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Teams• Fear the Crab
• Infinity• New York Necks• Nana’s Bananas• Pants Peers• Marksmen
• Morgan Station• Blind Squirrels
• We Ate Before We Came
• Run Over by a Puffin• Age & Treachery• No Worse Than Last• Hoof Hearted• Pella People• Pinot Envy
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•1st- $1000•2nd- $400•3rd- $300•4th- $200•5th- $100
QUESTION # 1QUOTATIONS
•WHAT FRENCH PHILOSOPHER
WROTE “I THINK THEREFORE I AM” ?
ANSWER # 1
•RENE DESCARTES
QUESTION # 2U.S. PRESIDENTS
4 PARTER
• WHO WERE THE LAST FOUR SITTING U.S.
PRESIDENTS TO LOSE IN THEIR BID FOR REELECTION ?
ANSWER # 2• GEORGE H.W. BUSH (LOST TO
BILL CLINTON)• JIMMY CARTER (LOST TO
RONALD REAGAN)• GERALD FORD (LOST TO
JIMMY CARTER)• HERBERT HOOVER (LOST
TO F.D.R.)
QUESTION # 3BASEBALL
•Who played the most regular-season major league games, without
ever playing a post-season game?
ANSWER # 3
•2,528 GAMES•Ernie Banks
QUESTION # 4ANIMALS-2 PARTER
• WHAT ARE THE TWO LARGEST & HEAVIEST SPECIES IN THE
DOLPHIN FAMILY ?• Kingdom:Animalia, Division:
chordata, Class:mammalia, Order:Cetacea, Family:Delphinidae
ANSWER # 4
•KILLER WHALES•PILOT WHALES
QUESTION # 5TV
• THIS VAN CALLED “THE MYSTERY MACHINE” WAS FEATURED ON
WHAT HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON SERIES ?
ANSWER # 5
QUESTION # 6
•WHAT ARE WE ?
OCARINA
TELSTAR
ALPHORN
THEREMIN
DREAMCATCHERS
JACOB’S LADDER
QUESTION # 7MUSIC
•SINCE 2000 WHAT IS THE ONLY BILLBOARD
HOT 100 #1 SONG WITH A CITY NAME IN
ITS TITLE ?
ANSWER # 7
•2006•BY FERGIE
QUESTION # 8 WORLD GEOGRAPHY
4 PARTER•WHICH FOUR COUNTRIES
MAKE UP THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF THEIR
HOME CONTINENTS ?
ANSWER # 8• 90%- AUSTRALIA (OCEANIA)
• 48%- BRAZIL (SOUTH AMERICA)
• 44%- CANADA (NORTH AMERICA)
• 43%- UNITED STATES (NORTH AMERICA)
QUESTION # 9GAMES
• IBM RS/6000 COMPUTER (DEEP BLUE) WAS USED
TO DEFEAT WHAT WORLD CHESS
CHAMPION IN 1997 ?
ANSWER # 9
•GARRY KASPAROV
QUESTION # 10THE MOVIES-4 PARTER
• IN ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY THERE HAVE ONLY BEEN FIVE FILMS THAT
WERE NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE OSCAR THAT HAVE A U.S. STATE IN ITS TITLE. CAN YOU NAME FOUR OF THEM ? (WHETHER IT IS IN A STATE CONTEXT OR NOT)
ANSWER # 10
• IN OLD ARIZONA (1929)• GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002)• MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)• WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA
WOLFE (1966)• MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON (1939)
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QUESTION # 11MUSICAL NURSERY RYHMES
• WHAT NURSERY RHYME WAS EXTENDED AND
EMBELLISHED BY ELLA FITZGERALD INTO A JAZZ PIECE WHICH WAS HER
BREAKTHROUGH HIT IN 1938 ?
ANSWER # 11• A-tisket a-tasket
• A green and yellow basket• I wrote a letter to my love• And on the way I dropped it• I dropped it,I dropped it
• And on the way I dropped it• A little boy he picked it up and put it in
his pocket.
QUESTION # 12 WORLD GEOGRAPHY
4 PARTER•WHAT ARE THE FOUR
MAINLAND AFRICAN COUNTRIES THAT BEGIN WITH THE
LETTER “B” ?
ANSWER # 12
•BENIN•BOTSWANA•BURUNDI
•BURKINA FASO
QUESTION # 13THE MOVIES
•WHAT CHARACTER DID ACTOR PETER OSTRUM PORTRAY IN 1971 AND FREDDIE HIGHMORE
PLAY IN 2005 ?
ANSWER # 13•CHARLIE BUCKET
QUESTION # 14 THE OLYMPICS
3 PARTER•WHO ARE THE THREE
WOMEN THAT HAVE WON THE 100 METER
DASH IN BACK TO BACK OLYMPIC GAMES ?
ANSWER # 14
• SHELLY-ANN FRASER (2008,2012)
•GAIL DEVERS (1992,1996)•WYOMIA TYUS
(1964,1968)
QUESTION # 15WORLD LEADERS
•WHO WAS THE ONLY WORLD LEADER TO
SIGN BOTH SALT ARMS CONTROL
TREATIES ?
ANSWER # 15
•LEONID BREZHNEV
QUESTION # 16
•WHO ARE WE ?
ROBIN WILLIAMS
WHITNEY HOUSTON
GARY SINESE
PARIS HILTON
SEAN CONNERY
QUESTION # 17LITERATURE
• WHAT LITERARY TITLE CHARACTER’S WEDDING IS
INTERRUPTED AT THE ALTAR BY A LAWYER’S REVELATION
THAT THE GROOM IS ALREADY MARRIED TO BERTHA MASON ?
ANSWER # 17
QUESTION # 18 MAGAZINES
4 PARTER• IN 1993 TIME MAGAZINE GAVE ITS PERSON OF THE
YEAR AWARD TO “THE PEACEMAKERS”
REPRESENTED BY WHAT FOUR MEN ?
ANSWER # 18
•NELSON MANDELA•F.W. de KLERK•YASSER ARAFAT•YITZHAK RABIN
QUESTION # 19SCIENCE
•WHAT DID SIR ISAAC NEWTON DEFINE BY
MULTIPLYING AN OBJECT’S MASS BY ITS
VELOCITY ?
ANSWER # 19• ITS MOMENTUM
QUESTION # 20BET UP TO 15 POINTS
•What team is the oldest continuous, one-name,
one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883 ?
ANSWER # 20
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TIEBREAKER
• WHAT WAS THE POPULATION OF BEDROCK
AS SHOWN IN THE OPENING CREDITS OF THE
TV SHOW “THE FLINTSTONES” ?
ANSWER
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