Tossups by Cheech and Hong

Intramurals Fall 95

1. He first entered college in 1860. When the American Civil War broke out, he feared that he would be drafted, so he dropped out and began wandering around, taking odd jobs. While working in a carriage parts shop in Indianapolis, he was temporarily blinded. This experience so frightened him that when he recovered his eyesight, he resolved never to spend a day that he did not look at nature. Recently declared to be the "Greatest of All Californians," April 21 is annually proclaimed to be his day. FTP, identify this famous naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club and defender of Hetch-Hetchy Valley.

Answer: John Muir

2. Elements in this work include Halley's Fifth Concerto, Rearden Metal, the State Science Institute, Hammond Cars, and the Taggart Transcontinental Railways. Major characters include Francisco d'Anconia, a playboy and copper magnate, and the pirate-philosopher Ragnar Danneskjöld. In this work, the main character invents a motor that runs off atmospheric static electricity, but then leads an anticollectivist strike by the leaders of American big business instead of manufacturing the engine. FTP, identify this 1957 work by Ayn Rand that asks the question, "Who is John Galt?".

Answer: Atlas Shrugged

3. The first national one met during the Peninsular War against Napoleonic rule, and from the 12th to 19th centuries each region of Spain had these representative assemblies. These assemblies share their name with a Spanish Conquistador who founded the city of Vera Cruz and, with the help of the Tlaxcalans, defeated the Aztecs. FTP, what is this common name?

Answer: Cortes

4. The Kreulen River is the largest permanent stream in this region which has cold winters, short summers, and fierce sand and wind storms. There are important deposits of oil at Yumen, Saynshand, and coal at Tawan-Tolgoi. It extends 1000 miles east to west across Central Asia, in southeast Mongolia and North China. FTP, what is this great desert that supports a small population of Mongol herders?

Answer: Gobi

5. After noticing the high frequency of moving by business executives, he somewhat satirically proposed the creation of a "Modular Family." In this scheme, when the executive is transferred, he leaves all his possessions and even his family behind; the company then matches him up with a carefully selected suitable family at his new location, and someone else who is being transferred is matched with his old family. Another idea of his was the Air-Crib, which he thought would be the ideal environment to raise a child in. FTP, identify this leading American behaviorist, author of Walden Two and inventor of the box that bears his name.

Answer: B. F. Skinner

6. This alkali metal was first discovered by Robert Bunson and Gustav Kirchoff, who named it for the blue lines in its spectrum. Highly reactive, it combines with a hydroxyl group to produce the strongest known acid, one that will even attack glass. A silvery white, soft metal, it is liquid at room temperature, and it is used in photoelectric cells and atomic clocks. FTP, what is this metal, element number 55 on the periodic table.

Answer: Cesium

7. His entire musical output consists of just 41 recordings of 30 songs. One was recorded in a music store on a dare; the other 40 were recorded in hotel rooms in two different sessions seven months apart, for which Columbia Records paid him a total of $75. Born to a family of sharecroppers, he learned to play the harmonica, and then later the guitar. He was eventually so good that fellow blues musicians like Son House speculated that "He sold his soul to the devil to play like that." FTP, identify this falsetto-voiced singer and player of the slide guitar, called "The King of the Delta Blues Singers."

Answer: Robert Johnson

8. This series of novels opens with ten members of the oldest generation still alive, but most of the novels are concerned with two members of the second generation, Soames and Young. Soames is the “man of property” of the first and best-known novel. FTP, what is this series which also includes To Let and In Chancery, written by John Galsworthy?

Answer: The Forsyte Saga

9. He may be best known for his paintings of some members of the family known as Nymphaeaceae, a botanical family of freshwater perennials found throughout the world. In his own garden at Giverny, he repeatedly painted such subjects as haystacks and Rouen cathedral. FTP, who is this person, whose view of Le Havre in his Impression, Sunrise, led to a whole new artistic movement?

Answer: Claude Monet

10. While a young boy, his parents encouraged him to read Milton and Dostoyevsky, a move they soon regretted because of his subsequent desire to become a novelist. His first few novels, such as To a God Unknown, went largely unnoticed. Around the time he began writing, he became close friends with the biologist Ed Ricketts. After the publication of his most successful work in 1939, he and Ed went on a marine expedition to avoid the public outcry, during which they collaborated on The Sea of Cortez. FTP, identify this author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Answer: John Steinbeck

11. Oscar Wilde, John Ruskin, and Friedrich Nietzsche die, while Arthur Evans discovers the Minoan culture. Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie is published, while King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated and succeeded by his son Victor Emmanuel II. FTP, what is this year, that also saw the Boxer risings in China and the reelection of William McKinley?

