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Round 1: Letter Category [± 10 points, no bounce-back]
This round is brought to you courtesy of the letter H.
1. At 11,000 feet, this mountain in the Cascades is the highest point in Oregon.
Answer: Mount Hood
2. Water Music and the Messiah are works by this German Baroque composer.
Answer: George Frideric Handel
3. Bo and Luke drive the General Lee tormenting Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco in this fictitious Georgia county.
Answer: Hazzard
4. Built in 532 by Justinian, this Christian church turned mosque is now a museum in Istanbul.
Answer: Hagia Sofia
5. Commanding the Army of the Potomac from January to June 1863, he lost the battle of Chancellorsville, and was nicknamed “Fighting Joe.”
Answer: Joseph Hooker
6. Marlow tells of his search in the Congo for the powerful trader, Kurtz, in this famous Joseph Conrad story.
Answer: Heart of Darkness
7. This German physicist studied electromagnetic waves, and now a unit of frequency is named for him.
Answer: Heinrich Hertz
8. This 90,000 square mile island is the largest of Japan.
Answer: Honshu
Round 2: Untimed Individual [+20, -0; max 140 points, 5 seconds per answer]
Team 1:
1. What is new tonight? – Hidden in this question is the name of the man who proposed the concept of universal gravitation.
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton
2. RIVE, RIVET, RIVULET—Which of these is another word for a small brook or stream?
Answer: RIVULET
3. Henry VIII, Edward III, George I – place these kings of England in order from first to last.
Answer: Edward, Henry, George (2,1,3)
4. (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this “king” dinosaur discovered by Barnum Brown in Hell Creek, Montana.
Answers: Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex
5. Backdraft, The Fugitive, Training Day – Which of these movies starred Kurt Russell and William Baldwin?
Answer: Backdraft (1)
6. “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” Mr. Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by J.D. Salinger?
Answer: The Catcher In the Rye
Team 2:
1. Which ship is targeting us? – This question is hiding the term for a hot incandescent sphere of gas, held together by its own gravitation.
Answer: star
2. REGAL, REGALIA, REGATTA—Which of these is a word for a boat race?
Answer: REGATTA
3. James II, Richard III, George V – place these kings of England in order from first to last.
Answer: Richard, James, George (2,1,3)
4. (two part question) The same year, 1820, saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn, and this man, who the basic unit of current is named after, discover the basic workings of electric currents.
Answers: John Keats and Andre Marie Ampere
5. Las Vegas, Miami, San Diego – Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS?
Answer: Las Vegas (1)
6. “Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.” This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley?
Answer: Frankenstein
Round 3: Category Round [± 10 points, no bounce-back]
An old favorite returns. Given a vice-president, name the President under who he served.
1. Hannibal Hamlin
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
2. John Tyler
ANSWER: William Henry Harrison
3. George Bush
ANSWER: Ronald Reagan
4. Thomas Jefferson
ANSWER: John Adams
5. Hubert H. Humphrey II
ANSWER: Lyndon Baines Johnson
6. Walter Mondale
ANSWER: Jimmy Carter
7. Schuyler Colfax
ANSWER: Ulysses Grant
8. Henry Wallace
ANSWER: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Richard Nixon
ANSWER: Dwight Eisenhower
10. Charles Fairbanks
ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt
Round 4: Timed Individual [+20, -0, bonus 25 for all correct; max 185 points, 90 seconds total]
Team 1:
1. The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco, New York, and Mexico City are some of the murals painted by this Mexican artist.
Answer: Diego Rivera
2. This 20th century Welsh poet’s best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
Answer: Dylan Thomas
3. An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, he defended the republic with Pompey, and is best remembered as one of Rome’s greatest orators.
Answer: Cicero
4. Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown; half of the longer diagonal is 8 units long, half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]
Answer: 48
5. Stressing a “return to normalcy,” he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to Alaska; he was the 29th US President.
Answer: Warren Harding
6. Concave, Convex, Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified?
Answer: Convex Mirror (2)
7. This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula, off the northern coast of Arkhangelsk, Russia.
Answer: White Sea
8. “It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.” Who said this? He was ejected 91 times during his career, but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title.
