Round 1: Letter Category [± 10 points, no bounce-back]



Round 1: Letter Category [± 10 points, no bounce-back]

We’ll begin with a round where all answers start with the letter A.

1. The seat of Bernalillo (Bern-ah-LEE-oh) County, it’s the largest city beginning with the letter A in the Mountain time zone, and the largest city in New Mexico.

Answer: Albuquerque

2. A 1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner, she is famous for her pioneering work at Hull House in Chicago.

Answer: Jane Addams

3. Daughter of Zeus and Dione, she is the Greek goddess of fertility and love.

Answer: Aphrodite

4. Appearing in a record 24 All-Star games, this former Braves outfielder hit 755 career home runs.

Answer: Hank Aaron

5. From Revelations chapter 16, verse 16, this is the site of the last great battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgement.

Answer: Armageddon

6. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” is an example of what literary device, the repetition of initial sounds?

Answer: Alliteration

7. Arabic for “follower of the Pleiades,” this orange giant is the brightest star in Taurus.

Answer: Aldebaran

8. Ratified in 1781, it was the constitution of the United States until 1789.

Answer: Articles of Confederation

Round 2: Untimed Individual [+20, -0; max 140 points, 5 seconds per answer]

Team 1:

1. Why are there cats? - This question contains the name of the fictional medium that was believed to transmit electromagnetic waves.

Answer: ether

2. TEMPURA, TENABLE, TENACIOUS—Which of these three words means either “holding or clinging firmly” or “stubborn?”

Answer: TENACIOUS

3. Hartford, Jackson, Topeka – place these capitals in order from south to north.

Answer: Jackson, Topeka, Hartford (2,3,1)

4. (two part question) The same year, 1970, saw four killed and eight wounded by National Guard troops at this Ohio university, and saw 126 runners run around Central Park for this event held for the first time.

Answers: Kent State and the New York Marathon

5. Black Bear, Bull Moose, Wise Elephant – Which of these was the nickname of the Progressive Party when Theodore Roosevelt ran for President in 1912?

Answer: Bull Moose (2)

6. “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...” This is how Nick describes Tom Buchanan in what novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Answer: The Great Gatsby

Team 2:

1. Juan Dixon is now a Wizard. - Hidden is the name of precipitation formed by the sublimation of water vapor into solid crystals at temperatures below freezing.

Answer: snow

2. TREPHINE, TRESTLE, TRIAGE—Which of these words describes a process for sorting people based on their need for medical treatment?

Answer: TRIAGE

3. Cheyenne, Baton Rouge, Bismarck – place these capitals in order from west to east.

Answer: Cheyenne, Bismarck, Baton Rouge (1,3,2)

4. (two part question) The same year, 1984, saw this personal computer released by Apple, and saw this female British Prime Minister privatize telephone service.

Answers: Macintosh and Margaret Thatcher

5. El Greco, Pablo Picasso, Diego Velasquez – Which of these painters painted Guernica and The Old Guitarist?

Answer: Pablo Picasso (2)

6. “How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?” says Piggy in what work by William Golding, which is about a bunch of boys on an island?

Answer: Lord of the Flies

Round 3: Category Round [± 10 points, no bounce-back]

All answers in this round have something to do with the color green.

1. Milton Friedman is a proponent of this type of macroeconomic policy controlled by the Federal Reserve.

ANSWER: monetary policy or monetarism

2. This Stephen King novel examines the supernatural powers of John Coffey, a death row inmate in Louisiana.

ANSWER: The Green Mile

3. This group of men captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. Their leader was Ethan Allen.

ANSWER: Green Mountain Boys

4. This desert’s name is derived from its integrated fruit and the southernmost city in Florida.

ANSWER: key lime pie

5. You can have a luau if you can find your way to the green sand beach on this island.

ANSWER: Hawaii or Big Island

6. Jealousy is compared to a green-eyed monster by Iago in this Shakespeare play.

ANSWER: Othello

7. This 37 foot high wall is featured in the left field at Fenway Park.

ANSWER: Green Monster

8. This author of Unsafe at Any Speed was the Green Party presidential candidate in 2000.

ANSWER: Ralph Nader

9. This mineral is the birthstone for May.

ANSWER: emerald

10. “They’re the world’s most fearsome fighting team. They’re heroes in a half-shell, and they’re green.”

