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TOSSUPS

1. ​The original design for a taller tower to house this institution had to be scrapped due to its proximity to
Burke Lakefront Airport.​ ​The lower level of this museum houses an exhibition hall named for Ahmet
Ertegun which showcases predecessors of the focus of this museum. The building that houses this institution
includes a dual-triangular glass pyramid designed by (*) ​I.M. Pei. The 2007 honors of this institution were
controversial for the inclusion of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five because they were a hip-hop group. For 10
points, name this museum housed in downtown Cleveland which honors people like Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, and
Elvis Presley who have had major contributions a certain genre of popular music.
ANSWER: ​Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2. ​This song has variously been remixed to sound like Space Oddity, the Tetris theme song, and the Rite of
Spring. In the music video for this song, the singer lifts up a toppled school bus and runs into a burning house
to save a dog. The lead vocalist for this song collapsed during a 2016 performance due to excessive drinking;
that man is Steve Harwell. This song received major popularity after it was featured in a 2001 film starring
(*)​ Mike Myers. This song’s chorus says to “Get your game on, go play,” after telling the listener that they are the
title person. The singer jumps on a car while singing “The years start coming and they don’t stop coming” in, for 10
points, what 1999 song by Smash Mouth which is played at the beginning of the first ​Shrek​ movie?
ANSWER: “​All Star​”

3. ​The first version of this game was created by Leslie Scott in the early 1970s. This game’s ​World Tour​ was a
video game released by Nintendo Wii and DS in 2007. Variations of this game come in different sizes;
however, regulations require that each of its 54 pieces must be one fifth as thick as it is long and (*) ​three times
longer than its width.​ ​The world record for the tallest structure in this game is held by Robert Grebler for building a
tower 40 ⅔ levels tall. For 10 points, name this classic board game which is currently sold in the US by Parker
Brothers, whose name comes from the Swahili word for “tower.”
ANSWER:​ ​Jenga

4. ​This player’s country's men's soccer team lost to Germany by a hilarious six-goal margin in the semifinals
of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. One reason why that nation lost so badly is that this player was out with a
fractured (*) ​vertebra. This player came to prominence at an early age at Santos before moving to FC Barcelona. In
August 2017, PSG triggered this player’s 222 million euros release clause for his transfer, making him the world’s
most expensive player and breaking up the attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, and this player, known as
“MSN.” For 10 points, name this Brazilian forward known for often taking dives and having really bad hair.
ANSWER: ​Neymar​ ​da Silva Santos J​únior

5. ​The oldest player to accomplish this feat did so at age 29 for the Lions but unexpectedly retired after the
subsequent season. The first player to do this did so in a 14-game season for the Bills; that player is also
known for being acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and being paroled in July 2017 after an armed robbery.
The two most recent players to accomplish this feat are now with the Cardinals and the Saints after starring
for the Titans and the (*) ​Vikings; the former incorporated this feat into his nickname. For 10 points, name this
offensive milestone reached by 3 other running backs in addition to Barry Sanders, O.J. Simpson, Chris Johnson,
and Adrian Peterson.
ANSWER: ​rushing​ for ​2,000 yards​ in one NFL ​season​ [accept word forms]
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6. ​In 2005, this platform was falsely called “flawed and irresponsible” after it implicated journalist John
Seigenthaler ​[SIGH-gen-thal-er]​ in the assassination of JFK. One of this platform’s five pillars is that it “has no
firm rules.” Larry Sanger helped launch this platform in 2001 but left only one year later. Its co-founder,
Jimmy Wales, attempted to rewrite himself as the sole founder in his biography, but was discovered via (*)
community editing logs and was forced to apologize.​ ​The business model of this website may have contributed to
the departure from print media of ​Encyclopedia Brittanica​ to an online-only version, as it was unable to compete
with this platform being free. For 10 points, name this website, by far the best known online encyclopedia.
ANSWER: ​Wikipedia

