A. Name the person speaking after listening to this:
[[ PLAY TAPE until you hear "End of first Auditory Bonus"]]
Answer: Andrew SPEAKER
B. In January, Andrew Speaker was diagnosed with what disease?
Answer: extensively drug-resistant TUBERCULOSIS (prompt on "T.B.")
C. When Andrew Speaker flew to Europe in May, he was reported to the U.S. government by a Centers for Disease Control doctor who had what family relationship to him?
Answer: FATHER-IN-LAW (or future father-in-law, or equivalent: he got married on this trip)
A. Name this personal-injury lawyer who soon became the first infected person to be quarantined by the U.S. government in over forty years.
Answer: Andrew SPEAKER
B. In January, Andrew Speaker had been diagnosed with what disease?
Answer: extensively drug-resistant TUBERCULOSIS (prompt on "T.B.")
C. When Andrew Speaker flew to Europe in May, he was reported to the U.S. government by a Centers for Disease Control doctor who had what family relationship to him?
Answer: FATHER-IN-LAW (or future father-in-law, or equivalent: he got married on this trip)
A. What is the country?
Answer: Republic of GEORGIA (or SAKARTVELOs Respublika)
B. Just north of Georgia, at the label marked B, is the highest point in all of Europe. What is this mountain?
Answer: Mount ELBRUS
C. Russia lies to the north of Georgia. Name ANY ONE of Georgia's three neighbors to the south, TOGETHER with its number, one, two, or three, shown on the map.
Answers: 1 - TURKEY
2 - ARMENIA
3 - AZERBAIJAN
A. [[ PLAY TAPE until you hear "End of Part A"]]
Answer: Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
B. [[ PLAY TAPE until you hear "End of Part B"]]
Answer: Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY
C. [[ PLAY TAPE until you hear "End of second Auditory Bonus"]]
Answer: Sergei Vasilyevich RACHMANINOFF
Answers: A. The FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
B. The GOLD-BUG
C. The MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
A. Maltese cross
Answer: 9
B. Eastern Orthodox cross
Answer: 11
C. Papal cross
Answer: 5
D. Jerusalem cross
Answer: 4
A, B. For 5 points each, name the two characters labelled "A" and "B".
Answers: King DAVID
and BATHSHEBA (do not
accept the "Queen of Sheba": a different person)
C. For 10 more points, who painted this?
Answer: Lucas CRANACH the Elder, or der �ltere
D. The story of David and Bathsheba is told in what book of the Christian bible?
Answer: SECOND SAMUEL (or TWO SAMUEL)
Answers:
A. Your ROYAL HIGHNESS (princes)
B. Your EXCELLENCY (governor-general)
C. Your HONOUR (lieutenant-governors)
D. Your WORSHIP (mayors)
E. Your EMINENCE (cardinals)
Answers: A. James Earl CARTER (1976)
B. George Walker BUSH (prompt on "Bush" or "George Bush")
(2000)
C. Lyndon Baines JOHNSON (1964)
Answers: Red: PROTON
Yellow: ALPHA particle, or HELIUM NUCLEUS
Blue: BETA particle, or ELECTRON
A. This CMA's population grew by nineteen per cent since 2001, the biggest percentage increase of any CMA. It lies on the western edge of Lake Simcoe, a hundred kilometres north of Toronto.
Answer: BARRIE, Ontario
B. This CMA's population shrank the most since 2001: by two per cent. The municipality of the same name was formed by the merger of Chicoutimi and Jonqui�re in 2002.
Answer: SAGUENAY, Quebec
C. The only other CMA to lose population since 2001 was this one in New Brunswick, which lost its place as New Brunswick's largest CMA, and is now second to Moncton.
Answer: SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
A. A staple protein source in Indonesia, it's produced by cooking and dehulling soybeans, adding the Rhizopus oligosporus fungus, and then incubating the result overnight until it forms a solid cake.
Answer: TEMPEH
B. It's made by adding a yeast mould to soybeans and letting them ferment for a period of weeks to years. The result is then ground into a paste that tastes salty and is traditionally used in soups in Japan.
Answer: MISO
C. To make this, wash and soak soybeans, steam them, add the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, and let it incubate for a day. Commonly eaten in Japan with rice, it has the consistency of mucus and has a pungent smell with a hint of ammonia.
Answer: NATTO
A. What is the name of this character?
Answer: SAM SLICK of Slickville
B. The Sam Slick stories were written by what Nova Scotia judge?
Answer: Thomas Chandler HALIBURTON
C. What product does Sam Slick sell?
Answer: CLOCKs
A. The Reynolds number is expressed in what units, in terms of metres, kilograms, and seconds?
Answer: DIMENSIONLESS or UNITLESS or NONE
B. Pencil and paper ready. Water flows at one metre per second along a filled circular pipe of diameter ten centimetres. Then all of it continues through another filled circular pipe of diameter five centimetres. How fast does the water flow through the second pipe? I'll give you ten seconds.
