Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with the BAAL team, the CWRU crew, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and other freelancers

Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with the BAAL team, the CWRU crew, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and other freelancers

(10) Running for the first and only time in the 1860 election, this party nominated John Bell and avoided taking a stand on sectional issues such as slavery.

Answer: Constitutional Union

(10) This anti-slavery party nominated Martin Van Buren in 1848, helping to split the vote and elect Zachary Taylor. It later combined with remnants of the Liberty Party to form the Republican Party.

Answer: Free-Soil Party

(10) This party advocated increasing the amount of paper money in circulation, thus their name. Moderately successful in 1878, prosperity drove supporters away from them.

Answer: Greenback Party
2. Answer the following about discovery of astronomical bodies FSNOP:

A. For 5, this English astronomer discovered the planet Uranus.

Answer: William Herschel

B. 5 for 1, 10 for both name the mathematicians who accurately predicted where the planet Neptune would be.

Answer: John C. Adams and Urbain Leverrier

C. For 5, name the amateur astronomer who first photographed Pluto.

Answer: Clyde Tombaugh

D. For discovering Pluto, Tombaugh got a full scholarship to the University of Kansas, where he hadn’t even applied. We wonder if the same offer will be made to any members of Dr. Mike Brown’s team, which last week announced the discovery of a possible tenth planet. They named the planet this, after an Inuit goddess of the ocean.

Answer: Sedna
3. Name these John Maynard Keats poems from lines, FTPE.

(10) Much have I traveled in realms of gold / And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands have I been / Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

Answer: On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

(10) Darkling I listen; and, for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme / To take into the air my quiet breath;

Answer: Ode to a Nightingale

(10) When old age shall this generation waste / Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe / Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, / “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Answer: Ode on [accept “to” instead of “on”] a Grecian Urn
4. Name these 80’s cartoon shows from descriptions for 10 points each.

A) The title character and the color kids attempt to keep color in the world and are opposed by murky and lurky.

Answer: Rainbow Brite

B) The telepathic Valorians battle the Rulons using dinosaurs outfitted with futuristic weapons.

Answer: Dino-riders

C) The title character, Grubby, and Newton Gimmick explore the lands of Grundo, Rillonia, and Ying.

Answer: The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
5. Given the name of a country in the 1980s, give its current name FTP each.
(10) Zaire
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo
(10) Kampuchea
Answer: Cambodia
(10) Burma
Answer: Myanmar
6. Authors of a certain letter: FTPE, identify each of the authors by their works.

(10) Wuthering Heights

Answer: Emily Bronte [accept Ellis Bell]

(10) Endgame, Happy Days, Waiting for Godot

Answer: Samuel Beckett

(10) Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked this Way Comes, Fahrenheit 451

Answer: Ray Bradbury
7. Answer the following about the origins of light theory, FTPE.

A) Isaac Newton had originally proposed that light consisted of what?

Answer: particles or corpuscles

B) In direct contrast to Newton’s theory was the notion that light consisted solely of waves. Who had first developed the wave theory of light?

Answer: Christian Huygens

C) Newton’s theory was attractive because it seemingly accounted for everything. However, what physical property of light was corpuscular theory unable to account for?

Answer: diffraction (do NOT accept refraction; Newton’s theory accounted for refraction, even though it was incorrect)
8. Name the philosopher from works, FTPE:
(10) Philosophical Investigations, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Answer: Ludwig Wittgenstein
(10) Why I am Not a Christian, The History of Western Philosophy, and Principia Mathematica
Answer: Bertrand Russell
(10) Fear and Trembling, Sickness Unto Death
Answer: Soren Kierkegaard
9. Name the Mesoamerican Empire given the capital city for 10 points each.

A) Tenochtitlán

Answer: Aztec

B) Tula

C) Teotihuacán

Answer: Olmec
10. Identify the following three-panel Hieronymus Bosch paintings for ten points each.

A) The left contains an image of paradise, the right and image of hell, and the center the title object being pulled by demons. This work shares its name with a much less twisted work by John Constable.

Answer: The Haywain

B) This work includes additional outer shutters depicting the creation of the world. The left picture is The Earthly Paradise, the right is Hell, and the center is the title scene full of animals, nudes, and fruit.

Answer: The Garden of Earthly Delights

C) Another work with outer wings which depict Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and Christ Carrying the Cross. The left panel depicts the flight and failure of the title man, the right depicts him in meditation, and the center depicts the title action.

Answer: The Temptation of St. Anthony
11. Answer the following questions about mitosis FTPE.

A) This is the first stage of mitosis, where chromosomes can be seen visibly condensing in the nucleus

Answer: Prophase

B) In this, the fourth stage in mitosis, sister chromosomes split and are pulled to opposite sides of the cell.

Answer: Anaphase

C) This is the final process, where the original cell physically splits, forming two separate cells.

Answer: cytokinesis
12. Name these plays by Henrik Ibsen from short descriptions FTPE.

A) After the protagonist’s happy marriage deteriorates, she finally comes to acknowledge her independence with an ending that was censored in some theatres when it debuted.

Answer: A Doll’s House

B) This play generated considerable controversy in its time as it explored the taboo subject of venereal disease. In the end, a wife’s attempt to maintain her deceased husband’s false public reputation eventually leads to the ruin of the people in her family.

Answer: Ghosts

C) This play is based around the idea of the “tyranny of the majority,” and follows a doctor’s quest to fix a dangerous situation against the wishes of the majority.

Answer: An Enemy of the People
13. FTPE name the British composer from works:

10) Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance

Answer: Edward Elgar

10) Dido and Aeneas, Trumpet Voluntary

Answer: Henry Purcell

10) Fantasia on “Greensleeves”, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Sea Symphony

Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams [it’s really Vaughan Williams, but we’ll take just Williams]
14. FTPE, identify these books on the New York Times Bestsellers list from the NYT description.

A) “In Clanton, Mississippi, someone is killing off the jurors who sent a member of a powerful crime family to prison for the rape and murder of a young mother.”

Answer: The Last Juror

B) “The murder of a curator at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a centuries-old secret society.”

Answer: The Da Vinci Code

C) “A seemingly harmless game played by Congressional staff members leads to murderous intrigue.”

Answer: The Zero Game
15. Answer these questions about the English Civil War FTPE.

(10) This king was beheaded in 1649.