ROUND 8
TO BE DONE BY JACOB
Toss-up 1: lit1
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Toss-up 2: This man was born a Calvanist but died a Catholic. The king of Navarre, he converted in order to get the French throne, saying "Paris is worth a mass." For ten points, name this creator of the Edict of Nantes.
Henry IV
Bonus 2: For five points each, tell of what house the following monarchs were part.
Maximillian of MexicoHapsburg
Henry VIII of BritainTudor
James IV of ScotlandStuart
Napoleon III of FranceBonaparte
King Leopold I of BelgiumCoburg
Tsar Alexander II of RussiaRomanov
Toss-up 3: For a quick ten points, this Russian space program was the counterpart of America’s Apollo program in the race to be the first country to put a man on the moon. These spacecraft are still in use by the Russian space agency to ferry Russian cosmonauts to and from the Space Station Mir.
Soyuz
Bonus 3: For ten points each, given one or more of the rockets used to boost the spacecraft of that program, name the U.S. space program. (do not give answers until all questions have been asked)
Redstone, Atlas
Mercury
Saturn IB, Saturn V
Apollo
Titan
Gemini
Toss-up 4: lit2
Bonus 4:
Toss-up 5: curentevents
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Toss-up 6:Elections were called off in this country in 1992 when the government feared it would lose them to a fundamentalist Islamic party. The ensuing civil war has killed over 50,000 people, including several killed by bombings in France. Authors Franz Fanon and Albert Camus were both born here. For ten points, identify this former French department in North Africa.
Algeria
Bonus 6: Identify the following overseas departments and territories of France, ten points each.
The French got to keep these two islands off the coast of Newfoundland after the Seven Years War; they still have them. Name them both for five points each.
St. Pierre and Miquelon
This Caribbean country shares the island of Hispaniola
Haiti
France used to own this country, the capital of which is Damascus. Syria
Toss-up 7: Hammarabi may be remembered as a hero for handing down a codified system of laws, but this man is reviled as evil for doing the same thing. His laws--often called his "measure"--called for death for even trivial offenses. For ten points, name this man, whose overly harsh laws were repealed by Selon.
Draco or Dracon
Bonus 7: For ten points each, identify the following law-givers.
Various Francophone areas of the world like Lousiana, Quebec, and France, are still controlled by his Code, which, as Stanley reminded Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, means that whatever a woman owns, her husband owns.
Napolean or Napoleanic Code
He descended Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments.
Moses
This Byzantine emperor of the sixth century oversaw construction of the Hagia Sophia and codified Roman law.
Justinian I
Toss-up 8: Critics claimed that he produced "The Age of Bronze" by molding clay on the bodies of his models and then using the clay to form casts. He gained a government commission in 1880 for "The Gates of Hell," which he never finished. He ran into trouble again when people charged that his sculptures of Balzac were overly erotic, although his "The Kiss" and "The Burghers of Calais" were universally praised. For ten points name this sculptor of "The Thinker."
Auguste Rodin
Bonus 8: For ten points each, identify these Twentieth century sculptors given a description.
This Swiss sculptor lived from 19011966 and is famous for his abstract and attenuated sculptures such as "Town Square," "Walking Man," and "Chariot"
Alberto Giacometti
This Romanian sculpted abstract works such as "Sculpture for the Blind," "The Kiss," and "Bird in Space."
Constantin Brancusi
This American is famous for mobiles such as "Lobstertrap and Fishtail." Alexander Calder
Toss-up 9: lit3
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Toss-up 10:Had it not been for Sirhan Sirhan, this man might not have ever been nominated by the Democrats to run for president. A Minnesotan, he was nominated at a raucous convention at which participants could watch on television protesters being attacked by police a mile away. He was Lyndon Johnson's vice president and took over Johnson's failed campaign. For ten points, name this man who lost to Nixon.
Hubert Humphrey
Bonus 10: First, for five points each, name the four presidents who served without vice presidents throughout their entire time in office.
John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur
Now, for another five points each, name the two vice presidents who have resigned.
John C. Calhoun and Spiro Agnew
Toss-up 11:One of his operas, "The Abduction from the Seraglio," is set in an Ottoman Harem. In another, a statue drags the licentious title character, Don Giovanni, to hell. His works, numbered with Kochel (read: KIRchel) numbers rather than opus numbers include "The Coronation Mass," "Post Horn Serenade,Ó ÒCosi
Fan TuttiÓ and the famous, unfinished "Requiem." For ten points name this composer, who in 1764 published his first works at age 8.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bonus 11: Answer the following about the movie ÒAmadeusÓ for ten points each.
