Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, 14 seconds to answer after posting of Question & Choices; No Clues):1. A form of Creole is one of this nation's two official languages:_______________________.
[Choices: Sri Lanka, Cape Verde, Haiti, Vietnam, Jamaica ]
2. The brightness or saturation of a color is called its:_____________________.
[Choices: Sheen, Base, Intensity, Diligence, Solidity ]
3. This animal of the Procyid Family is known for its dexterous paws and ringed tail:______________________.
[Choices: Otter, Raccoon, Weasel, Mole, Lynx ]
4. Bourbon Street is a famous tourist attraction in this city:_______________________.
[Choices: Detroit, Seattle, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Baltimore ]
5. Batavia was the Roman name for what is now called:_________________________.
[Choices: The Balkans, The Netherlands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Scandinavia ]
6. Which of these is a word that means "to speak hurriedly"?_____________________
[Choices: Debark, Hyperbolate, Aspirate, Splutter, Garble ]
7. Born in England in 1842, Sir Arthur Sullivan is remembered for his many:_______________________.
[Choices: Essays, Mosaics, Sculptures, Comic operas, Paintings ]
8. King James II of ___________________ banned the sport of golf in 1457.
[Choices: Normandy, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Norway ]
9. The Rolling Stones had a hit song in 1971 with:_______________________.
[Choices: Wild Horses, Rocket Man, Purple Haze, Magical Mystery Tour, Bits and Pieces ]
10. Which body of water is part of the Southern Ocean?______________________
[Choices: Weddell Sea, Arctic Ocean, Tasman Strait, Beaufort Sea, Sea of Marmara ]
Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 16 seconds, and with 3 Clues): 11. Which counter-culture hero is the subject of Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"?_________________________
[Choices: Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Smothers, Timothy Leary ]
12. Bletchley Park Mansion was the top secret location of the U.K.'s codebreakers during:______________________.
[Choices: The Cold War, World War I, The Falklands War, World War II, The Suez Crisis ]
13. What exactly is "Frass"?_________________________
[Choices: Eroded rock, Stained glass, Ocean pollution, Bird feathers, Insect excrement ]
14. Aaron Burr Sr. was a founder of this educational institution in 1746:_________________________.
[Choices: Purdue, Brigham Young, Princeton, Columbia, Connecticut ]
15. Gore Vidal wrote a 1972 satirical play about politics entitled "An Evening with ____________________________".
[Choices: Benito Mussolini, Chairman Mao, Benedict Arnold, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon ]
16. The science of human settlements is called:_______________________.
[Choices: Dianegics, Ekistics, Gleatrics, Calisthenics, Urbanics ]
17. In medieval legend, Cressida is the beloved of:_______________________.
[Choices: Paris, Troilus, Samson, Thor, Hector ]
18. What exactly is an avadavat?__________________________
[Choices: Legal document, Fish, Ship's sail, Bird, Gardening tool ]
19. "Jurassic World: The Ride" is a spine-tingling attraction at:____________________________.
[Choices: Coney Island, Busch Gardens, Knott's Berry Farm, Universal Studios, Disneyland ]
20. In Poland, what should you order if you want cabbage leaves stuffed with meat and rice?________________________
[Choices: Bigos, Pierogi, Golabki, Kielbasa, Polenta ]
21. "30 St Mary Axe," a cone-shaped skyscraper in London, England, is nicknamed the:_________________________.
[Choices: Blimp, Gherkin, Squash, Arrow, Bullet ]
22. Which man gained fame as a French poet in the 19th Century?_______________________
[Choices: Jules Massenet, Lionel Jospin, Nevil Shute, Andre Savard, Arthur Rimbaud ]
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) WORLD GEOGRAPHY v Greek mythology: Which country does the Meuse River flow through?________________________
[Choices: Monaco, Belgium, Denmark, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein ]
24.(a) NBA currents v LIBRARIES: The world famous George Peabody Library is located on the campus of ________________________ University.
[Choices: Idaho State, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Oxford, McGill ]
25.(a) A trip to Tokyo v FAMOUS WOMEN: Meryl Streep, Mary McCarthy and Ruth Benedict all graduated from this school:_______________________.
[Choices: Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Bennington, Brigham Young, Northern Arizona ]
26.(a) Libraries v WORLD GEOGRAPHY: It is the largest of the British Virgin Islands:____________________.
[Choices: Bonaire, Stanley, Cayman, St. Helena, Tortola ]
27.(a) FAMOUS WOMEN v NBA currents: Which woman was a famous nuclear physicist during the 20th Century?_________________________
[Choices: Lee Krasner, Emmeline Pankhurst, Valentina Tereshkova, Lise Meitner, Nadia Comaneci ]
28.(a) GREEK MYTHOLOGY v A trip to Tokyo: In Greek myth, Orestes was the son of:_______________________.
