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7. For the stated number of points, answer the following sweet Bible-related questions:
1. For 5 points, it was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
ANSWER: Manna
2. For 10 points, his father had commanded the Israelite army not to eat until evening. However,
he ate some honey not knowing about his father’s commandment.
ANSWER: Jonathan
3. For 15 points, he found honey in the carcass of a lion. He not only ate some of the honey, but he
brought some to his parents and they ate it as well. He used this incident to make a riddle for
thirty guests at his wedding.
ANSWER: Samson
2. FTP each name the French authors of:
(a) Le Misanthrope, Tartuffe [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, or Moliere]
(b) Remembrance of Things Past [Marcel Proust]
(b) The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo [Alexander Dumas]
3. Ten points each, answer these questions about the Ottoman Empire.
a. Born in Macedonia, he arrived in Egypt as an Ottoman officer. By 1805 he had established himself as ruler. [Muhammad Ali Pasha]
b. Inspired by German reunification, this Ottoman movement sought to shore up the polyglot empire by promoting Ottoman nationality. [The Young Turks]
c. One of the Young Turks, he later led the revolution that ended the last vestiges of Ottoman rule and became the first President of the Turkish Republic in 1923. [Mustafa Kemal or Ataturk]
4. Give the musical terms with the following definitions, 10 pts. each:
(a) A direction that the string of a bowed instrument is to be picked with the finger [pizzicato]
(b) A symbol placed on the staff at the beginning of a piece that shows the key and meter [signature]
(c) A passage that brings a piece or movement to a conclusion [coda]
5. Name the author from works, 30-20-10:
(a) “The Secret Rose” and “The Cold Heaven,” both of which end with questions; “Among School Children,” which ends with the famous question, “How then can we know the dancer from the dance?” and “No Second Troy,” in which every sentence (obviously including the last) is a question.
(b) “The Wild Swans at Coole,” which also ends in a question, and from which the teacher in Educating Rita draws “swans/stones” as an example of consonance, which Rita then explains as “the rhyme’s not right.”
(c) “The Second Coming,” which also ends with a question, and “Easter, 1916,” written in answer to a poem by none other than Joyce Kilmer, which began by mocking his earlier “September 1913” -- neither of which ends with a question! [William Butler Yeats]
13. Identify the following objects from British history for the stated number of points:.
a) 5 pts.: The legendary sword of King Arthur Excalibur
b) 10 pts.: The symbol of authority for the Scottish king, it was stolen by the English and placed in Westminster Abbey. The Stone of Scoon (or Scone, or The Stone of Destiny)
b) 15 pts.: Though it never added a drive-thru window, this oldest residence within the Tower of London was originally built by the Normans. The White Castle
6. TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: When Charlie crossed state lines while crossing the following rivers, for 5 pts. per state, name each of the two states involved.
(a) Wabash [Illinois & Indiana]
(b) Big Sandy [Kentucky & West Virginia]
(c) Sabine [Texas & Louisiana]
12. Identify the chemists for 10 points each.
Part I: He disproved the “phlogiston theory” and came up with the name “oxygen” for what had
previously been called “dephlogisticated air.”
ANSWER: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Part II: He was Lavoisier’s bookkeeper, and was exposed to the art of gunpowder making. When
the Reign of Terror broke out and Lavoisier was beheaded, he brought his family to the
USA.
ANSWER: Eleuthere Irenee du Pont
Part III: While Lavoisier was the first to recognize the importance of oxygen, this noted Unitarian minister and philosopher gets credit for realizing it was an element.
ANSWER: Joseph Priestley
19. Identify the man 30-20-10.
Part I: He had worked for Fridtjof Nansen in order to provide aid to refugees in Russia. By the
beginning of the 1930s, he had become the Minister of Defense in the Agrarian Party
government.
Part II: In the 1930s he found the National Union, a Fascist party.
Part III: After invading, the Germans made his National Union party the only legal party and made
him “Minister-President” although he was really Hitler’s puppet.
ANSWER: Vidkun Quisling
22. Given the definition, give the computer term beginning with “B” for 10 points each.
Part I: The amount of data that can travel per unit of time through a communication link.
ANSWER: Bandwidth
Part II: A measure of data storage equal to eight “one”s or “zero”s.
ANSWER: Byte
Part III: Located on the ROM, it is the low-level software that communicates with the
Motherboard and tells your computer how to handle incoming data from the mouse or
keyboard as well as how to handle outgoing data to the monitor or printer.
ANSWER: Basic Input / Output System
10. Name the authors of these Latin works, 10 pts. each:
(a) The Satyricon [Petronius Arbiter]
(b) Ars Amatoria; Amores [Ovid]
(c) Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
12. Fill in the missing letter from these physics formulas for 10 pts. each, and specify whether it is capital or power-case. If you need the name of the laws the equations express, you’ll get only 5 pts.
(1a) BLANK = fl
(1b) Law of wave motion [capital W]
(2a) BLANK = V/R [read V over R]
(2b) Ohm’s law [capital I]
(3a) BLANK = hc/l [read hc over l]
(3b) The combination of the law of wave motion and the law of electromagnetic energy [capital E]
13. One of the hallmarks of Mel Brooks’ films is the music, usually composed by John Morris with any needed song lyrics written by Brooks himself. Name the Brooks film from featured songs, 10 pts. each:
(a) "The Ballad of Rock Ridge" [Blazing Saddles]
(b) "Springtime for Hitler" [The Producers]
(c) "The Inquisition" [History of the World, Part I]
14. FTPE correctly identify who wrote these works with the word "Death" in the title.
a) Death of the Hired Man [Robert Frost]
b) Death in Venice [Thomas Mann]
c) Death of a Traveling Salesman [Eudora Welty]
16. Identify these terms from Norse mythology from a brief description, for ten points each.
a. This was the name given to the chief gods of Asgard. [Aesir]
b. This was the great palace where warriors would spend eternity. [Valhalla]
c. This was the term for the final destruction of the present world in a battle between gods and giants.
[Ragnarok]
17. FTP each name the French Impressionist painters from works:
(a) Luncheon of the Boating Party, Moulin de la Galette [Pierre Auguste Renoir]
(b) Olympia, Picnic, Luncheon on the Grass [Edouard Manet]
(c) The Dance Class, The Glass of Absinthe, The Bellini Family [Edgar Degas]
18. Given a set of steps or stages, identify the innovative psychologist, 15 points each.
a. 4 stages of cognitive development, including concrete operational
ANSWER: Jean Piaget
b. 8 stages of psychosocial development
ANSWER: Eric Erikson
20. For the stated number of points identify these figures from the American West, whose names also appear in titles of Billy Joel songs from the "Piano Man" album:
(a) 10 pts.: His legal name was William Bonney, although that too may have been an alias. The lawman who shot him down was definitely named Pat Garrett. [Billy the Kid]
(b) 20 pts.: His tribal name was Kintpuash. As chief of the Modoc Indians during the Modoc War of 1872-1873, he killed Gen. E.R.S. Canby -- at a peace council, which promptly ended. [Captain Jack]
7. FTPE name these moons of Saturn:
A. This is the largest moon of Saturn, and the only satellite in the solar system known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere. Titan
B. This satellite essentially composed of pure water ice has a diameter of 657 miles and orbits at a distance of 182,689 miles. It is known for two unique features, the long crack extending along three-quarters of its circumference, and a large crater measuring 250 miles in diameter and having a large central peak.
Tethys
C. W. H. Pickering reported the existence of this satellite in the early 20th century, but it has never been recovered and probably does not exist. Themis
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1. Name this literary character, 30-20-10:
(a) She marries an unimaginative country doctor named Charles in a marriage of convenience. In the end, with her dreams hopelessly shattered, she poisons herself with arsenic.
(b) Yearning for more than her boring, provincial existence, she has multiple affairs. One is with Leon, a law clerk, while the other is with Rodolphe, a landowner. Both eventually leave her, while she runs up a huge debt by buying lavish gifts in an attempt to satisfy her own romantic ideals.
(c) She is the protagonist and title character of an 1857 French novel by realist Gustave Flaubert.
[Emma (or Madame) Bovary]
2. In addition to being devoted to the Koran, adherents of Islam are expected to worship Allah through the Five Pillars. For 5 pts. each, name these required forms of observance.
[READER’S NOTE: accept close equivalents]
[Answers: 1) shahadah, or confession of faith, or the statement “There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophet”
2) salat, or prayer five times daily while facing Mecca
3) the giving of alms
4) the keeping of the fast of Ramadan
5) haj, or making a pilgrimage to Mecca]
For an additional five points, give the English translation of the word “Islam”.
[obedience or submission (to the will of Allah); accept close equivalents]
3. These scientific pioneers were all inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the 1970’s. For 10 pts. each name the man who:
(a) Developed applications of substances which polarized light and developed instant photography [Edwin H. Land]
(b) Obtained 214 patents on various aspects of rocketry, including the first control mechanisms for rocket guidance [Robert H. Goddard]
(c) Developed, independently of Paul-Louis-Toussaint Heroult, a cheap method of processing the previously precious metal aluminum [Charles M. Hall]
4. 30-20-10, name this man:
(a) In 1926 this Jewish widower married a Park Avenue socialite 15 years his junior; gossips expected the union to fail. They remained married until her death 62 years later.
(b) His first published song was "Marie from Sunny Italy". Other hits included "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band".
