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Anand's AID Dallas Quiz - Nov 1998

1. Fans of this director needn't buy expensive stereophonic VCR's for home entertainment - as all of his movies have used monaural sound, the director claims he doesn't trust stereo. He also didn't trust his ability after making his first feature, Fear and Desire, of which he destroyed all the prints except one. name this director of The Killing, Paths of Glory, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange.

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2. Penn State University is the latest team to join the Big Ten, but Notre Dame is being planned to be inducted into the Big Ten. What is the only school to leave the Big Ten?

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3. His early novels describe poignantly the effects of European colonialism on Igbo society, Nigeria, and newly independent African nations. He served as a diplomat for Biafra during the Nigerian civil war and later wrote two volumes of poetry, "Beware, Soul Brother" and "Christmas in Biafra". Identify the Nigerian author of "Anthills of the Savannah", "No Longer at Ease", and "Things Fall Apart".

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4. Erik's torture chamber, the decision making tools of bronze grasshopper or scorpion, and the characters of the Persian and Comte Philippe de Chagny all occur in the Gaston Leroux novel but not in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical version. Identify this work.

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5. A little-known Scottish marching tune known as "Colonel Bogey's March" became one of the most famous songs in the world after it was featured in this movie. What was this 1957 anti-war epic, which was directed by David Lean and based on a Pierre Boulet novel of the same name.

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6. When the Titanic was in distress, there was a ship very close by, which didn't get the distress signal because the wireless operator was not on duty. Name the ship?

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7. In TV Slang what's virgin's tour ?

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8. First published in 1858, it was renamed and published for the first time under it's present name in 1901. Despite it's age, it is still considered a current text-book for all medical students, and is now in it's 29th edition. Give the current title of this work which features detailed hand-drawn pictures of the organs, muscles and bones of the human body.

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9. It comes from the Arabic word for union and began in the 1600s as an organization to combat corruption and tyranny in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Later, it's aims seemed to take an opposite turn with the requisite fidelity of members the only remaining similar characteristic and it is still associated with criminal elements and bloody vendetta. Give the name of this Sicilian terrorist society.

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10. "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife" are the beginning lines of which novel ?

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11.A Mr. Daly placed a wager on the gullibility of people, saying they could be made to accept anything, even the adoption of a new meaningless word overnight. That night, he and his friends painted this word all over town, and the next day, everyone walked around discussing the word and asking what it meant. Identify this four letter word, which now refers to a questioning or the process.

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12. In 278 B.C. this people migrated from central Europe and attacked the city-states of Macedonia and Pergamum, eventually settling down in Asia Minor and establishing Galatia They are, however, more famous for their conflicts with Rome, which they sacked in 386 B.C. before being driven off by Camillus. Name this barbarian people, finally conquered by Caesar in 51 B.C.

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13. The first European to see it were Krapf and Rebmann in 1848, and the first to scale it were Meyer and Purtscheller in 1889. Name this Tanzanian peak whose snows were made famous by Hemingway.

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14. Neither Hitler nor Mussolini were around to surrender their armies to the allies. Name the men who surrendered the German and Italian armies.

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15. Many know the biblical story of the brothers Cain and Abel, but after Abel was murdered, another child was born. Name the less famous third-born son of Adam and Eve.

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16. It winds northwest through the Safed Koh range, varying in width from 15 to 450 feet. The mountains on either side can be climbed only in a few places and the precipitous walls vary in height from about 1500 to 3500 feet. What is this pass which runs about 39 miles from Peshawar, Pakistan to Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Identify these personalities.

17. This author, not known for writing romance novels, wrote of them under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, for a diversion from her usual genre. In recognition of this author's achievements s/he was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1971. name the author who's two most famous characters are a Belgian detective and an elderly spinster.

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18. This artist, who influenced Expressionism and Fauvism, painted his famous work from the view of his window at the asylum at St. Remy. During his lifetime, only one painting of his was sold, titled "Red Vineyard at Aries". Name this tortured artist, also known for his painting "Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear".

