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: Historical Cities

Given a historical event, name the city in which it occurred.

1.The 1961 building of a wall dividing a German city.

answer: Berlin

2. A 1666 fire that started in a bakery on Pudding Lane.

answer: London

3. The sixth-century B.C. building of Gardens by Nebuchadnezzar II.

answer: Babylon

4. The Prophet Muhammad's flight to Medina in the Hegira.

answer: Mecca

5. Gaul sacked it in 390 B.C., the Goths in 410, and the Habsburgs in 1527.

answer: Rome

6. Either of the two Japanese cities destroyed by World War II atomic bombs.

answer: Hiroshima or Nagasaki

7. The 1789 storming of the Bastille.

answer: Paris

8. The battle of Marathon, 25 miles to the north.

answer: Athens

9. The 1989 Tiananmen [TI-an-ah-men] Square protest.

answer: Beijing

10. A 1755 Portugual earthquake.

answer: Lisbon

Bonus Category: Tennis Players

Given a tennis player, name his or her home country. Answers may repeat.

1. Rafael Nadal

answer: Spain

2. Justine Henin-Hardenne

answer: Belgium

3. Andy Roddick

answer: U.S. or United States

4. Maria Sharapova

answer: Russia

5. Tim Henman

answer: Great Britain or England

6. Lindsay Davenport

answer: U.S. or United States

7. Carlos Moya

answer: Spain

8. Amelie Mauresmo [AH-mel-lee muh-RES-mo]

answer: France

9. Andre Agassi

answer: U.S. or United States

10. Kim Clijsters [CLYE-sters]

answer: Belgium

Bonus Category: Punctuation

Given a description name these punctuation marks:

1. Is placed between items in a list.

answer: comma

2. Is also called the pound sign, and is found on a telephone.

answer: number sign

3. Is written as three dots.

answer: ellipsis

4. In an email address, separates the user name from a domain name.

answer: at sign

5. Is used at the end of interrogative sentences.

answer: question mark

6. Using two circles and a slash, is used to express a fraction as a whole number with 100 as the denominator.

answer: percent sign

7. Is located on a keyboard in the middle row on the same key as the colon.

answer: semicolon

8. Is also called the "and" sign.

answer: ampersand

9. In writing, is placed around something someone said.

answer: quotation marks

10. Appears as a backwards "P" and was used in the Middle Ages to indicate a new thought.

answer: paragraph sign or pilcrow or alinea

Bonus Category: Biblical Spouses

Name the character of the bible married to each of these people:

1. Eve

answer: Adam

2. Joseph, father of Jesus

answer: (The Virgin) Mary

3. Keturah and Sarah

answer: Abraham

4. Ahab

answer: Jezebel

5. Rachel

answer: Jacob

6. Zipporah

answer: Moses

7. Zacharias

answer: Elisabeth

8. Rebekah

answer: Issac

9. Lapidoth

answer: Deborah

10. Boaz

answer: Ruth

Bonus Category: Card Games

Answer these questions either about card games, or whose answer will name a card game:

1. In Hold-em, the name given to the last community card.

answer: the river or fifth street

2. Organs studied by cardiologists.

answer: hearts

3. Besides jokers, the card in Canasta that is wild.

answer: two or deuce

4. Region of the Yukon where gold was found in the 1890s.

answer: Klondike [a form of solitaire]

5. The jack of diamonds and queen of spades combination.

answer: Pinochle

6. South American snakes of the boa family that grow to twenty feet long.

answer: anaconda [a lesser-known form of poker]

7. Any of the five lands in Magic: The Gathering

answer: plains, island, swamp, mountain, or forest

8. Those near New York include George Washington and Verrazano Narrows.

answer: bridge(s)

9. Cards such as "Potion" used along with the "Pokemon" and "Energy" cards.

answer: Trainer

10. 78-card deck used for fortune telling that includes major and minor arcana.

answer: tarot

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. Of the five Great Lakes, which is smallest in surface area and is also the one sharing its name with a Canadian province?

answer: Lake Ontario

2. What term describes a collection of investments such as stocks and bonds, as well as a collection of art?

answer: portfolio

3. What fictional character is said to be the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events?

answer: Lemony Snicket (accept either underlined name)

4. In grammar, what describes the 'o' in "boat", the 'e' in "seat", and the 'i' in "bite", a term describing the length of the vowels?

answer: long vowel

5. In football what collective term is given to cornerbacks and safeties that stand behind the defensive line?

answer: secondary (prompt on "defensive backs")