ANSWER: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Round 4: Timed Individual [+20, -0, bonus 25 for all correct; max 185 points, 90 seconds total]

Team 1:

1. What 19th century French artist who distanced himself from the Impressionists painted the scandalous pieces Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia?

Answer: Edouard Manet

2. Although outnumbered, the Army of the Cumberland defeated the General Bragg-led Confederate forces at this major engagement. Identify this 1863 battle fought in northwestern Georgia.

Answer: Chickamauga

3. Connected to the Caribbean Sea by a narrow channel, it receives freshwater from the Santa Ana and Chama Rivers. Name this shallow lake in Venezuela known for its large petroleum deposits.

Answer: Lake Maracaibo

4. Evaluate the expression for x = 13*pi [(sin x) / ((cos x/4) (sin x/2))]

Answer: 0

5. Considered the bloodiest battle of the nineteenth century, the Russians repulsed the invading forces of Napoleon at this 1813 battle fought 120 miles southwest of Moscow.

Answer: Borodino

6. Bones, Muscles, Skin-- In which of these will you find the haversian canals?

Answer: Bones (1)

7. Despite hearing “ancestral voices prophesying war,” the titular character insists on building a pleasure dome near the River Alph. Name this Coleridge poem set in the mystical land of Xanadu.

Answer: Kubla Khan

8. “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.” This quote was made by a Danish scientist, the winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Answer: Niels Bohr

Team 2:

1. Educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, his paintings generally depicted scenes from everyday life in America. Name this realist who painted the Gross Clinic.

Answer: Thomas Eakins

2. Despite the strength of the French force, Vo Nguyen Giap overran this base in two months. Identify this 1954 engagement that signaled the end of French rule in Indochina.

Answer: Dien Bien Phu

3. Its chief tributary is the Vaal and it forms the border between the Northern Cape province and Namibia. Name this 1300 mile long South African river that flows into the South Atlantic.

Answer: Orange River

4. Evaluate the expression for x = 30 degrees [(cos x / sec x) + (sin x * cos x / cot x)]

Answer: 1

5. A turning point in the war in North Africa, name this Second World War battle at which British general Montgomery routed the forces of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Answer: El Alamein or Al Alamayn

6. Incus, Malleus, Stapes-- Which of these bones in the ear is also called the stirrup?

Answer: Stapes (3)

7. Amelia Sedley and her brother Joseph are two of its more notable characters. Identify this William Thackeray novel that chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp.

Answer: Vanity Fair

8. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Do you know who said this quote? He is famous for his theory of relativity.

Answer: Albert Einstein

Round 5: Grab Bag [15 questions, ±20 points, no bounce-back]

1. In this 1938 story, the reader learns to use his talents before it is too late. Dying of gangrene within sight of the title feature, the main character Harry reflects on his past adventures and romances as he faces inevitable death. Name this Ernest Hemingway short story whose title features the highest point in Africa.

Answer: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

2. Tourist attractions near this city include the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, Cave of the Winds, and the Garden of the Gods. Pikes Peak lies fifteen miles to the west of this second largest city in its namesake state. Name this city, home to the U.S. Olympic Complex and the United States Air Force Academy.

Answer: Colorado Springs

3. This war featured the Duke of Marlborough’s victory at Blenheim. The war began when Louis XIV invaded the Spanish Netherlands in response to the Hapsburg Charles II appointing Philip V his successor in the titular country. Known in America as Queen Anne’s War, name this 1701-1714 war that was ended with the Peace of Utrecht.

