1999 ACF Regionals
Questions by Quincy University (Subash Maddipoti)
Tossups

1. His publications in translation include Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian. His career is well known, for he described it in his famous Historia calamitatum, or “History of My Troubles.” The first version of his book Theologia was formally condemned and burned by a council held at Soissons. After reading the Bible and the Fathers of the Church, this man arranged his findings in a compilation entitled Sic et non, or “Yes and No.” As a philosopher he is known for his original use of dialectics and his solution of the problem of universals. FTP, name this famed teacher of the 12th century, castrated because of his relationship with Heloise.
Answer: Pierre or Peter Abelard

2. The title to this group of poems was actually suggested by an earlier poem by the author entitled “Catrina to Camoens.” There are numerous references to Greek literature in them, such as the reminiscence of the pastoral poet Theocritus in the opening line of the first poem. In poem five, the poet compares the sadness of the Greek heroine Electra to her own heavy heart. Unlike previous efforts, they tell the story of a love affair from a woman’s point of view. Dedicated to the poet’s husband, FTP, identify this group of poems, of which number forty-three opens, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” a collection of sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Answer: Sonnets from the Portuguese

3. He earned the nickname “Kid Gloves” because he wore kid gloves to protect his hands from skin infection, which some say cost him the working class vote. Some of his writings included This Country of Ours, a series of essays on how the federal government works. During the Civil War, he raised the 70th Indiana Volunteer Regiment, becoming a brigadier general in 1865. While in office, he signed the McKinley Tariff Act, which primarily led to his downfall. When James Blaine, the leading Republican, declined a presidential nomination, this man and Levi Morton, for vice president, became the Republican duo. FTP, name this 23rd president, elected in 1888, who interrupted Grover Cleveland’s two terms.
Answer: Benjamin Harrison (prompt on just the last name)

4. At a critical moment in this opera, trumpet calls announce the arrival of the Prime Minister, who takes the stage to right all wrongs and arrest the villain Pizarro. That tyrant Pizarro has been holding Florestan, the husband of the title character, in a prison for some time. Thus, the title character changes her name, dresses as a boy, and gets a job with Rocco, the kindly caretaker of the prison. Things get confusing when Rocco’s daughter, Marcellina falls in love with the apparently male title character, and Marcellina’s admirer, Jacquino, becomes jealous. FTP, identify this opera, which was first named Leonore, but revised and released in 1814, the only opera written by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Answer: Fidelio (accept early buzz of “Leonore”)

5. Proper function of this organ is often checked via the use of such toxic substances as hippuric acid and Bromsulphalein (Brom sull fay leen). The smallest channels of its vascular system are lined by Kuppfer cells, which work in antibody formation and ingestion of foreign particles. This organ’s lobes are connected via the falciform ligament, and it synthesizes many serum proteins, including albumin and several clotting factors. It has its own blood circulation in the form of a prominent portal system, and the word hepatic refers to it. FTP, name this organ that secretes bile, the largest internal vertebrate organ.
Answer: Liver

6. He began his writing career in San Francisco working for a newspaper, and he published his first story, “The Haunted Valley,” in the Overland Magazine. The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes is actually an imagining of this man’s last months. In his seventies, he disappeared across the Mexican border after revisiting the Civil War battlefields of his youth in his Collected Works. His second story collection was Can Such Things Be?, and his first was In the Midst of Life, which included a famous story that details the pre-execution dream of Peyton Farquhar. FTP, name this author of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and The Devil’s Dictionary.
Answer: Ambrose Bierce

7. During World War II, he served General Joseph Stilwell as deputy chief of staff for the China-Burma-India theater. After the war, he worked in the state and war departments, serving as assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs during the Korean conflict. From 1964 to 1968 he consistently defended U.S. objectives in Vietnam, refused to recognize communist China, and curbed his department’s role in national policy-making. FTP, who was this secretary of state under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations?
Answer: David Dean Rusk

8. With this man’s encouragement Leopold Crelle began publishing his world famous journal of mathematics in 1826. In competition with Karl Gustav Jacobi, before his death, this man rapidly developed the theory of elliptic functions. When he sent his famous proof to Gauss, Gauss incorrectly dismissed it. Earlier he had personally published that proof stating the impossibility of algebraically solving the general equation of the fifth degree. His namesake theorem states that there is a finite number, or genus, of independent integrals of algebraic functions. FTP, name this Norwegian mathematician who shares his surname with the second son of Adam and Eve.
Answer: Niels Henrik Abel

