Jaryd W. Gilts Memorial Tournament Round 2 Tossups Written by Steven Wellstead and Ike Jose



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Jaryd W. Gilts Memorial Tournament

Round 2 Tossups

Written by Steven Wellstead and Ike Jose
1. At one point in this work, the narrator is startled by the “silken sad uncertain rustling” of purple curtains. The narrator asks “is there balm in Gilead?” after alluding to “Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floors.” The speaker tells a visitor to return to “Night’s (*) Plutonian shore” after being awoken from a nap by a “tapping at my chamber door.” That visitor rests on a bust of Pallas and is begged by the narrator to “tell this soul with sorrow laden…if it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore.” For 10 points, identify this poem about an “ebony bird” that can only speak the word “nevermore,” a work by Edgar Allen Poe.

ANSWER: “The Raven


2. They were officially ended in 1985 with the signing of a peace treaty by Chedly Klibi and Ugo Vetere. One of them was instigated by Hieron II and saw early battles at the Lipari Islands and Agrigentum before leading directly to the Mercenary War. Another included such leaders as Mago and (*) Hasdrubal, whose older brother was victorious at the Battles of Lake Trasimene, Trebia, and Cannae before ultimately losing at the Battle of Zama against Scipio Africanus. Cato the Elder’s cry of “”Carthago delenda est” led to the third and final installment of, for 10 points, what series of wars between Rome and Carthage that featured an Alps crossing by Hannibal.

ANSWER: Punic Wars [accept “Cathaginian Wars” before Carthago is read]


3. The Coughlin Brothers Mortuary is invented by characters in this film, whose protagonist quotes John Lennon after stating that isms are not good. Near its end, one character is offered a gummy bear described as “real warm and soft,” while earlier another character “lost the Vermont deal” after picking her daughter up from the (*) police station. The title character attends a Cubs game, visits the Chicago Museum of Art, and has lunch under the pseudonym Abe Froman all while being sought after by Dean of Students Edward Rooney. For 10 points, identify this film featuring Matthew Broderick as the titular high school senior playing hookie for a day.

ANSWER: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off


4. In one work by this man, Anna and Deeley compete for the affections of Kate, while his first work ends with Bert beating up Riley before Rose becomes blind. In addition to Old Times and The Room, this man wrote about the brothers Aston and Mick and their dealings with the homeless man Davies in The (*) Caretaker. In another work, the phrase “light the kettle” prompts an argument between two hitmen, while another work sees Goldberg and McCann come to the Boles residence in search of pianist Stanley Webber, who is the honoree in the title event. For 10 points, identify this English playwright behind The Dumbwaiter and The Birthday Party.

ANSWER: Harold Pinter


5. The Elsner Reaction makes use of sodium cyanide to extract forms of this substance, which is commonly purified via the Miller or Wohlwill processes. Along with Telerium, this substance forms the mineral sylvanite, and when combined with silver this substance forms an alloy called electrum. Besides (*) Platinum, it is the only other metal that can be dissolved by aqua regia, and a substance that is often mistaken for this metal is known as pyrite. The practice of alchemy originated in order to generate this element, whose purest form is 24 carats. For 10 points, identify this valuable metallic element with atomic number 79 and symbol Au (A-U).

ANSWER: gold [prompt on “Au”]


6. One ruler of this polity was defeated at the Battle of Karnal by Afsharid ruler Nader the Great. Its last ruler was exiled to Rangoon by William Hodson, and the rule of one leader was interrupted by the Suri Dynasty. Another ruler founded the religion Dini Ilahi before facing a revolt from his son and successor, (*) Jahangir. Founded following the 1526 Battle of Panipat, this empire was ruled by such men as Humayun and Aurangzeb, the latter of whom succeeded Taj Mahal builder Shah Jahan. For 10 points, identify this empire that was ended by the British following the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny and ruled by such men as Akbar and Babur.

ANSWER: Mughal Empire [or Moghul Empire; do not accept or prompt on Mongol Empire]

7. A Paul Eluard poem accompanied the first display of this work, which was defaced in 1974 by Tony Shafrazi with the words “KILL LIES ALL”. Featuring a bird beneath an eye-shaped light bulb and a flower growing from a broken sword, its left side shows smoke arising from the tail of a (*) bull, which appears behind a weeping woman holding a dead child. On the right side a figure holds its hands up while engulfed in flames, and the center is dominated by a wailing horse standing over a dismembered soldier. For 10 points, identify this Picasso work created to commemorate a 1937 bombing of the title Spanish town.