(c) His classic "White Christmas" remains the best-selling song of all time. [Irving Berlin]
5. For 10 pts. each, answer the following questions about the Dreyfuss affair:
(a) After his 1894 conviction for allegedly giving military secrets to the Germans, Dreyfuss was sent to this notorious penal colony in French Guiana. [Devil’s Island]
(b) The handwriting on the incriminating memorandum actually belonged to this officer. [Major Esterhazy]
(c) After a military court acquitted Esterhazy, this famed novelist wrote his famous “J’Accuse” letter, naming the officers behing the framing of Dreyfuss and the subsequent cover-up. [Emile Zola]
7. After years of wrangling, IUPAC finally agreed on the names for elements #104 through 109. Given the atomic number and symbol, give the new name for three of those elements, 10 pts. each:
104, Rf [rutherfordium]
107, Bh [bohrium]
109, Mt [meitnerium]
8. FTP each name these Italian physicists:
(a) In 1791 he reported that when two different metals touch in a frog’s muscle, they produce an electric current. [Luigi Galvani]
(b) In 1799 he created the first effective electric battery. [Alessandro Volta]
(c) In 1943 in Chicago he supervised the first controlled nuclear reaction. [Enrico Fermi]
9. Most nations have the good sense to locate their capitals somewhere near the center of the country. But there are a few exceptions. Name the following capitals, 5 pts. each:
(a) & (b) These two capitals are both just across rivers from neighboring Argentina. [Asuncion & Montevideo]
(c) The capital of Slovakia, it’s on the Austrian border and within walking distance of Hungary as well. [Bratislava]
(d) & (e) Considering the not-so-peaceful history of both Congos, it seems illogical, but these two capitals are directly across the Congo River from one another. [Brazzaville & Kinshasa]
(f) Okay, so the map doesn’t quite make it clear, but it looks like this capital of Armenia is right on the Turkish border -- again, given past hostilities, maybe not such a good idea. [Yerevan or Erevan]
10. FTP each name the French Romantic painters from works:
(a) Oath of the Horatii, Death of Marat [Jacques Louis David]
(b) The Raft of the Medusa [Theodore Gericault (pronounced Jericho)]
(c) Liberty Leading the People, The Death of Sardanapalus, Women of Algiers [Eugene Delacroix]
11. Given a former labor leader, for 10 points each , name the union with which he is best associated:
(a) John L. Lewis [United Mine Workers or UMW; accept CIO, or Congress of Industrial Organizations]
(b) A. Philip Randolph [Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters]
(c) Walter Reuther [United Auto Workers or UAW]
12. Let’s talk about those other Elizabethan and Jacobean plays -- you know, the ones we KNOW Shakespeare didn’t write. Name the author or authors of the following for 10 pts. each::
(a) Volpone [Ben Jonson]
(b) Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding [Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher]
(c) Doctor Faustus and Tamburlaine the Great [Christopher Marlowe]
13. How much do you know about the Federalist papers? For 10 points a part, this question will test your knowledge on this group of essays appearing in 1787 and 1788 urging the ratification of the U.S. Constitution
a) Within five, how many Federalist papers were there? [85 (Accept any answer from 80-90)]
b) Of the three writers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, which one wrote the most essays? [Hamilton (he wrote 51)]
c) What bi-weekly New York newspaper did the essays appear in?
[the Independent Journal]
14. Philosophy works with three-word titles are so much shorter to type for bonuses. For 10 pts. each, name the authors of:
(a) I and Thou [Martin Buber]
(b) Being and Time [Martin Heidegger]
(c) Fear and Trembling [Soren Kierkegaard]
15. For each disease, tell whether the causing agent is a bacteria, a virus, or a fungus, 5 pts. each:
(a) Hepatitis [virus]
(b) Blastomycosis [fungus]
(c) Measles [virus]
(d) Lyme disease [bacteria]
(e) Histoplasmosis [fungus]
(f) Botulism [bacteria]
16. Identify these characters from Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises for 10 points apiece.
a) He is the main character who was wounded during the war. He tries to readjust to civilian life by working for a newspaper in Paris, while attempting to rekindle his love affair with Brett Ashley. [Jake Barnes]
b) He is another expatriate in Paris, who has already published a novel. He is a Princeton graduate who has a flattened nose from his years of boxing as a middleweight champion. He also has an affair with Brett Ashley. [Robert Cohn]
c) He is a 19 year old matador, who is a master of bullfighting technique, perfect in every manner except for a small, triangular scar on his cheek. He has a brief affair with -- you guessed it -- Brett Ashley. [Pedro Romero; acc. Pedro]
17. According to President Bush's 1992 State of the Union address, the U.S. soldiers who fought in Korea helped win the Cold War and bring down Communism. This was news to those Koreans still under Communist rule. Since Bush didn't recall much about that war, can you help him? Answer the following, 10 pts. each:
(a) The daring amphibious invasion here on Sept. 15, 1950, was code-named Operation Chromite. North Koreans were caught off-guard because 28-foot tides here made such a landing a theoretical impossibility. [Inchon]
(b) This was the nickname for an ancient volcanic crater about 5 miles wide and rimmed by high hills. Right along the eventual demarcation line, it was hotly contested for almost a year as UN forces tried to drive North Korean artillery off its heights. [the Punchbowl]
(c) One of the fiercest battles over control of the Punchbowl was for control of this nearby ridge, an extension of Bloody Ridge. In the autumn of 1951 it took American and French troops nearly six weeks to secure it. [Heartbreak Ridge]
18. Back before the dispute between CART and the Indianapolis Speedway, many people actually cared who won the Indy 500. Given multiple years, name the Indy 500 winner, 10 pts. each:
(a) 1970, 1971, 1978, 1987 [_Al Unser_; do not accept Al Unser Jr.]
(b) 1961, 1964, 1967, 1977 [A.J. Foyt]
(c) 1974, 1976, 1980 [Johnny Rutherford]
19. Name the psychological test from clues for 10 points, or give the acronym if there is one for 5.
a. Subjects look at black-and -white and colored symmetrical inkblots and say what they see.
ANSWER: Rorschach inkblot test [prompt on “inkblot”]
b. Subjects are shown pictures of people interacting and then say what they think is going on.
ANSWER: Thematic Apperception Test [5 for TAT]
c. This 567 true-false test is designed to rate individuals in 14 different areas of personality, such as depression, paranoia, and psychopathic deviance. It is the most frequently administered psychological test in a professional setting.
ANSWER: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory [5 for MMPI]
20. Name yet another prominent intellectual who fled Germany after Hitler’s rise in 1933, 30-20-10:
(a) He’d probably have fled anyway, but his 1932 completion of the libretto for the ultimately unfinished opera Moses und Aron must have sealed the deal. His pupils included Berg, Webern, and Cage.
(b) His early works include “Verklarte Nacht” (“Transfigured night”) and “Gurrelieder” (“Songs of Gurra”), the instrumentation for which included 10 horns and a length of iron chain. In some later works, such as the “Ode to Napoleon,” he reestablished a certain contact with tonality.
(c) He invented the musical composition technique called serialism, used in his atonal works such as “Erwartung” (“Expectation”) and “Pierrot Lunaire.” [Arnold Schoenberg]
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6. This bonus will get glowing reviews. Identify the following items related to radioactivity FTPE:
(a) The creation of a small electric current that can be supported by charged argon ions serves as the basis for what measuring device used to detect the presence of radioactivity? Geiger-Muller counter
(b) Equivalent to 100 ergs per gram, this unit measures the absorbed dose of radiation for a target.
Rad
(c) This effect occurs when the incident photon from a radioactive source collides with an electron present in a target material. The photon is deflected and collides with other electrons, losing energy in the process.
Compton effect
11. Identify each of these economic concepts for ten points each.
a. It is the sale of a good or service to a foreign country at a price that is less than the cost of producing the good or service. dumping
b. It is a market structure with many firms each selling an identical product, many buyers, no restrictions on entry, and firms and buyer completely informed about the price of each firm's product. perfect competition
c. It is a commodity, such as potatoes, rotgut liquor, or mobile homes, for which consumption will ecline as income rises. inferior good
8. Identify the following psychological disorders associated with sleeping for 10 points each.
Part I: People with this disorder experience an uncontrollable urge to fall asleep at odd times.
Some sufferers may even fall asleep while engaging in hazardous activities such as driving.
ANSWER: Narcolepsy
Part II: People who suffer from this sleep disorder may suddenly stop breathing during sleep. Mild
sufferers may stop breathing for a few seconds while in more severe cases, the sufferer
may stop breathing for up to two minutes.
ANSWER: Sleep apnea
Part III: The proper name for sleepwalking, sufferers of this disorder can walk or even talk during
sleep. Most sufferers remember nothing of the event after waking.
ANSWER: Somnambulism
4) 30-20-10, name this American author.
30) He is sometimes referred to as a professional Harvardian, as over one-quarter of his 408 poems relate or refer to Harvard in one way or another.
20) A physician, he published a paper in 1843 called "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever", in which he contended that childbed fever was being spread by improperly sterilized doctors. Several poems reflect his medical experiences, including "The Stethoscope Song", as do his three so-called "medicated novels" -- Elsie Venner, The Guardian Angel, and A Mortal Antipathy.
10) He first gained national fame when his appeal to preserve the warship Constitution from destruction at the hands of the US government was published in 1830 in the Boston Daily Advertiser. Public sentiment agreed with him after they read his poem, called "Old Ironsides". ANSWER: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
5) There have only been 16 popes named Gregory, so you have a pretty good shot, ultimately. For 10 points each, which Pope Gregory:
a) Introduced the Gregorian calendar? ANSWER: 13
b) Ended the Second Babylonian Captivity? ANSWER: 11
c) Was St. Gregory the Great? ANSWER: 1
6) For 10 points each, name the stars from the name’s origin and the constellation in which it’s the brightest:
A) Copernicus named this star in Leo not after a consul of the first Punic War, but as a diminutive form of "ruler", due to the belief that it ruled the affairs of the heavens. Regulus
B) There was an attempt at one point to rename this star in Virgo "Newton", but its old name stuck, coming from the ear of wheat in Ceres' left hand. Spica
C) Ptolemy, in his Syntaxis, named this star in Scorpio and called it "similar to" or "rival of" Mars, presumably in reference to its coloration. Antares
9) It is arguable whether or not the colonies would have won independence had it not been for the ill-fated Saratoga Campaign. FTPE answer these questions about that 1777 British stratagem to capture Albany.
(a) One attack was to come from the south and New York City; it never got there. A second was to attack from the west and the Mohawk River, but they were frightened by a rumor and ran back to Canada. That left only the third force, led by this dashing British general nicknamed “Gentleman Johnny.” [John Burgoyne]
(b) On July 6, they captured this fort on the northern bank of Lake George. [Ticonderoga]
(c) Burgoyne's men were then defeated in a raid on Bennington, and halted near Saratoga Springs. There, outflanked and outnumbered at Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights, Burgoyne surrendered to this American
general. [Horatio Gates]
12) Handy advice: Don’t buzz in on a tossup with a list of paintings when "Adoration of the Magi" is mentioned, since everybody worth his camel hair has a work called "Adoration of the Magi" in the oeuvre. FTPE, name the painter who's done an "Adoration of the Magi" given other works.
(a) "Judith and Holofernes" and "The Madonna of the Pomegranate"
ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli
(b) "Garden of Earthly Delights"
ANSWER: Hieronymus Bosch
(c) "St. Anne with the Virgin and Child" and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
ANSWER: Albrecht Durer
21. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about explorers.
(a) 5 pts.: This Danish navigator proved that Asia and North America are not joined by land by sailing through his namesake’s straight into the Arctic Ocean. Vitus BERING
(b) 10 pts.: Searching for the Seven Cities of Cibola in the 1540’s, he explored what is now Arizona and New Mexico, introduced horses into the Southwest, and discovered the Grand Canyon. Francisco CORONADO
(c) 15 pts.: As part of the ill-fated expedition of Panfilo de Narvaez this Spanish explorer was shipwrecked in 1528 and enslaved. Escaping to Mexico seven years later, his reports of the Pueblo Indians gave rise to the myth of the Seven Cities of Cibola. For his work, he was awarded governorship of a region of Paraguay, but we remember him today as having the funniest name of all the conquistadors.
