TOSSUPS -- ROUND 1
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
In 1757 this man became the first to decline the appointment as Poet Laureate. A schoolmate of Horace
Walpole, his works include “The Fatal Sisters,” “The Progress of Poesy,” “Hymn to Adversity,” and “Ode on a
Distant Prospect of Eton College.” FTP name this author, best remembered for “Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard.” [Thomas Gray]
2.
In the U.S. the most common variety is the red-spotted. In its mature stage, when it lives almost
exclusively on land, it's called an eft. Most animals leave efts alone, since their skin is poisonous, so they live to
return to the water to breed. FTP name this type of salamander, whose natural habitat has recently expanded
beyond Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
[newt; if early buzz w/ salamander, ask for more info]
3.
As a final ignominy, he died of acute leukemia which he didn’t even know he had. He spent 4 1/2 years
in high Federal office before his conviction on tax evasion. Worse yet, the untaxed income came from
kickbacks while Baltimore County Executive and Governor of Maryland. FTP name this man, forced to resign
in disgrace during his second term as Nixon’s Vice President.
[Spiro Agnew]
4.
Their name etymologically means "those who round up bulls." Generally, they were known as lecherous
and drunk creatures. However, some like Chiron, were famous for their wisdom. For ten points, what are these
mythological creatures who were half man and half horse?
[Centaurs]
5.
Perhaps the most famous Pomeranian, he was physician to his uncle, the bishop of Ermland, and was
made canon at Frauenberg even though he did not take holy orders. Even so, his masterwork was too
theologically controversial to publish until the year of his death, 1543. FTP name the man who defied Church
doctrine in De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by pointing out that the Earth revolves around the sun.
[Nicolaus Copernicus]
6.
Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius wrote Law of War and Peace, the foundation of modern international law,
in response to this war’s excesses. The outstanding military leader was Sweden’s Gustavus Adolphus, on the
Protestant side. FTP name this particularly harsh war, ended in 1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia.
[the Thirty Years’ War]
7.
It was usually a bad idea to run afoul of this man. He waged a 20-year campaign to have his critic
Pelagius denounced for heresy. He led the movement to formally condemn the Donatists in A.D. 412. And he
played a principal role in the refutation of Manichaeism. FTP name this theologian, author of Confessions and
The City of God.
[St. Augustine of Hippo]
8.
Have you ever heard of William Moulton Marston? If so, it's probably for the wrong reasons. Marston
was a distinguished psychology professor who invented the systolic blood pressure deception test -- the first lie
detector. But Marston’s claim to fame is that in his spare time he created a character by the name of Diana
Prince, who had such gimmicks as an unbreakable lasso and an invisible airplane. FTP name Marston's comic
book creation, played on TV by Lynda Carter.
[Wonder Woman]
9.
This Michigan native served for years on the faculty at Berkeley before a ten-year stint from 1961 to
1971 as head of the Atomic Energy Commission. He lived long enough to see acceptance of the naming of
element #106 in his honor. When he bombarded other elements with alpha rays he named three of the resultant
elements in honor of his employers, berkelium and californium. FTP name this nuclear chemist, also part of the
team which discovered plutonium, americium, and curium.
[Glenn T. Seaborg]
10.
It exempted 13 Louisiana parishes and 7 counties in Virginia as well as West Virginia, and whether by
design or accident the text omitted Tennessee from the states to which it applied. It also didn’t affect Delaware,
Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. But in the remaining portions of Louisiana and Virginia as well as eight
other states, this executive edict of September 1862 set an expiration date on servitude for slaves. FTP name
this proclamation, which took effect on Jan. 1, 1863.
[the Emancipation Proclamation]
11.
He wrote a symphony, ballets, incidental music for _The Tempest_, and the opera _Ivanhoe._ Two of
his better-known works are the songs “The Lost Chord” and “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” But his fame rests
on work he considered unimportant at the time, a series of comic operettas. FTP name this man, who had a
stormy relationship with librettist W.S. Gilbert.
[Arthur S. Sullivan]
12.
Active in the French resistance during World War II, after the war he and Sartre coedited the left-wing
newspaper Combat. His essays “Neither Victims Nor Executioners” and “Reflections on the Guillotine” were
influential in getting France to repeal the death penalty. His other political and philosophical works include The
Rebel and The Myth of Sisyphus. FTP name this author, whose novels include The Plague, The Fall, and The
Stranger.
[Albert Camus]
13.
Its mass was determined by the electric and magnetic deflection method . First measured by Ernest
Rutherford and Geiger, it’s identical to the nucleus of a helium atom. FTP what name is given for this
combination of two protons and two neutrons?
[alpha particle]
14.
In 1905 he ran as a Socialist for mayor of Oakland, gaining much publicity but only 500 votes. Largely
self-educated at public libraries on his wanderings, he anticipated fascism in The Iron Heel, told of his South
Sea adventures in The Cruise of the Snark, and wrote the autobiographical novels The Road, John Barleycorn,
and Martin Eden. FTP name this author, best known for The Son of the Wolf, “To Build a Fire,” and other tales
of the Klondike gold rush.
[Jack London]
15.
This Juilliard student spent a year on the road playing sax for a swing band before earning an M.A. in
economics in 1950. A protege of Ayn Rand, he was nominated by Nixon to chair the Council of Economic
Advisors but was only confirmed after Ford took office. He earned unintentional laughs by suggesting a
government relief fund for Wall St. stockbrokers but remained an influential GOP economic advisor. FTP name
this man, who in 1987 succeeded Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. [Alan Greenspan]
16.
He got his brothers to climb a mountain with a barometer and thus establish Torricelli’s view that
pressure would drop at higher altitudes. In correspondence he and Fermat tackled the inquiries of a puzzled
gentleman gambler and worked out the basics of probability theory. Before an intense conversion led him to
chuck science for theology, he also pointed out that pressure exerted on a fluid in a closed vessel is transmitted
undiminished throught the vessel at right angles to the container’s surface. FTP name this prodigy, best known
for his mathematical triangle.
[Blaise Pascal]
17.
Mongols attempted to invade Japan twice during the Kamakura shogunate, in 1274 and 1281. Both
times the invasions were repulsed with the aid of timely arrivals of typhoons. This term, meaning “divine
winds,” was coined by the Japanese to commemorate the typhoons. FTP give this term, later applied to Japan’s
World War II pilots on suicide missions.
[kamikaze]
18.
It has a radius of 90 million miles and a length of 600 million miles. The discovery that it is artificial
prompts a party of uneasily allied explorers, including Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals, to try to determine its
origins. FTP name this heavenly body and you've named the 1970 novel by Larry Niven. [Ringworld]
19.
Her father was a principal in a billion-dollar arbitrage firm. Along with then-husband Brad Hall she had
a stint as a regular on Saturday Night Live. She had a bit role in Hannah and Her Sisters but a more substantial
part in Woody Allen’s newest film, Deconstructing Harry. FTP name this actress, an Emmy winner for the role
of Elaine Benes on Seinfeld.
[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]
20.
It originally covered about 2,000 square miles but is now less than half that size. Rich in peat and in
wildlife, it includes Lake Drummond and is crossed by a canal which links the Elizabeth and Pasquotank Rivers.
In 1973 the bulk of it was established as a National Wildlife Refuge. FTP name this ominous area between
Elizabeth City, N.C., and Norfolk, Va.
[the Great Dismal Swamp]
21.
The hottest journal focusing on this field is Mondo 2000, published by Queen Mu. The 3 major firms
are VPL, Autodesk, and Sense8. The father of the field is William Gibson, who called it "cyberspace" in his
novel Neuromancer. FTP give the term for computerized simulated environments with which one interacts.
[virtual reality]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 2
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
He had a B.A. from USC, a B.S. from UCLA, an M.A. from SMU, and a Ph.D. from TCU, earned at age
25. His six degrees ranged from psychology to marine biology, and he also had enough anthropological expertise
to spend 2 years on an expedition in Egypt. Surprisingly, he was still teaching at only the high school level while
researching his book Fun with Ferns. Seeking background for it on a limited budget is how he wound up on a
small charter boat for a 3-hour tour. You’ll impress me if you can come up with his full name, but FTP I’ll take the
nickname used for this Renaissance man in the theme song for Gilligan’s Island.
[the Professor,
or Roy Hinkley]
2.
Under Admiral Reinhard Scheer the German fleet steamed toward the Skagerrak, the waterway
separating Norway from Denmark. The British fleet under Jellicoe ultimately kept them from reaching the open
seas, but at a very heavy cost. Both sides claimed victory in this 1916 battle, the greatest naval battle of World
War I. FTP name it.
[Battle of Jutland]
3.
Some scientific discoveries are too hot to handle. In this case, that includes the scientist’s notebooks,
which remain dangerously contaminated by the same radiation which eventually killed the author of Treatise on
Radioactivity. FTP name this co-winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, who in 1906 assumed the physics
chair at the Sorbonne vacated by the death of her husband.
[Marie Curie]
4.
Its name is a pun, since it sounds like the Latin word for “rooster”, a synonym for the family name of
discoverer Paul-Emile Lecoq du Boisbaudran. Its 1875 discovery lent considerable credence to the periodic
table of Dmitri Mendeleev, which had predicted its existence and properties. FTP name this element, atomic
number 31.
[gallium]
5..
Created in the 1969 expansion, the Seattle Pilots moved after one wretched season into an existing
stadium in another city. They’ve made it to the World Series exactly once, in 1982 -- and lost. In 1998 they’re
still in the same stadium, but in their third division and second league since then. FTP name this
undistinguished franchise, whose most lasting impact on the game may be the tenure as baseball’s “acting”
commissioner of principal owner Bud Selig.
[Milwaukee Brewers; prompt for more information on
“Milwaukee”]
6.
He befriended John Milton and Oliver Cromwell, engaged 3 Quakers in a tumultuous 3-day public debate,
and published a report of this debate titled George Fox Digg’d Out of His Burrows, as well as 6 other books. In his
‘70’s he not only served as a militia captain in King philip’s War but also helped negotiate the peace. He died an
independent evangelical Christian, having left the clergy of the Anglican, Puritan, and Baptist faiths. FTP name
this champion of religious liberty, founder of Rhode Island. [Roger Williams]
7.
This species of enterrous bacteria appear under the microscope as short rod cells and, when properly
stained, retain a pink color. They are covered in flagella which makes movement and entrance into a host very
easy. FTP, name this common bacteria whose harmful strains are found in tainted water supplies and mammalian
feces and whose friendly, symbiotic strains can be found in the human gut.
