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Duke Academic Festival 2004
General rules of play and game format
Each game consists of 20 tossup questions and bonuses arranged in modified PACE NSC format. Specifically, the first 10 tossups are worth 10 points, with related bonuses corresponding to each tossup worth a maximum of 20 points; the last 10 tossups (and any match tiebreakers) are worth 20 points maximum until the reader completes the phrase “for ten points,” with bonuses worth a maximum of 30 points. There is no “category quiz” section which there is at the NSC. Unlike many other college-run tournaments, there are no interrupt penalties.
Each foursome has one opportunity to buzz in and respond to a tossup question, and upon getting the tossup right, the team gets a chance to answer follow-up bonus questions. If one team buzzes in first and does not get the answer correct (or fails to respond in time), the opposing team will hear the rest of the question from the point of interruption, but someone on that team must buzz in to answer. There is no consultation among teammates allowed while the text of the tossup is being read (after the reader says “Tossup!”) or the tossup is still in play.
Each person has roughly a natural pause of 2 seconds to give a response once the reader stops and acknowledges that the person has signaled in. Recognition is not “strict” (that is, the reader states the name of the student); the reader can simply point or gain eye contact with the student. Timing of the “natural pause” is solely the discretion of the reader and cannot be challenged. Feel free to ask each reader of the method of recognition before the matches start.
On bonus questions, teams are allowed and encouraged to consult among themselves. We expect that the team captain provide the answers, but the captain may at his/her discretion publicly designate a teammate to answer. Unless otherwise mentioned, five seconds are allowed for discussion of each bonus prompt asked before an answer must be given; readers should say, “Captain, your answer” after 3 seconds has elapsed. Designation shall not be used as a means to extend time to answer the bonus question, and the reader at his/her discretion may rule appropriately.
For any bonus parts that are not answered or passed, the opposing team will have a natural pause of 2 seconds (plus whatever unused time is available) to provide an answer, which we expect from the team captain. Points will be awarded for correct answers on stolen bonus parts at value. Teams should not engage in loud or distracting discussions during an active bonus question.
One exception to the related tossup-bonus rule: this year we are not using a handout round, which is our preferred method to ask calculation/mathematics questions, and we never ask calculation tossups. Consequently, at any time during the related tossup/bonus round, a calculation bonus may be asked regardless of the subject nature of the tossup. In some cases, both teams will be provided a handout with the problem to be solved, but the team that gets the tossup first will be given the first opportunity to answer the question. All calculation questions are worth 20 points for the complete, correct answer, reduced to simplest terms unless otherwise dictated. No partial credit will be given. Please keep any values of any relevant constants such as pi or e in your answer rather than using the decimal or fractional approximations.
Substitutions are allowed at the halfway point during each match. One may also switch rosters between games. A team may challenge the precision and accuracy of a question or answer given, provided the challenge is submitted in writing to the tournament directors, but protests will be ruled upon (at the leisure of the tournament directors) when it makes a difference in the outcome of the match. To prevent abuse of the challenge/protest procedure, a team cannot submit more than two protests in a specific match. Furthermore, if a team submits three protests that are denied, that team will be penalized with an automatic loss upon their record (for seeding purposes only); each additional denied protest thereafter will result in an additional automatic loss.
Tournament format
Rankings will be based on divisional record; no interdivisional match results will be considered. The seeding tiebreakers are as follows:
1) Win-loss record.
2) Head-to-head result (win-loss).
3) Overall-record (losses), if relevant.
4) Bonus points (earned plus steals) per tossup in the games involving the tied teams.
5) Tossup points in the games involving the tied teams.
6) Bonus points per tossup in all matches.
7) Total points scored per game in all matches.
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
All tossups in this section are worth 10 points regardless of where the person buzzing in stops the reader. Upon getting the tossup right, please read the corresponding bonus question.
Please note: math bonus questions do NOT follow the related tossup-bonus paradigm, and can appear at any moment. The math questions are worth 20 points all-or-nothing for the correct answer.
Remember, all bonuses are reboundable. That is, the team that did NOT get the tossup has a chance to get points on missed/skipped parts of the opposing team’s bonuses. Please note, that in some cases, the bonuses have one extra prompt to accommodate for such errors. (If you are playing standard tossup/bonus: any two-part bonuses should be worth 15 each.)
TOSSUP 1-1 (RMP, Chris): After killing an abusive man, this slave raised among royalty fled into exile in the land of Midian. God spoke to him in the form of a burning bush. For ten points, name this man who received the Ten Commandments and led the Israelites to the Promised Land?
Answer: Moses
RELATED BONUS (RMP, Chris): Answer these questions regarding the exodus from Egypt for ten points each.
[10] This brother of Moses was supposedly more eloquent in dealing with the Pharoah.
Answer: Aaron
[10] This was the name of the “bread” sent from heaven to feed the wandering Israelites.
Answer: Manna
[extra 10] This was the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
Answer: Sinai
TOSSUP 1-2 (PS, Ling): For the matrix equation A times vector x equals vector b, this rule fails whenever the determinant of A is equal to zero. For ten points, name this eponymous rule in linear algebra that can be used to solve a system of simultaneous equations by the ratio of determinants of the coefficients of the variables.
Answer: Cramer’s Rule
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
[Solve this equation for x: x-cubed minus x equals zero (x3 – x = 0).]
Complete Answer: x equals -1, 0, +1
TOSSUP 1-3 (LB, Sean/ETC): Osric, introduced in Act 5, Scene 2 of this play, is called a “waterfly” by the title character after delivering a challenge to a fencing duel. After confrontations with a Ghost in Act I, Marcellus is afraid of the future, saying “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” For ten points, name this play in which the title character ponders the question “To be or not to be.”
Answer: Hamlet
RELATED BONUS (L,Tong): Identify these Shakespearean comedies for ten points each.
[10] It is a backhanded compliment to love featuring the quarrelsome marriage of Oberon and Titania, the marriage by conquest of Theseus and Hippolyta, the lampooning of tales of true love in the play within a play, and the mismatched infatuations of the forest.
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
[10] Set in the idyllic Forest of Arden, to which all the good characters have fled from the corrupt court. Characters include the young nobleman Orlando, who falls in love with Rosalind, daughter of the banished duke, Rosalind’s cousin Celia, Jaques, and the fool Touchstone.
Answer: As You Like It
[extra 10] A romance with an unfaithful woman conducted in the middle of the Trojan War over another unfaithful woman, Helen.
Answer: Troilus and Cressida
TOSSUP 1-4 (AH, Matt): In the 1530s, this man excitedly returned to France with a ship full of iron pyrite and quartz, which he believed to be gold and diamonds. A onetime shipmate of Giovanni de Verrazano, he sailed around western Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, as well as exploring the St. Lawrence River. For ten points, who thus claimed the sites that now contain Quebec and Montreal for France?
Answer: Jacques Cartier
RELATED BONUS (AH, ETC): Answer these questions on the American-Canadian relations for ten points each.
[10] This 1817 accord began a process of demilitarization along the Great Lakes.
Answer: Rush-Bagot Treaty
[10] Following the “bloodless” Aroostook War between Maine and New Brunswick, this treaty defined the border between New Brunswick and Maine.
Answer: Webster-Ashburton Treaty
[extra 10] In 1846, this latitude was agreed upon as the northern land boundary between the “western” continental United States and Canada.
Answer: 49th Parallel
TOSSUP 1-5 (GKT, Darren): The second to last one released in 2002 features an Indianapolis 500 racecar. The 5th one of 1999 shows the Charter Oak, while the first of 2001 reads “Gateway to Freedom” and displays the Statue of Liberty. The most recently issued shows a diamond for the state of Arkansas, while Hawaii’s as yet to be determined design will not be minted until 2008. For ten points, what U.S. coin features 50 commemorative state versions?
Answer: The Quarter
RELATED BONUS (GKT, ETC): Name the base denomination of currency used in these countries for ten points each.
[10] South Africa
Answer: Rand
[10] Saudi Arabia
Answer: Riyal
[extra 10] Russia
Answer: Ruble
TOSSUP 1-6 (BS, Dinesh): Long misunderstood, this neurological disorder is now believed to be caused by an abnormal metabolism of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin. Symptoms include involuntary sudden movements called tics. One of these tics, coprolalia, actually only occurs in less than 30% of sufferers. For ten points, name this disorder, first described over a hundred years ago by the French neurologist after whom it is named.
Answer: Tourette’s Syndrome
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Identify these parts of the brain for ten points each.
[10] This major portion of the brain coordinates movement, balance, and coordination.
Answer: Cerebellum (do NOT accept “Cerebrum”)
[10] This lobe of the cerebrum is responsible for the processing of visual information from the eyes.
Answer: Occipital lobe
[extra 10] This thick bundle of nerves connects the two hemispheres together.
Answer: Corpus callosum
TOSSUP 1-7 (SP, Valerie) A sixth-round pick in the 2000 NFL draft, from the University of Michigan, he replaced injured starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe in the second game of the 2001 season and remained the starter the rest of the season. In 2002 he became the youngest starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl. For ten points, name this two-time Super Bowl MVP, quarterback of the New England Patriots.
Answer: Tom Brady
RELATED BONUS: (SP, ETC) Identify these members of the 2003-2004 Carolina Panthers for ten points each.
[10] In his fifth year in the NFL, he led the Frankfurt Galaxy to the 1999 World Bowl. Name this man who started for the Panthers in Super Bowl 38.
Answer: Jake Delhomme
[10] This offensive tackle from the University of Utah was acquired with the eighth pick of the 2003 draft.
Answer: Jordan Gross
[Extra 10] Delhomme replaced this season-starting quarterback after rallying the team to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars in September.
Answer: Rodney Peete
TOSSUP 1-8 (WH, Sean): His nephew, Arthur of Brittany, was the rightful heir to the throne but he seized power due to Arthur’s young age and his previous tenure as regent. As King, this youngest son of Henry II was a disaster, losing the Angevin Empire, became personally excommunicated, and was fighting off a French invasion when he died. For ten points, name the successor of Richard the Lionhearted.
Answer: John I (Lackland)
RELATED BONUS (WH, ETC): For ten points each, name these royal houses from members for ten points each.
[10] James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II of England
Answer: Stuart
[10] Henry IV and Louis 14th of France
Answer: Bourbon
[Extra 10] Rudolf II, Frederick III, Charles V, and Maria-Theresa, this family of Germanic origin came to dominate the European political landscape for five centuries.
Answer: Habsburg or Hapsburg
TOSSUP 1-9 (FA, Darren): The first scene of Act I sees the titular character killing the father of a woman he harassed; she promptly calls on her betrothed Ottavio to avenge her father’s death. Other amorous conquests ensue, and the final scene of Act II shows the protagonist engulfed in flames after steadfastly refusing to repent for his actions. For ten points, name this opera about Leporello, Donna Anna, and the Commendatore composed by Mozart.
Answer: Don Giovanni
RELATED BONUS (FA, ETC): Name these other works of Mozart for ten points each.
[10] According to legend, a “grey messenger” delivered to Mozart a commission to write this composition, foreshadowing the young composer’s death.
Answer: Requiem
[10] This is the nickname to the third movement of his Piano Sonata #11 in A major, probably inspired after hearing a shawm-and-drum ensemble, reflecting the Turkish influence that appears in his works.
Answer: Rondo alla Turca
[extra 10] His 41st symphony in C major known by this nickname is renown for its final movement, composed in the form of a fugue.
Answer: Jupiter
TOSSUP 1-10 (LA, Ling): She is best known for her stories and ironic novels about upper class people including the conflict between social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the nouveau riche. She gained recognition for her story about Lily Bart, a poor but beautiful woman trying to gain position against a pitiless New York City society in The House of Mirth. For 10 points, name this author who in 1921 became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize with her novel The Age of Innocence.
Answer: Edith Wharton
RELATED BONUS (LA, Tong/ETC): Identify these literary characters for ten points each.
[10] In The Age of Innocence, this lawyer has to decide between his love for his wife May Welland or his passion for her cousin Count Ellen Olenska.
Answer: Newland Archer (either name acceptable)
[10] In Heart of Darkness, he describes his journey into the jungle to see Mr. Kurtz.
Answer: Marlow
[extra 10] A brilliant, hypocritical young parvenu from Stendhal’s The Red and the Black this misfit is determined to make it in a society he despises almost manages to become a successful cad.
Answer: Julien Sorel
Stretch Round
All tossups in this section are worth 20 points until the reader completes the phrase “for ten points”. Upon getting the tossup right, please read the corresponding bonus question. The bonus question is not necessarily related in topic to the tossup.
Remember, all bonuses are reboundable. That is, the team that did NOT get the tossup has a chance to get points on missed/skipped parts of the opposing team’s bonuses.
TOSSUP 1-11 (FA, Tong): Highlighted by vertical and horizontal lines and primary colors, its founder stated, “The square is to us as the cross was to the early Christians. Headquartered in Amsterdam, this art movement considered Vassily Kandinsky its spiritual follower and took pride in being the “purest” of the abstract movements. For ten points (*), name this school of art founded by Theo van Doesburg whose adherents included Gerrit Rietveld, J. J. P. Oud, and Piet Mondrian.
Answer: De Stijl or The Style
BONUS 1-11 (PS, ETC): Answer these questions regarding the physics of sound for ten points each.
[10] By definition the threshold of hearing is defined as zero of these units that measure sound intensity.
Answer: Decibel (accept Bel)
[10] This word describes the interval of pitches with frequencies of a ratio of 2 to 1.
Answer: Octave
[10] The reciprocal of “frequency”, this is the measure of how long it takes a wave to complete a cycle.
Answer: Period
TOSSUP 1-12 (AH, Darren): The Secretary of the Interior, a conservative Seattle lawyer who disliked federal controls and believed in private development of natural resources, approved the sale of several million acres of public lands in Alaska containing rich coal deposits to Seattle businessmen. When the businessmen in turn sold their holdings to New York bankers, a low-ranking Interior official protested and was fired, prompting the head of the Forestry Service to testify against the Interior Secretary in congressional hearings in 1910. For ten points (*), name this “affair” that exposed the eroded relations between Taft and Teddy Roosevelt.
Answer: Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
BONUS 1-12 (WH, Chris): Given a 19th Century conflict, name the decade that it occurred in (example: US Civil War: 1860’s)
[10] Franco-Prussian War
Answer: 1870’s
[10] Crimean War
Answer: 1850’s
[10] Seven Weeks War
Answer: 1860’s
TOSSUP 1-13 (BS, ETC): In a Harvard study, it is responsible for relief from pain and asthma in 30-40% of patients. Important in double-blind studies, its use acts as a control, and patients taking it occasionally recover better than those taking the drug being studied. For ten points (*), name the term used to describe the “healing” effect a person experiences when convinced he/she is taking a drug.
Answer: placebo
BONUS 1-13 (AH, Matt): For fifteen points each, given a war between settlers and Native Americans, name the colony or the present-day state where that conflict primarily took place.
[15] Yamassee War
Answer: South Carolina
[15] Narragansett War
Answer: Plymouth colony or present-day Rhode Island
TOSSUP 1-14 (PC, Sean): A graduate of Swarthmore College, he earned a Fulbright Scholarship and studied seismology. Among his other awards are a Whiting Writers Award in 1988, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize in 1996, and a National Book Award in 2001. Yet, these accomplishments only caused him to look aloof and arrogant when controversy erupted over his promotion of his latest and most famous novel for which he won the National Book Award, The Corrections. For ten points (*), name this writer who failed to appear sufficiently grateful when The Corrections was chosen as an Oprah Book Club of the Air selection.
Answer: Jonathan Franzen
BONUS 1-14 (FA, Dinesh): Answer these questions regarding the works of architect I. M. Pei, for ten points each.
[10] In 1989, Pei reconfigured this museum’s atmosphere with the addition of a glass pyramid.
Answer: The Louvre
[10] Pei’s tower for the John Hancock Company is not the more famous one in Chicago but rather the one in this city.
Answer: Boston, Massachusetts
[10] One of Pei’s most recent buildings is this museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
Answer: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
TOSSUP 1-15 (LW, Matt): First created around 1600 by Okuni, a shrine maiden from Izumo Shrine, its present form features zero female participants; rather, men in drag known as “onnagata” fill female roles. Prominent playwrights who worked in the style included Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Tsuruya Namboku V. Much of it is improvised, and many of its general plot lines were first introduced in bunraku, a popular form of puppet theater. For ten points (*), name this extravagant form of Japanese drama.
Answer: kabuki
BONUS 1-15 (GKT, Matt): For ten points each, name these gourds.
[10] The seeds of this fall gourd are traditionally roasted and covered in salt – though the flesh makes a mighty fine pie.
Answer: pumpkin
[10] After being cooked, its flesh separates into stringy strips reminiscent of a type of pasta.
Answer: spaghetti squash
[15] This squat squash gets its name from its visual similarity to an eastern headdress
Answer: turban squash
TOSSUP 1-16 (CE, Dinesh): It was essentially the massive consolidation of 22 different agencies which worked on disparate measures such as keeping financial markets stable in times of crisis and reviewing vaccination policies. It recently established the US-VISIT program, which fingerprints all foreigners entering U.S. airports. For ten points (*), name this cabinet-level department charged with developing an “integrated national strategy to combat terrorism” and headed by Tom Ridge.
Answer: Department of Homeland Security
BONUS 1-16 (SS, ETC): Identify these animal behavior terms for ten points each.
[10] This two-word term often describes the social hierarchy from most dominant to most subordinate.
Answer: Pecking order (accept power structure)
[10] In a given community, this adjective applies to the dominant individual, who happens to be on top of the pecking order.
Answer: alpha
[10] This category of behavior focuses on the movement of animals in searching for, hunting, and acquiring food.
Answer: forage or foraging
TOSSUP 1-17 (LA, Matt): The first military action in this book is laying barbed wire, a thankless yet dangerous job that sets the tone for the rest of the novel, which centers around a group of buddies – Tjaden, Kropp, Haie, and the narrator Muller – led by Paul Baumer. For ten points (*), name this novel that demonstrated the horrors of trench warfare, the most famous of Erich Maria Remarque.
Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
BONUS 1-17 (LA, Dinesh): Given each character, identify the novel he “narrates.”
[10] Nick Carraway
Answer: The Great Gatsby
[10] Humbert Humbert
Answer: Lolita
[10] Jake Barnes
Answer: The Sun Also Rises
TOSSUP 1-18 (GEO, Chris): In 1703, the cornerstone of a fortress was laid here by this city’s namesake. Soon afterward this city was built upon a swamp. It would be a “Window to the West”, and it enjoyed success as a national capital until 1918. At the start of World War I the city was renamed Petrograd, and after his death the city was renamed after Lenin. For ten points (*), name this city that regained its present name in 1991, and today is the second largest city in Russia.
Answer: St. Petersburg
BONUS 1-18 (BS, Matt): Answer these questions about the scientific experiments of early 20th century Surrey native Frederic Twort For ten points each.
[10] Twort discovered this class of viruses that infect bacteria.
Answer: bacteriophage
[10] The bacteria colonies Twort studied lived on this red-seaweed-based jelly, still used as a base for bacteria colonies in labs today.
Answer: agar jelly
[10] Much of Twort’s research was on Johne’s disease. What animal, also affected by BSE, is harmed by the Johne’s bacillus?
Answer: cattle (accept equivalents)
TOSSUP 1-19 (RMP, Chris): Found in Matthew, chapter 5, it begins “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” and is followed by other “blessed” phrases, saying that the meek will inherit the earth, the merciful will be shown mercy, and the peacemakers will be called sons of God. For ten points (*), what moniker is given to this introductory section to the Sermon on the Mount?
Answer: Beatitudes (prompt on “Sermon on the Mount”)
BONUS 1-19 (RMP, ETC): For ten points each, answer these questions on angels.
[10] This angel appeared to Mary to announce her selection to be the Mother of the Savior.
Answer: Gabriel
[10] In the highest class of angels is this group for which each member has six wings. According to Isaiah, there are two wings that cover the face, two that cover the feet, and two that aid in flying.
Answer: Seraphim
[10] God placed an angel of this order to guard the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were expelled.
Answer: Cherubim
TOSSUP 1-20 (WH, Matt): This empire was visited by Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela and the Arab geographer Yaqut, but neither’s accounts made much of an impact on 12th century Europe due to there religious persuasions. John of Pian de Carpine (in 1245) and William of Rubeck (in 1253), both of French extraction, were the first Christian diplomats to visit the empire’s court at Karakorum. For ten points(*), what empire’s visit by Nicolo and Maffeo (and their son Marco) Polo was received by Kublai Khan?
Answer: Mongol or Tatar
BONUS 1-20 (LB, Chris/Dinesh): Answer the following about George Orwell’s 1984.
[10] The new language created by the party in order to further control the thoughts of its subjects.
Answer: Newspeak
[10] The name of the country wherein is set the dystopia of the novel.
Answer: Oceania
[10] The novel begins on a bright cold day in April, with the clocks chiming at what hour?
Answer: Thirteen
TIEBREAKER 1-21 (GEO, ETC): A low-lying peninsula, known as the el-Lisan (the “tongue”), extends from its southeastern shore and divides this lake into a deep northern section and a very shallow southern section. The Jebel Usdem lies along its southern shores, present-day residents sometimes refer to it as the Bahr Lut, or the Sea of Lot. For ten points (*), name this lake on the southeast border of Palestine
Answer: Dead Sea
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Solve this equation for x: x-cubed minus x equals zero (x3 – x = 0).
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Solve this equation for x: x-cubed minus x equals zero (x3 – x = 0).
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
All tossups in this section are worth 10 points regardless of where the person buzzing in stops the reader. Upon getting the tossup right, please read the corresponding bonus question.
Please note: math bonus questions do NOT follow the related tossup-bonus paradigm, and can appear at any moment. The math questions are worth 20 points all-or-nothing for the correct answer.
Remember, all bonuses are reboundable. That is, the team that did NOT get the tossup has a chance to get points on missed/skipped parts of the opposing team’s bonuses. Please note, that in some cases, the bonuses have one extra prompt to accommodate for such errors. (If you are playing standard tossup/bonus: any two-part bonuses should be worth 15 each.)
TOSSUP 2-1 (BS, ETC): In general, this class does not produce roots from the radicle; instead prop roots develop from adventitious growth from nodes in the stem. Its pollen grains typically have one furrow or pore, and its major veins and stomata run parallel to the leaf. For ten points, name this class of angiosperm that arises from a single seed leaf in the embryo.
Answer: Monocotyledons
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Identify these questions of plant biology for ten points each.
[10] This root word is used to describe the ability for certain factors to affect the growth of a plant, such as the ability for roots to grow into the earth and plant leaves to face the light.
Answer: Tropism
[10] This is the process in which water actually flows up the plant stem into the leaves.
Answer: Transpiration
[extra 10] Polymers of galacturonic acid are present in ripe fruit or vegetables as well as in most plant cell walls and membranes. In cooking, it is used with sugar to make jellies and jams.
Answer: Pectin
TOSSUP 2-2 (LA, Matt): First and last name required! He takes his first name from the Biblical posthumous son of Phinehas in 1 Samuel. A bookish man himself, he was “tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.” Unsuccessful in his courtship of Katrina van Tassel, for ten points, name the schoolmaster who ran afoul of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
Answer: Ichabod Crane
RELATED BONUS (LA, ETC): Answer these questions on Washington Irving works for ten points each.
[10] This is the persona he assumed in a comic history of the Dutch regime in A History of New York (1809).
Answer: Diedrich Knickerbocker
[10] A collection of stories written under this “gentleman” (1820) established Irving’s career as a writer.
Answer: Geoffrey Crayon
[extra 10] In 1832, Irving published this collection of stories based on the culture of Moorish Spain.
Answer: Alhambra
TOSSUP 2-3 (GEO, Chris): In the First Balkan War against Ottoman Turkey, it gained Adrianople and territory in Thrace and Macedonia. However, conflict over the division of Macedonia resulted in the second Balkan war, resulting in this nation’s defeat and subsequent loss of territory. The nation joined the Central Powers in World War I, and lost even more land as a result of the Treaty of Neuilly. For ten points, what is this nation, with its capital at Sofia?
Answer: Bulgaria
RELATED BONUS (GEO, Sean): Given the former name of the country, give its present name.
[10] Burma
Answer: Myanmar
[10] Rhodesia
Answer: Zimbabwe
[extra 10] South West Africa
Answer: Namibia
TOSSUP 2-4 (SP, ETC): Rafael Arutunian is her new coach, and she earned seven perfect marks after her long-program performed to excerpts from “Tosca.” For ten points, name this legendary figure skater and defending singles world champion and eight-time American champion.
Answer: Michelle Kwan
RELATED BONUS (SP, ETC): Given the year, identify the city that hosted the appropriate Olympic Games for ten points each.
[10] 1904
Answer: St. Louis
[10] 1928 Winter Olympics
Answer: St. Moritz
[extra 10] 1948 Summer Olympics
Answer: London
TOSSUP 2-5 (WH, Chris): The son of a blacksmith, he fought in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and later with the Red Army after being captured by Russians. He led a partisan movement that fought the Nazis in World War II, and afterward he led his country for many decades. His country was expelled from the Cominform in 1948 because of a break with the Soviets. For ten points, name this man who was the dictator of Yugoslavia.
Answer: Josip Broz or Tito
RELATED BONUS (WH, Chris): Given the country and the years when a specific dictator ruled, name the dictator.
[10] Portugal (1932-1968)
Answer: António de Oliveira Salazar
[10] Romania (1967-1989)
Answer: Nicolae Ceausescu
[extra 10] Albania (1945-1985)
Answer: Enver Hoxha
TOSSUP 2-6 (PS, Dinesh): Found in a vast variety of colors, from clear to black, this silicate mineral is composed of well-formed crystals in an intricate hexagonal lattice. With a chemical formula of SiO2 and a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale, this broad class of silicate can be divided into hundreds of subgroups. For ten points, name this most abundant mineral on Earth, used in optical lenses, abrasives, watches, and many other applications.
Answer: Quartz
RELATED BONUS (PS, ETC): Identify these mineralogy terms for ten points each.
[10] This characteristic describes the tendency of a crystal to split itself along a plane.
Answer: Cleavage
[10] A hydrostatic balance can be used to measure this dimensionless property, which is the density of the mineral relative to water.
Answer: Specific gravity
[extra 10] This characteristic describes the reflectance of light upon the mineral to show how brilliant or dull it is.
Answer: Luster
TOSSUP 2-7 (FA, ETC): The Christmas-time lyrics associated with this sixteenth-century English melody come from William Chatterton Dix’s poem “The Manger Throne” (1865), not King Henry the 8th. Mentioned in the Shakespeare play The Merry Wives of Windsor, it was also the basis of a Fantasia by Ralph Vaughn Williams. For ten points, identify this melody that is played in the Christmas carol “What child is this?”
Answer: Greensleeves
RELATED BONUS (FA, Tong): Name these musical terms for ten points each.
[10] Literally meaning “as in church,” this term is used of vocal music without instrumental accompaniment.
Answer: a cappella
[10] Denotes some indispensable part: an elaborate embellishment of a main melodic line, an instrument that’s critical, but subordinate, to a vocal performance.
Answer: obbligato
[extra 10] This Italian adjective is applied to singers who sing with trills and scales in a highly ornamental manner.
Answer: coloratura
TOSSUP 2-8 (RMP, Matt): Important commentaries on this man’s work have been written by Olympiodorus, David “the Invincible,” and Stephanus, all scholars in Alexandria, as well as Michael of Ephesus and Englishman Robert Grosseteste. Known as the “Stagirite” after his hometown, he took a teleological view of biology, classifying features and organisms by the functions their various physiologies serve. For ten points, what thinker wrote the Posterior Analytics, the Topics, and the Physics as head of the “Peripatetic” school.
Answer: Aristotle
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
[If a copier can make 20 copies in 3 minutes, how long will it take the copier to make 150 copies?]
