Sunday School - Season 1, Week 6
Season 11 starts on Monday
Hi everyone! Season 11 starts on Monday, October 31 and will be open through Sunday, November 6. If you've enjoyed these free quizzes, I hope you'll consider joining the league! More info about how it all works (plus some more sample quizzes) can be found at schooloftrivia.com. To join the league, click the link below:
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School of Trivia players on Jeopardy!
Congrats to Cindy Zhang, Pam Schoenberg, and Rowan Ward, who all appeared in the Jeopardy! Second Chance competition, with Rowan earning a spot in the Tournament of Champions! I am honored to say that means we will have 9 School of Trivia players in the Tournament of Champions starting next week! (I won't list them all right now in case any don't want to be revealed, but assuming I get the OK I will let you all know in each day's newsletter if we have anybody playing that night.)
New free quiz open to all
This is a new quiz series made up of an extra question from each themed quiz throughout the week, open for anyone to play (you can also still catch up with Quizzes #1-5, linked below). Feel free to forward this along to those who might be interested! You can check your scores on the "Sunday" tab of the leaderboard page.
Links
School of Trivia leaderboard — docs.google.com
leaderboard.schooloftrivia.com
Sunday Quiz #1 — docs.google.com
Sunday Quiz #2 — docs.google.com
Sunday Quiz #3 — docs.google.com
Sunday Quiz #4 — docs.google.com
Sunday Quiz #5 — docs.google.com
Mountain theme entries
K2: common alphanumeric name of world's second-highest mountain a.k.a. Mount Godwin-Austen
Mt. Shasta: California volcano and namesake of a brand of soda
Mont Blanc: highest peak in the Alps, namesake of a luxury pen brand
Table Mountain: flat-topped mountain in Cape Town, South Africa
Kangchenjunga: world's 3rd-highest mountain
Sunday Quiz #6
[Q1] Day 11 - "4lphanum3ric5": IN THE NBA (AND ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM), CP3 IS THIS POINT GUARD AND STAR OF STATE FARM COMMERCIALS WHO LED THE PHOENIX SUNS TO THE NBA FINALS IN 2021
[Q2] Day 12 - "Pop Quiz": SODAPOP AND PONYBOY CURTIS ARE BROTHERS IN THIS CLASSIC TEEN NOVEL WRITTEN BY AN OKLAHOMA TEENAGER IN THE 1960s
[Q3] Day 13 - "The Pen is Mightier": THE PILOT G2 IS A POPULAR EXAMPLE OF THIS TYPE OF PEN, WHICH SHARES ITS NAME WITH A FICTIONAL SPORT PLAYED ON THE BIG SCREEN BY JAMES CAAN IN 1975 AND LL COOL J IN 2002
[Q4] Day 14 - "Let's Table That": IN ARTHURIAN LEGEND, A ROUND TABLE SEAT RESERVED FOR THE KNIGHT WHO WOULD ONE DAY LEAD THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL — KNOWN AS THE "SIEGE" THIS — WAS QUITE DANGEROUS, FATAL EVEN, FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO DARED TO SIT IN IT
[Q5] Day 15 - "#3 with a Bullet": SCOTTISH EXPLORER MUNGO PARK WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO SIGHT THIS 3rd-LONGEST RIVER IN AFRICA, WHICH LENDS ITS NAME TO 2 COUNTRIES
Sunday Quiz #6 — docs.google.com
Good luck! As always, feel free to reply to this email or reach me on Twitter with any questions, feedback, etc.
Alex