Round Six 1
Crusader Cup 2005
Round Six
Toss-Up #1
When first introduced in 1930, she was a flapper with the maiden name Boopadoop. A housewife
and mother of two children, Alexander and Cookie, she eventually entered the catering business
in 1991 with her neighbor Tootsie. Although she and her husband, a former playboy disinherited
by his parents, married in 1930, they recently celebrated their 75 anniversary, with guests
including Hagar the Horrible and Beetle Bailey. For ten points, who is this wife of Dagwood
Bumstead?
Answer: Blondie Bumstead
Bonus #1
Name the countries involved in the following early 20th century alliances, for ten points
each. All must be correct in each alliance to receive points.
a) Entente Cordiale of 1904
Answer: Great Britain and France
b) Triple Alliance of 1882, which was renewed in 1902 and 1907.
Answer: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
c) Triple Entente of 1907
Answer: Great Britain, France and Russia
Toss-Up # 2
St. Columbia was said to have saved a Pict who was attacked by this creature. In 1933 came the
first modern sightings, though a famous picture by surgeon R.K. Wilson, showing the exposed
head and neck, was acknowledged to be a fake in 1994. Contrary to a presentation given in
Napoleon Dynamite, Japanese scientists have not placed explosives at the bottom of the lake to
blow it out of the water. For ten points, name this legendary creature inhabiting a Scottish lake.
Answer: Loch Ness Monster (accept Nessie)
Bonus #2
Given a description, name the type of cloud based on appearance, for ten points each
a) Drawing their name from the Latin for “a curl of hair,” these high wispy clouds are
thin and feathery in appearance, with bases generally above 6000m.
Answer: Cirrus
b) Marked by globular individual cloud masses, the name of these clouds comes from the
Latin for “a heap.”
Answer: Cumulous
c) Appearing as sheets which cover much of the sky with no distinct individual cloud
units, these clouds derive their name from the Latin word for “layer.”
Answer: Stratus
Toss-Up #3
After graduating 17th out of 59 students at West Point, he fought with the 1st US Artillery in the
Mexican-American War. Between 1847-1851, as he served garrison duty, he gave increasing
attention to religion and Bible reading. Starting in 1851, he served as Professor of Natural and
Experimental Philosophy at VMI, a ten year post he held until the Civil War. For ten points,
name this confederate general who died after being wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville.
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
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Bonus #3
Given the title of works by a British poet, name the poet, For ten points each:
a) “Frost at Midnight,” “Christabel,” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) “Ulysses,” “Crossing the Bar,” and “The Charge of the Light Briogade”
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
c) “Pippa Passes,” “Porpyria’s Lover,” and “My Last Duchess”
Answer: Robert Browning
Toss-Up #4
It appears on the Bayeaux Tapestry, next to the words, “They marvel at the star.” The Giotto
space probe, named for the medieval painter who is thought to have seen this object, came within
600 km of it in 1986. It appeared in 1835 when Mark Twain was born and again in 1910, the
year he died. For ten points, what is this icy body which orbits the sun every 76 years?
Answer: Halley’s Comet
Bonus #4
For ten points each, identify these things that happened on October 1st in popular culture.
a) In 1984, this Gary Trudeau comic strip, after a 22 month hiatus, returned with the
characters having graduated from college and Michael having married J.J.
Answer: Doonesbury
b) On October 1, 1975, in the “Thrilla in Manilla,” Muhammad Ali retained his
heavyweight title by defeating this boxer in their third fight.
Answer: Joe Frazier
c) Born October 1, 1935, this actress who won an Oscar for Mary Poppins, recently
played Queen Clarisse Rinaldi in The Princess Diaries movies and voiced the part of the
Queen in Shrek 2.
