Round One



Texas A&M University

October 3, 1998

Packet J

Round One

1. Name the massive novel published in 1862 which has enjoyed worldwide popularity ever since. This work by Victor Hugo depicts the Battle of Waterloo and the sewers of Paris.

Answer: Les Miserables Prompt on: Les Mis

2. Its historic “schools” include the 18th century School of Philidor, the 19th century School of Steinitz, and the 20th century Hypermodern School and Soviet School. Name this ancient board game.

Answer: Chess

3. Daniel Webster and Andrew Jackson endorsed it, Dr. Franz Gall popularized it. What is this pseudo –science that purports to determine someone’s moral character and intellect based on the bumps of the skull.

Answer: Phrenology

4. Name the British house of which all the following were members: Anne, James I, Charles I, William III.

Answer: House of Stuart

5. Name the island, about twice the size of California, that is home to an estimated 1000 languages. It is divided amongst two Asian nations.

Answer: New Guinea

6. With one exception, every positive integer is either a prime or composite number. What number is the exception; it is neither.

Answer: 1

7. This composer was a flamboyant, imposing musician of international renown. What composer is famous for Belshazzar, Solomon, and the Messiah?

Answer: (George) Handel

8. When paintings age, they usually tend to lose color. What is the name of the discoloration of an oil painting caused by dampness and excessive use of oils?

Answer: Yellowing

9. Math Question. Find the definite integral as X goes from zero to Pi for the function F of X equals cosine of X with respect to X.

Answer: Zero

10. Name the classic George Bernard Shaw comedy about how the English class system is based on how one pronounces the English language. This comedy was the basis for the musical My Fair Lady.

Answer: Pygmalion

Round Two – Toss-ups

1. Agnes De Mille compared her to Dante for singled-handedly changing the perception of the entire art. Name the American Pioneer in Modern Dance whose performances were banned in Boston.

Answer: Isadora Duncan

2. Developing plant embryos are composed of all the basic organs of a plant. The embryonic leaves are called cotyledons. What is the embryonic root called?

Answer: Radicle

3. Ruminants are hoofed mammals that possess a four chambered stomach. What is their re-chewed food called?

Answer: Cud

4. The eldest son of England’s Henry III has been call the greatest medieval king. He Conquered Wales, established the first “model Parliament” and was nicknamed “the English Justinian” for his legal reforms. Name the king often referred to as “Longshanks”

Answer: Edward I

5. An offshoot of the Manhattan project, name this low-friction polymer, made of chains of CF2 groups that is marketed by Dupont.

Answer: Teflon

6. It is now used in religious services with its use strictly regulated by the Talmud. Name the instrument, originally blown as a battle signal, made of Ram’s horn.

Answer: Shofar

7. In sociology, what form of deviance occurs when people reject approved social goals and the means of achieving them, substituting disapproved goals and means?

Answer: Rebellion

8. After losing her husband and all of her children to yellow fever, she became a mother to all oppressed US workers and especially miners. Name this woman who at the age 83 was sentenced to 20 years for union activity.

Answers: Mary “Mother” Jones

9. Math Question. The slope of a straight line as it crosses the X axis is equivalent to which trig function of the angle formed by the line and the X axis?

Answer: Tangent

Round Two – Bonus Questions

Literature

1. Identify the woman whose unhappiness with her role as housewife and mother coupled with the discovery that her dissatisfaction was shared by other women, prompted her to write The Feminine Mystique

2. Another’s of Betty Friedan’s work was It Changed My Life. Which 1949 work is the antecedent of It in that title

1. Betty Friedan

2. The Second Sex

World History

1. Piece of music celebrating the Russian victory over Napolean.

2. Peace Treaty for which Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music was composed to celebrate.

1. 1812 Overture

2. Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (War of Austrian Succession)

Pop Culture

Americans know many Federico Fellini films by their English titles. Give the Italian titles of the Fellini films whose titles mean:

1. The Street

2. The Sweet Life

1. La Strada

2. La Dolce Vita

Genetics

Each answer will be either 0%, 25%,50%,75%, or 100%

1. What are the chances that a female carrier of Hemophilia passing it to her sons?

2. What are the chances of a male hemophiliac passing the gene for hemophilia to his daughter?

1. 50%

2. 100%

General Knowledge

The international auto license plate designation for cars in Belgium is B, while France is F, and Italy I.

1. What is the designation of Spain?

2. What is the designation of Germany?

1. E

2. D

Third Quarter

Rivers

1. River which carrys more water than any other

2. River on which Victoria Falls is located

3. River which carved the Grand Canyon

4. African River described by Kipling as the “great gray-green greasy”

5.Longest River located entriely in France.

6. River formed at the Confluence of the Monongehela and Allegheny

7. German River on which Lorelei lured sailors to shipwreck

8. China’s Sorrow because of its frequent floods (NOT Yangtze)

9. River George Washington crossed to win the Battle of Trenton

10. Italian River flowing from the Alps to the Adriatic

Trigonometry

1. sine of 90 degrees

2. arctangent of negative square root 3

3. conversion of 5pi/4 to degrees

4. cosine x divided by sine x

5. sine 2x if cosine x= 3/5

6. Amplitude of y=1/2 cosine ((pi*x) /3)

7. sine squared x + cosine squared x

8. secant pi/6 radians < (2 square root 3 divided by 3) >

9. Greek father of Trigonometry

10. Period of y=1/2 cosine ((pi*x) /3)

The Letter A

1. Spell Accessible

2. Shield of Zeus borne by Athena

3. Luke & Leia’s Father

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