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1. Among the 122 poems in third edition of this work was the author’s “Calamus” which recorded a homosexual affair. The fourth edition included his Civil War poems like Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps while the eighth edition incorporated his November Boughs. FTP, name this collection of poetry whose first edition included the poems I Sing the Body Electric and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman.

Answer: Leaves of Grass

2. This artist’s later paintings usually have religious themes, are more classical in style. They include Crucifixion and The Sacrament of the Last Supper. He collaborated with Luis Bunel on a movie called An Andalusian Dog. Among his writings are ballet scenarios and several books, including Diary of a Genius. FTP, name this artist, one of the most famous of the surrealists, best known for his The Persistence of Memory.

Answer: Salvador Dali

3. Son of an educated slave, he became legally freed in 1777, he joined a slave rebellion in 1791. After France abolished slavery in his territory in 1794, he supported the French rulers of the country against British invaders and was made a general in 1795. In 1801 he gained control of the entire island and dictated a constitution that made him governor general for life with near absolute powers. FTP, name this man, who was later defeated by French forces under General Leclerc, who is honored today as one of the founders and heroes of Haiti.

Answer: Francois Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture

4. In the laboratory, it can be made by the dehydration of methanoic acid using concentrated sulfuric acid.  Binding with metals via empty p-orbitals, it can be fatal by binding to hemoglobin in place of oxygen.  FTP, name this odorless gas found in car exhaust.

Answer:  carbon monoxide  or  CO 

5. He was a pioneer in exploring flight over the desert, the Andes, and at night. His flight experiences became the novels Southern Mail and Night Flight. His Flight to Arras is an autobiographical account of a dangerous wartime mission. FTP, Name this aviator and novelist who disappeared on a reconnaissance flight over southern France in July 1944 and who wrote The Little Prince.

Answer: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

6. The peninsula portion of this region is traversed by two active volcano mountain ranges; the highest peak in the ranges is Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano. A tundra region forms the western coast of the peninsula and the eastern coast is bordered by cliffs. Fishing is the chief industry of this area while hunting is also of great importance. FTP, name this region in eastern Russia whose capital and chief port is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.

Answer: Kamchatka

7. One famous scene of this movie has the character Hudson sitting down despondently, saying “That’s it man, game over man, game over….” after the retrieval vehicle crashes. Instead of the suspense-horror atmosphere of the first movie, this sequel directed by James Cameron is more action-packed. After the disappearance of colonists on LV-426, the main character and a squad of space marines are sent there to investigate. FTP, name this movie with the characters Bishop, Hicks, and Vasquez, starring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the sequel to Alien.

Answer: Aliens (Laugh at anyone who says “Alien 2”)

8. A similar method uses a telephone book, in which the number selected is randomly assigned.  Applied to probability problems such as the spread of disease, the calculations involved can usually be carried

out by computer.  FTP, name this mathematical simulation which takes its name from a famous Monaco resort.

Answer:  Monte Carlo simulation

9. The poet once said that he would like to have this poem be printed on one page, followed by “forty pages of footnotes. Published in the poetry collection New Hampshire, the poem describes a solitary traveler who stops his horse to contemplate the beauty of a wintry woodland scene. FTP, name this poem that ends with the famous lines “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go before I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep.” By Robert Frost.

Answer: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

10. In his most famous work, he argued that the U.S. had reached a stage in its economic development that should enable it to direct its resources more toward providing better public services and less to the production of consumer goods. This man taught at the University of Harvard before becoming a member of the editorial board at Fortune magazine from 1943 to 1948. FTP, name this economist who also served as U.S. ambassador to India who wrote American Capitalism, The New Industrial State, and The Affluent Society.

Answer: John Galbraith

11. The negative economic effects of this act include substantial losses from southern planters, denunciations of the national government, and outcries of states’ rights and near rebellion in England. The act was a diplomatic device to pressure the belligerent nations and France and Britain respect neutral rights and to demonstrate the value of trade with US. FTP, name this act was passed by Congress in December of 1807 at the behest of President Jefferson that prohibited US vessels from trading with European nations.

Answer: Embargo Act

12. In 1941, he became a professor at the University of Berlin and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm for Physics and chose to remain in Nazi Germany in World War II. At the end of the war the United States arrested for his involvement in the German weapons program and detained for 9 months. He developed the first version of quantum mechanics called matrix mechanics in 1925, and it explained the motion of electrons in an atom in purely mathematical terms. FTP, name this scientist most famous for his uncertainty principle.

