Round 6 Second Half

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

The words ``electron'' and ``electricity'' are derived from the Greek word for what resinous substance?
Answer: Amber

2.

What famous Silverback gorilla recently died at Zoo Atlanta?
Answer: Willie B

3.

What elected French king styled himself ``the Citizen King?''
Answer: Louis Philippe

4.

Unusually wedged shaped with a chamber of two upright stones capped by a single huge stone these Celtic artifacts which denote a dwelling place for the dead are known as what?
Answer: Dolmens (only answer which is acceptable)

5.

What is the common name for cyclohexatriene?
Answer: benzene

6.

What organs are located in the pleural cavity?
Answer: lungs

7.

Convert 264 base eight to its base ten equivalent.
Answer: 180 (base ten)

8.

Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus is associated with what 20th-century philosophical movement?
Answer: existentialism

9.

Full name required. What American author wrote such novels as Imagination and Heart, The Pioneers, and Last of the Mohicans?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper

10.

According to Christian Goldbach in 1742, every even number greater than two can be written in what form?
Answer: As the sum of two prime numbers (or sum of two primes)

11.

Who was the youngest president?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

12.

In a study, it has been determined that the number of points scored in a match is directly proportional to the square root of milligrams of caffeine consumed beforehand. John scores 32 points after consuming 64 milligrams. How many points should Mark score after consuming 36 milligrams?
Answer: 24 (points)

13.

Destroying what tree in ancient Greece could lead to a death sentence?
Answer: Olive tree

14.

The ``Vienna Circle'' is associated with developing what 20th-century philosophical movement?
Answer: positivism

15.

What Rumanian violinist and composer is best known for his 1898 symphonic suite entitled Poema Romana?
Answer: Georges Enesco

16.

Who designed Central Park in NYC and is considered the father of landscape architecture in the USA?
Answer: Fredrick Low Olmstead

17.

This question requires multiple answers. Which author wrote The Divine Comedy, and in which language was it composed?
Answer: Dante, Italian

18.

Who is the current President of the Russian National Reserve Bank?
Answer: Alexander Lebedev

19.

What policy ceded the country of Hong Kong to Britain?
Answer: Treaty of Nanking

20.

What is a purple or violet variety of quartz used in jewelry?
Answer: Amethyst

21.

In 1959, this nation successfully landed the first object on the Moon-its name was ``Luna''?
Answer: the USSR (Russia is not acceptable)

22.

Solve for c: 7c+5=11c+97 (seven c plus five equals eleven c plus 97).
Answer: c=-23 (c equals negative twenty-three)

23.

What is the proportionality constant relating the energy of a photon to the frequency of radiation?
Answer: Planck's Constant (h)

24.

What is the fastest growing religion in America?
Answer: Islam

25.

What German philosopher wrote a set of three texts he called critiques, the first of which is entitled Critique of Pure Reason?
Answer: Immanuel Kant

26.

What treaty ended the War of 1812?
Answer: Treaty of Ghent

27.

The sum of two numbers is 38. One number is one less than twice the other number. What are the numbers?
Answer: 13 and 25

28.

Pat paddles downstream, covering four miles in 40 minutes. The return trip upstream takes 80 minutes. In miles per hour, what is the rate of the current?
Answer: 1.5 (miles per hour)

29.

All else being constant, what happens to temperature as elevation increases?
Answer: temperature decreases

30.

Which was the first of the Southern states to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860?
Answer: South Carolina

31.

What purpose is yeast in bread?
Answer: Leavening OR it makes it rise

32.

Two unit vectors are positioned so that they are perpendicular to each other. What is their dot product?
Answer: 0

33.

This question requires multiple answers. Who were the ``Big Three'' of World War II?
Answer: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin

34.

In what year did the Orthodox Church separate from the Roman Catholic Church?
Answer: 1054

35.

The proton is no longer considered an elementary particle. It is believed to be composed of what kind of particles?
Answer: quarks

36.

What is the generalization that in most stable molecules, all atoms except hydrogen will share eight outer electrons?
Answer: The Octet Rule

37.

This question requires multiple answers. What are the 3 forms of columns?
Answer: Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian

38.

With the fall of Rome and the western empire in 463 CE, the capital of the Roman empire became what city?
Answer: Constantiople

39.

Multiple answers required. Which gospels have the birth story of Jesus?
Answer: Matthew and Luke

40.

What is the minimum dimension of space necessary to be able to draw skew lines?
Answer: 3