Intro to Quiz Bowl!

Who is the current Speaker of the House (federal)?

This king famously said that "I am the State!" His grandson was guillotined during the French Revolution.

This play is rumored to bring bad luck to those performing it. Its protagonist commits murder at his wife's insistence.

This British band played a concert on the roof! Only two of its four members are still alive-- one was assasinated!

Named after two enlightenment philosophers, this cartoon by Watterson features a boy going on adventures with a tiger

What song was #1 for the longest? It was written by contemporary rapper Little Nas X

This value, equal to sin on the unit circle, is also equal to f(x) and represents the output of a function

This element forms a +1 cation, is a reactive alkali metal, is used in gunpowder, and is found in banannas

Link turns into this animal in Twilight Princess. It nursed Romulus and Remus, and is "canis lupus" to scientists

This value, represented by the coefficient "mu," has no units and tells us how slippery (or not!) a surface is