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: Obituaries 2004

Answer these questions related to people who passed away in 2004.

1. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for attempting to bring peace between Israel and his Palestinian Leadership Organization?

answer: Yasser Arafat

2. Before he was President, Ronald Reagan was governor of California, meaning that he lived in this state capital.

answer: Sacramento

3. Who is famous for his roles in On the Waterfront, Last Tango in Paris, and The Godfather?

answer: Marlon Brando

4. Francis Crick won a 1962 Nobel Prize for discovering the molecular structure of what molecule that contains genetic information?

answer: DNA or Deoxyribonucleic Acid

5. What blind pianist was famous for songs such as This Little Girl of Mine, and What I'd Say?

answer: Ray Charles

6. Before he left the NFL to serve in Afghanistan and was killed by friendly fire, Pat Tillman played for what football team that used to be in the NFC east, but now is in the NFC west?

answer: Arizona Cardinals (accept either)

7. One of her critics once said, "She is neither French, nor a chef". Who was this master of the kitchen who authored Mastering the Art of French Cooking?

answer: Julia Child

8. When Janet Leigh said "I suppose if an actor can be remembered for one role, then they're very fortunate", she was referring to the fact that many remember Leigh as the woman who died in a shower in what film?

answer: Psycho

9. Bob Keeshan is best known for what children's television character that debuted on CBS in 1955? Mister Green Jeans was a character on his show.

answer: Captain Kangaroo

10. The last of the Christopher Reeve Superman films, which movie was subtitled "The Quest for Peace"?

answer: Superman IV [four]

Bonus Category: Populations

1. China is the most populous country of the world. What neighbor is the second most populous?

answer: India

2. Contained within Italy, what independent territory has the smallest population, and is where the Pope lives?

answer: Vatican City

3. What rodents come in Brown and Norway varieties, and are noted for their migrations when their population becomes overcrowded? When they reach the sea they attempt to swim across it and drown.

answer: lemmings

4. Due to a current shortage of vaccine, only the most at risk parts of the U.S. population are able to get a shot to protect them against this disease.

answer: flu or influenza

5. This country, the setting for the reality series Survivor in spring 2005, has the fourth smallest population with only 19,000 people.

answer: Palau

6. Pencil and paper ready. Eighty-five percent of a city's population is right-handed. If there are 1700 right-handed people, how total people live in the city? [reminder: 10 second question]

answer: 2000

7. This is the science of social statistics such as birth, deaths, and marriages in a population.

answer: demographics or demography

8. What metropolitan area and capital of Bangladesh is projected to be the second most populous in the world by 2015?

answer: Dhaka

9. After New York, what California city is the second most populous U.S. city?

answer: LA or Los Angeles

10. Over a million U.S. residents live in what North American country, the most common foreign home of U.S. citizens?

answer: Mexico

Bonus Category: I mean no "Dis"respect

All correct responses in the category will contain the letters D-I-S in that order.

1. In law, this kind of opinion is issued by a Supreme Court judge who disagrees with the majority.

answer: dissent (accept word forms)

2. Also known as Eris, in Greek mythology, she threw an apple labeled "to the fairest" that started the Trojan War. Her name means a war or disagreement.

answer: Discord

3. Written with Hebrew characters, this language was originally spoken by Eastern European Jews.

answer: Yiddish

4. One of these research papers is often required to earn a Ph. D.

answer: dissertation

5. This is something that can differentiate, such as in the quadratic formula where the value of b squared minus four a c determines the number of solutions.

answer: discriminant

6. This is the capital of Ethiopia.

answer: Addis Ababa

7. This French term literally means "record library" and you might go dancing there.

answer: discotheque or disco

8. This herb is a member of the mustard family and originated in China. Commonly red, the Japanese variety is called daikon and is large and white.

answer: raddish

9. During the War of 1812, Dolly, the wife of this President, famously saved paintings from a burning White House. The capital of Wisconsin is named for him.

answer: James Madison

10. Usually thin and circular, this glass laboratory equipment is used to grow cultures such as bacteria.

answer: Petri Dish

Bonus Category: Saturday night live

1. Saturday is named after what Roman god?

answer: Saturn

2. This former SNL actor has portrayed the characters of Frank Ricard, Buddy, and Anchorman Ron Burgundy in his recent movies.

answer: Will Ferrell

3. The anchors of this news skit have included Jimmy Fallon, Colin Quinn, Chevy Chase, and Tina Fey.

answer: Weekend Update

4. Saturday Night Live is broadcast on what network?

answer: NBC or National Broadcasting Company

5. In an October 2004 episode she was a royal guest, being the host and musical guest. As prison warden, she was also a star of Chicago.

answer: Queen Latifah

6. Which of these films was not based on an SNL skit: Blues Brothers, Coneheads, Dumb and Dumber, or Wayne's World?

answer: Dumb and Dumber

7. In November 1997, this former mayor of New York City hosted SNL.

answer: Rudolph Giuliani

8. This phrase, SNL's opening, came from the fact that ABC already had a variety show called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.

answer: "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night"

9. What is the Spanish word for Saturday?

answer: Sábado

10. In December 2002, this Tennessee Democrat hosted SNL. He lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush.

answer: Al Gore

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. The song "Jingle Bells" starts with the phrases "Over the River and through the woods". These are examples of what kind of phrase that shows relationships such as direction, time, or place?

answer: preposition(al) (accept word forms)

2. Now a part of Spain, they were named for a large number of wild dogs that roamed on them, not small yellow birds. Name this island chain off the northwest coast of Africa.

answer: Canary Islands

3. In the film Timeline, archeologists are sent to the fictional 1354 battle of Castleguard in France. What war was raging at that time, a conflict that lasted about a century?

