ROUND 10: Challenge

A. Baseball's Spring Training
B. Makeshift Biblical Weapons
C. Special Academy Awards 
D. Canadian Aboriginal Treaties
E. Physicists
F. Wives of the Great Composers


A. Baseball's Spring Training 

A1. Florida has its Grapefruit League.  What is the name of Arizona's equivalent?

A. the Cactus League

A2. Jackie Robinson broke baseball's colour barrier during spring training in 1946.  
    He played for this team, which was a triple-A affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers.  
    We will accept the city or the team name.

A. Montreal Royals


B. Makeshift Biblical Weapons

B1. Samson was unarmed and had to fight an army of angry Philistines. 
    So he picked up something he saw lying in the dust and slew a thousand 
    of them. What did Samson use as a weapon?

A. Jawbone of an ass


B2. The Israelite widow Jael got the enemy general Sisera drunk in her 
    tent and pierced his temple. What did she use as her weapon?

A. Tent peg


C. Special Academy Awards

C1. In 1956, the Academy awarded the first Humanitarian Award named for 
    this actor and founder of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. 

A. Jean Hersholt

C2. The Academy has honored this comedic actor and Oscar Master of 
    Ceremonies five times - with two honorary Oscars, two special awards, 
    and a Humanitarian Award. 

A. Bob Hope



D. Canadian Aboriginal Treaties

D1. George III's Royal Proclamation recognized aboriginal ownership of North 
    American lands that had not been ceded to or purchased by the Crown.  
    State the year of this Royal Proclamation within five years.

A. 1763 (accept 1758 through 1768)

D2. Starting in 1871, the Crown negotiated eleven treaties with various First 
    Nations that allowed the Canadian government to settle and develop land in 
    the west and north.  By what collective name are these treaties known?

A. the Numbered Treaties


E. Physicists

E1. His 1921 Nobel Prize citation states: "for his services to Theoretical Physics, 
    and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

A. Albert Einstein

E2. Name the Austrian-born physicist who published a paper in 1877, which stated 
    that a shock wave is produced by the supersonic motion of a projectile.

A. Ernst Mach (the Mach number was named for him)


F. Wives of the Great Composers

F1. Robert Schumann married this virtuoso pianist in 1840.  Although a composer 
    herself, she is better known for her interpretation of Schumann's music and 
    her influence on his works.  We will accept her first name.

A. Clara (Wieck) Schumann

F2. Name the composer who wrote and conducted his "Siegfried Idyll" as a 
    birthday and Christmas present for his second wife, Cosima, who was a
    daughter of Franz Liszt.

A. Richard (REE-cart) Wagner (VOG-ner)