Playoff Round 1



Playoff Round 1

1. Ironically, it was a man who committed suicide in the morning who wrote Death in the Afternoon. For a quick ten points name this man better known for works such as Islands in the Stream and The Old Man and the Sea.

Ernest Hemingway

Bonus: Identify the authors of the following works which begin with the word “death,” 10 points

each

Death in Venice Thomas Mann

Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather

Death and the King’s Horsemen Wole Soyinka

2. “What’s playin’ at the Roxy? I’ll tell you what’s playin’ at the Roxy.” So begins the title song of this work based on Damon Runyan’s The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown. For 10 points name this musical about two gamblers and their girlfriends.

Guys and Dolls

Bonus: Indentify the following from Guys and Dolls, 5 points each

The last name of Sarah’s suitor Masterson

Masterson’s nickname Sky

Sky Masterson’s real first name Obadiah

for 5 points each, the first and last name of the man who runs the craps game

Nathan Detroit

Nathan Detroit’s fiancee (1st name) Adelaide

3. While his poems were generally written in traditional and even slightly prosaic styles, their meanings were quite the opposite. For example, one of his poems, from 101 Poems, is a series of heroic couplets describing a young man’s conscription and death. For 10 points name this author of Tulips and Chimneys who was averse to using capital letters.

edward estlin cummings

Bonus: Many other authors have gone by a pair of initials instead of a first name. For 5 points

each given the author’s initials, tell us for what they stand

W.H. Auden Wystan Hugh

D.H. Lawrence David Herbert

T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns

A.E. Houseman Alfred Edward

T.H. White Terence Hanbury

C.S. Forrester Cecil Scott

4. He is best known for his paintings of large, quiet, urban scenes, often containing lonely and seemingly unhappy figures. Many of his other paintings, such as “Cape Cod Evening,” contain similar figures. For 10 points name this painter of “Nighthawks.”

Edward Hopper

Bonus: 30-20-10. Identify the artist from his works

30: “Banquet of the Officers of St. George”

20: “The Jolly Toper”

10: “Laughing Cavalier”

Franz Hals

5. This state was the first to ban slavery. Once again this year, the citizens of this state elected the only member of Congress who is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, Bernie Sanders, as their Representative. For ten points name this Green Mountain state.

Vermont

Bonus: The Green Mountains are a sub-range of the Appalachian Mountains. Given another

sub-range of the Appalachians, give a state in which it is located, 5 points each

Great Smokey Mountains Tennessee

Adirondack Mountains New York

White Mountains New Hampshire or Maine

Cumberland Mountains Tennesse or Kentucky

Blue Ridge Mountains North Carolina or Virginia

Allegheny Mountains West Virginia or Pennslyvania

6. “In the Halls of the Mountain King” is a minor work by this composer. His more famous works, based on the folk music of his nation, include the “Piano Concerto” and “The Holberg Suite.” For ten points name this composer who wrote the “Pier Gynt Suite.”

Edvard Grieg

Bonus: 30-20-10 Name the composer from the works

30: “La Belle Helene”

20: “Orpheus in the Underworld”

10: “Tales of Hoffman”

Jacques Offenbach

7. An ardent pacifist, she was the first president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Unsurprisingly, she was also a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, which she received in 1931. It was her efforts close to home that have given her lasting fame however, since she founded the first settlement house in the United States in 1889. For ten points name this social reformer who founded Hull House.

Jane Addams

Bonus: Identify the following Chicago women, 10 points each

This nun worked with the Italian immigrant community at the site of Chicago’s famous “Green”

housing project now name for her St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

This poet was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks

This owner of the Harpo Productions earns an estimated $88 million a year

Oprah Winfrey

8. He won the one mile run in the 1954 Commonwealth Games, against another man who had run a mile in under four minutes. This feat led Sports Illustrated to make him the first ever Sportsman of the Year. For ten points name this man who made history on May 6, 1954 by running a mile in 3 minutes and 59.3 seconds.

Roger Bannister

Bonus: For ten points each, given a baseball milestone, name the first man to achieve it

Four no-hitters Sandy Koufax

400 wins Denton True “Cy” Young

4,000 hits Ty Cobb

9. After initial success with writing science fiction, he moved on to writing about the lower middle class in Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly. After World War I he wrote popular books on academic subjects such as The Outline of History and The Science of Life. The latter is particularly intersting because his Island of Dr. Moreau deals with just that. For 10 points name this author of The Invisible Man.

Herbert George Wells

Bonus: While the island of Dr. Moreau made an apearance at the box office, so have a series of

movies based on Jane Austen books. For 10 points each, identify the Austen book-

turned movies from a brief plot synopsis.

The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, symbolize the two halves of the title

Sense and Sensibility

Austen’s last novel, it concludes with Anne marrying Captain Wentworth

Persuasion

Playing with matches, Miss Woodhouse, the title character, often gets burned

Emma

10. The 1996 Tony Award for Best Revival of Drama on Broadway went to his play, A Delicate Balance. The revival came only two years after his Three Tall Women won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. For ten points, name this author of the searing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Edward Albee

Bonus. Given a poem and a date, tell the poet, five points each with five more for all correct.

