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Round 4
Questions by Wichita State
1. As Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841, he
directed the army's campaigns against the Seminole Indians;
earlier, in 1825, he accepted the post of minister to Mexico, being
the first American to hold that job. However, he is probably best
remembered for the flower he brought back from Mexico in 1829 when
that country asked the U.S. to recall him. For ten points, who was
this man after whom the eponymous name was given to a genus of the
family Euphorbia, a flowering shrub popular during the Christmas
season?
Answer: Joel R. POINSETT (prompt for: poinsettia)
2. Told through Word Smith, a retired baseball writer, this novel
is an account of the ficticious Ruppert Mundys baseball club, the
Patriot Baseball league and that league's decline from the early
twenties into 1943. It is also an examination of the nature of
fiction and what its author Phillip Roth calls the desire that
haunts every American novelist. For ten points--name this 1973
social satire which takes its name from that elusive epic.
Answer: The Great American Novel
3. This Asian peninsula, with an area of 143,000 square miles has
roughly 85% as much area as California; it extends out from the
mainland 750 miles and is connected by an isthmus about 60 miles
wide. It seperates the Sea of Okhotsk from the Bering Sea. For ten
points, what is the name of this peninsula and territorial region
which gives its name to the easternmost Asian "country" on the game
board of the Parker Brother's game Risk?
Answer: Kamchatka
4. He published Waverly, a popular novel of his time as "the Great
Unknown" because he thought that it would hurt his literary
reputation to be classified as a novel writer. Ironically, though,
this Scottish writer has been called "the father of the historical
novel." For ten points-- name this author who gives his name to a
dangerous shipwrecked steamboat in Huck Finn and who wrote Rob Roy
and Ivanhoe.
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
5. It states that the ratio of the rates of effusion of two gases
equals the square root of the inverse ratio of their densities. For
ten points-- name this chemical law which was applied to seperate
the rarer, fissionable Uranium-235 used in atomic piles and atomic
bombs from its heavier, nonfissionable isotope U-238, and named for
the Scottish chemist who demonstrated it in 1829.
Answer: Graham's Law
6. Set in Spain, it ends with the Count di Luna screaming in horror
as his gypsy captive reveals that the knight that the Count had
slain, Manrico, was his long lost brother, Garzia. Shortly before,
Leonora, the Count di Luna's love interest who had fallen in love
with Manrico, killed herself with poison rather than giving herself
to the Count, which she agreed to in order to free Manrico.
Thereby, Avucena, the gypsy, avenges her mother's death at hands of
the Count's father. For ten points, name this plot-intensive Verdi
opera which features the famous "Anvil Chorus."
Answer: Il Trovatore (grudgingly accept: The Troubador)
7. Beginning his art career, he began as a NeoBaroque Romantic, but
switched, as he said, because, "I cannot paint an angel because I
have never seen one." A leader of the French Realists, he open
his own exposition under the theme, Manifesto of Realism, when The
Paris Exposition of 1855 refused to show his works. For ten
points, name this French master who died in exile in Switzerland
and whose works include "Woman with a Parrot" and "The Stone
Breakers."
Answer: Gustave Courbet
8. Point of No Return, Repent in Haste, Warning Hill, So Little
Time, It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer, Sincerely, Willis Wade, Melville
Goodwin,USA, and The Late George Apley are all novels by -- for ten
points-- what Harvard-educated World War I officer and later war
correspondent who created the Japanese intelligence agent, Mr.
Moto?
Answer: John P.(hillips) Marquand
9. With a population density of approximately 5 people per square
mile, it is one of the most desolate nations in the world, second
only to Mongolia: no wonder, though, as approximately only 1% of
its land is arable and it possesses the driest climate in Africa.
Peopled in the north by the Ovambo culture, it is sandwiched
between the Kalahari and the desert which gives the nation its
name. For ten points, name this nation, independent since 1989,
formerly known as South West Africa, and with its capital at
Windhoek?
Answer: Namibia
10. The title character in a play by the same name, she is,
according to her creator, a very immoral female. Written in
response to Ibsen's A Doll's House, the story concerns a faithful
wife who chooses her husband, the Reverend James Morell, over the
young and shy rival, Eugene Marchbanks. For ten points, name this
drama or heroine which takes its name from an adjective meaning
"truthful" and sounds like the female counterpart to an optimistic
and lucky wanderer famous in world literature.
