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BONI -- ROUND 8 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999

1. Identify these thinkers that preceded Scholasticism FTP each.

A. He wrote Four Books of Sentences which bridged the time between nominalism and scholasticism

answer: Peter Lombard

B. His interpretation of Aristotle was so well-respected that philosophers of the Christian West simply referred to him as “the Commentator.”

answer: Averroes

C.This founder of a new Cistercian abbey preached the Second Crusade but also led the condemnation of Abelard's teachings

answer: St. Bernard of Clairvaux


2. TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: Charlie’s latest conquest is the state of Maine, where he cleared out all 16 counties on one business trip. Several Maine counties have unique names. Charlie couldn’t find anything else named Sagadahoc or Piscatataquis, and the other things for Kennebec and Androscoggin are way too obscure, but FTPE name the Maine counties which share their unique names with...

a) The 1838-1839 border war between Maine and New Brusnwick over this territory, which is so big and so remote that Mainers simply call it “the county.”

Answer: Aroostook

b) The most famous creation of Martin Handford, whose distinctive attire is shared by his girlfriend Wenda and dog Woof.

Answer: Waldo

c) The married name of Margaret Houlihan in the later years of the TV version of M*A*S*H

Answer: Penobscot

EDITOR’S NOTE: Speaking of M*A*S*H, the other Androscoggin is the fictitious alma mater of Hawkeye Pierce in Richard Hooker’s original novel. There’s a small town in South Dakota called Kennebec, where Charlie stumbled onto a conspicuously fresh salad bar in mid-February.
3. Name these architects who helped craft St. Peter's Basilica as we know it FTP each.

A. This creator of the Tempietto made the plan of St. Peter's along a Greek cross.

Answer: Donato Bramante

B. This artist who also designed the Library of Lorenzo de Medici effected Bramante's plan and designed the dome

answer: Michelangelo Buonarotti

C. This Mannerist sculptor designed the colonnade

answer: Giarlorenzo Bernini
4. 30-20-10, name the author from a list of works.

30) Moses, Man of the Mountain

20) Tell my Horse and Dust Tracks on a Road

10) Their Eyes Were Watching God and I Love Myself When I am Laughing (edited by Alice Walker)

Answer: Zora Neale Hurston

5. When we were working on this bonus... well, you had to be there. FTPE name these gases, some more noxious than others:

a) Technically known as dichlorodiethyl sulfide, used in chemical warfare; formula (Cl CH2 CH2)2 S.

Answer: mustard gas

b) Used for producing a hot flame for welding and cutting metal; formula HC (triple bond) CH.

Answer: acetylene; accept ethyne

c) Used in thermionic valves, lamps, and lasers; there’s no point in giving you a formula, since it’s element #54.

Answer: xenon


6. For 5 points each, given a description of a character from Animal Farm, name him or her.

a) The original owner of the farm Answer: Mr. Jones

b) The cynical donkey, oldest animal on the farm Answer: Benjamin

c) The hardworking cart horse Answer: Boxer

d) The forceful pig dictator Answer: Napoleon

e) The motherly mare Answer: Clover

f) The prophetic raven, and spy for the farmer Answer: Moses
7. Identify this significant event, 30-20-10:
(a) The instigator was Phytophthora infestans, which (now here’s a switch!) apparently originated in North America. As the Devon Commission had already reported, conditions were ripe for disaster.
(b) The fall of Sir Robert Peel in mid-crisis brought to power Lord John Ruseel, who put the situation in the hands of Charles Edward Trevelyan. A laissez-faire purist, Trevelyan believed public works projects and relief food shipments would render people helpless and completely dependent on government.
(c) The result was hundreds of thousands dead and 1,600,000 emigrating to the U.S. between 1845 and 1854.
Answer: the Great Potato Famine; accept equivalents
8. In this the best of all possible bonuses, identify these characters from Candide, 5-10-15.

A. This optimistic doctor is Candide's tutor.

Answer: Pangloss

B. This woman is Candide's true love

answer: Cunegonde

C. Candide's faithful valet, he goes to South America with Candide & then directs him to Constantinople

answer: Cacambo
9. So, Warren Beatty's running for President, huh? FTPE name these other politically ambitious actors.

