I.B.A. Academic League - March - Round 3

1. He was a precocious lad, born a barber's son in Covent Garden.  He studied at the Royal Academy from his early teens, and in 1802 he went to Paris to view the paintings which Napoleon had looted from the rest of Europe.  His first major work, "Calais Pier," was generally condemned as unfinished, which it was not.  For 10 points, identify this landscape painter known for "Crossing the Brook," 'The Slave Ship," and "Rain, Steam, and Speed."

Answer: JMW Turner

2. It was signed on March 3, 1918, and was annuled bu the armistice between  Germany and the Western powers signed in November 1918. It required the USSR  to give up large tracts of territory and to pay a large reparation, but in  return the Soviet Union got out of WWI. Name this treaty signed by Germany  and Austria on the one hand and the new Soviet Government of Russia on the  other.

Answer: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

3. You can make one by splitting a laser beam, diverging both halves with  lenses, reflecting one beam off an object, and having both beams strike a  piece of photographic film. If you do this, what will you have created?

Answer: hologram

4. He was born in 1894 in England, but moved to the US in the late 1930's and  spent most of the rest of his life there. He published three collections of  poems and a book of short stories before beginning the series of witty,  sophisticated novels that made him famous, including "Crome Yellow," "Antic  Hay," "Those Barren Leaves," and "Point Counter Point." He also believed that  science was destroying human and political values, and he expresses this  concern in the novel "Brave New World." Name him.

Answer: Aldous Huxley

5. It was first navigated by Francisco Orellana in 1541, though he probably  didn't explore all 4000 miles of it. Name this longest river in the Western  Hemisphere.

Answer: Amazon

6. With her sister Iole, she went one day to a pool intending to make garlands  for the nymphs. After picking a blossom from a lotus tree, she noticed blood  flowing from the wound, and realized that she had injured a disguised god,  the nymph Lotis. The poor maiden, stricken with fear, tried to run away, but  Lotis changed her into a tree. Who was this unlucky Greek?

Answer: Dryope

7. He was born in Canada in 1934 but was educated in the US. Some of his books  of poetry include "Sleeping With One Eye Open," "The Story of our Lives,"  "Another Republic," "The Late Hour," and "The Planet of Lost Things." Name  this current US poet laureate

Answer: Mark Strand

8. Its original name was Kanawha, and it was officially created at the Wheeling  Conventions of 1861. It soon seceeded from the Confederacy and joined the  Union in 1863. Name this state

Answer: West Virginia

9. This famous Greek archer was gifted with the arrows of Hercules upon the  death of that muscular hero. He joined the Greeks aganst troy, but was left  behind on Lemnas due to the offensive smell of a festering wound. After an  oracle predicted that only the arrows of Hercules could fell troy, he was  summoned back to battle, where he slew Paris and thus fufilled the prophesy.  For 10 points, name him.

Answer: Philoctetes

10. Promenade, Gnomus, Tuileries, Ballet of Unhatched Chicks, The Market Place at  Limoges, The Little Hut on Chicken's Legs, and The Great Gare of Kiev are a  few of the movements of this musical work, originally for piano, but  orchestrated by Ravel, by Modest Mussorgsky. Name this piece of music, in  which each movement musically illustrates a painting or drawing.

Answer: Pictures at an Exhibition

11. They captured Baghdad and Armenia in 1064, followed by Syria and Palestine in  1075. They spent most of the 12th century fighting off crusaders. For 10 points, name these  Asian nomads who were overrun by the forces of Genghis Khan.

Answer: Seljuk Turks

12. In his later works, such as "Past and Present," he revealed his conservatism by attacking reform movements such as that to grant suffrage to workers.  The manuscript for his most famous early work was accidentally burned by John Stuart Mill's housemaid, but he was remarkably able to reproduce it from memory.  For 10 points, identify this author of the 1827 work French Revolution and the 1834 Sartor Resartus.

Answer: Thomas Carlyle

13. Born in 1746, he practiced law in NY until the 1770's. A member of the  Continental Congress, he was one of the committee of 5 which drafted the  Declaration of Independence. He later became chief justice of the NY supreme  court, and swore in president Washington in 1789. he is better known as the  first sec. of foreign affairs, and as the man who as minister to France  negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Answer: Robert Livingston

14. Proposed names for it are "Kurchatovium" and "Rutherfordium." Give the atomic  number of this transactinide element, which for now is being called  "Unnilquadium"

Answer: 104

15. This pacific nation lies 42 km south of the equator, just west of Kiribati  and east of Papua New Guinea. German until 1914, it was granted to Australia  in 1919, and gained independence in 1968. It has no official capital city,  but parliament and government offices are located in the Yaren district.  For 10 points, identify this Pacific nation.

