Round 4
By Michael Bentley
Letter Round: 5
Each required answer part in this category will be exactly 5 letters long. For example, an answer of John Smith fits since the required answer part, “Smith”, is five letters long.
±10, no bounce backs
1) After winning the Prix de Rome, this artist of Oath Belisarius returned to France where he painted political works such as Oath of the Horatii and Death of Marat.
ANSWER: Jacques-Louis David
2) Two large temples devoted to the gods Chaac and Huitzilopochtli dominated their capital of Tenochtitlan.
ANSWER: Aztec
3) Formally 1 ten millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole through Paris, this unit of measure is now defined as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
ANSWER: Meter
4) His refusal to retreat or accept conditional surrender at Donelson and Shiloh earned victories for the North and he would later command a successful siege of Vicksburg.
ANSWER: Ulysses S. Grant (or Hiram Ulysses Grant)
5) His works include The World Set Free as well as the more famous story of a man who changes his refractive index to that of air in The Invisible Man.
ANSWER: Herbert George Wells
6) Bill Gates created the Altair version of this simple programming language that has tokens such as GOTO. Microsoft created a Visual version in the ‘90s.
ANSWER: BASIC
7) The founder and spokesperson for this company of products like the Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ Oven is known for his trademarked phrase, “set it and forget it”.
ANSWER: Ronco (Do not accept Ron Popeil)
8) This 19th century Italian composer dealt mainly with operas, composing The Masked Ball as well as La Traviata and Rigoletto.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
9) These types of costs are independent of the level of output of a business, and examples include overhead such as rent and loan payments.
ANSWER: Fixed Costs
10) His forty year reign began after the assassination of Saul, but he is most famously known for slaying a Philistine champion.
ANSWER: King David
Team Round 1:
6 questions per team, 5 seconds per answer, +20, no penalties
Team 1:
1) After the death of Charles II, Louis XIV tried to fill his position with his grandson, Phillip, igniting this early 18th century war.
ANSWER: The War of Spanish Succession
2) He is banished to his mother’s homeland for seven years after accidentally killing Ezeudu’s son in Things Fall Apart.
ANSWER: Okonkwo
3) These organelles of plant cells are special types of plastids where photosynthesis occurs.
ANSWER: Chloroplast
4) His kidnapping of Helen provoked the Trojan War. He would go on to shoot the fatal arrow at Achilles.
ANSWER: Paris
5) This Italian Baroque painter was known for his use of everyday models and chiaroscuro in works like The Calling of Saint Matthew.
ANSWER: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
6) It originates in the Parima range on the Brazil border before flowing through Columbia and Venezuela, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
ANSWER: Orinoco River
Team 2:
1) It was instintigated by Frederick the Great when he refused to recognize the Pragmatic Sanction that put the Holy Roman Empire in the hands of Maria Theresa.
ANSWER: The War of Austrian Succession
2) At the invitation of Theophilus Msimangu, this priest from Ndotsheni travels to Johannesburg to attend to his sister Gertrude in Cry, The Beloved Country.
ANSWER: Stephen Kumalo'
3) These organelles in cells convert organic matter into ATP, giving them the nickname of “power plants of a cell”.
ANSWER: Mitochondria (or Mitochondrion)
4) After he kills Patroclus, Achilles takes his revenge on this hero of Troy by defeating him in a duel.
ANSWER: Hector
5) This Italian Baroque sculptor created the enormous St. Peter’s Baldachin in the Vatican, as well as The Ecstasy of St. Theresa.
ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
6) It originates in the Tibetan Himalayas, flowing through eastern India before splitting into the Jamuna and Padma in Bangladesh and emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
ANSWER: Brahmaputra River
Category Round: Guess Who’s Dead Now?
Remember those that have died in the past year by answering questions about their most memorable accomplishments.
±10, no bounce backs
1) Khamis al-Obeidi who was abducted from his house in Sadr City by uniformed police officers and killed, making him the third lawyer killed defending this former leader.
ANSWER: Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
2) The death of his father, Earl, from prostate cancer noticeably affected this golfer when he failed to make the cut at the US Open.