Answer: Candida (do not accept Candide)
11. The integer is the same: it corresponds to the ordinal number
of the U.S. Federal Census which was 97% lost due to a fire in the
Commerce Building, it is the total number of songs on R.E.M.'s
Life's Rich Pageant album, it is the number of Oscars that Ben-Hur
won, it is the number in the title of the definitive "Rat Pack"
film, it is the number of years in a Sunspot Cycle, and it is the
number of people on a soccer team. For ten points name this prime
number.
Answer: Eleven
12. He received his early art training from his father before
joining the Umbrian School of painters in 1499. He is considered
the central painter of the High Renaissance because of his ability
to absorb other painter's techiniques and to fuse them into his own
style and so his works define the style of the High Renaissance
better than any other single painter. For ten points-- name this
Italian master whose works include a famous portrait of Pope Leo
IX, "Galatea", and "the School of Athens."
Answer: Raphael (It: Raffaelo; Raffaelo Santi or Sanzio)
13. According to Livy, when workers were digging the foundation of
the Temple of Jupiter they uncovered a bloody human head. At first
it was thought that it was an ill omen; however, later the Romans
became convinced that the discovery was a good sign and that it
meant that Rome would become the head of a vast empire. Hence the
latin word for "head" was given in the name for the site where it
was found. For ten points -- what was that hill, one of the seven
hills of Rome?
Answer: Capitoline
14. He obtained a doctorate in law and practised as a lawyer from
1796 to 1799. In 1800 he began taking private lessons in math and
physics, and, having much success, decided to switch careers. At
the time of his death in 1856, his contemporaries considered him a
self-deluded narrow-mind and the hypothesis for which he became
famous was largely ignored until 1858. For ten points, name this
man who hypothesized that at the same temperature and pressure,
equal volumes of different gases contain the same number of atoms.
Answer: Amedeo (Conte de Quaregna) Avogadro
15. Tradition holds that he refused a crown when he aided the
people of Agrigentum in an overthrow of the ruling oligarchy,
instead instituting a democracy. He was also something of a
visionary, stating a primitive Law of Conservation of Matter and
theory of evolution. For ten points, name this pre-Socratic
philospher who reportedly threw himself into Mt. Etna to convince
the people he was a God and formulated the theory of the four
elements.
Answer: Empedocles
16. Set in Hilldale, it revolves around family life. Dave and Midge
Kelsey were the neighbors. The eldest daughter Mary left for
college. Eight-year-old Trisha "adopted" the Stones, filling the
vacancy left by Shelley Fabares. For ten points, what was this ABC
sitcom on the air from 1958 to 1966 now known mostly for the
outdated portrayal of the doting mother by the actress who gives
her name to the program?
Answer: The Donna Reed Show
17. This fourth century saint, patron of youth, merchants,
sailors, and thieves, was, according to legend, imprisoned by the
Roman emperor Diocletian and freed by Constantine, and attended the
Council of Nicaea. His feast day is on December 6th. For ten
points-- name this patron saint of Russia whose benevolence now
associates him with a different feast day, celebrated more widely,
also in December.
Answer: Saint Nicholas (acc: Santa Claus)
18. With a surface temperature of -381 degrees Fahrenheit, it is
thought to be the coldest body in the solar system. Besides Earth
and Io (EYE-o), it is the only object in the solar system known to
have active surface features, with geysers spewing nitrogen gas
into its atmosphere. It is also noteworthy in that it rotates
around its planet in a retrograde motion. For ten points, name this
largest moon of Neptune named after a merman demigod who also gives
his name to the first vessel to circumnavigate the globe
underwater.
Answer: Triton
19. Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things
First, Think Win/Win, Seek First to Understand Then To Be
Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the Saw are THESE title concepts
in the #1 bestselling self-help book by Stephen Covey. For ten
points what is this title, subtitled Powerful Lessons in Personal
Change?
Answer: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
20. Most scholars conclude she was born of the Gambian Fulani &
brought to Amerca as a slave in 1761, taking her first name from
the slaveship which transported her. She learned English rapidly,
and mastered Latin. In 1773, she published Poems on Various
Subjects, Religous and Moral, becoming America's second woman to
publish a book of poems. Many of her patriotic poems received
acclaim, and she met George Washington at his invitation. For ten
points, name this renowned black poet considered by some to be
America's first internationally respected author?
Answer: Phillis Wheatley (Peters)
21. Hugo Black, George Westinghouse, Dashiell Hammett, John
Mitchell, William G. McAdoo, Earl Warren, Joe Louis, Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jr., William O. Douglas, Constance Bennett, Medgar Evars,
Robert Todd Lincoln, Lee Marvin, Pierre L'Enfant, Robert Peary,
Walter Reed, Abner Doubleday, and William Howard Taft, are just a
few of the over 200,000 burials in this 612-acre cemetery... for
ten points, name this National Cemetery second only to Long Island
National Cemetery in number of burials.