A) After appearing in such films as Never on Sunday, Topkapi, and A Dream of Passion, she returned to Greece, eventually becoming Minister of Culture.

Answer: Melina Mercouri

B) The title star of She and wife of a future two-time Supporting Actor Oscar winner, she went on to become a Congresswoman from California, losing her seat to a young Richard Nixon.

Answer: Helen Gahagan Douglas

C) A four term Congressman from Iowa, he is still probably best remembered as Burl Smith (aka Gopher) on The Love Boat.

Answer: Fred Grandy
10. Just as Tolstoy wrote _War & Peace_, other 19th century Russian writers wrote works that need an ampersand. Given a work, name the author FTP each.

A. Fathers & Sons answer: Ivan _Turgenev_

B. Twenty-six Men & a Girl answer: Maxim _Gorky_

C. Russlan & Ludmilla answer: Alexander _Pushkin_

11. Given a line from the funniest movie any of us can remember, Blazing Saddles, identify the actor or actress who speaks it, 5 points each.

A) "Is that a ten-gallon hat, or are you just enjoying the show?"

Answer: Madeleine Kahn

B) "Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a whampin' and whompin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course."

Answer: Slim Pickens

C) "I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter."

Answer: Claude Starrett

D) "Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben!"

Answer: Cleavon Little

E) "You will be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost-certain Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor."

Answer: Harvey Korman

F) "Little bastard shot me in the ass!"

Answer: Gene Wilder
12. Name these works of Claude Debussy FTP each.

A. This "triptych" ends with a dialogue of sorts between the wind and the title object.

Answer: La Mer

B. This 1894 piece was based on a poem by Mallarme.

Answer: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, or Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

C. This opera almost caused a duel with Maeterlinck

answer: Pelleas et Melisande

13. Identify this battle, 30-20-10:


(a) At the pivotal moment, the brothers Thomas and William Stanley, with 6,000 men held in reserve, literally turned their coats and switched from the side of the Royalists to the outnumbered rebels.
(b) Richard III had actually worn his crown into battle; after he died fighting, the crown was picked out of a thorn bush and placed on the victor’s head.
(c) This decisive 1485 battle ended the Wars of the Roses and gave Henry Tudor the English throne.
Answer: Bosworth Field
14. FTPE give these electrical terms from definitions:

a) Superimposing or combining of two waves so that their frequency or amplitude varies in unison

Answer: modulation

b) Solution that conducts electricity, as in a battery

Answer: electrolyte

c) A device such as a diode for coverting alternating current to direct current

Answer: rectifier
15. Psych! Name these psych terms FTPE:
(a) Referring to the link between the physical and the psychological
Answer: psychosomatic
(b) Idealized impression of oneself, a parent, or another person based on an image formed in childhood
Answer: imago
(c) A dreamlike state in which a person loses memory and often wanders from home

Answer: fugue


16. For 10 pts. each, name these political animals:

(a) Any office holder who's serving out the remainder of a term after being defeated or declining to run again

Answer: lame duck

(b) Revived in the '80's, it was an old term for Southern Democrats in Congress who supported conservative policies.

Answer: boll weevils

(c) Countering the Boll Weevils in the '80's were this handful of moderate Republicans from the North who would sometimes oppose Reagan on social issues or foreign policy.

Answer: gypsy moths
17. Supply the following glacial terms for 5 points each:

1) This a bowl shaped hollow from which a glacier flows. It may contain a glacier still or a lake.

A: cirque

2) These low, streamlined hills of glacial deposits have long axes that run parallel to the glacier's flow.

A: drumlins

3) These narrow, sinuous ridges of bedded sand or gravel are formed by deposits from glacial meltwater.

A: eskers

4) These hills of unsorted rock debris are found in current or past glacial margins and can be lateral or terminal.

A: moraines

5) This process is the cutting of fine scratches and grooves in underlying rock as sharp rocks imbedded in a glacier flowover. A: striation

6) These glacial deposits of unsorted debris range in size from clay to boulders. Another name is boulder clay.

