Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & Choices; No clues):1. The city of Rio de Janeiro is home to an iconic peak named _______________ Mountain.
[Choices: Sugarloaf, Playa, Aneto, Maracanã, Stanley ]
2. The main artery of the human body is the:_______________.
[Choices: Duodenum, Thyroid, Aorta, Thorax, Pituitary ]
3. In which year was the first transcontinental railroad completed in the United States?___________
[Choices: 1869, 1902, 1917, 1889, 1859 ]
4. What type of animals are oystercatchers?______________
[Choices: Crustaceans, Birds, Arachnids, Wildcats, Insects ]
5. Churchill Downs hosts this famous horse race every year:________________.
[Choices: Jockey Gold Cup, Hambletonian, Kentucky Derby, Little Brown Jug, Preakness Stakes ]
6. Which word is closest in meaning to "sentimental"?__________________
[Choices: Clinging, Melancholy, Deluded, Mawkish, Benign ]
7. In which British colony did the Mau Mau Uprising take place from 1952 to 1960?_______________________
[Choices: South Africa, Kenya, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Rhodesia ]
8. Who is the best friend of Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter ego?____________________
[Choices: Harry Osborn, Terry Osborn, Barry Osborn, Jerry Osborn, Larry Osborn ]
9. This state's bristlecone pines are the world's oldest living individual organisms:_______________.
[Choices: Alaska, California, Kansas, Montana, Hawaii ]
10. Which supermodel was born in Brazil?____________________
[Choices: Kate Moss, Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Gisele Bundchen, Claudia Schiffer ]
Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds, and with 3 Clues):11. Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is on the east coast of:_________________.
[Choices: Ohio, Alaska, Maine, Oregon, Florida ]
12. Alison, Constance and Selena are the main female characters in this notorious book:___________________.
[Choices: The Carpetbaggers, Valley of the Dolls, 50 Shades of Grey, Kings Row, Peyton Place ]
13. A _________________ scientist claims to have created the first gene-edited babies in 2018.
[Choices: North Korean, Iranian, British, Russian, Chinese ]
14. The blend of spices called Achiote Paste is known for its __________________ color.
[Choices: Gray, Blue, Yellow, Green, Red ]
15. Michael Higgins became the President of ________________ in 2011.
[Choices: Croatia, South Africa, Ireland, Kenya, Jamaica ]
16. By revenue, three of the top four companies in the world in 2018 were:___________________.
[Choices: German, French, British, Chinese, American ]
17. The breed of dog called a Xolo is also known as:___________________.
[Choices: Basenji, Mexican Hairless, Chihuahua, Chow Chow, Corgi ]
18. Which holiday song was first recorded by the Trapp Family singers?____________________
[Choices: Do You Hear What I Hear?, Jingle Bells, Silent Night, White Christmas, The Little Drummer Boy ]
19. The highly valued blue diamond gets its coloring from this mineral:_________________.
[Choices: Magnesium, Sulfur, Sodium, Boron, Silicon ]
20. What the heck is a "synecdoche"?___________________
[Choices: Sad poem, Treasure chest, Priest's robe, Misspelled word, Figure of speech ]
21. In the common medical term "GAD", the letter "A" stands for:_________________.
[Choices: Analgesic, Anxiety, Anthrax, Abdominal, Allergy ]
22. Actor Samuel L. Jackson is a graduate of this school in Georgia:_________________.
[Choices: Grambling, Morehouse, Winthrop, Emory, Oglethorpe ]
Category Round (6 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease from 4 to 20 seconds & with 3 Clues; Category is chosen by majority vote at each Site):23.(a) Super Bowl Preview v WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Sorrento Peninsula separates the Gulf of Salerno from the Gulf of:__________________.
[Choices: Tonkin, Venice, Genoa, Naples, Palermo ]
24.(a) VOCABULARY QUIZ v Mythology: To move in waves is to:_______________________.
[Choices: Desiccate, Fixate, Undulate, Formulate, Paddleate ]
25.(a) EUROPEAN HISTORY v Poetic lines: Which French ruler served as President of the Republic before becoming Emperor?____________________
[Choices: Napoleon III, Charlemagne, Georges Clemenceau, Charles de Gaulle, Marshal Petain ]
26.(a) MTYHOLOGY v Super Bowl Preview: Cu Chulainn is the greatest of _________________ mythological heroes.
[Choices: Japanese, Korean, Norse, Irish, Russian ]
27.(a) Poetic lines v VOCABULARY QUIZ: What's a simpler word for "confabulate"?____________________
[Choices: Chat, Lie, Sleep, Smile, Cry ]
28.(a) WORLD GEOGRAPHY v European history: Anjouan and Moheli are two of the largest islands in the ________________ Islands.
