IBA Advanced Rounds
Question Packet 2
1. Gladsheim literally means "glad home" and anyone who dwelt there was most likely happy as was its owner, one of the Aesir. For 10 points, identify the owner of Gladsheim, the chief deity of Norse mythology.
Answer: Odin
2. In his The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, he asserted the right of the states to nullify federal laws. He later debated with Senator Daniel Webster and served as Secretary of State from 1844 to 1845 under John Tyler. For 10 points, identify this South Carolinian and champion of states' rights.
Answer: John C. Calhoun
3. It is disturbed by many convectional currents from uneven heating of the earth and it clouds are formed. Varying in height from 6 to 11 miles above the earth's surface, for 10 points, what is this lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
Answer: troposphere
4. His Forty-Five Guardsmen is in two volumes and is the third in the series known as the Valois Romances. For 10 points, identify this member of the French academy whose works include L'Affaire Clemenceau, Tristan le Roux, and the plays Le Demi-Monde and La Dame aux camelias.
Answer: Alexander Dumas, fils
5. His first systematic musical studies were undertaken in 1862 under Balakirev who conducted his First Symphony in 1889. From 1872 on, he lectured or chemistry at the St Petersburg School of Medicine for Women. For 10 points, identify this man whose works include three symphonies, the symphonic sketch In the Steppes of Central Asia and the unfinished Prince Igor.
Answer: Alexander Borodin
6. In The Road to Serfdom, the Austrian economist Friedrich August von Hayak attacked government interference in the market system and later won the Nobel Prize, sharing it with a more famous economist. For 10 points, identify the Swedish sociologist and economist who shared the 1974 Economics prize with von Hayak.
Answer: Gunnar Myrdal
7. It was abrogated in 1901 by a Treaty negotiated by the US Secretary of State and the British ambassador to Washington. It's three central provisions were that 1) any canal constructed across central America was to be neutral, 2) that neither side was to fortify such a canal and 3) that neither side was to occupy or fortify any part of Latin America. For 10 points, identify this 1850 agreement between the US and Great Britain.
Answer: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
8. With James Kirk Palding, he released in twenty numbers a humorous periodical subtitled "The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Lancelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others". For 10 points, identify this American author of Salmagundi, The Sketchbook, and Knickerbocker's History of New York.
Answer: Washington Irving
9. She is allegorically introduced into the New Testament by Paul when she is used as a symbol of the earthly Jerusalem. A Jewish tradition identifies her with Keturah, Abraham's second wife, and another as the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh. For 10 points, identify this handmaid of Sarah and mother of Ishmael.
Answer: Hagar
10. William Shakespeare based his play, The Comedy of Errors on the play, The Menaechmi, a Latin play based on a Greek original by an unknown author. For 10 point,s identify this 3rd to 2nd century BC Roman playwright who wrote it.
Answer: Plautus
11. This group of elements derives its name from the oxides of the metals in the column. For 10 point,s identify this group of elements in column 2 that include strontium, barium, radium, calcium, magnesium, and beryllium.
Answer: alkaline e arth metals
12. In 1895, he became mayor of Kawit in his native province of Cavite where he directed attacks against the Spanish military presence there. In 1897, he was elected president of the revolutionary assembly at Tejeros, Cavite and a later exiled to Hong Kong. For 10 points, identify this man encouraged to return by the US who in January 1899 became president of the first Philippine Republic.
Answer: Emilio Aguinaldo
13. In 1856, the British chemist William Perkin was attempting to synthesize quinine by treating impure aniline with potassium dichromate. He ended up with a purple compound that could be used as a dye. For 10 points, identify the name Perkin gave to this material and the color that it produced.
Answer: mauve
14. While professor of experimental zoology at Columbia University, he demonstrated genetic linkage, described the process of "crossing over", and mapped individual genes. For 10 points, identify this man who amended Mendel's laws of inheritance and develope the chromosome theory of genetics.
Answer: Thomas Hunt Morgan
15. Though Ghiberti is well known for defeating Brunelleschi for the commission for the second set of bronze doors for baptistery of the cathedral of Florence, it is actually the third set of doors, also by Ghiberti, that are more famous. They depict five scenes from the Old Testament and were given their name by Michelangelo. For 10 points, identify this work by Ghiberti that shares its name with a Rodin group.
