2007 Ghetto Warz Packet from UCI
Written by Marcus Luna, Willie Chen, Thomas Bushnell, and Amanda Mellor
Tossups
This leader is associated with the far-left wing of her country’s political scheme as she is
opposed to free trade within the European Union, and she argues ardently for human rights and
pacifism. Born on December 24th, 1943, she married her long-time common-law partner Pentti
Arajarvi in 2003. A member of her parliament, Tony Halme, got in trouble when he said, “We
have a lesbian as president and me as parliamentarian. Everything seems possible.” For 10
points, name this 11th president of Finland, who was helped in her reelection bid in 2006 by
Conan O’Brien’s saying that he looked exactly like her on his show, Late Night with Conan
O’Brien.
Answer: Tarja Halonen
This important category of words is not one of the traditional parts of speech. In languages
which decline adjectives, these words also decline to agree with their associated noun. In
English, singular count nouns must be limited by one of these, and plural nouns and mass nouns
optionally are. Including the traditional categories of personal pronouns, quantifiers, articles,
and demonstrative pronouns—for 10 points—what category of words derives its name from its
ability to specify the reference of noun phrases?
Answer: determiners
In a 2002 poll, he was ranked number 72 on the 100 Greatest Britons. In 1399, he became the
third person that year to be created Duke of Lancaster. In 1403, as a 16-year-old commander of
the English forces, he was shot in the face by an arrow, which was carefully removed by the
royal physician, but left him permanently scarred. Born in Wales in 1387, he managed to unify
the crowns of England and France in a single person by his 1422 death. A member of the Royal
House of Lancaster, he was dramatized by William Shakespeare with an eponymous play. He
is also the main character in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. For 10 points, identify this son of Mary
de Bohun and Henry Bolingbroke.
Answer: Henry V
More revolutionary in its subject matter than its style, members of this art movement chose to
realistically depict gritty urban scenes, showing the poor and disenfranchised in America.
Headed by “The Eight,” this movement, formed in 1891, led a self-organized 1908 exhibition at
the Macbeth Gallery. Not an organized group, its style can apply to painter Edward Hopper and
photographer Jacob Riis. For 10 points, identify this American art “school,” whose proponents
included Everett Shinn, John Sloan, George Luks, William J. Glackens, and founder Robert
Henri.
Answer: Ash Can School
The title of this play employs a pun for “noting.” A male character lends his name to an
English word meaning “a longtime bachelor recently married.” The play’s plot unfolds as the
scheming Don John asks Borachio to make love with a serving woman named Margaret, who is
mistakenly noted by Don Pedro and Claudio as Leonato’s daughter Hero. The play ends in a
typically happy double marriage. For 10 points, identify this Shakespearean comedy whose
humor is provided by the malapropisms of Dogberry as well as the witty exchanges between
Benedick and Beatrice.
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
By forming stable oxysulfides and tying up trace elements such as lead and antimony, this alloy
removes free oxygen and sulfur in steel foundries. Consisting of variable proportions of
constituent metals, it was first marketed when its discoverer had leftover metal after thorium had
been extracted to make lantern mantles. This alloy can be blended with iron oxide and
magnesium oxide to form a harder material known as ferrocerium, which is commonly used as
the “flint” ignition device in lighters and torches. For 10 points, identify this alloy, typically
consisting of 50% cerium and 45% lanthanum, with small amounts of neodymium and
praseodymium.
Answer: mischmetal (accept “cerium mischmetal”)
This species and its more confined sister species are the largest living carnivores, larger than the
tiger by a factor of two. Not quite yet extinct in Europe, larger populations exist in the
Himalayas and Atlas mountains, and more substantially in southern Alaska, and throughout the
northern Rocky Mountains, with the largest populations existing in Russia. It is the national
animal of Finland, and, despite now being extinct in the
Sierra Nevada, is found on the state flag of California. For 10 points, what species is known as
the grizzly or Kodiak bear in North America?
Answer: brown bear (Prompt on “Kodiak bear” or “grizzly bear” before mentioned)
A precursor to this device was first used in India and was called charkhi. Its patented inventor
may have owed some ideas to his landlady, Catherine Littlefield Greene. The device contains a
hand crank that turns a series of rollers with rows of wire teeth. Beneath the slotted metal grate
lies the hopper, which collects the seeds. The cleaned product enters another compartment that
contains a second set of rollers made from brushes, which prevent the machine from jamming.
