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TriviaMaryland WorldSeries XXV

•Prizes•1st- $1000•2nd- $400•3rd- $300•4th- $200•5th- $100

TeamsFear the Crab

Marksmen

Infinity

Run Over by a Puffin

We Are Family

Switchers

I Like Beer

What the Farq

Luigi’s Better

Wizard of Odz

No Worse Than Last

Age & Treachery

MC Plus

We Named the Dog Indiana

QUESTION # 1 ACTORS AND THEIR ROLES

• IN HIS LONG CAREER ACTOR SEAN CONNERY

HAS ONLY BEEN NOMINATED FOR ONE

ACADEMY AWARD. WHAT FILM WAS IT FOR ?

ANSWER # 1

•BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING

ROLE

•1987

•HE ALSO WON

QUESTION # 2U.S. NAVY2 PARTER

•WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE NAVY’S TWO CURRENT HOSPITAL

SHIPS ?

ANSWER # 2

•U.S.S. MERCY

•U.S.S. COMFORT

QUESTION # 3ANIMALS

•FISH OF WHAT SPECIES ARE THE STATE FISH OF A RECORD 19 U.S.

STATES ?

ANSWER # 3

• TROUT (BASS IS 2ND WITH

16)

QUESTION # 4 TRACK & FIELD-4 PARTER

• SINCE 1935 UNTIL THE PRESENT FOUR AMERICAN MEN HAVE HELD THE LONG

JUMP WORLD RECORD. WHO ARE THE FOUR MEN ?

ANSWER # 4

• JESSIE OWENS (1935-1960)

• RALPH BOSTON (1960-1968)

• BOB BEAMAN (1968-1991)

• MIKE POWELL (1991-PRESENT)

QUESTION # 5MYTHOLOGY

• WHAT CHARACTER FROM SLAVIC FOLKLORE FLIES

AROUND ON A GIANT MORTAR, KIDNAPS AND

PRESUMABLY EATS SMALL CHILDREN AND LIVES IN A HUT

THAT STANDS ON CHICKEN LEGS ?

ANSWER # 5

•BABA YAGA

QUESTION # 6

•NAME THE CHARACTERS

ANDY PANDA

MASTER SPLINTERTEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

HELLO KITTY

KRATOSGOD OF WAR (VIDEO GAME)

CHIM CHIMSPEED RACER

QUESTION # 7ART

•WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL WAS THE 18TH CENTURY

ARTIST GEORGE STUBBS FAMOUS FOR

PAINTING ?

ANSWER # 7

•HORSES

QUESTION # 8U.S. POLITICS

2 PARTER• WHICH TWO U.S. STATES WITH THREE ELECTORAL VOTES EACH, BOTH BORDER ON THREE STATES WITH THREE ELECTORAL VOTES EACH ? (ONE OF THEIR THREE IS

EACH OTHER)

ANSWER # 8

• SOUTH DAKOTA

• MONTANA

QUESTION # 9THE MOVIES

•WHAT IS THE BETTER KNOWN NAME FOR

THE MOVIE CHARACTER JOHAN

VAN DER SMUT ?

ANSWER # 9

•GOLDMEMBER

QUESTION # 10 MUSIC

2 PARTER

•RECORDED IN 2008 FOR A SOUND TRACK

ALBUM, WHAT TWO PEOPLE ARE SINGING

THIS DUET ?

ANSWER # 10

• FOR THE FILM “BOLT”

• TITLED: I THOUGHT I LOST YOU

• MILEY CYRUS

• JOHN TRAVOLTA

HalfTime

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QUESTION # 11INSECTS

•THE LEAVES OF WHAT FRUIT TREE PROVIDE THE STAPLE DIET OF

A SILKWORM ?

ANSWER # 11

•MULBERRY TREE

QUESTION # 12 N.A.S.A.

3 PARTER

• WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE THREE ROVERS THE U.S. HAS LAUNCHED TO MARS SINCE THE YEAR

2000 ?

ANSWER # 12

• CURIOUSITY (LAUNCHED NOVEMBER 26, 2011)

• OPPORTUNITY (LAUNCHED JULY 7, 2003)

• SPIRIT (LAUNCHED JUNE 10, 2003)

QUESTION # 13 FAMOUS QUOTES

• “TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE DEVINE”, “A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING” AND “FOOLS RUSH IN

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD” ARE QUOTES FROM A FAMOUS ESSAY WRITTEN BY

WHO ?

ANSWER # 13

• TITLED: AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM

QUESTION # 14THE MOVIES

CRAZY EIGHTS

• IN THE 1990’s BRUCE WILLIS ACTED IN TEN FILMS THAT REACHED THE TOP SPOT AT THE U.S. BOX OFFICE. CAN YOU NAME EIGHT OF

THEM ?

ANSWER # 14• THE SIXTH

SENSE • ARMAGEDDON • THE FIFTH

ELEMENT • THE JACKAL • 12 MONKEYS• PULP FICTION

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• DIE HARD: WITH A

VENGENANCE

• STRIKING DISTANCE

• DEATH BECOMES HER

• DIE HARD 2

QUESTION # 15 MUSIC

•WHAT TWO TIME ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED

ACTOR SANG THIS SONG ON “ALLY McBEAL: A VERY ALLY CHRISTMAS” IN 2000

ANSWER # 15

•TITLED: RIVER

•ROBERT DOWNEY

JR.

QUESTION # 16

•WHO ARE WE ?

JILL KELLEY????

MOHAMMED MORSIPRESIDENT OF EYGPT

SUSAN RICEU.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N.

BAN KI-MOONU.N. SECRETARY GENERAL

MALALA YOUSUFZAIEDUCATION ACTIVIST

QUESTION # 17TV

• WHO WAS THE HOST OF THE SHORT LIVED 2005 SPIN OFF OF

DONALD TRUMP’S TV SHOW “THE APPRENTICE” THAT USED THE CATCH PHRASE “YOU JUST

DON’T FIT IN” INSTEAD OF “YOU’RE FIRED” ?

ANSWER # 17

QUESTION # 18 ISLANDS2 PARTER

•OF THE TEN LARGEST ISLANDS IN THE WORLD,

PARTS OF WHAT TWO COUNTRIES ARE FOUND

ON THREE OF THEM ?

ANSWER # 18

• INDONESIA (NEW GUINEA, BORNEO,

SUMATRA)

•CANADA (BAFFIN, VICTORIA, ELLESMERE

ISLANDS)

QUESTION # 19THE COMICS

• What comic strip followed the Freeman

family as they adjusted to life in the suburban

neighborhood of Woodcrest, Md.

ANSWER # 19

• FIRST APPEARED IN THE “DIAMONDBACK”, THE NEWSPAPER OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

QUESTION # 20BET UP TO 15 POINTS

• THE ONLY TIME IN U.S. HISTORY THERE WERE 21

STARS ON OUR FLAG WAS A ONE YEAR PERIOD AFTER WHAT STATE JOINED THE

UNION IN 1818 ? (THE STAR WAS ADDED ON JULY 4, 1819)

ANSWER # 20

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TIEBREAKER

•ACCORDING TO WORLD BOOK, IN

SQUARE MILES, WHAT IS THE LAND AREA OF

RHODE ISLAND ?

ANSWER

•1,045 SQUARE

MILES