9. The name’s the same. It is the pseudonym of Elyesa Banza, one of the most famous spies of World War II, who worked for Nazi Germany. It is also a western suburb of Cook County, first settled in 1830s and named for its New York counterpart. Morton College was founded there in 1902, and in the 1920s, Al Capone used this city as the headquarters of his speakeasies. It also identifies the Roman author of the epic poems On His Consulship and On His Life and Times. FTP, what is this shared name that identifies the Roman with an English byname of Tully, a famous orator and political enemy of Octavian?
Answer: Cicero

10. The revolt of the emperor Go-Daigo and ensuing factional struggles led to the downfall of its bakufu, or military administration. For the majority of its rule members of the Hojo family wielded power. It had originated under the rule of Minamoto Yoritomo and was named for his capital city. During it, seppuku, or ritual suicide by disembowelment by emerged, and the new faith sects of True Pure Land and Nichiren Buddhism appeared and grew quickly. In addition, this period saw the defeat of two attempted Mongol invasions with the aid of the “divine wind” of typhoons that decimated the Mongol fleet. FTP, what was this first Japanese shogunate, ruling from 1193 to 1333?
Answer: Kamakura period

11. The value of this constant in astronomy is about 20.49 degrees of an arc, and it was first calculated by British astronomer James Bradley. It is defined as the maximum amount of the apparent yearly displacement of a star or other celestial body, resulting from the Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. In optics several types of it exist including a spherical and chromatic form, and other varieties of this phenomenon are astigmatism, curvature of field, and distortion. FTP, what is this 10 letter word, that in optical systems, is defined as the deviation of light rays through lenses, causing images or objects to be blurred?
Answer: Aberration 

12. At the end of this play the title character looks out on the universe, awhirl with manifold terrors, and prays to mother Earth for comfort. It opens on a barren peak in the Caucasus with two demonic servants of Zeus, Might and Violence, supervising Hephaestus, the blacksmith of Olympus. At various points in the play the title character is visited by Ocean and Io, whose descendant will free him. When asked of his imprisonment, he explains the role he and his mother, Themis, played in the fight between the Titans and Olympians. FTP, what is this Aeschylus play, about a Titan who saved mankind by giving them the secret of fire?
Answer: Prometheus Bound

13. Working closely with real estate developer William Zeckendorf, he created such urban projects as the Place Ville-Marie in Montreal. After branching out on his own, notable designs included those for the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. and a pentagonal control tower for use by the FAA. He began a rebuilding project for the Louvre in 1984, but much of his work was in the northeast U.S. such as the New York City Convention Center and the JFK Memorial Library at Harvard. After founding his own firm in 1955, he might have been returning to his roots with designs for the Luce Memorial Chapel in Taiwan and the Beijing Fragrant Hall. FTP, name this Chinese-born American architect.
Answer: Ieoh Ming Pei

14. Despite his numerous successes, this man incorrectly calculated the age of the earth to be 100 million years using geophysical means, for he didn’t know about radioactivity. He became wealthy through his invention of a receiver for the submarine telegraph. Along with a famous friend, he discovered that when a gas is allowed to expand without performing external work, the temperature of that gas falls. After his ennoblement, he would gain the barony of Largs. FTP, name this man, who collaborated with James Prescott Joule, best remembered for formulating the absolute scale of temperature that bears his name.
Answer: Lord Kelvin or Baron Kelvin of Largs or William Thomson

15. Robert Tofte entitled his 1597 collection of love lyrics with this woman’s name, and Friedrich Schiller wrote a series of poems to her as well. Lord Byron uses her as the Venetian lady who is the wife of the Turk, pirate, and title character in the poem “Beppo.” Scholars say the original one was actually a woman of Avignon, married to Hugues de Sede, who was first spotted by a poet in a church on April 6th, 1327. That poet made her the subject of his collection of lyrics, not sonnets, called Rime or Canzoniere. FTP, who was this beloved of Petrarch?
Answer: Laura

16. Though not the Congress of Vienna, this site hosted four conferences following the Napoleonic Wars, beginning in 1818. France was admitted to a newly formed Quintuple Alliance that already included Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The treaty of the same name was marked by the mutual restitution of conquests, including the fortress of Louisbourg to France and the Barrier towns to the Dutch. In addition, it provided for the surrender of many Habsburg duchies to Spain by Maria Theresa. FTP, give this name, that identifies the treaty that, in 1748, ended the War of the Austrian Succession.
Answer: Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle

17.  When Emerson asked this man, “How many men possessed of your views, who will remain after you, are going to put them in practice?” he candidly replied, “Not one.” Stockholders in his new firm included the Quaker William Allen and Jeremy Bentham. In the publication A New View of Society he set forth the principles of his educational philanthropy system. He recommended that villages of “unity and cooperation” be established for the unemployed throughout Wales and Britain. Attempting to transplant his success to America, his Indiana community lost him 80% of his fortune and he withdrew. FTP, who was this founder of the utopian settlements of New Harmony and New Lanark?
Answer: Robert Dale Owen

18. The first inborn error in metabolism to be characterized in humans, this disease is diagnosed with the Guthrie test. Most people with it never learn to talk and do not progress beyond a mental age of two years, with 75% of them failing to reach the age of 30. The disease causes a defect in the PAH enzyme that causes accumulation of a toxic form of pyruvic acid that, in turn, causes deterioration of the central nervous system. FTP, what is this disease which inhibits the conversion of phenylalanine to tyrosine, abbreviated PKU?
Answer: Phenylketonuria (accept PKU before it is read)

19. In return for the Grace Pasithea for his wife, this Greek god plays a small part in the Iliad when he acquiesces to Hera and agrees to divert the attention of Zeus.  Living in a dark, misty cave off the island of Lemnos, he lays on a soft couch surrounded by his three sons – Morpheus, Icelus, and Phantasus – and he is the son of Nyx and brother of Thanatos. FTP what Greco-Roman god has his sons bring him dreams, is known in Latin as Somnus, and holds dominion over sleep?
Answer: Hypnos (do not prompt on “Somnus;” it mentions “Greek god” in question)

20. In the first section of this work the author tells of how he ran away at the age of seventeen and lived homeless for two months, before being allowed, on the permission of a seedy lawyer, to sleep in a rat-infested house. It goes on to describe the author’s friendship with a young prostitute, Ann. In its third and last section, the author describes his love for a specific child, his friend William Wordsworth’s daughter, Catherine. Originally published anonymously in two issues of London Magazine, contemporaries charged that the dreams it described were fabricated. FTP, what is this work that in various sections deals with the “pleasures” and “pains” of taking a certain drug, the best-known work of Thomas De Quincey?
Answer: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (prompt on “The Confessions”)

21. It uses the tried and true wicked stepmother plot, with that stepmother hoping to get rid of the heroine to place her son, Cloten, upon the throne. The heroine’s husband is deceived about her fidelity and asks his friend Pisanio to take her to Wales and kill her. Pisanio relents and the heroine soon meets her long lost brothers, Polidore and Cadwal, who had been carried away as babies by Bellarius, a former lord of her father’s court. FTP what is this Shakesperean play, centering on Imogen, the daughter of the title king of England?
Answer: Cymbeline

22. The region had become so scarred that in the 1960s it was used in training U.S. astronauts for moon landings. In 1912, its largest volcano and a new volcano, Novarupta, created the region with a massive eruption that was later visible across the country in Washington D.C. In fact, neighboring Kodiak Island was buried under 1 foot of ash. FTP, name this valley, home to Mt. Katmai, in southern Alaska, that derives its name from the myriad fumaroles or fissures of spouting gas, steam, and many smokes.
Answer: Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (prompt on “Katmai National Park”)

23. By the time it was created, this painting’s story of conflict between love and patriotism had already been told by the historian Livy, as well as Pierre Corneille, in a play performed in Paris just a few years earlier. It tells of how the Roman and Alban leaders decided to resolve their conflicts in a series of duels waged by three representatives from each side. Camilla, a sister of the Roman champions was the bride-to-be of one of the Albans and sits on the right side. On the left, the Roman brothers swear on their swords to win or die for their city. FTP, what is this David (Da veed) painting about the courage of the sons of the Horatius family?
Answer: Oath of the Horatii

24. Encouraged and financed by the actress Helena Modjeska, he studied in Vienna under Theodor Leshetizky, who greatly improved this man’s limited technique. In 1901 his opera Manru, dealing with life in the Tatra Mountains, was performed at Dresden, and his Symphony in B Minor was performed in Boston in 1909. For a time he edited the works of Chopin and strongly urged Woodrow Wilson to support Polish independence, which became #13 of the Fourteen Points. FTP, name this Polish pianist and composer, who actually served as prime minister of the country in 1919.
Answer: Ignacy Jan Paderewski