Its invention increased the production of a certain crop by fifty times, thus making a “King” out
of the crop. For 10 points, name this 1794 invention, or an improvement upon a certain
“machine,” by Eli Whitney.
Answer: cotton gin
This man was selected 9th overall by the Dallas Mavericks in 1983 out of the University of
Tennessee. He spent his first three seasons in Dallas, and only averaged 7.3 points a game, but
saw his level of play increase when he was traded to the Seattle Supersonics. There he
averaged 24.9 points per game, including a high of 27.5 points per game in the 1988-1989 season.
Also while there, he won the most improved player in the league award in 1987. For 10 points,
name this man who retired as the all-time leader in three-point field goals made, but has been
surpassed by Reggie Miller and Ray Allen.
Answer: Dale Ellis
The existence of these particles is important to the standard model, though they are the only
particle predicted by the model which has not been observed. They have spin zero because
their associated field is scalar. They have a positive mass which is not predicted by the model,
but which must be fairly large to account for the lack of observations. For 10 points, what are
these bosons which give rise to mass?
Answer: Higgs boson
Compiled after the Solid Declaration of 1577, this book was published in 1580 upon the 50th
anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. It contains the Smalcald Articles and the Larger and
Smaller Catechisms. Of central importance to Lutheranism, it begins with the Augsburg
Confession and its companion Apology. It is named for its last component, a formula that was
agreed upon between two camps of Lutheranism after the death of Martin Luther. For 10 points,
identify this book, which has nothing to do with the Massachusetts town or its namesake grapes.
Answer: The Book of Concord
In the preface to this experimental 1962 novel, set in post-World War II London, the author
describes the experiences in the book as “so rough and apparently formless and unshaped.” It is
an amalgamation of interwoven narrative sequences, text fragments, diary entries, segments of a
play, synopses of novels, and “bundles” of newspaper clippings from 1950 to 1957. The novel
is framed by another “novel” entitled Free Women, written in the 19th-century style of beginning
each section with an italicized epigraph. For 10 points, identify this novel about the leftist
writer Anna Wulf and her battle against writer’s block, written by Doris Lessing.
Answer: The Golden Notebook
He stretched the limits of tonality in his song cycles Sunless and Songs and Dances of Death.
His most famous set of compositions contains such gems as “Bydlo: The Oxcart,” “Ballet of
Unhatched Chickens,” and “The Hut of Baba-Yaga.” Never formally trained in music, he spent
three years working on both the libretto and the music of the opera Salammbo, but he never
finished it. For 10 points, identify this Russian member of The Five who wrote Night on Bald
Mountain, Boris Godunov, and Pictures at an Exhibition.
Answer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
The Borg might refer to this text as the fifth of twelve. While Christians consider each of the
twelve its own book, Jews combine them into one. This eponymous story is the only one of the
twelve minor prophets to be more than a collection of oracles. Instead, it takes the form of a
short story in which the protagonist is sent to Nineveh twice, having refused the first. When he
is saddened that the Ninevites repented, God teaches him about mercy. One would have
thought he had already gotten the lesson. After all, after his first refusal and consequent tossing
into the sea—for 10 points—what Hebrew prophet was rescued by a whale?
Answer: Jonah
Its modern practitioners divide it into two styles: kahiko and ‘auana. Kahiko practitioners are
accompanied by ancient chants, while ‘auana ones use more modern music. In the late 19th
century, it was revived in the ku’i form, replacing the sacred shark-skin pahu drums with the
indigenous ipu gourd. Although it refers to movements and gestures, it cannot be completed
without one of the four forms of mele, or poetry. The origin of this dance traces to the legend
of Hi’iaka, who danced to appease her fiery sibling. For 10 points, name this native dance,
sacred to goddess Laka, a ritual in Hawaii.
Answer: hula
LIke Jesus, the face of Jesus cn sometimes be seen on these. Served in Memphis, Tennessee, the
“barbeque” version of this dish includes barbeque sauce and barbequed pork shoulders. First
created by Ignacio Anaya in the border town of Piedras Negras, Mexico in 1943, this dish is
celebrated internationally on October 19th. It is popularly served at sporting events, movie
theaters, and convenience stores around the nation with such toppings as ground beef, chicken,
sour cream, refried beans, salsa, and guacamole. For 10 points, identify this Tex-Mex dish,
whose original recipe consists of fried tortilla chips covered in melted cheese and jalapeño
peppers.
