| # | Category | Sub | Question | Answer |
| w01 | TV | 1925 | What "Grand Old" country program began broadcasting on radio in 1925? | "Grand
Ole Opry" |
| w02 | TV | 1965-present | "Choosy moms choose …" which brand of peanut butter? |
Jif |
| w03 | TV | 1965-present | What was the name of the tuna in the Star-Kist tuna TV ads? |
Charlie the Tuna |
| w04 |
TV |
1973-80 |
What TV detective
did Buddy Ebsen portray after the "Beverly Hillbillies"? |
"Barnaby Jones" |
| w05 | TV | 1977-78/1987-94 |
Who portrayed the young "Kunta Kinte" on the mini
series "Roots" and "Geordi La Forge" on "Star Trek: Next Generation"? |
Levar Burton |
| w06 | TV | 1980-92 | What was the name of the junior detectives, who used science to solve crimes, at the end of each "3-2-1
Contact" show? | "Bloodhound Gang" |
| w07 | TV | 1983-87 | What was the first TV series for "Mr.
T"? | "A-Team" |
|
w08 |
TV |
1989-93 |
On the sitcom "Major Dad", "Mac's"
wife "Polly" had how many daughters? | Three (3) (Elizabeth,
Robin, and Casey) |
| w09 | TV | 1990-95 | What "rural comedy-drama" was set in the fictional town of Cicely,
Alaska (population 215)? | "Northern Exposure" |
| w10 |
TV |
1993-04 |
On what sitcom
did the regulars frequent "Café Nervosa", a coffeehouse on the corner of 3rd and Pike Streets in
Seattle? | "Frazier" |
| w11 | TV | 1993-1999 | Who starred as Captain Benjamin Sisko
on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"? | Avery Brooks |
| w12 | TV | 2000-02 | Who was the "technical
expert" on Comedy Central's show "BattelBots"? |
Bill Nye |
| w13 | S&N | Anatomy | What tiny vessel connects
an artery with a vein? | capillary |
|
w14 |
S&N |
Astronomy |
Which planet, in our solar system, is NOT named for a Greek
or Roman deity? | Earth |
| w15 | S&N | Botany | Broccoli and Cauliflower were both developed from what vegetable? |
Cabbage |
| w16 | S&N | Chemistry | What happens to its volume if you increase the pressure on a "gas"? | Decreases |
| w17 |
S&N |
Code |
What is the NATO
Radio Code Word for the letter "Z", if "A" is "alpha" and "B" is "bravo"? |
Zulu |
| w18 | S&N | Computer | What is the computer term for "electronic mail"? |
e-mail |
| w19 | S&N | Food | Which is Campbell's biggest
selling soup - Chicken Noodle or Tomato? | Chicken Noodle |
| w20 | S&N | Geology | What "Birthstone" for January
is a gem of variable color? |
Garnet |
| w21 | S&N | Math | How many sides does an octagon
have? | eight (8) |
| w22 | S&N | Medicine | What is the medical term for a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized
by an abnormal increase of white blood cells? | Leukemia |
|
w23 |
S&N |
Meteorology |
The jet stream, in the northern hemisphere, is fastest in
the winter time - True or False? | True |
| w24 | S&N |
Physics |
Will a 5 Lb. steel ball, dropped 45 inches, travel more rapidly
through a tank of water @ 30 degrees F, 40 degrees F, or will there be no difference, (at sea level)? |
forty degrees F.
