Game 1



Game 1

1. “Uncommon valor was a common virtue.” These word were spoken about the marines at Iwo Jima by this American admiral. Name this commander-in-chief of the pacific fleet during World War II.

Chester Nimitz

Bonus: Five points each. Given a quotation, name the American military figure who said it.

“I shall return” Douglas MacArthur

“We have met the enemy and they are ours” Oliver Hazard Perry

“I have not yet begun to fight” John Paul Jones

“War is hell” William T. Sherman

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” David G. Farragut

“Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes” Edward Prescott

2. “Under the spreading chestnut tree” begins the poem “The Village Blacksmith” by what New England poet who also wrote “Evangeline” and “The Song of Hiawatha”?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bonus: Five points each. Given a poem, tell us who wrote it.

“The World is Too Much With Us” William Wordsworth

“Pippa Passes” Robert Browning

“The New Colassus” Emma Lazarus

“Casey at the Bat” Ernest Lawrence Thayer

“To a Mouse” Robert Burns

“Don Juan” George Gordon Lord Byron

3. The tune of this patriotic song was originally lifted from an old English drinking song, “To Anacreon in Heaven.” Then the now familiar Francis Scott Key - penned lyrics were added, creating what national anthem of the United States?

The Star-Spangled Banner

Bonus: 30-20-10. Identify the musical group from their songs.

30: Bullet the Blue Sky, Stove for Boys

20: The Electric Co., New Year's Day

10: Mysterious Ways, Sunday Bloody Sunday

U2

4. In 1976 this movie, directed by John G. Avildsen, won two Oscars: for best pictures and best director. In the movie Sylvester Stallone plays an up and coming boxer. For ten points name this movie which spawned five sequels.

Rocky

Bonus: 30-20-10. Name the actress from her movies for which she won Academy Awards.

30: “Normae Rae”

20: “Places in the Heart”

10: “Forrest Gump”

Sally Field

5. This man, originally from East Tuddingham, England, was brought to the United States in 1796 at age 4. There, he became a successful brewer in Poughkeepsie, NY. After becoming interested in women’s education, he founded a women’s college in Poughkeepsie in 1861. The college started accepting males in 1969. For ten points name this man who shares a name with the college he founded.

Matthew Vassar

Bonus: Five points each. Name six of the eight Ivy League schools.

Brown University

Harvard University

Dartmouth College

Yale University

Princeton University

Cornell University

University of Pennsylvania

Columbia University

6. He first made his country’s Olympic track team in 1980, but did not compete that year because his country boycotted the Moscow Olympiad. In 1984, he made up for lost time by winning four gold medals in track and field, including one in the long jump. He won the long jump again in 1988 and again in 1992. Finally, after having barely made the US Olympic team, he won the long jump for a fourth straight time in 1996. For ten points name this American track and field star who won ten Olympic medals.

Carl Lewis

Bonus: Carl Lewis won ten medals in Olympic track and field, so for ten points each, identify the

other stars of the 1996 Olympic track and field competition

He threw a pair of his golden shoes into the stands after winning his 400m semifinal, forgetting

the shoes had spikes Michael Johnson

Girlfriend of Kenny Harrison who struck gold in the 100 Gail Devers

French Victor in the 400 and 200m, she models for Claude Montara Marie-Jose Perec

7. Thjs woman of classical mythology who was not only the daughter of King Priam but also a prophetess. However, although her predictions were always true, they were never believed. For ten points name this prophetess who later became a concubine of Agammemnon.

Cassandra

Bonus: Five points each. Cassandra was not the only woman of classical lore, identify the

following women immortalized by Homer and Vergil.

Queen of Carthage Dido

She was Priam’s wife; Hector’s mother Hecuba

Agamemnon’s wife who kills him Klytemnestra

She turns Odysseus’ men to swine Circe

She was Hector’s devoted wife Andromache

She Fought alongside Turnus and the Alba Longans until she was killed by Aeneas’ men

Camilla

8: “Satire is the peculiar glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.” So remarked what Church of Ireland leader who created many examples of that peculiar glass such as “The Battle of the Books”, “A Modest Proposal”, and Gulliver’s Travels?

Jonathan Swift

Bonus: Five points each. Will give you a title and a title satirizing the tittle of that work, you name the authors of each for five points each

“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” James Joyce

“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog” Dylan Thomas

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“The Last of the Light Brigade” Rudyard Kipling

Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson

9: He studied and at the University of Weil der Stadt wherehe was introduced to the heliocentric hypothesis of Copernicus. He then became an assistant Tycho Brahe. After Brahe passed away one year later he became the Imperial Mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. In 1609 he published his book “Astronomia Nova” in which he presented his first two laws of planetary motion. For ten points name this man famous for his three laws of planetary motion.

Johannes Keppler

Bonus: Five points each. I’ll give you a date and you tell me what astrological sign it is under.

May 20 Taurus

February 15 Aquarius

June 14 Gemini

September 7 Virgo

July 18 Cancer

October 10 Libra

10. He was born in 483, and was a peasant until his uncle, Emperor Justin I, educated him. Justin made this man co-emperor until Justin died in 527. This man then became sole emperor of Rome. For ten points name this man who was famous for “Corpus Juris Civilis.”

