QUESTIONS UNLIMITED Phone: (800) 868-1518  Email: [email protected]  www.QUnlimited.com BEST OF THE BEST VOLUME 19 BOB1

Warm-Up Round

1. (5) This man served as the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. Name this Union naval commander at the Battle of Mobile Bay, whose most famous quotation is more accurately stated as, “Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed!” Ans. David Farragut

2. (10) Henry VII united the Houses of Lancaster and York by marrying Elizabeth of York and, in so doing, ended this conflict. What was this event, in which the decisive battle, in 1485, was fought at Bosworth Field? Ans. The War(s) of the Roses

3. (10) Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Sherwood, Carl Sandburg, and Doris Kearns Goodwin all wrote biographies of what great American? Ans. Abraham Lincoln

4. (5) It can be frequently deformed by a deviation. What is this term, derived from the Latin word for “wall”, for the flap of cartilage that divides the two nostrils? Ans. Septum

5. (10) The elephant is the national symbol of this nation whose furthest southwest coast is on the Andaman Sea. Many of the B-52 bombing raids of North Vietnam were made by aircraft stationed in what country west of Laos? Ans. Thailand

6. (5) Before serving in the Attorney General’s office during the Reagan administration, this man served as a law clerk to then-Justice William Rehnquist. Name this jurist, who in 2005 succeeded Rehnquist as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Ans. John Roberts 7. (5) It’s a gathering place of sorts. People are always writing on its walls. In Spanish, it could be called cara libro. It started out with college students, Name this entity, the subject of the Oscar-winning film Social Network. Ans. Facebook

8. (10) These items have long been used to tie up briefs given to English barristers. What is this item, which came into popular use in 1992 through the efforts of Self magazine, survivor Evelyn Lauder and the Susan G. Komen Foundation? Ans. Pink ribbon

9. (10) This former German colony is the least densely populated country in Africa. Name this country whose capital is Windhoek [VINT-hook]. Ans. Namibia

10. (5) Marius Petipa is responsible for the libretto of this work based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann. What is this two-act ballet first performed in 1892, a holiday favorite to this day? Ans. The Nutcracker

11. (5) He made 81 movies. His last was The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe. He was Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty, and he won a Best Actor Oscar for It Happened One Night, but he’s best remembered for playing Rhett Butler. Who was he? Ans. Clark Gable

12. (10) “Friedrichstrasse crossing point” was the East German name for it. Soviet and American tanks faced off here during a 1961 crisis. What was the “western” name for this major transit point in the Berlin Wall? Ans. Checkpoint Charlie

13. (5) O. Henry lived in this nation during exile due to new American bank embezzlement laws. It was here that he coined the term “banana republic” which can now be used to describe what Central American country that borders Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua? Ans. Honduras

14. (10) The county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee was named for an ancestor of this poet who considered himself a Baltimorean. “God in His wisdom made the fly, and then forgot to tell us why,” wrote which American writer of whimsical poetry? Ans. Ogden Nash Bonus Round

1. (10) The patriarch of this family, Lyman, was a Presbyterian clergyman and the father of 13 children. One of his clergyman sons, Henry Ward, opposed slavery, favored women’s suffrage and was acquitted in a sensational 1875 trial in which he had been accused of adultery. Name the family into which was born a daughter to whom Abraham Lincoln said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” Ans. Beecher

2. (10) Its six sections are “Wine”, “Revolt”, “Death”, “Parisian Scenes”, “Spleen and Ideal” and the one from which the name of the entire book is taken. Immediately after its 1857 release, its author was charged with “an insult to public decency” and fined 300 francs. What is this important volume of French symbolist and modernist poetry, released by Charles Baudelaire, a volume whose English title is The Flowers of Evil? Ans. Les Fleurs du mal

3. (10) The name of this school of architecture was originally intended as an insult, as seminal art historian Giorgio Vasari used it to refer to works that he considered barbaric in nature. Technologies found in this style include arches and ribbed vaults, and examples include France’s Limoges and Reims Cathedrals. What is this style, the most prominent example of which is the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris? Ans. Gothic Architecture

4. (10) The spin of an electron is an intrinsic form of this physical property. What conserved rotational physical quantity is the first anti- derivative of the torque? Ans. Angular momentum

5. (10) Almost all forms of gastric bypass surgery are meant to bypass this particular organ section, and surgeries that do so successfully have an 80% cure rate in patients with Type 2 diabetes. This section receives a substance called chyme from the organ immediately preceding it, and aids digestion by secreting hepatic and pancreatic enzymes. Followed in the digestion process by the jejunum and the ileum, what is this first and shortest part of the small intestine? Ans. Duodenum 6. (10) Considered the founder of the Imagist movement, he worked for fifty-two years on his career-defining epic without ever managing to finish it. A supporter of the Italian Fascists during World War II, he was incarcerated in a Washington psychiatric hospital for twelve years at war’s end, after which he returned to Italy for the rest of his life. Who was this American poet and author of the Cantos? Ans. Ezra Pound

7. (10) Examples of agents that promote this process in chemical reactions include ions of highly electronegative elements, such as halogens, as well as nitric acid and permanganates. What is this process defined as “the loss of electrons by a molecule, atom or ion”? Ans. Oxidation

8. (10) This organ contains sensors that can detect the presence of sodium glutamate and communicate that information directly to the brain through the use of the vagus nerve, thereby serving as a kind of non-oral taste bud. What is this human organ that, among others, makes use of the chemicals secretin and gastrin? Ans. Stomach

9. (10) His last public festival appearance was in 1991 at the Montreux Festival, where, despite having previously said that he would never revisit past successes, he led a Quincy Jones-directed ensemble in playing songs from his classic 1950s efforts. Who was this jazz trumpet legend, the co- inventor of cool, modal and fusion jazz? Ans. Miles Davis Bonuses

Bonus 1 PARTICLE PHYSICS

(5) Which product of radioactive decay, with a Greek letter in its name, is equivalent to an electron except that it originates in the nucleus? Ans. Beta particle

(10) What chargeless, almost massless particle is only affected by the weak nuclear force, as a result of which it would take a sheet of lead a light-year in thickness to completely stop one? Ans. Neutrino

(15) Leptons such as the muon, tau, and electron contain how many quarks per particle? Ans. Zero

(20) What name taken from Buddhist philosophy and coined by Caltech physicist Murray Gell-Mann describes a theory for combining baryons and mesons into octet groups? Ans. Eightfold Way (accept Eightfold Path)

Bonus 2 RELIGION

(5) Despite downturns in church attendance due to recent well-publicized scandals, what is still the largest Christian denomination in membership? Ans. Roman Catholicism

(10) Which patriarch of Judaism is also the second-most-mentioned figure in the Islamic Koran? Ans. Abraham

(15) Founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, this specific Christian-based sect is well-known for its massed wedding and marriage rededication ceremonies, which at times have included up to 2,500 couples exchanging vows simultaneously. Ans. Unification Church

(20) Which Indian religion that seeks the perfect condition of siddha has as its cornerstone a philosophy that prohibits violence towards any living being? Ans. Jainism Bonus 3 Name the character in the given play.

(5) A Streetcar Named Desire: Blanche's sister. Ans. Stella

(10) The Tempest: Prospero's slave. Ans. Caliban

(15) A Doll's House: Nora's husband. Ans. Torvald (Helmer)

(20) The Rivals: Lydia's aunt. Ans. Mrs. Malaprop

Bonus 4 MOAMMAR GADHAFI

(5) Rebels forced Gadhafi to flee this capital city. Ans. Tripoli

(10) How did Gadhafi and the Revolutionary Command Council rise to power in 1969? Ans. A military coup

(15) He fled to this coastal city, his hometown. Ans. Sirte

(20) What halted his vehicular escape from Sirte? Ans. A NATO airstrike

Bonus 5 Given a description, name the literary title object, objects or characters.

(5) Aslan, Jadis, and a piece of furniture made from a magic apple tree Ans. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

(10) About 500 liters of sherry Ans. “The Cask of Amontillado”

(15) Alec Leamas, station head of a British intelligence office in West Berlin, a creation of John Le Carré. Ans. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

(20) Laurel Hand, daughter of Clint McKelva, a judge in New Orleans, from a Pulitzer Prize winning short novel by Eudora Welty. Ans. The Optimist's Daughter Sixty Seconds Round

CITY

In which state are these mid-sized cities located?

1. Overland Park, Manhattan, Leavenworth Ans. Kansas

2. Alexandria, Lake Charles, Lafayette Ans. Louisiana

3. Enid, Norman, Broken Arrow Ans. Oklahoma

4. Macon, Marietta, Sandy Springs Ans. Georgia

5. Pasadena, Richardson, Beaumont Ans. Texas

6. Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, Santa Clara Ans. California

7. Pine Bluff, Fayetteville, Fort Smith Ans. Arkansas

8. Lancaster, Bethlehem, Erie Ans. Pennsylvania

9. Paterson, Cherry Hill, Bayonne Ans. New Jersey

10. Eugene, Corvallis, Medford Ans. Oregon STATE

I’ll name an historic newspaper, and you name the state they were published in.

1. Knoxville Gazette Ans. Tennessee

2. Green Bay Intelligencer Ans. Wisconsin

3. Rocky Mountain News Ans. Colorado

4. Sitka Times Ans. Alaska

5. Deseret News Ans. Utah

6. Du Buque Visitor Ans. Iowa

7. Territorial Enterprise, published in Virginia City Ans. Nevada

8. Wilmington Chronicle Ans. Delaware

9. Cherokee Advocate Ans. Oklahoma

10. The Centinel of the North Western Territory Ans. Ohio

NATION

Identify the only nation that borders both:

1. The Czech Republic and Belgium. Ans. Germany

2. Djibouti and Somalia. Ans. Ethiopia

3. Mongolia and Latvia. Ans. Russia

4. Swaziland and Lesotho. Ans. South Africa

5. Libya and Sudan. Ans. Egypt

6. Angola and Uganda. Ans. Democratic Republic of the Congo

7. Iraq and Yemen. Ans. Saudi Arabia

8. Portugal and France. Ans. Spain

9. Bulgaria and Ukraine. Ans. Romania

10. Ecuador and Venezuela Ans. Colombia CONTINENT

On which continent is each literary work set.

1. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Ans. North America

2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Ans. South America

3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Ans. Europe

4. The Plague by Albert Camus. Ans. Africa

5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Ans. Africa

6. A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute. Ans. Australia

7. East Wind: West Wind by Pearl S. Buck. Ans. Asia

8. The Red and the Black by Stendhal. Ans. Europe

9. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. Ans. Australia

10. The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Ans. Asia Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) It is actually considered by most people in its country of origin to be nothing more than a regional dish of Valencia. The Valencian variety consists of rabbit or chicken, green vegetables, snails, beans, white rice, olive oil, and the most essential ingredient, saffron. What is this dish that is considered by many non- Spaniards to be Spain’s national food? Ans. Paella

2. (20) One represents perhaps the oldest musical instrument in human history or prehistory. The other one, played by a boy, is featured in an Edouard Manet painting. What two musical instruments are named in the refrain of the old cowboy song, “Streets of Laredo”? Ans. Drum and fife

3. (20) This Frank Norris novel’s title also names a studio theatre at the Barbicon Arts Center in London and the arena where basketball is played by the University of New Mexico Lobos. What is this 1903 novel, the planned second novel of Norris’s Epic of Wheat trilogy, which details wheat speculation at the Chicago Board of Trade? Ans. The Pit

4. (15) He received $5,000 for the Centennial Inaugural March that was first played at the Centennial Exposition, which opened in Philadelphia in 1876. A critic once referred to him as “that brash young man with all those horns.” Which German composer are we talking about? Ans. Richard Wagner

5. (20) Let F of X equal X squared + 5X. Let G of X equal the natural log of X. Find the value of the derivative of this expression: G of X over F of X at X =1. Ans. 1/6

6. (20) This term was coined by a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, although the concept had been expounded upon by David Hume, Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. It results from application of the extreme value theorem and was a co-founder of the Free Enterprise Fund. What is this graph that describes the relationship between marginal tax rates and tax revenue? Ans. Laffer curve 7. (15) Solve the following exponential equation: three, to the X minus seven power, equals, twenty-seven, to the two X power Ans. X equals 7/5

8. (20) He began to study Marxist and socialist theory as a cadet at his nation's Academy of Military Science. While participating in a celebration of the Battle of Ayacucho, he met with the son of Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos, developing the idea that the military could overthrow a civilian government that he perceived as aristocratic. He was arrested after a failed coup in 1992, but six years later, who was elected president as part of a movement he called Bolivarianism? Ans. Hugo Chavez

9. (20) He conducted scientific experiments, which almost got him exiled to an island. He said “You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.” He told John that civilizations have to choose between God and machinery and medicine and happiness. He concluded that the lesson of the Cyprus experiment is that a society of Alphas is unworkable. Name this the Resident World Controller for Western Europe in Brave New World. Ans. Mustapha Mond

10. (15) Find the area of a triangle that has two adjacent sides with lengths 4 and 2 that subtend an angle of 30 degrees between them. Ans. 2

11. (15) In 1854 it became a deep water port – the first on the Gulf west of New Orleans. The medical branch of the University of Texas opened there in 1887. Name this Texas city located entirely on a barrier island. Ans. Galveston

12. (20) It was the most important concordat of the 20th century. It was signed by Cardinal Gaspari for Pope Pius XI, and by Mussolini for Victor Emmanuel III. The problem of what was termed the “Roman question” was solved by this treaty. Signed in 1929, it was an agreement between the Holy See and the nation of Italy. Name this treaty that made Vatican City an independent state. Ans. The Lateran Treaty 13. (15) Believing that his foremost political opponent, Clement Barbot, was a voodoo practitioner who had the power to change shape at will, he ordered all of the black dogs in his nation to be slaughtered. He was elected President in a legitimate vote in 1957, but the official re-election results four years later showed not a single person voting against him. His secret police force terrorized the nation even after his 1971 death, as his son took over for him and ruled until his overthrow in 1986. Name this brutal dictator of Haiti who was supported in power by the Tonton Macoutes? Ans. Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier (need either his first name or his nickname along with Duvalier)

14. (15) Which of the Great Lakes is home to Beaver Island, where Mormon leader James Strang briefly declared himself king? Ans. Lake Michigan

15. (20) Find the smallest positive integer X satisfying the congruence: 4X is congruent to 1 modulo 13. Ans. 10

16. (20) A new part of the U.S. Army's arsenal, it’s designed to fit into a soldier’s backpack and be launched from a tube then quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing a target. Identify this miniature “kamikaze” drone weapon. Ans. Switchblade

17. (15) Silver, sodium, zinc, chloride, and acetate ions are placed into a single solution, each at 0.1 molar concentration. Which solid will precipitate out? Ans. Silver chloride

18. (15) Compute the surface area of a sphere of radius ½. Ans. Pi BOB2

Warm-Up Round

1. (5) Riots broke out at a 1971 Jerusalem concert when Zubin Mehta attempted to conduct an encore of this composer’s music, whose works are not performed in Israel because his anti-Semitic writings influenced Hitler. Who was this German operatic composer best known for the opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung? Ans. Richard Wagner

2. (10) Woodward and Bernstein wrote it. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman starred in the motion picture. Name this most famous book about President Nixon & Watergate. Ans. All the President's Men

3. (10) Three U.S. states and one Canadian province border Lake Superior. Name them all. Ans. Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, Wisconsin

4. (5) He’s an active member of PETA. His Apple wasn’t founded by Steve Jobs. He believes in yesterday. Who am I talking about? Ans. Paul McCartney

5. (10) Four phases of cell mitosis: prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase are listed in the order in which they occur. What beginning phase of mitosis did we leave out of that list? Ans. Prophase

6. (10) “You should always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise they won’t come to yours.” … “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” … “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” … “If people don’t want to come to the ball park, how are you going to stop them?” … “It’s deja-vu all over again.” … “It ain’t over till it’s over.” These are among the sayings of what inadvertently funny guy? Ans. Yogi Berra 7. (5) If suburban areas of cities are not counted in population figures, then this city of 23 million, known for its Pudong skyline, is currently the world’s most populous. What is this Chinese megalopolis, located at the mouth of the Yangtze? Ans. Shanghai

8. (5) “As she looked at him up and down and from top to bottom, he seemed to exude a strange charm.” That sentence contains the names of all six types of what fundamental particle of physics? Ans. Quark (up, down, top, bottom, strange, charm)

9. (10) A scenario based on this concept figures into the plot of Pierre Boulle’s novel Planet of the Apes. In which relativistic phenomenon will a clock moving relative to an observer tick slower than the same kind of clock held by the observer? Ans. Time dilation

10. (10) “Impossible to understand” is the definition of what six-syllable word starting with i? Ans. Incomprehensible

11. (5) During the period of the American Revolution, two revolutionary flags with separate slogans circulated throughout the colonies bearing pictures of a snake. Name either of the slogans on those flags. Ans. “Join, or Die” or “Don’t Tread On Me”

12. (10) The earliest version of this famous 10-word quote comes from a British colonel during the War of the Austrian Succession who wanted his fusiliers to wait for the enemy to draw closer before shooting. You probably know it from the Battle of Bunker Hill where to save ammunition, what order is said to have been given to patriots? Ans. “Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes”

13. (10) One level below the busy streets of this city you’ll find the Paseo del Rio, the River Walk, which meanders for several miles through the city. What Texas city is this with the same name as the river which flows from about four miles north of downtown, 240 miles to a bay of the same name off the Gulf of Mexico? Ans. San Antonio

14. (10) It’s the largest Roman Catholic university in the U.S. and the largest private university in Illinois. Ironically, its mascot is the Blue Demons. Name this school in Chicago from which Pete Wentz dropped out one quarter short of graduation to pursue a music career. Ans. DePaul Bonus Round

1. (10) This 6 foot, 8 inch leader was known to execute personally his political opponents in the Streltsy, and also had his eldest son Alexei killed for disobeying his orders. He created a 1722 list of governmental and military positions called the Table of Ranks, partly in order to undermine the hereditary nobility known as the boyars. Who was he? Ans. Peter the Great (accept Peter I)

2. (10) The first person to serve in this office was Benjamin Bristow, who was appointed by President Grant, and other lawyers who have held this post include William Howard Taft, Thurgood Marshall, Theodore Olsen, Kenneth Starr, and Elena Kagan. Name this position, the federal government's primary advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court. Ans. Solicitor General

3. (10) The largest city located on this major Asian river surprisingly has no bridge that spans it. It contains a number of unusually-large fish, including a 150-pound carp and a catfish named for the river that can weigh up to 650 pounds. What is this river that rises on the Tibetan Plateau, forms the Burmese-Laotian border, and then flows through Phnom Penh before emptying into the South China Sea? Ans. Mekong River

4. (10) He never completed another novel after his National Book Award-winning 1953 debut, although he started a novel called Juneteenth that was only completed by other writers after his death, since the original manuscript was lost in a house fire. Who was this author of Invisible Man? Ans. Ralph Ellison

5. (10) The same virus that causes this disease can cause a later outbreak of shingles after lying dormant in the body for years. Vaccinations are now routine in the US but have only been available since 1995. What is this classic childhood disease, also known as varicella? Ans. Chicken pox 6. (10) Brownian motion and osmosis are specific forms of this chemical process. Governed by Graham’s Law and Fick’s Law, its rate is only related to the temperature, not the concentration, of the particles involved. What is the name for this chemical process in which particles spread through random motion? Ans. Diffusion

7. (10) In a 1930 letter to fellow physicist Lise Meitner, he theorized the existence of a particle to explain the continuous spectrum of beta decay, which Enrico Fermi later named a neutrino. In 1924 he proposed a fourth quantum number, identified a year later as electron spin. Formulating that no two electrons could exist in the same quantum state, who was this Austrian winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for his formulation of the Exclusion Principle? Ans. Wolfgang Pauli

8. (10) The Democratic Republic of Congo is the poorest nation in the world, and this is the richest country measured by GDP per person. Name this little principality, one of the three nations where German is the sole official language and the only nation to lie entirely within the Alps. Ans. Liechtenstein

9. (10) Chaleurs Bay forms the western edge of its Acadian Peninsula. Chignecto Bay extends from the Bay of Fundy along the south of this province, which is separated by the Strait of Northumberland from Prince Edward Island. Name this Canadian maritime province with capital at Fredericton. Ans. New Brunswick Bonuses

Bonus 1 Identify the country ruled by the dictator.

(5) Nicolae Ceausescu [chow-CHESS-“cue”] Ans. Romania

(10) Pol Pot Ans. Cambodia

(15) Antonio Salazar Ans. Portugal

(20) Rafael Trujillo Ans. Dominican Republic

Bonus 2 I'll say “I love you” in various languages and you name them. [moderator: spell the word after saying it.] (5) Aishiteru Ans. Japanese

(10) S'agapo Ans. Greek

(15) Ani ohev otach Ans. Hebrew

(20) Szeretlek Ans. Hungarian Bonus 3 1884 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

(5) Who won the Presidential election of 1884, to begin the first of his two, non- successive terms? Ans. Grover Cleveland

(10) Which sitting president was defeated for the Republican Party nomination? Ans. Chester Alan Arthur

(15) Which Republican, dismissed as the “Continental Liar from the State of Maine,” did Cleveland defeat? Ans. James G. Blaine

(20) Cleveland defeated which former governor of Indiana for the Democratic Party nomination, who went on to serve as his Vice President? Ans. Thomas Hendricks

Bonus 4 Finish the literary passage with the title of the novel or play it inspired.