A: till


18. For 10 points each, given an occupation, identify its patron saint. If you need more information about the saint, you'll earn only 5 points.

A) 10 points) Beekeepers

5 points) It was commonly believed that birds paired up on his feast day, so he is also the patron saint of engaged couples.

Answer: St. Valentine

B) 10 points) Psychoanalysts

5 points) Nobles came to her cell at the Convent of St. Catherine at Saint-Trond for advice - she is supposed to have sat upright at her funeral in 1172.

Answer: St. Christina the Astonishing

C) 10 points) Engineers

5 points) He earned this honor by driving the snakes from Ireland.

Answer: St. Patrick


19. Identify these islands of the Bahamas FTP each.

A. Christopher Columbus purportedly landed on this isle on Oct. 12, 1492.

answer: San Salvador (accept Watling, although there’s still some doubt)

B. The capital Nassau lies on this island. answer: New Providence

C. This island - though divided by several bights - is the largest. answer: Andros
20. Their names are not as familiar as Rutherford, Thomson, and Chadwick, but these individuals are credited with discoveries of subatomic particles. Given the discoverers and dates, name the particle or class of particles FTP each:

(a) Leon Lederman, 1977 Answer: upsilon particle

(b) Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, 1983 Answer: W and Z particles; accept either

(c) Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig, 1963 Answer: quarks



BONI -- ROUND 9 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999

1. Surprisingly few plays have won both the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. I'll name such a work; supply the playwright for 5 pts. each:

(a) The Heidi Chronicles Answer: Wendy Wasserstein

(b) The Great White Hope Answer: Howard Sackler

(c) J.B. Answer: Archibald MacLeish

(d) That Championship Season Answer: Jason Miller

(e) The Subject Was Roses Answer: Frank Gilroy

(f) Okay, this one with won the Pulitzer in Drama for 5 co-authors including Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch, along with the Tony for Best Musical. Answer: A Chorus Line


2. One of your two co-writers of this affair is working on a MBA. The other one wrote this question. For 10 points each, expand these acronyms.

a) NASDAQ

Answer: National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation

b) OPEC


Answer: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

c) FICA


Answer: Federal Insurance Contributions Act
3. If you watched the season premiere of ER, you really need to know about doctors in art. Given a painting, name the artist FTP each.

A. Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp

answer: Rembrandt van Rijn

B. Dr. Gachet

answer: Vincent van Gogh

C. The Gross Clinic

answer: Thomas Eakins
4. Given the Cartesian formula, name the curve or conic section it makes FTP each.

A. x(4) = a squared (x squared - y squared)

answer: figure eight (accept equivalents)

B. y = ax squared + bx + c

answer: parabola

C. x = at - h sin(t), y = a - h cos(t)

answer: cycloid
5. 30-20-10, name this man.

30) Independently of Arnold Sommerfeld, he developed the general rules of quantization, gave the complete theory of the Stark effect (the effect of an electric field on light), and initiated the quantum theory of molecular spectra.

20) He computed the first exact solution of Albert Einstein's general gravitational equations.

10) According to those calculations, you can figure out at what radius an object will become a black hole if collapsed or compressed indefinitely - for the earth, it's 9 mm.

Answer: Karl Schwarzschild
6. For the stated number of points, identify these novels of academic life, given the author and a synopsis.

a) For 5 points, Jane Smiley, a mysterious, jug eared billionaire with shady business connections has generously funded hotshot Professor Lionel Gift's research project; Gift subsequently produces a favorable report on the value of strip mining the Costa Rican rain forest

Answer: Moo

b) For 10 points, John Barth, an allegory in which the hero sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his university.

Answer: Giles Goat-Boy

c) For 15 points, Richard Russo, William Henry Devereaux Jr., is almost 50 and stuck forever as chair of English at West Central Pennsylvania University. It is April and fear of layoffs  even among the tenured  has reached mock epic proportions.

Answer: Straight Man
7 30-20-10, name the philosopher from works.

30) The History of Great Britain from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, 1754-62

20) "Of Suicide" and "Of the Immortality of the Soul", 1777.

10) Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, 1751.