25. In 1906 the royal archives of this ancient people were found in an excavation site near the town of Bogazkoy. Their Old Kingdom was founded by the ruler Labarna, and the New Kingdom was founded 200 years later, reaching its greatest power under prince Suppiluliuma (Soo pill lou lee ooma). Under Muwatallis they fought one of the greatest ancient battles at Kadesh in 1299 BC. The battle had been fought with Ramses II of Egypt for control of Syria. FTP, who were these peoples with their capital at Hattusa and their homeland in Anatolia, who are crediting with first developing iron-working technology?
Answer: Hittites

26. The legendary emperor Fu Hsi is said to have discovered the pa kua that help unlock it, while Wen Wang is generally credited for having formed the correct interpretation of it. Solid lines in it represent yang, while broken ones represent yin. It is unique in that it contains 64 symbolic hexagrams that, if properly understood and interpreted, contain profound meanings applicable to daily life. Han dynasty followers of this book justified their use of it by attributing certain of its commentaries to Confucius, despite contrary evidence. FTP, name this text, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, which comes from Chinese for “Book of Changes.”
Answer: I Ching (prompt on “Book of Changes”)

27. Secondary characters include Mr. Trefry and Colonel Martin. The novel ends with the title character thrown into a fire, only to have his ears, nose, and arms chopped off in progression. It details his love of two women, Imoinda and his wife, Clemene, who he kills. The work is loosely based on the author’s real life experiences in Suriname and is intended to be a protest against the institution of slavery. FTP, what is this work, subtitled The Royal Slave, written by Apra Behn ?
Answer: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

28. Miarolitic cavities, or irregular openings, commonly develop in its plutonic variety during late stages of cyrstallization. The hypabyssal types of it occur as dikes, sills, and other similar small bodies, and examples include porphyrite and diabase. The plutonic types occur as batholiths, bosses, and veins and include diorite and peridotite. The pyroclastic varieties include breccia and tuff, and are the fragmented explosive products. They can be either intrusive or extrusive and FTP, what class of rocks includes basalt and obsidian as well as many other byproducts of volcanic eruptions.
Answer: Igneous rock

29. Much of our knowledge of him comes from a history of his reign written in heroic verse by a nun, Hrotswitha of Gandersheim. He first gained fame when he marched to Italy to assist Adelaide, the widowed queen of Lombardy, against Berengar II. He then had to return to his homeland to crush a rebellion led by his son Liudolf. Four years after becoming ruler of northern Italy, he halted the Magyars westward expansion with a crushing defeat of them at Lech River in 955. When chosen king, he selected Aachen as the site of his coronation as a symbol of continuing Charlemagne’s tradition. FTP, who was this first official Holy Roman Emperor?
Answer: Otto I or Otto the Great
	
30. The first time he granted free elections, Suleiman an-Nabulsi, an opponent of this man’s regime, formed a coalition government. After an-Nabulsi continually disobeyed him the next year, he dismissed the an-Nabulsi government and imposed martial law. In 1970 after Arab commandos hijacked three commercial British aircraft, full-scale warfare broke out between them and this man’s army. He succeeded his father Talal, who was deposed because of mental illness, and has carried on the royal dynasty until his death in 1999. FTP, name this former king of Jordan.
Answer: Hussein ibn Talal

1999 ACF Regionals
Questions by Quincy University (Subash Maddipoti)
Bonuses

1. Identify the following “hydro-” words from Colvin science for 10 points each.
1.It is the cultivation of plants in a nutrient-enriched water, with or without the mechanical support of an inert medium such as sand or gravel.
Answer: Hydroponics
2. It is the accumulation of watery fluid in the pleural cavity.
Answer: Hydrothorax
3. It is the extraction of metal from ore by preparing an aqueous solution of a salt of the metal and recovering the metal from the solution.
Answer: Hydromettalurgy

2. Identify the American historians from works for the stated number of points.
5. The Significance of Sections in American History. This book related this man’s Frontier Thesis.
Answer: Frederick Jackson Turner
10. Thousand Days, The Age of Jackson
Answer: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
15. The Devil We Knew, The Reckless Decade
Answer: H.W. Brands

