Hour Bonus #1 Key: Showtunes Audio

1. Sue Me / Guys and Dolls

2. Simple Joys / Pippin

3. No One Mourns the Wicked / Wicked

4. Special / Avenue Q

5. I Know a Girl / Chicago

6. Hair / Hair

7. Cooties / Hairspray

8. Gee, Officer Krupke / West Side Story

9. Prologue: Into the Woods / Into the Woods

10. Mamma Mia / Mamma Mia

11. Gimme Gimme / Thoroughly Modern Millie

12. Two and Four / Swing

13. Johanna / Sweeney Tood

14. Tie Riddle / Scarlet Pimpernel

15. He Lives in You / The Lion King

16. Heaven on Their Minds / Jesus Christ Super Star

17. Fake Your Way to the Top / Dream Girls

18. Contact / Rent

19. Spanish Rose / Bye Bye Birdie

20. Mooning / Grease

21. How Ya Baby / Ain't Misbehavin'

22. Big Spender / Fosse (or Sweet Charity)

23. Happiness / You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

24. The Song That Goes Like This / Spamalot

25. The Phantom of the Opera / The Phantom of the Opera

SCORING GUIDE – HOUR BONUS #1

Number of Correct Blanks / Points Awarded With Internet / Points Awarded No Internet
50 / 11 / 22
47-49 / 10 / 20
43-46 / 9 / 18
38-42 / 8 / 16
33-37 / 7 / 14
28-32 / 6 / 12
23-27 / 5 / 10
18-22 / 4 / 8
13-17 / 3 / 6
8-12 / 2 / 4
1-7 / 1 / 2
0 / 0 / 0

Hour Bonus #2 Key: Harry Potter

Part I. The Beginning: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

1. Fluffy the three-headed dog, Devil's Snare, flying keys, enchanted chessmen, potions, troll, Mirror of Erised

2. Hagrid delivers him by flying motorcycle

3. Harry sees himself with his family, Ron sees himself as Head Boy and Quidditch captain

4. Set a snake loose at the zoo, turned a teacher's wig blue, shrunk a sweater, grew back his hair, jumped on the school roof, among others

5. It has the same phoenix-feather core as Voldemort's wand

6. Hut on the Rock in the middle of the sea with the Dursleys

7. McGonagall saw Harry catch Neville Longbottom's Remembrall and appointed him Seeker

8. A dragon, Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback

9. Ron, Hermione, Neville, Fred, George, Percy, Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, among others

10. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville Longbottom

Part II. The Fandom in Figures

1. 2

2. 4000

3. 5

4. $1.4 billion

5. 0

Part III. It Didn't Happen in the Books

1. Harry became an Auror, Hermione worked in magical law enforcement, Luna was a naturalist

2. Talking head on the Knight Bus

3. Gellert Grindelwald

4. Bill was born in 1970, Charlie in 1972, Percy in 1976, Fred and George in 1978, Ron in 1980, Ginny in 1981

5. The Black family tree

Part IV. It Did Happen in the Books

1. Lucius Malfoy slipped it to her in Flourish and Blotts bookstore over the summer

2. He saw a picture of Pettigrew in his Animagus rat form on Ron's shoulder in the newspaper; the caption said that Ron would be returning to Hogwarts in the fall

3. Harry flies on a broom to get to the egg, Cedric transfigures a rock into a dog to distract it, Krum uses the Conjunctivitis Curse, Fleur puts it into a trance

4. Dumbledore's Army meets in the Room of Requirement

5. He drinks it to get a memory from Horace Slughorn

Part V. Harry Potter in the News

1. During the Priori Incantatem scene, shadows Voldemort's victims came out of his wand in reverse order, but James came out before Lily – this would mean that James died after Lily, which does not hold together with information from the other books

2. The rivalry between fans who favor a romance between Harry and Ginny Weasley and those who favor a romance between Harry and Hermione Granger

3. Lexicon owner Steve Vander Ark announced that he intended to publish a book version of his site's content; Rowling sued for copyright infringement and denounced Vander Ark for trying to make a profit off information that was once free and available to everyone

4. Kenia Cooper delivered a copy of Order of the Phoenix a day before the release date

5. Middlebury and Vassar

Part VI. Name the Location

1. Triwizard Third Task maze on the Hogwarts Quidditch Pitch

2. Hogwarts Divination classroom

3. Ministry of Magic Atrium

4. Hogwarts Forbidden Forest

5. The Riddle House, home of Voldemort's parents

6. The Burrow, Weasley house

Part VII. The End of an Era: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

