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Round 1: Letter Category [± 10 points, no bounce-back]

This round is brought to you by the letter G.

1. This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue.
Answer: George Gershwin
2. The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel.
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
3. 650 miles off the Pacific coast, these islands are owned by Ecuador.
Answer: Galapagos Islands
4. Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s, this was the public policy of Soviet openness.
Answer: Glasnost
5. This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants.
Answer: Gary
6. This man was the 18th President of the United States.
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant
7. Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US.
Answer: Glaucoma
8. This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his “back to Africa” movement.
Answer: Marcus Garvey

Round 2: Untimed Individual [+20, -0; max 140 points, 5 seconds per answer]

Team 1:

1. Bryan thinks Treasure Planet will be a great movie.  – Hidden in this truth is the name of a former 
Maryland football coach who won or shared six national championships while at Alabama.
Answer: Bear Bryant
2. HIATUS, HIBACHI, HIBISCUS—Which of these is a type of flowering shrub or tree?
Answer: HIBISCUS
3. Aaron Burr, John C. Calhoun, John Adams – place these VP’s first to last in the order of their election.
Answer: Adams, Burr, Calhoun (3,1,2)
4. (two part question) The same year, 1222, saw this Mongol warlord make his first appearance in Europe
when he invaded Russia, and saw the Council of Oxford decree that April 23 be a day dedicated to this
patron saint of England.
Answers: Genghis Khan and St. George
5. Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead – Which of these anthropologists wrote Coming of Age in
Samoa?
Answer: Margaret Mead (3)
6. . “...[Jim] would steal his children -- children that belonged to a man... a man that hadn’t ever done me
no harm.” This quote is by the title character of what Mark Twain novel that deals with a trip down the
Mississippi River?
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (accept Huck Finn)
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Team 2:

1. The kid with the yo-yo damaged the car. – This statement contains the name of the Jedi Master who
lived his final years hiding on the swamp planet of Dagobah.
Answer: Yoda
2. HARRIDAN, HARROW, HART—Which of these is a farm implement used to break up plowed soil?
Answer: HARROW
3. Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore – place these VP’s first to last in order of their
election.
Answer: Fillmore, Arthur, Coolidge (3,1,2)
4. (two part question) The same day, March 27, saw this man replace Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet premier 
in 1958, and in 1912 saw Helen Taft and Viscountess Chinda plant two of these on the northern bank of 
the Potomac River.
Answers: Nikita Khrushchev and Yoshina cherry trees
5. Mary Baker Eddy, George Fox, William Miller – Which of these people founded the Society of
Friends?
Answer: George Fox (2)
6. “Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.” This quote is from what work
by Ray Bradbury that deals with censorship?
Answer: Fahrenheit 451

Round 3: Category Round [± 10 points, no bounce-back]

Answer some questions about documents and declarations.

1. This document was signed at Runnemede in 1215.

ANSWER: Magna Carta
2. Treaties with this name have been signed in 1973, 1856, 1763 and 1783.
ANSWER: Treaty of Paris
3. Bills that preceded this war include Macon’s Bill No. 2, the Non-Intercourse Act, and the Embargo
Act.
ANSWER: War of 1812
4. This amendment states congressional pay raises do not go into effect until the next term.
ANSWER: 27th Amendment
5. This treaty established Vatican City in Rome in 1929.
ANSWER: Lateran Treaty
6. In a February 2002 speech, President Bush introduced this construct that includes Iran, Iraq, and North
Korea.
ANSWER: Axis of Evil
7. This 1598 proclamation by Henry IV of France gave full religious rights to the Huguenots.
ANSWER: Edict of Nantes
8. This 1933 amendment repealed Prohibition.
ANSWER: 21st Amendment
9. Greece and Turkey were promised military aid as part of this 1947 statement aiming to prevent
countries from falling under Communist rule.
ANSWER: Truman Doctrine
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10. The 41 men that signed this document on the titular ship promised to remain united in forming the
Plymouth colony.
ANSWER: Mayflower Compact
Round 4: Timed Individual [+20, -0, bonus 25 for all correct; max 185 points, 90 seconds total]

Team 1:
1. In this epistolary novel of 1740 by Samuel Richardson also known as Virtue Rewarded, the female title
character attempts to reform Mr. B.
Answer: Pamela
2. This king of pop made headlines this past week by holding his child over a balcony.
Answer: Michael Jackson
3. This African nation is surrounded by Libya, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, and Sudan, and has capital at N’Djamena (IND-ja-mina).
Answer: Chad
4. Solve for y. [4x + y = 7, x – 4y = 6]
Answer: –1
5. Examples of paintings from this period of art include Gustave Courbet’s The Stonebreakers and Burial
at Ornans.
Answer: realism
6. Deposition, Evaporation, Sublimation-- Which of these is a process by which a solid turns directly into
a gas?
Answer: Sublimation (3)
7. The Russo-Japanese War was ended with the signing of this 1905 treaty.
Answer: Treaty of Portsmouth
8. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our 
passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” This quote was said by what sixth President of
the U.S.?
Answer: John Quincy Adams (accept any answer that differentiates from father)

