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QUIZ BOWLING

A Perfect 300 Game

Questions and Answers
For Fun and Friendly Competition

By

W. A. Robison

2010

Rules and Introduction
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Rules and Introduction

This is a three-game free sample for the Kindle book, Quiz Bowling: A Perfect 300 Game available for sale at Amazon.com.

Scoring: The game consists of four rounds. In the first round, there is no time limit, and each of the ten questions is worth five points each. In the second round, all answers are related to a single category and the ten questions are again worth five points each, but there is a 60-second time limit to answer all questions in the round. The third round is similar to the second. Again, there is a 60-second time limit, and the ten questions are worth five points each, but the answers are related by word structure and not by topic. The fourth round begins with five toss-up questions worth 10 points each. For each of the toss-up questions you answer correctly, you can earn up to twenty bonus points. (There are four bonus questions related to each of the toss-up topics, and each bonus question is worth five points.) A perfect game is worth 300 points: (1) 50 points for Round One, (2) 50 points for Round Two, (3) 50 points for Round Three, and, (4) 150 points for Round Four.

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Table of Contents

Rules and Introduction
Game One
Game Two
Game Three

Free Game One: Round One
Mixed Bag

Directions: For five points each, answer the following questions:

1. Mythology: According to myth, Daedalus fashioned wings so he and his son could fly to safety. From what island were they escaping?

2. Physics: What is the SI temperature scale?

3. Punctuation: What punctuation can replace a comma and a coordinating conjunction in joining two independent clauses?

4. History: In what century did Marco Polo accompany his father and his uncle on a trip to the court of Kublai Khan?

5. Famous Americans: What politician is known for his "Cross of Gold" speech?

6. Music: What term describes a solo instrumental piece that may be performed but is used primarily to improve the technique of the student?

7. Television: On the X-Files, what government agency did Scully and Mulder work for?

8. Poetry: The first poet to win three Pulitzer Prizes for poetry gave us characters such as "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy." Who is he?

9. Islands: In what body of water are the Apostle Islands found?

10. Religion: What name is given to the seven-branched candelabrum in Judaism, the light from which symolizes the presence of God within the temple?

Answers

Free Game One: Round Two
Category: Vice-Presidents

Directions: Name the Vice President from the informtion given. Complete all answers within 60 seconds. Each correct answer is worth five points.

1. FDR's first Vice-President

2. Lincoln's first Vice-President

3. Jefferson's first Vice-President

4. Ford's Vice-President

5. Carter's Vice-President

6. John Quincy Adams's Vice-President

7. Truman's Vice-President

8. Cleveland's (second term) Vice-President

9. Nixon's first Vice-President

10. Tyler's Vice-President

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Free Game One: Round Three
Letter Perfect

Directions: Oh, Man! -- All answers will contain the letters M-A-N in order, but in none of them will it refer to a male human; that is, there will be no answers such as mailman or taxman. Complete all answers within 60 seconds. Each correct answer is worth five points.

1. Jordan's capital

2. Painter of The Luncheon on the Grass

3. Pertinent and fitting

4. Annual reference book

5. The science of meaning in language

6. Navy's equivalent of a lieutenant colonel

7. The last Russian dynasty

8. Hobart's state

9. Number 7 for the Yankees

10. Newt

Answers

Free Game One: Round Four
Toss-Up + Bonus

Directions: In this section, you will be given five toss-up questions from a variety of categories. Each correct answer is now worth ten points. In addition, for each correct answer, you can earn up to twenty bonus points by answering a series of related questions.

1. Shakespeare: Most of Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona, but what is the name of the town to which Romeo is banished?

2. Tourism: If you're staying in a seaside village on the Dalmatian coast, what sea do you hope is visible from your balcony?

3. Sports: What major league baseball team plays its home games in their park at Camdem Yards?

4. American History: What two current New England states were not separate colonies at the time of the American Revolution?

