2 Free for All MD 2002

Question 1

1. When will Maryland play in the Rose Bowl? - 2006 is the answer; but the question also contains what name of the Greek god of love?

Answer 1

Eros

Question 2

2. ESTRAY; ETHOS; ETUDE-Which of these three words refers to the disposition; character; or fundamental values of a person?

Answer 2

ETHOS

Question 3

3. Dallas; Houston; El Paso - place these Texas cities in order from east to west.

Answer 3

Houston; Dallas; El Paso (2;1;3)

Question 4

4. (two part question) The same year; 1769; saw this man patent his steam engine and also saw this estate of Thomas Jefferson built.

Answer 4

James Watt and Monticello

Question 5

5. Samuel Clemens; Theodore Geisel; George Russell - Which of these is the actual name of author Mark Twain?

Answer 5

Samuel Clemens (1)

Question 6

6. “But she named the infant ‘Pearl;’ as being of great price - purchased with all she had - her mother’s only pleasure.” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this line in what novel?

Answer 6

The Scarlet Letter

Question 7

2. ELUCIDATE; ELUDE; ELUTE-Which of these three words means “to make clear or plain?”

Answer 7

ELUCIDATE

Question 8

3. Fresno; Sacramento; Bakersfield - place these California cities in order from north to south.

Answer 8

Sacramento; Fresno; Bakersfield (2;1;3)

Question 9

4. (two part question) The same day; April 15; in 1912 saw this unsinkable ship hit an iceberg and sink; and in 1865 saw this man die after he was shot while watching Our American Cousin.

Answer 9

R.M.S. Titanic and Abraham Lincoln

Question 10

5. Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Duty; Ode to the West Wind - Which of these poems was written by John Keats?

Answer 10

Ode to a Nightingale (1)

Question 11

6. “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away-a man is not a piece of fruit.” Willy Loman says this to Howard when he feels like Howard had gone back on the word of his father in which Arthur Miller work?

Answer 11

Death of a Salesman

Question 12

1. Ernest Lawrence and Stanley Livingston developed it while at Berkeley. Name this device that creates electric and magnetic fields in a D-shaped chamber and is used to study atomic structure.

Answer 12

Cyclotron

Question 13

2. Deeply influenced by Palladio; he introduced the classical architecture of Italy to Britain. Name this English architect who restored the old St. Paul’s and designed the Banqueting House in Whitehall.

Answer 13

Inigo Jones

Question 14

3. His novel The Moon and Sixpence is largely based on the life of artist Paul Gauguin. Known for his straightforward style; name this author who wrote Of Human Bondage.

Answer 14

W. Somerset Maugham

Question 15

4. Calculate the y-intercept of the straight line shown [graph with line segment between (3;0) and (4; 2)]

Answer 15

-6

Question 16

5. Serving on the Archaeological Survey of Egypt; he assisted Sir Flinders Petrie in the excavation at Tall al Amarinah. Name this Egyptologist most famous for discovering the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

Answer 16

Howard Carter

Question 17

6. Electric gnats; Glowworms; Lightning bugs– Which of these is not another name for a firefly?

Answer 17

Electric Gnat (1)

Question 18

7. The seat of Fayette County; this city is the home of the University of Kentucky; and is the most populous in the state.

Answer 18

Lexington

Question 19

8. “If you come to a fork in the road; take it.” What famous Yankee catcher once said this?

Answer 19

Yogi Berra

Question 20

1. Born in Germany; he disproved the existence of ether and became the first U.S. citizen to win a Nobel Prize. Name this scientist who together with Edward Morley invented the interferometer.

Answer 20

Albert Michelson

Question 21

2. In this famous Renaissance piece; Plato; Aristotle; and Socrates are shown debating the great matters of their day in the titular venue. Name this renowned painting of Raphael.

Answer 21

The School of Athens

Question 22

3. Born Mary Ann Evans; her liaison with George Lewes scandalized England and reflected her own rebellion against conservative religion. Identify this author who penned Silas Marner and Middlemarch.

Answer 22

George Eliot

Question 23

4. Calculate the y-intercept of the straight line shown [graph with line segment between (2;4) and (8;10)]

Answer 23

2

Question 24

5. He immigrated to the United States in 1863 and joined the Cigar Maker’s International Union a year later. Identify this union leader who united labor organizations under the American Federation of Labor.