ANSWER: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (yep, that's Spanish for "cow head")
25. FTP each, given clues about the authors for whom a particular literary age is named, identify the literary age. All ages are ages within the Augustan era.
1) Named for the most dominant figure in the years immediately following the English Civil War, the author for whom this age was named was made poet laureate in 1668. Known for his poems "MacFlecknoe" and "Absalom and Achitophel", he died in 1701. John Dryden
2) FFP each, following the Age of Dryden, two authors were most dominant. The first was a satirist, known for his Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, and his Essay on Criticism. The second was known for his also satire in such works as "A Modest Proposal" and Gulliver's Travels. Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift
3) After the deaths of Pope and Swift in 1744 and 1745, this man, the greatest of English critics and the subject of Boswell's biography gained fame for his Dictionary. Samuel Johnson
5. Name these modern American composers, FTPE.
A. He studied under Nadia Boulanger in Paris where he came under the influence of Erik Satie and Les Six. Although he won a Pulitzer Prize for his score to the film, Louisiana Story, he is most famous for the opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Virgil Thomson
B. Named after an English poet, he studied under Arnold Schoenberg. Influenced by Zen Buddhism, he used industrial sounds, randomly tuned radios, and even silence, as in “4 Minutes, 33 Seconds.” John Cage
C. Among his works are the oratorio Kaddish and the musicals Candide and West Side Story.
Leonard Bernstein
15) Given a Greek play, name its playwright, 10 points each.
A) Wasps ANSWER: Aristophanes
B) Prometheus Bound ANSWER: Aeschylus
C) Iphigenia in Tauris ANSWER: Euripides
17) TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: 30-20-10, name this man.
30) He founded Lookout Mountain Park, now Point Park outside Chattanooga, where the small museum is named for him. At the age of 11, he was a printer's apprentice in Knoxville, TN, rising through the ranks to become compositor in 1872.
20) Six years later, he borrowed $250, and purchased the Chattanooga Times, which he ran
successfully until the panic of 1893, which wiped away most of his fortune.
10) He then moved to New York and bought the struggling New York Times. In order to beat Pulitzer and Hearst, he shied away from yellow journalism, choosing instead to publish "all the news that's fit to print." Adolph Ochs
25. Given the English family, name the first Monarch to rule from that family for 5 points each. You
will get a 5 point bonus for getting all five correct.
Part I: Plantagenet
ANSWER: Henry II
Part II: Tudor
ANSWER: Henry VII
Part III: Stuart
ANSWER: James I
Part IV: Hanover & Brunswick-Lunenburg
ANSWER: George I
Part V: Windsor
ANSWER: Edward VIII
2. FTSNOP answer these questions about one of 1997’s best movies, As Good as it Gets.
For five points, name the obsessive compulsive writer, the protagonist of the story, played by Jack Nicholson. Melvin Udall; accept either part
For five, name the waitress, played by Helen Hunt. Carol Connelly; accept either part
For five, give the name of the gay neighbor played by Greg Kinnear.
Simon Bishop; accept either part
For five, name Simon’s dog who plays a pivotal role in Melvin’s emergence. VERDELL
For a last ten, Melvin answers a question of a fan by saying that he writes women so well by imagining a man and taking a way two things, for five points each, what are they? REASON and ACCOUNTABILITY
3 Answer the following quetions about Japanese history for the stated number of points.
(a) For ten points name the Japanese Emperor who acended to the throne in 1928, who pledged to improve the moral and material contition of his “beloved subjects.” HIROHITO; accept Showa [reign name]
(b) In 1928, Hirohito took part in the signing of this anti-war pact, which went into effect in 1929, but later nullified it by invading Manchuria. KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
(c) In 1946, Japan transferred its power from the emperor to a national assembly. For ten points, name that assembly. the DIET
10. Answer the following related questions from Greek mythology, 5-10-15.
(5) Derived from the Greek word for “breastless,” they were warrior-women from Scythia. Answer: Amazons
(10) Married to the son of Theseus, she was the Amazon queen whom Hercules killed while attempting to take her girdle.
Answer: Hippolyta
(15) This queen led the Amazons into battle on the Trojan side during the Trojan War. Answer: Penthesilea
4. Identify the following from Australian aboriginal legend FTP each.
A. Much aboriginal myth is shown in rock paintings on this monolith, which they call Uluru.
Answer: Ayers Rock
B. This is the name given to the legendary ancient era of creation populated by great spiritual ancestors.
Answer: the Dreamtime
C. Also called a yidaki, kanbo, or mago, this musical instrument made of logs hollowed out by termites plays many important roles in aboriginal legend. Answer: didgeridoo
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12. 30-20-10 Name the work from quotes.
30) "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
20) "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
10) "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
FTPE identify these costars of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s from the film The Running Man:
(a) After starring for Syracuse he had a stellar NFL career with the Cleveland Browns, leading the league in rushing 8 of the 10 years he played and setting a career rushing yardage record that stood for almost 20 years.
[Jim Brown]
(b) While his acting credentials included Hogan’s Heroes, he was so identified with his role as host of Family Feud that many were surprised to see him as another character, even if it was a game show host.
[Richard Dawson]
(c) This past Tuesday this former Navy Seal and pro wrestler was elected Governor of Minnesota.
[Jesse “The Body” Ventura]
9. 30-20-10 given a work of art name the artist
a. Orpin the Parish Clerk
b. The Watering Place
c. The Blue Boy Thomas Gainsborough
9. The movie The Wedding Singer took us back to the 80's and its music. Given a song from the soundtrack, give the artist. [Editor’s note: “Adam Sandler” is right out.]
For 5 points, "White Wedding" Answer: Billy Idol
For 10 points, "Everyday I Write the Book" Answer: Elvis Costello
For 15 points, "You Spin Me (Like a Record)" Answer: Dead or Alive
12. Given the highest mountain in a mountain range, name the range for the stated number of points.
(5) Mont Blanc Answer: Alps
(10) Aconcagua Answer: _Andes_ Mountains
(15) Mount Narodnaya Answer: _Ural_ Mountains
7. World War I was, for the most part, a stalemate, with a series of battles and campaigns which mostly resulted in decimation of the armies involved. Name these especially ugly examples, 10 pts. each:
(a) Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, was the chief supporter of this disaster, an amphibious invasion of Turkey. Launched in February of 1915, it lasted three weeks short of a year and ended with the British surrendering their beachhead and withdrawing in January of 1916. GALLIPOLI
(b) In February of 1916, the Germans massed an assault on this southern French town, with the only results to speak of being a combined casualty count of 700,000. VERDUN
(c) The British apparently hadn’t learned anything from this, and massed their own attack in the North. 36 hrs. of preliminary artillery bombardment and a force of 1 million men was not enough to gain more than 125 square miles, with the British losing 600,000 men, the Germans almost as many. Battle of the SOMME
18. Identify these achievements of imperial Roman architecture for the given amount of points.
a) 5 points--Begun under Vespasian in 72 AD, this structure was originally called the Flavian Amphitheatre, and it used to seat over 50,000 spectators. Colosseum
b) 10 points--Originally constructed by Agrippa, this domed temple to all of the gods was renovated by Hadrian, and it remains in nearly pristine condition. Pantheon
c) 15 points--This arch with three archways was hastily completed in 312 AD after an emperor defeated Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge. The arch takes its name from the victorious emperor.
Arch of Constantine
20. FTPE, identify the law of electromagnetism based on a plagiarized description.
a) This law states that an induced electric current flows in a direction such that the current opposes the change that induced it. Lenz's Law
b) This law states that the magnitude of the emf induced in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic flux that cuts across the circuit. Faraday's Law (of induction)
c) An alternative expression of the Biot-Savart Law, it is stated in mathematical language: the line integral of the magnetic field around an arbitrarily chosen path is proportional to the net electric current enclosed by the path Ampere's Law
B1. Identify these battles fought by Tecumseh FTP each.
A. This Oct. 1813 battle saw Tecumseh killed in battle as a brigadier-general ally of the British in the War of 1812. Answer: Battle of the Thames
B. Tecumseh fought valiantly in this August 1794 battle under Blue Jacket, but the defeat by Wayne & the Treaty of Greenville stirred him to fight white encroachment even more. Answer: Battle of Fallen Timbers
C. This Nov. 1811 battle was led more by Tenskwataweh, but William Henry Harrison's repulsion of the Indians was regarded as a personal defeat for Tecumseh. Answer: Battle of Tippecanoe
B2. The title female characters in operas often find amazing ways to die. Given the manner of death, name the opera FTP each. If you need a composer, you'll get 5 pts. each.
A1. She jumps from the prison tower of Castel Sant'Angelo after killing the corrupt Scarpia.
A2. Giacomo Puccini Answer: Tosca
B1. Trying to see Escamillo, she is stabbed by the lover she dumps by throwing the ring he gave her in his face. B2. Georges Bizet Answer: Carmen
C1. She is buried alive in a tomb under the Temple of Vulcan with her lover Rhadames.
C2. Guiseppe Verdi Answer: Aida
B3. Answer these questions about the Biblical Noah FTP each.
A. All or nothing, name his three sons. Answer: Ham, Shem, & Japheth
B. This son of Methuselah was Noah's father. Answer: Lamech
C. Noah curses this son of Ham. Answer: Canaan
B4. Identify these enzyme-secreting parts of the body FTP each.
A. Along with the so-called salivary glands, these glands in the cheek area produce amylase.
Answer: parotids
B. The glands of Lieberkuhn lie in this tract of the alimentary canal & produce several enzymes.
Answer: small intestine (acc: duodenum)
C. Amylase is also produced in this gland that is both exocrine in having ducts for this enzyme & endocrine for its hormone products like glucagon. Answer: pancreas
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B5. Name the authors of these works of magical realism , 5-10-15:
A. 5 pts.: This Colombian may be the most highly regarded novelist of the form for such works as One Hundred Years of Solitude & Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B. 10 pts. This author's recent Aphrodite may be even more magically realist than her In the House of Spirits.
Answer: Isabelle Allende
C. 15 pts.: The Old Gringo has this Mexican talk about Ambrose Bierce. Aura and Chac Mool may be his most noted magical realist works. Answer: Carlos Fuentes
B9. Now, who left this phenyl-magnesium bromide here? Answer these questions about this substance FTPE:
A. Phenylmagnesium bromide is an example of a class of organic reagents named for their French formulator.
What is the class of reagent? Answer: Grignard reagents
B. In solution, it can act like either an acid or a base at times, meaning that it is also an example of what term?
Answer: amphoteric
C. It is also used in achieving the speciation of this element once known for making one 'mad as a hatter.'
Answer: mercury
B11. Given the year & a synopsis of what was decided, name the Supreme Court case or face Charlie's wrath!
