1997 ACF Nationals
Packet by University of Oklahoma

1.  Terrified of the new electric lights in the White House, he and 
his wife often left them on all night rather than touch the switch 
to turn them off.  Despite the restrictions of the Pendleton Act, 
he completely ignored all civil-service qualifications and filled 
offices with party regulars.  Ironically, though, he placed the 
young Teddy Roosevelt on the civil service commission.  FTP--name 
this Republican who won office primarily with the support of the 
Grand Army of the Republic and defeated and was defeated by the 
same man in races for President.
	Answer: Benjamin Harrison (prompt for:  Harrison)

2.  Outside of Falstaff, its libretto is often considered the best 
work of its creator, Arrigo Boito.  Boito's libretto followed its 
original source very closely except for Act II's Credo aria, which 
has no counterpart in the original and appears to have been Boito's 
invention.  FTP--name this opera composed by Verdi and based on a 
Shakespearean play which tells the story of "The Lion of Venice."
	Answer: Otello

3.  The title character unknowingly violates the ground sacred to 
the Eumenides, and though initially welcomed by the local 
townspeople after he agrees to expiate for his unwitting act, the 
townspeople immediately demand that he and his daughter leave after 
they discover his true identity.  Eventually, though, the king 
rescues his daughter from his cruel brother-in-law, and agrees to 
protect him until he dies. FTP--name this play, completed by its 
author while in his 90s, Sophocles' last though chronologically the 
middle play of his Theban trilogy.
	Answer: Oedipus at Colonus

4. The treatment of this disease gives its victims a deceptive 
healthy glow.  This deficiency leaves its sufferers often 
susceptible to secondary infections.  Early treatments involved 
daily shots of massive amounts of cortisone and it used to be 
fatal, but now it can be treated by oral doses of cortisone, and 
its victims can lead a fairly normal life.  FTP--name this adrenal 
deficiency which plagued John F. Kennedy.
	Answer: Addison's Disease

5.  He visited his twin sister St. Scholastica exactly once a year, 
and though he was not with her when she died, he had a vision of 
her in Paradise in a dream shortly thereafter.  Known for his motto 
of "Ora et Labora"--Prayer and Work--he originally was a hermit in 
a cave at Subiaco before founding his monastery at Monte Cassino.  
FTP--name this saint known for his "rule" which became the basis of 
monasticism in the West.
	Answer: Saint Benedict of Nursia

6. He was the son of a shoemaker and joined the Russian Civil War. 
 For his victory over the Japanese in 1939  he was awarded the 
title Hero of the Soviet Union and wasn't purged.  Later in his 
life he served as the officer who arrested Beria.  The master of 
counterattacks, he stopped the Nazi advance on Moscow in December 
1941.  He was shipped to his most famous assignment in August of 
1942, to defend an industrial city on the Volga.  FTP--name this 
marshal and victor at Stalingrad.
	Answer: Georgi Zhukov

7. He wrote the Polygonal Numbers, Porisms, and Arithmetics, which 
latter title in the 3rd century A.D. referred strictly to number 
theory.  The surviving Arithmetics contain  over 130 problems of 
the type bearing his name -- in one, his age at death, 84, is the 
solution.  FTP--name this foremost Greek algebrist or the type of 
rationally valued equations named after him.  
	Answer: Diophantes or Diopantine equation

8. Though not Erma Bombeck, she also produced lighter semi-
autobiographical works such as "Life Among the Savages" and 
"Raising Demons." Her posthumous collection of works, Just an 
Ordinary Day, includes "The Good Wife," a story of a newlywed wife 
kept prisoner by her husband, who suspects her of having an affair 
even though he writes the incriminating letters that he claims come 
from her lover.  FTP--name this American writer more famous for a 
story appearing in 1948 in the New Yorker called "The Lottery."
	Answer: Shirley Jackson

