1999 ACF Regionals
Questions by Vanderbilt A (Matt Schneller)
Tossups
1. This law of astronomy grew out of a relationship discovered between radial velocity and distance. The
associated constant, also named after the same astronomer, is only known to within a factor of two. FTP, name this
law that states that the further away a galaxy is away from is, the faster it is receding away from us.
Answer: Hubble’s law
2. Only four appearances of this figure are recorded in the Bible: in the Book of Daniel, he not only explains the
vision of the horned ram as portending the destruction of the Persian Empire by the Macedonian Alexander the
Great, but also makes the “seventy weeks” prophecy concerning Christ’s birth and foretells to Zachary the birth of
the Precursor. FTP, name the archangel who makes his most famous appearance to Mary, known as the
Annunciation.
Answer: St. Gabriel the Archangel
3. Created at the instigation of Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, they were headed by Colonel Leonard Wood and
were under the direction of General Kent and Nelson A. Miles. Their first combat was at Las Guásimas, but a
major engagement occurred a few days later. After taking Kettle Hill, they moved to reinforce a beleaguered
division on the neighboring San Juan Hill in a famous charge. FTP, name this unit of the Spanish-American War,
whose Lieutenant Colonel was Teddy Roosevelt.
Answer: Rough Riders
4. Its four divisions operate a National Library and 13 research centers, a research hospital, the Clinical Center, and
the Fogarty International Center. It was founded in 1930, and is a subdivision of the Department of Health and
Human Services. FTP, name this agency centered in Bethesda, Maryland, that specializes in biomedical research
related to diseases and other health problems.
Answer: National Institutes of Health
5. This author’s only significant book was made into a film by Peter Greenaway in 1996, and has been translated
into English by Arthur Waley and Ivan Morris. Written in the 10 th century AD, her book is a compilation of various
stories and tales, including chapters on “Embarrassing Things” and “People Who Seem to Suffer.” FTP, name the
Japanese author best known for her Pillow Book.
Answer: Sei Shonagon (SAY SHOW-na-gon but, of course, be lenient)
6. It was based on a proposal by Lord Robert Cecil and Col. Edouard Réquin, but the actual document was drafted
by Eduard Benes and Nicholas Politis. Presented by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, it was
unanimously recommended to the members of the League of Nations. It provided for compensatory arbitration of
all disputes, while defining the “aggressor” as the nation unwilling to submit the case to arbitration. FTP, identify
this “protocol” named for a Swiss city.
Answer: Geneva protocol
7. Limited proteolysis, phosphorylation, and isoprenylation all occur here. In flagellate protozoa, it is known as the
parabasal body and in plants, it is known as the dictyosome. It was first described in 1898 but, because of the
limitations of light microscopy and because staining techniques failed to resolve its structure, its existence was not
proven until the late 1950s. FTP, name the organelle where glycosylation occurs and proteins are packaged for
secretion.
Answer: Golgi apparatus or Golgi bodies or Golgi sacs
8. This woman’s works for children are translated into English in Crickets and Frogs: A Fable. She was a village
schoolteacher, and donated the proceeds of her work Tala to the relief of Basque children orphaned in the Spanish
Civil War. Scarred by an affair with a railway employee who committed suicide, her works include Desolación,
Ternura, and Sonetos de la muerte. FTP, name this author, born Lucila Godoy Y Alcayaga, the 1945 Nobel Prize
winner in Literature from Chile.
Answer: Gabriela Mistral
9. Hans Bellmer’s series of prints entitled La Poupee are representative of this art movement, as is Roberto Matta’s
oil painting A Grave Situation. Also representative is Joseph Cornell’s Hotel Eden and Yves Tanguy’s
(“tan-GHEE’s”) Infinite Divisibility. The ideas for the art movement were contained in a 1924 “Manifesto” written
by Andre Breton. FTP, name the artistic school more famously represented by Giorgio De Chirico (“Kir-ee-koh”),
Joan Miro, and Rene Magritte.
Answer: surrealism
10. Predicted in 1924 by Wolfgang Pauli, it was observed in beams irradiated with RF energy in 1933 by Stern and
Gerlach. First observed in bulk materials by Felix Bloch (BLOCK) and Edward Mills Purcell, they shared the
Nobel Prize in physics in 1952 for their discovery. FTP, name the process in which a strong magnetic field and
radio waves are used to determine the chemical contents of a material.
