Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & 5 Choices; No Clues):1. In which state will you find Mount St. Helens?___________________
[Choices: Arkansas, Colorado, Texas, Washington, Maine ]
2. The Sunday before Easter is known as _______________ Sunday.
[Choices: Pine, Palm, Oak, Elm, Ash ]
3. The first words spoken over a telephone were addressed by Alexander Graham Bell to:____________________.
[Choices: Thomas Watson, Baron von Steuben, Tenzing Norgay, Octave Chanute, Ub Iwerks ]
4. Angiosperms and _________________ compose the seed plants.
[Choices: Endosperms, Androsperms, Crassiosperms, Brachiosperms, Gymnosperms ]
5. July 16, 1945, marked the beginning of the _____________________ Age.
[Choices: Victorian, Gilded, Vegetarian, Atomic, Communist ]
6. To "expunge" something is to ___________________ it.
[Choices: Investigate, Erase, Drive, Promote, Extol ]
7. The fief was the central element of the social system known as:__________________.
[Choices: Statism, Imperialism, Fascism, Tribalism, Feudalism ]
8. The German-made Bagger 293 bucket-wheel excavator is the largest:_____________________.
[Choices: Helicopter, Cargo ship, Dirigible, Ocean liner, Land vehicle ]
9. Charles Woodson is the only primarily defensive player to win the:_____________________.
[Choices: Cy Young Award, Masters Green Jacket, Gold Glove, Heisman Trophy, Stanley Cup ]
10. A Tennessee Walker is a:___________________.
[Choices: Racing car, Commuter train, Carriage, Horse, Boat ]
Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds, and with 3 Clues): 11. "Once more unto the breach" is a line spoken by which Shakespearean character?_________________
[Choices: Othello, Nick Bottom, Henry V, Richard III, Juliet ]
12. "Bloody Sunday" in 1905 was a watershed in the history of:____________________.
[Choices: Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Russia ]
13. Pule cheese, the world's most expensive, is made from _______________ and goat milk.
[Choices: Sheep, Yak, Donkey, Raccoon, Cow ]
14. Which of these words is closest in meaning to "comminute"?____________________
[Choices: Converse, Gather, Travel, Relate, Pulverize ]
15. The nine-volt battery was introduced for the early:___________________.
[Choices: Personal computers, iPhones, Microwave ovens, Transistor radios, Rotary phones ]
16. The Mbomou River flows nearly 500 miles through:_________________.
[Choices: Southeast Asia, Western Australia, Siberia, Central Africa, The Balkans ]
17. In what decade did the first Cannes Film Festival take place?____________________
[Choices: 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1980's, 1920's ]
18. The tinamou is a bird native to:____________________.
[Choices: Latin America, Southern Europe, The Middle East, The Arctic Circle, Southeast Asia ]
19. Julian Barnes is an English author who writes crime fiction under this pen name:_________________.
[Choices: Meg Wolitzer, James Patterson, Rand Paul, J.D. Robb, Dan Kavanagh ]
20. Anavip is a relatively new drug designed to be taken after a:_________________.
[Choices: Diabetic coma, Brush with poison ivy, Fit of epilepsy, Rattlesnake bite, Stroke ]
21. Beaver Island is the largest island in Lake:___________________.
[Choices: Okeechobee, Pontchartrain, Erie, Huron, Michigan ]
22. Jacinda Ardern is the current Prime Minister of:_________________.
[Choices: Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Sweden, New Zealand, Panama ]
Category Round (6 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease from 4 to 20 seconds, and with 3 Clues): 23.(a) WORLD GEOGRAPHY v The Bible: Which river flows into the Dead Sea?____________________
[Choices: Duncan, Jordan, James, Curry, Bird ]
24.(a) HISTORY v Plays: What two nations signed the Anti-Comintern Pact on November 25, 1936?_________________
[Choices: Canada and the U.S., Brazil and Argentina, England and France, Egypt and Mexico, Germany and Japan ]
25.(a) THE PLANET MERCURY v Skyscrapers: What spacecraft crashed on the surface of Mercury in 2015?____________________
[Choices: Voyager, Nomad, Viking, Vostok, Messenger ]
26.(a) Plays v WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Ealing, Havering and Redbridge are boroughs of Greater:_________________
[Choices: Pretoria, London, Sydney, Stuttgart, Ottawa ]
27.(a) Skyscrapers v HISTORY: Cyrus the Great was a ruler of the _________________ Empire.
[Choices: Holy Roman, Samnite, Persian, Inca, Greek ]
28.(a) The Bible v THE PLANET MERCURY: It takes the planet Mercury about __________ Earth days to complete one rotation.
[Choices: 39, 59, 19, 99, 79 ]
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. The Noid is an advertising character introduced by __________________ in the 1980's.
