Subject: PMIV questions and results...
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:23:08 -0600
From: Robert Craig Harman <paris@byu.edu>
Organization: Mission.Net <http://mission.net>
To: David Levinson <dmlevins@uclink2.berkeley.edu>
These are to confirm our status as a voting member of ACF for 1997-1998.
We shared packets with Wichita State and Vanderbilt so this should
cover them as well. The stats are first; the packets are attached,
concatenated together...
...Craig
----------------------------------------------------------------------Player - TeaSchool
Points per rouRoundsTotal toss-uTotal neg fives
Eric
BYU B
58.33
6
37
4
Peter
TMM
57.86
14
85
8
Mark
TMM
41.56
16
73
13
Matt
Berkeley
38.82
17
72
12
Norm
BYU A
36.88
16
67
16
Paul
BYU B
35.38
13
50
8
Don
BYU C
33.00
5
20
7
Stephen
Independent
31.67
6
21
4
Haggai
Berkeley
29.38
16
50
6
Gaius
Berkeley
26.88
16
48
10
Jessie
BYU C
21.47
17
40
7
Nephi
BYU A
18.13
16
34
10
Ken
BYU A
16.88
16
32
10
Katy
Berkeley
16.00
15
25
2
David
Berkeley
15.38
13
22
4
Darrell
BYU B
13.33
3
4
0
Michael
BYU B
13.33
3
5
2
Tracy
BYU C
12.50
6
9
3
Joe
ASU
12.19
16
22
5
Matt
BYU A
11.88
16
21
4
Rick
Utah
11.25
16
23
10
Robert
ASU
8.67
15
15
4
Misha
TMM
6.25
16
11
2
Rachel
BYU B
6.00
5
3
0
Christine
ASU
5.63
16
9
0
Maria
BYU C
4.44
9
4
0
Robert
BYU B
3.00
5
3
3
Briton
BYU C
1.67
6
1
0
Team
TMM
Berkeley
BYU A
BYU B
BYU C
ASU
Utah
Check
TMM
Berkeley
BYU A
BYU B
BYU C
ASU
Utah
Win/loss %
0.882
0.875
0.625
0.471
0.333
0.176
0.118
0.5
Rounds Total wins Total losses
17
15
2
16
14
2
16
10
6
17
8
9
12
4
8
17
3
14
17
2
15
56
56
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Dork Bowl I: Dorkier Than Thou
Round by:
Justin Hasford
1. Born in England, her family emigrated to the U.S. after her father's sugar
refinery burned down. She
studied medicine at Geneva College, and later she and her sister Emily opened
the New York Infirmary for
Women and Children.
FTP, name this American female doctor.
ANSWER: ELIZABETH _BLACKWELL_
2. This perennial plant, Zingiber officiale,
leaves have sheathing stalks, and
its sterile flowers are purple and yellow.
a spice which flavors a variety
is native to Southeast Asia
Its
FTP, name this plant, whose root is
of foods and drinks, including an ale.
ANSWER: _GINGER_
3. The site of this city was discovered by Padre Escalante in 1778, and was
settled by Mormons sent south
by Brigham Young in the 1840's.
as a small mining center
For the next hundred yearsthe town languished
and railroad stop. Things pickerd up for a time in the 1930's when the city was
used as a home base for
workers constructing a dam on the nearby Colorado River.
city famous for its strip.
FTP, name this Nevada
ANSWER: _LAS VEGAS_
4. Some critics feel this work helped shape the cynical views of
and 1984. The book
Animal Farm
chronicles Orwell's life as a soldier and his growing disillusionmentr with
totalitarianism. FTP, name this
George Orwell book relating his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
ANSWER: _HOMAGE TO CATALONIA_
5. Some compare this young quarterback to Steve Young because of his scrambling.
He began his NFL
career as a backup to Brett Favre in Green Bay, during which time he saw
virtually no action on the field.
He did, however, lead all NFL quarterbacks in both passing and rushing yards in
the 1996 season. FTP,
name this quarterback who led the Jacksonville Jaguars to the AFC Championship
this year.
ANSWER: MARK _BRUNELL_
6. A lyrical example of this psychological phenomenon comes from a song by the
Bobs: "Every melody that
I hear fills my mind with colors bright and beautiful."
in which one sensory stimulus
FTP, name this process
produces a secondary, subjective sensation; e.g. a smell makes you hear
something.
ANSWER: _SYNESTHESIA_
7. They derived their name from a term of abuse for Scottish Presbyterians,
meaning "cattle driver". They
became identified with industry and dissent, which led the National Republican
Party in the United States to
name themselves after this group. FTP, name this political party which
flourished in England under Fox and
Walpole and
in the U.S. under Clay and Webster.
ANSWER: _WHIG_S
8. In 1979, the computer program TIT FOR TAT showed that the golden rule would
triumph in this age-old
puzzle. The type of logical situation where varying negative outcomes are
determined by two boolean
choices is one of the oldest in philosophy.
game theory, which uses as an
FTP,what is this fundamental of
example the fate of two convicted thieves.
ANSWER: _PRISONER'S DILEMMA_
9. His Intimate Journals is typical of Romanticism, but his paintings were
largely influenced by Reubens. He
made numerous lithographs and several murals for Louis Phillipe. FTP, identify
this French painter of The
Justice of Trajan, Death of Sardanapalus, The Massacre of Chios,
Leading the People.
ANSWER: EUGENE _DELACROIX_
and Liberty
10. Based on a story by Gozzi, the orchestral suite based on it is divided into
six sections; Les Ridecules,
Scène Infernale, Marche, Scherzo, Le Prince et la Princesse, and La Fuite. It is
noted for its vivacious
melodies and the expression of the comnposers moods of whimsy and the grotesque.
FTP, name this 1921
opera by Prokofiev.
ANSWER: _Love For Three Oranges_
11. . For mercury it goes upward, but for water it goes downward.
its application strange, since
Many find
taking a reading at its location may seem inaccurate. FTP, name this curvature
on the surface of a liquid at
which a volumetric reading is taken.
ANSWER:_ MENISCUS_
12. He spent most of his 23-year life as a prisoner in Austria. He was known as
the Prince of Parma, the
Duke of Reichstadt, and the King of Rome. FTP, identify this would-be
nineteenth-century monarch whose
father, despite the objections of most of Europe, tried to name him the Emporer
of France,.
ANSWER: _NAPOLEON II_
13. When a pitcher throws a curve ball, the ball's rotation disrupts the airflow
around it, causing the ball to
experience a reaction force, making the ball curve.
physicists give this effect?
FTP, what name do
ANSWER: MAGNUS EFFECT
14. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch," it tells the story of a tomboyish
cowgirl who is mocked by the
whole town, but later becomes "properly feminine" and wins the heart of the
ranch's champion roper by the
end of the ballet. FTP, name this work of music by Aaron Copeland with
choreography by Agnes de Mille,
which contains the famous Buckaroo Holiday.
ANSWER: RODEO
15. It has an odor which resembles that
organic chemistry as a
of freshly mown hay. It is used in
chlorinating agent. FTP, name this respitory irritant, also known as carbonyl
chloride, which was used in gas
attacks during World War I.
ANSWER: _PHOSGENE_ (acc: carbonyl chloride on early buzz)
16. He translated the first book of Lucan's Pharsalia and Ovid's Elegies.
of his lesser-known works
Some
include the unfinished "Hero and Leander" "Massacre at Paris" and Edward the
Second. FTP, name this
Elizabethan playwright better known for The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus.
ANSWER: CHRISTOPHER _MARLOWE_
17. Though the term became much more well-known after World War II, it
originally referred to two violent
storms, during which tens of thousands of Mongols died.
1274 in Hakata Bay, and the
second occurred seven years later.
Japanese to refer to them as, FTP,
The first occurred in
Their opportune arrival prompted the
what name which literally translates as "divine wind."
ANSWER: _KAMIKAZE_
18. This prominent scientist is best known for his popular writings, including
his books "Wonderful Life"
and "Bully for Brontosaurus," and his magazine column entitled "This View of
Life." FTP, name this
paleontologist and Harvard professor who developed the theory of punctuated
equilibrium with Niles
Edlridge.
ANSWER: STEPHEN J. _GOULD_
19. "I call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night time.
The dog did nothing in the
night time. That was a curious incident," said Sherlock Holmes in one of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's finest
short stories. The case centers around a missing horse and a bizarre murder.
FTP, name the horse and you
have named the title of the mystery.
ANSWER: SILVER BLAZE
20. He was named Assistant U.S. Attorney General in 1936, Solisitor General in
1938 and Attorney General
in 1940. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1941, where his most important
decision was in
Youngstown v. Sawyer, where he declared Truman's seizure of steel mills
unconstitutional. FTP, who is this
Associate Supreme Court Justice bset known as the Prosecuting Attorney for the
1945 Nuremburg trials?
ANSWER: ROBERT _JACKSON_
21. "I'm a great homemaker; whenever I get divorced, I keep the house," quoted
this shallow woman of
much make-up. In 1990, a California judge slapped her with a prison sentence
after she slapped a police
officer. FTP, name this former star of stage and screen whose sister savored
farm life on Green Acres.
ANSWER: ZSA ZSA GABOR
Boni.
1. Given the name of a country, FTP each name the man who ruled that country
during World War II.
A. Vichy France
ANSWER: Marshal Henri PETAIN
B. Slovakia
ANSWER: Monsignor Josef TISO
C. Hungary
ANSWER: Admiral Miklos HORTHY
2. Many Broadway plays were based on other works. For the stated number of
points, given the Broadway
play, name the work on which it was based.
A. 5 pts:
"Hello, Dolly"
ANSWER: The MATCHMAKER
B. 10 pts:
"Camelot"
ANSWER: The ONCE AND FUTURE KING
C. 15 pts:
"Cabaret"
ANSWER:
I AM A CAMERA
3. Name the author from clues, 30-20-10.
A. _Death to the French_ and _The Gun_ were two of his best-known novels of the
Peninsular War. His
first novel, _Payment Deferred_, was published in 1926.
B. _The Happy Return_ was the first of his Horatio Hornblower books.
C. His historical novel _The African Queen_ was successfully filmed in 1952.
Answer: C(ecil) S(cott) FORESTER
4. Answer the following questions about William F. Buckley Jr. for the stated
number of points.
A. F5P, give the name of the conservative magazine Buckley founded.
ANSWER: NATIONAL REVIEW
B. FTP, give the name of the television show Buckley hosts on PBS.
ANSWER: FIRING LINE
C. F15P, which six-time unsuccessful candidate for President was Buckley's very
first guest on Firing Line?
ANSWER: Norman Mattoon THOMAS
5. Answer the following about a 1989 Central American election for ten points
each.
A. Which Notre Dame graduate, named president by the ruling military junta in
1979, lost the election?
ANSWER:
Jose Napoleon DUARTE (Fuentes)
B. Which nation did Duarte rule?
ANSWER: EL SALVADOR
C. Which candidate of the ARENA party defeated Duarte in the election?
ANSWER: Alfredo CRISTIANI
6. FTP each, identify each of the following chemical processes used in
industrial synthesis.
A. The high-pressure production of ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gases.
ANSWER: HABER Process
B. The production of concentrated nitric acid, named after the German chemist
who developed it durign
World War I.
ANSWER: OSTWALD Process
C. The production of concentrated sulfuric acid, which gives a 98% by weight
aqueous solution.
ANSWER: CONTACT Process
7. In 1963, in a significant unanimous decision, the supreme court decided that
the right to counsel was part
of the due process clause in the 6th and 14th amendments.
A. FTP, name this case.
ANSWER: GIDEON v. Wainwright
B. F20P, name the 1942 decision overturned by Gideon vs. Wainwright.
ANSWER: BETTS v. Brady
8. Answer the following questions about cell biology for the stated number of
points.
A. F5P, name the model of the cell membrane which accounts for its bilayer of
phospholipids and proteins.
ANSWER: FLUID-MOSAIC model
B. FTP, what term refers to the movement of molecules across the cell membrane
through protein pores
which does NOT require an energy expenditure?
ANSWER: PASSIVE TRANSPORT (ACC: CARRIER-MEDIATED DIFFUSION)
C. The ratio of the concentration of a substance in organic solution to its
concentration in aqueous solution
is a quantity which determines the extent to which the substance diffuses across
the cell membrane. F15P,
what name is given to this ratio?
ANSWER: PARTITION COEFFICIENT
9. Name the following European winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature for ten
points each.
A. He wrote the novels _The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard_ and _Contemporary
History_ and won the prize
in 1921.
Answer: Anatole FRANCE
B. A symbolist despite the realism of his time, he wrote the play _Pelleas and
Melisande_ and the allegorical
fable _The Blue Bird_.
Answer: Maurice MAETERLINCK
C. This Parnassian author of _Les epreuves_ won the first Nobel Prize.
Answer: Rene-Francois-Armand SULLY PRUDHOMME
10. FTP each, given the following well-known buildings, name the architect who
designed each.
A. The Pan Am Building
ANSWER: Walter GROPIUS
B. The Holocaust Memorial Museum
ANSWER: James FREED
C. The Washington Monument
ANSWER: Robert MILLS
11. Name the sports figures from their nicknames, 5-10-15.
A. 5 pts:
Galloping Ghost
Answer: Red GRANGE
B. 10 pts:
Big Six
Answer: Christy MATHEWSON
C. 15 pts:
Crazy Legs
Answer: Elroy HIRSCH
12. Answer the following about international historical events for fifteen
points each. Each correct answer
begins with "C."
A. The Royalists withdrew with heavy losses after this 1817 battle, the first
major engagement in San
Martin's War of Independence against Spain.
Answer: Battle of CHACABUCO
B. It was demarcated by the League of Nations in 1919 and established the Polish
eastern frontier and
awarded Vilna to Lithuania.
Answer: CURZON LINE
13. Most people can name several of our nation's founding fathers, but can you
name the founding fathers of
the following restaurant chains?
For the stated number of points,
A 5 pts: Wendy's
ANSWER: Dave THOMAS
B. 5 pts:
Kentucky Fried Chicken
ANSWER: Harlan SANDERS
C. 5 pts:
McDonald's
ANSWER: Ray KROC
D. 15 pts:
Domino's Pizza
ANSWER: Tom MONAGHAN
14. The Cathedral of Florence is often considered the greatest architectural
work in Italy. Answer the
following questions about the Cathedral for the stated number of points.
A. F5P, who designed the bronze doors of the Baptistery?
ANSWER: Lorenzo GHIBERTI
B. FTP, who designed its bell tower?
ANSWER: GIOTTO
C. For 15 points, what painter drew the frescoes on the dome's interior?
ANSWER: Giorgio VASARI
15. Answer the following about the mathematics of systematic counting, 10-5-15.
A. 10 pts:
What name is given to the mathematics of systematic counting?
Answer: COMBINATORICS
B. 5 pts: If event A can be done in 2 ways, event B can be done in 3 ways, and
events A and B are
independent, how many ways are there to do events A and B?
Answer: SIX (6)
C. 15 pts: This principle counts the number of a certain class of objects by
removing those that should not
count and, in turn, compensating by replacing those that have been removed
incorrectly.
Answer: PRINCIPLE OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION
16. Given a play name the playwright, FTP each.
A. "American Buffalo"
ANSWER: David MAMET
B. "Orpheus Descending"
ANSWER: Tennessee WILLIAMS
C. "Night, Mother"
ANSWER: Marsha NORMAN
17. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about
Liechtenstein.
A. F5P, name Liechtenstein's capital.
ANSWER: VADUZ
B. FTP, name the river that forms the boundary between Liechtenstein and
Switzerland.
ANSWER: RHINE
C. F15P, name the current head of state of Liechtenstein.
ANSWER: PRINCE HANS ADAM
18. Identify the following Oscar Wilde works, 5-10-15.
A. 5 pts: This updated version of the Faust story includes the characters Lord
Henry Wotton and Basil
Hallward.
Answer: The PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
B. 10 pts: It tells of the hanging of the murderer Charles Thomas Wooldridge
and was written while Wilde
himself was a convict.
Answer: The BALLAD OF READING GAOL
C. 15 pts: His first theatrical success, it deals with a blackmailing divorcee
driven to self-sacrifice by
maternal love.
Answer: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN
19. Name the fathers of the following biblical characters for ten points each.
A. Noah
Answer: LAMECH
B. Seth
Answer: ADAM
C. Methuselah
Answer: ENOCH
20. FTP each, given descriptions of the following colloidal dispersions,
identify which general type of colloid
is being described.
A. Liquid dispersed into liquid.
ANSWER: EMULSION
B. Liquid dispersed into solid.
ANSWER: GEL
C. Gas dispersed into solid.
ANSWER: FOAM
Dork Bowl I: Dorkier Than Thou
Round by:
Justin Hasford (2)
1. He holds five Super Bowl records: Passes attempted in one, Completions in
one, Career attempts, times
intercepted in a game, and career times intercepted.
yards and 237 touchdown passes in his
He has 35,467 passing
career, more if you count his two years with the Houston Gamblers of the USFL.
FTP, name this longtime Bills
quarterback who announced his retirement on Thursday.
Answer: Jim _Kelly_
2. Born in Ephesus around 540 BC, his ideas stem from the Ionian School of
philosophy. He believed fire was the
primal substance which creates the phenomena of the sensible world.
believed in the idea of change, even in
He also
the most stable seeming things. Only one work, On Nature, is definitely his.
FTP, can you name this philosopher
who because of his lonely life and misanthropic philosophy was known as the Dark
or Weeping Philosopher?
Answer: _Heraclitus_
3. It was based on astrological ideas of the day,
astronomy that later generations have attached
not the mythology or
to it. A patriotic hymn to England called I Vow to Thee, My Country, was taken
from it. It contains a Mystic, a
Magician, a Bringer of Jollity, and a Bringer of War, but it does not contain
Pluto or Earth. FTP, can you name this
orchestral suite about the solar system by Gustav Holst?
Answer: The _Planets_
4. In 1826 he published Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena.
astatic needle, paving the way for
He invented the
the modern galvanometer. He showed that two parallel conductors carrying
currents traveling in the same direction
attract each other and repel each other when traveling in the opposite
direction. FTP, name this French scientist who
has a unit of electric current named for him.
Answer: Andre Marie _Ampere_
5. They contain little food reserve and possess a centrosome.
a middle section containing
They consist of
mitochondria to provide energy, a head section containing an acrosome and a
haploid nucleus, and a rear section
which is essentially a propelling tail.
reproductive cell of male animals.
FTP, name this mature mobile
Answer: _sperm_atozoa(n)
6. He discredited the High Churchmen with his best known pamphlet, "The
Shortest Way with the Dissenters."
Arrested for libel, he wrote "Hymn to the Pillory."
work of fiction, Roxana, in 1724. His
He published his last major
best known work was based on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk.
this author of A Journal of the
Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe?
Answer: Daniel _Defoe_
FTP, who was
7. He was originally written about in The Town Down the River, in a poem in
iambic tetrameter. This melancholy
New Englander has little insight into his own deficiencies.
Tilbury Town, he longs for more
romantic times and finds solace in drinking.
a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson,
An inhabitant of
FTP, name this title character of
who "wept that he was ever born."
Answer: _Miniver Cheevy_
8. It is believed that it was once part of an ocean bay and that it was closed
off to the ocean due to a volcanic
eruption. The slow conversion of the lake from saltwater to freshwater allowed
its aquatic life to adapt making it the
only freshwater body of water in the world to host oceanic life such as sharks
and swordfish. FTP, name this largest
freshwater lake in Central America.
ANS: LAKE _NICARAGUA_
9. The Parker Brothers Company is founded, "The Mikado" opens at the Savoy
Theatre, Van Gogh paints "The
Potato Eaters," and General "Chinese" Gordon is massacred at Khartoum.
these events occurred in, FTP, what
All of
year during which Grover Cleveland first assumed the office of the presidency?
ANS: _1885_
10. This artist was the subject of a 1923 compilation entitled "The Art
Spirit." He counted among his students
George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, and Edward Hopper.
works include "Spanish Gypsy"
FTP, name this artist whose
and "Young Woman in Black," and who co-founded the Ashcan School.
ANS: ROBERT _HENRI_
11. Translated by Richard Whitford, it consists of four major parts, including
"Which Treats Especially of the
Sacrament of the Altar" and "Admonitions Useful for a Spiritual Life."
name this book completed circa 1427
and thought to have been written by Thomas A Kempis.
ANS: THE _IMITATION OF CHRIST_
FTP,
12. Analytical chemists use it to determine the amount of each component to add
to produce a particular buffer
solution at a desired pH. Biochemists use it to determine the optimum pH for
enzyme activity based on the pKa
values of the polypeptide's amino acid constituents.
equation which states that pH equals
FTP, name this widely used
pKa plus the log of the concentration of the base divided by the concentration
of the acid.
ANS: _HENDERSON-HASSELBACH_ EQUATION
13. Discontent with the Clinton administration and an aversion to illegal
immigration in California got him elected in
1994. However, this one-time substitute host of the Rush Limbaugh radio show
was defeated in 1996 in his reelection bid for the Orange County Congressional seat.
GOP presidential hopeful who was
FTP, name this former
defeated by less than 1000 votes by Loretta Sanchez.
ANS: ROBERT _DORNAN_
14. Conversations he had with fellow student Mikhail Bakunin influenced his
first novel, "Rudin." He later achieved
success with the story of Khor and Kalinich in "A Sportsman Sketches."
name this Russian writer more famous
FTP,
for "A Nest of Gentlefolk," "A Month in the Country," and "Fathers and Sons."
ANS: IVAN _TURGENEV_
15. This actor made his film debut in "The Graduate" in 1967, playing a college
student who finds Benjamin
Braddock inside his dorm room without permission.
went on to achieve greater fame and
After that cameo role, he
recognition in the 1970s. FTP, name this performer featured in some of that
decade's biggest hits, including
"American Graffiti," "Jaws," and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and who
won an Oscar for his role in "The
Goodbye Girl."
ANS: RICHARD _DREYFUSS_
16. He attacked the Newtonian theory of light, and he also studied
developmental biology and acoustics. Though he
was also chief minister of state at Weimar for 10 years, he is best known as an
author and playwright. FTP, identify
this author of "Elective Affinities," "The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister,"
and "The Sorrows of Young Werther."
ANS: JOHANN WOLFGANG VON _GOETHE_
17. The only injury he sustained in battle was due to an Indian arrow, causing
him to take only a year of absence
from the Civil War. At Mill Springs, he won the Union's first significant
victory, and he led the Centre division in the
Union charge at Mission Ridge and defeated Confederate General John Bell Hood at
the Battles of Franklin and
Nashville. FTP, name this brilliant Union general whose disobeyance of orders
turned defeat into victory thereby
earning him the nickname, the "Rock of Chickamauga."
ANS: GEORGE HENRY _THOMAS_
18. Widely used in ultraviolet or visible spectroscopic analysis, it departs
from ideality when the analyzed solution is
too concentrated or contains dissociated ions, or when polychromatic radiation
or stray light is present. It states that
absorbance equals molar absorptivity times path length times concentration.
FTP, what is this law of optics named
after a German physicist?
ANS: _BEER'S_ LAW
19. Its major goals included the restoration of a balance of power in Europe,
compensation for other nations upon
one nation's territorial gains, and the principle of legitimacy with respect to
each individual nation's rulers. Its
representatives included Alexander I of Russia, Castlereagh of Britain,
Hardenburgh of Prussia, Talleyrand of France,
and Metternich of Austria. FTP, name this body which deliberated from September
1814 until June 1815 after the
defeat of Napoleon.
ANS: _CONGRESS OF VIENNA_
20. A series of international crises in Europe after 1907 contributed to the
outbreak of World War I in 1914. The
first of these occurred in 1908, when Austria allied itself with Germany in
order to annex a southern European nation.
FTP, name this country, whose October 1908 annexation by Austria infuriated both
Russia and Serbia.
ANS: _BOSNIA_
21. Born in Belgium with the last name Rupelmonde, he was appointed in 1552 as
chairman of cosmography in
Duisberg, Germany. FTP, name this geographer, the first to describe a
collection of maps with the word "atlas," best
known for his namesake projection, notorious for exaggerating the size of polar
regions.
ANS: GERARDUS _MERCATOR_
22. It has been regarded as a symbol of courage since ancient times, when it
was associated with Jupiter. Having
scientific name Aquila Chrysaetos, it can reach a length of one meter and
wingspan of two meters and is found in
much of the Northern Hemisphere.
used as a symbol of Russia,
FTP, can you name this bird that has also been
Austro-Hungary, Germany, and France under the Bonapartes?
Answer: _golden eagle_
After the Union of South Africa became a self-governing dominion within the
British Commonwealth in 1910, this
white minority of Dutch ancestry maintained control of the government even
though blacks numbered about 18
million, and maintained apartheid for over 70 years.
these Dutch-descended South Africans
FTP, by what name were
known?
ANS: AFRIKANERS
21. Some of his paintings were deadened in feeling, including his "The
Distribution of Eagles." However, most of his
other paintings involved illustrations of his own sense of virtue.
this revolution-era French painter, the
FTP, name
court painter of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose more famous works include "Death of
Socrates" and "Oath of the
Horatii."
ANS: JACQUES-LOUIS _DAVID_
22. Despite failing to secure delegates to any of the Democratic National
Conventions, this eventual Secretary of
State under Woodrow Wilson continued to receive the Democratic nomination for
the presidency. Many of his
contemporaries derided his style of speech, calling him the "Boy Orator of the
Platte," a mile wide but only a foot
deep. FTP, name this perennial loser of the presidency and prosecutor in the
infamous Scopes Monkey Trial.
ANS: WILLIAM JENNINGS _BRYAN_
Boni.
(30) Now its time for a literature bonus on the Hardy Boys.
number of points, name the following
For the stated
things from that classic series of books.
A.
F5P, This was the name of Frank and Joe Hardy's father.
Answer: Fenton
B. F5P for the first or last name and 10 points for both, what was the name of
the Hardy boys' stout friend?
Answer: Chet Morton
C. F5P each, what were the first names of Frank's and Joe's girlfriends.
must specify whose girlfriend each one
You
is.
Answer: Frank's: Callie Shaw; Joe's: Iola Morton
D.
F5P, this was the name of book number 1 in the Hardy Boys series.
Answer: The Tower Treasure
(30) Name the following people associated with the Black Sox scandal of 1919 F5P
each.
1. This owner of the White Sox drove them to throw the series with his pennypinching ways.
Answer: Charles _Comiskey_
2. When Comiskey came to him with his suspicions of a fix, this American League
president said it was "the bark of
a wounded cur," and refused to investigate.
Answer: Ban _Johnson_
3. Even though this great left fielder batted .375 and hit the only home run of
the World Series, he admitted being
involved with the fix and was banned from baseball.
Answer: Joe _Jackson_
4. This pitcher who had won 29 games during the regular season hit the first
batter of the first game to signal that the
fix was on.
Answer: Eddie _Cicotte_
5. This third baseman took no money from the gamblers and hit over .300 for the
series, but because he had known
about the fix he was banned as well.
Answer: Buck _Weaver_
6.
This Chicago gangland gambler was the mastermind behind the fix.
Answer: Arnold _Rothstein_
(30) Answer the following questions about winners of Nobel Prizes in 1923 from
the category and a clue FTP or
another clue F5.
10 points: Literature; his tombstone reads "Cast a cold eye/On life, on
death./Horseman, pass by!"
5 points: Irish poet and playwright of such works as Countess Cathleen, The
Tower, and Sailing to Byzantium.
Answer: William Butler Yeats
10 points: Physics, for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and the
photoelectric effect.
5 points: His name is most associated with an oil-drop experiment.
Answer: Robert Millikan
10 points: Two men won in Physiology, one the director of a laboratory and the
other a physician working there. (you
must get both to get any points)
5 points: They won the prize for the discovery of insulin.
Answer: Frederick Banting and John Macleod
(30) Name the following people from their supposed last words FTP each.
10 points: "Go on, get out!
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
Answer: Karl Marx
10 points: "I desire to go to hell and not to heaven.
shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and
In the former place I
princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks, and apostles."
Answer: Niccolo Machiavelli
10 points: "See me safe up; for my coming down, let me shift for myself."
Answer: Sir Thomas More
Answer the following concerning electrochemistry for the stated number of
points.
A. F5P, what chemical process occurs at the cathode of any electrochemical cell?
ANS: _REDUCTION_
B. FTP, what equation is used to calculate the potential of an electrode when
given the standard potential and
concentrations of the oxidized and reduced species?
ANS: _NERNST_ EQUATION
C. F15P, the saturated calomel electrode consists of a paste of the chloride
salt of what element?
ANS: _MERCURY_
Everyone knows that Rhode Island is the smallest state in land area in the
United States. But F5P apiece with a five
point bonus for all 5, name the next 5 smallest states by land area.
ANS: DELAWARE, CONNECTICUT, NEW JERSEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT
Identify the American president from the following clues, 30-20-10.
30: He was the first presidential candidate in history to spend a million
dollars on his campaign.
20: His Democratic opponent, Winfield Hancock, only spent $335,000 on the
campaign.
10: The quote, "I am a Stalwart and Arthur is now president," is associated with
his assassination.
ANS: JAMES _GARFIELD_
Identify each of the following Edna Ferber novels after brief descriptions, FTP
each.
A. It is a shifting, glowing pageant of the Mississippi from New Orleans to St.
Louis; of cargoes burned to win races
and plantationer's fortunes gambled away overnight.
ANS: _SHOW BOAT_
B. It tells how a courageous woman in a calico dress on a Midwest farm discovers
how large life can be.
ANS: _SO BIG_
C. Yancey Cravat and his wife Sabra watch cities grow overnight in the
wilderness of Oklahoma.
ANS: _CIMARRON_
Identify each of the following pop music artists given the title of a CD F5P
each.
A. "Waking Up the Neighbours"
ANS: BRYAN _ADAMS_
B. "Whaler"
ANS: SOPHIE B. _HAWKINS_
C. "Music Box"
ANS: MARIAH _CAREY_
D. "Tigerlily"
ANS: NATALIE _MERCHANT_
E. "Big Yellow Taxi"
ANS: AMY _GRANT_
F.
"Diva"
ANS: ANNIE _LENNOX_
Identify the opera composer given a title F5P each.
A. "Duke Bluebeard's Castle"
ANS: Bela _BARTOK_
B. "The Rake's Progress"
ANS: Igor _STRAVINSKY_
C. "The Mikado"
ANS: Sir Arthur _SULLIVAN_
D. "The Tales of Hoffman"
ANS: Jacques _OFFENBACH_
E. "The Pearl Fishers"
ANS: Georges _BIZET_
F.
"The Rape of Lucretia"
ANS: Benjamin _BRITTEN_
Answer the following questions about the Krebs Cycle for the stated number of
points.
A. Two redox cofactors shuttle electrons from the Krebs Cycle to the electron
transport chain. Both are
dinucleotides with adenine moieties.
for each.
F5P each, give the common abbreviations
ANS: _FAD_ AND _NAD_ (ACC: FADH-TWO AND NADH)
B. F5P, give another name for the Krebs Cycle.
ANS: _CITRIC ACID CYCLE_ (ACC: TRICARBOXYLIC ACID CYCLE, but not Fred)
C. F15P, name the compound which begins the Krebs Cycle by accepting an acetyl
group from coenzyme A.
ANS: _OXALOACETATE_ (ACC: OXALOACETIC ACID)
Pencils and paper ready for a probability bonus.
balls, each with a number from 1 to 11. The
A bag is full of lottery
number of balls in the bag with a certain number equals that number; i.e. there
are six balls with number 6. FTP each,
expressed as a fraction in lowest terms,
A. What is the probability of randomly choosing a number 8 ball from the bag?
ANS: 4/33
B. What is the probability of randomly choosing a number 9 ball from the bag?
ANS: 3/22
C. Without replacement, what is the probability of first choosing a number 5
ball and then choosing a number 11 ball
from the bag?
ANS: 5/396
Identify each of the following Shakespearean plays from quotes FTP each or from
the speaker of the quote F5P each.
A. 10: "I will be master of what is mine own.
is my house, My household stuff, my
She is my goods, my chattels; she
field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything."
5: Petruchio
ANS: THE _TAMING OF THE SHREW_
B. 10: "Is he not approved in the height a villian, that hath slandered,
scorned, dishonored my kinswoman? O! that I
were a man.
I would eat his heart in the marketplace."
5: Beatrice
ANS: _MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING_
C. 10: Then will two at once woo; That must needs be sport alone; And those
things do best please me That befall
preposterously.
5: Puck
ANS: A _MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM_
Time for a rare geology bonus.
of mineral crystals.
F5P each, name the six geometric classifications
ANS: HEXAGONAL, CUBIC (ACC: ISOMETRIC), MONOCLINIC, ORTHORHOMBIC, TETRAGONAL,
TRICLINIC
Given a 20th century time period, name the British prime minister of that period
FTP each. If you need another clue,
you get 5 points each.
A. 10: 1929-1935
5: First prime minister of the Labor Party.
ANS: (James) RAMSAY _MACDONALD_
B. 10: 1935-1937
5: His stance against Edward VIII's marriage to an American led to Edward's
abdication.
ANS: STANLEY _BALDWIN_
C. 10: 1937-1940
5: Failed to deliver "peace in our time."
ANS: NEVILLE _CHAMBERLAIN_
F5P each, identify each of the following wars of Louis XIV given brief
descriptions.
A. Lasting from 1667-1668, it began with a French invasion of the Spanish
Netherlands and ended with the Treaty of
Aix-la-Chapelle.
ANS: WAR OF _DEVOLUTION_
B. In this war from 1672 to 1678, Louis XIV defeated William of Orange and
annexed much of Holland.
ANS: THE _DUTCH WAR_
C. Also known as the Nine Years' War, this conflict resulted in territorial
gains for France along the Rhine River by
the Treaty of Ryswick.
ANS: WAR OF THE _LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG_
D. This was the longest and hardest-fought of Louis' wars, ending with the
Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
ANS: WAR OF THE _SPANISH SUCCESSION_
For the stated number of points, answer the following about "The Devil and
Daniel Webster."
A. F5P, identify the author.
ANS: STEPHEN VINCENT _BENET_
B. FTP, by what name did the devil go during the trial?
ANS: _SCRATCH_
B. F15P, all or nothing, name the item and the owner of the item over which
Webster and the Devil were quarreling.
ANS: THE _SOUL_ OF _JABEZ STONE_
The solution of Schroedinger's equation for various physical systems yields
discrete energy levels indexed by a
positive integer n. For each of the following conditions, identify the power of
n for the described energy level, FTP
apiece.
A. A particle trapped in an infinite, one-dimensional well.
ANS: SQUARED (N = 2)
B. A one-dimensional harmonic oscillator.
ANS: LINEAR (N = 1)
C. The hydrogen atom with no angular momentum.
ANS: INVERSE SQUARE (N = -2)
(30) Name the artist from works on a 30-20-10-5 basis.
30 points: The Three Crosses
20 points: Self Portrait of the Painter in Old Age
10 points: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
5 points: Night Watch
Answer: Rembrandt van Rijn
(30) For the stated number of points answer the following questions about Norse
mythology.
For 5 points: This is the final battle of Norse mythology, where the giants led
by Loki and the gods led by Odin will
destroy each other and the world.