Answer: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
11. Founded in 1980 by Alex Pacheco (PAK-ay-ko) and others, it is based in Norfolk, VA. Its first big legal
victory was in the 1981 Silver Springs case, and it has won court cases against universities like Wright State and
Penn, as well as such firms as General Motors, Boys Town, and L’Oreal. Perhaps its most interesting victory was
against a Californian who electrocuted chinchillas by clipping wires to the animals’ genitals. FTP, name this
organization whose annual anti-fur campaigns feature nude supermodels.
Answer: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
12. “Millions endeavoring to supply / Each other’s Lust and Vanity / Whilst other Millions were employed / To see
their handy-works destroyed.” These lines come from a book first published in 1714, which directly attacked the
optimistic prognostications of Lord Shaftesbury. It put forward the controversial argument that private vice could
lead to public benefit. FTP, name this allegorical book, ostensibly dealing with a colony of insects, by Bernard
Mandeville.
Answer: A Fable of the Bees
13. At the age of 9, this woman published a Latin discourse in defense of higher education for women. More
famous as a mathematician, she has a crater on the face of Venus named in her honor. In 1750, she became the first
woman to hold the mathematics chair at the University of Bologna and is most noted for her work in differential
calculus. FTP, name the woman whose most famous invention is just a cubic curve, despite its mistranslation as
“witch.”
Answer: Maria Gaëtana Agnesi
14. Its source was not discovered until 1995; French explorer Michel Peissel found it in a high mountain pass. The
UN’s plans to tap this river with a hydroelectric plant were scratched with the outbreak of war in 1959, but have
been reinitiated with vigor: by 1996, fifty-four dams were planned along its banks. FTP, name this 2600 mile river
that passes through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Answer: Mekong River
15. This religion’s founder lived most of his life in the villages of Turfan and Tunhwang, and the sect he founded
rose to prominence under Sapor I. He received the divine insights that would constitute the basis of his religion at
the ages of twelve and twenty-four. In it, people were divided into three groups: the faithful Elect, who would
move on to Paradise, the halfhearted Hearers, who would be reborn, and the Sinners, who would be plunged into an
inferno. FTP, name this conflation of Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity named for its 3 rd century
founder, very popular among Roman military officers and influential in St. Augustine’s early years.
Answer: Manichaeism
16. On the home front, this ruler paved the streets of Paris and officially established it as the French capital. He
worked with Pope Innocent III to secure victory over Flemish and German forces at the Battle of Bouvines
(BOOV-in). At the turn of the century, he confiscated the Norman lands of King John of England, as well as
acquiring Maine and Touraine (TOOR-in). FTP, name this powerful French monarch who succeeded Louis VII in
1180.
Answer: Philip II or Philip Augustus or Philippe-Auguste
17. Measured in terms of the HOMO and LUMO energy levels, this concept was first postulated in the 1939 book
The Nature of the Chemical Bond, and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals. Its creator, a Cal Tech physicist
who was rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for its discovery, was Linus Pauling. FTP, give the
term for the tendency for atoms in a molecule to attract electrons.
Answer: electronegativity
18. The last part of his fifth symphony was used in Visconti’s film Death in Venice, while his third symphony draws
the words for its fourth movement, “What Man Tells Me,” from Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. His second
symphony, whose fourth movement contains lyrics from the song “Primal Light” from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
(Des NOB-in VUND-er-horn), is known as the “Resurrection.” FTP, name this Bohemian best known for his
symphony #8, or “Symphony of a Thousand.”
Answer: Gustav Mahler
19. This underground figure is credited with coining the phrase, “Vote early and vote often.” Born in Naples, he
rose to power after snagging control of Johnny Torrio’s Brooklyn gang. His most famous hit resulted in the deaths
of not only the innocent bystander Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer but also six henchmen of “Bugs” Moran. FTP,
name the gangster who ordered the famous “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” and afterwards took over the Chicago
mob scene.
Answer: Al Capone
20. She was seduced by one of her cousins at the age of sixteen, and soon after took up working in a St. Louis
whorehouse. After returning to New York City to meet her father at Johnny the Priest’s Saloon, she falls in love
with Mat Burke. She marries Burke, who signs on to sail on the Londonderry with her father, Chris
Christopherson. FTP, name the title character of a 1921 drama by Eugene O’Neill.
