Packet: Round 2
Round 1: Letter Category:
The letter is "S"
1. This planet is the sixth from the sun
Answer: _Saturn_
2. This man was Hoover's opponent in the 1928 election.
Answer: Al _Smith_
3. This band had a surprise hit with "Supernatural" featuring the single "Smooth" with Rob Thomas. Other hits include "Oye (oh-yay) Como Va" and "Black Magic Woman".
Answer: _Santana_
4. This is the philosophy that states that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified, and that the self is the only reality.
Answer: _solipsism_
5. This saint's feast day is celebrated on December 26, since he is considered by many the first Christian martyr.
Answer: _Stephen_
6. This man, whose real name is Marie Henri Beyle, is the author of The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black.
Answer: _Stendhal_
7. This is the supporting structure of a plant.
Answer: _stem_
8. This strongman biblical figure had his hair cut off by Delilah, thus losing his strength.
Answer: _Samson_
Extra. This football player rushed for 11,236 yards during his 11-year professional career with the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers. However he is probably better known for his trial where the glove didn’t fit.
Answer: Orenthal James _Simpson_
Round 2: Untimed Individual
TEAM 1:
1. IT'S A STRUCK CUSP -- Rearrange these letters to spell the name of the man, a freed slave, who was the first to be shot in the American Revolution.
Answer: _Crispus Attucks_ (begrudgingly accept just Attucks)
2. ABROGATE, ABSCOND, ABJECT -- Which of these words means depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest?
Answer: _abscond_
3. Acetic acid, nitric acid, cupric acid -- Which of these acids contains copper?
Answer: _cupric_ acid
4. (two part question) The same day, September 21, in 1866 saw this author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds born and in 1949 saw what country with capital at Beijing declare itself a People’s Republic?
Answer: H.G. _Wells_ and _China_
5. Caracas, Buenos Aires, Lima -- Organize these South American capitals from north to south.
Answer: _Caracas, Lima, Buenos Aires_ (1,3,2)
6. "‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Thus concludes what poem by John Keats?
Answer: _Ode on a Grecian Urn_
TEAM 2:
1. ADD A FAIR TV RUG -- Rearrange this anagram to spell the name of the admiral in the American Civil War who fought at the battle of Mobile Bay, where he said, "Damn the Torpedoes, full speed ahead."
Answer: _David Farragut_ (accept just Farragut)
2. SIBILANCE, SLUGGARD, SOMNOLENCE -- Which of these words means oppressive drowsiness?
Answer: _somnolence_
3. Benzene, cyanide, caffeine -- Which of these compounds does not contain nitrogen?
Answer: _benzene_
4. (two part question) On the same day, April 30, in 1812 this state became the 18th to join the United States, and in 1945 this German leader committed suicide with his girlfriend, Eva Braun.
Answer: _Louisiana_ and Adolf _Hitler_
5. Lena, Volga, Ob -- Organize these Russian Rivers from west to east.
Answer: _Volga, Ob, Lena_ (2,3,1)
6. "GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may,/Old Time is still a-flying:/And this same flower that smiles to-day,/ To-morrow will be dying". Thus begins what poem by Robert Herrick?
Answer: _To the Virgins_ to make much of time
Round 3: Category
Identify the female authors of the following works:
1. Silas Mariner
Answer: George _Eliot_ or
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Answer: Maya _Angelou_
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Answer: Zora Neal _Hurston_
4. Ethan Frome
Answer: Edith _Wharton_
5. The Bluest Eye
Answer: Toni _Morrison_
6. The Handmaid’s Tale
Answer: Margaret _Atwood_
7. The Bell Jar
Answer: Sylvia _Plath_
8. The Little Foxes
Answer: Lilian _Hellman_
9. Breathing Lessons
Answer: Anne _Tyler_
10. Wuthering Heights
Answer: _E_mily _Bronte_
Round 4: Timed Individual
TEAM 1:
1. This bronze statue by Auguste Rodin has the subject supporting his chin on his wrist and his arm on his knee. It is named for the activity of the figure in the sculpture.
Answer: _The Thinker_
2. In 1871 he was appointed collector of the Port of New York by Grant, a position he abused but still he managed to finagle the Vice Presidential nomination in 1880. Name this vice president turned president who won the office at the death of James Garfield.
Answer: Chester A. _Arthur_
3. This is a brass musical instrument consisting of a long looped pipe ending in a wide round bell, with additional straight or curved pipes and valves attached to it within the loop. Name this instrument, the wolf in Peter and the Wolf.
Answer: _French horn_
4. Calculate the x-intercept of the straight line shown [graph with line segment between (4,1) and (6, 2)]
Answer: _2_
5. Sophia, Bucharest, Varna -- Which of these is the capital of Bulgaria?
Answer: _Sophia_
6. In Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, this is the term for a state of supreme liberation and bliss, contrasted to samsara. Give this term, also the name of a popular grunge band.
Answer: _nirvana_
7. Choice: Which of the following is the hardest on the Moh Scale? gypsum, calcite, quartz?
Answer: _quartz_
8. "A sucker is born every minute." So said what American showman and founder of a circus, famous for finding such acts as Tom Thumb, Chang and Eng the Siamese Twins, and Jumbo the elephant.
