Round 1

Twice as Nice

So good they named it twice: every answer repeats a word or syllable.

  1. Question 1: Which British band released Rio in 1982 and sang the Bond theme A View to a Kill?

  2. Question 2: Which French Polynesian island, crowned by Mount Otemanu, is famous for its lagoon and overwater bungalows?

  3. Question 3: A deficiency of vitamin B1, or thiamine, causes which disease with a repeated name?

  4. Question 4: Which nocturnal lemur of Madagascar taps on wood and uses an exceptionally long middle finger to extract grubs?

  5. Question 5: Which repeated-syllable adjective means affectedly stylish or pretentiously elegant, and comes from French?

Round 2

Location, Location, Fiction

You know the address; name the book or film that takes us there.

  1. Question 6: Panem, with its wealthy Capitol and oppressed districts, is the setting of which 2008 novel by Suzanne Collins?

  2. Question 7: Which 1985 film sends Marty McFly from Hill Valley back to the same town in 1955?

  3. Question 8: Manderley, an English country estate overshadowed by its late mistress, is central to which 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier?

  4. Question 9: Which 2018 Marvel film introduces T'Challa's technologically advanced homeland, Wakanda, as its main setting?

  5. Question 10: Cittàgazze, a city haunted by soul-eating Spectres, first appears in which second volume of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy?

Round 3

Trap Happy

From snapping plants to sporting ploys, don't get caught out.

  1. Question 11: Which carnivorous plant catches insects in hinged leaves edged with tooth-like spikes?

  2. Question 12: Who wrote The Mousetrap, the murder-mystery play that opened in London's West End in 1952?

  3. Question 13: In association football, defenders sometimes step forward together to catch an attacker in an illegal position. What rule gives this trap its name?

  4. Question 14: Which actress played both separated twins, Susan and Sharon, in Disney's original 1961 film The Parent Trap?

  5. Question 15: In Greek legend, what apparently abandoned wooden gift concealed soldiers who would open Troy's gates from within?

Round 4

Period Drama

From two weeks to an emperor's comeback, name the stretch of time.

  1. Question 16: What single English word means a period of fourteen days?

  2. Question 17: In the Western Christian calendar, which period of fasting and reflection begins on Ash Wednesday?

  3. Question 18: What word means a period of one thousand years?

  4. Question 19: What name is given to the eclipse cycle of approximately 18 years, 11 days and eight hours?

  5. Question 20: What name is given to Napoleon's brief return to power in 1815, ending with the second restoration of Louis XVIII?

Round 5

Much Ado About Nothing

Zero points are the subject, not necessarily your score.

  1. Question 21: In tennis scoring, what word means zero?

  2. Question 22: What two-word term names the temperature of zero kelvin?

  3. Question 23: Which composer wrote 4′33″, whose performers are instructed not to play their instruments?

  4. Question 24: Which familiar pepper, commonly sold in green, red or yellow, scores zero on the Scoville heat scale?

  5. Question 25: Which Mesoamerican civilization used a shell-shaped symbol for zero in its number system?

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Twice as Nice
Location, Location, Fiction
Trap Happy
Period Drama
Much Ado About Nothing