ROUND 5

Toss-up 1: Its author is famous in the former Czechoslovakia for being an unofficial spokesman for the first republic.  A writer and journalist, this play's author also wrote The Insect Play.  For ten points each, name this most famous Karel Capek work which introduced the current meaning of the word "robot."
	Rostrum's Universal Robots

Bonus 1: R.U.R. shares part of its name with the abortion pill RU486.  Answer the following about abortion and the law, for ten points each.
This Burger Court case established the Constitutional right to abortion.
	Roe v. Wade
This 1992 case allowed states to set their own abortion policies, with some exceptions.	
	Planned Parenthood v. Casey
This amendment, named for an Illinois Congressman, forbids federal money from being used to fund abortion.
	Hyde Amendment

Toss-up 2: This man was the only sitting president to lead American troops into battle.  For ten points, name this president who put down the Whiskey Rebellion.
	George Washington

Bonus 2: Given a description, name the leader of a European revolt for ten points each.
He led the Munich Beer Hall Putsch.
	Adolf Hitler
He masterminded the gunpowder plot in England.
	Guy Fawkes
In 1848, he led the Magyar revolt against the Hapsburgs.
	Louis (or Lajos) Kussouth

Toss-up 3: Paper and writing utensil ready. For ten points, assuming a balloon’s contents are under 2 atmospheres of pressure at 27 degrees Celsius, how cold would it have to get to reduce the pressure to 1 atmosphere?
	-123 degrees Celsius or 150 degrees Kelvin

Bonus 3: For ten points each, identify the following types of radiation.
Two protons and two neutrons	Alpha
Pure energy				Gamma
An electron				Beta	

Toss-up 4: Like George Bernard Shaw, this author was revolted by Ulysses. However, his revulsion was even more ironic. This was because in addition to having written The Rainbow, he also ran into trouble himself for his book Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
	D.H. Lawrence

Bonus 4: Identify the following for ten points each.
Of what Jean Paul Sartre short story collection was it said by Lloyd Alexander that it “leaves Lady Chatterley’s Lover asleep at the post”?
	The Wall
Who wrote A Season in Hell?
	Arthur Rimbaud
What Vladimir Nabakov work got him into trouble for its themes?
	Lolita

Toss-up 5: Born Reginald Dwight, this “fountain of flamboyance” became popular in the 1970’s. But the 1990’s have been his best decade yet. He won an Academy Award for his work on Disney’s The Lion King, and in early 1998 he was knighted, partly due to his song, “Candle in the Wind,” which was reworded to commemorate the death of Princess Diana.
	Elton John

Bonus 5: Candle in the Wind bonus. Answer the following related to the songs for the stated number of points.
For five points, who did the original version of the song commemorate? 
	Marilyn Monroe
For ten points, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to ban land mines,   the same cause Princess Di was fighting for?	
	Jodi Williams	
For fifteen points, Marilyn Monroe is the stage name of what woman? 
	Norma Jean Baker

Toss-up 6: His breakthrough movie was about an encounter with aliens at Devil’s Tower, Wyoming. His most recent film is about an 1839 slave rebellion. For ten points, name this director of “E.T.”
	Steven Spielberg

Bonus 6: See what you can do with these questions about Steven Spielberg.
For ten points, name the movie studio that Steven Spielberg created last year.
	DreamWorks, SKG 
For ten points each, name Spielberg’s two associates in this project.
	David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg

Toss-up 7: Nowadays, this poor Spanish port city survives on tuna fishing and ship building.  But this oldest European city, founded by the Phoenicians around 1,100BC, was a thriving trade center during the 1500’s. For ten points, name this city which received all the goods from the New World, before they were shipped seventy miles northeast, to Seville.		
	Cadiz

Bonus 7:  España!  Answer the following about Spain for five points each
This city hosted the 1992 summer Olympic games.
	Barcelona
This language is spoken in Barcelona more than Spanish.
	Catalan
The city of Jerez de la Frontera is famous for this type of wine.	
	Sherry
Miguel Luis Ángel was murdered last summer by this terrorist organization, which operates from País Vasco. 
	E. T. A. (accept Basque Fatherland and Liberty Group)
 Site of the Alhambra Palace, and former capital city of the Moors.
	Granada 
The current prime minister is what man?
	Felipe Gonzalez Marquez