1a. The Diary of Tom Riddle

1b. No previous owner known

1c. With Lucius Malfoy

1d. Harry Potter

1e. Stabbed with Basilisk fang

2a. The Ring of the House of Peverell

2b. Marvolo Gaunt

2c. The House of Gaunt

2d. Albus Dumbledore

2e. Method of destruction unknown

3a. The Locket of Slytherin

3b. Merope Gaunt

3c. The cave visited by the orphans

3d. Ron Weasley

3e. Stabbed by Gryffindor's sword

4a. The Cup of Hufflepuff

4b. Hepzibah Smith

4c. Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts

4d. Hermione Granger

4e. Stabbed with Basilisk fang

5a. The Diadem of Ravenclaw

5b. Rowena Ravenclaw

5c. Room of Requirement at Hogwarts

5d. Vincent Crabbe

5e. Destroyed by Fiendfyre

6a. Nagini

6b. No previous owner known

6c. Not hidden

6d. Neville Longbottom

6e. Decapitated by Gryffindor's sword

7a. Elder Wand

7b. Cannot be defeated in battle

7c. Antioch Peverell

7d. Albus Dumbledore's tomb

8a. Resurrection Stone

8b. Can bring back the dead in the form of living shadows

8c. Cadmus Peverell

8d. Missing in the woods

9a. Cloak of Invisibility

9b. Everlasting invisibility, protects the wearer

9c. Ignotus Peverell

9d. Still owned by Harry

SCORING GUIDE – HOUR BONUS #2

Number of Correct Blanks / Points Awarded With Internet / Points Awarded No Internet
78 / 11 / 22
74-77 / 10 / 20
66-73 / 9 / 18
59-65 / 8 / 16
51-58 / 7 / 14
43-50 / 6 / 12
35-42 / 5 / 10
27-34 / 4 / 8
20-26 / 3 / 6
12-19 / 2 / 4
1-11 / 1 / 2
0 / 0 / 0

Hour Bonus #3 Key: Esoteric Mythology

Pictogods

1. Cloacina (sewer goddess, Roman)

2. Jupiter (diurnal lightning, Roman)

3. Summanus (nocturnal lightning, Roman)

4. Cardea (goddess of door hinges, Roman)

5. Äkräs (turnip deity, Finnish)

6. Devera (broom Goddess, Roman)

7. Queztalcoatl (Aztec God, a pterosaur is named after him)

8. Chronos (Greek God, Kronosaurus named after him)

9. Edusa (Goddess of baby’s food, Roman)

10. Potina (Goddess of children’s drinks, Roman)

Mathematical Bestiary

  1. Cyclops (Person minus eye/i)
  2. Cerastes (Ram + Snake)
  3. Sleipnir (Horse + four legs)
  4. Amphisbaena (Snake with head on both ends)
  5. Ahuizotl (half dog, half monkey with hand on tail)
  6. Akhlat (orca/wolf)
  7. Al-mi’rag (unicorn rabbit)
  8. Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh bat/frog, since French people are “frogs”)
  9. Impundulu (South African Lightning Bird)

Punishments

  1. Litr, a dwarf who was kicked by Thor into Baldr’s funeral pyre for hanging out around his feet.
  2. Saehrímnir, a “cosmic boar” who was killed and prepared for dinner every night for the gods
  3. Sisyphus, who had to push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down, over and over.
  4. Tantalus, for whom food and drink were always just out of reach.
  5. Loki, who was tied up and had snake venom dripped upon him.

What would you do?

  1. Should cite Heracles pwning the Lernean Hydra, who slew it by cutting off its heads and immolating them with flames so they couldn’t regrow. The crab dilemma was solved by Heracles by stepping on it.
  2. Cut the knot in half with a sword (or some such), like Alexander the Great and the Gordian knot.
  3. You respond that you noticed him from far away, because he is an Abatwa of Zulu mythology and will be heavily offended if you imply he is small. Respond in any other way and he will retaliate with poisoned arrows.
  4. Get the HELL out of there, ‘cause Ragnarok is coming.
  5. Say your name is “No one,” à la Odysseus with the cyclops.
  6. Calm the storm by reading poetry, as Amergin, son of Mil, did in Celtic mythology.
  7. Boann, a goddess of Irish mythology whose name is interpreted as “white cow” (there may well be other acceptable answers as well)
  8. Dagda’s cauldron, which provides an unlimited amount of food.

