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l. This battle marked the turning point of World War I in favor of the Allies. On July 15, Gennan forces
under General Ludendorff attacked Allied positions near Reims and crossed here to the west of the Allies.
French General Foch counterattacked on July 18, and forced the Gennans to retreat. For ten points, identify
this sununer 1918 Allied victory on the same site as a 1914 victory which saw the failure of the Schlieffen
Plan.
Answer: _Second_ Battle of the _Marne_
2. Upon seeing his book _The Children of the Night_, Teddy Roosevelt was so impressed that he created a
job for the impoverished poet: he simply had to arrive at the New York customs house, read the newspaper,
and leave. His other collections include _Captain Craig_, _King Jasper_, and _The Man against the Sky_.
FTP, who is this poet whose hometown of Gardiner, Maine inspired the fictional Tilbury Town in his
"Richard Corey" and "Miniver Cheevy"?
Answer: Edwin Arlington _Robinson_
3. It can be used to show that any group of prime order P is cyclic, since the subgroup must have either
one or P elements. Proven by separating the elements into equivalence classes, FTP, what theorem named
th
after an 18 century mathematician states that if G is a finite group, than the order of any subgroup must
divide the order of G?
Answer: _Lagrange' s_ theorem
4. As an advisor to the Trinity House in 1862, this scientist advocated the use of electric lights in
lighthouses. He grew up fairly poor, and took a job with a bookbinder at a yOWlg age. Greatly influenced
by the atomic theory of Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, he produced the first known compounds of carbon
and chlorine, and published his _Chemical Manipulation_ in 1827. FTP, who is this scientist who first
isolated benzene, and elucidated the laws of electrolysis?
Answer: Michael ]araday_
5. This rogue is referred to in James Fenimore Cooper's _The Water Witch_. During King William's
War, he fought to protect trade routes in the West Indies. After being given command of an expedition
against pirates in the Indian Ocean, he started attacking merchant ships. He surrendered in Boston in 1699,
but was sent to London and hanged. FTP, who was this Scottish privateer who also influenced Poe' s
"Gold Bug"?
Answer: William _Kidd_
6. Originally inhabited by the Pueblo and Apache Indians, the area was first explored by the Franciscan
missionary Fray Marcos de Niza in 1539, and then by Coronado, who discovered the Grand Canyon while
in search of a fabled golden city, Quivia. Part of lands ceded by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, it
became a territory in 1850 but remained troubled by Indian conflict and disputes between ranchers and
homesteaders. For ten points, identify this 47th state of the Union, home to Los Alamos, White
Sands, and Santa Fe.
Answer: - New Mexico7. It is named after a castle built in 1446 by Cormac Laidhiy McCarthy, whose walls are 18 feet thick. It
supposedly received its powers from a woman who cast a spell upon it after being rescued from drowning
by a king. According to legend, those who kiss it receive a gift of eloquence that gives them the ability to
persuade others in order to possess whatever they desire. FTP, name this rock.
Answer: _Blarney_Stone
8. It is another name for the ancient Roman patrician family Camelii. They were distinguished by their
patronage of Greek culture but even more by family members who were outstanding Roman leaders during
the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Cneius Cornelius, along with his brother Publius Cornelius, defeated
Hasdrupal in 215 BC, while a later family member led the mob that killed Tiberius Gracchus. For ten
points, name the family , most famous for producing Africanus Minor, who destroyed Carthage in 146 BC,
and Africanus Major, who defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC.
Answer: _Scipio_
9. After being educated at Trinity College, Oxford, this man became a lecturer in physics at Ernest
Rutherford's laboratOl)' at the University of Manchester, where he wOlked for a short time. He proposed
that there were three more undiscovered elements between alwninum and gold, though there turned out to
be four, and that there were 92 elements up to and including uranium. In 1913, he published his law
which states that the frequencies of x-ray spectra are proportional to the squares of whole numbers that are
equal to the atomic number plus a constant. FTP, who is this scientist, who died in action in Gallipoli in
1915?
Answer: Henry Gwyn Jeffreys _Moseley_
10. An early draft of this 1954 work was entitled "The town was Mad." Written with little plot and
mostly consisting of alternating choruses of voices, characters include Eli Jenkins and Captain Cat. It is set
on a spring day in the fictional Welsh town ofLiareggub. FfP name this radio play by Dylan Thomas,
named for the forest near which the town is situated.
