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ROUND
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University of Maryland
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Related Tossup/Bonus
1. TOSSUP. In his later career as a military strategist he promoted the construction of
U.S. land bases in the Pacific. He built his early record on expeditions against the slave
trade, service in the Mexican War, and three years as commander of the Fulton. Later, he
gave himself an unauthorized promotion to the rank of admiral, entered Uraga Bay, and
set up a meeting to negotiate the Treaty of Kanagawa, fulfilling President Fillmore’s
wishes for a new trading sphere. For 10 points, name this member of a prominent naval
family who thus forced the re-opening of Japan.
ANSWER: Matthew Calbraith Perry
<Weiner>
BONUS: Name these things from U.S.-Asia relations for 10 points each.
[10] This 1882 bill ended immigration from a certain country and prohibited the
extension of citizenship to its laborers.
ANSWER: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
[10] This doctrine, formulated by John Hay, demanded that all countries be given equal
access to commerce in China and that only China itself could collect taxes on merchants.
ANSWER: Open Door Policy
<Weiner>
2. TOSSUP. Written in 1742, this fourth volume of the Clavierubung concludes with a
Quodlibet, a mixed-up medley, followed by a recapitulation of the simple Aria which
begins the work. Commissioned by the Russian ambassador to Dresden, Hermann
Keyserlingk, they are built on a thirty-two measure sarabande in G major. For 10 points,
name this composition for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of 30
“variations.”
ANSWER: Goldberg Variations
<Chuck>
BONUS: Name these compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach for 10 points each.
[10] Though also played in churches, this organ composition in d minor is often used to
create a scary mood for movies and video games. It combines two types of work, one
demonstrating the player’s “touch” on the keyboard and the other “flighty.”
ANSWER: “Toccata and Fugue”
[10] This compilation consists of twenty-four preludes and fugues for keyboard, with
each major and minor key represented in each prelude and fugue.
ANSWER: The Well-Tempered Clavier
<Duke>
3. TOSSUP. He went through a period as a playwright and director where he disavowed
the use of scripts, giving actors only what he called, “a mandate to work around a cluster
of images.” His hometown, Port Elizabeth, plays a prominent role in his plays Blood
Knot, Hello and Goodbye and Boesman and Lena. For 10 points, name this South African
author of Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, The Island, and Master Harold and the Boys.
ANSWER: Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard
<Greenstein>
BONUS: Name these Kurt Vonnegut works for 10 points each.
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[10] His last novel, it follows a world in which everyone must live the period of 1991 to
2001 again without changing anything.
ANSWER: Timequake
[10] This novel is about a man named John who is trying to research a book about the
atomic bomb but ends up encountering Bokononism and Ice-9.
ANSWER: Cat’s Cradle
<Connolly>
4. TOSSUP. Purkinje cells are examples of them, while F waves are often used to
measure their conduction velocity. In many of these cells, oligodendrocytes assist in
maintaining a high propagation velocity by allowing electric impulses to pass between
Nodes of Ranvier. For 10 points, Schwann cells and glial cells surround what type of cell
consisting of a soma, dendrites, and an axon, which is found in the nervous system?
ANSWER: neuron
<Connolly>
BONUS: Name these concepts from statistics, for 10 points each.
[10] Often represented by r or rho, this value between 1 and -1 indicates both the
direction and the degree of the relationship between two variables. For example, if this
value is 1, there is a perfect positive correlation between the two variables.
ANSWER: correlation coefficient
[10] A binomial distribution with a very large number of repetitions and a very small
probability of success can be approximated by this distribution whose only parameter,
lambda, is equal to the product of the repetitions and the probability.
ANSWER: Poisson distribution
<Wolpert>
5. TOSSUP. The diversion of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya over the late twentieth
century has resulted in a dramatic decrease in this lake’s area and volume. This also
resulted in a closer connection between the mainland and the island of Vozrozhdenya, a
testing ground for biological weapons during the Soviet era. For 10 points, name this
saltwater lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, once the fourth-largest inland body
of water on Earth.
