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QUESTION # 1GEMS

WHAT KIND OF GEM IS THE 563 CARAT STAR OF INDIA?

ANSWER # 1

SAPPHIRE

QUESTION # 26, 4, 2

•BARONESS OF KESTEVEN•THE IRON LADY

•BRITISH PRIME MINISTER 1979-1990

ANSWER # 2

MARGARET THATCHER

QUESTION # 3QUOTES

TRANSLATING FROM THE BHAGAVAD GITA, WHO

FAMOUSLY SAID, “NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, THE

DESTROYER OF THE WORLDS”?

ANSWER # 3

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

QUESTION # 4THEATRE3-PARTER

WHAT WERE SHAKESPEARE’S THREE

PLAYS WITH TWO PEOPLE NAMED IN THE TITLE?

ANSWER # 4

•ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

•ROMEO AND JULIET•TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

QUESTION # 5WORLD CAPITALS

THE HIGHEST ALTITUDE CAPITAL CITY IN

EUROPE IS IN WHAT COUNTRY?

ANSWER # 5

ANDORRA

QUESTION # 6NAME THE

MINISERIES AND THE THEME

IT

SALEM’S LOT

THE TOMMYKNOCKERS

STORM OF THE CENTURY

THE STAND

ANSWER # 6

BASED ON STEPHEN

KING’S WORK

QUESTION # 7COMIC STRIPS

SADIE HAWKINS DAY AND DANCES

ORIGINATED WITH WHAT COMIC STRIP?

ANSWER # 7

QUESTION # 8U.S. PRESIDENTS

4-PARTER

WHAT FOUR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS RAN

UNSUCCESSFULLY FOR REELECTION ON THIRD-PARTY

TICKETS?

ANSWER # 8

JOHN TYLERMARTIN VAN BURENMILLARD FILLMORE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

QUESTION # 9GOLF

WHO WAS THE FIRST US-BORN WINNER OF

GOLF'S BRITISH OPEN?

ANSWER # 9

WALTER HAGEN

QUESTION # 10 MUSIC

3-PARTER

NAME THE ARTIST, SONG TITLE AND U.S. RELEASE YEAR +/- 1

OF THE FOLLOWING SONG

ANSWER # 10

2002

HalfTime

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QUESTION # 11THE BODY HUMAN

CIRCADIAN DYSRHYTHMIA IS

BETTER KNOWN BY WHAT NAME?

ANSWER # 11

JET LAG

QUESTION # 12MOVIES

4-PARTER

WHICH FIVE MOVIES HAVE WON THE BEST ACTOR

AND SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCARS?

ANSWER # 12

GOING MY WAYTHE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

BEN-HUR MYSTIC RIVER

THE DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

QUESTION # 13RELIGION

WHICH ROMAN EMPEROR MADE THE CROSS THE

OFFICIAL SYMBOL OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH?

ANSWER # 13

CONSTANTINE

QUESTION # 14COMIC BOOKS

6-PARTER

WHAT SIX CHARACTERS HAVE TAKEN UP THE MANTLE OF ROBIN?

ANSWER # 14

• DICK GRAYSON• JASON TODD• TIM DRAKE

• STEPHANIE BROWN• DAMIAN WAYNE• CARRIE KELLY

QUESTION # 15TV

MIKE ROWE IS THE HOST OF WHAT NEW

SHOW ON CNN?

ANSWER # 15

QUESTION # 16

NAME THE STATES

ILLINOIS

FLORIDA

OREGON

LOUISIANA

MONTANA

QUESTION # 17TENNIS

IN 1968, WHICH AMERICAN PLAYER WON THE 1ST U.S.

OPEN IN WHICH PROFESSIONALS WERE

ALLOWED TO COMPETE?

ANSWER # 17

ARTHUR ASHE

QUESTION # 18MUSIC

5-PARTER

WHO ARE THE FIVE MEMBERS OF THE

BACKSTREET BOYS?

ANSWER # 18

A. J. MCLEAN HOWIE DOROUGH

NICK CARTER KEVIN RICHARDSON

BRIAN LITTRELL

QUESTION # 19FLAGS

THE QUETZAL CAN BE FOUND ON THE FLAG OF WHAT COUNTRY?

ANSWER # 19

GUATEMALA

QUESTION # 20BET UP TO 15 POINTS

GEOLOGY

WE ARE CURRENTLY IN WHAT GEOLOGICAL

EPOCH?

ANSWER # 20

HOLOCENE

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TIEBREAKER

HOW MANY ATHLETES COMPETED

IN THE 1900 OLYMPICS?

ANSWER

997