Answer: _Under Milk Wood_
11. This artist began painting cameos for his classmates at Yale for cigar money. Influenced by Washington
Allston, he studied in London for four years, where he created _The Dying Hercules_. He created paintings
in the Grand Manner like _The Gallery of the Louvre_and a full-length portrait of Lafayette. Plagued with
rejection and self-doubt, he gradually channeled his energy into the National Academy of Design, of which
he became the first president in 1826, and into his scientific endeavors. FfP, who is this man who
introduced the daguerreotype to America, and in 1832, conceived the idea of the magnetic telegraph?
Answer: Samuel Finley Breese _Morse_
12. In 1876, this woman published the verse tragedy _Spagnaletto_. Early in her career, she translated
Heine's poems and wrote the novel_Alide: An Episode in Goethe's Life_. After learning of the Russian
pogroms, however, she began to write works about the Jewish people like the _Songs of a Semite_, which
contains the poem "Dance to Death." FTP, who is this American poet now best known for an 1883 poem
which is inscribed on a famous New York Landmark, "The New Colossus"?
Answer: Emma _Lazarus_
13. His holy day is June 29th, and he was born on the north shore of the Galilee. Like his father Jonah and
brother Andrew, he was a fisherman, and for a time was a disciple of John the Baptist. He was present at
the marriage at Canaa, the feeding of the five thousand, the cure of his mother-in-law and other sick people,
and, with James and John, witnessed the Transfiguration on Thabor and the Agony in the garden, but he
gained his place in the Christian conununity when he was the first of the apostles to see Jesus risen. For
ten points, name this saint, the first Bishop of Rome, who was crucified upside down during Nero's
persecutions in 64 A.D.
Answer: Saint - Peter14. This philosopher was a leading figure in the "Frankfurt School," which was closed by the Nazis in
1933 and relocated to New York. After serving as an intelligence officer during WWII, and teaching at
Harvard and Brandeis, he published _Eros and Civilization_, in which he relates sexual repression to social
repression. In 1964, he wrote his masterpiece, which condemned the 'repressive tolerance' of industrial
society. FfP, who is this author of _One Dimensional Man_?
Answer: Herbert - Marcuse15. This series of novels was published with two "interludes" in 1922. The second trilogy, consisting of
_The White Monkey _, _The Silver Spoon_, and _Swan Song_ continues the story of the upper-rniddleclass London family up until the present time. FTP, what is this series of novels starting with _The Man
of Property _ about Soames, Irene, and their progeny, written by John Galsworthy?
Answer: The _Forsyte Saga_
16. This composer's second symphony, the _Lobgesang_, was written to commemorate the 400th
anniversary of the invention of printing, while his fifth celebrates the third centenary of the Augsburg
confession. In 1825, he completed the opera_Camacho's Wedding_, and four years later, conducted the
_Saint Matthew's Passion_, its first performance since Bach's death. FTP, who is this composer whose
more famous symphonies include his third, the "Scottish," and fourth, the "Italian"?
Answer: Felix _Mendelssohn_-Bartholdy
17. Beginning in the 1640s, the spiritual center of this religious movement was the convent of Port-Royaldes-Champs near Paris, where numerous nobles, royal judges, and intellectuals sympathetic to the
movement made religious retreats. Almost from its beginning, it aroused the hostility not only of the
Jesuits but also of the French government, which associated this movement with various political
opposition movements. FIP name this movement popular in 17th and 18th c. France named after a
Flemish theologian.
Answer: _Jansenism_
18. Born Gwen Williams, this author married Max Hamer, a Dutch poet, and moved to Paris. There she
was she met Ford Madox Ford, who wrote the introduction to her first book, The Left Bank and Other
Stories_. Her other novels include _After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie_, _Voyage in the Dark_, _Good Morning
Midnight_, and a 1966 work based on Rochester's wife in Jane Eyre. FTP, who is this author of _Wide
Sargasso Sea_ ?
Answer: Jean_Rhys_
19. This organ, which is encased in a connective tissue capsule, is composed of white pulp and red pulp.
Germinal centers in the white pulp are home to lymphocyte production. Red pulp filters blood, as it is the
area where red blood cells go to die. FIP, what is this organ, which in some species can collect blood in
a reservoir fashion, that is located on the left side of the body below the diaphragm?
