NAQT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE | VERIFIED | 100% CORRECT!!
The Tsiolkovsky equation for these devices relates change in velocity
to initial and final mass. Robert
Goddard realized the third law of motion would allow these devices to
operate in a (*) vacuum. Wernher von
Braun studied these devices, whose efficiency depends on the number
of stages and shape of the exhaust nozzle. Solid or liquid propellants
power, for ten points, what projectiles that include the German V-2 and
NASA's Saturn V? - ANSWERS-rockets
In this novel, David Gamut attempts to teach some beavers to sing
and, while traveling from Fort
Edward to Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro are kidnapped by
Magua. This novel follows The (*)
Deerslayer in The Leatherstocking Tales series, which features Natty
Bumppo. For ten points, name this novel by James Fenimore Cooper
whose title character Uncas dies, ending a Native American tribe. -
ANSWERS-The Last of the Mohicans
This religious objective is described as a magic city containing a great
treasure in the Lotus Sutra. In
Jainism, the arihat achieve this goal at death. The Eightfold Path is a
guide for reaching this state, which
,frees a person from dukkha and samsara. For ten points, name this
goal of Theravada Buddhism, a state of enlightenment which ends the
karmic cycle of reincarnation. - ANSWERS-nirvana
This is the number of Franz Schubert's "Great C Major" symphony. A
musical work with this number
includes a setting of Friedrich Schiller's poem (*) "Ode to Joy." In four-
four time, two whole notes and a quarter note tied together will last
this many beats. For ten points, give this number of Beethoven's final
symphony and the number of performers in a nonet. - ANSWERS-9
John Crerar founded a library in this city. August Spies was executed
in this city for his supposed role in
the Haymarket Square bombing. In this city, H.H. Holmes operated a
"murder castle" at a hotel built for the 1893 (*) Columbian Exposition.
In 1871, Mrs O'Leary's cow legendarily started a "Great" fire in, for ten
points,
what largest city of Illinois? - ANSWERS-Chicago
Davis's cyclical theory of this process ends with the peneplain. The
namesake features of Arches National
Park resulted from one form of this process, while a different type
carves gullies into hillsides. The
weathering of rocks begins, for ten points, what process by which
wind and water remove surface material, leaving features like the
Grand Canyon behind? - ANSWERS-erosion
Schopenhauer argued that this philosophical concept was an illusion,
in part because the body's reactions
, to stimuli are automatic. An opposite of this concept, determinism,
says that there is a single, unavoidable
course of events. For ten points, name this philosophical concept that
holds people can make choices about their future actions. - ANSWERS-
free will
This man wrote about the Bokononist Papa Monzano in Cat's Cradle,
and created a narrator who
comments "so it goes" when those around him die. A man is kidnapped
by plunger-shaped aliens, the
Tralfamadorians, in a novel by this author that depicts the firebombing
of Dresden. For ten points, name
this American author who wrote about Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-
Five. - ANSWERS-Vonnegut
During this battle, Vasily Zaytsef killed over 200 people, and the high
amount of suburban fighting led
one side to call this battle a "Rat War." For two months of this battle,
soldiers defended Pavlov's House
against Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army, who eventually surrendered to
Georgy Zhukov. For ten points, name
this lengthy World War II siege of a Russian city named for the Soviet
premier. - ANSWERS-Battle of Stalingrad
UPDATE | VERIFIED | 100% CORRECT!!
The Tsiolkovsky equation for these devices relates change in velocity
to initial and final mass. Robert
Goddard realized the third law of motion would allow these devices to
operate in a (*) vacuum. Wernher von
Braun studied these devices, whose efficiency depends on the number
of stages and shape of the exhaust nozzle. Solid or liquid propellants
power, for ten points, what projectiles that include the German V-2 and
NASA's Saturn V? - ANSWERS-rockets
In this novel, David Gamut attempts to teach some beavers to sing
and, while traveling from Fort
Edward to Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro are kidnapped by
Magua. This novel follows The (*)
Deerslayer in The Leatherstocking Tales series, which features Natty
Bumppo. For ten points, name this novel by James Fenimore Cooper
whose title character Uncas dies, ending a Native American tribe. -
ANSWERS-The Last of the Mohicans
This religious objective is described as a magic city containing a great
treasure in the Lotus Sutra. In
Jainism, the arihat achieve this goal at death. The Eightfold Path is a
guide for reaching this state, which
,frees a person from dukkha and samsara. For ten points, name this
goal of Theravada Buddhism, a state of enlightenment which ends the
karmic cycle of reincarnation. - ANSWERS-nirvana
This is the number of Franz Schubert's "Great C Major" symphony. A
musical work with this number
includes a setting of Friedrich Schiller's poem (*) "Ode to Joy." In four-
four time, two whole notes and a quarter note tied together will last
this many beats. For ten points, give this number of Beethoven's final
symphony and the number of performers in a nonet. - ANSWERS-9
John Crerar founded a library in this city. August Spies was executed
in this city for his supposed role in
the Haymarket Square bombing. In this city, H.H. Holmes operated a
"murder castle" at a hotel built for the 1893 (*) Columbian Exposition.
In 1871, Mrs O'Leary's cow legendarily started a "Great" fire in, for ten
points,
what largest city of Illinois? - ANSWERS-Chicago
Davis's cyclical theory of this process ends with the peneplain. The
namesake features of Arches National
Park resulted from one form of this process, while a different type
carves gullies into hillsides. The
weathering of rocks begins, for ten points, what process by which
wind and water remove surface material, leaving features like the
Grand Canyon behind? - ANSWERS-erosion
Schopenhauer argued that this philosophical concept was an illusion,
in part because the body's reactions
, to stimuli are automatic. An opposite of this concept, determinism,
says that there is a single, unavoidable
course of events. For ten points, name this philosophical concept that
holds people can make choices about their future actions. - ANSWERS-
free will
This man wrote about the Bokononist Papa Monzano in Cat's Cradle,
and created a narrator who
comments "so it goes" when those around him die. A man is kidnapped
by plunger-shaped aliens, the
Tralfamadorians, in a novel by this author that depicts the firebombing
of Dresden. For ten points, name
this American author who wrote about Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-
Five. - ANSWERS-Vonnegut
During this battle, Vasily Zaytsef killed over 200 people, and the high
amount of suburban fighting led
one side to call this battle a "Rat War." For two months of this battle,
soldiers defended Pavlov's House
against Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army, who eventually surrendered to
Georgy Zhukov. For ten points, name
this lengthy World War II siege of a Russian city named for the Soviet
premier. - ANSWERS-Battle of Stalingrad
