Round 6 First Half

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

What Kentucky author called W Hollow home?
Answer: Jessie Stuart

2.

This artist was a Hollander by birth and the son of a minister. He tried missionary work only to fail at it. He finally turned to art, embracing the Impressionist style, creating such works as The Night Cafe and Starry Night.
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

3.

What is the sixth derivative of x⁵+x⁴+x³ (read: x to the fifth power plus x to the fourth power plus x cubed)?
Answer: 0

4.

What three dimensional structure of DNA was first described by Francis Crick and James Watson?
Answer: double helix (A more technical term would be B-DNA)

5.

Name the process of loss of water vapor from plant surfaces.
Answer: transpiration

6.

This title was given to a number of British chiefs during various times of trouble and gave them dictatorial power. The most famous to have it bestowed on them were Uter and his son.
Answer: Pendragon

7.

The Buddha lived in what present-day country?
Answer: India

8.

The Bayeux tapestry depicts what event?
Answer: the 11th-century Norman Conquest of England OR the Battle of Hastings

9.

To which continent are oranges, tangerines, and limes native?
Answer: Asia

10.

The Hausa States, if they existed today, would be found where?
Answer: Africa OR area of northern Nigeria OR West Africa

11.

Name the process by which an animal maintains stable internal conditions such as temperature or water content.
Answer: homeostasis

12.

A bacteria sample doubles its population every six hours. What will be the population after two days of an initial population of 200 bacteria?
Answer: 51200

13.

Which is the only country to have fought on both sides in World War II?
Answer: Italy

14.

What is the reciprocal of the complex number 3i?
Answer: -i/3 (negative i over 3, or negative one-third i)

15.

What is the name of the belief that people are descended from animals, plants or natural objects?
Answer: Totemism

16.

What molecule carries protein building instructions from the DNA in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell to the cytoplasm?
Answer: messenger RNA (mRNA) (DO NOT ACCEPT RNA)

17.

What two word term means the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by peoples of different cultural backgrounds?
Answer: Convergent evolution

18.

A collection of 27 coins consists of dimes and nickels. Its value is two dollars. How many dimes are in the collection?
Answer: 13

19.

The sine of an angle in the first quadrant is 3/5. What is the sine of twice this angle?
Answer: 24/25

20.

Where is the neritic zone?
Answer: Something like: near shore part of the ocean or along coastlines.

21.

We all know that the use of repeated consonant sounds is called ``alliteration''. What is the use of repeated vowel sounds known as?
Answer: assonance

22.

What is the progeny between a horse and a donkey called?
Answer: Choose one: mule or henny.

23.

Solve for t: t³-4t²+t-4=0 (t cubed minus 4 t squared plus t minus four equals zero).
Answer: t=-1,1,4 (t equals negative one, one, and four) (any order)

24.

In what current country is to be found the places where Islam's prophet Mohammed lived most of his life and had his visions?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

25.

Wat Tyler was the leader of what English revolt?
Answer: the Peasants' Revolt (of 1381)

26.

What did the untitled Beatles album containing ``Revolution #9'' become known as?
Answer: The White Album

27.

He has wrapped 1 million square feet of Australian coast with plastic, placed nylon panels on frames in California, and curtained a canyon. Name this modern, environmental artist.
Answer: Javacheff Christo

28.

What particular body part did the Norse god Odin trade for wisdom from Mimir?
Answer: his right eye

29.

During what battle did Pickett's charge take place?
Answer: Gettysburg

30.

U.S. radical Emma Goldman is principally associated with what political ideology?
Answer: anarchism

31.

U.S. philosopher John Dewey is associated with what school of thought?
Answer: pragmatism

32.

If a phenotypically normal woman is heterozygous for the recessive allele causing PKU, what proportion of her eggs will carry the allele that causes the disease?
Answer: one half

33.

Five less than four times a number is eleven more than twice the number. What is the number?
Answer: 8

34.

The Hanseatic League, which lasted from 1358 until well into the seventeenth century, was organized in which continent or continents?
Answer: Europe

35.

What did the four operas by Richard Wagner, meant to be performed over four successive nights, come to be called?
Answer: The Ring

36.

Which biome has the highest soil fertility?
Answer: Choose one: grasslands, savanna, pampas, plains, prairie, steppes.

37.

What was the name of the President of the Confederate State of America?
Answer: Jefferson Davis

38.

What period of American architecture happened between the end of the War of 1812 and the beginning of the Civil War?
Answer: Antebellum

39.

Twenty less than five times a number is seven more than eight times the number. What is the number?
Answer: -9 (negative nine)

40.

This question requires multiple answers. Name the three books which make up Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Answer: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King