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Texas A&M University

October 3, 1998

Packet I

Round One

1. Foot pedals allow the playing of a half tone on this triangular framed orchestral musical instrument patented in 1810. Identify this plucked string instrument in which the plane of the 47 strings is perpendicular to the soundboard.

Answer: Western Concert Harp (Accept: DOUBLE-ACTION PEDAL HARP)

2. General Hooker's outflanking maneuver was thwarted by Jeb Stuart's cavalry and "Stonewall" Jackson's forces, resulting in a Confederate victory. Name this 1863 battle, costly for the South due to the accidental shooting of Jackson by his own men.

Answer: Battle of Chancellorsville

3. In a parallel plate capacitor, what is the name given to the substance which is in between the two plates?

Answer: Dielectric

4. Burlington, located on Lake Champlain, is the largest city in this New England state. Name this state, whose capital is Montpelier.

Answer: Vermont

5. The circulatory system of the annelids is similar to ours because their blood flows through a system of vessels. What term is used to designate this type of circulatory system?

Answer: Closed System

6. After a colorful early career, he settled down as a cattle rancher. He then organized a 4th of July celebration and then took that show all over the world. Name this famous Wild West showman.

Answer: Buffalo Bill or Cody

7. Although she died over a century ago, she has a "new"--or at least newly discovered--work, entitled The Inheritance. Name this author of novels about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.

Answer: Louisa May Alcott

8. That we often hurt when we intend to help is the theme of this English short story in which Mr. Henderson's wife hurts him more than the woman from whom she is trying to protect him. Identify this story by E. M. Forster.

Answer: "The Helping Hand"

9. The planet Venus is shrouded in dense cloud. These Venusian clouds contain no water and are made up almost entirely of what corrosive acid whose chemical formula is H2SO4?

Answer: Sulfuric Acid

10. Math Question. The length of a rectangle is five more than three times its width. Find its length in centimeters if the perimeter of the rectangle is 82 centimeters.

Answer: 32 Centimeters

Round Two – Toss-ups

1. Although his Greek name most likely derives from the Sanskrit name of an Indian god, the ancient Greeks usually assumed that he was named for the common Greek word for “all”. Name this fertility god with the horns and legs of a goat.

Answer: Pan

2. Acetylene is an industrial gas used for welding and preparing other chemical compounds. Spell acetylene!

Answer: A-C-E-T-Y-L-E-N-E

3. “Doctors bury their mistakes; architects have to cover them with vines.” Name the famous architect of the Guggenheim Museum who said these words.

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

4. It consisted of 5 North-South routes linked by 21 cross tracks and extended 12,000 miles through Laos, Cambodia, & Vietnam. Name this notorious trail created by the Viet Cong.

Answer: Ho Chi Minh Trail

5. Some insecticides contain the ingredient sodium selenate. State the formula for this compound.

Answer: Na2SeO4

6. During WWI she volunteered at a Red Cross radiological unit. Name this woman, the first to win two Nobel prizes.

Answer: Marie Curie

7. Math Question. Give the closest whole number approximation for the sum of square root of 51 plus square root of 17.

Answer: 11

8. What is the name of the molecule that binds mRNA and tRNA together?

Answer: rRNA (ribosomal RNA)

9. From what city to what city did Harry Bailey lead a group of medieval travelers?

Answer: London to Canterbury

Round Two – Bonus Questions

Courts

1. Name the judge who presided over the Watergate hearings.

2 .Name judge who presided over the split of AT&T in the early 80’s.

1. John Sirica

2. Harold Greene

Dates

Give the year in which the following events occurred:

1. Great London Fire

2. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii

1. 1666

2. 79 (AD)

Recent Events

Name the country in which each of the following US Military Operations took place:

1. Restore Hope

2. Just Cause

1. Somalia

2. Panama

Geography

To which country does the following group of islands belong?

1. Queen Charlotte Islands

2. Juan Fernandez Islands

1. Canada

2. Chile

History

On November 8, 1861, the USS San Jacinto stopped a British ship near Cuba and removed two Confederate diplomats on the way to Europe to seek diplomatic recognition for the South.

1. Name the ship stopped.

2. Name either of the two diplomats.

1. Trent

2. James Mason or John Slidell

Third Round

Cabinet Members

1. First woman cabinet member, FDR’s Secretary of Labor

2. Harding’s Secretary of the Interior

3. Reagan’s female Secretary of Transportation

4. Coolidge’s Secretary of State who won the Nobel Peace Prize

5. Current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

6. Lincoln’s Secretary of State who purchased Alaska

7. Treasury Secretary for Harding, Coolidge & Hoover

8. Garfield’s and Arthur’s Secretary of State

9. Dismissed Secretary of War over whom Andrew Johnson

10. Teddy Roosevelt’s and McKinley’s Secretary of War who ended

the Russo-Japanese War

Famous Native Americans

Identify the following.