Answer: Spleen
20. It was a former Prussian province, now a part of Germany. It was bounded by the Netherlands on the
northwest, the fornler Prussian provinces of Hannover on the north and east, Hesse-Nassau on the southeast
and south, and the Rhine Province on the southwest and west. In 1807, it was made into a kingdom by
Napoleon and his youngest brother, Jerome was made king. In 1813, the kingdom was dissolved. FTP
name this fornler province, also the name of a 1648 treaty concluded at Munster and Osnabruck that ended
the Thirty Years' War.
Answer: Westphalia
21. At a gala ball, a husband assumes the name of "Marquis Renard" and is presented to a "Hungarian
Countess", who is none other than his own wife. Neither of them realizes who the other is and they flirt
with each other. Afterwards, their true identities, Baron Gabriel von Eisenstein and Roslinda, are revealed
to each other. ITP name this operetta by Johann Strauss Jr.?
Answer: _Die Fledermaus_ or The _Bat_
He stated" Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law ." -his
categorical imperative. He also described another type of command given by reason: the hypothetical
imperative, which dictates a given course of action to reach a specific end. FTP what German philosopher
wrote Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason?
\Immanuel Kant\
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1. England's historical domination over Wales has remained consistent for over seven centuries. Answer
the following concerning this domination for the stated number of points.
1. For five points each, name the king who defeated Prince Llewelyn ap Gruffydd when he invaded Wales,
and his son who was made first Prince of Wales.
Answers: Edward I and Edward II
2. Forflfteen pOints,-name-the Welshillan who staged an unsuccessful uprising against the English from
1402 to 1415.
Answer: _Owen Glendower_
3. For a final five points, name the 1536 act which formally joined Wales with England.
Answer: - Act of Union2. Given a description of a character or characters from a scene from a Samuel Beckett play, name it FfP
each.
1. A woman is embedded up to above her waist in a mound of earth as the play opens.
Answer: _Happy Days_ (Winnie)
2. One character drives another character by means of a rope passed around his neck. The driver carries a
whip, the drivee carries a heavy bag, a folding stool, a picnic basket and a greatcoat.
Answer: _Waiting for Godot_ (pozzo-driver, Lucky-drivee)
3. One character tries to get a black toy dog with 3 legs to stand, but it falls on its side.
Answer: _Endgame_ (Clov)
3. Identify these mathematical theorems named after old Greek dudes from Alexandria for fifteen points each.
1. This formula expresses the area of a triangle in terms of its sides.
Answer: Hero or Heron's formula
2. Sometimes attributed to
Swiss mathematician Guldin, it states that the volume of a solid generated
by revolving a plane region about a line is 2 pi times the area of the region times the distance from the
center of gravity of the region to the line.
Answer: _Pappus'_ theorem
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4. Identify these (seemingly unrelated) American politicians for ten points each.
1. A famed New York City boss, he and his associates made fortunes through their manipulation of city
expenditures.
Answer: William Marcy "Boss" _Tweed_
2. This governor of New York was the first Catholic to become a presidential candidate, losing in 1928 to
Herbert Hoover.
Answer: _Aljred Emanuel_Smith_
3. U.S . Senator from 1959-1971, he was an opponent of the Vietnam War, and made an unsuccessful bid
for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1968.
Answer: Eugene _McCarthy_
5.30-20-10 Identify the poet from works.
30. _The Weald of YOUth_ and _Siegfried's Journey20. _Sherston's Progress_ and _Memoirs of an Infant!)' Officer_
10. _Counter-Attack_ and _Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man_
Answer: Siegfried Lorraine _ Sasso on_
6. In order to counterbalance NATO, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites formed a
defensive alliance of their own.
1. First, for five points each, what was the alliance called, and in what year was it signed?
Answers: _Warsaw Pact_; _1955_
2. For ten points, this nation left the Warsaw Pact in 1968.
Answer: _Albania_
3. For five points for five and ten points for all six, apart from the USSR and Albania, name the other six
nations who comprised the Warsaw Pact.
Answers: _Bulgaria_, _Czechoslovakia_, _East Germany-, _Hungary_, ]oland_, _Romania_
7. Given works by a member of The Eight, name the artist FfP each:
l. _The Spielers_, _The Wrestlers_, _Hester Street_
Answer: George _Luks_
2. ]ortait of George Luks_ and _West Fifty-seventh Street_
Answer: Robert - Henri3. _McSorley's Bar_, _Women Drying Their Hair_, ]ifth Avenue Critics_
Answer: John - Sloan8. FfP each name these gulfs:
This gulf lies north of Latvia and east of Estonia.