ANSWER: Guernica


8. This man once defended his laziness by recounting a parable about an octopus and a grasshopper, and his album soundtrack to “The Breakfast Club” was once used as a hiding spot for his lucky seven-leaf clover. A dropout of Coney Island Community College, this man accidentally killed his grandfather (*) Enos, which ultimately resulted in the lack of a delta brainwave that allowed him to defeat the Brainspawn. The younger brother of Yancy, this character worked as a pizza delivery boy before finding a job with the Planet Express Delivery Company under his only living relative, Hubert Farnsworth. For 10 points, identify this protagonist of Futurama.

ANSWER: Philip J. Fry


9. One work by this writer centers on emigrant Karl Rossman and was originally a short story entitled “The Stoker.” Another work is narrated by The Traveler and sees the accidental death of The Officer in the title location, while a third work involves a land surveyor who is employed as a school janitor by the title entity. This author of (*) Amerika, “In the Penal Colony” and The Castle is better known for a story about a bank clerk executed at a quarry on his 31st birthday, and another about a traveling salesman who wakes up as an insect. For 10 points, identify this German who wrote about Josef K. and Gregor Samsa in The Trial and The Metamorphosis.

ANSWER: Franz Kafka


10. One politician with this surname, in response to Joseph Bristow, quipped that “what this country needs is a good five cent cigar.” Another politician with this surname was Time’s Man of the Year for 1943 and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 after serving as Truman’s Secretary of (*) State and Defense. A Supreme Court Justice with this name handed down the decisions in Worchester (WUH – ster) v. Georgia, Fletcher v. Peck, and Gibbons v. Ogden, while another justice with this name was the court’s first African-American. For 10 points, give this surname identifying justices Thurgood and John, the latter of whom handed down Marbury v. Madison.

ANSWER: Marshall [accept Thomas Marshall, George Marshall, John Marshall OR Thurgood Marshall]


11. In the northwest part of this nation one will find the island of Wolin, whose southern shores border the (ZE – chin) Szczecin Lagoon. Founded by the Piast Dynasty ruler Mieszko I, this country’s southern border is defined by the Tatra Mountains, the highest range in the Carpathians. Found south of the (*) Kaliningrad Oblast, this country’s western border is partly defined by the Oder River, while its chief river, the Vistula, empties into the Baltic Sea near the city of Gdansk. Notably partitioned three times in the 18th century, for 10 points, identify this Central European nation whose capital is Warsaw.

ANSWER: Republic of Poland


12. Landing a perfect shot in the final area of this video game will net you 10,000 points, which would have been more than enough to gain entry into a 1999 Blockbuster contest featuring this game. The way one controls the vehicle, the Zero-One, puts the game in the (*) on-rails shooter genre, though a much different kind of shooting is performed. Your character, Todd, is a photographer summoned to document the wildlife of a strange island, and can use such tools as a flute, apples, and pester balls to take the best pictures possible. For 10 points, identify this N64 game in which creatures such as Jigglypuff and Pikachu pose for your camera as you drive by.

ANSWER: Pokemon Snap
13. One story by this man focuses on mechanic David Beeves, while another story ends with Italian immigrant Marco killing dock worker Eddie Carbone, who lives under the title structure. In addition to The Man Who Had All the Luck and A View From the Bridge, this author wrote about Joe Keller selling (*) defective airplane part during WWII, as well as the hanging of John Proctor after Abigail Williams accuses him of witchcraft. In his most famous story, the title character kills himself so that insurance money can go to his children, Happy and Biff. For 10 points, identify this American playwright who wrote All My Sons, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman.

ANSWER: Arthur Asher Miller

14. Near the end of his reign, this ruler signed the Treaties of Jam Zapolski and Plussa, the latter of which ended the Livonian War. The earlier Siege of Kazan ended in a victory for troops under this ruler, whose revision of the sudebnik closely followed the first meeting of the zemsky sobor. His institution of oprichnina led to the (*) Massacre of Novgorod, and he was succeeded by Feodor after killing his heir-apparent, Ivan. The oldest son and successor of Vaseli III, this man was given the epithet grozni due to his fearsome and cruel rule as the first czar of Russia. For 10 points, identify this ruler known as “the Terrible.”

