HISTORY OF SCIENCE
LEAGUES
CLASSIC COLLEGE RIVALRIES
PHILOSOPHICAL FICTION
ALSO A FISH
100

He discovered classical conditioning by using his dogs as a test subject.

Who is Ivan PAVLOV?

100

Andrew "Rube" Foster established this league featuring his own team, the Chicago American Giants.

What is the NATIONAL NEGRO LEAGUE?

Prompt on Negro League.

100

Alternating between Durham and Chapel Hill,  the college basketball game featuring these teams is one of the most watched games every year.

What is DUKE and UNC?

Accept:  NORTH CAROLINA

100

His magnum opus, 'Candide' famously satirized Gottfried Leibniz.

Who is VOLTAIRE?

100
To sit on a twig like a bird.

What is PERCH?

200

She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after studying them for over 60 years starting in 1960.

Who is Jane GOODALL?

200

Led by Sparta against the Athens-led Delian League, this political alliance is an informal name for that bears the same name as the war between the two rival cities.

What is the PELOPONNESIAN League?

200

Grambling State and Southern fans travel to New Orleans to play this rivalry game.

What is the BAYOU classic?

200

Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha" deals with the spiritual journey of a man who during the time of this religious enlightenment figure.

Who is Gautama BUDDHA?

200
A long pointy stick used as a war weapon.

What is a PIKE?

300

This Russian chemistry professor was inspired to create the periodic table of elements by the card game solitaire.

Who is Dmitri MENDELEEV?

300

A medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds, that started in north German towns and dominated the North and Baltic seas.

What is the HANSEATIC league?

300

This Big Ten rivalry featuring these two schools may have been influenced by lingering resentment from the Toledo War, which ended 60 years earlier. 

What is OHIO STATE and MICHIGAN?

Accept OSU.

300

"The Brothers Karamazov" was the last novel by this Russian author.

Who is Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY?
300

To struggle clumsily or helplessly.

What is FLOUNDER?

400

In 1880, Alphonse Laveran discovered that parasites caused this disease named for the 'bad air' thought to cause it.

What is MALARIA?

400

The covenant creating this league in 1919 mentions the goal "to promote international cooperation."

What is the LEAGUE OF NATIONS?

400

Washington and Washington State play annually in this football rivalry featuring the state's top fruit export.

What is the APPLE cup?

400

Howard Roark is the protagonist in this Rand book that promotes individualism over collectivism.

What is "THE FOUNTAINHEAD"?

400

To have inhaled the aroma of something?

What is SMELT?

500

Best known for his laws of planetary motion, this German polymath is also considered the father of science fiction because of his novel "Somnium."

Who is Johannes KEPLER?

500

Hiawatha is traditionally credited as one of the founders of this league of 5, then 6 nations.

What is the IROQUOIS league/confederacy?

500

Featuring over two dozen future WNBA players, this interconference rivalry features teams that have combined for 19 NCAA championships.

What is TENNESSEE and UCONN?

Accept:  CONNECTICUT

500

Author and playwright of "The Roads to Freedom," this French existentialist he refused to accept the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Who is Jean-Paul SATRE?

500

To lightly burn.

What is CHAR?

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