Answer: Ragnarok
For 10 points: This was a giant who turned himself into a dragon to protect the
gold he obtained by killing his father.
He was slain by Siegfried.
Answer: Fafnir
For 15 points: These parallels of the Greek Fates were represented as a
giantess, an elf and a dwarf who controlled
the destiny of men and gods.
Answer: the Norns
(30) Identify the poet from poems on a 30-20-10 basis.
30 points: The Masque of Anarchy, The Sensitive Plant
20 points: Ode to Liberty, Mont Blanc
10 points: Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Answer the following questions about the United States Senate FTP each.
A. After Bob Dole retired from the Senate in 1996, what GOP Senator took his
position as Senate Majority Leader?
ANS: TRENT _LOTT_
B. Identify the state which Trent Lott represents in the Senate.
ANS: _MISSISSIPPI_
C. Identify the position held by Lott in the Senate prior to Dole's resignation.
ANS: _MAJORITY WHIP_
Dork Bowl I: Dorkier Than Thou
Round
University of Memphis
TOSSUPS
1. In Switzerland, psychiatrist Dick Diver meets Nicole Warren, who was
hospitalized after an incestuous
encounter with her father. Eventually Dick and Nicole marry, but the marriage
deteriorates due to his
alcoholism and affairs, including one with actress Rosemary Hoyt. Nicole seeks
comfort in the arms of war
hero Tommy Barban. FTP, name this 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Answer: _Tender is the Night_
2. Born John Rowlands in England in 1841, he emigrated to America and eventually
fought for both armies
during the Civil War. He later earned fame as an explorer, and he was knighted
for being the first European
to trace the Congo to its source. FTP name this man, presumably most famous for
travelling to Africa for
the New York Herald to find Dr. David Livingstone.
Answer: Sir Henry _Stanley_
3. Discovered in 1817 by Johan Arfwedson, this element constitutes .002 percent
of the earth's crust and is
the lightest of the solid elements. Characterized by the crimson flame it
produces, it is soft and malleable and
various compounds of it are used commercially in alkaline batteries, glasses,
and in industrial coolants. FTP
name this metal perhaps best known for its use in the treatment of psychological
disorders.
Answer: _Lithium_
4. In exchange for saving his life from a serpent, the Egyptian prince Tamino
promises the Queen of Night
that he will rescue her daughter Pamine from the sorceror Sarastro. Accompanied
by Papageno, Tamino
finds the girl and falls in love with her, and they eventually marry . FTP name
this Mozart opera, named for
Tamino's enchanted musical instrument.
Answer: _The Magic Flute_ (Die Zauberfloete)
5. In 1950, this football franchise came into existence as the New York Yankees
before relocating, first to
Boston and then to Dallas, where they became the Dallas Texans. They had little
success, but after another
move they fared much better with the likes of Art Donovan, Raymond Berry, and
Johnny Unitas. FTP name
this team, formerly located in Maryland, whose current players include Marshall
Faulk.
Answer: The Indianapolis _Colts_
6. In preparation for an attack on Corinth, Mississippi, Grant had been ordered
to stop just north of the city
to wait for reinforcements from General Buell. Sensing an opportunity,
Confederate forces under Johnston
launched a surprise attack whose initial success was reversed by Buell's arrival
and the death of Johnston
himself.
FTP name this bloody 1862 battle in southwest Tennessee.
Answer: _Shiloh_ (accept Pittsburgh Landing)
7. (Two Answers Required) A Roman legend states that they fought for Rome at
the battle of Lake Regilus
in 496 B.C. Among their other exploits are rescuing Helen from Theseus, who had
kidnapped her, helping
in the Calydonian Boar Hunt before one of them died at the hands of Idas and
Lyncaeus. FTP brothers of
Helen and Clytemnestra, ultimately transformed into the constellation Gemini.
Answer: _Castor_ and _Pollux_ (accept Polydeuces for Pollux) (prompt on Dioscuri
or early buzz with
Gemini)
8. Major tributaries include the Monocacy, Rappahannock, and Shenandoah rivers.
Rising in the Allegheny
Mountains near Tucker County, West Virginia, it meanders 287 miles through
Maryland and Virginia before
emptying into the Chesapeake. FTP name this river which flows through such
historical sites as Harper's
Ferry, Mount Vernon, and, of course, Washington, D.C.
Answer: _Potomac_
9. In this poem, a guest is taken to the top of a steep staircase where the
narrarator uncovers a painting by
Fra Pandolf. The painting portrays a smiling woman whose smiles have been
"stopped" by the narrator's
order. Its subtitle, "Ferrara", is perhaps a clue to the identity of its
narrarator. FTP name this poem about a
Duke who jealously has his wife murdered, the most famous of Robert Browning.
Answer: _"My Last Duchess"_
10. This 1914 graduate of the University of Coimbra school of law initially
earned acclaim as an economist,
but he later ventured into politics as head of the Catholic Center Party, which
resulted in his election to the
parliament of Portugal.
was appointed Prime
Minister.
In 1928 he was made Minister of Finance, and in 1932 he
FTP name this man, who ruled Portugal until his death in 1968.
Answer: Antonio de _Salazar_
11. In 1924 this man proposed a fourth quantum number of positive or negative
one-half to represent the
spin of an electron. In 1930 his study of apparent energy loss in the decay of
beta particles led him to predict
a particle which was later discovered in 1953 by Reives.
Nobel Prize winner, best
FTP, name this 1945
known for asserting that no two electrons in an atom can exist in the same state
at the same time.
Answer: Wolfgang _Pauli_
12. Kambei and Schichiroji are two old battle-worn friends; Katsushiro is
Kambei's apprentice; Gororubei is
a kindhearted man who hopes to befriend Kambei; Heihachi is notable for his
sense of humor; Kyozu is a
master swordsman; and Kikuchiyo is a farmer who comes along for the ride. These
men are hired to save a
village from bandits in, FTP, what 1954 film, the most famous of Akira Kurosawa?
Answer: The _Seven Samurai_ (_Shichinin no Samurai_)
13. Among her problems are the late arrival of an expected piece of luggage,
not receiving Wednesday's
newspaper, and runs in her pantyhose.
to her bedroom to listen to
She escapes these troubles by retreating
music in her head. We, like her creator Paul McCartney, might wonder how she
will feed her other children
besides the one she can to breastfeed. FTP name this subject of a well-known
Beatles song.
Answer: _Lady Madonna_
14. Born Naftali Reyes in 1904, he adopted his more famous name in honor of a
favorite Czech author. In
his early life he was taught by Gabriele Mistral. His own first poetical work
was _Twenty Love Poems and a
Song of Despair_ and later works such as _Residence on Earth_ and _General Song_
would earn him the
1953 Nobel Prize. FTP name this poet, whose exile from Chile was dramatized in
_Il Postino_.
Answer: Pablo _Neruda_
15. After graduating from Williams in 1856 this man taught Classical languages
at the Eclectic Institute in
Ohio and briefly practiced law before joining the Union Army in 1860. By 1863 he
was a Major General and
he was still in uniform when elected to the House of Representatives, where he
served until the election of
1880. FTP name this man, who became the 20th President before being shot by
Charles Guiteau.
Answer: James A. _Garfield_
16. Also known as Paralysis Agitans, its causes are unknown, but it appears to
be related to a dysfunction
of the basal ganglia. It usually afflicts people over 50, gradually producing
symptoms which include
muscular rigidity, a fixation of facial expression, stooped posture, and
characteristic tremors of extremities.
FTP name this illness, whose victims may include Janet Reno and
II, as well as Hitler.
Pope John Paul
Answer: _Parkinson's Disease_ (Syndrome)
17. In the distant background cliffs lead into the sea on whose shore is a
round, egg-shaped object. To the
left is a plateau on which lies a tree and a watch-shaped piece of amber with
ants trapped inside, while the
middle shows a ridge over which melts a flesh-colored object resembling a nose
and an eye. These are all
details of, FTP, what painting, also containing three melted clocks, the most
famous of Salidor Dali?
Answer: _The Persistence of Memory_
18. His experiences during WWII inspired a trilogy, while his devotion to
Catholicism is reflected in
_Helena_, a fictional biography of the mother of Constantine the Great. Among
his early works are such
light-hearted satires as _Scoop_, _Black Mischief_, and _Decline and Fall_, as
well as more serious works
such as _A Handful of Dust_. FTP name this author, most famous for _Brideshead
Revisited_.
Answer: Evelyn _Waugh_
19. It consists of three islands, Gozo, Comino, and the main island.
language, a dialect of Arabic written
Its
with a latin script, reflects the many occupations it has endured, and, though
its economy now depends on
tourism and foreign aid, in the past it was coveted for its strategic position
in the Mediterranean. FTP name
this island nation, long a member of the British Commonwealth, whose capital is
Valetta.
Answer: _Malta_
20. He entered the Dominican Order in 1223, and in 1248 he began teaching in
Cologne, where one of his
pupils was Thomas Aquinas. Appointed Bishop of Regensburg in 1260, he produced
commentaries on
Aristotle and conducted massive inquiries into the natural sciences, for which
he was later named the Patron
Saint of scientists. FTP name this medieval scholar, also famous for discovering
Arsenic.
Answer: _Albertus Magnus_ (Albert the Great)
21. Originally a faith healer and miracle worker from Samaria, one early
Christian tradition attributes the
founding of Gnosticism to him. In another he is killed when Saint Peter
exorcises the demons which enable
him to fly, which contradicts yet another legend in which he is Baptised by
Phillip the Deacon. FTP name
this figure of Christian folklore most famous for offering to purchase the
ability to transmit the Holy Spirit.
Answer: _Simon Magus_ or _Simon the Sorceror_
22. Discovered by Berzelius, it shows
form is exposed to light and
increased conductivity when its metallic
can convert light directly into electricity, making it ideal for use in
photoelectric, solar, and photograhic
cells. It can transform alternating to direct current, enabling it to be used
commercially in rectifiers, and it is
widely used in glasses and enamels for its red color.
with atomic number 34.
FTP name this element
Answer: _Selenium_
23. In 278 B.C. this people migrated from central Europe and attacked the citystates of Macedonia and
Pergamum, eventually settling down in Asia Minor and establishing Galatia They
are, however, more
famous for their conflicts with Rome, which they sacked in 386 B.C. before being
driven off by Camillus.
FTP name this barbarian people, finally conquered by Caesar in 51 B.C.
Answer: _Gauls_
24. Evidence suggests that this city flourished in Greece around 1,500 to 1,400
B.C. before its destruction
by the Dorians around 1300. Founded, according to legend, by Perseus, it figured
prominently in the _Iliad_
as the chief city in the Greek alliance against Troy, and it remained
unexcavated until it was rediscovered in
by Heinrich Schliemann. FTP name this ancient city, mythological home to
Agamemnon.
Answer: _Mycenae_
Memphis Bonuses
1.
Name the following actors for ten points each.
a) This actor has starred in such films as _The Color Purple_, _What's Love Got
to Do With It?_, _Othello_,
and _Fled_
Answer: Lawrence _Fishburne_
b) This actor has starred in such films as _The Godfather_, _Something to Talk
About_, _The Scarlet
Letter_, and _Phenomenon_
Answer: Robert _Duvall_
5. This actor has starred in such films as _The American President_,
_Gettysburg_, _Firestarter_, and _Wall
Street_.
Answer: _Martin Sheen_
2. Given a description of a physics effect, name it, FTP each.
a) This effect is an increase in the wavelength ox X-rays and other
electromagnetic radiation that has been
elastically scattered by electrons.
Answer: _Compton_ Effect
b) This effect describes the emission of light waves by electrons or other
charged particles when they move
in a medium at a speed greater than the light in the medium.
Answer: _Cherenkov_ Effect
c) This effect describes the scattering of light by large particles and dust in
its path; it explains why the sky is
plus.
Answer: _Tyndall_ Effect
3.
Given a description, identify the Mexican War battle, FTP.
a) In this April 18, 1847 battle General Winfield Scott defeated Santa Anna near
the National Highway due
to Scott's superior artillery tactics and the excellent reconnaisance of Captain
Robert E. Lee.
Answer: _Cerro Gordo_
b). In this February 23, 1847 battle General Zachary Taylor defeated Santa Anna
despite being outnumbered
nearly two to one.
Answer: _Buena Vista_
c) This was the first major joint-service amphibious operation in United States
Military History. Scott and
Commodore Matthew Perry captured an important coastal town near Mexico City.
Answer: _Veracruz_
4.
Identify the following characters from the _Aeneid_ FTP each.
a) He was Aeneas' faithful friend and companion.
Answer: _Achates_
b) En route to Italy, Aeneas stops at Epirus and finds Andromache there in the
care of this man, the sole
surviving son of Priam, who reprovisions the crew and gives Aeneas a useful
prophecy.
Answer: _Helenus_
c) When Aeneas finally arrives in Italy he has to fight against the Rutulians
led by this prince, whom Aeneas
kills in single combat.
Answer: _Turnus_
5. Given the colonial name of an African nation, give the current name of the
nation it once described, FTP.
a) Upper Volta
Answer: _Burkina Faso_
b) Basutoland
Answer: _Lesotho_
c) Gold Coast
Answer: Ghana
6. Several Bristish authors have at one point in their lives been members of
British intelligence. Given a
description, name the author/agent, for the stated number of points.
5 pts: As an internal intelligence agent for Queen Anne, he gathered material
for such works as _Moll
Flanders_ and _Robinson Crusoe_.
Answer: Daniel _Defoe_
10 pts: In 1917 Great Britain sent this author to Russia on a mission to support
the Mencheviks and try to
keep Russia from falling to the Bolsheviks.
and Ale_ and _The Moon
He authored such works as _Cakes
and Sixpence_.
Answer: W. Somerset _Maugham_
15 pts: In the 1660's the governement of Charles II sent this woman to Holland
to obtain information on the
Dutch military plans during the Anglo-Dutch war. She authored such plays as
_Oroonooko_ and _The
Rover_.
Answer: Aphra _Behn_
7.
Given a description, identify the dinosaur, FTP.
1. This lizard, about 25 feet long and covered in an armored shell from which
spikes protruded, had a bony
club on the end of its tail.
Answer: _Ankylosaurus_
2. Originating in the Jurassic, this dinosaur is famous for its tiny, walnut
sized brain and for the bony plates
which protruded from its back and spiked tail.
Answer: _Stegosaurus_
3. Also of the Jurassic, these dinosaurs were over 70 feet long and may have
weighed up to 50 tons.
Scientists at one time thought these plant-eaters to be marsh-dwellers, but now
paleontologists have begun
to suggest that they lived on dry land in herds.
Answer: _Brontosaurus_ (accept Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus)
8. Given a brief description of a Persian War battle, name it on a 5-10-15
basis.
5 pts: In this 490 B.C. battle the Athenians under Miltiades defeated a Persian
force almost 10 times larger.
Answer: _Marathon_
10 pts: In this 480 B.C. battle the Greek navy under the command of Themistocles
defeated a much larger
Persian fleet.
Answer: _Salamis_
15 pts: In this final battle Aristides defeated a much larger Persian army in a
town just outside Athens in 479
B.C.
Answer: _Plataea_
9. Recently two former Republican Senators, one from Kansas and one from
Tennessee, made news by
getting married.
1. First, FTP: name the newlyweds.
Answer: Nancy _Kassebaum_ and _Howard Baker_
2. For a final 10 points: Nancy Kassebaum is the daughter of what famous
Presidential hopeful?
Answer: Alf _Landon_
10. Given a brief plot summary of an August Strindberg play, identify it, for
fifteen points each.
1. In this play an old man named Hummel confronts a group of people he claims
has wronged him and
commits suicide when his own past misdeeds are revealed, while a student named
Arkenholtz, a "Sunday
child", attempts to woo Hummel's daughter.
Answer: _Ghost Sonata_
2. This play deals with a disastrous sexual encounter between a countess and her
valet, which leads to her
suicide.
Answer: _Miss Julie_
11. For five points each and a bonus five for all correct answer the following
questions:
a) The theory of Continental Drift states that at one time all the continents
were one great continent,
surrounded by one great Ocean. Identify both the continent and the ocean.
Answer: _Pangaea_ and _Panthallassa_
b) Into what two parts did Pangaea split?
Answer: _Laurasia_ and _Gondwanaland_
c) This branch of Panthallassa covered much of what is now eastern Europe and
Asia, and has been used to
explain the large amount of marine fossil-bearing sedimentary rock in the
Carpathians. Name this body of
ancient water, named after the mythological bride of Oceanus.
Answer: _Tethys_ Sea
12. Given a brief synopsis, identify the Wagner opera, FTP. Note: none are in
the _Ring_ cycle.
a) Set during the reign of Henry the Fowler of Germany, in this opera a
mysterious knight comes to the
rescue of Elsa, a woman falsely accused of withcraft, and offers to marry her
provided she will not ask him
either his name or his birthplace.
Answer:_Lohengrin_
b) Set in 13th century Germany, this tells of the internal struggle of a
Christian knight torn between the
temptations of Venusberg, a pagan hall of pleasure, and his saintly betrothed
Elisabeth.
Answer: _Tannhauser_
c) In this opera a simple knight heals the wounds of Amfortas, King of the Grail
Knights, and brings
redemption both to him and to the sorceress-with-the-heart-of gold Kundry.
Answer: _Parzifal_
13. The Conn-Smythe trophy is given to hockey players who have contributed the
most to the success of
the team in the Stanley Cup playoffs. In the history of the award five men have
won it twice; of this five,
three are still playing.
a) First, for five points each, name these three active multiple winners.
Answer: Wayne _Gretzky_, _Mario Lemieux_, Patrick _Roy_
b) Roy and Gretzky have since departed from Montreal and Edmonton,
respectively, and each plays for a
different team. For five points each, with what teams do these men now play?
Answer: Colorado _Avalanche_ (Patrick Roy) and New York _Rangers_ (Wayne
Gretzky)
c) For a final five points, name either of the other two men to win the ConnSmythe twice.
Answer: Bernie _Parent_ or Bobby _Orr_
14. Identify the following twentieth century authors who wrote in German from
works, FTP each; if you
need another clue, you only get 5 points.
10 pts: The epic poem _Till Eulenspiegel_ and the plays _Beaver Coat_ and _The
Sunken Bell_
5 pts: The plays _Before Sunrise_ and _The Weavers_
Answer: Gerhard _Hauptmann_
10 pts: The novels _The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man_, _Joseph and
His Brothers_, and
_Transposed Heads_
5 pts: The novels _Buddenbrooks and _Death in Venice_
Answer: Thomas _Mann_
10 points: The novels _Hunger Artist_ and _The Trial_.
5 pts: The novels _Amerika_ and _Metamorphosis_
Answer: Franz _Kafka_
15.
Answer the following relating to the rule of Charlemagne FTP each.
10 pts:
For ten points, name the pope who crowned.
Answer: _Leo III_
10 pts: At this 775 battle Charlemagne defeated the Basques, though according to
legend he did so at the
expense of his rear guard, which was guarded by Roland. FTP, name the battle.
Answer: _Roncesvalles_ (Roncesvaux)
10 pts: Charlemagne gathered around him many of the greatest minds of his day,
including this English
monk, who endeavored mightily to teach him to write.
helped quell the
Name this man, who also
Adoptionist heresy.
Answer: _Alcuin_ of York
16.
Identify the scientist from clues on a 30-20-10 basis.
30 pts: When he was knighted in 1947 for his contributions to physics he chose
as his symbol the yin-yang,
which he explained as illustrating his Principle of Complementarity.
20 pts: Though he assisted in the Los Alamos bomb project, he later advocated
arms control, for which he
won the first Atoms for Peace Award in 1957.
10 pts: This Danish Physicist was the winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics
for his development of
quantum physics.
Answer: Niels _Bohr_
17. Given a significant archaeological discovery, identify the man who
discovered it, FTP each.
1. The Incan city Macchu Pichu
Answer: Hiram _Bingham_
2. Tutankhamon's tomb
Answer: Howard _Carter_
3. The palace of Knossos on Crete
Answer: Arthur _Evans_
18. Given the following world capitals, identify the major river which flows
through it, 10 points each.
a) Kiev
Answer: _Dneiper_
b) Khartoum
Answer: _Nile_
c) Brazzaville
Answer: _Congo_
19. Given a list of people used by Shakespeare as characters, identify the
historical play of Shakespeare from
which they are taken, FTP each.
1. Faulconbridge, Cardinal Pandulph, Prince Arthur
Answer: King _John_
2. Mortimer, Owen Glendower, Henry Hotspur
Answer: _Henry IV part I_
3. Archbishop Cranmer, Cardinal Wolsey, Katharine of Aragon
Answer: _Henry VIII_
20. For assistance in the war against the allied Greek city states, Trojan King
Priam had the help of several
non-Trojan allies. Given a brief description, identify the ally, FTP each.
1. This Ethiopian prince, the son of Eos and Tithonus, came to Troy's aid after
the death of Hector and
killed Archilochus, son of aged Pylian king Nestor.
He was killed by Achilles.
Answer: _Memnon_
2. This Lycian prince, son of Zeus and Europa, was the mightiest warrior on the
Trojan side besides Hector;
he was finally slain by Patroclus.
Answer: _Sarpedon_
3. When this Thracian king heard a prophecy stating that Troy would never fall
if his horses drank from the
river Xanthus, he rushed to the aid of the Trojans but was ambushed and murdered
by Diomedes and
Odysseus before his horses could drink.
Answer: _Rhesus_
21. In 1640 Charles I of England summoned Parliament twice to ask for funds for
the second Bishop's War.
Answer the following about those Parliaments for ten points each.
1.) What was the name given to the first parliament summoned that year which
lasted from April 13 until its
dissolution by charles on May 5?
Answer: _Short_Parliament
2.) What was the name given to the Parliament summoned in November of 1640 which
lasted until its
dissolution in 1660?
Answer: _Long_ parliament
3.) What was the name given to the Long Parliament after 121 members were
expelled by the rebels in
1648?
Answer: _Rump_ parliament
Dork Bowl I: Dorkier Than Thou
Round by:
University of South Carolina
1. Their modern name comes from an old Endlish word for "wanderer" or
"explorer," and their influence
was felt as far east as Constantinople and Baghdad, where they engaged in trade
and acted as mercenaries.
They are better known for their permanent colonies, including such modern cities
as Kiev and Dublin. FTP,
identify this people who established a settlement in modern Newfoundland during
the 11th century.
VIKINGS
2. Published in 1919, minor characters in this story collection include include
Reverend Hartman, Louise
and David Bentley, and Dr. Parcival.
object of the affections of many
The main character appears to be the
of the women in town, including his schoolteacher Miss Swift.
tales about George Willard,
the masterpiece of Sherwood Anderson.
FTP, name these
_Winesburg, Ohio_
3. His daughter Cornelia married Julius Caesar.
Mithradates VI, this man repealed
Sulla's laws and declared him an outlaw.
him control, which he used
to push economic and voting reforms.
to Dalmatia in 84 BC. FTP,
name this Roman,
When Sulla left to fight
The death of Marius the next year gave
He was killed in a mutiny while crossing
the subject of a play by Pierre Corneille.
Cornelius _Cinna_
4. This musician always wears sunglasses on stage to hide facial scars which he
acquired during a mountainclimbing accident in 1973, an episode which he mentions in "Family Tradition".
His hits include "WhiskeyBent and Hell-Bound," "If the South Would've Won," and "A Country Boy can
survive. FTP, name this
son of another country legend, best known for the Monday Night Football theme
song.
Hank _Williams_ Jr.
5. In 1927, George Paget Thomson demonstrated this phenomenon by sending a beam
of electrons through
gold foil. Earlier that year, Clinton Davisson and his colleague, Lester
Germer, had demonstrated it by
aiming an electron beam at a nickel crystal, an experiment which earned them the
1937 Nobel Prize. FTP,
name this property of waves which causes them to spread around obstacles.
Electron _Diffraction_
6. Born in Fresno in 1908, he was popular during the Depression for his story
collections The Daring
Young on the Flying Trapeze and Inhale and Exhale.
Heart's in the Highlands,
He wrote such plays as My
and later wrote many novels with a pronounced autobiographical element.
name this ArmenianAmerican who refused the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for The Time of Your Life.
William _Saroyan_
FTP,
7. Robert C. Schenk, minister to Great Britain, wrote its first rulebook in the
1870s. It has two basic
varieties: Closed and Open. In the Closed version, all cards are dealt face
down. In the Open variety, 2
cards are dealt face down and the others face up one at a time.
versions, the five highest cards of a suit
will win you a lot of money.
commonly called draw and
In all
FTP, identify this card game, whose types are more
stud..
_Poker_
8. He began as a composer of madrigals and church music in the Renaissance
style, and is considered on of
the first composers to begin the transition to Baroque.
however, as an operatic composer,
though only three of his operas have survived.
composer of Orfeo, considered the
He is most noted,
FTP, identify this Italian
founder of modern opera.
Claudio _MONTEVERDI_
9. German physicist Walther Nernst proposed it in 1906, and his work earned him
the 1920 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry. He proposed that, like the speed of light, absolute zero could be
approached but never reached.
FTP, name this fundamental law which states that all matter tends toward random
motion.
_Third_ Law of _Thermodynamics_
10. Its basin is sparsely populated and no part of it was dammed until the late
1960s, when some sections of
the Peace River were tapped for hydroelctric power.
Missouri, its drainage basin is the
After the Mississippi-
largest in North America. Flowing from the Great Slave Lake, it runs 1025 miles
to the Beaufort Sea. FTP,
identify this river, named for a Scottish fur trader, the longest in Canada.
_Mackenzie_ River
11. Book 5 of the Iliad focuses on this Greek hero.
companions were turned into
The king of Argos, his
birds by Aphrodite as punishment for his wounding of her during the Trojan War.
Additionally, with
Odysseus he killed Rhesus and his Thracians.
accompanied Odysseus on
FTP, name this son of Tydeus who
the expedition to steal Troy's sacred image, the Palladium.
_Diomedes_
12. Although the Council of Chalcedon was called in 451 mainly to combat
Nestorianism, it also declared
this theological stance heretical.
Christ should be "acknowledged in
Specifically, the council declared that
two natures, without being mixed, transmuted, divided or separated."
this idea that only one
FTP, name
nature existed in the Person of Jesus Christ.
_Monophysitism_
13. An alternative expression of the Biot-Savart Law, James Clerk Maxwell
formulated it mathematically
and extended it to include magnetic fields formed without electric current.
states that the line integral of a
It
magnetic field around an arbitrarily chosen path is proportional to the net
electric current enclosed by the
path. FTP, name this law, named in honor of the founder of electromagnetic
theory.
_Ampere's_ Law
14. He strongly believed that making laws was the province of legislative
bodies, not courts, and refused to
curtail freedom of speech except in cases of "clear and present danger." His
1881 book, The Common Law,
first revealed his genius and, in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt appointed him to the
Supreme Court, where he
sat to the age of 91, the oldest justice in history.
called The Great Dissenter.
FTP, name this justice
Oliver Wendell _Holmes, Jr._
15. His first success came as editor of Fabian Essays in Socialism and as
theater critic of Saturday Review.
His first play, Widowers' Houses, was performed in 1892.
he used comedy to explore
Writing into his 90s,
injustice and religious hypocrisy in plays such as The Doctor's Dilemma and
Androcles and the Lion. FTP,
name this dramatist, the author of Pygmalion.
George Bernard _Shaw_
16. Three types of this subatomic particle are known to exist each a by-product
of the decay of a larger
particle. Hypothesized by Wolfgang Pauli, they are so numerous that a rest mass
of 1/1000000 that of the
electron would account for most of the missing mass of the universe.
identify this particle with mu,
FTP,
tau, and electron varieties, whose name means "little intert one."
_NEUTRINO_
17. The term was originally coined as the title of a story by Bruce Bethke in
1982. Other authors who have
used it include Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, and Bruce Sterling.
include _Count Zero_,
Examples of it
_Virtual Light_, _Burning Chrome_, "Johnny Mnemonic," and _Neuromancer_, all by
William Gibson.
FTP, name this subset of science fiction featuring antiheroes trapped in a hightech future.
Answer: _cyberpunk_
18. The second son of Ferdinand III, he became Holy Roman emperor in 1658.
After the Treaty of
Carlowitz he took control of Hungary and crushed the Noble's Plot.
time, he and his allies
defeated France in the War of the Grand Alliance.
the War of the Spanish
Succession.
France.
At the same
His death came in 1705 during
FTP, name this man who formed the League of Augsburg against
_Leopold I_
19. In 1925, this German scientist first interpreted spectral lines without the
astronomical imagery common
among his contemporaries.
and manipulating them, he
By taking the numbers representing the energy level
first formulated quantum mechanics in terms of matrices.
Nobel Prize winner, who
FTP, name this 1932
deduced that a subatomic particle's position and momentum could not be
simultaneously determined.
Werner _Heisenberg_
20. Such early works as The Governor's Son, The Song and Dance Man and American
Born are chronicled
in his 1925 autobiography, Twenty Years on Broadway and the Years It Took to Get
There. He earned a
medal in 1940 for the song "Over There," and Jimmy Cagney portrayed his life in
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
FTP, name this songwriter also known for "Give My Regards to Broadway."
George M. _Cohan_
21. Known as Ieyasu, he won many battles through treachery, and he compelled
the captured son of
Hideyoshi Toyotomi to kill himself.
Christians, but, strangely,
He beheaded tens of thousands of Japanese
his personal philosophy emphasized self-criticism, quiet patience, and humility.
FTP, identify this daimyo,
the greatest of Hideyoshi's vassals, who became shogun in 1603 and expelled
Europeans from Japan.
_Tokugawa_ Ieyas
South Carolina bonuses
1.
Identify these organic compounds from short descriptions FTP each.
A. They have 1 or more hydroxyl groups attached to a carbon atom that is
attached to 3 other atoms.
Neither acid nor alkaline, they are very reactive and dissolve organic
substances _Alcohols_
B. They react with water to produce alcohols and organic or inorganic acids.
The most common are
derived from carboxylic acids.
_Esters_
C. They are characterized by the presence of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, and
are physiologically active.
They include morphine, strychnine, ephedrine and nicotine.
2.
_Alkaloids_
Identify these Shakespearian plays from a list of characters FTP each.
A. Antiochus, King of Antioch; Thasia and Marina, title character's wife and
daughter; Cleon, governor of
Tarsus
_Pericles_ Prince of Tyre
B. Prince Hal; John of Lancaster, Hal's brother; Sir John Falstaff; Earl of
Northumberland, the king's enemy;
Shallow, a country justice
_Henry IV, Part 2_
C. The Queen; Cloten, the Queen's son; Imogen, title character's daughter;
Posthumus Leonatus, Imogen's
husband; Iachimo, an Italian braggart
_Cymbeline_
3.
Number the following Crusades FTP each.
A. Pope Innocent II called it in 1202, but its only result was the sacking of
Zara and Constantinople, and the
creation of the Latin Kingdom of Constantinople.
_4th_
B. In 1228, excommunicated Emperor Frederick II used diplomacy to acquire parts
of the Holy Land from
Egypt without fighting.
_6th_
C. Provoked by the fall of Jerusalem, it was led by Frederick Barbarossa,
Richard the Lion-Hearted, and
Philip Augustus. It ended with a truce and Saladin's grant of access to
Jerusalem. _3rd_
4. Given their names in 1900, give the modern names of the following world
cities for 5 points each.
A.
Danzig
_Gdansk_
B.
Leopoldville
C.
Lourenco Marques
D.
Constantinople
E.
Saigon
F.
Batavia
5.
Identify the following pre-Socratic philosophers FTP each.
_Kinshasa_
_Maputo_
_Istanbul_
_Ho Chi Minh_ City
_Djakarta_
A. Known from a Platonic dialogue in which he defeats young Socrates, only a
few scraps of his On Nature
survive. His principle was "all is one," meaning the multiplicity of forms
gives the appearance of a single
reality.
_Parmenides_
B. Associated with Pericles, he brought philosophy to Athens from Ionia.
believed in a infinite number
He
of substances constituting the universe, and originated the concept of nous, or
reason.
_Anaxagoras_
C. The first Sophist, he is also the subject of a Platonic dialogue.
catchphrase was "Man is the measure
His
of all things," and his advocacy of agnosticism in Concerning the Gods caused
his books to be burned.
_Protagoras_
6. Identify the following laws of physics from a short description for the
stated number of points.
15) Formulated by a Russian in 1834, it states that an induced electric current
flows in a direction opposite
the current that induced it.
_Lenz's_Law _
5) Put forward by Rudolf Clausius in 1850, it states that the ratio of heat
content of a system to its absolute
temperature, or entropy, would always remain constant or increase in a closed
system.
_2nd_ Law of Thermodynamics
10) These laws state that charge does not accumulate at one point and thin out
at another and around each
loop the sum of the electromotive forces equals the sum of the potential voltage
across each of the
resistances.
_Kirchoff's_ Laws
7.
Answer these questions about the Olympics FTP each.
A.
Name the Frenchman who organized the first modern Olymnpics in 1896.
Pierre de _Coubertin_
B.
In ancient Greece, how many years lapsed between each Olympics?
_four_
C. This winter event involves wooden sleds with steel runners which are ridden
in a sitting position and
steered by hand.
_Luge_
8.
Identify these Nobel Prize-winning economists for 15 points each.
A. This Stanford professor shared the 1972 prize with John Hicks for his
contributions to welfare
economics and general economic equilibrium theory.
"impossibility theorem," which
He is famous for his
states that a ranking of societal preferences will not correspond to an
individual's preferences when 2 or
more people and alternatives are involved.
Kenneth J. _Arrow_
B. This Austrian-born British economist shared the 1974 prize with Gunnar
Myrdal. He is a noted critic of
the welfare state who thinks that government intervention only forestalls
inevitable downturns. Moreover,
as he wrote in The Road to Serfdom, government manipulation is the vanguard of
totalitarianism.
Friedrich von _Hayek_
9.
Identify the Renaissance artist from works on a 10-5 basis.
10 Portrait of Philip II, Christ Crowned With Thorns
5
Venus and Adonis
_Titian _
10 Sleeping Venus, The Three Philosophers
5 The Tempest
10
5
10.
_Giorgione_
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, Esterhazy Madonna
Madonna of the Goldfinch
_Raphael_
Sci-Identify these scientific effects FTP each.
A. Named for its German discoverer, the joining of 2 different metals at 2
places with the 2 junction points
kept at different temperatures will cause a continuous electric current to flow
through the circuit.
_Seebeck_ Effect
B. Temperature of an expanding gas will drop if energy is prevented from
entering the gas, since energy for
expansion must come from the gas itself.
It is used to liquefy some gases.
_Joule-Thomson_ Effect
C. Discovered in 1958, an atom in a crystal lattice will show no recoil after
emission of a gamma ray. As a
result, the crustal will emit a sharply monochromatic beam of gamma rays.
_Mossbauer_ Effect
11. For 10 points each, name these famous people who became famous corpses in
1996.
A. A jazz singer famous for her improvisations, she won mass acclaim for her
1950s "songbooks" featuring
the work of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and others.
Ella _Fitzgerald_
B. The founder of discrete mathematics, he paved the way for modern computer
science.
Paul _Erdos_
C. This Cornell astronomer deduced that Venus was hot and Mars was dusty before
those planets were
visited by spacecraft, but he's better known as the host of Cosmos.
Carl _Sagan_
12.