[Choices: Sunoco Gas, Domino's Pizza, Energizer batteries, Tide detergent, Wrigley's Gum ]
30. What country declared war on Great Britain on June 10, 1940?____________________
[Choices: Italy, Japan, China, Spain, Bulgaria ]
31. This comedian's current tour is called "Road to Nowhere":__________________.
[Choices: Bill De Blasio, Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari, Jim Acosta, Doug Stanhope ]
32. Meaning happiness, beauty and vitality, ______________ is the color of China.
[Choices: Green, Black, Blue, Purple, Red ]
33. In mountaineering, above 26,000 feet is called the ______________ Zone.
[Choices: Ether, Cold, Abyssal, Death, Blind ]
34. Before becoming a big star, he was with a jazz fusion band named "Last Exit":______________________.
[Choices: David Bowie, Adam Levine, Tom Jones, Sting, Phil Collins ]
35. Cleopatra's Needles is the popular name for three giant granite:___________________.
[Choices: Temples, Obelisks, Pyramids, Tombs, Statues ]
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 Greek mythology, Antigone is the daughter of:______________________.
[Choices: Poseidon and Calypso, Oedipus and Jocasta, Menelaus and Helen, Odysseus and Penelope, Zeus and Hera ]
37. The character called "Svengali" first appeared in this novel by George du Maurier:____________________.
[Choices: Trilby, Lorna Doone, Burmese Days, The Dark Tower, My Cousin Rachel ]
38. The island nation of _________________ consists of one coral island and 32 atolls and reef islands.
[Choices: Indonesia, Madagascar, Formosa, Belize, Kiribati ]
39. Which animal would most likely excel at a process called brachiation?_________________
[Choices: Worm, Antelope, Trout, Dog, Monkey ]
40. In 1950, ______________________ became the first African-American to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
[Choices: Walter White, Edward Brooke, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Bunche ]
Final Jeopardy Question on BRITISH ROYALTY (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. Who was the father of Queen Elizabeth II?_____________________
[Choices: George VI, Edward VIII, James V, Richard IV, Harold III ]
Answers:1. Washington [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens ]
2. Palm [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday ]
3. Thomas Watson [see
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon ... one_1.html ]
4. Gymnosperms [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed ]
5. Atomic [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Age ]
6. Erase [see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/expunge ]
7. Feudalism [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fief ]
8. Land vehicle [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293 and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 ]
9. Heisman trophy [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Woodson ]
10. Horse [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Walking_Horse ]
11. Henry V [see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOZDO5KDv4 ]
12. Russia [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1905) ; we at Buster's Bar in Ottawa ON were so used to associating "Bloody Sunday" with Ireland that we overlooked the year (1905), earning us -250 Points.]
13. Donkey [ see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pule_cheese ; we went with "Yak", wrongly, since in retrospect Yak cheese is not rare (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak_cheese ). ]
14. Pulverize [we struck out (3 Wrongs in a row); see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/comminuted ]
15. Transistor radio [We finally got one right, Phil (BSLXPN) pre-calling this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-volt_battery . No chemical reaction is capable of producing 9 Volts in one cell, so a nine-volt battery is made up of six 1.5 volt cells connected in series. The cells are either tiny cylinders packed parallel to each other in the metal case, or flat brick-like cells stacked on top of each other (see the photos in the wikipedia article). Voltage is work or energy per unit charge, so it is not dependent on the size of the cell or battery if concentrations are constant (bigger batteries last longer because there are more atoms, but ordinary D, C, AA, and AAA dry cells all produce approx. 1.5 volts). Voltage does depend somewhat on concentrations, as given by the Nernst Equation; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nernst_equation . ]
16. Central Africa [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbomou_River ]
17. 1940's [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival ]
18. Latin America [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinamou ]
19. Dan Kavanaugh [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barnes ]
20. Rattlesnake bite [We guessed wrong, but in retrospect we should have guessed this from "vip", since rattlesnakes are pit vipers. See
https://www.anavip-us.com/ and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_viper .]
21. Michigan [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Is ... e_Michigan) ]
22. New Zealand [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern ]
23.(a) Jordan [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_River . We appreciated the Quizmaster's use of NBA Superstars' names as Choices for this Question. A while back, the Choices for the name of a space probe were characters in "McHale's Navy" ("Parker" was the right answer). ]
24.(a) Germany and Japan [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Comintern_Pact .]
25.(a) Messenger [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESSENGER ]
26.(a) London [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_boroughs . "Boroughs" suggested a British city or town (e.g. Scarborough) and has a long history (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_an ... t_boroughs ). ]
27.(a) Persian [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great . David Koresh of Waco infamy named himself after Cyrus the Great (see the section "Name change" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh ). ]
28.(a) 59 [We missed this one, going with 79 days. The orbital period of Mercury is 87.969 Earth days (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet) ), but since "Mercury is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance" , a Mercury day is 2/3 times 87.969 = 58.6 Earth days long . Tricky!!!]
29. Domino's Pizza [Chris (KAYZED) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noid ]
30. Italy [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_i ... _of_France ]
31. Aziz Ansari [We all went "Who???"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aziz_Ansari and
https://seatgeek.com/tba/articles/aziz- ... here-tour/ ]
32. Red [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture ]
33. Death [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_zone ]
34. Sting [We missed this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_(British_band) ]
35. Obelisks [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra's_Needle ]
36. Oedipus and Jocasta [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone ]
37. Trilby [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svengali ]
38. Kiribati [Myfanwy (SPRAJO) pre-called this one, but then we saw the other Choices were obviously wrong; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati ]
39. Monkey [We missed this one, as I was trying to see "branches" in lungs or gills rather than in trees; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiation ]
40. Ralph Bunche [see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bunche ]
41. George VI [Too easy to separate Sites; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II .]
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