Answer: Anna Christie or Anna Christopherson
21. Invented by Samuel Pierpont Langley in 1860, its original construction was very simple: two strips of platinum
connected by a Wheatstone bridge. Modern versions use temperature or electrically-sensitive materials, and have
been used to measure the heats of very distant stars. FTP, name this device that measures very small amounts of
microwaves or other forms of radiant energy.
Answer: bolometer
22. Speaker of the House three times between 1854 and 1869, before his involvement in electoral politics, he edited
a major Whig newspaper from his home in South Bend, Indiana. After becoming a Republican, he rose to his
highest office and endured his greatest disgrace, the Crédit Mobilier scandal. FTP, name the man not renominated
as Vice-President under Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.
Answer: Schuyler Colfax
23. This scientist warned of the powers of the modern weaponry when he said, “I know not with what weapons
World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Admitted to the Swiss
Polytechnic Institute in 1896, he created the “equivalence principle” equating gravitational force and the inertial
force of a system in accelerated motion. FTP, name the scientist who published his three most important papers in
1905, while working for the Swiss Patent Office.
Answer: Albert Einstein
24. On Easter Sunday in 1478, a rival family with the backing of Pope Sixtus IV attempted to assassinate him and
his brother during Mass. He escaped unharmed, but the death of his brother in the “Pazzi Conspiracy” made him
abandon his frivolous love poetry and embrace the humanistic intellectualism of such scholars as Angelo Poliziano
(PALL-itz-ee-an-oh) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, as well as artists like Sandro Botticelli. FTP, name this
patron of the arts and ruler of Florence after the death of his father Piero.
Answer: Lorenzo de’ Medici (prompt on early “Pazzi Conspiracy” buzz)
25. The virtues of courtesy, justice, friendship, chastity, temperance, and holiness are praised in the sections of this
poem. Allegorically presenting these virtues are Sir Calidore, Sir Artegall, Sir Cambel and Telamond, Lady
Britomartis, Sir Guyon, and the Red Cross Knight. FTP, name this epic poem featuring King Arthur and the title
monarch, by Edmund Spenser.
Answer: The Faerie Queen
26. One monarch of this name and regnal number was the son of Francis I and Maria Theresa, and brother of Joseph
II and Marie Antoinette. The other was originally named Louis Philippe Marie Victor, was married to the
Austrian princess Marie Henrietta, and financed Lord Henry Stanley’s trip along the Congo River. FTP, give the
common name shared by these kings, respectively an 18 th century Holy Roman Emperor and 19th century Belgian
monarch.
Answer: Leopold II
27. This newspaper’s founder said, “I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a
waste of time.” It began in 1924, and the founder remained its editor until 1933. As with The Smart Set, the paper
was created by the collaboration of George Jean Nathan with the cynical author of The American Language and
Prejudices. FTP, name this H. L. Mencken creation.
Answer: American Mercury
28. More than 90% of the species in this class live in freshwater or terrestrial habitats, and 100% are hermaphroditic.
This class probably spawned class Hirudinea (HEAR-ud-IN-ea), or leeches, but unlike class Polychaeta they have no
parapodia, eyes, or anterior tentacles, and have relatively few bristles. FTP, name this subdivision of phylum
Annelida that includes the common earthworm.
Answer: Oligochaeta or Oligochaetes
29. He provided the first comprehensive modern summary of Stoic logic, as well as incorporating Aristotelian
syllogisms into a deductive system. He also obtained several important results in sentimental calculii, and posited
the existence of a third truth-value, “possible,” in his 1918 paper on Aristotle’s notion of future possibility. FTP,
name this Polish philosopher, the best known of the “Warsaw School” of logicians.
Answer: Jan Lukasiewicz (LOOK-as-eew-itz)
30. A Protestant pastor and a girl’s school literature teacher, he pointed towards the “Dinggedicht” style of German
writing but is more properly associated with the conservative, bland “Biedermeier” movement. He wrote the novel
Painter Nolen and the short story “Mozart on His Trip to Prague”. FTP, name the German best known for 19th
century poetry like “A Little before Dawn” and “To an Aeolean Harp.”
