Sample Game: Round Four
Toss-Up + Bonus

Directions: In this section, you will be given five toss-up questions from a variety of categories. Each correct answer is now worth ten points. In addition, for each correct answer, you can earn up to twenty bonus points by answering a series of related questions.

  1. History: Queen Victoria is the longest reigning British monarch. If Queen Elizabeth II's reign continues beyond mid-April of 2011, she will move into second place. What monarch will she replace in the runner-up position?

  2. Sports: In what sport does the Grand Slam for the year begin with the Australian Open in January?

  3. Literature: In what Shakespeare play does the melancholy Jacques begin his "Seven Ages of Man" speech with "All the world's a stage..."?

  4. Music Awards: At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards show, Kanye West interrupted the acceptance speech of the winner of the "Best Female Video" to complain that the award should have gone to Beyoncé instead. Whose acceptance speech did he interrupt?

  5. Science: Who stated in his treatise, On Floating Bodies, that a floating object will displace its own weight of fluid?


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