Need to Know Quiz Bowl Questions Rounds 5-10

Question 1

Name fire-breathing beast slain by Bellerophon which had the heads of a snake goat and lion

Accepted Answer

the Chimera

Question 2

Name this French composer of Boléro.

Accepted Answer

Maurice Ravel

Question 3

Name this author of the Monadology, who developed calculus independently from Isaac Newton.

Accepted Answer

Gottfried Leibniz

Question 4

Name Uranus’s largest moons.

Accepted Answer

Titania and Oberon

Question 5

Name this many-headed monster slain by Heracles in Lerna.

Accepted Answer

Lernaean Hydra

Question 6

Name this conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and brought Mexico under Spanish control.

Accepted Answer

Hernan Cortes

Question 7

Name this guardian of the gates of Hades, a three-headed dog.

Accepted Answer

Cerberus

Question 8

name this American author of novels such as Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five.

Accepted Answer

Kurt Vonnegut

Question 9

Name Greek monster known for its deadly riddle, a creature with a lion's body and human head

Accepted Answer

Sphinx

Question 10

Name this man who was the alert, combative second baseman for the Yankees from 1950 to 1957,

Accepted Answer

Billy Martin

Question 11

name this Dutch artistic movement championed by Piet Mondrian.

Accepted Answer

De Stijl

Question 12

Name this man known as “Mr. October” because of his World Series slugging

Accepted Answer

Reggie Jackson

Question 13

This man proved that there are no integer nonzero solutions to an+bn=cn, Fermat's Last Theorem.

Accepted Answer

Andrew Wiles

Question 14

name this Canadian author who wrote about Offred [“of-fred”] in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Accepted Answer

Margaret Atwood

Question 15

For 10 points, identify this largest moon of Pluto.

Accepted Answer

Charon

Question 16

Name this man who managed the Yankees to ten pennants and seven championships,

Accepted Answer

Casey Stengel

Question 17

This art movement featuring bizarre juxtapositions, whose artists include Rene Magritte

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 18

Name this Hall of Fame Yankee, who inspired the name of a cartoon picnic-basket enthusiast.

Accepted Answer

Yogi Berra

Question 19

Name this Russian composer of the musical children’s story Peter and the Wolf.

Accepted Answer

Sergei Prokofiev

Question 20

This style of painting uses contrasting light and shadow to create dreamlike works.

Accepted Answer

Metaphysical Painting

Question 21

Name this creature that is hunted by a large number of heroes when it ravages King Oeneus’ land

Accepted Answer

Calydonian Boar

Question 22

Name this composer of the Leningrad Symphony.

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Question 23

Who circumnavigated the globe in the 1570’s and fought against the Spanish Armada in 1588?

Accepted Answer

Sir Francis Drake

Question 24

identify this Swiss Mathematician, also notable for his namesake constant, e.

Accepted Answer

Leonhard Euler

Question 25

name this captain who wore #2 as shortstop for five World Series-winning New York Yankees teams

Accepted Answer

Derek Jeter

Question 26

distinctly two-toned moon discovered by Cassini, the third largest surrounding Saturn.

Accepted Answer

Japetus, Iapetus

Question 27

name this British naval captain who was the first European to reach eastern Australia

Accepted Answer

James Cook

Question 28

name this author of Something Wicked this Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, and Fahrenheit 451.

Accepted Answer

Ray Bradbury

Question 29

Name this pitcher who was called “The Chairman of the Board”

Accepted Answer

Whitey Ford

Question 30

name this Hungarian composer of The Miraculous Mandarin and the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

Accepted Answer

Bela Bartok

Question 31

name this satellite with a distinctive "cantaloupe" terrain, the largest moon of Neptune.

Accepted Answer

Triton

Question 32

name this English explorer and captain of the Half Moon with a namesake bay in northeast Canada

Accepted Answer

Henry Hudson

Question 33

Name this moon of Jupiter, the largest of the Galilean moons.

Accepted Answer

Ganymede

Question 34

identify this Irish mathematician who developed the mathematics of quaternions.

Accepted Answer

William Rowan Hamilton

Question 35

Name this English author of “Shooting an Elephant” and the dystopian novel 1984.

Accepted Answer

George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair

Question 36

name these half-bird women whose beautiful singing would lure sailors to their deaths.

Accepted Answer

Sirens

Question 37

American style of art from 1929 to 1939, which reflected the despair of the Great Depression

Accepted Answer

Depression-era art

Question 38

Name this leader of the Corps of Discovery.

Accepted Answer

Meriwether Lewis

Question 39

Russian-American writer who depicted the Three Laws of Robotics in his collection, I, Robot

Accepted Answer

Isaac Asimov

Question 40

This movements artists included Marcel Duchamp, and takes its name from a word for hobbyhorse

Accepted Answer

Dada [or Dadaism]

Question 41

This art movement focused on basic geometric figures and basic colors to convey pure feelings.

Accepted Answer

Suprematism

Question 42

name this composer of An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue.

Accepted Answer

George Gershwin

Question 43

Name this logician best known for his two incompleteness theorems,

Accepted Answer

Kurt Gödel

Question 44

name this American composer of the Concord Sonata and Three Places in New England

Accepted Answer

Charles Ives

Question 45

Name this second largest moon in the solar system, the largest moon of Saturn.

Accepted Answer

Titan

Question 46

what author's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Accepted Answer

Douglas Adams

Question 47

Identify this Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.

Accepted Answer

Francisco Pizarro

Question 48

name this French mathematician whose namesake last theorem was proved by Andrew Wiles.

Accepted Answer

Pierre de Fermat

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Need to Know Quiz Bowl Questions Rounds 5-10

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