Answer: Eduard Mörike
1999 ACF Regionals
Questions by Vanderbilt A (Matt Schneller)
Bonuses
1. Identify the librettists FTP each from a few clues.
1. This Italian was commissioned by Mozart to write the librettos for The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and
Così fan tutte. After a stint as a New Jersey grocer, he taught literature at Columbia.
Answer: Lorenzo Da Ponte
2. As a composer, this man wrote bumpin’ operas like Mefistofele and Nerone. His librettos for Verdi include
Falstaff and Otello.
Answer: Arrigo Boito
3. His dramatic works include Gestern and Jedermann¸ but this man is better known for collaborating with Richard
Strauss on operas like Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Frau ohne Schatten.
Answer: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal
2. Name these figures, all of whom had the unfortunate luck to be flayed FTP each.
1. This satyr found Athena’s flute and challenged Apollo to a musical contest. He lost the competition and his skin.
Answer: Marsyas
2. Herotodus and Valerius Maximus tell that this corrupt Babylonian magistrate was tried and convicted of bribery
by Cambyses. After his death, his skin was used to re-upholster the vacant throne of judgement. Ironically, his
son was given the seat and was thus cushioned by his father’s flesh.
Answer: Sisamnes
3. This apostle was flayed in India, where he carried Jesus’ teaching. In Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement, this guy is
chillin’ and holding his flaying knife and his skin, which is also a self-portrait of the artist.
Answer: Saint Bartholomew
3. Answer the following questions about divalent carbon compounds FTP each.
1. Recent investigations into the fleeting, unstable compounds of divalent carbon compounds have been intense due
to their high degree of stereospecificity. Give the common name for these compounds.
Answer: carbenes
2.Give the name of the simplest carbene, which is prepared by the decomposition of diazomethane.
Answer: methylene
3. For a final ten point, identify the cyclic alkane with formula C6H12, which exists in “chair” and “boat” forms.
Answer: cyclohexane
4. Identify the Nikolai Gogol works FTP each.
1. This novel relates the adventures of Paul Chichikov, who concocts a shady scheme for making money.
Answer: Dead Souls
2. Later expanded into a novel, this story follows the familial discontent wrought by a war between Cossacks and
Poland. The title character kills his son before being captured and tortured to death by Polish forces.
Answer: Taras Bulba
3. In this 1835 short story, the bureaucrat Poprischin’s belief that he is the King of Spain is played out in vivid
language and disgusting detail.
Answer: The Diary of a Madman
5. Answer the following questions about events in 1954 FTP each.
1. An October treaty pledged that Russia would evacuate from this Chinese naval base by June of the next year.
Answer: Port Arthur
2. This Indian leader rejected offers of U.S. military aid and demanded the withdrawal of U.S. observers from
Kashmir.
Answer: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
3. On the death of Ibn Saud, Saud ibn Abdel Aziz became the new king, but this ambitious son became both prime
minister and crown prince.
Answer: Prince Faisal
6. Identify the literary critics FTP each.
1. This Englishman wrote The Spirit of the Age in 1825 and The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays. More liberal
than Coleridge and Southey, his reviews of contemporary authors and Elizabethan drama held great sway in the 19th
century.
Answer: William Hazlitt
2. His The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice are his most influential critical works, but his
Modern Painters won him wide fame.
Answer: John Ruskin
3. This French structuralist critic is also associated with semiotics and New Criticism. His most prominent books
include Writing Degree Zero, Criticism and Truth, and On Racine.
Answer: Roland Barthes
7. Yo! Minerals! Given a few minerals that contain a defining element, name the element FTP each.
1. Colemanite, howlite, kernite, ulexite
Answer: boron
2. Corundum, franklinite, spinel
Answer: oxygen
3. Chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, rammelsbergite
Answer: sulfur
8. Identify the following battles of the Overland campaign in northern Virginia FTP each.
1. This May 5th – 8th, 1864 battle saw Lee and Beauregard preemptively attack Grant and Mead in a thick forest.
Answer: Battle of the Wilderness
2. Only two days later, Grant attempted to flank Lee near the courthouse of this small city, starting a five-day bout
of trench warfare.
Answer: Battle of Spotsylvania
3. On the first day of June, Grant assaulted this town and was driven back. One of the bloodiest battles of the war,
it was the last major engagement north of the James River.
