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1996 BOAT Hi!!! My Name is Brak!!! 1. The name's the same. A 1950s GoodsonlT odman game show where panelists quizzed guests on the appelation they shared with a famous person, and a four-word designation beginning a tossup that indicates the coincidental nomenclature of two or more things. For ten points, repeat the first 4 words of this question. ANS : THE NAME'S THE SAME 2. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid was not written by the Wild West hero, but rather by this Canadian author, whose own memoir "Running In The Family," details his search for his roots in his native Sri Lanka. For ten points name this writer better known for his poetry and the novel "The English Patient. " ANS : Michael ONDAAT JE 3. San Diego Charger running back Rodney Culver was on this airline's Flight 592 on May 11 along with 108 others when it crashed in the Everglades, killing all passengers and crew. For ten points name this airline whose safety practices have since been called into question. ANS: VALUJET 4. The Sardinians got in to get aid in repelling Austria from the Italian Kingdoms. The Russians got involved on the pretext of settling a dispute between Catholics and Orthodox. And the British got involved when they advised the Ottomans to reject Russian demands of control of Constantinople. For ten points, these great powers got involved in these manners in what war? ANS: CRIMEAN War 5. These unstable particles consisting of a quark, an anti-quark and binding gluons can be found in isolation and are color neutral. They differ from other bosons because they have an even number of fermion constituents. For ten points name this class of sub-atomic particles including pions and kaons. ANS: MESONS 6. Trained as a portrait painter by Thomas Hudson in the 1750s, he painted moonlit and candlelit scenes which depicted the technology of the Industrial Revolution in both a romantic and realistic light. For ten points name this painter of The Air Pump and The Orrery, who was also noted for portraits of English Midlands industrialists and intellectuals. ANS : Joseph WRIGHT (accept: WRIGHT OF DERBY) 7. He gained the patronage of the Count of Artois and King Louis IX through his piety and diligence, and he became the King's personal confessor. In 1257 the king helped him obtain property on which he founded a theological college for the poor. For ten points name this theologian whose school rapidly became a center of European learning and the heart of the University of Paris. ANS : Robert de SORBON 8. He left Germany in 1933 to lecture on sociology at the London School of Economics, where he expounded his theory that conflict is caused by varying methods of thought and definitions of truth, and continued his work on leadership and consensus. For ten points name this sociologist who is best remembered for his "sociology of knowledge" and a namesake steamroller. ANS : Karl MANNHEIM 9. Its Tynwald Court and House of Keys make up one of the oldest legislative bodies in the world, and its 67,000 residents are mostly engaged in the tourism industry. The highest point is at Snaefell in the central massif, and chief towns include Ramsey, Peel, and the capital of Douglas. For ten points name this British isle, roughly equidistant between Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. ANS: ISLE OF MAN (accept: ELLAN VANNIN, MANNIN, MONA, or MONAPIA) 10. It's name comes from the Dutch for "burnt wine", referring to the use of heat in its distillation from wine or fruit mush. Usually served alone or with a soda as an after-dinner drink, this alcohol generally contains about 50 percent alcohol by volume. For ten points name this drink whose varieties include grappa, kirsch, ouzo, and cognac. ANS:BRANDY 11. He believed that civilization had turned · man into a sick and repressed creature and that the true function of the theatre was to rid man of these repressions and liberate his instinctual energy, though he only produced one play of his own. For ten points name this dramatic theorist, author of The Theatre and Its Double, and proposer of the Theatre of Cruelty. ANS : Antonin ART AUD (are TOE) 12. Used in semiconductors for making infrared detectors, diodes, and Hall-effect devices, this silvery grey metal was known to ancients but was often confused with lead. For ten points name this toxic element which greatly increases lead's hardness and mechanical strength when used in alloys and with atomic number 51. ANS: ANTIMONY 13. The Florida Floridians, Memphis Pros, Baltimore Claws, Dallas Chapparals, Anaheim Amigos, Pittsburgh Pipers, Virginia Squires, and Kentucky Colonels. These and 4 current NBA teams were included in, For ten points, what ill-fated sports league. ANS : American Basketball Association (ABA) 14. When Pepin of Herstal died, he