[Escherichia coli or E. coli]
8.
“Dolomite" is not only a bad ‘70’s blaxploitation film, it’s also a mineral. A layer of dolomite about 80
feet thick lies underneath this at its highest point. Farther down are soft layers of limestone, shale, sandstone,
and more dolomite. The faster erosion of the lower layer forms such features as the Cave of the Winds and
explains how this has moved upstream about 7 miles in the last 12,000 years. FTP name this natural feature,
which actually consists of two waterfalls, the Horseshoe and the American. [Niagara Falls]
9.
Besides such works as the story collection Les Chatiments and the dramas Cromwell and Ruy Blas, he is
credited with the shortest telegram on record, consisting only of a question mark. Actually, the record was tied
by his literary agent, who responded with an exclamation point, letting this author in exile know that Les
Miserables was indeed a smash success. FTP name this author.
[Victor Hugo]
10.
Its name comes from a 19th century French telegrapher. Strictly speaking, it actually refers to a
technical description of a signal change, but it's widely used in place of the more correct BPS, or bits per
second. FTP give the term commonly used for the speed of a modem. [baud]
11.
One teaches environmental and occupational health at UCLA; another is an environmental consultant. One
is a direct-mail expert now working for the Anti-Defamation League. One writes full-time, and another took time
out from his community organizing job to publish a barbecue cookbook. The most famous survivor serves in the
California State Assembly. Of the two who have died, one killed himself in 1989 and the other was run over while
jaywalking in 1994. FTP give the collective name by which we know Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman,
and 4 other defendants in the most noted trial of ‘60’s antiwar protestors.
[the Chicago Seven]
12.
After an epigram in French from Francois Villon's "Ballade des Pendus," it opens, "The village of
Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out
there'." It tells how the Clutter family was senselessly murdered by Perry Smith and Richard Hickok. FTP
name this "factual novel" by Truman Capote.
[In Cold Blood]
13.
This graduate of Kentucky Military Institute served at Shiloh and Chattanooga before sustaining a
serious head wound at Kennesaw Mtn. In such short stories as "Chickamauga", "One of the Missing", and "An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", he wrote bitterly of the idiocy of the military. He is presumed to have died
while covering the Mexican Civil War. FTP name this famed curmudgeon, author of The Devil's Dictionary.
[Ambrose Bierce]
14.
There have been over 400 suicides there, not counting the Hungarian tailor who died trying to demonstrate
his new improved parachute. Thanks partly to these suicides, the restaurant at the top was closed and has been
moved in its entirety to New Orleans. FTP name this Parisian landmark.
[the
Eiffel Tower]
15.
In 1872 he published a booklet, "The Object & Manner of Our Lord's Return," maintaining that Christ
would return to Earth unnoticed in 1874. Upon his death in 1916 Joseph F. Rutherford succeeded him as head
of the International Bible Students' Association, which was an outgrowth of the Watchtower Bible & Tract
Society. FTP name the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
[Charles Taze Russell]
16.
An Ideal Husband. A Woman of No Importance. Salome. Lady Windermere's Fan. For a quick 10 pts.,
who wrote these dramas, as well as The Importance of Being Earnest?
[Oscar Wilde]
17.
He seldom composed for the full orchestra, although his works include a funeral march as well as 2
piano concertos and 50 mazurkas, and 25 preludes. This onetime child prodigy died of consumption at age 39
in Paris, where he had settled after leaving his native Poland. FTP name this piano virtuoso, who probably
contracted tuberculosis during his stay on Majorca with George Sand.
[Frederic Chopin]
18.
He published the only Texan newspaper during the War for Texas Independence and surveyed the land
for the future city of Galveston. During the California gold rush he sold westward travelers a dried beef product
he called pemmican (after a similar food of the Cree Indians). The U.S. Army rejected that, but soon made
extensive use of his breakthrough preserved food product, evaporated milk. FTP name this food technologist,
founder of a major food canning and packaging firm.
[Gail Borden]
19.
According to one classical tradition he smothered to death in a shower of hats and coats thrown by a
grateful public. This supports the contention of some scholars that Demosthenes, Aristotle, and others
exaggerated the severity of his rule. What he lacked in compassion he made up for in consistency; in his system
almost every offense merited execution. FTP name this 7th century B.C. Athenian, the Greeks' first lawgiver,
whose name gives us a word for harsh punishment.
[Draco]
20.
On August 7, 1903, a newborn white baby was spat upon by Kikuyu elders as a sign of respect. It must
have worked; his career was noted for good luck as well as hard work. Headaches caused by a rugby injury led
doctors to suggest he return to Africa on an expedition in search of dinosaur bones; this led to an unplanned career
in physical anthropology. FTP name the man best known for discoveries he and colleagues made in the Olduvai
Gorge, who was aided greatly by his wife Mary and son Richard..
[Louis Leakey]
21.
Ferdinand von Wrangel begins his survey of the Siberian Arctic coast. Ft. Atkinson, the
precursor of Omaha, is built. Ampere formulates the first laws of electromagnetism. James Monroe is reelected
overwhelmingly. George III finally dies. And Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. FTP in what year?
[1820]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 3
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
He was born on Nov. 22, 1888. His mother, Alice, died when he was a year old, and soon thereafter his
father was killed by the warlord Kerchak. Luckily for him a member of Kerchak’s party, Tublat, had a griefstricken wife named Kala who took this child to replace her own recently-deceased infant. If it helps any, Kerchak,
Tublat, and Kala were apes. FTP name this Englishman of noble lineage, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
[Tarzan; accept John Clayton or Lord Greystoke]
2.
It was first described in 1872 by Robert Angus Smith, who noted that its appearance in England
coincided with the Industrial Revolution. In 1976 Svante Oden rediscovered the phenomenon in Scandinavia
and introduced it to the mainstream press. Although more pronounced in industrialized regions, it appears in
the less developed portions of the world partly as a result of agricultural burning and partly by wide dispersion
of emissions containing high levels of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. FTP name this condition, which can
raise the pH levels of lakes to the point where native fauna cannot survive.
[acid rain]
3.
In the 1950's they murdered and pillaged in an attempt to drive white settlers from the fertile highlands.
Their leader, a Kikuyu chief nicknamed "Burning Spear", was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor but eventually,
as Jomo Kenyatta, became Kenya's first President. FTP name this anti-white terrorist society.
[Mau-Mau]
4.
Acquired by the U.S. partly through the Lousianna Purchase and partly through the explorations of Lewis
and Clark, this state entered the Union on Nov. 8, 1889. FAQTP name this state, home to Flathead Lake, Little
Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Custer National Cemetery, and Glacier National Park, and the capital
of which is Helena.
[Montana]
5.
It was actually built by Caliph Abd al-Malik, while the Persian tiles on the exterior and some decorative
marble slabs inside were added almost 900 years later by Suleiman I. Yet it still sometimes called the Mosque
of Umar from the erroneous tradition that Caliph Umar I built it. FTP name this mosque built on the traditional
site of both Mohammed's ascent to heaven and Solomon's temple.
[the Dome of the Rock]
6.
They were the larger successor to the rhamphorhynchoids, which had a shorter face and neck and a longer
tail. These were almost tailless, with a wingspan of 36 to 39 feet. Experts differ on whether these wings were
good for flying or mostly just used for soaring and gliding. FTP name these extinct flying reptiles.
[pterodactyls; accept pteranodons]
7.
Despite being unable to vote, she seconded Teddy Roosevelt’s nomination at the 1912 Progressive Party
convention. The young Benny Goodman was among the many people who received professional training from
her establishment. She lost much public favor with her opposition to World War I, which she feared would not
only encourage political repression, but also sap the reform impulse. In 1919 she became President of the
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, which led to her winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
FTP name this reformer, whose Hull-House was the prototypical settlement house.
[Jane Addams]
8.
He wrote “My Heart Is Inditing” for the coronation of James II and composed incidental music for such
plays as The Tempest and Dryden's The Indian Queen. FTP name the English composer of Ode for St. Cecilia's
Day, Dido and Aeneas, and "Trumpet Voluntary."
[Henry Purcell]
9.
As a Gene McCarthy alternate to the 1968 Democratic Convention he saw Chicago police beat
demonstrators in Lincoln Park and later testified as a witness in court. He’s enormously popular in France,
especially for Lie Down in Darkness. FTP name the author of Set This House on Fire, Sophie’s Choice, and The
Confessions of Nat Turner.
[William Styron]
10.
Except for his participation in the Royal Society he was a virtual recluse who abhorred women; he died
alone in 1810. His work on electricity would have been groundbreaking had it not lain unpublished for decades.
But he did distinguish between 2 oxides of arsenic, demonstrate the existence of an inert gas later found to be
argon, and prove that water was a compound. FTP name the discoverer of nitric acid, who in 1766 identified
hydrogen as an element.
[Henry Cavendish]
11.
There’s a popular parody of it entitled “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” in which James Dean, Humphrey
Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley replace the three customers and the counterman. FTP name the most
famous painting by Edward Hopper.
[Nighthawks]
12.
The son of a poor minister, he was adopted by a wealthy uncle and inherited a prosperous business. His
political prestige was enhanced by the animosity betwwen him and British customs officials. As President of
Massachusetts' ratifying convention he was instrumental in that state's acceptance of the U.S. constitution; he
also served as the state's first Governor. FTP name this man, who from 1775 to 1777 served as President of the
2nd Continental Congress.
[John Hancock]
13.
A British TV celebrity and an Indian movie star are aboard an airliner hijacked by Sikh terrorists.
Refused permission to land at London, the jet is destroyed, but the two celebrities survive -- reborn as an
archangel and a devil. This is the premise of, FTP, what 1988 bestseller, the 4th novel by Salman Rushdie?
[The Satanic Verses]
14.
At the Congress of Berlin in 1878 he helped halt Russian expansion into Turkey and secured Cyprus for
Britain. He also directed the British purchase of a large interest in the Suez Canal. In his parliamentary career
he helped engineer passage of the Reform Bill of 1867 and was a vocal opponent of the repeal of the Corn
Laws. FTP name this man, the Earl of Beaconsfield, who served as Prime Minister briefly in 1868 and again
from 1874 to 1880. [Benjamin Disraeli]
15.