7. ​While looking for this item, searchers came across items codenamed “stellar sphere,” “mark omega,”
“black saber, ” and “Stardust.” The original creator of this item was Poggle the Lesser, who exchanged it for
his freedom. A copy of this item was received by Admiral Raddus, before he sent it away aboard the ​Tantive
IV​ [​ “four”]​. Cassian Andor and Raymus Antilles both played a vital role in obtaining this item. It was stored
in the Citadel Tower, a (*)​ data vault located on the planet Scarif. Galen Erso placed a fatal flaw in this, which
allowed for a major Rebel victory. For 10 points, name this item which Princess Leia gave to R2-D2 and which was
used to help destroy an armored space station.
ANSWER: ​Death Star plans​ [accept equivalents, prompt on partial answer]

8. ​This attendee of Columbia University was a 7-time All-Star. He set several major-league records during his
career such as most consecutive games played and most career grand slams, both of which were later broken.
During that 2,130 consecutive games streak, he helped the New York Yankees win six World Series titles.​ ​His
farewell from baseball was capped off by his iconic (*) ​“Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth” speech in 1939 at
Yankee Stadium. Name this Hall of Fame first baseman nicknamed “The Iron Horse,” who died in 1941 from ALS,
a disease that is now commonly associated with his name.
ANSWER: Lou ​Gehrig

9. ​Andrew Lloyd Webber has been accused of plagiarizing the overture to Phantom of the Opera from one of
this group’s songs. One of this band’s songs has also been the subject of conspiracy theories that it syncs up
with the ending of ​2001: A Space Odyssey​. Memorable album covers from this band include an image of a (*)
pig​ ​floating above a power station and a man shaking hands with another man who is on fire. Among this band’s
most famous songs is one partially in 7/4 time, “Money,” and “Comfortably Numb.” For 10 points, name this
English progressive rock band who wrote the albums “The Wall” and one featuring a triangular prism dispersing a
white beam of light into the colors of the rainbow, “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
ANSWER: ​Pink Floyd

10. ​In a post-credits scene to ​Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2​, this person provides the voice for a robotic alien
warrior named Mainframe. In the 10th season of ​Two and a Half Men​, this actress plays the extremely
talkative girlfriend of Jake Harper named (*)​ Missi. In addition to being voiced by Chlo​ë​ Grace Moretz as the
child Penny, the owner of the titular dog in the 2008 animated film ​Bolt​, was voiced by this actress. This actress’s
first role was starring alongside her father in the 2001 series ​Doc​, and she continued to act with her father in her
most famous role as the lead of the Disney series ​Hannah Montana​. For 10 points, name this teen idol whose dual
talents in the film and music industries gives her the best of both worlds.
ANSWER: ​Miley​ Ray ​Cyrus
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11. ​This personality led an effort to rebuild the Branch Davidian church after the Waco siege. He also
accused the U.S. government of committing the Oklahoma city bombing. Several products sold by this man,
including Oxy-Powder and Survival Shield, were tested and found to be mostly placebos. This man credited
his forgetting the names of his children’s teachers to (*)​ eating a big bowl of chili for breakfast. John Oliver sold
“tactical assault wipes” for a million dollars when he parodied this man. For 10 points, name this proprietor of
infowars.com who claimed that chemicals were “turning the freaking frogs gay.”
ANSWER: ​Alex Jones

12. ​The numbers 528 and 491 are drawn out of one character’s mind and utilized in this film. A system of air
vents enabled the central group in this film to bypass a maze. A forger named Eames in this film is hired to
impersonate other people, and a chemist named Yusuf designs a strong (*)​ sedative. A train repeatedly haunts
the main character in this movie, which had led to the death of his wife. That woman, Mal, is an antagonist who tries
to divert the main character from his mission in this movie, which is to implant an idea into Fischer Jr.’s mind. For
10 points, name this 2010 Christopher Nolan film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb, who ventures into
dreams within dreams.
ANSWER: ​Inception