ANSWER: Aral Sea
<Chuck>
BONUS: Name these places to visit in Moscow, for 10 points each.
[10] Also located on Red Square is this church that commemorates Ivan the Terrible’s
victory over the Mongols in 1552.
ANSWER: St. Basil’s Cathedral
[10] This classical style theater was rebuilt after a fire in 1853. It is home to an
eponymous ballet troupe founded over two hundred years ago.
ANSWER: Bolshoi Theater
<Chuck>
6. TOSSUP. He prophesies that unhappiness will result from the strategic marriage of
Freawaru to Ingeld. He slays the Frankish warrior Daeghraefn in his powerful grip, but he
loses a swimming race to Breca, prince of the Brondings, which earns him the scorn of
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Unferth. Later, Unferth gives him the sword Hrunting, which he uses to slay the mother
of his famous foe. Attended by Wiglaf, he dies while slaying a dragon. For 10 points,
identify this Geat and servant to Hrothgar who kills Grendel.
ANSWER: Beowulf
<Walker>
BONUS: Name these things from the Inferno portion of Dante’s Comedia for 10 points
each.
[10] At the border of the second circle, we find this monster, which assigns the
condemned to their punishments; the number of times his tail wraps around the soul of a
condemned is the circle of hell to which the condemned is assigned.
ANSWER: Minos
[10] Geryon takes Vergil and Dante across a great abyss to the eighth circle of hell,
referred to as this because it is further divided by folds of earth. Flatterers, seducers,
blasphemers, bribe takers, hypocrites, and plagiarists find themselves here .
ANSWER: the Malebolge
<Southard>
7. TOSSUP. An example of one was the Quirin case, which dealt with captured German
World War II operatives. Many took place around the end of the Civil War, with the
McCardle case dealing with a man arrested for publishing anti-Reconstruction editorials.
Vallandigham, Milligan, and Merryman all concerned arrested Civil War opponents
suing for their release. For 10 points, name this two word Latin term for a court case that
features one party bringing about legal proceedings without involving any others.
ANSWER: ex parte
<Frankel>
BONUS: Name these types of legal writs, for 10 points each.
[10] This writ is issued by the Supreme Court when it accepts a petition to hear an appeal
of a case from a lower court
ANSWER: certoriari
[10] This writ requires that an imprisoned individual be charged with a crime or released.
ANSWER: habeas corpus
<Frankel>
8. TOSSUP. This generalization was promulgated almost simultaneously by Kossel and
Lewis in 1916. Compounds that obey this precept have an electron structure below that of
the noble metals. Boron compounds tend to fall short of the predictions of this
generalization, while sulfur compounds tend to exceed them, exhibiting hypervalence.
For 10 points, identify the chemical rule stating that bonding processes tend to result in
atoms attaining the configuration of the adjacent noble gas, i.e. that with eight valence
electrons.
ANSWER: octet rule
<Sorice>
BONUS: Answer these questions on the process of cell division for 10 points each.
[10] During cell division, microtubules are attached to the chromosomes at what
component of the centromere?
Answer: Kinetochore (this is not a repeat with Duke’s centromere question)
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[10] In the first meiotic division, homologous chromosomes align with each other so that
genetic material can be swapped between chromosomes. What is the term for this
alignment process?
Answer: Synapsis
<Chuck>
9. TOSSUP. Founded by Isaac the Blind, it is centered on finding the En Sof by moving
through the ten levels called sefrot as described in the Book of Splendor. Itss name is
derived from a word meaning “to receive.” One is not supposed to start studying it until
age forty. For 10 points, name this Jewish mystical tradition.
ANSWER: Kabbalah
<Yergin>
BONUS: Name these Jewish holidays for 10 points each.
[10] This festival remembers the suppression of Haman’s plot to kill the Jews. Celebrants
are commanded to get really drunk.
ANSWER: Purim
[10] This recently created holiday, occuring on the 27th of Nisan, commemorates the
Holocaust.
ANSWER: Yom Hashoah
<Yergin>
10. TOSSUP. Its foreign policy was successful, as it signed the Treaty of Campo Formio
with the Hapsburgs and created the Cisalpine and Batavian Republics. It became
unpopular after conscripting men into the War of the Second Coalition and purging
royalists, Catholics, and neo-Jacobins in the Fructidor and Floréal coups. Its members
were chosen by the Council of Ancients from candidates nominated by the Council of
Five Hundred. For 10 points, name this five-member body which replaced the Committee
of Public Safety in 1795 and held executive power until its 1799 overthrow by Sieyès and
Napoleon.
ANSWER: Directory [or Directoire]
<Weiner>
BONUS: Name these Napoleonic battles, for 10 points each.
[10] In this 1805 victory, Napoleon crushed a combined Russian and Austrian army of
nearly 85,000 men. Soon after, he was able to capture Vienna.
ANSWER: Battle of Austerlitz
[10] Napoleon lost over 30,000 men in the process of winning this 1812 battle that
cleared the way for his advance on Moscow.
ANSWER: Battle of Borodino
<Frankel>
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Category Quiz
Upon getting a tossup correct, the team chooses its one-answer 15-point bonus question
from the topic list. Once a topic is chosen, it cannot be selected again.
Categories:
Arts
Current Events
Geography
History
Literature
Popular Culture
Religion/Mythology/Philosophy
Mathematics Calculation
Science
Social Sciences
Categories:
Arts
Current Events
Geography
History
Literature
Popular Culture
Religion/Mythology/Philosophy
Mathematics Calculation
Science
Social Sciences
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Tossups
11. TOSSUP. Despite the historical events described taking place when the author was
five years old, the details are considered more authentic than the accounts of the same
event in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Narrated by H.F., the work mentions the marks on
the doors, quacks taking advantage of the gullible, quarantining of houses and people
trying to escape, and the pits where the dead of London were dumped. For 10 points,
name this 1722 work by Daniel Defoe that chronicles the outbreak of disease in England
in 1665.
ANSWER: Journal of the Plague Year
<Greenstein>
12. TOSSUP. Many blame this country’s current problems on the introduction of Islamic
law by J.M. Nimeri in 1981 and the banning of political parties in 1989 following the
coup of Omar al-Bashir. Government forces are accused of bombing hospitals in Kajo
Kaji, while the National Democratic Alliance and People’s Liberation Army are major
players in fighting which has caused famine in Bahr al Ghazal and Darfur. For 10 points,
civil war now rages among Dinka, Beja, and Arabs in what country, physically the largest
in Africa?
ANSWER: Republic of The Sudan [or Jumhuriyat As-Sudan]
<Weiner>
13. TOSSUP. These dynamic structures were discovered during World War II by fighter
pilots flying at high altitudes. Found just below the tropopause, their wind speeds are
about 35 miles per hour during the summer and 75 miles per hour during the winter,
when a subtropical one forms in addition to the ever-present polar one. For 10 points,
name these meteorological structures that are fast flowing, confined air currents that form
at the boundaries of air masses and appear serpentine on weather maps.
ANSWER: jet streams
<Greenstein>
14. TOSSUP. In his hall at Denderah, a drawing of his coffin shows the tomb contained
within a tree, representing his role as a forest patron and the inventor of winemaking. The
cult of this god originated in Abydos, where his tomb is said to be located. He was a son
of Nut and Geb, and Nephthys was one of his sisters. He ruled the world of men, but was
the first to die when he was murdered by his brother Set. For 10 points, name this king of
the dead and husband of Isis.
ANSWER: Osiris
<Connolly>
15. TOSSUP. While in Britain he caused scandals by giving a Nazi salute to George VI,
flying swastika flags on diplomatic vehicles, and allegedly having an affair with Wallis
Simpson. Prior to becoming the first Nuremberg defendant executed, he wrote Between
London and Moscow. As ambassador to Britain in June 1935, he negotiated naval
rearmament, and he later formalized the Axis by negotiating the Anti-Comintern Pact,
Pact of Steel, and Tripartite Pact. For 10 points, name this foreign minister of Nazi
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Germany whose name is attached to the German-Soviet nonaggression pact signed with
Molotov.
