Round 1

Where in the World

100

This city is known as the gay capital of China

What is Chengdu?

200

This country is the birthplace of Hans Christian Anderson, the famous author of fairy tales like The Little Mermaid.

What is Denmark?

300

This city is home to the world's first Peet's Coffee. 

What is Berkeley?

400

This city in England is know for its Roman baths.

What is Bath?

500

This city is where Daisy was born.

What is New Brunswick?

Welcome Back to Algebra

100

This is typically represented with N(1,0).

What is the standard normal distribution?

200

This is the prime factorization of 32.

What is 2^5?

300

The expectation of a Poisson(lambda) distribution.

What is lambda?

400

This number is the highest floor of Evans, the building the math department at Berkeley resides in... for now.

What is 10?

500

This famous math professor proved an intermediary theorem critical in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, whom Daisy has the WeChat of.

Who is Ken Ribet?

What Happened

100

The person led the Manhattan Project, the scientific project that famously resulted in the atomic bomb.

Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?

200

This war was Daisy's historical interest in 4th grade. 

What is World War 2?

300

The Chinese Cultural Revolution, known for the suspension of education in China and a period of violence and chaos, famously spanned this 10-year period. 

What is 1966 - 1976?

400

The Greeks, then a series of city-states, fought multiple wars -- including the famous Battle of Thermopylae -- against this empire. 

What is the Persian Empire (Achaemenid)?

500

This Emperor split the Roman Empire into two sections. 

Who is Diocletian?

Can You Read Me

100

Annabeth Chase from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series has this god/goddess as her godly parent.

Who is Athena?

200

This is the number of books I have read on Goodreads in the past year.

What is 24?

300

Featuring Haymitch Abernathy as its main character, this is the title to the latest installment of Suzanne Collin's famous series The Hunger Games.

What is Sunrise on the Reaping?

400

R. F. Kuang is a recently popular writer, focusing on heavy themes like colonialism and racism in her fantasy and fiction novels. Name 3 of her books.

What is Babel, Katabasis, The Poppy War, Yellowface, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God, Taipei Story?

500

This is the suffix used in the names of apprentices in the Warriors series, a series featuring the love and politics of wild cats.

What is "-paw"?

It's Game Time

100

Game 1 - points given to winners

Secret Hitler

200

Game 2 - points given to winners

Cambia

300

Game 3 - points given to winners

Who came in the best outfit?

400

Game 4 - points given to winners

Who has the best talent? Daily Double! The person who chose this category may wager as many points as they want. You must wager at least 200, and if you lose you give the points you wager to the winner.

500

Game 5 - points given to winners

Who can draw me the best?