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

Bonus Category: Opera

1. What composer's operas include The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, and was the subject of the film Amadeus?

answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2. What voice range refers to the highest notes sung by female singers, higher than alto?

answer: soprano

3. The word "opera" means "work" in what language, spoken in Milan, Pisa, and Rome?

answer: Italian

4. Bizet's character Carmen is one of what people traditionally associated with fortune telling?

answer: gypsy or roma

5. An aria can be one of these, a song for one singer.

answer: solo

6. Rossini wrote an opera about what Swiss archer who shot an apple off his son's head?

answer: William Tell or Guillaume Tell

7. Whose name is Erik, loves Christine, and lives in the Paris sewer in a musical?

answer: The Phantom of the Opera

8. In what city would you find the Metropolitan Opera House and Broadway?

answer: New York City, New York

9. Benjamin Britten's opera Gloriana was written for the coronation of what ruler in 1953, Britain's current queen?

answer: Queen Elizabeth II

10. Pietro Mascagni wrote an opera of this name, also a Greek goddess of the rainbow and the colored part of your eye.

answer: Iris

Bonus Category: Historical "Greats"

1. This describes the poor economic conditions of the 1930s.

answer: Great Depression

2. The Rush-Bagot Treaty was about navies in these Midwestern bodies of water that include Ontario and Erie.

answer: Great Lakes

3. This Macedonian conquered the Persian empire in 334 B.C. Colin Farrell played him in a 2004 film.

answer: Alexander the Great

4. This structure was started by the Qin [CHIN] dynasty to prevent incursions from the Mongols.

answer: Great Wall of China

5. What country led by Catherine the Great battled with Turkey to gain access to the Black Sea?

answer: Russia

6. This Egyptian structure was the final resting place of the Pharaoh Cheops.

answer: the Great Pyramid

7. The Great Plague can refer to this disease common in the 1400's with a colorful name.

answer: Black Plague or Death or Bubonic Plague

8. This king who sought the baby Jesus is sometimes called "the Great".

answer: Herod the Great

9. The Great War was the original name of what conflict that ended in 1919 and involved much of the globe?

answer: World War I

10. This Russian Czar built a new capital on the Baltic coast to help Westernize his country.

answer: Peter I (the Great) Romanov

Bonus Category: The Greek Gods

1. Whose 12 labors included killing the Hydra and stealing the apples of the Hesperides?

answer: Hercules

2. Jason led the Argonauts to find the Fleece of what color?

answer: gold(en)

3. Who killed Hector at Troy, but was later shot in the heel with a poison arrow?

answer: Achilles

4. Perseus killed this Gorgon, who had snakes for her hair.

answer: Medusa

5. The goddess of wisdom protected what Greek city, a frequent enemy of Sparta?

answer: Athens

6. What chief god of Mount Olympus had a Roman equivalent named Jupiter?

answer: Zeus

7. What did Prometheus steal from the gods, which gave man warmth and light?

answer: fire

8. Bellerophon died when he fell from Pegasus, a winged one of what creature?

answer: horse

9: Theseus slew what creature that was half man and half bull, that lived in the labyrinth?

answer: Minotaur

10. This word meant both the Greek underworld and also the god the dead.

answer: Hades

Bonus Category: Science

1. Known as “Torricelli’s Tube” what measures air pressure, with readings like 30.02 inches?

answer: barometer

2. Depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, what comet is visible in the sky every 76 years?

answer: Halley’s Comet

3. Windshields, blades, and wedges are examples of which simple machine that basically is a ramp?

answer: inclined plane

4. What happens when an object with a density less than one is placed on water?

answer: it floats (accept equivalents)

5. What mineral with a Moh's hardness of one is used in baby powder?

answer: talc (accept: talcum)

6. What science studies matter, energy, and forces?

answer: physics (accept: physical science)

7. Medieval alchemists tried to create what substance that turned things into gold and prolonged life?

answer: Philosopher's Stone (accept: The Sorcerer's Stone because of Harry Potter)

8. Lodestone is a natural one of these attractive objects found on refrigerator doors.

answer: magnet(s)

9. Litmus paper turns red when exposed to an acid and what color when exposed to a base?

answer: blue

10. Name any one of the elements found in sucrose, common table sugar.

answer: carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen [the formula is C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁]