Answer: 1900

12. In the Letter of Majesty, written by Emperor Rudolf II in 1609, Bohemian Protestants were guaranteed the right to religious liberty. After Roman Catholics closed a couple of Protestant chapels, Protestants gathered in Prague tried a couple of the king's regents, found them guilty of violating the Letter of Majesty, and threw them out the window, along with their personal secretary. FTP, what was this May 23, 1618 event that sparked the Thirty Years War?

Answer: Defenstration of Prague

13. According to Chuck Berry, she lost her arms while searching for a brown-eyed man. Carved on the Maeander River around 150 B.C., she is a copy of an older Corinthian statue. FTP, identify this statue of an armless Aphrodite found on the island of Melos in 1820.

Answer: Venus de Milo

14. It has a number of single-reed pipes called drones. It has a single finger-pipe with holes and one or two pipes with finger holes called chanters. FTP, what is this musical instrument played by skirling, which you might see Groundskeeper Willie playing?

Answer: Bagpipe

15. Suffering from an eye condition that causes him to be almost blind in bright light, he can only write during certain times each day. A civil servant in the Ministry of Culture, he first got literary attention for his three-part novel The Trilogy. During the 1970s, he retired from the government; around this time, he began a weekly column that he still runs every Thursday in Cairo's main paper. FTP, identify this Arabian author, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Answer: Naguib Mahfouz

16. In the treaty of Versailles, Germany surrendered this name to the Allies as part of its war reparations. Charles Frederick von Gerhardt first discovered it, but was not interested in its practical use. Felix Hoffman, a young chemist, rediscovered it to treat his rheumatic father, and coined its name from acetyl, spiraeic, and in, which was a popular ending for the names of medicines at the time. FTP, what is the common name of this drug also known as acetylsalicylic acid?

Answer: Aspirin (accept acetylsalicylic acid before the last sentence)

17. Ceyx, the king of Trachis, disregarded the entreaties of his wife, a daughter of Aeolus. He sailed to Ionia to consult the oracle, but was shipwrecked and died. His wife saw him in a dream, and leaped into the sea to kill herself, but the gods, taking pity, changed her and her husband into kingfishers. FTP, who is this person whose name represents days of happiness and prosperity?

Answer: Halcyone

18. He took Andrew Jackson's old seat in Congress in 1825, and served as governor of Tennessee after a stint as Speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839. He defeated Henry Clay by 1.5 percent of the vote as a proexpansion dark horse. FTP, who is this person known as “Young Hickory,” our eleventh President?

Answer: James Knox Polk

19. When the priest Mattathias died, he appointed the mightiest of his sons to be the military commander and carry on the fight against the Syrians. He succeeded in purifying the temple at Jerusalem, but failed to gain political liberty for his people. FTP, name this Hasmonean leader whose family's story is told in two books of the Old Testament Apocrypha.

Answer: Judas Maccabeus

20. Commonly believed to have been introduced to the Europeans by Columbus, this systemic bacterial infection was possibly the "leprosy" that was a major scourge in Europe before Columbus ever sailed. Caused by a spirochete bacteria, Treponema pallidum, it was commonly treated with mercury. FTP, identify the disease first reasonably successfully treated with Paul Ehrlich's "magic bullet," Salvarsan, and now cured by penicillin.

Answer: Syphilis

21. The second of five children, he came from Germanic and Portuguese ancestry. When he was 19, he got a job with the satirical journal Simplicissimus, began writing short stories, and published his first novella, Little Mr. Friedemann. FTP, identify this author of Joseph and His Brothers and The Magic Mountain.

Answer: Thomas Mann

22. Extracted from various plants, chiefly of the genera Chondodendron and Strychnos, it competes with acetylcholine and blocks nerve impulse transmission to muscles. Its modern medical usages are to relieve spastic paralysis, to induce muscle relaxation for the setting of fractures, and to ensure sufficient muscle relaxation for abdominal surgery. FTP, what is this natural alkaloid used by South American indians that can produce respiratory paralysis?