13. ​One of these was featured on Josh Wise’s NASCAR, and another appeared in Delta Airline’s
extraordinarily cringey safety video alongside a safety information card. Though the most famous
photograph of one of these entities was originally taken in 2010, it did not gain popularity until late 2013,
when it went on to become (*) ​Know Your Meme’s 2013 meme of the year. Facebook pages like Ping Pe La (this
meme) Co. spread love and joy through images of these. While one variant of them features broken english phrases
in multicoloured comic sans, more recent varieties feature phrases such as “sleep tight, (this meme)” and “study
well, (this meme)”. For 10 points, name these “borking” creatures, man’s best friend.
ANSWER: ​doge​ [​or​ ​doggo​ ​or​ ​pupper​ ​or​ ​woofer​ ​or​ ​pupperino​ ​or​ ​floofer​; grudgingly accept ​dog​]

14. ​This person worked as a youth dance instructor in London after finishing school, until a skiing accident
caused this person to miss three months of work and change jobs. This person’s influential hairstyle was
created by Sam McKnight at the spur of a moment after a ​Vogue​ shoot in 1990. In 1985 at a state dinner at
the White House, this person wore an off-the-shoulder midnight blue velvet evening gown dress and famously
danced with (*)​ John Travolta. This woman died while she was dating an Egyptian film producer; that occurred in
Paris in 1997 after a car accident involving paparazzi in a tunnel. For 10 points, name this most iconic woman in all
of history, the mother of Prince Harry and William and the wife of Prince Charles.
ANSWER: ​Diana​, Princess of Wales

15. ​A common part of this theory involves a man discussing how pasta affects his ability to play dominoes.
Reddit users espoused the idea that Andrew Bogut’s knee injury was related to him supporting this idea.
Many of the believers in this idea moved to Voat after a subreddit named for this theory was banned. This
theory comes from the laptop of a man who shares his name with a sausage as well as (*) ​Wikileaks. This
theory led to a man firing a weapon inside Comet Ping Pong. For 10 points, name this alt-right conspiracy theory
that states that John Podesta is behind a Satanic child trafficking ring among Washington D.C. elites.
ANSWER: ​pizzagate
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16. ​In August 2017, a doctor named Eugene Gu claimed that denying people access to these things could be
life-threatening, saying that it “effectively excludes them from potential life-saving information.” Andy Serkis
appeared on ​The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ​and read these things in his Gollum voice. A June 2016 one
of these mocked (*)​ Barack Obama for endorsing Hillary Clinton, to which Clinton responded with, “Delete your
account.” After Hurricane Sandy, a November 2012 one of these mocked global warming, calling cold temperatures
“Not good for flood victims!” The word “covfefe” was originally seen in, for 10 points, what motes of
communication by the 45th President of the United States?
ANSWER: Donald ​Trump’s tweets​ [prompt on partial answers, accept obvious equivalents]

17. ​In a scene in this movie, two characters ask a chef about grits before trying the food for the very first time.
A velvet burgundy suit features prominently in another memorable scene from this movie. An important
detail in this film is the exact year, make, color and model of the car two characters are driving: a green 1964
Buick (*)​ Skylark. The director of this film earned a law degree from Cambridge University, and many lawyers
have praised its depiction of the courtroom and trials. Marisa Tomei won her only Oscar for best supporting actress
for her portrayal of Mona Lisa Vito in this film. For 10 points, name this 1992 film in which a New York lawyer
played by Joe Pesci successfully defends his relative against a murder charge in Alabama.
ANSWER: ​My Cousin Vinny

18. ​In 2015, a 23-year-old British man experienced this phenomenon for eight years and refused to watch TV
or read newspapers to avoid further anxiety. Works of fiction which employ this phenomenon include ​Before
I Fall​ by Lauren Oliver, and in ​Men in Black III​, Agent J uses this process to defeat Boris in order to learn (*)
when to dodge his projectiles. In ​Doctor Strange​, the protagonist engages in this phenomenon using the Eye of
Agamotto to annoy Dormammu, and in perhaps the most famous instance of this phenomenon, Bill Murray gets
really tired of the song “I Got You Babe” on a certain holiday. For 10 points, identify this phenomenon analogous to
a video game save point in which a person repeats and re-experiences a temporal period over and over again.
ANSWER: being stuck in a ​time loop​ [description acceptable; accept ​déjà vu​ before “​Before I Fall​”​]

