1. The 1981 movie adaptation of the operation located here did poorly amidst controversy that it was funded by Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church. Codenamed Operation Chromate, it was successful in breaking the opposition’s control of the Pusan region. The United Nation troops were finally stopped at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir thanks to Chinese forces. FTP, identify this 1950 United Nations amphibious invasion behind North Korean lines, spearheaded by Douglas MacArthur.
ANSWER: Inchon (accept Operation Chromite before mentioned)

2. Their size ranges from about 5 to 90 times that of Jupiter, and those that are at least 13 times the mass of Jupiter fuse deuterium. Astronomers have trouble distinguishing them from stars with low temperatures, and massive planets often share the same molecules with them in their atmospheres. FTP, identify these sub-stellar objects that have fully convective surfaces and interiors that, due to their low mass, do not fuse Hydrogen into Helium.
ANSWER: Brown Dwarfs

3. About one third of the country is covered with large tracts of forests known as pushcha, and its landmass is about the size of the United Kingdom. It lacks natural borders, and was the recipient of about 70 percent of the Chernobyl radiation. It has been called “the last dictatorship in Europe”, and president Alexander Lukashenko has recently been accused of tampering with the March 2006 elections in this nation. FTP, identify this Eastern European landlocked country with capital at Minsk.
ANSWER: Republic of Belarus

4. His breakout moment came with a 4th quarter punt return for a touchdown against the Giants to turn around his team’s 2003 season. His small stature has made his career shrouded by the threat of injury, and he suffered an ankle injury in 2003 as well as a mid- foot injury against the Seahawks last season. FTP, identify this running back out of Villanova, who signed a 5 year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles in November of 2005.
ANSWER: Brian Collins Westbrook

5. One character in this novel, Geraldo, dies in a car accident after a dance, preventing Marin from learning his last name. In the section "Our Good Day", the sisters Rachel and Lucy become the protagonist’s best friends, while Uncle Nacho, a favorite of the protagonist, prods her to dance at her cousin’s baptism in the section called "Chanclas". FTP, identify this collection of vignettes about the narrator Esperanza’s experience during her first year in a namesake location, a work by Sandra Cisneros.
ANSWER: The House on Mango Street

6. During this period of time, rebels led by Civilis in the Batavian Province were able to destroy four Roman foreign legions before being crushed by a massive army led by Cerealis. Vitellius and his veterans of the Germanic Wars spelled the end for Otho, but Vespasian was able to depose him and found the Flavian dynasty. FTP, identify the name given to this period that saw a certain number of men rule Rome in a period of one year after the death of Nero in 69 AD.
ANSWER: Year of the Four Emperors (also accept 69 AD before the end)

7. Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons popularized this term to describe the character Bazarov. In Russia it would go on to describe a revolutionary movement that rejected the authority of the family, church, and state. That political form of this philosophy believed moving forward required the destruction of all existing institutions, while the existential version of it espoused the idea that life has no meaning or value. FTP, identify this philosophy most associated with Friedrich Nietzsche that comes from the Latin word for nothing.
ANSWER: Nihilism

8. This novel's main character is the daughter of a former Confederate Colonel, and has a talent for painting that pales in comparison to the gifts of Mademoiselle Reisz. That main character has a small affair with Alcee Arobin when her husband Leonce is away on business, but becomes devoted to Robert LeBrun during a summer at Grand Isle. However, his travels to Mexico prevent Edna Pontellier from obtaining happiness and independence, causing her to ultimately drown herself in, FTP, this novel by Kate Chopin.
ANSWER: The Awakening

9. On this painting's left, a statue of a cupid with a finger to his mouth seems to remind the viewer not to alert the figure on the right to what is actually happening. A pink slipper can be seen flying towards that cupid, symbolizing the loss of virginity of the central figure, a woman wearing a lavish pink dress. On the right, an unsuspecting bishop extends his arms to push the title object. FTP, name this 1766 rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard that depicts an aristocrat hiding behind a bush to view his lover on the title object.
ANSWER: The Swing

10. The modern system consists of symbols for twenty six letters, as well as symbols for indicating numbers, cancels, errors, and the rest position. Robert Hooke proposed the first system for it in 1684, but it was the French who popularized it over a hundred years later by creating a system that could transfer over 30 symbols from Lille to Paris in only 32 minutes. FTP, identify this system of visual communication that preceded the telegraph and relied on flags for conveying messages.
ANSWER: Semaphore

11. His copy of a translation of Darwin’s Origin of Species with underlined passages suggests that he was familiar with the theory of evolution, but his theories were not linked with Darwin’s until the 1920s. He conducted his most famous experiment over the course of seven years on 28,000 subjects, and in 1865 he read his Experiments on Plant Hybridization to the Natural History Society of Brunn. FTP, identify this father of genetics, a Austrian monk most famous for his experiments on peas.
ANSWER: Gregor Johann Mendel

12. Despite what Shakespeare says, there is no evidence that he had his nephew Prince Arthur killed, though certainly his reign was filled with other dubious acts, including losing the Crown Jewels when retreating from the forces of Prince Louis of France. Popular legend states that he attached the royal seal to his reign’s most famous document because he was illiterate,. FTP, identify this youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, with epithet Lackland, who, in 1215, signed the Magna Carta.
ANSWER: John I

13. Types of these that are heterogeneous exist in different phases as the substance being reacted on, whereas types that are homogenous are in the same phase. They are neither changed nor consumed during a reaction. In the Haber process, iron serves as a heterogeneous type as the solid iron weakens the nitrogen bonds of the reactant gas to result in ammonia production. Enzymes are the biological type of, FTP, what chemical substances that accelerate reactions?
ANSWER: Catalyst

