Virginia High School League
Scholastic Bowl, 2002-03 season
District Competition, Match #22
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First period: 15 tossups
1.
In ancient Greek, this word, which literally means “leader of the people”, had no
negative connotations. Today, however, it has a negative meaning, and is used often to describe
politicians who inspire violent emotions. For 10 points, what is this word which refers to a
person who appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the people to gain power?
ANSWER: DEMAGOGUE
2.
For ten points, name this leader who ordered construction of the Parthenon and led
Athens into the Peloponnesian War as well as its Golden Age.
ANSWER: PERICLES
3.
Also known as a crux ansata, for ten points, what ancient Egyptian T-shaped cross with
a loop above it signifies the essence of life and the creative energies of male and female?
ANSWER: ankh
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4.
Take two imaginary points, or foci (FOH-sye). Now take the set of all points so that the
difference between the distances of all points in the set and the foci is constant. For 10 points,
this is what conic section?
ANSWER: HYPERBOLA
5.
A string in C and C++ is really an array of, for 10 points, what data type?
ANSWER: CHAR (prompt on character, as character is not a data type)
6.
Union soldier Henry Fleming, his initial cowardice, and his eventual display of bravery
are the central theme of, for 10 points, what novel by Stephen Crane?
ANSWER: The RED BADGE OF COURAGE
7.
In 1784 he discovered the vernacular poems of Robert Fergusson, inspiring him two
years later to publish Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. For ten points, what poet wrote
the works “A Red, Red Rose,” “Tam O’Shanter,” and “Auld Lang Syne?”
ANSWER: Robert Burns
8.
For ten points, name this river which flows from Colorado’s San Juan Mountains
through Brownsville, Ciudad Juárez, and El Paso, forming the boundary between Texas and
Mexico.
ANSWER: Rio GRANDE
9.
Sixteenth century Rabbi Low of Prague is said to have created one of these out of clay,
but, fearing it would ruin the Sabbath, he destroyed it. For ten points, in Jewish folklore, what
is this robot that can be brought to life by placing a piece of paper with the word “God” written
on it under its tongue?
ANSWER: golem
10.
Millikan’s oil-drop experiment was begun in 1909 to determine the charge of, for 10
points, what subatomic particle which had been earlier discovered by J.J. Thomson?
ANSWER: ELECTRON
11.
For ten points, give the collective name used by colonists for the March 1774 Impartial
Administration of Justice, Quartering, Massachusetts Government, and Boston Port Acts.
ANSWER: INTOLERABLE Acts
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12.
A member of the Enterobacteria family, it is oxygen-dependent, rod-shaped, and gramnegative. Found in the intestinal tract of humans and common in chicken, for ten points, what
bacterial genus containing 2200 species can cause gastroenteritis and typhoid fever?
ANSWER: salmonella
13.
This politician originally gained national prominence after scandal enveloped Zoe Baird.
She is now traveling around her home state in her trademark red pickup truck campaigning for
Bill McBride, who defeated her and Daryl Jones in a close Democratic primary. For ten points,
name this onetime Florida gubernatorial candidate and two-term Attorney General under Bill
Clinton.
ANSWER: Janet RENO
14.
A native of Minnesota, he arrives on Long Island to learn the bond business in
Manhattan. He moves into a house on West Egg, Long Island, has an affair with golfer Jordan
Baker, and serves as the confidant of the title character. For 10 points, who is this narrator of
the novel, “The Great Gatsby”?
ANSWER: NICK Carroway
15.
He declared an era of “Enlightened Peace” when he gained the throne in 1926. A
published marine biologist, he hastened postwar rebuildings with radio broadcasts which he
advised his citizens to “endure the unendurable” and renounced his own divinity. For ten
points, name this man who ruled until 1989 but was most prominent as emperor of Japan
during World War II.
ANSWER: HIROHITO [or SHOWA]
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Second period: 10 directed questions for each team
Questions with an A after their number will be read to the team that selects set A of
questions; questions with a B after their number will be read to the team that selects
set B of questions.
1A.
Examples include hot dogs and hot dog buns or iron and coal. For ten points, name
these types of goods which are often consumed together.
ANSWER: COMPLEMENTARY goods
1B.