5. Words: What is the more common name of the religious experience known as glossolalia?

Answers

Free Game One: Round One
Answers

1. Crete

2. The Kelvin scale

3. Semicolon

4. Thirteenth Century (departed in 1271)

5. William Jennings Bryan

6. Ètude

7. The F.B.I.

8. Edwin Arlington Robinson

9. Lake Superior

10. Menorah

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Free Game One: Round Two
Answers

1. (John Nance) Garner

2. (Hannibal) Hamlin

3. (Aaron) Burr

4. (Nelson) Rockefeller

5. (Walter) Mondale

6. (John C.) Calhoun

7. (Alben W.) Barkley

8. (Adlai E.) Stevenson (Grandfather of the 1950's Presidential candidate)

9. (Spiro) Agnew

10. None (There was no provision for filling an empty Vice-Presidency until the ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967.)

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Free Game One: Round Three
Answers

1. Amman

2. Manet

3. Germane

4. Almanac

5. Semantics

6. Commander

7. Romanov

8. Tasmania

9. Mantle

10. Salamander

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Free Game One: Round Four
Answers + Bonus Questions

One: Mantua: For five bonus points each, identify each of these "places" in Shakespeare's plays:

1. Shylock's city

2. Timon's city

3. The forest in As You Like It

4. Site of Brutus's death

Two: The Adriatic: For five bonus points each, name the body of water on which each of the following tourist destinations is found:

1. Montreux, Switzerland

2. Blackpool, England

3. Sochi, Russia

4. Sharm El Sheik, Egypt

Three: Baltimore Orioles: For five bonus points each, answer the following questions about the Orioles:

1. In what division of what league do the Orioles compete (as of 2010)?

2. He pitched a perfect game in the World Series, but two years earlier he had lost 21 games while pitching for the Orioles. Who was this pitcher?

3. Jim Palmer and Brooks Robinson are two of the three Hall of Famers who played their entire careers with the Baltimore Orioles. Who is the third Hall of Famer?

4. In what decade of the 20th century did the team move from St. Louis to Baltimore?

Four: Vermont and Maine: For five bonus points each, identify the "original colony" from the information given:

1. John Rolfe's home colony

2. Colony directly north of the Mason-Dixon line

3. Colony of the "Toleration Act" of 1649

4. Last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution

Five: "Speaking in Tongues": For five bonus points each, identify the correct word from the brief definition. All your answers will begin with the letter G and will include a double S:

1. A sliding ballet step

2. A unit of magnetic induction named for a German mathematician

3. Plaster of Paris, as used in painting

4. Technical terms published as an appendix to a work

Bonus Answers

Free Game One: Round Four
Bonus Answers

Bonus One

1. Venice

2. Athens

3. Arden

4. (The Plains of) Philippi

Bonus Two

1. Lake Geneva

2. Irish Sea

3. Black Sea

4. Red Sea

Bonus Three

1. East Division of the American League

2. Don Larsen

3. Cal Ripken, Jr.

4. The 1950's

Bonus Four

1. Virginia

2. Pennsylvania

3. Maryland

4. Rhode Island

Bonus Five

1. Glissade

2. Gauss

3. Gesso

4. Glossary

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Free Game Two: Round One
Mixed Bag

Directions: For five points each, answer the following questions:

1. States: Alabama and Louisiana are two states that have postal code abbreviations that are the reverse of each other (AL and LA). Name the only other pair of states with reverse postal codes.

2. People: One is the host of public radio's This American Life. The other is one of the most influential composers of the last fifty years. Name these two cousins.

3. Musicals: What character says, "The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated"?

4. The Civil War: General Grant was not at the Battle of Gettysburg. Where was Grant at that time?

5. Literature: In what historical romance do you find the characters Sir Brian De Bois Gilbert, Sir Cedric, and Lady Rowena?

6. Awards: Since the year 2000, one performer has won the Country Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award four times. Who is this singer?

7. The Human Body: In which organ of the body are the Isles (or Islets) of Langerhans found?

8. Law: What Latin term is used to mean "friend of the court" and refers to individuals or groups who give advice in cases in which they are not involved?