1. Oglala Sioux leader at the Battle of the Little Bighorn

2. Father of princess Pocahontas

3. Led an uprising against New Englanders in 1675

4. Led a five month siege against Detroit

5. Acted as interpreter at the Treaty of Plymouth in 1621

6. Wife of Canadian trapper Toussaint Charbonneau

7. Inventor of the Cherokee alphabet

8. Won the pentathlon and the decathlon in

the 1912 Olympics

9. Defeated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers by

“Mad” Anthony Wayne

10. Translated the Book of Common Prayer into Mohawk

Mathematicians

1. Englishman who proposed the base 10 logarithm

2. English Founder of Symbolic Logic

3. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21

4. Swiss Mathematician who coined the term “Integral”

5. Greek writer of the Elements

6. French creator of Analytical Geometry

7. Scottish inventor of logarithms

8. Greek who approximated ( most closely

9. American who recently proved Fermat’s last theorem

10. German founder of Topology

The letter E

1. Name given to the period in the 18th century also called the

Age of Reason

2. Surname of Emily Bronte’s heroine in Wuthering Heights

3. Collection of Greek sculptures taken from Athens

4. African country whose name is derived from the Greek

for “people with sunburnt faces”

5. Castle in which Hamlet is set

6. Greek author of Medea

7. Poem or speech in praise of a hero or a Led Zeppelin tribute album

8. Hardest tissue of the body

9. Term for a mixture of liquids that do not dissolve

10. Nazi who was captured in Argentina in 1960 and hanged in

Israel in 1962

Round Four

1. Robert Bloch wrote more than 400 stories, 20 novels, and numerous film and television scripts, and none of them is more memorable than this one that Alfred Hitchcock adapted into a 1960 horror classic.

Answer: Psycho

2 . Math Question. Give your answer in degrees. If four times cosine squared X is equal to three, find the third quadrant angle that will satisfy this equation.

Answer: 210 degrees

3. Given the name Eldrick at birth, he went on to win three consecutive amateur titles before turning pro at age 20. Name this golfer, the 1997 Masters champion.

Answer: Tiger Woods

4. This government agency orchestrated the production of an avalanche of weaponry, including 40 billion bullets, 300,000 aircrafts and 2.6 million machine guns. Name this agency which helped launch the World War II effort.

Answer: The War Production Board (Accept: WPB)

5. Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892, this man wrote the line, “My strength is as the strength of ten/ because my heart is pure” as part of a collection of twelve narrative poems called Idylls of the King.

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

6. She wrote some 30 plays in Russian, corresponded with Voltaire in French, but was a native German speaker. Name this woman who personified the enlightened despotism of the 18th century.

Answer: Catherine the Great

7. Name the nation that united with Norway in 1262, united with Denmark in 1380, became an independent kingdom in personal union with Denmark in 1918, and finally an independent republic in 1944. This nation is notable for its extensive use of geothermal power.

Answer: Iceland

8. This mythological character is now synonymous with drunkenness. Name this chief of the Satyrs and foster-father to Bacchus.

Answer: Silenus

9. Identify the ultra-conservative organization named after an intelligence officer killed in China at the end of WWII.

Answer: John Birch Society

10. Radames, a commander of the Egyptian Army, is in love with an imprisoned Egyptian princess. This describes which opera commemorating the opening of the Suez Canal?

Answer: Aida (Verdi)

11. After the overthrow of the dictator Diaz, this country endured revolution for ten years. Name this country in the Western Hemisphere, the site a 1911 coup.

Answer: Mexico

12 .This artist once said, “The sea’s voice is tremendous, but not loud enough to drown out the voice of Fame crying my name to the entire world.” Name this leading proponent of the French school of Realism, known for his conspicuous signature, who painted Burial at Ornans.

Answer: Gustave Courbet [KOOR-BAY]

Extra Questions

1. Name the Shakespearean tragedy that was banned from the English stage from 1788 to 1820, the years during which George III was mad.

Answer: King Lear

2. Journalists approach writing by addressing the basic questions of who, what, where, when, why, and how. Identify the four-letter term for the attention-grabbing opener of a news story that should be carefully written to attract the reader.

Answer: Lead

3. Members of this group of animals are the only animals to have an outer ear and a diaphragm that divides the coelom [SEE-lum]. Name this group of animals that have a protective covering of hair.

Answer: Mammals (Accept: MAMMALIA)

4. What French chemist was the first to discover that diseases were spread by germs?

Answer: Louis Pasteur

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