History and Competition
Name the first unofficial "amateur" world chess champion.
Paul Morphy
Abhimanyu Mishra
Name the variation that begins with the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4.
Name this American grandmaster who frequently cites a certain conflict with then-world champion Carlsen as having "ruined his career."
Hans Niemann
What organelle is often referred to as the "powerhouse of the cell?"
mitochondria
Which English mathematician and computer scientist, known for his famous Enigma machine, developed the first computer program for chess in 1951?
Alan Turing
Name the current US Women's Chess Champion.
Carissa Yip
Name a third move variation of the French Defense.
Tarrasch, Najdorf, Advance, Exchange, Paulsen
Which Spanish football (soccer) team is Magnus Carlsen a fan of, and kicked off for in a friendly match in 2025?
Real Madrid
Name this hypothetical value of temperature, frequently discussed in thermodynamics, that can never be actually achieved.
Absolute zero
Bobby Fischer's 1956 game against the American master Donald Byrne is famously nicknamed what?
Which two grandmasters became the only Chinese duo ever to simultaneously hold the men's and women's world chess champion titles in 2023? (question cannot be stolen)
Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun
What's the engine best response for Black after 6. exd5 in the main line of the Fried Liver Attack?
6...Na5!
Name this Indian FIDE Master who is stepfather to Hikaru Nakamura.
Name all twelve Olympians in Greek mythology, excluding Hestia and instead including a certain god of madness and wine. (question cannot be stolen)
Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, Dionysus
Name any "disputed" (non-FIDE sanctioned) world chess champion from 1993-2006.
Karpov (1993), Khalifman (1999), Anand (2000), Ponomariov (2002), Kasmidzhanov (2004), Topalov (2005)
Which grandmaster famously drew all fourteen of his games in the 2016 Candidates?
Anish Giri
Marshall Gambit
Which English grandmaster conducted polygraph lie detector tests on both Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen?
David Howell
The patent for the first hydrant was destroyed in what famously ironic way?
Destroyed in a fire
Which Russian grandmaster became the lowest-seeded ever winner of the World Rapid Championship when he won from #59 in the 2024 edition?
Volodar Murzin
Name this German grandmaster who, besides Kasparov and Karpov, is the only player to ever win six world championship matches.
Emmanuel Lasker
Through what opening setup can White construct a "mirror image" of the Accelerated or Hyper-Accelerated Dragon? (NOTE: not directly versus these systems)
English/g3 English/Neo-Catalan
Name the title of this Levy Rozman-authored book that was infamously banned from all Chess.com and FIDE events.
How to Win at Chess
Name this philosophical doctrine generally considered to have been popularized by the writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
utilitaranism