Round 1 Tossups



Round 1 Tossups

|1. |In 1999 he disappeared, but it was soon discovered that he was in Volcanica. One of his earliest nemeses was Magnolia |

| |Bulkhead, who wanted to marry him, but soon he and his first mate Seadog encountered a more famous enemy, the pirate Jean |

| |LaFoote. In the 80's he fought against Snyder and Sylvester, the Soggies, who could not stand to let his cereal be adored |

| |by everyone. FTP identify this commander of the S. S. Guppy who commonly resides in the cereal aisle of your grocery store.|

| |A: Captain Crunch or Cap’n |

|2. |In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, this country led by Prince Nicholas doubled in size, receiving half of the former |

| |Ottoman territory known as the Sanjak of Novi Pazar. Its January 1919 Christmas uprising was directed against the country |

| |to which it was eventually attached. In June 2006 it gained independence but still shared a soccer team with Serbia in the |

| |2006 World Cup. FTP name this country whose name literally translates to “black mountain”, with capital at Podgorica. |

| |A: Montenegro |

|3. |Pencil and paper ready. You have a square which you want to find the area of. The area of a circle circumscribed around it |

| |is 12.5 [twelve point five] pi and the area of a circle inscribed in it is 6.25 [six point two five] pi. The length of the |

| |diagonal is 5 square roots of 2, and the area of the square created by connecting the midpoints is 12.5. FTP, find the area|

| |of the square. You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 25 |

|4. |Transportation between the American ones is provided in part by waterways like the Soo and Welland Canals, while the |

| |smallest of the African ones is Kivu. National parks around the American ones include Pukaskwa [poo-KAWS-kwuh] and Isle |

| |Royale, while all of the African ones are bordered by either Uganda or the Democratic Republic of the Congo. FTP, give this|

| |name applied to both the largest bodies of water in the Great Rift Valley and to Ontario, Erie, Michigan, Huron, and |

| |Superior. |

| |A: Great Lakes |

|5. |Characteristically high levels of absorbency allow for use of them as bedding and packing material. Although often |

| |associated with easy adaptation to new environments, fertilization by motile sperm requires that they live near water. |

| |Inhibition in vertical growth is not attributed to abscisic acid, but instead to a lack of xylem and phloem, which prevents|

| |long-distance nutrient transport. FTP, name this group of nonvascular plants that includes liverworts and mosses. |

| |A: Bryophytes (accept Bryophyta before “lichens”) |

|6. |In 1873, the government allowed his tribe to stay in Wallowa Valley but reversed its decision in 1877. Although General |

| |William Tecumseh Sherman praised his leadership qualities, and the press called him the Red Napoleon, he formally |

| |surrendered to Nelson Appleton Miles only 40 miles from the Canadian Border. FTP, name this Nez Perce chief who led his |

| |people on a 1,400 mile march and is famed for the surrender speech in which he stated “I will fight no more forever.” |

| |A: Chief Joseph |

|7. |One chapter concerns “The Thinker”, Seth Richmond, while “The Teacher” details the life of Kate Swift. The protagonist is |

| |accustomed to walking on Trunion Pike, a setting which may have been based on the author’s own upbringing in Clyde. The |

| |characters in this work all ultimately open up to the main character, culminating in the final chapter, “Departure”, |

| |centering on George Willard’s leave from the town. FTP name this work, whose title refers to that town, a collection by |

| |Sherwood Anderson. |

| |A: Winesburg, Ohio |

|8. |Like SyncML and IrDA, file transfer in this technology also known as IEEE 802.15.1 is handled by OBEX. Its more familiar |

| |name comes from Harald I of Denmark, which is fitting because he, like the technology, got separate factions and groups to |

| |talk together. The technology accomplishes this by setting standard frequency and communication protocols for devices such |

| |as cell phones, computers, and even cars, creating a piconet. FTP identify this wireless technology that allows consumer |

| |products to communicate using headsets. |

| |A: Bluetooth |

|9. |Pencil and paper ready. A 750 gram ball of slime is rolling along a frictionless surface at 4 meters per second north. A |

| |second 250 gram ball of slime is rolling along a frictionless surface at 6 meters per second south. Both balls hit each |

| |other at the same time, stick together, and continue moving. Remember that momentum, mass times velocity, is conserved. |

| |FTP, give the speed and direction of the resulting 1 kilogram glob of slime after the two balls stick to each other. You |

| |have ten seconds. |

| |A: 1.5 meters per second north |

|10. |He wrote the orchestral work Kossuth to honor Lajos Kossuth, the hero of his country’s 1848 revolution. He wrote the |

| |ballet The Miraculous Mandarin and the six-volume series Mikrokosmos only after his opera, in which curious Judith opens |

| |seven doors in the title location, was rejected by the Fine Arts commission of Budapest. Heavily influenced by the folk |

| |melodies of Eastern Europe, FTP, name this Hungarian pianist and composer of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. |

| |A: Béla Viktor János Bartók |

|11. |The man who originated this concept also studied inequalities over time, which later became known as the Kuznets curve. If |

| |an object is purchased from abroad, net exports decrease along with this quantity, while other components include |

| |government expenditures, investment, and consumption. FTP name this measure of a country’s capital outflow, which differs |

| |from gross national product. |

| |A: Gross Domestic Product |

|12. |Her name can be translated to “wide face” or “wide brow.” According to Herodotus, she was kidnapped by Minoans seeking |

| |revenge for Io’s abduction. A descendant of Io herself, she bore Sarpedon, Rhadamanthus and Minos after being raped by her |

| |lover. FTP, name this woman who was abducted by Zeus in the form of a white bull and had a major continent named after her.|

| |A: Europa |

|13. |Many of his early works, including Tobit and Anna with the Kid and Belshazzar’s Feast, demonstrate extensive influence from|

| |his early mentor Peter Lastman. His later career showed a departure from the strong tones he used in works like The |

| |Sacrifice of Isaac and The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Tulp toward the more hazy atmospheres that characterize The Jewish |

| |Bride and his numerous self-portraits. FTP, name this influential Dutch artist of The Night Watch. |

| |A: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn |

|14. |Pending its success, the royal children were to be kidnapped, a revolt was to be incited in the midlands, and the Catholic |

| |Elizabeth of Bohemia was to be made queen. However, the event never happened because Lord Monteagle, a prominent Catholic |

| |MP received a letter detailing the attack. FTP name this November 5, 1605 plot to blow up the houses of Parliament, which |

| |included Guy Fawkes among the conspirators. |

| |A: Gunpowder Plot |

|15. |It strongly encourages women to “stick by his side” in verse three after advocating prenuptials in the previous |

| |verse. Number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks during 2005, this song, on the album Late Registration, won the |

| |Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. With Jamie Foxx singing the a cappella, FTP name this Kanye West song about a girl |

| |who “take my money, when I’m in need.” |

| |A: Gold Digger |

|16. |This region is bordered on the northeast by Murcia near the mouth of the Almanzora River, and the Sierra Morena makes up |

| |most of its northern boundaries with Extremadura and Castilla [cas-TEE-ya] la Mancha. Much of its population lives around |

| |the Guadalquivir [gwa-dal-kee-VEER] River, which flows into the Gulf of Cadiz [CAH-deese] after passing through Cordoba and|

| |Seville. FTP, name this southernmost region of Spain. |

| |A: Andalucía |

|17. |He consoles himself that he just has a case of food poisoning when he witnesses a face through his doorknocker. He later |

| |determines that he is plagued by the leave of his wife, Belle, and eventually gives his store clerk Bob Cratchit the day |

| |off after having the opportunity to see his crippled son. FTP name this hard-hearted character who eventually takes a |

| |liking to Tiny Tim in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. |

| |A: Ebenezer Scrooge (accept either name) |

|18. |The January 4, 1924 New York Tribune announced that this work would premiere at the concert of Paul Whiteman’s orchestra |

| |named “An Experiment in Modern Music.” Hastily arranged by Ferde Grofé, it became known for its opening clarinet glissando |

| |and its incorporation of jazz into a more symphonic format, which lends the piece its name that was suggested by the |

| |composer’s brother Ira. FTP, identify this piece for piano and the orchestra written by George Gershwin. |

| |A: Rhapsody in Blue |

|19. |This novel, which earned its author an anthropology degree from the University of Chicago, includes a visit to the |

| |Caribbean island of San Lorenzo. He is lead to the island by his investigation of the day Hiroshima was bombed and his |

| |learning of a substance developed by Felix Hoenikker that freezes water at room temperature, Ice-Nine. FTP, name this |

| |satirical novel named for a children’s string game, written by Kurt Vonnegut. |

| |A: Cat's Cradle |

|20. |Reginald Arthur created a painting of her death, and Ahmed Shawqi wrote a play about it. Her name means “father’s glory,” |

| |and she was the only member of her family to learn the language of her subjects. She married her brother to gain hold of |

| |the throne, but later, only her portrait appeared on the coins of her country. FTP, name this Egyptian pharaoh who |

| |committed suicide with her lover, Marc Antony.  |

| |A: Cleopatra VII |

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| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

|21. |First isolated in 1669 by Henning Brand, the United States and Israel have been accused of using its “white” form. Other |

| |allotropes include black and red versions, which can be used in fireworks. Originally found in urine, today it can be |

| |extracted from apatite and in biology is found in the backbone of DNA. FTP identify this element with atomic mass 31, |

| |number 15 and symbol P. |

| | A: Phosphorus |

|22. |Made famous with the publication of James MacGillivray’s “The Round River Drive” in the Detroit News-Tribune in 1910, his |

| |story includes characters like Johnny Inkslinger and Dutch Jake. It has been said that he created the Black hills and Puget|

| |Sound, and that Lake Bemidji resembles his footprint. Often accompanied by a blue ox, FTP, name this legendary giant |

| |lumberjack. |

| |A: Paul Bunyan |

|23. |Ettore Capriolo and Hitoshi Igarashi were stabbed in 1991 for knowledge of its content, which includes a description of how|

| |actors Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha are left unharmed when their plane explodes over the English coast. The deaths |

| |came as a result of a 1989 fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini, who declared that its author was guilty of blasphemy against |

| |Islam. FTP, name this controversial novel by Salman Rushdie. |

| |A: The Satanic Verses |

Round 1 Bonuses

|1. |Identify these neurotransmitters FTPE. |

| |This first neurotransmitter to be discovered is responsible for the stimulation of muscle cells. Botox works by blocking it |

| |from functioning. |

| |A: Acetylcholine |

| |This neurotransmitter, associated with reward mechanisms in the brain, acts as an inhibitor on neurons. Drugs such as |

| |heroin, act to increase the level of it in the brain. |

| |A: Dopamine |

| |This neurotransmitter, sometimes associated with happiness, is a derivative of tryptophan. Hallucinogens like LSD can bind |

| |to its receptors, which can block it from inducing neurons. |

| |A: Serotonin |

|2. |2006 has been a good year for movies based on books. Given the description name the film FTPE: |

| |This adaptation of a Dan Brown novel earned 224 million dollars globally in its opening weekend despite protests outside of |

| |theaters. |

| |A: The Da Vinci Code |

| |Despite only opening in five theatres, this adaptation of an Annie Proulx [PROUL] short story earned a world wide gross of |

| |178 million dollars. The film was directed by Ang Lee. |

| |A: Brokeback Mountain |

| |This movie is based on Lauren Weisberger’s runaway bestseller of the same name in which Andrea Sachs works for a |

| |ridiculously overbearing editor of a fashion magazine. |

| |A: The Devil Wears Prada |

|3. |Identify the following about the 1913 Armory Show, FTPE. |

| |Perhaps the most famous artistic work to be unveiled at the Exhibition was this abstract work by Marcel Duchamp described as|

| |“an explosion in a shingle factory.” |

| |A: Nude Descending a Staircase, Number 2 |

| |The Exhibition also displayed The Poorhouse on the Hill by this French artist, known for his works that connect |

| |impressionism to more abstract 20th century styles. |

| |A: Paul Cezanne |

| |Like Marcel Duchamp, this artist caused controversy with his paintings Luxury, II, The Blue Nude, and Goldfish and |

| |Sculpture. |

| |A: Henri Matisse |

|4. |There shall be successive winters, with no summers and there will be great strife. All of these things of course signal the |

| |coming of a Ragnarok bonus. FTPE, |

| |This son of Fenrir will devour the sun, while his brother Hati, will devour the moon. |

| |A: Skoll |

| |Thor will slay this creature, but not before he is poisoned by its venom. |

| |A: Jormungandr [YOR-man-gand-er] (Accept Midgard Serpent and World Serpent) |

| |Identify either of the humans who will survive Ragnarok by hiding themselves away where Surt cannot destroy them. |

| |A: Lif or Lifthrasir |

|5. |Answer these questions about an instrument FTPE. |

| |With a name meaning “three stringed,” this lute-like instrument is commonly associated with Indian music. |

| |A: Sitar |

| |This Bengali man, known for his sitar skill, composed both film and ballet scores, played at Woodstock, and founded schools |

| |of music in both Bombay and Los Angeles. |

| |A: Ravi Shankar |

| |This Beatle was one of Shankar’s students and later produced some of his albums. |

| |A: George Harrison |

|6. |FTPE, identify these regions of France. |

| |This region of northern France includes the mouth of the Seine and was the site of the 1944 Allied invasion of continental |

| |Europe. |

| |A: Normandy |

| |This area on the border with Germany contains the cities of Metz and Verdun and is located northwest of Alsace. |

| |A: Lorraine |

| |This region north of Provence and directly south of Geneva, Switzerland lies on the border with Italy and includes |

| |Mont-Blanc and Chamonix. |

| |A: Savoy (also accept Rhône-Alpes) |

|7. |FTPE, identify these English royal houses. |

| |The reign of this house was interrupted by the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1649 and wasn’t restored until Charles |

| |II in 1660. James was the first monarch of England from this house. |

| |A: Stuart |

| |George I succeeded Anne to become the first monarch in this line. They succeeded the House of Stuart as rulers of Great |

| |Britain, and were also a royal dynasty of Germany. |

| |A: Hanover |

| |In 1917, anti-German sentiment resulted in the change of the royal family name from Wettin to this more “English-sounding” |

| |name. |

| |A: Windsor |

|8. |FTPE, name these discoverers of these archeological sites. |

| |Born in 1874, in Kensington, England, this famous explorer found the tomb of Tutankhamun. |

| |A: Howard Carter |

| |This German archeologist discovered Mycenae and Troy. |

| |  A: Heinrich Schliemann |

| |An American archeologist and statesman, he was a governor of Connecticut. His discoveries include the Incan cities of |

| |Viitcos and Machu Picchu. |

| |  A: Hiram Bingham |

|9. |FTPE identify this islands of Indonesia: |

| |Containing the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, this island is separated from Borneo by its namesake sea. |

| |A:Java |

| |This member of the Lesser Sunda Islands gained attention after the remains of a hobbit like people were discovered there. |

| |A:Flores |

| |Makassar Strait separates this world's 11th largest island from Borneo. |

| |A:Sulawesi (Celebes) |

|10. |Here comes the sun! FTPE name these deities of our star. |

| |In Greek mythology this son of Leto and twin of Artemis increasingly became associated with the sun. |

| |A: Apollo |

| |Japanese emperors claim to be direct descendants of this Goddess who had a heated rivalry with her brother Susanoo |

| |[su-SAN-oh-ooh]. |

| |A: Amaterasu-ō-mi-kami |

| |This Aztec god whose name may translate to “Hummingbird of the South” was a god of war and patron god of Tenochtitlan |

| |[ten-OCH-tee-tlan]. |

| |A: Huitzilopochtli [weet-tse-lo-POCHT-lee] (also accept Uitzilopochtli) |

|11. |FTPE name these types of radioactive decay. |

| |Governed by the strong nuclear force, this form of decay involves the release of a helium nucleus. |

| |A: alpha decay |

| |Either an electron or a positron is emitted in this type of decay. Ruled by weak nuclear force, the minus form changes a |

| |neutron into a proton, releasing an electron and an anti-neutrino. |

| |A: beta decay |

| |When there are too many protons in the nucleus and insufficient energy for beta decay, the outer shell falls into the inner |

| |shell in this process, which converts a proton into a neutron. |

| |A: electron capture |

|12. |Identify these things related to an anthropologist FTPE. |

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| |This anthropologist, author of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, taught at Columbia and was a good “friend” of Margaret Mead.|

| |A: Ruth Fulton Benedict |

| |This other anthropologist was Benedict's teacher at Columbia and wrote The Mind of the Primitive Man. |

| |A: Franz Boaz |

| |Written by Benedict for her doctorate degree, it puts forth that “culture is personality writ large" and uses her fieldwork |

| |among different groups of Native Americans. |

| |A: Patterns of Culture |

|13. |Identify these churches FTPE. |

| |Built by Justinian I, it was later converted into a mosque and is located in modern Istanbul. It is also called the Church |

| |of Holy Wisdom. |

| |A: Hagia Sophia |

| |This church, located in Garden Grove in Southern California, featuring over ten-thousand pieces of glass, airs its services |

| |on the TV show The Hour of Power. |

| |A: Crystal Cathedral |

| |The only church to be completed by architect Carlo Maderno, this church in Rome houses the statue The Ecstasy of St. |

| |Theresa. |

| |A: Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria |

|14. |FTPE, answer these questions on the constitutionality of searches and seizures. |

| |This Constitutional amendment forbids unreasonable searches and seizures. |

| |A: Fourth amendment. |

| |Perhaps the most famous Supreme Court decision regarding the amendment was this 1961 ruling which declared that |

| |unconstitutionally obtained evidence was not admissible in court. |

| |A: Mapp v. Ohio |

| |It is the prerequisite for a warrant under the fourth amendment. However, if this, along exigent circumstances are present, |

| |reasonable searches can be conducted without a warrant. |

| |A: Probable Cause |

|15. |Pencil and paper ready. FTPE beginning with a standard 52 card deck, find the following probabilities. You will have 10 |

| |seconds for each part: |

| |Find the probability that, with replacement, you draw two consecutive kings. |

| |A: 1/169 (1/13 times 1/13) |

| |Find the probability that, with replacement, you draw a king of hearts, then another heart. |

| |A: 1/208 (1/52 times 1/4) |

| |Now, find the probability that, without replacement, you draw a king of hearts, then some other heart. |

| |A: 1/221 (1/52 times 12/51, which simplifies to 1/13 times 1/17) |

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|16. |FTPE, name these characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. |

| |The only principle character left alive at the close of the drama, he is a close friend of Hamlet from university. |

| |A: Horatio |

| |Polonius issues a good deal of advice to this character, his son and Ophelia’s devoted brother. |

| |A: Laertes |

| |This courtier referees the final swordfight between Hamlet and Laertes. |

| |A: Osric |

|17. |FTPE identify these things related to wave phenomena. |

| |When a wave enters a medium in which its velocity changes speed, this change in direction occurs. |

| |A: Refraction |

| |This bending of a wave occurs in the region behind an obstacle in the wave's path. |

| |A: Diffraction |

| |Refraction and diffraction can be explained by this principle that states that every point on a wave front generates |

| |wavelets that spread out in the forward direction of the wave. |

| |A: Huygens' principle |

|18. |FTPE answer the following about the French essay. |

| |Written in the form of an open letter and published in a French newspaper, this famous essay written by Emile Zola responded|

| |to the jailing of Alfred Dreyfus. |

| |A: J’Accuse |

| |Often considered inventor of essays, this French Renaissance writer created a volume of works collectively titled “Essays”. |

| |A: Michel de Montaigne |

| |The word “essay” literally translates from French as this. Montaigne chose the word “essay” because he could only go so far |

| |in his endeavor to influence others. |

| |A: To try or attempt (accept equivalents) |

|19. |FTPE, answer these questions about current events in a certain South East Asian country. |

| |On September 19, 2006, a bloodless coup occurred in this nation, which borders Laos and Cambodia. |

| |A: Thailand |

| |This ousted Prime Minister was in New York at the time of the coup, and vowed to return to Thailand as soon as possible, |

| |declaring Bangkok to be in a “severe state of emergency.” |

| |A: Thaksin Shinawatra |

| |Sworn in on October 1, 2006, this former military officer and Privy Councilor was chosen to replace Shinawatra as Prime |

| |Minister |

| |A: Surayud Chulanont |

|20. |FTPE, answer these questions about the W.E.B. DuBois. |

| |This is the organization most commonly associated with DuBois. He helped to found it in 1909 and became its Director of |

| |Publications and Research. It still exists today. |

| |A: NAACP (Accept National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) |

| |DuBois was the editor-in-chief of this magazine for 25 years, and it was the main avenue through which NAACP policy was |

| |distributed. |

| |A: The Crisis |

| |DuBois helped develop this movement in 1906, and earned its name from its member’s meeting place, on the Canadian side. The |

| |movement ultimately failed as public accusations of fraud and deceit were thrown against them. |

| |A: Niagra Movement |

|21. |Name the Warner Brothers TV show given characters FTPE. |

| |Chloe Sullivan, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor |

| |A: Smallville |

| |Lorelei, Rory, Luke |

| |A: Gilmore Girls |

| |Prudence Halliwell, Paige Matthews, Leo Wyatt |

| |A: Charmed |

Round 2 Tossups

|1. |Pencil and paper ready. A man is walking at 2 miles per hour west on a boat that is moving 7 miles per hour east. He looks |

| |upon a nearby shore while walking. On it is a dog running after a thrown stick at 12 miles per hour north. FTP, calculate |

| |the speed, but not the direction of the dog relative to the man. |

| |A: 13 miles per hour (5-12-13 triangle) |

|2. |Although he is not Laertes, some sources say he is the father of Odysseus. Born to Aeolus [ay-OH-lee-us] and Enarete |

| |[en-ah-REH-tay], he instituted the Isthmian games to honor Melicertes [meh-li-SER-teez], whose body was found on the shores |

| |of Corinth. After revealing Zeus as a rapist, he escaped death by imprisoning Thanatos, justifying his epithet as craftiest |

| |of men. FTP name this figure in myth, forced to forever roll a giant stone up a hill. |

| |A: Sisyphus |

|3. |It opens with the main character hearing a bird chirp that “all is quiet.” Sterling Holloway provided the voice of the |

| |narrator in a 1946 movie version, where several characters were given names, such as “Sonia” the cat. Ultimately, the main |

| |character hopes the zoo will be the destination of his catch, an animal symbolized by French horns. FTP name this Russian |

| |composition about a young boy’s adventures with animals in the woods, written by Sergei Prokofiev. |

| |A: Peter and the Wolf |

|4. |This work features the jester Nano, the traveler Peregrine, and the English Sir and Lady Politic Would-be. It focuses on how|

| |Corbaccio, Corvino, and Voltore are tricked into thinking that a large inheritance is at stake by Mosca, a servant of the |

| |unusually cunning titular nobleman. FTP, name this 1606 work of Ben Jonson, whose title character’s name roughly means “the |

| |fox.” |

| |A: Volpone |

|5. |In popular culture, the band Straylight Run sings about this on Prom Night. Often associated with anxiety, dread and |

| |awareness of death, it is opposed to rationalism or positivism, and says that men are responsible for all their choices and |

| |are condemned to freedom. FTP, name this philosophy emphasizing action and subjectivity followed by Albert Camus [Kah-MOO], |

| |Soren Kierkegaard, and Jean-Paul Sartre [SAR-truh]. |

| |A: Existentialism |

|6. |Lynn Margulis, who popularized it, said that “Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking.” New evidence |

| |has been found in the relationship between Carsonella ruddii and the aphids in which they live. Other evidence states that |

| |certain organelles have their own DNA and that a double membrane surrounds them. FTP, name this biological theory that |

| |mitochondria and chloroplasts were originally bacteria that formed symbiotic relationships with early cells. |

| |A: Endosymbiont or Endosymbiotic Theory (also accept Endosymbiont Hypothesis) |

| |It forms an extensive delta on the northwest corner of Cedar Lake near The Pas [PAH], where it joins with the Carrot River. |

|7. |Its south branch, and its tributaries, the Oldman and the Bow drain the cities of Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, and Calgary. The|

| |northern branch flows through Edmonton before entering its namesake province. FTP, identify this river of central Canada |

| |that shares its name with a province between Manitoba and Alberta. |

| |A: Saskatchewan River |

|8. |His grandmother tells him to make a quesadilla [kway-sa-dill-uh] while she’s away. She also tells him to feed Tina some |

| |steak, which is subsequently thrown at him by his uncle. His brother Kip is involved in an internet relationship with |

| |LaFawnduh Lucas, and central to the plot is the school presidential campaign to "Vote Pedro". FTP name this 2004 movie |

| |starring Jon Heder as a troubled teen with mad skills, whose favorite animal is the "liger." |

| |A: Napoleon Dynamite |

|9. |Kay McNulty, Betty Jean Jennings, and Betty Snyder were three of the six women inducted into the Women in Technology |

| |International Hall of Fame in 1997 for their work in operating this device. Although its 1964 patent was made void by |

| |Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, it was originally built to calculate artillery firing tables for the Ballistics Research |

| |Laboratory of the US Army. FTP, name this early large-scale digital computer. |

| |A: Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer |

|10. |Among the plaintiffs in this case were Shirley Hodison, Zelma Henderson, and Lucinda Todd. It was opposed by the Southern |

| |Manifesto, and its companion case is often considered Bolling v. Sharpe. Thirteen parents sued on behalf of their children, |

| |and the Warren court decided that certain facilities were "inherently unequal." FTP name this landmark 1954 Supreme Court |

| |case that reversed Plessy v. Ferguson and outlawed segregation in public schools. |

| |A: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |

|11. |In March of 1998, CBS Studio 33 was re-dedicated to honor this show’s host, a recipient of 15 Emmy Awards. On April 9, 2005 |

| |Sheena Lindholm set new primetime winning records on the Million Dollar Spectacular. Other games include Bonkers, Cover Up, |

| |Flip Flop, and Most Expensive. FTP, name this daytime television game show, now in its 34th season, hosted by CBS’s Bob |

| |Barker. |

| |A: The Price Is Right |

|12. |According to one theory, this is formed because emotions cannot be shaken, and attempts to overcompensate for it can lead to|

| |neurosis. Its earliest proponent believed that poor parenting could be one cause of it, because spoiled children lack |

| |independence and responsibility. These points helped to define the views for which its creator is now known, and were |

| |central to his split with Freud. FTP identify this “complex” in which a person feels hopelessly inadequate. |

| |A: Inferiority Complex |

|13. |The sleeping narrator has seven P’s marked on his forehead by a gatekeeper after being carried by Saint Lucy. While |

| |traveling through the first three terraces, he describes his encounters with Marco Lombardo, Hugh Capet, and others guilty |

| |of sins like wrath, envy, and sloth. All of this occurs before he arrives in Eden and meets Beatrice. FTP, name this poem in|

| |which Dante and Virgil continue their journey from the previous Inferno. |

| |A: Purgatorio |

|14. |It still contains high elevations in locations like the Torngat Mountains and the Laurentian Highlands, but most of it |

| |consists of low hills and numerous lakes left from glaciers that once covered it. Extending north through Baffin Island, it |

| |is centered on Hudson Bay and covers much of Nunavut, Labrador, Manitoba, Quebec, and Ontario. FTP, identify this large |

| |geologic feature of northern North America |

| | A: Canadian Shield (also accept Precambrian Shield; accept Laurentian Shield or Laurentian Plateau before mentioned) |

|15. |It began on King Street when Edward Garrick called out to captain John Goldfinch, telling him that he was late paying his |

| |barber’s bill. In the following weeks, Jonathan Mulliken and Henry Pelham created works depicting this incident, in which |

| |five people were killed, including Crispus Attucks. FTP, name this event where British officers fired on a crowd in front of|

| |the customs office of a certain city. |

| |A: Boston Massacre |

|16. |Coming from a prominent political family, this man’s grandfather Kishi Nobusuke [NOHB-skay] and his great uncle Sato Eisaku |

| |[EE-ay-sah-koo] were prime ministers. A rising star in the Liberal-Democratic Party, he became the secretary general of the |

| |party in 2003 replacing Koizumi Junichiro as the leader of the party. FTP, name this newly elected 90th prime minister of |

| |Japan. |

| |A: Shinzo Abe (accept either) |

|17. |He invites the reader to “go through certain half-deserted streets” before sharing his anxieties about the thickness of his |

| |arms and legs, whether or not he should eat a peach and “the bald spot in the middle of his hair.” He goes on to reveal |

| |that he is “not Prince Hamlet” and would rather be a “pair of ragged claws.” FTP name this title character of a “love song”|

| |by T. S. Eliot. |

| |A: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |

|18. |Twelve of them were chosen by Norman Good in 1966 based, among other criteria, on their ease of use and production. Proteins|

| |can act as them through the ionization of their amine groups and their maximum capacity can be found at the point where pH |

| |is equal to pKa. Usually made up of a weak acid or base and its conjugate counterpart, FTP, name these solutions commonly |

| |used to resist change in pH. |

| |A: Buffer |

|19. |The figure at left wears a medallion indicating his membership in the Order of Saint Michael, while a small Crucifix is |

| |present behind the green curtain in the background. A broken string on a lute is thought to symbolize religious discord in |

| |Europe. France lies at the center of a terrestrial globe, which is above a distorted skull on a shelf with numerous other |

| |navigational instruments. FTP, identify this Hans Holbein work depicting two French diplomats. |

| |A: The Ambassadors |

|20. |He began his war for independence by murdering many government officials, after killing two soldiers over a fish. With the |

| |aid of his numerous followers, he was able to achieve victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, but his defeat at the Battle|

| |of Falkirk ended the independence movement. FTP, name this hero of Scotland who defended his homeland from the English until|

| |his capture in 1303. |

| |A: William Wallace |

| | |

| | |

| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

| | |

|21. |One popular tourist destination in this country is the Plain of Jars, which features thousands of stone jars scattered |

| |across the landscape near Luang Phrabang. Located on the western side of the Annamese Cordillera, it is thought to be the |

| |most heavily bombed country in history, and unexploded bombs are still a major problem in the area around what was the Ho |

| |Chi Minh Trail. FTP, identify this country with its capital at Vientiane [vee-EHN tee-AHN]. |

| |A: Laos |

|22. |Pencil and paper ready. You have 24 wooden cubes. They originally are assembled in a 2 by 3 by 4 rectangular prism. You |

| |separate the prism into individual cubes and reassemble them into a 2 by 2 by 6 rectangular prism. You want to compute the |

| |positive difference in surface area between the two rectangular prisms assembled. FTP, what is the difference? You have 10 |

| |seconds. |

| |A: 4 |

Round 2 Bonuses

|1. |Name these Native Americans FTPE: |

| |This Indian chief united the Sioux and led them against the United States 7th Cavalry commanded by General Custer at the |

| |Battle of Little Big Horn. |

| |A. Sitting Bull |

| |Although at first this leader of the Chiricahua Apache opposed the encroachment of the United Sates on tribal lands, he |

| |later converted to Christianity and became a prosperous farmer in Oklahoma. |

| |A. Geronimo |

| |This leader and warrior of the Sauk [SAWK] tribe refused to vacate his land, resulting in the war named after him in which |

| |the Sauk and Fox tribes fought against the United Sates for control of the Rock River. |

| |Black Hawk |

|2. |FTPE identify these people involved in Italian unification: |

| |This leader of the Red Shirts and member of the Risorgimento movement gained renown for his conquest of Sicily during May of|

| |1860. |

| |A: Giuseppe Garibaldi |

| |Originally a member of the Carbonari, he founded the political group, Young Italy. He disliked the monarchial united Italy, |

| |and encouraged revolt as a means of political reform. |

| |A: Giuseppe Mazzini |

| |On February 18th, 1861, this man became the first king of a unified Italy. He originally led the northern regions of |

| |Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia, which united with Garibaldi’s claims in the South. |

| |A: Victor Emmanuel II [prompt on “Victor Emmanuel”] |

|3. |Identify these Hindu consorts FTPE. |

| |She is the wife of Vishnu and mother of Kama. She is often associated with wealth and prosperity. |

| |A: Lakshmi |

| |Indiana Jones fans will know this goddess as the subject of the villains’ devotion in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. |

| |However she is better known as the wife of Shiva. |

| |A: Kali |

| |Another wife of Shiva, she attracted her husband by practicing religious austerities. She is often associated with happy |

| |marriages. |

| |A: Parvati |

|4. |FTPE name these characters from The Smurfs: |

| |This third oldest Smurf is the leader as can be seen by his red hat and clothes. He has a bushy white beard and speaks |

| |elegantly without using the word “smurf”. |

| |A: Papa Smurf |

| |Known among Smurfs as a tattletale, he is distinguished from the others by his short-sightedness and thick glasses, He |

| |enjoys reading and lecturing to the other Smurfs. |

| |A: Brainy Smurf |

| |One of the few female Smurfs, she was created from clay by Gargamel to cause jealousy among the other Smurfs. She has long |

| |blonde hair and sports a white dress with high heels. |

| |A: Smurfette |

|5. |Identify these cases from the Marshall Court from clues, FTPE: |

| |This case helped create the concept of judicial review when the court struck down portions of the Judiciary Act of 1789. |

| |A: Marbury v. Madision |

| |This case, arising from a steamboat monopoly, affirmed congress's right to regulate interstate commerce. |

| |A: Gibbons v. Ogden |

| |The ruling in this case stopped an attempt by New Hampshire to make the namesake college a public institution. |

| |A: Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward |

|6. |In 1944, 730 delegates from all 45 allied nations gathered in a New Hampshire resort town. FTPE name: |

| |This economic conference which attempted to ease WWII reconstruction and aid political stability. |

| |A: United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods |

| |Unlike the World Bank, which backs specific projects, this organization established at Bretton Woods gives general loans to |

| |financially weak countries. |

| |A: International Monetary Fund |

| |This agreement created at Bretton Woods induced a reduction in tariffs and other trade barriers. |

| |A: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |

|7. |Name the following well-known Roman writers: |

| |This author, who lived during the rule of Augustus, wrote the Aeneid. |

| |A: Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) |

| |Famous as an historian, this Roman author penned the Ab Urbe Condita. |

| |A: Livy (Titus Livius) |

| |This Roman, who is the great-uncle of Pliny the Younger, wrote the Naturalis Historia. |

| |A: Pliny the Elder |

|8. |FTPE, name these works by African-American authors. |

| |This Lorraine Hansberry play focuses on the struggles of the Younger family. |

| |A: A Raisin in the Sun |

| |This Ralph Ellison novel features the attempted assassination of Senator Adam Sunraider and is named for a prominent |

| |African-American holiday. |

| |A: Juneteenth |

| |This 1921 poem by Langston Hughes contains lines like, “I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young”. |

| |A: The Negro Speaks of Rivers |

|9. |FTPE, name these movies full of Friends. (DO NOT GIVE AWAY ANWSERS UNTIL END) |

| |In the movie The Break-Up, she plays a character who has just broken up with her boyfriend, but both refuse to move out of |

| |their condominium. |

| |A: Jennifer Aniston |

| |In his return as Oz in The Whole Ten Yards, he asks Jimmy the Tulip to help him get his wife back from the Hungarian Mafia. |

| |A: Matthew Perry |

| |She plays Gale Weathers in the popular Scream trilogy. |

| |A: Courtney Cox-Arquette |

|10. |Name the Central Asian mountains, FTPE: |

| |Located in the Karakoram range, this Pakistani peak is the world’s second highest. |

| |A: K2 (also accept “Qogir,” “Qiáogēlǐ Fēng,” and “Mount Godwin-Austen,” “Chogori,” “Kechu” and “Dapsang”) |

| |This highest point in Tajikistan was the highest in the former Soviet Union. |

| |A: Communism Peak (also accept “Ismail Samani Peak” |

| |Most of this third highest mountain in the world is found in the Indian state of Sikkim. |

| |A: Kangchenjunga |

|11. |FTPE, name these seas located around Italy. |

| |This sea located south of the Adriatic separates southern Italy from Greece. |

| |A: Ionian Sea |

| |This sea, which comprises the central portion of the Mediterranean, is surrounded by Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, and mainland|

| |Italy. |

| |A: Tyrrhenian Sea |

| |Directly between Corsica and its namesake province, this sea includes the Gulf of Genoa. |

| |A: Ligurian Sea |

|12. |Give these computer data structures FTPE. |

| |This represents a rectangular array of colored pixels, either indexed from a color table or in red-green-blue format. The |

| |image format is rarely compressed and is considered the largest of most image formats in terms of filesize. |

| |A: Bitmap or BMP |

| |This programming data structure is generally made as a stack. It consists of a sequence of nodes, each which contain data |

| |and point to the next node, and can either be linear or circular. |

| |A: Linked List |

| |This data structure uses a namesake function to generate a key from the data inputted. It is good to use when the data |

| |structure requires a lookup function to be used with it. |

| |A: Hash Table or Hash Map |

|13. |FTPE , name these types of columns. |

| |Arguable the flashiest Greek order, these columns are commonly decorated with acanthus leaves. |

| |A: Corinthian |

| |The simplest order, it lacks the large volutes of Ionic and floral arrangements on Corinthian. |

| |A: Doric |

| |This Roman order is similar to the Doric. It is often used in Georgian Architecture. |

| |A: Tuscan |

|14. |FTPE name these types of stars. |

| |Located below the Main Sequence on a Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, these stars fade into brown, then black dwarves over time |

| |they near the end of life. |

| |A: white dwarf |

| |The likely fate of the sun in 5 billion years, this type of star is located above the Main Sequence. Of luminosity class |

| |III, this type of older star expands by burning helium. |

| |A: red giant |

| |Usually a population I giant yellow star, these stars are often used as standard candles because of the high correlation |

| |between their variability and luminosity. |

| |A: Cepheid variable |

|15. |FTPE answer the following about the human stomach. |

| |In order to kill bacteria and further break down food, the stomach must secrete this strong acid, maintaining a pH of around|

| |2. |

| |A: HCl or hydrochloric acid |

| |The acidic environment serves to activate the zymogen for this molecule. The first animal enzyme to be discovered, it is a |

| |protease that degrades complex proteins into peptides. |

| |A: pepsin |

| |This term refers to folds in the walls of any organ, though it most commonly refers to the walls of the stomach. The folds |

| |allow the stomach to expand to accommodate more food. |

| |A: rugae |

| | |

|16. |Name the works of French impressionist composer Claude Debussy FTPE. |

| |A dreamy flute melody weaves throughout this prelude represents the playful nature of the title young animal. |

| |A: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn (or Prelude a L'Après-midi d'un faune) |

| |Debussy is thought to have used the golden ratio to describe the title body of water in this orchestral work. |

| |A: La Mer (accept the Sea) |

| |Dedicated to Debussy’s three year-old daughter, this piano suite is made up of six pieces, including The Snow is Dancing. |

| |A: Children’s Corner suite |

|17. |Great empires need great rulers, and the Mughal Empire of India was no exception. FTPE, name these rulers of the Mughal |

| |Empire. |

| |A direct descendant of Timur, he founded the Mughal Empire. |

| |A: Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur |

| |Grandson of Babur, he enlarged the empire much through his conquests and twice married Rajput princesses after defeating |

| |them.  |

| |A: Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, or Akbar the Great |

| |Grandson of Akbar, his name means “King of the World” in Persian and is best known for building the Taj Mahal for his |

| |favorite wife. |

| |      A: Shihab-ud-din Muhammad Shah Jahan (prompt on Prince Khurram) |

|18. |Answer these questions about mythical paradises FTPE. |

| |The Tigris, Euphrates, Gihon, and Pishon rivers originated from this lost paradise, where Adam and Eve are said to have |

| |lived after being created by God. |

| |A: The Garden of Eden |

| |First mentioned in the work Critias and Timaeus by Greek philosopher Plato, this paradise’s current location is hypothesized|

| |to be in or near the Mediterranean Sea. |

| |A: Atlantis |

| |This Celtic “Island of Apples” or “Island of the Blessed” is supposedly where King Arthur is buried. |

| |A: Avalon |

|19. |FTPE, give these psychology terms related to social conformity. |

| |Coined by William H. Whyte this term signifies an individual conforming to the perceived consensus of the assembly, |

| |regardless of personal opinion. |

| |A: Groupthink |

| |This term, based on the mannerisms of animals, describes the phenomena of groups of people acting the same way at the same |

| |time for no apparent reason. |

| |A: Herd Behavior |

| |In this paradox, possibly a form of groupthink, a group of people act in a manner opposite to their actual desires because |

| |no one is willing to raise objection. |

| |A: Abilene Paradox |

|20. |FTPE, answer these related questions. |

| |Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the perpetrators in this April 1999 shooting, which resulted in the deaths of twelve |

| |students and one teacher. |

| |A: Columbine High School Shooting/Massacre |

| |On October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostage and killed five girls and himself at a school in this type of |

| |community Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |

| |A: Amish |

| |A Chechan warlord took responsibility for the 2004 school hostage crisis in this Russian town, resulting in the deaths of |

| |344 civilians, 186 of which were children. |

| |A: Beslan |

|21. |FTPE answer the following about the Ramayana: |

| |The epic is written in this ancient language, one of the 22 official languages of its home country. |

| |A: Sanskrit |

| |This member of the Hindu Trinity promises that he would incarnate himself as a man to vanquish the evil Ravana. |

| |A: Vishnu |

| |The authorship of the Ramayana is usually attributed to this man. Legend says that an ant-hill formed around him as he |

| |chanted Lord Rama’s name. |

| |A: Valmiki |

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Round 3 Tossups

|1. |This game has its origins in 1938, when it was created as a spin-off of the game Lexiko. While it is normally played with |

| |just a single player per row, there are instances where teams play. The highest points come from using the dark red boxes in|

| |corners, increasing a word’s overall value. FTP, name this board game that gives people points for spelling words, based on |

| |the scarcity of the letters in English. |

| |A: Scrabble |

|2. |Plum Island and Gardiner’s Island are located northwest of it between its two eastern forks, which surround Peconic Bay and |

| |end at Orient Point and Montauk Point. Its southern coast includes the Rockaway Peninsula, Fire Island National Seashore, |

| |and Jamaica Bay, and the island itself is divided into Kings, Suffolk, Nassau, and Queens Counties. FTP, name this island |

| |that extends west from New York City. |

| |A: Long Island |

|3. |The Duckworth-Lewis method is used to calculate the target score when a match is interrupted by weather. In 2003, Australia |

| |was ranked number one in the world and defeated India to win the World Cup. If a ball leaves the playing area without |

| |touching the ground, 6 runs are scored, and an over consists of six balls bowled by a bowler. Each team consists of 11 |

| |players, with two batting at a time. These are, FTP, descriptions of what sport commonly played in England and its former |

| |colonies, often compared to baseball. |

| |A: Cricket |

|4. |Its far southern end is located in Grampians National Park, and its foothills extend north almost as far as Cape York, while|

| |the highest elevations along it are found in the Snowy Mountains in the southern section. The only major alpine region on |

| |the continent, it includes Mount Kosciuszko as well as all of the Capital Territory around Canberra. FTP, name this mountain|

| |chain that runs along the eastern coast of Australia. |

| |A: Great Dividing Range |

|5. |He married one of his wives after sparing her life, for she had been transformed into a deer while he was out hunting. In |

| |another story, he builds the Giant’s Causeway to avoid getting his feet wet.  Perhaps the most famous myth surrounding this |

| |hero is of the time he licks his finger while cooking a salmon and gains great wisdom. FTP name this Irish hunter-warrior |

| |whose exploits form the Fenian cycle. |

| |A: Finn McCool (also accept Fionn mac Cumhail) |

|6. |Later known as Kastrí, it was home to the stone called omphalos. Closed in 385 by order of Theodosius, it became free after|

| |the destruction of Krisa in the 590 B.C. First Sacred War. Originally, it was guarded by Python until Apollo slew it and |

| |made it his own. FTP identify this site located near Mount Parnassus home to a oracle of Apollo. |

| | A: Oracle of Delphi |

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| | |

|7. |Pencil and paper ready. You want to find the value of “x” in the matrix that reads top row “1”, “5” and bottom row “2”, “x”.|

| |Given that “x” is positive, and that the matrix’s determinant is -2, you can determine “x”. FTP find the value “x”. You have|

| |ten seconds. |

| |A: 8 (do not accept “-8”) |

|8. |He is the son of a Lebanese immigrant and obtained a law degree from Harvard in 1958. He focused on hazardous vehicle |

| |designs and was known for his struggle against General Motors early in his political career, publishing an influential book |

| |titled Unsafe at Any Speed. FTP, name this three-time presidential candidate, who ran in 1996, 2000, and 2004. |

| |A: Ralph Nader |

|9. |Examples of them can be found in friezes in the backgrounds of Ghilandaio’s Birth of the Virgin and Mantegna’s San Zeno |

| |Alterpiece. Other examples include the one that holds an olive wreath above the head of Pax in Rubens’ Minerva Protects Pax |

| |from Mars and a group that swarms playfully above the crowd in Watteau’s Embarkation for Cythera, a work that clearly shows |

| |their Cupid-like attributes. FTP, identify these small, usually nude male angels common in Baroque art. |

| |A: putti (accept “putto,” accept Cupid before mentioned) |

|10. |He uses such characters as Belbo and Casaubon to reveal ancient religious tradition, based on his education in medieval |

| |studies. His background also features prominently in his second novel, in which three publishing house employees create an |

| |alternate history from the manuscripts they receive, while in his first novel, a monk investigates a series of murders at a |

| |monastery. FTP name this Italian author of Baudolino, the Name of the Rose, and Foucault’s Pendulum. |

| |A: Umberto Eco |

|11. |He is traumatized by the death of his younger brother, Allie, who wrote poems on a baseball glove. He admires the writing |

| |skills of his brother D.B., but feels that DB has “prostituted” his work to Hollywood. His sister Phoebe is a precocious |

| |ten-year old who disapproves of him getting expelled from Pencey Prep. FTP name this protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s “The |

| |Catcher in the Rye.” |

| |A: Holden Caulfield |

|12. |Pencil and paper ready. Two parallel lines pass through the points (2,2) and (-1,1) respectively and are perpendicular to |

| |the line that connects those points. You want to find the positive difference in the y-intercepts of the two parallel lines.|

| |It may help to know that the slope of the two lines is -1. You can multiply this by the difference in x-values of the two |

| |points and add the result to the difference in y-values. FTP, what is the difference in the y-intercept of the two parallel |

| |lines at (2,2) and (-1,1)? You have ten seconds. |

| |A: 4 (line 1: y = -3x + 8; line 2: y = -3x - 2) |

|13. |The philosophy expressed by M.H.J. Schoenmaekers in such works as Plastic Mathematics, had a profound influence on this |

| |school, which included the architect Gerrit Rietvald and advocated a strictly abstract approach to art. It is known |

| |primarily for its use of white, black, and primary colors found in Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the painting of Theo van |

| |Doesburg. FTP, name this primarily Dutch school of modern art, whose members also included Piet Mondrian. |

| |A:De Stijl [duh-STYLE] (also accept “neoplasticism” or “Nieuwe Beelding”) |

|14. |It debuted with a set designed by sculptor Isamu Noguchi, but was later popularized as an orchestral suite. Awarded a |

| |Pulitzer Prize, its seventh and penultimate section follows the Bride and her Farmer husband in daily activities, |

| |accompanied by a compilation of Shaker melodies. Originally named “Ballet for Martha,” FTP name this ballet score by Aaron |

| |Copland. |

| |A: Appalachian Spring |

|15. |Although the relationship was discovered by Richard Towneley and Henry Power, it was named after their friend, who published|

| |it in the book The Spring of Air. It was discovered by forcing air out of a large J-shaped tube using Hooke’s air pump, |

| |putting mercury into the unsealed end, and analyzing the resulting volume at the sealed end. FTP, identify this gas law |

| |which reveals the inverse proportionality between the pressure and volume of a gas. |

| |A: Boyle’s Law (also accept Boyle Mariotte Law or Mariotte’s Law) |

|16. |His early works deal with the humiliation of his nation under American occupation, but he later embraced American themes in |

| |his works about the fringes of Japanese society. A common theme is his mentally handicapped son Hikari who influenced such |

| |works as Teach Us to Outgrow our Madness and A Personal Matter. FTP name this Japanese winner of the 1994 Nobel in |

| |literature. |

| |A: Kenzaburo Oe |

|17. |Power in these is transferred because of the induced current caused by changing magnetic flux in accordance with Faraday’s |

| |Law. In fact, its namesake equation can be derived from Faraday's Law since the rate of change of flux is essentially the |

| |same in the primary and the secondary coils. FTP identify these devices, which can be step-up or step-down, that change A.C.|

| |voltage. |

| |A: Transformers |

|18. |His plays include 1935's Till the Day I Die which describes a Communist movement in Nazi Germany and Awake and Sing! which |

| |deals with a lower-class Jewish family. His use of communist and class struggle themes would later attract the attention of |

| |House Un-American Activities Committee while he worked as a screenwriter. FTP, identify this writer of a play dealing with a|

| |taxi driver's strike, Waiting for Lefty. |

| |A: Clifford Odets |

|19. |Along with four Badeanstalten, it also contained Leichenkeller and Einäscherungsöfen [ay-na-SHUR-ung-so-fin]. These were |

| |located in the second encampment, while the third which was used by IG Farben to create synthetic rubber was called |

| |Buna-Monowitz. Recently Oprah visited it along with former resident, Elie Wiesel. FTP identify this Nazi concentration camp|

| |located in Poland. |

| |A:Auschwitz-Birkenau(accept Birkenau before “the third”)(also accept Concentration Camp before the second sentence) |

|20. |It was developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis , who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993 for its invention. Performed in a |

| |thermal cycler, components needed for this procedure include a buffer, a template, primers, deoxynucleotides-triphospate and|

| |Taq polymerase. FTP, identify this biological technique that amplifies DNA for such uses as forensic analysis or paternity |

| |testing. |

| |A: Polymerase Chain Reaction |

| | |

| | |

| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

|21. |This structure was built and dedicated to Mars the avenger after the battle of Philippi. On its left side was the Hall of |

| |the Colossus, which held a cult statue of the eponymous man who ordered its construction. Located between the Capitoline and|

| |Palatine hills, it housed the temples to Mars Ultor and Venus, and is located next to the Forum of Trajan and the Forum of |

| |Julius. FTP, name this imperial structure built by the first emperor of Rome. |

| |A: Forum of Augustus (also accept Forum Augusti) |

|22. |This is one of the stops during Carmen’s global safari in Where in Time is Carmen San Diego, and a site that may have been |

| |this location was discovered in 1960 at L'Anse aux Meadows. Scholars vastly disagree on its location, with some placing it |

| |as far south as Narragansett Bay or Martha’s Vineyard. Those who argue it was in New England claim the climate of |

| |Newfoundland could not support the huge amount of grapes that this colony obtained its name from. FTP name this Viking |

| |colony established by Leif Erikson. |

| |A: Vinland |

Round 3 Bonuses

|1. |FTPE identify these kings from the book of Daniel. |

| |This king captures Jerusalem and takes Daniel back to Babylon. Later he throws Shadrach, Meshach [MEE-shak], and Abednego in|

| |the furnace and has Daniel interpret his dreams. |

| |A: Nebuchadnezzar |

| |This king, identified as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, has Daniel interpret the writing on the wall. |

