HOW TONIGHT WORKS

Question up, music on. Your 2 minutes start on the very first note.

Get to your breakout room fast and deliberate. Two minutes covers all of it, not two minutes to think.

Agree on one ANSWER and one BID.

Your captain DMs both to the scorekeeper.

Hustle back. The second you’re in and answered, you’re safe.

No partial credit: if we ask for two things, we need both. Spelling doesn't matter, short form is fine.

The scorekeeper is the final word. Appeals go to the complaints department, closed this evening due to government cutbacks from DOGE.

FIRST HALF

BID

POINTS

Your team bids 1, 3, or 5 points on every question.

One of each per round, and you must use all three.

Choose which question gets your five. Right answers win the bid, wrong answers lose nothing.

Bid big where you're sure. Bid small where you're praying.

FIRST HALF

ROUND 1

TONIGHT'S CATEGORIES

Quiz Me Baby One More Time

You Shook Me All Night Long

Cry Me A Rios

BID 1 · 3 · 5

FIRST HALF · ROUND 1 · QUESTION 1

Q1 / 24

Quiz Me Baby One More Time

In 1966, two Columbia students published the New York Times bestselling book Trivia, which gave the word its modern meaning, a term coined by one of its coauthors. But what does the Latin root of trivia literally mean?

BID

Quiz Me Baby One More Time

You Shook Me All Night Long

Cry Me A Rios

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FIRST HALF · ROUND 1 · QUESTION 2

Q2 / 24

You Shook Me All Night Long

Which artist's 2023 Seattle concert set a Guinness World Record for seismic activity when fans shaking the ground registered like a 2.3 magnitude earthquake?

BID

Quiz Me Baby One More Time

You Shook Me All Night Long

Cry Me A Rios

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FIRST HALF · ROUND 1 · QUESTION 3

Q3 / 24

Cry Me A Rios

Which song was the fourth and final single from Justin Timberlake's debut solo album Justified?

BID

Quiz Me Baby One More Time

You Shook Me All Night Long

Cry Me A Rios

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FIRST HALF

ROUND 2

TONIGHT'S CATEGORIES

What's That Doing in Uranus?

That's What She Said

Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

BID 1 · 3 · 5

FIRST HALF · ROUND 2 · QUESTION 1

Q4 / 24

What's That Doing in Uranus?

What gas in Uranus's atmosphere gives the planet its blue-green color?

BID

What's That Doing in Uranus?

That's What She Said

Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

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FIRST HALF · ROUND 2 · QUESTION 2

Q5 / 24

That's What She Said

Which screen legend, the queen of the double entendre, said, “When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better”?

BID

What's That Doing in Uranus?

That's What She Said

Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

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FIRST HALF · ROUND 2 · QUESTION 3

Q6 / 24

Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

In bowling, what term describes three strikes in a row?

BID

What's That Doing in Uranus?

That's What She Said

Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

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FIRST HALF

ROUND 3

TONIGHT'S CATEGORIES

What's the Frequency, Professor Kenneth?

Woody or Alan

From Sea to Shining Sea

BID 1 · 3 · 5

FIRST HALF · ROUND 3 · QUESTION 1

Q7 / 24

What's the Frequency, Professor Kenneth?

What 1990 movie stars Christian Slater as a shy teen who runs a pirate radio station at night under the foul-mouthed alter ego Happy Harry Hard-On?

BID

What's the Frequency, Professor Kenneth?

Woody or Alan

From Sea to Shining Sea

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FIRST HALF · ROUND 3 · QUESTION 2

Q8 / 24

Woody or Alan

Who in 1961 became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 capsule, and a decade later swung a golf club on the moon?

BID

What's the Frequency, Professor Kenneth?

Woody or Alan

From Sea to Shining Sea

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FIRST HALF · ROUND 3 · QUESTION 3

Q9 / 24

From Sea to Shining Sea

What is the westernmost state in the United States, and what is the easternmost state in the United States?

BID

What's the Frequency, Professor Kenneth?

Woody or Alan

From Sea to Shining Sea

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HALFTIME

One question. Every team plays.

WAGER

POINTS

Right answers win the wager. Wrong answers lose it.

THE CATEGORY IS…

Count Von Count

HALFTIME · ALL PLAY

Q10 / 24

Count Von Count

Ah ah ah! If the Count from Sesame Street tried to count them all, which number is bigger, all the stars in our galaxy or all the trees on Earth?

WAGER 0 TO 10 POINTS

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HYDRATION BREAK

THE HALF-TIME CONSTITUTIONAL

That's the first half in the books. Take five, grab a drink, refill whatever needs refilling. Round 4 is next, where the bids climb to 3, 5, and 7.

SECOND HALF

BID

POINTS

Same game, higher stakes. Bids are now 3, 5, or 7 points per question.

One of each per round, each used exactly once.

Still no penalty for wrong answers. Fortune favors the bold.

SECOND HALF

ROUND 4

TONIGHT'S CATEGORIES

We Don't Talk About Bruno

The First Rule of Fight Club…

Oh My God, Not Israel Again

BID 3 · 5 · 7

SECOND HALF · ROUND 4 · QUESTION 1

Q11 / 24

We Don't Talk About Bruno

What liqueur, produced by silent Carthusian monks at a monastery founded by Saint Bruno, trended so hard in 2023 it triggered a famous shortage?

BID

We Don't Talk About Bruno

The First Rule of Fight Club…

Oh My God, Not Israel Again

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SECOND HALF · ROUND 4 · QUESTION 2

Q12 / 24

The First Rule of Fight Club…

In the graveyard duel in J.K. Rowling's Goblet of Fire, Harry's wand locks with the wand of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, because both wands share the same rare core. What type of beast donated that core? Bonus 5 points: Give us the beast's name.

