Tie-breakers, Pack 1

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

Who fought in the battle of Marathon?
Answer: Athenians and Persians / or Greeks and Persians

2.

What ancient Greek philosopher is famous for having asserted that ``all is water''?
Answer: Thales

3.

What is the definite integral, evaluated from 2 to 5, of 6x² (read: six x squared)?
Answer: 234

4.

All else being constant, as latitude decreases, what happens to the number of species?
Answer: increase

5.

What 19th-century composer suffered from acute schizophrenia, dove into the Rhine to quiet the inner voices, and eventually died in an asylum?
Answer: Robert Schumann

6.

Multiple answers required. Forces commanded by which two French and British military leaders fought in the battle of Waterloo
Answer: Napoleon and Wellington