[Choices: Demeter, Bellerophon, Clytemnestra, Romulus, Tristan ]
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. Douala, Garoua and Maroua are airports in this African nation:________________________________.
[Choices: Andorra, Grenada, Uganda, Cameroon, Mauritius ]
30. In what century was Genghis Khan born?______________________
[Choices: 14th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th ]
31. The World Anti-Doping Association has banned _____________________ from the 2020 Olympics.
[Choices: Brazil, Cuba, Russia, Iceland, Kenya ]
32. According to Isaac Newton, ______________________ is the product of mass and velocity.
[Choices: Momentum, Humidity, Depth, Speed, Density ]
33. A person who is eccentric and silly would most likely be called a:_______________________.
[Choices: Milquetoast, Ditz, Triffle, Gobber, Slug ]
34. Which famous Native American belonged to a branch of the Shoshone people?_________________________
[Choices: Sacagawea, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Pocahontas ]
35. Sam Mendes directed this current hit movie:___________________________.
[Choices: Underwater, Jumanji: The Next Level, Frozen II, 1917, Like a Boss ]
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 founded nine Franciscan missions in California in the 18th Century?_________________________
[Choices: Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Father Junipero Serra, St. Ingatius Loyola, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Don Diego de la Vega ]
37. Which island is located in the Southwest Pacific Ocean?___________________________
[Choices: Orkney, New Georgia, Bonaire, East Falkland, Mauritius ]
38. Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder was a friend and collaborator of:______________________________.
[Choices: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Peter Paul Rubens, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Jan Vermeer ]
39. Acineta, Liparis and Tolumnia are Genera of this flowering plant:_________________________.
[Choices: Fig, Orchid, Palm, Daisy, Cactus ]
40. "Burgher's Daughter" and "Get a Life" are novels by this South African writer:____________________________.
[Choices: Alice Munro, J.W. Coetzee, Isak Dinesen, Nadine Gordimer, Wole Soyinka ]
Final Jeopardy Question on ASTRONOMY ( 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 heavenly body was discovered in 1655?____________________________
[Choices: Titan, Neptune, Phobos, Ceres, Sirius ]
Answers: 1. Haiti [pre-called by Dai (BLADOR) at Whispers Pub, Ottawa ON; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Creole ]
2. Intensity [pre-called as a guess by Dai; see
https://etad.usask.ca/skaalid/theory/cgdt/color.htm ]
3. Raccoon [pre-called by me (REACH); see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyonidae and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyon_(genus) ]
4. New Orleans [I pre-called this first; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Street ]
5. The Netherlands [Pre-called by Dai, and I added "Makes sense, since Indonesia...(was exploited by the Dutch)…" and Dai finished the thought with "the capital Jakarta used to be called Batavia"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(region) and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jakarta (which was called Batavia 1619-1949). ]
6. Splutter [see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/splutter ; we went with "garble" except for Andrew who switched to "splutter" at the last second.]
7. Comic operas [I pre-called "operettas", followed by Andrew C (GRYFON) who pre-called "comic opera"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan ]
8. Scotland [a chorus of pre-calls; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_ ... (1353-1850) ]
9. Wild Horses [Phil (BSLXPN) called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hors ... tones_song ) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQTHB4jM-KQ ]
10. Weddell Sea [I pre-called "around Antarctica" and Phil or Chris and Dai called "Weddell Sea" ; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_Sea .]
11. Ken Kesey [my pre-call; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elect ... _Acid_Test . I mentioned that the road to the hippy settlement included a sign "No Left Turn Unstoned". ]
12. WWII [pre-called by me and Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park ]
13. Insect excrement [Dai pre-called this; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frass ]
14. Princeton [Dai, Phil and I pre-called this as a guess; see
https://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/ ... on_sr.html and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr_Sr.
15. Richard Nixon [I wrongly called "Chairman Mao" as a guess; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Evenin ... hard_Nixon ".
16. Ekistics [we guessed "Urbanics", but didn't pay attention to the Clues eliminating this Choice, so we ended up losing 250 Points each. Anyone else? See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekistics .]
17. Troilus [my pre-call; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troilus ]
18. Bird [Dai & Deb (GRZLDA) got 1000 Points on this Question, but the rest of us lost most of the Points. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amandava .]