3. Conjoin the following literary titles for 10 points each. For example if I said, “The Blanche Dubois play meets the Ephraim and Annie Cabot play,” you might correctly respond, “The Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms.”
1. A double play by August Strindberg that deals with Alice and her domineering husband Edgar meets a Willa Cather novel dealing with the Catholic priest Jean Latour.
Answer: The Dance of Death Comes for the Archbishop
2. A novel dealing with a murder in a Benedictine monastery in 1327, made into a movie with Sean Connery, meets a Tennessee Williams play that deals with a dressmaker, mourning the death of her truck-driver husband.
Answer: The Name of the Rose Tattoo
3. The alternate title for the novel Peter Pan meets the autobiography of Booker T. Washington.
Answer: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up From Slavery

4. Answer the following questions about spring world holidays from descriptions FTP each.
1. On April 30th this evening is celebrated in Germany. It is traditionally an occasion when witches celebrate the sabbath in the Harz Mountains.
Answer: Walpurgis Night or Walpurgisnaacht
2. In Christianity, it is the Thursday before Easter, commemorating the Last Supper of Jesus and his giving of a new commandment, or mandate, to love one another.
Answer: Maundy Thursday
3. On April 16th this country celebrates the birthday of Queen Margrethe II.
Answer: Denmark

5. Name the following acids for 5 points each and 30 for all correct. (Moderator: read every letter and number in sequence)
1. HNO2 
Answer: Nitrous acid
2. H3BO3
Answer: Boric acid
3. H2SiO3
Answer: Silicic acid
4. H2C2O4
Answer: Oxalic acid or Ethanedioic acid
5. H2S
Answer: Hydrosulfuric acid

6. Answer the following about intelligence tests FTP each.
1. This Frenchman developed the first standard intelligence test along with colleague Theodore Simon.
Answer: Alfred Binet
2. These intelligence tests are commonly abbreviated as WAIS.
Answer: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales
3. This test, developed by Leon Rosenberg in the early 1960s, measures the intelligence of preschool children by having them try to match random forms. It avoids ordinary geometric forms in an attempt to be without cultural bias.
Answer: Johns Hopkins Perceptual Test

7. Identify the following specific time periods of history F15P each.
15. In French history it is the period between March 20th, 1815, the day Napoleon arrived in Paris after his exile on Elba, and July 8th, 1815, the date of the return of Louis XVIII to Paris.
Answer: Hundred Days or Cent Jours
15. In Chinese history it was the movement begun in May 1956 within the Communist government to lift the restrictions imposed upon Chinese intellectuals and thus grant greater freedom of thought and speech. 
Answer: Hundred Flowers Campaign

8. Identify the short stories from descriptions for 10 points each, or 5 points if you need an author.
1. 10. Some readers felt that the author was trying to imply a battle between the North, in the form of the Homer Barron, and the South, in the form the title character, Miss Grierson. The author said he simply wanted to write a ghost story.
      5. William Faulkner
Answer: A Rose for Emily
2. 10. This story tells the tale of a pitiful copying clerk, who goes on to become a ghost, particularly gaining revenge on the Person of Consquence for prior mistreatment.
      5. Nikolai Gogol
Answer: The Overcoat
3. 10. This story is told through the perspective of Shaila, an Indian woman living in Canada dealing with the death of her husband and sons in a plane crash. 
      5. Bharati Mukherjee
Answer: The Management of Grief

9. Answer the following questions about a geologic era for 10 points each.
1. What geologic era lasted about 345 million years and is divided into 6 periods including the Cambrian and Ordovician?
Answer: Paleozoic Era
2. This last division of the Paleozoic era saw the development of the Appalachian Mountains in North America and the Ural Mountains in Russia.
Answer: Permian Period 
3. These primitive arthropods, confined to the sea, appeared and became extinct during the Paleozoic Era. Their fossils, commonly found in ocean rock layers, are used to develop time scales for the ancient ocean environment.
Answer: Trilobites

10. Identify the female choreographers from works for 10 points each.
1. Kiss Me, Kate; Out of This World; My Fair Lady; Camelot
Answer: Hanya Holm or Johanna Kuntze or Johanna Eckert
2. Rodeo, Oklahoma!, Carousel
Answer: Agnes George De Mille
3. Appalachian Spring, Clytemnestra. At age 90 she choreographed Rite of Spring.
Answer: Martha Graham

