Language Arts
This playwright made his name with one acts like The Sandbox and The American Dream. A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women each earned him a Pulitzer. Who profiled George and Martha's rocky marriage in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(EDWARD) ALBEE
Common English title required. This work's background shows a print by Japanese artist Sato Torakiyo and a blank canvas on an easel. A confrontation between the artist and his roommate Paul Gauguin preceded the creation of this work, whose central figure has white gauze covering the right side of his face, where a wound was inflicted with a razor. Name this work showing an injured Vincent van Gogh.
(VINCENT VAN GOGH'S) SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BANDAGED EAR (Accept all answers indicating a SELF-PORTRAIT (BY (VINCENT) VAN GOGH) depicting an INJURED or BANDAGED EAR)
Multiple answers required. A hyperbola has equation, 4Y-squared minus X-squared equals 36. Calculate the exact values of the Y-coordinates of the foci of the hyperbola.
(Y EQUALS) 3 (TIMES) SQUARE ROOT (OF) 5; (Y EQUALS) NEGATIVE 3 (TIMES) SQUARE ROOT
(OF) 5 (Either order.) (Accept: (Y EQUALS) PLUS OR MINUS 3 (TIMES) SQUARE ROOT (OF) 5) or
(PLUS OR MINUS 3 RADICAL 5)
This structure has a long q arm and a short p arm. A karyogram [KAHR-ee-oh-gram] is a visual depiction of this structure. Identify the threadlike structures into which DNA is packaged, found in the nucleus of the cell, of which humans have 23 pairs.
CHROMOSOME
In 1750, this Virginia physician led a survey party through what would become known as the Cumberland Gap. According to his journal, he saw and named the Cumberland River in April. Name this physician and surveyor whose expedition built the first cabin in Kentucky at a site near present-day Barbourville.
(DR. THOMAS) WALKER
This metrical foot appears in the line, "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house..." A foot with two unstressed syllables, followed by one stressed syllable, is known as what?
ANAPEST(IC)
One character in this film quips "I can see how you could look down on me from all the way up there" after learning another character is a barista. A dance in a traffic jam begins this Damien Chazelle-directed film, which ends with a retrospective after Mia has become an actress and Sebastian has opened a jazz club. Name this 2016 movie musical.
LA LA LAND
An urn contains six red marbles, ten blue marbles, and eight yellow marbles. A marble is drawn at random from the urn. What is the probability that the marble is not blue?
7/12
One example of these is an impressive sempervirens, known by the common name Hyperion. A large group of them can be found in Tulare County, California, with a skyline dominated by the General Sherman. Identify these large trees, the tallest group of plant species on earth.
REDWOOD (TREES) (Accept: SEQUOIOIDEAE, SEQUOIA (TREES))
A plan for this agency's creation was announced from the Pentagon on August 9, 2018 by Vice President Mike Pence. According to the plan, by 2020 the department would begin as a branch within the United States Air Force. What is this proposed sixth branch of the United States armed forces?
(UNITED STATES) SPACE FORCE
After failing to receive a court appointment, this ancient poet wandered and, for a time, became a Daoist. A friend of Du Fu, he wrote such poems as "The Long War," "The Green Water," and "Exile'sm Letter." Name this Tang Dynasty writer, whose death supposedly arose from an alcohol-related drowning.
LI PO (Accept LI BO, LI BAI, LI PAI)
This actor, composer, and dramatist starred on English stages from age twelve, and wrote the hit "Mad Dogs and Englishmen." A divorced couple honeymooning with their new spouses end up staying in adjacent hotel rooms in his comedy Private Lives. Name this man, whose farce Blithe Spirit is often revived.
(NOËL) COWARD
An urn contains three red marbles, four blue marbles, and five yellow marbles. A marble is drawn at random, placed back into the urn, and then a second marble is drawn at random. If the first marble is red, what is the probability that the second marble is not red?
3/4 (Accept 75 %)
It reverses every several hundred thousand years, and the process that produces it is known as the geodynamo. A layer of the atmosphere created by, and named for it, protects the Earth from cosmic rays and particles emitted from solar winds. What property of the Earth is generated by convectioncurrents in the outer core?
(EARTH'S) MAGNETIC FIELD (Accept MAGNETOSPHERE)
This country blamed Iran for a missile attack that occurred in December 2017. Additionally, it announced in September 2017 that, starting in June 2018, women would be allowed to drive. Name this Middle Eastern country with its capital at Riyadh [ree-YODD].
SAUDI ARABIA
After publishing The Voyage Out and Night and Day, this author began experimenting with stream- of-consciousness. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, she perfected that narrative technique in The Waves, To the Lighthouse, and Mrs. Dalloway. Name this writer, who also wrote the feminist essay A Room of One's Own.
(VIRGINIA) WOOLF
One character in this play proclaims "Unhappy bed! … Twice wicked soil!" before killing herself. A key point comes when a messenger from Corinth tells the protagonist that Merope [MER-uh-pee] was not his biological mother. Name this Greek play, centered on a protagonist who kills his father and marries his mother.
OEDIPUS REX (Accept: OEDIPUS THE KING)
Express your answer as a fraction. A population is normal with a mean of 4 and a standard deviation of 5. If random samples of size 9 are taken from this population, what is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of X-bar?
5/3
Disorders related to defects in this substance include Leber's neuropathy, cyclic vomiting syndrome, and MERRF [murph]. A recent medical procedure for creating three-parent children uses the substance, and may prevent rare maternally-inherited diseases. What type of extranuclear DNA is enclosed in the organelle responsible for cellular respiration?
MITOCHONDRIAL (DNA) (Accept: MTDNA or MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME)
Although no other European nation facing the Atlantic agreed to the division created by this treaty, Spain and Portugal accepted it. After a revision, it set a line of demarcation west of the Cape Verde Islands. What was this treaty that divided all newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal?
(TREATY OF) TORDESILLAS [tawr-day-SEE-yahs]
Among this man's best-known poems are "Skunk Hour," "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," and "For the Union Dead." A member of the Fugitives, he combined New England, Catholicism, and World War Two in his first Pulitzer winner, while the second made him a leading Confessional poet. Who was this member of a literary family, the poet of The Dolphin and Lord Weary's Castle?
(ROBERT) LOWELL
In 2011 a painting of two men engaging in this activity was sold to the Qatari royal family for over
$250 million. A man in yellow and green reaches into his back waistband in a Caravaggio painting depicting cheating at this activity. A man with a pipe and a tall hat sits on the left of a table looking at a spread of objects in his hand in a Paul Cezanne series depicting what activity, which C. M. Coolidge painted dogs performing?
(PLAYING) CARDS (Accept: (CHEATING AT) CARDS or CARD (GAME(S)) or (PLAYING) POKER or any reasonable equivalent describing an activity involving CARDS)
This question requires a decimal approximation. A right triangle has hypotenuse 20 units and shorter leg 10 units. To the nearest hundredth, what is the cosine of the smallest angle in this triangle?
0.87
These species belong to the family Poaceae and are notable for their columnar growth. A recent shortage in this crop in the Sichuan [seh-SCHWAN] province has been caused by its lengthy blooming process. What is this type of plant, which makes up the primary diet of the giant panda?
BAMBOO(S)
According to tradition, he was working on his farm when he was appointed dictator, and sent to rescue an army surrounded by the enemy. After fulfilling that duty, he resigned as dictator and returned to his farm. Identify this man whose name was adopted by an early American patriotic and military society, and for an Ohio River city.
(LUCIUS QUINCTIUS) CINCINNATUS [sin-suh-NAY-tuhs]