Among the founders of this organization were Jane Addams, Helen Keller, Eugene Debs, and Felix 
Frankfurter. Originally established to defend conscientous objectors to World War I, it expanded to defend 
freedom of expression and privacy. FTP, name this organization best known for its involvement in court 
cases concerning First Amendment issues.
			ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

The progenitor of most of the British institutions of government, this body was also known as the magnum 
concilium. Unlike the witan, it was regularly called three times a year during Christmas, Easter,
and Pentecost. FTP, name this Norman organ of government, whose name means king's court in Latin.
			_Curia Regis_

Discovered in 1592 by John Davis, this island group's main export is wool. With its capital at Stanley, it is 
located only a short distance from Cape Horn. FTP, name this archipelago best known for a brief 1982 war 
between Argentina and Britain.
			Falkland Islands

Established in 1929 as a national monument and made a park in 1978, the wildlife here includes bighorn 
sheep and bison. It is an arid region of sedimentary rock that has been eroded into spectacular formations 
of canyons, gullies, and spires. FTP, name this park located in South Dakota.
			Badlands National Park

Subtitled A Novel Without a Hero, this novel is set on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. It shows the the 
virtues of Captain Dobbin and Amilia Sedley clashing with the schemes of Becky Sharp. FTP, name this 
Thackeray work.
			_Vanity Fair_

It temporarily postponed the struggle between Austria and Prussia over power in Germany.  Among other 
things, this agreement provided that Prussia and Austria would both be sovereign over Schleswig-Holstein, 
with each country administering one of the republics.  FTP, name this treaty reached on August 20, 1865, 
and named after the Austrian city where it was signed.

			A:Convention of Gastein (Badgastein)

	Going from its namesake city in Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois, this 
road was authorized in 1806. Construction began in 1811, and it reached
Wheeling in 1818. FTP, name this first federal road.
			_Cumberland_ Road ( accept _National_ Road)

Green, Hertford, Brasenose, Linacre, Keble, Nuffield, Pembroke,  
St. John's, University, and Trinity are all, FAQTP, colleges of
what British institution of higher learning?
			_Oxford_

	It is administered by the State Department, and it operates in about 40 countries worldwide.  
Technical skills and equipment are provided by the recipient nations.  It was set forth in Truman's 
inaugural address to make "the benefits of our scientific advances available for the improvement and 
growth of underdeveloped areas."  FTP, name this program, so called because it was one of the points in 
Truman's address.
A:Point Four Program

	Its title has frequently been used to desribe the mid-20th century.  This poem concerns three men 
and a woman who meet in a wartime New York bar.  In a common dream they set out on quest in which 
they discover Hope in Christianity as the solution to their problems.  FTP, name this W.H. Auden work.
A:The Age of Anxiety

	The main character allows himself to be fleeced by Dorante, and unscrupulous nobleman, and he 
then forbids his daughter to marry her beloved Cleonte or any other commoner.  Cleonte dresses as the son 
of the Grand Turk, babbles Pseudo-Turkish until the man grants him his daughter's hand.  FTP, name this 
tale of Monsieur Jourdain, a play by Moliere.
A:TheWould-be Gentleman (tr Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)

His early work was concerned with industrial fluctuations, as presented in The Pure Theory of Capital, and 
the question of individual values in a capitalist world.  Born in 1899, he taught at London University before 
becoming a professor at the University of Chicago.  FTP, name this Austrian-born author of The Road to 
Serfdom, a pioneer of libertarianism who shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974 with Gunnar 
Myrdal.

A:Friedrich von Hayek

After taking two years off from Harvard to improve his health, this writer returned in 1836 and graduated 
at the top of his class. Later becoming a lawyer, he specialized in serving seamen. This was due to the two 
years he spent away from Harvard as a common sailor on the Pilgrim. FTP, name this author of Two Years 
Before the Mast.
			A:Richard Henry  Dana , Jr.

