T1. Later in life, he suffered official rebuffs: his Sixth Symphony was only half approved, his Third Violin Sonata remained unperformed, and the opera, The Story of a Real Man was suppressed on the eve of production. However, his earlier works produced in the west were much more successful. For 10 points, identify this man whose other works include The Gambler and Peter and the Wolf.
Answer: Sergei Prokofiev
B1. For 5 points each, give the composers of the following musical works.
1. Bolero Answer: Maurice Ravel
2. Kreutzer Sonata Answer: Ludwig von Beethoven
3. Leningrad Symphony Answer: Dmitri Shostakovich
4. Pines of Rome Answer: Ottorino Resphigi
T2. He proposed that Congress should increase the amount of currency in circulation, thus allowing extra money to be spent on public works to create jobs. To bring his plan to the attention of Congress, he decided to send a "living petition" of unemployed masses to Washington. For 10 points, identify this man who in 1894 was arrested when he and his "army" of 500 followers arrived in Washington.
Answer: Jacob Coxey
B2. Identify these explorers of early America for 5 pts. each.
1. This man sailed his Half Moon on behalf of the Dutch East India Company.
Answer: Henry Hudson
2. This "Father of New France" explored the St. Lawrence River Valley and founded the post that is known as Quebec today.
Answer: Samuel de Champlain
3. This Spanish explorer was the first European to see the Mississippi River
Answer: Hernando de Soto
4. In 1497 this Italian navigator explored the coast of Labrador in the employ of England.
Answer: John Cabot
T3. It began to break up about 200 million years ago and split into Gondwanaland in the south and Laurasia in the north. For 10 points, what is this "super-continent"?
Answer: Pangaea
B3. Answer the following questions about the asteroids of the solar system.
1. For 10 points, what Italian astronomer discovered and named the first asteroid on New Year's Eve, 1801?
Answer: Guiseppe Piazzi
2. Piazzi named his asteroid for a Roman goddess of the harvest. For 10 points, what did he call his asteroid?
Answer: Ceres
T4. Located on the Bight of Benin, an inlet of the gulf of Guinea, it occupies four large islands and parts of the mainland. The population of just over a million is 80 per cent Yoruba. For 10 points, identify this city that until November 1992 was the capital of Nigeria.
Answer: Lagos
B4. Identify the large islands that lie across the following bodies of water for 10 points each.
1. Across the Palk strait from India
Answer: Sri Lanka
2. Across the Straits of Malacca from the Malay Peninsula.
Answer: Sumatra
T5. Pencil and paper ready. If a fair coin is flipped three times, then what is the probability that heads will show twice and tails once?
Answer: 3/8
B5. For 5 points for each, give the two roots of the following equations.
1. 2x 2 - 3x - 2 = 0
Answer: 2 and -1/2 [negative one-half]
2. 6x 2 + 10x + 4 = 0
Answer: -2/3 and -1 [note both answers are negative]
T6.Though they are often thought of as a single hormone, they are actually a group of hormones. They are all steroids and derived from cholesterol. For 10 points, what are these compounds, any of which act female sex hormones and are secreted by mature ovarian follicles?
Answer: estrogen
B6. Identify the following tubes in the excretory system of animals. 10 points each.
1. These tubes conduct urine from the kidney to the bladder.
Answer: ureters
2. Urine is conducted outside the body from the bladder via this tube.
Answer: urethra
T7. His more philosophical works include A Careful and Strict Enquiry into Freedom of the Will. But he is better known for his verbal deliveries. For 10 points, identify this minister and author of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Answer: Jonathan Edwards
B7. Give the title of the Robert Frost poem from which the following lines are taken. 5 pts. each.
1. "The land was ours before we were the land's"
Answer: The Gift Outright
2. "Something there is that doesn't love a wall".
Answer: The Mending Wall
3. "But I have promises to keep/And miles to go before I sleep..."