9.  When fine-grained mud is subjected to pressure from overlying 
rock material, water is driven off and the clay minerals begin to 
consolidate.  As groundwater moves through the compacted sediment, 
materials dissolved in the water precipitate out around the 
individual small mud particles.  A cementation of the particles 
occurs, and a clastic sedimentary rock is formed.  FTP--name this 
process which results in the creation of shale.
	Answer: lithification

10. The literal translation of their name is wool.  They come 
mostly from the Sunni tradition and all are on the Tirana, or path 
to draw near to Allah, which they hope to do through such means as 
their world-famous love poetry.  FTP give the proper name for 
Islamic mystics, of which the Whirling Dervishes are examples.
	Answer: Sufis

11.  An Old-Fashioned Girl is having one of her Moods again Under 
the Lilacs, but fortunately, after A Long Fatal Love Chase, she 
finds a Rose in Bloom and enjoys An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving with 
her Eight Cousins.  FTP--the preceding sentence features several 
works by what American author more famous for such works as Jo's 
Boys and Little Women?
	Answer: Louisa May Alcott

12. Completed in 1966, this film was not released in its home 
country for five years, as Soviet censors regarded it as 
historically inaccurate.  This seems odd, since almost nothing is 
known about its historical subject.  FTP -- name this since-
acclaimed Andrei Tarkovski film that mused on the titular icon 
painter.  
	Answer: Andrei Rublev

13. Its most explicit connotation is now sniped at as "scientific 
pretentiousness", "mindless quantification", "raw empiricism", and 
"antihumanism".  This last represents a change, since its 
supporters initially included Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim.  
FTP -- name this term, once a rallying cry for the remaking of 
society along the lines of formal theory by Auguste Comte.  
	Answer: positivism

14. His grandparents were Julius and Fanny Higgins, who gave birth 
to Ellen, who married Rudolph Virag and gave birth to him.  He 
married Marion Tweedy and gave birth to Milly and Rudy, who died in 
infancy.  FTP-- name this sometime canvasser for Keyes's Spirits 
and wandering Jew who had a busy day on June 16, 1904, the central 
figure in James Joyce's Ulysses.
	Answer: Leopold Bloom

15.  It was his visit to China during the latter stages of the 
Chinese Civil War and report of little good to say for either side 
that prompted Truman to adopt a "hands-off" policy during the war. 
 FTP--name this general of U.S. forces in Southeastern Asia during 
World War II who succeeded in opening the Ledo Road to supply 
Chinese resistance troops against the Japanese.
	Answer: General Joseph Stillwell

16. He was the son of the King of Tyre and the brother of Europa.  
He was sent by his father to look for her after her disappearance. 
 On his journey he had an encounter with a white cow, whom he 
followed until she collapsed on the spot where he was to found a 
city.  Unfortunately, all of his companions had been eaten by a 
dragon. This forced him to come up with five comrades in a 
roundabout way.  FTP--name this sower of dragon's teeth and founder 
of Thebes.
	Answer: Cadmus

17. Vladek is a Holocaust survivor whose first wife committed 
suicide in 1968.  Although he has remarried, he still has stronger 
feelings for his dead wife than his new one.  Artie is his second 
child, born after the war, and is jealous of his dead brother 
Richie and feels guilty that he was not in the camps with his 
parents.  To deal with his guilt, he interviews his father about 
his Holocaust experiences and puts them in comic strip form in FTP-
-what Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoon work by Art Spiegelman?
	Answer: Maus

18. The nation of Kiribati includes the Ocean, Phoenix, and Line 
Islands, but its official language, capital, and major population 
concentration belong to this chain, named after the English 
adventurer who landed there in 1788.  World War II saw several 
battles there as the U.S. attempted to throw off Japanese control. 
 FTP -- name this chain, site of the 1943 battles of Makin and 
Tarawa.  
	Answer: Gilbert islands

19.  He was a French nobleman who became a student of medieval 
history and then a radio operator for the French Army during World 
War I.  From these varied experiences came his interest in physics, 
and his research eventually led to the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics. 
 FTP--name this French physicist who hypothesized that matter as 
well as light has properties of both waves and particles?
	Answer: Louis de Broglie

