Fall Novice
Round 3
1.This novel's protagonist refuses to wear clothes after Snowden dies in his arms and signs letters
as Washington Irving. That protagonist learns that Orr escaped to Sweden, and his friend Dunbar
was “disappeared” during a hospital riot. This novel describes a squadron on Pianosa
commanded by Colonel Cathcart whose mess officer is Milo Minderbinder. For 10 points, name
this novel in which the protagonist flies 71 missions, a work about Major Major and Yossarian
by Joseph Heller.
ANSWER: Catch-22
2.This man attempted to get southern electors to vote for Thomas Pinckney in an attempt to
hinder John Adams. This man’s campaigning for Morgan Lewis for Governor of New York
resulted in this man’s death. This man effectively commanded the US Army during the Quasi
War with France. In addition to being one of George Washington’s closest confidantes, this man
was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers and served as the first Secretary of the Treasury.
For 10 points, name this man who was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr.
ANSWER: Alexander Hamilton
3.This man’s brother’s head was tossed into this man’s camp after the Battle of the Metaurus.
This man began the conflict in which he fought by attacking Saguntum. He won major victories
at Trebia and Lake Trasimene. This man’s family included military men like Hamilcar and
Hasdrubal. After leading elephants across the Alps, this man fought against Rome at the Battles
of Cannae and Zama during the Second Punic War. For 10 points, name this Carthaginian
general.
ANSWER: Hannibal [accept Hannibal Barca; prompt on Barca]
4.In this novel, Valeria leaves her husband and later dies, leading him to eventually move to
America. There that character marries Charlotte, who is killed in a hit and run, and Gustave
Trapp later checks Charlotte's daughter out of the hospital. The title character of this novel earns
a part in The Enchanted Hunters, a play by Clare Quilty. That character, Dolores Haze, is loved
by Humbert Humbert, who bestows on her the titular nickname. For 10 points, name this novel
by Vladimir Nabokov.
ANSWER: Lolita
5.The conspirators in this event were coordinated by Danilo Ilic. This event was preceded by the
throwing of a hand grenade by Cabrinovic that blew up the wrong car. This action, which was
meant to cause the secession of a certain nation’s south-Slav provinces, killed Duchess Sophie.
Following it, the Russian, French, German, and Austro-Hungarian armies mobilized. Organized
by the Black Hand terrorist cell, for 10 points, identify this killing in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip
that led to World War I.
ANSWER: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [or equivalents, like murder or
killing]
6.This man wrote extensively about the “Miracle of Chile,” and also argued that government
policies turned a “garden-variety recession” into the “Great Contraction” from 1929 to 1933. His
reinterpretation of Keynes’ consumption function became the “permanent income hypothesis,”
and this author of Capitalism and Freedom focused on government-caused inflation and the
money supply in his theory of monetarism. For 10 points, name this conservative Chicago
School economist.
ANSWER: Milton Friedman
7.In this nation, the Khorat Plateau creates eastern highlands. The Chao Phraya River flows
through this nation’s largest city and into this country’s namesake gulf. This nations’s northern
border is formed by the Mekong River. This nation’s major cities include Chiang Mai and
Phuket, and it is bordered by Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Malaysia. For 10 points, name this
Southeast Asian nation, with capital at Bangkok.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Thailand or Ratcha Anachak Thai or Prathet Thai
8.This designer of the Bayreuth [BYE-royt] Festival Theater included the “Liebestod” aria in
Tristan and Isolde, and he composed a wedding march for Lohengrin. His four-part opera cycle
follows Siegfried and Brunnhilde, beginning with The Rhine Gold and ending with
Gotterdamerung, or Twilight of the Gods. For 10 points, name this German Romantic composer
of The Ring of the Nibelung, which includes the “Ride of the Valkyries”.
ANSWER: Richard Wagner
9.This war’s last major battle was the Siege of Kars, and Lord Raglan commanded the British
forces. The hospital at Scutari was run by Florence Nightingale, and major battles in this war
occurred at Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol, and the site of the Charge of the Light Brigade,
Balaclava. For 10 points, name this war between allied Turkish, British, and French forces and
Russia, named for an Eastern European peninsula.