Complete Answer: 22.5 minutes (22 minutes 30 seconds)
TOSSUP 2-9 (LW, Chris): Born in Nishapur in 1048, he studied philosophy in his birthplace early in his life, and he wrote a number of books on arithmetic, music, and algebra. He also contributed to the forming of the Persian calendar, which was more accurate than the Julian calendar of Christian Europe. He is best known, however, for 600 short four-line poems that Edward Fitzgerald translated in 1859, which were known as the Rubayiat. For ten points, who was this mathematician and poet?
Answer: Omar Khayyam
RELATED BONUS (LB, ETC): Since it is Valentine’s Day, name the British authors of these love poems from quotations for ten points each.
[10] Drink to me, only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine.
Answer: Ben Jonson (“To Celia”)
[10] Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that valleys, groves, hills, and fields, woods or steepy mountains yields.
Answer: Christopher Marlowe (“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”)
[extra 10] Julia, I bring to thee this ring. Made for thy finger fit, To shew by this, that our love is (or sho’ed be) like to it.
Answer: Robert Herrick (“A Ring Presented to Julia”)
TOSSUP 2-10 (AH, Darren): A few hardcore radicals smashed windows, pelted police cars with rocks and bottles, and attempted to firebomb the ROTC building. Nixon called the protestors “bums,” VP Spiro Agnew compared them to Nazi storm troopers, and Governor James Rhodes declared martial law on May 3rd and ordered over three thousand National Guardsmen. Eleven students were wounded, one paralyzed when a bullet entered his spine, and four were dead. For ten points, name this event that took place on a university campus in northeast Ohio, commemorated in a Neil Young song.
Answer: Kent State University Massacre
RELATED BONUS (AH, ETC): Answer these questions about Ohio politicians for ten points each.
[10] This newspaper publisher promised a “return to normalcy” in his bid to become President in 1920.
Answer: Warren Gamaliel Harding
[10] An American industrialist with a reputation for being a kingmaker, he put in $100,000 of his own money to support William McKinley’s bid for the Presidency.
Answer: Mark Hanna
[extra 10] In 1977, this 31-year-old politician was elected mayor of Cleveland, but wound up presiding over the city’s financial default. Name this Congressman running for the 2004 Democratic nomination.
Answer: Dennis Kucinich
Stretch Round
All tossups in this section are worth 20 points until the reader completes the phrase “for ten points”. Upon getting the tossup right, please read the corresponding bonus question. The bonus question is not necessarily related in topic to the tossup.
Remember, all bonuses are reboundable. That is, the team that did NOT get the tossup has a chance to get points on missed/skipped parts of the opposing team’s bonuses.
TOSSUP 2-11 (LB, Valerie): The son of the now-deceased witch Sycorax, he acquainted the protagonist with the island when the protagonist arrived. He believes that the island rightfully belongs to him and has been stolen by Prospero. For ten points (*), name this Shakespearian character, Prospero’s servant in The Tempest.
ANSWER: Caliban
BONUS 2-11 (RMP, Tong): Given works, name the philosopher who wrote them.
[10] (First and last name required!) Principles of Psychology, The Will to Believe and Other Essays, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism
Answer: William James
[10] Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations
Answer: Ludwig Wittgenstein
[10] Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, Matter and Memory
Answer: Henri Bergson
TOSSUP 2-12 (PC, Dinesh): The echo of barking dogs that can be heard on the Beatles’ Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, named by Rolling Stone as the greatest album of all time, is in homage to this album, which was named #2. Written by the man calls “arguably the greatest American composer of popular music in the rock era,” the songs were so different from previous works that the band’s record label initially refused to release it. For ten points (*), name this landmark album by the Beach Boys written by Brian Wilson.
Answer: Pet Sounds
BONUS 2-12 (WH, Dinesh) Identify these popes from clues for ten points each.
[10] The Babylonian Captivity began in 1304 when the French king, Phillip IV, had him kidnapped because of their conflict over the supremacy of the papacy over the state.
Answer: Boniface VIII
[10] He voiced his disagreements with Holy Roman Emperor Henry II during the Lay Investiture controversy.
Answer: Gregory VII
[10] As a youth, he worked in a quarry and in the Solvay Co. chemical factory in Krakow, Poland, in order to avoid being deported to Germany.
Answer: John Paul II
TOSSUP 2-13 (AH, Darren): By the sixth century A.D., this people had begun to harvest beans, live in permanent villages, make pottery, and use the bow and arrow, spreading out from the Four Corners area of southwest America. Chaco Canyon in New Mexico housed a cluster of 12 villages containing more than 15,000 people. Drought led to the demised of this advanced people who built 65 mile long straight roads and lived in pueblos such as in Mesa Verde, Colorado. For ten points (*), who is this people whose name comes from a Navajo term meaning “ancient ones”?
Answer: Anasazi
BONUS 2-13 (LW, Tong): Name these fictional characters for fifteen points each.
[15] The dashing young officer for whom Anna Karenina abandons her husband, child, and respectable society life in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
Answer: Alexey Vronsky
[15] A famous church elder, holy and ascetic, who teaches a doctrine of love and forbearance from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. When he dies, a miracle is expected, but instead, his body begins to decompose almost immediately.
Answer: Father Zossima
TOSSUP 2-14 (PS, Sean): Born Leonardo Pisano in Italy, he was raised in North Africa where he learned mathematics. His Liber Quadratorum pioneered elements of number theory, including a method of solving Pythagorean Triples. His most famous work, Liber Abaci contains problems that practically applied mathematics to problems for merchants. His most famous problem purports to describe the breeding of rabbits and produces an eponymous sequence. For ten points (*), name the man for whom the sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 . . . is named.
Answer: Fibonacci
BONUS 2-14 (GEO, Chris): Given an island nation, identify the ocean in which it is located.
[10] Cape Verde
Answer: Atlantic
[10] Seychelles
Answer: Indian
[10] Nauru
Answer: Pacific
TOSSUP 2-15 (FA, Sean): Born in Cremona, Italy in 1567 he is considered one of the most important figures in music history. He became the Maestro a Capella at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice in 1613, but it is for his pioneering works in three operas that he is most famous for. Orfeo and Arianne are both considered by various critics to be the first opera. For ten points (*), name this composer of The Coronation of Poppea.
Answer: Claudio Monteverdi
BONUS 2-15 (GKT, Sean): For 10 points each, name the drink.
[10] It was once popular with artists. However, this drink made from extract of wormwood has been banned in the United States.
Answer: Absinthe
[10] Produced by the David Sherman corporation, this brand of grain alcohol is illegal in comes in 190 proof and rarer 171 proof versions.
Answer: Everclear
[10] Discovered by Dom Perignon, this sparkling wine is named for the region of France in which it is produced.
Answer: Champagne
TOSSUP 2-16 (CE, ETC): It was founded by the inventor of the flying toaster screensaver Wes Boyd and his wife Joan Blades in 1998 in criticism of the impeachment deliberations of President Clinton. Using web-based communication and soliciting funds, it raised $1.5 million during the 2000 election cycle and oversaw the mobilization of a large volunteer force among its then 500,000 members. For ten points (*), name this Democratic-leaning website that recently received criticism for posting two “Bush in 30 seconds” ads which compared George W. Bush with Adolf Hitler.
Answer:
BONUS 2-16 (RMP, Matt): For ten points each, answer these related questions:
[10] This existentialist philosopher, active in implementing Nazi plans to cleanse the intellectual environment of German universities, wrote Being and Time.
Answer: Martin Heidegger
[10] This student of Heidegger and Karl Jaspers wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Answer: Hannah Arendt
[10] Arendt is probably best known for her concept of the “banality of evil,” which she coined while watching this man’s trial in Jerusalem on genocide charges.
Answer: Adolf Eichmann
TOSSUP 2-17 (WH, Sean): A graduate of the Royal Military Academy in Copenhagen, his first prolonged military campaign was against Denmark in 1864. Appointed chairman of the German General Staff in 1855, he broke from Napoleonic tradition to implement organizational reforms, creating the modern Prussian war machine that was put to use so effectively against Austria and France. His nephew and namesake, however, is often blamed for Germany’s failure to quickly win World War I because of his alterations to the original Schlieffen Plan. For ten points (*), name this man who led Prussia’s armies through the wars of unification.
Answer: Helmuth von Moltke
BONUS 2-17 (AH, Matt): Answer these questions about events from 1835, fifteen points each.
[15] Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate this president.
Answer: Andrew Jackson
[15] This New York party, descended from the Workingman’s party and named from an episode when Tammany bosses turned out the lights on their meeting, argued for federal taxation, direct popular vote, and free trade.
Answer: Equal Rights Party or Loco-Focos
TOSSUP 2-18 (BS, ETC): Occasionally, these infectious bacteria (Group A) produce a toxin that results in a “scarlet rash” on the second day after infection. Yellow or white spots can be observed at the tonsils. Left untreated, kidney failure and rheumatic fever will eventually result. For ten points (*), name this family of bacteria that infects the throat and causes swallowing to be painful.
Answer: Strep(tococcus) pyrogenes (“Strep throat”)
BONUS 2-18 (CE, ETC): Answer these questions related to the business world for ten points each.
[10] Overseen by the Federal Trade Commission, this national list created last October now has over 56 million people subscribed to prohibit contact from telemarketers.
Answer: National Do Not Call Registry
[10] This computer animation company founded by Apple’s Steve Jobs recently announced it will terminate its relationship with Walt Disney Corporation.
Answer: Pixar Animation Studios
[10] This Utah-based company claimed copyright on elements of the Linux operating system. Recently they were targeted by the MyDoom.A worm while the B variant went after Microsoft.
Answer: SCO Group/Corporation (also accept Caldera/SCO)
TOSSUP 2-19 (LA, Dinesh) First and last name required! His poor eyesight prevented him from volunteering for military service during World War 2, but when conscripted, in protest to the Dresden firebombing, he declared himself a conscientious objector. While in jail in Danbury, Connecticut, he finished his first book Land of Unlikeness, revised as Lord Weary’s Castle (1947 Pulitzer). His 1959 masterpiece Life Studies won the National Book Award (1960) and wrote the anti-nuclear-war poem “For the Union Dead” (1964). For ten points (*), name this American poet who drew upon his life in his poems, the great-grandnephew of the famous poet James Russell Lowell.
Answer: Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. (prompt on “Lowell”)
BONUS 2-19 (L, Matt): Given two works, name their author For ten points each.
[10] Oleanna and Glengarry Glen Ross
Answer: David Mamet
[10] Disgrace and Life and Times of Michael K
Answer: John Michael (Maxwell) Coetzee
[10] Blue Angel and The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
Answer: Francine Prose
TOSSUP 2-20 (RMP, ETC): When he was born, he was proclaimed the Universal Lord, and taught humankind to make bread and wine. After creating a great civilization, his brother Set found a way to trap him in a coffin where he died. For ten points (*), name this Egyptian who came to preside over the court judging the dead.
Answer: Osiris
BONUS 1-20 (BS, ETC): Identify these terms in marine biology for ten points each.
[10] Water is deflected in a direction relative to the solid earth beneath it because of the earth’s rotation. What is the name of this phenomenon?
Answer: Coriolis effect
[10] Among this group of brown seaweed which is a useful as source of iodine or as fertilizer, the Laminaria is the most abundant along the British and North American Pacific coastlines.
Answer: Kelp
[10] This adjective applies to any “cold-blooded” organism (like a fish or reptile) whose body temperature is equal to its environment’s.
Answer: Ectotherm or Poikilotherm
TIEBREAKER 2-21 (AH, ETC): The New York World listed four reasons for supporting his campaign – all of which were “He is an honest man.” Onetime assistant DA of Erie County and mayor of Buffalo, he was elected Governor of New York in 1882. As President, he withdrew the U.S. Treaty annexing Hawaii, repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and sent in troops to bust the Pullman Strike. For ten points (*), who married Frances Folsom at the White House as Democratic President in 1886?
Answer: (Stephen) Grover Cleveland
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
If a copier can make 20 copies in 3 minutes, how long will it take the copier to make 150 copies?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
If a copier can make 20 copies in 3 minutes, how long will it take the copier to make 150 copies?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 3-1 (LW, ETC): Influenced by morality plays of the Middle Ages, the plays that were created from this group typically include disjointed conversations and a non-existent plot, with a dark kind of humor that exudes pessimism. For ten points, name this literary dramatic group of the 1940’s and 1950’s whose quintessential example is Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, underlying the fact that there is no satisfying explanation for the universe.
Answer: Theater of the Absurd (accept Absurdism)
RELATED BONUS: Name these absurdist writers for ten points each.
[10] His 1947 novel The Plague centers on a group of people who work in vain to treat an epidemic.
Answer: Albert Camus
[10] In his play The Bald Soprano, two characters argue with each other before realizing they’re married to each other.
Answer: Eugene Ionesco
[extra 10] His first commercially successful play, The Balcony, focuses on a set of common men who exercise their fantasies of having power while being entertained in a brothel.
Answer: Jean Genet
TOSSUP 3-2 (CE, ETC): In 1995, it introduced asceptically packaged long-life milk in cartons to the United States under the brand name “Today’s Milk.” Among other recognizable brand names it owns is Esker spring water, Archway cookies, and Parkay margarine. For ten points, name this company that admitted in December it was not holding around 4 billion euros in liquid assets, an Italian dairy conglomerate.
Answer: Parmalat
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
[Acme widgets can sell 400-x widgets at a price of x dollars. At what price (in dollars) is revenue maximized?]
Complete Answer: $200
TOSSUP 3-3 (PS, Dinesh): After years of being forced to receive humiliating estrogen injections to neutralize his libido as an “anti-homosexual” measure, he committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple. He referred to the American Alonzo Church’s work in his landmark paper On Computable Numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. For ten points, name this science who, in the paper mentioned above, theorized about the design and limitations of computing machines, and whose name was subsequently given to those computers.
Answer: Alan Turing
RELATED BONUS (GKT, ETC): Identify these related computer-security terms for ten points each.
[10] Present in free file-sharing programs such as Kazaa, these annoying programs when registered to your computer can secretly send data back to hackers or software companies about your web-surfing habits.
Answer: Spyware
[10] This term is used for a destructive program that masquerades as a benevolent one. One such example is a program that actually was supposed to detect and eliminate computer viruses but instead introduces one to your computer.
Answer: Trojan (horse)
Identify these related computer-security terms for ten points each.
[extra 10] This term is used for programs that corrupt executable files and then making copies to distribute to harm other computers.
Answer: Virus or Worm
TOSSUP 3-4 (AH, Matt): It doubled duties on foreign goods re-shipped in England to the colonies; added iron, hides, whale fins, and pearl ash to the levy list; increased duties on indigo and some wines; banned import of French wine and rum; and extended the Molasses Act so as to levy higher duties on foreign refined sweeteners. Proposed by George Grenville as the “American Revenue Act” on April 5, 1764, for ten points, given the popular term for the first law passed by Parliament for the purpose of raising money from the colonies, named for the commodity it targeted.
Answer: Sugar Act
RELATED BONUS (AH, Matt): For ten points each, name these acts of Congress from the 1880s.
[10] This 1888 law created the first federally-funded agricultural stations. A much later law of the same name regulates campaign activities on federal properties.
Answer: Hatch Act
[10] Based on the previously refused McCrary and Reagan Bills, this important 1887 law regulated railroads.
Answer: Interstate Commerce Act
[extra 10] This civil service reform act, drafted by the Civil Service Reform Association’s Dorman Eaton and sponsored by an Ohio senator, was a reaction to Garfield’s assassination.
Answer: Pendleton Act
TOSSUP 3-5 (WH, Matt): Politically, this nation’s golden years were under the 14th-16th century Jagiello dynasty. The famed conductor Leopold Damrosch, the sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem, 1905 Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz, and 1996 Laureate and poet Wislawa Szymborska all represent this nation on the artistic scene. For ten points, what nation’s capital is Warsaw?
Answer: Poland
RELATED BONUS (GEO, Chris): Given a country, name the capital city for ten points each.
[10] North Korea
Answer: Pyongyang
[10] Sudan
Answer: Khartoum
[extra 10] Latvia
Answer: Riga
TOSSUP 3-6 (FA, Matt): His Venus and Mars features a sleeping Mars, with a bunch of mischievous pan-like creatures playing with the martial god’s weaponry – and about to wake him up with a trumpet blast in the ear. His 1481 fresco Youth of Moses is in the Sistine Chapel, and he stuck a self-portrait into his Adoration of the Magi. A Florentine who began as an aide to Fra Filippo Lippi – and was so respected that he would serve as tutor to Filippino Lippi – he is best known for his pale-figured myth scenes. For ten points, who painted the Primavera and Birth of Venus?
Answer: Sandro Botticelli
RELATED BONUS (FA, Dinesh): Name the type of Greek column given a list of some of its unique features, for ten points each.
[10] Cornice, Triglyph
Answer: Doric
[10] Dentils, Plinth
Answer: Corinthian
[extra 10] Frieze
Answer: Doric
TOSSUP 3-7 (RMP, Chris): It is directed toward Theophilus, and it opens with a description of the birth of John the Baptist. It goes on to describe the birth of Jesus, including the issuing of a Roman census and the coming of the shepherds to the manger. After describing scenes from Jesus’ childhood, it, like the other Gospels, describes the ministry, trial, and death of Jesus. For ten points, what is this Gospel, which shares its name with the supposed author, a famous physician of the early church?
Answer: The Gospel of Luke
RELATED BONUS (RMP, ETC): Identify the father of these Biblical characters for ten points each.
[10] John the Baptist
Answer: Zachariah
[10] Ishmael, son of Hagar
Answer: Abraham
[extra 10] Jonathan, friend of David
Answer: Saul
TOSSUP 3-8 (PC, ETC): Brothers Jonathan and Sean beat out Sarah and Kyle to earn the wild-card spot in the Top Seven. The Grand Prize winner was Live in Color from Miami, as selected by Carmen Electra, M.C. Hammer, and Jaime King. For ten points, name this contest program that was a reincarnation of an earlier variety program in the late 1970’s featuring various dancers.
Answer: Dance Fever
RELATED BONUS (PC, ETC): Name these game show hosts for ten points each.
[10] Previously seen as the electrician on the sitcom NewsRadio, this comedian is the host of Fear Factor.
Answer: Joe Rogan
[10] Previously he hosted Junkyard Wars on The Learning Channel before he was cast to host the syndicated Weakest Link game show. He hosts ToddTV on FX.
Answer: George Gray
[extra 10] He recently agreed to host The Price Is Right for the 33rd straight year.
Answer: Bob Barker
TOSSUP 3-9 (BS, ETC): There are six species found in the human digestive tract, and the most well-known is found on decaying organic matter in freshwater streams or ponds. For ten points, name this microscopic unicellular organism widely studied because of its lack of specialized organs and use of pseudopodia for locomotion.
Answer: Amoeba
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Identify these microbiology terms.
[10] This verb is used to describe the transfer of microorganisms into a culture medium into which the organisms can grow.
Answer: inoculate
[10] Really a complex pressure cooker, this device is used to sterilize equipment using heat and increased pressure.
Answer: autoclave
[extra 10] This term describes the even growth of bacteria over the agar plate upon which small concentrations of antibiotic soaked on paper filters can be placed.
Answer: lawn
TOSSUP 3-10 (LB, Ling): Memorable lines from his poetry include “Take up the White Man's burden - / Send forth the best ye breed - / Go bind your sons to exile / To serve your captives' need”. Although he refused the Poet Laureateship and Order of Merit three times, he became the first British author to win the Nobel Prize in 1907. For 10 points, name this author well known for his classic children’s novels such as the “Just So” stories.
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
RELATED BONUS (LB, ETC): Answer these questions about the works of Kipling for ten points each.
[10] The title character of this 1901 story is about an orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India who becomes primed to be a spy.
Answer: Kim or Kimball O’Hara
[10] Mowgli has much animosity directed toward this tiger who killed his parents.
Answer: Shere Khan
[extra 10] With the assistance of Darzee and Chuchundra, this mongoose helped to protect Teddy and his family from snakes.
Answer: Rikki Tikki Tavi
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 3-11 (BS, ETC): This disease is caused by an immune response that destroys infected Schwann cells, and Dapsone is the most frequent drug prescribed to treat it. The bacterium has been so difficult to culture that the most successful technique is through immunocompromised mice or the nine-banded armadillo. For ten points (*), name this disease whose cause was discovered in 1873 by Norwegian Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen.
Answer: Leprosy (accept early Hansen’s disease)
BONUS 3-11 (WH, Chris): Each of the following defeated countries signed a treaty to end World War I. Name the appropriate treaty for ten points each.
[10] Bulgaria
Answer: Treaty of Neuilly
[10] Romania
Answer: Treaty of Bucharest
[10] Russia
Answer: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
TOSSUP 3-12 (LB, Tong): The first and best of the Metaphysical poets, he broke away from the conventions of the Elizabethan sonnet and the courtly love poem to invent a poetry characterized by a dense, almost incomprehensibly learned style, extremely complicated imagery, a zillion offbeat references to the arts, sciences, crafts and daily life of the times, and a fractured meter and syntax. For ten points (*), name this writer of “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and his collection of Holy Sonnets.
Answer: John Donne
BONUS 3-12 (GKT, Matt): Answer these questions about prominent disputes in the World Trade Organization, for fifteen points each.
[15] The European Union lost before a WTO tribunal because its preferences for this type of produce from African and Caribbean producers violated GATT prohibitions on quotas.
Answer: bananas
[15] The US’ specific regulations prohibiting the import of shrimp caught without particular type of net meant to preserve this type of animal were overturned; but the principal that it could reject imports that did not have adequate protections for endangered species was upheld.
Answer: sea turtles
TOSSUP 3-13 (FA, Matt): Six men in top hats and two women – as well as one additional person – form the backdrop of this 1865 oil-on-canvas painting. Two windows allow in a bit of light – albeit quite yellowish and dingy – which barely illuminates the low ceiling of the car. In the foreground, a young boy sleeps next to an old lady holding a basket, and to her right a young mother nurses a baby. For ten points (*), identify the cramped railcar and you’ve named this Honoré Daumier painting.
Answer: The Third-Class Carriage by Honoré Daumier
BONUS 3-13 (LA, Chris): Name the following from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
[10] The name of the woman who is forced to wear the scarlet ‘A’ because she committed adultery.
Answer: Hester Prynne
[10] The preacher who fathered Hester’s child, who is tormented by his double life.
Answer: Arthur Dimmesdale
[10] Hester’s husband who becomes a town physician and who torments Dimmesdale.
Answer: Roger Chillingworth
TOSSUP 3-14 (SS, Tong): Proponents of this philosophy stress slow and stable growth in the money supply as the best way for a government to ensure lasting economic growth without inflation, and as long as the amount of money in circulation is carefully controlled, wages and prices will gradually adjust and everything will work out in the “long run.” For ten points (*), name this “school” of economics whose chief proponent was Milton Friedman.
Answer: Monetarism
BONUS 3-14 (PS, Tong): Identify these types of numbers for ten points each.
[10] They are all the natural numbers, 0 and all the negatives of natural numbers.
Answer: integers
[10] The integers, plus all fractions, positive and negative.
Answer: rational numbers
[10] A special category of irrational numbers: They’re real, but they’re not algebraic.
Answer: transcendental numbers
TOSSUP 3-15 (WH, Sean): Described by chroniclers as “vile Asiatics,” they were a Semitic people from Canaan or Syria that established their capital at Avaris. During the Second Intermediate Period of Egyptian history, they established the 15th and 16th dynasties and attempted to integrate into Egyptian society. However, they were driven out by rulers from Lower Egypt centered in Thebes, who established the 17th Dynasty and the New Kingdom. For ten points (*), name these invaders credited with introducing the chariot to Egypt.
Answer: Hyksos
BONUS 3-15 (BS, ETC): BS BONUS: Identify these types of joints for ten points each.
[10] One example of this type of joint is the knee, for which motion is restricted to a single plane.
Answer: Hinge
[10] The shoulder and hip are examples of this type of joint, whose movements are similar to that of a joystick.
Answer: Ball and socket
[10] Unlike the lower leg, the forearm can also rotate 180 degrees without using the shoulder joint because it is this type of joint.
Answer: Pivot
TOSSUP 3-16 (PS, Ling): The application of this equation can be used to describe the flow speed of an incompressible fluid in a Venturi tube and explains why blood arterial pressure is more than 6 times greater in the one’s head than feet. For ten points (*), give the name of this equation whose discoverer also attempted the first explanation of the behavior of gases with changing pressure and temperature thus establishing the beginnings of the kinetic theory of gases.
Answer: Bernoulli’s equation
BONUS 3-16 (SP, ETC): Answer these questions about the game of volleyball for ten points each.
[10] This term is used for a change of possession from one team to the opponent.
Answer: Side out
[10] With this attacking move, a player usually tries to hit the ball into the opponent’s court at high velocity while airborne.
Answer: Spike
[10] The Japanese developed this type of attacking move in which a player lightly hits the ball over the opponent’s blocks.
Answer: Dink
TOSSUP 3-17 (AH, Chris) Born in the late 1870s as Doroteo Arango, he was a successful bandit before Abraham Gonzalez recruited him to join the revolution. He led his forces to victory in the battles of Torreon and Zacatecas, but is most remembered in the US by his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, in which 17 Americans were killed. For ten points (*), name this Mexican revolutionary leader whom General John Pershing pursued.
Answer: Pancho Villa
BONUS 3-17 (H, ETC): For ten points each, name these politicians involved with the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton for ten points each.
[10] A Solicitor General under George Bush (Sr.) and Court of Appeals judge, he was appointed as the Special Prosecutor regarding President Clinton’s dealings with the Whitewater probe.
Answer: Kenneth Starr
[10] A counsel to the Watergate Committee, Starr retained the services of this Georgetown law professor and Democrat to advise him on professional ethics.
Answer: Sam Dash
[10] This Louisiana Congressman and Republican leader surprisingly announced his resignation as the articles were being debated, and called for the President to do the same.
Answer: Bob Livingston
TOSSUP 3-18 (GKT, Matt): Based in Redwood City, California, this firm was the first to have color instruction manuals for its products. Its early hits included “Tax Dodge” – essentially Pac-Man with IRS agents instead of ghosts – and the fantasy chess-type game “Archon.” Now headed by Larry Probst, it has rights to the Harry Potter and James Bond series. For ten points (*), what software manufacturer is best known for titles like “The Sims,” “NBA Live,” and “John Madden Football”?
Answer: Electronic Arts
BONUS 3-18 (FA, ETC): Identify these folk musical instruments for ten points each.
[10] A small Italian lute featured in a serenade scene in Don Giovanni, Martin and Gibsons are the most well-known producers of these flat-backed instruments.
Answer: Mandolin
[10] One plays this instrument by placing it in front of the musician’s mouth and blowing across it while “twanging” a tongue on its frame.
Answer: Jew’s harp (Jaws harp)
[10] This hexagonal accordion-like reed instrument produces different tones between pushing and pulling the bellows.
Answer: Concertina
TOSSUP 3-19 (LA, Dinesh): In her own words, this writer’s philosophy is “the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” After many failed attempts to convey Objectivism in essay form, she turned to novels, thereby producing two of the most challenging bestsellers ever written. For ten points (*), name this author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
Answer: Ayn Rand
BONUS 3-19 (LW, ETC): Given the works, name the international author, for ten points each.
[10] The poetry collection Les Fleurs du Mal
Answer: Charles Baudelaire
[10] Sorrows of Young Werther
Answer: Johann van Goethe
[10] Cry, the Beloved Country
Answer: Alan Paton
TOSSUP 3-20 (GEO, Darren): Its modern history begins in 1690 when Job Charnock came to the bank of the river Hooghly River and established three villages, Sutanuti, Govindapur and Kolikata, as part of the British East India Company. The Marble Palace, Birla Planetarium, and the National Library are located in this city, which was captured by Robert Clive in 1757. For ten points (*), name this capital of West Bengal, India’s largest city.
Answer: Calcutta
BONUS 3-20 (RMP, Matt): Answer these questions about Islam For ten points each.
[10] Give the collective term for Ali and his eleven sons, all religious leaders.
Answer: the twelve imams
[10] Ali’s wife, an Egyptian dynasty named itself after her.
