Round 10 written by Eric
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This round brought to you by the letter “K”:
All answers will begin with the letter K. ±10, no bounce backs
1) On May 4, 1970, four antiwar student protestors were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard at this university.
ANSWER: Kent State
2) This small sanctuary close to the center of the Great Mosque in Mecca is considered the holiest place on earth by Muslims.
ANSWER: Kaaba
3) Nathan Bedford Forrest was an early leader of this alliterative hate group, although he did try to disband it when its members became violent.
ANSWER: Ku Klux Klan
4) American lawyer and poet who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
ANSWER: Francis Scott Key
5) Jewish-Austrian author of Letters to Felice, The Castle, The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
ANSWER: Franz Kafka
6) Scales, feathers, beaks, horns, hooves, hair and nails are all made out of this hearty protein.
ANSWER: Keratin
7) Japanese for “divine wind”, it was applied to suicidal pilots of Japanese aircraft in World War II.
ANSWER: Kamikaze
8) Also known as the citric acid cycle, it is responsible for the final breakdown of food molecules into carbon dioxide, water and energy.
ANSWER: Krebs cycle
9) Most of Botswana and about half of Namibia are covered by this desert.
ANSWER: Kalahari
10) Habitat loss is the main cause of endangerment of this marsupial, which only eats certain types of eucalyptus leaves in Australia.
ANSWER: Koala bear
Untimed Individual Round: 5 seconds per answer, +20, no penalties
Team Round 1
1. Give the name of the African-American slave who led a famous uprising in Virginia on August 21, 1831.
ANSWER: Nat Turner
2. Identify the author of the unfinished narrative first published in 1768 entitled A Sentimental Journey.
ANSWER: Lawrence Sterne
3. Give the common alternative term for an endoergic reaction in which energy must be added to the system for the reaction to proceed.
ANSWER: Endothermic (accept Endoergonic)
4. She was the Greek Goddess of the hearth, harvest, protection, and family. Name this mother of Persephone and counterpart of the Roman Ceres.
ANSWER: Demeter
5. Name the Giuseppe Verdi opera that was first produced in 1871 in celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal.
ANSWER: Aïda
6. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka are the senators from this Aloha state.
ANSWER: Hawaii
Team 2
1. Give the name of the Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians and codified Roman Law in 529.
ANSWER: Justinian
2. Give the American playwright of the following works: “Buried Child,” “True West,” “Motel Chronicles,” and “Fool for Love.”
ANSWER: Sam Shepherd
3. What type of interference occurs when two interfering waves are 180 degrees out of phase with each other and the amplitude of the combined wave is zero?
ANSWER: Destructive
4. Her Greek counterpart is the daughter of Hyperion and Thea and the sister of Helios. This counterpart was eventually identified by some as Artemis. Name this Roman moon goddess and counterpart to Selene.
ANSWER: Luna
5. Set in Palestine at the time of Christ, the title character performs the “Dance of the Seven Veils” before King Herod and his court. Name this opera by Strauss.
ANSWER: “Salome”
6. This U.S. state ranks 49th in land area and 7th in population density. Some of its nicknames include the Diamond State and the Blue Hen State. Name this state, which was also the first to join the union.
ANSWER: Delaware
Category Round - “Carry Me Back”
Identify the following related to Virginia. ±10, no bounce backs
1) This author eventually moved to Marion, Virginia and became newspaper editor there, but is more famous for his series of short stories about “Winesburg, Ohio”.
ANSWER: Sherwood Anderson
2) US Route 11 traverses what natural limestone structure in Rockbridge County, known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World?
ANSWER: Natural Bridge
3) This Hanover County lawyer has two Virginia counties named for him, though you probably know him better for his firebrand speech that demanded, “Give me liberty or give me death”.
ANSWER: Patrick Henry
4) Despite it's name, the only way across is via the 3.5-mile namesake bridge and tunnel complex. Site of a famous Civil War battle, what is this area where the James River meets the Chesapeake Bay?
ANSWER: Hampton Roads
5) What geographic region, sandwiched between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, is literally translated as French for “foothills”?
ANSWER: Piedmont
6) State Street separates what city, which straddles the border between Virginia and Tennessee?
ANSWER: Bristol
7) Bedford, which lost the most soldiers per capita during this event, is the home to the memorial for what WWII battle that took place on June 6, 1944?
ANSWER: D-Day (also accept the Normandy Invasion, or clear-knowledge equivalents)
8) This famous soft drink was originally developed in Marion, and named for a synonym for moonshine. What is this beverage, notorious for its high caffeine content, whose varieties include Pitch Black, Baja Blast and Live Wire?
ANSWER: Mountain Dew
9) This Richmond native is the only non-Civil War hero to have his statue on Monument Ave. Who is this black tennis star, who won Wimbledon in 1975 and lost his life to AIDS in 1993?
ANSWER: Arthur Ashe
10) The Shenandoah Shakespeare Company built a replica of what famous Elizabethan theater in downtown Staunton?
ANSWER: The Globe Theatre
Timed Individual Round: 90 seconds to answer up to 8 questions per team, 5 seconds to answer after each question. +20, no penalties, +25 for all 8 correct.
Team 1
1. Hercules’ ninth labor was to retrieve the girdle of this Queen of the Amazons, who he ended up killing when her troops attacked.
ANSWER: Hippolyta
2. He was born in Fredericksburg, Texas in 1885 and commanded the experimental submarine A-1. Name the admiral placed in command of the Pacific Fleet after Pearl Harbor.
ANSWER: Chester Nimitz
3. This novel contains the characters Captain Andy Hawks, Parthy Ann, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal. Name this Edna Ferber work made into a play with music by Jerome Kern.