| |A: Belshazzar |

| |This king is forced to throw Daniel in the lion's den. |

| |A: Darius the Mede |

|2. |FTPE name these Swiss psychologists from clues. |

| |This founder of analytical psychology pioneered in dream analysis and coined the terms “archetype” and “collective |

| |unconscious”. |

| |A: Carl Gustav Jung |

| |This man’s theory of cognitive development describes four stages of human life, from sensorimotor at birth to formal |

| |operational during adulthood. |

| |A: Jean Piaget |

| |This 20th century psychologist wrote The Drama of the Gifted Child and Breaking Down the Wall of Silence. She is best known |

| |for her work in child abuse. |

| |A: Alice Miller |

|3. |FTPE identify these scale degrees in music. |

| |This note, the first of the scale, is the degree upon which the scale is based. |

| |A: Tonic |

| |This fifth note of the scale is often used in diatonic music to create instability, which is to be resolved by the tonic. |

| |A: Dominant |

| |This is the third degree in a scale, which determines the major or minor sound of a triad in root position. |

| |A: Mediant |

|4. |FTPE identify these battles from the War of 1812. |

| |Occurring after the treaty of Ghent was signed, American forces under Andrew Jackson with a little help from some pirates |

| |managed to beat a larger British force under the command of General Pakenham. |

| |A: Battle of New Orleans |

| |Tecumseh was killed in this 1813 battle which saw Americans under William Henry Harrison cross into Canada after the Battle |

| |of Lake Erie. |

| |A: Battle of the Thames |

| |This 1814 battle on the Tallapoosa River saw Andrew Jackson put an end to the Creek War by defeating the Red Sticks. |

| |A: Battle of Horseshoe Bend |

|5. |Answer these questions about the United Nations FTPE. |

| |He gave a farewell speech on September 19, 2006 in preparation for his retirement from Secretary General in December. |

| |A: Kofi Annan |

| |This South Korean has been approved by the General Assembly to replace Annan, beginning on January 1, 2007. |

| |A: Ban Ki-Moon |

| |Ban Ki-Moon currently holds this position in the South Korean government. |

| |A: Foreign Minister |

|6. |Identify these biological tubes named after Italian anatomists FTPE. |

| |These structures lead from the ovaries to the uterus in most female mammals. |

| |A: Fallopian tubes (also accept oviducts, uterine tubes, or salpinges) |

| |These tubes link the pharynx to the inner ear. |

| |A: Eustachian tubes (also accept auditory tubes) |

| |This tubule system is a type of excretory system found in some insects and arachnids. |

| |A: Malpighian tubule system |

|7. |FTPE name the following theorems from calculus: |

| |It has two parts and essentially states that differentiation and integration are inverses of one another. Thus, if a |

| |function is integrated, then differentiated, the original function is obtained. |

| |A: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus |

| |This theorem, first developed by Lagrange, states that for an interval of a smooth curve, there is some point “c” such that |

| |the tangent, or derivative, at “c” is equal to the secant, or average, over the interval. |

| |A: Mean Value Theorem |

| |Used in proving the Mean Value Theorem, this theorem states that, for a differentiable curve on the interval from “a” to |

| |“b”, where f (a) [“f” of “a”] is equal to f (b), there is some point “c” where the derivative at “c” equals zero. |

| |A: Rolle’s Theorem |

|8. |Identify these pieces of Argentinean literature FTPE: |

| |This collection of 17 Borges stories includes The South, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, and The Library of Babel. |

| |A: Ficciones |

| |This novel by Manuel Puig concerns the time two men, Molina and Valentin, spend in jail. |

| |A: The Kiss of the Spider Woman |

| |This epic poem by José Hernández was originally published in two parts, El Gaucho and La Vuelta. It tells of the life of |

| |the title gaucho. |

| |A: Martin Fierro |

|9. |Answer these questions about WWII France for FTPE. |

| |Famous for its alkaline springs, this town was home to a collaborationist government during World War II. |

| |A: Vichy |

| |This French General became a national hero after his victory at Verdun in World War I, but was convicted of treason after |

| |having served as Head of State for Vichy. |

| |A: Henri-Philippe Pétain |

| |Led by De Gaulle, this group continued to fight against German occupation forces after France surrendered. |

| |A: Free French Forces or Forces Francaises Libres or FFL (prompt on French resistance) |

|10. |Answer questions about these unrelated people with the same last name FTPE. First names are required. |

| |Married to Zachary Taylor’s daughter, and buried in Hollywood Cemetery, he was president of the Confederate States of |

| |America. |

| |A: Jefferson Finis Davis |

| |A student of the Julliard School of Music, this legendary trumpeter married Cicely Tyson and released the album Kind of Blue|

| |in 1959. |

| |A: Miles Dewey Davis III |

| |This man lost a 2003 recall election to Arnold Schwarzenegger in California. |

| |A: Gray Davis, Joseph Graham Davis Jr.  |

|11. |Incest in Greek myth led to interesting familial relationships. Name these Greek |

| |mythological women FTPE. |

| |Zeus was both her father with Demeter and the brother-in-law by her forced marriage to Hades. |

| |A: Persephone (do not accept Proserpina) |

| |The son she had with her third cousin once-removed was her second husband Oedipus. This queen of Thebes kills herself just |

| |before the incestuous truth is exposed. |

| |A: Jocasta |

| |She married her second cousin, but also had an affair with her great-grandfather Zeus who disguised himself as her husband, |

| |producing Heracles. |

| |A: Alcmene |

|12. |Identify these short rivers that flow through major European cities FTPE. |

| |This river is the namesake of the capital of Netherlands, as well as a brand of beer produced by Heineken. |

| |A: Amstel |

| |Peter the Great chose the area around this river, which connects Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland, as the site for Saint |

| |Petersburg. |

| |A: Neva |

| |Originating in County Wicklow, this stream flows through the center of Dublin. |

| |A: Liffey |

|13. |FTPE answer these questions related to a mathematician. |

| |This ancient Syracusian supposedly ran through the streets of Syracuse naked shouting "Eureka!" after discovering his |

| |namesake principle. |

| |A: Archimedes |

| |Archimedes' principle is generally referred with this name. It describes the force exerted by a fluid against weight when |

| |the fluid is displaced by another object. |

| |A: Buoyancy principal |

| |PNP ready. Assume the acceleration due to gravity is 10 m/s/s. Calculate the buoyant force of a 4 kilogram block completely |

| |submerged in a vat of water if it displaces 1 liter of the water. You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 10 Newtons (1 liter of water = 1 kilogram of water = 10 newtons of |

| |water. The 4kg is irrelevant.) |

|14. |Name these people related to Supreme Court of the United States FTPE. |

| |This chief justice who died in September 2005 was known for wearing yellow stripes on his court attire. |

| |A: William Rehnquist |

| |This chief justice replaced Rehnquist in 2005. He was previously a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the |

| |District of Columbia Circuit, and spent 14 years in private law practice. |

| |A: John Roberts |

| |This female nominee for the Supreme Court was later withdrawn by Bush after opposition by both parties. |

| |A: Harriet Miers |

|15. |FTPE, name these relatively new countries. |

| |Until Montenegro’s independence this June, the most recent country granted internationally recognized independence was this |

| |one, which broke from Indonesia in 2002. |

| |A: East Timor or Timor-Leste |

| |The US Trust Territory of the Pacific was completely dissolved with this island nation’s independence in October of 1994. |

| |A: Palau or Belau |

| |A miserable famine struck this area in the 1980s, then still a part of Ethiopia, but it gained independence in 1993. |

| |A: Eritrea |

|16. |Name the American photographer FTPE. |

| |He used traveling darkrooms to develop horrific images from Civil War battlefields. |

| |A: Matthew B. Brady |

| |He pioneered the use of clear black and white images, especially national parks, in works such as Moonrise over Hernandez |

| |New Mexico. |

| |A: Ansel Easton Adams |

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| |This photojournalist of Life magazine interviewed and photographed Mahatma Gandhi a few hours before his assassination. |

| |A: Margaret Bourke-White (don’t prompt on partial answer) |

|17. |Answer these questions about the Mexican Independence from France FTPE. |

| |This holiday is celebrated every year to remember the victory the Mexicans had over the French. |

| |A: Cinco de Mayo |

| |On Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican armed forces won this decisive victory over the French, preventing the overthrow of their |

| |government. |

| |A: Battle of Puebla |

| |He led the Mexican government during the Battle of Puebla. |

| |A: Benito Juarez |

|18. |Give the oxidation numbers to the given elements in the following compounds FTPE. |

| |Oxygen in its natural state |

| |A: 0 |

| |Magnesium in magnesium oxide |

| |A: +2 |

| |Nitrogen in nitric acid |

| |A: +5 |

|19. |FTPE answer the following about Hilary Duff: |

| |Duff has chronically fought with this actress of The Parent Trap and Mean Girls. Some say that the feud began when Aaron |

| |Carter dumped Duff and began dating this girl. |

| |A: Lindsay Lohan |

| |In this 2003 remake, Duff acts as Lorraine Baker, the third child in a large family. A sequel was made in 2005, and both |

| |movies star Steve Martin as the overwhelmed father. |

| |A: Cheaper by the Dozen |

| |In June of 2005, Duff announced that she was dating this man, the lead singer from Good Charlotte. However recently they |

| |have broken up. |

| |A: Joel Madden |

|20. |Given a short list of geographical features, name the former Soviet republic in which they are located, FTPE. |

| |Most of the Dnieper River, the Sea of Azov, the city of Odessa, the Crimean Peninsula |

| |A: Ukraine |

| |A portion of the Altai Mountains, the northern shore of the Aral Sea, the northeastern shore of the Caspian Sea, Lake |

| |Balkash |

| |A: Kazakhstan |

| |The Naryn Valley, the lake Issyk-Kul, Pobedy Peak in the Tien Shan Mountains |

| |A: Kyrgystan |

|21. |Name these feminists, FTPE. |

| |This American cofounder of NOW is perhaps most famous for The Feminine Mystique. |

| |A: Betty Naomi Freidan |

| |Best known for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, this French philosopher often wrote of her relationship with Jean-Paul |

| |Sartre. |

| |A: Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir [bow-VWAR] |

| |The best known work of this wife of William Godwin and mother of Mary Shelley was the Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |

| |A: Mary Wollstonecraft |

Round 4 Tossups

|1. |With a name coming from the Greek word for “action,” it was first introduced by Charles Peirce [purse] in 1878.  The four |

| |basic tenets of this are said to be antiskepticism, fallibilism, fact-value continuity and primacy of practice. It was |

| |summed up by one of its most famous followers as “other than practical, there is no meaning for us.” FTP name this first |

| |distinctly American philosophy led by F.C.S. Schiller, John Dewey, and William James. |

| |A: Pragmatism (also accept Pragmaticism) |

|2. |Swarthmore, Pennsylvania was originally named in honor of this man, who cofounded the Royal Academy with Sir Joshua |

| |Reynolds, and created such works as Death on a Pale Horse and Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus. |

| |He is better remembered for his sweeping historical works like Penn’s Treaty with the Indians and a dramatic rendering of a |

| |1759 fatality in the battle of Quebec. FTP name this American-born English painter perhaps best known for The Death of |

| |General Wolfe. |

| |A: Benjamin West |

|3. |Located four miles from Siemrėab [SEEM-ray-ab], it was founded by Jayavarman II and it was dedicated by King Suryavarman II.|

| |Unlike most temples of this culture, it faces west instead of east. Believed to symbolize the mystic Mt. Meru, it is one of |

| |the most beautiful examples of Hindu and Khmer art. FTP, name this Cambodian temple, which is also featured on the national |

| |flag. |

| |A: The Temple of Angkor Wat (also accept Angkor Vat)(accept Angkor before Suryavarman II, prompt on it at all times) |

|4. |This region located south of the Neuquén [nay-oo-KEN] River includes the provinces of Chubut, Santa Cruz, and Rio Negro |

| |[NEH-gro], and is known for its dramatic landscape. Composed mostly of a large plateau with steppe-like plains, it is home |

| |to the city of Punta Arenas [POON-ta-ah-RAY-nas] in the Chilean section, which is located across the Straits of Magellan |

| |from Tierra del Fuego [FWAY-go]. FTP, name this region located east of the Andes [AN-deez] Mountains in southern Chile and |

| |Argentina. |

| |A: Patagonia |

|5. |The main character locates John Nefastis in an attempt to see whether she is able to summon Maxwell's Demon. After her |

| |failure, she wanders the streets looking for signs of W.A.S.T.E., which she believes is a front for Tristero. Eventually she|

| |decides to auction off Inverarity's Tristero “forgery” stamps as the titular collection. FTP, Oedipa Maas attempts to |

| |untangle a centuries old mail war in this Thomas Pynchon novel. |

| |A: The Crying of Lot 49 |

|6. |Pencil and paper ready. Zeus and the other Greek gods and goddesses are quarreling over seating arrangements on Mt. Olympus.|

| |Zeus and the other gods are sitting in their correct thrones, but every goddess is sitting in the wrong seat from their |

| |usual one. Remembering that there are 12 total thrones on Olympus, 6 for each gender, then FTP, how many possible seating |

| |arrangements are there currently? You have ten seconds. |

| |A: 360 (6! divided by 2) |

|7. |Hermann Paasche [PAH-shuh] and Etienne [ae-tee-EN] Laspeyres [lass-PAY-ress] introduced measurements used in calculating |

| |this quantity, which is found using either the “base year” or “chained” methods. The chained method ensures that changing |

| |consumption patterns are accounted for, though both approaches are calculated in terms of the cost of a “basket of goods”. |

| |FTP, name this quantitative measure of inflation. |

| |A: Consumer Price Index (prompt on C.P.I.) |

|8. |The term was first coined by German art critic Franz Roh who applied it to paintings that depict altered reality. The term |

| |became popular when Nobel Prize winner Miguel Asturias used it to describe his own style of fantastical elements, rich |

| |imagery, and distorted time. FTP name this literary genre, often Latin American, used by the likes of Gabriel |

| |Garcia-Marquez. |

| |A: Magical Realism |

|9. |Originally addressed as a letter to propagandist Jessie Pope, its title was taken from an ode by Horace. Written by an |

| |English poet and soldier in WWI, it describes the “guttering, choking, drowning” and “gargling from the froth-corrupted |

| |lungs” of soldiers during a gas attack. FTP, identify this 1917 anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen. |

| |A: Dulce et Decorum Est |

|10. |Although it is usually found in herbivores, the Vollum and Ames strains are used to infect humans. Preliminary symptoms from|

| |infection are similar to the flu, although eventually the respiratory system collapses altogether. Destruction of this |

| |bacterium can be performed easily by pressing an electric iron on a postal envelope containing it. FTP, identify this |

| |infectious disease that caused panic after being mailed to two senators in 2001. |

| |A: Anthrax |

|11. |It is fed by the Roaring Fork and Dolores Rivers in its upper course, while Kanab Creek and the Virgin River join it farther|

| |downstream. Escaping water from it formed the Salton Sea, and the diversion of water from it to the Imperial Valley and Los |

| |Angeles has angered residents of its delta region on the Gulf of California. FTP, identify this river that shares its name |

| |with a U.S. state and flows through Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon. |

| |A: Colorado River |

|12. |He played in only one game his first season, after being drafted in the sixth round from Michigan. In the 2005-2006 season, |

| |he was forced to pass on most plays due to injuries suffered by running backs Corey Dillon and Patrick Pass among others. |

| |His throwing ability did not fail his team in the 2002, 2004, and 2005 Super Bowls, two of which saw him winning the MVP |

| |Award. FTP name this quarterback for the New England Patriots. |

| |A: Tom Brady |

|13. |From the Greek for “law” or “rule,” the Cancrizans variety of this, also known as the crab or retrograde, involves playing |

| |the melody backwards and forwards at the same time. The third of the Goldberg Variations is a Unison type, and if voices |

| |enter at different pitches, another example is “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” FTP name this type of musical counterpoint in, |

| |whose most famous example by Pachelbel is in D. |

| |A: Canon |

|14. |Pencil and paper ready. A convex lens with a focal length of 10 centimeters is upright on a table. A candle appears in the |

| |lens with a height of 15 centimeters. Remembering that the reciprocal of the focal length equals the sum of the reciprocals |

| |of the distance of the object from the lens and the distance of the image, then FTP, give the distance between the lens and |

| |the candle. You have ten seconds. |

| |A: 30 centimeters |

|15. |In Hebrew, it is called Qoheleth, due to its perspective of a son of David. Its controversial opening translates as either |

| |“Meaningless of meaningless! All is meaningless” or “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity”. FTP name this book of the Old |

| |Testament between Proverbs and Song of Solomon, which contains the oft-used quotation “to everything there is a season.” |

| |A: Book of Ecclesiastes |

|16. |Neptune supposedly immortalized his son Cionus as one when Achilles smothered him, and Queen Cassiopeia was said to have had|

| |one of these as a pet. In Hinduism, Brahma rides on one called Hamsa, and in Greek mythology, it is associated with the |

| |birth of Helen of Troy, Castor and Pollux. FTP name this animal into which Zeus transformed to attract Leda, also known in |

| |literature as the beautiful transformation of the ugly duckling. |

| |A: Swan |

|17. |Benjamin Tucker expounded this idea as an outcome of the natural trials of man, and in a 1988 book, Carole Pateman related |

| |it to woman’s subordination. In the 19th century, lawyer Lysander Spooner wrote in No Treason that it could not be used to |

| |justify taxation, though the idea came up in a namesake 1762 work, where the author states “man is born free, but everywhere|

| |he is in chains.” FTP name this idea regarding the legitimacy of the government, expounded in a treatise by Jean-Jacques |

| |Rousseau. |

| |A: Social Contract |

|18. |This state’s namesake river has its source north of Wausau and joins a larger river near Prairie du Chien [shee-YEN]. |

| |Notable natural features include its highest point, Timms Hill, as well as the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior and the Door|

| |Peninsula, which separates Lake Michigan from Green Bay. FTP, identify this state known for its dairy products that has its |

| |capital at Madison. |

| |A: Wisconsin |

|19. |It was ended with a valedictory column at the end of 1865, when the thirteenth amendment was ratified. The tone was set with|

| |the opening “To the Public” letter, and although it only had a paid circulation of about 3,000, its radical views earned it |

| |nationwide notoriety, prompting the South Carolina legislature to fine it $1500 because of its “immediate and complete |

| |emancipation” platform. It was published weekly from Boston from 1831-1866. FTP, name this newspaper edited by William Lloyd|

| |Garrison. |

| |A: The Liberator |

|20. |The Lion’s Monument in Lucerne commemorating this event was described by Mark Twain as "the saddest and most poignant piece |

| |of rock in the world." The Marquis de Sade was transferred out ten days prior to the event, and its first anniversary was |

| |celebrated by holding La Fête de la Fédération. The attackers received their weapons by invading the Hotel des Invalides, |

| |but however, when the event actually occurred, there were only seven prisoners left inside. FTP, identify this July 14, 1789|

| |event that is often considered the beginning of the French Revolution.    |

| |A: Storming of the Bastille (accept equivalents) |

| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

|21. |Pencil and paper ready. The laws of the universe have suddenly changed, and diboron hexaberyllium, or B2Be6, has become a |

| |common compound. You want to find the molar mass of this compound to the nearest integer. It may help to recall that the |

| |rounded molar mass of Beryllium is 9, and the rounded molar mass of Boron is 11. FTP, calculate the molar mass of the new, |

| |exotic compound B2Be6. You have ten seconds. |

| |A: 76 (2 * 11 + 6 * 9 = 22 + 54) |

|22. |His endorsement of Chuck Robb in Virginia’s 1994 Senate election, a few weeks after he himself dropped out of the race, was |

| |seen as critical to Robb’s narrow victory. Five years earlier he himself had emerged victorious in a narrow race, becoming |

| |governor of the Commonwealth. He was only the second person of his race to become governor, joining P.B.S Pinchbeck, who |

| |was appointed Louisiana governor in 1872. FTP, name this current mayor of Richmond who in 1990 became the first |

| |African-American to be elected governor of a US state. |

| |A: L. Douglas Wilder |

Round 4 Bonuses

|1. |Identify these works by John Steinbeck, FTPE. |

| |This winner of the1940 Pultizer Prize chronicles the journey of the Joad family to California. |

| |A: The Grapes of Wrath |

| |This work describes the experiences of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, in the Salinas Valley. |

| |A: East of Eden |

| |In this work, Steinbeck, his pet poodle, and his car Rocinante take a trip across America and back. |

| |A: Travels with Charlie |

|2. |FTPE answer the following about The Tin Drum. |

| |This German wrote The Tin Drum. |

| |A: Günter Wilhelm Grass |

| |The Tin Drum is found in this trilogy, whose other parts are Cat and Mouse and Dog Years, and is named after the city now |

| |called Gdansk. |

| |A: Danzig Trilogy |

| |This protagonist of The Tin Drum writes the book from a German asylum after being wrongly convicted of murder. |

| |A: Oskar Matzerath (accept either) |

|3. |FTPE name this English painter and some of his works. |

| |His paintings include The Four Times of Day, The Distress Poet, and The Enraged Musician. |

| |A: William Hogarth |

| |This series of six paintings depict the tragedy and humor that accompanies marriage for money. |

| |A: Marriage a la Mode |

| |This companion to the “Rake’s Progress” tells the story of a country girl in London. |

| |A: Harlot’s Progress |

|4. |FTPE, given the lyrics to Kelly Clarkson works, identify the song. |

| |“Here I am once again, I’m torn into pieces. Can’t deny, can’t pretend, I thought you were the one.” |

| |A: Behind these Hazel Eyes |

| |“Here’s a thing we started out friends. It was cool but it was all pretend.” |

| |A: Since You’ve Been Gone |

| |“You think I’m stupid, but the truth is that its cupid baby, lovin’ you has made me this way.” |

| |A: Walk Away |

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|5. |FTPE, identify these structures located on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. |

| |The largest structure on the Acropolis, this temple was built in honor of Athena and still exists today. |

| |A: The Parthenon |

| |A smaller temple built on the north side of the Acropolis, it is known for its "porch of the maidens,” with six caryatids |

| |serving as columns. |

| |A: The Erechtheum, or Erechtheion |

| |This was the monumental marble gateway that led up to the Acropolis, and the Sacred Way passed through the central-most of |

| |its five gates. |

| |A: Propylea or Propylaeum |

|6. |FTPE answer these questions about cell types in the brain |

| |These cells are made up of three components: the soma or cell body, axon and dendrite. |

| |A: Neurons |

| |These cells, named after a German scientist, provide myelin insulation to axons, the main transport lines of the nervous |

| |system. |

| |A: Schwann cells |

| |A sub-type of glial cell, these star-shaped cells outnumber neurons ten to one and help control extracellular potassium ion |

| |concentration. |

| |A: Astrocyte (also accept Astroglia or Astrocytic glial cells) |

|7. |FTPE identify these characters from The Iliad. |

| |At the advice of his mother Thetis, he dressed up as a woman in the court of Lycomedes to avoid the Trojan War. |

| |A: Achilles or Achileus |

| |Neoptolemus [nee-oh-TOL-ah-mus] threw his son, Astyanax, from a wall in Troy. Andromache, his wife, never wanted him to go |

| |to war in the first place. |

| |A: Hector |

| |Upon returning to Greece, this man received a fatal welcome from his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover Aegisthus. His son |

| |Orestes later avenged his murder. |

| |A: Agamemnon |

|8. |FTPE identify these related people from 17th Century France: |

| |This king, also known as the Sun King, revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. |

| |A: Louis XIV |

| |This Italian born statesman was made prime minister during the childhood of Louis XIV. |

| |A: Jules Mazarin |

| |Mazarin was the successor to this man, the chief minister during the reign of Louis XIII. |

| |A: Cardinal Emmanuel-armand De Vignerot Du Plessis De Richelieu, Duc |

|9. |FTPE, answer these questions about a Louisiana politician. |

| |This man served as governor and senator before being assassinated in 1935. He was known for his “Share Our Wealth” program. |

| |A: Huey Long |

| |This man, a Louisiana physician, allegedly assassinated Long in the Capitol Building in Baton Rouge. |

| |A: Carl Weiss |

| |This Pulitzer Prize winning book is about Willie Stark, a character based on Huey Long. It was converted into a film in |

| |2006. |

| |A: All the King’s Men |

|10. |Answer the following about the geography of Maryland, FTPE. |

| |Though it sometimes also refers to the boundary between Maryland and Delaware, the Mason-Dixon Line forms the entire |

| |boundary between Maryland and this state. |

| |A: Pennsylvania |

| |The Chesapeake Bay is thought to be the flooded lower part of this river, which empties into the Bay in northern Maryland |

| |and flows past Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |

| |A: Susquehanna |

| |This barrier island on the Atlantic coast, directly north of Chincoteague, Virginia is known for its wild ponies. |

| |A: Assateague |

|11. |FTPE name these types of fluid flow. |

| |It is characterized by stochastic changes in pressure and velocity. Flow around obstacles is an example of this chaotic |

| |flow, whose air analog may give airplane passengers a bumpy ride. |

| |A: turbulence or turbulent flow |

| |The opposite of turbulent flow, this flow is also called streamline flow and occurs when a fluid runs over a smooth surface.|

| |Fluid typically moves in parallel layers in this type of flow. |

| |A: laminar flow |

| |This type of flow is defined as that specifically caused by gravity. Examples include natural movement of water through a |

| |river or irrigation ditch. |

| |A: open channel flow |

|12. |FTPE name these top 10 picks of the 2006 NBA draft. |

| |This star from Gonzaga college skipped his senior year and was picked third overall in the draft. |