Answer: Werner Heisenberg

13. The title character hears a tale of sorrow from Io, who is the form of a cow and he foretells a happy outcome for her after her further wanderings. He also says that he knows that Zeus will be destroyed by a son yet to be born to him and only he knows who the mother will be. Hermes tries to force the title character to revealed the secret but the title character would only talk if Zeus released him. The play ends with Zeus plunging the title character into Tartarus. FTP, name this play whose title character is punished for stealing fire from heaven for man by Aeschylus.

Answer: Promethus Bound

14. He was the patron god of Sweden and his chief shrine was at Uppsala. Among this god’s treasures were a golden helmet with the crest of a wild boar, his horse Blodighofi, and a magic ship that could be folded up like a tent called Skithbathnir. The son of Njord and husband of Gerda, he was originally one of the Vanir but was received among the Aesir after the war between the two. FTP, name this Norse god of peace and fertility, the brother of Freya.

Answer: Frey

15. He played for the Bayi Rockets before coming over and playing in the NBA. He was cheered loudly after sinking a shot that put his team over one hundred points against the Atlanta Hawks, earning him the nickname “Chalupa Boy”. He ended the game with 6 points and 3 rebounds, not bad for someone who just came over from China. FTP, name this new Dallas Maverick, the first player in the NBA born in China.

Answer: Wang Zhizhi

16. Among the harsher of Roman military penalties was this practice of drawing lots and killing every tenth man of a mutinous military unit. FTP, name this verb which in modern times refers to the mass devastation of a population.

Answer: Decimate

17. It can be exceeded during the process of Cherenkov radiation, and since 1983 this constant has been part of the definition of the meter.  Independent of the relation of the observer, it is equal to 2.998 times 10 to the 8th meters per second.  FTP, name this constant abbreviated by the letter c.

Answer: speed or velocity of light in a vacuum or free space

18. He volunteered for service in World War I at the age of forty-four, and killed in action. Two of his characters Reginald and Clovis, are heroes of a series of his short stories. Some of his other short stories included Sredni Vashtar, The Muse of the Hill, and Esme. His Unbearable Bassington was a novel that featured an extraordinarily fresh characterization of Francesa Bassington. FTP, name this author who wrote Beasts and Superbeasts, The Square Egg, and the short story The Open Window whose real name is Hector Hugh Munro.

Answer: Saki (accept H.H. Munro before it’s mentioned)

19. He studied under Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, a church organist in Halle, Germany. He became the organist of the Domkirche, the main church at Halle at age 17. He moved to Hamburg in 1703 and played violin in Hamburg’s opera orchestra and composed his first opera Almira in 1704. He later became the court composer of the elector of Hannover, who would later become George I of England. FTP, name this composer of the works The Resurrection, Acis and Galatea, Royal Fireworks Music, Water Music, and the oratorio Messiah.

Answer: George Frideric Handel

20. It was said that he and Ethan Allen synchronized their steps and walked side by side so they would both be the first man to enter Fort Ticonderoga after they captured it. Later in the same year he led an unsuccessful assault on British Quebec and was promoted to brigadier general. He later became commander of Philadelphia but was court-martialed on charges that he had violated military regulations. FTP, anger over this among other factors lead what man to plan a failed attempt to betray West Point to the British?

Answer: Benedict Arnold

21. Battles in this war include the battle of Dettingen am Main, where an army led by the British defeated the French and the battle of Fontenoy where the French under Marshal de Saxe defeated the Austrians and their allies. The conflict was precipitated by succession issues after the death of Charles VI and it started when Prussia, under Frederick II, invaded and occupied Silesia, a part of Austria. FTP, name this war that was concluded by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Answer: War of Austrian Succession

1. This astronomical diagram was developed by two men independent of each other in the early 20th century. The vertical axis plots luminosity and the horizontal axis plots temperature. FTP, identify this diagram named a Danish astrophysicist and an American physicist.

Answer: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram or HR

b. What is the name of the vertical line that goes from the upper left of the diagram to the lower right of the diagram?

Answer: Main Sequence

c. What are the stars that plot near the bottom of the diagram below the main sequence called?

Answer: White Dwarfs

2. This author was born in India of a wealthy family, and wrote the works The Yellowplush Correspondence, Pendennis, and The Virginians.

a. Name him FTP.

Answer: William Thackeray

b. Thackeray’s most famous work is probably this one that features characters like Becky Sharp, Amelia Sedley, and Rawdon Crawley, name it FTP.

