Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & 5 Choices; No Clues):1. Paul and Art are the first names of which entertainment duo?________________________
[Choices: Brewer and Shipley, Laurel and Hardy, The Hager Twins, Simon and Garfunkel, Abbott and Costello ]
2. From 1647 to 1664, Peter Stuyvesant was the Director-General of the Colony of:___________________________.
[Choices: New England, New Germany, New Orleans, New Netherland, New Jersey ]
3. Which verb means "to confuse"?__________________________
[Choices: Tether, Boggle, Somnambulate, Deign, Nosh ]
4. What 1988 Disney movie is loosely based on a Charles Dickens novel?________________________
[Choices: Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Oliver and Company, Pinocchio, Lady and the Tramp ]
5. The Admiral Kuznetzov is the flagship of the _________________________ Navy.
[Choices: Australia, Russian, Polish, Danish, Swedish ]
6. Hey, ladies! If your man is cheating on you, what would you call him?_____________________
[Choices: Gaffer, Cimmerian, Schnorrer, Martinet, Philanderer ]
7. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales has been granted asylum by neighboring:________________________.
[Choices: Panama, Guyana, Peru, Romania, Argentina ]
8. A disembodied head inside a crystal ball is seen at the end of this Disneyland attraction:__________________________.
[Choices: Pirates of the Caribbean, Peter Pan's Flight, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White's Adventures, Haunted Mansion ]
9. In tennis, at least six games must be won to win a:_________________________.
[Choices: Match, Battle, Set, Quarter, Round ]
10. Which university is mismatched with the city it is located in?_______________________
[Choices: Mississippi-Oxford, Oklahoma-Tulsa, Brigham Young-Provo, Baylor-Waco, Northwestern-Evanston ]
Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds, and with 3 Clues):11. Surprisingly to Americans, a Full English Breakfast includes:________________________.
[Choices: Apples, Eggplant, Beans, Broccoli, Asparagus ]
12. The Collared ____________________, native to the Americas, is a mammal with scent glands.
[Choices: Capybara, Peccary, Weasel, Lemur, Eel ]
13. Carrefour is a multinational firm based in:______________________.
[Choices: France, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Scotland, Australia ]
14. The canonical painting methods of the Renaissance included sfumato, cangiante and:_________________________.
[Choices: Collage, Photorealism, Lyrical abstraction, Drip-style, Chiaroscuro ]
15. The first U.S. President to travel outside the U.S. on official business went to:_________________________.
[Choices: Panama, England, Australia, Madagascar, China ]
16. A ___________________ is defined as a small, nipple-like protuberance of elevation.
[Choices: Peritoneum, Pelvis, Plantar, Pancreas, Papilla ]
17. 1930's child actress Shirley Temple went on to become an Ambassador to:___________________.
[Choices: Jamaica, Russia, Thailand, Chile, Ghana ]
18. The Soviet Army took control of this city in 1944:___________________________.
[Choices: Stuttgart, Addis Ababa, Naples, Sofia, Copenhagen ]
19. What 1950's English drama best exemplified the "Angry Young Men" movement?_________________________
[Choices: Private Lives, Look Back in Anger, Lady Windemere's Fan, Separate Tables, The Winslow Boy ]
20. "Dan + Shay" is the name of a popular:__________________________.
[Choices: Country music duo, Internet comedy team, Video game, Kid's app, Clothing label ]
21. Which river is located in Virginia?_______________________
[Choices: Pee Dee, Thames, Susquehanna, Wabash, Rapidan ]
22. Adequality, a concept introduced by Pierre de Fermat, is used in:______________________________.
[Choices: Banking, Calculus, Chemistry, High finance, Navigation ]
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) The Arts v SPORTS: Nathaniel Crosby was the Captain of the 2019 U.S. ______________________ Cup team.
[Choices: Fedex, Grey, Curtis, Presidents, Walker ]
24.(a) SCIENCE v Ancient Rome: Erigeron is a Genus of:____________________________.
[Choices: Fish, Birds, Rocks, Plants, Worms ]
25.(a) What is it? v ANIMATED TV SHOWS: Which of these is a character on the TV series "Futurama"?____________________________
[Choices: Pam Poovey, Glenn Quagmire, Rallo Tubbs, Hubert J. Farnsworth, Avery Bullock ]
26.(a) ANCIENT ROME v The Arts: In the Roman Republic of ancient times, a Quaestor was a:_____________________.
[Choices: Military commander, Peasant, Storekeeper, Treasurer, School teacher ]
27.(a) ANIMATED TV SHOWS v Science: "The Powerpuff Girls" TV cartoon show features Blossom, Buttercup and:____________________.