Answer: Julie Andrews
Toss-Up #5
With its minimal sets and non-chronological plotting, this 1938 play was atypical of 20th century
drama. The second act opens in 1904 as the milkman and the paperboy discuss the weather and
the upcoming wedding of George and Emily. However, through flashback, we will see the couple
some years earlier at a soda shop, and later, after Emily has died, she will revisit her 12th birthday.
FTP, identify this Thorton Wilder play set in Grover’s Corners, NH.
Answer: Our Town
Bonus #5
(Moderator: hand the team the visual bonus sheet). Identify the branch of the United
States Military from its seal. One for five points, two for ten points, three for twenty, or
four for thirty. You have ten seconds
1) Answer: United States Navy
2) Answer: United States Marine Corps (accept Marines)
3) Answer: United States Air Force
4) Answer: United States Army
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Toss-Up #6
Named for a US Secretary of State and a French foreign minister, the Nobel Peace Prize winners
of 1926 and 1929, it was signed by fifteen countries on August 27, 1928. Unfortunately, it lacked
the ability to prevent Japanese aggression against Manchuria or Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia, and
it was discredited by the Second World War. For ten points, name this treaty outlawing war.
Answer: Kellogg-Briand Pact (accept Pact of Paris or Treaty for the Renunciation of War)
Bonus #6
Given a description, name the gas law, for ten points each.
A) The volume of a given sample of gas at a constant temperature varies inversely with
pressure.
Answer: Boyle’s Law
B) The volume of a given sample of gas at a constant pressure is directly proportional to
the temperature in kelvins.
Answer: Charles’s Law
C) The volume of a given sample of gas at constant temperature and pressure is directly
proportional to the number of moles of gas.
Answer: Avagadro’s Law
Toss-Up #7
This poet was dismissed from his post as secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton after he married
Egerton’s niece and made a meager living as a lawyer and pamphleteer. In 1615, after
abandoning Roman Catholicism and converting to Anglicanism, he became a priest and six years
later was appointed dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. He is best remembered now as the best of the
metaphysical poets. For ten points, name the author of “Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” “The
Flea” and “Holy Sonnets.”
Answer: John Donne
Bonus #7
Name these terms in ballet, for ten points each
a) A pose with one leg stretched straight out to the back and one arm stretched out to the
front
Answer: Arabesque
b) A compete turn on one leg, it is usually done with the foot of the raised leg resting on
the knee of the supporting leg.
Answer: Pirouette
c) Knee bends, with the legs turned out, they may be demi- or grand
Answer: Plié (plee-ay)
Toss-Up #8
Electrical ones are simpler and faster, being solely excitatory and suffering no delay, while
chemical ones may either excite or inhibit but have a delay for the release and diffusion of
neurotransmitters across a cleft of approximately 20 nanometers. On the one side of the chemical
one is an axon terminal with the dendritic receptors on the other. For ten points, identify this
distinct boundary between communicating neurons.
Answer: Synapse
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Bonus #8
For ten points each, identify the code name for the following military operations.
a) The codename for the invasion of Normandy,
Answer: Operation Overlord
b) The codename used for Germany’s planned invasion of Russia in June 1941, it was
named after an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Answer: Operation Barbarosa
c) Unlike most codenames, this name for the 1990 mission to protect Saudi Arabia from
an Iraqi invasion in was widely published.
Answer: Operation Desert Shield
Toss-Up #9
When she graduated from Stanford with her Bachelor of Laws, no law firm in California would
hire her, so she took a position as Deputy County Attorney in San Mateo, CA. From 1969 to
1975 she served an Arizona state senator before becoming a Maricopa County Superior Court
judge and subsequently a justice on the Arizona Court of Appeals. Nominated by President
Reagan in 1981, she was confirmed unanimously. FTP, name this first woman on the Supreme
Court.
Answer: Sandra Day O’Connor
Bonus #9
Name these plays from a description, for the stated number of points.
5) The first drama by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, this Lorraine
Hansberry play focuses upon the Younger family’s attempt to rise out of poverty.
