1. This author’s novel Emile, is a commentary on education. One of the leading thinkers of the enlightenment, he believed that there should exist a written or unwritten agreement between the state and the individual designed to protect people from their governments. Who is this philosopher that penned On the Social Contract, Discourse
on the Arts and Sciences, and Julie, or the New Heloise?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2. There exists five species of this type of virus that is transmitted via the transfer of fecal matter through water, food, or the air into the mouth of another host. Most human adults have developed an immunity to this type of virus by the age of five. What is this type of virus that causes extreme diarrhea in young humans and kills up to a half million kids annually worldwide?
Rotavirus
3. Pseudonym answer please. This man penned such short stories as “The Cop and the Anthem”, “The Duplicity of
Hargraves”, “The Ransom of Red Chief”, and “The Gift of the Magi.” Known for his surprise endings, who was this
American short story author that used a pseudonym in place of his real name, William Sidney Porter?
O. Henry
4. Portions of Italy were transferred to Spain from Austria, France regained some of its colonies, and the
Netherlands was no longer occupied by French troops. Most importantly, it solidified the reign of Maria Theresa of
Austria. What is this treaty that was signed in 1748, bringing the War of the Austrian Succession to a close?
(Treaty of) Aix-la-Chapelle
5. Simplify the following expression: quantity three x squared y to the fifth power z cubed close quantity raised to the fourth power.
Eighty-one x to the eighth power, y to the twentieth power, z to the twelfth power
6. This religion believes that all major religions of the world have developed out of the same spirit. It was developed in the 19 th century in modern-day Iran and has spread throughout the world with around 5 million adherents. What is this monotheistic religion which believes that there is a unity of spirit amongst all people and has the Universal House of Justice as its central governing institution?
Baha’i (Faith)
7. Reactants that can cause this type of reaction to take place include lithium, sodium, and magnesium, because they are electropositive metals. What is this type of chemical reaction that occurs when a molecule, atom, or ion gains an electron and thus experiences a decrease in its oxidation state?
Reduction
8. A sportswriter by trade, this man played an important role in the reporting of the Black Sox Scandal in baseball and was even referred to for that role in works by J.D. Salinger and was depicted in the film Eight Men Out. An author himself, what man wrote the works Gullible’s Travels and his most famous novel, an epistolary titled You
Know Me, Al?
(Ring) Lardner

9. The U.S. Supreme Court case Minor v. Happersett ruled that the fourteenth amendment did not do what this later amendment was passed to do. Drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, what is this amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prevented any law from being passed that would disallow someone from voting based on their gender?
19 th (Amendment)
10. Find the inverse of the matrix with top row ten, four and bottom row: seven, three.
Top Row: Three-halves, Negative Two; Bottom Row: Negative Seven Halves, Five
11. The mass of one of this element’s isotopes is equal to twelve times a single atomic mass unit a relationship that defines the unit. Allotropes of this element include graphite and diamond. What is this chemically active element, a member of group 14, which has a half-life of 5,730 years?
Carbon
12. It is believed that this god was among the first to be worshipped by the Ancient Greeks, and according to some myths, he was the last of the gods to be accepted atop Mount Olympus. His festivals served as the origin of Greek theatre. Who was this Greek god of winemaking, fertility, and grapes?
Dionysus (accept: Bacchus)
13. The plaintiff was an Assistant Attorney of the United States in Northern Illinois. This 1942 landmark case ruled that all adult women were eligible for inclusion in juries of criminal cases. What was this case that also ruled that a defendant’s conviction could be overturned if his or her attorney exhibited a conflict of interest in the case?
Glasser v. United States
14. This literary technique uses a reader’s expectations and twists it to illustrate a point or create comedy. A health inspector that gets food poisoning is an example. What is this literary device that can be verbal, situational, or dramatic?
Irony
15. Solve the following inequality for x: -3x plus 1 is greater than 16.
X is less than negative 5 (accept: negative five is greater than x)
16. An example of this of reaction is sulfuric acid plus ammonium hydroxide yielding ammonium sulfate and water.
What is this type of chemical reaction in which a salt and water are produced from a reaction involving a base and an acid?
Neutralization
17. After being diagnosed with an aneurysm during his 61 st year, he began creating smaller paintings such as his
Black on Grey. The subject of John Logan’s play Red, who was this American artist, an abstract expressionist that emigrated from Russia and often created color field paintings as was the case with his Four Darks in Red?
(Mark) Rothko
18. This degree of adjective demonstrates a direct relationship between two quantitative or qualitative without indicating an extreme relationship above or below all other possible things or ideas that the adjective could describe. What is this degree of comparison that often uses the words more or less, or the suffix “E” “R”?
Comparitive

