Valencia Boni Broward A 1. (30 pts) From 1959 to 1996, five men served as presidents of France. For 10 points each, and in any order, name any 3 of them. Ans: Charles De Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Francois Mitterand, and Jacques Chirac 2. (30 pts) Identify the family with these members, 30-20-10-5. 30 Andrew is a biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel for Physiology for his studies of the firing mechanisms of nerve cells. 20 Sir Julian was a well-known biologist and was the first director-general of UNESCO. 10 Thomas was "Darwin's Bulldog" in Victorian England. 5 Aldous wrote Brave New World. Ans: Huxley 3. (25 pts) Find the first derivative of the following: a. Cos x Ans: - sin x b. e to the 7x power Ans: 7 times e to the 7x c. ln 3x Ans: 1/x or 3/3x d. 2 ln 25 Ans: 0 e. 4 times x to the 4th Ans: 16 times x to the 3rd 4. (30 pts) Identify the author of these works, 30-20-10-5. 30 Flappers and Philosophers 20 Tales of the Jazz Age 10 The Beautiful and the Damned 5 The Great Gatsby Ans: F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. (25 pts) Since the Norman invasion, only 4 monarchs have reigned over England for 50 years or more. For 5 points each, with a 5-point bonus for getting all of them, name these 4 monarchs. Ans: Victoria (63 yrs), George III (59), Henry III (56), and Edward III (50) 6. (30 pts) Identify this American statesman, 30-20-10. 30 Between stints as a diplomat, he wrote Pike County Ballads, a collection of poems in Illinois frontier dialect, in 1871. 20 In the 1890s he collaborated with John Nicolay on two monumental works about Abraham Lincoln, twenty-five years after he had been Nicolay's assistant when Nicolay was private secretary to Lincoln. 10 As secretary of state under McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt, he initiated the Open Door trading policy with China and negotiated the treaty which opened the way for construction of the Panama Canal. Ans: John Hay 7. (30 pts) Provide the standard SI units for the following physical quantities: a. Capacitance Ans: Farads (accept Coulombs per volt) b. Force Ans: Newtons c. Electric charge Ans: Coulombs d. Mass Ans: Kilograms (do not accept grams) e. Pressure Ans: Pascals f. Inductance Ans: Henrys (accept webers/amp) 8. (25 pts) Identify the composers of the following operatic works, for 5 points each: a. Salome Ans: Richard Wagner b. Cosi fan Tutte Ans: W. A. Mozart c. Madame Butterfly Ans: Giacomo Puccini d. Tales of Hoffman Ans: Jacques Offenbach e. Barber of Seville Ans: Gioacchino Rossini 9. (25 pts) I'll give you 5 areas of the E-M spectrum for 5 points each, place them in the correct order from shortest wavelength to longest wavelength. The regions are Infrared, Microwaves, Gamma Rays, Ultraviolet, and Radio Waves. Ans: Gamma Rays, Ultraviolet, Infrared, Microwaves, Radio Waves (must be in order) 10. (30 pts) Identify the wars in which these battles took place, for 5 points each with a 5-point bonus for all correct: a. Balaklava Ans: Crimean War b. Battle of the Bulge Ans: World War II c. Agincourt Ans: Hundred Years War d. Battle of Bosworth Ans: War of the Roses e. Fredericksburg Ans: American Civil War 11. (30 pts) "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are two contrasting companion poems written in the late 18th century. Each was part of a collection of poems, the first from 1789, the second from 1794, and the engravings in the works were done by the author himself. For 10 points each, name these two collections of poetry, and for an additional 10 points, name their author. Ans: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, both by William Blake 12. (30 pts) Identify the authors of these non-western works of literature, for 10 points each. a. The Rubaiyat Ans: Omar Khayyam b. The Tale of Genji Ans: Lady Murasaki or Shikibu c. Things Fall Apart Ans: Chinua Achebe 13. (30 pts) Find the surface area of the following, for 10 points each. a. A cube with an edge length of 4 Ans: 96 b. A sphere with a radius of 4 Ans: 64 pi c. A right circular cone with radius 4 and with length 4 from point to edge of base. Ans: 32 pi 14. (30 pts) Identify the peace treaties which ended these wars, for 10 points each. a. Thirty Years War, in 1648. Ans: Westphalia b. War of Austrian Succession, in 1748 Ans: Aix-La-Chapelle c. Mexican-American War, in 1848 Ans: Guadalupe-Hidalgo 15. (30 pts) Identify the authors of these works, 10-5. 