ACF Fall 2012: I Made it on the Bevel
Edited by Matt Bollinger, Diana Gerr, Jarret Greene, Daniel Hothem, Jasper Lee, and Stephen Liu
Packet by Illinois A (Austin Listerud, Billy Busse, Andrew Wang, Ike Jose)
TOSSUPS
1.
As Governor of Cilicia, this man gained the title of imperator for fighting off the “free Cilicians.” By arguing for the
Manilian Law, this man gave his support for Pompey to take command against Mithridates. The letters this man
wrote to his friends, especially Atticus, are an important source for his time. This man rose to prominence by
indicting the corrupt governor of Sicily, Gaius Verres. This man’s severed hands and head were nailed to the Rostra
when he was proscribed in vengeance for inveighing against Marc Antony in the Philippics. For 10 points, name this
great Roman orator who, as consul, foiled the conspiracy of Catiline.
ANSWER: Marcus Tullius Cicero [or Tully]
2.
Herodotus writes that a group of these people broke free of captivity at sea, but ran aground in the land of the
Scythians because they did not know how to sail. One of these figures was born to Otrere and Ares and slew
Machaon during the Trojan War, and Thersites insulted Achilles when he felt regret for killing that figure,
Penthesileia. Theseus had to ward off their invasion of Attica. During one of his labors, Heracles was tasked with
fetching the girdle of one of these people named Hippolyta. For 10 points, name this tribe of warrior women.
ANSWER: Amazons
3.
In one short story by this author, Elizabeth puts a sprig of flower in her apron, which her daughter excitedly smells,
before learning of her husband’s death in a mining accident. This author of “Odour of Chrysanthemums” created
mine owner Gerald Crich and school inspector Rupert Birkin, who enter relationships with the Brangwen sisters, in
the novel Women in Love. Another novel by this author focuses on the failed relationships of Miriam Leiver and
Clara Dawes with Paul Morel. He created the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in a novel subjected to an obscenity trial
in 1960. For 10 points, identify this author of Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
ANSWER: David Herbert Lawrence
4.
One film set in this modern day country tracks the filmmaker Peter Falk, who turns out to be an angel that
renounced his immortality to join humanity. Another film set in this country follows a dissident writer who wants to
write an article about the number of suicides in his home city, only to learn years later that he was secretly protected
by a disloyal secret police agent. This setting of Wings of Desire and The Lives of Others is also the birthplace of a
director who made a film featuring Peter Lorre humming “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” For 10 points, name
this country of origin of the film director of M and Metropolis, Fritz Lang.
ANSWER: Germany [accept West Germany or East Germany at any time]
5.
The size, location, and travelling direction of an army that invaded this country were graphed by Charles Minard.
Troops from this country retreated under the leadership of Barclay de Tolly and harassed invaders during a crossing
of the Berezina. One invasion of this country began after it violated a treaty that was signed on the Neman River, the
Treaty of Tilsit. This nation used scorched-earth tactics on its own capital afer it lost the Battle of Borodino. This
country withdrew from the Continental system under Alexander I. In order to slow Napoleon’s invasion, troops
from, for 10 points, what country burnt down Moscow?
ANSWER: Russian Empire
6.
One algorithm that operates on these structures uses a heuristic function to guide searches and is known as A star.
One way to represent this structure is through the use of a Kirchoff Matrix. This is the most general class of data
structure on which one can perform breadth-first search and depth-first search. Typically, these data structures are
represented using an adjacency matrix or an adjacency list. When these objects are directed and acyclic, they are
isomorphic to trees. These data structures consist of vertices and edges. For 10 points, name these data structures
that share their name with a curve on a Cartesian plot.
ANSWER: graphs
7.
This man inserted himself into one of his works as a character who rejects the teleological argument for God's
existence because no one has witnessed the universe being designed. In addition to writing that work featuring Philo
and Demea, this thinker pointed out an issue in which people suggest what ought to be by using what actually is.
This author of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion argued that we have no rational basis for thinking the sun
will rise tomorrow in his critique of inductive reasoning. For 10 points, name this Scottish philosopher who wrote
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and A Treatise of Human Nature.
ANSWER: David Hume
8.
