NAQT UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. 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?
Answer:
erosion
Question:
2. 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.
Answer:
free will
Question:
3. 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.
Answer:
Vonnegut
Question:
4. 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.
Answer:
Battle of Stalingrad
Question:
5. 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?
Answer:
rockets
, Question:
6. 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.
Answer:
The Last of the Mohicans
Question:
7. 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.
Answer:
nirvana
Question:
8. 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.
Answer:
9
Question:
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?
Answer:
Chicago
Question:
10. The lac and trp operons were first discovered in this organism, which generates vitamin K for its hosts.
Undercooked beef may be contaminated with this prokaryote that can divide every 20 minutes in a Petri
dish. For ten points, name this Gram-negative, rod-shaped species that is normally found in the human
large intestine, the most important bacterial model organism.
Answer:
E. Coli
Question:
11. This poet wrote "I will come again my Luve / tho' it were ten thousand mile" in a poem that declares
"my Luve's like a red, red rose." Lines from this poet's works are commonly translated as "should (*) old
acquaintance be forgot / and never brought to mind?" and "the best-laid plans of mice and men / oft go
awry." For ten points, name this Scottish poet who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" and "To a Mouse."
Answer:
Robert Burns
ANSWERS
Question:
1. 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?
Answer:
erosion
Question:
2. 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.
Answer:
free will
Question:
3. 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.
Answer:
Vonnegut
Question:
4. 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.
Answer:
Battle of Stalingrad
Question:
5. 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?
Answer:
rockets
, Question:
6. 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.
Answer:
The Last of the Mohicans
Question:
7. 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.
Answer:
nirvana
Question:
8. 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.
Answer:
9
Question:
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?
Answer:
Chicago
Question:
10. The lac and trp operons were first discovered in this organism, which generates vitamin K for its hosts.
Undercooked beef may be contaminated with this prokaryote that can divide every 20 minutes in a Petri
dish. For ten points, name this Gram-negative, rod-shaped species that is normally found in the human
large intestine, the most important bacterial model organism.
Answer:
E. Coli
Question:
11. This poet wrote "I will come again my Luve / tho' it were ten thousand mile" in a poem that declares
"my Luve's like a red, red rose." Lines from this poet's works are commonly translated as "should (*) old
acquaintance be forgot / and never brought to mind?" and "the best-laid plans of mice and men / oft go
awry." For ten points, name this Scottish poet who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" and "To a Mouse."
Answer:
Robert Burns