10 Cymbeline 5 The Merry Wives of Windsor Ans: William Shakespeare 10 Lady Windermere's Fan 5 The Picture of Dorian Gray Ans: Oscar Wilde 10 Major Barbara 5 Pygmalion Ans: George Bernard Shaw 16. (20 pts) Name the elements with the following chemical symbols: a. Hg Ans: Mercury b. Sn Ans: Tin c. Sb Ans: Antimony d. Mn Ans: Manganese 17. (30 pts) Identify the year in which these events took place, on a 15-5 basis 15 points if you get it on the first clue, 5 points if on the second clue. a. 15 Yellowstone Park is officially established as America's first national park. 5 Ulysses S. Grant is re-elected as president. Ans: 1872 b. 15 At age 26, Ben Franklin publishes the first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac on December 19. 5 James Oglethorpe receives the charter for the Georgia colony, and George Washington is born. Ans: 1732 18. (25 pts) For 5 points each, and an additional 5 point bonus if all are in the correct order, name the four parts of Wagner's Ring Cycle. Ans: Das Rheingold (or the Ring of Gold); Die Walkure (or The Valkyrie); Siegfried; and Gotterdamerung (or Twilight of the Gods) 19. (20 pts) For 5 points each, excluding Julius and Augustus Caesar, name the other four men who were part of the two Roman ruling triumverates. Ans: Pompey, Crassus, Mark Antony, and Lepidus 20. (30 pts) Identify the author, 30-20-10 30 Torquato Tasso, and Elective Affinities 20 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 10 The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Faust Ans: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 21. (20 pts) Somewhere in the United States is a spot called the Four Corners, a spot where four states meet. For 5 points each, name those 4 states. Ans: Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico 22. (25 pts) Following the death of Augustus Caesar in 14 AD, who were the 4 emperors who followed him as Roman emperors? You'll get 5 points for each and an additional 5 if you name them in chronological order of rule. Ans: Tiberius; Caligula or Gaius Caesar; Claudius; Nero Valencia Boni Broward B 1. (30 pts) A. After the fall of Napoleon, a meeting was held in 1814-1815 between representatives of England, France, Russia, and Austria to redraw the map of Europe for 5 points, in what city was this meeting held? Ans: Vienna (Accept Congress of Vienna, or Wien) B. Now, for 5 points each with a 5-point bonus for getting all correct, identify the chief Congress of Vienna representatives from the following nations: a. Austria Ans: von Metternich b. England Ans: Castlereagh or Wellington c. Russia Ans: Alexander I d. France Ans: Talleyrand 2. (30 pts) Many objects in the night sky are known by M' numbers for 5 points, what does this M' stand for? Ans: Messier A few objects on the Messier list are known by names other than M numbers. For 5 points, what is the better known name of M1? Ans: The Crab Nebula (accept Crab Pulsar) For 10 points, by what name is M42 better known? Ans: The Orion Nebula And for 10 points, M31 is the most distant object visible to the naked eye by what name is M31 better known? Ans: The Andromeda Galaxy (prompt if "Andromeda" is answered) 3. (25 pts) Name the war which provides the main setting for these literary works, for 5 points each. a. A Farewell to Arms Ans: World War I b. The Red Badge of Courage Ans: American Civil War c. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ans: Spanish Civil War d. Gravity's Rainbow Ans: World War II e. All Quiet on the Western Front Ans: World War I 4. (25 pts) Name the artists of these works for 5 points each: a. The Persistence of Memory Ans: Salvador Dali b. The Garden of Earthly Delights Ans: Hieronymous Bosch c. Oath of the Horatii Ans: Jacques Louis David d. The Virgin of the Rocks Ans: Leonardo da Vinci e. The Twittering Machine Ans: Paul Klee 5. (25 pts) For these U.S. Supreme Court cases, identify the Chief Justice at the time, for 5 points each. a. The 1857 Dred Scott decision Ans: Roger B. Taney b. The 1954 Brown decision Ans: Earl Warren c. The 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland decision Ans: John Marshall d. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision Ans: Warren Burger e. The 1803 Marbury v. Madison decision Ans: John Marshall 6. (30 pts) Identify the classes of organic compounds with the following functional groups, for 10 points each. a. Hydroxyl Ans: Alcohols b. Carbon-Carbon triple bond Ans: Alkynes c. Carbonyl Ans: Aldehydes or Ketones 7. (30 pts) Find the following probabilities: a. Three fair coins are tossed for 5 points, what is the probability of getting 3 tails? Ans: 1/8 b. Four fair coins are tossed for 10 points, what is the probability of getting exactly 2 tails? Ans: 3/8 or 6/16 c. A coin and 2 dice are tossed for 15 points, what is the probability of getting tails on the coin and a sum of 7 on the dice? Ans: 1/12 (or some equivalent) 8. (30 pts) Identify the philosophers who wrote these works, for 5 points each with a 5-point bonus for all