That most practical of scientists, Thomas Edison, identified a phenomenon now called the Edison effect but
oddly saw no practical application for it. The first to develop one of these, which he called a valve, was John
Ambrose Fleming in 1904. Subsequent variations were invented by Harold D. Arnold, Walter Schottky, Albert W.
Hull, and Lee DeForest. FTP give the collective name for these devices, which include diodes, triodes,
iconoscopes, and CRT’s.
[vacuum tubes; if early buzz w/ diodes, ask for more info]
16.
His major screen debut was supposed to be in 1983's star-studded The Big Chill as the dead guy whose
funeral brings all the alumni friends back to reminisce. However, all the flashback scenes wound up on the
cutting room floor. As compensation the director, Lawrence Kasdan, wrote him a small but flashy part in his
next film, Silverado. FTP name the actor who's starred in such films as Revenge, Wyatt Earp, Bull Durham,
Field of Dreams, and Tin Cup.
[Kevin Costner]
17.
Written while its author was in exile, this work argued from a mechanistic view that life is simply the
motions of the organism and that man is by nature a selfishly individualistic animal at constant war with all
other men. In a state of nature, men are equal in their self-seeking and live out lives which are “nasty, brutish,
and short.” FTP, identify this 1651 work of Thomas Hobbes.
[Leviathan]
18.
Quote: "In view of all this, we do not agree that, by adopting one theory of life, Texas may override the
rights of the pregnant woman that are at stake." Thus wrote Harry Blackmun in his most famous opinion. FTP
name the 1973 decision in which the Supreme Court struck down outright bans on abortion. [Roe v. Wade]
19.
This author recounts growing up separated from his parents in 1890’s The Light that Failed. The first
British recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, his books include Wee Willie Winkie and Departmental
Ditties. FTP, name this author best known for his Just So Stories and Jungle Book.
[Rudyard Kipling]
20.
This graduate of Purdue's agronomy program collaborated with an old classmate, Charles Bowman. In
1952 they produced a corn hybrid whose internal moisture levels remained above 12%. Unable to interest
corporate giants in his costly hybrid, he began packaging it himself for grocers. FTP name this agricultural
wizard, whose popcorn, now owned by ConAgra, accounts for over 1/3 of all U.S. popcorn sales.
[Orville Redenbacher]
21.
Rap. Sequin. Tanner. Tickey. Stater. Stiver. Groat. Noble. Sovereign. Napoleon. Obol.
Thaler. Florin. Ducat. Doubloon. FTP these are all types of...what?
[coins, if currency or money, ask for more info]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 4
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
The name's the same, first and last: the man who won Oscars for black-and-white cinematography for
How Green Was My Valley, Song of Bernadette, and Anna & the King of Siam, and the American playwright
who wrote Playing for Time, The Price, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman. FTP what's the name?
[Arthur Miller]
2.
The 11th is the accessory. The 5th is the trigeminal. The 6th is the abducens. The 4th is the trochlear,
the 8th is the statoacoustic, and the 9th is the glossopharyngeal. Others include the hypoglossal, the
oculomotor, the optic, the facial, and the vagus. FTP name this group of 12 nerves
[cranial nerves]
3.
A priest at his funeral called him "a Xerox copy of Jesus Christ." Punch, on the other hand, referred to
his regime as a "kleptocracy". First elected to Congress with the Liberal Party in 1949, he switched to the
Nationalist Party in 1964 and was elected President the next year. In 1971 he declared martial law, lifting it in
1981 to get re-elected. In 1986 he declared himself re-elected again, but this time popular rejection of his usual
massive vote fraud forced the accession of his opponent, Corazon Aquino. FTP name this Filipino leader, who
died in Hawaii in 1989.
[Ferdinand Marcos]
4.
You might not readily connect Highlanders with Gauchos or place Mustangs, Banana Slugs, and
Anteaters in the same class. At least you can connect Golden Bears and Bruins, although that could cause some
problems. All these are, FTP, nicknames of campuses in what state university system?
[California]
5.
This effect is a signal that helps physicists differentiate between particles that are traveling faster or
slower than a given velocity because the particles that exceed light speed in the given medium will emit an
ethereal blue glow that is characteristic of it. FTP, identify this effect, named for the Russian winner of the 1958
Nobel Prize for Physics.
[Cherenkov effect or radiation]
6.
He served as a naval aviator in World War I before a successful financial career on Wall Street. In 1944
he succeeded Frank Knox as Secretary of the Navy. When Congress passed the National Security Act in 1947,
his job was abolished, but he was tapped by President Truman to fill the new post of Secretary of Defense. FTP
name this man, who committed suicide two months after he stepped down from the Cabinet in 1949, namesake
of a giant aircraft carrier.
[James Forrestal]
7.
A long-necked lute called the tambura is actually the main drone instrument in Indian music. However,
thanks to the work of Ravi Shankar in the 1960’s, Western audiences are more familiar with this fancier longnecked lute with 7 plucked strings and another 19 to 23 strings which vibrate sympathetically. FTP name this
instrument, popularized by its use in such songs as “Norwegian Wood” by the Beatles..
[sitar]
8.
Its imperial charter, granted by Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV in 1074, was the 1st granted directly to
the townspeople rather than the town's bishop. A mildly important concordat in 1122 and a mildly important
privilege in 1231 were both signed here. Here also an edict was published in 1521 by order of Holy Roman
Emperor Charles V, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw after his condemnation by the Diet summoned there.
FTP name this German city.
[Wurms]
9.
Contradicting the name of a mildly successful alternative group, she is now indeed a vitamin. A straw poll
came out in her favor, displacing the automobile which once accompanied her famed colleagues on drugstore
shelves. Perhaps the manufacturers realized that their longtime excuse -- her svelte dimensions being too prone to
breakage -- was moot once they let Rosie O'Donnell play her in the film version. FTP name this character from
The Flintstones.
[Betty Rubble]
10.
He appeared in Teddy Roosevelt’s 1905 inaugural procession and was featured at the 1904 St. Louis
World’s Fair. By that time he was an Oklahoma farmer, after stints in confinement in Florida, Alabama, and his
native Arizona, where he disrupted American pacification efforts from 1876 to 1886. It took 5,000 troops 5
months to capture him and his band of 35 warriors. FTP name this Chiricahua Apache leader.
[Geronimo; accept Goyathlay or Goyakla]
11.
Until late in life he looked like a bigtime failure. Unable to use his left hand due to war wounds;
tarnished by the fatal wounding of Don Gaspar de Ezpeleta, who may have been his illegitimate daughter’s
lover; excommunicated for misconduct of subordinates in his duties procuring wheat for the navy; and panned
for his turgid prose romance, La Galatea. FTP name this author, who ended his life with a flurry of literary
successes, including Exemplary Novels, Eight Comedies and Eight Interludes, The Tasks of Persiles and
Sigismunda, and The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha.
[Miguel Cervantes de
Saavedra]
12.
In this city, Wacker Ave. travels along the river that cuts through downtown. The southern half of
downtown has Jackson, Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Tilden Sts., as well as Congress Parkway. FTP name
this city, whose most famous roads include Rush St., Lakeshore Drive, Waveland Ave., and Michigan Ave.
[Chicago]
13.
He gave up a promising career as a heavyweight boxer to pursue his scientific studies. He showed that
galaxies are "island universes," which consisted of giant aggregations of stars as large as the Milky Way. He also
established that the universe was expanding. For ten points, name this U.S. astronomer for whom the space
telescope launched in 1990 was named.
[Edwin Hubble]
14.
They were described with low accuracy in a book attributed to the Greek scholar Horapollo. In the 17th
century math professor Athansius Kircher took a stab at unlocking their secrets; his erroneous version was
widely accepted. Some real progress was made around 1800 by the Swedish diplomat Akerblad and the English
physicist Thomas Young. But the breakthrough was made by a librarian's son, Jean Francois Champolleon.
FTP name the ancient writing system whose name is Egyptian for "sacred signs".
[hieroglyphics]
15.
Though this 1906 tale of the life of the Slavic immigrant Jurgis Rudkis was initially intended as socialist
propaganda, its readers focused on its portrayals of the Chicago stockyards instead. FTP, name this work which
led new food legislation after it exposed the conditions in the meat processing industry, written by Upton
Sinclair.
[The Jungle]
16.
It is used in industrial processing to make benzoin, sal ammoniac, and pure sulfur. Iodine, arsenic,
camphor, and dry ice are among the substances that will do this naturally at a given temperature. FTP name the
process in which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid.
[sublimation]
17.
Ion. Menexenus. Philebus. Theaetetus. Protagoras. Parmenides. Critias. Phaedrus. Phaedo. Crito.
FTP these are all among the dialogues of what philosopher?
[Plato; if early buzz with “dialogues” ask for more info]
18.
It represents the author’s vision of the eventual fruits of unchecked capitalism -- an enervated upper class
being devoured by a degraded proletariat. It used modified Biblical names for the two races, the Eloi and the
Morlocks. The nameless protagonist is propelled into the year 802,701 by his ivory, crystal, and brass
contraption. FTP name this 1895 novel, the first by H.G. Wells.
[The Time Machine]
19.
He threw out his college roommate, Peter Wolf (later of the J. Geils Band), because Wolf owed him $17
and because he though Wolf was “too weird.” On the strength of his first feature he was hired by Mel Brooks to
direct Brooks’ wife Anne Bancroft in The Elephant Man, perhaps his only comprehensible film to date. He’s
established a stable of regular collaborators such as composer Angelo Badalamenti and performers Laura Dern
and Kyle MacLachlan. FTP name the obtuse director of Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, and Blue Velvet.
[David Lynch]
20.
Atlas is bigger than Imperial. Imperial is longer than Elephant but not quite as wide. Elephant is bigger
than Royal, which is bigger than Medium, which is bigger than Crown. FTP tell what these sizes refer to; if it
helps, the next smallest is Foolscap, and it's measured in reams.
[paper]
21.
Wife of a noted philanthropist, this avid suffragist and abolitionist founded the New England Women's
Suffrage Association. She published a play, travel books, and such volumes of poetry as Passion Flowers and
Words for the Hour. Her best-known work was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862. FTP name the
author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
[Julia
Ward Howe]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 5
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
On Jan. 30, 1901, Dr. Humphrey Haines found one near Rorotua, New Zealand, that reached a height of
1500 feet. Named Waimangu, it became a popular tourist site until Aug. 1903, when it killed 4 people and
knocked their bodies half a mile away. That’s a cautionary note for those who visit Steamboat in Wyoming, the
largest currently active, which only hits about 1/4 the height. FTP name this natural phenomena caused by the heat
of buried volcanic rocks, the most famous of which is “Old Faithful.”.
