Round 4



Round 4

|1. Which synonym for "candid" comes from the name of a tribe conquered by the Romans? |___ |___ |

|Answer: FRANK | | |

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|2. What can you create through a combination of these factors: overcultivation, drought, overgrazing, and cutting down too much |___ |___ |

|vegetation? | | |

|Answer: A desert | | |

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|3. When compared to the fortunes of the richest people in American history, Bill Gates ranks just 31st among the top 100. What |___ |___ |

|tycoon, who once held a worldwide monopoly on the petroleum industry, ranks as the wealthiest American ever? | | |

|Answer: John D. Rockefeller | | |

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|4. An obscure river in northern Zaire has lent its name to a virus that suddenly appeared in 1995 in the southern Zairian city of |___ |___ |

|Kiqueet, and a form of which appeared in Texas in 1996. Name this deadly virus that kills by massive hemorrhaging. | | |

|Answer: Ebola | | |

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|5. This 38th President's museum displays a collection of Bicentennial items. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Gerald Ford | | |

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|6. The main division of Canada is, of course, provinces, while the former USSR was divided into republics. Name of the primary |___ |___ |

|divisions of Germany. | | |

|Answer: States | | |

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|7. F.D.R. first visited this resort in 1924. He died there in 1945. Name this Georgia site. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Warm Springs | | |

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|8. What's the name of the person who gives the theme-setting speech at a political convention? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Keynote speaker | | |

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|9. What was Moses doing up on Mount Nebo? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Viewing the Promised Land | | |

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|10. What eleven-letter word is indicated in the passage of the Constitution stating that a person charged in any state with a felony |___ |___ |

|who flees to another state shall be delivered up to the state having jurisdiction of the crime? | | |

|Answer: Extradition | | |

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|11. What specific type of government does Thailand have? We're looking for a two-word expression. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Constitutional monarchy | | |

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|12. The mistral is a wind that pours down the Rhone Valley of what country and out through the gap between the Alps and the Pyrenees? |___ |___ |

|Answer: France | | |

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|13. People targeted for murder by the Mafia are said to be on what kind of list? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Hit list | | |

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|14. Which hero was the son of Jesse and a shepherd in his youth? |___ |___ |

|Answer: David | | |

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|15. One of the most famous naval war heroes was Horatio Nelson, the British admiral who racked up an impressive series of victories in|___ |___ |

|the 18th century. But Viscount Nelson suffered a loss in a battle at Calvi that stayed with him until his death at the Battle of | | |

|Trafalgar. What was that loss? | | |

|Answer: He lost an eye. | | |

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|16. The arroyos of the American Southwest are similar to what physical features of the Middle East: cliffs, wadis, plateaus, barchans,|___ |___ |

|or alluvial fans? | | |

|Answer: Wadis | | |

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|17. What's the Spanish word for "shogun"? |___ |___ |

|Answer: "Generalissimo" | | |

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|18. A contractual agreement between the pope, in his spiritual capacity, and the temporary authority of the state, regulating points |___ |___ |

|of conflict between church and state, is called what? | | |

|Answer: Concordat | | |

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|19. The farthest he got in 1616, was 78 degrees North. No one got farther until 1853. He discovered Lancaster Sound, which was part |___ |___ |

|of the Northwest Passage, but it was blocked by ice. Name this British explorer, whose bay lies between Smith Sound and the David | | |

|Strait, and whose island lies next to that bay. | | |

|Answer: William Baffin | | |

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|20. Like a graffiti artist, Baron Alexander von Humboldt left his name wherever he went. For example, the Humboldt River, the |___ |___ |

|Humboldt Lake, and the Humboldt Range are all in Nevada. The Humboldt Current is in what ocean? | | |

|Answer: Pacific | | |

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|21. Who wrote these popular songs: "Anything Goes," "In the Still of the Night," "Night and Day," "I've Got You under My Skin"? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Cole Porter | | |

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|22. Shawnee Chief Tecumseh died during fighting on the side of the British during which 19th century war? |___ |___ |

|Answer: War of 1812 | | |

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|23. An artist's inspiration may be called his ____, in honor of the nine goddesses of arts and learning. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Muse | | |

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|24. Mesons are sub-atomic particles in the hadron group. Hadrons also include electrons, neutrons, or quarks? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Neutrons | | |

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|25. How do you spell MENAGERIE? |___ |___ |

|Answer: | | |

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|26. The following quotation is taken from which Shakespearean play? "Such duty as the subject owes the prince, even such a woman |___ |___ |

|oweth to her husband." | | |

|Answer: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW | | |

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|27. George Sand was a famous: boxer, English prime minister, writer, or explorer? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Writer | | |

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|28. What Panamanian leads all foreign-born major league ballplayers in career hits? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Rod Carew | | |

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|29. What is the complement of a 5 degree angle? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 85 degrees | | |