(5) “He is trampling out the vintage where ___ are stored.” Ans. The Grapes of Wrath

(10) “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like ___?” Ans. A Raisin in the Sun

(15) “Of _____ I sing.” Ans. Arms and the Man

(20) “Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree damned ____.” Ans. From Here to Eternity

Bonus 5 THE SIX-DAY WAR

(5) What rocky plateau which straddles the border between Syria and Israeli-held territory did Israel take from Syria in the war? Ans. Golan Heights

(10) What agency sent Eli Cohen to Syria to gather information? Ans. Mossad

(15) By what name was Egypt known at the time? Ans. United Arab Republic (UAR)

(20) What Israeli defense chief of staff was known for his eye patch? Ans. Moshe Dayan Sixty Seconds Round

CARL SAGAN

1. Name his profession. Ans. Astronomer (astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, professor)

2. Name any one year in his life. Ans. 1934-1996

3. He was a professor at which Ivy League school in New York state? Ans. Cornell

4. Name his award-winning PBS program about the universe. Ans. Cosmos

5. He predicted that this weather condition would follow atomic war. Ans. Nuclear winter

6. He suggested that Europa might have this, and thus might contain life. Ans. Water

7. Alien radio signals usher in a new age for mankind in what novel? Ans. Contact

8. He showed how there might be a “very efficient greenhouse effect” on what planet? Ans. Venus

9. NASA honored him for his work on three planetary missions. Name one. Ans. Voyager, Mariner, and Viking

10. Which book won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1978? Ans. The Dragons of Eden

JOHANNES BRAHMS

1. Brahms lived during which century? Ans. 19th

2. As a young man, Brahms played which instrument in taverns to make a living? Ans. Piano

3. Brahms wrote only four of these works, including No. 2 in D major. Ans. Symphonies

4. Brahms wrote what very popular series of dances? Ans. Hungarian Dances

5. In 1889, what inventor made a recording of Brahms playing a Hungarian Dance? Ans. Thomas Edison

6. Brahms was born in this port, now Germany’s second-largest city. Ans. Hamburg

7. He spent much of his creative life in which Austrian city? Ans. Vienna

8. Wiegenlied [VEE-gun-leed] is German for which familiar composition? Ans. Lullaby 9. Name his longest choral work. Ans. A German Requiem

10. Which overture incorporates traditional drinking songs? Ans. Academic Festival T.S. ELIOT

1. Eliot’s work was the basis for what musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber? Ans. Cats

2. He wrote a love song to what character who asks “Do I dare to eat a peach?” Ans. J. Alfred Prufrock

3. In “The Love Song”, “The women come and go / talking of” which Renaissance painter? Ans. Michelangelo

4. In “The Hollow Men,” “this is how the world ends / not with a bang but with a …” Ans. “… whimper.”

5. Which title of a long poem sounds better than “The Devastated Territory”? Ans. The Waste Land

6. Which month is the cruelest, according to that long poem? Ans. April

7. That long poem was edited by this author of The Cantos. Ans. Ezra Pound

8. His drama Murder in the Cathedral centers on the death of what Archbishop? Ans. Thomas Becket

9. He won this international prize in 1948. Ans. Nobel Prize in Literature

10. He wrote what long poem, named for the first day of Lent? Ans. Ash Wednesday ??? (IN GENERAL)

1. What regime was set up to govern France when the Nazis defeated it in 1940? Ans. The Vichy regime

2. Name the only Communist country in the New World. Ans. Cuba

3. Which island city-state lies off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula? Ans. Singapore

4. Founded in 1789, this political party stood for a strong central government. Ans. Federalist Party

5. What former councilor was beheaded for not recognizing Henry VIII as head of the church? Ans. Sir Thomas More

6. What is 3/4 of the number of weeks in a year? Ans. 39

7. Which North Carolina cape is home to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum? Ans. Cape Hatteras

8. The natural habitat of the komodo dragon is in what country? Ans. Indonesia

9. What seven-time Cy Young Award winner is being retried on charges of lying to Congress? Ans. Roger Clemens

10. What does RFID stand for in the embedded microchip system? Ans. Radio Frequency Identification (ID) Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) This word is from the French but is derived from a Latin word meaning “a small cave.” It names an endgame study in chess with an extremely unlikely starting position, usually intended for humorous effect. What is this adjective, which now means strange or ugly? Ans. Grotesque

2. (20) With “rubber” it is a nickname for the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. What book derived its name from the Greek word for papyrus scroll? Ans. Bible

3. (15) His birthday, February 16, was used as the official exchange rate for his country’s currency with the U.S. dollar until 2001. According to his official biography, his birth was heralded by a swallow and a double rainbow. Among his official titles: “Glorious General who Descended from Heaven” and “Bright Sun of the 21st century.” Name this world leader who succeeded his father and was in turn succeeded by his youngest son. Ans. Kim Jong-il

4. (20) Find the distance between the space points: (1, 1, 1), and (2, 5, -3). Ans. Square root of 33

5. (15) What’s the value of the discriminant of the quadratic equation 2x squared –5x + 1 = 0? Ans. 17

6. (15) The space shuttle Endeavour touched down for the final time in June 2011 after a 19-year operational career. It was named after a ship commanded by a famous explorer. Which one? Ans. Captain James Cook 7. (20) At its peak, it covered an area nearly the size of Alaska. It had existed as an independent state from time to time, taking advantage of the decline of Mali in the 14th century. It would eventually fall to Moroccan forces in 1591, but for over a hundred years it was the most powerful empire in West Africa. Name this empire, whose name was derived from the people native to the area around its capital, Gao. Ans. Songhai

8. (15) He graduated from the University of Wyoming, having twice flunked out of Yale. He directed two of the largest U.S. military campaigns in recent history, Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East, although he never served in the military, having received five draft deferments. Who is this man who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense, from March 1989 to January 1993, the author of In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir? Ans. Dick Cheney

9. (20) The term was coined in 1819, when Karl Morgenstern applied it to The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister. The primary conflict in this type of novel is between the protagonist and society. In most cases, the values of society are gradually embraced by the protagonist and he is ultimately accepted into society. What genre, with a German name, originated in Germany with the works of Goethe and eventually was adopted by Charles Dickens for David Copperfield and Great Expectations? Ans. Bildungsroman

10. (20) This post was endowed by a member of the House of Commons, who set aside sufficient land to generate 100 pounds sterling in income annually. Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking have held what post at Cambridge, currently held by Michael Green, one of the most prestigious posts in academia? Ans. Lucasian Professor (of Mathematics) or Lucasian Chair

11. (15) In 2006, he was criticized for claiming that the Internet worked via “a series of tubes” and “was not a big truck”. A former U.S. Attorney, appointed to that position by President Eisenhower in 1954, he got into trouble of his own in 2008 when he was convicted of corruption, though the conviction was later overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct. He served as U.S. Senator for his state from 1968 until 2009, making him the longest- serving Republican Senator in American history. Who was this Alaskan who died in a 2010 plane crash? Ans. Ted Stevens 12. (20) They captured the Black Forest area in what is now southwestern Germany in 260 and established the German language in modern Alsace and northern Switzerland. The name they are known by may have meant “all men,” indicating they were a conglomeration of German tribes. Who were these people who finally stopped their barbaric advancement in the 5th century, still remembered in the French word for Germany? Ans. The Alamanni

13. (15) Neutron stars, rather than black holes, are formed when any star that has a mass less than the limit named for this man explodes as a Type II supernova. Despite his massive contributions to the security of America in previous years, his top-secret security clearance was revoked in 1954 after hearings at which his former colleague and rival, Edward Teller, testified against him. He is remembered for uttering the line from the Bhagavad Gita, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Who was this scientist, posthumously awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on stars? Ans. J. Robert Oppenheimer

14. (20) Solve the inequality: the absolute value of the quantity 2X + 3, close quantity, -6, is greater than or equal to 7. Ans. X is less than or equal to –8 or X is greater than or equal to 5

15. (20) It was the first of the two African countries in which former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide spent his years in exile before returning to Haiti in 2011. Currently led by Francois Bozizé , this landlocked nation bordered by both Congos, both Sudans, Chad and Cameroon was formerly led by David Dacko and the insane Jean-Bé del Bokassa, who crowned himself Emperor in 1976. What is this African nation, the world’s 9th-poorest according to the U.N., which has its capital at Bangui? Ans. Central African Republic

16. (15) Depending on the location, temperature, daylight hours, and rainfall, may all be key influences. In the UK, it is defined as beginning after the first five consecutive days above 5 degrees Celsius and ending after the first five consecutive days below 5 degrees Celsius. What is the two-word name for the period which is considered in the US as lasting from the last killing frost of spring until the first killing frost of autumn? Ans. Growing season

17. (20) Find the second derivative of: E to the 3X power. Ans. 9E to the 3X power

18. (15) In 2008, she was posthumously awarded a United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. She spent 25 years as the leader of a political party founded by her father and now headed by her son. She completed her undergraduate degree at Radcliffe, and continued her studies at Oxford. In 2007, what pioneering female leader was assassinated in Rawalpindi by Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists? Ans. Benazir Bhutto BOB3

Warm-Up Round

1. (5) It consists of six parts upon disassembly: the bocal, the wing joint, the boot or butt, the bass joint, the bell and the double reed. What is this large woodwind? Ans. Bassoon

2. (10) “Bendiceme, padre, porque he pecado.” [“bane”-DEE-“say”-“may” padre “POOR”-kay “a” “pay”-CAH-doh.] You might hear that phrase at a Catholic church in Colombia from those observing a particular sacrament. What does it mean? Ans. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

3. (10) Its chapters include “Christmas Party at the Sventitskys,” “Varykino” [vah-REE-kee-no] and “Train to the Urals.” What is this 1957 Nobel Prize- winning novel, the film version of which was the highest ranked movie removed from AFI’s 10th anniversary list of best movies? Ans. Dr. Zhivago

4. (5) Earth is the only place in the universe known to have abundant water, but it’s not alone in having spring rains. Images from NASA’s Cassini probe have revealed evidence of a rainy season on this heavenly body. What’s the name of that icy satellite that has clouds of methane rather than H2O, Saturn’s largest moon? Ans. Titan

5. (10) Most chairmen of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have not been well-known, the best known having served from 1982 to 1990, leaving the post to become a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Who is this man, who was only a judge for 16 months before being nominated to the Supreme Court? Ans. Clarence Thomas

6. (5) This current world leader was born in Central Europe in 1954, and got a doctorate in Quantum Chemistry at the University of Leipzig. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, this person joined a new party and became the spokesperson for a new pre-unification caretaker government, the one and only election East Germany ever had. Name the youngest person and the first woman ever to be elected Chancellor of Germany. Ans. Angela Merkel 7. (10) It is the only non-member observer sovereign state to the U.N. with an open invitation to petition for full membership. The site was established by a treaty in 1929. Name this place, often mistakenly referred to as, but actually contained within, the Holy See. Ans. Vatican City (prompt on The Vatican) 8. (10) “It required only a moment to sever his head, and probably one hundred years will not suffice to produce another like it.” That was French mathematician Lagrange, bemoaning the loss of which scientist, who died at the scaffold due to his position as a tax collector, even though he was trying to reform the taxation system, helping to create the metric system as part of the effort? Ans. Antoine Lavoisier

9. (5) The Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth were the three ships involved in what historical event that occurred on December 16, 1773 and gives part of its name to a modern political movement? Ans. Boston Tea Party

10. (5) The concentration of this gas is measured in Dobson Units. It’s a poisonous air pollutant in the lower atmosphere, but in the upper atmosphere it prevents ultraviolet rays from reaching Earth’s surface. What is this gas with chemical formula O3? Ans. Ozone

11. (5) Together with Reno, Nevada, this city is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin. Mitt Romney headed the organizing committee for what city which hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics? Ans. Salt Lake City

12. (10) “To the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach” is the answer to which poetic question? Ans. How do I love thee? (Let me count the ways.)

13. (10) Salvador Novo, José Emilio Pacheco and Amado Nervo are all authors from which nation, whose only Nobel Literature laureate is its former ambassador to India, Octavio Paz? Ans. Mexico

14. (10) The Dictionary of American Regional English was finished in 2012, wrapping up 50 years of work charting the rich variety of American speech. The final word in the book is what, a style of Louisiana Cajun music? Ans. Zydeco Bonus Round

1. (10) In 50 million years, they changed little in appearance. Their earliest important use by man was in warfare, and they were later used in farming, transportation, and sport. Scientists call the earliest one Eohippus, about 11 inches tall. Their colors include sorrel and roan, and Morgans and Percherons are among the types of what animal? Ans. Horses

2. (10) This assembly, held in 1521, was the most decisive of 100 such meetings held by officials of the Holy Roman Empire. It was held at, and named for, a German city on the Rhine River. When he refused to retreat from his criticisms of the Church, this assembly condemned Martin Luther for heresy. What was the name of this meeting which was descriptive, if unappetizing? Ans. Diet of Worms

3. (10) Of the stars closest to our solar system, it is the one that scientists believe could go supernova within the next million years. The eighth-brightest star in the night sky and the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion after Rigel, it’s a red super giant, exceptionally young for a star, at about 10 million years old. Name this giant star whose name sounds like that of a Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder movie. Ans. Betelgeuse

4. (10) Falling between the Yuan and the Shun Dynasties, it was the last imperial dynasty in China to be ruled by ethnic Han Chinese. Through a revolution led by Li Zicheng, loyalists to this dynasty established a new capital in the south and established a competing dynasty to the Shun until its dissolution in 1662. What is this dynasty that established the Forbidden City and ruled China from 1368 to 1644? Ans. Ming Dynasty 5. (10) Isaac Newton generalized it to complex exponents. This mathematical concept is mentioned in a song from The Pirates of Penzance, “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.” It describes a method for expansion of the powers of a certain mathematical structure through the use of a method of coefficient combination called Pascal’s triangle. What is this theorem, of which the simplest example is “x plus y quantity squared equals x squared plus two xy plus y squared”? Ans. Binomial theorem

6. (10) Its northern half was granted independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918, while its southern half gained independence in 1967 from the United Kingdom. Its territory includes the island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea. It borders the Red Sea to the west and Oman to the east. Name this Arabian peninsula country with capital Sana'a. Ans. Yemen

7. (10) Controversial columnist and pundit Ann Coulter was fired by the online version of this magazine in 2001, after she refused to make changes to a piece about the September 11 attacks and claimed that this magazine only paid her $5 per article. It was founded in 1955 by a young Yale-educated iconoclast whose first two languages were Spanish and French despite being known for his command of English. Name this fortnightly conservative journal founded by William F. Buckley, Jr. Ans. National Review

8. (10) Sometimes called the Cradle of California civilization, it was founded in 1769, when Spanish soldiers built California’s first presidio, or military fort, on the site of this city. Among California cities it ranks second in population only to Los Angeles. What is this city near Tijuana with one of the world’s most famous zoos? Ans. San Diego

9. (10) He was the first president born in Texas, though he was raised in another state from the age of 2. He was the second man to have been a university president prior to becoming U.S. president. He was also the second West Point graduate to become president. He served a full two terms, despite having suffered a heart attack during his first. After being courted by both parties, he chose to run for president as a Republican, and then won by a landslide. Who was he? Ans. Dwight D. Eisenhower Bonuses

Bonus 1 Here are some questions about people who have suddenly disappeared.

(5) What aviatrix disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 along with her navigator, Fred Noonan? Ans. Amelia Earhart

(10) The novel The Old Gringo is author Carlos Fuentes’ supposition of what might have happened to what American author of The Devil’s Dictionary who disappeared in Mexico in 1913? Ans. Ambrose Bierce

(15) What German mechanical engineer and inventor also disappeared in 1913, having vanished from the steamship Dresden en route to London? Ans. Rudolf Diesel

(20) She, her son Jon, and granddaughter Robin disappeared from their organization’s office in Austin, Texas, in 1995. Six years later, their murderer led police to her shallow grave on a Texas ranch. Who was this founder of American Atheists? Ans. Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Bonus 2 1880s POLITICAL FACTIONS

(5) Which political faction left the Republican Party, rejecting James G. Blaine to support Grover Cleveland in the Presidential Election of 1884? Ans. Mugwumps

(10) Which faction supported Grant for a third term and opposed Rutherford B. Hayes’ civil service reform, favoring political machines. Ans. Stalwarts

(15) Which New York politician, an original drafter of the 14th Amendment, was the leader of the Stalwarts? Ans. Roscoe Conkling

(20) Which faction opposed the Stalwarts and was led by James G. Blaine? Ans. Half-Breeds Bonus 3 RHINOCEROS

(5) The Royal Chitwan National Park is a rhino sanctuary in what small Himalayan country, the site of 8 of the world’s 10 tallest mountains? Ans. Nepal

(10) Which human activity poses the greatest threat to rhino survival? Ans. Poaching to use rhino horn in Oriental medicine and jambiya daggers. Deforestation and habitat encroachment by humans. (Accept either.)

(15) Which absurdist wrote the play Rhinoceros? Ans. Eugene Ionesco

(20) Rhinos are a member of the order Perissodactyla along with what other odd-toed ungulates? Ans. Horses and tapirs (Accept either one.)

Bonus 4 Rearrange the letters to make a new word starting with a silent letter. We’ll give you 5 seconds to answer the 5-pointer, 10 seconds for the 10-pointer, and so forth.

(5) Grown Ans. Wrong

(10) Naked Ans. Knead

(15) Dangler Ans. Gnarled

(20) Relishes Ans. Heirless

Bonus 5 Given the year and a summary of the finding of a Supreme Court case, name that case.

(5) 1954, Separate but equal isn’t okay. Ans. Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas)

(10) 1896, Separate but equal is okay. Ans. Plessy v. Ferguson

(15) 2000, No, Al, you didn’t win. Ans. Bush v. Gore

(20) 1962, State officials can’t mandate school prayer. Ans. Engel v. Vitale Sixty Seconds Round

NATIONAL FORESTS

I’ll name the forest and you name the state it’s in.

1. White Mountain National Forest. Ans. New Hampshire

2. Finger Lakes National Forest. Ans. New York

3. Mount Hood National Forest. Ans. Oregon

4. Allegheny National Forest. Ans. Pennsylvania

5. Francis Marion-Sumter National Forest. Ans. South Carolina

6. Black Hills National Forest. Ans. South Dakota

7. Davy Crockett National Forest. Ans. Texas

8. Superior National Forest. Ans. Minnesota

9. Bridger-Teton National Forest. Ans. Wyoming

10. Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Ans. Utah AMERICAN LITERATURE

Identify the American author from works.

1. “Young Goodman Brown” Ans. Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. Desire Under the Elms Ans. Eugene O’Neill

3. The Odd Couple Ans. Neil Simon

4. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” Ans. Bret Harte

5. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Ans. Mark Twain

6. The Skin of Our Teeth Ans. Thornton Wilder

7. Sister Carrie Ans. Theodore Dreiser

8. Fences Ans. August Wilson

9. “The Open Boat” Ans. Stephen Crane

10. Angels in America Ans. Tony Kushner

ANIMAL CLASSES

Name the following classes of the Animal Kingdom.

1. Birds Ans. Aves

2. Turtles, crocodiles, lizards Ans. Reptilia (Reptile)

3. Spiders, scorpions, and ticks Ans. Arachnida (Arachnid)

4. Frogs Ans. Amphibia (Amphibians)

5. Greek for “head-foot”; octopi and squid Ans. Cephalopoda (Cephalopod)

6. Greek for “stomach-foot”; snails and slugs Ans. Gastropoda (Gastropods)

7. Bony fishes, like bass and catfish Ans. Osteichthyes

8. Cartilaginous fishes, like sharks Ans. Chondrichtyhes

9. Bees and ants Ans. Insecta (Insect)

10. Jawless fish Ans. Agnatha NATIONS’ SECOND-LARGEST CITIES

I’ll give the city and you name the nation.

1. Mandalay Ans. Burma (Myanmar)

2. Lahore Ans. Pakistan

3. Gothenburg Ans. Sweden

4. Freeport Ans. The Bahamas

5. Mombasa Ans. Kenya

6. Tripoli Ans. Lebanon

7. Aden Ans. Yemen

8. Cork Ans. Ireland

9. Oran Ans. Algeria

10. Graz [grahtz] Ans. Austria Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) He was born in Basel, Switzerland, but spent most of his life in St. Petersburg and Berlin. His work on the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem is among the earliest work on what would eventually be called graph theory. He introduced mathematical notation that is still used today, such as denoting the imaginary unit with “i” and using sigma for summations. 2.71828 is the beginning of a constant named for what mathematician? Ans. Leonhard Euler

2. (20) Born in Sacramento in 1935, he got his undergraduate degree from Stanford and his law degree from Harvard. He taught Law at the University of the Pacific for 23 years until President Reagan, after the Senate’s rejection of Robert Bork, nominated him to the Supreme Court. Though he was considered a conservative, he departed markedly from dogmatic jurisprudence, and has reflected a civil libertarian perspective to certain civil rights cases. Who is this man who is often considered the swing vote on many 5-4 decisions? Ans. Anthony Kennedy

3. (20) Ainu and Basque are examples of languages that have no clear genealogical relationship to another living language. They are in effect language families consisting of a single language. What are such languages called? Ans. Language isolates

4. (15) This piece lasts less than 3 minutes, but it’s one of the most recognizable themes in all of classical music. Peer Gynt escapes from a castle in this portion of the incidental music to Ibsen’s play. Name this piece written by a man whose nationalistic piano pieces have earned him the nickname, “The Chopin of the North.” Ans. “In the Hall of the Mountain King”

5. (20) Calculate the distance between these two points in Euclidean space: (2, -1, 3) and (4, 3, 0). Ans. Square root of 29 6. (20) It is defined as the maximum amount of non-expansion work that can be extracted from a closed system, and that maximum only can be attained from a reversible process. It is also the chemical potential that reaches its minimum when a system reaches equilibrium. What is the three-word name for this quantity, named for an American mathematician and symbolized as “delta G”? Ans. Gibbs Free Energy

7. (15) Its equipment includes a Mora hand auger. The current world's largest contest is held on Gull Lake, north of Brainerd, Minnesota. In January in Michigan, people set up shanties on Houghton Lake for a festival devoted to which sport? Ans. Ice fishing

8. (20) There is only one three-digit number that is both a perfect cube and a palindrome. What is it? Ans. 343

9. (15) Translate San Francisco’s motto, created from the city’s prospecting and military history, Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra. Ans. Gold in Peace, Iron in War

10. (20) Simplify this expression: the natural log of the quantity E raised to the X squared power, all over X to the -2 power. Ans. X to the 4th power

11. (20) A 1-kg particle describes simple harmonic motion with amplitude 5 meters and angular fequency 2 radians per second. Figure out the frequency in hertz. Ans. 1/pi

12. (15) In 1828, Friedrich Wohler demonstrated that molecules from living organisms could be synthesized in the lab without biological starting materials. Name this organic compound, H2NCONH2, the main nitrogen-containing substance in the urine of mammals. Ans. Urea

13. (20) King Celeus introduced them at the command of the goddess Demeter. They lasted over 2,000 years. Their precise purpose is unknown to this day. What are these Greek rituals? Ans. Eleusinian Mysteries 14. (15) In 2008, a painting by 16th century Italian master Dosso Dossi was identified as her portrait, perhaps the only surviving portrait of this woman who was rumored to carry poison in one of her rings. She may in fact have been just a pawn, but history has depicted her as skillful in the art of political intrigue. Name this Borgia. Ans. Lucrezia

15. (20) Calculate the roots of this polynomial over the complex numbers: X cubed - 5X squared - 17X + 21. Ans. x = –7, x = 1, x = –3

16. (20) A severed arm grasps a broken sword out of which a flower grows. A floating woman carries a lamp, a symbol of hope in contrast to the blazing light bulb over the horse’s head. The kidnapping of a baby from its mother’s hands is one of the atrocities depicted on what large Picasso canvas? Ans. Guernica

17. (15) Rearrange the chemical symbols of the elements listed to spell the name of a major city: Bismuth, Sodium, Oxygen, Iridium. Ans. Nairobi