A.
Answer these questions relating to the Argonauts FTP each.
To what king of Colchis did the Argonauts travel?
_Aeetes_
B. In return for freeing him from the Harpies, Phineus told the Argonauts how
to pass through these cliffs
which came together and crushed those moving between them.
_Symplegades_ or _Cyanean_ rocks
C. Name Jason's uncle, who imposed the quest on him after usurping the crown of
Iolcos from Jason's
father, Aeson.
_Pelias_
13. Name the treaty which ended the following wars for the stated number of
points.
5) Crimean War
_Paris (1856)_
10) Seven Years' War between Britain, France, and Spain
_Paris (1763)_
15) Seven Years' War between Prussia and Austria
_Hubertusberg_
14.
Identify these plays of Eugene O'Neill from a short description FTP each.
A. A sailor named Mat Burke falls in love with the title character, but Chris
Christopherson hates him. She
reveals the truth about herself and marries Mat.
_Anna Christie_
B. Nina Leeds is loved by Edmund Darrell, Charles Marsden and Sam Evans.
marries Sam, they have
She
an unhappy marriage and a child, Gordon, and Sam dies.
_Strange Interlude_
C. Eben Cabot wants the farm of his hated father, Ephraim.
brothers to California, but his
father takes a new wife, Abbie.
thinks is his, smothers it, and
He sends his
She seduces Eben, has a child which Ephraim
they are both arrested.
_Desire Under the Elms_
15. Identify the following musicians based on the origins of their names for 10
points each.
A.
His brother said this rapper was so cool he reminded him of this.
_Ice Cube_
B.
This rock band was named for a talking sex toy in a movie.
_Steely Dan_
C.
This member of the Sex Pistols was not known for his personal hygiene
_Johnny Rotten_
16.
Identify this British poet on a 30-20-10 basis.
30-He wrote only one prose work, a play called The Promise of May.
overwhelmingly despondent
It was an
work, similar to his poem "Despair."
20-He named his firstborn son Hallam after his best friend, Arthur Henry Hallam.
10-The chief representative of Victorian poetry, some works he completed while
serving as poet laureate
were "Maud", "Queen Mary" and "Enoch Arden"
Alfred, Lord _Tennyson_
17.
Identify this scientist 30-20-10.
30 points In World War II, this Wisconsin native was principal physicist at the
US Naval Ordinance
Laboratory.
Later he researched semiconductors at Bell Labs.
20 points
He received his 1st share of a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for
helping Shockley and Brattain
create the transistor.
10 points He is the B in the BCS theory of superconductivity, for which he
shared in his 2nd Nobel.
John _Bardeen_
18.
Name these figures from the American Revolution FTP.
A. He captured Tobago and St. Kitts, and was himself captured by Admiral George
Rodney. However, he's
more famous for trapping the British at Yorktown with his fleet.
Francois-Joseph-Paul, comte _de Grasse_-Tilly
B. He was commmander-in chief of the British Army in North America from 1776 to
1778. He failed to
destroy the Continental Army, even after winning at Brandywine and Germantown.
William, 5th Viscount _Howe_
C. He commanded a 6000-man French army at Yorktown.
the North in the
Later, he led the Army of
French Revolution and became a Marshal in 1791, but barely escaped the
guillotine.
Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de _Rochambeau_
19. Answer these questions about an American author for the stated number of
points.
A. For 5 points, name the creator of Tilbury Town.
Edwin Arlington _Robinson_
B. For ten points, name his book of poems, originally titled The Torrent and
the River, which contains
"Richard Corey" and "Luke Havergal."
The _Children of the Night_
C. For 5 points each, name the trilogy of long blank-verse narratives which
Robinson based on the King
Arthur stories.
_Merlin_, _Lancelot_, _Tristram_
20. Answer these questions about a famous Indian king for the stated number of
points.
5 points Name India's greatest king, who ruled from 269 to 232 BC, and promoted
peace and Buddhism.
_Asoka_
10 points Name the empire which Asoka ruled , founded by Chandragupta, and
covering all of India except
the extreme south from 322 to 185 BC.
_Mauryan_ Empire
15 points Name the Greek ambassador from the Seleucid Empire who left a
detailed record of Mauryan
India.
_Megasthenes_
Subject: Alabama State packet
Tossups
1. Much of its economy is based on forestry, particularly the export of
mahogany. Settled by British colonists from
Jamaica in the 1600's, it had been claimed periodically by Guatemala until 1991,
10 years after it was made an
independent commonwealth.
border the Pacific Ocean
FTP, name this only Central American country not to
_Belize_
2. The son of a factory owner, this author and philosopher spent much of his
later life in England managing his
family=s factory there. Greatly influenced by this exposure to industrialism,
in 1884 he wrote Origins of the Family,
Private Property, and the State which linked patriarchy with the development of
materialism. FTP, name this German
author and collaborator with Karl Marx.
Friedrich _Engels_
3. He is known for his paintings of animal life, particularly horses, as AThe
Derby at Epsom@ depicts. His notoriety,
however, comes from his masterpiece, known both for its realistic style and its
scandalous political implications.
FTP, identify this artist who depicted a group of sailors left to drown in AThe
Raft of the Medusa.@
Theodore _Gericault_
4. This compound is a lipid consisting primarily of nitrogen and phosphorous,
which forms a vital part of the cell
membranes of plant and animal cells.
from the Greek for Aegg yolk@ and
FTP, identify this lipid whose name comes
whose primary source is eggs.
_Lecithin_
5. One of their main tenets was Alet your own happiness be your only law.@
Operating mainly during the 19th
century, they saw change as being possible only through the destruction of
morailty, justice, marraige, property, and
the concept of God. FTP, name this Russian philosophical movement ultimately
responsible for the death of Czar
Alexander II.
_Nihilists_
6. The original name for this group of chemical elements has been mostly
abandoned since 1962, when Neil Bartlett
discovered that the ionization energy of one of its members was lower than that
of oxygen. Since then, several
compounds including these elements have been formed, dispelling the idea that
they would never react. FTP, identify
this group of chemical elements, located on the far right of the periodic table.
_Inert (Noble) gases_
7. This Catholic doctrine was one of the first rejected by early Protestants
during the Reformation, though it was
reaffirmed at the Council of Trent. Martin Luther rejected this thory and
instead described Christ as Aunder or with
the elements of bread and wine@ rather than becoming them.
Catholic doctrine whereby the
FTP, identify this
members of the Eucharist are converted to the body and blood of Christ.
_Transubstantiation_
8. He served two terms as the chairman of the English Interplanetary Society,
and his extensive background in
physics and mathematics allowed him to hypothesize the possibility of satellites
in geosynchronous orbit. Later, he
moved to Sri Lanka to pursue the hobby of scuba diving and to continue his
writing career. FTP, identify this science
fiction author of such works as Childhood=s End, The Sentinel, and 2001: A Space
Odyssey.
Arthur C. _Clarke_
9. When its power was dissolved in 1395, it subsequently divided into the
provinces of Crimea, Kazan, and
Astrakhan. Including such cities as Kiev and Moscow, the Russian rulers they
overthrew were forced to pay heavy
taxes to their Muslim conquerors.
Batu Khan and eventually defeated
FTP, identify this Mongol khanate formed by
by Tamurlane and Ivan the Great.
_Golden Horde_
10. Not known primarily as an author, she wrote such works as The G-String
Murders and Mother Finds a Body.
Born Louis Hovick in 1914, she performed for a while with her sister June and
later appeared for the first time under
her more famous stage name in the 1936 Ziegfield Follies.
elegant lady, most famous for her
FTP, name this
striptease act.
Gypsy Rose _Lee_
11. He was assistant director of the New York City Ballet Company with George
Balanchine from 1949-1963 and
later formed his own company, Ballet=s U.S.A.
choreographer, known for such musicals
FTP, identify this American
as AThe King and I,@ AFiddler on the Roof,@ and AWest Side Story.@
Jerome _Robbins_
12. This city, founded in 1536, was occupied by Sir Francis Drake and John
Hawkins during their expiditions for
England. On April 4, 1884, the treaty ending the War of the Pacific was signed
here by the governments of Chile and
Bolivia.
FTP, name this Chilean port city.
_Valparaiso_
13. He helped with the negotiations to end the Iran-Iraq War during his term,
and also assisted Namibia in its bid for
independence. Suspicions that this former secretary-general would run for his
country=s presidency in 1994 proved to
be false. FTP, name this Peruvian diplomat who headed the United Nations from
1982-1991.
Javier _Perez du Cuellar_
14. His ASelected Poems@ won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize and showed the influence
of psychoanalytic theory on his
work. A pioneer of the stream of consciousness, his other works were noted for
their musicality. FTP, identify this
American poet and novelist whose works include The Jig of Forslin, A Letter from
Li Po, and The Kid.
Conrad _Aiken_
15. It is the supreme evil spirit, the lord of darkness and death, and
constantly wages war against its counterpart
Ormuzd until a time when humans choose to abandon wrongdoing and lead pious
lives. FTP, identify this major deity
of Zorostrianism.
_Ahriman_
16. This game is played with 22 balls, including 15 red, one yellow, one green,
one brown, one blue, one black, and
the cue. The red balls are worth one point each, and the other balls range in
value from 2 to 7 points. FTP, name this
variation of billiards.
_Snooker_
17. His writings, unlike most of his day, were noted for their impressive
detail and affinity for accuracy. After failing
to defend Amphipolis from the Spartans, he was exiled from Athens for 20 years.
FTP, name this Athenian who
authored The History of the Peloponnesian Wars during his exile.
_Thucydides_
18. For air over water this value is approximately 53 degrees.
indices of refraction of two substances, one
Given the
can calculate this value for their plane of intersection by calculating the
arctangent of the ratio of the two indices, with
the value for the incident material on the bottom.
which reflected light will be completely
FTP, identify this angle at
plane-polarized.
_Brewster_ angle
19 Pieces from these suites include Anitra=s Dance, Morning Mood, and Solveig=s
Song. The most famous portion of
it portrays dancing creatures of darkness and is called In The Hall of the
Mountain King. FTP, name this pair of
orchestral suites by Edward Grieg based on a play by Henrik Ibsen.
_Peer Gynt_
20. It arose out of the economic distress and mass unemployment of the winter
of 1893-94. Its leader, from
Massilon, Ohio, called upon the unemployed to march on Washington.
this movement which collapsed
FTP, name
when its leader and others were arrested for trespassing on Capitol ground.
_Coxey=s Army_
21. He attempted to revive poetry as an oral art form, and in so doing he
wandered the United States reciting poems
for food and shelter. In 1913 _Poetry_ magazine published his first poem, about
the founder of the Salvation Army.
FTP, name the poet, best known for _Rhymes to be Traded for Bread_ and _General
William Booth Enters into
Heaven_
Vachel _Lindsay_
Boni
1. FTP each answer the following questions about various Ascientific@
instruments.
a. Invented in 1730 by John Hadley, it is used to measure the angle between a
heavenly body and the horizon.
ANSWER: Sextant
b. Named for the material out of which it was first constructed, it was used for
intensive calculations.
ANSWER: _Napiers= Bones_
c. This first mechanical calculator was initially more expensive than hiring a
person to perform calculations.
ANSWER: _Pascaline_ or _Calculating engine_
2. Many people know Shakespeare=s comedies, however, FTPE name his three Adark@
comedies.
_Troilus and Cressida,_ All=s Well That End=s Well,_ and Measure for Measure
3. Answer the following questions about Nazi organizations.
a. This@protective squadron@ was established by Himmler in 1925 and eventually
served as the secret police.
ANSWER: _SS_ or _Schutz Staffel_
b. Founded by G`ring and run by Himmler, this division of the SS ran the
concentration camps.
ANSWER: _Gestapo_ or _Geheimnisstaatspolizei_
c. Run by Baldur von Scgirach, this organization was used to train teenagers for
the military.
ANSWER: _Hitler Youth_
4. Answer the following questions on Greek politics for the stated number of
points.
5- He was Prime Minister from 1981-1989 and again from 1993 until his death in
1996.
ANSWER: Andreas _Papandreou_
10- Which party did Papandreou represent?
ANSWER: _Pan-Hellistic Socialist Movement_ or _PASOK_
15- Who is the current Prime Minister of Greece?
ANSWER: Costas _Simitis_
5.
Answer the following about a particular Greek god FTSNOP:
5- Name the half-man, half-goat god of flocks and herds.
_Pan_
10- By what name did the Romans know Pan?
_Sylvanus_
15- What is the proper name for the pipes of Pan, the name of a nymph who was
turned into a reed as she fled from
Pan?
_Syrinx_
6.
Identify the artist from given works, 30-20-10.
30: Illustrations for ADead Souls@ (1948) and AFables of la Fontaine@ (1952)
20: 12 stained glass panels for Jerusalem=s Hadassa Medical Center.
10: _I and the Village_ and _The Praying Jew_
Marc _Chagall_
7.
Answer the following about the brain for the stated number of points.
A. (15 points) This brain structure is twice as large in women as in men.
(5 points) It connects the hemispheres of the brain.
_corpus colossum_
B. This 19th century American railroad worker had a rod driven through his
skull, severing his corpus colossum but
not killing him.
For 15 points, name him.
Finneas _Gage_
8.
Identify the American authors from works, 10-5:
A. (10) AUp in Michigan@
(5) _The Sun Also Rises_
Ernest _Hemingway_
B. (10) _To a God Unknown_
(5) _The Grapes of Wrath_
John _Steinbeck_
C. (10) _Goodbye Columbus_
(5) _Portnoy=s Complaint_
Philip _Roth_
9. Since knowing the planets in the solar system is passe, instead identify the
five largest satellites in the solar system,
with a five point bonus for all 5 correct.
Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Earth=s Moon (Luna)
10.
Identify the English poet from a list of works, 30-20-10:
30: ABreak, Break, Break@
20: AThe Lotus Eaters@
10: AThe Lady of Shalott@
Alfred, Lord _Tennyson_
11.
Answer the following about Eastern mystics FTP each.
A. This technique involves the focusing of the mind, in which each individual
is given a mantra.
_Transcendental Meditation_
B.
FTP, who introduced transcendental meditation to the West?
_Maharishi (Mahesh) Yogi_
12. All good Dork Bowl matches should feature at least one question on Russian
geography, soooo.... Given a
former Soviet republic, identify its capital FTP each.
A.
Turkmenistan _Ashkhabad_
B.
Uzbekistan _Tashkent_
C.
Kyrgyzstan _Bishkek_
13.
FTSNOP, identify the following saints from a brief description.
5- He was martyred at Patras on an X-shaped cross.
St. _Andrew_
10- He was the son of a prince of Dyfed and uncle of King Arthur.
St. _David_
15- His emblem is a winged lion, and he accompanied Paul and Barnabas on their
first missionary journey.
St. _Mark_
14.
Identify the author from a list of works, 30-20-10:
30.
One Man=s Initiation (1919)
20.
Three Soldiers (1921)
10.
U.S.A. Trilogy (1930-1936)
John _Dos Passos_
15.
A.
Answer the following about the Heisman Trophy winners FTP each.
He was the first Heisman winner in 1935.
Jay _Berwanger_
B.
This 1974-75 winner is the only two-time recipient.
Archie _Griffin_
C.
This 1963 winner had a successful career with the Dallas Cowboys
Roger _Staubach_
16.
Identify the Romantic poet from works 30-20-10:
30: AThis Lime-Tree Bower My Prison@ and ATo Asra@
20: AFrost at Midnight@ and AChristabel@
10: AKublai Khan@ and AThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner@
Samuel Taylor _Coleridge_
17. Identify follwoing about an astronomical term from information supplied FTP
each.
A. Requiring approximately 26000 years, this effect is responsible for the
periodic changing of the pole star.
_Procession_
B. What star, the brightest in the constellation Lyra, will be the next major
pole star?
_Vega_
C.
This star was the last major pole star.
_Thuban_
18.
Identify the historical figure from clues, 30-15:
30. The High King of Ireland in 976, he conquered Munster, Lenster, and
Connacht to become ruler of Ireland.
15. He went on to defeat the Norse at Clontart, thus ending Norse control of
Dublin, though he himself was killed at
the battle.
Brian _Boru_
19. Foreign movie questions usually give students nightmares.
and name the foreign actor from a
Prove your worth
list of his appearances on a 30-20-10 basis.
30.
The Moon in the Gutter
20.
Cyrano de Bergerac
10.
Green Card
Gerard _Depardieu_
20.
Identify the following concerning types of physical measurement FTSNOP.
A (5) What general type of measurement includes mass, temperature, and pressure?
_Scalar_
B (5) What type of measurement includes velocity and acceleration?
_Vector_
C(10) Scalars and vectors are, respectively, zeroeth and first order what?
_Tensors_
D (10) Finally, what general property defines the different types of tensors?
_Rotational Transformation_
> Auburn University Montgomery
> Toss-up Questions by Tom Michael,
> Bonus Questions by Tom Michael and Michael Baldwin
>
> (NOTE TO MODERATORS: PRONUNCIATION WARNING FOR TOSS-UP 1, PREMATCH REVIEW
> SUGGESTED)
>
> Toss-ups
>
> (Literature)
>
>
Kono michi ma
>
Yuku hito nashi ni
>
Aki no kure
>
> (pronounce the vowels "a" as if it were in the word "gnaw," "e" as if it were
> the "a" in "may", "i" as if it were the "e" in "me,""o" as in "no," "u" as if
> it were the "ou" in "you.")
>
>
is one by Matsuo Basho, a 17th Century wanderer who developed this verse
> form. FTP, name this poetic form of 17 syllables and three lines.
>
>
_haiku_ (pron: HIGH-coo)
>
> (History)
>
>
After shooting himself in the chest failed to off him, American doctors
> patiently nursed him back to health so that he could be hanged. Born of a
> samurai family, he taught at a military staff college until assigned to the
> garrisons in Manchuria. Becoming Chief of Staff of the army in China in 1937,
> he later became Minister of War and finally premier. FTP, who was this
> Japanese leader who resigned in disgrace after the Allies captured Saipan?
>
>
Hideki _Tojo_
>
> (Any of two categories above)
>
>
In his desire to become King of the Moon, he imposed a backbreaking
> labor on his subjects. He ignored the complaints until Mack, the lowliest of
> his underlings, brought the whole enterprise back to Earth with a "plain
> little" burp. FTP name this subject of a political allegory by Dr. Seuss, the
> "king of the pond" "on the far-away Island of Sala-ma-Sond."
>
>
_Yertle_ the Turtle
>
> (Science)
>
>
13.5 times heavier than water, this substance freezes at -40 fahrenheit.
> Combined with chlorine, it can be a calomel or an antiseptic. As an amalgam
> it's been used for gold and silver extraction, and as a fulminate it forms an
> explosive used in detonators. FTP, what is this element whose chief ore is
> cinnabar?
>
>
_mercury_
>
> (History)
>
>
Molino del Rey, San Antonio, Chapultepec, Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma,
> Monterrey, Cerro Gordo, and Veracruz were among the battles of, ftp, what war
> ended by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
>
>
_Mexican_ - American War
>
> (Religion/Philosophy/Mythology)
>
>
This King of Phrygia was condemned for various crimes: betrayal of Zeus,
> theft of a golden dog, serving ambrosia without a license, and feeding his son
> Pelops to the gods at a banquet. FTP, who was this father of Niobe and Broteas
> who spends eternity in Hades with the food and drink he craves just out of
> reach?
>
>
_Tantalus_
>
> (Literature)
>
>
The fifth book was published posthumously, and may not entirely be the
> work of the author. The work's title characters are a father who was sued for
> stealing the bells of Notre Dame, and a son who journeys to the Oracle of the
> Holy Bottle to have a question answered. FTP, identify this satire mostly by
> Francois Rabelais.
>
>
_Gargantua and Pantagruel_
>
> (History)
>
>
This title of this nation's King can be translated as "Lord of Life and
> Possessor of the Twenty-Four Golden Umbrellas." The first King founded the
> city of Ayuthia, and its current capital was founded by King Rama I. The
> nation joined Japan in declaring war on the United States, but the Allies
> ignored it. FTP, what is this Southeast Asian country whose current King is
> the longest reigning living monarch?
>
>
_Thailand_
>
> (Science)
>
>
While working at the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Cal Tech, he
> helped plan the building and installation of a 200 inch telescope. Using
> delicate detectors called electroscopes, he proved that cosmic rays originated
> in outer space. FTP, identify this 1923 Nobel laureate for physics who also
> first measured the charge of the electron.
>
>
Robert Andrews _Millikan_
>
> (Sports)
>
>
The Reign, the Rage, the Quest, and the Lasers represent Seattle,
> Richmond, Columbus, and San Jose respectively in, ftp, what women's
> professional basketball league that started in the Fall of 1996?
>
>
_American Basketball League_ (Acc: ABL)
>
> (Pop Culture)
>
>
The first American performer allowed to tour the Soviet Union, the U.S.
> government used him as a courier for secret messages on his return voyage. He
> once explained his membership in the Algonquin Round table by saying that he
> functioned as the listener. On _I Love Lucy_ he recreated the "mirror scene"
> from _Duck Soup_ that he had performed with his brother Groucho. FTP, name
> this Marx Brother who communicated a lot while never saying anything?
>
>
_Harpo_ Marx
>
> (Science)
>
>
Fritz Opel tried to develop them as a propellant method for trains and
> cars, while William Congreve had advocated their use in war a century earlier.
> Their name is derived from an old Italian word for a small staff. FTP, what is
> this device that can be dry- or liquid-fueled, and was developed in modern
> times by Robert Goddard?
>
>
_rocket_
>
> (Music/Dance/Performing Arts)
>
>
Some of the sets were designed by Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, and
> the music for some of the productions was composed by Ravel, Debussy, and
> Stravinsky. Opened in Paris in 1909, George Balanchine was one of the
> choreographers. FTP, identify this dance company founded by Sergei Diaghilev.
>
>
_Ballets Russes_ (pron: ba-LAY ROOS)
>
> (History)
>
>
Isabella II of Spain in 1870, Richard II of England in 1399, Carol II of
> Rumania in 1940, Diocletian in 305, and Charles X of France in 1830 did what
> all the German kings and princesses did in 1918 and Napoleon did twice. FTP,
> what is this sometimes involuntary act that in England requires the consent of
> Parliament?
>
>
_abdication_ (acc: very close equivalents)
>
> (Painting/Sculpture/Architecture/Film)
>
>
A pupil of Bellini, Giorgione was one of his fellow students. He painted
> himself kneeling before Christ and Mary in his _Pieta_, and also created the
> allegory _Scared and Profane Love_. Charles V was so pleased with this artist
> created that he named him "Knight of the Golden Spur and Count Palatine." FTP,
> who is this Venetian artist who has lent his name to a shade of blue?
>
>
_Titian_ (pron: TEE-shun)
>
(Acc: Tiziano Vecelli)
>
> (Religion/Philosophy/Mythology)
>
>
This son of a banker abandoned medical school to study philosophy.
> Borrowing from the Buddhists that "life is suffering," he felt that the
> intellect must suppress desire in order to diminish suffering. FTP, name this
> notorious pessimist and author of 1819's _The World as Will and Idea_.
>
>
Arthur _Schopenhauer_
>
> (Geography)
>
>
Mount Betty Gustafson, Roosevelt Island, Adelie Land. the Beardmore
> Glacier, the Rockefeller Plateau, Elephant Island, Victoria Land, the Bay of
> Whales, the Weddell Sea, the Ross Sea, the Amundsen Glacier, the Ross Ice
> Shelf, and Mount Erebus are all, ftp, part of what continent surrounded by
> drift ice?
>
>
_Antarctica_
>
> (Literature)
>
>
About Fame, this poet said: "She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at
> all." He called London a "Dear, damn'd, distracting town;" and talked about
> "The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong." Those lines come from "The Temple
> of Fame," "A Farewell to London," and _The Dunciad_. FTP, identify this
> English neoclassicist and wit who also wrote _An Essay on Criticism_ and _The
> Rape of the Lock_.
>
>
Alexander _Pope_
>
> (Current Events)
>
>
Bob Dornan has called her "an inarticulate, flaky, non-qualified
> person." Those are strong words to use against a person who's just defeated
> you by 900 votes. FTP, name this Hispanic-American Californian whose recent
> election to the House of Representatives is still being contested.
>
>
Linda _Sanchez_
>
> (Non-trash miscellaneous)
>
>
Andrew Jackson appointed him Attorney General in 1831, and in 1833 moved
> him to Secretary of the Treasury.; but the Senate refused to confirm him.
> After a brief retirement, this Marylander was appointed to the Supreme Court
> in 1836 as the Chief Justice to succeed John Marshall. FTP, name this jurist
> most remembered for his opinion in _Scott v. Sanford_.
>
>
Roger Brooke _Taney_ (pron: TAW nih)
>
> (Science)
>
>
A cholecystectomy (pron: Ko-la-sis-tect-to-me) is often necessary to
> remove these small hard pebbles of cholesterol. They cause pain if they get
> caught in the cystic or the bile duct. FTP, what are these hard objects which
> usually form in a bladder?
>
>
_gallstones_
>
(Acc: "gall bladder" as clear and precise knowledge if the buzz comes on
>
"cholecystectomy)
>
(Do not acc: kidney stones)
>
> (Literature)
>
>
He wrote "There is no joy but calm" in the poem "Choric Song," and "The
> last great Englishman is low" in "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington."
> FTP, who is this Victorian poet who wrote of "Believing where we cannot prove"
> in the prologue to "In Memoriam."
>
>
Alfred, Lord _Tennyson_
>
> (Geography)
>
>
Its top thousand feet, including the volcanic crater, had probably
> eroded away centuries before man ever set eyes on it. A river named for it
> begins a few miles away and flows west to the Pacific, and Uspallata (pron:
> US-pah-YAW-tah) Pass is just to the south. FTP, name this highest mountain in
> the Western Hemisphere which is near the Chilean-Argentinean border in the
> Andes.
>
>
Mount _Aconcagua_ (pron: AH-kon-KAH-gwah)
>
> (Literature)
>
>
His own poems were published in _Pictures of the Gone World_ and _A
> Coney Island of the Mind_; but he's also known for publishing Ginsberg's
> _Howl_ and the works of other Beat Poets. FTP, name this proprietor of San
> Francisco's _City Lights_ bookstore.
>
>
Lawrence _Ferlinghetti_
>
> (Science)
>
>
After its first encounter with the asteroid Gaspara succeeded, NASA
> stopped worrying about the loss of the high gain antenna and developed
> software patches to use the surviving technology. The improved software has
> sent back astounding images of Ganymede, Europa, and the primary target of
> Jupiter. FTP, identify this interplanetary spaceprobe named for an Italian
> scientist.
>
>
>
_Galileo_
> (Social Science)
>
>
Flooding, aversion therapy, systematic desensitization, extinction,
> conditioning, and reinforcement are all techniques used in, ftp, what
> psychotherapy theory advocated by Wolpe, Watson, and Skinner?
>
>
_behaviorism_ (acc: behavioral therapy)
>
> (Non-trash miscellaneous)
>
>
A common name for a group of compounds containing a common element, it's
> caustic if the formula contains a hydroxide. Usually manufactured from a
> common salt, you can also use it to wash or bake. FTP, what is this four
> letter word that can be found in a fountain or a vending machine?
>
>
_soda_
>
> (History)
>
>
The Salians lived near the sea, while the Ripuarians lived on the banks
> of the Middle Rhine. Cemeteries
> yin Northern France reveal that their soldiers were buried fully armed.
> Crossing the Rhine about 250 A.D., King Clovis established an Empire in the
> early 6th Century. FTP, name these Germanic people who have leant their name
> to a nation.
>
>
_Franks_
>
> Bonuses
>
> 30-20-10 Points (Literature)
>
>
30-20-10, name the author from his works:
>
>
30:
>
The poetry collection _The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame
Creatures_
>
>
20:
The play _Buchanan Dying_
10:
The novel _The Witches of Eastwick_
>
>
>
>
John _Updike_
>
> 30 Points (Music/Dance/Performing Arts)
>
>
A triad chord may be built on each of the seven degrees of a C major
> scale. For 5 points each, give me the name of the triad:
>
> 1.
>
> 2.
>
> 3.
>
> 4.
>
> 5.
1st degree, c-e-g
_tonic_
2nd degree, d-f-a
_supertonic_
6th degree, a-c-e
_submediant_
4th degree, f-a-c
_subdominant_
5th degree, g-b-d
>
> 6.
>
_dominant_
3rd degree. e-g-b
_mediant_
>
> 30 Points (History)
>
>
Remember the Alamo and for ten points each answer these questions about
> the Texas War for Independence:
>
> 1.
What self-proclaimed "Napoleon of the West" commanded the Mexican troops
>
in the war?
>
>
Juan Antonio Lopez de _Santa Ana_
>
> 2.
At what battle did the Texans ultimately defeat and capture Santa Ana?
>
>
_San Jacinto_ (pron: ja-SIN-to or ha-SEEN-to)
>
> 3.
What was the nickname, popularized in song, of the woman Santa Ana was
>
bedding while the Texans annihilated his army around him?
>
>
the _Yellow Rose_ of Texas
>
> 25 Points (Religion/Philosophy/Mythology)
>
>
For five points each, identify the Christian apostle:
>
> 1.
>
The apostle who was the brother of Peter and patron saint of Russia.
>
_Andrew_
>
> 2.
The apostle chosen by lot to take the place of Judas Iscariot.
>
>
_Matthias_
>
> 3.
The two apostle brothers Jesus called "sons of thunder."
>
>
_James_ the Greater and _John_ the Divine
>
> 4.
Also called "Didymus," his apocryphal Acts tell of his Mission to India.
>
>
_Thomas_ (Acc: Doubting Thomas)
>
> 30 Points (Pop Culture)
>
>
For five points each, give me the name of the music group given the
> "last names" of its personnel:
>
>
>
Baker, Bruce, Clapton
_Cream_
>
>
>
Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell
_Phish_
>
>
Berry, Buck, Mills, Zevon
>
_Hindu Love Gods_
>
(note: "Berry, Buck, Mills, *Stipe* is REM)
>
>
Allison, Holly, Mauldin, Sullivan
>
The _Crickets_ (Acc: Buddy Holly and the Crickets)
>
>
Kato, O, Roeser
>
_Urge Overkill_
>
>
Cease, Colt, Gorman, Robinson, Robinson
>
The _Black Crowes_
>
> 30 Points (History)
>
>
For ten points each, answer the following about the history of
> Australia:
>
> 1.
When James Cook claimed Australia for England in 1770, what name did he
>
give the tract of land he had explored; a name still used by an
>
Australian state?
>
>
_New South Wales_
>
> 2.
The first penal colony was established By Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788
>
at what site near present day Sydney?
>
>
_Botany Bay_
>
> 3.
Within five years, in what year did the states of Australia formally
>
unite into a federated Commonwealth?
>
>
_1901_ (Acc: 1896-1906)
>
> 20 Points (Painting/Sculpture Architecture/Film)
>
>
United Artists Studios began in 1923 as the joint venture of three
> silent film stars and one director. For five points each, name the screen
> giants who began the film studio.
>
>
Charlie _Chaplin_
>
Douglas _Fairbanks_ Sr.
>
D. W. (David Lewelyn Wark) _Griffith_
>
Mary _Pickford_
>
> 25 Points (History)
>
>
For five points each identify the five members of the Tudor dynasty in
> England.
>
>
_Henry VII_
>
_Henry VIII_
>
_Edward VI_
>
_Mary I_
>
_Elizabeth I_
>
>
(Do not accept Lady Jane Grey. Technically she would not have been a
> Tudor)
>
> 30 Points (Science)
>
>
Chemists in the 1990's have used a tool known as STM to create a battery
> about a millionth of an inch across, and to position individual atoms into the
> formation to spell out "IBM." For ten points per word, what is the full name
> of the tool known by its acronym S-T-M?
>
>
_scanning_ _tunneling_ _microscope_
>
> 30 Points (Literature)
>
>
You'll get 10 points if you can identify the poet from some of his
> poetry, or five points if you need the name of the poem the lines are from:
>
>
10:
>
"All I could see from where I stood/Was three long mountains and a
wood."
>
>
5:
"Renascence"
>
>
Edna St. Vincent _Millay_
>
>
10:
>
"So on we worked, and waited for the light,/And went without the
meat, and cursed the bread"
>
>
5:
"Richard Cory"
>
>
Edwin Arlington _Robinson_
>
>
>
10:
"April is the cruellest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead
land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring
>
rain."
>
>
5:
"The Waste Land"
>
>
_T_homas _S_tearns _Eliot_
>
> 30 Points (Religion/Philosophy/Mythology)
>
>
A Thessalian king will die unless someone agrees to take his place. His
> parents refuse, but his wife volunteers and descends to Hades. Heracles then
> rescues her and she returns to life. For fifteen points each, identify this
> mythological couple who appear in a play by Euripides and an opera by Gluck.
>
>
_Alcestis_ and _Admetus_
>
> 30 Points (Geography)
>
>
For 10 points each, identify the former Soviet Republic from a list of
> some of its geographical features:
>
> 1.
Mount Goverla, the Kerch Peninsula, the city of Poltava
>
>
_Ukraine_
>
> 2.
Mount Aragats, Lake Sevan, the city of Yerevan
>
>
>
_Armenia_
> 3.
Mount Tengri, Lake Balkhash, the mouth of the Ural River, the city of
>
Karaganda
>
>
_Kazakhstan_
>
> 20 Points (Current Events)
>
>
Kansas lost a lot of seniority in the Senate with the 1996 retirements
> of Senators Dole and Kassebaum. For 10 points each, which two Republicans won
> Kansas' Senate seats in November, 1996?
>
>
Sam _Brownback_
>
Pat _Roberts_
>
> 20 Points (History)
>
>
Germany lost its four African colonies as a result of World War I, and
> each is now an independent nation. For five points each, identify:
>
> 1.
The nation once divided between the British and the French; it achieved
>
independence in 1960 while a portion of it joined Nigeria in 1961.
>
>
_Cameroon_
>
> 2.
Also divided by the British and French, the British portion became part
>
of Ghana after the French portion achieved independence.
>
>
>
_Togo_
> 3.
After coming under the trusteeship of Britain, the former German colony
>
was linked with a British island protectorate to become a new nation in
>
1964.
>
>
_Tanzania_
>
> 4.
After years of guerrilla fighting led by a group known as SWAPO, this
>
nation finally achieved independence in 1990.
>
>
_Namibia_
>
> 30 Points (Science)
>
>
Art and optics follow different rules; for instance the three primary
> colors of optics are Red, Green, and Blue. For ten points each, name the three
> secondary light colors.
>
>
_Cyan_
>
_Magenta_
>
_Yellow_
>
(Accept only these precise answers - no equivalents)
>
> 30 Points (Non-trash miscellaneous)
>
>
For ten points each, answer these questions about the Missouri
> Compromise:
>
> 1:
What was the free state contemporaneously admitted to the U.S. that
>
allowed the compromise to be possible?
>
>
_Maine_
>
> 2.
The Missouri Compromise was repealed by what 1854 Congressional act?
>
>
The _Kansas-Nebraska_ Bill (acc: Kansas-Nebraska Act)
>
> 3.
After all the complications were worked out, in what year did Congress
>
finally admit Missouri to the Union?
>
>
_1831_
>
> 20 Points (Literature)
>
>
Ka-RAM-a-zov or Ka-ra-MA-zov, how to pronounce the last name of four
> fictional brothers is the subject of some disagreement. The pronunciations of
> the first names are just slightly more straightforward. For five points each,
> give me the first names of the four sons of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov.
>
>
_Dmitry_ (Acc: Mitya)
>
_Ivan_ (Acc: Vanya)
>
_Aleksey_ (Acc: Alyosha)
>
_Smerdyakov_
>
> 30 Points (Non-trash miscellaneous)
>
>
1996 was the tenth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger
> explosion. For 5 points each, name any 6 of the 7 astronauts who died serving
> their country that day so cold the O-rings froze.
>
>
Gregory B. _Jarvis_
>
Christa _McAuliffe_
>
Ronald E. _McNair_
>
Ellison S. _Onizuka_
>
Judith A. _Resnik_
>
Francis R. "Dick" _Scobee_
>
Michael J. _Smith_
>
>
(note to editor: it's been three years since I last submitted a form of
> this question. It's due.)
>
> 30 Points (Social Science)
>
>
For ten points each, identify:
>
> 1.
The psychotherapist who defined a collective unconscious with
>
archetypes, personas, and shadows hanging around it.
>
>
Carl _Jung_ (Pron: YUNG)
>
> 2.
This therapist first called his therapy "Rational Therapy," then
>
"Rational Emotive Therapy;" now he prefers "Rational Emotive Behavior
>
Therapy."
>
>
>
Albert _Ellis_
> 3.
The psychotherapist who wrote _Game People Play_ in part to explain his
>
theories of transactional analysis.
>
>
Eric Lennard _Berne_
>
> 30 Points (Science)
>
Are you wimp or are you macho? If you're an astronomer, the distinction
> is important if you're going to be one of the speculated sources for dark
> matter in the universe. For fifteen points each, tell me the words that
> astronomers combine for the acronym:
>
> 1.
WIMP
>
>
_weakly interacting massive particles_
>
> 2.
MACHO
>
>
_massive compact halo objects_
>
> 30 Points (Any of two cats above)
>
>
Rock music and movies are occasionally based on great works of
> literature. For fifteen points each, name the original author whose writings
> the following works were based upon:
>
> 1.
Alan Parsons Project produced _Tales of Mystery and Imagination_ based
>
on the writings of this author.
>
>
Edgar Allan _Poe_
>
> 2.
In the film _Eddie and the Cruisers_, the fictional band's last lost
>
album is based on the work of what French poet who produced the
>
collection _A Season in Hell_?
>
>
Arthur _Rimbaud_ (Pron: RAM-bow)
>
> 30 Points (Literature)
>
>
For 10 points each, identify these epic poems from the clues:
>
> 1.
Written in imitation of the _Lay of the Nibelungs_, this early 13th
>
Century Austrian epic concerns Hagen, King of Ireland; his daughter
>
Hilde and her husband Hetel, and his granddaughter - the title character
>
- who is abducted by Hartmut of Normandy.
>
>
_Gudrun_
>
> 2.
This inspiration for _Hiawatha_ was composed in the 19th Century by
>
Elias Lonnrott from Finnish songs and oral traditions.
>
>
The _Kalevala_
>
> 3.
A warrior from the south coast of Sweden kills a monster and the
>
monster's mother, then becomes King of the Geats before he is mortally
>
wounded while slaying a dragon.
>
>
_Beowulf_
>
> 30 Points (Geography)
>
>
Up in Montana three rivers unite to form the Missouri. One is named for
> a Secretary of the Treasury; the other two for Presidents who were good
> friends. For ten points each, name these three headwaters of the Missouri
> River.
>
>
_Gallatin_ River
>
_Jefferson River_
>
_Madison River_
>
> 20 Points (Sports)
>
>
The U.S. Post Office in 1997 will issue the "Legendary Football Coaches"
> series. For five points each name the coaches to be honored in the series: two
> best known for collegiate victories and two best known for NFL achievements.
>
>
Paul "Bear" _Bryant_
>
George _Halas_
>
Vince _Lombardi_
>
Pop _Warner_
>
> 20 Points (Science)
>
>
Alchemists called it "aqua regia" because it the combination of acids
> could dissolve gold or platinum. For ten points each, what two acids in
> combination form "aqua regia?"
>
>
_Hydrochloric_ acid (Acc: HCl)
>
_Nitric_ acid (Acc: HNO3)
>
> 25 Points (Literature)
>
>
In the Arthurian literature of T. Malory and T. H. White, Queen Margawse
> is credited with having one illegitimate and four legitimate sons. One son
> killed his father at Camlann, one beheaded his mother after finding her with a
> lover, one is more famous for a bizarre encounter with the Green Knight, and
> one was unwittingly killed by Lancelot. For five points each, name these five
> knights of Orkney.
>
>
Sir _Agravaine_, Sir _Gaheris_, Sir _Gareth_, Sir _Gawain_,
>
Sir _Mordred_
>
> 30 Points (Science)
>
>
For years physicists have been wondering why neutrino detectors find
> fewer neutrinos than theory says the Sun should be producing. One possible
> explanation is that neutrino detectors have usually been constructed to find
> only one of the three types of neutrinos. For ten points each, identify the
> three types of neutrinos.
>
>
_electron_ neutrino
>
_muon_ neutrino
>
_tau_ neutrino
>
> 30 Points (History)
>
>
>
For the stated number of points answer the following about Alexander the
> Great:
>
> 5:
What was the name of his favorite horse?
>
>
_Bucephalus_
>
> 10:
At what 331 B.C. battle near Nineveh did Alexander decisively defeat
>
Darius III?
>
>
_Arbela_
>
> 15:
In what may be Alexander's greatest single military achievement,
>
Alexander had his troops build a causeway over the sea in order to
>
conquer what island city on Phoenicia?
>
>
_Tyre_
>
>
Subject: Packet 3/3 from Wichita State University
TOSSUPS
1.
For as long as anyone can remember, there was no real reason for one
particular barnyard animal's excursion across the blacktop, except "to get
to the other side."
FTP, what rice beer's manufacturers gave us their
interpretation of why the chicken crossed the proverbial road, during Super
Bowl XXXI?
_Budweiser_
2.
French casualties in this battle totaled about 5000, while the English
losses numbered fewer than 200 men.
It was almost averted, when the
English king, fearful of annihilation sought a truce with the French, but
his terms were summarily rejected.
This battle saw the lightly armed,
diseased and hungry legions of Henry V easily defeat those of Charles
d'Albret.
FTP, what is this battle, which took place during the Hundred
Years War, in what is now the Pas-de-Calais (PAH de cah-LAY) Department.
Battle of _Agincourt_
3.
His compositions include "Salt Peanuts," "Bebop," and "Night in
Tunisia," as well as "Manteca," a pioneering work in the Afro-Cuban jazz
style.
He played in the big bands of Cab Calloway and Earl Hines, and
collaborated with Charlie Parker to produce some of the most important
recordings of the jazz era.
FTP, name this trumpeter, best known for his
distinctive trumpet, with its upturned bell.
Dizzy _Gillespie_ or John Birks _Gillespie_
4.
Samples of this process include the drop in temperature of an aerosol
can as its gases are expelled, or in an automobile where the fuel-air
mixture is compressed to heat it prior to ignition.
FTP, what name
describes any physical process in which quantities such as pressure and
volume are varied without any substantial transfer of heat energy to the
surroundings.
_Adiabatic_ Process
5.
Some artists get deeply involved in creating their work, but few
actually use it as a part of the artistic significance.
A particular
subcategory of abstract expressionism exists, in which painters are
concerned with the consistency and texture of the paint, as well as the
movements of the artist.
FTP, identify this area, exemplified by artists
such as Willem de Kooning, (VILL-um de COO-ning) Franz Josef Kline, and
Jackson "Jack the Dripper" Pollack.
_Action_ Painting
6.
He completed his first work in three weeks.
He was born in Washington,
D.C. in 1928, and adopted by an American theater executive who was a
co-owner of a chain of Vaudeville and movie theaters.
His plays featured
many aspects of "theater of the Absurd," and focused primarily on familial
relationships.
FTP, name this playwright, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes,
whose works include "The American Dream," "Tiny Alice," "The Lady From
Dubuque," and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."
Edward Franklin _Albee_
7.
Deregulation of the Railroad, Bus, and Trucking industries has weakened
this agency's power, but it still has power over all common carriers of
freight and passengers by domestic business, as well as that of foreign
carriers who operate in the United States, as well as being the enforcement
arm of the various anti-trust legislation.
FTP, name this agency created
by the Act to Regulate Commerce in 1887, under the authority of Article I,
Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which vests in Congress the power "to
regulate commerce between the several states."
_Interstate Commerce Commission_ (Prompt on Acronym)
8.
This doctrine is based on the works of David Hume and Immanuel Kant,
who both asserted logical fallacies as the basis of an opposing doctrine,
and is similar to skepticism, but far more limited in scope.
FTP, name
this doctrine, which does not deny the existence of God or other spiritual
beings, but merely asserts that it is impossible to rely upon metaphysical
and theological beliefs, due to faulty logic.
_Agnosticism_
9.
FAQTP, where am I describing?
This city in southern Ukraine, located
on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, on the Black Sea, is an
important health and vacation resort.
The site of the modern city was
annexed by Russia in 1783, and was the scene of a very important conference
held over seven days in February 1945.
_Yalta_
10.
This instrument, a triangular member of the lute family, comes in six
sizes ranging from piccolo to contrabass.
and dombra, of Central Asia and Siberia.
It was developed from the domra
FTP, identify this Russian
instrument, with three metal or gut strings, a long, narrow neck, and a
sound hole in the narrow end of the body.
_Balalaika_ (ba-la-LIE-ka)
11.
According to Irish legend, this chieftain and bard of the second or
third century AD descended from Druids and was raised in a forest.
He was
described as "wise and sensitive to natural beauty" and lent his first name
to a band of warrior poets.
FTP, who is this Irishman, whose exploits are
the subject of the Fenian Cycle, a series of long narrative poems, and
whose accepted name implies he's a pretty hep cat.
_Finn MacCumhail_ or _Finn MacCool_
12.
This disease, if left untreated, almost always causes death, but is
easily defeated by restoring thiamin to the diet.
It comes in two forms,
wet - characterized by sweating, warm skin, and elevated heart rate,
leading to heart failure - and dry - characterized by neuritis in the lower
extremities, muscle atrophy, and eventually paralysis.
FTP, name this
disease, prevalent in areas of the world where polished white rice is a
staple part of the diet.
_Beriberi_
13.
Although this is a subcategory of history, it would not be possible to
study history without paying particular attention to it.
Examples of this
include Thuycydides' study of the Peloponnesian War, _The Ecclesiastical
History of the English People_ by Bede the Venerable, and _The History of
the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ by Edward Gibbon.
FTP, what is
this discipline, which deals with the written record of what is known of
human lives and societies in the past and how historians have attempted to
understand it?
_Historiography_
14.
High-speed photographs of milk drops and exploding apples wouldn't be
possible without this Fremont, Nebraska born engineer's pioneering work.
FTP, whose developments in high-speed strobe lights made it possible for
photographers and scientists to study motion that is faster than the eye.
Harold E. _Edgerton_
15.
Code.
Provisions for this are found under Title 11 of the United States
Type 9 cases deal with Munincipalities, and Type 12 cases deal with
Farmers, but you might be more familiar with Type 11 cases, which deal with
business reorganization, or Type 7, which deal with Individuals.
FTP, what
is this area of the law, in which an entity wishes protection from its
creditors due to insolvency?
_Bankruptcy_ Code
16.
Her poetry was marked by exquisite beauty of diction, perfect
simplicity of form, and intensity of emotion.
She was credited with
creating a style, using four lines in which the first three are eleven
syllables in length while the fourth is five syllables.
She was also
credited, although perhaps not so flatteringly, with defining the terms for
female homosexuality.
FTP, who is this "tenth muse" of Greek poetry?
_Sappho_
17.
It's time for the shameless "plug your school's famous alumni
question".
He excelled as a linebacker for the Wichita State University
Wheatshockers, racking up an astounding 20 tackles and six sacks in one
game.
Despite winning all Missouri Valley Conference honors as a senior,
he opted for a coaching career rather than a playing career.
It has been a
good choice, because after stints at several colleges, including Wichita
State, he has compiled a 119-85-1 record in his 12 years as an NFL head
coach, placing him fourth on the all-time winning coaches list.
FTP, who
is this coach, nicknamed "Tuna", who recently led the New England Patriots
to Super Bowl XXXI?
Bill _Parcells_
18.
He retired from the Continental army in 1779, at the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel, due to ill health.
He was then admitted to the bar in
New York City, where his reputation as one of the foremost lawyers of that
city led him to be appointed attorney general in 1789.
He was discredited
at the end of his political career, but not before he was elected as the
third vice president, when he, FTP if you've "got milk" shot Alexander
Hamilton.
Aaron _Burr_
19.
form.
Methyl is the only group of these compounds to exist only in alkane
Prefixes indicate how many carbon atoms are in the group, while
suffixes determine which family a certain compound falls into.
FTP, name
this simplest class of organic compounds, including the alkanes, alkenes,
and alkynes, consisting of Hydrogen and Carbon atoms only, and forming
straight chains.
_Aliphatic_ compounds
20.
"The hammer banged Reveille on the rail outside camp HQ at five
o'clock as always.
Time to get up.
The ragged noise was muffled by ice
two fingers thick on the windows, and soon died away.
warder to go on hammering."
Too cold for the
This begins, FTP, what short story, loosely
based on what author's own experience in the "Gulag Archipelago" of the
former Soviet Union?
_One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch_ by Aleksander Isayevitch
_Solzhenitsyn_
21.
This game of manual dexterity has recently been made much more
difficult, by hybridizing it with the popular card game Uno.
FAQTP, name
this game, in which contestants compete to see who will be the last to
safely remove a wooden block from a tower an replace it at the top.
_Jenga_
22.
This book centers on the five discourses of Christ, and although it is
the first book in the New Testament, it was preceded chronologically by the
Gospel According to Mark.
FTP, name this book, which contains, among other
things, the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus and the Lord's Prayer.
The Gospel According to _Matthew_
23.
This programming language, based on the C++ model of Object-Oriented
programming, is platform independent.
It is being used to design much more
intricate websites than would ever be possible with HTML.
FTP, what is
this language, developed by Sun Microsystems, that has been touted as a
possible end to the Microsoft juggernaut of domination?
_Java_
BONUSES
1.
The Super Bowl is not only a contest between the two best teams in
professional football, it has also become a no-holds-barred contest among
advertisers to make viewers remember their products by their memorable
commercials.
For five points each, and a five point bonus for all five,
let's see how well they did their job.
a) This cola company used dancing bears and a catchy slogan playing on the
"Generation X" moniker to sell its product.
_Pepsi_ or _Pepsico_
b) This auto manufacturer continued its series of "weird occurrence"
commercials, by depicting dive-bombing pigeons and joy-riding dogs.
_Nissan_
c) This brewery's devoted driver lost his truck to a group of aliens, who
returned to pick him up, as they realized they had no "designated driver."
_Budweiser_ or _Anheuser-Busch_
d) "Great googily moogily," this snack food giant's hapless groundskeeper
found himself frozen to an ice rink, after becoming entranced by a scantily
clad billboard ad.
_Snickers_
e) This online service provider had perhaps the simplest, but perhaps most
effective commercial, with a soundtrack of busy signals, playing on its
competitor's recent legal problem.
_Compuserve_
2.
Nowadays, businesses and individuals routinely send confidential
information over the Internet, trusting the encoding functions of their
browsers or e-mail clients.
For the stated number of points, here's a
short quiz on the history of such encoding.
5: This is the latest iteration of the large number key theory, and uses
the product of two 100-digit prime numbers.
_RSA_ Algorithm
10: RSA was developed due to complaints about this similar, but much
smaller scale system, which translated message segments of 64 bits by a 56
bit random key.
_DES_ or _Data Encryption Standard_
15: DES was the result of the obsoletion of this cryptosystem, which used
both substitution and transposition, and implied a quite demonic nature.
_LUCIFER_
3.
Identify the artist from clues, 30-20-10.
30: He was born in Moscow, December 4, 1866, and studied at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, from 1896 to 1900
20: Along with Franz Marc, he founded Der Blaue Reiter (dare BLOU-eh
RIGHT-er) group.
10: Among his works are Composition VIII No. 260, Circle and Square, and
the book Concerning the Spiritual in Art.
Wassily _Kandinsky_
4.
Place the following Chief Justices of the Supreme Court in
chronological order:
Edward D. White, Roger Brooke Taney, Harlan Fiske
Stone, Frederick Moore Vinson, John Rutledge, and Melville W. Fuller.
_Rutledge_
_Taney_
_Fuller_
_White_
_Stone_
_Vinson_
5.
Paris has obviously a very tranquil city, as it has been the location
of several war-ending treaties.
On a 10-5 basis, identify the year of the
stated treaty.
10: This treaty allowed France to keep all of its territory held in Europe
prior to 1792, and did not require it to pay an indemnity.
5:
It ended the Napoleonic Wars.
_1814_ or _1815_
10: This treaty was accompanied by similar treaties signed with France and
Spain, who were allied in support of the victorious nation.
5:
It ended the American Revolution.
_1783_
10: This treaty saw Russia forced to return Bessarabia and the mouth of the
Danube to Turkey, and lost its claims to Moldavia, Walachia, and Serbia.
5:
It ended the Crimean War.
_1856_
6.
Verbs are a very versatile set of words.
With minor modifications,
they can represent either nouns or adjectives.
FFPE, ten points per
matched pair, what are the three types of verbals, and which fundamental
part of speech does each function as?
_Gerund_ - _Noun_
_Participle_ - _Adjective_
_Infinitive_ - _Noun_
7.
On December 8, 1991, 11 of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union
joined forces to become a Commonwealth of Independent States.
Eight of
those were not originally members, but were admitted as founding members.
F30P, all or nothing, which eight republics were the latecomers?
_Armenia_, _Azerbaijan_, _Kazhakstan_, _Kyrgyzstan_,
_Moldova_, _Tajikstan_, _Turkmenistan_, _Uzbekistan_
8.
Some of the most beautiful sounds in a symphony come from the woodwind
family, a group of instruments that can be divided into three groups, base
on the number of reeds each instrument has.
FFPE, and a five point bonus
for all five, identify these wind instruments as having zero, one, or two
reeds.
a) Oboe - _Two_
b) Clarinet - _One_
c) Flute - _Zero_
d) Shawm - _Two_
e) Ocarina - _Zero_
9.
The Seven Wise Men of Greece, also known as the Seven Sages, were
active in the 6th and 7th centuries BC who were active in science,
philosophy, and politics.
FFPE, name any six of them.
_Bias of Priene_ _Chilon of Sparta_
_Cleobulus of Lindus_ _Periander of Corinth_
_Pittacus of Mitylene_ _Solon of Athens_
_Thales of Miletus_
10.
Beginning in 1899, three nations, striving to maintain peace in South
and Central America and to achieve common action and policy on problems
concerning all Latin American countries, concluded a series of treaties
that provided for arbitration of disputes and mutual assistance against
aggression.
FTPE, what three countries were involved in this treaty?
FFPE, the treaty organization was known as the ABC Powers.
_Argentina_, _Brazil_, _Chile_
11.
Identify this familiar astronomical construct, 30-20-10.
30:
It is possible to view all of the items in this construct in one
night, during the month of March, but it requires great skill and endurance.
20:
The 110 objects in this construct range in magnitude from 10.2 to 1.2,
and consist of nebulae, binary star systems, and other astronomical objects.
10:
This catalog is noted for its members, including M31, the Andromeda
Galaxy, and M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.
_Messier Catalog_ of Deep-Sky Objects
12.
How well do you remember your high school lit class?
There are four
types of metrical feet, and FTPE, can you match the name with its accent
pattern?
a) weak, weak, strong - _Anapest_ or _Anapestic_
b) weak, strong - _Iamb_ or _Iambic_
c) strong, weak, weak - _Dactyl_ or _Dactylic_
13.
On a 10-5 basis, identify the musical from songs.
10: "The Sword of Damocles"
5:
"The Time Warp"
_Rocky Horror Picture Show_
10: "Seize the Day"
5:
"Carrying the Banner"
_Newsies_
10: "One Jump Ahead"
5:
"A Whole New World"
_Aladdin_
14.
Just as the Catholic Church uses the Catechism alongside the Bible to
define their beliefs, the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
believes in three additional books.
5:
FTS#OP, identify the book.
This book is considered "divinely inspired scripture," just as the
Bible, and is the work of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
_The Book of Mormon_: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
10: This book is a compilation of revelations and writings given since the
restoration began, and defines much of the Church.
_Doctrines and Covenants_
15: This final book is a selection from the revelations, translations, and
writings of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
_The Pearl of Great Price_
15.
Put your eye on your chin and your hand in your ear and get ready to
identify this Cubist painter from works, 30-20-10
30:
"The Chessboard" (1917)
20:
"Guitar and Bottle" (1917)
10:
"Glasses and Newspaper" (1914)
Juan _Gris_
16.
The leg bone connects to the ankle bone, and so on.
F30P, all or
nothing, can you put the following bones in order, going from head to toe?
(i.e. Skull, then Pelvis, then Tibia)
Radius, Sternum.
_Mandible_
Mandible, Patella, Femur, Tarsals,
_Sternum_
_Radius_
_Femur_
_Patella_
_Tarsals_
17.
Identify the anthropologist by clues, 30-20-10.
30:
He resigned his position as director of the Wildlife Services of Kenya
in 1994, after the Kenyan government added responsibility to it, which he
felt would undermine the organization.
20:
His autobiography was titled "One Life," and he co-authored "Origins"
with Roger Lewin.
10:
His fossil hunting expeditions to Lake Turkana yielded the earliest
bones of Australopithecus Man, as well as a nearly complete skeleton of a
1.6 million year old boy.
_Richard_ Erskine Frere _Leakey_
18.
(Do NOT accept Lewis or Mary)
During the Gallipoli campaign of WWI, the ANZAC attempted an
unsuccessful invasion of Turkey, with the forces of Great Britain and
France.
FFPE and a five point bonus, identify the component terms of the
acronym ANZAC.
_Australian - New Zealand Army Corps_
19.
The Abbey Theater, a repertory-theater company and the auditorium in
which the company performs, in Dublin, Ireland was originally established
to present Irish plays about Irish subjects, the company later expanded its
repertory to include classical drama, including that of British playwright
William Shakespeare, and contemporary works by dramatists of continental
Europe.
FTPE, which three Irish authors are credited with founding the
Abbey Theater?
William Butler _Yeats_
Lady Isabella Augusta _Gregory_
George William _Russell_ or _AE_
20.
You might think we were returning to the era of the robber baron, with
the price-fixing schemes recently publicized reminiscent of the late 19th
century.
a)
F15PE, identify these firms recently in the news.
A U.S. Subsidiary of this German pharmaceutical giant has plead guilty
to fixing the price of citric acid, and has been slapped with a $50 million
fine.
_Bayer_ AG
b)
This grain and seed processor was fined earlier this year for its role
in fixing the price of lysine, and was also involved in the Bayer case.
_A_rcher _D_aniels _M_idland Co.
21.
Despite the rush to replace the English system with SI measurements,
there are
six measuring units that are so widely entrenched, that replacing them
would be impossible.
FTS#OP, identify the following.
F5P, what is the unit represented by ten to the minus 10th meters, used to
measure wavelengths of light?
_Angstrom_
FTP, which two of the six refer to measurements of pressure, one in the
Ideal gas law, and the other when speaking of a barometer.
_Atmosphere_ and _Bar_
F15P, which is the only unit used to measure land area?
_Hectare_
22.
Another NFL season has come and gone, and the most hapless of the
teams will have a chance to improve their standings come draft day.
give me the top six teams of the draft order, in order.
(Accept either underlined, except for NYJ.
_New York Jets_ (1-15)
Accept _Jets_ for NYJ)
FFPE,
_New Orleans_ _Saints_ (3-13)
_Atlanta_ _Falcons_ (3-13)
_Baltimore_ _Ravens_ (4-12)
_Detroit_ _Lions_ (5-11)
_St. Louis_ _Rams_ (6-10)
23.
Lets visit Andersonville.
On a 10-5 basis, name these following
Authors, whose last names are not suprisingly, Anderson.
10: He served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
5:
His most famous work, a collection of short stories, is "Winesburg, Ohio."
_Sherwood_ Anderson
10: This Anderson's concerns in his dramas included the corrupting
influences of power and wealth, especially in politics; the disillusionment
of men caught up in war; and the need for action by the individual in
defense of justice and freedom.
5:
Among his works are the 1933 Pulitzer winner "Both Your Houses," and
"Winterset," a work about the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.
_Maxwell_ Anderson
10: Born in Odense, he suffered from poverty and neglect during his
childhood, and when he was 14 years of age he ran away to Copenhagen. There
he worked for Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Theater, until Collin
raised money to who provide him with an education.
5:
Among his works are "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The
Red Shoes."
_Hans Christian_ Anderson
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Toss Ups by Justin Hasford
1. Born in England, her family emigrated to the U.S. after her father's s=
ugar refinery burned down.
She=20
studied medicine at Geneva College, and later she and her sister Emily op=
ened the New York Infirmary for=20
Women and Children.
FTP, name this American female doctor.
ANSWER: ELIZABETH _BLACKWELL_
2. This perennial plant, Zingiber officiale,
is native to Southeast Asia=
Its leaves have sheathing stalks, and=20
its sterile flowers are purple and yellow.
FTP, name this plant, whose r=
oot is a spice which flavors a variety=20
of foods and drinks, including an ale.
ANSWER: _GINGER_
3. The site of
this city was discovered by Padre Escalante in 1778, and =
was settled by Mormons sent south=20
by Brigham Young in the 1840=92s.
For the next hundred yearsthe town lan=
guished as a small mining center=20
and railroad stop. Things pickerd up for a time in the 1930=92s when the =
city was used as a home base for=20
workers constructing a dam on the nearby Colorado River.
FTP, name this =
Nevada city famous for its strip.
ANSWER: _LAS VEGAS_
4. Some critics feel this work helped shape the cynical views of
Animal =
Farm and 1984. The book=20
chronicles Orwell=92s life as a soldier and his growing disillusionmentr =
with totalitarianism.
FTP, name this=20
George Orwell book relating his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
ANSWER: _HOMAGE TO CATALONIA_
5. Some compare this young quarterback to Steve Young because of his scra=
mbling.
He began his NFL=20
career as a backup to Brett Favre in Green Bay, during which time he saw =
virtually no action on the field. =20
He did, however, lead all NFL quarterbacks in both passing and rushing ya=
rds in the 1996 season.
FTP,=20
name this quarterback who led the Jacksonville Jaguars to the AFC Champio=
nship this year.
ANSWER: MARK _BRUNELL_
6. A lyrical example of this psychological phenomenon comes from a song b=
y the Bobs: =93Every melody that=20
I hear fills my mind with colors bright and beautiful."
FTP, name this p=
rocess in which one sensory stimulus=20
produces a secondary, subjective sensation; e.g. a smell makes you hear s=
omething.
ANSWER: _SYNESTHESIA_
7. They derived their name from a term of abuse for Scottish Presbyterian=
s, meaning =93cattle driver=94. They=20
became identified with industry and dissent, which led the National Repub=
lican Party in the United States to=20
name themselves after this group.
FTP, name this political party which f=
lourished in England under Fox and=20
Walpole and
in the U.S. under Clay and Webster.
ANSWER: _WHIG_S
8. In 1979, the computer program TIT FOR TAT showed that the golden rule =
would triumph in this age-old=20
puzzle.
The type of logical situation where varying negative outcomes ar=
e determined by two boolean=20
choices is one of the oldest in philosophy.
FTP,what is this fundamental=
of game theory, which uses as an=20
example the fate of two convicted thieves.
ANSWER: _PRISONER'S DILEMMA_
9. His Intimate Journals is typical of Romanticism, but his paintings wer=
e largely influenced by Reubens.
He=20
made numerous lithographs and several murals for Louis Phillipe. FTP, ide=
ntify this French painter of The=20
Justice of Trajan, Death of Sardanapalus, The Massacre of Chios,
and Lib=
erty Leading the People.
ANSWER: EUGENE _DELACROIX_
10. Based on a story by Gozzi, the orchestral suite based on it is divide=
d into six sections; Les Ridecules,=20
Sc=E8ne Infernale, Marche, Scherzo, Le Prince et la Princesse, and La Fui=
te. It is noted for its vivacious=20
melodies and the expression of the comnposers moods of whimsy and the gro=
tesque. FTP, name this 1921=20
opera by Prokofiev.
ANSWER: _Love For Three Oranges_
11. .
For mercury it goes upward, but for water it goes downward.
Many =
find its application strange, since=20
taking a reading at its location may seem inaccurate. FTP, name this curv=
ature on the surface of a liquid at=20
which a volumetric reading is taken.
ANSWER:_ MENISCUS_
12. He spent most of
his 23-year life as a prisoner in Austria. He was k=
nown as the Prince of Parma, the=20
Duke of Reichstadt, and the King of Rome. FTP, identify this would-be nin=
eteenth-century monarch whose=20
father, despite the objections of most of Europe, tried to name him the E=
mporer of France,.
ANSWER: _NAPOLEON II_
13. When a pitcher throws a curve ball, the ball's rotation disrupts the =
airflow around it, causing the ball to=20
experience a reaction force, making the ball curve.
FTP, what name do ph=
ysicists give this effect?
ANSWER: MAGNUS EFFECT
14. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch," it tells the story of a tomb=
oyish cowgirl who is mocked by the=20
whole town, but later becomes "properly feminine" and wins the heart of t=
he ranch's champion roper by the=20
end of the ballet.
FTP, name this work of music by Aaron Copeland with c=
horeography by Agnes de Mille,=20
which contains the famous Buckaroo Holiday.
ANSWER: RODEO
15. It has an odor which resembles that
of freshly mown hay. It is used =
in organic chemistry as a=20
chlorinating agent.
FTP, name this respitory irritant, also known as car=
bonyl chloride, which was used in gas=20
attacks during World War I. =20
ANSWER: _PHOSGENE_ (acc: carbonyl chloride on early buzz)
16. He translated the first book of Lucan=92s Pharsalia and Ovid=92s Eleg=
ies.
Some of his lesser-known works=20
include the unfinished =93Hero and Leander=94 =93Massacre at Paris=94 and=
Edward the Second.
FTP, name this=20
Elizabethan playwright better known for The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faust=
us.
ANSWER: CHRISTOPHER _MARLOWE_
17. Though the term became much more well-known after World War II, it or=
iginally referred to two violent=20
storms, during which tens of thousands of Mongols died.
The first occurr=
ed in 1274 in Hakata Bay, and the=20
second occurred seven years later.
Their opportune arrival prompted the =
Japanese to refer to them as, FTP,=20
what name which literally translates as "divine wind."
ANSWER: _KAMIKAZE_
18. This prominent scientist is best known for his popular writings, incl=
uding his books "Wonderful Life"=20
and "Bully for Brontosaurus," and his magazine column entitled "This View=
of Life."
FTP, name this=20
paleontologist and Harvard professor who developed the theory of punctuat=
ed equilibrium with Niles=20
Edlridge.
ANSWER: STEPHEN J. _GOULD_
19. "I call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the nigh=
t time.
The dog did nothing in the=20
night time.
That was a curious incident," said Sherlock Holmes in one of=
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's finest=20
short stories.
der.
The case centers around a missing horse and a bizarre mur=
FTP, name the horse and you=20
have named the title of the mystery.
ANSWER: SILVER BLAZE
20. He was named Assistant U.S. Attorney General in 1936, Solisitor Gener=
al in 1938 and Attorney General=20
in 1940. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1941, where his most im=
portant decision was in=20
Youngstown v. Sawyer, where he declared Truman=92s seizure of steel mills=
unconstitutional. FTP, who is this=20
Associate Supreme Court Justice bset known as the Prosecuting Attorney fo=
r the 1945 Nuremburg trials?
ANSWER: ROBERT _JACKSON_
21. "I'm a great homemaker; whenever I get divorced, I keep the house," q=
uoted this shallow woman of=20
much make-up.
In 1990, a California judge slapped her with a prison sent=
ence after she slapped a police=20
officer.
FTP, name this former star of stage and screen whose sister sav=
ored farm life on Green Acres.
ANSWER: ZSA ZSA GABOR
Boni.
1. Given the name of a country, FTP each name the man who ruled that coun=
try during World War II.
A. Vichy France
ANSWER: Marshal Henri PETAIN
B. Slovakia
ANSWER: Monsignor Josef TISO
C. Hungary =20
ANSWER: Admiral Miklos HORTHY
2. Many Broadway plays were based on other works. For the stated number o=
f points, given the Broadway=20
play, name the work on which it was based.
A. 5 pts:
"Hello, Dolly"
ANSWER: The MATCHMAKER
B. 10 pts:
"Camelot"
ANSWER: The ONCE AND FUTURE KING
C. 15 pts:
=93Cabaret=94
ANSWER:
I AM A CAMERA
3. Name the author from clues, 30-20-10.
A. _Death to the French_ and _The Gun_ were two of his best-known novels =
of the Peninsular War.
His=20
first novel, _Payment Deferred_, was published in 1926.
B. _The Happy Return_ was the first of his Horatio Hornblower books.
C. His historical novel _The African Queen_ was successfully filmed in 19=
52.
Answer: C(ecil) S(cott) FORESTER
4. Answer the following questions about William F. Buckley Jr. for the st=
ated number of points.
A. F5P, give the name of the conservative magazine Buckley founded.
ANSWER: NATIONAL REVIEW
B. FTP, give the name of the television show Buckley hosts on PBS.
ANSWER: FIRING LINE
C. F15P, which six-time unsuccessful candidate for President was Buckley'=
s very first guest on Firing Line?
ANSWER: Norman Mattoon THOMAS
5. Answer the following about a 1989 Central American election for ten po=
ints each.
A. Which Notre Dame graduate, named president by the ruling military junt=
a in 1979, lost the election?
ANSWER:
Jose Napoleon DUARTE (Fuentes)
B. Which nation did Duarte rule?
ANSWER: EL SALVADOR
C. Which candidate of the ARENA party defeated Duarte in the election?
ANSWER: Alfredo CRISTIANI
6. FTP each, identify each of the following chemical processes used in in=
dustrial synthesis.
A. The high-pressure production of ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gas=
es.
ANSWER: HABER Process
B. The production of concentrated nitric acid, named after the German che=
mist who developed it durign=20
World War I.
ANSWER: OSTWALD Process
C. The production of concentrated sulfuric acid, which gives a 98% by wei=
ght aqueous solution.
ANSWER: CONTACT Process
7. In 1963, in a significant unanimous decision, the supreme court decide=
d that the right to counsel was part=20
of the due process clause in the 6th and 14th amendments.
A. FTP, name this case.
ANSWER: GIDEON v. Wainwright
B. F20P, name the 1942 decision overturned by Gideon vs. Wainwright.
ANSWER: BETTS v. Brady
8. Answer the following questions about cell biology for the stated numbe=
r of points.
A. F5P, name the model of the cell membrane which accounts for its bilaye=
r of phospholipids and proteins.
ANSWER: FLUID-MOSAIC model
B. FTP, what term refers to the movement of molecules across the cell mem=
brane through protein pores=20
which does NOT require an energy expenditure?
ANSWER: PASSIVE TRANSPORT (ACC: CARRIER-MEDIATED DIFFUSION)
C. The ratio of the concentration of a substance in organic solution to i=
ts concentration in aqueous solution=20
is a quantity which determines the extent to which the substance diffuses=
across the cell membrane.
F15P,=20
what name is given to this ratio?
ANSWER: PARTITION COEFFICIENT
9. Name the following European winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature f=
or ten points each.
A. He wrote the novels _The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard_ and _Contemporary=
History_ and won the prize=20
in 1921.
Answer: Anatole FRANCE
B. A symbolist despite the realism of his time, he wrote the play _Pellea=
s and Melisande_ and the allegorical=20
fable _The Blue Bird_.
Answer: Maurice MAETERLINCK
C. This Parnassian author of _Les epreuves_ won the first Nobel Prize.
Answer: Rene-Francois-Armand SULLY PRUDHOMME
10. FTP each, given the following well-known buildings, name the architec=
t who designed each.
A. The Pan Am Building
ANSWER: Walter GROPIUS
B. The Holocaust Memorial Museum
ANSWER: James FREED
C. The Washington Monument
ANSWER: Robert MILLS
11. Name the sports figures from their nicknames, 5-10-15.
A. 5 pts:
Galloping Ghost
Answer: Red GRANGE
B. 10 pts:
Big Six
Answer: Christy MATHEWSON
C. 15 pts:
Crazy Legs
Answer: Elroy HIRSCH
12. Answer the following about international historical events for fiftee=
n points each.
Each correct answer=20
begins with =93C.=94
A. The Royalists withdrew with heavy losses after this 1817 battle, the f=
irst major engagement in San=20
Martin=92s War of Independence against Spain.
Answer: Battle of CHACABUCO
B. It was demarcated by the League of Nations in 1919 and established the=
Polish eastern frontier and=20
awarded Vilna to Lithuania.
Answer: CURZON LINE
13. Most people can name several of our nation's founding fathers, but ca=
n you name the founding fathers of=20
the following restaurant chains?
For the stated number of points,
A 5 pts: Wendy's
ANSWER: Dave THOMAS
B. 5 pts:
Kentucky Fried Chicken
ANSWER: Harlan SANDERS
C. 5 pts:
McDonald's
ANSWER: Ray KROC
D. 15 pts:
Domino's Pizza
ANSWER: Tom MONAGHAN
14. The Cathedral of Florence is often considered the greatest architectu=
ral work in Italy.
Answer the=20
following questions about the Cathedral for the stated number of points.
A. F5P, who designed the bronze doors of the Baptistery?
ANSWER: Lorenzo GHIBERTI
B. FTP, who designed its bell tower?
ANSWER: GIOTTO
C. For 15 points, what painter drew the frescoes on the dome's interior?
ANSWER: Giorgio VASARI
15. Answer the following about the mathematics of systematic counting, 10=
-5-15.
A. 10 pts:
What name is given to the mathematics of systematic counting?
Answer: COMBINATORICS
B. 5 pts:
If event A can be done in 2 ways, event B can be done in 3 way=
s, and events A and B are=20
independent, how many ways are there to do events A and B?
Answer: SIX (6)
C. 15 pts:
This principle counts the number of a certain class of object=
s by removing those that should not=20
count and, in turn, compensating by replacing those that have been remove=
d incorrectly.
Answer: PRINCIPLE OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION
16. Given a play name the playwright, FTP each.
A. "American Buffalo"
ANSWER: David MAMET
B. "Orpheus Descending"
ANSWER: Tennessee WILLIAMS
C. "Night, Mother"
ANSWER: Marsha NORMAN
17. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about=
Liechtenstein.
A. F5P, name Liechtenstein's capital.
ANSWER: VADUZ
B. FTP, name the river that forms the boundary between Liechtenstein and =
Switzerland.
ANSWER: RHINE
C. F15P, name the current head of state of Liechtenstein.
ANSWER: PRINCE HANS ADAM
18. Identify the following Oscar Wilde works, 5-10-15.
A. 5 pts:
This updated version of the Faust story includes the character=
s Lord Henry Wotton and Basil=20
Hallward.
Answer: The PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
B. 10 pts:
It tells of the hanging of the murderer Charles Thomas Wooldr=
idge and was written while Wilde=20
himself was a convict.
Answer: The BALLAD OF READING GAOL
C. 15 pts:
His first theatrical success, it deals with a blackmailing di=
vorcee driven to self-sacrifice by=20
maternal love.
Answer: LADY WINDERMERE=92S FAN
19. Name the fathers of the following biblical characters for ten points =
each.
A. Noah
Answer: LAMECH
B. Seth
Answer: ADAM
C. Methuselah
Answer: ENOCH
20. FTP each, given descriptions of the following colloidal dispersions, =
identify which general type of colloid=20
is being described.
A. Liquid dispersed into liquid.
ANSWER: EMULSION
B. Liquid dispersed into solid.
ANSWER: GEL
C. Gas dispersed into solid.
ANSWER: FOAM
Subject: Packet from Quincy University
TOSSUPS
1. Following World War II the medieval Stare Miasto, with its marketplace
and 14th century cathedral, was rebuilt according to the prewar pattern.
It is famous for the Holy Cross Church, the 15th century St. Carmelite
church, and the monuments to Copernicus.
FTP, identify the Polish city,
lying on the Vistula River, famous for the Jewish ghetto which had 500,000
people in 1942 and 200 people in 1945.
Answer:
_Warsaw_
2. In what Shakespearian play does one find the lines, "I should fear that
those that dance before me now/ would one day stamp upon me.
'T'as been
done./ Men shut their doors against a setting sun," which are spoken by
Apemanthus at a dinner party?
Answer:
_Timon of Athens_
3. His real name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus but he received his nickname
from a Gallic tunic that he wore.
His reign was infamous for its cruelty
and bloodshed, lasting from 211 until 217 AD.
FTP, which Roman Emperor
murdered his brother Geta to become sole ruler of the empire before being
himself killed at the instigation of a frightened Macrinus?
Answer:
_Caracalla_
4. At the time it began its run in 1965 many thought this was one of the
great musicals.
But time has not been so kind, and the show is now
characterized as a series of well done theater tricks strung together.
FTP, in what musical based on a Spanish novel would you find the songs
"It's All the Same", "I'm Only Thinking of Him", "The Dubbing", "Little
Bird, Little Bird", and "Dulcinea"?
Answer:
_Man of La Mancha_
5. Knowledge of his rule is known mainly from the boulders and pillars
inscribed with his pious exhortations, such as at Sarnath.
It is said that
under his auspices a great Buddhist convocation was held at his capital,
Pataliputra, to suppress heresy and confirm the Buddhist canon.
FTP, what
Indian leader is considered the greatest of the Mauryan Emperors for
spreading prosperity and civil order after a religious conversion following
his bloody military victory at Kalinga?
Answer:
_Asoka_
Accept:
_Ashoka_
6. Its namesake laid the foundations of the classical field theory, later
developed by Maxwell, and also discovered Benzene.
FTP, what physical law
states that the number of moles of substance produced at an electrode
during electrolysis is directly proportional to the number of moles of
electrons transferred at that electrode?
Answer:
_Faraday's Law_
7. He is not ambitious yet becomes rich, in part by good luck and in part
by marrying the daughter of the owner at the optometry school from which he
is graduated.
FTP, what literary character visits the home world of the
Tralfamadorians and witnesses the bombing of Dresden as he comes unstuck in
time in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughter-House Five".
Answer:
_Billy Pilgrim_
8. It has about 14,000 islands, is fed by the Rainy River, and is drained
to the northwest by the Winnipeg River.
FTP what lake separates the
Northwest Angle, the northernmost land of the contiguous United States,
from the rest of Minnesota?
Answer:
_Lake of the Woods_
9. The seer Calchas has predicted that only her sacrifice will save the
Greeks from remaining trapped in the harbor at Aulis by unfavorable winds.
FTP, identify the subject of the tragedy by Euripedes, who is the daughter
of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and is sacrificed at the beginning of the
Trojan War.
Answer:
_Iphigenia_
10. He was Latin Secretary for foreign affairs in Oliver Cromwell's
government, and he supported the commonwealth to the very end.
His three
wives were Mary Powell, Catharine Woodcock, and Elizabeth Minshull.
FTP,
what epic poet failed to justify the ways of God to man, but did achieve
fame with works like "On His Blindness" and "Samson Agonistes".
Answer:
John _Milton_
11. When he visited the United States in 1938 and 1939 he told American
scientists of his belief, based on experiments reported by German
scientists, that the uranium atom could be split into approximately equal
halves.
FTP, identify the Danish physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in
Physics and was noted for combining quantum theory with the atomic structure.
Answer:
Niels _Bohr_
12. In his major work, being is shown to be intimately linked with
temporality;
the relationship between them is investigated by means of an
analysis of human existence.
FTP, identify the 20th century German
philosopher who wrote "Being and Time".
Answer:
Martin _Heidegger_
13. Although in most Christian theology Jesus was not biologically the son
of Joseph, this gospel, which places great emphasis on Jesus as the
fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, begins with a genealogy linking
Joseph to King David.
Answer:
FTP, identify the first book of the New Testament.
_Matthew_
14. Born in Caprese, Tuscany, he drew extensively as a child and his father
placed him under the tutelage of Ghirlandaio.
After one unproductive year,
he became a student of Bertoldo di Giovanni, but he learned his craft more
by observation than by tutelage.
FTP, what Italian Renaissance master's
works include "The Creation of Adam" and "The Creation of Eve", as well as
various other scenes from the Old Testament, all of which adorn the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel?
Answer:
_Michaelangelo_
15. Among its other classifications are the division Magnoliophyta, class
Magnoliopside, and order Urticales, and it is also known as the white elm.
FTP, what is the scientific name for the American elm tree.
Answer:
_Ulmus americanus_
16. As president she was unable to command the support of any powerful
group, not even organized labor.
Following a sharp rise in political
terrorism and guerilla activity, the armed forces intervened resulting in
one of the bloodiest regimes in South American history.
FTP who was the
first woman head of state in the Western hemisphere who ruled Argentina
from 1973 to 1976 following her restored husband's death.
Answer:
_Isabel Peron_
17. FAQTP, identify the contemporary singer who has the hits "Crazy",
"Dreaming in Metaphors", "If I Could", and "Kiss from a Rose".
Answer:
_Seal_
18. His fundamental teachings were:
things submit to Him;
there is one God;
people must in all
in this world nations have been amply punished for
rejecting God's prophets, and heaven and hell are waiting for the present
generation;
and that the world will come to an end with a great judgement.
FTP, who was the son of Amina, of the tribe of Quraysh, who had many
wives, fled to Medina, and later took control of Mecca.
Answer:
_Mohammed_
19. The son of a mining inspector, at the age of 21 he entered the St.
Petersburg Conservatory where he studied composition with Anton Rubinstein.
He received an annuity from his wealthy patroness, Mme von Meck, whom he
never met despite corresponding with her for 14 years and dedicating his
4th symphony to her in 1878.
FTP, what Russian composer of the
"Pathetique" symphony is today better remembered for works such as "Swan
Lake" and the "1812 Overture".
Answer:
Peter Ilyich _Tchaikovsky_
20. He was the only man nominated by President Clinton to move from one
cabinet position to another.
FTP, identify the man nominated to replace
Hazel O'Leary as Secretary of Energy, making him the only Hispanic in the
new Cabinet.
Answer:
Federico _Pena_
21. The possibility that it may have a finite lifetime has recently come
under examination, but if it does, experimental evidence suggests that it
takes at least 10 (to the 31st power) years to do so.
FTP identify the
elementary particle named after the Greek word for "first", which has a
mass of 1.673 x 10 (to the -24th power) grams and is found in the nucleus
of every atom.
Answer:
_Proton_
22. It contains the historic settlements of Elk Horn and Pella, boasts the
world's smallest cathedral to St. Anthony near Faustina, and a historic
site to Laura Ingalls Wilder at Burr Oak.
FTP what state was the home of a
young James T. Kirk on Star Trek, and has the cities Decorah, Ottumwa, and
Cedar Rapids.
Answer:
_Iowa_
23. Among those associated with him, either as friends or enemies, were
John von Staupitz, Johann Eck, Johann Tetzel, and Elector Frederick III of
Saxony.
FTP, what former law student wrote "The Freedom of a Christian
Man", "The Babylonian Captivity of the Church", and "Address to the
Christian Nobility of the German Nation" as he became the principal leader
of the German Reformation in the 1500s?
Answer:
Martin _Luther_
24. It has a diameter of almost 143,000 kilometers, its period of
revolution around the sun is 11.86 years, and it makes a full rotation on
its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes.
FTP, identify the planet whose
moons include Sinope, Io, Callisto, and Ganymede.
Answer:
_Jupiter_
25. Just as its old competitor's name, Beta, was short for Betamax, its
name is an abbreviation, or more precisely, an acronym as well.
FTP, what
do the three letters stand for in the abbreviation of the main format for
video-cassettes, VHS?
Answer:
_Video Home System_
BONI
1. Many battles in the American Civil War had two name--one from the North,
and one from the South.
Given a battle's northern name, give the southern
name for the state number of points.
A. FFP, First Bull Run
Answer:
_First Manassas_
B. FTP, Antietam
Answer:
_Sharpsburg_
C. F15P, Stones River
Answer: _Murfreesburo_
2. Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor.
FTP
each, what is the brightest star in each of the following constellations?
A. Canis Major
Answer:
_Sirius_
B. Bootes
Answer:
(BOOT-ees)
_Arcturus_
C. Scorpio
Answer:
_Antares_
3. The Beatles took America by storm in the '60s, but it probably wasn't
these beetles.
F15P each, identify the following concerning beetles.
A. What is the largest type of beetle?
Answer:
_Goliath_ beetle
B. In what order are beetles?
Answer:
_Coleoptera_
4. Answer the following questions about a famous art family for the stated
number of points.
A. FTP, identify the family name of the trio of late 16th/early 17th
century artists whose chief works include "Sermon of John the Baptist",
"Celestial, Terrestrial, and Venal Love", and "Christ and the Woman of
Samaria".
Answer:
_Carracci_
B. FFP, what Italian city are the Carraccis chiefly associated with?
Answer:
_Bologna_
C. FFPE, give the first name of each member of the trio.
Answer:
_Annibale_, _Agostino_, _Ludovico_
5. Given a literary character, identify the author that created the
character FTP each.
If you need the title of the work they appeared in,
you'll only get five points.
A. 10: Miss Morsten
5: The Sign of the Four
Answer:
Sir Arthur Conan _Doyle_
B. 10: Segismundo
5: Life is a Dream
Answer:
Pedro _Calderon_ de la Barca
C. 10: Arkady Kirsanov
5: Fathers and Sons
Answer:
Ivan _Turgenev_
6. FTP each, given a biblical verse, tell what book it is from.
A. "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger;
because there was no room for them in
the inn."
Answer:
_Luke_
B. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Answer:
_Exodus_
C. "There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked."
Answer:
_Isaiah_
7. FTP each, identify the following Hermann Hesse novels from the clues
provided.
A. It is the tale of a young wanderer's erotic adventures and his search
for the meaning of life and death.
Answer:
_Narcissus and Goldmund_
Accept:
_Death and the Lover_
B. A man estranged from his wife spoils his young son, who dies at the end
of the novel.
Answer:
_Rosshalde_
C. A young Indian boy experiences different lifestyles before finding peace
by a river.
Answer:
_Siddhartha_
8. Newt Gingrich recently had to scramble to keep his job as Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
FTP each, tell how the following people voted in
the election for Speaker.
A. Newt Gingrich
Answer:
_Present_
B. Jim Leach
Answer:
Bob _Michel_
C. Vic Fazio
Answer:
Dick _Gephardt_
9. FTP each identify the following Gods.
A. Norse God killed by mistletoe
Answer:
_Balder_
B. Greek God known to the Romans as Ceres
Answer:
_Demeter_
C. One-handed Norse God of battle
Answer:
_Tiw_ (TE-oo)
Accept:
_Tyr_ (tur)
10. FTP each identify the musical each of the following show-tunes appeared
in.
A. Some Enchanted Evening
Answer:
_South Pacific_
B. So Long, Farewell
Answer:
_The Sound of Music_
C. Cool
Answer:
_West Side Story_
11. FTP each, identify the author of the following religious or
philosophical works.
A. City of God
Answer:
St. _Augustine of Hippo_
Do not accept:
St. Augustine of Canterbury
B. Either/Or
Answer:
Soren _Kierkegaard_
C. An Essay on Man
Answer:
Alexander _Pope_
12. Identify the composers of the following musical works FTP each.
If you
need a more famous work of the composer, you'll only receive five points.
A. 10: The Brandenburgers in Bohemia
5: The Bartered Bride
Answer:
Bedrich _Smetana_
B. 10: Carnival Overture
5: From the New World Symphony
Answer:
Antonin _Dvorak_
C. 10: Fingal's Cave
5: The Scottish Symphony
Answer:
Felix _Mendelssohn_
13. Identify the year of the following events, 30-20-10.
30: Bruce McCandless becomes the first human to walk in space without a
tether.
20: The United States illegally mines Nicaraguan principal export harbors
in support of the Contra rebels.
10: Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman to win a major party vice
presidential nomination.
Answer:
_1984_
14. Identify the following element, 30-20-10.
30: It was discovered by William Wollaston in 1804, who also discovered
palladium.
20: Its atomic weight is 102.905.
10: Its atomic number is 45 and it is in the so called platinum group of
metals in group VIII of the periodic table.
Answer:
_Rhodium_
15. FTP each, identify the poets of the following works.
A. "The Death of the Hired Man"
Answer:
Robert _Frost_
B. "Sailing to Byzantium"
Answer:
W. B. _Yeats_
C. "My Last Duchess"
Answer:
Robert _Browning_
16. Identify the English monarch in the following years FTP each.
A. 1300
Answer:
_Edward I_
B. 1400
Answer:
_Henry IV_
C. 1500
Answer:
_Henry VII_
17. FTP each, give the language in which the following works were
originally written.
A. Epic poem, "The Tale of Ghenjei"
Answer:
_Japanese_
B. The essay, "Yes and No"
Answer:
_Latin_
C. The novel, "To a God Unknown"
Answer:
_English_
18. FFP each, state whether each of the following rocks are igneous,
metamorphic, or sedimentary.
A. Slate
Answer:
_Metamorphic_
B. Basalt
Answer:
_Igneous_
C. Pumice
Answer:
_Igneous_
D. Shale
Answer:
_Sedimentary_
E. Gypsum
Answer:
_Sedimentary_
F. Marble
Answer:
_Metamorphic_
19. Identify the 1996 presidential candidate of the following parties FTP
each.
A. Libertarian
Answer:
Harry _Browne_
B. Natural Law
Answer:
John _Hagelin_
C. Green
Answer:
Ralph _Nader_
20. Identify these modern Eastern European political leaders FTP each.
A. He served as premier of Albania from 1954 until 1981, when he was
accused of being a Yugoslav spy and reportedly committed suicide.
Answer:
Mehmet _Shehu_
B. His expulsion from the Hungarian Communist party was rescinded in early
1956 at the request of rioting students shortly before the Hungarian
revolution, he became premier of the revolutionary government and was
executed in 1958.
Answer:
Imre _Nagy_
C. He was vice premier and later premier of the Polish government in exile
in London during World War II, and after the war was the only center of
opposition to the leftist leaders of the state, who adopted election
procedures resulting in his defeat in 1947, after which he fled to the
United States.
Answer:
Stanislaus _Mikolajczyk_ {mee-ko-WI-chik)
21. F15P each, identify the movie starring Peter O'Toole given a
description of the movie.
A. A British army officer becomes an icon of the Arab Revolt during World
War I.
Answer:
_Lawrence of Arabia_
B. An American flunkey becomes King of England of the House of Wyndham.
Answer:
_King Ralph_
22. Answer the following questions concerning a linguistics term F15P each.
A. Give the word used by linguists to refer to letter combinations having
distinct meanings, and which cannot be divided into meaningful grammatical
parts such as prefixes, suffixes, and infixes.
Answer:
_morpheme_
B. For another 15 points, spell morpheme (MOR-feem).
Answer:
_M-O-R-P-H-E-M-E_
23. FTP each, what are the only "Star Trek:
The Next Generation" episodes
involving Q that do not have "Q" in their title?
Answer:
_Encounter at Farpoint_, _Tapestry_, _All Good Things_
24. Given an island, identify the country of which it is a part of, 30-20-10.
30: Masbate (mas-BA-ta)
20: Negros
10: Leyte
Answer:
The _Philippines_
25. Identify the sociologists FTP each.
A. He was at Harvard from 1927 until 1974, and is known for his attempt to
construct a single theoretical framework within which general and specific
characteristics of societies could be systematically classified, known as
structural-functional theory.
Answer:
Talcott _Parsons_
B. This Columbia professor is especially noted for his contributions to the
study of social structure, sociology of science, bureaucracy, and mass
communications.
Among his writings are "Mass Persuasion" and "Social
Theory and Social Structure".
Answer:
Robert _Merton_
C. This late 19th century sociologist originated the concept of
ethnocentrism and concluded that attempts at social reform were useless.
His chief work is titled "Folkways".
Answer:
William _Sumner
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While most geometric figures can be described as existing in one, two, or any
other whole number of dimensions, these peculiar shapes seem to fit somewhere
in between.
As demonstrated by the French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot,
these "infinitely complex" objects must be treated as having some fractional,
non-integer dimension. For 10 points, name this type of self-similar
mathematical shape which can be used to model physical objects such as clouds,
mountains, and coastlines.
ANSWER:
FRACTAL
Carbonic acid, acetone, and formaldehyde are all examples of compounds that
contain a carbon-oxygen double bond. FTP, give the general term that describes
any functional group containing such a bond.
ANSWER:
CARBONYL group (pronounced carbo-neel )
This modern author's most recent novel, "The Law of Love," tells the story of
Rodrigo's search for his twin soul, and it is considered to be the first
multi- media novel.
Pedro and Tita.
This author's more well known novel tells the story of
FTP name the author of "Como Agua Para Chocolate" aka "Like
Water For Chocolate."
ANSWER: Laura ESQUIVEL
This author, not known for writing romance novels, wrote
of them under the
pseudonym Mary Westmacott, for a diversion from her usual genre.
In
recognition of this author's achievements s/he was created a Dame Commander
of the British Empire in 1971.
FTP name the author who's two most famous
characters are a Belgian detective and an elderly spinster.
ANSWER: Agatha Christie
This American Poet was known as the "Vagabond Poet" because of the nature of
his poetry.
His best known work was recited in the movie "Dead Poet's
Society," with the accompanying tribal drums.
FTP name the poet who penned
"The Congo."
ANSWER: Vachel LINDSEY
Richard Strauss named one of his works after the title of one of this major
philosopher's works.
Dead."
This German also made the statement "God is
FTP name the author of "Thus spake Zarathustra."
ANSWER: Fredericke NIETSCHE
This German composer was convinced that his new system of twelve-tone
serialism would ensure the supremacy of German music for a hundred
years to come, when he developed it in the 1920's. FTP, name this founder
of the Second Viennese School, and who is probably best known for his
non-serialistic works such as Verklarte Nacht, and Pierrot Lunaire.
ANSWER:
Arnold SCHOENBERG
Born in Paris, this Impressionist painter had relatives in New Orleans, whom
he visited upon occasion. Upon one such visit, this artist painted The Cotton
Exchange, which shows the artist's relatives at work buying and selling in a
New Orleans market. FTP, name this artist, famous for his depictions of
racetracks, dancers and female bathers.
ANSWER: Edgar DEGAS
He scandalized the ballet world with his choreography for Prelude to the
Afternoon of a Faun, which he created in conjunction with Sergei Diaghelev,
but is most famous for choreographing another Diaghelev production, The Rite
of Spring. FTP, name this turn-of-the century dancer and choreographer.
ANSWER:
Vaslav NIJINSKY
This philosopher spent almost his entire life in Copenhagen, and was
unrecognized in his lifetime; However, he has achieved prominence in modern
times on the basis of works such as Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, and The
Sickness Unto Death. FTP, name this Danish philosopher, often regarded as the
father of Existentialism.
ANSWER:
Soren KIERKEGAARD
The vapor pressure of pure water is dependent on temperature only.
However,
the vapor pressure of a water-benzene mixture depends on both temperature and
the composition of the solution.
Furthermore, only one combination of
temperature and pressure will allow the presence of both solid benzene and ice
in the solution.
All of these observations can be predicted using this
physical law, first proposed by J. Willard Gibbs in 1877.
For 10 points, name
this mercifully simple rule used to calculate the degrees of freedom in
heterogenous chemical equilibria.
ANSWER:
the Gibbs PHASE RULE
Among this scientist's many accomplishments is discovery of the genetic defect
in hemoglobin production that causes sickle-cell anemia.
However, he is more
commonly known for his applications of quantum physics in the study of
chemical bonding.
His findings on this topic are summarized in the 1939
publication _The Nature of the Chemical Bond_, and he was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for his work.
Soon thereafter he became an active
opponent of nuclear weapons testing, and he won a second Nobel Prize in 1964,
this time for peace.
FTP, name this brilliant but sometimes controversial
American scientist who developed a scale for measuring electronegativity
values.
ANSWER:
Linus PAULING
The only major acclaim that this poet's work received upon initial publication
was from an anonymous review which the poet had written himself. The work
reviewed was a book of poems containing such sections as, Calamus , Children
of Adam, and Drum Taps. FTP, name the American poet whose Leaves of Grass has
now won acclaim in its own right.
ANSWER: Walt WHITMAN
This Jewish prophet was taken into exile by the Babylonians as a young man,
where he served in the court of Nebuchadnezzer and Belshazzar.
The Old
Testament book ascribed to him records the details of his life and contains
many of his prophecies, which are mostly political in nature, but which
are also a major source of Messianic prophecy. FTP, name this man, famed for
"reading the writing on the wall," and for an encounter in a den of lions.
ANSWER: DANIEL
This composer's violin concerto was dedicated "to the memory of an angel," and
contains coded references to the life and death of a young girl who had died
at an early age. The concerto was to be his last completed work, as he died
shortly after, leaving his last opera, Lulu, unfinished. FTP, name this
composer, who along with Schoenberg and Webern, comprised the Second
Viennese School.
ANSWER: Alban BERG
Heavily influenced by Japanese art, this 19th century painter's works include
"The Guitar Player," "The Balcony," "The Fifer," and "A Bar at the
Folies-Bergere." FTP, name this man, considered by some to be the greatest
impressionist, and who painted the painting "Olympia."
ANSWER: Edouard MANET
His boyhood dyslexia didn't prevent him from attending West Point, although it
did take five years to graduate.
During the First World War, he rose to the
rank of lieutenant colonel and command of the U.S. Tank Corps.
As World War
II neared, he ran a special armored division trainig center, preparing for
combat duty in North Africa.
ANSWER:
FTP name this flagrantly profane military man.
George S. PATTON Jr.
Born in the early 1500s in the Basque country, he fought for a quarter century
as a mercenary soldier in South America.
As part of a large expedition
exploring the Amazon River in search of El Dorado, he assassinated the
commander, took control and launched a reign of terror, murdering at least 40
members of teh expedition.
Answer:
FTP name this self-described "Wrath of God".
Lope de AGUIRRE
In the first scene, the fathers of the soon to be married couple bargain the
dowery settlement, while the bride and groom sit with their backs to each
other.
In the following scenes, the former bride, Lady Squanderfield, is shown
to have cuckholded her husband with the family lawyer, Counselor Silvertongue.
FTP name this series of 6 paintings by William Hogarth.
ANSWER:
MARRIAGE A LA MODE
This artist, who influenced Expressionism and Fauvism, painted his famous work
from the view of his window at the asylum at St. Remy.
During his lifetime,
only one painting of his was sold, titled "Red Vineyard at Aries".
FTP Name
this tortured artist, also known for his painting "Self-Portrait with a
Bandaged Ear".
Answer:
Vincent VAN GOGH
While on the campaign trail, this former general in the Mexican War saw his 11
year old son killed when he was hit by a train.
His wife, the former Margaret
Mackall Smith, never mentally recovered from the loss despite all efforts.
One of these such efforts was a "spirit wedding" which took place in the White
House between this President's late son and a female friend of his who died
four years earlier.
FTP name this president born in Virginia in 1784 recently
exhumed for an autopsy due to his suspicious death in office.
Answer:
Zachary TAYLOR
This city was home to a Federal POW camp holding thousands of Confederate
soldiers during the Civil War.
This city was home to the tallest recorded man
in history, Robert Wadlow, who measured 8 feet 11.1 inches tall.
home to the last Lincoln-Douglas Debate.
Casino.
This city was
This city is now home to a Riverboat
In 1993, this city was home to a whole lot of water.
Name this
city near the confluence of the Illinois, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers.
Answer:
ALTON, Illinois
This novelist was born in Germany in 1875, but settled in the U.S. in 1938.
He wrote a four novel-cycle entitled "Joseph and His Brothers," and won the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
FTP name this author of Buddenbrooks,
The Magic Mountain, and the short story Death in Venice.
Answer: Thomas MANN
This statesman was instrumental in negotiating the Korean war truce, and was
working to end the fighing in the Congo before his death in an airplane crash.
He oversaw these and other activities as the secretary general of the U.N., a
post which he held from 1953 to 1961.
FTP name this Swedish diplomat.
Answer:
Dag HAMMARSKJOLD
BONI
For 10 points apiece, name the type of fundamental force that results from the
interactions of the given type of exchange particle.
A. gluon
ANSWER:
STRONG nuclear force
B. graviton
ANSWER:
GRAVITATIONAL force OR GRAVITY
C. photon
ANSWER:ELECTROMAGNETIC force
For 5 points apiece, identify the type of isomer being described.
A. molecules that contain the same atoms but have different bonds
ANSWER:
_structural_ isomers
OR
_combinational_ isomers
B. molecules that have the same atoms and the same bonds but have
different spatial arrangement of some atoms
ANSWER:
_stereoisomers_
C. molecules which are mirror images of each other but not of themselves
ANSWER:
_enantiomers_
D. ionic compounds which are structural isomers but have different complex
ion composition
ANSWER:
_coordination_ isomers
E. complex ions whose ligands are attached to different atoms of the
central ion
ANSWER:
_linkage_ isomers
F. atoms whose nuclei have the same number of protons and neutrons but
differ in half-life and/or type of radioactive decay
ANSWER:
_nuclear_ isomers
It's time for some SI unit ABC's.
abbreviation for 5 points each.
Identify the SI unit from its one-letter
Note -- all letters are in the upper case.
A. A
ANSWER:
_ampere_
OR
_amp_
B. K
ANSWER:
_kelvin_
C. H
ANSWER:
_henry_
D. W
ANSWER:
_watt_
E. C
ANSWER:
_coulomb_
F. T
ANSWER:
_tesla_
Answer these questions about Biblical poetry , for ten pts each.
A) This poetical book depicts the struggles and questions of the title
character as he wrestles with suffering and loss, questioning God, and taking
little comfort from his three friends, who are convinced that his problems are
his own fault.
ANSWER: JOB
B) This book is a set of poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem. Ascribed
to the prophet Jeremiah, it is included among the books of the minor prophets,
although it contains no actual prophecy.
ANSWER: LAMENTATIONS
C) This immensely structured psalm is the longest in the book of Psalms,
containing 176 verses. It is an acrostic poem, centered around the central
theme of the greatness of the Hebrew Law.
ANSWER: PSALM 119
Identify these terms and laws from physics, form ten pts each.
A) Its law in electromagnetism states that a change in magnetic flux produces
an electric current.
ANSWER: FARADAY's law
B) This law in optics states that, between two mediums, the sine of the angle
of incidence is equal to the sine of the angle of refraction.
ANSWER: SNELL's law
C) This law in electromagnetism states that the magnetic field produced by a
magnetically-induced current is oriented in such a way as to oppose the
magnetic field that produced it.
ANSWER: LENZ's law
Identify these terms from chemistry, given their definition, FTP each.
A) This quantity is measured by the Pauling scale, and is defined as an
atom's readiness to accept electrons.
ANSWER: ELECTRONEGATIVITY
B)
This term can define any molecule which has an excess of electrons, and
which readily donates those electrons in an organic substitution reaction.
ANSWER: NUCLEOPHILE
C) This type of organic reaction usually involves deprotonation by base,
and the formation of a carbon-carbon double bond.
ANSWER:ELIMINATION reaction
For ten points each, identify the librettist, given an opera, and a composer.
A) Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
ANSWER: Lorenzo
DA PONTE
B) Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier
ANSWER: Hugo von HOFFMANNSTAHL
C) Richard Wagner, Gotterdamerung
ANSWER: Richard WAGNER
Identify the musical work, 30-20-10.
(30 pts) The opening section of the final movement serves to restate musical
material from the rest of the work, before the dramatic entrance of the bass
implores: "Brothers, let us leave these tones."
(20 pts) The rest of the movement is a choral setting of a poem by Schiller
which exalts the brotherhood of all men.
(10 pts) This "Choral" symphony is one of Beethoven's most renowned works.
ANSWER: SYMPHONY #9 (in D Minor)=20
FTP each, name the city each art museum is located in.
A) the Uffizi gallery
ANSWER: FLORENCE, Italy
B) the Hermitage
ANSWER: LENINGRAD, Russia
C) the Frick Gallery
ANSWER: NEW YORK, New York
Given a chemical definition, supply the term, for the stated number of points.
A) 5 pts.
This category of isomers defines any two atoms which differ in the
connectivity and arrangement of their atoms.
ANSWER: STRUCTURAL isomers
b) 10 pts.
This category of isomers defines any two molecules which differ
only in the arrangement of their atoms in space.
ANSWER:STEREOISOMERS
c) 15 pts. This term defines any two molecules which differ only in the
arrangements of double bonds and hydrogen atoms.
ANSWER: TAUTOMERS
Jane Austen's novels recently have been revived in movies, and it's time to
ask you FTP each to name the novel, given a character.
A. Mr. Weston
ANSWER: EMMA
B. Catherine Morland
ANSWER: NORTHANGER ABBEY
C. Captain Frederick Wentworth
ANSWER: PERSUASION
For 10 points apiece, name the type of parametric curve from its thermodynamic
description.
1. A path along which pressure is held constant
ANSWER: ISOBAR or
ISOBARIC
2. A path along which temperature is held constant
ANSWER: ISOTHERM
or
ISOTHERMIC
3. A path along which entropy is held constant
ANSWER: ADIABAT
or
ADIABATIC
Given a clue in physics, supply the correct answer, FTP each.
A. In a circuit w/a capacitor, this quantity is defined as the
voltage across a capacitor times the capacitance.
ANSWER: the CHARGE on the capacitor
b) In a circuit with a resistor, this quantity is defined as the
resistance times the current across the resistor.
ANSWER: the VOLTAGE across the resistor
c) In a circuit with a resistor, this quantity is defined as the
resistance times the square of the current across the resistor.
ANSWER: the POWER dissipated
Name the composer, 30-20-10, given a list of works as clues.
a) In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, The Rake's Progress, Les Noces
b) Oedipus Rex, Octet for Winds, Pulcinella
c) the Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring
ANSWER:
Igor STRAVINSKY
Given a clue, name the playwright, FTP each.
A. This Englishman was not only a playwright, but also an actor,
director, and composer.
He won renown for his musicals and comedies such as
Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, and Bitter Sweet.
ANSWER:
Noel COWARD
B. You might remember this modern American playwright for such works as
The Zoo Story or Tiny Alice, or if you watch enough TV you might remember that
he was recently recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors broadcast.
ANSWER: Edward ALBEE
C. This American playwright won the Pulitzer four times: in 1920 for
Beyond the Horizon, in 1922 for Anna Christie, in 1928 for Strange Interlude,
and in 1956 for A Long Day's Journey into Night.
ANSWER: Eugene O'NEILL
Given a clue, identify the ballet by Aaron Copland, for ten pts each.
A) Made in collaboration with Martha Graham, this ballet is descriptive of the
life of a young frontier couple, and its signature tune is a Shaker song used
by Copland in several other works.
ANSWER: APPALACHIAN SPRING
B) This ballet is about a young cowgirl, and her struggles on a Western
ranch.
Its signature tune was used in a famous beef commercial.
ANSWER: RODEO
C) Copland was ambivalent about writing this ballet, since its title character
was a frontier outlaw legend, and Copland, a New York native for most of his
life, had never ventured west. His uncertainties were laid to rest however,
when he discovered that this outlaw had also been born in New York.
ANSWER: BILLY THE KID
Identify the muse, given the subject in ancient Greek art which they governed,
for ten points apiece.
a) astronomy
URANIA
b) comedy
THALIA
c) sacred song
POLYHYMNIA
Identify the Platonic dialogue, given a description, 15 pts each.
A) This dialogue is the account of Socrates' trial in Athens, and his defense
before his accusers.
ANSWER: APOLOGIA (the Apology)
B) This dialogue is about the conversation between the title character and
Socrates, as the title character attempts to persuade Socrates to escape from
jail and be smuggled to safety.
ANSWER: CRITO
Women have played an important part in history. For ten points a piece, given
the event, name the state where it occurred.
A) First U.S. woman lawyer to pass the bar
ANSWER: IOWA
B) Women's Christian Temperance Union established.
ANSWER: OHIO
C) First US woman Governor
ANSWER: WYOMING
For 5 points each, and a 10 point bonus for all correct, name the creators
of these works.
A Valley Curtain
Answer:
CHRISTO
B. Banqueting House, Whitehall, London
Answer:
Inigo JONES
C. Rotunda, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Answer:
Thomas JEFFERSON
D. St. Theresa in Ecstasy
Answer:
Gianlorenzo BERNINI
Given a lesser known painting name the artist FTP each.
If you need a better
known painting you'll only receive five points.
A. 10: Madame Recamier
5: Oath of the Horatii
Answer:
Jacques Louis DAVID
B. 10: Apotheosis of Homer
5: Turkish Bath
Answer:
Jean August Dominique INGRES
C. 10: Martyrdom of St. Maurice and Theban Legion
5: Burial of Count Orgaz
Answer:
EL GRECO
Given the U.S. city, name the largest circulating daily newspaper FTP each.
A. Sacramento
Answer:
BEE
B. Seattle
Answer:
POST-INTELLIGENCER
C. Wichita
Answer:
EAGLE
Subject: Packet 2/3 from Wichita State University
TOSSUPS
1.
They came to power in 749 AD, and the early years of their rule were
brilliant, rising to true splendor under Harun Ar-Rashid, the fifth caliph,
and to intellectual brilliance under his son al-Mamun, the seventh caliph.
After about a hundred years their prestige began to wane, but they held
power until Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Jenghiz Khan, sacked Baghdad and
overthrew the caliphate.
the uncle of Mohammed.
Answer:
_Abbasid_
Accept:
_Abbaside_
FTP identify this powerful family descended from
2.
He was the only member of his family to survive Auschwitz and after
living in France and Israel settled in the United States in 1956.
Among
his works are "The Fifth Son", "A Jew Today", "Night", "Dawn", and "The
Accident", the latter three of which make up the Night Trilogy.
FTP
identify the Romanian-born American writer who writes in French and won the
1986 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of other oppressed peoples.
Answer:
3.
Elie _Wiesel_
Basic to most works in this genre were the attention paid to surface
qualities, such as the use of huge canvases, and the adoption of an
approach to space in which all parts of the canvas played an equally vital
role in the total work.
It has been described as the first important
school in American painting to declare its independence from European
styles and to influence the development of art abroad.
FTP identify the
art movement whose principle figures were Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko,
and Jackson Pollock.
Answer:
_Abstract Expressionism_
Accept:
_New York School_
Do not accept:
4.
_Expressionism_
In his analyses of the Messianic prophecies he specifically denied
Christian claims of Jesus as the Messiah, a dangerous position to take at
the time, and looked to an impending Messianic age in which the Dispersion
would end with Israel's return to the Holy Land and the reign of Messianic
rule for all humanity.
He also served as treasurer to Alfonso V of
Portugal, and was employed by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain until they
expelled the Jews from their kingdom.
FTP identify this Jewish theologian,
biblical commentator, and financier.
Answer:
Isaac _Abravanel_
Accept:
Isaac _Abarbanel_
5.
His early novels describe poignantly the effects of European
colonialism on Igbo society, Nigeria, and newly independent African
nations.
He served as a diplomat for Biafra during the Nigerian civil war
and later wrote two volumes of poetry, "Beware, Soul Brother" and
"Christmas in Biafra".
FTP identify the Nigerian author of "Anthills of
the Savannah", "No Longer at Ease", and "Things Fall Apart".
Answer:
6.
Chinua _Achebe_
In 1877 he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and later
for the New York Evening Sun.
His reports on slum dwellings and abuses of
lower class urban life culminated in his first book and earned him the
friendship of Theodore Roosevelt.
Later he founded a pioneer settlement
house in New York that was named for him in 1901.
FTP, identify the Danish
born social reformer who wrote "How the Other Half Lives".
Answer:
7.
Jacob _Riis_
He extended the compass of the violin by his use of harmonics,
perfected the use of double and triple stops, and revived the practice of
scordatura, the diverse tunings of the strings.
Among the few compositions
published during his lifetime are the 24 caprices for violin that were
adapted for piano by both Schumann and Liszt.
FTP identify the Italian
composer and violinist, living from 1782 until 1840, whose virtuosity on
the violin became a legend.
Answer:
8.
Niccolo _Paganini_
He played in as many as 2,500 games and is credited with more than 50
no-hitters.
Celebrated for his wit and extraordinary pitching ability, he
became legendary while barnstorming in the Negro baseball leagues.
In
1948, at the age of 42, he joined the Cleveland Indians and pitched for six
seasons in the majors.
FTP, identify the first star of the Negro leagues
to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Answer:
Satchel _Paige_
9.
Among his famous houses, built in the 1550s and 1560s, are the Villa
Rotonda, the Chiericati Palace, the Valmarana Palace, and the Villa
Barbaro.
At Venice he adapted the classical motif to three church facades,
in his designs for San Francesco della Vigna, San Giorgio Maggiore, and Il
Redentore.
FTP identify the Italian Renaissance architect who did most of
his work in Vicenza and wrote the famous work, "The Four Books of
Architecture".
Answer:
10.
Andrea _Palladio_
From 1946 to 1947 he was French cultural attache in the United States.
In 1948 he was appointed professor at the Institut d'Ethnologie at the
University of Paris.
He is best known as the founder of a theory that
contends that history was shaped into a collective, fragmented structure
comparable to preliterate mythology, known as structural anthropology.
FTP, identify the Belgian born anthropologist who wrote "The Raw and the
Cooked" and "The Elementary Structures of Kinship".
Answer:
11.
Claude _Levi-Strauss_
He served twice as foreign secretary, and was an impulsive man who
often acted without consultation.
During his second term in that office he
succeeded in offending not only foreign powers but also his colleagues and
Queen Victoria.
He became Prime Minister in 1855 and stayed in office,
except for about a year, until 1865.
FTP identify the British Prime
Minister responsible for the vigorous prosection of the Crimean War and
maintaining Britain's neutrality during the American Civil War.
Answer:
12.
3rd Viscount _Palmerston_
Possible modern survivals of this law are the obligation to serve on a
sheriff's posse and to assist a police officer in pursuing a suspected
ulprit.
Abolished in the early 19th century, in earlier times if it
resulted in the capture of a suspect red-handed he was immediately
convicted without being able to testify in his own defense.
FTP identify
this phrase from English law that required those nearby when a crime is
committed or discovered to assist in the pursuit.
Answer:
13.
_Hue and Cry_
He became obsessed with the music of Mahler, in particular the
"Resurrection" Symphony, at the age of 40, and since then has conducted
that piece some 50 times with 31 different orchestras.
He accomplished
this despite the fact that his primary career was in the world of
publishing business journals, in particular the magazine "Institutional
Investor".
FTP identify this American publisher and conductor whose
performance at the Salzburg Festival in 1996 won an unheard of ten minute
standing ovation.
Answer:
14.
Gilbert _Kaplan_
This literary character befriends the progressive young doctor Tertius
Lydgate.
After her first husband's death she marries, against the advice
of friends and family, an impulsive artist and political thinker named Will
Ladislaw.
FTP, identify the literary figure whose first husband was the
Reverend Edward Casaubon and who is the heroine of George Eliot's
"Middlemarch".
Answer:
_Dorothea Brooke_
Prompt on:
15.
Dodo
His belief that the methods of logic could be applied to the truths of
faith was in opposition to the mysticism of Bernard of Clairvaux.
His most
influential work is the "Sic et Non", a collection of contradictory
selections from Scripture and the Fathers of the Church.
FTP, identify the
man better remembered as the lover of Heloise.
Answer:
16.
Peter _Abelard_
The Texas one was named after the Kansas one, is now much larger than
the Kansas one, and is the home of Hardin-Simmons University.
The Kansas
one is more historically important, as it once had "Wild Bill" Hickok as
its marshall and was the boyhood home of Dwight Eisenhower.
FTP identify
the name these two cities share.
Answer:
17.
_Abilene_
Although her early choreography employed spontaneous movements, much
of her later work was in the form of group dances that employed repetitive
dances.
Among her students are Hanya Holm and Margarete Wallman.
After
studying with Rudolf von Laban she performed in Germany and opened her own
school in Dresden in 1920.
FTP, identify this most influential German
exponenet of expressive movement whose school of dance was closed by the
Nazis.
Answer:
18.
Mary _Wigman_
He is a native of Chicago, and in his law practice there he developed
a specialization in antitrust law.
On the Supreme Court he has expressed a
concern for maintaining the integrity of the electoral processes, such as
in his majority opinion in the 1983 case Anderson v. Celebreeze.
He has
established a reputation for independence and moderation, and is not easily
associated with any particular voting bloc.
FTP identify Gerald Ford's
only nominee to the Supreme Court.
Answer:
19.
John Paul _Stevens_
It is a carnivore of the hyena family, resembling the true hyena but
smaller and more delicate.
It has lesss powerful teeth and jaws, and five
instead of four toes on its forepaws.
stripes;
Its coat is yellow-white with dark
a ridge of hair extends down its sloping back.
FTP identify this
nocturnal, burrowing animal, inhabiting sandy plain and scrub from South
Africa to Angola and Somaliland.
Answer:
20.
_Aardwolf_
The novel ranges from the Civil War to World War I, from the East
Coast to the West Coast, over several generations of two families.
Despite
some quite explicit sex scenes, this novel failed to live up to reader
expectations and did not immediately win popular or critical acclaim.
FTP,
identify the novel featuring the characters Will Hamilton, Cathy Ames, and
Aron, Caleb, and Adam Trask, written in 1952 by John Steinbeck.
Answer:
21.
_East of Eden_
The city Health Department of this large American city recently
announced that for the first time since the AIDS epidemic was recognized in
1981 the number of deaths from the disease dropped sharply last year.
The
statistics are important because, according to AIDS researchers, the
disease in this city is particularly concentrated among the poor, and the
data offers hope for poorer nations coping with the disease.
FTP, identify
this east coast city where the number of deaths dropped from 7,046 in 1995
to 4,944 in 1996.
Answer:
_New York_ City
BONI
1.
The author of this packet never expected to find an entry for phallic
worship in the encyclopedia, but alas, it is there and thus the question
must be written.
Answer these questions for the stated number of points.
A. He was the son of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and the fertility god of
gardens and herds, represented as a grotesque little man with an enormous
phallus.
Answer:
_Priapus_
B. The cults of these two earlier gods dominated phallic worship in Rome.
First, identify the Great Mother of the Gods in ancient Asiatic religion.
Answer:
_Cybele_
C. And second, identify the Phyrigian (FRI-jean) vegetation God whom Cybele
fell in love with and forced him to castrate himself so no other would have
him.
Answer:
2.
_Attis_
Answer these questions about the life of Thomas Paine FTP each.
1. When Paine came to America in 1774, he bore letters of introduction from
what American who was in London at the time?
Answer:
Benjamin _Franklin_
2. Paine wrote "The Rights of Man" to defend the French Revolution in reply
to whose criticism of it, titled "Reflections on the Revolution in France"?
Answer:
Edmund _Burke_
3. One of Paine's lesser known works is a diatribe against the Washington
Administration.
Answer:
3.
FTP identify the 1796 work.
_Letter to Washington_
Answer these questions about Flemish artists FTP each.
1. This 15th Century Flemish painter collaborated often with his older
brother, and is remembered for works such as "Man with the Red Turban" and
"Annunciation".
Answer:
Jan van _Eyck_
2. This late 15th and early 16th Century painter was hailed in the 20th
Century as a forerunner of the surrealists.
Among his works is "Garden of
Earthly Delights".
Answer:
Hieronymus _Bosch_
3. This 17th Century artist is described as the foremost artist of the age.
He was also a diplomat and was knighted by England for his peacekeeping
efforts.
Answer:
4.
Among his works are "Allegory of War and Peace" and "Peasant Dance".
Peter Paul _Rubens_
Given characters from world literature, identify the work from which
they are from, FTP each.
A. Kraken and Mael
Answer:
_Penguin Island_
B. Lady Rowena and Cedric the Saxon
Answer:
_Ivanhoe_
C. Cecil Fielding and Dr. Aziz
Answer:
5.
_A Passage to India_
Answer these questions about notorious Nazis FTP each.
1. This Propoganda Minister remained loyal to Hitler until the end, killing
himself, his wife, and his children in Hitler's bunker not long after
Hitler had done himself in.
Answer:
Paul Joseph _Goebbels_
2. Hitler named this Admiral his successor upon his death, and this man
surrendered to the Allies a week later.
Answer:
Karl _Doenitz_
3. He led the wing of the party believing in a socially radical program,
and was killed during Hitler's purge of political rivals in 1934.
Answer:
6.
Gregor _Strasser_
Identify the sociological terms from the definition FTP each.
A. A cultural pattern prescribing in-group marriage.
Answer:
_Endogamy_
B. A process whereby people with differing cultural backgrounds live
together harmoniously and peacefully, permitting the expression of their
distinctive ways of life within a range consonant with the national welfare.
Answer:
_Pluralism_
C. The blending or fusing of a trait with an analogous element in another
culture.
Answer:
7.
_Syncretism_
Answer these questions about the 1996 Presidential election FTP each.
1. Time Magazine hailed her as "The Most Wanted Woman in America",
emphasising the role of working mothers in Clinton's large lead in the
polls, despite the fact that, according to an interview she did on the Rush
Limbaugh show, she never told Time she was voting for Clinton.
Answer:
Lori _Lucas_
2. Since Dole was naturally unavailable for the role, Clinton chose this
former Senator to play the role of Dole in Clinton's mock practice debates.
Answer:
George _Mitchell_
3. What figure in the 1996 race once said of Bob Dole, "In a recent fire
Bob Dole's library burned down.
Both books were lost.
And he hadn't even
finished coloring one of them."
Answer:
8.
Jack _Kemp_
Identify the historical figure from the clues provided, 30-20-10.
30: He was director of East Germany's Institute for Nuclear Physics from
1959 until 1979.
20: In 1933 he fled from Germany to England, and was later interned as an
enemy alien in Canada.
10: In 1943 he began work on the development of the atomic bomb project in
the United States and started transmitting information from there to the
Soviet Union.
He was arrested and imprisoned for espionage by the British
in 1950.
Answer:
9.
Klaus _Fuchs_
Identify the composer from works, 30-20-10.
30: Sadko
20: The Snow Maiden
10: Scheherezade
Answer:
10.
Nicolai _Rimsky-Korsakov_
Identify the American poet from works, 30-20-10.
30: "Power" and "Attention"
20: "Living in Sin" and "The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last
as a Sexual Message"
10: "Peeling Onions" and "Reforming the Crystal"
Answer:
11.
Adrienne _Rich_
Given these six battles from ancient history, put them in
chronological order FTP each:
Arbela, Marathon, Philippi, Syracuse,
Thermopylae, Zama.
Answer:
12.
_Marathon_, _Thermopylae_, _Syracuse_, _Arbela_, _Zama_, _Philippi_
Given an American musical identify its composer FTP each.
A. Ain't Misbehavin'
Answer:
Fats _Waller_
B. Evita
Answer:
Andrew Lloyd _Webber_
C. The King and I
Answer:
Richard _Rodgers_
Accept:
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Do not accept Oscar Hammerstein (alone--he was lyricist & librettist)
13.
Identify the philosopher from works, 30-20-10.
30: Philosophy of Right
20: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
10: Phenomenology of Mind
Answer:
14.
Georg _Hegel_
Given the description that Stephen Crane uses, identify these
characters from "The Red Badge of Courage", FTP each.
A. The tall soldier
Answer:
_Jim Conklin_
B. The loud one
Answer:
_Wilson_
C. FTP, identify the description Crane uses for the soldier encountered by
Henry Fleming just after he has run away, who is never identified by name
in the book.
Answer:
15.
The _Tattered_ Man
President Clinton and former President Bush recently announced plans
for a "summit" on volunteerism.
Answer these questions about the summit
for the stated number of points.
A. What Republican is the chairman of the summit?
Answer:
Colin _Powell_
B. What Democrat is the vice-chairman of the summit?
Answer:
Henry _Cisneros_
C. The summit will bring together two organizations, each inspired by one
of these presidents.
One is the result of a phrase from Bush's 1988
Republican National Convention speech, the other a result of Clinton's
effort to promote volunterism among young people.
Identify these two
groups FFP each.
Answer:
_Points of Light_ Foundation and _AmeriCorps_
Accept:
_Corporation for Public Service_ (for AmeriCorps)
16.
Given an artist, identify the art movement with which they are most
associated FTP each.
1. Pierre Renoir
Answer:
_Impressionism_
2. Juan Gris
Answer:
_Cubism_
3. Max Ernst
Answer:
_Surrealism_
Accept:
_Dadaism_
17.
Identify the playwright from works, 30-20-10.
30: "The Would-Be Gentleman"
20: "The School for Husbands", and "The School for Wives"
10: "Le Tartuffe", and "Le Misanthrope"
Answer:
Jean _Moliere_
18.
Put these composers in chronological order by date of birth, FFP each:
Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt, Gioacchino
Rossini, Igor Stravinsky.
Answer:
19.
_Rossini_, _Liszt_, _Brahms_, _Debussy_, _Stravinsky_, _Britten_
It seems that academic competition has made a great comeback, with
Jeopardy! getting better ratings than ever, MTV's Idiot Savants making a
strong introduction, and You Don't Know Jack by Berkeley Systems being one
of the top selling CD-ROMs of 1996.
FFPE, and a five point bonus, given a
category of the game, identify whether it is from J!, Idiot Savants, or You
Don't Know Jack.
a)
Potent Potables - _Jeopardy_
b)
Bialik American History - _Idiot Savants_
c)
James Bondage - _You Don't Know Jack_
d)
Existentialism and "Free Will-y" - _You Don't Know Jack_
e)
SAT Math - _Idiot Savants_
20.
Recently, several Internet companies have promised to deliver
user-customizable news to your desktop.
FTPE, name the company from a
description of their method.
a)
This popular search site has created a news ticker, that sits on your
desktop and can be linked to a custom website.
_Yahoo_
b)
This company's screen saver can be customized to display only the news
you want to see.
_PointCast_
c)
This company promises no advertising, and delivers customized agent
searches daily to your E-Mailbox.
_Farcast_
21.
The NFL Pro Bowl will be taking place tomorrow, and one of these
outstanding players will voted the Most Valuable Player, a true honor.
Given a year and the conference, name the MVP FTPE, FFP if you need his team.
a)
10: 1993, AFC
5:
Buffalo Bills
Steve _Tasker_
b)
10: 1978, NFC
5:
Chicago Bears
Walter _Payton_
c)
10:
5:
1987, NFC
Philadelphia Eagles
Reggie _White_
Berkeley Tossups:
Perpetual Motion IV
January 1997
KAS - katy
MB - Matt
HE
Haggai
GCS
me
DW
-David
1. The subject of variation eleven is the composer's bulldog Dan. Centered
around a melancholy theme in G minor, each of the 14 variations is a portrait of
someone known to the composer. The subjects are identified in the form of
initials, codewords, or, in one case, a mysterious cipher. FTP, identify this
famous work, Opus 36 of composer Edward Elgar.
A: ENIGMA Variations
(MB)
2. He was shot in the chest while campaigning in Milwaukee by a saloon keeper
who objected to his pursuit of a third term as President. He actually completed
the speech he was giving before seeking medical attention. He did live, but was
not re-elected to a third term. FTP, identify this tough-as-a-moose third-party
candidate.
A: THEODORE (Teddy) ROOSEVELT
(MB)
3. Geographical features include the Ruacana Falls in the north, the Fish River
in the south, and the 250-mile long Caprivi strip in the northeast corner, which
juts out nearly all the way to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. FTP, what is this
country, whose southern border is formed by the Orange River, and whose western
coast features Walvis Bay?
A: NAMIBIA
(MB)
4. It first appeared in the US in the 1890's from Central America. Known
scientifically as Anthonomus Grandis, it is 6mm long and still causes an
estimated 200 million dollars of damage every year in the US, especially in the
south. FTP, identify this troublesome little pest.
A: BOLL WEEVIL
(MB)
5. A "system" used for bounding class numbers. A "product" used for the zeta
function. A "characteristic" used to classify topological spaces. A "constant"
which appears in estimates for the harmonic series. A "formula" relating
logarithmic and trigonometric functions. A "phi-function" used in number
theory. And the number e. FTP, all of these things, and more, are named after
what Swiss mathematician?
A: Leonhard EULER
(MB)
6. Born in Harlem, she began writing poetry at the age of seven. She still
travels across America to read her poems and speak on the themes of her writing:
politics in the street, Black women, child welfare, and education. Books
include "Lyrical Campaigns", "Moving Towards Home", and "Haruko/Love Poetry".
FTP, identify this UC Berkeley professor and founder of "Poetry for the People."
A: June JORDAN
(MB)
7. In physics, this principle states that the total effect of several waves
moving simultaneously through a medium is determined by the vector sum of the
displacements caused by the individual waves. FTP, name this principle which,
when used in mathematics, states that the most general form the solution to a
differential equation is a combination of all the linearly independent solutions
of the equation.
ANS: SUPERPOSITION
(HE)
8. This mathematician's name is attached to the generalized notion of spatial
dimension that allows one to assign fractional dimension values to "fractals"
such as the Mandelbrot set. A topological space with the property that any two
points are separated by distinct open sets also
bears his name. FTP, name him.
ANS: Felix HAUSDORFF
(HE)
9. Characters in this 20th century novel include Anne Stanton, Tiny Duffy,
Sadie Burke, and the narrator, Jack Burden. FTP, name this Robert Penn Warren
novel which chronicles the meteoric ascendancy of Wille Stark to the
governorship of his state.
ANS: ALL THE KING'S MEN
(HE)
10. The recent success of rookie NHL goalie Patrick LaLime resembles the
auspicious 1971 debut of this legendary Montreal goalkeeper, who was named the
Rookie of the Year in '71 despite playing in fewer than 20 games. FTP, name
this player who penned a famous memoir of his hockey career that was simply
titled "The Game".
ANS: Ken DRYDEN
(HE)
11. They were first reached by the Greeks but were named by Pliny the Elder. Now
controlled by Spain, the principal islands of the group include Fuerteventura
and Gomera but the human population of the islands now outnumbers that of the
wild dogs for which they were named. FTP, name these islands off the north west
coast of Africa.
Ans:
CANARY Islands
(KAS)
12. An enthusiastic outdoorsman, he believed that people should enjoy wilderness
areas as places for recreation while preserving those areas as much as possible.
He pioneered the application of the principles of ecology to wildlife management
and gained international fame with several books and articles including the
textbook _Game Management_ and _Round River_. FTP, name this American naturalist
perhaps best known as the author of _A Sand County Almanac.
Ans:
Aldo LEOPOLD
(KAS)
13. It comes from the Arabic word for union and began in the 1600s as an
organization to combat corruption and tyranny in the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies. Later, it's aims seemed to take an opposite turn with the requisite
fidelity of members the only remaining similar characteristic and it is still
associated with criminal elements and bloody vendettas. FTP, give the name of
this Sicilian terrorist society.
ANS:
MAFIA
(KAS)
14. He was famous as a muckraker, helping to organize the American Civil
Liverties Union and the League for Industrial Democracy but primarily called
attention to issues through his writing. Ultimately, the popularity of his works
such as _The Metropolis_ and the Pulitzer prize-winning novel _Dragon's Teeth_
have made him one of the most-translated American authors. FTP, who was this
author of _The Jungle?
Ans:
Upton SINCLAIR
not Sinclair Lewis!
(KAS)
15. A little-known Scottish marching tune known as "Colonel Bogey's March"
became one of the most famous songs in the world after it was featured in this
movie. FTP, what was this 1957 anti-war epic, which was directed by David Lean
and based on a Pierre Boulet novel of the same name.
ANS: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
(HE)
16. In Roman mythology, she had a child by Ulysses named Latinus. She lived on
the island Aeaea (eye eye a), but sometimes visited Italy. On one trip to
Sicily she turned Scylla into a monster, and likewise she turned Picus into a
woodpecker when he preferred Canens. FTP, who was this beautiful sorceress most
famous for turning half of Odysseus' crew into swine?
Ans:
CIRCE
(GCS)
17. According to Prof. Marvin Trachtenberg, the Pazzi (Pot si) Chapel in
Florence was really designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo (Michael otz so di Bart
ol oh may oh) in imitation of THIS artist's Old Sacristry. THIS artist died in
1446, only 4 years after the Pazzi Chapel was designed, and the Pazzi Chapel
resembles earlier buildings from his career, before his full genius in works
such as the Ospedale degli Innocenti was established. FTP, what great
Florentine artist is usually attributed
Ans:
Filippo BRUNELLESCHI
(GSC)
18. Because green algae chlorella can absorb carbon dioxide tagged with carbon
14, it was possible to investigate this cycle of reactions which form an
important link in photosynthesis. Although the reaction occurs without benefit
of light, by immersing cells in boiled alcohol until
certain compounds could be extracted, it was possible to identify the path of
what vital cycle of reactions, named for the Nobel prize winner who performed
the experiment just described, thus earning the 1961 Nobel in Chem?
Ans:
CALVIN cycle
(GCS)
Accept DARK cycle on an early buzz, on a late buzz prompt on DARK
19. Those making fun of him referred to him as "squillhead." This is because
he had some sort of birth defect which made him look a bit like a conehead.
However, unlike Beldar from Remulak, he was of enormous intelligence and led his
country in a Golden Age. Furthermore, statues of him always show him wearing a
helmet to cover up his cone. FTP, who was this great Athenians statesman who
led Athens into the Peloponnesian War?
Ans:
PERICLES
(GCS)
20. This physicist born in 1904 suggested a genetic code of DNA, although he is
primarily remembered for astronomic discoveries. It was he who worked out the
theory of Red Giant stars, and along with Edward Teller, he made another
proposal, popularized by Carl Sagan. FTP, who was this Russian-American who coformulated the "Big Bang" theory?
\George GAMOW\
(GCS)
21. When his elder son, Eustace, died, he had to give up hopes of founding a
dynasty in England and came to terms with the Plantagenets by recognizing duke
Henry as the official heir, even though he still had a son. His reign is
considered a blight on English history, mostly wracked by civil war with the
daughter of his predecessor. FTP, who was this only king from the house of
Blois who ruled England from 1135-1154?
ANs:
STEPHEN
(GCS)
22. This French city near the Mediterranean has a magnificent amphitheater
which the locals call the arena. It was a Roman city and is close to Nimes and
Avignon, towns with whom it is often compared. While its history is less
impressive in the Middle ages than Avignon, it's claim to fame is that Van Gogh
spent the last years of his life in a nearby institution for the possibly
deranged. FTP, what is this French city which also boasts the world's oldest
(documented) living person?
Ans:
ARLES
(GCS)
23. Little Blues live in New Zealand. The Humboldts, amazingly enough, live in
the coastal desert of Peru and Chile. The Magellanics, also called "Jack ass
_____ (blank)s" live at the Southern extreme of South America, far closer to
most others of this species. FTP, what is this
flightless bird, most species of which live in Antarctica?
Ans:
PENGUINS
(GCS)
24. This philosopher wrote _On the Rainbow, _On the Calculation of Chances, and
_Treatise on the Improvement of Understanding. In conversations with fellow
students, he claimed that the author of Pentateuch was no wiser in physics or
theology than they were. He wrote an exposition of Descartes' _Principles of
Philosophy, with an introduction stating that he disagreed with Descartes.
Specifically, he rejected the transcendence of God, the substantial dualism of
mind and body, and the ascripti
A:
Baruch or Benedict de SPINOZA
(DW)
25. In his youth he was banished from court for his liberal tendencies, and his
military career ended because he expressed sympathy for the French July
Revolution. He advocated constitutional government and war with Austria in his
newspaper _Il Risorgimento_. His policy of a free church in a free state failed
to convince the pope to surrender Rome to the Kingdom of Italy. FTP name this
prime minister of Sardinia who played a key role in the unification of Italy.
A:
Camillo Benso, count di CAVOUR
(DW)
26. This statesman had wanted to be a priest. His father dissuaded him, but he
applied his interest in morality to politics. His administration passed the
Secret Ballot Act, abolished religious tests in universities, and disestablished
the Irish church. Later in his career he tried to grant home rule to Ireland.
He hurt his reputation by failing to rescue General Gordon at Khartoum. He
criticized his rival Disraeli for indifference to Turkish atrocities in the
Balkans. FTP name this fourA:
William Ewart GLADSTONE
(DW)
27. The father of this literary character is happy to be one of the undeserving
poor, until he is recognized as the most original moralist in England, and
delivered into the hands of middle-class morality. She says she will marry
Freddy Eynsford Hill as soon as she can support him. Early in the play she
regularly says "Garn!" and "Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-ow-oo!", but later her speech is
changed enough that the phonetician Nepommuck declares that she is Hungarian and
or royal blood, and thus Colonel Pi
A:
ELIZA DOOLITTLE
(DW)
28. The writings of the poet, dramatist, philosopher, and historian include
_History of the Thirty Years' War_, _Words of Faith, and _Fiesco_. As a result
of his upbringing in military school, several of his plays are concerned with
the use and abuse of power. Influenced by Immanuel Kant, he developed his
theory of the "beautiful soul" in which the conflicting elements of human nature
are harmonized through self-control. Beethoven set one of his poems to music.
FTP name this German who wrot
A:
Johann Christoph Friedrich von SCHILLER
(DW)
29. The phrase "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior" is a translation of the Greek
"Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter." (yay-soos krees-tos thay-oo hwee-ahss sotair) The acronym for this phrase is a Greek word, which explains why this
word, inside a stylized image of the thing it refers to, is often seen on the
rear ends of cars. FTP give the English word for this object, an early symbol
of Christianity.
A:
FISH (ask for English on ichthus)
(DW)
30. C 20 H 24 O 2 N 2 is the chemical formula of this alkaloid obtained from
the bark of the cinchona tree. As a drug it has largely been replaced by
synthetics such as pyrimethamine and chloroquine, but it played an important
role in the colonization of Africa by providing protection from Plasmodium, the
microorganism that causes malaria.
water.
A:
QUININE
FTP name this substance used to make tonic
(DW)
31. The American journalist and romantic poet wrote "The Prairies," "A Forest
Hymn," and "The Death of Lincoln." Many of the Hudson River painters were his
friends. His father encouraged him at an early age to rhyme in imitation of
Alexander Pope, and published his satire of Jefferson, "The Embargo," when he
was 13, but he later abandoned the neoclassical style. He fought the Tweed ring
and defended free speech, free trade, and free soil during his fifty years as
editor of the New York Eveni
A:
William Cullen BRYANT
Berkeley bonuses
(DW)
1. In this infamous example of medical documented racism, 399 black men with VD
were monitored by not treated, although a cure exists for the disease they had.
This lasted for 40 years. For 10 points, name the disease, and for an
additional 20, name the incident whose name comes from the location of the
medical facility where they were monitored.
10 20 -
SYPHILLIS
TUSKEEGEE EXPERIMENT
2. Travels with Phil Flavius Huang: Last November, Gaius ex-consul of the
Berkeley Academic Club got lost somewhere in time in the Roman Empire. Phil has
gone in search of him using a time machine perfected by Partha up at Lawrence
Berkeley Lab. Partha set Phil's chronometer to 107 BC and sent Phil to North
Africa in search of Gaius. Of course, now Philip is lost, too. Please answer
the following and help Phil out:
OR
(5) Phil lands near the site of Carthage.
by what name do Romans call this province?
TUNISIA
or
What modern country is this,
AFRICA
(10) Darn it! Phil has been spotted by Roman pickets. Luckily he is
able to ask them in Latin to bring him to their leader, the consul of 107 BC.
Phil recognizes this as what general, later the rival of Sulla?
Gaius MARIUS
(15) OOPS. Phil was about to disparage Sulla, when he remembers Sulla
served under Marius in a campaign -- probably this one - in Africa against what
local Numidian king who murdered his way to the throne and then killed a bunch
of Roman merchants, to boot?
JUGURTHA
3. Identify the following associated with horses from mythology for 5 points
each with a bonus for all 5:
A.
B.
C.
D.
She was Pegasus' mother
MEDUSA
This god created the first horse
POSEIDON/NEPTUNE
His horse, Xanthus, was immortal and talked
ACHILLES
This Thracian king had wild, man-eating horses
DIOMEDES
E.
This famous twin was an excellent horse trainer;
his brother is famous as a boxer.
POLLUX/POLYDEUCES
4. Consider the election of 1860. Identify the following:
(10) He got the 2nd most votes, but carried only Missouri and some electoral
votes from New Jersey.
Stephen DOUGLASS
(5) He was Lincoln's running mate
Hannibal HAMLIN
(10) This candidate read the results of the Electoral College, as the
constitution orders in January 1861.
John BRECKENRIDGE
(5)
1860 was the only appearance of this party which fielded John Bell.
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION
5.
Identify these Socialists from the WW I era (10 each)
A. This French Socialist was assassinated at the outbreak of WW I. A major
street in Paris is named for him, and he is remembered for his efforts to
prevent war during the 1912 crisis.
Jean JUARES
B. This Russian leader helped bring down the Romanovs, and became the 2nd
Prime Minister of the Provisional government in summer 1917.
Alexander KERENSKY
C. This German Socialist, along with Rosa Luxembourg, led a putsch in post-war
1919 Germany, which had to be suppressed by the army. He was executed
mysteriously and without trial.
Karl LIEBKNECHT
6. There are now 7 states with woman senators, two of which have 2 women as
their senators. For 5 each, name any six of these 9 senators:
Barbara BOXER (CA)
Susan COLLINS (ME)
Dianne FEINSTEIN (CA)
Kay Bailey HUTCHINSON (TX)
Mary LANDRIEU (LA)
Barbara MIKULSKI (MD)
Carol MOSELY-BRAUN (IL)
Patty MURRAY (WA)
Olympia SNOWE (ME)
7. During the Napoleonic Era, several dynasties lost territory - even their
thrones - to French upstart Bonapartes and their in-laws. Given a place,
identify the local dynasty which lost out to French incursion (5 each with bonus
for all):
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Spain
Lombardy in Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
BOURBONS
BOURBONS
HAPSBURGS
ORANGE
BRAGANZA
8. 30-20-10, name the novelist.
(30) He was born in Kiev in 1857, and his original surname was Korzeniowski.
His first novel was 1895's "Almayer's Folly."
(20)
Some of his later novels were "Youth", "Typhoon", and "Chance."
(10)
He also wrote "Nostromo", "Lord Jim", and "Heart of Darkness."
ANS: Joseph CONRAD
9. Having lived through the excessive hype surrounding the Super Bowl, you now
have the chance to get some points by knowing about its history.
(a) This receiver touched the ball only 4 times in Super Bowl X, but those
catches were so spectacular that he was named the MVP of the game. FTP, name
him.
ANS: Lynn SWANN
(b) Swann's heroics in that game occurred during the first Super Bowl meeting
between two teams that have now met a record three times in the Super Bowl. For
ten points each, name these teams, who played each other in Super Bowls X, XIII,
and XXX.
ANS: Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys
10. The following questions concern real people who were portrayed in Oscarwinning movie performances. You'll get ten points if you can name the actual
person who was played by the Oscar winning actor in the given year, and you'll
get five points if you need the name of the movie.
(a) 10: Robert DeNiro won Best Actor in 1980 for playing this person.
5: The movie was "Raging Bull."
ANS: Jake LAMOTTA
(b) 10: F. Murray Abraham in 1984
5: "Amadeus"
ANS: Antonio SALIERI
(c) 10: Jeremy Irons in 1990
5: "Reversal of Fortune"
ANS: Claus VON BULOW
11.
Name these English novels published in the nineteenth century novels
which are named after houses FTP each.
A) Two houses are important in this novel. One of the major characters gains
ownership of the title house by gambling with its owner, and gains the other
house by bribing a lawyer not to visit a dying man who wants to change his will.
A:
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
B) Much of this novel revolves around a court case concerning a disputed will.
The case ends when court costs are found to have consumed the entire estate.
A:
BLEAK HOUSE
C) The heroine of this novel visits Bath and finds a boyfriend, who invites her
to stay at the title house. Under the influence of too many Gothic romances,
she skulks around in places she doesn't belong and develops dark suspicions
about his mother's death.
A:
NORTHANGER ABBEY
12. Name these types of differential equations for the stated number of points.
In all of these equations, x is the independent variable and y is the dependent
variable.
(5 points) An equation of this type can be written in the form y prime equals f
of x times g of y (y' = f(x)g(y)).
A:
SEPARABLE equation
(10 points) An equation of this type can be written in the form M dx + N dy = 0,
where the partial derivative of M with respect to y equals the partial
derivative of N with respect to x.
A: EXACT equation
(15 points) An equation of this type can be written in the form a x squared y
double prime plus b x y prime plus c y equals f of x (a(x^2)y'' + bxy' + cy =
f(x)), and can be transformed to an equation with constant coefficients by the
substitution x equals e to the t (x = e^t).
A: (second order) CAUCHY-EULER equation or EQUIDIMENSIONAL equation
or EULER equation or EULER-CAUCHY equation or CAUCHY equation
13. In 1864, Congress asked each state to contribute statues of outstanding
citizens to display in the Capitol. Given the name of a person whose statue was
contributed, identify the contributing state for the stated number of points.
5 Ethan Allen VERMONT
10 Nathanael Greene RHODE ISLAND
15 William Jennings Bryan NEBRASKA
14. Identify the mountain from a description for five
Highest peak in Washington State
RAINIER
Highest island peak in the world
MAUNA KEA
Highest peak in the western hemisphere ACONAGUA
Highest peak in the Alps
MONT BLANC
Highest peak in Antarctica
VINSON MASSIF
Only active volcano on the mainland of Europe
points apiece.
VESUVIUS
15. The sixth chapter of the New Testament describes the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse. Answer the following questions about these and other Four Horsemen
for five points apiece. First, given the rider, identify the color of his horse.
Conquest
WHITE
Death
PALE or GREENISH-YELLOW
War
RED
Famine
BLACK
Now name the school with a football team whose backfield was known as "The Four
Horsemen" in the 1920s.
NOTRE DAME
16. Identify the "a" term from astronomy for ten points each. The point
farthest from the moon in the orbit of a lunar satellite
APOCYNTHION
The point farthest from the earth in the orbit of an earth satellite
APOGEE
The point farthest from the sun in the orbit of a solar satellite
APHELION
17. Name the author from works 30-20-10.
30
20
10
Vile Bodies, Black Magic, The Loved One
Officers and Gentlemen, Men At Arms, Unconditional Surrender
A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn WAUGH
18.
For 15 points each, name these scientific "effects":
a) When a current-carrying conductor is placed in a magnetic field, a
voltage is generated in a direction perpendicular to both the current and the
magnetic field.
ANS: Hall effect
b) When an external magnetic field induces splitting of the spectral lines
emitted by an atom.
ANS: Zeeman effect
19.
FTP each, identify the reserved word from C++ from the given clues:
a) This word precedes the declaration of a function that doesn't return a
value. It's the equivalent of a "subroutine" in Pascal and Fortran.
ANS: VOID
b) A class or function which has access to the private members of another
class is identified by this word.
ANS: FRIEND
c) This keyword allows one to create a function or a class that can assume
any kind of pre-defined or user-defined type.
Ans: TEMPLATE
20. Identify the artists who painted or photographed the following works, for
ten points each.
1. "Migrant Mother, California", 1936
2. "Ochre and Red on Red", 1954
3. "Twittering Machine", 1922
A: Dorothea LANGE
A: Mark ROTHKO
A: Paul KLEE
21. This bonus will test your knowledge of American cities with funny names.
Ten points each for identifying the state in which each of the following cities
is located, or five points if you need another, more ordinary sounding city.
1. First Clue: Port Sulphur
Second Clue: Lake Charles
A: LOUISIANA
2. First Clue: Medicine Lodge
Second Clue: Dodge City
A: KANSAS
3. First Clue: The cities Spanish Fork and Mexican Hat
Second Clue: Ogden
A:
UTAH
22.
30-20-10, identify the composer from works.
30: Children's Corner
20: Suite Bergamasque
10: La Mer
A: Claude DEBUSSY
23. Identify each of the following political "firsts", FTP each:
1. Lyndon Johnson's first attorney general
2. First woman elected to the US Senate
3. First speaker of the house
A: Robert _Kennedy_
A: Hattie _Caraway_
A: Frederick
_Muhlenburg_
24. Give the names of the five epochs in the Tertiary period. You will get five
points for each one you name, with an extra five for getting them in the correct
order from MOST RECENT to MOST DISTANT.
A: Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene, Paleocene
25.
For 5 points each, name these contemporary female writers given a list
of works.
A) Cry to Heaven, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Lasher
A:
Anne RICE
B) A Garden of Earthly Delights, You Must Remember This, Black Water
A:
Joyce Carol OATES
C) Saint Maybe, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Morgan's Passing
A:
Anne TYLER
D) Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, A Woman's Mourning Song
A:
bell HOOKS or Gloria WATKINS
E) China Man, The Woman Warrior
A:
Maxine Hong KINGSTON
F) Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby
A:
Toni MORRISON
26. Given the beginning of a poem, give its last line, for 5 points each.
(Moderator: It's okay if they get a word or two wrong in the long ones, if it's
clear that they're not confusing it with some other line.)
1) O what can ail thee, Knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering?
A: AND NO BIRDS SING (John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci")
2) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more
temperate.
A: SO LONG LIVES THIS, AND THIS GIVES LIFE TO THEE. (William Shakespeare)
3) O wild West Wind, thou breath or Autumn's being
A: IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND? (Percy Shelley, "Ode to the West
Wind")
4) It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren
crags
A: TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND, AND NOT TO YIELD. (Alfred Tennyson,
"Ulysses")
5) Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though.
A: AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP. (Robert Frost, "Stopping By the Woods on a
Snowy Evening")
6) Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale?
A: THE DEVIL TAKE HER! (John Suckling)
27.
This bonus test your knowledge of Bartlett's _Familiar Quotations_.
Name the authors of the following for five points each.
1) We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
A: Marcel PROUST
2) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are
created equal.
A: Elizabeth Cady STANTON
3) Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
A: Robert (or Bobby) BURNS
4) The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold,
persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If
it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
A: FRANKLIN Delano ROOSEVELT
5) I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat
a single inch, and I will be heard!
A: William Lloyd GARRISON
6) Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the
day after
A: George GORDON or Lord BYRON
28.
Name these defense mechanisms FTP each.
1) A person adopts a pattern of behavior that is the opposite of a repressed
impulse.
A: REACTION FORMATION
2) The energy of an unconscious impulse is channeled to a more acceptable
activity.
A: SUBLIMATION
3) A person avoids awareness of unacceptable impulses by inventing a safe and
plausible explanation of the resulting behavior.
A: RATIONALIZATION
29.
Name these Supreme Court cases FTP each.
1)
In this case the court ruled that a man can be exempted for the draft as
a conscientious objector even if his objection to war is not based on religion.
A: WELSH v. United States
2) This case was brought to court because Tennessee had not reapportioned its
legislative districts for 50 years. The Supreme Court ruled that federal courts
did have jurisdiction on the subject, and ordered the federal district court in
Tennessee to hear the case.
A: BAKER V. CARR
3) In this case, which came after Gideon v. Wainwright and before Miranda v.
Arizona, the court ruled that if a suspect requests and is denied the
opportunity to consult a lawyer during interrogation, nothing he says may be
used against him.
A: ESCOBEDO V. ILLINOIS
30.
This bonus tests your knowledge of pop music.
recorded the following lyrics FTP each.
1) Where it began, I can't begin to knowing
But then I know it's growing strong
Was in the spring
Then spring became the summer
Name the artists that
Who'd have believed you'd come along
A: Neil DIAMOND ("Sweet Caroline")
2) Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A: PINK FLOYD ("Learning to Fly")
3) Come back home to the
Hiring man says, "Son if
Went down to see my V.A.
He said, "Son, don't you
refinery
it was up to me."
man
understand now."
A: Bruce SPRINGSTEEN ("Born in the U.S.A.")
31. Given the years that films have won Academy Awards, give the characteristic
that the titles share for ten points each.
1930, 1949, 1950
THEY ALL BEGIN WITH "ALL"
(All Quiet on the Western Front, All the King's Men, All
About Eve)
1940, 1948, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1970, 1976
TITLES ARE ONE WORD NAMES
(Rebecca, Hamlet, Marty, Gigi, Oliver!, Patton,
Rocky)
1954, 1956, 1967
THEY ALL BEGIN WITH A PREPOSITION
(On the Waterfront, Around the World in 80 Days, In the
Heat of the Night)
32. identify the poem from lines 30-20-10.
30 With conquering limbs astride from land to land/
20 "Keep ancient lands your storied pomp!" cried she/
10 I lift my lamp beside the golden door
THE NEW COLOSSUS
33.
Identify the following figures in European history for 10 points each.
1. Though born in Italy, he gained fame as a French statesman and patron of the
arts. His centralization of power and imposition of taxes provoked the revolts
known as the Fronde, which he crushed decisively.
A: Jules _Mazarin_
2. He was exiled twice from Italy, once in 1831 and again in 1849 after becoming
leader of the short-lived republic of Rome. The actual unification of Italy, in
which he took little part, fell short of his popular republican ideals.
A: Giuseppi _Mazzini_
3. He was a Cossack chief who aided Charles XII of Sweden in vain against Peter
the Great, hoping to win independence for his native Ukraine. Byron's poem of
the same name immortalizes a youthful incident in which he is said to have been
tied to a wild horse by a jealous Polish nobleman.
A: Ivan _Mazepa_
Wichita State University "Freeze Your Buzz Off"
February 1, 1997
Packet by Washington University-St. Louis
1. A 1955 recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, this author had only one
poetry anthology and one novel published in her lifetime. Some posthumous
titles include Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams and Stings. However, FTP,
name this author more remembered for The Colossus.
Answer:
Sylvia _Plath_
2. A man of many letters, both figuratively and literally, he was the person to
whom Richard Nixon's letter of resignation was addressed. FTP, name the man who
also received the Nobel Committee's letter awarding him and Le Duc Tho the 1973
Peace Prize.
Answer:
Henry _Kissinger_
3. Trust me, pencil and paper are NOT required. Start with a square of side of
1. Take out from its center a square with area of one-ninth. Divide this
removed segment into ninths. Remove eight squares mutually equidistant from the
center of the main square that each have the same area as one of these "ninths."
If you continue this complicated pattern, the starting square ends up having an
area of zero. FTP, name the Polish mathematician famed for among other things,
this so-called "carpe
Answer:
Waclaw _Sierpinski_
4. Despite a 28-31 major league win-loss record, he is in the Baseball Hall of
Fame. His major league career began in 1949 at the age of 42. But, FTP, name
this athlete who was most likely inducted because of his exploits in the 22
years of pro ball he played prior to 1949.
Answer:
Satchel _Paige_
5. This widow of a victim of Colin Ferguson's Long Island Railroad massacre
became an advocate for gun control and an unlikely congressional election victor
in 1996. A registered Republican, she ran as a Democrat and defeated Rep. Dan
Frisa who had voted to repeal the assault weapons ban. FTP, name the
congresswoman from New York's 4th District.
Answer:
Carolyn _McCarthy_
6. This 1988 film wins the award for the most names in its credits, totaling
over 700. FTP, name this movie which did not include Kathleen Turner's name in
the credit roll, not because of a mistake, but because she didn't want to be
listed.
Answer:
_Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_
7. In one of their more esoteric songs, "They Might Be Giants" encourage you to
"dig him up and shake his hand / appreciate the man. Granted, this is probably
the only song in existence that eulogizes a Belgian Expressionist. FTP, name
this low-key painter of "The Intrigue."
Answer:
James _Ensor_
8. "...[B]ecause it is bitter and because it is my heart" is a phrase from
Stephen Crane's poem "In The Desert." However, the phrase inspired this
versatile author to use it for the title to one of her poetry anthologies. FTP,
name this author acclaimed for short stories such as "Where Are You Going, Where
Have You Been?" and for frequent appearances in the annually-published "Best
American Poetry" series.
Answer:
Joyce Carol _Oates_
9. Considered the second notable event in the life of Siddhartha (sid-AHR-tuh)
Goutama (guh-TAH-muh), the person later known as Buddha was tempted, but not
distracted, by spirits sent by the god Mara (MAH-ruh) during his first
meditation. The tree and marble podium where this occurred are said to still be
present after over 2400 years. FTP, name this modern-day Indian city located in
the province of Bihar (bee-HAR).
Answer:
_Gaya_ (GUY-yuh) or _Bodhgaya_ (BODE-ga-yuh)
10. This former Rhodes Scholar and three-term Senator from South Dakota became
the only incumbent casualty of the 1996 Senate elections. Name this man, FTP,
dubbed by Progressive Magazine as one of the "10 Dimmest Bulbs in Congress" who
lost to Congressman Tim Johnson.
Answer:
Larry _Pressler_
11. In multivariable calculus, the order of integration isn't always easy or
convenient to work out. The French mathematician Cauchy (CO-shee) resolved this
in the 19th Century by determining that the order of variables can be switched
as long as the bounds are switched as well. FTP, name this principle, named for
the Italian who actually proved it in 1907.
Answer:
_Fubini's_ theorem
12. This tiny company spent between 1.2 and 1.3 million dollars for
advertisement during Super Bowl 31. It refers those who stop by its
website to car dealers in their area. These dealers in turn pay the
the referrals. FTP, name the company whose Super Bowl advertisement
narrated by Leonard Nimoy.
Answer:
a 30-second
Internet
company for
was
_Auto-by-Tel_
13. This man is a professor of clinical neurology at the Einstein College of
Medicine at Yeshiva. His commentary and narrative accounts regarding Tourette's
Syndrome and Korsakov's Syndrome are known worldwide. FTP, name this British
neurologist who is the author of "A Leg To Stand On", "Seeing Voices", and "The
Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat".
Answer:
Oliver _Sacks_
14. This Eastern European region probably gained its name from one of the
dynasties of Walachia (vall-AY-key-uh). Later, this area declared its
independence from Russia on January 24, 1918. Within two years, this area was
annexed by Romania. However, FTP, name the region which is currently split
between Moldova and Ukraine.
Answer:
_Bessarabia_
15. All Aztec children went through a rite of passage which involved keeping
them awake for up to 36 hours to ward off evil spirits, the involuntary piercing
of ears with a threaded awl, and the ensuing drunkenness of the families,
including these children. FTP, name this festival that was held every four
years to induct newly-weaned children into formal society.
Answer:
the festival of _Izcalli_
(ees-ka-YEE)
16. A new airport in the city of Masvingo (mahs-VING-oh) might bring
tourists to this ancient site. However, nothing but the ruins of the
the inland empire of the Karanga (ka-RAHNG-uh) people will be waiting
FTP, name the old capital which gave its name to the area the British
Rhodesia.
Answer:
more
center of
for them.
called
Great _Zimbabwe_ (zim-BOB-way)
17. Shirley MacLaine claims not to have understood that this woman's play, "The
Children's Hour," was about lesbianism, even though she starred in it in 1961.
The author of that work also dealt with controversy surrounding the
McCarthyistic backdrop to the 1976 "Scoundrel Time." FTP, name the 1941
recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for "Watch On The Rhine."
Answer:
Lillian _Hellman_
18. "The Get Over Yourself Award" and "The Beautiful, But Evil, Arianna
Huffington," are all aspects of this popular TV show which include four guests
and the host Bill Maher. FTP, name this show which recently moved from Comedy
Central to ABC.
Answer:
_Politically Incorrect_
19. Most of us are probably familiar with Volkswagen's "love of driving"
campaign, better remembered as Fahrfernugen. However, FTP, give the closing
words of the campaign launched in 1996 that began with "On the road of life,
there are passengers and there are drivers...."
Answer:
DRIVERS WANTED
20. The first sport in which women were allowed to compete in at the Olympics
is today the sport in which there are probably more female sports-stars than any
other. FTP, name this sport played by Kimiko Date (dah-TAY), Lindsay Davenport,
and Martina Hingis (HEENG-iss).
Answer:
TENNIS
22. "The White House issued a proclamation today" and "The pot is boiling" are
statements that don't seem to be related at first glance. However, FTP, name
this literary device that has recently changed to describe not only parts
representing a whole, but a whole representing its parts as well.
Answer:
SYNECDOCHE (sin-EK-duh-kee)
BONI
1.
30)
Identify the artist by works 30-20-10.
In Pretense To A Broken Leg
20)
10)
Fountain and Bicycle Wheel
Nude Descending A Staircase
Answer:
Marcel DUCHAMP (doo-SHAHMP)
2. We all know which South American countries do not touch Brazil, but, for
five points each, name six of the seven former Soviet Republics that do not
touch Russia.
Answers:
ARMENIA
MOLDOVA
UZBEKISTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
TADJIKSTAN
LITHUANIA
TURKMENISTAN
3. He started a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I.
His book Eminent Victorians contained famous essays of Cardinal Manning and
Florence Nightingale, among others. His brief style and his disdain for
religion made him famous before his death in 1932. For 20 pts., name this
British author.
Answer:
Lytton STRACHEY
For 10 more points, identify the character who portrayed Lytton Strachey in
1995's "Carrington".
Answer:
Jonathan _Pryce_
4. Figure skating is constantly gaining popularity, but how well do you know
these stars?
For five points, name this Japanese skater who returned from the professionals
to compete in 1996, again attempting to re-land a triple axel, but failing.
Answer:
Midori ITO
For ten points: This American tried nine times to qualify for Worlds, finally
succeeding in 1996 where she skated the same short program as Ito, Stravinsky's
"The Firebird."
Answer:
Tonia KWAITKOWSKI (kwai-ut-KOW-skee)
For fifteen points: In his native language, his last name means "man from
across the city." Name this consistent underdog who came from behind to win the
1995 European Championships with his long program version of "The Nutcracker."
Answer:
5.
Vyacheslav ZAGORODNIUK (za-guh-RODE-nee-uk)
Answer these questions about a 1996 tragedy FTP each.
A. Name the nation in the Indian Ocean where a hijacked jetliner crash-landed
with tragic consequences in 1996.
Answer:
B.
the SEYCHELLES (SAY-shells)
Spell Seychelles.
Answer:
S-E-Y-C-H-E-L-L-E-S
C.
Identify the nationality of the ill-fated jetliner.
Answer:
_Ethiopian_
6. This Nobel-Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago did
ground-breaking work in the field of regulation. He wrote "Economic Theory of
Regulation" which states that interest groups have an inordinate amount of
influence in the regulatory process. First, identify him for twenty points.
Answer:
George STIGLER
For another ten points, identify, within one year, when George Stigler won the
Nobel Prize in Economics.
Answer:
Accept:
7.
_1982_
1981-1983
Answer the following questions on molecular biology for ten points apiece.
A)
These digestive agents are usually isolated from bacterial strains for
which they are named. Name these biological tools which include HindIII (HI-ND-3) and EcoRI (EE-ko-R-1), which also used to cut DNA.
Answer:
RESTRICTION ENZYMES or RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASES
B)
Although restriction enzymes are useful in molecular biology, their
action isn't always in the best interest of most organisms. Name this process
by which a chemical group is added to cytosine to inhibit DNA digestion.
Answer:
METHYLATION
C)
The chemical is the most common means used to stain agarose gels. Its
use has dropped in recent years, however, as it has carcinogenic properties.
Name this reddish stain used to see DNA in gels under ultraviolet light.
Answer:
8.
ETHIDIUM BROMIDE
Name the individual 30-20-10.
30)
He was born David Gruen in 1886 in a part of the Russian empire now
belonging to Poland. During World War I, Turkish officials arrested and
banished him from the Ottoman Empire.
20)
The U.S. and U.K. were cautious of this strong-willed leader who
destroyed American and British property in the 1954 Lavon Affair.
10)
This Zionist statesman retired from politics in 1970, and was the first
prime minister of Israel.
Answer:
David BEN-GURION
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9. Answer the following questions for the stated number of points.
A. For five points, name the 1996 movie that featured scenes with Claire Danes
sporting a pair of angels' wings.
Answer:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET
(accept ROMEO + JULIET)
B. However, this isn't the first time that Danes has worn wings on the screen.
In 1994, she appeared in a music video that involved an ostracized girl. At her
school's homecoming, she was pushed down. When her dress tore, a pair of 'real'
angel wings sprouted from her shoulders. For 10 points, name the artists of
this video.
Answer:
_SOUL ASYLUM_
C. For 15 points, identify the title title of this video, the second release
off of Soul Asylum's album "Let Your Dim Light Shine".
Answer:
_JUST LIKE ANYONE_
10. We've all heard of Beavis and Butthead, but do you know the lesser-known
characters? For ten pts. each, name the character after a brief description.
A)
Gym teacher meets Vietnam vet
Answer:
B)
_Buzzcut_
Wimpy friend of the duo who always tags along
Answer:
C)
_Stewart_
Teacher who's really in touch with his feminine side
Answer:
_Mr. Van Dreisen_
11. Liebniz won out, and the word "derivative" became popular instead of Issac
Newton's choice. For 20 pts., what term did Newton use for derivative that
referred to the flowing of a function?
Answer: FLUXION
Now FTP, spell "fluxion".
Answer: F-L-U-X-I-O-N
12.
Name the author 30-20-10.
30)
Appointed as a secretary to a local ruler, this author of Elective
Affinities often had his own secretary transcribe his dictation into novels.
2)
This German patron of traditional classicism was violently opposed to
the new ideas of romanticism and often parodied them in his many works.
3)
His birthday is still celebrated in his hometown of Weimar (V-EYE-mar).
Name this man, the author of "Faust".
Answer:
13.
Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE (GUR-tuh)
Name the defeated 1996 congressional incumbent for 10 pts. a piece.
A. One of only two Black Republicans in the House, this Connecticut lawmaker
wrote a controversial book on what it was like to be a conservative in the
Congressional Black Caucus.
Answer: Gary FRANKS
B. Known as B-1 Bob, this Californian is still contesting his narrow loss to
Loretta Sanchez.
Answer:
Bob DORNAN
C. A rarity in Utah politics as an elected Democrat, this maverick was one of
three Democratic incumbents to lose in 1996.
Answer:
Bill ORTON
14. First in the mainstream in 1982, this movement is typified by direct
cultural attacks through the use of electronic devices, furniture, and
children's toys. One such artist, Mike Kelley, in his Arena #5, has 2 soiled
E.T. dolls looming over a mutant human doll while a third E.T. doll sits
distantly in the corner of the massive yellow blanket they are all sitting on.
For 30 points, name this movement which also includes artists such as Jeff Koons
and Sherrie Levine.
Answer:
_Neo-Conceptualism_
15. J.R.R. Tolkien is the well-known author of The Lord Of The Rings, a work
actually composed of three books. For ten points each, name these three books.
Answers:
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
THE TWO TOWERS
THE RETURN OF THE KING
16. For five points each, and a five point bonus for all five, given the
pattern, identify the metrical foot described. Give only adjectival forms.
A.
unstressed, unstressed, stressed
Answer:
B.
unstressed, unstressed
Answer:
C.
(PEER-ic)
TROCHAIC
(tro-KAY-ic)
stressed, unstressed, unstressed
Answer:
E.
PYRRHIC
stressed, unstressed
Answer:
D.
ANAPESTIC
DACTYLIC
(DAK-tuh-lic)
stressed, stressed
Answer:
SPONDAIC
(spon-DAY-ic)
17. The kinetic theory of gases relates microscopic properties of gas molecules
to macroscopic qualities. Gas molecules are not always ideal; they travel at a
variety of speeds at a given temperature. For 15 points per word, name each
surname for the non-Gaussian distribution which shows that most probable speed
is lower than the average speed.
Answer:
18.
MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN distribution--(allow 15 pts. for each name given)
Answer the following questions about Hong Kong for 10 points apiece.
A) On this date in 1997, Britain's 99-year-lease of Hong Kong runs out and
control will revert to the People's Republic of China.
Answer:
JULY 1
B)
July 1st will mark the end of how many total years of British rule?
answer within five years of the correct amount will be accepted.
Answer:
An
155 (accept 150-160)
C)
Businessman Tung Chee-Hwa will become the new governor replacing this
vocal critic of the Beijing regime.
Answer:
Chris PATTEN
19. September 1975 was a bizarre month for Gerald Ford.
assassins from the clues given for 15 points apiece.
Name his potential
A) On September 5th in Sacramento, a Secret Service agent grabbed a pistol
aimed at the president by this Charles Manson follower.
Answer:
Lynette "Squeaky" FROMME
B)
On September 22nd, this political activist fired, but missed the
president.
Answer:
20.
Sara Jane MOORE
Given the First Lady's maiden name, give her husband's last name, FTP each.
A)
B)
C)
Ryan
Galt
Wallace
NIXON
WILSON
TRUMAN
21. Military aircraft have often had interesting names. For 10 pts. each, give
the name of the aircraft when given the nickname. For example, Phantom would be
"F-4."
A)
Answer:
B)
Answer:
C)
Stratofortress
B-52
Nighthawk
F-117
Hercules
Answer:
C-130
21. Tensions on this Mediterranean island were rekindled in early 1997 when one
nearby country publicized a plan to install Russian missiles there. Their
rival, which has controlled part of the island since a 1974 invasion, said it
would use military action to prevent the missiles installation. For 10 pts,
name this divided island.
Answer:
CYPRUS
And for ten points each, name the two countries involved in the dispute for
Cyprus.
Answer:
22.
GREECE and TURKEY
Identify the poet, 30-20-10.
30) Born in Worcester (WURST-er), Massachusetts, this author lived in Brazil
for several years and also later served as a poetry consultant in the Library of
Congress.
20) She is famous for poems such as "The Armadillo," "The Man-Moth," and "The
Fish."
10) Her first volume of poetry was reprinted in 1955 as "North and South-A Gold
Spring" and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Answer:
Elizabeth BISHOP
23. This order contains more species of insects than any other, totaling over
40%. For twenty points, name this order which also known in layman's terms as
"The Beetle Order".
Answer:
_Coleoptera_ (co-lee-OP-truh)
For another ten points, spell Coleoptera.
Answer: _C-O-L-E-O-P-T-E-R-A_
Utah Questions
Perpetual Motion IV
January 1997
TOSS-UPS
1. Although not normally associated with criminals, this musical selection was
first performed in a English prison. FTP, name this oratorio written by Handel.
the MESSIAH
2. It's official language is English, although the name of the country is
Spanish. In addition, its capital, St. George's was named by the French. FTP,
name this Caribbean nation invaded by the U.S on October 25, 1983.
GRENADA
3. He was installed by the French as Emperor, Although not of France, but was
captured by rebels in 1867 in Mexico City. He was shortly thereafter ordered
executed by the man who would replace him, Benito Jaurez. FTP, who was this
Austrian Archduke?
Ferdinand MAXIMILLIAN
4. These type of microscopic fossils have caused quite a stir in the scientific
community. Many NASA scientists cite them as proof of life on Mars, although
others claim that they can form abiologically. FTP, give the general name of
these prehistoric bacterial remnants.
STROMATALITES
5. Purportedly written in just over a week, about 5000 times longer than it's
title would suggest, this book follows the exploits of the citizens of Macondo,
most notably the Buendia family, and their isolation from the outside world.
FTP, what is the title of this magical realist work by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez?
100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE
6. It was 18 years in 700 BC, yet by 1980 (in the US) it had increased to 70
years. FTP, what was it?
AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY
7. They believed in the transmigration of souls, had an aversion to beans and
believed that numbers had gender, with odd being male and even female. FTP,
name this society, both a mystical religion and a school of thought, which
claimed that "all is number", founded by a fifth century BC mathematician.
PYTHAGOREANS
8. He was not a mechanic, coal miner, psychiatrist, physicist, scientist,
escalator, magician, fish peddler, bricklayer, or moon shuttle conductor, as he
told Jim many times. FTP, name this cantankerous doctor on a five year mission.
dr. (BONES) McCOY (Accept Bones or McCoy)
9. Since it was written, critics have argued about whether it was meant to be
read as a work by a "moral monster," a satire, an attack on the moral guides of
the day, or an appeal for a united Italy. FTP, give the title of this pragmatic
1513 work by a Florentine statesman.
The PRINCE (by Machiavelli)
10. Nearly all codons are groups of three messenger RNA bases that are
translated into amino acids. FTP, UAA, UAG, and UGA are the only three codons
of what type?
STOP codons (they produce no amino acids, but halt the production)
11. First published in 1858, it was renamed and published for the first time
under it's present name in 1901. Despite it's age, it is still considered a
current text-book for all medical students, and is now in it's 29th edition.
FTP, give the current title of this work which features detailed hand-drawn
pictures of the organs, muscles and bones of the human body.
GRAY'S ANATOMY
12. The anatomical song, "Dem Bones" was inspired by his account of the vision
of the valley of dry bones in the 37th chapter of this prophet's book. FTP
name this old Testament prophet, the son of Buzi.
EZEKIEL
13. The letters FTP are used in college bowl to mean "For Ten Points," but
internet aficionados understand them to mean what instead?
File Transfer Protocol
14. Created in 1879, its mission has been to investigate, analyze and
disseminate earth science information to the public. However, it is probably
best known for topographical 'quad' maps it puts out. FTP, what is this branch
of the department of the Interior.
USGS or UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
15. In Japan, avid participants usually have insurance against it, because it
is believed that one must celebrate and share with his/her partners when good
luck hits, which can often cost over 10000 yen. Duffers elsewhere on the
planet, pray for it to happen at least once in their life. FTP, what is this
thing that statisticians say has 300,000 to 1 odds against happening.
A HOLE IN ONE
16. "Treat people in your debt like family, exploit them." "What's mine is
mine, and what's yours is mine too." "Anything worth doing is worth doing for
money." and "Good customers are as rare as Latinum: treasure them." are some of
the nearly 300 "Rules of Acquisition" of, FTP, what greedy alien race?
FERENGI
17. Most diet fads come from strange sources, but the most recent one is from
the scientific community. FTP, give the name of the drug which has sparked the
latest 'urge to purge.'
PHEN-FEN
18. This town became a major cloth-weaving center in the Middle Ages and with
Brugge and Ghent it controlled Flanders in the 13th century. At that time it had
80,000 people, but by 1383 due to an English siege during the Hundred Years' War
it's population had dwindled to 5,000. This town is more well-noted as the first
site where Germans used poison gas. FTP name this Belgian town, the site of
three major battles in World War I.
YPRES
19. In 1945, world leaders met at the castle Sans Souci (SAHN SOO-SEE) in this
city. FTP, name the hometown of Frederick the Great which is also the capital
of the German state of Brandenburg.
Answer:
POTSDAM
20. "Run," "Redux," "Is Rich," and "At Rest" are all parts of titles of novels
by the author of "The Witches Of Eastwick" and "Pigeon Feathers". FTP, give the
first word common to the series of John Updike novels.
Answer:
RABBIT
BONUS QUESTIONS
1. For 5 points each, give the name of the TV network which give gives annual
awards for athletic performances, the acronymic name of the award, and the four
words from which they derive the name.
ESPN, ESPY, Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly
2.
Name this prolific writer 30-20-10.
a) Some of his novels include the Lonesome Gods, Silver Canyon, and The
Walking Drum.
b) His autobiography was published posthumously in 1989 and is
Education of a Wandering Man.
titled
c) 17 of his books portray and follow a fictional family, the Sacketts
16th-17th century England to the post-Civil War US.
from
Louis L'AMOUR
3. The piano, trombone, clarinet, trumpet, and drums are all prominent
instruments of the big band era. For 5 points each, give me the instrument
played by the following artists.
Pete Fountain-- clarinet
Gene Krupa-- drums
Duke Ellington-- piano
Count Basie-- piano
Glen Miller-- Trombone
Harry James-- trumpet
4. For 5 points each, give the name of the fictional island whose name
literally translates as 'no place' and the author who wrote about it.
Utopia, Sir Thomas MORE
For ten points, on Utopia, what were the slaves chains made of?
GOLD
For another ten points, who was the sailor/scholar who supposedly told More all
about the nation of Utopia?
Raphael HYTHLODAY (or NONSENSO)
5.
For ten points each, given the players on a NHL team, name the team.
a)
Robert Reichel, Theo (TAY-oh) Fleury, Jarome Iginla.
_Calgary_ or _Flames_
b)
Geoff Sanderson, Andrew Cassels, Keith Primeau
_Hartford_ or _Whalers_
c)
Jason Dawe, Dixon Ward, Matthew Barnaby
_Buffalo_ or _Sabres_
6. Answer the following questions about distillation FTP each.
A. In this form of simple distillation, a liquid is passed from a vessel
maintained at a high pressure to one kept at a lower pressure.
Answer:
_flash_ distillation
B. This type of distillation involve chemical changes, usually decomposition.
An example is the making of methanol from wood chips.
Answer:
_destructive_ distillation
C. In this type, some of the distillate is returned to the still, where it
enriches the vapor being condensed.
Answer:
_rectification_
7. Identify the following authors on a 15-5 basis.
A. (15 pts) She began editing the children's magazine "St. Nicolas" from its
inception in 1873.
(5 pts) Her most famous story is "Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates"
Answer:
Mary Elizabeth Mapes _Dodge_
B. (15 pts) His scholarly work includes 1879's "Euclid and His Modern Rivals"
and his humourous pamphlets on university affairs were collected into 1874's
"Notes by an Oxford Chiel".
(5 pts) His most famous works are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "The
Hunting of the Snark"
Answer:
Lewis _Carroll_ (Charles Lutwidge _Dodgson_)
8. Answer the following questions about electromagnetism for the stated number
of points.
A. (10 pts) You are given a long solenoid. Ignoring end effects, the magnetic
field inside the solenoid depends on only two variables. For five points each,
what are these two variables.
Answer:
_number of windings_ per unit length; _current_ in the wire
B. (5 pts) A charged particle moves through a magnetic field but no force is
exerted on the particle. For five points, what can be said about the motion of
the particle with respect to the field.
Answer:
_parallel_ to each other
C. (10 pts) For ten points, identify the Danish scientist who in 1820 discovered
that currents produce magnetic fields
Answer:
Hans Christian _Orsted_ (_Oersted_)
D. (5 pts) This law states that the current induced by a magnetic field gives
rise to a magnetic flux that opposes the original magnetic flux change. For
five points, name it.
Answer:
_Lenz_'s Law
9. Identify the following works of Fyodor Dostoevsky FTP each.
A. His first novel, it tells of a poor, elderly clerk's struggle for
respectability while concealing his love for an orphan girl. It earned high
praise from critic Vissarion Belinsky.
Answer:
_"Poor Folk"_
B. A fictionalized acccount of his own imprisonment, it relates the memoirs of a
man condemned for murdering his wife.
Answer:
_"Notes from the House of the Dead"_ ("The _House of the Dead"_)
C. In this novel, the main character Raskolnikov is led to murder by a belief
that humanitarian ends justify evil means. Other characters include his wife
Marmeladov and the prostitute Sonya.
Answer: _"Crime and Punishment"_
Perpetual Motion IV
January 1997
Packet by Iowa State University
Toss-Ups
1. Begin by standardizing notation - here, the symbols generally used are U, D,
R, L, F, and B. Next, choose a color. Then, align the edge pieces so that the
face with the chosen color at its center now displays a "plus" constructed from
the color. After the edges are correct, move the corner pieces such that one
face shows only the previously chosen color. FTP, this describes the beginning
to the solution of what eighties toy craze?
Answer:
_Rubik's cube_
2. Part of the eastern border of this U.S. state follows the flow of the Tug
Fork of the Big Sandy River. Home to such historical places as Fort
Boonesborough and the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History, this state was the
15th to enter the Union. FTP, name this state nicknamed "The Bluegrass State".
Answer: _Kentucky_
3. Usually made from diodes arranged in such a way that current flows in one
direction only, this type of switch is needed in all electronic equipment
plugged into an alternating current power supply. FTP, name this device, used to
convert alternating current to direct current.
Answer: _Rectifier_
4. First used widely in the early 1700's by a Cambridge, Massachusetts farmer to
express the idea of excellence, no one is entirely certain of its origin. Some
think it is derived from a Scottish word meaning a sharp and clever woman while
others believe that it has a Dutch origin, coming from the common Dutch names
Jan and Cornelis. FTP, what is this word which is used by Europeans as a name
for American soldiers and identifies the 1996 World Series champions.
Answer: _Yankee_
5. It is a design cut into stone or other material, or etched or engraved in a
metal plate, producing a concave effect that is the reverse of cameo. FTP, name
this printing technique.
Answer:
_intaglio_
6. A physician by profession, he gained infamous notoriety after his switch to
politics. First elected president in 1957 with the backing of the army, he
declared himself president for life in 1964 and his regime became known as a
brutal reign of terror. Upon his death in 1971, he was succeeded by his son
Jean-Claude, also known as "Baby Doc". FTP, name this Haitian dictator.
Answer:
Francois "Papa Doc" _Duvalier_
7. As a professor at the University of Gottingen, he devised a method for
isolating aluminum that he also used to isolate beryllium and yttrium. He also
made significant contributions to the understanding of the chemistry of
metabolism but is best known for his synthesis of urea from inorganic reagents.
FTP, name this German chemist.
Answer:
Friedrich _Wohler_
8. It supposedly had no color, no odor, no taste and no weight and was
hypothesized by Johann Becher to be present in all flammable materials until its
existence was refuted by Antoine Lavoisier in the late 18th century. FTP, name
this fictitious substance.
Answer:
_phlogiston_
9. Of the eleven most recently discovered, ten were found by Landon Curt Noll,
David Slowinski, John Brown, Sergio Zarantonello, Paul Gage, and each of their
various research assistants. The latest, discovered by a T90 series
supercomputer during one of its shakedown tests, can be expressed as two raised
to the one million, two hundred fifty seven thousand, seven hundred eightyseventh power - minus one. The special form of this 378,632-digit number also
allowed researchers to find the thirty-f
Answer:
Mersenne _prime_ numbers
10. It began from a suggestion by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and its first
organizing meeting, in March, 1919, was called the Paris Caucus. One of its
greatest accomplishments came during the depressions of the early 1920's and
30's, when over 1,000 posts received certificates of honor for helping keep
local schools running despite budget cuts. Today, this group sponsors youth
baseball leagues and Boys State, and its auxiliary sponsors Girls State. FTP,
name this veterans' organization with alm
Answer:
_American Legion_
11. This organization, founded in 1971, initially contained the Peace Corps,
but the Peace Corps became independent in 1982. Today, its largest program is
the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, which coordinates the work of elderly
volunteers. Other programs include Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA),
Student Service Learning, and the Volunteer Drug Abuse Prevention Program. FTP,
name this governmental agency charged with directing the efforts of over 400,000
people in the volunteer pr
Answer:
_ACTION_
12. It measures anywhere from 7 to 12 feet in length and is made of long wooden
staves tightly bound with birchbark strips to create an airtight tube. It is
played with a cup-shaped wooden mouthpiece and its crude construction causes an
irregular pitch. FTP, identify this instrument, included by Rossini in the
opera "William Tell" and featured in a Ricola commercial.
Answer:
_alpenhorn_ (_alphorn_)
13. His early poetic works, including 1917's "Over the Barriers" and 1922's "My
Sister Life" reflected his Symbolist influences. Unable to publish from 1933-43
due to Soviet censors, he was saved from the purges of the 30's only because he
had translated poems from Stalin's native Georgia. His most famous work was not
formally published in his homeland for 29 years because "it represented in a
libelous manner the October Revolution [and] the people who made it", but won
him the Nobel Prize any
Answer:
Boris Leonidovich _Pasternak_
Answer:
_Passion_ play
15. Also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, it was fought between 11,000
Union troops under General Curtis and 16,000 Confederates under Generals Van
Dorn, Price, and McCulloch. Although the Confederate troops initially held the
upper hand, they were ultimately forced to retreat and abandon hopes of
regaining Arkansas. FTP, identify the March, 1862, battle in Arkansas.
Answer:
Battle of _Pea Ridge_
16. This novel ends with the question, "Po-tee-weet?" Among the people to die in
this book are Roland Weary, Edgar Derby, and a forty-year-old hobo, and "So it
goes." The 1966 work, sub-subtitled "A Duty-Dance with Death," centers on lead
character's stay in a Tralmafadorian zoo, his career as an optometrist in
Illium, New York, and his time as a chaplain's assistant in the U.S. Army during
World War II. FTP, name this Kurt Vonnegut novel which focuses on Billy Pilgrim
and describes the fire-b
Answer:
_"Slaughterhouse-Five"_
17. Recently, this country started "The Food Culture Improvement Campaign"
designed to reduce food waste, which may account for as much as half of all the
garbage in this Asian nation. Efforts include tax breaks for restaurants
meeting certain goals, prizes to employees cleaning their plates in company
cafeterias, and the introduction of doggie bags.
with capital at Seoul.
Answer:
FTP, identify this nation,
_South Korea_
18. Although a scientist, he won Pulitzer, Emmy, and Peabody awards. Working
with James Pollack and Richard Goldstein in the 1960's, he showed that the dark
lines on Mars were due to extremely violent winds and not vegetation growth, and
that the temperature of Venus was around 800 degrees Fahrenheit. FTP, identify
this astronomer who died in December, 1996, whose name is probably known by
"billions and billions" of people.
Answer:
Carl Edward _Sagan_
19. The chapters are divided into 4 sections titled "Feathers from a Thousand
Li Away", "The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates", "American Translation", and "Queen
Mother of the Western Skies" and though the novel is about lives of 8 women,
only 7 are narrators. FTP, name this Amy Tan novel.
Answer:
"The _Joy Luck Club"_
20. He portrayed Aaron Stempel in the TV series "Here Come the Brides" and
appeared in the movie "The Greatest Story Ever Told", but it was for his work on
Star Trek where he portrayed all three major alien races, Romulan, Klingon, and
Vulcan, that he gained his greatest fame. Leonard Nimoy said of him: "We're
not far apart in age, so it says something about his strength of character that
he could play my father." FTP, identify this actor noted for his role as Sarek,
Spock's father.
Answer:
Mark _Lenard_
21. Erik's torture chamber, the decision making tools of bronze grasshopper or
scorpion, and the characters of the Persian and Comte Philippe de Chagny all
occur in the Gaston Leroux novel but not in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
version. FTP, identify this work.
Answer:
"The _Phantom of the Opera"_
22. The name of this religion means "the way of the kami," with no precise
English equivalent of kami. It has three modern types: Shrine, Sect, and Folk,
which cover different areas. FTP, name this loose system of beliefs and
attitudes, the national religion of Japan.
Answer:
_Shinto_
23. "On January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing
in "Faust" at the Academy of Music in New York," begins this novel which goes on
to describe the life of Newland Archer as he falls in love with Countess Ellen
Olenska as he marries May Welland. FTP, name this 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel by Edith Wharton.
Answer:
"The _Age of Innocence_"
24. Elected pope in 1503, he personally led armies in the conquest of Perugia
and Bologna. An important patron of the arts, he commissioned Donato Bramante
to design the new St. Peter's Church and also employed Raphael. FTP, name this
pope, who also commissioned Michelangelo to decorate the Sistine Chapel with
frescoes.
Answer:
_Julius II_ or Giuliano della _Rovere_
25. Greek poet Christos Halazias said about him, "Though [he] cares little about
British literature, his works are what T.S. Eliot meant about poetry--a second
sight, a prophecy." A psychiatrist by profession, his collection of poems, "Of
Unmentioned Years and Other Poems", was a top-seller in Greece this Christmas.
His literary side probably seems strange to many Americans as he has twice been
indicted for crimes against humanity by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. FTP,
identify this man, t
answer:
Radovan _Karadzic_
Bonuses
1. For five points each, name the founders of following religious groups.
A. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Answer:
Joseph _Smith_
B. Hasidism
Answer:
_Ba'al Shem Tov_
C. Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist
Answer:
Mary Baker _Eddy_
D. Presbyterianism
Answer:
John _Knox_
E. Sikhism
Answer:
Guru _Nanak_
F. Society of Friends
Answer:
George _Fox_
2. "Star Trek: First Contact" brings back the Borg as the bad guys. FTP each,
name these characters from the show who weren't in the movie, but were involved
with the Borg.
A. He brought the Borg into the Alpha Quadrent.
Answer:
_Q_
B. A member of the Borg who was used by the crew to implant a computer virus to
disrupt the Borg collective and named by the crew.
Answer:
_Hugh_
C. Data's brother who took control of the disrupted Borg after Hugh was returned
and briefly gave Data emotions.
Answer:
3.
_Lore_
FTP each, name these islands of the East Indies from a brief description.
A. It contains the Indonesian provinces of Sarawak and Sabah and the sultanate
of Brunei.
Answer:
_Borneo_
B. The western half of this island contains the Indonesian province of Irian
Jaya.
Answer:
_New Guinea_ (DO NOT accept "Papua New Guinea")
C. The city of Makassar is located on this very unusually shaped island located
just east of Borneo.
Answer:
_Celebes_
(_Sulawesi_)
4. 30-20-10, name the collection of stories from the stories contained within
it.
30: "The Story of the Husband and the Parrot"
20: "The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni"
10: "The Story of Es-Sindibad of the Sea and Es-Sindibad of the Land"
Answer:
"The _Thousand and One Nights"_ (_"Thousand and One Arabian Nights"_)
(_"Arabian Nights"_)
5. Given a Cabinet post, identify both the holder of that post on Election Day,
1996 and the person nominated by Clinton in December, 1996 to replace the
current holder for five points each. Please specify which is which.
A. Secretary of State
Answer:
Warren _Christopher_ (holder); Madeleine _Albright_ (nominated)
B. Secretary of Transportation
Answer:
Federico _Pena_ (holder); Rodney _Slater_ (nominated)
C. Secretary of Energy
Answer:
Hazel _O'Leary_ (holder); Federico _Pena_ (nominated)
6. In one of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dr. Watson mentioned other literary
detectives. Answer the following questions FTP each.
A. The novel in which this incident occurred, the same where Holmes and Watson
are introduced.
Answer:
_"A Study in Scarlet"_
B. Edgar Allen Poe's detective, whose three short stories created the detective
fiction genre.
Answer:
C. Auguste _Dupin_
C. Emile Gaboriau's detective creation who appeared in _L'Affaire Leronge_ and
four other novels.
Answer:
Monsieur _Lecoq_
7. FTP each, given a capital city, name the country.
A. Bamako
Answer: _Mali_ or _R‚publique du Mali_
B. Doha
Answer: _Qatar_ or _Dawlet al-Qatar_
C. Freetown
Answer: _Sierra Leone_
8. FTP each--given three characters, name the book in which they appear:
A. Victor, Elizabeth Lavenza, Justine Moritz
Answer: _"Frankenstein"_
("The _Modern Prometheus"_)
B. Alan Breck Stewart, Ebenezer Balfour, David Balfour
Answer: _"Kidnapped"_
C. Kelly Riker, Bruiser Stone, Rudy Baylor
Answer: _"The Rainmaker"_
9. Identify the following works from composer Alban Berg FTP each.
A. His first opera, it was based on a Gerog Buchner drama and first performed in
1925. It led one reviewer to write, "I had the sensation of having been not in
a public theatre but in an insane asylum."
Answer:
_"Wozzeck"_
B. His only other opera, it was left incomplete upon his death and was not
performed until 1979.
Answer:
_"Lulu"_
C. A work for a string quartet in the 12-tone system, all of the metronome
markings and measure totals for each movement are multiples of either 23 or 10.
Answer:
_"Lyric Suite"_
10. Given a statistical category, identify the Division I-A football player who
led the nation in that category in 1996. You will receive five points for
correctly identifying the player and an additional five points for naming his
school.
A. Rushing yards per game
Answer:
Troy _Davis_, _Iowa State_ University of
Science and Technology
B. Passing efficiency
Answer:
Steve _Sarkisian_, _Brigham Young_ University (_BYU_)
C. Interceptions
Answer:
Dre' _Bly_, University of _North Carolina_-Chapel Hill
11. Given a current or former Cabinet post, identify the first person to hold
that post FTP each.
A. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953
Answer:
Oveta Culp _Hobby_
B. Secretary of Defense, 1947
Answer:
James V. _Forrestal_
C. Attorney General, 1789
Answer:
Edmund _Randolph_
12. Given a description, identify the type of gait that a horse uses when moving
FTP each.
A. A four-beat gait, the horse lifts one foot after another and puts it down in
the same order.
Answer:
_walk_
B. Used in harness racing, in this gait the horse moves the legs on the same
side of its body at the same time.
Answer:
_pace_
C. A three-beat gait, in which a forefoot strikes the ground on the first beat,
the other forefoot and opposite hind leg strike on the second beat, and the
other hind leg strikes on the third beat. With done fast with a leap in the
middle, it is called a gallop.
Answer:
_canter_
13. Answer the following questions about historians and the study of history for
the stated number of points.
A. (5 pts) Often called the "Father of History", he wrote his account of the
Greek-Persian Wars based on interviews of the participants.
Answer:
_Herodotus_
B. (10 pts) Often called the "Father of Modern History", this German of the 19th
century introduced the use of seminars to teach future historians and developed
methods to analyze documents.
Answer:
Leopold von _Ranke_
C. (10 pts) The uses of statistical methods to interpret data from sources such
as old censuses or account books is referred to by this name.
Answer:
_cliometrics_
D. (5 pts) The writing of history comprises this field.
Answer:
_historiography_
14. Identify the following composer 30-20-10.
(30 pts) Among the books on music that he authored are "Grand Treatise on Modern
Instrumentation and Orchestration" and "The Conductor: The Theory of His Art".
(20 pts) Among his operas are "The Trojans" and "Beatrice and Benedict".
(10 pts) His more famous symphonies include "Romeo and Juliet" and "Symphonie
fantastique".
Answer:
Louis-Hector _Berlioz_
15. Given a brief description of the body part of an ant, identify it FTP each.
A.
The large end part of an ant, it contains the crop, stomach, and stinger.
Answer:
_gaster_
B. Located behind the head and trunk, it consists of the waist and the gaster.
Answer:
_metasoma_
C. Tiny openings along the side of the body through which the any breathes.
Answer:
_spiracles_
16. Answer the following questions about Hitler's Cabinet as chancellor in last
days of the Weimar Republic FTP each.
A. Formerly president of the Reichstag, he became minister of the interior for
Prussia upon Hitler's rise to chancellor.
Answer:
Hermann _Goring_ (_Goering_)
B. As national minister of the interior, he and Goring were the only Nazis in
Hitler's original Cabinet.
Answer:
Wilhelm _Frick_
C. A former chancellor, from June 1 to December 4, 1932,
chancellor.
Answer:
he served as vice
Franz von _Papen_
17. FTP each, given a hormone, identify the gland from which it is secreted.
A. glucagon
Answer:
_pancreas_
B. follicle stimulating hormone
Answer:
_pituitary_ gland
C. calcitonin
Answer:
_thyroid_ gland
18. FTP apiece, given an event, name the book of the Bible in which it
place.
takes
A. Lot's two daughters have sex with him on successive nights
Answer:
_Genesis _
B. David slays Goliath
Answer:
_1 Samuel_
C. The Holy Ghost appears in the form of tongues of flame above the heads
the disciples
Answer:
of
_Acts_ of the Apostles
19. FTP each, name the three grandsons of Charlemagne, who in 843 divided up his
kingdom in the Treaty of Verdun.
Answer:
_Charles I_ (_Charles the Bald_), _Lothair I_, _Louis the German_
20. 30-20-10, name the artist from works.
(30 pts) "The Mall"
(20 pts) "Perdita"
(10 pts) "The Blue Boy"
Answer:
Thomas _Gainsborough_
21. FTP each, given an election year, identify the candidate that received the
second most electoral votes in that election.
A. 1884
Answer:
B. 1860
James G. _Blaine_
Answer:
John C. _Breckinridge_
C. 1824
Answer: John _Q_uincy _Adams_
Wichita State University "Freeze Your Buzz Off"
February 1, 1997
Questions by Oklahoma, Team Juan
Toss-ups:
1) Its cardinal concept is the ineffable, eternal creative reality which is the
source and end of all things. It became established in the Warring States
period, from 481-221 BC. In modern times, this philosophy has become fragmented
into 2 sections, the lackheads and Redheads, who differ on adherence to the
philosophy. FTP, name this way of life whose founding member was Lao-Tzu.
_Taoism_ or _Daoism_
2) Write down the sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24. Add 4 to each term, and then divide
each term by 10. Interestingly, these results correspond to the semimajor axes
of the planets. FTP, what is the name of this "law", dismissed by many
scientists as being merely a coincidence, which purports to account for
distances between planets?
_Bode's_ Law or _Titius-Bode_ Law
3) He printed the first book in the English Language, as well as the first book
printed in England. He also published first editions of La Morte D'Arthur and
The Canterbury Tales, and produced the first printed advertisement in English.
FTP, name this Englishman who studied printing in Germany before building
England's first printing press.
William _Cantor_
4) Doyle Lonigan is the villain. Henry Gandorf is the expert grifter, and Twist
is a resourceful man for accomplishing odd jobs. FTP, name 1973's Academy Award
winner for Best Picture, in which almost everyone has a really cool hat.
_The Sting_
5) Born with the surname Gorska in Warsaw in 1890, she came from a wealthy
family and married an attorney in 1916. They emigrated to Paris in 1918 where
she began receiving art lessons from Andre Lhote and Maurice Denis. She
exhibited her works at the first ArtDeco exhibition in Paris, but then emigrated
to the United States, where she lived until her death in 1980. FTP, name this
artist whose works include Spring, Sleeping Woman and The Girls.
Tamara _de Lempicka_
6)
Pasiphae, Sinope, Himalia, Elara, Thebe and Callisto are, FTP all moons
of which planet?
_Jupiter_
7) Marquette and Joliet were the first to reach this place, and permanent
settlement didn't begin there until the 1830's. Most of it became American land
in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, and the rest was purchased from the Sauk
and Fox Indians. It became the 29th state admitted to the Union in 1846.
FTP,
name this state, home to the towns of Pella, Davenport, and the Amana Colonies.
_Iowa_
8)
Its prologue begins with speeches by the archangels Raphael, Gabriel and
Michael; its first part with the main character's soliloquy; and its second part
with a song by Ariel. FTP, name this drama with such scene titles as "Mountain
Gorges", "Gretchen's Room" and "Walpurgis Night's Dream"
_Faust_
9)
He was born in Shawinigan, Quebec in 1934 and attended the Law School at
Laval University in Quebec. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1958, and soon
after was elected Vice President of the Liberal Students of Canada. He was
elected to the House of Commons in 1963, and became minister of finance in 1977.
FTP, name this Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
Jean _Chretien_
10) The seat of Monroe County, Brighton, Gates and Fairport are some of its
suburbs. It was settled in 1817 and attracted numerous millers eager to set up
shop on the Genesee River. Eventually they moved west, and the city became
known for its flowers, especially its lilacs. Today the city is known as "The
Flower City" and "The World's Image Centre". FTP, name this city, home of Bausch
& Lomb and Eastman Kodak, and former home of Xerox.
_Rochester, New York_ (prompt on Rochester)
11) Born in Pittsburgh in 1844, this artist attended the Pennsylvania Academy
of Art in Philadelphia. Afterwards, she emigrated to Paris where she became a
close acquaintance of Degas and a friend of impressionism. Her subject matter
leaned more to the domestic & intimate, rather than society. FTP, name this
artist of Lady at the Teatable and The Bath.
Mary _Cassatt_
12) This chemical is the most important alkaloid of cinchona bark. It was first
synthesized in the lab in 1944, and it is occasionally used as a fever-reducer
and analgesic. Prolonged use, however, can create
deafness and blindness. Its most common use is to combat malaria. FTP, name this
chemical.
_Quinine_
13) Although not its country's national book, this book is composed of nearly
700 poems and ballads, and reflects the everyday joys and sorrows of the Finnish
people including their philosophical and religious beliefs. First compiled by
Elias Lonnrotin 1840, historians believe some of the poems contained here may be
thousands of years old, and the book itself serves as a reference to Finnish
history. FTP, name this book, a companion work to the Kalevala.
_Kanteletar_
14)
This country has the distinction of having the highest tax rate in the
world. Europe's 5th largest country, its borders enclose over 160,000 lakes. The
population is 90% Lutheran, and its legislature is made up of two houses, the
Lagting and Odelsting. FTP, name this country whose current monarch is King
Harald V.
_Norway_
15) He was educated at the Doon School and received an engineering degree from
the University of Cambridge. In 1968 he became a commercial pilot for his
country's airlines. In 1980 his younger brother, an active politician, was
killed in a plane crash, so his mother encouraged him to pursue politics. He
agreed, winning a post to the lower parliament. In 1984, after his mother was
assassinated, he took the post of prime minister. FTP name this Indian Prime
Minister who was assassinated in 1991.
_Rajiv Gandhi_
(prompt on Gandhi)
16) He was a catcher for both the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays and
was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was praised by such legends
as Walter Johnson for his fine catching skills. It is believed that his career
batting average was .347, that he led the league in home runs 10 times, and that
he hit over 800 home runs total. However no one will ever know, since this
legend played in the Negro Leagues. FTP, name him.
Josh _Gibson_
17) The surname's the same: The first British governor of Quebec, co-winner of
the 1990 Nobel Prize for Medicine, the 9th and 14th governors of Oklahoma, the
head of the CIO after Lewis, and the longest permanently-running river in
Australia. FTP, give the common name.
_Murray_
18) An Indiana native, he served as a major-general in the Civil war and helped
prevent the capture of Washington by Early's troops. He was also a lawyer, state
Senator and U.S. minister to Turkey, but is remembered primarily as an author.
FTP, name New Mexico's territorial governor, the author of Ben-Hur.
Lew _Wallace_
19) Chocolate Grinder No. 1, Bicycle Wheel, Large Glass and Fountain are all
works by, FTP, what Frenchmen best-known for Nude Descending A Staircase?
Marcel _Duchamp_
20) He was born in Houston, Texas and educated at the California Institute of
Technology as well as the Rice Institute of Technology. He left school at age 17
to take over his fathers tool company, and moved to Hollywood in 1926. He became
a producer of such works as The Outlaw and Scarface. A part owner of RKO
Industries, he eventually fell into seclusion. FTP, name this famous pilot and
recluse.
Howard _Hughes_
21) 6,000 years ago, Mt. Mazama rose to over 12,000 feet. However, an eruption
destroyed the upper portion, forming a volcanic caldera. Wizard Island is a
remnant of a lesser outbreak, and is a cinder cone which lies on the caldera
floor. For ten points, name this lake, home of a National Park in Oregon.
_Crater Lake_ National Park
Bonuses:
1)
Name the artist from works, 30-20-10
a)
b)
c)
Cure of Folly
The Temptation of St. Anthony
The Haywain
Hieronymous or Jerome _Bosch_
2)
For five points each name these Shakespearean characters.
a)
Katherine's sister in Taming of the Shrew
_Bianca_
b)
The rich heiress in Merchant of Venice
_Portia_
c)
Queen of the Fairies and wife of Oberon in Midsummer Night=92s Dream
_Titian_
d)
Daughter of the banished Duke in As You Like It
_Rosalind_
e)
Now, FTP, what other common bond do these Shakespearean characters share?
_Moons of Uranus_
3) For five points each, and a five point bonus, given the highest point in a
U.S. state, name the state.
a)
Mt. Washington
_New Hampshire_
b)
Mt. Mitchell
_North Carolina_
c)
Wheeler Peak
_New Mexico_
d)
Borah Peak
_Idaho_
e)
Mt. Marcy
_New York_
4)
For fifteen points each, name the Greeks.
a) The son of Prometheus, he constructed an ark to avoid the flood and landed
on Mount Parnassas. He was the mythical ancestor of the Hellenic people.
_Deucalion_
b) King of the Ethiopians who assisted his uncle Priam against the Greeks only
to be slain by Achilles.
_Memnon_
5) Obscure bonus
atmospheric mood,
into their music.
their songs, name
a)
Moonspell,
time! Gothic and black music incorporate intensity with an
and bands in this genre often incorporate traditional sounds
For five points each, given the band and the title of one of
the European country from which they hail.
"Trebraruna"
(tray-brah-ROO-nah)
_Portugal_
b)
Novembre, "Dream of the Old Boats"
_Italy_
c)
Septic Flesh, "Mythos"
_Greece_
d) Kvist (kuh- VEIST),
VEE-kay)
"For Kunsten Ma Evig Vike"
(For KOON-sten mah EH-vig
_Norway_
e)
Therion, "Lepaca Kliffoth"
(lay-PAH-ka
CLIFF-oth)
_Sweden_
f)
Primordial, "The Wrath of the Shannon"
_Ireland_
6)
Given a date and the states it affected, name the hurricane FTP each.
a) 1992; South Florida and Louisiana
_Andrew_
b) 1991; Long Island and Massachusetts
_Bob_
c) 1995; Florida Panhandle
_Opal_
7)
Name the artist, 30-20-10.
a) This artist suffered from alcoholism early in his life and suffered a
nervous breakdown in his 20's.
b)
This 20th century painter is known for such works as Bird and
c)
Action painting is attributed to him.
White Light.
Jackson _Pollock_
8) Vitamins can be sub-divided into two categories: water-soluble and fatsoluble. Consider the Vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and K. With five points for each
correct placement, place each vitamin in its correct group.
Water-Soluble:
_B, C_
Fat-Soluble:
_A, D, E, K_
9)
Name the following physics rules and terms, ten points each.
a) One of his rules states that the sum of the currents entering any junction
must equal the sum of the currents leaving that junction.
_Kirchhoff_'s Rule
b) This type of diffraction occurs when rays reaching a viewing screen are
approximately parallel.
_Fraunhofer_ diffraction
c) This force on a charged particle is related to the electric and magnetic
fields surrounding the particle.
_Lorentz_ Force
10)
Name the President, 30-20-10
a) He was known for the ability to simultaneously write in Latin with one hand
and in Greek with the other hand.
b) Serving in the House of Representatives, he became known for attempting to
open up relations with Latin America. A deeply religious man, he embraced the
philosophy of the Disciples of Christ.
c) He only served four months in office before being assassinated by a
disgruntled position-seeker.
James _Garfield_
11) The World Hockey Association was in existence from 1972-1979. After the
league folded, four teams were adopted into the NHL. First, for five points
each, name them.
_Hartford_ or _Whalers_, _Edmonton_ or _Oilers_, _Quebec_ or
_Nordiques_, _Winnipeg_ or _Jets_
These four teams applied for admission for the NHL in 1977. However two other
cities that had applied in 1977 never made it to the NHL. For five points each,
name the two cities.
_Houston_ and _Cincinnati_
12) Answer the following questions about lightning for the stated number of
points.
a) (5) Of the contiguous 48 states, this state receives the most lightning
strikes.
_Florida_
b) (10) When a negative charge near the bottom of a cloud becomes large enough
to overcome the ir's resistance, a flow of electrons rushes toward the earth.
FTP, name the term for this flow of electrons.
_Stepped leader_
c) (15) After the downward flow of electrons meets the upward surge of positive
charge, a strong electric current carries positive charge upward into the cloud.
For fifteen points, name this electric current.
_Return stroke_
13) Given the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director and the year,
name the movie, for five points apiece.
a)
George Stevens, 1958
_Giant_
b)
Robert Burton, 1979
_Kramer vs. Kramer_
c)
Leo McCarey, 1937
_The Awful Truth_
d)
Sir Carol Reed, 1968
_Oliver!_
e)
John Ford, 1935
_The Informer_
f)
Elia Kazan, 1947
_Gentlemen's Agreement_
14)
Give the common family name, 30-20-10
a) Sister Laura edited children's literature anthologies and wrote In Love With
Time and The Hidden Valley.
b) Brother William edited The Reader's Encyclopedia and won the Pulitzer for
The Dust Which is God.
c) Brother Stephen won two Pulitzers---one for Western Star and the other for
an epic poem about the Civil War.
_Benet_
15) Oh, the wonderful world of literary devices! FTP each, give the term from a
definition.
a)
a speech to someone absent as if he were present, not a punctuation mark.
_Apostrophe_
b)
pause indicated by a comma, period, or other punctuation mark.
_Caesuna_
c) word that refers to two or more words in a sentence, when properly applying
in sense to either one of them.
_Zeugma_
16) As we all know, the final battle of the Norse gods is called Ragnarok.
However, knowing that Heimdall and Loki killed each other isn't going to help
you here. FTP each, identify:
a)
Odin's avenger, who tore out Fenrir's throat
_Vidar_
b)
The Hound of Hell, who kills and is killed by Tyr.
_Garm_
c)
From the land of Muspell, he engulfed the world in flames
_Surt_
17)
Name the director from works, 30-20-10.
a)
The Devil's Wanton
b)
Smiles of A Summer Night
c)
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar _Bergman_
18)
Identify the apostle or apostles by the clues given:
a) These two apostles were the sons of Zebedee. The Greek term for these two is
"boanerges" or "sons of thunder", a reference to their fiery dispositions. Five
points each, name them.
_James_ and _John_
b) Also known as Levi, this apostle's symbol is an angel and his relics are
supposedly found in Salerno, Italy. For five points, name him.
_Matthew_
c) His Hebrew name translates to "Son of Talmai". He is a celebrated saint in
Armenia, and served as a missionary to that country as well as Ethiopia.
For five points, name him.
_Bartholomew_
d) Also known as Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus, this apostle was the son of James and
wrote a canonical letter attacking heretics. For ten points, name him.
_Judas_ (do NOT accept Judas Iscariot)
19)
Answer the following questions on series, ten each.
a) consider a summation of X taken from n equals 1 to infinity. If the limit of
X as n approaches infinity does not exist or is not equal to zero, does the
series converge, diverge, or are you not able to tell?
_Diverge_
b) consider the same summation. If the limit of X as n approaches infinity
equals zero, does the series converge, diverge, or are you not able to tell?
_Not able to tell_
(or similar wording)
c) consider a summation of one over N to the P power from N=3D 1 to infinity.
If P =3D 1/2, does the series converge, diverge, or are you not able to tell?
_Diverge_
20) Break out your leisure suits and platform shoes--it's time for disco-mania!
For the given number of points, name the bands that recorded the following disco
classics.
a)
(5) Night Fever, Jive Talkin'
_The Bee Gees_
b)
(10) Hot Stuff, MacArthur Park
_Donna Summer_
c)
(15) Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel, It Only Takes A Minute
_Tavares_
21)
a)
On a 10-5 basis name the following gemstones:
(10)
(5)
The birthstone of January
They are used as abrasives and are often colorless or a pale white.
_Garnet_
b)
(10)
(5)
The gemstone associated with the Virgo sign, often mistaken for coral.
They are red-yellow, brown or green and are an opaque form of quartz.
_Jasper_
c)
(10) Its name comes from the Sanskrit for "gemstone"
(5)
The black kind is highly prized, but it is more common found in a
yellow or deep red.
_Opal_
22)
a)
For ten points each, given the players on a NHL team, name the team.
Robert Reichel, Theo (TAY-oh) Fleury, Jarome Iginla.
_Calgary_ or _Flames_
b)
Geoff Sanderson, Andrew Cassels, Keith Primeau
_Hartford_ or _Whalers_
c)
Jason Dawe, Dixon Ward, Matthew Barnaby
_Buffalo_ or _Sabres_