Round 11



Round 11

|1. The question is "Kakyuy muziku vy lyubitye?" in Russian, "Quelle musique aimez-vous?" in French, and "Que musica le gusta?" in |___ |___ |

|Spanish. What's the question in English? | | |

|Answer: What kind of music do you like? | | |

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|2. The German word for "bold" is the derivation for which four-letter word meaning "sharp" or "intense"? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Keen | | |

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|3. Pencil and paper may needed for this one. If it's not a leap year, when New Year's Day is a Friday, Christmas will be a Saturday, |___ |___ |

|Independence Day will be a Sunday, and Flag Day will be a Monday. But what day of the week would Thanksgiving be? | | |

|Answer: Thursday (Thanksgiving is ALWAYS a Thursday!) | | |

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|4. Identify the American musician whose compositions include Outdoor Overture and A Fanfare for the Common Man. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Aaron Copland | | |

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|5. How many atoms of iron are there in one molecule of iron oxide? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 2 | | |

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|6. According to a listener's poll conducted by radio station WQXR-FM in New York City, he is the Elvis of classical music lovers. |___ |___ |

|Five of his works placed in the top ten, with his Ninth Symphony voted the most popular. His other works in the top ten were | | |

|Symphonies No. 5, 6, and 7, and his Piano Concerto No. 5. Name the composer. | | |

|Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven | | |

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|7. Who were the adulterous lovers in the Arthurian legends? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Lancelot, Guinevere | | |

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|8. Animal breeders often cross members of the same litter in order to maintain desirable traits. This procedure is known as: |___ |___ |

|hybridization, inbreeding, natural selection, vegetative propagation, or phrenology? | | |

|Answer: Inbreeding | | |

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|9. Between 1857 and 1859, Richard Wagner was in love with Mathilde Wesendock, the wife of a close friend and patron. As a result of |___ |___ |

|this affair, he created a semi-autobiographical opera in 1865. Name it. | | |

|Answer: Tristan and Isolde | | |

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|10. Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov are novels by what author? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Fyedor Dostoevsky | | |

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|11. The practice of punishing a coward by making him run between rows of men as they whipped him was called what? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Running the gauntlet | | |

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|12. Forty-seven czars are buried within the walls of what citadel? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Kremlin | | |

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|13. The U.S. Treasury owes you $5000, but you want to market this IOU because it will be 30 years before it matures. Are you holding |___ |___ |

|a Treasury Note, Bond, or Bill? | | |

|Answer: Treasury bond (Notes mature in less than 10 years; Bills in 3, 6, or 12 months.) | | |

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|14. These resort areas are found in what mountain range: Cortina d'Ampezzo, St. Moritz, Interlaken, Lucerne? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Alps | | |

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|15. What is the smallest integer greater than three which can NOT be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 11 | | |

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|16. Give me the nickname of the region off North Carolina's coast where the wreckage of Blackbeard's flagship is believed to have been|___ |___ |

|discovered in 1997. | | |

|Answer: Graveyard of the Atlantic | | |

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|17. Which of Shakespeare's characters was known as the Thane of Cawdor? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Macbeth | | |

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|18. In chemistry, the term refers to the study of non-organic, non-metallic minerals, while in art, the same term refers to the making|___ |___ |

|of objects out of clay, such as pottery and porcelain. What's the term? | | |

|Answer: Ceramics | | |

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|19. Not all languages have adjectives. Some have no nouns, but all have these. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Verbs | | |

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|20. What mammal is capable of finding its food by means of echolocation? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Bat (porpoise) | | |

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|21. Is a laconic reply characterized by its brevity, honesty, harshness, or wisdom? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Brevity | | |

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|22. The oldest form of folk dance is one in which the dancers follow one another around a ring. What is the collective name for such |___ |___ |

|dances? | | |

|Answer: Circle dance | | |

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|23. Why do certain trees have needles instead of leaves? (a) The needles are more attractive than leaves. (b) The needles provide |___ |___ |

|protection against bark-eating animals. (c) The needles do not taste good to predatory insects. (d) The needles contain the seeds | | |

|that allow the trees to reproduce. (e) The needles allow the trees to exist in colder temperatures and with less water. | | |

|Answer: (e) | | |

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|24. The Bible refers to the image on a coin only in one instance. Whose image? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Caesar's | | |

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|25. The Education of a Woman" is the official biography of what person, known for her outspoken feminist views? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Gloria Steinem | | |

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|26. State the simplest fraction equal to the decimal 0.025. |___ |___ |

|Answer: 1/40 | | |

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|27. The U.S. has launched a $15 million campaign to persuade what religious group around the world that they are free to live and |___ |___ |

|worship as they wish in the U.S.? | | |

|Answer: Muslims | | |

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|28. Name a one-word Robert Frost poem title and you've also identified the trees used by Indians to make their canoes. |___ |___ |

|Answer: "Birches" | | |

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|29. Arrange these four famous suicides of antiquity in proper chronological order: Cleopatra, Judas Iscariot, Nero, Socrates. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Socrates, Cleopatra, Judas, Nero | | |

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|30. Polygamy means plurality of wives. What is the term for plurality of husbands? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Polyandry | | |