Answer: Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero

c. For a final ten, name this novel about a man who manages to involve himself in many affairs and was made into a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Answer: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Written by Himself

3. Given three state capitals, arrange them in order from west to east FTPE.

a. Baton Rouge, Nashville, Jackson

Answer: Baton Rouge, Jackson, Nashville.

b. Topeka, Des Moines, Lincoln

Answer: Lincoln, Topeka, Des Moines.

c. Boise, Phoenix, Salt Lake City

Answer: Boise, Phoenix, Salt Lake City

4. This man was educated at Marquette University and practiced law in Wisconsin until 1939, when he was elected circuit-court judge. He was elected senator in 1946 and in 1950 attracted national attention by accusing the Department of State had been infiltrated by Communists.

a. Name this man FTP.

Answer: Joseph McCarthy

b. Joseph McCarthy claimed that the Democrats were soft on Communism and he called this Truman’s secretary of state the “Red Dean”. Name him for another ten points.

Answer: Dean Acheson

c. With McCarthy’s influence, Congress passed the this act, which established a Subversives Activities Board to monitor Communist influence in the states, over Truman’s veto in September of 1950.

Answer: McCarran Internal Security Act

5. Answer the following about travel at the speed of sound.

a. This is the ratio of the speed of a body in a fluid to the speed of sound in that fluid.

Answer:  Mach number

b. This type of shock wave is generated when aircraft achieve speeds greater than the speed of sound.

Answer:  sonic boom 

c. Within five, how many decibels are involved in the maximum increase in pressure of a transoceanic commercial flight?

Answer:  136  (accept 131-141)

6. Identify the following about an author from clues FTPE.

a. This English playwright was killed in a quarrel with a man named Ingram Frizer over the settlement of a tavern bill for supper and ale.

Answer: Christopher Marlowe

b. In this work by Christopher Marlowe, a Scythian shepherd who becomes a fierce bandit and finally the victorious conqueror and king of Persia in part I. Part II sees his lust for power leading to his ruin.

Answer: Tamburlaine the Great

c. In this play, the character Barabas murders his daughter and an entire nunnery with poisoned porridge, performs other atrocities, and eventually dies by falling into a bubbling caldron.

Answer: The Jew of Malta

7. Identify the Manet paintings from clues FTPE.

a. This work is based on a painting by Titian; the right part of the painting has a black cat. The central naked figure is wearing one slipper, a bracelet, a necklace, and other ornaments.

Answer: Olympia

b. The two men in the figure is fully dressed and seem to be having a picnic with the women, but the women are basically naked in this painting and this work aroused the ire of critics.

Answer: Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe)

c. The central figure of this painting is a barmaid, but the mirror behind her shows the whole ballroom. The barmaid’s mirror reflection is actually off to the side.

Answer: A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergeres)

8. Identify these men in the US armed forces in World War II FTPE.

a. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this man was appointed commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet as a four-star admiral. He was also the official US representative who signed the Japanese surrender in 1945.

Answer: Chester William Nimitz

b. In the summer of 1944, the third army led by this man broke through the German defenses in the Normandy campaign. He served as military governor Bavaria after the war but was later relived of that post. He died in a traffic accident in 1945.

Answer: George S. Patton

c. He was commander of the troops of the Philippines and forced to retreat to Australia, when the Japanese first attacked. Later, he was able to recapture the islands seized by Japan in the beginning of the war and return to the Philippines.

Answer: Douglas MacArthur

9. Identify the schools of ancient philosophy FTPE.

a. They were the first philosophers to be paid for teaching. They had a skeptical view on absolute truth and morality. Members include Gorgias, Hippias of Elis, and Protagoras.

Answer: Sophists

b. This group contended that civilization was an artificial, unnatural condition, and that it should be held in contempt. They advocated a return to natural life, which they equated with simple life. Members include Antisthenes and Diogenes.

Answer: Cynics

c. The essential doctrine of this school is that pleasure is the supreme good and main goal of life. True happiness, is the serenity resulting from the conquest of the fear of god, of death, and of afterlife. Members include Apollodorus, Pliny the Younger, and Lucretius.

Answer: Epicureanism

10. A Flame test is used to identify metal cations present in a solid. FTPE, given the element, name what color would appear if the element were burned.

a. Lithium

Answer: Crimson

b. Sodium

Answer: Yellow

c. Copper

Answer: Bright Green

11. This work won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize and concerns the rise and fall of Willie Stark, a character modeled on Huey Long, name it FTP.

Answer: All the King’s Men

b. For another ten points, name the author of All the King’s Men

Answer: Robert Penn Warren

c. Finally, name the narrator of All the King’s Men.