20.  He liked having tall soldiers and was willing to pay large 
amounts of money for tall recruits for his Potsdam grenadier 
guards.  He liked his son less, and once had his son's friend and 
possible lover executed when the two ran away.  He spent a lot of 
time and effort building a large army but never used it, something 
his son quickly rectified.  FTP--name this eighteenth-century 
Prussian king and father of Frederick the Great.
	Answer: Frederick William I or Friedrich Wilhelm I

21.  When he first told a friend of his vision for the future, he 
was told that he was under shock and needed to see a doctor 
immediately.  A lawyer, playwright and foreign correspondent  for a 
Vienna newspaper, he was shocked by the effect of the Dreyfus 
trial.  FTP, name the author of The Jewish State and a father of 
Zionism.
	Answer: Theodor Herzl

22. The Hausa call him Gizo, he is Aunt Nancy in Gullah and Ti 
Malice in Haiti.  In Gold Coast mythology, he created the world. In 
various exploits, he stole the sun, captured Python, and had a pre-
Brer Rabbit run-in with a tarbaby.  FTP -- name this West African 
trickster, the original spider-man.  
	Answer: Anansi

23. Solutions to it were due on Easter, 1697, and came from the 
Marquis de l'Hopital, Leibnitz, Jakob Bernoulli, whose brother had 
proposed it, and Isaac Newton, who solved it in twelve hours after 
a hard day at the mint.  It turned out to be an inverted cycloid.  
FTP -- name this famous geometric figure, from the Greek for 
"shortest time".  
	Answer: brachiostone 

24. Hobbits are supposed to live in The Shire, but don't try to 
find them on the banks of the Shire river- it flows from Lake Nyasa 
in this country, which also contains the cities of Zomba, 
Balantyre, and Lilongwe. FTP--name this country, formerly the 
British protectorate of Nyasaland.
	Answer: Malawi

25. Downgraded from Endangered to Threatened status in 1984, this 
species seems to be thriving in the Hiwassee.  Unknown until 1973, 
it is generally brown with four dark brown patches along its 3 1/2 
inch length.  FTP -- name this fish that in the late 70's 
singlehandedly halted the TVA's Tellico Dam.
	Answer: snail darter

As far as we know, John Jakes's barbarian series hero of this name 
has never been the subject of a gonzo parody.  Exeter's Metalunan 
aide in This Island Earth, however, was given his own theme song in 
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.  Meanwhile, the alien that 
once menaced Space Ghost with a disintegrator ray in the '60s 
series was made a cohost on Cartoon Planet, probably due to his 
goofy voice.  FTP -- give the unmusical name.
	Answer: Brak

He wasn't B.F. Skinner, but he was an American psychologist. He 
wasn't Jean Piaget, but he was an expert on the study of children. 
His works include Youth, Adolescence, and The Story of a Sand Pile. 
FTP, name this founder of The American Journal of Psychology.
	Answer: G.Stanley Hall

He found the alcoves in St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice fascinating, 
and began to experiment with placing different singers and groups 
of instruments in different locations in the church until he was 
satisfied with the resulting harmonies.  FTP--name this composer of 
motets such as In ecclesis and pioneer of standardized 
orchestration.
	Answer: Giovanni Gabrieli

His last words reputedly were "I always talk better lying down."  
Born in 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia, his chronic ill health that 
caused him to miss his own graduation from Princeton.  Despite that 
fact, he lived until 1836, longer than any of the other Founding 
Fathers.  FTP--name this man whose actions as President included 
demilitarizing the U.S.-Canada border and suffering a dramatic loss 
in popularity after the War of 1812.
	Answer: James Madison 