Answer: Curare

23. Founded in 1954, the major religious text of this group shows up on the best seller lists every few years because the church buys millions of copies and then burns them, just to inflate reported sales. Originally intended to be a new form of psychotherapy, this work, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, purports to be a set of techniques to achieve mental health by overcoming past mental pain. FTP, identify the pseudo-religio-scientific movement founded by L. Ron Hubbard.

Answer: Scientology

24. Tennyson wrote a dramatic monologue named for him which repeats the legend that the poet committed suicide in a fit of insanity induced by a love potion given him by his wife. He had hoped to free all men from religious superstition and the fear of death in a work which was to investigate the nature of the world, and this work is the only large-scale poem in dactylic hexameter that has come to us from the period of the Roman Republic. FTP, who is this Roman poet and author of De Rerum Natura?

Answer: Titus Lucretius Carus

25. The sources of their beliefs range from Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek mythology, to the Cabala and Zoroastrianism. A syncretic religuos system of numerous pre-Christian and early heretical Christian sects, they held that matter, created by the Demiurge, is evil, and that spirit is good. FTP, what is this 2nc century heresy which believed that salvation comes from secret knowledge granted to initiates?

Answer: Gnosticism

26. His father, kindled by the enthusiasms of the Renaissance, hired a tutor wo spoke only Latin to his son until he was six. As a counselor in the Bordeaux Parlement, he met Etienne de la Boetie, a young judge who encouraged his interest in philosophy. Because of an outbreak of plague, he and his family spent six months wandering through the countryside, an experience he described in his third book of Essays. FTP, who is this French moralist and creator of the personal essay?

Answer: Michel de Montaigne

27. After the Bab's execution in 1850, this man's half-brother Mirza Yahya was appointed as the Bab's successor, and, in fact, the Azali sect still regard Yahya, who they call Sobh-e Azal, as the only true leader after the Bab. Most Babi, however, rejected Mirza Yahya as an imposter sent by Satan, and instead followed his half-brother. FTP, identify the half-brother of Yahya, founder of Baha'i.

Answer: Baha'Ullah (or Mirza Hoseyn)

28. A female hermit in the Arabian Nights shares her name with the name of the prophecy in the first issue of the X-Files comic book. It is also the name of a town in central Portugal where the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared in 1917. FTP, what is this name also shared by the daughter of Muhammed?

Answer: Fatima

29. These are caused by the addition of methyl groups to the 5-carbon of cytosine of the DNA for one of the X chromosomes. Without this occuring, the cell would not survive, since two functioning X chromosomes are lethal. FTP, what are these inactive X chromosomes called?

Answer: Barr Bodies

30. Also known as Danaus plexippus, it undertakes long migrations, flying from America to Canada in the spring, and returning along the same route in the fall. FTP, what is this large butterfly remarkable for its size and coloration and for its unpleasant taste?

Answer: Monarch butterfly

Bonuses by Cheech and Hong

Intramurals Fall 95

1. Identify the art movement given some artists:

1. John Sloan, George Bellows, Maurice Prendergast

Answer: Ashcan (or The Eight)

2. Frederick Church, George Inness, Albert Bierstadt

Answer: Hudson River

3. Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Andre Derain

Answer: Fauvism (prompt for more on Expressionism)

4. Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni

Answer: Futurism

5. Piet Mondrian, Theo von Doesburg

Answer: De Stijl

6. Jean Miro, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst

Answer: Surrealism

2. Identify the following things that Krusty the Clown probably learned:

1. From the Hebrew for “learning,” it consists of the text of the Oral Law and a commentary on the Oral Law

Answer: Talmud

2. From the Hebrew for “traditional lore,” it is based on the belief that every word, letter, number, and even accent of the Scriptures contains mysteries

Answer: Cabala

3. It is the Written Law of Judaism and is the Hebrew name for the Pentateuch, the first five ooks of the Bible

Answer: Torah

3. Identify these multi-headed monsters that you might see in the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

1. A child of Typhon and Echidna, this three-headed monster was born with three heads. It was conceived as having a serpent's tail and a mane of serpents, and it was one of Hercules' labors

Answer: Cerberus

2. This nine-headed dragon was born with nine heads. Living in a lake near Argolis, it was defeated by Hercules

Answer: Lernean Hydra

3. A granddaughter of Uranus and Rhea, she had the head of a lion, dog and mare. A sinister goddess, she attended Persephone and dealt with ghosts and witchcraft

Answer: Hecate

4. Identify the following dealing with this year's Nobel Peace prize for ten points each

1. This Polish-born British physicist was the only physicist that quit the Manhattan project. For ten points, who is this co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Peace?