ANSWER: Ivan IV [or Ivan the Terrible; accept Ivan Grozni on early buzz]


15. One composition of this type by this composer depicts a sunrise and is the composer’s 6th, called “The Morning.” That one would be followed up with “The Noon” and “The Evening.” Many of these types of works by this composer were commissioned by the Esterhazy family. One of these gets its name because two violinists are the last ones to stay on the stage after the rest of the orchestra has walked (*) off. The most notable of these features a fortissimo chord in its second movement. For 10 points, name these works by this composer, which includes the “Farewell” and the “Surprise.”

ANSWER: Franz Haydn’s Symphonies [prompt on partial answer]


16. Its Game 6 saw a record 22 hits for the home team, who in that game scored 9 runs off reliever Jay Witasick. Brian Anderson earned the loss in Game 3 despite giving up 2 runs, and the next two games saw blown saves by the first Korean born player to play in the World Series, (*) Byung-Hyun Kim. Those games were ended by walk off home runs from Scott Brosius and Derek Jeter, the latter of whom earned the nickname “Mr. November.” Eventually going to a seventh game, it ended with a walk-off bloop single by Luis Gonzalez off closer Mariano Rivera. For 10 points, identify this World Series that saw the New York Yankees fall to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

ANSWER: 2001 World Series


17. God grants Jaromir Hladik one year to finish a play before being executed by the Nazis in this man’s “The Secret Miracle.” He also wrote about a Prague rabbi, Judah Lion, who gives birth to the title creature in his poem “The Golem.” Another work focuses on Carlos Daneri, the owner of a device that can (*) see every point in the universe, while another story focuses on a structure that is composed of an infinite number of hexagonal galleries. Stephen Albert is killed before Richard Madden can capture German spy Yu Tsun in another story by, for 10 points, what Argentine author of “The Aleph,” “The Library of Babel,” and “The Garden of Forking Paths.”

ANSWER: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo [accept “The Secret Miracle” on early buzz]


18. The Chaoui and Kabyle people are indigenous to the eastern parts of this range, in which one can find the Rif region, the location of Cape Spartel and the city of Tetouan. Sub-ranges include the Ksour, Tell, and Aures Mountains, and its eastern terminus borders the Gulfs of Hammamet and Gabes. Cities in this range include Constantine, Sale, (*) Oran, and Fes, and its highest point, Jebel Toubkal, is located only 40 miles south of the city of Marrakech. Native home to the Berbers and namesake of a mythological Titan who held the heavens on his shoulders, for 10 points, identify this mountain range of North Africa.

ANSWER: Atlas Mountains


19. In the music video for this song, one character is surrounded by lumberjacks with chainsaws before jumping to the top of a tree, while another character can be seen snowboarding on the Golden Gate Bridge. The singer asks a girl to “be my very own constellation” and later comments that “Alderon’s not far away” after asking (*) Cobain if he can “hear the spheres singing songs off Station to Station.” The singer tells you to “pay your surgeon…well to break the spell of aging,” and begins the song by noting how “psychic spies from China try to steal your mind’s elation.” For 10 points, identify this Red Hot Chili Peppers song about the dark side of Hollywood.

ANSWER: “Californication


20. Spy John Honeyman provided key intelligence prior to this battle that saw the defeat of the Lossberg and Knyphausen Regiments, the latter of which had their retreat over the Assunpink Creek blocked by John Sullivan. The initial attack began at Pennington Road before moving to (*) King and Queen Streets, and it saw the death of losing commander Johann Rall as well as the wounding of James Monroe. Resulting in a complete defeat for German mercenaries who had been ambushed following their Christmas celebration, this was, for 10 points, what American Revolutionary War battle preceded by George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River.

ANSWER: Battle of Trenton


TB. In one work this author writes about a figure who reaches the realm of the supernatural after gazing at a moon and rejecting an Arabic woman. In another long work, this author says “wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!” before describing a “dome of many colored glass.” His works include The Revolt of Islam, Alastor and the elegy (*) Adonais, but another of his poems describes a character with “wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command” who was a figure with a “hand that mocked them and a heart that fed.” For 10 points, identify this author that wrote “Look upon my works ye mighty and despair!” in Ozymandias, the husband of novelist Mary.