For a crystal, this quantity is proportional to the enthalpy of sublimation divided by the square of the distance
between atomic centers. This quantity is plotted in polar coordinates as a function of theta in a Wuff construction. At
constant temperature and pressure, this quantity is equal to the derivative of Gibbs free energy with respect to area.
In order to increase pulmonary compliance, alveoli secrete a substance to lower this quantity. The existence of this
quantity creates a meniscus when a liquid is held in a tube. For 10 points, name this quantity that results from
cohesive forces between liquid molecules, which allows certain insects to walk on water.
ANSWER: surface tension [or surface energy]
9.
This character discusses a completely invented, Freudian “fish dream” with the psychiatrist Sanderson. This
character shares a tent with Orr and “the dead man” at the beginning of the novel in which he appears. This
protagonist attempts to warn Dunbar that he will be “disappeared,” and earlier attempted to comfort the dying
Snowden by saying “there, there.” Resolving to “live forever or die in the attempt,” he ultimately deserts the Air
Force. For 10 points, identify this bombardier stationed on the island of Pianosa during World War II, the
protagonist of the Joseph Heller novel Catch-22.
ANSWER: Captain John Yossarian
10. In IR spectroscopy, the stretching frequency of the bond between carbon and this element is between 600 and 800
inverse centimeters. When this element is present in a compound, the M+ to (M+2)+ peaks in its mass spectrum will
have an intensity ratio of three to one. A common NMR solvent consists of a carbon bonded to deuterium and three
atoms of this element. This element, which possesses the highest electron affinity, forms an acid with hydrogen that
can be combined with nitric acid to create a mixture that can dissolve gold, aqua regia. For 10 points, name this
halogen commonly used to kill bacteria in swimming pools.
ANSWER: chlorine
11. This poet penned the line “Now is the time for drinking” to begin a poem about the death of Cleopatra. This poet
wrote a poem about water mixing with the crimson blood of a kid goat in a poem describing a sacrifice at the
Bandusian Fountain. Marvell wrote a poem in the style of this writer “upon Cromwell’s return from Ireland,” and
this writer’s patron Maecenas gifted him his Sabine farm. Wilfred Owen borrowed a line by this writer to title his
poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” and this writer also created the phrases “in medias res” and “deus ex machina.” For
10 points, identify this Latin poet of many Odes as well as Ars Poetica.
ANSWER: Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
12. A woman in a pointed hat painted by this artist stands on a pedestal and plays the trombone in Invitation to the
Sideshow. He painted a sitting nude putting on a green sock alongside a standing nude with her hands closed. In
another work, this man depicted a woman in yellow dancing on a white horse in front of a crowd. This artist of The
Models and The Circus painted a boy in a red hat waist-deep in water as others recline on a river-bank. His
technique of painting with dots can be seen in a work where a parasol-wearing woman walks a monkey on a leash.
For 10 points, name this pointillist painter of the Bathers at Asnieres and Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte.
ANSWER: Georges Seurat
13. The highest point in this state, Campbell Hill, is located in its town of Bellefontaine, which is also the home to Court
Avenue, the first concrete paved road in the United States. This state's unfortunately named city of Sandusky is
home to the second oldest operating amusement park in the United States, Cedar Point. One of this state’s rivers had
so much garbage in it that it caught on fire in the 1970’s; that river is the Cuyahoga. This state's namesake river is
the largest tributary of the Mississippi. For 10 points, name this state that contains cities like Toledo and Cincinnati.
ANSWER: Ohio
14. This composer's violin concerto has three movements, the second of which is subtitled “Body Through Which the
Dream Flows.” One piece by this composer is subtitled “Fanfare for Great Woods” and features a constant
woodblock beat. This composer of Short Ride in a Fast Machine composed a piece commissioned to commemorate
the victims of the 9/11 attacks. The best known work of this composer of On the Transmigration of Souls is the
origin of his Chairman Dances and portrays a president who visits Mao Zedong. For 10 points, identify this
American minimalist composer who composed Nixon in China.
ANSWER: John Coolidge Adams
15. Donald Woods photographed an opponent of this program who died in the hospital due to a brain hemorrhage he
received from police beatings. This system required people to carry “pass books” with their records in them and
separated them into different “homelands.” One of its opponents, Steve Biko, helped organize a series of high school
protests in some Southwest townships known as the Soweto Uprisings. Many people who opposed this policy were
imprisoned on Robben Island. This policy ended under F.W. de Klerk. For 10 points, name this practice opposed by
Nelson Mandela, a system of segregation in South Africa that ended in 1994.
