The questions for round 1, commencing at 4:20 PM EDT on 9/24/07 are as follows.
- This former prime minister of a small Pacific Island nation passed away in 2007 at the age of 56, just under 7 years after leaving office.
- This chess player, who would later become an author, was born on October 11, 1914.
- This state route in New York requires 6 different turns to stay on the road for its entire length, and has 2 roundabouts on its northernmost section, known as Raymond Avenue.
- This sporting goods manufacturer is alphabetically first on a certain Helsinki Stock Exchange market index.
- This River, in both Romania and Hungary, is missing just one letter, which, if added in a certain place, combined with the removal of an accent on a certain letter, would cause it to have the same name as a town in Westchester County, New York.