1996 Maryland High School Invitational Tournament Round of Eight (NOT Round 8) Letter Round 10 points if correct, 10 points off for an incorrect answer All answers begin with the letter "B" 1. Meteorologists use this device invented by Torricelli to measure atmospheric pressure Answer: _barometer_ 2. This left-handed Yale first baseman served as 41st President of the U.S. Answer: George _Bush_ 3. U Ne Win, U Nu, and U Thant were all leaders of this Asian nation now called Myanmar Answer: _Burma_ 4. She won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote _The Good Earth_ Answer: Pearl Sydenstricker _Buck_ 5. His nine symphonies include the Pastoral, the Choral, and Eroica Answer: Ludwig van _Beethoven_ 6. The man in the iron mask is a famous former inhabitant of this Paris prison, stormed in 1789. Answer: the _Bastille_ 7. Hematology is the study of this fluid which comes in such varieties as A, B, AB, and O. Answer: _Blood_ 8. Neely Capshaw and Mitch Buchanan are lifeguards on this most popular television show in the world. Answer: _Baywatch_ Untimed Individual Round Correct answers are worth 20 points. There is no penalty for an incorrect answer. Team 1 1. VISUAL: NEWSSTAND OR RADIO Hidden in this phrase is what country situated between France and Spain? Answer: _Andorra_ 2. SEMIOTICS, symbiosis, semaphore Which of these is the term from the general, philosophic theory of signs and symbols? 3. 196, 284, 229 Which one of these numbers is not a perfect square? ANSWER: 229 4. Name both the man who founded the Mormon Church in New York in 1830 before moving to Illinois, and the man who replaced him as the Mormon leader when he was murdered in 1844. Answer: Joseph _Smith_ and Brigham _Young_ 5. Silurian, Cretaceous, Quaternary Arrange these geologic time periods in chronological from least to most recent. Answer: Silurian, Cretaceous, Quaternary 6. "Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist." Which French stockbroker turned Post-Impressionist painted who painted _Jacob Wrestling with the Angel_ and Tahitian subjects said this quote? Answer: Paul _Gauguin_ Team 2 1. VISUAL: A PENGUIN EATS FISH Hidden in this phrase is what African country with capital at Conakry? Answer: _Guinea_ 2. truculent, transient, TACITURN Which of these words means temperamentally disinclined to talk? 3. 101, 110, 100 In base 2, which of these numbers equals 5 in base 10? ANSWER: 101 4. What religion was founded by George Fox in 1668, and what future founder of an American state in 1682 wrote the preface to Fox's journal? Answer: _Quakers_ (or Society of Friends) and William _Penn_ 5. Gypsum, Corundum, Orthoclase Arrange these minerals from hardest to softest. Answer: Corundum, Orthoclase, Gypsum 6. "No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." What American painter made this remark to British art critic John Ruskin and painted _Arrangement in Gray and Black: The Artist's Mother_? Answer: James Abbott MacNeill _Whistler_ Category Round 10 points if correct, 10 points off for an incorrect answer Identify the country from which each of the following achieved their independence. 1. Zaire Answer: Belgium 2. Indonesia Answer: Netherlands 3. Belize Answer: Great Britain 4. Guatemala Answer: Spain or Mexico 5. Egypt Answer: Great Britain 6. Suriname Answer: Netherlands 7. Senegal Answer: France 8. Angola Answer: Portugal 9. Ghana Answer: Great Britain 10. Algeria Answer: France Timed Round Correct answers are worth 20 points. There is no penalty for an incorrect answer. If a team answers all eight questions, it will receive a 25 point bonus. Each team has 80 seconds to answer their eight questions. Team 1 1. Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe, and Osaka are among the cities located on what island, Japan's largest? Answer: _Honshu_ 2. Lindenwald was the residence of which president who succeeded Andrew Jackson in 1837? Answer: Martin _Van Buren_ 3. Born in Russia, which man painted themes from his Jewish childhood in works like _I and the Village_? Answer: Marc _Chagall_ 4. Which of the following laws gives the force between two electric charges? COULOMB'S LAW, Cole's law, Kirchoff's law 5. The Union had 23,000 casualties, and the Confederacy 25,000 at what July 1-3, 1863 battle that ended Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North? Answer: _Gettysburg_ 6. "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby the Scrivener" are among the stories in _The Piazza Tales_, by what American author of _Billy Budd_? Answer: Herman _Melville_ 7. MATH QUESTION 6 times the sine of 120 degrees + tangent of 60 