Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Contestants are asked a wide variety of questions from all academic fields in two rounds. In the toss-up rounds, a question is asked to both teams and the first member to answer it correctly earns his or her team an opportunity to answer a bonus round question...
Over in the cereal aisle two students toss each other bottles of gatorade. In the doorway, a balding man scratches at his lotto ticket, breath held in suspended anticipation. Robert places a black, plastic bucket upside down in front of one of the registers. It reads, "CLOSED," scrawled in black and orange ink across its belly (Halloween colors). The lines have disappered: the store grows suddenly quiet. Robert and Bonnie relax. Their shift only half-over, they wait casually for the next rush...
Still behind by five points, Fiedler led the Big Green down the field again and scored in the final minute on a 29-yard touchdown toss to John Hyland for the victory...
...Crimson won the coin toss before the game and opted to go with strong gust at its back to start the game. But even though Harvard more than doubled Princeton's time of possession, it was the Tigers who lit up the scoreboard--despite going against the wind...
...beyond that, "it's a toss-up," said Councillor Francis H. Duehay...