Team 2:
1. In this Kate Chopin novel, Edna Pontellier rebels against social norms by leaving her husband and
enjoys her new freedoms; she later drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
Answer: The Awakening
2. This 1982 album by Michael Jackson sold over 20 million copies.
Answer: Thriller
3. This African nation is surrounded by Niger, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin, and has capital
at Ouagadougou.
Answer: Burkino Faso
4. Solve for y. [3x + 2y = -5, x + 8y = 13]
Answer: 2
5. Examples of paintings from this period of art include Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West and
Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix.
Answer: romanticism
6. Conduction, Convection, Radiation-- Which of these terms describes an energy transfer between a
surface and a fluid flowing over it?
Answer: Convection (2)
7. The Mexican-American War was ended with the signing of this 1848 treaty.
Answer: Treaty of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo
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8. “To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” Which
Founding Father of the United States said this? He was the third to become President.
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Round 5: Grab Bag [15 questions, ±20 points, no bounce-back]

1. The lords of Choshu and Satsuma deposed the last Tokugawa shogun and Mutsuhito ascended the
throne as emperor in 1868, ushering in this era, which saw the rapid westernization of Japan.
Answer: Meiji Restoration (or equivalents)

2. The most important of these compounds is beta-indolylacetic acid. They promote cell elongation in
stems, inhibit leaf fall, and cause both phototropism and geotropism. Name this important class of plant
hormones.
Answer: auxins

3. His first two novels, Typee and Omoo, were commercial successes, but what is now considered his best
novel was a flop when published in 1851. Name this American author of "Bartleby the Scrivener", Billy
Budd, and Moby Dick.
Answer: Herman Melville

4. Defeating Democrat Lewis Cass for the presidency, this political novice nearly derailed the
Compromise of 1850 before his untimely death. Name this general and Mexican War hero of the battle of
Buena Vista who was succeeded as President by Millard Fillmore.
Answer: Zachary Taylor

5. A daughter of Priam and Hecuba, she was courted by Apollo, who gave her the gift of prophecy to win
her love. Name this Trojan princess, whose price for spurning Apollo's affections was to have her
prophecies never believed.
Answer: Cassandra

6. The police inspector Porfiry Petrovich pursues the central character of this novel for the murder of a
pawnbroker and her sister. In the end, Sonya accompanies Raskolnikov to exile in Siberia once he finally
confesses to the murder in this Dostoyevsky novel.
Answer: Crime and Punishment

7. Warning: 2 answers required. With Ozomatli on "One of Those Days". With Seal on "You Are My
Kind". With Macy Gray on "Amore". With Michelle Branch on "The Game of Love". Name the artist
who collaborated with these artists on these songs and the album they appear on, a follow-up to 1999's
"Supernatural".
Answer: Carlos Santana & "Shaman"

8. The youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, he succeeded his brother Richard as king of
England in 1199. Name this king who was forced by rebelling nobles to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.
Answer: King John

9. Its attractions include the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, the granite rock formations El Capitan and
the Half Dome, and the highest waterfall in North America. Name this national park in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains of California.
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Answer: Yosemite National Park

10. Salvador Dali's version of this event shows a clean-shaven Christ symmetrically surrounded by his
disciples, with a lake and mountains in the background. The best known version measures 15 feet by 30
feet and is located on a wall in the refectory of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Name
this popular religious subject of art, most famously depicted by Leonardo da Vinci.
Answer: "The Last Supper"
(be nice and accept "Sacrament of the Last Supper" on an early buzz - it’s Dali's painting's title)

11. A necessary trace element found in both red blood cells and the pancreas, this element is used to
galvanize steel. Name this element, also used in over-the-counter cold remedies, atomic number 30,
which alloys with copper to make brass.
Answer: zinc

12. At the end of this play, the "tragical comedy" of Pyramus and Thisbe is performed by Bottom and his
troupe. Name this Shakespearean comedy where the young lovers Demetrius, Helena, Hermia and
Lysander are mismatched and rematched by Puck.
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream

13. An arm of the South China Sea, it was here on August 2 and 4, 1964 that the US destroyers Maddox
and C. Turner Joy were allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Name the piece of
legislation named for this body of water, which Congress passed three days later that led to the rapid
escalation of the Vietnam War.
Answer: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

14. Born in prewar Poland, he attended the Lodz Film School and directed severally critically-acclaimed
films in his home country. He received considerable praise for his debut American film, Rosemary’s Baby.
Name this director of Chinatown who fled to France following allegations of child molestation.
Answer: Roman Polanski

15. The founder of one of the world’s largest coke producers of the era, he merged his company with
Carnegie Steel in 1873. He bequeathed his large art collection that included works of Rembrandt and
Vermeer to this namesake New York City art museum. Name this industrialist who ruthlessly crushed the
Homestead strike in 1892.
Answer: Henry Frick

ex. Recently defeated in the Oklahoma gubernatorial election, he was elected to the House in 1994. Name
this conservative Republican and former star receiver for the Seattle Seahawks.
Answer: Steve Largent