GAME 2



Game 2

1) A constant critic of Hans Christian Andersen, as well as of his country’s society, he wrote such philosophical works as The Point of View and Sickness Unto Death. Despite being a devout Lutheran, he believed that the existence of God could not be proven, and was, at best, a belief. For ten points, name this “Father of Existentialism” who wrote Either-Or.

Soren Kierkegaard

Bonus: Identify these realists and modernists from their works, ten points if you can get the answer on the first clue, five points for an answer after both clues are given

10 L’Assommoir

5 Nana Emile Zola

10 Buddenbrooks

5 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann

10 Mrs. Dolloway

5 To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

2) He fashioned a dream on one woman, elegant, modest, and realistic. He longed so much for the statue he had made to breathe that he prayed at a festival to Venus, and when he next embraced the statue its pulse began to beat and the statue took a breath of air. For ten points name this mythological character who thereby achieved possesion of an ideal woman.

Pygmalion

Bonus: For 10 points each, given the mythological dynasty, identify the city in which the dynasty was located.

The House of Minos Crete

The House of Cadmus Thebes

The House of Erichthonius Athens

3) After the defeat of Napoleon and his exile to Elba, the five major powers met to decide how to deal with the remains of the French Empire in what city that is currently the captital of Austria?

Vienna, Austria (accept Vienna, Austria-Hungary)

Bonus: For 10 points each, say who represented these powers at first at the Congress of Vienna.

Austria Prince Klemens von Metternich

Britain Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

France Charles Maurice de Tallyrand-Perigord

4) Before it was a book title, “Clear and Present Danger” was a phrase used in the opinion for Schenk v. U.S. written by what Supreme Court Justice who was the son of a notable poet of the same name?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Bonus: Given a description, give the numbers of the following amendments to the U. S. Constitution:

forbids poll taxes 24

right to speedy criminal trial with an impartial jury 6

sets date of Inaugurations of President and Vice President 20

grants Congress the power to impose an income tax 16

Prohibition is begun by this amendment 18

Prohibition is stopped by this amendment 21

which repeals the 18th amendment

5) For a quick ten points name the biological principle or law that holds that in a large population in which there is random mating, no gene flow, no mutations, and no natural selection, allele frequency will remain the same in each succeeding generation

Hardy-Weinberg principle or law

Bonus: List, for 5 points each, the five commonly accepted kingdoms, with 5 points for all correct.

Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia

6) The l936 Nobel Prize for Literature went to what playwright whose plays include “Strange Interlude,” “Mourning Becomes Electra,” and “The Iceman Cometh?”

Eugene O’Neill

Bonus: Name the playwright from the play.

“Dr. Faustus” Christopher Marlowe

“Cyrano de Bergerac” Edmund Rostand

“The Importance of Being Earnest” Oscar Wilde

“Androcles and the Lion” George Bernard Shaw

“Volpone” Ben Jonson

“The Dance of Death” August Strindberg

7) This painter was his own second cousin, but that is not why he was so short -- that was because he broke both legs at age fifteen. For ten points, identify this painter of “At the Moulin Rouge.”

Henri de Toulouse-Latrec

Bonus: 30-20-10 Identify this painter from his works:

30 “Irises”

20 “The Potato Eaters”

10 “Starry Night”

Vincent van Gogh

8) Phoebe, Silvius, William, Celia, Rosalind, Jaques and Orlando.... These are characters in what Shakespeare comedy which takes place in the forest of Arden and which contains the fool Touchstone?

As You Like It

Bonus: Give the Shakespeare play which contains the following lines for five points each.

“Get thee to a nunnery.” Hamlet

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Macbeth

“He doth bestride the world like a Colussus.” Julius Caesar

“Now is the winter of our discontent.” Richard III

“Mine only love sprung from mine only hate.” Romeo and Juliet

“If you prick us, do we not bleed.” The Merchant of Venice

9) The Reform Party will receive federal matching funds in the election of 2000, because the Reform Party candidate earned more than this percent in the 1996 election. Identify this number equal to the fourth root of 625.

5

Bonus: For 10 points each, identify the three third party candidates in the past 40 years, discounting the 1996 election, who have won five percent of the vote in a single election, 5 points if you need the year in which they ran.

(1968) George Wallace

(1980) John Anderson

(1992) Henry Ross Perot

10) For a quick ten points name the woman who served as Secretary of Transportion under Ronald Reagan and now is the head of the American Red Cross.

Elizabeth Dole

Bonus: Identify these women, influential in American History, from their descriptions, for 5 points each.

She founded Hull House. Jane Addams

She, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the 1st woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She founded Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger

She founded the National Organization for Women. Betty Friedan

She held a position in the New Deal, founded a school for girls in 1904 and founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1949. Mary McLeod Bethune

She served as the first female Senator. Margaret Chase Smith

11) Professor John Frink, Cletus the Slack-Jawed yokel, Willie the Groundskeeper, and Sideshow Bob Terwilliger are among this show’s characters. For ten points name this Matt Groening-created show which got its start on the Tracy Ullman show.