	The son of an English army officer stationed in Ireland, this dramatist was educated at the 
Kilkenny School where he was a classmate of Jonathan Swift, with whom he became friends.  His first 
play, "The Old Bachelor," was produced under the auspices of John Dryden.  His tragedy The Mourning 
Bride is the source of the saying "Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast."  FTP, name this author of 
Love For Love and The Way of the World.
A:William Congreve

	John and Dot Peerybingle take in an elderly boarder whom John discovers is a young man in 
disguise.  John grows suspicious when he sees the man with his arm around Dot.  The young man is 
Edward Plummer, who bursts in with his young wife May Fielding, and he explains that he was only 
seeing if his wife truly loved the man she was supposed to marry.  Happiness returns to the household, in 
part due to the efforts of the family cricket, who only sings when all is well.  FTP, name this Charles 
Dickens Christmas tale.
A:Cricket on the Hearth

	Set in Hollywood, where the author spent the last years of his life writing screenplays, this novel 
deals with a man named Homer Simpson, who arrives in southern California to find a group of misfits 
living boring lives.  The book ends with a surrealistic riot at a movie theatre.  FTP, name this Nathaniel 
West novel.
A:The Day of the Locust

	He created a new accentual verse in Russian known as dolniki, which is based only on the number 
of stresses per line.  Among his well known poems are "The Scythians" and "Songs of the Beautiful Lady."  
FTP, name this greatest Russian symbolist poet, best known for "The Twelve."
A:Aleksandr Blok

	He was briefly employed by Samuel Richardson as a printer's assistant.  His literary career began 
with a didactic poem entitled "The Traveler."  His later works include many well known tales such as 
"Reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern."  FTP, name this author of The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to 
Conquer.
A:Oliver Goldsmith

	His earliest novels are witty satires of London society, the English upper classes, and the young 
intellectuals of the 1920's, with all of whom he consorted.  Among his better known novels are Black 
Mischief, The Loved One, and Decline and Fall.  FTP, name this author, best known for Brideshead 
Revisited.
A:Evelyn Waugh

The Idea Men, Chairface Chippendale, Dinosaur Neil, The Midnight Bomber That Bombs at 
Midnight, and El Seed have all been foes of this blue-suited defender of ìThe City.î FTP, name this 
crusader for justice whose sidekick is Arthur.
			A:The Tick

In computer science, it designates a piece of memory designated for temporary storage of information. In 
chemistry, it is a solution prepared by combining a weak acid or base with its conjugate. This allows the 
solution to be resistant to pH change if a strong acid or base is added. FTP, name this scientific term.
A:Buffer

This type of flowering plant has flower parts arranged in threes, parallel veins in the straplike leaves, a 
fibrous root system, and only one seed leaf.. FTP, name this plant class which includes grasses, lilies, and 
orcids.
A:Monocot 

Found in amylase or amylopectin form, these compounds, like maltose, have alpha-1,4 linkage of glucose 
elements. They are often composed of 1000 glucose units, and are first broken apart by enzymes in the 
saliva. FTP, name these compounds found in potatoes.
A:Starch 

21) On June 30, 1908, a large piece of a broken-up comet approached Earth's atmosphere.  This large 
chunk of ice created an explosion similar to a hydrogen bomb which was felt over 600 miles away. Over 
2000 square km of pine forest was flattened by the blast.   FTP, name this extraordinary event, named for a 
river in Central Siberia over which the explosion took place.
A: Tunguska Event

23) In the eighteenth century, Great Britain offered a sum of 20,000 pounds to any scientist who could 
figure out a way to calculate this value, a number central to the trade of the country.  A clockmaker, John 
Harrison, spent 46 years working on the problem and discovered that the solution was a weatherproof, 
motionproof, and oceanproof clock.  This helped the captains of the ships by the fact that there would be 
one hour difference between the clock and Great Britain time for every 15 degrees you sailed west.  FTP, 
what value am I alluding to?
A: Longitude