ANSWER: Apartheid
16. For an ideal gas, this quantity is proportional to temperature raised to the three-halves power divided by temperature
plus a constant. This quantity jumps from zero to non-zero when entering the boundary layer. In substances where it
is only a function of temperature, the shear stress is equal to this quantity times the first derivative of the velocity
profile with respect to a change in position perpendicular to the direction of shear. The velocity times a characteristic
length divided by the kinematic form of this quantity equals the Reynolds number. Newtonian fluids have constant
value of, for 10 points, what measure of a fluid’s resistance to flow?
ANSWER: viscosity [accept dynamic viscosity until “kinematic,” do not accept “kinematic viscosity”]
17. In one of this poet’s poems, the speaker bemoans “my stolen daughters” and repeats “Gone, gone, -- sold and gone, /
To the rice-swamp dank and lone.” This poet penned the line “Behold! the drink of the gods,” in his poem “The
Brewing of Soma,” and he wrote of the bravest of “all in Frederick town” who took the “flag the men hauled down”
in a poem about an old lady who expels Confederates. This poet described how “The sun that brief December day /
Rose cheerless over hills of gray” in a poem about a family telling stories in a winter storm. For 10 points, name this
American poet of “Barbara Frietchie” and “Snow-Bound.”
ANSWER: John Greenleaf Whittier
18. A school of thought named after this thinker was founded by the author of The Production of Commodities by
Means of Commodities, Pierro Sraffa.. The idea that the government’s choice of monetary policy does not affect the
overall economy is known as this man’s equivalence. This man discussed the depreciation of bank notes in his work
“The High Price of Bullion,” and he illustrated one of his points using Portuguese wine and English cloth. In On the
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, this man argued that Adam Smith had not written enough about
rent. For 10 points, name this formulator of the iron law of wages and the theory of comparative advantage.
ANSWER: David Ricardo
19. This politician’s first speech in Congress advocated use of the popular vote to elect the President. Under his tenure
as Speaker of the House, discussion of anti-slavery petitions became banned under the gag rule. Duties were lowered
under this man’s administration due to his passage of the Walker Tariff. Despite campaigning against Theodore
Frelinghuysen and Henry Clay under the campaign slogan “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight,” this president accepted a
compromise of the 49th parallel as the northern border of the Oregon Territory. For 10 points, name this Democratic
president nicknamed “Young Hickory,” who oversaw the Mexican-American War.
ANSWER: James Knox Polk
20. In an episode that aired online, this man tells Agent Ramirez that he better say The Lord’s Prayer if he ever seems
him again, because it means he’s come to kill him. In his most recent appearance, he bit off the ear of Jason Pilar
after nearly killing Yuri Suvorov, the President of Russia. This man shot his friend Roger Cross shortly after
returning from China. He works under Bill Buchanan and witnesses the destruction of Valencia, California by
nuclear bomb. His love interests included Renee Walker, Audrey Raines and his wife Teri, who is killed by Nina
Meyers. For 10 points, name this protagonist of 24.
ANSWER: Jack Bauer [accept either]
TIEBREAKER
This prince’s betrothal to Alys of France came to nothing, possibly because this man’s father had taken Alys as a
mistress. He built the strongest castle in medieval times, Chateau Gaillard. Though his Hospitallers under Garnier de
Nablus broke ranks, he nevertheless won the Battle of Arsuf. This king successfully took Acre in a war that he
fought alongside Frederick I and Philip II of France. He was captured by Leopold V, duke of Austria after making
peace with Saladin in the Third Crusade. For 10 points, name this English king known as “the Lionheart.”
ANSWER: Richard I [or Richard the Lionhearted before mentioned]
BONUSES
1. This play takes place in Harry Hope’s saloon in Greenwich Village. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which the hardware salesman Hickey urges his listeners to cast away their pipe dreams,
before confessing to killing his wife, Evelyn.
ANSWER: The Iceman Cometh
[10] The Iceman Cometh was written by this American playwright, who created the Tyrone family in Long Day’s
Journey Into Night.
