What agency of the U.S. government collects and evaluates secret data about other countries?

Mental math (no pencil or paper and regular time). If you had to add $$1/3$$ , $$1/4$$ , and $$1/2$$ , what would be the lowest common denominator?

The answer is a word or name beginning with the letters B-A-R. Cereal grain.

The answer is a word or name beginning with the letters B-A-R. Ship-clinging creatures.

The answer is a word or name beginning with the letters B-A-R. River vessel.

The answer is a word or name beginning with the letters B-A-R. Sale-priced item.

What Italian word indicates how fast or slow a piece of music would be played?

Wednesday is Groundhog Day when Punxsutawney Phil will try to see his shadow. What state hosts this big event for Punxsutawney?

Now spell PENNSYLVANIA.

Combustion requires two substances. One is fuel. What is the other?

Identify the sports term beginning with off: For the NFL, approximately February to July.

Identify the sports term beginning with off: A change-up.

Identify the soccer term: Two defensive players are between the offensive player receiving the pass and the goal.

Name the most mountainous major country in Europe.

Can you figure out the fewest called numbers needed to win in a standard game of bingo?

What is the sum of $$0.52$$ , $$3.4$$ , and $$52.003$$ (read as fifty-two hundredths, 3 and four tenths, and 52 and three thousandths)?

The first American astronaut in space was Alan Shepard. Who was the first American to orbit the earth?

If you were visiting the only U.S. city not located in a state, where are you going?

What is the 21st letter of the English alphabet?

The small illuminated flashing indicator on a computer screen that indicates your position is called what?

What do ventriloquists call the props they talk to?

The 2022 Winter Olympics begin this Friday in what Chinese city?

What was King Arthur's kingdom called?

Apart from color, what is notable about the appearance of a toucan?

What is a book called that a person writes about himself?

Now spell AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

The answer is the name of a place containing the word rock: Pilgrim's landing site.

The answer is the name of a place containing the word rock: Capital of Arkansas.

The answer is the name of a place containing the word rock: Denver's mountain range.

Which of the earth's five major biomes—tundra and high mountains; forests; grasslands; desert; aquatic—covers almost one-third of the planet's land area?

Identify the Walt Disney movie that features the song: “Love is an Open Door.”

Identify the Walt Disney movie that features the song: “Mother Knows Best.”

Identify the Walt Disney movie that features the song: “You’re Welcome.”

What is the most earthquake-ridden state in America?

In which month do we celebrate Father's Day?

Mental math (no pencil or paper and regular time). If Sally is $$54$$ inches tall, how tall is she in feet and inches?

Math (Paper and pencil allowed with 60 seconds on the clock after the question is read twice). What is the sum of $$1\tfrac{2}{3}$$ , $$2\tfrac{1}{2}$$ , and $$5\tfrac{5}{8}$$ ?

How do they decide which team gets the first draft choice in the NFL every year?

This black and white animal was not discovered until the 1870s. It was found in the mountains of Tibet and China, lives largely on bamboo shoots, and is often mistaken for a bear. Name it.

Name the only bird that can remain suspended in flight.

(10) First devised in modern times by Leonardo da Vinci, this is a tube through which a swimmer or diver can draw air while under water.

(5) Identify these geographical descriptions containing the word NEW: The capital city is Concord.

(10) Identify these geographical descriptions containing the word NEW: St. John's is the capital of this Canadian maritime province.

(10) Name Germany's largest battleship of World War II.

(10) Russia and Ukraine are the two largest European countries in terms of size; what is the next largest?

(10) Chinese (or Lunar) New Year will be celebrated tomorrow, Feb. 1. Each year has a specific animal assigned to it. 2022 is the year of the ________.

(5) Translate the following Spanish word: Fiesta.

(5) Translate the following Spanish word: Siesta.

(5) Translate the following Spanish word: Gracias.

(5) Name the giant lumberjack of American folklore who, with his blue ox, performed superhuman tasks.

(10) The deeper layer of human skin is called the dermis. What is the outer layer of human skin called?

(10) Now spell EPIDERMIS.

(10) What is the chain of rocks or coral in waters less than six fathoms deep called?

(10) On May 30, 1916, President Wilson issued a proclamation designating June 14 to be observed as what anniversary?

(10) Math (Paper and pencil allowed with 60 seconds on the clock after the question is read twice) What is the product of $$5.32$$ and $$0.4$$ ?

(5) Mental math (no pencil or paper and regular time) How many dots are there on a single die? In other words, what is the sum of $$1+2+3+4+5+6$$ ?

(5) What is the term for a legal defense in which the person accused of a crime seeks to prove that when the crime was committed he was far distant and therefore could not have committed it?

(5) What term describes the document that contains the laws and principles necessary to govern a state or nation?

(10) Which letter of the English alphabet is the only one to have more than one syllable?

(5) Extra question: What American inventor's company displayed the first commercial motion picture machine at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893?

(5) Extra question: This invention came about when a scientist testing a radar tube in 1942 noticed a candy bar melted in his pocket. There are now millions of these fast-cooking appliances. Name it.

(5) Extra question: In a well-known children's song, an English landmark suffers destruction. Can you name it?

(5) Extra question: Fly, back, breast, elementary back, and side — what do these activities all have in common?

(10) Extra question: What happens to a sound as the air waves vibrate more rapidly?