T1. When he entered national politics, this Missouri native often had to defend his relationship to the Pendergast political machine. FTP, name this president on whose desk the buck always stopped. Ans.: Harry Truman T2. Bohol, Samar, Panay, Negros, Leyte, Mindanao, Mindoro, Luzon are all islands in what Pacific Island chain? Ans.: the Philippines T3. Nils Krogstad, Mrs. Linde, Dr. Rank, and Nora and Torvald Helmer are all characters from what Henrik Isben play focusing on human rights? Ans.: A Doll's House T4. Charles Bolton was a typical socialite and fop in 19th century San Francisco on the weekdays. On the weekends, however, he made his fortune robbing the Wells-Fargo stagecoach a total 28 times. FTP, name this infamous highwayman renowned for always leaving a signed poem in the cleaned-out strong box Ans.: Black Bart T5. Members of this religious group include Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Mary Dyer, John Greenleaf Whittier, George Fox, Richard Nixon, and William Penn. FTP, name this religious body founded in 1625 as the The Relgious Society of Friends. Ans.: Quakers (prompt for information on early ring-in with "Friends") T6. It originated in what is now Pakistan under the Sanskrit name "chaturanga" about 500 A.D. It invaded Spain in the 8th century along with the Muslims and reached Scandinavia by the 11th century. It finally stops with the death of a king, an event called "shah mat" in Persian. FTP, name this military diversion, replete with moarchs, knights, and even pawns. Ans.: Chess T7. Officials of this event in its early years decided not to hold the contest on Sunday for fear that horss tethered outside churches might panic when the parade passed by. FTP, name this New Year's Day bowl game, which hasn't produced an uncontested national champion since 1973 and diasappointed Penn State this year, despite the school's perfect record. Ans.: Rose Bowl T8. His works include Gandhi, a Memoir and The Sinking of the Bismarck and A Twentieth Century Journey he his best known, though for his monumental history The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Who is he? Ans.: William Shirer T9. For several hundred years this kingdom made up half of a Dual Monarchy. In the late 1700s it ceased to exist as an independent entity and only regained its independence in 1919, which it then lost twenty years later. FTP name this Baltic nation which, since 1989, is once again independent, with a capital at Vilnius. Ans.: Lithuania T10. Its crew list included Queequeeg and Ishmael, but its most famous (or infamous) crew member was the notorious Captain Ahab. FTP, name the ship whose last journey is chronicled in Moby Dick. Ans.: Pequod T11. He won the Nobel prize in literature in 1905 for his series of novels on Poland's fights against the Cossacks, Russians, Swedes and Turks. But he is more famous for the worldwide bestseller Quo Vadis. FTP, name this author? Ans.: Henryk Sienkiewicz (see-in-KAY-vich) T12. In April 1944, 76 prisoners of the Stalag Luft III prison camp left by means of a tunnel. Three made it to England, but most were soon caught, and 50 of the recaptured escapees were executed on Hitler's orders. This incident became known by a name given to a book and later a movie made about it. FTP, name it. Ans.: The Great Escape T13. Some unknown evil attacks the hero and his female companion in southern California. Together they defeat their enemy, who turns out to be rather ho-hum after all. This is the plot to every novel by a mega-selling but uncreative horror writer. FTP, name this author of Strangers, Watchers, Lightning, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Cold Fire, Midnight, and countless others. Ans.: Dean R. KOONTZ T14. He says that his latest hit "is the antiformula, yet its not anti by being esoteric...I mean, part of the actions is, it's a depiction of the mundane, right in the criminal world." FTP, name this director of "Reservoir Dogs" who won a Palme d"or at Cannes in '94 for "Pulp Fiction." Ans.: Quentin TARRANTINO T15. This author of the novels The Mirror Crack'd, A Caribbean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, and The Body in the Library used the same protagonist in all of them. FTP, name this author who brought us Miss Marple, as well as the detective Hercule Poirot. Ans.: Agatha CHRISTIE T16. This title character, invented by Eleanor Hodgman in 1912, is a girl who comes to live with her austere Aunt Polly and introduces friendliness to the puritanical community by always finding something to be glad about despite discourageing events. FTP, name this title character whose name is used for a person who always looks on the bright side. Ans.: POLLYANNA T17. On December 25, 1949, a visiting UFO gave a three-year old child amazing