correct. a. Summa Theologica Ans: Thomas Aquinas b. Critique of Pure Reason Ans: Immanuel Kant c. Thus Spake Zarathustra Ans: Friedrich Nietzsche d. Essay Concerning Human Understanding Ans: John Locke e. Being and Time Ans: Martin Heidegger 9. (30 pts) For 5 points each, with a 5-point bonus for all correct, name the Russian authors of these works: a. Dead Souls Ans: Nikolai Gogol b. The Idiot Ans: Fyodor Dostoyevsky c. The Cherry Orchard Ans: Anton Chekhov d. Anna Karenina Ans: Leo Tolstoy e. Fathers and Sons Ans: Ivan Turgenev 10. (20 pts) Identify the capitals of these British territories, for 5 points each: a. Wales Ans: Cardiff b. Northern Ireland Ans: Belfast c. Scotland Ans: Edinburgh d. The Falkland Islands Ans: Stanley 11. (30 pts) Some say that in sports, no one remembers second place let's find out. Identify these famous second-place finishers for 10 points each. a. Who finished second to Mark McGwire in major league home runs in 1997? Ans: Ken Griffey Jr. b. Who finished second to Affirmed in all 3 legs of the Triple Crown in 1978? Ans: Alydar c. Who finished second to Ben Johnson's steroid-induced 9.79 100-meter dash in 1988 and won the gold when Johnson was disqualified? Ans: Carl Lewis 12. (25 pts) Evaluate the following logarithms for 5 points each, with a 5-point bonus for all correct. a. Log base 4 of 32 Ans: 5/2 b. Log base e of 1 Ans: 0 c. Log base 2 of 256 Ans: 8 d. Log base 8 of 1/64 Ans: -2 13. (30 pts) Many computer language names are actually acronyms. Provide the full name for the following languages, for 10 points each. a. FORTRAN Ans: Formula Translation b. COBOL Ans: Common Business Oriented Language c. LISP Ans: List Processing 14. (30 pts) Name this bluesman, 30-20-10. 30 Among the few dozen songs he recorded were "Terraplane Blues," "Kindhearted Woman Blues," "Hellhound on my Trail," and "Walking Blues." 20 The Cream song "Crossroads" uses words from one of his songs and music from another, Led Zeppelin's "Lemon Song" uses one of his more infamous verses, and the Rolling Stones scored a hit by covering his song "Love in Vain." 10 The author of "Sweet Home Chicago," he was poisoned at age 26 but remains enormously influential on current guitarists such as Eric Clapton and Keith Richards. Ans: Robert Johnson 15. (25 pts) Identify the architects of the following, for 5 points each. a. The Guggenheim Museum Ans: Frank Lloyd Wright b. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum Ans: I.M. Pei c. The Gateway Arch, St. Louis Ans: Eero Saarinen d. The Salk Laboratory, La Jolla, CA Ans: Louis Kahn e. The geodesic dome at Expo 67, Montreal Ans: R. Buckminster Fuller 16. (30 pts) The Nobel Prize is a great honour, but it has been declined on a few occasions. First, for 15 points, what Vietnamese diplomat declined to accept the Peace Prize in 1973, which he was co-awarded with Henry Kissinger? Ans: Le Duc Tho The Literature Prize was declined in 1958 and 1964, once by a Russian, once by a Frenchman. For 5 points for one and 15 for both, name these 2 authors. Ans: Boris Pasternak and Jean-Paul Sartre 17. (30 pts) Identify the American author from works, 30-15-5. 30 The Alhambra, and Tales of a Traveller 15 The Sketch Book, and Knickerbocker's History of New York 5 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip Van Winkle Ans: Washington Irving 18. (30 pts) In 1996, 3 men -- 1 British and 2 American -- shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes. For 10 points each, name these 3 chemists. Ans: Harold Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley 19. (30 pts) In the mid-18th century, six tribes made up the powerful Iroquois federation. For 5 points each, and in any order, name those six tribes. Ans: Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, and Tuscarora 20. (30 pts) Provide the scientific names for the following bones of the human body, 5 points each. a. The longest bone in the human body Ans: Femur b. The jawbone Ans: Mandible c. The kneecap Ans: Patella d. The 3 smallest bones in the human body Ans: Incus, Malleus, and Stapes (5 each do not accept hammer, anvil, or stirrup) 21. (30 pts) Of what empire were the following people emperors? 30-20-10 30 Lothair I in the 9th century, and Henry VII in the 13th century 20 Frederick Barbarossa in the 12th century, and Francis II from 1792-1806, the official end of the empire 10 Charlemagne, beginning in 800 AD Ans: Holy Roman Empire 22. (20 pts) I will read a list of 7 significant Supreme Court cases for 10 points each, you tell me which two were NOT Warren court decisions. Miranda v. Arizona; Mapp v. Ohio; Schenck v. U.S.; Roth v. U.S.; Engel v. Vitale; Gideon v. Wainwright; and Profitt v. Florida. Ans: Schenck v. U.S. and Profitt v. Florida