Answer: Gulf of _Riga_
This gulf lies between Sweden and Finland
Answer: Gulf of _Bothnia_
This gulf lies between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia
Answer: Gulf of _Aqaba_
9. Answer the following about English literature for the stated number of points:
10: This poem begins "Come live with me and be my lovelAnd we will all the pleasures prove/That
valleys, groves, hills and fields/woods, or steepy mountain yields."
Answer: _The Passionate Shepherd to His Love_
5: Who wrote "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"?
Answer: Christopher _Marlowe_
10: This poem which was a reply to Marlowe's poem begins, ''''If all the world and love were young,!And
truth in every shepherd's tongue,/These pretty pleasures might me move/To live with the and be thy love."
Answer: _The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd_
5: Who wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"?
Answer: Sir Walter _Raleigh_
10. Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby Doo are solving some more mysteries. Fred wants to split
the gang up, but nobody wants to be by themselves. FfP, in how many different ways can Fred split the
group up, so there are no groups of I?
Answer: _10_ ("5 choose 2")
Velma has misplaced all the boxes of Scooby Snacks that she keeps. She knows she still has 4 boxes and
she usually hides the boxes in any of 3 places so Scooby won't get his paws on them. Having too much
time on her hands, she wonders FTP, how many ways could she have placed those 4 identical boxes into 3
locations, if each location can hold 0 to 4 boxes?
Answer: _15_ ("6 choose 4")
The 5 are about to enter a dark cave. Daphne insists that 2 guys enter the cave first. If the gang enters 1 by
1 into the cave and it is random who enters 1st, 2nd 3rd, 4th, and 5th, FfP what is the probability that
the first two people to enter the cave are males?
Answer: _1/5_ (accept equivalents)
11. Identify the following about the invention of the integrated circuit, FfP each:
In February of 1959, Jack Kilby, working for this company, applied for a patent for an integrated circuit that
he made our of some transistors, resisters, and capacitors. Hint, this is also the company that
introduced the pocket calculator.
Answer: - Texas InstrumentsIn June of that same year, this inventor, working for Fairchid Semiconductor, applied for a patent for his
version of the integrated circuit by sandwiching layers of semiconductors between layers of insulators.
Answer: _Robert Noyce_
In 1968, Robert Noyce left Fairchild Semiconductor to found this company.
Answer: _Intel_
12. As many of us know, the distinguished Adams family did not end with John Quincy Adams.
l. First, for ten points, name John Quincy Adams's son, a diplomat who played a key role in maintaining
England's neutrality during the American Civil War and in negotiating the Alabama claims.
Answer: _Charles Francis_ Adams
2. For five points, Charles Francis Adams's elder son, his histories include _History of the United States
of America_ and _Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres_.
Answer: _Helll)' _ Brooks Adams
3. For fifteen points, this younger brother ofHelll)' Adams advanced his theory of the growth and decay of
civilization according to lines commerce in _The Law of Civilization and Decay _.
Answer: - Brooks- Adams
13. Identify the name given to all of these characters on a 30-20-10 basis
30: The title character of a miracle play of the Virgin Mal)' by Maeterlinck.
20: It is also the name of Hero's cousin in "Much Ado About Nothing."
10: Also featured in _La Vita Nuova_, this woman was Dante's guide through Paradise.
Answer: - Beatrice14. In the debate over violence and television, opponents often cite a study done by a Stanford
psychologist. For ten points, each answer these questions about this famous social psychology
experiment.
1. The study is known by the name of the toy used in the experiment. For ten points, name it.
Answer: BOBO the doll
2. Name the Stanford psychologist who designed the experiment.
Answer: Albert BANDURA
3. This experiment was seen as proof of what theory that states that behavior can be influenced by
observing and imitating and by being rewarded and punished.
Answer: SOCIAL LEARNING theory.
15. Identify the twentieth-century "M" initialed composers of these works FTP each
l. The operas _ Werther_, _Manon_, and _Thais_
Answer: Jules - Massenet2. _Scaramouche_ and _The Ox on the Rooe
Answer: Darius - Milhaud3 . _Quartet for the End of Time_and the _ Turangalila Symphony _
Answer: Olivier - Messiaen16. Identify the following person 30-20-10:
30: He died by jumping out of his Manhattan apartment in 1954, forty-two years after inventing the
regenerative circuit.
20: He began his career by improving upon Lee De Forest's Audion. The invention was never realized
because the two men were in continual legal struggles over the merits of the invention. While his lawyers
were fighting De Forest in court, this native New Yorker went on to invent the superheterodyne circuit and
sold the patent to Westinghouse.
10: He married Marion MacInnis, the secretary of David Sarnoff, who was manager of RCA at the time and
the two men formed a close friendship. But this friendship was soon broken when Sarnoff infringed on this
New Y OIker's invention of the frequency modulation system for radio and TV.
Answer: Edwin _Arrnstrong_
17. Given a set of three Civil War battles, all in the same year, for ten points, place them in correct
chronological order, and for five more points, tell in which year the battles took place.
1. Antietam, Shiloh, Hampton Roads
Answers: _Hampton Roads, Shiloh, Antietam_; _1862_
2. Wilderness, Mobile Bay, Cold Harbor
Answers: _Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Mobile Bay-; _1864_
18. 5-10- 15, Name the economists.
5: Awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1976, this University of Chicago economist is regarded as
the leader of the monetarists.
Answer: Milton _Friedman_
10: Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1985 for his work with household savings and financial markets, he came
to the U.S. from Italy in the 1940's.
Answer: Franco _ Modigliani_
15: Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1973, this Russian born economist is the Father of input-output analysis.
His paradox relates to capital, not labor, being the scarce resource in the U .S.
Answer: Wassily _LeontieC
19. It's Bible Genealogy time! For 5 points each and a 5 point bonus for all correct, identify:
1. The murderer of Naboth
Answer: Ahab
2. The father ofAhab
Answer: _ Omri_
3. Ahab's daughter who brought worship of Baal to the southern kingdom of Judah.
Answer: _ Athaliah_
4. Athaliah's husband
Answer: Joram
5. Ahab's-wife Answer:_Jezebel_
20. Identify the following ocean currents for 10 points each.
Also called the Humboldt current, this current of the southeast Pacific is slow and shallow.
Answer: Peru Current
This south Atlantic current carries icebergs from the Weddell Sea. It shares its names with the island
group also called the Malvinas Islands.
Answer: Falkland Current
This north Atlanticcurrent flows along North America from North Carolina to Newfoundland.
Answer: _Gulf Stream_
30-20-10 Name the painter based on works :
30: Arnold Comes of Age, Stone City
20 : Arbor Day, Daughters of the Revolution
10: American Gothic
\Grant Wood\
Identify the novel from clues 30-20-10:
30: The Clock struck thirteen.
20: Truth, Love, Peace and Beauty.
10: George Orwell wrote it.
\1984\
23. Identify the following satellites FTP each:
It was the first US satellite, launched in 1958
\Exlllorer 1\
Used exclusively for TV, it was the first US communications satellite
\Echo 1\
The first US communications satellite to amplify both radio and TV signals
\Telstar 1\
24. F15P each identify the following hominids:
He was probably tlle first hominid to conduct funerals, as evidenced by remains of flower pollens at one of
his sites.
\Neanderthal Man\
A member or members of this hominid was responsible for the cave paintings at Lascaux.
\Cro-Magnon Man\
25. Name the poet from works 30-20-10:
30: "A Bottle and Friend"
20: "Address of Beelzebub"
10: "Auld Lang Syne"
\Robert Bums\
In Classical Mythology, Pygmalion was a sculptor who hated women, but fell in love with a statue of a
woman that he created. For the stated number of points answer these questions about works based on
Pygmalion.
5: In George Bernard Shaw's version, Pygmalion is this professor. Name him.
\Henry Higgins\
5: This Cockney flower girl is Higgins's student.
\Eliza Doolittle\
5: This popular musical by Lerner and Loewe was based upon George Bernard Shaw's play. It was
nominated for 12 Academy Awards.
\My Fair Lady\
'5 : The story of Pygmalion is told in his work Metamorphoses. He also wrote Songs of Sadness.
\Ovid\
10: In 1871, his comedic version Pygmalion and Galatea was published.
\ William S. Gilbert\