Answer: David Hume
8. Identify the following about the society called I Ho Ch'uan FTP each.

A. Westerners called the members of this society what?

Answer: Boxers

B. The Boxer Rebellion was favored by this dowager empress of China.

Answer: Tz'u Hsi

C. The center of attacks against foreigners were in this major city.

Answer: Peking or Beijing
9. The requiem mass has nine parts, three of which are the Offertorium, the Sanctus, and the Benedictus. For 5 points each, given the English translation of the other 6 parts, identify them.

A) Rest Eternal Answer: Requiem Aeternum

B) Have Mercy Answer: Kyrie Eleison

C) Day of Wrath Answer: Dies Irae

D) Lamb of God Answer: Agnus Dei

E) Everlasting Light Answer: Lux Aeternum

F) Deliver Me Answer: Libera Me
10. This question reminds the editor of how much caffeine he’s consumed in the last 72 hours. Identify these figures in the Great Awakening, 5-10-15.

A. This minister's fervor shows in his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

answer: Jonathan Edwards

B. The Great Awakening is greatly attributed to this English Anglican evangelist who traveled the American colonies.

Answer: George Whitefield

C. This Unitarian minister attacked the Great Awakening's brimstone overtones in Salvation of All Men.

Answer: Charles Chauncey

11. Identify these names from Anna Karenina FTP each.

A. Both her husband and her lover have this first name. (Bet that made it safer for her if she talked in her sleep.)

Answer: Alexi or Alexei

B. Her lover is a count whose last name is this

answer: Vronsky

C. This woman had wanted Vronsky, but instead concentrates on Konstantin Levin

answer: Kitty


12. Identify the following U.S. presidents given the title and author of a well-known biography about them.

Mornings on Horseback, by David McCullough

Answer Theodore Roosevelt

Means of Ascent, by Robert Caro

Answer Lyndon Johnson

American Sphinx, by Joseph J. Ellis

Answer Thomas Jefferson
13. Each of the following facts is true about one or more of the Diff’rent Strokes Mafia: Dana Plato, Gary Coleman, or Todd Bridges. For 5 points each, correctly match the facts to all those to whom it applies. (If it’s true of more than one, you must get all correct to earn 5 points.)

a) Knocked over a video store in Las Vegas Answer: Plato

b) Arrested for carrying a loaded weapon Answer: Bridges

c) Arrested on drug charges Answer: Bridges & Plato

d) Plead no contest assaulting an autograph seeker Answer: Coleman

e) Acquitted on charges of shooting a drug dealer Answer: Bridges

f) Died of an overdose in 1999 Answer: Plato

14. Identify the following about "Mad Cow disease" FTP each.

A. The more formal name for Mad Cow disease in a cow is this

answer: bovine spongiform encephalopathy (accept encephalitis for the E)

B. BSE becomes this disease in humans

answer: Creutzfeld-Jacob syndrome

C. Instead of being caused by something complex as even a virus, BSE and CJS are caused by these abnormal protein conglomerations that cause disease

answer: prions


15. 30-20-10, name the man.

30) Born in Torrington, CT, in 1800, he operated under the name Shubel Morgan for many of his exploits.

20) Known by the nickname "Ole Osawatomie", he was hanged for his crimes in Charles Town, Virginia in 1859.

10) Those crimes specifically included raiding the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

Answer: John Brown
16. As much as I wanted to write the Roman Turek Dinosaur Hunter chain bonus, I just couldn't come up with enough hockey chains. Hey, you put Krivokrasov in a chain. So I decided instead on a series of last name or last part of the name's the same questions. So for five points per entity, identify the following.

1) He is a relief pitcher acquired by the Chicago Cubs from the Minnesota Twins earlier this season in an effort to find a stopper that stopped somebody. His lack of stoppage resembled the current Red Sock he was supposed to replace, earning him the affectionate nickname on Chicago sports radio "Beck light". She was a Mouseketeer with Brittney Spears before being contained in her bottle. But if you rub her the right way you might be able to answer this question. Who are these people that share a last name?

