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The Four AM Mano-a-Mano Bonus

Many teams offer an additional challenge or puzzle or competition during the 4 AM break. The most common and most popular seems to be the simple Mano-A-Mano format. Each team sends down one player (in the parlance, their "mightiest trivia warrior") without books, friends, or anything but a working pen, to face a trivial challenge unknown.

Phasers supplied a simple 20-question quiz worth up to ten points, on about 14 different realms. The top score, a 6, was gotten by Play To Win And I'll Kill You, followed by a 4 and on downwards.

  1. What's the tallest mountain in the continental U.S.?

  2. According to DC Comics, who killed Bruce Wayne's parents?

  3. Who holds the record for career home runs among American League right-handed hitters?

  4. Who said: "I hope when I die, someone has the presence of mind to say, "Ding Dong, the witch is really dead"?

  5. Who has Nobel Prizes in two different categories?

  6. Who killed Achilles?

  7. What did Alfred Nobel invent?

  8. Where was the O.K. Corral?

  9. Who kidnaped Patty Hearst?

  10. Who won the first Heisman Trophy?

  11. Who is the only ex-Beatle to record back-to-back #1 hits?

  12. Who was Sherlock Holmes' landlady?

  13. Who is the only Williams College alumnus enshrined in the Football Hall of Fame?

  14. In the Star Trek episode, "City on the Edge of Forever," who played Edith Keeler?

  15. What is the longest of Shakespeare's plays?

  16. Name the Apollo 11 astronauts.

  17. Where was President Garfield going when he was assassinated?

  18. Who painted "American Gothic"?

  19. What Russian ballet dancer defected to the west in 1961?

  20. What was Mark Twain's real name?