ANSWER: Percy Shelley


Jaryd W. Gilts Memorial Tournament

Round 2 Bonuses

Written by Steven Wellstead and Ike Jose

1. Founded by Sam Schulman, this franchise was coached to its only championship by Lenny Wilkins in 1979. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this NBA franchise that lost the 1996 NBA finals to the Chicago Bulls behind players like Detlef Schrempf, Shawn Kemp, and Gary Payton.

ANSWER: Seattle SuperSonics [accept either]

[10] Following the 2007-2008 season, the Sonics were relocated to this Midwest city where they became the Thunder.

ANSWER: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

[10] The Sonics became the first #1 seed to lose in the first round of the NBA playoffs when they lost to this franchise that was notably led throughout the 80s by Alex English.

ANSWER: Denver Nuggets [accept either]


2. One character in this poem is Fra Pandolf. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this work whose speaker describes the titular subject as having “a heart too soon made glad” in this poem whose speaker had the Claus of Innsbruck cast a statue of Neptune.

ANSWER: “My Last Duchess

[10] This author wrote “My Last Duchess.” Together with his wife he owned a dog named Flush.

ANSWER: Robert Browning

[10] In this other Browning poem, the title character states “I found a thing to do, and all her hair in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around, and strangled her.” It ends with the same character noting how “all night long we have not stirred, and yet God has not said a word!”

ANSWER: “Porphyria’s Lover
3. For 10 points each, identify the following men having to do with American Red Scares of the 20th century.

[10] A major face in the Second Red Scare of the early 1950s, this Wisconsin Senator rose to fame after notably producing a list of supposed Communists working in the government during a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia.

ANSWER: Joseph Raymond McCarthy

[10] One of the men at the wrong end of the Second Red Scare was this State Department Employee who served jail time for perjury after being accused of espionage in 1948 by Whittaker Chambers.

ANSWER: Alger Hiss

[10] Perhaps one of the most noteworthy events that occurred during the First Red Scare was a series of raids on American radicals and immigrants led by this man, the Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson.

ANSWER: Alexander Mitchell Palmer
4. The four men in this musical work yell into their microphones, causing the audience to recoil in pain after hearing rotor blades for way too long. For 10 points each,

[10] Name this impossible piece of classical music to listen to by Karlheinz Stockhausen, in which a violinist two violas and a cello go fly around in the air to torture the audience.

ANSWER: Helicopter String Quartet or if you are German Helikopter Streich Quartet

[10] Karlheinz Stockhausen derived many of his ideas on what is music by this less insane composer, the creator of Imaginary Landscapes and 4’ 33’’ (Four minutes thirty three seconds).

ANSWER: John Cage

[10] John Cage’s 4’33’’ supposedly makes use of this musical instrument, which are used to play the Goldberg Variations.

ANSWER: piano
5. In this novel, Rogozhin crashes a name day party filled with characters like Ferdyschenko and General Epanchin. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this novel focusing on the epileptic Prince Myshkin.

ANSWER: The Idiot

[10] The Idiot is a novel by this author, whose other works include Notes From the Underground and The Possessed.

ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[10] The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor is told by one of the title characters of this Dostoyevsky novel, all of whom were fathered by Fyodor.

ANSWER: The Brothers Karamazov
6. Identify these diminutive European nations, for 10 points each.

[10] Once part of the Roman province of Raetia, this nation is the origin of the Samina River and home to such towns as Schaan and Vaduz.

ANSWER: Principality of Liechtenstein

[10] Comino and Gozo are two of the largest islands belonging to this Mediterranean island nation that gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964.

ANSWER: Republic of Malta

[10] Founded by an eponymous Bishop of Rimini in 301, this “most serene republic” is topped by Mount Titano, a peak of the Apennine mountain range.

ANSWER: Most Serene Republic of San Marino
7. Devon Banks frequently butts heads with General Electric Executive Jack Donaghy on this TV sitcom, which focuses on the writers and actors of the comedy show TGS with Tracy Jordan. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this NBC comedy headlined by Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey.

ANSWER: 30 Rock

[10] Tiny Fey plays this head writer of TGS with Tracy Jordan who must frequently deal with the antics of main actors Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney.