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|30. The Andes Mountains pass through all but which one of these countries: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, or Colombia? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Brazil | | |

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|31. What is the smallest and highest-sounding brass instrument in an orchestra? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Trumpet or cornet | | |

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|32. An example of a diprotic acid is: (a) hydrochloric, (b) hydrobromic, (c) hydroiodic, (d) hydrofluoric, or (e) hydrosulfuric? |___ |___ |

|Answer: (e) hydrosulfuric | | |

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|33. What are the two most populous cities in Russia? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Moscow, St. Petersburg | | |

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|34. It's the most famous creation of Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon. On a foggy day in 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into it at an alitutude |___ |___ |

|of 913 feet, creating a 20-foot hole. Located on the former site of the Astor mansion and the old Waldorf-Astoria hotel, its top was | | |

|designed as a mooring mast for dirigibles. Can you name it? | | |

|Answer: The Empire State Building | | |

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|35. Is the most popular meter in English poetry trochaic trimeter, anapestic dimeter, iambic pentameter, or iambic hexameter? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Iambic pentameter | | |

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|36. In countries that are classified as constitutional monarchies, the actual power to govern is in the hands of bodies usually called|___ |___ |

|what? | | |

|Answer: Parliaments | | |

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|37. What is the four-word colloquialism for arteriosclerosis? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Hardening of the arteries | | |

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|38. Missouri and Illinois each have 30% of their manufacturing workers in unions. Only five other states have higher rates of |___ |___ |

|unionization in manufacturing. Name these five contiguous rust belt states. | | |

|Answer: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan | | |

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|39. There was no possibility of talking a walk that day," begins which Charlotte Bronte novel? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Jane Eyre | | |

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|40. Which quotation is not from HAMLET: (a) What a piece of work is a man! (b) Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite |___ |___ |

|variety. (c) Brevity is the soul of wit. (d) Get thee to a nunnery. (e) Frailty! Thy name is woman. | | |

|Answer: (b) | | |

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|41. In electric power generation it limits the conversion of heat to work to about 50% . It states that when energy is changed from |___ |___ |

|one form into another, some energy is always unavailable or lost as heat. Precisely what is this Physical Law? | | |

|Answer: Second Law of Thermodynamics | | |

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Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus. All answers must be answered without stalling.

|Blitz Round - All 10 Point Tossups |1 |1 |

|Opening Lines: I'll give the opening line, and you name the play by Shakespeare. | | |

|42. Two households, both alike in dignity ..." |___ |___ |

|Ans: ROMEO AND JULIET | | |

|43. When shall we three meet again ..." |___ |___ |

|Ans: MACBETH | | |

|44. Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York." |___ |___ |

|Ans: RICHARD III | | |

|45. If music be the food of love, play on." |___ |___ |

|Ans: TWELFTH NIGHT | | |

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|Van Names: Name the people with Van in their names. | | |

|46. American pianist who won the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Van Cliburn | | |

|47. Dutchman known as the Father of Microbiology. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Anton van Leeuwenhoek | | |

|48. Flemish artist who painted "The Arnolfini Wedding." |___ |___ |

|Ans: Jan van Eyck | | |

|49. American author who wrote THE OX-BOW INCIDENT. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Walter Van Tilburg Clark | | |

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|Translations: I'll give you the word in Russian, French, and Spanish, and you translate it. | | |

|50. Russian schlyapa, French chapeau, Spanish sombrero. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Hat | | |

|51. Russian igra, French jeu, Spanish juego. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Game | | |

|52. Russian tuphli, French chaussures, Spanish zapatos. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Shoes | | |

|53. Russian daitye, French donnez-moi, Spanish deme. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Give me | | |

|54. Russian otkrit, French ouvert, Spanish abierto. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Open | | |

|55. Russian yezik, French langue, Spanish lengua. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Language or tongue | | |

|56. Russian tsyerkov, French eglise, Spanish iglesia. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Church | | |

|57. Russian ulitsa, French rue, Spanish calle. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Street | | |

|58. Russian dalyeko, French loin, Spanish lejos. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Far | | |

|59. Russian dyengi, French argent, Spanish dinero. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Money | | |

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|American Literature | | |

|60. Identify the author of these novels. A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client. |___ |___ |

|Ans: John Grisham | | |

|61. In an autobiographical account called "Roughing It," Mark Twain met with what religious leader who bemoaned the fact that |___ |___ |

|he had so many wives who were jealous and argumentative? | | |

|Ans: Brigham Young | | |

|62. What is the last word in this quote by Henry Thoreau? "The mass of men lead lives of quiet ..." |___ |___ |

|Ans: Desperation | | |

|63. What is the last word in this little poem by Ogden Nash? "The song of canaries / Never varies. / And when they're molting, |___ |___ |

|/ They're pretty ..." | | |

|Ans: Revolting | | |

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