Identify the work of literature 30-20-10:
A. It was published in 1726 under a pseudonym taken from the story's main character and first person narrator. This fictitious author was supposed to have been a ship's surgeon and later a captain.
B. This satirical work, written by an Irishman, was 80 years later made into a juvenile classic in two parts by a painter in Glasgow.
C. The story features the amusing and distinctive lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and Houyhnhnms (Hoo IHN uhms)
answer: Gulliver's Travels
Sometimes there are just no good lead-ins for a bonus. Identify the word, 30-20-10-5-1.
A. One could say that Cyan, the knight of Doma from Final Fantasy VI, expresses this trait.
B. One could say that this trait may explain why the Amish choose to live an 18th century life style.
C. It can be defined as a fear or dislike of complex devices, especially computers.
D. It is also the name of an annual west coast quiz bowl gathering.
E. Now in its fourth installment, it is the name of the tournament you are playing in right now.
answer: Technophobia
Name the author, 30-20-10:
A. Some of his novels include Confessions of a Mask, The Sound of Waves, and Forbidden Colors.
B. Some of his plays include Madame de Sade and Five Modern Noh Plays.
C. He disemboweled himself publicly after the publication of the last in his series of novels, The Sea of Fertility.
answer: Mishima Yukio (also accept Hiraoka Kimitake.)
[ASU Mini-me]Identify these terms from matrix theory, for 10 points each.
A. This is the term for the square matrix that has 1's along the diagonal and zeroes everywhere else.
answer: identity
B. For a given matrix, this term refers to the matrix to which it can be multiplied to result in the identity matrix.
answer: inverse
C. This term refers to a matrix that has no inverse.
answer: singular
On 13 September 1759 the fate of the American portion of the Seven Years' War was all but sealed with the fall of Quebec. Answer these questions about it for the stated number of points.
A. Named for a ship's pilot who formerly owned a part of it, the battlefield where it was fought is now part of a national historic park. For 5 points, name it.
answer: The Plains of Abraham
B. Both the British and French commanders were killed on the Plains of Abraham. 10 points for one and 25 points for both, identify the opposing military leaders.
answer: Maj. Gen. James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm
30-20-10. Identify the author.
A. No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
B. Leafstorm and other Stories
C. The General in His Labyrinth
answer: Gabriel García Márquez
J.K. Rowling has gone from single welfare mother to best-selling author with the success of the first three books of a proposed 7-book series. For 10 points each, complete the titles of these three books, all starting with "Harry Potter and the..."
answer: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, and Prisoner of Azkaban
[Berkeley]A. For 5 points for one, or 15 for both--give the names for these specific sectors located on opposite coasts.
answer: Silicon Valley and the Route 128 Sector (accept close equivalents for Route 128, but not "Boston")
B. For 15 points--This man, a pioneer in both sectors, graduated from MIT and took a wartime position at Harvard, but is best known as the man who gave encouragement and financial support to two of his students at Stanford named Hewlett and Packard.
answer: Fredrick Terman
A. The base energy for almost all of life on earth is due to photosynthesis. However, bacteria thrive which do not require sunlight for energy but instead make use of this element which is abundant around hydrothermal vents.
answer: Sulfur
B. What is the general name given to the process through which these sulfur-oxidizing bacteria produce energy?
answer: chemosynthesis
C. Finally, what term designates this type of bacteria which refers to the fact that they synthesize their energy from a non-organic source other than sunlight?
answer: chemoautotrophs
A. For 5 points: This greek hero was the son of Thetis who had managed to make him mostly invincible, but not completely so.
answer: Achilles
B. For 10 points: His name means swell foot. When only a baby, his ankles were pinned together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron where he was rescued by a shepherd.
answer: Oedipus
C. For 15 points: This gigantic Celtic deity was a mythical king over Britain. His body was killed after he was wounded in the foot in a battle against the Irish. His head lived on for over eighty more years and was eventually buried on the White Mount in London.
answer: Bran
A. The precursor to the first one of these was established to help England raise funds to wage war against France and the Low Countries. Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the founding shareholders of the French one which was created in 1800 after the financial upheavals of the revolutionary period.
B. The American one consists of twelve branch banks in cities like Cleveland, St. Louis, and San Francisco and was created by a federal act in 1913.
C. These are banks which are agencies of national governments. They are largely responsible for printing money, and they also play a central role in setting interest rates in the national economies which they oversee.
answer: central banks
A. For 5 points each, what were the two main parties vying for control of the Indian parliament?
answer: Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP
B. For 5 points each, name the leader of the losing Congress party, an Italian-born woman, and the leader of the BJP who will remain prime minister of India.
answer: Sonia Gandhi, and Atal Behari Vajpayee
C. For a final 10 points, what was the name of the now-ruling party alliance of which the BJP was a part?
answer: National Democratic Alliance
A. (5) Name the tribe to which the warriors belonged, and you'll also name the 1964 movie, starring Michael Caine, about this event.
answer: Zulu
B. (10) Name the king of the Zulus who led the failed assault.
answer: Cetewayo
C. (15) Name the location of this battle, at which eleven British soldiers earned the Victoria Cross.
answer: Rorke's Drift
A. This young Canadian died following a Lap 10 incident in October's Marlboro 500. It was his final race for the Player's-Forsythe team before his planned move to Penske in 2000.
answer: Greg Moore
B. Moore's death was the second CART death in two months. Now name the Uruguayan driver who died in practice at Laguna Seca September 11, who was driving for Team Penske.
answer: Gonzalo Rodriguez
C. Besides the two 1999 fatalities, the last death in CART was that of this up and coming driver in 1996's Toronto event, in a crash which also killed two corner workers.
answer: Jeff Krosnoff
[Hentzel]
This so-called "Knot" is a highland region whose name in Turkic denotes its characteristic high, undulating grasslands.
