This Year’s Categories - Brain Buster

This Year’s Categories

Colors Connections

Money Random

Sentences Incidentals

Thank You!

• Our team captains • Our photographer • Our scorekeepers • Our snack crew • Our facility custodian and secretary • Our prize donation people-who are many • The Brain Buster Trivia Event Chairperson and

all of the event committee people • And most of all our great quizzards, Dan and

Rollin!

Rules & Notes • 6 Rounds - 10 questions per round.

• Questions will be on the screen and I will also read them.

• Slides advance automatically after 45 seconds.

• Your team will receive double points on your lowest-scoring category.

• Use only your brains. No accessories allowed.

• There will be music playing during the rounds to mask your conversation.

• Don’t read too much into the graphics. They are mostly for your entertainment.

• A clue will be given between each round. • If you get the correct answer after the first round

your team will receive 5 extra points. – After round 2: 4 points. – After round 3: 3 points. – After round 4: 2 points. – After round 5: 1 points.

• Write your answer on the special answer sheet and bring it to the scoring table.

• More than one team can receive points. • There is no penalty for a wrong answer and you

can try again after the next round.

Are You Ready?

BBTC: This Way!

Round 1

1. Which breed of dog is known for its blue tongue?

2. In 1938/39, Superman’s costume was enhanced with what color belt?

3. In Macbeth, Shakespeare used the word “incarnadine.”

What does it mean?

4. What are the colors of the Greek flag?

5. The 4th best-selling English language children’s book ever uses only 50 words. What is the book?

6. A 10th Century Norse King united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom. What is his name?

7. In what color ‘family’ is cyan? It is closest to what more commonly named color?

8. In 1953, 300 Chevrolet Corvettes were commercially produced in Flint, Michigan. They were all convertibles and the same color. What color were they?

9. The 2004 and 2005 political protests in Ukraine

were known as what?

10. Isaac Newton described seven colors in a rainbow. What is the first color observed in a primary rainbow in the northern hemisphere?

End of Round 1

Bring your answer book to the scoring table.

Progressive Question Clue 1 5 Points

A Planck, shake and lustrum are units.

Round 1 Answers 1. The Chow Chow is the dog known for its blue

tongue.

2. Superman’s belt was yellow.

3. The word “incarnadine” means blood red.

4. The Greek flag is blue and white.

5. The children’s book with only 50 words is Green Eggs & Ham.

Round 1 Answers

6. The king who unified Denmark was Harald Bluetooth.

7. Cyan is blue.

8. The first run of Corvettes were white.

9. The unrest in Ukraine was known as The Orange Revolution.

10.The first color of the rainbow according to Newton is red.

Round 2

1. How is King Edward VIII related to Queen Elizabeth II?

2. “Mickey Mantle sucks” comes from what 1975 movie?

3. What company’s slogan begins with “Be

connected……..?”

4. What state highway runs diagonally through Minnesota connecting Duluth with the far southwest corner of the state?

5. Which U.S. Olympic figure skater was clubbed in the knee in 1994?

6. What Oscar-winning and currently working US actor is a third cousin four times removed to Abraham Lincoln?

7. In golf, a hole in one on a par 5 is called what?

8. At what body of water do Europe and Asia meet in

Istanbul, Turkey?

9. Who is this?

10. How many flags usually fly on the historic Brainerd water

tower?

End of Round 2

Bring your book to the scoring table.


The study of its measuring devices is horology.

Round 2 Answers

1. King Edward VIII is the uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.

2. “Mickey Mantle sucks,” is a line from French Connection II.

3. “Be Connected . . .” is the slogan of Facebook.

4. Minn. Highway 23 connects Duluth to SW Minnesota.

5. Nancy Kerrigan is the figure skater who was clubbed in the knee.

Round 2 Answers

6. Tom Hanks is related to Abe Lincoln.

7. A hole-in-one on a par 5 is a condor. “Double albatross" or a "triple eagle.“ are also accepted.

8. Europe and Asia meet at The Bosphorus Strait.

9. British Prime Minister, Theresa May.

10.There are 3 flags flying on the Brainerd water tower.

Round 3

1. What is the total monetary

value of all unimproved

property on the Monopoly

board?

2. Whose picture is on the $2.00 bill?

3. What is the only U.S. coin in which the portrait faces right?

4. Who is the only woman to have appeared on a U.S.

bill?

5. According to the website, Practical Money Skills, how much was the average that the Tooth Fairy paid per tooth in the US in

2015?

6. The Treasury department is replacing Andrew Jackson

on the $20 with whom?