What two classes of vertebrates does a herpetologist study?
ANSWER: amphibians and reptiles
2A.
THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. For 10 points, what is the dot product of the
vector 5i + 3j + 1k and the vector 6i – 3j + 0k?
ANSWER: 21
2B.
Name the “Poet of the American Revolution” who wrote “The British Prison-Ship.”
ANSWER: Philip Morin FRENEAU
3A.
Name the current prime minister of Japan.
ANSWER: Junichiro KOIZUMI
3B.
THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. For 10 points, what is the sum of the floor of 7
divided by 3 and the ceiling of 10 divided by 3?
ANSWER: 6 (2 + 4)
4A.
Cocos, Gorda, Iranian, Arabian, and Caribbean are the five smallest of what large
masses of the Earth’s crust that float over the mantle, forming mountain ridges when they
collide?
ANSWER: tectonic plates
4B.
Name the group which has found recent success with “Get Free” and the title track
from their debut album, Highly Evolved.
ANSWER: The VINES
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5A.
His longest poem, “Empedocles (em-PED-oh-cleez) on Etna,” tells of an ancient Greek
philosopher driven to suicide. For ten points, what Victorian poet also wrote “The Scholar
Gypsy and “Dover Beach?”
ANSWER: Matthew Arnold
5B.
Consisting of Salsette and a namesake island, it is the capital of the state of
Maharashtra. Name this city of about eighteen million residents, the most populous in India.
ANSWER: MUMBAI [or BOMBAY]
6A.
Name the man who won the popular vote in 1876 but lost a highly contested electoral
college dispute to Rutherford Hayes.
ANSWER: Samuel Jones TILDEN
6B.
What French government official independently from Descartes (day-CART) discovered
analytic geometry, and also developed a number theorem that took mathematicians over 350
years to prove?
ANSWER: Pierre de Fermat (fair-MAH)
7A.
For 10 points, what is the last digit of 21100 (21 to the 100th)?
ANSWER: 1
7B.
What word describes the rearranging of the letters of one word or phrase to form the
letters of another word or phrase?
ANSWER: ANAGRAM
8A.
Name the man who first won election over Helmut Kohl in 1998 to become chancellor
of Germany.
ANSWER: Gerhard SCHRÖDER
8B.
THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. For 10 points, what number, when divided by 4
yields a quotient of 6 with a remainder of 3?
ANSWER: 27
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9A.
What term describes an electron in the incomplete outer shells of an atom, of which
halogens have seven, alkali metals one and noble gasses eight?
ANSWER: VALENCE
9B.
What Classical composer wrote the operas “Ideomeneo” (EE-day-oh-meh-NAY-oh), “Cosi
fan tutte” (KO-see FAHN TOO-tay), and “Don Giovanni”?
ANSWER: Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
10A.
What is the Russian word for No?
ANSWER: NYET (neeyet)
10B.
Name this sultan whose 1520 to 1566 rule saw the height of Ottoman territorial control.
ANSWER: SULEIMAN I [or SULEIMAN the Great; or SULEIMAN the Magnificent]
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Third period: 15 tossups
1.
It is located in Monmouthshire, England, on the Wye River, and for centuries has been
in “ivory-covered” ruins. For ten points, what medieval church complex inspired William
Wordsworth to compose “lines above” for the last poem in the Lyrical Ballads?
ANSWER: Tintern Abbey
2.
The piano piece “Sins of Old Age” was one of the few compositions this man wrote in his
old age, as he did not produce any operas during the last 39 years of his life. For ten points,
what Italian composer became famous with the operas “Tancredi,” “William Tell,” and “The
Barber of Seville?”
ANSWER: Gioacchino Rossini
3.
For ten points, name this eight-time National League batting champion and career
member of the San Diego Padres who retired in 2001 with more than 3100 hits.
ANSWER: Tony GWYNN
4.
It is equal to 4.184 joules. For 10 points, what is this amount of heat required to raise
the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius?
ANSWER: CALORIE (DO NOT ACCEPT kilocalorie)
5.
Number four called for significant arms reduction. Number twelve demanded the
breakup of the Ottoman Empire. The first called for an end to secret treaties and the second for
“absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas.” Belgium and Poland were promised
independence in the seventh and thirteenth. For ten points, name this set of foreign policy
goals presented to Congress by Woodrow Wilson in 1918.
