Round 9
By Brittany Clark
Letter Round
This round brought to you by the letter “U”: All answers will begin with the letter
U. ± 10, no bounce backs.
1) Important in the Battle of the Atlantic, these WWII German submarines attacked
merchant convoys as well as military vessels.
ANSWER: U-boat or U-boot or Unterseeboot
2) This Greater London metro train system is also called “the Tube”.
ANSWER: London Underground
3) This radioactive chemical element with atomic number 92 is being enriched by Iran as
part of their nuclear program.
ANSWER: Uranium
4) This fretted string instrument has four strings and is commonly found at luaus.
ANSWER: Ukelele (prompt on “uke”)
5) In RNA it base pairs with adenine but is replaced by thymine in DNA.
ANSWER: Uracil
6) Located in the mouth, this small mass of tissue hangs down near the back of the throat
from the soft palate.
ANSWER: Uvula
7) Commonly used by Arab women to express celebration or grief this is a long,
wavering, high pitched sound.
ANSWER: ululation or ululate
8) Food products are labeled with this if they are certified as kosher by the Orthodox
Union.
ANSWER: circled U (accept equivalents)
9) This Jamaican hybrid citrus fruit gets its name from its unappealing appearance.
ANSWER: Ugli fruit (may be pronounced HOO-glee)
10) This operating system was developed by a AT&T Bell Labs employees in the 1960s
and 70s.
ANSWER: Unix
Team Round 1:
6 questions per team, 5 seconds per answer, +20, no penalties
Team 1:
1) This author of Discourse on Method and key thinker of the Scientific Revolution is
best known for declaring 'cogito ergo sum', or "I think, therefore, I am."
ANSWER: Rene Descartes
2) Attributed to Laozi, its title means The Book of the Way and its Virtue and is the
central text of Daosim.
ANSWER: Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing
3) Once used as a pigment for white and yellow paint, it has raised many health concerns,
especially about its presence in drinking water.The Latin equivalent for this element is
'plumbum.'
ANSWER: Lead
4) Brother of Selene and Eos, this Greek god personified the sun and drove a chariot
across the sky.
ANSWER: Helios or Helius
5) This 18th century artistic movement, which often emphasized nature, was a reaction
against the rationality of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.
ANSWER: Romanticism
6) This North African country is currently lead by Muammar al-Qadhafi and has its
capital at Tripoli.
ANSWER: Libya
Team 2:
1) This 17th Century French mathematician and philosopher is best known for his
namesake wager and triangle.
ANSWER: Blaise Pascal
2) This text written by the namesake 4th century Bishop of Hippo is one of the first early
Christian works.
ANSWER: Confessions of Saint Augustine
3) One of only two elements that are liquid at room temperature, this toxic metal was
once used for filling cavities and making thermometers. Its name comes from the Roman
god of trade.
ANSWER: Mercury
4) This Greek goddess of the hearth gave up her seat as one of the Twelve Olympians for
Dionysus..
ANSWER: Hestia
5) This movement, which included the works of Georges Seurat, used tiny dots of color
which blended together from a distance to form pictures.
ANSWER: pointilism or chromoluminarism prompt on neo-impressionism
6) This North African is ruled by their king Muhammad VI and has its capital at Rabat.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Morocco
Category Round
Name these animals, some real species and some not, from literature.
±10, no bounce backs
1) He appears in four stories including “The Spring Running” where he tells Mowgli that
“It is hard to cast the skin”. Name this python from Kipling’s The Jungle Book.
ANSWER: Kaa
2) This fictional breed of antelope appears in the Doctor Dolittle novels and has two
heads at opposite ends of the body, each trying to move in the direction it wants.
ANSWER: Pushmi-pullyu
3) It is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. This
small translating fish allows different alien races to communicate in The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy.
ANSWER: Babel fish
4) In another one of Kipling’s short stories this mongoose defeats the two cobra that are
threatening his adopted family.
ANSWER: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
5) Charlotte the spider needs help to save Wilbur and one of the animals who assists is
this rat in E.B. White's Charlotte's Web.
ANSWER: Templeton
6) These animals which Pooh and Piglet try to trap look suspiciously like elephants and
are often associated with woozles.
ANSWER: Heffalump
7) A descendant of Ungoliant, this giant spider captures and paralyzes Frodo in Tolkein’s
The Lord of the Rings.
ANSWER: Shelob
8) This fictional beast of Arthurian legend is pursued by King Pellinore as part of is
familial duties appears in Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur.
ANSWER: Questing Beast or Beast Glatisant or Barking Beast
9) Although similar to cats, they have spotted fur, are more intelligent and can detect
suspicious people which is why Crookshanks who is half cat, half this, knew that
Scabbers was really Peter Pettigrew.
ANSWER: Kneazle
10) Simply meaning ‘whale’ in modern Hebrew, it was depicted as a sea monster in the
Old Testament and gave its name to a work by Thomas Hobbes.
ANSWER: Leviathan
Team Round 2:
8 questions per team, 5 seconds per answer, +20, no penalties, +25 for all correct
Team 1:
1) This domestic policy of Theodore Roosevelt focused on ensuring market competition,
regulating the meat industry, and preventing monopolistic trusts.
ANSWER: Square Deal
2) This 7th and 8th century Benedictine monk is famous for his The Ecclesiastical
History of the English People.
ANSWER: Venerable Bede or Saint Bede or Beda
3) The first work featured in the 1940 Fantasia was this sinister-sounding Bach work for
organ in two parts.
ANSWER: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
4) These pre-Columbian people from south-central Mexico are famous for their colossal
stone heads.