Answer: Arlington National CemeteryAssorted Bonuses by
Wichita State ACC
1. With the 1996 election right around the corner, analyists are
anticipating the changes AROUND our nation's capitol. Prior to
1800, our nation's capitol changed around-- at least eight cities
have served as the U.S. Capitol before Washington, D.C., held its
first meeting of Congress on November 17, 1800. The most famous
other two cities are Philadelphia and New York City... Name the
other six for 5 points apiece.
Baltimore, Maryland ( Dec 1776 - Mar 1777 )
Lancaster, Pennsylvania ( 27 Sep 1777 )
York, Pennsylvania ( Sep 1777 - Jun 1778 )
Princeton, New Jersey ( Jun 1783 - Nov 1783 )
Annapolis, Maryland ( Nov 1783 - Jun 1784 )
Trenton, New Jersey ( Nov 1784 - Dec 1784)
2. Let's see if you can find your way around in the dark... dark
film that is. Identify the following film noir classics after a
brief description for ten points apiece:
1) The film ends with apron-string obsessed crook Cody
Jarrett, played by James Cagney, screaming aloud atop an exploding
oil tank, "Made it Ma! Top of the World!"
Answer: White Heat (1949)
2) This film's plot, aped in the movie Fletch, features
actor-director Orson Welles as an Irish adventurer who gets hired
to stage a murder, then gets framed for murder.
Answer: The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
3) Stanley Kubrick's first major film features Sterling
Hayden, as Johnnie Clay, leading a group of down and out hoods in
holding up a horse racing track.
Answer: The Killing (1956)
3. Identify this military figure, 30 - 20 - 10.
30: Born in Tokyo, he attended military college, became
military attache in Germany in 1919, and served in Manchuria as
Chief-of-Staff from 1937 to 1940.
20: He was the Japanese Minister of War from 1940 to 1941 and
Premier.
10: He was Prime Minister from 1941 to 1944. After being
arrested in 1945, he attempted to commit suicide but was hanged as
a war criminal in Tokyo.
Answer: Hideki Tojo
4. For Ten Points apiece, I'll name a song and the recording
artist, and you name the original motion picture soundtrack that
the song is from. For example, if I said "Danger Zone" by Kenny
Loggins, you would say "Top Gun."
1) "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds
Answer: The Breakfast Club
2) "Crazy For You" by Madonna
Answer: Vision Quest
3) "End of the Road" by Boys II Men
Answer: Boomerang
5. Since its publication in 1938, T.H. White's retelling of the
Arthurian legend, The Once and Future King, has become a modern
classic. For five points apiece, name the four books that comprise
The Once and Future King.
Answer:The Sword in the Stone
The Queen of Air and Darkness
The Ill-made Knight
The Candle in the Wind
For an additional five points apiece what two names are represented
by the initials T.H. in the author T.H. White's name?
Answer: Terence & Hanbury
6. According to the Kubler-Ross model, there are 5 distinct stages
that one goes through when confronted with a traumatic,
unchangeable event such as the death of a loved one or the
diagnosis of a terminal illness. For five points each, with a five
point bonus for all correct, list the five stages to the
Kubler-Ross model of coping.
Answer: denial, anger, bargaining,
depression, acceptance
7. Name the following writers who were killed in World War I for
ten points each, given a brief description.
1) Educated at Rutgers and Columbia, this enlisted man's chief
fame comes from a twelve-line lyric poem that poorly develops its
conceit, saying that the anthropomorphic title objects both reach
their leafy arms to God... while at the same time press their
mouths "against the earth's sweet flowing breast."
Answer: (Sergeant Alfred) Joyce Kilmer
2) Educated at the Birkenhead Institute and The University of
London this English poet most noted for his antiwar poems served as
a company commander and was killed in action the week before
Armistice Day. He wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est.
Answer: Wilfred Owen (do not accept Owens)
3) This Scottish journalist and writer most famous for short
stories was known for well-contrived plots often with surprise
endings and used epigrams throughout his writing. He is perhaps
most famous for the novel The Unbearable Bassington and the short
story "The Monkey's Paw."
Answer: Saki or Hector Hugh Munro
8. The theory that the mass extinction that involved the dinosaurs
and many other living things was caused by the impact of a large
asteroid with the earth about 65 million years ago is named after
the father and son team of scientists who first suggested it.
