Round of 16
1. He was a physician in the court of the emperor M arcus Aurelius, and pioneered the study of anatomy. He is most famous for proposing ideas about the existence of four humors in the body, which became the basis for much Medieval medicine. For ten points name this G-initialed Greek physician who lived from 130 to 200.
Galen
Bonus: Identify the following parts of the respiratory system from their descriptions for 5 points
each
the body cavity where the lungs are locatedthoracic cavity or thorax
the upper part of the air passageway, it contains the vocal chordslarynx
the two tubes branching off of the trachea through which air enters the lungs bronchi
sacs in the lungs in which gas exchange takes place.alveoli
the muscle separating the thoracic and abdominal cavitiesdiaphragm
the oxygen carrying protein in bloodhemoglobin
2. Two answers required. These two lovers, famous in the lore of Britain and Ireland, inspired an opera by Wagner and a story by Sir Thomas Malory. For ten points name these lovers who fell in love because of a potion, only to die minutes apart.
Tristan and Iseult
Bonus: Given a person prominent as a writer or a character from literature, tell us whom they
loved for 5 points each:
PipEstella
PetrarchLaura
CatullusLesbia or Clodia
LeanderHero
Jane EyreRochester
HeathcliffCathy or Catherine
3. Òriver run past Eve and AdamÕs from swerve of shore to bend of bay.Ó is the first line of this novel and appears on the Irish ten pound note. This novel, written entirely in stream-of-consciousness form, was its authorÕs last. For ten points, name this James Joyce novel.
FinneganÕs Wake
Bonus: Joyce coined the term Òquark,Ó so identify the following about quarks, for 10 points each
Quarks have charges which are fractions with what denominator (in lowest terms)?3
Who received a Nobel prize for his work with quarks and also gave them their name?
Murray Gell-Mann
Which quark is by far the largest?top quark
4. His less famous operas include ÒThe Abduction from the SeraglioÓ and ÒCosi van Tutte.Ó He is better known for an opera which ends with its title character being dragged into hell by a statue that has just come to life. For ten points name the composer of ÒDon Giovanni.Ó
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bonus: Tell us who composed the following operas for 5 points each
The Barber of SevilleGioacchino Rossini
CarmenGeorges Bizet
AidaGiuseppe Verdi
Porgy and BessGeorge Gershwin
ToscaGiacomo Puccini
CandideLeonard Bernstein
5. He served as a Senator and Congressman from Massachusetts and worked to reform the public school system. For ten points, name this Massachusetts Secretary of Education colloquially known as the father of the public school system.
Horace Mann
Bonus: Identify the following teachers from their descriptions for 10 points each:
This ÒMiracle WorkerÓ taught Helen KellerAnnie Sullivan
This Tennessean taught his students about evolution, which led to his trial
John Scopes
This Italian woman developed her own method of preschool teaching which is now
used all over the world.Maria Montessori
6. In 1911 this scientist received a doctorate in physics from the University of Copenhagen and went to England to study under J.J. Thompson, the man who had discovered the electron. He then moved to Manchester to study with Earnest Rutherford, who had discovered the atomic nucleus. For ten points name this man who is generally known for his model of the atom.
Niels Bohr
Bonus: Assuming acceleration due to gravity=-10 m/s2 and ignoring air resistance, answer
the following physics questions,
If a 1000 kg ship is moving through space at a constant velocity of 1000 km per
second what is the net force acting upon the ship?0 Newtons
If you fall off of 20 m cliff, what is your speed when you hit the ground?20 m/s
(accept -20 m/s)
If you are standing 1000m off the ground and throw a ball into a gorge 5000m
across with an initial velocity of 100 m/s at an angle of 60 degrees relative to
the horizontal, what is the ballÕs horizontal speed after 3.45 seconds?
50 m/s
7. If Eddie Murray should retire this offseason the home run he hit his last at-bat this season would place him in a class with this man whose 521st, and last, home-run came in the last at-bat of his career. Name this man who was the last man to hit .400 for a season.