19. Solve the following equation for x: the square root of the quantity x plus nine equals twelve.
X equals One-hundred thirty-five
20. A new Marine Corps recruit stops slouching in order to get his drill instructor to stop yelling at him. This is an example of what two-word term in behavioral psychology which is defined as the removal of a stimulus that the subject does not like when the desired behavior occurs?
Negative Reinforcement
21. Emerging from the liturgical dramas of the 15 th century were these plays which attempted to demonstrate a more secular approach to making ethical decisions. Known in their day as interludes, it was in these plays that human attributes were personified in characters and a central subject was guided to choose between good and evil as a path for their lives. What were these plays, examples of which were Everyman and The Second Shepherds’
Play?
Morality (Play)
22. Deuterium and Tritium are examples of this variation in an element for the specific example of hydrogen. What is this variation in an element due to the presence or omission of a neutron in the atom’s nucleus?
Isotope
23. This anxiety disorder occurs when a person becomes nervous in places which they are not familiar or in large open areas. What word derived from Greek words meaning large marketplace and fear means the fear of public places?
Agoraphobia
24. This governmental body oversees the banking system in the United States at the national level while also setting and implement monetary policy for the country as well. What is this body of seven governors which have been chaired by such people as Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan?
Federal Reserve Board
25. Solve the following logarithmic equation for x: log base 4 of 1/256 equals x/12.
(x =) -3
26. This law is sometimes referred to as Amonton’s law and when the masses of all gasses considered are held to be equal it is a specific case of the ideal gas law in which the volume of the gas is held constant. What gas law states that the pressure of such a gas is directly proportional to the gas’s temperature?
Gay Lussac’s Law
27. Characters in this comedy include Peter Quince, Hermia, Helena, and the fairies, Oberon and Titania. Another character, Robin Goodfellow is referred to as “Puck”. What iss this Shakespearean comedy, partially set in the fairyland, which centers on the wedding of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazon, Hippolyta?
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
28. Give your answer in degrees. Consider an angle measuring 5 pi over 6 radians. What is the measure of the supplement to this angle?
30 degrees

29. This play, set in the middle ages, is meant to serve as a commentary on the frustration that the world had with war in the years following the Second World War. The opening scene of this play reveals that Alizon, betrothed to
Humphrey now has a decision to make as her fiancé has been killed by his brother, who now wants her hand.
What is this 1948 play by Christopher Fry that includes the characters Thomas Mendip, Jennet, and Nicholas?
The Lady’s Not for Burning
30. Major cities in the region of these bodies of water include Syracuse and Ithaca. They were formed by glaciers that exited in the Northeastern United States during the Pleistocene epoch. What is this series of small lakes which run relatively parallel to each other in Western New York State?
Finger Lakes
31. Find all real roots of the rational function f of x equals quantity x squared minus 11 x minus 42 close quantity over the quantity three x plus seven.
(x =) -3, 14
32. This movie was the only acting appearance by the child actor Peter Ostrum, who played the role of Charlie
Bucket. It included the songs “Pure Imagination” and “I’ve got a Golden Ticket”. What is this 1971 American musical starting Gene Wilder, a film adaptation of a Roald Dahl novel?
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
33. Countless physics professors have used one of these to demonstrate the conservation of energy by releasing it next to their face only to not flinch as it moves throughout one full oscillation and stops within millimeters of hitting them in the face. What is this mass suspended from a pivot that so perfectly demonstrates the conversion back and forth of kinetic and potential energies?
Pendulum
34. The author said of this novel “In our society any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.” The work is divided into two parts spanning time before and time after Meursault kills an Arab man that had earlier stabbed him. What was this 1942 absurdist and existentialist novel by French
Algerian author Albert Camus?
The Stranger
35. It was on this continent that the domestication of cattle first took place, which served as one of the leading factors in the transition of humans into being agricultural from being hunter-gatherers. What is this second largest of the world’s seven continents from which original homo sapien migrated?
Africa
36. This Indianapolis-born dancer choreographed the musicals Moonlight in Havana, White Savage, and The
Beloved. He served as the mentor or trainer of several significant dancers including Janet Collins, Bella Lewitzky, and Alvin Ailey. Who was this choreographer that attempted to add movements from Native American,
Indonesian, and Japanese cultures?
(Lester) Horton