Uncle Remus

  1. Joel Chandler Harris; Eatonton, Georgia
  2. Brer Rabbit
  3. Brother
  4. In the briar patch
  5. Because he’s “always cutting capers and bossing everyone around”
  6. Brer Bear
  7. A Tar Baby; Brer Rabbit tries to speak to the tar baby but gets angry when it doesn’t answer, hits it, and gets stuck to it.
  8. Old Man Tarrypin/ Terrapin
  9. A turtle
  10. Twice
  11. Brer Mink
  12. He told her about his Grandaddy’s spots, and hit each spot when he mentioned it, killing a mosquito every time. The stories about his grandaddy’s spots bored Brer Wolf, and when he fell asleep Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf’s daughter went on a walk in the woods.

Fictional Mythology

  1. Sauron (Lord of the Rings)
  2. The Lords of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica)
  3. The Jabberwock (Jabberwocky)
  4. Hexagonal (The Library of Babel by Borges)
  5. The Wikkit Gate (Life, The Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams)

SCORING GUIDE – HOUR BONUS #3

Number of Correct Blanks / Points Awarded w/ Internet / Points Awarded No Internet
56 / 11 / 22
53-55 / 10 / 20
48-52 / 9 / 18
42-47 / 8 / 16
36-41 / 7 / 14
31-35 / 6 / 12
25-30 / 5 / 10
19-24 / 4 / 8
14-18 / 3 / 6
8-13 / 2 / 4
1-7 / 1 / 2
0 / 0 / 0

Hour Bonus #4 Key: Teen Movies

Tagline: Don’t Get Mad, Get Even.

1. John Tucker Must Die

2. John Tucker is a statue, wrapped in a painting, with a frame made of muscle.

3. Dates girls from different cliques, tells them it has to be secret because of basketball season

4a. Beth makes John the Face of genital herpes

4b. Heather gives John estrogen instead of protein.

4c. Make him fall in love with Kate.

5. Heather makes Kate a cheerleader and puts her on top of the pyramid.

6. She does yogalates.

7. Chocolate

8. Kick ass dance moves

9. Tells him to wear a thong and climb to the window of her hotel room. She tells him the wrong room, and he ends up climbing through the window of the cheerleading coaches room, and paraded back down to the basketball player’s floor in the thong.

10. Like letting your best friend sleep in a silk hammock. They’re breezy, don't bind, give just enough swing.

11. 12 bottles of shampoo and 3 days.

Tagline: Welcome to Girl World

1. Mean Girls

2. Her mother receives tenure at Northwestern

3. Xylocarp

4. On the third day god created the Remington bull action rifle so that men could fight the dinosaurs, and the homosexuals?

5. It’s the same in every country

6. US Weekly, The Plastics

7. Orange

8. It’s full of secrets

9. Toaster strudel

10a/b. She’s flawless/She has two fendi purses a silver lexus/Her hair is insured for $10,000/She does car commercials in Japan/She was in Varsity Blues/John Stamos said she was pretty

11a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i. Frosh, ROTC guys, preps, jv jocks, asian nerds, cool Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don’t eat anythings, desperate wannabes, burn outs, sexually active band geeks, greatest people you will ever meet, the plastics

12. “So if you’re from Africa, why are you white?”

13a/b/c/. On Wednesday they wear pink/No tank top two days in a row/Ponytails once a week/Jeans or track pants on Fridays.

14. Math enthusiast/ Badass MC

15. KG and the power of 3

16. Aaron Samuels

17. Hooks up with Shane Oman in the projection room above the auditorium

18. Kalteen Bars

19. Randy from Chase Visa

20. A fugly slut

21. Baseball bat

22. The DJ was already paid

23. Bathroom stall

24. People thought she pushed Regina in front a bus.

Tagline: In the game of seduction, there is only one rule: Never fall in love

1. Cruel Intentions

2. Les liaisons dangereuses

3. They are step-siblings

4. A good, helpful, benevolent socialite

5. A womanizing, deceitful, trouble maker

6. Journal

7. Put nude pictures of her on the internet.

8. She turns to God

9. Cocaine

10. Her boyfriend Court Reynolds broke up with her because he was in love with Cecile

11. Her cello teacher, Ronald; Love Letters

12. Sleep with Cecile, because she wants to ruin Court’s perfect girlfriend. “Be Captain Pickard and boldly go where no man has gone before”

