(5) People who follow a group or leader without thinking may be referred to by the name of what small Scandinavian rodents said to march in long lines into the sea when they overpopulate a region?

         Ans. Lemmings

(10) In remembrance of a line from Emerson’s Concord Hymn, any dramatic statement or action that initiates something important or that greatly influences events to come is called what? An example was Bobby Thompson’s home run in 1951.

         Ans. A shot heard round the world

(15) One always on the move with no abiding place is said to suffer the curse of what biblical figure who was banished from his home for the rest of his life?

         Ans. Cain

They also stole this 15-pointer from Parkland:

In early 1979, China initiated a substantial incursion into the border regions of what neighboring country, referring to it as a defensive counterattack?

         Ans. Vietnam

Russellville led at halftime, 150-110.

In the “Seventy Seconds Round,” Parkland advanced 70-20 on their category,  ATOMIC PHYSICS.  Russellville advanced 90-0 on their choice, BOOK TITLES TAKEN FROM LITERATURE, and led 260-180 going into the final period.

In “Stump the Experts,” Parkland swept this Shakespeare couplet:

Infinite Jest, the title of a David Wallace novel, is an allusion to Hamlet’s description of what character in the Shakespearean play?

         Ans.  Yorick

In The Tempest, who is the son of the witch Sycorax and the slave of Prospero?

         Ans.  Caliban

They impressed us with their correct answer to this audio question:

MUSIC … It’s a vocal exercise or concert piece sung to one or more vowels.  Name the best known such piece, this one by Rachmaninoff.

                       Ans. Vocalise

But Parkland’s fourth-period exploits were not enough to catch up with Russellville, which won the title game 360-300.