18. (15) In 1974, no Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded because this book, unanimously recommended by the prize jury for the award, was rejected by the full board as being “unreadable and obscene”; however, it did win that year’s National Book Award. A sentient light bulb, characters suddenly breaking out into song, preoperant conditioning, characters named Roger Mexico and Tyrone Slothrop, and a mysterious V-2 rocket are just a few of the many plotlines of what sprawling 760-page novel, considered the magnum opus of reclusive author Thomas Pynchon? Ans. Gravity’s Rainbow BOB4

Warm-Up Round

1. (5) An enormous underground river about 3,700 miles long appears to be flowing thousands of feet beneath what other river, Brazilian scientists discovered in 2011? Ans. Amazon

2. (10) NASA's next manned missions will likely involve sending astronauts to this sort of place. What are these objects, the largest one of which was named for the Roman goddess of agriculture? Ans. An asteroid

3. (10) Which of the four quadrants contain the graph of this function: y = 1/x? Ans. I and III

4. (10) This U.S. city was founded in 1729, in a protected harbor on the northwest branch of the Patapsco River. What is this city, named for the title of Cecilius Calvert, colonial governor of the area, home to Johns Hopkins University? Ans. Baltimore

5. (5) She was born in 1507, and was Maid of Honor to Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. Name the second wife of Henry VIII. Ans. Anne Boleyn

6. (10) He designed the Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar which opened in 2008. Name this American architect who designed the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, as well as the Suzhou Museum in his native China. Ans. I.M. Pei

7. (10) The Handgun Violence Prevention Act was named for him. Name this former press secretary of President Reagan wounded on the same day the president was shot. Ans. James Brady 8. (10) He was born to a Malawian father and a Shona mother in what was then a British colony. He spent over a decade in prison after members of his political party killed a white farmer. He left prison having been elected leader of his party a few months earlier and has served as the leader of his country since it assumed its current name. Who has been the only president of the nation formerly known as Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe? Ans. Robert Mugabe

9. (10) It’s the only African country not to have requested U.S. aid for the fiscal year 2011. Name this relatively new nation in the Horn of Africa, with capital at Asmara. Ans. Eritrea

10. (10) It was first hypothesized in 1842 to explain the colors of stars. Name this phenomenon, confirmed on Earth using a moving train and a group of trumpet players. Ans. Doppler effect

11. (10) Norah Jones won five Grammies, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was published. At the movies, Finding Nemo and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King opened. The space shuttle Columbia exploded, killing all aboard. Saddam Hussein was captured. All of these things happened in what year? Ans. 2003

12. (5) Proponents of megadosage of this chemical, such as Linus Pauling, propose up to 2000 mg/day. A cofactor in many enzymatic reactions, such as collagen synthesis, what is this vitamin, also called ascorbic acid? Ans. Vitamin C (also accept ascorbic acid before it is mentioned)

13. (10) These are Asia's two smallest mainland nations. They’re both in the Middle East. The smallest is west of Syria; the second-smallest is found on the Arabian peninsula. The capital of one is Beirut; of the other, Doha. Name the countries, one on the Persian Gulf, the other on the Mediterranean Sea. Ans. Lebanon, Qatar

14. (10) One of Verdi’s first masterpieces, it is known for its dramatic sleepwalking scene. Name this Shakespearean play, never named aloud in a theatre, referred to instead as “the Scottish play.” Ans. Macbeth Bonus Round

1. (10) This word names one of the Titanic’s sister ships that crossed the Atlantic 514 times. The word also names a national park, one of the few temperate rain forests in the world, this one found in Washington. As an adjective, it means extraordinary mental or physical achievement. What’s the word, derived from the home of the gods of Greece? Ans. Olympic

2. (10) She wrote and edited most of the version of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer that is used in American churches today. This student of Ruth Benedict is best known for a 1928 study of primitive adolescent females and their mating rituals, a theme that she returned to in 1930’s similarly-titled Growing Up in New Guinea. Who is this author of the classic anthropological work Coming of Age in Samoa? Ans. Margaret Mead

3. (10) The hemolytic variety may result from incompatible blood transfusions, severe thermal or electric injuries, and pulmonary infarction; while its adult obstructive form may be caused by an impacted gallstone. The pigments involved in it are the normal result of the metabolism of blood pigments and are normally excreted by the liver from the blood into the bile. Name this condition, a yellowish pigmentation of the skin. Ans. Jaundice

4. (10) This project, which some called Operation Vittles, lasted from June 1948 to September 1949. It convinced the people of West Germany that they should ally themselves with the West. All rail and highway traffic were blocked to a major city, but this project circumvented it. Name it. Ans. Berlin Airlift 5. (10) He won the 1079 Battle of Cabra, in which he defeated Granada’s Emir Abdullah and Garcia Ordonez. However, he had not gotten the permission of his king before embarking on this endeavor, and as a result was exiled for seven years, during which he took charge of Moorish troops and was given the title by which we know him today. Name this Christian Spanish general who was recalled to Castile by Alfonso VI after the Christian defeat at the 1086 Battle of Sagrajas, whose real name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the subject of the oldest preserved epic poem of Spain. Ans. El Cid (Campeador)

6. (10) Despite a very strong recommendation from the dean of Harvard Law School, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter turned down this future justice as a law clerk. After becoming the General Counsel for the ACLU, she successfully argued Reed v. Reed which first extended the Equal Protections Clause to women. Bill Clinton appointed which person to the Supreme Court, who, after Sandra Day O'Connor, became the Court's second female justice? Ans. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

7. (10) He was a direct descendant of Tamerlane on his father’s side, and a more distant descendant of Genghis Khan on his mother’s side. He was largely responsible for expanding Persian culture throughout the Indian subcontinent. Who founded the Mughal Empire in Southeast Asia in the early 1500s? Ans. Babar (or Babur)

8. (10) Born in 1888, his early literary effort was The Mistress and the Cardinal. He edited Avanti, a Socialist newspaper in Italy, in 1912. In 1935, he invaded and conquered Ethiopia. Name this Fascist, who was called Il Duce in his glory days. Ans. Benito Mussolini

9. (10) He was born in 1791 in a log cabin deep in a mountain gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. During his extensive political career, this graduate of Dickinson College served as Minister to Russia, and also Great Britain. In 1854, he helped write the Ostend Manifesto, which recommended that the U.S. offer to purchase Cuba from Spain. He was this man, elected president in 1856? Ans. James Buchanan Bonuses

Bonus 1 Given a Native American chief, name their tribe.

(5) Sitting Bull Ans. Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux (Accept any one of these words.)

(10) Cochise Ans. Chiricahua Apache (accept either or both)

(15) Massasoit Ans. Wampanoag

(20) Wovoka Ans. Paiute

Bonus 2 STEVE JOBS (1955-2011)

(5) Name the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse, an Apple product. Ans. MacIntosh (Mac)

(10) Walt Disney acquired which company from Apple in 2006? Ans. Pixar

(15) What video game company, created by Nolan Bushnell, did he go to work for in 1974? Ans. Atari

(20) What religion did the adult Jobs practice? Ans. (Zen) Buddhism Bonus 3 ISLANDS OF THE CARIBBEAN

(5) Name the first (alphabetically) of the ABC Islands. Ans. Aruba

(10) Mount Pelee is an active volcano at the northern end of this island. Ans. Martinique

(15) The nation's capital city, George Town, is on this island. Ans. Grand Cayman

(20) The Pitons form this island's most famous landmark. Ans. St. Lucia

Bonus 4 WALES

(5) Wales borders what other part of the United Kingdom? Ans. England

(10) In legend, the red dragon on the flag of Wales was the battle standard of what British king first mentioned in Welsh literature? Ans. King Arthur

(15) What is the capital city of Wales? Ans. Cardiff

(20) By what name was Wales known during Roman times? Ans. Cambria

Bonus 5 For what work of fiction did each author win the Pulitzer Prize?

(5) John Steinbeck. Ans. The Grapes of Wrath

(10) Alice Walker. Ans. The Color Purple

(15) Herman Wouk Ans. The Caine Mutiny

(20) Norman Mailer Ans. The Executioner's Song Sixty Seconds Round

BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS

Who said it?

1. “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.” Ans. Adam

2. “O my son Absalom, o Absalom, my son, my son!” Ans. David

3. “Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all mankind.” Ans. Jesus

4. “The dream of Pharaoh is one... the seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years.” Ans. Joseph

5. “Glory to God in the Highest …” Ans. The angels (or heavenly host, to the shepherds)

6. “You shall not surely die.” Ans. The serpent (in the Garden of Eden) or Satan

7. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Ans. Paul

8. “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Ans. Solomon

9. “Faith without works is dead.” Ans. James

10. “Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.” Ans. Jonah THINGS

1. An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure. Ans. Barometer

2. In which simple machine is rotational force translated into linear force? Ans. A screw

3. A long-handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving liquids. Ans. Ladle

4. What semiconducting circuit device made vacuum tubes obsolete? Ans. Transistor

5. A drafting instrument used to draw or measure angles. Ans. Protractor

6. What devices dampen a car's bounce? Ans. Shock absorbers

7. A medical instrument for listening to the sounds made inside the body. Ans. Stethoscope

8. What two tools were displayed on the Soviet flag? Ans. Hammer and sickle

9. What’s the name of the box in which fishing lures are stored? Ans. Tackle box

10. An optical instrument for viewing objects above the level of direct sight. Ans. Periscope MEDITERRANEAN SEA

1. To which ocean does it connect? Ans. Atlantic

2. Which strait links it to the ocean? Ans. Strait of Gibraltar

3. What connects it to the Red Sea? Ans. The Suez Canal

4. Which three continents does it touch? Ans. Europe, Africa and Asia

5. Name two seas starting with "A" that are its subdivisions. Ans. Adriatic, Aegean or Alboran

6. Name its largest island. Ans. Sicily

7. What’s the largest French city on it? Ans. Marseille

8. What’s the largest Greek island in the sea? Ans. Crete

9. What’s the largest island country in the sea? Ans. Cyprus

10. Which two nations on it are transcontinental (in two continents)? Ans. Turkey and Egypt ??? (LITERATURE)

1. Which Dickens novel opens with Jarvis Lorry in the year 1775? Ans. A Tale of Two Cities

2. What kind of birds were the messengers of Odin? Ans. Ravens

3. Which Shakespearean title character has the surname Tudor? Ans. Henry VIII

4. Albany, Kent and Edgar are the last speakers in which tragedy by Shakespeare? Ans. King Lear

5. Armor-clad knights play baseball in what 1889 novel? Ans. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

6. Which god did Athenian theatrical performances celebrate? Ans. Dionysus

7. The opening line of a Burns poem rhymes “sweetly play'd in tune” with “newly sprung in …” Ans. June

8. What landform provides the setting for the novel Lord of the Flies? Ans. Island

9. Roald Dahl's Augustus Gloop falls tries to drink and falls into a river of what? Ans. Chocolate

10. Virgin: Prelude to the Throne is a fictional account of whose teenage years? Ans. Queen Elizabeth I Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) As fiction editor at Esquire from 1969 to 1976, Gordon Lish advocated a “scaled-down” style of writing known as what? Ans. Minimalism

2. (20) Find the smallest positive value of X at which this function takes its minimum value: Y = 4 + 3 times the sine of the quantity 2 X - pi, end quantity, where X is a real number of radians. Ans. Pi/4

3. (20) What's the only element to share its symbol with the name of a river? We'll accept the element or the symbol. Ans. Polonium (Po)

4. (15) The Franchise and Ballot Act of 1892, the Glen Grey Act of 1894, the Immorality Act of 1927, and the Asiatic Land Tenure Act of 1946 were all legislative precursors of this system. The first law that codified the form in which it would later be known was 1950’s Population Registration Act, which mandated identity cards for all adults. The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging [aff-ree-KHAN-er WEER-stands-BEH-vay-ging], or AWB, is a still-existent resistance group that advocates a return to what sociopolitical system that was officially repealed in its nation of origin in 1994? Ans. Apartheid

5. (20) What is 3730 seconds, expressed as a proper DMS (degree, minute, second) angle? Ans. 1 degree, 2 minutes, 10 seconds

6. (15) These people first settled in the New World at Fort Nassau, near present-day Albany. Americans of this descent have included the current director of the CIA, the “bad” from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” and the anchor of CBS news from 1962 to 1981. People of what nationality also brought us the mythology of Santa Claus in the 17th century as Sinter Klaas? Ans. The Dutch 7. (20) His opponent, Martin Luther, rejected free will in favor of determinism, a view he lampooned in “The Diatribe.” Initially, he defended Luther’s proposed reforms, but the two parted ways as he refused to leave the Catholic church, believing that his attempts to reform by scholastic measures were best accomplished from inside. Who was this Dutch humanist, author of Handbook of a Christian Knight? Ans. (Desiderius) Erasmus

8. (20) This coronation anthem by Handel has been used during the anointing of British monarchs since the 1727 crowning of George II. Its text comes from the Old Testament account of the anointing of King Solomon by the title priest. Name it. Ans. Zadok the Priest

9. (15) In 1927, he became Max Planck’s successor as professor of physics at Friedrich Wilhelm University. Opposed to the Nazi Party, he left Germany in 1933 and, later that year, won a Nobel Prize for his quantum mechanical wave equation. Who was this Austrian-born scientist, perhaps best known for a famous thought experiment which is often used in the interpretation of quantum mechanics? Ans. Erwin Schrodinger

10. (15) Find the center of the circle x squared + y squared + 6x + 8y = 0. Ans. (-3, -4)

11. (15) “Left” can mean both departed from and remaining, as in “Two people left a room” and “Two people were left in a room.” What other one- syllable word can have these opposite meanings: to view (as of a movie) or to hide from view? Ans. Screen

12. (20) Calculate the limit: sine of the quantity 1/X, end quantity, as X approaches 0 from below. Ans. Undefined or does not exist 13. (20) This opera faced challenges from censors when it first appeared in 1851, as did the play which inspired it, Le roi s’amuse, by Victor Hugo. Gilda falls in love with the womanizing Duke of Mantua, whose most famous ballad is “La donna è mobile” or “Woman is fickle.” The results of that relationship are disastrous, and she ultimately dies in the arms of her hunchback father, the title character of which Verdi opera? Ans. Rigoletto

14. (15) The smallest positive degree measure for x, such that the sine of 2x = 1, is what value, where tangent of x = 1? Ans. 45 degrees

15. (15) What’s the smallest positive number of radians in an angle measuring 405 degrees? Ans. 9 pi / four

16. (20) Along with Latin, these were the three languages in use in the time and geographical area of Jesus. Name these three languages, associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ans. Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew

17. (15) The title of this 1985 novel was inspired by the format of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. It begins with a modern conspiracy theorist’s nightmare-come-true: a staged terrorist attack that kills the entire U.S. government and is blamed on Islamic extremists. This allows a theocratic military movement to set up the Republic of Gilead and immediately strip all women of their civil rights. The woman referred to in the title is named Offred, a concubine who was captured trying to escape to Canada, the home of this novel’s author. What is this dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, nominated for the 1986 Booker Prize? Ans. The Handmaid’s Tale

18. (20) What three other nations were part of Colombia back in 1819? Ans. Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama BOB5

Warm-Up Round

1. (5) Hurricanes form over a narrow band of tropical ocean. Atlantic storms often form off the coast of what continent and are then carried west by trade winds? Ans. Africa

2. (10) Eve gives in to Satan's temptation in Paradise Lost. Jesus does not do so in which 1671 poem about the last temptation of Christ? Ans. Paradise Regained

3. (10) Winston Churchill referred to him as “Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance, insufferable in victory.” He was talking about which compatriot and World War II hero, the victorious commander at the Battle of El Alamein? Ans. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

4. (5) Its meat has 1/3 the fat of beef, and thus sells for twice the price, which makes Ted Turner even richer. He's the biggest private owner of what big, shaggy animal native to America? Ans. Bison (Accept buffalo.)

5. (10) It’s the largest European nation that has never been Communist nor a member of NATO. Name this Nordic nation, the third largest nation by area in the European Union. Ans. Sweden

6. (10) Subfields of this discipline include Morphology, Lexicology, Orthography, Rhetoric, Etymology, Grammar, Phonetics and Semantics. What is this discipline, a word derived from the Latin for “tongue”? Ans. Linguistics

7. (5) This was outlawed by a special Geneva convention in 1925, but was one of the major weapons used in World War I. Phosgene and mustard are examples of agents used in what highly controversial method of fighting? Ans. Gas warfare 8. (10) The bough that Aeneas broke in the title of James Frazer’s masterpiece is described by what adjective that also modifies the name of the Mongol horde that invaded Eastern Europe in the 13th century? Ans. Golden

9. (10) Only one moon in the solar system is known to have a magnetosphere. The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered evidence of a thin oxygen atmosphere, possibly resulting from the melting of its surface ice. Name this Galilean moon. Ans. Ganymede

10. (10) Rick Perry switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in 1989, following the same path as what former president? Ans. Ronald Reagan

11. (10) It’s the source for the world’s largest-capacity water filtration plant. The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Shore is found along it. Beaver Island is found within it. Cities along its shores include Charlevoix [SHAR- luh-voy], Sheboygan, and Gary. By surface area, it’s the world’s largest lake contained totally within one country. Which Great Lake am I talking about? Ans. Lake Michigan

12. (5) Born and buried in Stonewall, Texas, which vice president was sworn in aboard Air Force One upon the assassination of John Kennedy? Ans. Lyndon B. Johnson

13. (10) The upper chamber of Spain's parliament allows senators to debate in five of the country's languages. Name any two of them. Ans. (Castilian) Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Valencian, Euskara (Basque)

14. (10) It’s the U.S. Federal Reserve’s counterpart in France, Germany, and several other nations. What is this financial institution, headquartered in Frankfurt, with initials ECB, which controls interest rates and governs monetary policy? Ans. European Central Bank Bonus Round

1. (10) He is perhaps the most critically-acclaimed living writer who has had a novel adapted into a Best Picture Academy Award-winning film, but he shuns the spotlight, preferring to lead a quiet life in Santa Fe. Whose Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning books include Blood Meridian, The Road, All the Pretty Horses, and No Country For Old Men? Ans. Cormac McCarthy

2. (10) Born Elizabeth Ann Bloomer, she met and married a returning U.S. Navy lieutenant who had ambitions to run for Congress. Immersed in politics, she saw her husband win re-election 13 times, rising to the position of House Minority Leader. She became both Second Lady and First Lady, both under unusual circumstances. Who was this woman who became addicted to painkillers while in the White House and who established a chemical dependency recovery center which bears her name? Ans. Betty Ford

3. (10) Catherine Parr was the wife of Henry VIII when he died in 1547, but this ex-wife of his survived all of the others, living until 1557. Who was this subject of two inaccurate Hans Holbein portraits which caused Henry to marry her sight unseen, after which he referred to her as the “Flanders Mare”? Ans. Anne of Cleves

4. (10) One of his aliases is Monsieur Madeleine, under the guise of which he becomes a successful businessman and mayor of a French town, but the skeletons in his closet catch up with him and he is returned to prison to serve his original nineteen-year sentence for theft and escape. Name this character who later befriends Fantine and Cosette. Ans. Jean Valjean 5. (10) Three countries in South America are on the equator, and I want you to name them all. I’ll tell you that one has a name that means “equator;” that another has more people than all the other South American countries combined; and that the U.S., hoping for a better canal treaty, supported Panama's 1903 revolt against the other. Ans. Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia

6. (10) Born in Moravia, New York, in 1800, he was the cofounder of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and won his first political office in 1828 as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party. Joining the Whigs in 1832, he served as a Congressman before becoming the second man to ascend to the Presidency on the death of the incumbent. Who is this “don’t- get-no-respect” thirteenth U.S. President who signed the Fugitive Slave Act, the last Whig President? Ans. Millard Fillmore

7. (10) A common bumper sticker claiming that the driver is a “militant” one of these exclaims, “I don’t know and you don’t either”. This term was coined in a Metaphysical Society speech by Thomas Huxley in 1869, but precursors of the philosophy behind it are found in the work of Hume, Kierkegaard and Kant. What is this term, from the Greek for “without knowledge”, positing that truth values of certain claims are unknowable, especially those concerning a deity’s existence? Ans. Agnostic (Agnosticism)

8. (10) The dimension of this physical property of a liquid can be either force per unit length or energy per unit area. What is this property of a liquid’s boundary that allows it to resist external forces? Ans. Surface tension

9. (10) It was originally a Spanish colony. With white, sandy beaches, it’s a popular vacation spot for Americans, and Montego Bay is one of its hot spots. Its Olympic athletes were portrayed in Cool Runnings. Name this home to Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, and Bob Marley. Ans. Jamaica Bonuses

Bonus 1 GERMAN CHANCELLORS

(5) What current German Chancellor, the first female leader of a unified Germany, was first elected in 2005? Ans. Angela Merkel

(10) What aged President of the Weimar Republic and Supreme Commander of German forces in World War I appointed Adolf Hitler as German Chancellor in 1933, before his 1934 death allowed Hitler to come to undisputed power? Ans. Paul von Hindenburg

(15) What immediate predecessor of Angela Merkel as Chancellor refused to commit German troops to the Iraq War, saying that George W. Bush was “not telling the truth” about the reasons for the war? Ans. Gerhard Schroeder

(20) Name the longest-serving German Chancellor to date, having held the office for nineteen years in succession. Ans. Otto von Bismarck

Bonus 2 UNUSUAL DEATHS

(5) “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin died when he was impaled by what? Ans. Stingray barb (Accept stingray.)

(10) Jimi Heselden, owner of the Segway company, was killed when he did what? Ans. Accidentally drove off a cliff on a Segway.

(15) Ray Chapman, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, was killed how? Ans. Hit in the head by a pitched ball.

(20) This golfer died either of hypoxia when his airplane lost cabin pressure or when the plane crashed to the earth. Ans. Payne Stewart Bonus 3 Name the country that shares a border with the following pairs of countries.

(5) Peru and Uruguay Ans. Brazil

(10) Nicaragua and Panama Ans. Costa Rica

(15) South Africa and Tanzania Ans. Mozambique

(20) Poland and Romania Ans. Ukraine

Bonus 4 SIMILES WITH “LIKE”

(5) “Hook ... fell forward like a cut flower” wrote J.M. Barrie in which play? Ans. Peter Pan

(10) Shakespeare: “My mistress eyes are nothing like the …” Ans. Sun

(15) From what song is “Fools, said I, you do not know, / Silence like a cancer grows”? Ans. “Sounds of Silence” (Accept “Sound of Silence.”)

