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ROUND 1: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus related to the tossup.
Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
Becoming a Congregational pastor in 1868, he later joined the faculty of Western Reserve
College, and the Cleveland Medical School. In 1895, he published his definitive study on the relative
mass of oxygen and hydrogen. For 10 points, name this scientist whose reputation caused him to be
sought out for collaboration by his esteemed colleague Albert Abraham Michelson.
ANSWER: Edward Williams Morley
BONUS. Answer these questions about the Michelson-Morley experiment, for 10 points each.
1.1.
The experiment was an attempt to detect this theoretical substance which was believed to be
the medium for the transmission of electromagnetic waves.
ANSWER: luminiferous ether
1.2.
The experiment examined fringes, a pattern of light and dark bands, caused by this
superposition of two light waves.
ANSWER: interference
2.
Designers of this 12-acre complex included Donald Deskey for the Art Deco interior and
Raymond Hood and Henry Hofmeister, among others, for the 14 limestone skyscrapers. For 10 points,
name this set of buildings which include Radio City Music Hall and the set of the Today show.
ANSWER: Rockefeller Center [do NOT accept “Rockefeller Plaza”]
BONUS. For 10 points each, identify these other centers.
2.1.
Located near Lone Pine, California, from 1942 to 1945, 11,000 people were confined to this
WWII internment facility for Japanese-Americans.
ANSWER: Manzanar Relocation Center
2.2.
Founded in 1964, this Toronto site includes an aquarium and an Omnimax theater.
ANSWER: Ontario Science Centre
3.
When the Arabs captured the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century, they designated
Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad (peace be upon him), as their most sacred shrine. For 10 points,
give the proper name for the pilgrimage to Mecca which is required of every Muslim.
ANSWER: Hajj [do NOT accept: "Hegira" or "Hijrah"]
BONUS. In addition to Mecca, the Arabs captured three of the five great Christian cities of the old
Roman Empire. Though Rome and Constantinople remained Christian, the other three great cities of
the ancient world were in Arab hands by 700 AD. Five each, 20 for all three, name these three great
cities, one each in Egypt, in Africa, and in Syria. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: Alexandria, Antioch, Carthage
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4.
This baseball infield position has been manned by many great sluggers, from Lou Gehrig in the
1920s and 1930s to players like Frank Thomas and Fred McGriff in the present. For 10 points, give the
position.
ANSWER: first basemen
BONUS. Given a man and a team, for the stated number of points, name the man who succeeded
him at his position. For example, if I said Wally Pipp, New York Yankees, you would say Lou
Gehrig.
4.1.
[5]
Eddie Stanky, Brooklyn Dodgers
ANSWER: Jackie Robinson
4.2.
[5]
Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox
ANSWER: Carl Yastrzemski
4.3.
[10]
Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals
ANSWER: Lou Brock
5.
Born Josef Dzhug-ash-vi-li in Georgia, after his 1953 death, his body was put on display next
to Lenin’s in the Kremlin. For 10 points, name this Soviet leader known as "Uncle Joe" during World
War II.
ANSWER: Josef Stalin
BONUS. Identify these other Commies for 10 points each.
5.1.
This Polish woman, known as "Red Rosa", was even more of a leftist than Lenin and the
Bolsheviks. Author of The Accumulation of Capital, she died while in police custody in 1919.
ANSWER: Rosa Luxemburg
5.2.
This man, the son of a wealthy textile merchant, wrote works like The Condition of the Working
Class in England.
ANSWER: Friedrich Engels
6.
In 1941, Swiss mechanical engineer George De Mestral was hunting in the Jura Mountains
when he saw how cockleburs stuck to his wool pants. A decade later, he used this natural concept to
patent, for 10 points, what type of fastener based on a system of loops and hooks?
ANSWER: velcro
BONUS. The name "velcro" comes from the French for "fabric" and "hook". For 10 points each,
name these two French words. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: velour and crochet
7.
It was the title of a "hooray song" by Danial Deacatur Emmett for Jerry Bryant’s minstrel show.
Its etymology may come from $10 notes issued by the Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans before 1860 and
used by French-speaking people in Louisiana. For 10 points, name the Confederate marching song
whose title can refer to the Southern United States.
ANSWER: Dixie
BONUS. Answer these questions about the Dixiecrats, for 10 points each.
7.1.
The Dixiecrats were the popular nickname for what 1948 political splinter group?
ANSWER: States’ Rights Democrats or Party
7.2.
On July 17, 1948, the Dixiecrats met in what city to nominate a ticket of Strom Thurmond and
Fielding Wright?
ANSWER: Birmingham, Alabama
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8.
Produced using the Ostwald process, this colorless, fuming, corrosive liquid decomposes into
a brownish-yellow solution. For 10 points, name this strong acid which is neutralized with ammonia to
form a major component of fertilizer.
ANSWER: nitric acid or HNO3
BONUS. Don’t have a bad trip! Answer these questions about acids, for 10 points each.
8.1.
This theory defines an acid as a substance which donates a proton.
ANSWER: Brønsted-Lowry theory
8.2.
Soaps are the sodium or potassium salts of these types of acids.
ANSWER: fatty acids
9.
In 534 BC, he won a prize for tragedy at the Great Dionysia contest. He is considered the
inventor of the tragedy. For 10 points, what Greek playwright introduced a prologue and speeches in
becoming the first actor separate from the chorus, and lent his name to a synonym for "actor"?
ANSWER: Thespis
BONUS. Later Greek poets would create a "contest" between Homer and this poet, containing an
imaginary dialogue, followed by passages from their works. For 10 points each.
9.1.
Name the father of Greek didactic poetry, who described peasant life in the Works and Days.
ANSWER: Hesiod
9.2.
Hesiod is instructed by the Muses to relate the history of the gods in this other complete epic.
ANSWER: Theogony
10.
Two of his three marriages ended in divorce; the third ended when an insane servant killed his
wife, her children, and several others while he was away. His students would study at his homes in
Scottsdale, Arizona, and Spring Green, Wisconsin. For 10 points, name this American architect.
ANSWER: Frank Lloyd Wright
BONUS. Answer these questions about Wright’s works for 10 points each.
10.1. The Edgar Kaufman residence in Beer Run, Pennsylvania, is better known by this nickname.
ANSWER: Fallingwater
10.2. Many of the buildings he designed, including his own home and studio which he began to plan
at age 21, are found in this suburb of Chicago.
ANSWER: Oak Park, Illinois
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ROUND 1: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category Quiz question. Opponents
can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Notable Americans
American Literature: Novels
Biological Sciences: Tests, Tests, Tests
Fine Arts: Refreshing Movements
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Sequences & Series
Physical Sciences
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Got Soul?
Social Sciences: Anthropology
Sports & Entertainment:
World Geography: Cities
World History: Spear Me the Sob Story
World Literature: What the …?
1. This is a combination of two or more metals, or a metal and a non-metal, to form a mixture having
metallic properties suitable for special purposes. For 10 points, name these substances, examples of
which are brass and bronze.
ANSWER: alloys
2. Often creating a humorous effect, this term in psychology refers to a slip of the tongue that is caused
by and reveals unconscious aspects of the mind, usually in a sexual sense. For 10 points, what is this
term?
ANSWER: Freudian slip or slide (accept parapraxis)
3. Written by Alice Paul in 1921, its opponents contended it had no benefits and hurt those it meant to
help, and defeated it for 49 consecutive years. For 10 points, what was finally passed by Congress in
1972, but fell 3 states short at the July 1982 deadline for ratification?
ANSWER: Equal Rights Amendment
4. Site of the first naval battle of the American Revolution, it is 15 times smaller than Lake Ontario.
Nevertheless, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy got his way... for a while. For 10 points, name this sorry
excuse for a “Great Lake”.
ANSWER: Lake Champlain [It is not a Great Lake by law anymore.]
5. Born in 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia, this artist, who later moved to France, was famous for painting
scenes from his childhood, including the painting, Birthday. Among his other paintings are Paris
through My Window, The Juggler, and I and the Village. For 10 points, name this Jewish artist.
ANSWER: Marc Chagall
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6. One of this servant’s first appearances is in Straparola’s Pleasant Nights, and later in the tales of
Perrault [PEH-rot]. Passing his master off as the Marquis of Carabas, he defeats an ogre and secures his
master a bride in the process. For 10 points, name this feline fairy-tale character known for his
footwear.
ANSWER: "Puss-in-Boots"
7. His New Testament writings indicate he was a misogynist. An apostle of Christ, he made several
journeys throughout the Mediterranean including stops at Ephesus, Corinth, Thessalonica, and even
Rome. For 10 points, name this author of several epistles, including Ephesians and Corinthians.
ANSWER: Paul
8. “Mr. Cellophane.” “Cell Block Tango.” “Razzle Dazzle.” “All That Jazz.” These are all songs, for
10 points, from what Broadway revival about murder, greed, and fame in the lives of vaudeville
actresses Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly during the Roaring Twenties?
ANSWER: Chicago: The Musical
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ROUND 1: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American History: Notable Americans. When Peter Zenger was tried in a historical case about the
freedom of press, his lawyer persuaded the jury to acquit Zenger of the charges. For 15 points
-- name his lawyer, who shares his surname with a future Cabinet member.
ANSWER: Andrew Hamilton
American Literature: Novels. One supporting character keeps a large-caliber handgun in his tent for
the purpose of shooting rats. Another, Dr. Daneeka, is declared dead by an army bureaucrat
despite his vigorous attempts to prove he is still alive. For 15 points -- name this novel.
ANSWER: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Biological Sciences: Tests, Tests, Tests. Using Feulgen’s histochemical test, one can observe the
distribution -- for 15 points -- of what organic polymer during cell division?
ANSWER: DeoxyriboNucleic Acid [prompt on "chromosomes"]
Fine Arts: Refreshing Movements. This term first appeared in 1959 in Lawrence Alloway’s article,
"The Arts and the Mass Media." For 15 points -- name this style that decribes the humorous
yet slick works of Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Andy Warhol.
ANSWER: Pop Art
Mathematics: Sequences & Series. For 15 points -- what is the 50th element in the arithmetic sequence
whose first three terms are -243, -237, and -231? You have 15 seconds.
ANSWER: 51 [= -243 + (50 - 1) x 6]
Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy: Got Soul? In hieroglyphics, it was symbolized by uplifted
arms. For 15 points -- name this monosyllabic ancient Egyptian religious concept which
protected a dead person in the afterlife.
ANSWER: ka
Social Sciences: Anthropology. A student of Ruth Benedict, her work was among the first to examine
the methods by which children learn. For 15 points , name this co-author of A Rap on Race with
James Baldwin, who outlined her progressive philosophy in a series of articles in Redbook.
ANSWER: Margaret Mead
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World Geography: Cities. Two suburbs of major American cities share this name. One of them is an
eastern suburb of Houston, and it was named for the one in California. For 15 points , name
this home to Caltech.
ANSWER: Pasadena (California or Texas)
World History: Spear Me the Sob Story. Afterwards came the King’s Peace of An-tal-ci-das. For 15
points -- name this 395 to 386 BC war, in which Sparta, the dominant power at the time,
defeated a coalition of Athens and its new ally Persia.
ANSWER: Corinthian War
World Literature: What the ...? This concept of hell finds three characters -- Inez, Estelle, and Garcin
-- trapped in a steadily warming room, with only their memories, regrets, and each other. For
15 points -- name this French play.
ANSWER: Huis-clos or No Exit
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ROUND 1: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has completed the phrase "For 10 points",
+ first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are
read in order.
1. In 1899, Pearle B. Wait sold for $450 the rights to this creation to to Orator Frank Woodward. It
now has a museum dedicated to it in the village of LeRoy, New York. Over 400 million packages are
sold yearly of this product, now manufactured by Kraft Foods division. For 10 points -- there’s always
room for what fruit-flavored, jiggly gelatin dessert?
ANSWER: Jell-O
2. His father claimed descent from Poseidon, and his mother was related to Solon. After his father’s
death, his mother married her uncle. This sounds like a Greek play, but it was reality for this
philosopher. For 10 points -- name this man whose most famous pupil described him as a man "whom
it is blasphemy in the base even to praise," and who led the Academy.
ANSWER: Plato
3. In Euclidean space, this term describes any locus of consecutive, parallel lines. However, this term
has come to describe a special type of locus where all the consecutive, parallel lines are parallel to and
equidistant from a singular line. For 10 points -- identify this term which describes any solid in the
shape of a canister.
ANSWER: cylinder
4. He placed his wife and two daughters in the monastery of Cardena before raiding Zaragoza. His
daughters are arranged to marry the In-fan-tes de Carrion, the nephews of his enemy Count Garcia
Or-do-nez, by King Alfonso VI of Leon. For 10 points -- name this Spanish hero who fought the
Moors and died in 1099.
ANSWER: El Cid or Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
5. A member of order Dip-tera and family Cu-li-ci-dae, this genus is a vector of the sporozoan
Plasmodium, which causes symptoms such as chills, fever, thirst and an enlarged spleen. For 10 points
-- name this organism, genus A-no-phe-les, that transmits malaria.
ANSWER: mosquito
6. Since 1990, Steve Whitmire has been responsible for bringing life to this character, who has
masqueraded as Bob Cratchit, among others. For 10 points -- name this American icon originally
created and voiced by Jim Henson.
ANSWER: Kermit the Frog
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7. A city founded in 1827, on April 15, 1865, Union general James H. Wilson would capture it in the
last military battle of the Civil War east of the Mississippi. For 10 points -- name this city on the
Chattahoochee River opposite Phenix City, Alabama, that shares its name with the capital city of
Ohio.
ANSWER: Columbus
8. Though most people remember this play -- the second in its series -- as a collection of slapstick jokes,
its powerful message resonated throughout Europe. Largely a product of Enlightenment thought, its
hero is a man of the world, much like his creator, who was a spy, a royal music teacher, and an abettor
of revolution. For 10 points -- name this Figaro play by Beaumarchais.
ANSWER: The Marriage of Figaro (NOT "The Barber of Seville," the first play in the series)
9. Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy wrote many short piano compositions, or character pieces,
then he published them in three volumes. Some of the most famous pieces in this collection are "The
Spinning Song," "The Hunting Song," and "The Venetian Gondola Song." For 10 points -- name this
collection, named for the way these songs are performed.
ANSWER: Songs Without Words or Lieder Ohne Worte
10. This country recently cast off its failed pay-as-you-go social security system and replaced it with a
forced savings plan in which people invest their own funds in the stock market. The home of
Chu-qui-co-ma-ta, the world’s largest open-pit copper mine -- for 10 points -- name this nation whose
previous rulers have included Augusto Pincochet and Salvador Allende.
ANSWER: Chile
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ROUND 1: STRETCH ROUND BONI
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1.
a.
b.
c.
Name these British authors, 10 points each.
A rebel and non-conformist, he was expelled from Oxford in 1811. Before dying at 30, he left
England permanently. He wrote the tragic play The Cenci [CHEN-chi] and the "Ode to the
West Wind".
ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley
This English novelist’s homosexual love was kept secret in the book Maurice [morris], which
was not published until fifty years after his death.
ANSWER: E.M. Forster
This romantic poet left England for Greece and died while aiding the Greeks in the war against
the Turks. Among this poet’s works are "Dunciad" and "Don Juan."
ANSWER: George Gordon Noël, Lord Byron
2. 30-20-10. Name the man.
Please remember, the opposing team gets a chance after each clue to pick up the points. The question ends when a team gets the
answer correct, with the number of points given according to the value of the clue.
[30]
[20]
[10]
As a young man, he wrote a book entitled In Defense of the Seven Sacraments as a response to
those in England who wished to break from the Roman Catholic church.
His only son, Edward VI, was a sickly boy whose reign, upon succeeding his father, was both
ineffectual and short.
He officially founded the Church of England.
ANSWER: Henry VIII of England
3. For 10 points each, identify the SI units of:
a.
luminous intensity
ANSWER: candela
b.
electric tension
ANSWER: volt
c.
conductance
ANSWER: siemens
4. You may know who painted what, but do you know where it’s at? For 10 points each, given a
famous painting, name the museum where it resides.
a.
American Gothic by Grant Wood
ANSWER: Art Institute of Chicago
b.
Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
ANSWER: Galleria degli Uffizi
c.
Burning of the Houses of Parliament by J.M.W. Turner
ANSWER: Tate Gallery
5. The position of Surgeon General of the U.S. has been oddly controversial recently. Identify the
following people associated with that post, for the stated number of points.
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a.
b.
c.
[5]
This former Surgeon General, who served under George Bush, declined a waiver to be
buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
ANSWER: C. Everett Koop
[10]
This Clinton appointee was forced to resign after stating her views on sexual education.
ANSWER: Joycelyn Elders
[15]
He was sworn in as Surgeon General in March, despite the Vice President
misidentifying him as "Dr. Hatcher" and the President misidentifying him as "Dr. Thatcher".
ANSWER: Dr. David Satcher (M.D./Ph.D., alumni of CWRU medical school)
6. Name the island group from a brief description, 10 points each.
a.
Spanish islands located off the coast of Morocco.
ANSWER: Canary Islands
b.
Independent islands, located in La Manche. Examples are Aldernay, Guernsey, and Jersey.
ANSWER: Channel Islands
c.
An independent African country, their capital is at Victoria.
ANSWER: Seychelles
7. 10 points each, given these Latin terms from the field of law, give the English meaning.
a.
no-lo con-ten-de-re
ANSWER: no contest
b.
a-mi-cus cu-ri-ae
ANSWER: friend of the court
c.
habeas corpus
ANSWER: you may have the body or equivalent
8. Name these swords, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
Arthur extracted this sword from a stone which won him the crown.
ANSWER: Excalibur or Caliburn
b.
[10]
This is held by a single hair over the head of the "owner."
ANSWER: Sword of Damocles or Damocletian or Damoclean sword
c.
[15]
Buried with Charlemagne is this sword.
ANSWER: Joyeuse
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9. Expand these acronyms related to money in a bank, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
CD
ANSWER: Certificate of Deposit
b.
[10]
FDIC
ANSWER: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
c.
[15]
NOW account
ANSWER: Negotiable Orders of Withdrawal account
10. Answer these questions on the 1998 Oscars, 10 points each.
a.
This movie won the Oscar for best original musical/comedy score.
ANSWER: The Full Monty (Anne Dudley, composer)
b.
Nominated for Best Song was Tricia Yearwood’s "How Do I Live?", featured in this movie.
ANSWER: Con Air
c.
This studio picked up an Oscar for Jerry’s Game for best animated short film. Name this
company better known for its role in producing Toy Story.
ANSWER: Pixar Animated Studios
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ROUND 1: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Notable Americans
American Literature: Novels
Biological Sciences: Tests, Tests, Tests.
Fine Arts: Refreshing Movements
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Sequences & Series
Physical Sciences
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Got Soul?
Social Sciences: Anthropology
Sports & Entertainment:
World Geography: Cities
World History: Spear Me the Sob Story
World Literature: What the …?
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 1: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Notable Americans
American Literature: Novels
Biological Sciences: Tests, Tests, Tests.
Fine Arts: Refreshing Movements
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Sequences & Series
Physical Sciences
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Got Soul?
Social Sciences: Anthropology
Sports & Entertainment:
World Geography: Cities
World History: Spear Me the Sob Story
World Literature: What the …?
ROUND 2: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus related to the tossup.
Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
The origin of this term comes from a smelly item used to divert less well-trained dogs at a fox
hunt. For 10 points, what phrase now refers to an attempt to change the subject, diverting attention
from the real point?
ANSWER: red herring
BONUS. Name these things having to do the Red Army, 10 points each.
1.1.
What commissar for war founded the Soviet Union’s Red Army?
ANSWER: Leon Trotsky
1.2.
The United Red Army from what country is a leftist terrorist organization which has seized
embassies and is best known for a massacre at Tel Aviv’s Lod Airport?
ANSWER: Japan
2.
The third is set in a tavern. The fourth is The Arrested, Going to Court. The fifth is The Wedding.
The seventh depicts a prison. The eighth and final painting is The Madhouse. For 10 points, name this
series of paintings, completed in 1733, created by William Hogarth.
ANSWER: The Rake’s Progress
BONUS. Make Progress on these questions, and you’ll profit by 10 points per part.
2.1.
Which British author wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress?
ANSWER: John Bunyan
2.2.
This philosopher from Elea’s paradox posits that progress towards a goal is futile, and that
such goals can never be reached.
ANSWER: Zeno of Elea
3.
This planet of our solar system is shrouded by a bright, irregularly-shaped cloud known as the
“Scooter.” Frozen hydrocarbon gases like methane give this planet its aqua-blue color, resembling the
ocean. For 10 points, name this planet, currently the farthest from the sun.
ANSWER: Neptune
BONUS. Unlike the Moon, one of Neptune’s moons is spiraling inward. 10 points each.
3.1.
Name that moon.
ANSWER: Triton
3.2.
In about 100 million years, Triton will pass within this limit, and be torn apart by gravitational
forces.
ANSWER: Roche limit
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4.
Its CEO, Geoffrey Bible, has spent much of the past year testifying in court and before
Congress. The parent company of Altoids, Oscar Meyer wieners, Miller beer, Post cereals, and Cheez
Whiz – for 10 points – name this conglomerate which also manufactures Virginia Slims and Marlboro
cigarettes.
ANSWER:
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
BONUS. According to the Competitive Media Reporting and Publishers Information Bureau, in
1995, Philip Morris was the third-largest advertiser in America in terms of total dollars spent. Five
points each, name any four of the other six non-car companies in the top 10. You have 15 seconds.
ANSWERS (four needed for five points each):
Procter & Gamble, Co.
The Walt Disney Co., Inc.
Pepsico or Pepsi Co.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. or AT&T
Johnson & Johnson Co.
Ford's local dealer association
If all 20 points are not converted, the opposing team gets a chance to steal for 20 minus the number of points already converted
by the first team.
5.
Last name will suffice. Kenneth Robert. Alexis May. Natalie Sue. Kelsey Ann. Brandon James.
Nathanial Roy. Joel Steven. These were the seven children, for 10 points, born in Des Moines, Iowa,
on November 19, 1997, to what lucky couple?
ANSWER: Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey /“McCoy”/ [odds of 7 kids = 1 in 262 billion]
BONUS. Identify these other multiple births, 10 points each.
5.1.
ABCNews has done a series of specials focusing on the lives of these sextuplets.
ANSWER: the Dickey sextuplets
5.2.
These babies were the subject of the miniseries Million Dollar Babies.
ANSWER: the Dionne quintuplets
6.
In March, Kansas City saw NCAA history as Pat Summitt won her third consecutive title,
with a perfect season. For a quick ten points, as coach of which basketball team in bright orange and
white?
ANSWER: University of Tennessee or the Lady Volunteers
BONUS. For 10 points each, given the NCAA Men’s Basketball region and host city give the name
of the arena in which the games were played for 10 points each.
6.1.
South Region, St. Petersburg, FL
ANSWER: Tropicana Field
6.2.
East Region, Hartford, CT
ANSWER: Hartford Civic Center
7.
In Islam, this is the role played by Izra’il. In a famous 1866 speech, he “has been abroad
throughout the land: you may almost hear the beating of his wings.” For 10 points, name this religious
figure, which is also the popular nickname of Josef Mengele.
ANSWER: The Angel of Death
BONUS. Answer these related questions, for ten points each.
7.1.
This speech was given by John Bright, a member of Parliament, who was protesting against
what event?
ANSWER: The Crimean War
7.2.
This company is currently advertising a new line of lingerie known as “Angels 2000.”
ANSWER: Victoria’s Secret
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8.
This fruit of the genus Sam-bu-cus grows in clusters and is red, blue, black or yellow. A folk
remedy used to treat stomachaches and bruises and used as a diuretic, it is more commonly used for a
pie-filling, jelly, or wine. For 10 points, according to a Monty Python movie, “your mother was a
hamster and your father smelt of” what fruit?
ANSWER: elderberry or elderberries
BONUS. Give the last two words of these insults heaped upon English knights in the classic movie
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 10 points each.
8.1.
“Go boil your bottom, sons of a . . .”
ANSWER: silly person
8.2.
“I one more time, mac, unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a . . .”
ANSWER: window dresser
9.
Many of the sheep she bred on the Hill Top Farm estate won prizes. She had once been
engaged to Norman Warne, the youngest son of her publisher, but he died of pernicious anemia before
their marriage. For 10 points, name this children’s writer and illustrator who first created in a letter to
a sick Noel Moore the character of Peter Rabbit.
ANSWER: Beatrix Potter
BONUS. Name these Beatrix Potter characters, ten points each.
9.1.
In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, this Kitten was put into a pudding by a rat.
ANSWER: Tom Kitten
9.2.
In The Tale of Tom Kitten, these naughty creatures, including Jemima, steal Tom’s clothes.
ANSWER: Puddle-ducks (prompt on “duck”)
10.
Examples included the la-que-a-ri-i, the hop-lo-ma-chi, the an-da-ba-tae, the se-cu-tor, the
re-ti-a-ri-us, and the mir-mil-lo-nes. Do-mi-tian enjoyed some who were women or dwarves. For 10
points, name this Roman profession who lived or died by spectators’ thumbs.
ANSWER: gladiator
BONUS. Identify these personalities of the Gladiatorial War against Rome, 10 points each.
10.1. This commander volunteered to go against the runaway slaves and defeated Spartacus.
ANSWER: Marcus Licinius Crassus
10.2. In 71, this man returned from Spain, defeated what was left of the slave army, and took credit
for the victory.
ANSWER: Pompey the Great or Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
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ROUND 2: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category Quiz question. Opponents
can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History
American Literature: Curses, Foiled Again
Biological Sciences: Ecology
Fine Arts: Musical Terms
General Knowledge & Trivia: Shopping
Mathematics: Speed without Sandra Bullock
Physical Sciences: Physics
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Heretics?
Social Sciences: The Tower of Babel
Sports & Entertainment: Hockey
World Geography
World History
World Literature: “Old” Poetry
1. The Song of the Three Holy Children, also called the Prayer of A-za-ri-ah. The First and Second
Books of Esdras. The Prayer of Manasseh. The Book of Ruth. The rest of the chapters of the Book of
Esther. For 10 points, all of these texts appear in what portion of the Bible?
ANSWER: the Apocrypha
2. Tristan da Cunha is the most remote island inhabited by humans. The next nearest island is some
1300 miles to the northeast. For 10 points, name this island in the South Atlantic, most famous for one
of its residents of the early 1800s.
ANSWER: St. Helena
3. Perhaps the first important Jewish American writer, “The Good Anaa”, “Melanctha”, and “The
Gentle Lena” were the three stories in her first book, Three Lives. For 10 points, name this author of
Everybody’s Autobiography and “friend” of Alice B. Toklas.
ANSWER: Gertrude Stein
4. A free one undergoes negative beta decay. Its discovery led to the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for its
discoverer, James Chadwick. For 10 points, name this sub-atomic particle with zero electrical charge.
ANSWER: neutron
5. A leading figure in the Art Nouveau movement, this American, like his father Charles, would be
made a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor. For 10 points, name this artist who would sign his works
L.C.T., best known for creating lamps using favrile [FAH-vril] glass.
ANSWER: Louis Comfort Tiffany [His father was Charles Tiffany, founder of the jewelry house.]
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6. He was nominated for the best supporting actor Oscar after playing a convict in 1962's Birdman of
Alcatraz. For his role as Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told, he acquired his signature haircut.
For 10 points, name this actor who played the lollipop-licking TV detective, Theo Kojak.
ANSWER: Aristoteles “Telly” Savalas
7. He served as French premier 11 times, but he is best remembered for his efforts as foreign minister
from 1925-1932. He won the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize largely for efforts to ban war. For 10 points,
name this man who drafted a 1928 treaty, with the help of American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg.
ANSWER: Aristide Briand
8. The name’s the same. The capital of British Columbia, it is also the southeasternmost state of
mainland Australia. For 10 points, give this name shared with a British Queen.
ANSWER: Victoria
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ROUND 2: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American Literature: Curses, Foiled Again. A curse by "Wizard" Maule will be lifted by the marriage
of Holgrave, a daguerrotypist [dah-GAIR-oh-typist], and Phoebe. For 15 points -- name this
novel of the Pyncheon family.
ANSWER: The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Biological Sciences: Ecology. For 15 points -- give the term which denotes the cold, coniferous biome,
characterized by evergreen trees with small, waxy needles which reduce water loss during
winter, found south of the tundra.
ANSWER: taiga
Fine Arts: Musical Terms. It is derived from the Italian for "at ease." For 15 points -- name this
somewhat slow tempo, which shares its name with an album by Herbert von Karajan
/KAH-ra-yahn/.
ANSWER: Adagio
General Knowledge & Trivia: Shopping. Warning: two answers are required! While walking the streets
in Paris, you see one person walk out of a store with a sign bearing the words bou-che-rie
che-va-line, and another walk out of a bou-lan-ge-rie. For 15 points -- all or nothing -- what two
items would those people be carrying?
ANSWERS (both answers): horsemeat and bread [accept equivalents]
Mathematics: Speed without Sandra Bullock. I kidnap Barney, drive 400 miles into a desert and
leave him for dead. For the first half of the distance, I average at 50 miles per hour (mph) and
for the rest of the trip, my average speed is 40 mph. For 15 points -- how long did it take me to
fulfill every sane person’s fantasy? You have 15 seconds.
ANSWER: 9 hours
Physical Sciences: Physics. Several fundamental atomic particles were discovered using a device in
which water vapor condenses on particles, making their paths visible as water droplets. For 15
points -- name this device.
ANSWER: cloud chamber (NOT "bubble chamber")
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Heretics? Its leader, the patriarch of Alexandria, lives in Cairo.
For 15 points -- name this Monophysite Christian church which uses Arabic.
ANSWER: Coptic Orthodox Church
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Social Sciences: The Tower of Babel. It is the oldest language spoken in Europe, but its origins are
unknown, and it is not Indo-European. For 15 points -- name this language spoken in
Southwestern Europe.
ANSWER: Basque or Euskara
Sports & Entertainment: Hockey. Acquired March 18, 1997, from Edmonton in exchange for Barry
Moore and Craig Millar, this 6-foot-1 left winger was a member of the Slovakian National
team at the 1996 World Championships. For 15 points -- name this current Buffalo Sabre, the
first to wear number 81, whose last name makes him sound like he should be the captain for the
Devils.
ANSWER: Miroslav Satan [appropriate pronunciation is “Shuh-TAHN”]
World Literature: "Old" Poetry. For 15 points -- what poem contains the lines "Though we are not
now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are -- one
equal temper of heroic heart, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will -- to strive, to seek,
to find -- and not to yield?"
ANSWER: "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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ROUND 2: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has completed the phrase "For 10 points",
+ first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are
read in order.
1. Phillies are only 5 cents. A woman in red seems to be looking at her fingernails as she sits next to a
man with a hat who’s wearing blue. We can only see the back of the man in green. The rest of the seats
are empty and the only other person is behind the counter. For 10 points -- name this icon of loneliness,
a painting by Edward Hopper.
ANSWER: Nighthawks
2. This national park, carved by erosion, contains animal fossils from 40 million years ago. Its prairie
grasslands support bison, bighorn sheep, and antelope. The South Unit belongs to the Oglala Sioux,
and contains Stronghold Table, the site of the final Ghost Dance in 1890, just a few days before the
massacre at Wounded Knee. For 10 points -- name this national park in South Dakota.
ANSWER: Badlands National Park
3. Upon awaking from a nap, he found his hat up on a tree limb and a five-cent piece on the kitchen
counter. He told everyone this was done by a witch who had flown him to New Orleans and back. All
the other slaves were mightily impressed. For 10 points -- name this servant of Widow Watkins,
whose story grew out of a prank played by Tom Sawyer.
ANSWER: Jim
4. The inner membrane has many folds called cristae, which contains the enzymes of the TCA cycle.
Between the outer and inner membrane, oxidative phosphorylation takes place. For 10 points -- name
this organelle, the location of ATP synthesis.
ANSWER: mitochondrion or mitochondria
5. She recently lost a job as a Revlon spokesperson. A graduate of Beverly Hills High School and Lewis
and Clark College -- for 10 points -- name this woman, a employee under supervision of Pentagon
spokesman Ken Bacon, best known as a White House intern.
ANSWER: Monica S. Lewinsky
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6. In How We Think, this philosopher, who died at age 92, wrote that play "apart from work is
foolishness", "may stifle educational growth", "may be demoralizing", and "may lead to irresponsible
behavior." For 10 points -- name this American philosopher, profoundly influenced by Hegel’s
idealism, the author of Experience and Education, an exponent of pragmatism.
ANSWER: John Dewey
7. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, and yes, even Bill Clinton. In fact, every
US President has used them, despite the fact that many of them refused to admit it. For 10 points -name these devices that many people use even if they do not wish to make spectacles of themselves.
ANSWER: eyeglasses [accept spectacles (on early buzz) or reasonable equivalents]
8. This city first came to prominence when it was besieged by Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon.
Later its ownership passed to Rome, when the last king of Bythinia willed away his kingdom to the
Roman Senate. For 10 points -- name this city in which the emperor celebrated Christmas at the Hagia
Sophia.
ANSWER: Constantinople or Istanbul or Byzantium
9. In the New Zealand film Heavenly Creatures, she was cast as a lesbian Catholic schoolgirl who falls in
love with a classmate and plots to kill her lover’s mother. She later appeared in such films as Jude
(1996), Hamlet, and Sense and Sensibility. For 10 points -- identify this actress, whose most recent film
earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 1998.
ANSWER: Kate Winslet
10. Some sources claim he was the son of the Thracian king O-ea-grus by the Muse Calliope.
According to Greek myth, this Argonaut was torn to pieces by Maenads; his head drifted to Lesbos and
became an oracle there. His most famous story, though, does not appear in early Greek myths. For 10
points -- name this ancient Greek songster, who failed to regain his wife Eurydice.