Toss-up 8: An honored favorite of the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA, this artist is known for his Helga Pictures and also the evocative Christina’s World. For ten points, name this artist whose was both the father and son of famous artists.
	Andrew Wyeth

Bonus 8: For ten points each, identify the following, all three of which begin with the letter “w.”
General search warrants issued by colonial courts to customs officers. They were imposed by the Townsend Acts.
	Writs of Assistance
State whose tree is the cottonwood, whose flower is the Indian paintbrush, and whose motto is “Equal Rights,” it was the first to grant woman sufferage.
	Wyoming
English Author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
	Virginia Woolf

Toss-up 9: In a 1987 piece in Atlantic Monthly, this man predicted that the stock market would crash as it had in 1929.  Sure enough, a few months later, it did.  A Harvard economist, he is the author of several books, including The Age of Uncertainty.  An advisor to Kennedy, he was also the ambassador to India.  He also wrote The New Industrial State and The Great Crash, 1929.  For ten points, name this author of The Affluent Society.
	John Kenneth Galbraith

Bonus 9: Affluent societies.  For five points each, name six of the seven member nations in the Group of Seven industrialized countries.
	United States, Canada, Great Britain (also accept United Kingdom or England), France, Italy, Germany, Japan

Toss-up 10: “In Xanadu did Kublai Kahn / A stately pleasure dome decree.” This is the opening line of Kublai Khan by what author of the “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?”
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bonus 10: 30-20-10. Identify the following romantic poet from the works.
30: Nutting
20: We Are Seven
10: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
	William Wordsworth

Toss-up 11: At the time of the failure of the Paris Commune, he remarked to his wife, "I'm afraid the Prussians have not crushed the people enough."  Known for his Germanic operas, he was heralded as a good Aryan composer by the Nazis.  For ten points, name this composer of the Gotterdamerung.
	Richard Wagner

Bonus 11: Identify the following Richards' last names for ten points each.
A father-and-son pair of Chicago mayors share a first name and a last name, but not a middle name.
	Richard Daley
He was our 37th president.				
	Richard Nixon
He wrote The Making of the Atomic Bomb and the more creatively titled Dark Sun, about the making of the hydrogen bomb.
	Richard Rhodes

Toss-up 12: For a quick ten points, name the Chinese-American author of books such as The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Joy Luck Club.
	Amy Tan
Bonus 12: 30-20-10. Name the author based on his works.
30: Man on Bataan
20: A Bell for Adano
10: Hiroshima
	John Hersey

Toss-up 13: The last two times the Washington Redskins won the Super Bowl, in 1987 and 1991, they were quarterbacked by different players. For a quick ten points, name either of them.	
	Mark Rypien or Doug Williams

Bonus 13: Though Rypien and Williams could be considered one year wonders, their three all-pro receivers were not. 
For five points each, name the three members of “The Posse”
	Art Monk, Ricky Sanders, Gary Clark
For five more, which Hesiman Trophy winner asked to be in “The Posse” in just his second year, but was refused because he had not accomplished enough in the NFL?
	Desmond Howard
For five points, who was the coach of the winning Redskins Super Bowl teams? 
	Joe Gibbs
Finally, for five points, what sport, besides football, do both Gibbs and Rypien participate in now?	
	Auto Racing

Toss-up 14: Pencil and paper ready. For ten points, given the equation y=5x2+45x-65, what is the product of the roots?
	-13

Bonus 14: For ten points each, answer the following questions.
What is the third term in the expansion of the (x-3y)4 (read: the quantity x minus 3y to the fourth)
	54x2y2 (“fifty-four x squared y squared”)
What are the roots of the equation y=2x2-3x-5
	5/2 and -1
What is the value of I47
	-i (“negative I”)

