Basic Quizbowl Literature
Nate Muncy on British History
Science as told by a Business Major
Quizbowl Fine Arts
Advanced Quizbowl Lingo
100

This former Knoxville resident is most famous for his novels Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-5.

Who is Kurt Vonnegut?

100

Nate once asked if this country, whose revolutionaries included Michael Collins along with other members of the IRA, "Really needed to be independent anyways?"

What is Ireland?

100

Organic chemistry focuses on compounds containing this element with atomic number six.

What is Carbon?

100

This composer, famous for his Jupiter symphony, probably didn't actually live long enough to face Skrillex in a rap battle.

Who is Mozart?

100

Though not the time derivate of work, this term defines the act of buzzing in and earning fifteen points on a tossup question.

What is power?

200

Alan Paton, one author from this country, described the murder of Arthur Jarvis in his novel Cry, the Beloved Country.

What is South Africa?

200

Nate Muncy has made various comments supporting this woman, the first female Prime Minister of the U.K.

Who is Margaret Thatcher?

200

This scientist, who names a process used to treat milk, also created one of the first rabies vaccines.

Who is Louis Pasteur? [accept Pasteurization]

200

The Toreador Song, from this Georges Bizet opera, was prominently featured in a 2014 video game and survives today with many other mentions in popular culture.

What is Carmen?

200

This term, often used scornfully, describes when a player buzzes in the middle of the tossup after the other team has negged.

What is vulching?
300

Charles Baudelaire used this language for his collection The Flowers of Evil, originally titled Les Fleurs du Mal.

What is French?

300

One of Nate's favorite historical figures, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrated this event in 2012 marking her sixty-year reign.  

What is the Diamond Jubilee?

300

This man, who names a law of induction, also created a namesake "cage" made of conductive materials.

Who is Michael Faraday?

300

This instrument, played by Glen Gould, had its "stride style" pioneered by Art Tatum.

What is the piano?

300

While not related to water diffusion, this process refers to the improvement of quizbowl players by simply playing more without actual studying.

What is osmosis?

400

If you're Samuel Beckett, you might perform this action "for Godot," which C.P. Cavafy also did "for the Barbarians."

What is Waiting?

400

This monarch, who was raised under the Kensington System, is another favorite of Nate Muncy's 

Who is Queen Victoria?

400

Albert Einstein called this constant he proposed the "biggest blunder" in his efforts to explain the expansions of the cosmos.

What is the cosmological constant?

400

The author of the SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, attempted to assassinate this artist in 1968.

Who is Andy Warhol?

400

This term, which now broadly describes cheating in quizbowl matches, gained much of its popularity after University School of Nashville Coach Eric Mukherjee admitted to it in 2020.

What is Biking?

500
This author fictionalized the story of Huey Long using his character Willie Stark in the novel All the King's Men.

Who is Robert Penn Warren?

500

One of Nate's rivals, Nikhil Chatra, spoke out against this man who served as the final Viceroy of India and was killed by a bomb planted aboard a fishing boat in 1979.

Who is Lord Mountbatten?

500

This American scientist is most well-known for discovering transposons while studying in New York.

Who is Barbara McClintock?
500

This artist's The Charge of the Mamelukes was set a single day in the month of May before his other, more famous painting.

Who is Francisco Goya?

500

This seldom-used term, named for a fast food restaurant, describes useless clues in a quizbowl question. 

What is Taco Bell soap?

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