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: History Book Club

Give these terms related to books that our question writers see while reading their History Book Club catalog.

1. Richard Godbeer writes about escaping this place, a Massachusetts town where a witch-hunt took place in 1692.

answer: Salem [Escaping Salem]

2. Adam Zamoyski's work about "Napoleon's Fatal March", is titled to reflect that Napoleon attacked this Russian town in 1812.

answer: Moscow [Moscow 1812]

3. Veronica Buckley wrote a biography about Christina, a 17th-century queen of this country whose capital is Stockholm.

answer: Sweden [Christina, Queen of Sweden]

4. Jeffrey Lockwood wrote an entire book about this insect that devastated crops. This migrating grasshopper is also famous as a biblical plague.

answer: Locust

5. To the Scaffold by Carolly Erickson is about this French queen executed in the Revolution.

answer: Marie Antoinette

6-7. Jack Matlock's offering is titled after these two individuals, who helped end the Cold War in the 1980's. One was an American President who died recently, the other his Soviet counterpart.

answer: Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev [Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended]

8. Hans West wrote about the house in which this German girl hid in Amsterdam. She famously wrote a diary while she hid.

answer: Anne Frank [Inside Anne Frank's House]

9. In Robert Caro's book, Lyndon Johnson is called Master of this legislative body with one hundred members.

answer: U.S. Senate

10. Eve LaPlante calls the Puritan Anne Hutchinson an American version of this biblical character. In the bible, she was an opponent of the prophet Elijah who encouraged her husband Ahab and his subjects to worship the god Baal.

answer: Jezebel

Bonus Category: Getting nervous

Name these things related to phobias:

1. Vampires probably have heliophobia, fear of this.

answer: the sun or sunlight

2. Cole Sear got over his phasmophobia in The Sixth Sense. Phasmophobia is fear of these.

answer: ghosts (accept close equivalents)

3. Dan Marino didn't have Triskaidekaphobia when wore this number on his back. Unluckily, Marino never won a Super Bowl.

answer: 13

4. As she rarely left her room, the poet Emily Dickinson might have had agoraphobia, which is fear of this.

answer: public or open places (accept equivalents)

5. If you have Ailurophobia, stay away from a Broadway musical with the song "Memory". It is based on poems by T. S. Eliot which talk about Old Possum's practical ones.

answer: cats

6. This is the fear of fire, not of John Allerdyce in the X-Men.

answer: pyrophobia

7. If Jack had had this fear of high places, he might not have climbed the beanstalk.

answer: acrophobia

8. England's King Henry VIII did not have gamophobia, which is fear of this. In fact, he did it six times.

answer: marriage (accept equivalents)

9. Because of its ability to make her melt, The Wicked Witch of the West must have had this fear of water.

answer: hydrophobia

10. If you were a Frenchman with siderodromophobia [CY-der-rho-dro-mo-phobia], you wouldn't go to la gare [la gair] where many of these would be located, and possibly platform nine and three quarters.

answer: trains [gare = train station]

Bonus Category: Crime and Punishment

1. What U.S. state has executed more prisoners than any other since 1977, some of which were ordered by George W. Bush?

answer: Texas

2. What actor with Confederate sympathies assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865?

answer: John Wilkes Booth

3. What term describes a crime in which property is set on fire?

answer: arson

4. It used to be called the Office of the Chief Examiner, and people who have directed this federal detective agency include Robert Mueller, Louis Freeh, and J. Edgar Hoover.

answer: FBI or Federal Bureau of Investigation

5. The son of what aviator was kidnapped in 1932? The aviator is famous for a solo transatlantic flight.

answer: Charles Lindbergh

6. On September 7, 1986 an attempt to assassinate General Augusto Pinochet failed. Pinochet was President of what South American country with capital at Santiago?

answer: Chile

7. In what Charles Dickens work does Madame DeFarge knit while enemies of the French Revolution are executed? The title places are London and Paris.

answer: A Tale of Two Cities

8. In the U.S. since 1977 what method has been used most often to implement the death penalty?

answer: lethal injection (accept equivalents)

9. In 2004, leaders at Tyco were accused of this crime, in which company funds are used for personal purposes.

answer: embezzlement (accept word forms)

10. What Russian author wrote the work Crime and Punishment?

answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bonus Category: Name that Planet

Warning: since there ten questions and nine planets, answers will repeat.

1. Which planet was farthest from the Sun between 1978 and 1999, but is usually the eighth most distant?

answer: Neptune

2. Which planet has the largest equator at its diameter?

answer: Jupiter

3. Which planet has a day that lasts longer than its year, and has a "greenhouse"-like atmosphere that makes its surface temperature very hot?

answer: Venus

4. Which planet has moons named Nereid, Proteus, and Triton?

answer: Neptune

5. Which planet has an atmosphere whose most abundant gas is nitrogen?

answer: Earth

6. On which planet did the Viking spacecraft land in 1975?

answer: Mars

7. Which planet is closest to Earth's size?

answer: Venus

8. Which planet's largest moon is named Iapetus?

answer: Saturn

9-10. Name the two planets that have exactly one moon.

answer: Earth and Pluto

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. In the Cartesian plane, what name is given to the section lying above and to the right of the origin, the quadrant where both x and y are positive?

answer: first quadrant

2. It is used as a nickname for the Rookie quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. What is this clock found in London?

answer: Big Ben

3. Give the day, month, and year of the next leap day that will occur in the Gregorian calendar.

answer: February 29, 2008

4. Which Taxonomic kingdom do humans fall under, as well as lions, tigers, and bears?

answer: animalia or animals

5. The term literally means "empty orchestra" in Japanese, which aptly describes the music that some participants make. What is this form of entertainment in which people sing songs accompanied by musical tracks?