7. The process of ‘reeding’ adds what to a coin?

8. How many stocks are represented in the Dow

Jones Industrial Average?

9. Christy Walton is considered by Forbes to be the richest

female in the US. What retail fortune did she inherit?

10. ‘Franking Privilege’ allows US Congresspersons to do what for free?

End of Round 3

Bring your book to the scoring table.


We measure it with light.

Round 3 Answers

1. The value of Monopoly property is $5,490 ($4,941 - $6,039).

2. Thomas Jefferson is on the $2.

3. Lincoln faces right on the penny.

4. Martha Washington was on the $1 silver certificate in 1896.

5. The Tooth Fairy gave an average of $3.19 (10% either way: $2.87 to $3.51).

Round 3 Answers

6. Harriet Tubman will replace Jackson on the $20.

7. Reeding adds ridges to the edge of a coin.

8. There are 30 stocks on the Dow Jones.

9. Christy Walton inherited the Wal-Mart fortune.

10. Franking Privilege allows Congresspersons to send mail for free.

Round 4

1. How many natural teeth did George Washington have

when he was elected president?

2. In what year was

the first TV dinner

introduced?

3. From what vegetable was the name Green Giant derived?

4. “Home on the Range” is the official song of which state?

5. Bach once wrote an entire opera about what beverage?

6. What is the name of Europe’s largest (tallest)

Ferris wheel?

7. The call letters for a commercial radio or TV

station in Canada begin with what letter?

8. Who is this?

9. What do you get when you mix copper and tin?

10. What car did Ralph Nader

claim was unsafe at

any speed?

End of Round 4



It had a magazine named after it.

Round 4 Answers 1. George Washington had 1 tooth.

2. The TV Dinner was first introduced in 1954.

3. The Green Giant was a pea.

4. “Home on the Range” is the official song of Kansas.

5. Bach wrote an entire opera about coffee.

Round 4 Answers 6. The largest Ferris wheel in Europe is The

London Eye.

7. Commercial call letters in Canada begin with the letter C.

8. That guy is Alfred E. Newman.

9. Mix copper and tin and you get bronze.

10. The Corvair was ‘Unsafe at any Speed.’

Round 5

1. Who wrote the song, “I Will Always Love You?”

2. “All children, except one, grow up” is from which work of literature?

3. International Women’s Day is always held on what

date in March?

4. In 2009 Bernie Madoff was convicted of securities fraud, mail fraud etc. How many years was his sentence?

5. What is the shortest sentence in the Christian

Bible?

6. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” From what book is this

the first sentence?

7. What is the most popular holiday for greeting cards according to the Greeting

Card Association?

8. Who was the first African American woman to win an

Oscar for Best Actress (2002)?

9. In Edward Everett Hale’s

‘The Man Without A

Country,’ the main character Lt. Phillip Nolan is sentenced to live out his life

where?

10. Name the movie character who shouted, "Show me the money!"

End of Round 5


Progressive Question Clue 5 1 Point

A band by this name played with Prince starting in 1981.

Round 5 Answers

1. Dolly Parton wrote “I will always love you.”

2. “All children, except one, grow up” is from “Peter Pan” J.M. Barrie.

3. International Women’s Day is held on March 8th.

4. Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years.

5. The shortest sentence in the Bible is “Jesus wept.” John, Chapter 11, verse 35.

Round 5 Answers 6. The clocks struck 13 in “1984” by George

Orwell.

7. The most popular holiday for greeting cards is Christmas.

8. The first African American woman to win an Oscar was Halle Berry.

9. The ‘Man Without A Country’ was sentenced to live on a ship.

10. Jerry Maguire played by Tom Cruise.

Round 6

1. When a substance changes states from solid to

gas it is known as what?

2. For what were the Collyer Brothers famous?

3. How many stars are there in the Subaru logo?

4. In what country is The Bataan Peninsula?

5. Who is this?

6. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

7. Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility?

8. Coulrophobia is an extreme fear of what?

9. Her legs were insured

for $1M. Who is

she? (pictured)

10. What does AT&T stand for?

End of Round 6


TIME

Round 6 Answers

1. A substance changing from solid to gas is called sublimation.

2. The Collyer Brothers were hoarders.

3. There are 6 stars in the Subaru logo.

4. the Bataan Peninsula is in The Philippines.

5. The character is Max Headroom.

Round 6 Answers

6. The first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize was Marie Curie, 1911.

7. The Sea of Tranquility is on the Moon.

8. Coulrophobia is fear of clowns.

9. Betty Grable’s legs were insured for $1M.

10. AT&T: American Telephone and Telegraph

This Year’s Categories - Brain Buster

Documents