New Scaratings

Warm-up Round (10 Questions, 500 Points each, No clues):[b]
1. In the "Mockingbird" song, what will he buy if the mockingbird won't sing?______________.
[Choices: Lots of bling, Summer fling, Diamond ring, Crazy thing, Magic sing]
2. The Bayeux Tapestry celebrates this medieval event:________________.
[Choices: First crusade, Norman conquest, Crowning of Charlemagne, Fall of Rome, Fall of Constantinople]
3. Which of these is a metric unit of weight?___________.
[Choices: Quinone, Quinsy, Quintin, Quinte, Quintal ]
4. Monkey Bay National Park can be visited on a trip to this Central American country:_____________.
[Choices: Kenya, Panama, Belize, Laos, Indonesia]
5. The _____________ Courage Award is given as part of the annual ESPY Awards.
[Choices: Lou Gehrig, Max Baer, Joe Louis, Arthur Ashe, Sugar Ray Leonard]
6. This creature is also known as a dwarf leopard:________________.
[Choices: Manx, Ocelot, Pika, Hyena, Quakka]
7. "By George, I think she's got it!" is a famous line from what musical?________________.
[Choices: Hamilton, The Phantom of the Opera, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, The King and I]
8. A polyglot is one who has:________________.
[Choices: Mastered many languages, Fought in many wars, Avoided marriage, Traveled the world, Reached the North Pole]
9. What kind of ship is the famed Oseberg Ship, preserved in Norway?______________.
[Choices: Steamship, Chinese junk, Egyptian barque, Viking longship, Civil War submarine]
10. What would you most likely find in a convent?_______________.
[Choices: Garden tools, Religious women, Lonely hipsters, Office furniture, Pelicans]

[b] Countdown Round (12 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly with time and 3 Clues):
11. Published in 1925, "In Our Time" was the first collection of short stories by:_________________.
[Choices: Louis L'Amour, Gore Vidal, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville]
12. Portela Airport serves this European capital city:______________.
[Choices: Lisbon, Lagos, Libreville, Ljubljana, London]
13. Many experts credit Lionel Sternberger with inventing the _____________ in 1926.
[Choices: Cheeseburger, Eskimo Pie, Lollipop, French fry, Potato chip]
14. What country launched the "Dampe" spacecraft in 2015?_____________.
[Choices: Australia, France, Luxembourg, Paraguay, China]
15. John Proctor, Sarah Good and Martha Corey played roles in this early American event:_______________.
[Choices: Landing at Jamestown, Boston Tea Party, Purchase of Manhattan, Salem witch trials, Henry Hudson voyages]
16. A spirometer is a device used to measure:_______________.
[Choices: Breathing, Digestion, Body temperature, Blood pressure, Nervousness]
17. This fictional planet came from the fertile mind of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.:________________.
[Choices: Wollamurra, Tralfamadore, Arrakis, Gauda Prime, Endor]
18. Studs, dangles, drops and chandeliers are types of:________________.
[Choices: Belts, Necklaces, Bracelets, Earrings, Crowns]
19. The chinchilla is an animal that is native to the:______________.
[Choices: Andes mountains, Australian outback Sahara desert, Eurasian steppe, Arctic tundra]
20. A medical student would tell you that peritonsillar abscess is a fancy name for:_____________.
[Choices: Mumps, Dropsy, Malaria, The Shakes, Quinsy]
21. Which word would best describe a treacherous and deceitful person?______________.
[Choices: Magnanimous, Cranial, Atrabilious, Droll, Perfidious]
22. The scientific community recently released the first global maps of:______________.
[Choices: Mars, The cloud cover of Venus, Mercury's surface, Charon and Pluto, The asteroid belt]

Category Round (6 Questions, 1000 Points each, Category chosen by majority vote at each Site):
23.(a) WORLD GEOGRAPHY v Tom Cruise: Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and:____________.
[Choices: Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama]
24.(a) CHEMISTRY CLASS v Musicals: The ____________ Process is used to make nitric acid.
[Choices: Ostwald, Bunsen, Haber, Murphy, Benton]
25.(a) U.S. PRESIDENTS v Arts and crafts: Which U.S. President went to school at Miami University of Ohio?____________.
[Choices: Benjamin Harrison, Gerald Ford, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Nixon, Grover Cleveland]
26.(a) MUSICALS v World geography: "Nowadays" and "Mister Cellophane" are songs from which Broadway musical?____________________.
[Choices: A Foggy Day in London, Chicago, New York New York, St. Louis Woman, Moon over Miami]
27.(a) Arts and crafts v CHEMISTRY CLASS:_____________. In Chemistry, when a liquid solution becomes a solid the product is called a:______________.
[Choices: Halogen, Nanocluster, Precipitate, Sediment, Millibar]
28.(a) Tom Cruise v U.S. PRESIDENTS: What President signed the Interstate Commerce Act?_______________.
[Choices: Bill Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, John Tyler, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Jefferson]

