New Scaratings

Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & 5 Choices; No Clues):

1. Cadiz is a port city in Southern:________________________.
[Choices: Brazil, Spain, Malaysia, Greece, Mexico ]

2. Which word means "serious but in an ominous way"?__________________________
[Choices: Panivorous, Pandemic, Parastatal, Portentous, Photogenic ]

3. Potatoes __________________ is one of many popular French recipes.
[Choices: Boulangerie, Gazpacho, Aquitanian, Consigliere, Territoire ]

4. On what planet does the 1990 film "Total Recall" largely take place?______________________
[Choices: Mars, Uranus, Venus, Titan, Jupiter ]

5. This is the main attraction at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs:________________________.
[Choices: Laddered waterfalls, Succulent varieties, Joshua trees, Tall cacti, Red rock formations ]

6. 1935's Black Sunday was one of the worst events of what came to be called the:______________________.
[Choices: Dust Bowl, San Francisco earthquake, Cholera pandemic, Hong Kong Flu, Spanish Influenza ]

7. A female fox is called a:______________________.
[Choices: Sow, Doe, Vixen, Jenny, Cygnet ]

8. The last _______________________ was made in Mexico last month.
[Choices: Volkswagen Beetle, Samsung Flip Phone, Boeing 737, RCA Television set, SONY Walkman ]

9. John Forbes Nash Jr. was a Nobel laureate in:_________________________.
[Choices: Astronomy, Economics, Music, Literature, Physics ]

10. The July 2019 Solar Eclipse was visible from this part of the world:______________________.
[Choices: Scandinavia, East Africa, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, Southern South America ]




Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds, and with 3 Clues):

11. Where on your body is the philtrum?_________________________
[Choices: Stomach, Lower leg, Brain, Upper lip, Inner ear ]

12. Marcus Garvey of ______________________ founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914.
[Choices: Panama, Ireland, Jamaica, Haiti, Ethiopia ]

13. What is the symbol for infinity also known as?________________________
[Choices: Debraunche, Lemniscate, Octothorpe, Hashtag, Gaffelod ]

14. Who won this year's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete?_______________________________
[Choices: Kyle Busch, Mookie Betts, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Mahomes ]

15. In botany, a plant that is covered with stiff or coarse hairs is called:______________________.
[Choices: Hirsute, Turjute, Borgute, Cermute, Parlute ]

16. Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran claimed to have killed:______________________________.
[Choices: Nicole Brown Simpson, John Gotti, Jimmy Hoffa, The Lindbergh baby, Jon Benet Ramsay ]

17. Of the Top 10 countries with the tallest people, all are in:_________________________.
[Choices: South America, Africa, Asia, North America, Europe ]

18. "Reimagining Equality" and "Speaking Truth to Power" are books published by:______________________.
[Choices: Alice Walker, Anita Hill, Barbara Jordan, Spike Lee, Michelle Obama ]

19. Nik Nik shirts belong to the fashions of this decade:__________________________.
[Choices: 1940's, 1960's, 1970's, 1950's, 1980's ]

20. Currently in the news, "Juul" is a type of:______________________.
[Choices: Drone, Video game, E-cigarette, Ride service, Smartphone ]

21. "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw the Light" are songs by:_________________________.
[Choices: Todd Rundgren, Pierre Trudeau, Frank Zappa, Ringo Starr, Eddie Money ]

22. Which Greek mountain was home to the Muses and sacred to Apollo and Dionysus?________________________
[Choices: Ida, Olympus, Parnassus, Athos, Zion ]




Category Round (6 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease from 4 to 20 seconds, and with 3 Clues; Category chosen by majority vote at each Site):

23.(a) SCIENTIFIC PIONEERS v Legends of gold: Born in Denmark in 1788, Christian Thomsen was a pioneer in this science:_____________________.
[Choices: Astronomy, Zoology, Archaeology, Economics, Agronomy ]

