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The 10th Anniversary of the Duke Academic Festival
Duke University College Bowl
Durham, North Carolina
February 16, 2002
Apex High School, NC
Archbishop Curley High School, Baltimore, MD
Benjamin Banneker High School, Washington, DC
Brookwood High School, Snellville, GA
Cary Christian School, Cary, NC
Cookeville High School, TN
Dalton McMichael High School, Mayodan, NC
East Forsyth High School, Kernersville, NC
East Mecklenberg High School, Charlotte, NC
Eastern Randolph High School, Ramseur, NC
Fort Mill High School, SC
George Walton High School, Marietta, GA
Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC
Gonzaga College High School, Washington, DC
Maggie Walker Governor’s School for Government and Intenational Studies, Richmond, VA
Henry County High School, McDonough, GA
Hertford County High School, Ahoskie, NC
Mills Godwin High School, Richmond, VA
North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Ravenscroft High School, Raleigh, NC
Richmond Senior High School, Rockingham, NC
Riverdale High School, TN
Southern Nash High School, Bailey, NC
Southwestern Randolph High School, Asheboro, NC
Spotswood High School, Penn Laird, VA
St. Anne’s Belfield High School, Charlottesville, VA
St. John’s High School, Houston, TX
St. Stephen’s High School, Hickory, NC
Terry Sanford High School, Fayetteville, NC
Thomas Jefferson School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
Walter Williams High School, Burlington, NC
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The 2001-2002 Duke College Bowl Team
Emil Thomas “I have more first names than last ones” Chuck, Ph.D.
Research Geek
Academic Festival Co-founder and Chief Tournament Organizer and Director
Staff Advisor
Matthew “I fought the law and I won” Schneller
Legal Geek
Chief Editor and Assistant Tournament Director
Graduate Advisor
Andy “I am Marc-Edward Hoyt, Andy Sachs, and Paul Goebel rolled into one” Goss
Trash Geek
Chief Editor and Assistant Tournament Organizer
Andrew “I speak Fortran more better than English” Feist
Math Geek
Associate Editor and Assistant Tournament Director
Darren “I can recite every one of the Beer Laws from memory” Abernethy
History Geek
Associate Editor and Assistant Tournament Director
Brian “I’m too busy to come up with a lame quote” Planchard
Pre-med Geek
Assistant Tournament Director and Treasurer
Sean “I know more about physical attraction than you’d ever want to know” Kedrowski
Chemistry Geek
Elizabeth “I can tell you why the movie is never as good as the book” Mellon
Literature Geek
Valerie “ “ Ogonor
Biology Geek
Charles “I call the Car Talk guys to correct their mistakes” Tao
Engineering Geek
Charles “Dr. Strangelove was a hack… I have the real doomsday device” Wang
Military Geek
Zane “I can come up with a witty quote on demand” Curtis-Olsen
Generic Geek
The Duke Academic Festival tournament staff would like to thank the following for their significant contributions to this year’s tournament.
Amber Obermeyer and the Detroit Country Day School (Beverly Hills, Michigan) Academic Team,
whose questions we are sharing with their tournament being held February 23, 2002.
Grayson Holmes, Ben Dodson, Ryan Ong*, and Hannah Johnson
from the Carolina Academic Team, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eric Huff*, Paul Dorman High School, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Jessie Connolly* and Dan Greenstein from the Maryland Academic Quiz Team
University of Maryland at College Park
Jim, affiliated with the Center for Demographic Studies at Duke University and with the Eastern Randolph High School team for all of his help during the tournament
Allison Manzuk and colleagues, Case Western Reserve University College Trivia Club
The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence Network
David Lee Roth for providing M&M’s with all the brown ones removed
Everyone helping out with moderating and scorekeeping today
All of the students, coaches, and the people that support your teams
* Serving as Assistant Tournament Directors today.
Dedication
To all the Duke College Bowl members who have kept this tournament going for 10 years, and all the students who have competed here over the years.
Table of Contents
The 10th Anniversary of the Duke Academic Festival 1
The 2001-2002 Duke College Bowl Team 2
Round One Tossups (10 points each, no penalties, no powers) 6
Round Two Tossups 15
Round Three Tossups 25
Round Four Tossups 34
Round Five Tossups 43
Round Six Tossups 51
Round Seven Tossups 60
Round Eight Tossups 70
Round Nine (Playoffs) Tossups 79
Round Ten (Quarterfinals) Tossups 88
Round Eleven (Semifinals) Tossups 97
Round Twelve (Championship) Tossups 106
HANDOUT I: Gone in 120 Seconds 114
HANDOUT J (Playoffs): Attack of the Killer Handouts 115
HANDOUT B: I Know What You Did Last Handout 116
HANDOUT C: Lord of the Handouts 117
HANDOUT D: Requiescant in pace 118
HANDOUT V: The Handout Strikes Back 119
HANDOUT F: How the Handout Stole Christmas 120
HANDOUT G: O Handout, Where Art Thou? 121
HANDOUT II: Riding in Cars with Handouts 122
HANDOUT H: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Handout 123
HANDOUT K (Playoffs): Fried Green Handouts 124
HANDOUT L (Playoffs): Not Another Teen Handout 125
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT I: Gone in 120 seconds.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT I: Gone in 120 seconds.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Filibuster
2. Mourning Becomes Electra (must be exact)
3. Chlorophyll
4. Calligraphy
5. Tivoli Gardens (do not accept partial answers)
6. Midas
7. Richter
8. Vassal
9. Medea
10. Grand Ole Opry (do NOT accept Grand OLD Opry)
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 3 divided by the square root of 2
12. $1215.51
Round One Tossups (10 points each, no penalties, no powers)
1. It began at roughly 150 thousand crowns, and it fell to an all time low of 115 thousand in 1923. A radical change of investment rules in 1953 allowed that figure to climb to 10 million in 2001. All in all, there are six given annually, although there were only five prior to 1969, and each figure may be divided into as many as three (not necessarily equal) parts. For ten points, what award is given annually for great achievements in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics?