11. Given a description identify the genetic disease involved for 10 points each.
1. This disease, first reported in 1963 by Jerome LeJeune, involves a partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5
Answer: Cri-Du-Chat syndrome (grudgingly accept “Cry of the Cat”)
2. Individuals with this trisomy of chromosome 21 exhibit round heads, protruding, furrowed tongues, and short, broad hands.
Answer: Down’s syndrome
3. This is the most common form of inherited mental retardation, in which individuals possess a folate-sensitive site on the female chromosome.
Answer: Fragile X syndrome or Martin-Bell syndrome

12. Given a monarch or president identify the European nation that person headed at the outbreak of World War II for ten points each.
1. Leopold III
Answer: Belgium
2. Ignacy Moscieki
Answer: Poland
3. Christian X
Answer: Denmark

13. Identify the following writers who wrote in Spanish from works for 10 points each.
1. Home is the Sailor, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Answer: Jorge Amado
2. The Labyrinth of Solitude, The Sun Stone
Answer: Octavio Paz
3. Poet in New York, Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba
Answer: Frederico Garcia Lorca

14. Answer the following questions about Mexican history for 10 points each.
1. Elected president in 1861, this man suspended foreign interest payments, which resulted in a joint military expedition sent against Mexico by France, Great Britain, and Spain.
Answer: Benito Pablo Juarez
2. In 1877, this former army general was elected president and ruled as a despot until 1911.
Answer: Porfirio Diaz
3. In 1821, the last viceroy of New Spain was forced to accept this treaty marking Mexican independence.
Answer: Treaty of Cordoba

15. Identify the artists from famous works for the stated number of points.
5. The Haywain, 1821
Answer: John Constable
10. Christ’s Entry Into Brussels in 1889
Answer: James Ensor
15. The Portinari Altarpiece, 1476
Answer: Hugo van der Goes

16. Answer the following questions about youth organizations for 10 points each.
1. This founder of the Boy Scouts also founded a group for young girls in Great Britain in 1910.
Answer: Lord Robert Baden-Powell
2. This was the name of the girl group founded by Baden-Powell and is an alternate name for the Girl Scouts in Great Britain and some other countries.
Answer: Girl Guides
3. This woman formed the first Girl Scout troop in the United States in 1912.
Answer: Juliette Gordon Low

17. Answer the following questions about the French epic, Chanson de Roland, for the stated number of points.
5. Roland and his companions were part of this group of knights-errant that often appeared in medieval romances.
Answer: Paladins
5. Roland was the nephew of this man, the first Holy Roman Emperor.
Answer: Charlemagne
10. This soldier of Charlemagne is a traitor and eventually dies by quartering.
Answer: Ganelon
10. This is the name of Roland’s horn, according to Benet’s at least.
Answer: Olivant or Oliphant

18. Identify the countries from their highest points for 10 points each.
1. Mt. Cook
Answer: New Zealand
2. Communism Peak or Mount Communism
Answer: Tadzhikistan
3. Mount Orizaba
Answer: Mexico

19. Identify the poets who wrote about other poets for 10 points each or 5 points if you need a well-known work or works.
1. 10. In 1940 this man wrote “In Memory of W.B. Yeats.”
      5. “The Age of Anxiety”
Answer: Wystan Hugh Auden
2. 10.  In 1930 this man wrote “You, Andrew Marvell.”
      5. “Conquistador,” J.B.
Answer: Archibald Macleish
3. 10. In 1816 this man wrote “To Wordsworth” as well as a poem about another poet that ends with the line “Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.”
      5. That poem titled “Adonais” was an elegy on the death of his friend John Keats
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley
	
20. Answer the following questions about gases for 10 points each.
1. This law states the when only gases are involved in a reaction, the volumes of the reacting gases and the volumes of the gaseous products are in a ratio to each other as small whole numbers.
Answer: Gay-Lussac’s Law or Charles’ Law
2. At standard temperature and pressure the molecular mass of a gas expressed in grams occupies this many liters. Give your answer to the tenths place.
Answer: 22.4 Liters
3. This is the term used to describe the passage of a gas through a tiny orifice into an evacuated chamber.
Answer: Effusion

21. Identify the languages from descriptions for 10 points each.
1. The most widely spoken artificial language, it was invented in 1887 by Polish physician Ludwig L. Zamenhof
Answer: Esperanto
2. This artificial language was constructed by the French logician and Esperantist Louis de Beaufront in 1907. It takes its name from an Esperanto suffix meaning “derived from.”
Answer: Ido
3. Also called Ladin, This Rhaeto-Romance dialect is the official language of Switzerland.
Answer: Romansch

