Round 5 Second Half

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

``If you are crazy, then you want to fly in World War II and they won't let you. But, if you are sane, you don't want to fly because of the danger, so they make you fly, since you are sane.'' This kind of no-win situation epitomizes the events in what Jospeh Heller novel?
Answer: Catch-22

2.

What sense are we referring to with the term gustation?
Answer: taste

3.

How many points does a Star of David have?
Answer: 6

4.

The pulling apart stage of mitosis is called what?
Answer: anaphase

5.

What is the result when the complex number i is raised to the 743rd power?
Answer: -i

6.

Jacques Derrida is associated with what 20th-century movement in philosophy and literary criticism?
Answer: deconstructionism

7.

Who is credited with the discovery of the neutron?
Answer: James Chadwick

8.

The Executive Power is enumerated in which Article of the Constitution?
Answer: Article II

9.

Find the limit, as x approaches infinity, of the rational function whose numerator is 4x³ + 5x² - 7x + 9 (four x cubed plus five x squared minus seven x plus nine) and whose denominator is 7x³ - 2x + 1 (seven x cubed minus two x plus one).
Answer: 4/7

10.

Who was the ruler of the Second French Empire?
Answer: Emperor Napoleon III or Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte

11.

A week ago, much of Asia celebrated the new year. What animal is associated with the year are we now in?
Answer: Year of the Dragon

12.

Nineteenth-century philosopher Soren Kierkegaard lived in what country?
Answer: Denmark

13.

The political group that ruled France in 1793-94 was known as the what?
Answer: either the Jacobins or the Montagnards

14.

How many sides does a regular polygon have if each interior angle measures 178 degrees?
Answer: 180

15.

The actor who played Mikey in the Life cereal commercials died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking soda. My sister knows a man whose uncle had his kidney stolen in an airport restroom. These are examples of what phenomenon?
Answer: Urban legends

16.

What name is given to the collection of all subsets of a set?
Answer: power set

17.

What battle resulted in the independence of Texas from Mexico?
Answer: San Jacinto, 1836

18.

What is the square of the complex number 7 - 4i (seven minus four i)?
Answer: 33 - 56i

19.

French theorist Claude Levi-Strauss is associated with what intellectual movement?
Answer: structuralism

20.

What compound is the chief component of the arthropod exoskeleton?
Answer: chitin

21.

What famous book did Mao Zedong write?
Answer: The Little Red Book

22.

How many pairs of antennae do crustaceans have?
Answer: two

23.

What title did King Edward VIII take in 1936 after he renounced the throne?
Answer: Duke of Windsor

24.

What is the noncellular, liquid part of blood called?
Answer: plasma

25.

An accomplished actor of stage, movies, and television, he also is a well-known singer. Name this man, best known for his roles in The Princess Bride and Chicago Hope?
Answer: Mandy Patinkin

26.

In what ocean are the Galapagos Islands?
Answer: Pacific

27.

What Kentucky-born filmmaker produced and directed Birth of a Nation?
Answer: D.W. Griffith

28.

On what continent are the Atlas Mountains?
Answer: Africa

29.

The angles in a triangle are in the ratio of 20 to 15 to 1. What is the measure of the largest angle?
Answer: 100 degrees

30.

The prophet Zarathustra is associated with what religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

31.

In what part of the body are the carotid arteries?
Answer: neck

32.

The quotation, ``The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime'' refers to what event?
Answer: the beginning of the First World War

33.

Solve for x: x⁴-16=0 (x to the fourth power minus 16 equals zero).
Answer: x = -2, 2 (x equals negative two and two) (any order)

34.

This fabled horse was considered to be the steed of the Muses and the inspiration for poetry.
Answer: Pegasus

35.

What was Mickey Mouse's first movie?
Answer: Steamboat Willie

36.

What is the greatest common factor of 77 and 37?
Answer: 1

37.

In which geologic era are we living?
Answer: Cenozoic or Cainozoic

38.

On what continent may Surinam be found?
Answer: South America

39.

Who wrote Silent Spring?
Answer: Rachel Carson

40.

In 1785, what Southern state chartered the first state university?
Answer: Georgia