UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ANNUAL FALL HIGH SCHOOL INVITATIONAL
GAME 1A
Round 1 by Phil Durkos, 2 by Sandeep Vaheesan, 3 by Dan Greenstein,4 by Sandeep Vaheesan, 5 by Guy Jordan and Adam Fine, Editing by Phil Durkos
ROUND 1: 8 Toss-ups, 10 points up or down. No bounce-backs. All answers in this round will begin with the letter “O.”
1)This most famous mythical Greek singer tried to bring his wife Eurydice back from Hades, but she looked back and was reclaimed. Orpheus
2)This government term denotes rule by a cartel of wealthy and powerful families or organizations. Oligarchy
3)This famous Percy Bysshe Shelley poem refuting the hubris of a legendary pharaoh contains the line “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Ozymandias
4)“The Neverending Story” features a Southern one, but a more famous example is probably the Greek one at Delphi. Oracle
5)This soprano and social activist has served in her local government, but is more famous as the lead singer of “The Cranberries.” Dolores O'Rierden
6)This constellation contains the red giant Betelguise and depicts a legendary hunter. Orion
7)This semi-precious stone, the birthstone for October, is generally white or milky yellow in color. Opal
8)This is the French verb meaning both “to dare” and “to argue with” Oser
ROUND 2: Untimed Individual [+20, -0; max 140 points, 5 seconds per answer]
Team 1:
1. Formerly the governor of Vermont, this Democratic presidential candidate has won considerable support with his promises of a more dove-ish foreign policy.
Answer: Howard Dean
2. FLOUT, FLAUNT, FLOUNCE – Which of these words means to treat with disdain or scorn?
Answer: FLOUT
3. Amazon, Mississippi, Yangtze – Place these rivers in order from longest to shortest.
Answer: Amazon, Yangtze, Mississippi
4. (Two part question) The same year, 1973, saw this oil cartel impose an embargo on the United States and other Western nations for their support of Israel in this conflict.
Answer: OPEC and Yom Kippur War
5. Whitewater, Watergate, White Lotus – Which of these was the name given to the Little Rock real estate scandal involving the Clintons?
Answer: Whitewater
6. In this Shakespearean play, Shylock demands “a pound of flesh” from Antonio if he does not repay his debt.
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
Team 2:
1. Currently representing Missouri in the House, this Democratic presidential candidate has attempted to win support from labor with his support for protectionist policies.
Answer: Dick Gephardt
2. LABURNUM, LACHRYMAL, LACONIC – Which of these words means “characterized by tears”?
Answer: Lachrymal
3. Caspian Sea, Lake Superior, Lake Baikal – Place these lakes in order from largest to smallest.
Answer: Caspian, Superior, Baikal
4. (Two part question) The same year, 1939, saw the release of this movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh and Germany’s invasion of this neighbor.
Answer: Gone with the Wind and Poland
5. BECHTEL, HALLIBURTON, LOCKHEED-MARTIN – Which of these companies was formerly headed by Vice-President Cheney?
Answer: Halliburton
6. “There is something rotten in the state of Denmark” are the words of Marcellus to Horatio in this Shakespearean play.
Answer: Hamlet
ROUND 3: 10 Toss-ups, 10 points up or down, no bounce-backs. Answer the following questions related to the color red.
1) A flask, plate and other paintings are prominent features in this Henri Matisse work.
ANSWER: The Red Room or The Red Studio
2) This team plays its 81 home games at Great American Ballpark.
ANSWER: Cincinnati Reds [either is acceptable]
3) This past summer saw the closest approach in 60000 years of this red planet.
ANSWER: Mars
4) These events occurred shortly after each World War and involved deportations and investigations related to communism.
ANSWER: red scare
5) This entity “of the North” flows into Lake Winnipeg while the southern one ends in Louisiana.
ANSWER: Red River
6) This restaurant chain has a menu featuring cheesy rolls, fried shrimp and the namesake mollusk.
ANSWER: Red Lobster
7) This state’s name is Spanish for “red.”
ANSWER: Colorado
8) This is the scientific name for red blood cells.
erythrocytes
9) This city’s name literally means “red stick.” It is the capital of Louisiana.