Answer: The Gates of Paradise
16. He served as National secretary for the Norwegian labor party from 1926 to 1946 and entered the cabinet as minister of justice in 1935. During World War II, he served in London as foreign minister for the Norwegian government-in-exile. For 10 points, identify this man who after attending the San Francisco conference in 1945 was elected the head of the UN the following year.
Answer: Trygve Halvdan Lie
17. It has a homogenous population, almost all of whom speak the German dialect Alemannish and most of whom live near the Rhine on its western border. For 10 points, identify this largely catholic nation that shares its customs, currency and postal systems with neighboring Switzerland.
Answer: Liechtenstein
18. Though she wrote numerous novels, she is remembered only for one. She repeated the theme of doom, this time by plague in The Last Man and wrote two novels which defended her husband, Lodore and Falkner. For 10 points, identify this woman born in 1797, that in 1816 at the suggestion of Byron wrote the novel for which she is famous, Frankenstein.
Answer: Mary Shelley
19. He developed a new kind of statistics for explaining the behavior of electrons and worked on a theory of beta decay, while a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Rome. For 10 points, identify this 20th century scientist and winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics.
Answer: Enrico Fermi
20. During the Harrison and Tyler Administrations, Thomas Ewing of Ohio had served as Treasury Secretary. However, when he served under Zachary Taylor, he headed a new cabinet department. For 10 points, identify this department served by Ewing as its first Secretary.
Answer: Dept of the Interior
21. First published under the title The Escaped Cock, his The Man Who Died is a retelling of the story of Christ's resurrection. For 10 points, identify the English novelist who wrote this short novel in 1929 whose other works include The Rocking Horse Winner, The White Peacock, and Women in Love.
Answer: DH Lawrence
IBA Advanced Rounds
Question Packet 2
1. Given a title of a work on American military history, give the author for 5 points and the war on which it is based for 5 points.
1. The Guns of August
Answer: Barbara Tuchman , World War I
2. A Bridge Too Far
Answer: Cornelius Ryan , World War II
3. A Fire in the Lake
Answer: Francis Fitzgerald, Vietnam War
2. Identify the Flemish artists who painted the following for ten points each.
1. Ship of Fools
Answer: Heironymous Bosch
2. The Blind Leading the Blind
Answer: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
3. Marie de Medici
Answer: Peter Paul Rubens
3. Identify the persons, places, or things from Norse mythology for 10 points each.
1. It is inhabited by four harts and Ratatosk.
Answer: Yggdrasil
2. This eight-legged beast is the horse of Odin.
Answer: Slipnir
3. Located at the foots of Yggdrasil, it was the Norse realm of dark, cold, and mist.
Answer: Nifelheim
4. For 5 points each, in what Asian nation would you find the mouths of the following rivers?
1. Irrawaddy Answer: Burma or Myanmar
2. Ganges Answer: Bangladesh
3. Mekong Answer: Vietnam
4. Amur Answer: Russia
5. Ural Answer: Kazachstan
6. Indus Answer: Pakistan
5. For 10 points each, tell me what literary term is being identified.
1. This name is applied to the recurrence of the same vowel sound in a group of words.
Answer: assonance
2. It is the name applied to the pleasing effects of sounds produced by the combination of words in sentences or of phonetic elements in spoken words.
Answer: euphony
3. It is the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.
Answer: onomatopoeia
6. 30-20-10 Identify this physicist.
1. In 1961, independently of Nazuhiko Nishijima, he introduced the so-called SU(3) symmetry.
2. In 1953, he proposed the sub-atomic particles were characterized by an invariant property that he called "strangeness"