Bonus Category: Female Characters

Name these female characters from literature, film, and television:

1. Give the first name of any of the first four members of Ann Martin's Babysitter's Club.

answer: Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, and Stacey McGill (accept any for all parts)

2. In Judy Blume this nemesis of Peter Hatcher in the "Fudge" series is called "Queen of Cooties"

answer: Shelia Tubman

3. She was the answer to the question "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest of them all?" and hangs out with some small workers.

answer: Snow White

4. In Margret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, this heroine marries Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy, and Rhett Butler.

answer: Scarlett O'Hara

5. Kate Bosworth played this reporter in Superman Returns.

answer: Lois Lane

6. This Muppet holds a pink belt in Pig Wan Do and karate chops those who make her angry.

answer: Miss Piggy or Pigathius Lee

7. In Meg Cabot's All-American Girl, she saves the president from assassination. Her last name is that of the fourth U.S. President.

answer: Samantha Madison

8. The older sister of Linus and Rerun, this Peanuts character lovingly sits by Schroeder's piano.

answer: Lucy van Pelt

9. This Gryffindor has a twin sister in Ravenclaw named Padma in J.K. Rowling's strories.

answer: Parvati Patil

10. Carolyn Keene wrote about this crime solver and her two best friends, Bess and George.

answer: Nancy Drew

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.

TOSSUPS:

1. In this country, adults will fly kites with razors to cut opponents' and boys will chase after defeated kites. Khaled Hosseini was originally from what country, which he told about in his novel The Kite Runner, which was invaded by the U.S. before Iraq?

answer: Afghanistan

2. In the Northern Hemisphere, in what month is the autumnal equinox, which begins the month of fall?

answer: September

3. The British use this term for a Christmas gift, and celebrate a holiday named for them on December 26. In baseball, it refers to the marked spaces for the pitcher, catcher, and batter to be positioned in. What is this term for a container, which might be cardboard?

answer: box (accept: Boxing Day)

4. What country sold the U.S. the Gadsen Purchase from in 1853, land that is now in Arizona?

answer: Mexico

5. In a business letter, what describes the part of the letter between the inside address and the body, which often contains the words "Dear Sir or Madam"?

answer: salutation or greeting

6. What tomb built in 1650 in Agra by the Shah Jahan is a white Mausoleum in India?

answer: Taj Mahal

7. The original B & O railroad connected it with West Virginia. During the War of 1812, its battle included the attack on Fort McHenry. The Lord of this name was a member of the Calvert family who was the first proprietor of the Maryland colony. What is this port, where you would find Inner Harbor?

answer: Baltimore

8. In the Cascade mode, you get a bonus when one score causes another score. Go Low mode scores you based on your highest block. These are variants in the Xbox 360 version of what Russian video game in which you put blocks together to make lines with no empty spaces?

answer: Tetris Evolution

9. What did the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy [TOLL-oh-me] say was at the center of the Solar System?

answer: the Earth

10. Timothy Mosely is the real name of what partner of Magoo, a hip-hop artist who has produced two Shock Value albums?

answer: Timbaland

11. Pencil and paper ready. A ramp that is twenty-five feet long is ten feet high. If the ramp were extended to thirty feet long but kept the same slope, how high would the ramp be?

answer: 12 feet (each five feet in length corresponds to two feet in height)

12. Conjunctivitis, myopia, glaucoma, and cataracts are all conditions related to what organs where you might place contact lens?

answer: eye

13. The World War II battles of Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, and Midway were fought in what ocean?

answer: Pacific Ocean

14. In British English, how does one spell the word "color"?

answer: c-o-l-o-u-r

15. The two types are called cone and fountain. Over 8400 gallons are ejected into the air when the one at Yellowstone called Old Faithful erupts. What are these streams of water?

answer: geyser

16. The word means "praise the Lord" and is often said in the book of Psalms. Name this word, famously used by George Friedrich Handel in a chorus of his Messiah oratorio.

answer: Hallelujah (accept: Alleluia before "Handel")

17. When he returned to England to settle boundary disputes, he was accused of treason. Many in England distrusted his Quaker religion, but those who settled in his colony around Philadelphia embraced it. Who is this man for whom a New Castle high school and a state north of here are named?

answer: William Penn

18. Name any of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.

answer: Amy, Beth, Jo, Meg

19. Between 1999 and 2002, he earned an astounding 81wins, which propelled him to four Cy Young awards and the 2001 World Series. Who is this man, who with Curt Schilling pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks?

answer: Randy Johnson

20. Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates are the last two men to hold what position in the cabinet, which oversees military matters?

answer: Secretary of Defense

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.