[geyser]
2.
Among the characters are Le Beau, Jaques [Ja-kweez], Hymen, and Touchstone. Settings include an
orchard, the court of a duke, and the Forest of Arden, Perhaps the most famous quote from it is “All the world’s
a stage.” FTP name this Shakespeare comedy which focuses on the love of Orlando and Rosalind.
[As You Like It]
3.
He had a knack for arriving after the worst had passed. He went ashore at Utah Beach 4 days after DDay and was promoted to Brigadier General after leading the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team into
Korea in late 1952. This pattern changed in June 1964, when he was put in charge of the U.S. Military
Assistance Command in South Vietnam, two months before the Gulf of Tonkin incident turned the job into a
major one. His once-modest assignment had him in charge of 510,000 ground troops by the time he was
relieved by Creighton Abrams in June 1968. FTP name this general.
[William Westmoreland]
4.
Martha Finney named a dilemma after him in the cover story of the Feb. 1997 issue of HR Magazine.
Originally a nameless walk-on character, he struck a nerve with his arcane and sadistic games and got a
permanent role. His name was suggested in a flood of e-mail received by his creator, Scott Adams. FTP name
the evil director of human resources, who toys with employees like balls of yarn in Dilbert.
[Catbert]
5.
The name derives from the founders’ desire to systematically study religion and to follow the Bible
interpreted by tradition and reason. It traces its origin to evangelistic preaching within the Church of England
by John Wesley. FTP name this denomination, established in the U.S. in 1784 and in Britain in 1791.
[Methodists or Methodism]
6.
The family’s black cook, Berenice, and a six-year-old cousin named John Henry are the only
companions for a motherless 12-year-old girl, Frankie Adams. When her older brother is about to be married,
Frankie misunderstands her role in the ceremony; she is deeply anguished when she learns of her error. FTP
name this 1946 novel by Carson McCullers.
[The Member of the
Wedding]
7.
Its angular impulse is designated J-sub-theta, and it’s usually denoted by a capital gamma. Convention
gives it a positive value if it’s clockwise and a negative value if counterclockwise. FTP give the term for the
tendency of a force to cause a rotation of the body on which it acts. [torque]
8.
While he served as minister of health in the mid-1920's, he was overshadowed by his half-brother, who
as foreign secretary shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize. He rose to Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1931 and
served until 1937, when he succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister. He resigned in 1940 amid general
dissatisfaction with his conduct of the British war effort. FTP name this man, remembered for his policy of
appeasement toward Nazi Germany. [Neville Chamberlain]
9.
Like most German scientists of Jewish ancestry, he was forced into exile by Hitler’s rise, although he
worked just a few months in Britain before dying on a Swiss holiday. Ironically, he’d been known in scientific
circles as a staunch patriot, since he devoted his Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry to the war
effort in World War I and had even supervised the release of chlorine gas into the French trenches at Ypres.
FTP name this chemist, whose method of synthesizing ammonia won him the 1918 Nobel in Chemistry. [Fritz
Haber]
10.
Subtitled Optimism, its title character travels to Portugal, El Dorado, Surinam, Venice, and
Constantinople before being reunited with Cunegonde, baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh, and Pangloss, a parody of
rationalist philosopher Gottfied von Liebnitz. FTP, name this 1759 satire by Voltaire.
[Candide]
11.
The name is still used to refer to a protruding lower lip, a feature visible for 18 generations of these. Their
name, meaning "hawk's castle," comes from their ancestral Swiss home. FTP name this family, which once
occupied the thrones of Bohemia, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Austria, and the Holy Roman Empire.
[Hapsburg]
12.
Even though their lead singer sounds much like Stevie Wonder, their albums Emergency on Planet
Earth and Return of the Space Cowboy didn’t sell too well in the US. Their third album, Travelling Without
Moving, changed all that. FTP, name this British pop-soul group led by Jay Kay which won the 1997 MTV Best
Video of the Year award for “Virtual Insanity.”
[Jamiroquai]
13.
A child prodigy in math, he was correcting his father's sums at age 3. He was still in his teens when he
used the method of least squares to calculate an orbit for Ceres. FTP name the versatlie genius who proved the
fundamental theorems of both arithmetic and algebra, namesake of the unit of magnetic flux density.
[Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss]
14.
Rivers there include the Hart, Stewart, Pelly, Teslin, and Bonnet Plume; cities include Mayo, Carmacks,
Carcross, Faro, and Dawson. It also features the Kluane National Park, which includes Mt. Logan, the highest
point in Canada. FTP name this province whose capital is Whitehorse.
[Yukon]
15.
Commercials for the beef industry, the Oldsmobile Aurora, and the U.S. Armed Services would seem to
have nothing in common, if it weren't for the background music. Although he died in 1990, this man’s Rodeo,
Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man can be heard in these commercials. FTP, who was this
increasingly ubiquitous American composer?
[Aaron Copland]
16.
In 1930 Thomas "Daddy" Rice published his most famous song. The chorus of this minstrel song began
"Wheel about, turn about, do just so, every time I wheel about, I jump" FTP complete the chorus and you'll
have given the term, familiar to readers of C. Vann Woodward, used for racial segregation in public places.
[Jim Crow]
17.
He was a scholar who taught Oriental and Greek Literature at the General Theological Seminary in New
York from 1823 to 1850. FTP, name this author who gave America its most enduring image of Santa Claus in
his anonymously published 1844 poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas”.
[Clement C. Moore]
18.
A Cambridge graduate, he worked with David Lloyd-George at the Versailles Peace Conference, but
became disgusted with the meeting and resigned his post. In 1925 he opposed returning to the gold standard, and
he was concerned with unemployment well before the Great Depression. FTP, identify this British opponent of
laissez-faire economics.
[John Maynard Keynes (pronounced Canes, but accept Keens)]
19.
It is divided into the families Phocidae, Otariidae, and Odobenidae. Members of this order of mammals
include the walrus, the seal, and the sea lion. FTP name it.
[Pinnipedia]
20.
He once tried to take money for his services. For this, he was forced to forfeit and replace the assigned
task with another. On another occasion, his nephew helped him kill a multi-headed monster for which he also
had to perform an additional task. FTP, who was this hero of mythology who thus had extended to twelve his
original list of ten labors to perform for King Eurystheus [Your is thee eus]?
[Heracles or Hercules]
21.
Marines pull out of Nicaragua. The U.S. officially ends the gold standard. Giuseppe Zangara kills
Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak in a Miami motorcade. Frances Perkins becomes first female Cabinet member.
Beer & wine sales are again made legal. FDR calls a 'bank holiday' upon his inauguration. FTP what is the
common year?
[1933]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 6
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
It takes place the night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another. That very
night in Max's room a forest grew and grew and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the
world all around. Max set forth on a long overseas journey which culminated here, where he became king
before smelling his supper. FTP name this winner of the 1964 Caldecott medal by Maurice Sendak.
[Where the Wild Things Are]
2.
It consists of four linked protein chains, with each chain made up of about 140 amino acids. It can bind so
tightly to carbon monoxide that it warps its own structure and can rupture the red blood cell it’s part of. FTP, name
the most common protein found in the blood, which confers to the red blood cells the ability to pick up oxygen
from the alveoli in the lungs.
[hemoglobin]
3.
It may be the only prominent work of fiction in which the dramatic climax is stated clearly in the 1st
sentence. It concludes with the protagonist’s family making a holiday of his death day. The protagonist committed
suicide for his family’s sake, although the back wound from the apple thrown at him might have proved fatal
anyway. FTP name this Franz Kafka story in which the protagonist wakes up one morning as a giant bug..
[The Metamorphosis]
4.
Denied asylum by the king of Sardinia, he lived for 3 years on Staten Island, avoiding all political activity
and trying to dodge the hero’s welcome that awaited him in Manhattan. In 1853 he went back to sea, and in 1854
he settled on the island of Caprera. 6 years later he led his Red Shirts to take Sicily and Naples from Austrian rule,
thus setting the stage for a unified Italy. FTP name this hero of the Risorgimento and hero of the Italian
independence movement.
[Giuseppe Garibaldi]
5.
Its name is derived from a native word for “cannibal,” which makes sense because Columbus reported
that the island for which it was named had “monstrous man-eaters.” FTP name this body of water, home to the
Windward and Leeward Islands as well as Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
[the Caribbean Sea]
6.
The homeland of this people lends its name to the word "laconic". The adjective in all probability fit
these people well. It is a certainty that their lives were not decadent; for example, they left their parents at age 7
for military training. As a result, they had a proud and legendary infantry, in which they had so much
confidence that they left their home city unwalled. Their most famous exploit was probably Leonidas' stand at
Thermopylae during the Persian invasion. FTP, who were this Greek people?
[the Spartans or
Lacedaemonians]
7.
It’s widely assumed to be a slighty fictitious journal where only the names have been changed. If this is
true, then Old Bull Lee is William S. Burroughs, Carlo Marx is Allen Ginsberg, Dean Moriarty is Neal Cassady
and Sal Paradise is the author himself. The story deals with the wayward, poetic journeys of visionary youth in
post WWII America. FTP, name the 1957 book that defined the Beat generation, penned by Jack Kerouac.
[On The Road]
8.
It's the common name for two different types of pest. One, which is not found in the U.S., is a variety of
flea; the other is the larva of the harvest mite. The Asian and Pacific varieties are a real danger, since they often
carry scrub fever or Japanese river fever. The North American and European varieties are merely nuisances,
causing small, red, itchy sores. FTP name this tiny pest.
[chigger]
9.
It begins on the 25th day of Kislev. Commemorating the defeat of the Syrian emperor Antiochus and the
subsequent rededication of the temple, it lasts for eight days, and for each day a candle is lit in a menorah. FTP
name this Jewish festival, sometimes called the Festival of Lights.
[Hanukkah or Chanukah; prompt on Festival (or Feast) of Lights]
10.
They were first proposed in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann to explain the relationships between various
kinds of baryons. They are classified as one of six flavors: top, bottom, up, down, strange, or charmed. FTP
name these fermions, the constituent parts of both baryons and mesons. [quarks]
11.
Rope. Frenzy. The Trouble With Harry. Strangers on a Train. Spellbound. North by Northwest.
