Yay! I am now at -4. Would have also accepted Laura Dern for question #2.
It didn’t revolve around the extinction event, the Cretaceous period or the Mesozoic era ended with the event and the Cenozoic era began. The event was probably due to the impact of a comet or asteroid with the earth, multiple impacts or increased volcanic activity. There are several impact craters on earth the support the asteroids theory.
Natural science is fun, read more. 
McGuire, Sosa, Cobb? (yeeeesh! :o )
That’s the crap that spews out of a Black Hole, right?
Hey! Gained a point!
-2.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love all the sciences. Chixulub (sp?) I believe is the impact crater they hypothesize was the dinosaur-killer, correct? (or at least one of the strong contenders?)
Can I play, even though I entered late? (difficulty 0 points)
Okay, here’s my questions.
Who was the 2nd American President, after George Washington? (1 point)
What Civil War Union general eventually became president? (1 point)
How many miles per second does light travel? (round to the nearest 1,000 = 2 points, exact answer = 3 points)
Name two types of marsupials. (2 points)
What was the name of the wheezing cyborg defeated by Obi-wan Kenobi? (1 point)
For what movie does Ben Affleck have an Oscar? (Movie = 1 point, movie + category = 2 points)
Space had nothing o do with it…
The floating green is in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho .
Down to One.
Lets try some chemistry?
What are the atomic numbers of the following elements?
Oxygen (1 point)
Sodium (2 points)
Iron (2 points)
Idaho?! Well, I guess they gotta do something out there.
Oxygen = 8
Sodium = 12(ish?!)
Iron = 26
Weird what you remember.
Yeah, that’s the one in the link.
Okay, I’m tired. One more question.
1 point, true or false, Polar Bears and Penguins live on the same continent.
Of course, all are welcome at any time.
Oxygen is correct. Iron is correct.
Sodium is 11… I guess thats 12ish… I dunno, judges?
Wheee! False!
Bears = North
'Guins = South
Yay! -3
Damn. Wish I could give it to us… I remembered is was down the line with those highly reactive/corrosive metals, I just couldn’t quite put my finger on that one.
Ok… checking out for the night (on EST). I’ll be back in the AM…
Feel free to post some questions in the mean time. 
That makes 5 for me. I’m beginning to think you may be sandbagging here. :dubious:
(This is a great thread idea!)
Okay, definitely a level 3 (for calibration purposes). Match the quote with the source. In no particular order:
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
“Love, and do what you like.”
“Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words.”
“Time makes more converts than reason.”
Francis of Assissi
Thomas Paine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saint Augustine
Albert Camus
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” = Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” = Thomas Paine
“Love, and do what you like.” = Francis of Assissi
“Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words.” = Saint Augustine
“Time makes more converts than reason.” = Albert Camus
I’m sure I screwed that up royally! What did you say about sandbagging?
Good morning.
This is a fun thread.
Picking up my 2 points from last night I’m going to try to get some more:
I’ve got a couple of questions for you about the Cotton Gin.
First, who invented it? (One point)
Second, what did it do, generally? (Two points)
Finally, according to some historians, it is credited with ringing the death-knell for an American Institution. What institution was it? (Two points)
Damn. Back down to 2 for me. 
FYI:
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” = Albert Camus
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” = Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love, and do what you like.” = Saint Augustine
“Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words.” = Francis of Assissi
“Time makes more converts than reason.” = Thomas Paine
(oh, and… good morning! :D)
Yes.
No, it didn’t do the spinning, but it did process the raw crop. The most labor intensive portion of producing cotton for sale was removing the seeds from the fibers. Prior to Whitney’s cotton gin, this had to be done by hand.
Yes. Because there was now a mechanical way to remove the seed from the flax, slavery was the more expensive way to process the raw crop. The gin and a small crew could duplicate the work of many more slaves. Even if the workers on the gin were paid employees they, and the capital costs of the gin itself, were cheaper than housing, feeding and acquiring the slaves required to duplicate their work.
ETA, here: This is the basics of the arguement as I understand it - I’m ignoring a lot of real world details that made things less cut-and-dried for the sake of simplicity.
So, it looks like, over all, I got another point from that. 3 points here.
Continuing with nineteenth century inventors:
What did Samuel Morse invent? (one point)
Joseph F. Glidden recieved a patent in 1874 for an invention that some people credit for making the idea of large scale cattle operations (cattle barons) truly economically feasable. What was that invention? (four points)