Blind Round by Chris Borglum
BONUSES
For the Spring Break Sun ‘n Fun Quiz-in
1. Answer the following about the development of quantum mechanics on a 5-10-15
basis.
5 pts. Einstein laid some of the groundwork for the development of quantum theory in
his 1905 paper on what effect?
Answer: PHOTOELECTRIC Effect
10 pts. First presented to the scientific public at a conference in Tomo, Italy, in 1927, this
catch-all term derived from the European capital which was the home of its presenter
marked the completion of a consistent theory of quantum mechanics.
Answer: COPENHAGEN Interpretation
15 pts. This name designates a series of conferences for physicists in the early 20th
century, sponsored by a Belgian who made a fortune from his method of manufacturing
sodium carbonate.
Answer: SOLVAY Conferences
2. Identify the following African nations from a description of their flags for ten points.
If you need the capital, you’ll get five.
10 pts. Three horizontal bars of black, red, and green, going from top to bottom. Inside
the black bar is a red rising sun.
5 pts. Lilongwe
Answer: MALAWI
10 pts. A red triangle emerges from the left side of this flag, in which are crossed an axe
and an AK-47.
5 pts. Maputo
Answer: MOZAMBIQUE
10 pts. Similar to the Amercian flag, but with only six red and five white stripes. In the
blue field is just one white star.
5 pts. Monrovia
Answer: LIBERIA
3. Show off your knowledge of the partitioning of Poland by answering the following.
For five points each, name all three rulers who signed the 1772 agreement settling the
details of the first partition of Poland: a gratuitous hint, they were the rulers of Russia,
Prussia, and Austria.
Answer: CATHERINE THE GREAT (the SECOND); FREDERICK THE
GREAT (the SECOND); MARIA THERESE (any order on these)
Now, for fifteen points, what popular Pole led the revolt against the second partition in
1795?
Answer: Thaddeus KOSCIUSZKO (kos-kyus-ko)
4. Answer the following about an important American event and region on a 5-10-15
basis.
5 pts. Discovered in 1859, what mines produced half a billion dollars’ worth of silver
and gold by 1880?
Answer: COMSTOCK LODE
10 pts. The Comstock Lode was outside of what Nevada boomtown?
Answer: VIRGINIA CITY
15 pts. What name was given to the huge lode of gold discovered in the California
Consolidated Mine in 1873?
Answer: BIG BONANZA
5. 30-20-10 Name the British monarch.
(30) Made Duke of Gloucester by Edward IV, he played a prominent role in the victory at
Barnet.
(20) Though he was in the tower when Henry VI was killed, most historians doubt he was
directly involved.
(10) Subject of a Shakespeare play, he was the last York king.
RICHARD III
6. Answer the following about an historic American magazine for the stated number of
points:
First, for ten points, what primarily literary magazine of the northeast was founded and
first edited by James Russell Lowell?
Answer: THE ATLANTIC
Now, for five points each, identify the authors of the following well-known works first
published in The Atlantic.
“The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table”
Answer: Oliver Wendell HOLMES
“Barbara Freitchie”
Answer: John Greenleaf WHITTIER
“The English Governess at the Siamese Court”
Answer: Anna LEONOWENS
“Cathedral”
Answer: Raymond CARVER
7. Name these significant female scientists from a description FTPE.
A. This woman worked with Otto Hahn, providing crucial insights into nuclear fission,
though Hahn alone received the 1944 Nobel Prize.
Answer: Lise MEITNER
B. From a distinguished scientific family, she and her husband showed that artificial
radioactivity exists when they found that aluminum continued to emit positrons after
alpha-particle bombardment ceased.
Answer: Irene JOLIOT-CURIE
C. This Englishwoman caused a sensation with her discovery of pulsars.
Answer: Jocelyn BELL Burnell
8. As this packet is being read, the question writer is on a plane somewhere over the
Atlantic Ocean, wondering how the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is going. For
five points each, identify the college for which the following players may be starring
even as you answer.