ANSWER: Baton Rouge
10) The American branch of this organization was founded by Clara Barton.
ANSWER: Red Cross
ROUND 4: Timed Individual [+20, -0, bonus 25 for all correct; max 185 points, 90 seconds total]
Team 1
1. A forerunner to the Impressionists, this early 19th century British painter is renowned for his seascapes, most notably The Slave Ship.
Answer: JMW Turner
2. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, this economist’s advocacy of deficit spending during times of recession revolutionized macroeconomics.
Answer: John Maynard Keynes
3. The latest in a line of great pitchers from USC that includes Randy Johnson and Barry Zito, this Chicago Cubs right-hander won 18 games in 2003 and finished third in voting for the Cy Young Award.
Answer: Mark Prior
4. One of only two novels Charles Dickens wrote in the first person, this work traces Pip’s personal transformation upon receiving an inheritance from a mysterious benefactor.
Answer: Great Expectations
5. Examples of it include pumice and obsidian; name this type of rock formed when lava cools and hardens.
Answer: Igneous
6. The unit of magnetic flux density is named in his honor; name this Serbian-American physicist who invented the alternating current generator.
Answer: Nikola Tesla
7. A triumph for reactionary forces across Europe, this peace conference organized by Prince Metternich of Austria officially marked the end of the Napoleonic wars.
Answer: Congress of Vienna
8. Its population is comprised of Chinese, Malays and Indians. Formerly a British colony, this island city-state is today one of Asia’s leading financial centers.
Answer: Singapore
Team 2:
1. His four-painting series The Voyage of Life is housed at the National Gallery of Art. Identify this American painter who painted The Oxbow and founded the Hudson River School.
Answer: Thomas Cole
2. Emigrating from his native Austria to England in 1931, this economist warned of the dangers of state economic planning in The Road to Serfdom.
Answer: Friedrich von Hayek
3. He reeled off 11 consecutive wins between May and August and ended the season with a major league leading 23 wins. Name this Toronto Blue Jays pitcher who won the American League Cy Young Award.
Answer: Roy Halladay
4. Perhaps the Victorian Era’s greatest account of rural English life, this George Elliott novel chronicles the life of the beautiful and idealistic Dorothea Brooke.
Answer: Middlemarch
5. Examples of it include marble; this type of rock forms under high temperature and pressure deep under the earth’s crust.
Answer: Metamorphic
6. He discovered the relationship between mechanical energy and heat; identify this English physicist in whose honor the SI unit of energy is named.
Answer: James Joule
7. Signed at the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714, it resulted in Britain becoming Europe’s leading power.
Answer: Treaty of Utrecht
8. It is India’s leading industrial and commercial center and has a population of over 15 million. Identify this city situated on the Arabian Sea – the home of Bollywood.
Answer: Bombay or Mumbai
ROUND 5: Grab bag round, 15 toss-ups. 20 points for a correct answer, 20 points down for a wrong answer.
1) His experience in the Salem Witch Trials led to his book “The Wonders of the Invisible World.” He supported inoculations against smallpox and was the
first native-born North American to be elected a member of the Royal Society.