(20) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: “Why is a raven like a …?” Ans. Writing desk

Bonus 5 FINISH THE TITLE

(5) Longfellow: “The Wreck of the ...” Ans. Hesperus

(10) Rabelais: Gargantua and… Ans. Pantagruel

(15) Robert Ludlum: The Osterman ___ Ans. Weekend

(20) What name precedes “Chronicle” and “Scandal” in John Cheever book titles? Ans. Wapshot Sixty Seconds Round

FINISH THE PLAY TITLE

1. William Saroyan’s The Time of Your ____. Ans. Life

2. Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our ____. Ans. Teeth

3. Wendy Wasserstein’s The ____ Chronicles. Ans. Heidi

4. Loesser & Burrows’ How To Succeed In ____Without Really Trying. Ans. Business

5. Howard Sackler's The ______Hope. Ans. Great White

6. Tennessee Williams' ____ Bird of Youth. Ans. Sweet

7. Mark Medoff's Children of a ____ God. Ans. Lesser

8. Noel Coward 's ____ Spirit. Ans. Blithe

9. Yazbek & Lane's musical ______Scoundrels. Ans. Dirty Rotten

10. John Patrick’s The ____ of the August Moon. Ans. Teahouse OUR FOUNDER

Tell me what they founded.

1. Sam Walton. Ans. Walmart

2. Martin Luther. Ans. Protestantism (Lutheran Church)

3. Robert Baden-Powell. Ans. The Boy Scouts

4. Clara Barton. Ans. The American Red Cross

5. Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Ans. Microsoft

6. Mary Baker Eddy. Ans. Christian Science

7. Joseph Smith. Ans. Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS)

8. Ignatius of Loyola. Ans. Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

9. L. Ron Hubbard. Ans. Church of Scientology

10. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ans. The National Woman Suffrage Association NAME THE CRIME

1. Intentionally and maliciously setting fires Ans. Arson

2. Threatening to reveal information about a person unless a demand is met Ans. Blackmail

3. Breaking and entering the house of another, with intent to steal Ans. Burglary

4. Voluntary or involuntary; the killing of another person, without intent. Ans. Manslaughter

5. Taking of property with intent to use it yourself, be it grand or petty Ans. Larceny

6. The willful defacing of property Ans. Vandalism

7. Taking of property from a person by violence or intimidation Ans. Robbery

8. Dishonestly appropriating assets by individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted Ans. Embezzlement

9. The unlawful killing of another human being with “malice aforethought” Ans. Murder

10. Concealing illegal funds and making them usable again. Ans. Laundering THE BIBLE

1. At what site did the “confusion of tongues” take place? Ans. (Tower of) Babel

2. Which river was turned into blood? Ans. Nile

3. Who dwelt in Nod, east of Eden? Ans. Cain

4. Who led the building of a golden calf? Ans. Aaron

5. Which jealous king threw a spear at David? Ans. Saul

6. From whom did Jacob steal a birthright? Ans. Esau

7. Who was the first shepherd? Ans. Abel

8. Who named the animals that God created? Ans. Adam

9. Name Sarah's Egyptian maid. Ans. Hagar

10. What is “the fear of the Lord” the beginning of? Ans. Knowledge (wisdom) Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) It premiered in Munich in 1869. This opera has no human being in the story. All characters are gods. The composer is Richard Wagner. Name this opera in the Ring Cycle, whose German title might be rendered in a roundabout way as The Element with Atomic Number 79 That Is Found in Germany’s Longest River. Ans. Das Rheingold

2. (20) The Big Four of medical periodicals all began, sometimes under other names, in the first half of the 19th century. One, The Lancet, has no abbreviation, while the other three are often cited as BMJ, JAMA, and NEJM. Give me the full names of those periodicals. Ans. The British Medical Journal, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine

3. (15) The hunting habits of lions and tigers differ significantly. Among lions, the female does virtually all the hunting. How do the hunting habits of tigers differ from lions? Ans. Each adult tiger hunts for itself.

4. (20) Calculate the value of the definite integral from 0 to 1, of the square root of the quantity 1 - X squared, end quantity, DX. Ans. Pi/4

5. (20) Calculate the shortest distance between the parallel lines Y = 3X + 2 and Y = 3X + 3. Ans. Square root of 10 all over 10

6. (15) In German it’s Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund. In Spanish it’s A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda. In French it’s Le monde appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt. How is this proverb, not a motto of a night person, usually rendered in English? Ans. “The early bird gets the worm.” 7. (20) Pierre de Fermat (FAIR-mah) is best known for his famous Last Theorem, but he also conjectured that there are only two square numbers that become cube numbers when increased by four. What are these two square numbers? Ans. 4 and 121

8. (15) What does a choke on a car or lawn mower do? Ans. It reduces the amount of air which enters the carburetor. (or, it makes the fuel mixture richer.)

9. (15) He talks of regret in his poem “Maud Muller,” writing, “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'” Another poem features a 90-year-old woman confronting Stonewall Jackson with her Union Flag. Name this Quaker, abolitionist, and Fireside poet of “Barbara Frietchie.” Ans. John Greenleaf Whittier

10. (20) Find the derivative of the function tangent squared of X. Ans. 2 times tangent of X times secant squared of X

11. (15) They gained independence from Spain in 1821, and all five were promptly annexed by Mexico. In 1823, they joined forces as the Central American Federation to secede from Mexico. Name any four of these five now independent countries. Ans. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

12. (20) U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service banned lead in bird shot because it's very bad for the birds. In 1995, the Fish & Wildlife Service approved what other heavy metal for use in bird shot, element No. 83, chemically similar to lead, except it's not as toxic? Ans. Bismuth

13. (20) It was once thought that this man had three poetic works that survived to the present day, but The Shield of Heracles was later determined not to have been written by him. This man’s two surviving works are both long poems that refer constantly to the myth of Prometheus. One of his poems is an 800-verse epic celebrating the virtue of hard labor, especially farming, and the other deals with origins of the world and the Greek pantheon of gods. Who was this ancient Greek poet who lived around 700 BC, the author of Works and Days and Theogony? Ans. Hesiod 14. (15) Note these 5 U.S. state capitals: Columbus, Dover, Springfield, Helena, and Pierre. Arrange them from east to west. Ans. Dover, Columbus, Springfield, Pierre, Helena

15. (20) Consider the parabola: y = 2x squared - 12x + 19. What ordered pair is the vertex? Ans. (3, 1)

16. (20) Match these nicknames -- Minute, Military, Revolutionary, Raindrop -- with these Chopin compositions -- Etude, Polonaise, Prelude, Waltz. Ans. Minute Waltz, Military Polonaise, Revolutionary Etude, Raindrop Prelude

17. (15) Calculate the surface area of a sphere with a radius of 4.5. Ans. 81 pi

18. (15) Other than To Kill a Mockingbird, name any finished novel written by Harper Lee. Ans. There are none. It's the only book she's ever written. BOB6

Warm-Up Round

1. (5) It contains 63 articles, most of which pledged the King to uphold feudal law. It was signed – actually sealed, on June 12, 1215. Name this political document, signed on Runnymede. Ans. Magna Carta

2. (10) As of 2012, this film has the largest percentage of positive online reviews on imdb.com. A poster of Rita Hayworth plays an important role in what film, adapted from a Stephen King novella and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman? Ans. The Shawshank Redemption

3. (10) The reactor at the Argonne National Lab in Chicago is using plastic bags to create these cylinders 50,000 times thinner than a hair to enlarge the surface area and power of batteries. What are they called? Ans. Nanotubes

4. (5) In computer science, this verb means “to carry out an instruction.” In penology, it means “to carry out the death penalty.” What is it? Ans. Execute

5. (10) Thomas Paine, in addition to writing the pamphlets The American Crisis and Common Sense, wrote what controversial deistic work, whose title is another name for the Enlightenment period? Ans. The Age of Reason

6. (10) A city east of Dallas was named for this 10th United States President, who later served in the provisional Congress of the Confederacy. Who was sworn in as vice president March 4, 1841 and as president April 6, 1841? Ans. John Tyler

7. (5) Recent studies seem to show that, despite conventional wisdom, what pitch, invented by Candy Cummings and once thought to be an optical illusion, poses no greater danger to young pitching arms than other pitches? Ans. Curve ball 8. (10) Although he never played in a poker tournament, he was unanimously inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979. Who was this man with the given names James Butler who was killed by Jack McCall in 1876 while holding two pair, aces and eights, in his hand? Ans. Wild Bill Hickock

9. (5) A 2012 analysis found that this is the most vulnerable state to rising sea levels caused by global warming because most of the state’s population lives near the coast on a porous, low-lying limestone shelf. Name this state, whose cities include Palatka, Titusville, and Pompano Beach. Ans. Florida

10. (5) This substance is common in sour or fermented dairy products. Its chemical formula is “C-three-H-six-O-three”, and it’s produced from pyruvate at ten times the normal level in blood under certain conditions. What is this product of a fermentation pathway that causes muscle aches during intense exercise? Ans. Lactic acid (accept lactate)

11. (10) The answer’s not Winston Churchill, but his live broadcasts of hope and inspiration kept the spirits of the British people alive during World War II. The motion picture The King’s Speech shows what monarch’s courage as he met the challenge of stuttering? Ans. George VI

12. (5) He began training in the martial arts at age 14, and received his judo black belt at age 18. In an NPR interview, he said he never regretted being part of the KGB. Name this man, the first Russian president to talk directly with the American people. Ans. Vladimir Putin

13. (10) During his 2012 visit to Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented President Obama with the biblical book telling of a genocidal plot against Jews hatched in ancient Persia. What is this book, found in the Old Testament between Nehemiah and Job? Ans. The Book of Esther

14. (10) The Reinheitsgebot required that only three ingredients be used in the production of beer. Water and barley were two of them. What relative of hemp was the third? Ans. Hops Bonus Round

1. (10) He may have been descended from the Dogon tribe, significant for their knowledge of astronomy. Encouraged in his studies by Peter Heinrichs, a Quaker farmer, he began astronomical calculations that predicted solar and lunar eclipses. Beginning in 1792, he published annually the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris. Name this free African American, who helped survey the lands of Washington, D.C. Ans. Benjamin Banneker

2. (10) Despite his prominence, there was hardly any media coverage of this man’s death since he had the bad luck to die on the same day as Aldous Huxley and John F. Kennedy: November 22, 1963. Science fiction was perhaps the least pre-eminent of the genres in which he wrote, although his Out of the Silent Planet is considered a minor classic; this may be because his works in that genre are more Christian allegory than pure science fiction. Who was this British author of a series of letters between demons, and a seven-part children’s book series which concluded with The Last Battle? Ans. C.S. Lewis

3. (10) This country exports 97% of the rare earth elements that are found on Earth. In the 7th century, it saw innovations in glazed pottery, cataract surgery, and magnetism. What is this country that’s larger than the United States but smaller than Canada? Ans. China

4. (10) This President, while still Secretary of State, was a principal in the annexation of Texas. John Breckinridge served as his Vice President. The first seven states seceded from the Union during his presidency. Name this only bachelor President. Ans. James Buchanan 5. (10) His dates are 1471 to 1528. In the last years of his life, he abandoned the creation of art, preferring instead to write theoretical works on perspective, anatomy, and geometry. He traveled widely in Italy and sought to merge Reformation and Renaissance theories of art in his works, which included some of Europe’s first landscapes and his religious works, including the woodcuts and engravings for which he is best remembered. Name this German artist who works include Knight, Death and the Devil, and Saint Jerome in his Study. Ans. Albrecht Durer

6. (10) She and her husband gained instant fame from an honor awarded them jointly in 1903. Eight years later, however, she was the sole recipient of a similar award, the first woman so-honored on both occasions. They discovered that fame, at first, prevented them from getting on with their work, and they found their work caused them serious health problems. Who is this woman who named the element polonium for her native Poland, the “Mother of Modern Physics.” Ans. Marie Curie

7. (10) In 1849, this 185,000 square mile region was the location of the provisional State of Deseret. During the Ice Age, it was dominated by Lake Bonneville. Its topography varies from North America’s lowest point, Death Valley, to the summit of Mount Whitney. Evaporating water has left behind saline lakes such as the Great Salt Lake. Including the Continental Divide of the Americas, name this region stretching east from California, containing large sections of Nevada and Utah. Ans. Great Basin

8. (10) In 2009, he was chosen by the Scottish public as the “greatest Scot in history” in an STV poll. Planning to move to the West Indies to oversee a slave plantation but lacking the funds to do so, he arranged to publish his poem “To a Mouse”, which made him famous across Scotland. Name this foremost proponent of the Scottish dialect and author of “Auld Lang Syne”. Ans. Robert Burns

9. (10) The most distinctive features in this work were said to be the artist’s commentary on Einstein’s theories of relativity, but the artist denied that when asked, saying that they were instead meant to symbolize sun- drenched cheese. Other than those features, objects in this painting include an ocean seascape, golden mountains, a platform on the water’s edge, another larger one in the left foreground, a spare tree branch atop that, and a strange creature lying on the ground. What is this 1931 work on display in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, a masterpiece of surrealist art? Ans. The Persistence Of Memory Bonuses

Bonus 1 Name the hairstyle.

(5) Short at the front and sides and long in the back, associated with Billy Ray Cyrus. Ans. Mullet

(10) Woman's domed and lacquered hairstyle popular during the 60s, associated with Marge Simpson. Ans. Beehive

(15) The hair is divided into sections that are tightly braided close to the scalp, associated with Bo Derek. Ans. Cornrows

(20) The hair is piled high on the head and hangs down on the sides, associated with Marie Antoinette. Ans. Bouffant

Bonus 2 THE SCARLET LETTER

(5) Hester and Dimmesdale plan to escape their suffering by boarding a ship bound for what continent? Ans. Europe

(10) In what century is The Scarlet Letter set? Ans. 17th

(15) Name a method Dimmesdale uses to punish himself for his sins. Ans. Scourging (whipping), fasting, vigils (extended periods of wakefulness and/or prayer) (Accept any one of these.)

(20) Where do Hester and Chillingworth live before coming to America? Ans. Amsterdam Bonus 3 BETWEEN “U” AND “ME” -- Each answer is a word with one letter between the letter “u” and “me.”

(5) Someone who knows a lot about good food and wine. Ans. Gourmet

(10) Stocks can do this during a depression. Ans. Plummet

(15) To increase the size, amount or value of something. Ans. Augment

(20) A brown powder used as a spice to give flavor to food. Ans. Nutmeg

Bonus 4 Given an author’s nationality, year of award, and a title, name the Nobel Laureate.

(5) Algerian-born Frenchman, 1957, The Plague Ans. Albert Camus

(10) German, 1929, The Magic Mountain Ans. Thomas Mann

(15) South African, 1991, The Conservationist Ans. Nadine Gordimer

(20) Chinese-born Frenchman, 2000, Soul Mountain Ans. Gao Xingjian

Bonus 5 Given a year of release and extremely short plot excerpts, name the Best Picture Oscar winner for that year.

(5) 1994, Life is like box of chocolates. Ans. Forrest Gump

(10) 1968, Dickens characters sing Ans. Oliver!

(15) 1967, Poitier turns Mississippi on its head Ans. In The Heat of the Night

(20) 1957, work crew whistles “Colonel Bogey” Ans. The Bridge on the River Kwai Sixty Seconds Round

MATH

1. What calculus operation yields a function’s rate of change? Ans. Differentiation or taking the derivative

2. What sorts of number pairs have the greatest common divisor of 1? Ans. Relatively prime (coprime)

3. What is the least common denominator of 5/12 and 11/18? Ans. 36

4. What is the angle between south and southeast? Ans. 45 degrees

5. What number appears in the upper-left corner of a two-by-two identity matrix? Ans. 1

6. Which of the six basic trig functions has a slope that’s always negative? Ans. Cotangent

7. In trigonometry, this prefix denotes an inverse function? Ans. Arc-

8. The members of a set are called what? Ans. Elements

9. How many points of intersection, maximum, can there be between a circle and an ellipse of non-zero eccentricity? Ans. 4

10. What’s the measure of an angle inscribed in a semicircle? Ans. 90 degrees LITERATURE

1. The first word of Bleak House is what city? Ans. London

2. The title of the 1959 novel The Mansion refers to a home in what state? Ans. Mississippi

3. What Faulkner novel is named for a son of King David? Ans. Absalom, Absalom!

4. Who was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Saturn? Ans. Chronus

5. What's the noble title of Aleksei Vronsky, Anna Karenina’s lover? Ans. Count

6. What Boston family of poets includes Robert, Amy, and James Russell? Ans. The Lowells

7. Name the sensitive-yet-philandering title physician of Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel. Ans. Dr. Zhivago

8. In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo is wounded in the shoulder by what weapon? Ans. Knife or dagger (accept Morgul blade)

9. What novel includes the words “light of my life, fire of my loins”? Ans. Lolita

10. What is Odysseus the only mortal ever to hear and survive? Ans. The Sirens’ song MUSIC

1. In 4/4 time, how many beats does a dotted half note get? Ans. 3

2. An offstage chorus of women grows fainter and fainter in which Holst masterpiece? Ans. The Planets

3. Name Mozart’s opera to which Rossini wrote a prequel. Ans. The Marriage of Figaro

4. Chin rest, scroll, bridge are among the parts of a what? Ans. Violin or viola

5. Traditionally, an orchestra conductor is addressed as what? Ans. Maestro

6. The Boston Pops Orchestra is best known for its concerts along the Charles River on which holiday? Ans. Fourth of July

7. Ferde Grofe composed a suite named for what Arizona wonder? Ans. Grand Canyon

8. Name George Gershwin’s longest work. Ans. Porgy and Bess

9. In which of Mozart's operas do we meet the Queen of the Night, a sorceress? Ans. The Magic Flute

10. In the Richard Strauss opera, who performs the Dance of the Seven Veils? Ans. Salome ??? (U.S. HISTORY)

1. What was the southernmost slave state in the U.S.? Ans. Florida

2. The discovery of what in Pennsylvania signaled the decline of Yankee whaling? Ans. Oil

3. Relief, Recovery, and Reform were the elements of whose economic program? Ans. Franklin Roosevelt’s

4. During which president’s administration did the U.S. acquire Puerto Rico? Ans. William McKinley

5. Of what crime was Aaron Burr acquitted in 1807? Ans. Treason

6. The Federalist Papers were written to encourage which state’s ratification of the Constutition? Ans. New York’s

7. Exiles from what country were trained by the CIA to fight at the Bay of Pigs? Ans. Cuba

8. What was the color of the flag raised by the British at Yorktown on October 17th, 1781? Ans. White

9. Colin Powell served as Secretary of State under which President? Ans. George W. Bush

10. What state was the focus of the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case? Ans. Florida Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) The blue-green algae of the oceans which generate enormous amounts of oxygen were originally classified as algae, but scientists now consider that notion outdated. They are actually what prokaryotic organisms? Ans. Bacteria

2. (20) It is a limestone ridge located in Provence. A large cross, while not located at the highest point on this mountain, stands out more so than the peak itself. One of the main cities that has a view of the mountain is Aix-en-Provence. Picasso had a studio at its base, but it’s more closely associated with another artist. What is this 3,317-foot tall mountain, a frequent subject of Paul Cezanne? Ans. Mont Sainte-Victoire

3. (20) Match these “national” musical compositions -- Cuban Overture, Polish Symphony, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Scottish Symphony – with these composers – Pyotr Tchaikovsky, George Gershwin, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn. Ans. Cuban Overture, Gershwin; Polish Symphony, Tchaikovsky; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Liszt; Scottish Symphony, Mendelssohn

4. (15) Name the century. The Ottoman Empire begins its expansion into the Balkans. The Great Schism of the West begins. The Ming Dynasty is established. Europe suffers from the Black Death, and Petrarch coins the term “Dark Ages.” Ans. Fourteenth

5. (15) Consider the curve defined by Y = -2X cubed - 12X squared +64. Given that it has only two roots, and one is at x = 2, what is its other root? Ans. X = -4

6. (20) TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. In music, the distance between two tones is called an interval. What three-syllable adjectives, both ending in -ic, indicate these intervals: when the two tones are sounded one after the other, and when the two tones are sounded together. Ans. Melodic and harmonic, respectively 7. (15) Their name in current use came from 19th century archaeological identification with a Biblical people, the most famous of whom was Uriah, the husband of Bath-sheba. Who were these people of Anatolia, the opponents of Egypt in the Battle of Kadesh, early pioneers in the use of iron weapons? Ans. Hittites

8. (20) Given the piecewise function, F of X, where X has a value of 1 if X is not an integer, and a value of 0 if X is an integer, what is the derivative of F of X at X equals -3? Ans. Undefined or does not exist

9. (20) Sir Christopher Wren died in 1723, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, where a plaque gives what advice to those seeking his monument, a three-word phrase in English but the single word Circumspice [kir- KOOM-spee-keh] in Latin? Ans. “Look around you.”

10. (15) Historians agree that there have been three of these periods in American history. The first, and best known, was named by historian, Joseph Tracy, who claimed that the radical thought of this period led to the American Revolution. What is this 18th century religious movement, in which pastors attempted to engage the minds of their people, led by men such as George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards? Ans. The Great Awakening

11. (20) It only reacts with W and Z particles, and is the best replacement for the word “blank” in the analogy “photon is to electromagnetism as blank is to the weak nuclear force”. The most massive particle of its class, which is characterized by full-integer spin and conformity to a statistical system posited by an Indian and a German physicist, it has a mass of between 115 and 130 giga electron volts, although narrowing the range down further than that has been complicated by the fact that this particle hasn’t actually been observed yet. What is this particle, known as the “God particle”, that explains why other elementary particles have mass? Ans. Higgs boson

12. (20) This work is cited in Plato’s Apology as contributing to the intellectual atmosphere that led to the conviction and execution of Socrates. It ends with a farmer setting a school on fire, who had sent his son to be educated by Socrates in order to help him deal with creditors, but became disillusioned when his son used his new philosophical talents against him. What is this 423 BC play by Aristophanes that perhaps unfairly paints Socrates as just another Sophist? Ans. The Clouds 13. (15) Find the area, in square feet, of an isosceles triangle with base 16 feet and 17 feet apiece for the other two sides. Ans. 120 square feet

14. (20) In German it’s Leichter gesagt als getan. In Latin it’s Sunt facta verbis difficiliora. In Spanish it’s No es lo mismo llamar al diablo que verlo venir. How is this proverb usually rendered in English? Ans. “Easier said than done.”

15. (20) Let A be the vector 2 comma 6 comma -2. Let B be the vector -5 comma -5 comma 7. Calculate the cross-product of A and B. Ans. Vector 32,-4,20

16. (15) There are six glasses in a row on a table. The first three are full of water, and the next three are empty. How can you make a pattern: full, empty, full, empty, full, empty by touching just one glass? Ans. Pour water from the second glass into the fifth, and put the empty glass back where it was.

