The quick rules: In each quarter, you are first given the categories, then the questions, one at a time. You submit your answers to the questions individually, and assign a point value to your answer (from 1 to 5). Each point value can only be used one time per quarter, for a total of 15 points per quarter. If you get all 5 questions in the quarter right, you get a bonus of 5 points, making each quarter worth a maximum of 20 points.
The halftime question is scored by 2 points for each right answer given (a maximum of 8 for the main question). Bonus points may be awarded (and were during the Trivia Bowl). The final question is just like a fastest finger. You may wager between 0 and 25 points (unless you have less than 25 points going into the final, in which case you can wager up to all of the points you have).
I'll post the answers to these later this evening, as a spoiler. Enjoy!
First Quarter
1. Movies: In what movie did Tom Hanks make his screen debut?
2. Mottos: Whose motto is "Citius Altius Fortius"?
3. Space: What was the name of the spacecraft that John Glenn used when he became the first American to orbit the earth?
4. Science: Which is the only letter not used on the periodic table?
5. Companies: In which New York city did the first Woolworth open?
Second Quarter
1. Sports: What major league baseball team was sold in by the owner of Dominos to the owner of Little Caesar's in 1992?
2. TV: The Simpsons began as a series of shorts on what other show?
3. Geography: What country makes up the southern shore of the Caspian Sea?
4. Food and Drink: What is the chief spice used in Hungarian cooking?
5. Hollywood: What actress was teh first woman to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
HALFTIME:
Category: Presidents and the Super Bowl
Name the 4 colleges or universities that have graduated BOTH a President of the US AND a Super Bowl-winning Quarterback. For 2 bonus points each, who were the presidents and QBs?
Third Quarter
1. Medicine: What does the medical specialty of NOSOLOGY entail?
2. Know Your Cash: Within 5 years either way, in what year did the US begin putting watermarks on their paper currency? (2 bonus points if you get it on the nose.)
3. Spelling: Spell "ID-EE-OH-SINK-RA-SEE"
4. Travel: The highest active volcanoes in the world are located on what continent?
5. Music: Which Michael Jackson album produced the most #1 singles?
Fourth Quarter
1. Language: What Southeast Asian language has the most characters (72) in its "alphabet"?
2. Breakfast: What was the first cereal made by General Mills using its new "puffing gun" in 1937?
3. Grab Bag: What is the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil?
4. Famous Firsts: In which state were the first long-distance phone cards made available?
5. Famous Quotes: On the Statue of Liberty, the inscription describes "huddled masses yearning to" what?
FINAL QUESTION:
Category: Census 2000
The year 2000 was the first in which people were allowed to include their ancestry. For all persons in the US who categorized themselves as "White," put these nationalities in order by the number of people who claimed them as their ancestry:
Irish
German
Italian
So...going into the final question, we were tied for second place, with a whopping 39 points (out of a possible 96!), trailing the leaders by just 4 points. We decided to just say "what the f***" like Joel and Booger (you did see "Risky Business," right?)....and bet the maximum of 25 on our answer.
Only two teams got the final question right. Us.....and the team in first.
BUT....they wimped out, because they weren't sure of their answer. So we ended up the NEW TRIVIA BOWL CHAMPIONS!!!!! We get our name on a trophy and everything....Oh, and the three of us split $200. So that was good too!