Toss-up 15: Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies was based on one of this man's seven surviving plays, and Shelly's Prometheus Unbound's title was a play on the title of another of this author’s works.  For ten points, name this Greek playwright of The Oresteia and Prometheus Bound.
	Aeschylus
Bonus 15: It is odd that only seven of Aeschylus' plays remain, and that one of them is The Seven Against Thebes.  For five points each, name six of the seven wonders of the world.
	Pyramids at Giza or of Egypt; Hanging Gardens of Babylon; the Statue of Zeus at Olympia; the Temple of Artemis; the Mauseleum at Halicarnassus; the Colossus of Rhodes; and the Pharos or Lighthouse at Alexandria

Toss-up 16: This political cartoonist brought into general usage the characters of Santa Claus, the Republican Elephant and the Democratic Donkey through his cartoons commenting on the Reconstruction Era. For ten points, name this cartoonist who is credited with helping to bring down Tammany Hall.
	Thomas Nast

Bonus 16: Speaking of “doing the nasty,” here’s a bonus on daytime talk shows.  Name the host for five points each, five more for all correct.
This man’s “Too Hot For TV” video has sold over 100,000 copies; and he was once a Cincinnati City-Councilman. 
	Jerry Springer
This former comedian testified in a murder trial regarding the death of a man who came out of the closet on her show. 
	Jenny Jones
This woman has built a media empire and has her own on-air book club.  
	Oprah Winfrey
This white-haired host who sported tacky glasses was big on audience participation.  		Phil Donahue
This woman, who has struggled with her weight, acted in John Water’s “Hairspray” and “Serial Mom.”
	Ricki Lake

Toss-up 17: This Canadian who moved to the U.S. won the Nobel Prize the same year he won the Pulitzer. He wrote such works as The Adventures of Augie March and Mr. Sammler's Planet.  For ten points, name this 1976 Nobel Laureate, the author of Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt’s Gift, and Herzog.
	Saul Bellow

Bonus 17: For ten points each, given works, name the B-initialed author.
Peter Pan						James Matthew Barrie
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience	William Blake
Decameron, Filostrato and Teseida			Giovanni Boccaccio

Toss-up 18: "We Americans are not a philosophical lot; we have too much work to do."  So said this 1933 Nobel Laureate to a European scientist friend.  For ten points, name this winner of the prize for medicine or physiology for his theory of chromosomal inheritance.
	Thomas Hunt Morgan

Bonus 18: Name these other Nobel Laureates for Medicine or Physiology, for ten points if you can get it just off the year and five if you need a description.
10--1983 
5--Her experiments with corn led her to develop the theory of "jumping genes."
	Barbara McClintock
10--1904
5--His experiments with dogs led him to develop the theory of conditioned response.
	Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
10--1906
5--His "apparatus" stores and modifies the products of endoplasmic reticulum and then sends it to where it is needed.
	Camillo Golgi (after 10 point clue, accept Santiago Ramon y Cajal)

Toss-up 19: Two presidents were inaugurated in New York. One put down the Whiskey Rebellion  and the other was this man. For ten points, name this chief executive who was James Garfield’s vice president before becoming president in 1881.	
	Chester Alan Arthur
	
Bonus 19: Answer the following about the Big Apple for five points each and five more for all correct.
He is the current mayor.			
	Rudolph W. Guiliani
He is the architect who designed Central Park.	
	Frederick Law Olmsted
The Knicks and Rangers play in this arena.	
	Madison Square Garden
First European to visit New York, he is the namesake of a bridge which links Brooklyn and Staten Island.  
	Giovanni da Verrazano
This expensive hotel is situated on Central Park South and was the home of the fictional Eloise.  	
	the Plaza hotel

Toss-up 20: When the prophet Mohammed began to preach against idolatry, and in favor of the worship of one true god, he did so inspired by a vision of what archangel?
	Gabriel

Bonus 20: Give the Arabic for the following terms concerned with Islam for five points each.
The one true god						Allah
The Holy book						Koran
The prophets’ sayings collected in the Hadith		Sunna
A legal system based on the Koran and the Sunna		Shari’a
Experts on the Shari’a						Ulema
One who calls the faithful to prayer from a Minaret		Muezzin