Answer: Fatima
[10] Jann – created before Adam – was the first of these demonic genii, who were faithful to Allah for a long time but eventually corrupted by the sin of pride. Iblis (Satan) is their leader.
Answer: jinn
TIEBREAKER 3-21 (LB, Matt) According to a young officer who participated described this battle, a part of the Osprey Campaign, by noting that “the enemy consisted of 15,000 infantry [and] 4,000 cavalry protected by 10 guns.” The English went “very steadily” forward along with his 13th Division, but the heavier armored divisions were cut off from the soldier’s own troop. Approximately a half hour of intense firefight, it was actually the result of an error in communications. For ten points (*), name this attack in the battle of Balaclava in 1854, memorialized by a Tennyson poem.
Answer: Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Acme Widgets can sell 400-x widgets at a price of x dollars. At what price (in dollars) is revenue maximized?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Acme Widgets can sell 400-x widgets at a price of x dollars. At what price (in dollars) is revenue maximized?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 4-1 (LA, Darren): Set in the backwoods of northern Florida that its author was famous for portraying, it concerns the relationship between a 12-year old boy and Flag, the fawn that he adopts. When the fawn cannot be stopped from eating the family’s crops, Jody Baxter’s father forces Jody to shoot Flag. This tragic event pushes Jody to a greater maturity in, for ten points, what 1939 Pulitzer Prize winning work by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings?
Answer: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
RELATED BONUS (LA, ETC): Answer these questions on literature with horses for ten points each.
[10] A collection of four stories by John Steinbeck, the title refers to the horse Gabilan.
Answer: The Red Pony
[10] In Animal Farm, this horse lives by the mottoes “I will work harder,” and “Napoleon is always right.”
Answer: Boxer
[extra 10] In this Peter Shaffer play, a young man is institutionalized for having blinded several horses with a hoof pick.
Answer: Equus
TOSSUP 4-2 (RMP, Matt): This god named the island of Rhodes, informed Demeter of the rape of her daughter, and told Hephaestus of Aphrodite’s affair with Ares. In return, Aphrodite made this all-seeing deity fall in love with Leucothea, daughter of a Babylonian king, but Leucothea was tattled on to her father by her jealous sister Clytie, and buried alive! Clytie then died of remorse, turning into a flow which followed the god she, like her sister, loved, as he trekked across the sky each day. For ten points, name this Greek god, who personified the sun.
Answer: Helios (not Apollo – he was solar light, but not the physical sun)
RELATED BONUS: Name these sun deities for ten points each.
[10] Depicted as a hawk is this Egyptian sun god.
Answer: Ra
[10] In Norse mythology, this sun goddess rode a chariot pulled by the horses Alsvid and Arvak.
Answer: Sol
[extra 10] Both the husband and brother of Ishtar was this Mesopotamian god of the sun.
Answer: Shamash
TOSSUP 4-3 (BS, ETC): The manubrium, gladiolus, and xiphoid process are the three parts to this elongated structure. For ten points, name this bone that articulates with and supports the clavicles and the ribs.
Answer: Sternum or Breastbone
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): For the average human being, what is the number of these items one should find in the human body?
[10] Teeth in an adult human
Answer: 32
[10] Bones in the inner ear
Answer: 3
[10] Cranial nerves
Answer: 12
TOSSUP 4-4 (LW, Chris): Throughout this novel, the author inserts many nonfiction interludes, including almost 100 pages on the Battle of Waterloo and another sizable portion on the Parisian Sewer system. For ten points, what is this Victor Hugo novel, the subject of a major Broadway musical?
Answer: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
RELATED BONUS (LW, Chris): Identify these characters from Les Miserables for ten points each.
[10] First and last name required. The thief and central protagonist, who is known by names such as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultimus Fauchelevent, and Monsieur Leblanc
Answer: Jean Valjean
[10] Valjean rescues this daughter of the prostitute Fantine from a life of misery.
Answer: Cosette
[extra 10] Cosette’s lover who Valjean rescues from certain death in the July 1832 uprising.
Answer: Marius Pontmercy
TOSSUP 4-5 (SS, Matt): Free-market transactions are expected to get closer to this situation, at least for the two self-interested parties involved in the transaction (although not necessarily for third parties). Somewhat related to a zero-sum game, in which there is a limited pot of resources over which individuals compete, for ten points, what term – named for an Italian economist – indicates a state of affairs where no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off?
Answer: Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality
RELATED BONUS (SS, Matt): For ten points each, give these economics terms.
[10] Typically downward sloping (from left to right), this curve represents how much a consumer would shell out for a given product.
Answer: demand curve
[10] This cost is the additional cost of producing one extra unit of a product.
Answer: marginal cost
[extra 10] This the average cost of producing each product, subtracting fixed costs such as the cost of building a factor.
Answer: average variable cost
TOSSUP 4-6 (PS, ETC): Among the hundreds of alternate proofs of this theorem is one produced by President James Garfield. A pattern that was observed by the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Tschou-Gun of China over a thousand years before, the theorem’s first proof was provided by Euclid’s Elements over 200 years later. For ten points, what eponymous geometric theorem relates the sides of a right triangle to its hypotenuse?
Answer: Pythagorean (Pythagoreas’) theorem
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
[A sweater originally selling for $50 has been marked down by 50%, an additional 30% off the new price, and another 20% after that. For how much (in dollars) is this sweater selling?]
Complete answer: $14
TOSSUP 4-7 (AH, Darren): Organized by Leonard Wood, they included miners, policemen, college athletes, and cowboys. Their most famous exploit was an uphill charge during the Battle of Santiago in which the group helped capture Kettle Hill and then charged across a valley to assist in the seizure of San Juan Ridge. For ten points, give the nickname of the First Volunteer Cavalry regiment during the Spanish-American War that helped establish Teddy Roosevelt’s reputation.
Answer: Rough Riders
RELATED BONUS (AH, ETC): Answer these questions related to Cuba for ten points each.
[10] Appended to an Army appropriations bill in 1901, this amendment named for a Connecticut Senator outlined the conditions under which American troops would withdraw from Cuba.
Answer: Platt Amendment
[10] During the summer months in 1980, over 120-thousand Cubans in 1387 vessels tried to flee Cuba and enter the United States. What is the name given to this event?
Answer: Mariel Boat Lift
[extra 10] During his reign as dictator of Cuba, he transformed Havana into a “Little Las Vegas,” before he was overthrown by Fidel Castro.
Answer: Fulgencio Batista
TOSSUP 4-8 (WH, Matt): Founded by the warrior Sundiata, this kingdom created quite a stir in the Muslim world in 1324, when Sundiata’s grandson donated an unheard-of amount of gold to charity during the hajj. For ten points, what West African empire, centered at Timbuktu, had its most famous ruler in Mansa Musa?
Answer: Mali Empire
RELATED BONUS (WH, Chris): Identify the following Egyptian Presidents.
[10] This Pan-Arab leader came to power after the Free Officer’s Revolution of 1952 and was President during the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Six Day War.
Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser
[10] He became president soon after the death of Nasser. He presided over the October War of 1973 and shared the Nobel Prize for the Camp David Accords. He was assassinated in 1981.
Answer: Anwar al-Sadat
[extra 10] He succeeded Sadat after his assassination and is the current President of Egypt today.
Answer: Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak
TOSSUP 4-9 (GEO, ETC): At 485 miles, it is the country’s second-longest river, with notable tributaries such as the Yonne, Oise, and Marne. Large ocean vessels can dock 75 miles inland along its banks at Rouen. For ten points, name this famous river that flows through Paris, France.
Answer: Seine River
RELATED BONUS (GEO, Chris): Given a river, name the country it primarily flows through for ten points each.
[10] Volga
Answer: Russia
[10] Murray
Answer: Australia
[extra 10] Yangtze
Answer: China
TOSSUP 4-10 (FA, Darren): Act I begins in a village called Calabria, where Tonio delivers a prologue that promises the audience that they will see no mere play-acting, but real life. Tonio, a hunchback, is attracted by the singing of Silvio’s lover, Nedda. The opera ends later that night in Act II with Canio stabbing Silvio and Nedda. For ten points, name this opera by Leoncavallo that deals with clowns and jealousy.
Answer: I Pagliacci
RELATED BONUS (FA, Matt): Given an opera’s composer, librettist, and a setting, name it For ten points each.
[10] Richard Wagner, Richard Wagner, the Wartburg
Answer: Tannhäuser auf der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg or (Tannhäuser and the Song Contest at the Wartburg)
[10] Engelbert Humperdinck, Adelheid Wette, a German forest
Answer: Hänsel und Gretel
[extra 10] George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Catfish Row in Charleston South Carolina
Answer: Porgy and Bess
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 4-11 (GKT, Darren): A graduate of Princeton and Harvard before becoming a longtime member of the Columbia University faculty in 1963, his first book Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography was a continuation of his doctoral thesis. In his most famous work Orientalism, he examines Western stereotypes about the Islamic world and argues that Orientalist scholarship is based on Western imperialism. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this Palestinian-American literary critic who passed away in 2003.
Answer: Edward Said
BONUS 4-11 (WH, Matt): Follow the “fraidy-cat” monarch, For ten points each.
[10] In 1848, this man, uncle of the future emperor Francis Joseph I, led the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Answer: Ferdinand the First
[10] Ferdinand fled this city after a pair of uprisings that troubled year, and stepped down later that year in favor of Francis Joseph when a third revolt wracked the city.
Answer: Vienna
[10] Ferdinand’s flight from Vienna led him to this resort town, capital of the Tyrol province.
Answer: Innsbruck
TOSSUP 4-12 (LB, Dinesh): Jupiter appears unexpectedly in a fantastical dream of the titular character’s daughter, Princess Imogen. The story follows Imogen’s relationships with three men: the seductive Iachimo, her true husband Posthumus, and, least to her liking, her stepmother’s idiot son Cloten. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this romance, an odd account of potions, abductions, and other sensational events, by William Shakespeare.
Answer: Cymbeline
BONUS 4-12 (AH, ETC): Answer these questions about the short history of the Know-Nothings/American Party for ten points each.
[10] In 1856, they publicly supported this former President as candidate for President.
Answer: Millard Fillmore
[10] Fillmore won 22% of the popular vote and this state’s eight electoral votes.
Answer: Maryland
[10] The Know-Nothings wanted to increase the waiting period for immigrants to become citizens from five to this number of years.
Answer: 21 years
TOSSUP 4-13 (PS, Sean): Born in 1879, this Danish scientist introduced in 1923 a new conception of acids and bases. Defining acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors, this concept introduced the terms “conjugate acids” and “conjugate bases” and was proposed simultaneously and independently with English chemist Thomas Lowry. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this chemist.
Answer: Johannes Bronsted
BONUS 4-13 (LW, ETC): Identify these general literature terms for ten points each.
[10] The turning point of a story, usually it is where the tension is at its highest.
Answer: Climax
[10] This writing device interrupts the chronology of a story to present an incident that occurred prior to the timeline of the story.
Answer: Flashback
[10] This word refers to the grammatical order of words in a sentence. Normally it’s “subject, verb, object.”
Answer: Syntax
TOSSUP 4-14 (GEO, Darren): A 120 sq/mi volcanic island with crater lakes, it became independent of Great Britain in 1967, joining the Commonwealth of Nations in 1974. Though the June 1995 election of Keith Mitchell as Prime Minister was without any violence, an October 1983 coup saw the assassination of then Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this Windward Island developing nation whose capital is Saint George’s.
Answer: Grenada
BONUS 4-14 (PS, ETC): Identify these eponymous space science theoretical items for ten points each.
[10] This is the region where comets that orbit the sun beyond Neptune arise, usually between 30 and 50 astronomical units away.
Answer: Kuiper (“kiper”) Belt
[10] This theoretical space surrounding the solar system is thought to be the source of comets.
Answer: Oort Cloud
[10] This is the point between two bodies attracted through gravity where a third, much smaller body can be placed so it maintains the same distance relative to the other two bodies.
Answer: Lagrangian Point
TOSSUP 4-15 (AH, Darren): They distributed currency backed by questionable securities and were located in inaccessible areas to discourage note redemption. Note circulation by state banks ended with the passage of the National Bank Act of 1863, which provided for the incorporation of national banks and the issue of banknotes on the security of government bonds. FOR TEN POINTS (*), what name was given to banks chartered under state laws during the period of state banking control from 1816–63?
Answer: Wildcat banks (prompt on “pet banks”)
BONUS 4-15 (LA, ETC): Given the work, name the ship for ten points each.
[10] Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Answer: Pequod
[10] Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Answer: Patna
[10] The ship that Wolf Larsen commands in Jack London’s The Sea Wolf
Answer: Ghost
TOSSUP 4-16 (SP, ETC): Eric Lemming won the first two Olympic gold medals in this event (beginning in 1908), for which Scandinavians would dominate for 50 years. The men’s apparatus weighs 800 grams, and the women’s weighs 600 grams; but since 1999, the center-of-gravity was moved forward soon after the women’s world record hit 80 meters. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this track-and-field event which awards athletes who can throw a spear the farthest distance.
Answer: Javelin (throw)
BONUS 4-16 (RMP, Matt) Answer these questions about a philosopher For ten points each.
[10] This child prodigy wrote “Defense of Usury” in 1787, arguing – with some support from his friend Adam Smith – that loaning money with interest promotes economic growth.
Answer: Jeremy Bentham
[10] Arguing that society should seek to achieve “the greatest happiness of the greatest number,” Bentham created this philosophical idea.
Answer: utilitarianism
[10] Bentham briefly studied under this iconic British legal scholar, but soon gave up the law in disgust.
Answer: Sir William Blackstone
TOSSUP 4-17 (WH, Matt/ETC): The 1960 coup he led resulted in the murder of Premier Patrice Lumumba, while the 1965 coup he orchestrated removed his one-time ally Joseph Kasavubu. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this dictator and President of Zaire/Congo until he was overthrown in 1997.
Answer: Joseph Desire Mobutu or Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga
BONUS 4-17 (SS, ETC): Identify these terms related to animal behavior for ten points each.
[10] This mating system occurs in most birds in which one female mates with only one male.
Answer: Monogamy
[10] An example of this adaptation is the viceroy butterfly which appears similar to the more poisonous monarch butterfly.
Answer: Batesian Mimicry
[10] This word refers to the tendency for observers to explain animal behavior by imparting human characteristics.
Answer: Anthropomorphism
TOSSUP 4-18 (FA, ETC): William Henry “Juba” Lane (1825-1852) is credited as the first to add syncopation and improvisation and was known for a series of challenges against Jack Diamond. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson did a performance of “The Hot Mikado” at the 1939 World’s Fair in this style, one of the most popular attractions of the Fair. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this style of dance made popular by Gregory Hines and Savion Glover known for the clicking of shoes on the floor.
Answer: tap dancing
BONUS 4-18 (CE, ETC): Answer these questions about recent natural disasters for ten points each.
[10] Days after an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 hit near Paso Robles, this state also witnessed mudslides near Waterman Canyon resulting from a large rainstorm on Christmas day, 2003.
Answer: California
[10] An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 or 6.7 hit this nation December 26, 2003, near the small historic city of Bam (“bom”).
Answer: Iran
[10] On January 1, 2004, an earthquake hit the islands of Bali on the eastern portion of this nation.
Answer: Indonesia
TOSSUP 4-19 (LA, Matt): This 1973 novel won the Premio Quinto Sol, a prize for Chicano literature, it focuses on an aged curandera – an old woman practitioner of white magic, who is warily tolerated by the Catholic Church. The recurring story of the Golden Carp mirrors the development of the young Mexican-American Tony. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya.
Answer: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
BONUS 4-19 (PC, Sean): For 10 points each, name the fictional fraternity.
Members of this fraternity’s Harrison College chapter include both Harrison students and adults, including founders Mitch Martin and Frank the Tank.
Answer: Lambda Epsilon Omega
Adding a line to the bottom of each of the letters of this fictional fraternity produces Tri-Delta, one of the most prominent sororities on the campus. They obtain their vengeance on the Alpha-Betas.
Answer: Lambda Lambda Lambda (accept Tri-Lam)
Members of this fraternity include “Otter”, “Flounder”, and of course, John “Bluto” Blutarski as played by John Belushi.
Answer: Delta Tau Chi
TOSSUP 4-20 (BS, ETC): Its genome is 16,569 base pairs in human, five times smaller than in yeast while in watermelon, its genome is 330-thousand base pairs. Among the genes included in the genome are the various members of the cytochrome c oxidase subunits for its inner membrane and the porins in its outer membrane. FOR TEN POINTS (*), name this organelle with its own DNA responsible for providing energy for the cell.
Answer: Mitochondrion (mitochondria)
BONUS 4-20 (WH, Matt): Answer these questions about ancient Egypt, for ten points each:
[10] Scholars believe that his actual name was Hor-Aha, but you need to give the common name of the first pharaoh of the First Dynasty, who unified upper and lower Egypt and founded the city of Memphis.
Answer: Menes
[10] This double crown symbolized the unity of upper and lower Egypt.
Answer: pschent
[10] Giant statues of this pharaoh wearing the pschent still exist at Abu Simbel and Karnak. He reigned from 1180 to 1150 BC, or thereabouts.
Answer: Ramses III
TIEBREAKER 4-21(PS, Matt): This simple device function because the static pressure at point X exceeds the static pressure at a lower point Z by a quantity equal to the density of the fluid times the acceleration of free fall times the vertical distance between X and Z. For ten points (*), what device is used to lift a fluid over a barrier, such as the wall of a container, and release it to a lower point?
Answer: siphon
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
A sweater originally selling for $50 has been marked down by 50%, an additional 30% off the new price, and another 20% after that. For how much (in dollars) is this sweater selling?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
A sweater originally selling for $50 has been marked down by 50%, an additional 30% off the new price, and another 20% after that. For how much (in dollars) is this sweater selling?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 5-1 (GEO, ETC): Located at the Kaibab Plateau, its Vishnu schist layer is over two billion years old. Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell led a small expedition through it 329 years after Spanish explorer Garcia Lopez de Cardenas became the first European to see it. For ten points, name this 277-mile-long, up-to-18-mile-wide, and one-mile-deep wonder of the natural world formed by the Colorado River in Arizona.
Answer: Grand Canyon
RELATED BONUS (GEO, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about America before Westerners arrived.
[10] This large architectural ruin in Oaxaca was the center of the Zapotec civilization. It is commonly known by a Spanish name meaning “White Mountain.”
Answer: Monte Albán (accept: Danipaguache [Zapotec] or Ocelotepec [Aztec])
[10] This catch-all term refers to groups in the Southwest and Rio Grande area with farm-based, like the Hopi and Zuni. The supposed wealth of their “Seven Cities” prompted Coronado’s expeditions north of Mexico.
Answer: Pueblo
[extra 10] This city near present-day Mexico City was the Mayan religious center.
Answer: Teotihuacán
TOSSUP 5-2 (BS, ETC): It begins the Embden-Meyerhof pathway by being phosphorylated by hexokinase. Amylose consists of long chains of this monomer as does cellulose. For ten points, name this six-carbon sugar that is broken down in cellular metabolism.
Answer: Glucose (accept Dextrose)
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Answer these questions on proteins for ten points each.
[10] The building block of peptides is these individual organic compounds.
Answer: Amino acids
[10] Simple polypeptides can have a secondary structure that is generally characterized as a beta-sheet or this motif.
Answer: alpha helix
[extra 10] Heat, extreme pH, or ultraviolet radiation can disrupt the native conformation of a protein. Name the term for the process that can destroy the three-dimensional structure of a protein.
Answer: Denature or Denaturation or Denaturization
TOSSUP 5-3 (LA, Dinesh): A soft-spoken pediatrician who spent his entire life in a small town in New Jersey, his life would be nondescript except for the fact that he became one of America’s most famous poets. Never fitting in with the high society culture of T.S. Eliot or Ezra Pound, he strived to convey the images of everyday American life in his works and gained the pleasant nickname “Uncle Bill.” For ten points, what poet, despite more substantial works like Paterson, is best known for the 15-word poem “Red Wheelbarrow”?
Answer: William Carlos Williams
RELATED BONUS (LA, ETC): Another author who tried to depict life in small-town America was Sinclair Lewis. Answer these questions about his work for ten points each.
[10] In Main Street, Carol Kennicott tries to introduce culture into this fictional Minnesota small town.
Answer: Gopher Prairie
[10] George F. Babbitt is a middle-aged real-estate broker in this Midwestern city.
Answer: Zenith
TOSSUP 5-4 (SP, ETC): Rosemary Homeister, Jr., was only the fifth woman to participate in this event. Alonzo “Lonnie” Clayton was only fifteen when he won in 1892. Oliver Lewis won the first in 1875 in 2 minutes 37 seconds. For ten points, name this race that will be run for the 130th time at Churchill Downs in May.
Answer: Kentucky Derby
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
[Mark buys four pens from the Duke University bookstore at 2 for $1 and three pencils at 25 cents each. Adding 7% sales tax, how much would be owe?]
TOSSUP 5-5 (FA, ETC): A showing organized by critic Vladimir Stasov in the spring of 1874 after the death of 39-year-old artist and architect Victor Hartmann inspired this piano suite by June 22. For ten points, name this composition based upon ten different sketches or paintings by Hartmann, the friend of the composer Modest Mussorgsky.
Answer: Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
RELATED BONUS: Identify these compositions by Russian composers for ten points each.
[10] Performed with spoken narration, this concert favorite by Prokofiev has a characteristic set of instruments portraying each major character. The grandfather is portrayed by the bassoon.
Answer: Peter and the Wolf
[10] In this four-act ballet by Tchaikovsky, frequently the prima ballerina portrays both Odette and Odile. The action takes place after Prince Siegfried turns 21.
Answer: Swan Lake
[extra 10] The title character was the chief advisor to Ivan the Terrible, and the Mussorgsky opera characterizes the new leader’s rise and fall from power.
Answer: Boris Goudonov
TOSSUP 5-6 (RMP, ETC): Different versions of his life claim that he is a king of a small city-state or a young shepherd. Every night, on the top of Mount Latmus, he and his lover Selene would meet. For ten points, name this mortal whom Zeus would place in an eternal sleep.
Answer: Endymion
RELATED BONUS (RMP, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about a Germanic god.
[10] German soldier chanted this god’s name when they went to battle Roman troops. A god of thunder who rode about in a chariot drawn by a pair of uber-goats, he wielded the hammer Mjollnir.
Answer: Thor or Donar
[10] Thor’s wife, she had hair made of dwarven gold, since her original hair was yanked out by Loki as a prank.
Answer: Sif
[extra 10] Thor used the head of the one of the giant Hymir’s cows (ripped of by Thor, of course) as bait to fish for this large snake, which was freed when the frightened Hymir cut the line.
Answer: the Midgard serpent or Jormungand
TOSSUP 5-7 (WH, Matt): He defeated German forces in South West Africa in 1915 and put down an Afrikaner revolt earlier in the Great War. His rise to prominence as a military leader, however, began with his defeat of British forces at Colenso and Ladysmith. An attendee of the Paris peace conference after WWI alongside Jan Smuts, For ten points, name the first prime minister of Traansval and the first premier of the Union of South Africa.
Answer: Louis Botha
RELATED BONUS (WH, ETC): Answer these questions on South African history for ten points each.
[10] In protest of British policies enacted in the Cape Colony, this exodus of Boers migrated northward.
Answer: Great Trek
[10] The production of diamonds from South Africa became consolidated under this monopoly controlled by Cecil Rhodes.
Answer: DeBeers Consolidated Mines
[10] The 1902 peace treaty signed in this city formally ended the South African/Boer War.
Answer: Vereeniging
TOSSUP 5-8 (PS, Matt): The Hume-Rothery rules allow scientists to determine the ratios of different elements bound in these sort of compounds by looking at the ratio of valence electrons to atoms. Frequently harder than any of its constituent elements, a characteristic which made early examples like brass and bronze especially useful to humans. For ten points, what is the scientific term for bonds of metals with metals?
Answer: alloys
RELATED BONUS (PS, Dinesh): Given the older or alternative name of an element which gave rise to its chemical symbol, give its common name for ten points each.
[10] Stannum
Answer: Tin
[10] Stibium
Answer: Antimony
[extra 10] Natrium
Answer: Sodium
TOSSUP 5-9 (AH, Darren): The videotaped meetings resulted in the indictments and convictions of one senator and four congressmen on charges including bribery and conspiracy, though in 1982 the conviction of Florida Representative Richard Kelly was overturned on questionable legal grounds of entrapment. Begun in 1978 when the FBI created a front for its agents posing as associates of an Arab sheik, it led to selected public officials being offered money for special favors. For ten points, name this important scandal dealing with the ersatz Abdul Enterprises company.
Answer: Abscam
RELATED BONUS (AH, Tong/ETC): Given a political scandal, name the president under whose tenure it took place.
[10] Whiskey Ring
Answer: Ulysses Grant
[10] Watergate
Answer: Richard Nixon
[extra 10] Whitewater
Answer: Bill Clinton
TOSSUP 5-10 (LB, ETC): Compeyson leaves her at the altar in order to take all of her money. She is so traumatized that she refuses to take off her wedding dress, and her room still has the molding remnants of her wedding cake. For ten points, name this character who becomes the adopted mother of Estella in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.
Answer: Miss Havisham
RELATED BONUS (LB, ETC): Name these Charles Dickens characters for ten points each.
[10] This good-hearted nephew of Ebenezer Scrooge wishes his uncle a Merry Christmas.
Answer: Fred
[10] Imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years, he is reunited with his daughter Lucie and travels with her to London.
Answer: Dr. Alexandre Manette (either name acceptable)
[10] This wife of David Copperfield dies at a very young age.
Answer: Dora Spenlow (either name acceptable)
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 5-11 (CE, ETC): Thousands have protested and called for the replacement of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa with someone elected by universal suffrage. The United States recently issued a statement of support for full democratic rule by the time the 10-year-transition period of the Basic Law had transpired. For ten points (*), name this special administrative region that has been considered the most open free-market economy in the world which, in 1997, was transferred from British to Chinese control.
Answer: Hong Kong
BONUS 5-11 (AH, Chris): Answer the following questions about the Battle of Puebla for ten points each.
[10] What holiday celebrates this defeat by Mexican soldiers over the French and their allies in 1862?
Answer: Cinco de Mayo
[10] Who was the emperor of France who had ordered his soldiers to Mexico?
Answer: Napoleon III
[10] Who was the President of Mexico who had sent troops to oppose the French?
Answer: Benito Juarez
TOSSUP 5-12 (FA, Darren): Standing next to the lavish bed is a black servant with red earrings who is holding a large arrangement of flowers. At the foot of the bed is a black cat standing up on all fours. The drapery of the room is a dark green, providing a nice contrast to the pale white skin of the titular reclining nude with a pink rose in her hair, in for ten points (*), what 1863 Manet work?
Answer: Olympia
BONUS 5-12 (RMP, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions on a philosopher.
[10] This philosopher studied law at Poitiers, but turned to other studies, and wrote the Discourse on Method in 1641.
Answer: Rene Descartes
[10] Descartes is frequently credited with coining the phrase Cogito ergo sum in this work, but the work doesn’t use it – rather, it explored the foundations of philosophy with the “wax problem.”
Answer: Meditations on First Philosophy
[10] Descartes’ somewhat more oddball forays into physics saw him conclude that matter swirls about in these
Answer: vortices or vortexes
TOSSUP 5-13 (PS, ETC): Its density is estimated at 3 grams per cubic centimeter, implying it consists of rock with trace amounts of water. A smooth sheet of ice covers most of its surface though crossing dark lines are also visible. For ten points (*), name this fourth largest satellite of Jupiter, named for a mythological maiden taken away by Zeus in the form of a bull.
Answer: Europa
BONUS 5-13 (GKT, ETC): Identify these spices for ten points each.
[10] Once considered more valuable than gold, this light brown spice native to Sri Lanka is popular in various baking goods when ground or in desserts while in “stick” form.
Answer: Cinnamon
[10] The world’s most expensive spice, it takes an acre of small purple crocus to create one pound of this yellow spice.
Answer: Saffron
[10] Native to India and Iran, its name comes from the Greek word for king and had been called the “herb of kings.” In Italy, it is also a symbol of love.
