Howard Middle School (GA) came the closest to defeating Bluegrass (KY), losing out 125-160.  Every other Bluegrass win was lopsided.  Tied with Sacred Heart (IA) 50-50 after the first period, it was all Bluegrass in the Bonus Round, and they put on a tour de force in the final round, answering these questions:

Whom does Polynesia the parrot teach animal conversation?

               Ans. Doctor Doolittle

What’s the grammatical term for the modifier whose “indefinite” types in English are a and an and whose “definite” type is the?  

                      Ans. Article

These monsters had a single, wheel-shaped eye, in Greek mythology.

                         Ans. Cyclopes

What did Herod’s executioner carry to the dancing daughter of Herodias?

               Ans. The head of John the Baptist

Anna Karenina meets her brother in what city?

                       Ans. Moscow

Bluegrass won the finals, 265-90.

In the High School finals, of which we have to apologize for the difficulty level of the questions, especially after we just published the WE ARE ACCESSIBLE headline on our website QUnlimited.com, Weeki Wachee (FL) defeated Camp Hill (PA) 125-55.  Here are the “Stump the Experts” round stumpers:

1. MULTIPLE CHOICE Which of these is the most pathetic fictional character: Antigone, Daisy Miller, Moll Flanders, Blanche Dubois, or Scarlett O’Hara?

         Ans.  Blanche Dubois

2. MULTIPLE CHOICE Which author is not primarily a writer of science fiction: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein, or Frank Herbert?

         Ans.  Aldous Huxley

3. ENGLISH POETRY Which poet penned this line: “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”?

         Ans.  Tennyson

4. ENGLISH POETRY The first four words of this short poem are its title. The next words are: “like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that’s best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes.” Give me the title of this poem by Lord Byron.

         Ans.  “She Walks in Beauty”

5. FOREIGN LANGUAGE Its used to denote transfinite cardinal numbers. What is this first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

         Ans.  Aleph

6. FOREIGN LANGUAGE Translate from German to French the verb haben.

         Ans.  Avoir

7. DRAMA In which of Eugene O’Neill’s plays do we meet Henry Leeds and Edmund Darrell?

         Ans.  Strange Interlude

8. DRAMA In which of Moliere’s plays is there a scathing attack on religious hypocrisy?

         Ans. Tartuffe

9. CHARLES DICKENS When the ship carrying the final serial installment of this novel arrived in New York, thousands lined the wharves, calling out to anyone aboard, “Did Little Nell die?” The answer was Yes. What was the novel?

         Ans.  The Old Curiosity Shop

10. CHARLES DICKENS Alfred Jingle’s elopement with the spinster, Aunt Rachael of Dingley Dell manor, provides which novel by Charles Dickens with some comic villainy?

         Ans.  The Pickwick Papers

11. CHARACTERS One of Tennessee Williams’ best plays is CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, and one of the central characters in that play was the father who went by what nickname?

         Ans.  Big Daddy

12. CHARACTERS The love triangle in Les Misérables features Marius, a young student revolutionary; Cosette, an orphan raised by Jean Valjean; and the grown-up daughter of Thénardier. What is her name?

         Ans.  Eponine