Rules & Procedure
Rules
Each team will alternate picking a question from the board. Correctly answering the question will grant the team that amount of points. If the question is answered incorrectly, there is no penality to the team for guessing.
All questions will be phrased as a statement. All answers will be phrased as question. Failure to do so will nullify the answer.
EX: "The name of this game."
Answer: "What is Jeopardy?"
The branch of Rock Music that Grunge falls under
What is "Alt Rock" ?
Of the following songs, which one is NOT grunge
A.) Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
B.) Them Bones (Alice In chains)
C.) Song 2 (Blur)
D.) Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
What is C.) Song 2?
Name an Instrument.
What is...?
Name something that is NOT an instrument
What is...?
"We could plant a house
We could build a tree"
What is "Breed" by Nirvana
"A Big Big Love"
What is "Gigantic" by "Pixies"
Multiple Choice:
Marcus's favorite blind piano playing musician
A.) Stevie Wonder (R&B/Funk)
B.) Ray Charles (Blues/R&B)
C.) George Shearing (Jazz)
D.) Art Tatum (Jazz)
I like them all, but if I really had to choose 1...
What Is A.) Stevie Wonder.
The Capital city of Mexico?
What is Mexico City?
The year the Battle of 1812 occured in
What is 1812?
If 3 pounds of apples cost $6.75, what is the cost per pound of apples?
What is 2.25?
Standard Question type
An open-ended prompt where you must produce the answer. If your team selected the question, you may guess without penalty. If your team gets it wrong, the other team may choose to steal. If they steal, they will get the full amount of points. If they attempt a steal and guess incorrectly, they will LOSE that amount of points from their total
The "Big 4" Grunge bands (50 points per guess)
Who are:
Nirvana
Alice In Chains
Pearl Jam
Sound Garden
This Grunge Rocker dated one and married another musician casted in our season.
Who is "Courtney Love"?
2 numbers stacked vertically to show the beat unit and number of beats in a measure
What is a "Time Signature"?
a group of (usually) 7 tones played in sequence
What is a Scale?
"How could it work just can't conceive it
Oh what a mess it's just to leave it"
What is "Freak Scene" by Dinosaur Jr.
What is "Doll Parts" by "Hole"
If Marcus could, Would he?
A.) Yes B.) Yes? C.) Very much so, Yes
D.) Perhaps E.) With some hesitation, but still yes.
F.) No
What is C.) Very much so, Yes
Multiple Choice:
The smallest country in the world
A.) Monaco B.) Liechtenstein
C.) Vatican City D.) Malta
What is C.) Vatican City)
The century that the year 1776 in
What is the 18th Century?
78.5
Multiple Choice question
This question will have answers provided. They must be answered as "What is ____" and read the answer and not "What is B"
These questions may be attempted by BOTH teams at the same time. The team who picked the question can guess without penalty. The team who is attempting a guess will LOSE points if their answer is incorrect. If both teams get it right, both teams will be awarded points
The year that brought Grunge into the "Mainstream"
Explain "Enharmonic Equivalence"
....?
What is Possum Kingdom (Misspelled "Possom Kingdom")?
What is "Man in a Box" by "Alice in Chains"
"All those angels with their wings glued on"
What is "Cherub Rock" by "Smashing Pumpkins"
Marcus's top 3 songs from casting 1&2 (100 points per each correct guess. Bonus 150 points if you get them in the correct order)
1.) Can't change me
2.) Doll parts
3.) Possum Kingdom
The names of both longitudinal lines that are respectively 23.4 North and South of the equator who borrows their names from horoscope signs. (150 points per correct answer. Bonus 150 points if you can tell me which is north and which is south of the equator.)
What are the Tropics of Cancer (North) and Capricorn (South)
The names of Christopher Columbus's 3 ships and the country he sailed from
What are?...
La Niña
La Pinta
La Santa Maria
and what is Spain?
A cube has a volume of 64 cubic inches. What is the length of each edge?
4 inches
Marcus Questions
Each Marcus question may have it's own set of special rules that will be orated by Marcus upon the questions activation
The number of soverign countries in north, Central, and South America (Not counting) the carribean
What is 22?
Lyrics Question Procedures
All 100 and 200 point lyric questions come from bands IN THE CASTING OF THIS SEASON... However, the 300 point questions come from songs that are NOT IN THE CASTING OF THIS SEASON. You can answer by stating the name of the band you think it belongs to (Who is Green Day?). You can earn a bonus 100 points if you give me the correct song name