2001 D16

• Who is the brutal plantation owner that whips Uncle Tom to death for refusing to reveal the location of fugitive slaves in the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• ANSWER: SIMON LEGREE

• A fine little girl, she wait for me. Me catch the ship across the sea. I sailed the ship all alone. I never think I’ll make it home. Three nights and days we sailed the sea. Me think of girl constantly. On the ship, I dream she there. I smell the rose in her hair. Me see Jamaican moon above. It won’t be long before me see me love. Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again. These are the actual lyrics to what 1960s song by the Kingsmen that was banned for its allegedly obscene lyrics?

• ANSWER: LOUIE LOUIE

• The rank of admiral in the US Navy was specifically created for what Civil War naval officer who captured New Orleans and Mobile Bay, and is known for the phrase, ‘Damn the torpedos?’

• ANSWER: David FARRAGUT

• This element was discovered in 1808 by Sir Humphrey Davy and was named for a Scottish town. What is this element which is used to produce red fireworks and whose isotope with mass 90 is dangerous as it can take the place of calcium in bones?

• ANSWER: STRONTIUM

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A farmer owns a rectangular plot of land that is 500 feet by 1000 feet. He wants to make a border 50 feet around and then subdivide the remaining land into 50 by 50 plots. How many plots can he make?

• ANSWER: 144 (remaining land is 400 feet by 900 feet, thus 8 by 18, or 144)

• What is the two-word term given to an order by the President to his Cabinet agencies that has the force of a law passed by Congress?

• ANSWER: EXECUTIVE ORDER

• What type of chemical bond typically forms between two non-metals and happens when pairs of electrons is ‘shared’ by two atoms?

• ANSWER: COVALENT

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A man has $10 to buy 50 cent candy bars and $1 candy bars. If he buys 14 candy bars in all then how many 50 cent candy bars has he bought?

• ANSWER: 8 ($4 on 8 50-cent bars and $6 on 6 dollar bars)

• Who is the author of the Horatio Hornblower series and the novel The African Queen?

• ANSWER: C.S. (Cecil Scott) FORRESTER

• Midway through this opera, the title character decides she no longer loves Jose, but loves Escamillo, and promises herself to Escamillo if he returns victorious from the bullfights. However, while Escamillo is at the bullfight, Jose kills her after she refuses to give him her love and fidelity. What is this opera by Bizet?

• ANSWER: CARMEN

• What name is given to Level 2 programming languages that have roughly 20 to 50 instructions, such as MOVE, GET and ADD, to which all Level 3 and 4 programming languages are translated into during compilation?

• ANSWER: ASSEMBLY language

• Which of the Three Musketeers eventually joined the church and became a cardinal?

• ANSWER: ARAMIS

• Jacques Edouard Alexis, a member of the ruling Lavalas party, is the prime minister of what country whose president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, will be inaugurated in February? 2001

• ANSWER: HAITI

• What English King is the only one to be called ‘The Great?’

• ANSWER: ALFRED

• What name is given to the flat land that surrounds a stream or river and is submerged when the stream or river overflows its banks?

• ANSWER: FLOOD PLAIN

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the product of the binomials 3x plus 2 and 2x minus 6?

• ANSWER: SIX X SQUARED MINUS FOURTEEN X MINUS 12

• What nine-letter word starting with ‘i’ is used to describe physically severe or harsh conditions, especially related to the weather?

• ANSWER: INCLEMENT

• What type of muscle is found in places such as the stomach and the walls of blood vessels and cannot be controlled directly like skeletal muscles?

• ANSWER: SMOOTH muscles

• Who wrote the ‘Academic Festival Overture?’

• ANSWER: Johannes BRAHMS

• What nine-letter word starting with ‘d’ is used to describe a stomach ache?

• ANSWER: DYSPEPSIA

• What ancient empire had its capital at Nineveh?

• ANSWER: ASSYRIAN

• Mary Baker Eddy is known as the founder of what religion?

• ANSWER: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE or CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

• What are the prime number factors that the number 96 can be broken into?

• ANSWER: 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (a three and five two’s)

• Where was the truce signed that ended the Korean War?

• ANSWER: PANMUNJON

• What type of tissue is the loose connective tissue that stores fat?

• ANSWER: ADIPOSE tissue

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. The average player for a sports team makes 20% more than he did last season. If the total club payroll is now $4,800,000, what did the average player make last season?

• ANSWER: $200,000 (Average player makes $240,000 now. Divide by 1.2 and you get $200,000)

• Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and Rob Roy are all novels written by what Scottish author?

• ANSWER: Sir Walter SCOTT

• What charge do ions of alkali earth metal family possess?

• ANSWER: POSITIVE TWO

• One pardon that President Clinton did not give on his last day in office was a pardon to what American Indian activist who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975?

• ANSWER: Leonard PELTIER

• To what Roman poet did A.E. Housman say the line, ‘This is stupid stuff?’

•ANSWER: TERENCE

• Who was the Prussian leader known as the Iron Chancellor?

• ANSWER: Otto von BISMARCK

• The Hallucinogenic Toreador is a painting by what 20th century Spanish artist?

• ANSWER: Salvador DALI

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the midpoint of the line running between (5,6) and (-2,1)?

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the midpoint of the line running between (5,6) and (-2,1)?

• ANSWER: (1½,3½) (add 5 and negative 2 to get three and 6 and 1 to get seven. Divide three and seven each by two.)

• What type of lien is posted when repairs or other physical work is done on a property, but the owner of the property does not make payment?

• ANSWER: MECHANICS’ lien

• What is the name given to the momentum of an object moving around a fixed axis?

• ANSWER: ANGULAR momentum

• What author of the Poetics founded the Lyceum and tutored Alexander the Great?

• ANSWER: ARISTOTLE

• He was Solicitor General from 1965 to 1967 until Lyndon Johnson tapped him to fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court. Who was this man, the first Black Supreme Court Justice?

• ANSWER: Thurgood MARSHALL

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A movie theater is at one-fifth of its capacity of 300. If half the people there had free passes, and the paying customers paid $8 each, how much money did the theater make?

• ANSWER: $240 (60 people in the place, 30 paid customers * $8 = $240)

• What is the name of the canine protagonist of The Call of the Wild?

• ANSWER: BUCK

• What name is given to a region with an aridity index greater than 4.0, with sparse vegetation and an annual average rainfall of 10 or fewer inches?

• ANSWER: DESERT

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A box has its top torn off. Its top is 10 inches by 6 inches, and it is 20 inches high. How many square inches of cardboard remain?

• ANSWER: 700 square inches (sides are 60, 120 and 200 square inches. One 60 square inch side is torn off, so 60 + 240 + 400 = 700)

• King Shahryar (SHAH-rih-yar) discovers his wife’s infidelity and has her killed. Now hating all mankind, he married a different woman every day and has her killed in the morning. Scheherazade (scheh-HAIR-ruh-zahd), the daughter of Shahryar’s vizier, marries him, and postpones her execution by telling him a story that she leaves unfinished. This is the central theme of what collection of stories?

• ANSWER: THE ARABIAN NIGHTS or THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

• What is the name given to the intense brightening of a small part of the solar chromosphere, releasing particles and radiation that can potentially disrupt magnetic fields on Earth and endanger humans in space?

• ANSWER: SOLAR FLARE

• Who is the portrait artist best known for his painting of Henry VIII?

• ANSWER: Hans HOLBEIN

• What president became known as ‘His Accidency’ due to the fact that his predecessor, William Henry Harrison, was the first president to die in office?

• ANSWER: John TYLER

• What name is given to the long chainlike structures surrounded by the myelin sheath that are attached to neurons?

• ANSWER: AXONs

• What major Division I basketball team plays its home games in either McDonough Gym or the MCI Center, and is currently returning to its old Top 10 haunts under head coach Craig Escherick?

• ANSWER: GEORGETOWN University

• What mountain range in Russia is general considered as the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia?

• ANSWER: URAL Mountains

• What is the derivative of the function y equals x cubed minus 2x plus 13?

• ANSWER: 3X SQUARED MINUS 2

• Who is the author of the novel Ethan Frome?

• ANSWER: Edith WHARTON

• What organelle processes ribosomes at the rate of 10,000 per minute, and is located within the nucleus?

• ANSWER: NUCLEOLUS

• Take the set {0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10} and the set {1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10}. What is the intersection of those two sets?

• ANSWER: {1, 4, 7, 10}

• Who was George Washington’s first Secretary of State?

• ANSWER: Thomas JEFFERSON

• What name was given to the mythical warrior women who often fought with mythological Greeks?

• ANSWER: AMAZONs

• What name is given to a verb form that is used with an auxiliary verb?

• ANSWER: PARTICIPLE