3. In 1963, along with George Zweig, he introduced quarks into fundamental particle theory.
Answer: Murray Gell-Mann
7. Identify the poetry collections that feature the following poems and the poet who wrote it. 5 pts. for each part.
1. I Sing the Body Electric Answer: Leaves of Grass , Walt Whitman
2. Paul Revere's Ride Answer: Tales of a Wayside Inn , H.W. Longfellow
3. The Death of the Hired Man Answer: North of Boston , Robert Frost
8. Given a Latin American leader, name the nation he led for 10 points each.
1. Rafael Trujillo Answer: Dominican Republic
2. Colonel Jacobo Guzman Answer: Guatemala
3. Daniel Ortega Answer: Nicaragua
9. Answer the following questions about earthquakes for 5 points each.
1. What device is used to measure movements in the earth's crust?
Answer: seismograph or seismometer
2. What name is applied to the point on the earth's surface directly above the point where the earthquake originated?
Answer: epicenter
3. What name is given to the point below the earth's surface where an earthquake originates?
Answer: focus
4. What logarithmic scale is used to measure the power of an earthquake?
Answer: Richter scale
5. This alternate scale measures the strength of the earthquake by the amount of damage it does.
Answer: Mercalli scale
6. One of the three types of earthquake waves, it is a compressional wave and the fastest.
Answer: P wave
10. Identify the following 18th century English plays from a brief description. 10 pts. each.
1. This comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan features the characters Bob Acres and Jack Absolute vying for the hand of Lydia Languish .
Answer: The Rivals
2. In this Goldsmith comedy Marlow sets out to win the hand of Miss Hardcastle.
Answer: She Stoops to Conquer
3. This brilliant satirical burlesque of heroic drama written by Henry Fielding was based on a 1697 tale by Charles Perrault.
Answer: The History of Tom Thumb
11. Give the collective name of the following body parts. 10 pts. each.
1. Sublingual, Submaxillary, parotid
Answer: salivary glands
2. dura mater, pia mater, arachnoid
Answer: meninges
3. ileum, duodenum, jejunum
Answer: small intestine
12. Identify the following Old Testament figures that according to Judeo-Christian tradition did not die.
1. For 10 points, identify the prophet who after conflicting with Jezebel was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind.
Answer: Elijah
2. For 20 points, identify the father of Methuselah who did not die but "walked with God" and disappeared.
Answer: Enoch
13. Given a character from a novel with red in the title, identify it. 10 pts. each if you need only the character, 5 points if you also need the author.
1. 10 pts: Julian Sorel 5 pts: Stendahl
Answer: The Red and the Black
2. 10 pts: Henry Fleming 5 pts: Steven Crane
Answer: The Red Badge of Courage
3. 10 pts: Lt. Henry Ark 5 pts: James Fennimore Cooper
Answer: The Red Rover
14. Identify the authors of the following classic texts of economics. 10 pts. each.
1. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Answer: David Ricardo
2. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Answer: John Maynard Keynes
3. National Income and Its Composition, 1919 to 1938
Answer: Simon Kuznets
15. For 10 points each, identify the composers of the following symphonic poems.
1. Don Quixote
Answer: Richard Strauss
2. Les Preludes
Answer: Franz Liszt
3. Isle of the Dead
Answer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
16. Give the chemical name for the following ions. 5 pts. each.
1. C2H3O2 minus
Answer: acetate
2. ClO minus [read: C-L-O minus]
Answer: hypochlorite
3. CN minus
Answer: cyanide
4. H3O plus
Answer: hydronium
5. C plus
Answer: carbonium
6. MNO4 minus
Answer: permangenate
17. Answer the following questions about the latest lawsuit in the world of theater.
1. For 5 points, what famed producer and composer was recently sued for $6 million dollars for breach of contract, fraud, and defamation over the closing of one of his musicals after Glenn Close couldn't fill her role.
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
2. For 10 points, identify the actress who sued Webber.
Answer: Faye Dunaway
3. For 15 points, what musical's closing instigated the lawsuit.
Answer: Sunset Boulevard
18. For 10 points each, give any year in the following European wars.
1. War of the Spanish Succession
Answer: 1701-1714
2. War of the Austrian Succession
Answer: 1740-1748
3. Great Northern War
Answer: 1700-1721
19. 30-20-10 Identify this European author from her works.
1. All Said and Done and The Force of Circumstance
2. All Men are Mortal and The Coming of Age
3. The Mandarins and The Second Sex
Answer: Simone de Beauvoir
20. Identify the presidents from whom the following quotations are taken. 10 points each.
1. "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world."
Answer: George Washington
2. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
3. "The chief business of America is business."
Answer: Calvin Coolidge