Answer: (Sweet) Basil
TOSSUP 5-14 (AH, Darren): The Cheyennes, led by their chief Black Kettle had offered to make peace with American negotiators, and at the suggestion of military personnel, they encamped near Fort Lyon. While awaiting word from the territory’s governor, they were attacked in a surprise dawn raid on November 29, 1864. Led by Col. John Chivington, for ten points (*), name this Colorado massacre that saw American soldiers refusing to honor the white flag of surrender, instead killing hundreds.
Answer: Sand Creek Massacre
BONUS 5-14 (BS, ETC): Identify these genetics-related terms for ten points each.
[10] This term describes the non-sex-related chromosomes in an organism.
Answer: autosomes (autosomal)
[10] This adjective describes an organism’s genomic content as having two copies of each autosomal chromosome.
Answer: diploid
[10] This term describes a variant form of the same gene, which results in different phenotypes. Some forms are more dominant than others.
Answer: allele
TOSSUP 5-15 (RMP, Sean): Dying on November 24, 2002 at the age of 81, his work has been called the philosophical foundation for the modern welfare state. His 1971 work, A Theory of Justice was written while a Harvard philosophy professor and was nominated for the National Book Award. In it, he argues that the democratic state can and should be the guarantor of distributive justice and for an egalitarian world view. For ten points (*), name this man, sometimes called the most important political philosopher of the second half of the 20th Century.
Answer: John Rawls
BONUS 5-15 (PC, Dinesh): Name these films directed by Martin Scorsese, given some actors and their roles, For ten points each.
[10] Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, Harvey Keitel as Judas Iscariot, Andre Gregory as John the Baptist
Answer: The Last Temptation of Christ
[10] Robert De Niro as Ace Rothstein, Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro, Sharon Stone as Ginger McKenna
Answer: Casino
[10] Tom Cruise as Vincent Lauria, John Turturro as Julian, Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson
Answer: The Color of Money
TOSSUP 5-16 (SS, Matt): In Neo-Confucianism, this concept is closely indentified with li, a word meaning “principle.” It can also describe a linguistic or written account of the means by which to embody, or at least describe, a series of philosophic goals. Central to the thought of Wang Pi, Kuo Hsiang, Chuang Tzu, and Lao Tzu, for ten points (*), give this Chinese term meaning “path.”
Answer: tao
BONUS 5-16 (LA, ETC): Answer these questions about Tennessee Williams plays for ten points each.
[10] Big Daddy’s little girl Maggie is lonely and is always looking at herself in the mirror in this play.
Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
[10] This defrocked Episcopal minister is on the verge of a breakdown when he enters a Mexican hotel in this Williams play.
Answer: Night of the Iguana
[10] A very introverted 23-year-old, she wears a leg brace and walks with a limp, the unicorn is her favorite figure in The Glass Menagerie.
Answer: Laura Wingfield
TOSSUP 5-17 (LW, Matt): The author of this book spent several years doing extensive historical and even archaeological research. The book focuses on the rebellion of Mathô, a giant from Libya, against the leadership of Carthage during the First Punic War. The title character, with whom Mathô is in love and whose sacred veil he steals, is the priestess of the goddess Tanit and the daughter of Hamilcar, the Carthaginian leader. For ten points (*), name her and you’ve named this 1862 novel by Gustave Flaubert.
Answer: Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert
BONUS 5-17 (WH, Matt): Answer these questions about leftist revolutionary (and novelist) Victor Serge For ten points each.
[10] He coined this term, defined by my dictionary as “a form of government in which one person or party exercises absolute control over all spheres of human life” to express his disgust at Stalin’s secret police.
Answer: totalitarianism
[10] Serge led the last anti-government march in honor of the suicide of Bolshevik diplomat Adolf Joffe, who compared Stalin’s rule to this violently repressive period of the French Revolution.
Answer: Termidorian Reaction (accept Thermidor)
[10] Serge’s Midnight in the Century may well have inspired this British novelist (of left-wing politics himself) to write his similarly-titled Darkness at Noon.
Answer: Arthur Koestler
TOSSUP 5-18 (LA, Matt): Finished while its poet, Bret Harte, was on vacation in Table Rock in 1870, the action in this poem took place on August third. Bill Nye’s attempts to fix a euchre game fail miserably when a “peculiar” “heathen Chinee” pulls twenty-four bowers out of his sleeves. For ten points (*), name this poem about a cheating gambler who is temporarily outwitted by his even less scrupulous opponent, Chinese cardsharp Ah Sin.
Answer: “Plain Language from Truthful James”
BONUS 5-18 (GEO, Matt): GEO, Matt): Name these DC-area landmarks For ten points each.
[10] This hotel and office complex along the Potomac was the site of a famous break-in.
Answer: Watergate
[10] Ironically, but perhaps not surprisingly in this era of small-talking and big-spending Republicans, this is the largest federal building in the US.
Answer: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
[10] A field rather near the Jefferson Memorial is decorated with metal soldiers in drab ponchos and memorializes this war.
Answer: Korean War Veterans Memorial
TOSSUP 5-19 (WH, ETC): He simplified the sonography system developed by Charles Barbier de la Serre using his own experience with arranging upholstery pins. For ten points (*), name this then 15-year-old who, with the support of school director Sebastian Guillé, in October 1824, revealed his tactile system of communication for the blind.
Answer: Louis Braille
BONUS 5-19 (PS, ETC): Identify these thermodynamics terms for ten points each.
[10] This quantity is equal to the total energy of a system plus the product of its pressure and volume.
Answer: Enthalpy
[10] This term is applied to reactions for which the Gibbs free energy is less than zero.
Answer: Spontaneous
[10] This eponymous law states that if a reaction is carried out in a series of steps, the overall change in enthalpy is equal to the sum of all enthalpy changes in each step.
Answer: Hess’s Law
TOSSUP 5-20 (BS, ETC): They move by controlled secretions responding to chemical or physical stimuli, and individual species can be identified by the distinctive markings on their opaline silica shells, which serve as their cell walls. For ten points (*), name these microscopic unicellular organisms that serve as primary sources of food for small aquatic organisms.
Answer: diatoms
BONUS 5-20 (LB, ETC): Identify these poems by William Wordsworth from quotations for ten points each.
[10] Five years have past; five summers, with the length / Of five long winters! and again I hear / These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs / With a soft inland murmur.
Answer: “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour: June 13, 1798”
[10] “… I saw a crowd / A host, of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
Answer: “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”
[10] “Milton! Thou should’st be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee.”
Answer: “London, 1802”
TIEBREAKER 5-21 (LW, Sean): He was born in 1893 and was in Europe teaching when World War I broke out. However, he enlisted and wrote about his experiences before dying in a German machine gun attack at the age of 25. For ten points (*), name this writer whose most famous poem describes an attack using poison gas, and exposing the Latin proverb “Dulce et Decorum Est” as a lie.
Answer: Wilfred Owen
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Mark buys four pens from the Duke University bookstore at 2 for $1 and three pencils at 25 cents each. Adding 7% sales tax, how much would be owe?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Mark buys four pens from the Duke University bookstore at 2 for $1 and three pencils at 25 cents each. Adding 7% sales tax, how much would be owe?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 6-1 (GKT, ETC): First and last name required. Though her doctoral thesis from the University of Wisconsin focused on British essayist Matthew Arnold, she has recently become an advocate for history education, serving on the Commission of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. Her 1995 book Telling the Truth focused on the effects of postmodernism on the study of the humanities, while her 2003 children’s book A is for Abigail presents the biographies of famous American women. For ten points, name this former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and wife of the Vice President.
Answer: Lynne Ann (Vincent) Cheney
RELATED BONUS (CE, ETC): Identify the authors of the following recently published memoirs for ten points each.
[10] In My Prison Without Bars, the author finally admits to betting on baseball.
Answer: Pete Rose
[10] In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, the author reflects on the rise of Goldman Sachs and his relationships with members of the Clinton Cabinet as Treasury Secretary.
Answer: Robert Rubin
[extra 10] In Leap of Faith: Memoirs from an Unexpected Life, this Princeton alumna describes her life as wife to King Hussein of Jordan.
Answer: Queen Noor al Hussein (born Lisa Halaby)
TOSSUP 6-2 (LW, Matt): Pastor Manders advised the main character to marry – and stay with – her deceased husband, and his repetitive focus on “duty” as the backbone of society is undercut by the development of the drama. Focusing on the hereditary syphilis passed on from Captain Alving to his son Oswald, For ten points, name this Henrik Ibsen play.
Answer: Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
[Find the area under the curve y=5 bounded by the x-axis from x=0 to x=2.]
Complete answer: 10
TOSSUP 6-3 (PS, Dinesh): Discovered in the 13th century when Albertus Magnus mixed soap with auripigmentum, it is used to prevent the corrosion of brass, and it is also used in semiconductors. For ten points, name this chemical element with atomic number 33, placing it among the toxic metalloids.
Answer: Arsenic
RELATED BONUS (ETC, PS): Identify these terms from nuclear chemistry for ten points each.
[10] In this type of nuclear reaction, the heavy atomic nucleus splits after being bombarded with high-energy particles.
Answer: Fission
[10] In beta decay reactions, this electrically neutral particle with one-half unit of spin and negligible mass is frequently produced.
Answer: Neutrino
[extra 10] These subatomic particles can apparently defy the Pauli Exclusion Principle as they are not limited in the number of particles that can occupy the same quantum state.
Answer: Boson
TOSSUP 6-4 (CE, ETC): During his nine-year term as Minister of Finance, Canada recorded five consecutive budget surpluses, erasing a $42 billion deficit. Co-chair of the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development, he helped develop the platform for the Liberal Party and co-authored the “Red Book” called Creating Opportunity: The Liberal Plan for Canada. For ten points, name this politician who in December 13, 2003, succeeded Jean Chretien as Canada’s new Prime Minister.
Answer: Paul Martin (Jr.)
RELATED BONUS (WH, Matt/ETC): Name these important African leaders.
[10] Mamadou Dia served as premier under this poet and politician, first president of Senegal in 1960.
Answer: Leopold Senghor
[10] This head of the centralizing Ugandan People’s Party took control of Uganda in 1966, deposing the former king (and then-president) Sir Edward Mutesa II. He centralized the nation, quelling separatist movements in Buganda and several other former kingdoms.
Answer: Milton Obote
[extra 10] In 1999, he succeeded Nelson Mandela as the leader of the African National Congress and President of South Africa.
Answer: Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
TOSSUP 6-5 (WH, ETC): Although he was named Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1931, his later actions during WWII made him an enemy of the western world. In 1940, he built a friendship with Otto Abetz, the German ambassador to France, and subsequently recommended that France ally with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. For ten points, name this controversial Frenchman who served three separate terms as Prime Minister, the last of which ended in 1945 with the succession of Charles De Gaulle.
Answer: Pierre Laval
RELATED BONUS (WH, ETC): Identify these other pre-World War 2 politicians.
[10] This British Prime Minister established the policy of appeasement when dealing with Nazi Germany.
Answer: Arthur Neville Chamberlain
[10] This Norwegian soldier encouraged the Germans to invade, whereupon he became the head of government.
Answer: Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonnson Quisling
[extra 10] His forces overthrew the Spanish republic during the Spanish Civil War. He would be dictator of Spain until his death in the mid-1970’s.
Answer: Francisco Franco
TOSSUP 6-6 (BS, ETC): Secreted under sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation by the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands, it consists of amylase and various mucin proteins. For ten points, name this substance that keeps the mouth moist.
Answer: Saliva (accept with humor “spit”)
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Identify these trace elements in nutrition for ten points each.
[10] This element is needed by the thyroid to produce hormones needed to maintain homeostasis.
Answer: Iodine
[10] Sheep that are raised on land deficient in this element develop “white muscle disease.” Present in high amounts in broccoli, it supposedly acts as an antioxidant, boosting the immune system and protecting the body from some forms of cancer.
Answer: Selenium
[extra 10] Deficiency of this element that is important in the function of insulin and ion channels in the brain can result in stunted growth and impaired sexual maturity.
Answer: Zinc
TOSSUP 6-7 (FA, ETC): Paul Whiteman approached the composer to produce this piano concerto with a jazz band, but it wasn’t until about a month before its announced premiere on February 12, 1923, that the composer actually began work on it. Scored for orchestra with the help of Ferde Grofé in 10 days, the composer as soloist actually improvised the cadenzas, and clarinetist Ross Gorman was joking around when he smeared the seventeen-note scale in the introduction. For ten points, name this work involving a solo piano and eventually orchestra by George Gershwin.
Answer: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
RELATED BONUS (FA, ETC): Identify these musical terms for ten points each.
[10] Prevalent in jazz, this technique involves the use of accenting notes that do not occur on any of the main beats in a measure.
Answer: Syncopation
[10] The use of syncopation was prominent in this style of 20th-century American piano music, exemplified by Scott Joplin.
Answer: Ragtime
[extra 10] This type of scale uses all 12 “white” and “black” notes.
Answer: Chromatic
TOSSUP 6-8 (LB, Sean): “Come, Lord Jesus,” is the final line of this 1847 novel, spoken by the title character in reference to her missionary cousin who had previously proposed marriage to her before his departure to India. Instead, this character flees to Ferndean to seek her true love and former employer, Edward Rochester. For 10 points, name this novel by Charlotte Bronte often called the prototypical feminist novel.
Answer: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
RELATED BONUS (LA, Sean): For 10 points each, name these women in literature with a common first name.
[10] This protagonist of Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” poisons her fiancé and tends to his corpse in her bed.
Answer: Emily Grierson
[10] This Amherst poet wrote over 1700 poems while living in seclusion
Answer: Emily Dickenson
[extra 10] In act III of this play, Emily Webb wishes to be with her husband George Gibbs and learns to appreciate the little things in life.
Answer: Our Town by Thornton Wilder
TOSSUP 6-9 (AH, Matt): James was the president of Lake Forest University in Chicago and author of 1903’s Living for the Best; John was a lyric poet from Oklahoma best known for his 1912 collection Airs and Ballads. Robert was a British naval officer who, during a search for the missing Sir John Franklin, unwittingly stumbled upon the long-sought-after Northwest Passage. For ten points, give the common last name shared by Irish-born American media magnate Samuel, founder of the eponymous news-magazine which published Ida Tarbell’s “History of the Standard Oil Company.”
Answer: McClure’s
RELATED BONUS (AH, ETC): Name these American journalists for ten points each.
[10] An editor of the New Yorker, he also edited the Log Cabin which promoted William Henry Harrison’s campaign. Name this founder of the New York Tribune who also ran for President in 1872.
Answer: Horace Greeley
[10] In response to Frederic Remington’s request to return from Havana, this proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner said, “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.”
Answer: William Randolph Hearst
[extra 10] This American newspaper publisher created the first major network-chain of newspapers and established the United Press (1907). His son Robert would reorganize the network with Roy Howard.
Answer: Edward Willis Scripps
TOSSUP 6-10 (RMP, ETC): Created from the mud from the great flood, this child of Gaea lived in a cave on Mount Parnassus. Men summoned Apollo to slay the beast, and the monster’s defeat was commemorated every nine years with the festival of Stepteria and a quadrennial athletic competition. For ten points, name this snake that guarded the Oracle of Delphi.
Answer: Python (Greek mythology)
RELATED BONUS (WH/GEO, Chris): Given an ancient wonder of the world, name the ancient city where it was located.
[10] The Colossus
Answer: Rhodes
[10] The Mausoleum
Answer: Halicarnassus
[extra 10] The Temple of Artemis
Answer: Ephesus
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 6-11 (WH, ETC): In 1998, Prime Minister Blair, compelled by “new evidence” established a new board of inquiry regarding this event, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate. The original inquiry conducted by Lord Chief Justice Widgery concluded that the soldiers of the first Parachute Regiment had been fired upon first, and were thus exonerated for the deaths of 14 protesters. For ten points (*), what colloquial name is given to the events of January 30, 1972, in Londonderry, a milestone in the Irish independence movement?
Answer: “Bloody Sunday”
BONUS 6-11 (LW, Tong): Identify these terms in Greek tragedy, for ten points each.
[10] Usually translated as “fatal flaw”, it’s what, according to Aristotle, it takes to be a tragic hero.
Answer: Hamartia
[10] The most common example of hamartia, it adds up to arrogance or pride, although it can start out as an essentially harmless character trait taken to extremes.
Answer: Hubris
[10] Originally a quasi-goddess who epitomized righteous anger at a breach of the rules and who liked to mete out punishments, it brings the hero to his downfall when his hubris becomes evident.
Answer: Nemesis
TOSSUP 6-12 (LA, Matt): This author of the Hawthorne Prize-winning poem The Land is better known for her novels like 1931’s All Passion Spent. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group – and onetime lover of Virginia Woolf - she was a descendent of the literati who wrote the introduction to the 1563 poetry collection The Mirror for Magistrates, Thomas Sackville. For ten points (*), who is best known for her 1930 novel The Edwardians?
Answer: Victoria (or Vita) Sackville-West
BONUS 6-12 (GKT, Matt): Given a person famous for his command of a particular craft, name the craft he is associated with For ten points each.
[10] Robert Heppelwhite
Answer: cabinet making
[10] Dale Chihuly
Answer: glass blowing
[10] Josiah Wedgewood
Answer: pottery or china
TOSSUP 6-13 (FA, Matt): The second rebuilding of its main chapel was one of the first to incorporate the high vaults of the Burgundian version of Romanesque architecture. Actually a whole community built in small plazas around a central abbey, it was chartered in 910 AD, at the behest of Duke William of Acquitane and his wife Ingelberga. For ten points (*), name the first important reform monastic house in France.
Answer: Cluny
BONUS 6-13 (AH, Matt): Identify these figures associated with the Boston Massacre.
[10] This man commanded the main guard which fired into the colonial mob.
Answer: Thomas Preston
[10] This black Bostonian was the most famous of the dead.
Answer: Crispus Attucks
[10] (First and last name required) Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson ordered the British troops to retreat to the harbor at the request of this man, a Patriot, brewer, and later creator of the Committees of Correspondence and organizer of the Boston Tea Party.
Answer: Samuel Adams
TOSSUP 6-14 (BS, ETC): This ion is transported by channels stimulated by neurotransmitters glycine or gamma-aminobutyric acid. Also involved in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance channel, its concentration is around 100 millimolar in blood plasma and 4 millimolar inside the axon. For ten points (*), name this ion with 17 protons and 18 electrons.
Answer: Chloride
BONUS 6-14 (PS, ETC): Name these geology terms, for ten points each.
[10] A depression in the earth’s surface that collects sediment.
Answer: Basin
[10] This type of metamorphic rock is coarse-grained with alternating bands of light and dark-colored minerals.
Answer: Gneiss (“nice”)
[10] This German-derived term describes large eye-shaped mineral grains found in metamorphic rocks.
Answer: Augen
TOSSUP 6-15 (SP, Sean): He is described as “high energy”, “intense”, and “hard-working”. These traits did not satisfy fans of his current team, as a website calling for his dismissal was founded a mere weeks after his hiring. This website has since spawned imitators and reached over 1,120,000 hits after an 8-5 inaugural season, consecutive losses to Ol’ Miss, and a 24-10 loss at home to Tennessee. For ten points (*), name this University of Florida heat football coach.
Answer: Ron Zook
BONUS 6-15 (FA, ETC): Identify these art terms for ten points each.
[10] The representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface.
Answer: Perspective
[10] This term is used for the creation of clay artworks that are fired in a kiln.
Answer: Ceramic(s)
[10] The encrusted film that forms on the surface of copper or bronze due to oxidation.
Answer: Patina
TOSSUP 6-16 (LW, Ling): This author’s literary language is a mix of standard English blended with pidgin, Igbo vocabulary, proverbs and speech patterns. His satirical novels often describe the influence of Western customs and values on traditional African society. Holding diverse roles during his lifetime from Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts to the deputy national president of the Nigerian People's Redemption Party, for ten points (*), name this author of A Man of the People and Arrow of God.
Answer: Chinua Achebe
BONUS 6-16 (LA, ETC): Name the writers of the following works for ten points each.
[10] Death of a Salesman, the tragic play regarding the Loman family
Answer: Arthur Miller
[10] The novel Death Comes for the Archbishop
Answer: Willa Cather
[10] Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
TOSSUP 6-17 (PS, Ling): It was named after the scientist who was the first to show the quantitative relationship between heat and work. For ten points (*), name this theoretical engine cycle which shows that when the amount of reversible heat added to the system is divided by temperature, a new variable, later describe as entropy becomes path-independent.
Answer: Carnot Cycle
BONUS 6-17 (RMP, Chris): Answer these questions about the prophet Jonah for ten points each.
[10] How many days and nights did Jonah spend inside the “large fish”?
Answer: 3
[10] Jonah is ordered by God to prophesy in which city, a capital of ancient Assyria?
Answer: Nineveh
[10] Jonah tries to flee from his duties to which city, before he is thrown into the sea?
Answer: Tarshish
TOSSUP 6-18 (AH, ETC): After winning $1,500 in a lottery and buying his freedom, this man purchased a carpentry shop and became a preacher in the largest African Methodist Episcopal church in his state. He built a cadre of followers, including a slave of the governor of South Carolina and a black conjurer named Gullah Jack. For ten points (*), name this leader who was executed in 1822 after his plan to seize all of Charleston’s arms and ammunition was betrayed.
Answer: Denmark Vesey
BONUS 6-18 (SP, ETC): For ten points each, identify these NFL football scoring machines (that is, kickers), for ten points each.
[10] This Indianapolis Colts all-pro didn’t miss a field goal or an extra point throughout the 2003-04 regular season or playoffs.
Answer: Mike Vanderjagt
[10] This Ohio State and Cleveland Browns kicker known as “the Toe” scored 1608 points in his 21-year NFL career.
Answer: Lou Groza
[10] Missing only one extra point out of 167 attempts in his four-year career to date, this Polish-born kicker was selected in the first round of the 2000 NFL draft by the Oakland Raiders.
Answer: Sebastian Janikowski
TOSSUP 6-19 (PC, ETC): One of her earliest roles was as the sister Molly Pruitt in the movie Home Alone 3. The following year she portrayed Grace, a troubled 14-year-old who lost her leg in an accident involving her horse Pilgrim in the 1998 Robert Redford movie The Horse Whisperer. For ten points (*), name this young actress who appears in the recent films Lost in Translation opposite Bill Murray.
Answer: Scarlett Johansson
BONUS 6-19 (SS, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about Welsh minister and philosopher Richard Price.
[10] Price gave the Royal Society a paper containing the namesake theorem of one of his deceased friends. Name the person or the theorem, used to calculate conditional probabilities.
Answer: Thomas Bayes’ Theorem
[10] Price’s November 1799 sermon arguing that the British, too, could replace their king – like their cross-Channel neighbors – spurred Edmund Burke to pen this famous conservative tract.
Answer: Reflections on the Revolution in France
[10] Price’s funeral oration was given by this productive amateur scientist, who discovered that graphite conducts electricity, named “rubber,” identified laughing gas and oxygen, and described plant respiration.
Answer: Joseph Priestly
TOSSUP 6-20 (GEO, ETC): Almost 50 acres in size, cattle grazed here until 1830, and public hangings were held here until 1817. The anchor of the “Emerald Necklace”, this public park was the campground for British troops who in 1775 were dispatched to fight colonial revolutionaries at Lexington and Concord. For ten points (*), name this green space bounded by Tremont, Beacon, Charles and Boyleston Streets that is the starting point of the Freedom Trail in the capital city of Massachusetts.
Answer: Boston Common
BONUS 6-20 (BS, ETC): Identify these forestry terms.
[10] This layer of cells lies between the xylem and phloem, eventually creating the rings of a tree.
Answer: cambium
[10] The term for the uppermost branches of a tree, it can be classified into dominant, codominant, intermediate, overtopped, or suppressed.
Answer: crown
[10] The second-most abundant class of chemicals found in wood (after cellulose), this organic polymer is concentrated in cell walls, and must be removed in the manufacture of paper.
Answer: lignin
TIEBREAKER 6-21 (GKT, Darren): Son of a Lebanese bakery owner, his first book Unsafe at Any Speed exposed the dangers posed by the design of GM’s Chevrolet Corvair. Founder of such consumer advocacy organizations as Public Citizen and Pension Rights Center, he and his “raiders” have been active in Washington D.C. for over 30 years. For ten points (*), name this man who along with Winona LaDuke won the Green Party nomination in 2000.
Answer: Ralph Nader
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Find the area under the curve y=5 bounded by the x-axis from x=0 to x=2.
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Find the area under the curve y=5 bounded by the x-axis from x=0 to x=2.
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 7-1 (SS, Matt): Prohibited if unlawfully acquired by Section 2 of the Sherman Act, they are lawful if acquired through vigorous competition or through patented innovations. Prominent examples in the United States have included Alcoa (for aluminum) and Microsoft (for operating system software). For ten points, give the economic term for a single firm with the power to control prices or exclude competition in a given market.
Answer: monopoly
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
Given triangle ABC with lengths AC = 8, AB = 4, and angle BAC = 60 degrees, what is the length of BC?
Complete Answer: 4 square root (of) 3 (4 √3)
TOSSUP 7-2 (WH, Darren): Article 6 concerns the transfer of an important railway between Chang-chunfu and Kuanchangtsu. Article 7 exempts the Liaotung Peninsula from all negotiations. Article 9 declares neutral the straits of La Perouse and Tartary. Article 11 treats fishing rights, while several articles discuss the restored administration of Manchuria to China. For ten points, what is this treaty named for a city in New Hampshire, signed between the Emperors of Japan and Russia?
Answer: Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
RELATED BONUS (WH, ETC): Identify these important treaties for ten points each.
[10] This American-British agreement ceded the Northwest Territories to the United States by June 1, 1796, and allowed open commerce along the Mississippi River.
Answer: Jay(‘s) Treaty
[10] This 1929 treaty established the constitution of Italy and the independent sovereignty of Vatican City.
Answer: Lateran Treaty
[extra 10] This 1850 treaty between the United States and Great Britain was subject to many interpretations over joint control of a proposed canal built across Central America.
Answer: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
TOSSUP 7-3 (GKT, ETC): When originally released in 1997, data could be transferred at 1 megabytes per second; by 2000, the interface could handle transfers 40 times faster, making inexpensive real-time video cameras practical. One can add as many as 128 devices by hot-swapping or plug-and-play to a computer without having to restart. For ten points, name this input-output open-source interface that displaced parallel ports, now seen in most mice, keyboards, printers, scanners and external drives.
Answer: Universal Serial Bus
RELATED BONUS (GKT, ETC): Name these numbers associated with computers for ten points each.
[10] This decimal number is the standard DOS naming convention for computer files.
Answer: 8.3 (eight dot three)
[10] This three-digit code appears when a specific web page cannot be found.
Answer: 404
[extra 10] The IEEE established this family of standards to apply to networks. The eleventh set specifically deal with wireless networks.
Answer: 802
TOSSUP 7-4 (LA, Ling): When he tried to join the US Army, he was rejected because he was too short so he moved to Canada, pretended to be British and begins training as a British officer, only to miss the war before his training ended. In addition to feigning a war injury by buying a cane and adopting a limp, he wrote such works like “Ad Astra”, “A Justice” and “A Rose for Emily.” For 10 points name this 20th century author of novels set in the Deep South especially in fictional Yoknaptawpha County.
Answer: William Faulkner
RELATED BONUS (LA, ETC): Answer these questions about Faulkner’s works for ten points each.
[10] Seventy-five miles southeast of Memphis and forty miles from Oxford, this town is the seat of Yoknaptawpha County.
Answer: Jefferson
[10] The Sound and the Fury centers on the thoughts of the three Compson brothers about their sister. What is the name of their sister?
Answer: Caddy
[extra 10] In Absalom! Absalom!, Quentin tells his Harvard roommate about the rise and fall of this Mississippi family.