Mike Miller
Answer: FLORIDA
Answer: J. Guyton
Answer: INDIANA
Scoonie Penn
Answer: OHIO STATE
Khalid El-Amin
Answer: CONNECTICUT (UCONN)
Mike Madsen
Answer: STANFORD
Hanno Mottola
Answer: UTAH
9. Identify the Russian composers of the following works for five points each, with a
five-point bonus for answering all correctly.
Ruslan and Ludmila
Answer: Mikhail GLINKA
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Answer: Alexander BORODIN
Night on Bald Mountain
Answer: Modest MUSSORGSKY
Lt. Kije Suite
Answer: Sergei PROKOFIEV
The Golden Cockerel
Answer: Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
10. Provide the capitals of the following island nations for 5 points each.
Comoros
Answer: MORONI
Haiti
Answer: PORT AU PRINCE
Fiji
Answer: SUVA
Barbados
Answer: BRIDGETOWN
Seychelles
Answer: VICTORIA
Malta
Answer: NICOSIA
11. 30-20-10 Name the novel.
Set just before the liberation of the serfs, one of its main characters is the medical student
Arkady.
The novel focuses on Bazarov, an uncompromising scientific utilitarianist.
Written by Ivan Turgenev, it was the first novel to use the word “nihilism.”
Answer: FATHERS AND SONS
12. Identify the following Chinese Dynasties FTP each.
This dynasty reached its furthest territorial extent under Kuang Wu around the beginning
of the second century C.E.
Answer: HAN
Chao Kuang-yin became the first emperor of this dynasty in 959 C.E.
Answer: SUNG
Coming from the northeast of China, this dynasty retained nearly all of the institutions of
the Ming emperors it replaced.
Answer: MANCHU
13. So
you think you know your Luther, do you? Prove it by answering the following
FTP each.
First, all or nothing, provide the month, day and year of the posting of the 95 theses.
Answer: OCTOBER 31, 1517
Who was Pope at the time of Luther’s protest?
Answer: LEO X
Finally, Luther first suggested the Pope was not supreme in the Church in a 1519 debate
in Leipzig with what famous German Dominican?
Answer: Johann ECK
14. Given a central work of psychology, name its author 5-10-15
5 pts. Totem and Taboo
Answer: Sigmund FREUD
10 pts. The Psychology of the Child Archetype
Answer: Carl JUNG
15 pts. Neurosis and Human Growth
Answer: Karen HORNEY
15. Provide the term from economics which best fits the following definitions FTPE.
This type of corporate takeover, popularized in the 1980s, involves buying controlling
interest in a company’s stock using mostly borrowed funds.
Answer: LEVERAGED BUYOUT
This is a decline in investment caused by the raising of rates to counter a recession.
Answer: CROWDING OUT
Keynes said that in this, we are all dead. It refers to a general period of time in which all
prices are flexible.
Answer: LONG RUN
16. Given a definition, provide the following heart-related terms for ten points each.
This is the period of the cardiac cycle in which ventricles are not contracting.
Answer: diastole
This is the general term for contraction of the heart muscle.
Answer: systole
This is the electrocardiographic representation of electrical activity preceding ventricular
relaxation in systole.
Answer: T wave
17. Given varied works of art in different genres, name their creators for five points each,
with a five point bonus for getting all five.
Baldecchino
Gianlorenzo BERNINI
Twittering Machine
Paul KLEE
Monogram
Robert RAUSCHENBERG
Spirit of Death Watching
Paul GAUGIN
Funeral at Ornans
Gustave COURBET
18. The following “name game” bonus questions will run together the title of a novel and
a film, which you must give from a description of the combined plot. For example, if you
were asked to name the tortured drama of a family ravaged by drug abuse and alcoholism
which starred Richard Burton as a drunken bus driver, you’d answer “Long Day’s
Journey into Night of the Iguana.” Here you go, ten points each.
