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His first novel was written in verse and was about a young poet. His only other novel, written in prose thirty-one years later and much better known, was about a man married to Tonya Gromeko who falls in love with a woman married to Pasha. Much of the poetry he wrote was related to the 1905 Russian Revolution, though his famous novel was set in the 1917 Russian Revolution. In 1958, he turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature. Name this author of Doctor Zhivago.

Its current Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is a Socialist and former Communist. He recently stated, “Exceptional times call for an exceptional response,” when introducing its short-term liquidity facility. Its recent increased activity has included deals with Hungary, Ukraine, and Iceland. Along with part of the World Bank, it was created in the mid 1940s at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Name this organization that often offers financial aid to various countries.

5. Biology

Give the common name for the type of dinosaur first discovered by Gideon Mantell. One of the best finds was in Bernissart, Belgium. They were about thirty feet long, sixteen feet tall, and weighed five tons. Capable of running on two legs or walking on four, they had a conical thumb spike on each hand. Identify this dinosaur whose name is based on the similarity of its teeth to a particular type of lizard.
ANSWER: Iguanodon (accept Iguanadontia or Iguanadontoidea)
6. Music

(Note to moderator: No singing, please.) This musical begins with a line spoken by Riff in defense of his old friend. Riff eventually dies, and his position is assumed by Action. The first song in this musical contains the verse, “You're never alone, You're never disconnected! You're home with your own: When company's expected, You're well protected!” The final song contains the line, “Hold my hand and we're halfway there,” which is sung by Maria, the sister of Bernardo. Bernardo is the head of The Sharks, a Puerto Rican gang. Name this work with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim that was composed by Leonard Bernstein.

The scope of this law was limited recently when Fouad Dagher lost his Supreme Court cases in 2006. One of its earliest uses was to justify the arrest of Eugene Debs. This act has been criticized by several judges, who point out that its terms such as conspiracy, restraint, and commerce are not defined. However, it played an important role in the Supreme Court case involving the Northern Securities Company. The first law of its kind, it has been followed by the Tunney, Expediting, and Clayton Acts. Name this 1890 Antitrust Act.

For this problem, assume the force of gravity is 9.8 Newtons per kilogram, ignore air resistance, and include units. How high in the air will an object get at its peak if it starts out at ground level with an upward speed of 9.8 meters per second?

9. Vocabulary

This term can refer to a spice made from the wax around nutmeg. It can also refer to a staff that is carried to symbolize a position, and in the Middle Ages it was used to describe a spiked club that could destroy armor. In 1966, the word was trademarked and used to describe a product used in riot control. Give this term now used for sprays that are used to disable attackers.
ANSWER: Mace (do not accept Pepper Spray)
10. Religion/Mythology

(Note to moderator: Dido is pronounced DIGH-dough, Caduceus is pronounced ka-DOO-shus, and Priam is pronounced PRIGH-əm.) When Dido was dying, this goddess was sent to take a piece of her hair and free her soul. She often carried a pitcher of water from the River Styx and, like Hermes, she carried a caduceus and delivered messages. One of her messages was for Priam to go to his ships. Name this goddess who was the personification of rainbows.

(Note to moderator: Stephon is pronounced Stuh-FON.) Immediately after being drafted, he and Andrew Lang were traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Milwaukee Bucks for Stephon Marbury. After several years in Milwaukee, he was in a trade that included Gary Payton, and he was traded again in 2007. In 1998, he played Jesus Shuttlesworth in the Spike Lee film He Got Game. He has been an All-Star for eight of the last nine years and probably played his best game in the clincher of the 2008 NBA Finals. Name this shooting guard who teamed up with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett on the Boston Celtics.

Find the slope of a line if the slope is positive and the angle between the line and the x-axis is sixty degrees.

He criticized people who misuse economic theories in the book Peddling Prosperity, and he wrote a book labeling the 1990s as The Age of Diminished Expectations. His newspaper columns were collected into a book called The Great Unraveling, and he explored the 20^th Century history of income inequality in The Conscience of a Liberal. Name this economics professor at Princeton University who writes a column for The New York Times and was recently awarded a Nobel Prize.

The main character in this play is the daughter of a deceased famous doctor. She learned enough from him to be able to cure the King of France, and, though she is a commoner, she is in love with Count Bertram. Bertram agrees to marry her if she can get his ring and become pregnant with his child. Name this Shakespeare comedy whose title lets you know whether or not the woman was successful.

This is the type of volcano of Olympus Mons and Mauna Loa. Their eruptions are not explosive but do involve large amounts of lava. They can be a few miles wide and for the most part are built out of basalt that has hardened. Name this volcano type which is neither cinder cone nor composite.

Express your answer in simple radical form. Divide the cube root of four by the sixth root of two.

Located on Bennelong Point, its construction lasted from 1958 to 1973. In 2004, a new room opened that was named after the architect, who had come back into favor after many arguments and overruns during original construction. Its forecourt is sometimes used as a performance venue, with spectators sitting on its steps, and its largest of several venues is a Concert Hall that seats over two thousand people. Name this Jorn Utzon project located in the capital of New South Wales, Australia.