answer: karoke

6. The Statue of this Greek God at Olympia was a wonder of the ancient world. Who is this husband of Hera and ruler over the gods?

answer: Zeus

7. The title character of this Gail Carson Levin book is under a spell to always be obedient. Name this work, also a recent movie starring Anne Hathaway.

answer: Ella Enchanted (accept either name)

8. It is attached to the mandible and this bone is broken into parts called parietal, frontal, and occipital. What is this bone that protects the brain?

answer: cranium or skull

9. Translate this Spanish phrase: Diez Puntos [DEE-ess POON-tos], what will you get when you answer this question correctly.

answer: ten points

10. This "minister of defense" passed away in 2004. Name this NFL player with 198 sacks during his career with the Eagles and Packers.

answer: Reggie White

11. In the 2000 election, what name was given to the small sections of paper that clung to ballots, making the recount in Florida challenging to do?

answer: chads

12. It is surrounded by the Caspian Sea is to its north and the Persian Gulf to its south. Name this country bordered by Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, with capital at Tehran.

answer: Iran

13. It was written in 1908 by Kenneth Graham. Name this work with characters including Water Rat, Mole, the Badger, and Mr. Toad.

answer: The Wind in the Willows

14. In the sentence "I always do my homework", the word always is used as this part of speech, because it states how often something occurs. What is this part of speech that usually modifies a verb?

answer: adverb

15. He was the second person to hold the rank of "full general" after his success in the Civil War. Who is this man depicted on the fifty dollar bill who became President after the war?

answer: Ulysses S(impson) Grant

16. Pencil and paper ready. What is the cube root of 343, the number that when raised to the third power equals 343? Since the cube is less than one thousand, the cube root is going to be less than 10. [reminder: 10 second question]

answer: 7 [7 x 7 x 7 = 343]

17. What is the name of the former business partner that visits Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol to warn him about being a miser?

answer: Jacob Marley (accept either name)

18. She was the daughter of Ptolemy XII. What queen of Egypt famously had love affairs with Juluis Caesar and Mark Antony?

answer: Cleopatra VII

19. In the 1967 film version, Jazz musician Louie Prima plays King Louie. In what Rudyard Kipling work is Mowgli raised by wolves?

answer: The Jungle Book

20. This state's cities include the resort Mrytle Beach in its northeast, and Charleston, a port in the south. Name this state with capital at Columbia.

answer: South Carolina

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. Their order is called chiroptera and species include hog-nosed, bulldog, horseshoe, and flying fox. What are these flying mammals, which also include a vampire variety?

answer: bats

2. Africa's Lake Victoria is shared by three countries. Name any one that borders it.

answer: Kenya, Uganda, or Tanzania

3. B, 4, 2 is the keys you press in CounterStrike if you're playing a terrorist and want to buy this. Name this weapon invented by Kalashnikov in 1947, a Russian rifle.

answer: AK-47

4. President Bush wants to reform this government program so that workers can divert a portion of their payroll taxes into a private investment account. What is this program that provides benefits to retirees?

answer: Social Security

5. Formerly known as Siam, what country has its capital at Bangkok?

answer: Thailand

6. The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel introduced the idea of heredity through genetic experiments. What garden plant did Mendel use in his studies?

answer: peas

7. In the Shrek movies, what is the name of the kingdom ruled by Fiona's parents?

answer: Far, Far Away (answer must be exact)

8. In Spanish it means "to know". Name this term, also a weapon in Star Wars that comes in a "light" variety.

answer: saber or sabre

9. A deficiency causes soft bones called rickets, but fortified milk makes the deficiency uncommon today. What is this vitamin that the body can create when exposed to sunlight?

answer: D or calciferol

10. It includes the Sargasso Sea between the West Indies and the Azores. What is this large body of water named for a Greek Titan that held up the earth?

answer: Atlantic Ocean [after Atlas]

11. The son of Phillip II, what Macedonian king conquered the Persian Empire in the fourth century B.C.?

answer: Alexander The Great

12. Pencil and paper ready. A movie lasts 1 hour, 17 minutes and a group watches it seven times. What was the total viewing time, reduced into lowest terms of hours and minutes? [reminder: 10 second question]

answer: 8 hours, 59 minutes (prompt on "539 minutes" before "lowest terms")

13. Warning: two answers required. In bowling, a hard split to make is the one where only the pins in the back left and right corners remain. What numbers are given to these two pins?

answer: 7-10 split

14. French and German are two of the official languages of Belgium. What is the third, which is also spoken in the Netherlands?

answer: Dutch or Flemish

15. What literary family included sisters named Anne, Emily, and Charlotte, who wrote such novels as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre?

answer: Bronte

16. The Italian Antonio Stradivarius was famous in the early eighteenth century for designing musical instruments. Name any one of the instruments he made.

answer: violin, viola, cello

17. This branch of mathematics was discovered independently by Newton and Leibniz. What is this class in which you learn about derivatives and integrals, which is traditionally difficult?

answer: calculus

18. After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in this city, a bus boycott ensued. Name this Alabama location.

answer: Montgomery

19. In art class, what is the name of the process by which paper is soaked in water and glue and molded onto objects?

answer: paper mache

20. Created by Donald Sobol, he lives in Idaville, Florida and this boy detective is aided by Sally to foil Bugs Meany. Who is this character whose first name sounds like he'd be a good reference book?

answer: Encyclopedia Brown or Leroy Brown (accept any underlined name)