Answer: nachos
In this 1993 novel, Dr. Hornicker makes an ominous statement that foreshadows more deaths to
come after the initial tragedy. A tree on the family lot infected with Dutch elm disease
symbolizes decay of the suburban family after the death of Cecilia. Trip Fontaine, a
neighborhood boy, falls in love with Lux, the prettiest of the sisters. By the climax of the novel,
the boys found Bonnie’s dead body hanging in the basement. Therese dies from overdose of
pills, Lux asphyxiates herself, and Mary nearly dies from putting her head inside the oven. For
10 points, identify this Jeffrey Eugenides novel about the self-killing of the five Lisbon girls,
which was adapted into a 2000 film by Sofia Coppola.
Answer: The Virgin Suicides
This rapper is a registered pit-bull breeder, and his aliases include “Daddy Fat Sacks,” “Sir
Lucious L. LeftFoot,” and “Francis the Savannah Chitlin' Pimp.” With his wife Sherlita he has
a daughter Jordan, and two sons Bamboo and Cross. His younger brother James raps under the
name “Lil Brotha” and is part of the rap group Konkrete. Although more famous for his group
work, he released the double album SpeakerBoxx/The Love Below with a fellow member of his
group in 2003, which included the hit “The Way You Move.” For 10 points, name this rapper
who starred in the movie Idlewild with his fellow member of Outkast, Andre 3000.
Answer: Big Boi (accept: Antwan Andre Patton)
First settled by Mormon farmers circa 1854 and later becoming a U.S. military fort in 1864, this
city was finally incorporated in 1911. Located 2,030 feet above sea level, it is located in an arid
basin surrounded by mountains, including the Spring Mountains, with their highest point at Mt.
Charleston, lying to the northwest. 15 miles west of the city lies Red Rock Canyon National
Conservation Area. For 10 points, identify this city in the Mojave Desert, planted firmly in
Clark County, Nevada, known to the world as Sin City.
Answer: Las Vegas
After joining the military in the late 1850s, he served for four decades. In 1886, he became the
first president of Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He advocated the construction
of naval bases in the Caribbean, the construction of the Panama Canal, and the annexation of
Hawaii and other Pacific islands. His outspoken advocacy of American military expansion led
to the construction of such modern battleships as the Maine and the Oregon. For 10 points,
name this admiral of the U.S. Navy, whose 1890 book The Influences of Sea Power upon History,
1660-1783 led to the creation of the Great White Fleet.
Answer: Alfred T. Mahan
2007 Ghetto Warz Packet from UCI
Written by Marcus Luna, Willie Chen, Thomas Bushnell, and Amanda Mellor
Bonuses
For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the Peloponnesian War.
A. The Peloponnesian War was fought between the Delian League and the Peloponnesian
League, which were each represented by its own city-state. For 5 points each, name them.
Answers: Athens and Sparta
B. The first phase of the Peloponnesian War, labeled the Archidamian War by historians, was
concluded in 421 BCE with the signing of what treaty—for 10 points?
Answer: Peace of Nicias
C. Although Athens lost the war, it rebounded partially in another war that it fought against
Sparta along with Thebes, Argos, and a namesake ally. For 10 points, name that war.
Answer: Corinthian War
For 10 points each, given lines, identify the poem by A.E. Houseman:
A. “—I tell the tale that I heard told. / Mithridates, he died old.”
Answer: “Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff”
B. “Now you will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore their honours out, / Runners whom
renown outran / And the name died before the man.”
Answer: “To an Athlete Dying Young”
C. “The heart out of the bosom / Was never given in vain; / ‘Tis paid with sighs a plenty / And
sold for endless rue.”
Answer: “When I Was One-and-Twenty”
For 10 points each, name either of the two discoverers of the following elements:
A. Radium
Answer: Marie Curie or Pierre Curie
B. Iodine
A: Humphrey Davy
C. Neon
Answer: William Ramsay or Morris Travers
For 10 points each, answer these questions about Asian composers:
A. What Chinese composer is best known for composing the score to Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon
A: Tan Dun
B. Before writing the film score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tan Dun wrote what
1996 opera, named for a Venetian explorer who traveled to China?