Answer: Battle of Cold Harbor
9. Answer these questions about an art movement FTP each.
1. Identify the German expressionist movement founded in Dresden in 1905, which featured vigorous brushwork,
emphatic lines, and bright color.
Answer: Die Brücke or The Bridge
2. His real last name was Hansen, but this member of Die Brücke made paintings like March and Dance Around the
Golden Calf, as well as a series of masks based on a trip to New Guinea.
Answer: Emile Nolde
3. He committed suicide after the Nazis confiscated his paintings. A founding member of Die Brücke, he is best
known for Girl under a Japanese Parasol and Berlin Street Scene.
Answer: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
10. Identify the following early African-American authors from clues for fifteen points each.
1. His 1789 autobiography was the first published biography by a black man. He was Nigerian enslaved in
America who bought his freedom, moved to England, and became active in that country’s antislavery movement.
Answer: Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa
2. The first prominent African-American novelist, he wrote the short story “The Goophered Grapevine” in addition
to the short story collections The Conjure Woman and The Wife of the Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line and
the novel The Marrow of Tradition.
Answer: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
11. Identify the mathematician and astronomer, 30-20-10.
30. Born in Minden, Germany, he spent most of his adult life as director of the Königsberg Observatory, which he
helped to construct.
20. He was the first person to make an accurate measure of the distance to a star.
10. His eponymous functions, the solutions of certain differential equations, are useful in determining heat flow and
in wave theory.
Answer: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
12. Four major historical figures died in the year 1838. Name them from descriptions for the stated number of
points.
5. This Indian and leader of the Second Seminole War passed away.
Answer: Osceola
5/15. Five for one and fifteen for both: Two important French diplomats died. One was a resilient politician who
led the French delegation at the Congress of Vienna; the other a brilliant orator and the leader of the Parisian
movement to establish the Third Republic.
Answers: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand –Périgord and Leon Gambetta
10. This Spanish “Butcher” had led a brutal repression of nationalists in Cuba.
Answer: General Valeriano Weyler
13. 5-10-15 name these British saints.
5. Though he fought the dragon in Lebanon, he is still England’s patron saint.
Answer: Saint George
10. Son of Ethelred II and Emma, he was the first king of England to touch for scrofula. He also dedicated the
rebuilt St. Peter’s Cathedral in Westminster, finished only a week before his death.
Answer: Saint Edward the Confessor
15. This 10th century Anglo-Saxon saint was heralded at conception by the “miracle of the candles.” He directed
the early stages of the rebuilding of St. Peter’s and the corresponding reformation of the monastic system before
checking out.
Answer: St. Dunstan
14. Identify the following networking protocols, 5-10-15.
5. Developed by Xerox in 1976, it uses bus topology and the CSMA/CD protocol to regulate network traffic. It is
the most common form of local area network.
Answer: Ethernet
10. This type of closed-loop local area network uses a sign to indicate network usage. If a computer wishes to
transmit information, it seizes the sign, marks it as in use, inserts the necessary information, and returns it to the
network loop.
Answer: Token Ring network
15. This newly developed network standard has transfer speeds of up to 625 million bits per second and can be used
for either local or wide area networks. It derives its name its freedom from any sort of poll-receive data loop.
Answer: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
15. Answer the following about the history of law FTP each.
1. Until 1957, the only form of diminished responsibility was to enter this plea, in which the party accused was
stated to be “laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind.”
Answer: insanity
2. The rules for the plea of insanity were named after a crazed Scottish wood-turner, who mistakenly shot a secretary
named Edward Drummond in 1843. Name him and you’ve named the rules.
Answer: McNaghten Rules
3. Most of the U.S. adopted the McNaghten Rules, but New Hampshire set different standards by allowing juries to
set insanity standards in the case State v Pike. Name this set of insanity rules, named after the presiding judge and
his doctor friend.
Answer: Doe-Ray tests (Judge Charles Doe and Isaac Ray)
16. Answer the following related music questions FTP each.
1. This Austrian-American composer created the choral suite Pierrot Lunaire and the orchestral work Pelléas and
Mélisande.
Answer: Arnold Schöenberg
2. Based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, this string sextet is about a woman admitting her infidelity and her lover’s
subsequent forgiveness.