Vertigo. Rear Window. FTP name the director who somehow never won an Oscar despite his mastery of
suspense in such films as The Birds and Psycho.
[Alfred Hitchcock]
12.
The smaller is visible in the constellation Tucana. The larger, in Dorado, contains the Great Looped
Nebula. Both are between 140,000 and 170,000 light years away, making them the nearest known galaxies.
FTP give their collective name.
[the Magellanic Clouds]
13.
Gerald was a major figure in the English theatre in the early 20th century, originating the roles of Raffles
and Captain Hook. Gerald's father George was a successful artist and writer, best remembered for the novels
Peter Ibbetson and Trilby. And Gerald's daughter Daphne wrote such suspense fiction as Frenchman's Creek,
Jamaica Inn, and Rebecca. FTP name this dynamic family.
[Du Maurier]
14.
A native of Scotland, he served in the Russian navy and retired permanently in France, yet he remains an
American hero. Accused of murder, this merchant fled to America and added a phony surname. He
distinguished himself as captain of the Providence and the Ranger before assuming command of the Bonhomme
Richard. FTP name him.
[John Paul Jones]
15.
Discovered in 1900 by Friedrich Ernst Dorn, the atomic weight of its most stable form is 222. Nmaed
after one radioactive element and the gas neon, this noble gas is itself radioactive. FTP name this element,
number 86, that is the subject of much basement testing.
[radon]
16.
The first woman M.D. in Italy, she specialized in pediatrics and came to work with mentally
handicapped children. She stressed the importance of a prepared environment in which learning materials could
be used repetitively with much self-correction. FTP name the author of The Secret of Childhood. a pioneer in
early childhood education.
[Maria Montessori]
17.
The Wasps. The Clouds. The Flies. The Birds. The Frogs. These may sound like plagues of Egypt, but
they’re all comedies by the original master of comedic theater. FTP name the Greek author of these plays, as
well as Peace and Lysistrata.
[Aristophanes]
18.
These horrible monsters make an appearance in the Aeneid, where they predict dire troubles for the
Trojans, including that they will have to eat their own tables. They are better known from the Voyage of the
Argo, where they putrified the table of King Phineus until Zetes and Calais drove them off. FTP, what are these
half-woman, half-bird monsters, whose collective name today is still used as an insult?
[Harpies]
19.
Its title comes from the arched window and architectural style of the building in the background. The
models used were the artist's sister and his dentist, and were meant to depict a father and daughter, not the
commonly believed husband and wife relationship. The couple have stern, facial expressions, and are reflective
of the artist's agricultural roots, with the woman in an apron, and the man in farmer's overalls with a pattern
matching the shape of the pitchfork he holds in his right hand. FTP, what is this often parodied 1930 painting
by Grant Wood?
[American Gothic]
20.
In 1963 Barbara Ann Johnson, the 18-year-old candy clerk at a Phoenix theater, was kidnapped and
raped; the rapist then asked her to pray for him and released her. He was ultimately convicted in a retrial, even
though his initial conviction had been overturned on the grounds that he had not been informed of his rights
before he wrote out a full confession. FTP name this criminal, stabbed fatally in a Phoenix bar 10 years after the
Supreme Court's landmark 1966 ruling in his favor.
[Ernesto Miranda]
21.
In 1943 Edward J. Noble, the head of Life Savers candy, bought the 6 stations known as the
"Blue Network" from NBC. Noble's company merged with United Paramount Theaters in 1952. Long
considered a loser, it gained respect with the innovative sports programming of Roone Arledge before reaching
the top with such '70's classics as Charlie's Angels and Laverne and Shirley. FTP name this TV network.
[ABC, or American Broadcasting Co.]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 7
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
The rebellion from 1834 to 1859, led by the Muslim imam Shamyl, inspired Tolstoy’s 1863 novel The
Cossacks. In World War II its rich oil fields were the target of a failed German offensive. So many locals
collaborated with the Nazis that after the war Stalin deported the entire population to Central Asia. They were
allowed to return in 1956 and the republic was reestablished a year later. FTP name this Caucasus region,
whose latest rebellion against Russia finally won them independence.
[Chechnya or Chechen-Ingush]
2.
This 1952 play’s characters include Rev. Hale, John Proctor, and Goody Nurse. Its author most
emphatically says it was not about McCarthyism. Since it was set in 17th century Massachusetts, perhaps he was
telling the truth. FTP, name this Arthur Miller work about truth amidst a witch hunt.
[The Crucible]
3.
His best friend Olivier, blinded in battle, ironically struck the blow that reputedly killed him after their
betrayal by his stepfather Ganelon. Of course we can’t be sure, since the version with these details, possibly by
Turold, takes a minor encounter with the Basques and elevates it to a grand battle against the Saracens. FTP name
the hero of the rearguard at the Battle of Roncesvalles, subject of one of the most famed medieval epics.
[Roland; accept Orlando or Hroutland]
4.
His group's recordings included cover versions of Brecht and Weill's "Alabama Song" and bluesman
Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man", but most of their songs were credited as written by the entire group. His
collaborators were John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek. FTP name the colorful lead singer of
The Doors.
[Jim Morrison]
5.
He died in a 1928 plane crash while searching for survivors of an Arctic shipwreck. In 1903, sailing
secretly to avoid his creditors, he navigated the Northwest Passage and located the magnetic North Pole. FTP
name this man who, on Dec. 14, 1911, became the first to reach the South Pole. [Roald Amundsen]
6.
It’s expressed in joules per kelvin. When all systems taking part in a process are included, it either
remains constant or increases; there is no process possible in which it decreases. FTP name the quantitative
measure of disorder, a means of expressing the second law of thermodynamics. [entropy]
7.
This Nurnberg native’s work on descriptive geometry, published posthumously, was later given a sound
mathematical basis by Monge. In 1525 he produced a good method for approximating trisection of an angle,
and he introduced the magic square to Europe in 1514 -- not in a book, but in his engraving “Melancholia.”
FTP name this artist and engraver, court painter to Maximilian I and Charles V, whose other works include
“Knight, Death, and the Devil.”
[Albrecht Durer]
8.
George Bernard Shaw defined it as “a game at which the police can beat you.” Most theories of it imply
an order of a very strict and symmetrical kind, but achieved solely by cooperation. Among those advocating it
in religion were Tolstoy and Gandhi, and political theorists include Godwin, Shelley, Proudhon, and Bakunin.
Ironically considering the acts of some followers, virtually all the theorists are pacifists. FTP name the belief
that society should be a free association with no laws or government.
[anarchism; accept anarchy]
9.
Its evolving domination in the mammalian brain involves its reception of wider and wider ranges of
sensory information via the thalamus and the emergence of higher neural activities based on that data. Folding
of its surface provides a large surface area for activity for the rich concentration of synapses. FTP name this
layer of grey matter, also called the pallium, covering the cerebral hemispheres in most vertebrates. [cerebral
cortex]
10.
Operating from the port of Fiume he wreaked enough havoc on Allied shipping in World War I to earn a
baronetcy. Although the largest crew he had commanded was only five, in 1938 he was offered command of a new
submarine by Hitler. He opted to defect rather than serve the Nazis, fleeing first to Italy, then to the U.S., where
his family eventually established a ski resort in Vermont. FTP name this Austrian naval commander, whose
wartime exploits are far less well known than the musical talents of his wife and children.
[Georg von
Trapp]
11.
In Jan. 1996 Barbara King won a $683,500 judgment against Illinois Central Railroad in a wrongful death
suit. This case's only claim to fame is that Mrs. King's attorney was clearing up the last case still pending from his
law practice, which he left for an even more lucrative career as the creator of Ozzie Walls, Reggie Love, and Mitch
McDeere. FTP name the author of The Chamber, A Time to Kill, and The Pelican Brief. [John Grisham]
12.
It was adapted from a novel by Thomas Dixon, whose works were melodramatic, violently racist, and
most uncomplimentary with regard to Reconstruction. But this pioneering feature-length silent film virtually
invented the language of film. FTP name this classic 1915 film by D.W. Griffith. [The Birth of a Nation]
13.
Othmar Zeidler, who first prepared it in 1874, did not recognize its potential applications. In 1939 Paul
Hermann Muller synthesized it, correctly forecasting its value as an insecticide; for this he won the 1948 Nobel
Prize in Medicine. But its tendency to accumulate in the environment and disrupt the food chain led to its
disfavor and eventually a general ban in the 1970's. FTP name this pesticide, which shares its name with a
wrestling move perfected by Jake “the Snake” Roberts.
[DDT, or dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane]
14.
Since the Middle Ages it has been identified with Glastonbury in Somerset. In Celtic legend, it was the
equivalent of paradise. FTP name this legendary island of heroes, ruled in Arthurian legend by Morgan le Fay,
where Arthur was conveyed there after his final battle with Mordred.
[Avalon].
15.
According to historian Thomas Slaughter, this event was the last gasp of a dying premodern culture in
rural Pennsylvania. According to P.J. O’Rourke, "The agricultural policy... was to shoot farmers. In this case,
the Federal government may have had it right the first time."
FTP name this 1794 insurrection which
quickly disbanded in the face of Federal forces.
[the Whiskey Rebellion]
16.
Imagine a candidate in this day and age winning a major office despite being shorter than Michael
Dukakis. This former county commissioner and dedicated basketball fan also overcame a highly visible divorce
and a history of alcohol abuse. After serving as State Treasurer she defeated Clayton Williams in 1990 in a
miracle comeback fueled largely by Williams' colossal blunders. FTP name the second woman to serve a
Governor of Texas.
[Ann Richards]
17.
After distinguishing himself at Sevastopol in the Crimean War, he led a Chinese force which suppressed
the Taipei Rebellion. Since he had served a previous stint as Governor-General of Sudan, he was a logical
choice to return to that post in 1884 to evacuate Khartoum. But he either couldn't or wouldn't execute the
evacuation -- and was killed when Khartoum fell to the Mahdi. FTP name this British general, nicknamed
"Chinese".
[Charles Gordon]
18.
She was a ruthless tricoteuse (tree-co-toos) whose sister was imprisoned by Evremonde, creating her
flaming rhetoric against the aristocracy. Instrumental in the execution of Sydney Carton in the place of Charles
Darnay, she knits while watching the guillotine. FTP, identify this character from A Tale of Two Cities.
[Madame Defarge]
19.