9. Royalty: Who preceded Victoria as ruler of England?

10. Business: As of 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was the youngest billionaire in the world. His fortune was made from a venture he co-founded in 2004. What is it?

Answers

Free Game Two: Round Two
Category: He Said, She Said

Directions: Complete all answers within 60 seconds. Each correct answer is worth five points. In which novel does...

1. ...One hen remark to another: "Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days"?

2. ...Brett say: "Oh, Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together"?

3. ...Lennie say: "Come on, George. Tell me. Please, George. Like you done before"?

4. ...Daisy say: "I can't say I never loved Tom.... It wouldn't be true"?

5. ...Beatty say: ""Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean"?

6. ...Uriah say: "When I was quite a young boy, I got to know what umbleness did, and I took to it"?

7. ...Dill tell Jem: "There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off"?

8. ...Rahim Khan say: "It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things"

9. ...Darcy tell Elizabeth: "I have no wish of denying that I did every thing in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success"?

10. ...Silas say: "The money’s gone I don’t know where, and this is come from I don’t know where"

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Free Game Two: Round Three
Letter Perfect

Directions: G-Whiz: Each of the answers will begin and end with the letter G, but there are no answers ending in -ing. Complete all answers within 60 seconds. Each correct answer is worth five points.

1. Second female Supreme Court justice

2. Word associated with the Soviet penal labor camp system

3. A weak alcoholic drink usually associated with sailors

4. A multi-pronged spear used for hunting frogs

5. First Yankee player to win the batting Triple Crown

6. A restraint used to prevent someone from calling for help

7. Number One on A&E's 100 most influential people of the Millenium

8. Last of the Ring Cycle

9. One who goes on and on about nothing

10. Site of Eisenhower's retirement farm

Answers

Free Game Two: Round Four
Toss-Up + Bonus

Directions: In this section, you will be given five toss-up questions from a variety of categories. Each correct answer is now worth ten points. In addition, for each correct answer, you can earn up to twenty bonus points by answering a series of related questions.

1. Cities: Name two of the three largest cities in New Zealand.

2. Baseball: In scoring a baseball game, which player is the number 5?

3. The Oscars: Who was the only posthumous winner of an acting Oscar?

4. Words: What is the last word in the Arlen and Mercer song, "One For My Baby?

5. Fruits and Vegetables: Traditionally, what are the two main ingredients of succotash?

Answers

Free Game Two: Round One
Answers

1. New Mexico and Minnesota

2. Ira and Philip Glass

3. Eliza Doolittle

4. (The Siege of) Vicksburg

5. Ivanhoe

6. Kenny Chesney

7. Pancreas

8. Amicus Curiae

9. William IV

10. Facebook

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Free Game Two: Round Two
Answers

1. Animal Farm

2. The Sun Also Rises

3. Of Mice and Men

4. The Great Gatsby

5. Fahrenheit 451

6. David Copperfield

7. To Kill a Mockingbird

8. The Kite Runner

9. Pride and Prejudice

10. Silas Marner

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Free Game Two: Round Three
Answers

1. Ginsburg

2. Gulag

3. Grog

4. Gig

5. Gehrig

6. Gag

7. Gutenberg

8. Götterdämmerung

9. Gasbag

10. Gettysburg

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Free Game Two: Round Four
Answers + Bonus Questions

One: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch (any two) : In each of the following items, you are given the largest city in a country; you name the second largest city:

1. Oslo, Norway

2. Shanghai, China

3. Johannesburg, South Africa

4. Kabul, Afghanistan

Two: The third baseman: For five bonus points each, identify each of these famous third basemen from the information given:

1. The highest paid player in the majors (as of 2010)

2. Pirate third baseman who was the first at this position to become a Hall of Famer

3. Slugging third baseman for the Phillies voted National League MVP three times

4. Kansas City Royals third basemen who has more career hits than any other player at this position

Three: Peter Finch (for Network): For five bonus points each, answer the following questions about Network:

