Lightning round

A category round read on a sixty-second clock, with teams having to manage their response time in order to hear as many questions as possible. After time expires, questions which were fully read and not answered correctly by the first team bounce back to the second team off the clock.

Called a sixty-second round at the NAC, which dubiously claims that Mike Mastandrea invented it.

The NAC once included a sixty-second round of ten six-second audio clips, which meant that it was mathematically impossible for the first team to hear and answer all ten questions.

See category round.