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3. DROP one question for zero points
4. SHEEP one question and take points for the most common answer in that round
5. Wrong answers = SHEEP (most common answer) + 5 points
6. There is optional bonus question worth up to 5 points total. No penalty for wrong answers
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(Note: Adding a color or other adjective to the animal name won’t count, unless that descriptor is part of the animal’s common name)
2. KIDDY LIT - Name any animal character from a children’s book
3. CATS - Name any one of the following feline factoids
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- Don’t even think about feeding your cat a vegetarian diet! Unlike other carnivores, cats cannot synthesize sufficient quantities of this essential amino acid found almost exclusively in meat and fish
- Title of this out-of-print publication
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- The 5th “d”igit on a cat’s forepaw, the one that doesn't touch the ground
- Company that acquired Blue Buffalo Pet Products Inc in 2018
- A what? A bezoar is more commonly referred to as this nuisance
- When “The Cat in the Hat” comes knocking at the door, who warns Sally and her brother, “Make that cat go away, tell that cat in the hat you do not want to play.”
- Name this internet star with over 2 million followers on Instagram
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- Kedi (2016) is a documentary film that follows seven of the many, many cats living on the streets of what world city (not the capital of the country)
- World’s Best Cat Litter, an eco-friendly alternative to clay-based litter, is made from what grain
- Fill in the blank in the name of this long-haired cat breed adapted to cold climates, with a top coat of glossy, long, water-shedding hairs and a woolly undercoat for insulation: ___________ Forest Cat
5. LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY! Name one of the following characters
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- Either the Tiger or the Bear in Jungle Book
- The wise, compassionate figure who guides the Pevensie children on their journey through Narnia
- Talking tiger and unlikely boat companion in Life of Pi
- Brightest star in the constellation next to Ursa Major, from the Greek “guardian of the bear”
- Winnie-the-Pooh creator
- King Ezekiel’s tiger in The Walking Dead
- Either the young lion or his father in The Lion King
- Actor who portrayed the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz film
- Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear in the novel Brideshead Revisited
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- One who goes it alone in Hilary Mantel’s novel about the court of Henry VIII
- Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor that’s a real cross to bear
- That show used to be great, but now it’s trying too hard and getting ridiculous with all those entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas
- When you punch someone out with your far-fetched, unbelievable stories
- Greta Gerwig’s Oscar nominated film that tries to explain where babies come from
- What she is no more, that woman of a certain age with sloppy, illegible handwriting
- Oh man, he doesn’t know when to quit with his levelheadedness and good judgment
- Cagney’s famous line delivered to Russian-American choreographer Alexei, formerly of the Bolshoi, now artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre
- English hard rock band fronted by David Coverdale - a sneaky, treacherous bloke who really can’t be trusted
- Hey! Stop trying to be provocative - just leave it alone and ease up on that crushing embrace, man!
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- Who’s the brute described in this impassioned, genteel monologue from a 1947 play:
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“He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something--sub-human--something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something--ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in--anthropological studies! Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is--_________ ________--survivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you--you here--waiting for him!” - Laura Wingfield takes special care of her prized collection of “the tiniest little animals in the world” in which play?
- In this review from the NY Times, Ben Brantley is describing the 2017 revival of which 1922 expressionist play:
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“The vision of Yank in the stokehole — bare-chested and begrimed with coal, his phallic shovel raised high — sends the girl into a swoon of revulsion. “Oh, the filthy beast!” she screams. Her reaction stirs revenge lust in Yank, but, more important, it makes him think — about who he is and where he belongs.” - A crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk inspired Peter Shaffer to write which 1973 play?
- Who’s delivering these resentful lines in Shakespeare:
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Should I not say,
“Hath a dog money? Is it possible
A cur can lend three thousand ducats?” Or
Shall I bend low and in a bondman’s key
With bated breath and whispering humbleness
Say this: “Fair sir, you spet on me on Wednesday last;
You spurned me such a day; another time
You called me ’dog'—and for these courtesies
I’ll lend you thus much moneys?” - Tennessee Williams wrote a number of plays with an animal in the title. Name one.
- The 2016 Tony Award for Best Play went to this one-act play by Stephen Karam with a short title fitting the theme of this TD. Reed Birney and Jane Houdyshell picked up Tonys for Best Featured Actor and Actress in a Play.
- ‘Like a vulture', with ‘cruel nails’ and 'wolvish visage', ‘most serpent-like', with 'boarish fangs', 'tigers not daughters' – these epithets all describe which treacherous, scheming pair in Shakespeare?
- Give me both words missing from the title of the play reviewed here:
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“An exotic beast is stalking Broadway. No, I’m not referring specifically to the man-eating title character played by Robin Williams in “______ ______ at the Baghdad Zoo.” I’m talking about the play itself: Rajiv Joseph’s smart, savagely funny and visionary new work of American theater, whose presence on Broadway invites fanciful comparison to the titular beast. A Pulitzer Prize finalist last year, “________ ________” is like a majestic cat serenely striding through a litter of cute-as-can-be kittens ready for their YouTube close-ups. - Long-running murder mystery play that premiered on London’s West End in 1952
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- Who’s the title St. Bernard foaming at the mouth in a 1981 horror novel and subsequent film
- Name the novel: The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse
- In the novel 1984, what is “the worst thing in the world” waiting for Winston in Room 101
- In the indie film, The Witch (2015), what kind of animal is Black Philipp?
- What’s the name of Ellen Ripley’s cat in the Alien films
- What’s the name of Hermione Granger’s cat in the Harry Potter book series
- Say no to the Corleone family and you just might discover the severed head of what animal in your bed
- Title arthropod in this dystopian indie (2015) starring Joaquin Phoenix about single people who are transformed into animals and banished to the woods if they don’t find a mate within 45 days
- Title missing from this book cover
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- In Game of Thrones, either one of Kahleesi’s dragons or the Starks’ direwolves
- Dog from The Simpson's, Family Guy, or The Brady Bunch
10. ANIMAL KINGDOM II – Name any class or phylum in the kingdom Animalia. Common names accepted
11. OBLIGATORY SPORTS QUESTION – Name an NHL or NFL team named for an animal
12. BONUS – Name any 1 of the 10 creatures tossed into the witches’ “hell-broth” in Macbeth
Singleton – 5 bonus points / Double – 3 bonus points / Triple – 2 bonus points / Four or 5 – 1 bonus point / More than 5 – No bonus