19.​ ​In 2015, a 23-year-old British man experienced this phenomenon for eight years… [gotcha!]
The Far Side cartoon inspired the creation of players in this game. Getting banned from this game by saying
an inappropriate word was considered a sport by many, with the record being 29 seconds. This game shares
many similarities with many other MMORPG games such as RuneScape, utilizing in-game currency to
purchase virtual items and pets known as (*)​ “puffles.” Popular mini-games include Mancala and “Hydro
Hopper.” An announcement was made that this game would be shut down in March of 2017. For 10 points, name
this popular Disney game in which players control flightless birds as they live in igloos and play on a snowy island.
ANSWER:​ ​Club Penguin

20. ​In ​Lilo and Stitch: The Series​, Experiment 360 resembles one of these creatures and is better known as
Drowsy. A spin-off of ​Wallace and Gromit ​features a bright one of these creatures and shenanigans with his
brethren on Mossy Bottom Farm. In one film, one of these creatures enjoys lattes with extra foam and is an
emotionless chemist extracting toxins from (*)​ night howlers. Another of these animals in that same film is the
diminutive mastermind behind the main plot who meets her downfall after being recorded by a carrot pen. Woody’s
love interest in ​Toy Story ​is a character accompanied by a three headed one of these animals. For 10 points, name
this ruminant exemplified by the chemist Doug and Mayor Bellwether in ​Zootopia​, an animal tended to by Bo Peep.
ANSWER: ​sheep​ [accept ​ram​ ​or ​ewe​]
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[TIE-BREAKER]: ​The theme music to this reality TV show was “Get Crazy” by LMFAO. One person on this
TV show popularized the abbreviation “G.T.L.,” meaning gym, tan, laundry. The United Kingdom has a
“geordie” spin-off of this American reality TV show. The people on this show, shot every summer in (*)
Seaside Heights, worked at a local T-shirt shop while spending most evenings at the local clubs getting totally
hammered. The term “guido” became revitalized by this reality show, which featured such personalities as “The
Situation” and Snooki. For 10 points, name this beachside MTV reality show, taking place in a coastal Mid-Atlantic
state.
ANSWER: ​Jersey Shore
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BONUSES:

1. Answer some things about blue people in film and television, for 10 points each:
[10] In this film set on the lush, habitable moon Pandora, characters portrayed by Sam Worthington and Sigourney
Weaver pose a threat to the local blue humanoids known as the Na’vi.
ANSWER: ​James Cameron’s ​Avatar
[10] In the X-Men franchise, two blue characters include Hank McCoy, known as Beast, and this other mutant who
has the ability to shapeshift. Give either her real name or her best known alias.
ANSWER: ​Raven​ Darkhölme​ [or ​Mystique​]
[10] At the start of season 2 of “Arrested Development,” this character portrayed by David Cross covered his entire
body in blue paint for a Blue Man performance, only to realize it was actually a support group for depressed dudes.
ANSWER: ​Tobias​ Fünke

2. Identify some advertising campaigns from a famous company, for 10 points each:
[10] GEICO’s commercials have pounded into the head of every viewer this 12-word phrase which gives a statistical
fact about their product.
ANSWER: “​Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.​” [must be exact]
[10] Many of GEICO’s commercials feature Maxwell, an anthropomorphic, tech-savvy, talking one of these
creatures who cries “wee, wee, wee.”
ANSWER: ​pig
[10] Maxwell first appeared in a series of commercials featuring rhetorical questions, such as one concerning the
nickname of this Dallas football player. In that commercial, a nurse says, “I’m just gonna guesstimate” after
breaking the stadiometer.
ANSWER: ​Ed​ “​Too Tall​” ​Jones​ [accept any underlined portion]