1. What was the name of the character played by Peter Finch?

2. For what (fictional) network was he the news anchor?

3. After being reinstated to his job as anchor, what does he tell people to yell out their windows?

4. What actress won the Oscar for playing his ruthless programming boss?

Four: "Road": For five bonus points each, identify each of the following titles that contain the word Road:

1. A graphic novel by Max Allan Collins made into a 2002 movie with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman

2. Willie Nelson song that is part of the soundtrack for Honeysuckle Rose

3. The final "road movie" with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby

4. The theme song to "National Lampoon's Vacation"

Five: Corn and Lima Beans : Each of your answers will be a fruit or vegetable. For five points each, identify the correct term from the definition given:

1. A fight that breaks out during a baseball game

2. Racquet sport played on a four-walled court

3. Transverse ocarina

4. IPad maker

Bonus Answers

Free Game Two: Round Four
Bonus Answers

Bonus One

1. Bergen

2. Beijing

3. Cape Town

4. Kandahar

Bonus Two

1. Alex Rodriguez

2. Pie Traynor

3. Mike Schmidt

4. George Brett

Bonus Three

1. Howard Beale

2. Union Broadcasting System (UBS)

3. "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore."

4. Faye Dunaway

Bonus Four

1. Road to Perdition

2. "On the Road Again"

3. The Road to Hong Kong

4. "Holiday Road"

Bonus Five

1. Rhubarb

2. Squash

3. Sweet potato

4. Apple

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Free Game Three: Round One
Mixed Bag

Directions: For five points each, answer the following questions:

1. Canada: What is Canada's most populous province?

2. Short Stories: What Christmas gift does Della give to Jim in O'Henry's "Gift of the Magi"?

3. Football: Which member of an N.F.L. officiating crew is charged with "general oversight and control of the game"?

4. Colleges: What's missing from the following list? Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar

5. Museums: The building that houses the Musée d'Orsay has at times in the past been used as a hotel and as a setting for movies. But how was the building used for the first forty years after it was completed in 1900?

6. People: By what more familiar name is the man born Karol Wojtyla known?

7. The Fifty States: How many U. S. states border Lake Huron?

8. Opera: For what Shakespearean character was Verdi's last opera named?

9. U. S. Government: What number of Representatives must vote for a bill in order for it to pass?

10. Authors: What does either e stand for in the name of the poet e. e. cummings?

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Free Game Three: Round Two
Category: Africa

Directions: Complete all answers within 60 seconds. Each correct answer is worth five points. Name the African nation...

1. ...that was home to the great marathoner, Abebe Bikila.

2. ...in which the "Raid on Entebbe" took place.

3. ...that was the home of the late King Hassan II and is the home of his son King Mohammed VI.

4. ...in which the ancient city of Timbuktu is located.

5. ...that is home to Gombe Stream National Park, the site of much of Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees.

6. ...that was once called Northern Rhodesia.

7. ...that is the setting for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

8. ...that is the home country of the convicted Lockerbie bomber.

9. ...in which bone fragments of the Australopithecus afarensis called Lucy were found.

10. ...that is the setting for The Flame Trees of Thika.

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Free Game Three: Round Three
Letter Perfect

Directions: All answers contain the letter S three or more times. No answer begins with an S, and there are no plurals. Complete all answers within 60 seconds. Each correct answer is worth five points.

1. Nine-tenths of the law

2. X coordinate of a point in a Cartesian coordinate system

3. Drummer or xylophonist

4. Charles Guiteau or Leon Czolgosz, e.g.

5. Word found in the traditional English version of the Lord's Prayer

6. Local government official who determines the value of taxable property

7. Mythical lover of his own image

8. Minoan site near Heraklion

9. Optimist's opposite

10. Montaigne, Voltaire, or Emerson, e.g.

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Free Game Three: Round Four
Toss-Up + Bonus

Directions: In this section, you will be given five toss-up questions from a variety of categories. Each correct answer is now worth ten points. In addition, for each correct answer, you can earn up to twenty bonus points by answering a series of related questions.

1. The Movies: Name the 1970 movie, based on a book by Richard Hooker, with a screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr., and directed by Robert Altman, that spawned one of the most successful television series ever.

2. The National Parks: Almost anyone could guess that if you get a room at the Old Faithful Inn, you will be staying in Yellowstone National Park. But, in what park will you be staying if you have a room at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Cabins?

3. Animals: What name is given to the male offspring of a mule?

4. Books: In the movie, Scarlett O'Hara has only one child. How many children does she have in the book, Gone With the Wind?

5. Math: If the supplement of angle x is three times greater than the complement of angle x, what is the measurement in degrees of angle x?

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Free Game Three: Round One
Answers

1. Ontario

2. A watch fob

3. Referee

4. Wellesley

5. Railroad station

6. Pope John Paul II

7. One (Michigan)

8. Falstaff

9. 218

10. Edward or Estlin

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Free Game Three: Round Two
Answers

1. Ethiopia

2. Uganda

3. Morocco

4. Mali

5. Tanzania

6. Zambia

7. Botswana

8. Libya

9. Ethiopia

10. Kenya

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Free Game Three: Round Three
Answers

1. Possession

2. Abscissa

3. Percussionist

4. Assassin

5. Trespass (not trespasses-- no plurals)

6. Assessor

7. Narcissus

8. Knossos

9. Pessimist

10. Essayist

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Free Game Three: Round Four
Answers + Bonus Questions

One: M*A*S*H: For five bonus points each, name these other movies with one-word titles beginning with the letter M:

1. Fritz Lang's 1926 classic of silent German cinema

2. 1982 film about an American couple's frustrating search for their son who's been caught up in a South American coup

3. The only James Bond movie that fits the criteria

4. Movie starring Danny Trejo as the title character in which a Mexican Federale turns renegade

Two: Yellowstone National Park (also): For five bonus points each, name the western national park in which each of the following hotels or lodges is located:

1. The Ahwahnee Hotel

2. El Tovar Hotel

3. Jackson Lake Lodge

4. Lake McDonald Lodge

Three: Mules are sterile and have no offspring.: For five bonus points each, identify the animal from the information given:

1. This domesticated Andean animal, similar to but smaller than a llama, is bred for its fiber.

2. A dromedary is a one-humped camel. What is a two-humper called?

3. It is the only marsupial living in the wild in North America.

4. It's females are vixens, but they're probably not malicious or shrewish.

Four: Three: For five bonus points each, answer the following questions about Civil War era books:

1. What Pulitzer Prize winner wrote Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, and A Stillness at Appomattox?

2. What Newbery Medal Honor Book (1965) by Irene Hunt is a novel about the Civil War from its beginning until its end?

3. What Charles Frazier novel is the story of Inman, a disillusioned Confederate deserter on his odyssey to return to his North Carolina home?

4. What is the title of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a Confederate prison camp?

Five: 45 degrees: For the bonus, all your answers will be angles in the first quadrant. X is equal to 1 and Y is equal to two. Each answer is worth five points?

1. At what angle is the sine equal to X divided by Y?

2. At what angle is the cosine equal to X divided by Y?

3. At what angle is the tangent equal to X?

4. At what angle is the sine equal to X divided by the square root of Y?

Bonus Answers

Free Game Three: Round Four
Bonus Answers

Bonus One

1. Metropolis

2. Missing

3. Moonraker

4. Machete

Bonus Two

1. Yosemite National Park

2. Grand Canyon National Park

3. Grand Teton National Park

4. Glacier National Park

Bonus Three

1. Alpaca

2. Bactrian

3. Opossum

4. Fox

Bonus Four

1. Bruce Catton

2. Across Five Aprils

3. Cold Mountain

4. Andersonville

Bonus Five

1. 30 degrees

2. 60 degrees

3. 45 degrees

4. 45 degrees

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