1997 ACF Nationals
Packet by University of Oklahoma

1.  Give the following tangled titles from a description of 
possible plots, FTP apiece.  Example: "How Green Was My Valley of 
the Dolls."
1. A teacher born at the exact moment of India's independence is 
falsely accused of being a lesbian.
	Answer: Midnight's Children's Hour
2. Brother William of Baskerville solves the disappearance of Homer 
Barron, whose decomposing body was found next to a strand of long 
gray hair.
	Answer: The Name of the Rose for Emily
3. In James Bond's first encounter with Specter, 007 defeats the 
villain by locking him in a room with two other people for all 
time.
	Answer: Doctor No Exit

2.  Answer these questions about singularities 5-10-15.
1. 5 pts:  A singularity is surrounded by an invisible spherical 
boundary and any matter within that boundary cannot escape.  What 
is this boundary called?
	Answer: event horizon
2. 10 pts:  When gases are captured, they flow around the black 
hole in a spiraling flat disk.  What is the name given to this 
disk?
	Answer: accretion disk
3. 15 pts:  Besides Cygnus X-1, the best candidate known for a 
black hole is the dark companion of A0620-00, a star located in the 
constellation Monoceros.  What type of star is A0620-00?
	Answer: orange dwarf

3. OU follows its long tradition of ACF trash questions with yet 
another installment of "Soap Opera Questions by Eric Bell's Mom."  
Answer the following about Mom's all-time favorite, Days of our 
Lives, 5-10-15.
1.  5 pts:  "Days" is set in this town in an unspecified state, 
ironic considering Marlena's brief possession by the Devil a couple 
of years ago.
	Answer: Salem
2.  10 pts:  This schemer, along with his equally evil cohort 
Celeste, is constantly plotting revenge on John and to win Marlena, 
by force if necessary.
	Answer: Stefano
3.  15 pts:  She loves him, but he was engaged to her sister.  No 
problem, drug him, get him into bed, and get yourself pregnant by 
him.  Now force him to marry you and don't let him go, no matter 
what.  Fifteen points, all or nothing, name him, her, and her 
sister from this recurring "Days" storyline.
	Answer: Austin (him), Sami (her), Carrie (her sister)

4. Identify the following apparitions of the Virgin Mary from a 
description for the stated number of points:
1.  5 pts:  The appearance of the Virgin to three children in 
Portugal in 1917, promising to save the world from communism.
	Answer: Our Lady of Fatima
2.  10 pts:  The appearance of the Virgin Mary to Blessed Juan 
Diego, which is now commemorated on December 12.
	Answer: Our Lady of Guadalupe or Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
3.  15 pts:  The so-called "Black Madonna," which appeared in what 
is now Poland and to whose protection John Paul II was commended 
after his near assassination
	Answer: Our Lady of Czectochowa

5. Identify the city, 30-20-10.
1.  Plans for its design were filed in 1837 by Colonel William 
Light, who wanted it to straddle the River Torrens.
2.  It extends inward from the Gulf of St. Vincent and is just 
southeast of Salisbury..
3.  Named for the wife of William IV of England, it is the capital 
and largest city of South Australia.
	Answer: Adelaide

6. Identify the common last name in American history 30-20-10.
1.  In 1812, William surrendered Detroit to a force commanded 
jointly by Tecumseh and Sir Isaac Brock and was later court-
martialed for incompetence.
2. In that same year, William's brother Isaac commanded the U.S.S. 
Constitution in its defeat of the Guerriere.
3. The Chicago house bearing this name was Jane Addams's residence
	Answer: Hull

7.  Identify the creators of the following art works for 5 points 
apiece:
1.  Madonna of the Long Neck
	Answer: Parmagianino
2.  Miracle of the Slave
	Answer: Tintoretto or Jacopo Robusti
3.  Hermes with the Infant Dionysos
	Answer: Praxiteles
4.  Flag (1954-55)
	Answer: Jasper Johns
5.  The Barque of Dante
	Answer: Eugene Delacroix
6.  The Battle of Issus
	Answer: Albrecht Altdorfer