ANSWER: Orpheus
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ROUND 2: STRETCH ROUND BONI
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1.
For 15 points each, identify the Shakespearean character who said these words, given a quote.
You’ll get 5 points if you need the play.
Please remember, the opposing team gets a chance after each clue to pick up the points. The question ends when a team gets the
answer correct, with the number of points given according to the value of the clue.
a.
b.
[15]
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?"
[5]
Much Ado About Nothing.
ANSWER: Benedick
[15]
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
[5]
Hamlet.
ANSWER: Claudius
2. Songs named for women appear on occasion. Name these women’s names, 10 points each, based
on clues about the songs.
a.
Elvis Costello sang about this woman whose "aim is true," while the Gin Blossoms sang about
how they were lost on this "road."
ANSWER: Allison
b.
This song by the Cufflinks is the "theme song" for Ally McBeal’s therapist.
ANSWER: Tracy
c.
Featured in Dexy’s Midnight Runners’s famous hit and Save Ferris’s remake is this woman’s
name.
ANSWER: Eileen (“Come On, Eileen” [taloora aye])
3. Now you see them, now you don’t. Name these characters who become invisible, 10 points each.
a.
He was able to kill Medusa by wearing a helmet that made him invisible.
ANSWER: Perseus
b.
Mambrino’s golden helmet makes this old knight invisible.
ANSWER: Don Quixote
c.
In H. G. Wells’ novel The Invisible Man, this scientist discovers the secret of invisibility and
slowly loses his sense of morality.
ANSWER: Griffin
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4. Pencil and paper ready. A box weighing 100 Newtons is sitting on a flat surface, with a coefficient of
static friction s [mu sub s] of one half. Now answer these questions for 15 points each.
a.
How much force must you apply to the box to get the box moving?
ANSWER: 50 Newtons [sW = .5 x 100 = 50]
b.
Suppose you tilt the surface on which the box rests. At what angle will the box start sliding?
ANSWER: 30 degrees [sin 30 = .5 = s]
5. Identify these works by Nietzsche, 10 points each.
a.
This work deals with the concept of the Ü-ber-mensch, or "Superman".
ANSWER: Also Sprach Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra
b.
This 1872 book argued for a Dionysiac view of Greek literature.
ANSWER: The Birth of Tragedy or Die Geburt der Tragoedie
c.
In 1882, Nietzsche published an essay "On the Problems of" this task.
ANSWER: translation
6. 30-20-10. Identify the music group.
Please remember, the opposing team gets a chance after each clue to pick up the points. The question ends when a team gets the
answer correct, with the number of points given according to the value of the clue.
[30]
The current members of this group are Jens Lindemann, David Ohanian, Ronald Romm,
Chuck Dallenbach, and Eugene Watts, who helped found it in 1970.
[20]
They are known for an entertaining chimeric arrangement featuring their favorite piece "When
the Saints Come Marching In" and the favorite song of Queen Elizabeth II, Handel’s
"Hallelujah Chorus."
[10]
The first chamber ensemble to tour the People’s Republic of China, the five members play two
trumpets, a French horn, a tuba, and a trombone.
ANSWER: The Canadian Brass
7. Answer these questions about city name changes, 10 points each.
a.
This was the old name of Tokyo.
ANSWER: Edo
b.
This New Mexico city, once known as Palmonas Springs, then Hot Springs, changed its name
in 1950 to promote this radio/television show.
ANSWER: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (prompt on "T or C")
c.
The city of Paris, France, was originally known by this name.
ANSWER: Lutèce /loo tess/
8. Identify these -ocracies, for 10 points each.
a.
Government by the Golden Rule -- those who have the gold rule -- i.e., rule by the wealthy.
ANSWER: plutocracy
b.
Howard Scott was a major proponent of this form of government in which control would be
given to engineers.
ANSWER: technocracy
c.
In this form of government, the oldest person rules.
ANSWER: gerentocracy
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9. Identify these small biological structures, 15 points each.
a.
Along with the ethmoid bone plate and the nasal septum, this thin bone separates the nasal
cavity into two chambers. Name this small, narrow bone.
ANSWER: vomer
b.
Its name means "yellow body." Formed from the follicle after ovulation, this yellowish
structure in the ovary secretes estrogen and progesterone.
ANSWER: corpus luteum
10. Name these dead Greeks, for 15 points each.
a.
This son of Xanthippus delivered a funeral speech during the Peloponnesian War, which was
recorded by Thucydides.
ANSWER: Pericles
b.
Considered one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, he revised Draconian law into a more
humane legal code.
ANSWER: Solon
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ROUND 2: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Party Time!
American Literature: Curses, Foiled Again
Biological Sciences: Ecology
Fine Arts: Musical Terms
General Knowledge & Trivia: Shopping
Mathematics: Velocity
Physical Sciences
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Heretics?
Social Sciences: The Tower of Babel
Sports & Entertainment: Hockey
World Geography
World History
World Literature: “Old” Poetry
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 2: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Party Time!
American Literature: Curses, Foiled Again
Biological Sciences: Ecology
Fine Arts: Musical Terms
General Knowledge & Trivia: Shopping
Mathematics: Velocity
Physical Sciences
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Heretics?
Social Sciences: The Tower of Babel
Sports & Entertainment: Hockey
World Geography
World History
World Literature: “Old” Poetry
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 3: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus
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related to the tossup. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read
if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
She is the subject of he 1989 book Judgement Day by Nathaniel Brandon, while Brandon’s wife
wrote a biography on this writer. For ten points, name this forward thinking woman, née Alice
Rosenthal, the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
ANSWER: Ayn Rand (accept Alice Rosenthal on early buzz)
BONUS. Now answer these questions about Rand’s works for 10 points each.
A.
Name Rand’s famous short novel, in which the main character discovers love and
identity simultaneously.
ANSWER: Anthem
A.
This prominent American economist and public figure who contributed articles to
Rand’s treatise, Capitalism: The Ultimate Ideal.
ANSWER: Alan Greenspan
2.
Within the last month, this region has seen a renewal of ethnic violence, as Serbian police
killed over 80 ethnic Albanians in retaliation for the deaths of four Serb police by a radical Albanian
separatist group. For ten points, name this region of Serbia, 90% of whose residents are ethnic
Albanians.
ANSWER: Kosovo
BONUS. Answer these questions about the peace process in the former Yugoslavia, 10 points each.
2.1.
A.
The fragile peace currently holding in the former Yugoslav states may be traced back to the
signing of what 1995 agreement between the leaders of the warring factions?
ANSWER: Dayton Accords
The provisions of the Dayton Accords are being enforced by a multinational
military presence abbreviated as IFOR. Expand the acronym “IFOR.”
ANSWER: Implementation FORce
After his death in Rome on his 37th birthday, Giu-li-o Romano had been working on his
Transfiguration altarpiece. Asked by his patron, Pope Leo X, to design ten tapestries for the
Sistine Chapel, for ten points, name this Renaissance artist known for his fresco, The School of
Athens.
ANSWER: Raphael or Raffaello Sanzio
BONUS. Answer these questions about the School of Athens, for ten points each.
A.
He designed the architectural background for the “School of Athens” and was
depicted as Euclid. Name this chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica.
ANSWER: Donato Bramante
A.
Also depicted is this author of The Almagest, an Alexandrian astronomer best
known for his geocentric universe.
ANSWER: Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus
3.
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4.
It passes through Lake Timsah and the Great and Little Bitter Lakes, and its construction
bankrupted the first company to try it. For ten points, name this canal, built by Ferdinand de Lesseps,
completed in 1869.
ANSWER: the Suez Canal
BONUS. Name these other canals, ten points each.
A.
William H. Merritt was a Canadian entrepreneur who helped to build this canal,
bypassing the Niagara River, for importing goods to the American and Canadian
interiors.
ANSWER: Welland Canal
A.
The digestive tract is also called this “canal.”
ANSWER: alimentary canal
5.
Created in 1935 to administer the Wagner Act, its powers were amended by the
Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 and 1947’s Taft-Hartley Act. For ten points, name this independent
federal agency which only acts on petitions or charges initiated by individuals, employers, or unions.
ANSWER: National Labor Relations Board
BONUS. Identify these other independent government agencies, for ten points each.
2.
5.1. Established in 1950, it manages the US Antarctic Program and is the
executive agency for the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy,
Inc.
ANSWER: National Science Foundation
3.
5.2. Created in 1965, it gives out National Heritage Fellowship Awards.
4.
ANSWER: National Endowment for the Arts
5.
6.
In this play, a strange ailment strikes the town as inhabitants become more irritable and begin
to grow horns. For ten points, name this absurd play by Eugene Ionesco.
ANSWER: Rhinoceros or Le Rhinocéros
BONUS. Most rhinoceros species are endangered. Name these other endangered species, 10 points
each.
6.
6.1. George and Gracie, two members of this species, Mega-pte-ra
no-vae-an-gli-ae, helped save the world in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
ANSWER: humpback whale (prompt on whale)
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7.
6.2. Pongo pyg-mae-us is a great ape that can also catch human diseases.
Name this ape whose habitats have now been restricted to the islands of Sumatra
and Borneo.
ANSWER: orang utan
7.
It starts with a melody from Bach’s Wachet auf cantata while the host intones the words “Today,
I’m going to make history.” For ten points, name this Comedy Central game show on which you can
win $5,000 of the host’s salary.
ANSWER: Win Ben Stein’s Money [prompt on “Ben Stein”]
BONUS. Answer these other questions on Win Ben Stein’s Money, 10 points each.
8.
7.1. Name the Delilah to Stein’s Samson, the announcer and co-host of Win Ben
Stein’s Money.
ANSWER: Jimmy Kimmel
9.
7.2. What is the full name of the round in which you can win the $5,000?
ANSWER: the Best-of-Ten Test of Knowledge
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8.
British researcher Harold W. Kroto shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Rice
University professors Robert Curl, Jr., and Richard Smalley. The three were honored for their role in
discovering, For ten points, what allotrope of carbon with molecular weight 720.60?
ANSWER:
buckminsterfullerene (accept “buckyball” or “C60”)
BONUS. Rice University is famous not only for its chemists but also for its writers. Name these
authors who were once Rice students, 10 points each.
A.
Prolific novelist and short story writer, she published A Garden of Earthly Delights, Expensive
People, and a Bloodsmoor Romance; she won the 1969 National Book Award for them.
ANSWER:
Joyce Carol Oates
A.
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, this novelist's most famous local-color creation is Lonesome Dove.
10.
ANSWER:
Larry McMurtry
11.
9.
This kingdom revived under the rule of Kashta and it began a northward conquest under Piye.
In the 6th century AD, it moved its capital to Me-ro-e from Na-pa-ta, which had been sacked by Egypt.
For ten points, name this region the ancient Greeks called Ethiopia, in the southern part of Nubia.
ANSWER: Cush or Kush [Prompt on Nubia]
BONUS. Answer these questions about Cush kings, for ten points each.
12.
9.1. Ta-har-qa, the fourth king of the Cushite or 25th dynasty of Egypt, was
defeated by Es-ar-had-don, ruler of this kingdom, whose capital at the time was
Nineveh.
ANSWER: Assyria
13.
9.2. When Taharqa returned, he was eventually defeated by this son of
Esarhaddon.
ANSWER: Ashurbanipal or Assurbanipal or Asurbanipal
10.
Its name comes from the fact that, just by looking at it, one can tell if a particular kind of
equation has distinct real roots, a repeated real root, or a pair of complex conjugate roots. For ten
points, name this quantity, b2 - 4ac [b squared minus 4 times a times c] for the standard quadratic
equation.
ANSWER: discriminant
BONUS. Identify the graph obtained if each of these equations is plotted, for 10 points each.
14.
10.1. x2 + y2 = 9 [x squared plus y squared equals 9]
ANSWER: circle or ellipse
15.
10.2. y = cosh x [y equals the hyperbolic cosine of x]
ANSWER: catenary (NOT hyperbola)
ROUND 3: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
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Case Western Reserve University
In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category
Quiz question. Opponents can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot
be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: It’s Party Time!
American Literature: Massachusetts Poets
Other Than Emily Dickinson
Biological Sciences
Fine Arts: Famous Sites
General Knowledge & Trivia: Are You
Being Served?
Mathematics
Physical Sciences: Favorite Compounds
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Celebrations
Social Sciences
Sports & Entertainment: Baseball
World Geography: US States
World History: Famous Names
World Literature: The Joy of Reading
1. This great economist of the 20th century wrote the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
For ten points, who is considered responsible for making deficit spending acceptable?
ANSWER: John Maynard Keynes
2. A massive storm helped Japan ward off Kubla Khan’s invasion in 1281. The Japanese people call
this storm “divine wind,” the same as the special group of Japanese jet fighters centuries later in World
War II. For ten points, identify this group of jet fighters known to perform suicide runs.
ANSWER: kamikaze
3. He is the son of nine mothers and a god of light. He has golden teeth and lives in the Cliffs of Heaven,
Hi-min-bjorg. For ten points, name this Norse god who will kill and be killed by Loki at Ragnarok,
before which he will sound Gjall, his horn.
ANSWER: Heimdall
4. From the Greek meaning “a twig,” this is a process of asexual, single-parent reproduction. The
offspring of this process has the same genetic blueprint as the parent. For ten points, name this process
recently made famous by a sheep named Dolly.
ANSWER: clone or cloning
5. His new rap music label is Alto/Pazz Records, named for the Altadena/Pasadena area of California
where he now lives. For ten points, name this man who insists he thought of the idea for this label the
very night his beating by police was videotaped in 1991.
ANSWER: Rodney King
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6. The name’s the same. One is the owner of the Tabard Inn, who convinces the Canterbury pilgrims
to tell their tales. The other is the younger brother in Frank Capra’s film classic It’s a Wonderful Life. For
ten points, give the common name.
ANSWER: Harry Bailey
7. It refers to John Mark Ainsley, John Aler, and Karl Dent, among others. Once the name for the part
which held the Gregorian can-tus fir-mus, it now ranges from about the second B below middle C to the
G above. For ten points, name this vocal range exemplified by Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti.
ANSWER: tenors
8. He would use the name Arisz-tid Olt in Hungary before fleeing to Germany and later to the US. His
only comedic role in Hollywood came in 1939's Ni-notch-ka. For ten points, name this actor, buried
with a cape, once accompanied to a movie premiere by a gorilla, who would give interviews from a
coffin.
ANSWER: Bela Lugosi or Bela Blasco
ROUND 3: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American History: It's Party Time! This political party was formed to try to resolve the tension
between the North and the South by upholding the enforcement of the laws. For 15 points -what political party nominated John Bell of Tennessee in the election of 1860?
ANSWER: Constitutional Union Party
American Literature: Massachusetts Poets Other Than Emily Dickinson. His first volume of poems
was the 1841 A Year’s Life. Later in life, he served as American minister to Spain and Britain.
For 15 points -- name this Cambridge poet who also published the collections Under the Willows,
The Cathedral, and Heartsease and Rue.
ANSWER: James Russell Lowell
Fine Arts: Famous Sites. For 15 points -- all or nothing -- arrange the following in chronological order
of completion: the Brandenburg Gate, the Palace of Versailles, and the Taj Mahal.
ANSWER: Taj Mahal (1648), Versailles (1685), Brandenburg Gate (1791)
General Knowledge & Trivia: Are You Being Served? Warning: two answers required. Humanity,
impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality are the seven
fundamental principles that guide two related organizations. For 15 points -- name both
organizations that assist in saving lives during emergencies, whose American chapter was
founded by Clara Barton.
ANSWER: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Physical Sciences: Favorite Compounds. It is also called oil of vitriol. A good dehydrating agent, it is
the most highly produced chemical in the United States. For 15 points -- name this polyprotic
strong acid.
ANSWER: sulfuric acid or H2 SO4
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Celebrations. Gambling brings good luck, lamps are set adrift
on rivers, and the fourth day is the beginning of the new year. For 15 points -- name this
five-day religious festival beginning in the month of Ashvina and ending in Kartika.
ANSWER: Divali or Diwali
Sports & Entertainment: Baseball. He appeared at Wrestlemania XIV and heckled the Boston crowd,
only to be pile-driven by Kane. For 15 points -- name the only baseball player to play 500 games at five
different positions.
ANSWER: Peter Edward Rose
World Geography: US States. Of states with counties, it has the fewest--three. For 15 points -- name
this state, home to the world headquarters of the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Corporation.
ANSWER: Delaware
World History: Famous Names. Though not a direct descendant, his name, coupled with his more
distant relations, helped him dominate his country’s politics in the 1800s. For 15 points -whose imperial hopes were dashed when he was defeated and captured by the Germans at the
Battle of Sedan?
ANSWER: Napoleon III or Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
World Literature: The Joy of Reading. His autobiography is entitled Surprised by Joy. For 15 points -name this author better known for such novels as The Screwtape Letters.
ANSWER: Clive Staples Lewis
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ROUND 3: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has
completed the phrase “For 10 points”, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents
can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are read in order.
1. Its revised version was first performed on August 25, 1977 at Mainz, then in West Germany, by the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and it is scored for orchestra, soprano, boys’ choir, mixed chorus and
speaker. For 10 points -- name this symphony, with an Aramaic prayer text and spoken text,
composed by Leonard Bernstein.
ANSWER: Kaddish Symphony or Symphony No. 3
2. The name’s the same. This experimental, apolitical literary journal, edited by Wallace Henry
Thurman, lasted one issue, November 1926, but influenced the Harlem Renaissance. In gemstones, it
is a rapidly changing flash of color caused by dispersion. For 10 points -- name the “object” which
prehistoric man “created” by using pyrite and flint.
ANSWER: fire [Note: the journal was Fire!!!]
3. His betrothed is Aude, whose brother, Oliver, is blinded and accidentally strikes this man. He is the
victim of a plot between the Saracens and his stepfather, Ganelon. For 10 points -- name this epic hero,
who died at the Battle of Roncevalles.
ANSWER: Roland
4. Gilbert Ryle used this term to describe what he considers a logically incoherent dogma of Cartesian
dualism: that the mind is a mysterious object in addition to the human body which is not subject to
mechanical laws. For 10 points -- name this concept which sounds like a haunted computer, also the
title of an album by the Police.
ANSWER: ghost-in-the-machine
5. Classically, it referred to a meter of alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter. Matthew
Arnold’s “Thyrsis” is an example of the pastoral type, which also includes John Milton’s “Lycidas”.
For 10 points -- name this meditative lyric poem, such as A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying
Young,” which laments the death of its subject.
ANSWER: elegy
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6. Henry Peterson was Assistant Attorney General, William Casey was later head of the CIA, Fred
Fielding was a deputy of John Dean, Leonard Garment was a presidential lawyer, Al Haig was a
presidential aide, and Diane Sawyer was the press assistant. For 10 points -- Ben Bradlee knows but
“hasn’t told a soul” whether one of them is what midnight parking garage denizen, Bob Woodward’s
famous source known by what nickname?
ANSWER: Deep Throat
7. In zoology, it is a group of same-species organisms living together in an organized fashion. Some
birds form temporary ones for breeding, while more permanent ones include polyps in cni-da-ri-ans,
zoo-ids in bryozoans, and groups of ants or bees. For 10 points -- what also describes a group of
persons institutionalized away from others, as in leper or penal?
ANSWER: colony
8. This poet wrote a prose work Alide based on Goethe’s biography. The namesake of the Federation
of Jewish Women’s Clubs which split from the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, this child of Sephardic
Jews was concerned with the plights of Jews worldwide. For 10 points -- name this poet, who said,
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” in her sonnet “The New Colossus”.
ANSWER: Emma Lazarus
9. It is the number of kingdoms which Korea was divided into from 57 BC to 668 AD and it is the
number of same-named namesakes of the 1587 to 1589 conflict, the last of the Wars of Religion in
France. For 10 points -- what is also the number of wars fought between Rome and Carthage?
ANSWER: three [Note: the war was The War of the Three Henrys]
10. Kaddish. Fire. Roland. Ghost in the Machine. Elegy. Deep Throat. Colony. Lazarus. Three. For
10 points -- these are all episodes of what TV show that has begun filming its sixth season in dark,
Gothic-looking Los Angeles?
ANSWER: The X-Files
BONUS. Answer these questions related to Blackwood, the working title of The X-Files movie, 10
points each.
I.
Easley Blackwood composed 12 Microtonal Études for this instrument, designed
by Harry Olson and Herbert Belar in the 1950s, a version of which was created by
Robert Moog.
ANSWER: synthesizer
I.
In 1981, Nina Blackwood became the first person to hold this job.
ANSWER: MTV VJ or veejay
I.
In the August 1818 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, J. G. Lockhart
attacked this mythological work by John Keats, which included a “Hymn to Pan” in
Book 1.
ANSWER: Endymion: A Poetic Romance
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ROUND 3: STRETCH ROUND BONI
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0_ Identify these legal terms which all begin with the letter “e”, for 10 points each.
16.
a.
The crime of attempting to corrupt a juror.
ANSWER: embracery
17.
b.
An illegal intrusion onto property. This term may also be heard in football.
ANSWER: encroachment
18.
c.
The fradulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been
entrusted.
ANSWER: embezzlement
0_ VISUAL BONUS. Consider the two-by-two matrix on the sheet of paper handed to you.
(
1
2
(
(
-4
6
(
Now answer these questions, 15 points per part. You have 10 seconds per part.
19.
a.
Give the values in order of the first row of the transpose of A.
ANSWER: 1, -4
20.
b.
Give the values in order of the first column of A2.
ANSWER: -7, -28 [(1 x 1) + (2 x -4) = -7; (-4 x 1) + (6 x -4) = -28]
0_ Given a description, identify the explorer for 10 points each.
_
He set a base near Iroquois Indians at Quebec, but he later angered the Iroquois
by kidnaping two of their chiefs and taking them to France.
ANSWER: Jacques Cartier
_
He tried to follow Vasco de Gama’s instructions to get to India in 1500, and took
a detour through South America.
ANSWER: Pedro Alvares Cabral
_
This man died, ironically, rounding the Cape of Good Hope on Cabral’s voyage to India.
ANSWER: Bartolomeu Dias or Diaz
0_ Name the following artists given their home country and some works, for 10 points each.
I.
The American famous for American Gothic
ANSWER: Grant Wood
I.
The Norwegian famous for Dance of Life
ANSWER: Edvard Munch
I.
The Frenchman famous for various Arabian scenes and Liberty Leading the People.
ANSWER: Eugène Delacroix
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0_ 302010. Name the actor from movies.
[30]
Cross of Iron and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
[20]
Sister Act 2 and Young Guns 2
[10]
Our Man Flint and The Great Escape
ANSWER: James Coburn
0_ Given the state flower, name the state, for ten points each.
21.
a.
sunflower
ANSWER: Kansas
22.
b.
yucca
ANSWER: New Mexico
23.
c.
hibiscus
ANSWER: Hawaii
0_ Identify these things related to civil engineer Sir Benjamin Baker, for ten points each.
24.
a.
Baker designed the railway bridge spanning this estuary which stretches
from Kincardine to the Isle of May in Scotland.
ANSWER: Firth of Forth [Do not accept “the River Forth”]
25.
b.
In the Forth Bridge, Baker used these beams, which are supported at only
one end.
ANSWER: cantilever
26.
c.
Baker played a role in transporting this item from Alexandria, Egypt to
London. where it was erected on the Thames Embankment.
27.
ANSWER: Cleopatra’s Needle or obelisk
28.
0_ See how hard these questions on mineralogy are, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
This geological scale of hardness is based on how a surface of a material resists
scratching.
ANSWER: Mohs scale
b.
[10]
This mineral property describes the degree of light reflection of the material.
ANSWER: luster
c.
[15]
Cy-mo-phane is the rarest form of this gemstone, unique for its property of
cha-to-yance.
ANSWER: cat’s eye or tigereye
0_ During the funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, five male members of the Princess’s
family walked behind her coffin. One was Prince Charles. Ten points each, name three of the other
four. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWERS (three needed):
HRH, Prince William of Wales
HRH, Prince Henry of Wales (Prince Harry)
HRH, the Duke of Edinburgh or Prince Philip
Earl or Lord or Charles Spencer
Please note that Bonus #10 is associated with Tossup #10 and should be read after that tossup,
regardless of how many questions were answered correctly.
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ROUND 3: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: It’s Party Time!
American Literature: Massachusetts Poets
Other Than Emily Dickinson
Biological Sciences
Fine Arts: Famous Sites
General Knowledge & Trivia: Are You
Being Served?
Mathematics
Physical Sciences: Favorite Compounds
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Celebrations
Social Sciences
Sports & Entertainment: Baseball
World Geography: US States
World History: Famous Names
World Literature: The Joy of Reading
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 3: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: It’s Party Time!
American Literature: Massachusetts Poets
Other Than Emily Dickinson
Biological Sciences
Fine Arts: Famous Sites
General Knowledge & Trivia: Are You
Being Served?
Mathematics
Physical Sciences: Favorite Compounds
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Celebrations
Social Sciences
Sports & Entertainment: Baseball
World Geography: US States
World History: Famous Names
World Literature: The Joy of Reading
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 4: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus
related to the tossup. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read
if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
After the German surrender in 1945, Allied leaders intended to meet in Berlin. But there were
no buildings available, so they met in, for 10 points, what German city, former seat of the
Hohenzollern dynasty, to discuss the fate of Europe?
ANSWER: Potsdam
BONUS. Name these other conferences for 10 points each.
1.1
This Middle Eastern city was the site of the first wartime meeting between Churchill, Stalin
and FDR, and a follow-up to the Casablanca meeting.
ANSWER: the Tehran (Teheran) conference
1.2. In May of 1998, citing the loss of traditional rivalries, this athletic conference of
16 teams found itself reduced to 8.
ANSWER: Western Athletic Conference or WAC
2.
This professor gained notoriety as an outspoken opponent of US involvement in Vietnam, but
is best known in academic circles as the founder of generative grammar. For 10 points, name this
author of Transformational Analysis, Syntactic Structures, and Language and Responsibility, an MIT
linguist.
ANSWER:
Avram Noam Chomsky (NOT Dr. Benjamin Spock)
BONUS. 20-10-5. Identify these two men.
[20]
One of them detected the regular pattern of consonant change within Germanic languages.
The rule is still important in historical linguistics and bears his name.
[10]
Their most ambitious project was the Deutsches Woerterbuch, an annotated German dictionary.
[5]
Considered the founders of the science of folklore, they gathered hundreds of songs and stories
in a classic collection.
ANSWER:
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm or the Brothers Grimm
3.
This chemical element has a melting point of 29C, which means it is a solid at room
temperature but would melt in your mouth -- which would be a bad place to put it, since alkali metals
are very reactive. For 10 points, name this metal which has an atomic weight of 132.91 and atomic
number 55.
ANSWER: cesium or Cs
BONUS. Given a chemical element, name the element that appears just below it in the periodic table,
10 points each.
A.
calcium
ANSWER: strontium or Sr
3.2.
krypton
ANSWER: xenon or Xe
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4.
This English philosopher known as the father of utilitarianism had his body embalmed so it
could attend the board meetings of University Hospital in London after his death. His body is
displayed there today. For 10 points, name this author of The Fragment on Government.
ANSWER: Jeremy Bentham
BONUS. Answer these questions related to contemporaries of Bentham, 10 points each.
29.
4.1. This English philosopher and economist was a child prodigy; late in life, he
became an advocate of women’s suffrage as shown in his book On the Subjection
of Women.
ANSWER: John Stuart Mill
30.
4.2. Another contemporary of Bentham was this poet, known for his book
Biographica Literaria and his poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.
Smartcan, DISK-REET, NDOS [EN-doss], System Watch, WipeInfo, File Fix, I-N-I Tracker,
Disk Doctor, and Speedisk are, for 10 points, included in what workhorse collection of software for
data protection and recovery produced by Symantec?
ANSWER: Norton Utilities
BONUS. Identify the companies behind these software programs, for 10 points each.
A.
FrontPage, an HTML editor
31.
ANSWER: Microsoft Corp. [prompt on “Evil Empire”]
A.
WordPerfect Suite 8
32.
ANSWER: Corel Corp. [NOT “Novell”]
33.
6.
In the movie Primary Colors, he appears in a brief cameo role, during which campaign spin
doctors play doctored tapes of his own cellular phone calls. For 10 points, name this man, born Larry
Ziegler, who hosts a "Live" CNN television show.
ANSWER:
Larry King [accept “Larry Ziegler” on early buzz]
BONUS. Given the real name, identify the stage name of these singers, for the stated number of
points.
6.1.
[5]
Robert Zimmerman
ANSWER:
Bob Dylan
6.2.
[5]
Steveland Morris
ANSWER:
Stevie Wonder
6.3.
[10]
Dana Owens
ANSWER:
Queen Latifah
7.
L. Patrick Gray, Herb Kalmbach, Ron Ziegler, Charles Colson, Jeb Magruder, John
Ehrlichman, Bob Haldeman, John Dean, and G. Gordon Liddy were all figures in, for 10 points, what
Nixonera scandal?
ANSWER: Watergate break-in
BONUS. Name these other American political scandals for 10 points each.
A.
It was the name of a joint stock company under the control of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company which reaped huge, although unscrupulous, profits.
ANSWER: Crédit Mobilier
A.
It involved the transfer of 3 navy oil reserves to the Department of the Interior
during the Harding Administration.
ANSWER: Teapot Dome
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8.
He won the NASCAR points championship in 1995, and became a heartthrob for many racing
fans. For 10 points, name the good-looking young driver of the DuPont sponsored No. 24 Chevrolet.
ANSWER:
Jeff Gordon
BONUS. Give the number of these NASCAR stars' cars for 10 points each.
8.1.
Dale Earnhardt
ANSWER:
3
8.2.
Kyle Petty
ANSWER:
44
34.
9.
In the background, four people walk up a set of stairs, while another man sits looking away
from the bed. The title character, sitting on the bed, points his left hand upward, while reaching with
his right hand for a cup of hemlock. For 10 points, name this famous painting by Jacques-Louis David
/dah-VEED/.
ANSWER: The Death of Socrates (do NOT prompt or accept “Socrates”)
BONUS. Identify these other subjects of paintings by David [DAH-veed], 10 points each.
35.
9.1. David painted the death scene of this French Revolutionary leader.
ANSWER: Jean Paul Marat
36.
9.2.
David painted a portrait of this chemist, author of The Elementary Treatise
on Chemistry, who formalized the system of atomic weights, and was executed for
once being a tax collector.
ANSWER: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier [luh-VWAH-zee-ay]
10.
He suggested students be rewarded, not punished, in his book Bonifacius, or Essays to Do Good.
He told of his support for smallpox inoculation in his Curiosa Americana, which led to membership in
London’s Royal Society. For 10 points, name this clergyman who wrote the Magnalia Christi
Americana.
ANSWER: Cotton Mather
BONUS. Identify these places related to other Mathers, 10 points each.
37.
10.1. Cotton’s father, Increase, received a master’s degree from this college,
whose alternate name is the University of Dublin.
ANSWER: Trinity College
38.
10.2. Cotton’s grandfather, Richard, became a minister in this Massachusetts
town, site of the first recorded town hall meeting in 1633.
ANSWER: Dorchester
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category
Quiz question. Opponents can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot
be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Money, Money, Money?
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Name the Animal
Fine Arts: Symphonies
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences: Wet Wet Wet
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: Development
Sports & Entertainment: Movie Professions
World Geography: Moving Capitals
World History:
World Literature: Russian
1. According to legend, it originated in 1823 when British soccer player William Webb Ellis picked up
the ball and ran with it. The first amateur organization was established in 1871, and the first
professional league formed in 1895. For 10 points, name this sport first played at an eponymous
school.
ANSWER: rugby
2. This playwright requested that his tombstone read, “There is something to be said for being dead.”
For 10 points, name this playwright who won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama, for the plays Beyond the
Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and A Long Day’s Journey into Night.
ANSWER: Eugene O’Neill
3. This disease, first diagnosed in Germany in 1795, takes its name from the Latin word for “sausage”.
For 10 points, identify this disease, a type of food poisoning caused by a bacteria of the genus
Clos-tri-di-um.
ANSWER: botulism [BOT(CH)-you-lism]
4. Gorgias of Leontini, Thrasymachus, Antiphon, Hippias, Prodicus, and Protagoras were described
as catering to public opinion so as to attract more pupils, according to critics such as Plato. For 10
points, they were members of what school whose name comes from the Greek for “wise”?
ANSWER: Sophists or sophistry (accept sophism)
5. Men-de is the principal southern vernacular, Tem-ne the northern vernacular, English the official
language, and Kri-o, the language of some re-settled ex-slaves, the lingua franca. For 10 points, name
this country, burdened by refugees from the civil war in Liberia, with capital at Freetown.
ANSWER: Republic of Sierra Leone
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6. In a brilliant piece of political timing, a prominent Democrat acknowledged an affair with an
underling, but claimed it to be nonsexual. For 10 points, who is this governor of Colorado and General
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee?
ANSWER: Roy Romer
7. Economies of scale occur when the average cost of making a product falls due to an increase in the
scale of production. For 10 points, what term refers to the fall in the average cost of production when
a single firm uses its resources to produce a range of goods and services?
ANSWER: economies of scope
8. This man, called “The Liberator” in South America, led the revolution that freed Venezuela,
Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru from Spain. For 10 points, name this revolutionary for whom Bolivia is
named.
ANSWER: Simon Bolivar
ROUND 4: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American History: Money, Money, Money? He established the colony of Nueva Helvetia at the
junction of the American and Sacramento Rivers. For 15 points -- name this man whose land
was overrun by squatters after the 1849 discovery of gold.