3. Name these silent video-game protagonists, for 10 points each:

[10] Infamous for his destruction of clay pots, this warrior from Hyrule wields the master sword and seeks to rescue
Princess Zelda.
ANSWER: ​Link
[10] This Seattle native with a PhD in Theoretical Physics from MIT was an employee of the Black Mesa Research
Facility and prefers using a crowbar when fighting headcrabs and members of the Combine.
ANSWER: ​Gordon Freemann
[10] Trapped in the Aperture Science Laboratories, this heroine wields an experimental portal gun in order to escape
the nefarious tests of GLaDOS and Wheatley.
ANSWER: ​Chell

4. Answer the following about some sci-fi movies that are really about love, for 10 points each:
[10] In this movie, viewers are lured into thinking they are watching a simple space voyage epic until Dr. Brand
begins to soliloquize about how love is the one thing that transcends time and space. By the end of this movie, the
protagonist finds that love is the key to communicating with his daughter and saving the world.
ANSWER: ​Interstellar
[10] In ​Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2​, Peter Quill is able to combat Ego and draw power from the planet only after
this blue character, Peter’s father figure, tells him the power of love.
ANSWER: ​Yondu​ Udonta
[10] In this third installment of a famous sci-fi franchise, Rama-Kandra tells Neo that love is just a word, but what is
behind that word is what matters. This is revealed to be the driving factor of the entire trilogy, despite the
overarching storyline of human enslavement in a virtual reality.
ANSWER: ​The ​Matrix Revolutions​ [prompt on partial answer]
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5. Variants of this game include the .com Edition, the 3D New York Edition and the Here and Now Edition. For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this iconic board game produced by Hasbro whose goal is drive all the other players into bankruptcy by
achieving the title economic concept.
ANSWER: ​Monopoly
[10] Players in Monopoly have the highest probability of being on this space which lies between Connecticut
Avenue and St. Charles Place.
ANSWER: ​Jail
[10] In order to buy hotels on both Baltic Avenue and Mediterranean Avenue, a player needs this much money,
since each house costs fifty dollars.
ANSWER: ​$500

6. Identify the following places referenced in popular music, for 10 points each:
[10] This Mediterranean island is known for its nightlife. Mike Posner “took a pill in” this island, and the final
single in Swedish House Mafia’s debut album is called “Miami 2” this island.
ANSWER: ​Ibiza
[10] Ian Hunter repeatedly shouts that this city “rocks” in a 1979 song. He was later given the keys to the city by its
mayor at the time, Dennis Kucinich.
ANSWER: ​Cleveland
[10] A Metallica song named after this road in downtown San Francisco says that this place is where "lunacy finds
you" and you "smash through the boundaries.”
ANSWER: ​Battery​ Street

7. Order in the court! For 10 points each, name the following television court shows:
[10] Judge Lynn Toler presides over this TV courtroom show in which married couples settle disputes arising from
the termination of their marriages.
ANSWER: ​Divorce Court
[10] A tough-talking former Manhattan family court judge presides over this TV courtroom drama, the longest
continuously-running show of its type.
ANSWER:​ ​Judge Judy
[10] Judge Marilyn Milian presides over this courtroom, which was parodied on SNL starring Alec Baldwin’s
impersonation of Donald Trump.
ANSWER: ​The People’s Court

