1st and 3rd periods. In these periods, your team will choose a category and be read ten questions. After each response, the moderator will indicate whether or not it was correct.

Bonus Category: Buildings

Given a building or structure, name the present-day country in which it is located.

1. Sydney Opera House

answer: Australia

2. Arc de Triomphe

answer: France

3. The Reichstag

answer: Germany

4. The Sphinx

answer: Egypt

5. The Forbidden City

answer: China

6. Westminster Abbey

answer: England or Great Britain

7. The Kremlin

answer: Russia

8. The Acropolis

answer: Greece

9. The CN Tower

answer: Canada

10. The Coliseum originally known as the Flavian Amphitheater

answer: Italy

BluebeardBonus Category: Literary numbers

Fill in the blanks of these titles with a number or ordinal number:

1. Jules Verne: [blank] Leagues Under the Sea

answer: 20,000

2. Arthur C. Clarke: [blank]: A Space Odyssey

answer: 2001

3. Judy Blume: Tales of a [blank] Grade Nothing

answer: Fourth

4. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit [blank]

answer: 451

5. Michael Moore: The Official Fahrenheit [blank] Reader

answer: 9/11

6. Tom Clancy: Rainbow [blank]

answer: Six

7. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of [blank]

answer: Four

8. Alison Weir: The [blank] wives of Henry VIII

answer: Six

9. William Butler Yeats: "The [blank] Coming"

answer: Second

10. Dr. Seuss: The [blank] Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

answer: 500

Bonus Category: Historical Colors

Name the color associated with these historical people, groups, and things. Answers may repeat.

1. The Democratic Party or states that vote Democratic.

answer: blue

2. The uniforms worn by Confederate soldiers.

answer: Gray

3. China's second longest river, it is colored by silt.

answer: Yellow

4. At Bunker Hill, William Prescott said "Don't shoot until you see" what of their eyes?

answer: white(s)

5. The only color on Libya's flag.

answer: green

6. A slang term for a Communist.

answer: red

7. Political parties that want to preserve the environment.

answer: Green party

8. The Hawk that went down in Somalia.

answer: Black Hawk

9. The "coast" of Ghana when the British colonized it.

answer: Gold

10. The Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen.

answer: green

Bonus Category: Sports Terms

Given the definition, name the sports term.

1. The unselfish act of passing so a teammate can score.

answer: assist

2. In hockey, when the official drops the puck to start play.

answer: faceoff

3. College athletes who take a year off but practice with the team.

answer: red shirt

4. When a football player drops the ball.

answer: fumble

5. In basketball, term describing unnecessary or excessive fouls.

answer: flagrant

6. Defense in which each player guards a section of the court or field.

answer: zone defense

7. When a batter has three balls and two strikes in baseball.

answer: full count

8. In football, passes thrown to the side or backwards.

answer: laterals

9. When a basketball player has at least ten points, assists, and rebounds.

answer: triple double

10. The equipment held by players in curling to guide stones to the center ring.

answer: broom or brush

Bonus Category: "Down" Phrases

Each correct response in this category must contain the letters D-O-W-N.

1. A nickname for Australia.

answer: Down Under

2. A genetic condition related to mental retardation.

answer: Down Syndrome or Down's Syndrome

3. Racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is run.

answer: Churchill Downs

4. To copy a file from the Internet.

answer: download

5. Richard Adams novel about rabbits.

answer: Watership Down

6. The street on which the British Prime Minister resides.

answer: Downing Street

7. Skiing course also called alpine.

answer: Downhill Skiing

8. The front of where the actors perform.

answer: downstage

9. Show presented by the WWF.

answer: Smackdown

10. In computers, a menu that displays choices when clicked.

answer: drop down menu or box

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. He was created on Kamino and raised in the ways of the Mandalorians. In Return of the Jedi he falls into the Pit of Carkoon where the Sarlaac lives. Who is this bounty hunter?

answer: Boba Fett (prompt on "Fett")

2. Name either of the world languages that have more native speakers than English.

answer: (Mandarin) Chinese or Hindi

3. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling and a Rockefeller Center painting by Diego Rivera are examples of what kind of painting on a wall or other large surface?

answer: mural

4. What Superbowl-winning quarterback was injured in a motorcycle accident in June 2006?

answer: Ben Roethlisberger

5. Pencil and paper ready. Joe has five dollars and wants to buy candy at 15 cents each. Assuming Joe cannot spend more than five dollars, how many pieces of candy can Joe buy?

answer: 33

6. What country has been ruled by Merovingian [mer-oh-VIN-gee-an], Carolingian [care-oh-VIN-gee-an], Capetian [kuh-PEE-shan], and Bourbon dynasties?

answer: France

7. The title character sits on a bust of Pallas above the chamber door and only speaks one word: "nevermore". "Once upon a midnight dreary" is the first line of what poem by Edgar Allen Poe?

answer: The Raven

8. What form of chemical bonding involves pair of electrons being shared among atoms?

answer: covalent bonds

9. What former Presidential candidate narrated the 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth about global warming?

answer: Al Gore

10. Mount Blanc is located in what mountain range of France, Italy, and Switzerland?

answer: Alps

11. Often written with a sideways eight, what mathematical concept means a quantity without limit?

answer: infinity (accept word forms)

12. When acetone goes through this process, fingernail polish hardens. What is this process by which a substance changes from a liquid to a gas?

answer: evaporation (accept word forms)

13. On December 16, 1773 colonists disguised as Indians threw what into Boston Harbor?

answer: tea (accept: The Boston Tea Party)

14. What holy day occurring seven weeks after Easter commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' disciples?

answer: Pentecost

15. What candy company, also a Roald Dahl literary character, produces Runts, Nerds, Bottle Caps, and Everlasting Gobstoppers?

answer: Willy Wonka

16. What 555-foot tall obelisk is the tallest structure in the District of Columbia?

answer: Washington Monument

17. In ancient Greek drama, it was dancers who took part in the play. What is this term that now describes a large group of singers?

answer: chorus (do not accept "choir")

18. In the sentence "we threw confetti", the word "confetti" is what kind of object receiving the action of the verb?

answer: direct object

19. What author wrote Typee, Omoo, and Redburn about sea voyages, but is most famous for Moby Dick?

answer: Herman Melville

20. Its name contains the Spanish word for "nothing", but the name is probably Iroquois meaning "village". What is this country led by Stephen Harper with capital at Ottawa?

answer: Canada

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. Name either of the months in which every place on Earth has a day in which there are twelve hours each of sunlight and darkness, the so-called vernal and autumnal equinoxes.

answer: March or September

2. The point zero degrees longitude, zero degrees latitude is closest to what continent, off of its western coast in the Atlantic Ocean?

answer: Africa

3. Pronouns of this type include "you", "they", and "we". Often, adding an "s" in English creates this word form. What is this opposite of singular?

answer: plural

4. Our word "paper" is derived from the Egyptian practice of writing on what kind of parchment scrolls?

answer: papyrus

5. Its characters include Phoebe who stresses about her college application and Pierce, who got braces and is the drummer of Goat Cheese Pizza. Name this comic strip whose main character is Jeremy Duncan.

answer: Zits

6. The African-American Senator Barack Obama represents what state, whose cities include Decatur and Springfield?

answer: Illinois

7. What cold location did Roald Amundsen first reach in 1911, located in central Antarctica?

answer: (geographic) south pole

8. From the Greek for "dissection", what is the science dealing with the structure of living organisms such as the human body?

answer: anatomy

9. In the U.S. William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, and John Brown led the cause. What was this worldwide movement to eliminate slavery?

answer: abolitionist (accept word forms)

10. Pencil and paper ready. In the board game Clue there are nine rooms, six weapons, and six suspects. If you multiply these three numbers together you get the number of different permutations for the murder's where, who, and with what? How many ways is this?

answer: 324

11. They defeated Los Angeles in 1991, Portland in '92, Phoenix in '93, Seattle in '96, and Utah in '97 and '98. Who is this NBA team that at the time was led by Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen?

answer: Chicago Bulls (accept either)

12. Most of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is set in what Canadian province located near the Atlantic Ocean?

answer: Prince Edward Island

13. Due to its role in wiretapping phones, the NSA has been in the news. What does the "S" stand for in this national agency, something sought after the 9/11 attacks?

answer: National Security Agency

14. On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it named the local dance club. In anthropology, the age of this metal comes after copper and precedes the use of iron in tools. What is this alloy of copper and tin that in the Olympics is given to a third-place finisher?

answer: bronze

15. He has an English degree from UCLA and a master's degree in criminology. A member of the Delta Force and director of a Counter Terrorist Unit, he became an assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Who is this main character of the FOX show 24?

answer: Jack Bauer (accept either underlined name)

16. When Donatello depicted him, it was the first unclothed sculpture of the Renaissance. Michelangelo's stands alert waiting for his large enemy to appear. Who is this biblical boy who defeated Goliath?

answer: David

17. The vibraharp and glockenspiel are variants of what instrument consisting of bars struck by mallets?

answer: xylophone

18. He preached around Ulster and is said to have rid the island of snakes. Who is this missionary to Ireland commemorated on March 17th?

answer: Saint Patrick

19. The answer is not 54 but Arthur Dent pulls Scrabble tiles to get the Question: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?". What is this number that is The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything according to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

answer: 42

20. Cubing a number is the same as raising it to what power? For example, five cubed equals one hundred and twenty five.

answer: 3 or third