ANSWER: Crimean War
10.These structures are targeted by the DAPI stain and some proteins associated with them
contain alpha-solenoid and beta-propeller folds, known as its namesake pores. Syncytia contain
many of these structures. The membrane of this structure is continuous with the rough ER, and
this structure contains histone proteins strung together in chromatin. For 10 points, name this cell
structure present in eukaryotes in which transcription and DNA synthesis take place.
ANSWER: nucleus
11.A description of this man’s father, Zachariah, opens the Gospel of Luke, and the Visitation
occurred to his mother Elizabeth. Also known for his diet of wild locusts, Salomé demanded this
figure’s head on a silver platter from King Herod, who imprisoned and executed him. For 10
points, name this prophet who lived in the wilderness, a New Testament figure who got his
epithet from performing an aquatic sacrament on people including Jesus Christ.
ANSWER: St. John the Baptist [prompt on John; accept Iokanaan or Johanan]
12.When hydrocarbon chains show different amounts of branching, it is called the “chain” type
of this relationship. A certain enzyme that knots DNA turns it into the “topological” type of this.
One example of this relationship is seen when two molecules are mirror-images of each other;
they are called enantiomers. Also grouped into stereo- and structural types, for 10 points, name
this relationship characterized by shared molecular formulas but different structural formulas.
ANSWER: isomerism [accept word forms such as isomers]
13.In one myth, this god arrived to protect his great-grandson using the plant moly. In addition to
saving Odysseus from Circe, this grandson of Atlas not only invented the lyre and stole all of
Apollo's cattle, but did it on the day of his birth. The god of thieves and crossroads and son of
Maia, this bearer of the caduceus was assisted in his primary role by objects he once lent to
Perseus, his winged sandals. For 10 points, name this counterpart of Mercury, the Greek
messenger god.
ANSWER: Hermes [accept Mercury until “Odysseus”]
14.One of this planet's moons is home to Pwyll Crater, and that moon is believed to have a layer
of liquid water below its surface; other moons of this planet include Adrastea and Metis. The
Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet was ripped apart upon entering the gravitational field of this planet,
and the largest moon in the solar system revolves around this planet. Home to such Galilean
moons as Europa and Ganymede, this is, for 10 points, what planet, the largest in our solar
system?
ANSWER: Jupiter
15.In this painting, a drummer stands on the extreme left and looks at the viewer. One figure in
this painting holds a large blue and yellow flag, while another wears red and is loading a musket.
This painting also shows a brightly-lit girl with a chicken on her back. That girl, who is wearing
gold, is behind a man in gold and another man in a red sash. Given its nickname because of the
dark varnish covering it, for 10 points, name this Rembrandt painting of a militia company.
ANSWER: The Night Watch [or De Nachtwacht; or The Company of Frans Banning Cocq
and Willem von Ruytenburch; or Officieren en andere schutters van wijk II in Amsterdam onder
leiding van kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburch]
16.One of this kind of work contains the story of Rostam and Sohrab. In addition to the
Shahnameh, Bharata rules as regent to the title character of another one of these works, which
also contains Hanuman’s rescue of that character's wife from Ravana. Another work of this kind
centers around the titular hero's voyage home, his son Telemachus' quest to find him, and his
wife's faithfulness. For 10 points, name this kind of verse work of which the Ramayana and the
Odyssey are examples.
Answer: Epic Poems [accept clear-knowledge equivalents; accept National Epics until
“Bharata”]
17.This man’s subordinate Artemisia I lost the battle of Artemisium and this man’s murder is
attributed to his bodyguard, Artabanus, after he returned from a defeat at the hands of Pausanius.
The aforementioned defeat included one battle resulting in the death of Mardonius and another
involving the disastrous use of triremes near Athens, while another victory of this man’s resulted
in the death of Leonidas. For 10 points, name this Persian king, son of Darius I, who fought the
Battles of Plataea, Salamis, and Thermopylae.
ANSWER: Xerxes I of Persia [or Xerxes the Great; or Khshayarsha; or Ahasuerus; prompt
on Xerxes]
18.This man’s study of the three body problem was published in his most famous work. The rate
of a body's heat loss is proportional to the difference in the body's temperature and the
surrounding temperature in his namesake Law of Cooling. Besides inventing calculus at the
same time as Leibniz, he also published a work about prisms and color, Optics. For 10 points,
name this scientist, who wrote Principia, and probably discovered gravity by watching an apple
fall down.