A. For 10 points--name this region centered in Tajikistan where four major mountain ranges meet.
answer: Pamir Knot
B. For 5 points each--name the four major mountain ranges that converge on the Pamir Knot.
answer: Hindu Kush
Kunlun or K'un-Lun Shan
Karakoram Shan or K'a-La-K'un-Lun Shan
T'ien Shan or Tian Shan or Tyan Shan
Given each hominid species, identify the present-day country in which specimens of it were first found, for 10 points each:
A. Australopithecus africanus
answer: South Africa
B. Homo erectus
answer: Indonesia
C. Homo neanderthalensis
answer: Germany
The pituitary gland secretes eight major hormones. For 5 points each--name any six of these.
answer: growth hormone (or GH or somatrotropin)
thyroid-stimulating hormone (or TSH or thryrotropin)
adrenocorticotropic hormone (or ACTH or corticotropin)
follicle-stimulating hormone (or FSH or folliculotropin)
luteinizing hormone (or LH or luteotropin)
prolactin
antiduretic hormone (or ADH or vasopressin)
oxytocin
[Oxy]A. Harvard University
answer: Crimson
B. Colorado State University
answer: Rams
C. West Virginia University
answer: Mountaineers
D. Syracuse University
answer: Orangemen
E. University of North Dakota
answer: Fighting Sioux
F. University of Alaska at Fairbanks
answer: Nanooks
A. (10) Petruchka
(5) Firebird
answer: Igor Stravinsky
B. (10) District of Mzensk
(5) The Nose
answer: Dimitri Shostakovich
C. (10) Ilya Mourometz
(5) The Red Poppy
answer: Reinhold Glier
A. (10) Mordred.
(5) Sir Thomas Malory
answer: Morte D'Arthur
B. (10) Gargamelle
(5) Francois Rabelais
answer: Gargantua and Pantagruel
C. (10) Mark of Tintagel
(5) Chretien de Troyes
answer: The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
A. The Dean's December
answer: Saul Bellow
B. Steppenwolf
answer: Hermann Hesse
C. Six Characters in Search of an Author
answer: Luigi Pirandello
D. Children of Gabelawi
answer: Naguib Mahfouz
E. The Cockatoos
answer: Patrick White
F. Return to the Future
answer: Sigrid Undset
A. Oxygen.
answer: 1s2, 2s2, 2p4
B. Potassium.
answer: 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 4s1
C. Zinc.
answer: 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 3d10, 4s2 [Stanford]
Keynesian, monetarist, or neither? For 10 points each, given a governmental policy, define it as Keynesian, monetarist, or neither.
A. Central bank allowing interest rates to float.
answer: monetarist
B. "Trickle down" economics--tax cuts for all, especially for the rich, to free up capital.
answer: monetarist
C. Government spending on public works to employ workers and stimulate the economy.
answer: Keynesian
A. 5: B-flat, D-flat, F
answer: B-flat minor triad
B. 5: F, A, C, E-flat
answer: F dominant seventh
or major-minor seventh,
(do not prompt on "major seventh" or "minor seventh")
C. 10: F, A, C, D-sharp
answer: German augmented sixth
D. 10: F-sharp, A, C, E
answer: F-sharp half-diminished seventh (do not prompt on "diminished seventh")
Given a Shakespearean tragedy, name the people who die in the last act only, for 10 points each, all or nothing.
A. Romeo and Juliet
answer: Romeo, Juliet, and Paris
B. Hamlet
answer: Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet, and Laertes
C. King Lear
answer: Goneril, Regan,
Cordelia, Lear, Edmund,
and the Slave
(Give full points if "slave" is all that is missed, since he is
not an actual character and Lear kills him offstage.)
There's been a whole lot of shaking going on! For 5 points each, and a 5 point bonus for all correct, given a list of locations of earthquakes that have happened recently, put them in order of magnitude from greatest to least.
List: Costa Rica, Turkey, California, Greece, Taiwan
answer: Taiwan, Turkey, California, Costa Rica, Greece
[UCI]A. Earl Anthony of the USA
answer: bowling
B. James Hunt of the USA
answer: auto racing
C. John Newcombe of Australia
answer: tennis
A. North Korea
answer: Pyongyang
B. Malaysia
answer: Kuala Lumpur
C. Mongolia
answer: Ulan Bator
A. Who was Czar up until the March Revolution?
answer: Nicholas II
B. Russia's October Revolution actually took place in what month?
answer: November
C. In what year did the Russian Revolution take place?
answer: 1917
A. Shonen is anime for boys, with innocuous programming for the hyper, Attention Deficit Disordered kids.
answer: Pokemon
B. Wabi-Sabi is anime of gentle, lyrical, yet intense tales, often told in a pastoral or historical setting.
answer: Princess Mononoke
C. Shojo is anime for girls, with innocent situations told from a female perspective.
answer: Sailor Moon
A. On Sa-I-Gu, or April 29, 1992, many Korean-Americans in Los Angeles were attacked in the riots following a famous trial about the alleged beating of what man?
answer: Rodney King
B. On Yook-I-O, or June 25 of this year, the Korean War began.
answer: 1950
C. On Sam-Il, or March 1, 1919, there was a massive protest against this country's colonial rule in Korea.
answer: Japan
A. This first Milesian was one of the "Seven Wise Men" of Ancient Greece. He correctly predicted the 585 BC solar eclipse. As a philosopher, he identified water as common in everything.
answer: Thales
B. This second Milesian came up with the idea of the apeiron and produced the first maps.
answer: Anaximander
C. This third Milesian held that air to be first principle and the basis of matter. He thought other matters are formed by compressing or rarefacting air.
answer: Anaximenes