17. (20) Figure out the period of the function y = 4 + 2 times the sine of 6x. Ans. Pi/3

18. (20) He is the patron saint of printers, brewers and theologians. He discussed the problems of free will and original sin which had aroused much controversy throughout the ages. Who was the opponent of Pelagius on these issues? Ans. St. Augustine BOB7

Warm-Up Round

1. (10) “The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.” Those are the opening words of which Jane Austen novel? Ans. Sense and Sensibility

2. (5) King Letsie III is the current ruler of this nation, the only one in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 meters in elevation and the world’s southernmost landlocked nation. What is this country with capital at Maseru that is completely surrounded by South Africa? Ans. Lesotho

3. (10) It features an English horn and uses a very slow tempo, indicating a speed of 40 to 60 beats per minute. I’m talking about what second movement of Dvorak’s New World Symphony which shares its name with an Italian tempo marking which indicates the piece is to be played broadly? Ans. Largo

4. (10) It contains a character named the Black Knight who later reveals himself to be King Richard I, and the title character’s love interest, also loved by Athelstane, is the ward of Cedric the Saxon. What is this 19th century novel in which the title character eventually marries Rowena, the best known work of Sir Walter Scott? Ans. Ivanhoe

5. (10) This is the largest phylum of the animal kingdom that has no members that live on land or in fresh water. What is this phylum whose adults display radial symmetry and that includes sand dollars and sea urchins? Ans. Echinoderm (accept echinoderms or echinodermata)

6. (10) In spite of events that occurred about thirty years after its independence, it is more densely populated than the colonial power that governed it immediately before independence. Since 1994, Paul Kagame has been president of what African nation, site of a genocide perpetrated primarily by Hutu militias? Ans. Rwanda 7. (10) Kitty Warren in a play by George Bernard Shaw, the five women who appear in a Picasso painting set in Avignon, France and, according to Rush Limbaugh, a Georgetown Law student named Sandra Fluke, all share or are said to share what profession? Ans. Prostitute

8. (10) John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt were members of a 19th-century movement in art that was named for this artist who had lived 350 years earlier. Who was this High Renaissance master whose portraits include The Sistine Madonna? Ans. Raphael (Pre-Raphaelite movement)

9. (10) Louis XIV’s attempt to remove a Hapsburg monarch and install a Bourbon relative of his as monarch in Madrid was the catalyst of what war that was ended by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1714? Ans. War of the Spanish Succession

10. (10) He wrote the 1759 book The Theory of Moral Sentiments, a seminal work of Enlightenment moral philosophy, but is much better known for a 1776 work which popularized the phrase “division of labor”. Who was this Scottish economist? Ans. Adam Smith

11. (5) This organization ran experiments with the code name MK- ULTRA, in which unsuspecting citizens were dosed with hallucinogenic drugs. Name this successor of the wartime OSS that was founded by the National Security Act of 1947. Ans. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

12. (10) “If ever that silly old man comes interfering here again with his umbrella, I'll kick him downstairs and jump on his stomach in front of the photographers.” Adolf Hitler had that to say about what statesman? Ans. Neville Chamberlain

13. (10) These regions cover more than half of the Earth's surface. What are these mostly-flat areas of the ocean floor covered by sediment? Ans. Abyssal plains

14. (10) Their military power was destroyed in the Battle of Ulundi, and they were soon subjugated by the British. The name of what African ethnic group provides a codeword of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? Ans. Zulu Bonus Round

1. (10) This composer of the Manfred Symphony never wrote a full concerto for cello and orchestra, but his 1877 work Variations on a Rococo Theme is heavily influenced by the style that Mozart used in his concertos. Although not a member of the group of composers from his country known as “The Mighty Five” and not a huge fan of their music, he was personally friendly with all of them. Originally trained as a civil servant in the tsarist Russian government, he conducted the first-ever concert held at Carnegie Hall in 1891. Who was this composer of Marche Slav? Ans. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

2. (10) This organization is alleged to have created the Stuxnet computer worm, and a technical guru named David Peled in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six book and video game series is a member of it. Their motto was recently changed to a quote from the Book of Proverbs: “Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.” Its director reports directly to the nation’s Prime Minister with no chain of command between them. What is the organization for which the protagonists of the 2005 film Munich worked, the main part of the Israeli intelligence community? Ans. Mossad

3. (10) Like other figures of its type, its name was coined by Apollonius of Perga. Because of the difficulty in forging a mirror of this shape at the time, Newton used a spherical mirror instead in his reflecting telescope. The curve of the cables in a suspension bridge is somewhere between a catenary and this shape. The flight path of NASA's “Vomit Comet,” used to simulate weightlessness, follows what conic section, created by the intersection of a plane parallel to the slope of a cone and the cone itself? Ans. Parabola

4. (10) The Tar Sands and the Athabasca River are found in this province where the only direct outside road link to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories begins, and whose third largest city is Medicine Hat. What is this province that produces almost all of Canada’s oil? Ans. Alberta 5. (10) This politician and author of many books was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1943 with the last name of McPherson. He attended Emory University but earned his Master’s and a doctorate from Tulane. He entered politics and, after two setbacks, was successful, winning a seat from a district outside Atlanta. He quickly became known as a combative, controversial conservative. When the GOP won control of the House in 1994 after many years in the minority, he was seen as the architect of that victory. Name this co-author of the Contract with America. Ans. Newt Gingrich

6. (10) She was born in Wisconsin, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in New York. While teaching at a women's college in South Carolina, some of her works found their way to her future husband. She rejected some of the praise of her works from feminist groups, saying that they were not intended to be interpreted in a Freudian manner. Ram's Head White Hollyhock is one example of the paintings of which artist, who first visited New Mexico in 1929 and would eventually relocate to the state? Ans. Georgia O'Keeffe

7. (10) The area was originally inhabited by the Caddo, and the first permanent white settlement was founded in 1841. Within the first twenty years of its existence, the site that would eventually become this city would be part of three different countries. The intersection of two major railroads there after the Civil War helped the city become a commercial center. It’s now part of the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. not located on a navigable body of water. What is this city, the third-largest in Texas and ninth-largest in the U.S.? Ans. Dallas

8. (10) As a child during World War II, he and his family were forced to live in a mud hut while Germans occupied his house. He began military flight training in 1955, and would later rise to the rank of polkovnik, equivalent to colonel, in the Soviet Air Force. Because of his small stature and physical fitness, he was considered a prime candidate for his most memorable achievment. Name this cosmonaut, who orbited Earth on Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. Ans. Yuri Gagarin

9. (10) Common examples of these include a Styrofoam cup coupled with a thermometer, and a type called a “bomb” that is kept at constant volume. What are these chemical laboratory items that determine heat capacity? Ans. Calorimeters Bonuses

Bonus 1 FINISH THE TITLE

(5) A 2007 Caldecott Honor book was titled Moses: When ______Led Her People to Freedom Ans. Harriet Tubman

(10) The title saint has been thrown from his horse and struck blind in Parmigianino's painting The Conversion of … Ans. St. Paul

(15) Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of ______. Ans. Tristram Shandy

(20) Freud's last major work: Moses and … Ans. Monotheism

Bonus 2 Given the name by which the Civil War battle was known in the Confederacy, tell me the Union name.

(5) Manassas Ans. Bull Run

(10) Sharpsburg Ans. Antietam

(15) Shiloh Ans. Pittsburg Landing

(20) Elkhorn Tavern Ans. Pea Ridge Bonus 3 Identify these types of figurative language.

(5) Giving human qualities to nonhuman objects or characters. Ans. Personification or Anthropomorphism

(10) The addressing of a person not present. Ans. Apostrophe

(15) The use of a part to represent a whole. Ans. Synecdoche

(20) Emphasizing the magnitude of a statement by denying its opposite. Ans. Litotes

Bonus 4 Name the phylum or division in which you would find…

(5) Slugs Ans. Mollusca (mollusks)

(10) Earthworms Ans. Annelida (annelids)

(15) Lampreys Ans. Chordata (chordates)

(20) Coral Ans. Cnidaria (cnidarians)

Bonus 5 SOUTHEAST ASIA

(5) Name two countries that were part of the former French Indochina. Ans. Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam (also accept North and South Vietnam as separate countries)

(10) What is the largest country in both area and population? Ans. Indonesia

(15) What is the largest island in the Malay Archipelago? Ans. Borneo

(20) The highest mountains of Southeast Asia are in which country? Ans. Myanmar (Burma) Sixty Seconds Round

GENESIS

Finish the quotations from the King James Version.

1. “They sewed ______together, and made themselves aprons.” Ans. Fig leaves

2. “And the lord set a mark upon ____, lest any finding him should kill him.” Ans. Cain

3. “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of ___.” Ans. Esau

4. “They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many ____.” Ans. Colors.

5. “His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a _____.” Ans. Pillar of salt

6. “It is not good that the man should be ____.” Ans. Alone

7. “For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou ___.” Ans. Return

8. “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have ____ over the fish of the sea.” Ans. Dominion

9. “There were ____ in the earth in those days.” Ans. Giants

10. “And God set them in the ____ of the heaven to give light upon the earth.” Ans. Firmament RIVERS

What river flows past:

1. Bratislava and Budapest? Ans. Danube

2. Luxor and Aswan? Ans. Nile

3. Belem do Para and Manaus? Ans. Amazon

4. Basel and Bonn? Ans. Rhine

5. Sioux City and Kansas City? Ans. Missouri

6. Huntington, West Virginia and Marietta, Ohio? Ans. Ohio

7. Quebec and Montreal? Ans. St. Lawrence

8. Wuhu and Shanghai? Ans. Yangtze

9. Varanasi and Allahabad? Ans. Ganges

10. Niamey and Timbuktu? Ans. Niger VICE PRESIDENTS

Each of the following served as vice president during which president’s administration?

1. Aaron Burr. Ans. Thomas Jefferson

2. Lyndon Johnson. Ans. John F. Kennedy

3. Dan Quayle. Ans. George H.W. Bush (accept “senior,” “the elder” or the like)

4. Henry Wallace. Ans. Franklin D. Roosevelt (accept FDR)

5. Hannibal Hamlin. Ans. Abraham Lincoln

6. Calvin Coolidge. Ans. Warren G. Harding

7. Martin Van Buren. Ans. Andrew Jackson

8. Walter Mondale. Ans. Jimmy Carter

9. Hubert Humphrey. Ans. Lyndon Johnson (accept LBJ)

10. Nelson Rockefeller. Ans. Gerald Ford ??? (WHERE?)

Where would you expect to find the two objects?

1. Pupil and iris. Ans. Eye

2. Tank and ballcock. Ans. Toilet

3. Magnet and pivot. Ans. Compass

4. Radius and ulna. Ans. (Fore)arm

5. Nave and apse. Ans. Church (or cathedral)

6. Gnomon and hour lines. Ans. Sundial

7. Rotor and landing skids. Ans. Helicopter

8. Fibula and tibia. Ans. (Lower) leg

9. Bag and chanter. Ans. Bagpipes

10. Propeller, conning tower. Ans. Submarine Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) After delays due to worms in 2003, its immediate predecessor was released in 2007 to generally negative reviews. However, this operating system received far better reviews and was adopted more widely in three weeks than its predecessor was in six months. What is this operating system, successor to Vista? Ans. Windows 7

2. (20) It took into account the results of the Russo-Japanese War and was intended to mitigate fears of a prolonged two-front war. A key part of the plan was the possibility of a double envelopment of the French army. What was this plan, named for the field marshal whose last words were reportedly “Remember to keep the right flank strong,” and predicated on the idea that the German army could defeat France in 42 days and before Russia could fully mobilize? Ans. Schlieffen Plan

3. (20) It’s located near a site used for executions from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century. Demonstrations there in 1866 led to the Reform Act of 1867, which enfranchised millions of working-class Englishmen. Since then, it’s been a site for public speaking and debate. Name this section of Hyde Park in London. Ans. Speakers' Corner (Prompt on Hyde Park before it’s mentioned.)

4. (15) A polyhedron with 6 faces and 8 vertices has how many edges? Ans. 12

5. (15) Find the area of an equilateral triangle in which one side is the segment between (-2, 5) and (6, 5). Ans. 16 root 3

6. (20) This painting is one of two known surviving paintings of the same town by the Dutch master who was born and died there. The center of the piece is dominated by the since-demolished Schiedam and Rotterdam Gates. What is this painting showing a small town from across a canal, painted by Jan Vermeer? Ans. View of Delft 7. (15) Types of it include Wasmannian, Mertensian, Müllerian, and Batesian. Camouflage is basically a visual form of it. In which biological phenomenon does one species benefit from a superficial resemblance to another? Ans. Mimicry

8. (20) They are derived from the Chinese language, in which they are called hanzi, and are generally used to write nouns and the stems of adjectives and verbs. What are these characters that, along with hiragana and katakana, form the great majority of the written Japanese language? Ans. Kanji

9. (20) Consisting of 24 compartmented scenes, when closed on its hinges it shows the Annunciation of Mary and the donor portraits of Joost Vijdt and his wife. When opened, the upper register shows Christ the King and the central panel of the lower register shows Christ being adored as the agnus dei. Name this work of brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, which includes the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, and is still located in the Belgian city that’s part of its name. Ans. Ghent Altarpiece (accept Adoration of the Mystic Lamb or the Dutch, Het Lam Gods)

10. (15) Although his tribe fought alongside the British in the War of 1812, the war named for him occurred from April to August of 1832, when he was captured at the Battle of Bad Axe River. Who was this Sauk Indian chief? Ans. Black Hawk

11. (15) The state seal of Texas features a lone star, along with the branches of two kinds of trees. One of them represents strength, the other peace. Name these two trees: one a rich golden hardwood with pronounced open grain used in interior trim, flooring and cabinets; the other, the oil of which was the main source of fat in the diet of an ancient Greek. Ans. Oak, olive

12. (20) These are generally organic compounds that consist of some components that are soluble in water and some that are insoluble, known as their “heads” and “tails”, respectively. What are these compounds that lower a liquid’s surface tension and are commonly used in detergents? Ans. Surfactants 13. (20) The person who coined this phrase described it as “a second psychic system of a universal and impersonal nature.” He linked it to what Sigmund Freud called “archaic remnants...which seem to be aboriginal, innate, and inherited shapes of the human mind.” Marie-Louise von Franz suggested that this hypothesis could be identified with “the ancient idea of an all-extensive world-soul.” What is this concept of experiences shared by all humanity proffered by Carl Jung? Ans. Collective unconscious

14. (15) Beginning as early as 1520, the Pope tried to convene a council to counteract the influence of Protestantism, but that was delayed until 1545. Once it started, it lasted for 18 years and the pontificates of the three Popes. Name this major reform church council named for the northern Italian city in which it was located. Ans. Council of Trent

15. (15) Given a quadratic equation with roots at 3 and –5, express the equation in the form ax squared + bx + c = 0. Ans. x squared + 2x – 15 = 0

16. (20) Alumni include Rahm Emanuel, Yoko Ono and Alice Walker. According to a 2011 ranking, this university ranked No. 1 as the most expensive college in the U.S. with annual costs totaling $58,334 each year. Name this university in Bronxville NY, historically politically active and rated by the Princeton Review as the least religious college in America. Ans. Sarah Lawrence College

17. (20) He was the god who killed the dragons Kingu and Tiamat, took the Tablet of Destinies from them, and gave it to Anu and Enlil. Who was this god, generally considered the head of the Babylonian pantheon? Ans. Marduk

18. (15) Some claim that this poem, published in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, New Hampshire, was inspired by and a compression of Dante’s Inferno. However, astronomer Harlow Shapley claimed he inspired it when he explained to its author that the universe will end either in a deep freeze, if it expands forever; or in a fiery Big Crunch if it contracts. What is this nine line poem by Robert Frost? Ans. “Fire and Ice” BOB8

Warm-Up Round 1. (5) Which amendment in the Bill of Rights recast this sentence from the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Body of Liberties from 1641: “For bodily punishments, we allow amongst us none that are inhumane, barbarous or cruel”? Ans. 8th Amendment

2. (10) Some form of this writ has existed in England since the twelfth century when it was used so the king would be given account as to why any of his subjects were detained for any reason. What concept from English Common law, upon which the U.S. legal system is based, is supposed to prevent detention without judicial review? Ans. Habeas corpus

3. (5) At forty-nine years since diagnosis, he is the longest-lived survivor known to medical science of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Who is this British author of A Brief History of Time? Ans. Stephen Hawking

4. (10) During World War I, physicians noticed that ammunition workers tended to have very low blood pressures, the stress of their job notwithstanding. Later studies showed what powerful explosive to be a natural vasodilator? Ans. Nitroglycerin

5. (10) Two U.S. states have only one consonant in their names. Name these “Big Ten” states. Ans. Ohio & Iowa

6. (5) Roger Bacon, an English Franciscan monk, perhaps ironically, was the man who devised the modern formula for this substance, in 1256. The original development of it is attributed to the 10th century Chinese. It was originally used for celebrations rather than warfare. What is it? Ans. Gunpowder

7. (10) Consider the graph of: X squared + Y squared -8X + 2Y = -8. How many Y intercepts are there? Ans. 0 8. (5) TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED … In 1934, this Public Enemy Number One was killed outside the Biograph theatre in Chicago and this couple died in their car in a hail of gunfire during a Louisiana police ambush. Ans. John Dillinger; Bonnie (Parker) & Clyde (Barrow)

9. (10) He twice attempted to invade Japan, in 1274 and 1281, but his invasions were undone by the poor quality of his naval vessels, which frequently capsized. Who was this founder of China’s Yuan Dynasty who therefore was not able to decree any stately pleasure domes among the samurai? Ans. Kublai Khan

10. (5) The Boston community organization Freedom House classifies nations as “free,” “partly free,” or “not free.” It lists only one nation in the Western Hemisphere as “not free.” Name this Caribbean nation. Ans. Cuba

11. (5) General Leopoldo Galtieri was replaced as president of his country as a direct result of losing this war in which he tried to conquer a territory known in his nation as the Malvinas. What is the English name of this 1982 war over an archipelago in the South Atlantic between Great Britain and Argentina? Ans. Falkland Islands War

12. (10) Faraday’s Law, which states that the electromotive force is equal to the first derivative of magnetic flux, is the physical law that governs this phenomenon. What is this phenomenon wherein a mobile magnetic field acting on a conductor causes an electric current? Ans. Induction

13. (5) Inigo Jones, Philip Johnson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the fictional Howard Roark in The Fountainhead all share what occupation whose name derives from the Greek for “chief builder”? Ans. Architects

14. (10) Guten Abend, Gut Nacht, Mit Rosen Bedacht translates into English as “Good evening, good night, with roses adorned.” That’s the first line of which 1868 song by Johannes Brahms? Ans. “Lullaby” (or Wiegenlied) Bonus Round

1. (10) This epileptic was known to his schoolmates as “Monk Photius” because of his unusually high interest in religion. In 1849, he was subjected to a mock execution for plotting against the tsar, with the sentence being commuted at the last minute to four years hard labor in Siberia. This experience formed the basis of his book The House of the Dead. Who was this author of Notes from the Underground and The Gambler? Ans. Fyodor Dostoevsky

2. (10) The one who served from 1961 to 1971 has an island unofficially named after him in New York City’s East River and had a one-letter first name that was actually an honorific in his native language. The first one was an anti-communist Norwegian who frequently clashed with the Soviet Union. The only one from the Western Hemisphere hailed from Peru. The only one of them to die in office was a Swede who was killed in a 1961 plane crash. All of these men held what international political office? Ans. United Nations Secretary-General

3. (10) One member of this group was the last element to be discovered in nature, in 1939, but only about 25 grams of it exists at any given time in Earth’s crust. The ammonium ion and thallium are considered to be close relatives of these elements, all of which are shiny, silvery and so soft they can easily be cut with a knife. What is this group of elements with the lowest known electronegativities, also known as Group 1-A elements? Ans. Alkali metals (accept Group 1-A before it’s mentioned)

4. (10) In this novel, Mack, a middle-aged vagabond, is constantly rationalizing his dishonest actions such as stealing from the Chinese grocery store owner Lee Chong. Like most of its author’s books, it is set during the Great Depression, and the real-life street upon which it is based, Ocean View Avenue in Monterey, California, was later actually renamed this in honor of the book. What is this 1945 novel by John Steinbeck? Ans. Cannery Row 5. (10) Robert Burns wrote a poem about a “fond” one of these. The longest one in movie history is three minutes and twenty-four seconds, and is found in the 2010 film Elena Undone. It is the action that precedes the famous movie line, “I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart.” A painting by Gustav Klimt and a sculpture by Rodin feature what action? Ans. A kiss

6. (10) The addition of the second actor, credited to Aeschylus by Aristotle, led to a decline in its importance. According to August Schlegel, they were intended to act as a sort of ideal audience. They would provide commentary on the actions: sometime spoken, sometime sung. Their numbers varied from twelve in Sophocles' works to fifty in some early plays. What is this term, also another word for the refrain of a song? Ans. Chorus

7. (10) In various myths, his father is Zeus, Hermes or Dionysus, while his mother is usually a nymph. His main area of worship was Arcadia, a mountainous, rural area of the Peloponessus. Appropriately, he had few temples built in his honor and was generally worshipped in natural settings. In an effort to evade his amorous advances, the nymph Syrinx had herself transformed into a reed, which he fashioned into a musical instrument now typically associated with him. Often depicted in art as a faun, what Greek god has come to be associated with male virility in Neopagan belief systems? Ans. Pan

8. (10) Most of her family's wealth came from land holdings in Jamaica, and she believed she may have had some slaves in her ancestry. She was encouraged by her father, who nicknamed her “the Poet Laureate of Hope End,” the estate where her family lived during her childhood. She was sickly throughout her adult life, and died at 55 in her husband's arms. His nickname for her, “my little Portuguese,” found its way into the title of a collection of the sonnets of which prominent Victorian poet? Ans. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

9. (10) This word comes from the early days of the printing press when, similar to a stereotype, certain frequently-used phrases would be cast as a single block. Its current pejorative connotation arose in the 19th century. Name this word, originally from the French for the sound made by the casting of a printing plate, today referring to an overused phrase that should be avoided like the plague. Ans. Cliché Bonuses

Bonus 1 Given a year and a description, name the following battles from world history, each of which is featured in 1851's The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy.

(5) 490 BC; Pheidippides is said to have run from the battle to Athens to proclaim victory. Ans. Battle of Marathon

(10) 1429; Saint Joan of Arc lifted the siege of this city during the Hundred Years' War. Ans. Orleans

(15) 1709; Peter I's decisive victory over the Swedes in the Great Northern War. Ans. Battle of Poltava

(20) AD 451; the Visigoths and the Romans defeated Attila the Hun. Ans. Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields) or Battle of Châlons

Bonus 2 LOSERS

(5) Who lost two Presidential elections to Dwight Eisenhower? Ans. Adlai Stevenson

(10) Which king lost the last battle of the War of the Roses? Ans. Richard III

(15) Who holds the major league record for career pitcher losses? Ans. Cy Young

(20) What term describes the group of senior opposition ministers in a parliamentary system who form an alternative cabinet? Ans. Shadow government (accept Shadow Cabinet, Shadow Front Bench, or Shadow Ministry) Bonus 3 AUSTRIANS

(5) His “number” is the ratio of the speed of a moving body to the speed of sound. Ans. Ernst Mach

(10) Most famous “banking family.” Ans. The Rothschilds

(15) He composed the oratorios The Seasons and The Creation. Ans. Franz Josef Haydn

(20) He won Oscars as producer, director and writer of The Apartment. Ans. Billy Wilder

Bonus 4 CLEVER EPITAPHS

(5) Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: “Here lies the body / of Jonathan Blake / Stepped on the gas / Instead of the ...” Ans. Brake.

(10) Seen in a Thurmont, Maryland cemetery: "Here lies an Atheist / All dressed up ...” Ans. And no place to go.

(15) Lived a life of stress and worry / Rushing through it in a hurry / Didn't stop to smell the roses / But now he feeds them as he ... Ans. Decomposes

(20) Benjamin Franklin: “The body of B. Franklin, Printer, Like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be wholly lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more, in a new and more perfect edition, corrected and amended ...” Ans. By the Author.

Bonus 5 Provide the final word to complete the so-called “law.”

(5) Marcy's Law: To the victor belong the ___. Ans. Spoils

(10) Lasch's Law: Nothing succeeds like the appearance of ____. Ans. Success

(15) Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger ___. Ans. Hammer

(20) Jones's Law: Friends may come and go, but enemies ___. Ans. Accumulate Sixty Seconds Round

PRESIDENTS

Which president wrote:

1. Dreams From My Father. Ans. Barack Obama

2. Hunting the Grisly. Ans. Theodore Roosevelt

3. Profiles in Courage. Ans. John F. Kennedy

4. The Vantage Point; Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969. Ans. Lyndon B. Johnson

5. Principles of Mining. Ans. Herbert Hoover

6. Notes on the State of Virginia. Ans. Thomas Jefferson

7. Crusade in Europe. Ans. Dwight D. Eisenhower

8. My Life (2004). Ans. Bill Clinton

9. Six Crises. Ans. Richard Nixon

10. An American Life Ans. Ronald Reagan COUPLES IN LITERATURE Name the best known literary work in which the couple appears.

1. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Ans. Gone With the Wind

2. Samson and Delilah. Ans. The Bible (Book of Judges)

3. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Ans. Pride and Prejudice

4. Ma and Pa Joad. Ans. The Grapes of Wrath

5. Tom Buchanan and Daisy Fay. Ans. The Great Gatsby

6. Stanley and Stella Kowalski. Ans. A Streetcar Named Desire

7. Angel Clare and Tess Durbeyfield. Ans. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

8. Edward Rochester and Bertha Rochester. Ans. Jane Eyre

9. Wang Lung and O-Lan. Ans. The Good Earth

10. Kino and Juana. Ans. The Pearl ALPHABETICALLY LAST

Name the alphabetically last of the:

1. Ivy League schools. Ans. Yale

2. New York City boroughs. Ans. Staten Island

3. New England states. Ans. Vermont

4. Chemical elements. Ans. Zirconium

5. Planets. Ans. Venus

6. Seven colors of the visible spectrum. Ans. Yellow

7. Central American countries. Ans. Panama

8. Of the gods of the four winds in Greek mythology. Ans. Zephyr

9. Of Rome’s First Triumvirate. Ans. Pompey

10. Of European capitals. Ans. Zagreb ??? (PROVINCES)

I’ll name the provinces and you name the countries.

1. Shaanxi and Guangdong. Ans. China

2. Quezon and Bataan. Ans. Philippines

3. Córdoba and Segovia. Ans. Spain

4. Western Cape and Limpopo. Ans. South Africa

5. Helmand and Kandahar. Ans. Afghanistan

6. Chaco and La Pampa. Ans. Argentina

7. Ararat and Yerevan. Ans. Armenia

8. Walloon Brabant and East Flanders. Ans. Belgium

9. Tierra del Fuego and Valparaíso. Ans. Chile

10. Chimborazo and Galápagos. Ans. Ecuador Stump the Experts Round 1. (15) This question calls for a three-word answer. The next three of these events will be held at the Maracana in Rio in 2014, the Luzhniki (loozh-NEE-kee) in Moscow in 2018, and an as-yet-unbuilt stadium in Doha, Qatar in 2022. What is this most-watched single sporting event on the planet, that was held in 2010 in Johannesburg at the aptly-named Soccer City stadium? Ans. World Cup Final

2. (15) A man standing 50 times the square root of 3 feet from the base of the building is looking, at an angle of elevation 30 degrees, to the top of a 20-foot tower atop the building. How tall in feet is the building? Ans. 30

3. (20) The title character of this short story is a high-court judge surnamed Golovin who is trapped in a sham marriage with a self-absorbed woman when he suddenly falls ill. The doctors he consults say that he has “floating kidneys”, but can tell him nothing else other than that he’s dying. His butler Gerasim is the only person who shows him compassion in the agonizing three days leading to his death. What is this 1886 novella, published by Leo Tolstoy shortly after his religious conversion? Ans. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

4. (15) Before the conversion to the Euro, this composer’s image appeared on the French twenty-franc banknote. His 1908 suite Children’s Corner was composed for solo piano. His mid-period works, which feature his trademark techniques of bitonality, unharmonic modulations, and frequent use of whole- tone and pentatonic scales, include the Nocturnes and La mer. Name this foremost Impressionist composer. Ans. Claude Debussy

5. (20) Let F of X equal X squared + 5X. Let G of X equal the natural log of X. Find the value of the derivative of this expression: F of G of X at X = E. Ans. 7/E 6. (15) Ernest Jones flew from this city to Vienna determined to get his mentor to leave and seek exile there. It took nearly three months for him, his wife, Maria, and his daughter, Anna to make it to this city, in spite of support from notable former patients, where he lived for almost a year and a half before his death by euthanization to end his pain from cancer due to heavy smoking. What is this city where the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, fled to escape the Nazis? Ans. London

7. (20) In 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau was proven to have been complicit in these efforts by providing confidential information regarding certain residents to the U.S. government. In 2011, the Solicitor General’s office found that the U.S. military had deliberately withheld a damaging position paper known as the Ringle Report in order to justify it. This program, some of the sites of which were the Merced County Fairgrounds and Santa Anita Racetrack Stables in California, was the direct result of Executive Order 9066, which allowed the designation of certain military areas as “exclusion zones”. What is this notorious program which ran from 1942 to 1945? Ans. Internment of Japanese-Americans (accept equivalents that demonstrate clear knowledge)

8. (15) In 2011, its Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, became the first prime minister in the country’s history to be democratically re-elected to a second consecutive term. Its current president acceded to the office after the death of the former president in April, 2010 in a plane crash in western Russia, during a visit there to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre in which thousands of this country’s officers were slaughtered. What is this Eastern European nation? Ans. Poland

9. (15) For the following identity, find the value of A that makes the equation true for all values of theta given in radians: sine squared theta plus cosine squared theta equals A. Ans. A = 1

10. (15) Name one of the two U.S. Marine Corps boot camps. Ans. San Diego Recruit Depot (California), Parris Island Recruit Depot (South Carolina)

11. (15) Name three pairs of correlative conjunctions. Ans. Either/or, neither/nor, both/and, not only/but also, whether/or 12. (20) After its founding in 1960, OPEC met in Geneva for its first five years of existence. In 1965, they moved to what city, where they are still located, into a building in which Carlos the Jackal killed three people in 1975? Ans. Vienna

13. (15) How many distinct complex roots are there in the polynomial X cubed - 10X squared + 33X – 34? Ans. 3

14. (15) The original version of the Epic of Gilgamesh belonged to the Library of Ashurbanipal in this city. It was one of the greatest cities in the region at its peak in the 8th century BC, under the leadership of Sennacherib. What is this city, the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, to which God sent Jonah to demand that the people repent? Ans. Nineveh

15. (20) Find the indefinite integral of this trig function: sine X times cosine X minus sine X times cosine cubed of X. Ans. ¼ times sine raised to the fourth power of x plus C (Prompt a missing “plus C”.)

16. (15) Researchers at George Mason University in 2011 ranked the states based on individual liberty and government intrusion. This state is considered the “most free.” Name this state, that apparently lives up to its motto, “live free or die.” Ans. New Hampshire

17. (15) Linus Pauling first developed the theory of these to explain the structure of molecules such as methane. In chemistry, an atom’s p, s and d orbitals are able to combine to form this type of molecular orbital that can form sigma bonds with one another. What is the name for these orbitals, such as sp3? Ans. Hybrid orbitals

18. (20) It is not known whether his involvement in Shakespeare's play King Henry VIII can be characterized as collaboration or revision. Some scholars now credit the bulk of that play to him rather than Shakespeare. Name this author who rivaled Shakespeare in fame during his life and who succeeded him as playwright for the King’s Men. Ans. John Fletcher BOB9

Warm-Up Round

1. (5) This step in the CPR process is now recommended by the American Heart Association as the first and most important step. What three-syllable word starting with C identifies that step? Ans. Compression

2. (10) “Rhetoric is the counterpart to dialectic.” That’s the first sentence of The Art of Rhetoric, by which author, who lived from 384 to 322 BC? Ans. Aristotle

3. (10) Through how many degrees has a jet turned if it starts going south-southeast and ends up going southeast? Ans. 22.5

4. (10) Headquartered in Philadelphia, this company headed by CEO Brian Roberts holds stakes in E! Entertainment Television and the Golf Channel. In 2011, it became the majority owner of the media conglomerate NBCUniversal. What is this company with New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol CCS, America’s largest cable operator and home Internet service provider? Ans. Comcast

5. (10) This device includes a half-silvered mirror and is used to divide a ray of light in two, to be recombined later. Name this instrument used by the Michelson-Morley experiment. Ans. Interferometer

6. (5) Two of the American Film Institute’s 100 all-time greatest movie quotes consist of just a single word. Which one is uttered in Citizen Kane? Ans. Rosebud

7. (10) His books include Your Movie Sucks. He won the 1975 Pulitzer for Criticism, a first for a film critic. Name this writer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ans. Roger Ebert 8. (10) The Sea of Azov is connected to this body of water by the Strait of Kerch. What is this European body of water on which the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia, is located, as well as the historically significant city of Sevastopol? Ans. Black Sea

9. (5) The US holds the world’s biggest gold reserve, and this country holds the second-biggest. Name this country, bordered by the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Ans. Germany

10. (10) The temperature of sunspots is lower than the rest of the solar surface because the magnetic field there suppresses movement of energy to the surface of the sun by means of what heat transfer process? Ans. Convection

11. (5) In astronomy, the red shift is used to calculate the distance to faraway objects. It’s simply a visible variation of this phenomenon. What is this name for the difference in the observed frequency of a wave when the source and observer are in motion relative to each other? Ans. Doppler effect

12. (10) Its source is in New Hampshire and its mouth is at Long Island Sound, and it flows through Springfield, Massachusetts. What is this river, the longest in New England, that forms the border between Vermont and New Hampshire? Ans. Connecticut River

13. (5) When possible Allied retribution for the Final Solution was once mentioned to Adolf Hitler, he sarcastically asked if anyone had ever intervened to stop the genocide of what ethnic group, approximately one million of whom were massacred by the Ottoman Turks during and after World War I? Ans. Armenians

14. (5) The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushita Hokusai is the first of a his series of woodblock prints. These prints are different views of what mountain? Ans. Mount Fuji Bonus Round

1. (10) In some myths, her mother was forbidden by Hera to give birth on land. However, the island of Delos defied Hera, and this goddess was born there. She helped deliver her younger brother and came to be associated with childbirth and midwifery, although she asked her father Zeus, to ensure she remained a virgin forever. One of her temples was designated one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Who is this twin sister of Apollo, goddess of the moon and the hunt in Greek Mythology? Ans. Artemis

2. (10) Painted from the perspective of a pedestrian walking by a building containing the four people referred to in the painting’s title, it can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago. Phillies Diner is the building with a large glass window depicted in what 1942 Edward Hopper painting? Ans. Nighthawks

3. (10) A man named Ron Higgins is exposed as a professional impersonator of this man in a courtroom scene from the TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus. He appears in Dumas’ The Three Musketeers as the employer of the Comte de Rochefort and the betrayer of the Queen Consort of France who tries to start a war between France and England. Name this statesman, whose given name was Armand Jean du Plessis, considered to be the world’s first “Prime Minister”, who contributed greatly to the consolidation of France as a unified power during his 1624-1642 term as Louis XIII’s chief minister. Ans. Cardinal Richelieu

4. (10) It was formed 60 million years ago. In Nepal, it’s called “The Goddess of the Sky.” Jon Krakauer wrote about it. Avalanches cause most of its fatalities. What is this place? Ans. Mt. Everest 5. (10) In 1842, he wrote a travel book called American Notes for General Circulation in which he powerfully condemned the institution of slavery. In his final novel, an opium dealer and a set of twins are the suspects in the death of the title figure, but we never find out who the killer was since this author’s 1870 death left the novel unfinished. The Gordon Riots of 1780 and their aftermath are the setting for this author’s least- acclaimed novel, Barnaby Rudge. Name this author who also wrote The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Ans. Charles Dickens

6. (10) The Norwegian, Barbary and three Swedish ones, among many others, are not usually considered to be official. The last one was led by the only French king to ever be canonized, Louis IX. Historians usually recognize nine of what sort of historical events, occurring between 1095 and 1291? Ans. Crusades

7. (10) There’s an area in the mid-Atlantic between Cape Verde and the Caribbean Sea where this is exposed without any covering, although due to the depth it’s difficult to obtain samples. What is this area, located between two discontinuities, the Gutenberg and the Moho? Ans. Mantle

8. (10) In the southeastern corner of this nation lies a disputed area known as the Hala’ib Triangle, formed by an administrative boundary created by the British when they ruled this nation in 1902. Fatima, a daughter of Muhammad, gave her name to one self-ruling dynasty of this country, which was also once ruled by the Mameluks. What is this nation, also once led by Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar el-Sadat? Ans. Egypt

9. (10) Positions in this sport include the inside-centre, the number eight, the blindside flanker, and the number four and five locks. The world championship trophy awarded every four years is named after its inventor, William Webb Ellis. It is the de facto national sport of Georgia, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Wales, and New Zealand, which won its World Cup in 2011. What is this fifteen-player sport invented by Ellis at a prominent English public school? Ans. Rugby Bonuses

Bonus 1 Name these tariffs.

(5) This 1890 tariff protected manufacturers at the expense of farmers and was proposed by a congressman who would become president seven years later. Ans. McKinley Tariff

(10) What was the 1828 tariff infamously called as it was loathed by Southerners and led to the Nullification Crisis? Ans. Tariff of Abominations

(15) The second highest tariff in US History after the abominable one, this 1930 act named for two congressmen is said to have contributed to the severity of the Great Depression. Ans. Smoot-Hawley Tariff (or Hawley-Smoot)

(20) This Revenue Act of 1913, named for an Alabama congressman, re- imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment. Ans. Underwood Tariff (also Underwood-Simmons Act)

Bonus 2 PLANTS

(5) What fruit derives its name from the Latin pomum (apple) and granatus (seeded)? Ans. Pomegranate

(10) What causes a jumping bean to “jump”? Ans. Moth larva inside it snap their bodies to move to a safer (cooler) place. (Accept anything close.)

(15) What member of the orchid family has a commercial use as a flavoring? Ans. Vanilla

(20) What is the claim to fame of the raffia palm? Ans. Longest leaves Bonus 3 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

(5) Why are the seven states called emirates? Ans. They are ruled by emirs.

(10) What is the capital and second-largest city? Ans. Abu Dhabi

(15) What is the largest city? Ans. Dubai

(20) What is the Burj Khalifa? Ans. Skyscraper (the world’s tallest)

Bonus 4 From mythology, name the mother of …

(5) Ares. Ans. Hera

(10) Oedipus. Ans. Jocasta

(15) Persephone. Ans. Demeter

(20) Hector Ans. Hecuba

Bonus 5 BRITISH HISTORY

(5) What nationality were the Hanoverian kings of England? Ans. German

(10) The NHS was formed in 1948. What is it? Ans. National Health Service

(15) In what park was the Crystal Palace Exhibition held? Ans. Hyde Park

(20) What gift given by Capt. James Cook to the royal family of Tonga outlived him by more than 150 years? Ans. Tortoise Sixty Seconds Round

HARVARD CLASSICS

I will give the titles “in other words,” and you name the books.

1. The Swiss Hero Who Shot the Apple from His Son’s Head by Schiller. Ans. Wilhelm Tell or William Tell

2. The Red Alphabetic Character by Hawthorne. Ans. The Scarlet Letter

3. The Story of My Life by Benvenuto Cellini. Ans. The Autobiography

4. The Male Heir to the King by Machiavelli. Ans. The Prince

5. An Act Committed in Violation of a Law, and Its Ensuing Penalty, by Dostoevsky. Ans. Crime and Punishment

6. Religious Sojourner’s Advancement towards a Goal by Bunyan. Ans. Pilgrim’s Progress

7. The Ocean Trip of the Breed of Dog Represented by Snoopy by Darwin. Ans. The Voyage of the Beagle

8. The Male Human Who Lacks a Nation of His Own by Hale. Ans. The Man Without a Country

9. The Picture of a Woman by Henry James. Ans. The Portrait of a Lady

10. The Person Whose Goal was to Turn Base Metals into Gold by Ben Jonson. Ans. The Alchemist FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES

1. Hawaiian word of greeting or farewell. Ans. Aloha

2. Latin for “let the buyer beware.” Ans. Caveat emptor

3. French for “overthrow of the government.” Ans. Coup d'etat

4. Italian for “unaccompanied vocal music.” Ans. A capella

5. Italian for “in the open air.” Ans. Alfresco

6. Spanish for “an enthusiast or fan.” Ans. Aficionado

7. Derogatory Yiddish word for “a gentile.” Ans. Goy

8. Latin for “for this,” used for the particular case at hand. Ans. Ad hoc

9. Greek for “the common people, mob.” Ans. Hoi polloi

10. Russian acronym which names a system of labor camps. Ans. Gulag LINKS

What geographical entities are connected by the …

1. Panama Canal. Ans. Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean Sea) and Pacific Ocean

2. Brooklyn Bridge. Ans. Brooklyn and Manhattan

3. Niagara River. Ans. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

4. Strait of Magellan. Ans. Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

5. Bosphorus Bridge. Ans. Europe and Asia

6. Suez Canal. Ans. Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea

7. Great St. Bernard Pass. Ans. Switzerland and Italy

8. U.S. Route 66. Ans. Chicago and Los Angeles

9. Khyber Pass. Ans. Pakistan and Afghanistan

10. Lincoln Tunnel Ans. New Jersey and (Manhattan) New York ??? ( LIFE SCIENCE)

1. Which polymer is the main component of cell walls in plants? Ans. Cellulose

2. Which bone is attached to the tibia throughout its length by an interosseous membrane? Ans. Fibula

3. What eye part focuses light onto the retina? Ans. Lens

4. Permitting almost no movement between two bones, a suture is a joint only found where? Ans. The skull

5. Scientists have proven that HIV came from a similar virus in which African ape? Ans. Chimpanzee

6. The diaphragm lies between the abdominal cavity and what other cavity? Ans. Thoracic (chest)

7. Edward Jenner invented the first successful vaccine, one that prevented which deadly disease? Ans. Smallpox

8. What adjective describes organisms that must live in the absence of oxygen? Ans. Anaerobic

9. CAT scans use low doses of what kind of electromagnetic radiation? Ans. X-rays

10. Which member of the great ape family has spread to all parts of the world? Ans. Humans Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) Solve for X in this inequality, and you must include the word “and” or “or.” X squared - X - 2 < 0. Ans. x < 2 and x > -1

2. (20) It doesn’t appear alone in nature but is found in zinc and bauxite ores and is used in compounds for microwave circuitry and to produce blue and violet LEDs. Much like water, this substance expands when it solidifies. What metal melts at around thirty degrees Celsius and is located directly adjacent to zinc and aluminum on the periodic table? Ans. Gallium

3. (20) As a food, it pairs well with chocolate, and its nectar is used throughout the Mediterranean to produce a premium honey. It is welcome in most Western ornamental gardens, but in parts of Australia it is considered a weed. Used historically to sooth insect bites and to keep insects at bay, what flower is the source of the first herbal scent proven to help babies fall asleep, aromatherapeutically? Ans. Lavender

4. (15) Three of America's ten largest suspension bridges have at least one end in New York, but the Brooklyn Bridge is not one of them. Name any two of the three. Ans. Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Verrazano Narrows Bridge

5. (15) If B is a 2-by-2 square matrix whose determinant equals 4, what is the determinant of the matrix 3B? Ans. 36

6. (20) The 2002 film version starred Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Reese Witherspoon, and its Broadway revival won a 2011 Tony for best costumes. It was the last play written by its author before legal troubles and failing health ended his career and life. Cicely Cardew and Algernon Moncreiff are two of the characters in what 1895 play? Ans. The Importance of Being Earnest 7. (15) No point within this country is less than one thousand miles from an ocean, and the highest point is along the border with China, more than four miles above sea level. What is this Central Asian republic with enclaves surrounded by Uzbekistan and Tajikistan? Ans. Kyrgyzstan

8. (20) Find the center of this quadratic equation: X squared + Y squared + 4Y = 0. Ans. (0,-2)

9. (20) Relative to a plagiarism scandal, Slate's founding editor wrote: “Although rarely reluctant to join in a schadenfreude festival, I nevertheless feel sorry for the New York Times.” What is the meaning of the German word schadenfreude? Ans. Joy in the misfortunes of others

10. (15) Find the area of a rhombus with side 17 and longer diagonal 30. Ans. 240

11. (20) Once a part of the Morozov collection in Moscow, it came to the Yale University Art Gallery and was the subject of a recent law suit as a descendent of Morozov attempted to claim it as his own. A study of subdued colors, it portrays the interior of the Café de la Gare in Paris in the evening. Four yellow lamps illuminate the green billiard table in the middle of the room in which painting by Vincent Van Gogh? Ans. The Night Café

12. (15) The U.S. government has never permitted publication of the text of this significant but informal 1907 pact with Japan. This secret agreement to limit Japanese emigration to the USA was known by what polite expression? Ans. Gentlemen's Agreement

13. (20) This economic curve gives rise to the Robin Hood index. The area above it and below the perfect equality line is known as the Gini Coefficient, which measures inequality. Partially proving the Pareto Principle in terms of income is what curve that plots the amount of wealth in terms of households, notably first written down on a napkin. Ans. Lorentz Curve 14. (20) He was described in Acts 10:2 as “a devout man who feared God with all his household.” He was visited by an angel who instructed him to summon Peter from Joppa, who then baptized his household, though they were not Jews, leading perhaps to the Council of Jerusalem. Name this Roman centurion in charge of the Italian cohort at Caesarea, the first Gentile to convert to Christianity who shares his first name with both the baseball manager who held that role for the most seasons and also a well-known 19th century industrialist and philanthropist. Ans. Cornelius

15. (15) Consider a first quadrant angle theta, with sine theta equal to 4/5. Find cosecant theta. Ans. 5/4

16. (20) He was one of several artists chosen to paint murals for the 1939 World's Fair, a few years after he had moved to New York from his birthplace, Rotterdam. Who was this Abstract Expressionist? Ans. Willem de Kooning

17. (15) Find the first derivative of the function sine squared X + cosine squared X. Ans. 0

18. (20) The last living person to have been commonly referred to by this nickname was Frank Buckles, who died in 2011 at the age of 110. This term originated in the Mexican-American War, and it was used until the end of World War II as exemplified by a 1942 song in which one named Johnny “found a Rose in Ireland”, but was much more commonly used twenty-five years earlier. What is this nickname that was applied to members of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I? Ans. Doughboys BOB10

Warm-Up Round 1. (5) Programs such as Solaris, Linux, and Windows Vista, as well as Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard, manage a computer’s hardware. What are these programs called? Ans. Operating systems

2. (10) The seat of what city in Ector County, Texas was named after a Black Sea city because its prairies resemble the steppes of Russia? Ans. Odessa

3. (10) It was the first American city to have an African-American majority, but as the white population has grown, it has now lost that distinction. James A. Garfield was shot at a railroad station in this city. Shortly before the British attacked Fort McHenry, they had captured and burned what important American city? Ans. Washington, D.C.