ANSWER: Isaac Newton
19.One of his poems details two lovers separated by the Hellespont and was completed by
George Chapman, “Hero and Leander.” One of this man's historical plays concerns a Scythian
conqueror, Tamburlaine the Great, and the title character of another of his plays falls into a
burning cauldron of oil. In another play by this man, the title character summons Mephostopilis.
For 10 points, name this contemporary of Shakespeare who wrote The Jew of Malta and Doctor
Faustus.
ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe
20.In one song by this band, the lead singer says that he will “distill the life inside of me” with
“Pennyroyal Tea”. In another song by this band, the singer swears, "[he doesn't] have a gun,
"while a third tells the listener to “load up on guns and bring your friends.” Songs like “Come As
You Are” appear on this band’s most famous album whose cover shows a baby swimming, and
is called Nevermind. For 10 points, name this grunge band responsible for "Smells Like Teen
Spirit," fronted by Kurt Cobain.
ANSWER: Nirvana
21.In one novel by this man, Alan Breck assists a claimant to part of the Shaw estate, Davy
Balfour, and another narrated by Gabriel Utterson sees a chemist trample a child outside a
mysterious door. In addition to Kidnapped, this man wrote a novel in which Dr. Livesey is
among the crew of the Hispaniola along with Squire Trelawney and another about a man who
uses an appearance changing drug. For 10 points name this author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
and Treasure Island.
ANSWER: Robert Louis Stevenson
1.David Atlee Philips led the task force against this man. For ten points each:
[10] Name this socialist president overthrown in a CIA-sponsored coup and replaced by Augusto
Pinochet.
ANSWER: Salvador Allende
[10] Allende and Pinochet governed this nation with capital at Santiago.
ANSWER: Chile
[10] Ended by the Treaty of Ancón, this war saw Chile defeat an alliance of Peru and Bolivia and
gain control over the Atacama Desert.
ANSWER: War of the Pacific
2.Kleine-Levin syndrome causes victims to sleep for twenty hours by causing malfunctions in
this structure. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this structure which makes up the floor of the third cerebral ventricle and which
affects the pituitary gland below it.
ANSWER: hypothalamus
[10] This lowest structure of another structure’s stem controls the heart rate, blood pressure, and
other involuntary functions.
ANSWER: medulla oblongata (accept MO)
[10] Both the hypothalamus and medulla oblongata are part of this structure of nerve tissue
located at the anterior of an organism used for learning. It is protected by the cranium.
ANSWER: brain
3.This river flows through the Grand Canyon. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this river that forms the border between California and Arizona.
ANSWER: Colorado River
[10] This river passes through Wichita and Tulsa before joining the Mississippi River and
passing through its namesake state’s capital, Little Rock.
ANSWER: Arkansas River
[10] This river, formed by the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers in
Pittsburgh, is the Mississippi’s largest tributary by volume.
ANSWER: Ohio River
4.One example of this type of reaction is between silver nitrate and potassium chloride. For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this type of reaction, in which two cations swap anions.
ANSWER: double-replacement or double-displacement reaction [prompt on solution
reactions]
[10] This is name given to the solid product that forms from a double replacement reaction.
ANSWER: precipitate
[10] A precipitate only forms if one of the products has this property. This means that the
precipitate does not dissolve in a solvent.
ANSWER: insolubility [accept word forms like insoluble]
5.Okun's rule of thumb states that for every percent it decreases, real GDP increases 2 or 3
percent. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this phenomenon with cyclical and frictional types in which people are unable to
find jobs.
ANSWER: unemployment
[10] Blacksmiths suffer from this type of unemployment, in which a person's skills are not
demanded by the market and thus aren't needed by employers.
ANSWER: structural unemployment
[10] Lifeguards often suffer from this type of frictional unemployment, which sees a skill set
unneeded for a period of time.
ANSWER: seasonal unemployment
6.Objects traveling faster than it through a medium emit a blue glow from Cerenkov radiation.
For 10 points each,
[10] Name this fastest possible speed for matter, roughly 300 million meters per second.
ANSWER: speed of light [prompt on "c"]
[10] This experiment determined that the speed of light was constant in all directions, famously
failing to find a “luminiferous ether” which light waves had to travel through.
ANSWER: Michelson-Morley experiment
[10] In their experiment, Michelson and Morley used mirrors in this type of device, which splits
a beam of light in half and measures the disturbances when the beams recombine.
