Language arts
This man edited the New York Review before joining the staff of the Evening Post. "Green River" and "The Yellow Violet" proved less popular than two of his other poems, a meditation on death and an ode to a bird. Identify this early American poet of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis."
(WILLIAM CULLEN) BRYANT
This musical features such tongue-in-cheek numbers as "You Won't Succeed on Broadway," "He Is Not Dead Yet," and "The Song That Goes Like This." "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is borrowed from Life of Brian, while "Brave Sir Robin" can be heard in the differently-titled film version of this Arthurian spoof. Give the one-word title of this Monty Python musical.
SPAMALOT
The square root of 65000 can be written as A radical B, where B is a positive integer not divisible by the square of any prime. Find A plus B.
76
This organism can occur in fruticose, foliose, or crustose forms. In the organism, the thallus of the my cobiont [my-koh-BYE-ont] houses the photobiont. Identify the composite organism formed by the symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi.
LICHEN
This writer denounced slavery in “African Slavery in America,” published while he worked on the Pennsylvania Magazine. A 50-page pamphlet he published paved the way for the Declaration of Independence. Name the author of the American Crisis series and the 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense."
(THOMAS) PAINE
This author used his Crimean War experience to write Sevastopol [sev-uh-STOH-puhl] Sketches. "What is Art?" and The Death of Ivan Ilyich were published after his two most famous novels. Who fictionalized Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaigns in War and Peace?
(LEO) TOLSTOY
Architect Santiago Calatrava designed one of these structures that also functions as a sundial in California. A "peace" one of these structures links Ontario and Buffalo, New York. Washington and John Roebling designed and oversaw one of these structures named for a New York City borough. Name these structures, one of which named for Brooklyn spans the East River.
BRIDGE(S)
A high school club contains 50 students. 17 students like to yodel, 12 students like to cosplay, and 4 students like to yodel and cosplay. How many students in the club can be described as liking cosplay or not liking to yodel?
37 (STUDENTS) (DO NOT ACCEPT 29 (OR IS NOT EXCLUSIVE))
Periods within this geologic era of time include the Silurian, Cambrian, and Carboniferous periods. It was during this era that animals, specifically arthropods, amphibians, and later reptiles, first moved onto land. What was this era that occurred between 540 and 250 million years ago, ending with the Permian-Triassic extinction event?
PALEOZOIC (ERA)
In 1582, this leader decreed that the calendar be advanced ten days. A Roman Catholic pope, he made changes in the calendar established in the time of Julius Caesar. What pope's name is attached to the calendar used in America today?
(POPE) GREGORY (THE THIRTEENTH)
This writer collaborated with playwright Edward Albee on a dramatization of her novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. A Broadway production of her novel The Member of the Wedding earned a Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Name this writer, whose fame largely rests on her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
(CARSON) MCCULLERS
Members of this religious group plotted against Francis the Second in the Conspiracy of Amboise [ahm-BWAHZ]. A 1576 Holy League led by the Duke of Guise [GHEEZ] opposed this group, thousands of whom were killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Henry the Fourth's Edict of Nantes [NAHNT] granted religious freedom to what persecuted group of French Protestants?
HUGUENOT(S)
Four students in the Government Club are juniors, and the remaining five students in the Government Club are seniors. A committee of six students is to be formed from the students of the Government Club. As a fraction, calculate the probability that the committee includes exactly two juniors.
5/14
This pathogen occurs in three types, A, B, and C. A 1918 outbreak in the United States began in a military facility in Kansas. What vaccine-preventable virus, with an epidemic season from October to March, causes respiratory illness with symptoms that can include cough, myalgia, and fever?
INFLUENZA (Accept FLU)
When this future king was born, his father was mayor of the palace of the Frankish king. A warrior king, he was heir to a long tradition that measured him by his successes in war. Name this leader who was king of the Franks and the Lombards, and the first emperor of what would become the Holy Roman Empire.
CHARLEMAGNE [shar-le-MAIN] (Accept CHARLES THE GREAT or CHARLES THE FIRST)
This Cervantes Prize winner was an avowed Marxist, who called his first novel Where the Air Is Clear. A Change of Skin and Our Land dealt with his country's mythology, while The Old Gringo speculated on the last days of writer Ambrose Bierce. Name this creator of a dying Mexican Revolution survivor in The Death of Artemio Cruz.
(CARLOS) FUENTES [FWEN-tays]
He composed one symphony about Robert Scott's failed attempt to reach the South Pole. A 1921 tone poem, "The Lark Ascending," is based on George Meredith's poem of the same title. Name this English composer, best known for his fantasies on "Greensleeves," and a theme of Thomas Tallis.
(RALPH) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Express your answer as a decimal and rounded to the nearest tenth. A data set contains 9 values, and the mean of the data set is 15. If 10 is added to the maximum value in the data set, calculate the mean of the revised data set.
16.1
This theory of certain chemical reactions is based around the equilibrium formation of conjugate compounds. A generalization of the Arrhenius [uh-REE-nee-us] theory, it is for a certain reaction to occur a proton, hydrogen cation [CAT-eye-un], must be exchanged. Name this doubly eponymous theory of acid-base reactions.
BRONSTED-LOWRY (THEORY)
He was killed in 1521 in the Philippines. A waterway at the tip of South America is named for him. Name this Portuguese navigator whose name is attached to the first around-the-world voyage.
(FERDINAND) MAGELLAN
This author anthropomorphized [an-thruh-puh-MOR-fized] fireworks in his short story "The Remarkable Rocket." A dead swallow and a statue's lead heart are taken to heaven in his allegory "The Happy Prince." Identify this writer, who told of a bird's sacrifice for true love in "The Nightingale and the Rose."
(OSCAR) WILDE
A group in this musical led by General Cartwright urges "if you're a sinner and pray no more," then "follow the fold." A bet to take Sarah Brown to Havana is central to this musical, in which gamblers at Nathan Detroit's floating craps game are bested by Sky Masterson. Name this musical whose songs include "Luck Be a Lady."
GUYS AND DOLLS
Points P and Q are in the third quadrant and are fourteen units apart. A dilation is applied to the plane, centered at the origin, with a factor of four. In units, how far apart are the images of points P and Q?
56 (UNITS)
The discipline’s twelve principles were set forth by Paul Anastas and John Warner in 1998. A journal of the same name covers such topics as the selection of solvents and use of sustainable resources. What branch of chemistry focuses on making products with the least amount of hazardous waste, and with recycling as much as possible?
GREEN (CHEMISTRY) (Accept: SUSTAINABLE (CHEMISTRY))
This leader was the Roman governor under the emperor Tiberius. According to Christian scriptures, he sat in judgment over a perceived rabble rouser, brought before him by Jewish leaders. Who is said to have ordered that Jesus be crucified?
(PONTIUS) PILATE