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Posted on 09/09/2001 12:34:53 PM PDT by Liz

1. The palace was restored in the 1860s, and served as the presidential palace until the 1930s. In 1940 it became a museum, and in 1945 hosted the Inter-American Conference on hemispheric security. Starting in 1841, the palace served as National Military Academy, until the hill was stormed in 1847 by U.S. troops who killed most of the Mexican cadets in battle. What hill in western Mexico City has a name that translates to "hill of the grasshopper"?

2. Discovered in 1872 by Ernest Giles, it appears to change color as sunlight strikes it at different angles. It is about 1100 feet tall, a mile-and-a-half long and nearly a mile wide. The lower walls and caves contain traditional Aborigine paintings. For 10 points, what desert monolith takes its name from a former South Australian premier?

3. It depends not only on the mass of the body but also on the distribution of mass relative to the axis. Objects whose mass is concentrated near the axis have the smallest; hence, they reach the bottom of an inclined plane more quickly. Equal to T divided by alpha, where T is torque and alpha is angular momentum, what is this measure of a body's resistance to changes in rotation rate?

4. Some of his poetry collections were inspired by foreign travel, such as Black and White, about a visit to Senegal, and Monologue of a Polar Fox on an Alaskan Fur Farm. In 1963, he published A Precocious Autobiography in France, incurring the wrath of Soviet authorities. What Russian poet filled outdoor stadiums for readings of such poems as Babi Yar?

5. Frank developed the theory that any sufficiently large grouping must contain an orderly substructure. Norman shared the 1989 Nobel Physics prize with Wolfgang Paul and Hans Dehmelt. Sir William, who spells his name slightly differently, discovered krypton, neon, and xenon with Morris Travers in 1898. What surname do they share?

6. Serafina, a Sicilian living on Florida's Gulf Coast, keeps her dead truck-driving husband's ashes in a marble urn. Three years later, she meets a younger truck driver who, like her husband, sports the title decoration on his chest. Name this oddly lighthearted 1951 play by Tennessee Williams.

7. Petitioners were indicted for violating the conspiracy provisions of the Smith Act from 1945 to 1948. Chief Justice Vinson wrote the majority opinion, adopting Learned Hand's idea that courts "must ask whether the gravity of the evil, discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger." Name this 1951 first amendment case involving members of the Communist Party of the United States.

8. Paul Theroux's first novel, published in 1967. The surname at birth of science fiction novelist Theodore Sturgeon. The middle name of the author of The American Scholar; The Conduct of Life; and Representative Men. You could find all these by searching on-line, or find a man with a red striped shirt in books seeking what common name?

9. After his father took away his horses, he distinguished himself in battle on foot. In his old age he led a fleet of ninety ships into the Trojan War, and, in the Odyssey, entertained Telemachus. Name this king of Pylos.

10.A student of Albrecht Durer from 1502 to 1504, he favored images of the Holy Family in such religious works as Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Witches appear in many of his works; in the Meteorologic Witches, they evoke storms. Several panels on the theme of Death and the Maiden contrast a fleshy nude with a spectral skeleton. Who also produced Eve, the Serpent, and Death?

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