TOSSUPS:

1. What occurred in April 2007 when Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki caught Chipper Jones' line drive, stepped on second and tagged Edgar Renteria before he could return to first?

answer: an unassisted triple play (prompt on partial answer)

2. Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, and Sigmund Freud are famous in what profession that studies the human mind and behavior and that helps people through talking about problems?

answer: psychology or psychiatry (accept word forms)

3. What word describes written sentences that convey strong emotions, which usually are ended with a special punctuation mark?

answer: exclamatory (accept: exclamation)

4. The cranium and mandible are two parts of what bone that encases the brain?

answer: skull

5. This term describes correlations in which the dependent variable increases as the independent one does. It also describes slopes of lines in which the change in y has the same sign as the change in x. What is this term, that describes the charge of a proton and values greater than zero?

answer: positive (accept: direct before "slope")

6. The Vaisyas, Brahmans, and untouchables are part of the caste system in this country that divides its Hindu society. Name this Asian country whose cities include Punjab, Mumbai, and Delhi.

answer: India (accept: the caste system before given)

7. In recent weeks many baseball players have been accused of using what performance enhancing drugs that may be derivatives of testosterone?

answer: anabolic steroids

8. The cup above the center signifies the sabbath, and there was a golden one in the Tabernacle. What is this multibranched candelabrum used in the celebration of Hanukkah?

answer: menorah

9. Pencil and paper ready. Two angles in a triangle are 58 and 72 degrees. If the three angles in a triangle sum to 180 degrees, what is the measure of the third angle?

answer: 50 degrees

10. There is a red barn in the back right and the farmhouse contains a single window on the second floor. What is this painting by Grant Wood depicting a farmer with a pitchfork and his wife?

answer: American Gothic

11. Alaska, Texas, and California are the three largest states by area. Name any two of the next four largest.

answer: Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada

12. The first features Private Martin, Sergeant Evans, or Sergeant Vronin, and players participate in the Battles of Normandy and Stalingrad. The fourth, in Fall 2007, features a Russian nationalist who funds a coup in the Middle East. What is this series of games, with subtitles Modern Warfare and Finest Hour?

answer: Call of Duty

13. They tried to use Augments to genetically enhance their species, but the experiment backfired and they began to look more human. This explains why General Martok and B'Ellanna Torres look so different than those seen in The Trouble With Tribbles. Who are these warriors that battle Captain Kirk in Star Trek?

answer: Klingon(s)

14. Each of her sections begins with "Dear Kitty" as though she were writing to a friend. She says that "After 1940 the good times were few and far between" as her family and four others went into hiding. Name this young Jewish girl who hid in Amsterdam from the Nazis and wrote a diary.

answer: Anne Frank (prompt on "The Diary of a Young Girl")

15. It is said that Rome wasn't built in one of these. A red-letter one is happy but a bad hair one is a fashion disaster. An apple eaten in this time will keep the doctor away. What is this period that lasts 24 hours?

answer: day

16. A party by this name joined its efforts with the Womens Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League. By the 20^th century, they had succeeded in passing the 18^th amendment. What was this movement to ban alcohol?

answer: Prohibition

17. Tennessee Williams set A Streetcar Named Desire here and while riding in a streetcar you might see beads hanging from trees thrown during Mardi Gras. Name this city devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

answer: New Orleans

18. In ecology, what term describes organisms that prey on others, also a character that fights Alien in a set of recent films?

answer: predator

19. This state's most populous cities include Evansville, Gary, Fort Wayne, and South Bend. Its most populous city hosts a car race. Name this state between Illinois and Ohio.

answer: Indiana

20. After Smith, Johnson, Williams, and Brown, this is the fifth most common family name in the U.S. Famous people with this last name are actress Catherine Zeta, the locomotive engineer Casey, and American musician Norah. What is this last name, a family you're supposed to keep up with?

answer: Jones