This molecular shape shows up in carbonyl fluoride, phosgene, and formaldehyde. It has the same steric number as the bent shape, but it has no lone pairs. A simple example of it contains boron and fluoride, in which boron has the oxidation number positive three. Give the two-word name for this shape that is sometimes composed of angles which each measure one hundred twenty degrees.

19. United States Literature

While in New York, the protagonist in this novel rooms with an algebra teacher named Edwin Keggs and has an affair with May Wynn, whose real name turns out to be Mary Minotti. He then goes out to Hawaii and works with Tom Keefer under William De Vriess. This protagonist, Willie Keith, eventually rebels against Captain Queeg. Name this navy tale written by Herman Wouk.
ANSWER: (The) Caine Mutiny
20. World History

When he came to power, his nation was at war with three other nations. He quickly signed the Treaty of Knared and eventually agreed to the Treaty of Stolbovo and Truce of Altmark. He also began a new series of conflicts, beginning with a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld and ending with his death at the Battle of Lutzen in the middle of the Thirty Years War. Name this man nicknamed The Lion of the North who ruled from 1611 to 1632 over Sweden.

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ROUND 4

10:25

In the book Tom Jones, this is the name of the philosopher who lives with Allworthy. In Flatland, it is the last name of the narrator. It is used to describe matrices that have the same number of rows and columns, and it is a common name for certain locations in cities, such as Trafalgar in London, Tiananmen in China, and Times in New York City. Name these quadrilaterals with congruent sides and angles.

This adjective is used to describe polygons on which you can use the standard formula for the number of diagonals. A subset of connected shapes, it refers to any set of points which contains all of the segments connecting every pair of its points. Give this term applied to polygons in which all of the interior angles are less than one hundred eighty degrees and which therefore completely contain all of their diagonals.

The title character of this novel finds out he has a son of the same name when the boy is eleven. The boy’s mother dies by a snake bite, and that boy eventually takes the father’s money and runs away. The father spends many years working as a ferryman with Vasudeva contemplating the river. This occurs after he has joined the Samanas and followed a well-known holy man. Name this work set in ancient India by Hermann Hesse.

A month ago, this country contained Abu Ghadiya, a man linked to the Baathist and Al Qaeda movements, in the town of Abu Kamal. An attempt to capture him turned violent, and this country claims that eight civilians died and that the attempt amounts to terrorist aggression. Ghadiya died in the attack, which was carried out by the United States and launched from Iraq. Name this nation still ruled by the Baath Party and the Assad family whose capital is Damascus.

Some newly discovered ones are called by the acronym ARMAN. Though scientists are now finding them in a wide variety of environments, these organisms are often associated with high temperatures or high concentrations of salt. Name these prokaryotes classified by Carl Woese in a separate domain from bacteria.

(Note to moderator: Schoenberg is pronounced SCHEN-berg.) Music of this type may have begun in 1907 with the piece Ich Darf Nicht Dankend, or it may have started earlier with a bagatelle by Franz Liszt. One of the composers closely associated with this term did not like it and suggested using the prefix pan- rather than the more common prefix. It often is connected to the Second Viennese School and twelve-tone music, and it was developed by Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. Identify this type of music that does not have a key.

It expired in forty-nine states in 1976 and in the last state in 1986. A similar bill was vetoed by President Buchanan, but the rise of the Republican Party and secession of Southern states allowed this bill to become law in 1862. People who aided the Confederacy were ineligible, and other requirements stated that you had to be at least twenty-one, the head of a family, or a United States veteran. Many of the people who took advantage of it were freed slaves or children of farmers. Name this law that allowed people to claim 160 acres of government land.

Include units. An object explodes into three pieces with equal masses. Find the speed of the third piece if the first two pieces travel at right angles with each other and each have a speed of the square root of two meters per second.

This is the belief that humans are free and responsible but are unable to comprehend the world. Some people argue that it refers to a cultural movement rather than a philosophy, beginning with Martin Heidegger or Soren Kierkegaard. Give this term associated with intellectuals during the middle of the twentieth century and the book Being and Nothingness.

The two most famous ones are associated with a town in Ionia and a town near Naples. The one near Naples oversaw the Apollonian Oracle and lived in a cave in the Greek colony of Cumae. She helped Aeneas visit his father in the underworld. Name these women, often associated with oracles, who could predict the future.

She voiced King Neptune’s daughter in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie and played Grace MacLean in The Horse Whisperer. She will soon be seen in theatres as Silken Floss in The Spirit, and she is now in theatres as Anna in He’s Just Not That Into You. A few months ago, she joked that she was engaged to Barack Obama. Name this actress who has been in Lost In Translation, Girl With A Pearl Earring, The Nanny Diaries, and The Other Boleyn Girl.

Ignore units. Find the area of a rectangle if its width is five and the length of its diagonal is the square root of seventy-four.

Some of his essay collections are titled The Pump House Gang, The Purple Decades, and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Though he has written some novels, he originally made his reputation as a journalist. He has described a party thrown by Leonard Bernstein for The Black Panthers, the exploits of Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters, and our space program. Name this author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff.

