “Centipede” and “Pong”.
answer: Atari
11. It is used to describe the invisible difficulties women may face while advancing in the work place.
Give this 2-word phrase for a barrier a woman must often break through to get promoted into an upper
management position.
answer: glass ceiling
12. Based on a TV series first shown in Holland, Usher and Shakira will join it in 2013 and replace its
two past team leaders Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera. Name this NBC reality series in which
singers can be stolen from another team—but only one singer ends up with a recording contract.
answer: The Voice
13. British scientists have recently shown that the guanine found in it may help to create a temporary
quadruple helix when cancer cells are about to divide. Name this biological substance that usually has a
double-helix shape, a fact discovered by Watson and Crick.
answer: deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA
14. His grandparents were Portuguese, but he was all American –with a career that included 7 years in the
Marines before taking the job of directing the Marine Band. Identify this American musician, nicknamed
“The March King”, who wrote America’s national march Stars and Stripes Forever.
answer: John Philip Sousa
15. It was killed by Bellerophon [ba-LAIR-a-fun], who jammed a lance down its throat and suffocated it.
Still used today to mean “an animal or person that has two genetically different cells”, what beast of
Greek mythology was part lion, part snake and part goat ?
answer: chimera [ky-MEER-a]
16. One of these instruments, if made in the shape of a full circle, can be divided into 400 grads as well as
into 360º. Most students who have one use only the 180º variety that can also be used as a straightedge.
Name this geometry tool that allows angles to be drawn precisely.
answer: protractor
17. A restaurant called “La Polleria” [poy-yair-REE-a] that advertises Spanish-style cooking probably
specializes in –what kind of meat for which “pollo” [POY-yo] is the Spanish word, a meat that is often
served grilled, barbecued or fried ?
answer: chicken
18. A recent study in Australia says that though it may be good for people with heart trouble, it may cause
serious eye damage over time if taken every day. Name this common pain reliever that may also cause
stomach trouble for some people but was used by millions for decades before Tylenol was invented.
answer: aspirin
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19. He can spin straw into gold and demands a firstborn child as payment. But when the miller’s daughter
gets 3 days to guess his name, she gets to keep her baby after she sends a messenger to follow him who
hears him say his unusual name out loud. Name this title character of a fairy tale.
answer: Rumpelstiltskin
20. Its northeast borders the Gulf of Bothnia, while much of the rest of it borders the Baltic Sea and a tiny
part of it on its west borders the Skagerrak and the North Sea. Name this country whose main cities
include Gothenburg and Malmö and that is located between Norway and Finland.
answer: Sweden
21. Its Type Ia [one A] is caused by a white dwarf accumulating too much matter, while its Type II is
caused by a massive star collapsing under its own gravity. Name this massive and bright astronomical
event that created the Crab Nebula in 1054.
answer: supernovae (not “nova” or “novae”)
22. As a teenager, he was an excellent triathlete before deciding to focus on only one event. That focus,
though it helped him recover from cancer, proved his undoing when he became willing to do anything to
win. Name this athlete who admitted in January 2013 that he really had been using drugs to help him win
the Tour de France bicycle race seven times.
answer: Lance Armstrong
23. A gallon of it contains about ¾ as much energy as a gallon of gasoline and has an octane rating of
105. When sold as a vehicle fuel, it can have no more than 10% other additives and is stored at 150
pounds per square inch. Identify this substance by either its 1-word or 3-word name when sold as a
vehicle fuel, or the common acronym for that 3-word name.
answer: propane or autogas or Liquefied Petroleum Gas or LPG
24. Its rulers have included three Alexanders, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and two men named
Nicholas. Since their government changed in 1917, they have been ruled by a Khrushchev, a Gorbachev
and a Stalin—among others. Name this European country whose capital city is Moscow.
answer: Russia
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. For more than 40 years, Eppie Lederer gave advice to millions throughout America through a
syndicated daily newspaper column.
A. Give the 2-word pen name she used until her death.
answer: Ann Landers
B. Eppie’s twin sister Pauline Phillips helped Eppie with the column for a while but eventually got her
own column, which used this 2-word pen name for decades.
answer: Abigail van Buren (or Dear Abby)
C. Pauline died in January 2013 of this disease that robs you of your memory.
answer: Alzheimer’s disease
D. Pauline’s daughter with this first name has already been writing the column for years and continues to
do so.
answer: Jeanne Phillips
2. Pencils and paper ready! Copy down the following expression: 9 + 7 x 4 - 12 ÷ 10. Using the standard
rules for order of operations, calculate the value of the expression if:
A. No parentheses are added.
answer: 35.8 [9 + 28 - 1.2 ; multiply/divide before add/subtract]
C. Parentheses are put around the 9 and 7.
answer: 62.8 [64 - 1.2; parentheses and multiply/divide before add/subtract]
C. Parentheses are put around the 4 and 10.
answer: 28.6 (9 + 19.6; divide in parentheses first)
D. Parentheses are put around the 9 and 12.
answer: 2.5 or 2 1/2 (25 ÷ 10; multiply in parentheses first)
3. Its French variety is now less popular than its German variety. But to put either one together, you still
have to connect four pieces, some made of wood and others made of metal.
A. Name this large instrument that can be heard playing the grandfather’s theme in Peter and the Wolf.
answer: bassoon
B. That instrument requires putting two of these objects in your mouth.
answer: (double) reed
C. Thus, it is considered part of this family of instruments.
answer: woodwinds
D. This smaller member of that family of instruments also uses two of those objects and often helps tune
the rest of the orchestra before a concert.
answer: oboe
4. Answer these about U.S. President John Quincy Adams:
A. He married his wife Louisa in this European capital city.
answer: London, England
B. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent that ended this War in which the White House was set on fire.
answer: War of 1812
C. He was succeeded as President by this Democrat.
answer: Andrew Jackson
D. After serving as President, he spent nearly 20 years as a Congressman from this state.
answer: Massachusetts
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5. Pencils and paper ready! A right circular cone has a height of 8 inches and a base radius of 6 inches.
A. You find the cone’s slant height by using this theorem that calculates sides of right triangles.
answer: Pythagorean Theorem
B. So what is the cone’s slant height ?
answer: 10 inches( √62 + 82 )
C. In terms of π, give the volume of the cone in cubic inches.
answer: 96π in3 (1/3 x π x 6 x 6 x 8)
D. In terms of π, give the total surface area of the cone in square inches.
answer: 96π in2 (π x 6 x [10 + 6])
6. Pencils and paper ready! I will name six substances. Pick any four and then arrange them from slowest
to fastest, based on the speed of sound through that medium. The six are: diamond, water, gold, air, iron
and rubber.
answer: (slowest) air, water, rubber, gold, iron, diamond (fastest)
7. Give the words that fit each of these definitions from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. They
aren't meant to be particularly tricky.
A. "One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us
disobedient."
answer: neighbor
B. "A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."
answer: day
C. "A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a
politician."
answer: a lighthouse
D. "An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. "
answer: barometer
8. Answer these about money or business in the news:
A. Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of this social media website, took his own life.
answer: Reddit
B. This major soft-drink company has created an ad detailing its fight against obesity.
answer: Coca-Cola or Coke
C. This Fed Chairman has recommended eliminating America’s debt ceiling entirely.
answer: Ben Bernanke
D. This company’s new Dreamliner airplanes had to stop flying until the reasons why its lithium batteries
leak is figured out.
answer: Boeing
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9. Name these Colorado cities famed for their skiing:
A. Skiers and ski jumpers often visit this town, named for the natural hot waters that sounded like
vehicles traveling on the Yampa River.
answer: Steamboat Springs
B. Once the home of singer John Denver, it has some of America’s highest real-estate prices because of
the movie stars and executives that own property there.
answer: Aspen
C. This skiing town boasts the largest historic district in Colorado and is named for James Buchanan’s
Vice-President.
answer: Breckenridge
C. People come here for its skiing, but athletes with knee injuries often come to its Steadman-Hawkins
Clinic.
answer: Vail
10. Name these actors in the 2012 film of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables:
A. He played the superhero “Wolverine” before playing the convict Jean Valjean.
answer: Hugh Jackman
B. This New Zealand actor who now lives in Australia plays Inspector Javert.
answer: Russell Crowe
C. She played the Catwoman before playing Fantine.
answer: Anne Hathaway
D. He played Ali G and Borat before playing the evil Thénardier.
answer: Sacha Baron Cohen
11. The top of its outside panels contains a quote from the Old Testament, while its central panel shows a
multitude of nude figures, extraordinary animals, large fruit, and strange rock formations.
A. Name this triptych, painted around 1500.
answer: (The) Garden of Earthly Delights
B. Name the Dutchman who painted it.
answer: Hieronymus Bosch
C. When you fold the triptych up, you can see this painted on the outside of the work.
answer: a picture of Earth
D. The Biblical quote is from this book whose 23rd chapter begins, “The Lord is my shepherd…”
answer: Psalms
12. Answer these about the lymph in your body:
A. One part of lymph is a fluid called “chyle” that comes from this part of your digestive system.
answer: your intestines
B. Another part is this color of blood cell that helps fight infection.
answer: white blood cells
C. The system that moves lymph through your body moves it in only one direction--toward this major
organ.
answer: your heart
D. Some people get either Hodgkin’s disease or non-Hodgkin’s disease in their lymphatic system, which
are both forms of this deadly ailment.
answer: cancer
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13. Pencils and paper ready! A pair of variables x and y are related by the equation y = Ax + B.
A. Calculate A when B is zero, x is 8 and y is -32.
answer: -4 (-32 = 8x)
B. Calculate x when A is 3, y is 19 and B is -8.
answer: 9 (19 = 3x - 8)
C. and D. Now calculate A and B, given that x is 5 when y is 10 and x is -4 when y is -17.
answer: A = 3, B = -5
14. Name the Asian countries where these novels are mostly set:
A. Memoirs of a Geisha
answer: Japan
B. The Good Earth
answer: China
C. The God of Small Things
answer: India
D. The Kite Runner
answer: Afghanistan
15. Now that the NHL lockout is finally over, which team’s starting goalie is:
A. Cam Ward ?
answer: Carolina or Hurricanes
B. Ilya Bryzgalov ?
answer: Philadelphia or Flyers
C. Pekka Rinne ?
answer: Nashville or Predators
D. Martin Brodeur ?
answer: New Jersey or Devils
16. Shinto is a Japanese belief system that used to be mingled with another religious system.
A. Identify that system, named for a man from India who found enlightenment.
answer: Buddhism
B. Shinto says that many living things (and some non-living things) have a “kami” , which is one of these.
answer: a spirit
C. This Japanese Emperor was considered the High Priest of Shinto until 1946.
answer: Emperor Hirohito
D. In 1946, Japan surrendered to the West to end this major conflict.
answer: World War II
17. Name these South American countries from two of their cities and one of their rivers:
A. Bucaramanga [boo-car-a-MON-ga], Cali [collie], Orinoco [or-a-NO-ko] River
answer: Colombia
B. Montevideo, Paysandu [pie-sonn-DOO], Rio Negro
answer: Uruguay
C. Arequipa [arr-a-KEE-pa], Trujillo, Viclanota River
answer: Peru
D. Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Madeira River
answer: Bolivia
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18. The letters CD stand for Compact Disc; more specific types of CD's are denoted by extra letters. What
do the extra letters stand for in the acronyms:
A. CD-ROM?
answer: Read-Only Memory
B. CD -I?
answer: Interactive
C. CD - R?
answer: Recordable (not Read)
D. CD -WO?
answer: Write Only
19. For the first time, the 2013 Super Bowl featured two head coaches who are brothers.
A. Give their common last name.
answer: Harbaugh
B. Which team is coached by Jim?
answer: San Francisco or 49ers
C. Jim played quarterback at this Big 10 college.
answer: Univ. of Michigan
D. Baltimore coach John was a defensive back at this Ohio college.
answer: Miami of Ohio
20. Name these popular “spiritual” songs from some of their lyrics:
A. “Oh, Lord, I want to be in that number…”
answer: When the Saints Go Marching In
B. “I looked over Jordan and what did I see, Coming for to carry me home…”
answer: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
C. “You may talk about your king of Gideon, You may talk about your man of Saul…”
answer: Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
D. “Sister, help to trim the sail, Hallelujah…”
answer: Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1. MARTIN LUTHER KING
1) His first name at birth was not Martin, but this M name.
Ans. Michael
2) He was born in this Southern state capital city.
Ans. Atlanta, GA
3) He received his B.A. from this black college.
Ans. Morehouse College
4) He was pastor of this Alabama city’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Ans. Montgomery, AL
5) He called this Alabama city “the most segregated in America”.
Ans. Birmingham
6) He won the Nobel Peace Prize in this year.
Ans. 1964
7) He was killed in 1968 by this man.
Ans. James Earl Ray
8) He was killed at a motel in this Southern city.
Ans. Memphis, TN
9) First name of his widow
Ans. Coretta Scott King
10) He was President of the SCLC, which stands for this.
Ans. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –MATH TERMS
1) Two angles that add up to 90°
Ans. complementary angles
2) To divide something into two equal parts, as a line segment or angle
Ans. bisect
3) For the number "5 to the 4th power", 4 is the exponent and 5 is this.
Ans. the base
4) A fraction whose numerator is greater than its denominator?
Ans. improper fraction
5) A point where two sides of a polygon touch each other.
Ans. vertex
6) An algebraic expression with two unlike terms, such as 3x + 2y
Ans. binomial
7) Transformation where all points in a figure "slide" the same direction Ans. translation
8) Adjective for a triangle with three unequal sides
Ans. scalene
9) A portion of the circumference of a circle
Ans. arc
10) A line segment with an endpoint that goes off infinitely in one direction.
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH W
1) From Proverbs: "A soft answer turneth away [this]”
Ans. wrath
2) Klingon lieutenant in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Ans. Lt. Worf
3) London church where Charles Dickens is buried (2 words)
Ans. Westminster Abbey
4) In physics, it’s power per unit time
Ans. work
5) First name of McKinley, Henry Harrison and Howard Taft
Ans. William
6) Skin growth caused by the human papillomavirus
Ans. wart
7) More common name for a lycanthrope
Ans. werewolf
8) A structure on a harbor shore that allows ships to dock
Ans. wharf
9) 1969 rock music festival, held at a New York farm
Ans. Woodstock
10) A shawl to keep warm, or the end of a movie shoot
Ans. wrap
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BASIC SET 13
TOSSUPS
1. When several of its soldiers entered the building of its state-run TV station in January 2013, a TV
technician cut the signal, causing many to think a coup had begun against its long-time President Isaias
[ee-SAY-us] Afworki. Name this small country on the Red Sea that broke away from Ethiopia in 1991
and has a capital at Asmara.
answer: Eritrea [air-a-TRAY-a]
2. Its path is traced by both the cables on a suspension bridge and by a ball thrown straight up in the air
from the ground. Name this conic section, created by graphing the equation y = x2.
answer: parabola
3. A horologist [hoar-ALL-a-just] understands the inner workings of these devices and can even make or
repair them himself. Name these devices that can be both artistic and functional and are commonly used
to mark the end of a school day or the beginning of a meeting or concert.
answer: timepieces (accept "clocks", watches", etc.)
4. Their worst performance was at the Battle of Trenton, where George Washington captured more than
1,000 of them. Give the collective term for this group of German soldiers who were paid by England to
fight against America in the Revolutionary War.
answer: Hessians
5. It will soon replace the chemical it uses to help maintain its color with another chemical called “sucrose
acetate isobutyrate” [ASS-a-tait eye-so-BYOO-ta-rait]. Name this popular sports drink that is now often
worn by victorious coaches after their players dump a cooler full of it over their heads.
answer: Gatorade
6. Pencils and paper ready! Solve this equation for x: “the square root of the quantity (x + 1) equals 4.”
answer: 15 [x + 1 = 16]
7. Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenöhrl [HOZ-un-url] has now been credited with its original idea—
though he was wrong in his calculations. Give this classic equation of physics, now credited to Einstein,
that describes the relationship between the energy of a quantity of matter and the mass of that matter.
answer: E = mc2
8. In the Alice Childress novel A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, the main character Benjie Johnson
gets hooked at the age of 13 on—what deadly and addictive derivative of morphine, sometimes referred
to by a capital H ?
answer: heroin
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9. His will was recently auctioned off for $80,000. Name this religious leader who, at his death in Utah in
1877, provided $25 a month to each of his 18 living wives.
answer: Brigham Young
10. Its common types include “butt”, “corner”, “flooring”, “framing”, and “dovetail”. When used with
metal, it can even be “hot” or “cold”. Name this bladed tool, typically pounded on with a hammer or a
mallet to remove small pieces of stone or wood.
answer: chisel
11. Pencils and paper ready! If the eyepiece of a microscope is 10X and the objective lens is 30X, what is
the total magnification of the microscope?
answer: 300 or 300X (10 x 30)
12. The opera version of this story, composed by Charles Gounod [goo-NO], has never been as popular as
Gounod’s Faust except in Gounod’s native France. Name this tragedy whose opera version closely
follows the Shakespeare tragedy and ends with the deaths of its title lovers.
answer: Romeo and Juliet
13. Its first major consumer product was a transistor radio called the TR-55. Its major divisions now
include Financial, Music Entertainment, Movie Entertainment, and Pictures Entertainment. Name this
Japanese company that still makes the Walkman and the PlayStation video game console.
answer: Sony Corporation
14. Like the epiglottis, it helps prevent food from going down the wrong way when you swallow. Some
people with sleep apnea undergo surgery to have it reduced in size. Name this body part that hangs down
from the soft palate behind the tongue.
answer: uvula [YOOV-ya-la]
15. He was executed at the request of Salome [soll-a-may], the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. Before
that, he had lived in the wilderness eating wild locusts and honey and had tried to prepare the Jews for the
coming of Jesus. Name this Biblical son of Zacharias and Elisabeth who got his name from his immersion
of Jesus in water.
answer: John the Baptist
16. Pencils and paper ready! You borrow $1,000 from a bank, and for some reason, they only charge you
simple interest (not compounded). If the yearly interest rate is 5.8%, how much interest will you owe at
the end of a year?
