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: Colleges and Universities

1. Before he was President, Woodrow Wilson led what prestigious New Jersey University?

answer: Princeton University

2. What sunny southern school's Gators won the 2006 and 2007 NCAA Basketball titles?

answer: University of Florida

3. Gettysburg College, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University are all located in what state?

answer: Pennsylvania

4. Brigham Young University in Utah is named after a leader of what church that Mitt Romney belongs to?

answer: Mormon or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

5. The Sorbonne [soar-BUN] is a university located in what French city?

answer: Paris, France

6. What prestigious Massachusetts University was founded in 1636, making it the U.S.'s oldest?

answer: Harvard University

7. Grambling State, Tuskegee, and Delaware State Universities are among HBCU's. What does the "B" stand for in this context?

answer: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

8. The video game NCAA Football 2007 features what Southern Cal Heisman winner on its cover, who shares his last name with a President?

answer: Reggie Bush

9. Each part of the SAT has a possible 800 points, so what is a perfect score on this college entrance test with three sections?

answer: 2400

10. In an April 2007 tragedy, a student killed 32 people at what Virginia school located in Blacksburg?

answer: Virginia Tech

Bonus Category: Starts with U-N

Every correct answer in this category starts with the letters U-N.

1. What international organization headquartered in New York City is led by the South Korean Ban Ki-Moon?

answer: the United Nations

2. Most gasoline is sold what way, without the element with symbol Pb?

answer: unleaded

3. This is a vote in which everyone agrees.

answer: unanimous

4. In heraldry, what animals have the form of a horse with a lion's tail and a spiral horn?

answer: unicorn

5. What name is given to the states that battled the confederacy in the Civil War?

answer: the Union

6. There are tombs for these anonymous heroes in Arlington and under the Arc de Triomphe.

answer: Unknown Solider

7. What cosmological term describes all the stars, planets, and matter that exists?

answer: the Universe

8. Harriet Tubman was the conductor for what route of slaves escaping to the North?

answer: Underground Railroad

9. What card game has a Spanish name meaning "one"?

answer: UNO

10. In DuckTales, this is how Scrooge is related to Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

answer: uncle

Bonus Category: Biblical Characters

Answer these questions about biblical characters:

1. Whose wife Sarah gave birth to Isaac?

answer: Abraham

2. Who performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at Cana?

answer: Jesus Christ

3. Counting Jesus and his disciples, how many people are depicted in Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper?

answer: 13

4. Whose long hair gave him strength, but was betrayed by Delilah?

answer: Samson

5. Who received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai and parted the Red Sea during the Exodus?

answer: Moses

6. The Da Vinci Code claims this woman who found Jesus' tomb empty was the mother of Jesus' child.

answer: Mary Magdalene (prompt on "Mary")

7. What Philistine Giant was slain by David?

answer: Goliath

8. Who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and later tempted Jesus?

answer: Satan or Lucifer (prompt on "the Devil")

9. What disciple called "doubting" said at first he didn't believe Jesus had risen?

answer: Thomas

10. Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael are what type of heavenly messengers in the bible?

answer: archangels

Bonus Category: States by Counties

Given a list of three counties, name the state they are located in.

1. Appomattox, Fairfax, Shenandoah

answer: Virginia

2. Pacific, Columbia, Spokane

answer: Washington

3. Camden, Monmouth, Cape May

answer: New Jersey

4. Dade, Palm Beach, Seminole

answer: Florida

5. Kent, Sussex, New Castle

answer: Delaware

6. Charleston, Sumter, Calhoun

answer: South Carolina

7. Lancaster, York, Allegheny

answer: Pennsylvania

8. San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Fresno

answer: California

9. Dallas, El Paso, Galveston

answer: Texas

10. Saratoga, Albany, Niagara

answer: New York

Bonus Category: Harry Potter Book Seven

1. Who is killed by Stan Shunpike while escaping Privett Drive, and thus will carry no more mail?

answer: Hedwig

2. Who leaves Godric Gryffindor's sword to Harry in his will?

answer: Albus Dumbledore (accept either underlined name for all questions)

