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1. It’s not Europa, but because some astronomers think that it may be covered by an ocean of water and
surrounded by an atmosphere containing water vapour, some think that this astronomical body may
harbour life. Discovered in 1801 by (*) Giuseppe Piazzi, it was originally named after Ferdinand III of
Sicily. Other nations rejected this name; Germans called it Hera, and Greeks still call this asteroid Demeter.
For ten points, what minor planet is the namesake of the element cerium?
Answer: Ceres (do not accept “Demeter”, which in English is a different asteroid)
2. At the age of fifteen, he entered a choir school affiliated with St. Michael's Church in Lüneburg. At the
age of eighteen, he began his musical career as an organist in Arnstadt. In 1723, after spending time in
the service of the Duke of Weimar and the Prince of Anahlt-Cöthen, he became the (*) choirmaster,
composer, and musical director for St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig. For ten points, name this composer,
known for such works as the B-Minor Mass and the Brandenburg Concertos.
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach (prompt on Bach)
3. Eventually going with his better judgment, this Mississippi native and Academy-Award winner turned
down a drama scholarship to become a mechanic for the US Air Force in 1955. His filmography
includes his breakout film Street Smart, for which he earned his first Oscar nomination, as well as (*)
Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption, before he finally won his first Oscar in 2004 for his role
in the film Million Dollar Baby. For ten points, name this American actor, who more recently acted in the
movie The Bucket List and was narrator for the movies War of the Worlds and March of the Penguins.
Answer: Morgan Freeman
4. These structures make up less than 2% of the total mass of the organ which contains them, yet the
consequences for the body if they are damaged are profound. In particular, their destruction is the
result of Type One (*) diabetes, which causes the immune system to attack the beta cells contained within
these structures. For ten points, the human pancreas contains about one million of these island-like structures,
named after their German discoverer.
Answer: Islets of Langerhans (prompt on “beta cells” until they are mentioned in the question)
5. On the family edition of The Amazing Race, teams had a task here where they rode bikes; one team was
dreading the location because their father died in a motor racing accident. Jeff Gordon is the two-time
defending champion at this track, and it was the (*) site of the first 200 miles per hour NASCAR lap.
Situated next to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Alabama, for ten points, name this speedway
that was also in the title of a Will Ferrell racing film.
Answer: Talladega Superspeedway
6. Their construction, beginning in 1809, cost £100,000. They consisted of four layered sets of
fortifications, taking advantage of the surrounding terrain and manned by almost seventy thousand
men. After Masséna forced (*) Wellington's army to retreat behind them, these defenses effectively stopped
the French and, combined with a scorched-earth defense, forced the French to retreat into Spain. For ten
points, which fortifications in the Peninsular Campaign protected Lisbon from Napoleon's army?
Answer: the Lines of Torres Vedras
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7. Games he developed with Bill Stealey included Spitfire Ace, F-15 Strike Eagle, and a computer version
of Magic: The Gathering. After the latter, he left (*) Microprose and continued to develop games at his new
company. He has appeared in most of these games as a character, frequently leading a hidden nation. For ten
points, which game designer has lent his name to such classics as Pirates! and his greatest success, the
Civilization series?
Answer: Sidney K. Meier
8. They are not afraid of that which is high. They say to the lesser floods “Be dry” and to the mountains,
“Be ye removed.” They do not teach that God's pity allows them to leave their work when they damn
well choose. (*) They “tally, transport and deliver duly” their mother's sister's sons by land and main, because
they symbolize a profession of “simple service simply given to his own kind in their common need.” For ten
points, engineers often quote, in reference to themselves, the title of what poem by Rudyard Kipling about the
male children of a sister of Lazarus?
Answer: the “Sons of Martha” (prompt on “engineers” or “Kipling”)
9. They include: the defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse; the Battle of Poltava; the Battle of Valmy; the
Battle of Chalons; (*) the Siege of Orléans; the Battle of Blenheim; the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; the
Battle of Gaugamela; the Battle of the Metaurus; the Battle of Tours; the Battle of Hastings; the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada; the Battle of Saratoga; the Battle of Marathon; and the Battle of Waterloo. For ten points,
these are the fifteen battles described in which 1851 work by Sir Edward Creasy, a list of the battles which
had at that time had the greatest influence on world history?