Ted Williams
Bonus For 5 points each, name the top 5 home-run hitters in Major League Baseball history. 5
more points for the correct order, highest to lowest.
Hank Aaron
Babe Ruth
Willie Mays
Frank Robinson
Harmon Killebrew
8. Some people claim this groupÕs clothes were designed by Michelangelo, but their very colorful clothes were actually designed in the 1800Õs. For 10 points name this group of people who were not born in the Vatican or even in Italy but are the guards of the Pope.
Swiss Guards
Bonus: Speaking of colorful, weÕll give you a heraldic color and you tell us what is its
common name currently, for 5 points each. example: Purpur becomes purple
GulesRed
ArgentWhite or silver
OrYellow or gold
VertGreen
SableBlack
AzurBlue
9. This countryÕs name, translated, means ÒThe PeopleÕs Republic of Honest Men.Ó For 10 points, name this country which in 1984 changed its name from Upper Volta.
Burkina Faso
Bonus: Given the name of a country, state what was formerly called, for 10 points each
MyanmarBurma
EthiopiaAbbyssinia
CambodiaKampuchea
10. The Envoy, the Champion, the Church of All Worlds, Fosterites, the Federation. If you have grokked these things, you will recognize that they all appear in what Robert Heinlein book about the return of a human raised on Mars?
Stranger in a Strange Land
Bonus: Identify the following characters from Stranger in a Strange Land for five points each
The name of the man from MarsValentine Michael Smith
The nurse who helps him found his churchGillian (Jill) Boardman
The old doctor and lawyer who befriends himJubal Harshaw
The reporterBen Caxton
The ChampionÕs doctorDr. ÒStinkyÓ Mahmoud
Marries MahmoudMiriam
11. His minor works include The Heart of Midlothian and The Talisman. His novel The Bride of Lamermoor is the basis for a Verdi opera. For 10 points name this author of Ivanhoe.
Sir Walter Scott
Bonus: Identify for 10 points each, these people named Scott, first names required.
The plaintiff in Scott v. Sanford Dred Scott
This Briton was the first person to reach the south polar plateau but lost his race
with Norwegian Roald Amundsen to be the first man to the pole
Robert FalconScott
A United States Army Officer during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War,
and the beginning of the Civil War, called ÒOld Fuss and FeathersÓ Winfield Scott
12. When Giuseppe Garibaldi began a push from Southern Italy, this man rushed to confront him. He sent Piedmont troops South, who captured the rest of Italy except for the Papal States. Unfortunately, he died only three months after the creation of the Italian State which he played such a critical role in creating. For 10 points identify this Prime Minister to King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont-Sardinia
Count Camillo Cavour
Bonus: Oh, what a tangled web we weave. Identify these turn-of-the-century inbred
European monarchs for 5 points each:
The last Tsar of Russia
Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov
His wife, Daughter of Princess Alice of Britain, and granddaughter of Queen
Victoria, the Russian Empress and Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt
Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice
(or Alexandra Fedorovna Romanov)
Her first cousin, NickyÕs distant cousin, Queen VictoriaÕs grandson, the Kaiser of
GermanyWilhelm II (or William II)
NickyÕs mother, wife of Alexander III, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark
Marie Feodorovna (or Maria Alexandrovna)
First cousin of Nicholas, Wilhelm, and Alexandra, like seemingly everyone else, he
was VictoriaÕs grandson. And he was the King of England after 1910
George V
His father, uncle of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Alexandra and Nicky, brother-in-law of
Marie, and King of England after VictoriaÕs deathEdward VII
13. Many of the actors in ÒCheersÓ first appeared in guest roles in this television comedy. For 10 points identify the show in which only Alex seems to work full-time at the Sunshine Cab Company.
ÒTaxiÓ
Bonus: For 5 points each, given the Taxi character, name the actor.