3. Book seven is primarily concerned with destroying these objects created by Voldemort to store part of his soul.

answer: Horcrux(es)

4. Voldemort orders the death of what former Potions teacher who became Headmaster at Hogwarts?

answer: Severus Snape

5. What former Defense of the Dark Arts teacher had Slytherin's Locket, which Harry's steals in the Ministry of Magic?

answer: Delores Umbridge

6. During the Hogwarts battle, Ron and Hermione go to what place to retrieve a basilisk fang?

answer: the Chamber of Secrets

7. The snake Nagini hides inside the body of what author of A History of Magic?

answer: Bathilda Bagshot

8. What object given to Harry during Christmas in his first year turns out to be one of the Deathly Hallows?

answer: the Invisibility Cloak

9. When Voldemort uses the killing curse on Harry, Harry goes to a location that looks like what starting point of the Hogwarts Express?

answer: King's Cross Station

10. In the epilogue, what friend of Harry's becomes the Hogwarts Herbology teacher?

answer: Neville Longbottom

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. As a majority on the Supreme Court is five justices, how many total judges sit on the Court?

answer: 9

2. The Babylonians had three different symbols for it, one of which looked like a sideways "W". The Mayans used a pointed oval which was a synonym of empty, meaning units of a certain order were not present. What is this number, which Indian mathematicians denoted with a loop?

answer: zero

3. In tennis, this term refers to winning all of the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. What is this term that in baseball is a home run that increases your team's score by four?

answer: grand slam (prompt on partial answer)

4. William Wallace, Robert Bruce, Malcolm, Duncan, and Mary are all people who ruled what country north of England famous for its bagpipes and Loch Ness Monster?

answer: Scotland

5. Spell the plural form of the word wolf.

answer: W-O-L-V-E-S

6. Big Cypress, Great Dismal, and Okefenokee are examples of what shallow, marshy bodies of water?

answer: swamp

7. Substances with this property include black coffee, tomato juice, vinegar, and lemon juice. What are these items with a pH below 7 that also include sulfuric and hydrochloric, and are the opposite of bases?

answer: acid (accept word forms)

8. Caribbean Steel, timpani, tenor, snare, and bongo are all types of what percussion instrument?

answer: drum

9. To end World War II, on what Asian country did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb in 1945?

answer: Japan

10. What German term for the sport of soccer has come to mean a tabletop version of soccer in which people spin players lined on bars?

answer: foosball

11. The rhyme scheme is A-A-B-B-A and lines usually contain either nine or six syllables. Often, the first line begins with "there once was a". What are these short poems named for a city in Ireland?

answer: limerick(s)

12. They are the fastest avian swimmers at 33 feet per second, a speed you might have seen in the film Happy Feet. King and Emperor are types of what bird that lives in cold places?

answer: penguin(s)

13. Its French title can be translated as "The Wretched". It is a story of Jean Valjean, who stole food for his starving family. Name this Victor Hugo work, turned into a popular Broadway musical.

answer: Les Miserables (accept: Les Mis)

14. The first king of this name was a son of William the Conqueror. The eighth king of this name famously had six wives. What is this name of English kings?

answer: Henry

15. In a J.M. Barrie work, who is called "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" and invites Wendy to go with him to Neverland?

answer: Peter Pan

16. His father was a bread store owner from Belgium. He's not Darth Vader, but did command a Death Star. Named Douglas "Doogie" Danger, who is this man that is Austin Powers' brother and nemesis?

answer: Dr. Evil (accept Douglas Doogie Danger before given)

17. One of these is properly called a lentil. Until 1976, it used FDC Red #2, a suspected cancer causing chemical. Now there are designer ones that you can order on the web, and many different color combinations. What are these candies that melt in your mouth and not in your hand?

answer: M&M

18. Its author is identified as a man named John, different than the Gospel writer. Its chapters describe various seals being opened, a battle between God and Satan, and the four Horses of the Apocalypse. What is this last book of the New Testament?

answer: Revelation to John (accept early Apocalypse of John, do not accept "Revelations")

19. What TV personality used to appear on Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos and nows appears as the host of 1 versus 100?