Answer: A Raisin in the Sun
10) In this play by August Wilson, former baseball player turned garbage collector Troy
Maxson forbids his son to play football, the boy’s only chance at college.
Answer: Fences
15) In this Eugene O’Neill drama, an African-American porter faces native revolt after he
becomes a self-proclaimed dictator of an island in the West Indies.
Answer: The Emperor Jones
Toss-Up #10
In 2005, it will fall on October 13th. Beginning at nightfall on the tenth day of Tishri, this holiday
is called “the White Fast” by Sephardic Jews and its rites are prescribed in Leviticus 16.
Historically, the most distinctive ceremony associated with it was the offering of a scapegoat. For
ten points, identify this holiest Jewish holiday, the day of atonement.
Answer: Yom Kippur (accept Day of Atonement or Feast of Atonement, before mentioned)
Bonus #10
While Queen Elizabeth II may be the most recognizable ruler, England is not the only
monarchy in Europe. Provided a list of twentieth century monarchs, name the land they
ruled, for ten points each.
a) Queen Wilhelmina, Queen Juliana, and Queen Beatrix have ruled here.
Answer: Netherlands (accept Holland)
b) This country has been ruled by King Gustav V, King Gustav VI Adolph, and King
Carl XVI Gustaf
Answer: Sweden
c) Prince Louis II, Prince Rainier III, and Prince Albert II have ruled over this
principality.
Answer: Monaco
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Toss-Up #11
As most of the over 1700 poems by this writer are untitled, works are often identified by Johnson
numbers, those assigned by editor Thomas Johnson in his 1955 edition of her works. She has
been noted for her unconventional use of dashes and capitalization, but her use of hymn meter
means many of her poems can be sung to “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” FTP, name this Amherst
poet whose works include “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”
Answer: Emily Dickinson
Bonus #11
Name the Civil War battle from description, for ten points each.
a) Fought between July 1-3, 1863, this largest battle ever in North America pitted a
97,000 man Army of the Potomac under General Meade against a 75,000 man Army of
Northern Virginia under General Lee. It was also the site of the infamous Pickett’s
Charge.
Answer: Gettysburg
b) In this battle, Jackson attacked Pope’s left flank on August 28, 1863, holding him until
Longstreet could arrive. Two days later, Longstreet’s First Corp crushed the Union’s left
flank and drove them into retreat.
Answer: Second Bull Run or Second Mannassas
c) Begun on September 17, 1862, called the bloodiest day in American history, this battle
between the forces of Lee and McClellan resulted in 23,000 soldiers killed or wounded.
Answer: Antitiem or Sharpsburg
Toss-Up #12
Paper and pencil are suggested. You will have fifteen seconds. A plane traveling horizontally at
250 km/hr drops a metal sphere weighing 150 kg. Assuming air resistance is negligible, and free
fall acceleration is 10 meters per second per second, how far will the sphere drop in five seconds .
Answer: 125 meters
Bonus #12
Name the British poem from lines of poetry, for ten points each. You will receive five
points if you need the poet.
a-10) “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some
desperate glory, / The old lie”
5) Wilfrid Owen
Answer: “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
b-10) “And you my father, there on the sad height, / Curse, bless, me now with your
fierce tears, I pray.”
5) Dylan Thomas
Answer: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
c-10) “Smart lad, to slip betimes away / From fields where glory does not stay / And
early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose.”
5) A. E. Housman
Answer: “To An Athlete Dying Young”
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Toss-Up #13
Though officially established in 1478 by Pope Sixtus IV, it was unpopular with the popes who
asked for greater mercy and leniency toward its victims, the conversos. Tomás de Torquemada
was appointed in 1481 to head it, with an estimated 8,800 people burned during his tenure. Some
have suggested it may have been used to eliminate King Ferdinand’s political enemies and to
avoid debts to Jewish lenders. For ten points, name this institution which, according to Monty
Python, no one expects.