| |A: Adam Morrison |

| |The Toronto Raptors chose this 7ft Italian as the first pick overall. |

| |A: Andrea Bargnani |

| |After being drafted by the Portland Trailblazers fourth overall, this LSU star was traded to the Chicago Bulls. |

| |A: Tyrus Thomas |

|13. |Game shows have always been popular in the world of television. FTPE, name these old Nickelodeon game shows. |

| |Hosted by Kirk Fogg from 1993 to 1995, it usually began with the talking Olmec. The final round includes two partners trying|

| |to find a hidden artifact. |

| |A: Legends of the Hidden Temple |

| |In this show people compete at the “Extreme Arena” in sports such as soccer, with the Aggro Crag event deciding the final |

| |winner. |

| |A: Guts! |

| |Similar to Guts, this show began with Marc Summers saying: "On your mark, get set, GO!" It involves answering trivia |

| |questions, taking up physical challenges, and finally an obstacle course. |

| |A: Double Dare |

|14. |Answer these questions about the Hull House FTPE. |

| |The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she co-founded the Hull House. |

| |A: Jane Addams |

| |The Hull House was founded in this city. |

| |A: Chicago |

| |This co-founder of the Hull House went on a tour of Europe with Addams and became inspired by the English Settlement |

| |Movement. |

| |A: Ellen Gates Starr |

|15. |Pencil and paper ready. FTPE given the function y = 5x4 + 6x2 [read: “five x to the fourth plus six x squared”], calculate |

| |the following. You will have ten seconds for each part. |

| |Find the derivative of the function with respect to x at x equals 1. |

| |A: 32 |

| |Using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, find the definite integral of that original function over the interval from x |

| |equals 1 to x equals 2. |

| |A: 45 |

| |Finally, determine the area of the surface formed by rotating the function about the x-axis on the interval from x equals 1 |

| |to x equals 2. Express your answer in terms of pi. |

| |A: 90pi |

|16. |Given a note value and time signature, give the number of beats through which the note or group of notes lasts FTPE. |

| |Quarter Note in 4/4 [Read: Four-four] time. |

| |A: One beat |

| |Eighth note in 6/8 [Read: Six-eight] time. |

| |A: One beat |

| |A triplet of thirty-second notes in 7/8 [Read: Seven-eight] time. |

| |A: One Half beat (also accept equivalents) |

| | |

|17. |Answer these questions about Indian cities FTPE. |

| |Formerly known as Bombay, it is the capital of the state of Maharashtra and the largest city in India. |

| |A: Mumbai |

| |Capital of Karnataka since 1830, this southern city has developed into a hub for aerospace and defense industries. |

| |A. Bangalore |

| |Also called Benares, it is one seven sacred cities of the Hindus. Because it is situated on the Ganges, it is the most |

| |popular tourist destination in Uttar Pradesh. |

| |A: Varanasi |

|18. |FTPE, name these psychological defense mechanisms given descriptions. |

| |When faced with a painful or uncomfortable reality, a person insists that it is not true, despite overwhelming evidence to |

| |the contrary. |

| |A: denial |

| |Emotions are redirected from a ‘dangerous’ object to a ‘safe’ object, for instance, from an irksome classmate to a punching |

| |bag. |

| |A: displacement |

| |A person blames another person for their own undesirable thoughts. |

| |A: projection |

|19. |FTPE, answer these questions about Constitutional amendments. |

| |This amendment forbids both involuntary and servitude and slavery. |

| |A: 13th Amendment |

| |It states that each Senator serves for six years has one vote. It also says the state can send out writs for reelection when|

| |there becomes a vacancy. |

| |A: 17th Amendment |

| |This amendment states that defendants have the right to a quick and speedy trial, and the ability to know his accusations. |

| |A: 6th Amendment |

|20. |Name these goddesses related to the moon FTPE. |

| |Besides being the twin of Apollo, this goddess’ prerogative includes hunting. |

| |A: Artemis (also accept Diana) |

| |The daughter of the titans Hyperion and Theia, this deity is mostly known for her affair with Endymion, the man who lives |

| |forever in sleep. |

| |A: Selene (also accept Luna) |

| |A darker aspect of the moon, this goddess, associated with Wicca, presides over all magic and spells. |

| |A: Hecate (also accept Hekate or Hekat or Trivia) |

|21. |Name the following terms relating to chemical reaction rates FTPE. |

| |This category of substance accelerates the rate of a reaction without being used in the process. |

| |A: catalyst |

| |This term describes the amount of energy needed to start the reaction. |

| |A: activation energy |

| |This equation defines the relationship between reaction velocity and temperature. |

| |A: Arrhenius Equation |

Round 5 Tossups

|1. |His biological father was unknown and his mother married his pediatrician when he was three.  This may explain his obsession|

| |with identity that led to his coining of the phrase “identity crisis.”  He expanded on Freud’s five stages of development, |

| |changing the genital stage to adolescence and adding 3 adult stages. FTP name this Danish psychologist known for his eight |

| |psychological stages and author of Young Man Luther. |

| |A: Erik Homberger Erikson |

|2. |The 9th century alchemist al-Razi isolated it from blue and green vitriol, though it is now produced with a blend of oleum |

| |and water via the Contact Process. This acid’s hydration is strongly favorable, so it easily dehydrates glucose to form |

| |black porous carbon. Also, since it is strong, its presence in acid rain makes that precipitation particularly devastating. |

| |FTP name this acid with chemical formula H2SO4. |

| |A: sulfuric acid |

|3. |The northern section of this country contains the Sokoto and Borno Plains, while the Jos Plateau occupies much of its center|

| |north of the Benue [BEN-way] River valley. Most of its Christians live in the southeast near the delta of its namesake |

| |river, though Muslims are a significant presence around Ibadan and Lagos. FTP, identify this most populous nation of Africa |

| |that has its capital at Abuja. |

| |A: Nigeria |

|4. |Pencil and paper ready. Your team is playing another team in a GSAC match with 20 tossups and 30 point boni. Your team gets |

| |every other tossup, and the other team gets all the others. You score 10 on your first bonus, 20 on the second, 30 on the |

| |third, 10 on the fourth, and so on. The other team has awful bonus conversion and gets no points on any bonus. FTP, by how |

| |many points did your team win? You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 190 points (equal to 3 * (10 + 20 + 30) + 10) |

|5. |He served under John F. Kennedy as ambassador to India beginning in 1961 and was deputy head of the Office of Price |

| |Administration during World War II [Two], though he is more known for following such economists as Veblen and Keynes in his |

| |influential critiques of modern capitalism and advocacy of liberal causes in such works as The New Industrial State. FTP, |

| |name this Canadian-born American economist and author of The Affluent Society. |

| |A: John Kenneth Galbraith |

|6. |The main character gets his nickname over a remark about owning half of a dog. Since his law practice in is not going well, |

| |he collects fingerprints of everybody in the town including Tom and Chambers. He learns is that the fingerprints belonging |

| |to Tom actually belong to Chambers because Roxy switched them at birth. FTP identify this novel of Mark Twain set in |

| |Dawson's Landing. |

| |A: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson |

|7. |Created in 1988, it set a league record by losing its first 17 games in its first season. Currently owned by Micky Arison, |

| |and playing from the American Airlines Arena, this Southeast Division team’s star studded line up includes Alonzo Morning, |

| |Gary Payton, and Dwayne Wade. FTP name, name this Floridian NBA team that, in 2004, enlisted Shaquille O’Neal. |

| |A: Miami Heat (prompt on Miami, accept Heat) |

|8. |She was built at Edmund Hartt’s shipyard from 2000 like oak trees, cut and milled at Gascoigne Bluff on St. Simons, Georgia.|

| |Measuring 204 feet in length, the bolts used to fasten its planks together and the copper sheets lining the bottom were both|

| |made by Paul Revere. Launched in 1797, it was soon used to fight Tripolitan pirates and later employed in the War of 1812, |

| |where it did the last of its major fighting. FTP name this naval vessel, the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat, |

| |often called “Old Ironsides.” |

| |A: U.S.S. Constitution (accept Old Ironsides until mentioned) |

|9. |In Mayan mythology, they were formed when the Four Hundred Boys entered heaven after being killed by Zipacna, while some in |

| |the Middle Ages associated them with hens. In Japan they were known as Subaru, and are therefore present in that company's |

| |logo. In astronomy it is an open star cluster located in Taurus that includes the stars Atlas and Pleione. FTP identify this|

| |group whose members include Merope and Maia as part of the seven sisters. |

| |A: Pleiades |

|10. |At a meal, Oswald questions allowing a Jew to enter the house but ends up seating him next to Wamba. At the same meal, the |

| |palmer claims that the title character is the sixth best soldier in the country, though he later reveals himself to be that |

| |man. The daughter of Isaac the Jew nurses the protagonist to health, but his love lies with Rowenna, not Rebecca. FTP name|

| |this Scottish novel by Sir Walter Scott. |

| |A: Ivanhoe |

|11. |Originally named “Episode in the Life of an Artist,” this semi-autobiographical piece was partially written about the |

| |creator’s attraction to actress Harriet Smithson. Leonard Bernstein said it was the first musical expedition into |

| |psychedelia, because of its dream-like nature, but also because its composer may have been under the influence of opium. |

| |Including a movement named “Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath,” FTP name this musical piece written by Hector Berlioz. |

| |A: Symphony Fantastique  |

|12. |It works in nonstatic situations where the Biot-Savart law does not. In differential form, it states that the curl of the |

| |magnetic field vector equals the current density vector. Often called the magnetic equivalent of Faraday’s Law of Induction,|

| |it essentially relates the magnetic field around a closed loop to the current passing through it. FTP name this physical |

| |law, whose namesake also lends his name to the SI unit of electric current. |

| |A: Ampere’s Law or Ampere-Maxwell Equation |

|13. |In one story, Tiger finds him walking away from the river with a basket. He tells Tiger that he just went for a bath, but |

| |Tiger senses the fish in the basket and attacks him. Another story, entitled “Hornets Who Sting Like Fire,” has him forcing |

| |hornets into a calabash, though he is more often assigned the duty of putting out fires. This is because his father, Nyame |

| |[nee-YA-may], is the sky god. FTP name this Ashanti trickster god who usually takes the form of a spider. |

| |A: Anansi (also accept Ananse or Hanansi) |

|14. |Pencil and paper ready. On a game show, Jim must pick from a series of ten cases, one of which holds a red key and one of |

| |which holds a gold key and the other eight are empty. The goal of the game is to get the gold key, but picking a red key |

| |gives Jim another turn and thus another chance to pick the gold key. FTP find the probability of Jim winning the game. You |

| |have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 10/90 or 1/9 (accept other mathematical equivalents) |

|15. |While some members are included in the infraorder Anomura, true ones are found in infraorder Brachyura. The difference is |

| |that true ones, like the ghost and spider types, have all ten legs visible, while only four pairs of legs are visible in |

| |Anomura species, like the king or hermit types. FTP identify these crustaceans whose blue variety is commonly caught in the |

| |Chesapeake Bay. |

| |A: Crab |

|16. |In science, it identifies a genus in subfamily Cercopithecinae [ser-koh-PITH-sin-ay], in which 90% of members carry the |

| |Hepatitis B virus. While many of them live in Asia, their name comes from Bantu word, which the Portuguese assimilated in |

| |Africa. Eventually it entered French and became a colonial Belgian term for the native population. Somewhere along the line,|

| |the word arrived in Breaks, Virginia at a campaign stop. FTP identify this slur word directed at S.R. Sidarth by former |

| |Senator George Allen. |

| |A: Macaca |

|17. |Along with Ludwig von Gerlach he began contributing to the newspaper Kreuzzeitung, an anti-revolution newspaper. This is |

| |ironic because von Gerlach would later be one of his strongest opponents on policies such as Kulturkampf. He served as |

| |ambassador to both France and Russia before becoming Prime Minister, and later incited the Second War of Schleswig, the |

| |Seven-Weeks' War, and the Franco-Prussian War. FTP identify this “iron chancellor” who brought about German unification. |

| |A: Otto Eduard Leopold, Fürst von Bismarck, Graf (Count) von Bismarck- Schönhausen, Herzog von Lauenburg D'aiguillon |

|18. |The Duke takes pity on Egeon after hearing the story of his shipwreck and gives him more time to pay his fine. That |

| |shipwreck, caused by a tempest, separates Egeon from his wife and two sons, who later reside in Syracuse and Ephesus. Both |

| |named Antipholus, these two search for each other, but are confused by each other’s servants, both named Dromio. FTP name |

| |this Shakespearean play in which hilarity prevails among two sets of twins and several mistaken identities. |

| |A: Comedy of Errors |

|19. |The Sambia and Hel Peninsulas are located along the southern end of this body of water, which surrounds the islands of Rugen|

| |[ROO-ghen], Bornholm, Saaremaa, and Aland. The Western Dvina, Oder, and Vistula Rivers feed into it, and the Kiel Canal |

| |connects it to the North Sea to the west. FTP, name this European sea that contains the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia and |

| |separates Scandinavia from Eastern Europe. |

| |A: Baltic Sea |

|20. |A rabbit stands behind a woman, who has a die atop her head, and both of these figures sit at the base of a chair where a |

| |bird is devouring a man. In the center is an owl staring at the viewer, while several figures eat strawberries and cherries.|

| |The left side depicts a bee hive and various scenes of tranquility such as in heaven, while the shutters display a sphere |

| |floating on water. FTP name this triptych by Hieronymous Bosch. |

| |A: The Garden of Earthly Delights |

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| | |

| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

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|21. |Preceded by “Boyar”, it named an advisory council to the Grand Princes of Muscovy. Preceded by “State”, it names the lower |

| |house of its country’s Federal Assembly, the upper house being the Federation Council. Preceded by Imperial, it names the |

| |legislative body created in 1906 and dissolved by Nicholas III. FTP name this term for a Russian legislative body. |

| |A: Duma |

|22. |In Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Reg and Richard go back in time and interact with a “cross” one of these. Their |

| |habit of eating rocks and iron has recently been speculated to aid in digestion. Similar species have been found on |

| |Rodrigues. However, this species also called Raphus cucullatus was only found on Mauritius. FTP identify this flightless |

| |bird which became extinct soon after their discovery by Portuguese sailors. |

| |A: Dodo Bird(accept Raphus cucullatus before mentioned) |

Round 5 Bonuses

|1. |Name these Egyptian gods and goddesses related to the story of Osiris FTPE. |

| |This wife of Osiris is often pictured as the goddess of love. |

| |A: Isis |

| |Archenemy of Osiris and challenger to his throne, this brother of Osiris dismembered him into fourteen pieces. |

| |A: Set |

| |Isis persuaded this god of ferrymen to take her to Set. He is often depicted as a falcon standing on a boat. |

| |A: Anti (also accept Nemty) |

|2. |It is characterized by scandal-mongering sensationalism. FTPE name: |

| |This colorful reporting style, which was used during coverage of the Spanish American War. |

| |A: Yellow Journalism |

| |This editor of the New York Journal waged a constant war against Joseph Pulitzer for readers. |

| |A: William Randolph Hearst |

| |This artist of “The Bronco Buster” served as war correspondent for Hearst. |

| |       A: Frederic Remington |

|3. |Answer these questions about a school of thought FTPE: |

| |This ancient Greek philosophy said that man only need virtue to achieve happiness and could do so by renouncing all desires |

| |and social conventions. |

| |A: Cynicism |

| |This Cynic is remembered for living in a tub, for telling Alexander the Great to get out of his sunlight, and for saying “I |

| |am a citizen of the whole world.” |

| |A: Diogenes |

| |This founder of cynicism drew heavily from Socrates’ works and was often accused of not practicing his own philosophy. |

| |A: Antisthenes |

|4. |FTPE identify the following related to a city and a store. |

| |In July 2006, this city's aldermen passed the so called “big-box ordinance” which would require large retail stores to pay |

| |its workers $10 an hour by 2010. |

| |A: Chicago |

| |The ordinance was aimed at this retail giant who opened their first store in Chicago in September. |

| |A: Walmart |

| |The ordinance was vetoed in September by this mayor, who opposes stopping big-box stores like Walmart from opening in areas |

| |that need their low prices. |

| |A: Richard Michael Daley |

|5. |FTPE answer the following questions about the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988: |

| |This Egyptian wrote such acclaimed stories as The Children of Gebelawi, Fountain and Tomb, and Midaq Alley. |

| |A: Naguib Mahfouz |

| |Named after Mahfouz’s birthplace, it begins with Palace Walk and Palace of Desire and details the struggles of the Abd |

| |al-Jawad family. |

| |A: The Cairo Trilogy |

| |This third part of The Cairo Trilogy follows the ideological effects of World War II on the Abd al-Jawad family. |

| |A: Sugar Street |

|6. |Answer the following about an economist for 10 points each: |

| |An economics professor at the University of Chicago for thirty years, this winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics is |

| |known for his work with the quantity theory of money. |

| |A: Milton Friedman |

| |Milton Freidman supports this school, which focuses on the macroeconomic effects of the supply of money in an economy. |

| |A: monetarism |

| |Greatly influenced by Friedman, this Chilean dictator instituted economic reforms through a group of economists nicknamed |

| |“The Chicago Boys.” |

| |A: Augusto Pinochet Ugarte |

|7. |Identify these Platonic Dialogs FTPE. |

| |This dialog concerns the trial of Socrates. Socrates gives a speech in defense of himself, but in the end he is sentenced to|

| |death. |

| |A: The Apology of Socrates |

| |In this dialog, the titular character tries to convince Socrates to escape and go into exile. |

| |A: Crito |

| |In this dialog, Socrates explains his views on the afterlife to the title character before drinking the fatal hemlock. |

| |A: Phaedo |

|8. |FTPE, name the jazz artist from selected works. |

| |“Sophisticated Lady” and “Take the A train.” |

| |A: Duke Ellington |

| |“Stompin’ at the Savoy,” “Saint Louis Blues,” and “Hello, Dolly.” |

| |A: Louis Armstrong |

| |Film scores for In the Heat of Night, Belly Roll, and The Color Purple |

| |A: Quincy Jones |

|9. |There were lots of famous Romans named Marcus. Give some of them FTPE. |

| |His name was associated with one of the founders of the Roman Republic, but he was around near its end. He assisted Cassius |

| |in planning and carrying out the assassination of Julius Caesar. |

| |A: Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio |

| |This last of the so-called Five Good Emperors was noteworthy as a philosopher of stoicism. He and his son Commodus are |

| |depicted in the movie Gladiator. |

| |A: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |

| |He was the monetary power behind the First Triumvirate of Rome, but he died fighting the Parthians in 53 B.C. The remaining |

| |two members of the Triumvirate, Caesar and Pompey, began a rivalry after his death. |

| |A: Marcus Licinius Crassus |

|10. |FTPE name these physics concepts which relate to Albert Einstein. |

| |This theory, which applies only to inertial reference frames, modified a Galilean idea to say that nothing could appear to |

| |be moving faster than the speed of light. |

| |A: Special Relativity (do not accept General Relativity) |

| |Solar cells use this concept to transform light into current. Einstein contributed the idea of light quanta to this theory, |

| |an idea later named photons. |

| |A: Photoelectric Effect or Hertz Effect |

| |Einstein opposed this interpretation of quantum mechanics in part conceived of by Niels Bohr, named for a European city. |

| |A: Copenhagen Interpretation |

|11. |Answer these questions about Napoleonic war battles for FTPE. |

| |Fought on June 18, 1815, this battle was Napoleon’s final defeat. |

| |A: Battle of Waterloo |

| |Also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, Napoleon I won a spectacular victory by defeating the Third Coalition led by|

| |Tsar Alexander I. The battle occurred in Moravia. |

| |A: Battle of Austerlitz |

| |This battle was the largest and bloodiest single-day battle of the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought between the French Grand |

| |Armée and the Russian Army of Alexander I. |

| |A: Battle of Borodino |

|12. |Kick it up a notch and name these Food Network personalities FTPE. |

| |Specializing in Cajun food, this host of a live food network show is known for his catchphrase “BAM!” |

| |A: Emeril John Lagasse (accept either) |

| |A southwestern cuisine specialist on Iron Chef America, he hosts Food Network shows including Boy Meets Grill and |

| |FoodNation. |

| |A: Bobby Flay |

| |This chef is the host of Barefoot Contessa, a show that debuted in November 2002. The show takes place in the kitchen of her|

| |mansion in East Hampton. |

| |A: Ina Garten |

|13. |FTPE answer the following about really tall towers. |

| |Built by the namesake Malaysian oil company, these twin towers contain a shopping mall, philharmonic orchestra and offices |

| |of IBM, Boeing and other companies. |

| |A: Petronas Twin Towers |

| | |

| |Completed in 2004, this 509-meter tower, the tallest office building in the world, contains the two fastest double-decker |

| |elevators in the world. |

| |A: Taipei 101 |

| |Although still under construction, this skyscraper in Dubai is rumored to be over 800 meters tall upon completion, |

| |surpassing the Taipei 101 as the tallest building in the world. |

| |A: Burj Dubai (prompt on Dubai) |

|14. |FTPE, name these sluggers. |

| |This Pittsburgh Pirates farmhand has to conquer knee problems and accusations of not just steroid use but also tax evasion |

| |and perjury before he can pass the homerun record. |

| |A: Barry Bonds |

| |He was the best left-hander of his era but is better known for his hitting. He holds the highest career slugging percentage|

| |at .764 and was just recently passed by Barry Bonds on the all-time homerun list. |

| |A: Babe Ruth |

| |In 1951, he hit a grand slam in the 9th inning to win the National League pennant for the San Francisco Giants against the |

| |Brooklyn Dodgers. |

| |A: Bobby Thomson |

|15. |Identify these mountain ranges within the Appalachians, FPTE. |

| |This group contains the highest points in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, and is the namesake of a |

| |scenic Virginia parkway. |

| |A: Blue Ridge Mountains |

| |This range, which used to be home to the “Old Man of the Mountain,” includes Mount Washington and is located almost entirely|

| |in New Hampshire. |

| |A: White Mountains |

| |Though New York’s Taconic Mountains are often classified as part of this range, it is located mainly in the westernmost |

| |county of Massachusetts, which is named for it. |

| |A: Berkshire Mountains |

|16. |Name these halogens FTPE. |

| |This halogen is the only liquid nonmetallic element that is a liquid at room temperature. |

| |A: Bromine |

| |This halogen is a trace element in most living organisms, whose presence can be indicated by starch, when it turns dark |

| |blue. |

| |A: Iodine |

| |A compound of this halogen and uranium can be used to separate uranium into the 235 and 238 isotopes. |

| |A: Fluorine |

|17. |FTPE answer the following questions about a concept in biology. |

| |This companion to evolution is simply the emergence of new species. It may occur as a result of reproductive or geographic |

| |isolation, among other factors. |

| |A: Speciation |

| |This type of speciation occurs when members within the same geographic area develop unique traits to avoid interbreeding. |

| |A: Sympatry or Sympatric speciation |

| |This practice, in which organisms select their mates based on similar or dissimilar qualities, has been said to explain |

| |sympatric speciation. |

| |A: Assortative mating |

|18. |FTPE identify these audio formats commonly found on the web: |

| |This lossy format developed by the Fraunhofer Society became popular in the late 1990s in part because of services such as |

| |Napster and helped launch portable digital music players. |

| |A: MP3 (Mpeg-1 Audio Level 3) |

| |Partly designed as a replacement for MP3, this format is used by many phones and the iTunes Music Store. |

| |A: AAC or M4 (Advanced Audio Coding or MPEG-4 Part-3 or Part-7; prompt on 3GPP and 3GPP2) |

| |People who use the multimedia files of Wikipedia might be familiar with this container format developed by the |

| |Foundation, which can use the audio codecs Speex, FLAC, and Vorbis. |

| |A: Ogg |

|19. |FTPE name these Italian renaissance painters. |

| |His Birth of Venus and Primavera offer two contrasting views of the Roman goddess of love. |

| |A: Sandro Botticelli or Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. |

| |The works he painted for the Brancacci chapel include “The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” and “The Tribute Money.” |

| |A: Masaccio or Tommaso Cassai |

| |This painter of numerous Madonnas was the son of a butcher and is the namesake of a Norwegian band and a Robert Browning |

| |poem. |

| |A: Fra (Fil)Lippo Lippi |

|20. |FTPE, name these families from the work of William Faulkner. |

| |Its patriarch, Thomas, is a poor white from western Virginia who tries to re-establish himself as a southern aristocrat in |

| |Absalom! Absalom! |

| |A:  Sutpen |

| |One of the oldest families in Yoknapatawpha [YOK-na-pah-TAW-fa] County, it includes Quentin, one of the narrators of The |

| |Sound and the Fury. |

| |A: Compson |

| |This poor family, which includes Anse, Darl, Cash, and Vardaman travels to Jefferson to bury Addie in As I Lay Dying. |

| |A: Bundren |

|21. |Name the governmental philosophy given a brief description FTPE. |

| |This doctrine envisions an economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth and materials are subject to |

| |government control. |

| |A: Socialism |

| |This ideology refers to one’s passion in his or her country, and also promotes one to seek and pursue self-determination. |

| |A: Nationalism |

| |This policy emphasizes individual rights, and aims to create a society in which there are limitations on government and |

| |religion. |

| |A: Liberalism |

Round 6 Tossups

|1. |The Blue House and Autumn Landscape by Maurice de Vlaminck are examples of the work from this school. Other examples are |

| |Charing Cross Bridge: London and the The Dessert: Harmony in Red, both of which demonstrate the strong lines and bold color |

| |schemes characteristic of this group Louis Vauxcelles named them because of their spontaneity and wildness. FTP, name this |