BID

We Don't Talk About Bruno

The First Rule of Fight Club…

Oh My God, Not Israel Again

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SECOND HALF · ROUND 4 · QUESTION 3

Q13 / 24

Oh My God, Not Israel Again

In Judaism, the four-letter name of God, the Tetragrammaton, is considered too sacred to pronounce aloud. Observant Jews instead refer to God using what Hebrew word that literally means “the name”?

BID

We Don't Talk About Bruno

The First Rule of Fight Club…

Oh My God, Not Israel Again

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SECOND HALF

ROUND 5

TONIGHT'S CATEGORIES

Heated Rivalry

The Whirled Cup

Haylee's Celestial Bodies

BID 3 · 5 · 7

SECOND HALF · ROUND 5 · QUESTION 1

Q14 / 24

Heated Rivalry

Magic Johnson's Michigan State beat Larry Bird's undefeated team in the 1979 NCAA championship game, still the most watched college basketball game ever. What school did Larry Bird play for?

BID

Heated Rivalry

The Whirled Cup

Haylee's Celestial Bodies

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SECOND HALF · ROUND 5 · QUESTION 2

Q15 / 24

The Whirled Cup

One of Disneyland’s original opening day attractions in 1955 is based on a literary party where the host never stops hosting because it is permanently six o’clock. What is the name of the ride?

BID

Heated Rivalry

The Whirled Cup

Haylee's Celestial Bodies

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SECOND HALF · ROUND 5 · QUESTION 3

Q16 / 24

Haylee's Celestial Bodies

What actress, whose good genes have famously blessed her with an ample bosom, had an early role as Eden, the doomed 15-year-old bride, in season two of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale?

BID

Heated Rivalry

The Whirled Cup

Haylee's Celestial Bodies

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SECOND HALF

ROUND 6

TONIGHT'S CATEGORIES

Everything You Can Do, I Can Do Backwards and in Heels

Crosswords

We Interrupt This Program

BID 3 · 5 · 7

SECOND HALF · ROUND 6 · QUESTION 1

Q17 / 24

Everything You Can Do, I Can Do Backwards and in Heels

What early 2000s Bezos-backed technology product was codenamed “Project Ginger” after Ginger Rogers before its public release?

BID

Everything You Can Do, I Can Do Backwards and in Heels

Crosswords

We Interrupt This Program

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SECOND HALF · ROUND 6 · QUESTION 2

Q18 / 24

Crosswords

What word, which commonly means a feeling of offense or resentment, can also mean shady foliage, because it comes from the Latin word for shadow or shade?

BID

Everything You Can Do, I Can Do Backwards and in Heels

Crosswords

We Interrupt This Program

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SECOND HALF · ROUND 6 · QUESTION 3

Q19 / 24

We Interrupt This Program

In July 1985, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings interrupted the soap opera General Hospital to announce that, after 79 days of public backlash, a company was reversing a disastrous decision. What product was making a triumphant return?

BID

Everything You Can Do, I Can Do Backwards and in Heels

Crosswords

We Interrupt This Program

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THE WAGER

WAGER

POINTS

Every bonus question is a wager of 0 to 10 points.

Right answers win the wager. Wrong answers lose it.

Same drill. Deliberate, return, captains DM wager and answer.

The scorekeeper has been told to show no mercy. She did not need telling.

BONUS ROUND

TONIGHT'S CATEGORIES

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

The Deep South

The New Coke

Swift Quake

Quiz Me Baby One Last Time

THE BIDS ARE OVER. NOW WE GAMBLE. · WAGER 0 TO 10 ON EVERY QUESTION

BONUS ROUND · QUESTION 1

Q20 / 24

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

The 1994 R.E.M. hit takes its name from a bizarre 1986 incident in which a man repeatedly shouted “What's the frequency, Kenneth?” while attacking what longtime news anchor?

WAGER 0 TO 10 POINTS

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

The Deep South

The New Coke

Swift Quake

Quiz Me Baby One Last Time

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BONUS ROUND · QUESTION 2

Q21 / 24

The Deep South

Earlier tonight, Alaska claimed three of the four compass titles. Which state holds the fourth as the southernmost state in the union?

WAGER 0 TO 10 POINTS

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

The Deep South

The New Coke

Swift Quake

Quiz Me Baby One Last Time

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BONUS ROUND · QUESTION 3

Q22 / 24

The New Coke

In 2019, Coca-Cola brought back New Coke for a limited run as a tie-in with what hit Netflix show set in the 1980s, a move so popular it crashed their website?

WAGER 0 TO 10 POINTS

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

The Deep South

The New Coke

Swift Quake

Quiz Me Baby One Last Time

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BONUS ROUND · QUESTION 4

Q23 / 24

Swift Quake

After Taylor's Seattle shows made seismic history, the California Office of Emergency Services asked Caltech to wire up SoFi Stadium for her LA concerts, measuring the ground-shaking of every one of the 45 songs in her marathon setlist. According to Caltech, which song shook the stadium the hardest?

WAGER 0 TO 10 POINTS

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

The Deep South

The New Coke

Swift Quake

Quiz Me Baby One Last Time

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BONUS ROUND · QUESTION 5

Q24 / 24

Quiz Me Baby One Last Time

Ed Goodgold, co-author of the 1966 book Trivia, traded quiz questions for rock and roll and became the first manager of what doo-wop revival act, who went from the stage at Woodstock to their very own late-70s TV variety show?

WAGER 0 TO 10 POINTS

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

The Deep South

The New Coke

Swift Quake

Quiz Me Baby One Last Time

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