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2000 National Scholastics Championship
Question Set 5
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Category Quiz Bonus Topics: Round 5
American History: Partnership for Peace
American Literature: African-American Poetry
Current Events: It’s Up to Congress
Fine Arts: Films that Inspired Musicals
Foreign Languages and Word Origins: Take a Moment
Geography: Going Up the River
Mathematics: Tedious Jobs
Physical Sciences: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Social Sciences: Editors-in-Chief
World History: Military Heroes
Category Quiz Bonus Topics: Round 5
American History: Partnership for Peace
American Literature: African-American Poetry
Current Events: It’s Up to Congress
Fine Arts: Films that Inspired Musicals
Foreign Languages and Word Origins: Take a Moment
Geography: Going Up the River
Mathematics: Tedious Jobs
Physical Sciences: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Social Sciences: Editors-in-Chief
World History: Military Heroes
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Opening Round: Related Tossup-Bonus Section
1.
This derisive term is derived from a character from Federico Fellini’s classic La Dolce Vita. For ten
points, what word describes any photographer who would go to great lengths to take snapshots of
celebrities?
ANSWER: Paparazzo (Paparazzi)
RELATED BONUS: Answer these related questions for ten points each.
a.
While La Dolce Vita is translated to “The Sweet Life,” the English phrase “Life is Beautiful” is
translated as what Italian phrase?
ANSWER: La vita e bella
b.
An alternate term for a resume, it is translated from the Latin to be a recording of “the course of
one’s life.”
ANSWER: Curriculum vitae (prompt on “C.V.”)
2.
His predecessor fought the Franco-Prussian War and annexed Schleswig. His successor ruled for
30 years, abdicating at the end of World War I and dying in exile in 1941. For ten points, name this man
who ruled Germany briefly during 1888, one of only three Kaisers of the Second Reich, the son of
Wilhelm I and the father of Wilhelm II.
Answer: Frederick the Third (prompt on "Frederick")
RELATED BONUS: Answer these other questions concerning Freds for ten points each.
a.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is located in this northwest American city.
ANSWER: Seattle, Washington
b.
Carol Burnette played Princess Fred in the original production of this musical based on the fairy
tale of “The Princess and the Pea.”
ANSWER: Once Upon a Mattress
3.
The first stable one found was triphenylmethyl. Formed by homolytic cleavage of molecules,
according to MO theory, molecular oxygen acts as one of these. For ten points, name these chemical
species with unpaired electrons.
ANSWER: free radicals
RELATED BONUS. Answer these other questions about radicals, 10 points each.
a.
The term “radical” was first used in politics by this first British foreign secretary (1782), who
advocated a “radical reform” to include universal manhood suffrage.
ANSWER: Charles James Fox
b.
During and after the Civil War, this “radical” group advocated emancipating the slaves and
equality for freedmen.
ANSWER: Radical Republicans
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4.
Pierre Eugène de Simitière acted as a consultant to a 1776 committee in charge of first designing
this symbol of the United States which included the symbol of providence. But it was not until the final
design in 1782 that Charles Thomson suggested to add two Latin phrases “annuit coeptis” and “novus
ordo seclorum”. For ten points, what item is this, whose obverse and reverse impressions can still be
seen on the dollar bill?
ANSWER: The Great Seal of the United States
RELATED BONUS: For ten points each:
a.
The phrases “annuit coeptis” and “novus ordo seclorum” were inspired by and adapted from
sections from this author’s Eclogues and a section of the Aeneid (respectively).
ANSWER: Virgil
b.
This is the only other motto found on the Great Seal.
ANSWER: E pluribus unum
5.
The son of Erebus and Nyx, in modern Greek folklore, he is the angel of death. For ten points,
name this boatman who received a coin from the mouths of those whose souls he transported across the
river Styx.
ANSWER: Charon
BONUS. Answer these questions about Egyptian gods of the dead, for the stated number of points.
a.
[2x5] These two gods were worshiped as gods of the dead: one represented by a jackal, the
other almost invariably shown as human.
ANSWER: Anubis or Anpu and Osiris or Usiri
b.
[10]
Anubis was, ironically, associated with this Greek god known for his virility.
ANSWER: Hermes
6.