8. Answer the following about the longest NBA playoff appearance droughts, for 10 points each:
[10] This team has a current playoff drought of 13 seasons. It retooled its roster this offseason with the additions of
Jimmy Butler, Jeff Teague, and Jamal Crawford.
ANSWER: ​Minnesota​ ​Timberwolves​ [accept either underlined portion]
[10] This other NBA team also has a current playoff drought of 11 seasons. DeMarcus Cousins played his entire
career here until he was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans.
ANSWER: ​Sacramento​ ​Kings​ [accept either underlined portion]
[10] This team had the NBA’s longest playoff appearance drought for 15 seasons from 1977-1991. This team also
has the NBA’s current longest conference finals drought of 47 years.
ANSWER: ​Los Angeles ​Clippers​ [prompt on ​Los Angeles​]
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9. Identify the following viral fads by their music, for 10 points each:
[10] This fad was based on a namesake song released by Baauer in 2013. This fad is epitomized by one person
dancing in a unique location which changes into a large group of dancers once the bass drops.
ANSWER: ​Harlem Shake
[10] Michelle Obama and the Cleveland Cavaliers iconically completed this viral fad in November 2016.
Participants in this fad are frozen in action to the Rae Sremmurd's song “Black Beatles.”
ANSWER: ​Mannequin Challenge
[10] Participants in this challenge would suction small cups to their mouth in order to flare a certain part of their
face. Thus, bruising around the mouth was a common side effect of this challenge.
ANSWER: ​Kylie Jenner Lip​ Challenge

10. Name some winter Olympic sports, for 10 points each:

[10] This sport similar to shuffleboard sees athletes push a stone across a sheet of ice while others follow it with
brooms in order to further influence its path.
ANSWER: ​curling
[10] Though not bobsleigh, competitors or two-person teams ride down a track on a flat sled in this sport.
Competitors lie face-up and feet first in this sport to achieve the fastest time.
ANSWER: ​luge
[10] This other form of sled racing sees competitors lie face-down and head-first on a heavier and thinner sled.
ANSWER: ​skeleton

11. Answer the following about Dick Wolf’s ​Law and Order ​franchise, for 10 points each:
[10] This spinoff follows Detective Olivia Benson as she investigates New York’s most heinous, sexually-based
offenses.
ANSWER:​ ​Law and Order​: ​S​pecial​ V​ictims​ U​nit
[10] This new spinoff series features dramatized versions of actual crimes. The first season focuses on the Menendez
Murders.
ANSWER: ​Law and Order: True Crime
[10] This comedian often jokes about ​Law and Order: SVU, ​taking note of Ice T’s perpetual cluelessness and the
vulgar use of language played on TV “in the middle of the afternoon” in his special “New in Town.”
ANSWER:​ ​John Mulaney

12. The cover art of this album depicts newsprint covering the artist’s face. For 10 points each:
[10] Name Taylor Swift’s first album since her album ​1989​, scheduled for release on November 10th.
ANSWER: ​Reputation
[10] This single, the first off ​Reputation​, includes references to Kanye West. The video shows T-Swizzle in a
bathtub full of diamonds.
ANSWER: “​Look What You Made Me Do​”
[10] Kanye fans use this emoji to criticize Tay-Tay. This animal was used to tease “Look What You Made Me Do.”
ANSWER: ​snake
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13. Identify some famous ​Jeopardy!​ contestants, for 10 points each:

[10] This man holds the record for the longest winning streak on ​Jeopardy!​, accruing over three million dollars in
2004 before being defeated by Nancy Zerg in his seventy-fifth appearance on the show.
ANSWER: Ken​ ​Jennings
[10] In 2011, this contestant competed in a multi-day exhibition match against Ken Jennings and the highest-earning
contestant Brad Rutter. He defeated them both, though he did have a bit of an advantage because of his four
terabytes of disk storage.
ANSWER: ​Watson
[10] This current long-time U.S. Senator from Arizona was a one-day champion on ​Jeopardy!​ in 1965 while the
show was hosted by Art Fleming.
ANSWER: John ​McCain

14. Answer some questions about a certain English rock band, for 10 points each:
[10] This band was formed after guitarist Jimmy Page split from The Yardbirds. This band got their name after
being rejected by a record company, which compared them to one of these
ANSWER: ​Led Zeppelin
[10] One of Led Zeppelin’s most popular songs is this song which features a guitar line in triple meter and drum and
vocals in duple meter. It is named after a region in India.
ANSWER: “​Kashmir​”
[10] Real string and horn players were used in recording Kashmir, but Led Zeppelin added to those parts by using
this electronic keyboard instrument invented in 1963, which can record and replay audio by pulling a magnetic tape
across a head.
ANSWER: the ​Mellotron

