Semi's



Semis

1) He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s. For 10 points name this man who advocated black separatism and nationalism and wanted blacks to move back to Africa.

Marcus Garvey

Bonus: Give the year in which the following events important to U.S. History took place. (5 pts. each).

Pilgrims land in Plymouth, Massachusetts 1620

John Brown captures the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, W. Va 1859

The space shuttle 'Challenger' explodes 1986

The Tet Offensive occurs in Vietnam 1968

Women win the right to vote with the 19th amendment 1920

Nine students integrate Little Rock Central High School 1957

2) He was on deck both when Hank Aaron hit home run 755 and when Sandaharu Oh hit home run 756. He himself knew something about hitting the long ball, as he holds the record for home runs by a second baseman in a season with 43. He managed the Mets to the 1986 World Series title, and the Cincinnati Reds to the 1995 National League Championchip Series. For 10 points name this man who managed against his old players Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden in this year’s American League Championship Series.

Davey Johnson

Bonus: For 5 points each name the man who hit each of the following home runs

The “shot heard ‘round the world” off of Ralph Branca Bobby Thompson

The home run which ended the 1960 World Series Bill Mazeroski

The home run which ended the 1996 World Series Joe Carter

The 2-run 2-strike 2-out home run off of Dennis Eckersly to win game 1 of the 1988 World Series (hint: he had to limp around the bases) Kirk Gibson

The home run which won the 1 game AL play-off in 1978 Bucky Dent

The home run which won game 5 of the 1976 World Series Carlton Fisk

3) To most Americans and Germans, his extradition from Russia to Germany in 1992 was an example of a communist tyrant being brought to justice. To communists, it appeared to be the scapegoating of one man for the failure of a nation. For ten points, name this German, the final communist ruler of East Germany, who succeeded Walter Ulbricht as Communist Party Secretary General in East Germany.

Eric Honecker

Bonus: For ten points each, name the following German leaders of the 20th century.

The first chancellor of West Germany, he led that country's spectacular postwar resurgence. Konrad Adenauer

A WW1 general, he was president of Germany from 1925-1934.

Paul von Hindenburg

He leads Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Party. Helmut Kohl

4) One of the most important thinkers of the early 20th century, he influenced both Heidegger and Husserl. He is chiefly known for one work, in which he defines relationships as being between essentially two persons, or a person and an object.

For ten points, name this author of "Good and Evil" and "I and Thou".

Martin Buber

Bonus: 30-20-10.

30) He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

20) He is a Holocaust survivor from Romania who now teaches at New York University

10) His works include Night .

Elie Wiesel

5) In 1646 he had a conversion experience in which he learned that truth and goodness come from the inner light in the soul. This experience led him to found an open and egalitarian religion devoid of clergy. For 10 points name this founder of the Society of Friends.

George Fox

Bonus: For five points each, give us the 5 most populous colonial cities in the 1760's and 1770's, with 5 more for correct order, highest to lowest

In descending order: Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Charles Town, Newport, New Haven

6) Stinking Cove, Useless Bay, Dildo Pond, Herry's Nose, Cuckold Cove, Witless Bay, Happy Adventure, Heart's Content, Heart's Desire, Little Heart's Ease. These are all areas in what two-part Canadian province?

Newfoundland (do not accept "Newfoundland and Labrador")

Bonus: For ten points each, say what treaty ended the following wars between Britain and France.

War of the League of Augsburg Treaty of Ryswick

War of the Spanish Succession Treaty of Utrecht or Treaty of Rastadt

War of the Austrian Succession Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

7) The third row of a three by three identity matrix is tripled, and then the entire matrix is multiplied by -1. For ten points, what is the determinant of the matrix?

-3

7 Bonus) For ten points each, give the slope of each of the following:

y=x3 + 2 at x=1 3

y=sinx at x=pi -1

y=2x+3 at x=1 2

8) In this E.M. Forster novel, Lucy Honeychurch meets George Emerson in Italy and again back in Evabad. In between she gets engaged to Cecil, an engagement which she later breaks. For 10 points, name this novel in which George and Lucy eventually marry.

A Room With a View

Bonus: 30-20-10: Name the author from the works

30) “The Shropshire Lad”

20) “The Highwayman”

10) “To An Athlete Dying Young”

A. E. Houseman

9) He contributed to the angry young man movement with "Lucky Jim", which satirized social and academic pretentions. After writing "That Certain Feeling", he wrote espionage novels under the pseudonym Robert Markham, such as "Colonel Sun" (A James Bond novel). For ten points, name this author of "Jake's Thing".

Sir Kingsley Amis

Bonus: 30-20-10. Name this recently dead author from the works.

30) The Spire

20) Rites of Passage

10) Lord of the Flies

Sir William Golding

10) "Passive suffering makes the world go round. Peace on earth, men of good will all that holds good only as long as the balance holds." This excerpt comes from "Weighing In", a poem in "The Spirit Level", the most recent collection of poems by this author of "The Redress of Poetry". For ten points, name this Irish poet, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Seamus Heaney

Bonus: W.B. Yeats was the only other Irish poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats, of course, is by no means the only author to go by initials. For 5 points each given the initials and the person’s last name, tell us for what they stand.