ANSWER: Showboat
4. Give the term for the steady state condition in which the body’s internal environment remains relatively constant, with physiological limits.
ANSWER: Homeostasis
5. This Chinese dynasty was split into Northern and Southern periods, and lasted from 960-1279.
ANSWER: Song
6. After 1950, this American sculptor’s largest projects were outdoor spaces designed on the principles of Japanese gardens. Name this man who created the Water garden in Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza, New York City.
ANSWER: Isamu Noguchi
7. This lake is the second largest as well as the deepest lake in Africa. Name the lake separating the Democratic Republic of Congo from the nation that is a union of the Lake’s namesake and Zanzibar.
ANSWER: Lake Tanganyika
8. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona on July 2nd 1983. In January 2002 her favorite song off the album “Spirit Room“ entitled "All You Wanted" reached #1 on the TRL top 10. Name this singer.
ANSWER: Michelle Branch
Team 2
1.Hercules’ 11th labor was to bring back the golden apples from them, the daughters of Atlas who guarded the tree for Hera.
ANSWER: Hesperides
2. Name the landmark 1962 United States Supreme Court case that determined school prayer, even when relatively non-denominational and voluntary, was unconstitutional.
ANSWER: Engel v. Vitale
3. This literary work contains the characters Chief Bromden, Randle Patrick McMurphy, and Nurse Ratched. Name this work made into a film starring Jack Nicholson.
ANSWER: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
4. It is a diagnostic procedure that focuses on the nuclei of atoms of a single element in a tissue and is used to indicate the biochemical activity of that tissue. What does the acronym MRI stand for?
ANSWER: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
5. The year 1206 A.D. saw a young Mongol warrior named Temujin take control of all the Mongol tribes and took a title meaning “Universal Ruler.” Give the better-known name of this man.
ANSWER: Genghis Khan
6. This American fashion and portrait photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue Magazines is noted for his bluntly realistic photographs of presidents, writers, and celebrities. Name this man who became a photographer for the New Yorker in 1992.
ANSWER: Richard Avedon
7. A council by this name brought the Great Schism to an end in 1417 by deposing both the Italian and French popes. Give the name shared with the lake that is the source of the Rhine River.
ANSWER: Constance
8. A failed Pete Townshend project is this band’s namesake. Its lead singer sang a remake of “You Belong to Me” on the Shrek soundtrack. In 2001, the band had the number 1 most-played song on the radio. Name this band led by Jason Wade.
ANSWER: Lifehouse
Grab Bag Round
± 20, no bounce backs
1. It’s features include the Deccan Plateau, the Eastern and Western Ghats, and the Brahmaputra River. Name this democratic nation second in population to China.
ANSWER: India
2. This man was the pilot of the U-2 plane and was show down over the Soviet Union in 1960.
ANSWER: Francis Gary Powers
3. Identify the poet who penned the following lines: “approach they grave,/ Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch/ About him, and lies down to pleasant dream,” written in his “Thanatopsis.”
ANSWER: William Cullen Bryant
4. Name the woman who rose from selling oranges outside Drury Lane Theatre to become a leading actress of the day and the most celebrated of the mistresses of English King Charles II.
ANSWER: Nell Gwynne
5. What is the name for a star-shaped neuroglial cell that provides support for nerve cells in the brain?
ANSWER: Astrocyte
6. A 12-year civil war, which cost the lives of some 75,000 people, was brought to a close in this nation in 1992. Name this republic on the Pacific coast of Central America with a population of approximately 6.2 million people with capital at San Salvador.
ANSWER: El Salvador
7. This religion was espoused by Gupta rulers who claimed they ruled because of their selection by the gods. Name this religion that includes the Vedas and holds sacred the Ganges River.
ANSWER: Hinduism
8. This Maryland governor was tapped by Richard Nixon to serve as his first vice president. He would later become the only vice president to resign.
ANSWER: Spiro Agnew
9. Give the common name for the first collection of plays by William Shakespeare compiled by his fellow actors John Heninges and Henry Condell.
ANSWER: The First Folio
10. Name the scientist who in 1896 discovered that an ore containing uranium emits an invisible radiation that can penetrate paper and expose a photographic plate and shared the 1903 Nobel Physics Prize with the Curie’s?
ANSWER: Antoine Henri Becquerel
11. This artist created a painting in which a partially clothed woman sits on a blue and white checkered chair with a bouquet of purple flowers nearby. Name this creator of “Odalisque,” a leading Fauvist.
ANSWER: Henri Matisse
12. This religion was founded by Nataputta, who was a royal clan of the Nata tribe in ancient India at the time of Shakyamuni. Similar to Buddhism, its basic doctrine is non-materialistic atheism. Name it.
ANSWER: Jainism
13. In physics, give the name for a system that consists of a pulley, with a mass m sub a on one side connected by a string of negligible mass to another mass m sub b on the other side.
ANSWER: Atwood’s Machine
14. As part of the Truman Doctrine, Harry Truman asked Congress to appropriate $400 million to help defend two countries against Communist aggression. Name these two countries, one hosted the 2004 summer Olympics, the other home of Istanbul.
ANSWER: Greece and Turkey
15. This adjective was derived from the name of mythological Greek herald who met his end after losing a shouting match with Hermes, albeit he was noted for his loud voice, which is what people described as such have.
ANSWER: Stentorian
16. This novel involves a dark, Faustian quest for a secret missile. Name this work by Thomas Pynchon.
ANSWER: Gravity’s Rainbow
17. He was a three-time World Poker Champion and won ten major No Limit Hold'em titles having only played thirty events. His poker was described as a combination of the artistry of Mozart, the moves of Michael Jordan, and the focus of Tiger Woods. Name one of the greatest card players of all time.
ANSWER: Stu Ungar