Need to Know Quiz Bowl Questions Rounds 5-10

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Charles Ives

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Dada [or Dadaism]

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Derek Jeter

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Isaac Asimov

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

George Gershwin

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Kurt Vonnegut

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

Douglas Adams

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Bela Bartok

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

the Chimera

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Reggie Jackson

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Calydonian Boar

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Metaphysical Painting

Question 15

Name this French composer of Boléro.

Accepted Answer

Maurice Ravel

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Sir Francis Drake

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Casey Stengel

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Ray Bradbury

Question 19

Name this logician best known for his two incompleteness theorems,

Accepted Answer

Kurt Gödel

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Pierre de Fermat

Question 21

name this Dutch artistic movement championed by Piet Mondrian.

Accepted Answer

De Stijl

Question 22

Identify this Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.

Accepted Answer

Francisco Pizarro

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

Andrew Wiles

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

Japetus, Iapetus

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

Gottfried Leibniz

Question 26

For 10 points, identify this largest moon of Pluto.

Accepted Answer

Charon

Question 27

Name Uranus’s largest moons.

Accepted Answer

Titania and Oberon

Question 28

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

Accepted Answer

Sirens

Question 29

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

Accepted Answer

Sphinx

Question 30

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

Accepted Answer

James Cook

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

Ganymede

Question 32

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

Accepted Answer

Triton

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

Cerberus

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

Yogi Berra

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

Hernan Cortes

Question 36

Name this composer of the Leningrad Symphony.

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Question 37

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

Accepted Answer

Suprematism

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

Lernaean Hydra

Question 39

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

Accepted Answer

Sergei Prokofiev

Question 40

identify this Irish mathematician who developed the mathematics of quaternions.

Accepted Answer

William Rowan Hamilton

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

Margaret Atwood

Question 42

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

Accepted Answer

Whitey Ford

Question 43

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

Accepted Answer

Henry Hudson

Question 44

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

Accepted Answer

Leonhard Euler

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

Titan

Question 46

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

Accepted Answer

Billy Martin

Question 47

Name this leader of the Corps of Discovery.

Accepted Answer

Meriwether Lewis

Question 48

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

Accepted Answer

Depression-era art

Need to Know Quiz Bowl Questions Rounds 5-10

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Need to Know Quiz Bowl Questions Rounds 5-10

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