ANSWER: Eldrick Tiger Woods
3) Despite the popular myth that she had tired feet, this woman planned with the NAACP to not give up her seat on a crowded Montgomery, Alabama bus.
ANSWER: Rosa Parks
4) On March 23, 2006 one of these named Adwaita, which means "one and only" in Sanskrit, died at the possible age of 250.
ANSWER: Aldabra Giant Tortoise
5) A March plane crash killed Peter Tomarken, the host of this popular ‘80s game show where players competed for Big Bucks while avoiding Whammies.
ANSWER: Press Your Luck
6) Lillian Asplund, who was five years old on April 2nd, 1912, died in May, making her the last survivor with memories of this ship’s sinking to die.
ANSWER: RMS Titanic
7) Robert Taylor Sr., who died in February, took this activity from the rooftops of New York City and added obstacles such as castles and windmills to artificial turf.
ANSWER: Miniature Golf (do not accept "Putt-Putt" because it is a brand of mini golf)
8) Akira Ifukube ironically went into composing after being exposed to radiation during World War II, composing the score for this 1954 film about a monster created by radiation exposure.
ANSWER: Godzilla
9) A tape of him having trouble firing an automatic weapon was released a few months before a U.S. airstrike killed this al-Qeada in Iraq leader.
ANSWER: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
10) His death from thyroid cancer last September led to this limiter of Congress’s Commerce Clause’s eventual replacement by John Roberts on the Supreme Court.
ANSWER: William Hubbs Rehnquist
Team Round 2:
8 questions per team, 5 seconds per answer, +20, no penalties, +25 for all correct
Team 1:
1) Considered one of the Intolerable Acts by American colonists, it allowed Catholicism to be openly practiced in Britain’s Canadian holdings.
ANSWER: Quebec Act
2) This George Elliot work tells of a social recluse in Raveloe who, after having his gold stolen, finds happiness in a child named Eppie who is dropped at his door.
ANSWER: Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe
3) Often associated with the devil, this other name for an augmented fourth was used prominently in the Romantic period, and makes up the first two notes of The Simpsons theme.
ANSWER: Tritone (or Diminished Fifth, prompt on Devil’s Interval)
4) This rebellion against Emperor Lingdi of the Han dynasty takes its name from the headwear that the rebels wore.
ANSWER: Yellow Turban Rebellion or Yellow Scarves Rebellion
5) The Enuma Elish tells the tale of the slaying of this female deity from Summerian mythology, whose weeping eyes became the Tigris and the Euphrates, by Marduk.
ANSWER: Tiamat
6) The slow rate at which they burn hydrogen means that these stars of less than 1/3 the mass of the Sun give off little light but can last for tens of billions of years.
ANSWER: Red Dwarfs
7) She mainly wrote about the American West with novels such as The Professor’s House and O Pioneers!
ANSWER: Willa Sibert Cather
8) Ben Folds did all of the music for this DreamWorks computer animated film about a group of animals facing the threat of suburban sprawl.
ANSWER: Over the Hedge
Team 2:
1) The 1765 act of this name required colonists to provide provisions for British troops. Anger over it and the 1774 act of the same name resulted in the 3rd Amendment.
ANSWER: Quartering Act
2) This Thomas Hardy work tells of the residents of Egdon Heath after the arrival of Clym Yeobright from Paris.
ANSWER: The Return of the Native
3) Their variance, along with partials, changes the timbre of instruments. They are whole number multiples or overtones of the original note being played.
ANSWER: Harmonics
4) Lasting from the 5th century BCE to the formation of the Qin Dynasty, this period of Chinese history was characterized by a series of small factions vying for power.
ANSWER: Warring States Period
5) Associated with the planet Venus, this Babylonian goddess was worshipped for influencing both fertility and war.
ANSWER: Ishtar (or Inanna)
6) They are thought to be powered by super-massive black holes, and their unusually high radio signals allowed astronomers to first detect these very distant stellar objects.