Answer: Earl Weaver
Team 2:
1. A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism, this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90º angles and using only primary colors.
Answer: Piet Mondrian
2. This 19th century British poet’s best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound.
Answer: Percy B. Shelley
3. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973, this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972.
Answer: Roberto Clemente
4. Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of length 9 and 12]
Answer: 225*π / 8 (or 28.125 π)
5. This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase; he was the 14th President of the US.
Answer: Franklin Pierce
6. Capacitance, Inductance, Resistance—Which of these properties is measured in Farads?
Answer: Capacitance (1)
7. This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation and over-irrigation.
Answer: Aral Sea
8. “But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.” This quote was made by what man, the tutor of Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle
Round 5: Grab Bag [15 questions, ±20 points, no bounce-back]
1. Books VII through IX deal with number theory, while the five regular polyhedra are constructed in Book XIII. Book I opens with definitions of points, lines, and planes, and five postulates. Identify this classical book of geometry, written in the 200's BC by Euclid.
Answer: The Elements
2. Sir Edward Pakenham's British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American positions, suffering 2,000 casualties to Andrew Jackson's troops' 21. Identify this battle, fought in 1815, after the War of 1812 had officially ended.
Answer: Battle of New Orleans
3. "The Women of Trachis", "Philoctetes", "Ajax", and "Electra" are four of the seven extant plays of this Greek dramatist, whose also wrote "Oedipus at Colonus", "Antigone", and "Oedipus Rex".
Answer: Sophocles
4. Exposure to radioactivity blinded him, but enhanced his other senses. A lawyer by day, he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye, and he was in love with the assassin Electra. Name this Marvel Comics superhero, who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003.
Answer: Daredevil
5. This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke, and its two predominant languages are French and German. Name this small country, bordering Belgium and the Netherlands, and often grouped with them as the "Benelux" countries.
Answer: Luxembourg
6. This novel is narrated by Mr. Lockwood, the tenant of Thrushcross Grange, and his housekeeper Nelly Dean. Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff.
Answer: Wuthering Heights
7. He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel, but was given Leah instead, and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel. Name this biblical patriarch, the father of Joseph and his brothers, who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaac's blessing.
Answer: Jacob
8. He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group "The Gates of Hell", which his best-known work would have been a part of. Name this French sculptor of "Balzac", "The Burghers of Calais", "The Kiss", and "The Thinker".
Answer: Auguste Rodin
9. Offensive coordinator under Bobby Ross from 1982-1986, he followed Ross first to Georgia Tech and then to the San Diego Chargers. In 1997, he returned to Georgia Tech, before getting his first head coaching job in 2001, when he won National Coach of the Year. Name this current head coach of the University of Maryland football team.
Answer: Ralph Friedgen
10. King of England for 60 years, he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign. Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution.
Answer: George III
11. Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford, these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick. Name these particles, weighing 1.00867 atomic mass units, with no electric charge.
Answer: neutrons
12. His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players, and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama. Name this American author of "Beyond the Horizon", "The Iceman Cometh" and "Mourning Becomes Electra."
Answer: Eugene O'Neill
13. Its founder was a peasant, known as the Hongwu Emperor. Following the Confucian tradition of looking down on merchants, but built up a massive militant class, also rebuilding much of the Great Wall. Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing. Name this Chinese dynasty, lasting from 1368-1644, commonly known for its porcelain vases.
Answer: Ming
14. In the winter, it’s largely the result of high pressure over Siberia, and in the summer, a result of low pressure over south Asia. From the Arabic word for “season,” this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer. Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter, and heavy rainfall each summer.
Answer: Monsoon
15. So shabby-looking at the end of his life, when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in 1926, taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital. Casa Battló and Casa Milá are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism, which parallel sculptural configurations. Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona, most famous for his greatest, yet unfinished work, the Church of the Holy Family, begun in 1882.
Answer: Antonio Gaudí i Cornet
ex. Born in Kumasi, he studied both at home and abroad, finally getting a masters in management from MIT. In 1962, he joined his lifelong employer, serving in Africa, Europe and North America with various agencies. Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict, in 1997 he succeeded Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position. Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Answer: Kofi Annan