Answer: Marco Polo
C. This Korean-born pianist/composer wrote new-age piano works “When Love Falls,”
“Maybe,” and “Kiss the Rain.” His one-word name in Korean means “accomplishment.”
Answer: Yiruma
For 10 points each, name these structural elements of a gothic cathedral:
A.
It is the turret which serves as the crown to the dome or roof of a structure.
Answer: cupola
B. Also known as the presbytery, it is the area east of the choir which contains the high altar.
It is usually the part of the cathedral reserved for the clergy.
Answer: sanctuary
C. These are elegant, tapering structures that are set atop a tower. The smaller forms of these
structures are called steeples.
Answer: spires
Identify these contemporary women authors for 10 points each:
A. This Canadian short-story writer produced a novel entitled Lives of Girls and Women. Her
short stories like “The Found Boat” are published in such collections as The Progress of Love
and Dance of the Happy Shades.
Answer: Alice Munro
B. This American novelist’s most recent work is the nonfiction book Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Her novels include The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and The
Poisonwood Bible.
Answer: Barbara Kingsolver
C. This American writer of mystery novels created an “Alphabet Series” that includes A Is for
Alibi, B Is for Burglar, and—most recently—S Is for Silence.
Answer: Sue Grafton
For 10 points each—given three events, identify the one that occurred first:
A. The domestication of wheat, of cows, and of chicken
Answer: the domestication of wheat
B. The invention of the Watt steam engine, the telegraph, and the thermometer
Answer: the invention of the thermometer
C. Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Nemesis.
A: Star Trek: First Contact
For 10 points each, identify these Flemish painters:
A. He may have painted himself in Portrait of a Man in a Turban, but this 15th-century
Flemish painter is best known for the Ghent Altarpiece.
Answer: Jan van Eyck
B. His baroque paintings often depict frenetic energy, as seen in Hippopotamus Hunt. He is
also known for painting full-figured nudes in Adam and Eve and The Judgment of Paris.
Answer: Peter Paul Rubens
C. This painter, not to be confused with his father, was nicknamed "hell" for his depictions of
fire and twisted imagery.
A: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Answer these questions about the discovery of DNA for 10 points each:
A. The 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to watson, crick, and what
other person?
Answers: Maurice Wilkins
B. What woman also shared responsibility for the discovery of DNA, but died of cancer before
the Nobel Prize was awarded?
Answer: Rosalind Franklin
C. Watson and Crick make the discovery of DNA while working in the Cavendish Laboratory,
located in what British university?
Answer: University of Cambridge
For the stated number of points, answer these questions on Central American geography:
A. For 5 points each, name the two countries in Central America that do not have seacoast on
both the Pacific and the Atlantic.
Answers: Belize and El Salvador
B. The largest lake in Central America shares its name with the country in which it is located.
Name it for 10 points.
Answer: Lake Nicaragua
C. For 5 points each, name the capital cities of Honduras and Costa Rica.
Answers: Tegucigalpa and San José
For 10 points each, answer these questions about the education of women in 19th-century
America:
A. In 1849, she became the first woman to graduate from medical college. Identify this
woman, who later opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.
Answer: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
B. This white Quaker woman, in 1831, opened a school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut.
After admitting a black girl to the school, she later chose to enroll only African-American
students, against much protest.
Answer: Prudence Crandall
C. Along with her sister Angelina, she was a leading voice in the abolitionist and women’s
rights movements. She argued for increasing the education of women in her 1838 work, Letters
on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman.
Answer: Sarah Grimké
For 10 points each, name these plays by Aristophanes:
A. The title insects of this play refer to the jurors of Philocleon. It is a farce on the Athenian
court system.
Answer: The Wasps
B. This play depicts Dionysus, dismayed by the lack of quality tragedy-writing in Athens,
going to Hades to retrieve the deceased Euripides.
Answer: The Frogs
C. This anti-war play’s title refers to charcoal peddlers who want to stone Dicaeopolis to death.
Dicaeopolis opens a market after declaring a private peace treaty and enjoys the goods and
women he accumulates.