ANSWER: Quasars (or Active Galactic Nuclei)
7) This Lost Generation author’s first work, This Side of Paradise, was much different than his later Jazz Age works like The Beautiful and the Damned.
ANSWER: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
8) This Disney film shared an uncanny resemblance with Madagascar, placing animals from the New York City Zoo out of their central park confines.
ANSWER: The Wild
Grab Bag:
±20, no bounce backs
1) In programming languages it describes how tokens interact with each other. Name this branch of linguistics that, along with morphology, makes up traditional grammars, that focuses on the rules of a language and how words go together.
ANSWER: Syntax
2) Decisive naval battles included Mylae and Ecnomus, while land warfare at Agrigentum and Sicily proved less important. Identify this 264 to 241 B.C.E. conflict that saw the Romans gaining control of the Mediterranean and inflicting heavy financial and territorial penalties on Carthage.
ANSWER: First Punic War
3) It was awarded a Peabody in 1994 for its host’s probing questions, and in the book All I Did Was Ask its host recounts provocative interviews such as when Bill O’Reilly walked out and when Gene Simons was sexist to its female host. Identify this weekday NPR interview program that begins “Live From WHYY in Philadelphia”, hosted by Terry Gross.
ANSWER: Fresh Air (Prompt on "Terry Gross" before end of question)
4) He tells of a man burning down his parent’s estate with them inside for the insurance money in The Parentcide Club. He disappeared in the search for Pancho Villa, but he left behind famous short stories like Moxon’s Master and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge as well as The Devil’s Dictionary.
ANSWER: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
5) He is associated with the Imiut Fetish of tying an animal skin to a poll, as well as the embalming process in funerals as he was the one to embalm Osiris. Name this Egyptian god who weighed the hearts of the dead and was the gatekeeper to the underworld.
ANSWER: Anubis
6) Approximately three quarters of the atmosphere’s mass resides in it, and its name comes from the Greek word for mixing due to its turbulence. Identify this region of the atmosphere with the highest pressure due to it being the closest to the earth’s surface.
ANSWER: Troposphere
7) As a child he was traded as a hostage with Flavius Aetius, giving him an extensive knowledge of the Roman Empire. His last campaign saw him marching into Italy to claim the hand of Honoria before retreating to his Danube palace where he would die in 453. Name this horsebacked leader who terrorized the Eastern and Western Roman Empires as the leader of the Huns.
ANSWER: Attila The Hun
8) Lesser known songs in this opera set in the recent past in Charleston include “I Got Plenty ‘o Nothing” and “A Red-Haired Woman”. Identify this George Gershwin opera about a cripple attempting to rescue a woman from the pimp, Crown, best known for the song, "Summertime," set in Catfish Row.
ANSWER: Porgy and Bess
9) It contains the most lymphoid tissue in the body, and when removed or infected it frequently leads to viral infections. Identify this organ located beneath the diaphragm in humans that is responsible for fighting infections as well as storing and destroying red blood cells.
ANSWER: Spleen
10) They click upon themselves as the breeze rises, and often you must have seen them loaded with ice a sunny winter morning after a rain. These are what title objects that the narrator likes to think some boy’s been swinging on in a poem by Robert Frost?
ANSWER: Birches
11) He is credited with creating the first map of the Earth depicting it as circular in form. He also postulated that man arose from aquatic origins, but he argued that because water was never dry it could not be the one fundamental substance. Identify this pre-Socratic philosopher who deviated from his teacher Thales by advocating apeiron.
ANSWER: Anaximander
12) Its ability to decolorize substances that it can reduce makes it a useful temporary bleach, and a process known as FGD is used to reduce its emission from coal burning smokestacks through limestone scrubbing. Identify this primary component of acid rain with the chemical formula SO2.
ANSWER: Sulfur dioxide
13) The author based it off an earlier play called The Wood Demon, reducing its characters down to 9 and removing its main character’s suicide and happy ending. Identify this play in which the title misanthrope fails twice to shoot Serebryakov at point blank range, a device Anton Chekhov uses to avoid a traditional climax.
ANSWER: Uncle Vanya