Answer: Nauru

16. This greek comedy is principally an attack upon the dramatist Euripides. In  it, the god Dyonysus travels to Hades to find the best tragic dramatist of  all time. After a literary contest, the conservative Aeschylus is chosen over  the brash Euripides. What was this amphibian comedy by Aristophanes?

Answer: The Frogs

17. He was born in the 1730's in South Carolina, and during the American  Revolution helped keep the rebel cause alive in South Carolina in 1780 and  1781. He became a militia officer, and after the British captured Charleston  in 1780, he led guerrilla raids on enemy outposts. Who was this man who  commanded the militia at the battle of Eutaw Springs, and holds the nickname,  the "Swamp Fox"?

Answer: Francis Marion

18. Consisting of 22 sparsely vegetated volcanic islands, it lies in the North  Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands. It became part of the  Kingdom of Norway in the 11th century, but was ceded to Denmark in 1380. Its  largest islands are Stromo and Osterno, and its capital is at Thorshavn. Name  this Atlantic territory whose name is reminiscent of the rulers of Egypt

Answer: Faeroe Islands

19. The first official statement of the policy of "containment," it proposed  American aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent communist influence there. For 10 points, name  this executive statement of 1947.

Answer: Truman Doctrine

20. Born in San Fransisco in 1876, this American author was first published in  1896 at the age of 20. His most famous work was written in 1903, but his 1907  "The Iron Heel," and his 1909 "Martin Eden" are also well known. Who was this  author of "Call of the Wild"

Answer: Jack London

21. Cash, Jewel, Darl, Vardaman, Dewey Dell, Anse, and Addie Burden are the  principal characters of what Faulkner novel?

Answer: As I Lay Dying

I.B.A. Academic League - March - Round 3

1. For five points apiece, and an extra five for all four, name each of the following Canal Zone treaties from its description.

1) Signed in 1850 between the US and Great Britain, it advocated a jointly supported canal not to be fortified, with all nations having equal access and tolls.  Answer:  Clayton-Bulwer

2) The lease agreement between the US and Columbia for the Canal Zone, which was rejected by the Columbian Legislature because they thought $10 million was not enough   Answer:  Hay-Herran

3) Signed by Panama eight days after they revolted and gained their independence, this lease agreement gave us an even larger tract of land, a ten mile wide strip  Answer:  Hay-Bunau-Varilla

4) This 1901 treaty between Great Britain and the United States revoked the 1850 treaty, and granted us the sole right to build and fortify a canal, though still requiring equal access for all nations.

Answer: Hay - Pauncefote

2. The Algonquin Round Table was a group of writers, musicians and artists who met regularly at the Algonquin Hotel. For ten points apiece, name each of the following members of the A.R.T. from their description

1) Born in 1889, he wrote such Marx Bros. scripts as "The Coconuts" and "Animal Crqackers." He also wrote "You Can't Take it With You," co-wrote "The Man Who Came to Dinner," and made a screen adaptation of "The Solid Gold Cadillac"   Answer:  Gerorge Kaufman

2) Also born in 1889, this humorist and author produced "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or David Copperfield," "From Bed to Worse," "My Ten Years in a Quandry," "How to Sleep," and "The Treasurer's Report."   Answer:  Robert Benchley

3) Born in 1887, he contributed to the "New York Times" and "The New Yorker." In addition to his radio show "The Town Crier," he was the model for Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who Came to Dinner."

Answer: Alexander Woollcott

3. For five points each, and an additional five points for getting them all correct, name each of the following composers from three of their operas

1) Orpheus and Eurydice, Armide, Iphegenia in Aulis  Answer:  Christopher Gluck

2) Belisarius, Don Pasquale, Lucrezia Borgia  Answer:  Gaetano Donizetti

3) The Masked Ball, Rigoletto, Othello  Answer:  Verdi

4) Le Coq d'Or, The Snow Maiden, Sadko  Answer:  Rimsky-Korsakoff

5) Manon Lescaut, La Rondine, Madam Butterfly

Answer: Giacomo Puccini

4. For five points apiece, and an additional five points for all four, I will give you a Russian space program, and you will give the American equivalent in mission. For example, the Russian "Vostok" would correspond to the American "Mercury." Omit any mission numbers.

