Quarter Finals
1. Pilar Ternera, Remedios Moscote, Mauricio Babilonia, and Gerineldo Marquez are among its minor characters. The bookÕs action centers around the story of the Buendia family, a family which names all its male children either Aureliano or Jose Arcadio. The most famous of these is Colonel Aureliano Buendia, the first Aureliano who fights 32 civil wars and loses them all. For ten points, name this 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez masterpiece.
100 Years of Solitude or Cien Anos de Soledad
Bonus: Several other authors have gained fame for a novel or a series of novels about a family. For five points each, name the authors given the series or title
The Good EarthPearl S. Buck
The Magnificent AmbersonsBooth Tarkington
The Forsythe SagaJohn Galsworthy
The Joy Luck ClubAmy Tan
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev
2. For a quick ten points name first Navy SEAL to win a Congressional Medal of Honor was what one-legged Nebraska Senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992?
Bob Kerry
Bonus: Answer the following about the SEALs, 10 points each
For what does SEAL stand?Sea and Air Landing
Who ordered the creation of the SEALs?John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The forerunners of the SEALs were what World War II units who would clear underwater obstacles to help amphibious landings? Frogmen
3. Although he was a staunch Irish patriot and an officer in the Irish PeopleÕs Army, he was troubled by the ways in which the Irish revolution affected civilians. This view was displayed in his Dublin Trilogy of plays, set in the tenements of the North side of Dublin during the Irish revolution. When the most famous of the three was performed at the Abbey Theatre, riots broke out. After such incidents, he moved to England, where he wrote his 6-volume autobiography: A Mirror in My House. For ten points, name this man whose Dublin trilogy consists of In the Shadow of a Gunman , Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars.
Sean OÕCasey
Bonus: For five points, plus five more for all correct, identify the authors given a trilogy or faux trilogy they wrote
EnderÕs Game Trilogy (now containing four books)Orson Scott Card
Space TrilogyC.S. Lewis
Studs Lonigan TrilogyDanny Farrell
Foundation Trilogy (now containing seven books)Isaac Asimov
The Increasingly Innacurately Named HitchhikerÕs Guide Trilogy (now containing five-and-a-half books) Douglas Adams
4. What is the volume of the solid formed by rotating the curve y = x2 from 0 to 1 around the x-axis?
pi / 5
Bonus: Path rhymes with math. Identify the following paths for 5 points each
Path that leads to Nirvana in Buddhism.seven-fold path
Name for the path of the forced Cherokee migration.Trail of Tears
This service followed a path from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California
Pony Express
This path went from Independence, Missouri, to a northern territory contested by Britain and the United States in the 1840Õs. Oregon Trail
This path stretches from Georgia to Maine.Appalachian Trail
The North Vietnamese army got supplies through this path to Cambodia which was heavily bombed by the United States during the conflict. Ho Chi Minh Trail
5. This man did most of his work in Barcelona, where he is still hailed as one of its most famous sons. A mystic and a Catalan nationalist, he is rumored to have been influenced by hallucinogenic mushrooms. For ten points, name this modernist architect whose most famous works are Parc Guell, an attempted park community, and an unfinished cathedral, the Sagrada Familia.
Antoni Gaudi i Cornet
Bonus: 30-20-10. Name the architect from his works
30: Marin Country Civic Center
20: the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
10: Falling Water
Frank Lloyd Wright
6. In the Acts of the Apostles, he is a man who suggests that people not trouble Christians, since if Christians are unholy they will die out, and if they are holy attacks are futile. For ten points, give this name, also the middle name of our 29th Chief Executive Warren Harding.
Gamaliel
Bonus: Other Presidents have had interesting middle names. WeÕll give you the last name, you give us the middle name, five points each
PolkKnox
HayesBirchard
GrantSimpson
ReaganWilson
WilsonWoodrow
KennedyFitzgerald
7. Remoras living on sharksto eat the leftovers; tiny crabs live in the folds of the annelid Chaetoopterus feeding on incoming nutrients. These two cases are examples of what type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is not affected?