13. She is the new headmaster’s daughter, and she doesn’t believe in sex before marriage.

14. Sebastian must sleep with Annette. If he wins, he can sleep with Kathryn. If he loses, she gets his car.

15. She doesn’t trust herself with him

16. Kathryn convinces Sebastian that he doesn’t love Annette, even though he does.

17. She tells him that Sebastian hit her in a rage, and that Sebastian slept with Cecile.

18. He is killed when he saves Annette from being struck by a car.

19. Annette and Cecile publish Sebastian’s journal and distribute it to the school, which tells the truth about Kathryn’s evil, manipulative ways.

Miscellany

1. Haiti

2. 1-3-5

3. Booze, tunes, hotties

4. London

5. The cemetery

6. Burn, pine, perish

7. Couch

8. Melba Toast

9. Condoms

10. Swiss Guards

11. Europe

12. Snap their fingers

13. Ruckus

14. Limp-wristed

15. Arizona

16. Razzles

17. 16

18. Hunt wolverines in Alaska

19. "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"

20. J. Evans Pritchard

21. OR scrubs

22. "Try a Little Tenderness," by Otis Redding

SCORING GUIDE – HOUR BONUS #4

Number of Correct Blanks / Points Awarded With Internet / Points Awarded No Internet
76 / 11 / 22
72-75 / 10 / 20
65-71 / 9 / 18
57-64 / 8 / 16
50-56 / 7 / 14
42-49 / 6 / 12
34-41 / 5 / 10
27-33 / 4 / 8
19-26 / 3 / 6
11-18 / 2 / 4
1-10 / 1 / 2
0 / 0 / 0

Hour Bonus #5 Key: Internet Culture

Warm Up

  1. Your Base (“All Your Base Are Belong To Us”)
  2. Flying Spaghetti Monster(ism)
  3. Pwn (oars becomes Pars, just as own becomes pwn)
  4. Conservapedia (“Wikipedia is six times more liberal than reality”)
  5. Washington

XKCD

  1. Human Proximity to Cat (Far to Near)
  2. A Snapple (an apple infused with tin)
  3. Stacy’s Dad
  4. Rayleigh-Jeans Law
  5. log(3)/log(2) (about 1.585)
  6. Compiling
  7. A hypothetical situation
  8. The Fourier transform of a cat
  9. He’s from the internet, and is gluing captions to cats
  10. The Ballmer Peak; Windows Millennium (ME)
  11. I haven’t a goddamn clue

Conservapedia

  1. Bred from the kangaroos from the ark, migrated to Australia (perhaps over land due to lower sea levels, perhaps it was before Pangaea broke up)
  2. Any three of rebellion, moral depravity, superficiality, error, state churches, poor relationship with father, division in religion, learned times peace and prosperity, negative experiences with theists.
  3. Liberal Bias
  4. Pacific Northwest Arboreal Octopus (or Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus)
  5. Liberals

Uncyclopedia

  1. Hungary; strangely shaped wheels
  2. Alien Vs. Predator
  3. The Bacon and Cheese Sandwich of 1905
  4. Driveby Giraffings
  5. Baby seals seizing the provinces of Ninevut and most of the Northwest Territories
  6. Austria-Hungary; it had been known as “The Austrian Empire,” “That Empire,” or “The Hapsburg’s Back Garden”
  7. Black holes, rogue asteroids, and communists
  8. Pikachu
  9. Travel further back in time and step on the butterfly’s grandfather. This will prevent the butterfly from being born and thus from being stepped on by you.
  10. Kansas

1337

The questions are as follows, so the answer needs to pertain to that:

  1. Is Pluto a planet?
  2. How old are you? When is your birthday?
  3. How many days are in a year?
  4. Who is your favorite power ranger? (OMFG Rita sux)
  5. What season is it (It's cool outside...)
  6. Are you a leet hacker or a newb?

Flash cartoon

  1. It is close to us, it lights up the sky at night, it is lovely, it makes the tides go high
  2. Job
  3. 9 Sickles and a Dungbomb
  4. Liopleurodon
  5. Sexy things
  6. Cow, pidgeon, chinchilla, pig
  7. The Powerpuff Girls, the Simpsons
  8. Tree
  9. Agent Smith and Hitler
  10. Leonard Sportsinterviews
  11. Canon in D by Pachabel
  12. Hawaii and Alaska

Lolcats – Judge based on how awesome they are.