Answer: The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
10. To fulfill the requirements of being a pair of these, both terms must be used to indicate values of a
single scale property, and it is subject to debate whether they must be fully gradable adjectives. They
move in contrary directions on the scale when (*) intensified, and there is a point in the region when
neither term is applicable. They are equally normal in a wide range of contexts, sharing the same typical areas
of discourse. For ten points, what do you call pairs of adjectives that are "opposites", such as dark-light?
Answer: antonyms
11. The Kirov's film version, released in 1990, starred Yulia Makhalina and Igor Zelinsky. A selection
from the score appears in the repertoire for the ARCT violin exam. One of the most famous of the
"ballets blancs", it features such musical numbers as the (*) Czardas and the Danses des Cygnes. For ten
points, name this popular ballet, composed in the 19th century by Tchaikovsky.
Answer: Swan Lake / Le lac des cygnes
12. The free particle version of this contains both the Laplace operator and Planck's Constant. The bound
particle version requires a fourth quantum number in order to make it consistent with (*) relativity. Its
inventor won a Nobel Prize in 1922 due to the great impact it has had on the study of quantum mechanics. For
ten points, what equation describes the area in which there is a ninety percent chance of finding an electron?
Answer: Schrödinger's Wave Equation
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13. Built in 1989, it quickly drew crowds with bands like Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins. The
rebuilt site of this nightclub has a North African motif, fitting in with the desert-like climate of San
Diego, California. Several groups have exploited the similarity of this place’s name to a (*) Clash song.
For ten points, what nightclub frequently gets covers of a song where you “drop your bombs between the
minarets” and “rock” this place?
Answer: The Casbah
14. This person was born in Georgia, but not the one you’re sitting in. His mother, Ekaterina "Keke"
Geladze, wanted him to be a priest, even after he took control of his nation. In 1902 he was arrested
(*)and later sent to Siberia for organizing a strike. It is estimated that the social changes he imposed and his
purges cost the lives of 20 million Soviet citizens. For ten points, name this dictator who served as the basis
for Napoleon in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Answer: Joseph Stalin / Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
15. This astronomical concept was developed by its namesake and was part of his solution to Einstein's
field equations. It has a value of about three kilometres for the Sun and only nine millimetres for (*)
Earth. If an object is smaller than this distance, it will collapse under gravitational pressure. For ten points,
what is the scientific term for the distance within which an object is compressed to form a black hole?
Answer: Schwarzchild radius
16. Due to its style of play, this game was the first commercial game to be played by mail. Originally selfpublished by its inventor, Allan Calhamer, it was later published by Games Research, Avalon Hill, and
Hasbro, and has recently been ported to the Internet. Few people play it, (*) because all seven sides must
be represented and tournament games can last over twelve hours. For ten points, which strategy board game,
set before WWI, the favorite of both Henry Kissinger's and JFK, has players representing seven European
powers, who must fight and negotiate in order to take over Europe?
Answer: Diplomacy
17. "We're bored of fish" in seven-foot-high letters in the penguin enclosure at the London Zoo. Monet's
Water Lily Pond with litter floating in the pond. A scene from Pulp Fiction but with bananas instead of
guns. (*) Queen Victoria as a lesbian. Mona Lisa with paint dripping from her eyes. Graffiti on the West
Bank barrier between Palestine and Israel. All this is the work of, for ten points, what famous elusive British
graffiti artist?
Answer: Banksy (or Robert Banks)
18. This force was created at the outbreak of war, and grew from a single infantry company. By 1917, it
made up an entire corps, and played an important role at Zborov and Bakhmach. After the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk, they were offered free passage to Vladivostok, whence they could travel to (*) France to
join their fellow countrymen. However, they sided with the Whites during the Russian Civil War, and ended
up taking over a large part of Siberia before gaining amnesty from the Bolsheviks in exchange for a large
quantity of gold. For ten points, what group of Czechs and Slovaks fought its way across Russia from 1918 to
1920, in an event sometimes called the Siberian Anabasis?
Answer: the Czechoslovak Legion (accept the Czech/Slovak equivalent, Československé legie)
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19. The Petersen one looks like a pentacle within a pentagon. In a regular one, each vertex has the same
number of (*) neighbours. A simple one has no loops. A complete one connects any two vertices with an
edge. For ten points, you are probably more familiar with them from algebra or data management, where they
can represent pictorially linear, exponential or quadratic functions.