answer: $58 (1,000 x 0.058)
17. Different from a “helping” verb, its examples include “become”, “stay”, “feel” and “smell”. Give the
grammatical term for the type of verb that is not an action word and simply connects the predicate of a
sentence to the subject of the sentence.
answer: linking verb
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18. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…" is the beginning of-- what Constitutional
Amendment within the Bill of Rights ?
answer: 4th
19. Used as an adjective by Teddy Roosevelt, it means “really good” or “fantastic” and describes the
“pulpit” a President has to speak to America. What 5-letter word is also given to an older or bigger
student who harasses or torments weaker students ?
answer: bully
20. Llewellyn [loo EL-lun] the Last was the last native prince --of what country, west of England and
sharing a land border with England, whose prince today is the heir to the throne of the entire United
Kingdom?
answer: Wales
21. It blew up on January 28, 1986 off the coast of Central Florida after an O-ring seal in its right solid
rocket booster failed at liftoff. Name this space shuttle whose destruction 73 seconds into its flight killed
its seven crew members.
answer: Challenger
22. Though he’s won the PGA Championship once and the Masters three times, his success didn’t keep
him from being criticized (and then strangely apologizing) for saying in January 2013 that his taxes are
now so high that he may leave the state of California and go live somewhere else. Identify this American
golfer, nicknamed “Lefty”.
answer: Phil Mickelson
23. It bears the first name of the Italian chef who first created it in Tijuana. Made mostly of lettuce and
croutons, its distinctive flavor comes from its dressing that includes olive oil, garlic, pepper and parmesan
cheese. Identify this type of salad, unrelated to the emperor of ancient Rome who was told in a play to
beware the ides of March.
answer: Caesar salad
24. Its popular singer Pham Duy [fom DOO-ee] died in California in January 2013, where he had lived
the last 35 years of his life. Name this Asian nation that, like Korea, was once divided into a North and a
South and whose North fought against the United States from the late 1950’s until the mid-1970’s.
answer: Vietnam
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Name these gun manufacturers whose products may be affected if Congress passes some sort of ban on
guns in the near future:
A. The AK [spell out] line of guns was developed by this Russian inventor.
answer: Mikhail Kalashnikov [ka-LOSH-na-kov]
B. This manufacturer shares its name with the longest viper snake in the world, a creature whose bite kills
most people even if they get antivenin for it.
answer: Bushmaster
C. This maker of submachine guns is named for the Israeli military man who first designed it.
answer: Uzi [OO-zee]
D. This company shares its name with the term for a young male horse.
answer: Colt
2. Pencils and paper ready! Using conversion factors to two decimal places, give, to the nearest whole
number, the number of :
A. Centimeters in 14 inches.
answer: 36 (14 x 2.54 = 35.54)
B. Miles in 6 kilometers
answer: 4 (6 x 0.62 = 3.72)
C. Meters in ten million micrometers
answer: 10 (1,000,000 micrometers = 1 meter)
D. Feet in 1/4 of a mile
answer: 1,320 (5,280.00 x 1/4)
3. I will spell out an Italian music abbreviation; you give the Italian word that it abbreviates.
A. mp
answer: mezzopiano [MET-so-pee-AW-no]
B. f
answer: forte [FOR-tay]
C. accel.
answer: accelerando [a-CHELL-a-ron-doe or ack-SELL-a-ron-doe]
D. sf or sfz
answer: sforzando [sfort-SONN-doe]
4. The fedora [fa-DOR-a] hat came from the title character of an 1882 play and was originally worn by
women.
A. One famous fedora wearer was this Harrison Ford action movie character.
answer: Indiana Jones
B. Another was Tom Landry, the longtime coach of this NFL team.
answer: Dallas or Cowboys
C. A third was this late singer of hit songs like Billie Jean and Beat It.
answer: Michael Jackson
D. This actor who played Captain Jack Sparrow in the movies often wears a fedora in real life.
answer: Johnny Depp
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5. Pencils and paper ready! The three vertices of a triangle are (2, 3), (5, 6) and (7, 4). Give the
coordinates of each of those vertices if the triangle is reflected across the:
A. X-axis
answer: (2, -3), (5, -6) and (7, -4)
B. Y-axis
answer: (-2, 3), (-5, 6) and (-7, 4)
C. Line y = x
answer: (3, 2), (6, 5), and (4, 7)
D. The origin
answer: (-2, -3), (-5, -6) and (-7, -4)
6. Most of the time, it is a bad thing for your car to be leaking fluid.
A. A green puddle under your radiator probably means this fluid is leaking.
answer: antifreeze or coolant
B. You can spot a leak in your transmission fluid by the liquid being this color.
answer: red
C. When first put into your car, this fluid looks brown, but it usually turns black by the time it is changed
3,000 miles later.
answer: motor oil
D. However, if this common fluid drips from under your car's air conditioner, don't worry about it.
answer: water
7. His father Manoah was told to raise him as a Nazarite and never to cut his hair.
A. Name this Biblical judge of Israel, famed for his strength.
answer: Samson
B. In his youth, he killed this type of ferocious animal with his bare hands.
answer: a lion
C. Later on, he killed 1,000 Philistines with a jawbone of this creature.
answer: an ass (or donkey)
D. Name the woman he finally allowed to cut his hair.
answer: Delilah
8. Name the capitals of these European countries once owned by the Ottoman Empire:
A. Hungary
answer: Budapest
B. Albania
answer: Tirana
C. Bulgaria
answer: Sofia
D. Greece
answer: Athens
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9. Tell which part of your head or face is affected by these cranial nerves:
A. Olfactory nerve
answer: nose
B. Hypoglossal nerve
answer: tongue
C. Optic nerve
answer: eye
D. Auditory nerve
answer: ear
10. Answer these about the Church of Scientology:
A. This author of Battlefield: Earth started Scientology.
answer: L. Ron Hubbard
B. This actor, once married to Katie Holmes, is one of the most well-known Scientologists in Hollywood.
answer: Tom Cruise
C. Nancy Cartwright, the voice of this popular cartoon boy, is a Scientologist.
answer: Bart Simpson
D. This author of The Catcher in the Rye is said to have been a former Scientologist.
answer: J.D. Salinger
11. She painted for the last 20 years of her life after arthritis made her give up embroidery.
A. Name this American artist who died in 1961 at age 101.
answer: Grandma Anna Mary Robertson Moses
B. Some of her ideas for paintings were inspired by the works of these lithographers.
answer: Currier and Ives
C. As a self-taught artist, her works tend to fit into this art category.
answer: naïve (or primitive or outsider) art
D. Though she spent her painting years in New York, she raised her family in this state farther south.
answer: Virginia
12. In ecology, the term used for temperate grassland areas of the earth depends on where you live. Give
the term for temperate grassland areas in:
A. North America
answer: prairies
B. Asia
answer: steppes
C. South America
answer: pampas
D. South Africa
answer: veldt
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13. Pencils and paper ready! You are in charge of planting new grass for an entire football field 120 yards
long and 53 1/3 yards wide.
A. How many square yards of field must you cover with grass?
answer: 6,400 square yards
B. How many square feet of field must you cover with grass?
answer: 57,600 square feet
C. If 10 pounds of grass seed covers 600 square feet, how many pounds do you need to cover the whole
field?
answer: 960 pounds
D. If a 20-pound bag of grass seed costs $7.50, how much does it cost to buy grass seed for the whole
field?
answer: $360 (48 bags x 7.50)
14. Give these words that came to English from Arabic:
A. A large fish, usually sold in many small cans
answer: tuna
B. Something you read, or where a gun’s bullets are stored
answer: magazine
C. Official language of Tanzania and Uganda
answer: Swahili
D. Candy made with crushed almonds and egg whites
answer: marzipan
15. Made by a Spanish film crew, it tells the story of a family caught in the middle of a terrible natural
disaster.
A. Name this 2012 movie that features Ewan McGregor as Henry Bennett.
answer: The Impossible
B. The family is on vacation in this country whose capital city is Bangkok.
answer: Thailand
C. Identify the 2004 real-life disaster that hit the family in the movie while on vacation.
answer: a tsunami
D. Name the actress whose portrayal of Henry’s wife Maria got her an Oscar nomination in 2013.
answer: Naomi Watts
16. This week’s episode of Downton Abbey saw a death in the Crawley family.
A. Give the first name of the Crawleys’ youngest daughter who died after giving birth.
answer: Lady Sybil Branson
B. In the show, she died of this life-threatening condition, often called “toxemia with seizures.”
answer: eclampsia
C. Before a woman develops eclampsia, she usually develops pre-eclampsia that can be treated with a
sulfate compound of this alkali earth metal.
answer: magnesium sulfate
D. Give the first name of the Crawleys’ oldest daughter who is finally married to Matthew.
answer: Lady Mary Crawley
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17. Rising in New Mexico, it flows some 500 miles to enter the Arkansas River.
A. Identify this river whose name comes from the Spanish for “wild”.
answer: Cimarron [SIM-a-ron] River
B. The Cimarron meets the Arkansas in this U.S. state.
answer: Oklahoma
C. In 1541, this Spanish explorer of America’s Southwest who sought the Seven Cities of Cibola crossed
the Cimarron in the process of visiting what is now Kansas.
answer: Francisco Coronado
D. One branch of this major trail of the mid-1800’s followed the Cimarron for many miles on its way
west from Missouri.
answer: Santa Fe Trail
18. Name these Ivy League colleges from how they were founded:
A. It was founded in 1865 on land donated by a New York Senator.
answer: Cornell
B. In 1764, it was called the College of Rhode Island.
answer: Brown
C. It was founded by Puritan minister Eleazar Wheelock in 1769.
answer: Dartmouth
D. This New York City school was founded as King’s College in 1754.
answer: Columbia
19. Answer these about the 2013 NFL Pro Bowl:
A. The game took place in this state.
answer: Hawaii
B. This conference won by defeating the AFC 62-35.
answer: National Football Conference or NFC
C. Kyle Rudolph, tight end for this NFC team, was named Most Valuable Player.
answer: Minnesota or Vikings
D. This retiring center played most of the game for the NFC but was allowed to snap one last time to AFC
quarterback Peyton Manning.
answer: Jeff Saturday
20. These start with Y:
A. Dice game where you try to roll five-of-a-kind
answer: Yahtzee
B. Internet search engine, started by Jerry Yang and David Filo
answer: Yahoo
C. Use baker's to make bread and brewer's to make beer
answer: yeast
D. Fermented milk product, often fruit-flavored
answer: yogurt
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1—THE WORLD
1) He wrote Brave New World.
Ans. Aldous Huxley
2) He said, “Ye are the light of the world.”
Ans. Jesus or Christ
3) U.S. President who, in 1917, wanted the world safe for democracy
Ans. Woodrow Wilson
4) British author of The War of the Worlds
Ans. H. G. Wells
5) Rabelais said, “one-half of the world knows not this—“
Ans. how the other half lives
6) Main character in Around the World in 80 Days
Ans. Phileas Fogg
7) “Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and”—this
Ans. you weep alone
8) This activist said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Ans. Mahatma Gandhi
9) American poet who wrote of his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world
Ans. Walt Whitman
10) U.S. President who said, “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.”
Ans. Abraham Lincoln
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 – HIGHEST-PAID ATHLETES
Answer these about people on the Sports Illustrated list of the highest-paid international athletes in 2012.
1) #1 is this Swiss tennis great
Ans. Roger Federer
2) #2 is this British soccer star
Ans. David Beckham
3) #3 is this Argentine soccer star
Ans. Lionel Messi
4) #4 is Cristiano Ronaldo, a soccer star from this country
Ans. Spain
5) #5 is Fernando Alonso, who races cars on this circuit
Ans. Formula One
6) #6 is Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines, in this sport
Ans. boxing
7) #7 is Samuel Eto’o, a soccer player from this African country Ans. Cameroon
8) #8 is this Spanish tennis star and clay-court master
Ans. Rafael Nadal
9) #9 is Valentino Rossi, an Italian racer of these vehicles
Ans. motorcycles
10) #10 is this female blonde Russian tennis star
Ans. Maria Sharapova
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH G
1) Country that gives a military award known as the Iron Cross
Ans. Germany
2) Eye disease, tested for by blowing puffs of air into your eye
Ans. glaucoma
3) According to the poem Mending Wall , what do good fences make?
Ans. good neighbors
4) Desert that comprises most of Mongolia
Ans. Gobi Desert
5) First name of U.S. President Ford
Ans. Gerald
6) European "rock", given to Britain in 1713, that Spain wants back
Ans. Gibraltar
7) The Florida cities of Sarasota and Clearwater are on this body of water Ans. Gulf of Mexico
8) Variety of tart green apple, named for an Australian woman
Ans. Granny Smith
9) Annual baseball award for defense (2 words)
Ans. Gold Glove
10) Term for a plant first growing from a seed
Ans. germination
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BASIC SET 14
TOSSUPS
1. Her 100th birthday was celebrated in February 2013 with the creation of a postage stamp in her honor,
which shows her as she looked on December 1, 1955, when she refused to move out of a seat on a bus in
Montgomery, Alabama. Name this woman whose refusal to move to the back of that bus sparked
America’s civil rights movement.
answer: Rosa Parks
2. His creator said that this character got his name because “ his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up
straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose, he had to blow
it off.” Name this character, created by A.A. Milne, who lives in the Hundred-Acre Wood with his
friends Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore and Christopher Robin.
answer: Winnie the Pooh
3. Art forms developed there over the centuries included calligraphy and works made from jade, silk and
ivory. Name this country whose first Qin [chin] Emperor, Qin Shu Huang [chin shee wong], had a Terra
Cotta Army buried with him.
answer: China
4. In his later years, he owned several saloons and even refereed a boxing match, a far cry from his
younger days in Kansas and Arizona when he worked in law enforcement. Identify this famous sheriff
who, with two of his brothers and Doc Holliday, took part in the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
answer: Wyatt Earp
5. Golfer Vijay Singh has admitted using it, not knowing it may be a banned substance. Name this
substance, grown naturally in the wild, that was discussed before this year’s Super Bowl when a magazine
alleged that Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis had used it to recover more quickly from injury.
answer: deer-antler spray (or velvet)
6. Pencils and paper ready! X is 47.97, while Y is 47.83. After you round X to the nearest whole number
and Y to the nearest tenth, express the result (X – Y) as a fraction in lowest terms.
answer: 1/5 (48 – 47.8 = 0.2)
7. The Potomac [pa-TOE-muck] and James Rivers are among those that flow into it. Name this major bay
whose two bridges across it, one in Virginia and one in Maryland, connect the eastern and western shores
of those states.
answer: Chesapeake Bay
8. If you are so interested in a TV show that important things can go on around you without your noticing,
the TV show has “mesmerized” you. Spell the word “mesmerized.”
answer: M-E-S-M-E-R-I-Z-E-D
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9. Now available only in western Europe and the U.S., it has a “radio” feature that will play songs in
random order but uses a digital rights management system in limiting free downloads for many of its
customers to 10 hours per month. Name this popular Swedish service for streaming music.
answer: Spotify
10. When used as a prefix, it usually means “more” or “more than needed”—as in preceding the words
“dress”, “develop”, “emphasize”, “estimate”, “react”, “schedule”, “analyze”, “achiever” and “time.” Give
this 4-letter word that, by itself, is generally the opposite of “under.”
answer: over
11. Its third verse begins, “O beautiful for heroes proved/In liberating strife. Who more than self their
country loved/And mercy more than life!” Name this patriotic song by Katharine Lee Bates, inspired by a
trip to Colorado, whose most famous verse concludes, “And crown thy good with brotherhood /From sea
to shining sea!”
answer: America the Beautiful
12. Pencils and paper ready! For a cube with sides 10 inches, calculate the numerical difference between
the cube’s volume in cubic inches and the cube’s surface area in square inches.
answer: 400 [103 – (6 x 10 x 10) = 1,000 – 600]
13. At these regions of the earth’s lithosphere, the convergence of oceanic and continental plates often
causes earthquakes and volcanoes. What two-word name is given to these areas where one plate of the
earth is thrust below another?
answer: subduction zones
14. Its Frederikstade district contains its oldest section and dates from the mid-1700’s. It is connected to
the mainland by the Store Baelt [STOR-a balt] bridge and to Malmo [mal-MO], Sweden by the Oresund
[aw-ra-SUND] Fixed Link. Name this capital city of Denmark.
answer: Copenhagen
15. Pencils and paper ready! The physical momentum possessed by a car is the product of its mass and its
velocity. Find the momentum of an object that has a mass of 200 kilograms and is traveling at 9 meters
per second.
answer: 1,800 kg m/sec
16. Its inventor André Cassagnes [ca-SAN] sold its rights to the Ohio Art company for $25,000. Now
available in blue besides its well-known red, it was built with knobs to make it look like a TV set . Name
this classic toy that can create great art with only 2 knobs –and make it disappear just by shaking hard.
answer: Etch-a-Sketch
17. The League named for him promises never to reveal that his real name is Sir Percy Blakeney, an
English nobleman who risks his life to rescue victims of France's Reign of Terror from the guillotine-including his wife’s brother-in-law Armand. Name this title character of a novel by Baroness Orczy.
answer: The Scarlet Pimpernel
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18. Harvey Fletcher helped Robert Millikan develop his oil-drop experiment to measure its electric
charge, while J.J. Thomson studied its mass. Name this atomic particle that spins around the outside of an
atom’s nucleus and has an electric charge of -1.
answer: electron
19. It requires a grand jury indictment for serious crimes, allows accused criminals their due process, and
prevents “private property be[ing] taken for public use, without just compensation." Identify this
Constitutional Amendment that also prohibits both double jeopardy and self-incrimination.
answer: 5th Amendment
20. Known by his friends as a serious hat collector, a collection of his hats is now on display to mark the
75th anniversary of his book The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. Name this beloved author who also
used hats in his stories like The Cat in the Hat.
answer: Dr. Seuss (or Theodore Geisel)
21. Supplies for it now include not only a kit that includes four nails and four wheels, but paint, decals
and even a coping saw with extra blades to make the car look exactly how you want it. Name this car race
that most Cub Scout groups now run once a year.
answer: Pinewood Derby
22. During the Great Schism of the 14th century, two men both claimed to be Pope of the Roman Catholic
Church. One ruled from Rome, while the other ruled from Avignon [aw-vin-YOAN], a city in—what
country that borders on Italy’s northwest ?
answer: France
23. Just as a bird begins to eat from the huge pile of birdseed in your backyard, it sees your neighbor's cat,
grabs several huge beakfuls of seed, and flies away. What part of the bird's anatomy holds all the extra
seeds until the bird has time to digest them properly?
answer: crop
24. Those who live on one help transform land into crop-producing farms and create some 40% of Israel’s
annual agricultural output. Give this Hebrew word for a communal farm.
answer: kibbutz
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Pencils and paper ready! Give these fractional exponents in lowest terms, using lowest-terms fractions
or simplified radicals as necessary.
