Quiz bowl Round 3

Eliud Kipchoge and Jemima Sumgong are from this African country produces many great distance runners

This Greek soldier ran the very first matathon in 490 BC from Marathon to this city.

Ebeneezer Scrooge: Which famous British author wrote the story A Christmas Carol?

Both Hoover and Smith campaigned to succeed this silent Republican.

Who wrote "Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth"?

He helped create the Democrat Party (and its political machine) that elected Van Buren's predecessor.

Metal used in LEDs and semiconductors, its mostly created as a byproduct of producing aluminum or zinc

Give the common term for a broken sentence, also used to describe a sharp piece of broken glass or other material.

Who is the author of Otherwise known as Sheila the Great and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?

Name this classic novel by Russian author Leo Tolstoy

The third most common vision ailment that can damage your optic nerve and is tested for with a puff of air into the eye.

Name the year in which Democrat Governor Al Smith lost a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover.

In book three, this world leader invades Russia

He won an Oscar for a song from the movies version of State Fair.

Name the artist, called "II Divino" in the Middle ages, whose Florence home is now called "Casa Buonarroti".

This American won the Olympic marathon in 1972; in 1976 may have won gold except tor an E. German doping program.

What is the name of the country that shares the Iberian peninsula with Spain?

Identify this very long race through the boroughs of America's largest city by population.

This storm doesn't form on land, but offshore instead

Name the city that is home to Kansas State University

Discovered in emerald at first, this alkali earth metal is toxic to humans

The fresco, The Last Supper, was painted in this Italian city.

This element is found in both disposable and rechargeable batteries, it is the lightest atomic element with the No. 3

Van Buren gave his inaugural address in this year, the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.

Who wrote A Grammatical Institute of the English Language?

Name the process that is important to the water cycle and changes liquid on the ground into gas in the atmosphere.

This structure includes start and finish lines,sprinter's lane,blue band to separate infield and main bicycling track

this second most common vision problem requires replacing the lens in the eye with a plastic unclouded one

This English speaking island nation with a capital at Port Louis is east of Madagascar.

This element is named for the bluish purple line in its atomic spectrum, it's put on the bearings of high speed motors.

If the sound and the observer are getting closer together, this happens to the frequency of the sound.

Mel Brooks got multiple Tony Awards for this Broadway musical that features the song "Springtime for Hitler."

Name the effect that explains how frequency changes as the distance between a sound and its observer changes,

Jonathan Tunick won his Oscar for his movie version of a Mozart serenade.

The enhanced version of this scale estimates the strength of a tornado storm

What city was the Mona Lisa painted in?

God, grant me the ___ to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom .....

An imaginary line around Earth marking the southernmost latitude; the sun can be seen overhead passes through Madagascar

This king of Babylon dreamed of a stone cut out of a mountain without hands.

This city in Kansas with a Long Branch Saloon had more gunfighters than any other town in the West.

Name this President: Missouri native,founding of United Nations,Potsdam conference, dropping of atomic bomb to end WWII

As a light source gets closer to an observer, the light is soaid to undergo this color of shift

Though born in a Northern state, President Martin Van Buren's father, Abraham, owned 6 slaves.

African Island nation, pneumonic plague, also seen in the Seychille Islands and in the capital city of Antanarivo

Leonardo Da Vinci was apprenticed to this sculptor of Bartolomeo Colleoni.

What body of water, named for a country on the African mainland, separates Madagascar from Africa?

The biggest visual problem for most people worldwide is their lack of this simple medical device for improving vision

Name this African nation whose capital city, Dakar, touches the Atlantic Ocean.

When Daniel and three friends refused to worship the golden idol, they were placed here to die, but survived.

Who wrote "How to Win Friends and Influence People"?

This is a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.

Name this city that grew from its original fortress, the Kremlin, into what it's been since 1917, the capital of Russia

Al Smith was the first member of of this major Christian Denomination to have a serious chance at becoming President

In the first chapter of Daniel, he is with his friends Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the palace of this city's king

What city is home to the University of Kansas?

Related to the okapi, this animal is known for its height that is created by its very long neck