ANSWER: Eugene O’Neill
[10] In this other O’Neill play, the escaped convict Brutus rules island natives after convincing them he is a
magician.
ANSWER: The Emperor Jones
2. Answer some questions about a set of religious dietary restrictions followed by the Jews. For 10 points each:
[10] Foods that are within the guidelines of Jewish law are given this name. Pork is not considered this due to the
cloven hooves of pigs, and shellfish and many insects are also prohibited.
ANSWER: kosher [or kashrut]
[10] This text includes a list of non-kosher birds, among them the eagle, the vulture, and the buzzard. More
importantly, it features three sermons given by Moses to the Israelites and is the fifth book of the Bible.
ANSWER: Deuteronomy
[10] According to this theory, the Song of Moses section of Deuteronomy was originally an independent poem. This
theory, sometimes named for Wellhausen, states that the Torah came together from various parallel narratives.
ANSWER: documentary hypothesis
3. Name these songs that have spawned internet sensations. For 10 points each:
[10] In a viral video, you can see a bearded man in a bikini lip-synch this song to unsuspecting Chatroulette visitors.
It has lyrics like “Before you came into my life I missed you so bad.”
ANSWER: “Call Me Maybe”
[10] Averaging millions of views per day since its release in 2012, this K-Pop song by PSY has quickly become the
most watched YouTube video of all time.
ANSWER: Gangnam Style
[10] This artist behind “Bangarang,” “Cineman,” and “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” won a Grammy Award in
2012 for his video of “First of the Year (Equinox).”
ANSWER: Skrillex [Sonny John Moore]
4. People like Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas are part of this tradition that is distinct from analytic
philosophy. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this philosophical tradition, so-named because it mostly comes from Europe. It tends to reject much of
the natural sciences in favor of a holistic approach to society.
ANSWER: continental philosophy
[10] John Stuart Mill argued that continental philosophy in its modern sense began with this French author of The
Essays, which includes his “An Apology for Raymond Sebond.”
ANSWER: Michel de Montaigne
[10] The phrase “continental philosophy” may first have appeared in Mill's essay on this man, who came up with a
utopian society called Pantisocracy with Robert Southey. He's better known for writing about an ancient mariner.
ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5. Answer the following about the backbone of all organic compounds, carbon. For 10 points each:
[10] These cylindrical fullerenes have been proposed for use in space elevators due to their amazing strength. They
can be thought of as rolled up sheets of graphite.
ANSWER: carbon nanotubes
[10] This form of solid carbon dioxide often undergoes sublimation and can be used to create fog effects in theaters.
ANSWER: dry ice
[10] This form of carbon is extremely porous, giving it large amounts of surface area, which makes it extremely
efficient at adsorption and catalysis.
ANSWER: activated carbon [or activated charcoal, or activated coal]
6. During World War II, the Germans managed to plant a Nazi flag on Mount Elbrus, the highest point in this
region. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this region named after a certain mountain range, home to a namesake Imamate led by the resistance
leader Shamil in the mid-19th century who resisted Russian expansion into this region, which includes Dagistan.
ANSWER: The Caucasus [or the Caucasus Mountains; or the Caucasus Range]
[10] In recent times, this region of the Caucasus with a capital at Grozny has fought against Russia for
independence. Terrorists from this place were behind such acts as the 2002 Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis.
ANSWER: Chechnya
[10] Another Caucasian region that has been in dispute in recent times is this one, which declared independence
from Georgia following the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia went to war with Georgia for it.
ANSWER: South Ossetia [prompt on “Ossetia”]
7. Prior to this battle, Nathanael Greene split his army, sending a Daniel Morgan-led contingent into British supply
lines. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this January 17th, 1781 battle in which Daniel Morgan scored a decisive victory over a British force led
by Banastre Tarleton. Along with the earlier Battle of King’s Mountain, it turned the tide in the Southern theater.
ANSWER: Battle of Cowpens
[10] The Battle of Cowpens took place in this state. John Calhoun was from this state, which caused the nullification
crisis and was the first state to secede from the Union shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln.
ANSWER: South Carolina
[10] Before King’s Mountain and Cowpens occurred this South Carolina battle, in which the British under Lord
Cornwallis humiliated Horatio Gates so badly that Gates was never again allowed to command troops in the field.