Answer: Spanish Inquisition (prompt on just “Inquisition)
Bonus #13
For ten points each, identify these sons of the Titan Iapetus.
a) During his Twelve labors, Heracles convinces this half-Titan to retrieve the apples of
the Hesperides while Hercules bears the heavens on his own shoulders for a while.
Answer: Atlas
b) This brother of Atlas created mankind and was eventually chained to the Caucasus
where the eagle Ethon ate his liver each day after it grew back.
Answer: Prometheus
c) This brother of Atlas and Prometheus, whose name means hindsight or afterthought
married Pandora.
Answer: Epimetheus
Toss-Up #14
Though this 1930 painting won a bronze medal in an exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute, the
exhibition chairman called it a “comic valentine” and Iowans viewed it as an attack on their
small-town values. The house was chosen for its windows which resembled those in a European
cathedral, and the artist’s sister and his dentist modeled for the farmer and his wife in the
foreground. For ten points, identify this much parodied Grant Wood painting depicting rural life.
Answer: American Gothic
Bonus #14
Name the type of rock described, for ten points each.
a) When magma cools slowly, as with granite, or quickly, as with pumice or obsidian,
this type of rock is formed.
Answer: Igneous
b) Formed by the accumulation and assimilation of mineral and particle matter which is
deposited by water, wind or ice, this type of rock is often found in layers or beds. Types
include shale, limestone, and gypsum.
Answer: Sedimentary
c) In this type of rock, the original composition and texture is altered by heat or pressure,
creating a banded structure as in gneiss (NICE) or non-foliated recrystallized forms such
as marble.
Answer: Metamorphic
Toss-Up #15
His two predecessors as coach were Bob Francis, who was fired in February 2004, and Rick
Bowness, who served as interim coach until the lock-out. A co-owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, he
retired from the hockey in 1999 after 20 seasons during which he set 61 NHL records including
career goals and assists. FTP, name this former Edmonton Oiler nicknamed “The Great One.”
Answer: Wayne Gretzky
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Bonus #15
Given the following computing acronyms, provide the full name for which the acronym
stands, 5-10-20-30
a) USB
Answer: Universal Serial Bus
b) PDF
Answer: Portable Document File
c) OOP
Answer: Object Oriented Programming
d) IRC
Answer: Internet Relay Chat
Toss-Up #16
Also called paramnesia, it is associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy but has been experienced by
at least 70% of the population. In the film The Matrix it is a glitch in the system caused by
changes in the program. Many scientists, however, claim it results from an anomaly of memory
when short term-memory is mistaken for long-term memory of events. For ten points, name this
sensation of having seen something before.
Answer: Déjà vu
Bonus #16
Name the author of classic science fiction and fantasy from a list of works, FTPE
a) Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Answer: Robert Heinlein
b) Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, and
Answer: Orson Scott Card
c) The Dispossessed, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Left hand of Darkness
Answer: Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
Toss-Up #17
Lawsuits involving Delaware, Virginia, and South Carolina were consolidated into this case filed
by thirteen parents including a father on behalf of his daughter, Linda. Though her friends went
to school 7 blocks from her home, her school was 21 blocks and an hour and twenty minute ride
away. The Supreme Court found the separate facilities inherently unequal . For ten points, name
this 1954 case which struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine in the matter of schools.
Answer: Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.
Bonus #17
While some states are named for people, others draw their names from phrases in nonEnglish languages. For ten points each, name the following states with a foreign flair.
a) Referring to its mountains, its name comes from the Spanish word of “snow-clad”
Answer: Nevada
b) Its name is the Russian version of an Aleutian word for ‘penninsula.”
Answer: Alaska
c) It derives its name from the French words meaning “mountain” and “green.”