ANSWER: Elizabeth “Liz” Lemon

[10] Played by Scott Adsit, this other 30 Rock character is the producer of TGS with Tracy Jordan and acts as Liz’s right hand man. A skilled archer, this character probably would have become a Congressman, like his father, had he not received a DUI during high school.

ANSWER: PeterPeteHornberger [accept either]
8. The author of the novels Sybil and Vivian Grey, this politician represented his country at the Congress of Berlin. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this two-time British prime minister and prominent member of the early Conservative Party.

ANSWER: Benjamin Disraeli [or 1st Earl of Beaconsfield or Viscount Hughenden]

[10] Disraeli had a well known rivalry with this Liberal politician who held the position of Prime Minister four times throughout the latter half of the 19th century.

ANSWER: William Ewart Gladstone

[10] In the early stages of his political career Disraeli was a staunch critic of this other two-time British Prime Minister, whose reform of the police system in the 1820s was the origin the term “bobbies.”

ANSWER: Sir Robert Peel
9. It ends with one character giving a monologue in which he explains that he lost his job at a shoe warehouse for writing a poem on a shoebox. For 10 point each:

[10] Identify this 1944 play centering on the Wingfield family.

ANSWER: The Glass Menagerie

[10] The Glass Menagerie is a work by this American playwright probably best known for writing about Stella and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

ANSWER: Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams

[10] Given the nickname “Blue Roses” during high school due to her bouts with pleurisy, this slightly crippled protagonist of The Glass Menagerie is the youngest member of the Wingfield family.

ANSWER: Laura Wingfield
10. Its second part discusses four precepts by which one can “rightly conduct the reason,” and its fourth part gives proofs for both God and the soul. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this 1637 work, whose fifth part argues for dualism between the body and soul.

ANSWER: Discourse on the Method [or Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences]

[10] Discourse on Method is a work by this French philosopher who famously quipped “I think, therefore I am.”

ANSWER: Rene Descartes (DAY – cart)

[10] This other well-known Descartes work, published four years after Discourse on Method, argues that one should always doubt everything that is not absolutely certain.

ANSWER: Meditations on First Philosophy: In which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated
11. In Complaints and Grievances he whittled down the Ten Commandments to only two, one of which was “thou shalt try real hard not to kill anyone, unless of course they pray to a different invisible man than you.” For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this recently deceased New York City native ranked by Comedy Central as the second greatest stand-up comedian of all time.

ANSWER: George Denis Patrick Carlin

[10] Carlin is perhaps best remembered for this routine, which prompted a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case. It was expanded upon from a scroll at the conclusion of Carlin’s 1983 special Carlin at Carnegie.

ANSWER: Seven Dirty Words [accept “Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television”]

[10] Carlin expounded upon such things as digital purgatory, swearing on the Bible, and parents who constantly show pictures of their children in this 2008 special, his last, which was filmed just four months prior to his death.

ANSWER: It’s Bad For Ya
12. The Russian attack at the Battle of Sinop provided incentive for Britain and France intervention in this conflict, which was ended by the 1856 Treaty of Paris. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this conflict named for the peninsula on which it primarily took place.

ANSWER: Crimean War

[10] Fought in the early days of the Siege of Sevastopol, this October 1854 battle is most notable for such military actions as the “Thin Red Line” and “Charge of the Light Brigade.”

ANSWER: Battle of Balaclava

[10] The “Charge of the Light Brigade” occurred after confusing orders given by this British commander resulted in the Earl of Lucan sending cavalry commander Earl of Cardigan and his 600+ troops into the “Valley of Death.”

ANSWER: 1st Baron Lord Raglan [or FitzRoy James Henry Somerset]
13. This man’s painting Arbor Day was used as the image on the back of the Iowa state quarter. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this 20th century regionalist painter best known for a work depicting two figures posing in front of an Eldon, Iowa home.

ANSWER: Grant DeVolson Wood

[10] Wood’s most well known work is this 1930 painting which features a balding man holding a pitchfork on its right side.

ANSWER: American Gothic

[10] While the woman on the painting’s left was modeled after Wood’s sister, the figure on the right was modeled after a man with this relationship to Wood.

ANSWER: his dentist
14. For 10 points each, identify these British literary critics.

[10] This author of Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics also created “Middle-Earth” in his trilogy about hobbits and other fantastic creatures.

ANSWER: JRR Tolkein

[10] This man discussed Wormwood in his The Screwtape Letters and is also the author of the novels Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, his Space Trilogy.

ANSWER: C.S. Lewis

[10] This author of the letter De Profundis is better known for his “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” and his play Lady Windemere’s Fan.

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde
15. One of the most notable scenes from this film involves Mr. Blonde cutting off the ear of a police officer while Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle With You” plays in the background. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this 1992 Quentin Tarantino film centering on a bank heist by men with colorful aliases.

ANSWER: Reservoir Dogs

[10] The character of Mr. White is played by this long time actor, who appears in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction as a cleaner named Winston Wolfe. National Treasure fans will probably know him for playing the role of FBI agent Peter Sadusky.

ANSWER: Harvey Keitel

[10] Tarantino’s role in Reservoir Dogs is as this character, who opens the film by explaining the lyrics from Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.” He ultimately dies after being shot in the head by police.

ANSWER: Mr. Brown
16. Identify the following American rebellions, for 10 points each.

[10] Led by a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, this 1786-1787 rebellion saw a group of indebted, Massachusetts farmers attempt the capture of the Springfield Armory.

ANSWER: Shays’ Rebellion

[10] 13,000 militiamen were brought in by President Washington when Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Mifflin refused to quell this insurrection, whose origins stemmed from a 1791 tax on the titular commodity.

ANSWER: Whiskey Rebellion

[10] The Supreme Court Case Luther v. Borden had its origins in this 1841-1842 rebellion, which was launched in the hopes of instituting universal male suffrage in its namesake’s home state, Rhode Island.

ANSWER: Dorr’s Rebellion
17. One character in this work fathers seventeen sons, all of whom are killed during civil wars, and dies while urinating on a chestnut tree his father had been tied to after going insane. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this novel set in Macondo that follows the lives of the descendants of Jose Arcadio Buendia.

ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien años de soledad]

[10] One Hundred Years of Solitude is the best known work by this Columbian author.

ANSWER: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[10] The titular event of this other Marquez novel is carried out against Santiago Nasar by the Vicario brothers after their sister, Angela, identifies Santiago as the one who took her virginity.

ANSWER: Chronicle of a Death Foretold [or Cronica de un muerte anunciada]
18. For 10 points each, identify the following Japanese islands.

[10] Japan’s largest, it contains the major cities of Kobe, Kyoto, and Tokyo.

ANSWER: Honshu

[10] Located north of Honshu across the Tsugaru Strait, this Japanese island has its capital at Sapporo.

ANSWER: Hokkaido

[10] The smallest of Japan’s four main islands, it lies across the Seto Inward Sea south of Honshu from such cities as Osaka and Hiroshima.

ANSWER: Shikoku
19. Its second and less famous part ordered the restitution of all property that had been taken from any Christians. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this 313 piece of legislation that more famously established religious tolerance in the Roman Empire, thus allowing Christians the freedom to worship.

ANSWER: Edict of Milan

[10] The Edict of Milan was issued jointly by Licinius and this fellow Roman emperor, who was notable as the first Christian emperor of Rome.

ANSWER: Constantine I [or Constantine the Great]

[10] One notable event in Constantine’s reign was his showdown with Maxentius at this 312 battle, which was supposedly won after Constantine received a vision from God that told him to emblazon his army’s shields with the Chi Rho symbol.

ANSWER: Battle of Milvian Bridge
20. Ellen Foley comprised the female half of the duet for this song, which also notably includes a play-by-play commentary by baseball announcer Phil Rizzuto. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this single that sees its two singers exclaiming how they’re “glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife.”

ANSWER: “Paradise by the Dashboard Light

[10] “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” was a hit single off the album Bat Out of Hell by this singer-turned-actor who shares his stage name with a dinner entrée.

ANSWER: Meat Loaf [or Meat Loaf Aday or Michael Lee Aday or Marvin Lee Aday]

[10] Preceding “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” on the album Bat Out of Hell, this single mentions that there “ain’t no coup-de-ville hiding at the bottom of a crackerjack box” before the singer mentions that “I remember how she left me on that stormy night.”



ANSWER: “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
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