Coronavirus Trivia
Speech and Debate Facts
Team Knowledge I
Team Knowledge II
2020 Wildcards
100

The amount of weeks we were originally supposed to be out of school.

What is 2?

100

Extemp prep consists of this amount of minutes.

What is 30?

100

Name at least 3 Public Address novices.

Who are Ritika, Reva, Meghana, Vanessa, Noah, Hunter, Kim, Amaya, Hunter, Deja, etc.?

100

This is the name of Noah's dog.

What is Vicker?

(Apologies if I spelt it wrong.)

100

The name of the giant "homicidal" insects found in the US in May 2020.

What are murder hornets?

200

The two most well known companies developing the COVID Vaccine

What are Pfizer and Moderna?

200

This term is used in Debate to describe the way things currently are.

What is the "Status Quo"?

200

This is the last year a North Meck student was ranked #1 in the country for their event.

What is 2019?

200

This is where Mr.Bischoff went to college.

(Double point bonus if you can give one detail about how he met his wife there.)

What is Michigan State?

200

Finish the phrase: "I ain't ever seen two pretty best friends..."

What is... "always one of em' gotta be ugly."

300

The loss of these 2 sense is usually associated with COVID

What are taste and smell?

300

This was the name of the NSDA prior to 2014.

What was the National Forensic League (NFL)? 

300

We have not had more than 1 competitor in this event since the 2017-2018 school year, until now.

What is congress?

300

This is the food Nicole has to eat as her "lucky snack" at tournaments.

What are Baked Lay's?

300

The thing that landed on Mike Pence's head during the 2020 Vice-Presidential debate.

What is a fly?

400

The date of the first officially confirmed COVID case in the US.

What is January 20th?

400

The NSDA was founded in this year.

What is 1925?

400

Two event captains speak and have their phones set in this language, not including English.

What is German?

(What's up Sonia and Louis)

400

The coach of this rival school's team went to North Meck.

What is Ardrey Kell?

400

This movie won best picture at the 2020 Oscars.

What is "Parasite"?

500
An increased risk of COVID infection is associated with this blood type.

What is Type A?

500

Name one fictional character played by a prominent alumni of Speech and Debate.

Who are Kevin (The Office), Olaf (Frozen), Black Panther, Antman, Kurt (Glee), etc.?

500

This is another academic competition Mr. Rocca used to be involved with, and where he met his wife.

What is Model UN?

500

The color Mr. Bischoff dyed his hair in middle school.

What is blue?

500

The amount of TikTok users as of September 2020.

(Double points if a team member can do the beginning of a TikTok dance.)

What is 800 million?