Answer 24

Samuel Gompers

Question 25

6. Bandicoot; Kangaroo; Koala– Which of these marsupials lives in trees?

Answer 25

Koala (3)

Question 26

7. The seat of Mecklenburg County; this largest city of North Carolina is home to the new Continental Tire Bowl.

Answer 26

Charlotte

Question 27

8. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” So take a shot at who said this. He had his number; 99; retired by the NHL.

Answer 27

Wayne Gretzky

Question 28

1. This baroque piece consists of two parts; the first; showy and dynamic; is intended to display the musician’s virtuosity; the second; a polyphonic piece based around a single theme. Name this first song in the movie Fantasia; an organ composition by J. S. Bach.

Answer 28

Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Question 29

2. In 490 BC; the underdog Athenians defeated an invasion by the Persian army in this battle which occurred on a famous plain; resulting in a messenger running over twenty-five miles with the news. Name this battle; eponym of popular endurance races.

Answer 29

Battle of Marathon

Question 30

3. What is the theorem; discovered by Pascal and Leibniz; that states both the relationship between definite and indefinite integrals and the relationship between derivatives and integrals?

Answer 30

Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Question 31

4. Originally called animalcules; later a phylum of animalia; this subdivision of the protista includes the more animal-like unicellular eukaryotes; such as paramecia and amoeba.

Answer 31

Protozoan

Question 32

5. This “capital” game is a common motif in Celtic folklore. Sir Caradoc was challenged to it; Cu Roi played against Cuchullain; and Sir Gawain nearly lost against the Green Knight. What is this adventure; named for the non-fatal decapitation incurred.

Answer 32

the Beheading game

Question 33

6. The first appeared in 1913 in the New York World. These days; the New York Times’ is most famous; edited by the world’s only enigmatologist; Will Shortz. What are these word puzzles; where clues hint at how to place overlapping words in a grid?

Answer 33

Crossword puzzle

Question 34

7. Sometimes said to have begun the Graveyard School of poetry; what is this poem; which includes the phrase “far from the madding crowd” and begins “the curfew tolls the knell of parting day.” written by Thomas Gray?

Answer 34

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Question 35

8. Name the general type of mathematical curve; including lines; circles; ellipses; parabolas and hyperbolas; formed by the intersection of a plane and a full cone.

Answer 35

Conic section

Question 36

9. He was born in Urbino; and later studied painting under Perugino; before moving to Florence and then Rome where he painted frescoes for Pope Julius II and was made chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica by Julius’s successor Leo X. Name this painter of “The Sistine Madonna” and “The School of Athens”.

Answer 36

Raphael or Raffaello Sanzio

Question 37

10. The Banqueters; The Thesmophorians; The Knights; Peace; and The Acharnians were all written by what greatest comic playwright of classical Greece; also the author of The Wasps; The Clouds; The Birds; and Lysistrata?

Answer 37

Aristophanes

Question 38

11. Sir Joseph Porter ends up with his cousin Hebe. Ralph marries Josephine; and Corcoran marries Little Buttercup. This all takes place in or around what ship; also the title of the operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan?

Answer 38

HMS Pinafore

Question 39

12. It was first deciphered by Georg Grotefend and Henry Rawlinson; working with late Persian inscriptions. Tablets written in this pictographic and syllabic script have been found in such cities as Nippur and Ur. Name this “wedge-shaped” writing system used in ancient Mesopotamia.

Answer 39

Cuneiform

Question 40

13. If you take out the even numbers and leave the odd; you get Sierpinski’s Triangle. If you take the sums of diagonal rows; you get the Fibonacci Sequence. If you take the numbers in the nth row; you get the coefficients of the n-1 binomial expansion. Name this figure; every number in which is the sum of the two numbers above it.

Answer 40

Pascal’s Triangle

Question 41

14. The son of Meliodus; King of Lyoness; he slew the giant Morhaus of Ireland; whose sister he later delivered to his Uncle Mark of Corwall. Unfortunately; on the way home they accidentally drank a love potion. Name this hero; subject of a Wagner opera and lover of Isolde.

Answer 41

Tristan or Tristram or Drustan (prompt on anything that sounds similar)

Question 42

15. He married Elizabeth of York; daughter of King Edward the fourth; and won the English crown at the Battle of Bosworth. Name this first Tudor monarch; the father of Henry VIII.

Answer 42

Henry VII

Question 43

ex. A Prussian army; under Marshal Blücher; and a coalition of Belgian; Dutch; French; and British troops commanded by the Duke of Wellington fought together in this 1815 battle; the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Answer 43

Battle of Waterloo