Answer: Sutpen
TOSSUP 7-5 (BS, ETC): Over three hundred million of these exist in the human body covering a surface area of 75-80 square meters. The interstitial space separating the two cell layers that make up this specialized tissue can be as small as 0.2 micrometers, with macrophages can wander to engulf foreign particles. For ten points, name these structures that form grapelike clusters at the end of bronchioles, the site of gas exchange in the lung.
Answer: Alveolus (alveoli)
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Answer these questions on skin for ten points each.
[10] This skin layer is composed of four sublayers, the outermost of which (the stratum corneum) consists of flattened dead cells that protect the body.
Answer: Epidermis
[10] Contained in the regenerative layer of the epidermis is this subset of cells that produces a protein responsible for the darkening of skin and protecting it from sunlight.
Answer: Melanocytes
[extra 10] In response to cold, excitement, or fear, the hair erector muscles can contract, causing this temporary skin “phenotype”.
Answer: Goose bumps or Goose pimples
TOSSUP 7-6 (SP, Dinesh and Darren):
An outstanding right-handed hitter with exceptional speed, he broke into the majors hitting 0.344 in 1897 and wound up with the National League record for most consecutive seasons batting 0.300 or more (17). After his retirement, he served as the coach of his former team the Pittsburgh Pirates for 19 years, until 1951. For ten points, name this Hall of Fame infielder whose 1910 baseball card was sold by Sotheby’s in 1991 for $451,000.
Answer: Honus Wagner
RELATED BONUS (SP, ETC): Answer these questions about the 2003-2004 hot-stove league in baseball for ten points each. First and last name please for each part!
[10] This Yankees infield injured the ACL in his left knee in a pick-up basketball game and is out for the season.
Answer: Aaron Boone
[10] Signed to a minimal contract with the Florida Marlins last year and taking them to a World Series title, this catcher recently signed a contract with the Detroit Tigers.
Answer: Ivan Rodriguez
[extra 10] Initials for first name acceptable. Signing a one-year $4.2-million deal with the Atlanta Braves is this infielder acquired in a trade from the St. Louis Cardinals.
Answer: Jonathan David Drew
TOSSUP 7-7 (PS, Darren): The moon Mimas is responsible for clearing out any material in this region, named after its French discoverer. About 4,800 kilometers wide is, For ten points, what series of gaps produced by gravitational pull within Saturn’s ring system?
Answer: Cassini division
RELATED BONUS (PS, ETC): Cassini did a lot of observations on the moon. Answer these general questions on the moon for ten points each.
[10] Within one, how many days does it take for the moon to complete a rotation around the earth?
Answer: 27 (26-28)
[10] While a sidereal month is a bit more than 27 days, this adjective applies to the “month” that occurs between observed full moons, which is roughly 29 days.
Answer: Synodic month
[extra 10] This name is given to the cyclical precession of the moon’s orbital plane, which is about 18.6 years.
Answer: Saros cycle
TOSSUP 7-8 (AH, Matt): Appointed Attorney General by William Henry Harrison in 1841, his sons fought as generals on both sides of the Civil War. In 1860, he introduced Joint Resolution S. 50, which proposed to amend the Constitution to forever permit slavery and reaffirm the Fugitive Slave Act. For ten points, name the Kentucky politician whose eponymous attempted “compromise” failed to prevent the Civil War.
Answer: John Crittenden
RELATED BONUS (AH, Chris): Given a Union name for Civil War battle, name its Confederate counterpart:
[10] Antietam
Answer: Sharpsburg
[10] Pittsburg Landing
Answer: Shiloh
[extra 10] The battles of Bull Run
Answer: Manassas
TOSSUP 7-9 (LW, Matt): The only surviving complete poem by this author is the "Ode to Aphrodite," preserved by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Fragment 31, "He that seems to me equal to the gods," is the longest other extant fragment. One ancient story, from Menander, has her falling in love with a ferryman named Phaon. For ten points, name this poet from the island of Lesbos.
Answer: Sappho
RELATED BONUS (LB, ETC): Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf questions anyway? For ten points each, answer these questions on Woolf works.
[10] In this book, Clarissa hosts a party during the summer of 1920’s London.
Answer: Mrs. Dalloway
[10] In the span of 300 years, a young title character from the Elizabethan court ages only 36 years. Okay, he also changes into a woman.
Answer: Orlando
[extra 10] It was soon after finishing this novel that Woolf committed suicide. This story takes place on a June day (1939) in Pointz Hall, which is owned by the Olivers.
Answer: Between the Acts
TOSSUP 7-10 (FA, Matt): This 1891 canvas, now housed in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, is remarkably flat – a solid yellow patch of sand cut off abruptly by the dark green of the sea. Two figures lounge on the sand, one sitting cross-legged in a pink dress and staring towards the viewer, and the other dropped up on one arm, wearing a red dress and a pair of flowers in her hair. For ten points, give either of the common names for this Paul Gauguin still-life of a pair of Pacific Islanders.
Answer: Tahitian Women (Femmes de Tahiti) or Sur la plage (On the Beach)
RELATED BONUS (FA, Matt): Given an artist, identify his nationality for ten points each.
[10] Gustav Klimt
Answer: Austrian (Austria)
[10] Nicholas Poussin
Answer: French (France)
[extra 10] Edvard Munch
Answer: Norwegian (Norway)
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 7-11 (LB, Sean): Initially universally benevolent, he turns to misanthropy only when the recipients of his aid refuse to help him in his bankruptcy. He then flees his city, becomes a cynic, and proceeds to live in his cave. However, the discovery of gold in this cave does not restore him to his former benevolence and he remains unreconciled to the city of Athens. This stands in stark contrast to the character of Alcibiades, who does reconcile. For ten points (*), name this Shakespearean title character.
Answer: Timon of Athens
BONUS 7-11 (PS, ETC): Answer these questions on the electron for ten points each.
[10] Electrons are theoretically positioned in these clouds around the nucleus, in s, p, or d configurations (for examples).
Answer: Orbital(s)
[10] His law states that if two or more orbitals are available to be filled by two electrons, the electrons will occupy different orbitals and have parallel spins
Answer: Hund’s Rule
[10] His rule helps determine whether an organic compound is aromatic based on the number of pi bonds.
Answer: Huckel’s Rule
TOSSUP 7-12 (AH, Tong): She argued that “Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders, they must develop spontaneously – history comes first, leaders’ consciousness second.” Her major theoretical work is The Accumulation of Capital, which attempts to supplement Marx by establishing a precise economic argument for the inevitability of the collapse of capitalism. For ten points (*), name this woman, who with her friend Karl Liebknecht, were murdered while under arrest by the German authorities and who founded the Spartacus League, predecessor of the German Communist Party.
Answer: Rosa Luxembourg
BONUS 7-12 (GKT, Matt): Identify these chess openings For ten points each.
[10] This “quiet” opening sees pawns opposite at d4 and d5, bishops opposite at c4 and c5, and knights at c6 and f3 respectively.
Answer: Guioco Piano (accept: Italian opening)
[10] This gambit involves moving the bishop pawn from f2-f4 to quickly open up the game. If accepted, it can lead on into the Muzio or Kieseritzky Gambits.
Answer: King’s Gambit
[10] Popularized by a 16th-century Spanish master, white uses a bishop to attack the black knight at c6. It frequently leads into a variation of the Morphy Defense.
Answer: Ruy Lopez
TOSSUP 7-13 (RMP, ETC): This collection of texts influenced Raymond Lulli (1225-1315) when he published his “Ars Magna”, and Count Giovanni Pico de Mirandola tried to harmonize it with the philosophy of Aristotle and Plato, commissioning Latin translations. The Sefer Yetzira explains the process of creation from the 10 seifirot and the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet into the “Tree of Life.” For ten points (*), name this primarily oral tradition of Jewish mysticism.
Answer: Kabbala
BONUS 7-13 (AH, Matt): Answer the following questions about a traitor For ten points each.
[10] This American was court-martialed for misusing his powers in 1780, and responded by fleeing to the Vulture, a British warship, and becoming a Brigadier General with a nice salary.
Answer: Benedict Arnold
[10] Arnold initially sent information on George Washington’s movements to this British general, stationed in New York.
Answer: Gen. Sir Henry Clinton
[10] This Major, under the command of Gen. Clinton, was given information about the best way to take West Point by Arnold, but was captured and executed.
Answer: Maj. John André
TOSSUP 7-14 (CE, ETC): Almost 150 feet longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall, it can reach speeds at around 35 miles per hour. Each of the five luxury apartments has over 1650 square feet over two floors including a separate gymnasium, and will have individual butler and concierge services. For ten points (*), name this luxury cruise ship that took its maiden voyage from Southampton to Fort Lauderdale in January 2004.
Answer: Queen Mary 2 (do not prompt or accept partial answers)
BONUS 7-14 (RMP, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about Slavic myth.
[10] This class of domestic gods included hairy men who lived in the stove and their wives, who dwelled in the cellar.
Answer: domovoi
[10] The most prominent water-spirit, or Vodyanoi, was this lake-demon who was the subject of a Dvorak opera.
Answer: Rusalka
[10] Many southern Russian tribes adopted a huntress goddess, derived from the Greek Artemis, from this tribe, famed for their gold art.
Answer: Scythians
TOSSUP 7-15 (FA, ETC): Commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein in the late 1920’s, Wittgenstein first previewed this work but changed so many parts that the composer was furious. A slow crescendo over 32 measures to introduce the soloist also includes a jazz-like theme from the horns, and the mood of the piece is deliberately sinister and gray. For ten points (*), name this piano concerto in D major by Maurice Ravel, premiered by Wittgenstein whose arm was amputated during World War I.
Answer: Concerto in D major for the Left Hand for Piano and Orchestra by Maurice Ravel
BONUS 7-15 (SP, ETC): Answer these questions pertaining to the National Hockey League for ten points each.
[10] On January 1, 2004, Gerard Gallant replaced Doug MacLean as coach of this team, although MacLean remained as general manager and team president.
Answer: Columbus Blue Jackets (either acceptable)
[10] This 22-year-old expressed his remorse over the death of his Atlanta Thrashers teammate Dan Snyder from a September 29 accident.
Answer: Dany Heatley
[10] On December 27, 2003, this team opened its new home at the Glendale Arena, losing to the Nashville Predators 1-3.
Answer: Phoenix Coyotes (either acceptable)
TOSSUP 7-16 (PC, Darren): The speaker says that he can see in his love’s eyes “brown and gray and blue besides clouds are stalking islands in the sun” and that shadows move across the page before “suddenly the day turns into night.” “With the help of some fireflies,” the moon “appears to shine and light the skies.” For ten points (*), these are some of the lyrics from what Peter Frampton song also covered by Big Mountain?
Answer: “Baby, I Love Your Way” (accept “ways” if they add an ‘s’)
BONUS 7-16 (BS, ETC): Identify the agricultural product that is associated with the following botanists.
[10] Gregor Mendel first developed hybrids while growing these plants in his garden.
Answer: Peas
[10] Developing over 800 different strains and varieties of plants, Luther Burbank sold the rights in his strain of this plant for plane fare to California.
Answer: Potatoes
[10] Hybrids developed by George Harrison Shull resulted in 25 to 50 percent increases in yield of this crop.
Answer: Corn (Maize)
TOSSUP 7-17 (GEO, ETC): Spanning about 471,000 square miles, its eastern region is mostly forested while the northern region is mostly grassland. Shigatse, Ngari, Lhaoka, Chamdo, Nakchu and Nyingtri are its six designated prefectures. For ten points (*), name this relatively isolated Autonomous Region of China whose capital is the municipality of Lhasa.
Answer: Tibet
BONUS 7-17 (LB, Matt): Given some books compiled into “Books Every Teenage Geek Guy Should Definitely Read” by, presumably, some teenage geek guy on , name the authors For ten points each.
[10] The Silmarillion
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkein
[10] Siddhartha
Answer: Hermann Hesse
[10] The Once and Future King
Answer: T.H. White
TOSSUP 7-18 (BS, ETC): At birth, its plasma concentration is approximately 50 milligrams per 100 milliliters, but by age 2, its concentration rises to 165 milligrams per 100 milliliters, then up to 245 milligrams per 100 milliliters by age 50. Its metabolism was studied by Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, who won the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the low-density lipoproteins that carried it. For For ten points (*), name this organic compound, high amounts of which can contribute to atherosclerosis.
Answer: Cholesterol
BONUS 7-18 (WH, Matt): Answer these questions about exploring in 1978 For ten points each.
[10] Japanese citizen Naomi Uemura became the first person to travel here alone.
Answer: the North Pole
[10] This Norwegian hopped in a reed boat and sailed from Iraq to the coast of Djibouti.
Answer: Thor Heyerdahl
[10] Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler scaled this mountain, the first to do so without artificial oxygen supplies
Answer: Mt. Everest
TOSSUP 7-19 (LA, ETC): The seventh son of the Marquis of Lioncourt, a successful hunting expedition is the reason why he is sometimes called Wolfkiller. Running away to Paris, he got a job working for the Renaud’s House of Thespians. For ten points (*), name this character whom Magnus transforms into a vampire, the creation of Anne Rice in Interview with a Vampire.
Answer: Lestat de Lioncourt or de Valois
BONUS 7-19 (GEO, Matt): Identify these Asiatic mountain ranges, 10 each.
[10] These border between Tibet and Nepal runs through this mountain chain.
Answer: Himalayas
[10] This range separates northern Pakistan from northern Afghanistan.
Answer: Hindu Kush
[10] This range, a bit west of the Himalayas, separates the northern border of both India and Pakistan from China.
Answer: Karakorum
TOSSUP 7-20 (WH, ETC): One example is the Community Charge, which was strongly supported by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and would eventually bring about her political downfall. Another provoked a peasant’s revolt in 1381 when John of Gaunt levied one to finance a war on France. For ten points (*), name this form of revenue outlawed in the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution as it was unfairly assessed to discourage blacks from voting.
Answer: Poll tax
BONUS 7-20 (FA, ETC): Name these Edgar Degas creations for ten points each.
[10] While visiting his family in Louisiana, Degas was inspired to create this 1873 painting featuring his brother-in-law and father at work.
Answer: The Cotton Exchange in New Orleans
[10] A melancholy couple is placed off-center at a dining establishment, where the observer notes the glass of green liquid next to the woman.
Answer: In a Café or Absinth (Dans un café, ou L’absinthe)
[10] The only sculpture Degas exhibited while he was alive, his model was Marie van Goethen.
Answer: The Little Dancer: Age Fourteen (Petite danseuse de quatorze ans)
TIEBREAKER 7-21 (FA, Matt): A series of famous paintings set at this location include the arrival of “La Goulue” in a green dress with a plunging neckline, the stage appearance of the oldish, orange-haired Yvette Guilbert, and a pair of women dancing a waltz. In addition, the artist – noble midget Henri de Toulouse-Latrec – frequently created lithographs to advertise for the club’s new entertainment attractions. For ten points (*), name this famous nightclub in the Montmarte neighborhood of Paris.
Answer: Moulin Rouge
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Given triangle ABC with lengths AC = 8, AB = 4, and angle BAC = 60 degrees, what is the length of BC?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Given triangle ABC with lengths AC = 8, AB = 4, and angle BAC = 60 degrees, what is the length of BC?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 8-1 (FA, Valerie): A young girl dressed in an exotic turban gazes at the viewer. Her gaze is alert and keen, her lips are parted and she seems about to speak. It has been thought that this is a painting of one of artist’s daughters, but the eldest, Maria, was only 11 in 1665, the year the painting was created. For ten points, name this Jan Vermeer painting.
ANSWER: The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Meisje met de parel) by Jan Vermeer
RELATED BONUS (FA, ETC): Name these women artists for ten points each.
[10] Born Anna Mary Robertson, this American folk artist created over 2000 paintings, most of them after she turned 80 years old.
Answer: Grandma Moses
[10] Influenced by Japanese prints, this American painter exhibited with the Impressionists and is best known for her scenes of mothers and children, such as La Toilette (The Bath).
Answer: Mary Cassatt
[extra 10] Apprenticed to her father born Jacopo Robusti, Marietta sometimes wore boy’s clothing by her father to ensure her education. Known for her portraiture, she died at age 30 (in 1590) during childbirth. What is their common “professional last name”?
Answer: Tintoretto
TOSSUP 8-2 (RMP, ETC): Her brother ascended the throne of Tyre after he murdered her husband. With a band of followers, she purchased land in present-day Tunisia upon which she would establish the city of Carthage. For ten points, name this queen who killed herself when she was so depressed after her lover Aeneas returned home.
Answer: Dido
RELATED BONUS (RMP, ETC): Answer these questions about female mythological figures for ten points each.
[10] The daughter of Zeus and Demeter, she became queen of the underworld after Hades abducted her.
Answer: Persephone
[10] This ruler of Avalon who Arthur of his wounds supposedly was a student of magic as taught by Merlin.
Answer: Morgan le Fay (Fee)
[extra 10] When Balder was anxious over dreams of his impending danger, she got every thing to promise not to harm Balder… every thing except the mistletoe.
Answer: Frigg(a) or Fricka
TOSSUP 8-3 (LA, Darren): When his older brother Orion established a newspaper in his hometown, he became a compositor and printer for it. By the fall of 1856, he had gone to Keokuk, Iowa, beginning a period of wandering with a commission to write a series of comic travel letters, similar to his later work The Innocents Abroad. His 1872 work Roughing It details his overland stagecoach journeys and his adventures in the Pacific Islands, while he collaborated with his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner to write The Gilded Age. Born on the day in 1835 when Halley’s Comet appeared is, For ten points, what this author of Life on the Mississippi?
Answer: Mark Twain or Samuel Langhorne Clemens
RELATED BONUS: (LA, ETC): LIT BONUS: Identify these stories by Mark Twain for ten points each.
[10] Before returning to his country, a former gambler leaves a sack of gold coin worth $40,000 to the man who gave him $20.
Answer: The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
[10] Written in opposition to America’s involvement in the Philippine-American War, this story focuses on an aged stranger who asks God to “help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells.”
Answer: The War Prayer
[extra 10] The 1892 sequel to The Gilded Age, this novel focuses on the foibles of Colonel Sanders.
Answer: The American Claimant
TOSSUP 8-4 (BS, ETC): Usually 10 inches long and one inch in diameter, achalasia is a disease in which it is unable to receive nervous system stimulation. For ten points, name this structure which transports food from the mouth to the stomach through peristalsis.
Answer: Esophagus
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Identify these neuroscience terms for ten points each.
[10] This term describes the small space that separates a neuron from a muscle cell.
Answer: Neuromuscular Junction (accept Synapse)
[10] This white substance deposited by Schwann cells can sometimes be found on long axons to help with action potential propagation.
Answer: Myelin
[extra 10] This is the collective term for the three membranes which surround the brain and spinal cord, known as the pia mater, arachnoid, and dura mater.
Answer: Meninges (accept Meninx, but NOT “Meningitis”, which is inflammation of the meninges)
TOSSUP 8-5 (PC, Matt): Although this term was used as a trademark for the Illinois State High School basketball tournament since 1940, the phrase as commonly known was first used by Brent Musberger in 1982. A fixture of CBS advertising ever since, For ten points, give the two-word phrase used to describe the NCAA men’s hoops tourney.
Answer: “March Madness”
RELATED BONUS (SP, ETC): Answer these questions about basketball in the NBA for ten points each.
[10] Although the second pick in the 2003 NBA draft, this Detroit Pistons forward has not received as much hype or playing time as #1 LeBron and #3 ‘Melo.
Answer: Darko Milecic (either name acceptable)
[10] The NBA Rookie of the 2002-2003 season, this Phoenix Sun forward went on the disabled list for an ankle sprain in December 2003.
Answer: Amare Stoudamire
[extra 10] He only missed 10 games in his career prior to being placed on the disabled list for a sprained medial collateral ligament. Name this L.A. Laker forward who played for most of his career with the Utah Jazz.
Answer: Karl Malone
TOSSUP 8-6 (SS, Matt): Known as the “method of indirect proof” or “proof by contradiction” when strung together in a series of arguments, this concept informs Zeno’s paradox of Apollo’s arrow, in which the arrow approaches its target in ever-reducing quanta but never arrives at its target. For ten points, give the common Latin phrase for showing that one’s opponent’s conclusion leads to a silly implication.
Answer: reductio ad absurdam
RELATED BONUS (SS, ETC): Identify these legal phrases from definitions for ten points each.
[10] When an attorney offers his/her services to a client for free, this Latin phrase is applied.
Answer: Pro bono
[10] The Latin phrase meaning “something for something,” it involves giving something of value in exchange for something else of the same value.
Answer: Quid pro quo
[extra 10] This two-word Latin phrase means “let the decision stand” when applying precedents to similar cases on the docket.
Answer: Stare decisis
TOSSUP 8-7 (WH, Chris): His movement gathered momentum after he landed in Samsun, and the Congresses of Erzurum and Sivas helped him consolidate his authority. The military exploits of this Macedonian-born figure include repulsing Greek armies during the war of independence and driving back British and Australian forces in the battle for Gallipoli. For ten points, who was this president, who helped cement his power by abolishing the Sultanate and the Caliphate and who ruled until 1938?
Answer: Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
RELATED BONUS (WH, Matt) Given a description, name these barbarian groups For ten points each.
[10] Largely adherents to the Arian sect until 589 AD, they defeated Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Later, under Alaric, they sacked Rome and took over Iberia.
Answer: Visigoths
[10] Under pressure from the Visigoth invasion of Spain, this Germanic group under Geiseric built a fleet to escape to North Africa, where they built a naval power around Hippo and Carthage before their defeat by Byzantine Emperor Justinian’s general Belisarius in 534.
Answer: Vandals
[extra 10] Under the command of Theodimir, this group broke free of the control of the Huns at the 454 AD Battle of Nedao. That same year, their greatest leader, Theodoric, was born.
Answer: Ostrogoths
TOSSUP 8-8 (AH, Darren): It was repaired in Pascagoula, Mississippi before it was sent to Norfolk Naval Station. Its memorial dedication to the seventeen sailors who lost their lives aboard it took place on October 12, 2001, one year after it was attacked. For ten points, name this American ship attacked by terrorists while refueling in Aden, Yemen.
Answer: USS Cole
RELATED BONUS (AH, ETC): Answer these questions on naval vessels for ten points each.
[10] The flagship of the American Pacific Fleet during World War II, it was on-board this vessel where the Japanese formally surrendered.
Answer: USS Missouri
[10] On February 15, 1898, this battleship is destroyed in Havana Harbor, killing 266.
Answer: USS Maine
[extra 10] Treaty discussions held here from 1921 to 1922 set a 33,000-ton limit on battleships and a specified number of ships the signatories were required to operate.
Answer: Washington or District of Columbia (D.C.)
TOSSUP 8-9 (PS, ETC): Under this condition, the effective velocity is approximately equal to the maximal velocity divided by two whenever the Reynolds number is 2000 or lower. For ten points, name this type of fluid motion in which there is no turbulence.
Answer: Laminar flow
RELATED BONUS (PS, ETC): Identify these aeronautics terms for ten points each.
[10] This is the force that resists the motion of the aircraft as it travels through the air.
Answer: Drag
[10] This is the motion that an aircraft takes when rotating about its longitudinal axis. It’s controlled by the ailerons on the plane’s wings.
Answer: Roll
[extra 10] This describes the motion of an aircraft when the elevator is moved. This results in the nose of the plane going up or down relative to the position of the tail.
Answer: Pitch
TOSSUP 8-10 (LW, Matt): A pair of admirals – Demosthenes and Nicias – and are among the characters in this play, but the title is derived from the group which sings the chorus. The height of the action sees the sausage-seller Agoracritus out the tyrant Cleon from power; despite its criticism of the sitting tyrant, it nonetheless won first prize at the Athenian drama festival. For ten points, name this Aristophanes play, whose chorus is a class of warriors.
Answer: The Knights or Hippeis by Aristophanes
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
If John has test scores of 86%, 97%, and 83%, what does he need on the final (which counts double) to have a 90% average?
Complete Answer: 92 percent
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 8-11 (RMP, Tong): He reinterpreted Aristotle’s ideas into a Christian context and based his own theology more on concrete analysis of this world than on irrational faith in the next. By effecting the classic integration of reason and revelation, he proved conclusively the existence of God. For ten points (*), name this theologian who superseded the Christian thinking of Augustine’s and whose best known works are Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica.
Answer: Saint Thomas Aquinas
BONUS 8-11 (GEO, Chris) Given a former colonial name, state the present-day African country the name formerly referred to.
[10] Portuguese East Africa
Answer: Mozambique
[10] Dahomey
Answer: Benin
[10] Upper Volta
Answer: Burkina Faso
TOSSUP 8-12 (AH, ETC): Essentially a response to William Paley’s treatise “The Duty of Submission to Civil Government Explained” in The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, the author points out that the power of the government comes from the majority’s power, and that governments should not just wait to change unjust laws when the majority wants them to. For ten points (*), name this 1848 essay written in one night in jail by Henry David Thoreau.
Answer: Civil Disobedience or Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau
BONUS 8-12 (FA, Tong): Identify these musical terms for ten points each.
[10] A passage in a concerto in which the solo instrument plays without the orchestra as a display of virtuosity.
Answer: cadenza
[10] A sped-up form of the minuet, much beloved of Haydn and Beethoven. Common today as a component of sonatas, symphonies, etc.
Answer: scherzo
[10] Symbolized with a “bird’s eye” over a note, it tells the musician to hold the note as long as he/she wants.
Answer: Fermata
TOSSUP 8-13 (PS, Dinesh): It was first investigated by the mathematician Dürer, who gave a method for drawing it in Underweysung der Messung in 1525. It was rediscovered by Étienne Pascal, father of Blaise, and given a name in 1650 by Gilles-Personne Roberval who chose a word derived from the Latin for “snail,” limax. It can either be convex, dimpled, in cardioid form, or have an inner loop, depending on the relationship between b and a in the polar equation r equals b plus a cos theta. For ten points (*), name this polar curve.
Answer: Limaçon
BONUS 8-13 (LW, ETC): Name these Voltaire works For ten points each.
[10] Voltaire wrote the 1756 Poeme sure le desastre de Lisbonne, but is better known for a depiction of the earthquake in this picaresque.
Answer: Candide
[10] This tragedy focuses on a daughter of Alexander the Great who doesn’t know parents – or that her betrothed, Cassandre of Macedonia, killed her father.
Answer: Olimpie
[10] Voltaire’s trip to England led to this publication, much of which is focused on the island’s religious tolerance.
Answer: Lettres Philosophiques or Philosophical Letters
TOSSUP 8-14 (GEO, Chris): Besides Ethiopia, this is the only African country to have escaped colonial rule. Freed slaves were settled here by the American Colonization society starting in 1816. An independent republic was proclaimed in 1847. Recently there had been conflict between rebel groups and the president, Charles Taylor. The fighting ended when the President agreed to step down and go into exile in Nigeria. For ten points (*), what is this nation, with its second largest city named Buchanan and its capital named Monrovia?
Answer: Liberia
BONUS 8-14 (AH, Matt): Answer these questions about a death sentence For ten points each.
[10] This couple was sentenced to death in 1951 for passing nuclear secrets to the USSR.
Answers: Julius and Edith Rosenberg
[10] The investigation that led to the Rosenbergs started with the arrest of British physicist Klaus Fuchs, who worked in Los Alamos on this scientific venture.
Answer: the Manhattan Project
[10] A delivery-person for the Rosenbergs, this co-conspirator was arrested in Mexico and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Answer: Morton Sobell
TOSSUP 8-15 (LA, Matt): His first novel, Watch and Ward, was published serially in the Atlantic Monthly, and he wrote about the family squabble over a priceless art collection in The Spoils of Poynton, published in 1897. One of the few foreigners ever buried in Westminster’s Poet’s Corner, for ten points (*), name this Bostonian who penned numerous hit novels like Roderick Hudson, The American, and Daisy Miller.
Answer: Henry James
BONUS 8-15 (BS, ETC): Identify these scientists who worked with bacterial diseases for fifteen points each.
[15] This hematologist studied under Robert Koch, where he developed a faster way to stain tuberculosis bacteria. He split the 1908 Nobel Prize but is best known for his salvarsan 606 syphilis treatment.