J.R.R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel

J.D. Salinger Jerome David

G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith

P.G. Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

J.D. Salinger Jerome David

H.L. Mencken Henry Louis

11) This female politician from Maine was born in 1897. She served as a U.S. Representative for nine years from 1940 to 1949, and as a U.S. Senator from 1949 to 1973. In 1964, she became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination as a Republican presidential candidate. For 10 points name this woman, the first woman to be elected to both houses of Congress.

Maragaret Chase Smith

Bonus: For 5 points each, identify these other Smiths. First names required.

A white Rhodesian politician known for declaring his country independent from Britain rather than allowing blacks into government. Ian Douglas Smith

A Democratic politician of the early 20th century, he was elected governor or New York four times and was the Democratic nominee in 1928.

Alfred Emanuel Smith

A famous Harlem Renaissance blues singer born in Tennessee. She was famous among blacks for most of her career but almost unknown among whites until soon before her death in 1937 in Mississippi. Bessie Smith

The English explorer captured by Chief Powhatan in 1607. John Smith

Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Joseph Smith

Author of Inquiry into the Causes and Nature of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith

12) He was killed by Set and revived by Isis. Despite the fact that he was an Egyptian deity, he had a cult that flourished throughout the Roman empire. For ten points name this Egyptian god of the underworld.

Osiris

Bonus: Identify these Egyptian deities for ten points each.

Sun god represented by a falcon Ra

Goddess of justice who weighed souls against a feather Ma'at

Sky god, son of Isis and Osiris Horus

13) Six years ago, this man ran against the incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone. A few weeks before the election, he mailed letters to Jewish voters urging them to vote for him rather than for Wellstone on the grounds that he was a better Jew. For 10 points name this man who recently lost the Minnesota Senatorial election yet again.

Rudy Boschwitz

Bonus: For 5 points each give the winners of the following Senatorial races.

Iowa Tom Harkin

Massachusettes John Kerrey

Tennessee Fred Thompson

Both Kansas races Pat Roberts

and Sam Brownback

Oregon Gordon Smith

14) San Miguel Santa Ana, La Union, and Acajutla are major cities in this country. It became independent of Spain in 1821, but in 1941, Maxamilliano Hernandez Martinez became the dictator after a coup d’état. Alfredo Cristiani is the current president. For ten points, name this country, whose FMLN rebels fought the rightist US-supported government in the 1980s.

Republic of El Salvador

Bonus: Rebel groups bonus

For 10 points, expand the acronym FMLN Fronte Martí de Liberación Nacional

For 10 points each, given a revolutionary movement, identify the country in which it is found

Fronte Sandinsta de Liberación Nacional Nicuragua

Ejército de Revolción Popular Mexico

15) A childhood friend of Emile Zola, he did most of his works in the countryside of Montmeroncy, include numerous views of Mont-Saint Victoire. He gained fame for his many paintings of bathers, but it his brilliant use of perspective in “Apples” that is more noteworthy. For ten points name this painter of “The House of the Hanged Man,” many of whose works were exhibited this year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Paul Cezanne

Bonus: For five points each, name the painter of these paintings

“American Gothic” Grant Wood

“The Rake’s Progress” William Hogarth

“The Blue Boy” Thomas Gainsborough

“The Night Watch” Rembrandt van Rijn

“The Yellow Christ” Paul Gauguin

“I and the Village” Marc Chagall

16) In computer science, this term refers to the essential part of an operating system responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, and security. For ten points name this term more commonly associated with popcorn.

kernel

Bonus: For 5 points each expand the following computer-related abbreviations.

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memeory Card International Association

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

VESA Video Electronics Standards Association

VERONICA Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computer Archives

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency

TWAIN Technology Without Any (An) Interesting Name

17) He won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to solve the Suez Canal crisis; he was the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs under Louis St. Laurent. For 10 points name this Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968 who was replaced by Pierre Trudeau.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Bonus: Given the year of the award and a description of the winner, name the Nobel Peace Prize laureate

1984--A South African for his nonviolent fight against apartheid

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

1987--A Costa Rican president for his plan to bring peace to Central America

Oscar Arias Sanchez

1971--A German Chancellor for his efforts to ease East-West tensions through his Est- Politick program Willy Brandt

18) 1, 3, 5-cyclohexatriene is the technical name for what organic compound whose formula is C6H6?

benzene

Bonus: Give the chemical formulas of the following compounds.

cyclohexane C6H12

butyne C4H6

tetraamminedichlorochromium (III) chloride [Cr(NH3)4Cl2]Cl

19) Eisendtadt was a famous news photographer, but is also a provincial capital, along with Bregenz, Graz, and Klagenfurt, in this European country. Its capital is the home of the Second Hotel New Hampshire in John Irving’s book, and it hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympic games in Innsbruck. For ten points, name this country that Germany annexed in the Anschluss.

Republic of Austria

Bonus) For 5 points each name any six countries with which Austria shares a land border.

Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland

20) “The application of a mechanistic morality to a living organism oozing with juice and sweetness.” This is the author’s description of the title of what book, which features “nadsat” talk, was made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, and was written by Anthony Burgess?

A Clockwork Orange

Bonus: For 5 points each identify the authors of the following books with colors in their titles.

The Color Purple Alice Walker

The Red and the Black Stendahl

The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

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