7# /$.$ .Xx@ `* vDave Dixon Boni 30 POINT BONUS 1. Recently Ronald Reagan was embarrassed by his daughter Patti posing nude for Playboy. Six other Presidents wouldnt have had to worry about such renegade children, because they had no children. For five points each, name these six childless Presidents. Answers: George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Warren Harding, 20 POINT BONUS 2. A famous composer recently staged a concert to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his most famous work. The work consists of 53 different musical motifs, some no more than one measure long, each of which a number of performers repeat as many times as they wish before moving on to the next motif, making the piece different every time it is played. For ten points each, name this seminal work of minimalism and its American composer. Answer: In C by Terry Riley 30 POINT BONUS 3. What a commander says in the heat of battle can imprint itself on the conscience of an entire nation. For the following quotes, tell me, for five points each, who said it and at what battle. A. You may fire when ready, Gridley. Answers: George Dewey, Battle of Manila Bay B. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead! Answers: David Farragut, Battle of Mobile Bay C. Merde! Answers: Cambronne, Battle of Waterloo 30 POINT BONUS 4. We probably all know about volts, watts and joules, but for ten points each, express the following physical quantities in terms of basic units-- that is, kilograms, seconds, meters and coulombs. For example, velocity would be meters per second. [Moderator: accept commutative equivalents.] (10) force Answer: kilogram meter per second squared (10) power Answer: kilogram meter squared per second cubed (10) voltage Answer: kilogram meter squared per coulomb second squared 20 POINT BONUS 5. (20) With the advent of world music on American popular music, some previously obscure ethnic instruments have become more mainstream. For ten points each, name the instrument described. (10) An African instrument, sometimes called a thumb piano, which consists of a series of small metal bars which when plucked produce different tones. A small one of these can be found in music boxes. Answer: kalimba (10) A Japanese instrument, similar to a zither, made of 7 to 13 silk strings stretched over a large oblong box and usually placed on the ground when played. Answer: koto 30 POINT BONUS 6. The four most populous ethnic groups in America are, in order, white, black, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander. For individual cities, however, the ranking can be quite different. For the following U.S. cities, rank the four ethnic groups in that citys population from largest to smallest for ten points each, or five points if you get two of the four groups in the right place. A. Los Angeles Answer: white (53%), Hispanic (40%), black (14%), Asian (10%) B. Atlanta Answer: black (67%), white (30%), Hispanic (2%), Asian (1%) C. San Francisco Answer: white (53%), Asian (29%), Hispanic (14%), black (11%) 20 POINT BONUS 7. For ten points each, give the first and last names of these modern literary critics who have more than just ideology in common: A. The recently deceased political theorist, essayist and University of Chicago professor who rued the waning of great books in his collection of essays, The Closing of the American Mind. Answer: Allan Bloom B. The Yale and NYU English professor who wrote an interpretation of The Book of J and recently fought back against multiculturalism with his tome, The Western Canon. Answer: Harold Bloom 30 POINT VISUAL BONUS 8. On the PBS geography game show, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? the final round involves the contestant running around on a large map of some continent placing markers on the requested countries in a short amount of time. What makes the game tough is that the contestant is looking at the map upside-down. Lets see how well you do. For five points each, identify the six countries marked with letters in this handout without turning it over. Answers: A: Botswana, B: Tanzania, C: Senegal, D: Ghana, E: Chad, F: Cameroon 20 POINT BONUS 9. Many people claim to have supernatural powers of perception. Given a brief description, name the supernatural ability for ten points each: A. Seeing things occurring remotely in the present Answer: clairvoyance B. Seeing things occurring in the future Answer: precognition 20 POINT BONUS 10. This play consists of a long, emotional conversation between a mother and her suicidal, epileptic, middle-aged daughter Jessie. It begins at 8:15 in the evening and ends about an hour-and-a-half later with a gunshot which, according to the screenplay, sounds like No. For ten points each, name this Pulitzer Prize-winning one-act play and its author. Answer: night Mother by Marsha Norman 30 POINT BONUS 11. For fifteen points each, identify these documentary film makers: A. Shes won two Best Documentary Oscars, one for Harlan County USA and one for American Dream, both of which focus on labor-management disputes. Answer: Barbara Kopple B. His most famous film, Burden of Dreams, shows the making of the very weird filmmaker Werner Herzogs classic, Fitzcarraldo. His other films include Gap-Toothed Women and Chicken Real. Answer: Les Blank 25 POINT BONUS 12. Every year the Kennedy Center in New York City honors five people for their artistic contributions. 1994s honorees include [moderator: read the following a bit slowly] a tough-guy actor, a soul singer, a folk singer, a Broadway producer, and a modern composer. For five points each, name these Kennedy Center honorees. Answers: Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Pete Seeger, Harold Prince, Morton Gould 30 POINT BONUS 13. For ten points each, identify the following human muscles, and for another five points each, spell them. A. The most prominent muscle of the calf, it extends the foot and bends the knee. Answer: G-A-S-T-R-O-C-N-E-M-I-U-S (gas-troke-NEE-me-us) B. Either of two triangular muscles running from the back of the head to the middle of the back, they make it possible to raise the head and shoulders. Answer: T-R-A-P-E-Z-I-U-S (tra-PEE-zyus) 30 POINT BONUS 14. 30-20-10, name the book: (30) Henry Fords newspaper The Independent was instrumental in getting this book published in America in 1905. (20) Originally published in Russia, its publishers purported that it was a translation of an ancient text, although it was proven to be a fraud in 1993. (10) It has often been referred to by anti-Semites as the handbook used by Jews to achieve world domination. Answer: Protocols of the Elders of Zion 30 POINT BONUS 15. 30-20-10, name the composer. (30) He built his first computer at the age of 16 and later recorded the first piece of music to use a computer-enhanced human voice. (20) Some of this composers albums include Sonic Seasonings and Beauty in the Beast, as well as movie soundtracks for Tron and The Shining. (10) Shortly after he scored the movie A Clockwork Orange, he went into seclusion for several years and re-emerged as a woman. Answer: Walter (Wendy) Carlos 30 POINT BONUS 16. Oh my aching foot! After being bitten by a serpent on the way to Troy, his wailings proved too much for his shipmates and he was abandoned on the Isle of Lemnos to nurse his wound and his hatred for the Greeks. First, for ten points, name this Sophocles title character. Answer: Philoctetes The Greeks came back for Philoctetes ten years later because they discovered that some magic arrows of his were the only thing that would conquer Troy. For ten points, whose arrows were these originally? Answer: Heracles or Hercules Finally, for ten points, name the companion of Odysseus who befriends Philoctetes and prevents his shipmates from taking back the arrows by force. Answer: Neoptolemus or Pyrrhus 30 POINT BONUS 17. In each part of this bonus, we'll give you the common names of 3 kinds of insects. Two of them will be in the same order. The third doesn't belong. For 10 points each, tell us which insect in each group is "out of order"! A. Butterflies, skippers, and dragonflies. Answer: dragonflies (Butterflies and skippers are Lepidoptera, dragonflies Odonata.) B. Stink bugs, ladybugs, and bed bugs. Answer: ladybugs (Stink bugs and bed bugs are true bugs, Hemiptera; ladybugs are beetles, Coleoptera.) C. Crane flies, fruit flies, and fireflies. Answer: fireflies (Crane flies and fruit flies are Diptera; fireflies are Coleoptera.) 20 POINT BONUS 18. Dictators come and go... but where? For five points each, name the current resident country for each of the following notorious dictators: A. Baby Doc Duvalier France B. Idi Amin Saudi Arabia C. Pol Pot Cambodia D. Raoul Cedras (post-Haiti) Panama 25 POINT BONUS 19. Like so many female writers, she went under a male pen-name in a genre usually dominated by men-- in her case, science fiction. An award in her pen-name is given each year for the best exploration of gender issues in science fiction, a subject she often addressed in her novels, such as Brightness Falls From The Air. For 25 points name this author, born Alice Sheldon, who killed herself in 1987 after euthanising her terminally ill husband. Answer: James Tiptree, Jr. 30 POINT BONUS 20. 30-20-10, name the scientist. (30) J. P. Morgan helped finance his failed Wardenclyffe Tower project, a 172-foot tall tower that was supposed to realize his dream of wireless energy. (20) He worked for several years in Edisons laboratory, but he and Edison later became bitter enemies. (10) Innovator in the use of AC electricity, he has a unit of magnetic field strength named for him. Answer: Nikola Tesla 20 POINT BONUS 21. Left-handed people often get the shaft in everyday life, but not in baseball. In fact, of the top ten lifetime batting averages, only two belong to right-handed batters. For ten points name these two batters who hit .358 and .345 lifetime. Answers: Rogers Hornsby, Ed Delahanty 30 POINT BONUS 22. For ten points each, give the maiden name of these famous women: A. Mary Shelley Answer: Godwin B. Marie Curie Answer: Sklodowska C. Marge Simpson Answer: Bouvier 25 POINT BONUS 23. One of the greatest social disasters of all time, this program instituted by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1958 aimed at a massive industrialization of the rural communities of China, but due to bad planning, wasted labor, and buck-passing led to one of the greatest famines in modern history, killing millions. For 25 points, give the common name for this program which was a great leap backward for Communist China. Answer: The Great Leap Forward 30 POINT BONUS 24. Their fifteen minutes are up, but see if you can remember these folks who, for a short time, were very much in the news in the 1980s. For ten points each, name them. A. He became a national hero when he shot four black youths on a New York City subway in December, 1984. Answer: Bernhard Goetz B. This New York lawyer and brutal wife-beater was convicted for the 1987 murder of his six-year-old daughter Lisa. Answer: Joel Steinberg C. 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