Justinian I

Bonus: Five points each plus five for all correct. Given the country, name the Roman province

which it was a part of.

Spain Hispania

Egypt Aegyptus

Israel Judea

France Gallia

England Britannia

11. This “Most Serene Republic” is Europe’s oldest, and its smallest. For ten points name this country whose name is the same as that of its capital.

San Marino

Bonus: Ten points each. Identify the monarchs of the following countries.

Sweden King Carl Gustav XVI

The Netherlands Queen Beatrix

Saudi Arabia King Fahd

12: This museum houses perhaps the greatest classical collection in the world. Located in Madrid, it holds the paintings owned by Spain’s Hapsburg and Bourbon kings.

The Prado

Bonus: Ten points each. Identify these painters from their works in the Prado.

“Trinity,” “Adoration of the Shepherd’s,” and “Gentleman with his Hand on his

Breast.” El Greco (accept Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

“The Forges of Vulcan,” “Christ on the Cross,” and “The Surrender of Breda.”

Diego Veláquez

“Majas,” “Disasters of War,” and “The Witchs’ Coven.”

Francisco Goya

13:This native American tribe was forced to begin their Long Walk when US troops under Kit Cabon forced their move in 1864. Now the tribe is known for the turquoise and silver jewelry they fashion on their Southwest reservations. For ten points name this largest tribe of Native Americans in the United States.

Navajos

Bonus: Five points each. Given a leader, name the Native American tribe he or she leads or led.

Tecumseh Shawnee

Geronimo Apache

Chief Joseph Nez Perce

Sitting Bull Sioux (accept Lakota)

Crazy Horse Sioux (accept Lakota)

Wilma Mankiller Cherokee

14. A member of the second triumvirate, he states “Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears,” in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. He later went on to fall in love with Cleopatra. For ten points name this man whose fleet lost the battle of Actium to the forces of Octavian.

Marc Antony

Bonus: Five points each plus 5 for all correct. Identify the following from Shakespeare’s plays.

Queen of Egypt loved by Julius Caesar and Marc Antony Cleopatra

She is killed by Othello Desdemona

Daughter of King Lear whho rejects her father by refusing to express her love for him in public Cordelia

She falls in love with Orlando and is forced to disguise herself as Ganymede Rosiland

She does not want to marry Petruchio, or any other man, for that matter Kate or Katherine

15. He coined the term “biology,” but he is more famous for his theory of acquired characteristics. For ten points name this French scientist who claimed that giraffes had long necks because past generations of giraffes had lengthened their necks by stretching them.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck

Bonus: Ten points each. Identify these other biologists.

This Briton used the word “cell” to describe the compartments he saw in cork under a microscope. Robert Hooke

This Dutch man was the first to see microorganisms using a microscope.

Antoni van Leuwenhoek

This Briton discovered a cycle, now named for him, that produces carbon dioxide during cellular respiration. Sir Hans A. Krebs

16. A key member of the Harlem Renaissance, he is well known for his collections of stories such as The Ways of White Folks and Shakespeare in Harlem. He is better known for his poetry, some of most important of its period, such as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” For ten points name this author who asked: “What happens to a dream deferred?”

Langston Hughes

Bonus: Name the following poets given a line of their poetry, ten points on the first clue, five on the second

10- “I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one.”

5- “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” Ogden Nash

10- “Right of them, left of them, volleyed and thundered.”

5- “Into the valley of death rode the six-hundred.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

10- “If Auld [sic]acquaintance be forgot”

5- “The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee [sic] Robert Burns

17. When the Hoover Dam was built, water behind it, from this river, formed Lake Mead. For a quick ten points name this river that flows through the Grand Canyon.

Colorado River

Bonus: For ten points each identify these rivers.

River that flows through St. Petersburg Neva

The Thames upstream from london as it flow through Oxfordshire. Isis

This French river is known for the châteaux in its valley. Loire

18. The set of all points in a 2-dimensional plane equidistant from a line and a point give us what conic section, exemplified by the St. Louis Gateway Arch. For ten points name this conic section of the form y equals ax-squared plus c.

Parabola

Bonus: Ten points each. Given an equation, state what conic section it is an equation of.

(X - 5)2 = 1 - Y2 Circle

Read “The quantity X minus five sqaured equals one minus Y squared”

1 - 3Y2 = X2 Ellipse

“One minus three Y squared equals X squared”

X2 = Y2 + 1 Hyperbola

“X squared equals Y squared plus 1"

19. Can one man be a pilot, surgeon, and a soldier? Well, Walter Mitty can in the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by what man?

James Thurber

Bonus: Five points each. Given a title, name the author.

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser

Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton

Mansfield Park Jane Austen

My Antonia Willa Cather

20. In 1968, this Jordanian, angered by Robert Kennedy’s support of Israel, shot Kennedy after Kennedy’s success in the California Democratic primary. For ten points name this assasin whise first and last names are the same.

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan

Bonus: Five points each. At least one other famous trial came out of the 1968 Democratic nominating process--that of the Chicago Seven. Name six of the Chicago seven.

Rennard or Rennie Davis

David Dellinger

John R. Froines

Thomas H. Hayden

Abbott or Abbie Hoffman

Jerry C. Rubin

Bobby G. Seale

Lee Weiner

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