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FTPE Identify the following about a recent sporting event.
1) The ICC sponsored a Twenty20 World Cup for this sport whose other forms are
Test Matches and One Day Internationals.
A: Cricket
2) The final saw this nation defeat its neighbor to the west in the last over of the
match. The team was missing its biggest stars and instead opted for a younger
team.
A: India
3) The World Cup was held in this nation, with matches in Durban.
A: South Africa
FTPE, name these peninsulas:
1) This peninsula contains Jebel Katherina and Jebel Musa, and extends between the
Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez.
A: Sinai Peninsula
2) The Kuril Islands extend southward from its tip, while the Komandorskiye Islands
are to its east. Cape Lopatka is at its southern tip.
A: Kamchatka Peninsula
3) The Bay of Biscay forms its northern border and the southern border is the
Alborán Sea, and it includes the Cantabrian Mountains.
A: Iberian Peninsula
FTPE, name these ancient Mesopotamian civilizations:
1) This civilization was founded at a city that was originally made by an earlier
civilization. Its best known leader developed a law code that followed the belief of
an eye for an eye.
A: Babylon
2) This empire ruled Mesopotamia during Roman times, and one of its capitals was
Ctesiphon (se- TEES-eh-PHON). Several different Mithradates ruled the empire.
A: Parthian
3) The Akkadians came into power by attacking this civilization. It saw the
development of cuneiform and construction of ziggurat pyramids in Mesopotamia.
A: Sumer
FTPE, name these creations of William Faulkner.
1) Faulkner’s imaginary county in northwestern Mississippi, it is home to Jefferson
and Frenchman’s Bend.
A: Yoknapatawpha County accept close pronunciations
2) One of Faulkner’s early works, it details the fall of the Compsons from the point
of view of Jason, Benjy, and Quentin Compson, among others.
A: The Sound and the Fury
3) Temple Drake is raped by Popeye in this novel.
A: Sanctuary
FTPE, name the following reformers from the 1800’s.
1) She is best known for publishing Remarks on Prison and Prison Discipline in the
United States.
A: Dorothea Lynde Dix
2) He is best known for publishing The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper.
A: William Lloyd Garrison
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3) He is best known for his works concerning evangelism and religion, including
Lectures on Revivals and Systemic Theology.
A: Charles Grandison Finney
6. Answer the following questions about tonality in music.
1) Tonality usually describes this system in which pitch relationships are based on
the tonic of a seven-note scale.
A: Diatonic, Functional, or Major-Minor Tonality
2) This 20th century composer created the twelve-tone technique which organizes
the chromatic scale into non-repeating tone rows.
A: Arnold Schoenberg
3) He posited his “fundamental law” of musical composition and structure in
Treatise on Harmony. After its 1722 publication, Treatise on Harmony was quickly
acknowledged as the most important work of musical theory in the Baroque era.
A: Jean-Philippe Rameau
7. Pencil and paper ready. Solve this chemical equation and answer related questions
FTPE.
1) Give the products for the reaction between sodium hydroxide and copper (II)
nitrate. You have ten seconds.
A: Sodium Nitrate and Copper (II) Hydroxide
2) In the previous question, what type of reaction took place?
A: Double Displacement Reaction or Double Replacement/Metathesis
3) If three moles of Copper (II) hyroxide are produced, how many moles of sodium
hydroxide were there originally? You have fifteen seconds.
A: Six moles
8. Identify these Pablo Picasso works FTPE.
1) This work, painted entirely in black, white, and grey, includes a half-bull/halfhorse, a light bulb, and a mother with her dead child.
A: Guernica
2) Painted during Picasso's Blue Period, this work features a man playing his
instrument.
A: The Old Guitarist
3) This work of Picasso’s Rose Period features a group of the titular circus
performers.
A: The Harlequin Family
9. FTPE, name these poems by Thomas Gray:
1) It begins with “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,” and ends with an
epitaph, reminding the reader of the location in which it was written.
A: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2) It describes a cat named Selima, who is drawn toward “the genii of the stream,”
much to her misfortune.
A: Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
3) This poem was written after the death of one of the members of the Quadruple
Alliance, a group at the namesake college.
A: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
10. FTPE identify these pacts.
1) Signatories of this 1955 agreement between Eastern European Socialist states
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included Hungary and the USSR.
A: Warsaw Pact
2) This agreement promising neutrality was signed on August 28, 1939.
A: Nazi-Soviet Pact
3) The common boundaries of Germany, Belgium, and France were confirmed by
this 1925 pact.
A: Locarno Pact
FTPE name the Greek philosopher based on events surrounding his death.
1) He died around 399 BCE after drinking hemlock.
A: Socrates
2) This political philosopher died around 348 BCE and left his namesake Academy
to his nephew.
A: Plato
3) This man from Agrigentum supposedly jumped into Mt. Etna.
A: Empedocles
FTPE, name the following American third parties:
1) This party nominated former president Martin Van Buren for election in 1848.