A. Harry Angstrom leaves his young wife only to find himself on a World War II
submarine with Clark Gable.
Answer: RABBIT, RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP
B. Norman Mailer’s third person account of his involvement in the march on the
pentagon in 1967 and that strange priest with the words “love” and “hate” tatooed on his
fingers.
Answer: ARMIES OF THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
C. James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical bildungsroman about his struggle to become a
writer who meets up with serial killer Hannibal Lechter.
Answer: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANHUNTER
19. Given its chemical structure and a description, identify the following amino acids for
10 points each.
It is the only protein forming amino acid without a center of chirality, and its formula is
NH2-CH2-COOH.
Answer: GLYCINE
Essential in nutrition, and potentially sleep inducing after Thanksgiving, its structure is
Ph-NH-CH=C-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH.
Answer: TRYPTOPHAN
Having symbol asp, its structure is HOOC-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH.
Answer: ASPARTIC ACID
20. Complete the titles of the following classic short stories for five points each.
A Good Man is
Answer: HARD TO FIND
The Short, Happy Life of
Answer: FRANCIS MACOMBER
The Bride Comes to
Answer: YELLOW SKY
The Horse Dealer’s
Answer: DAUGHTER
The Minister’s Black
Answer: VEIL
A Rose for
Answer: EMILY
21. Identify the following members of the Scriblerus club from works on a 10-5 basis.
10 pts. Windsor Forest
5 pts. Essay on Man
Answer: Alexander POPE
10 pts. Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London
5 pts. The Beggar’s Opera
Answer: John GAY
10 pts. Drapier’s Letters
5 pts. A Tale of a Tub
Answer: Jonathan SWIFT
22. Name the following European winners of the Nobel Prize from works FTPE.
The Dwarf; Barabbas
Answer: Par LAGERKVIST
The Forsyth Saga
Answer: John GALSWORTHY
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Answer: Luigi PIRANDELLO
Extra:
23. Think you know the difference between Magni and Modi? Well, prove it by
answering the following questions about Norse mythology in general 5-10-15.
5 pts. Tethered by Gleipnir, what wolf is the son of Loki and brother of Hel?
Answer: FENRIR (FENRIS WOLF)
10 pts. Odin gave up an eye to drink from whose well?
Answer: MIMIR (MIMIR’S WELL)
15 pts. All or nothing, name the two goats which draw Thor’s chariot.
Answer: TANNGNIOST (TOOTHGNASHER) and TANNGRISNIR
(TOOTHGRINDER)
24. It’s time to name that Scholastic philosopher! ID the following FTPE.
He proposed the doctrine of conceptualism in Sic et Non.
Pierre (Peter) ABELARD
A Franciscan, he wrote the Opus Major, which laid the groundwork for the modern
scientific method.
Roger BACON
Called “The Angelic Doctor,” he tried to reconcile Aristotle with Christian dogma.
Thomas AQUINAS
25. Been to the Louvre lately? Given the title of a painting on display there, and its
creator’s nationality, name the artist FFPE.
The Beggar Boy; Spanish
Answer: Juan MURILLO
Grand Odalisque; French
Answer: Jean INGRES (ohng-gruh)
The Ship of Fools; Dutch
Answer: Hieronymus BOSCH
The Japanese Footbridge; French
Answer: Claude MONET
Dancing Class at the Opera; French
Answer: Edgar DEGAS
Embarcation for Cythera; French
Answer: Eugene WATTEAU
26. Identify these men associated with the creation of the parthenon FTPE.
A. He died in prison on a charge of sacrilege after he supervised the completion of the
Parthenon for Pericles, including the addition of his monumental statue of Athena.
PHIDIAS
B. He drew the plans and began the work on the temple around 450 BCE.
ICTINUS
C. This Greek worked with Ictinus on the Parthenon, and personally designed the Temple
of Athena Nike on the Acropolis.
Answer: CALLICRATES