Who wrote the play on which the movie is based?
Peter Shaffer
Who won an Academy Award as Best Director for "Amadeus" (he also won for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")?
Milos Forman
In the play and movie, what jealous rival composer supposedly poisons Mozart?
Antonio Salieri
Toss-up 12:lit4
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Toss-up 13:sports
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Toss-up 14: Pencil and paper ready. For ten points, what is the slope of the curve y=10x2+5x+7 at the point (2, 57)?
45
Bonus 14: See what you can do with the following triginometry questions for fifteen points each.
If the sine of 2x = 1/2, what is x over the interval from 0 to pi over 2
pi over 12, or 15 degrees
Toss-up 15: "Two Lost Souls," and "Those Were the Good Old Days" are two songs from what musical, the musical for which was written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, with the book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop. For ten points, name this musical a revival of which is currently touring starring Jerry Lewis.
Damn Yankees
Bonus 15: For ten points each, identify these ex officio members of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees.
Secretary of Health and Human ServicesDonna Shalala
Secretary of EducationRichard Riley
Librarian of CongressJames H. Billington
Toss-up 16:This former lead singer for the Commodores split ways when instead of funky tunes like Ò(SheÕs A) Brick HouseÓ, he began writing pop songs like his big solo hit ÒDancing on the CeilingÓ
Lionel Ritchie
Bonus 16: Ritchie rhymes with ÒItchy,Ó as in ÒItchy and Scratchy,Ó so hereÕs a bonus about The Simpsons!
According to Willie the Groundskeeper, Bart had this power to read minds, similar to what the little boy had in a Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick movie.
The Shinning (TWO Ns)
This man is the voice of Lionel Hutz and Troy McLure.
PhilHartman
This man and his wife, formerly of the band Wings, pitched Vegetarianism in ApuÕs garden on the show.
Paul and Linda McCartney
Troy McLure starred in this Charlton Heston-esque musical during his comeback.
Stop the Planet of the Apes (I Want to Get Off!)
(also accept ÒPlanet of the Apes MusicalÓ)
The movie Patton was parodied in the episode where Bart and other kids attack what neighborhood bully with water balloons. Nelson
The police chiefÕs son, this boy in LisaÕs class fell in love with her after she gave him a pity valentineÕs day card.
Ralph Wiggum
Toss-up 17:According to Theodore Lyman, this man was "the concentration of all that is American." This may or may not be good for Americans; this man is known for his high achievement of the battlefield and his drunkenness off of it. For ten points, name this general, perhaps best known for taking Vicksburg from the Confederacy.
Ulysses S. Grant
Bonus 17: For ten points each, identify these other Civil War generals from a description.
He was the commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac; he later ran against Lincoln in 1864.
George B. McClellan
He repaced McClellan, but soon managed to waste a 122,000-man army at Fredericksburg with useless charges after taking the town. Ambrose Burnside
He was the Confederate general at the Battle of Shiloh.
P. G. T. Beauregard
Toss-up 18: science2
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Toss-up 19: When the Romans built this city, they accidentally built it on a tributary to the Danube, not the Danube itself. It now contains the palaces of Hofsburg, Belvedere, and Schšnbrunn. For ten points, name this city where Franz Joseph reigned.
Vienna, Austria
Bonus 19: Give the city on the Danube from a description.
The capital of Slovakia
Bratislava
Slobidan Milosovic was called the "Butcher" of this city, his seat of government.
Belgrade
This city is divided into two parts, both of which have many streets named after Louis Koussoth.
Budapest
Toss-up 20: He shocked his fellow Athenians by masturbating in public and then commenting that he only wished he could fill his belly by rubbing it. When Alexander the Great promised him anything he wished, all he asked for was for Alexander to move away and leave him his bit of sun. For ten points name this founder of the Cynics who carried a torch through the city of Athens in vain search for an honest man.
Diogenes
Bonus 20: Diogenes, the Cynic, took Stoicism to the extreme, for ten points each, identify these other Stoics
He founded Stoicism
Xeno of Citium
This Roman emperor held that birth and death were equally rational in his Meditations and was a rare example of the "Philosopher King"
Marcus Aurelius
This Spanish-born advisor to Nero wrote Moral Letters
Seneca