Round 1 Quiz Bowl
For 100 points, name this home colony of Alexander Hamilton, where the British failed to capture the city of Albany.
New York colony (accept Province of New York; do not accept or prompt on “New York City”)
for 100 points, what Jane Austen novel in which Elizabeth Bennet at first dislikes, but eventually marries, Mr. Darcy?
Pride and Prejudice
for 100 points, which NSAID [en-sed] pain reliever that can cause more gastro-intestinal side effects than ibuprofen?
ANSWER: aspirin (accept acetylsalicylic acid or ASA before “acetylsalicylic” is read)
for 100 points, what husband of Lilith and Eve, the first man created by God?
Adam
For 100 points, give this term for a loan taken out for the purchase of a house.
mortgages (accept more descriptive answers like “adjustable rate mortgage;” accept mortgage-backed securities; prompt on “home loan” or “loan”)
for 200 points, what Most Serene Republic in modern Italy, whose namesake capital city was built over a complex of canals?
Republic of Venice
For 200 points, name this novel by Alexandre Dumas in which Athos, Porthos, and Aramis make the pledge “one for all and all for one.”
The Three Musketeers (accept Les Trois mousquetaires)
For 200 points, name these violent, tropical Atlantic cyclones exemplified by Ida and Katrina.
hurricanes
For 200 points, name this artist who painted a looming cypress tree under a swirling sky in his Starry Night.
Vincent Van Gogh
For 200 points, name this polygon with three sides.
triangles
For 300 points, name this ancient African civilization that ruled the area around the Nile river.
ancient Egyptians
For 300 points, name this magician who rules a fantasy land in a novel by L. Frank Baum.
The Wizard of Oz
For 300 points, name this device, used in trampolines and pogo sticks, that stores energy in its often-metal coils.
springs
For 300 points, name this prolific Austrian child prodigy who wrote the chamber piece Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, which is sometimes nicknamed “A Little Night Music.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
For 300 points, name these green plant structures that are the primary site of photosynthesis.
leaf
For 400 points, name this Catholic cathedral whose name means “Our Lady of Paris.”
Notre-Dame de Paris (accept Notre-Dame Cathedral)
For 400 points, name this shape-shifting trickster god of Norse mythology.
Loki
For 500 points, name this civil rights leader who also gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
For 400 points, name this singer who performed “Therefore I Am” on the album Happier Than Ever.
Billie Eillish
For 500 points, name this novel by Daniel Defoe in which the title sailor is returned to England after being shipwrecked for twenty-eight years on a deserted island.
Robinson Crusoe
BONUS- Peter himself is represented by this section of the orchestra, which includes the violins, violas, and cellos.
strings
BONUS- Name this leader who met with Donald Trump to discuss denuclearization at a 2018 summit in Singapore.
Kim Jong-un
BONUS- W and Z particles mediate this fundamental force responsible for beta decay. The physicists Glashow, Weinberg, and Salam successfully unified this force with electromagnetism.
weak nuclear force
BONUS- Name this racist horror and speculative fiction author who created horrifically unimaginable, impossibly ancient gods called the “Great Old Ones,” including Yog-Sothoth, in the magazine Weird Tales.
H.P. Lovecraft
Name this epic poem attributed to Homer. A Greek hero has a ten-year journey home to Ithaca in this poem.
The Odyssey