Answer: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
4. "Two roads diverged in a wood..."
Answer: The Road Not Taken
T8. In addition to being a prolific painter, this artist was also a humanist, scholar, and diplomat who served in Spain, where he met Velasquez and painted the royal family. For 10 points, name this artist of "The Judgement of Paris," "Peasant Dance" and a cycle on the life of Marie de Medici.
Answer: Peter Paul Rubens
B8. Identify the British landscape artist described by the following, 10 points each.
1. Born in 1776, he painted many views of Salisbury Cathedral.
Answer: John Constable
2. This artist born in 1775 painted "The Burning of the Houses of Parliament" and "Rain, Steam, and Speed".
Answer: J.M.W. Turner
T9. His real name was Tashunko Witko; his father was an Oglala medicine man and his mother a Brule. As a youth, he was known as Curly, but later in life he adopted the nickname by which he is remembered today. For 10 points, identify this leader who along with Gall on 25 June, 1876 wiped out the force of General Custer at the Little Big Horn.
Answer: Crazy Horse
B9. Given a brief description of the ruling and the year, identify the following Supreme Court decisions. 5 pts. each.
1. 1819: Chief Justice Marshall's opinion upheld the constitutionality of the National Bank.
Answer: McCullough vs. Maryland
2. 1944: This decision upheld FDR's executive order which approved West Coast evacuation and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Answer: Korematsu vs. U.S.
3. 1963: Reversed ruling in Betts vs. Brady, the court held that the 6th amendment guaranteed access to qualified counsel.
Answer: Gideon vs. Wainwright
4. 1824: This decision upheld the right of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
Answer: Gibbons vs. Ogden
T10. His greatest success came with a series of essays that included "Dream Children", "The South Sea Horse" and "A Dissertation on Roast Pig". For 10 points, identify this man who along with his sister wrote children's books including Tales From Shakespeare.
Answer: Charles Lamb
B10. For 10 points each, identify the following plays by George Bernard Shaw from a brief description.
1. It is centered around a young woman in the Salvation army.
Answer: Major Barbara
2. Ellie Dunn enters the lives of a group gathered at the home of an eccentric sea captain while she searches for a husband.
Answer: Heartbreak House
T11. Pencil and paper ready. Given the binary number 1111, for 10 points, what it its decimal equivalent?
Answer: 15
B11. Give the values of the following trig functions. 10 points each.
1. tangent 480 degrees
Answer: negative square root of three
2. cosine of 1860 degrees
Answer: 1/2 or .5
T12. It is derived from the Greek for oblivion and comes from the name for the river of Hades that induced forgetfulness. For 10 points, what is this term that in English refers to an abnormal drowsiness or sluggishness?
Answer: lethargy
B12. For 10 points each, translate the following sentences into English. You need not attempt to translate proper names.
1. Portia pulchra puella est.
Answer: Portia is a pretty girl. (accept synonyms for pretty and girl, ie beautiful, maiden, young woman etc...)
2. Hans spielt schach.
Answer: Hans plays chess
T13. Simon Kuznets won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in economic statistics, in particular for developing this concept. For 10 points, identify this term applied to the sum total of goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.
Answer: gross national product or GNP
B13. Answer the following questions about the Rosetta stone.
1. For 5 points, who translated it?
Answer: Jean Francois Champollion
2. For 5 points each, in what symbolic systems were the two versions of the Egyptian inscriptions written?
Answer: hieroglyphics, demotic
3. For 5 points, what other language also appears on the stone?
Answer: Greek
T14. It is a gas, made commercially by catalytic oxidation of methyl alcohol, but it is generally handled as a 37 per cent solution in water called formalin. For 10 points, what is this simplest of the aldehydes widely used as a preservative of biological specimens?