[Choices: Comoros, Easter, Andabar, Society, Philippine ]
Lightning Round (7 Questions: 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 Points, but time to read & answer decreases from 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 5 to 4 seconds):29. Grand Marnier is a French liqueur known for its ____________________ flavor.
[Choices: Orange, Cherry, Chocolate, Peach, Vanilla ]
30. Which country's flag has a parrot depicted on it?____________________
[Choices: Iceland, Mali, Dominica, Togo, Fiji ]
31. James McBride's "Kill 'em and leave" is about the life and work of this famous singer:_________________.
[Choices: Tip O'Neill, Little Richard, Minnie Minoso, Ray Charles, James Brown ]
32. In the game of Yahtzee, when all five dice are the same, it's worth:________________.
[Choices: 30 Points, 10 Points, 40 Points, 50 Points, 20 Points ]
33. An easily excited person would best be described as:_________________.
[Choices: Biramous, Morose, Flighty, Ingenuous, Dilapidated ]
34. Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine in this 2009 film:_____________________.
[Choices: Seven, Inglourious Basterds, The Aviator, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Fury ]
35. Salome Zourabichvili was recently elected President of:___________________.
[Choices: Greece, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Georgia, Russia ]
Dreaded Pyramid Round (5 Questions: 12000, 7000, 4000, 2000, 1000 Points for 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Right out of 5; Time from post of Question & Choices = 16 seconds; No clues):36. In which Renaissance city did the 1497 Bonfire of the Vanities take place?___________________
[Choices: Florence, Naples, London, Geneva, Wittenberg ]
37. Pukaskwa National Park lies on the shores of this body of water:______________________.
[Choices: Mississippi River, Black Sea, Indian Ocean, Lake Victoria, Lake Superior ]
38. Which mythical figure did Theseus, the King of Athens, abduct when she was only 12 years old?__________________
[Choices: Bathsheba, Helen, Cleopatra, Phryne, Salome ]
39. Jons Jakob Berzelius co-discovered this element in 1817:____________________.
[Choices: Gallium, Prometheum, Selenium, Chromium, Rutherfordium ]
40. In which Stephen King book does the fictional town of Castle Rock first appear?__________________
[Choices: The Dark Tower, Misery, The Shining, Cujo, The Dead Zone ]
Final Jeopardy Question on WORLD CAPITALS (50% Bonus if Right Immediately; Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds, and with 3 Clues; 50% Deduction if Final Choice is Wrong):41. Which capital is closest to the Equator?___________________
[Choices: Kuala Lumpur, Brasilia, Port-au-Prince, Kampala, Lima ]
Answers:1. Sugarloaf [Andrew F (DR LUV, KAY) pre-called this one at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf_Mountain ]
2. Aorta [I (REACH) pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aorta ]
3. 1869 [Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Tra ... l_Railroad ]
4. Birds [I pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oystercatcher ]
5. Kentucky Derby [I pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Derby ]
6. Mawkish [see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mawkish ]
7. Kenya [I pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising ]
8. Harry Osborn [Chris CEEZED, KAYZED) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Osborn ]
9. California [I pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristlecone_pine ]
10. Gisele Bundchen [I pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisele_Bundchen ]
11. Florida [Dave got almost 1000 Points on each of his two tablets; the rest of us needed the 2nd Clue ("not Maine") at around the 530 Point mark to get about half the Points]
12. Peyton Place [Dave or Chris called this first; see the section "Characters and story" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Place_(novel) , and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Place_(film) and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Place_(TV_series) ]
13. Chinese [Dave pre-called this one; see
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/health/c ... index.html ]
14. Red [Dave, DR LUV, and I guessed this for 1000 Points; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recado_rojo ]
15. Ireland [We guessed this from "Higgins"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Higgins ]
16. Chinese [I guessed right on this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l ... by_revenue ]
17. Mexican hairless [We guessed on wrong this one, requiring Clues ("Xolo" should have twigged us onto Mexico, so it was between Mexican hairless and Chihuahua; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Hairless_Dog for Xoloitzcuintli ]
18. The Little Drummer Boy [Although the most famous version was the Harry Simeone Chorale's 1958 recording (see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOo2zPdD-TU ), I guessed that there might have been an earlier version. The 1951 Trapp Family version is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI3a56N8yhY . A 3rd version by the Harry Simeone Chorale (1981) is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzJiYlSHfQ . "Do You Hear What I Hear?" was by the Harry Simeone Chorale first (in 1962); White Christmas was by Bing Crosby in 1942; Jingle Bells was recorded in 1889 by Will Lyle; and there have been many, many recordings of Silent Night ("Stille Nacht", composed in 1818). ]
19. Boron [I called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_diamond . In diamonds, carbon atoms are covalently bonded tetrahedrally to 4 other carbon atoms each (except for those on the exterior surfaces, edges and corners). Carbon atoms have 4 electrons each in the second shell, while boron atoms only 3 electrons in the second shell. Therefore if a boron atom is substituted internally for a carbon atom, there is one electron "missing" which acts like a positive "hole" which is capable of accepting an electron from a carbon atom, with the energy difference corresponding to a photon (particle of light) in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Hence blue diamonds. ]
20. Figure of speech [I called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche ]
21. Anxiety [I wrongly called for "Abdominal", losing Points for all of us; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generaliz ... y_disorder ]
22. Morehouse [We first went with "Oglethorpe" (which is in Georgia), but required Clues to get partial Points; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson . We did not know that Grambling is in Louisiana, Winthrop is in South Carolina, or that Emory is in Georgia too. Afterwards, Dave noted that Morehouse was attended by Martin Luther King Jr. (I don't know if the other schools were integrated at the time Samuel L. Jackson attended college).]