Answer: Transfigured Night or Verklarte Nacht
3. Schöenberg was married to Mathilde, the sister of his counterpoint teacher and fellow Austro-American
composer. This man is best known for operas like Es war einmal, Kleider machen Leute, and Der Zwerg.
Answer: Alexander von Zemlinsky
17. Give the name of the term from physics FTP each. All start with the same letter.
1. The fundamental SI unit of thermodynamic temperature, it is defined as 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic
temperature of the triple point of water.
Answer: Kelvin
2. The sum of the potential differences encountered in a round trip around any closed ring in a circuit is zero.
Answer: Kirchhoff’s loop rule
3. If a salt is dissolved in water, the conductivity of the solution is the sum of two values – one depending on the
positive ions and the other on the negative ions.
Answer: Kohlrausch's law (F. Kohlrausch)
18. Answer the following about the political situation of Germany in 1848 FTP each.
1. King Frederick William raised barricades in the street, beginning two weeks of unrest in which he had to salute
corpses of murdered student protestors and parade about wearing the new German tricolor flag. By what term is
this unrest known?
Answer: March Days
2. The National Assembly, consisting of some 800 members, first met at St. Paul’s Church in this city. The next
year, the assembly drew up a constitution that also bore the city’s name.
Answer: Frankfurt
3. These two provinces were members of the German confederation, an arrangement that caused problems when
Danish troops attempted to more tightly integrate them into Frederick VII’s monarchy.
Answers: Schleswig and Holstein (both required)
19. Identify the John Steinbeck novel from clues FTP each.
1. This 1941 novel draws on Steinbeck’s undergraduate training as a marine biologist at Stanford and relates a tale
of life on the ocean. He later reissued ten years later along with a biographical sketch of its co-author. Name either
work for ten points.
Answer: The Sea of Cortez or The Log of the Sea of Cortez
2. His first novel, its subtitle describes it as a Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional References to
History.
Answer: Cup of Gold
3. An episodic 1945 novel, Steinbeck relates the stories of California workers. Its sequel, Sweet Thursday, revisited
many of the same popular characters.
Answer: Cannery Row
20. Answer the following questions about the second bank of the U. S. FTP each.
1. Who was the head of the second bank at the time of its dissolution?
Answer: Nicholas Biddle
2. Who was James Madison’s Secretary of the Treasury, who proposed its $50 million endowment?
Answer: Alexander J. Dallas
3. Name either the first head of the bank, whose mismanagement prompted a Congressional inquiry, or his
competent successor.
Answer: William Jones or Langdon Cheves
21. Answer the following related questions about classical music, 15-5 each.
1. 15. This composer studied under Joseph Joachim in 1853 and composed works like the Alto Rhapsody.
5. He is better known for Studies on a Theme by Paganini, the Tragic Overture, and Hungarian Dances.
Answer: Johannes Brahms
2. 15. This piece of music contains movements entitled “We had built a Staly house,” “Fox Ride,” and
“Hochfeierlicher Landesvater.”
5. It was written for the University of Breslau to be played when he received an honorary diploma.
Answer: Academic Festival Overture
22. Answer the following related questions about the Byzantine Empire FTP each.
1. On December 12, 627, Heraclius I finally quelled the Persian menace at this battle, fought at the site of the second
capital of the Assyrians centuries before.
Answer: Battle of Nineveh
2. This ruler put down the Nika Insurrection in 532 with the help of Belisarius.
Answer: Justinian
3. Perhaps the greatest warrior-emperor, he clashed with the Russian general Sviatoslav in the 970s.
Answer: John I Tzimisces
23. You’ve got a choice. You can name the African capitals given a nation for five points each, or name the Asian
countries from their capitals for ten per.
1A. 10. Thimphu
Answer: Bhutan
1B. 10. Koror
Answer: Republic of Palau
1C. 10. Vila
Answer: Vanuatu (prompt on: New Hebrides)
2A. 5. Malawi
Answer: Lilongwe
2B. 5. Republic of Guinea
Answer: Conakry
2C. 5. Côte d’Ivoire
Answer: Yamoussoukro
24. You will get the chance to identify an obscure Flemish artist for fifteen points and, if you do not answer
correctly, will get the opportunity to name a contemporary Italian artist for five.
1. 15. Similar in many ways to Roger van der Weyden, this native of Bruges is best known for peaceful works like
the Shrine of St. Ursula and the Altarpiece of the Virgin with Saints and Angels in Bruges.