Lightning Round (7 Questions, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 Points, but time to read and answer decreases from 15 to 4 seconds):
29. "Stand!" and "There's a Riot Goin' On" are classic albums from this San Francisco group:_______________.
[Choices: Average White Band, U2, Sly & The Family Stone, The Temptations, Journey]
30. This sportswear firm was founded in Turin, Italy:______________.
[Choices: Lambda, Romeo, Zebra, Kappa, Delta]
31. The Gulf of Naples is part of the:_____________.
[Choices: Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Black Sea, Baltic]
32. A person who looks gaunt and haggard would best be described as:_____________.
[Choices: Dissident, Vociferous, Facile, Magnanimous, Cadaverous]
33. Founded in 2015, Lighthouse Relief is attempting to solve Europe's:______________.
[Choices: Refugee problem, Economy, Unemployment, Climate change, Security issues]
34. Ishpeming, Michigan, is the home of the U.S. ____________ Hall of Fame and Museum.
[Choices: Yachting, Wrestling, Ski and Snowboard, Horse racing, Swimming]
35. A sheath for a sword or dagger is called a:_______________.
[Choices: Falchion, Glaive, Lance, Scabbard, Flail]

Dreaded Pyramid Round (5 Questions, 12000, 7000, 4000, 2000, 1000 Points for 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Right out of 5; No clues):
36. Both nutmeg and ___________ are cultivated from the same plant.
[Choices: Cinnamon, Dill, Allspice, Ginger, Mace]
37. Who is the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"?_________________ .
[Choices: Reginald Smythe-Smythe, Jay Gatsby, Dolores Claiborne, Myrtle Wilson, Nick Carraway]
38. This oddly named creature can change its sex:______________.
[Choices: Gray-shanked Douc, White-headed Langur, Dumbo Octopus, Star-nosed Mole, Blackeye Goby]
39. President James K. Polk was in attendance when the cornerstone to the _______________ was laid.
[Choices: Empire State Building, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, White House, Brooklyn Bridge]
40. "I and the Village" is a 1911 Cubist painting by:______________.
[Choices: Joseph Conrad, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Sandro Botticelli]

Final Jeopardy Question on CANADIAN HISTORY (50% Bonus if Right Immediately; Points decrease rapidly with time and 3 Clues; 50% Deduction if Final Choice is Wrong):
41. This Canadian city was originally named Bytown when it was founded in 1826:________________ .
[Choices: Ottawa, Burlington, Montreal, Winnipeg, Halifax ]


Answers:
1. Diamond ring [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush,_Little_Baby ]
2. Norman conquest [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry ]
3. Quintal [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintal ]
4. Belize [see https://www.monkeybaybelize.com/thesanctuary/ ]
5. Arthur Ashe [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ashe_Courage_Award ]
6. Ocelot [see https://www.livescience.com/55072-ocelot-facts.html ]
7. My Fair Lady [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSPwexlyTo (6 seconds) ]
8. Mastered many languages [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglotism ]
9. Viking longboat [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_Ship ]
10. Religious women [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent ]

11. Hemingway [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Ti ... collection)_
12. Lisbon [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Airport ]
13. Cheeseburger [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeseburger ]
14. China [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matt ... e_Explorer ]
15. Salem witch trials [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials ]
16. Breathing [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirometer ]
17. Tralfamadore [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore ]
18. Earrings [see https://www.tiffany.ca/jewelry/earrings ]
19. Andes Mountains [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchilla ]
20. Quinsy [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritonsillar_abscess ]
21. Perfidious [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/perfidious ]
22. Charon and Pluto [see http://www.sci-news.com/space/pluto-cha ... 06187.html ]

23.(a) Bolivia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Titicaca ]
24.(a) Ostwald [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostwald_Process ]
25.(a) Benjamin Harrison [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison ]
26.(a) Chicago [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(musical)_
27.(a) Precipitate [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_(chemistry)_ ]
28.(a) Grover Cleveland [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstat ... ct_of_1887 ]

29. Sly & The Family Stone [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone ]
30. Kappa [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(company) ]
31. Tyrrhenian Sea [see the Regional map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Naples ]
32. Cadaverous [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cadaverous ]
33. Refugee problem [see https://www.lighthouserelief.org/ ]
34. Ski & snowboard [see http://www.skihell.com/ ]
35. Scabbard [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabbard ]

36. Mace [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutmeg ]
37. Nick Carraway [see the section "Plot summary" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby ]
38. Blackeye Goby [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackeye_goby ]
39. Washington Monument [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk (President 1845-1849) ]
40. Marc Chagall [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_the_Village ]

41. Ottawa [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytown ]

The Tailgate took the same Categories excepting:

24(b): Chemistry vs. MUSICALS: Horace Vandergelder is a wealthy miser in this play adapted from The Matchmaker: Hello, Dolly!

