MS Quiz Bowl June

Name this city, the largest in its country. Soweto was officially incorporated into this city in 2002.

What language was used by authors Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda?

These quantum units of light demonstrate wave properties and have no mass

Name this September 1814 battle in which a “star fort” overlooking Baltimore Harbor survived a night of shelling.

The Zoroastrian Vendidad provides instructions for disposing of these things to prevent contamination of earth or fire

A Longfellow poem concerns one of these men who stands “under the spreading chestnut tree” and works a “flaming forge”

Pierre Corneille [kor-NAY], an author, wrote in this European language.

Three, five, and seven are the only set of three of these numbers that are two apart from each other.

This character is the nephew of the Marquis St Evremonde, and marries Lucie in a Tale of Two Cities

This man wrote a novel where resident of London is sentenced to be executed for the crimes of the Marquis St Evremonde

This English literary character appears in novels by Howard Pyle and Sir Walter Scott.

This is the effect in which light spreads as it passes through a single slit

Three, five, and seven can be the side lengths of one of these three-sided polygons

This quantity describes the angular momentum of a particle.

Name the property that tells us that if a is greater than b, and b is greater than c, then a is greater than c.

This 48-mile-long structure includes three locks to help boats cross between the Atlantic and Pacific.

This city’s Acropolis was not in any way designed with the golden ratio in mind.

The duality of light, means that light can be described as behaving both as waves and these small fragments of matter.

This Biblical brother of Benjamin was Rachel’s first child, making him the favorite son of Jacob.

This advocate for landmine removal was killed in a car crash in August 1997

Name this triatomic form of oxygen, which provides atmospheric protection against harmful solar radiation.

The Battle of Fort McHenry took place during this war between the United States and Great Britain.

This phobia is often described as the fear of open spaces. This term comes from Greek for “fear of the public square.”

Robin Hood appears as “Locksley” in this Sir Walter Scott novel

This American hero, rode to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts to warn that the British were coming

Name the late President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner

The sight of an American flag above the Fort inspired him to write a poem now used in the American national anthem

Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion of this Middle Eastern region until it was conquered in the seventh century

Johannesburg is the largest city in this African country, where Afrikaans is one of the languages spoken

This author of “The Rhodora” wrote that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”.