A: Free Soil Party
2) In 1912, this party also tried to put an ex-president into the White House and won
88 electoral votes, 11 times more than the Republican contender.
A: Bull Moose Party, Progressive Party, or National Republican Progressive
League
3) Strom Thurmond ran on this party’s ticket in 1948, winning 39 electoral votes, all
in the Deep South.
A: States’ Rights Democratic Party accept Dixiecrat
FTPE, name these British Royal Houses from a short description.
1) This house was established in 1066 with the defeat of the last King of Saxon and
ended in 1154 when King Stephen promised the throne to Henry of Anjou in order
to resolve a civil war.
A: House of Normandy or Normans
2) This house only had one king under its name, Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria,
and was named after the title of the late queen’s husband.
A: Saxe-Coburg Gotha
3) Edward VII’s son, George V, renamed this royal house during WWI because
Saxe-Corburg Gotha was German.
A: Windsor
FTPE, name these elementary trigonometric functions from clues
1) The set of its zeroes with each element multiplied by two pi gives the set of all
odd integers. On a unit circle centered at the origin, this function gives the xcoordinate of the point corresponding to the given angle.
A: Cosine
2) Cosine is one of the two elementary trigonometric functions that is even. Name
the other one.
A: Secant
3) On a unit circle, if the tangent is drawn at the point corresponding to the given
angle, the slope of that tangent is the negative of this function.
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A: Cotangent
Identify these things related to Super Bowl XLI (41) FTSNOP:
1) For 5 points each, name the two teams who played in this Super Bowl.
A: Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts
2) For 10 points, Super Bowl XLI was played at the stadium of this team, who were,
until recently, led by quarterback Cleo Lemon.
A: Miami Dolphins
3) This coach of the Indianapolis Colts became the first black coach to win a Super
Bowl.
A: Tony Dungy
FTPE name these characters from George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
1) This pig is ruling Animal Farm at the end of the novel.
A: Napoleon
2) This hard-working horse is betrayed by Napoleon.
A: Boxer
3) This mare, a friend of Boxer’s, realizes that the pigs are breaking the Seven
Commandments but believes she is remembering them wrong upon seeing them
altered.
A: Clover
FTPE answer these questions regarding simple machines.
1) Archimedes used this simple machine, which can convert rotational force into
linear force, to assist in the transfer of water. Centuries later, Henry James would
write a novella the turn of about one
A: Screw
2) Propellers, helicopter blades, and airplane wings can all be considered this type of
simple machine, and some physicists have questioned whether wedges can be
considered a distinct type of simple machine from this.
A: Inclined Plane prompt on Plane
3) The crowbar, springboard, and wheelbarrow exemplify this class of lever where
the output load is between the fulcrum and input effort.
A: Second-Class Lever
FTPE name the following English poems from clues or lines.
1) “What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”
A: The Tyger
2) “He is meek and He is mild. He became a little child.”
A: The Lamb
3) This Blake work shares a title with a poem by Edmund Spenser and a semi-opera
by Purcell.
A: The Faerie Queen
FTPE, name these conflicts which were ended by a Treaty from Paris.
1) The treaty was finally ratified in 1784, but for all intents and purposes this
conflict had ended three years previously when General Cornwallis surrendered to
Washington and Rochambeau.
A: American Revolution
2) The question of sovereign authority in the Holy Land led to this conflict involving
Napoleon III and Imperial Russia, which despite its name, was fought in Turkey.
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A: Crimean War
3) Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat in the 1815 battle of Waterloo, the treaty
was signed by Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria in the renewing of what
union formed in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars
A: Quadruple Alliance
20. FTPE, name the following stage of Cellular respiration.
1) This ten step process takes place in the cytoplasm and resembles fermentation. It
requires two ATP molecules in order to work.
A: Glycolysis
2) This is the stage of respiration that uses oxaloacetate (OX-alo-AHSS-it-ATE).
Products include 2 ATP, 4 CO2, 2 FADH2, and 6 NADH+H+.
A: Krebs Cycle accept Citric Acid Cycle, Tricarbonxylic Acid Cycle, TCA
Cycle, or Szent-Gyorgyi-Krebs Cycle
3) This stage of respiration takes place in the cristae membrane, and includes the
separation of electrons and protons of FADH2 and NADH.
A: Electron Transport Cycle accept reasonable equivalents
21. FTPE, answer the following about recent strikes.
1) Multiple strikes have hit France in the last few months in response to this
President’s plans to implement new policy.
A: Nicolas Sarkozy
2) This organization went on strike in America in November against all television
networks and cable channels over writers' royalties for DVD and Internet sales of
their work.
A: Writers Guild of America (prompt on Writer’s Guild)
3) The German National Rail Strike of locomotive engineers, which began on
November 14, 2007 and affected train service nationwide, impacted this state-owned
company.
A: Deutsche Bahn
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