Jim IgnitowskiChristopher Lloyd
Latka GravasAndy Kaufman
Elaine NardoMarilou Henner
Alex ReegerJudd Hirsch
Louie the dispatcherDanny Devito
Tony the boxerTony Danza
14 In Apocalypse Now, Kurtz reads from this poem which begins with a reference to ConradÕs Heart of Darkness. For 10 points, name this poem which ends ÒThis is the way the world ends/ not with a bang but a whimper.Ó
ÒThe Hollow MenÓ
Bonus: For 10 points each, identify these other T.S. Eliot works.
Play chronicling death of Thomas a BecketMurder in the Cathedral
It begins: ÒLet us go then you and I.ÓThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
ÒThe Burial of the DeadÓ and ÒA Game of ChessÓ are sections of this work
ÒThe Wasteland.Ó
15 This country, now a republic, has the dubious distinction of being the only country to be on both sides of both World Wars. It was originally an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I until the Allies offered it a better deal, and was again an ally of Germany in World War II until the Allies ÒliberatedÓ it and installed a new pro-Ally government.
Italy
Bonus: Italian politics have always been characterized by groups wearing colored shirts. For 10
points each, identify the color shirts associated with each of the following:
GaribaldiÕs Republican Army Red
MussoliniÕs Fascists Black
Pandonian nationalistsGreen
16. Mark Twain wrote an essay detailing this manÕs literary offenses. These offenses involved such characters as Uncas, Cora, and Natty Bumppo, and took place in The Leatherstocking Tales, among other works. For ten points, name this American author of The Last of the Mohicans.
James Fenimore Cooper
Bonus: 30-20-10 Name the author from his works
30: Buffalo Girls
20: The Streets of Laredo
10: Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
17. He was influenced by both Ingres and Japanese prints, the former affecting his style, the latter his composition. He painted many scenes of women, including "The Millinery Shop," but he is best known for his painings and sculptures of horse racing and dancers. For ten points, name this painter of "The Rehearsal."
Edgar Degas
Bonus. Degas was an innovative painter and a sculptor, so for ten points each name the
following sculptors given a clue.
This Swiss man is famous for his depictions of attenuated solitary figures such as "Walking Man" and
"ChariotÕ.Alberto Giacometti
He is known for his monumental abstract works such as "Family Group" and "Reeling Figure."
Henry Moore
The Romanian modernist known for "The Kiss" and "Bird in Space."
Constantin Brancusi
18. A function y equals 3x to the third plus 9 halves x squared plus four. For 10 points, what is the slope at x equals 2?
54
Bonus: Given the function, give the derivative on a 5-10-15 basis
5: _ 0
10: 1n(x) (read natural log of x) 1/x
15: the square root of 3x 3/2 divided by the
square root of 3x
19. Toward the end of his life, he wrote such bizarre allegories as The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and The New Jerusalem. His earlier works gained him more lasting fame, however, and included Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. For ten points name this author who wrote of a ÒTyger, tyger, burning bright...Ó
William Blake
Bonus: Identify the following connected with William Blake on a 5-10-15 basis
5: What band, led by Jim Morrison, took its name from one of his poems?
The Doors
10: What author of Fahrenheight 451 named a section of that book ÒBurning Bright?Ó
Ray Bradbury
15: What British author, who also wrote Point-Counterpoint, wrote a book entitled The
Doors of Perception, which took its name from a Blake poem?
Aldous Huxley
20. While Ambassador to Yugoslavia in l956, he wrote Russia Leaves the War for which he received a Pulitzer prize. He received another for his collected memoirs, dealing with his work on the containment of the Soviet expansion. For 10 points, name this diplomat who wrote under the pseudonym X.
George Kennan
Bonus: Identify the following spies on a 10-5 basis.
10: Before she became infamous, she was world famous for her erotic dances as Margaratha
Zelle.
5: As the mistress of numerous French officials, she spied for Germany in WWI.
Mata Hari
10: He was hanged in 1780 for conspiring with an American General to arrange the fall of West
Point.
5: His co-conspirator was Benedict Arnold, who escaped.John Andre
10: A school teacher who spied for the 13 colonies, ÒhisÓ famous quotation actually comes
from Joseph AddisonÕs ÒCato.Ó
5: He is said to have regretted having only one life to give for his country.
Nathan Hale