| Question Number | Question | Answer |
| 1. | Tony Pastor is credited with popularizing what form of theater in the early 1880s? | Vaudeville |
| 2. | Which Italian city was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1908? | Messina |
| 3. | In The Simpsons, what is Reverend Lovejoy's first name? | Timothy |
| 4. | Who preceded Georges Pompidou as French President? | Charles de Gaulle |
| 5. | Where in your body would you find your hippocampus? | Brain |
| 6. | Ham was one of the sons of what Biblical patriarch? | Noah |
| 7. | What famous rapper's real name is Clifford Harris? | T.I. |
| 8. | Who started the first commercial pretzel bakery in the US? | Julius Sturgis |
| 9. | What year did Edward Jenner introduce the world's first successful vaccine? | 1796 |
| 10. | What river divides Paris into the Right Bank and the Left Bank? | The Seine |
| Tie Breaker | What sports term is the shortest word ever to decide the National Spelling Bee? | Luge |
| Question Number | Question | Answer |
| 1. | Which literary work's title character is named Bigger Thomas? | Native Son |
| 2. | The Guggenheim Museum is located in what city? | New York |
| 3. | What are the names of Brian Wilson’s two brothers in the original lineup of the Beach Boys. | Carl and Dennis |
| 4. | What were the first names of explorers, Lewis and Clark? | Meriwether and William |
| 5. | How many equal sides are there on a scalene triangle? | None |
| 6. | What is philately the study of? | Stamps |
| 7. | What year did singer Whitney Houston dier? | 2012 |
| 8. | What name is given to the vertical bar of a window? | Mullion |
| 9. | In what direction would a sunflower face at the start of each day? | East |
| 10. | Yellowstone Lake is the largest naturally occurring lake in which state? | Wyoming |
| Tie Breaker | What branch of philosophy deals with the end of the world? | Eschatology |