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Variety Set 1
Quiz Bowl Set 2 first 36
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In this city, Wissahicken Creek goes through Fairmont Park. This city can be entered by crossing the Delaware on the Betsy Ross Bridge. One of its buildings is where the Second Continental Congress wrote the Declaration of Independence. What is this city? | Philadelphia |
| Who wrote the 16th century novel "The Prince" | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| This man stabbed Henry Rathbone to begin his escape. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt was one of 4 people hanged for conspiring with this man who was shot and killed in a burning barn. Samuel Mudd was arrested for treating his leg after he killed Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| This author wrote about Prendick and human-animal hybrids in the "The Island of Dr. Moureau". In another novel, Martians invade Earth but are killed by common disease. Name this author of "Time Machine" and "The War of the Worlds". | H.G. Wells |
| This US President used the US Army to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and helped create the nation's Interstate Highway system. He was the Supreme Commander during the D-Day invasion. Name this man who was president after Truman | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| Name the German composer of "Lohengrin", "Tristan and Isolde" and "Das Rheingold"which begins his "Ring of the Nibelung" operas | Richard Wagner |
| This author wrote about an old woman who refused payment to a thieving doctor because she couldn't see her belongings. In other stories, a mouse saves a lion from hunters and a farmer kills a goose that lays golden eggs. Who is this Greek author? | Aesop |
| Name the 490 BCE battle after which Phedippides ran 26 miles to Athens | Battle of Marathon |
| This was the Greek goddess of spilled the blood of her lover into sea anemones after he was killed by a bear. She was the lover of Adonis and the wife of Hephaestus. Name this Greek goddess of love and beauty | Aphrodite |
| Felix Mendelssohn is best known for a set of incidental music for this Shakespeare play, including a Wedding March that is used in most weddings today. . Name this play | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Name the country on the Horn of Africa that is considered a failed state for its inability to control a civil war for its territory or piracy in its waters | Somalia |
| This is the scientific term for the reaction in which is fuel is burned. Some liquids are so volatile that they will spontaneously undergo this type of reaction at room temperature | Combustion |
| Burning hydrocarbons such as gasoline, in the presence of oxygen results in the formation of two other gases. Name either | Carbon Dioxide or Water Vapor |
| This scientific term describes reactions such as combustion reactions that result in a net release of energy | Exothermic |
| This poem describes the decorations on the sides of the title vessel. Name this poem that proclaims "Beauty is truth-that is all/Ye know on earth and all ye need to know? | "Ode to a Grecian Urn" |
| This author wrote "Ode to a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Hyperion" | John Keats |
| Name this period from 1865-1877, a time of recovery from the US Civil War that saw the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments | Reconstruction |
| Reconstruction ended when federal troops left the south under this president who defeated Samuel Tilden in the election of 1876. | Rutherford B Hayes |
| Which amendment resulted in the passage of the Federal Income Tax? | 16th |
| Which amendment stated that the Quartering of Troops is illegal? | 3rd |
| Who wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "A Farewell to Arms", and "The Sun Also Rises". He lived and work in Key West Florida | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Shinto religion is practiced by inhabitants in this country | Japan |
| In one novel by this writer, a character named Protopopov becomes the lover of Natasha. Name this Russian author of "The Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard", | Anton Chekhov |
| Density equals mass divided by this quantity. Give this term for the amount of space an object occupies for which a cube equals side length cube | Volume |
| The US government suggested using race as the basis of this practice in the 1990's. It was first used in 1812 and was named for the former Governor of Massachusetts who used this practice to redraw the Congressional boundaries to favor one political party | Gerrymandering |
| This document replaced the word "property" in John Locke's list of unalienable rights listing instead "the pursuit of happiness". It was written by a committee including John Adams. 56 men signed this document attacking King George III. | The Declaration of Independence |
| The deepest part of this body of water is known as "Calypso Deep" Major cities on this body of water include Ajaccio, Palermo, and Beruit. Islands include Cyprus, Crete, and Sicily. Name this body of water found in Europe and Africa | Mediterranean Sea |
| What force is greatly reduced in a situation where a car is sliding on an icy road? | Friction |
| What is the name of the island that shares the two countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic? | Hispaniola |
| For any odd number greater than one, there exists one of these types of sets where that number is the smallest of the three elements. Name these sets of three integers a, b, c, which satisfy the equation a squared plus b squared equals c squared. | Pythagorean Triples |
| This document called for 5 million dollars of war reparations from Germany and the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France. Name this document that ended World War I named for the place in which it was signed | Treaty of Versailles |
| Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" and Bizet's "Carmen" are operas from this country | Spain |
| This planet and Earth are the only ones whose atmospheres are mostly nitrogen. It was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. Charon is thought to be its satellite. Name this celestial object that is now considered a dwarf planet | Pluto |
| The trial in this novel is presided over by Lucas de Beaumanoir. One character in this novel captures the daughter of Issac of York named Rebecca. Athelsane disclaims the daughter of Cedric the Saxon named Rowena. Name this work written by Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |
| Wedge and rope type are informal terms to denote small and large ones of these phenomena. 28 different damage indicators measure their severity on the Fujita Scale. Name these violently rotating windstorms that occur in the famous "Alley" part of the US | tornadoes |
| One figure involved in this event is drunk with the blood of saints. During it 7 vials are poured by 7 angels in order to wreak havoc. It is set to take place on the Hill of Megiddo. Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence are the "Four Horseman" of this event | Apocalypse or Armageddon |
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