Valencia Brain Bowl - Tournament Round 2 Bonuses

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These questions are from the Delta Burke Invitational 1991.

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(30-20-10) Name the chemical element.

30 Isolated by Humphrey Davy in 1808, it is a group two element common in the Earth’s crust. Its boiling point is 1,484 degrees celsius.
20 Part of the compounds gypsum, limestone, and marble, it is essential for the development and growth of living organisms.
10 It has atomic number 20 and is an important constituent of bone and teeth.

In 1493, Pope Alexander VI drew an imaginary north-south line through the Atlantic Ocean to prevent conflicts in claims over newly discovered lands. For ten points each:

What was this division line called?

Name both of the European countries (five points each) who benefitted from the pope’s division of the world into two spheres of influence.

Finally, one year after issuing the Line of Demarcation, the Portugese forced the line to be moved 270 leagues further west so they could found and claim what colony on the western portion of the south Atlantic?

In honor of the football season being in full swing, name the college for which the following Heisman Trophy winners played.

Eddie George:

Rashaan Salaam:

Barry Sanders:

Doug Flutie:

Ty Detmer:

Danny Wuerffel:

Identify the Shakespeare play from characters who appear in it on a 10-5 basis.

10 Sir Oliver Martext; Rosalind; Oliver
5 Jacques (Jakes); Touchstone

10 Tubal; Lorenzo; Bassanio; Portia
5 Shylock

10 Edgar; Oswald; Edmund
5 Regan; Cordelia

Provided a definition, supply the computer term that best fits it for ten points each.

Any memory location where data can be stored temporarily while the computer is doing something else.

The rate of transmission from one computer to another equal to approximately one bit per second.

The flat-panel display monitor used in most portable computers, such as laptops.

Differentiate the following for five points each. You’ll get a bonus of ten points if you get all four correct.

hyperbolic cosine of x

hyperbolic tangent of x

hyperbolic secant of x

hyperbolic cosecant of x

Given a famous Supreme Court case, name the Chief Justice who presided, for the stated number of points.

5 Marbury v. Madison

10 Roe v. Wade

15 Dred Scott v. Sandford

By now you’ve probably seen ABC’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” To get you ready for your appearance, order the following lists as directed. Remember, each successive list will be harder than the first, and will therefore be worth more points. Each item in each list will be numbered, so give your answer as a list of numbers.

Put the following works by James Joyce into chronological order of publication for five points.

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Finnegan’s Wake
3. Dubliners
4. Ulysses

Order the following mountains by height for ten point (hint: they’re each the tallest on their respective continents).

1. Mt. Aconcagua
2. Mt. McKinley
3. Mt. Kosciusko
4. Mt. Everest

Place the following American novels in order by their authors’ last names for 15 points.

1. The Sun Also Rises
2. Light in August
3. Cat’s Cradle
4. The Winter of Our Discontent

(30-20-10) Name the British author from works.

30 Stalky and Co.; Puck of Pook’s Hill
20 Barrack-Room Ballads; If
10 Kim; Just So Stories

(30-20-10) Name the composer from works.

30 Three Nocturnes for Orchestra; Dances Sacred and Profane
20 La Mer; Pelleas and Melisande
10 Claire de Lune; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Name the taxonomic order into which the following mammals fall for five points each.

mole

squirrel

whale

armadillo

cat

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Answer the following questions about the first successful ascent of Mount Everest for ten points each.

Within one, in what year did man reach the peak?

Name the two men, one from New Zealand and the other from Nepal, who achieved the feat.

Here comes some analytic geometry. Give all answers in radians for ten points each.

What is the arcsine of ½?

What is the arcsine of 2?

What is the arcsecant of 2?

(30-20-10) Name the U. S. President.

30 He commanded a battery in World War I and later served as a county Judge.
20 He was elected to the senate in 1935.
10 He defeated Strom Thurmond, Henry Wallace, and Thomas Dewey to win his only presidential election.

Provide the authors of the following short stories common to freshman composition courses for five points each.

"Araby"

"The Chrysanthemums"

"The Catbird Seat"

"Big Black Good Man"

"Why I Live at the P. O."

"Good Country People"

Identify the following parts of our sun for ten points each.

This is the layer of ionized gases extending from the sun, visible as a halo in a solar eclipse.

This term designates the visible surface of the sun.

This is the layer of the sun’s atmosphere between the photosphere and the corona.

Given a presidential cabinet position, name its current inhabitant for the stated number of points.

5) Secretary of State

5) Secretary of Defense

10) Secretary of Health/Human Services

10) Secretary of Housing/Urban Development

Given a book of the Bible, name the book that follows it for five points each.

Joshua

Leviticus

Ruth

Deuteronomy

Esther

Second Chronicles

Tell me the state in which you’d find the following U. S. National Parks.

Isle Royale

Joshua Tree

Shenendoah

Zion

Acadia

Big Bend

30-20-10 Name the novelist from works.

30 Requiem for a Nun
20 A Fable
10 Absalom, Absalom