Pencil and paper ready. Consider the following set of numbers: 4, 4, 5, 6, and 6. For ten points, what
is the mode of this set of numbers?
ANSWER: none [accept equivalents; do not accept “4 and 6” as there can be at most one mode]
BONUS. Now consider the following set of numbers: 3, 3, 9, and 256. 10 points each.
a.
Calculate the median. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: 6 [= ½(3 + 9)]
b.
Calculate the geometric mean. You have 20 seconds.
ANSWER: 12 [= [(3)(3)(9)(256)]1/4 =(3)4/4(4)4/4; do not accept 144]
7.
When France was liberated from Germany at the end of World War II, French National Radio
asked this 23 year-old to play Jacques Ibert’s Concerto for Flute for broadcast. For ten points, name this
virtuoso who died May 20 of heart failure who brought the flute back into prominence on the classical
stage.
ANSWER: Jean-Pierre Rampal
RELATED BONUS: 20-10, name this person who also died in May 2000 the age of 78.
20) For fighting Hal Laycoe on March 13, 1955, he was suspended by league president Clarence Campbell
for the final three games of the regular season and the entire playoffs. A full-scale riot ensued four days
later causing $500,000 in damages.
10) An eight-time Stanley Cup champion, he was the first player to score 50 goals in a season and had six
playoff overtime goals. Name this player whom writer Baz O’Meara called “The Rocket,” who passed
away May 27.
ANSWER: Maurice Richard
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8.
In 1941, Fritz Albert Lippman and Herman Kalckar discovered this molecule’s role in
metabolism. Containing two high-energy bonds, it is synthesized by enzymes present in chloroplasts and
mitochondria. For ten points, name this molecule that provides energy for various cellular processes.
ANSWER: Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
RELATED BONUS: Answer these questions on ATP for ten points each.
a.
ATP is required in ion channels that pump ions against the concentration gradient, describing
this type of “transport” of molecules in the cell.
ANSWER: Active transport
b.
ATP is required for appropriate conformational changes in the “head” of this molecule that
allows a sarcomere to contract.
ANSWER: Myosin
9.
Founded by Bezaleel Wells in the early almost 200 years ago, this county seat of Stark County
was the location of the successful “front porch” campaign of William McKinley. For ten points, name this
city located 60 miles southeast of Cleveland that is the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
ANSWER: Canton
RELATED BONUS: Answer these questions on the Chinese city Canton for ten points each.
a.
The Chinese city of Canton lies at the head of this river’s estuary.
ANSWER: Pearl River
b.
After paying a $6 million ransom to prevent its destruction during the First Opium War, Canton
was made a treaty port to the United Kingdom as a condition to this 1842 pact.
ANSWER: Treaty of Nanking
10.
An educational game that helped players remember historical dates, a self-pasting scrapbook,
and suspenders were inventions for which he received U.S. patents. For ten points, name this inventor
better known for creating stories and characters, many of whom lived during the mid-1800’s and traveled
on the Mississippi River.
ANSWER: Samuel Langhorne Clemens or Mark Twain
RELATED BONUS: Answer these questions concerning the medallion that is awarded to inductees to the
National Inventors Hall of Fame.
a.
[2x5] The obverse side has the profiles of these two famous Americans. Name these noted
inventors for five points each.
ANSWERS: Thomas Alva Edison and Abraham Lincoln
b.
The reverse side of the medallion sites this section of Article I of the Constitution, establishing the
American patent system.
ANSWER: Section 8
Allow substitutions if any. THEN distribute handout with Category Quiz topics.
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Category Quiz
1.
Poor wandering Frederic likes Mabel, one of Major-General Stanley’s female wards. Stanley
falsely claims to be an orphan at first—hardly the very model of a modern Major-General! But when he
finally admits the truth, Frederic’s title-character friends all admit they’re not orphans either. So goes—
for 10 points—what high-seas opera by Gilbert and Sullivan?
ANSWER: The Pirates of Penzance
2.
Holders claim dividends that accrue even in periods where a company declares no cash
dividend. For ten points, name this holding that is “better” than common stock.
ANSWER: Preferred stock
3.
This philosopher’s lesser-known works include A Fragment on Government and In Defence of
Usury. Born in 1748, he studied at Oxford and advocated his principle of “panopticon,” a system of
prison management. FTP, name this founder of utilitarianism whose most famous work is An
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
ANSWER:
Jeremy Bentham
4.
