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WorldSeries XXIV
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Teams
• We Ate Before We
• Fear the Crab
Came
• Infinity
•
Run
Over
by
a
Puffin
• New York Necks
•
Age
&
Treachery
• Nana’s Bananas
•
No
Worse
Than
Last
• Pants Peers
•
Hoof
Hearted
• Marksmen
•
Pella
People
• Morgan Station
•
Pinot
Envy
• Blind Squirrels
TriviaMaryland WorldSeries XXIV
•Prizes
st
•1 -
$1000
•2nd- $400
•3rd- $300
•4th- $200
•5th- $100
QUESTION # 1
QUOTATIONS
•WHAT FRENCH
PHILOSOPHER
WROTE “I THINK
THEREFORE I AM” ?
ANSWER # 1
•RENE
DESCARTES
QUESTION # 2
U.S. PRESIDENTS
4 PARTER
• WHO WERE THE LAST
FOUR SITTING U.S.
PRESIDENTS TO LOSE IN
THEIR BID FOR
REELECTION ?
ANSWER # 2
• GEORGE H.W. BUSH
(LOST TO BILL CLINTON)
• JIMMY CARTER
(LOST TO RONALD REAGAN)
• GERALD FORD
(LOST TO JIMMY CARTER)
• HERBERT HOOVER
(LOST TO F.D.R.)
QUESTION # 3
BASEBALL
• Who played the most
regular-season major
league games, without
ever playing a postseason game?
ANSWER # 3
• 2,528
GAMES
•Ernie
Banks
QUESTION # 4
ANIMALS-2 PARTER
• WHAT ARE THE TWO LARGEST
& HEAVIEST SPECIES IN THE
DOLPHIN FAMILY ?
• Kingdom:Animalia, Division:
chordata, Class:mammalia,
Order:Cetacea,
Family:Delphinidae
ANSWER # 4
•KILLER WHALES
•PILOT WHALES
QUESTION # 5
TV
• THIS VAN CALLED “THE
MYSTERY MACHINE”
WAS FEATURED ON
WHAT HANNA-BARBERA
CARTOON SERIES ?
ANSWER # 5
QUESTION # 6
•WHAT ARE
WE ?
OCARINA
TELSTAR
ALPHORN
THEREMIN
DREAMCATCHERS
JACOB’S LADDER
QUESTION # 7
MUSIC
• SINCE 2000 WHAT IS
THE ONLY BILLBOARD
HOT 100 #1 SONG
WITH A CITY NAME IN
ITS TITLE ?
ANSWER # 7
•2006
•BY FERGIE
QUESTION # 8
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
4 PARTER
• WHICH FOUR
COUNTRIES MAKE UP
THE HIGHEST
PERCENTAGE OF THEIR
HOME CONTINENTS ?
ANSWER # 8
• 90%- AUSTRALIA (OCEANIA)
• 48%- BRAZIL
(SOUTH AMERICA)
• 44%- CANADA
(NORTH AMERICA)
• 43%- UNITED STATES
(NORTH AMERICA)
QUESTION # 9
GAMES
• IBM RS/6000 COMPUTER
(DEEP BLUE) WAS USED
TO DEFEAT WHAT
WORLD CHESS
CHAMPION IN 1997 ?
ANSWER # 9
• GARRY KASPAROV
QUESTION # 10
THE MOVIES-4 PARTER
• IN ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY THERE
HAVE ONLY BEEN FIVE FILMS THAT
WERE NOMINATED FOR BEST
PICTURE OSCAR THAT HAVE A U.S.
STATE IN ITS TITLE. CAN YOU NAME
FOUR OF THEM ? (WHETHER IT IS
IN A STATE CONTEXT OR NOT)
ANSWER # 10
• IN OLD ARIZONA (1929)
• GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002)
• MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)
• WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA
WOLFE (1966)
• MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON (1939)
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QUESTION # 11
MUSICAL NURSERY RYHMES
• WHAT NURSERY RHYME
WAS EXTENDED AND
EMBELLISHED BY ELLA
FITZGERALD INTO A JAZZ
PIECE WHICH WAS HER
BREAKTHROUGH HIT IN
1938 ?
ANSWER # 11
• A-tisket a-tasket
• A green and yellow basket
• I wrote a letter to my love
• And on the way I dropped it
• I dropped it,I dropped it
• And on the way I dropped it
• A little boy he picked it up and put
it in his pocket.
QUESTION # 12
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
4 PARTER
• WHAT ARE THE FOUR
MAINLAND AFRICAN
COUNTRIES THAT
BEGIN WITH THE
LETTER “B” ?
ANSWER # 12
• BENIN
• BOTSWANA
• BURUNDI
• BURKINA FASO
QUESTION # 13
THE MOVIES
• WHAT CHARACTER DID
ACTOR PETER OSTRUM
PORTRAY IN 1971 AND
FREDDIE HIGHMORE
PLAY IN 2005 ?
ANSWER # 13
• CHARLIE BUCKET
QUESTION # 14
THE OLYMPICS
3 PARTER
• WHO ARE THE THREE
WOMEN THAT HAVE
WON THE 100 METER
DASH IN BACK TO BACK
OLYMPIC GAMES ?
ANSWER # 14
• SHELLY-ANN FRASER
(2008,2012)
• GAIL DEVERS (1992,1996)
• WYOMIA TYUS
(1964,1968)
QUESTION # 15
WORLD LEADERS
• WHO WAS THE ONLY
WORLD LEADER TO
SIGN BOTH SALT
ARMS CONTROL
TREATIES ?
ANSWER # 15
• LEONID
BREZHNEV
QUESTION # 16
•WHO ARE
WE ?
ROBIN WILLIAMS
WHITNEY HOUSTON
GARY SINESE
RUSSELL BRAND
PARIS HILTON
SEAN CONNERY
QUESTION # 17
LITERATURE
• WHAT LITERARY TITLE
CHARACTER’S WEDDING IS
INTERRUPTED AT THE ALTAR
BY A LAWYER’S REVELATION
THAT THE GROOM IS
ALREADY MARRIED TO
BERTHA MASON ?
ANSWER # 17
QUESTION # 18
MAGAZINES
4 PARTER
• IN 1993 TIME MAGAZINE
GAVE ITS PERSON OF THE
YEAR AWARD TO “THE
PEACEMAKERS”
REPRESENTED BY WHAT
FOUR MEN ?
ANSWER # 18
• NELSON MANDELA
• F.W. de KLERK
• YASSER ARAFAT
• YITZHAK RABIN
QUESTION # 19
SCIENCE
• WHAT DID SIR ISAAC
NEWTON DEFINE BY
MULTIPLYING AN
OBJECT’S MASS BY ITS
VELOCITY ?
ANSWER # 19
• ITS MOMENTUM
QUESTION # 20
BET UP TO 15 POINTS
• What team is the oldest
continuous, one-name,
one-city franchise in all of
professional American
sports, dating to 1883 ?
ANSWER # 20
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TIEBREAKER
• WHAT WAS THE
POPULATION OF BEDROCK
AS SHOWN IN THE
OPENING CREDITS OF THE
TV SHOW “THE
FLINTSTONES” ?
ANSWER