(40°F) (30° F. = Ice) |
| w25 |
S&N |
Psychology |
What do the
letters "IQ" stand for? | Intelligence Quotient |
| w26 | S&N | Zoology | The "Dingo" and The "Wallaby"
are native to what continent? | Australia |
|
w27 |
S&L |
Baseball |
The San Francisco Giants belong to which Major League Baseball
league - American League or National League? | National League (NL) |
| w28 | S&L | Basketball | What 1962 NBA
player set a record by scoring 4,029 points in just 80 games? |
Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain |
| w29 | S&L | Basketball | What NBA team set a record in the 1971-72 season by winning 33 games in a row? | Los Angeles Lakers |
| w30 | S&L | Basketball | What NBA player was nicknamed "The Mailman"? |
Karl Malone |
| w31 | S&L | College | What is the nickname for sports
teams from Ohio State University? | Buckeyes |
|
w32 |
S&L |
Football |
Who is the only NFL player to win the Super Bowl MVP award
three times? | Joe Montana (1982, 1985, 1990) |
| w33 |
S&L |
Football |
There has been
only one Super Bowl, in which one team scored NO points - true or false? |
False |
| w34 | S&L | Football | What quarterback holds NFL
record for "most touchdowns passes, in one Super Bowl game - Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Steve Young, or Kurt Warner? |
Steve Young |
| w35 | S&L | Football | Has NFL's "Super Bowl" ever been played on any day of the week other than Sunday? |
No |
| w36 | S&L | Football | What is the name of the trophy awarded to the Super Bowl winning team? | Vince Lombardi Trophy |
| w37 | S&L | Hockey | Used to judge if a player is offside, how many blue lines are there on a hockey rink? | Two (2) |
| w38 |
S&L |
Hockey |
How many goals
must a single player score in a game to have a "Hat Trick"? |
three (3) |
| w39 | S&L | Sport | In 2006, what was the second
most popular professional sport in terms of U. S. television ratings? |
NASCAR |
| w40 | S&L | Track&Field |
Most outdoor
athletics tracks have how many lanes? | eight (8) |
|
w41 |
Music |
1915-98 |
Which singer (nicknamed "Ole Blue Eyes") started
his singing career in 1939 with the Harry James Band? |
Frank Sinatra |
| w42 | Music | 1951 | What do "They Call The
Wind ...", according to the Lerner and Loewe musical "Paint Your Wagon"? | Maria ("They Call The Wind Maria") |
| w43 |
Music |
1967-72 |
What did John
Fogerty's group "The Golliwogs" rename themselves in 1967? |
Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) |
| w44 |
Music |
1970 |
Which was the
first rock band to enter the singles chart at #1 and is the best-selling American rock band of all time? |
Aerosmith |
| w45 | Music | 1971 | What Led Zeppelin song warns "Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know"? |
"Stairway To Heaven" |
|
w46 |
Music |
1981 |
The last time the Billboards pop chart featured #1 country
singles, back to back (in the #1 position) was Dolly's Partons "9-5" and what hit by Eddie Rabbit? |
"I Love a Rainy Night" |
|
w47 |
Music |
1991 |
What Violent Femmes song said "You were born too late,
I was born too soon, and every time I look at that ugly moon it reminds me of you"? | "American
Music" |
| w48 | Music | 1993-06 | Until 2006, how many guys made up the group "Backstreet Boys" - 4 or
5? | Five
(5) |
| w49 | Music | 2001 | Formed in 1994, what Australian pop duo
(Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones) officially announced
their breakup in October 2001? | Savage Garden |
|
w50 |
Music |
2005 |
Who had a #8 hit with his hip-hop song "When I'm
Gone"? | Eminem |
| w51 | Music | Classical | Who composed the "Swan Lake Ballet"? | Tchaikovsky |
| w52 | Music | Instruments | The Mandolin, originating in 18th century Naples, had how many "pairs" of strings? | four (4) "pairs" of steel strings (eight in total) |
| w53 |
Movies |
1933 1976 |
What title movie
character climbed the Empire State Building in 1933 and the World Trade Center in 1976? | King Kong |
| w54 | Movies | 1936-40 | Who was Flash Gordon's arch enemy - Dr. Alexis Zarkov or Ming the Merciless? | Ming the Merciless |
| w55 | Movies | 1959-03 | What actor when from "Ben Hur" to "Planet of the Apes" to president of the
NRA? | Charlton Heston |
| w56 | Movies | 1972 2005 |
The capsized ocean liner was the real star of what 1972 Irwin
Allen "disaster" movie, remade in 2005 with John Putch directing? | "Poseidon Adventure" |
| w57 | Movies | 1977 | What 1977 Burt Reynolds movie caused Americans to go CB crazy? |
"Smokey and the Bandit" |
| w58 | Movies | 1983 | What 1983 Helicopter movie became a 1984 ABC police drama - "Air Wolf" or "Blue
Thunder"? | "Blue Thunder" |
| w59 | Movies | 1992 | What Wesley Snipes/Woody Harrelson movie
saw "Billy and Sidney" hustling the basketball courts of California? | "White Men Can't
Jump" |
| w60 | Movies | 1996 | Who starred as "Roger Dearly", the owner of "Pongo" in the 1996 live-action
Disney movie "101 Dalmatians"? | Jeff Daniels |
| w61 | Movies | 2000 | Who portrayed "Erin
Brockovich"? | Julia Roberts |
|
w62 |
Movies |
2001 |
What was the title of the first movie in the Harry Potter
series? | "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (UK
- "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone") |
| w63 |
Movies |
2005 |
Emma Thompson
starred as what "nanny", with discipline and magic, whose looks continue to change through out the movie? |
"Nanny McPhee" |
| w64 | Movies |
2010 |
According to the NY Daily News, what 2010 movie ended "Titanic's"
reign as highest grossing movie ever? | "Avatar" |
| w65 | History | United States | What was the verdict
in the criminal trials of Lizzie Borden and O.J. Simpson? |
Not Guilty |
| w66 | History | United States | John W. Nordstrom
started his store with money he acquired how - Inherited, Gold Strike, or a Shoe Invention? | Gold Strike (1897 Klondike) |
| w67 | History | United States | Which was the wife of President
James Madison - Dorothea, Elizabeth, or Martha? | Dorothea (They
called her "Dolly") |
| w68 | History |
United States |
How many signal lanterns appeared in Boston's "Old
North Church" to start Paul Revere on his midnight ride - one or 2? | Two (2) (One if by land, and two if by sea) |
| w69 | History | United States | What is the first
Alphabetic Registration Letter on every airplane registered in the United States - A or N? | N |
| w70 |
History |
United States |
What U. S.