A. 81 to the one-half power
answer: 9 (square root of 9)
B. 4 to the five-halves power
answer: 32 (square root of 1,024)
C. 9 to the three-halves power
answer: 27 (square root of 729)
D. Sixteen to the negative one-half power
answer: ¼ (one over the square root of 16)
2. Name the coaches of these men’s college basketball teams now ranked among America’s best:
A. University of Kansas
answer: Bill Self
B. University of Florida
answer: Billy Donovan
C. Indiana University
answer: Tom Crean
D. Gonzaga University
answer: Mark Few
3. In English grammar, it can be “main”, “subordinate”, “dependent”, “independent” and “relative”—
among other things.
A. Name this grammatical unit that can form part or all of a sentence.
answer: clause
B. A clause often contains a subject and one of these that makes up the rest of a sentence.
answer: predicate
C. This type of sentence has both an independent clause and a dependent clause.
answer: complex sentence
D. This type of sentence has two independent clauses.
answer: compound sentence
4. Kakadu National Park surrounds one of the world’s largest uranium mines.
A. In what country’s Northern Territory would you find the park?
answer: Australia
B. What is the capital city of Australia’s Northern Territory ?
answer: Darwin
C. What is the capital city of Australia ?
answer: Canberra
D. What Australian city is the largest by population ?
answer: Sydney
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5. Its main character is a therapist for the New York Hawks football team.
A. Name this TV series on the cable station USA.
answer: Necessary Roughness
B. Give the first name of this therapist character.
answer: Danielle (or Dani)
C. Name the actress who plays the therapist “Dr. Dani.”
answer: Callie Thorne
D. Dr. Dani was first hired to help Hawks star Terrence King, who plays this football position.
answer: wide receiver
6. Answer these about marches by John Philip Sousa:
A. One version of its "lyrics" says, "Be kind to your web-footed friends."
answer: Stars and Stripes Forever
B. It is the theme music for Monty Python's Flying Circus.
answer: Liberty Bell March
C. He wrote an Inauguration March and a Funeral March for this U.S. President—both in the same year.
answer: James Garfield
D. He wrote this official Marine Corps march while directing the Marine Corps Band.
answer: Semper Fidelis
7. Pencils and paper ready! Give the four integer values in the solution set for the system of inequalities
"8x + 3 is greater than 42" and "3x - 11 is less than or equal to 14."
answer: 5, 6, 7, 8
8. During his decade as mayor of New York City, he would often stand on street corners and ask people,
“How’m I doin’?”
A. Name this politician who died in February 2013.
answer: Ed Koch [kotch]
B. Koch later served 2 years as the judge on this TV series, replacing Judge Harold Wapner.
answer: The People’s Court
C. Name the current mayor of New York City.
answer: Michael Bloomberg
D. Name the mayor of New York City during the September 11th terrorist attacks.
answer: Rudy Giuliani [joo-lee-AW-nee]
9. Answer these about a typical gallon of unleaded gasoline with a rating of 87:
A. The 87 means that 87% of the gasoline is this carbon compound with 8 carbon atoms in each molecule.
answer: octane
B. The closer the rating is to 100, the less of this noise you will hear when the engine runs.
answer: knocking
C. The other 13% is this different carbon compound with 7 carbon atoms in each molecule.
answer: heptane
D. The two different carbon compounds are separated at an oil refinery by this process that involves
boiling and is also used to purify water for drinking.
answer: distillation
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10. Name these tools often used to make a Pinewood Derby car:
A. A “belt” version of this tool speeds up the process of smoothing out your car’s rough edges.
answer: belt sander
B. This type of saw is a power tool whose teeth are all on a circular belt that spins when in use.
answer: bandsaw
C. This electric tool helps you create holes as deep and big as you need, especially holes for nails and
screws.
answer: drill
D. Held with two hands, this tool hollows out an area of wood and shares its name with a common device
used in creating wireless computer networks.
answer: router
11. Name the countries where you’d find these examples of prehistoric cave art:
A. the Lascaux [las-ko] Caves
answer: France
B. the Altamira Caves
answer: Spain
C. the Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave
answer: Germany
D. Rock paintings at Drakensberg Park
answer: South Africa
12. I'll name a muscle; you tell the part of your body containing that muscle:
A. superior rectus
answer: eye (prompt on "head" or "face")
B. hamstring
answer: leg
C. pectoral muscle
answer: chest
D. flexor hallucis longus [ha-LOO-suss LONG-guss]
answer: leg or foot
13. Pencils and paper ready! You are trying to grow bacteria for your next science lab. 24 hours ago, you
had 100 bacteria. The teacher says that the bacteria doubles in number every 8 hours.
A. How many bacteria did you have 8 hours ago?
answer: 400 (doubled twice)
B. How many bacteria do you have now?
answer: 800
C. How many hours from now will you have 6,400 bacteria?
answer: 24
D. By the time you reach 25,600 bacteria, you have to be finished with the lab project and destroy
everything, or the bacteria will take over your entire body. If it is now Friday at 3 pm, what day and time
is your deadline for completion?
answer: Sunday at 7 AM (800 on Fri at 3; must double 5 times, so 40 hours later)
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14. Answer these about the tasks undertaken by mythology’s Argonauts:
A. They chased away these creatures that were bothering King Phineas.
answer: the Harpies
B. They got their ship safely through the Symplegades, which were two of these objects that clashed
together.
answer: clashing rocks
C. In the end, the Argonauts achieved their quest by retrieving this precious object that was guarded by a
dragon.
answer: the Golden Fleece
D. One Argonaut besides Jason was this man who killed Medusa.
answer: Perseus
15. Captain Christopher Newport brought John Smith to Jamestown on his first voyage there in 1607.
A. Name the U.S. state that now includes what was the Jamestown settlement.
answer: Virginia
B., C. and D. Name the three vessels that Newport commanded on that first voyage.
answer: Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery
16. It orbited the Earth three times on February 20, 1962.
A. Give the name and number of this American space capsule.
answer: Friendship 7
B. Name the astronaut in the capsule, the first American to orbit the earth.
answer: John Glenn
C. The capsule launched from Cape Canaveral in this U.S. state.
answer: Florida
D. This man who served as backup on that flight later became the second American to orbit the earth.
answer: M. Scott Carpenter
17. Name the present-day countries where each of these 20th-century composers were born:
A. Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály [co-DYE]
answer: Hungary
B. Alexander Scriabin [scree-YAW-been] and Dmitri Shostakovich
answer: Russia
C. Arnold Schoenberg [SHURN-berg] and Gustav Mahler [MAW-lur]
answer: Austria
D. Ferde Grofé [gro-FAY] and Virgil Thomson
answer: United States or U.S.
18. Name the four main animals in the Kenneth Grahame novel The Wind in the Willows.
answer: Mole, Rat, Badger, Toad
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19. Complete these slogans that appeared on many World War II posters.
A. "Join the Navy and [blank] [blank] [blank]."
answer: See the World
B. Uncle Sam [blank] [blank]."
answer: Wants You
C. "Loose Lips Might [blank] [blank]"
answer: Sink Ships
D. “Buy War [blank]”
answer: Bonds
20. Answer these about retiring NFL star Ray Lewis:
A. He was a linebacker at this college.
answer: Univ. of Miami
B. When Lewis was involved in the deaths of two men after a Super Bowl party in 2000, he pled guilty to
this misdemeanor charge.
answer: obstruction of justice
C. He wore this jersey number during his career in the NFL.
answer: 52
D. When his team won the Super Bowl in 2013, they got the trophy named for this former Green Bay
Packers coach.
answer: Vince Lombardi Trophy
LIGHTNING ROUND 1. IN AND OUT
Each answer will include the letters “in” or “out.”
1) Large Asian island nation
Ans. Indonesia
2) Area off North Carolina coast where Wright Brothers tested an airplane (2 words) Ans. Outer Banks
3) A fugitive from the sheriff in the Old West
Ans. outlaw
4) Austrian city that hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976
Ans. Innsbruck
5) Term for the large Australian wilderness where few people live
Ans. Outback
6) Adjective for “not paid yet” or “really, really good”
Ans. outstanding
7) Plant that grows purple flowers used for dye
Ans. indigo
8) A piece of paper asking you to attend a party or reception
Ans. invitation
9) Where a child may play when he’s not in his own house
Ans. outdoors
10) A noun meaning “allusion” or “suggestion”
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LIGHTNING ROUND 2. THE WAR OF 1812
1) He was U.S. President during the War.
Ans. James Madison
2) This U.S. government building was burned during the War.
Ans. the White House
3) The War ended in this year when Congress ratified a peace treaty.
Ans. 1815
4) This was the name of that treaty.
Ans. Treaty of Ghent
5) Ghent is a city in this small European country.
Ans. Belgium
6) The bombing of this Maryland fort during the War inspired our national anthem. Ans. Fort McHenry
7) This future President won the War’s Battle of New Orleans.
Ans. Andrew Jackson
8) One major battle was on this Great Lake.
Ans. Battle of Lake Erie
9) This American general won that battle.
Ans. Oliver Hazard Perry
10) This British Prime Minister during the War shares his name with a major British city.
Ans. Lord Liverpool
LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH B
1) Nickname for a guard at the Tower of London
Ans. Beefeater
2) Caribbean island whose capital is Bridgetown
Ans. Barbados
3) Explosive event that may have given rise to our universe (2 words)
Ans. Big Bang
4) Main food of panda bears
Ans. bamboo
5) Head coach of the NFL's New England Patriots
Ans. Bill Belichick
6) “Colorful" 2-word nickname of General John J. Pershing
Ans. Black Jack
7) Cornflower, aquamarine and azure are shades of it
Ans. blue
8) Instrument that measures atmospheric pressure in inches of mercury
Ans. barometer
9) Chem lab object that uses a stopcock to control flow of liquid
Ans. buret
10) Level of certainty of guilt required for a murder conviction (4 words)
Ans. beyond a reasonable doubt
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TOSSUPS
1. Its politician Shokri Belaid was assassinated in February 2013. Name this north African country whose
Prime Minister is a member of the Islamist political party that helped remove its President Zine El
Abidine Ben Ali at the beginning of the Arab Spring.
answer: Tunisia
2. Pencils and paper ready! Give the value of x that satisfies the equation "four less than the square root of
x equals zero."
answer: 16 (√𝑥 − 4 = 0)
3. Take a T-shirt, fold it into an interesting pattern, and keep it folded that way with large rubber bands.
Then pick certain sections of the shirt to dip into different colors. This is a description of—what artistic
technique ?
answer: tie-dye
4. He ran for President in 1800 and tied with Thomas Jefferson for 35 ballots before the House of
Representatives elected Jefferson on the 36th ballot. Name this lawyer who was tried for treason in 1807,
three years after he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
answer: Aaron Burr
5. She might be considered America's "Anne of Green Gables", as she is sent to live in Maine with two of
her aunts, gets good grades in school, becomes a writer and lives happily ever after. Name this title
heroine who could be called "Miss Randall" in a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
answer: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
6. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has bought a lot of gold in the last decade, more than 500 metric tons. A
metric ton is more than 2,200 pounds, or 1,000 of—what metric unit?
answer: 1,000 kilograms
7. You stand in a shower and turn on the water. The velocity of the water reduces the air pressure on the
inside of the shower curtain, causing the curtain to be pushed inside the shower. This is one example of—
what principle, named for a Swiss scientist, that explains how airplanes can get off the ground if they go
fast enough on the runway?
answer: Bernoulli's [bur-NOO-leez] Principle
8. Its protagonist supports herself with needlework-- though brides never have her make a wedding veil.
Name this novel in which Arthur Dimmesdale promises Pearl that he will stand with her on the scaffold
on the great judgment day, a story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
answer: The Scarlet Letter
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9. Egypt has asked the United Nations for help in getting it back from the British Museum, but the Brits
aren’t speaking Egypt's language. Give the 2-word name for this artifact, found in 1799, that has the same
words in both ancient Greek and ancient hieroglyphics and allowed us to begin reading hieroglyphics.
answer: the Rosetta Stone
10. Its position is now close to 86 degrees north and 147 degrees west. Identify this location on the earth's
surface toward which the needle of a directional compass always points.
answer: North Magnetic Pole
11. Set in South Carolina, its main male character has dreams of a girl who can use magic—and almost
hits her with his car. Name this novel, the first in the Caster Chronicles series, whose 2013 film version
stars Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan and Alice Englert as Lena.
answer: Beautiful Creatures
12. Its first movement is in two-four and has three flats. Its first notes might be intended to evoke the
knock of Fate at your door. Which Beethoven symphony begins short-short-short-long, short-short-shortlong ?
answer: Beethoven's 5th Symphony
13. His Pittsburgh steel works made him what would surely be a billionaire today but was only a multihundred-millionaire in the late 1870's. Name this Scottish immigrant who sold his steel works to J.P.
Morgan and then spent most of his remaining life as a philanthropist, helping to create thousands of
libraries nationwide.
answer: Andrew Carnegie
14. It can perform photosynthesis through its bark, and its suckers often live on after it dies as a result of
animal grazing or fungus. Its major species include Chinese, Japanese, Eurasian, Bigtooth and Quaking.
Name this gray-barked tree of the Northern Hemisphere.
answer: aspen tree
15. Similar to a fairy or elf in British folklore, it was small and sometimes mischievous and was said to
have stayed on Earth because it wasn't good enough for Heaven or bad enough for Hell. Name this type of
being that enjoyed leading travelers off their desired path but never carried the long sticks of candy
powder now named for them.
answer: pixie
16. Pencils and paper ready! A furlong is a unit of measure equal to 220 yards. How many furlongs are in
a mile and a half ?
answer: 12 (8 furlongs per mile)
17. Within 20 years of its opening in 1898 as a maker of bicycle tires and poker chips, it had become the
world's largest rubber company. Name this Akron, Ohio maker of automobile tires and proud owner of
several blimps.
answer: Goodyear (not B.F. Goodrich)
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18. He became a U.S. Senator by appointment of his state's Governor Jon Corzine—to replace Corzine
himself. Now he's in hot water with the FBI for his trips with a campaign contributor to the Dominican
Republic and what he's been doing while he's there. Name this Senator from New Jersey.
answer: Robert Menendez
19. When Jim Hunter goes to England for a few months, he leaves his two dogs and a cat with his friend
John. But when John leaves to go duck hunting and the animals are by themselves, they decide to make
the 300-mile trip back to Jim's house. This is the plot of—what novel by Sheila Burnford ?
answer: The Incredible Journey
20. It is called "Almond Capital of the World" and is famous historically for being protected by Sutter's
Fort and for being the western end of the Pony Express. For more than 100 years, now, however, its top
employer has been the State of California. Name this capital city of California.
answer: Sacramento, CA
21. Pencils and paper ready! If a mole has exactly 6 x 1023 atoms, how many atoms are in nine grams of
carbon-12 ?
answer: 4.5 x 1023 (C = 12 grams/mole, so 3/4 mole)
22. He was the first high-school player drafted by the NBA in 20 years. When he was finally traded
away, Minnesota got two draft picks and five other players for him. Name this 7-foot-tall Boston Celtics
star, often referred to as "KG."
answer: Kevin Garnett
23. In the 1930's, the Tour de France began allowing its use so riders didn’t have to get off and change
wheels to ride up a mountain. Name this important part of multi-speed bikes that allows the chain to be
shifted with a hand switch between sprockets of different sizes.
answer: derailleur [da-RAY-lur]
24. Recent online voting by its fans, supervised by its maker Hasbro, has resulted in its iron being
replaced with a cat. Name this classic board game that teaches basics of real estate and gave us the
phrases "Boardwalk and Park Place" and "Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200."
answer: Monopoly
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. His abrupt resignation in February 2013 was a surprise to, well… pretty much everybody.
A. Give the papal name of this Roman Catholic Pope.
answer: Pope Benedict XVI
B. He announced that after leaving the papacy, he would spend some time in this small Italian town that
contains the Pope's summer residence.
answer: Castel Gandolfo
C. He was the first pope to give up his post since Gregory XII did it in the early years of this century.
answer: 1400's or 15th century (1415)
D. The previous Pope before that who gave up his post was Celestine V in the late years of this century.
answer: 1200's or 13th century
2. Pencils and paper ready! The Acme Vacuum Cleaner Company pays 8% of its annual income in taxes.
Five years ago, Acme sold $2 million worth of vacuum cleaners.
A. How much did it pay in taxes five years ago?
answer: $160,000 (2 million x 0.08)
B. This year, Acme sold 60% more in vacuum cleaners than it did five years ago. How much in total did it
sell this year?
answer: $3.2 million or $3,200,000 (2 million x 0.08)
C. How much in taxes did it pay on this year's sales?
answer: $256,000 (3.2 million x 0.08)
D. How much would Acme have to sell in a single year to pay exactly $500,000 in taxes?
answer: $6,250,000 or $6 1/4 million or $6.25 million (500,000 x 12.5)
3. Whether spelled with one "b" or two, it describes a part of a musical piece that must be played and can't
be skipped.
