Maryland 1998 Fall High School Tournament
Round 4
LETTER ROUND – 10 up, 10 down
Identify these people or things that all start with “H.”
1. This family included Kings of Germany and Spain, Holy Roman Emperor, and King of Austria until 1918
Answer: _HAPSBURG_
2. Lymphatics, nerve vessels, and blood vessels all pass through these tiny channels in bone tissue
Answer: _HAVERSIAN CANALS_
3. Hanged in 1776, he is supposed to have said “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Answer: Nathan _HALE_
4. Members of this race include Bungo, Merry, Fatty Bolger, Samwise Gamgee, Frodo and Bilbo Baggins
Answer: _HOBBITS_
5. This 31st President was defeated in 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt
Answer: Herbert _HOOVER_
6. This German philosopher dealt with dialectics, antithesis, and synthesis
Answer: Georg Friedrich Wilhelm _HEGEL_
7. This is the most abundant element in the universe
Answer: _HYDROGEN_
8. In 622, Mohammed was expelled from Mecca and took this exodus to Medina
Answer: _HEGIRA_
UNTIMED ROUND – 20 up, Zero down
Team One
1. Dorothy Hammil tonnage. Find in this phrase the poet who wrote Paradise Lost.
Answer: MILTON
2. Trepidation, Penultimate, Impetuous. Which of these means timorous uncertain agitation: apprehension?
Answer: _TREPIDATION_
3. Urban II, Leo VI, Pius X. Which pope called for the First Crusade?
Answer: _URBAN II_
4. 1624 saw the painting of The Laughing Cavalier by what Dutch painter, brother of Dirck; and what American property become a Royal colony after seventeen profitless years?
Answers: Franz _HALS_ and _VIRGINIA_
5. Hanover, Lancaster, Stuart. Rearrange these English houses in chronological order.
Answer: _2, 3, 1_ or _LANCASTER, STUART, HANOVER_
6. "The sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure." If you heed this author's words maybe you shouldn't be at home reading Our Town.
Answer: Thornton _WILDER_
Team Two
1. Long range lousy. Find in this phrase the poet who wrote "I know why the caged bird sings."
Answer: _ANGELOU_
2. Pullulate, Expiate, Muckrake. Which of these means germinate, sprout; to breed or produce freely; swarm, teem?
Answer: _PULLULATE_
3. Paul VI, Pius XII, John XXIII. Which Pope, who died in 1978, was the last pope not named John Paul?
Answer: _PAUL VI_
4. 1635 saw the creation of what colony by a union of the “River Towns” Windsor and Wethersfield with English settlements at Hartford and Saybrook; and the painting of Charles I in Hunting Dress by what Flemish court painter of England?
Answers: _CONNECTICUT_ and Anthony _VAN DYCK_
5. Valois, Carolingian, Bourbon. Rearrange these French houses in chronological order.
Answer: _2, 1, 3_ or _CAROLINGIAN, VALOIS, BOURBON_
6. "Man approached the unattainable truth through a succession of errors." The people in his Brave New World didn't think so when they wiped all civilization and started anew.
Answer: Aldous _HUXLEY_
CATEGORY ROUND – 10 up, 10 down
Let’s begin this game with a category round on saints. I’ll tell you about the saint, you give me his name.
1. The first Martyr; his feast day is the day after Christmas.
Answer: St. _STEPHEN_
2. The patron saint of music, she’s breaking Simon and Garfunkle’s heart
Answer: St. _CECILIA_
3. The patron saint of England, he slew a dragon
Answer: St. _GEORGE_
4. Hospital where “St. Elsewhere” took place
Answer: St. _ELIGIUS_
5. The patron saint of children and the original Santa Claus
Answer: St. _NICHOLAS_
6. The patron saint for lost causes; hospital of “Mathathon” fame
Answer: St. _JUDE_
7. This saint has the title “Archangel” and was recently played by John Travolta
Answer: St. _MICHAEL_
8. The patron saint of lovers, he has a February holiday named for him
Answer: St. _VALENTINE_
9. Fictional saint named in early 1980’s movie starring the “Brat Pack”
Answer: St. _ELMO_
10. Patron Saint of Ireland
Answer: St. _PATRICK_
EXTRA: Saint with feast day on July fourth who shares her name with a daughter of the Krupp family and a large cannon
Answer: St. _BERTHA_
TIMED ROUND – 20 up, Zero down, 25 point bonus for all correct
Team One
1. Redestroyed by Puritans in 1644, what theater had already burned down during a 1613 performance of
Henry VIII by its most famous shareholder, William Shakespeare?
Answer: _GLOBE_ Theater
2. Salus populi suprema lex esto is the motto of which US state, the home of Harry Truman, which is
commonly called the Show-Me State?
Answer: _MISSOURI_
3. The Black Death of 1348 provided the historical background for what book by Boccaccio, in which ten
people tell each other stories for ten days as they flee the disease-infested city?
Answer: _DECAMERON_
4. Choice: Which is a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe? Diaphragm, Epiphragm, Epiglottis
Answer: _EPIGLOTTIS_
5. Lavinia Warren married what man, actually named Charles Stratton, who toured with P.T. Barnum and was famous for being only 40 inches tall?
