Questions by UTC with help from Florida, South Carolina, James Washick, South Florida’s Jeremy Rasmussen, the BAAL crew, and various other freelance contributors

Questions by UTC with help from Florida, South Carolina, James Washick, South Florida’s Jeremy Rasmussen, the BAAL crew, and various other freelance contributors

1. Given various battles, name the war during which they occurred, FTPE.

a) First Battle of the Marne, Battle of Tannenberg, Battle of Jutland

Answer: World War I

b) Battle of Crécy, Battle of Agincourt, Battle of Castillon

Answer: Hundred Years’ War

c) Battle of Queenston Heights, Battle of Lake Erie, Battle of New Orleans

Answer: War of 1812

5) This model had a recurring role as Joey’s roommate, Janine Lecroix, for five episodes.

Answer: Elle McPherson

5) This husband of Jenifer Aniston played Will Colbert, a member of the “I Hate Rachel Green Club.”

Answer: Brad Pitt

10) Before she played Days of Our Lives actress Cecelia Monroe, whose character supplies the brain for Dr. Drake Ramoray’s brain transplant, this actress appeared in Dead Man Walking, The Client, and Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Answer: Susan Sarandon

10) Before she played Mindy, the former best friend of Rachel’s who ends up marrying Rachel’s ex-fiancé Barry, she was best known for her work in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and in Dirty Dancing..

Answer: Jennifer Grey
3. Given a description of a stage of embryonic development, identify it for 10 points and a warm fuzzy feeling inside for all three correct.

A. Cleavage produces this intermediate that is a sphere of cells that contains a cavity without an indentation.

Answer: Blastula

B. This intermediate stage is the initial bulb of cells that becomes the blastula when a cavity forms.

Answer: Morula

C. This is a complex 3-dimensional organism with inner, outer, and middle layers formed from a blastula.

Answer: Gastrula
4. Identify the 19^th-century French painters of the following on a 10-5 basis.

A. (10 pts.) The Massacre at Chios

(5 pts.) Liberty Leading the People; The Women of Algiers

Answer: Eugene Delacroix

B. (10 pts.) The Absinthe Drinker

(5 pts.) Luncheon on the Grass

Answer: Edouard Manet

C. (10 pts.) The Painter in his Studio (1855)

(5 pts.) The Stonebreakers; Funeral at Ornans

Answer: Gustave Courbet

5. 30-20-10 Name the poet from lines.

A. “Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal”

B. “Miniver loved the Medici,/Albeit he had never seen one;/He would have sinned incessantly/Could he have been one.”

C. “And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,/Went home and put a bullet through his head.”

A. Edwin Arlington Robinson
6. Identify these figures from the books of Samuel in the Old Testament FTPE.

A. This woman, Samuel’s mother, promises he will be raised as a Nazirite if she can conceive.

Answer: Hannah

B. Samuel anoints this man as first king of the Israelites.

Answer: Saul

C. Saul has this sorceress call Samuel’s spirit up for some advice.

Answer: Witch of En-dor

7. Given stars that help to make it, name the constellation FTPE.

a) Bellatrix is one shoulder and Betelguese is the other, while Rigel is the foot.

Answer: Orion

b) The Pleiades cluster marks one shoulder, The Haydes form the head, and Aldebaran marks the eye.

Answer: Taurus

c) Sirius and Adhara are among the stars in this constellation.

Answer: Canis Major (accept: “Greater Dog”)

10) In 1872, he ran for the President and was attacked for being odd and foolish. He ended up losing to this incumbent who won in a landslide victory, and died almost immediately thereafter, leaving the Electoral College in a big mess.

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

10) Greeley was an editor for this paper, named for the symbol for the Whig party paired in a slogan with “hard cider.”

Answer: Log Cabin [charitably accept Log Cabins]

10) In 1841, Greeley founded this publication that later merged with Log Cabin and The New Yorker.

Answer: The New York Tribune
9. Provide the derivatives with respect to x of the following FTPE.

A. 1/3x³ + 4x² + 13 [READ: one-third x cubed plus 4 x squared plus 13]

Answer: x² + 8x [READ: tangent of x]

B. X ^3/2 + x ^½ + 6 [READ: x to the three-halves plus x to the one-half plus six]

Answer: (3/2)x^1/2 + (½)x^-1/2 [READ: three-halves x to the one-half plus one-half x to the minus one-half]

C. tan (x) [READ: tangent of x]

Answer: sec²x [READ: tangent of x]
10. Name these important 20^th century Jewish-American novelists FTPE.