Answer: Phineas Taylor _Barnum_
TEAM 2:
1. Night of the Iguana, Camino Real, and The Glass Menagerie are all plays by what playwright better known for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: Tennessee _Williams_
2. Born in Venezuela in 1783, this statesman led revolutions against Spanish rule in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru, and is known as The Liberator.
Answer: Simon _Bolivar_
3. First made by Hans Schreiber, this double-reeded instrument’s eight foot conical tube is bent in double and the player sits on a strap to help hold it up. Name this instrument who might be best recognized as the one to play the grandfather in Peter and the Wolf.
Answer: _bassoon_
4. Calculate the y-intercept of the straight line shown [graph with line segment between (9,0) and (12,1)]
Answer: _–3_
5. Drammen, Oslo, Warsaw -- Which is the capital of Norway?
Answer: _Oslo_
6. This fresco painted by Leonardo Da Vinci depicts Jesus and his disciples at the moment Jesus announces that one of them has betrayed him.
Answer: _The Last Supper_
7. Choice: Which of the following is a type of igneous rock? obsidian, dolomite, slate?
Answer: _obsidian_
8. "I’m an old sinner. Nothing shocks me." So said what star of the silent screen famous in such movies as The Gold Rush and The Kid where he portrayed his famous "Little Tramp" character.
Answer: Charlie _Chaplin_
Round 5: Grab Bag
1. In 1842 he wrote his only novel, Franklin Evans. During the Civil War, he volunteered to nurse at army hospitals. In 1866 William D. O’Connor wrote a defense of him called The Old Gray Poet. Name this American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.
Answer: Walt _Whitman_
2. This muscle raises the upper arm. It is located on top of the shoulder joint. Name this muscle that works with the trapezius to move your arm.
Answer: _deltoid_
3. The oldest son of John of Gaunt, he gained his crown under dubious circumstances after forcing Richard II to abdicate. Name this founder of the Lancasterian Dynasty, the father of Henry V.
Answer: _Henry IV_
4. Salar de Uyuni, Tiahuanaco (tee-ah-hwan-AH-coh), Puna plateau, Illimani, Cochabamba, Tarija, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. All of these sites can be found in what country, with two capitals at La Paz and Sucre?
Answer: _Bolivia_
5. For many years before 1987, the U.S. government and a majority of state and local governments had this tax rate at a lower rate than other income. Until 1987, this was also broken into short-term and long-term categories. The short-term category was taxed at the same rate as ordinary income. Name this tax on profit from selling property, stocks, bonds, or other similar items.
Answer: _capital gains_
6. This work won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940. The novel traces the Joad family as they migrate across the west to California during the dust bowl. Name this novel by John Steinbeck.
Answer: _The Grapes of Wrath_
7. This equation seeks to define the relationship of a conjugate acid-base pair in terms of the dissociation constant of the weak acid and the equilibrium concentrations of the acid and its conjugate base. Name this equation that mathematically represents the pH of a solution.
Answer: _Henderson-Hasselbach_ equation
8. This event occurred because of restrictions imposed after the Opium Wars, China’s emperor Kuang-hsu was forced to make concessions to other countries. The dowager T’zu Hsi founded a group to oppose the Westernization, and this group lends its name to the uprising. Name it.
Answer: _Boxer_ Rebellion
9. She voiced "Soda Pop" in Pokemon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back and is set to appear in the upcoming movie Crossroads, her first movie venture since achieving pop superstardom and being the darling of TRL. Name this singer whose two albums ...Baby One More Time and Oops! I Did It Again have made music history.
Answer: Brittney _Spears_
10. Son of Pelops and Hippodamia, this mythological character’s life was made miserable by a curse by Myrtilus. He lived up to this curse by serving the children of his brother Thyestes as a main course at a banquet. Name this man whose progeny was also cursed.
Answer: _Atreus_
11. These works evolved over time from the grossi form in which the entire orchestra plays to a version by the end of the 18th century that features a single instrument. Name this orchestral form, famous versions of which include the Brandenburg series by J.S. Bach.
Answer: _concerto_
12. The original source of this comedy was most likely "The Deceived". In a subplot, members of Lady Olivia’s household play a prank on Malvolio, but the central action revolves around a set of twins, Sebastian and Viola, who disguises herself as the boy Cesario. Name this Shakespeare play.
Answer: _Twelfth Night_
TB1. He invented a safety lamp for miners and also isolated potassium, sodium, calcium, barium, boron, magnesium, and strontium. Name this man who also discovered laughing gas, a student of Michael Faraday.
Answer: Humphry _Davy_
TB2. He served as Gerald Ford’s deputy assistant as well as the default chief of staff. In 1995 he became the CEO of the Dallas-based Halliburton Company. Name this man, who was appointed in 2000 to be the running mate of G.W. Bush, now the current vice president.
Answer: Richard _Cheney_
TB3. Some of the discontinuities in this movie include a reference to a cut scene with an octopus while the title characters are approaching a pirate ship, and the reappearance of glass in a picture frame holding a treasure map. Name this movie about a group of rejects in Astoria, Washington featuring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, and Kerri Green.
Answer: The _Goonies_