ANSWER: Joachim von Ribbentrop
<Weiner>
16. TOSSUP. The end of the second act features what is known as the “Letter Scene,” in
which a note from Mariandel is written to Baron Ochs. Mariandel is actually the
convenient alias for Octavian who, on behalf of Princess von Werdenberg, hands Sophia
the Baron’s titular love-token, but immediately falls in love with her. For 10 points, name
this comic opera by Richard Strauss.
ANSWER:: Der Rosenkavalier [or The Rosebearer; or The Knight of the Rose]
<Chuck>
17. TOSSUP. Maud Wood Park’s donation of suffrage papers in 1943 forms of the basis
of this institution’s Schlesinger Library, called the most important women’s studies
library in the country. This institution’s first president was Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, and it
was a member of the Seven Sisters while independent. Benazir Bhutto and Helen Keller
are among the graduates of, for 10 points, what women’s college that was merged into
Harvard University in 1999?
ANSWER: Radcliffe College
<Greenstein>
18. TOSSUP. K.D. Froome used klystron oscillators to get within an error of plus-orminus 3.3 x 10-5 [three-point-three times ten-to-the-negative-fifth] percent of it in 1958,
while R. Blondlot used Maxwell’s theories to divine a less accurate value in 1891. Ole
Roemer’s observations of Io during different times of the year were the basis for the first
estimates of it, while French physicist Armand Fizeau made the first non-astronomical
estimate by using a toothed wheel. For 10 points, what is this physical constant whose
precise measurements were first attributed to American physicists Michelson and Morley,
which is represented by the letter c?
ANSWER: speed of light [accept “velocity” for speed; accept c before mentioned]
<Chuck>
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Bonuses
Arts
A stormy grey sky is broken by a bench on which two women sit. The one on the right
wears a blue and gold blouse, the one on the left a long flowing white dress. The hold
hands and share an upraised black hairdo and wicked unibrow. Their hearts are joined as
one artery is snipped by a pair of scissors. For 15 points, name this 1939 self-portrait.
ANSWER: The Two Friedas
<Schneller>
Current Events
Tom Parker won a primary to run for an Alabama Supreme Court seat by pledging his
support of this man, but his other proteges were defeated in 2004. For 15 points, name
this former Alabama Chief Justice who was removed from office after disobeying a court
order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the judiciary building.
ANSWER: Roy S. Moore
<Weiner>
Geography
Emmons Glacier, the largest glacier in the continental U.S., lies on this mountain’s
northeast face. For 15 points, name the 14,410 foot mountain in the Cascades, discovered
by George Vancouver and named for his fellow navigator.
ANSWER: Mount Rainier [or Tahoma]
<Chuck>
History
Their militant wing, the Sicarii, often killed collaborationists in public, and they
comprised the group which died at Masada in 73 CE. For 15 points, what Jewish group
that rebelled against Rome has lent its name to any person who feels strongly about a
cause?
ANSWER: Zealots
<Weiner>
Literature
He wrote about the war experience in The Train Was on Time and Where Were You,
Adam? He cautioned about an overzealous press in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum,
but is perhaps best known for his novel about the breakdown of the life of Hans Schneir.
For 15 points, name this German author of The Clown.
ANSWER: Heinrich Boll
<Chuck>
Mathematics: Calculation
For 15 points, find the domain of (4-x) / (x^2-x-6) [the square root of the quantity four
minus x close quantity divided by the quantity x squared minus x minus 6].
ANSWER: x<4, x3, x-2 [x is less than 4, x is not equal to three, x is not equal to
negative two]
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<Feist>
Popular Culture
In 2004, it quietly went off the air after five years in an episode showing Coach McGuirk
struggling to build a grill, Melissa and Jason questioning their daily routines and Fenton,
Walter, and Perry trashing Brendan’s latest offering. For 15 points, name this UPN and
Cartoon Network series following three elementary-schoolers and their camcorder.
ANSWER: Home Movies
<Weiner>
Religion/Mythology/Philosophy
Described in the Proslogium, it was challenged by Guanilo. For 15 points, name this
argument for the existence of God which concludes that God must exist because God is
perfect and existing is more perfect than not existing.
ANSWER: ontological argument
<Weiner>
Science
It covers about 17% of the Earth’s land surface area and covers most of Finland, Sweden,
and Norway. For 15 points, name this forested biome that can be found in a circumpolar
belt in the northern hemisphere.
ANSWER: boreal Forest [accept taiga]
<Chuck>
Social Sciences
This psychological disorder is seen in patients who pretend to have an illness because of
the attention that sick people receive. A potentially more dangerous form of it is the
proxy version, in which the patient causes illnesses in others, usually their children. For
15 points, identify this disorder, named for an infamous prevaricator.
ANSWER: Munchhausen’s syndrome [accept factitious disorder]
<Connolly>
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Stretch Round
19. TOSSUP. A topographical officer for General William Hazen, he was wounded at
Kenesaw Mountain with a bullet that lodged behind his left ear. His experiences in the
Civil War inspired stories such as “The Haunted Valley,” and the collections. Cobwebs
from an Empty Skull. For 10 points, name this San Francisco Examiner writer who used
his all-targeting wit to write The Prattler and The Devil’s Dictionary.
ANSWER: Ambrose Bierce
<Chuck>
BONUS: Name each of the following things from acid chemistry for 10 points.
[10] This is the anion remaining when a protic acid donates its proton. For hydrochloric
acid, for example, this is simply Cl- [cee ell minus], the chloride ion.
ANSWER: conjugate base [prompt on conjugate]
[10] This biologically critical item is defined as a mixture of an acid and a base, often
conjugates, which minimizes changes in hydrogen ion concentration within a certain
capacity.
ANSWER: buffer solution
[10] This is simply an oxide which, when reacted with water, produces a given acid. For
carbonic acid, this is simply carbon dioxide.
ANSWER: acid anhydride
<Sorice>
20. TOSSUP. The first title character wears a rich black outfit with billowing white
sleeves, and a gold chain running from his right shoulder to his left hip accents his image
of wealth. His bearded face bears an expression of deep thought as he rests his left hand
on the figure of the other title character, who was famous for his poverty. For 10 points,
name this Rembrandt painting featuring the author of the Poetics and a marble sculpture
of the author of the Iliad.
ANSWER: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer [or Aristotle with a Bust of
Homer or other equivalents]
<Frankel>
BONUS: The United States has long been interested in Latin America. For 10 points per
part—
[10] This 1850 treaty neutralized Central America and provided for joint U.S.-British
control of any canal across Panama.
ANSWER: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
[10] In 1856, this Tennessee-born filibuster seized the Accessory Transit Company and
declared himself president of Nicaragua, lasting about a year in office.
ANSWER: William Walker
[10] This 1854 note to Secretary of State Marcy by Pierre Soulé, James Buchanan, and
John Mason recommended buying Cuba or resorting to military seizure if Spain was not
willing to sell.
ANSWER: Ostend manifesto
<Weiner>
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21. TOSSUP. Turbulent motions of the plasma below this layer generate sound waves,
which cause it to oscillate radially with a typical period of five minutes. Those sound
waves are generated in the convective zone below this layer, which, at about 5500
Kelvin, is cooler than the atmospheric layers above it; thus, the resulting oscillations are
the subject of study in helioseismology. For 10 points, name this atmospheric layer, the
visible surface of the Sun, which lies below the chromosphere and corona.
ANSWER: photosphere
<Teitler>
BONUS: Name these Scholastic philosophers with dubious medical credentials for 10
points each.
[10] Known as Doctor Angelicus, this Dominican wrote Summa Theologiae and Summa
Contra Gentiles and is often credited with re-introducing Aristotlean reasoning to the
West.
ANSWER: Saint Thomas Aquinas [or San Tommaso d’Aquino]
[10] Called Doctor Subtilis, he came up with the idea of Immaculate Conception, but his
defense of Papal power against reformist kings earned derogatory connotations for his
name.