A: Rick and Christina Aguilera

2) One of these two gentlemen is currently third in the Winston Cup standings, though since he has only a 17 point lead on Tony Stewart, he may be unseated by having fewer decals crossing the start finish line or some other obscure point scoring method from NASCAR. He drives a Ford, number 6, and has recently made a Gatorade ad with MJ and Mia. The other one is a Puerto Rican singer unfortunately NOT most famous for being a member of Menudo. Who are these guys?

A: Mark and Ricky Martin

3) I'm so ashamed I'm doing research for this question, but quite glad that I need to. The first group of "boys" is made up of AJ, Brian, Howie D., Kevin, and Nick. The other is a bunch of relief pitchers for the Reds: Rob Dibble, Norm Charlton, and Randy Myers. Take me out of my misery and answer the question, who are these boys?

A: Backstreet and Nasty Boys
17. Have there been any Roman emperors who don't have interesting stories behind them? For 10 points each, answer these questions about Caracalla.

A) First, name his father, who preceded him as emperor.

Answer: Septimius Severus

B) He ascended to the throne as co-emperor with this brother, whom he killed soon thereafter.

Answer: Publius Septimius Antoninius Geta

C) His most lasting fame rests on this decree, which granted Roman citizenship to all free members of the empire.

Answer: Edict of 212
18. For 5 points each, given a capital city, name the river it sits upon.

a) Bangkok Answer: Chao Phraya

b) Gaborone Answer: Limpopo

c) Warsaw Answer: Vistula

d) Phnom Penh Answer: Mekong

e) Islamabad Answer: Indus

f) Bamako Answer: Niger
19. Arrange the following gases in order of decreasing concentration by weight in air. Hydrogen, Nitrous Oxide, Xenon, Methane, Krypton, Helium

Answer Helium, Methane, Krypton, Hydrogen, Nitrous Oxide, Xenon


20. This is a bonus to be approached gingerly. Name the following works with "Ginger" in the title FTPE

(a) A modern picaresque novel and play by J.P. Donleavy


Answer: The Ginger Man

(b) This Oswald Wynd novel was dramatized in 1991 on PBS


Answer: The Ginger Tree

(c) Federico Fellini faced a lawsuit for unauthorized use of celebrities' names in this film


Answer: Ginger and Fred

BONI -- ROUND 10 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999

1. There have been 6 former St. Louis Blues elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Asking you to pull Dickie Moore, Guy Lapointe, or Doug Harvey might be a bit of a challenge. But you can earn 10 points each for identifying these three from clues.

A) This goalie debuted in 1952, winning the Calder Trophy in 55-56, Vezina Trophies in 62-63, 66-67, and 68-69, and the Conn Smythe in 67-68. He holds the record for most consecutive games played by a goalie with 502.

Answer: Glenn Hall

B) Another goalie, he debuted in 1951, and won 7 Vezinas (the first in 55-56; the last in 68-69). He was the first goalie to permanently adopt the mask as part of his equipment.

Answer: Jacques Plante

C) The 1980-81 Calder Trophy winner, when this Slovakian retired in 1995, he held the record for most points by a European player in NHL history.

Answer: Peter Stastny


2. 30-20-10, name this mythological figure.

30) He was the first king of Corinth, noted for his shrewdness. He knew who had raped Asopus' daughter (unsurprisingly, it was Zeus), but he agreed to tell Asopus only on condition that Corinth get a spring for water.

20) When Zeus found out about this, he sent Thanatos to kill him, but he bound up Thanatos, thereby really getting under Zeus' skin.

10) Zeus then condemned him to spend eternity rolling a rock up a hill.

Answer: Sisyphus
3. Shockingly enough, the title character of Peer Gynt is a guy called Peer Gynt. Given the name of the 'title' character, name the Ibsen play FTP each.

A. Doctor Thomas Stockmann

answer: An Enemy of the People or Folkefiende

B. Hedvig Ekdal's favorite thing, but not quite a pet.

Answer: The Wild Duck or Vildanden

C. Halvard Solness

answer: The Master Builder or Bygmester Solness
4. Given a measure of radiation, name the unit. Hint: all the namesakes won Nobel Physics Prizes.

