Quiz Bowl 1

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is the title story of a collection by this author from GA.

What country borders Honduras, Mexico and Belize?

Identify this French designer nicknamed "Coco."

In injection drug users, endorcarditis commonly affects this heart valve.

Name this woman who died in 2013, who played Archie Bunker's wife in All in the Family.

Tony Hillerman wrote a series of mystery novels about this people.

"April is the cruellest month" is beginning of this 1922 poem.

A 1932 work by Ghelderode depicts the "sorrow" of this Shakepearean character.

Name this 1860 campaign aganist Bourbon rule of Sicily In which Garibaldi led Redshirts.

Name this program for gathering demographic data that has replaced the long form of a census.

Name this city that served as Japan's imperial captial until 1869.

What is the largest prime factor of 255?

Name these subjects of a Joyce Klimer poem.

This Albanian nun wrote letters working with Calcutta's poor she did feel the presence of God.

Name this African river that flows west from the Fouta Djallon plateau.

Name this forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian, who is played on a FOX series.

"Earthrise" resulted from the eighth mission in this NASA program, mission to the moon.

Name this German involved in a priority dispute with Issac Newton over calculus.

Name this author Robert Lebrun's affair Edna Pontellier in The Awakening.

Algerbraic topologists use this value that gives the number of times a given curve.

Henry III succeeded this English king who was forced to concede to his barons in 1215.

Name this American pragmatist who wrote Democracy and Education.

What 1214 battle resulted in England's King John being forced to sign the Marta Carta?

What terrorist group seeking to establish shari'a law in northern Nigeria?

Tom Hayden wrote what manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society named for what MI town

What novel where Sidney Carton sacrifice his life at the gullotine, by Charles Dickens?

Formely known as James Island which was renamed in 2011 for the native Gambian.

Name this site of the earliest presidential caucus.

Ixion was sometimes said to be the son of this Lapith king, who was the father of Coronis.

What elementary particles with a negative charge?

This is the sum of the exponents of varibles on the term for which that sum is largest.

Bragg retreated to this Tennessee city, where Battle of Missionary Ridge was fought 1863.

Conic sections are so called because they can be described as the intersection of a shape.

In Nahum Tate's version of Shakepeare play, Cordelia survives to marry Edgar.

China, Vietnam, and the Philippines contest control of what island group?

Name this president who succeeded Andrew Johnson.

What behavior, the purchase of goods and services?

This South African-born author of Disgrace also wrote Foe.

The cecum is connected to what final section of the small intestine?

This leader of the Albany Regency served as governor during the 1830s; secretary of state.

Name this state, whose other 19th century governors included Horatio Seymour and Silas Wright.

Name this green pigament essential to photosynthesis.

Seven Guitars was written by playwright of Pittsburgh cycle, whose other works include Fences.

This Romanian poet spent time in Nazi prison camps, inspiring his "Death Fugue."

What country the namesake of the line of volcanoes that contain Lake Nyos.

Name this disease, a sterile or infective inflammation of the innermost layer of the heart.

Name this Cuban American performer of "Wild Wild Love," and "Feel This Moment."

Steve Fossett became the first person to circumnavigate the globe by flying.

What southern state of Germany governed from Munich?

What 14th century poet wrote Piers Plowman, known for a dream allegories.