ANSWER: Battle of Camden
8. This writer wrote a treatise on the role of art in society in The Aesthetic Education of Man. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this German author who wrote a play in which the peasant woman Armgart throws herself in front of the
tyrant Gessler, asking for sympathy.
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller
[10] In this aforementioned Schiller play, the cruel Gessler demands that the title huntsman shoot an apple off his
son’s head. Gessler is later slain by that huntsman.
ANSWER: William Tell
[10] To Schiller, “naïve” literature is separate from this kind of literature with a specific moral. This word describes
English novels like Pamela that delicately touch readers’ emotions and assume man’s natural goodness.
ANSWER: sentimental novels [or sentimental literature; or novel of sensibility]
9. Name some French composers, for 10 points each:
[10] Though he was born Russian, this man became a citizen of France. This 20 th-century composer created works
like the Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and the music for the Rite of Spring.
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky
[10] This Baroque composer was the court musician for King Louis XIV, and soon dominated the music scene in his
country. He is probably best known for striking his foot while conducting and dying of gangrene soon after.
ANSWER: Jean-Baptiste Lully
[10] This member of a distinguished musical family published The Art of Playing the Harpsichord. Maurice Ravel
composed a piece titled after this man's tomb.
ANSWER: Francois Couperin
10. Answer the following related to knights in literature, for 10 points each.
[10] “The Knight’s Tale” appears in this collection of stories from a supposed pilgrimage to Thomas Becket’s
shrine, written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
ANSWER: The Canterbury Tales
[10] This prisoner compiled a bunch of stories about knights into his account of Arthurian legend, Le Morte
d’Arthur.
ANSWER: Thomas Malory
[10] This protagonist of Book I of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, the knight of Holiness, eventually marries Una
and slays an evil dragon.
ANSWER: the Redcrosse Knight
11. Identify some things about a South American body of water known as the highest navigable lake in the world for
10 points each:
[10] This Andean lake is the highest in South America and is found on the border between Peru and Bolivia.
ANSWER: Lake Titicaca [Accept Lago Titicaca]
[10] Lake Titicaca contains a set of 42 artificial floating islands mostly made of reeds inhabited by these people,
who would move the islands when threats arose.
ANSWER: Uru [Accept Uros]
[10] A pair of islands on Lake Titicaca are named for these celestial objects, which in Incan myth were said to have
arisen from the lake.
ANSWER: The Sun and The Moon [Accept La isla del Sol and La isla de la Luna]
12. The operations “union” and “intersection” are defined over these objects. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these constructs that are collections of elements.
ANSWER: sets
[10] This type of set has a measure of zero. An empty set is always this type of set.
ANSWER: null set [prompt on “measure-zero” set]
[10] In order for a topological set to have a notion of “distance” one of these distance assigning functions must be
defined on it. Urysohn’s theorem gives the conditions for a Hausdorff space to have one of these functions.
ANSWER: metrics
13. Young’s double slit experiment used this phenomenon to produce an interference pattern. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this optical phenomenon in which light waves bend and spread out upon interaction with an obstacle.
ANSWER: diffraction
[10] For double slit diffraction, the nth interference maximum occurs at an angle x such that this quantity times the
sine of x is equal to the wavelength times n.
ANSWER: slit spacing [prompt on d, accept any reasonable description of “the distance between the two slits”]
[10] This man’s criterion states that the sine of the angle of resolution is equal to 1.22 times the wavelength divided
by the diameter. The ultra-violet catastrophe arose out of a law that he names with Jeans.
ANSWER: Lord Rayleigh [or John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh]
14. This conservative signed the Enabling act of 1933, officially handing power to Hitler. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this German Field Marshal who was the namesake of a zeppelin that crashed in 1937.
ANSWER: Paul von Hindenburg
[10] Hindenburg was the second President of this government, which paid workers to go on strike during the French
occupation of the Ruhr. This republic signed the Treaty of Versailles.
ANSWER: Weimar Republic
[10] This violent uprising in the early Weimar Republic was led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Friedrich
Ebert, Weimar’s Chancellor, ordered the Freikorps to fire on the workers.