Answer: formaldehyde or methyl aldehyde or methanal
B14. Two of the most important minerals that contain metallic elements are cinnabar and galena. Both of these are sulfides of the metal mined from them. For 10 points, give the metallic element extracted from:
1. galena
Answer: lead
2. cinnabar
Answer: mercury
T15. Its motto is "Nothing Without Providence," and it was admitted to the Union as the 38th state in 1876. Boxer Jack Dempsey and jurist Byron White are both from this state, which boasts a federal mint and the US Air Force Academy. For 10 points, identify the Centennial State.
Answer: Colorado
B15. Give the state which has the following nickname. 5 pts. each.
1. Keystone State
Answer: Pennsylvania
2. Land of Enchantment
Answer: New Mexico
3. Treasure State
Answer: Montana
4. Beehive State
Answer: Utah
T16. The US Atomic Energy Commission's highest award is named for this man who helped develop the atomic bomb. In 1934 he demonstrated nuclear fission, and in 1938, he won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons. For 10 points, identify this Italian-American physicist.
Answer: Enrico Fermi
B16. For 10 points each, identify these physics terms that began with the letters "ed".
1. these currents are closed loops of induced current that occur in a piece of metal when there is relative motion between the metal and a magnetic field. The flow in such a direction such that the resulting magnetic forces oppose the relative motion.
Answer: eddy currents
2. it is the name given to the emission of electrons from a heated metal in a vacuum and is named for an American scientist and inventor.
Answer: Edison effect
T17. He received an excellent education from tutors such as George Buchanan and after a tumultuous minority, began his personal rule of Scotland in 1583. In 1589, he married Anne of Denmark, who bore him several children but annoyed him by becoming a Roman Catholic. For 10 points, identify this son of Lord Darnley and Mary Queen of Scots who in 1603 became the first Stuart monarch of England.
Answer: James I or James VI of Scotland
B17. Answer the following questions about the history of modern China. 10 pts. each.
1. What name is given to the Chinese Nationalist Party organized in 1912 by Sung Chiao-jen? Answer: Kuomintang (prompt for more information on KMT)
2. What leader of the Kuomintang from 1916 to 1925 was succeeded by Chiang Kai-Shek?
Answer: Sun Yat-Sen
T18. Pencil and paper ready. For 10 points, what is the slope of the line tangent to the function y=x 3 + 5 at the point x=2.
Answer: 12
B18. Identify these terms associated with parabolas for 10 points each.
1. It is the chord through the focus and perpendicular to the major axis.
Answer: latus rectum
2. This name is given to the fixed line from which all the points of the parabola are equidistant.
Answer: directrix
T19. His name was Dan'l Webster. Jim Smiley's plan was foiled when a stranger poured quail shot down Dan'l's throat. For ten points, tell what Dan'l was and thus identify the Mark Twain story in which he appears.
Answer: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
B19. Give the contemporary American authors of the following novels for 5 points each.
1. S.
Answer: John Updike
2. Billy Bathgate
Answer: E.L. Doctorow
3. The World According to Garp
Answer: John Irving
4. Portnoy's Complaint
Answer: Philip Roth
T20. Genetic information is contained in sets of three bases within strands of DNA. For ten points, give the term that describes one of these triads of bases.
Answer: Codon
B20. Identify these structures associated with embryonic development. 10 points each.
1. This is the name applied to the fluid in which an embryo develops; it acts as a cushion against mechanical damage.
Answer: amniotic fluid
2. This vascular structure found in pregnant mammals is formed from the mother's endometrium and the embryo's chorion.
Answer: placent a
T21. During World War II, it was rnamed Keijo by the Japanese during their occupation of it. Following the war it's name was restored. For 10 points, identify this city, connected by rail to the port of Inchon that currently serves as the capital of South Korea.
Answer: Seoul
T22. It is sometimes called Caledwlch but is better known by another name. It was returned by Sir Bedivere to the Lady of the Lake upon the death of King Arthur. For 10 points, what is this famous sword of King Arthur.
Answer: Excalibur