37. This man first demonstrated that supernova were events occurring outside the orbit of the moon doing so using his measurement of the event and attempting to calculate their distance from Earth via parallax. Who was this Danish astronomer that made such precise measurements of the heavenly bodies that they would one day be used by his apprentice, Johannes Kepler, to create his laws of planetary motion?
(Tycho) Brahe
38. This woman received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, the first person from Latin America to do so. It would be six years later that she would first win the Chilean National Prize for Literature. Who was this author of the poetry collections Sonnets of Death, Tala, and Readings for Women?
(Gabriela) Mistral
39. The hypotenuse of a right triangle measures 12 inches in length. One leg is 8 inches long. What is the length of the other leg?
4 Radcial 5 inches
40. This Australian state’s capital is located at Hobart, where approximately half of its residents live. It is also home to Mount Wellington, which overlooks Hobart. What is this island state, located south of the Australian mainland?
Tasmania
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-Second Half-
1. Ida Rubinstein first commissioned this ballet which its composer created in 1928. At its premiere, Bronislava
Nijinska provided its choreography. What is this orchestral piece by Maurcie Ravel that shares its name with a style of Latin dance with a slow tempo?
Bolero
2. Andorra is the smallest nation located entirely on this geographic feature that is surrounded by the
Mediterranean Sea, Bay of Biscay and the Atlantic Ocean. What is this European peninsula that was invaded by the
Umayyad caliphate, the descendants of whom were later referred to in the West as the Moors?
Iberian Peninsula
3. This man attacked the racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in a lecture in 1975. Following the success of his magnum opus, he authored such works as No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, and Anthills of the Savannah. Who was this Nigerian author of the 1958 novel Things Fall Apart?
(Chinua) Achebe
4. What is the surface area of a sphere with a radius that is 5 meters long?
100 pi square meters (or meters squared)
5. Haumea and Makemake are two of the three dwarf planets located in this region of the Solar System. Home to the former planet, Pluto, what is this region of trans-Neptunian objects that consist of small icy bodies located between thirty and fifty astronomical units from the Sun?
Kuiper Belt

