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.?
   Mount Whitney, California (14,494 ft.). Mt. McKinley is 5,000 feet taller, but in Alaska.

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

3. Who holds the record for career home runs among American League right-handed hitters?
   Harmon Killebrew (573).

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

5. Who has Nobel Prizes in two different categories? A: Marie Curie (Physics; Chemistry).

6. Who killed Achilles? A: Paris.

7. What did Alfred Nobel invent?
   Dynamite.

8. Where was the O.K. Corral?
   Tombstone, Arizona.

9. Who kidnaped Patty Hearst?
   The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).

10. Who won the first Heisman Trophy?
    Jay Berwanger, U. Chicago, HB (1935).

11. Who is the only ex-Beatle to record back-to-back #1 hits?
    Ringo Starr; "Photograph" and "You're Sixteen."

12. Who was Sherlock Holmes' landlady?
    Mrs. Hudson.

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?
    Joan Collins.

15. What is the longest of Shakespeare's plays?
    "Hamlet" (3,929 lines).

16. Name the Apollo 11 astronauts.
    Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael "I'm the tough one" Collins.

17. Where was President Garfield going when he was assassinated?
    To his Williams College reunion.

18. Who painted "American Gothic"?
    Grant Wood.

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

20. What was Mark Twain's real name?
    Samuel Clemens.