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Forum: The walls of the stairway from the entrance of the main building to the second floor are covered with artificial swallows. How many total birds are there (± 10)?
Axis of Evil: What three countries did George Bush and Dick Cheney label “Axis of Evil?” More Info
Super Bowl: What country is Bad Bunny from? More Info
Land-locked: A state is land-locked if it has no ocean boundary. It is doubly-land-locked if all its neighbors are land-locked. It is triply-land-locked if all its neighbors are doubly-land-locked. What US state is triply-land-locked? More Info
Humanity: What mammalian physical characteristic is unique to Homo sapiens (no other mammals, including human relatives, have it)? More Info
Chemistry: The symbols for most chemical elements begin with the same letter as the element’s name (example: Cu for Copper) but some, like Fe for Iron, do not. There are 9 other elements like Iron. What are they? (5 or more: 1 point; all 9: two points.) More Info
Nuts: What is the country of origin of the macadamia nut? More Info
Names: In The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from the movie Fantasia, the name of the sorcerer is "Yen Sid." Why? More Info
Wars: How long did the 100-years war last (± 3 years)? More Info
Secrecy: What was the password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system before the 2025 theft? More Info
Movies: Identify four of the following movies given one word that has come to symbolize each of them: “Rosebud,” “Toga,” “Inconceivable,” “Stella,” and “Plastics.” At least four correct for 1 point.
Math: The American Institute of Mathematics is one of the top non-university math research institutes in the world. The combination to their after-hours entrance lock is 2357. Why? More Info
Physics: What physical constant is approximately equal to one foot per nanosecond? More Info
Math: Who, in his song “New Math,” said, “Base-8 is just like base-10 … if you’re missing two fingers!” More Info
Rich People: Name two living singers who are currently worth more than a billion US dollars. More Info
Currency: When did the UK decimalize their currency? More Info
Christmas: What is the name of Clara’s godfather in the Nutcracker? More Info
Presidents: Who was the first US President to visit Hiroshima? More Info
Trees: What tree, exclusively found in the US, was known as “the redwood of the east” and once covered 25% of the eastern US. It virtually disappeared between 1904 and 1950. More Info
Vocabulary: “Dumbledore” is an obsolete British name for an insect. What is the modern name? More Info
TB: How many different official versions of the US flag have there been? More Info