ANSWER: interferometer
7.It was the successor to the House of Rurik. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this last ruling house of Russia, which began with Michael I and included such
figures as Peter the Great and Alexander the Blessed.
ANSWER: House of Romanov or Romanov Dynasty
[10] The House of Romanov came to an end with the Revolution of 1917, when this last Russian
czar abdicated. The Bolsheviks killed still him and his family at the Ipatiev House.
ANSWER: Tsar Nicholas II [prompt on Nicholas]
[10] This “Mad Monk” was closely associated with the Romanov family and acted as a healer to
Nicholas’ son Alexei. Bizarre stories of his death, while impressive, lack verifiable sources.
ANSWER: Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin
8.This book sees a journey in the Sinai Peninsula. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Biblical book which includes the establishment of Passover, in which Moses
leads the Jews from Egypt and receives the Ten Commandments.
ANSWER: Exodus Accept Shemot
[10] Exodus is included in this grouping of the first five books of the Bible, which span from the
creation to the death of Moses.
ANSWER: Torah or Pentateuch or Tawrat or Chumash
[10] This Jewish text is divided into the Mishnah, a compilation of orally transmitted laws
redacted by Rabbi Judah the Prince, and the Gemara, a commentary on the Mishnah.
ANSWER: Talmud
9.The Tribute Money is a notable example of this kind of painting, and there are a number of
them in the Sistine Chapel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this kind of painting, which is done directly on a wall or ceiling.
Answer: mural [or fresco]
[10] This Mexican muralist painted several murals about Mexican history, as well as Detroit
Industry and a destroyed work for Rockerfeller Center that contained a portrait of Lenin, Man at
The Crossroads.
Answer: Diego Rivera
[10] This artist painted several self-portraits with monkeys and another one dedicated to Leon
Trotsky. She married, divorced, and remarried Diego Rivera.
Answer: Frieda Kahlo
10.This man's father Aegeus jumped into his namesake sea upon this hero's return without
changing his sails. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Athenian who traveled to Crete to slay the Minotaur, known for later adventures
with his friend Peirithous.
ANSWER: Theseus
[10] This daughter of Minos assisted Theseus, but he abandoned this sister of Phaedra on Naxos.
ANSWER: Ariadne
[10] Phaedra committed suicide after falling in love with Theseus' son Hippolytus, the son of one
of these warrior women whose ranks include Penthesilea.
ANSWER: Amazons
11.This play's second part sees the title character have a son with Helen of Troy. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this play in which the title character makes a pact with Mephistopheles and falls in
love with Gretchen.
ANSWER: Faust
[10] This German author of Faust also wrote a novel in which the title character loves Lotte, who
marries Albert, The Sorrows of Young Werther.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ["gur-tah"]
[10] Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang movement, which was related to this panEuropean literary movement emphasizing emotion and the sublime that included Percy Bysshe
Shelly.
ANSWER: Romanticism Accept word forms
12.He blocked Buchanan's plan for a federal slave code and claimed that the Declaration of
Independence was not written with Blacks in mind, for 10 points each:
[10] Name this statesman nominated as the Northern Democratic presidential candidate in 1860.
He had earlier debated Abraham Lincoln over Popular Sovereignty.
ANSWER: Stephen Arnold Douglas
[10] Stephen Douglas proclaimed that slavery could indeed be banned if a territory refused to
pass laws endorsing it in this doctrine.
ANSWER: Freeport Doctrine
[10] Abraham Lincoln stated that one of these divided against itself could not stand in reference
to the sectional conflicts that were threatening the Union.
ANSWER: house
13.As part of a move towards "21st century socialism," this leader has taken such steps as
nationalizing the cement and oil industries. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this anti-American president of Venezuela.
ANSWER: Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
[10] President Evo Morales has overseen the nationalization of this country's gas reserves as part
of his pledge to distribute more of the country's wealth to the indigenous majority.
ANSWER: Plurinational State of Bolivia or Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
[10] This nation recently experienced rioting after incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
defeated Mir-Hossein Mousavi in elections.
ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Iran or Johmhuri-yu Islami-ye Iran
14.The losing army in this battle had won the Battle of Stamford Bridge a few weeks before. For
10 points each:
[10] Identify this battle fought between Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror in 1066,
which is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.