19. Universal Studio [Pre-called by Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World:_The_Ride ]
20. Golabki [Called by Chris (CEEZED); see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golabki ]
21. Gherkin ["The Shard" was pre-called several times, but it did not appear as a Choice, so I called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe ]
22. Arthur Rimbaud [Phil pre-called "Baudelaire" as a guess, but it did not appear as a Choice, and Dai then called Rimbaud; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud . Various impressions of "Rambo" then followed.]
23.(a) Belgium [I pre-called "France", and then called "Belgium" when the Choices appeared; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse ]
24.(a) Johns Hopkins [we split between Johns Hopkins (called by Patrick (MRRED), I think) and Yale; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peabody_Library ]
25.(a) Vassar [I switched from Vassar on a call for Mt. Holyoke, and then switched back after Holyoke was eliminated on the first Clue. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Streep ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McCarthy_(author) , and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Benedict ]
26.(a) Tortola [Sue (SWIFT) and Phil got full Points on this, others not so much. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortola ]
27.(a) Lise Meitner [there was a chorus of pre-calls for Marie Curie, and I pre-called Maria Goeppert Mayer as a guess. When neither appeared as a Choice, I quickly called for Lise Meitner; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goeppert_Mayer .]
28.(a) Clytemnestra [Dai pre-called "Agamemnon" and I "Clytemnestra"; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes ]
29. Cameroon [pre-called by Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_a ... n_Cameroon ]
30. 12th [pre-called by Andrew, Phil and Dai; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan (born, c.1162) ]
31. Russia [pre-called by Chris; see
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/50710598 ]
32. Momentum [my pre-call; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum ]
33. Ditz [I called this first; see
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ditz ]
34. Sacagawea [my pre-call; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea ]
35. 1917 [Patrick called this one; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_(2019_film)
36. Father Junipero Serra [Dai called this one confidently; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junipero_Serra .]
37. New Georgia [my call; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Georgia ]
38. Peter Paul Rubens [we all missed this one on my botched call. Brueghel was in my mind Flemish Renaissance, so I pre-called "Renaissance", which eliminated Rubens (Baroque period, as was Vermeer). Kandinsky was 20th Century, and van Gogh late 19th Century. So I went along with a call for Ghiberti. Unfortunately, Ghiberti lived from 1378-1455 (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Ghiberti ), a little early.
The confusion resulted from the painter Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), "son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder" who lived from c. 1525-1530 to 1569. Rubens lived from 1577-1640, contemporary with Jan, not Pieter. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Brueghel_the_Elder ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens , and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Vermeer (1632-1675) .]
39. Orchid [we all went with a call for Orchid (from Chris?); see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acineta ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liparis_(plant) , and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolumnia .]
40. Nadine Gordimer [Dai switched his call for J.W. Coetzee to Gordimer in time for us to get this right; see the section "Novels" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer ]
41. Titan [as soon as I saw the year 1655, I knew it was in the early days of the telescope first used by Galileo for astronomy c. 1610, so it had to be pretty easy to spot with a small telescope. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon) , discovered by Christian Huygens, at magnitude 8.2-9.0. "First magnitude" (mag 1) means "first class"="bright", whereas a "sixth magnitude" (mag 6)= "sixth class" star is just barely visible to the human unaided eye on a dark, cloudless, Moonless night.
The difference of 5 magnitudes from mag 1 to mag 6 corresponds to a difference of brightness by a factor of 100. Therefore each magnitude differs from the next magnitude by the 5th root of 100 = 2.512 (approx.). Mag 9 is 3 magnitudes dimmer than mag 6, and is therefore the cube of 2.512 = 16 times dimmer than mag 6. Therefore Titan is impossible to see with the unaided human eye.
Neptune is mag 8, only a factor of 2 or so brighter than Titan, a moon of Saturn, but was not discovered until 1846, and the dwarf planet Ceres at mag 7-9 was discovered in 1801, even though it is comparable in brightness to Titan. The reason Titan was discovered so much earlier than Neptune or Ceres is that it orbits Saturn which is easily visible to the human eye, at mag -0.55 to +1.17. Saturn is also the most spectacular Solar system object because of its rings, and over the course of days, Titan can be seen through a telescope to be moving with respect to the rings, and therefore orbiting the planet. By contrast, Ceres through the same telescope will appear as a point of light hardly distinguishable from distant stars with the same apparent brightness. Neptune appears as a blue disc at high magnification, but is often difficult to locate in a field of distant stars of the same apparent brightness. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon) ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune , and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet).
At mag 12, Phobos is a small moon of Mars, and was not discovered until 1877 by Asaph Hall. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon) .
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, at mag -1.46, and is brighter than all the planets except for Venus, Jupiter, and sometimes Mars (depending on Mars' position in its orbit and geometry with the Earth and the Sun). See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius . ]
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