Answer: graphs
20. It is described as the closest-sounding instrument to the human voice. Monteverdi referred to it as the
basso de viola de braccio. Francois-Marie Uitti plays it with two bows. (*) For ten points, seated opposite
the first violins in most symphony orchestra seating plans, what instrument is famously played by Yo-Yo Ma?
Answer: violoncello
21. This game's release was marred by accusations that television spots for it did not accurately depict
content. Despite this, it was the most popular title at launch for the Xbox 360. In the first mission, the
player uses potatoes and sticky bombs to combat (*) German tanks in Moscow and Stalingrad. Later
campaigns take the player to North Africa, Normandy, and the Rhine. For ten points, Big Red One was a
follow-up to which game in the Call of Duty series?
Answer: Call of Duty 2
22. She defected to Canada in 1992, and received the Order of Ontario for her work in aiding child victims
of war. Thirty-five years to the day after the event that made her famous, (*) Nick Ut took another iconic
picture, of Paris Hilton weeping after her sentencing. However, thirty-five years before, after taking the photo,
Nick Ut saved this girl's life, taking her to hospital where she needed 17 operations to recover from her
injuries. For ten points, who is the subject of a Pulitzer-Prize-winning Vietnam War photograph of a naked
nine-year-old girl fleeing a napalm attack?
Answer: Phan Thi Kim Phuc
23. According to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, the ducks here have developed their own Pavlovian
reaction through being clandestinely fed by secret agents. James I ordered it drained and landscaped.
(*) Marble Arch was at its entrance for part of the 19th century. East of Green Park, for ten points, what park
in London is closest to Buckingham Palace and Whitehall?
Answer: St. James's Park
24. After Mia Sara’s character is picked up from school in a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California with a license
plate spelling out the word “nervous”, she, her title character boyfriend, and his high-strung hockey
jersey-wearing friend (*) Cameron begin a day-long journey around downtown Chicago, which takes them
to the Sears Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, a Cubs game, an elite restaurant and a Von Steuben Day
Parade, where the protagonist famously lip-syncs the songs “Danke Schoen” and “Twist and Shout”. During
the day, students campaign for the speedy recovery of the supposedly ill protagonist. For ten points, name this
1986 movie, which provided the film springboard for Matthew Broderick, who takes a famous “day off”.
Answer: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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Bonuses
1. Not including college sports, the Washington, D.C. metro area plays host to eight major league sports teams.
For ten points each, answer these questions about those teams.
A. [10] Which burgundy and gold NFL team actually plays its games just over the border in Ashburn,
Virginia?
Answer: Washington Redskins
B. [10] Which aging stadium, which currently plays host to Major League Soccer’s D.C. United, saw its last
major league baseball game when the Washington Nationals defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 on
September 23, 2007.
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
C. [10] For five points each, name the two “magic” major league basketball teams in the D.C. area (hint:
one is in the NBA, the other is in the WNBA).
Answer: Washington Wizards & Washington Mystics
2. For ten points each, give the names of the following small planets.
A. [10] Which former planet was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union?
Answer: Pluto
B. [10] Which dwarf planet was nicknamed Xena before being assigned an official name?
Answer: Eris (prompt on Lila, another early nickname)
C. [10] Which dwarf planet is named after the Inuit goddess of the sea?
Answer: Sedna
3. Answer the following questions about roles an actor played, for ten points each:
A. [10] Who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
B. [10] Anthony Hopkins played this American president in an Oliver Stone film.
Answer: Richard Nixon
C. [10] Hopkins plays an old swordmaster teaching Antonio Banderas how to become this character, whose
franchise returned to film in 1998 after a lengthy absence.
Answer: Zorro (or Don Diego de la Vega) (the film was The Mask of Zorro)
4. Given the last line or lines of a Shakespearean play, name the play for ten points each.
A. [10] "Come, bid the soldiers shoot."
Answer: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
B. [10] "Myself will straight abroad; and to the state / This heavy act with heavy heart relate."
Answer: Othello, The Moor of Venice
C. [10] "But that's all one, our play is done, / And we'll strive to please you every day."
Answer: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
5. For ten points each, answer the following about that incredibly popular painting in quizbowl, The Arnolfini
Marriage.
A. [10] Who painted it?
Answer: Jan van Eyck
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B. [10] What museum has owned it since 1842?