A. Give this Italian term.
answer: obligato (or obbligato) [ob-la-GAW-toe]
B. Spell that word, using two b's.
answer: O-B-B-L-I-G-A-T-O
C. When singing a hymn, a part like that, if it's higher than the melody is known by this term.
answer: descant
D. If it's higher than the melody, it is typically sung by women who normally sing this part.
answer: soprano
4. Name these companies on the 2012 Fortune 500 list:
A. This oil company is #1 in total revenue.
answer: Exxon Mobil
B. This major retailer was #2 in total revenue.
answer: Wal-Mart
C. In spite of changing CEO's 6 times in the last 8 years, this computer and printer maker was 10th on the
list.
answer: Hewlett-Packard or HP
D. This company led by Jeff Immelt was 6th.
answer: General Electric or GE
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5. Pencils and paper ready! I will give a fraction that can be converted to a repeating decimal; you give
the number of digits in that decimal that repeat. For example, if I said 1/3, you would say "1", since the
digit 3 is the only digit that repeats (0.33333…)
A. 6/11
answer: two (0.5454545454…)
B. 127/999
answer: three (0.127127127…)
C. 4/9
answer: one (0.44444…)
D. 5/7
answer: six (0.714285714285…)
6. Name these chemical elements often contained in multivitamins:
A. It helps make hemoglobin, and a lack of it can cause anemia.
answer: iron
B. Like calcium, the vast majority of this "glow-in-the-dark" element can be found in bones and teeth.
answer: phosphorus
C. This alkali earth element in epsom salts is needed to maintain a regular heartbeat.
answer: magnesium
D. This metallic element is needed to help the body use iron.
answer: copper
7. Even the prophet Moses had his bad days and was, in fact, denied one great blessing because of a major
mistake he made while in the wilderness with the Israelites.
A. At one point when everyone was thirsty, God gave Moses instructions on how to obtain this liquid.
answer: water
B. Moses was told to speak to a rock, and liquid would come forth; instead, Moses did this.
answer: he hit the rock with his rod (accept equivalent answers)
C. Though everyone got a drink in spite of Moses' mistake, Moses was punished by having this blessing
withheld.
answer: he was unable to enter the promised land (accept equivalent answers)
D. This story is found in chapter 20 of this fourth book of Moses.
answer: Numbers
8. Answer these about the European Parliament:
A. They spend several days each month in Strasbourg, a city in this country.
answer: France
B. But they do most of their work in Brussels, a city in this country.
answer: Belgium
C. Which country has more seats in the European Parliament than any other ?
answer: Germany
D. Within 50, how many members does the European Parliament have, a number more than 300 greater
than the number in America's House of Representatives ?
answer: 754 (accept 704-804)
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9. Answer these about the history of South Africa:
A. It was the first European country to reach the southern cape of South Africa but preferred to colonize
neighboring Mozambique instead.
answer: Portugal
B. Its East India Company governed a Cape Colony in South Africa until 1791.
answer: Holland (or the Netherlands)
C. Eventually, this European country took over the Cape Colony; people from that country created a
system where they were richer than and superior to the Dutch farmers.
answer: England (or equivalents)
D. This system in South Africa allowed the minority whites to rule over the majority blacks for many
years.
answer: apartheid [a-PAR-tide]
10. After use, it can be cleaned without soap, rubbed over with cooking oil, and then set aside until your
next camping trip.
A. Give the common 2-word term for this 3-legged pot, often used to slow-cook stews or desserts.
answer: Dutch oven
B. This country developed a similar device called a "Bedourie oven" that's made of steel because iron
ones break when they fall off a pack horse in the Outback.
answer: Australia
C. It is this state's official cooking pot, used by Mormon pioneers to the state in the mid-1800's.
answer: Utah
D. On a camping trip, you would typically cook the food by putting briquettes of this substance on and
around that 3-legged pot.
answer: charcoal
11. Identify these Roman gods or goddesses:
A. Goddess of the moon
answer: Diana
B. God of the ocean
answer: Neptune
C. God of love
answer: Cupid
D. Goddess of wisdom
answer: Minerva
12. The "Grand Exchange" describes the many people, things, diseases and ideas that moved between
Europe and the New World in the Middle Ages.
A. Its beginnings date from 1492, when this explorer discovered America.
answer: Christopher Columbus
B. It’s hard to imagine that before the Grand Exchange, Florida did not grow this type of fruit that
includes the orange and the lemon…,
answer: citrus fruit
C…. that Europeans never knew about this "buttery" legume…,
answer: peanut
D. …and the Swiss never ate or made this candy.
answer: chocolate
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13. Pencils and paper ready! The function "f of x" equals the quantity x2 + x – 2 over the quantity (x – 2) .
A. Give the two factors of the numerator.
answer: (x + 2) and (x – 1)
B., C. and D. Give the three ordered pairs that intersect either the x-axis or the y-axis.
answer: (-2, 0), (1, 0), (0, 1) [use the factored numerator to get the first two; set x = 0 to get the third one]
14. I'll give the name of a letter of the alphabet as it is pronounced in Spanish; you give the English name
of that letter.
A. eme [EM-ay]
answer: M
B. tay
answer: T
C. hache [AW-chay]
answer: H
D. jota [HO-ta]
answer: J
15. Name the states represented by these new U.S. Senators elected for the first time in 2012:
A. Republican Jeff Flake
answer: Arizona
B. Democrat Tammy Baldwin
answer: Wisconsin
C. Democrat Joe Donnelly
answer: Indiana
D. Republican Deb Fischer
answer: Nebraska
16. Answer these about short stories that feature Sherlock Holmes:
A. In the story The 'Gloria Scott', the Gloria Scott is one of these.
answer: a ship
B. The story A Scandal in Bohemia features this woman who gets away from Holmes.
answer: Irene Adler (accept either one)
C. In the story Silver Blaze, Silver Blaze is this kind of animal.
answer: a horse
D. In one story, Holmes comes out of retirement, where he has been keeping these insects as a hobby.
answer: beekeeping
17. Its far northeastern corner was part of the far western end of the Louisiana Purchase and eventually
became part of its Indian Territory, while the three counties in its Panhandle area were literally called "No
Man's Land" for many years.
A. Name this south-central U.S. state.
answer: Oklahoma
B. That state's Panhandle contains this highest point in the state.
answer: Black Mesa
C. and D. That state joined the Union in 1907, 5 years before these two states joined.
answer: Arizona and New Mexico
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18. Developed in 1805, it estimates wind speed by its effects on both water and on land.
A. Identify this scale, named for an Irish admiral.
answer: Beaufort Scale
B. This highest number on the Beaufort scale indicates a hurricane.
answer: 12
C. The lowest number on this scale for measuring hurricanes begins where the Beaufort Scale leaves off.
answer: Saffir-Simpson Scale
D. On that hurricane scale, the highest number is this integer and indicates totally catastrophic damage.
answer: 5
19. Answer these about the sport of rugby:
A. The ball in rugby is shaped a lot like the ball in this American sport.
answer: football
B. You score one of these when you get the ball in the end zone, similar to a touchdown.
answer: try
C. After one of those, you can score this number of points by a conversion kick—if the ball goes between
the posts.
answer: 2 points
D. This 5-letter word describes an 8-on-8 situation where players bang together to come up with the ball.
answer: scrum
20. The standard edition of Monopoly currently has 8 official tokens, one of which will soon be the cat
instead of the iron. Name any four of the other seven.
answer: wheelbarrow, Scottie dog, racecar, thimble, battleship, top hat, shoe (or boot)
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1. EARTH SCIENCE
Give these terms as defined by the U.S. Geologic Survey Earthquake Hazards Program.
1) "The innermost part of the earth"
Ans. core
2) "A unit of measurement that expresses frequency in cycles per second"
Ans. Hertz
3) "A sea wave resulting from seafloor displacement associated with earthquakes"
Ans. tsunami
4) "A movement of surface material down a slope"
Ans. landslide
5) "The point on Earth's surface vertically above where a seismic rupture begins"
Ans. epicenter
6) "A number that characterizes the relative size of an earthquake"
Ans. magnitude
7) "The outermost major layer of the earth"
Ans. crust
8) "The study of earthquakes"
Ans. seismology
9) "In engineering, all unconsolidated material above bedrock"—or, plain dirt
Ans. soil
10) "A fracture along which blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to
the fracture."
Ans. fault
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –ABRAHAM LINCOLN
1) This man shot Lincoln to death.
Ans. John Wilkes Booth
2) He was the first President ever elected from this party.
Ans. Republican Party
3) He spent most of his 20's working at a grocery store in this state.
Ans. Illinois
4) He defended a patent case against this inventor of the mechanical reaper. Ans. Cyrus McCormick
5) He instituted this November holiday.
Ans. Thanksgiving
6) Name his first Vice-President.
Ans. Hannibal Hamlin
7) Name his second Vice-President.
Ans. Andrew Johnson
8) First name of the girl who wrote to him, saying he needed a beard.
Ans. Grace Bedell
9) He is the subject of this poet's O Captain! My Captain!
Ans. Walt Whitman
10) He helped establish this city as Illinois's capital.
Ans. Springfield
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH M
1) The volcano Olympus Mons is on this planet.
Ans. Mars
2) Southern city that hosts college football’s Liberty Bowl
Ans. Memphis, TN
3) Tool for cleaning up a wet mess on the floor
Ans. mop
4) Wisconsin's largest city by population
Ans. Milwaukee
5) Beverage added to something that is “au lait”
Ans. milk
6) This childhood disease causes your parotid [pa-ROT-ud] glands to swell up.
Ans. mumps
7) Ancient area containing the Fertile Crescent
Ans. Mesopotamia
8) "A rolling stone gathers no [blank]"
Ans. moss
9) Most commonly spoken dialect of Chinese
Ans. Mandarin
10) Kermit and Miss Piggy, for example
Ans. Muppets
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BASIC SET 16
TOSSUPS
1. The Pac-12 college located there is now planning to hire a conservative professor to try and defuse
criticism that non-liberal viewpoints there are officially discouraged. Name this Rocky Mountain city that
is home to Ralphie, the buffalo mascot of the University of Colorado.
answer: Boulder, CO
2. Activists called for DC Comics to fire him from writing Adventures of Superman because of his
opposition to gay rights. Name this active Mormon and sci-fi writer whose novels include Speaker for the
Dead, a sequel to his classic Ender's Game.
answer: Orson Scott Card
3. New York City's statue of Prometheus, Frederic Remington's sculpture of The Broncho Buster and
Rodin's sculpture The Thinker are all made of—what metal alloy that combines copper and tin?
answer: bronze
4. Name the black woman whose tombstone contains the words, "Born a slave in Ulster County, New
York in the 18th century. Died in Battle Creek, Michigan, November 26, 1883. Aged about 105 years."
answer: Sojourner Truth
5. She became Catholic to marry her husband Paul but is now divorcing him and dating race-car driver
Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Name this woman whose own driving skills earned her the pole position for the
2013 Daytona 500.
answer: Danica Patrick
6. Pencils and paper ready! Give the area of a rhombus whose diagonals are 11 and 8.
1
answer: 44 ( x 11 x 8)
2
7. What 1920's dance craze that came from the Broadway musical Runnin' Wild shares its name with the
major city in South Carolina where the opera Porgy and Bess is sent?
answer: Charleston
8. Bordering on both Egypt and Assyria, its military used chariots to conquer much of ancient
Mesopotamia. Name this ancient empire that used cuneiform as a writing system and is famous today for
using iron in its tools and weapons.
answer: Hittite Empire
9. Pencils and paper ready! A circle with radius 4 is centered at the origin. What are the new coordinates
of the old point (4, 0) after the circle is rotated counterclockwise 270°?
answer: (0, -4)
10. It must obey humans, keep humans from injury and protect itself from harm. What creature must live
by these three laws, according to the great science-fiction author Isaac Asimov?
answer: a robot
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11. A Democrat until he ran for public office, he developed his own company providing business
information to his friends in high finance. In 2013, he was prevented by a court from banning the sale of
sodas larger than 16 ounces in his city. Name this current mayor of New York City.
answer: Michael Bloomberg
12. Give the correct spelling of the tree whose namesake nut makes green Jello pudding.
answer: P-I-S-T-A-C-H-I-O [pa-STASH-ee-o]
13. Sometimes called "eight days sickness", you can easily avoid it by getting a booster vaccine every
now and then and staying away from nails and other objects that can cause puncture wounds. Identify this
disease, also called "lockjaw."
answer: tetanus (accept "lockjaw" before that word is said)
14. Some people who have died near the top of it have been passed by other climbers who feared that
helping other people would endanger their own climbs. Name this mountain whose lack of Good
Samaritans was even noted by Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach its summit.
answer: Mount Everest
15. He appeared as the dead psychiatrist in the movie The Sixth Sense . Name this actor and ex-husband
of Demi Moore who returns as John McClane in the 2013 film A Good Day to Die Hard.
answer: Bruce Willis
16. Pencils and paper ready! A snail is trying to crawl up an 8-foot-high fence. Each day, he goes up 9
inches; each night, he falls back 6 inches. If he starts at the bottom on day 1, on which day will the snail
first reach the top of the fence?
answer: Day 30 (after day 29, he will be at 7'3", so the 30th day, he’ll get to the top)
17. In recent weeks, it has added a set of lemmings to its already unusual group of animals that includes
crocodiles and a guard duck. Name this comic strip by Stephan Custis that includes Rat (the master of
wisecracks), Zebra (whose friends are regularly eaten by lions and cheetahs), and poor clueless Pig.
answer: Pearls Before Swine
18. Though it can now be safely transported, it is still highly toxic both by itself and as an ion with
oxidation number -1. Name this chemical element, used to enrich uranium, that is at the top of the
halogen column in the periodic table.
answer: fluorine or F
19. It refers to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in many places, which had been signed only 5 years
before. Name this 1853 treaty in which the U.S. agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for some 50,000
square miles of land that was the last added to what is now America's continental 48 states.
answer: Gadsden Purchase
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20. On a clear day, you can see Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey from the top
of-- what 102-story skyscraper in downtown New York City?
answer: the Empire State Building
21. This son of a Major League Baseball pitcher sings with his touring band, the Dancehall Doctors. After
his father died of a brain tumor, he wrote his hit song "Live Like You Were Dying." Name this countrymusic star who is married to fellow country singer Faith Hill.
answer: Tim McGraw
22. Poseidon and Apollo were sent to build its walls, while Priam was its king during the 10-year siege
that resulted in its destruction. Identify this ancient city, burned to the ground by the Greeks with the help
of a wooden horse.
answer: Troy
23. The Persian astronomer al-Sufi could see them from southern Arabia, but not from Baghdad. Identify
these two galaxies some 200,000 light-years from Earth, named for the European who saw them during
his voyage around the world.
answer: Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
24. Some 3,000 buildings were damaged and nearly 1,000 people were injured as the result of a meteor
explosion in this country in February 2013 that caused as much damage as about 300,000 tons of TNT.
Name this European country.
answer: Russia
FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Pencils and paper ready! A pie chart shows how your county spent a $55 million budget last year. If it
spent 20% on schools, 30% on public safety, 10% on transportation, and the rest on "miscellaneous",
calculate how much money each category got.
answer: $11 million schools, $16.5 million public safety, $5.5 million transportation,
$22 million miscellaneous
2. Give these words ending in the letters O-U-R:
A. A 60-minute period
answer: hour
B. To move liquid from a pitcher into a glass
answer: pour
C. A trip where you see something famous in a lot of detail
answer: tour
D. The cube root of 64
answer: four
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3. I'll name a constellation; you name the kind of animal that it represents.
A. Canis Major
answer: dog
B. Cygnus
answer: swan
C. Corvus
answer: crow
D. Ursa Major
answer: bear
4. He is teaming up with a Brazilian financier to buy one of America's largest food processing companies.
A. Name this famed American investor.
answer: Warren Buffett
B. Give the 2-word name of the company he runs.
answer: Berkshire Hathaway
C. Name the food processing company he is buying that makes ketchup and its 57 Sauce.
answer: Heinz
D. This former U.S. Senator is married to Teresa Heinz, an heiress to the Heinz fortune.
answer: John Kerry
5. She was known as tough in family court system even before she began her run on TV.
A. Give the 2-word nickname for this popular jurist, still seen weekdays in syndication.
answer: Judge Judy
B. Give Judge Judy's real last name.
answer: Judith Sheindlin
C. She spent years as a judge in this major U.S. city.
answer: New York City
D. Cases seen on her show would typically be tried in this type of court that limits the amount of money
involved in a case.
answer: small claims court
6. Name the home countries of these Impressionist painters:
A. Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson and Mary Cassatt [ca-SOT]
answer: U.S. or United States
B. Wladyslaw Podkowinski [VLAD-a-slav pod-ka-VINCH-ski]
answer: Poland
C. Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov
answer: Russia
D. Edgar Degas [day-GAW] and Claude Monet
answer: France
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7. Name the companies that make these 2013 automobiles:
A. Passat [pa-SOT], Golf and Eos
answer: Volkswagen or VW
B. Boxster and Cayman
answer: Porsche
C. Forte, Optima and Soul
answer: Kia
D. Sonic and Malibu
answer: General Motors or GM (but accept Chevrolet or Chevy)
8. It separates the farthest east part of Asia from the farthest west part of North America.
A. Name this strait.
answer: Bering Strait
B. The farthest west part of North America is part of this U.S. state.
answer: Alaska
C. The strait connects the Bering Sea with this arm of the Arctic Ocean.
answer: Chukchi Sea
D. Though the man who found the strait spent most of his career as a Russian seaman, he was actually
born in this European country.
answer: Denmark
9. Name these parts of your eye:
A. It is transparent and is the first part of your eye to detect light.
answer: cornea
B. Light passes through this center area of your iris.
answer: pupil
C. Located at the back of your eyeball, it converts light into nerve signals.
answer: retina
D. This nerve transmits visual information from the eye to the brain.
answer: optic nerve
10. In February 2013, it finally officially passed the U.S. Constitutional Amendment that banned slavery.
A. Name this Southern state.
answer: Mississippi
B. Name that state's capital city.
answer: Jackson
C. Which Amendment did they finally pass ?
answer: 13th
D. In what year was the 13th Amendment added to the Constitution, less than 12 months after Lee's
surrender to Grant ?
answer: 1865
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11. Answer these about the Biblical story of Esther:
A. He raised Esther from childhood and saved the king from an assassination attempt.
answer: Mordecai
B. This minister of the king hated Mordecai and built a gallows to hang him on that he was hanged on
himself.
answer: Haman
C. This queen disobeyed the king and was deposed, allowing Esther to take her place.
answer: Vashti
D. The story of Esther takes place in this ancient empire.
answer: Persia
12. Name the capitals of these Caribbean countries:
A. Cuba
answer: Havana
B. Jamaica
answer: Kingston
C. the Bahamas
answer: Nassau
D. Haiti
answer: Port-au-Prince
13. A new bill in the Texas State Senate would allow authorities to trespass on private property without a
warrant to treat stagnant water if the property is abandoned.
