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Game 8

1. "These are the times that try men's souls." So begins a series of pamphlets called The American Crisis, written during the Revolutionary War by what man who also wrote the pamphlet Common Sense?

Thomas Paine

Bonus: For five points each, identify the people to whom the following quotations from American History may be attributed.

"I'd rather be right than be president." Henry Clay

"A House divided against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln

"Damn the Torpedoes, four bells!" David Glasgow Farragut

“I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not retreat a single inch. And I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison

“All we ask is to be left alone." Jefferson Davis

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale

2. Despite reluctance to enter the Trojan War, this Greek hero was famed for his bravery. The son of Peleus and Thetis, he overcame the river-god Scamandor on his way to killing Hector. For ten points name this man whom Paris killed three days later by shooting him with a poisoned arrow in the heel.

Achilles

Bonus: Identify the following related to Achilles and the Trojan War, for 10 points each.

Friend of Achilles slain by Hector while wearing Achilles' armor Patroclus

The name of Achilles’ followers Myrmidons

Famous king with whom he quarreled Agamemnon

3. Central Perk is the usual hangout for the characters of this show whose cast threatened to go on strike this summer. This show, considered by some to be a younger version of Seinfeld, stars Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Courney Cox, and Jennifer Aniston. For ten points name this NBC sitcom.

“Friends”

Bonus: The Friends theme song has become a hit in its own right. Given a line from a T.V. show theme song, name the show, for ten points each

"Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got" “Cheers”

"What would you do if I sang out of tune" “Wonder Years”

"In West Philadelphia born and raised" “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

4. This scientist met an untimely death during the French Revolution because he was part of a politically unpopular group. For ten points name this man who is better known as the founder of modern chemistry, as he discovered the role of oxygen in chemical reactions.

Antoine Lavoisier

Bonus: Identify the following related to astronomy, 10 points each

The distance from a black hole within which even light cannot escape

Event Horizon

A star system with two suns binary system

The point in an orbit where the object is closest to the sun perihelion

5. New Hampshire, Exeter-like boys’ schools, Viennese whores--all are fixtures of at least two books by what American author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp?

John Irving

Bonus: For ten points each, given a novel, name the Pulitzer Prize winning author for ten points each

A Bell For Adano John Hersey

The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

6. Oxygen occurs naturally as both ozone and O2. Carbon occurs as diamonds, graphite, and buckeyballs. For ten points give either the term for these multiple forms of the same element or the process by which they exist.

allotropes or allotropism

Bonus: Since carbon forms allotropes and bone charcoal is made from bones, for five points each, given the common name for a bone, provide its scientific name.

Kneecap patella

Thighbone femur

Tailbone tibia

Skull cranium

Jawbone mandible

Breastbone Sternum

7. This city, the first to have yellow pages is the center of the American automobile manufacturing industry. For ten points name this city whose sports teams include the Red Wings, Lions, and Tigers.

Detroit, Michigan

Bonus: Identify the following cities for ten points each:

Largest city in Texas, famous for not having zoning laws Houston

Largest city in the world with respect to population; built on corn ears, it is continually sinking Mexico City or Mexico DF

Founded by Peter the Great because he wanted a more European capital.

St. Petersburg

8. Not only was he a secretary general of the UN, but he won the Nobel peace prize in

1961. For a quick ten points name this man who was on a mission to negotiate with

Moise Tshombe when his plane crashed in Northern Rhodesia. For ten points name this Swede who died in 1961.

Dag Hammerskjold

Bonus: For ten points each name the man who ruled the following countries, in 1961.

Spain Francisco Franco

Vietnam Ho Chi Minh

Argentina Juan Peron

9. Some may recall his essays in Harper’s. Others may remember his numerous essays in the New Yorker. However, it is his Elements of Style and children's books which are best known today. The latter include The Trumpet of the Swan and Stuart Little. For ten points name this author of Charlotte's Web.

Elwyn Brooks White

Bonus: Speaking of kiddy books, answer the following about Dr. Seuss, 10 points each

What was his real full name? Theodore Seuss Geisel

Which of his books decrying environmental destruction was banned for a while

because opponents charged it had hallucinogenic imagery? The Lorax

This character of his had 1001 hats Bartholomew Cubbins

10. For a quick ten points name this book which condemned the "false values of a money mad, power-hungry society," and was subtitled "a novel without a hero" by its author, William Makepeace Thackary.

Vanity Fair

Bonus: Answer the following 3 questions concerning Vanity Fair

Who is its heroine (or perhaps antiheroine) Becky Sharp

From which work is the title taken? Pilgrim's Progress

Name the author of Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan

11. This Supreme Court Justice was the only one to dissent from the majority opinion of Plessy v. Ferguson, writing, "There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color blind..."