ANSWER: John Augustus Sutter
Biological Sciences: Name the Animal. It is the name for any member of the 22 species of the family
Per-a-mel-i-dae. For 15 points -- "pig rat" is the translation of the name of what animal which,
unlike other marsupials, has a placenta, though it lacks villi?
ANSWER: bandicoots
Fine Arts: Symphonies. The second section of this musical work is a largo, based on Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem "The Song of Hiawatha" and includes a melody that inspired
the spiritual "Goin’ Home." For 15 points -- name this symphony by Antonin Dvo ak
[DVOHR-zhak], inspired by his study of American music.
ANSWER: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines. When it forgot to print tiebreaker rules for one of its
ubiquitous contests, it was forced to award the grand prize to over 1,000 entrants. For 15 points
-- name this magazine edited by Will Shortz, whose readers covet the second-place prizes -T-shirts.
ANSWER: Games magazine
Mathematics: Algebra. For 15 points -- give the equation of the line normal to the curve y = 2x2 - 5x
+ 8 [y equals two x squared minus 5 x plus 8] at x = 2. You have 30 seconds.
ANSWER: x + 3y = 20 or y = -x/3 + 20/3 or y = (20 -x)/3
Physical Sciences: Wet Wet Wet. This effect results in a loss of energy in oscillating systems,
decreasing the amplitude of oscillation. For 15 points -- name this physical property that can
be used to help absorb impacts in helmets or car shocks.
ANSWER: damping or dampening
Social Sciences: Development. In the first two years of life, a child becomes aware of himself as
separate from his environment and tries to master physical reflexes. For 15 points -- name this
first of Jean Piaget’s four stages of development.
ANSWER: sensorimotor stage
Sports & Entertainment: Movie Professions. Ferro, Wierz-bow-ski, Spunkmeyer, Dietrich, Frost,
Drake, Crowe, Gorman, Hudson, Apone, Hicks, Vasquez. For 15 points -- what profession do
these people share?
ANSWER: space marines from Aliens
World Geography: Moving Capitals. Recently, Nigeria’s government decided to move the capital
from Lagos. For 15 points -- to what other city was the capital moved?
ANSWER: Abuja [ah-BOO-zhuh]
World Literature: Russian. He spent several years in the army, but resigned his commission in 1844
to devote himself to writing. For 15 points -- name this Russian writer of The Idiot.
ANSWER: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has
completed the phrase "For 10 points", + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents
can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are read in order.
1. When Gauss was in second grade, his class was unruly one day, and the teacher told the students
that they couldn’t leave until they had each added up all of the numbers from 1 to 100. The young
Gauss knew a shortcut, and in a few seconds he handed the correct answer to his startled teacher. For
10 points -- what is the sum of the positive integers from 1 to 100? You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: 5050
2. He studied at the University of In-gol-stadt under Wallman and Krem-pe. He married Elizabeth
Lavenza, an orphan his family had raised, but she was killed on her wedding night. He pursued the
killer to the Arctic ice pack. He never caught the murderer, but instead died aboard the ship of polar
explorer Robert Walton. For 10 points -- name this character created by Mary Shelley.
ANSWER: Dr. Victor Frankenstein
3. It was paid for by the sale of military equipment left behind by the An-ta-go-nids of Macedonia as
they laid siege to the capital of the combined territories of the cities of I-a-ly-sos, Ka-mi-ros, and
Lin-dos, and it commemorated the peace agreement of 304 BC. For 10 points -- Mandraki harbor was
the site of what 33-meter high statue of Helios?
ANSWER: Colossus at Rhodes
4. This technology’s innovator was Otto Schade, an RCA employee, but in 1968, research was begun
by the Japanese broadcasting company NHK. The first products using this technology will be on the
market this year, with the first broadcasts mandated by April 1999. For 10 points -- name this new
broadcast system which will become the US standard by 2006.
ANSWER: High Definition TeleVision
5. The name’s the same. In Scotland, is the location of Cadzow Castle and it was the royal burgh from
1458 to 1670. In Ohio, it is noted for the exclamation point after its name, while in Canada, it is home
to the Canadian Football League Museum. For 10 points -- what is also the name of the capital of the
British colony of Bermuda?
ANSWER: Hamilton
6. Edmund Burke said that it was caused by a “mode of terror or pain”, and that it is contrasted with
the beautiful. This aesthetic value is an awe-inspiring, transcendent greatness. For 10 points -- what
word is also the name of the band that recorded the song “What I Got” and is also a verb meaning to
pass from solid directly to vapor?
ANSWER: sublime [do not accept sublimate or sublimation]
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7. Originally a recipe for salad in a poem entitled “Mo-re-tum”, this saying was used as the motto of
Gentleman’s Magazine where it was noticed by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams.
For 10 points -- give the Latin phrase of the motto used for the Second Continental Congress, adopted
for the Great Seal, that means “out of many, one”.
ANSWER: E pluribus unum
8. The 1754 book The Gentleman and the Cabinet Maker’s Director, by English furniture maker Thomas
Chippendale, deals with cabinets made in this European style of the mid-1700s, noted for its
aristocratic, playful tone and fanciful curved form. For 10 points -- identify this style, a reaction
toward the overly-ornate Baroque style and a forerunner of the lighter Classical style.
ANSWER: Rococo
9. This 60s rock band is well-known for their flashy concert performances as well as their innovative
songwriting. They’ve even had screen adaptations of their rock operas featuring other famous artists
like Elton John and Sting. For 10 points -- name this band -- with members John Entwistle, Keith
Moon, Pete Townshend, and Roger Daltrey -- the creators of both Quadrophenia and Tommy.
ANSWER: The Who
10. The War Memorial Museum in this city, with a population of over 800,000, has one of the world’s
finest collections of Maori art. For 10 points -- name this chief port, largest city, and industrial hub of
New Zealand, and once its capital before its 1865 transfer to Wellington.
ANSWER: Auckland
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0_ Welcome to the bonus that has gone to the dogs. Answer these questions on dogs, 10 points each.
I.
The smallest recognized dog breed, it is known popularly for answering, “What is
a logarithm?” in a Taco Bell commercial.
ANSWER: Chihuahua
I.
The roughcoated variety guards and herds sheep, while the smoothcoated help
drive livestock to market. Name this breed of whom Lassie is a member.
ANSWER: collie
I.
In 1931, the Japanese government designated this working dog a national
treasure.
ANSWER: Akita
0_ Whether you watched the USA special or not, answer these questions on Herman Melville’s Moby
Dick.
a.
[5]
This is Ahab’s ship.
ANSWER: Pequod
b.
[10]
Five points each, name the first and second mates of the Pequod.
ANSWER (in order): Starbuck and Stubb
c.
[15]
This Parsee servant of Ahab foresaw the fate of the crewmen of the Pequod.
ANSWER: Fedallah
0_ If you attended Chip Beall’s National Academic Championship two weeks ago, you may have
toured New Orleans. Let’s see how much you know about the Crescent City, 10 points each.
39.
a.
You can make a run to White Castle -- Louisiana, of course -- to visit
Nottaway, built in 1859 and is touted to be the largest one of these.
ANSWER: plantation home
40.
b.
Before the Superdome, the New Orleans Saints played at this college’s
football stadium.
ANSWER: Tulane University
41.
c.
Located next to Jackson Square is the original coffee shop open 24 hours
a day (except for Christmas and impending hurricanes), world famous for its
coffee and beignets [ben-YAYZ].
ANSWER: Café du Monde
0_ Answer these related questions, 10 points each.
42.
a.
This was the old name of Taiwan.
ANSWER: Formosa
43.
b.
From ants, we obtain this carboxylic acid.
ANSWER: formic acid
44.
c.
In Carmina burana, she is hailed as "for-mo-si-ssi-ma".
ANSWER: Venus [NOT: "Helen", "Blanchefleur", or "Aphrodite"]
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0_ 30-20-10. Identify the ancient city.
[30]
Excavations showed this area next to the river Kairatos was inhabited since Neolithic times -perhaps before 6000 BC. It is well known that the area lies on a great seismic site.
[20]
Excavations by Sir Arthur Evans at this island city revealed some 3000 clay tablets inscribed in
two scripts later known as Linear A and Linear B.
[10]
This ancient city has revealed great insights into the Minoan civilization and lies on the island
of Crete.
ANSWER: Knossos
0_ With Seinfeld going off the air, much ado has been made about this show about nothing. What do
you know? Let’s find out, 10 points each.
45.
a.
He won "The Bet."
ANSWER: George Costanza
46.
b.
The gang regularly hangs out at this coffeeshop.
ANSWER: Monk’s
47.
c.
Kramer allegedly got a role on this sitcom.
ANSWER: Murphy Brown
0_ Name these theaters, 10 points each.
I.
This theater is home of the famous Irish Theatrical Company.
ANSWER: Abbey Theater
I.
This theater’s name is translated as the "Theater at the Stairway."
ANSWER: Teatro alla Scala or La Scala
I.
While Broadway is the street synonymous with New York’s famous theatrical
district, this street is London’s.
48.
ANSWER: Drury Lane
0_ Identify these ancestors of Zeus, 5 for one, 15 per pair.
49.
a.
Zeus’s parents
ANSWER: Cronus and Rhea
b.
Zeus’s grandparents
ANSWER: Uranus and Gaea
0_ Given a level of organization in the U.S. army, give the rank of its leader, For 10 points each.
50.
a.
squad
ANSWER: staff sergeant
51.
b.
platoon
ANSWER: lieutenant
c.
brigade
ANSWER: colonel
0_ 3020105, identify the molecule.
[30]
It was discovered by Burroughs Welcome in 1964, while searching for a cure for cancer.
[20]
The generic name of this compound is zidovudine.
[10]
A derivative of thymidine, one of the reagents in its synthesis is sodium azide.
[5]
The FDA approved this reverse transcriptase inhibitor for treatment of AIDS.
ANSWER: AZT or 9azidothymidine [accept: zidovudine on 30-point clue]
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ROUND 4: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Money, Money, Money?
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Name the Animal
Fine Arts: Symphonies
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences: Wet Wet Wet
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: Development
Sports & Entertainment: Movie Professions
World Geography: Moving Capitals
World History:
World Literature: Russian
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 4: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Money, Money, Money?
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Name the Animal
Fine Arts: Symphonies
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences: Wet Wet Wet
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: Development
Sports & Entertainment: Movie Professions
World Geography: Moving Capitals
World History:
World Literature: Russian
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 5: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus
related to the tossup. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read
if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
This group was given this nickname because of their ability to adapt to the European way of
life. For 10 points, what is the collective moniker for the Native American tribes of the Chickasaw,
Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Seminole?
ANSWER: Five Civilized Tribes (prompt on any partial answer)
BONUS. No, you don’t get a Party of Five bonus. Rather, name these religious things that come in
groups of five, 10 points each.
A.
This Greek word refers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
ANSWER: Pentateuch
A.
This is the collective name of the five holy books of Confucianism.
ANSWER: The Five Classics
2.
This fictional family appears in The Town, The Mansion, and The Hamlet. For 10 points, name
this family, created by William Faulkner, that lives in Yok-na-pa-taw-pha County, Mississippi.
ANSWER: the Snopes family
BONUS. From a description that sounds like how Faulkner would describe these books name these
other books by William Faulkner 10 points each.
A.
This book by Faulkner it was a book of poetry it was published in 1924.
ANSWER: The Marble Faun
A.
It was an agonizing story a novel it was about a man named Joe Christmas name
the novel.
ANSWER: Light in August
3.
Faint ones, as viewed from Earth, include WolfHarrington and Howell. Most that pass
through our solar system are thought to originate in the Oort cloud. For 10 points, name these
astronomical travelers, more wellknown examples of which include HaleBopp and Halley’s.
ANSWER: comets
BONUS. Answer the following questions about comets, 10 points each.
A.
In July 1994, approximately 20 fragments of this comet collided with the planet
Jupiter.
ANSWER: Shoemaker-Levy 9
A.
Eyewitness accounts of a June 1908 explosion at this Siberian location led many
astronomers to believe a comet “crashed” into the Earth.
ANSWER: Tunguska [HN: Some scientists believe it exploded before impact.]
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4.
The literary version of this language was established in the 1800s, based on the Eastern dialect,
which arose in Slavic regions. It began in 10th century immigrations from France and Italy to the
Rhineland. For 10 points, name this language which lost half of its 11 million speakers during World
War II.
ANSWER: Yiddish
BONUS. It’s Yiddish to me. For 10 points each, give the word defined.
52.
4.1. Hebrew for “nation,” it became a derogatory term for a Gentile.
ANSWER: goy or goyah [fem.] or goyim [pl.]
53.
4.2. Coming from the German for “crush,” it means “to complain persistently.”
ANSWER: kvetch
54.
4.3. From the German for “juicy,” this adjective describes a curvaceous woman.
ANSWER: zaftig
5. By mass, it is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust. It is indeed a metal despite its rather
precarious position on the periodic table, along the "staircase" of metalloids. For 10 points, what is this
metal, with atomic number 13?
ANSWER: aluminum [8% of earth’s crust by mass]
BONUS. Answer these questions about aluminum, 10 points each.
5.1.
[5]
What is its most common oxidation state?
ANSWER: 3+
5.2.
[10]
Al2O3 [aluminum trioxide] is commonly known by what name?
ANSWER (must be exact): alumina
5.3.
[5]
By what name do we better know Fe2O3, iron(III) oxide?
ANSWER: rust
55.
6.
Born in Charlemagne, Québec, she is the youngest of 14 children. Her parents, both musicians,
operated a small club, where on weekends, the entire family would perform. For 10 points, name this
singer of “Because You Loved Me” and the Oscar-winning “My Heart Will Go On”.
ANSWER: Celine Dion
BONUS. Answer these other questions about Celine Dion, 10 points each.
6.1.
For what record label does she record?
ANSWER: 5/50 Music
6.2.
What group wrote the song “Immortality” for her?
ANSWER: The Bee-Gees
7.
In the spring of 1936, Homer Martin was elected leader of this organization, which organized
a strike in January 1937 to obtain its recognition. For 10 points, name this labor union that would
succeed in being recognized, first by General Motors, then Chrysler and Ford.
ANSWER: United Auto Workers
BONUS. Name these unions, for 10 points each.
A.
The sponsor of the first Labor Day holiday, held in New York City on September
5, 1882, this union reached a peak membership of 700,000 in 1886 but declined
swiftly.
ANSWER: Noble Order of the Knights of Labor
A.
Founded in 1980, when 36 regional trade unions united, its predecessor was the
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Workers’ Defense Committee, or KOR.
ANSWER: Independent Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity (solidarnoshc)
8.
Missouri state treasurer from 1862 to 1865, this painter, born in Virginia, portrayed politics in
County Election, Verdict of the People, and other paintings. For 10 points, name this frontier painter
known for Raftsmen Playing Cards, the Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, and other river scenes.
ANSWER: George Caleb Bingham
BONUS. Name these things having to do with other Binghams, for 10 points each:
A.
Hiram Bingham was an archaeologist who, in July 1911, located this "lost city" in
the Peruvuian Andes.
ANSWER: Machu Picchu [NOT: Vitcos]
A.
Cavalry commander George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, was denied a
court-martial after sending this unit, commanded by his brother-in-law, the Earl
of Cardigan, to attack a strong Russian position.
ANSWER: the Light Brigade [yes, he asked for a court martial]
56.
9.
She buys a horse, a saddle, a bridle, and a whip and travels to join the army and fight for her
country. After ten years of battle, she is commended with the highest military rank possible. So goes
the story of – for 10 points – what legendary character according to a Chinese poem, made into a Walt
Disney animated feature that opened yesterday (June 19)?
ANSWER:
Mulan
BONUS. Identify the following voices in the cast of the Disney film for 10 points each.
9.1.
He portrays Mushu, the fire-breathing-wanna-be dragon that protects Mulan.
ANSWER:
Eddie Murphy
9.2.
The First Ancestor’s voice may be familiar if you are a Star Trek fan.
ANSWER:
George Takei
10.
Lillian Hellman called it “the great play of our time.” It has a scene in which Mr. Peachum
sells Filch “begging licenses.” The central character, Mackie the Knife, seeks the hand of Polly
Peachum. For 10 points, name this play, a spin-off of the John Gay comedy, The Beggar’s Opera,
written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
ANSWER: The Threepenny Opera
BONUS. Identify the composers of these other operas, 10 points each.
10.1. Which British composer wrote the opera Billy Budd?
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten
10.2. Which Russian composer wrote the opera The Love of Three Oranges?
ANSWER: Sergei Prokofiev
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category
Quiz question. Opponents can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot
be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History
American Literature: Under Investigation
Biological Sciences: Anatomy and Health
Fine Arts: Painters
General Knowledge & Trivia
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Humanists
Social Sciences: Bad Ideas
Sports & Entertainment: Lacrosse
World Geography: Name the Feature
World History: Moving Spirits
World Literature: Russian
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1. This scientist, born the son of a druggist in Portland, Oregon, in 1901, is best known for his work in
the area of chemical bonding. For 10 points, name this man, the only person to have won two unshared
Nobel Prizes, the first in Chemistry in 1954, and the second in Peace in 1963.
ANSWER: Linus Pauling
2. This is an imaginary geographic line defined by the fact that water poured on one side would
ultimately flow into one ocean on one side, while water poured on the other side of this line would flow
into the other ocean. For 10 points, name this term, used in North America for the Rocky Mountains.
ANSWER: continental divide
3. It began with a proclamation on October 25, 1936, which was followed by the Anti-Comintern Pact,
the Pact of Steel, and the Tripartite Pact. For 10 points, name this coalition headed by Germany, Italy,
and Japan during World War II.
ANSWER: Axis Powers
4. The As-si-ni-bo-in claim that it is wise and never kills or injures, while it is a symbol of war for the
Winnebago and the Mandan thought that it caused storms. For 10 points, name this avian Native
American myth.
ANSWER: thunder bird
5. This Impressionist painting depicts two clothed men and a naked woman picnicking. The work was
finished in 1863, the same year Manet also finished Olympia. For 10 points, name this painting.
ANSWER: The Luncheon on the Grass or Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
6. After World War II, his status changed from a godlike position to being a symbol of the state and
unity of the people without political or sovereign power. For 10 points, name this emperor of Japan
from 1926 to 1989.
ANSWER: Emperor Hirohito
7. He lost his inheritance in 1833, spending three years in Paris studying unsuccessfully to be a painter.
But by 1836 he was in England, writing such stories as The Fitz Boodle Papers. For 10 points, name this
English novelist and satirist, author of The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon and Vanity Fair.
ANSWER: William Makepeace Thackeray
8. Pirate ships would lower their flag when he roared out his name. This rascal brought string and
sealing wax and other fancy stuff by his lifelong friend, Little Jackie Paper. For 10 points, what
creature who frolicked in the Autumn mist in a land called Honalee.
ANSWER: Puff the magic dragon
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American Literature: Under Investigation This Frenchman first came to America in 1832 to
investigate the American prison system, but -- for 15 points -- who gained immortal fame by
writing Democracy in America?
ANSWER: Alexis de Tocqueville
Biological Sciences: Anatomy and Health. This word is used to describe a line marking the junction
between two body structures, such as the immovable joints between the bones in the skull. For
15 points -- name this term which also describes the biodegradable material used in sewing up
wounds for stitches.
ANSWER: suture
Fine Arts: Painters. Later in life, an eye infection prevented him from working outdoors; he painted
street scenes such as Paris, the Boulevard Montmartre at Night from hotel rooms. For 15 points -name this Impressionist painter of The Red Roofs.
ANSWER: Camille Pisarro
Mathematics: Algebra. Pencil and paper ready. Consider the following equation: x cubed minus two
times x squared minus 5 times x plus 6 equals 0 [x3 - 2x2 - 5x + 6 = 0]. For 15 points -- state how
many positive roots it has. You have 15 seconds to answer.
ANSWER: two [1 and 3; can be obtained by graphing or by Descartes’ rule of signs]
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Humanists. Born in Rotterdam in the 1460s, this philosopher’s
work influenced Sir Thomas More. For 15 points -- name this humanist author of the 1511
Encomium Moriae, better known as The Praise of Folly.
ANSWER: Desiderius Erasmus
Social Sciences: Bad Ideas. It was first applied in the Truman Doctrine of 1947. For 15 points -- name
this foreign policy developed by George Kennan, which checked Soviet expansion while
waiting for the Soviet Union to collapse.
ANSWER: containment
Sports &Entertainment: Lacrosse. For 15 points -- at which university will you find the Lacrosse Hall
of Fame?
ANSWER: The Johns Hopkins University
[prompt on “JHU" or “Hopkins; do not accept “John”]
World Geography: Name the Feature. The Romans had a proprietary name for it -- Mare Nostrum. For
15 points -- by what name do we know this geographical feature?
ANSWER : Mediterranean Sea
World History: Moving Spirits. It was moved to a higher elevation because of the rising of the Nile
caused by the Aswan Dam. For 15 points -- name this temple whose front is dominated by four
large statues of Ramses II.
ANSWER: the Great Temple of Abu Simbel
World Literature: Russian. This Russian writer was arrested for referring to Josef Stalin as “the boss”
in criminal slang, and was exiled to Kazhakhstan. For 15 points -- name the author of A Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
ANSWER: Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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ROUND 5: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has
completed the phrase “For 10 points”, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents
can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are read in order.
1. The first president and founder of the National Academy of Design in 1825, he introduced the
daguerreotype process into the United States from France. For 10 points – name this inventor of a
communication system consisting of dots and dashes.
ANSWER: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
2. Just 70% of the size of Washington, DC, this island’s population of about 800 is decreasing,
probably because its phosphate resources are near depletion and all the workers are employees of a
phosphate mining company. For 10 points -- name this Indian Ocean island, that is trying to create a
tourism industry, which might be popular in late December.
ANSWER: Territory of Christmas Island
3. On the violin, by sliding a finger up or down the string. On the piano, by gliding up the keys with the
nail of the middle finger or sliding down the keys with the nail of the thumb. For 10 points -- name this
technique, a rapid sliding up or down the musical scale, denoted by a vertical or diagonal wavy line.
ANSWER: glissando
4. A nation uses two different metals for its currency -- one overvalued, the other undervalued. Because
individuals will lose value if they attempt to coin the undervalued metal, only the overvalued metal
will actually circulate as currency. This is an example -- for 10 points -- of what Scotsman’s economic
law, which states that bad money drives out good?
ANSWER: Gresham’s Law
5. This upstanding New York citizen donated the block and tackle used to build Trinity Church. He
refused to attack a Dutch ship, leading to his killing gunner William Moore. His ships included the
Antonio, the Adventure Galley, and the captured Armenian vessel, Que-dagh Merchant. For 10 points -name this legendary pirate whose buried treasure is mentioned in Poe’s The Gold Bug.
ANSWER: Captain William Kidd
6. The function of this large muscle in the human body is to rotate and flex the arm toward the axis.
Identify this muscle -- for 10 points -- which originates on the inner half of the clavicle, sternum, and
upper rectus sheath, and thereby defining the human chest.
ANSWER: pectoralis major [prompt on pecs]
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7. His lesserknown works include Across the Danube, Bullets and Bayonets, and Riders for the Flag. His
desire for a particular brass sound led him to develop the instrument which now bears his name. For
10 points -- identify this US Marine, composer of El Capitan, Hands Across the Sea, The Liberty Bell, and
Semper Fidelis.
ANSWER: John Philip Sousa
8. A lawyer asked that a case be tried without identifying the victim because it would make the prior
record of Jesse Tim-men-de-quas known to the jurors. The defendant lived across the street from the
Kanka family in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. For 10 points -- name the seven-year-old murder
victim, a symbol of outrage against sex offenders that prompted namesake legislation.
ANSWER: Megan or Megan’s laws
9. He has been the subject of biographies, historical fiction, and studies of saint’s lives. The end of Ken
Follett’s novel Pillars of the Earth details the circumstances of his death. For 10 points -- name this
meddlesome priest, whose death is chronicled in T.S. Eliot’s lyric play Murder in the Cathedral.
ANSWER: St. Thomas à Becket
10. This poem’s first four lines are: “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the
wabe; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.” For 10 points -- identify
this nonsense poem, found in chapter one of Through the Looking-Glass.
ANSWER: "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll or Charles Lutwedge Dodgson
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0_ Just like the movie The Wedding Singer, it’s time to go back to 1985. Answer these questions about
events of that year, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
The Argo research submarine became the first to find the wreck of this ship.
ANSWER: Titanic
b.
[10]
He became the first popularly elected president of Nicaragua in a very long time.
ANSWER: Daniel Ortega Saavedra
c.
[15]
This ship was infamously sunk by agents of the French government.
ANSWER: Rainbow Warrior
0_ Given a brief description, identify the famous Supreme Court case, 10 points each.
a.
This 1989 case ruled condoned Missouri’s limitations on abortions.
ANSWER: Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
b.
This 1989 case ruled that laws banning flag burning were unconstitutional.
ANSWER: Texas v. Johnson
_
This 1908 case sustained an Oregon law that limited the work day of female factory and
laundry workers to 10 hours.
ANSWER: Muller v. Oregon
0_ Give the Japanese word, for 10 points each.
57.
a.
Literally, it means “empty orchestra."
ANSWER: karaoke
58.
b.
It was originally a greeting to the emperor: May you live 10,000 years.
ANSWER: banzai
59.
c.
This word for a sumo tournament is also the name of a famous haiku
writer.
ANSWER: basho
0_ Given a work and the school of painting name the French artist.
Burial at Ornans, Realism
60.
ANSWER: Jean Desire Gustave Courbet
Rouen Cathedral, Impressionism
ANSWER: Claude Monet
The Portugese, Cubism
ANSWER: Georges Braque
0_ Name these sleuths, 10 points each.
61.
a.
This cleric and amateur detective was the creation of Gilbert Keith
Chesterton.
ANSWER: Father Brown
62.
b.
He is featured in The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The Long Goodbye.
ANSWER: Philip Marlowe
63.
c.
He solves The Murder of Marie Roget and The Murders of the Rue Morgue.
ANSWER: C. Auguste Dupin
0_ Let x = i + (3 [I plus square root of 3]. For 10 points each.
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64.
65.
66.
a.
What is x in cis notation?
ANSWER: 2 cis 30 or 2 cis /6
What is x4? You have 20 seconds.
ANSWER: -8 + 8i(3 or 8 (i(3 – 1) or equivalent
c.
The easiest way to find the answer to the previous question is by this rule,
which states that for a complex number y = r cis t, yn = rn cis nt.
ANSWER: de Moivre’s rule
0_ 30-20-10. Name this type of plant.
[30]
It is a flowerless perennial plant of which there are more than 6,000 species.
[20]
Reproduction is by asexual spores found on the back of fronds or special frond stalks.
[10]
Many die an early and unnatural death to populate bars in the state of California.
ANSWER: ferns
0_ Given the rock group, name the lead singer, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
The Rolling Stones
ANSWER: Mick Jagger
b.
[10]
Guns and Roses
ANSWER: W. Axl Rose or Bill Bailey
c.
[15]
Genesis (currently)
ANSWER: Ray Wilson
0_ Name these German cities from literature, 15 points each.
I.
The magic flutes of the Pied Piper affected this German city.
ANSWER: Hamelin
I.
The young knight Walter von Stolzing find out the only way to win the hand of Eva
Pogner, the daughter of this city’s goldsmith, is to win a singing contest in this city
where a Wagner opera takes place.
ANSWER: The Meistersinger of Nuremburg or Nürnberg
0_ Arlington National Cemetery has been in the news lately for a variety of different reasons. Answer
these questions for ten points each.
I.
The 100th anniversary of this important event in US history was commemorated
at Arlington on February 15, 1998 as a sign that we remember it.
ANSWER: Explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor
I.
The “Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers” may be opened again, but in an attempt to
identify one of the unknowns. Identify the alleged “unknown” from Vietnam.
ANSWER: Michael Blassie
I.
This former US Ambassador to Switzerland’s burial at Arlington caused Clinton to
be accused of selling plots there for large contributions to the Democratic Party.
ANSWER: Larry Lawrence
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History
American Literature: Under Investigation
Biological Sciences: Anatomy and Health
Fine Arts: Painters
General Knowledge & Trivia
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Humanists
Social Sciences: Bad Ideas
Sports & Entertainment: Lacrosse
World Geography: Name the Feature
World History: Moving Spirits
World Literature: Russian
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 5: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History
American Literature: Under Investigation
Biological Sciences: Anatomy and Health
Fine Arts: Painters
General Knowledge & Trivia
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Humanists
Social Sciences: Bad Ideas
Sports & Entertainment: Lacrosse
World Geography: Name the Feature
World History: Moving Spirits
World Literature: Russian
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus related to the tossup.
Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
Philippe Pinel described it as dementia prae-cox, to indicate its onset in adolescence. John
Haslam in Observations on Madness and Melancholy called it “a form of insanity.” For 10 points, name
this class of psychological disorders, whose name literally means “split mind.”
ANSWER: schizophrenias [do NOT accept: “bipolar” disorder]
BONUS. There are four main types of schizophrenia, characterized by (a) alternating immobility and
agitation, (b) silly and immature emotions, (c) delusions, and (d) other mental problems. 10 points
each, name any two of these four types. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER (need ANY TWO, in order):
a) catatonic
b) hebephrenic or disorganized
c) paranoid
d) undifferentiated
2.
“My job is to make the agony of decision-making so intensive that you can only escape by
thinking.” For 10 points, name this "amicable" pioneer in television journalism who passed away in
March 1998.
ANSWER: Fred Friendly
BONUS. Answer these related questions, 10 points each.
2.1.
Friendly worked in radio and television with this legendary CBS News journalist.
ANSWER: Edward R. Murrow
2.2.
This Friendly and Murrow television program helped stop the McCarthy hearings.
ANSWER: See It Now
3.
Originally called Mud Town, it was named for a Pasadena realtor who owned a ranch there.
Annexed by Los Angeles in 1926, for 10 points, name this district that saw 34 dead in a notorious 1965
race riot.
ANSWER: Watts
BONUS. Answer these questions about Watts, for 10 points each.
3.1.
In base SI units, what is a watt?
ANSWER: kilograms, meters squared, divided by seconds cubed [kg m2/s3]
3.2.
Watts was the middle name of what US Army officer who captured Santa Fe during the
Mexican War?
ANSWER: Stephen Watts Kearny
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4.
In early Greek myth, there were only three of these creatures, namely, Arges, Brontes, and
Steropes. The most famous of these creatures, Polyphemus, was fooled and then blinded by Odysseus.
For 10 points, name these creatures were giants who were one eye short.
ANSWER: Cyclops or Cyclopes
BONUS. Identify these X-Men, 10 points each.
4.1.
Which of the X-Men has the mutant power to heal wounds quickly?
ANSWER: Wolverine
4.2.
Which of the X-Men has the power to control the forces of nature?
ANSWER: Storm
5.
It consists of an inner medulla, surrounded by an outer cortex, and the whole thing is encased
in a layer of fat. For 10 points, name these glands, which produce over two dozen different steroid
hormones, located above the kidneys.
ANSWER: adrenal or suprarenal glands
BONUS. Answer these questions about the biosynthesis of steroids, 10 points each.
5.1.
Steroid hormones in the body are synthesized from this 27-carbon compound.
ANSWER: cholesterol
5.2.
Cholesterol is synthesized from this derivative, first isolated in whale oil.
ANSWER: squalene [SKWAY-lean]
6.
His simple yet elegant writing style served him well when tackling themes of rural poverty from
the point of view of the poor and the disadvantaged. Much of his work is set within his native
Monterey County in California. For 10 points, identify the American author of The Wayward Bus and
Cannery Row.
ANSWER: John Steinbeck
BONUS. Identify these Steinbeck works from a brief description, 10 points each.
6.1.
In this 1947 novella, a Mexican fisherman finds the title object, but discovers that instead of
wealth, it brings him only grief.
ANSWER: The Pearl
6.2.
"Everything that lives is holy," says the main character of this 1939 work, for which Steinbeck
received his only Pulitzer Prize.
ANSWER: The Grapes of Wrath
7.
During the Empire, their chief duty was to foot the bill for the annual games. During the
Republic, important events were dated by who held this office. For 10 points, two men were elected to
what Roman office, ruling jointly for one year?
ANSWER: consul
BONUS. A consul is also a foreign service officer. Identify these diplomatic offices, 10 points each.
7.1.
This office is usually accredited to the foreign minister, not the head of state, and is the lowest
rank recognized by the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
ANSWER: chargé d’affaires
7.2.
This is a representative of the Vatican who is accredited as an ambassador.
ANSWER: nuncio
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8.
Once conducted by Pierre Monteux, its first musical director was Georg Henschel. In 1930,
Serge Koussevitzky commissioned Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms for this group, founded in 1881 by
Henry Lee Higginson. For 10 points, name this American orchestra now led by conductor Seiji
Ozawa.
ANSWER: Boston Symphony Orchestra [NOT: "Boston Pops"]
BONUS. Identify these conductors of "Pops" orchestras, 10 points each.
8.1.
This current conductor of the Boston Pops is perhaps the only conductor ever to appear on CD
covers in both shorts and kilt.
ANSWER: Keith Lockhart [Runnin’ Wild and The Celtic Album, respectively]
8.2.
The Big Picture and Pops Plays Puccini are recordings of the Cincinatti Pops under this man.
ANSWER: Erich Kunzel
9.
This five-letter word comes from an Old English word meaning strength or skill, and at one
time meant “force”. It can refer to skill in deception, or to any of the seven divisions of Camp Fire Girl
activities. For 10 points, identify this word, which in its plural form often follows the word “arts.”
ANSWER: crafts
BONUS. Answer these questions on writer H. P. Lovecraft, 10 points each.
9.1.
Lovecraft once remarked, “I am” this New England city, home of Roger Williams University,
even though many of his stories are set in Massachusetts.
