2009_04_15_Pub_Quiz

General Knowledge 1

• What child of scorn who was born too late, sighed, and kept on drinking is the titular subject of a Edwin Arlington Robinson poem? [ANSWER]
  Miniver Cheevy
• Anna Leonowens spent six years in the court of Rama IV, the king of what nation? [ANSWER]
  Siam / Thailand
• What is the name given to the five points relative two two larger masses that a satellite experiences a gravitational equilibrium? [ANSWER]
  Lagrange Point
• What opera by Gian Carlo Menotti about the Magi was the first composed for television? [ANSWER]
  Amahl and the Night Visitors
• What act with a name meaning "power of the nation" that was passed in 1878 limits the role of the military in law enforcement? [ANSWER]
  Posse Comitatus
• What river flows from Lake Ladoga, through St. Petersburg, and empties into the Gulf of Finland? [ANSWER]
  Neva
• What term is applied to how often money is spent and is calculated by dividing the total value of all transactions in an economy divided by the total amount of money in circulation? [ANSWER]
  velocity
• What premier league football team is owned by Russian Roman Abramovich, chaired by American Bruce Buck, and managed by Dutchman Guus Hiddink? [ANSWER]
  Chelsea
• Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies, is the protagonist of what Don DeLillo novel? [ANSWER]
  White Noise
• What actor accepted the position of Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison? [ANSWER]
  Kal Penn or Kalpen Suresh Modi

Handout Round

• See handout [ANSWER]
  1234
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  339 +/- 1%
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  204
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  8
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  50548
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  401
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  17
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  30
• See handout [ANSWER]
  666
• See handout [ANSWER]
  1729

Theme Round

• What 1970 John Jay Osborn, Jr. novel about life at Harvard Law School went on to inspire both a 1973 Academy Award winning film and a four season television show with the same name? [ANSWER]
  The Paper Chase (1)
• Which suffragette earned the nomination of the Equal Rights Party in 1872, becoming the first woman to run for President of the United States? [ANSWER]
  Victoria Woodhull (5)
• Before his death in 1994, Nazi collaborator Leon Degrelle caused a controversy by claiming he was the inspiration for what globetrotting Belgian comic strip character? [ANSWER]
  Tintin (10)
• What two word term associated with an extreme nuclear meltdown derived from the idea that molten material from an American reactor might melt through the Earth's crust and land on the other side? [ANSWER]
  China syndrome (20)
• Who acted as quartermaster under Captain Flint before serving Squire Trelawney as chef on the Hispaniola? [ANSWER]
  Long John Silver (25)
• What programming language was developed by NASA systems administrator Larry Wall in 1987 and borrows features from both C and shell scripting? [ANSWER]
  Perl (30)
• "Some fantasies go too far." is the tagline for what 1995 William Friedkin film starring David Caruso, Chazz Palminteri, and Linda Fiorentino? [ANSWER]
  Jade (35)
• According to interviews with Keith Richards, the title character of what 1967 song was based upon either a free-spirited groupie or his girlfriend Linda Keith? [ANSWER]
  Ruby Tuesday (40)
• Architectural historians have argued that the Parthenon, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and Notre Dame Cathedral were all designed with what irrational mathematical constant symbolized by the Greek letter phi in mind? [ANSWER]
  the golden ratio (50)
• Which actor portrayed Ritchie Valens in the 1987 movie La Bamba and has a recurring role as sniper Ian Edgerton on the TV series Numb3rs? [ANSWER]
  Lou Diamond Phillips (60)

General Knowledge 2

• In Norse mythology, who had a wife named Sif and a pair of sons named Magni and Modi? [ANSWER]
  Thor
• Which British economist observed in his 1865 book, The Coal Question, that the creation of more efficient technology seemed to increase, rather than decrease the rate at which resources were consumed--a paradox which would later be named for him? [ANSWER]
  William Stanley Jevons
• In which constellation could you find both the Crab Nebula and the Pleiades star cluster? [ANSWER]
  Taurus
• What exotically named ballet position requires a dancer to stand on one leg while the other leg is extended behind the body, while keeping both knees unbent? [ANSWER]
  Arabesque
• In materials science, what measurement of a solid object's elasticity can be calculated by dividing its tensile strength by its tensile strain? [ANSWER]
  Young's modulus
• Just the Ten of Us, which starred Bill Kirchenberger as gym teacher Graham Lubbock, was a spin-off of what ABC sitcom which centered upon the life of the Seaver family? [ANSWER]
  Growing Pains
• Contrary to its title, Ben Affleck's love interest in what 1997 movie is actually named Alyssa? [ANSWER]
  Chasing Amy
• "Handle With Care" and "End of the Line" were both songs by what supergroup whose members included George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison? [ANSWER]
  The Traveling Wilburys
• Which member of the University of Oklahoma's women's basketball team promised to repay her scholarship if her team did not win the NCAA championship? [ANSWER]
  Courtney Paris
• Which city served as the starting point for the journey west in the computer game Oregon Trail? [ANSWER]
  Independence, MO

Mystery Round

• What sobriquet attached to Simon Bolivar also names the premier soccer championship of South America? [ANSWER]
  Liberator (The General and his ___)
• In Greek myth, What daughter of King Minos later became the bride of Dionysus? [ANSWER]
  Ariadne (Helped Theseus)
• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is an album by what British rocker? [ANSWER]
  Bowie, David (Starred in the Movie)
• What Japanese manga tells about a young boy who becomes posessed by the spirit of an Egyptian pharoh and then begins playing Magic and Monsters? [ANSWER]
  Yu-Gi-Oh (Has an expansion pack named this)
• In 1963 Lois and Theodore Zucker created an mutant form of what species that expresses an obese phenotype prone to diabetes and hypertension? [ANSWER]
  Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
• Tiger Child was the fist film to be shown in what theater format created by Ferguson, Kroitor, Mulders, and Shaw? [ANSWER]
  Imax (The precursor was called labyrinth)
• Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville solve a monastery murder in what Umberto Eco novel? [ANSWER]
  Name of the Rose (The finale is in a labyrinth)
• In what Borges shot story does the line appear "mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men," attributed to the leader of a country whose encycopedia entry was part of an international conspiracy? [ANSWER]
  Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius (appeared in the collection labryinth)
• Sam and Friends was a television show created by what Mississippi-born entertainer? [ANSWER]
  Henson, Jim (directed the movie)
• Hammersley showed that an algorithm based on what card game can find the largest increasing subsequence of a sequence of numbers? (Hint: to fit with the theme, this must be the American name for the card game, not the British) [ANSWER]
  Solitaire (there's a version called labryinth)