Round 3 First Half

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

This question requires multiple answers. What are the three Baltic nations?
Answer: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

2.

In what year did the Battle of Waterloo occur?
Answer: 1815

3.

Elwood Dowd's friend Harvey is what kind of spirit?
Answer: A pooka (DO NOT ACCEPT RABBIT)

4.

Which Roman emperor gave his seal to the 313 CE Edict of Milan, a law which legalized Christianity in Rome?
Answer: Constantine

5.

Who was the two-time Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry and Peace) responsible for developing a scale of electronegativities for the elements?
Answer: Linus Pauling

6.

Approximately what percentage of the current U.S. population is African American?
Answer: 12% to 13% (ACCEPT ANYTHING IN THAT RANGE)

7.

Robert Penn Warren wrote this novel about the politics of a Southern state; most critics assume the book is about Huey Long.
Answer: All the King's Men

8.

Citizen Kane was a thinly veiled biography of what publisher?
Answer: William Randolph Hearst

9.

The proof of the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture was a major step in the successful proof of what theorem which lacked proof for 350 years?
Answer: Fermat's Last Theorem

10.

In what year did French women receive the right to vote in national elections?
Answer: 1946

11.

State the slope-intercept equation of the line containing the point (3,7) which is parallel to the line with equation 4x + 2y = 5.
Answer: y = -2x + 13 (y equals negative two x plus 13)

12.

What's another name for the clavicle?
Answer: collar bone

13.

This question requires multiple answers and full names. Dune: House Atreides is the latest book in the popular Dune science fiction series. What two authors collaborated on the novel?
Answer: Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson

14.

What division of classification includes mushrooms?
Answer: Basidiomycota or Basidiomycotes

15.

A 30-foot tall building casts a shadow 48 feet tall. At the same time, how long of a shadow should be cast by a 55-foot tree?
Answer: 88 feet

16.

What British ocean liner was sunk by a German submarine in May 1915?
Answer: the Lusitania

17.

Although he starred in such movies as Raintree County and Gunfight at the OK Coral, this actor who died in 1999 is best remembered for his role as Dr Leonard McCoy on Star Trek.
Answer: DeForest Kelly

18.

What American architect developed the Prairie style?
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

19.

Who wrote Candide?
Answer: Voltaire

20.

Who was Achilles' faithful comrade-in-arms in Homer's Iliad?
Answer: Patroclus

21.

Michelson and Moreley's famous experiment disproved the existence of what?
Answer: The ether

22.

Within the context of political science, what does the acronym ``M.A.D." stand for?
Answer: Mutual Assured Destruction

23.

Who was the first Chancellor of the newly unified Germany in 1871?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck

24.

Characteristic inclusion bodies at the site of rabies virus replication in brain cells are called?
Answer: Negri bodies

25.

In flowering plants, what structure develops into the fruit?
Answer: the ovary

26.

Rousseau was rather unique among 18th century thinkers for taking a stand against what movement which began in the 17th century, which focused on human rationality?
Answer: the Enlightenment

27.

What is the partial derivative with respect to x of xy+x²+y² (read: x y plus x squared plus y squared)?
Answer: x + 3y (x plus three y)

28.

For historical reasons, in a deck of cards, who does a jack represent?
Answer: a servant to royalty

29.

An integer matrix has an inverse consisting of integer entries. What are all possibilities for the determinant of this matrix?
Answer: 1 and -1

30.

What is the greatest common factor of 96 and 36?
Answer: 12

31.

Why do dogs have wet noses?
Answer: from sweat glands or the removal of body heat to keep the dog cool

32.

Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
Answer: Nicholas II

33.

Over the reals, solve for x: x²+3x=-40 (x squared plus 3 x equals negative forty).
Answer: NO SOLUTION

34.

A clear fluid filling the ventricles of the brain and spinal cord is called the?
Answer: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

35.

Which gospel has the prologue ``In the Beginning was the Word''?
Answer: John

36.

A train of length one mile traveling at a rate of sixty miles per hour enters a tunnel of length one mile. How long will it take for the entirety of the train to pass through the tunnel?
Answer: two minutes

37.

Whose assassination on June 28, 1914 sparked the First World War?
Answer: Franz-or Francis-Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

38.

Who is the current Pope?
Answer: Pope John Paul II

39.

Which is the highest mountain range in the continental United States?
Answer: the Siera Nevada

40.

What is the expected proportion of adenine in a sample of normal double helical DNA with a guanine content of 18%
Answer: 32%