15. The first reference to this place appeared in Plato’s dialogues ​Timaeus​ and ​Critias​. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this island “beyond the Pillars of Hercules” which housed a powerful civilization which was destroyed
after the entire island sank.
ANSWER: ​Atlantis
[10] The discovery of what appears to be man-made walls underwater off the coast of Bimini gives credence to the
theory that Atlantis was actually sucked up by this other mysterious place known for the disappearance of aircraft of
ships within its bounds.
ANSWER: ​Bermuda Triangle​ [or ​Devil’s Triangle​]
[10] In 1958, Charles Hapgood theorized that Atlantis is actually located under ice here, in his book “Earth’s
Shifting Crust” with a foreword by Albert Einstein.
ANSWER: ​Antarctica

16. Name some of the fastest men alive, for 10 points each:
[10] This Jamaican sprinter is the only sprinter to have achieved the triple double. He did so by winning the
100-meter and 200-meter sprints at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympics.
ANSWER: Usain ​Bolt
[10] Hah! Did you think that this would be a sports bonus? Think again. Name this Scarlet Speedster from the DC
Universe. This mantle has been held by people like Barry Allen and Wally West.
ANSWER: The ​Flash
[10] This Guatemalan Speedster duo of Titans East must be in contact to achieve their top speeds.
ANSWER: ​Mas y Menos​ [or ​Tornado Twins​]
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17. Answer the following about some fictional planets in the solar system, for 10 points each:
[10] This planet lurking behind the Sun was supposed to hit the Earth on September 23, 2017, and it has been
projected to cause the apocalypse many times, first in May 2003. Its name derives from Babylonian astronomy.
ANSWER: ​Nibiru​ [prompt on ​Planet X​]
[10] This rogue planet that travels close to Earth is made of metal. The Autobots and Decepticons call it home.
ANSWER: ​Cybertron
[10] Many still insist that this is a planet in our solar system, but Neil Degrasse Tyson has assured me it is actually a
binary dwarf system.
ANSWER: ​134340 ​Pluto

18. Name the slogan given the food company, for 10 points each:
[10] A man with a deep voice says this slogan denoting the inclusion of protein in Arby’s meals.
ANSWER: “​We have the meats​”
[10] Subway’s advertising slogan is this two-word phrase telling customers that their food is not old.
ANSWER: “​Eat Fresh​”
[10] Papa John's uses this four-word advertising slogan to compare their products and materials used to make their
products to competitors.
ANSWER: “​Better ingredients. Better pizza​”

19. Answer some questions about stick figure comics, for 10 points each
[10] This “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” has a name which is unpronounceable, forcing
readers to say each letter individually.
ANSWER: ​xkcd
[10] This dark humor webcomic has three authors and is hosted on explosm.net. It has featured the man who could
sit anywhere and the 50 mile an hour man.
ANSWER: ​Cyanide and Happiness
[10] The stick figure webcomic Cardboard Crack is based on this notoriously addictive trading card game
ANSWER: ​Magic​: the Gathering

20. Answer the following about baseball stadiums around the US, for 10 points each:
[10] This indoor stadium previously known as the Astros Field has a decorative train that goes around the ballpark
and a raised area of turf in center field beyond the warning track known as Tal’s Hill.
ANSWER: ​Minute Maid Park
[10] This baseball stadium features recently-constructed seating called Mount Davis. It was named one of the worst
stadiums in baseball because its dual use as a football stadium makes for a very large amount of foul territory.
ANSWER: Oakland-Alameda County ​Coliseum
[10] This stadium which reopened in 2009 is located in the Bronx. Derek Jeter hit a solo home run in this stadium as
his 3000th hit.
ANSWER: ​Yankee Stadium