T-R-I-V-I-A.....Anyone?

Today's questions are going to be a little different because they come from Hunter Collage's High School Quizbowl. The questions are VERY long. Here are a few of the tossup questions. First correct post wins for today. Answers will be posted Sunday night.

1. Among his scientific works was Treatise on the Astrolabe, written for his ten-year-old son, and one of his earliest works was an elegy for Blanche, the first wife of the Duke of Lancaster: Book of the Duchess. The first recorded use of the word "galaxy" is found in his House of Fame. Most of his works were left unfinished, but one of his completed poems took the plot from Boccaccio's Filostrato and saw rhyme royal used in English for the first time. That poem, Troilus and Criseyde, is often considered to be his best work, although his most famous depicted a storytelling contest between pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas à Becket. Name this author of The Canterbury Tales.

2. In the Mozart oratorio La Betulia Liberata this widow of Manassas's return interrupts a discussion between Ozias and Achior. Erwin Panofsky argued that in northern art that she had both a maid and a charger, to distinguish her from Salome. In Gustav Klimt's portrait she wears a thick gold brooch and is partially nude, draped with a billowy blue cloth. She was also subject of a Donatello statue, and Artemisia Gentileschi's most famous work is a thinly veiled self portrait as this biblichal character. Name this Israelite who beheaded the Assyrian Holofernes.

3.The land near the coast of this body of water is home to the famous Lavaux vineyards and its coast is home to the Castle of Chillon, which was built by the Dukes of Savoy. There is a city that shares a name with it in southern Wisconsin, and the lake was called Lacus Lemanus in Roman times. The stretch of coast from it's namesake city to Lausanne is called La Cote. What is the second largest European lake, named for a Swiss city?

4. The author of this work is frustrated after waiting nine years to meet a man named Faustus, only to discover Faustus is ignorant. Book three of this work discusses Cicero's lost work Hortensius, and also includes an episode where the narrator steals from a pear tree just for the thrill of theft. It talks about the death of the author's mother Monica and the narrator discusses how he gave up Manichaeism due to the influence of Saint Ambrose of Milan. Name this autobiographical work describing the conversion of the Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine.

5. This war commenced after an ultimatum demanding the revision of the Straits Convention, free access of the Danube River, relinquishing responsibility of Orthodox Christians, and surrendering protectorate over the Danubian Principalities. Hostilities spilled over to the Pacific Theatre when the Allies attacked but were repulsed at Petropavlovsk, as well as Archangelsk. While Baltic operations such as the bombardment of Bomarsund lead to stalemate, its main battles of Inkerman and Balaclava near the besieged city of Sevastapol took place on the war's namesake peninsula. Name this conflict which pitted France, Britain, and the Ottoman Empire against Russia.

6. His 1944 book What is Life? introduced the term "negentropy" and discussed the idea of an "aperiodic crystal" which contained genetic information, a concept which later inspired Watson and Crick to research the structure of DNA. In his 1926 paper, Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem, he published an equation describing the time- and space-dependence of quantum mechanical systems, using a model of the atom as waves rather than particles. Later, he rejected the mainstream definition of wave-particle duality altogether, promoting the wave concept alone. This led him to propose a thought experiment to demonstrate the absurdity of wavefunction collapse. Name this Austrian-Irish physicist whose namesake thought experiment involves a vial of poison, a decaying atom, and a cat.

7. At one point in this novel, a female character gives shelter to pilgrims Ivanushka and Pelageyushka. Another character loses 40,000 roubles while gambling with his friend Dolohov, and Vassily Denisov gets rebuffed in a marriage offer to a teenager. The novel opens at a party hosted by Anna Scherer, at which Anna Drubetskoy reveals her desire to get a position for her son, Boris, in the army. Mademoiselle Bourienne falls in love with Anatole Kuragin, who has actually come to the estate of Bleak Hills with his father, Vassily, to meet and ostensibly court a friend of his sister Julie, Marie Bolkonsky. Marie's sister-in-law, Lise, dies in childbirth, allowing Andre Bolkonsky to fall in love with that teenager, Natasha Rostov. Name this gigantic novel about Pierre Bezuhov and other early Russians during the time of Napoleon, a major work of Leo Tolstoy.

8. It was first demonstrated in the laboratory in a 1968 study by Darley and Latane, in which participants heard audio recordings of different voices and were told that their microphones would be off until it was their turn to speak. A famous example of it occurred on March 13, 1964, when a young woman returning to her home in Rego Park, Queens, was approached by Winston Mosely, who repeatedly stabbed her and raped her while she was dying, in an attack that lasted half an hour. The New York Times reported that there were 38 witnesses. It is an example of diffusion of responsibility leading to social loafing. Sometimes it can be caused by pluralistic ignorance, or groupthink, where each person concludes from the inaction of others that the other people don't think help is needed. Name this psychological phenomenon in which people are less likely to give help in a life-threatening situation when others are present.

9. Its earliest mention is from the eleventh century from the diaries of a woman who lived on the edge of the marsh that would give it its name, who only knew the name of one day of the week. The first full description of its modern form is from 1398 by Zacharias Mumps. In 1884, stooging was declared a penalty, one year after the three goal baskets on each side were replaced with the modern hoops. There are 700 types of fouls listed in the rule books, every one of which occurred in the final of the first ever World Cup, in 1473. The two best Australian teams of this sport are the Thundelarra Thunderers and the Woollongong Warriors, while British teams include the Tutshill Tornadoes, who have seen recent success, and Puddlemere United, who signed Oliver Wood. Name this sport played on broomsticks by Cedric Diggory, Cho Chang, and Harry Potter.

10. This author published the collection Home and Exile containing the essays My Home Under Imperial Fire, The Empire Fights Back, and Today, the Balance of Stories, while one of his stories is about Emenike who promises to put a girl through school, collected in his Girls at War. That collection has 3 stories set during the Biafran war, and other characters include the priest of Ulu named Ezeulu in Arrow of God and Obi, a British educated official in Lagos who left Ufuoma, the land of his grandfather who commited suicide after killing a British official. Name this creator of Okonkwo, the Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart.