Brain Bowl Reviewer

A rival pulls this character’s bodice laces too tight, causing her to faint, and brushes this girl’s hair with a poisoned comb. A hunter pretends to bring the organs of this girl to the queen, whose magic mirror tells her that this character has gone to live with seven dwarves.
For 5 points, name this protagonist of a Grimm brothers fairy tale, a pale­skinned princess

• Little Snow White
• Rapunzel
• Cinderella
• Big Snow White

After the death of this man, The Liberators’ Civil War was fought in Macedonia. This man introduced the concept of leap years in his namesake calendar, and he claimed “The die is cast” before crossing the Rubicon river. This man won the Battle of Alesia, a victory over Vercingetorix.
For 5 points, name this Roman Emperor who legendarily asked, “Et tu, Brute?” while being assassinated on the Ides of March.

• Nero
• Odoacer
• Julius Caesar
• Claudius

This city is located in the Desert of Paran, where Allah created the Zamzam Well for Hajar and Ismail. The Black Stone is set in silver in this city’s Kaaba, around which pilgrims walk during the Hajj, and toward which Muslims face when praying.
For 5 points, name this Islamic holy city, the birthplace of Muhammad. 

• Israel
• Mecca
• Berlin
• Rome

This value, the derivative of x, is found in the numerators of terms in the harmonic series. There are this many even prime numbers, and a line is an object with this many dimensions.
For 5 points, name this first natural number, which is the multiplicative identity because values do not change when multiplied by it. 

• Zero
• Three
• Two
• One

 This disease is caused by the variola virus, and the major symptom of this illness include fluid-­filled macules that blister, forming scars. Dr. Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine against this disease by studying a related illness in milkmaids. This disease was declared eradicated in 1979.
For 5 points, name this infectious disease that killed many natives of the Americas and was probably a mutated form of cowpox. 

• Monkey pox
• Cowpox
• Parapox viruses
• Tanapox

One of these musical works opens its Andante movement with fifteen and a half bars of soft theme followed by a sudden loud chord. Another of these works was originally dedicated to Napoleon, and is nicknamed Eroica. A "short-short­-short long" motif opens one of these long musical pieces written by Beethoven.
For 5 points, name this four movement genre of music exemplified by Haydn's Surprise, and Beethoven's Fifth. 

• Percussion
• Symphony
• Bass
• Woodwind

Fiber optic cables use the “total internal” type of this phenomenon, which can be either “specular” or “diffuse,” which happens when this phenomenon occurs in an irregular material, such as the surface of water.
For 5 points, name this phenomenon, which happens when light bounces off a surface, such as a mirror. 

• Refraction
• Metamerism
• Pleochorism
• Reflection

This type of energy is used by pole­vaulters in its “elastic” form, and multiplying the weight of an object times its height above Earth gives this energy’s “gravitational” type.
For 5 points, name this type of “stored” energy, which a roller coaster converts to kinetic energy at the bottom of a hill? 

• Sound Energy
• Light Energy
• Potential Energy
• Adenosine Triposphate (ATP)

While aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, this man gave a speech while a banner reading “mission accomplished” hung in the background. This president was criticized for continuing to read “My Pet Goat” after he was informed of an attack on the World Trade Center.
For 5 points, name this President of the United States who declared war after the September 11th attacks. 

• George Herbert Walker Bush
• Bush 41
• Bush the Elder
• George Walker Bush

This object may have been created because of a collision with the ancient planet Theia. This astronomical object is in synchronous orbit around its planet, and contains plains known as “marias”, which include the Sea of Tranquility.
For 5 points, name this satellite of Earth, which was walked on by Neil Armstrong. 

• Lunar
• Moon
• Sun
• Venus