A. The bill is an attempt to deal with this insect that breeds in stagnant water and passes along diseases.
answer: mosquitoes
B. One version of that insect passes along this deadly tropical disease that can flare up from time to time
even if it doesn't kill you.
answer: malaria
C. Texas is particularly worried about this deadly mosquito-borne disease.
answer: West Nile disease
D. The current necessity of a warrant is a result of this Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
answer: 4th Amendment
14. Name the teams featuring these players who made their first NBA All-Star Game appearance in 2013:
A. Kyrie Irving
answer: Cleveland or Cavaliers
B. Joakim Noah
answer: Chicago or Bulls
C. Paul George
answer: Indiana or Pacers
D. Jrue [jay-roo] Holiday
answer: Philadelphia or 76ers
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15. Four years after filing for bankruptcy, it filed for bankruptcy again in February 2013.
A. Name this magazine, seen in grocery store checkout lines, whose website is www.rd.com.
answer: Reader's Digest
B. Its columns like "Life in these United States" contain these.
answer: jokes (accept anything to do with humor)
C. In 1952, its articles called "Cancer by the Carton" began to educate people about the health dangers of
this substance.
answer: tobacco (accept clear equivalents or "cigarettes")
D. It is even published for blind people in this system of raised dots.
answer: Braille
16. Name these characters from Uncle Tom's Cabin:
A. This slave owner has Uncle Tom beaten to death.
answer: Simon Legree
B. She escapes to Ohio with her son Harry.
answer: Eliza
C. She is saved from drowning as a small child but dies not long after that.
answer: Evangeline St. Clair (accept either) (accept Little Eva)
D. This slave girl "just growed."
answer: Topsy
17. Pencils and paper ready! You have created a spreadsheet to link the number of hours you work at the
local burger joint with the amount of money you actually get. Box A, the number of hours you work in a
week, equals 24 for this bonus.
A. Calculate Box B if Box B multiplies Box A by your hourly wage of $7.50.
answer: $180
B. Calculate Box C if Box C is 8% of Box B, covering Social Security and Medicare taxes.
answer: $14.40
C. Calculate Box D if Box D is 63 cents per hour in Box A to cover other taxes and benefits.
answer: $15.12
D. Calculate Box E, which is the value of Box B minus Box C minus Box D.
answer: $150.48
18. Answer these about U.S. President U.S. Grant:
A. The U stood for this name.
answer: Ulysses
B. His second son was nicknamed “Buck” because he was born in this "Buckeye State."
answer: Ohio
C. He called this former President "incontestably the greatest man I have ever known."
answer: Abraham Lincoln
D. Grant's Civil War victory at Chattanooga was preceded by his successful siege of this Mississippi city.
answer: Vicksburg
19. Pencils and paper ready! After 1, give the next four positive integers whose perfect squares end with
the digit 1. As a hint, they're all between 2 and 25.
answer: 9, 11, 19, 21
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20. Answer these about inventions influenced by Thomas Edison:
A. Edison originally called this device an "autographic printer" and intended it to be an engraving device.
It became more popular after Samuel O'Reilly modified it to engrave skin.
answer: tattoo machine or tattoo gun
B. Edison was a big financial backer of Marconi's patents for this popular technology, now available in a
"satellite" version.
answer: radio
C. Many of Edison's first patents were related to improving this 19th-century communications device by
allowing it to print out received messages.
answer: telegraph
D. This Serbian electrical engineer worked for Edison on improvements to electrical power transmission
before developing his own brushless induction motor.
answer: Nikola Tesla
LIGHTNING ROUND 1. WORDS FROM GREEK
1) Total loss of memory
Ans. amnesia
2) Adjective for anything ball-shaped
Ans. spherical
3) A set of 5 events in the Olympics
Ans. (modern) pentathlon
4) The hobby of stamp collecting
Ans. philately [fa-LAT-a-lee]
5) Causing the death of a very ill person as an act of mercy
Ans. euthanasia [yooth-a-NAY-zha]
6) In a submarine, look above water through this device.
Ans. periscope
7) General term for make-up that helps you look better
Ans. cosmetics
8) A drug that kills a bacterial infection
Ans. antibiotic
9) A person in a story
Ans. character
10) An irrational and extreme fear
Ans. panic
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LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –STARTS WITH A
1) First letter of the Greek alphabet
Ans. alpha
2) The two teams involved in college football's annual "Iron Bowl"
Ans. Alabama and Auburn
3) "Strong" mountain range of northwest Africa
Ans. Atlas Mountains
4) State that forms most of the southern border of Missouri
Ans. Arkansas
5) A person representing one country to another country's government
Ans. ambassador
6) “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made…" (3 words)
Ans. all the difference
7) Small mountainous nation between France and Spain
Ans. Andorra
8) Term for a monarch deliberately giving up his throne
Ans. abdicate (or form of word)
9) Hormone produced by the "fight-or-flight" response
Ans. adrenaline
10) Indian tribe that included Cochise
Ans. Apache
LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –CORPORATE SYMBOLS
Give the companies that use or have used these symbols (answers after #10)
1.
2.
3.
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
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10.
1. Nike 2. Adidas 3. Target 4. Apple 5. Shell Oil 6. Mercedes-Benz 7. Starbucks 8. Microsoft
(not Windows) 9. Chrysler (or Dodge) 10. U.S. Postal Service
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BASIC SET 17
TOSSUPS
1. Its original theme song was replaced with a song by Barenaked Ladies. Its characters play games like
"rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock" and love both Indiana Jones and Harry Potter. Name this CBS sitcom
whose main characters Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both physics geniuses.
answer: The Big Bang Theory
2. Pencils and paper ready! If a town with a population of 54,000 people today has a third of its
population move away every 20 years, how many people will live in the town 60 years from now?
answer: 16,000 (54,000 x 2/3 x 2/3 x 2/3)
3. Her current art exhibit in Denver, Colorado emphasizes "her deep respect for the diverse and distinctive
cultures of northern New Mexico." Name this American artist famed for her still lifes and landscapes,
which were exhibited in the "291" art gallery owned by her husband Alfred Stieglitz [steeg-litz].
answer: Georgia O’Keeffe
4. Nearly burned to the ground during the War of 1812, it became one end of the Erie Canal and was later
the home of future U.S. President Millard Fillmore. Name this city in upstate New York that is now
home to sports teams called the Sabres and the Bills.
answer: Buffalo, NY
5. Its current government has asked its Federal Constitutional Court to permanently ban its National
Democratic Party on the grounds that the party promotes an anti-Jewish agenda. Name this European
country that has been especially vigilant in noticing anti-Jewish sentiment since the end of World War II.
answer: Germany
6. Pencils and paper ready! Paula borrows $600 from a friend at simple interest. What is the annual
percentage rate of simple interest if two years later, Paula pays back the whole loan with $636 ?
answer: 3% [36 = 600 (r)(2), so r = 0.03]
7. Bedrooms in many older houses use the "baseboard" method of heating, where hot water travels
through pipes around the borders of the bedroom. Which of the three major methods of heat transfer is
used in heating a house by the "baseboard" method?
answer: convection (hot water creates heat that is circulated through the house)
8. He is considered to have brought the Gospel to Spain. Today, the Mormons say he has been resurrected
and helped give the priesthood to Joseph Smith. Name this patron saint of Spain and son of Zebedee,
found by Jesus while fishing with his brother John.
answer: St. James
9. On one side of the Crimean [cry-MEE-un] War in the 1850's was an alliance of Britain, France and
Turkey. What country that tried to take control of the Crimea from Turkey fought that alliance all by itself
–and lost?
answer: Russia (do not accept Soviet Union)
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10. Defined by Bronsted and Lowry as a proton donor, it can be produced by the decay of organic
material, by the roots of some plants, or in the atmosphere. What general name is given to these chemicals
that all have a pH of less than 7 and whose types include "carbonic", "nitric" and "hydrochloric" ?
answer: acids
11. An SOS call from a dangerous planet is the call to action for its main character to leave the planet
Baab and its blue aliens. Name this 2013 animated film that includes the voices of Sarah Jessica Parker,
Jessica Alba, Ricky Gervais and Brendan Fraser as the astronaut Scorch Supernova.
answer: Escape from Planet Earth
12. In 1951, nearly 100 years after his death, Congress made January 13th an unofficial holiday in his
honor. Name this American composer of the folk songs "Oh, Susannah!" and "Swanee River."
answer: Stephen Foster
13. Since a baby learns to regulate its autonomic nervous system by contact with its mother, one theory
says it results when babies who sleep alone simply have their heart or lungs stop functioning. Name this
condition that kills about 2,000 babies each year, currently for no known reason.
answer: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS
14. Its title object is placed in the Royal Museum, while its title character with extremely sensitive skin
gets married and lives happily ever after. Name this story by Hans Christian Andersen that was made into
the Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress.
answer: The Princess and the Pea
15. In what part of your body are you most likely to find basal [BAZE-ull] cell carcinoma [car-sa-NOma], squamous [SQUAW-muss] cell carcinoma, or malignant melanoma [mell-a-NO-ma]?
answer: they're all types of skin cancer (do not accept "cancer", as question asks for a part of the body)
16. Pencils and paper ready! After 10 games, a sports team's winning percentage is .700, but then they
lose 6 straight games. If they win 4 of their final 6 games, what is their winning percentage at the end of
the year?
answer: .500 (or 1/2) (11 wins, 11 losses)
17. One style of rap music where the singer boasts of his greatness is known as "braggadocio" [brag-aDOE-shee-o], an Italian word meaning "arrogant pretension." Spell the word "braggadocio."
answer: B-R-A-G-G-A-D-O-C-I-O
18. In the fall of 1777, 3 1/2 years before the Articles of Confederation, which governing body of the
United States met at courthouses in Lancaster and York, Pennsylvania?
answer: Second Continental Congress (not "Congress”)
19. It won actress Anne Bancroft both a Tony and an Oscar for her role as a teacher named Annie
Sullivan. Name this play and movie that shows how Annie taught Helen Keller, who spent most of her
life blind and deaf.
answer: The Miracle Worker
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20. Its North and South branches both begin in Colorado and travel through central Nebraska before
joining together for the last 300 miles to meet the Missouri River. Name this river, followed by settlers
along both the Oregon and Mormon trails.
answer: Platte River
21. It is hoped that the one called Didymos that will pass near Earth in 2022 will collide with a spacecraft
to see if such a collision can move it out of its path around the sun. Name this astronomical object,
sometimes considered a "small planet" , whose other examples include Juno and Ceres.
answer: asteroid
22. Supervised by the International Ski Federation, its top athletes at the 2010 Olympics included
Australian Torah Bright and American double gold medalists Seth Wescott and Shaun White. Name this
winter sport whose events include "parallel giant slalom" and "halfpipe."
answer: snowboarding
23. Its species include Kabkab, Gantar, Sayer and Rabbi, while its main types are "soft", "dry" and "semidry." Name this fruit, popular even anciently, that is still one of Iraq's largest exports even though many
palm trees that produce them have been destroyed.
answer: dates
24. It can mean "to hide yourself away", perhaps to work on a project where you need to be alone to get
it finished. Give this word that, as currently used in Washington, also means "to cut federal spending by
making cuts to every part of the national budget."
answer: sequester (accept forms of the word)
FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Name these people you can buy posters of at the "Buffalo Bill" Museum in Golden, Colorado:
A. Her poster calls her "The Peerless Lady Wing-Shot."
answer: Annie Oakley
B. This Lakota Indian chief defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
answer: Sitting Bull
C. This Nez Percé Indian chief is claimed to have said, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no
more forever."
answer: Chief Joseph
D. This group of people has the same name as the group Teddy Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill with
during the Spanish-American War.
answer: Rough Riders
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2. Pencils and paper ready! Give the sums of these pairs of square roots as the square root of another
number. For example, if I said (√8 + √18), you would say "√50", since √8 is 2√2, √18 is 3√2, and the
sum is 5√2, which is √50. (Saying 5√2 in this case is wrong.)
A. √8 + √2
answer: √12 (not 3√2)
B. √27 + √3
answer: √48 (not 4√3)
C. √20 + √5
answer: √45 (not 3√5)
D. √28 + √7
answer: √63 (not 3√7)
3. Answer these about sports stories in recent headlines in the satirical publication The Onion:
A. This South African athlete is said to have sworn before a judge that his bloody cricket bat was in fact
used in a completely different murder.
answer: Oscar Pistorius
B. When this Los Angeles Lakers owner died in February 2013, he is said to have willed the Lakers to
former Laker Luke Walton.
answer: Dr. Jerry Buss
C. This New York Yankee shortstop is said to have taken one step onto the field for his first exhibition
game in 2013 and shattered his balky left ankle in 148 places.
answer: Derek Jeter
D. This longtime Philadelphia Eagles quarterback is quoted as saying he's not sure he can do even as well
as 4 wins and 12 losses next season.
answer: Michael Vick
4. Name these Canadian cities from how they were founded:
A. In 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railroad laid its Last Spike in this far western city.
answer: Vancouver
B. It was mostly English at first but, by 1918, it was mostly French.
answer: Montreal
C. An industrial corridor exists between Calgary and this city to the north.
answer: Edmonton
D. This large city was once called York.
answer: Toronto
5. Pencils and paper ready! A circle has a radius of 2 inches. An angle with its vertex at the angle’s center
forms a slice of the circle that has an area of π square inches.
A. What is the measure of that slice in degrees?
answer: 90 (total area is 4 π, so 1/4 x 360°)
B. In terms of π, calculate the length in inches of the arc of the circle contained in the slice.
answer: π in. (1/4 of 4π circumference)
C. If you need the arc length in the slice to be 2π square inches, what is the measure of such a slice in
degrees?
answer: 180 (half of 4π)
D. If you need a slice to have an area of 3π square inches, what percentage of the circle is needed ?
answer: 75% (3/4)
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6. Considered a planet when it was first discovered in 1930, it is not considered a planet any more.
A. Name this object that was once called "the ninth planet and is farther away from the sun than Neptune.
answer: Pluto
B. That object's largest moon is named for this ferryman of the dead in Greek myth.
answer: Charon
C. Another of its moons is named for this 9-headed monster that battled Hercules; Hercules won by
burning its heads as they were cut off so the heads couldn't grow back.
answer: Hydra
D. One of that object's moons is Nix, the Greek goddess of this.
answer: the darkness
7. These start with L :
A. Middle Eastern country whose capital is Beirut
answer: Lebanon
B. In Handel's Messiah, what 3 words end the phrase, "King of kings and [blank] [blank] [blank]"?
answer: Lord of lords
C. Part of your body that might undergo a pulmonary function test
answer: lungs
D. Smoked salmon fillet, often eaten with cream cheese on bagels
answer: lox
8. Answer these about winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in your lifetime:
A. This current U.S. President won in 2009.
answer: Barack Obama
B. This U.S. President in the late 1970's won the Prize in 2002.
answer: Jimmy Carter
C. This U.S. Vice-President in the 1990's won in 2007.
answer: Al Gore
D. In 2012, a group of countries on this continent won-- basically for not starting a war among themselves
since 1945.
answer: Europe (the European Union won)
9. Answer these about vaccines teenagers need, according to the Center for Disease Control:
A. If you haven't had a varicella [vair-a-SELL-a] shot, get one to avoid this itchy disease.
answer: chicken pox
B. The MCV4 vaccine guards against this inflammation of your brain.
answer: meningitis [men-un-JY-tuss]
C. The PPV vaccine prevents this ailment that causes fluid buildup in your lungs.
answer: pneumonia
D. You need 3 doses of vaccine to guard against the B variety of this liver disease.
answer: hepatitis
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10. Identify these foods commonly eaten by people on a "Mediterranean diet":
A. Your cooking oil should be a "virgin" or "refined" type made from the fruit of this tree.
answer: olive oil
B. Sometimes called a "filbert", you can find it in chocolate truffles, in Oatnut bread, and in Nutella.
answer: hazelnuts
C. Originally made from millet but now from wheat, it is usually steamed and used in a way similar to
rice.
answer: couscous [koose-koose]
D. This large purple vegetable is often used as a substitute for meat.
answer: eggplant
11. Answer these about the artist Donatello:
A. He was an early Renaissance artist that lived in this European country.
answer: Italy
B. He lived in the 1400's, which is considered this century.
answer: 15th century
C. His statue of the bald prophet Habakkuk [ha-BACK-uck] is known by this Halloween nickname.
answer: Zuccone [zoo-KONE-ay] (or Pumpkin)
D. Donatello also did a marble panel of St. George killing one of these mythical animals.
answer: dragon
12. Airplanes commonly fly above it.
A. Name this lowest layer of the earth's atmosphere, where our weather occurs and where temperature
decreases with altitude.
answer: troposphere
B. Airplanes commonly fly above it to minimize this problem during flight.
answer: turbulence or turbulent air
C. This is the second-lowest layer of our atmosphere.
answer: stratosphere
D. This area is between those two layers.
answer: tropopause
13. Pencils and paper ready!
A. In decimal form, calculate the product of two thousandths and six hundredths.
answer: 0.00012 (0.002 x 0.06)
B. Calculate the perimeter of a pentagon with sides 1 2/5 inches long.
answer: 7 inches
C. If you go to the local office-supply store and buy 3 boxes of 100 envelopes, 4 boxes of 60 envelopes,
and 5 boxes of 25 envelopes, how many total envelopes did you buy?
answer: 665
D. On a blueprint scale, if 1/4 inch equals 1 foot, how long is an object that is 4 1/2 inches long on the
blueprint?
answer: 18 feet
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14. Its 2013 movie version stars young Luke Ganalon as a New Mexico boy named Antonio.
A. Name this movie that also features Miriam Colon as the title medicine woman.
answer: Bless Me, Ultima
B. Who wrote the novel Bless Me, Ultima ?
answer: Rudolfo Anaya
C. One reviewer compared the wise Ultima with this character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
answer: Atticus Finch (prompt on "Finch")
D. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird ?
answer: Harper Lee
15. Name the current Supreme Court Justice that is:
A. Most often the "swing vote" in 5-4 decisions.
answer: Anthony Kennedy
B. The Chief Justice of the Court.
answer: John Roberts
C. The only black on the Court.
answer: Clarence Thomas
D. The author of the recent book My Beloved World.
answer: Sonia Sotomayor
16. Myth says that Eris caused it by throwing an apple marked, "To the Most Beautiful."
A. Name this war between ancient Greece and an ancient city.
answer: the Trojan War
B., C. and D. Name the three Greek goddesses who got into a fight when they all reached for the apple at
the same time, a fight settled (momentarily) by Paris.
answer: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite
17. The U.S. is one of five nations to have an Exclusive Economic Zone that extends 200 nautical miles
off their coastlines into the Arctic Ocean. Name the other four.
answer: Canada, Denmark (because it owns Greenland), Norway, Russia
18. Written for the Ballets Russes [bal-lay ROOSE], the 100th anniversary of its first riot-causing
performance is being marked in 2013.
A. Give the English name of this classic ballet about a girl who is sacrificed to appease the gods.
answer: The Rite of Spring
B. Name its Russian composer.
answer: Igor Stravinsky
C. and D. The Rite of Spring was the third of Stravinsky's three major ballets written in the 1910's. Name
the other 2.
answer: Petrushka and The Firebird
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19. Identify these countries from the nicknames given to their 2014 World Cup soccer teams:
A. the Socceroos [soccer-ooze], a name similar to "kangaroos"
answer: Australia
B. Azzurri [a-ZHOOR-ee], this European country's word for "blue"
answer: Italy
C. Los Ticos [TEE-kose] represent this Central American country.
answer: Costa Rica
D. This large South American country's team is called the "Samba Boys."
answer: Brazil
20. Answer these about al-Qaeda's recently-found list of tips to avoid drone attacks:
A. Put reflective pieces of this substance on the roof of a car or of a building.
answer: glass
B. Create cover when needed by setting a pile of these automotive objects on fire.
answer: tires
C. Stay in shadows or other locations unreached by this overhead object.
answer: the sun
D. Hide among these natural objects when possible.
answer: trees
LIGHTNING ROUND 1 –THE 2013 OSCARS
1) This film won Best Picture.
Ans. Argo
2) He won Best Actor for Lincoln.
Ans. Daniel Day-Lewis
3) She won Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook.
Ans. Jennifer Lawrence
4) She won Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables.
Ans. Anne Hathaway
5) It won Best Animated Feature.
Ans. Brave
6) This James Bond movie won for Best Original Song
Ans. Skyfall
7) He hosted the Oscar show.
Ans. Seth MacFarlane
8) Jennifer Hudson sang a song from this musical.
Ans. Dreamgirls
9) He was Best Director for Life of Pi.
Ans. Ang Lee
10) She sang "Everyone Needs a Best Friend."
Ans. Norah Jones
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LIGHTNING ROUND 2 - ANIMALS IN IDIOMS
Give the animal (singular or plural) that fills in each of these blanks.
1) Eat like a [blank], or "to eat very little"
Ans. bird
2) At a [blank]'s __________ pace, or "to go very slowly"
Ans. snail
3) Open a can of [blanks], or "to bring up a difficult problem"
Ans. worms
4) To cook someone’s [blank], or "to ruin someone's plan"
Ans. goose
5) A cold [blank], or "a person who has little human kindness"
Ans. fish
6) [Blank] got your tongue, or "you’re not saying anything"
Ans. cat
7) To throw to the [blank], or "to put in a dangerous position"
Ans. wolves
8) Naked as a [blank], or "having no clothes on at all"
Ans. jaybird
9) A lame [blank], or "a politician in office but not re-elected"
Ans. duck
10) To buy a [blank] in a poke, or "to purchase without looking"
Ans. pig
LIGHTNING ROUND 3. HUMAN BIOLOGY ABC
Each of these answers begins with A, B, or C.
1) Blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart
Ans. artery
2) Hormone that produces an energy spurt in dangerous situations
Ans. adrenaline
3) The part of your brain that does the thinking
Ans. cerebrum
4) Tooth between the molars and canines that has two points
Ans. bicuspid
5) Teenage skin problem caused by plugged oil glands
Ans. acne
6) Single-celled organism that can aid in digestion or cause disease
Ans. bacteria
7) Bone between the sternum and the scapula
Ans. collarbone or clavicle
8) Clear tissue that covers the iris and pupil of your eye
Ans. cornea
9) Muscle in your upper arm that has two heads
Ans. biceps brachii
10) Chemical element needed for healthy teeth and bones
Ans. calcium
END OF BASIC SET 17
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BASIC SET 18
TOSSUPS
1. Its beaches contain sand from a volcanic eruption 9 million years ago, leading to speculation that an
entire continent is hidden beneath the Indian Ocean. Name this island nation, once the only home of the
dodo bird, that is some 2,000 miles off the east coast of Africa and has a capital city at Port Louis.
answer: Mauritius [ma-RISH-uss]
2. Pencils and paper ready! Solve this equation for x: the square root of the quantity (x – 1) equals 3.
answer: x = 10 (square both sides to get x – 1 = 9)
3. In the 1920's, he designed the Weissenhof Exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany. Later on, he designed
some apartments on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive and the Seagram Building in New York City.Name this
artist for whom "less was more."
answer: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (prompt on partial answers) [meez van da row]
4. As Governor of New York, he could not defeat Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. Name this Republican who
was probably winning the 1948 election until the last few days, a fact that embarrassed the Chicago Daily
Tribune after it printed a headline saying he'd defeated Harry Truman when he hadn't.
answer: Thomas Dewey
5. The substance called "laudanum", used and abused in Europe throughout the 19th century, is a tincture
of--what addictive painkilling substance that comes from a poppy and is used today to make useful
narcotics like morphine ?
answer: opium
6. Pencils and paper ready! A boy in the National Spelling Bee knows 450 of the 500 possible words in
the first round and 25% of the words that will be used in the second round. In lowest terms, give the
probability as a fraction that the boy will still be in the competition after Round 2 because he's spelled
both of his words correctly.
answer: 9/40 (9/10 x 1/4)
7. In science, "accuracy" refers to the "rightness" or "wrongness" of an observed answer. What term refers
to an answer that, though it may not be accurate, is obtained repeatedly in each of several observations?
answer: precision or precise answer
8. Narrated by a man known only as "The Tenderfoot", its title character is a man from the East who
never reveals his name, either. But he comes west in the late 1800's and eventually marries the
schoolteacher Molly Wood. Name this classic Western novel, written by Owen Wister.
answer: The Virginian
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9. His first few months in power saw the Great Fire of 1547 that destroyed most of Moscow. His reign
saw the building of St. Basil's Cathedral, as well as frequent bouts of mental illness that led to the death of
those around him. Name this "frightening" ruler, the first Czar Of All The Russias.
answer: Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible
10. It has no definite volume, expands or contracts to fit the shape of its container, and has molecules that
are constantly banging into each other. Name this state of matter, often created by heating a liquid until it
boils.
answer: gas
11. Originally a dance called the "albee", its creator said it was the only thing an ancient Egyptian
mummy could have done to simulate dancing. In 2013, an unrelated song by the same name went viral,
partly because of its sounds of a growling lion. Give the 2-word title of this song, named for a mostlyblack area of New York City.
answer: the Harlem Shake
12. Because his mother's piano teacher had been a student of Franz Liszt, he started the piano early, which
allowed him to play with the Houston Symphony at age 12. Name this pianist who died in February 2013,
still most famous for his 1958 victory at Moscow's first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition.
answer: Harvey "Van" Cliburn
13. Aversion of it was used in both world wars, but its current setup dates from 1948. Established as an
independent government agency, its purpose is managing a military draft if needed. So, despite there no
longer being a military draft in the U.S., what government agency still requires all 18-year-old men to
register with it?
answer: Selective Service System
14. He made the world's first full-length animated musical movie during the Depression. Later on, he
made more classic films for children like Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi. Identify this American
businessman whose company now owns ESPN and several amusement parks named for him.
answer: Walt Disney
15. She was cursed by Zeus to swallow a lot of water three times a day and then release it. Name this
creature of myth whose water adventures created a huge whirlpool that sank many ships who came near it
during their attempts to avoid the multi-headed sea monster Scylla.
answer: Charybdis [ca-RIB-dus]
16. Pencils and paper ready! The point (x, y) is the midpoint of a line segment between (7, 6) and
(-9, -4). What is the product xy ?
answer: -1 (-1 x 1)
17. It means "the period for which an office or position is held", such as the presidency of an
organization. Give this 6-letter word that is also what professors aspire to because once they have been
granted it by a college, they can’t be fired.
answer: tenure
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18. New research indicates that this party was even worse than has long been known: it created more than
42,000 ghettos, slave labor sites, and facilities for housing and killing people during its 12-year reign of
terror. Name this German political party that controlled much of Europe between 1933 and 1945 under
the regime of Adolf Hitler.
answer: National Socialist (or Nazi) Party
19. He seems a decent enough worker that he could get another job rather than continue to work for a
miser who keeps his office freezing cold. But in the end, his patience is rewarded when he gets a raise
after his boss has three spirits visit him on Christmas Eve. Name this employee of Ebenezer Scrooge and
father of Tiny Tim in the Dickens story A Christmas Carol.
answer: Bob Cratchit
20. Its highest point, Mount Katahdin, is part of the extension of the White Mountains from New
Hampshire, the only state it borders. Name this "Pine Tree State" that borders the Canadian provinces of
Quebec and New Brunswick and is America's easternmost state.
answer: Maine
21. Samuel Heinrich Schwabe [SHVAW-ba] showed that their numbers regularly vary. Low periods of
them included the Maunder Minimum of the late 17th century. Identify these dark regions that are cooler
than the sun's surrounding photosphere.
answer: sunspots
22. When he came to the Orlando Magic, he was known only as a great shooter based on his career at
Duke. But in his 7 years in the league, he has improved to the point that Orlando traded him in 2013
instead of losing him as a free agent. Name this basketball player, now with the Milwaukee Bucks.
answer: J.J. Redick
23. In 2009, it finally accepted the Limbang district that divides it into two parts as officially belonging to
its neighbor Malaysia. Name this tiny Asian nation, run by a fabulously wealthy sultan, that borders the
South China Sea and shares the island of Borneo with Malaysia.
answer: Brunei
24. Used as a technique of nonviolent resistance by both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, what
two-word phrase describes the refusal to obey a law thought to be unjust or morally wrong even if you get
put in jail for that refusal?
answer: civil disobedience
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. In February 2013, it was the site of a hot air balloon explosion that killed a group of foreign tourists.
A. Name this Egyptian city that contains many of the country's ancient ruins.
answer: Luxor
B. This temple complex, just north of Luxor, contains a Great Hypostyle Hall.
answer: Karnak
C. This valley, across the Nile from Luxor, contains many ancient tombs.
answer: Valley of the Kings
D. This young king's tomb was found in that valley in 1922 by Howard Carter.
answer: King Tutankhamen
2. Now a World Historic site, it is officially considered the Historical Capital of Peru.
A. Name this Peruvian city that is not the capital now.
answer: Cusco [COO-sko]
B. Name the Empire of which that city was the capital.
answer: Incan Empire
C. Name the Spanish conquistador who took over that city in the mid-1500's.
answer: Francisco Pizarro
D. Name the last emperor of that empire, captured and executed by that conquistador.
answer: Atahualpa
3. Name these Broadway musicals:
A. She and her dog Sandy go from an orphanage to the home of billionaire Daddy Warbucks.
answer: Annie
B. "Robert Louis Stevenson's classic about a kindly, humane doctor who develops a potion that allows his
brutal, animalistic side to emerge."
answer: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
C. This show, based on an animated film, features the song "A Whole New World."
answer: Aladdin
D. "The tale of…Jack Kelly, who dreams of a better life far from the hardship of the streets."
answer: Newsies
4. Answer these about the Articles of the U.S. Constitution:
A. Article 1 says this governing body shall consist of two people from each state.
answer: the Senate
B. Article 1 also says a member of the House of Representatives must be this minimum age.
answer: 25
C. Article 2 requires the President not only to be native born, but also to have lived in the U.S. for this
minimum number of years.
answer: 14 years
D. Article 3, Section 3 defines this crime as "levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to
their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
answer: treason
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5. Pencils and paper ready! In terms of π as needed, give the surface area of each of these objects:
A. A sphere with radius 4 cm
answer: 64π cm2 (4π x 4 x 4)
B. A right circular cone with radius 4 cm and slant height 5 cm
answer: 36π cm2 [(π x 4 x 4) + (π x 4 x 5)]
C. A right circular cylinder with radius 4 cm and height 5 cm
answer: 72π cm2 [(2π x 4 x 5) + (2π x 4 x 4)]
D. A cube with sides 4 cm
answer: 96 cm2 [(4 x 4) x 6]
6. The 8 element groups in the periodic table that were once indicated by Roman numerals have been
replaced by 18 groups, one for each column. I will name a set of elements within a group; you give the
number of the column where that group is found:
A. Nitrogen, bismuth, phosphorus
answer: Group 15
B. Magnesium, calcium, strontium
answer: Group 2
C. Copper, silver, gold
answer: Group 11
D. Helium, neon, argon
answer: Group 18
7. The Catholic Archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil was thought to be a serious candidate to replace Pope
Benedict XVI. Name the European home countries of these other cardinals who could also have gotten
the job:
A. Philippe Barbarin [fa-LEEP bar-ba-RAN]
answer: France
B. Angelo Scola
answer: Italy
C. Christoph Schönborn [SHERN-born]
answer: Austria
D. Antonio Llovera [yo-VAIR-a]
answer: Spain
8. Name the century in which each of these explorers made the given journeys:
A. Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence Seaway.
answer: 16th century or 1500's
B. Lewis and Clark explored the western United States.
answer: 19th century or 1800's
C. Henry Hudson tried to find the Northwest Passage.
answer: 17th century or 1600's
D. Christopher Columbus first arrived in the New World.
answer: 15th century or 1400's
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9. In February 2013, British scientists discovered that the sea urchin uses a common metal to turn carbon
dioxide into part of its shell.
A. The sea urchin is part of this group of sea creatures that includes the starfish.
answer: echinoderms or Echinodermata
B. What metallic element, used by sea urchins to incorporate carbon dioxide into their shells, is
sometimes used in coins and can cause allergic skin reactions ?
answer: nickel
C. What compound that makes up most of a sea urchin's shell is also part of a pearl and of an eggshell ?
answer: calcium carbonate
D. Give the chemical formula for that compound.
answer: CaCO3
10. Name the actor or actress who plays each of these characters on the TV series NCIS Los Angeles:
A. This rapper plays Special Agent Sam Hanna.
answer: LL Cool J (or James Smith)
B. She plays Special Agent Kensi Blye.
answer: Daniela Rush
C. She plays Operations Manager Hetty Lange.
answer: Linda Hunt
D. He plays Special Agent G. Callen.
answer: Chris O'Donnell
11. Name these places traveled to by Lemuel Gulliver:
A. This place contained very small people.
answer: Lilliput
B. This place contained giants.
answer: Brobdingnag
C. This place is the only real country Gulliver visits in the whole book.
answer: Japan
D. Gulliver also takes a trip to this place, where he meets Julius Caesar.
answer: Glubbdubdrib
12. Name the countries with these highest mountains:
A. Mount Olympus is in this European country.
answer: Greece
B. Ben Nevis is in this European country.
answer: England (or equivalents)
C. Mount Chimborazo [cheem-bo-RAW-so] is in this South American country.
answer: Ecuador
D. Mont Blanc is in this European country.
answer: France or Italy (it's on the border)
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13. Its plot is described as, "The ancient war between humans and [another race] is reignited when [its
title character]…opens a gateway between the two worlds."
A. Name this 2013 fantasy movie.
answer: Jack the Giant Slayer
B. What young actor plays Jack, the Giant Slayer ?
answer: Nicholas Hoult
C. Name the actress who plays Jack's romantic interest, Princess Isabella.
answer: Eleanor Tomlinson
D. The lead bad guy in this movie has two of these, played by different actors.
answer: heads
14. In Greek myth, the god Zeus often cheated on his wife.
A. He came to Danae disguised as this and fathered Perseus with her.
answer: a golden shower
B. He carried Europa off, disguised as this animal.
answer: a bull
C. He came to Leda as this animal and fathered Helen of Troy with her.
answer: a swan
D. He fathered Hercules with this maiden.
answer: Alcmene
15. Pencils and paper ready! A candy store sells three different candies: X at $3 per pound, Y at $6 per
pound and Z at $12 per pound. How much should a 1-pound package cost that is:
A. Equal parts of all three candies ?
answer: $7.00 (average of 3, 6 and 12)
B. 25% X, 40% Y and 35% Z ?
answer: $7.35 (0.75 + 2.40 + 4.20)
C. 10% X and equal parts the other two ?
answer: $8.40 (0.30 + 2.70 + 5.40)
D. 40% X and equal parts the other two ?
answer: $6.60 (1.20 + 1.80 + 3.60)
16. Name the title characters of these Grimm's Fairy Tales:
A. It involves a gingerbread house , a very hot oven and a wicked witch.
answer: Hansel and Gretel
B. Its title character is so small that he can fit in a horse's ear or a wolf's stomach.
answer: Tom Thumb or Thumbling
C. Its title characters are a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster.
answer: The Bremen Town Musicians
D. A set of title characters make footwear for the other title character.
answer: The Elves and the Shoemaker
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17. Answer these about author Joel Garreau's book The Nine Nations of North America:
A. One of his "nations" is this Southern area of the U.S., which he calls by this Civil War-era name.
answer: Dixie
B. Another is "The Islands", which is specifically the southern part of this state.
answer: Florida
C. This term he gives to the sparsely-populated area between Denver and Los Angeles shares its 2-word
name with the desert area that contains most of Saudi Arabia.
answer: the Empty Quarter
D. He calls the western areas of these two Pacific Northwest states part of "Ecotopia."
answer: Washington and Oregon
18. Answer these about volcanoes:
A. If lava contains a large percentage of silica, the lava is called by this adjective.
answer: felsic
B. Japan's Mount Fuji is an example of this type, made partly by lava flows and partly by ejected
material.
answer: stratovolcano or composite volcano
C. The Soufriere [soo-freer] Hills volcano is found on this Caribbean island owned by the British.
answer: Montserrat
D. The volcano Krakatoa that erupted in 1883 is found on this Asian island nation.
answer: Indonesia
19. Answer these about managers for the 2013 World Baseball Classic:
A. The U.S. team was managed by this former Yankees and Dodgers manager.
answer: Joe Torre
B. This two-time defending champion team was managed by Koji Yamamoto but did not win in 2013.
answer: Japan
C. One of this European country's assistant coaches was Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven, who was
born there.
answer: Holland or the Netherlands
D. This Asian country's manager was former Seattle Mariners skipper John McLaren.
answer: China (not Taiwan)
20. When the Ghent Altarpiece is fully open, you can see 12 panels, with Adam and Eve at the top.
A. Name the country where you'd find it in the city of Ghent.
answer: Belgium
B. Give the last name of the 15th-century artist brothers Hubert and Jan who created it.
answer: Van Eyck [ike]
C. This patron saint of travelers is prominently featured.
answer: St. Christopher
D. One of the Altarpiece's paintings is of this naked woman, holding an apple.
answer: Eve
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1 –GIFTS
1) Synonym for “gift” that can also mean “right now”
Ans. present
2) The 3 wise men from the East who took gifts to infant Jesus
Ans. Magi
3) Wedding anniversary traditionally honored by gifts of silver
Ans. 25th
4)Alliterative name for Santa Claus
Ans. Kris Kringle
5) Eight-day Jewish holiday during which gifts are often given
Ans. Hanukkah
6) Gift the ancient Greeks gave to Troy
Ans. Trojan horse
7) Poisoned gift the queen brought to Snow White
Ans. apple
8) Rich American family who donated land for U.N. headquarters
Ans. Rockefeller
9) The U.S got it for 2 cents an acre from Russia—almost a gift
Ans. Alaska
10) 2-word term for a gift not wanted or needed, often exchanged at parties Ans. white elephant
LIGHTNING ROUND 2 – RUSSIAN HISTORY
1) He is considered the founder of the Soviet Union.
Ans. V.I. Lenin
2) He was Russia's dictator during World War II.
Ans. Josef Stalin
3) He was the last Communist ruler of the former Soviet Union.
Ans. Mikhail Gorbachev
4) Nickname of Ivan III, who preceded Ivan IV "the Terrible"
Ans. the Great
5) 3-word phrase for the chaotic period 1606-1613
Ans. Time of Troubles
6) He is Russia's current President.
Ans. Vladimir Putin
7) This dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.
Ans. Romanov dynasty
8) The capital, once St. Petersburg, is now this city.
Ans. Moscow
9) This Czar was removed in the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Ans. Nicholas II
10) Crown Prince Alexei, murdered in 1918, had this genetic disease.
Ans. hemophilia
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH P
1) Large ancient bird
Ans. pterodactyl
2) National currency of Mexico
Ans. peso
3) It contains 16 liquid ounces.
Ans. pint
4) When one of these gets clogged on your face, you'll develop a zit.
Ans. pore
5) Result of a cucumber left in a brine vat
Ans. pickle
6) Term for someone who loves to play with fire
Ans. pyromaniac
7) French ballet word for "keeping the back straight while bending knees out"
Ans. plié [plee-ay]
8) Body position often seen at the beginning of a dive
Ans. pike
9) Animal often called a "mountain lion" or "panther"
Ans. puma
10) Lloyd Alexander fantasy novel set: The Chronicles of …
Ans. Prydain
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BASIC SET 19
TOSSUPS
1. His new series of stories is called "All the Wrong Questions" and begins with a book called "Who
Could That Be At This Hour?" Name this American writer whose more popular series of books so far
tells of the Baudelaire orphans who experience "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
answer: Lemony Snicket (or Daniel Handler)
2. Pencils and paper ready! A pair of "twin prime" numbers are prime numbers whose difference is 2.
Give the pair of "twin prime" numbers whose sum is 60.
answer: 29 and 31 (both needed) [x + (x + 2) = 60]
3. It is usually performed in concert without scenery or costumes. Name this type of large-scale vocal
composition, exemplified by Handel's famous Messiah.
answer: oratorio
4. Only the threat of being treated as a foreign nation by the other 12 colonies convinced it to ratify the
U.S. Constitution in 1790. Those born there include the founder of its Brown University. Name this tiny
state whose early residents included Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams.
answer: Rhode Island
5. The "lady slipper" is just one type of orchid that has been shown to be related to--what green vegetable
that grows in "spears" ?
answer: asparagus
6. It helps connect your elbow to your wrist and runs parallel to the ulna. Identify this bone that, in math,
is the name of the distance between the center of a circle and any point on the edge, a distance equal to
half the diameter.
answer: radius
7. When you're standing up and moving around, it's easy to keep standing up and moving around—but as
soon as you sit down, you don't want to get up again for a long time. This is one non-scientific example
of—what law of physics that says "bodies in motion tend to stay in motion; bodies at rest want to stay at
rest" ?
answer: inertia (accept Newton's First Law)
8. He was saved from death at the hands of an angel-- but only by an obedient donkey. Name this Old
Testament prophet, hired by Balak to curse Israel, who, to Balak's anger, ended up blessing Israel instead.
answer: Balaam [bay-lum]
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9. The Mexican soldiers stationed there in the early 1800's nicknamed it from the Spanish for
"cottonwood." After being lost during the Texas Revolution, it was recaptured by Mexican general Santa
Anna after a battle that saw the death of both Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett. Name this building in San
Antonio, now considered the "Shrine of Texas Liberty."
answer: the Alamo
10. It can be weak (as in "London" or "hydrogen") or strong (as in covalent or ionic). Name this type of
physical bond between atoms that is caused by attraction between opposite charges.
answer: chemical bond
11. Its new Windows version for 2013 includes multiplayer capability, a new engine called GlassBox,
curved roads and more zoning possibilities that allow you to build anything from colleges to casinos.
Name this popular urban simulation game by Electronic Arts.
answer: SimCity
12. His artwork will live forever, including the tall white-haired man with a beard known as "Uncle Sam."
Name this American cartoonist who symbolized the Republican Party by an elephant and the Democratic
Party by a donkey.
answer: Thomas Nast
13. It is the only Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that was ratified by state conventions instead of by
state legislatures. Its general effect was an increase in crime and a decrease in respect for the law. Name
this Amendment that allowed alcohol again after more than a decade of Prohibition created by the 18th
Amendment.
answer: 21st Amendment
14. Like a medical doctor, a doctor who goes by this title can specialize in a certain area of the body.
Name this type of medical professional, different from a chiropractor, whose practice is based on the idea
that musculoskeletal problems cause other disorders and who holds a D.O. degree.
answer: osteopath
15. Pencils and paper ready! Convert the Roman numeral CCCLXXXII to an Arabic numeral.
answer: 382
16. This term comes from the Latin for "small square." A semi-regular one can use any of eight polygons,
while a regular one can use only triangles, squares or hexagons. Give this math term for creating a twodimensional plane by using shapes in a way that creates repetition without spaces or gaps.
answer: tessellation
17. It is used by astronomers to describe the Earth’s annual movement around the Sun. Give this word
that can also mean "the act of removing the leader of a country without using an election", such as the one
underway now in Syria and the one that made America free of England.
answer: revolution
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18. After getting his M.D. degree, this eye doctor moved to Kentucky and got into politics like his father.
Once elected to the U.S. Senate in 2011, he helped created the Senate Tea Party Caucus. Give the first
and last name of this Senator and son of Ron who made headlines for his 13-hour filibuster on the Senate
floor in March 2013.
answer: Rand Paul
19. It has been converted to a musical in 2013. Name this Jane Austen novel, now considered her second
most popular, that ends after Edward Ferrars is married to Elinor and Colonel Brandon is married to
Elinor's sister Marianne Dashwood.
answer: Sense and Sensibility
20. Its northern border area contains the ancient Kingdom of Axum, while its large rivers make up most
of what becomes the Nile. Name this nation, bordered by Sudan on the northwest and Kenya on the south,
that contains most of the population of the Horn of Africa and whose capital is Addis Ababa [ADD-us
AB-a-ba].
answer: Ethiopia
21. It can be induced by some drugs, may be correctable by LASIK surgery in some cases, and is often
caused in school-age children by putting books they're reading too close to their faces. Identify this eye
disorder, often called "nearsightedness."
answer: myopia (prompt on "nearsightedness" before it is said)
22. Three years after it last won the Stanley Cup under coach Joel Quenneville, it is a top contender again
on the strength of its record unbeaten streak. Name this National Hockey League team that had avoided
loss for fully half of this shortened regular season before finally losing to the Colorado Avalanche.
answer: Chicago or Blackhawks
23. Some scientists now think that its possible use as a place for religious worship was less important than
its use as a cemetery for prehistoric rulers. Name this ancient landmark near Salisbury, England that is
famed for its huge and carefully placed rocks.
answer: Stonehenge
24. At age 22, this Matt Damon lookalike was the world's highest-rated chess player and now hopes to
add the World Championship to his 2013 list of accomplishments that already includes the highest Elo
[ee-lo] rating in history. Name this young Norwegian chess star.
answer: (Sven) Magnus Carlsen
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FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Complete these sayings from the Biblical book of Psalms
A. "The Lord is my [blank]; I shall not want."
answer: shepherd
B. "Out of the mouths of [blanks] and sucklings hast thou ordained strength."
answer: babes
C. "Oh, that I had wings like a [blank]!"
answer: dove
D. "Sit thou at my right hand, until I make mine enemies thy [blank]."
answer: footstool
2. Give the most common meanings of these mathematical symbols:
A. Sideways figure 8
answer: infinity
B. Exclamation point
answer: factorial
C. Upside-down capital U
answer: intersection
D. Backwards capital E
answer: there exists a …
3. Answer these about works by Felix Mendelssohn:
A. Several of his sets of Songs Without Words each include a piece that reminds you of the gondolas in
this Italian city.
answer: Venice
B. Many of his titles contain the German word Fruehling [FROO-ling], which is this season of the year.
answer: spring
C. "Italian" and "Reformation" are both nicknames of these works of his.
answer: symphony or symphonies
D. He wrote the melody to this Christmas carol that proclaims, "Glory to the newborn King!"
answer: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!
4. Name the countries served by each of these airports named for former leaders:
A. Charles de Gaulle, named for this European country's one-time Prime Minister.
answer: France
B. Ben Gurion Airport, named for this Middle Eastern nation's first Prime Minister.
answer: Israel
C. Benazir Bhutto Airport, named for this Muslim nation's first female Prime Minister.
answer: Pakistan
D. Augusto Sandino Airport, named for a leader in this Central American nation
answer: Nicaragua
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5. Answer these about Tolkien's novel The Hobbit (the one before The Lord of the Rings):
A. In the beginning, this hobbit is visited by 13 dwarves.
answer: Bilbo Baggins (prompt on a partial answer)
B. The hobbit takes the Ring away from this creature.
answer: Gollum
C. This dragon is killed later on.
answer: Smaug
D. Gandalf tricks these creatures into staying up all night and turning to stone.
answer: trolls
6. Viking warriors slain in battle hoped to enter this heavenly place in Norse mythology.
A. Name this location.
answer: Valhalla
B. Name the group of women who escorted you there if you were particularly brave.
answer: valkyries [val-KEER-eez]
C. Name the official drink of that location.
answer: mead
D. Name the Norse god who presides over that location.
answer: Odin
7. In the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, five fictional characters team up to defeat the
Sherlock Holmes nemesis Professor Moriarty.
A. One of those five is this captain of Jules Verne's submarine Nautilus.
answer: Captain Nemo
B. A second is Rodney Skinner, a name used by this H.G. Wells title character.
answer: The Invisible Man
C. One was Mina Harker, a woman who met this vampire personally.
answer: Dracula
D. Though this Oscar Wilde character was supposed to be a good guy, he turns out to be working with
Moriarty and dies after he is forced to look at a nasty portrait of himself.
answer: Dorian Gray
8. 2013 marks 75 years since the Nazis took over this neighboring country without firing a shot.
A. Name this European country.
answer: Austria
B. Give the German word for "annexation" or "unification" commonly used to describe this 1938
takeover.
answer: the Anschluss [ON-shlus]
C. In the movie version of The Sound of Music, this local "Gauleiter" [GOW-lite-ur] scolds Captain von
Trapp for not hoisting a Nazi flag.
answer: Herr Zeller
D. Give the German word for "living space" that Adolf Hitler claimed Germany needed as a cover for
expanding German borders far to the east.
answer: lebensraum [LAYB-unz-raum]
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9. Answer these about testing minerals to see what they are:
A. If you put this type of acid on a rock containing calcium carbonate, the rock will start to fizz.
answer: hydrochloric acid or HCl
B. If you put acid on a rock and it smells like rotten eggs, the rock probably has this chemical element.
answer: sulfur or S
C. If you lick a rock and it tastes like salt, it’s probably this mineral.
answer: halite [HAY-light]
D. If you put a compass near a mineral and the needle moves, the mineral probably has this physical
property.
answer: it's magnetic
10. Name the four jumping events in Olympic track and field.
answer: pole vault, long jump, triple jump , high jump
11. Answer these about the Hermitage art museum:
A. Its name came from this Russian empress, who lamented she was the only one who could see
everything in it.
answer: Catherine II or Catherine the Great
B. It is located in this Russian city, once the capital of the country.
answer: St. Petersburg, Russia
C. After World War II, the museum gained many Heinrich Schliemann artifacts from this ancient city that
fought against Greece in the Odyssey.
answer: Troy
D. The Hermitage has one room named for this 16th-century Venetian artist who painted Venus of Urbino.
answer: Titian
12. Name these animals you find only in South America:
A. This fish is famed for its razor-sharp teeth.
answer: piranha
B. This huge snake is South America's equivalent of the python.
answer: anaconda
C. This world's largest rodent with the face of a squirrel and the body of a massive guinea pig is an
anaconda's favorite treat.
answer: capybara
D. This long animal is related to the alligator and crocodile.
answer: caiman
13. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate each of the following in terms of π, assuming a radius of 6 inches:
A. The circumference of a circle.
answer: 12 π in. (2 π r)
B. The area of a circle.
answer: 36 π sq. in. (π r2)
C. The surface area of a sphere.
answer: 144 π sq. in. (4 π r2)
D. The volume of a sphere
answer: 288 π cu. in. (4/3 π r3)
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14. Listen carefully to the following sentence so you can identify the parts of speech it contains: "I buzzed
needlessly early and incurred the wrath of my teammates." Now identify the:
A. Coordinating conjunction.
answer: and
B. Personal pronoun.
answer: I ("my" is considered an adjective in this case)
C. Two verbs.
answer: buzzed and incurred
D. Two adverbs.
answer: needlessly and early
15. Answer these about U.S. President Woodrow Wilson:
A. He was President during this major armed conflict.
answer: World War I
B. He suffered this health event during his second term.
answer: a stroke
C. Thus, this second wife of his basically ran the country for about 18 months.
answer: Edith Wilson
D. Before that, he bought what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands for $25 million from this country.
answer: Denmark
16. Pencils and paper ready! A 100-gallon water tank has three inlet pipes and one outlet pipe. Pipe W
adds 2 gallons per minute, pipe X adds 3 gallons per minute, pipe Y adds 5 gallons per minute, and pipe Z
removes water at 6 gallons per minute. How long does the tank take to fill up if:
A. Only Pipe W is used?
answer: 50 minutes (100/2)
B. Pipe W is on for 10 minutes, and then pipes X and Y are also turned on? (Make sure to add in the first
10 minutes!)
answer: 18 minutes (after first 10 minutes, 80/10)
C. All 3 pipes are on for 5 minutes, and then only Pipe Y is left on? (Make sure to add in the first 5
minutes!)
answer: 15 minutes (after first 5 minutes, 50/5)
D. All 4 pipes are turned on at the same time when the tank is empty?
answer: 25 minutes (4 gal/minute net input)
17. A group of women from Nepal are now working toward climbing the highest mountain on each of
Earth's 7 continents and have already climbed Mount Everest.
A. They have scaled this Russian mountain, considered Europe's highest…
answer: Mount Elbrus
B. …and this highest peak in Australia.
answer: Mount Kosciuszko [ka-CHOO-sko]
C. Still to come is Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak on this continent…
answer: Africa
D. …and this highest peak in Antarctica.
answer: Mount Vinson (or Vinson Massif)
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18. Its right shoulder is the red star Betelgeuse [BAIT-ul-joose].
A. Name this constellation, commonly called "the Hunter."
answer: Orion [o-RYE-un]
B. This blue-white star is at Orion's left knee.
answer: Rigel [REE-gull]
C. This Zodiac constellation is near Orion, as if the two were fighting each other.
answer: Taurus the bull
D. Three stars in a row represent this article of Orion's clothing.
answer: belt
19. Name these cities where the 2013 World Baseball Classic was contested:
A. The U.S. played its first-round games in this southwestern city against Canada, Mexico and Italy.
answer: Phoenix, AZ
B. It played its second-round games in this southeastern city against Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic
and Italy again.
answer: Miami, FL
C. One round was played in this largest city in Japan.
answer: Tokyo
D. The final game was played in this city that boasts the defending World Series champions.
answer: San Francisco, CA
20. Answer these about Rand Paul's 2013 filibuster:
A. He was postponing a vote on this man's nomination as head of the CIA.
answer: John Brennan
B. He did it to get an answer on the Obama Administration's policy of using these unmanned aircraft.
answer: drones
C. That answer was officially given by this Attorney General…
answer: Eric Holder
D. …who officially said that attacking American citizens with an unarmed aircraft violates this important
document.
answer: the U.S. Constitution
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LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – NEW ORLEANS
1) Quarterback of the New Orleans Saints
Ans. Drew Brees
2) Stadium that hosts the Sugar Bowl
Ans. the Superdome
3) New Orleans college, nicknamed the Green Wave
Ans. Tulane Univ.