For 15 points: name the theory.
Answer: Alvarez hypothesis
For 15 more points, evidence indicates that the asteroid fell
near what peninsula?
Answer: the Yucatan peninsula
9. Although some psychologists make us of many models which use
many more stages of human development, Freud believed that there
are only five general stages. For five points apiece, identify
those stagesof human development, with a five point bonus for
naming all of them in the correct order.
Answer: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
10. Identify this famous American after one clue for 30 points, or
after 2 clues for 15 points.
30) In 1866, she received severe injuries after a fall, but
read about the palsied man in Matthew's Gospel, and claimed to have
risen from her bed similarly healed.
15) Thereafter, she devoted herself to developing her
spiritual discovery, and in 1876 she founded the Christian Science
Association.
Answer: Mary Baker Eddy
11. Name the author 30-20-10-5
30) His mother, Charlotte, witnessed a cholera epidemic in
Sligo, Ireland and her accounts of it influenced his childhood. His
brother gained fame as a surgeon and was knighted.
20) Graduating Trinity College in Dublin with an honors degree
in Mathematics, he found a menial job as a clerk, which provided
material for his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions
of Ireland.
10) It was discovered in 1975 that he wrote his last book, The
Lair of the White Worm, while dying of syphillis. It was inferred
that he sought after prostitutes, and that his wife, Florence, had
lost interest in sex after childbirth, possibly accounting for his
heavy use of sexual symbolism in his literature.
05) His career has been overshadowed by his greatest literary
creation, Dracula.
Answer: Abraham "Bram" Stoker
12. Given the following insects, place them in their taxonomical
order for five points apiece:
1) moths & butterflies
Answer: Lepidoptera
2) beetles
Answer: Coleoptera
3) wasps, bees, and ants
Answer:Hymenoptera
4) grasshoppers & crickets
Answer:Orthoptera
5) aphids
Answer:Homoptera
6) the "true" bugs
Answer:Heteroptera
13. Name the American artist from works 30-20-10.
30) Pitching Horseshoes, Prisoners From the Front,
Defiance: Inviting a shot before Petersburg, Virginia
20) Crouqet Scene, Crack the Whip, The Carnival
10) A Haul of Herring, Breezing Up, Undertow
Answer: Winslow Homer
14. I will read three brief descriptions of historically and
culturally famous Henrys; name each for ten points apiece.
1) He failed in his bid for the mayorship of New York City,
but his book, Progress and Poverty made him noted as a social
reformer and economist.
Answer: Henry George
2) It is said that his burial site in Port Royale fell into
the sea as a result of the evils he committed in his days as a
pirate, before becoming lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
Answer: Sir Henry Morgan
3) This english inventor and engineer invented a process for
steel manufacture that decarbonizes pig iron with air blasting.
Answer: Sir Henry Bessemer
15. Just when you think an NFL team will stay put, POOF, it moves
to another city. It's getting as bad as baseball in the 50's and
60's. Given a year and the location moved to, identify the "from"
location for ten points each.
1966, the Atlanta Braves MILWAUKEE
1961, the Minnesota Twins WASHINGTON (acc Senators)
1955, the Kansas City Athletics PHILADELPHIA
16. Definition time! Given the definition, identify the art term
on a 5-10-15 basis.
( 5) The practice of applying a thin layer of gold leaf to the
surface of an object, then burishing it.
GILDING
(10) A metal framework constructed by the sculptor as a skeleton
for clay or wax in the making of a piece of sculpture.
ARMATURE
(15) A method of composing groups of figures in such a way that
all are shown at the same height, regardless of posture or purpose.
ISOCEPHALY (eye-so-cef-al-ee)
17. Identify the author from works 30-20-10.
A. Liza of Lambeth; The Painted Veil
B. Then and Now; The Narrow Corner
C. The Razor's Edge; The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
18. Identify the composer from works 30-20-10.
(30) Trouble in Tahiti; Facsimile
(20) Fancy Free; On the Town
(10) Candide; West Side Story
Leonard BERNSTEIN
19. Identify the novel from characters 30-20-10.
(30) Harris; Juanito Montoya
(20) Bill Gorton; Edna; Robert Cohn
(10) Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley
The SUN ALSO RISES
20. For 5 points apiece plus 5 for all four, name the cities where
you'd find the following newspapers.
The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND
The Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS
The Post-Dispatch SAINT LOUIS
The Free Press DETROIT
The Mercury-Courier SAN JOSE
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