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26. musicals vs. WORLD GEOGRAPHY.
The Don, Dnieper, and Volga are all Russian RIVERS.

(And I think that's all 12.)

--Rick Magnus
RickM, Blue Goose

There are an awful lot of ways to screw up the ends of these quizzes.



A sympathetic tear shed for anyone who took Dumbo Octopus (I got outshouted and switched to the Goby).



ARKUAT's hippy mom's favorite artist is Chagall. A canvass of the table indicated that the other eight of us would have taken Braque, no exceptions.



I made an immediate call for Ottawa, and took six others with me, but not the hero of the session, ARKUAT, who never got an elimination of his choice, Winnipeg. I give him a ride home and so had the opportunity to remonstrate with him. Surely he knew that the first civilian settlement in Minnesota didn't occur until the 1830's, and that 450 miles north, where Winnipeg lies, would be proportionately the more hostile climate in winter. This observation elicited the response I was hoping to hear, a cathartic groan.

This presupposes a hostile climate influences the behavior of us Canadians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... settlement
In the instance, my attendance at Carleton University of Ottawa/Bytown provided great succor.

To GONE D: Re : "I and the Village" by a Cubist painter. BSLXPN at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON pre-called "Braque" because Picasso and Braque co-founded Cubism (and Picasso would be too easy an answer for a Pyramid Round Question). I agreed initially, but then I remembered the actual painting and its title was by Chagall, so managed to convince the others except BSLXPN to switch to Chagall. Despite what the Wikipedia article says, the painting is not exactly what we non-experts would call Cubist, if only because the people and the animals are not really abstracted with straight-line edges.


BTW, SWIFT did not get the points for this Question (our boards sometimes do not register correct Answers, despite having enough battery power to complete the SHOWDOWN and the following GLORY DAZE Game), and my board as REACH did not register the correct answer "Washington Monument" on the previous Pyramid Round Question. Therefore only 2 of our 7 boards got all 12000 Pyramid Round Points instead of 4 out of 7. This made a big difference = (2)(1.5/6)(5000) =2500 Points on the Site score (using 1.5 weighting factor, since the Final Question was so easy for us in Ottawa ON), which is important in a Tournament! Last week, one of my BRAINBUSTER Game right answers did not register, and 1000 Points lost out of 15000 makes a big difference in the Standings!


Does anyone else in the ntn network have similar problems with boards? We are becoming paranoid about the Wifi signal strength (which does not explain why the glitch seems to be intermittent, yet not regular enough to be traceable). We have learned the hard way not to bring our fingers close to the touch screens on our tablets (which I assume work on the basis of capacitance) once we have entered our answers. In the Pyramid Round, there are no partial points as time winds down, and there are no clues, so we definitely do not hover our fingers above the boards once we have entered a right answer.

There was a fort erected on the present site of Winnipeg well before Fort Snelling (1819) was founded in Minnesota. In a succession of competing interests, the fort extant in Manitoba in 1826 burned down that year, and wasn't replaced until 1835.

There's one of those Gotcha Questions floating about in the Countdown algorithm, Whether the sport fishing lake, Lake Winnebago, is located in Minnesota or Wisconsin. It's in Wisconsin. Minnesota has more lakes than I can count, even kicking off my socks. None of them are named Lake Winnebago. There's a town in Minnesota, Winnebago, which produced camping vehicles, which question is sure to snare any number of Buzztime-playing RV'ers.

The original tribe at Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin called themselves Ho-Chunk. There's a casino by that name in Wisconsin Dells. The invasive Algonquin called the Ho-Chunk tribe "Winnebago," meaning People of the Stinking Water. Wikipedia extends the "stinking water" linguistic loaner to Lake Winnebigoshish in Minnesota, where the Algonquin were never prominent. The veiled insult may possibly extend to Winnipeg.

The waters were said to stink owing to profusion of fish in them. From a fisherman's standpoint, such a name would be a point of praise.