Answer: Joseph Rotblat

2. Joseph Rotblat presides over this group named for a small Nova Scotia fishing where it was first organized. FTP, name this annual conference founded by such people as Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell.

Answer: Pugwash

3. Two other Nobel prizes have been awarded to scientists for nuclear disarmament. FTP, name either the sole recipient of the 1962 Nobel for Peace, or the group which won the 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace.

Answer: Linus Pauling or International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

5. Identify the author 30,20,10.

30 - His latest work, a biography of Picasso, is entitled Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man.

20 - He is also working on a trilogy about Egypt, though he's only written one book in the trilogy, Ancient Evenings.

10 - Enrolling in the Sorbonne after World War II, he wrote The Naked and the Dead.

Answer: Norman Mailer

6. Identify the graphic novels FTP each.

1. Published in two parts, My Father Bleeds History and And Here My Troubles Began, it tells of Art Spiegelman's relationship with his father and of his father's experiences during the Holocaust.

Answer: Maus: A Survivor's Tale

2. Along with Maus and Watchmen, this is considered one of the three finest graphic novels. Written and penciled by Frank Miller in 1986, it tells of a retired Bruce Wayne who comes back from ten years of retirement to save Gotham City from the Mutants and others, eventually even fighting Superman.

Answer: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

3. Panned by critics as an "overrated and pretentious revenge fantasy," this 1993 work by James O'Barr tells of Eric and Shelley, fiancées who are murdered by thieves on Devil's Night. Eric comes back from the dead as the title character and goes on his own killing spree.

Answer: The Crow

7. Identify the following concepts dealing with particle physics ten points each:

1. It is a statistical method of handling certain subatomic particles that have integral spin, such as the photon

Answer: Bose-Einstein statistics

2. Postulated by Albert Einstein to explain the photoelectric effect, is carries the electromagnetic force between charged particles

Answer: Photon

3. Made of a quark and an antiquark, it was postulated by Hideki Yukawa to explain the transmission of the strong nuclear force

Answer: Pion

8. Identify the Beat figures 5, 10, 15

5 - Author of works like Junkie and Naked Lunch, collaborator with Kurt Cobain on And the "Priest" They Call Him, and even star of a Nike commercial, he is probably most-remembered by college-bowlers for the 1951 incident in which he tried to imitate William Tell and instead hit his wife in the eye, killing her instantly.

Answer: William S. Burroughs

10 - A poet whose work was published in such collections as Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower and A Coney Island of the Mind, he is mainly remembered for the City Lights bookstore he ran in San Francisco; it was a major Beat gathering place, and was the first to publish Beat poetry.

Answer: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

15 - A friend of Jack Kerouac, he published a novel, Go, which was based on Kerouac and Ginsberg. After Go's publication, he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine entitled "This is the Beat Generation," which introduced the phrase "beat" to the public.

Answer: John Clellon Holmes

9. Four governors of New York have been elected as President of the United States. First, for five points each, name any two.

Answer: Martin van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt

However, seven New York governors have lost as candidates for President on a major ticket. Name any four for five points each.

Answer: George Clinton, DeWitt Clinton, Horatio Seymour, Samuel Tilden, Al Smith, Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Dewey

10. It's time for the obligatory music bonus. Identify the following about Madame Butterfly.

1. For five points, who wrote the opera Madame Butterfly?

Answer: Giacomo Puccini

2. For another five points, she is the wife that is purchased in the first act of the opera, also known as Madame Butterfly

Answer: Cio-Cio San

3. For ten points, he is the lieutenant in the US Army, he purchases and marries Cio-Cio San

Answer: BF Pinkerton

4. Lastly, for ten points, this Japanese servant of Cio-Cio San shares her name with a method of learning to play violins

Answer: Suzuki

11. Identify these seemingly unrelated things

1. As a running back for the University of Southern California, he won the 1968 Heisman Trophy, and his career record of 11,236 yards gained rushing is second only to that of Jimmy Brown

Answer: OJ Simpson (or Orenthal James)

2. An American suing her second husband for divorce, she precipitated a crisis with the cabinet headed by Stanley Baldwin when Edward VIII announced his intention to marry her

Answer: Wallis Simpson

3. He is a character in Nathanael West's Day of the Locust

Answer: Homer Simpson

12. Identify the Thomas Hardy novels:

1. It tells the story of Clym Yeobright, who opens a school in the country after tiring of city life. He marries Eustacia, but becomes an itinerant preacher after she drowns herself.