1919, "Cornhuskers" Carl Sandburg

1923, "A Few Figs From Thistles" Edna St. Vincent Millay

1929, "John Brown's Body" Stephen Vincent Benet

1945, "The Age of Anxiety" Wystan Hugh Auden

1928, "Tristram" Edwin Arlington Robinson

11. Pencil and paper ready. What is the 1996th derivative of sin(x)?

sin(x)

Bonus: Give the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd derivatives of tan(x), 10 points each

secant squared x

2 secant squared x tan x

4 secant squared x tan squared + 2 secant to the fourth x

12. Creon was both his uncle and brother-in-law. Iocaste was the grandmother and mother of his daughters. For 10 points name this man for whom Freud named a psychological complex.

Oedipus Rex

Bonus: Identify the following for 10 points each

the name of Oedipus’s father Laïos

the last two plays of the Oedipus cycle Oedipus at Colonos and

Antigone

13. Born Alice Rosenbaum, she emigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union. She criticized the collectivism of the latter in We the Living. Her later works criticized collectivism and extolled her philosophy of objectivism, one of them providing the literary world with Howard Roark, an individualistic architect modeled after Frank Lloyed Wright. For 10 points name this author of Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, and The Fountainhead.

Ayn Rand

Bonus: 30-20-10. Name the author from the clues about his work

30: He wrote the 11 World’s End novels centered on Lanny Budd

20: These included Dragon’s Teeth

10: He wrote The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

14. Seneca extolled it in his Moral Letters, and belief in it helps to explain Sececa’s reltionship to Nero. Epicurus, a slave, and Marcus Aurelius, an emporer, were also key philosohpers of this school. For 10 points name this school of philosophy which drew heavily on Cynicism and was founded by Xeno of Citium

Stoicism

Bonus: Horace, a Roman author, was a stoic. With that in mind, given a work, name these other

Roman authors for 10 points each

The Twelve Ceasars Suetonius

Ars Amatoria Ovid

Satyricon Patronius

15. His birth name was Leslie King, and he appeared on The Simpsons and became Homer’s friend. He was a Michigonian college football star and was the only president never elected to a national position higher than Representative. For 10 points name this man who changed his name after being adopted by his stepfather.

Gerald Ford

Bonus: Identify these other politicians who were famous for athletic exploits, 5-10-15

5: The 1996 Republican nominee for Vice President, a former football player Jack Kemp

10: A New York Knicks star, he is the retiring senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley

15: A wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, he is now a Representitive from Oklahoma

Steve Largent

16. It is the name for the planet Venus when Venus appears as the morning star. In the Bible it is used to refer to the boastful King of Babylon. However, it is best known because it was mis-translated to mean a “fallen angel.” For 10 points give this name for Satan.

Lucifer

Bonus: 30-20-10. Give the common name

30: In Revelation, it is a fallen star that makes 1/3 of the waters of the Earth bitter

20: In C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters it is the name of the apprentice devil

10: It is the last name of Calvin’s teacher in the Bill Watterson strip

Wormwood

17. His early works deal for the most part with the Jewish experience, including The Assistant and The Fixer. Like the former, his The Tenants is set in New York City, as is much of another of his books, on a different theme. That book is the story of Roy Hobbs, The Natural, which tells the story of Hobbs facing various challenges as he attempts to become “the best there ever was.” For 10 points name this author famous for his solitary and humble heros.

Bernard Malamud

Bonus: Malamud is far from the only author to focus a novel or a series of of novels about the

rise of a hero. For 10 points each given such a character, name the author by whom he or

she was created

Silas Lapham William Dean Howells

Harry “Rabitt” Angstrom John Updike

Michael Henchard Thomas Hardy

18. His early travelogues, such as Omoo and Typee, based on his experiences on whaling ships, were popular and critically well-received. However, his most famou novel, much longer and less grounded in his experiences, became when it was published in 1851. His latter works, such as “Bartleby the Scrivener,” and “Benito Cerno,” went almost unnoticed, and he died in obscurity. For 10 points name this author whose last work was Billy Budd.

Herman Melville

Bonus: Identify the following Nobel Prize winning authors given the year they won and one of

their works, with 5 more for all correct

1936, The Hairy Ape Eugene O’Neill

1923, Leda and the Swan William Butler Yeats

1921, The Crime of Sylvestro Bonnard Anatole France

1976, Herzog Saul Bellow

1978, Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer

19. His experiments resulted in his becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning for Physics in 1908. In his experiments, he proved that there was no “stationary ether” surrounding the Earth, paving the way for Einstein’s theory of relativity. For ten points name this man who worked for a while with E.W. Morley.

Albert Abraham Michelson

Bonus: For ten points each, name the following winners of multiple Nobel Prizes

He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 and 1972, the only man to win the Prize twice in the same field John Bardeen

She shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, and won it for Chemistry in 1911

Marie Curie

He won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Prize for Peace

Linus Pauling

20. He was a middle-aged country squire of iron disciple when he became leader of a revolutionary army. The largest engagement of the war he fought was the Battle of Marston Moor, which took place in 1644. For 10 points identify this leader of the Puritan forces who deposed Charles I.

Oliver Cromwell

Bonus: For ten points each, identify the following Frenchmen of the 17th century given a clue.

Louis XIV’s minister of finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert

This Cardinal was Louis XIV’s virtual regent and died in 1661 Mazarin

The chief minister of Louis XIII for 18 years Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis Richlieu

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