24.(a) Art movements v CURRENT MOVIES: The title characters in "Hobbs & Shaw" are played by Dwayne Johnson and:________________________.
[Choices: Owen Wilson, Jamie Foxx, Chris Hemsworth, Jason Statham, Samuel L. Jackson ]

25.(a) The Sahara desert v U.S. HISTORY: In 1838, the city of Boston established the first United States:________________________.
[Choices: Police force, Traffic court, Divorce court, National park, Harbor Patrol ]

26.(a) CURRENT MOVIES v Scientific pioneers: Which of these current movies has a PG-13 Rating?__________________________
[Choices: Good Boys, Angel has Fallen, Yesterday, The Kitchen, Rocketman ]

27.(a) U.S. HISTORY v Art movements: Which legendary American woman was from a prominent Quaker family?_______________________
[Choices: Martha Washington, Sacajawea, Virginia Dare, Betsy Ross, Pocahontas ]

28.(a) Legends of golf v THE SAHARA DESERT: Which country's capital is situated in the Sahara Desert?________________________
[Choices: Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, Morocco, Angola ]



Lightning Round (7 Questions: 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 20000 Points, but time to read & answer decreases from 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 5 to 4 seconds):

29. When were ZIP codes first officially implemented by the U.S. Post Office?______________
[Choices: 1963, 1903, 1983, 1923, 1943 ]

30. Charon is the name of the main satellite of this dwarf planet:________________________.
[Choices: Eris, Ceres, Neptune, Pluto, Phobos ]

31. What killed some 30,000 people on the island of Martinique in 1902?________________________
[Choices: Giant tidal wave, Yellow fever epidemic, Eruption of Mt. Pelee, Riots, Hurricane ]

32. Earlier this year, it became the highest-grossing film of all time:__________________________.
[Choices: Avengers: Endgame, Rocketman, Dumbo, The Lion King, Captain Marvel ]

33. Which word best describes animal feet that are good for climbing?_________________________
[Choices: Atonic, Dendrite, Scansorial, Chameleon, Pivotal ]

34. What is the most common pet in the United States?_____________________
[Choices: Guinea pigs, Boa constrictor, Raccoon, Dog, Fish ]

35. Aaron Judge is a star player for this pro sports team:________________________________.
[Choices: Toronto Raptors, New York Yankees, St. Louis Blues, Manchester United, Pittsburgh Steelers ]




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. Who wrote "My African Journey" about his trip to Africa in 1908?____________________________
[Choices: T.E. Lawrence, Sir Richard Burton, Joseph Conrad, Winston Churchill, Stanley Livingstone ]

37. Tortoises are mainly distinguished from turtles by their:_______________________.
[Choices: Being non-aquatic, Being carnivores, Short lives, Retractable necks, Lack of protective shell ]

38. The Curia regis was a ruling body introduced to England by:_________________________.
[Choices: Alfred the Great, Ethelred the Unready, Pepin the Short, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror ]

39. It lays claim to being the most corrosion-resistant metal:__________________________.
[Choices: Silver, Tungsten, Neon, Iridium, Barium ]

40. Australia's most populous cities are Sydney and:_________________________.
[Choices: Canberra, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane ]




Final Jeopardy Question on LITERATURE (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. Some of this book is set on a savage reservation in New Mexico:__________________________.
[Choices: A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Damnation Alley, The Outsiders ]






Answers:

1. Spain [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadiz ]

2. Portentous [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/portentous ]

3. Boulangere [pre-calls for "au gratin" were wrong, so Dai (BLADOR) called this one; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ud6lLMeIA ]

4. Mars [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film) ]

5. Red Rock Formations [I (REACH) eliminated Joshua trees and cacti as desert species, and succulent varieties from mountainous terrain, and guessed this of the remaining 2 Choices; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Gods ]

6. Dust bowl [Dai deduced and called this from the year, which eliminated the other Choices; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(storm) ]

7. Vixen [see the section "Etymology" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox ]

8. VW Beetle [Patrick (MRRED) pre-called this one; see https://www.dw.com/en/amazon-delivers-v ... a-50067148 ]

9. Jean (LESTER) pre-called this one, confirmed by me when I mentioned the 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russell Crowe & Jennifer Connelly; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Mind_(film) ]

10. Southern South America [Dai or Chris (CEEZED) called this one first; see https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2019-july-2 ]




11. Upper lip [I pre-called "lip"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philtrum ]

12. Jamaica [Phil (BSLXPN) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey ]

13. Lemniscate [Jean called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemniscate ]

14. Giannis Antetokounmpo [I called this one as a guess (since he was NBA Athlete of the Year); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Male ... ESPY_Award ]

15. Hirsute [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hirsute ]

16. Jimmy Hoffa [Dave (YELDOR) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sheeran ]

17. Europe [Despite calls for "Africa", I went with Europe because the Dutch, Lithuanians, Croatians, Serbs are tall (the last three in the NBA); see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps ... the-world/ ]

18. Anita Hill [We all missed this one, I going with Barbara Jordan; see the section "Written works" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill ]

19. 1970's [we all missed this one, I going with 1940's because I had never heard of Nik Nik shirts; see https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/nik_nik_shirt ]

20. E-cigarette [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul ]

21. Todd Rundgren [Phil called this one, confirmed by our server, Kevin; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoX52Sua8Oc ]

22. Parnassus [Despite pre-calls for "Olympus", I pushed for "Parnassus" for the Muses; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Parnassus ]




23.(a) Archaeology [we all struck out on this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian ... en_Thomsen ]

24.(a) Jason Statham [Phil pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Statham ]

25.(a) Police force [after pre-calls for "Subway" turned out to be wrong, Dai called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Police_Department ]

26.(a) Yesterday [Phil called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_(2019_film) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8079248/parentalguide ]

27.(a) Betsy Ross [I eliminated aboriginals (likely non-Quakers) Sacajawea and Pocahontas, child Virginia Dare, and Martha Washington (for others, Martha was eliminated in the first Clue); see the section "Early life and education" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross ]

28.(a) Mauritania [Phil pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania ]




29. 1963 [Andrew C (GRYFON) pre-called "late 1950's", so we all went for 1960's (close enough); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code ]

30. Pluto [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon) ]

31. Eruption of Mt. Pelee [Dai pre-called "pyroclastic flow" and I "volcano"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pelee ]

32. Avengers: Endgame [Patrick (MRRED) called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Endgame ]

33. Scansorial [Phil called this one, but most of us blew it (we should have eliminated all the other Choices and gone with the only Choice we had never heard of before); see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scansorial ]

34. Fish [we pre-called "Dog" or "Cat", so went with "Dog" when "Cat" did not appear as one of the Choices. According to https://www.wonderslist.com/most-popula ... n-america/ there are 88.3 million cats, 74.8 million dogs, but 142 million freshwater fish (an aquarium can hold many fish, whereas Cat Ladies with many, many cats are rare). Despite their own numbers, the authors then complete an article naming #1 dog and #2 cat as most popular pet. D'oh!!! Paul (NINJA) was the only Player to get all 7500 Points in the Lightning Round at Whispers Bar, Ottawa ON ]

35. New York Yankees [Phil pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Judge ]




36. Winston Churchill [After a pre-call for Teddy Roosevelt by someone else, I suggested Winston Churchill from the year 1908; see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493 ... an_Journey . Roosevelt was not one of the Choices listed.]