[Choices: Beauty, Bangles, Birdie, Blaze, Bubbles ]
28.(a) SPORTS v What is it?: An Olympic swimming pool must be ___________ meters long.
[Choices: 30, 50, 100, 40, 20 ]
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 narrator in the classic story "The Little Prince" is a:________________________.
[Choices: Plumber, Farmer, Doctor, Pilot, Salesman ]
30. Which city is a port on the Black Sea?___________________________
[Choices: Syracuse, Laconia, Sochi, Nicosia, Aleppo ]
31. "Glass" is a 2019 movie thriller directed by:________________________.
[Choices: Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee, M. Night Shyamalan, Paul Maurice, Jerrold Nadler ]
32. 25 degrees Centigrade is equal to __________ degrees Fahrenheit.
[Choices: 55, 66, 77, 44, 88 ]
33. Who is Pearl Jam's lead singer?_________________________
[Choices: Eddie Vedder, Chris Martin, Rod Stewart, Courtney Love, Rob Thomas ]
34. "Vague discomfort" is a good definition of:_______________________.
[Choices: Monody, Melange, Myalgia, Malaise, Minacity ]
35. Who wrote the popular 1964 children's novel "Harriet the Spy"?_______________________
[Choices: Roald Dahl, Louise Fitzhugh, Astrid Lindgren, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Marc Brown ]
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 animal belongs to the Superorder Apodimorphae?________________________
[Choices: Hyena, Barracuda, Hummingbird, Kangaroo, Shrew ]
37. What literary character was held captive by Queen Coo-ee-oh?__________________________
[Choices: Alice in Wonderland, Babar the Elephant, Lemuel Gulliver, Dorothy Gale, Pippi Longstocking ]
38. Numa Pompilius is said to be one of the seven:____________________________.
[Choices: Kings of Rome, Solons, Sirens, Greek muses, Palatine hills ]
39. This element's most stable isotope has a half-life of 14.05 billion years:_____________________.
[Choices: Rutherfordium, Sodium, Rhodium, Thorium, Helium ]
40. People who live on this island nation are New Zealand citizens:________________________.
[Choices: Fiji, Barbados, Palau, Tuvalu, Niue ]
Final Jeopardy Question on OPERA (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 opera premiered in Prague on October 29, 1787?_________________________
[Choices: Carmen, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Billy Budd, La Traviata ]
Answers:1. Simon & Garfunkel [Myfanwy (SPRAJO) pre-called this first at Whispers Pub, Ottawa ON; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_&_Garfunkel ]
2. New Netherland [Dai (BLADOR) pre-called "New Amsterdam", and when the Choices appeared, Dave (YELDOR) called "New Netherland"; Dai explained the difference - "New Amsterdam" became New York City. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland ]
3. Boggle [Dai and Myfanwy called this first; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/boggle ]
4. Oliver and Company [Paul (WLDCAT) at the other table in the room called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_&_Company ]
5. Russian [I (REACH) pre-called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_a ... _Kuznetsov ]
6. Philanderer [We all had a good laugh before the Choices appeared for this Question; I called this first. But suuuure, if you're the wife, you'd call him a "philanderer" . Dai chipped in "It might work as an epitaph", and Myfanwy countered "Too many letters, not worth spending the money", so I suggested "Rat", and Myfanwy suggested "Bastard". See
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/philander . ]
7. Argentina [I guessed this, others went with Peru. See
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-a ... ntina.html ]
8. Haunted Mansion [Phil (BSLXPN) pre-called "the haunted house one"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Mansion_(film) ]
9. Set [pre-called by Phil; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_scoring_system ]
10. Oklahoma-Tulsa [We Canadians all missed this one. The University of Oklahoma is in Norman OK, not Tulsa (Dave knew this, but recognized this only after the Answer was shown); see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oklahoma . It's Oklahoma State that has a campus in Tulsa; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_ ... sity-Tulsa ]
11. Beans [Dave called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast ]
12. Peccary [I called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collared_peccary ]
13. France [Pre-called by Patrick (MRRED) or by Paul (WLDCAT) at the other table in the room; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour ]
14. Chiaroscuro [Dai and I called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro ]
15. Panama [Someone (Paul?) at the other table called this one. See the section "Early 20th century trips" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i ... ted_States ]
16. Papilla [Called by me; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilla ]
17. Ghana [Pre-called by me; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple ]
18. Sofia [Dave called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Bulg ... oup_d'etat ]
19. Look Back in Anger [Pre-called by me; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Back_in_Anger ]
20. Country music duo [We first went with "Internet comedy team", but when this was eliminated, I guessed this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_+_Shay ]
21. Rapidan [Dai called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidan_River ]
22. Calculus [a wrong suggestion for "Chemistry" lost us time and Points, but Fermat was a famous mathematician, so I eventually called "Calculus"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequality .
I mentioned that Fermat's Last Theorem may have been solved (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem ). Chris (CEEZED) then mentioned that in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Fermat's Last Theorem had not yet been solved, even though the series was set 500 years from now. So, as Nelson Muntz or James Holzhauer would say, "haha!" Paul (WLDCAT) and BPBOOM at the other table got all 1000 Points each on this Question.]
23.(a) Walker [we wrongly went with "Presidents", but it was another golf cup, the Walker Cup for amateurs that had Nathaniel Crosby (a son of golfer/actor/singer Bing Crosby) as Captain in 2019; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Cup and the last sentence in the section "Golf Career" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Crosby ]
24.(a) Plants [I pre-called "It could be a plant" because I had never seen an animal of Genus "Erigeron"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erigeron .]
25.(a) Hubert J. Farnsworth [Patrick (MRRED) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Farnsworth . Because "Farnsworth" is not a common name, I wondered aloud if Hubert J. was related to Philo T. Farnsworth, an American who invented the raster scanning pattern for TV pictures (according to the Wikipedia article on Professor Farnsworth, there is a family connection). Philo had grown up on a farm, and the idea of the raster scanning pattern came from his experience plowing parallel furrows offset for each row; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth .]
26.(a) Treasurer [I pre-called "Politician", which was close enough to get this one right; see the section "History, Roman Republic" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaestor ]
27.(a) Bubbles [Phil called this one, and when I asked, he admitted he had watched the show with his daughter when she was very young; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powerpuff_Girls ]
28.(a) 50 [Dai pre-called this, and I confirmed it; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-s ... mming_pool ]
29. Pilot [I think Paul (WLDCAT) at the other table pre-called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince ]
30. Sochi [Myfanwy called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochi ]
31. M. Night Shyamalan [Paul (WLDCAT) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_(2019_film) ]
32. 77 [Sue (SWIFT) called this one first; see
https://www.thoughtco.com/convert-celsi ... eit-609228 . There are 100 Celsius degrees from the freezing point of water (zero Celsius) to the normal boiling point of water (100 Celsius) whereas from 32 Fahrenheit (freezing point of water) to 212 Fahrenheit (normal boiling point) there are 212-32 = 180 Fahrenheit degrees. The ratio of 100 to 180 is 5:9 when the common factor 20 is cancelled. Therefore 25 Celsius degrees means 25(9/5) = 45 Fahrenheit degrees above the freezing point of water. So the temperature in Fahrenheit is 45+32 = 77 degrees F. ]
33. Eddie Vedder [Phil pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vedder ]
34. Malaise [Dai pre-called this one! See
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/malaise ]
35. Louise Fitzhugh [we went with a wrong pre-call suggestion for Roald Dahl, losing 2000 Points in 4 seconds. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_the_Spy .]
36. Hummingbird [Dai called this one, since "A-pod"="not foot", and hummingbirds in flight appear to have no legs. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird for Order Apodiformes. For the Superorder Apodimorphae, see
http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTre ... 4&id=80202 .]
37. Dorothy Gale [we wrongly guessed Pippi Longstocking, except for Myfanwy who got this Question right. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glinda_of_Oz ]
38. Kings of Rome [Dai pre-called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Pompilius and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Rome ]
39. Thorium [Dai called this as a guess, since he had recently read the half-life of an isotope of thorium was 14 billion years (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium ). Since the age of the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, this means that although thorium is radioactive, it has not all disintegrated, and we can find thorium in ores. This is not true of rutherfordium, element 104, whose most stable isotope has a half-life of 1.3 hours (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherfordium ). The other Choices have non-radioactive isotopes, so half-lives are not applicable.]
40. Niue [I think Paul (WLDCAT) from the other table called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realm_of_New_Zealand and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Niue .
Only Myfanwy (SPRAJO) got 5-out-of-5 Right in the Dreaded Pyramid Round, and wound up the #2 Player in Canada & the USA.]
41. Don Giovanni [As soon as I saw "1787" and "Prague", I pre-called "Mozart" , so we all on the upper floor at Whispers got full Bonus Points. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Giovanni .]
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