Commensalism
Bonus: 30-20-10 Name the author from the works.
30: Ever Since Darwin
20: Wonderful Life
10: Dinosaur in the Haystack
Stephen Jay Gould
8. He was comissioned by the Soviet government to write the music for the movie ÒAlexander NevskyÓ as well as the opera ÒThe Love for Three Oranges.Ó For a quick ten points name this composer of ÒPeter and the Wolf.Ó
Sergei Prokofiev
Bonus: 30-20-10 Name the composer from the nicknames of his symphonies
30: ÒBabi-YarÓ
20: ÒThe Year 1912Ó
10: ÒLeningradÓ
Dimitri Shostakovich
9. De Cive, De Corpore, and De Homine are three books in a trilogy by what Englishman who wrote that human existence was Ònasty, brutish and short,Ó and who wrote Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Bonus: Identify the following philosophers given works on a 10-5 basis
10: Blue and Brown Books
5: Tractus Logico-PhilosophicusLudwig Wittgenstein
10: The Poetics
5: Nicomachaen EthicsAristotle
10: Origin of the Inequality of Man
5: The Social ContractJean Jacques Rousseau
10. This manÕs grandfather forced his mother to be confined, because an oracle had stated that this man would kill the grandfather. He did kill the grandfather, albeit accidentally, by misthrowing a discus. For ten points, name this man who used his shield to slay Medusa.
Perseus
Bonus: For five points each, name the following Greek and Roman minor deities.
Greek god of the WindsAeolus
Roman goddess of luckFortuna
Greek father of all sea nymphsOceanus
Roman and Greek god of procreationPriapus
In both mythologies, brother of Prometheus whose name means Òlooking backÓ or ÒhindsightÓ Epimetheus
Greek god most famous attribute is his ability to change his shape; he was the son of Poseidon Proteus
11. From May 22 to June 4, 1940, 100 vessels, many of them fishing boats were sent here. This town on the Northern Coast of France was the site of a remarkable retreat by the British army during World War II. For ten points name this town from which 337,000 Allied troops were evacuated from a German onslaught.
Dunkirk
Bonus: Identify the following admirals from their descriptions, for 10 points each.
This Russian-born American developed the first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus.
Hyman George Rickover
He commanded the 3rd Fleet, which destroyed the Japanese fleet at Leyte Gulf during World War II, and he had the nickname ÒBullÓ William Frederick Halsey Jr.
He defeated the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of TrafalgarHoratio Nelson
12. One of the fundamental laws of physics is that momentum is always conserved. For ten points, what other quantity, equal to one half times the mass times the square of the velocity, is conserved in an elastic collision?
kinetic energy
Bonus: Identify the following units from their descriptions for 10 points each.
This unit is equal to one kilogram meter per square second.Newton
This unit is equal to 746 Watts.horsepower
This unit is equal to 760 millimeters of mercury.atmosphere
13. After he began to suffer from chronic asthma, he retired from Parisian high society and moved into a cork-filled room in which he wrote his magnum opus, a semi-autobiographical study of time, memory, and consciousness. For ten points name this author of Remembrance of Things Past.
Marcel Proust
Bonus: 30-20-10 Name the author from his works
30: Salammbo
20: Three Tales
10: Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
14. A key member of the Giants 1987 and1991 Super Bowl Championship, his infamous accomplishments include are giving Joe Montana a concussion, and ending the career of Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann. For ten points name this Giants outside linebacker commonly referred to as ÒLT.Ó
Lawrence Taylor
Bonus: For five points each identify the following linebackers.
