ROUND 4: Arts and Literature
Name All Four
This is the dreaded multiple-answer triple, but we will allow an extra 30
seconds on each question for a total of 70 seconds, if you need it.
1. Name all four Teletubbies, in the TV series of that name.
A. Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, Tinky-Winky
2. Name all four houses of Hogwarts, in the Harry Potter books and movies.
A. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin
3. Name all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the TV series of that name.
A. Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
Commemorations
Please refer to the handouts.
4. [£20] Name the composer whose name we have covered over.
A. (Sir) Edward Elgar
5. [£10] Name the scientist whose name we have covered over.
A. Charles Darwin
6. [Australian $10] Again there are two people on this bill, but
this time neither one is the Queen. They both were journalists and
poets; the woman was also a social reformer, teacher, and novelist;
the man was also a lawyer, but is probably most famous for a single
song. Name either one.
A. Banjo Peterson
Mary Gilmore
Shakespeare's geography
Shakespeare doesn't always show a precise knowledge of geography. Sometimes his
characters don't either. Here are three passages containing either geographical
ignorance or arguments about geography. In each case name the Shakespeare play.
7. This tragicomedy, or so-called "dark comedy", is one of Shakespeare's latest
plays. It opens in "Sicilia". King Leontes suspects his wife of infidelity and
sends messengers to Apollo's oracle at a place that Shakespeare calls "Delphos"
to find out. Before the messengers return, the king sends Antigonus into exile in
Bohemia carrying the king's disowned infant daughter.
Scene 3 is set as follows: Bohemia. The sea-coast. Enter Antigonus
with a child, and a Mariner.
ANTIGONUS: Thou art perfect then our ship hath touched upon
The deserts of Bohemia?
MARINER: Ay, my lord, and fear
We have landed in ill time; the skies look grimly.
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Besides, this place is famous for the creatures
Of prey that keep upon it.
[QM: Antigonus has heard enough; he names the baby Perdita and quickly abandons
it on the shore. Partway through the scene is his stage direction:
"Exit, pursued by a bear."]
A. The Winter's Tale
8. Near the start of this history, the Archbishop of Canterbury is
speaking to his young king. He is outlining a tempting dynastic claim
based on disputed geography, and he intends to persuade the king to
go to war against France.
KING: My learnèd lord, we pray you to proceed,
And justly and religiously unfold
Why the Law Salique, that they have in France,
Or should or should not bar us in our claim.
CANTERBURY: There is no bar
To make against your highness' claim to France
But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
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'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'
Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
To be the realm of France ................
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Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
That the land Salique is in Germany,
Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe ...
A. Henry V
9. In this rather severe comedy, another very late play, Gonzalo,
Sebastian, Adrian, and Antonio, who is the usurping Duke of Milan,
spend most of their time wandering around lost. But in this scene
they find the time to argue about historical geography:
GONZALO: Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put
them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the King's fair daughter
Claribel to the King of Tunis.
ADRIAN: Tunis was never grac'd before with such a paragon to their queen.
GONZALO: Not since widow Dido's time.
ADRIAN: "Widow Dido" said you? You make me study of that.
She was of Carthage, not of Tunis.
GONZALO: This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
ADRIAN: Carthage?
GONZALO: I assure you, Carthage.
ANTONIO: His word is more than the miraculous harp.
SEBASTIAN: He hath rais'd the wall and houses too.
ANTONIO: What impossible matter will he make easy next?
SEBASTIAN: I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give
it his son for an apple.
A. The Tempest
Scientific quotes
In each case, name the scientist who said the following.
10. This was said by a physicist and mathematician in the 17th century:
"I do not know what I may appear to the world. But to myself, I seem
to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting
myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell
than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
A. Isaac Newton
11. This was said by a philosopher who had also written on mathematics,
in the 20th century: "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in
which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we
are saying is true."
A. Bertrand Russell
12. This 20th (and 21st) century physicist and professor of mathematics
said that he had been given the following piece of advice: "Each
equation in the book would halve the sales."
A. Stephen Hawking
Exceptional Paintings
13. On handout #1 you are shown six paintings. Five were painted by
artists who had the same country of birth. Give the number of the exception.
A. #3 (Magritte: Belgian;
the others, Dufy, Bonnard, Duchamp, Léger, and Matisse; are French)
14. On handout #2 you are shown six paintings. Five were painted by
the same artist. Give the number of the exception.
A. #4 (Georges Braque; the others are by Picasso)
15. On handout #3 you are shown six paintings. Five were painted in the same
century. Give the number of the exception.
A. #5 (Klimt, The Kiss: 20th century; the others, by Seurat,
Munch, Rossetti, Gauguin, and Burne-Jones are 19th century)