Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & 5 Choices; No Clues):1. Something that is tiresome or boring would best be described as:______________________.
[Choices: Complicated, Brief, Stressed, Placid, Tedious ]
2. The Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the:________________________.
[Choices: North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, South China Sea, Indian Ocean ]
3. Which people were led by priests called Druids?________________________
[Choices: Native Americans, Pygmies, Ancient Greeks, Incas, Celts ]
4. Filbert trees are especially useful for the _____________________ they produce.
[Choices: Leaves, Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Pollywogs ]
5. Who did TIME magazine name as its 2019 Person of the Year?________________________
[Choices: Donald Trump, Greta Thunberg, Esther Duflo, Kanye West, The Squad ]
6. Which of the New Seven Wonders of the World is located in Jordan?______________________
[Choices: Petra, Great Wall, The Colosseum, Machu Picchu, Chichen Itza ]
7. Soylent is a recently developed:____________________________.
[Choices: Self-driving vehicle, Cloth substitute, Cleanser, Language, Meal replacement ]
8. The Pilgrims on the Mayflower set sail from _____________________ in September 1620.
[Choices: Swansea, Normandy, Liverpool, Dublin, Plymouth ]
9. Another word for "bruise" is:________________________.
[Choices: Betrayal, Question, Tumor, Contusion, Dungeon ]
10. Which holiday favorite is a poem?__________________________
[Choices: A Visit from St. Nicolas, The Fir-tree, Cricket on the Hearth, Little Women, The Chimes ]
Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds and with 3 Clues):11. This year marks the 21st anniversary of NASA's Chandra _______________________ Observatory.
[Choices: Comet, Meteor, Eclipse, X-Ray, Asteroid ]
12. Which ingredient is in a Hinoki martini?_________________________
[Choices: Awamori, Sake, Sapporo beer, Plum wine, Tequila ]
13. Which classic novel is by J.P. Donleavy?____________________________
[Choices: Slaughterhouse Five, The Group, Catch-22, Naked Lunch, The Ginger Man ]
14. All true crabs have exactly _____________ legs.
[Choices: Six, Ten, Twelve, Four, Eight ]
15. Uniper is a German company that is classified in the ____________________ sector.
[Choices: Energy, Pharmaceutical, Hotel, Insurance, Accounting ]
16. Which of these is a type of pottery?_________________________
[Choices: Gunmetal, Soubrette, Majolica, Emboite, Triffid ]
17. John Bel Edwards was reelected last year as Governor of this Southern state:__________________________.
[Choices: Louisiana, Georgia, Vermont, Idaho, Tennessee ]
18. The study of economic history is known as:__________________________.
[Choices: Cybernetics, Dendometrics, Jurisprudence, Semiotics, Cliometrics ]
19. What sporting event did Simon Pagenaud win in 2019?_______________________
[Choices: Indianapolis 500, Iditarod sled dog race, Wimbledon, Tour de France, The Masters ]
20. The religious texts of Zoroastrianism are called the:_______________________.
[Choices: Rigveda, Congeries, Sutras, Triads, Avesta ]
21. Blackeyed peas, pork and rice are ingredients of this New Years' dish in the American South:________________________.
[Choices: Hoppin' John, Jumpin' Joe, Runnin' Fred, Skippin' Luke, Singin' Hal ]
22. Which popular item was introduced in 1982?________________________
[Choices: Domino's Pizza, Pac-Man arcade game, Diet Coke, Toyota Camry, Rubik's Cube ]
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) A trip to Tennessee v WRITERS: What science fiction writer created the Uplift Universe?__________________________
[Choices: Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Frederik Pohl, Clive Cussler, David Brin ]
24.(a) HARRY POTTER v Ancient Rome: What kind of broom did Harry Potter first use to play Quidditch?___________________________.
[Choices: Broom of Erised, Comet Two Sixty, Milky-Way Flyer, Super-Sweeper, Nimbus Two-Thousand ]
25.(a) FOOD INGREDIENTS v Classical composers: Kugel is a pudding or casserole made from potatoes or:______________________.
[Choices: Green beans, Asparagus, Beets, Squash, Egg noodles ]
26.(a) ANCIENT ROME v A trip to Tennessee: In ancient Rome, a Fabula crepidata was a type of:________________________.
