Toss-Up Round 5:
1. Fought January 8, 1815, it was one of America's greatest military successes - dampened only by the fact that it came after the official peace was signed. For 10 points, identify this battle fought after the War of 1812 was officially over.
Answer: Battle of New Orleans
2. This writer intended "to drag into the light all that was bad in Russia" in the 19th century. Thus he was sparked to write satires of Russian society such as The Nose and The Inspector General. For 10 points, identify this author who masterwork was Dead Souls.
Answer: Nikolai Gogol
3. number three fine (add pencil and paper ready at start)
4. It was first performed in March, 185 at the Paris Opera-Comique. Its libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. For 10 points, identify this story of Don Jose and a wild gyspy woman told in operatic form by Georges Bizet.
Answer: Carmen
5. For 10 points, what compound is precipitated when hydrochloric acid is added to a solution that contains lead, silver and, mercury one ions?
Answer: AgCl or silver chloride
6. During his administration the Boxer rebellion disrupted China, Bismarck and Gladstone died, Russia occupied Port Arthur, and the U.S. declared War on Spain. For 10 points, identify this 25th president of the U.S.
Answer: William McKinley
7. Pencil and paper ready. In terms of a single natural logarithm, what is ln(9) minus ln(3)?
Answer: ln(3)
8. His honors thesis at Harvard was published in 1940 under the title Why England Slept. He began his political career in 1946 when he was elected to the first of three terms in the House from Boston. For 10 points, identify this man who later became a Senator and then the 35th U.S. president.
Answer: John F. Kennedy
9. For 10 points, if you were in Nicaragua and wanted to go by land to Panama, through what Central American nation must you pass?
Answer: Costa Rica
10. They can be found in the space between two adjoining guard cells. They are microscopic openings or porse found in the epidermal layer on the underside of leaves and in stems. For 10 points, what are they?
Answer: stomata or stoma
11. It was first performed in 1936 at the Moscow Children's Theater center and is a symphonic fairy-tale to the composers own libretto. For 10 points, identify this work which features many solos by Sergei Prokofiev.
Answer: Peter and the Wolf
12. It is generally dated from the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of the Roman Empire. For 10 points, what is this period of Greek cultural dominance of Mediterranean cilivization?
Answer: Hellenistic period or age
13. They are emitted by a nucleus that has too many neutrons to remain stable and may be either electrons are positrons. For 10 points, identify these particles of radioactive decay.
Answer: beta particles (accept electron or positron if they buzz before word electron is read)
14. James Jones' The Thin Red Line, Herman Wouk's The Winds of War, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead are all set in what war?
Answer: World War II
15. His vivid imagination was constantly provoked by absurdities and his works are full of fantastic birds and animals in bizarre landscapes. For 10 points, identify this German painter and poet who was a member of the dada movement and founder of surrealism.
Answer: Max Ernst
16. While she was still a girl she was carried off by the Athenian hero Theseus but was rescued by her brothers Castor and Pollux. For 10 points, identify this daughter of Zeus and Leda, the cause of the Trojan War.
Answer: Helen of Troy