8. Name these terms from violent moments of the Reformation, none 
of which involve throwing people out of windows, for the stated 
number of points.
1.  5 pts: This 1555 treaty depressed Charles V so much that he 
retired to a monastery.
	Answer: The Peace of Augsburg
2.  10 pts:  In this 1632 battle, the Swedes were victorious, but 
Gustavus Adolphus was killed.
	Answer: The Battle of Lutzen
3. 15 pts:  This 1629 edict angered Protestant princes by restoring 
secularized lands to the Church.
	Answer: The Edict of Restitution

9. Expand these abbreviations from accounting FTP apiece.
1.  LIFO
	Answer: Last In, First Out
2.  PVA.
	Answer: Present Value of an Annuity
3. FISH
	Answer: First In, Still Here

10. In 1777, the British tried their version of an anaconda plan to 
encircle New England.  5-10-15, identify what went wrong.
1. 5 pts:  Burgoyne came south from Canada, but no one met up with 
him, and he was defeated at Saratoga by forces under this man.  
	Answer: Horatio Gates
2. 10 pts:  Howe was supposed to go north from New England, but 
decided to attack and capture this city instead.  
	Answer: Philadelphia
3. 15 pts:  This general was to go east from Lake Ontario, but was 
stopped by Herkimer west of Utica and turned back. 
	Answer: Harry St. Leger

11. Name the following strange stories from descriptions set in St. 
Petersburg, for the stated number of points.
1.  5 pts:  A small piece of human anatomy escapes from its proper 
place and roams about the city, before being captured and returned 
to its rightful owner.
	Answer The Nose
2.  10 pts: This novella is divided into two parts, the second of 
which, "Apropos of the Wet Snow" contains most of the action. (The 
first part contains merely the ramblings of the narrator)
	Answer: Notes From (The) Underground
3. 15 pts:  In this Pushkin poem, a statue of Peter the Great, 
never one for picking on his own size, chases Yevgeny, a lowly 
civil servant, throughout the city after the latter insults him.
	Answer: The Bronze Horseman

12. Dolly was a sheep.  5-10-15, identify these pioneer cloned 
animals.
1. 5 pts: In all the Dolly folderol, you may have overlooked the 
same week's embryonic cloning of this most humanoid species yet.  
	Answer: Rhesus monkey
2. 10 pts: The first animals to be cloned, in 1970 were these 
vertebrates with unusually large egg cells.  
	Answer: frogs 
3. 15 pts:  Following a mouse hoax, the first mammal to be cloned 
from an embryo, in 1986, was this one.
	Answer: sheep 

13.   Identify the British authors of the following works for 5 
points apiece plus 5 for all correct:
1.  Goodbye to All That
	answer:  Robert Graves
2.  Brighton Rock
	answer:  Graham Greene
3.  A Handful of Dust
	answer:  Evelyn Waugh
4.  Villette
	answer:  Charlotte Bronte (prompt for: Bronte)
5.  La Belle Dame Sans Merci
	answer:  John Keats

14.  Answer these questions about hydrocarbon derivatives FTP 
apiece.
1.  These organic compounds occur widely in nature and examples 
include some drugs, amino acids, and vitamins.  They contain 
nitrogen and are basic.
	Answer: amines
2.  These compounds possess pleasant odors like those of flowers.  
Fruits and beeswax contain these compounds which consist of a 
carbon-oxygen double bond linked to another oxygen linked to 
another organic group.
	Answer: esters
3.  The cause of the painful discomfort of a bee sting is formic 
acid, the simplest of another group of organic compounds.  Name 
this group.
	Answer: carboxylic acids