His reputation was enhanced by a mathematics tournament at the court of Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II. His works included Practica Geometriae and Liber Quadratorum, an original work on
indeterminate analysis. His most important book, Liber Abaci, helped popularize the Hindu-Arabic notation in
Europe and showed its utility in fractions, square roots, etc. FTP name this Pisan, whose most enduring
contribution involved hypothetical rabbits whose steady reproduction increased their numbers in the sequence
that bears his name.
[Leonardo Fibonacci]
20.
The term is probably derived from the Chipko Movement of the ‘70’s. To prevent deforestation in the
Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Chipko leader Sundarial Bahuguna rallied women and children to block access
when the forest contractors and loggers came. FTP give this two-word phrase, now often used as a derogatory
term for zealous environmentalists.
[tree hugger]
21.
Unlike Mt. Rushmore, you won’t find Theodore Roosevelt here. But you will find Washington, Jefferson,
and Lincoln, followed by Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, Franklin, McKinley, Cleveland, Madison, Chase, and
Wilson. FTP you'd find portraits of these famous Americans, in ascending order, on what?
[U.S. currency; accept equivalent]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 8
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
Here's a beneficiary of LBJ's Great Society programs. This high school dropout from Marshall, Texas,
learned his trade in the Job Corps. In 1968 he won Olympic gold in the heavyweight division, and in Jan. 1973
he knocked out Joe Frazier for the world heavyweight crown. FTP name this boxer, who lost his title to
Muhammad Ali in 1974 and lost another title bout in 1991 to Evander Holyfield. [George Foreman]
2.
Hard to believe, but the namesake of an accredited U.S. college attended school for a whopping 12 days in
his life. He served a 7-year stint as a territorial governor, and his replacement was such a hot issue that Pres.
Buchanan sent troops to install his successor. He founded over 200 cities and town and brought over 100,000
settlers west, not counting the ones he fathered by 16 different wives. FTP name the 2nd President of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
[Brigham
Young]
3.
The defeat of its Sicilian expedition by Gelon and Theron in 480 B.C. was overshadowed by the battle of
Salamis, reputedly fought on the same day. Its residents worshipped Melkart, Baal-Hammon, and Eshmoun and
practiced human sacrifice at least into the 1st century B.C. Capital of the Vandals after Gaiseric conquered it in
A.D. 439, it was retaken in 533 by Belisarius and ironically remained loyal to Rome until Arab conquest in the 7th
century. FTP name this North African port, Rome’s principal rival until it was vanquished in the Punic Wars.
[Carthage]
4.
Further study by W.E. LeGros Clark and more finds in the Transvaal by a team led by Raymond Dart
overcame the skepticism which greeted Dart’s original assessment of his 1925 discovery. In 1925, relying
mainly on tooth structure, Dart asserted that this was an ancestor of man. FTP name this early bipedal prehominid, whose name is unrelated to the fact that Dart was a native of Brisbane. [australopithecus Africanus]
5.
A fanciful Disney version of his life showed him as the father of nine daughters, but we have no hard facts
about his family. We know he had a smile of Christian charity and was able to still the rising tumult. We know
there was ease in his manner, pride in his bearing, and a smile on his face. And though we have no idea where or
even when he was born or died, we do know he plied his trade in Mudville. FTP name the title character of Ernest
Lawrence Thayer’s beloved baseball poem.
[the mighty Casey]
6.
He designed cranes to drop lead weights on nearby enemy ships and demonstrated that a helical blade could
move water, thus inventing the propeller about 2,000 years before anyone found a way to use it for ship propulsion.
He may have invented the dry dock, designed a corkscrew-style water pump, improved the pulley, and made the
most accurate ancient calculation of pi. FTP name this man, who is also credited with the discovery of the
principle of buoyancy.
[Archimedes]
7.
It’s used to make bubble chambers and flash lamps. Colorless, odorless, and tasteless, it forms compounds
with fluorine and oxygen. It was discovered in 1898 by Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers, but then so
were most of the noble gases. This one shares its name with a famed New York disco and a good ‘80’s pinball
game. FTP name this noble gas, atomic number 54.
[xenon]
8.
This Pennsylvanian developed a formal technique paralleling Isadora Duncan’s style in that the solar
plexus was the mainspring of all movement, while the back was freer and more flexible and the limbs more
extended than in classical ballet. Her choreography, like Duncan’s, often accented the effect of gravity. Among
her over 150 works are Acrobats of God, Diversion of Angels, and Clytemnestra. FTP name the choreographer
of Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
[Martha Graham]
9.
Daphne and Seymour are uninhabited; so are Genovesa, Marchena, Santiago, Fernandina, and Wolf.
Baltra is basically uninhabited except for an airport. In fact, a mere four islands are home to the 6,000 residents
of this island group -- Floreana, Santa Cruz, Isabela, and San Cristobal. FTP name this Ecuadorian island
group, which also includes a small island named Darwin.
[Galapagos
Islands]
10.
In 1763 he published A Treatise on Tolerance. His other non-fiction works include History of Charles
XII, King of Sweden and Letters on the English Nation. His play Zaire was enormously popular, but his most
famous works were Micromegas, Zadig, and Candide. FTP name this French author.
[Voltaire (acc. Francois Marie Arouet)]
11.
During the Civil War, this graduate of Kenyon College was major of the 23rd Ohio Volunteers and rose
to the rank of brevet major general. Twice elected governor of Ohio, he believed he’d lost the Presidential
election to Samuel J. Tilden, but his supporters crafted a deal which changed the outcome in the Electoral
College. FTP name this man who became President in 1877 by one electoral vote.
[Rutherford Birchard Hayes]
12.
He spent 2 years abstracting articles for Physics Abstracts before writing such popular science books as
Profiles of the Future and The Exploration of Space. In a 1945 article in Wireless World he set forth the idea of
placing communications satellites in a 24-hour orbit. His primary fame, though, rests on short stories such as
"The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Star" and novels like Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
FTP name him.
[Arthur C. Clarke]
13.
Pencil & paper may be needed. Take one of each of the 5 Platonic solids -- the tetrahedron, cube,
octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. FTP, if you add together the number of faces, what is the total?
[50]
14.
Its author reputedly told a scholar attempting to divine its meaning, "If I can shed any obscurity on the
subject, please let me know." Inspired in part by Vico's cyclical philosophy of history, it begins with the second
half of a sentence, the first half of which finishes this 1939 novel by James Joyce. FTP name it.
[Finnegans Wake]
15.
They can easily be bred in small glass jars containing raw oatmeal wetted with a suspension of brewer's
yeast. Sometimes called vinegar flies or wine flies, the adults are about 1/8" long and have one pair of broad
wings, feathery antennae, and usually bright red eyes. Their claim to fame comes from genetics research,
especially that of Thomas Hunt Morgan. FTP name this genus of fruit fly.
[drosophila]
16.
This case pitted a major newspaper against the Attorney General of Alabama. The Supreme Court ruled
that the 1st Amendment protected the press from libel suits for defamatory reports on a public official unless the
official proved that the reports were made from actual malice. FTP name this 1964 Supreme Court case.
[New York Times Co. v. Sullivan]
17.
Its scheduled 1848 premiere was cancelled because of its composer's revolutionary activities. In 1850 it
premiered in Weimar with Franz Liszt conducting; the composer, who was still in exile in Switzerland, finally
saw it in 1861. Characters include Ortrud, Telramund, Elsa, and King Henry the Fowler. FTP name this
Wagner opera, famed for the title character's exit by a swan-drawn boat.
[Lohengrin]
18.
His numerous inventions include the pulse transfer controlling device essential to magnetic storage of
computer data. In 1965 he invented LOCI, a desktop computer which looked like an adding machine except
that it could generate logarithms with a single keystroke. FTP name this Chinese-born physician,
mathematician, and computer tycoon.
[An Wang]
19.
Founded before the 8th century, it often changed hands. It was even ceded briefly to Oliver Cromwell,
but in 1662 Charles II sold it back to France. It became a major commercial center in the 19th century but was
virtually demolished in World War II. FTP name this Flemish port on the North Sea, which from May 26 to
June 4, 1940, was the site of the epic naval evacuation of almost 400,000 Allied troops. [Dunkirk/
Dunkerque]
20.
As punishment for his crimes, this giant's son was bound to a rock under a serpent who would drip
poison into his face until Ragnarok. This giant was the husband of Sigyn and the father of Hel, the Midgard
serpent, and Fenris the Wolf. FTP, name this trickster of Norse myth, whose machinations led to the death of
Balder.
[ Loki]
21.
This was invented in China in roughly 2000 B.C., conveniently around the time the milking of farm
animals also began in China. A favorite dish of the Chinese Emperors, it consisted of a soft milk and rice
concoction packed in snow or frozen on a platter. FTP name this dairy product that "I scream, you scream, we
all scream for!"
[ice cream]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 9
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II, he became a Pan Am pilot before a job in
public relations for the L.A.P.D. This led to scriptwriting for Dragnet, which led to an Emmy as chief writer for
Have Gun, Will Travel. His magnum opus on television only ran for 3 seasons, but it ultimately spawned books,
merchandise tie-ins, 6 movies, and another TV series, which he co-owned with Paramount TV. FTP name the
creator of Star Trek.
[Gene Roddenberry]
READER'S NOTE: He's dead, Jim.
2.
It’s perhaps the deadliest battle to take place a day after the losers surrendered. 25 U.S. soldiers were
killed, mostly by friendly fire from the rifles and the powerful Hotchkiss guns. Their foes lost about 300, most of
them unarmed women and children. No one knows who fired the first shot as U.S. troops were disarming about
120 warriors of the Lakota Sioux on Dec. 29, 1890. FTP name this, the last major battle with the Plains Indians.
[Wounded Knee]
3.
The origins of its beliefs and rituals are unknown; it has no overall dogma and no scripture. Adherents
are expected to remember and celebrate the kami, a great many spiritual beings and gods honored at shrines and
festivals. FTP name this native religion of Japan. [Shinto]
4.
The Appalachians and Urals completed their development, and ammonites and finbacked reptiles were
the predominant animal life. FTP name this period which began about 280 million years ago, the last of the
Paleozoic Era. [Permian]
5.
Oghamic. Glagolitic. Pamphylion. Carian. Etruscan. Devanagari. Phoenician. Cyrillic. Hebrew.
Greek. FTP these all refer to what language device, of which ours is Roman?
[alphabets]
6.