4) Hurricane that hit the city in 2005
Ans. Hurricane Katrina
5) French Impressionist who lived in New Orleans
Ans. Edgar Degas [day-GAW]
6) This form of folk music often includes a washboard.
Ans. zydeco
7) Winner at the War of 1812's Battle of New Orleans
Ans. Andrew Jackson
8) Stew/soup combination with varieties like Cajun and Creole
Ans. gumbo
9) Nickname for the city, as well as a type of dinner roll—or moon
Ans. Crescent City
10) Thomas Jefferson's Vice-President who wanted New Orleans as a capital to start his own country
Ans. Aaron Burr
LIGHTNING ROUND 2. PAINTERS AND THEIR WORKS
Name the painters of these works often studied in quizbowl.
1) The Death of General Wolfe
Ans. Benjamin West
2) The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Ans. El Greco (or D. Theotokópoulos)
3) The Adoration of the Magi
Ans. Sandro Botticelli
4) The Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
Ans. Edouard Manet [man-NAY]
5) Watson and the Shark
Ans. John Singleton Copley
6) Impression: Sunrise
Ans. Claude Monet
7) Moulin de la Galette
Ans. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
8) Liberty Leading the People
Ans. Eugene Delacroix [del-a-kwaw]
9) Miracle of the Slave
Ans. Tintoretto
10) The Arnolfini Wedding
Ans. Jan van Eyck (first name/initial needed)
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LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH R
1) Pumpernickel bread contains flour from this grain.
Ans. rye
2) Two numbers whose product equals one
Ans. reciprocals
3) A missed basketball shot creates one of these.
Ans. rebound
4) To spin a circle around the origin or move your tires from front to rear
Ans. rotate
5) Musical term for gradually slowing the tempo
Ans. ritardando
6) To put a cassette tape or VHS tape back to the beginning to allow replay
Ans. rewind
7) Hawks, eagles, falcons and vultures all belong to this family of predator birds Ans. raptors
8) Artistic term for a practice session before a performance
Ans. rehearsal
9) Founder of Jehovah's Witnesses
Ans. Charles T. Russell
10) To give up a chess game before being checkmated
Ans. resign
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BASIC SET 20
TOSSUPS
1. His policies try to prevent deflation by, among other things, keeping interest rates at zero and printing
vast quantities of money to depreciate the U.S. dollar. Name this economist who is now Chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board.
answer: Ben Bernanke
2. It is about 95% "aggregate" (like sand, gravel and crushed stone), combined with about 5% black
"cement" or "binder", made from petroleum, to hold the aggregate together. Identify this substance,
commonly used in roofing shingles and highway pavement.
answer: asphalt
3. A portrait of him wearing a feathered cap has now been authenticated as a self-portrait. It has been
hanging in a British castle for years, part of a previous collection of Dutch and Flemish art. Name this
Dutch artist of The Stoning of Saint Stephen and The Night Watch.
answer: Rembrandt van Rijn
4. His 10-month crime spree through the Midwest in 1934 included bank robberies with his gang that
included "Baby Face" Nelson. He was located with the help of "Anna Sage", who became known as the
"lady in red." Name this criminal who was killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
answer: John Dillinger
5. He makes up for his shortness of stature by having incredibly long arms. Though he has played for the
same NFL team ever since he was drafted out of Louisville, that status is now in question after a snafu
involving a fax machine fouled up his contract and accidentally made him a free agent. Name this former
defensive end for the Denver Broncos.
answer: Elvis Dumervil [DOO-mur-vil]
6. Pencils and paper ready! Give the next fractional term in the geometric sequence 5/7, 15/28, 45/112, ...
answer: 135/448 (multiply by ¾)
7. Its southern end runs through the Cherokee Indian reservation in North Carolina, ending near Great
Smoky Mountains National Park. Identify this 460-mile-long road that runs through part of Tennessee,
much of Virginia and the mountain range for which it is named.
answer: Blue Ridge Parkway
8. Years before he was born, he is mentioned in the Bible as the ruler who would allow the Jews to return
to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. Considered "the Father" by Iranians even today, he is often referred
to as "the Great." Name this ancient ruler of Persia who overthrew Babylon and founded the Achaemenid
[a-KYE-ma-nid] Empire.
answer: Cyrus II
9. Its less popular stanzas include the words, "Then the traveler in the dark/ Thanks you for your tiny
spark." Name this classic children's poem with a title object that is “like a diamond in the sky.”
answer: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (or The Star, its original title)
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10. Used as a generic term these days for hair gel or cosmetics, it is also generic for anything you might
buy in a store. Give this 7-letter word that, in math and science, is both the result of a chemical reaction
and of multiplying two numbers together.
answer: product
11. She may have been based on the so-called "White Woman" of Berners Street who always wore a
white bonnet and a veil. Name this character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations who was
left at the altar on her wedding day and never got over it, always wearing a wedding dress after that.
answer: Miss Havisham
12. Pencils and paper ready! A piece of wood has a load-bearing capacity in tons of 25T4 / H2, where T is
the thickness of the wood in inches and H is the height of the wood in feet. Calculate the maximum
allowable weight (in tons) of a sculpture the wood must hold up if the wood is 6 inches thick and 18 feet
tall.
answer: 100 tons (25 x 6 x 6 x 6 x 6 / 18 x 18)
13. It is the bone most commonly broken by small children. The deltoid and trapezius muscles both attach
to this bone that lies horizontally and is most often broken by falling directly on your shoulder. Identify
this bone between your breastbone and shoulder blade that connects your arms to your body.
answer: clavicle or collarbone
14. Its Land of Frankincense is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its capital, once occupied by the
Portuguese and then the Ottomans, is now occupied by its current leader, Sultan Qaboos [ca-BOOSE].
Name this oil-rich member of the United Arab Emirates whose capital city is Muscat.
answer: Oman
15. Pencils and paper ready! Typical car speedometers measure speed to an accuracy of plus or minus
three percent. If a speedometer measures 50 miles per hour, give to one decimal place (in miles per hour)
the range of possible actual values of the speed.
answer: 48.5 to 51.5 mph
16. His alter-egos have included John Stewart, Kyle Rayner and Hal Jordan. Though he recites an oath
when he charges his powerful ring, the ring is ineffective against the color yellow. Name this "colorful"
comic-book character and member of the Justice League of America.
answer: the Green Lantern
17. Give the full 4-word title of the Robert Frost poem that ends with the lines, "I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
answer: The Road Not Taken
18. It is home to America's Coast Guard Academy, and P.T. Barnum once served as the mayor of its
largest city, Bridgeport. Name this New England state whose 1639 Fundamental Orders was America's
first attempt at a written constitution.
answer: Connecticut
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19. Thought to have been introduced by Mennonite German settlers, its features included a floor sloped
toward the middle (to keep barrels from falling out) and broad wheels that resisted mud. Name this
animal-drawn freight carrier, commonly used during the westward expansion of the 1800's.
answer: Conestoga wagon (both words; prompt as needed)
20. The works of composer Franz Schubert are considered excellent examples of--what 19th-century
musical period that emphasized emotional melodies and more colorful harmonies than the preceding
"classical" period ?
answer: Romanticism
21. It will begin showing new episodes online in April 2013 from its fictional location in Pine Valley,
Pennsylvania. Name this classic ABC soap opera that features the character Erica Kane, a character for
which Susan Lucci was nominated 19 times for an Emmy before she finally won.
answer: All My Children
22. The Antarctic species of this crustacean lives up to 300 feet underwater and is typically less than 3
inches long, so its larger predators have to eat tons of it at one gulp. Name this major food source for
baleen whales.
answer: krill
23. It declared a 3-day bank holiday this week after its political geniuses thought of a new way to generate
extra money and reach conditions set for a bailout by the European Union: just take some money right out
of every bank account in the whole country. Name this European island nation, divided between Greek
and Turkish influence, whose capital is Nicosia [nick-a-SEE-a].
answer: Cyprus
24. This 36-year-old recently said that he would love to be mayor of New York City someday because he
feels so energized when he's there. Name this entrepreneur who co-founded both the payment company
Square and the social media service Twitter.
answer: Jack Dorsey
FOUR-PART BONUSES
1. Name the colleges whose men's basketball teams made it to March Madness in 2013 by winning each
of these conference tournaments:
A. Atlantic Coast Conference
answer: Univ. of Miami (FL)
B. Big 12 Conference
answer: Univ. of Kansas
C. Missouri Valley Conference
answer: Creighton Univ.
D. Horizon League
answer: Valparaiso or Valpo
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2. People and cats can have some of the same health problems and even take some of the same drugs.
A. SSRI drugs are used for both to help this sad emotional/mental condition.
answer: depression
B. Chromium and vanadium supplements may help this condition that often requires insulin injections.
answer: diabetes
C. In cats, this blood disease is caused by a virus; humans with it usually need chemotherapy or radiation.
answer: leukemia
D. Both people and cats can take Zithromax; cats usually get it for this virus that causes cold sores in
humans.
answer: herpes
3. Name these countries that border the Caribbean Sea from their capital cities:
A. Tegucigalpa [ta-goo-see-GAWL-pa]
answer: Honduras
B. Santo Domingo
answer: Dominican Republic
C. St. George's
answer: Grenada [gra-NAY-da]
D. Port of Spain
answer: Trinidad and Tobago
4. The U.S. presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden came down to electors
in several states.
A., B. and C. Name the three Southern states whose disputed electoral votes all went to Hayes after a
committee voted for him 8-7.
answer: Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina
D. In what year did the election take place ?
answer: 1876
5. Answer these about the famous poem The Raven:
A. What American poet and author wrote it?
answer: Edgar Allan Poe
B. It begins with this 5-word phrase.
answer: Once upon a midnight dreary…
C. The raven can only say this one word.
answer: Nevermore
D. The narrator meets the raven in this month of the year.
answer: "…it was in the bleak December."
6. Give the part of your body represented by these Spanish words:
A. cabeza [caw-BAY-saw]
answer: head
B. mano [MAW-no]
answer: hand
C. nariz [naw-REECE]
answer: nose
D. pierna [pee-AIR-na]
answer: leg
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7. Identify the Constitutional Amendment that contains each of these phrases:
A. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof…"
answer: First Amendment
B. "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment
or indictment of a Grand Jury…"
answer: 5th Amendment
C. "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted."
answer: 8th Amendment
D. "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage
others retained by the people."
answer: 9th Amendment
8. In Greek mythology, he was told that he would be removed from his throne by his own son.
A. Name this god who swallowed several of his children right after birth to try and keep the prophecy
from coming true.
answer: Cronus or Kronos
B. She was the mother of those children.
answer: Rhea
C. That mother gave her husband a rock to swallow instead of this son, the god of thunder.
answer: Zeus
D. This brother of the god of thunder was the god of the sea.
answer: Poseidon [pa-SY-dun]
9. Name the Eastern states containing these art museums:
A. Yale Center for British Art
answer: Connecticut
B. Whitney Museum of American Art
answer: New York
C. Cape Cod Museum of Art
answer: Massachusetts
D. Walters Art Gallery
answer: Maryland
10. Australian scientists recently succeeded in cloning cells from its extinct "gastric brooding" species
that swallows its eggs and then gives birth through its mouth.
A. Name this common amphibian.
answer: frog
B. The project of trying to bring back extinct animals is named for this Biblical man, brought back to life
by Jesus after being dead for 4 days.
answer: Lazarus Project
C. The project plans to try and bring back this extinct North American bird whose last example died in the
Cincinnati Zoo in 1914…
answer: passenger pigeon
D. …as well as the flightless moa bird once found on this Pacific island.
answer: New Zealand
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11. Answer these from the Old Testament:
A. Joshua destroyed Jericho but saved this harlot and her household.
answer: Rahab
B. He created a brass serpent.
answer: Moses
C. This king broke the brass serpent because the people burned incense to it.
answer: Hezekiah
D. He interpreted a dream of King Nebuchadnezzar [neb-a-ca-NEZ-ur].
answer: Daniel
12. Tell how many notes of each of these types fit in a given musical measure:
A. Number of half notes in a four-four measure
answer: 2
B. Number of eighth notes in a three-four measure
answer: 6
C. Number of sixteenth notes in a two-four measure
answer: 8
D. Number of thirty-second notes in a four-four measure
answer: 32
13. Its title character is a magician on the Las Vegas Strip who is losing fans to a magician who does his
shows in the streets.
A. Name this 2013 movie.
answer: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
B. Name the actor who plays the title character.
answer: Steve Carell
C. Name the actor who plays his longtime partner in the magic act.
answer: Steve Buscemi [bew-SEM-mee]
D. What actor plays Steve Gray, the street magician ?
answer: Jim Carrey
14. Pencils and paper ready! Your pizza parlor sells four sizes of pizza: small (8-inch diameter), medium
(10-inch diameter), large (14-inch diameter), and incredible (18-inch diameter). If the price is 50 cents for
π square inches of pizza, how much should:
A. A small pizza cost?
answer: $8.00 (16π)
B. A medium pizza cost?
answer: $12.50 (25π)
C. A large pizza cost?
answer: $24.50 (49π)
D. An incredible pizza cost?
answer: $40.50 (81π)
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15. Answer these relating to glaciers:
A. The term "ablation" refers to occurrences that do this to a glacier.
answer: make it smaller (or melt it)
B. The "ground" version of this substance remains behind after a glacier moves along.
answer: moraine
C. Adjective for a wind that flows from a glacier
answer: katabatic wind
D. The process of a large hunk of ice breaking from a bigger glacier
answer: calving
16. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate the four angles of a quadrilateral if they are in the ratio
2.7 : 4.8 : 2.5 : 5.0.
answer: 64.8, 115.2, 60.0º, 120.0º (sum is 360)
17. Identify these places, based on what Mark Twain said about them:
A. "The missionaries braved a thousand privations to come and make [the natives of this island state]
permanently miserable by telling them how beautiful…a place heaven is, and how nearly impossible it is
to get there."
answer: Hawaii (or the Sandwich Islands)
B. "Some of us, even the white-headed, may live to see the blessed day when czars and grand dukes will
be as scarce there as I trust they are in heaven."
answer: Russia
C. In me you have [the morals of this Midwestern state where Twain was born] and Connecticut culture…
the combination which makes the perfect man."
answer: Missouri
D. "[This Caribbean nation whose capital is Hamilton] is the right country for a jaded man to loaf in."
answer: Bermuda
18. Identify the scientists whose names are attached to these laws:
A. Voltage equals resistance times current.
answer: Ohm's Law
B. The redshift in light from a distant galaxy is proportional to our distance from that galaxy.
answer: Hubble's Law
C. The sum of voltages around a loop of a circuit is equal to zero.
answer: Kirchoff's [kur-koff] Voltage Law
D. Pressure times volume is a constant.
answer: Boyle's Law
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19. Answer these about the Korean War, now back in the news since North Korea has announced it’s
ending the War's 60-year armistice:
A. This American served as Commander of U.N. forces in Korea until he was fired by the President.
answer: Gen. Douglas MacArthur
B. This President fired him.
answer: Harry S Truman
C. The armistice was signed in this Korean location in 1953.
answer: Panmunjom [pan-MOON-jomm]
D. When the U.S. attacked too far north in Korea, they met soldiers from this neighboring country and
had to fight them, too.
answer: People's Republic of China
20. Answer these about the new Pope Francis:
A. This is his real last name.
answer: Jorge Mario Bergoglio
B. He was born and raised in this South American country.
answer: Argentina
C. He has served as Archbishop of this major city.
answer: Buenos Aires
D. He is the first pope ever to have been a member of this Catholic society.
answer: Jesuits or Society of Jesus
LIGHTNING ROUND 1. THE "ART" WORLD
These all begin with the letters A-R-T.
1) Adjective meaning "fake"
Ans. artificial
2) Greek goddess, Apollo’s twin
Ans. Artemis
3) General term for weaponry or guns
Ans. artillery
4) Type of well whose water flows upward without a pump
Ans. artesian well
5) An invertebrate animal like a spider or centipede
Ans. arthropod
6) Adjective meaning "eloquent and expressive"
Ans. articulate
7) Vegetable whose "hearts" are commonly eaten
Ans. artichoke
8) First and last name of Sherlock Holmes creator
Ans. Arthur Conan Doyle
9) A real craftsman who takes pride in his handiwork
Ans. artisan
10) A story in a newspaper
Ans. article
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LIGHTNING ROUND 2. SAINT PATRICK
1) He is considered the patron saint of this island nation.
Ans. Ireland
2) He is said to have removed this reptile from that island nation.
Ans. snake
3) As a teenager, he spent 6 years as a slave doing this job.
Ans. shepherd (or equivalent)
4) He used this symbol to teach about the Trinity.
Ans. shamrock
5) He lived most of his life in this century AD.
Ans. 5th century
6) He is celebrated on this month and day each year.
Ans. March 17
7) Many people drink this alcoholic beverage on that day—and dye it green.
Ans. beer
8) This major U.S. city dyes its namesake river green on St. Patrick's Day.
Ans. Chicago
9) Many Americans eat this specific kind of beef on St. Patrick's Day …
Ans. corned beef
10)…along with this green vegetable, cooked.
Ans. cabbage
LIGHTNING ROUND 3. STARTS WITH Z
1) African nation, once named Rhodesia
Ans. Zimbabwe
2) Golf handicap of a "scratch" golfer
Ans. zero
3) Father of John the Baptist
Ans. Zacharias
4) Locations in America now have a 9-digit one, not just 5 (2 words)
Ans. zip code
5) First name of Pikes Peak discoverer Mr. Pike
Ans. Zebulon
6) A sore you pop on your nose or forehead
Ans. zit
7) Airship, similar to a blimp
Ans. zeppelin
8) First name of actress Deschanel
Ans. Zooey
9) Ancient Greek philosopher, famed for his paradoxes
Ans. Zeno
10) It contains Scorpio, Libra and Aries.
Ans. Zodiac
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