ANSWER: Olmec
5) This was the name of Thor's mighty hammer
ANSWER: Mjolnir or Mjollner
6) This cloud type is composed of ice crystals, is characterized by whispy strands
ANSWER: cirrus
7) This author compared the grass to "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" in his long poem
celebrating American democracy, "Song of Myself".
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
8) He sailed the Wicked Wench for the East India Company until that ship was torched
because he refused to ship slaves. He now commands the Black Pearl.
ANSWER: Captain Jack Sparrow (make sure to require on Captain)
Team 2:
1) This domestic program of Lyndon Johnson focused on the elimination of poverty and
racial injustice.
ANSWER: Great Society
2) This Irish poet's 1999 verse translation of Beowulf was critically acclaimed and is the
one most students use today.
ANSWER: Seamus Haney
3) This Stravinsky work featured in the original Fantasia is notorious for its
disharmonious middle, which caused riots at its 1913 premiere.
ANSWER: The Rite of Spring
4) This Mesoamerican civilization centered in Guatemala developed the only complete
written language and a complex calendar system.
ANSWER: Maya or Mayans
5) This fair Norse God was accidentely killed by his brother Hodr
ANSWER:Baldur or Balder
6) This cloud type is characterized by puffiness with flat bases and cauliflower tops
ANSWER: cumulus
7) This 19th-century American poet wrote introspective poetry such as poems beginning
with the lines "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" and "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died".
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson
8) His father, played by Christopher Lee, is a strict dentist who denies him candy. His
chief rivals are Ficklegruber and Prodnose.
ANSWER: Willy Wonka
Grab Bag
± 20, no bounce backs
1) It praises the listener for leaving “fields where glory does not stay” and describes how
he is being brought home “Shoulder-high” just as after a celebrated win. Beginning with
the line “That time you won your town the race”, this is what A.E. Houseman poem
directed at a youthful sportsman.
ANSWER: To An Athlete Dying Young
2) These solar bodies do not differentiate between atmosphere and surface but simply
become denser toward the core and do not primarily consist of rock or other solid matter.
Identify this class of planets sometimes including Uranus and Neptune but always Saturn
and Jupiter.
ANSWER: Jovian planet or gas giant
3) Its tributaries include the Kama and the Oka and a large part of it is frozen for three
months of the year. The new name of Stalingrad reflects its closeness to this river. The
longest river in Europe, this is what national river of Russia.
ANSWER: Volga River
4) Unlike its cousin, this poetic form does not use iambic pentameter and rather than
being three quatrains and a couplet, this form consists of an octave and a sestet. With
rhyme scheme a-b-b-a a-b-b-a c-d-e c-d-e, is this sonnet form which was probably
brought to Tuscany from Sicily.
ANSWER: Italian sonnet or Petrarchian sonnet
5) They are divided into two categories: terrestrial and aquatic. This term qualifies a
regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities that are best adapted to the
physical environment. Identify this ecological term denoting such things as tundra,
deserts and boreal forests.
ANSWER: biome
6) Their number was originally one more than usually mentioned but Bobby Seale was
severed from the case and sent to prison for contempt. Charged with conspiracy, inciting
to riot, and others involved with the 1968 Democratic National Convention was this
group which included Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman.
ANSWER: Chicago Seven
7) Places that have been featured twice include La Jolla, New York city and Beverly
Hills. Musical guests such as Three 6 Mafia and Sugarcult often have appearances and
one of the most commons gifts is a car. Never failing to spend an extravagant amount of
money are the birthday boys and girls on this MTV reality series.
ANSWER: My Super Sweet 16
8) The key concept of this is the removal of impurities in the iron by oxidation via
blowing air through the molten iron. Identify this first inexpensive process for the mass
production of steel from molten pig iron.
ANSWER: Bessemer process
9) From about 1360 until his death he conquered much of Western and Central Asia,
creating an empire with capital at Samarkand. Identify this 14th century Turco-Mongol
conqueror whose epithet came from a childhood injury to his leg.
ANSWER: Timur the Lame, Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Timur-e-Lang, Timur bin
Taraghay Barlas, Timur Gurkani
10) The first six books imitate the Odyssey while books 7-12 follow the themes of the
Iliad. It follows the wanderings of a Trojan destined to found Rome who also was the
lover of Dido, Queen of Carthage. Beginning with the line “I sing of arms and the man”
is this Roman heroic epic written by Virgil.
ANSWER: Aeneid
11) They are mostly in statuette form and are among the oldest ceramics to be found. The
cultural meaning of their distinctive shape and emphasis of sexual characteristics have led
them to be labeled as fertility icons or as goddesses. Name these Paleolithic European
figurines named for a goddess of Love.
ANSWER: Venus figurines
12) Also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Ingathering, it is one of the Three Pilgrim
Festivals, along with Passover and Shavout. Immediately followed by Shemini Atzeret,
identify this Jewish holiday celebrated starting on the 15th day of Tishrei, that is
associated with booths.
ANSWER: Sukkot
13) This atomic model was disproved by Rutherford's gold foil experiment. It was
proposed by J. J. Thomson, who theorized that atoms are collections of electrons held
together in positively-charged goo, much like fruits in the namesake desert.
ANSWER: Plum Pudding model
14) 4) He was the fifth emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and is counted as one of
the Mad Emperors along with his cousin Caligula. He is sometimes called a playboy and
accused of neglecting the problems of Rome in favor of his own amusements. Identify
this Roman emperor who allegedly fiddled while Rome burned.
ANSWER: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Nero Claudius Drusus
Germanicus or Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
15) The title character thinks he’s on a camping trip and while playing the game “Scout”
calls his captors Old Hank and Snake Eyes while his own name is derived from his hair
color. The captive turns out to be a little terror and the fugitives in this O. Henry story try
to sell him back to his father.
ANSWER: The Ransom of Red Chief