6. What insects transmit the parasites that cause malaria?

answer: (Anopheles) mosquito

7. The aborigines were the original inhabitants of what country?

answer: Australia

8. What organ includes the medulla oblongata, pons, thalamus, cerebrum, and cerebellum?

answer: brain

9. Pencil and paper ready. What is the area of a circle whose diameter is twelve? Express your answer in terms of pi.

answer: 36 times pi or 36p [the radius is six]

10. What material is cut in decoupage to produce ornamental designs?

answer: paper

11. In a Shel Silverstein work, Lafcadio is what kind of animal who learns to shoot a rifle and join the circus?

answer: lion

12. Our number system is said to be in base ten, and uses the digits zero through nine. What digits are used in the base two binary counting system in computers?

answer: 0 and 1

13. She lived at 137 DeKoven Street in Chicago and because she was an immigrant Catholic many believe she was used as a scapegoat. Who is this woman who in 1871 owned a cow that may have started the Great Chicago Fire?

answer: Catherine O'Leary

14. If the President and Vice-President were to both suddenly die, what Congressional leader would be in line to become President?

answer: The Speaker of the House (accept: Nancy Pelosi)

15. It is said that the Greek inventor Archimedes used them to pull ships onto dry land. Elevators and cranes use what simple machine to lift objects, composed of a rope threaded around a disk?

answer: pulley

16. What Spanish rattles are made from dry gourd filled with seeds?

answer: maracas

answer: Buddhism

18. In Arabian myth, who says "Open Sesame" to enter a cave?

answer: Ali Baba

19. What author wrote Memnoch the Devil, Merrick, and Interview with the Vampire?

answer: Anne Rice

20. Its northern border is the narrow Isthmus of Tehuantepec, while the Atrato River valley is at its south. On the east is the Caribbean Sea, on which six of the seven countries have a coastline, but El Salvador does not. What is this geographic region between Mexico and Columbia?

answer: Central America

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. At what school did Michael Jordan play college basketball coached by Dean Smith?

answer: UNC or University of North Carolina

2. The Lone Gunmen was a short-lived spinoff of this series. It centered on a man whose sister disappeared in November 1974 through what he believed was an alien abduction. Name this TV show featuring FBI agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder.

answer: The X-Files

3. What country do Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan border on its east and Iraq on its west?

answer: Iran

4. What author wrote Ramona Quimby Age 8, Dear Mr. Henshaw, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle?

answer: Beverly Cleary

5. Also known as Scarface, what Italian-American gangster eliminated many of his rivals in the so-called Saint Valentine's Day massacre?

answer: Al Capone

6. What invention by Benjamin Franklin reduced the number of homes struck by electrical storms?

answer: lightning rod or lightning conductor

7. The Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness centers on a trip up what African river?

answer: the Congo River

8. The Susquehanna and Potomac rivers flow into what Maryland body of water?

answer: Chesapeake Bay

9. What Spanish term for men with guns also named a fleet of ships that attempted to invade England?

answer: Armada

10. Theodore Fujita created a scale measuring the destructiveness of what meteorological phenomenon?

answer: tornado

11. Four copies of this painting were made. Two were stolen and one was returned. What is this painting by Edvard Munch whose title can be translated to "The Shriek" or "The Cry".

answer: The Scream

12. What term describes angles such as 23 and 67 degrees, whose measures add up to ninety?

answer: complementary angles

13. To free himself of his enchantment, Dionysus instructed him to bathe in a river. What mythological character discovered that eating was a challenge after he wished that everything he touched would turn to gold?

answer: Midas

14. If one is placed above or below a note, it means to play quick staccato. What is this notation that when placed after a note indicates to increase its length by one half?

answer: dot

15. It is composed of one up and two down quarks. Since up quarks have +2/3 charge and down quarks -1/3 each, the net result is it has no charge. What is this particle found in the nucleus of atoms along with protons?

answer: neutrons

16. Together they hosted Project Greenlight, which sought out new movie directors. Name either of these actors, one who appears in the Bourne Identity, the other in Daredevil.

answer: Matt Damon or Ben Affleck

17. The Black Hills are located in what state, where many go to see Mount Rushmore?

answer: South Dakota

18. In grammar, what punctuation mark is appropriate to introduce a logical conclusion or the elements of a list, a symbol formed by two dots?

answer: colon

19. Pencil and paper ready. The chemical ammonia has formula NH₃. What is the molecular weight of ammonia, if the molecular weight of nitrogen is fourteen?

answer: 17

20. In Roman mythology, what son of Saturn and brother of Jupiter was god of the sea?

answer: Neptune (do not accept: "Poseidon")