Answer: The Return of the Native

2. It traces the title character's life from his boyhood aspirations of intellectual achivement to his miserable early death, which is brought on by the murder of some of his children by a son who bears his name.

Answer: Jude the Obscure

3. It is the story of Bathsheba Everdene, who is loved by three men. After various involvements, she marries Gabriel, the most faithful of the three.

Answer: Far from the Madding Crowd

13. Identify the very famous person 30-20-10

30 - Famed for his eccentric personality and quotes, he once stated, "It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree."

20 - Born in Dunbar, Scotland, he moved to Wisconsin with his family in 1849, where he began to gain fame for inventing unusual appliances, such as an alarm clock that tipped him out of bed when it was time to get up.

10 - After several semi-mystical experiences, including one in which he entered a three-day trance while staring at a daisy, he became a naturalist; his efforts in that field led to the establishment of Yosemite and other national parks.

Answer: John Muir

14. Identify these people you might see around University [sic] of Georgia for ten points each:

1. Peking man and Java man are examples of this species that preceded Neanderthal man

Answer: Homo erectus

2. Lucy is an example of this early bipedal species

Answer: Australopithecus afarensis

3. Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey came across fragments of this humanoid in Olduvai, an intermediate between the australopithecines and Homo erectus

Answer: Homo habilis

15. Identify these Italian bodies of water, ten points each:

1. The strait that separates Italy from Albania

Answer: Strait of Otranto

2. Part of the Mediterranean Sea, it lies between the west coast of peninsular Italy and the islands of Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily

Answer: Tyrrhenian Sea

3. The strait that separates Italy from Sicily

Answer: Strait of Messina

16. Its time for a potent potables bonus to prepare Mike and Hing for Jeopardy!

1. This theory of acids defines an acid as a proton donor and a base as a proton acceptor

Answer: Bronsted-Lowry

2. This theory of acids defines acids as substances which are able to accept electron pairs from bases, which are electron-pair donators

Answer: Lewis

3. This theory of acids defines acids as a compound that can dissociate in water to yield hydrogen ions

Answer: Arrhenius

17. Identify these Anton Chekov works, ten points each:

1. Its four acts portray the declining fortunes of the Ranevskys, a landowning family who are about to lose their estate because of poor management, neglect, and impracticality

Answer: The Cherry Orchard

2. Subtitled Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts, Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky has given up his own dreams and ambitions to support his brother-in-law, who thinks he is a great scholar

Answer: Uncle Vanya

3. One of the first successful productions of the Moscow Art Theatre, it deals with Konstantin Gavrilovich Trepliov and his love for Nina Zarechnaya, for whom he commits suicide over

Answer: The Seagull

18. Name these pioneering American women, ten points each

1. The first woman attorney to argue before the Supreme Court

Answer: Belva Ann Lockwood

2. A professor of astronomy at Vassar, she was elected in 1848 as the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Answer: Maria Mitchell

3. She opened an elementary school now regarded as the basis of the US parochial school system. FTP, who is this first native-born US saint?

Answer: Elizabeth Ann Seton

19. Identify the law FTP each.

1. This law, believed by some physicists to be the reason for the nonreversibility of the universe, states that the total entropy of a system and its surroundings always increases for a spontaneous process.

Answer: Second Law of Thermodynamics

2. This law is often called the law of conservation of energy; it states that the total energy entering a system is equal to the total energy leaving that system.

Answer: First Law of Thermodynamics

3. This law states that the entropy of a perfect crystal at zero Kelvin is zero.

Answer: Third Law of Thermodynamics

20. Roman emperors 5-10-15

5 - He was proclaimed emperor by the Praetorians. He was supposedly poisoined by Agrippina II after she had persuaded him to pass over his son in favor of her son Nero

Answer: Claudius

10 - An army commander, he was chosen to succeed Numerian after his coemperor, Carinus, was killed. He ruled the empire with a coemperor and two subemperors.

