Connection Round
The American football teams The Giants and The Jets play their home games at MetLife Stadium in which US State?
New Jersey
Which writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian, is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia?
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis)
What comes next after; Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson?
Nixon
What is the fear of water?
Hydrophobia
What is a brief commemorative inscription on a tomb or gravestone?
An Epitaph
What type of salamanders go through three distinct developmental life stages: aquatic larva, terrestrial juvenile, and adult?
Newts
Which writer is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was her first commercially published work in 1902?
Beatrix Potter
What comes next after; Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon?
Heptagon
What is the fear of books?
Bibliophobia
The Cosa Nostra, also referred to simply as the Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization founded on which island?
Sicily
What is the name/tagline of the film Star Wars: Episode IV?
A New Hope
Which beloved children’s author worked as a wartime intelligence officer for the Royal Air Force (MI6) before writing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda?
Roald Dahl
What comes next after; Mars, Jupiter, Saturn?
Uranus (order of planets)
What is the fear of horses?
Equinophobia
Who was the first person to prove that planets move in elliptical orbits?
Johannes Kepler
What is defined as the force which gives a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of 1 meter per second per second?
A Newton
Maurice Sendak was threatened with a publisher ban for his 1963 picture book about Max's wild, imaginary bedroom journey. What is the title?
Where the Wild Things Are.
What comes next after; Two-pair, Three-of-a-kind, Straight?
Flush (poker hand strengths)
What is the fear of strangers or foreigners?
Xenophobia
Which television family live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights?
The Munsters
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, what is the fictional language of Oceania?
Newspeak
Shel Silverstein spent over four years trying to publish a minimalist 1964 book about a selfless tree and a boy. What is the title?
The Giving Tree
What comes next after; Athens, Beijing, London?
Rio de Janeiro (Olympic Hosts)
What is the fear of outer space?
Astrophobia
The four time zones of the contiguous United States are: Eastern, Central, Pacific, and which other?
Mountain