president died at the youngest age? | John F. Kennedy |
|
w71 |
History |
World |
In what year did the Communists built the "Berlin Wall"
- 1941, 1951, or 1961? | nineteen sixty one (1961) |
| w72 | History | World | Which Roman Emperor made his horse a Roman
Senator - Augustus, Caligula, Nero, or Octavius? | Caligula |
| w73 | History | World | How many locks are there in the Suez Canal? |
Zero (0) none |
| w74 | History | World | What Dutch dancer was a famous German spy during World War I? |
Mata Hari |
| w75 | History | World | The "Spanish Inquisition"
only lasted about 50 years - True or False? | False (beginning 1478
it lasted until 1834 - 356 years) |
|
w76 |
History |
World |
What country was once ruled by the Houses of "Rurik"
and "Romanov"? | Russia |
|
w77 |
Geography |
United States |
What U. S. State was known as "Russian America",
prior to 1867? | Alaska (AK) |
| w78 | Geography | United States | What city is the capital of Arkansas? | Little Rock |
| w79 | Geography | United States | Which one of these U. S. states does not border on Vermont - Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or New
York? | Delaware |
| w80 | Geography | United States | What is the largest river flowing through Denver, Colorado - Arkansas,
Colorado, or South Platte? | South Platte |
|
w81 |
Geography |
United States |
What is the deepest lake in the United States (and second
deepest in North America)? | Crater Lake (Canada's Great Slave
Lake is deepest in North America) |
|
w82 |
Geography |
United States |
What west coast city has the two steepest streets in the United
States? | San Francisco |
| w83 | Geography | World | What was the second-largest, French speaking city in the world? |
Montreal |
| w84 | Geography | World | Which city is the capital of the Philippines - Lampur, Manila, or Sumatra? | Manila |
| w85 |
Geography |
World |
Which European
country is abbreviated "CH" according to international two letter abbreviations? | Switzerland |
| w86 | Geography | World | What is the "official language" of Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco? | Arabic |
| w87 |
Geography |
World |
What country has
the most "time zones" (10) of any country in the world? |
Russia |
| w88 | Geography | World | What is the "official
language" of Japan? | Japanese |
|
w89 |
A&L |
Architecture |
What is the architectural term for a "horizontal load-bearing
timber that forms a principal part of a structure, and can also be steel or concrete"? | Beam |
| w90 |
A&L |
Arts |
The first
"Impressionist Exhibition" was in Paris, name deriving from painting titled "Impression: Sunrise",
painted by whom - Manet or Monet? | Claude Monet (1840-1926) |
| w91 | A&L | Author | Did William Shakespeare write "Speak
low, if you speak love."? | Yes ("Much Ado About Nothing")
|
| w92 | A&L | Children | What E.B. White book begins "When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody
noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse"? | "Stuart Little" |
| w93 | A&L | Comics | According to the "Peanuts" comic strip, who is "Charlie Brown's" most favorite
baseball player? | Joe Schlabotnik (of the Waffletown Syrups) |
| w94 | A&L | Fiction | Holden Caulfield appears in which 1951 J. D. Salinger book - "Catcher in the Rye" or "From
Here to Eternity"? | "Catcher in the Rye" |
| w95 |
A&L |
Fiction |
What novel won
Pearl Buck the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in fiction? | "The Good Earth" |
| w96 |
A&L |
Fiction |
Who wrote the 1937
detective fiction "Death On The Nile"? |
Agatha Christie |
| w97 |
A&L |
Language |
In English, a
"gerund" is a form of a verb that functions as a noun and ends in which three letters - est, -ily, or -ing? |
-ing |
| w98 | A&L | Language | What three languages do linguists and economists believe will dominate, by the end of the 21st century? |
Chinese
English Spanish |
| w99 | A&L |
Mythology |
Who, according to Greek Mythology, flew too near the sun wearing
wings attached with wax? | Icarus |
|
w100 |
A&L |
Poetry |
What 19th century English poet wrote "Ode To
A Grecian Urn" and "Ode To A Nightingale"? |
John Keats (1795-1821) |