Liberal Arts

SECTION ONE: DIVISION ONE DEPARTMENTS

Art Studio/ Art History

1. Sketch Chapin Hall. [A rough but accurate sketch is fine.]

2. This artist created a painting which was included as a poster in the Dead Kennedys' album "Frankenchrist," and resulted in the Dead Kennedys being charged for distributing pornographic materials. Name him.

3. Where are the "ironic columns" located?

4. This artist, born Robert Clarke, is best known for his painting "Love". By what name is he generally known?

5. Attribute the following quotation: "Self-indulgence pays."

Chinese

Classics

7. Who kidnaped Helen when she was twelve years old, forcing her two brothers to attempt to rescue her?

8. Why is Herakles immortal?

9. Name the nine Muses, and their mother.

10. Rome was built on seven hills. Name them.

11. What animal is the symbol of the Roman legions?

12. Who is the Roman god of gates and doorways?

English

13. What are "mystery plays"? Identify any four cycles of them.

14. Identify the four Shakespearean plays which take place in England and are not histories.

15. Give us the title and author of the poem whose last line is given below:

    1. "As any she belied with false compare."

    2. "And dances with the daffodils."

    3. "Of what is past, or passing, or to come."

    4. "And wring his bosom -- is to die."

    5. "iness"

    6. "A heart whose love is innocent."

    7. "The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?"

    8. "I hold it towards you."

    9. "He rose the morrow morn."

    10. "You know I always loved you."

French

[Please write your responses in English.]

16. From what fatal flaw did the defenses along the Maginot Line suffer?

17. Que est le nom de plume de Madame Aurore Dudevant?

18. Translate, literally and colloquially:

    1. Si seulement je pourvais voyager a Paris cet ete.

    2. voir trente-six chandelles

    3. Ce concours est de premier ordre, n'est ce pas?

German

[Please write your responses in English.]

19. Which twentieth-century Austrian playwright, known for his work in which three physicists appear at an insane asylum, died in late 1990?

20. Which famous German playwright and lyricist had a profound influence upon the development of Goethe's work on "Faust"? (Hint: This person convinced Goethe to recommence work on "Faust" after Goethe had abandoned it twenty years earlier.)

21. Translate the following into German: Douglas said that if you all had not been participating in the Trivia contest, you could have had more time to study.

22. Translate the following into English: Wenn ich gestern Abend mehr Arbeit zu tun nicht gehabt hatte, hatte ich im Wettbewerb mitteilen konnen.

Italian

23. Attribute the following quote: "I saw the new Italian navy. Its boats have glass bottoms so they can see the old Italian navy."

Literary Studies

24. Define New Criticism.

25. Define Deconstructionism.

Music

26. Identify the three periods Stravinsky has gone through, and tell what prompted the stylistic changes that he made.

27. Realize the following figured bass line:
    

Russian

[Please write your responses in English.]

Spanish

[Please write your responses in English.]

31. Traduzca las frases siguientes a su equivalente idiomatico en ingles:

    1. !Vete a freir esparragos!

    2. Echar sapos y culebras

    3. ?Cuales monedas Latinoamericanas tienen los nombres de figuros famosos en la historia de Latinoamerica? Haga una lista del pais o los paises que los usan.

Theatre

32. Who invented the kuppelhorizont, and what is its function?

33. Name the arch over the stage from which the curtain is hung.

34. What is a "blood-tub"?

35. What is another name for Roscolux-2?

SECTION TWO: DIVISION TWO DEPARTMENTS

American Studies

36. Who was the first President of the United States? Explain.

37. Early in the 20th century this state had a minor trauma, when it was realized that because of a legislative error it had never been admitted to the Union. (The error was corrected and the state's admission backdated.) Which state was it?

Anthropology/ Sociology

38. Who is the anthropologist who studied in Indonesia and "went native"?

39. Which anthropologist wrote about the Ndembu and liminality?

Asian Studies

40. List all nations which have invaded Laos.

41. Give the mytho/historical reason for Ghengis Khan's failure to capture Japan.

Economics

42. What is the largest denomination of U.S. currency ever distributed as a single bill? Whose face was on it?

43. Please explain why, at a given point in time, any two currencies must have the same relative value at any place of monetary exchange. Also give the term for the process which would naturally correct any imbalance which developed.

History

44. What is the historical significance of the Battle of Lepanto?

45. What name did Tasmania bear one hundred fifty years ago?

46. Where is the "birthplace of Canada"?

History of Science

47. The famous abstract algebraist Evariste Galois died early in the nineteenth century. Under what circumstances did he die, and on what date (or alternatively, how old was he?)

48. What was the first carbon-containing chemical synthesized in a lab?

49. Translate and identify: Laborare est orare.

Philosophy

50. What philosopher originated the terms "Ubermensch" and "The Last Man," and to what do the terms refer?

51. What are the Four Noble Truths?

52. Give two characterizations of the catagorical imperative.

53. What should be "cogito ergo sum" to a Sartrean?

54. How did Riemann answer some of Kant's examples of synthetic a priori reasoning?

Political Economy

55. Assume that the U.S. wished to reduce its trade deficit by altering the value of the dollar on the world market. Should the dollar be devaluated or revaluated? Why?