A. The amount of gamma radiation that will produce 1.61 x 10 (12) pairs of ions when absorbed in 1 gram of air

answer: roentgen

B. one disintegration per second answer: becquerel

C. 3.7 x 10(10) becquerels of activity answer: curie

5. Complete the historical quote from the text preceding it, 10 pts. each. If you need the name of the person who said it, you'll get 5 pts. each.

(1a) "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side."

(1b) Nikita Khrushchev Answer: "We will bury you"

(2a) "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me..."

(2b) Patrick Henry Answer: "Give me liberty of give me death!"

(3a) "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic..."

(3b) Winston Churchill Answer: "An iron curtain has descended across the Continent"; accept close equivalent as long as they say "iron curtain"

6. For the stated number of points, identify the Australian authors of these works.

5 points -- Schindler's List Answer: Thomas Keneally

5 points -- Shogun Answer: James Clavell

10 points -- On the Beach Answer: Nevil Shute

10 points -- The Shoes of the Fisherman Answer: Morris West
7. 30-20-10, give the common two-word phrase.

30) From the Scottish for "short shirt", she is a witch who catches Tam O'Shanter's eye in the Robert Burns poem of the same name.

20) The term is also used to describe a short, plump woman, and through this somewhat tenuous connection, can now be used to refer to a woman of, shall we say, loose morals.

10) A ship was named for the character in Tam O'Shanter, and a brand of liquor was named for that ship.

Ans: Cutty Sark
8. Here’s more from the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Given these novels excerpted in the collection, name the author FTPE:

:a) The Women of Brewster Place

Answer: Gloria Naylor

b) Sula

Answer: Toni Morrison

c) Devil in a Blue Dress

Answer: Walter Mosley
9. Say Charlie has some hydrochloric acid. Help Charlie apply it properly FTP each.

A. Since in solution, Hcl produces hydronium ions, it is this kind of acid.

Answer: Arrhenius

B. Since it has a pH of 5, you use this indicator, which changes from red to yellow to let you know the pH.

Answer: methyl red

C. You think it would be cooler if Charlie mixed three parts of his HCl with one part of nitric acid so that you could have this mixture that can dissolve gold & platinum.

Answer: aqua regia
10. Identify the following about the Compromise of 1850 FTP each.

A. This Senator's impassioned support of it helped him become Fillmore's Secretary of State from 1850-52.

Answer: Daniel Webster

B. The compromise admitted California as a free state, which actually was in line with this 1846 document which would prohibit slavery in land acquired from Mexico.

Answer: Wilmot Proviso

C. The whole compromise about slavery was forgotten in this 1854 piece of legislation which favored Douglas' idea of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the territories.

Answer: Kansas-Nebraska Act
11. Identify these works of Alexandre Dumas pere FTP each.

A. The sequels to this enormously successful novel were _Twenty Years After_. and _The Viscount of Bragelonne_

answer: The _Three Musketeers_

B. This romance details the mysterious Edmond Dantes

answer: The _Count of Monte Cristo_

C. Set in 17th century Holland, it details political intrigue between two factions

answer: The _Black Tulip_ (La Tulipe Noir)

12. Identify these Old Testament and Apochryphal women painted by Artemisia Gentileschi FTP each.

A. This woman was the victim of voyeurism by members of the Elders. When she rejected their advances, they tried to have her arrested, but Daniel proved her innocence.

Answer: Susannah

B. This woman bravely fought the invading army of Holofernes and beheaded him (Gentileschi got longterm payback by giving this woman her face and Holofernes the face of her dad’s apprentice who’d raped her.)

answer: Judith

C. Some call her Zuleika and others call her Rahil, but this woman tried to seduce her charge Joseph. When he spurned her, she had him thrown into prison

answer: Potiphar's wife


13. FTPE name the composers of these operettas:
(a) Babes in Toyland
Answer: Victor Herbert
(b) Orpheus in the Underworld
Answer: Jacques Offenbach
(c) The Merry Widow
Answer: Franz Lehar
14. 30-20-10, name this scientist.