Name this Puritan, author of “Magnalia Christi Americana”, and the son of a man
named Increase. ANSWER: Cotton Mather
2. Heads. Heads. Heads. Only heads seems to come up when one of the title
characters is tossing a coin at the beginning of this play. In the first play
in which they appear they go on a long journey by boat and carry a letter that
seals their own executions. Name this absurdist play by Tom Stoppard, a reworking of
Shakespeare's Hamlet. ANSWER: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
3. It resulted in the death of Albert Sydney Johnston, and was a major
victory for U.S. Grant. Reinforcements arrived at Pittsburg Landing just in time
to turn the tide for the Union in this 1862 battle whose name ironically means “place
place of peace.” ANSWER: Shiloh (accept: Pittsburg Landing on an early buzz)
4. The initial force that causes it is called a jerk,and it is a vector
quantity involving both magnitude and direction. Name this physical quantity
that involves an increase in velocity with respect to time. ANSWER: acceleration
5. Richard Hofstadter discovered that they are surrounded by clouds of
pions, and free ones have a half-life of about 17 minutes. Its antiparticle was
discovered in 1956, 24 years after James Chadwick proved their existence. Name
these uncharged elementary particles with have a slightly greater mass than
protons. ANSWER: neutrons
6. He successfully quelled the 532 Nika Revolt, and his generals Belisarius
and Narses reconquered much of Northern Italy. Much of what is known of his
reign comes from the historian Procopius, including the development with the
aid of Tribonian of his famous law code. Name this Byzantine Emperor whose wife
was named Theodora. ANSWER: Justinian I or Justinian the Great
7. Tradition asserts that they arrived in their current homeland from an as
yet unidentified group of Polynesian Islands in seven canoes. The inhabitants
of those canoes now number over 500,000, and speak a language related to
Tahitian and Hawaiian. Name these people who signed the treaty of Waitongi
(wye-tong-ee), the native inhabitants of New Zealand. ANSWER: Maoris
8. In one of his less-than-shining moments, he led a group of economists
that advised the government of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
(PEE-noh-shay) on economic policy. He argued for a negative income tax in his 1962
work Capitalism and Freedom, while with Anna Schwartz he co-wrote a history of the
United States that criticized Keynesian (KANES-ee-an) theory. Name this
economist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for his development of monetarism.
ANSWER: Milton Friedman
9. He designed the Campidoglio, one of the most beautiful squares in Rome,
and created a sculpture of Moses that, due to an error in Saint Jerome's
Vulgate, sported a set of horns. Name this Renaissance Sculptor, Architect, and
Painter who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.ANSWER: Michelangelo Buenarrotti
10. It was written while on board a train, and its opening bars are meant to
evoke a train leaving a station. Those bars contain perhaps the most famous
notes ever written for the clarinet. Name this 1924 symphonic jazz
composition by George Gershwin. ANSWER: Rhapsody in Blue
11. He eventually emigrates to Australia, but not before his honesty reveals
the sinister deeds of Uriah Heep. Based on the author's father, his first
name is Wilkins, and his wife Emma stands by him through thick and thin. Name
this literary character from Charles Dicken's David Copperfield. ANSWER: Mister Micawber
12. He wrote a famous Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love and penned
numerous invectives against the Pellagians while bishop of a city in North Africa.
His Confessions is considered the first psychological autobiography in
western literature, but he is best known for a work written to explain the fall of
Rome in theological terms. Name this man from Hippo who wrote the City of God.
ANSWER: Saint Augustine
13. Its earliest settlement was the village of York, which was nearly wiped
out during the 1692 Candlemass Massacre. Nearby South Berwick is home to the
Sarah Orne Jewett homestead, which lies just north of the Piscataqua
(Piss-CAT-a-qwa) River which forms part of its southern border. Name this state whose
highest point is Mount Katahdin, and largest city is Portland. ANSWER: Maine
14) The drug riluzole helps people with this disease by slowing down nerve damage. Of genetic origin in about half the cases, it kills by destroying motor neurons, causing muscle atrophy. When respiratory muscles are affected, usually about 3 to 10 years after onset, patients lose the ability to speak and then die. Name this disease that claimed the life of a famous baseball player for the New York Yankees, the source of its common name.
ANSWER: Lou Gehrig’s disease (or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS)
15. He tried to sell hats and find oil, and failed at both endeavors. He
did manage to read every book in the Independence Missouri Public Library, and
ingratiated himself to political boss Thomas Pendergast, who launched his
career. Name this man who became a U.S. Senator, Vice President, and finally the
man who made the decision to drop the first and second atomic bombs on Japan in
1945. ANSWER: Harry S. Truman
16.They retained some of the superficial features of monarchs, such as the curule chair, a purple-bordered toga, and twelve lictors. Likely established in 509 BCE, after 367 BCE the plebeians got to elect one to an annual term, while the patricians kept control of the other appointment. Name this highest magisterial office in Republican Rome, served by two men who could veto each other’s acts.
ANSWER: consul(s)