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Teams• Fear the Crab

• Infinity• New York Necks• Nana’s Bananas• Pants Peers• Marksmen

• Morgan Station• Blind Squirrels

• We Ate Before We Came

• Run Over by a Puffin• Age & Treachery• No Worse Than Last• Hoof Hearted• Pella People• Pinot Envy

TriviaMaryland WorldSeries XXIV•Prizes

•1st- $1000•2nd- $400•3rd- $300•4th- $200•5th- $100

QUESTION # 1QUOTATIONS

•WHAT FRENCH PHILOSOPHER

WROTE “I THINK THEREFORE I AM” ?

ANSWER # 1

•RENE DESCARTES

QUESTION # 2U.S. PRESIDENTS

4 PARTER

• WHO WERE THE LAST FOUR SITTING U.S.

PRESIDENTS TO LOSE IN THEIR BID FOR REELECTION ?

ANSWER # 2• GEORGE H.W. BUSH (LOST TO

BILL CLINTON)• JIMMY CARTER (LOST TO

RONALD REAGAN)• GERALD FORD (LOST TO

JIMMY CARTER)• HERBERT HOOVER (LOST

TO F.D.R.)

QUESTION # 3BASEBALL

•Who played the most regular-season major league games, without

ever playing a post-season game?

ANSWER # 3

•2,528 GAMES•Ernie Banks

QUESTION # 4ANIMALS-2 PARTER

• WHAT ARE THE TWO LARGEST & HEAVIEST SPECIES IN THE

DOLPHIN FAMILY ?• Kingdom:Animalia, Division:

chordata, Class:mammalia, Order:Cetacea, Family:Delphinidae

ANSWER # 4

•KILLER WHALES•PILOT WHALES

QUESTION # 5TV

• THIS VAN CALLED “THE MYSTERY MACHINE” WAS FEATURED ON

WHAT HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON SERIES ?

ANSWER # 5

QUESTION # 6

•WHAT ARE WE ?

OCARINA

TELSTAR

ALPHORN

THEREMIN

DREAMCATCHERS

JACOB’S LADDER

QUESTION # 7MUSIC

•SINCE 2000 WHAT IS THE ONLY BILLBOARD

HOT 100 #1 SONG WITH A CITY NAME IN

ITS TITLE ?

ANSWER # 7

•2006•BY FERGIE

QUESTION # 8 WORLD GEOGRAPHY

4 PARTER•WHICH FOUR COUNTRIES

MAKE UP THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF THEIR

HOME CONTINENTS ?

ANSWER # 8• 90%- AUSTRALIA (OCEANIA)

• 48%- BRAZIL (SOUTH AMERICA)

• 44%- CANADA (NORTH AMERICA)

• 43%- UNITED STATES (NORTH AMERICA)

QUESTION # 9GAMES

• IBM RS/6000 COMPUTER (DEEP BLUE) WAS USED

TO DEFEAT WHAT WORLD CHESS

CHAMPION IN 1997 ?

ANSWER # 9

•GARRY KASPAROV

QUESTION # 10THE MOVIES-4 PARTER

• IN ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY THERE HAVE ONLY BEEN FIVE FILMS THAT

WERE NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE OSCAR THAT HAVE A U.S. STATE IN ITS TITLE. CAN YOU NAME FOUR OF THEM ? (WHETHER IT IS IN A STATE CONTEXT OR NOT)

ANSWER # 10

• IN OLD ARIZONA (1929)• GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002)• MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)• WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA

WOLFE (1966)• MR. SMITH GOES TO

WASHINGTON (1939)

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QUESTION # 11MUSICAL NURSERY RYHMES

• WHAT NURSERY RHYME WAS EXTENDED AND

EMBELLISHED BY ELLA FITZGERALD INTO A JAZZ PIECE WHICH WAS HER

BREAKTHROUGH HIT IN 1938 ?

ANSWER # 11• A-tisket a-tasket

• A green and yellow basket• I wrote a letter to my love• And on the way I dropped it• I dropped it,I dropped it

• And on the way I dropped it• A little boy he picked it up and put it in

his pocket.

QUESTION # 12 WORLD GEOGRAPHY

4 PARTER•WHAT ARE THE FOUR

MAINLAND AFRICAN COUNTRIES THAT BEGIN WITH THE

LETTER “B” ?

ANSWER # 12

•BENIN•BOTSWANA•BURUNDI

•BURKINA FASO

QUESTION # 13THE MOVIES

•WHAT CHARACTER DID ACTOR PETER OSTRUM PORTRAY IN 1971 AND FREDDIE HIGHMORE

PLAY IN 2005 ?

ANSWER # 13•CHARLIE BUCKET

QUESTION # 14 THE OLYMPICS

3 PARTER•WHO ARE THE THREE

WOMEN THAT HAVE WON THE 100 METER

DASH IN BACK TO BACK OLYMPIC GAMES ?

ANSWER # 14

• SHELLY-ANN FRASER (2008,2012)

•GAIL DEVERS (1992,1996)•WYOMIA TYUS

(1964,1968)

QUESTION # 15WORLD LEADERS

•WHO WAS THE ONLY WORLD LEADER TO

SIGN BOTH SALT ARMS CONTROL

TREATIES ?

ANSWER # 15

•LEONID BREZHNEV

QUESTION # 16

•WHO ARE WE ?

ROBIN WILLIAMS

WHITNEY HOUSTON

GARY SINESE

RUSSELL BRAND

PARIS HILTON

SEAN CONNERY

QUESTION # 17LITERATURE

• WHAT LITERARY TITLE CHARACTER’S WEDDING IS

INTERRUPTED AT THE ALTAR BY A LAWYER’S REVELATION

THAT THE GROOM IS ALREADY MARRIED TO BERTHA MASON ?

ANSWER # 17

QUESTION # 18 MAGAZINES

4 PARTER• IN 1993 TIME MAGAZINE GAVE ITS PERSON OF THE

YEAR AWARD TO “THE PEACEMAKERS”

REPRESENTED BY WHAT FOUR MEN ?

ANSWER # 18

•NELSON MANDELA•F.W. de KLERK•YASSER ARAFAT•YITZHAK RABIN

QUESTION # 19SCIENCE

•WHAT DID SIR ISAAC NEWTON DEFINE BY

MULTIPLYING AN OBJECT’S MASS BY ITS

VELOCITY ?

ANSWER # 19• ITS MOMENTUM

QUESTION # 20BET UP TO 15 POINTS

•What team is the oldest continuous, one-name,

one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883 ?

ANSWER # 20

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TIEBREAKER

• WHAT WAS THE POPULATION OF BEDROCK

AS SHOWN IN THE OPENING CREDITS OF THE

TV SHOW “THE FLINTSTONES” ?

ANSWER