| |art movement of “wild beasts” led by Henry Matisse. |

| |A: Fauvism or Fauves |

|2. |A 1973 study found it to be lethal to parakeets when heated to 260 degrees Celsius. Over ten acres of it are still used in |

| |the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome, the largest concentrated supply of it on Earth. Referred to as K416 during the Manhattan |

| |Project, its original discovery by Roy Plunkett came about when perfluoroethylene was left in a storage container. FTP name |

| |this polymer manufactured by DuPont, often used in pans as a non-stick coating. |

| |A: Teflon or PolyTetraFluoroEthylene |

|3. |Closely related to Sandhoff disease, it is caused by nonfunctional hexosaminidase A, which causes an accumulation of fatty |

| |substances in nerve cells. Most commonly found in children between 4 and 6 months old, symptoms include neurological |

| |regressions and disabilities such as seizures, blindness and paralysis. FTP identify this fatal genetic disorder most |

| |commonly found in infants of Ashkenazi Jews. |

| |A: Tay-Sachs disease |

|4. |Arturo Toscanini, a close friend of the composer, conducted the world premiere of this musical work in 1926. In Act III, |

| |Calaf reflects on his love for the title character in his aria “Nessun Dorme.” This opera opens with the announcement that |

| |the Prince of Persia is to be executed at the rising of the moon for his failure to answer three riddles correctly. FTP, |

| |name this Puccini opera set in China left unfinished at his death. |

| |A: Turandot |

|5. |The procedure for its creation was set in “The Inquisition of the County of Cambridge.” London and Winchester were probably |

| |excluded from it due to complexity, and Cumberland was not included because it had not yet been conquered. It actually |

| |consisted of two separate books in five volumes and was completed within one year. FTP, name this survey of England ordered|

| |by William the Conqueror and completed in 1086. |

| |A: The Domesday Book [DOOMZ-day] |

|6. |After three years of negotiation, an exhibition of this piece is to be held from June 25 to September 24, 2006 in the Boston|

| |Museum of Fine Arts. When the original model for this oil-on-canvas failed to show, the replacement model posed for it while|

| |visiting the artist, her son, in 1872. FTP, give the colloquial name of Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 by James |

| |Whistler. |

| |A: Whistler’s Mother (Accept Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 early) |

|7. |In 2001, this event set a Guinness World Record for highest attendance at a competition over a course of two weeks. Founded |

| |in 1881, this tournament’s first winners were Richard D. Sears for men’s singles and Clarence M. Clark with Fred W. Taylor |

| |for men’s doubles. Incorporating the women’s singles and doubles in 1887 and 1889, respectively, this international event is|

| |held in Flushing Meadows in the state of New York. FTP, name this Grand Slam tennis tournament held in New York. |

| |A: United States Open Tennis Championships, or U.S. Open |

|8. |The floor of this body of water contains the Lomonosov Ridge, and the Fram and Nansen Basins are located near its center. |

| |Island groups such as the Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya are located around its southern periphery, which include the Chukchi, |

| |Laptev, Beaufort, and Barents Seas. Mostly covered in a permanent layer of ice, it is far smaller than its three |

| |counterparts. FTP, name this ocean, home to the North Pole. |

| |A: Arctic Ocean |

|9. |Also known as Sakya-muni and Tathagata, he was born under a Sala tree during a full moon. Before dying he tried to convince |

| |Cunda that his offering of pork was not the cause of his demise, even though the meat was poisoned. Despite being raised as |

| |a prince, he chose the life of an ascetic after walking past an old man, a sick man, a corpse and an ascetic. FTP, name this|

| |spiritual man credited as the founder of Buddhism. |

| |A: Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (accept Buddha) |

|10. |Born a German princess, she only had minor ancestral connections to the country she would come to rule. Her correspondents |

| |included Voltaire and Rousseau, and she led her nation during the Russo-Turkish Wars. A convert to Eastern Orthodoxy after |

| |her marriage at 16, she was considered the epitome of an “enlightened despot”. FTP, name this empress who overthrew her |

| |husband Peter III and expanded Russia’s borders to the Black Sea. |

| |A: Catherine II or Catherine the Great |

|11. |Pencil and paper ready. Jennifer Kennings, or Jen, is playing on Jeopardy!. In both rounds she gets two questions of every |

| |point denomination without any wrong answers. The first round has questions each worth multiples of 200 dollars up to 1000, |

| |and the second round has questions worth multiples of 400 up to 2000. She is now going into Final Jeopardy. FTP, calculate |

| |the maximum possible amount of money Jen Kennings can have at the end of the game. You have ten seconds. |

| |A: $36,000 ($6,000 in round 1 + $12,000 in round 2 = $18,000. Bet |

| |it all and get Final Jeopardy right for $36,000) |

|12. |Experimental ones include Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Singularity from Microsoft, while NASA uses VxWorks for the Mars Rovers.|

| |By adding timeslicing to monitors, multiple users and tasks can run simultaneously. More professional examples of them |

| |include VMS, Netware, Solaris, and BSD. FTP identify this type of software, examples of which include Unix, GNU/Linux, and |

| |Windows. |

| |A: Operating Systems (prompt on Kernel) |

|13. |The highest elevation in this city, Bila Hora, witnessed a major battle of the Thirty Years’ War. It includes landmarks like|

| |Hradcany [RAD-can-nee] Castle and the Charles Bridge on the Vltava [vul-TAH-vah] River, and incidentally it was the site of |

| |the event that triggered the war. Today it is the largest city in Bohemia, and the third largest European Union city in the |

| |former Warsaw Pact area. FTP, name this capital of the Czech [CHECK] Republic. |

| |A: Prague |

|14. |After earning over $500 million worldwide, it was named the most successful film of 1992. Its soundtrack by Alan Menken won |

| |Oscars for best Original Score. Robin Williams joined the cast with the understanding that his voice would not be used for |

| |merchandising, but Disney extensively marketed his character anyways. With the Academy Award for Best Song for “A Whole New |

| |World,” FTP, name this animated film based on a story from “1001 Arabian Nights.” |

| |A: Aladdin |

|15. |With its name derived from “building of a house,” students took preliminary courses taught by people like Johannes Itten and|

| |Josef Albers. These students were taught mass design principles, which can be seen in the architecture of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy|

| |and Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe. FTP, name this German art school and movement founded by Gropius. |

| |A: Staatliches Bauhaus |

|16. |An Edward Percy Morgan painting depicting this now hangs in a museum close to the site where it was first signed. Created in|

| |Provincetown Harbor, this document, in essence a social contract, was mentioned in the journal of Governor William Bradford.|

| |FTP, name this governing document of the Plymouth Colony signed in 1620 by the pilgrims. |

| |A: Mayflower Compact |

|17. |Pencil and paper ready. Two parallel circuits are connected together in series. The first parallel circuit has resistors of |

| |9 ohms and 18 ohms, and the second has resistors of 12 and 4 ohms. Remember that the cumulative resistance of a parallel |

| |circuit the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of each resistor. FTP find the total resistance of the circuit. You |

| |have 10 seconds. |

| | A: 9 ohms |

|18. |Her last novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in her birth state of Virginia, and her first major recognition came in |

| |1923 with a Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours. Her 1915 work The Song of the Lark is set in Moonstone, a town supposedly based |

| |on her childhood home of Red Cloud, Nebraska. FTP identify this author of Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Ántonia, and O |

| |Pioneers! |

| |A: Willa Sibert Cather |

|19. |His most common name is a pseudonym taken from 19th century Czech writer, Jan. He wrote such poems as “Walking Around” and |

| |“The United Fruit Company” and was glorified in the film, Il Postino. His works inspired Isabel Allende to refer to him |

| |simply as “The Poet” in her The House of the Spirits, and among his best known collections is “Twenty Love Poems and a Song |

| |of Despair.” FTP name this Chilean poet of “Canto General”. |

| |A: Pablo Neruda or Neftalí Ricardo Reyes |

|20. |He was attending a seminary at Ryazan when he decided to take up natural sciences, and soon produced a treatise on the |

| |pancreatic nerves. His work on nervism did not come to fruition, however, until he read a paper on “The Experimental |

| |Psychology and Psychopathology of Animals,” which prompted him to conduct an experiment on salivary expression in dogs. FTP |

| |identify this Russian winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known for his work in classical conditioning.|

| |A: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov |

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| | |

| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

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|21. |Originally published in 1861, it was banned for its favorable descriptions of Satan, calling him “thrice-great”. It was |

| |published in five parts, including “Spleen and Ideal”, “Wine”, and “Death”. The second section, which shares its title with|

| |the entire collection, describes how a traveler spends twenty-four hours in Paris. FTP, name this collection by Charles |

| |Baudelaire. |

| |A: Les Fleurs du Mal or Flowers of Evil |

|22. |Symbolized by the khanda, it is called Gurmat by its followers. While its fourth leader founded the sacred city, the fifth |

| |leader compiled the first version of the Adi Granth and the tenth and final leader cemented certain practices like carrying |

| |the “five K’s” at all times after Khalsa, taking the surname Singh, never cutting one’s hair, and wearing a turban. FTP name|

| |this religion centered in Punjab and founded by the guru Nanak. |

| |A: Sikhism |

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|23. |The town of Slangkoppunt is located on its western shore, while its eastern side forms the western edge of False Bay. It is |

| |located near the confluence of the Benguela and Agulhas currents, the latter of which takes its name from Cape Agulhas, the |

| |actual southernmost point of the continent. The northern end contains Table Mountain and one of the country’s capitals. FTP,|

| |name this headland of South Africa that Vasco da Gama sailed around in 1497. |

| |A: Cape of Good Hope |

Round 6 Bonuses

|1. |FTPE, name these war paintings. |

| |This painting by Pablo Picasso was based on the 1937 bombing of a city in Spain’s Basque Country. |

| |A: Guernica |

| |Eugene Delacroix painted this in 1830 to memorialize the July Revolution. It was originally hung in the Palace of |

| |Louis-Philippe. |

| |A: Liberty Leading The People |

| |This painting by Diego Velazquez was inspired by his trip to Italy with Ambrosio Spinola, the Spanish officer who captured |

| |the title city. |

| |A: Surrender at Breda |

|2. |Answer the following questions regarding the geography of Central America: |

| |With its capital at Managua, this Republic is sandwiched between Honduras in the north and Costa Rica in the south. |

| |A: Nicaragua |

| |The second smallest nation on the American Continent, this country, bordered by Mexico and Guatemala was formerly known as |

| |British Honduras. |

| |A: Belize |

| |Sandwiched by the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, this strip of land, once rejected as a site of interoceanic canal |

| |due to cost, includes a town known for its matriarchal society and gold jewelry. |

| |A: Isthmus of Tehuantepec |

|3. |Answer these questions about a German philosopher FTPE. |

| |This professor at the University of Königsberg wrote The Critique of Pure Reason. |

| |A: Immanuel Kant |

| |To Kant, this type of moral law was unconditional and mandates acting on a universal maxim. |

| |A: categorical imperative |

| |The opposite of a categorical imperative, it is divided into the rules of skill and the councils of prudence. |

| |A: hypothetical imperative |

|4. |FTPE, name these streams found in the District of Columbia. |

| |Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia are located across this river from Washington. |

| |A: Potomac |

| |This river, which flows, past Washington Navy Yard, lends its name to a well-known, historically black neighborhood in the |

| |Southeast quadrant of D.C. |

| |A: Anacostia |

| |Joining the Potomac just above the Watergate complex, this stream is surrounded by a park twice as large as New York’s |

| |Central Park. |

| |A: Rock Creek |

| | |

|5. |Identify these top level domains FTPE: |

| |This fifth largest top level domain was designed for miscellaneous groups that were not commercial entities. Today however, |

| |anybody can register one of these addresses. |

| |A: .org (dot org) |

| |This domain created in 2001 was designed to give businesses a new domain after the growth of dot-com. It should not be |

| |confused with the country domain for Belize. |

| |A: .biz (dot biz; if pronounced as in dot bis, prompt for spelling) |

| |This domain is reserved for international treaty organizations and non-governmental organizations with observer status. |

| |A: .int (dot int) |

|6. |Name these terms about pottery FTPE. |

| |It is a furnace, oven or other thermally insulated enclosure used to dry and harden clay. |

| |A: kiln |

| |This is a diluted clay solution used for casting or decorating pottery. |

| |A: slip |

| |Also known as a sunken-relief, it is the engraving of an image into a hard surface and derives its name from the Italian for|

| |“to engrave.” |

| |A: intaglio |

|7. |FTPE identify these issues dealing with homosexual marriage: |

| |This Constitutional clause enforces certain state laws across state borders, which some argue to include same-sex marriages.|

| |A: Full Faith and Credit clause |

| |In this landmark Supreme Court case of 2003, a 6-3 vote struck down the prohibition of sexual sodomy in a certain state. |

| |A: Lawrence v. Texas |

| |Passed by President Clinton in 1996, this act has supposedly violated the full faith and credit clause in allowing certain |

| |states to deny marriages ordained in other states. |

| |A: Defense of Marriage Act [prompt on DOMA] |

|8. |FTPE identify these types of warships: |

| |These were wooden ships with metal frames that became largely popular in the 19th century and were ultimately replaced by |

| |steel. Famous ones include the Monitor and the Merrimack. |

| |A: Ironclad warships |

| |Found mainly in the British Navy in the early 20th century, these ships had uniform batteries and were the first to be |

| |equipped with steam turbines, sparking a naval arms race up to World War I. |

| |A: Dreadnoughts |

| |In the early 20th Century, this was a general term for a large battleship able to engage many enemies at once, and they were|

| |often used for reconnaissance. Some “heavy” ones include the Norfolk and the Suffolk. |

| |A: Battlecruisers |

|9. |FTPE, give the greatest prime factor of these numbers: |

| |Eighty five. |

| |A: 17 |

| |Four thousand and ninety six. |

| |A: 2 |

| |One thousand and one. |

| |A: 13 |

|10. |FTPE answer the following about a battle between the Greeks and the Persians: |

| |This 480 BC battle took place in a narrow mountain pass in Greece, whose name translates as “hot gates”. |

| |A: Battle of Thermopylae |

| |This Spartan King, who was killed in battle, avoided further Greek losses towards the end of the battle by dismissing all |

| |but the Spartans and the Thebans. |

| |A: Leonidas |

| |The Greeks were able to defend the pass well until this traitor tipped off the Persians to a separate pass, allowing them to|

| |outflank the Greeks and win the battle. |

| |A: Ephialtes |

|11. |After he was treated by Dr. Samuel Mudd he lead union soldiers on a chase that ended in Richard Garret’s tobacco barn. |

| |FTPE, name: |

| |This presidential assassin. |

| |A: John Wilkes Booth |

| |The farcical play the president was watching, which Booth had chosen because he knew the laughter would mask the sound of a |

| |gunshot. |

| |A: Our American Cousin |

| |Lincoln died in this home across the street from Ford’s Theater. Today, it is preserved by the National Park Service and |

| |includes a replica of the bed upon which Lincoln died. |

| |A: Petersen House |

|12. |FTPE given a molecule, identify its molecular shape. |

| |Methane |

| |A: Tetrahedral (also accept Tetrahedron) |

| |Carbon Dioxide |

| |A: Linear |

| |Phosphorus Pentafluoride |

| |A: Trigonal Bipyramidal |

| | |

|13. |FTPE answer the following about Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. |

| |This work takes place in the town of Macondo and tells the story of seven generations of a family. |

| |A: One Hundred Years of Solitude (or Cien años de soledad) |

| |Identify that family, whose members include José Arcadio and Aureliano. |

| |A: Buendía |

| |Many believe Mocando was based on this town, the birthplace of Garcia-Marquez. |

| |A: Aracataca |

|14. |FTPE, name these soccer legends: |

| |Regarded by many as the greatest player of all time, this Brazilian forward led his team to World Cup victories in 1958, |

| |1962, and 1970. |

| |A: Pelé or Edson Arantes do Nascimento |

| |This Argentine forward may be best known for his “Hand of God” goal in the 1986 World Cup, where he illegally scored with |

| |his hand without the judges noticing. |

| |A: Diego Maradona |

| |Called “Der Kaiser”, this attacking sweeper played for West Germany, captaining the team to a World Cup victory in 1974. He |

| |also managed that team to a 1990 win, making him the only man to both captain and manage a World Cup champion. |

| |A: Franz Beckenbauer |

|15. |FTPE given a book and its author, identify the writer who penned the lines from which the title came. |

| |Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck |

| |A: Robert Burns |

| |Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |

| |A: William Butler Yeats |

| |For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway |

| |A: John Donne |

|16. |FTPE identify these features of rotating black holes. |

| |Rotating black holes have two of these which prevent anything from escaping because lights paths are forced to curve |

| |backwards. |

| |A: Event Horizon |

| |In rotating black holes, it is a ring with infinite density but a finite amount of mass, unlike Schwarzschild black holes, |

| |in which it is only a point. |

| |A: Ring or Kerr singularity |

| |In this region of rotating black holes nothing is at rest, but it is still possible to escape. It is located between the |

| |outer event horizon and the stationary limit. |

| |A: Ergosphere |

|17. |FTPE answer these questions about recent developments in a murder case. |

| |This child beauty pageant contestant was found killed in the basement of her family’s house in December of 1996. |

| |A: JonBenét Ramsey |

| |In August of 2006, this former schoolteacher was arrested in Bangkok for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, but was released |

| |when DNA tests established his innocence. |

| |A: John Mark Karr |

| |The home of the Pearl Street Mall and the largest university in Colorado, this city was the scene of the unsolved murder. |

| |A: Boulder |

|18. |FTPE, answer the following questions about battles of World War I. |

| |One of the bloodiest battles in human history, there were more than one million casualties. The Allied Forces attempted to |

| |break through a 25 mile long front in northern France. |

| |A: Battle of the Somme |

| |The last major offensive of World War I, it was the biggest operation and victory of the American Expeditionary Force. |

| |A: Battle of Argonne Forest |

| |Fought from February 21 to December 19, 1916 in northeast France, it resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths. |

| |It was here that the phrase “they shall not pass” was popularized. |

| |A: Battle of Verdun |

|19. |Answer these questions about a novel, FTPE. |

| |Thought to be the seventh best selling book of all time, this novel was about a murder in the Louvre, solved using clues |

| |from paintings of the titular artist. |

| |A: The Da Vinci Code |

| |He is the main character in The Da Vinci code, a Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconography who, along with |

| |Sophie, uncovers the mystery of the Holy Grail. |

| |A: Robert Langdon |

| |He is the albino Opus Dei monk who is ordered by “The Teacher” to murder Jacques Sauniere and the other three leaders of the|

| |Priory of Sion. |

| |A: Silas |

|20. |Identify these military aircraft from descriptions FTPE. |

| |A stealth fighter aircraft, it was envisioned as the plane to use against the air force of the USSR. It is equipped for |

| |ground attack, electronic attack, and signals intelligence roles. |

| |A: F-22 Raptor |

| |A military strike fighter descended from the Joint Strike Fighter, it first rolled off the production lines in 2006 and is |

| |intended to replace the F-16s and A-10’s of the US Air Force. |

| |A: F-35 Lightning II |

| |Built by a variety of European aerospace companies, it is a canard-delta strike fighter. The production of this plane is now|

| |underway, and it has entered service with the Italian Air Force. |

| |A: Eurofighter Typhoon |

|21. |Answer these questions about works by Maurice Ravel FTPE. |

| |Said to have “the world’s longest crescendo,” this one-movement orchestral piece was named for a Spanish dance. |

| |A: Boléro |

| |This ballet, Ravel’s longest, was taken and modified from a Greek work, and portrays the romance between a shepherdess and a|

| |goatherd. |

| |A: Daphnis and Chloé (also accept Daphnis et Chloé) |

| |Ravel originally meant for this piece to be a “tribute to the waltz,” but modified it after World War I to reflect the |

| |demise of Austrian and German culture. |

| |A: La Valse, une poème choréographique |

Round of 16 Tossups

|1. |It was written in unrhymed octosyllabic trochees and dactyls and updated to 50 cantos in 1849. Compiled through eleven trips|

| |to Ingria and Karelia, it features such characters as Ukko and Ilmarinen and has a title meaning “land of heroes,” which is |

| |a poetic reference to both the home of its hero Vainamoinen [vayn-AM-oy-nehn] and to its Nordic country of origin.  FTP, |

| |name this Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lonnrot from old Finnish ballads. |

| |A: Kalevala |

|2. |Son of Olorus, this figure had significant influence in Thrace and owned much property there. Distantly related to the |

| |famous Athenian statesman, Miltiades the Younger, he was elected strategos, a military magistrate. With this duty, he led a |

| |Thracian fleet to Athens, which was defeated by the Spartans, an event which influenced his most famous work. FTP, name this|

| |ancient Athenian historian who penned History of the Peloponnesian War. |

| |A: Thucydides |

|3. |Isaac Newton denoted this operation by placing a dot over the function; he originally called these fluxions. Lagrange |

| |denoted fourth orders and greater of this operation by placing the order in parentheses as a superscript next to the |

| |function, but for less than fourth orders simply used primes. FTP, give this concept in calculus which is the instantaneous |

| |rate of change of a function, and means in English something generated from something else. |

| |A: Derivative |

|4. |His collections of poems include “Look! We Have Come Through,” and “Birds, Beasts, and Flowers” and his short stories |

| |include The Rocking-Horse Winner and The Prussian Officer. However, he is better known for novels The White Peacock, The |

| |Plumed Serpent, and Kangaroo. FTP identify this author of Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. |

| |A: David Herbert Lawrence |

|5. |They are closely related to Scotland’s firths and feature prominently in Canada’s Gros Morne and Auyuittuq [OH-wi-tuck] |

| |National Parks. Washington State’s Hood Canal is technically one of these, and more famous examples include Scoresby Sund in|

| |Greenland, Bradshaw and Milton Sounds in New Zealand, and Lustra and Sogne [SOHN] in Scandinavia. FTP, identify these long, |

| |steep walled inlets of the sea commonly associated with Norway. |

| |A: fjord [fee-YORD] |

|6. |The story opens after his death, in which his acquaintances discuss the openings that result from his absence instead of the|

| |tragedy of the loss. He lives a life "most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible," but only when faced with |

| |his death by an apparently incurable stomach pain does he realize this. FTP, name this character whose death is chronicled |

| |by Leo Tolstoy |

| |A: Ivan Ilych |

| | |

|7. |Pencil and paper ready. You have two vectors which you want to find the angle between. The first vector has components –1 |

| |(negative one) and square root of three, and the second vector has components 0 and –8 (negative eight). To find the angle |

| |you can either use the formula that the dot product equals the product of the two magnitudes times the angle between the |

| |vectors. Given the dot product is 8, FTP, find the angle between them. You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 150 degrees or 5 pi / 6 radians or 210 degrees or 7 pi / 6 radians (any are acceptable) |

|8. |It forms a long, U- shaped loop around the Ordos Desert slightly over 1,000 miles from its source in the Payankala |

| |[pie-yahn-KAHL-uh] Mountains on the Tibetan Plateau. It flows through the Loess Plateau, where it joins its two major |

| |tributaries, the Fen and the Wei [way], and accumulates the large amounts of silt that give it its name. FTP, identify this |

| |river that is often referred to as “China’s Sorrow” due to its frequent flooding, the second-longest in the country. |

| |A: Yellow River (accept Huang He) |

|9. |Some forays into the Grand Unified Theory claim that they have a half-life of at least ten to the thirty-second years. One |

| |way they decay is to break down into a positron and a neutral pion, but some concerns have been raised over breaking baryon |

| |conservation. They can also decay by changing one of two down quarks into an up quark in their fellow nucleon. FTP identify |

| |this positive subatomic particle, which, along with the neutron, composes the nucleus. |

| |A: Protons |

|10. |In a contest, four lines of a program in BASIC determined a solution to what came to be called “Tit for Tat.” If iterated, |

| |it ought to achieve a situation where the tendency is always to not cooperate or a Nash Equilibrium may be reached. In a |

| |common example, defection forces both players to serve two years rather than one player going free and the other serving ten|

| |years. FTP name this common example from game theory involving a criminal’s decision to testify against an accomplice. |

| |A: Prisoner’s Dilemma (prompt on game theory or equivalents before mentioned) |

|11. |This phrase would only possibly take unintended meaning in other parts of Germany, and not in the city in question. Instead |

| |they would use the word Pfannkuche [fahn-kooch] to describe the pastry that urban legend says the speaker called himself. |

| |FTP identify this phrase given in a 1963 speech by President Kennedy in Berlin which some claim means “I am a Jelly |

| |Doughnut”. |

| |A: Ich Bin Ein Berliner (Prompt on Berliner) |

|12. |In January 2006, the Austrian National Gallery was forced to return five of his paintings to a Jewish woman, who then sold |

| |one of those paintings for $135 million. She happens to be a surviving relative of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of |

| |several of his works. The painter of Idylle, The Beethoven Frieze, and Judith I, FTP, identify this founder of the Vienna |

| |Secession, famous for painting “Love” and “The Kiss”. |

| |A: Gustav Klimt |

|13. |Born in 1596, this thinker developed his idea regarding the acquisition of knowledge while isolated in a heated room in |

| |Germany. Known for his wide range of interests, including mathematics, this philosopher is praised as the “father of modern |

| |philosophy.” FTP, name this philosopher and mathematician who invented analytical geometry and the Cartesian Coordinates. |

| |A: Rene Descartes |

|14. |Pencil and paper ready. You have five marbles, each with a distinct color. You take at least one but not all of the marbles |

| |and drop them into a bag. You want to know how many possible combinations of marbles can be in the bag. Remember that the |

| |total possible combinations without restrictions is two to the number of different marbles, and that having all or none of |

| |the marbles in the bag constitutes two combinations. FTP, how many possible combinations of marbles can be in the bag? You |

| |have ten seconds. |

| | A: 30 (2^5 = 32 possible combinations, then subtract 2, the |

| |combinations with all or none of them in) |

|15. |Though the total value of it cannot be measured directly, it can be measured instead by its change in value in a system. It |

| |was defined by Dutch physicist H. Kamerlingh-Onnes, who set it equal to internal energy added to the product of pressure and|

| |volume. This state function is completely dependent on temperature, pressure, and the composition of the system. FTP, |

| |identify this quantity measuring total internal energy of a system, represented by the letter H. |

| | A: Enthalpy |

|16. |The northwestern part of this country is drained by the Una River, which flows through Bihac into the Sava on the southern |

| |edge of the Pannonian plain, while the southeast contains its only access to the sea at Neum. Its major cities include Banja|

| |[BAN-ya], Luka, and Mostar, located in the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation, respectively. FTP, name this |

| |country that declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and has its capital at Sarajevo [sa-ra-YE-vo]. |

| |A: Bosnia and Herzegovina |

|17. |In August 2006, he announced he was auctioning his 2001 Lincoln Town Car with license plate THRIFTY on Ebay and donating the|

| |profits to a charity. His annual salary is only 100,000 dollars, yet he owns many companies including GEICO, Dairy Queen, |

| |and Fruit of the Loom. Recently, he has received more publicity for his plan to transfer $37 billion dollars worth of stock |

| |to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. FTP, name this “Sage of Omaha” and owner of Berkshire Hathaway, the second |

| |richest man in the world. |

| |A: Warren Edward Buffet |

|18. |When a man with one sandal was asked how he would confront his killer, his plan mentioned this. Acquired by Nephele after |

| |saving her son Phrixus, it was then given to King Aeetes by Phrixus in exchange for refuge. The king then hung it on a tree |

| |guarded by a dragon, until a ship of men came to claim it from Colchis. FTP name this object sought by Jason and the |

| |Argonauts, a magical hide with healing powers. |

| |A: Golden Fleece |

|19. |In 1998 it was revamped under the codename Playground, featuring graphical API integration from Swing. Originally called Oak|

| |and renamed in 1995, this object-oriented language was developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. FTP name this |

| |programming language, featuring servlets and applets, whose symbol is a cup of coffee. |

| |A: Java |

|20. |By using extensive statistics and observations, four main types of the title act emerge: anomic, altruistic, fatalistic and |

| |egoistic. It was found that single, childless or Protestant people are more likely to perform this because they have less to|

| |live for. FTP identify this Emile Durkheim work which states that the titular action can be explained by social rather that |

| |psychological reasons. |

| |A: Suicide |

| | |

| | |

| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

| | |

|21. |Although formally founded in 1990 by the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, scientists from five|

| |other countries were also included in the group. Competing with Celera and once headed by James Watson, its objectives |

| |included finding the differences between individuals and races and discovering the role of junk DNA. FTP, name this project,|

| |whose goal is to map and sequence the nucleotides of human DNA. |

| |A: Human Genome Project (accept HGP) |

| | |

|22. |His father has golden hair, and in an animated film adaptation by Ralph Bakshi, his hair is blond, though originally |

| |described as “dark,” normal for a Sindar, when he shoots a fell beast. At the Battle of Helmsdeep, he slides down the stairs|

| |on a shield, wielding his best-known weapon, though eventually loses the orc-killing duel by one to a dwarf. FTP name this |

| |elf portrayed by Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings films. |

| |A: Legolas or Greenleaf |

|23. |Parts of this book may have been based on the 1777 abduction of Jane McCrea near Fort Edwards. Set in British New York, the |

| |title characters are followed by a treacherous Huron named Magua as they join two daughters of a colonel on a journey to |

| |Fort William Henry. FTP, name this novel, the second Leatherstocking Tale which features the near extinction of an Iroquois |

| |tribe. |

| |A: The Last of the Mohicans |

Round of 16 Bonuses

|1. |FTPE, name these actresses that appeared in Mona Lisa Smile given film roles in other movies. |

| |Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman, Maggie Carpenter in Runaway Bride, and Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich. |

| |A: Julia Fiona Roberts |

| |Judy Shepherd in Jumanji, Torrance Shipman in Bring It On, and Mary Jane Watson in Spiderman. |

| |A: Kirsten Caroline Dunst |

| |Kat Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You, Sara Johnson in Save the Last Dance, and Katherine Thorn in The Omen. |

| |A: Julia O’Hara Stiles |

|2. |FTPE, name these Confederate generals during the Civil War. |

| |Though he was forced to surrender at Appomattox, he won such battles as Fredericksburg while leading the Confederate army |

| |from 1862 to the end of the war. |

| |      A: Robert E. Lee |

| |Born in Clarksburg, Virginia, he earned his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run for his steadfastness. |

| |A: Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson |

| |This man was considered to be the best Confederate General by Jefferson Davis, before the time of Robert E. Lee; however, he|

| |died early in the war at the Battle of Shiloh. |

| |A: Albert Sydney Johnston |

|3. |FTPE, answer these questions about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |

| |This agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is authorized to set safety standards for medicines and |

| |other consumables. |

| |A: Food and Drug Administration |

| |This agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is based in Atlanta and was created to promote public health|

| |through prevention. |

| |A: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |

| |This agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the primary source of federal biomedical research. |

| |A. National Institutes of Health |

|4. |FTPE name these people involved with the development of the Periodic Table. |

| |This Russian chemist first noted that when placed in order of mass, the elements could be arranged such that they exhibited |

| |trends, forming the first Periodic Table. |

| |            A: Dmitri Mendeleev [men-deh-LAY-ev] |

| |This 20th century American chemist was prominent in the isolation of ten transuranium elements, including one named for him.|

| |He was also the first to propose the actinide series. |

| |            A: Glenn Seaborg |

| |This Swedish chemist first came up with the chemical abbreviations used on the table today. He was also one of the first to |

| |differentiate between organic and inorganic compounds. |

| |            A: Jons Jakob Berzelius |

|5. |FTPE, identify these South American grassland regions. |

| |This lowland plains region covers most of Uruguay as well as parts of southern Brazil and Northern Argentina. |

| |A: Pampas |

| |Located north and west of the Pampas, this semi-arid region contains much of Paraguay and was the setting of a war between |

| |Paraguay and Bolivia in the 1930s. |

| |A: Gran Chaco |

| |Roughly bounded by the Andes, the border with Colombia, and the Orinoco River, these plains cover much of central Venezuela.|

| |A: Llanos [YA-nos] |

|6. |Answer these questions about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints FTPE. |

| | In addition to the Bible, this work is accepted as Holy Scripture in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. |

| |A: Book of Mormon |

| |This American prophet translated golden tablets engraved with reformed Egyptian into the Book of Mormon with the assistance |

| |of special stones. |

| |A: Joseph Smith, Jr. |

| | This angel allegedly gave Smith the golden tablets and is said to be the son of Mormon. |

| |A: Moroni |

|7. |FTPE, identify these programming languages that start with P. |

| |This language designed by Larry Wall is good at text manipulation and is commonly used in CGI applications. It is often |

| |symbolized as a camel. |

| |A: Perl |

| |Created by Guido van Rossum, this language uses indentation to denote statement blocks. Its name comes from the T.V. show, |

| |not the animal. |

| |A:Python |

| |Powered by the Zend Engine, this language is designed to be a “HTML-embedded scripting language”. Many sites, such as |

| |Wikipedia, use this language. |

| |A:PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor |

|8. |Answer these questions about purines FTPE. |

| |First synthesized in 1900, this purine with the chemical formula C5H5N5O always pairs with cytosine. |

| |A: Guanine |

| |This nucleoside is prominently featured in the structure of the energy molecule, ATP. |

| |A: Adenosine (do not accept adenine) |

| |Derived from the Greek for “yellow,” this purine is a crystalline nitrogenous compound often found in blood, urine, and |

| |certain plant and animal tissues. |

| |A: Xanthine |

|9. |Answer these questions about a set of beliefs FTPE. |

| |Though mainly directed towards achieving spiritual and physical self-awareness across lifetimes, it may be better known for |

| |celebrity followers and practices such as “silent births.” |

| |A: Scientology |

| |This American science fiction author and founder of Scientology supposedly said “If you want to get rich, you start a |

| |religion.” |

| |A: Lafayette Ron Hubbard |

| |Hubbard based Scientology on this earlier set of ideas, which aims to clear the mind of memories from traumatic events, |

| |called “engrams.” |

| |A: Dianetics |

|10. |FTPE, answer these economics questions. |

| |They focused on the nation’s wealth rather than the king’s personal assets. Proponents included Adams Smith, David Ricardo,|

| |and Thomas Malthus. |

| |A: Classical School |

| |This French school of economics believed that agriculture was the root of all wealth. |

| |A: Physiocrats |

| |This founder of physiocracy was the author of Tableau Économique. |

| |A: François Quesnay |

|11. |FTPE, answer these questions about the Big Four who attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. |

| |Representing the United States, he was the 28th President and went to Versailles hoping to create the League of Nations |

| |through his 14 Points. |

| |A: Woodrow Wilson |

| |A statesmen, physician and journalist, he led France throughout WWI and opposed leniency towards Germany. Consequently, he |

| |was one of the main voices behind the Treaty of Versailles. |

| |A: Georges Clemenceau |

| |Becoming Prime Minister of Italy after the fall of the Boselli government, he was unable to speak English and his foreign |

| |minister ended up playing a more dominant role at the conference. |

| |A: Vittorio Orlando |

|12. |FTPE identify these things related to Edna St. Vincent Millay. |

| |This second collection of Millay's poetry including Daphne, First Fig, and Recuerdo. The line “My Candle Burns at Both |

| |Ends” comes from this work. |

| |A: A Few Figs From Thistles |

| |This poem tells of a poor widow who dies making clothes for her son. |

| |A: The Ballad of The Harp Weaver |

| |Millay wrote plays for this group based in Massachusetts that also produced plays by Eugene O'Neill. |

| |A: Provincetown Players |

|13. |FTPE, name these tennis pros from clues |

| |This man retired in 2004, after winning the US Open. He won a record 14 Grand Slams, and winning at Wimbledon seven times. |

| |A: Pete Sampras |

| |This man retired after this year’s US Open, being one of the only men to win all four grand slams once in his life. He won |

| |17 ATP Masters Series Tournaments, more than any other player. |

| |A: Andre Agassi |

| |After an absence from the professional tour for 12 years, he returned in 2006 to the doubles competition and became the |

| |oldest player to win in 30 years. He won seven grand slams during his career, including three Wimbledon’s and four US |

| |Opens. |

| |A: John McEnroe |

|14. |FTPE, identify these prominent physical features of the western United States. |

| |Though only the 32nd highest mountain in Colorado, this mountain named for the American explorer who discovered it in 1806 |

| |is perhaps the most famous. |

| |A: Pikes Peak |

| |This igneous intrusion in northern Wyoming was the first site in the U.S. designated as a National Monument. |

| |A: Devils Tower |

| |Located on the eastern edge of the Wallowa Mountains, this gorge of the Snake River is the deepest in the United States. |

| |A: Hells Canyon |

|15. |FTPE name these Italian opera terms. |

| |From the Italian for “First Lady,” it has evolved to refer to anyone who is egotistical, unreasonable and irritable. |

| |A: Prima Donna |

| |From the Italian for “Little Book,” this term identifies the actual words to an opera. |

| |A: Libretto |

| |From the Italian for “Beautiful Singing,” it is characterized by perfect evenness throughout the voice, skillful legato and |

| |a light upper register. It is also the name of an award-winning novel by Ann Patchett. |

| |A: Bel Canto |

|16. |FTPE, name these figures in recent Mexican politics. |

| |In what has been called the “fairest election in Mexican history,” this man from Mexico City took the presidency in 2000. |

| |A: Vicente Fox Quesada |

| | |

| |After resigning as Secretary of Energy, he ran and is now President of Mexico. |

| |A: Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa |

| |This Democratic Revolution Party candidate and former mayor of Mexico City closely lost the presidential race to Calderon in|

| |2006. |

| |A: Andrés Manuel López Obrador (prompt on Obrador) |

|17. |Answer these questions about dancers FTPE. |

| |Notable for her portrayal of The Dying Swan in The Carnival of the Animals, she shares her name with an Olympic gymnast. |

| |A: Anna Pavlova |

| |This Latvian’s professional debut was as a soloist in Giselle, and he sought political asylum in Toronto. His production of |

| |The Nutcracker is the most televised version of the work. |

| |A: Mikhail Baryshnikov |

| |This Polish dancer and choreographer ended his career because of schizophrenia, but worked with Sergei Diaghilev |

| |[dee-YAG-lee-ef] in the company Les Ballets Russes. |

| |A: Vaslav Nijinsky |

|18. |Answer these following questions about Cuban leader Fidel Castro FTPE. |

| |This brother of Fidel Castro temporarily took over power in 2006 when Fidel underwent a gastric surgery. |

| |A: Raul Castro |

| |Having close personal and political ties with Fidel Castro, this leader of Venezuela visited the recovering Castro after he |

| |finished a diplomatic trip in Asia. |

| |A: Hugo Chavez |

| |In 1976, Fidel Castro became the president of this council as well as the Council of Ministers. |

| |A: Council of State |

|19. |FTPE, answer the following about the German offensive in Russia during World War II: |

| |The Nazi invasion of Russia, beginning in June and ending in December of 1941, was given this codename after a Holy Roman |

| |Emperor. |

| |A: Operation Barbarossa |

| |Considered a turning point in the war, this 1942 conflict began with a German siege, moving towards the Volga river. A total|

| |of two million people died in this battle, making it the bloodiest in human history. |

| |A: Battle of Stalingrad |

| |Also known as Operation Citadel, this July to August 1943 battle was the largest tank battle of all time. |

| |A: Battle of Kursk |

|20. |FTPE name the following quantities from rotational dynamics. |

| |Symbolized by the Greek letter tau, it is the rotational analog of force and has units in Newton-meters. |

| |A: torque |

| |The rotational analog of mass, this quantifies the rotational inertia of an object. For a point mass traveling in a circular|

| |path, it is given by the mass times the square of the circle’s radius. |

| |A: moment of inertia |

| |This quantity describes the distribution of particles in a space of D dimensions, and can be calculated by using the second |

| |moment of inertia and total mass. |

| |A: radius of gyration |

Quarterfinals Tossups

|1. |Stromatolites, the oldest known fossils, are believed to have been formed by these organisms. A more modern member is |

| |Nostoc, which can carry out nitrification in special cells called heterocysts. However, most cells within a colony perform |

| |photosynthesis using a characteristically colored phycocyanin pigment. FTP identify these “blue green” bacteria that can |

| |easily be found in pond water. |

| |A: Cyanobacteria (prompt on blue green bacteria or blue green algae before said) |

|2. |In Gauss’s Law, this operation is used with operands being the displacement field and the del operator. The result of this |

| |quantity is proportional to the cosine of the angle between its operands. When this binary operation results in 0, it means |

| |that the two vector operands are orthogonal. FTP, name this operation which is calculated by multiplying corresponding |

| |components of the two vectors and summing all the products. |

| |A: Dot Product |

|3. |Tensions that led to this conflict increased as Edmund Beaufort was not punished for his failures as ruler of Normandy. His |

| |opponents soon allied themselves with the Nevilles, while Beaufort, along with the Percies, joined the opposing side. |

| |Beaufort, also known as the Duke of Somerset, met his end at the war's first battle, St. Albans where Henry VI was captured.|

| |FTP, identify this war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York which ended with the start of the Tudor Dynasty,|

| |named for the red and white flowers on the royal seals. |

| |A: War of the Roses |

|4. |It’s been said that a slogan involving his name was a secret call for Victor Emmanuel II’s return to power. He revised |

| |“Libera me” to create a requiem mass for Alessandro Manzoni, while the original was used to honor Gioacchino Rossini. In his|

| |“galley years,” he composed Ernani and I Lombardi, while products after his “middle years” include Macbeth, Don Carlos and |

| |Falstaff. FTP, name this Italian operatic composer, known for works such as Rigoletto and Aida. |

| |A: Giuseppe Verdi |

|5. |Christopher Soghoian, a student at Indiana University, set up a website that allows people to bypass it by creating fake |

| |documents. Canada has proposed one along with a CAPPS-like system. Congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Senator Ted Kennedy |

| |recently found their names on it at airports. FTP identify this government compilation of suspected terrorists who are not |

| |allowed to board planes. |

| |A: No Fly List (Prompt on Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System before mentioned) |

|6. |While working for the Doran Publishing Company, he published his second novel The Trail of the Hawk which describes Carl |

| |Ericson and reflects on his time at Yale, as cited in his 1930 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Earlier, in 1928, he published|

| |The Man Who Knew Coolidge, though he may be better known for creating Gustaf Sondelius, a doctor in Arrowsmith. FTP name |

| |this American author of Babbitt and Main Street. |

| |A: Hairy Sinclair Lewis |

|7. |Stymphalians gave her the epithet of “the Widow,” though her husband was still alive. She gave her daughter Hebe [HEE-bee] |

| |to Heracles in marriage, but before that, this Greek goddess had tried to kill Heracles in his infancy using snakes, because|

| |he was one of many of her husband's illegitimate children. FTP, name this Greek goddess of marriage, the wife of Zeus and |

| |Queen of the Greek Pantheon. |

| |A: Hera (accept Juno before saying Greek) |

|8. |In July 2006, Gustav Humbert resigned as CEO and was replaced by Christian Streiff. Products designed by this company |

| |include the Beluga, which was developed as an internal transport system, and, still on the drawing board, the NSR, which |

| |will replace the A320. Recently, the company has faced several drawbacks when airlines have canceled orders for its latest |

| |product, whose launch has been constantly delayed by problems in production. FTP, name this European company which produces |

| |the A380, the largest passenger aircraft in the world. |

| |A: Airbus S.A.S. |

|9. |Pencil and paper ready. Assume acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 meters per second per second. A ball is launched into the |

| |air from the ground at a horizontal velocity of 5 meters per second east and a vertical velocity of 9.8 meters per second up|

| |into the air. After 1 second, the ball bounces off a wall and reverses its horizontal velocity without loss of energy. When |

| |the ball first bounces, you want to calculate the distance between the bounce and where the ball started from. FTP, |

| |calculate this distance be in meters. You have ten seconds. |

| |A: 0 meters (the ball bounces off the wall at the peak of its trajectory and retraces its path) |

|10. |After winning an academy award as Ben Sanderson in Leaving Las Vegas, he grabbed another nomination for his role as Charlie |

| |Kaufman in Adaptation. He costarred with Sarah Jessica Parker in Honeymoon in Vegas, and recently played an illegal arms |

| |dealer in Lord of War. FTP, name this 6-feet 1 actor who is currently married to Alice Kim and played the main character |

| |Ben Gates in National Treasure. |

| |A: Nicolas Cage |

|11. |This country’s territory includes the northern part of the Guajira [gwa-HEE-ra] Peninsula and the entire valley of the |

| |Magdalena River. Though most of its southern border is formed by the Putumayo River, it extends south to the Amazon at the |

| |town of Leticia. The majority of its population lives in its mountainous regions, especially in cities like Cartagena |

| |[cart-uh-HEY-na], Cali, and Medellin [meh-deh-YEEN]. FTP, identify this South American country that has a capital at Bogota |

| |[bo-go-TA]. |

| |A: Colombia |

|12. |Its basement has served as its city's dog pound, and its second floor served as Charles Willson Peale's natural history |

| |museum. Designed by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Wooley in 1732, it was the State House for its colony, and is located between|

| |5th and 6th streets on Chestnut Street. During its most famous use, all of its windows were shut to prevent others from |

| |overhearing the discussions occurring inside. FTP, identify this building where the Declaration of Independence was signed |

| |and the Constitution was created. |

| |A: Independence Hall |

|13. |The introduction to this work notes, “The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments.” First |

| |published in 1798, the ‘Preface’ to the second edition is regarded as a manifesto for the English Romantic Movement. FTP |

| |“Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” first appeared in this collection by |

| |Wordsworth and Coleridge. |

| |A: Lyrical Ballads |

|14. |One man said of them, “If that’s art, hereafter I’m a bricklayer.” When brought to America they were classified as “Kitchen |

| |utensils and hospital supplies” by Customs, leading to a trial before being displayed at the Brummer Gallery. Built between |

| |1923 and 1940, this series of sixteen was the artist’s attempts to embody flight. FTP identify this series of sculptures by |

| |Constantin Brancusi that is not to be confused with an inhumane NASA experiment. |

| |A: Bird in Space |

|15. |It is about 800 kilometers long from its source in Valais [val-ay] canton to its delta in the Camargue [cam-ARG] region |

| |south of Arles [ARL]. Famous bridges in its basin include the Roman Pont du Gard at Nîmes [NEEM] and the Saint Bénézet |

| |[beh-neh-ZAY] bridge at Avignon [av-in-NYON]. Lake Geneva is located on its course, as is Lyon [lee-ON]. FTP, name this |

| |principal river of southern France, not to be confused with the river that forms France’s border with Germany. |

| |A: Rhône |

|16. |In the upper right corner of this work, a man with a scythe is accompanied by an upside down female violinist who hangs from|

| |two upside down houses. If the woman were to fall, she would land on the nose of a green-faced man who is staring lovingly |

| |at a sheep. FTP name this surrealist painting by Belarussian-born French artist Marc Chagall. |

| |A: I and the Village |

|17. |This leader, who was often prone to illness, was educated in Apollonia and gave the funeral eulogy for his grandmother Julia|

| |when he was twelve. The period of Roman history when he was in power was titled Pax Romana, a time when authors such as |

| |Virgil, Horace, and Catullus flourished. FTP, name the adopted son of Julius Caesar and the first emperor of the Roman |

| |Empire. |

| |A: Augustus Caesar, Octavian, or Gaius Octavius |

|18. |Pencil and paper ready. You have 3 resistors, and you hook them all up in parallel in a circuit. Two of the resistors have a|

| |resistance of 4 ohms. The cumulative resistance of the 3 resistors is 1 ohm, which is calculated by adding the reciprocals |

| |of each resistor and taking the reciprocal of the result. You want to find the resistance of the third resistor, which is |

| |unknown. FTP, calculate its resistance. You have ten seconds. |

| |A: 2 ohms |

|19. |Some opponents of free trade declare it invalid because of improvement in communication technology. It was initially |

| |described by Torrens in an essay on corn, but David Ricardo is often considered the originator. In Ricardo’s example, |

| |Portugal’s ease in creating excess wine is a driving factor for cloth trade with England. FTP name this economic concept |

| |about the relative cost of production of goods between countries. |

| |A: comparative advantage |

|20. |A dialogue named for them features a stranger from Elea who discusses the hunting of tame and wild animals. Romans |

| |practitioners included Libanius and Fronto, but Thrasymachus [thrah-SEEM-ah-kus], Antiphon, and Gorgias were better known. |

| |At his trial, Socrates was accused of being one, though he is generally regarded as their primary opponent. FTP name this |

| |group of Greek thinkers known for charging for their teachings. |

| |A: Sophists |

| | |

| | |

| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

| | |

| | |

|21. |Examples include kovar, cunife, and tophet. Austenite describes gamma iron ones, which includes such super varieties as |

| |Iconel. In the substitutional type, atoms of a similar size as the host metal atoms replace the original atoms. The other |

| |type, interstitial have smaller atoms fill holes in the metal structure which can lead to new properties, as seen in carbon |

| |iron combinations. Solder, pewter, and brass, FTP are what type of metallic mixtures that also include steel. |

| |A: Alloys |

|22. |The first and oldest section opens with a hymn to Agni [OG-nee], then Vayu, which David Frawley commented upon in his Wisdom|

| |of the Ancient Seers. The Atharva, collected by Sumanta, contains various chants, and the Yajur focuses on rituals and |

| |sacrifices. Their basic text is referred to as Samhita, while the Brahmanas and Upanishads are notable commentaries upon |

| |them. FTP names this group of four scriptures sacred to Hinduism, the first of which is the Rig. |

| | A: Vedas |

|23. |The Laylat al-Qadr, or Night of Power, which falls towards the end of it, is said to be better than 1000 nights, so millions|

| |pray through the whole night. The day after it ends, the Eid ul-Fitr or Festival of Breaking Fast is a day for families to |

| |worship together after fasting from dusk to dawn for a month. FTP name this ninth and holiest month of the Islamic |

| |calendar. |

| |A: Ramadan |

Quarterfinals Bonuses

|1. |FTPE, name these Russian composers. |

| |Renowned for his orchestration, his works include Scheherazade and the Tale of Tsar Saltan, which includes The Flight of the|

| |Bumblebee. |

| |A:  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |

| |This composer of the Leningrad Symphony and The Nose wrote his fifth Symphony, dubbed “a Soviet artist's reply to just |

| |criticism” in response to Stalin. |

| |A: Dmitri Shostakovich |

| |This composer who immigrated to the United States wrote works including Symphonic Dances and Vocalise. |

| |A: Sergei Rachmaninoff |

|2. |FTPE, given the description of a soccer team, name the country in which they play. |

| |Ranked the 20th Century’s Best Club, Real Madrid has won nine European championships and has a star studded line-up |

| |featuring David Beckham and Ronaldo, |

| |A: Spain |

| |Recently rocked by a match-fixing scandal, Juventus was relegated from Serie A to Serie B, and this caused many of its star |

| |players to move to teams elsewhere. |

| |A: Italy |

| |One of only three teams to win the European Cup, the European Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Cup, Ajax [Ah-yahx] has in recent|

| |times struggled to perform in international competition. |

| |A: The Netherlands, also accept Holland |

|3. |Name these events relating to the European colonization of Africa FTPE. |

| |During this conference called by Bismarck in 1884 and 1885, Europe divided Africa into colonies among themselves. |

| |A: Berlin Conference |

| |At the Congress of Berlin, this country led by Leopold II received control of the Congo. |

| |A: Belgium |

| |This incident, which occurred in 1898, was a dispute about the ownership of Egyptian Sudan between the French and the |

| |British. |

| |A: Fashoda Incident |

|4. |Identify these related people from 20th Century Vietnamese History FTPE. |

| |This communist Viet Minh leader lead North Vietnam during the first part Vietnam War. |

| |A:Ho Chi Minh (also accept Nguyen Sinh Cung) |

| |This leader of South Vietnam from the partition to his 1963 assassination was an anti-communist, but lost U.S. support after|

| |he suppressed a Buddhist protest. |

| |A:Ngo [NO] Dinh Diem (accept either) |

| |This last Vietnamese emperor offically appointed Ngo Dinh Diem as prime minister; however, he abdicated after Diem defeated |

| |him in an election. |

| |A:Bao Dai |

|5. |FTPE, name these works by African-American authors. |

| |Author of The Story of My Life and Work, this second autobiography was first published in 1901. It tells the story of the |

| |author’s growth from a slave to an educator and how he founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. |

| |Up From Slavery |

| |This book is the most well known work of W.E.B. Du Bois. It talks about racism, its progress, obstacles, and its |

| |possibilities for the future. |

| |The Souls of Black Folk |

| |This 1964 work by Martin Luther King, Jr. focused on wealth inequalities between blacks and whites. |

| |A: Why We Can’t Wait |

|6. |FTPE identify these diseases caused by parasites. |

| |Caused by the protozoan Plasmodium and carried by mosquitoes, this disease most prevalent in tropical regions was |

| |effectively controlled by quinine in the early twentieth century. |

| |A: Malaria |

| |Spread by the Tsetse fly, this disease caused by two types of Trypanosoma brucei can cause extreme fatigue, aching muscles, |

| |and eventually death. |

| |A: African Sleeping Sickness (Also except African Trypanosomiasis) |

| |Most prevalent in South America, this disease spread by Assassin Bugs can lie dormant for years. Darwin was thought to have |

| |contracted it during his travels. |

| |A: Chagas (Also accept American trypanosomiasis) |

|7. |FTPE, answer the following about the Hierarchy of Needs. |

| |This American Psychologist and Brandeis Chairman developed the Hierarchy of Needs. |

| |A: Abraham Maslow |

| |At this original top level of the pyramid, people move past deficit needs and can realize their potential. |

| |A: Self-Actualization or Growth Motivation |

| |Later, this level, sometimes denoted as the spiritual level, was added in which a person goes beyond their ego and helps |

| |others realize their potential. |

| |A: Self-Transcendence |

|8. |Answer the following about the Nile River, FTPE. |

| |This lake in the Great Rift Valley was found to be the source of the White Nile in the 1850s. |

| |A: Lake Victoria |

| |The Blue and White Niles converge in this African capital. |

| |A: Khartoum |

| |This lake, the largest in Ethiopia, is the source of the Blue Nile. |

| |A: Lake Tana |

|9. |In September 2006 a company hired private investigators to examine the phone records of journalists. Answer these related |

| |questions FTPE. |

| |Name this Silicon Valley company. |

| |A: Hewlett-Packard |

| |This chairwoman of the board of HP ordered the investigation. |

| |A: Patricia C. Dunn |

| |The phone records were acquired using this method, in which one steals information by posing as someone else. It has been |

| |prohibited by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. |

| |A: Pretexting |

|10. |Name these rivers that form parts of the border between the United States and Canada, FTPE. |

| |This 32-mile long river flows south from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie, past Windsor, Ontario and its namesake city, the |

| |largest in Michigan. |

| |A: Detroit |

| |The only other river on the U.S.-Canada border to flow through a U.S. city with over 200,000 residents, it contains one of |

| |the biggest tourist attractions of upstate New York. |

| |A: Niagara |

| |International Falls, Minnesota is located on this river, the main tributary of the Lake of the Woods. |

| |A: Rainy |

|11. |FTPE answer these questions about Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion. |

| |Kepler's first law states that planetary orbits of this shape. |

| |A: Ellipse or Elliptical |

| |Kepler's third law states that the square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to what of its average distance from |

| |the sun. |

| |A: Cubed or 3rd Power (also accept equivalents) |

| |Neither Kepler's laws nor those of Newton accurately describe the precession of the perihelion of this planet. It was not |

| |until general relativity that its orbit was explained. |

| |A: Mercury |

|12. |FTPE, Given a band, name its country of origin: |

| |Led Zeppelin |

| |A: United Kingdom(Accept equivalents like, England) |

| |U2 |

| |A: Ireland |

| |AC/DC |

| |A: Australia |

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|13. |FTPE, name these 1933 New Deal programs. |

| |This program was designed to reduce surplus by paying farmers not to plant and reduce crop area. This was done in the hopes |

| |of raising the value of crops. |

| |A: Agricultural Adjustment Act |

| |This program was installed to give young men construction jobs and help in the building of national parks, and was created |

| |during FDR’s first 100 days in office. |

| |A: Civilian Conservation Corps |

| |This program restored economic competition to the US, and existed until the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. It |

| |created the NRA. |

| |A: National Industrial Recovery Act |

|14. |FTPE answer the following about a certain event in Islamic history. |

| |A Revelation appeared to Muhammad to take flight from Mecca due to persecutors. Name the archangel who appeared to give this|

| |command from Allah. |

| |            A: Gabriel or Jibrail |

| |Give the name for that “Night of Flight,” which lasted for 26 days. It is the date from which the Islamic calendar begins. |

| |            A: Hegira or Hijrat |

| |Muhammad and his followers fled to this Saudi Arabian city, whose present day name is Medina. |

| |A: Yathrib [yuth-REEB] |

|15. |FTPE identify these C++ Keywords: |

| |This keyword used in loops causes statements to be executed if a condition evaluates to true. It is sometimes paired with |

| |Do. |

| |A: While |

| |This keyword used with Cases allows for checking many different possible values for a variable without using If statements. |

| |A: Switch |

| |This keyword dynamically allocates memory based on a variable type on the heap. |

| |A: New (Do not accept malloc) |

|16. |Name these straits located around the Indian Ocean, FTPE. |

| |The small island nation of Comoros is located in the northern part of this strait, which separates Madagascar from its |

| |namesake country. |

| |A: Mozambique Channel |

| |Krakatoa lies in the center of this strait between Java and Sumatra, which bears the same name as the two main archipelagoes|

| |of Indonesia. |

| |A: Sunda Strait |

| |Taking its name from the Arabic for “Gate of Tears,” this strategically vital strait between Djibouti and Yemen provides the|

| |southern outlet from the Red Sea. |

| |A: Bab-el-Mandeb |

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|17. |Name these mannerist painters FTPE: |

| |He was born with another name known as Dominikos Theotokópulos, and was one the most famous mannerists. A famous work of his|

| |might be The Burial of Count Orgaz. |

| |A: El Greco |

| |This oil on panel was painted church of Santa Maria dei Servi at Parma, and is one of Parmigianino’s great masterpieces. It |

| |features the Holy Virgin in an unnaturally elongated body. |

| |A: Madonna with the Long Neck |

| |He studied with Titian, and his greatest works include the paintings he did for Scuola di San Rocco. One of his early |

| |masterpieces is the Miracle of the Slave. |

| |A: Tintoretto |

|18. |FTPE answer the following about a Thomas Mann work: |

| |This novel details the German protagonist’s visit to a cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps |

| |A: The Magic Mountain |

| |A satirical link to The Magic Mountain, this novella describes Gustav’s attractions to the young boy Tadzio. |

| |A: Death in Venice |

| |This protagonist of The Magic Mountain who encounters is later drafted into World War One, and his death is suggested |

| |thereafter. |

| |A: Hans Castorp [COSS-tour] (accept either first or last name) |

|19. |Name these European museums, FTPE. |

| |This London museum has come under fire for its refusal to return the Elgin marbles and other artifacts to their countries of|

| |origin. |

| |A: British Museum |

| |This Florence museum is taking flak for its plans to renovate the historic interior which was built as a palace for Cosimo |

| |di Medici in 1580. |

| |A: Uffizi Gallery (or Galleria degli Uffizi) |

| |Constructed within an abandoned train station, this museum owns Manet’s Olympia and Renoir’s Dance at the Moulin [moo-LAN] |

| |de la Galette. |

| |A: Musée d'Orsay |

|20. |Identify these legal words that begin with the same letter FTPE. |

| |This is a formal statement that is written under oath. It is signed by the declarant, and witnessed by a taker of oaths. |

| |A: Affidavit |

| |This is the party who has lost a decision in a lower court, and has appealed to a higher court to have their case |

| |reconsidered. |

| |A: Appellant |

| |Going on Judge Judy would be an example of this, where two parties agree to abide by the decision of a third party. |

| |A: Arbitration (Accept forms of the word) |

|21. |FTPE identify these Tom Hanks movies: |

| |This 1994 film earned Hanks the Best Actor Award and it is about a low IQ man who fights in Vietnam and meets many |

| |remarkable people throughout his life. |

| |A: Forrest Gump |

| |This 2002 picture was inspired by the true story of teenage conman Frank Abagnale, Jr. Hanks plays FBI agent Carl Hanratty, |

| |who attempts to detain Abagnale. |

| |A: Catch Me If You Can |

| |The first film produced by Touchstone Pictures, Tom Hanks plays Allen Bauer, a man who is saved from drowning by a mermaid |

| |off the coast of Cape Cod. |

| |A: Splash |

Semifinals Tossups

|1. |John Staddon and Clark L. Hull are considered exponents of this school, which reacted against the introspective methods of |

| |Freud to advance scientific principles such as those found in Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Members of it were also |

| |responsible for the “Little Albert” experiment, which trained small children to fear fuzzy white objects. FTP, name this |

| |school of psychology, influenced by Ivan Pavlov and pioneered by John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner. |

| |A: Behaviorism |

|2. |Derived from a Sanskrit word meaning "to flow together," it is an integral part of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. In |

| |Hinduism, it is seen as avidya, or ignorance of one's true self, grounding one in desire. Mukti, moksha, and nirvana are all|

| |terms for liberation and release from this perpetual state. FTP, name this "wheel of suffering" that is the continuous cycle|

| |of life, death, and reincarnation. |

| |A: Samsara |

|3. |Real cases that are exothermic, such as ethanol in hexane show slight deviations from the ideal formulations of them. |

| |Benzene in toluene obeys them very well because the enthalpy of solution is zero, so Raoult's law can be used. In |

| |electrolyte solutions the van't Hoff factor is used because of dissociation. FTP identify these properties that include |

| |boiling point elevation, freezing point depression, and osmotic pressure which are dependent on the concentration of solute |

| |in a solution. |

| |A: Colligative Properties(Accept Raoult's law before mentioned) |

|4. |They were originally created during the reign of King George III by Smith & Company to relieve stomach problems. In the |

| |1800’s, they began to be produced by Callard & Bowser-Suchard in Bridgend, Wales and its most recent producer, Wrigley, has |

| |decided to move its manufacturing plant to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Available in spearmint, peppermint, wintergreen, and |

| |cinnamon, the company recently started producing sours and strips. FTP name this candy that comes in its characteristic tin |

| |can, advertised as “the original celebrated curiously strong mints.” |

| |A: Altoids |

|5. |A black dog in the foreground stands behind a reclining man smoking a pipe, and another smaller dog runs alongside a couple |

| |with a leashed monkey. The painting now resides in the Art Institute of Chicago, allowing observers to approach it more |

| |closely to learn that the artist used an array of colored dots to produce a calm setting on the Seine River. FTP name this |

| |pointillist work of George Seurat [soo-RAH], set on the title island. |

| |A: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (accept Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte) |

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|6. |His autobiography, Losing My Virginity, details his life from his early business ventures, including starting a Christmas |

| |tree business before he was fifteen, to his current standing in the world. He suffered from dyslexia, and because of this, |

| |he moved to London and began his first business, a record company in 1972. Eventually, this business did so well that he |

| |created an airline in 1984 and a mobile company in 1999 with the same name. FTP, name this founder of Virgin businesses, who|

| |also hosted the show The Rebel Billionaire. |

| |A: Richard Branson |

|7. |It inspired the film “The Man Who Wasn’t There”, as well as an identically titled song by Tuxedomoon. During a trial, the |

| |main character’s stoicism at his mother’s funeral is cited as a reason for his arrest. That trial is brought about by a |

| |knife fight where the pimp Raymond Sintes is wounded, prompting the title character, Mersault [mare-SO], to mercilessly kill|

| |an Arab, all in an Algerian setting very similar to the author’s own. FTP name this existentialist novel by Albert Camus. |

| |A: The Stranger |

|8. |Miss Van Campen, the hospital superintendent believes that the protagonist's jaundice is self-induced and therefore he is |

| |sent back to Gorizia. Soon after, the protagonist escapes and journeys first to Milan and then to Stresa where he reunites |

| |with Helen Ferguson and his lover, Catherine Barkley. FTP identify this novel whose protagonist is the ambulance driver |

| |Frederic Henry, written by Ernest Hemingway. |

| |A: A Farewell to Arms |

|9. |The only known photograph of the speaker at this location was taken 3 hours before he stated his now-quoted words. Nicolay, |

| |Hay, Everett, Bancroft, and Bliss are known to be handwritten versions by the speaker himself. Delivered at the dedication |

| |of the Soldier’s National Ceremony at its namesake town, FTP, name this Abraham Lincoln speech that starts with “ Four score|

| |and seven years ago…”. |

| |A: Gettysburg Address |

|10. |During their lifetime, they must perform sixteen Samkaras or rites. These include the Namakarana, Karnavedha, and |

| |Vedarambha, which are ceremonies for naming, ear piercing, and first study of the Vedas respectively. Although they form |

| |only a small portion of the population of India, they are often the most educated. Narasimha Rao and Jawaharlal Nehru both |

| |belong to this caste. FTP name this highest Hindu caste. |

| |A: Brahmin |

|11. |Figures with a similar story include Egil from Norse mythology, William Cloudsley from England, and Palnetoke from Denmark. |

| |When he refuses to bow to a pole with a hat on it, Hermann Gessler, the tyrannical leader of his canton, arrests him and he |

| |is forced to demonstrate his skill at archery. FTP name this man who is forced to shoot an apple off of his son’s head. |

| |A: William Tell |

|12. |The subjects of this work “talked continuously seventy hours” and “hiccupped endlessly.” The poet dedicated this work to a |

| |friend he met in a psychiatric hospital, though it is questionable whether that friend, Carl Solomon, is incorporated in the|

| |poem’s opening line, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” FTP name this Beat poem by Allen |

| |Ginsburg. |

| |A: Howl |

|13. |The American ones include Anacapa and San Clemente, and comprise a national park created in 1980, while the European ones |

| |are organized into bailiwicks and include Herm and Alderney. Avalon on Santa Catalina in the American ones is connected by |

| |ferry to Long Beach, while Sark and Jersey have long been sources of Anglo-French conflict. FTP, identify the name given to |

| |these two archipelagoes- one of the coast of California, the other between England and France. |

| |A: Channel Islands |

|14. |When Sergei Koznyshev's[KOZ-ne-shev] book does not do well, he and several other characters go to Serbia to help free Slavic|

| |people from Turkish rule. Sergei is the half brother of Levin, who ends up marrying Dolly's sister Kitty. Dolly and Stiva's |

| |relationship problems force the protagonist to come to Moscow and mediate, where, at the train station, she meets her lover,|

| |Vronsky. FTP identify this novel by Leo Tolstoy whose title character throws herself under a train. |

| |A: Anna Karenina |

|15. |Article 41 of the Convention that defines it makes an exception in “grave” situations whose definition and a course of |

| |action is up “to a decision by the competent judicial authority.” That convention, the 1961 Vienna Convention makes no |

| |arrangements for members of international organizations. In the United States, while traffic citations are not considered |

| |covered by it, the state department does not always allow for the proceedings to take place. FTP identify this inviolability|

| |of consular officers which can give ambassadors a get out of jail free card. |

| |A: Diplomatic Immunity(Prompt on Immunity) |

|16. |Its namesake frequency is equal to q b divided by 2 pi m, and can be found by combining and rearranging the formulas for |

| |centripetal acceleration and for the force exerted on a moving charge in a magnetic field. This is relevant because the |

| |device works by applying a magnetic field on ions traveling through two D shaped components, which cause ions to accelerate |

| |because of applied voltage. FTP identify this particle accelerator which, as the name implies, causes ions to move in |

| |circular paths. |

| |A: Cyclotron |

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|17. |Rediscovered by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812, it was abandoned partially because of a series of earthquakes from 363 to |

| |551 A.D. Although inhabited at different periods by Endomites and Israelites, Nabataeans made the city their capital, |

| |installing the famous hydraulic systems and building the treasury which was later featured in Indiana Jones and the Last |

| |Crusade. FTP identify this archaeological site whose name means “rock,” located in Jordan. |

| |A: Petra |

|18. |Pencil and paper ready. Jason the math genius is called a second class jerk at school. He interprets this as meaning his |

| |jerk is constant at 2. Since he was sitting down when he was insulted, he assumes his initial acceleration, initial |

| |velocity, and initial position are all 0. He wants to find the function of his position in terms of time t. Given that jerk |

| |is the third derivative of position and the first derivative of acceleration, FTP, give Jason's position function in terms |

| |of time t. You have ten seconds. |

| | A: t^3/3 (Read: t cubed over three or t cubed divided by three) |

| |(accept another letter in place of t before t is read in the question) |

|19. |They were descendants of the Quraysh[KOR-asche] tribe and were divided into Sufyanid and Marwanids. The latter came into |

| |power after a civil war resulting from the death of Yazid[YUH-zeed] I, the son of Mu'awiyah, the dynasty's first Caliph who |

| |made his capital at Damascus. Other leaders included 'Abd ar-Rahman the First who reestablished the dynasty at Cordoba after|

| |the 'Abbasids took power. FTP identify this Muslim dynasty who took power after the death of the third Caliph, 'Uthman. |

| |A: Umayyad (Omayyad) Dynasty |

|20. |California sea lions are the only mammals that do not make it. In humans, the enzyme to break it down is created from a gene|

| |located on chromosome 2, whose presence in adults is a dominant trait in most northern Europeans. However a better known |

| |method of its breakdown is an inducible operon found in E. coli, which converts it into glucose and galactose. FTP identify |

| |this disaccharide whose presence in milk can cause problems for those who are intolerant of it. |

| |A: Lactose (prompt on Lac)(accept Lactase before “down” |

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| |STOP HERE |

| |You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless a question was thrown out or the game is tied. |

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|21. |The highest point in this chain is Zard Kuh in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari provinces, though it continues south as far as |

| |Kerman and Fars provinces. The second highest mountain range in the country after the Elburz, it contains the city of Shiraz|

| |and the ruins of Persepolis, and proved to be an insurmountable obstacle for Iraqi troops in the 1980s. FTP, name this |

| |prominent mountain range of western Iran. |

| |A: Zagros |

|22. |They include the New Century Project, The Club For Growth, and there is one decidicated to the truth behind UFO's. The |

| |largest by receipts is EMILY's List, which is of the nonconnected variety. An example of the other type, separate segregated|

| |funds, is Walmart Stores for Responsible Government and John McCain has one called Straight Talk America. The NRA's |

| |Political Victory Fund and are FTP what type of groups that attempt to support their agenda by attempting to |

| |elect or defeat government officials. |

| |A: Political Action Committee(prompt on 527) |

|23. |Born to Holocaust survivors, this Long-Islander was brought up as a Roman Catholic and got his start in bands like the |

| |Hassels and Attila. He soon turned to what is now his signature style when signed by Columbia Records, and The Stranger, |

| |his 1977 Grammy winning album, became the best selling album for Columbia. FTP, name this singer and pianist known for |

| |Piano Man and his failed marriage with Christie Brinkley. |

| |A: William Martin “Billy” Joel |

Semifinals Bonuses

|1. |FTPE, identify these things about the paradoxes of Zeno. |

| |This paradox uses the example that when the eponymous object is in flight, it is always at rest given one instant. Thus the |

| |object is always at rest, and motion in impossible. |

| |A: Arrow or Fletcher’s Paradox |

| |When these two beings race, the slower is allowed a head start and has moved further by the time the faster runner covers |

| |the same distance. This occurs infinitely so that the faster runner never overtakes the slower. |

| |A: Achilles and the Tortoise (also accept obvious equivalents like turtle) |

| |Zeno claimed that motion was one of these, in which an infinite number of steps occur within a finite span of time. An |

| |example would include Thomson’s Lamp. |

| |A: Supertasks |

|2. |FTPE, identify these important elements in a recent political scandal. |

| |This assistant managing editor of the Washington Post helped uncover the Watergate scandal and has since written twelve |

| |best-selling political books of criticism. |

| |A: Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward |

| |According to Woodward, this Chief-of-Staff under George W. Bush announced his resignation on March 28, 2006 after failing to|

| |get Donald Rumsfeld dismissed. |

| |A: Andrew “Andy” Card |

| |Woodward’s aforesaid statement is found in this latest book in the “Bush at War” trilogy. |

| |A: State of Denial: Bush at War Part III |

|3. |FTPE identify these terms from electrochemistry: |

| |These are devices in which a spontaneous redox reaction produces a current, which can be used to do work. |

| |A: Galvanic Cell (accept Voltaic Cell or Electrochemical Cell, prompt on Battery) |

| |This is the component of the galvanic cell that connects the two parts of the cell allowing for ions to travel across while |

| |keeping the reactions separate. Two different answers are acceptable. |

| |A: Salt Bridge (accept Porous Disk) |

| |This is the process of coating an electrically conductive object with metal by utilizing an electric current. |

| |A: Electroplating (prompt on electrodeposition) |

|4. |FTPE, state how many real roots each of the following quadratic equations has. You do not need to find the roots: |

| |y = x2 – 4 |

| |A: two |

| |y = x2 + x + 9 |

| |A: zero |

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| |y = 5x2 + 6x + 1 |

| |A: two |

|5. |FTPE, name these European mountain ranges. |

| |Bounded on the north by the Po Valley, this range runs down the length of the Italian Peninsula. |

| |A: Apennines |

| |Sometimes called the “backbone of England,” this group of low hills includes the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, and |

| |Northumberland National Parks. |

| |A: Pennines |

| |This southern extension of the Balkan Mountains occupies much of Mainland Greece. |

| |A: Pindus |

|6. |Name these Poet Laureates of England: |

| |Often regarded as the chief representative of Victorian era poetry, this poet’s most famous poem collections include In |

| |Memoriam, Poems, and Maud and Other Poems |

| |A: Lord Alfred Tennyson |

| |This poet, who was known for launching English Romantic Movement with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published The Prelude, and |

| |The Excursion. |

| |A: William Wordsworth |

| |This poet, who wedded the American poet Sylvia Plath, was famous for publications such as Remains of Elmet, Under the North |

| |Star, and The Hawk in the Rain. |

| |A: Ted Hughes |

|7. |Identify these separatist republics in Europe, FTPE. |

| |This region of northern Spain has a long tradition of nationalist sentiment, today identified mainly with the militant |

| |separatist group ETA. |

| |A: Basque country |

| |This area within former Yugoslavia has its capital at Pristina and has de facto independence under UN administration, though|

| |it is still considered a part of Serbia. |

| |A: Kosovo |

| |This region of Moldova remains occupied by Russian troops and declared its independence in 1991; as its name suggests, it is|

| |located on the far side of the Moldova’s major river. |

| |A: Transdnistria |

|8. |FTPE identify the following about an Italian artist: |

| |He is known for his Arena Chapel cycle and for his work at the St. Francis Basilica in Assisi. |

| |A: Giotto di Bondone |

| |This Giotto fresco, found in the Arena Chapel, follows Crucifixion in the cycle. It depicts Mary holding the body of Jesus |

| |as angels mourn overhead. |

| |A: Lamentation |

| |When Pope Benedict XI asked for a sample of Giotto’s work in the hope of employing him, the artist used red paint and a |

| |flick of the wrist to quickly create a painting generally called this. |

| |A: Giotto’s ‘O’ |

|9. |FTPE, identify these animated films from 2006. |

| |Premiering at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, this Pixar production is set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphized |

| |automobiles. |

| |A: Cars |

| |A sequel to the 2002 hit film, it was produced by Blue Sky Studios and features Manfred the Mammoth, Sid the Hapalops, Diego|

| |the Smilodon, and Scrat. |

| |A: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (do not accept “Ice Age”; prompt on |

| |“The Meltdown”) |

| |This film is about RJ befriending a group of woodlanders and introducing them to suburbia, with an ulterior motive of |

| |helping him replenish the food supply he stole from a bear. |

| |A: Over the Hedge |

|10. |Identify these biological terms FTPE. |

| |This condition is characterized by uncontrolled cellular division, often invading into other tissues and causing the growth |

| |of tumors. |

| |A: Cancer |

| |This cellular response, which may have evolved to prevent the onset and spread of cancer, occurs when the cell becomes |

| |dormant and can no longer replicate. |

| |A: Senescence |

| |This process is often known as programmed cellular death. In cancerous tumors, this process is suppressed to allow cells to |

| |divide without restraint. |

| |A: Apoptosis |

|11. |In Hamlet, Horatio states, “Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, the extravagant and erring spirit lies to his confine.”|

| |FTPE name the elemental philosopher. |

| |A resident of Miletus, this man often called the “Father of Science” believed everything originated from water. |

| |A: Thales |

| |Also from Miletus, this 6th century philosopher claimed everything was composed of varying densities of air. |