14. Renaissance artists often made heavy use of these figures, who can be seen congregating around the roof of Mantegna’s Room of the Newlyweds as well as anguishing over Jesus in Giotto’s Lamentation. In Genesis, these beings guard the Tree of Life with flaming swords, and were said to form the chariot of God. FTP, identify these winged beings who appear along with seraphim in the first hierarchy of angels, usually depicted as infants.
ANSWER: Cherubim or Putti

15. Although he served as a consul to Venezuela from 1906 to 1910, he is better known for literary works such as the 1927 poetry collection God’s Trombones, which contains his influential poem “The Creation”. He also wrote about a fictional anonymous mulatto piano virtuoso who passes as a white man after witnessing a lynching in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. FTP, identify this Harlem Renaissance author best known for writing the lyrics to a work commonly called the "Black National Anthem", Lift Every Voice and Sing.
ANSWER: James Weldon Johnson

16. It operated in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Chicago, but it formed in St. Louis. A series of raids by the Treasury Department that were spearheaded by Benjamin H. Bristow led to a recovery of three million dollars in taxes and its eventual breakup in 1875. The private secretary of the president, general Orville E. Babcock, only escaped jail time due to a pardon from Grant. FTP, name this scandal that saw a network of tax collectors and distillers cooperate to dodge the taxes of the title substance.
ANSWER: Whiskey Ring

17. Every year, women would drown their children in order to make sacrifices to him. He was present in the mythology of Teotihucaun and the Toltecs, and he was very closely related to the Mayan god Chaac. In Aztec mythology he carried rattles to make thunder, and often shot lightening bolts at humans to make them sick. FTP, identify this Aztec god of fertility and the rain who was responsible for causing both floods and droughts.
ANSWER: Tlaloc (Also accept Nuhualpilli)

18. She received a hoax anthrax letter in 2001 in response to her book Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War. She started her career as a correspondent for NPR, and last November on that network Bob Garfield asked her if she was “played for a chump” by her confidential sources in order to boost support for the invasion of Iraq. FTP, identify this New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in prison for contempt of court for not revealing Scooter Libby as her source for the Valerie Plame leak.
ANSWER: Judith Miller

19. This poem was based on the discovery of a corpse on the steamer Olive May by its author's roommate, and was originally published as part of the 1907 collection The Songs of a Sourdough. The author describes the title character as “always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell”, while the poem begins “There are strange things done in the land of the midnight sun”. FTP, identify this Robert W. Service poem about a gold prospector who freezes to death in the Yukon territory.
ANSWER: The Cremation of Sam McGee

20. Though not pressure, this quantity is measured in Pascals, although materials like diamond are typically measured in giga Pascals due to their large value. It can be calculated by dividing the force applied to an object per cross-sectional area by the change in length over the original length. Alternatively, it can be considered the ratio of the tensile stress over the tensile strain of an object. FTP, identify this measure of a material’s stiffness, abbreviated Y, and named for an English physicist more famous for his double-slit experiment.
ANSWER: Young’s Modulus


1. Answer some questions from Chemistry, FTPE.
[10] These charged particles are created when an electron is removed from or added to a neutral atom.
ANSWER: Ion
[10] This quantity generally decreases going down groups and going from left to right on the periodic table, and is a measure of the reluctance of an atom to give up an electron.
ANSWER: Ionization Potential or Ionization Energy
[10] Smoke alarms that use an ionization detector rely on the radiation of this synthetic, patriotic, transuranic element with atomic number 95 to detect fires.
ANSWER: Americium 241

2. Answer some questions about a troubling time in Russian history, FTPE.
[10] The Time of Troubles began with the reign of this first non-Rurikid tsar, a subject of an Alexander Pushkin play.
ANSWER: Boris (Feodorovich) Godunov
[10] Opponents of Godunov rallied behind an imposter claiming to be this son of Ivan the Terrible who had supposedly died years before.
ANSWER: Dmitri Ivanovich (also accept Dmitri of Uglich, Dmitri of Moscow, or Pseudo-Dmitri)
[10] The Time of Troubles ended with the ascendancy of this first Romanov tsar.
ANSWER: Michael Feodorovich Romanov

3. Let’s take a three question tour through the world of religions. Given some clues about a religion, identify it, FTPE.
[10] In 1844 Siyyid Ali-Muhhamad declared himself "The Bab" and inspired Hasayn Ali of Nur to start this world religion.
ANSWER: Baha'i
[10] This religion popular in Haiti and West Africa mixes traditional African beliefs with Christianity.
ANSWER: Voodoo (also accept Vodun)
[10] A mix of Catholic and Yoruba beliefs resulted in this religion with a creator named Olodumare but no Devil figure.
ANSWER: Santeria or Lukumi or Regla de Ocha

4. Identify the Shakespearean character who is speaking from quotes for ten points, or for five points if you need an easier quote.
[10] “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red.”
[5] "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / that struts and frets his hour upon the stage / and then is heard no more."
ANSWER: Macbeth
[10] “O let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!”
[5] “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
ANSWER: King Lear
[10] “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”
[5] “Et tu, Brute?”
ANSWER: Julius Caesar

5. FTPE, name the molecule given the formula.
[10] NH3
ANSWER: Ammonia
[10] H202
ANSWER: Hydrogen Peroxide
[10] C204
ANSWER: Oxalate

6. Answer some questions about the New World, FTPE.
[10] In 1510, the city of Darien was founded in this country, making it the oldest remaining city of the mainland American continents.
ANSWER: Panama
[10] Darien was founded by this Spanish explorer who was the first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean from America.
ANSWER: Vasco Nunez de Balboa
[10] It was not Balboa, but this man, who named the Pacific after its calm waters. He would go on to die at the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines in 1521.
ANSWER: Ferdinand Magellan