Answer: Diocletian

15 - Odoacer seized Ravenna and deposed of this emperor, the last Roman emperor of the West in 476

Answer: Romulus Augustulus

21. Identify the following female Shakespeare characters:

1. The daughter of the deposed duke, she falls in love with Orlando in As You Like It

Answer: Rosalind

2. She is the lover of Duke Orsino of Illyria and twin sister of Sebastian in Twelfth Night

Answer: Viola

3. She is the ill-tempered young women courted, married, and “tamed” by Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew

Answer: Katherina

4. Disguised as a lawyer, this lover of Bassanio saves Antonio from Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

Answer: Portia

5. She is the wife of Oberon and the magically charmed lover of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Answer: Titania

6. The King of France marries her even though her father, King Lear, rejects her

Answer: Cordelia

1. He held more cabinet positions than anyone in US History. He held three cabinet positions under President Nixon, the last of which was attorney general, resigning to protest the firing of special investigator Archibald Cox

Answer: Elliot Richardson

2. He served as chief of staff to Richard Nixon, resigning after disclosure of his role in Watergate

Answer: Bob Haldemann

3. Chief legal counsel to Richard Nixon, it was his testimony that implicated Nixon and other top officials

Answer: John Dean

30-20-10 Name the author from works

30 - On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Lycidas

20 - Areopagitica, Il Pensoroso

10 - L'Allegro, Samson Agonistes

Answer: John Milton

Identify the author 30,20,10

30 - Born with the last name Foe, his first poem was entitled The True-Born Englishman.

20 - After writing the pamphlet The Shortest Way With Dissenters, he was thrown in Newgate jail; he was very annoyed by the rather unflattering description of him on the arrest warrent.

10 - He is best-known today, however, for his later books, including Moll Flanders.

Answer: Daniel Defoe

Identify the author from works 30,20,10

30 - Micromégas and Nanine

20 - Zadig and La Henriade

10 - Candide

Answer: Voltaire (or François-Marie Arouet)

Identify the order of the following characters from the Simpsons FTP; you'll get 5 points if you need to know what they are.

1. 10)Stampy

5)Bart's elephant

Proboscidea

2. 10)Princess

5)Lisa's horse

Perissodactyla

3. 10)Apu

5)Homer's one-time boss, manager of the Quick-E-Mart, and purveyor of vegetarian hot dogs on the unsuspecting masses.

Primates

Identify these ecumenical Councils, ten points each:

1. It was convened by Pope Pius IX, and enunciated the dogma of papal infallibility, ending when Italian troops seized Rome for the new kingdom of Italy.

Answer: Vatican I

2. This council ended the Great Schism, accepting Gregory XII resignation and electing Martin V as pope

Answer: Constance

3. Convened by Pope Paul II to combat the Protestant Reformation, it touched all aspects of religious life and set the pattern of modern Catholicism

Answer: Trent

30-20-10 Identify the Enlightenment thinker

30 - Discourse on the Inequality of Man, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences

20 - Julie, or the New Heloise, Confessions

10 - Emile, The Social Contract

Answer: Jean Jacques Rousseau

Identify the religion or sect (30,20,10).

30)They are divided into two rankings. The 'uqqal, or "wise," participate fully in the religion and are allowed access to the religion's holy writings. The majority of the members are juhhal, or "ignorant." They are taught by the 'uqqal, and are not nearly as restricted in what they can and cannot do.

20)Because the religion is kept secret both from most of its adherents and from the outside world, little is known about its doctrines. It is known to be strictly monotheistic, however, and is apparently a mixture of Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, Neoplatonic, and Iranian elements with teachings of Islam.

10)Founded by Hamzah ibn 'Ali in 1017, they take their name from his secretary, Muhammad ad-Darazi. Today, members are found mainly in Lebanon, though some are found in Israel and Syria.

Druse (or Druze or Duruz or Darazi)

Identify the religious group or sect from works they consider scripture. You'll get ten points after the first work, five if you need a second.

1. 10)Gathas

5)Zend Avesta

Zoroastrianism

2. 10)Lun yü or Analects

5) I Ching or Classic of Changes

Confucianism

3. 10)Puranas

5)Mahabharata

Hinduism

Identify three of Nietzsche's übermensch from the description FTP each.

1)Born around 540 B.C., he said that fire was the fundamental element of the universe and that everything was in a state of flux.

Heraclitus

2)Born in 1813 in Leipzig, he composed such works as Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde.

Richard Wagner

3)Born around 7 B.C., this wandering preacher was executed by Pontius Pilate around 30 A.D.

Jesus Christ