[Choices: Hand to hand combat, Scroll, Warship, Legal document, Drama ]
27.(a) Classical composers v HARRY POTTER: In Harry Potter, what House at Hogwarts did the wizards who went bad usually come from?_________________________
[Choices: Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Huffflepuff, Quidditch ]
28.(a) Writers v FOOD INGREDIENTS: Bavarian cream is an ingredient in which dessert?__________________________
[Choices: Devil's food cake, Fruitcake, Charlotte russe, Panettone, Baked Alaska ]
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. From 1945 to 1999, the Schilling was the national currency of:___________________________.
[Choices: Austria, Norway, Indonesia, Haiti, Chile ]
30. Who was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii?_____________________________
[Choices: Matatumua Maimoana, Kamehameha, Duke Kahanamoku, Daniel Inouye, Liliuokalani ]
31. People born in late ____________________ are born under the sign of Pisces.
[Choices: April, February, October, June, August ]
32. He was appointed in 2019 as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom:_____________________________.
[Choices: Boris Johnson, Noel Gallagher, Gareth Ainsworth, Simon Armitage, Daniel Woodrell ]
33. The Eastern White Pine is the official state tree of:________________________.
[Choices: Colorado, Maine, New York, Vermont, Kansas ]
34. In which film does Billy Bob Thornton play the President of the United States?_________________________
[Choices: What Women Want, Love Actually, Mars Attacks!, The Intern, It's Complicated ]
35. At 24,580 feet, Noshaq is the highest point in:________________________.
[Choices: Indonesia, Belarus, Afghanistan, Uganda, Mongolia ]
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. Which country listed was never colonized by a European country?___________________________
[Choices: Chad, Ghana, India, Cambodia, Thailand ]
37. Which word is closest in meaning to "obscure"?________________________
[Choices: Pileous, Nubilous, Fissile, Cladded, Rotiform ]
38. "Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" is a poetic line by:_______________________.
[Choices: Oscar Wilde, Samuel Coleridge, Leland Stanford, John Keats, H.P. Lovecraft ]
39. In historical geology, the Cambrian Explosion was marked by the appearance of:_______________________________.
[Choices: Solar eruptions, Language, Plants, Major animal phyla, Rocks ]
40. Which famous person was named after the city they were born in?____________________________
[Choices: Paris Hilton, Nikola Tesla, Florence Nightengale, Stephen F. Austin, Orlando Bloom ]
Final Jeopardy Question on WORLD RIVERS (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. The Dniester and Dneiper Rivers both flow into this body of water:___________________________.
[Choices: English Channel, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Atlantic Ocean, North Sea ]
Answers:1. Tedious [Andrew C (GRYFON) was the first at Whispers Pub, Ottawa ON to call this; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tedious ]
2. Arctic Ocean [I (REACH) pre-called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_Sea ]
3. Celts [Myfanwy (SPRAJO) pre-called "Welsh" first (she's Welsh), then pre-called "Celts"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid ]
4. Nuts [Myfanwy pre-called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelnut ]
5. Greta Thunberg [Chorus of pre-calls; see
https://time.com/person-of-the-year-201 ... -thunberg/ ]
6. Petra [Dai (YELDOR) or Andrew C pre-called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New7Wonders_of_the_World ]
7. Meal replacement [I called this one first, despite disbelief that someone would use "Soylent"=Soy+lentil in a commercial product; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement) ]
8. Plymouth [Chorus of calls, although there was a hiccup between departure and arrival spots; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony) . The Pilgrims left Southampton in August, and then Dartmouth and Plymouth in September 1620. ]
9. Contusion [Patrick (MRRED) pre-called this one, I think; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/contusion ]
10. A Visit from St. Nicolas [2 pre-calls for "'Twas the Night before Christmas", and then a chorus; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas ]
11. X-Ray [I called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory . It is named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who explained the stability of a white dwarf star by the Pauli Exclusion Principle: the nuclear fuel has run out, but further collapse is prevented because only 2 electrons can occupy the same small region of space, and their spins must be paired, so repulsion of the electrons maintains an Earth-sized star with the mass of the Sun. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahman ... ndrasekhar and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf ]
12. Sake [I called this as a guess; see
https://punchdrink.com/recipes/hinoki-martini/ ]
13. The Ginger Man [I called this by eliminating the other Choices; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ginger_Man ]
14. Ten [A wrong pre-call for "Eight" doomed us all; as soon as I saw the Answer, the Order "Decapoda" flashed in my mind. D'oh!!! I knew that lobsters and crabs have ten arms, including the claws ("Craws" if you remember the first episode of "Get Smart"). See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda . Humans, apes and monkeys belong to the Order Primates, and cats, dogs, raccoons, bears and seals belong to the Order Carnivora; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivora .]
15. Energy [we mostly missed this one; Phil (BSLXPN) and I guessed "pharmaceuticals", perhaps because I was thinking of Unilever and its chemicals. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniper ]
16. Majolica [Dai and Andrew called this one first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiolica ]
17. Louisiana [Phil (BSLXPN) pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bel_Edwards ]
18. Cliometrics [Andrew called this one, deducing this from Clio, the Muse of History; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliometrics ]
19. Indianapolis 500 [we all missed this one, since we have no interest in watching cars all turning in the same direction; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pagenaud . The answer does remind me of John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General: when asked what he thought of the Indianapolis 500, he replied "They're all guilty!" (This was at the time of the Chicago 7) ]
20. Avesta [Dai called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avesta ]
21. Hoppin' John [Dai called this as a guess; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoppin'_John ]
22. Diet Coke [we mostly missed this one, going with Pac-Man; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke ]
23.(a) David Brin [Dai pre-called this as a guess; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Universe ]
24.(a) Nimbus Two-Thousand [Phil pre-called "Something 2000"; see
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Nimbus_2000 ]
25.(a) Egg noodles [Richard (ACE) said "Kugel"="ball" in German, as a pre-call; Phil pre-called "some starch"; when the Choices appeared, Dave (BLADOR, usually YELDOR) called this one. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel . I mentioned to Richard that when I took Grade 10 German, someone asked the teacher what a ball-point pen was called in German, and the answer was "Kugelschreiber". In those days, ball-point pens were not allowed by most teachers; we had to use fountain pens, and many of our desks still had ink wells in the upper right corner. We also had to walk 10 miles to school, through 2 feet of snow, going uphill in both directions. ]
26.(a) Drama [we missed this one, going with "legal document"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabula_crepidata . According to
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fabula , "fabula"="folktale", so maybe we ought to have guessed "fable" to guess a dramatic story.]
27.(a) Slytherin [Chorus of calls; see
https://pottermore.fandom.com/wiki/Slytherin ]
28.(a) Charlotte Russe [Myfanwy and Sue (SWIFT) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_(cake) ]
29. Austria [I pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling ]
30. Kamehameha [Jean (LESTER) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Kamehameha ]
31. February [Dai pre-called this one; see
https://astrostyle.com/pisces-dates/ ]
32. Simon Armitage [we guessed wrong on this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Armitage ]
33. Maine [Phil pre-called this as a guess, but others pre-called Vermont, and when the Choices appeared, both were there, along with New York that tempted some of us; See
https://statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-offi ... white-pine ]
34. Love Actually [Myfanwy pre-called this one; see the section "Cast" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Actually ]
35. Afghanistan [Myfanwy guessed this one, but most of us guessed wrong; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noshaq ]
36. Thailand [Dai pre-called this, and I agreed; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand ]
37. Nubilous [we eliminated the other Choices; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nubilous ]
38. Samuel Coleridge [Dai pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_ ... nt_Mariner ]
39. Major animal phyla [I called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion . A phylum is a major division of a Kingdom; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum . Lobsters and true crabs (not the horseshoe crab) belong to the Order Decapoda (see Q14) which belongs to the Class Malacostraca (it was Class Crustacea when I was in school) which belongs to the Phylum Arthropoda . See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacostraca , and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda .]
40. Florence Nightingale [We missed this one, going with Paris Hilton, partly because "Nightingale" was misspelled as "Nightengale" in the Question. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale .]
41. Black Sea [Andrew and Dai immediately pre-called this, so we all got full Bonus Points. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dniester and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper . Note the spelling of each name, containing "ie", pronounced "long E" in German; "ei" is pronounced "long I", as in "eye", "Einstein", etc.]
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