ANSWER: Providence
9.2.
Lovecraft’s most famous creature is this voracious monster most famous for his call.
ANSWER: Cthulhu [kuh-T(H)OOL-hoo]
10.
Portuguese sailors in 1590 called it "beautiful island." As of 1949, it became the seat of
government for the Republic of China. For 10 points, give the more common name for this small
Asian island.
ANSWER:
Taiwan
BONUS. Taiwan borders five bodies of water, all divisions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Five
points each, name any four. You have 15 seconds.
ANSWERS (four needed):
East China Sea
South China Sea
Philippine Sea
Formosa Strait
Pescadores Channel
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ROUND 6: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category Quiz question. Opponents
can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American History: The Wild West
American Literature: Pulitzer Prizes
Biological Sciences: The Body Human
Fine Arts: Music
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Geometry
Physical Sciences:
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: The Origins of Man
Sports & Entertainment: Football
World Geography: Drier than British Humor
World History: 20th Century Leaders
World Literature: It’s Not What You Think
1. Designed by John Pope, Otto Eggers, and Daniel Higgins, it is a circular-colonnaded construction in
Classical style. The interior sculpture was designed by Rudolph Evans. For 10 points, name this
Washington, DC, building whose walls include excerpts from the Declaration of Independence.
ANSWER: Jefferson Memorial
2. People can now be certified in this language as either programmers or developers. For 10 points,
name this “complex, complete, object-oriented programming language” introduced to the public by
Sun Laboratories in 1995.
ANSWER: Java
3. The Tachyon Web, The Starlight Crystal, Slumber Party, Scavenger Hunt, The Midnight Club, Execution of
Innocence, Remember Me, The Last Vampire. For 10 points, these juvenile books were written by what
author of Final Friends and Chain Letter?
ANSWER: Christopher Pike
4. They are the escorts of the Ein-her-jar, and their armor produces the Aurora Borealis. For 10 points,
name these riders of winged horses, choosers of the slain, and messengers of Odin.
ANSWER: Valkyries [VAHL-kuh-rees]
5. Founded in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company, it lies in the shadow of Table Mountain. For
10 points, name this oldest city, largest port and legislative capital of South Africa.
ANSWER: Cape Town
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6. This word was coined in 1796 by A.L.C. Destutt de Tracy for a science of human intellect. In
Marxism, it is the system of illusions about the nature of society. For 10 points, what consists of the
doctrines, beliefs, or opinions of an individual, culture, or political party?
ANSWER: ideology
7. After the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, he sent two agents to Istanbul to try to trade the lives of
Hungarian Jews in exchange for German army trucks. Later captured by US troops, he escaped in
1956. For 10 points, name this Nazi who fled to Argentina but was put on trial “in Jerusalem.”
ANSWER: Karl Adolf Eichmann
8. WARNING: Two answers required. In some versions of the play in which they appear, one enters four
lines before the other; otherwise, they’re inseparable, even in death. For 10 points, who are these men,
with once-common Danish family names, the title characters of a Tom Stoppard play?
ANSWER: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American History: The Wild West. He died of a heart attack at his desk as sports editor of the New
York Morning Telegraph. For 15 points -- name this Canadian-born gambler and lawman who
became sheriff of Ford County Kansas at age 22.
ANSWER: Bartholemew "Bat" Masterson
American Literature: Pulitzer Prizes. The title character helps his grandfather in his cigar shop in
1800s New York, but dreams of bigger things. He works hard, rising to prominence as a builder
and entrepreneur, with a hotel with moonlight, waterfalls, and a Greek temple where maidens
recite poetry 24 hours a day. For 15 points -- name this Steven Millhauser novel, the 1997
Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction.
ANSWER: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Biological Sciences: The Body Human. For 15 points -- name the three segments of the small
intestine.
ANSWERS: duodenum, jejunum, ileum
Fine Arts: Music. In this instrument, the plectrum is affixed to a strip of wood called a jack. The
plectrum comes into contact with a string above it and plucks it. For 15 points -- this concept
is the basis of what keyboard instrument, the precursor to the piano?
ANSWER: harpsichord
Mathematics: Geometry. Common to the non-Euclidean Geometries of Lobachevsky and Gauss is
the refusal to accept this postulate as true without proof. This postulate is the basis of many
theorems and proofs in Euclidean Geometry. For 15 points -- what is this important postulate?
ANSWER: the parallel postulate [prompt on "fifth postulate"]
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Social Sciences: The Origins of Man. It includes the Masek and Nai-si-u-si-u Beds. For 15 points -name this archaeological site in northern Tanzania noted for its hominid fossil finds.
ANSWER: Olduvai Gorge
Sports & Entertainment: Football. Like many Heisman Trophy winners, his NFL career was
short-lived. However, he headed "up north" and in 1991 was MVP of the Canadian Football
League. For 15 points -- name this British Columbia Lion, Calgary Stampeder, and Toronto
Argonaut who played at Boston College.
ANSWER: Doug Flutie
World Geography: Drier than British Humor. It has never rained on the town of Calama in recorded
history because Calama is located in the driest desert on Earth. For 15 points -- name this arid
region, rich in copper and other minerals, in northern Chile.
ANSWER: Atacama Desert
World History: 20th Century Leaders. He was the first Egyptian ruler descended from Muhammad
Ali Pasha who spoke fluent Arabic. For 15 points -- name this son of Fou-ad, who ascended to
the Egyptian throne in 1935, but was forced to abdicate in 1952.
ANSWER: Farouk or Farooq
World Literature: It's Not What You Think. While it has a musical name, it is in fact a play with a
few songs, and parodies the British government of the time. For 15 points -- name this 1728
drama by John Gay.
ANSWER: The Beggar's Opera
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ROUND 6: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has completed the phrase "For 10 points",
+ first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are
read in order.
1. Sinclair Lewis dedicated his book Babbitt to this author, who suffered through 28 years of a relatively
unhappy marriage, publishing two early works -- Souls Belated and The Other Two -- as means to convert
her tension of the relationship into art. For 10 points -- name this writer who gained literary fame with
her 1905 book The House of Mirth and the 1911 novella Ethan Frome.
ANSWER: Edith Wharton
2. The Germans planned to capture Liege and Antwerp, thus dividing the Allied armies. The assault
began December 16, 1944. Although suffering about 77,000 casualties, the Allies stopped the German
advance within a month. For 10 points -- name this last major western counteroffensive of World War
II, named for an indentation in the Allied lines.
ANSWER: The Battle of the Bulge
3. In 1927, Justice Oliver Wendell Homes described this concept as “the usual last resort of
constitutional arguments.” However, its use has since been expanded to cover welfare benefits, gender
discrimination, and other non-race-related cases. For 10 points -- name the US law concept, found in
the Fourteenth Amendment, requiring that persons be similarly treated under the law.
ANSWER: equal protection
4. Its record profits, including $1.7 billion in 1997, have not been upset by its labor turmoil, as 13,000
workers in four states have been working since 1991 without a contract. The union has leveled
complaints of unfair labor practices against this Peoria-based company. For 10 points -- name the
world’s largest maker of earth-moving equipment.
ANSWER: Caterpillar, Inc.
5. Ta-lu skyjacks Roberta Brinklow, Captain Charles Mallinson, Henry Barnard (aka Chalmers Bryant)
and Hugh Conway, but the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies upon landing near the western
Himalayas. Fortunately, they are rescued and brought to an isolated lamasery. For 10 points -- name
this 1933 book that features the laid-back life in Shangri-La by James Hilton.
ANSWER: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
6. “Men should be like Kleenex -- soft, strong, and disposable.” “I’m a butler, sir. . . . I buttle.” A
prostitute, a war profiteer, an adulterous doctor, a high-ranking gay Pentagon official, a black widow,
the wife of a corrupt Senator, and their blackmailer -- for 10 points -- all gather in a New England
mansion, in what murder-mystery movie spoof, based on a Parker Brothers board game?
ANSWER: Clue
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7. The first of these devices was produced in 1931 by US physicist E.O. Lawrence. A magnetic field is
applied at right angles to the plane of two hollow D-shaped conductors, while an alternating potential
difference is applied between them. For 10 points -- identify this machine that accelerates positively
charged particles in a spiral path.
ANSWER: cyclotron
8. Originally kept in a can-thar-us or phi-a-la, an as-per-so-ri-um or gou-pil-lon was used with this
substance which is blessed in the me-gas ha-gas-mos, or grand blessing. For 10 points -- name this liquid
which might be useful to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
ANSWER: holy water
9. Among those who painted him are Christian Gullager, William Williams, and Edward Savage.
However, the most famous portrait of him was purposely left unfinished, because the artist kept it to
copy again and again as he received orders for reproductions. For 10 points -- name this man, also
painted by John Trumbull, Charles Wilson Peale, and most famously, Gilbert Stuart.
ANSWER: George Washington
10. After the massacre of 100 children, the French staged a military coup in this former colony and
reinstalled David Dacko. In 1976, it was declared an empire by its president-for-life, self-proclaimed
emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa. For 10 points -- name this landlocked African country with capital at
Bangui.
ANSWER: Central African Republic or République Centrafricaine
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1. Given a work by a 20th century composer, identify the composer, 10 points each.
a.
The Firebird
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky
b.
Peter and the Wolf
ANSWER: Sergei Prokofiev
c.
The Planets
ANSWER: Gustav Holst
2. Where in Hell is Dante Aligheri? Answer these questions about the Divine Comedy, for the stated
number of points.
a.
[5]
This phrase is written on the gates of hell.
ANSWER: Abandon hope, all ye who enter here [accept equivalents]
b.
[10]
This mountain is located on the opposite site of the globe from Jerusalem.
ANSWER: Mount Purgatory [accept: Purgatorio]
c.
[15]
At this terrace of Hell, the unbaptized are whirled about in the air or forced to lie deep
in mud or snow.
ANSWER: Limbo
3. Identify the following relatives of Helen of Troy, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
Helen’s mother, visited by Zeus in bird form.
ANSWER: Leda
b.
[10]
Helen’s sister, also the wife of Agamemnon.
ANSWER: Clytemnestra
c.
[15]
Leda’s husband and Clytemnestra’s father.
ANSWER: Tyndareus
4. There have been a lot of bank mergers in the last year. For 10 points each, given a bank, name the
bank it bought out.
a.
Banc One Corp.
ANSWER: First Chicago NBD Corp.
b.
First Union Corp.
ANSWER: CoreStates Financial Corp.
c.
NationsBank Corp.
ANSWER: BankAmerica Corp.
5. Answer the following related questions, 10 points each.
a.
His best known work, Flowers for Algernon, won the 1959 Hugo Award and was later adapted
for a movie and two Broadway musicals.
ANSWER: Daniel Keyes
b.
The first African-American Rhodes scholar in 1910, he compiled anthologies for black writers
and composers during the Harlem Renaissance.
ANSWER: Alain Le Roy Locke
c.
His 1865 patent on an improved cylinder lock is still the fundamental basis for the locks
manufactured by his company.
ANSWER: Linus Yale
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6. Name the Dickens’ work from characters, 10 points each.
a.
Edward Murdstone, Ham and Little Emily Peggotty, and Agnes Wickfield
ANSWER: The Personal History of David Copperfield
b.
Charley Bates, Rose Maylie, Mr. Brownlow, and Monks
ANSWER: Oliver Twist
c.
Mrs. Sarah Gamp and her imaginary friend Mrs. Harris
ANSWER: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
7. Pencil and paper ready. Write down the following series of numbers: 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18. Now answer
these questions, 10 points each.
a.
What is the second number following 18 in this series? You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: 47 [11 + 18 = 29 + 18 = 47]
b.
What is the median of this set of numbers? You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: 5.5 or 11/2 [(4 + 7) / 2]
c.
What is the name given to this specific sequence of numbers?
ANSWER: the Lucas sequence [prompt on “Fibonacci”]
8. 30-20-10. Name the sport.
[30]
Emperor Frederich III in 1480 granted permission to the Marxbruder, a guild of masters, to
train people in this sport.
[20]
In the 1700s, the French master La Boe-ssi-ère made significant improvements to the design of
the mask.
[10]
Governed by the Fédération Intérnationale d’Es-crime, amateurs now compete on a 2-meter
wide, 14-meter long piste wearing breeches and using electrical epées.
ANSWER: fencing
9. Identify these creatures in symbiotic relationships, for 15 points each.
a.
The Joshua tree and Spanish bayonet are among these members of the lily family which can be
found in southern North America. Some have mutualistic relationships with moths of genus
Te-ge-ti-cu-la.
ANSWER: yuccas
a.
An example of commensualism, this fish, also called the sharksucker or suckerfish, attaches
itself to animals such as sharks by a disk on the top of its head and eats its host’s leftovers.
ANSWER: remora or Echeneidae
10. Identify the political opponents who defeated the following in the 1997 elections for 15 points each,
or five points if you need the office in contention.
a.
[15]
Jim McGreevey
[5]
Governor of New Jersey
ANSWER: Christine (“Christie”) Todd Whitman
b.
[15]
Don Beyer
[5]
Governor of Virginia
ANSWER: Jim Gilmore
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ROUND 6: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American History: The Wild West
American Literature: Pulitzer Prizes
Biological Sciences: The Body Human
Fine Arts: Music
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Geometry
Physical Sciences:
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: The Origins of Man
Sports & Entertainment: Football
World Geography: Drier than British Humor
World History: 20th Century Leaders
World Literature: It’s Not What You Think
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: The Wild West
American Literature: Pulitzer Prizes
Biological Sciences: The Body Human
Fine Arts: Music
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Geometry
Physical Sciences:
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: The Origins of Man
Sports & Entertainment: Football
World Geography: Drier than British Humor
World History: 20th Century Leaders
World Literature: It’s Not What You Think
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 7: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus related to the tossup.
Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
George Washington pardoned the two men convicted of treason for this event that took place
on July 1794, when 500 armed men burned down the home of the regional tax inspector in western
Pennsylvania and 13,000 troops were sent in to quell the uprising. For 10 points, name this short-lived
rebellion.
ANSWER: Whiskey Rebellion
BONUS. Answer these questions related to the Whiskey Rebellion, 10 points each.
1.1
The protest was over what type of tax, levied on manufacture, sale, or consumption of a
commodity?
ANSWER: excise tax
1.2.
Which Treasury secretary proposed the excise, enacted in 1791?
ANSWER: Alexander Hamilton
2.
Originally an artist, she became famous as a feminist theorist during the early 1970s. Her
memoirs include harrowing accounts of her forced commitment to mental institutions in the US and
Ireland. For 10 points, name this author of Flying, Sita, and Sexual Politics.
ANSWER:
Kate Millett
BONUS. Identify the authors of these noteworthy feminist works, 10 points each.
2.1.
The Beauty Myth; Fire with Fire
ANSWER:
Naomi Wolf
2.2.
Revolution from Within; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
ANSWER:
Gloria Steinem
3.
In 1918, the War Department banned this author’s Can Such Things Be? Ironically, this author
disappeared in Mexico during World War I, not long after his most famous work was published. For
10 points, name this curmudgeon and author of The Devil’s Dictionary.
ANSWER: Ambrose Bierce
BONUS. Given a short definition from The Devil’s Dictionary, identify the word, 10 points each.
3.1.
Death’s baby carriage.
ANSWER: hearse
3.2.
His.
ANSWER: hers
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4.
It is the mathematical description of the wave properties of submicroscopic particles. Early
developers of this branch of physics include Nobel Prize recipients Erwin Schrödinger and Werner
Heisenberg. For 10 points, name this branch of physics synonymous with wave mechanics.
ANSWER: quantum mechanics
BONUS. Given the letter, give the quantum number it represents for 10 points each.
4.1.
n
ANSWER: principal quantum number
4.2.
l
ANSWER: angular momentum or azimuthal quantum number
5.
Brahms had a set of variations based on this composer’s St. Anthony Chorale while Mozart
dedicated six string quartets to him. In 1801, he finished an oratorio based on a James Thomson poem,
The Seasons. For 10 points, name this composer whose Farewell Symphony, wasn’t his last but his 45th.
ANSWER: Franz Joseph Haydn
BONUS. Brahms had his Haydn Variations. Identify the composers of these other variations, 10 points
each.
5.1.
Diabelli Variations (1823)
ANSWER: Ludwig von Beethoven
5.2.
Old Norwegian Romance with Variations
ANSWER: Edvard Grieg
6.
This former Soviet republic is famous -- or rather, infamous -- for an event that took place on
April 26, 1986. For 10 points, name this country that is home to the Chernobyl nuclear plant and
whose capital is Kiev.
ANSWER: The Ukraine
BONUS. For five points each:
6.1.
Name the capitals of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWERS (respectively): Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn
6.2.
For an additional five points, which one is furthest north?
ANSWER: Tallinn
7.
He retired on March 11, 1998 from the army, but has become a senator-for-life under the
constitution because he is a former president. For 10 points, name this general who in 1973 led a
bloody coup against the freely elected President Salvador Allende.
ANSWER: Augusto Pinochet
BONUS. Identify these other military men turned world leaders, 10 points each.
7.1.
In 1969, this Arab nationalist seized control of his country in a coup deposing King Idris I.
ANSWER: Muammar Khadafi or Qaddafi or Gaddafi
7.2.
The Falange was the official political movement during the rule of this Nationalist general,
who overthrew his country’s democratic republic.
ANSWER: Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde
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8.
With a population of around 350,000, it is home to Shin-shu University. Formerly known as
Zen-ko-ji, and located on the Ten-ryu River, a popular tourist attraction is the Buddhist Zenko Shrine.
For 10 points, name this city in central Honshu, Japan, host of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
ANSWER: Nagano, Japan
BONUS. Given the year, name the host of the Winter Olympics, 10 points each.
8.1.
1980
ANSWER: Lake Placid, NY
8.2.
1924
ANSWER: Chamonix, France
9.
This humanist philosopher wrote, “When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn’t
amusing herself with me more than I am with her.” For 10 points, name this French politician and
writer who created the essay as a literary genre.
ANSWER: Michel de Montaigne
BONUS. Amuse yourself and answer these questions related to cats, 10 points each.
9.1.
He is the most cowardly of the Thundercats.
ANSWER: Snarf
9.2.
This breed of cat carries a gene that produces skeletal defects and results in a stump or a lack of
a tail.
ANSWER: Manx
10.
This word describes Phae-o-phy-ta algae, which have more fu-co-xan-thin than chlorophyll. It
was the surname of Capability, a famous British landscaper who preferred a more “natural” look over
ornate mazes and patterns. For 10 points, provide this colorful five-letter word, surname of a Charles
Schulz creation.
ANSWER: Brown
BONUS. For 10 points each, identify these other people with the last name Brown.
10.1. Neé Margaret Tobin, she survived the sinking of the Titanic.
ANSWER: The “Unsinkable” Molly Brown
10.2. Daniel Day-Lewis won an Academy Award for portraying this man in My Left Foot.
ANSWER: Christy Brown
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ROUND 7: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category Quiz question. Opponents
can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are:
American History:
American Literature: Science Fiction
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Painting
General Knowledge & Trivia: Ready-to-Wear
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences: Chemistry
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Wisdom
Social Sciences: Linguistics
Sports & Entertainment: Television
World Geography:
World History: World War I
World Literature: Nobel Prize Winners
1. Elected to the House in 1968, he lost a Senate race in 1970. He then served as US ambassador to the
United Nations, envoy to China, and CIA director. Born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924,
for 10 points, name this son of a senator who defeated Michael Dukakis in 1988.
ANSWER: George Herbert Walker Bush
2. “A belt of straw and ivy buds”, “Fair lined slippers for the cold”, “A gown made of the finest wool”,
“A cap of flowers and a kirtle”, as well as “beds of roses”. For 10 points, these are the enticements
offered by a rustic fellow to the object of his affections in what poem by Christopher Marlowe?
ANSWER: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
3. From physiology, it is conversion of chemical energy into heat. It can be modified by placing the
words "field," "standard," or "basal" in front of it. For 10 points, name this term which is often
measured in oxygen consumption and is defined as an organism’s heat energy released per unit time.
ANSWER: metabolic rate [prompt on “metabolism”]
4. The Denison Dam forms Lake Texoma on this river, which empties into the At-cha-fa-la-ya River.
Because of flood controls on the Old River, it is no longer a tributary of the Mississippi. For 10 points,
name this river flowing from New Mexico to Louisiana.
ANSWER: Red River of the South
5. This man, whose real name was Edward Teach, was responsible for terrorizing the coasts of the
southern colonies during the 18th century. For 10 points, name this man, probably the most famous of
the sea bandits known as pirates.
ANSWER: Blackbeard
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6. T’ien ming involves i and jen, righteousness and benevolence, or else immorality or tyranny may
require revolution. For 10 points, name this Confucian idea on an emperor’s right to rule.
ANSWER: Mandate of Heaven
7. Bliz. Boondock. Gromp. Car-nov-sky. Scrunge. Squop. Squidger. For 10 points, these are terms in
what game played on a 3-by-6-foot mat with a pot in the center?
ANSWER: tiddlywinks
8. For his work on this painting, Daniele da Volterra is nicknamed “Il Bra-ghe-to-ne”. Its notable
features include St. Bartholemew, whose flayed skin has the features of the author. For 10 points, name
the largest fresco of the Renaissance, found on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.
ANSWER: The Last Judgment [prompt on Sistine Chapel]
[HN: Il Braghetone = “the breeches maker”; Volterra was assigned to cover up nudity]
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ROUND 7: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American Literature: Science Fiction. Lusitania and its inhabitants are based on writer Orson Scott
Card's time as a Mormon missionary in Brazil. For 15 points -- in what quartet of novels,
named for their protagonist, can you find Lusitania?
ANSWER: The Ender Quartet [prompt on "Andrew" or "Wiggin"]
Fine Arts: Painting. His 1871 work The Champion Single Sculls portrays Max Schmitt, a rower on the
Schuylkill [SCOY-kill] River. For 15 points -- identify this Pennsylvanian painter of The Gross
Clinic.
ANSWER: Thomas Eakins
General Knowledge & Trivia: Ready-to-Wear. Domino. Cardinal. Pelegrine. Mantle. Dolman.
Inverness. These are -- for 15 points -- all types of what article of clothing?
ANSWER: cape or cloak [prompt on "coat"]
Mathematics: Algebra. For 15 points -- if Samer can write a packet in 3 weeks, and Anthony can write
a packet in 6 weeks, how long will it take them to write a packet working together (if they don't
come to blows in the process)? You have 15 seconds.
ANSWER: 2 weeks [6 x 3 / (6 + 3) = 18/9 = 2 weeks]
Physical Sciences: Chemistry. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, is a form of spectroscopy
carried out on a larger scale. For 15 points -- MRI creates imaging by detecting the protons in
what molecule?
ANSWER: water
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Wisdom. Symbolized by the owl, she sprung full-formed from
the forehead of Zeus. For 15 points -- name this Greek goddess.
ANSWER: Athena
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Social Sciences: Linguistics. This grammatical character is used in pronunciation aids to denote the
neutral, uncolored, central vowel sound of most unstressed syllables in English. For 15 points
-- name this character.
ANSWER: the schwa [prompt on "upside-down e"]
Sports & Entertainment: Television. He portrayed "Minnesota Fats," and hosted You're in the Picture,
a truly horrible game show that lasted just one episode. For 15 points -- name this actor better
known for another show that lasted just one season.
ANSWER: Jackie Gleason
World History: World War I. On April 25, 1915, this group landed at Gallipoli in the Dardenelles
campaign, now commemorated as a national holiday in two countries. For 15 points -- name
this combined military force hailing from the Pacific Ocean.
ANSWER: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
World Literature: Nobel Prize Winners. This poet commented on Stalinism in the 1957 poem
"Calling out to Yeti." For 15 points -- name this Polish woman lifted out of obscurity by the
1996 Nobel Prize for Literature.
ANSWER: Wislawa Szymborska [SIM-bohr-ska]
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ROUND 7: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has completed the phrase "For 10 points",
+ first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are
read in order.
1. Sir Issac Newton called it a “fluxion;” his notation used a dot over the “fluent”. The usual notation,
though, is that of Gottfried Leibniz. For ten points -- what can be denoted mathematically as the limit
as x approaches a, of [f(x)-f(a)]/(x-a) [the quantity f of x minus f of a, divided by the quantity x minus a],
which describes the relationship of acceleration to velocity?
ANSWER: derivative or differentiation
2. The name’s the same. One is a Senior Chief Petty Officer who was discharged from the Navy when
it investigated his user profile on America Online and found out he was gay. For 10 points -- what
name does he share with a former Army Gulf War veteran who was convicted in the bombing of an
Oklahoma Federal Building?
ANSWER: Timothy McVeigh [accept “Timothy R. McVeigh” for 20]
3. The Manchester Ship Canal connects Manchester to this body of water bounded by St. Georges
Channel and the North Channel. For 10 points -- what body of water contains Anglesey and the Isle
of Man, and was known in ancient times as O-ce-a-nus Hi-ber-ni-cus?
ANSWER: Irish Sea or Muir Eireann
4. This scientist lost a seat in the French Academy of Sciences, and was then accused of adultery with
a pupil… this after years of back-breaking work over a gigantic vat of pitchblende. The first recipient of
two Nobel Prizes -- for 10 points -- name this scientist, the co-discoverer of polonium and radium,
who shared her first Nobel Prize with her husband Pierre.
ANSWER: (Madame) Marie Curie [do not accept Pierre Curie]
5. In The Vicomte de Bra-ge-lonne, they continue their adventures, but meet their deaths. However, a
story that had originally been planned as part of this novel was instead published separately, in which
Fouquet [foo-KAY], Superintendent of Finance, foils their plans. For 10 points -- name these
“heroes” created by Alexandre Dumas père.
ANSWER: The Three (Four) Musketeers (d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis)
6. This composer’s son became a concert pianist who performed his father’s Piano Concerto No. 1 for
piano, trumpet, and orchestra. For 10 points -- name this 20th century Russian composer who wrote
the score for the movie The Gadfly, and the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, most noted for his Symphony
No. 13, “Babi Yar”.
ANSWER: Dmitri Shostakovitch
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7. This experimental “artifact” was shown by Bertram Forer in the 1940s when he subjected his
students to a personality test, yet gave everyone identical personality “assessments.” For 10 points -name this effect which measures a subject’s acceptance of a personality test interpretation, named after
the person who coined the à propos slogan, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
ANSWER: Barnum effect
8. Born in Switzerland in 1712, he was abandoned in Geneva when his father was exiled, and he later
abandoned five of his own illegitimate children by Thérèse Levasseur. The librettist for the operas Les
Muses Ga-lantes and Le De-vin du Village -- for 10 points -- name this Enlightenment philosopher, author
of the Political Treatises.
ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. This actress started at age 4 in the TV movie An Invasion of Privacy. She later did a TV commercial in
which she reprimanded McDonald’s for skimpy burgers. As a teen, she won an Emmy for potraying
Erica Kane's daughter on All My Children. For 10 points -- name this actress who died in both Scream
2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer, the star of television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
ANSWER: Sarah Michelle Gellar
10. Founded about AD 50 in northwest Germany, this city on the banks of the Rhine became one of
the most important commercial centers in Western Europe. Its importance declined after the Thirty
Years’ War; it was conquered by the French in 1794, and given to Prussia in 1815. For 10 points -name this city most famous for its magnificent Gothic Cathedral.
ANSWER: Köln or Cologne
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ROUND 7: STRETCH ROUND BONI
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1. 30-20-10. Name the ruler.
[30]
The son of King Snefru, Herodotus claimed he had forced his daughter into prostitution.
[20]
This fourth dynasty pharaoh was succeeded by his son Dje-de-fre, and later by another of his
sons.
[10]
Known to the Greeks as Cheops, he is best known for building the Great Pyramid at Giza.
ANSWER: Khufu or Khufwey or Khnomkhufwey [accept: Cheops for 20 or 30]
2. Answer these questions on the nitrogenous bases found in the DNA double helix, 10 points per part.
a.
First, all or nothing, name the four nitrogenous bases in DNA.
ANSWER: adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine [do not accept “uracil”]
b.
Adenine and guanine are classified as what type of nitrogenous base?
ANSWER: purines
c.
This man’s rule, discovered before Watson and Crick, states that the amount of adenine in
DNA equals the amount of thymine, and guanine equals cytosine.
ANSWER: Erwin Chargaff
3. Identify these terms in investment economics for a return of 15 points each.
a.
The equivalent of 100 shares of stock, the most convenient unit of trading stock and calculating
commissions.
ANSWER: round lot
b.
The acronym for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, it acts like Fannie Mae.
ANSWER: Freddie Mac
4. For 10 points each, conjoin these Beatles songs and movies.
a.
The title track from the Beatles’ 1964 album and a classic horror flick about brain-hungry
zombies.
ANSWER: A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead
b.
A song with an automotive theme from the 1965 album Rubber Soul and a 1994 remake of the
50s TV show about hapless police patrolmen Toody and Muldoon.
ANSWER: Drive My Car 54, Where Are You?
c.
A fruity single from 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour and the 1992 movie, starring Mel Gibson and
Jamie Lee Curtis, about eternal love and cryogenics.
ANSWER: Strawberry Fields Forever Young
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5. In this bonus, “chi [ky] marks the spot”! In any case, name these words that start with C-H-I, 10
points each.
a.
This word is synonymous with handwriting.
ANSWER: chirography
b.
It makes up the tough covering of insects and crustaceans.
ANSWER: chitin
c.
In Greek myth, it has a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail.
ANSWER: Chimera
6. Pencil and paper ready. Given an item, for the stated number of points, state whether you would eat it,
wear it, spend it, play it, ride it, or write with it.
a.
[5]
pi-as-ter
ANSWER: spend it [Egyptian currency]
b.
[5]
phae-ton
ANSWER: ride it [a type of bicycle]
c.
[10]
thé-ré-min
ANSWER: play it [a musical instrument]
d.
[10]
Span-gen-heim
ANSWER: wear it [a helmet]
7. Identify these Eugene O’Neill plays from brief descriptions for 10 points each.
a.
Set in Connecticut in 1912, this autobiographical play features the Tyrone family.
ANSWER: Long Day’s Journey Into Night
b.
A black American sets himself up as the ruler of an island in the West Indies, but flees rather
than step down.
ANSWER: The Emperor Jones
c.
Abbie Putnam, the third wife of Ephraim Cabot, falls in love and has a child with Ephraim’s
son Eben. When the child is born Abbie kills it.
ANSWER: Desire Under the Elms
8. Name the capitals of the following countries, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
Nepal
ANSWER: Kathmandu
b.
[10]
Mongolia
ANSWER: Ulan Bator or Ulan Batur
c.
[5]
Ethiopia
ANSWER: Addis Ababa
d.
[10]
Somalia
ANSWER: Mogadishu
9. Given a state, 5 points per answer, name its two US Senators.
a.
North Carolina
ANSWERS: Jesse Helms, Lauch Faircloth
b.
New York
ANSWERS: Alphonse D’Amato, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
c.
Hawaii
ANSWERS: Daniel K. Inouye, Daniel K. Akaka
10. Name the following “reptilian” artists from their most famous works for 10 points each.
a.
Marriage of the Virgin
ANSWER: Raphael
b.
The Last Supper
ANSWER: Leonardo or Leonardo da Vinci
c.
Last Judgement, and David
ANSWER: Michelangelo or Michelangelo Buonarotti
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ROUND 7: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are:
American History:
American Literature: Science Fiction
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Painting
General Knowledge & Trivia: Ready-to-Wear
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences: Chemistry
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Wisdom
Social Sciences: Linguistics
Sports & Entertainment: Television
World Geography:
World History: World War I
World Literature: Nobel Prize Winners
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 7: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History:
American Literature: Science Fiction
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Painting
General Knowledge & Trivia: Ready-to-Wear
Mathematics: Algebra
Physical Sciences: Chemistry
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Wisdom
Social Sciences: Linguistics
Sports & Entertainment: Television
World Geography:
World History: World War I
World Literature: Nobel Prize Winners
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 8: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus related to the tossup.
Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
“The sea is calm to-night, / The tide is full, the moon lies fair / Upon the straits; -- on the
French coast the light / Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, / Glimmering and vast, out in
the tranquil bay.” For 10 points, these lines come from what poem by Matthew Arnold?
ANSWER: “Dover Beach”
BONUS. Identify these marine-related musical works, for 10 points each.
1.1.
“Dawn, Sunday Morning,” “Moonlight”, and “Storm” are the Four Sea Interludes taken from
this Benjamin Britten opera, set in “The Borough”.
ANSWER: Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
1.2.
Franz Schubert used a theme borrowed from his own song, “Die Fo-relle”, for this work’s
fourth movement.
ANSWER: Trout Quintet or Piano Quintet in A Major D667 “Trout”
[Die Forelle means “the trout”]
2.
Its victor said that this battle "was won on the playing fields of Eton.” On June 18, the larger
forces, despite the valiant efforts of the “Old Guard,” were fought back until the smaller forces,
reinforced by Prussian troops under von Blucher, eventually won. For 10 points, name this 1815 battle
in Belgium won by Lord Wellington, which led to the ultimate demise of Napoleon.
ANSWER: Waterloo
BONUS. Name these other pre-Waterloo Napoleonic battles, 10 points each, given a short
description.
2.1.
This 1805 battle saw Napoleon’s army of 68,000 routing 90,000 Austrians and Russians
causing the Austrians to surrender and Russia withdrawing.
ANSWER: Austerlitz
2.2.
In this 1812 battle outside Moscow, General Mikhail Kutuzov escaped with remaining forces
intact, while Napoleon suffered his first seizure midbattle.
ANSWER: Borodino
3.
He said, “A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?” as he opposed expansion
of Redwood National Park in 1966. He also claimed that “Trees cause more pollution than
automobiles do” in 1981. For 10 points, name this former President suffering from Alzheimer’s.
ANSWER: Ronald Wilson Reagan
BONUS. From one conservative icon to another, for 10 points each.
3.1.
Dan Quayle said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very
wasteful. How true that is” while addressing this organization.
ANSWER: United Negro College Fund or The College Fund
3.2.
In April 1991, Quayle was concerned that his advisors were out of touch with “Real
Americans”, so he ordered them to read this magazine.
ANSWER: People magazine
4.
Number Two, created in 1873 and bought in 1891 for 1000 guineas by the Corporation of
Glasgow, depicted Thomas Carlyle. For 10 points, Number One is what tonal portrait of an austere
woman sitting, a work subtitled The Artist’s Mother, by James Whistler?
ANSWER: Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1
BONUS. From The Artist’s Mother to movie mothers. 10 points each, who played the following roles?
4.1.
Morticia Addams
ANSWER: Anjelica Huston [NOT: Carolyn Jones, TV’s Morticia]
4.2.
John Shaft… he’s a bad mutha – shut your mouth.
ANSWER: Richard Roundtree
5.
“Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the
daughter of my people recovered?” For 10 points, what Biblical prophet’s lamentations were set to
music by Thomas Tallis, who shares his name with a bullfrog in a song by Three Dog Night?
ANSWER: Jeremiah [VIII: 20-22]
BONUS. Identify these other books of the Bible from quotes, 10 points each.
5.1.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
ANSWER: Luke [II: 14]
5.2.
“Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall
spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.”
ANSWER: Psalms [LXXXV: 10]
6.
First isolated in 1832 and introduced at the turn of the century, its use can be habit-forming, but
addiction seldom occurs when used for a limited period. It is a narcotic analgesic and relieves pain.
For 10 points, give the common name of this drug used as a cough suppressant found in many
prescription cough syrups.
ANSWER: codeine or methylmorphine (NOT "morphine")
BONUS. See the names of these drugs beginning with the letter AC@, and you’ll get 10 points each.
6.1.
Discovered by Edward Calvin Kendall, it was introduced in 1948 as a treatment for
rheumatoid arthritis.
ANSWER: cortisone
6.2.
A sleeping drug, it is suitable for kids and is often a short-term treatment of insomnia.
ANSWER: chloral hydrate [prompt on "knockout drops"]
7.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court declared that de ju-re public school segregation violated the
equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, thus effectively nullifying the doctrine of “separate, but
equal.” For 10 points, name this landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision.
ANSWER: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
BONUS. Answer these questions related to the Brown ruling, for the stated number of points.
7.1.
[5]
The Brown ruling overturned what 1896 decision that had established the notion of
separate but equal?
ANSWER: Plessy v. Ferguson
7.2.
[5]
This young civil rights attorney argued the Browns’ case before the Supreme Court.
ANSWER: Thurgood Marshall
7.3.
[10]
This 1978 ruling argued that while race could be used as a consideration in the selection
of a diverse student body, the use of fixed quotas for minorities was unconstitutional.
ANSWER: Regents of the University of California at Berkeley v. Bakke
8.
Pencil and paper ready. You will have 10 seconds to answer this question. Using the impulse
equation Ft = mv [F times delta t equals m times delta v], for 10 points, what magnitude force, acting
for 1 millisecond, will change the velocity of a 100-gram baseball by 60 meters per second? You have 10
seconds.
ANSWER: 6000 Newtons [60 x 1000 / 10]
BONUS. Answer these calculation questions involving baseballs, 10 points each. You have 10 seconds
per part.
8.1.
A baseball is thrown against a backboard at high speed. Its momentum just before the collision
was 1.4 kg-m/s [kilograms meters per second]. Immediately after the collision, the momentum
is -1.1 kg-m/s. What is the change in momentum for the ball, in kg-m/s?
ANSWER: 2.5 or -2.5 [1.4 - (-1.1)]
8.2.
If the mass of the ball is 100 grams, what is the speed before the collision?
ANSWER: 14 m/s
9.
The fearless commander of a Navy hydroplane in the middle of a hurricane, he is also a
famous surgeon performing an operation on an ob-stre-o-sis of the ductal tract. This meek man is also
a flying ace. For 10 points, name this James Thurber character.
ANSWER: Walter Mitty
BONUS. For 10 points each, answer these questions about James Thurber.
9.1.
He was notably a managing editor, staff writer, and cartoonist at this magazine.
ANSWER: The New Yorker
9.2.
This Thurber short story took its title from a saying by Red Barber for “sitting pretty”.
ANSWER: “The Catbird Seat”
10.
It pulled off “the Pacer”, a baseball pass executed by a baseball prospect, who set up the shot
taken by the coach’s son. For 10 points, name the team that executed this now-famed play, spurring the
Crusaders’ charge into the Sweet Sixteen.
ANSWER: Valparaiso University men's basketball team
BONUS. Answer some questions about other upset teams in the NCAA tournament, 10 points each.
10.1. Before Valparaiso, it was the only 13-seed to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. Name the school
nicknamed the Spiders.
ANSWER: University of Richmond
10.2. This team is the lowest seed to ever win the NCAA tournament, winning it in 1985 under the
leadership of Rollie Massomino over a heavily-favored Georgetown team.
ANSWER: Villanova University
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category Quiz question. Opponents
can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are:
American History: Assassinations
American Literature: Famous Plays
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Musicians
General Knowledge & Trivia: Unusual Words
Mathematics:
Physical Sciences: Cool!
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Fallen
Heroes
Social Sciences:
Sports & Entertainment: Rock & Roll
World Geography: Islands
World History: World War II
World Literature: Doctors in Literature
1. If an investor doesn’t want to spend time researching stocks, but still wants to diversify his or her
stock holdings based on a given investment objective, such as growth or income, he or she can use this.
For 10 points, name this type of investment vehicle, the largest of which in the US is Fidelity Magellan.
ANSWER: mutual fund
2. The classic exposition of this concept was first set forth in Plato’s Meno, which asks, “What do you
mean by saying that we do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection?”
For 10 points, name this “learning” method where the wise person asks all the questions.
ANSWER: the Socratic method
3. Dying of complications from lupus in 1997, he gave poetic observations of spring and read
Winnie-the-Pooh, earning two posthumous Grammys. For 10 points, name this winner of 12 Emmys
and 3 Peabodys who took a mobile home On the Road.
ANSWER: Charles Kuralt
4. This classical order of architecture is characterized by an ornate capital carved with stylized
acanthus leaves. Adopted by the Romans in the 1st century BC, For 10 points, what word can describe
columns, as well as Ricardo Montalban’s favorite kind of leather?
ANSWER: Corinthian
5. In this book, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is symbolic of the life of Helen Schlegal as she imagines
goblins walking over the universe and reminding her of her affair with Paul Wilcox. For 10 points,
name this 1910 novel replete with symbolism by E. M. Forster.
ANSWER: Howard’s End
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6. Schmidt, Mak-su-tov, Cou-dé, Cassegrain [KAS-gran], and Gregorian are different arrangements of
the lenses used in this instrument. For 10 points, name this device whose arrangements also include the
Newtonian, Keplerian, and Galilean.
ANSWER: telescope
7. From the French for “morality,” these plays of the 14th and 15th centuries were performed from town
to town, the most famous of which was the Wakefield Second Shepherd’s Play. These anonymous plays
dramatize Old Testament incidents and are aimed at teaching morals. For 10 points, name these plays,
not at all like The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie.
ANSWER: mystery plays
8. The older one was vice president of the United States, but he failed in an attempt to become
Governor of Illinois. Ironically, his younger namesake was elected governor of Illinois, but failed in
two attempts at the Presidency. For 10 points, identify the grandfather or his namesake grandson.
ANSWER: Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American History: Assassinations. Warning: Two answers required. In 1968, Robert Kennedy and the
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. were assassinated. For 15 points -- name the cities in which these
two men were gunned down.
ANSWER: Memphis, TN (King) and Los Angeles, CA (Robert Kennedy)
American Literature: Famous Plays. Three baseball players, lady in the box, belligerent man at back
of auditorium, Joe Stoddard, Constable Warren, Mrs. Soames, Simon Stimson, and Joe
Crowell. For 15 points -- these are characters in what play which centers around two families?
ANSWER: Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Fine Arts: Musicians. At age 89, he can still make audiences applaud as this legendary pianist is
best known for wearing a seat belt on his piano bench during a voice recital and for
"phonetic punctuation." For 15 points -- name this musician known as the "Great Dane."
ANSWER: Victor Borge /BORE-zhuh/
General Knowledge & Trivia: Unusual Words. It has been mistakenly used by some to refer to the
upper-class. For 15 points -- give the derisive term for the common people which is Greek for
“the many.”
ANSWER: hoi polloi
Physical Sciences: Cool! First discovered in 1933, the scientist for whom this effect was named
observed that the earth’s magnetic field was somehow repelled from the interior of tin crystals
cooled below 3.72 Kelvin. For 15 points -- name this effect, a property of diamagnetic
superconducting metals.
ANSWER: Meissner effect
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Fallen Heroes. Icarus wasn’t the only one punished for setting
his sights too high. This hero attempted to fly up to Olympus, and was punished by being cast
down from his horse and driven mad. For 15 points -- identify this hero, best known for
capturing the winged horse Pegasus.
ANSWER: Bellerophon
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Sports & Entertainment: Rock & Roll. For 15 points -- give the complete title of the Beatles album that
won the 1967 Grammy award for Album of the Year, whose cover featured many famous
faces.
ANSWER: Sargeant Peppers= Lonely Hearts Club Band
World Geography: Islands. Mount Kinabalu is the highest point on what the Indonesians call
Ka-li-man-tan, or "the River of Diamond." For 15 points -- name this island where Brunei is
located.
ANSWER: Borneo
World History: World War II. Warning: Two answers required. One was an implosion bomb, the other
a gun assembly bomb. For 15 points -- name the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
ANSWER: Fat Man and Little Boy
World Literature: Doctors in Literature. Buried in Westminster Abbey, his masques include
Hy-me-na-ei, Hue and Cry After Cupid, The Masque of Blackness and Twelfth Night. For 15 points -who also wrote satirical plays such as The Alchemist?
ANSWER: Ben Jonson
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has completed the phrase AFor 10
points@, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus
questions are read in order.
1. “Man of the javelin” is a possible etymology for this man who died in the year of the Deluge. The
son of Henoch and father of Lamech -- for 10 points -- who is this biblical figure who lived 969 years,
whose name is a synonym for longevity?
ANSWER: Methuselah
2. This artwork, completed in 1875, is primarily based on Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp.
It depicts a triumph of modern science, surgery performed on an anesthetized patient. The famous
surgeon is shown wearing street clothes, as was the custom before sterile environments were
introduced. For 10 points -- identify this work of art, painted by Thomas Eakins.
ANSWER: The Gross Clinic
3. The Sphinx is a muta persona while the Memnon-statue sings in this play, whose characters include
Master Cotton, Monsieur Ballon, and Herren von Eberkopf. Solveig and Little Helga are the daughters
of newcomers, Ase is a peasant’s widow, and the title character her son. For 10 points -- name the
Henrik Ibsen play whose incidental music was written by Edvard Grieg.
ANSWER: Peer Gynt
4. It originated with the union of the families of Ar-nulf, the bishop of Metz, and Pepin of Landon, the
mayor of the palace in Aus-tra-sia. Name this dynasty which was prominent from the 700s to the 900s,
whose family members included -- for 10 points -- Charles the Bald, Lothair I, and Louis the German,
and whose name comes from Charles Martel.
ANSWER: the Carolingian dynasty
5. The name is the same. In biology, this word refers to the free-swimming stage in the life cycle of a
coelenterate [SEE-len-tuh-ruht]. For 10 points -- identify this six-letter word that in mythology refers
to a monster with snaky locks whose stare can turn living things into stone.
ANSWER: Medusa
6. Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson was awarded the Soldier’s Medal 30 years after this March 16,
1968, event. This award is given to those who risk their lives where an opposing army is not involved,
as when Thompson risked friendly fire to save civilian lives. For 10 points -- name this massacre
which resulted in a court martial for Lieutenant William Calley.
ANSWER: My Lai massacre
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7. Know to the Greeks as Au-lon and also called ash-Shari’ah, meaning “Watering Place”, the
Has-ban-i, Has-bat-ta, and Dan join together in the Hula Valley as the major sources of this river
whose floodplain is known as the Zor. For 10 points -- name this river which meanders between the
Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea.
ANSWER: Jordan River or Nahr al-Urdun or Ha-Yarden
8. If one existed, it would have to be of the form 12n + 1 or 36n + 9. It has been proven that it would
have to have at least six different prime factors, or nine factors, if not divisible by three. And it must be
greater than 10 to the 160th power. For 10 points -- identify this species of number, whose existence
has neither been proven nor disproven, the counterpart to the numbers 6, 28, and 496.
ANSWER: odd perfect numbers [prompt on “perfect”]
9. Named by Albert Tucker to make it more accessible to a group of Stanford psychologists, it was once
part of the Rand Corporation’s research into global nuclear strategy, specifically game theory, and
represents the failure of individual rationality. For 10 points -- name this situation where two isolated
people are given the choice between confessing a crime and remaining silent.
ANSWER: prisoner’s dilemma
10. This naval officer wrote one of the first programming manuals, was called the grandmother of
COBOL, and coined the term “bug” after a squashed fly jammed a punch-card reading machine. For
10 points -- name this woman who retired in 1986 as the nation’s oldest active officer on active duty.
ANSWER: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
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1. Answer these chemistry lab questions for 10 points each.
a.
When a strip of this metal is lit, it glows a very bright white.
ANSWER: magnesium
b.
This paper is commonly used to check pH, which refers to acidity
ANSWER: litmus paper
c.
This type of burner is often found in chemistry labs
ANSWER: Bunsen burner
2. Given a song title, name the musical that it came from, 10 points each.
a.
“I, Huckleberry, Me”
ANSWER: Big River
b.
“He Plays the Violin”
ANSWER: 1776
c.
“The Last Night of the World”
ANSWER: Miss Saigon
3. Given the acronym for a government agency, give the name of the agency for the stated number of
points.
a.
[5]
CIA
ANSWER: Central Intelligence Agency
b.
[10]
NTSB
ANSWER: National Transportation Safety Board
c.
[15]
FEMA
ANSWER: Federal Emergency Management Agency
4. Give the final three words of these opening lines of Walt Whitman poems, 10 points each.
a.
“Darest thou now O soul, walk out with me toward . . .”
ANSWER: the unknown region
b.
“Beat, beat, drums! . . .”
ANSWER: Blow, bugles, blow!
c.
“When lilacs last in . . .”
ANSWER: the dooryard bloom’d
5. 30-20-10. Name the city.
[30]
A diurnal containing the line “Holy is the true light and passing wonderful, lending radiance to
them that endured in the heat of the conflict” is named for this city.
[20]
This British city, once called New Sarum, is now the home of some famous cathedrals, and
shares its name with the former capital of Rhodesia.
[10]
This city, perhaps best known for a type of steak, has England’s tallest spire, 404 feet tall.
ANSWER: Salisbury [prompt on “New Sarum”]
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6. Name these American women, 15 points each.
a.
She conducted a study on the strife of Native Americans and, in 1881, published A Century of
Dishonor. Who was she?
ANSWER: Helen Hunt Jackson
b.
During the FDR administration, this Secretary of Labor became the first-ever female Cabinet
member.
ANSWER: Frances Perkins
7. Give the English name of the following Jewish holidays, 10 points each.
a.
Hanukkah
ANSWER: Feast or Festival of Lights
b.
Yom Kippur
ANSWER: Day of Atonement
c.
Sha-vu-ot
ANSWER: Feast of Weeks or Jewish Pentecost [do not accept or prompt on “Pentecost”]
8. Identify the works by Richard Strauss, given the source, 10 points each.
a.
Frederic Nietzche was the inspiration for this 1896 tone poem.
ANSWER: Thus Spake Zarathustra or Also Sprach Zarathustra
b.
This 1905 opera was based on a lurid Oscar Wilde play.
ANSWER: Salomé
c.
This 1909 opera is based on a work by Sophocles.
ANSWER: Elektra
9. Given a Greek mythological figure, give the Roman counterpart, for 10 points each.
a.
satyr
ANSWER: faun
b.
Hypnos
ANSWER: Somnos
c.
Boreas
ANSWER: Aquilo [ah-KWEE-lo]
10. 30-20-10. Name the foreign statesman.
[30]
In 1996, he sang a duet of “Heartbreak Hotel” with Philippine President Fidel Ramos.
[20]
He served as mayor of Beijing.
[10]
In 1997 he visited the United States, where he signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
ANSWER: Jiang Zemin
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ROUND 8: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are:
American History: Assassinations
American Literature: Famous Plays
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Musicians
General Knowledge & Trivia: Unusual Words
Mathematics:
Physical Sciences: Cool!
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Fallen
Heroes
Social Sciences:
Sports & Entertainment: Rock & Roll
World Geography: Islands
World History: World War II
World Literature: Doctors in Literature
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 8: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Assassinations
American Literature: Famous Plays
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Musicians
General Knowledge & Trivia: Unusual Words
Mathematics:
Physical Sciences: Cool!
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Fallen
Heroes
Social Sciences:
Sports & Entertainment: Rock & Roll
World Geography: Islands
World History: World War II
World Literature: Doctors in Literature
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 9: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus related to the tossup.
Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
Toppled by an earthquake around 224 BC, it lay in ruins until AD 653 when the rubble was
sold off as scrap metal. For 10 points, name this 100-foot-tall bronze statue of the sun god Helios, one
of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
ANSWER: The Colossus of Rhodes
BONUS. Name these types of structures for 10 points each.
1.1.
Pioneered by Buckminster Fuller, it describes a structure in which all the pieces provide the
tension to keep the structure up without using internal supports.
ANSWER: geodesic dome
1.2.
This specific item keeps an arch standing without having to cement the bricks comprising the
arch.
ANSWER: keystone
2.
Bertolt Brecht fled the country before the rest of this group was voted in contempt of Congress;
Edward Dmytryk would later turn state’s evidence. For 10 points, name this group of producers,
directors, and screenwriters blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee.
ANSWER: the Hollywood 10
BONUS. Answer these questions on their persecutor, Joseph McCarthy, 10 points each.
2.1.
McCarthy was a Senator from what state?
ANSWER: Wisconsin
2.2.
Give the last two words of this famous line: “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member
of the Communist party, or a ...”.
ANSWER: “fellow traveler?”
3.
Named after Ol’ Joe’s distillery in the comic strip L’il Abner, this division of Lockheed is
officially named Advanced Development Projects. Started in 1947 by Kelly Johnson, it has designed
the P-80, F-104, U-2, SR-71, and F-117. For 10 points, name this smelly division of Lockheed.
ANSWER: Skunk Works
BONUS. For the stated number of points, given the following U.S. Air Force airplane designation
numbers, give the official nickname of each aircraft.
3.1.
[5]
B-2
ANSWER: Spirit
3.2.
[5]
F-22
ANSWER: Raptor
3.3
[10]
P-38
ANSWER: Lightning
4.
The ratio of the volumes of 2 similar right circular cylinders is 27 to 125. For 10 points, what
is the ratio of their altitudes?
ANSWER: 3 to 5
BONUS. Identify these other ratios, 10 points each.
4.1.
This is the ratio of a cylinder to the rectangular prism enclosing it.
ANSWER: :4 or pi to 4
4.2.
This was the ratio at which slaves were to be counted for the purposes of electoral
representation according to the Constitution.
ANSWER: 3/5
5.
The inclusion of this program differentiated Microsoft Office Standard, version 4.2 from
Professional, version 4.3. All full versions of Office 95 and 97, though, have included this database program.
For 10 points, name the program, which is also what contributors are said to buy with contributions to
candidates.
ANSWER: Access
BONUS. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about database languages.
5.1.
[5]
What is Microsoft’s database language?
ANSWER: SQL
Award 20 points if “Structured Query Language” is given at this point.
5.2.
[15]
Five points per word, expand SQL.
ANSWER: Structured Query Language
6.
In this poem, the narrator asks the title character to “rise up and hear the bells,” but he “does
not answer, his lips are pale and still” as he has “fallen cold and dead” on the deck. For 10 points,
name this poem, featured in the movie Dead Poets Society, written by Walt Whitman.
ANSWER: “O Captain! My Captain!”
BONUS. “O Captain! My Captain!” is on the death of Abraham Lincoln. 10 points each.
6.1.
Who wrote the elegy “A-do-na-is”?
ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley
6.2.
“Adonais” commemorates the death of what poet of “The Eve of St. Agnes”?
ANSWER: John Keats
7.
This island was long the domain of the aboriginal Ainu peoples. Serious Japanese settlement
began in 1869, when the territory, then called Yezo province, was renamed to mean “North Sea
Province”. For 10 points, name this northernmost and second largest island of Japan.
ANSWER: Hokkaido
BONUS. Name these Samurai weapons for 10 points each.
7.1.
This main weapon of the samurai is a curved sword over 3 feet long.
ANSWER: katana
7.2.
This is the secondary weapon of the samurai. It is a curved sword about 10 inches shorter than
the katana.
ANSWER: wakizashi
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8.
Protective of her family’s privacy, in a Bangkok airport, she attacked a camerawoman. Her son
Sindri was fathered by a guitarist named Thor, who used to play in The Sugarcubes. For 10 points,
name this Icelandic elf whose albums include Debut, Post, and Homogenic.
ANSWER: Björk Gudmundsdóttir
BONUS. “Bork, bork, bork!” said the Swedish chef. Answer these Muppets questions, for 10 points
each.
8.1.
Sergeant Floyd Pepper, Zoot, Janice, Animal, and Dr. Teeth were among the members of this
band first featured in The Muppet Movie.
ANSWER: Electric Mayhem
8.2.
This catfish is the host of Muppets Tonight seen on the Disney Channel.
ANSWER: Clarence
9.
The husband of Hersilia, he enlarged his empire by accepting exiles, refugees, and runaway
slaves, and then, to correct a gender imbalance, he stole the Sabine women. For 10 points, name this
ruler who didn’t like the height of his walls mocked, and, so, killed Remus.
ANSWER: Romulus
BONUS. RM. Identify these Roman deities, for 10 points each.
9.1.
Saturn’s daughter, she is the goddess of truth.
ANSWER: Veritas
9.2.
This god of gates and doors is represented with two faces.
ANSWER: Janus
10.
In the mid 1950s he was a foreign correspondent in Paris for a Colombian newspaper before
writing novels like The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera. For 10 points, name this
magical realist author.
ANSWER: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
BONUS. 10 points each, answer these questions about Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.
10.1 The novel tells the seven generational story of what family?
ANSWER: Buendia
10.2. The setting is in what jungle village?
ANSWER: Macando
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ROUND 9: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category Quiz question. Opponents
can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are:
American History:
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Proteins
Fine Arts: Interior Design
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Geometry
Physical Sciences: Wave Motion
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Warnings
Social Sciences: Psychology
Sports & Entertainment: Vanishing Act
World Geography: South America
World History: More Useful than Congress
World Literature: Drama
1. Proximity. Similarity. Closure. Connectedness. Continuity. Continuation. These are all principles
behind this theory of perception, which emphasizes that stimuli can often be interpreted as more than
the sum of their parts. For 10 points, name this theory, named for the German word for “whole.”
ANSWER: Gestalt [GEH-s(h)talt]
2. It is an acronym for the “Main Administration for Corrective Labor Camps”, in Russian of course.
For 10 points, name this term that refers to a forced labor camp, used in the title of a novel by
Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
ANSWER: gulag
3. Bill Clinton is not the only person in the Executive Branch facing an Independent Counsel. For 10
points, name the Secretary of the Interior who faces charges for allowing political contributions to
influence his decision to reject a casino application from a Wisconsin Indian tribe.
ANSWER: Bruce Babbitt
4. An aldehyde has one; an alcohol doesn’t. A carboxylic acid has one; an alkene doesn’t. Ketones
have them, too. For 10 points, name this functional group which consist of an atom of carbon double
bonded to an atom of oxygen.
ANSWER: carbonyl group (accept C-O double bond; prompt on "C-O bond", NOT "carboxyl")
5. This religion is practiced in Shrine, Sect, and Folk varieties and is most noted for its veneration of
ancestral spirits. For 10 points, name this indigenous religion of Japan.
ANSWER: Shintoism
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6. This anthropologist wrote books like Soviet Attitudes Towards Authority and New Lives for Old. More
famously, she conducted research in Samoa and New Guinea. For 10 points, name this American who
popularized anthropology, author of Coming of Age in Samoa.
ANSWER: Margaret Mead
7. Caused by Britain’s refusal to withdraw troops stationed in the Transvaal, and also by the disastrous
Jameson raid, it was fought against the combined forces of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal
Republic. For 10 points, name this war that ended with the fall of Pretoria in 1900.
ANSWER: The Boer War
8. In one of this author’s novels, 18-year-old Jennie becomes pregnant through her liaisons with
Senator Brander, who dies on a trip to Washington. For 10 points, name this author who in 1911
created Jennie Gerhardt, a tragic character similar to his Clyde Griffiths and “Sister” Carrie Meeber.
ANSWER: Theodore Dreiser
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
Biological Sciences: Proteins. These proteins undergo a series of oxidation and reduction reactions,
and in cellular respiration, they accept hydrogen in the citric acid cycle. For 15 points -- name
these "colored" proteins.
ANSWER: cytochromes
Fine Arts: Interior Design. It consists of small individual columns that together support a horizontal
beam that is usually waist-high. For 15 points -- name this architectural term for this type of
support used commonly as an extension of the bannisters on staircases.
ANSWER: balustrade
Mathematics: Geometry. Pencil and paper ready. Imagine three circles with circumferences of 18, 12,
and 6. Now, for 15 points -- expressing your answer in terms of  [pi], how much greater is the
area of the largest circle than the sum of the areas of the 2 smaller circles? You have 15 seconds.
ANSWER: 36 [36 times pi]
Physical Sciences: Wave Motion. His name is given to a frequency unit equal to one terahertz (1012
Hz), and to diffraction in which the light source, the receiving screen, or both are at finite
distances from a diffracting object, such that wavefronts are not planar. For 15 points -- which
scientist=s name is also given to a lens cut into a series of steps thinner than conventional
lenses?
ANSWER: Augustine Fresnel [appropriately pronounced “fruh-NELL”]
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Warnings. In his "Essay Concerning Technology", this
German philosopher warned that technology will lead people to continue improving
technology at the cost of humanity, an idea he called "enframing". For 15 points -- name this
philosopher whose idea of enframing was evident in the race to build the atomic bomb.
ANSWER: Martin Heidegger
Social Sciences: Psychology. An Austrian physician who lived from 1734 to 1815 used the power of
suggestion to cure ailments of his patients. Thus, for 15 points -- whose name became the
derivation of an English verb synonymous with "hypnotize"?
ANSWER: Franz Mesmer [prompt on "mesmerize"]
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Sports & Entertainment: Vanishing Act. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had an episode with a civilization
that disappeared and reappeared. Their inspiration came from -- for 15 points -- what Lerner
and Loewe musical featuring a village that appears one day each century?
ANSWER: Brigadoon
World Geography: South America. Bolivia is a landlocked country that ironically possesses a strong
navy. This is because Bolivia has easy access to the Amazon River, for 15 points, via what
large lake, the second largest in South America and the highest navigable lake in the world?
ANSWER: Lake Titicaca
World History: More Useful than Congress. The first was named by Tullus Hostilus, the second was
rebuilt and named after Julius Caesar, and the third was converted into the Church of St.
Adrian. For 15 points -- name this House where the Roman Senate met and passed laws.
ANSWER: the Curia
World Literature: Drama. The Achorus@ begins by begging the indulgence of the play-goers that the
subject matter requires a better playwright, a better cast, and a better set. For 15 points -- name
this Shakespeare play about a famous battle.
ANSWER: Henry V
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has completed the phrase AFor 10
points@, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus
questions are read in order.
1. A treason conviction not only caused the forfeit of one’s lands to the king, but one’s descendants
would also forfeit property or assets inherited by title. The Constitution, though, forbids the issuing of
such bills. For 10 points -- name this bill, mentioned in Article III, in which death sentences after a
treason or felony conviction result in complete loss of civil and political rights.
ANSWER: bill of attainder
2. Plants contain  and  [alpha and beta] subtypes; the name “diastase” is given to the component of
malt containing the  subtype, which is important in brewing. Animals only contain the  subtype,
especially ptyalin, in the saliva. For 10 points -- name this class of enzyme that degrades starches and
polysaccharides.
ANSWER: amylase
3. This Russian novel begins “I am a sick man. I am a malicious man. I am an unprepossessing man.”
The story centers around the spiteful hero who torments Liza, a sympathetic soul ready to help him
with her love; he refuses and continues to torment himself. For 10 points -- name this 1864 novel
written after Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s visit to Siberia.
ANSWER: Memoirs from the Underground or Notes from the Underground
4. “Great Grandad”, “Git Along, Little Dogies”, and “Old Paint” are some authentic cowboy tunes
orchestrated by this famous composer. Born in New York in 1900, he was educated in Paris by Nadia
Boulanger. Billy the Kid and Rodeo pale in comparison, however, to the popularity of -- for 10 patriotic
points -- whose tremendously famous Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man?
ANSWER: Aaron Copland
5. This country, known for it Postal Museum, consists of 11 autonomous Ge-mein-den. Its unicameral
Land-tag has four-year terms for its 15 members. For 10 points -- name this hereditary constitutional
monarchy of Prince Hans-Adam II whose capital is Vaduz.
ANSWER: Principality of Liechtenstein
6. First observed by Heinrich Hertz in 1887, it is surprisingly independent of the intensity of the light
used, but linearly proportional to the frequency. The emission of electrons from a conductor’s surface
by light -- for 10 points -- name this effect, the subject of a seminal 1905 paper by Albert Einstein.
ANSWER: the photoelectric effect
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7. This practice took its name from the pottery shards used to cast votes. Each year, the citizens of
Athens would vote to banish an individual from the city for five years; the unfortunate winner would,
however, be allowed to keep his property. For 10 points -- name this practice, which now refers to the
“casting out” of an individual by a group.
ANSWER: ostracism (accept equivalent forms)
8. In January 1998, this politician announced that he would leave his wife of 28 years to marry his
secretary, Gaynor Regan. The announcement surprised few observers, given his reputation for
extra-marital affairs. For 10 points -- name this current British Foreign Secretary, who shares his name
with an American writer of medical detective thrillers.
ANSWER: Robin Cook (the politician is Robin Finlayson Cook)
9. Zeami Mo-to-ki-yo was a 15th century expert in this style of Japanese literature, not only by writing
some of its finest works, but also authoring various treatises and discourses about the “proper way” to
perform his works. For 10 points -- name this style of play marked by magnificent poetic style and
plots that generally seek to uncover the mystery and reality of life itself.
ANSWER: Noh (No) theater
10. Starting from Southwark, travel two miles to St. Thomas, five miles to Deptford, six to Greenwich,
30 to Rochester, 40 to Sittingbourne, 55 to Boughton-under-Blean, 58 to Harbledown. After travelling
sixty miles -- for 10 points -- you have followed the route of pilgrims to what city?
ANSWER: Canterbury [HN: this is the route in The Canterbury Tales.]
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1. Here’s a purr-fect bonus for cat lovers. Given a cat, identify its genus, 10 points each.
a.
Tiger
ANSWER: Panthera or Leo
b.
Bobcat
ANSWER: Lynx
c.
Siamese cat
ANSWER: Felis [NOT "Felix" or "Felidae"]
2. Name these faithful servants, 10 points each.
a.
This mortal was taken by Zeus to become the cupbearer to the gods.
ANSWER: Ganymede
b.
This young Indian was rescued by Robinson Crusoe.
ANSWER: Friday
c.
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, he was Hercules’ attendant who unknowingly delivers a poisoned
robe to him.
ANSWER: Lichas
3. What goes up must go down, except for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, it seems. For 10 points
each, in what year did the Dow first close above each of the following milestones?
a.
7000
ANSWER: February 13, 1997
b.
3000
ANSWER: April 17, 1991
c.
1000, within 2 years ANSWER: November 14, 1972 [ACC: 1970 to 1974]
4. Answer these questions about declensions, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
Latin has this many cases.
ANSWER: six
b.
[5]
German has this many cases.
ANSWER: four
c.
[10]
Name either of the cases found in Latin that is not present in German.
ANSWER: ablative or vocative
d.
[10]
It is believed that proto-Indo-European had this many cases, the same number as
Sanskrit.
ANSWER: eight
5. “Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?” Identify these things having to do with irony, 10 points each.
a.
This battle occurred after the treaty ending the War of 1812 was signed.
ANSWER: Battle of New Orleans
b.
An out-of-work hay trusser Michael Henchard dies in the care of his rival Donald Farfrae in
this Thomas Hardy book.
ANSWER: The Life and the Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Story of a Man of Character
c.
In this Verdi opera, the title character arranges for the murder of his daughter’s seducer, but
winds up killing his daughter instead.
ANSWER: Rigoletto
6. Prove you know your postulates! Answer these questions, 10 points each.
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a.
b.
c.
Whose fifth postulate states that “given a line L and a point P not on line L, there is exactly one
line through P that is parallel to line L”?
ANSWER: Euclid
What specific term is given to the geometry that develops when “exactly one” in the above
sentence is changed to “none”?
ANSWER: spherical or elliptical geometry [prompt on “non-Euclidean”]
Peano’s [pianos] fifth postulate is the basis of what type of proof, whereby a statement is proved
for n = 1, assumed true for n = k, and then proven for n = k + 1?
ANSWER: mathematical induction
7. Identify these feudal terms, for 10 points each.
a.
Fees paid by serfs to a lord for use of such things as the mill, over, or wine press
ANSWER: banality or banalities
b.
In England, the officer of the royal household responsible for administration of the household
and the private estates
ANSWER: chamberlain
c.
The right of the eldest son to inherit from his father
ANSWER: primogeniture
8. 30-20-10. Name the country.
[30]
Residents of this country call their Prime Minister the taoiseach [TEH-shahk].
[20]
One of this country’s seven main universities is located in Gallimh [galv].
[10]
You probably know that city better by its Anglicized name, Galway.
ANSWER: Ireland or Irish Free Republic or Eire
9. Goal!!!!!!!! Answer these questions about the World Cup, 10 points per part.
a.
On what day is the 1998 World Cup scheduled to end?
ANSWER: July 12, 1998
b.
For five points each, name the ball used in World Cup matches, and the company that makes
it.
ANSWER: le tri-couleur or The Tricolor by adidas
c.
Name the Univision announcer who made famous his “Goal!” shout.
ANSWER: Andreas Cantor
10. Answer these questions about Eugene Delacroix’s works, 15 points per part.
a.
This 1827 work by Delacroix was inspired by a tragic poem by Lord Byron. It depicts the story
of a King of Ninevah, who, facing imminent defeat, has his servants kill all of the members of
the household, before dying himself.
ANSWER: The Death of Sardanapolus
b.
Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People commemorates the day when the people dethroned
Bourbon king Louis-Philippe. Five points each, give the month, day, and year on which this
painting was made, the same day it commemorates.
ANSWER: July 28, 1830
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ROUND 9: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are:
American History:
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Proteins
Fine Arts: Interior Design
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Geometry
Physical Sciences: Wave Motion
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Warnings
Social Sciences: Psychology
Sports & Entertainment: Vanishing Act
World Geography: South America
World History: More Useful than Congress
World Literature: Drama
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History:
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Proteins
Fine Arts: Interior Design
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Geometry
Physical Sciences: Wave Motion
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Warnings
Social Sciences: Psychology
Sports & Entertainment: Vanishing Act
World Geography: South America
World History: More Useful than Congress
World Literature: Drama
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 10: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus
related to the tossup. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read
if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
Born in Rutland, Vermont, he became a blacksmith in Grand Detour, Illinois, but sold out to
his partner, Major Leonard Andrus, and moved to Moline. In Moline, he began using imported
English steel to make plows better suited to the soils of the prairie. For 10 points, what inventor’s name
is attached to a major US manufacturer of farm equipment?
ANSWER: John Deere
BONUS. Identify these deer, for 10 points each.
67.
1.1. Species Al-ces al-ces, it is the largest member of the deer family.
ANSWER: moose
68.
1.2. The Key deer of Florida is a subspecies of this woodland deer, which ranges
from Canada to South America.
ANSWER: white-tailed deer or Odocoileus virginianus or Virginia deer
2.
Alalia was an early Greek settlement on this mountainous island which had a short-lived 18th
century republic under nationalist Pasquale Paoli. For 10 points, what island, historically known for
the use of the vendetta, is separated by the Strait of Bonifacio from Sardinia?
ANSWER: Corsica
BONUS. Answer these questions about that famous Corsican, Napoleon, 10 points each.
A.
Napoleon issued the decrees of Berlin and Milan, establishing this formal
blockade against Great Britain.
ANSWER: Continental system
A.
In search of an heir, Napoleon dissolved his marriage to Josephine and married
this eldest daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II.
ANSWER: Marie-Louise-Léopoldine-Françoise-Thérèse-Joséphine-Luc
3.
Son of a dead Chinese tailor, he is trapped in a cave by an African magician claiming to be his
uncle. He finds a way out by chance when he wrings his hands in dismay. For 10 points, name this
hero who inadvertently rubbed a ring and summoned a jinn, later featured in a Disney movie.
ANSWER: Aladdin
BONUS. Identify these characters associated with The Lord of the Rings trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien.
69.
3.1. When lost in Fangorn Forest, Merry and Pippin meet this Ent.
ANSWER: Treebeard
70.
3.2. He is the Elf representative of the Fellowship of the Ring.
ANSWER: Legolas
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4.A 15-year-old streetcar conductor in New Albany, Indiana, he served as a private in Cuba for six
months. John Y. Brown, Jr., led investors who bought his share of a successful business for which he
remained public spokesman. For 10 points, name this fast food pioneer and Kentucky Colonel.
ANSWER: Harland Sanders
BONUS. 20-10. Identify this colonel.
[20]
His real name was Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk.
[10]
He is best know as the manager for Elvis Presley.
ANSWER: "Colonel" Tom Parker
5.
It was discovered in 1957 by Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann. Con-dy-lo-ma-ta
a-cu-mi-na-ta, hair-cell leukemia and some types of hepatitis are treated with its  [alpha] form. For 10
points, name this family of proteins which inhibit the ability of viruses to replicate.
ANSWER: interferons
BONUS. Name these other viruses, for 10 points each.
A.
In 1892, this plant virus was first observed by Dmitry Ivanovsky in Nicotiana
tabacum.
ANSWER: Tobacco Mosaic Virus or tobamovirus
5.2.
This virus, which causes acute infectious mononucleosis, can only affect salivary gland cells
and B lymphocytes.
71.
ANSWER: Epstein-Barr virus (prompt on "herpes")
72.
6.
Its author was chastised not for remaining secret, but for writing an article in
Newsweek pointing the finger at someone else. A parody of the 1992 Democratic campaign, for 10
points, name this book, now known to be written by Joe Klein, and a 1998 movie starring John
Travolta and Emma Thompson.
ANSWER: Primary Colors [prompt on “Joe Klein”]
BONUS. Answer these questions on other novels, 10 points each.
A.
This term describes novels such as Primary Colors, where real characters are portrayed under
fictional names.
ANSWER: roman à clef [prompt on “novel with a key”]
A.
Which British Prime Minister wrote Coningsby, another roman à clef?
ANSWER: Benjamin Disraeli
7.
Franz is a university professor, the lover of a painter named Sabina, who is the favorite mistress
of a surgeon Tomas, who is the husband of faithful Tereza. For 10 points, they are all characters in
what 1984 book by Milan Kundera?
ANSWER: The Unbearable Lightness of Being or Nes nesitelná lehkost byti
BONUS. Identify these figures from Czech – yes, Czech – literature, 10 points each.
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A.
A.
This playwright of The Garden Party and The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
is better known as a political dissident-turned-president.
ANSWER: Václav Havel
Born in 1901, his poetry includes “The Helmet of Clay” and “The Nightingale Sings
Wrong”. Name the first Czech to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
ANSWER: Jaroslav Seifert
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8.
A subspace of Euclidean threedimensional space that is homeomorphic to a circle, examples
include Stevedore’s, true lovers’, figure-of-eight, trefoil, tame, wild, and trivial. For 10 points, name
this topological shape, that also includes square and granny, which should be on your shoes.
ANSWER: knot
BONUS. Name these other topological shapes, 10 points each.
A.
This topological shape is homeomorphic and conjoins the opposite edges of a
cylinder.
ANSWER: Klein bottle
A.
This triangular prism appears to have only one surface.
ANSWER: Penrose’s triangle
73.
9.
Its first episode, entitled “Chapter One”, was ranked as the 60th greatest episode in TV history
by TV Guide. For 10 points, name this legal series, created by Steven Bochco, that in its first season
profiled just one major case, whose main defendant was played by Jason Gedrick.
ANSWER: Murder One
BONUS. Given an episode title from TV Guide’s list of the 100 greatest episodes in TV history, and its
ranking, name the show, 10 points each.
A.
#1, “Chuckles Bites the Dust”
74.
ANSWER: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
A.
#11, “To Serve Man”
ANSWER: The Twilight Zone
10.
It premiered October 10, 1944 at the Library of Congress. The original cast included Erick
Hawkins as The Husband, and Martha Graham as The Bride. For 10 points, name this ballet set in a
newly-built Pennsylvania farmhouse, known for its use of the Shaker tune “Simple Gifts”.
ANSWER: Appalachian Spring
BONUS. Identify these physical features of Appalachia, 10 points each.
A.
Mount Mansfield and Killington Peak are the tallest peaks in this part of the
Appalachian Mountains, which run through central Vermont.
ANSWER: Green Mountains
A.
Part of the Great Appalachian Valley, this valley bears the name of the Virginia
river which drains it, and lies between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains.
ANSWER: Shenandoah Valley
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category
Quiz question. Opponents can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot
be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American Literature: Don’t Give Up Your
Day Job
American History: Non-Fiction Pulitzers
Biological Sciences: Medicine
Fine Arts: Singers
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Limits
Physical Sciences: Chemical Laws
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Famous Terms
Social Sciences:
Sports & Entertainment: Olympic Sports
World Geography: Line ‘Em Up
World History: Famous Names
World Literature:
1. In Run-nin-dei, the place of this man’s birth, the emperor Asoka placed a pillar that still stands today.
At 16, he married his cousin Ya-sod-ha-ra. For 10 points, name this man who, after the Great
Renunciation, found Enlightenment under a bo tree.
ANSWER: Buddha or Siddhartha or Siddhattha Gotama
2. This six-letter word derives from the ancient Greek for a pair of scales. In Babylon, it was a measure
of weight equal to 3600 shekels, usually of silver. For 10 points, identify this word now used as a
synonym of ability, which describes something lacked by many contestants on The Gong Show.
ANSWER: talent [HN: 3600 shekels = 60 kg?]
3. In 1350, Roman Emperor Charles IV named this city “Rome of the North.” Later, this city
commissioned Mozart to write the opera Don Giovanni. For 10 points, identify this city where an
infamous defenestration occurred.
ANSWER: Prague or Praha
4. What do you do when Norse Gods start blowing up check-in counters at Heathrow Airport? This is
exactly the dilemma faced by Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective. For 10 points, name this charmingly
bizarre 1988 novel from science-fiction come comedy writer Douglas Adams.
ANSWER: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
5. For a quick 10 points, what is the range of the following set of six integers? 5, 2, 9, 70, 4, and 300.
ANSWER: 298 [= 300 - 2]
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6. In the short run firms in perfectly competitive industries can earn profits, but in the long run this
profit will attract entry and profits will fall to zero. As this occurs the price of the product will fall until
it equals the minimum point on, For 10 points, which one of the firms’ cost curves?
ANSWER: average total cost
7. He sings such songs as “Come Back to Erin”, “Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone”, and
“I’m Just Wild About Harry”. He’s appeared on Tiny Toon Adventures. For 10 points, name this
character who drives other characters crazy while singing “Hello My Baby”, who’s the icon of the WB
Network.
ANSWER: Michigan J. Frog
8. One of the most famous wood carvings of all time was carved by this famous German Renaissance
artist. He is famous for his paintings Knight Death and the Devil, St. Jerome in his Study, and Four Apostles.
For 10 points, name the man who carved the famous praying hands.
ANSWER: Albrecht Dürer
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American Literature: Don’t Give Up Your Day Job. He dropped out of Harvard in 1897 to pursue a
literary career, dabbled a bit in journalism, before finally working for the Hartford Accident
and Indemnity Company in 1916. For 15 points -- identify this Connecticut poet who wrote
“The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “The Comedian as the Letter C,” and “Peter Quince at the
Clavier.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
American History: Non-Fiction Pulitzers. Mentioned in Will Hunting’s tete-a-tete with a Harvard
graduate student -- for 15 points -- which Brown professor won the 1993 Pulitzer in History for
The Radicalism of the American Revolution?
ANSWER: Gordon S. Wood
Biological Sciences: Medicine. Your blood pressure may rise just thinking about this one. For 15
points -- name the device doctors use to measure blood pressure.
ANSWER: sphygmomanometer or blood pressure cuff
Fine Arts: Singers. For 15 points -- which internationally-known singer is called “The Swedish
Nightingale”?
ANSWER: Jenny Lind
Mathematics: Limits. For 15 points -- what is the limit of, the sum of one plus the quotient one divided
by x, all raised to the power of x [write on the board (1 + 1/x)x], as x approaches infinity? You
have 15 seconds.
ANSWER: e
Physical Sciences: Chemical Laws. Carbon monoxide contains 1.33 grams oxygen per gram carbon,
but carbon dioxide contains 2.66. This is an example of -- for 15 points -- what law, deduced by
Dalton from his atomic theory, that states that when elements A and B form multiple
compounds, the masses of A in these compounds relative to B are in small whole number
ratios?
ANSWER: the Law of Multiple Proportions
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Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Famous Terms. It appears in Queen’s song “Bohemian
Rhapsody.” For 15 points -- identify this word, which starts every chapter of the Qur’an [kuh-RAHN]
save one, that means “In the name of God”.
ANSWER: Bismallah [bis-mah-LAH]
Sports & Entertainment: Olympic Sports. It takes place on an square area with 12 meter sides. For 15
points -- name this Olympic event done by both male and female gymnasts.
ANSWER: floor exercise
World Geography: Line >Em Up. For 15 points -- arrange the following European cities in order from
west to east: Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Vienna. You have 15 seconds.
ANSWER: Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest
World History: Famous Names. She was 1/64 Armenian through Eliza Kewark. For 15 points -- who
gave a candid interview on the BBC in response to Andrew Morton’s unauthorized biography?
ANSWER: Diana Francis Spenser, Princess of Wales [accept: Princess Di]
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ROUND 10: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has
completed the phrase AFor 10 points@, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents
can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are read in order.
1. It’s not perfect, but it gives a pretty good representation of regions near the equator. It also makes
landmasses near the poles look much larger than they actually are. For 10 points -- name this common
map projection, in which ratios of sizes of degrees latitude and degrees longitude are the same as they
are on the globe at every point.
ANSWER: Mercator projection
2. After a statue was removed, it was transformed into a Christian church. Structural changes were
made by the time that the Turks seized it in 1458, and turned it into a mosque two years later. And in
1687 a Venetian invasion caused a powder magazine to blow up, destroying the center of the building.
For 10 points -- name the building from which Lord Elgin appropriated statues.
ANSWER: the Parthenon
3. Judge Brack lends money to a middleclass professor, doing research on medieval history, so he can
buy a villa for his new wife. She commits suicide after deliberately burning the manuscript of her
husband’s rival Ernest Loev-borg. For 10 points -- name this woman, her father’s daughter, the title
character of an 1890 play by Henrik Ibsen.
ANSWER: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
4. “It is wrong to say that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can
say about Nature.” So said this chemist, who calculated the allowed energy levels for a hydrogen atom
electron. For 10 points -- name this Nobel Prize winner for his “shell” model of the atom.
ANSWER: Niels Bohr
5. The creator of the Marlboro Man, he boosted sales of Bumble Bee tuna by adding labels saying
“Guaranteed not to turn pink in the can!” This former president of the American Psychological
Association was the first to produce fear of previously unfeared objects -- including, in one famous
study, of white furry objects. For 10 points -- name this pioneer of the behavioral school of
psychology.
ANSWER: John B. Watson
6. This influenza strain, discovered too late to be included in the 1997 flu vaccine, has been found by
the Centers for Disease Control in about 40% of US flu cases since October 1997. First identified in
September 1997 in tourists on an Australian cruise ship that docked in New York -- for 10 points -name this flu strain, whose name suggests it came from a famous opera house.
ANSWER: Type A Sydney
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7. This man’s first hit, with the band Tom and Jerry, landed the band an appearance on American
Bandstand. Now using his real name, he has become a rock legend, known for a series of hits that dates
back to 1965. For 10 points -- identify this husband of Edie Brickell whose more recent works include
such songs as “The Obvious Child” and “You Can Call Me Al.”
ANSWER: Paul Frederic Simon
8. Given to the Smithsonian in 1907, it was originally presented to Major George Armstead. Sulfur
bleaching agents and an ammonia-based cleaning solution have damaged this item, which has also
had pieces of it snipped for souvenirs and which is missing one of its fifteen stars, given to an unknown
politician. For 10 points -- name this 30-by-42 foot flag taken from Fort McHenry.
ANSWER: The Star-Spangled Banner (prompt on "American flag" or "Old Glory")
9. Upon his death in 1900, his sister published all his papers, not realizing their significance. These
works are now considered the staples of ideological totalitarianism, and it is widely held that many of
Hitler’s ideas are based on this philosopher’s work. For 10 points -- name this philosopher, author of
Thus Spake Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, in which he explored the superhuman.
ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche
10. They are classified as seven types -- M, K, G, F, A, B, and O -- and into nine subdivisions
depending on temperature. For 10 points -- identify the object, of which one example of a type G2 is
our own sun.
ANSWER: Stars
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1. If you have ESP, you probably know these answers already. 10 points each, name these forms of
extrasensory perception.
75.
a.
The ability to communicate thoughts to others without speaking.
ANSWER: telepathy
76.
b.
The ability of manipulating objects just by using one’s mind.
ANSWER: psychokinesis or telekinesis
77.
c.
The ability to perceive events occurring far away while they are occurring,
such as a friend’s house being on fire.
ANSWER: clairvoyance
2. Answering (not to mention writing) so many questions could produce bad headaches. Answer these
questions, 10 points each about headaches.
I.
70 to 80% of sufferers inherit their susceptibility to this type of headache,
sometimes preceded by an “aura” or constriction of blood vessels supplying the brain.
ANSWER: migraine
I.
Overproduction of fluid in the eye or improper draining of fluid not only can cause
headaches but can also lead to blindness because of increased pressure of the
eyeball.
ANSWER: glaucoma
I.
Some studies have suggested that the abnormal regulation of this
neurotransmitter is correlated with the onset of migraine headaches.
II.
III.
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ANSWER: serotonin or 5-HydroxyTryptamine (5-HT)
3. Name these musical terms, 10 points each.
I.
An embellishment in which two adjacent pitches are alternately played rapidly, it
doesn’t apply just to Lieutenant Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
ANSWER: trill
I.
This fiveletter word describes music in the form of ABACA (among others) in which
a refrain is played next to contrasting episodes or themes.
ANSWER: rondo
I.
This is a rhythmic device in which unaccented beats are accented and vice versa.
ANSWER: syncopation
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4. Given a famous square, name the city in which it is located for 10 points for the square’s English
name of for 5 points if you need its name in the local language.
a.
[10]
St. Mark’s Square
[5]
Piazza San Marco
ANSWER: Venice or Venezia
b.
[10]
The Star
[5]
L’Étoile [lay-TWAHL]
ANSWER: Paris
c.
[10]
Herald Square
[5]
Herald Square
ANSWER: New York
1
2
1
1
From the following clues, identify these first names, 10 points each.
Meaning “The one who strives with God,” this name was given to Jacob after fighting with an
angel.
ANSWER: Israel
This first name apparently means “spear carrier.” Famous people include a former senator and
a Northwestern football coach.
ANSWER: Gary
Derived from the English for a type of sparrow, Spizella passerina, found in North America with
a redbrown “cap,” one famous person with this first name runs a tournament.
ANSWER: Chip
6. 30-20-10. Name the man from works.
[30]
Discourses upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livius
[20]
History of Florence and La Mandragola
[10]
The Art of War and The Prince
78.
ANSWER: Nicoló Machiavelli
7. Name these forms of petroleum, 15 points each.
79.
a.
This mixture of hydrocarbons, with 13 to 25 carbon atoms, boils at 220 to
350 Celsius.
ANSWER: diesel oil or gas oil
80.
b.
This mixture of hydrocarbons, with 11 or 12 carbon atoms, boils at 160 to
250 Celsius, perfect for jet engines.
ANSWER: kerosene or paraffin oil
8. 10 points each, identify the singer or group that made each of these annoying music videos.
81.
a.
“Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)”
ANSWER: Backstreet Boys
82.
b.
“I’m Afraid of Americans”, appearing with Trent Reznor
ANSWER: David Bowie
c.
“Barbie World”
83.
ANSWER: Aqua
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9. Identify the artist from a work, 10 points each.
84.
a.
Time Transfixed
85.
ANSWER: René Magritte
86.
b.
Three Flags
87.
ANSWER: Jasper Johns
88.
c.
Green on Blue
89.
ANSWER: Mark Rothko
10. For the stated number of points, given a college in NCAA Division I, identify its team name.
a.
[5]
United States Naval Academy
ANSWER: Midshipmen
b.
[10]
Fairfield University
ANSWER: Stags
c.
[15]
Radford College
ANSWER: Highlanders
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ROUND 10: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American Literature: Don’t Give Up Your
Day Job
American History: Non-Fiction Pulitzers
Biological Sciences: Medicine
Fine Arts: Singers
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Limits
Physical Sciences: Chemical Laws
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Famous Terms
Social Sciences:
Sports & Entertainment: Olympic Sports
World Geography: Line ‘Em Up
World History: Famous Names
World Literature:
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 10: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American Literature: Don’t Give Up Your
Day Job
American History: Non-Fiction Pulitzers
Biological Sciences: Medicine
Fine Arts: Singers
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Limits
Physical Sciences: Chemical Laws
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Famous Terms
Social Sciences:
Sports & Entertainment: Olympic Sports
World Geography: Line ‘Em Up
World History: Famous Names
World Literature:
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 11: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus
related to the tossup. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read
if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
Rosalind Franklin was an X-ray crystallographer who probably would have shared in a Nobel
Prize with her colleagues had she lived long enough. She produced the data which helped determine
for 10 points, the structure of what molecule along with her collaborators Maurice Wilkins, James
Watson and Francis Crick ?
ANSWER: deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA
BONUS. Identify these things related to James Watson, 10 points each.
A.
This is Watson’s book about the discovery of the structure of DNA.
ANSWER: The Double Helix
A.
Watson and Crick worked at this Cambridge University laboratory named for a
British scientist.
ANSWER: Cavendish Laboratory
2.
First built by a merchant with his own money, the building was enlarged in 1806, doubling its
width and adding a third floor. For 10 points, name this historic building which served as an assembly
room next to a marketplace in Boston.
ANSWER: Faneuil [FAN-yule] Hall
BONUS. Boston could be called “the next Hollywood” as a number of TV shows are set in Boston.
Identify these programs, 10 points each.
A.
Vonda Shepard sings the theme song, “Searchin’ My Soul,” to this TV show.
ANSWER: Ally McBeal
A.
This 1998 midseason ABC sitcom centers around Pete, an architecture graduate
student, Bert, a loafing medical student who participates in random drug trials,
and Sharon, a saleswoman who has issues with her employer, a chemical
company.
ANSWER: Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place
3.
They called themselves the Ra-sen-na; the Greeks called them the Ty-rrhe-noi. Their cities
included Tar-qui-ni-i, Ravenna, and Fel-si-na. For 10 points, name this ancient civilization which
invented the toga, and preceded the Romans in Italy.
ANSWER: Etruscans or Etruria
BONUS. Identify these other ancient civilizations which had contact with the Romans, 10 points
each.
90.
3.1. Conquered in 290 BC and granted Roman citizenship in 268 BC, according
to legend, the women of this civilization were carried off by early Romans.
ANSWER: Sabines
91.
3.2. Their last king, Genthius, surrendered in 168 BC during the Roman
conquest of the Balkan peninsula. Name this people whose modern descendants
are the Albanians.
ANSWER: Illyrians
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4.
This composer of The Hymn of Jesus is known for combining Eastern themes into his English
music. His two Suites for Military Band are standard band literature today. For 10 points, name this
composer best known for The Planets.
ANSWER: Gustav Holst
BONUS. Answer these questions on planets, 10 points each.
A.
Leonard Bernstein added a movement to The Planets for this planet.
ANSWER: Pluto
A.
This nonexistent planet was postulated in the 1800s to lie between the Sun and
Mercury.
ANSWER: Vulcan
5.
Types of this include the Malayan kris and the katar of the Hindus. A special type was used in
fencing during the 16th century. For 10 points, name this weapon that Lady Macbeth saw before her.
ANSWER: dagger
BONUS. 20-10. Identify the weapon.
[20]
In Arrigo Boïto’s opera Mefistoffele, these weapons render Mephistopheles powerless.
[10]
In Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, angels do battle with these weapons.
92.
ANSWER: rose petals
93.
6.
Called Poh-jan Lah-ti in Finnish, it is almost closed off by the Å-land Islands. It has a low
salinity because of rivers such as the Ån-ger-man, Lu-le, Tor-ne, and Ke-mi flowing into it. For 10
points, name this arm of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland.
ANSWER: Gulf of Bothnia
BONUS. Identify these gulfs, for 10 points each.
A.
Bandar Behesti, Iran, is one of the ports on this gulf, located southwest of the
Strait of Hormuz.
ANSWER: Gulf of Oman
A.
An October 23-26, 1944 battle named for this gulf saw action in the Si-bu-yen Sea,
the Surigao Strait, and the San Bernardino Strait.
ANSWER: Leyte Gulf
7.
Detained by a goddess in love with him, this mythological character chooses hunting for boar
over her love, and gets killed by the boar. For 10 points, name this subject of a poem by Shakespeare
who did not accept the love offered him by Venus.
ANSWER: Adonis [ah-DOH-nis or ah-DAH-nis]
BONUS. Answer these questions on another doomed love affair, for the stated number of points.
7.1.
[5]
What statue by Pygmalion was brought to life by Aphrodite?
ANSWER: Galatea
7.2.
[10]
According to the Metamorphoses of Ovid, which youth fell in love with Galatea?
ANSWER: Acis [AY-sis]
7.3.
[5]
Name the giant who, desiring Galatea, killed Acis.
ANSWER: Polyphemus
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8.
Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle won in 1956 for The Silent World. Other recipients include
The Third Man by Carol Reed in 1949, M*A*S*H by Robert Altman in 1970, and La Dolce Vita in 1960.
For 10 points, name the award these films have received, given at the Cannes Film Festival.
ANSWER: Palme d’Or or Golden Palm or Grand Prix [prompt on “Cannes Film Festival”]
BONUS. Silence is usually golden, but not right now. Identify these “golden” items, 10 points each.
A.
This fairy tale character has not been charged with breaking, entering, eating, and
sleeping by the Three Bears.
ANSWER: Goldilocks
A.
In a letter to Leonhard Euler, he posits that every even integer greater than 2 is the
sum of two primes.
ANSWER: Christian Goldbach’s conjecture
94.
9.
Howard Blum, in his book, The Gold of Exodus, discusses the claims that two men really
discovered the location of this ancient site. However, their claim is hard to verify, as it is the location
of a top secret Saudi military installation. For 10 points, name this Biblical location which may include
a cave where Moses slept before receiving the Ten Commandments.
ANSWER: Mount Sinai or Har Sinai or Jabal Musa or Mount Hareh or Mountain of Moses
BONUS. The mountain is found in the south-central part of the Sinai Peninsula. Answer these
questions about the Sinai Peninsula, for 10 points each.
A.
Egypt was given control of the peninsula on its independence and held it until
what pre-emptive strike by Israeli forces?
ANSWER: Six Day War
A.
The strike was a result of a build-up of Egyptian forces on the Sinai border after
Israel had shot down six MiG planes from what country?
ANSWER: Syria
10.
Ellsworth Toohey, New York City’s alleged expert on architecture, promotes the career of
Peter Keating, the valedictorian of his class at Stanton Institute of Technology. Despite all Toohey’s
power, he is unable to defeat Howard Roark, Keating’s former roommate, who was expelled from
college after his junior year. For 10 points, name this 1943 novel that helped put Ayn Rand’s
“objectivism” onto the world stage.
ANSWER: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
BONUS. Identify these other Ayn Rand books for 10 points each.
A.
Dagny Taggart seeks to find John Galt, known as “the Destroyer,” in this 1957
warning America of the evils of socialism.
ANSWER: Atlas Shrugged
A.
In this novella, usage of the word “I” is a criminal offense, and the 21yearold
protagonist, Equality 72521, makes a journey into the Uncharted Forest to see
what the world was like before his time.
ANSWER: Anthem
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category
Quiz question. Opponents can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot
be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American Literature: Please Give Up
Your Day Job
American History:
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Painting
General Knowledge & Trivia: I’ll Take the
Box
Mathematics: Complex Numbers
Physical Sciences: Illuminating
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Famous Farmers
Social Sciences: Political Science
Sports & Entertainment: Sports
World Geography:
World History: Wars
World Literature: Oops!
1. It is thought that this musical sold over $2.7 million in tickets the day after opening at the New
Amsterdam Theater last November. Both Scott Irby-Ranniar and Jason Raise portray the title
character in this Julie Faymor stage adaptation. For 10 points, name this Broadway blockbuster
awarded the 1998 Best Musical Tony, based on yet another Disney animated movie.
ANSWER: The Lion King: the Broadway Musical
2. Written by Jim Webb, it was first performed by Richard Harris in 1968; in 1978, Donna Summer
inexplicably rerecorded it. For 10 points, name this song, which shares its name with a park in Los
Angeles, declared by Dave Barry the “Worst Rock Song” ever written.
ANSWER: “MacArthur Park”
3. Odessa, Batumi, Constanta, Varna, and Sevastopol. The Bug, Dnieper, Dniester, Don, and Danube
Rivers. For ten points, all these ports are along and all these rivers flow into which body of water?
ANSWER: The Black Sea
4. It contains Hajar-al-Aswad, a black meteorite that will grow eyes and speak praise to God. Said to
have been built by Abraham and Isma’il, For 10 points, name this holiest shrine of Islam, located in the
center of the great mosque in Mecca.
ANSWER: al-Ka’aba
5. Under the scientific direction of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, this steam ship made a
roundtheworld oceanographic survey between 1872 and 1876, the first and most comprehensive
voyage of its type. For 10 points, name this British ship, namesake of an ill-fated space shuttle.
ANSWER: HMS Challenger
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6. Emory scientists James Zimring and Gary Falcon performed many tests on them, including dipping
them in liquid nitrogen and boiling water, as well as setting them on fire, to test their sturdiness. For 10
points, name these birds, turning 75 in 1998, popular, sugar-coated marshmallow treats.
ANSWER: Peeps
7. The chief architects of this 18th century movement were preachers like William Tennent, George
Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards. It led to a religious revival in the American colonies and ended in
a bitter argument with the Calvinists. For 10 points, name this popular upsurge in religious feeling.
ANSWER: The Great Awakening
8. This avant-garde playwright donated $1 million to the legal defense of three radicals associated with
the basis for his satire Accidental Death of an Anarchist. For 10 points, name this Italian, who got the
money from the Nobel Prize he won in 1997.
ANSWER: Dario Fo
ROUND 11: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American Literature: Please Give Up Your Day Job. Her second volume of poetry, A Few Figs From
Thistles, celebrated Bohemian life, and The Harp Weaver and Other Poems, won the Pulitzer Prize
in 1923. For 15 points -- name this poet.
ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fine Arts: Painting. This 1931 painting depicts a landscape decorated with melting clocks. For 15
points -- name this work by Salvador Dali, commonly called “Soft Watches”.
ANSWER: The Persistence of Memory
General Knowledge & Trivia: I’ll Take the Box. On November 23, 1880, a large box arrived at the
White House, addressed to President Hayes. This box contained a heavy item, a gift from the
Queen of England, made from the HMS Resolute. For 15 points -- identify this item found in
the Oval Office.
ANSWER: a desk
Mathematics: Complex Numbers. Two complex numbers written in polar coordinates, 2 cis 40 and
3 cis 25, are multiplied together. For 15 points -- what is the measure of the angle that results
from this multiplication?
ANSWER: 65 or 65 degrees
Physical Sciences: Illuminating. Invented in 1745, it is surrounded by a layer of metal foil and
contains a similar layer inside it. Contact with the inner foil surface is made with a loose chain
hanging inside. For 15 points -- name this early form of an electric capacitor, named for the
city in which it was invented.
ANSWER: Leyden jar
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Famous Farmers. He was son of Agenor. With the help of
Athena, he killed a dragon and sowed its teeth. For 15 points -- name this king, who with the
soldiers who sprang up, built the city of Thebes.
ANSWER: Cadmus
Social Science: Political Science. War theorists give special terms to certain types of strategies. For 15
points -- what ten-letter term describes strategies such as guerrilla attacks, where the goal is to
inflict such heavy losses on the enemy so that they either withdraw or surrender without being
defeated?
ANSWER: punishment strategies
Sports & Entertainment: Sports. In this 1950s, Joseph Sobek, a former tennis pro, decided to invent
a sport since paddleball was too slow for him. For 15 points -- name the sport Sobek invented at his
local YMCA in which players hit a light blue ball against a wall.
ANSWER: racquetball [Sobek died March 27, 1998, at age 79.]
World History: Wars. The first ended with a peace treaty signed on May 30, 1913 in London, while
the second ended with the August 10, 1913 Treaty of Bucharest. For 15 points -- name these
wars fought by coalitions against, respectively, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.
ANSWER: Balkan Wars
World Literature: Oops! The word “malapropism”, a gross misuse of words, such as “exasperate him
from your memory”, comes from Miss Malaprop, a character in an 18th century British play.
For 15 points -- name EITHER the play or its author.
ANSWER: The Rivals by Richard Sheridan [NOT School for Scandal]
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has
completed the phrase AFor 10 points@, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents
can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are read in order.
1. This British economist and cleric influenced the thinking of Charles Darwin on natural selection as
the driving force of evolution. For 10 points -- name the author of Essay on the Principle of Population
who maintained that while population increases geometrically, food supply only increases
arithmetically.
ANSWER: Thomas Robert Malthus
2. The main cytotoxic agent is brevetoxin B, which contains a fused 11ring system. Produced by
Gymnodinium brevis and Gonyaulax polyedra, it can be induced by pollution and agricultural wastes. For
10 points -- name this form of water bloom, caused by excessively high concentrations of
dinoflagellates, which results in a change of color.
ANSWER: red tide [prompt on early “dinoflagellates”]
3. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this country the pearl of Africa. It boasts the
Murchison Falls National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and Margherita Peak. For 10 points
-- name this country surrounded by Lakes Edward, Albert, and Victoria, site of a 1976 Israeli
commando rescue raid, whose capital is Kampala.
ANSWER: Jamhuri Ya Uganda
4. The nephew of the Director of Art Education in Prussia, in 1911 he helped Adolf Meyer build a
shoelace factory near Berlin. When the Nazis came to power, he moved to England, and then to the
US, where in 1938 he became a professor of architecture at Harvard. For 10 points -- name this man
best known between 1919 and 1928 as the Director of the Bauhaus School of Design.
ANSWER: Walter Gropius
5. English uses twelve, while Punjabi uses 20. However, five are still used for Japanese, Javanese,
Hebrew, and Spanish. For 10 points -- identify these types of sounds which can be rounded or
unrounded, and which can be created in English using combinations of the letters a, e, i, o, u, and y.
ANSWER: vowels or vowel sounds
6. In his newest book Murder in Greenwich, he promises to identify the killer in a 22-year-old case in
which Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a six iron. For 10 points -- name this writer who we
know better as a former Los Angeles Police detective whose racist comments sank the prosecution’s
case against O. J. Simpson.
ANSWER: Mark Fuhrman
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7. Britain surrendered Tobago and Senegal to France; the Dutch granted the British free navigation
rights in the Moluccas. The US was guaranteed access to Newfoundland fisheries. The British were
granted access to the Mississippi. For 10 points -- name this set of treaties, signed in 1783 and 1784,
whose most famous single treaty ended the American Revolution.
ANSWER: Peace of Paris [NOT “Treaty of Paris”]
8. The campus of the University of California at Irvine has a center that studies the use of this
technology in the arts, in medicine, in the social sciences, and in society. For 10 points -- name this
technology that uses computers, sensors, and screens to allow one to interact with an artificial
three-dimensional sensory environment.
ANSWER: Virtual reality
9. Every year, this contest nets twenty people the Edyth May Sliffe Award. In theory, a blank test paper
would score 60 points out of 150. For 10 points -- name this multiple choice, 30-question test, whose
stated purpose is, “To identify and encourage, through friendly competition, students with an interest
in and talent for mathematical problem solving.”
ANSWER: American High School Mathematics Examination [accept: AHSME or “ash-me”]
10. In Holland, over the issue of excommuncation, this religion divided into the Flemings, who
dwindled away, and the Waterlanders, who changed their name to the Doops-ge-zin-de. Among their
beliefs are a repudiation of civil office-holding, lawsuits, oaths, and infant baptism. For 10 points -whose Swiss branch divided into the Lowland and the Upland, or Amish?
ANSWER: Mennonites [prompt on Amish]
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ROUND 11: STRETCH ROUND BONI
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1. [The Godfather voice:] I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse. Answer these questions about The
Godfather, 10 points each.
I.
Who wrote the novel The Godfather?
ANSWER: Mario Puzo
I.
This star of The Program portrayed Sonny Corleone opposite Al Pacino’s Michael.
ANSWER: James Caan
I.
Within two, how many years passed between the releases of The Godfather and
The Godfather, Part III?
ANSWER: 16 to 20 [18C1972 to 1990]
2. Given a symphony, give its nickname, 10 points each.
I.
Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4
95.
ANSWER: Italian or Italienische
I.
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4
96.
ANSWER: Romantic or Romantische
I.
Schumann’s Symphony No. 3
97.
ANSWER: Rhenish
3. Answer these related questions for the stated number of points.
a.
[15]
What 12letter term is given to a poem or song written to celebrate a marriage?
ANSWER: epithalamion or epithalamium
b.
[10]
Which British poet penned the most famous “Ep-i-tha-la-mi-on” in 1594?
ANSWER: Edmund Spenser
c.
[5]
How many lines are in a Spenserian stanza?
ANSWER: nine
4. Given a Spanish word for a person, name the place from which that person hails, 10 points each.
_
japonés [ha-POH-nez]
98.
ANSWER: Japan
_
sueco [SWEH-koh]
99.
ANSWER: Sweden
_
borincano [boh-rin-CAH-noh]
ANSWER: Puerto Rico
5.
[30]
[20]
[10]
30-20-10. Name the author from works.
The Arm of the Starfish
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Wrinkle in Time
ANSWER: Madeleine L’Engle
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6. Okay history buffs, how much can you remember about the Crusades? For 10 points, give the
nicknames for these crusading orders of monks.
I.
Knights of the Temple
100.
ANSWER: Knights Templars
I.
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
101.
ANSWER: Hospitalers
I.
Knights of St. Mary
102.
ANSWER: Teutonics
7. Identify these regions of the ocean, 15 points each.
I.
This term denotes the ocean depths, which do not receive sufficient sunlight to
support photosynthesis.
ANSWER: benthic zone
I.
This term denotes the zone just below the surface of the ocean, into which
sunlight does penetrate enough to support photosynthesis.
ANSWER: photic zone
8. Belgium is a federal state divided into three regions. In one, French is spoken; in another, a dialect
of Dutch; in the third, both are found. For 10 points each, name these three regions. You have 15 seconds.
103. ANSWERS:
Brussels (both)
Flanders (Dutch)
Waloonia (French)
9. Identify the authors of the following Beat Generation works, 10 points each.
Kaddish and Other Poems
104.
ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg
The Town and the City
105.
ANSWER: Jack Kerouac
Naked Lunch
106.
ANSWER: William Sydney Burroughs
10. Answer these questions about the history of rubber, for 10 points each.
I.
This veterinary surgeon bound an inflated rubber hose to tricycle wheels to help
his child win a race and later recieved a patent for a bicycle pneumatic tire in 1888.
ANSWER: John Boyd Dunlop
I.
In 1939, this man accidentally dropped India rubber mixed with sulfur on a hot
stove, and so discovered vulcanization.
ANSWER: Charles Goodyear
I.
Pneumatic tires were first applied to automobiles by this rubber manufacturer.
ANSWER: Michelin & Co.
ROUND 11: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American Literature: Please Give Up
Your Day Job
American History:
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Painting
General Knowledge & Trivia: I’ll Take the
Box
Mathematics: Complex Numbers
Physical Sciences: Illuminating
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Famous Farmers
Social Sciences: Political Science
Sports & Entertainment: Sports
World Geography:
World History: Wars
World Literature: Oops!
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 11: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American Literature: Please Give Up
Your Day Job
American History:
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Painting
General Knowledge & Trivia: I’ll Take the
Box
Mathematics: Complex Numbers
Physical Sciences: Illuminating
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Famous Farmers
Social Sciences: Political Science
Sports & Entertainment: Sports
World Geography:
World History: Wars
World Literature: Oops!
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 12: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus
related to the tossup. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read
if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
This religious group was founded in 1830. Today, it has over 10 million members worldwide;
one of its better known practitioners is Steve Young, a direct descendant of one of its leaders. For 10
points, name this church, to which the majority of residents of Utah belong.
ANSWER: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [accept: Mormons]
BONUS. Answer these questions about the Mormons, 10 points each.
A.
What was the name of the angel who told Joseph Smith where to find the golden
plates?
ANSWER: Moroni
A.
How many members did the church have when it was started on April 6, 1830?
ANSWER: six [HN: No polygamy jokes, please.]
2.
This word, which has nothing to do with sleep, once described the carrying off or seizure of
people to forced labor, especially in the American colonies. For 10 points, what term describes both
Patty Hearst and the Lindbergh baby?
ANSWER: kidnapped
BONUS. Answer these related questions, 10 points each.
A.
Who wrote the 1886 novel Kidnapped?
ANSWER: Robert Louis Stevenson
A.
Name the title character of Kidnapped, whose name is the title of the 1893 sequel.
ANSWER: David Balfour [accept: David]
3.
The world’s largest shopping center, with 800 stores -- and 11 major department stores -covers 5.2 million square feet. For 10 points, name the Canadian province where you would find the
West Edmonton Mall.
ANSWER: Alberta [accept: West Edmonton Mall on early buzz]
BONUS. Answer these other questions about large tracts of Canada, 10 points each.
A.
What is the longest river in Canada?
ANSWER: Mackenzie River
3.2.
What is the tallest mountain in Canada?
ANSWER: Logan Mountain
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4.
Francis Perkins was a member of the commission investigating the causes behind this March
25, 1911 tragedy in which 146 people died because of a fire in the Asch Building. For 10 points, name
the company that employed these workers, whose name became a cry for safer working conditions.
ANSWER: Triangle Shirtwaist Company
BONUS. Pencils and paper down. No questions on triangles, but rather about peninsulas, for the
stated number of points.
4.1.
[5]
The Gas-pé Peninsula comprises the southernmost portion of this Canadian province.
ANSWER: Quebec or Québec
4.2.
[5]
Also called the Kra Peninsula, it extends south for 700 miles to Cape Balai, Asia’s
southernmost point.
ANSWER: Malay Peninsula
4.3.
[10]
This Wisconsin peninsula is named for the French moniker for the hazardous strait
between it and nearby Washington Island.
ANSWER: Door Peninsula [HN: for “La Porte des Mortes”]
5.
Equivalent to the “divisions” used in plant classification, and derived from the Greek word for
race, familiar ones include Cnidaria [nee-DAY-ree-uh], Pla-ty-hel-min-thes, and E-chi-no-der-ma-ta. For
10 points, name this taxonomic level, which falls between kingdom and class in the Linnaean system.
ANSWER: phylum or phyla
BONUS. Given some organisms, name their phylum, for the stated number of points.
5.1.
[5]
Snails, clams, octopuses, nautiluses.
ANSWER: Mollusca
5.2.
[5]
Spiders, trilobites, lobsters.
ANSWER: Arthropoda
107. 5.3. [10] Frogs, fish, birds.
108.
ANSWER: Chordata or chordates
109.
6.
This New Hampshire native was a US senator and famed orator. He also served as US
Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843. For 10 points, name this man featured in a Stephen Vincent
Benet story in which he drove the Devil out of New Hampshire forever.
ANSWER: Daniel Webster
BONUS. Answer these questions about that old standard, Webster’s Dictionary, 10 points each.
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A.
A.
Within three years, the most recent full revision, the Third New International
Dictionary, was published in this year.
ANSWER: 1958 to 1964 [1961]
In 1847, this man bought out the rights to the Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
ANSWER: George C. Merriam [the copyright ran out long ago, however]
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7.
This play, which tells the tale of a brutally honest man, was first produced in 1666.
In this French play written in alexandrines, Alceste, exasperated by the general
corruption of society, eventually rejects the love of the worldly Célimène [SAY-lee-men].
For 10 points, name this comedy by Molière.
ANSWER: The Misanthrope or Le Misanthrope [mee-ZAN-trohp]
BONUS. Don’t miss out on these points! Identify these words beginning M-I-S, 10 points each.
A.
Mistreatment of women.
ANSWER: misogyny
A.
Cohabitation with people of other races.
ANSWER: miscegenation [mih-SAH-zhuh-nation]
8.
Quite possibly the most famous native of St. Croix in US sports history, as a rookie, he easily
led the NBA in doubledoubles. For 10 points, identify this #1 overall draft pick, a former standout at
Wake Forest and teammate of San Antonio Spurs’ David Robinson.
ANSWER: Tim Duncan
BONUS. Name these other overall #1 draft picks, 10 points each.
A.
This Purdue star and 1994 overall #1 selection missed much of his rookie season
during a contract holdout, but has since managed to put up solid numbers as a
member of the Milwaukee Bucks.
ANSWER: Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson
A.
A perennial allstar, his team’s fans will always wonder “what if?” Identify this
overall #1 pick of the 1984 NBA draft, the year the Chicago Bulls selected Michael
Jordan as #3.
ANSWER: Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon
110.
9.
An example of this type of figure is Menkaure, a young male who stands still and extremely
stiff. Their characteristics include a traditional stance with the left leg forward. For 10 points, identify
this type of Greek sculpture, originally Egyptian, of young nudes from about 600 BC.
ANSWER: kouros or kore [male and female, respectively]
BONUS. Identify the sculptors of the following works for 10 points each.
A.
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
111.
ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
A.
Reclining Nude 1, 1907
ANSWER: Henri Matisse
10.
Next to the serial number on a dollar bill is one of twelve letters, A through L. These letters
correspond to, For 10 points, what wealthladen entitlees created by a 1913 act of Congress, whose New
York branch was robbed in Die Hard with a Vengeance?
ANSWER: Federal Reserve Banks
BONUS. Identify these other features of dollar bills, for 10 points each.
112. 10.1 These three words appear below the pyramid on the back of a dollar bill.
ANSWER: novus ordo seclorum
113. 10.2. Ten points if exact, 5 points within two: excluding serial numbers, how
many times does the word or number “one” appear on a dollar bill?
ANSWER: 16 [5 for 14 to 18; 6 on the front, 10 on the back]
ROUND 12: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category
Quiz question. Opponents can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot
be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American History: Westward, Ho!
American Literature: Famous Places
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Name the Work
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Add 'Em Up
Physical Sciences: Chemistry
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: Archaeology
Sports & Entertainment: Card Games
World Geography: Small Bodies of Water
World History: Organizations
World Literature: Famous Poems
1. They would gather once a year a place believed to be the center of all Gaul and would judge legal
disputes. For 10 points, name this priestly class of Celts associated with oak trees.
ANSWER: druids
2. It extends 700 miles from British Columbia to Northern California. Its highest point is Mount
Rainier and it includes the volcano, Mount St. Helens. For 10 points, name this mountain range.
ANSWER: The Cascade Range
3. Son of the architect Ka-no-fer, he was later identified with the Greek As-kle-pi-os. For 10 points,
name the vizier of King Djoser of Egypt’s Third Dynasty, architect of the Step Pyramid at Saq-qa-ra.
ANSWER: Imhotep
4. Thanks to $4.2 million from Nippon Television, she’s getting her own room to be designed in an
international competition. But she’ll have to wait until 2001 to move in. For 10 points, name this
“woman” who, since 1950, has “lived” in the Salle des É-tats, on the second floor of the Louvre.
ANSWER: Mona Lisa or La Giaconda
5. This word comes from an old Slavic word that gave rise to the Slavic words for “yellow” and “gold.”
For 10 points, identify this Polish word, which denotes their main currency unit.
ANSWER: z oty [ZLOH-tee or ZWOH-tee; NOT: “ruble”]
6. This verb refers to the process of surgically removing a disk of bone from the skull. As a noun, it is
the cylindrical saw used in such an operation. For 10 points, identify this six-letter word.
ANSWER: trepan(ning) or trephine
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7. Aristotle considered it the model tragedy. The main character goads Teiresias into telling him that
“Not Creon, thou thyself art thine own bane," in response to a question about the cause of a plague in
Thebes. For 10 points, name this first play in a trilogy by Sophocles.
ANSWER: Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King
8. In early April, British scientists conducting research on this drug expressed concern that their
American counterparts were ending the placebo trials. For 10 points, name this drug, which, the
American study showed, reduced the incidence of breast cancer by 45%.
ANSWER: tamoxifen [tuh-MOX-uh-fen]
ROUND 12: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American History: Westward, Ho! Founded in 1748 by Englishmen and Virginians, including
George Washington’s brother Lawrence, its actions led to the French and Indian War. For 15
points -- name this organization which set out to develop lands west of the 13 colonies.
ANSWER: The Ohio Company
American Literature: Famous Places. She read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye while a 27-year old
sophomore at Brooklyn College in 1978. She then wrote novels such as Linden Hills, Mama Day,
and Bailey’s Cafe. For 15 points -- name this woman whose first novel was The Women of
Brewster Place.
ANSWER: Gloria Naylor
Fine Arts: Name the Work. This 1808 musical composition describes the cheerful feelings of being in
the country, a scene by a brook, a merry gathering of peasants, a thunderstorm, and a
shepherd’s song after the storm. For 15 points -- name this symphony by Ludwig van
Beethoven.
ANSWER: Pastoral Symphony or Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68
Mathematics: Add >Em Up. This is a math and foreign languages question. For 15 points, what is the
sum of these numbers: quatre-vingt-un [KAT-ruh vant un], doscientos y tres [doe-SEE-ehn-tohs ee
trays], Einundzwanzig [AYN-unt-ZVAN-sig], and DCLXIV? You have 25 seconds.
ANSWER: 999 [81+203+21+664]
Physical Sciences: Chemistry. This German chemist who received the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
made most of his contributions in chemical thermodynamics. For 15 points -- name this man,
who derived the equation used to calculate the effect of a solution’s concentration on electrode
potentials.
ANSWER: Walther Hermann Nernst
Social Sciences: Archaeology. He served as a consultant on dinosaurs for the movie Jurassic Park. For
15 points -- name this curator of The Museum of the Rockies, a world-renowned paleontologist
who also teaches at Montana State University.
ANSWER: Dr. John “Jack” Horner
Sports & Entertainment: Card Games. Warning: Two answers required. In a traditional game of
pinochle, for 15 points -- what two cards constitute a pinochle?
ANSWER: Queen of Spades and Jack of Diamonds
World Geography: Small Bodies of Water. The southern third of it, located in Sudan, is known as
Lake Nubia. For 15 points -- name this reservoir created by the Aswan High Dam.
ANSWER: Lake Nasser
World History: Organizations. In 1888, Canada passed an act compensating them with $400,000 for
large amounts of land which had been transferred to the British government in 1773, with
revenues applied to education. For 15 points -- name this controversial group, founded in 1540,
known for its education.
ANSWER: Jesuits or Society of Jesus [prompt on “SJ”]
World Literature: Famous Poems. George Chapman tried to complete this erotic poem told in the
manner of Ovid, dividing this mythological work into “Sestiads”. For 15 points -- name this
poem by Christopher Marlowe about love across the Hellespont.
ANSWER: “Hero and Leander”
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ROUND 12: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has
completed the phrase AFor 10 points@, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents
can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are read in order.
1. Water has one at .0098C [degrees Celsius] and 4.579 mm Hg [millimeters mercury]. At lower
pressures, an increase in temperature will sublime ice directly into water vapor, while at higher
pressures, an increase in temperature will melt ice into water, then boil water into water vapor. For 10
points -- name this single set of conditions at which solid, liquid, and gas can coexist.
ANSWER: triple point
2. Later in life the second earl of Guilford, he was made chancellor of the exchequer under the Duke
of Grafton. This Tory would form a coalition with the prominent Whig Charles James Fox, disgusting
George III. For 10 points -- name this prime minister who resigned after the surrender of Cornwallis
at Yorktown.
ANSWER: Lord Frederick North of Kirtling
3. As the title of their latest album suggests, they’ve been around for thirty years. Since 1967, they’ve
recorded 20 singles and 12 albums that went top 10, five of which have hit #1, not bad for a group that
was originally named for a city "transit authority." For 10 points -- name this group that named
almost all of its albums with the group name and a number.
ANSWER: Chicago [the rock group]
4. An episode of The Simpsons parodied this 1960s psychological experiment, designed to test the extent
to which people would follow orders to hurt another person. Named for the Yale professor who
devised the experiment -- for 10 points -- what was this experiment, in which the subjects are asked to
push electric levers to shock another person for lapses in memory?
ANSWER: the (Stanley) Milgram experiment [prompt on “electric shock”]
5. This octagenarian, who lives at Mrs. Wickett’s across the street from the Brookfield School,
reminisces about his marriage to Katherine Bridges in 1896 and her death two years later. After
Linford visits, he dies the following night hearing the names of his many old students. For 10 points -name this character or the 1934 book by James Hilton.
ANSWER: Mr. Chipping or Goodbye, Mr. Chips
6. Although he rides in a chariot driven by goats, this god is far more famous for the other accessory be
carries with him. During Ragnarok he will slay the Midgard serpent, but die from its venom when his
wife arrives too late to administer the antidote. For 10 points -- name this deity, wielder of the hammer
Mjolnir [MYOL-neer] and Norse god of thunder.
ANSWER: Thor
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7. North Terrytown, New York recently had its automobile manufacturing plant shut down. In an
effort to find income from somewhere, the town leaders have decided the town should become a tourist
attraction. They intend to do this by changing their name. It seems Washington Irving wrote one of his
most famous stories there. For 10 points -- name this town legendary for its headless horseman.
ANSWER: Sleepy Hollow
8. Its forms include the cante, or song, the baile, or dance, and the guitarra, or guitar playing. Rumored
to have originated with Gypsies, its development was probably influenced by Andalusian culture as
well. For 10 points -- name this type of dance, still popular in southern Spain, whose influences may
be seen in modern jazz, salsa, and bossa nova.
ANSWER: flamenco
9. This country, whose president is Crispin Anselm Sorhaindo and whose prime minister is Edison
James, has its capital at Roseau and is located between Guadalupe and Martinique. For 10 points -identify this former British colony in the Caribbean Sea.
ANSWER: Dominica
10. Beginning in March of 1988, Granville, North Dakota located 25 miles east of Minot will have a
new name. That's right, for the next four years the town will go by the name of a brand of Schnapps
and will receive for their trouble $100,000 dollars. For 10 points -- name the new city whose name is
the fictional maiden name for Lucy in I Love Lucy and also the real last name of baseball immortal
Connie Mack.
Answer: McGillicuddy
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1. Grease recently had its first rerelease since 1978. Name these other events from 1978, 10 points each.
I.
This horse won the 1978 Triple Crown.
ANSWER: Affirmed
I.
This supertanker ran aground off France’s Brittany Coast in March.
ANSWER: Amoco Cadiz (prompt on "Amoco")
I.
For this case, the Supreme Court ruled in a 54 decision that a medical school’s
affirmative action quota policy violated the Civil Rights Act.
ANSWER: Bakke v. University of California at Davis Medical School
2. Identify these subfields in anthropology, 10 points each.
I.
Comparative study of two or more cultures.
ANSWER: ethnology
I.
Study of man as a biological organism.
ANSWER: physical anthropology
I.
Study of cultural institutions such as religion, economics, and literature.
114. ANSWER: social anthropology
3. Identify these German writers whose middle name were Maria, 15 points each.
115. a.
This author is best known for his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western
Front.
ANSWER: Erich Maria Remarque
116. b.
Some of his writings on war and death are set to music in Shostakovich’s
Symphony No. 14.
ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke
4. For 10 points each, given a European city, identify the name by which it is known in its country’s
native language. For example, if I said “Rome,” you’d say “Roma.”
117. a.
Munich
ANSWER: München [MOON-shin]
118. b.
Prague
ANSWER: Praha
c.
Florence
ANSWER: Firenzi
5. Given a description, identify the Catholic monastic order, 15 points each.
I.
One of the mendicant orders, it was established by a group of former crusaders
and pilgrims living near a mountain desiring to follow the way of life of the prophet
Elijah.
119.
ANSWER: Carmelites
I.
This religious order was founded in 1535 at Brescia, Italy, as the first institute for
women dedicated exclusively for the education of girls.
ANSWER: Ursulines or Order of St. Ursula
6. Identify these composers perhaps best known for their piano works, 15 points each.
_ This composer is noted for his three piano sonatas, as well as The Minute Waltz.
ANSWER: Frédéric Chopin
_ This Russian composer wrote 10 piano sonatas, including The Poem of Ecstasy, the White
Mass sonata, and the Black Mass sonata.
120.
ANSWER: Alexander Scriabin [SKREE-a-bin]
7. Given a state’s high peak, name the state for 10 points. These peaks were all at the high point of the
United States, at least for a short time, and all before the War of 1812.
a.
Ebright Hill
ANSWER: Delaware
b.
Mount Davis
ANSWER: Pennsylvania
c.
Brasstown Bald
ANSWER: Georgia
1
2
3
4
Given the numerical designation of a Vietnamera warplane, give its nickname, 10 points each.
F4
ANSWER: Phantom
F105
ANSWER: Thunderchief
A4
ANSWER: Skyhawk
9. Pop music often rips off classical music. Identify these derivative works or artists, 10 points each.
1
This group recorded a rock version of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man on
their 1976 album Works Volume One.
ANSWER: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
1
Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances was appropriated for this exotically-titled musical.
ANSWER: Kismet
1
This artist’s “Russians” is based on a theme from Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Ki-jé Suite.
121.
ANSWER: Sting or Gordon Sumner
10. Be a group of stars, and name these constellations, 10 points each.
122. a.
This constellation commemorates this “lady in a chair.”
ANSWER: Cassiopeia
123. b.
This constellation is supposedly reminiscent of a swan.
ANSWER: Cygnus
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124.
c.
This Southern Hemisphere constellation symbolizes Noah’s dove.
ANSWER: Columba Noachi
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ROUND 12: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American History: Westward, Ho!
American Literature: Famous Places
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Name the Work
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Add 'Em Up
Physical Sciences: Chemistry
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: Archaeology
Sports & Entertainment: Card Games
World Geography: Small Bodies of Water
World History: Organizations
World Literature: Famous Poems
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 12: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: Westward, Ho!
American Literature: Famous Places
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Name the Work
General Knowledge & Trivia:
Mathematics: Add 'Em Up
Physical Sciences: Chemistry
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy:
Social Sciences: Archaeology
Sports & Entertainment: Card Games
World Geography: Small Bodies of Water
World History: Organizations
World Literature: Famous Poems
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 13: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus
related to the tossup. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read
if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
His stories include: The Queen of Spades. The Gypsies. Mozart and Salieri. Ruslan and Ludmila. The
Little House in Kolomna. Count Nulin. The Bronze Horseman. Poltava. For 10 points, these are all works by
what Russian author, best known for Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov?
ANSWER: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin [PUSH-kin or POOSH-keen]
BONUS. 20-10-5. Identify the composer from works.
[20]
The opera The Queen of Spades.
[10]
Sleeping Beauty and Eugene Onegin.
[5]
Symphonie Pathétique and The Nutcracker.
ANSWER: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2.
Can a year in high school take less than two hours? It certainly can, if you’re a senior at Rydell
High School. For 10 points, name the musical that became a hit movie in 1978, featuring John
Travolta and Olivia NewtonJohn.
ANSWER: Grease
BONUS. Grease was spoofed in the 1997 disaster SpiceWorld. Identify these OTHER personalities
featured in that movie, 10 points each.
A.
Martin Barnfield, a film producer, was played by this actor, better known as
“Norm!”
ANSWER: George Wendt
A.
He played Dennis in SpiceWorld, but can be recognized as Eddie in The Rocky
Horror Picture Show.
ANSWER: Meat Loaf or Marvin Lee Aday
3.
It is most useful for dating events from the last few centuries, especially such factors as
pollution, atmospheric changes, and weather patterns. For 10 points, name this type of dating system
using tree rings.
ANSWER: dendrochronology
BONUS. Answer these other questions on dating… absolute dating, not romantic, 10 points each.
125. 3.1. This isotope used in radiodating has a half-life of 5760 years.
ANSWER: carbon-14
126. 3.2. This method of absolute dating heats clay fragments under controlled
conditions then measure the amount of light energy radiated back.
ANSWER: thermoluminescence
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4.
It appears as the first word of a paragraph -- sarcastically, of course -- eighteen times in the
Declaration of Independence. For 10 points, what is this pronoun, obviously intended to represent the
King of England?
ANSWER: he
BONUS. Answer these questions about one event that led to the American Revolution, 10 points
each.
A.
In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
ANSWER: December 16, 1773
A.
This was the name of the group of protesters who tossed 340 cases of tea
overboard.
ANSWER: The Sons of Liberty
5.
In 1737, it became annual; in 1748 it started to use a jury system. Begun in 1667 by Louis XIV,
dissatisfaction would lead to events sponsored by groups such as the So-ci-é-té des Artistes
In-dé-pen-dants. For 10 points, what was the official art exhibit of the French government?
ANSWER: Salon
BONUS. The first Salon exhibited works of the members of the A-ca-dé-mie Roy-ale de Pein-ture et
de Sculp-ture. Answer these related questions, 10 points each.
A.
That school merged with the Académie Royale d’Ar-chi-tec-ture in 1793 to form
what is now this institution, which no longer teaches architecture.
ANSWER: École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts or the School of Fine Arts
A.
Also located in Paris’ Latin Quarter is this church designed by Jacques-Germain
Soufflot, dedicated to the memory of great Frenchmen, and housing the remains
of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Zola.
127.
ANSWER: Le Panthéon [PAHN-tay-ohn] or the Church of
Sainte-Geneviève
128.
6.
Warning: two answers required. Together, they have “appeared” in three novels. Perhaps
appeared isn’t the right word, since the first two books are actually nothing but letters to each other.
For 10 points, name these title characters of the first book in a trilogy by Nick Bantock.
ANSWER: Griffin & Sabine
BONUS. Answer these related questions, for the stated number of points.
6.1.
[5]
In this Bantock "puzzle book," a missing man asks "where his worlds meet."
ANSWER: The Egyptian Jukebox
6.2.
[5]
This is the final book in the Griffin & Sabine trilogy.
ANSWER: The Golden Mean
6.3.
[10]
To three decimal places and within .010, what is the golden mean?
ANSWER: 1.608 to 1.628 [1.618]
7.
This spring festival features the reading of the Megillah, while all types of pastries are
consumed, such as foulares [foo-LAR-es]. For 10 points, name this Jewish festival that commemorates
the salvation of the Jews by Queen Esther.
ANSWER: Purim
BONUS. Identify these Jewish terms, 10 points each.
A.
This word refers to kosher foods that feature neither meat nor dairy products.
ANSWER: Pareve [PAR-eve]
A.
Literally, it means “order of the service” and refers to a prescribed sequence of
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rituals that take place as the story of the Hebrew Exodus is revealed.
ANSWER: Seder [SAY-duhr]
8.
His father set fire to an Indian village during King Philip’s War while his grandfather was a
constable who lashed a Quaker woman through Salem. For 10 points, name this man whose “dying
hour was gloom”, Faith’s husband, in a short story that appeared in the collection Mosses from an Old
Manse.
ANSWER: “Young Goodman Brown”
BONUS. Answer these questions having to do with a “good man” for 10 points each.
129. 8.1. This criminal wears a black hat in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is
Hard to Find”.
ANSWER: the Misfit
130. 8.2. In 1927, he recorded “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” with saxophonist Frank
Trumbauer. Name this composer of the piano piece “In a Mist,” better known for
his trumpet work.
ANSWER: Leon Bix Biederbecke
131.
9.
Invented at Bell Laboratories in 1947, types include bipolar junction, field effect, and
metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect. For 10 points, name this solid-state device that permitted
miniaturization of circuitry.
ANSWER: transistor
BONUS. Name these other solid state devices, 10 points each.
132. 9.1. Formed by compound semiconductors related to gallium arsenide, this
electronic device emits infrared or visible light and is used in such things as
alphanumeric displays.
ANSWER: Light-Emitting Diode [do not accept or prompt on “diode”]
133. 9.2. When a circuit carries too much current, a wire melts in this device,
interrupting the circuit.
ANSWER: fuse
10.
Its major geographic features include the Tien Shan mountains, which run along its
southeastern border, Lake Bal-qash, and the Ka-ra-gi-ye Depression, which makes up most of its
interior heartland. The Caspian Sea sits upon its southwestern border, and it surrounds the northern
half of the Aral Sea. For 10 points, name this former Soviet republic whose capital is Almaty.
ANSWER: Kazakhstan
BONUS. Kazakhstan shares contiguous borders with five other countries, one of which is Russia. For
five points each, identify the other four states which border Kazakhstan. You have 15 seconds.
ANSWERS:
People’s Republic of China
Kyrgyzistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekhistan
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category
Quiz question. Opponents can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot
be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American History:
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Under the Weather
Fine Arts: Architecture
General Knowledge & Trivia: Word
Origins
Mathematics: Playing with Long, Pointy
Objects
Physical Sciences:
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: The
Soul of the Matter
Social Sciences: Psychology
Sports & Entertainment: TV Lawyers
World Geography: North America
World History: You Sank My Battleship!
World Literature: Fake Languages Other
than Pig Latin
1. This man won foot races in his stocking feet, wearing blue socks with white heels. Thus, he earned
the nickname “Silver Heels.” For 10 points, who was this distinguished Chief Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to 1835?
ANSWER: John Marshall
2. On May 5, 1998, one London newspaper announced the appointment of a new Commandant for
this group; the evening edition of another paper announced his murder the same day. For 10 points,
name this gaily-clad group of ex-soldiers sworn to protect the Pope since 1506.
ANSWER: the Swiss Guard [the uniforms were allegedly designed by Michelangelo]
3. This novel deals with shiftless and amoral Georgia mountaineers. The protagonist has set aside one
acre of his land, the income of which is to go to the church, but he constantly shifts the acre’s location
to fit his own immediate needs. For 10 points, name this 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell.
ANSWER: God’s Little Acre
4. Senator Jones votes for a bill to build a bridge in Senator Smith’s state. Senator Smith then agrees to
vote for a bill that will lower alcohol taxes in Senator Jones’s drunken state. For 10 points, name the
political term, often associated with pork barrel legislation that describes such an agreement.
ANSWER: logrolling
5. Obtained from soybean proteins, this substance is a white crystalline solid, a salt of an amino acid.
For 10 points, name this chemical which is added to many foods to bring out its flavor, the chemical
cause for “Chinese food syndrome.”
ANSWER: MonoSodium Glutamate (MSG)
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6. Its characters include spectacles-maker Dr. Coppelius, the evil magician Dapertutto, and the evil
physician Dr. Miracle. Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta are the three heroines, one for each act. For
10 points, name this opera, based on stories by a German novelist, composed by Jacques Offenbach.
ANSWER: Tales of Hoffman or Les Contes d’Hoffman
7. After World War II, the Op-er-a-kall-e-ren restaurant in Stockholm is credited with reestablishing
this item, which may include “Jansson’s temptation” and gravlax. For 10 points, name this plentiful
Swedish buffet.
ANSWER: smorgasbord
8. On March 15, 1998, Edwin Shoemaker died in one. He had invented it with his cousin Edward
Knabusch during the Depression era. For 10 points, name this item which was named in a contest,
with rejected ideas including Slack-Back, the Comfort Carrier, and the Sit-N-Snooze.
ANSWER: La-Z-Boy chair
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
Biological Sciences: Under the Weather. Also known as va-ri-cel-la, it is caused by the same virus
that causes shingles. For 15 points -- name this disease characterized by the eruption of itching,
red blisters.
ANSWER: chicken pox
Fine Arts: Architecture. The beams used on the sides of a door are called, appropriately enough,
sideposts. But, for 15 points -- what six-letter word refers to the crossbar above the door?
ANSWER: lintel
General Knowledge & Trivia: Word Origins. This German word, a metaphor for “hangover,”
literally means “cat’s wailing”. For 15 points -- name this word also used to describe noisy
children, used in a comic strip by Randolph Dirks.
ANSWER: Katzenjammer [in German, KAHT-zen-YAH-muhr]
Mathematics: Playing with Long, Pointy Objects. You are given two vectors in three-space: [2,0,1]
and [0,1,0]. For 15 points -- what is their cross product? You have 25 seconds.
ANSWER: [-1, 0, 2]
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: The Soul of the Matter. The Buddhist doctrine of a-nat-ta
asserts that this does not exist. Sometimes stated as “the Brahman within”, for 15 points -- what
is the Hindu term for the True Self?
ANSWER: atman
Social Sciences: Psychology. For 15 points -- name the psychologist who posited that there are five
stages of dying, denial, depression, bargaining, anger, and acceptance.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Sports & Entertainment: TV Lawyers. You can reach him at Klondike 5-LAWW, and he’s used the
names Miguel Sanchez and Dr. Nguyen Van Falk. He’s worked out of a phone booth. For 15 points -whose office in Springfield Shopping Mall is called “I Can’t Believe It’s a Law Firm”?
ANSWER: Lionel Hutz
World Geography: North America. The French built the fortress of Louisbourg on this island,
one-sixth of which is covered by Bras d’Or Lake. For 15 points -- name this island, once a
separate British colony, that was reunited with Nova Scotia in 1829.
ANSWER: Cape Breton Island
World History: You Sank My Battleship! It was sighted on December 13, 1939 by the Exeter, Ajax,
and Achilles. After battle, it made repairs in Uruguay. For 15 points -- name this German pocket
battleship scuttled several days later by Captain Langsdorff.
ANSWER: Admiral Graf von Spee [GRAFF vohn SHPEE]
World Literature: Fake Languages Other than Pig Latin. Scientific and technical terms make up the
C vocabulary while compound words comprise the B vocabulary. The A vocabulary consists
of words for everyday life. For 15 points -- name the official language of Oceania which meets
the ideological needs of Ing-soc.
ANSWER: Newspeak
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ROUND 13: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has
completed the phrase AFor 10 points@, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents
can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus questions are read in order.
1. The bronze guns captured by the British from the Russians at Sebastapol in 1855 were melted down
and used for a very special purpose. For 10 points -- which highest medal of honor did the British
fashion out of them?
ANSWER: Victoria Cross
2. The works of this poet, who attended Oxford University but left without earning a degree, include
1593’s The Shadow of Night: Two Poeticall Hymnes and 1595's Ovids Banquet of Sence. His main fame,
though, comes from his revered translations of the Iliad and Odyssey. For 10 points -- name this
English poet, the subject of a poem by John Keats.
ANSWER: George Chapman
3. This painting, considered the artist’s masterpiece, depicts the Stour Valley. This episode of simple
farming life is turned into a celebration of a particular summer day with billowing clouds and a bright
sun simmering over the glossy foliage of magnificent trees. For 10 points -- name this work of art,
painted by John Constable during the winters of 1820 and 1821.
ANSWER: The Hay Wain
4. Von Ryan’s Express, The Man with the Golden Arm, Guys and Dolls, Oceans Eleven, Robin and the Seven
Hoods. For 10 points -- name this actor involved in all these films who won an Oscar award portraying
Maggio in the movie From Here to Eternity.
ANSWER: Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra (1915-1998)
[prompt on “Old Blue Eyes”, “The Chairman of the Board,” or “The Voice”]
5. The upper half of this country’s flag is red with a yellow frigate bird flying over a yellow rising sun;
the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the ocean. It is situated near
the junction of the equator and the International Date Line. For 10 points -- name this nation,
consisting of the Line Islands, Phoenix Islands, and the Gilbert Islands, with capital at Tarawa.
ANSWER: Republic of Kiribati
6. She left Swarthmore after three semesters to try to become a tennis pro player. This didn’t pan out,
and she went to Stanford, graduating in 1973 with English and physics degrees. She wound up at
Stanford’s physics department, where she eventually got her Master’s and Ph.D. For 10 points -- name
this scientist who in June 1983, would become the first American woman in space.
ANSWER: Sally Kristen Ride
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7. “The original human nature was not like the present, but different. The primeval man was round, his
back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking
opposite ways.” So states -- for 10 points -- what Platonic dialogue, whose title describes a type of
conference, whose main theme is love?
ANSWER: Symposium
8. He said, “Art is not just for the chosen few but for everyone.” This artist prepared his canvas for the
wet-on-wet technique by coating it with a special basecoat. He could work quickly, producing artwork
in 30 minutes. For 10 points -- name this late creator of “happy little clouds” who appeared in MTV
ads as well as his PBS program The Joy of Painting.
ANSWER: Bob Ross
9. Co-writing a book about her religious conversion, Won By Love, on August 8, 1995, she was filmed
for national television as she was baptized in a Dallas home’s swimming pool by the Rev. Phillip
Benham, national director of Operation Rescue. For 10 points -- name this woman the lead plaintiff in
a historic January 22, 1973 court case, or her pseudonym.
ANSWER: Jane Roe or Norma McCorvey
10. Lesser-known examples of this type of solvent are anhydrous acetic acid, ethanol, and methanol.
The best-known example is water. For 10 points -- name this type of solvent that can act either as an
acid or a base, depending on the solute.
ANSWER: amphiprotic solvent
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ROUND 13: STRETCH ROUND BONI
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Bonus #1 is a demonstration bonus. The teams must show you their answers, and you must
compare their answers with the listed answer.
1. DEMONSTRATION BONUS. For the stated number of points, write in the missing letters, in
Russian, to these words. You may use capital letters or lowercase, but try to reproduce the "typed"
letters.
a.
[5]
The d in da, or “yes”
ANSWER: or
b.
[5]
The r in Tetris
ANSWER: or
c.
[10]
The final consonant in tovarishch, or “comrade”
ANSWER: or
d.
[10]
The l in Lenin
ANSWER: or
2. Identify these individuals of Armenian descent, for 10 points each.
134. a.
This Soviet composed the ballets Happiness, Spartacus, and Ga-ya-neh.
ANSWER: Aram Khachaturian
135. b.
This author wrote My Name Is Aram as well as The Human Comedy.
ANSWER: William Saroyan
136. c.
This businessman owns about 15% of the Chrysler Corporation.
ANSWER: Kirk Kerkorian
3. Given a brief description of an economics term, identify the term, 10 points each.
_
The satisfaction of consuming a product decreases with each additional unit
consumed -- this explains why your fifth cold beer does not taste as good as your
fourth cold beer did.
ANSWER: diminishing marginal utility
b.
As the number of units of an item being produced increases, the cost to produce each
additional unit declines due to increased efficiencies in the production process.
ANSWER: economy of scale
c.
This term describes goods for which demand remains relatively constant regardless of price.
ANSWER: inelastic goods
4. Given a description of a chemically important isotope, name it, five points each for the element and
the mass number.
137. a.
[10] This isotope can be used to show how carboxylic acids react with
alcohols.
ANSWER: oxygen-18 [18O]
138. b.
[10] This radioactive, cancer-causing isotope, often found in milk, replaces
calcium in bones.
ANSWER: strontium-90 [90Sr]
139. c.
[10] EITHER of the two isotopes commonly used in thyroid scans.
ANSWER: iodine-125 [125I] or technetium-99 [99Tc]
5. Where in the USA are the former Los Angeles Dodgers? The Dodgers have been sending their
players to many other cities via trades or demotions. Given an airport code, name the state in which
that airport is located, for the stated number of points.
a.
[5]
LGA
ANSWER: New York (LaGuardia)
b.
[10]
BNA
ANSWER: Tennessee (Nashville)
c.
[15]
PVU
ANSWER: Utah (Provo)
Bonus #6 is an AUDIO BONUS. HN: The work is taken from Hymnus Paradisi by Herbert Howells.
1
140.
141.
b.
c.
1
142.
1
1
1
[30]
Listen to this excerpt. [Play clip] Now answer these questions.
a.
For 10 points, what specific scale -- not key -- is being used?
ANSWER: major pentatonic scale
Five points each, what two scale degrees are removed from a major scale to create a pentatonic
scale?
ANSWER: fourth and seventh [accept: subdominant and leading tone]
For ten points, what is the interval between these two missing tones?
ANSWER: tritone or augmented fourth [NOT: “diminished fifth”]
For 10 points each, answer these questions about fractals.
a.
This set is created by taking a line and recursively deleting the middle third
of every piece.
ANSWER: The middle-thirds Cantor set
This set is created by coloring certain points in the phase space of a class of
complex analytic maps, probably the most familiar image in the field.
ANSWER: the Mandelbrot set
Each point in the Mandelbrot set corresponds to one of these sets, that contain
points for which the iterated maps converge.
ANSWER: Julia sets
30-20-10. Name the peace agreement.
John Oxenstierna and John Adler Salveirs represented Sweden and, along with the French
delegation, presented the first proposals for peace.
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[20]
Negotiated in Munster and Osnabruck, terms included that Brandenburg get eastern
Pomerania. Switzerland and the Netherlands would be officially recognized as independent
states.
[10]
This settlement of 1648 supported religious tolerance as stated by the Peace of Augsburg, and
transfer power from the Holy Roman Emperor to the princes.
ANSWER: Peace Treaty of Westphalia
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I.
II.
Given a description, give the term from ecology, 10 points each.
This type of strategist is characterized by having an early age of first reproduction,
large brood size, numerous offspring, no parental care and short generations.
143. ANSWER: R strategist
I.
This type of strategist is characterized by having delayed reproduction, small
brood size, few offspring, parental care, and long generations.
ANSWER: K strategist
I.
This is an interaction between organisms, involving long-term, mutual
evolutionary adjustment of characteristics of the members of biological communities
in a reciprocal relation to one another.
144.
ANSWER: coevolution
I.
II.
Name these religious figures, 15 points each.
He was excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI and convicted as a heretic two
years later, partially due to his attempt to invoke social reforms. He was then hanged,
and his body was burned.
ANSWER: Girolamo Savonarola
I.
He was the founder of Taoism in China, and his most famous book was the Tao
Te Ching.
ANSWER: Lao-Tzu
ROUND 13: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are...
American History:
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Under the Weather
Fine Arts: Architecture
General Knowledge & Trivia: Word
Origins
Mathematics: Playing with Long, Pointy
Objects
Physical Sciences:
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: The
Soul of the Matter
Social Sciences: Psychology
Sports & Entertainment: TV Lawyers
World Geography: North America
World History: You Sank My Battleship!
World Literature: Fake Languages Other than
Pig Latin
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 13: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
The Inaugural National Scholastics Championship
Case Western Reserve University
The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History:
American Literature:
Biological Sciences: Under the Weather
Fine Arts: Architecture
General Knowledge & Trivia: Word
Origins
Mathematics: Playing with Long, Pointy
Objects
Physical Sciences:
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: The
Soul of the Matter
Social Sciences: Psychology
Sports & Entertainment: TV Lawyers
World Geography: North America
World History: You Sank My Battleship!
World Literature: Fake Languages Other than
Pig Latin
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 15: RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 20 point bonus related to the tossup.
Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Boni are not read if a tossup is not answered correctly.
1.
He says, “Men who are not free always idealize their bondage”. This character dies in a
Moscow Street and his child is born by the wife of Strel-ni-kov. For 10 points, name this lover of Lara
and title character of a Boris Pasternak novel.
ANSWER: Dr. Yuri Andreievich Zhivago
BONUS. Identify these things that begin with the letter Z, for 10 points each.
1.1.
Also known as the Si-ca-rii, these fanatical nationalists played a leading role in a revolt against
Rome from 66 to 70 AD.
ANSWER: zealots
1.2.
In 588 BC, he converted a king named Vish-tas-pa and remained at his court. Name this
founder of what is known as Parsi-ism in India.
ANSWER: Zoroaster or Zarathustra
2.
This organization’s ship, the St. Roch, was the first vessel to traverse the Northwest Passage
from west to east. Founded in 1873, it originally had 300 men and was based at Fort McLeod. For 10
points, name this group whose headquarters moved from Regina to Ottawa in 1920, the federal police
force of Canada.
ANSWER: Mounties or Royal Canadian Mounted Police [until 1920, North West Mounted Police]
BONUS. Identify these other government agencies concerned with security, 10 points each.
2.1.
Directed by Usser Harel from its founding in 1951 until 1963, this agency has been known to
commit kidnappings and assassinations, as well as the raid on Entebbe.
ANSWER: Mossad Merkazi Le-Modiin U-Letafkadim Meyuhadim
2.2.
Originally the Security Service, this UK intelligence agency takes care of internal security and
domestic counterintelligence, but has no powers of arrest.
ANSWER: MI-5 [Not MI-6]
3.
The Macedonian v. the United States, the Shannon v. the Chesapeake, and, in separate skirmishes,
the Java and the Gue-rri-ère v. the Constitution. For 10 points, these were notable ship-to-ship duels in
what war that featured the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of New Orleans?
ANSWER: War of 1812
BONUS. Identify these famous ships, for 10 points each.
3.1.
Commanded by Robert Fitzroy, this ship left Devonport, England on December 27, 1831, and
circumnavigated the globe, with stops including the Cape Verde and Galapagos Islands.
ANSWER: HMS Beagle
3.2.
Leaving Holland on April 6, 1609, this ship sailed into the Hudson River while seeking the
Northwest Passage.
ANSWER: Half Moon
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4.
He broke Billy McGill’s 35-year-old team scoring record in a game versus Tulsa. When he
turned pro, he had to wait for a Celtics grievance regarding Dino Radja’s physical before he could
leave Philadelphia. For 10 points, name this player traded to the New Jersey Nets, a former 76er and
Ute.
ANSWER: Keith Van Horn
BONUS. From Van Horn to other horns, 10 points each.
4.1.
Cape Horn is located on Hornos Island in this archipelago.
ANSWER: Tierra del Fuego [prompt on “Land of Fire”]
4.2.
First isolated from animal horn in 1895, this nonessential amino acid in mammals plays a part
in the synthesis of urea.
ANSWER: arginine [prompt on “arg”]
5.
A silver replica of the George Cross, which is representative of bravery for being the most
bombed place during World War II, stands out against a red and white field on this nation’s flag. For
10 points, name this European republic south of Sicily, origin of a famous statue.
ANSWER: Malta
BONUS. 10 points each, identify these small European countries given a description of the flag.
5.1.
Blue, yellow, and red vertical stripes.
ANSWER: Andorra
5.2.
Red horizontal stripe on top, white horizontal stripe on bottom.
ANSWER: Monaco [do not accept Poland, which is white on top]
6.
Made of se-tim wood overlaid on both sides with the purest gold, this exception to a law
forbidding the making of graven images measured 22 by 12 by 12 cubits. For 10 points, identify this
chest containing the Divine Glory covered with a cloud.
ANSWER: the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord or aron
BONUS. Answer these questions about arcs, for 10 points each.
6.1.
What is the domain of the inverse trigonometric function Arcsin x [ark-sine of x]?
ANSWER: -1 to 1 or -1  x  1 [accept equivalents]
6.2.
Pencil and paper ready! An exterior angle with both of its sides lying tangent to a circle, creates
an arc of 220 degrees. What is the measure of the exterior angle in degrees? You have 30 seconds.
ANSWER: 40 degrees
[Exterior angle = difference of the arc lengths / 2, or (220 - [360-220]) / 2 = 80 / 2 = 40]
7.
At low speeds, its magnitude is given by Stokes’ law. This type of force causes both air
resistance and turbulence. For 10 points, name this type of force, which tends to retard motion, which
can be reduced by streamlining.
ANSWER: drag [prompt on “air resistance”]
BONUS. Given the men in drag, name the movie, 10 points each.
7.1.
Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo
ANSWER: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
7.2.
Guy Pearce, Hugo Weaving
ANSWER: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
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8.
In ancient times, it was called His-pa-lis. Originally an Iberian town, it was “liberated” from
the Muslims in 1248. While imprisoned here, Cervantes conceived his novel Don Quixote. For 10 points,
name this city in the southwest of Spain, that shares its name with a model of Cadillac.
ANSWER: Seville or Sevilla
Related Bonus #8 is an audio bonus!
BONUS. 20-10. Name the composer from clips.
[20]
[Clip #1: Prayers of Kierkegaard]
[10]
[Clip #2: Adagio for Strings]
ANSWER: Samuel Barber [i.e., “The Barber of Seville”]
9.
It superseded the Bland-Allison Act of 1878 and was repealed during a special session in which
Grover Cleveland used party discipline to get his way. For 10 points, name this act, favored by
Western mineowners, requiring the Treasury Secretary to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver each
month.
ANSWER: Sherman Silver Purchase Act or Silver Purchase Act of 1890
BONUS. Identify these authors connected to silver, for 10 points each.
9.1.
This playwright wrote The Silver Tassie, first performed in London in 1929. Name this man who
also wrote The Plough and the Stars.
ANSWER: Sean O’Casey
9.2.
This author of historical romances such as The Last Days of Pompeii also wrote silver-fork novels
relating high society such as Pelham.
ANSWER: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
10.
This company invites you to check out its tubing and other hardware, although it discontinued
its famous catalog in 1992. For 10 points, identify this Dow Jones Industrial Average member whose
ads invite you to see its “softer side.”
ANSWER: Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
BONUS. Identify these other catalogs, 10 points each.
10.1. This astronomical “catalog” contains about 200 objects including nebulae and comets.
ANSWER: Messier catalog
10.2. This is the oldest catalog of phi-lat-e-ly, listing nearly every stamp issued since 1840.
ANSWER: Scott catalog
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ROUND 15: CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 8 tossups. A correct answer = 10 points + first chance at a 15 point Category Quiz question. Opponents
can earn points missed by the first team. Once chosen, a category cannot be reused.
Distribute Category Quiz list to both teams.
The categories for the Category Quiz are:
American History: The 1800s
American Literature: African-American
Writers
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Architecture
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines
Mathematics: Platonic Mathematics
Physical Sciences: I’m Taking a Moment
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: A Good
Man Is Hard to Find
Social Sciences: Economic Resources
Sports & Entertainment:
World Geography:
World History: Prime Ministers
World Literature: Sliding Doors
1. He was born the same day the Temple of Artemis burned down. When he died, he was buried in a
golden sarcophagus, from which Caligula and Augustus Caesar stole his breastplate, shield, and nose.
For 10 points, name this ancient general, born in 356 BC, the son of Olympias and Philip II.
ANSWER: Alexander the Great or Alexander II
2. A Franciscan scholar once said, “It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer”. This has
been misconstrued as “Entities ought not to be multiplied, except from necessity”. For 10 points, name
this philosophical principle, prominent in the movie Contact that you may not want to shave with.
ANSWER: (William of) Occam’s razor [accept spelling Ockham]
3. He once portrayed Desdemona in an Army production of Shakespeare’s Othello. The first West
Point graduate to become President, his original given name was Hiram. For 10 points, name this
general, to whom Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
ANSWER: (Hiram) Ulysses S. Grant
4. He met Ishmael in New Bedford. Together they attended Father Mapple’s sermon at the
Whaleman’s Chapel, smoked a tomahawk pipe, and crossed to Nantucket to sign aboard the Pequod.
For 10 points, name this Herman Melville character, Chief mate Starbuck’s harpooner.
ANSWER: Queequeg
5. The world’s largest mollusk is also the largest invertebrate. The largest one found weighed 2.2 tons
and measured 20 feet long. One of its many tentacles measured 35 feet. Despite its gruesome
descriptions, for 10 points, name this animal that makes pretty good calamari.
ANSWER: the giant squid
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6. By elevation, the world’s lowest national capital is also a port city. It is the birthplace of chess
champion Gary Kasparov. Located on the Caspian Sea, for 10 points, name the capital of Azerbaijan.
ANSWER: Baku
7. Even though he won the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing, this
Illinois prosecutor was, in March, 1998, snubbed of a federal judgeship by Illinois senior Senator Carol
Moseley-Braun. For 10 points, name this appointee.
ANSWER: Joseph Hartzler
8. William Blake may have mixed it with carpenter’s glue while others have added casein glue, linseed
oil, or poppy oil. A mixture of size and plaster of paris forms ges-so, the traditional ground. For 10
points, in the true form of what medium of painting uses fresh egg yolk?
ANSWER: tempura
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Read these questions as if they were bonuses, except that the teams choose which question.
American History: The 1800s. In 1821, inspired by rebellions in Haiti and elsewhere, this freedman
organized a slave revolt in and around Charleston. For 15 points -- name this man who was
hanged when his plot was discovered.
ANSWER: Denmark Vesey
American Literature: African-American Writers. After earning a Ph.D. at Brown University, she
published her first novel, Corregidora, in 1975, at the age of 26. Receiving much attention, she
quickly published another novel, Eva’s Man. She then disappeared for 20 years, living in
Europe. For 15 points -- name this African-American author of the recent novel The Healing.
ANSWER: Gayl Jones
Fine Arts: Architecture. Begun by Bishop Ecclesius in 526, just before the death of Ostrogoth king
Theodoric, this church was built around 540 under Archbishop Maximian. It has an octagonal
plan with a domed central cove, which marks it as a descendant of elaborate Roman baths. For
15 points -- (baby,) which church contains the work Emperor Justinian and His Attendants?
ANSWER: San Vitale in Ravenna
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines. Among its departments are “Outfront”, “Outspoken”,
“Wellbeing”, and a column by Paula Poundstone. For 15 points -- name this politically
oriented magazine.
ANSWER: Mother Jones magazine
Mathematics: Platonic Mathematics. An icosahedron has 20 faces, but only 12 vertices. For 15 points
-- how many edges does it have? You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.
ANSWER: 30 [Euler’s rule: 20 + 12 - 2 = 30]
Physical Sciences: I’m Taking a Moment. You have a hollow cylinder, a solid sphere, and a solid disk
of equal mass and radius. You release them and let them race down a frictionless incline. For
15 points -- state the order of finish of the three solids, in other words, rank them, lowest to
highest, by moment of inertia. You have 15 seconds.
ANSWER (in correct order): sphere, disk, cylinder
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: A Good Man Is Hard to Find. For 15 points -- what ancient
Greek wandered through the streets of Athens with a lantern looking for a single honest man?
ANSWER: Diogenes
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Social Sciences: Economic Resources. This economist, who died in March 1998, partook in a famous
bet with environmentalist gloommeister Paul Ehrlich, who wagered that in the 1980s, scarcity
would drive up resource prices, while he bet that progress would push prices down. For 15
points -- which economist won this bet, always believing “Supplies of natural resources are not
finite in any serious way,” as written in his 1996 revision of The Ultimate Resource?
ANSWER: Julian Simon
World History: Prime Ministers. This professor in economics at the University of Co-im-bra was
offered the finance ministry by General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona. For 15 points -name this man who would go on to be prime minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968.
ANSWER: Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
World Literature: Sliding Doors. “Some one must have framed Joseph K. because one morning,
without his having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” So starts a short novel whose
author wrote two different endings: in one, Joseph K. never finds out why he was arrested; in
the other he discovers he is guilty of the Original Sin. For 15 points -- name this novel.
ANSWER: The Trial or Der Prozess by Franz Kafka
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ROUND 15: STRETCH ROUND TOSSUPS
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In this round, there are 10 tossups. A correct answer = 20 points, until the moderator has completed the phrase AFor 10
points@, + first chance at an unrelated 30 point bonus. Opponents can earn bonus points missed by the first team. Bonus
questions are read in order.
1. Either of two possible answers. Furman alumnus Charles Hard Townes (class of 1932) shared the 1964
Nobel Prize in Physics for his application of quantum electronics in creating two inventions. For 10
points -- name one of the two devices he created, both of which use stimulated emission of radiation
using either microwaves or light.
ANSWER: Laser or Maser
2. Born at Newgate prison, she was 12 years a prostitute, 5 times a wife, once even to her own brother,
12 years a thief, 8 years a transported felon in Virginia, and finally a rich, honest penitent. For 10
points -- name this picaresque title heroine of a 1722 book by Daniel Defoe.
ANSWER: Moll Flanders
3. First built in 1948 and originally called the Broadcaster, its name was changed after copyright
disputes. Used by rock stars like Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, and Keith Richards, Jimmy Page of
Led Zepplin played this type of instrument for the solo on “Stairway to Heaven.” For 10 points -name this guitar.
ANSWER: Fender Telecaster
4. In 1962, the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations established an international research institute at Los
Banos in the Philippines devoted to the 10,000 species of this plant. For 10 points -- name this
agricultural product that is grown in paddies, mainly in Asia.
ANSWER: Rice
5. In the early Bolshevik era, he was arrested twice for subversion. After the 1917 revolution, he
worked at the provincial level before becoming secretary of the Central Committee. Due to his support
for Stalin, he became foreign minister and represented Soviet interests in the Allied conferences during
World War II. For 10 points -- who was this namesake of a cocktail?
ANSWER: Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
6. Pencil and paper may be useful. Define the sum of a number of rectangles, with width x [delta x] and
height f(x) [f of x]. Now take the limit of these sums, used in the definition of definite integrals, as
x approaches zero. For 10 points -- for which German mathematician are such sums named?
ANSWER: Georg Friedrich Bernard Riemann (sums) [accept: definite integral on early buzz]
7. His father was Afghani, his mother Italian, and he was born in Seattle. As a ballet student, he met
his future partner Gerald Arpino. In 1948, he moved to New York City, where he eventually created
Persephone and opened his own school. For 10 points -- name this performer who began an
internationally renowned ballet company in New York named for him.
ANSWER: Robert Joffrey or Abdullah Joffa Bey Khan
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8. Two balloons named Star Flyer 1 and Star Flyer 2 were, in 1991, the first to fly over this, found slightly
east of Kang-xung Glacier. The Chinese call it Qo-mo-lang-ma; the Nepalis call it Sa-gar-ma-tha. For
10 points -- name this mountain 8,848 meters tall, the highest in Asia and the world.
ANSWER: Mount Everest [accept: Qomolangma, Chomolangma or Sagarmatha on early buzz]
9. It leaves the Pennsylvania station, from track 29, at a quarter to four, and it’s in Baltimore by the
time I’ve read a magazine. Luckily for me, I’ve got just enough money to board. And when it arrives
at my destination in Tennessee, a girl’s waiting to hear I’ll never roam again. For 10 points -- name
this train I’m riding, the title of a Glenn Miller song.
ANSWER: “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”
10. Translated as “apple island,” it is supposed to lay across the sea to the west. In the Irish version, the
god Ma-nan-nan reigns supreme. In another version, its magical powers reside in the river Tigris. For
10 points -- name this mythical place where King Arthur is said to wait until the day England needs
him to restore justice and peace to the people.
ANSWER: Avalon or Avaron or Avilion
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ROUND 15: STRETCH ROUND BONI
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Bonus #1 is an audio bonus.
1. AUDIO BONUS. For five points each, identify the work from which these quotes come, and the
creator thereof.
a.
[Clip #1]
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
b.
[Clip #2]
ANSWER: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
c.
[Clip #3]
ANSWER: “Mr. Tambourine Man” by Bob Dylan or Robert
Zimmerman
2. It’s time to play “Medicine for Hypochondriacs!” 10 points each, given some scary medical talk,
identify the normally non-life-threatening condition you have.
a.
You have dermal ec-chy-mo-sis; try to be more careful.
ANSWER: bruise
b.
I imagine people avoid you because of that chronic rhi-no-rrhe-a.
ANSWER: runny nose
c.
The cho-ri-on-ic go-na-do-tro-phin test indicates that you are, indeed, gravid.
ANSWER: pregnant
3. Identify the African nation from its geographic features, 10 points each.
a.
Most of the Kalahari Desert lies in this country.
ANSWER: Botswana
b.
Jebel Toukbal, the highest peak in the High Atlas Mountains
ANSWER: Morocco
c.
The forts at Dixcove, Elmina, Cape Cove, and Apam, built for protecting ships engaged in the
gold, ivory, and slave trades.
ANSWER: Ghana
4. Name these important documents in the history of democracy on a 15-10 basis.
1.
[15]
This document was approved on January 14, 1638, for royal recognition.
[10]
This first constitution was drawn up by leaders of the towns of Wethersfield, Windsor,
and Hartford.
ANSWER: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
2.
[15]
It states, “He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it
were in the eye.”
[10]
Written in 1644 in opposition of movements in Parliament to regulate the press, John
Milton wrote this treatise in defense of free speech.
ANSWER: Areopagitica
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Bonus #5 involves a handout/slide.
5. DEMONSTRATION/HANDOUT QUESTION. I will now distribute a few statuettes of Smurfs.
Given a set of sentences written in French, German, and Spanish, identify the appropriate Smurf
which corresponds to each sentence for 10 points each.
Translate the following phrases and match them to the appropriate Smurf figurine.
A:
Deutsch Sie zählt ein Ziel.
Español Ella anota una meta.
Français Elle marque un but.
English: She scores a goal!
B:
Deutsch “Fühlen Sie sich krank?”
Español “Usted se siente enfermo?”
Français “Vous sentez-vous malade?”
English: “Do you feel sick?”
C:
Deutsch “Lassen Sie uns zu kochen beginnen!”
Español “Comencemos a cocinar!”
Français “Commençons à faire cuire!”
English: “Let’s start cooking!”
6. Answer these questions about recent environmental laws, 10 points each.
a.
This Nebraska senator is trying to have the US Senate formally reject the global warming
agreement approved in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997.
ANSWER: Sen. Chuck Hagel
Trent Lott has proposed some controversial amendments to this bill, which actually expired in 1992.
ANSWER: the Endangered Species Act
c.
This is the federal government’s primary transportation legislation.
ANSWER: Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficient Act
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Bonus #7 involves slides.
7. VISUAL BONUS: Identify the following religious figures based on the following paintings in which
they are featured for fifteen points each.
ANSWER: St. Sebastian (by Andrea Mantegna)
ANSWER: St. Francis (by Giovanni Bellini)
8. Sure, we all know and love the heroes of mythology, but do we ever take time out to remember the
supporting cast? This bonus honors the right-hand men: given the sidekick, name the ancient hero, 10
points each.
a.
Achates
ANSWER: Aeneas
b.
Patroclus
ANSWER: Achilles or Akhilleus
c.
Philoctetes
ANSWER: Heracles or Hercules [NOT Aeolus]
9. Answer these questions about pyramids that don’t contain corpses, 10 points each.
a.
This man hosted the 1994 revival of The $25,000 Pyramid.
ANSWER: John Davidson [NOT: Dick Clark]
b.
In March, members of this family tried once again to form a human pyramid in Detroit, where
two family members died in the same stunt 30 years ago.
ANSWER: the Flying Wallendas
c.
Olympia Dukakis raves about pyramids in this PBS miniseries.
ANSWER: Tales of the City
10. Sometimes you’ve got to turn your perspective upside-down. Identify these reciprocals for 10
points each.
a.
This electrical property is the reciprocal of resistance.
ANSWER: conductance
b.
This measure for a circle is the reciprocal of the radius, while for a sphere it is the reciprocal of
the radius squared.
ANSWER: curvature
a.
The reciprocal of a di-op-tric power is the measure of this characteristic of a lens.
ANSWER: focus
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ROUND 15:
HANDOUT Bonus Question #5
Translate the following phrases and match them to the appropriate Smurf figurine.
A:
Deutsch
Español
Français
Sie zählt ein Ziel.
Ella anota una meta.
Elle marque un but.
B:
Deutsch
Español
Français
“Fühlen Sie sich krank?”
“Usted se siente enfermo?”
“Vous sentez-vous malade?”
C:
Deutsch
Español
Français
“Lassen Sie uns zu kochen beginnen!”
“Comencemos a cocinar!”
“Commençons à faire cuire!”
ROUND 15:
HANDOUT Bonus Question #5
Translate the following phrases and match them to the appropriate Smurf figurine.
A:
Deutsch
Español
Français
Sie zählt ein Ziel.
Ella anota una meta.
Elle marque un but.
B:
Deutsch
Español
Français
“Fühlen Sie sich krank?”
“Usted se siente enfermo?”
“Vous sentez-vous malade?”
C:
Deutsch
Español
Français
“Lassen Sie uns zu kochen beginnen!”
“Comencemos a cocinar!”
“Commençons à faire cuire!”
ROUND 15: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: The 1800s
American Literature: African-American
Writers
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Architecture
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines
Mathematics: Platonic Mathematics
Physical Sciences: I’m Taking a Moment
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: A Good
Man Is Hard to Find
Social Sciences: Economic Resources
Sports & Entertainment:
World Geography:
World History: Prime Ministers
World Literature: Sliding Doors
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
ROUND 15: THE CATEGORY QUIZ
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The categories for the Category Quiz are…
American History: The 1800s
American Literature: African-American
Writers
Biological Sciences:
Fine Arts: Architecture
General Knowledge & Trivia: Magazines
Mathematics: Platonic Mathematics
Physical Sciences: I’m Taking a Moment
Disregard the categories that are lined out.
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: A Good
Man Is Hard to Find
Social Sciences: Economic Resources
Sports & Entertainment:
World Geography:
World History: Prime Ministers
World Literature: Sliding Doors