Bears linebacker who appears in a current commercial with Terry Bradshaw
Dick Butkus
This Bills outside linebacker led the NFL in sacks last yearBryce Paup
This former Lions and currently Bills middle linebacker was the only high school athlete to be featured on a Wheaties box Chris Spielman
Seahawks linebacker who had a short career and went into movies, such as ÒStone ColdÓ Brian Bosworth
This current announcer won Super Bowls with the Raiders, 49ers, and Redskins
Matt Millen
Redskin and Ram who was fired after winning Coach of the Year with the Bears, and later coached both the Redskins and Oilers Jack Pardee
15. A desire for pleasure brought both his and one of his characterÕs downfall. In his case, his death cam in a barrom fight over a whore, but not before he had written such successful plays as Tamburlain the Great and The Jew of Malta. For ten points name this playwright, a member of the royal secret service, one of whose characters sold his soul to the devil.
Christopher Marlowe
Bonus: For ten points each, identify the following connected with Dr. Faustus
The messenger devil who convinces Dr. Faustus to sell his soulMephistopheles
The French composer of the opera ÒFaustÓGounod
The musical, loosely based on the story, that tells the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in order to lead the Senators to the pennant ÒDamn YankeesÓ
16. Thomas Jefferson did not free all of his slaves upon his death. However, he did free all the children of this woman. For ten points name this slave, with whom Jefferison is rumored have fathered children.
Sally Hemings
Bonus: Speaking of children, identify the mother of the following mythological children, 10 points each
Apollo and DianaLeto or Latona
Clio and EratoMnemosyne
the Nemean Lion and the HydraEchidna
17. One of his plays satirized Euripides, another satirized Socrates, and yet another satirized the idea of war. On a positive note his play The Birds is a fantasy about a utopian sky city. For ten points name this playwright of The Wasps, The Clouds, and Lysistrata.
Aristophanes
Bonus: Answer the following about another satirist, Francios Rabelais for the stated number of points
For five points: What was his real name?Alcofribas Nsier
For five each: About what two characters did he write a mulit-volume satire?
Grargantua and Pantegruel
For fifteen points: What French monarch did Honore Daumier get into with trouble for portryaing his as RabelaisÕ Gargantua? Louis-Phillipe
(if Citizen King is given, ask for name)
18. At the 1952 Republican Convention, Dwight Eisenhower was having some trouble getting the nomination when suddenly this major candidate dropped out of the race and threw his support to Eisenhower. Name this man whom Eisenhower would later appoint to the Supreme Court where this man would preside over decisions such as Brown v. Board of Education.
Earl Warren
Bonus: Identify the following related to Earl Warren, 10 points each
The man Warren replaced as Chief Justice. Fred Vincent
The position Warren held at the time of his appointment to the Court
Governor of California
The position Warren held during the World War II Japanese internment
Attorney-General of California
19. ÒLigieaÓ and ÒWilliam WilsonÓ are two minor works by this author. His father, an actor, left the family when he was very young. His mother died when he was three, and he carried around a picture of her, his sole inheritance, everywhere he went. In an attempt to please his foster father, he went to West Point. That didnÕt work out, but the cadets got together to pay to have some of his works published. For 10 points name this author of ÒThe Gold Bug,Ó ÒÓThe Murders in the Rue Morgue,Ó and ÒThe Raven.Ó
Edgar Allen Poe
Bonus: Identify the Poe short stories, given a brief synopsis
Montressor builds a wall around Fortunato in his wine cellarÒThe Cask of AmontilladoÓ
Madeline and Roderick die right before their home collapses
ÒThe Fall of the House of UsherÓ
The narrator, an animal lover, kills his cat and his wifeÒThe Black CatÓ
20. Eduard Shevardnadze has been the Chairman of Parliament in this country since 1992. This former Soviet Repbulic achieved independence on April 9th, 1991. For 10 points identify this birthplace of Joseph Stalin whose capital is Tibilisi.
Georgia
Bonus: Identify the capitals of the following countries, 5 points each
MoldovaChisinau
Trinidad and TobagoPort-of-Spain
TanzaniaDar es Salaam
CongoBrazzaville
St. LuciaCastries
CyprusNicosia