When her people are forced to leave their homeland, she is sent to New England while her lover, Gabriel
Lajeunesse, is sent to Louisiana. They search for each other for years and are finally reunited in Philadelphia,
where she’s a nurse and he’s a dying patient. FTP name this Longfellow poem which begins, “This is the forest
primeval...”
[“Evangeline”]
7.
There are two species found in the U.S.; Micruroides euryxanthus is found in the Southwest and
Micrurus fulvius is found from coastal Carolina to Texas. Because they have extremely short fangs, almost half
of the humans bitten by them show no signs of venom poisoning. But of those who do, about half die unless
treated with antivenin. FTP name this brightly colored snake, closely related to the cobra, most commonly
found in Florida.
[coral snake]
8.
His favorite author is Camus and his favorite film is Beetlejuice. As co-owner of the Grandmother's
Skillet restaurant chain he once helped bus tables but is now a self-made millionare. In 1988 he defeated David
Karnes for a seat in the U.S. Senate, where he is the only winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. FTP
name this former Governor of Nebraska, who also ran for President in 1992.
[Bob Kerrey]
9.
During the Spanish Civil War, Lt. Gen. Queipo de Llano was one of Franco's fascist sidekicks. In
discussing the impending march against Madrid, he coined this phrase to refer to Fascist sympathizers within
the city who would sabotage the Loyalist defenses. FTP give this two-word phrase, now used for any
subversives in sympathy with the enemy of their country.
[fifth column]
10.
We all know that if you have a 1 followed by 100 zeros, you have a googol. But for a quick 10 pts.,
what name is given to the number represented by 1 followed by a googol of zeros?
[googolplex]
11.
TVA didn't cause every lake in Tennessee. In 1811 the New Madrid earthquake rocked western Tenn. and
parts of Arkansas and Missouri and left in its wake the largest naturally-formed lake in Tennessee. FTP, name it.
[Reelfoot Lake]
12.
While his career is on the skids in the U.S., last fall he became a huge success in Argentina. Backed by
Eddie, Floyd, Max, and Bustah (AKA the Hard Pack Blues Band), he uses his wraparound shades to project his
cool image. FTP name this corporate symbol, widely used as Exhibit A by those accusing tobacco companies of
targeting teens.
[Joe Camel]
13.
It was accepted by the New Yorker in 1947 without revision except for one clever request -- to change
the calendar date of the story's action to match the issue date, June 26. The few character names given in it are
carefully chosen -- Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves are in charge of the proceedings, and the old-timer who regrets
a few minor changes over the years is Old Man Warner. I haven't found any symbolism yet in the name of
Tessie Hutchinson, who draws the slip with the black spot. FTP name this chilling short story by Shirley
Jackson.
["The Lottery"]
14.
Of his own books he preferred Harmonia Mundi, of which he said, "It can wait a century for a reader, as
God himself has waited 6,000 years for a witness." That book drew together his theories and observations on
theology, philosophy, music, and mathematics to illustrate God's reliance on ideal harmonic relationships in the
Creation. Some of this was already implied in his earlier books, Mysterium Cosmographicum and Astronomia
Nova, which set forth his laws on planetary motion. FTP name this speculative metaphysicist who was also a
pretty fair astronomer.
[Johannes
Kepler]
15.
Her life story has the viciously tyrannical father jealous of his children. Her brother drowns. She had a
half real, half imagined invalidism until she met her lover. When she was 12 she published "The Battle of
Marathon". FTP Who, when an adult penned "The Rhyme of the Duchess May", "The Cry of the Children", and
"Sonnets from the Portuguese"?
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
16.
He succeeded his father, Louis VIII, in 1226, but as he was only of age 11, his mother, Blanche of
Castille, acted as regent. In 1248 he led a crusade, but was taken prisoner in Egypt by the Moslems. FTP Who
was this only sainted King of France?
[Louis IX]
17.
The older he grew, the more he invoked a romantic childhood in Peru and descent from the Borgias of
Aragon in his painting. FTP who is this friend of Pisarro and onetime roommate of Van Gogh, a stockbroker
who dropped out at age 35 to paint nubile maidens in the South Seas?
[Paul Gauguin]
18.
He was born the son of a farmer near Mantua in 70 BC and lived until 19 BC. He was well educated and
in 41 BC went to Rome, joining the circle patronized by Maecenas. He wrote the "Bucolics" idealizing rural
life; his "Georgics" was more didactic. FTP who would have burned his masterpiece - the Aeneid - had
Augustus not saved it?
[P. Vergilius Maro or Virgil]
19.
When Tantalus served his son Pelops to the gods, only this goddess was foolish enough to eat. She also
grieved so inconsolably for her abducted daughter Persephone that the earth became barren through her neglect,
thus creating winter. FTP, identify this Greek goddess of harvest and fertility.
[Demeter]
20.
Although it can’t be extruded or injection-molded by the usual methods, it can be shaped by pressing in
simple dyes or cut or drilled to more exact specifications. It’s impervious to all solvents and reagents except
molten alkali metals and hot fluorine gas. This soft, waxy, opaque, whitish material is polymerized from
tetrafluoroethylene through a series of reactions from chloroform. FTP name this stable plastic, first marketed
in 1944, noted for its resistance to heat and its lack of adhesion and friction.
[Teflon]
21.
There’s not much that Egypt, Israel, and Syria have in common. But FTP those three, along with Ireland,
Malta, Turkey, Lebanon, the Sudan, and the United Kingdom, all share what monetary unit?
[pound]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 10
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
Washington and Jefferson. Oberlin. Rice. Penn. Akron. Clemson. Auburn. Georgia Tech. Toss in
Brown, where he played but never coached, and you have the schools on the resume of a man whom Frank
Elisou immortalized in bronze with the help of then-Fordham coach Jim Crowley. FTP name the first athletic
director of New York’s Downtown Athletic Club, for whom they named their best-known trophy.
[John Heisman]
2.
His most famous speech is quoted by Gregory Peck in Gentlemen’s Agreement and Mel Gibson in The
Man Without a Face. In the Mel Brooks version of To Be or Not to Be Brooks as Hitler hears it from one of his
fellow actors. His speech begins, “Hath not a Jew eyes?” FTP name this memorable character from
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
[Shylock]
3.
It arose to counter the efforts of such men as J. Carvell Williams, head of the Liberation Society, and
Edward Miall, editor of the Nonconformist. This reactionary movement sought to bolster state support for the
Anglican Church in the mid-19th century. It would long ago have been forgotten save for one curiosity: its oneword name is 28 letters long. FTP name this school of thought.
[antidisestablishmentarianism]
4.
Gregory B. Jarvis, Michael J. Smith, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnick, Francis R.
Scobee, and Christa McAuliffe all died FTP 73 seconds after takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28,
1986 on what ill-fated shuttle?
[the Challenger]
5.
This French-American author won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in promoting human rights.
However, he is more famous for his many novels that refer in some way to the horrors suffered by prisoners in the
Nazi concentration camps. FTP name this man whose novel Night describes his experience at Auschwitz. [Elie
Wiesel]
6.
A lawyer and legislator by profession, this resident of Toulouse achieved some fame as a poet and
scholar. He made fundamental contributions to differential calculus, integral calculus, and probability theory.
His reputation today, though, rests on his work in numbers theory, including this theorem: If x, y, and z are
integers, then the equation X TO THE N PLUS Y TO THE N EQUALS Z TO THE N has no solution where n
is greater than 2 and x, y, and z are not equal to zero. FTP name this 17th century mathematician, whose
theorem just mentioned was finally proven 3 centuries later by Andrew Wiles.
[Pierre de Fermat]
7.
Born in Albany, NY in 1836, in 1854 he moved to California. He published three books:
"Outcroppings", "The Lost Galleon", and "Condensed Novels". FTP who wrote the poem "The Heathen Chinee"
and such stories as “The Outcasts of Poker Flats” and "The Luck of Roaring Camp"?
[Francis Brett
Harte]
8.
It may seem obvious to anyone who’s ever used a Slinky, but in 1676 it was news to other scientists. It
states that the amount a spring stretches varies directly with its tension. FTP name this law, named for the
Englishman who discovered it.
[Hooke’s Law]
9.
If you watch USA’s Up All Night, you may have seen him in such cheapies as Fraternity Vacation, a far
cry from his own directorial efforts such as Bob Roberts and Dead Man Walking. FTP name this actor, who
first hit it big as “Nuke” Laloosh in Bull Durham and has since starred in The Player, The Hudsucker Proxy, and
The Shawshank Redemption.
[Tim Robbins]
10.
The hero of Arthur Koestler's "The Gladiator,” he was a Thracian captured in combat. In 73 BCE he led
a revolt in Capua of runaway slaves numbering up to 90,000. FTP who was this rebel ultimately defeated by
Crassus?
[Spartacus]
11.
His operas include “The Abduction from the Seraglio,” “Cosi Fan Tutte,” “The Marriage of Figaro,”
“The Magic Flute,” and “Don Giovanni.” FTP name this child prodigy whose other compositions include his
“Requiem” (1791) and “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”
[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
12.
The drug RU-486 works by affecting the body's response to this hormone. It controls the ability of the
uterus to hold a fertilized egg. Produced in the corpus luteum as well as in the ovaries, it also aids in
development of milk production. FTP name this hormone.
[progesterone]
13.
He once said, “Whenever a child lies you will always find a severe parent. A lie would have no sense
unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.” (I assumed from this quote that he never had kids, but checked and
it seems he had four.) Amazingly, over 50 years before the introduction of the Corvette, he wrote Study of
Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation. Other works include The Neurotic Constitution, and
Understanding Human Nature. FTP name the father of individual psychology, who coined the term “inferiority
complex.”.
[Alfred Adler]
14.
The son of Omri, he was the seventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel, and through lineal
intermarriage he maintained an alliance with Judan strong enough to help both withstand the Assyrians. But as
related in I Kings, the prophet Elijah led strong opposition to his wife, who was a worshipper of Baal. FTP
name this Biblical figure, namesake of characters created by Ray Stevens and Herman Melville. [Ahab or
Achab]
15.
Educated as a metallurgist, naturally he flourished behind the Iron Curtain and got his first major
appointment from Stalin, whose pseudonym means “steel.” This Ukranian succeeded Voroshilov as Chairman
of the Praesidum of the Supreme Soviet. The strongest of the ensuing troika, he used a doctrine of limited
sovereignty of satellite states to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the crackdown on Poland in
1981. FTP name this Soviet leader, who replaced Khrushchev as First Secretary in 1964 [Leonid Brezhnev]
16.