Answer: Paul Ehrlich
[15] The first to scientifically explain inflammation and to define embolisms, this political opponent of Bismark is most famous for his observation that omnis cellula e cellula – that all cells come from other cells.
Answer: Rudolf (Ludwig Carl) Virchow
TOSSUP 8-16 (SP, ETC): First developed in 1979, it is housed in a box 6 centimeters high, 45 centimeters wide and projects infrared light beams 10 millimeters above the ground positioned at 5.1-inch intervals to a receiver. For ten points (*), what mythological name is given to this technological device that audibly sounds whenever a tennis ball lands outside the service court?
Answer: Cyclops
BONUS 8-16 (WH, Matt): Answer these questions about the life of a statesman For ten points each.
[10] This Italian, a native of Turin, he drafted much of the Italian constitution and prodded the various regions into a national whole. That accomplished, he served as first Italian Prime Minister.
Answer: Count Camilio Benso di Cavour
[10] Cavour founded this newspaper in 1847. Its title became associated with the Italian unification movement generally.
Answer: Il Risorgimento
[10] Cavour spent much of his political career under this king (first of Piedmont-Sardinia then of Italy), the son of King Charles Albert.
Answer: Victor Emmanuel II
TOSSUP 8-17 (FA, Matt): His short 1919 opera Murderers, The Hope of Women was based on Expressionist artist Oscar Kokoschka’s autobiographical libretto, but his operatic career began earlier as a violinist for the Frankfurt Opera in 1915. His first full-length Cardillac began a theme – focusing on artists (in this case, a goldsmith who kills his customers to retrieve his works, based on an E.T.A. Hoffman short story). For ten points (*), name the German – listed as “degenerate” by the Nazis – best known for The Harmony of the World, about Kepler, and Mathis der Maler.
Answer: Paul Hindemith
BONUS 8-17 (CE, Matt): Answer these questions about caucuses For ten points each.
[10] This state kicked off the U.S. primary season with its January 19th caucuses.
Answer: Iowa
[10] A U.S. plan to use caucuses instead of direct elections in Iraq prompted this powerful Shi’ite clergyman to call for protests.
Answer: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
[10] Bush plans to address the former problem by siccing sleazebag Karl Rove on the eventual nominee, and the latter by asking this U.S. Administrator of Iraq to crawl, foot in mouth, before the UN’s Kofi Annan, and ask for assistance.
Answer: Paul Bremer
TOSSUP 8-18 (GKT, Dinesh): It is a seamless blend of fact and fiction, and a harrowing account of war in which not a single shot is described. Set in Craiglockhart War Hospital in 1917, this novel addressed the wartime notions of duty, morality, and homosexuality through the sessions of the British psychologist Dr. William Rivers. For ten points (*), name this 1996 novel by Pat Barker in which the real-life friendship between poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen is described.
Answer: Regeneration by Pat Barker
BONUS 8-18 (L, ETC): Identify the poem and author from quotations for fifteen points each.
[15] “On the Mountains of the Prairie, / On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, / Gitche Manito, the mighty, / He the Master of Life, descending, / On the red crags of the quarry / Stood erect, and called the nations, / Called the tribes of men together.” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Answer: “The Song of Hiawatha”
[15] “From hence, ye beauties, undeceiv'd, / Know, one false step is ne'er retriev'd, / And be with caution bold. / Not all that tempts your wandering eyes / And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; / Nor all, that glisters, gold.”by Thomas Gray
Answer: “Ode to the Death of a Favourite Cat”
TOSSUP 8-19 (LB, ETC): The Chorus describes this title character as being born in Rhodes, Germany, but moving on to Wittenberg for his studies where he would eventually earn his degree, “excelling all, and sweetly can dispute / In th' heavenly matters of theology.” Dissatisfied and hungry for more knowledge, he becomes interested in “cursed necromancy,” and winds up conjuring up the spirits of Alexander and Helen of Troy before Charles the Fifth. For ten points (*), name this character in a play by Christopher Marlowe who sells his soul for 24 years of magical powers.
Answer: Doctor Faustus (accept Faust) from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
BONUS 8-19 (RMP, Tong): Given a verse, name the book of the Bible from which it comes.
[10] There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Answer: Genesis
[10] By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
Answer: Psalms
[10] A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond and want like an armed man.
Answer: Proverbs
TOSSUP 8-20 (BS, ETC): As a pure compound, this white nitrogenous organic compound appears either as a white powder or silky needles. Very soluble in hot water, in the body, it inhibits phosphodiesterase, which causes an increase in intracellular cyclic AMP and sustains the release of calcium from intracellular stores. For ten points (*), name this chemical stimulant commonly found in many sodas, teas, and coffees.
Answer: Caffeine (or trimethylxanthine)
BONUS 8-20 (PC, Matt): Given a song on my iTunes playlist, name the singer or group 10 each:
[10] “She’s Leaving Home”
Answer: the Beatles
[10] “San Quentin”
Answer: Johnny Cash
[10] “Stir it Up”
Answer: Bob Marley
TIEBREAKER 8-21 (GKT, ETC): Rejected names offered by the advertising firm Foote, Cone, and Belding, included the Mongoose Sevique, Utopian Turtletop, and Turn Cotenga. The smaller series Ranger and Pacer had a 361-cubic-inch motor, while the larger Corsairs and Citations could produce 475 pounds of torque, which has more torque than a Dodge Ram truck. For ten points, name this 1957-1960 car model named in honor of a former chairman of the Ford Motor Company.
Answer: Edsel
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
If John has test scores of 86%, 97%, and 83%, what does he need on the final (which counts double) to have a 90% average?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
If John has test scores of 86%, 97%, and 83%, what does he need on the final (which counts double) to have a 90% average?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 9-1 (LW, ETC): Her husband Charles tries to perform corrective surgery on a man with a clubfoot, but he gets gangrene and has to get his leg amputated. Dissatisfied with the life of being a country doctor’s wife, she becomes involved with Leon Dupuis, a young lawyer, and then Rodolphe Boulanger, a wealthy landowner. For ten points, name this title character who, after spending all of her money on these affairs, decides to commit suicide, created by Gustave Flaubert.
Answer: Madame Emma Bovary
RELATED BONUS (LW, Matt): Given the collective name for a group of novels by an author, name their author For ten points each.
[10] Les Rougon-Macquart
Answer: Emile Zola
[10] La Comedie humaine
Answer: Honore de Balzac
[extra 10] The Forsyte Saga
Answer: James Galsworthy
TOSSUP 9-2 (CE, ETC): It included the Snowe-Jeffords Amendment which permits 501-c-4 organizations to fund advertisements with only individual contributions within 30 days before an election. The limit on hard money contributions was doubled, but all federal candidates would be prohibited from raising soft money. For ten points, name this eponymous campaign finance law passed last year.
Answer: McCain-Feingold-Cochran Campaign Reform Law
RELATED BONUS (CE, ETC): Identify these important numbers in this political election year for ten points each.
[10] The total number of electoral votes a contender for president must secure to be elected.
Answer: 270
[10] The number of seats the Democrats must win in the 2004 elections to become the majority party in the Senate.
Answer: 20 (holding 19 and must gain 1)
[extra 10] The minimum age required to be eligible for President.
Answer: 35
TOSSUP 9-3 (WH, Matt): The capture of the forts San Francisco de Pupo and Picolata on the San Juan River in 1640 led to the siege of St. Augustine later that year. Though the siege was lifted, a Spanish counterattack was roundly rebuffed by Creeks and an English army under James Oglethorpe on St. Simon’s Island at the Battle of Bloody Swamp. Liked with the European King George’s War, For ten points, what war was reluctantly declared by Prime Minister Robert Walpole after the captain of the Rebecca displayed a severed body part?
Answer: War of Jenkins’ Ear
RELATED BONUS (WH, Matt): For ten points, answer these questions about bonny old England.
[10] This man took over the Commonwealth in 1649 as Lord Protector.
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
[10] Cromwell dissolved the Rump parliament in 1653, reconvening an even more pared-down legislature that was given this anatomical name.
Answer: Barebones Parliament
[extra 10] The Cavalier Parliament under a restored Charles II passed this pro-Anglican religious “code” in 1661, consisting of the Corporation Act, the Act of Uniformity, the Conventicle Act, and the Five-Mile Act, as a reaction against the ousted Puritans.
Answer: Clarendon Code
TOSSUP 9-4 (PS, ETC): The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower in May and the Orionid meteor shower in October come from the Earth passing through its debris stream. Moving at over 80,000 miles per hour, its nucleus is approximately 15 miles, but the cloud surrounding it is 100,000 miles wide. For ten points, name this celestial body that comes within 55 million miles of the sun roughly every 76 years.
Answer: Halley’s Comet
RELATED BONUS (PS, ETC): For ten points each, identify these eponymous items in chemistry.
[10] It states, if a stress is applied to a system at equilibrium, the system will react so as to relieve the stress.
Answer: Le Chatelier’s Principle
[10] This modification to the Ideal Gas Equation is used to describe the behavior of real gases, correcting for intermolecular forces.
Answer: van der Waals Equation
[extra 10] This model of acid-base behavior assumes the transfer of electrons from bases to acids.
Answer: Lewis Model
TOSSUP 9-5 (GKT, Sean): Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it acquired its present name in 1718 when it was named for a merchant following a generous donation of nine bales of goods, 427 books, and a portrait of King George I. It is also the only Ivy League school with Hebrew on its school shield. For 10 points, name this university located in New Haven, Connecticut.
Answer: Yale University
RELATED BONUS (GKT, ETC): Given the location and a few alumnae, identify the Seven Sisters school located there for ten points each.
[10] This Poughkeepsie, New York, college touts Edna St. Vincent Millay, Grace Hopper, and Meryl Streep as its graduates.
Answer: Vassar College
[10] This Massachusetts college has among its honored graduates Madeline Albright, Hilary Clinton, and Diane Sawyer. Outgoing Duke President Nan Keohane also served as its president.
Answer: Wellesley College
[extra 10] Katherine Hepburn and Edith Hamilton (the classical scholar) were both graduates of this Pennsylvania college.
Answer: Bryn Mawr College
TOSSUP 9-6 (AH, ETC): Five American gunboats were captured at Lake Borgne prior to the start of the first land engagement at the Villeré and neighboring estates, which ended in a stalemate. The deaths of two generals including Sir Edward Pakenham on January 8 were among the 2000 casualties suffered that day by the British compared to 71 American casualties. For ten points, name this series of military engagements which took place from December 1814 to January 1815 which concluded the War of 1812.
Answer: Battle of New Orleans
RELATED BONUS (AH, Matt): Answer these questions about the slave trade, ten points each.
[10] According to the Constitution, what was the first year Congress could intervene with the foreign slave trade?
Answer: 1808
[10] Which section of Article I of the Constitution prohibited Congressional action on the international slave trade until 1808?
Answer: Article I, Section 9
[extra 10] John Quincy Adams intervened and argued for the freedom of 36 slaves who were involved in a mutiny aboard this Spanish slave ship.
Answer: Amistad
TOSSUP 9-7 (BS, ETC): First characterized in detail by Robert Brown, taxonomists nowadays recognize four distinct divisions that constitute this group of plants: coniferophyta, cycadophyta, gnetophyta, and gingkophyta (of which the gingko tree is the only member). For ten points, name this classification of plants that grow from a “naked” seed.
Answer: Gymnosperm(ata)
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
Find the volume of a cylinder with diameter 3 and height 9.
Complete Answer: 81 times pi divided by 4 or 20.25 (times) pi cubic units
TOSSUP 9-8 (LB, Sean): She was born in July 1866 in London, but developed a fondness for the English countryside, learning about breeding Herdwick sheep. Notable for her drawings of landscapes, she had a greeting card business in London in the early 1900s. For ten points, who is this author of “Squirrel Nutkin”, “The Tale of Benjamin Bunny”, and “The Tale of Peter Rabbit?”
Answer: Beatrix Potter
RELATED BONUS (LA, ETC): Flannery O’Connor raised peacocks, so answer these questions about Flannery O’Connor for ten points each.
[10] This 1955 collection of short stories is representative of her mastery of the genre. The titular short story focuses on a family planning a Florida vacation.
Answer: A Good Man Is Hard to Find
[10] In this first novel of O’Connor’s, Hazel Motes, the son of a preacher, returns from fighting in World War 2, and begins a career of evangelizing.
Answer: Wise Blood
TOSSUP 9-9 (PC, ETC): A trademark of Wyoming West Designs since 1993, this apparently refers to riders who get thrown, pick themselves up, and get back onto a horse. For ten points, identify this rodeo-related phrase that the Boston Red Sox used during the 2003 baseball playoffs.
Answer: Cowboy Up
RELATED BONUS (PC, ETC): Name these 2004 Grammy-winning country artists from lyrics for ten points each.
[10] Big cigars an' diamond rings./ Ridin' all around in a limousine./ When you finally hit the top, man, you know what that means?
Answer: “Next Big Thing” with Vince Gill
[10] “Pour me something tall and strong. / Make it a hurricane / Before I go insane.”
Answer: “It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere” with Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett
[extra 10] “Let us greet with a song of hope each day / Though the moments be cloudy or fair. / Let us trust our Savior always / To keep us, every one, in His care.”
Answer: “Keep on the Sunny Side” with June Carter Cash
TOSSUP 9-10 (FA, Matt): His first symphony premiered in 1899 in Helsingfors under the direction of Robert Kajanus. This composer had earlier studied in that city at Helsingfors University, and was close friends with novelist Adolph Paul. His first major work was the tone poem En Saga, and another one of his best-known pieces in that style was about his honeymoon site, Karelia. For ten points, who created the orchestral Four Legends of the Kalevala and the epic piece Finlandia?
Answer: Jean Sibelius
RELATED BONUS (FA, Matt): Answer these questions about composer Bedrich Smetana for ten points each.
[10] Smetana spent most of his time in this city, where at the age of thirty-two he successfully wrote his first letter in the Czech language.
Answer: Prague
[10] Smetana was a great nationalist, not only composing the epic opera Libuše but also this cycle of six symphonic poem, both finished in 1862.
Answer: Má vlast (My Homeland or My Country or similar translations also acceptable)
[extra 10] By the time Smetana finished his sixth opera, The Kiss, in 1875, this condition – shared by Beethoven in his later life – afflicted the composer.
Answer: he was deaf (accept equivalent)
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 9-11 (GEO, Darren): A popular introduction to this region can be found in Stephen J. Gould’s book Wonderful Life. The locality has been intensely studied since its discovery in 1909 by Charles Walcott, and has been declared a World Heritage Site. Formally located in Yoho National Park in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, it is famous for the soft-bodied preservation of a diversity of invertebrate fossils. For ten points (*), name this exceptional shale from the Middle Cambrian age of about 540 million years ago.
Answer: Burgess Shale
BONUS 9-11 (WH, Chris): Name these former Israeli Prime Ministers.
[10] Israel’s first Prime Minister, who was the leader of the Mapai Party and who is namesake of Israel’s largest international airport.
Answer: David Ben Gurion
[10] Former leader of the Irgun who shared a Nobel Prize for his role in the Camp David accords and who authorized the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Answer: Menachem Begin
[10] The Prime Minister of the Oslo Peace Accords who was gunned down in 1995 by a Jewish nationalist.
Answer: Yitzhak Rabin
TOSSUP 9-12 (LW, Sean): The name of the title character appropriately means “releaser of war” in Greek. This Aristophanes comedy, produced in 411 BC is set in Athens in the 21st year of the Peloponnesian War and is the third and concluding play of the author’s War and Peace series. In it, the title character, frustrated with the Peloponnesian War, persuades all the women of Athens to withold sex from the men until peace is declared. For ten points (*), name this Aristophanes play.
Answer: Lysistrata by Aristophanes
BONUS 9-12 (SS, Matt): Given similarly titled works, name their author for fifteen points each.
[15] His La scienze nuova (The New Science), published in 1725 after he lost his job as chair of civil law in Naples during the Italian Inquisition, posited a “poetic wisdom” guiding nations through cyclical patterns. Interestingly, the work provides much of the substructure of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.
Answer: Giambattista Vico
[15] This Brit’s 1620 Novum Organum advocated replacing the syllogisms of the Greeks with simpler inductive reason based on the natural laws.
Answer: Francis Bacon
TOSSUP 9-13 (BS, Dinesh): Instead of having to create clones and genomic libraries, this technique advantageously exploits base-pair complementarity in DNA replication to amplify specific DNA segments between two primers whose exposed 3’-hydroxyl ends serve as starting points for replication. In this extremely efficient replication process, millions of identical molecules of a desired DNA sequence can be obtained after only a few rounds of amplification. For ten points (*), name this widely used technique of generating recombinant DNA.
Answer: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
BONUS 9-13 (RMP/FA, Matt): For ten points each, answer these related questions:
[10] This German philosopher divided drama and music into the ordered Apollonian and the primal Dionysian.
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
[10] Nietzsche was fascinated by this composer’s early “Dionysian” works, like Tristan and Isolde, but broke with him in disgust after the premiers of the drama-heavy Parsifal and Ring Cycle.
Answer: Richard Wagner
[10] This book set forth Nietzche’s theories on drama and music.
Answer: The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (Die Geburt der Tragodie aus dem Geist der Music)
TOSSUP 9-14 (FA, Matt): Twelve men – one holding a large furled flag over his shoulder – cluster around a white-clothed banquet table look back towards the viewer. Each wear black coats with frilled white collars and red sashes, and the artist – a member of the military group, based in the Dutch city of Haarlem – appears in the upper left corner. For ten points (*), name this 1616 group portrait by Franz Hals.
Answer: Officers of the Militia Company of St. George by Franz Hals
BONUS 9-14 (GEO, Chris): Given the following island countries, name the oceans they are located in.
[10] Vanuatu
Answer: Pacific
[10] Grenada
Answer: Atlantic
[10] Comoros
Answer: Indian
TOSSUP 9-15 (RMP, Matt): Her name is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning “aim,” and her hands held the four aims of human life – dharma, kama, artha, and moksha. She talked the demon Jalandhara into sparing the life of Vishnu after the demon had bested Vishnu in single combat. For ten points (*), name this Hindu goddess of wealth and beauty, a desirable enough combination that it remains a common name for Indian women.
Answer: Lakshmi
BONUS 9-15 (LA, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about an American author.
[10] This 20th-century novelist wrote a book dealing with the city he is most associated with, entitled Chicago, City on the Make, as well as his most famous, The Man with the Golden Arm?
Answer: Nelson Algren
[10] This French woman made Algren “Lewis Bogan” in her roman-a-clef Les Mandarins.
Answer: Simone de Beauvoir
[10] What band, fronted by Lou Reed and funded by Andy Warhol, like the title of Algren’s novel Walk on the Wild Side enough to use it for a hit song?
Answer: The Velvet Underground
TOSSUP 9-16 (LA, Sean): Along with being one of the most litigated authors in America, he was also the painter of over 2000 watercolors. He moved to Paris in 1930, where he met writer Anais Nin. His relationship with Nin became the inspiration for a 1992 movie. His first and most famous work was not published in the United States until 1961, almost 30 years after its publication in France. Although Marilyn Monroe was not one of them, he did have 5 wives and numerous lovers before he died in 1980. For ten points (*), name this American author of Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer.
Answer: Henry Miller
BONUS 9-16 (AH, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about early-modern prisons.
[10] This word, now frequently used interchangeably with “prison,” connoted the rehabilitation of the inmate through reflection and structured self-help.
Answer: penitentiary
[10] The first modern penitentiary, the Walnut Street Jail, was converted to the penitentiary format in this American city around 1790, largely due to the city’s influential Quaker reformers.
Answer: Philadelphia
[10] This man was commissioned by the French government, along with Gustav de Beaumont, to study the Pennsylvania penal system – in addition to fulfilling these duties, he wrote the highly influential social study Democracy in America.
Answer: Alexis de Tocqueville
TOSSUP 9-17 (WH, Matt): Among the myths held by this people are that the moon and Rona (cuckolded by the moon) continually eat each other, thus explaining the cycles of the moon. Raki (heavan) and Papa (earth) bore Tane, the major procreative figure in their myth. They signed an early treaty with English colonists, the Treaty of Waitangi, and placed cultural emphasis upon tattooing, even artistically decorating their faces. For ten points (*), name the indigenous inhabitants of the islands of New Zealand.
Answer: Maori
BONUS 9-17 (BS, ETC): Answer these questions on inheritance for ten points each.
[10] In Mendelian inheritance, this describes an allele whose phenotype occurs in 25% of the offspring from two heterozygous gametes for that gene.
Answer: Recessive
[10] Sometimes the frequency of recessive traits is not Mendelian because of mating of genetically related members. What is the name of this strategy of mating used in generating mouse strains and championship horses?
Answer: Inbreeding
[10] Suffered by Queen Victoria, this disease is an example of an X-linked genetic disorder.
Answer: Hemophilia
TOSSUP 9-18 (SP, ETC): First introduced at the 1984 Olympics, it was first developed in 1814 by Peter Henry Ling, with the first world championships held in 1963. With six competitive levels (level 5 being easiest to level 10 the most competitive), 6-person group routines typically last 150 seconds while individual routines last 60 to 90 seconds. For ten points (*), name this sport consisting of individual routines involving balls, clubs, ropes, ribbons, and hoops.
Answer: Rhythmic gymnastics
BONUS 9-18 (GKT, ETC) From a given description, provide the proper acronym or name for ten points each.
[10] This acronym refers to the European Particle Physics Laboratory, the largest in the world, and home to the Internet.
Answer: CERN (Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire)
[10] This database helps disseminate fingerprint data among law enforcement services.
Answer: AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Information System)
[10] Beginning in 1990 as a pilot project, this FBI database shares similar DNA profiles among law enforcement.
Answer: CODIS (Combined DNA Indexing System)
TOSSUP 9-19 (PS, ETC): Although its sister equation is more popular to describe the nonexpansion work that must be done on or by a system at constant temperature and pressure for a thermodynamic reaction or process to be spontaneous, this equation describes equilibrium conditions which are needed at constant temperature and volume. For ten points (*), name this free energy which is similar to calculations for Gibbs free energy but is used widely for geochemical problems where pressure may vary widely.
Answer: Helmholtz Free Energy
BONUS 9-19 (PC, ETC): Did you pay attention to the Razzie Awards? Answer these questions about the 2004 nominations for ten points each.
[10] Leading the way with nine nominations was this film featuring nominees Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.
Answer: Gigli
[10] Coming in with eight nominations was this film “documentary” featuring two popular “American Idol” stars.
Answer: From Justin to Kelly
[10] He earned his record 30th acting Razzie nomination as the villain in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (in which he apparently plays five different characters).
Answer: Sylvester Stallone
TOSSUP 9-20 (AH, Dinesh): Even though he resisted white encroachment and settlement, in 1968 he made peace with the U.S. Army in exchange for a reservation, a deal that fell through with the influx of gold prospectors in the 1870s. This led him to join with the Cheyenne in a renewed campaign of resistance that ended with surrender in Canada. For ten points (*), name this chief of the Sioux best known for a victory in Little Bighorn, Montana.
Answer: Sitting Bull
BONUS 9-20 (LW, ETC): Identify these characters from plays for ten points each.
[10] He and his niece Sonya take care of the rural estate of Professor Serebriakov. Name this title Uncle-character of Anton Chekhov.
Answer: Vanya (Ivan Petrovich)
[10] Using the pen-name Delia, this aunt of Lydia Languish writes love letters to the Irishman Sir Lucius O’Trigger. Name this character of The Rivals who is famous for her unintended substitution of words.
Answer: Mrs. Malaprop
[10] When his wealthy aunt Donna Lucia d’Alvadorez telegraphs that she will not arrive from Brazil for a few more days, this friend of Jack and Charley is asked to act in her place. Name the character who becomes Charley’s Aunt.
Answer: Lord Fancourt Babberley or “Babbs”
TIEBREAKER 9-21 (AH, Matt): It first appeared as filler in a newspaper editorial commenting on an Illinois tour stop by Abraham Lincoln, and was entirely without practical or symbolic meaning. Its rise to popularity began in earnest on the 7th of November, 1879, in connection with a Harper’s Weekly editorial entitled “Third Term Panic” about the prospect of Ulysses S. Grant running for a third term. For ten points (*), adopted by Thomas Nast as the shorthand for his own political party, name this symbol of the Republicans.
Answer: the Republican elephant
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Find the volume of a cylinder with diameter 3 and height 9.
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Find the volume of a cylinder with diameter 3 and height 9.
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 10-1 (FA, Tong): Degas nicknamed this painter “the notary” because he always wore a top hat and dark suit with precisely pressed trousers. He was just as meticulous in his art, finishing only seven large paintings in his decade-long career. He died at the age of 31, three days after exhibiting his last painting Le Cirque in an unfinished state. For ten points, name this post-impressionist most famous for his method known as pointillism whose most celebrated work is entitled “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.”
Answer: Georges Seurat
RELATED BONUS (FA, Tong): Given general characteristics found in the works of a Post-Impressionist, name the artist.
[10] Proto-Cubist stress on geometric structure. Analytical and stable, with an underlying permanent order. Painted still lifes with fruit, landscapes of Mont Ste-Victoire, and L’Estaque.
Answer: Paul Cezanne
[10] Agitated, swirling brush strokes. Thick impasto in choppy strokes or wavy ribbons; simple forms in pure, bright colors; curling rhythms suggesting movement. Painted self-portraits, sunflowers, landscapes, and still lifes.
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
TOSSUP 10-2 (WH, Darren): Although the American delegation signed the protocol, the U.S. Senate has refused to ratify the treaty, mainly because it believes that the targeted reductions are so steep that they will produce a severe economic slump. In it, the major industrial nations pledged to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases between 2008 and 2012. For ten points, name this agreement reached by the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 1997.
Answer: Kyoto Protocol
RELATED BONUS (PS, ETC): Answer these questions about big winds for ten points each.
[10] Its intensity is normally measured on the Fujita scale, and two of the most devastating occurred in Xenia, Ohio (April 3, 1974) and Binger, Oklahoma (May 22, 1981).
Answer: tornado
[10] Translated from the Chinese meaning “large wind,” this term is synonymous with cyclones originating in the Western Pacific or Indian Oceans.
Answer: typhoon
[extra 10] A strong northerly wind that blows in France during the winter.
Answer: mistral
TOSSUP 10-3 (PS, ETC): This relationship applies to the exposure of radiation, sound, light, electric charge (according to Coulomb’s Law) and gravity (according to Newton’s Law). For ten points, name this general mathematical “law” for which the intensity of a quantity decreases as a non-linear function of distance.
Answer: Inverse square law
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
If Brenda can paint a house in 9 hours, Tom in 6, and Mark in 12, how many hours will it take all three to paint the same house together?
Complete Answer: 36/13 or 2 10/13 hours
TOSSUP 10-4 (RMP, Matt): This Roman Catholic movement emphasized predestinarianism emphasizing Adam’s fall, irresistible grace, limited atonement, election, and reprobation. Founded by a 17th century Flemish bishop, it was propagated by Saint Cyran and Antoine Arnauld, but was officially rejected by Pope Innocent X’s 1653 Cum Occasione. For ten points, what movement’s most persuasive advocate was Blaise Pascal?
Answer: Jansenism (accept: Cornelius Jansen)
RELATED BONUS (RMP, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about a philosopher.
[10] This Scot wrote A Treatise on Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
Answer: David Hume
[10] Hume was most associated with this philosophy, characterized by the radical superposition of doubt among other principals.
Answer: skepticism
[extra 10] Hume argued that these – which he defined a violation of the laws of nature by God – are always less likely than some other explanation, like inaccurate recollection.
Answer: miracles (do not accept equivalents – Hume wrote in English, and this is the word he used)
TOSSUP 10-5 (CE, ETC): Democrats in its legislature last May fled out-of-state to prevent a quorum during redistricting debates. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court recently refused to block the upcoming 2004 Congressional elections on the redrawn map, which will make it more difficult from Democrats to take control of the House. For ten points, name this state which had previously been governed by George W. Bush.
Answer: Texas
RELATED BONUS (SS, ETC): Name these government terms for ten points each.
