1.) Although it is often considered the masterpiece of its composer, he had some help in its creation. The title character originated in a Tirso de Molina play, but was already a popular legend around Prague by the time Lorenzo da Ponte began its libretto. When da Ponte and the composer couldn’t figure out a plot twist, they called on Casanova himself to fix the storyline. FTP, name this Mozart opera featuring the aria “Il Catologo e Questo” and characters such as Leoporello and Donna Elvira.
DonGiovanni (Prompt on “DonJuan”)
2.) The Norse edda “Voluspa” is a song dedicated to this figure, who also shares her name with the legendary witch of Bearnshaw Tower. A psychological disease in which the victim is assaulted by several different*** personalities is named for her Roman counterpart, who makes an appearance in Cumae in Book 6 of Vergil’s Aeneid. FTP, name this Roman prophetess.
Sybil
3.) C. L. Grigg took advantage of the palliative effects of this element in 1927 in the creation of his wonder-drink, Seven-Up. It wasn’t until the 1940s that Australian psychiatrist John Cade proved that the drug was a cure for bipolar affective disorder. Because of its severe side effects upon overdose, however, the common medicinal form of this element, its carbonate, was not approved by the FDA until 1970. FTP, name this alkali metal with atomic number 3.
Lithium (Prompt on “Lithiumcarbonate”)
4.) From 1976 to 1986, this band saw much change in membership: Terry Chimes joined thrice and left thrice, Topper Headon, Chimes’ replacement, only left once, and they only had to kick Mick Jones out once. Its only constant figures were Paul Simonon andJoe Strummer, but when the band broke up, Strummer wasted no time in starting “the Mescaleros”. FTP, name the British punk band that created “Should I Stay or Should I Go” and “Rock the Casbah”.
The Clash
5.) His Vice-President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, wants him to resign, though polls in his country suggest that most of the population believes he is not guilty of accumulating gambling playoff charges. Michael Roxas, his former Secretary of the Treasury, is not amongst that population, as he resigned last week in the face of stock market horrors. FTP, name this former film star and current president of the Philippines.
Joseph Estrada
6.) He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Democratic and Republican rallies, and in it played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-flat cornet. However, he claimed it wasn’t his busy lifestyle but rather his “friends that [kept] him up at night.” With friends like Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who could blame him? FTP, name this 29th president of the USA, who campaigned with the slogans “America First!” and “Return to Normalcy”.
Warren Harding
7.) He won first prize in a poetry contest in 1938 at the University of Michigan, but his first play, “The Man Who Had All the Luck” didn’t prove very lucky for him; it was a flop. He gained success, however, with his first novel, “Focus”, and went on to win the Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He gained widespread fame with his screenplay, “The Misfits”, written for his wife at the time, Marilyn Monroe. FTP, name this author of “The Crucible” and “Death of a Salesman”.
Arthur Miller
8.) Her early paintings, such as “Susannah and the Elders”, were realistic, but rarely allegorical or emotional. After her father took her to tutor Agostino Tassi to learn perspective, however, all that changed. Tassi raped her, and she was forced to undergo physical and verbal torture in the ensuing trial. She survived, but her paintings became emotionally charged allegories of her life. FTP, identify this female Baroque artist of such masterpieces as “Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes”.
Artemisia Gentileschi
9.) "Today, I have that sense of having just left without saying goodbye and of this whole other world just kind of fading away...” claims this author, though his 1960 move to England from Japan has provided him with enough cultural reference to produce four successful novels and win such prizes as the Winfred Holtby Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Whitbread Award. FTP, identify this author of “A Pale View of the Hills” and “The Remains of the Day”.
Kazuo Ishiguro
10.) Everyone knows that Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean. Everyone, that is, except the author of this sonnet. He can’t really be blamed; the sonnet was written in a moment of inspiration after an evening with Charles Clarke spent in studying “deep-browed Homer[’s]... demesne.” (Say “dih-main”) FTP, identify this Keats poem inspired by a translation of Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey”.
OnFirstLookingintoChapman’sHomer
11.) Walk down the Kampa Park, and listen to Vltava. Sit at the Charles Bridge, and watch the sun set over the Lesser Town. Visit the City Museum and see its miniature replica. Go to Balik Hill or a village church at Vrbchany to see monuments to St. Valclav, who is also known as Wenceslas. Head to Old Town Square and sit on the steps of the Jan Hus Memorial or visit ruins from the Spring of 1968. Do all this and more in, FTP, what city of a hundred spires, the capitol of the Czech Republic?
Prague
12.) He wasn’t a relative of Genghis Khan, nor did his empire reach Khan’s scope. However, he did manage to conquer through Syria to Persia fromIndia, and north into Russia in Khan’s name. What he lacked in legitimacy, he made up in cruelty; to mark his territory, he made towers of the skulls who defied him, and of course was never above the occasional massacre of Hindus. FTP, identify this terror of Samborquand, Uzbekistan and progenitor of India’s Mughal Dynasty.
Tamerlaine (Accept also “Timburlaine”, “TimurLeng”, “TimurKhan”, and equivalents.)