Answer: The Acharnians
For the stated number of points, answer these questions about developmental psychology:
A. For 10 points, identify this man, considered the Father of Developmental Psychology, who
wrote The Origin of Intelligence in Children.
Answer: Jean Piaget
B. Now, for 5 points each, name the four stages of development as according to Piaget.
Answers: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational
Identify the following works by Søren Kierkegaard from descriptions for 10 points each:
A. In this book, Kierkegaard discusses the nature of faith, using Abraham as an example.
Answer: Fear and Trembling or Frygt og Bæven
B. In this book, Kierkegaard argues that the title concept is despair, which is the archetypal sin.
Answer: Sickness unto Death or Sygdommen til Døden
C. Kierkegaard’s doctoral thesis, this book concerns Socrates and the title concept, a hallmark
of Socratic Method.
Answer: The Concept of Irony or Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates
Given members of a rap group, name the rap group for 10 points each.
A. MC Ren, Eazy E, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella
Answer: N.W.A. (Niggaz With Attitude)
B. Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Answer: A Tribe Called Qwest
C. Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck, Bang Em Smurf, Domination
Answer: G-Unit
Identify the novel on a 30-20-10 basis: (needs new clues - no magical realism)
A. The ghost of the family matriarch, Mama Elena, curses her youngest daughter and her
daughter's unborn child.
B. After eating food containing rose petals, Gertrudis falls into a lustful state and elopes with a
revolutionary soldier. She later returns to the family ranch with a regiment of fifty men.
C. The novel’s central conflict lies between Tita De La Garza, Dr. John Brown, and Tita’s first
true love Pedro Muzquiz, who marries Tita’s sister Rosaura in order to remain close to Tita.
Answer: Like Water for Chocolate or Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Given the U.S. attorney, identify the state to which he was assigned for 10 points. If you need
clues about his prosecution, you get 5 points.
A. For 10: David Iglesias
A. For 5: Iglesias said at his senate hearing that Senator Pete Domenici called him to try to tell
him to go after more democrats in corruption cases
Answer: New Mexico
B. For 10: John Mckay
B. For 5: Many people believe that this attorney was fired for not pursuing voter fraud cases in
the election of Governor Christine Gregoire.
Answer: Washington
C. For 10: Bud Cummins
C. For 5: This attorney was fired right before he was going public with his case against
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt.
Answer: Arkansas
Time for everyone’s favorite Scandinavian film movement, Dogme 95! Answer the following
questions for the stated number of points:
A. This 1998 film, filled with unsimulated sexual intercourse, shows a group of
“anti-bourgeois” adults running around and acting mentally retarded in public. Name this
movie for 10 points.
Answer: The Idiots or Idioterne
B. In this 1999 movie, the first non-European Dogme film, Werner Herzog plays a sadistic
drunken father to Ewen Bremmer, whose sister (played by Chloë Sevigny) is pregnant with his
child. Name this Harmony Korine film for 10 points.
Answer: Julien Donkey-Boy
C. For 5 points each, identify the two main architects of the Dogme 95 movement. One
directed the film Breaking the Waves and the other directed the film The Biggest Heroes.
Answers: Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg
For 10 points each, answer these questions on the Manhattan Project:
A. The first test of the new atomic bomb took place on July 16, 1945, in the empty desert near
which New Mexico town?
Answer: Alamogordo
B. While J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific research, which U.S. general was the actual
head of the Manhattan Project?
Answer: Gen. Leslie Groves
C. Even though he helped building the bomb, this Hungarian-born physicist drew up a petition
signed by 70 other scientists questioning the morality of the use of the atomic bomb. Name
him.
Answer: Dr. Leo Szilard
Identify this woman on a 30-20-10 basis: (bury, or delete)
A. Coming from a family of free nobles serving the counts of Sponheim, she wrote medical,
botanical, and geological treatises, some using an alphabet of her own invention. Her writings
include the earliest discussions on female sexuality.
B. She also wrote music, including a morality play called Ordo Virtutum, in which all the
voices are female and the sole male voice is that of the Devil.
C. This medieval German abbess is best known for her many visions, which she recorded in
Scivias, Liber vitae meritorum, and De operatione Dei.
Answer: Hildegard von Bingen (accept “Blessed Hildegard” or “St. Hildegard”)