6. Musical numbers from this rock opera include “Everything’s Alright”, “The Temple”, and “I Don’t know How to
Love Him.” What is this rock opera by the duo of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice that won the former the
Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Composer in 1972?
Jesus Christ Superstar
7. This 16 th century religious figure was excommunicated by the church at the Diet of Worms. Who was this
German monk that broke from the Roman Catholic Church by post his grievances with the establishment in the form of 95 Theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg?
(Martin) Luther
8. This 1954 dystopian novel attempts to demonstrate the natural savagery of human beings as civilization is removed from the lives of a group of young boys that have survived a plane crash. Important symbols in the novel include a conch and the titular object, a pig’s head on a stick. Featuring the characters Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, what is this novel by English author William Golding?
Lord of the Flies
9. This happens to the surface of layers of rock in areas of mountain formation as the once flat layers become bent with the upward movement. By what process does sedimentary strata or some other previously flat surface become bent by extreme pressures, an event that can usually be scene in the curved lines in the rocks or sediment?
Folding (accept other forms of the word fold)
10. What is the area of a rhombus with diagonals measuring 12 centimeters and 18 centimeters respectively?
108 square centimteres (or centimeters squared)
11. This style of American music took hold in the south in the 1920’s, developing out of the folk music of
Appalachia and the Blues music throughout the region. Popular musicians of this style include Dwight Yoakam,
George Strait, and Reba McEntire. What is this style, whose Garth Brooks has sold over 150 million records?
Country (and Western)
12. Conspirators included Robert Keyes, John Wright, Thomas Bates, and Thomas Percy. In 1605, they planned to ignite explosives at the House of Lords, in which they intended to make King James the First’s daughter, Elizabeth, queen. What was this conspiracy that was foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding the explosives?
Gunpowder Plot
13. This character’s need for revenge for the loss of his leg blinds him to the dangers he has placed himself and his crew in while seeking to kill the white whale. Who is this fictional captain of the Pequod, a whaling ship in Herman
Melville’s Moby-Dick?
Captain Ahab
14. This portion of the Earth was created by igneous forces consisting of volcanic eruption and seafloor spreading.
It is separated from the mantle by the Mohorovicic discontinuity. What is this outermost layer of the rocky Earth on which the tectonic plates are found?
Crust

15. A 30-30-120 degree triangle has congruent sides measuring 10 inches long each. What is the area of this triangle?
25 radical 3 square inches (or inches squared)
16. This director’s last two works were extended historical epics that were released in the years before and during the Second World War in Russia. Those works were Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, the later film being released in two parts. Who was this Soviet Russian director of the silent films Battleship Potemkin, October, and
Strike?
(Sergei) Eisenstein
17. The four treaties that combined to end this war were the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, the Treaty of Hamburg, the Treaty of Paris, and the Treaty of Hubertusburg. It was during this conflict that the British initially gained control of Florida and New France. What was this world-wide conflict that included the North American-fought
French and Indian War?
Seven Years’ War
18. This man served as the guide through hell and purgatory for the Dante in the author’s Divine Comedy. Who was this Latin poet, who himself wrote the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the greatest epic poem of the Roman
Empire, the Aeneid?
Virgil
19. An increase in the number of leaves a plant has will increase the rate at which this process occurs because water is lost through the stomata on those leaves. What is this process by which water moves into or out of a plant and through its xylem to its leaves, stem or flower?
Transpiration
20. What is the most specific shape of the graph of the equations 7x squared equals 7y squared plus 56?
Hyperbola
21. This nation fought a War of Independence between 1895 and 1898 as part of the larger Ten Years’ War. They were led by Francisco Vicente Aguilera among others. That conflict, which would eventually include the Spanish-
American War, was primarily fought between Spain and what Caribbean nation?
Cuba
22. It is commonplace for these religious buildings to have minarets or domes. The Al-Aqsa is an example in
Jerusalem. The Hagia Sophia, in Turkey, is another. What are these places of worship in the Islam faith?
Mosque
23. Characters in this ancient epic include Demodocus, the Lotus-Easters, and Telemachus. What was this epic poem by Homer which told of the trek home from the Trojan War of an Ithican King and his wife Penelope and their son who awaited his return?
The Odyssey