Answer: War of the Spanish Succession (accept Queen Anne’s War until mentioned)

4. Recent additions to the growing known number of this class of astronomical objects include Varuna, Ixion and Quaoar (QUAH-oh-ahr), joining Pholus and Chiron, and maybe Pluto. Name this “belt” of billions of small, icy bodies orbiting the sun between 30 and 100 astronomical units, named for a 20th century Danish astronomer.

Answer: Kuiper Belt

5. One philosopher by this surname was Doctor Mirabilis; he was a Franciscan who wrote Opus minus and Opus majus in the 13th century. Another philosopher with this name was Baron Verulam, who in the 17th century wrote The Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum. Name this common last name, shared by Roger, Francis, and a breakfast meat.

Answer: Mmm…, Bacon

6. Jean Paul Sartre fittingly called this writer’s 1960 death from a car crash “an absurd death.” Born in Algeria, he wrote the essay The Myth of Sisyphus and the novel The Plague. He earned the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature for The Fall. Name this French existentialist author of The Stranger.

Answer: Albert Camus

7. Hailing from Chicago, this rat-faced man attended Army, where he was coached by Bob Knight. He later coached Army himself before coming to his current school in 1981, where he won national titles in 1991, 1992 and 2001. Name this college basketball coach who is reviled outside Bristol, Connecticut, and Durham, North Carolina.

Answer: Mike Krzyzewski (she-SHEF-ski) (prompt on Coach K)

8. This man spoke at the University of Maryland in 2001. He led African National Congress efforts before it was banned and he was imprisoned in 1961. He was finally released February 11, 1991, and led the transition from minority white rule in his country and dismantling of apartheid. Name this president of South Africa from 1994 to 1998.

Answer: Nelson Mandela

9. Cytokinesis begins during the late portion of this phase. The centromeres that held the twin chromatids together break apart, moving toward opposite ends of the spindle. Name this third stage of mitosis.

Answer: anaphase

10. This stage of development, which ends when the child identifies with the same sex parent, is also known as the Electra complex. Name this Freudian concept in which a male child wants the exclusive attention of the mother and sees the father as a rival for this affection, named for the central character of a Sophoclean trilogy.

Answer: Oedipus complex

11. Originally the main character of the novel in which he appears finds him cold and insensitive, but her heart softens when she visits him at his estate, Pemberley, and he assists her family in dealing with Wickham, who has a past with his sister Georgiana. Name this Jane Austen creation, the beau of Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice.

Answer: Henry Fitzwilliam Darcy

12. This musical work, Opus 49, was created for the dedication of the Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow in 1882, seventy years after the Russian victory over Napoleon. Often remembered for its signature tolling bells and booming cannons, name this best-known work of Peter Tchaikovsky.

Answer: 1812 Overture

13. This bill proposed reenacting parts of the Missouri compromise and allowing popular sovereignty in the western territories, compensating slave owners for escaped slaves and protecting slavery in the District of Columbia. Name this December 1860 plan, named for a Kentucky Senator, a last ditch effort to diffuse the secession crisis that led to the Civil War.

Answer: Crittenden Compromise

14. This colorless liquid is an excellent solvent but highly toxic. Kekulé proposed its ring structure in 1865, forty years after it was discovered by Michael Faraday. Although it is drawn with alternating single and double bonds, in reality its electrons are delocalized. Name this organic chemical compound having formula C6H6.

Answer: benzene

15. A student in Rome in the 1770s, this Neoclassicist was well known for his historical paintings, such as The Crowning of Josephine and The Death of Socrates, as well as Oath of the Horatii. However, this artist is best known for a painting that depicts a dead man in a tub. Name this French artist of The Death of Marat.

Answer: Jacques-Louis David

ex. “I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbors up,” said the author of this 1854 work. Name this book set at a Massachusetts pond, subtitled Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau.

Answer: Walden

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