A. This 1963 case from Florida guaranteed counsel to all defendants. Answer: Gideon v. Wainwright
B. This 1965 case established the necessity of notifying an arrested person of his or her legal rights. Answer: Miranda v. Arizona
C. Though Robert Fulton's name doesn't appear in its name, this 1824 case about his monopoly of interstate commerce made interstate concerns federal ones. Answer: Gibbons v. Ogden
B13. Some physical laws didn't make as much sense until quantum theory came along. Given a law named for its formulator(s) name it FTP each.
A. Equal volumes of gas at the same temperature & pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. Avogadro’s
B. The volume of an enclosed gas is directly proportional to its temperature. Charles’; accept Gay-Lussac’s
C. Pressure is uniform over a static fluid. Pascal’s
B14. Hopefully we can all tell our Brontes apart; however, given a Bronte-free British Victorian work of literature, name its female author FTP each.
A. The Mill on the Floss Answer: George Eliot or Mary Evans
B. Goblin Market Answer: Christina Rossetti
C. Sonnets from the Portuguese Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; accept Barrett Browning
B18. Name the authors of the following works that treat the existential situation - or at least the French variety - FTPE
1. The Fall and The Plague Answer: Albert Camus
2 The Mandarins and The Second Sex Answer: Simone de Beauvoir
3. Nausea and No Exit Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre
2. For 15 pts each, given the details of a notable kidnapping, name the kidnapee.
a. He was abducted at age 6 from a Hollywood, Florida, department store on July 27, 1981. Although his severed head was found 2 weeks later at Vero Beach, FL, his body was never recovered. His father then became
active in raising awareness about missing children. Adam Walsh
b. On October 1, 1993, this 12 year old girl was abducted at knife point in Petaluma, CA, during a slumber party at her home. Police arrested Richard Allen Davis on Nov. 30, and he led them to her body in a wooded area of Cloverdale, CA. Davis was later found guilty and was sentenced to death. Polly Klaas
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4. For ten points each, name these important figures from the Second Persian War.
1. He was the king of Persia who attacked Greece because he dreamt that a man came to him and told him he had to. Xerxes I
2. He was the Athenian who correctly interpreted the oracle that told them to take refuge behind the "wooden walls" as meaning that they should build up their navy. Themistocles
3. He was the king of Sparta who valiantly stayed behind at Thermopylae after telling most of the allied troops to retreat. Leonidas
Give the chemical formula of each organic compound in simplest form, not its structural form. If I said propane, for instance, you would respond C3H8, not CH3CH2CH3.
1. methanol CH4O
2. benzene C6H6
3. ethylene C2H4
16. Given a baseball record, tell who owns it, F10PE.
1. .424, single season batting average in the modern era. Answer: Rogers Hornsby
2. 190, RBI in a season. Answer: Hack Wilson
3. 311, losses in a career. Answer: Cy Young
Identify the following novel on a 30-20-10 basis. If you answer correctly after the first clue, you will earn 30 points; after the second clue, 20 points; and after the third clue 10 points.
[30] It begins at a soiree hosted by Anna Pavlovna.
[20] In it, the tall and ungainly Pierre, debauches, joins the Freemasons, goes to war, marries, and divorces. Eventually, he weds Natasha.
[10] This Leo Tolstoy novel, which spans the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1869.
War and Peace
22. Identify these Norse gods, given items they are associated with.
1. Mjolnir, a hammer. Answer: Thor
2. Draupnir, a ring. Answer: Odin
3. Gjallerhorn, which he will sound too late at Ragnarok. Answer: Heimdall
3. The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword if you mean one motivating the other. Answer the following, 10 pts. each:
(a) After a relative of Wilhelm I withdrew his claim to the Spanish throne, the French ambassador asked Wilhelm for assurances that the claim would never be renewed. Wilhelm refused politely but firmly and sent a telegram to Bismarck saying that the crisis had passed. Bismarck didn’t want it to pass, so he leaked the telegram to insult the French, who took the bait and declared war. For 10 pts. each give the name by which we know the leaked telegram and the ensuing butt-whipping Bismarck laid on the French.
[the Ems dispatch (or telegram) and the Franco-Prussian War]
(b) Germany wound up on the wrong end of a leaked document in 1917, when this secret message requesting that Mexico attack the U.S was made public and forced the U.S. into World War I. [the Zimmermann letter]
4. For 10 points each, name the American artist from the works.
a.) Sunlight in a Cafeteria; Nighthawks Edward Hopper
b) The Shelton With Sunspots; Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue Georgia O'Keeffe
c) Buffalo Runner, Great Explorers, Evening on a Canadian Lake Frederic Remington
4. Identify these parts of the lung, 15-10-5
15: Both lungs are covered by this external membrane, this outer layer of which forms the lining of the chest cavity. Answer: pleura
10: Each lung contains 300 to 400 million of these air sacs. Answer: alveoli
5: Dividing and narrowing into the alveolar ducts, these branches of the bronchi are sometimes less than 1 mm in diameter. Answer: bronchioles
7. Answer these questions about a series of wars in the U.S.
A. Three separate wars were fought by the U.S. against this tribe of Native Americans. The first lasted from 1817-1819, the second from 1835-42 and the third from 1855-58. FTP, name the tribe and you'll name the war.
Answer: Seminole Wars
B. In May of 1818, this general captured Pensacola, deposed the Spanish government and made way for Florida to be acquired through the Adams-Onis treaty. Answer: Andrew Jackson
C. In 1835 a second war broke out when this chief, angered by terms in the treaty of Paynes Landing, rose in opposition. Answer: Osceola
Identify the play from which each of the following groups of characters come.
1. Olivia, Viola, Orsino, and Sebastian Twelfth Night or What You Will
2. Balthasar, Friar Lawrence, Sampson, and Gregory Romeo and Juliet
3. Puck, Theseus, and Titania A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7. 30-20-10. Identify the thinker.
30: In 1649 he was invited by Queen Christina to Sweden, but he was unable to endure either the rigors of the northern climate or the queen’s early bird habits and died not long after arriving in Sweden.
20: Mathematics was his greatest interest; often called the founder of analytical geometry, he became famous for a group of essays which appeared in 1637, including the Discourse on Method.
10: Building upon the work of others, he originated the coordinates and curves now named for him. He also coined the axiom “Cogito, ergo sum.”
ANSWER: René Descartes
9. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but for book titles it seldom produces the big prizes. You’ll get 10 pts if you can name the novel with a one-word title from the year it won the Pulitzer, or 5 pts if you need the author.
(1a) 1926
(1b) Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith
(2a) 1956
(2b) Mackinlay Kantor Andersonville
(3a) 1988
(3b) Toni Morrison Beloved
Identify each comic strip related item FTPE.
1. Unseen characters in this strip have included Joe Shlabotnik, a mediocre baseball player idolized by one of the main characters, and Miss Othmar, the teacher on whom another key character has a crush. Peanuts
2. Collections based on this comic strip include It’s Obvious You Won’t Survive by Your Wits Alone, Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy!, and Shave the Whales. Dilbert
3. Who is the creator and author of Cathy? Cathy guisewite
18. 30-20-10, name the composer based on these works.
30) The piano suite Gaspard de la Nuit
20) The piano composition, later orchestrated, La Valse
10) Bolero Maurice Ravel
21. Ten points each, answer these questions by naming the play in which they appear. For example, “Beatrice and Benedick’s merry war turned out to be this”, leads to Much Ado About Nothing.
a. What does Laura Wingfield own? ANSWER: The Glass Menagerie
b. Who is Sheridan Whiteside? ANSWER: The Man Who Came to Dinner
c. Claude Hooper Bukowski has a lot of what? ANSWER: Hair
10. For 10 pts. each, identify these physics laws:
(a) Capital F = (K times Q sub a times Q sub b) over d squared, where F represents the electrostatic force, K represents a constant of proportionality, Q sub a and Q sub b represent quantities of electrostatic charges, and d represents the distance between the charges. Coulomb’s law
(b) Capital R = capital V over capital I, where R represents electrical resistance, V represents electric potential, and I represents electrical current. Ohm’s law
(c) s = k log w, which describes the principle of the equipartition of energy Boltzmann’s law
13. Answer the following questions about the Suez Crisis, F10PE.
A. This event occurred in what year? Answer: 1956
B. Name the Egyptian president who nationalized the canal despite the fact that Britain held nearly half the number of shares in the Suez Canal Company. Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser
C. Which British Prime Minister lost his position as a result of the crisis? Answer: Sir Anthony Eden
23. There are six faces on a Rubik’s cube, each with nine miniature blocks. Answer these questions
about the cube for 10 points each.
Part I: Suppose you have a pre-solved Rubik’s cube, and the front face is blue. If you were to
start shuffling the cube, how many different places on the cube could you move the center
blue block?
ANSWER: 6 (it can arrive at the center of any side)
Part II: How many different places on the cube could you move the bottom right corner block?
ANSWER: 24 (it can be moved to any corner of any face)
Part III: Keeping in mind that the bottom right corner block also forms the bottom left corner of
one face and the top right corner of another face, how many total blocks are part of the
cube?
ANSWER: 26 blocks (12 edges, 8 corners, and 6 centers) (or going around the cube:
9 for one side + 6 for the next side + 6 for the next side + 3 for the last side +
2 for the center top and bottom)
12. The year 1955 was a big one for the obits. F5PE, identify these persons who died in that year.
5 points: This physicist was seeking a grand unified theory when he died. Answer: Albert Einstein
10: This German author's Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man was his last major work.
Answer: Thomas Mann
15: This Jesuit theologian and paleontologist died eight days before Einstein. He was involved in the discovery of Peking Man and wrote The Phenomenon of Man Answer: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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5. When we think of polymers, we think of man-made products, but name these natural polymers for the stated number of points:
a) 5 pts.: It’s obtained from many plants that are cultivated in parts of South America, Asia, and Africa. It is heated with sulfur to change it from its soft, tacky state to a more useful form. [rubber]
b) 10 pts.: The most abundant natural polymer in the biosphere, this polysaccharide is a chain of glucose molecules that can only be digested by a few microbes, which can be found in the guts of other animals, such as cows and termites. [cellulose]
(c) 15 pts.: Another polysaccharide, this nitrogenous polymer is found in many arthropodal exoskeletons and in the hyphal walls of many fungi. [chitin]
6. Years ago someone else wrote the “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” bonus before I got to it. Same with the “We Didn’t Start the Fire” bonus and even the “Kokomo” geography bonus. Well , this one is MINE. For the stated number of points, identify these people who’re all named in the Barenaked Ladies song “One Week”:
(a) 5 pts.: As the song says, this singer & actor, born Gordon Sumner, is indeed a practitioner of tantric yoga. Sting
(b) 10 pts.: While he’s starred in some of the most successful films of all time, his resume also includes such bombs as Regarding Henry, Force 10 from Navarone, Hanover Street, The Frisco Kid, and the one mentioned in the song, Frantic. Harrison Ford
(c) 15 pts.: Since the song’s release, this acclaimed director of Kagemusha, Ran, Rashomon, and The Seven Samurai died. Akira Kurosawa
18. Identify the books of the Old Testament from which the following quotations come, FTP each.
A. “There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I do not understand:”
Answer: Proverbs
B. “And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.”
Answer: 1 Kings
C. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Answer: Ecclesiastes (also accept The Preacher)
8. TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: Back in late September Charlie was in Charleston for a joyous first among his many travels: this one was on an expense account. Answer the following about his accommodations FTPE:
(a) His hotel, Embassy Suites, occupies the renovated arsenal that was the original home of this college, chartered in 1842 as South Carolina Military Institute. [The Citadel]
(b) The aforementioned arsenal was erected to house the city militia in response to the abortive 1822 slave uprising led by this man. [Denmark Vesey]
(c) The parade grounds of the arsenal are now a city park named for this ancestor of Charlie’s, nicknamed “the Swamp Fox” for his unorthodox tactics during the Revolutionary War. [Francis Marion]
2. Given characters from a play, give the play on a 30-20-10 basis.
(30) Anne, Mrs. Linde
(20) Dr. Rank, Nils Krogstad
(10) Torvald and Nora Helmer Answer: A Doll's House
Identify the opera singers who comprise the 3 tenors.