ANSWER: Battle of Hastings
[10] At Stamford Bridge, Harold Godwinson defeated this Viking leader, who also claimed the
throne after Edward the Confessor died.
ANSWER: Harold Hardrada [or Harold III; prompt on Harold]
[10] William the Conqueror was the leader of these French-speaking people in their conquest of
England.
ANSWER: Normans
15.The protagonist of this novel encounters the feuding Grangerfords and Sheperdsons. For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this work in which the title character flees from his father Pap by descending the
Mississippi with the escaped slave Jim.
ANSWER: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
[10] This author of Huckleberry Finn also wrote a work about Edward and Tom, The Prince and
the Pauper, as well as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
ANSWER: Mark Twain [or Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
[10] In this Twain novel, Hank Morgan is sent back in time after being hit on the head with a
crowbar and eventually put into a long sleep by Merlin.
ANSWER: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
16.The diagonals contain the figurate number of simplices. For ten points each:
[10] Name this geometric arrangement of numbers named after a French mathematician in which
each new value is determined from the sum of the two numbers above it.
ANSWER: Pascal’s Triangle
[10] The sum of the numbers in any given row of Pascal’s triangles is this type of number, a
natural number without any odd factors.
ANSWER: powers of two (accept clear knowledge equivalents such as two to the nth)
[10] The nth row of Pascal’s triangle lists the coefficients of this type of expansion, the
expansion of (x+y) to the nth power.
ANSWER: binomial expansion
17.He composed piano solo collections such as Forest Scenes and Scenes from Childhood. For
10 points each:
[10] Name this Romantic composer of the Spring Symphony and the Rhenish Symphony.
ANSWER: Robert Schumann
[10] This German composer collaborated with Schumann on the "F-A-E" Sonata and also wrote
A German Requiem and some lullabies.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms
[10] Brahms wrote this piece for the University of Breslau. It quotes "Gaudeamus Igitur" and its
complement is the Tragic Overture.
ANSWER: An Academic Festival Overture
18.Modern ones usually have three valves that can be depressed by fingers. For 10 points each:
[10] First, name this brass instrument whose famous players include the scratchy-voiced Louis
Armstrong.
ANSWER: trumpet
[10] This “cool jazz” composer of Sketches of Spain also used the trumpet. His album Kind of
Blue includes a track which repeats the main theme up a half-step, So What.
ANSWER: Miles Davis
[10] This jazz trumpeter, a friend of Charlie Parker and pioneer of bebop, played his
characteristically bent trumpet in compositions like “Night in Tunisia” and “Salt Peanuts”.
ANSWER: John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie
19.As a result of the Rivonia Trial, this man was imprisoned on Robben Island, for 10 points
each:
[10] Name this man who succeeded Frederik Willem de Klerk as president of South Africa.
ANSWER: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
[10] Mandela was a member of this political party that fought against apartheid. Its military arm
was known as Spear of the Nation
ANSWER: ANC or African National Congress
[10] Afrikaners or white South Africans were descendents of these people who went on the Great
Trek and fought two wars against the British. Their name is Dutch for “farmer.”
ANSWER: Boers
20.This author wrote a story describing an infinitely large library containing books made of
random letters. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this surrealist author of “The Library of Babel” and “The Garden of Forking Paths,”
who also wrote about a man rewriting Don Quixote in “Pierre Menard.”
ANSWER: Jorge Louis Borges
[10] This collection of short stories by Borges contains the three aforementioned stories, as well
as “Funes, the Memorious” and “The South,” among others.
ANSWER: Ficciones Accept Fictions
[10] Borges is an author from this country, also home to the author of Kiss of the Spiderwoman
and Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Manuel Puig.
ANSWER: Argentina Accept Argentine Republic or República Argentina
21.This man eulogizes Milton in his poem “London, 1802.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this English poet of “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” and a poem in which the
speaker “wandered lonely as a cloud,” “Daffodils.”
ANSWER: William Wordsworth
[10] In this poem, Wordworth notes that “five years have passed” since he visited the titular
location on the banks of the Wye, to which he is accompanied by his sister Dorothy.
ANSWER: “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the
Wye Valley during a tour, July 13, 1798”
[10] This poet of “Dejection: An Ode” collaborated with Wordsworth on the collection Lyrical
Ballads and described a “stately pleasure dome” in “Kubla Khan.”
ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge