1. Agammemnon Killed Her Older Sister So That the Greeks Could Have a Favorable Wind For

Game 7

1. Agammemnon killed her older sister so that the Greeks could have a favorable wind for Troy. When he returned, her mother murdered Agammemnon. This woman then proceeded to get her brother Orestes to kill her mother and her motherÕs lover. For ten points, name this girl whose name is given to a psychological disorder in which a girl loves her father.

Elektra

Bonus: For 5 points each, identify the following related to the House of Atreus, five points for answering all five questions correctly

The progenitor of the House, who served up his son as a feast for the gods and whose descendents were punished for his misdeeds Pelops

Denizens of hell who pursued Orestes after he committed murder (hint: there are three of them) Furies or Erinyes

God who encouraged Orestes to take actionApollo

Friend from Phocis who was a great help to Orestes and who later married Electra Pylades

City over which the house of Atreus reignedMycenae

2. A captain in the army best known for helping to weed out political appointees, he served as Thomas Jefferson's personal secretary from 1801 to 1803 and later became governor of the Louisiana Territory. However, it was as an explorer that he was most famous, jointly leading a transcontinental expedition from 1804 to 1806. For ten points, name this man, the subject of a recent book by Stephen Ambrose, whose partner was named William Clark.

Meriwether Lewis

Bonus: 30-20-10. Name the man:

30: As secretary to Lord Ashley, he wrote the Constitution for the Carolina colony

20: An empiricist philosopher, he promulgated the theory that the mind of a newborn was a "tabula rasa"

10: he wrote "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

John Locke

3. He took a journey by boat with Dr. Ed Ricks in the Sea of Cortez, which he recounted in The Log From the Sea of Cortez. Ricks also provided him with the model for "Doc" of the biological laboratory in Sweet Tuesday and Cannery Row. He wrote Travels with Charley, but it is his recounting of the travels of the Joads that made him most famous. For ten points name this author of To a God Unknown, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath.

John Steinbeck

Bonus: For ten points each, name the following Irish authors whose last names start with the letters "st":

author of ElizaLaurence Sterne

co-founder of the ÒSpectatorÓ with AddisonRichard Steele

author of DraculaAbraham (Bram) Stoker

4. He won the 1904 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. His experiments proved that animals can develope a conditioned reflex. That is, if food were constantly accompanied by a bell, dogs would ever after begin to salivate whenever the bell was rung, regardless of the presence of food. For ten points name this Russian psychologist.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Bonus: Identify these famous biologists for ten points each

this woman used X-ray diffraction to discover the shape of DNA

Rosalind Franklin

this American wrote The Lives of A CellLewis Thomas

this man discovered that there are always equal amounts of adenine and thymine and equal amounts of cytosine and guanine in any given DNA strand Erwin Chargaff

5.He took over a program that had gone 1-27 the year before and went to every length imaginable to get its games televised, even scheduling them for midnight. This paid off when his team won four consecutive Atlantic-10 titles and made it to the Final Four last year. For ten points name this highly-paid rookie coach of the New Jersey Nets.

John Calipari

Bonus: Given a college, give the name of its team, for five points each:

MichiganWolverines

StanfordCardinal

(do not accept ÒCardinalsÓ)

Miami of OhioRedskins

HawaiiRainbows

MarshallThundering Herd

XavierMusketeers

6. The name's the same. Give the last name shared by these two men: One was a British naturalist who, independent of Darwin, formulated a theory of natural selection. The other was vice-president to our 33rd President, and served as secretary of agriculture during the New Deal, served as secretary of commerce in 1945, and was dismissed in 1946 for criticizing Truman. He then went on to run for the presidency in 1948 as a candidate for the progressive party. For ten points give the shared last name.

Alfred and Henry Wallace

Bonus: Identify the following New Deal programs from their acronyms for five points each:

WPAWorks Progress Administration

CCCCivilian Conservation Corps

TVATennessee Valley Authority

SECSecurities & Exchange Commission

FDICFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FHAFederal Housing Administration

7. He was educated in England, and moved to the United States at one point. He was born in India, which, not surprisingly, is where many of his most famous works take place. He was the first Englishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received in 1907. For ten points name this author of Rewards & Fairies, The Man Who Would Be King, The Jungle Book, and Kim.

Rudyard Kipling

Bonus: Kipling is also famous for his poetry. For ten points, given a brief synopsis, name the Kipling poem:

It describes the fact that a man with an alliterative name will be hanged in the morning "Danny Deever"

In it, the title character, an Indian water bearer, while being beaten is told by the narrator that "You're a better man than I am" "Gunga Din"

The four-word title of this poem became a euphemism for imperialism "The White Man's Burden"

8. A recent poll of ÒTV GuideÓ readers found that the "coolest show on television" is this long-running show about nothing. This show is based on the experiences of Larry David, the now-departed producer, and Kenny Kramer, the inspiration for one of the characters, and also on the stand-up comedy of the title character. For ten points, name this Thursday-night NBC sitcom.

Seinfeld

Bonus: Identify the following, related to Seinfeld, for five points each

The first name of the fictional KramerCosmo

The person who says Jerry is both a Òvery good manÓ and a "very bad man" Babu

Bizzaro-KramerÕs nameFeldman

According to George this group invaded Spain in the 8th centuryThe Moops

GeorgeÕs now-dead fianceeSusan

The movie star with whom George nearly hooks upMarisa Tomei

9. This Scottish physicist of the 19th century wrote four equations containing the basic laws governing electricity and magnetism. For 10 points, name this man whose equations formed the inspiration for EinsteinÕs theory of relativity.

James Clerk Maxwell

Bonus: Identify these scientists whose last names begin with ÒmÓ for 10 points each:

Austrian physicist of the 19th century for whom a unit equal to the speed of sound is named Ernst Mach

Russian chemist of the 19th century who first wrote the Periodic Table of the Elements Dmitri Mendeleev

Austrian monk who conducted experiments on pea plants, and studied the laws of inheritance Gregor Mendel

10. Although the play Hamlet takes place in Denmark, the character Fortinbras was from what country, which hosted the 1994 winter Olympics in Lillehammer and the capital of which is Oslo?

Norway

Bonus: Identify these other European countries from their capitals, for five points each:

StockholmKingdom of Sweden

CopenhagenKingdom of Denmark

Reykjavik Republic of Iceland

VallettaMalta

LjublianaRepublic of Slovenia

SkopjeFormer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

11. Read by many today as a humorous historical travelogue, this book was actually an attack on the optimism of Gottfried Leibniz, who is symbolized as Pangloss. In the course of the story, the title character attempts to rescue his love, Cunegonde, and then is sorely disappointed by her physical state when he succeeds. For ten points name this work, made into an operetta by Leonard Bernstein, which was written by Voltaire.

Candide

Bonus: VoltaireÕs real name was Charles-Marie Aurouet. Given a work, for five points each give both the man who wrote it and his pseudonym.

The Prince and the PauperSamuel Clemens/Mark Twain

The Spy who Came in From the ColdDavid Cornwell/John Le Carre

MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot/ Marianne Evans

12. Among his many portraits are his famous depiction of Gertrude Stein, a patron of his, and multiple self-portraits. For ten points, name this painter whose "Demoiselles D'Avignon" is on display at the Museum of Modern Art, and whose "Guernica" is displayed at the Prado.

Pablo Picasso

Bonus: Despite Picasso's sexist commentary, many women have excelled in art. For ten points each, name these female artists

She is noted for her bronze sculptures "Clotho", "The Waltz", and "Sakountura", and she had a love affair with Rodin Camille Claudel

She painted "Before the Bath" and "After the Bath"Mary Cassatt

Her photographs of the Depression were collected in An American Exodus Dorothea Lange

13. This Egyptian King lived circa 3100 BCE. He was the original king of the first Egyptian dynasty. He was known to many as Narmer, but he referred to himself as the king of upper and lower Egypt, because he united the two. For 10 points name this man best known for founding Memphis and making his capital there.

Menes

Bonus: Identify the following monarchs, for 10 points each:

French King who was killed during the French RevolutionLouis XVI

Spanish king who sent the Armada in 1588Phillip II

Austro-Hungarian at the begining of World War IFranz-Josef

14. Most of his works tell the story of someone who rejects established society and then returns to it. These include the stories of the fallen genius, Hans Giebenrath, the monk turned debaucher Goldmund, and the suicidal Harry Haller. In addition, many of his works, such as Demian and A Journey to the East, include elements of mysticism. For ten points name this author of Beneath the Wheel and Steppenwolf.

Hermann Hesse

Bonus: During his lifetime, Hesse did a lot of exciting things, so here's a pot pourri of questions on no one subject in particular, 10 points each

Hesse was born in Germany, but in what country made up of cantons did he settle after being denounced in his native land for his pacifism? Switzerland

By what psychologist, who is famous for his theory on the collective unconcious, was he psychoanalysed? Carl G. Jung

In what year, a decade-and-a-half before the creation of the Berlin Wall, did he receive the Nobel Prize? 1946

15. Shushuan is the setting for the story of what Jewish holiday which celebrates religious freedom, and is marked by both the use of groggers to drown out the name of the villain and the baking of triangle shaped pastries?

Purim

Bonus: Identify the following characters from the Purim story

The villain Haman

The queen who conceals the fact that she is JewishEsther

EstherÕs wise uncle Mordecai

16. Her mother, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women and "The Playthings of Tyrants". Her husband was expelled from school for writing atheist pamphlets and died in a boating accident. Her magnum opus consists of a series of letters from Arctic explorer Robert Walton to WaltonÕs sister. For ten points name this author of Frankenstein.

Mary Wollstencraft Shelley

Bonus: 30-20-10. Name the author of the following works

30: Earthly Powers

20: The Enderby Novels

10: Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

17. It can be defined as the limit as x approaches infinity of the quantity one plus one over x to the x power. For ten points name this number which is used as the base of natural logarithms.

e

Bonus: For five points each, give the derivatives of each of the following, five more for all correct

ln x1/x

3x3

exex

cos 2x-2sin 2x

100

18. Born in Belfast in 1906, he was an atheist when he entered college, but a devout Christian by the time he had left it. His beliefs led him to write Mere Christianity as well as to incorporate imagery of good and evil in his works of science fiction. For ten points name this author of Out of the Silent Planet and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

C. S. Lewis

Bonus: For five points each, name the authors of the following sci-fi classics

I, RobotIsaac Asimov

The Moon is a Harsh MistressRobert Heinlein

The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury

The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells

Rossum's Universal RobotsKarel Capek

The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseDouglas Adams

19. "Claire de Lune" ("Moonlight") and "La Mer" ("The Sea") are two of the best known works of what French composer, who used free rhythms and indefinite keys, and whose works have been compared to impressionist paintings?

Claude Debussy

Bonus: 30-20-10. Name the composer from his works

30: "The Queen of Spades"

20: "1812 Overture"

10: "Swan Lake"

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

20. A titular Duke of Marlborough, he became a Conservative member of Parliament in 1901. He served as Home Secretary from 1910-1911, first lord of the admiralty from 1911-1915, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1924 to 1929. For ten points name this British Prime Minister who wrote A History of the English Speaking Peoples.

Winston Churchill

Bonus: For ten points each, identify the following about Churchill

Name both of the men who succeeded him as Prime Minister of England

Clement Atlee and Anthony Eden

Name the war in which he served as a press correspondent, the first war in which concentration camps were used? Boer War