Will Lourcey
Fort Worth ,TX
Will is a 14-year-old who has won seven spelling bees
$500
President Andrew Jackson's funeral was famously interrupted by his pet what, which had to be removed because it wouldn't stop swearing?
A: Saint Bernard B: Guinea pig
C: Goldfish D: Parrot
Spoiler
D: Parrot
$1,000
Fast food chain Wendy's is known for selling what unusually-shaped items?
A: Triangular hot tubs B: Square hamburger patties
C: Spherical chainsaws D: Diamond-shaped catcher's mitts
Spoiler
B: Square hamburger patties
$2,000
With projectiles made from toilet plunger-tipped pool noodles, NASA engineer Mark Rober recently created the world's largest version of what popular toy?
A: Nerf Gun B: Girl Scouts cookie oven
C: Etch A Sketch D: Mr. Potato Head
Spoiler
A: Nerf Gun
$3,000
Energy, which can be transformed but never destroyed, comes in two main forms—potential energy and what?
A: Monster energy B: Rockstar energy
C: Kinetic energy D: Nervous energy
Spoiler
C: Kinetic energy
$5,000
After personally inventing the new technology, in 1971 Michael Hart established Project Gutenberg, whose website fittingly gives away what for free?
A: DVDs B: eBooks
C: Flash drives D: Music MP3s
Spoiler
B: eBooks
First commercial break
$7,000
Once considered to simply be 1/86,400th of a day, since 1967 what's been defined as the time it takes for a cesium electron to oscillate about 9 billion times?
A: A nanosecond B: A second
C: A minute D: An hour
Spoiler
A: 56% B: 35% C: 6% D: 3%
Will tries to do some math—
Spoiler
24 times 60, he knows 25 times 6 is 150, he thinks...
Spoiler
Will guesses A nanosecond.
The correct answer is B: A second
Will wins $5,000
The correct answer is B: A second
Will wins $5,000