The Simpsons

Bonus: For ten points each identify the following spoofs from the Simpsons:

a spoof of Arnold Schwartzennager McBain

The mayor of Springfield (spoof of JFK) Diamond Joe Quimby

Spoof of Sigmund Freud Dr. Marvin Monroe

12) The only one of the world’s 10 tallest mountains that is not part of the Himalayas is what mountain, which reaches 28,250 feet above sea level, and is part of the Karakoram range in Kashmir and which for a brief time was thought to be taller than Mount Everest? K2 or Godwin Ansten

Bonus: Mt. Everest is the highest mountain in Asia. Name the highest mountain on every other continent for 5 points each.

Mt. Kilimanjaro, Vinson Massif, Mt. Kosciousko, Mt. McKinley ,Mt. Elbrus, Mt. Aconcagua

13) This musical was written by Alan Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg and was translated into English by Herbert Kretemer. Name this epic French musical based on the Victor Hugo novel which contains the characters Fontaine, Javert, and Jean Valjean.

Les Miserables

Bonus: Identify for 10 points each these musicals with historical subjects

A Sondheim/Lapine show, it is a memorial to George Seurat

“Sunday in the Park with George”

A Boubil/Schonberg show about the Vietnam War “Miss Saigon”

A Lloyd Webber/Rice show about a dictator of Argentina “Evita”

14) Wait. “While we waited for the future, for freedom in the land, the country gained a killer and the country lost a man.” So sings folk singer Phil Ochs. The man was Medgar Evers. For ten points name the now incarcerated white supremacist who killed Evers.

Byron de la Beckwith

Bonus: Phil Ochs was a singer. For ten points each, give the common last name (the link will become obvious soon).

30: The man who killed John Lennon

20: The only baseball player to die during a major league game

10: It was the real last name of Johnny Appleseed

Chapman

15) Vangelis’ memorable theme music accompanies the beginning of this movie which won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Picture. This movie, which helped to reinvigorate the British film industry, tells the story of the successes of the 1924 British Olympic Track team and its members Eric Lidell and Harold Abrahams. For ten points name this movie with an inspiring theme of the same name.

Chariots of Fire

Bonus: For ten points each, identify each of the following baseball movies

Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs in this movie “The Natural”

Kevin Costner builds a baseball field in his cornfield after he hears the words: “If you build it, he will come.” “Field of Dreams”

Kevin Costner plays Crash Davis in this story of an unfortunate minor league catcher; Susan Sarandon costars in the movie. “Bull Durham”

16) His minor works include Too Late the Phalarope and Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful. He is most famous for his story about Absalom and Stephen Kumalo which was recently made into a movie. For ten points name this author of Cry, the Beloved Country.

Alan Paton

Bonus: For 5 points each, list the 5 countries that share a border with South Africa; this does not include countries entirely surrounded. 5 points for all correct.

Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland

17) All he left to his wife was his second best bed, but then, his marriage was a thing of necessity, so this was not surprising. For ten points name this Bard of Avon known for such plays as Coriolanus, A Winter’s Tale, and Macbeth.

William Shakespeare

Bonus: Given the works name the British author on a ten-five basis

10 Dombey and Son

5 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens

10 “In Memoriam”

5 “The Charge of the Light Brigade” Alfred Lord Tennyson

10 The Secret Sharer

5 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

18) It can eat human flesh but is more traditionally used to etch glass. For 10 points, name this acid, the only stable halogen acid not to be strong.

Hydrofluoric Acid (HF)

Bonus: Now, for 5 points each, name the 6 strong acids

HCl (Hydrochloric acid)

HClO9 (Perchloric acid)

HI (Hydroiodide)

HBr (Hydrobromide)

H2SO4 (Sulfuric acid)

HNO3 (Nitric acid)

19) This British society was founded in 1884 by non-Marxist socialist intellectuals. Named for the Roman general who avoided a direct fight with Hannibal that might have ended in Roman defeat, the society advocated major social reform and municipal-level collectivization rather than revolution. Name the society, which also included civil servants, that advocated so-called “gas-and-water” socialism.

Fabian Society

Bonus: For ten points each, identify these leaders of the Fabians.

The science-fiction author of books such as When the Sleeper Wakes and The Time Machine. H.G. Wells

The Irish playwright of Man and Superman and Saint Joan. George Bernard Shaw

This husband-and-wife pair were known primarily for their political activities; he was a MP and Labour Cabinet Minister, she served on the Royal Commission on the Poor Law. Together they wrote The History of Trade Unionism and Industrial Democracy and published the New Statesman. She wrote My Apprenticeship and Our Partnership. Sidney James and Beatrice Webb

20) “Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser,” a documentary about the life of the jazz legend, was produced by this man who also starred with Burt Reynolds in the l980’s flop “City Heat.” He is most famous for his portrayal of “the man with no name” in several westerns and his “Dirty” cop movies. For 10 points, name this actor/producer/director, star of “In The Line of Fire.”

Clint Eastwood

Bonus: For 5 points each, 5 more for all correct, given the movie, name the director:

“Taxi Driver” Martin Scorsese

“Rosemary’s Baby” Roman Polanski

“Pulp Fiction” Quentin Tarantino

“Apocalypse Now” Francis Ford-Coppola

“Star Wars: A New Hope” George Lucas

“Braveheart” Mel Gibson

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