Give this character’s name as it is in Shakespeare’s plays. Like Falstaff, he appears in two of them. In Antony and Cleopatra, he wins a big sea battle, and much of the conflict in the play revolves around Antony’s marriage to his sister. In another play, he says, “Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left.” Name this leader who joins with Marc Antony and Lepidus to form a Triumvirate.

This city contains a national monument named Monas, which is a huge obelisk with gold at the top and museums at the bottom. Its population is close to nine million, making it the largest city on an island anywhere in the world. Located at the Northwest corner of Java, name this capital of Indonesia.

16. Algebra (30 Seconds)

The first copier prints out one thousand pages per hour and begins at twelve o’clock. The second copier prints out one thousand four hundred pages per hour and begins one hour later. At what time will they have printed out a combined five thousand pages?
ANSWER: 2:40
17. Art/Archictecture

This is the name of several works, including a painting traditionally attributed to Goya, though it probably was done by his friend Asensio Julia. The foreground of the painting shows people and animals fleeing, and much of the painting is taken up by a naked giant. This title has also been attributed to statues of Nero and Constantine. The most famous statue of this name was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC. Give this title applied to one of the seven wonders of the world, a statue of Helios at Rhodes.

In isolation, these have a half-life of approximately ten minutes, but they are very stable where they are usually found. Their discovery paved the way for the creation of elements heavier than Uranium and the atomic bomb, and they were initially isolated by bombarding light elements with high-energy alpha particles. The only stable isotope that does not contain any of them is Protium. The Nobel Prize was awarded in 1935 to James Chadwick for identifying them. Name these subatomic particles that are slightly more massive than protons and have no electric charge.

Give the first and last name of the female character referred to by the passage: “There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light.” She is imagining her husband, who is rumored never to have reached the United States. This vision comes while she stands on a scaffold holding her infant girl. The baby is the daughter of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Name this protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

20. World History

He sent John Moffat to negotiate with Lobengula, which resulted in the Rudd Concession, and he later took control of the Lippert Concession. He once said, “I would annex the planets if I could.” In 1895, after a failed raid against Paul Kruger, he was forced to resign from being Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, and he moved to a country that had been named after him. Name this founder of De Beers Diamonds who, in his will, created scholarships to the University of Oxford.
ANSWER: (Cecil John) Rhodes
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10:50

It is referred to in the first book of Kings, Chapter Seven, Verse Twenty-Three. It also is the name of the title character who survives a shipwreck in a novel published in 2001 and is used to represent the lightest true mesons. It is associated with Archimedes and with double bonds. Give this number equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

If you flip this number of coins, the chance of getting exactly one head is thirty-seven point five percent. This is the smallest number of points necessary to use Simpson’s Rule or a quadratic regression. If you write the number one zero one in this base, it is equal to the decimal number ten. It also is the slope of the tangent line at x=1 of the function y equals x cubed, and it is the only prime factor of twenty-seven. Give this number equal to the maximum number of possible solutions to a cubic equation.

His first story translated into English is about a man in England during World War One trying to prove to the Germans that Asians are capable of being good spies. He also wrote stories about two ladies who paint a lot until one of them dies, a man who is offered a book that has no beginning or end, and a Frenchman who tries to recreate Don Quixote in the original Spanish. He wrote poetry in addition to stories such as The Duel, The Book of Sand, and The Garden of Forking Paths. Name this creator of The Book of Imaginary Beings who was from Argentina.

Accused of defaming his opponent’s wife, this candidate claimed that the story was not about him but instead about his opponent’s sugar daddy. In addition to running against a Republican incumbent, his race also featured an Independent Party Candidate named Dean Barkley. After initial vote counts showed a very narrow margin, he called for a recount to determine whether he had defeated Norm Coleman. Name this former Saturday Night Live comedian who ran for Senator in Minnesota.

5. Biology

This autosomal recessive disease is caused by defective genes on Chromosome 7 and affects approximately thirty thousand Americans. It usually is diagnosed by finding high levels of chloride in a sweat test. Treatment often includes anti-inflammatories and antibiotics, which lessen the damage done by poor exocrine glands. Name this disease that damages many organs, including the lungs, due to thick mucus production.
ANSWER: Cystic Fibrosis (prompt CF, accept mucoviscoidosis or mucoviscidosis)
6. Music

He wrote a few pieces for the Spanish violinist Sarasate, including Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. He was a close friend of Franz Liszt, to whom he dedicated his Third Symphony, nicknamed the Organ Symphony. He also composed thirteen operas, the best-known of which is Samson and Delilah, and in 1872 completed his Danse Macabre. He is perhaps best known for a suite of fourteen movements that includes Aquarium, Aviary, and Royal March of the Lion. Name this composer of The Carnival of the Animals.

From 1897 to 1904, she worked out of her home in Glen Echo, Maryland. Her other workplaces included the District of Columbia, Cuba, Galveston, Andersonville, and Bull Run. Though she worked for women’s suffrage, her fame arose out of her work during the Civil War, when she became known as the Angel of the Battlefield. Name this organizer of the American Red Cross.