powers, which proved useful during the child's schooling in Cyprus and Israel. He didn't even fake stage performances until he got a professional manager. FTP, hang on to your keys and coffee spoons and name this Israeli psychic famous for making things bend. Ans.: Uri GELLER T18. In 1704, during the War of Spanish Succession, a combined Dutch-English force seized this place from the Spanish, who formally ceded it in the Treaty of Utrech in 1713. It survived a series of French and Spanish sieges, the last one occurring from 1779 to 1782. FTP, name this British enclave surrounded by Spain. Ans.: GIBRALTAR (accept "Rock of") T19. The names the same: a widely-used test for carcinogenic materials in which a given substance is placed in a bacterial culture in order to observe any possible mutagenic effects, a college town in Iowa, and the last name of the worst double agent in CIA history who was arrested last year after blowing more than 20 operations in Russia. FTP, give the common surname. Ans.: Ames test T20. Although most early keyboard notation derives from lute tablatures, there are early examples of music for this instrument in the Buxheim Book and the collestion of Conrad Paumann. ? Ans.: Organ BONUSES B1. (30) Many religious literary works have devised places to dispose of the souls of those who deserve neither salvation nor damnation, the lukewarm who through cautious cowardice have made the "Great Refusal." Identify the works in which the following appear for 10 pts, 5 if you need the author. a. (10) the Paradise of Fools (5) John Milton Ans: Paradise Lost (Book 3) b. (10) the valley on the moon (5) Ariosto Ans: Orlando Furioso (Canto 34) c. (10) Limbo, or the Vestibule of Hell (5) Dante Alighieri Ans: The Inferno (Promt on Divine Comedy) B2 (30) Identify the elements based on clues. a. For 10 pts, atoms of this elements have the highest electronegativity Ans: Fluorine b. For 10 pts, atoms of this element have the largest atomic radius Ans: Cesium c. For 5 pts each, identify the two heaviest metalloids, neither of which occurs naturally. Ans: Polonium and Astatine B3. (30) Identify the physical law based on a statement of it, 15 pts each a. All points on a wave front serve as point sources of sperical secondary wavelets. After a time t, the new position of the wave front will be the surface of tangency to these secondary wavelets. Ans: Huygens' principle b. This law is obeyed if resistance between any two points of a conducting device is independent of the magnitude and polarity of the potential difference applied between those points. Ans: Ohm's Law B4. (30) For ten pts, name the large lake northeast of St Petersburg which extends almost to Finland. Ans: Lake Ladoga Now identify the river flowing from lake Ladoga through St. Petersburg which empties into the Gulf of Finland and which plays a part in Alexander Nevsky, Prokofiev's cantata. Ans: the Neva Finally, name the central event of Alexander Nevsky, the victory over the Swedes which took place on the smaller Lake Peipus. Ans; the Battle on the Ice (accept equivalents) B5. (30) Identify the composers of the following works, 10 pts each. a. Kreisleriana, for piano. Ans: Robert Schumann b. Mozartiana, for orchestra. Ans: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky c. Telemanniana, also for orchestra. Ans: Hans Werner Henze B6. The pontiff was Man of the Year for 1994. But some are already speculating about who might succeed him. Identify these prominent cardinals, 10 pts each a. Suave, brilliant and cosmopolitain, this Italian is an eminent New Testament Scholar who reads or speaks 11 languages and has written nearly 50 books. The Archbishop of Milan, he is rumored to be less conservative than John Paul. Ans: Carlo Maria Martini b. The Jewish son of Polish emigrÈs to France, he adopted Catholiciam as a teenager. The Archbishop of Paris, he is a trusted confidant of the pope. Ans: Jean-Marie Lustiger c. The Archbishop from Nigeria who converted from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe at age nine and who faced down government oppression during Nigeria's 1967 fraticidal civil war. Ans: Francis Cardinal Arinze B7. Identify the French poets from clues 15 pts each. a. Giordano wrote an opera based on his life. A poet of the Revolution he was a member of the AcadÈmie franÁaise as well as the Convention, but later protested the excesses of the Terror and so was guillotined. Mainly known as a lyric poet, he also penned the tragedy, Charles IX or the School of Kings. Ans: AndrÈ ChÈnier b. Another lyric poet whose liberal ideas went somewhat farther. After his successes with MÈditaitions poÈtiques, and Harmonies pÈtiques et religieuses, he joined the provisional government of France in February of 1848, and was the veritable master