56. Explain the effect of lowering the national interest rate on the supply and demand curves of the dollar valued in terms of the pound-sterling.

57. Name the agreement which established the IMF.

Political Science

58. The manner in which the U.S. engaged in the Vietnam Conflict is an example of what (now widely discredited) general approach towards warfare?

59. Name which perspective of the international community would lead to each of the following statements:

    1. The international environment is in a state of anarchy and countries must seek power to gain security.

    2. The world is separated into two main sectors, the First World exploiters and the Third World exploited.

    3. Nations should strive for justice throughout the world without resorting to military conflict.

60. What are the three main categories of interest groups in the United States?

61. What are the two main theories on interest group mobilization?

62. Which Founding Father of the U.S. Constitution said, "In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of the few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of the multitude"?

Psychology

63. What does "OCD" stand for?

64. What are the four stages of development, according to Piaget?

Religion

65. Who is Shankara, and what is his core philosophy?

66. In the Bible, the Book of Numbers describes what are thought to be seraphim. What do they look like?

67. According to "Enoch 1," who are the seven archangels?

68. In what religions do the following figure prominently?

    1. Mara

    2. rackhasa

    3. bodhisattva

    4. Lilith

    5. Kabiri

Women's Studies

69. COYOTE is an organization of women who work in what field?

70. What is the symbolic color worn by homosexuial women when fighting to gain recognition in the Women's Movement?

71. Who is "Shakespeare's sister"?

SECTION THREE: DIVISION THREE DEPARTMENTS

Astronomy/ Astrophysics

72. Which planet's original name was Georgium Sidus, for King George III?

73. Plaques of a nude male and female were affixed to the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft before they were launched. Who designed the plaques?

74. Compute the annual parallax in degrees of the Llap Goch man (assuming he stays at a distance of 1.2 parsecs from Earth), using the Earth's major axis as the baseline. Include a labelled diagram.

75. What are the recent findings of the COBE satellite? Explain briefly their implications for the inflationary model of the universe, and for theories of galactic formation. Finally, give us the name of the scientist who announced the findings.

Biology/ Biochemistry

76. Draw the chemical structure of ATP.

77. What is the citric acid cycle also known as?

78. In which organelle are carotenoids found?

79. On average, what is the net yield of ATP from a glucose molecule?

Chemistry

80. What is the common name of C60?

81. What is Avogadro's full name?

82. For what does "CRC" stand in "The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics"?

Computer Science

83. What is the purpose of a CRC test? For what does "CRC" stand in this context?

84. Please explain why a Lilliputian would prefer an Intel-based computer over a Motorola-based one.

85. "Hello, world!" is a pointless, simple program which simply prints the words "Hello, world!" to the screen, followed by a carriage return. Please write this program in each of the languages listed below. Your code should be as simple as possible (i.e. if you intentionally obfuscate it to the point where we have to try it on a compiler, YOU WON'T GET CREDIT), and further, must demonstrate good programming technique through the use of a comment describing its function. For example, this is the program "Hello, world!" in C:

    /* Program "Hello, world!": prints the string "Hello, world!" to the standard output */
    
    #include 
    
    void main ()
    {
             print  f    ("Hello, world! \n") ;
    }
    

    Write an equivalent program in:

86. BASIC:

87. Modula-2:

88. Intel 8086 Assembly Language [Use the standard BIOS service 21h to output the string]:

89. Smalltalk 80: [You must define a complete object to perform this task.]

Geology

90. What is the term for a submerged volcano?

91. What kind of rock is Morgan Hall made from?

92. Name the different geological time periods.

93. Define "cleavage." (In the geological sense, please.)

Mathematics

94. Dom and Ted have three bottles. One can hold 3 quarts, one can hold 5, and one can hold 8. If the largest bottle is full of water and the men want to split the water into two equal portions for 4 quarts each, and the bottles have no graduations on them (i.e. you can't fill or empty any bottle partially), explain in detail how they can divide the water equally.

95. State and prove the Product Rule for the differentiation of two one-variable functions.

96. What condition on domains in complex n-space captures the correct analogue of convexity but is still preserved under biholomorphic maps?

97. Please give the common name for the following mathematical concepts:

    1. There exists no integer solution for a Pythagorean relationship among integers to the third or greater power.

    2. If a set S is partially ordered and if each subset for which every pair of elements is related by exactly one of the relationships <, >, or = has an upper bound in S, then S has a greatest element.

    3. Every non-zero integer can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.

98. Find I + 1/32 + 1/243 + ... [You must show your work to receive credit. You will receive one full bonus point if you solve this problem accurately and prove your result.]

Neuroscience

99. Cocaine affects the action of what major neurotransmitter?

100. In which parts of the brain is GABA most commonly found?

Physics

101. A Fourier transform is used to convert a function from time-domain to what?

102. What is the quantum spin number of a proton?

Quantitative Studies

103. How many words appear in this Superbonus? Give your answer in binary.