A. Still kicking at 87, this Canadian-born Nobel Laureate is the author of Humboldt’s Gift, Herzog, and Seize the Day.

Answer: Saul Bellow

B. Author of The Fixer and The Natural, this novelist died in 1986.

Answer: Bernard Malamud

C. Though known more for criticism, like her “Notes on Camp,” this woman wrote the novels The Volcano Lover and 2001's National Book Award winner In America. In a memorable speech in Bull Durham, Crash Davis disses her novels.

Answer: Susan Sontag
11. FTPE, name the singers whose recent hit CD's included:

A. Songs in A Minor

B. Missundaztood

C. Escape

A. Belgium

Answer: Brussels

B. Belarus

Answer: Minsk

C. Bangladesh

Answer: Dhaka

D. Belize

Answer: Belmopan

E. Benin

Answer: Porto Novo
13. Answer the following about superconductivity FTSNOP.

A. (5/5) The BCS theory of superconductivity was formulated by and named for three scientists. Name any two F5PE.

Answer: John Cooper, John Bardeen and Robert Schrieffer

B. (10) These coupled electrons condensed into the ground state are named for one of the BCS developers.

Answer: Cooper pairs

C. (10) Cooper pairs display the characteristics of this class of particles which have integer spin and include photons.

Answer: bosons
14. Answer the following about a writing genre usually associated with Latin American authors FTPE:

A. Argument persists over whether this term for juxtaposition of the fantastic and the mundane was coined by German art critic Franz Roh in the 1920s or by writer Alejo Carpentier in his novel The Kingdom of This World.

Answer: Magic(al) Realism

B. Magical realism could also describe several of this non-Latino author’s works, such as Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses.

Answer: Salman Rushdie

C. Another non-Latin American work sometimes associated with the style is Immortality by this man, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Answer: Milan Kundera
15. Name these important pieces of U.S. legislation FTPE.

A. This 1939 act barred federal employees from political activity and set limits on campaign expenditures.

Answer: Hatch Act

B. Also called the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, this act that forbade boycotts and the closed shop is named for two legislators.

Answer: Taft-Hartley Act

C. This 1930 protective tariff helped export the U.S. depression overseas.

Answer: Smoot-Hawley (or Hawley-Smoot) Tariff
16. Answer these questions about a Scottish king who came to the throne in 1040.

(10) Identify this king who came to the throne after overthrowing the previous monarch

Answer: Macbeth

(10) For another ten points, identify the previous king, whom MacBeth killed.

Answer: Duncan (I)

(10) In 1057, MacBeth was killed and this eldest son of Duncan took the throne.

Answer: Malcolm (III) Canmore
17. Answer the following about Theseus FTPE.

He was the son of this man who killed himself when he thought Theseus had been killed

Answer: Aegeus

This princess helps Theseus find his way through the Labyrinth with a ball of string

Answer: Ariadne

This queen of the Amazons was his wife

Answer: Hippolyte
18. F5PE, given a composer, identify them as Baroque, Classical, Romantic or none of the above:

A. J.S.Bach

Answer: Baroque

B. Bela Bartok

Answer: None of the above

C. Robert Schumann

Answer: Romantic

D. Richard Strauss

Answer: Romantic

E. G.F. Handel

Answer: Baroque
19. Let’s talk more bondage – bond chemistry, that is. FTPE:

A. This type of bond holds metals and non-metals together.

Answer: ionic bond

B. The charge that results when the electrons in a covalent bond are assigned to the more electronegative atom, it is the charge an atom would possess if the bonding were ionic.

Answer: oxidation number or state

C. In double and triple bonds, this type of bond is formed from the sideways overlap of p orbitals.

Answer: pi bond
20. Answer the following about the movements for African independence after WWII FTPE.

A. This secret society, headed by Jomo Kenyatta, used violence in order to bring independence to Kenya.

Answer: Mau Mau

B. The poet Leopold Senghor became first president of what nation upon its independence?

Answer: Senegal

C. Kwame Nkrumah was installed as first president of this nation, formerly known as the Gold Coast, in 1957.

Answer: Ghana
21. Answer the following about baseball legend Lou Boudreau FTPE.

10) He played for and even managed for this team. He did both for their 1948 lineup, which was the last World Series winner for this franchise.

Answer: Cleveland Indians (accept either)

10) He devised the defensive shift used to stop this Red Sox player, the last major leaguer to hit above .400 in a season.

Answer: Ted Williams

10) Boudreau, along with five other players, holds the record for number of extra-base hits in a game. What is the record number?

Answer: Five
22. Given a country, give its current majority party FTPE:

Canada

United Kingdom

Answer: Labour

Japan