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QBFOD 2010
ACE Camp Fact of the Day
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| With Aphrodite, fathered Aeneas | Anchises |
| First Prime Minister of Israel | David Ben-Gurion |
| Opera that tells the story of the 3 Magi | Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" |
| First Stuart monarch of England. He wrote "The True Law of Free Monarchs" | James I of England/James VI of Scotland |
| Author who served as ambassador to Spain, inspiring his "The Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada" and "The Alhambra" | Washington Irving |
| British philosopher who coined the term "Naturalistic Fallacy" in his book "Principia Ethica" | G.E. Moore |
| Landscape architect who designed New York's Central Park | Frederick Law Olmstead |
| Virgini Gautreau is the subject of this painting | John Singer Sargent's "Portrait of Madame X" |
| This work's first section, "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy", discusses the "tender- and tough-minded" | William James' "Pragmatism" |
| Wrote "Diary of a Superfluous Man" and "A Sportsman's Sketches" | Turgenev |
| Novel about Arkandy Kirsanov and the nihilist Bazarov | Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" |
| Became president of Georgia in 2004 after helping to topple Eduard Shevardnadze in the Rose Revolution | Mikhail Saakashvili |
| Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian were members of this 20th century Dutch art movement | De Stijl/neoplasticism |
| Italian composer best known for "Pines of Rome", "Fountains of Rome", and "Roman Festival" | Ottorino Respighi |
| Title character of Moliere's "The Misanthrope" | Alceste |
| This conflict began with the Siege of Zara | 4th Crusade |
| The Siege of Zara was led by what two people | Baldwin and Boniface |
| This Venetian Doge supplied ships for the Siege of Zara | Enrico Dandolo |
| For causing Baldur's death, this Norse god is boud while venom drips on him | Loki |
| In 1944, this communist overthrew King Zog I to take control of Albania's government | Enver Hoxha |
| This German geologist coined the term Pangea and was the first to advance the theory of continental drift | Alfred Wegener |
| This Ghana lake is the world's largest man-made lake | Lake Volta |
| This dam created Lake Volta by damming the Volta River | Akosombo Dam |
| When this figure stol mjollnir, he demanded Freya's hand in marriage as ransom. Thor dressed up as Freya and killed him to retrieve it. | Thrym |
| This was Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic policy program | The Great Society |
| The Great Society, LBJ's domestic policy program was introduced in this speech | Ann Arbor Speech |
| The final battle of this war was fought at the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin | Black Hawk War |
| The Black Hawk War was fought by US forces against these two Indian tribes | Sauk and Fox |
| This rule states: "In an alkene reaction, hydrogen adds to carbons with more hydrogens" | Markovnikov's Rule |
| In 1843, he wrote "On the Jewish Question" | Karl Marx |
| The campus of MIT features two buildings by what architect | Eero Saarinen |
| Name the two buildings at MIT's campus that were designed by Eero Saarinen | Kresge Auditorium and MIT Chapel |
| Justinian's general | Belisarius |
| Greek professor Adolphus Cusins is engaged to the title character and Andrew Undershaft is married to Lady Britomart in this play | George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara |
| "The Cross of the World", "The Voyage of Life", "The Course of Empire", and "The Oxbow" are by this Hudson River School painter | Thomas Cole |
| This first sophist is best known for saying that "man is the measure of all things" | Protagoras |
| This work introduced the concept of the categorical imperative | Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" |
| In 1397, this leader united Norway, Sweden, and Denmark into the Kalmar Union | Margaret I |
| In 1397, Margaret I united Norway, Sweden, and Denmark into this union | Kalmar Union |
| This Cuban poet was the founder of the Latin American literary movement "Modernismo" | Jose Marti |
| Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segre discovered this element | Technetium |
| Wrote "Thanatopsis" and "To a Waterfowl" | William Cullen Bryant |
| He attacked Thomas Jefferson with the satirical "The Embargo" | William Cullen Bryant |
| This author of "Spiritual Exercises" founded the Jesuit Order | St. Ignatius of Loyola |
| Julian rides an integrated city bus with his mother to her weight-loss meeting at the YMCA in this short story | Flannery O'Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge" |
| Defeated Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat in 1526, founding the Mughal Empire | Babur |
| National epic of Argentina; In Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow", the characters create a film version | Jose Hernandez's "Martin Fierro" |
| Defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field | Henry VII |
| One half spring constant times displacement squared | starting energy |
| Was convicted for his role in the 1968 My Lai Massacre | Lt. William Calley |
| Cells in phylum Porifera that create water flow through the sponge for feeding and respiration | choanocytes |
| Son of Amram and Jochebed, married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro. He died on Mt. Nebo | Moses |
| South African doctor who performed the first successful transplant of a human heart | Christian Barnard |
| Defeated Admiral Rozhdestvenski to win the decisive 1905 sea battle of the Russo-Japanese War, Tsushima Straits | Togo |
| The lower left of this painting portrays its painter's future wife, Aline Charigot, playing with a dog | Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" |
| James Buchanan and John Mason wrote this 1854 work which demanded that the US take Cuba by force | Ostend Manifesto |
| In this work, Mario works at a radio station that plays soap operas written by Pedro Camacho | Vargas-Llosa's "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" |
| Joseph K. "without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning" in this novel | Franz Kafka's "The Trial" |
| In this novel, Christian woman Ligia and the Roman Marcus Vinicius fall in love during the reign of Nero | Henryk Sienkiewicz's "Quo Vadis" |
| Period of the Mesozoic Era between the Triassic and Cretaceous Periods; its name comes from a mountain range on the French-Swiss border | Jurassic Period |
| Popeye is a character in this William Faulkner work | "Sanctuary" |
| Written by Carl von Clausewitz, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars | "On War" |
| Details the murder of the Clutter family of Kansas | Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" |
| Squirrel who runs up and down the World Tree Yggdrasil in Norse mythology | Ratatosk |
| Alliance of Baltic trading states that was centered in Lubeck, Germany | Hanseatic League |
| John Shade writes a poem that shares its name with this novel he appears in | Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire" |
| His vote acquitted Andrew Johnson after his impeachment for firing Edwin Stanton and violating the Tenure of Office Act | Edmond Ross |
| Studied the Tobriand Islands and wrote "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" and "Magic, Science, and Religion" | Bronislaw Malinowski |
| Law that states that the voltage of a circuit is equal to the product of its current and impedance | Ohm's Law |
| He wrote "To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe" about the Hudson River School artist | William Cullen Bryant |
| With Thetis, fathered Achilles; was the King of Aegina and accidentally killed his mother in law, Eurytion | Peleus |
| The monastery of Spanish King Phillip II; was designed by Juan de Herrera | El Escorial |
| This work is set in Red Oak; the title character gets his nickname from John Oakhurst after surviving the birth that kills his mom, Cherokee Sal | Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp" |
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