Battle of the Brains

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Battle of the Brains
Duke
Yale
Brown
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Battle of the BrainsRound 1
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• Which was the first park to be designated as a
  U.S. National Park in 1872?

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• The Academy was founded in the 4th Century B.C.
  by which Classical Greek philosopher?

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• What is the name of the character in Dr. Seuss'
  Green Eggs Ham who tries to get on the good
  side of his moody neighbor by offering him a dish
  of green eggs and ham?  

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• Financier Michael Milken is widely credited with
  creating and developing the market for what type
  of financial instrument that saw prominent use in
  the 1980s?

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• The Spirit Rover, Opportunity Rover, and the
  Phoenix Lander are equipment which are
  transmitting signals from where?

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• What countries are the top four producers of wine
  in the world?

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• How many voyages did Christopher Columbus lead
  from Spain to the Americas?

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• How many amendments are there to the U.S.
  Constitution?

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• From Walt's Disney's 1937 film Snow White The
  Seven Dwarfs, what are the names of the seven
  dwarfs?

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Battle of the BrainsRound 2
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• What model is this 2008 Bentley Automobile?

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• Name this island nation which was ranked second
  in the 2008 Index of Economic Freedom.

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• Where was this picture taken?
• Where was this picture taken?

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• What does the acronym for the disc format "DVD"
  stand for?

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• How many actors have starred as James Bond in the
  22 film James Bond 007 franchise?

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• In which city was the first zoo in the United
  States established?

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• Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Robert
  Motherwell were major forces which defined which
  post World War II art movement?

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• According to Emily Post's Definitive Guide to
  Manners, crystal is the traditional recommended
  gift for which wedding anniversary?

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• In 1792, which bank was the first corporation to
  be listed and traded on the New York Stock
  Exchange?

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• The soma, dendrites, and axon are all parts of
  what type of living cell?

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Battle of the BrainsFinal Question
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• In 1946, John Hersey's essay "Hiroshima" about
  the effect of the atomic bomb dropped on that
  Japanese city was originally published in which
  magazine?

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Battle of the Brains
UCLA
Stanford
Harvard
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Battle of the BrainsRound 1
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• What was the name of Britney Spears' debut single
  that went on to top charts across the world,
  including the U.S. Billboard chart in 1998?

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• Which periodic comet last appeared in the inner
  Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in mid
  2061?

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• In George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, the
  characters Old Major, Napoleon, and Snowball are
  what type of animal?

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• In what year was Gerald Ford sworn in as 38th
  President of the United States?

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• Bastille Day, the French National holiday, is
  celebrated on which day every year?

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• ESPN is owned by which American corporation?

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• According to the Washingtonian, what is the top
  rated restaurant for 2008?

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• How many circles of Hell are there in Dante's
  Inferno?

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• Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to
  34 women. Who is the first woman to receive a
  Nobel Prize?

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Battle of the BrainsRound 2
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• Who was this titan of industry?

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• Name this Barcelona landmark.

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• This picture The Falling Soldier was taken
  during which European war?

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• Which Israeli Prime Minister signed the Camp
  David accords in 1978?

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• In what year did Apple publicly launch the iPod?

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• How many times was Richard Nixon on the
  Republican Partys Presidential Ticket?

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• Who is widely credited with the scientific
  discovery of the antibiotic substance Penicillin?

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• In what state was Microsoft originally founded
  and headquartered?

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• Which memoir written by James Frey and an Oprah
  Book Club selection was the subject of
  controversy after it was discovered the memoir
  was not factual?

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Battle of the BrainsFinal Question
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• Which U.S. State has the motto the "Equality
  State" for being the first territory to legally
  recognize women's right to vote in 1869?

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Battle of the Brains
William Mary
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins
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Battle of the BrainsRound 1
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• Known as America's Home Town, Hannibal,
  Missouri is most famous for being the boyhood
  home of whom ?

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• James Joyce's novel Ulysses chronicles the life
  of Leopold Bloom on June 16, 1904 through what
  city?

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• How many letters are in the French alphabet?

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• Which fictional character lives in a pineapple
  under the sea?

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• Which 5 nations are the permanent members of the
  United Nation's Security Council?

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• In what year did Netscape have its IPO to usher
  in the Dot Com boom?

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• The Java programming language was developed by
  which American technology firm?

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• Journalist Anderson Cooper is the son of which
  fashion designer known for her iconic 70's blue
  jeans and perfume?

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• Which four states of the United States officially
  designate themselves as Commonwealths?

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Battle of the BrainsRound 2
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• What is the title of this iconic painting by
  Edward Hopper?

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Name this Empire (circa 1279 A.D.)
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What substance is this?
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• Who founded the General Electric corporation?

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• In 1869, the first North American continental
  railroad was completed in which future U.S. State?

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• In what City was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
  Austria assassinated in 1914?

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• The UN has designated 878 sites as World Heritage
  Sites representing outstanding cultural or
  natural importance to the common heritage of
  humanity. Which nation has the largest number
  with 43?