Answer: National Gallery of London
C. [10] The bed is carved with the image of the patron saint of childbirth. Who is she?
Answer: Saint Margaret
6. For ten points each, answer the following questions about a demographic theory.
A. [10] Which British demographer is most famous for the Principle of Population, whereby demand for
food inevitably outstrips supply?
Answer: Thomas Malthus
B. [10] In which 1798 work did Malthus outline this principle?
Answer: An Essay on the Principle of Population
C. [10] Which Communist writer called the Principle "the crudest, most barbarous theory that ever existed"
in his Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy?
Answer: Friedrich Engels
7. Answer the following questions about a CBS television show, for ten points each.
A. [10] What show about a town struggling to survive after a nuclear attack was revived from cancellation
last year thanks to tons of peanuts being sent to CBS headquarters?
Answer: Jericho
B. [10] Who plays Jake Green, the prodigal son who has become the sheriff of Jericho?
Answer: Skeet Ulrich
C. [10] What secretive character seems to know a lot about the attacks and has one of the bombs in his shed?
Answer: Robert Hawkins
8. For five points per answer, name six of the world's major tectonic plates. NOTE: Juan de Fuca, Filipino,
Scotia, Cocos, Arabian, and Nazca plates will not count for this question, as they are too small.
Answers: any six of African, Antarctic, Australian, Eurasian, Indian, North American, Pacific, South
American
9. The last NHL entry draft before the lockout saw 291 players selected, including, as of January 2008, 32 NHL
regulars. For ten points each, answer these questions about the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
A. [10] Before Evgeni Malkin was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins second overall, the Washington
Capitals took which fellow Russian from Dynamo Moscow first overall?
Answer: Alexander Ovechkin
B. [10] Although they selected Michal Grabovski and Mark Streit later on, which team took Prince Albert
Raiders forward Kyle Chipchura at 18th overall?
Answer: Montreal Canadiens (accept either part)
C. [10] Currently serving as back-up for Tampa Bay, which goalie from Pelicans of the Finnish league was
taken by the Lightning 191st overall?
Answer: Karri Ramo
10. For ten points each, answer the following questions about methods of affecting the outcome of an election.
A. [10] Which Governor of Massachusetts was accused of creating an electoral district resembling a salamander
so that the Democrats would win the district?
Answer: Elbridge Gerry
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B. [10] Give the sports-derived nickname for the practice of attempting to simulate a grassroots movement.
Answer: Astroturfing
C. [10] Give the term for a reserve fund maintained by a candidate or party which may be used to pay for
questionable activities.
Answer: Slush fund
11. For ten points each, answer the following questions about phonetics.
A. [10] Name the most common international system used to transcribe phonetic sounds.
Answer: the International Phonetic Alphabet
B. [10] Name the phonetic alphabet promoted by and named after an Irish playwright in the early twentieth
century.
Answer: the Shavian (or Shaw) Alphabet
C. [10] Give the play in which Shaw used phonetics as a major plot device.
Answer: Pygmalion (do not prompt on “My Fair Lady”)
12. Answer the following about semi-historical television for ten points each.
A. [10] What television show airing during the 1970’s and 1980’s was about a military hospital in a foreign
country?
Answer: M*A*S*H
B. [10] What does M*A*S*H stand for?
Answer: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
C. [10] What military campaign was M*A*S*H set in?
Answer: the Korean War
13. Answer the following questions about an Olympic sport for ten points each.
A. [10] The proposal to allow women to compete in what sport in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was
declined in November 2006?
Answer: ski jumping
B. [10] In the Nordic combined event, ski jumping competition is followed by competition in what other
activity?
Answer: cross-country or Nordic skiing
C. [10] The line marking the par distance in ski jumping competition is referred to by what single letter?
Answer: K line
14. Do not tar all creationists with the same brush; there are different types. Identify them for ten points each.
A. [10] This creationist belief takes the Genesis account to literally mean that the Earth is about 6,000 years
old.
Answer: Young Earth creationists
B. [10] This creationist belief allows that there may be a lacuna of millions or billions of years between
Genesis 1:1 ("In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth") and Genesis 1:2.
Answer: Gap creationists
C. [10] This theory allows that the "six days" described in Genesis are not literally 24-hour days, but may
span millions or billions of years.