of France for several months, until his prestige plummeted with the June Revolutions of 1848. Ans: Alphonse de Lamartine. B8 Identify the year 30 - 20 - 10 30) In all their meetings with the New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Dodgers only ever won the world series this year. 20) In December of this year, Rosa Parks refused to go the the back of the bus 10) This year the Warsaw Pact was signed and Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Ans: 1955 B9. (30) Only seven players have ever led the league in batting average for more than two consecutive years. Five points for each you name up to 30 pts; Ans: Ty Cobb, Rod Carew, Wade Boggs, Honus Wagner, Rogers Hornsby, Stan Musial, and Tony Gwynn. B10. (30) A bonus about Scottish geography a. For 10 pts each name the two bodies of water upon which lie first, Edinburgh? Ans: Firth of Forth b. and Glasgow? Ans: Firth of Clyde c. Finally what is the body of water of which the Loch Ness forms a part, which connects the fiths of Moray and Lorne, and which separates the Northwest highlands from the rest of Scotland. Ans: Caledonian Canal B11. (30) Identify the following Shakespearean triplets for the stated number of points. You must get all three to get the points. 1. For five points, name the three daughers of King Lear. Ans: Cordelia Regan Goneril 2. For ten points, name the three members of second triumvirate in Julius Caesar. Ans: Octavian (or Augustus Caesar) Marc Antony Aemilius Lepidus 3. For fifteen points, name the three familiars of the Weird Sisters in Macbeth Ans: Paddock Graymalkin Harpier B12. (30) A bonus on dictionaries. 1. For 5 pts, whose 1755 dictionary set a standard for criticism and creative lexicography. Ans: Samuel Johnson 2. For 10 pts, this enlightenment thinker wrote the Dictionary of Wit. Ans: Voltaire (or FranÁois Marie Arouet) 3. For 15 pts, his Critical and Historical Dictionary, published in 1697 and written from the safety of Holland,was a precursor to the famous EncyclopÈdie. Ans: Pierre Bayle B13. (30) 30-20-10, give the name from American history. 30) The 1795 treaty of this name, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo, settled the long standing problems with Spain over the Florida-United States boundary. 20) One South Carolinian with this last name served as a member of the Continental Congress and even submitted a draft for the Constitution, parts of which were used in the final document. 10) Another South Carolinian of the same first and last name, he also assisted in the drafting of the Constitution, but is best known for his role in the XYZ Affair, while Minister to France, and for having said, "Millions for defense, sir, but not one cent for tribute!" Ans: Pinckney B14. (30) Here's a question about mountains -- tall mountains. The definition of a truly towering peak is one over 8000m. 1. FTP, within 1, how many such peaks exist? Ans: 14 (accept 13-15) 2. FTP, name the Tyrolean mountaineer, the only man to have climbed them all. Ans: Reinhold Messner 3. These towering peaks are found in only two ranges; for five pts each, name them. Ans: Himalayas, Karakorum B15. For 10 pts each, identify these Tony award-winning musicals given the year they won and from clues. 1. 1972: It shares its name with a Shakespeare play Ans: Two Gentlemen of Verona 2. 1950: It was based on the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with whicfh it shares a partial name. Ans: South Pacific 3. 1973: Its name is the English translation of a Mozart work. Ans: A Little Night Music B16. (20) Since we're in Utah, how about a Jazz question? For five points each, given a nickname, give me the real name of the musician in question. 1. Jelly Roll Morton Ans: Ferdinand le Menthe 2. Bird Ans: Charlie Parker 3. Bix Ans: Bix (Bismarck) Beiderbecke 4. Satchmo Ans: Louis Armstrong B17. (25) For five points each and an extra five for all correct, name the four presidential candidates in the 1860 US elections. John Breckenridge, Abraham Lincoln, Steven Douglas, John Bell B 18. (30) Identify these battles from Japanese history for 15 pts each. 1. This 1600 battle established the supremacy of Togugawa Ieyasu two years after the death of Hideyoshi and led to his consolidation of power in the shogunate. Ans: Sekigahara 2. This naval battle of the Russo Japanese War embarrassed the Russian fleet and established the Japanese as world power. Ans: Tsushima B19. (30) Identify the capitals of the folowing island nations 1. For 5 pts, Jamaica. Ans: Kingston 2. For 10 pts, Comoros. Ans: Moroni 3. For 15 pts, Malta Ans: Valletta B20. 30 - 20 - 10 Name the author from his works 30) Galapagos, Bluebeard 20) The Sirens of Titan, Breakfast of Champions 10) Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five Ans: Kurt Vonnegut