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|31. In 1776, two monumental books were published. Name the authors and the books, one a revolutionary economics text, the other a |___ |___ |

|still-quoted masterpiece of classical history. | | |

|Answer: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations; Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | | |

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|32. What is the total number of syllables in a line of iambic pentameter? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 10 | | |

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|33. His finest paintings include The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, Olympia, and Luncheon on the Grass. Name this French artist. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Edouard Manet | | |

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|34. Who held wild celebrations on Walpurgis Night: zombies, mummies, werewolves, grave snatchers, or witches? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Witches | | |

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|35. Sublingual medications, usually in tablet form, are placed under what part of the body? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Tongue | | |

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|36. Match these World War I battles -- Battle of Verdun, First Battle of the Marne, First Battle of the Somme, Battle of Cambrai -- |___ |___ |

|with these facts -- first mass tank attack in history, largest British offensive during the war, it halted the German advance into | | |

|France in 1914, largest battle fought on the Western front. | | |

|Answer: Verdun, largest Western front; Marne, halted German advance; Somme, largest British; Cambrai, tank attack. | | |

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|37. The Russian Revolution started on November 7 of what year? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 1917 | | |

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|38. When Manhattan Project leader General Leslie Groves submitted his list of targeted Japanese cities to Secretary of War Henry |___ |___ |

|Stimson, Stimson struck this city off the list because he had gone on his honeymoon there and felt that it was too beautiful and | | |

|civilized to bomb. Name this city, home to many universities, whose name is Japanese for "capital city," owing to the fact that it | | |

|was the capital of Japan for over 2,000 years. | | |

|Answer: Kyoto | | |

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|39. The most notorious female outlaw in Texas, she was known as the outlaw queen of the Indian Territory. Who was she? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Belle Starr | | |

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|40. In a symbolic move, slavery was abolished in 1995 by state senators in Mississippi, the only state never to ratify which |___ |___ |

|Constitutional Amendment? | | |

|Answer: 13th | | |

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|41. What meteorological term was borrowed from the military during World War I? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Front | | |

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Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus. All answers must be answered without stalling.

|Blitz Round - All 10 Point Tossups |1 |1 |

|Math | | |

|42. A trapezoid has bases of 10 and 14 feet and an area of 72 square feet. Find its altitude. |___ |___ |

|Ans: 6 feet | | |

|43. Transform the Roman numeral XIX into a binary numeral. |___ |___ |

|Ans: 10011 | | |

|44. Express the cube root of 3 squared in exponential form? |___ |___ |

|Ans: 3 to the 2/3 power | | |

|45. Consider a reflector in the shape of a dish with a parabolic cross section. The depth of the dish is 3 inches and its |___ |___ |

|diameter is 2 feet. What is the focal length of the reflector? | | |

|Ans: 12 inches | | |

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|Government | | |

|46. A person who served 2 complete terms in the House of Representatives, 1 term in the Senate, and 2 terms as President has |___ |___ |

|spent how many years in public office? | | |

|Ans: 18 | | |

|47. The framers of the Constitution gave voters the most direct participation in the selection of the (a) House of |___ |___ |

|Representatives, (b) Senate, (c) President, or (d) Supreme Court? | | |

|Ans: (a) House of Representatives | | |

|48. What is the main tool used by the Federal Reserve Board to control the money supply: the gold standard, reserve |___ |___ |

|requirements, the bond market, inflation, or the consumer price index? | | |

|Ans: Reserve requirements | | |

|49. What is the magic population number whereby the U.S. government considers a town a "metropolitan area" and therefore |___ |___ |

|eligible for automatic federal funding? | | |

|Ans: 50,000 | | |

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|Finish the Title | | |

|50. In the 1945 novel by Betty Smith, what "Grows in Brooklyn"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: A Tree | | |

|51. Identify the mythological titan whose name completes the title of Alexander Scriabin's symphonic poem __________ The Poem of|___ |___ |

|Fire. | | |

|Ans: Prometheus | | |

|52. Rembrandt painted ________ Contemplating the Bust of Homer. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Aristotle | | |

|53. John Calvin's most important work was his _________ of the Christian Religion. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Institutes | | |

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|Small African Countries | | |

|54. South Africa could say to what tiny country, "Don't move. We've got you surrounded."? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Lesotho | | |

|55. Ruanda-Urundi split into Rwanda and what else? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Burundi | | |

|56. Freetown, founded as a home for freed slaves, is the capital of what country? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Sierra Leone | | |

|57. Guinea is bordered by this country, that also has "Guinea" in its name. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Guinea-Bissau | | |

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|Translations: Translate from English to Spanish. | | |

|58. Yellow |___ |___ |

|Ans: Amarillo | | |

|59. Cat |___ |___ |

|Ans: El Gato or La Gata | | |

|60. To talk |___ |___ |

|Ans: Hablar or converser | | |

|61. Eighty |___ |___ |

|Ans: Ochenta | | |

|62. Library |___ |___ |

|Ans: La biblioteca | | |

|63. Birthday |___ |___ |

|Ans: El cumpleanos or el natalicio | | |

|64. On time |___ |___ |

|Ans: A buena hora | | |

|65. Post office |___ |___ |

|Ans: El correo | | |

|66. The blue book |___ |___ |

|Ans: El libro azul | | |

|67. Blanket |___ |___ |

|Ans: El sarape or la manto | | |

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