answer: Bob Saget

20. Pencil and paper ready. Wolfman Jack has a CD whose first two songs are 3 minutes 35 seconds and 2 minutes 55 seconds. What is the total playing time of Jack's songs?

answer: 6 minutes, 30 seconds (accept: 6 and one half minutes or equivalent)

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 Polish term describes small dough pies stuffed with cheese, potatoes, meat, or other ingredients?

answer: Pirogi or Pierogi

2. The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, and Ghosts of Onyx are books written by Eric Nyland about what video game, a first-person shooter whose third version was released in September 2007?

answer: Halo

3. Many ancient cities were built in Mesopotamia, lands around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. What modern-day Middle Eastern country composed most of this area, which the U.S. now has troops in?

answer: Iraq

4. Its subtitle is "The Modern Prometheus" and the title character is a talented medical student who strikes upon the secret of endowing life to the dead, not the monster he creates. What is this Mary Shelley work?

answer: Frankenstein

5. An award named for Cy Young is given to this type of athlete, Cy having earned 511 wins in what sports position?

answer: pitcher (prompt on "baseball player" or similar)

6. Over 99% of the mass in the Solar System is located here. Its sections include the photosphere and corona. What is this body at the center of the Solar System?

answer: the Sun

7. An actor named Robert changed his stage name so that the full name would be a palindrome. How do you spell Robert's last name?

answer: T-R-E-B-O-R [it is Robert backwards]

8. What national folk religion of Haiti involves worshiping ancestors or saints, raising of zombies, and popularly, sticking dolls with pins?

answer: voodoo

9. One named Edward switches places with Tom Canty in a Mark Twain work. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote about one living on asteroid B-612. Who are these lookalike of a Pauper and "Little" characters, a son of a king and queen?

answer: Prince (accept: The Prince and the Pauper and The Little Prince)

10. Britain's peerage system gives five different titles to various noble persons and accomplished individuals. Name any one of these five important titles that can be conferred by a king or queen.

answer: baron, viscount, earl, marquess, duke (accept females equivalents like baroness and duchess)

11. Before Dorothy is swept away to the Wonderful Land of Oz, what state does she live in, a Great Plains state where tornadoes are common?

answer: Kansas

12. The Susquehanna River empties into what Maryland body of water?

answer: Chesapeake Bay

13. Pencil and paper ready. Nick wants a pizza with unknown radius, whose area is 81π square inches. Since area equals pi times radius times radius, what is the radius of Nick's pizza, a number that multiplied by itself gives 81?

answer: 9 inches

14. It was discovered the virus could only live in a very narrow pH range. It killed by coagulating all of the blood victim's body, and the only survivors in one town were an old man and a baby. Name this Michael Crichton book about a virus from outer space.

answer: the Andromeda Strain

15. The first one was developed using rows of eight names, but Medeleev [men-dell-LAY-eff] realized he needed to leave space for undiscovered substances. Currently it has seven rows and another two sections are depicted underneath those. What is this table of the chemical elements?

answer: the Periodic Table

16. The water shown is actually the Rhine River as a German painted it. It also shows Betsy's Ross' use of thirteen stars and stripes six months before she created that flag. What is this painting showing a General about to surprise Hessian troops at the Battle of Trenton, shown on New Jersey's state quarter?

answer: Washington Crossing the Delaware

17. The Credit Mobilier Scandal during Grant's presidency was about money used to build it. When the Central Pacific met the Union Pacific, they used a golden spike to connect their tracks. What was this transportation milestone that connected the east and west coasts?

answer: (first) Transcontinental Railway (accept equivalents "railroad across the U.S.")

18. It is made almost entirely of wax and contains menthol. The Better Business Bureau disputes that it is anything more than a placebo, and its commercials are notoriously annoying. Name this product that you apply directly to the forehead.

answer: HeadOn

19. It is set in the English countryside and three characters enjoy picnicking on the river bank until one is almost run over by a car. Then that character wants a car but doesn't pay for it, so he ends up in jail. Ratty, Mole, Badger, and Mr. Toad are characters in what Kenneth Grahame work?

answer: The Wind in the Willows

20. What special term refers to a regular quadrilateral, whose four sides and angles are equal?

answer: square