13.) It all started with the Ottoman Empire. Or the death of the Ottoman Empire, to be precise. It was basically a long, bloody siege at Sevastopol between Russia and the allied powers of Turkey, England, France, and Sardinia, but, in the end some good came out of it. Cardigan gave a name to those nifty button-down sweaters, Florence Nightingale strutted her stuff, and Alfred Lord Tennyson was inspired to write the memorial poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. FTP, identify this 1853 to 1856 war which temporarily settled the Eastern Question.
Crimean War
14.) “Mu naught” is the permittivity of free space. “I” is the current. “R” is the radius, and “L” is the path of the current. One may infer that the infinitesimal distance vector and the infinitesimal current vector are perpendicular to the corresponding infinitesimalmagnetic field vector from the cross product. FTP, identify this first of Maxwell’s Laws which governs magnetic field perturbation, the magnetic equivalent of Coulomb’s Law.
Biot-Savart Law (Accept also “Laplace’s Law”, Prompt early on “Maxwell’s Laws”)
15.) It comes from the ancient Greek word for actor, but it wasn’t until the thirteenth century that the word received its negative connotation. The original meaning refers to the tradition of Greek actors of representing different characters with different facial masks – the actors would display one face, but in truth have a different one. FTP, identify this term for a person whose words don’t match his actions.
Hypocrite
16.) Computer programmers, contrary to some people's beliefs, do not think in this binary language. They usually program in imitations of natural language. However, computers only directly understand this language of zeroes and ones. FTP, name this language, whose name sounds like a class of device.
Machine Language
17.) It originated in the Neolithic Period, and was noted for the creation of fine burnished pottery, frequently decorated with incised geometric motifs, and stone houses, though its people also still made use of caves for habitation. However, it is the succeeding Bronze Age of the civilization that inspired archaeologist SirArthur Evans to excavate at Knossos. FTP, identify this early civilization, named by Evans after the mythological King of Crete.
Minoan Civilization
18.) There are always two rates of taxation that will produce the same revenue: one at a higher level of national production and one at a lower level. The only exception is exactly a point“T-star” where the rate is optimum, which means revenues will fall if you raise or lower them. FTP, identify the curve that describes the above statement which was named for its inventor, a financial advisor under under President Ronald Reagan.
Laffer Curve
19.) In this work, civilization is regarded as a creation of man for the sake of the protection of nature. Singly, men are reasonable, but as a group without government, they act like the eponymous creature. Thus men need a social contract to control and maintain their own nature. FTP, identify this Thomas Hobbes work which describes life without society as “nasty, brutish, and short.”
Leviathan
20.) The average of ionization energy and electron affinity, and it can also be derived from other properties. Linus Pauling developed a scale from 0.7 to 4.0 to measure it, with cesium at the low end of the spectrum, opposite fluorine. In general it increases from left to right and bottom to top on the periodic table; the Group 2B elements are an exception. FTP, identify this chemical property defined as the ability of an atom in a molecule to attract electrons to itself.
Electronegativity
Bonus
1.) For five, ten, and fifteen points each, identify the following members of the Chicago Group.
(5) Illinois’ first poet laureate, this Galesburg native gained fame for his Chicago poems, but is perhaps best known for his six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Answer: Carl Sandburg
(10) One of America’s great Naturalist authors, he’s known for his gritty stories of poverty and social problems. FTP, name this author of “Sister Carrie”, “An American Tragedy”, and “The Financier”.
Answer: Theodore Dreiser
(15) This first winner of the Dial Award used his experience with small town Ohio life in such works as “Windy McPherson’s Story”, “The Triumph of the Egg”, and “Winesburg, Ohio”.
Answer: Sherwood Anderson
2.) For five, ten, and fifteen points apiece, identify the following works by non-European authors.
(5)
Answer: Nectar in a Sieve
(10) 1976 Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow portrays his relationship with mentor Delmore Schwartz through the title character. Name this most successful Saul Bellow novel, written in 1975.
Answer: Humboldt’sGift
(15) This most recent work by 2000 Nobel Prize winner Gao Xinjian tells the story of a man who travels China and explores Chinese culture in an effort to understand himself and his country.
Answer: SoulMountain
3.) For five, ten, and fifteen points apiece, identify the following about the 2000 presidential election.
(5) Between the evening of November 7, 2000 and the early morning of November 8, 2000, CNN first reported this state as a Democratic win, then too close to call, then a Republican win, then too close to call again. Name the state governed by Jeb Bush.
Answer: Florida
(10) Identify the time, EST, that CNN preemptively reported the winning of the election.
Answer: 2:18 (AM)
(15) A ballot box found in this Florida city after 2:18 AM on November 8, 2000 helped to cast doubt on CNN’s early claim of a Bush victory.
Answer: Margate
4.) FTP apiece, identify the following about a conflict between Andrew Jackson and his first Vice-President.
(10) Identify this man who replied to Jacskon’s toast to the Union, “Next to our liberty, most dear.”
Answer: John Calhoun
(10) Calhoun hailed from this state, with which he threatened to secede in 1832.
Answer: SouthCarolina
(10) In a move for greater States’ Rights, Calhoun threatened secession in protest of the Tariff of 1832. He began this crisis.
Answer: Nullification crisis
5.) Maybe historians should leave the counting to the mathematicians. For 5, 10, and 15 points each tell how long each of these European wars actually lasted. You’ll get points if you’re within one year of the correct answer.
(5) Thirty Years War
30 (1618-1648)
(10) Hundred Years War
126 (1327-1453)
(15) Seven Years War in America
9 (1754-1763)
6.) For five points each, identify the following gas laws with a 5 point bonus for all correct
(5) This gas law states that at constant temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.
Boyle’s Law
(5) According to this gas law. the volume of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature at constant pressure.
Charles’ Law
(5) This gas law states that the volume of a gas maintained at constant temperature and pressure is directly proportional to the number of moles of that gas.
Avogadro’s Law (Accept also: “Gay-Lussac’s Law”)
(5) What about non-ideal gases? His law states that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the summation of each of the pressures the individual gases would exert alone.
Dalton’s Law (Prompt on “Law of PartialPressures”)
(5) Finally, his Law of Effusion states that the square of the quotient of the rates of effusion of two gases is equal to the quotient of their molar masses.
Graham’s Law of Effusion
7.) 30-20-10, identify the author from works.
(30) “More Pricks than Kicks”, “Eleutheria”, “Molloy”
(20) “Krapp’s Last Tape”, “Dream of Fair to Middling Women”, “Happy Days”
(10) “Endgame”, “Waiting for Godot”, “Proust”
Answer: Samuel Beckett
8.) 30-20-10, identify the composer from works.
(30) “Manon Lescaut”, “La Rondine”, “La Fanciulla del West”
(20) “Tosca”, “Turandot”, “Le Villi”
(10) “Madame Butterfly”, “La Boheme”
Answer: Giacomo Puccini
9.) Given a list of artists, identify the artistic period in which they painted. 10 points for the first clue, 5 for the second.
(10) Caracci, Poussin, Ribera
(5) Velazquez, Caravaggio, Rembrandt
Answer: Baroque
(10) Vasari, Pontormo, Bronzino
(5) Parmigianino, El Greco, Tintoretto
Answer: Mannerism
(10) Caillebotte, Sisley, Morisot
(5) Monet, Renoir, Pissarro
Answer: Impressionism
10.) You may never have heard the name Merope, but it’s apparently rather popular in Greek myth. FTP apiece, identify the following about mythological characters named Merope.
(10) Merope is the name of the mother of this child of Helios who was killed by Zeus’ lightning bolt when he lost control of his father’s sun-chariot.
Answer: Phaet(h)on
(10) Merope is also the name of a daughter of the titan Atlas. Name the group formed by her and her six sisters Alcyone, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Sterope, and Taygete.
Answer: Pleiades
(10) A third Merope is the wife of Polybus, a shepherd who found this young club-footed boy and raised him as his own. Little did they know that the boy was a cursed descendant of Labdacus, and the heir to the throne of Thebes.
Answer: Oedipus
11.) Identify the following members of the Velvet Underground for five, ten, and fifteen points each. Why? I just don’t know.
(5) This man, along with John Cale, formed the lead of the Velvet Underground and still has a decent career, though the characters in Trainspotting don’t seem to think so. Name this “Godfather of Punk Rock”.
Answer: Lou Reed
(10) FTP, name the model who was added to the band upon orders of producer Andy Warhol. She never quite got along with the rest of the band, and was written out of several songs.
Answer:Nico
(15) This member of the VU made rock and roll history as one of the first female drummers in a popular American band. Name her.
Answer: Moe Tucker
12.) For five points each, identify each of the following Gods as Incan, Mayan, or Aztec.
(5) Tlaloc
Answer: Aztec
(5) Chac
Answer: Maya
(5) Viracocha
Answer: Inca
(5) Inti
Answer: Inca
(5) Huitzchipotli
Answer: Aztec
(5) Yum Kaax
Answer: Maya
13.) Identify the following about the musical “Rent”.
(5) “Rent”, which takes place on Christmas Eve in New York City, is based on this opera, which takes place on Christmas Eve in Paris’ Latin Quarter.
Answer: LaBoheme
(10) This composer of “Rent” died just after the completion of his masterpiece.
Answer: Jonathon Larson
(15) Rent won the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize in the same year. What year was it?
Answer: 1996
14. Identify these tropical diseases 5-10-15
5- This is marked by periodic fever and an enlarged spleen.
Answer: malaria
10- Characterized by diarrhea and vomiting, this disease is spread by water.
Answer: cholera
15- This results from a lack of Vitamin B1, Thiamine. Waterloggin, or Oedema, and emaciation may occur.
Answer: beriberi
- Name the European rivers from cities they flow through for ten points each.
- Rome
Answer: Tiber River
- Paris
Answer: Seine River