ANSWER: John duns Scotus [or Johannes duns Scotus]
[10] Dubbed Doctor Mirabilis, this English Franciscan wrote the first European
descriptions of gunpowder, ornithopters, and eyeglasses.
ANSWER: Roger Bacon [prompt on Bacon]
<Weiner>
22. TOSSUP. In 1952 he declared a “Peace Line” extending into the sea, setting off an
incident over control of Dokdo and Liancourt. As leader of the Comrades’ Society, he
engineered the removal of Japan’s colonial possessions during World War II, and he
occasionally returned to his native land as a YMCA evangelist. In 1960, he was deposed
by the April Revolution in protest of suspected election fraud and the execution of the
Progressive Party’s leader. For 10 points, name this first president of South Korea and
uncompromising leader in the Korean War.
ANSWER: Syngman Rhee
<Weiner>
BONUS: Name these related things for 10 points each.
[10] This is the name of Harry Potter’s trusty owl. [This will be the only mention of
Harry Potter (by us, at least) this weekend.]
ANSWER: Hedwig the Owl
[10] The Creation of the World and Hell are among the panels of this triptych by
Hieronymous Bosch, in which an owl represents evil.
ANSWER: The Garden of Earthly Delights
[10] The owl was among the aspects of this daughter of Metis.
ANSWER: Athena
<Chuck>
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23. TOSSUP. This man was relatively unknown before 1980’s “Stars on a Cold Night,”
probably because he was forbidden to publish his work after his stint in a reeducation
camp. His work was further suppressed after Fugitives, which is set during the
Tiananmen Square massacre that occurred the same year as a walking tour of the Yangtze
River, chronicled in his first novel. For 10 points, name this author of Soul Mountain
whose 1983 play “Bus Stop” did much to win him the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature.
ANSWER: Gao Xinjian
<Sorice>
BONUS: Answer the following questions about evolution for 10 points each.
[10] This process is the rapid evolutionary differentiation of a species to fill many
ecological niches. Darwin observed this principle among his namesake finches.
ANSWER: adaptive radiation
[10] Wings on insects and birds, and dolphins and whales having a fish-like shape, are
examples of this type of evolution in which species not closely related acquire common
characteristics.
ANSWER: convergent evolution
[10] As opposed to gradualism, this theory proposed by Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay
Gould posits that evolution occurs in short bursts that intersect periods of evolutionary
stability.
ANSWER: punctuated equilibrium
<Greenstein>
24. TOSSUP. His scholarly works include On Mountains and an analysis of classical
myth, On the Genealogy of the Gods, both written in Latin prose. Sometimes accused of
misogyny for his last literary work, Corbaccio, he also wrote the first major Western
collection of biographies of females: On Famous Women. His magnum opus features
stories about Ser Cepperello, Griselda, and Filippa. For 10 points, who wrote of refugees
passing time during the Black Death in the Decameron?
ANSWER: Giovanni Boccaccio
<Frankel>
BONUS: Name these Charles Dickens works for 10 points each.
[10] Dickens published this collection of short stories in 1836, three years after he had
begun submitting them to the Monthly Chronicle under a pen name.
ANSWER: Sketches by Boz
[10] This 1836 work was Dickens’s first novel. This novel centers around the titular
publisher, the owner of a namesake club, and his associates Tupman, Snodgrass and
Winkle, as well as Sam Weller.
ANSWER: The Pickwick Papers
[10] This second novel of Dickens features the stereotypical Fagin, Bill Sykes, the Artful
Dodger, and a title character who petitions for more gruel.
ANSWER: Oliver Twist
<Greenstein>
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25. TOSSUP. Originally, this device was invented to perform research on kanalstrahlen,
or positive ions generated by gases in cathode ray tubes. The sample is first ionized, and
the positive ions are sent to a vacuum where their trajectories are deflected by
electromagnetic fields. Based on the designs of J. J. Thomson and invented by Francis
William Aston, for 10 points, what instrument in chemistry can thus analyze a sample to
identify various isotopes of a specific element?