degrees Compute the value of the expression. Answer: 4 times the square root of 3 8. Resisting encroachment of whites into the Black Hills, what chief of the Oglala Sioux joined Sitting Bull and Gall to defeat Custer at Little Big Horn? Answer: _Crazy Horse_ Team 2 1. The Gothic Doges' Palaces, the Bridge of Sighs, and St. Mark's Church are among the landmarks in what Italian city known for its canals? Answer: _Venice_ 2. The Washington Monument was dedicated during the term of which 21st U.S. president who ascended to the office upon the death of James Garfield? Answer: Chester A. _Arthur_ 3. _Still Life with Commode_ and _Still Life with Peppermint Bottle_ are two of the paintings of which French postimpressionist and friend of Emile Zola? Answer: Paul _Cezanne_ 4. Which of the following states that pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional? Charles' law, Graham's law, BOYLE'S LAW 5. The failure of the Dardanelles campaign discredited what first lord of the British admiralty during World War I, a man who would later serve as prime minister during World War II? Answer: Winston _Churchill_ 6. "Tennessee's Partner" and "Miggles" are short stories by what author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "The Luck of Roaring Camp"? Answer: Francis Brett _Harte_ 7. MATH QUESTION 4 1 -2 3 Compute the determinant of the matrix. Answer: 14 8. _Up from Slavery_ was the autobiography of what African-American educator, under whose direction Tuskegee Institute became a leading educational institution? Answer: Booker T. _Washington_ Grab Bag Round A correct answer is worth 20 points. 20 points will be deducted for an incorrect answer. 1. This Texan never actually asked if any Homeys were dissing his girl, nor why they had to front. Name this rock pioneer who sang "That'll be the Day", "Oh Boy!" and "Peggy Sue". Answer: Buddy _Holly_ 2. Polynices, Eteocles, Ismene, and Antigone. These are the sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters, of what mythological King of Thebes, who married his mother, Jocasta? Answer: OEDIPUS 3. The ratio of the perimeters of two similar triangles is 4:1. What is the ratio of the areas of the triangles? Answer: _16:1_ 4. Always facing the sunrise to the East, it was said to have the head of the pharaoh Cheops. Name this ancient sculpture in Giza with the body of a lion. Answer: _Sphinx_ 5. "Shanti Shanti Shanti" is the last line and "April is the cruellest month" is the first of what 1922 poem that expresses the themes of boredom, bareness, and sterility, written by T. S. Eliot? Answer: The _Waste Land_ 6. Taliesin was a residence in Arizona created by what man who also designed Robie House, the Guggenheim Museum, and Fallingwater? Answer: Frank Lloyd _Wright_ 7. Hydrogen was first detected in the sun's atmosphere by what Swedish physicist, whose name lives on as a unit of length equal to 10^-10 meters? Answer: Anders Jons _Angstrom_ 8. _Why I am not a Christian_ is a book by what English logician who collaborated with Alfred North, Lord Whitehead on _Principia Mathematica_? Answer: Bertrand _Russell_ 9. George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, and most recently, Pierce Brosnan in _Goldeneye_ all played what super-suave secret agent created by Ian Fleming? Answer: James _Bond_ 10. She hid with her parents and several other fugitives in Amsterdam during the years 1942-1944. Who was this German-Jewish girl famous for the diary she kept during her years of hiding? Answer: Anne _Frank_ 11. This former NBA all-star played his college ball at Indiana University, and after his sophomore year, was drafted by the Detroit Pistons. Who is this former point guard, now the general manager of the Toronto Raptors? Answer: Isiah _Thomas_ 12. _Aaron's Rod_, _Boy in the Bush_, _The Rocking-Horse Winner_, _Sons and Lovers_, and _Lady Chatterley's Lover_ were written by what English author? Answer: David Herbert _Lawrence_ 13. In 1922, he led his followers in a famous march on Rome that resulted in his appointment as prime minister. What man then proceeded to mold the Italian government to the ideals of Fascism and entered World War II on the side of Germany? Answer: Benito _Mussolini_ 14. _The City of God_ and _Confessions_ were both works of what Christian thinker and bishop of Hippo who has a city in Florida named after him? Answer: St. _Augustine_ 15. Her most famous novel was made into a movie in 1985 starring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey. Who is this author of _Meridian_, _The Temple of My Familiar_, and _The Color Purple_? Answer: Alice _Walker_