37. Being non-aquatic [Dai, then Patrick, called this after a few wrong pre-calls by others; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise ]

38. William the Conqueror [Andrew C (GRYFON) called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curia_regis . Although the Latin should have suggested William the Conqueror, a Norman (a North Man from Northern France), I worried about Edward the Confessor (who had sympathies and connections with Normandy); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor . In the section "Function and legacy" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witenagemot , "...in a sign of the witenagemot's enduring legacy, the curia regis continued to be dubbed a "witan" by chroniclers until as late as the 12th century". Luckily, I stuck with William the Conqueror. ]

39. Iridium [I called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium . In the section "Scientific", an alloy of 90% platinum (element 78) and 10% iridium (element 77) was used in 1889 to fabricate a bar with the standard metre length inscribed between two marks, and the kilogram mass standard. In my high school days, I had a fountain pen which had an "iridium tip" which meant that it was hard and would not corrode. ]

40. Melbourne [Dai and Phil pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne ]




41. Brave New World [I pre-called this one (the character John "Savage" was born, not decanted, on a reservation in New Mexico); see the section "Plot" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World ]

We at Whispers Bar, Ottawa ON were joined by Paul Paquet (NINJA) who got all 7500 Points on the Lightning Round; Paul may not have registered his handle as NINJA, so his score didn't count in the Site score.

Paul is an excellent trivia player who runs TriviaHallofFame which seeks to honor/honour great trivia players; see https://www.triviahalloffame.com/vote/index.php . To represent ntn/Buzztime, someone suggested Mr Z (at BWW Florence, South Carolina) be nominated (because he has the most Playersplus points). But TriviaHallofFame uses real names, so Paul is asking if the ntn/Buzztime community can help him with a real name or email address for contact (personal privacy might be a concern, and must be respected). Paul may be contacted at paul@triviahalloffame.com .

Since 2001, Paul has written the Questions for World Trivia Night, held each fall in Ottawa ON; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trivia_Night . The Questions are wide-ranging and entertaining in order to appeal to a wide spectrum of Players. I still remember my team (La Triviata) getting two toughies for hamburger computers in 2001: (1) What is the Greek word for "coal"?___________________, and (2) What was the nom de guerre of D.H. Lawrence's brother-in-law [sic?________________________. Answers were to be written on paper answer sheets which were hand-marked at breaks by teams of judges. Of course, no reference books, phone calls for help, electronic devices, etc.!!! [There is a technical issue with the answer to Q2, but what is the best logical guess for the question as written?]

Answers to follow in a couple days.

Category Round/Legends of Golf paraphrased

1. Sam Snead beat whom in an 18 hole playoff to win the 1954 Masters? ANS: Ben Hogan

2. Who drove the green at the first hole of the final round of the 1960 US Open which led to victory? ANS: Arnold Palmer

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Merkin

Glad to hear Paul Paquet joined you. I have attended the hall of fame inductions as part of TCONA/Trivia Nationals in Las Vegas over the past years. I am heartily in favor of including the Buzztime world in the HoF. Players Plus, however, may not be the way. It just refers to frequency of play, not quality, and there are ways to game that system (ask Czarge who has researched it, not done it). Another suggestion would be Anon and the Cleveland area Fellowship as the most frequent winners of the annual tournaments.

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Merkin

24. ART MOVEMENTS vs. current movies.
Romantic painters dominated the first half of the NINETEENTH century.

26. current movies vs. SCIENTIFIC PIONEERS
Aaron Beck, born in the United States in 1921, is the father of COGNITIVE THERAPY.

--Rick Magnus
RickM, Blue Goose

Answers to the two trivia Questions scripted by Paul Paquet for the 2001 World Trivia Night contest:
(1) The Greek word for "coal" is "anthrax". Since none of us (the La Triviata team) knew Greek, we had to brainstorm possible connections. Someone threw out "anthracite", the hardest form of coal. I immediately recognized the answer must be "anthrax", since the "-ax" ending is Greek (compare "Ajax", "thorax", etc.) and "th" is the Greek letter "theta". That summer, anthrax had made the news in a terrorist scare. See https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/ ... isease_is/ and https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/g ... d-for-coal .

(2) We guessed "The Red Baron" as the most well-known nickname from WWI. D.H. Lawrence's wife's maiden name was Frieda von Richthofen; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Lawrence , which states that Frieda was not the sister, but a 5th cousin of Manfred von Richthofen. Still, an interesting trivia fact.