Answer: Jack Burden

12. Identify the following economic laws for fifteen points each.

a. This is the principle in economics that states when debased or depreciated currency is in circulation along with coins that have full value in terms of precious metal, the latter tends to disappear. In another words, “bad money drives out the good”.

Answer: Gresham’s Law

b. This law holds that the danger of general unemployment or “glut” in a competitive economy is negligible because supply tend to create its own matching demand up to the limit of human labor and the natural resources available for production.

Answer: Say’s Law

13. Identify the following about Carl Jung FTPE.

a. In Psychological Types, Jung dealt with the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious and proposed the two personality types. Name them FFPE.

Answer: Introvert, Extrovert

b. This is the inherit feelings, thoughts, and memories shared by all humanity.

Answer: Collective Unconsciousness

c. According to Jung, the collective unconsciousness is made up of these primordial images.

Answer: Archetypes

14. FTPE, name the famous Roman emperor.

a. The nephew of Tiberius, this physically weak emperor succeeded on the death of Caligula and was followed by Nero.

Answer: Claudius or Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus

b. During the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 CE, he had a vision.

After winning the battle and becoming the sole emperor of the Roman

Empire, he became the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire.

Answer: Constantine I or Constantine the Great

c. This grandnephew of Julius Caesar and member of the second Triumvirate became the first Roman emperor, ruling until his death in 14 AD.

Answer: Augustus or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus

15. In 1848 this man proposed an absolute temperature scale that still bears name today. Name him for FTP.

Answer: Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)

b. In 1852 Kelvin collaborated with this man to discover the principle that the temperature of a gas falls when it expands without expending energy. A unit of energy is named after him.

Answer: James Prescott Joule

c. Along with man, Kelvin estimated the age of the sun and calculated the energy radiated from its surface. He is probably more well known for his 1847 paper On the Conservation of Force, in which he explained that animal heat and muscle contraction were a result of physical and chemical forces.

Answer: Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

16. Name the August Wilson play from clues FTPE.

a. The protagonist is Troy Maxson, who had been an outstanding baseball player at a time when the major leagues were closed to black player; he bitterly resents his lost opportunities.

Answer: Fences

b. This play is set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse whose inhabitants are all from the rural South. It is the third in Wilson’s projected series of plays depicting African-American life in each decade of the 20th century.

Answer: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

c. The action of the play takes place in 1936, where Boy Willie and Bernice argue over whether or not to sell an object that was once traded for two of the family’s ancestors.

Answer: The Piano Lesson

17. Born in Toledo, Ohio, she won a part in the film “The Ice Storm” in her very first audition, and then she sent a videotape to Kevin Williamson and won a role on Dawson’s Creek.

a. First, name this actress FTP.

Answer: Katie Holmes

b. In this movie, Katie Holmes plays Hannah Green, a student who lives in the house of the Grady Tripp, a struggling writer, portrayed by Michael Douglas.

Answer: Wonder Boys

c. Katie Holmes is Leigh Ann Watson, who wants to become valedictorian but is having a lot of trouble in history class due to her teacher in the school. When she is caught with a cheat sheet in her hand, she has to try to prove her innocence.

Answer: Teaching Mrs. Tingle

18. Name the composer from clues FTPE.

a. The Italian and Scottish symphonies are two of the works of this 19th century composer known for his overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn

b. This composer’s Enigma Variations, with portraits in each variation of one of the composer’s friends and an unsolved musical puzzle. He is probably more well known for the march Pomp and Circumstance.

Answer: Sir Edward William Elgar

c. This creator of the twelve-tone system of musical composition taught the pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern. His works include Transfigured Night, Pierrot Lunaire, and Moses und Aron.

Answer: Arnold Schoenberg

19. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a conference was called to reestablish the territorial divisions in Europe. Held from September 1814 to June 1815 with an interruption due to the escape of Napoleon, FTP, name this conference.

Answer: Congress of Vienna

b. At the Congress of Vienna, each of the major powers Prussia, Austria, Russia, Great Britain, and France had a delegate that was key in the decision-making, name four of them for twenty points.

Answer: Alexander I; Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh; Prince Klemens von Metternich; Prince Karl August von Hardenberg; Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

20. Identify the following works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. FTPE.

a. He earned local recognition as a youth for this poem, written about the USS Constitution.

Answer: Old Ironsides

b. This series of essays takes the form of conversations where one man talks about a variety of topics with a collection of boarders and then the conversations usually develop into monologues.

Answer: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

c. First published in the February 1858 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, the poem takes as its central metaphor the sea creature of the title.

Answer: The Chambered Nautilus

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