Round 3 Second Half

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

A water vascular system characterizes which phylum of animals?
Answer: echinoderms

2.

The cosine of an angle in the second quadrant is -1/2 (negative one-half). What is the sine of one-fourth of this angle?
Answer: 1/2

3.

According to the Bible, in the story of Jonah, what swallowed Jonah?
Answer: A great fish (NOTE: The Bible never called it a whale. Whale is NOT acceptable.)

4.

Composer Jean Sibelius is from which country?
Answer: Finland

5.

Which early suffragist drafted the ERA in 1923?
Answer: Alice Paul

6.

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold. These lines begin what famous poem of the Yukon.
Answer: The Cremation of Sam McGee

7.

Johann Sebastian Bach is most accurately categorized as falling in to what musical category?
Answer: Baroque

8.

What does NATO stand for?
Answer: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

9.

Attaining the Mauryan throne approximately 270 BCE, which Indian ruler enlarged his empire until it contained all of India except for the southern tip and Ceylon?
Answer: Asoka

10.

What sugar is found in milk?
Answer: lactose

11.

A vehicle storage facility contains bicycles and tricycles. There are 37 vehicles and 80 tires in the facility. How many tricycles are there?
Answer: 6

12.

What ancient Greek philosopher is associated with the doctrines that only being is, that nothing becomes, that being is one, indivisible, and spherical, and that world of experience is an illusion?
Answer: Parmenides

13.

From which embryonic germ layer is the brain derived?
Answer: ectoderm

14.

This American folk singer died in July of 1981. He was best known for his hunger-relief efforts and for songs such as Taxi and Cat's in the Cradle.
Answer: Harry Chapin

15.

Convert the binary number 101001110010 to its base four equivalent.
Answer: 221302 (base four)

16.

In terms of chapters, which book of the Bible is the longest?
Answer: Psalms

17.

What was the top US news story on the evening of January 28, 1986?
Answer: The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (DO NOT ACCEPT SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER)

18.

D. H. Lawrence wrote this story of a young boy with the uncanny ability to predict race horse winners.
Answer: ``The Rocking-Horse Winner''

19.

The lyric ``Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House ha, ha, ha.'' Refers to which US President?
Answer: Grover Cleveland

20.

When we went from 1999 to 2000, the Roman numeral representation of the year decrased by how many letters?
Answer: 5

21.

What form of whiskey can only be made in Kentucky?
Answer: Bourbon

22.

What is the logarithm base one thousand of ten million?
Answer: 7/3

23.

Which hemisphere tilts away from the sun during the December solstice?
Answer: Northern

24.

A part of speech which expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone is known as a what?
Answer: interjection

25.

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in what city?
Answer: London

26.

A rectangular plot measuring four meters by nine meters is surrounded by a rectangular sidewalk. The width of the sidewalk is two meters. What is the area of the sidewalk?
Answer: 68 square meters

27.

What was the last state added to the contitental US?
Answer: Arizona

28.

What is the magnitude of Avogadro's number?
Answer: 6.022 x 1023

29.

The daughter of Lord Byron, this woman is credited with being the first computer programmer.
Answer: Ada, Countess of Lovelace (accept Ada or Ada Lovelace)

30.

What Scottish Festival is held on the 24th night after Christmas and marks the official conclusion of the holiday season?
Answer: Uphalliday

31.

Diane de Poiters was the mistress of which French monarch?
Answer: Henry II

32.

What is a particle given off during radioactive decay that consists of two neutrons with a charge of +2?
Answer: Alpha particle

33.

The binary number 0.1101 (zero point one one zero one) is equivalent to what base ten fraction?
Answer: 13/16

34.

What is the closest communist country to the USA?
Answer: Cuba

35.

Which medieval philosopher formulated what has become known as the ``ontological argument,'' which argues that the very idea of God proves that He exists?
Answer: St. Anselm / Anselm / of Anselm of Canterbury

36.

The name ``wood alcohol'' refers to what organic molecule?
Answer: methyl alcohol (methanol)

37.

Seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza lived and worked in what country?
Answer: The Netherlands

38.

The angles in a hexagon are in the ratio 5 to 5 to 4 to 4 to 4 to 2. What is the measure of the smallest angle?
Answer: 60 degrees

39.

What is the highest mountain in North America?
Answer: Mount McKinley

40.

What was known as ``Seward's Folly?"
Answer: The US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867