Answer: General _TOM THUMB_
6. How Much Land Does a Man Need? and The Death of Ivan Ilyich are stories by what man, who also wrote such novels as Anna Karenina and War and Peace?
Answer: Leo _TOLSTOY_
7. x^x - 5!/(x*(x-1)) Evaluate the expression for x=3.
Answer: _7_
8. Walcott was the original last name of what man, the organizer of the Million Man March and leader of the Nation of Islam?
Answer: Louis _FARRAKHAN_
Team Two
1. The tallest building in the world when it was designed by John Van Alen, what Art Deco skyscraper in New York is named after the automobile company whose headquarters were once
located in it?
Answer: _CHRYSLER_ Building
2. The Populist Party was founded in 1892 in what state, whose motto is “Equality before the Law” and which is known as the Cornhusker state?
Answer: _NEBRASKA_
3. The Dreyfus Affair prompted what French naturalist author to write the open letter J’accuse?
Answer: Emile _ZOLA_
4. Choice: Which term identifies the waxy outer layer of a plant’s leaves? Cupule, Cuticle, Cultogen
Answer: _CUTICLE_
5. The brothers Chang and Eng were the first two people to be called what name, which has applied ever since to siblings joined together at birth?
Answer: _SIAMESE TWINS_
6. Poor Folk was the first book by what Russian author, whose famous works include Notes from
Underground and The Brothers Karamazov as well as Crime and Punishment?
Answer: Fyodor _DOSTOEVSKI_
7. e^(sqrt(5x+2))=e^(sqrt(7x-6)) Solve for x.
Answer: _4_
8. Excommunicated by the Presbyterian church in Korea, what man claims to have been inspired by Jesus,
Buddha, and Moses to found the Unification Church?
Answer: Rev. Sun Myung _MOON_
GRAB BAG ROUND – 20 up, 20 down
1. This play begins with the delivery of a Christmas tree, and ends with a door slamming shut. It features Dr. Rank, Mrs. Linde, as well as the unhappy Krogstad. Identify this Henrik Ibsen drama about Nora Helmer.
Answer: _A DOLLS HOUSE_
2. Tutor to the eldest son of Lord Cavendish, his first attempt at political science was published in 1640 as “The Elements of Law, Natural, and Politic.” Name this English philosopher whose 1651 follow up treatise on political science, Leviathan, became an instant classic.
Answer: Thomas _HOBBES_
3. His compositions include Jeremiah, On the Town, and Fancy Free. But his best known work is a modernization of the Romeo and Juliet story set among gangs in New York. Identify this composer of West Side Story.
Answer: Leonard _BERNSTEIN_
4. Discovered in 1885, it is now the most fully understood organism and the basis of most recombinant DNA research. Name this intestinal bacterium, often found in raw meats and eggs, the cause of many food-poisoning outbreaks.
Answer: _E_scherichia _COLI_
5. Assuming that the lengths are whole numbers, and neither side is one, what must be the lengths of the sides of a rectangle with a area 65?
Answer: _5 and 13_
6. Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Northwestern, Penn State, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio State are just some of the schools in what athletic conference that ironically has eleven members?
Answer: _BIG TEN_
7. A masterpiece of magical realism, its pages recount the seven generations of the Buendias family, the founders of the mythical village of Macondo. Identify this 1967 work, the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
Answer: _100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE_
8. Rumored to descend from African royalty this man was trained as a veterinarian in the stables of Haiti’s slave plantations. Name this man who ultimately organized and led the Haitian independence movement to victory.
Answer: Pierre Dominique _TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE_
9. Displacement and velocity are examples of what term, which in physics refers to a quantity that has both magnitude and direction?
Answer: _VECTOR_
10. His new album boasts 28 tracks, much more ambitious than his solo debut “Tical.” A founding member of the Wu Tang-Clan, it was his eponymous rap that put the group on the map. Identify this rap artist who just released the album Judgement Day.
Answer: _METHOD MAN_
11. With the death of her half-sister Mary I, she was proclaimed queen in 1558, and ruled until 1603. Who is this “Virgin” Queen, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, subject of a 1998 movie starring Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush, and Cate Blanchett?
Answer: _ELIZABETH I_
12. James Phipps was his first successful patient, and in 1796 he proved that cowpox provides immunity against smallpox. Who was this pioneer of vaccination?
Answer: Edward _JENNER_
13. He is crowned the king of fools and kidnaps the dancer Esmerelda for his master Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Identify this title character of a work by Victor Hugo, who is also known as Quasimodo.
Answer: _THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME_ (Accept early buzz of Quasimodo)
14. It had a movable awning and could hold up to 50,000 spectators, but what Roman stadium was better known for the wild beasts and gladiators?
Answer: _COLOSSEUM_
15. Henry Clay, Sam Rayburn, James Polk, Tip O’Neill, and Tom Foley have all held this position. What is this post, presently held by Newt Gingrich?
Answer: _SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE_ of Representatives
EXTRA: What language’s 51-letter alphabet is known as Hiragana?
Answer: _JAPANESE_