Answer: Vermont
Toss-Up #18
Although he was once court-martialed for losing the HMS Sunderland, he has orchestrated a
funeral procession for Lord Nelson and helped foil a plot to free Napoleon from St. Helena. He
began as a midshipman aboard the Justinian and the Indefatigable before advancing through the
ranks to retire eventually as Admiral of the Fleet. First introduced in the novel Beat To Quarters,
for ten points, who is this naval officer, a creation of C.S. Forester?
Answer: Horatio Hornblower
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Bonus #18
Some forms of measurement are closely associated with those things they measure.
Name the form of measurement described, for ten points each.
a) Equal to exactly 128 cubic feet, it is often used to measure firewood.
Answer: a Cord
b) While used for measuring many types of precious stones, this measurement of weight
equal to 200 milligrams is often associated with diamonds.
Answer: a Carat
c) Rather than describing shape or size, this is a measurement of weight for cotton. In the
US it is equal to 500 pounds, while the Egyptian measurement is equal to 700 pounds.
Answer: a Bale
Toss-Up #19
Some argue it stemmed from Elizabeth Magie’s 1904 creation designed to promote the single tax.
It was patented under its current name in 1935 by Charles Darrow, who added the Atlantic City
aspects. Originally rejected by Parker Brothers as too dry and too long, spin-offs have included
NASCAR, Star Wars, and state versions. FTP, name this board game which introduced such
phrases as “Get out of jail free” and “Do not pass Go.”
Answer: Monopoly
Bonus #19
For ten points each, name these French painters from a description, none of whom are
named Monet or Manet.
a) Unlike many impressionists, he did not paint the outdoors, preferring instead
contemporary life such as the race track or the ballet. He exhibited only one sculpture
during his lifetime, “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.”
Answer: Edgar Degas
b) More traditional and conservative than most of the impressionists, he was interested in
painting the single human form or family portraits as seen in such works as “Little Girl
with Watering Can” and “Madame Charpentier (SHAR-pen-tee-AY) and Her Children.”
Answer: Pierre Auguste Renoir
c) With Paul Signac (SIN-yahk), he originated the theory of neo-impressionism, rejecting
the irregular brushstrokes of the impressionists for the precise color placement of
pointillism in works such as “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”
Answer: Georges Seurat
Toss-Up #20
While at college he used the surname Wales, and in June 2005, he graduated from the St.
Andrews University in Scotland with a Master of the Arts, after changing his major from arts
history to geography. Though immediate future is unclear, his mother’s descent from the Duke of
Grafton and the Duke of Richmond should make him the first monarch descended from Charles
II. For ten points, name this grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, second in line to the throne.
Answer: His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales (accept William MountbattenWindsor)
Bonus #20
Identify the major US city served by the following airports, for ten points each
a) Dulles
Answer: Washington, D.C.
b) O’Hare
Answer: Chicago, Illinois
c) Logan
Answer: Boston, Massachusetts
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Extra Toss-Up #1
While its abbreviation comes from a Latin word for a scale or balance, this word comes from a
Latin word meaning ‘to weigh’. It refers to three different units of mass – avoirdupois (AV-er
deh-POIZ), troy, and metric – and thus can be defined as 373.2, 453.6 or 500 g, though most
people use it as a measure of weight. For ten points, name this term which in the US is
abbreviated lb (ELL-BEE).
Answer: Pound
Extra Toss-Up #2
Run since 1940 by the MIBA, an organization consisting of five New York City Colleges, they
will continue to be played at Madison Square Gardens for at least the next five years. In 1962,
they allowed a rival organization to choose teams first, but since 2001 they have claimed the
other now constitutes a monopoly, a suit settled in August 2005 when rights to these tournaments
were sold. For ten points, name these former competitors of the NCAA basketball tournament.
Answer: NIT or National Invitation Tournament(s)
Extra Bonus #1
Name the author from works, 30-20-10
30) The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl
20) The Wings of the Dove, Washington Square
10) The Portrait of a Lady, Daisy Miller
Answer: Henry James