[10] This word applies to legislatures that are organized into two separate chambers.
Answer: Bicameral
[10] This two-word phrase refers to the First Amendment’s position for the separation of church and state.
Answer: Establishment Clause
[extra 10] A payroll tax or a sales tax is considered this type of tax because of its disproportionate effects on lower-income payers.
Answer: Regressive
TOSSUP 10-6 (AH, ETC): On June 8, 1966, a tornado devastated this city and was the first to cause over $100 million in damages and ravaged the campus of Washburn University. Founded by antislavery colonists in 1854, its association with the civil rights movement was further emphasized with the 1992 declaration of the then-segregated Monroe Elementary School as a national historic site. For ten points, name this seat of Shawnee County and capital of the state of Kansas.
Answer: Topeka
RELATED BONUS (AH, ETC): Answer these questions on the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education.
[10] What Chief Justice’s opinion stated that segregation had a detrimental effect on colored children?
Answer: Earl Warren
[10] This “doctrine” of segregation adopted by Plessy v. Ferguson was deemed unconstitutional as it had no place in public education.
Answer: Separate but equal
[extra 10] This chief lawyer for the NAACP made arguments in front of the Supreme Court in favor of desegregation.
Answer: Thurgood Marshall
TOSSUP 10-7 (GEO, ETC): This city’s flag is a red flag with seven white five-pointed stars divided into two rows. The Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains form the western boundary of its namesake Communidad, which approximates the shape of an equilateral triangle. Among its landmarks are a restored 1850 opera house, the Buen Retiro Park, and the Queen Sofia Museum of Modern Art. For ten points, name this capital city near the geographic center of Spain.
Answer: Madrid, Spain
RELATED BONUS (GEO, Chris): Given a world capital, name the country for ten points each.
[10] Mogadishu
Answer: Somalia
[10] San Jose
Answer: Costa Rica
[extra 10] Bissau
Answer: Guinea-Bissau
TOSSUP 10-8 (LA, ETC): He moved from his hometown of Albany to California with his widowed mother, where he would eventually become a journalist for the Northern Californian until he denounced the community for the massacre of a tribe celebrating a religious festival near Eureka. By 1868 he became editor of the Overland Monthly and influenced Mark Twain with stories like “Brown of Calaveras”. For ten points, name this local color storyteller who is best known for “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”
Answer: Bret Harte
RELATED BONUS (LA, ETC): Identify these characters from Tom Sawyer and/or Huckleberry Finn for ten points each.
[10] A superstitious and sentimental man, this servant of Miss Watson accompanies Huckleberry on his trip down the river.
Answer: Jim
[10] This friend of Injun Joe goes on trial for the murder of Dr. Robinson, but Tom knows he didn’t actually do it.
Answer: Muff Potter
[extra 10] The sister of Aunt Polly, this aunt of Tom’s drives Huck crazy along with Uncle Silas.
Answer: Aunt Sally Phelps
TOSSUP 10-9 (LB, Valerie): It takes place in the village of Weatherbury where three men, Farmer Boldwood, Sergeant Troy, and the shepherd Gabriel Oak are all in love with Bathsheba Everdene. For ten points, name this Thomas Hardy novel which takes its title from Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
ANSWER: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
RELATED BONUS (LB, ETC): Name these other characters from The Return of the Native for ten points each.
[10] After a sojourn to Paris working for a diamond merchant, he returns home to Egdon Heath, realizing his ambition is not based on material accumulation.
Answer: Clym Yeobright
[10] She’d rather live in Paris than in Egdon Heath, where her husband Clym teaches school.
Answer: Eustachia Vye (from The Return of the Native)
[extra 10] Eustachia jilted this local innkeeper’s love in accepting Clym’s marriage proposal.
Answer: Damon Wildeve
TOSSUP 10-10 (BS, ETC): In 1989, the recommended daily allowance was 5 micrograms a day for people under age 50, 10 micrograms between 50 and 70, and 20 micrograms for those over 70. Technically, it is two different but similar compounds that share a steroidal structure with the bond between carbons 9 and 10 broken. For ten points, name this vitamin that is involved in calcium metabolism and can be created by the body with sufficient sunlight.
Answer: Vitamin D or calciferol
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Given the vitamin, name the disease that occurs when it is deficient for ten points each.
[10] C
Answer: Scurvy
[10] B3 (also known as niacin) or tryptophan
Answer: Pellagra
[extra 10] B1 (also known as thiamine)
Answer: Beriberi
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 10-11 (WH, ETC replaced duplicate): It was supposedly created by Callinicus, a Syrian engineer in the service of Constantine IV Pogonatus around 673 CE and was used to devastate two Arab fleets in 678 and 718. A petroleum-based mixture, it also contained burning pitch and potassium, and containers could be launched through guidance of bronze tubes mounted on warships. For ten points, what is the colloquial name for this incendiary weapon of the late ancient world?
Answer: Greek fire
BONUS 10-11 (AH, Matt): Although early US diplomacy was heavy on talks with England and France, the new nation also delat frequently with a less-expected nation. For ten points each:
[10] On June 28th, 1786, John Adams and Thomas Barclay exchanged $10,000 for a treaty with this nation, which agreed to stop attacking American merchant marine in North Africa.
Answer: Morocco
[10] The US went to war with Libya in 1804, primarily due to piracy from this port city.
Answer: Tripoli
[10] This navy commander invaded Tripoli harbor to recapture and destroy the USS Philadelphia.
Answer: Stephen Decatur
TOSSUP 10-12 (LB, Chris): No one knows the origin of these creatures. The first known one was Glaurung, who served for a time as the vanguard of Morgoth’s forces in the First Age until he was slain by Turin Turambar. They possessed intelligence and speech, and they were feared by men and elves for three ages. The most recognizable is Smaug, who dwelled in the Lonely Mountain until his encounter with Bilbo and whom a man from Laketown eventually slew with an arrow. For ten points (*), who are these creatures, many of whom are notable for breathing fire?
Answer: Dragons
BONUS 10-12 (LW, ETC): Answer these questions on Cyrano de Bergerac for ten points each.
[10] First, name the author of the original play.
Answer: Edmond Rostand
[10] The object of Cyrano’s love, she’s his cousin.
Answer: Roxanne
[10] Though he insults Cyrano by making fun of his nose, Cyrano helps this man woo Roxanne by waxing poetic lines.
Answer: Christian
TOSSUP 10-13 (LA, Darren): His 1959 work The Sirens of Titan is a quasi-science-fiction novel concerning the entire history of the human race and an alien planet’s search for a spare part for a spaceship. Lesser known works include the play Happy Birthday, Wanda June and the short story collection Welcome to the Monkey House. Noted for his pessimism and satirical plots blending fantasy and science fiction to show the horrors of civilization is, for ten points (*), what Indianapolis-born author of Deadeye Dick, Player Piano, and Cat’s Cradle?
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
BONUS 10-13 (PS, Matt) Identify these things that you might run into in chemistry class For ten points each.
[10] This constant, symbol k, has a value of 1.38 times ten to the negative 23 joules/Kelvin.
Answer: Boltzmann constant
[10] Calibrated using benzoic acid, this tool uses a thick walled-container in a water bath to measure the standard combustion enthalpy of substances.
Answer: bomb calorimeter
[10] This thermodynamic cycle calculated the standard reaction enthalpy for sodium chloride.
Answer: Born-Haber cycle
TOSSUP 10-14 (BS, ETC): The activity of the “a” and “alpha” types from haploid yeast is mediated through receptors Ste2 or Ste3 respectively to begin a signaling cascade. Termites and ants use them to mark a trail for which others can find food. For ten points (*), what is the general name for such potent chemicals secreted by organisms to elicit a response from another, most notably for mating?
Answer: Pheromone
BONUS 10-14 (BS, ETC): Answer these questions on the female reproductive cycle for ten points each.
[10] In the typical cycle, this process in which the egg is released occurs on day 14.
Answer: Ovulation
[10] This sex steroid tends to have its greatest concentration in the blood just prior to ovulation to stimulate secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone.
Answer: Estrogen
[10] Between days 5 and 15 of the menstrual cycle, this epithelial layer of the uterus proliferates towards its maximal thickness.
Answer: Endometrium
TOSSUP 10-15 (GKT, Darren): In the early 1920s, it expanded its scope to political affairs, featuring articles by such figures as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Booker T. Washington. It has long been noted for such distinguished editors as James Russell Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Founded in 1857 by Moses Dresser Phillips is, for ten points (*), what Boston-based literary and opinion journal that is published twelve-times per year?
Answer: The Atlantic Monthly
BONUS 10-15 (CE, ETC): Name these Republicans for ten points each.
[10] In response to a bill introduced by Idaho Senator Larry Craig to amend the Patriot Act, this Attorney General sent a letter to Senate leaders of the White House’s intent to veto it.
Answer: John Ashcroft
[10] Refusing an offer to become the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, this now-outgoing Louisiana Republican and Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has also been courted to become the chief lobbyist representing pharmaceutical industry interests.
Answer: Billy Tauzin
[10] This former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development recently announced he would contest the open Senate seat in Florida.
Answer: Mel Martinez
TOSSUP 10-16 (SS, Dinesh): He had a pale, weak stature and was altogether unknown in his own lifetime, but his works had a colossal influence on Sartre, Camus, and other thinkers obsessed with alienation in the 20th century. His ideas often were unorthodox and melancholic; they stressed the notions that there are no guidelines for human action and that despite our piety, God may still leave us out in the cold. For ten points (*), name this Scandinavian thinker, the father of existentialism and the author of Sickness Unto Death and Either/Or.
Answer: Søren Kierkegaard
BONUS 10-16 (GEO, Matt): Name these lakes for ten points each.
[10] This lake lies on the southeast corner of Niger.
Answer: Chad
[10] This Ethiopian lake is the headwater of the Blue Nile.
Answer: Tana
[10] This large lake forms much of the northern border between Malawi and Mozambique.
Answer: Nyasa
TOSSUP 10-17 (FA, Darren): A black bird with a long tail is seen swooping in front of the jagged rocks of the snow covered mountains in the background. In front of the mountains, many people are walking about on the frozen river next to their village. On the left, a large fire is burning next to the titular men with their dogs. For ten points (*), name this wintry 1565 Brueghel painting.
Answer: Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Brueghel
BONUS 10-17 (SP, ETC): Answer these questions about the upcoming realignment in college conferences for ten points each.
[10] This former Clinton Cabinet member, former chancellor at the University of Wisconsin and current President of the University of Miami began by asking to switch from the Big East to the ACC.
Answer: Donna Shalala
[10] This Big East school will enter the ACC in the 2005-2006 season.
Answer: Boston College (do NOT accept “Boston University”)
[10] As a result, this school’s football team will vie for the Big East title starting in 2004.
Answer: University of Connecticut or UConn
TOSSUP 10-18 (PS, Dinesh): Born in Albany, New York in 1797, this physicist discovered electrical induction independently of Faraday. In addition to introducing a system of weather forecasting, he constructed the first electromagnetic motor and demonstrated the oscillatory nature of electric charges. For ten points (*), name this first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution with a unit of inductance named after him.
Answer: Joseph Henry
BONUS 10-18 (FA, Matt): Identify the composers of these tunes from a BBC “100-best” classical poll.
[10] The Hallelujah Chorus from the “Messiah”
Answer: George Frederic Handel
[10] The Merry Widow
Answer: Franz Lehar
[10] Pearl Fisher’s Duet
Answer: Georges Bizet
TOSSUP 10-19 (LW, Matt): Arnolfe is a worrywart – in particular, although not married, he is incredibly scared of becoming cuckolded. As such, he takes in a young girl whom he attempts to “train” his young bride into becoming a perfectly chaste trophy wife – but she ends up falling for a neighborhood boy, her “education” notwithstanding. For ten points (*), name this play by Moliere.
Answer: The School for Wives or L’Ecole des femmes
BONUS 10-19 (WH, Matt): Answer these questions about cultural development in early modern Europe, 10 each.
[10] Laurens Coster reduced the cost of moveable type printing, invented around 1450 by this German.
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg
[10] This technique for making bullets fire straighter, resulting from spirals inside a gun’s barrel, was invented in 1525.
Answer: rifling
[10] Gemma Frisius, a German mapmaker, invented this technique in 1553. The technique involves using three points while surveying to produce more accurate maps.
Answer: triangulation
TOSSUP 10-20 (AH, Matt): This right to create this colony was traded for forgiveness of a debt of 16,000 pounds owed by Charles II to its founders’ father. The colony was briefly given Delaware by the Duke of York – who didn’t actually have legal title to it – but gave up control of that colony in 1704. Its initial constitution was the Frame of Government, which had a powerful governor and legislator. Its initial settlers were almost entirely Welsh but, for ten points (*), what colony was quickly populated by Rhenish and English Quakers?
Answer: Pennsylvania
BONUS 10-20 (RMP, Matt): Name these Roman rural deities For ten points each.
[10] Greek or Roman name is fine. This god (imported from Greece) was the god of wine, and the worship of him (or at least booze) inspired the violent exploits of the Maenads.
Answer: Dionysus or Bacchus
[10] A god of fruit trees and lover of Pomona, he reportedly changed the course of the summer. A version of his name lives on as a term for autumn.
Answer: Vertumnus
[10] The goddess of budding flowers and cereals, her name has been adopted to refer to all plant life.
Answer: Flora
TIEBREAKER 10-21 (FA, ETC): It was featured prominently in Erich Mendelsohn’s spiral staircase at the De La Warr Pavilion. It takes up the entire second floor of Rem Koolhaas’ house created in Bordeaux in 2002, was central to the look and feel of X’s Y House in a suburb of Chicago, and was used – to the tune of some 20,000 square feet of the material – in the cathedral at Chartres. For ten points (*), what material was also used by Sir Joseph Paxton in designing the Crystal Palace?
Answer: glass
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
If Brenda can paint a house in 9 hours, Tom in 6, and Mark in 12, how many hours will it take all three to paint the same house together?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
If Brenda can paint a house in 9 hours, Tom in 6, and Mark in 12, how many hours will it take all three to paint the same house together?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 11-1 (WH, Darren): A French and Bavarian army under Count Camille de Tallard were advancing on the Austrian capital of Vienna. To counter this threat, the Austrian commander Eugene of Savoy moved north and his English allies under the Duke of Marlborough moved south from the Low Countries. Meeting in a small village outside of Höchstadt, Germany, the battle was decisively waon by the English and Austrians, consequently pushing the French back across the Rhine. For ten points, name this 1704 battle from the War of Spanish Sucession, a battle immortalized in a Robert Southey poem.
Answer: Battle of Blenheim
RELATED BONUS (WH, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about a European conflict.
[10] This war, which raged from 1740-48 in eastern Europe, saw Charles Albert, elector of Bavaria, King Philip V of Spain, Augustus III of Saxony, and Fredrick the Great of Prussia, claim the title throne.
Answer: War of Austrian Succession
[10] This queen of Bohemia and Hungary, wife of Francis Stephen, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was to accede to the throne as Holy Roman Empress via the Pragmatic Sanction, guaranteed by France. The war showed how tenuous that agreement was.
Answer: Maria Theresa
[extra 10] This man’s death in 1740 ended the male Hapsburg line, since his son Leopold had died in 1711, and kicked of the War of Austrian Succession.
Answer: Charles VI
TOSSUP 11-2 (LA, Darren): After dropping out of Valparaiso, he settled in California where he worked as a typist in a law firm before being admitted to the California bar three years later. While practicing in Ventura, California, he began to write accurate courtroom scenes and exciting legal maneuvers for pulp magazines, sometimes creating detective stories under the pseudonym A.A. Fair. After publishing The Case of the Skulky Girl and The Case of the Velvet Claws in 1933, for ten points, what author gave up law to write eighty Perry Mason novels?
Answer: Erle Stanley Gardner
RELATED BONUS Answer these questions about a series of books For ten points each.
[10] This book started a series that also included The Mammoth Hunters and The Plains of Passage.
Answer: The Clan of the Cave Bear
[10] This author wrote The Clan of the Cave Bear, basing much of its description of life in the wild on a class she took entitled “Aboriginal Life Skills.”
Answer: Jean M. Auel
[extra 10] The main character, Ayala, lived with this group – known as the “Clan” internally and “Flatheads” to the Cro-Magnons.
Answer: Neanderthals
TOSSUP 11-3 (PC, Chris): Born in March 1931 in Montreal, he is the author of a number of sci-fi works, which include the TekWar and Quest for Tomorrow Series. He is a noted actor, who starred as the police detective T. J. Hooker in the television series of the same name. For ten points, name this actor best known as Enterprise captain James T. Kirk.
Answer: William Shatner
RELATED BONUS (PC, Chris): Name the roles that these other Star Trek actors played in the original series.
[10] Nichelle Nichols
Answer: Lieutenant Uhuru
[10] George Takei
Answer: Hikari Sulu
[extra 10] Walter Koenig
Answer: Pavel Andreievich Chekov
TOSSUP 11-4 (AH, Darren): An article in the original Bill of Rights, it sat in constitutional limbo for more than 80 years until Ohio ratified it to protest a congressional pay hike. No other states followed Ohio's lead, however, and again it languished for more than 100 years. For ten points, name this amendment incrementally ratified between 1983 and 1992, the most recent to the U.S. Constitution.
Answer: Twenty-Seventh Amendment
RELATED BONUS (WH, Matt): Name these families For ten points each.
[10] William Henry and Cornelius led this university-founding railroad clan
Answer: Vanderbilt
[10] This Aubsburg banking family, led by Jacob “the Rich” and others, headed Europe’s financial life until Anton led their commercial empire into bankruptcy in 1550.
Answer: Fugger
[extra 10] Giovanni and Guilio both became popes, while Catherine and Maria became queens of France
Answer: Medici
TOSSUP 11-5 (PS, Matt): “Johnson noise” is a fluctuation in this physical quantity due to thermal motion of conduction electrons measure across a resistance. In a direct current circuit, it is identical to potential difference, and is named for the inventor of the first battery. For ten points, give this derived SI unit, equal to the potential difference where a current of one ampere uses one watt of power.
Answer: voltage or volt
RELATED BONUS (PS, Matt) Answer these questions about light.
[10] This effect occurs when charged particles are ejected from matter after absorption of radiant energy.
Answer: Photoelectric effect
[10] This theory suggests that photons are affected by gravity, as the bending of light around large celestial objects confirms.
Answer: general relativity
[extra 10] This is a quantum of light
Answer: photon
TOSSUP 11-6 (LB, Sean): While subordinate to the two main romances, the marriage of Wickham and Lydia occupies an important role. Other characters that attempt to prevent the two main protagonists from coming together include Louisa Hurst Catherine Du Bourgh, and William Collins. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen novel featuring Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Answer: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
Suppose that adding chemical G to pure water raises the boiling point of the mixture (in C degrees) an amount proportional to the square of the volume of chemical G added (in L). If adding 4L of chemical G to pure water raises the boiling point to 115 C, what will the boiling point be if 8L is added to the same amount of water?
Complete Answer: 160 C
TOSSUP 11-7 (BS, ETC): The aldehyde group present in the “B” compound results in shifting the excitation wavelength to 650 nanometers compared to 680 in the “A” compound. For ten points, name this ringed compound with magnesium at its center that is involved with photosynthesis.
Answer: Chlorophyll
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Answer these questions based on the following examples of symbiosis for ten points each.
[10] The mutualistic relationship between legumes and the Rhizobium family of bacteria assists in the fixation process of this element from the air.
Answer: Nitrogen
[10] This organism can be involved in many mutualistic relationships, from transportation (riding on the shell of a hermit crab) to “cleaning” from shrimp and some fish (like clownfish) that are immune to its stinging tentacles.
Answer: Sea anemone
[extra 10] This form of symbiosis derives from a Latin phrase meaning “sharing a table,” and an example includes the remora that sticks to a shark to feed on the scraps the shark leaves behind.
Answer: Commensalism
TOSSUP 11-8 (SS, Sean): A foundation bearing the name of himself and his wife Rose advocates the use of school vouchers. During the 1960s, he became more active in public policy circles, and he became the economic advisor for Barry Goldwater’s Presidential campaign. For 10 points, name this leader of the Chicago school of economics advocating monetarism, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics.
Answer: Milton Friedman
RELATED BONUS (SS, Matt): For ten points each, identify these institutions of the European Union.
[10] Based in Luxembourg, it is the highest judicial authority in the EU.
Answer: European Court of Justice (ECJ)
[10] Similar to the executive branch of a national government, though with the sole power to propose legislation, it is composed of ministers and currently under Romano Prodi.
Answer: European Commission
[extra 10] Coming into existence with the creation of the monetary union (the euro) and located in Frankfurt, this currency-monitor (similar to the US Federal Reserve Board) is headed by Jean-Claude Trichet.
Answer: European Central Bank
TOSSUP 11-9 (RMP, Chris): Written by John on the island of Patmos in the first century, it opens with pleas to seven churches in Asia Minor on how to better represent the will of Christ. It describes the rise and fall of the Antichrist, and the afflictions that the earth will suffer under the seven seals, seven trumpets, and the seven plagues. For ten points, what is this last book of the New Testament?
Answer: The Book of Revelation(s)
RELATED BONUS (RMP, Chris): Name these prophets of the Old Testament, for ten points each.
[10] Last major judge of Israel and prophet who crowned Saul as king.
Answer: Samuel
[10] After David took Bathsheba for his wife, this prophet appeared in David’s court to rebuke him.
Answer: Nathan
[extra 10] Prophet taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire.
Answer: Elijah
TOSSUP 11-10 (GEO, ETC): Delaware Park is this city’s largest park and site of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Travelers can travel from Fort Erie along the Peace Bridge which spans the Niagara River. For ten points, name this Queen City of the Great Lakes, located on the eastern tip of Lake Erie in New York.
Answer: Buffalo, New York
RELATED BONUS (GEO, ETC): Answer these questions about Houston geography for ten points each.
[10] Located 20 miles east of downtown is this battlefield and museum which commemorates the April 21, 1836, battle where Texas won its independence from Mexico.
Answer: San Jacinto
[10] Located next to Hermann Park and the Houston Zoo is this Houston university that is home to the James Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Answer: Rice University
[extra 10] The city’s largest airport, this facility opened in June 1969 and was renamed in 1997 for a former President.
Answer: George Walker Bush Intercontinental Airport
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 11-11 (AH, Sean): When General James Longstreet’s corps was transferred to Braxton Bragg’s Army of the Tennessee from Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, Bragg proceeded to counterattack General William Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland and retake Chattanooga. The Union army was saved only by the work of General George Thomas in this Confederate Victory lasting 3 days. In the aftermath, General Ulysses S. Grant was appointed to command the entire Western front. For ten points (*), name this battle, the bloodiest in the Western front of the Civil War named for a creek in Georgia near Chattanooga.
Answer: Chickamauga
BONUS 11-11 (WH, Matt): For ten points each, identify these territories controlled by the League of Nations after WWI.
[10] This Polish port city, on a branch of the Vistula, was a League protectorate until 1935, when it fell under Hitler's control.
Answer: Danzig or Gdansk
[10] This territory in the north of East Prussia was under League control until snatched by Lithuania in 1923, Germany in 1938, and then the USSR in 1945.
Answer: Memel Territory (accept: Memelland)
[10] France administered this coal-rich territory, just south of Luxembourg, north of Alsace-Lorraine, and west of the Ruhr, under League oversight. It returned to German control until a 1935 plebiscite, where 90% of its inhabitants voted to return to German control.
Answer: the Saar
TOSSUP 11-12 (LW, Matt): They “look to God all day,” their “hungry mouth[s are] prest / Against the earth's sweet flowing breast,” and they wear nests of robins in their hair. Although fools can make poems, only God can make these items with “leafy arms.” For ten points (*), name this poem by Joyce Kilmer.
Answer: “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
BONUS 11-12 (SP, Matt): In honor of the world’s greatest game – the NBA – answer these questions that require you to have actually watched a few games this year, for ten points each. Note: this question is accurate as of February 8.
[10] With Ray Allen out for two months, this guard’s surprising play kept the Sonics around .500, no small feat in the West.
Answer: Ronald “Flip” Murray
[10] After some early-season time in Bill Cartwright’s doghouse, this player has thrived in Scott Skiles’ two-point backcourt alongside Kirk Hinrich, exploding for multiple 40-point games.
Answer: Jamal Crawford
[10] 16 points, 8 boards, 3 assists, 3 blocks, and 2 steals a game – not just sick stats, but meaningful numbers that are keeping a Utah team expected to be among the worst in NBA history in the playoff hunt. Plus, he’s married to the biggest pop star in Russia.
Answer: Andrei Kirilenko
TOSSUP 11-13 (PS, Matt): This scientist confirmed Einstein’s photo-electric equation, and was the first to obtain an accurate value for Planck’s constant. Much of his later work, like that of Arthur Compton, was on cosmic rays. However, his 1923 Nobel prize resulted from his experiments with clouds of charged droplets of water and oil. For ten points (*), who thus discovered the value of an electron’s charge?
Answer: Robert (Andrews) Millikan
BONUS 11-13 (GEO, Matt): Answer some questions about Sweden for ten points each.
[10] This city, extensively planned in suburbs around the core of the old twn, is Sweden’s capital.
Answer: Stockholm
[10] Just north of Stockholm, off Sweden’s east coast, lies this gulf.
Answer: Gulf of Bothnia
[10] This island, south and west of Stockholm, sits in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Its largest city, Visby, is accessible by ferry from several coastal Swedish towns.
Answer: Gotland
TOSSUP 11-14 (GKT, ETC): Containing significant amounts of hydrogen peroxide, it was used to reduce infections from wounds and burns during World War I. Its antimicrobial properties also make it useful as a preservative or an embalming agent, despite the high amounts of sugar derived from the nectar of flowers. For ten points (*), name this viscous fluid used as nourishment through the winter months for bees.
Answer: Honey
BONUS 11-14 (LB, Matt): For ten points each, answer these questions about a poet.
[10] Born to a journeyman clothmaker in 1552, this secretary to Lord Grey de Wilton, Lord Deputy of Ireland, wrote an Apology for Poetry and The Shepheardes Calendar.
Answer: Sir Edmund Spenser
[10] This 433-line poem, the successful cap to his poems of wooing – the Amoretti – celebrated his 1594 marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.
Answer: Epithalamion
[10] Six books and the Mutability Cantos comprise this lengthy poem, an epic memorializing “[f]ierce warres and faithfull loves.”
Answer: The Faerie Queene
TOSSUP 11-15 (CE, ETC): Last October, the Popular Front won a majority of parliamentary seats in an apparent show of support for President Paul Kagame who was elected two months earlier. For ten points (*), name this nation who is recovering from the ethnic genocide of Tutsis and the intervention of forces from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Answer: Rwanda
BONUS 11-15 (PS, Matt): Answer these questions about stars for ten points each.
[10] This star can be warm or cool, but is invariably dim due to its small size. Typically about the size of the earth, their actual color may be blue in some cases.
Answer: white dwarf
[10] If a white dwarf’s mass grows past this “limit,” it will collapse into another a neutron star.
Answer: Chandrasekhar limit
[10] The “collapse” is more impressive than it sounds – it is in fact one of these events, which are classified as type I if they show a hydrogen line and type II if not.
Answer: supernova
TOSSUP 11-16 (BS, ETC): In Aplysia, its release from the facilitator neuron activates the cyclic AMP pathway to inactivate potassium channels, thus maintaining the sensory neuron’s depolarization. Derived from the neurotransmitter tryptophan, its activity is inhibited by the hallucinogen LSD, and excess amounts appear to be associated with migraines and nausea. For ten points (*), name this neurotransmitter that is found in low amounts in the brains of clinically depressed patients.
Answer: Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine
BONUS 11-16 (CE, ETC): Name these Democrats for ten points each.
[10] Representing the state of Iowa for 30 years, this four-term senator endorsed Howard Dean; every time he has endorsed a candidate for President, he has won the nomination.
Answer: Tom Harkin
[10] Prior to its Super Tuesday primary last week, the Arizona Republic endorsed this Connecticut senator running for President in 2004. He recently dropped out of the race.
