1st and 3rd periods. In this period, your team will choose a category and be read ten questions. After each response, the moderator will indicate whether or not it was correct, but will not read answers. After your tenth question, the other team will be given a chance to answer any questions that you missed.

BONUS CATEGORY: YES

1. In Greek myth, Apollo had one of these at Delphi, and when it said "yes" it often did so in cryptic messages.

answer: oracle

2-3. What two elements' chemical symbols form the word "yes"? The second element is named after the developer of a theory of relativity.

answer: Yttrium and Einsteinium

4. This informal term describes someone who always agrees without criticism.

answer: yes man

5. Combine the French and German words for "yes" to obtain the name of a toy that is able to divine the future.

answer: ouija (board)

6. In the House of Representatives, there are 435 members. If one-fifth vote in favor of a motion, how many members said "yes"? (reminder: 10 second question)

answer: 87 members

7. When Virginia O' Hanlon wrote to the New York Sun in 1897, how did the editor answer her question about Christmas?

answer: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (accept close equivalents)

8. What describes a legislative body agreeing to a nomination such as the Senate saying "yes" to a Supreme Court nomination? It is also the process of becoming a full member of a church.

answer: confirmation (accept word forms)

9-10. Name any two countries that said "yes" to joining the North American Free Trade Association when it began in 1994.

answer: Canada, Mexico, or United States

BONUS CATEGORY: NO

1. This is the term for a President saying "no" to legislation and refusing to sign it.

answer: veto

2. Noh Theater is an ancient from of drama that originated in this country.

answer: Japan

3. This term containing N-O describes people with no home, constantly moving, often wandering in search of food.

answer: nomad (accept word forms)

4. In these kinds of triangles, no two sides are the same lengths.

answer: scalene

5. In the 1980's, this First Lady encouraged people to "Just Say No" to drugs.

answer: Nancy Reagan

6. If you consumed no vitamin C, you would probably develop this disease.

answer: scurvy

7. In law, this is a plea similar to "guilty", except that it does not mean the defendant has admitted guilt but will except punishment.

answer: no contest or nolo contendre

8. Coined by Sir Thomas More in a work of literature and meaning "no place", this is a land of perfection.

answer: Utopia

9. This is the phrase that Dorothy uses while clicking her ruby slippers to leave Oz.

answer: There's no place like home (accept "There is no place like home")

10. In baseball, this describes a pitcher's accomplishment in which the only baserunners reach first base on errors, walks, or being hit by a pitch.

answer: no-hitter

BONUS CATEGORY: "MAY"BE

All correct responses in this category will contain the letters M-A-Y in the response in that order.

1. It made a voyage across the Atlantic in 1620.

answer: Mayflower

2. These Central American peoples lived in the Yucatan peninsula, Guatemala, and British Honduras.

answer: Mayan

3. Translate this Spanish phrase: "Cinco de Mayo" [SINK-oh DUH MY-oh]

answer: Fifth of May

4. It is the post currently held by Michael Bloomberg.

answer: Mayor of New York City (prompt on partial answer)

5. This is the southernmost point in New Jersey

answer: Cape May

6. When he retired from baseball in 1973, he had hit 660 home runs.

answer: Willie (Howard) Mays (Jr.)

7. A family of American physicians founded this hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.

answer: Mayo Clinic

8. In law, this is defined as mutilating another's body such as breaking their arm. It also describes a situation characterized by violence, confusion, and noise.

answer: mayhem

9. A corruption of a French phrase meaning "help me", this is a distress call.

answer: mayday [from m'aidez]

10. This singer's albums include Room for Squares, As/Is, and Inside Wants Out

answer: John Mayer

BONUS CATEGORY: SOMETIMES

This is a bonus category all about some times.

1. This term describes a unit of time one-one thousandth of a second.

answer: millisecond

2. Assuming standard times, if it is currently noon in Delaware, in what time zone is it 10 a.m.?

answer: Mountain

3. This number denotes the hour in which the Treaty of Paris ending World War I was signed. It was also the day and month the treaty was signed and can mean any decision right before time has expired.

answer: 11th hour

4. In this H.G. Wells work, a character travels to the year 802,701. It was made into a 2002 film.

answer: The Time Machine

5. If it is 4:00, what angle do the hands of a clock form? (reminder: 10 second question)

answer: 120 degrees or 240 degrees

6. This short amount of time means an instant, or on computer systems as one-sixtieth of a second.

answer: jiffy

7. If it is halftime in an NFL game, how many minutes of football have been played on the clock?

answer: 30

8. Our practice of dividing time in 60 minutes per hour and 60 seconds per minutes is derived from what ancient people who lived on the Euphrates River and contained at one time some hanging gardens?

answer: Babylon (accept word forms)

9. Time magazine's cover usually features a border of what color?

answer: red

10. Father Time was a character in what comic by Peyo, whose other characters included Jokey, Handy, Vanity, and Papa?

answer: The Smurfs

2nd period: This period contains twenty tossups worth 10 points each. When you think you know the answer, signal with your buzzer and your team will have five seconds to respond.

1. What 984 foot-tall structure was built for the 1889 Paris World's Fair?

answer: Eiffel Tower

2. Convert 8 and 2/3 [two-thirds] yards into feet. (reminder: 10 second question)

answer: 26 feet

3. Often noted for their arms, the Milky Way is an example of what kind galaxy said to "spin"?

answer: spiral

4. What government body was formerly headed by George Tenet [TEN-ent], is now led by Porter Goss, and whose mission is to gather information about foreign countries?

answer: CIA or Central Intelligence Agency

5. Coming from a member of the pea family is what blue-violet dye that is also a color between blue and violet in the visible spectrum of light?

answer: indigo

6. In geometry, what term describes a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides?

answer: trapezoid

7. The Egyptians would lay its pith in criss-cross patterns, moisten and dry it. What is this plant used to make paper?

answer: papyrus

8. What term describes the gas surrounding a comet or a medical condition in which a patient shows prolonged unconsciousness?

answer: coma

9. In baseball, a homerun resulting in four runs batted in is known as what?

answer: grand slam

10. The term "hepatic" refers to what organ of the body, also a food rich in vitamin A that you probably don't like?

answer: liver

11. Name any nation that was ruled by emperors called Kaisers.

answer: Germany, Austria, or The Holy Roman Empire (accept: Austria-Hungary)

12. King and Emperor are types of what bird found in cold regions including Pittsburgh ice hockey rinks?

answer: Penguin

13. Another term for acoustics, or the science of sound, is what set of language components used to teach reading and pronunciation that you could get "hooked on"?

answer: phonics

14. Also called the Lenape people was what group of Algonquian Indian tribes that occupied a river valley near Philadelphia and a state you're in right now?

answer: Delaware (accept early: Algonquian)

15. In the X-Men films, what actor plays Professor Xavier? He also starred as Jean-Lun Piccard in Star Trek.

answer: Patrick Steward

16. What element whose name means "water maker" is the lightest of all elements with only one proton and one electron?

answer: hydrogen

17. Translate this French phrase: "Je ne sais pas." [juh nuh say pah], something that you say when the teacher asks a hard question.

answe: I don't know (accept close equivalents)

18. Which day of the week is named after the Norse God of war, thunder, and strength?

answer: Thursday [Thor's Day]

19. On April 18, 1775 what silversmith famously made a midnight night to alert that colonists that the "British were coming"?

answer: Paul Revere

20. A crowbar is an example of what simple machine involving a rigid structure such as a straight bar pivoting on a fulcrum?

answer: lever

4th period: This period contains twenty tossups worth 15 points each. When you think you know the answer, signal with your buzzer and your team will have five seconds to respond.

1. Saudi Arabia, the Sinai Peninsula, and Egypt surround what colorfully named body of water?

answer: Red Sea

2. What six-letter term describes quantities that when multiplied produce a product, or the process of breaking a number into its prime components?

answer: factor

3. Supervising legal matters in the Army and Air Force are what military officers that share their name with a television show?

answer: JAG or Judge Advocate General

4. By what name is zero degrees latitude better known, a line in the center of a globe?

answer: equator

5. Its name French for "Fat Tuesday", what day occurs before Ash Wednesday and is marked by celebrations, particularly in New Orleans?

answer: Mardi Gras

6. Dry Ice is a solid form of what gas, whose chemical formula is CO2?

answer: Carbon Dioxide (accept early: CO2)

7. Sometimes called the "Grand Monarch" and ruling from 1643 to 1715 was what man also called the "Sun King", the fourteenth king of France by his name?

answer: Louis XIV (accept Louis after "fourteenth")

8. In Italian the term means "walking". What is this musical tempo which is moderately slow, slower than allegro but faster than largo?

answer: andante [on-DON-tay]

9. Founded in 1746 and part of the Ivy League, what was originally known as the College of New Jersey?

answer: Princeton

10. An isosceles triangle has an angle measuring 62 degrees, with the other angles equal. What is the measure of one of the other angles? (reminder: 10 second question)

answer: 59 degrees [62 + 59 + 59 = 180]

11. When Dmitry Mendeleyev developed one in 1869, it contained an empty space that was later assigned to Scandium. What is this arrangement of the elements by their properties?

answer: periodic table

12. A product banned by the eighteenth amendment, what did the Prohibition movement seek to outlaw the sale and distribution of?

answer: alcohol or liquor (accept equivalents)

13. Biography, Drama, Cartoons, and Fiction are categories for what prizes awarded by Columbia University for journalism?

answer: Pulitzer

14. What term names the legislature of Japan or something you might do when attempting to lose weight?

answer: Diet

15. His name is often mistakenly identified with his creation, but really the title refers to the doctor. Who is this Mary Shelley character who used lightning to give life to his monster?

answer: (Doctor) Victor Frankenstein

16. Spelled one way, this homophone refers to a creation such as that of Deadulus in Greek myth, in which people got lost. What is term that spelled differently refers to a deep shade of yellow or ripe corn.

answer: maze or maize

17. Shakespeare's The Tempest involves a ship becoming stranded on an island. What is a tempest, something that you measure with an anemometer and could call a gale or breeze?

answer: wind (prompt on storm and other close equivalents)

18. In the arts, what term coming from Latin for "not foreseeing" describes a performance done without previous preparation? An example is the type of comedy on ABC's Whose Line Is It Anyway?

answer: improvisation (accept word forms)

19. Perhaps Franklin W. Dixon meant his characters were able to endure fatigue, were tough, and had courage. What name did Dixon give his pair of sleuths, the brothers Frank and Joe?

answer: Hardy (accept the Hardy Boys or Frank and Joe Hardy)

20. Also an unmanned machine, such as an airplane with no pilot, what name is given to male bees?

answer: drone

Giovanni, Cosimo, and Lorenzo were historical members of what family of Florentine bankers and statesmen?

answer: Medici

Twin Falls is a city in Idaho, but if you wanted to go the Twin Cities, what state would you travel to, also the home of baseball's Twins?

answer: Minnesota