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• What is the official currency of Poland?

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• What is author J.D. Salinger's full first name?

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Battle of the BrainsFinal Question
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• According to latest figures provided by USDA, in
  2007, which three states accounted for over 45
  of U.S. Corn production?

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Battle of the Brains
Virginia
Penn
North Carolina
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• For what novel did Ernest Hemingway win the
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

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• The area now known as Alaska was purchased by the
  United States from which nation in 1867 for 2
  cents per acre?

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• The Enron Corporation was formerly headquartered
  in which American city?

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• What was the military code name for the Allied
  Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944?

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• This 1990s chart topping American rock-n-roll
  band performed under the name Mookie Blaylock but
  eventually changed its name based on legal
  concerns?

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• In Franz Kafka's novella the Metamorphosis, what
  is Gregor Samsa's profession?

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• How many stocks comprise the Dow Jones Industrial
  Average?

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• What is the next digit in the sequence of Pi,
• 3.14.

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• How many verses are there to the Star-Spangled
  Banner?

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Battle of the BrainsRound 2
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• What type of Gibbous moon phase is this?

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• What type of architecture is this?

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• What is the name of this sculpture?

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• In 1927, this man was the named the very first
  Time Magazine Person of the Year?

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• What was Luciano Pavarotti's operatic voice type?

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• 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144,
  233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765
• What is the name of this sequence of numbers,
  which is of keen importance to mathematicians?

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• In the film Wedding Crashers, William Clearly,
  played by Christopher Walken, holds what Cabinet
  level position?

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• Which eccentric media tycoon and television
  pioneer is also the largest individual landowner
  in North America, owning 1.9 million acres?

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• What were the code names of the two bombs dropped
  on Hiroshima and Nagaski, Japan to conclude World
  War II.

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Battle of the BrainsFinal Question
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• Since 1960, who has been the shortest man to
  serve as U.S. President?

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Battle of the BrainsThe Finals
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Battle of the BrainsRound 1
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• Who was the President of the United States when
  Robert Byrd first took office as Senator for the
  State of West Virginia?

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• Claro, Colorado, Maduro, and Oscuro are terms
  which can be used to identify what aspect of a
  Cigar?

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• The painting,
• "The Red Vineyard"
• was the only painting this artist sold during his
  lifetime?

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• Greenland is an independent province of which
  European nation?

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• Which magazine bills itself as the Global Luxury
  Source?

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• Vert, Parks, Big Air, Street, and
• SuperPark are competed under which discipline in
  the
• X Games ?

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• Name the emperor of Imperial Japan who agreed to
  the unconditional surrender of Japan to American
  forces in 1945?

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• What are the three most common types of ionizing
  radiation?

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• What was the name of Andy Warhol's original New
  York City studio from 1962 to 1968?

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• Who was the last czar of Russia whose reign ended
  with the Russian Revolution of 1917?

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• On August 15, 1971, President Nixon unilaterally
  cancelled the Gold Standard resulting in the
  break down of which international monetary
  agreement?

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• Which U.S. President signed an act of Congress to
  transfer the seat of government from Philadelphia
  to the new capital city of Washington?

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Battle of the BrainsRound 2
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• This logo is synonymous with which annual
  festival?

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• Name this artist who originally signed his
  graffiti work under the name SAMO

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• What caviar now has market price exceeding 5,000
  per Kilogram?

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• Who is the Segways inventor?

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• What is the largest company as measured by market
  capitalization traded on the NASDAQ?

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• Grilled unagi is a delicacy in Japan. What is
  unagi?

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• 15 of our 42 U.S. Presidents have been born in
  which two States?

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• Who wrote the classic children's book Go Dog Go
  which was published in 1961?

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• Which was the first state to secede from the
  United States in December 20, 1860?

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• In his 2000 Wired Magazine essay, Why the Future
  Doesnt Need Us, this technologist cautioned
  about how new technologies may doom mankind?

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• What are the names of the four Teletubbies?

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• Name the four sovereign nations which are not
  parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?

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Battle of the BrainsFinal Question
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• Behind only the United States, what country has
  the second largest English speaking population in
  the world?

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ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
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• Who was the scientific director of the Manhattan
  Project?

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• The Gettysburg Address was delivered by Abraham
  Lincoln in which year?

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• During which U.S. Presidential Administration was
  the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 launched?

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• What do the letters in acronym Z I P stand
  for in the U.S. Postal Services ZIP Code?

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• President Bill Clinton was found guilty by the
  U.S. House of Representative on many articles of
  impeachment?

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• Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. On
  which day of the week did the attack occur?

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• What is the largest U.S. state capital by
  population?

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• In what city was the legendary former boxing
  champion Muhammad Ali born?

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• Who was the first Chief Justice of the U.S.
  Supreme Court?

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• American John Bardeen was awarded a share of the
  Nobel Prize on two separate occasions, in 1956
  and 1972. In what category was he honored for
  both prizes?

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• The term RADAR was coined in 1941 as an acronym
  for what?