ANSWER: Mass Spectrometer
<Chuck>
BONUS: His sculpture, The Profile of Time, was placed in London’s Kew Gardens in
2001. For 10 points each—
[10] Name the creator of that work, which, like his most famous painting, depicts a watch
melting over a tree branch.
ANSWER: Salvador Dali
[10] For a brief period of his career, Dali took part in this anti-art movement, whose
leaders included Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, and Max Ernst.
ANSWER: Dadaism
[10] Dali collaborated with Luis Buñuel to produce this bizarre sixteen minute long film
containing numerous graphic scenes for shock value.
ANSWER: An Andalusian Dog or Un Chien Andalou
<Frankel>
26. TOSSUP. A silver-plated shoe of his is revered as an inspirational symbol and lucky
charm for the players at Iolani School in Hawaii. Appearing on wallets, a pinball game,
and a brand of oranges, he set the world record for earnings by winning his thirty-third
race at the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap. For 10 points, name this horse that beat War
Admiral by four lengths in a match race in Saratoga and was the subject of a 2003 movie
starring Tobey Maguire.
ANSWER: Seabiscuit
<Chuck>
BONUS: Answer the following about the First Crusade for the stated points.
[10] For 10 points, this pope’s Sermon of Clermont called for the crusade.
ANSWER: Urban II [prompt on Urban; or Odo of Lagery]
[10/15/20] 10 for one, 15 for two, and 20 for all three, name the three principalities
established under the Kingdom of Jerusalem by the First Crusade.
ANSWER: Antioch, Edessa, Tripoli
<Young>
27. TOSSUP. In Russian folklore, one of them, named Garafena, lives on Booyan island.
In Celtic myth, Smertios is constantly killing one. Egyptian myth has several including
Renenutet, a patron of burial linen, Nehebkau, who guards the underworld, and Mehen,
defender of the solar barge. In Hinduism, a thousand-headed patron of them, Sesha, leads
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a group of them called nagas. For 10 points, these are what creatures, also seen in Norse
myth as Jormungand, who encoils the whole earth?
ANSWER: snakes [accept serpents or other equivalents]
<Weiner>
BONUS: Name some relatively old school pieces of hardware, for 10 points each.
[10] Short for modulator-demodulator, this device converts digital data to analog data
that can be sent over phone lines from computer to computer.
ANSWER: modem
[10] This chip worked with the main CPU so that floating point arithmetic did not have to
be done in software; the Intel 387 was an example.
ANSWER: math coprocessor
[10] They were originally single sided, but punching a hole opposite the write-protect
hole, the storage space was doubled. Often used with C64 and early PCs, this method of
data storage was notoriously flimsy, and just about fits in modern CD drives, causing
headaches for idiots.
ANSWER: 5.25 inch floppy disk [accept equivalents for “5.25”; prompt on partial
answer]
<Wolpert>
28. TOSSUP. The White House referred to it as Operation Menu and labeled its six
phases Operations Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, Dessert, and Supper. Consisting of
nearly eighty thousand flights by B-52 and F-111 craft, it used three times as much
weapon tonnage as the conventional attacks on Japan during World War II. It began in
March 1969, and its exposure prompted the Kent State protest and the passage of the War
Powers Act. For 10 points, what was this secret tactic during the Vietnam War which
targeted Viet Cong bases in a neighboring country without the knowledge or consent of
Norodom Sihanouk?
ANSWER: U.S. bombing of Cambodia [accept equivalents]
<Weiner>
BONUS: Identify the following plays of Anton Chekhov, for 10 points each.
[10] In this play, the once wealthy Ranevsky family sells the title estate to Lopakhin, who
plans to build houses on the storied land.
ANSWER: “The Cherry Orchard” [or “Vishnovy Sad”]
[10] This play’s title character has given up life’s opportunities to care of Serebryakov, a
man he once thought was a great scholar but learns is a fraud.
ANSWER: “Uncle Vanya” [or “Dyadya Vanya”]
[10] In this play, the playwright Trepliov kills the title bird and places it at the feet of his
heartthrob Nina.
ANSWER: “The Sea Gull” [or “Chaika”]
<Douglass>
2004 PACE National Scholastics Championship—ROUND 10