José Carreras, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti
15. FTP each, name these ancient peoples of South America.
(a) Their empire extended along the Pacific coast and the Andean Highlands, and had its capital at Cuzco. Spaniards under Pizarro arrived in 1532 and quickly conquered them, though some cities like Macchu Picchu were not discovered by Europeans until centuries later. [Inca]
(b) They referred to themselves as Culhua-Mexica, and spoke Nahuatl. After defeating the forces of Teotihuacan, they ruled until the Spaniards under Cortes killed their emperor Montezuma II and seized their capital at Tenochtitlan. [Aztec]
(c) They controlled what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize from about 250 A.D. until their mysterious collapse around 900 A.D. During their "classic" period they built elaborate temples, created a precise astronomical calendar, and developed advanced farming techniques. [Maya]
3. 30,20,10 name the painting from a description.
30 – Most of the pictorial elements of the painting, including a moon and a vase, are on the right side of the picture.
20 – The only picture element to protrude on the left side of the canvas is the tail of the central lion.
10 – The lion appears to be nudging the long-haired central figure in this 1897 Henri Rousseau work.
Answer: The _Sleeping Gypsy_
4. For 15 pts. each, name these figures involved in the discovery of nuclear fission:
(a) He shared the 1944 Nobel for chemistry with Fritz Strassmann for discovering the phenomenon after borbarding uranium with neutrons and finding barium in the products of the reaction. Answer: Otto _Hahn_
(b) Hahn and Strassmann being chemists, they were reluctant to speculate that the neutrons were able to split the uranium nuclei in two. They left the interpretation to this Viennese physicist, who’d often collaborated with Hahn from 1907 until forced into exile in Sweden in 1938. Answer: Lise _Meitner_
11. Imagine going down in history as both malicious and incompetent. For 10 pts. each, name the targets of these would-be assassins:
(a) In 1912 “Uncle John” Schrank shot this former President in the chest, but his thick folded speech and his glasses case slowed the bullet so much that he was able to deliver his speech before seeking medical attention.
[Theodore Roosevelt]
(b) In the first Presidential assassination attempt, Richard Lawrence’s pistol jammed. Onlookers had to restrain this President from clubbing the idiot to death with his cane. [Andrew Jackson]
(c) Within a few weeks of each other in 1975, the only women known to have attempted a Presidential assassination -- Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Sarah Moore -- tried to kill this President. [Gerald Ford.]
12. Answer these related philosophy questions for ten points each.
a. This ethical doctrine holds that the end and criterion of public action is “the greatest happiness of the greatest number.” utilitarianism
b. Credited as the founder of utilitarianism even though he did not coin the term, this man wrote "Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation." Jeremy Bentham
c. The term was coined by this son of a friend of Bentham, who wrote the essay "Utilitarianism". John Stuart Mill
15. Name the constellation from the second-brightest star for 10 points or from the brightest for 5:
1a. Shaula
1b. Antares Answer: Scorpio
2a. Elnath
2b. Aldebaran Answer: Taurus
3a. Adhara
3b. Sirius Answer: Canis Major
Given some of its nicknames, identify the U.S. state.
1. Bullion State or Show Me State Missouri
2. Mainland State or The Last Frontier Alaska
3. Keystone State Pennsylvania
17. For ten points each, name these casualties of the French Revolution from information about their deaths.
a. When this man was executed on May 8, 1794, he pled that he was a scientist and not a politician, but the arresting officer said, "the Republic has no need of scientists." Antoine Lavoisier
b. This man's July 17, 1794, execution, brought an end to the Reign of Terror. Maximilien de Robespierre
c. Before being guillotined, this first president of the Committee of Public Safety, who opposed the Terror, said, "Show my head to the people. It is worth the trouble." Georges-Jacques Danton
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1. Answer the following questions about The Taming of the Shrew FTPE.
First, for 10 points each, give the names of the Shrew and the man who tames her.
Ans: Katherine (or Kate) and Petruchio
Finally, for 10 points, name the drunken tinker for whom the play is performed.
Ans: Christopher Sly
14. Name the six individuals have preceeded Kofi Annan as Secretary-General of the United Nations. You will receive 5 points for each correct answer.
Answers: Trygve Halvdan Lie, Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, Javier Pérez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali (prompt on partial answers),
3. With the possible impeachment of a president looming, it seems appropriate to ask about the only previous case of impeachment in U.S. presidential history. Identify the following concerning Andrew Johnson’s near-removal from office FTPE.
(a) Johnson’s violation of this act of Congress provided the radicals with a pretext for beginning impeachment proceedings. Tenure of Office Act
(b) Johnson had intended to create a test case for the Tenure of Office Act by firing one of his cabinet secretaries. FTP name the Secretary of War he fired. Edwin Stanton
(d) Article I, section 3 of the Constitution specifies that at the Senate trial of an impeached President, “. . .the Chief Justice shall preside.” FTP name the Chief Justice at the time of Johnson’s trial. Salmon P. Chase
6. 30-20-10 Name the writer from clues.
(30) Born in Newport News, Virginia, this was also the setting for his first novel which won him the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
(20) In the summer of 1985, he was struck by clinical depression. His road to recovery resulted in "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness."
(10) He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner.
Answer: William Styron
8. So how much attention did you pay when the American Film Institute announced its list of the 100 greatest American films of all time? Ben Lea sent me two questions about it that were too cool to pass up, so I’ve included them both and give you your choice. There are 6 letters of the alphabet which each begin the title of only one film on the list. I’ll give you the letters, you name the films. OR I’ll give you 6 directors with one film each on the list and you name those films.
Letters: H, K, L, U, V, and Y.
[High Noon, King Kong, Lawrence of Arabia, Unforgiven, Vertigo, Yankee Doodle Dandy]
Directors:
(a) Joseph L. Mankiewicz [All About Eve] (d) Sydney Pollack [Tootsie]
(b) Arthur Penn [Bonnie and Clyde] (e) Ethan Coen [Fargo]
(c) Robert Mulligan [To Kill a Mockingbird] (f) Howard Hawks [Bringing Up Baby]
[Reader’s Note: Robert Mulligan is the twin brother of the inexplicably more successful Richard.]
15. Name the capitals of these African nations F5PE
(a) Zimbabwe (Harare)
(b) Ivory Coast (Abidjan)
(c) Morocco (Rabat)
(d) Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
(e) Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
(f) Senegal (Dakar)
BONUS: UNITS OF MEASURE
Identify the physical quantity measured by each unit.
1. slug MASS
2. hertz FREQUENCY
3. pascal PRESSURE
11. Given the deficiency disease, name the vitamin in short supply, 10 pts. each:
(a) Rickets [D] (b) Scurvy [C, or ascorbic acid] (c) Beriberi [B1, or thiamine]
12. I just couldn’t get through a tournament without bring up one-hit wonders. Name the artist or group that recording the following songs, 5 pts. each:
(a) “I’m Too Sexy” [Right Said Fred] (d) “96 Tears” [? and the Mysterians]
(b) “Rumors” [Timex Social Club] (e) “99 Luftballons” [Nena]
(c) “Tainted Love” [Soft Cell] (f) “The Rain” [Oran “Juice” Jones]
15. For 10 pts. each, identify the literary work as described in the letters of Alexander Woolcott:
(a) "One of the characters is an amiable and gigantic idiot, so tender that he has to fondle everything he loves and so clumsy that he eventually breaks their necks -- mice, puppies, rabbits, tarts -- whatever he happens to be petting at the moment." [Of Mice and Men]
(b) “If you are reading it I ought to be in the next room so you can...report that you have just met Mr. Pumblechook and Herbert Pocket and Trabb's boy. And I could tell you how Shaw (mistakenly) points to Estella as proof that Dickens could paint a real heroine." [Great Expectations]
(c) "Its narrative has the directness and gusto of Dumas... I was almost through with it when I said to myself: 'God's nightgown! This must be the Peg Mitchell who wrote me once about the little girl who swallowed a water moccasin and the tall man in the wrinkled nurse's uniform!" [Gone with the Wind]
Identify the composer from his works FTPE:
1. Water Music George Frideric Handel
2. Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty Peter Tchaikovsky
3. War Requiem and Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten
18. It's time to play name the eponym, a word named for a person. Give the word for 10 pts. from a description of the namesake or for 5 pts. from a definition of the word,,
(1a) The English editor of an expurgated edition of Shakespeare’s plays.
(1b) To delete or rewrite written matter considered indelicate bowdlerize
(2a) Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1841 to 1846
(2b) The nickname for London’s uniformed police patrol officers. Bobbies; acc. Peelers [singular OK]
(3a) James Madison’s Vice President, a former governor of Massachusetts.
(3b) To draw an election district in such a way as to favor a political party at the expense of its geographic integrity. gerrymander
19. Identify these religions which have often been accused of being cults, 10 points each.
a. This religion was originally known as the Russellites, and one of the requirements of its members is door-to-door preaching, so that they may act as a “watch tower” of Christianity.
ANSWER: Jehovah’s Witnesses
b. This religion fosters a very strict belief in the omnipotence of God, using prayer and faith in lieu of modern medical techniques.
ANSWER: Church of Christ, Scientist or Christian Science [don’t accept Scientology]
c. Popular with many celebrities, this religion of self-knowledge has been the target of many anti-cult lawsuits, particularly in Germany.