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19. He served two terms as the chairman of the English Interplanetary Society, and his extensive background in physics and mathematics allowed him to hypothesize the possibility of satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Later, he moved to Sri Lanka to pursue the hobby of scuba diving and to continue his writing career. Identify this science fiction author of such works as Childhood's End, The Sentinel, and 2001: A SpaceOdyssey.

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20. Although a scientist, he won Pulitzer, Emmy, and Peabody awards. Working with James Pollack and Richard Goldstein in the 1960's, he showed that the dark lines on Mars were due to extremely violent winds and not vegetation growth, and that the temperature of Venus was around 800 degrees Fahrenheit. identify this astronomer who died in December, 1996, whose name is probably known by "billions and billions" of people. Clue: Also known as host of Cosmos.

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21. Her maiden name was Mabovitch, and when she was 23 she emigrated out of the U.S. In 1966 she became secretary general of the Mapai party.name this woman who, upon the death of Levi Eshkol in 1969, became Prime Mini ster of Israel.

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22. He lived from 1918 and 1988, and in between spent a fair amount of time traveling, playing the bongo drums, and serving on the commission investigating the Challenger disaster. His diagrams are an important tool in quantum electrodynamics. Who was, this inveterate prank-ster and Nobel Prize winner, for many years at Cal Tech?

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23. He rides through the sky on a wooden horse called Clavileno and is named governor of the island of Barataria. Originally named Alonso Quijano, he changes his name, takes Aldonza Lorenzo as his lady love, and roams the countryside on his horse Rocinante, along with his faithful assistant Sancho Paza. Who is this title character, a native of La Mancha?

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24. Working on Charles Babbage's analytical engine, this person was said to be among the first programmers. So, like many in science, she had a computer language named for her. name this language, which shares its name with a daughter of Lord Byron.

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25. Commenting on his band's great success, he remarked, "We're more popular then Jesus," causing some American radio stations to boycott his group's songs. name this singer-song-writer, killed by Mark David Chapman in 1981.

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26. He drove a 100 miles twice a week to teach a class with only two students in it; since the students were Yang and Lee, the entire class won a Nobel Prize. In his later years, he worked on translating "the Principia" into English and posited a unity between literature, art, music, and physics. A professor at Chicago, he shared a Nobel Prize with William Fowler. Identify this man whose 1.4 solar mass limit for a white dwarf earned the ridicule of Arthur Eddington.

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Science Speciality Round

27. Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize in 1921 for Relativity; rather, it was for this effect involving photons, electrons, and work functions, so identify the area for which he won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics.

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28. Al-chemists called it "aqua regia" because it the combination of acids could dissolve gold or platinum. What two acids in combination form "aqua regia" ?

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29. A few folks have two Nobel Prizes to their credit, including Marie Curie and Linus Pauling. John Bardeen is the only man to win two Nobels in the same category. What category and when ?

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30. what indicator is used in titrations, turning the solution from clear to light pink ?

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31. Author of The Computer and the Brain, he is considered to be one of the architects of modern computer science. Name this Hungarian mathematician, famous for his work in the realm of game theory.

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32. One way to express this physical law is: there exists a scalar quantity called temperature, which is a property of all thermodynamic systems such that temperature equality is equivalent to thermal equilibrium. Identify this law of thermodynamics.

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33. Motion of this kind can be described by the differential equation y"+ky=0. This differential equation is a mathematical restatement of Hooke's Law.

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34. Quantum gravitational effects should be significant only at lengths on the order of 10^-35 meters. What is the common name of this length?

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35. It was created in 1935 to illustrate the difficulty of conceiving of quantum indeterminacies in terms of everyday objects. It is locked in a box with a capsule of cyanide which is only broken if a Geiger counter triggers, which in turn only happens if a radioactive substance in the box decays. There is a 50 percent chance of decay at any given moment, and thus a 50 percent chance that it will be alive or dead at any given moment. Name this hypothetical animal, named for its Austrian creator.

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36. Named after the Dutch physicist who studied them, they occur when the kinetic energy of molecules are small. The attractive forces allow molecules that are close together to touch each other, thereby liquefying or solidifying. At even closer distances the repulsive forces occur, caused by the inter-penetration of the outer electron orbitals. What are these weak chemical forces?

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