Perhaps, historians speculate, this is because he had a black half-brother, Robert. For ten points name this Justice, who was named for the Justice who wrote McCullough v. Maryland.

John Marshall Harlan the elder

Bonus: Identify these landmark Supreme Court cases for 10 points each

1803 case which established judicial review Marbury v. Madison

A 1970s case which allowed affirmative action without quotas

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (accept Regents v. Bakke)

Required that indigent defendants be granted court-appointed attorneys

Gideon v. Wainwright (accept Gideon v. Cochran)

12. The storytellers in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are on their way to his

tomb. Both Jean Anouilh and T.S. Eliot wrote plays about him. For ten points name this English bishop of the 12th century who was murdered by four of the king's men.

Thomas a Beckett

Bonus: 30-20-10. Name the man.

30: He was a saint of the Roman Catholic Church whose name contains a town in Italy .

20: He lived in the 13th century and was famous for his love of nature and animals.

10: He founded the order of the Franciscans

St. Francis of Assisi

13. "I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers." This is a famous

line of poetry by what man, poet of “The Weary Blues,” “Necessary,” and “Shakespeare in Harlem”?

Langston Hughes

Bonus: for ten points each, name the poet from his or her famous lines.

"Death be not proud" John Donne

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

Emma Lazarus

"Dying is an art, like eveIything else. I do it exceptionally well."

Sylvia Plath

14. The third was mistakenly locked out the Estates General. They convened in the first available open place they found. Pledging to stay in session until a new constitution had been written, they took this oath, proclaiming themselves the National Assembly. Identify this oath made famous by a David painting of the same name.

Tennis Court Oath

Bonus: There were three estates (not counting reporters!). There are three men in a triumvirate. Name the men of the second triumvirate.

Lepidus, Octavian (accept Caesar Augustus), and Marc Antony

15. This unit is defined as the amount of substance that contains as many entities as there

are atoms in exactly 0.012 kg of Carbon 12. For ten points name this unit with Avogadro’s number of particles.

Mole

Bonus: For five points given a unit give the quantity it measures.

example: meter-Distance

Newton Force

Pascal Pressure

Joule Energy

Coulomb Electric charge

Candela Luminous intensity

Ohm Electric resistance

16. Built during the “Era of Good Feelings,” this canal connects Hudson River to the lake from which it takes its name. For 10 points identify this canal which starts at Albany and ends at Buffalo.

Erie Canal

Bonus: Identify the following Great Lakes from their descriptions, 10 points each

The only one fully contained in the United States Lake Michigan

The smallest and lowest in elevation Lake Ontario

The largest freshwater lake in the world Lake Superior

17. An actress, dancer, singer, and civil rights activist, this woman gained attention in Europe. For ten points name this African-American who was honored after World War III by the French government for her work in the Resistance.

Josephine Baker

Bonus: Give the musical terms from their descriptions for five points each.

b-initialed narrative song or poem ballad

a steady, moderately slow musical tempo, literally Italian for "walking" andante

literally “in church style” this style uses no instruments a capella

the lowest range of a male singing voice bass

the use of two or more melodies at the same time in a piece of music counterpoint

word of German origin for a theme which recurs frequently in an opera motif

18. Like many young sculptors, his career had an unpromising beginning. So much that he joined a monastery for a time. Once he produced The Age of Bronze it was charged that he had created it by forming molds made from clay placed on his model. However, he became famous for later sculptures of Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac, two of his friends, called The Kiss and The Burghers of Calais. For ten points, name this sculptor of the Thinker.

Auguste Rodin

Bonus: For ten points each, name the following twentieth century sculptors given the works

Numerous mobiles, including “Lobster Trap and Fishtail” Alexander Calder

“Bird in Space” Constantin Brancusi

“Family Group” and “Reclining Figure” among other monumental abstract statues

Henry Moore

19. For a quick ten points name the 32nd American president during whose tenure the United States tried to be a good neighbor to Latin America and who is well known for saying: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Bonus: For ten points each identify the following connected with FDR.

His secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes

His secretary of Labor Frances Perkins

The name of his group of advisors Brain Trust

20. This American novelist and short story writer was born in New Orleans in 1924. His first publication was Other Voices, Other Rooms. His second novel The Grass Harp was written in 1951. For ten points name this man best known for his work: “Breakfast at Tiffany's”.

Truman Capote

Bonus: For ten points each, name the following men whose first name begins with "T"

He was the first secretary general of the UN Trygve Lie

He painted “Perdita”, “The Shepherd's Boy” and “Blue Boy”

Thomas Gainsborough

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his work in getting the Treaty of Portsmouth signed. Theodore Roosevelt

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