It was the first synthetic fiber, invented by French chemist Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud de
Chardonnet in 1883. He used solutions of partly nitrated cellulose and forced it through small holes, allowing
the solvent to evaporate. The resulting fiber resembled silk in texture and sheen. FTP, what is this fabric, from
the French word for "a beam of light?"
[rayon]
17.
He and his mate actually live in a nearby park most of the year, so he has to be moved amid great pomp
and ceremony to his heated bunker at Gobbler's Knob each year for his moment in the sun. He doesn't always
appreciate being disturbed; his kind often hibernates until March. FTP name the 4-legged oracle of a small
Pennsylvania town, the dean of groundhogs.
[Punxsutawney Phil]
18.
He wrote an influential algebra text and reformed the calendar, leading to the start of the Jalali era in
A.D. 1079. But we know him chiefly from words put in his mouth 736 years after his death, such as “A book
of verses underneath the bough/A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou/Beside me in the wilderness.” FTP
name this astronomer, mathematician, and poet, namesake of Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat.
[Omar
Khayyam]
19.
The plaintiff was the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the U.S. His attorneys were
William Pinkney and Daniel Webster. The unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Marshall cited Article VI’s
assertion that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land and held that Congress’ power “to make all laws
necessary and proper” to carry out the specific powers conferred on it superseded any state actions. FTP name
this landmark 1819 Supreme Court ruling.
[McCulloch v. Maryland]
20.
It includes the regions of Severocesky, Vychocesky, Zapadocesky, Jihocesky, and Stredocesky. It was
ruled from 871 to 1310 by the Premyslid dynasty and from 1310 to 1620 to the Luxemburg dynasty. The last
three kings of the latter were also Hapsburgs, which explains why it hasn’t been an independent entity since.
FTP name this province, whose sovereigns often had great names such as Ladislas Posthumus, Spithnjew I,
John the Blind, Boleslav I, and Wenceslaus the Holy.
[Bohemia]
21.
Benjamin Franklin was an early proponent, but he put forth no definite plan. An Englishman
named William Willett did and tirelessly crusaded for it; in 1916, a year after his death, Britain adopted it. The
U.S. followed suit in 1917 as part of the war effort but repealed it in 1919 due to farmers' objections. It was
instituted again from 1942 to 1945, and for the following 20 years some states adopted it piecemeal. In 1966
Congress finally passed the Uniform Time Act, although Arizona, Hawaii, and parts of Indiana still don't
observe this system. FTP name it.
[Daylight Saving Time]
TOSSUPS -- ROUND 11
1998 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN, UT-CHATTANOOGA
1.
This man, whose proteges later included Phog Allen, took a peach basket and inserted a malleable metal
rod around it. He then fastened the basket to a wooden post outside his office in Springfield, Mass., and got a
couple of college kids to test it by throwing a large ball at the hoop. His invention kind of caught on. FTP,
name the inventor of this makeshift hoop and the game of basketball itself, for whom the National B-ball player
of the year award is named.
[ James Naismith]
2.
He was largely self-educated; his Quaker beliefs excluded him from Oxford and Cambridge, even
though he was so advanced at age 12 that his village school made him the headmaster. He determined the
temperature at which water reaches its maximum density. In 1803 he concluded, independently of Gay-Lussac,
that all gases have the same coeeficient of thermal expansion, and he proposed his law of partial pressures. FTP
name this chemist, whose 1808 book New System of Chemical Philosophy asserted that matter was made up of
atoms of different elements which could be distinguished by their weights.
[John Dalton]
3.
Originally, it was the first part of the tanka , a five-line poem, often written by two people as a literary
game: one writing three lines, the other ,two lines capping them. But the first three lines became popular as a
separate form with the first and third lines containing five syllables and the second seven syllables. FTP, what is
the name of this seventeen syllable Japanese poetic form?
[haiku (acc: hokku)]
4.
This four-word phrase comes from the same Supreme Court majority opinion as the quote “[F]reedom of
speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting ‘fire’ in a theatre and causing a panic.” Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes coined the phrase in Schenck v. U.S. to describe a situation where compelling public interest
would override the 1st Amendment. FTP give the phrase, also the title of a Tom Clancy novel.
[“clear and present danger”]
5.
John T. Moore, Willie Dough, Adam C. Etheridge, William C. Brinkley, and John T. Daniels are not
exactly famous, but these 5 volunteers from the local lifesaving station collaborated with these 2 more famous
men on a historic day. Of course, the news media didn't immediately realize how historic it was and largely
ignored the story despite the great men's efforts to publicize it. It only lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet,
but on Dec. 17, 1903, these men launched the first free, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight in
history. FTP name them.
[the Wright brothers]
6.
During World War II scientists trying to develop a synthetic rubber accidentally dropped some boric acid
into silicone oil. The resulting substance has several uses; Apollo astronauts used it to fasten down tools during
weightlessness. But we doubt if they had any comic strips to make imprints of. FTP name this resilient
product, sold primarily as a toy.
[Silly Putty]
7.
According to Horace, a nymph named Cynara was so beautiful that an envious god transformed her into
one of these -- hence its botanical name, Cynara scolymus. Native to the Mediterranean area & the Canary
Islands, these members of the family Compositae are extensively cultivated in low ground near the California
coast. This coarse, stout, thistle-like herb usually grows from 3 to 5 feet tall. FTP name this plant, cultivated
for the edible thickened scales & bottoms of the immature flower, commonly called the heart.
[artichoke]
8.
Although his family was filled with clergymen, he obtained an MD at the University of Zurich in 1902.
He suggested that humans can be classified as extroverts and introverts, and later differentiated four functions of
the mind. FTP, identify this Swiss psychologist, most famous for his theory of the collective unconscious and
opposition to Freud.
[Carl Gustav Jung]
9.
St. Stephen Walbrook. St. James, Piccadilly. St. Mary-le-Bow. The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Trinity
College, Cambridge. FTP name the architect who designed these as well as the 17th century replacement for St.
Paul's Cathedral.
[Sir Christopher Wren]
10.
Oscar Wilde said, "I can resist everything in life except temptation." Groucho Marx said, "I refuse to
join any club that will have me as a member." And Stephen Hawking wrote, "The farther you travel into the
prevailing abyss of the black hole, the more and more dense it becomes, consisting of everything and nothing at
the same time." These previous statements are all examples of, FTP, what linguistic phenomena also known as
contradictory truths?
[paradoxes]
11.
He figures in The Odyssey and The Waste Land and is the title character of an Apollinaire play. He
supposedly died after the expedition of the Seven Against Thebes, having lived for seven or nine generations
after his role in the tragic lives of Laius and Oedipus. FTP name this blind Theban seer, whose principal claim
to fame is that he had briefly been turned into a woman.
[Tiresias]
12
When she was eight, she lost an eye to an errant BB fired by her brother. She went on to be valedictorian
of her high school class, matriculating at Spelman College. In 1968 she published a book of poetry entitled
Once. Her novels include The Temple of My Familiar and the colorful novel that earned her a 1983 Pulitzer
Prize. FTP, name this author of The Color Purple.
[Alice Walker]
13.
The title character is shot to death by the husband of the mistress of the man whose wife he loved. The
husband of the mistress had traced the car that killed his wife and thought the owner had run over her, but he
was protecting the woman he loved, who’d actually been driving but had no idea that the woman she killed was
her husband’s mistress. Confused? Well, the mistress was Myrtle, the married couple are Tom and Daisy
Buchanan, and the narrator is Daisy’s cousin Nick Carraway. FTP name this 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
[The Great Gatsby]
14.
At his father's death he turned to a cousin, tears in his eyes, and said, "What is going to happen to me, to
you, to Xenia, to Alix, to mother, to all of Russia? I am not prepared to be tsar. I never wanted to become one. I
know nothing of the business of ruling." He then spent the next 23 years proving his point. FTP name the
ineffectual son of Alexander III, whose reign as tsar is remembered mainly because there hasn't been one since.
[Nicholas II]
15.
It was written in a tuberculosis hospital by the editor of the National Observer and the New Review. Most
critics consider it inferior to his lesser-known free verse works, but it contains such memorable quotes as “My head
is bloody, but unbowed” and “I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul.” FTP name this poem by
William Ernest Henley, which concludes with the lines “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
[“Invictus”]
16.
The town in southern Arizona where the film Oklahoma! was actually lensed shares its name with this
region south of the Limay and Rio Negro rivers. The Gulf of San Matias and the Gulf of San Jorge are along its
coastline. It includes the Chilean province of Magallanes and the provinces of Rio Negro, Chubut, and Santa
Cruz in Argentina. FTP name this barren table land between the Andes and the Atlantic.
[Patagonia]
17.
He passed up a contract with the White Sox to accept a football scholarship at Illinois, but when he
learned they wouldn't consider a black for the quarterback spot, he transferred to North Carolina A & T.
Besides starring in football, he earned a degree in sociology and led a successful sit-in. A Rockefeller
Foundation grant put him through Chicago Theological Seminary. FTP name the leader of Operation
Breadbasket, Operation PUSH, and the Rainbow Coalition.
[Jesse
Jackson]
18.
Three men shared the 1956 Nobel in Physics for their work at Bell Labs, where in 1948 they invented
this. It can be used as an amplifier, rectifier, or switch. FTP, identify this device which revolutionized
electronic circuits by replacing the vacuum tube.
[transistor]
19.
Its adherents believed that all principles are to be regarded as working hypotheses rather than
metaphysically binding axioms. A modern expression of empiricism, it was influential in early twentieth century
America. FTP, identify this philosophical movement, founded by C.S. Pierce and advanced by William James,
that sounds like it would be a sensible and useful doctrine.
[pragmatism]
20.
Concerned about a declining birthrate, he used both the carrot (tax incentives for big families) and the
stick (a crackdown on abortions.) To check the effectiveness of his policies, he ordered an intermittent census
of his realm. And thus it came to pass that there went out a decree from him that all the world should be
registered. FTP name the first Roman emperor.
[Augustus]
21.
Its author was a master of literary fraud, although instead of claiming the works of others as his own, his
scam was to write stuff and pass it off as translations of the works of others. It told of the lowly life and death of a
Spanish cigarette factory worker. FTP name this short story by Prosper Merimee, basis for an opera by Georges
Bizet.
[“Carmen”]