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Get a taste of the TQF experience with these three sample rounds

  • Famous Duos

    1. What famous partnership began with one half of the duo catching the other in his tiger trap?

    2. What duo from a 1991 movie set out from Arkansas on a road trip that would end in the Grand Canyon?

    3. They fought spies, they performed poetry, one of them had a name that was short for “Rocket”, and the other had the middle initial and last name “J. Moose.” Who are they?

    4. Half of what Shakespearean title duo says, as she gets ready to die, “give me my robe, put on my crown, I have immortal longings in me?”

      5. Whose friendship began with a ten-day-long conversation commenced, on August 28th, 1844, at the Regency Café in Paris?

  • Stream of Consciousness

    1. Who made his twenty-fifth film appearance in 2021, after a long delay due to (perhaps you recall) covid-19?

    2. Doing what to a cocktail waters it down by causing the ice to break into smaller pieces and thus melt into the liquor faster?

    3. Known for their adherence to principles of simplicity and humility, by what name do we commonly refer to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing?

    4. In the initial vote of July 1st, 1776, two colonies voted against a motion to declare independence from Great Britain. One changed its vote the following day, leaving what state as the sole objector?

    5. With a record of 61-101, who finished last in the National League central division last year?

    6. Speaking of bad baseball teams, two teams finished last year tied for the worst record in Major League Baseball—both of them are named after animals, and I want you to tell me the one that is not named after a bird.

    7. The magazine Advertising Age named what slogan from a former colonial mining conglomerate as the best advertising slogan of the twentieth century?

    8. What is the name of the layer of silicate rock between Earth’s crust and outer core?

    9. What is the name of the kind of oven that uses a fan to circulate air and heat more evenly than other ovens?

    10. A company known by the acronym HAV has announced that by 2025 it will get you between a number of European cities using what mode of transport?

  • Mystery Round

    1. What is the name of the prominent chalky rock formation located at the spot in Britain closest to the European continent?

    2. What US Senator from Maine announced her retirement in 2012?

    3. What British General commanded all Allied forces on D-Day?

    4. What painter died in a single-car accident on the night of August 11th, 1956, while driving drunk with his mistress?

    5. Who was removed from the position of Imperial Chancellor of Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890?

    6. Who appears to have believed until his death, in 1504, that he had, in fact, made four voyages to East Asia?

    7. What was the name of NASA’s first space shuttle, which flew 28 missions from 1981 to 2003?

    8. What Herman Melville novel bears the subtitle “or, the ambiguities,” and shares its name with a picture book by Maurice Sendak about a boy who simply does not care?

    9. At least thirteen books of the New Testament are attributed to whom?

    10. What is the only arena in the NBA or NHL not to be named after a corporate sponsor?

answers

 

Famous Duos: 1. Calvin and Hobbes 2. Thelma and Louise 3. Rocky and Bullwinkle 4. Antony and Cleopatra 5. Marx and Engels.

Stream of Consciousness: 1. James Bond 2. Shaking it 3. The Shakers 4. Pennsylvania (because of the pacifist Quakers) 5. Pittsburgh Pirates 6. Arizona Diamondbacks 7. “A diamond is forever” 8. The mantle 9. A convection oven 10. Zeppelin or airship

Mystery Round: The White Cliffs of Dover 2. Olympia Snowe 3. Bernard Montgomery 4. Jackson Pollock 5. Otto von Bismarck 6. Christopher Columbus 7. Columbia 8. Pierre 9. St. Paul 10. Madison Square Garden

(Did you figure out the mystery theme? Each correct answer contains the name of a US state capital)