History / Politics: This one will be over Skype and will be live in order to hopefully eliminate cheating, so be aware of the technical requirement behind this one. This will be a quiz consisting of three rounds of 5 questions each, where a correct answer before your opponent will give you 1, 2, or 3 points (depending on the round) each. Expect the questions to get harder as the game goes on. I will allow 60 seconds to respond to each, and all responses must be made audibly with your hands visible in the Skype call (basically just don’t fking look up the answers to these online while we are doing this, I’ll provide you with the categories for the questions below so just review them if you feel weak on a certain topic). This is the only challenge where your teammates must not help you (they can help you do background research, but during the challenge you must not be talking to people or having people look things up for you).
Round 1 Question Topics: (1 point each)
- 20th century presidents
- Constitutional amendments
- Civil rights movement
- The space race
- Civil war battles
Round 2 Question Topics: (2 points each)
- 19th century battles
- 20th century presidential elections
- Albert Einstein
- Major league baseball
- 21st century statewide elections
Round 3 Question Topics: (3 points each)
- SCOTUS justices
- WWII combatants
- The Texas Revolution
- Founding Fathers
Round 4 Question (Final Jeopardy Style)
- 2000 presidential election
Auction bonus: During the game, at any point, the player from the team that buys this will be able to ‘boost’ his score for the next five questions. Any questions he gets right he will get +2 points for. Additionally, you will win ties.