SCORING GUIDE – HOUR BONUS #5

Number of Correct Blanks / Points Awarded With Internet / Points Awarded No Internet
49 / 11 / 22
47-48 / 10 / 20
42-46 / 9 / 18
37-41 / 8 / 16
32-36 / 7 / 14
27-31 / 6 / 12
22-26 / 5 / 10
17-21 / 4 / 8
12-16 / 3 / 6
7-11 / 2 / 4
1-6 / 1 / 2
0 / 0 / 0

Hour Bonus #6 Key: Sports

Part I. Fathers and Sons

A1a/b/c/d. Ray Boone (grandfather), Bob Boone (father), Bret Boone (son), Aaron Boone (son)

A2a/b/c. Gus Bell (grandfather), Buddy Bell (father), David Bell (son)

B1/2/3/4. Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Chris Simms, Brian Griese

C1a/b. Ken Griffey, Sr., Ken Griffey, Jr.

C2a/b. Tim Raines, Sr., Tim Raines, Jr.

D1a/b. Bold Ruler, Secretariat

D2a/b. Maury Wills, Bump Wills

D3a/b. Archie Manning, Peyton Manning

D4a/b. Calvin Hill, Grant Hill

D5a/b. Bill Walton, Luke Walton

D6a/b. Bobby Hull, Brent Hull

D7a/b. Jack Nicklaus, Gary Nicklaus

D8a/b. Dale Earrhardt, Dale Earrhardt, Jr.

E1/2. Yannick Noah, Joakim Noah

Part II. Record Holders

A1/2. Hank Aaron, Tommy Aaron

B1/2. Phil Niekro, Joe Niekro

C1/2. Wayne Gretzky, Brent Gretzky

Part III. Brothers and Sisters

A1/2. Billie Jean King and Randy Moffett

B1/2. Reggie Miller and Cheryl Miller

C1/2. Dave Meyers and Ann Meyers

D1/2. Eric Heiden and Beth Heiden

Part IV. Sports and Non-Sports

A1/2. Stan Love (Washington Bullets), Mike Love (Beach Boys)

B1/2. Angela Davis, Ben Davis

C1/2. Archie Bell, Rickey Bell

D1/2. Tug McGraw, Tim McGraw

Miscellaneous

1/2. Jason Giambi, Jeremy Giambi

SCORING GUIDE – HOUR BONUS #6

Number of Correct Blanks / Points Awarded With Internet / Points Awarded No Internet
57 / 11 / 22
54-56 / 10 / 20
48-53 / 9 / 18
43-47 / 8 / 16
37-42 / 7 / 14
31-36 / 6 / 12
26-30 / 5 / 10
20-25 / 4 / 8
14-19 / 3 / 6
9-13 / 2 / 4
1-12 / 1 / 2
0 / 0 / 0

Hour Bonus #7 Key: Zelda

Origins and Escapades

  1. E (accept I, but if they have I multiple times you can only accept it once)
  2. D
  3. H
  4. B
  5. I
  6. J
  7. G
  8. C
  9. A
  10. F

Monster Madness

  1. Throw bombs at it; appears in Link’s Awakening (also accept Oracle of Ages)
  2. Keep an arrow trained on whichever rider is slightly lighter colored, then shoot him as he exits the painting; appears in Ocarina of Time
  3. Clawshot onto its eye and slash it with your sword; appears in Twilight Princess
  4. Absorb three fires or three ices in a row with the mirror shield, then release the energy back at her; appears in Ocarina of Time
  5. Ride on a spinner, bounce back and forth from wall to wall until you get a chance to jump straight into its face, then slash it with your sword; appears in Twilight Princess
  6. Shoot the blue orb at the end of its body with light arrows; appears in Wind Waker
  7. Charge up your sword while facing away from it, make it back up against you, release the spin attack; appears in Link’s Awakening
  8. Put on the giant’s mask, then go for the tails with your sword; appears in Majora’s Mask
  9. Hit her with your ball and chain (basically); appears in Twilight Princess
  10. Clawshot/hookshot its helm away, then kill it however; appears in Twilight Princess (also accept Link’s Awakening and Majora’s Mask)

Songs