History
Science Bowl
Wildcard
Halloweeeeen
Gaslighting
100
What year was the moon landing?
1969
100
CHEMISTRY toss up (say your answer when you think you know)
Alpha particles are an example of an ionized form of this element, which is formed from the decay of Uranium in bedrock. Unlike every other chemical, this element has no solid form at atmospheric pressure. Making up more than 12% of the universe's weight, it is the second most abundant element. Named after the Greek word for the sun, where it was first discovered, this element is the main product of hydrogen fusion. Name this lighter-than-air gas used to inflate balloons.
100
What level of command term (AO1, AO2, AO3) is "Suggest"?
AO2
100
Liminal spaces were popularized in 2019 by a 4Chan post about this mazelike liminal space with yellow walls. Kane Pixels made a YouTube series about this place, where people noclip into it and are stalked by dark, gangly monsters.
The Backrooms
100
What year were the first moon landings?
Never, they were faked
200
The Battle of the Three Emperors, also known as the Battle of Austerlitz, saw Austro-Russian forces defeated by an army led by which military and political leader in 1805?
Napoleon
200
PHYSICS Short Answer What property of a sound wave is most commonly associated with loudness?
Amplitude
200
How long does it take to die in space without a spacesuit? W. 2 miliseconds X. 0.2 seconds Y. 2 seconds Z. 2 minutes
2 minutes (and it takes 15 seconds to go unconscious)
200
Halloween was originally called All Hallows Eve, which preceded this Christian holiday that honors martyrs of the church. This holiday occurs on November 1st in the West, and is the second day of a triduum honoring the dead.
all saints day
200
When is the new The Chinese Government album dropping?
Tomorrow!
300
What is the name of this ancient byzantine weapon which was used to set ships ablaze from afar, with a recipe lost to history?
Greek fire
300
ASTRONOMY Short Answer What is the proper name of the star that is most commonly noted to have coordinates closest to the north celestial pole?
North Star/POLARIS/ALPHA URSA MINORIS
300
Accuracy International is a British firearms company that started in 1978 as five people working in a garage. Upon hearing that the British government was looking for a new version of this type of gun, they submitted a prototype, which to their surprise, won. AI rented a warehouse for one day to pass inspections from the British government, who thought they were a major manufacturer and not 5 guys making these guns in their garage.
Sniper rifle
300
Name this winged cryptid with bright red eyes, sighted numerous times in the 1960s and associated with the collapse of the Silver Bridge. Scientists have speculated that this cryptid is actually a sandhill crane or a barred owl.
Mothman
300
When looking at assignments, the phrase, "Due tomorrow" should always be replaced with what homonymous phrase?
Do tomorrow
400
Rank these people from oldest to youngest: Anne frank, MLK, Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter: October 1, 1924
MLK: January 15, 1929
Anne Frank: 12 June 1929
400
MATH short answer: if a circle with radius 3 cm is inscribed inside an equilateral triangle which is inscribed within another circle, what is the radius of the outer circle?
6 cm
400
85% of the mass of the universe is made up this type of matter, which doesn't interact with electrons, protons or neutrons except through gravity.
Dark matter
400
Braxie, Mothman, and various other cryptids like Wampus cats, Goatman, and the Hopkinsville goblins are all said to roam this region of the United States. In one part of this region in North Carolina, mysterious brown lights can sometimes be seen in the distance.
Appalachia/Appalachian Mountains
400
Triple T was created to avoid copyright when an ai was prompted to give an image of what dc superhero?
batman
500
Rank the following events in chronological order: W. The game of life was invented X. The American Civil War began Y. Nikola Tesla was born Z. The escalator was invented.
Tesla: 1856
Escalator: 1859
Life: 1860
Civil War: 1861.
500
BIOLOGY Short Answer Name all of the following 3 processes that do NOT occur in E. coli: glycolysis; photosynthesis; glycogenolysis
Photosynthesis
500
Triple T is an anthropomorphic kentongan bell, which are used to call people by banging three times (tung, tung, tung) to sahur (breakfast). What country are these bells from?
Indonesia
500
Roko’s Basilisk is a thought experiment centered on this entity as a simplified version of Pascal’s wager. This experiment terrifies many people because it states that simply knowing about this entity will condemn you to torture as punishment for not helping it advance.
Superintelligent AI
500
Yuri Nallotatrubbul was a Slovenian inventor born in 1892. While teaching misbehaving students, he had the idea for one of the most revolutionary and controversial inventions of the modern era. What is this invention?
Punishment/detention/ smthn like that