24. These diagrams, created by and named for the British geneticist that first used them, allow one to view the results of a hypothetical crossing of traits. What are these graphical representations of the passing of dominant and recessive traits from one generation to another?
Punnett Squares
25. Find the midpoint of the segment AB if A is found at 11, 23 and B is found at --5, -6.
3, 17/2
26. This art movement emphasized the feelings experienced by the viewer. Example pieces include Liberty Leading the People, The Oxbow, and The Raft of the Medusa. What was this art movement, prominent during the 19 th century, that included the works of the Hudson River School, Eugene Delacroix, Theodore Gericault among others?
Romanticism
27. This man was not yet twenty years old when he committed a double murder on June 28 th , 1914. His goal was to free his homeland from Austrian control. Who was this Yugoslav nationalist, a member of the Black Hand that assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sparking the First World War?
(Gavrilo) Princip
28. This adjective describes a solution in which there is an increased rate of solutes outside of a cell than inside, a situation that will typically result in the solution returning to equilibrium via osmosis. What is this word that describes any solution that has a higher concentration of solutes than another while the two are separated by a semipermeable membrane?
Hypertonic (Solution)
29. He penned the famous line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.” It was written as the opening line of his most famous poem, a poem found in his collection Hesperides. Who is this author of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of
Time”?
(Robert) Herrick
30. What is the probability that a thunderstorm will occur for three days in a row if the percentage chance that it happens on any given day is 20% and the possible occurrence of a thunderstorm is an independent event?
1/125
31. This woman’s Ram’s Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills is housed in The Brooklyn Museum a far cry from the
Western landscape images she often created. Who was this American artist that is best known for painting up close images of flowers?
(Georgia) O’Keefe
32. Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth was an attempt to warn the world of this threat. By what twoword phrase do we refer to the gradual increase in measured temperature of the land and ocean over the last one hundred years believed to be caused by the release of carbon from within the Earth into the atmosphere, where it forms carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas?
Global Warming

33. There exists another play about Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and it is speculated that this man is its author. It is known that he wrote The First Part of Hieronimo, which was printed as a quarto. Who was this 16 th century English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, his magnum opus?
(Thomas) Kyd
34. Conquered in 1521, these Nahuatl speaking people blended into the new Spanish culture and within twohundred years there were no purely indigenous tribe members left. Located in Central Mexico, what civilization’s capital was located on an island in Lake Texcoco and named Tenochtitlan?
Aztec
35. In how many ways can the letters in the word “potato” be distinctly rearranged?
180
36. This explorer was killed in the Battle of Mactan in 1521 by indigenous Filipinos. Who was this Spanish explorer whose expedition made the first circumnavigation of the globe, though he, himself, did not complete it?
(Ferdinand) Magellan
37. This device does not create a permanent image, but instead an image that preserves color, but must be traced onto surface on which the image appears. Consisting of a box or dark room with a pinhole allowing in light, what is this optical device that predated photography and has a name that is Latin for “dark chamber”?
Camera Obscura
38. While there is some dispute to this idiom’s origins, one theory is that escaped prisoners would drop fish to distract tracking hounds from their scent. What is this two word idiom that is often used in mystery stories to distract the audience from an important fact in the story or to distract a customer base from a flaw in a product?
Red Herring
39. These substances will taste bitter and specific types named for Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius will produce hydroxide ions in an aqueous solution. When combined with an acid, these solutions will produce water and a salt.
What word describes any solution that is a hydrogen ion receptor and has a pH greater than seven?
Base
40. Find the sum of the first fifteen odd numbers.
Two-Hundred Twenty-Five
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-Tiebreakers-
1. As of July 2014, Najib Razak is the sitting Prime Minister of this Southeast Asian nation. This nation is home to the Petronas Towers, the tallest twin towers in the world. What is this nation whose largest city, Kuala Lumpur, is also its capital?
Malaysia

2. The half-live of this element’s six naturally occurring isotopes varies from 4.5 billion years down to just 69 years, but all are radioactive. The most commonly found isotope has an atomic mass of 238 AMU. What is this element, whose isotope with an atomic mass of 235 AMU can sustain a nuclear chain reaction, which made it the material used in the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
Uranium
3. This proponent of Romanticism in the United States is considered the founder of the Hudson River School of painting and his five-painting series The Course of Empire is indicative of that group’s style. Known for his landscape paintings of Upstate New York, who was this American artist, the creator of The Titan’s Goblet, The
Voyage of Life and The Oxbow?
(Thomas) Cole
4. Examples include “buzz”, “roar”, and “meow”. What is this type of word that is meant to sound like its meaning?
Onomatopoeia
5. Find the derivative of the function f of x equals 3 times the natural log of x.
3/x (accept: 3 over x)
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