15. The Norse gods were not actually immortal. They would grow old 
and die if they stopped eating certain apples, a tragedy which 
almost occurred when a giant decided to steal them. For five points 
apiece, identify the following:
1. The goddess who tended the apples of youth.
	Answer: Iduna or Idune
2. The shape-changing giant who kidnapped Iduna and stole the 
apples.
	Answer: Thiazi
3. The gods did not notice that the aging process had begun until 
the watchman of the gods heard Hel laughing about their plight and 
warned Odin. Name him.
	Answer: Heimdall
4. After Iduna had been recovered and Thiazi was killed, his 
daughter set out to avenge his murder. Name her.
	Answer: Skadi
5. Odin mollified Skadi by letting her choose a husband from among 
the male gods. Her first choice was this handsome god, but his 
mother Freya hastily amended the selection process.
	Answer: Balder
6. Freya insisted that the men remove their shoes and stand behind 
a screen, so that Skadi had to choose her husband by his feet. She 
wound up, much to her dismay, with this gloomy god of the sea.
	Answer: Njord

16. For five points apiece, and a bonus five for all correct, 
arrange the following World War II battles of North Africa 
chronologically:  Tobruk, Mersa Brega, Longstop Hill, 2nd El 
Alamein, Beda Fomm.
	Answer: Tobruk, Beda Fomm, Mersa Brega, 2nd El Alamein, 
Longtop Hill

17. Mystery fiction has its mission statements just like any other 
branch of literature. 5-10-15 answer the following.
1. 5 pts:  Sherlock Holmes puts forth the theory of logical 
deduction in "The Science of Deduction", chapter two of this first 
Holmes novel
	Answer: A Study in Scarlet
2. 10 pts:  The Three Coffins contains Dr. Gideon Fell's "The 
Locked Room Lecture", the definitive blueprint by this locked room 
master, who occasionally went by the transparent pseudonym Carter 
Dickson
	Answer: John Dickson Carr
3. 15 pts:  This seminal essay on the hard-boiled private eye novel 
by Raymond Chandler contains the famous line "Down these mean 
streets a man must go...".
	Answer: The Simple Art of Murder

18. 5-10-15, answer the following about the reletives of that nasty 
Ebola virus.
1. 5 pts: Ebola and its kin are the only known members of this 
family of negatively-stranded RNA viruses.
	Answer: Filoviridae or filoviruses
2. 10 pts: Discovered in 1967 in Belgrade and the German town it is 
named for, this also lethal filovirus has appeared in Zimbabwe, 
South Africa, and Kenya.
	Answer: Marburg virus
3) Yet a third strain of filovirus has been found in the 
Phillipines, but this one appears to have no serious effect on 
humans.  Name it.
	Answer: Reston virus

19.  Identify the following ancient Egyptian leaders for the stated 
number of points.
1.  5 pts:  This ancient Egyptian leader united Upper and Lower 
Egypt for the first time around 3200 B.C.
	Answer: Menes I
2.  5 pts:  Though often depicted as a man in Egyptian art, this 
leader was actually the first known woman ruler in history.
	Answer: Hatshepsut
3.  10 pts:  This stepson of Hatshepsut succeeded her.
	Answer: Thutmose III
4.  10 pts:  This Egyptian general was one of the co-leaders of the 
successful overthrow of the Assyrian Empire in 612 B.C.
	Answer: Psammetichus

20. For such advanced nations, the Five Civilized Tribes are 
suprisingly overlooked.  For five points apiece, we'll give you 
both the tribal capital and current head of state of a tribe, you 
name it.
1. Chief Hollis Roberts, Durant, OK
	Answer: Choctaw
2. Chief Jerry Haney, Wewoka, OK
	Answer: Seminole
3. Chief Joe Byrd, Tahlequah, OK
	Answer: Cherokee
4. Governor Bill Anoatubby, Ada, OK
	Answer: Chickasaw
5. Chief Perry Beaver, Okmulgee, OK
	Answer: Creek
6. We would have liked give you exact geographic locations, but the 
tribes of the former Indian Territory lack, for an additional five, 
what? 
	Answer: a reservation system