ANSWER: FOURTEEN POINTS
6.
For 10 points, what is the comparative degree of the adjective “cumbersome?”
ANSWER: MORE CUMBERSOME
7.
If you bred two organisms that were heterozygous dominant for a given trait, for ten
points, what percentage of the offspring would be recessive for that given trait?
ANSWER: 25%
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8.
For ten points, name this state that was dubbed “bleeding” during its conflict over
slavery.
ANSWER: KANSAS
9.
During the period, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean basins grew wider, the width of the
Pacific decreased, and the Balkans were part of an island in the Tethys Sea, a waterway
connecting the Atlantic with Indonesia. For ten points, what geologic time period, lasting from
65 to 2.5 million years ago, can be further divided into five epochs?
ANSWER: Tertiary period
10.
For ten points, what Hindu god has been variously depicted as a blue flute-player loved
by the cow-maidens of Brindaban, a princely mate of Radha, a small child who steals butter,
and in the Bhagavad Gita, the eighth avatar of Vishnu?
ANSWER: Krishna
11.
It is grouped with Rett’s and Asperger’s disorders in the “pervasive developmental
disorder” group. It can cause echolalia, a condition in which the affected individual talks only
in previously heard phrases. For ten points, name this syndrome that causes attachment to
routines, repetitive motions, and inhibited social and communication skills.
ANSWER: AUTISM
12.
It is the element with the highest electronegativity, that is, the ability to attract
electrons to form covalent bonds. For 10 points, what is this element, remembering the fact
that electronegativity increases as you proceed upward and rightward on the periodic table?
ANSWER: FLUORINE (remember, the Nobel gasses don’t really react)
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13.
For ten points, name the Mark Twain novel in which Edward VI swaps places with Tom
Canty.
ANSWER: The PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
14.
Though the most famous was completed in the year of the subject’s death in 1778,
French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (oo-DON) created dozens of marble busts of, for ten
points, what Enlightenment philosopher and author of Candide?
ANSWER: Voltaire (or Francois Marie Arouet)
15.
THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A nut dealer wants to create a package of
mixed nuts using some nuts selling at 50¢ per pound and some nuts selling at 60¢ per pound.
The 60¢ nuts will make up half as much as the 50¢ nuts will. For 10 points, if the package is
30 pounds, how much will the package cost?
ANSWER: $16 (20 pounds of 50 cent nuts at $10, and 10 pounds of 60 cent nuts at $6)
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SPARE QUESTIONS (In the second period, try to replace the question discarded with the
a spare question in that subject area – i.e. science for science, social studies for social
studies, etc.) Be sure to cross out the questions if/as they are used.
1.
This phrase was coined by Joseph Goebbels, but its popular English use came from a
noted Nazi opponent during a March 1946 speech at Westminster College. It was charged with
blocking “all the capitals of the ancient states” in its route “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste
in the Adriatic.” For ten points, name this metaphorical boundary which, according to Winston
Churchill, “descended across the Continent” after World War II, dividing the Western and
Communist worlds.
ANSWER: “IRON CURTAIN”
2.
His upcoming projects include Thumbsucker and Try Seventeen, while his first
Hollywood acting jobs were in Paula Abdul’s video “Forever Your Girl” and as gamer in Back to
the Future II. He starred in Paradise and Radio Flyer before showing up in the critical punching
bags Flipper and North. For ten points, name this actor who was filmed from above to give the
appearance of being the four-foot-tall Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
ANSWER: Elijah Jordan WOOD
3.
“Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die.” These are
perhaps the most famous lines of, for ten points, what poem, based on a Crimean War
incident, by Alfred Lord Tennyson?
ANSWER: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
4.
The term REM is associated with, for ten points, what activity that occurs at regular
intervals in birds and mammals, distinctive from hibernation in that it happens daily and not
seasonally?
ANSWER: sleeping
5.
THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. Angle L is the angle of elevation of a 10-foot
ladder leaning against a wall. The top of the ladder is 6 feet up the wall. For 10 points, what is
the value of the sine of angle L?
ANSWER: 3/5 or .6
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