23.(a) Naples [I wrongly chose "Palermo" because it is on Sicily and separated from mainland Italy; the others got it right; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Naples and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Salerno .]
24.(a) Undulate [I pre-called this one; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/undulating or
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/undulate . I mentioned to Jean (LESTER) that it is related to the French "l'onde"="wave" ]
25.(a) Napoleon III [Jean (LESTER) pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III ]
26.(a) Irish [Chris pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu_Chulainn ]
27.(a) Chat [We all went with a pre-call for "Lie", and missed all the Points. See
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/confabulate . But see the second definition at the end of the article: "Psychiatry: to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true". Not exactly a deliberate lie, but not the truth, either.]
28.(a) Comoro [Still reeling from blowing the last Question, I was in the process of explaining why the Answer was not "Easter" (a single large island) when I mistook the 2nd Clue ("no Easter basket") for "Easter basket", and switched from Comoro to "Easter", thus missing almost all the Points... See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoro_Islands .]
29. Orange [Dave pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Marnier ]
30. Dominica [I pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica ]
31. James Brown [We correctly guessed this one; see
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254 ... -and-leave .]
32. 50 Points [I originally guessed 50=5x10, but switched after a call for 30=5x6 (there are 6 pips possible on a die); see the section "Yahtzee" at
http://grail.sourceforge.net/demo/yahtzee/rules.html ]
33. Flighty [I called this one; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/flighty ]
34. Inglourious Basterds [Chris pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds ]
35. Georgia [We deduced from the ending "vili" that Salome was Georgian (Stalin was a Georgian, originally Iosef Djugashvili); see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_Zourabichvili ]
36. Florence [I pre-called "Rome" or "Florence", and since Rome was not one of the Choices, this was a gimme; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_Vanities ]
37. Lake Superior [Dave pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukaskwa_National_Park ]
38. Helen [Not knowing who Phryne was, I called for a split with "Helen" and "Phryne", but we had only 8 tablets between 5 of us, so we could not ensure 6 tablets would get 5 out of 5 Right; at the last second, I went with "Helen" on my sole tablet. See the section "Youthful abduction by Theseus" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy (although there are some inconsistencies in the various mythologies). See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne for an ancient Greek courtesan born c. 371 B.C., long after the legendary fall of Troy (c. 1200 B.C.). ]
39. Selenium [I went with this one, although I called for a split with gallium which was stupid, as gallium was named after France (Gaul). See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium (discovered1875 by Paul Emil Lecoq, although see the various explanations for the name of the element). ]
40. The Dead Zone [Jean guessed right, but others not. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_(Stephen_King) ]
41. Kampala [We went with Kuala Lumpur, losing 50% of our Points. The order of Wipeout at Buster's Bar was (1) Port-au-Prince (latitude 18^o 32'N), (2) Lima (latitude 12^o 2' 36" S), and (3) Brasilia (latitude 15^o 47' 38" S, leaving Kampala (latitude 0^o 18' 49" N) and Kuala Lumpur (latitude 3^o 8'N). We were left with the 2 hardest Choices at the end, and we had only 8 tablets altogether so could not split to cover both possibilities. Other Sites might have had an easier time if the order of Wipeout were different, with Kuala Lumpur eliminated in one of the 3 Clues.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampala ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia , and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-au-Prince .]
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