21. For fifteen points apiece, identify these Shakespearean 
characters that pop up in more than one play:
1. In Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and Henry V, this character hosts in 
the Boar's Head Tavern, while in The Merry Wives of Windsor, she is 
servant to Doctor Caius and plays matchmaker for Anne Page. Name 
this spouse of Pistol who at one point tries to have Falstaff 
arrested.
	Answer: Mistress Nell Quickly
2. In Act IV of Love's Labour Lost, a lover is compared to this man 
playing with toys.  A later play derived in part from Plutarch's 
Life of Mark Antony reveals more about him, including his servant 
Flavius and his natural but not peaceful death in a cave.
	Answer: Timon of Athens

23. Presidential pets are perhaps more famous than they should be. 
Answer these questions for the stated number of points:

1.  5 points apiece:  What were the infamous names of Lyndon 
Johnson's two beagles?
	answer:  Him and Her
2.  10 points:  Which President's three ponies included Tex, 
Macaroni, and Leprechaun?
	answer:  John F. Kennedy
3.  10 points:  What President's war horse Whitey was allowed to 
graze on the White House lawn?
	answer:  Zachary Taylor

24. Given the monarch and the country, identify the house to which 
he/she belonged for five points apiece:
1.  Edward Longshanks of England
	Answer: Plantagenet
2.  Charles the Wise of France
	Answer: Valois
3.  Conrad II of the Holy Roman Empire
	Answer: Franconia
4.  Jadwiga of Poland
	Answer: Anjou
5.  Leopold I of Belgium
	Answer: Saxe-Coburg (NOTE: not Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
6.  Robert III of Scotland
	Answer: Stuart

Identify the following acids FTP apiece.
1.  A straw-colored liquid used for textile and paper processing 
and as a rust remover, CH3H2PO4.
	Answer: Methylphosphoric acid
2.  A polymer of ribitol or glycerol phosphate with additional 
compunds such as glucose linked to the backbone of the polymer; 
found in the cell walls of some bacteria.
	Answer: Teichoic acid
3.  A common bile acid with a five-carbon chain, it forms of a 
conjugation of taurine and cholic acid; crystallizes from an 
alcohol-ether solution at about 125 degrees Celsius.  C26H45NO7, 
also known as taurocholic acid.
	Answer: Cholaic acid

Give the semiotic terms from linguistics, for the stated number of 
points:
1.  5 pts:  The individual speech acts made possible by the 
language, i.e., the concrete utterances performed by individual 
speakers in actual situations
	Answer: parole
2.  10 pts:  In linguistics, it refers to the language system 
shared by a community of speakers, as opposed to parole.
	Answer: langue
3.  15 pts:  the belief that phonetic sounds can adequately 
represent meanings that are present in the consciousness of the 
speaker
	Answer: phonocentrism

Identify these biology terms that begin with the letter "P" for 10 
points apiece:
1.  the region of an aquatic ecosystem that light penetrates and 
where photosynthesis occurs
	Answer: photic zone or region
2.  a human genetic disease characterized by inability to break 
down certain amino acids that leads to buildup of toxins in the 
blood
	Answer: phenylketonuria (prompt for: PKU)
3.  the flap-like part of the outer ear
	Answer: pinna

Identify these characters from Flaubert's Madame Bovary for 10 
points apiece:
1.  This little dog of Emma's runs away after the Bovaries leave 
Tostes for Yonville.  She shares her name with Esmerelda's goat in 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
	answer:  Djali
2.  This sickly daughter of Charles and Emma is forced by an aunt 
to work in a cotton mill following Charles' death.
	answer:  Berthe
3.  This pharmacist receives the cross of the Legion of Honor at 
the end of the novel.
	answer:  Monsieur Homais

 A show on its way to Broadway usually makes a stop in Boston or 
New Haven for a tryout.  Songs are cut and songs are added.  For 15 
points name the musical when given the name of a song dropped by 
composer Stephen Sondheim.  You'll get five points if you need a 
more famous song.
1. 15 pts.: "Two Fairy Tales"
	5 pts: Send in the Clowns"
	Answer : A Little Night Music
2. 15 pts. : "Marry Me A Little"
	5 pts: "Being Alive"
	Answer : Company