Answer: Day-age theory
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15. Answer the following questions on Communism for ten points each.
A. [10] Which branch of sociology sprang from the writings of Karl Marx and was later studied by such
thinkers as Max Gluckman and John Rex?
Answer: Conflict theory
B. [10] Which of Stalin’s rivals was killed in Coyoacán, a neighbourhood in Mexico City, by an ice axe to
the skull?
Answer: Leon Trotsky (or Lev Bronstein)
C. [10] The Warsaw Pact was formed in response to NATO. Name any three members for your final ten
points.
Answers: any of Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany (accept German Democratic Republic),
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Albania
16. Answer the following questions about Plan 9 From Outer Space for ten points each.
A. [10] he film credits claimed that which Hungarian actor starred in the picture, even though most of his
role was played by the director's wife's chiropractor?
Answer: Béla Lugosi
B. [10]Why was Lugosi not able to complete his role in the film?
Answer: he died before filming was completed (accept any answer which has “death” as the cause of noncompletion)
C. [10] What is the goal of the Plan Nine mentioned in the title?
Answer: to create an army of zombies to stop humans from making a doomsday machine (accept any answer
involving zombies)
17. For ten points each, answer the following questions about Jungian archetypes.
A. [10] This archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, representing the meeting of the conscious and
unconscious minds, is also a word that is a boon to Scrabble players for having three y's in it.
Answer: syzygy
B. [10] Examples of this archetype in mythology are Coyote, Anansi, and Loki.
Answer: trickster
C. [10]This is the part of a man's psyche that is feminine.
Answer: anima
18. Many fictional works of literature include invented languages. For ten points each, given the name of an
invented language, name its creator.
A. [10] Lapine
Answer: Richard Adams (prompt on “Adams”)
B. [10] Khuzdul
Answer: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (prompt on “Tolkien”)
C. [10] Newspeak
Answer: George Orwell (or Eric Arthur Blair)
19. For ten points each, answer the following questions about the question writer's totem animal—the rhinoceros.
A. [10] Who wrote the absurdist play Rhinoceros?
Answer: Eugène Ionesco (or Eugen Ionescu)
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B. [10] Does the Indian species of rhinoceros have two horns or one?
Answer: one
C. [10] Who founded Canada's Rhinoceros Party?
Answer: Jacques Ferron
20. For ten points each, answer the following about different periods in the history of fashion.
A.[10] This period in fashion started at the end of the French Revolution and can out of the desire not to look
like an aristocrat. Dresses at that time were very simple with a high waist, a low square neckline, neat little
puffed sleeves, and in white or a pale pastel.
Answer: Regency or Empire
B.[10] Give the French name for the period in fashion history between 1890 until 1914. The silhouette was
characterized by a tiny waist, large puffed or bloused sleeves that cuffed at the wrist and skirts that were tight
to the waist and gradually flowed out.
Answer: La Belle Époque
C.[10] This look, first put forward by Christian Dior in 1947, achieved great prominence during the 1950s.
The style creates an hourglass figure with its full skirt and a small waist often achieved using a blouse or short
cardigan.
Answer: The New Look
21. For five points each, and a bonus five for getting all correct, give the spectral class (out of O, B, A, F, G, K, or
M) of the following stars.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
[5] Antares
Answer: M1.5Iab-b
[5] Sirius A
Answer: A1V
[5] Rigel
Answer: B8Iab
[5] Proxima Centauri Answer: M5.5Ve
[5] the Sun
Answer: G2V
22. Given the names of two main characters, name the following works of literature for ten points each.
A. [10] Passepartout, Fix
Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days / Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours
B. [10] Athos, Porthos
Answer: The Three Musketeers / Les Trois Mousquetaires
C. [10] Eugène, Vautrin
Answer: Le Père Goriot / Father Goriot or Old Goriot
23. Answer the following questions about cat breeds for ten points each.
A. [10] What breed of cat, which has the body shape and long hair of a Persian cat, but the markings of a
Siamese is called colourpoint Persian in England?
Answer: Himalayan
B. [10] What breed of cat is famous for having a very short or entirely missing tail?
Answer: Manx
C. [10] What breed of cat, popular in LOLcat pictures for shock value and playing Mr. Bigglesworth in the
Austin Powers movies, is practically hairless?
Answer: Sphynx (accept Canadian hairless; yep, those are made in Canada)