Answer: FOUR (4) metres per second
(With same volume flow, it's 4 times as fast in the second pipe
because it has 1/4 the cross-sectional area.)
C. If the Reynolds number of the flow in the first pipe is one hundred thousand, what is the Reynolds number of the flow in the second pipe? I'll give you ten seconds.
Answer: TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND (200,000)
(Multiply by 1/2 for 1/2 diameter, then multiply by 4 for 4 times
velocity.)
A. The first known black person in Canada was Mathieu da Costa, a Mi'kmaq interpreter working for two explorers in the early 1600s. Name either explorer.
Answer: Samuel de CHAMPLAIN
or Pierre DUGUA, or Sieur de MONTS
B. Born a slave in Maryland, he escaped to Kent County, Upper Canada, where he founded the Dawn community for fugitive American slaves. His 1849 autobiography is thought to have inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Answer: Josiah HENSON
C. This small black community on the south shore of Bedford Basin in Halifax was first settled after the war of 1812. Its four hundred residents were expelled and the neighbourhood bulldozed in the 1960s to make way for a bridge and port expansion.
Answer: AFRICVILLE
A. Name the country.
Answer: Kingdom of BHUTAN, or DRUK YUL
B. What's the official religion of Bhutan?
Answer: (Tantric) Mahayana BUDDHISM (or LAMAISM or DRUKPA KAGYU)
C. Eighty-five per cent of Bhutan's export revenues come from the sale to India of what?
Answer: hydroELECTRICity, or hydroELECTRIC POWER
A. Of mysterious origin and identified with the Hebrews by Josephus, these Semitic Asiatic nomads dubbed the "shepherd kings" were Egypt's fifteenth dynasty, from 1650 to 1550 B.C.
Answer: HYKSOS
B. This Hellenistic dynasty began with Alexander the Great's satrap in Egypt, and ended under Cleopatra when Egypt was conquered by Rome.
Answer: PTOLEMY or PTOLEMIES or PTOLEMAIC dynasty
C. Taking power during the French invasion of the Seventh Crusade, these Turkish and Circassian slave soldiers were sultans of Egypt until being defeated by the Ottoman empire in 1517.
Answer: MAMELUKEs
A. Carleton University and Montreal's �cole des Hautes �tudes Commerciales both gave honorary doctorates to this Auditor General of Canada.
Answer: Sheila FRASER
B. This Liberal senator and former Leader of the Opposition in Manitoba received an honorary degree from the University of Manitoba.
Answer: Sharon (Connolly) CARSTAIRS
C. Memorial University of Newfoundland awarded an honorary doctorate of laws to this new captain of Team Canada who was MVP of Canada's gold medal-winning teams in the last two winter Olympics.
Answer: Hayley WICKENHEISER
A. Those two lines begin what sonnet written in 1816?
Answer: ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
B. Who wrote "On first looking into Chapman's Homer"?
Answer: John KEATS
C. The sonnet ends with the image of what "stout" Spaniard who "with eagle eyes ... star'd at the Pacific ... Silent, upon a peak in Darien ['dairy-EN']" ?
Answer: (Hern�n) CORTEZ
A. The major component of soil is mineral particles made of metal ions combined with what particular negatively charged ion?
Answer: SILICATE
B. What is the name of the component of soil consisting of decomposed organic matter?
Answer: HUMUS
C. One of the most fertile soils, which is very high in humus content, occurs in parts of the Canadian Prairies and also in Ukraine and Russia. What is its name, from Russian for "black earth"?
Answer: CHERNOZEM
A. On October 13, 1812, hundreds of New York militiamen snuck across the Niagara River, but most ended up being captured. Among the twenty-eight British dead was General Isaac Brock.
Answer: battle of QUEENSTON HEIGHTS, or QUEENSTOWN HEIGHTS
B. Having overheard the schemings of American officers billeted in her house, Laura Secord walked thirty-two kilometres to warn Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon of their plans for a surprise attack. On June 24, 1813, Mohawk warriors ambushed the approaching Americans under Colonel Charles Boerstler, who surrendered.
Answer: battle of BEAVER DAMS
C. General Winfield Scott had underestimated the numbers of British and Canadian forces near Niagara Falls and began this assault on the evening of July 25, 1814. It was the bloodiest battle of the entire war and resulted in American retreat from Canada.
Answer: battle of LUNDY'S LANE
A. What movie includes that speech?
Answer: The THIRD MAN
B. The speech is given by the character Harry Lime, played by what actor?
Answer: Orson WELLES
C. What city is the setting for The Third Man?
Answer: VIENNA, Austria (or WIEN)
Answers: Philip G. ZIMBARDO
Leland STANFORD Junior University
Zimbardo had been a high-school classmate of this other psychologist who told him, "People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine." For 10 points, name the Yale professor whose 1961 experiment asked subjects to give electric shocks to actors who pretended to be feeling pain.
Answer: Stanley MILGRAM