Round 1
Twice as Nice
So good they named it twice: every answer repeats a word or syllable.
Question 1: Which British band released Rio in 1982 and sang the Bond theme A View to a Kill?
Question 2: Which French Polynesian island, crowned by Mount Otemanu, is famous for its lagoon and overwater bungalows?
Question 3: A deficiency of vitamin B1, or thiamine, causes which disease with a repeated name?
Question 4: Which nocturnal lemur of Madagascar taps on wood and uses an exceptionally long middle finger to extract grubs?
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.
Question 6: Panem, with its wealthy Capitol and oppressed districts, is the setting of which 2008 novel by Suzanne Collins?
Question 7: Which 1985 film sends Marty McFly from Hill Valley back to the same town in 1955?
Question 8: Manderley, an English country estate overshadowed by its late mistress, is central to which 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier?
Question 9: Which 2018 Marvel film introduces T'Challa's technologically advanced homeland, Wakanda, as its main setting?
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.
Question 11: Which carnivorous plant catches insects in hinged leaves edged with tooth-like spikes?
Question 12: Who wrote The Mousetrap, the murder-mystery play that opened in London's West End in 1952?
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?
Question 14: Which actress played both separated twins, Susan and Sharon, in Disney's original 1961 film The Parent Trap?
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.
Question 16: What single English word means a period of fourteen days?
Question 17: In the Western Christian calendar, which period of fasting and reflection begins on Ash Wednesday?
Question 18: What word means a period of one thousand years?
Question 19: What name is given to the eclipse cycle of approximately 18 years, 11 days and eight hours?
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.
Question 21: In tennis scoring, what word means zero?
Question 22: What two-word term names the temperature of zero kelvin?
Question 23: Which composer wrote 4′33″, whose performers are instructed not to play their instruments?
Question 24: Which familiar pepper, commonly sold in green, red or yellow, scores zero on the Scoville heat scale?
Question 25: Which Mesoamerican civilization used a shell-shaped symbol for zero in its number system?
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