ANSWER: Church of Scientology
1. Give the following book titles which are also the only name given to the main characters in the book FTPE.
A. The title character of this 1952 Ralph Ellison novel is a young black man who leaves the South for New York City but is disgusted there as well and ends up living in a hole in the ground. Answer: Invisible Man
B. The title character of this 1933 Nathanael West novel is a male newspaper columnist who tries to give advice to the lovelorn but ends up dying when he becomes too involved. Answer: Miss Lonelyhearts
C. The main character in this 1850 Herman Melville novel is a sailor on the Man-of-War Neversink, where frequent floggings are used to maintain discipline. Answer: White-Jacket
8. Name the following paintings which appeared in 1893 FTP each.
A. This 1893 expressionist painting features two figures in the background and a figure with open mouth and hands to face in the foreground. Answer: The Scream (or The Cry)
B. This 1893 Mary Cassatt painting featuring a man, woman, and young girl apparently out on holiday has a title reminiscent of an 1881 work by Renoir.
Answer: The Boating Party (NOT The Luncheon of the Boating Party)
C. Some of the paintings in Claude Monet’s series of twenty of this building were finished in 1893.
Answer: Rouen Cathedral
14. Name the following nineteenth century physicists FTP each.
(a) This discoverer of aluminum demonstrated the relationship between electricity and magnetism by showing that a compass needle would deflect in the presence of electric current. [Hans Christian Oersted]
(b) This Frenchman extended Oersted’s work, showing that two parallel wires carrying current in the same direction will be attracted to each other, but will repel one another if the currents go in opposite directions.
[Andre-Marie Ampere]
(c) This German scientist described electrical conduction in solid materials, from which he formulated his law for measuring electrical current. [Georg Ohm]
22. 1948 saw 4 Presidential candidates capture at least 1 million popular votes. Harry Truman won. For ten points each, name the other three men. Thomas Dewey; Henry Wallace; Strom Thurmond
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16. Name this figure from early America, 30-20-10-5:
(a) He served in the Continental artillery until a disastrous expedition to Castine, Maine; after the rout he faced charges of disobedience that, though ultimately refuted, ended his military career. Until his death in 1818 he still insisted in wearing Revolutionary-era garb long after it went out of fashion.
(b) The artillery assignment made sense, since he also cast musket balls and cannon during the war, as well as designing and printing the first Continental currency.
(c) Serious historians consider his contribution to American industry more significant than his role in the Revolution. The preeminent goldsmith and silversmith of his day, many of his works are now museum pieces, including even some of the dental fillings he made.
(d) Most of us know him better for riding from Charlestown to Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775, to warn of the impending arrival of British troops. [Paul Revere]
17.) Given the lyrics, name the Garth Brooks song.
a.) I was feelin' the blues. I was watchin' the news when this fella came on TV. He said I'm tellin' you that science has proved that heartaches are healed by the sea.
TWO PINA COLADAS
b.) When we're free to love anyone we choose. When this world's big enough for all different views. When we all can worship from our own kind of pews.
WE SHALL BE FREE
c.) Holding you, I held everything. For a moment, wasn't I the king? But if I'd only known how the king would fall, hey who's to say? You know I might have changed it all.
THE DANCE
d.) He was up in Wyoming a drew a bull no man could ride. He promised her he'd turn out. Well, it turned out that he lied. And all the dreams that they'd been living in the California sand died right there beside him in...
THE BEACHES OF CHEYENNE
Identify the composers of each of the following operas.
1. Rigoletto and La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi
2. Salomé and Elektra Richard Strauss
3. Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach Philip Glass
20. When the Israelites arrived at the border of Canaan, twelve spies were sent across the border. Ten reported that the land was fruitful but inhabited by giants. The terrified Israelites decided to return to Egypt. To punish their lack of faith, Yahweh decreed that only two of the adults would ever enter the Promised Land the other two spies, who’d advocated heading on in. For fifteen points each, name these two people.
Joshua and Caleb
21. Name these Toni Morrison works FTP each:
a. The title character is a ghost who haunts her mother, Sethe, who slashed her throat rather than see her returned to slavery. Beloved
b. "They shoot the white girl first." is the first sentence of this 1998 novel. Paradise
c. This 1970 novel examines a young girl’s painful awakening in a white society. The Bluest Eye
19. Give the physics term defined by the following ratios for ten points each.
The ratio of potential difference to current. Resistance
The ratio of charge to a potential difference. Capacitance
The ratio of magnetic flux to current. Inductance
23. For 10 pts. each, given a generalized abbreviation for a functional group in chemistry, name it.
(a) RNH(2) amine
(b) ROH alcohol
(c) ROR ether
2.) Given the description, name the Saturday Night Live character.
a.) A decent man, as decent as decent can be. He has written over forty letters of encouragement to Pat Sajak and loves music, especially the triangle. Ed Grimley, Jr.
b.) The ghetto version of Mister Rogers, except he’s somewhat less of a role model for children.
Mister Robinson
c.) The cat who could drive a car, just not very well. Toonces
d.) A correspondent for Weekend Update, he chooses to sing his news items rather than speak them.
Operaman
e.) Therapeutic talk show host who is "a caring nurturer, a member of several twelve step programs, but not a licensed therapist." Stuart Smalley
f.) Tribal leader who often discussed with his fellow warriors the subtleties of “walking with a woman.”
Lothar of the Hill People
3.) To quote from one of the most readable reference books of all time, An Incompleat Education, “Melville didn’t know Moby Dick was an allegory till somebody told him.” Name these characters from that oft-required treatise on the processing of blubber for the stated number of points.
1. 5 points: The narrator of the novel who is mentioned in the opening line. [Ishmael]
2. 10 points: The harpooner who becomes Ishmael’s blood-brother. [Queequeg]
3. 15 points: The pious first mate of the ship. [Starbuck]
4.) Given the President, name his Vice President.
a.) Second VP under William McKinley THEODORE ROOSEVELT
b.) VP under Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard NIXON
c.) VP under Lyndon Baines Johnson Hubert HUMPHREY
d.) First VP under Andrew Jackson and only VP under John Quincy Adams. John C. CALHOUN
e.) VP under Gerald Ford Nelson ROCKEFELLER
f.) VP under Andrew Johnson NONE
11. Answer the following questions about the anatomy of nerves FTP each.
(a) This neuron fiber carries impulses away from the cell body. axon
(b) The point at which a nerve impulse passes from an axon of one neuron to the dendrite of another. synapse
(c) The endings of an axon, they form synapses and release neurotransmitters. terminals
Identify each of the following prizes.
1. This biennial prize for achievement in American poetry, conferred by Yale University Library, was established by philanthropist Paul Mellon and is named for the town in which Carl Jung spent his summers.
Bollingen Prize
2. These awards, given each May by Columbia University, include 14 journalism prizes, 6 in letters and 1 in music. Pulitzer Prize
3. Recipients of this prize include Paul Samuelson in 1970, Milton Fredman in 1976, and Kenneth Arrow and John Hicks in 1972. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science or Nobel Prize in Economics
9. Identify the 18th century poets from lines FTP each. If you need the poem the line is from you will get 5 pts.
A. 10 points: “where ignorance is bliss, / ‘Tis folly to be wise.”
5 points: “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” Answer: Thomas Gray
B. 10 points: “What charm can soothe her melancholy, / What art can wash her guilt away?”
5 points: “When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly” Answer: Oliver Goldsmith
C. 10 points: “I was angry with my foe; / I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
5 points: “A Poison Tree” Answer: William Blake
11. Identify the present-day African countries from things that occurred there FTP each.
A. 5 points: The uprising of the Kikuyu people in the Mau Mau Rebellion.
Answer: Kenya
B. 10 points: The 1962 splitting of the Action Group, the major Yoruba political party, and a 1967-70 civil war.
Answer: Nigeria
C. 15 points: A 1964 drive for independence by a guerrilla group known as FRELIMO.
Answer: Mozambique
12. Given the highest point in a state and its elevation, name the state FTP each.
A. Mount Washington, 6,288 feet
Answer: New Hampshire
B. Granite Peak, 12,799 feet
Answer: Montana
C. Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet
Answer: North Carolina
14. Name the following Hugo Award-winning science fiction stories from brief summaries FTP each.
A. A psychic detective tries to catch a killer in this 1953 winner of the first Hugo award.
Answer: The Demolished Man
B. This 1961 winner by Walter M. Miller deals with religion trying to preserve knowledge in the wake of a nuclear war.
Answer: A Canticle for Leibowitz
C. A young boy unwittingly leads a war in space in this 1986 novel by Orson Scott Card.
Answer: Ender’s Game
16. FTP apiece, name the following scientific measuring devices.
A. This instrument, a famous one of which was devised in 1887, is used for the ultraprecise measurement of wavelengths of light, small distances, and optical phenomena.
Answer: interferometer
B. In its simplest form, this device invented by Samuel Pierpont Langley is a Wheatstone bridge with two platinum strips and is used to measure tiny amounts of radiant energy.
Answer: bolometer
C. An example of one of these instruments is the psychrometer, which uses wet and dry bulb thermometers.
Answer: hygrometer
17. Name these historical horses FTP each.
A. Alexander the Great’s horse, his name meant “bull-head.”
Answer: Bucephalus
B. This was the horse that Caligula made a consul and priest.
Answer: Incitatus
C. This was the horse Robert E. Lee rode throughout the Civil War.
Answer: Traveler
Name the artists who created each of these paintings.
1. Birth of Venus Sandro BOTTICELLI
2. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Georges SEURAT
3. American Gothic Grant WOOD
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5.) In the words of Miss Piggy, “Never eat more than you can lift.” In light of this healthful observation, identify these health-related terms for 10 pts. each:
a) These collect in coronary arteries and cause atherosclerosis. [low-density lipoproteins, or LDLs]
b) The number for the pressure of blood returning to the heart. [diastolic pressure]
c) Small cell-like blood-borne fragments which adhere to capillaries in blood clotting
[platelets or thrombocytes]
Identify the composer on a 30-20-10 basis.
[30] A chemist noted for his aldehyde research, he composed music when ill.
[20] long with Balakirev, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Mussorgsky, he was a member of “The Five”
[10] His opera Prince Igor, which includes the Polovtsian Dances, was left unfinished at his 1887 death. He also wrote In the Steppes of Central Asia.
Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin
FTPE name the scientists who wrote each of these seminal works, given the title and year of publication.
1. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687 Sir Isaac Newton
2. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus
3. Arithmetic Investigations, 1801 Karl Friedrich Gauss
Identify these biblical characters for the stated number of points:
5 pts.: This son of Jacob, whose brothers sold him into slavery, was given the coat of many colors. Joseph
10 pts.: This king of Israel was the son of Bathsheba. Solomon
15 pts.: She laughed when an angel told her that she would bear a child at age 90. Sarah or Sarai
This international incident not only resulted in the loss of some lives, but it really messed up the return of some rented tuxedos. FTPE:
1. In which country did armed rebels storm a compound and take about 365 people hostage at a formal party on December 17, 1996? Peru
2. What was the position of the person whose residence was stormed?
Japanese ambassador to Peru [ask to clarify if “ambassador” given]
3. Who is the Peruvian President, whose brother Pedro was taken hostage?
Alberto Fujimori
10. Name the writer, 30-20-10:
(a) Born on September 4th, 1908, on a plantation twenty-five miles from Natchez, Mississippi , he was one of six famous writers who told the story of their involvement with Communism and of their eventual disillusionment with the doctrine and the Party in the 1949 book The God That Failed.
