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Lightning Round 1 TTGTll VI: Lick My Love Pump Written by Andrew Juhl and the University of Iowa Academic Quiz Club. Edited by the University ofIowa Academic quiz Club. BEGIN ROUND 1 " ... What smells like blue?" After metal is put in the microwave in the process of making popcorn, the crewmembers in this episode are then transported through a space hole in the universe to 1947, where they find themselves on an Army Air Base in New Mexico. This won an Emmy in 2002 for Outstanding Animated Programming for Programming Less Than One Hour, with Maurice LaMarche as the voice of President Harry Truman. FTP, name this Futurama episode from season 3 in which Fry becomes his own grandfather in a plot that explores the possibilities of the Roswell Incident, as well as time travel. Answer: Roswell That Ends Well Born as John Rowlands in the Welsh town of Denbigh in 1841, he lived in a poorhouse until he was fifteen, and fled to New Orleans in 1859. He fought for both sides in the Civil War and began to work as a reporter during the Indian Wars. His work, mostly fabricated, caught the eye of the _New York Herald_, who appointed him foreign correspondent in 1868. Later in his career, he helped King Leopold II of Belgium stake out his claim to the Congo. FTP, name this man, most famous for his 1869 expedition to find the lost Dr. David Livingstone. Answer: Henry M. Stanley This mineral displays the rare trait of having both perfect cubic cleavage and a conchoidal fracture. Its cubic crystals often display striations. This metallic mineral is an important ore of sulfur, but most people who find it are disappointed. FTP, name this mineral, commonly known as "fool's gold". Answer: Pyrite In 1951, he designed the sets and costumes for the film Don Juan Tenorio, six years after he designed the memorable dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound. For 10 points, identify this man whose most significant contribution to film came with his collaborations on The Age of Gold and An Andalusian Dog, but is better known for his surrealist paintings such as The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The Persistence ofMemory. Answer: Salvador Dali One day Jethro's parents ask him to take the team of horses fifteen miles into town to get supplies. Jethro, excited to prove his responsibility, goes to town, makes his purchases, and then talks to some men at the store. One of the men asks Jethro about Bill and gets angry at the prospect of Bill's betrayal. Jethro stands by Bill, and, later, the editor of the town paper, Ross Milton, takes Jethro to lunch to apologize. And so, ilton and Jethro begin a friendship that lasts throughout-FrP-this book, the seminal work of Irene Hunt. Answer: Across Five Aprils He was born in Kiev in 1889, and was educated at Petrograd Naval College and at engineering schools in Paris and Kiev. He designed the world's first four-engined airplane in 1913, and designed several planes for Russia during the First World War. After the October Revolution, he emigrated to the United States and founded an early airline, which was bought by United Aircraft in 1934, leaving him free to research. FTP, name this man, who built the world's first helicopter in 1939. Answer: Igor Sikorsky In a loose adaptation ofXenophon's "Anabasis", a gang summit is set to take place in Van Cortlandt Park, and gangs from across the city venture to the meeting when the man who called the meeting, Cyrus, is murdered. One of the gangs from Coney Island is wrongly identified as responsible for the killing. The only way for Cleon, Swan, Rembrandt and the others to survive is to outfight the Blackjacks, the Electric Eliminators,the Firetasters, the Moonrunners, the Saracens, the Turnbull A.C.'s, the Zodiacs, and a hundred other gangs. FTP, what 1979 film featured protagonists looking to "come out and playyyyy"? Answer: The Warriors Ground types of these are formed by a thin, uneven layer of material deposited beneath the ice or at its edge as the ice margin retreats. Recessional varieties are created when retreating ice pauses for a long time. Lateral ones are formed by rock fragments that have rolled onto the ice from nearby slopes. Medial varieties are caused by the merging of two ice sheets, and terminal ones come at the furthest extent of ice. FTP, name these rows of debris associated with glaciers. Answer: moraines He found a polar bear in his refrigerator. He tried on some clothing that didn't fit like the summer sun or the grass. He told a cow waitress he'd have a steak. He was deathly ill until he found out it was