30) In 1883 he presented his doctor's thesis"The centrifugal nerves of the heart". In this work he developed his idea of nervism, using as example the intensifying nerve of the heart which he had discovered, and furthermore

laid down the basic principles on the trophic function of the nervous system.

20) While at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in the years 1891-1900, he developed the surgical method of the chronic experiment with extensive use of fistulas, which enabled the functions of various organs to be observed continuously under relatively normal conditions.

10) In 1903, at the 14th International Medical Congress in Madrid, he read a paper entitled The Experimental Psychology and Psychopathology of Animals.

Answer: Ivan Pavlov


15. Given some clues, name the English painter of the 18th century FTP each.

A. A founder of the Royal Academy of Arts, his portraits include Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces (1765).

Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds

B. His paintintg Mary Countess Howe (1760s) features the woman clad in pink.

Answer: Thomas Gainsborough

C. Among his series are Marriage a la Mode (1743-45).

Answer: William Hogarth
16. Hopefully, you didn't earn a "D" in your linguistics class! Identify these terms that start with "D" FTPE.

A. This is the case declension for an indirect object noun phrase.

answer: _dative_

B. This is a regional or social variety of a language characterized by its own phonological, syntactic, and lexical properties.

answer: _dialect_

C. These are forms whose use and interpretation depend on the location of the speaker and/or addressee. "Coming" and "going" as well as "this" and "that" are examples.

answer: _deictics_
17. They say uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, but it’s even tougher when the head doesn’t. Name these pretenders FTP each:

(a) Illegitimate son of Charles II, this popular Protestant was drawn into the Rye House Plot as the guy they’d crown if they succeeded in killing Charles II and the future James II. He fled abroad but returned to try to depose James II in 1685, lost at the Battle of Sedgemoor, and was executed.

Answer: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth

(b) Maybe it’s not really fair to call her a pretender, since it was the idea of her father-in-law, the Duke of Northumberland, to get Edward VI to name her his heir. She was unable to withstand Mary I’s claim to the throne, deposed and imprisoned, and later executed after Wyatt’s uprising failed.

Answer: Lady Jane Grey

(c) He led the second Jacobite rebellion to oust George II. In four months he took Edinburgh and invaded England as far south as Derby before getting his butt whipped. But he avoided the fate of the others, escaping to France & living out his life in drunken debauchery.

Answer: Charles Stuart; accept Bonnie Prince Charlie
18. The Coolidges kept a raccoon, Andrew Johnson had white mice for pets, and John Quincy Adams raised silkworms. For 5 pts. each, name the President who kept the following dogs at the White House:

(a) Fala, a Scottish terrier Answer: F. Roosevelt

(b) Liberty, an Irish setter Answer: Ford

(c) King Timahoe, another Irish setter Answer: Nixon

(d) Him and Her, beagles Answer: L. Johnson

(e) Rob Roy, a collie Answer: Coolidge

(f) Mike, a mutt Answer: Truman
19. The movie Apollo 13 taught us all many things, like the fact that the Lunar Excursion Module, or LEM, was named Aquarius. And we all know the LEM was named Eagle on Apollo 11, since it landed rather famously. But how much do we know about the other 6 LEMS? Name the following on a 10-5 basis, if you can.

10 pts) The LEM on Apollo 16

5 pts) A prominent winter constellation including Betelgeuse, Rigel, and Bellatrix

A: Orion


10 pts) The LEM on Apollo 17

5 pts) Fortunately, this craft did not explode killing its crew during liftoff.

A: Challenger

10 pts) the LEM on Apollo 15

5 pts) Maybe George Lucas drew inspiration for the name of a famous "piece of junk" from this lander.

A: Falcon


20. 5 points each, given the English translation of a state's motto, name the state. (And yes, this is another one of those bonuses where Ben wrote the question just to be able to say...)

a) Manly deeds, womanly words Answer: Maryland

b) It grows, as it goes Answer: New Mexico

c) Labor conquers all things Answer: Oklahoma

d) While I breathe, I hope Answer: South Carolina

e) To the stars through difficulties Answer: Kansas

f) Nothing without providence Answer: Colorado

(RN: No, Rhode Island's motto is "Hope".)





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