(b) At fifteen he left home and worked for two years in Memphis where he read H.L. Mencken’s Book of Prefaces and decided to become a writer. Among his works are How Bigger was Born and the short story collection Uncle Tom’s Children
(c) His best-known works are Native Son and Black Boy. Richard Wright
1) Here's a bonus for all of you Star Trek: The Next Generation fans. For 5 pts each and a total of 30, given a character, name the actor/actress who portrayed him or her.
A. Jean Luc Picard Patrick Stewart
B. William Riker Jonathan Frakes
C. Data Brent Spiner
D. Worf Michael Dorn
E. Beverly Crusher Gates McFadden
F. Councillor Troi Marina Sirtis
Identify each Southeast Asian country.
1. This country, formerly known as Siam, was the only Southeast Asian state to avoid European colonization or political control.
Kingdom of Thailand or Muang Thai or Prathet Thai
2. France established two protectorates in its north and a colony in its south in 1884. However, it drove out the French, defeating them in 1954 at Dienbienphu.
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
3. During the 8th through 13th centuries, the Khmer Empire encompassed this country, in addition to chunks of its neighbors, and is noted for Angkor, its magnificent capital city.
State of Cambodia or Roat Kampuchea
FTPE give the meaning for each of the following acronyms.
1. HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
2. URL Uniform Resource Locator
3. VRML Virtual Reality Markup Language
Your tournament director is old enough to remember when this was a passable pickup line: What’s your sign? Given a date, identify which sign of the Zodiac somebody born on that date would have.
1. March 20 PISCES
2. December 25 CAPRICORN
3. October 31 SCORPIO
Identify the author of each work or works.
1. The Annals, The Histories, and Germania Tacitus
2. Satires, Epodes, Odes, and Epistles to the Pisos Horace
3. The Trojan Women and Iphigenia at Aulis Euripedes
Identify the year in which the following events occurred.
1. Josef Stalin died, Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest, and the first hydrogen bomb was detonated. 1953
2. The Suez Canal opened and the first transcontinental railway in the US was completed. 1869
3. Luddites rioted in England and Napoleon invaded Russia. 1812
Identify the author on a 30-20-10 basis.
[30] While struggling to earn a living as an actor, singer, and dancer at age 14 in Copenhagen, he met Jonas Collin, who helped him get a royal scholarship from 1822 to 1828.
[20] He earned attention with the travel sketch A Walking Tour From Holman’s Canal To The Eastern Point Of Amager, and his first play, Love In St. Nicolai Church Tower.
[10] He published the first of his fairy tales in 1835 and continued writing until his 1875 death.
Hans Christian Andersen
FTPE identify these undisputed heavyweight boxing champs.
1. This American became the first undisputed champ in 1882 - 10 years before the first title fight under the Queensbury Rules. John L. Sullivan
2. This Swede became the undisputed champion in 1959. Ingemar Johansson
3. This man was the only person to be the undisputed champ twice, and he did it under two different names. Identify both names. Cassius Clay/ Muhammad Ali (accept either)
Identify the historical figure on a 30-20-10 basis.
[30] He planned to leave public life when he lost his Senate seat in 1808, but then accepted the post of Minister to Russia.
[20] Upon his election to the House of Representatives, where he served for 18 years, he wrote “My election as President of the United States was not half so gratifying.”
[10] His Presidential victory in 1824 was the last one where the Electoral College was deadlocked and the election was decided by the House of Representatives. John Quincy Adams
Given the country, identify its primary currency unit.
1. Austria SCHILLING
2. Jordan Jordan dinar
3. China Renminbi Yuan
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It may not be an opera, but in Hamlet a lot of people die. Name these cases in point FTPE:
1. This young female character is in love with Hamlet, and she drowns herself in a lake because she feels rejected.
OPHELIA
2. He is killed by his own poison tipped sword, which was intended for Hamlet. LAERTES
3. The king at the beginning of the play who is later found to be Hamlet’s father’s assassin. CLAUDIUS
FTPE name the styles of art identified with the following characteristics.
1. Displays large-scale forms; artists included Rembrandt and Rubens during 16th and 17th centuries. BAROQUE
2. Based on classical and early Christian forms; specialized in frescoes and mosaics. BYZANTINE
3. Identified with Pablo Picasso and based on figures that do not depend on different points of view CUBISM
2) "I love America, I believe in America..." and thus begins Mario Puzo's epic of Mafioso life in the Corleone family. If you've seen the trilogy of movies or read the book, fuhgeddabout it! This'll be an easy 30 pts.
If you haven't, we better make you an offer you can't refuse.
a) The first Godfather, many say the only true Godfather, was wonderfully portrayed by Brando and for which he declined the Oscar in 1973. What was the name of the first Godfather?
Don Vito Corleone; accept VITO ANDOLINI (prompt for more on Don Corleone)
b) The unexpected heir to Don Vito's patriarchal throne, he was a cool, soft-spoken businessman- until it came to Kay, his wife. He then could become almost maniacal and highly emotional. The 2nd godfather in Puzo's
epic, he was portrayed by Al Pacino in all 3 theatrical versions. Michael Corleone
c) Robert Duvall's performance of Tom Hagen, the Corleone family's legal counsel, in the first 2 movies may have been better than the other all-stars around him. Hagen, the tough Irish kid adopted by Don Vito, even had to pose as Don for a time when many believed Michael was dead. What was the Italian name for a Mafia legal advisor, normally a position revered and given only to a Sicilian?
consigliere (con-seal-ee-air-ay; be generous on pronunciation)
7. Name the following parts of the human kidney FTP each.
A. The kidney is made up of approximately 1 million of these excretory units which contain the Loop of Henle.
Answer: nephrons
B. This is the cup-shaped end of a nephron which encloses the glomerulus and send its filtrates into the nephron. Answer: Bowman’s capsule (also accept renal capsule)
C. This is the indentation on the concave inner border of the kidney through which blood vessels enter and leave. Answer: hilum
FTPE answer these questions about World War I:
1. Who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914? Gavrilo Princip
2. On May 7, 1915, which ocean liner did German submarines sink, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans? Lusitania
3. In which September, 1914 battle was the German drive stopped 25 miles out of Paris?
First Battle of the Marne
17. Identify this poet, 30-20-10:
(a) At his home in North Carolina, now a National Historic Site, they maintain a herd of goats descended from those raised by his wife, a championship goat breeder. One of his poems includes the quote “Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen”
(b) In addition to his poetry, he was an avid collector of folks songs and wrote a two-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. One of his poems includes the quote “Hog butcher of the world...”
(c) Often considered the poet laureate of the proletarian Midwest, he often used elements of folklore and an extended, paragraph-length line in Chicago Poems, Smoke and Steel, and The People, Yes
Carl Sandburg
4) Go ahead, miss these and make the readers feel old. For 5 pts. each and a total of 30, given Eighties hits with a one-word title, name the artists who performed them.
A. “Panama,” “Dreams,” and “Jump” Van Halen
B. “Abacab” and “Misunderstanding” Genesis
C. “Automatic,” “Fire,” and “Jump” Pointer Sisters
D. “Hello” and “Truly” Lionel Richie
E. “Africa” and “Pamela” Toto
F. “Never” and “Alone” Heart
18. Name this heavenly body, 30-20-10:
(30) Giuseppe Piazzi discovered this - quote - “new planet” - unquote - in 1801, but a lack of data made it very difficult to determine its orbit.
(20) Later, it was found to be only 488 miles in diameter, although it still makes up about one half of the combined mass of the asteroids in our solar system.
(10) The largest asteroid, it’s named for the Roman goddess of agriculture. CERES
FTPE name the city in which each museum is located.
1. the Louvre PARIS
2. the Hermitage [AIR - mi - TAJ] Museum ST. PETERSBURG
3. the Ashmoleam Museum OXFORD
Identify the author of each work of American literature FTPE:
1. Snowbound John Greenleaf Whittier
2. The Song of the Lark Willa Cather
3. Our Town Thornton Wilder
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26. Identify the cell organelle for 10 points each.
In these organelles, cells assemble proteins according to their genetic instructions. The free variety is suspended in cytosol, while the bound variety are attached to the endoplasmic reticulum.
Ans: Ribosomes
It consists of flattened membranous sacs, and each stack has a cis face and a trans face.
Ans: Golgi Apparatus
These organelles are bags of hydrolytic enzumes used to digest fats, polysaccharides, and nucleic acids. They are theorized to form by budding from the Golgi apparatus.
Ans: Lysosomes
Identify each of the following wars.
1. This 1982 war between Argentina and Britain started when the former invaded the British-governed islands for which the war is named. Falklands War
2. The Treaty of Frankfurt ended this 1870 war in which Germany annexed Alsace and Lorraine.
Franco-Prussian War
3. Britain and France sought to prevent further westward expansion by Russia in this war that lasted from 1853 to 1856. Crimean War
How much do you know about dinosaurs? FTPE identify each group from its members.
1. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham Led Zeppelin
2. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon, and Roger Taylor Queen
3. Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford, and Steve Howe, among others YES
Identify the artist on a 30-20-10 basis
[30] He was born in 1483 in Urbino, where he began his education in the arts.
[20] Pope Julius II commissioned him to paint a cycle of frescoes in a suite of rooms at the Vatican known as the Stanze.
[10] Among those frescoes are the Disputa and the School of Athens
Raffaello Sanzio or Raphael
Identify each famous Bible translator or producer FTPE:
1. He completed his English translation of the New Testament in 1525-the first published English text of any part of the Bible, but was executed before he could finish the Old Testament. Only one complete copy of his translation remains. William Tyndale
2. This 4th century Saint was the primary translator of the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible considered official by the Catholic Church. Saint Jerome
3. His German translation of the Bible, the New Testament in 1522, and the Old in 1534, exerted a significant influence on German literature. Martin Luther
FTPE give the metric unit for each of the following measures.
1. power WATT
2. electric current AMPERE or AMP
3. luminosity CANDELA
Identify the capital of the given Canadian province FTPE.
1. Manitoba Winnipeg
2. Saskatchewan Regina
3. Nova Scotia Halifax
Identify the following formal or informal groups of writers.
1. Gertrude Stein told Ernest Hemingway that he and other American authors living abroad following World War I were this. a lost generation
2. This group, whose name comes from their loyalty to Charles I and his son during the English Civil War, included Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Robert Herrick, and Richard Lovelace. Cavalier Poets
3. The ideas of this group of French intellectuals formed the basis for the Enlightenment. Its members included Diderot, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rosseau. philosophes
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Identify each of the following particles or classes of particles.
