2009_04_01_Pub_Quiz

General Knowledge 1

• Which Philadelphia-based architect designed Princeton's Lewis Thomas Lab and Wu Hall as well as the Lieb House, which was recently moved by barge from the Jersey Shore to Long Island? [ANSWER]
  Robert Venturi
• Which school did President Obama predict would win this year's NCAA Division I men's basketball championship? [ANSWER]
  University of North Carolina
• The Balmer formula allows one to predict the location of the spectral lines generated by what element? [ANSWER]
  hydrogen
• The film Slumdog Millionaire is an adaptation of what 2005 novel by Vikas Swarup? [ANSWER]
  Q & A
• Which Mexican revolutionary, who led the Liberation Army of the South against president Porforio Diaz, was sometimes nicknamed "El Tigre"? [ANSWER]
  Emiliano Zapata
• The title track to what 1986 Grammy-award winning album mentions poor boys, pilgrims, and a girl who calls herself the human trampoline? [ANSWER]
  Graceland
• What city, whose famous residents include Erasmus and Willem de Koonig, also boasts the largest port in Europe? [ANSWER]
  Rotterdam
• Whose allies include the Wizard Whitebeard, his friend Wanda, and his dog Woof? [ANSWER]
  Waldo
• In which Shakespearean play could you find two identical twin brothers named Antipholus and their twin servants named Dromio? [ANSWER]
  The Comedy of Errors
• By what name was Evan Marriott better known to millions of reality television fans? [ANSWER]
  Joe Millionaire

Audio Round

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  Ronald Reagan
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  Winston Churchill
• [ANSWER]
  Harry Truman
• [ANSWER]
  Jahwaral Neru
• [ANSWER]
  Nelson Mandela
• [ANSWER]
  Dwight Eisenhower
• [ANSWER]
  Lou Gherig
• [ANSWER]
  Malcolm X / Little
• [ANSWER]
  William Jennings Bryan
• [ANSWER]
  Richard Milhous Nixon

Handout Round

• See handout [ANSWER]
  What law of Physics says that the restoring force of a spring is proportional to its displacement from its natural length?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  What Italian composer nicknamed the Red Priest wrote The Four Seasons, which begins with "Spring"?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Alice Springs is a city located in the geographic center of what nation?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Spring Snow is the first novel in what trilogy by Yukio Mishima that takes its name from a sea on the moon?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  What leader of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia initiated the reforms known as Prague Spring?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Until signed by the Patriots this year, Shawn Spring was a cornerback for what team coached by Jim Zorn?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Resurgent springs are often found in what topography formed when water dissolves layers of bedrock?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  The Spring and Autumn period was when what philosopher wrote the Analects?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Spring was a micro-kernel operating system created by what company founded by Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy?
• See handout [ANSWER]
  Strawberry Spring is a short story by what novelist who also wrote Cujo and The Regulators, the latter using the pseudonym Richard Bachman?

Theme Round

• Hooke's Law [ANSWER]
  After being tried an sentenced in Prauge in 1618, what punishment given to Vilem Slavata and Jaroslav Borzita helped start the thirty years' war?
• Antonio Vivaldi [ANSWER]
  What 2005 Heisman winner who was with USC is now a running back for the New Orleans Saints?
• Australia [ANSWER]
  In the book Animal Farm, what kind of animal are Napoleon, Old Major, Squealer, and Snowball?
• Mare Fecunditatis, Hojo no Umi, or Sea of Fertility [ANSWER]
  The gamma function at one half, the square root of arccos -1, and the integral of e to the negative x squared with respect to x from negative infinity to infinity are all equal to what value?
• Alexander Dubceck [ANSWER]
  What Mughal emperor and grandson of Babur shares his name with an admiral whose flagship was called Home One?
• Washington Redskins [ANSWER]
  What sculpture by August Rodin depicts the surrender of the citizens of a French town to the English during the Hundred Years War?
• Karst Topography [ANSWER]
  Who wrote The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a book that is set in New Jersey outling the experience of a Dominican immigrant and that won 2008's Pulitzer for fiction?
• Confucius [ANSWER]
  What country duo's album Horse of a Different Color contained the top 40 song Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)?
• Sun Microsystems [ANSWER]
  Mononucleosis, aka "the kissing disease," is caused by what virus named after two scientists who discovered it in 1964 while working at Middlesex hospital?
• Steven King [ANSWER]
  What pope convened the first Vatican council that declared that the pope was infallible when he spoke ex cathedra?

General Knowledge 2

• defenistration [ANSWER]
  Lindsay Lohan
• Reggie Bush [ANSWER]
  Michael Vick
• pig [ANSWER]
  Haley Joel Osment
• square root of pi [ANSWER]
  Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman)
• Akbar [ANSWER]
  Anna Nicole Smith
• Burghers of Calais [ANSWER]
  George Carlin
• Junot Diaz [ANSWER]
  Yasmine Bleeth
• Big and Rich [ANSWER]
  Johnny Cash
• Epstein-Barr [ANSWER]
  Tonya Harding
• Pius IX [ANSWER]
  Andy Dick

Mystery Round

• Which competitor on the 2007 edition of Dancing with the Stars donated half of her earnings from the show to the British animal rights organization, Viva! ? [ANSWER]
  Heather Mills
• Which Dodgers left fielder has hit 20 grand slams during his career, the second highest number in the history of baseball after Lou Gehrig? [ANSWER]
  Manny Ramirez
• Which Los Angeles based rapper's first album, The Documentary, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 2005 shortly before the onset of his extended feud with 50 Cent and G-Unit? [ANSWER]
  The Game
• Quentin Travers, Gwendolyn Post, and Wesley Wyndham-Price have all been members of what organization dedicated to fighting supernatural evil? [ANSWER]
  The Watcher's Council
• What type of longsword is traditionally made using a special type of steel called Tamahagane? [ANSWER]
  Katana
• What ten-letter medical term refers to the moment where a pregnant woman can perceive the motion of a fetus in the uterus? [ANSWER]
  Quickening
• Which Republican represented California's 52nd congressional district from 1981 to 2009 and briefly sought the nomination for President before dropping out after the Nevada caucuses? [ANSWER]
  Duncan Hunter
• Who ordered the use of fire hoses and attack dogs on civil rights activists during his 1960s tenure as Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama? [ANSWER]
  Bull Connor
• Which television personality's best-known roles were Murray Slaughter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Capt. Stubing on The Love Boat? [ANSWER]
  Gavin MacLeod
• THEME [ANSWER]
  Highlander