Located near this city is the Bandelier National Monument wherein lies the ruins of dwellings of
Pueblo Indians. For ten points, name the city wherein lies the National Laboratory where the nuclear and
hydrogen bombs were developed which was hit by wildfires.
ANSWER: Los Alamos, New Mexico
5.
In a 250-milliliter sample of water, the amount of lead present was measured to be 44 parts per
million. For fifteen points, to two significant digits, what is the mass of the lead is in the sample,
expressed in milligrams?
ANSWER: 11 mg
6.
As soon as one has completed school, a student may elect to take one of these types of sojourns.
For ten points, what ten-letter German word describes such a journey?
ANSWER: Wanderjeir
7.
This conflict was finally settled at the first Lateran Council in 1122 where Pope Calixtus II
procured the Concordat of Worms. The lowlight for the Holy Roman Empire occurred when Henry IV
was forced to beg for Pope Gregory VII's forgiveness barefoot in the snows outside of Canossa. For ten
points, what was this medieval controversy over the layman emperor selecting and empowering bishops?
Answer: Investiture controversy
8.
With Henrietta interested in her cousin Charles Hayter, it seemed clear that sister Louisa should
be paired with Captain Frederick Wentworth, who became very wealthy in military service. Eventually
Wentworth realizes he loved Anne all along, with whom he was engaged eight years ago. For ten points,
name this 1818 comedy of manners about the daughters of Sir Walter Elliot, the last work of Jane Austen.
ANSWER: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Allow substitutions if any before beginning the Stretch Round.
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Category Quiz Bonuses
American History: Partnership for Peace
Two answers required: Signed between Spain and the United States, this 1819 treaty gave the United States
the area known as Florida and Oregon in exchange for Spanish control over Texas. For fifteen points for
both answers, give the last names of the two diplomats associated with the Transcontinental Treaty
arranging for the Purchase of Florida.
ANSWERS: John Quincy Adams and Don Luis de Onis
American Literature: African-American Poetry
“Be proud, my race, in mind and soul / Thy name is writ on Glory’s scroll / In characters of fire,” begins
the fifth stanza of this poet’s Ode to Ethiopia. For fifteen points, name this Dayton-born black poet of the
19th and 20th centuries.
ANSWER: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Current Events: It’s Up to Congress
For fifteen points, expand the acronym PNTR, as it related to a recent bill under consideration by the
Senate over China.
ANSWER: Permanent Normal Trade Relations
Fine Arts: Films that Inspired Musicals
Based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, this musical centers around “a weekend in
the country” at Madame Desiree Armfeldt’s retreat by the three featured couples. For fifteen points,
name this Stephen Sondheim musical that asks to “Send in the Clowns.”
ANSWER: A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
Foreign Languages and Word Origins: Take a Moment
For fifteen points, what word is applied to the period of time a widow has following the death of her
husband is allowed to stay in her house or the period of time when those infected with a contagious
disease should be isolated from the community, originally a period of forty days?
ANSWER: Quarantine
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Geography: Going Up the River
A major freight artery, this river forms at the junction of the West Fork and Tygart rivers in Fairmont,
West Virginia. Then, it flows 128 miles north from that junction to the lowlands of Western
Pennsylvania. For fifteen points, name this river, which converges with the Allegheny River in
Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River.
ANSWER: Monongahela River
Mathematics: Tedious Jobs
For fifteen points, what is the 1865th derivative of the function 2 cosine of x?
ANSWER: Negative 2 sine x (-2 sin x)
Physical Sciences: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
In 1915, this German meteorologist and geophysicist published a monograph which put forth the
hypothesis that the continents were all once put together in a supercontinent he called Pangaea. For 15
points, identify this man, generally credited with the theory of continental drift.
ANSWER: Alfred Lothar Wegener
Social Sciences: Editors-in-Chief
Walter Bagehot, Lord Layton, and Sir Geoffrey Crowther are among the distinguished scientists who
have served as editor-in-chief of – for fifteen points – what weekly journal founded in 1843 published in
London, known for its focus on business issues?
ANSWER: The Economist
World History: Military Heroes
He called his pre-emptive strike at the port of Cadiz “the singeing of the king of Spain’s beard.” For
fifteen points, name this British vice admiral who defeated the Spanish armada and circumnavigated the
globe.
ANSWER: Sir Francis Drake
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Stretch Round: Unrelated Tossups and Bonuses
1.
The only completely contrived character is Clara Dawes who ends her affair and returns to her
drunken workingman husband rather than her artist lover. Miriam Lievers is based on Jessie Chambers,
while Gertrude resembles the author’s own mother. For ten points, name this autobiographically
inspired novel about the Oedipal complex developed in Paul Morel, a reflection of the author David
Herbert Lawrence.
ANSWER: Sons and Lovers
BONUS: It was created in 1913 by an act of the Wilson administration. 10 points each.
a.Name this central banking authority of the US.
ANSWER: Federal Reserve System
b.Twelve banks comprising the Federal Reserve. Only one state is home to two of them. Name that state.
ANSWER: Missouri
c.The Federal Reserve sets this rate, the interest rates Federal Reserve banks charge on short-term secured
loans to member banks.
ANSWER: discount rate
2.
By the end of its first decade, it had received a monthly circulation of over 100,000 copies. In its
pages, the editor displayed the evolution of his thought from his early, hopeful insistence on racial justice
to his resigned call for black separatism. For ten points, what was this periodical published by the
NAACP, which launched the literary careers of Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen?
Answer: The Crisis
BONUS: Answer the following questions about bridges, ten points each.
a.
This 1.6-mile-long bridge in the Great Lakes region has withstood gales of 76 miles per hour,
and is named for the straits which it spans.
ANSWER: Mackinac [MAH ki naw] Bridge
b.
This 2,800-foot-long open-trussed bridge, built in 1950, spans Puget Sound.
ANSWER: Tacoma-Narrows Bridge
c.
This bridge spans across all 24 miles of a lake in Louisiana.
ANSWER: Ponchartrain Causeway
3.
The winner out of the 88 entrants involved in the 2000 version of this race wins a $39,000 truck as
well as $60,000 in cash. For ten points, name this 1,151-mile-long race between Anchorage and Nome,
Alaska, using dogsleds.
ANSWER:
The Iditarod
BONUS: Answer the following questions about bridge, ten points each.
a. In contract bridge, this is the lowest-ranking contract which can be bid to win a game in a single hand.
ANSWER: three no-trump
b. In this form of bridge, multiple tables play the same hands in succession, the scoring mechanism
compares bidding and playing performance, not number of tricks won.
ANSWER: duplicate bridge [Accept tournament bridge]
c. This well-known Egyptian bridge columnist “stars” in various bridge tutorials from Interplay and
Macplay.
ANSWER: Omar Sharif
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4.
Since the signal energy must be preserved in the acoustical output, this term does not apply to
gongs, buzzers, and sirens. The voice coil converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, which causes
a diaphragm to vibrate, producing a sound wave. For ten points, name this device, examples of which
include woofers and tweeters.
ANSWER: loudspeakers
BONUS: Name the John Steinbeck work for ten points each.
a.
Kino thinks he’s found the key to a life out of poverty, but the greed of his family and his
neighbors result in tragedy.
ANSWER: The Pearl
b.
This book highlights the conflict between two generations of brothers: Adam and Charles Trask,
and Aron and Caleb.
ANSWER: East of Eden
c.
Each of the four separate stories in this collection centers around the little 10-year-old boy Jody.
ANSWER: The Red Pony
5.
Fifty Years of Swing was part of a 3-CD compilation of the output of this musician, whose first
recording was “Que No, Que No.” Recently, Santana has covered his original tune “Oy Como Va”
numerous times. For ten points, name this drummer and legend whose body of work defines Latin jazz,
and who died Wednesday.
ANSWER: Ernesto Antonio “Tito” Puente, Jr.
BONUS: Name these revolutionaries for 10 points each.
a. His beheading on July 28, 1794 came just three months after taking over France’s Revolutionary
Tribunal.
ANSWER: Maximilien de Robespierre
b. He said in a 1959 speech, “Permitting Batista to return was an error…paid for…by 20,000 dead
Cubans.”
ANSWER: Fidel Castro
c. He got a seven-year prison term after being charged with leading the Mau Mau Rebellion but served
as President of his country from 1964 until his death in 1978.
ANSWER: Jomo Kenyatta
6.
In one of his works, he describes how the emperor summoned his Cabinet to ask them how to
cook a turbot that was too large for an ordinary pan. In another, intellectuals and teachers decry of the
low wages they get despite their efforts and importance in society. In the fifteenth of the series, he
describes a riot in Egypt in which a man is torn to pieces and eaten, proof that humans are crueler than
animals. For ten points, name this writer known for his satires in which he asks, “Who watches the
watchmen?”
ANSWER: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
BONUS: This year, Monsanto announced it had further developed a means to genetically engineer plants
for human health benefits. Answer these questions on this new biotechnological advance for ten points
each.
a.
A traditional plant model used in genetic engineering is this plant, the target of a famous “mosaic
virus.”
ANSWER: Tobacco
b.
The scientists were able to produce this hormone deficient in humans with hypopituitary
dwarfism, abbreviated as hST.
ANSWER: Human Somatotropin
c.
The hST gene is unable to be transferred into pollen (thus affecting other wild-type plants)
because the scientists used the genome of these organelles rather than the genomic nuclear DNA.
ANSWER: Chloroplasts
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7.
“At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn
bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished at he, too, had a wound…” The preceding is an excerpt from
an 1895 novel dealing with the experiences during the Civil War of Henry Fleming. For ten points, what
is this perceptive depiction of warfare and of the psychological turmoil of the soldier, written by Stephen
Crane?
Answer: The Red Badge of Courage
BONUS 30-20-10 Name the muse.
30:
She appears on the Francois vase made by Ergotimos (570 BC).
20:
Legend says she was the mother of Hymen, Ialemus, Rhesus, or Orpheus.
10:
Rhe eldest and most respected muse. Her symbols are the stylus and wax tablets in writing epic
poetry.
Answer: Calliope
8.
Thanks to a solar flare, NASA discovered that this asteroid is comprised of the same material as
primitive meteorites that hit the earth while the planets were forming. For ten points, name this asteroid
whose name is loosely translated as “love.”
ANSWER: Eros
BONUS: Answer the following questions about these fictional biographies on artists for ten points each.
a.
In this 1919 William Somerset Maugham book, the life of the main character Charles Strickland
resembles that of Paul Gauguin.
ANSWER: The Moon and Sixpence
b.
This Irving Stone novel describes the story of Michaelangelo and the painting of the Sistine
Chapel.
ANSWER: The Agony and the Ecstasy
c.
Irving Stone came into prominence writing another bio-history Lust for Life in 1934, based on the
life of this artist.
ANSWER: Vincent van Gogh
9.
In Joe Haldeman’s Forever War, one of these creatures is mistakenly described as a heterosexual
male. While its sexual orientation is up for grabs, it can’t be male. For 10 points—name this creature,
whose name comes from spots that are only possible through mosaicism of X chromosomes in females.
ANSWER: calico cat
Pencil and paper ready. Assume you have a mole of diatomic chuckium gas, Ck 2. Assume its dissociation
to individual chuckium atoms is a chemical reaction whose change in enthalpy is 50 kilojoules per mole,
and is at equilibrium at 500 Kelvin. For fifteen points each:
a.
What is the change in entropy of the reaction? You have 20 seconds.
ANSWER: 100 Joules per Kelvin per mole [from Gibbs free energy]
b.
If you had 10 moles of diatomic chuckium, what would the change in enthalpy [delta H] be? You
have 20 seconds.
ANSWER: 500 kJ
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10.
Founded in 1900, it organized strikes between 1909 and 1911 which eventually led to a settlement
that included a “Protocol for Peace.” For ten points, name this labor organization made up of people
working for dress manufacturers.
ANSWER: International Ladies Garment Workers Union
BONUS: In April 2000, a rock group dropped a lawsuit against a Northeastern university after that
university agreed to block access to a computer program—which some have called the most effective
Trojan horse ever created— that allows users to trade files through a central database. For the stated
number of points.
[2x10] Name the rock group and the university.
ANSWER: Metallica, Yale University
[2x5] Name the program, and the format of the files it allows users to trade.
ANSWER: Napster [do not accept “Gnutella”], .MP3 files
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