1) Luna  Answer:  Surveyor or Ranger

2) Venera  Answer:  Mariner

3) Salyut  Answer:  Skylab

4) Buran

Answer: Space Shuttle

5. For ten points each, name the three judges of the dead from classical mythology

Answer: Aeacus, Minos, Rhadamanthus

6. 30-20-10, name the following US president

30) Theodore Roosevelt said of him, he "has been called a mediocre man, but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness."

20) His marriage to his second wife Julia Gardner made him the first president to marry while in office. In addition, he was the first president born after the adoption of the US Constitution

10) After an unpopular term as the tenth president, following the death of W. H. Harrison, he served in the Confederate House of Representatives in 1861.

Answer: John Tyler

7. For ten points apiece, name each of the following Nobel Prize winners in Literature

1) Winning the 1950 prize, this English philosopher and mathematician wrote "The Analysis of Mind," "Religion and Science," "Common Sence and Nuclear Warfare," "Has Man a Fututre?", and "Unarmed Victory." Born in 1872, this noted pacifist founded the Committee of 100 in England.  Answer:  Bertrand Russell

2) Born in 1912, he won the 1973 prize. His use of stream of consciousness reveals the influence of Stein and Joyce. This Australian author wrote "The Tree of Man," "Voss," "The Eye of the Storm," "Happy Valley," "The Cockatoos," and "The Twyborn Affair."  Answer:  Patrick White

3) This Danish novelist, poet, and essayist was born in 1873, and recieved the 1944 prize. He produced "Himmerland Tales," "Kongens fald," "The Fall of the King," and his epic fantasy "Den lange rejse"

Answer: Johannes Jensen

8. For five points each, name the 4 african countries that border Lake Tanganika

Answer: zaire, zambia, tanzania, burundi

9. 30-20-10 Identify the person

30 - He was born April 28, 1937. He graduated from high school at age 24, and spent two years in prison for murder during the 1960's

20 - He recieved his law degree in 1969 by threatening an examination official with four armed bodyguards

10 - He has two wives, one of which is his first cousin, five children, and the forth largest army in the world

Answer: Saddam Hussein

10. For five points each, given an atomic number, name the element

22 - titanium

35 - bromine

40 - zirconium

61 - promethium

78 - platinum

Answer: 100 - fermium

11. Bonus 30-20-10 Name this american poet

30 - She won the Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1966, but committed suicide in 1974

20 - she is also known for her "All My Pretty Ones" and "Love Poems"

10 - appropriately, she won her pulitzer for her work, "Live or Die"

Answer: Anne Sexton

12. For five points apiece and a five point bonus for the correct order, name the five czars of Russia during the nineteenth century.

Answer: Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II

13. For five points each, give the SI unit for the following physical quantities

Electric Potential - volt

capacitance - farad

magnetic flux - weber

Answer: inductance - henry

14. For five points each, given a year name the Eugene O'Neill play that won a Pulitzer that year.

1928 - Strange Interlude

1957 - Long day's Journey into Night

1922 - Anna Christie

Answer: 1920 - Beyond the Horizon

15. For five points apiece, place the following colonial acts in chronological order Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Act

Answer: Sugar, Stamp, Town., Intol.

16. For 5 pts each, name the country which governs each of the following Arctic islands.

a) Sverdrup islands - Canada

b) Svalbard islands - Norway

c) Jan Mayen Island - Norway

d) Frantsa Iosifa Island -

Answer: USSR

17. For 10 pts each, given the following Supreme Court Cases name the presiding chief justice.

a) McCullough v Maryland - 1819 - John Marshall

b) Wabash Railroad v Illinois - 1886 - Morrison Waite c) Brown v Board of Education - 1954 -

Answer: Earl Warren

18. For 5 pts each, name the four authors who won Nobel Prizes for lit during WWI. You can earn an additional 5 pts per author if you can give the year in which they won their award

1915 - Romain Rolland

1916 - Carl G von Heldenstam

1917 - Karl a Gjelerup and Henrik Pontoppidan

1914, 1918 - no award

19. For 30 pts name the Mongol ruler who succeeded Ghengis Khan and conquered northern China. He is credited with building the Mongol capitol of Karakorum, and sacked Kiev in 1240, one year before his death.

Answer: Ogadai

20. (30 points) Identify these related literary titles from clues, for 10 points each.

1. Identify the Dicken's novel featuring the characters Dick Swiveller, Quilp.. and Nell Trent.

Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop

2. For 10 points, identify the 1816 novel by Sir Walter Scott which was the first in his Tales of My Landlord Series.

Answer: Old Mortality

3. Identify the novel that won the 1953 Pulitzer prize in fiction.

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea