Taylor Swift
Math
Tarleton
Books and Movies
Wildcard
100

What team does Taylor Swifts fiancée play for?

Bonus 20 points if you can get his position and number

Kansas City Chiefs 


Tight end and 87

100

What is the quadratic formula?

x = (-b +- √(b2-4ac))/2a

100

What year was Tarleton founded?

1899

100

What are the 4 Harry Potter Houses?

Bonus 50: to the team that guesses the most officers houses correctly

Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin

Sadie - Hufflepuff

Brenna - Gryffindor

Emerson - Ravenclaw

Raven - Slytherin

100

Who won the College National Football Championship?

Bonus 50: To the team that can name the quarterback and back up quarterback

Indiana

Fernando and Alberto Mendoza

200

How many albums does Taylor Swift have?

Bonus 10 points per album each team can name

12

200

Who is/are considered the father(s) of Calculus?

Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Bonus 50 points if you get both


200

How many academic Colleges are there at Tarleton?

Bonus 10: For each one you can name

8

Colleges: Ag, COSM, Engineering, Education, Business, Liberal and fine arts, Leadership and military, and Graduate studies 

200

What are the 4 Narnia books not made into movies?

The magicians nephew, Horse and his boy, The silver chair, and the last battle

200

What condiment was sold as medicine in 1830s?

Ketchup

300

What are Taylor Swifts cats names?

100 points per cat

Olivia, Meredith, and Benjamin Button

300

What is the only temperature that is identical in both Celsius and Fahrenheit?

Bonus 50: If you can state the ratio in both formulas

-40 is the same value in Celsius and Fahrenheit.

9/5 and 5/9

300

How many oak trees are on campus?

254 one for each county in Texas

300

"WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever."

What movie is this quote from and what character said it?

Westley and The Princess Bride

300

What is the national animal of scotland?

Unicorn

400

How many times has Taylor won Album of the Year at the Grammy’s?

50 points if you name the album(s)

4 times

Fearless, 1989, folklore, Midnights

400

A prime number is only divisible by itself and 1. How many two digit prime numbers are there? The answer is not a prime number!

21

400

What does the ULTRA stand for?

Bonus 50 What direction does it point?

Unlocking Limits That Restrict Achievement 

Points North

400

Which musical group connects the events of September 11, 2001 to the well-known Twilight Saga? 

Bonus 100 points to the team who can explain the entire pipeline of events

My Chemical Romance

400

What country and year did the Great Emu war take place?

1932 and Australia

500

What was Taylor Swift's first job?

Picking praying mantis pods off Chirstmas trees

500

In the movie "Mean Girls," the answer to the calculus problem "What is the limit as x approaches zero of [ln(1-x)-sin(x)/(1-cos^2(x))" is?"

Bonus 50: to the team that can name the 3 main mean girls

The Limit does not exist

Bonus: Gretchen, Karen, and Regina

500

How many times has John Tarleton's body been moved?

2 times 

500

What movie won every categories it was nominated for at the oscars? Hint: 11 categories

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

500

How much maple syrup was stolen in the "Great Maple Syrup Heist"? 

Bonus 100 to the team who gets closet to the monetary value stolen

3000 tons and $18.7 million Canadian

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