Saturday. These are all just a day in the life of, FTP, what Chicago born poet, writer of Falling Up, Where the Sidewalk Ends and other children's books? Answer: Shel Silverstein His father ran a petrol station and mechanical workshop and died when he was a teenager. He lost his position in his party after a 1988 speech complained that his country was taking too many Asian immigrants, but made a surprising comeback in 1995. He shares a name with an Australian and an American actor, and will face Mark Latham in a federal election. FTP, name the current Australian Prime Minister. Answer: John Howard The lover says "The years shall run like rabbits," but most of it is narrated by all the clocks in the city, which warn him "You shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart," and "Time watches from the shadows, and coughs when you would kiss." They also express the opinion that "In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away." FTP, name this poem about the nature of time and love, by W.H. Auden. Answer: As I Walked Out One Evening After a 1960 meeting with Khrushchev in New York, he proposed a "hotline" between the White House and the Kremlin to forestall conflict. He played an important role in the invention of the electron microscope, the cyclotron, and the linear accelerator, as well as defining the "bit" as a unit of information. Serving as the ghostwriter for Einstein's 1939 letter to President Roosevelt encouraging atomic bomb research, he was one of the more experienced members of the Manhattan Project. FTP, name this Hungarian-born physicist, who, with Enrico Fermi, created the world's first sustained fission reaction. Answer: Leo Szilard {pron.: shee-IardJ Born in 37 CE to a priestly family, he joined the Pharisees at age 16 and later spent several years in Rome. He found himself in command of an army in 66, but after his defeat, he turned the situation to his advantage by prophesying that Vespasian would soon become emperor. Upon Vespasian's death, he inherited his house and received Roman citizenship. With a pension bestowed upon him, he started to write. FTP, name this author of The History ofthe Jewish War against the Romans. Answer: Flavius Josephus According to Kylie Minogue, if this were human, it would know her. Alan Watts said it is not ours to command. Bertrand Russell said to fear this is to fear life. Matt Groening said this is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. FTP, name this ideal that lifts us up where we belong. Answer: Love He's about the height of an average 7-year-old, but weighs twice as much as any normal 7-year-old. Rumor has it you can buy him for 10 million yen. He can walk in a straight line, change directions, and even go down stairs - amazing. His name is technically an acronym, but it's fairly similar to the late Isaac's FTP, name this darling little robot made by Honda. Answer: Asimo A set of oil drums in Cologne in 1961. A series of storefronts in 1966. The Berner Kunsthalle in 1968. Valley Curtain in Colorado in 1972. A long fence in California in 1976. The Cologne Cathedral in 1980. Eleven islands in Biscayne Bay in 1983. The Reichstag in 1995. FTP, all ofthese have been covered in fabric by what Bulgarian artist and his associate, Jeanne-Claude? Answer: Christo It was constructed around 1370 by King Charles V, who used it as a fortress during the Hundred Years War. This royal stronghold was no longer necessary after the centralization of power in the monarchy, and it was used as a storage facility and prison. It was the gunpowder stored inside, and not the handful of prisoners, that led an angry mob to attack, FTP, what famous Parisian prison on July 14, 1789? Answer: Bastille After earning his J.D. from Wayne State with a specialty in bankruptcy, he saved a windshield factory business after a relative, who owned it, was killed. After three years, the company paid of its debts and Guardian Industries was on its way to becoming the world's second largest glass manufacturer. The owner of the DTE Music Theatre, he also used $100 million of his own money to build the Palace of Auburn Hills. FTP, name the first owner to win the Stanley Cup and the NBA title in the same season, with the Lightning and Pistons. Answer: Bill Davidson Henry of Blois, Robert of Winchester, Ralph FitzStephen, Henry of Sully, Jocelyn of Wells, William of St. Vigor, Robert of Bath, Michael of Amesbury, Roger ofFord, Robert ofPetherton, John of Taunton, John of Kent, Geoffrey Fromond, Walter of Taunton, Adam of Sodbury, John of Breynton, and Walter de Monington.

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