4. (5) On July 9, 2011, a new African nation was born. It’s directly south of the country whose capital is Khartoum and, before its independence, was a part of that country. Name it. Ans. South Sudan

5. (5) The men of the 442nd Combat Team, one of the most decorated units in World War II, were honored at the White House in 2011. The unit was very special because the soldiers were of what ancestry who fought for the U.S. even though their families were locked up in camps? Ans. Japanese-American

6. (10) Which U.S. state in 2011 became the first to name an official firearm, placing an automatic pistol on a list of designated symbols, along with the cutthroat trout and the honeybee? Ans. Utah 7. (5) Its impending ratification was referred to as producing a “giant sucking sound” by Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot in 1992. What is this treaty that came into force in 1994 and superseded the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement? Ans. NAFTA or North American Free Trade Agreement

8. (10) Architectural Digest came up with this expression in 1958 to describe paintings celebrating the post-war consumer culture and the pursuit of materialism. Name this school of art exemplified by Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein? Ans. Pop Art

9. (10) Italy’s largest airport bears the name of this man. He had the ability to write in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other simultaneously. Who was this artist of Lady with an Ermine? Ans. Leonardo da Vinci

10. (5) The Kelvin temperature unit is defined in terms of this property of water. What is the name of this point at which all three phases of a compound can coexist in equilibrium? Ans. Triple point

11. (10) The Tropic of Capricorn passes through four countries in South America. Name any three of them. Ans. Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil

12. (5) What year saw voting issues in a national election that led to the Help America Vote Act which was passed in 2002? Ans. 2000

13. (10) Viggo Mortensen stars in the movie adaptation. In which of Cormac McCarthy’s novels do a man and his son travel through a post- apocalyptic wasteland to the sea before the man dies, leaving the boy to fend for himself? Ans. The Road

14. (10) He was the last British king to die in battle. On Bosworth Field, in the Shakespeare play, who cries, “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!” Ans. Richard III Bonus Round

1. (10) Although it normally doesn’t have a chimney, for a specific special occasion, one is temporarily installed on top of this building, after which the man in charge of the proceedings intones the Latin words “Extra omnes”, meaning “everybody out”, and the doors close. This building’s temporary chimney emits black smoke until the procedure is finished, whereupon white smoke emerges from the burning of the ballots. What is this building, on the back wall of which is Michelangelo’s fresco The Last Judgment? Ans. Sistine Chapel

2. (10) By accident, he became Texas’ first explorer. On Nov. 6, 1528, he was shipwrecked on the Texas coast. For six years, he and three other companions managed to survive the hardships of Texas weather, disease, and Indians, making their way to Mexico City in 1536. In Spanish, his name means “head of a cow.” Who was he? Ans. Cabeza de Vaca

3. (10) The philosopher after whom they are named compared four of them to the four classical elements, while Euclid's Elements devotes Book XIII to their study. Johannes Kepler attempted to draw parallels between these polyhedra and the five known extraterrestrial planets. To qualify as one of these, a polyhedron must have none of its faces intersect except at their edges, and an equal number of faces intersecting at each vertex. The icosahedron and cube are two of the polyhedra that qualify as what? Ans. Platonic solid

4. (10) Andy Warhol designed one of their album covers. Part of the British Invasion, their front man attended the London School of Economics. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Their name comes from a Muddy Waters song. A magazine shares their name. What band am I talking about? Ans. Rolling Stones

5. (10) Nigerian author Chinua Achebe wrote a novel titled after the anthills of this place. The Venezuelan llanos are examples of this type of biome, which is more closely associated with Africa and is the home of the wildebeest. Name this ecosystem containing relatively few trees but plenty of grassland. Ans. Savanna 6. (10) According to a poll taken by Britain's National Army Museum, he was the British Empire's single greatest military foe. After British General Edward Braddock was killed on his way to attack Fort Duquesne, it was he who assumed command of the retreating army. Name this general, whose likeness is depicted on the Purple Heart. Ans. George Washington

7. (10) Name this blue-eyed blonde, born in 1961. Her siblings are Sarah, Jane, and Charles. She served as president of many charities. Elton John sang a song about this youngest daughter of the 8th Earl of Spencer. Her wedding in 1981 drew a global audience. She was the mother of Harry and William. Ans. Princess Diana

8. (10) Its dominant faith is Roman Catholicism, and Spanish is its language. It’s hot and dry. Its capital hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics. It borders three large bodies of water, as well as Guatemala. Its biggest metropolitan area has over 20 million people. Name the nation. Ans. Mexico

9. (10) All male members of this religion take a surname that is translated into English as “lion”. Bodyguards who were adherents turned on and killed Indira Gandhi in a garden in 1984. What is this hybrid of Islam and Hinduism? Ans. Sikhism Bonuses

Bonus 1 Name these states from descriptions in the satirical publication The Onion.

(5) The disinterested people of ____ have been too cool to have any nationwide relevance since musician Kurt Cobain left the state for good in 1994. Ans. Washington

(10) “Home of the Grand Hole” This otherwise featureless state of expansive desert and suburban sprawl boasts the world's most awe-inspiring hole. Ans. Arizona

(15) “A National Wildman Refuge” Set aside by the U.S. government in 1889, America's protected militialands are the traditional breeding grounds of the nation's last remaining manifesto-drafting psychos, armed libertarians, and solitary mountain men. Ans. Montana

(20) “Empty” Founded in 1889 by two men who figured that it might be useful for something someday, ____ was the first uninhabited state to be admitted to the Union. Ans. North Dakota

Bonus 2 BIBLE

(5) What is the site of the epic battle at the end of time, in which the Messiah will return to earth to defeat the Antichrist? Ans. Armageddon

(10) Armageddon means the mountain of this, on the plains of which many Old Testament battles took place. Ans. Megiddo

(15) The plain of Megiddo was the place where this Old Testament woman, a prophetess and judge, and the Israelites triumphed over the Canaanites. Ans. Deborah

(20) Which good king of Judah, who renewed the covenant, died at the Plain of Megiddo when he faced Neco of Egypt in battle? Ans. Josiah Bonus 3 US GOVERNMENT

(5) What title is held by the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives? Ans. Speaker of the House

(10) Name the 61st and current Speaker of the House. Ans. John Andrew Boehner

(15) Who was the longest serving Speaker of the House? Ans. Sam Rayburn

(20) Who was the first Speaker of the House? Ans. Frederick Muhlenberg

Bonus 4 FINISH THE QUOTATION

(5) About post-World War I young people, Gertrude Stein said: “You are all a lost…” Ans. Generation

(10) When Jacob Epstein was criticized as a cathedral sculptor because he was a Jew, he replied, “So was …” Ans. Jesus

(15) Who was the only Speaker of the House to also serve as President of the US? Ans. James K. Polk

(20) Robert Frost: “Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest …” Ans. … hue to hold.

Bonus 5 You'll find a “fool” in each of these answers.

(5) They are soon parted. Ans. A fool and his money

(10) Hieronymous Bosch painting or Katherine Anne Porter bestseller. Ans. Ship of Fools

(15) State of happiness based on false hope, which Shakespeare’s Nurse implores Romeo to not lead Juliet into. Ans. Fool’s paradise

(20) Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation from “Self-Reliance.” Ans. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Sixty Seconds Round

HISTORY

1. Which monarch fathered other monarchs: Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward? Ans. Henry VIII

2. What nickname did the Redcoats give to patriot Francis Marion? Ans. The Swamp Fox

3. How many atomic weapons have actually been used in warfare? Ans. 2

4. Djibouti became independent in 1977, but it didn't adopt a what until 1992? Ans. Constitution

5. What policy advocated equal opportunity for the world’s big powers to trade with China? Ans. Open Door Policy

6. The Spanish Civil War took place in what decade? Ans. 1930's

7. The Victorian Internet is a book about pioneers of what communication device? Ans. Telegraph

8. In what month and year did the Great Depression start in the U.S.? Ans. October 1929

9. Who commissioned Porsche to design the Volkswagen Beetle? Ans. Hitler

10. Thirty-four countries attended which body's final session in 1946? Ans. League of Nations SCIENCE

1. What two gases are capable of providing lift to airships? Ans. Hydrogen, helium

2. What sugar makes up almost all the carbohydrates in milk? Ans. Lactose

3. The Mohs scale of hardness is a measure of a mineral's resistance to what? Ans. Scratching

4. What causes clothes to cling together after coming out of a dryer? Ans. Static electricity

5. A probe that circled Jupiter for 8 years was named for which astronomer? Ans. Galileo

6. Which letter of the alphabet on a telescope refers to a power of magnification? Ans. X

7. What do we call a circle made by a plane passing through Earth’s center? Ans. Great circle (accept orthodrome or Riemannian circle)

8. What connection interface is used to attach computing devices and flash drives? Ans. USB (Universal Serial Bus)

9. Fracking consists of underground water injections to free up which fossil fuel? Ans. Natural gas

10. Hugo de Vries invented what word to name sudden genetic change? Ans. Mutation GRAMMAR

1. Nouns are words that refer to people, places and …? Ans. Things

2. What type of pronouns are the words who, whom, whose, which and that? Ans. Relative pronouns

3. What pronoun is often omitted from short sentences in the imperative mood? Ans. You

4. The past perfect tense is signaled by which auxiliary verb? Ans. Had

5. What word means a verb that refers to oneself, such as lavarse [lah- VAR-say] in Spanish? Ans. Reflexive

6. What indefinite article is properly used before a word starting with a consonant sound? Ans. A

7. What sort of noun names a specific person, place, or thing? Ans. Proper noun

8. What’s the mood in “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”? Ans. Imperative

9. “The church was vandalized” represents which voice? Ans. Passive

10. Greek grammar has what three genders? Ans. Masculine, feminine, neuter GEOGRAPHY

1. The five smoggiest areas in the U. S. are in what state? Ans. California

2. Which peninsula includes Gibraltar? Ans. Iberian Peninsula

3. Through which strait is 20 percent of the world’s oil shipped? Ans. Strait of Hormuz

4. What sea's southern border is marked by the Aleutians? Ans. Bering Sea

5. Name the second most populous city in Brazil. Ans. Rio de Janeiro

6. Name the world's warmest continent. Ans. Africa

7. In which body of water is the Dutch island territory of St. Maarten located? Ans. Caribbean Sea

8. Seventy percent of Earth's fresh water is found in or on which continent? Ans. Antarctica

9. Name the southernmost country on the Balkan peninsula. Ans. Greece

10. Name a body of water that borders Afghanistan. Ans. There is none. Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) Consider a quadratic equation with a root of 2 - the square root of 5. Compute the sum of all the roots. Ans. 4 2. (20) Cuba’s flag, introduced as a revolutionary banner in 1845, was based both on the U.S. flag and the flag of Texas. This flag was known by the Spanish phrase for “the lone star.” Give me this three-word Spanish phrase. Ans. La Estrella Solitaria

3. (20) She was the second woman to receive a doctoral degree in physics from the University of Vienna, and one of the first women Max Planck allowed to attend his lectures. With long-time collaborator Otto Hahn, she discovered the most common isotope of protactinium, for which she received the Leibniz Medal in 1917. After fleeing the Third Reich, she relocated to Sweden and through her work with Niels Bohr and others, realized the sheer amount of energy that could be released by a nuclear chain reaction. She never did win a Nobel Prize like Hahn, but what physicist has element 109 named in her honor? Ans. Lise Meitner

4. (15) Sarah Bernhardt played the title character in an 1882 play who wore a certain style hat. Hats of a similar style became popular within the next decade and took on that character’s name. What is this hat with a front-to-back crease which has, in the color black, become almost part of the uniform for Orthodox Jewish men? Ans. Fedora

5. (20) Find the area bounded by the curve Y equals X squared. Ans. 1/6

6. (20) Compute the definite integral from 0 to pi/3 of sin x. Ans. ½

7. (15) It is the name of both a Titan and a place that Hesiod said would take an anvil nine days to fall to from Earth. Some of the people who are eternally punished in this place are Ixion, Sisyphus and Tantalus. What is this place of suffering that is found beneath the regular Greek underworld? Ans. Tartarus

8. (20) TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: In his three unsuccessful runs at the Presidency, William Jennings Bryan was defeated while standing on the platforms of Free Silver, anti-imperialism and trust-busting, respectively. What two Republicans defeated him in those three elections? Ans. William McKinley and William Howard Taft

9. (15) Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff served as an assistant to this man while he was a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey in the late 1980s. This former editor of the Yale Law Review was actually the third choice for his current position, as the name of his current boss was originally put up for nomination but then withdrawn in order to nominate him to a higher position, and the second choice, Harriet Miers, later withdrew, mostly due to questions about her qualifications. Who is this 110th Supreme Court Justice whose confirmation in January 2006 made him the eleventh Catholic and second Italian-American, along with colleague Antonin Scalia, to serve on the Court? Ans. Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

10. (20) Find the harmonic mean of 3, 5, and 7. Ans. 315/71

11. (15) He was only king for 10 years, and there were four Prime Ministers during his short reign, including the Duke of Wellington. Who was this monarch, known for his excess and charm and called the “first gentleman of England,” who had, for nine years before his reign, been Prince Regent? Ans. George IV

12. (15) A Navy coaling station during the Civil War, it first became a military station in 1891 and gained its current function in 1915. The tragic Ribbon Creek incident led to revisions in the treatment of its primary residents. What is this facility, five miles south of Beaufort, where all females and all males east of the Mississippi go for US Marine basic training? Ans. (Marine Corps Recruit Depot) Parris Island

13. (20) Which word designates an old-fashioned, extremely-conservative person; a backwoodsman; a Civil War draft evader who fled to the swamps and woods? It also refers to a turtle with a greenish growth of algae on its shell. Ans. Mossback 14. (15) In which quadrants does the graph of this equation lie: y plus x squared plus 5 equals 0? Ans. III and IV

15. (20) Unlike most of his countrymen at the time, he held that matter was composed of atoms. What Austrian physicist's constant is equal to the ideal gas constant divided by Avogadro's number? Ans. Ludwig Boltzmann

16. (20) This mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright entered MIT at the age of 16 in 1872. He at first was known as a theater architect, and the crowning achievement of this phase of his career is the Auditorium Building of Chicago’s Roosevelt University. His best-known creation is probably St. Louis’s Wainwright Building. Name this architect, a member of the Chicago School, known as the “father of modernist architecture” and the “father of skyscrapers”. Ans. Louis Sullivan

17. (15) Which single trig function can also be expressed as 2 times the sine of x times the cosine of x? Ans. Sine of 2x

18. (15) Its modern name derives from the Italian word for the cowry shell because it resembles its translucence. Its toughness and strength result from the formation of glass within the material as it’s fired at high temperatures. Name the hard, translucent ceramic made by mixing clay covered with a glazing and pigments, and used in dentistry. Ans. Porcelain BOB11

Warm-Up Round 1. (5) Louis XIV’s minister of finance has the same last name and pronunciation as an American who testified before Congress on Sep 24, 2010 about immigration. Give me the correct pronunciation of the name of that political satirist and TV host. Ans. Colbert [“cole”-”BEAR”]

2. (10) Bruce Jenner is the stepfather of the Kardashian sisters, but he had another claim to fame long before they were born. In what event did Jenner win a gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics? Ans. Decathlon

3. (10) James Ellroy’s novel American Tabloid ends with this event, and its sequel, The Cold Six Thousand, picks up immediately after it. Stephen King’s 2011 book, 11/22/63, takes readers on a time travel trip to what event? Ans. The JFK assassination

4. (5) After its IPO went public in September 2001, its primary client bought it for $1.5 billion. Its money order and transfer system are still used by many websites. What is this Internet money transfer site, now a subsidiary of eBay? Ans. Paypal

5. (10) His favorite ladies were sophisticated. The term “swing” was popularized after he wrote “It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing.” Name this jazz musician. Ans. Duke Ellington

6. (10) Tom Wolfe, in his novel Bonfire of the Vanities, borrowed this expression to satirize the rising class of young Wall Street financiers in the late 1980's. What assemblage of heroes and villains was created by Mattel in 1981, headlined by the evil Skeletor and the heroic He-Man? Ans. Masters of the Universe 7. (10) Scientists discovered in 2010 that, as dinosaurs died off, the way was paved for huge species of which biological class to evolve, before shrinking to their present sizes? Ans. Mammals

8. (10) In the Old Testament, it was referred to as Kinneret, a name which may have come from the Hebrew word for “harp,” perhaps in reference to its shape. Situated near the Golan Heights, what is this lowest freshwater lake on Earth? Ans. Sea of Galilee (or Lake Tiberias or Gennesaret)

9. (5) This musical is now the highest-grossing show in the history of Broadway. The show-stopper is “Circle of Life,” an Elton John song. Scar is Simba’s uncle in which Broadway musical? Ans. The Lion King 10. (10) This 1486 masterpiece, which is found in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, has the Italian title Nascita di Venere, and its female subject is considered a Renaissance ideal. What is this Botticelli painting depicting a goddess arriving ashore while standing on a seashell? Ans. The Birth of Venus

11. (10) This word refers to the minimum mass of fissile material needed for a nuclear chain reaction, or the angle at which total internal reflection occurs in optics. What is this eight-letter word? Ans. Critical

12. (10) Name two countries that border only each other. Ans. Dominican Republic/Haiti, or United Kingdom/Ireland

13. (10) They are the only two nations to have coastlines on three of the world's four oceans. In 1954, they began the DEW, or Distant Early Warning, line to warn of a polar air attack. What are these two nations? Ans. The U.S. & Canada

14. (10) On April 17, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, moving to free thousands of slaves living in what city? Ans. Washington, D.C. Bonus Round

1. (10) Different classes of these include stereo and geometrical versions. Derived from the Greek for “equal part”, the basic versions of these contain differences in the main carbon chain, and hydrocarbon cracking can transform pentane into two of these. Trans-cis is a photochemical form of what relationship in which organic compounds have the same chemical formula but different structures? Ans. Isomers or isomerism

2. (10) Largely conceived as a result of Japan's decisive victory over the Russian fleet in the battle of Tsushima, its arrival at Yokohama in 1908 was greeted by thousands of children waving American flags. An example of Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick diplomacy, it finished its mission less than a month before he left office. Name this group of battleships, intended to demonstrate the U.S. Navy's growing capabilities and ability to protect American interests worldwide. Ans. Great White Fleet

3. (10) The Riemann form of this operation is only defined with respect to tagged partitions of an interval. The Lebesgue (la-BEZ-guh) form of this was developed to extend the Riemann form to all bounded intervals. These are both types of what mathematical operation also known as an “anti- derivative”? Ans. Integral (integration)

4. (10) This city has not won a major sports championship since its football team won the 1964 NFL title. What is this Midwestern city that was the home of rock and roll popularizer deejay Alan Freed, also notorious for once having its main river catch on fire? Ans. Cleveland, Ohio 5. (10) The subject of Norman Mailer’s final novel, The Castle in the Forest, this man also makes a cameo in the Indiana Jones trilogy of movies, in which he gives an autograph to the title character. At the 1916 Battle of the Somme, he was seriously wounded in the thigh, and two years later was temporarily blinded by a gas attack. In 1914, he received the Iron Cross, First Class, an award rarely given to a corporal. Who was this man who remained in the Army briefly at war’s end and was sent to spy on a meeting of the German Worker’s Party, which didn’t work out as his superiors had planned? Ans. Adolf Hitler

6. (10) This cook served a meal of boiled Pelops to the guests at his banquet table. Unfortunately for him, Pelops was his son, and, as the dinner guests were Olympian gods, this man’s punishment was to stand in a pool in Tartarus for all eternity below branches that moved away when he tried to eat of their fruit, and in water that receded when he tried to drink it. Who is this Greek mythological figure? Ans. Tantalus

7. (10) Name this European city. You can rearrange its letters and come up with “plover oil.” You can take a ferry across the Mersey to find it. Name this city, whose airport is named for John Lennon. Ans. Liverpool

8. (10) Among the pieces of legislation associated with this conflict was the Platt Amendment. What was this four-month long war for which, according to a famous quote, Frederic Remington furnished the pictures and William Randolph Hearst furnished the war? Ans. Spanish-American War

9. (10) The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series, the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl and Turin hosted the Winter Olympics. George W. Bush was in the White House. Multiplying its numbers together gets nothing. Name the year. Ans. 2006 Bonuses

Bonus 1 LITERATURE

(5) Called a “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, which Indian-born British author wrote The Jungle Book? Ans. Rudyard Kipling

(10) The Jungle Book includes which short story about a brave mongoose? Ans. “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”

(15) Which Kipling poem poses a series of conditions which, if satisfied, result in the following: “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, and— which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” Ans. “If--”

(20) Inspired by James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first white raja of Sarawak, in which Kipling novella do British adventurers become monarchs of Kafiristan? Ans. The Man Who Would be King

Bonus 2 Identify these figures from the Harlem Renaissance.

(5) This incredibly prominent black poet is known for the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and the collection The Weary Blues. Ans. Langston Hughes

(10) This anthropologist is best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God. Ans. Zora Neale Hurston

(15) Lift Every Voice and Sing and God’s Trombones are two works by this author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Ans. James Weldon Johnson

(20) The Ballad of the Brown Girl and Copper Sun are two poetry collections by this writer. Ans. Countee Cullen Bonus 3 THE BLACK DEATH

(5) By what other name is the disease commonly known? Ans. Bubonic plague

(10) The cochlea bleeds after 12 hours of infection. Where is the cochlea? Ans. The ear

(15) What children's game is said to have derived from the plague? Ans. Ring Around the Rosie

(20) What two creatures other than humans are believed to have been the main carriers of the disease? Ans. Fleas and rats

Bonus 4 You are writing a formal letter to a certain prominent person. Given that person’s title, tell me the proper salutation you would use to address them.

