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TriviaMaryland WorldSeries XXV
•Prizes•1st- $1000•2nd- $400•3rd- $300•4th- $200•5th- $100
TeamsFear the Crab
Marksmen
Infinity
Run Over by a Puffin
We Are Family
Switchers
I Like Beer
What the Farq
Luigi’s Better
Wizard of Odz
No Worse Than Last
Age & Treachery
MC Plus
We Named the Dog Indiana
QUESTION # 1 ACTORS AND THEIR ROLES
• IN HIS LONG CAREER ACTOR SEAN CONNERY
HAS ONLY BEEN NOMINATED FOR ONE
ACADEMY AWARD. WHAT FILM WAS IT FOR ?
ANSWER # 1
•BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING
ROLE
•1987
•HE ALSO WON
QUESTION # 2U.S. NAVY2 PARTER
•WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE NAVY’S TWO CURRENT HOSPITAL
SHIPS ?
ANSWER # 2
•U.S.S. MERCY
•U.S.S. COMFORT
QUESTION # 3ANIMALS
•FISH OF WHAT SPECIES ARE THE STATE FISH OF A RECORD 19 U.S.
STATES ?
ANSWER # 3
• TROUT (BASS IS 2ND WITH
16)
QUESTION # 4 TRACK & FIELD-4 PARTER
• SINCE 1935 UNTIL THE PRESENT FOUR AMERICAN MEN HAVE HELD THE LONG
JUMP WORLD RECORD. WHO ARE THE FOUR MEN ?
ANSWER # 4
• JESSIE OWENS (1935-1960)
• RALPH BOSTON (1960-1968)
• BOB BEAMAN (1968-1991)
• MIKE POWELL (1991-PRESENT)
QUESTION # 5MYTHOLOGY
• WHAT CHARACTER FROM SLAVIC FOLKLORE FLIES
AROUND ON A GIANT MORTAR, KIDNAPS AND
PRESUMABLY EATS SMALL CHILDREN AND LIVES IN A HUT
THAT STANDS ON CHICKEN LEGS ?
ANSWER # 5
•BABA YAGA
QUESTION # 6
•NAME THE CHARACTERS
ANDY PANDA
MASTER SPLINTERTEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
HELLO KITTY
KRATOSGOD OF WAR (VIDEO GAME)
CHIM CHIMSPEED RACER
QUESTION # 7ART
•WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL WAS THE 18TH CENTURY
ARTIST GEORGE STUBBS FAMOUS FOR
PAINTING ?
ANSWER # 7
•HORSES
QUESTION # 8U.S. POLITICS
2 PARTER• WHICH TWO U.S. STATES WITH THREE ELECTORAL VOTES EACH, BOTH BORDER ON THREE STATES WITH THREE ELECTORAL VOTES EACH ? (ONE OF THEIR THREE IS
EACH OTHER)
ANSWER # 8
• SOUTH DAKOTA
• MONTANA
QUESTION # 9THE MOVIES
•WHAT IS THE BETTER KNOWN NAME FOR
THE MOVIE CHARACTER JOHAN
VAN DER SMUT ?
ANSWER # 9
•GOLDMEMBER
QUESTION # 10 MUSIC
2 PARTER
•RECORDED IN 2008 FOR A SOUND TRACK
ALBUM, WHAT TWO PEOPLE ARE SINGING
THIS DUET ?
ANSWER # 10
• FOR THE FILM “BOLT”
• TITLED: I THOUGHT I LOST YOU
• MILEY CYRUS
• JOHN TRAVOLTA
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QUESTION # 11INSECTS
•THE LEAVES OF WHAT FRUIT TREE PROVIDE THE STAPLE DIET OF
A SILKWORM ?
ANSWER # 11
•MULBERRY TREE
QUESTION # 12 N.A.S.A.
3 PARTER
• WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE THREE ROVERS THE U.S. HAS LAUNCHED TO MARS SINCE THE YEAR
2000 ?
ANSWER # 12
• CURIOUSITY (LAUNCHED NOVEMBER 26, 2011)
• OPPORTUNITY (LAUNCHED JULY 7, 2003)
• SPIRIT (LAUNCHED JUNE 10, 2003)
QUESTION # 13 FAMOUS QUOTES
• “TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE DEVINE”, “A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING” AND “FOOLS RUSH IN
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD” ARE QUOTES FROM A FAMOUS ESSAY WRITTEN BY
WHO ?
ANSWER # 13
• TITLED: AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM
QUESTION # 14THE MOVIES
CRAZY EIGHTS
• IN THE 1990’s BRUCE WILLIS ACTED IN TEN FILMS THAT REACHED THE TOP SPOT AT THE U.S. BOX OFFICE. CAN YOU NAME EIGHT OF
THEM ?
ANSWER # 14• THE SIXTH
SENSE • ARMAGEDDON • THE FIFTH
ELEMENT • THE JACKAL • 12 MONKEYS• PULP FICTION
•
• DIE HARD: WITH A
VENGENANCE
• STRIKING DISTANCE
• DEATH BECOMES HER
• DIE HARD 2
QUESTION # 15 MUSIC
•WHAT TWO TIME ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED
ACTOR SANG THIS SONG ON “ALLY McBEAL: A VERY ALLY CHRISTMAS” IN 2000
ANSWER # 15
•TITLED: RIVER
•ROBERT DOWNEY
JR.
QUESTION # 16
•WHO ARE WE ?
JILL KELLEY????
MOHAMMED MORSIPRESIDENT OF EYGPT
SUSAN RICEU.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N.
BAN KI-MOONU.N. SECRETARY GENERAL
MALALA YOUSUFZAIEDUCATION ACTIVIST
QUESTION # 17TV
• WHO WAS THE HOST OF THE SHORT LIVED 2005 SPIN OFF OF
DONALD TRUMP’S TV SHOW “THE APPRENTICE” THAT USED THE CATCH PHRASE “YOU JUST
DON’T FIT IN” INSTEAD OF “YOU’RE FIRED” ?
ANSWER # 17
QUESTION # 18 ISLANDS2 PARTER
•OF THE TEN LARGEST ISLANDS IN THE WORLD,
PARTS OF WHAT TWO COUNTRIES ARE FOUND
ON THREE OF THEM ?
ANSWER # 18
• INDONESIA (NEW GUINEA, BORNEO,
SUMATRA)
•CANADA (BAFFIN, VICTORIA, ELLESMERE
ISLANDS)
QUESTION # 19THE COMICS
• What comic strip followed the Freeman
family as they adjusted to life in the suburban
neighborhood of Woodcrest, Md.
ANSWER # 19
• FIRST APPEARED IN THE “DIAMONDBACK”, THE NEWSPAPER OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
QUESTION # 20BET UP TO 15 POINTS
• THE ONLY TIME IN U.S. HISTORY THERE WERE 21
STARS ON OUR FLAG WAS A ONE YEAR PERIOD AFTER WHAT STATE JOINED THE
UNION IN 1818 ? (THE STAR WAS ADDED ON JULY 4, 1819)
ANSWER # 20
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TIEBREAKER
•ACCORDING TO WORLD BOOK, IN
SQUARE MILES, WHAT IS THE LAND AREA OF
RHODE ISLAND ?
ANSWER
•1,045 SQUARE
MILES