left his three grandchildren as heirs, but did not mention his illegitimate son in his will. That son was imprisoned by Plectrude, but he escaped, formed an army, and conquered the Neustrians. For ten points name this Frank, best known for defeating the Moors at the 732 Battle of Poitiers or Tours. ANS : Charles MARTEL (accept: Carolus MARTELLUS or Karl MARTELL) 15. Awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1979, he recieved the National Medal of Liberty in 1986. His works include the Jacob Javits Center in New York and the East Building of the National Gallery in Washington. For ten points, whose pyramidal lobby at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame echoes his previous work outside the Louvre? ANS : leoh Ming PEl 16. The major tool of this psychological school was introspection, a careful set of observations made under controlled conditions by trained observers using a stringently defined descriptive vocabulary. Functionalism, Gestalt, and behavioralism were all to some extent reactions to it. For ten points name this school which lost influence when its founder, Edward Titchener, died in 1927. ANS:STRUCTURALISM 17. In 1738 he settled in Stockholm as a practicing physician, and in 1741 he received the chair of medicine at the University of Uppsala, but he soon exchanged it for a chair of botany, where he studied flower parts. For ten points name this botanist who wrote a treatise classifying diseases known in his time and who also classified the plant and animal kingdoms. ANS : Carolus LlNNAEUS (accept: Carl Von LINNE) 18. Founded by Chu Yuan-chang, who later assumed the title Hung-wu, it extended the Chinese empire into Korea, Turkistan, and Myanmar, making it the farthest-reaching native Chinese dynasty. For ten points name this dynasty, which provided an interval of native rule between the Mongol and Manchu dominations. ANS : MING dynasty 19. In 1969 12 Columbia University students began singing a capella '50s songs in the school's cafeteria, and before the end of the year they found themselves play Woodstock. For ten points name this band, who went on to have a variety series in the late '70s, fronted by Jon "Bowser" Baumann. ANS : SHA NA NA 20. Her father, Thomas Dudley, was chief steward to the Puritan Earl of Lincoln, and in 1630 she, her husband, and her parents sailed with other Puritans to settle on Massachusetts Bay. For ten points name this early American poet best known for her Meditations. ANS : Anne BRADSTREET (nee Dudley) 21. The Norse gods amused themselves by throwing things at this beautiful and just favorite, knowing he was immune from harm, but the blind god Hod, under Loki's deception, hurled mistletoe, the only thing that could kill him. For ten points, name th is son of Frigg and Odin. ANS:BALDERorBALDR 22. Alava (ALL of a) is the most rural of this region's three provinces, with its open lands suitable for growing grapes and cereals. Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa (guee POO scoa uh) are heavily industrialized, especially with metalworks along the Nervion (nerve EE on) River and in Bilbao. For ten points these provinces make up what semi-autonomous region of Spain? ANS: BASQUE country (accept: EUSKARDI or PAIS VASCO) 23. Though his much of early poetry is considered parody, his later works, collected in _The Magnetic Mountain,_ and _The Gate_, show a more reflective view. Among his Marxist writings are _Revolutions in Writing_. During the 1960's, he wrote mystery novels under the psuedonym Nicholas Blake. For ten points, identify this Poet Laureate of Britain from 1968 to 1972, whose son won the Best Actor Oscar for 1989. ANS : Cecil DAY LEWIS 24. Though he died in 1914, he predicted the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I based mainly upon the weakness of the German Navy. A Civil War veteran and Annapolis graduate, he served as president of the American Historical Association in 1902. For ten points name this war historian and theorist, known for his Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783. ANS : Alfred Thayer MAHAN 25. On May 14 1,849 refugees aboard the freighter Bulk Challenge docked in Takoradi, Ghana, and were housed in a refugee camp. This was a reversal of policy in Ghana, which had previously refused those fleeing its war-torn neighbor. For ten points name this country where fighting flared up again this April in and around Monrovia. ANS : LIBERIA 26. It contains a Great Dark Spot accompanied by bright, white clouds which change rapidly, along with a bright spot scientists have nicknamed Scooter. Its average distance from the sun is 30.06 astronomical units, and it completes a revolution every 164.8 Earth years. For ten points name this occasionally ninth but usually eighth-most distant planet.

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