(5) A male President of the United States Ans. Mr. President

(10) The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church Ans. Your Holiness (accept Most Holy Father)

(15) A foreign ambassador or a Roman Catholic archbishop Ans. Your Excellency

(20) You are a corporal in the United States Army writing a letter to a master sergeant. Ans. Master Sergeant

Bonus 5 Name the organ in which you would find…

(5) Nephrons Ans. Kidney

(10) Islets of Langerhans Ans. Pancreas

(15) Pyloric sphincter Ans. Stomach

(20) Malpighian corpuscles Ans. Spleen Sixty Seconds Round

FINISH THE PLAY TITLE

1. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern ______Ans. Are Dead

2. William Inge: The Dark at the Top of the _____ Ans. Stairs

3. Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere’s ____ Ans. Fan

4. John Guare: Six Degrees of ____ Ans. Separation

5. George Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren's ____ Ans. Profession

6. Aeschylus: Seven Against ____ Ans. Thebes

7. Eugene Ionesco: The Bald ____ Ans. Soprano

8. John Patrick: The Teahouse of the August ... Ans. Moon

9. Eugene O'Neill: Ah, _____! Ans. Wilderness

10. Clifford Odets: Waiting for _____ Ans. Lefty GERMAN

Translate these German words.

1. Das Klavier, a musical instrument. Ans. Piano

2. Die Schweiz [shvaitz], a country. Ans. Switzerland

3. Achtung, an interjection. Ans. Attention

4. Rot [“rote”], a color. Ans. Red

5. Guten Abend, a greeting. Ans. Good evening

6. Die Sonnenblume, a plant. Ans. Sunflower

7. Frühling, a season. Ans. Spring

8. Jäger, a sportsman. Ans. Hunter

9. Die Fledermaus, a mammal. Ans. Bat

10. Der Strand, a vacation spot. Ans. Beach VITAL SPEECHES

Who delivered the speech?

1. “The Gettysburg Address” Ans. Abraham Lincoln

2. “I Have a Dream” Ans. Martin Luther King Jr.

3. “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You” Ans. John F. Kennedy

4. “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy” Ans. Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. “I Have Never Been a Quitter” Ans. Richard Nixon

6. “We Will Bury You” Ans. Nikita Khrushchev

7. “Old Soldiers Never Die” Ans. Douglas MacArthur

8. “Tear Down This Wall” Ans. Ronald Reagan

9. “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” Ans. Winston Churchill

10. “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever” Ans. George Wallace THE LAST BATTLE

I’ll name the battles and you name the wars.

1. Yorktown. Ans. American Revolution

2. New Orleans. Ans. The War of 1812

3. Meuse-Argonne. Ans. World War I

4. Chapultepec. Ans. The Mexican-American War (Mexican War)

5. Pork Chop Hill. Ans. Korean War

6. Manila. Ans. Spanish-American War

7. The Battle of Castillon, in Aquitaine. Ans. Hundred Years' War

8. Okinawa. Ans. World War II

9. Sevastopol. Ans. Crimean War

10. Bosworth. Ans. The Wars of the Roses Stump the Experts Round 1. (15) The American Legion is the largest U.S. veteran’s organization, and anyone who has been on active duty during wartime is eligible to join. Any member of the armed forces who has been on active duty overseas is eligible to join what smaller organization? Ans. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)

2. (20) One method of producing these compounds involves the addition of a Grignard reagent to a compound containing a carbonyl group, after which the magnesium compound that is formed is subjected to hydrolyzation. The simplest ones are known as “acyclic”, and have the general formula C-n-H-2n plus 1-OH. What is this class of compound featuring an hydroxyl group bound to a carbon atom that is bound to three other atoms? Ans. Alcohols

3. (15) On a direct flight from Tulsa to Sioux Falls, you fly over which four states? Ans. South Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas

4. (20) The word “paradigm” and term “paradigm shift” were first popularized in this book. In it, the author distinguishes between three phases in the development of the title events: the pre-paradigm phase, normal science, and revolutionary science. It posits that the scientific paradigms before and after a paradigm shift are so radically different from one another that they are not compatible, and therefore cannot be proven or disproven, using the other, a term the author refers to as “incommensurable”. What is this hugely-influential 1962 analysis of scientific history by Thomas Kuhn? Ans. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

5. (20) Etymologically, it’s a combination of the words “education” and “novel.” What German word means a novel about the early development of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity? Ans. Bildungsroman 6. (15) He was one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics in 1895. In 1925, he would have become the first man to refuse a Nobel Prize in Literature, but his wife convinced him to accept it as a tribute to his native Ireland, although he did refuse the monetary portion of the award. Who was this member of the Fabian Society who died in 1950 at age 94? Ans. George Bernard Shaw

7. (15) This word names a village in Saline County, Nebraska and a town 10 miles northeast of Rome, New York. It also names the third oldest PGA golf tournament after the British and US Opens. What is this word which names an omelet filled with cheese, diced ham, onions, and green peppers also called a Denver omelet as well as an airline headquartered out of LA that operated from 1925 until it was purchased by Delta in 1987? Ans. Western

8. (20) A sphere is inscribed within a cube. Figure out the ratio of the volume of the sphere to the volume of the cube. Ans. Pi to 6

9. (15) Building on Ernst Mayr’s theory of geographic speciation and Michael Lerner’s theories of developmental and genetic homeostasis, Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould developed this theory. In this process, evolution occurs by cladogenesis, as opposed to the theory of phyletic gradualism. Name this theory of evolutionary biology in which long periods of unchanging stasis are interrupted by rare, rapid events of speciation. Ans. Punctuated equilibrium

10. (20) The artist was an innovator who lived from 1401 to 1428. His masterpiece is remarkable in the novel use of light and in the arrangement of figures. That fresco is called The Tribute Money. Who painted it? Ans. Masaccio

11. (20) It was named after the people it was written to, a Celtic people from southwest Europe who had settled in Asia Minor and retained some of their culture and language, leading to the name of their region. It was written to oppose the influence of the “Judaizing” element which had persuaded Christians to follow the Law of Moses. In this letter, Paul describes his conversion and speaks of Abraham’s faith. Which book has been called, along with Romans, the most theologically significant of Paul’s epistles? Ans. Galatians 12. (15) The first theatre here opened on Drury Lane in 1663, and this region has now been rebranded as Theatreland. Traditionally bounded by Oxford Street, Regent Street, Kingsway and The Strand, what do we generally call London’s counterpart to New York’s Broadway? Ans. West End

13. (15) Calculate F prime of zero for this function: cosine of the sine of X. Ans. 0

14. (20) Born in 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut, his compositions include Concord Sonata, The Unanswered Question, and Three Places in New England. Name the composer. Ans. Charles Ives

15. (15) Solve over the real numbers for X: X to the 11th power = -X. Ans. x = 0

16. (15) What 16-letter word, taken from a Latin word for a bell on a pole in a Roman Catholic basilica, was used to describe the sound made by ringing bells in a poem by Edgar Allan Poe? Ans. Tintinnabulation

17. (20) William Hogarth pioneered “series painting,” the narration of a moral story by means of a succession of pictures. Name both of his most famous series: one about a spendthrift young man, the basis of a Stravinsky opera; the other, chronicling the decline of an aristocratic wedded couple, also the title of a John Dryden play. Ans. A (or The) Rake's Progress, Marriage à-la-mode

18. (15) John Quincy Adams was the only President later elected to the House of Representatives. What five time member of the House of Representatives, two-time governor and former mayor of Greenville in his home state was the only former President elected to the Senate? Ans. Andrew Johnson BOB12

Warm-Up Round 1. (5) Its national sport, buzkashi, (booz-KAHSH-ee), is played by horsemen with the carcass of a headless goat. This nation is mentioned in the first sentence that Sherlock Holmes ever speaks to Dr. John Watson in A Study in Scarlet. Known as “The Graveyard of Empires”, what is this nation whose current President is Hamid Karzai? Ans. Afghanistan

2. (10) Although U.S. Interstates 15 and 35 come close to doing it, and there are five non-interstate U.S. highways that do so, Interstate 5 is the only such highway that directly connects what two geographical entities at its ends? Ans. Canada and Mexico

3. (10) Its fatalities were Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, the last of whom appears sprawled on the ground in a famous photograph. What was this event that occurred on May 4, 1970, in Ohio? Ans. Kent State massacre

4. (10) The subject of this poem is Ramses II. Which Shelley sonnet begins, “I met a traveller from an antique land”? Ans. “Ozymandias”

5. (10) She won her first Best Actress Oscar in 1980. She bonded over bridges with Clint Eastwood, appeared with Robert DeNiro in The Deer Hunter and Falling in Love, and with Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Who is she? Ans. Meryl Streep

6. (5) While gangs from Mexico reap big profits smuggling 90 percent of the cocaine sold in the U.S., which country is the largest producer of cocaine? Ans. Colombia 7. (10) What do mutual fund investment managers and securities firms do to protect against unexpected events in financial futures? We’re looking for a five- letter verb starting with H. Ans. Hedge

8. (10) It’s the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet. What is this language, about half of whose vocabulary is borrowed from Italian and Sicilian, spoken in an island nation in the Mediterranean? Ans. Maltese

9. (10) Its kernel is based on the Linux operating system, and it is the flagship software of the Open Handset Alliance. In 2005, Google purchased what wildly-popular open-source operating system for mobile devices? Ans. Android

10. (10) Charles V presiding over the trial, and the Archbishop of Trier, John Eck, served as the prosecutor. Who was the defendant in this 1521 trial? Ans. Martin Luther

11. (5) Upstate New York’s Finger Lakes were formed by these features, eskers are sand ridges that are formed from water running beneath them, and moraines are debris piles that form along their edges. What are these features that provide one-third of Earth’s fresh water? Ans. Glaciers

12. (10) The author may have originally intended its subtitle, or What You Will, to be its title. It is thought to have been written to be performed during Epiphany festivities, giving it its final title. Name this comedy by Shakespeare. Ans. Twelfth Night

13. (10) Regulated by the Department of Transportation, its training academy is located in King's Point, New York. What alliterative expression refers to a nation's fleet of commercial ships? Ans. Merchant Marine

14. (10) It is a general artistic term for any work featuring the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus. The most famous example of what sort of sculpture is found in St. Peter’s Basilica and was sculpted by Michelangelo? Ans. Pieta Bonus Round

1. (10) This play’s character, E.K. Hornbeck, is almost perfectly modeled on H.L. Mencken, who covered the real life events that inspired the play. The title describes what he who “troubleth his own house” shall do according to the Book of Proverbs. In the 1960 film adaptation, Fredric March and Spencer Tracy portrayed the main characters who are also based closely on their real-life counterparts. According to its authors, Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence, which work was intended as a commentary on the McCarthy witch trials, and not necessarily the central issue in the action? Ans. Inherit the Wind

2. (10) This particular polygon is associated with Ceva’s theorem, and in fact smaller ones inscribed in larger ones are sometimes known by the term “cevian”. The various altitudes of this class of polygon intersect at a single point known as the orthocenter. Heron’s formula, also associated with these figures, is a roundabout way of finding the area of these figures when only the lengths of the sides are known. What is this polygon, a prismatic version of which describes the shape of New York City’s Flatiron Building? Ans. Triangle

3. (10) It includes the source of the Susquehanna River but, despite its prominence, it has a population of only about 2,000. It also contains the Farmers’ Museum, which houses an exhibit on an 1869 archaeological hoax which caused scientists to believe that a race of giants had once inhabited upstate New York. This town’s most famous museum also honors Giants named John McGraw, Willie McCovey, and Willie Mays, among others. What is this New York village named after the father of the creator of Natty Bumppo? Ans. Cooperstown

4. (10) His career spans six decades. He’s an avid Los Angeles Lakers fan. He received the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1994. He’s co-starred with Shirley MacLaine; his roles have included a dentist, Eugene O’Neill in a Warren Beatty movie, and a mental patient. Name the actor. Ans. Jack Nicholson 5. (10) Miles Davis recorded a 1960 album of this nation’s music, the only one of his albums to contain a country’s name in the title. Classical guitarist Andres Segovia and cellist Pablo Casals are perhaps this nation’s two greatest twentieth-century classical musicians. What is this country that was musically portrayed in Debussy’s Iberia? Ans. Spain

6. (10) The rebellion named for one body of water called this took place in 1869 in Manitoba and was the first major crisis that the government of Canada had faced since its confederation two years earlier. The best- known river of this name in the U.S. formed part of the U.S.-Mexico border from 1821 to 1848, and now forms part of the border between two U.S. states. Cities it passes through include Wichita Falls, Texarkana, and Shreveport. What is this tributary of the Mississippi River that flows from southwestern Oklahoma to the Mississippi Delta near the Gulf of Mexico? Ans. Red River

7. (10) Aldous Huxley’s debut 1920 short story collection, an unofficial doctrine of Catholic theology concerning the destiny of those who die in Original Sin but don’t go to hell, and a dance form from Trinidad all share what five-letter name? Ans. Limbo

8. (10) This author and preacher has a day in August dedicated to him on the calendars of the Episcopal Church and the Church of England. Between 1658 and 1672, he served numerous prison terms for the crime of preaching without a license, which gave him plenty of time to write the allegorical work for which he is known. Who was this Baptist who wrote of the travails of Christian in one of the most reprinted books in literary history, Pilgrim’s Progress? Ans. John Bunyan

9. (10) It’s near the ocean, and its name means “close to the water.” It has the world’s busiest port of entry. You can watch a bullfight there, even though it’s not far from San Diego. What is this largest city on the Baja California peninsula? Ans. Tijuana Bonuses

Bonus 1 BIOLOGY

(5) What name is given to the homes of termites, bees, and ants, as well as the original 13 American regions? Ans. Colony (colonies)

(10) Termites, bees, and ants are classified as what kind of insects, whose community structure is divided into specific roles? Ans. Social insects

(15) Social insects are differentiated and specialized in structure, function and behavior into divisions named what, calling to mind social structure on the Subcontinent? Ans. Caste(s)

(20) Name the order of wasps, bees, and ants. Ans. Hymenoptera

Bonus 2 BELT

(5) Region of the U.S. where Southern Baptist and other conservative Protestant churches predominate. Ans. Bible Belt

(10) Perhaps the most famous asterism in the Northern Hemisphere, it consists of the three bright stars: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Ans. Orion's Belt

(15) A region on the edge of the solar system believed to be the source of comets. Ans. Kuiper Belt

(20) From yesteryear, the predominantly Jewish resort hotels of the Catskills. Ans. Borscht Belt Bonus 3 LOANWORDS FROM GAELIC

(5) From the Gaelic for “family” comes this word for a large group of families that are related. Ans. Clan

(10) A poet. Ans. Bard

(15) A man-made pile of stones to mark a trail. Ans. Cairn

(20) In abundance; in plentiful amounts Ans. Galore

Bonus 4 MONEY MATTERS

(5) What animal represents an optimistic buyer of stocks? Ans. Bull

(10) A salary was originally an allowance for Roman soldiers to buy ___. Ans. Salt

(15) Name the three most important factors regarding the desirability of a property according to the classic real estate agent’s mantra. Ans. Location, location, location

(20) Who persuaded whom to name her store Caveat Emptorium? Ans. Rhett Butler persuaded Scarlett O'Hara.

Bonus 5 FINISH THE TITLE

(5) In the Sistine Chapel fresco, Perugino painted “The Giving of the Keys to ...” what apostle? Ans. Peter

(10) Finish this Bernard Fall title with the name of a place the French lost to the Viet Minh: Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of ... Ans. Dien Bien Phu

(15) Washington's official state folk song is “Roll On, ...” Ans. Columbia

(20) Once almost as widely read as the Bible was Foxe's Book of ... Ans. Martyrs Sixty Seconds Round

MARYLAND 1. What’s the capital city of Maryland? Ans. Annapolis 2. What’s the largest city? Ans. Baltimore 3. What bay nearly bisects the state? Ans. Chesapeake Bay 4. What’s the postal abbreviation for Maryland? Ans. MD 5. What’s the official state bird? Ans. Baltimore oriole 6. Which former governor later resigned as vice president? Ans. Spiro Agnew 7. What private research university is located in Baltimore? Ans. Johns Hopkins University 8. Which state nickname can be abbreviated OLS? Ans. Old Line State 9. What do you call a native of Maryland? Ans. Marylander 10. What’s the mascot of the University of Maryland? Ans. Terrapins SAN FRANCISCO

1. Name both the NFL team and the Major League Baseball team. Ans. 49ers, Giants

2. Who first recorded “I Left My Heart In San Francisco”? Ans. Tony Bennett

3. Identify the city's alliterative moving icon. Ans. Cable cars

4. What is the city's famous prison island? Ans. Alcatraz

5. What tourist attraction is home base for a fishing fleet? Ans. Fisherman's Wharf

6. What strait connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean? Ans. Golden Gate

7. In which year was the great earthquake and fire? Ans. 1906

8. What connects the San Francisco Peninsula to the Marin Peninsula? Ans. Golden Gate Bridge

9. Which nickname would be La ciudad de la bahía in Spanish? Ans. "The City by the Bay"

10. After whom is the city named? Ans. Saint Francis (of Assisi) ROME

1. Which ancient elliptical amphitheater is a major tourist attraction? Ans. Colosseum

2. On which river is Rome located? Ans. Tiber River

3. According to legend, which emperor "fiddled while Rome burned"? Ans. Nero

4. Which city was Rome's enemy during the Punic Wars? Ans. Carthage

5. Translate “Roman Peace” into Latin. Ans. "Pax Romana."

6. What stretches from Rome to Brindisi? Ans. Appian Way

7. What nickname “in other words” would be “The Everlasting Municipality”? Ans. "The Eternal City"

8. Name the centermost of the Seven Hills of Rome. Ans. Palatine Hill

9. Name Rome's most famous fountain. Ans. Trevi Fountain

10. The city center is 15 miles inland from which sea? Ans. Tyrrhenian Sea COLOMBIA

1. Name a Spanish-speaking country with a larger population. Ans. Mexico or Spain

2. Who served as the first President? Ans. Simón Bolívar

3. It’s the only South American country which borders both of what bodies of water? Ans. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Accept Caribbean Sea for Atlantic Ocean.)

4. What part seceded in 1903? Ans. Panama

5. The U.S. paid it $25,000,000 in 1921, for redress of whose role in the creation of Panama? Ans. Theodore Roosevelt’s

6. What kind of cartel did Pablo Escobar run in Medellín? Ans. Drug cartel

7. It’s the world's leading source of what precious gems? Ans. Emeralds

8. Most of the people are of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, known as what? Ans. Mestizo

9. What Shakira song was the best selling single of the 2000's? Ans. “Hips Don’t Lie”

10. It’s part of what region of the world subject to volcanic and seismic activity? Ans. (Pacific) Ring of Fire Stump the Experts Round

1. (15) Which Yiddish word designates a human being, or an especially mature, sensible, responsible, noble person? Ans. Mensch 2. (20) It was dedicated to his mother, Robert Schumann, and all humanity. A slow march theme marks the second movement, “For all flesh is as grass.” It contains inspiring passages from the Bible, selected by the composer, but avoids much of the focus on the dead present in the Catholic liturgy, focusing instead on the living. Name this choral work in seven movements by Johannes Brahms. Ans. A German Requiem

3. (20) This rank in the US military was strictly an infantry officer in the Civil War, but it was actually the highest rank in the army for a time in the early 19th century. What is this rank in the Army, Marines and Air Force, equivalent to a Naval Rear Admiral Lower Half, whose rank name comes from a military group typically composed of three to six battalions? Ans. Brigadier General

4. (15) His 1649 pamphlet “The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates” defended the overthrow of Charles I, and led to his appointment as Latin Secretary of State in Cromwell’s government. Who was this Puritan pamphleteer and poet who was completely blind by the time of the Restoration? Ans. John Milton

5. (20) Given the graph of: four Y squared, minus sixteen X squared, equals sixty-four, use Y equals MX plus B form to state each asymptote. Ans. Y = 2X, Y = -2X

6. (20) Evaluate the integral of x times e to the negative x, dx, from zero to infinity. Ans. 1

7. (15) How much work is done when a 5-newton force moves a 2- kilogram object 8 meters along a horizontal surface? Ans. 40 joules 8. (20) This element has more allotropes than any other element with 30. Most of this element is made in stars, in which silicon is fused with helium. Commonly existing naturally as an 8 member ring, name this element found in thiols. Ans. Sulfur

9. (20) The numbers were against Bonaparte, in terms of both troops and cannon. Moreover, the enemy armies were approaching from different directions, forcing him to spread his forces. An army of Prussians, Russians, and Austrians defeated Napoleon at which 1813 battle in Germany? Ans. Battle of Leipzig

10. (20) What is the period of the function t = cos 4s? Ans. Pi/2

11. (15) The coat of arms of this nation is found on its flag in the center of a red, white and blue striped field and contains a red and white checkerboard with five smaller shields representing the five historical regions of this eastern European nation. It’s called Hrvatska (hrr-VAHT- skah) in its native tongue. What do we call this former Yugoslav republic that includes almost all of the Dalmatian coast, but whose capital is inland on the Sava River? Ans. Croatia

12. (20) One barrel is full of oil, and an identical barrel is half full. The full barrel weighs 86kg, and the half full barrel weighs 53kg. What is the weight of an empty barrel? Ans. 20

13. (20) One was first given in 1929 and has been declined three times, in 1936, 1970 and 1972. The other was first awarded in 1901 and has been declined twice, in 1964 and 1973. Author George Bernard Shaw and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore are the only two people to have won both of what two disparate but highly prestigious awards? Ans. A Nobel Prize and an Academy Award (Oscar) 14. (15) Though often incorrectly attributed to General John Pershing, it was Colonel Charles Stanton who spoke these words that reflect the fact that US troops in France in World War I were returning the favor given to the US some 143 years earlier. Translate into English these words spoken at the tomb of a French patriot, “Nous voila, Lafayette!” Ans. “Lafayette, we are here”

15. (15) Also known as nicotinic acid and vitamin PP, its chemical formula is C6H5NO2. A deficiency in this vitamin causes pellagra. Identify this vitamin either by its alphanumeric designation or its name. Ans. Niacin or Vitamin B3

16. (20) The New Residential Construction Report is a monthly report issued by the Census Bureau jointly with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. On Wall Street, this report is known as what? Ans. Housing Starts

17. (20) In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into his sudden death, which he foreshadowed in his collection Poet in New York, but his remains have never been been found. The best-known member of the Generation of ‘27, he is honored by a statue in Madrid’s Plaza de Santa Ana, and his complete works were banned by the Franco regime until 1953. Name this Spanish poet and playwright of the Rural Trilogy who was killed by Nationalist militiamen in 1936 at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Ans. Federico Garcia Lorca

18. (20) Saddam Hussein's 1977 book Our Struggle was translated into German under what title? Ans. Unser Kampf