answer: Hundred Years War

4. Written by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to what other novel?

answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

5. If a sergeant says meet her at twenty-one hundred hours, at what time in the standard system should you show up?

answer: 9 p.m. (prompt on "9 o'clock")

6. Types include aplastic and megaloblastic, the former caused by damaged bone marrow. What is this condition of too few red blood cells that also comes in a sickle-cell variety?

answer: anemia

7. After Eric the Red established a tenth century colony, he promoted the region to colonists by giving the land a name suggesting abundant plant life. Name this island west of Iceland.

answer: Greenland

8. Give any of the phrases that Charlotte wrote in her web in the novel by E. B. White.

answer: Terrific, Radiant, Some Pig

9. A deficiency causes an enlarged thyroid called goiter. What is this mineral, an element abundant in seafood and some kinds of salt, symbolized by a capital letter "I"?

answer: iodine

10. Translate this Spanish phrase: Hombres X unidos [OM-bres X oon-ee-DOS], the subtitle of a 2003 film starring Patrick Steward as Charles Xavier.

answer: X-Men United (do not accept "X2")

11. The Bear and Weber rivers flow into it, but no river flows out. So when water evaporates it leaves a twelve- percent concentration of sodium chloride. Name this "Great" body of water in Utah.

answer: Great Salt Lake

12. The first convened to consider a response to the Intolerable Acts. The second declared independence. What were these Congresses that met in Philadelphia?

answer: Continental Congress

13. Approximately negative four hundred and sixty degrees Fahrenheit, at this lowest possible temperature the motion of an atom would stop. This temperature is called absolute what?

answer: absolute zero

14. In Kingdom of Loathing one these belonged to "Lopez". Name this large Spanish hat.

answer: sombrero

15. In music, what term describes two or more different notes sung on the same syllable or played without a break, indicated with a curved line?

answer: slur

16. Lloyd's of London is one company that sells this. Name this protection in which for a small fee, a person is protected from larger losses if a calamity such as a house fire or car accident occurs.

answer: insurance

17. Pencil and paper ready. In a football game, a team scores six touchdowns and seven field goals. All extras points are good, so each touchdown added a total of seven to the score. What was the team's total score? [reminder: 10 second question]

answer: 63

18. Teddy Roosevelt had one he called "Tennis". Andrew Jackson had an informal "kitchen" one. What is this group of advisors called, made up of Secretaries that assist the President?

answer: Cabinet

19. It was originally an Algonquian word meaning "dreamer" or medicine man. Then it named the ceremony where the man performed his magic. Name this rhyming term.

answer: powwow

20. Her friends are George Fayne and Bess Marvin. Who is this female sleuth who solves mysteries in novels occasionally with the help of the Hardy Boys?

answer: Nancy Drew (accept either name)

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. A portion of the arthropods, what branch of the insects, the order coleoptera, has more species than any other, including a Japanese type and ladybugs?

answer: beetles

2. It may be named after a California scrub with scarlet berries, but is probably from a local ranch that didn't have tinsel. Name this town, the film capital of the world, now a district in northwest Los Angeles.

answer: Hollywood

3. The Bayeux tapestry depicts his invasion. Name this Norman king of England, known as the "conqueror".

answer: William the Conqueror

4. Originally this meant British boxers under 154 pounds. Today it classifies people around 130. What is this term that also means an unimportant or inconsequential person?

answer: lightweight

5. Translate this French phrase: "Deux mille et cinq" [DUH MEAL AY SANK], a number that you'll find on a nearby calendar.

answer: 2005

6. Edmund Beecher Wilson famously studied how fertilized eggs develop into embryos. What letters name the two chromosomes he described, the chromosomes that determine the gender of the embryo?

answer: X and Y

7. In the Boy Scouts, what rank is above First Class and below Life?

answer: Star

8. This term is French for "try" and when your teacher assigns one, we bet you try to finish it in the least amount of time. What is this term, often used to refer to a five-paragraph writing or short literary work?

answer: essay or essai

9. Written in 1902, name the collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling about how animals gained certain qualities and skills.

answer: Just So Stories

10. One of the first things Jimmy Carter did as President was pardon the people who evaded this. What is this enforced conscription that required America's young men to fight in the Vietnam War?

answer: draft (dodgers)

11. It is the destination of the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, and the narrator visits its nine circles. What is this place for punished people, ruled by Lucifer?

answer: Hell or Hades or the Inferno

12. People in Nepal would give what name to the creature that Canadians called Sasquatch and in the United States is called Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman?

answer: Yeti (no prompts, the other names are not Nepalese)

13. Pencil and paper ready. There are five teams in a division and every team plays every other team one time. How many total matches need to take place for this round robin to be completed?

answer: 10

14. Located in the Andes Mountains 9350 feet above sea level, it is the highest world capital. Name this capital of Ecuador.

answer: Quito

15. He flew a triplane of a distinctive hue. By what name is the Baron Manfred von Richtofen better known, also a flying ace that tangles with Snoopy in Peanuts?

answer: Red Baron (accept Red Knight or Bloody Red Baron)

16. In mathematics, what is the slope of a vertical line, a quantity symbolized by a sideways eight?

answer: infinite or undefined

17. What name is given to the process by which insects shed their exoskeletons and grow new ones?

answer: molting (accept: shed before given)

18. Brought to the world's attention by W.C. Handy, these songs were derived from prison, funeral, and slave songs. What are these songs with a melancholy nature, a type of jazz?

answer: blues (prompt on early "jazz")

19. Dylan Thomas wrote of a Child's Christmas here. Name this part of the United Kingdom with capital at Cardiff, found on the western part of the island of Britain.

answer: Wales

20. In Super Mario Brothers, Bowser is located in the castle in the world with what number, the castle being the fourth section of that world?

answer: 8 (accept: 8-4 and compliment the player on their skillz)