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 Post subject: Recap: 4-May-2010
PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 11:47 am 
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Round 1
1 Which famous author wrote the play 'An Enemy of the People'?
1 George Bernard Shaw
2 Anton Chekhov
3 Karl Marx
4 Henrik Ibsen*
5 Langston Hughes

No Harlem renaissance
No communist philosopher
Norwegian playwright

Ibsen expressed his view of 19th-century society in this play about a corrupt small town.

2 In theatrical history, Maude Adams is closely associated with this legendary role:
1 Maid Marion
2 Peter Pan*
3 Molly Brown
4 Becky Sharp
5 Little Eva

No locomotion singer
Not unsinkable
Captain Hook

Adams palyed the role for millions of fans in the early 20th century.

3 Which country has regions named Lappi, Oulu and Vaasa?
1 Finland*
2 South Korea
3 The Philippines
4 Thailand
5 Sweden

Not where Bangkok is
No Marcos regime
Neighbor of Russia

Finnish is a Uralic language related closely to Estonian and remotely to Hungarian.

4 In the 'Epic of Gilgamesh', what must the main character do to achieve eternal life?
1 Be silent for 20 years
2 Touch no wine or women
3 Stay awake for 7 nights*
4 Scalp 200 of his enemies
5 Travel to hell and back

No dandruff cure
Don't bite your tongue
Unnatural insomnia

Gilgamesh succumbs to sleep, but upon waking is reconciled with man's mortality.

5 What results from crossbreeding a male donkey and a female horse?
1 Gelding
2 Mule*
3 Zebra
4 Ox
5 Ass

No slang for posterior
No two-letter word
Stubborn as a _____

Mules are more temperamental than horses, but have much greater endurance.


Round 2
6 Which country claimed Bolivia's Pacific coast territory in the War of the Pacific?
1 Ecuador
2 Chile*
3 Argentine
4 Colombia
5 Peru

Not where Incas ruled
Not earth's middle line
Red hot _____ pepper

Bolivia also lost land to Paraguay and Brazil

7 An electron in 'ground state':
1 has full positive charge
2 is paired with a double
3 is immobile
4 has the lowest energy*
5 is unatttached

Not a bachelor
No doppelganger
Opposite of highest

Having the least energy, it occupies the orbit closest to the nucleus.

8 This city used to be home to an infamous gateway called Temple Bar:
1 Rome
2 Paris
3 Philadelphia
4 London*
5 Montreal

No Eiffel Tower
No Colosseum
Big Ben

The heads of executed traitors and criminals were exhibited on it.

9 As a mature artist, he thought it unnecessary and inappropriate to sign his own work:
1 Van Gogh
2 Monet
3 Michelangelo*
4 El Greco
5 Andy Warhol

Didn't do a soup can
No French impressionist
His Sistine Chapel

Of all the works he created, he signed only one sculpture, the 'Pieta' in St. Peter's.

10 He was Secretary of the Treasury under three different Presidents:
1 William Levitt
2 Henry Flagler
3 Jay Cooke
4 Andrew Mellon*
5 John C. Calhoun

Not Bill, for short
No middle initial
Casaba

He served under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.


Round 3
11 This style of drama was a choral performance recounting tales of gods and heroes:
1 Kabuki
2 Pageant
3 Masque
4 Miracle Play
5 Dithyramb*

Not a Halloween costume
Not the work of a god
Morse code signal

An ancient Greek drama, it evolved from the first festivals honoring Dionysus

12 Pentelic, Carerra [sic] and Yule are all types of:
1 Ferns
2 Automobile engines
3 Batteries
4 Marble*
5 Shorebirds

No flying creatures
No green plants
Make a statue

Pentelic marble comes from Mount Pentelikos in Greece.

13 This man of letters did not start out as an astronomer, but rather a musician and composer:
1 Alexander Fleming
2 Galileo Galilei
3 William Herschel*
4 Isaac Newton
5 Johannes Kepler

Not a fig cookie
Not a great Macedonian
Opposite of his

Study of music theory led to optics, then to astronomy and his famous home-ground telescopes

14 Which woman was a central symbol in the poetry of William Butler Yeats?
1 Helen of Troy
2 Lady Macbeth
3 Maud Gonne*
4 Annabel Lee
5 Beatrice

Not worth fighting over
Not one word only
Bea Arthur away?

Gonne, an Irish patriot, inspired the poet's intense Celtic nationalism.

15 The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium has to do with:
1 Interplanetary orbits
2 Economical [sic] cycles
3 Meteorological changes
4 Atomic fusion
5 Population genetics*

Not Mars and Venus
No hot and cold
DNA

The concept is named after two eggheads named Hardy and Weinberg.

Code:
Top 20 sites      
Rank    Site          City          St    Score
1       Sooner Lega   Norman        OK    12635
2       Tailgaters    Minneapolis   MN    12536
3       Buffalo Wil   Lewisville    TX    12053
4       Parkway Gri   Wichita Fal   TX    12029
5       Houlihans     Westbury      NY    12023
6       Mad River     New York      NY    11987
7       Buffalo Wil   Tallahassee   FL    11985
8       In the Zone   Tampa         FL    11865
9       Heroes        Wichita       KS    11851
10      New Edinbur   Ottawa        ON    11789
11      Houlihans     Brick         NJ    11731
12      SRO OT        Houston       TX    11686
13      Jillys        Ellicott Ci   MD    11565
14      Coachs Spor   Albuquerque   NM    11552
15      Jax Fillin    Oshawa        ON    11408
16      8th Street    Minneapolis   MN    11110
17      Danny K's     Orange        CA    11070
18      Fletchers     Kalamazoo     MI    11055
19      Toucans       Palm Spring   CA    11017
20      Stadium Caf   Dallas        TX    10962
      


Code:
Top 20 players      
Rank    Handle        Site             Score
1       HENWAY        Tailgaters       13845
2       LE2           Buffalo Wil      13273
3       ERICB         Sooner Lega      13022
4       YOKO          Parkway Gri      12807
5       ZAPTEK        Mad River        12649
6       MIKET         Buffalo Wil      12648
7       LETHE         New Edinbur      12625
8       ENYGMA        Houlihans        12435
9       COOGS         SRO OT           12412
9       ULOOZE        Heroes           12412
11      CAILIN        Holiday Inn      12393
12      EDVARD        O'Malleys P      12319
13      NEY           In the Zone      12287
14      ROKDOC        Buffalo Wil      12222
15      STEVE         Greveys          12129
16      ROOSTR        Coachs Spor      12068
17      UMBWA         Buffalo Wil      12061
18      CROW          8th Street       12006
19      PHRED         Fletchers        11952
20      SUEZQ         Houlihans        11925
      


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