22. Given the founder or founders identify the computer language for 10 points each.
1. John Backus
Answer: FORmula TRANslation
2. John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz
Answer: Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
3. Niklaus Wirth
Answer: PASCAL or Oberon

23. Identify the Russian composers from works for 10 points each.
1. Stenka Razin, Raymonda
Answer: Aleksandr (Konstaninovich) Glazunov
2. Life for the Tsar or Ivan Susanin, Summer Night in Madrid, Ruslan and Lyudmila
Answer: Mikhail Glinka
3. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Leningrad Symphony, The Nose
Answer: Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

24. Answer the following questions about a German writer for the stated number of points.
10. Many consider this novel, in which the title character shoots himself over unfulfilled love for a girl named Lotte (Lot ta), the beginning of the romantic movement in Germany.
Answer: The Sorrows of Young Werther
5. Who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther?
Answer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
15. This Goethe novel is based on the downfall of a historical count, who was executed in connection with the Netherlandic revolt against Spain.
Answer: Egmont

25. Answer the following questions about Egyptian deities for 10 points each.
This was the name given to the group of nine chief deities in the Osirian cycle in ancient Egyptian myth.
Answer: Ennead
This member of the Ennead was the wife of Sedb and the mother of Osiris and Isis.
Answer: Nut
This member of the Ennead was the embodiment of the sky and the son of Atum and the brother-husband of Tefnut.
Answer: Shu

26. Answer the following questions about ancient philosophy for 10 points each.
1. Considered by many to the first philosopher in Western history, this man correctly predicted an eclipse that occurred on May 28th, 585 BC.
Answer: Thales of Miletus
2. This word defines any metaphysical position that asserts there is only one kind of reality. As applied to Thales, he claimed that reallity can be explained by only one principle – water.
Answer: Monism
3. Called “the Dark One,” “the Riddler,” and “the Obscure” by his contemporaries this man delighted in throwing out paradoxes and aphorisms. His native town of Ephesus was close to Pythagoras’s island of Samos and Xenophanes’ Colophon.
Answer: Heraclitus

27. Identify the ancient Mesopotamian rulers from descriptions for the stated number of points.
1. 10. This Akkadian king was the first in Mesopotamian history to unite the lands of Sumer and Akkad, in present-day Iraq and Syria.
Answer: Sargon I
5. The history of Babylonia is said to begin with this ruler, who is said to have become king of the city of Babylon in 1792 BC. He is best remembered for his collection of edicts and laws.
Answer: Hammurabi
15. In 539 BC, under the control of this king, Babylonia was defeated by Cyrus the Great of Persia and lost its independence permanently.
Answer: Nabonidus

28. Answer the following questions about a certain author for the stated number of points.
15. Some of this author’s books include A Backward Place, In Search of Love and Beauty, and Poet and Dancer.
Answer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
5. Jhabvala has adapted such novels as A Room with a View, A Passage to India, and Howards End to motion pictures. Who wrote these novels?
Answer: Edward Morgan Forster
10. Name the two men, who used the Jhabvala screenplays to produce and direct these movies.
Answers: Ismail Merchant and James Ivory (need both for the 10 points)

29. Identify the Supreme Court cases from descriptions for the stated number of points.
5. This 1966 case ruled that the guarantee of due process required that before any questioning of suspects in police custody, certain rights must be read to them.
Answer: Miranda v. Arizona
10. In this 1919 case the court sustained the Espionage Act of 1917, maintaining that freedom of speech and press could be constrained in cases of “clear and present danger.”
Answer: Schenk v. U.S.
15. In this 1925 case the court ruled that First Amendment prohibition against government abridgement of the freedom of speech applied to the states as well as the federal government. 
Answer: Gitlow v. New York

30. Identify the astronomers from accomplishments for 10 points each
1. 2 ANSWERS REQUIRED, identify the two astronomers who, while working at AT&T Bell Labs, identified cosmic background radiation which supported the Big Bang theory. For their work they shared the 1978 Nobel in Physics.
Answers: Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
2. In 1948 this man actually predicted the presence of residual background radiation at 2.7 degrees Kelvin. Seventeen years later Penzias and Wilson would accidentally come across their discovery.
Answer: George Gamow
3. In 1930 this American found the planet of Pluto near the location that Percival Lowell predicted.
Answer: Clyde William Tombaugh