1. General relativity predicts that this hypothetical particle which carries the force of gravity has a spin quantum number of 2 and no mass. GRAVITON
2. In contrast to fermions, the exclusion principle does not hold for this class of subatomic particles that obey Bose-Einstein mechanics, and which include the photon, gluon, and meson. bosonS
3. The basic units of this theory are one-dimensional mass-less objects with a length of 10 to the negative 33 centimeters, and it postulates a 10 dimensional universe. superstring theory
Given a description of an international organization, provide its full name.
1. It was created in 1960 to unify and coordinate policies of oil producing nations and to protect their interests.
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
2. It was established in 1949 as a permanent military alliance to defend Western Europe against Soviet aggression.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
3. It is a community of 12 states in Western Europe created to achieve economic and political union. Currently, it is moving towards economic and monetary union, including a common currency.
European Union
Answer the following about Renaissance art FTPE:
1. This early art historian wrote The Lives of the Artists. Giorgio Vasari
2. Donatello often used this pose, in which a figure places all of its weight on one foot and bends the other leg at the knee behind it. CONTRAPOSTO
3. He won a competition with Brunelleschi in 1402 for the commission to create a set of bronze doors for the Florentine Baptistry. Lorenzo Ghiberti
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Identify the following literary terms FTPE:
1. This term from Aristotle’s Poetics refers to the purgation of pity and fear in the spectator that was aroused by the tragic hero’s actions.
catharsis
2. The standard form of Elizabethan drama in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
blank verse
3. A person’s double or counterpart, often endowed with ghost-like qualities.
doppelgänger
Name the following Congressional Acts enacted during the Wilson administration FTPE:
1. This act created the Federal Reserve Board and 12 regional reserve banks, which would control each region’s money supply, and was intended to prevent a depression.
Glass-Owens Act
2. This act created the Federal Trade Commission.
Clayton Act
3. This act created the progressive income tax system, and capped import tariffs at 40%.
Underwood-Simmons Act
6. “What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information related to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It’s not very factual on motorcycles either.” FTP each:
(a) Name the 1974 book which begins with the preceding author’s note, subtitled “An Inquiry into Values.” [Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]
(b) Second, name its reclusive author, who described the conflict between his values and his hometown, “In the Far East the master is considered a living Buddha, but in Minneapolis they wonder why he doesn’t have a job.” [Robert Pirsig]
(c) Finally, name the 1991 novel, subtitled “An Inquiry into Morals,” in which Pirsig described “the Metaphysics of Quality.” [Lila]
10. Name the biologists for 10 points each.
Part I: During his lifetime, biologists thought that the study of invertebrates was an unworthy
study and gave it little attention. However, he studied them, and in fact coined the word
“invertebrates.” However, he is best known for his false theory of acquired characteristics
from parent to child.
ANSWER: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Part II: An Austrian monk, he was born in what is now the Czech Republic. He used the
monastery’s experimental garden to investigate heredity and evolution in a specific type of
plant.
ANSWER: Gregor Johann Mendel
Part III: He is responsible for the system that we use to name organisms today. Before he
introduced binomial nomenclature, naturalists had a hard time trying to figure out which
organisms their colleagues were discussing.
ANSWER: Carolus Linnaeus (or Carl Linné)
14. Each year, the Locarno International Film Festival awards The Golden Leopard to visionary work by first-time filmmakers. Identify these Golden Leopard winners for 10 points given the winning film and year plus a better-known work.
1. 1957, The Outcry; Blow-up Answer: Michelangelo Antonioni
10: 1972, Bleak Moments; Secrets & Lies Answer: Mike Leigh
10: 1964, Black Peter; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Answer: Milos Forman
Identify the artist from the works on a 30-20-10 basis.
[30] Laocoon
[20] View and Plan of Toledo
[10] Burial of the Count de Orgaz El Greco or Domenikos THeotokopoulos
Given a Pope’s real name, identify the name he took when he became pope.
1. Giovanni de’ Medici Leo X
2. Karol Jozef Wojtyla John Paul II
3. Rodrigo Borgia Alexander VI
1. In which form of learning is a previously neutral stimulus paired with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response that is similar or identical to the unconditioned response?
classical conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning
2. If a child’s chronological age is 7 years, 6 months, and his mental age is 9 years 0 months, what is his I.Q.?
120
3. You have two lights side by side, and one is turned on. Then, it is turned off, and the other light turned on. By which phenomenon, often used as an example by supporters of Gestalt psychology, does one perceive movement when this occurs? phi phenomenon
BONI -- ROUND 14 TREVOR’S TRIVIA: BOB SELCER MEMORIAL 1998
Given three pieces of art, name the painter or sculptor FTPE.
1. Venus and Adonis, The Madonna of the House of Pesaro, and the Venus of Urbino TITIAN
2. David, Madonna and Child, and The Creation. MICHELANGELO
3. Man in a Red Turban, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride, and The Ghent Altarpiece Jan VAN EYCK
FTPE answer these questions about unmanned space exploration:
1. Which unmanned American probe discovered the Van Allen layer in 1958? PIONEER 3
2. Which international satellite, launched in 1990 and named for a mythological character, discovered that the sun has a south magnetic pole? ULYSSES
3. Which NASA and European Space Agency spacecraft, named for the discoverer of the eponymous narrow gap splitting Saturn’s rings, will be launched this year and reach Saturn in 2004? CASSINI
Identify the director FTPE, given a year and film for which he won an Academy Award.
1. Mrs. Miniver in 1942; The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946; Ben Hur in 1959 William WYLER
2. Unforgiven in 1992 Clint EASTWOOD
3. Forrest Gump in 1994 Robert Zemeckis
Identify the author of each work of history or political philosophy FTPE:
1. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History Alfred Thayer Mahan
2. The Discoverers Daniel Boorstin
3. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay. John Locke
BONI -- ROUND 15 TREVOR’S TRIVIA: BOB SELCER MEMORIAL 1998
Identify the author from the works on a 30-20-10 basis
[30] Librettos for the operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All
[20] Tender Buttons and The Making of Americans
[10] Three Lives and Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein
1. Which school of philosophy, developed by Max Wertheimer and other Germans, believed that human consciousness could not be meaningfully broken down into raw elements, and one must study the mind in large units-the whole is different from the sum of its parts?
Gestalt psychology
2. In 1925, this creator of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale in 1925 began tracking a group of over 1500 boys and girls, ages 8 to 12, with IQ’s averaging over 150. He later found them to be far more successful than their peers.
Lewis Terman
3. In his book On Memory, he described a series of experiments in which he observed how long it took him to forget memorized “nonsense syllables”.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Identify the SI unit for each quantity used in electricity and magnetism.
1. magnetic flux WEBER
2. electrical resistance OHM
3. electromotive force VOLT
Identify the following 1996 gold medal winners.
1. This French athlete, a model and controversial figure in France, won both the women’s 200 meter and 400 meter races.
Marie-José Pérec
2. This gold-medal winning decathlete took Dave Johnson’s advice to use the 90 meter javelin.
Dan O’Brien
3. This Canadian sprinter set a new world’s record in the men’s 100 meter race.
Donovan Bailey
EXTRA BONI TREVOR’S TRIVIA: BOB SELCER MEMORIAL 1998
7. For 5 points each, name any six Kings of England of the Plantagenet dynasty.
[HENRY II, RICHARD I, JOHN, HENRY III, EDWARD I, EDWARD II, EDWARD III, RICHARD II]
9. It’s more than a Buffett song or a Tommy Lee Jones film. Name each big volcano for the stated number of points:
(a) 5 pts.: This Indonesian volcano may have had the most powerful eruption of modern times in 1883. Its death toll of 37,000 was in part from the tidal waves it produced which slammed into heavily populated islands nearby.
[Krakatau or Krakatoa]
(b) 10 pts.: The bigger of its two 1902 eruptions sent a deadly cloud of flaming gas which killed 29,000 on Martinique, including all but one resident of the then-large city of St. Pierre. [Mont _Pelee_]
(c) 15 pts.: On Sumbawa in Indonesia, its 1815 eruption is blamed for the deaths of 162,000 worldwide, most of whom died of disease or famine caused by the altered weather in its aftermath. [Mt. _Tambora_]
11. Answer these questions on Native American land losses, 15 points per part.
Ten for one, 15 for both, name the two tribes who ceded 2,000,000 acres of land in the 1773 Treaty of Augusta. [Cherokee and Creek]
Ten for one, 15 for both, name the US general who led the Trail of Tears, and the 1830 act that authorized it. [General Winfield Scott and the Indian Removal Act of 1830]
15. Name the author from works, 30-20-10:
(a) All the Lies That Are My Life and Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods
(b) “A Boy and His Dog”, Dangerous Vision,s and The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
(c) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, and the teleplay for the Star Trek episode “City on the Edge of Forever” [Harlan Ellison]
19. FTP each, name that syndrome:
(a) Usually resulting from non-disjunction, it occurs in men whose chromosomes have the genetic constitution XXY. Results include a small penis, sparse pubic and body hair, and small testes lacking spermatogenesis. [Klinefelter’s syndrome]
(b) Also resulting from non-disjunction, its sufferers have only one chromosome (an X) per cell. Results include webbing of the neck, narrowed aorta, reduced height, and undifferentiated gonads. [Turner’s syndrome]
(c) Also resulting from non-disjunction, it’s characterized by trisomy of chromosome 21. Characterized by mental retardation, mongoloid facial features, simian palm, and reduced life expectancy. [Down’s syndrome]
B12. Given a building, name the English architect who designed it FTP each.
A. Strawberry Hill Answer: Horace Walpole
B. St. Paul's Cathedral, London Answer: Sir Christopher Wren
C. The Queen's House, Greenwich, 1635 Answer: Inigo Jones
6. Given the function and source of an enzyme, name it. Ten points apiece.
This enzyme curdles milk and has its source in the stomach. Answer: rennin
This enzyme transfers electrons in cell respiration and has its source in cell mitochondria. Answer: cytochrome
This enzyme splits compounds in food for inclusion in ribonucleic acid chains and has its source in the pancreas. Answer: ribonuclease
19. Given the title of a painting featuring one or more of our founding fathers, name the artist, 10 points each.
“The Declaration of Independence" Answer: John Trumbull
"Paul Revere" Answer: John Singleton Copley
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" Answer: Emanuel Leutze
22. 30-20-10, name the author.
30: He wrote a series of works chronicling the drunkenness and mental instabilities of two families in Les Rougon-Macquart.
20: In 1898, he spent 11 months in exile in England for sending a letter to the newspaper L’Aurore.
10: That letter to L’Aurore referred to the Dreyfus case and was titled J’Accuse.
Ans: Emile Zola
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