Answer: Hans Memling
5. Known for his scenes in the Sassetti Chapel, his works include the Miracle of the Child of the French
Notary and Old Man with a Young Boy, notable for the older figure’s hideous schnoz.
Answer: Domenico del Ghirlandaio
2. 15. A contemporary of Albert van Ouwater, this Haarlem native was city painter of Leuven. Known for his use
of “space pockets,” sleepy looking Madonnas, his famous works are the Infancy Altarpiece and Last Supper
Altarpiece.
Answer: Dieric (pronounced Dirk) Bouts
5. The teacher of Raphael, his best-known work is Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, located in the Sistine
Chapel.
Answer: Perugino or Pietro Vannucci
25. Given a description of a French utopian socialist’s theories, name him FTP each.
1. This man, who fought in the American Revolution, believed in a scientific meritocracy that would forward
industrialism. He promoted the idea in his book The New Christianity.
Answer: Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Compte de Saint-Simon
2. This man’s socialist ideas were based around the social unit known as the phalanx.
Answer: (Francois Marie) Charles Fourier
3. The author of Tribune of the People and the head of the Conspiracy of the Equals, this communistic leader was
guillotined in 1797.
Answer: Francois Noel “Gracchus” Babeuf
26. Answer the following questions about genetic research FTP each.
1. Archibald Garrod postulated the link between genes and enzymes while studying what hereditary disease in which
the patient’s urine turned black when exposed to air?
Answer: alkaptonuria
2. Stanford University geneticists George Beadle and Edward Tatum proved Garrod’s hypothesis in 1941 by
growing various mutated strains of mold upon what foodstuff?
Answer: bread
3. The link between genes and enzymes is accomplished through the production of what chemical substance, the
twenty different types of which can combine to produce a nearly infinite number of different proteins.
Answer: amino acids
27. Answer the following questions relating to a poem FTP each.
“Steve Wienberg, returning from Texas
brings dimensions galore to perplex us
But the extra ones all
are rolled into a ball
so tiny it never affects us.”
1. This short poem by Harvard physicist Howard Georgia cautions Nobel laureate Wienberg about the difficulties of
measuring unseen dimensions of space/time. This cautionary notice was given in reference to what recently
rejuvenated 60-year-old theory of the multidimensionality of matter?
Answer: Kaluza-Klein theory or hyperspace theory or Grand Unified Theory
2. This theory attempts to reconcile gravity to the main body of quantum mechanical thought, known by what term?
Answer: Standard Model
3. The Kaluza-Klein hyperspace theory unifies Einstein’s gravitational field, Maxwell’s electromagnetic field, and
the Yang-Mills weak-strong force field under this physical constant, often approximated to a value of 1 in creating
Feynman diagrams.
Answer: Riemann metric tensor
28. Give the name of the Friedrich Schiller work from a brief description FTP each.
1. This tragedy follows the determined heroine Joan of Arc, varying the traditional story by placing Joan’s death on
the battlefield.
Answer: The Maid of Orleans
2. Karl Moor feels cheated of his inheritance, and wreaks his vengeance with a band of compatriots. This 1782
play ends when Moor turns himself over to local police.
Answer: The Robbers
3. Actually a dramatic trilogy, it follows the rise and fall of a German mercenary during the Thirty Years’ War.
Answer: Wallenstein
29. Identify the following mathematicians of antiquity FTP each.
1. He discovered the correct formula for the volume of a pyramid when not philosophizing with his teacher
Leucippus.
Answer: Democritus of Abdera
2. His work with crescent-shaped figures bounded by arcs of circles gave rise to the famous problem of squaring the
circle.
Answer: Hippocrates of Chios
3. This Greek mathematician wrote an eight-volume treatise on conic sections, expanding upon the discoveries of
Menaechmus. His treatise gave the names ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola to the various shapes he discussed.
Answer: Apollonius of Perga
30. Name the following things related to the study of semantics for fifteen points each.
15. This hypothesis, named after an American anthropologist, postulates that language influences people’s
worldviews.
Answer: (Benjamin Lee) Whorf hypothesis
15. A type of formal semantics for languages, it uses “square” and “diamond” operators and intuitionist logic to deal
with language.
Answer: Kripke semantics OR relational semantics