Answer: Joseph Lieberman
[extra 10] This former Senator from Illinois dropped out of the 2004 Presidential race, endorsing Howard Dean.
Answer: Carol Moseley-Braun
TOSSUP 11-17 (WH, Sean): Either of two answers required! After fleeing Rome, they worked as shoemakers while trying to spread Christianity. They were thrown in molten lead for their efforts and today are the patron saints of shoemakers and cobblers. Their feast day is October 25, also the date of the Battle of Agincourt. For ten points (*), name these brothers, whose feast day served as inspiration for a famous Shakespearean speech given by Henry the Fifth.
Answers: Crispin or Crispian
BONUS 11-17 (LA, Dinesh/ETC): Name the novel given its opening line for ten points each.
[10] When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
[10] It was Wang Lung’s marriage day.
Answer: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
[10] They’re out there.
Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
TOSSUP 11-18 (SP, ETC): Trailing on the judges’ scorecards, he came back in the 15th round to knock-out Laurent Dauthuille to retain his middleweight title. Winning 83 of 106 bouts in his professional career, he is best known for a series of fights against Sugar Ray Robinson, including two held within 21 days in Detroit. For ten points (*), name this Bronx-born Hall-of-Fame boxer who was referred to by the nickname “Raging Bull.”
Answer: Jake LaMotta
BONUS 11-18 (FA, Matt): Given a work of art from a dramatic perspective, name the artist For ten points each.
[10] We look up at the raised sword of Isaac as an angel swoops in to stay his blow in the 1542 canvas Sacrifice of Isaac of this Venetian master.
Answer: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
[10] This famously egotistical artist’s sculpture Perseus and Medusa features a ripped young man holding aloft the freshly severed head of the demon. It is a dramatic 18-foot bronze, further raised by a large marble pedestal.
Answer: Benvenuto Cellini
[10] The elongated figures of the heavens rise take the eyes of the viewer – and one of the funeral-goers – away from the main event in his Burial of Count Orgaz.
Answer: El Greco (Domenicos Theotokopoulos)
TOSSUP 11-19 (LA, Darren) After attending the Tuskegee Institute and the Kansas State Teachers College, he went to New York in 1914 to contribute to the Liberator. Before living abroad in the Soviet Union, France, Spain, and Morocco, this Jamaican born author’s Spring in New Hampshire and Harlem Shadows publications made him the first and most militant voice in the Harlem Renaissance. Publishing his autobiography A Long Way from Home in 1937 is, for ten points (*), what novelist whose Home to Harlem was the most popular novel written by an American black in its time?
Answer: Claude McKay
BONUS 11-19 (AH, ETC): Name these Indian tribes for ten points each.
[10] Over 3000 years ago, a settlement was established by these people on Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands.
Answer: Eskimo (accept Inuit)
[10] Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Victorio, and Geronimo were among the famous leaders of this tribe.
Answer: Apache
[10] Incorporating elements from the neighboring Ojibwa, Montagnais, and Naskapi tribes, these people who lived along the Ottawa River mostly fell victim to Iroquois raids and European diseases.
Answer: Algonquin
TOSSUP 11-20 (FA, Darren): Unconcerned with "craft," he employed solarization, grain enlargement, and cameraless photo prints, which he named for himself, by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing them to the light. A participant of the Cubist, Dada, and Surrealist art movements, for ten points (*), name this American artist whose birth name was Emmanuel Radnitsky.
Answer: Man Ray
BONUS 11-20 (BS, ETC): Identify these various biological terms.
[10] This is a graph that is used to describe the evolutionary history and relationship among species.
Answer: phylogenic tree
[10] This diagram is used to predict the progeny of a cross between two parents of known genetic makeup.
Answer: Punnett square
[10] This eponymous rule was based on an observation that in DNA, the quantity of adenine was the same as that of thymine, and the quantity of guanine was the same as that of cytosine.
Answer: Chargaff’s Rule
TIEBREAKER 11-21 (RMP, Matt): This man married the second-richest woman in Switzerland, Emma Rauschenbach, and took as a mistress a high-society Zuricher, Toni Wolfe, who was both his protégé and patient. He is best known for ideas like the "solar phallus," as well as self, the shadow, the animus and the anima * the four "archetypes." For ten points (*), name this central figure in psychology who also brought into common use the term "collective unconscious."
Answer: Carl Jung
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Suppose that adding chemical G to pure water raises the boiling point of the mixture (in C degrees) an amount proportional to the square of the volume of chemical G added (in L). If adding 4L of chemical G to pure water raises the boiling point to 115 C, what will the boiling point be if 8L is added to the same amount of water?
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Suppose that adding chemical G to pure water raises the boiling point of the mixture (in C degrees) an amount proportional to the square of the volume of chemical G added (in L). If adding 4L of chemical G to pure water raises the boiling point to 115 C, what will the boiling point be if 8L is added to the same amount of water?
Related Tossups and Bonus Round
TOSSUP 12-1 (LB, ETC): He warns his audience twice Radix malorum est cupiditas, admitting that he ironically lives a life of avarice and greed in his profession. His story is set in Flanders with a group of three young men who danced, gambled, and drank when they decide they would set forth on a mission to kill Death. For ten points, name this character from The Canterbury Tales, a religious cleric who sold indulgences for the Church in exchange for forgiveness of sins.
Answer: Pardoner
RELATED BONUS (LB, ETC): Name these poems which deal with death for ten points each.
[10] An elegy written in honor of his friend and sister’s fiancé Henry Hallam, Alfred Lord Tennyson penned this famous poem.
Answer: “In Memoriam”
[10] This poem by A. E. Housman reminisces about a young man who won a race but met his demise.
Answer: “To an Athlete Dying Young”
[extra 10] At the end of this John Donne sonnet, the poet is relieved that in the end “death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”
Answer: “Death Be Not Proud”
TOSSUP 12-2 (PC, ETC): Her 19-year-old brother Luke became a paraplegic as a result of a car accident, and after getting a job at the Village Book Store, she inspires him to stop sulking. She winds up enrolling in AP Chemistry, learning how to play chess, organizing a garage sale, and trying out for the school cheerleading team. For ten points, name this titular sixteen-year-old character portrayed on television by Amber Tamblyn.
Answer: Joan of Arcadia or Joan Girardi
RELATED BONUS (PC, ETC): Identify these movies with God in some frame of mind, for ten points each.
[10] This 2004 movie directed by Mel Gibson has dialogue in Aramaic and Latin, but has been met with protests from Jewish and other Christian groups.
Answer: The Passion of the Christ
[10] Give Jim Carrey the powers of God (played by Morgan Freeman) and hilarity ensues.
Answer: Bruce Almighty
[extra 10] In this 1998 Robert Duvall film, Duvall is a Texas preacher who commits a crime of passion but searches for redemption in resurrecting a small church in Louisiana.
Answer: The Apostle
TOSSUP 12-3 (GEO, Darren): On the north shore are the residential suburbs of Marin County, while on the east-shore of its crescent shape are the cities of Alameda, Richmond, and Berkeley. Angel and Yerba Buena Islands are located inside of it, while the Trans-Bay Tube under it is one of the longest underwater rapid transit pipes in the world. First visited by Francis Drake in 1579 is, For ten points, what Californian body of water?
Answer: San Francisco Bay
RELATED BONUS (GEO, Chris): Given a river, name the country it primarily flows through for ten points each.
[10] Rhone
Answer: France
[10] Indus
Answer: Pakistan
[extra 10] Mackenzie
Answer: Canada
TOSSUP 12-4 (BS, ETC): Profilin associates with this molecule to prevent spontaneous polymerization in platelets or sperm cells. In green algae cells, it serves as a scaffold upon which motors involved in cytoplasmic steaming are attached. For ten points, name this protein which forms filaments important in cytokinesis and muscle contraction.
Answer: Actin
RELATED BONUS (BS, ETC): Give the medical names of these bones for ten points each.
[10] Kneecap
Answer: Patella
[10] The long bone of the upper arm
Answer: Humerus
[extra 10] The bone “girdle” that comprises the hips
Answer: Pelvis
TOSSUP 12-5 (RMP, Sean): Opponents describe this principle as “haggling with God” and claim that it fails to account for the possibility of “multiple heavens”. Utilizing the mathematical principle that any amount, no matter how small, multiplied by infinity is still infinity and assuming that heaven is infinitely good and hell infinitely bad, it states that because there is infinite gain for a believer if God does exist and no loss if he does not, with the reverse being true for unbelievers, one should become a believer. For 10 points, name this “bet” made by a French mathematician with an eponymous triangle.
Answer: Pascal’s Wager
RELATED BONUS (RMP, ETC): Name these other philosophical items for ten points each.
[10] Also known as the Law of Parsimony, it states a problem should be stated in its simplest terms.
Answer: Occam’s Razor
[10] This eponymous animal starves to death since it cannot decide which of two equidistant bales of hay he would prefer to eat from.
Answer: Buridan’s Ass
TOSSUP 12-6 (AH, Darren): The settlement of the Oregon boundary in 1846, the acquisition of western territories from Mexico in 1848, and the discovery of gold in California increased support for the project, so in 1853 Congress appropriated funds to survey various proposed routes. In 1863 the Union Pacific RR began construction from Omaha, Nebraska while the Central Pacific broke ground at Sacramento, California. The two lines met at Promontory Point, Utah, and on May 10, 1869, a golden spike joined the two railways, thus completing, For ten points, what major transportation system in America?
Answer: Transcontinental Railroad
RELATED BONUS (AH, ETC): Identify these famous vehicles for ten points each.
[10] This Robert Fulton steamship traveled up the Hudson River in 1807.
Answer: North River Steamboat of Clermont
[10] Howard Hughes built this eight-engine “flying boat,” designed to carry 750 passengers!
Answer: Spruce Goose (or HK-1)
[extra 10] This American invented the sleeping berth railroad car and contracted their use to railroad companies.
Answer: George Mortimer Pullman
TOSSUP 12-7 (LW, Darren): He emigrated to the U.S. in 1896, before briefly leaving to study at the University of Oslo. Known for his realistic portrayals of Scandinavian settlers on the Dakota prairies and of the clash between transplanted and native cultures in America, his most famous work shows the life and toils of Per Hansa and his wife Beret. For ten points, name this St. Olaf College, Minnesota professor whose two novels In Those Days and The Kingdom is Founded were published together in 1927 as Giants in the Earth.
Answer: Ole Edvart Rolvaag
RELATED BONUS (LW, ETC): Identify these plays of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen for ten points each.
[10] The title character is returning from a six-month honeymoon with her husband Jurgen, but she is still not satisfied with her bourgeois life.
Answer: Hedda Gabler
[10] The drainage system in the town’s famous baths is contaminated, and Doctor Stockmann and his family will not be silenced.
Answer: An Enemy of the People
[extra 10] The widow of Captain Alving and their two children are caught up in how they are perceived by others, and winds up with ruined lives.
Answer: Ghosts
TOSSUP 12-8 (FA, Dinesh): The director of the film Russian Ark decided to film the entire 87-minute film in a single take because the government would only allow him to use this building for one day. It is the sixth building of its name on its site, the ditch known as the Zimnyaya Kanavka. Its architect, Bartolomeo Franceso Rastrelli, oversaw the placement 176 sculpted figures on the building’s roof as the final step towards its completion in 1762. For ten points, identify this former residence of the Tsar of Russia, now home to the Hermitage museum.
Answer: Winter Palace (accept early “Hermitage”)
RELATED BONUS (WH, ETC): Name these other famous palaces for ten points each.
[10] Louis the 14th built this opulent palace located 13 miles southwest of Paris.
Answer: Versailles
[10] Built atop a rock ledge over the Pollat Gorge is this castle built under orders of Ludwig the second of Bavaria.
Answer: Neuschwanstein
[extra 10] This palace located near Victoria Circle in London is the residence of British royalty.
Answer: Buckingham Palace
TOSSUP 12-9 (SS, Valerie): The basic tenets of this philosophical system are contained in an implicit form in the works of Francis Bacon, George Berkeley, and David Hume. Sometimes associated with empiricism, this philosophical doctrine maintains that metaphysical questions are unanswerable and that the only knowledge is scientific knowledge. For ten points, name this “uplifting” philosophical system founded by Auguste Comte.
ANSWER: Positivism
HANDOUT BONUS (Math, Andrew): Twenty points, all or nothing, you have 30 seconds to work on this math question and provide the complete answer requested.
Evaluate the domain of the following real function of x: √(x2-1) + ln (-1/1+x).
Complete answer: x is less than -1 (x < -1)
TOSSUP 12-10 (PS, Chris): Its orbit is retrograde, and it has an icy, reflective surface. It is tectonically active, which is the reason why Voyager 2 in 1989 did not discover large craters. Its’ surface temperature, around 38 Kelvin, is the lowest that has so far been visited by spacecraft. For ten points, what is this largest satellite orbiting Neptune?
Answer: Triton
RELATED BONUS (PS, Chris): Given the following stars, name the constellation.
[10] Castor and Pollux
Answer: Gemini
[10] Betelgeuse and Rigel
Answer: Orion
[extra 10] Sirius
Answer: Canus Major
Stretch Round
TOSSUP 12-11 (LA, Darren): An alumni of San Francisco State University and Stanford for graduate school, most of his works are set in rural Louisiana, often in a fictional plantation area named Bayonne that has been compared by some to Faulkner’s imaginary Yoknapatawpha County. Son of a plantation worker, many of his accounts of the struggles of Southern blacks were influenced by oral tradition, such as his works Of Love and Dust and A Gathering of Old Men. For ten points (*), name this University of Southwestern Louisiana author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971).
Answer: Ernest Gaines
BONUS 12-11 (WH, Matt): Ah, the 1820s – when the women were beautiful, the men brilliant, and the historical goings-on absurd. For ten points each:
[10] In 1828, the US Congress passed a bill jacking import duties to their highest levels yet prompting John C. Calhoun to give it this memorable name
Answer: “Tariff of Abominations”
[10] In what 1827 naval battle did Turkish and Egyptian fleets get stuck inside a harbor, where they were decimated by the British navy?
Answer: Battle of Navarino
[10] Speaking of Turks, in 1822 the Turkish fleet invaded this Greek island and slaughtered many of its inhabitants – a massacre memorialized in a famous Delacroix painting.
Answer: Chios
TOSSUP 12-12 (BS, ETC): Surgically separating the optic lobe of a cricket from the rest of the brain produces a random calling pattern. In humans, it is 25-hours long and regulated by the suprachiasmic nucleus, specifically regulated by the enzyme tau. For ten points (*), what is the name of this intrinsic daily biological clock that determines animal behavior?
Answer: Circadian rhythm (prompt on “biological clock”)
BONUS 12-12 (LB, ETC): Identify these works of D. H. Lawrence for ten points each.
[10] Banned in the United Kingdom and the United States for being pornographic, this novel centers on the affair of a wealthy married woman with a man who works for the estate.
Answer: Lady Chatterly’s Lover
[10] This 1913 novel is based on Lawrence’s childhood and centers on the protagonist Paul Morel.
Answer: Sons and Lovers
[10] This short story focuses on a boy named Paul who tries to reverse the lack of luck in his family by helping Uncle Oscar make money.
Answer: The Rocking Horse Winner
TOSSUP 12-13 (GKT, Darren): First and last name required…the name’s the same. One wrote a book about his experiences entitled Carrying the Fire. A pilot on Gemini 10, he and his shipmate John Young set a new record for the highest flight, 475 miles above the earth, before he took part in Apollo 11. The other served as Minister for Finance, as a member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, as Chairman of the Provisional Government, and as Commander-in-Chief of the National Army. He came to prominence during the Easter Rebellion and was assassinated at 32. For ten points (*), who are these two men whose name lives on in a 1996 Liam Neeson film?
Answer: Michael Collins
BONUS 12-13 (BS, ETC): Answer these questions about blood pressure for ten points each.
This is the complicated name for the “blood pressure cuff” gauge used to measure one’s blood pressure.
Answer: sphygmomanometer
Ideally 120 mm of mercury, the first number of a blood pressure reading indicates the pressure created when the heart is fully contracted, known by this term.
Answer: systole (accept systolic)
Examples of these drugs that reduce blood pressure by opening blood vessels include nitroglycerin and minoxidil.
Answer: vasodilator or vasodilative (prompt on “dilator” or similar forms)
TOSSUP 12-14 (RMP, ETC): Founded on July 1, 1899, by three traveling salesmen in Janesville, Wisconsin, this organization claims to have over 230,000 members in 179 countries. The oldest Christian business and professional men’s association in America, this non-profit association is supported entirely by voluntary donations. For ten points (*), name this association whose emblem is a two-handled pitcher and a torch seen on the covers of every Bible they distribute to prisons, hospitals, and hotels.
Answer: Gideons International
BONUS 12-14 (GEO, ETC): Answer these questions about Nashville for ten points each.
[10] This river flows through Nashville.
Answer: Cumberland
[10] The focal point for Centennial Park, this structure is a replica of a similar Athenian landmark.
Answer: Parthenon
[10] The estate of Judge John Overton, his friend Andrew Jackson frequently visited and lived on this plantation.
Answer: Traveler’s Rest
TOSSUP 12-15 (SP, ETC): Holly, Magnolia, Firethorn, Tea Olive, Chinese Fir, Camellia, Yellow Jasmine, Chinese Redbud, and Nandina are legendary names, as is Golden Bell, where one crosses the creek on Ben Hogan Bridge. For ten points (*), name this golf course where the Masters Golf tournament is held in early April.
Answer: Augusta National Golf Course (prompt on “Masters”)
BONUS 12-15 (CE, Dinesh): Answer the following questions regarding the top books on the New York Times bestseller list for the week of January 11, 2004, for fifteen points each.
[15] In Who’s Looking Out For You?, #1 on the nonfiction hardcover list, this Fox News personality attacks individuals and institutions that he believes have damaged America.
Answer: Bill O’Reilly
[15] Perhaps fueled by the recent release of a terrible Mike Myers movie, this Dr. Seuss classic topped the children’s picture book list.
Answer: The Cat in the Hat
TOSSUP 12-16 (WH, ETC): Although he died over 27 years ago, his official website boasts over 200,000 hits a day offering virtual flowers, while an additional 4 million visit his embalmed body in-state. Born December 26, 1893, in Shaoshan, he trained to become a teacher and worked for a time at the University library in Beijing. For ten points (*), name this man who served as the first communist leader of China.
Answer: Mao Tse-Tung
BONUS 12-16 (PS, ETC): Answer these questions about organic compounds for ten points each.
[10] The number of hydrogen atoms in a molecule of methylbutane.
Answer: 12
[10] This term is used to describe compounds with the same molecular composition but different molecular structures. An example is methylbutane and pentane.
Answer: Isomer
[10] This term is used to describe organic compounds that have carbon atoms joined together in chains or branches rather than in rings.
Answer: Aliphatic
TOSSUP 12-17 (PS, Matt): Its simplest form is merely an ionization chamber where an electron is removed from the species to be measured and its positive ion then accelerated in an electric field, deflecting in a magnetic field. The magnetic field strength is varied, so a detector in a fixed position is able to produce a fragmentation pattern. For ten points (*), what device thereby reveals the amount of matter and structural composition of a given sample?
Answer: mass spectrometer
BONUS 12-17 (AH, Matt): Identify these infamous defective products FTP each.
[10] Johns Manville and US Gypsum have been among the major corporations to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plans to deal with liability costs related to mesotheliomas from this once-common insulating material.
Answer: asbestos
[10] This anti-morning sickness drug caused serious birth defects in the ’60s and ’70s. Similar litigation against another anti-miscarriage drug, bendectin, failed due to a lack of sufficient epistemological evidence.
Answer: thalidomide
[10] Litigation over this intrauterine device, believed to have caused uterine infections, sent its manufacturer, A.H. Robins Inc., into bankruptcy reorganization in 1985.
Answer: Dalkon Shield
TOSSUP 12-18 (FA, Ling): Showing that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, John Singer Sargent became one of the most sought-after portrait artists after the debut of this painting in the 1884 Paris Salon. Known for the subject’s ghostly sensual blue skin-toned hue, bare shoulders, and elegant dress while standing to a small table, for ten points (*), name this painting which established Sargent’s renown in both Europe and America.
Answer: Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent
BONUS 12-18 (RMP, ETC): Answer these questions about siblings in mythology.
[10, all or nothing] These two twin brothers and Argonauts are offspring of the princess Leda.
Answer: Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces)
[10] A sibling of Castor and Pollux, she would eventually marry Menelaus but fell in love with Paris of Troy.
Answer: Helen
[10] Helen’s twin sister, this wife of Agamemnon also carried on an affair with Aegisthus, Agamemnon’s cousin.
Answer: Clytemnestra
TOSSUP 12-19 (AH, Matt): Elected the third president of Princeton (1757), he died soon after inauguration. For ten years prior, he served in the frontier town of Stockbridge, and for nearly twenty years served as pastor to the Congregational church of Northampton, Massachusetts. For ten points (*), name this author of Freedom of the Will, which actually defends theological determination, a fiery Yale-educated preacher who led the “Great Awakening.”
Answer: Jonathan Edwards
BONUS 12-19 (FA, ETC): Identify these artistic tools for ten points each.
[10] Clay pottery is “fired” in these ovens.
Answer: Kiln
[10] This word is used to describe a mixture of color and gum water in the form of a crayon.
Answer: Pastel
[10] A sharp-pointed tool used to mark wood or metal before it is cut, it can also make holes in wood or leather.
Answer: Awl
TOSSUP 12-20 (LW, Matt): The earlier known use of this rhyme pattern was “Teseide,” a 12-canto epic about the battle between Arcita and Palemone over the love of Emilia, a 1340 creation of Boccaccio. William Butler Yeats used it in his “Sailing to Byzantium,” but its best known English use is probably the introduction of Lord Byron’s Don Juan. For ten points (*), give the two-word Italianate term for a stanza of eight lines rhyming a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c.
Answer: ottava rima
BONUS 12-20 (AH, ETC): Answer these questions regarding history of the Internal Revenue Service, for ten points each.
[10] In 1913, Wyoming became the 36th state to ratify this amendment, giving the federal government the power to assess personal income taxes.
Answer: Sixteenth amendment
[10] Upon passage of the 18th Amendment, this Act gave enforcement power of Prohibition to the IRS.
Answer: Volstead Act
[10] In 1972, this Division of the IRS was separated to become its own Bureau in the Department of the Treasury, overseeing the regulation as well as taxation of the products it regulates.
Answer: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF)
TIEBREAKER 12-21 (FA, Matt): This instrument introduces a violin duet (itself based on the oboe theme) in the second movement of Johannes Brahms’ 1st Symphony. It is also featured in a pair of solos in the fourth and fifth movement of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” 6th Symphony, one of its first solo uses, as well as in the opening of Richard Strauss’ lieder Ein Heldenleben and in the introductory solo of Anton Bruckner’s “Romantic” 4th Symphony. FTP, players of what instrument use hand-stopping and three valves to produce tones on either the “F” or double “F and B flat” version?
Answer: French horn or orchestral horn
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Evaluate the domain of the following real function of x: √(x2-1) + ln (-1/1+x).
HANDOUT Mathematics BONUS (30 seconds)
Evaluate the domain of the following real function of x: √(x2-1) + ln (-1/1+x).
AH TOSSUP: It was estimated that between 50 and 75% of Europeans lived in the American colonies with this status, most of whom were unaccustomed to the climate or malaria that existed in the southern colonies. While in the beginning many people were skilled laborers, eventually many poor Englishmen and children were being “trapped” to sail across the ocean. For ten points, name this status in which white Europeans were slaves for a set period of time.
Answer: Indentured service (servant)
BS TOSSUP: Large quantities of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate are present in these cells compared to trace amounts in other cells, and the higher the concentration, the more oxygen is released into the tissues. For ten points, name these non-nucleated cells that transport oxygen from the lungs in the blood.
Answer: Erythrocytes or Red blood cells
GKT TOSSUP: Prominent politicians who have operated it include Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, and then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who accidentally set it off. In addition, sports figures Joe DiMaggio, Michael Strahan, and Carson Palmer as well as popular culture icons Mickey Mouse and SpongeBob SquarePants have also used it to start the day. For ten points, name this popular icon that rings to begin or end trading on the Big Board every business day.
Answer: Bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
GEO TOSSUP: This city’s name is derived from Pima and means “spring at the base of black mountain,” which refers to Sentinel Peak to its west. In 1940, this city recognized a Catholic shrine known as El Tiradito, which was dedicated to a young shepherd who was shot for committing an act of adultery during the 1880’s. For ten points, name this city in southern Arizona, home of the state’s largest university.
Answer: Tucson
PS TOSSUP (PS, Ling): In this model predator-prey system, the population dynamics of the predator and prey are determined by two autonomous nonlinear differential equations which relate variables such as predator reproduction rate, efficiency at which predator can catch prey, predator death rate and availability of nutrients for prey. For 10 points, name this system which can also be used to describe the behavior of coupled chemical reactions.
Answer: Lotka-Volterra or Volterra
LW TOSSUP: The first book is an example of the literary device in medias res, as Juno commands Aeolus to capsize the escaping fleet of Trojans soon after their loss against the Greeks. The storm diverts the ships to the coast of Tripoli where the widower of Creusa recounts the last days of the war to the Carthaginians. For ten points, name this epic poem that ends with the death of Dido, which took over a decade to complete by Vergil.
Answer: Aeneid
AH TOSSUP (AH, Darren): Founded in Oakland, it originally espoused violent revolution as the only means of liberation and it plead to its members the importance of militancy. Violent confrontations with police during the late 1960s led to accusations of harassment, and major figures such as Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and Huey Newton all stood trial. FTP, name this group riven with internal strife, which by the late 1970s had ceased to be an important force in the black community.
Answer: Black Panthers
FA TOSSUP (FA, Matt): His Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho shows the blockish figure in a low-cut dress, but with an oddly mask-like face. She is located inside a cage of thin strips of metal, a frequent theme in his work, and one explored in his Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Innocent X and Figure with Meat. FTP, name this 20th-century British portraitist who also shares his name with an English philosopher.
Answer: Francis Bacon
SCI TOSSUP: It was invented in 1929 by Hans Berger based on the findings of Richard Caton, who used a galvanometer to amplify his signals. In his published work, he showed that signals with around 10-hertz frequency and 20-hertz frequency occurred in awake individuals, while those who were asleep had lower frequencies of between 0.5 and 8 hertz. For ten points, name this machine that records the electrical activity of the brain as recorded through electrodes on the scalp.
Answer: Electroencephalograph (EEG)
AH TOSSUP: His collection of 500 photographs, which won the grand prize at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, showed a series of compassionate portraits of American blacks in contrast to stereotypes of that day. Three years later, he published 14 essays which defined the quintessential problem of the 20th century as a vision for the cultural and political identity of the black community in spite of Washington’s desire to perpetuate the oppression of blacks. For ten points, name this sociologist who in 1908 became a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Answer: William Edward Burghardt DuBois
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LA TOSSUP: He opposed the building of a school by J. H. Moore because he was concerned Moore’s bid was too high and the bricks were substandard. Consequently, he lost his seat as the treasurer of Mason County, and set up his own law practice, only to see the collapse of the school and the death of three students. For ten points, name this politician who became an instant hero, rising to become governor in All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.
Answer: Willie Stark
WH TOSSUP: It was supposedly created by Callinicus, a Syrian engineer in the service of Constantine IV Pogonatus around 673 CE and was used to devastate two Arab fleets in 678 and 718. A petroleum-based mixture, it also contained burning pitch and potassium, and containers could be launched through guidance of bronze tubes mounted on warships. For ten points, what is the colloquial name for this incendiary weapon of the late ancient world?
Answer: Greek fire
SCI TOSSUP: This eponymous disease is characterized by Reed-Sternberg cells, which are immortalized B cells that were infected by the Epstein-Barr virus. The progression of this disease goes through four progressively worse stages; night sweats, unexplained fevers, and dramatic weight loss are “B” symptoms. For ten points, name this form of cancer that develops in the lymph nodes.
Answer: Hodgkin(’s) Disease (prompt on “lymphoma”)
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