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SOSB Halftimes
100

This book series starring Katniss Everdeen has had immense success, being adapted into a movie series which grossed over 3 billion worldwide.

What is The Hunger Games?

100

This major key contains 2 sharps and is more commonly used in orchestral music than band music.

What is D major?

100

This is the basic unit of life, your body is estimated to have 30 trillion of these on and within it.

What is the cell?

100

This is the largest ocean, spanning 30% of the Earth's surface.

What is the Pacific Ocean?
100

According to the SOSB website, this SOSB 19 halftime show had the most different tunes in it.

What is Veteran's Day Salute

200

In Homer's The Odyssey, Odysseus called himself this name to confuse the cyclops Polyphemus and stop him from getting help from his family.

What is Nobody?

200

The C major triad contains these three notes.

What are C, E, and G?

200

This sterile hybrid of a donkey and a horse is best known for its ability to carry heavy loads.

What is a mule?

200
This river, with a length of 4,132 miles is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
200

This show is the only show played discontinuously twice in one year during the Stolarik Era. 

What is Latin Fire?

300

This literary device, according to Oxford Dictionary, is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference 

What is Allusion?


300

This excerpt is from the final movement of this major composer’s final symphony.

Who is Mozart?

300

Colloquially known as the ‘powerhouse of the cell,’ this organelle is responsible for synthesizing ATP for the cell.

What is the mitochondria?

300

Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, is located on the border of these two countries.

What are Nepal and Tibet (China)?

300

Name the musical artist or group that has had more than one halftime show named after them?

Who is Stan Kenton?
400

Written around 2100 BCE, this poem is considered to be the oldest surviving piece of literature written.

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

400

This key is the relative minor key of G major, containing 1 sharp.

What is E minor?

400

This domain includes animals, plants, and fungi, excluding bacteria and archaea, and originates from the Greek word for ‘good nut'.

What are eukaryotes?

400

This European nation is the smallest in the world, with a landmass of only 109 acres.

What is Vatican City?

400
This show was the first halftime show performed in the Stolarik Era.

What is Music of Shrek?

500

Many of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as traditional English sonnets, are written in this specific poetic meter, featuring lines of ten syllables in an unstressed-stressed pattern.

What is Iambic Pentameter?

500

This excerpt is from the final movement of this composer’s 5th symphony, often interpreted as a protest against the oppression of the Soviets.

Who is Shostakovich?

500

This octameric protein complex serves to wrap around the DNA for more easy packaging within the nucleus.

What is the histone?

500

This capital city is the highest by elevation in the world, sitting at over 11,000 feet above sea level.

What is La Paz?

500

Name a tune from the first ever SOSB halftime show.

What is Watermelon Man, Mercy Mercy Mercy, or You Really Got Me