ANSWER: Spartacist Uprising [or the uprising of the Spartacists; or the Spartakusbund]
15. The namesake of this saga was born nearly fully grown from his mother's womb and was the son of Rerir, whose
own father Sigi had killed Bredi for being a better hunter. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Norse saga that centers on the hero Sigurd, who slays Fafnir and enters into an ill-fated relationship
with the family of Gudrun. Its German version is the Nibelungenlied.
ANSWER: Volsunga Saga
[10] Sigurd's father Sigmund proved his worth by being the only man to be able to pull the sword Gram out of
Branstock, which was one of these objects. Another one of these is a giant ash one called Yggdrasil.
ANSWER: trees
[10] Fafnir, who was slain by Sigurd, was originally one of these creatures before becoming a monster. The brothers
Brokk and Eitri were two of these beings who created Mjollnir and Skidbladnir.
ANSWER: dwarves [or dvergar]
16. This writer wrote an epic poem in which the fishermen Achille and Hector fight for Helen in St. Lucia. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this Caribbean author of Omeros, who created the coal burning healer Makak in his play Dream on
Monkey Mountain.
ANSWER: Derek Walcott
[10] This other author from the Caribbean wrote a work in which Antoinette commits suicide after her marriage to
an Englishman drives her to madness, the novel Wide Sargasso Sea.
ANSWER: Jean Rhys
[10] Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to this Charlotte Bronte novel about the heroine’s relationship with Mr.
Rochester.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre
17. Stars in this constellation include the blue-white supergiant Rigel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this constellation, nicknamed “The Hunter.” Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka comprise its namesake
“belt.”
ANSWER: Orion
[10] This man falsely identified Betelgeuse as Orion’s alpha star. He lends his name to a stellar designation that
identifies stars based on their relative brightness within a constellation.
ANSWER: Johann Bayer
[10] Around mid-October every year, the Orionid type of this event occurs. They are caused by the earth moving
through a stream of debris left behind by an orbiting comet.
ANSWER: meteor shower
18. Andrea del Castagno painted a fresco of this scene for the refectory of Sant’Apollonia. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this scene also painted in fresco by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo’s version of this scene shows the
twelve apostles’ reaction to Jesus’ announcement that one of them will betray him.
ANSWER: the Last Supper
[10] This “little dyer” painted a version of the last supper that used diagonal perspective. His other works include
The Origin of the Milky Way.
ANSWER: Tintoretto [or Jacopo Comin; or Jacopo Robusti]
[10] Paolo Veronese had to give this new title to his version of the Last Supper because it contained entirely out-ofplace elements like Germans and dwarves.
ANSWER: Feast in the House of Levi
19. Name some figures who had some ideas about how the mind can be developed, for 10 points each:
[10] This man is best known for creating a conditioned reflex in dogs that would cause them to salivate when they
heard the sound of a bell.
ANSWER: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
[10] This psychologist attributed things like exercise and recency to the optimality of learning. He also formulated
such concepts as the Law of Effect in his overall Theory of Learning.
ANSWER: Edward Thorndike
[10] This developer of cultural-historical psychology had the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development, an area
bounded by what someone learning can do by himself and what he can do with the help of a teacher.
ANSWER: Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
20. He commissioned the Nolan Committee to investigate bribes paid to Parliament in the “Cash for Questions”
scandal. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this politician who removed his nation’s currency from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after
Black Wednesday.
ANSWER: John Major
[10] Under Margaret Thatcher, John Major served in this cabinet post that oversees the financial policy of the United
Kingdom.
ANSWER: Chancellor of the Exchequer
[10] Major and Thatcher were British Prime Ministers from this political party, which is nicknamed the “Tories.”
ANSWER: Conservative and Unionist Party
EXTRA BONUS
The equality of nobles in this country was established by the Tripartitum. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this kingdom that was ruled by Matthias Corvinus, who employed the Black Army. St. Stephen belonged
to this kingdom’s Arpad dynasty.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Hungary
[10] The Hungarians lost to Suleiman I at this battle, which marked the end of the Jagiellon dynasty in Hungary. At
this battle, the Rumelian army was routed by Pal Tomori’s forces.
ANSWER: Battle of Mohacs
[10] The second Hungarian king of this name died at the Battle of Mohacs. More famously, it was the regnal name
of seventeen kings of France.
ANSWER: Louis