| |A: Anaximenes |

| |This originator of elemental theory was also one of the first to claim that light moves at a finite but large speed. He is |

| |said to have died by falling into Mount Etna. |

| |A: Anacomenes Empedocles |

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|12. |FTPE, name these civilizations of the Americas. |

| |This brilliant civilization lived in the Yucatan peninsula and developed a complex hieroglyphic script that has still not |

| |been deciphered. Tikal and Chichen Itza are their most famous sites. |

| |A: Mayans |

| |Though they disappeared around 300 B.C., they were the earliest civilization of Central America and known for their building|

| |of massive stone heads. |

| |A: Olmecs |

| |They lived in Mexico in the current state of Oaxaca and their city, Monte Albán, was the first major city of the Western |

| |Hemisphere. |

| |A: Zapotecs |

|13. |Name these characters from Phantom of the Opera by their lines FTPE. |

| |"The Phantom of the Opera is here/inside my mind." |

| |A: Christine |

| |“Christine, Christine, don't think that I don't care/ But every hope and every prayer rests on you now.” |

| |A: Raoul |

| |"Your part is silent, little toad." |

| |A: la Carlotta |

|14. |FTPE, name these things associated with a movement in philosophy. |

| |This philosophical movement began in Germany during the mid-1890s, and is sometimes used to encourage the relationship |

| |between social life and the state of consciousness in a person. |

| |A: Phenomenology |

| |He was the German mathematician who first developed phenomenology in the mid-1890s. |

| |A: Edmund Husserl |

| |This German philosopher had a different view of phenomenology than that of Husserl. Some of his works include The |

| |Phenomenology of Mind and The Science of Logic. |

| |A: G.W.F. Hegel |

|15. |FTPE identify these things related to the United States and tariffs. |

| |This 1828 tariff angered members of the South, where, in South Carolina, Calhoun attempted to nullify it and wrote the South|

| |Carolina Exposition and Protest in response. |

| |A: Tariff of Abominations |

| |This tariff act signed by Hoover in 1930 raised rates to near or at record levels on many imported products particularly |

| |agricultural products. |

| |A: Hawley-Smoot Tariff (Accept Smoot-Hawley) |

| |This tariff began in the House in 1909, hoping to lower tariffs on certain goods entering the United States. However, when |

| |passed in 1912, it ended up raising tariffs and caused the Republican Party to split. |

| |A: Payne-Aldrich Tariff |

|16. |FTPE, name these geographical features of Northeast Asia that all begin with the same letter. |

| |This landmass, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Yellow Sea, is divided into two separate states along the 38th |

| |parallel. |

| |A: Korea |

| |This large peninsula of the extreme eastern part of Russia is known for its volcanic activity and is home to the city of |

| |Petropavlovsk. |

| |A: Kamchatka |

| |Extending southwest from the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, these disputed islands separate the Sea of Okhotsk |

| |from the Pacific Ocean. |

| |A: Kuril |

|17. |Name the following facts about Monet |

| |This painting of the landscape of Le Havre inspired Louis Leroy to coin the name for the art movement Monet belonged to. |

| |A: Impression, Sunrise |

| |Name this familiar motif Monet often painted, which was an essential part of the garden he built in 1893. |

| |A: Water Lilies |

| |In 1883, Monet moved into this town, where he built his studio; this town was also his resting place, a national monument of|

| |France. |

| |A: Giverny |

|18. |FTPE identify this American Dramatists from works: |

| |All My Sons, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman |

| |A: Arthur Miller |

| |The Emperor Jones, Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night |

| |A: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill |

| |The Odd Couple, Lost in Yonkers, Biloxi Blues |

| |A: Neil Marvin Simon |

|19. |Identify these people who did not accept their noble prize FTPE: |

| |This author of My Sister Life and Doctor Zhivago rejected his 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature because of “the meaning this |

| |award has been given in the society to which I belong”. |

| |A:Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |

| |This author of Nausea and Being and Nothingness refused his 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature saying, “A writer must refuse to |

| |allow himself to be transformed into an institution”. |

| |A: Jean-Paul Sartre |

| |This author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich refused the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature because of his fear that he|

| |would not be allowed back into the Soviet Union. |

| |A: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |

|20. |FTPE name these mystic religions that Tom Cruise isn’t a part of. |

| |This mystical and ascetic Islamic group associates itself with both Shi’a and Sunni and is known for its Whirling Dervishes.|

| |A: Sufism |

| |Derived from the Hebrew word for “receiving”, this form of Jewish mysticism attempts to reveal hidden insights into the |

| |Tanakh. |

| |A: Kabbalah |

| |Prominent in 2nd century Greco-Roman society, this group believed the only way to heaven was to attain esoteric knowledge, |

| |and that the world was evil and an illusion by Yahweh. |

| |A: Gnosticism |

|21. |FTPE, answer the following questions about a certain time era. |

| |Coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, this term refers to the era which saw robber barons and captains of industry|

| |come to power. |

| |A: Gilded Age |

| |This scandal involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the construction company whose name was given to the scandal, which |

| |received 21 million dollars of profit, while leaving other companies bankrupt. |

| |A: Crédit Mobilier |

| |The nineteenth president, he defeated Samuel Tilden in 1876, as a result of the Compromise of 1877, and simultaneously |

| |brought an end to Reconstruction. |

| |A: Rutherford B. Hayes |

Finals Tossups

|1. |This group’s use of the letter P in pseudonyms when signing letters has caused Unionists to question if the P stands for |

| |Pinocchio O’Neill. In November 1920, this group, with the prompting of Michael Collins, killed 14 British Agents on the day |

| |dubbed Bloody Sunday, and has become increasingly terrorist-like following the Good Friday Agreement. FTP name this military|

| |force founded by Dail Eireann and centered near Dublin. |

| |A: Irish Republican Army (Accept Provisional IRA) |

|2. |This river, which cuts through the Saddle Mountains near Wanapum Dam, passes along the western edge of Mount Revelstoke |

| |National Park before receiving tributaries like the Okanogan, Pend Oreille [or-AY], and Yakima rivers. An enormous volume of|

| |water passes through its mouth, near which John Jacob Astor founded the town of Astoria and Lewis and Clark built Fort |

| |Clatsop on the Oregon side near Portland. FTP, name this river of the Pacific Northwest. |

| |A: Columbia River |

|3. |It staged a small comeback in the early 1950s with Carmine deSapio, but was blocked by Eleanor Roosevelt who established her|

| |state’s Committee for Democratic voters. Earlier, Franklin Roosevelt had opposed it by helping Fiorello LaGuardia become |

| |mayor, thereby stripping more power from its often Irish boss. FTP name this New York City political machine led notoriously|

| |by Boss Tweed. |

| |A: Tammany Hall |

|4. |Early versions of it can be found in the works of Theognis and Aristophanes. However, it was H. D. Macleod who associated it|

| |with its namesake, Elizabethan Banker, in 1858. This principle comes into play when explaining, among other things, U.S. |

| |bimetallism ratios in the 1800's. However, in order for it to hold true, both currencies must be able to exchange at the |

| |same price. FTP identify this law which is often incompletely stated as “bad money drives out good money.” |

| |A: Gresham's Law |

|5. |Critics predicted “No girls, no gags, no chance.” Ironically, it broke the record for longest run in London’s Drury Lane |

| |Theatre, and ran over two thousand performances on Broadway. Based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs, it was originally |

| |entitled Away We Go. A “dream ballet” at the end of its first act chronicles the struggle of Laurey to choose between Jud |

| |and Curly. FTP name this Rodgers and Hammerstein work whose theme became the state song of “The Sooner State.” |

| |A: Oklahoma! |

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|6. |The best-known image of her is a portrait bust held at Berlin’s Altes Museum which is characterized by its classic beauty |

| |and missing pupil. Her name translates to “the beauty that has come”, and some say she was the daughter of Ay, a high |

| |government official. She supported her husband and his adherence to the new religious cult that worshiped the sun god Aton,|

| |and Joann Fletcher may have found her missing mummy in the Valley of the Kings. FTP name this queen of Egypt and wife of |

| |Akhenaten, perhaps a ruler in her own right after her husband’s death. |

| |A: Nefertiti |

|7. |Popular tourist destinations along it include Emerald Mound and the Brices Crossroads and Tupelo battlefields. Official |

| |construction began in 1939, though the path had long been used as a route for Indians, trappers, and settlers that connected|

| |Nashville to the Delta region and as avenue for the “Trail of Tears,” which removed many of the Choctaw and Chickasaw living|

| |in the Mississippi area. FTP, name this scenic highway, named for the town in southwest Mississippi where it terminates. |

| |A: Natchez Trace Parkway |

|8. |When its common name precedes Chimera, it gives the name of a chess computer that destroyed British grandmaster Michael |

| |Adams in a recent match. It isn’t Cerberus, but it guarded an entrance to the underworld that lay under the waters of lake |

| |Lerna, and its killer died much later by its venomous blood in a trick. FTP, name this victim of Heracles, an offspring of |

| |Typhon and Echidna with multiple heads. |

| |A: Hydra |

|9. |Moral failings in New England provided the basis for many of his novels, including Couples, Villages, and The Witches of |

| |Eastwick while his youth in Shillington, Pennsylvania supplied an alter-ego, Henry Bech. However, he won Pulitzer Prizes in |

| |1982 and 1991 for two novels about a restless middle-class title character who is, among other things, “rich”, “at rest”, |

| |and “remembered”. FTP name this American author, who wrote about Harry Angstrom in Rabbit, Run. |

| |A: John Updike |

|10. |The time difference in replication of its heavy and light strands forms D loops. Since D loops have very high rates of |

| |mutation, it can be used for short term evolutionary studies. Other mutations among its 37 genes can cause Leber's disease, |

| |and compounding the issue is that all the genetic information comes from one source, the mother. FTP identify this genome, |

| |found in a namesake organelle involved with respiration. |

| |A: Mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) (Accept Chloroplast DNA or Plastid DNA before “37” is mentioned) |

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|11. |The first stage of the Yellowstone Project, it intends to replace a good part of its company's lineup. Featuring |

| |technologies from the canceled Sonic Cruiser, it has LED interior lighting, a composite body, and bleedless turbofans. The |

| |fuselages are to be shipped from Wichita to the assembly plant in Renton, Washington where it will prepare for such |

| |customers as Continental and Northwest Airlines. FTP identify this newest Boeing airplane nicknamed the “dreamliner.” |

| |A: Boeing 787 Dreamliner |

|12. |In the Arthur Porges [POUR-jes] short story, “The Devil and Simon Flagg”, Simon makes a deal with the Devil regarding this |

| |construct that Ken Ribet connected to elliptic curves and the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture. When originally published, |

| |the author said the margin was too small to contain his beautiful proof, though Andrew Wiles eventually proved it. FTP name |

| |this mathematical theorem, which states that a power higher than the second cannot be separated into two like powers. |

| |A: Fermat’s Last Theorem |

|13. |Its highest award, the Hubbard Medal is named after its first president, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who was the father-in-law |

| |of Alexander Graham Bell. Recipients of the award have included Jane Goodall, Neil Armstrong, Charles Lindbergh, Richard |

| |Byrd, and Roald Amundsen. Today it is better known its for its media properties such as Adventure Magazine, a namesake |

| |television channel, and its own namesake magazine. FTP identify this world's largest non-profit educational and scientific |

| |organization whose goals include diffusing geographic knowledge. |

| |A: National Geographic Society |

|14. |Since strong field ones cause electron pairing before electrons are in all d orbitals, the structure is diamagnetic. |

| |Macrocyclic ones can form the most stable structures while polydentate ones such as EDTA can form more than two bonds. Since|

| |EDTA can form structures with many ions, it can remove heavy metals from the body by acting as a chelate [KEE-late]. FTP |

| |identify these ions or molecules that use a lone pair of electrons to form a bond to a central metal ion. |

| |A: Ligand |

|15. |Years before the events of the story, the protagonist lost a swimming contest with Breca. However, as the protagonist is |

| |quick to tell Unferth, he wore body armor and killed nine sea monsters during the race. This is not idle boasting, as he |

| |defeats the “the spawn of Cain”, his mother, and a dragon before the end of the epic. FTP, name this title Geat of an Old |

| |English epic who kills Grendel. |

| |A: Beowulf |

|16. |After being appointed ambassador to France and later India, he wrote The Grammarian Monkey and East Slope. However he |

| |resigned his position in response to the Tlatelolco massacre during the 1968 Olympics. He is known for writing the Sunstone |

| |and he won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. FTP identify this Mexican author and poet best known for The Labyrinth of |

| |Solitude. |

| |A: Octavio Paz |

|17. |Pencil and paper ready. You have four real numbers. The geometric mean of the first and the second is 6. The geometric mean |

| |of the second and the third is 8. The geometric mean of the third and the fourth is 12. Remembering the geometric mean of |

| |two numbers is the square root of their product, then FTP, what is the geometric mean of the first and the fourth of the |

| |numbers? You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 9 |

|18. |He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a living person at 45, and jokes that he also holds the record |

| |for most Academy Award losses. His first work was for TV shows like The Time Tunnel and Lost in Space, but he later went on |

| |to form a prolific musical partnership with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. FTP, identify this composer known for scores |

| |to films like Schindler’s List, Star Wars, and Jaws. |

| |A: John Williams |

|19. |Many writers spoke of his love for a boy named Pantarkes, who was marked in some of his works. In 1958 the workshop in which|

| |he created one of his works, a wonder of the ancient world, was found, leading to the widespread learning of his methods. |

| |His first works were in honor of the battle of Marathon, and he later created bronze statues of Apollo and Athena at Delphi.|

| |FTP, name this ancient Greek sculptor who designed the temple of Athena on the acropolis and created the Statue of Zeus. |

| |A: Phidias |

|20. |The wreck of the S.S. Thistlegorn and Ras Mohammed National Park are located in the northern part of it, while the Dahlak |

| |Archipelago can be found closer to the Bab al Mandeb. Ethiopia lost access to it when Eritrea became independent, and the |

| |ports of Jiddah, Aqaba, and Port Sudan became increasingly important once the Suez Canal linked it to the Mediterranean. |

| |FTP, name this body of water that separates the Arabian Peninsula from Africa. |

| |A: Red Sea |

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|21. |Pining Wind, The Feather Mantle, and The Well Cradle are all examples of works in this style. Although dubbed “opera,” |

| |singing is usually limited in both tonal and dynamic range. Developed in the 14th century by Kannami and his son Zeami |

| |[zee-AHM-ee], primary actors are known as shite [SHEE-teh] and are usually the only ones to wear masks. FTP, name this type |

| |of classical Japanese play distinguished for its understated style and use of elaborate costumes. |

| |A: Noh |

|22. |Usually taking place eighteen days after Dusshera, to Sikhs it commemorates the laying of the cornerstone of the Golden |

| |Temple. For Jains, it marks the beginning of the year in the Jain calendar. Hindus celebrate it for the return of Rama from |

| |a war with the demon Ravana. It takes place over five days and in the Gregorian calendar falls in October or November. FTP, |

| |name this festival of lights. |

| |A: Diwali or Divali |

Finals Bonuses

|1. |Answer these questions about islands off of North Scotland FTPE. |

| |Located 130 miles north of the Scottish mainland, their largest island is Scalloway, and their largest city is Lerwick. |

| |A: Shetland Islands |

| |Located between Iceland and the Shetland Islands, the self-governed region of Denmark has its capital at Tórshavn. |

| |A: Faeroe Islands |

| |Lying 20 miles off of Scotland, this group of more than 70 islands contains many ruins left by Neolithic inhabitants and |

| |Kirkwall’s cathedral. |

| |A: Orkney Islands |

|2. |Identify these science fiction authors who wrote about the moon FTPE. |

| |This man's From the Earth to the Moon tells of the voyage of three men to the moon via a cannon. |

| |A: Jules Verne |

| |This man's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress describes a libertarian uprising on the moon and popularized the phrase "There ain't|

| |no such thing as a free lunch". |

| |A: Robert Anson Heinlein |

| |This man's short story “The Sentinel” tells of an alien structure on the moon that transmits signals far away. |

| |A: Arthur C. Clarke |

|3. |FTPE, identify these terms relating to the Supreme Court of the United States. |

| |These people provide assistance to judges in researching issues before the court and help write the court’s opinions. They |

| |are often the nation’s top law students. |

| |A: Law Clerks |

| |These are legal briefs submitted by “friends of the court” for the purpose of raising additional points of view. They |

| |attempt to influence a court’s decision. |

| |A: Amicus Curiae Brief |

| |This Latin phrase means “let the decision of the court stand,” and is often used to settle cases in appellate courts. |

| |A: Stare Decisis |

|4. |FTPE, identify these disputed Asian islands. |

| |This South Asian island has long been contested between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil rebels. |

| |A: Sri Lanka |

| |This historically Greek Mediterranean island has been partitioned since a 1974 Turkish invasion established a separate |

| |political entity in its northern section. |

| |A: Cyprus |

| |This tiny, oil-rich archipelago in the South China Sea is claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and |

| |Brunei. |

| |A: Spratly Islands |

|5. |FTPE, answer these questions about a religion. |

| |Practiced widely in the Caribbean and Africa, it formed from Central African and American Indians’ customs. To outsiders, it|

| |may be known for symbolic dolls. |

| |A: Voodoo (also accept Vodou or Vodon) |

| |Usually depicted as the god of the dead in Voodoo, he is usually depicted as a skeleton wearing a top hat and tuxedo. |

| |A: Baron Samedi (also accept Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi, or Bawon Sanmdi) |

| |Because slaves wanted to hide their religion from their owners, this term for a pantheon of Voodoo spirits was likened to |

| |the Christian saints. |

| |A: Loa |

|6. |Given the name of a business school, name the university with which it is associated. |

| |Wharton |

| |A: University of Pennsylvania (prompt on UPenn) |

| |Sloan School of Management |

| |A: Massachusetts Institute of Technology |

| |Kellogg School of Management |

| |A: Northwestern University |

|7. |Identify these related economic terms FTPE. |

| |This theory is associated with the idea that decreasing tax rates open more capital for investment and therefore increase |

| |economic output. |

| |A: supply-side economics (prompt on trickle-down, and Reaganomics) |

| |This curve proposed by its namesake economist shows the relationship between tax rates and tax revenue. |

| |A: Laffer Curve |

| |Supply-side economics was influenced by this law that can be stated as “supply creates its own demand”. |

| |A: Say's Law |

|8. |FTPE, answer these questions related to the recent poisoning of an exiled Russian dissident. |

| |This former KGB agent and outspoken critic of the Kremlin accused Vladimir Putin of sanctioning his murder before his death |

| |on November 23, 2006. |

| |            A: Alexander Litvinenko |

| |Traces of this heavy metal, believed to the cause of Litvinenko’s death, were found in the London sushi restaurant visited |

| |by the former spy. |

| |            A: Polonium 210 |

| |This former Russian Prime Minister and noted economist fell ill at a conference in Ireland just days after Litvinenko’s |

| |death, prompting suspicions of a related poisoning. |

| |A: Yegor Gaidar |

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|9. |FTPE, identify the following having to do with Australian geography. |

| |This island named for a Dutch explorer is separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait and has its capital at Hobart. |

| |A: Tasmania |

| |From its headwaters on the Victoria-New South Wales border, this river and its tributary the Darling comprise Australia’s |

| |longest river system. |

| |A: Murray |

| |This system of aquifers in Australia’s interior covers much of Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia, and New |

| |South Wales. |

| |A: Great Artesian Basin |

|10. |Name the following deified Roman leaders FTPE. |

| |This first and almost mythological king of Rome was deified as Quirinus. |

| |A: Romulus |

| |This popular deified Roman leader’s temple sits right in the entrance to the Forum Romanum. |

| |     A: Julius Caesar |

| |Never actually deified by the Senate, this Roman emperor declared his divinity during life. He proclaimed mastery of the |

| |sea, challenging Neptune, by building and crossing a long bridge across the Bay of Naples. |

| |A: Caligula |

|11. |Pencil and paper ready. FTPE, give the 10th term of each of these sequences. |

| |The Fibonacci series, starting with 1 as the first and second term, or the triangular numbers. You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 55 (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 or 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, |

| |28, 36, 45, 55) |

| |The prime numbers. You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 29 (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29) |

| |The powers of 2, with 2 as the first term. You have 10 seconds. |

| |A: 1024 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024) |

|12. |Name the insect orders FTPE. |

| |This second largest order of insecta includes skippers, moths, and butterflies. |

| |A: Lepidoptera |

| |The name of this order derives from the Greek for “membrane” because of characteristic wings. Members in this order include|

| |wasps, bees, and ants. |

| |A: Hymenoptera |

| |The name of this order comes from the Greek for “two wings” and includes flies mosquitoes, and gnats. |

| |A: Diptera (do not accept Dioptera) |

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|13. |FTPE identify these things related to the newest James Bond Movie. |

| |This is the newest installment of James Bond, which is based on the first Bond novel by Ian Fleming. |

| |            A: Casino Royale |

| |This terrorist financier serves as the film’s villain and attempts to regain money he lost at Casino Royale. |

| |            A: Le Chiffre |

| |This character played by Eva Green serves as James Bond’s love interest but ends up betraying Bond. |

| |            A: Vesper Lynd |

|14. |Answer the following questions regarding a volcano eruption in Italy FTPE. |

| |Rediscovered in 1748, this ancient city in southern Italy was impeccably preserved due to the volcano ash it was covered in.|

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| |A: Pompeii |

| |Sitting above the Bay of Naples, this volcano was responsible for the eruption that buried Pompeii in 76 AD. |

| |A: Mount Vesuvius |

| |This Italian city resort, which became a Roman municipium in 89 BC was buried in the same eruption as Pompeii, Stabiae, and |

| |Torre Annunziata. |

| |A: Herculaneum |

|15. |Answer these questions regarding an intellectual movement in the 19th century FTPE. |

| |It included writers like Henry David Thoreau, and is focused on realizing the ideal spiritual state through one’s own |

| |intuitions and study. |

| |A: Transcendentalism |

| |Established by George Ripley, this establishment was an experiment of Transcendentalism, housing writers and journalists |

| |such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles A. Dana, and Ralph Emerson. |

| |A: Brook Farm |

| |Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this book detailed his disillusionment of the Brook Farm. |

| |A: The Blithesdale Romance |

|16. |FTPE, name these candidates from the election of 1860. |

| |This candidate was the 14th Vice President of the United States, and was the South’s Democratic Candidate. He finished in |

| |second place, losing to Lincoln. |

| |A: John Breckinridge |

| |Receiving the Constitutional Union Party nomination, a party composed of former Whigs and Know Nothing Party members, this |

| |man was a wealthy slaveholder from Tennessee who finished in third. |

| |A: John C. Bell |

| |The second Democratic nominee, representing the North, he received only 12 electoral votes, and split the state of New |

| |Jersey with Abraham Lincoln. |

| |A: Stephen Douglas |

|17. |For the stated number of points, identify these things related to Pluto. |

| |For ten points, this largest moon of Pluto was discovered in 1978. |

| |A: Charon |

| |For ten points, while working at the U.S. Naval Observatory, this man discovered Charon. |

| |A: James Christy |

| |In 2006, the two new moons of Pluto discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005 were given official names. For five |

| |points each, name them. |

| |A: Nix (Prompt on S/2005 P 2) and Hydra (Prompt on S/2005 P 1) |

|18. |Identify these Spanish composers FTPE. |

| |This composer of Iberia and Suite Española wrote mostly for piano and tried to capture the essence of Spanish folk music |

| |melodies. |

| |A: Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz |

| |This author of El Amor Brujo, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and L'Atlàntida was a good friend of Federico Lorca and fled |

| |to Argentina after the Spanish Civil War. |

| |A: Manuel de Falla [FAH-yah] |

| |Both Albéniz and de Falla studied under this composer of Los Pirineos who advocated a Spanish opera based on folk songs, as |

| |well as other nationalistic works. |

| |A: Felipe Pedrell |

|19. |FTPE identify these works of the Belgian Surrealist, René Magritte. |

| |This painting consists of a pipe and underneath it the phrase "This is not a pipe". |

| |A: The Treachery Of Images (accept La trahison des images) |

| |In this painting a mirror is on top of a fireplace, and a train is suspended in mid-air emerging from the back of the |

| |fireplace. |

| |A: Time Transfixed (accept La Durée Poignardée) |

| |This painting consists of men in dark clothes and bowler hats falling from the sky within an urban area. |

| |A: Golconda (accept Golconde) |

|20. |FTPE give these terms related to traditional Japanese entertainment. |

| |Today it most often refers to a female Japanese entertainer at a party, though originally the role was most often filled by |

| |males. In Japanese, their name means "person of the arts". |

| |A: Geisha |

| |While they are allowed to attend parties, these geishas-in-training are not expected to be as socially adept as geishas, and|

| |are recognized by their elaborate hairstyles and heavy makeup. |

| |A: Maiko |

| |Geisha in the Kansai area of Japan will go by this name instead, because of the need to distinguish themselves from the |

| |"Onsen Geisha" in the area, which are prostitutes. |

| |A: Geiko |

|21. |FTPE identify these figures involved in South American independence. |

| |On September 16, 1810 this priest issued the Grito de Dolores which became the Mexican cry for independence. He has since |

| |been called the Father of Mexican Independence. |

| |A:Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |

| |This president of Gran Colombia helped liberate the viceroyalty of New Granada and gained him the nickname “the Liberator.” |

| |A: Simón Bolivar |

| |This Argentine started off as a loyal Spanish officer, but later became a revolutionary. This man, along with O'Higgins, |

| |freed Chile, captured Lima and became the protector of Peru. |

| |A: José de San Martín |

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