Answer: Nobel Prize
2. Flunking out of the U.S. Military Academy in 1854, he joined the Coast Guard as a survey draftsman. Eventually traveling to France, he became acquainted with the realist painter Gustav Courbet, whose influence can be seen in the paintings At the Piano and Symphony Number 1: The White Girl. For ten points, name this man who is most famous for a painting titled Arrangement in Gray and Black, apparently involving his mother.
Answer: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
3. In 1966 he was fired for remarking during a late-season game that the last-place Yankees had only 413 fans in attendance. For ten points, name this baseball radio broadcaster for the Brooklyn Dodgers who was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978.
ANSWER: Walter Lanier "Red" Barber
4. An oasis first settled by the Jews around AD 135, the Muslims expelled them around 625 and established the site as the capital of the Islamic state until 661. Home to the mosque of Quba, the first mosque, as well as the Mosque of the Two Qiblas and the Prophet’s Mosque, for ten points, name this city where Mohammed is buried, the second holiest city of Islam.
Answer: Medina (Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah)
5. Hypothetically predicted by Wolfgang Pauli, it was coined by Enrico Fermi in his comprehensive theory of radioactive decays. While it is similar to the electron, it does not carry electric charge; therefore, it is affected by the weak nuclear force but not the electromagnetic force. For ten points, name this fundamental particle that has been the subject of much debate over its supposed oscillation detected at Super-Kamiokande.
ANSWER: Neutrino
6. It is illogical in its drive for what feels good and what is fun, and it is the part of us that we are born with and is driven by animal instincts. Thought to be the primitive part of the psyche, it functions according to the pleasure principle in that it seeks to maximize pleasure and minimize discomfort. Name this structure of the mind, proposed by Sigmund Freud.
ANSWER: Id
7. Similar to the Marburg and Reston types of filoviruses, its genome consists of a single negative strand of DNA coding for 7 different proteins including the VP40 glycoprotein and the L polymerase. For ten points, name this virus that can cause a lethal, devastating fever in its infected host, named after a tributary in the Congo where it was first discovered.
Answer: Ebola
8. Competitors are divided into two divisions, lightweight and heavyweight, fighting in an arena consisting of a concrete floor lined with kill saws, spikes, and hammer traps in order to win "the Golden Nut." For ten points, name this television program whose prominent combatants have included "Biohazard:", and "Vlad the Impaler" and shown on Comedy Central, "the leader in robotic sports."
ANSWER: "Battlebots"
9. After returning from his first expedition, he found his entire estate up for auction thanks to his relatives from Sackville. A celebrity writer in his area, this author of The Red Book of West March occasionally wore a chain corslet made of mithril-rings given to him by Thorin Oakenshield. For ten points, name this inhabitant of Middle Earth who leaves his secret ring on his eleventy-first birthday to his heir Frodo.
Answer: Bilbo Baggins or The Hobbit
10. Born in Motohari, India, he served with the Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Living for several years in poverty, he recorded some of the bleakest moments of his homeless life in Down and Out in Paris and London in 1933. Another of his autobiographical works Homage to Catalonia describes his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. For ten points, name this British author, best known for his prose works like Animal Farm and 1984.
Answer: George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair
11. He appears most frequently of any Greek god in mythological tales, and had a job as the guide who took the dead to their final resting place. He was also the god of the marketplace who protected traders, as he gave a newly-made lyre to Apollo in exchange for forgiveness after stealing the latter's herds. For ten points, identify the mythological god who was most commonly portrayed as Zeus' messenger.
ANSWER: Hermes
12. With Oscar Moore and Wesley Prince, he played in an early-1940s ensemble that set a jazz standard for its unusual combination of instruments, including solos for the piano which had been relegated as accompaniment only. However, he began to taste success when he started singing, beginning with 1943's "Straighten Up and Fly Right." For ten points, name this leading pianist and singer known for "Nature Boy," "Too Young," and "Unforgettable."
ANSWER: Nat "King" Cole
13. Born on August 17, 1601, in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France, he investigated maxima and minima by considering when the tangent to the curve was parallel to the x-axis. For ten points, name this man, considered by Lagrange the inventor of calculus, who gained further renown when high school student and later Princeton professor Andrew Wiles proved his last theorem.
ANSWER: Pierre de Fermat
14. To the French he is known as la longue carabine, meaning the long rifle. When he meets Cora and Alice Munro, he is known as "Hawkeye." His gun is named Killdeer, and his nicknames form the titles of most of the books about him, although one of the titles refers to his adopted father. For ten points, name this character featured in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.
Answer: Natty Bumppo
15. His military career began when he led a massive raid against the Cherokee in 1761. He commanded the capture of British forts in Charleston before his regiment was taken over by the Continental Congress and he was promoted. By 1781, he had joined his forces with Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Eutaw Springs and drove the British out of the Carolinas. For ten points, name this man famous for his rescue of American prisoners, communications sabotage, and guerilla tactics, a South Carolinian known as the "Swamp Fox."
Answer: Francis Marion
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16. This family of compounds shares a three-carbon, one-nitrogen molecular structure known as a beta-lactam ring, which presumably interferes with cross-linking of peptidoglycans, especially for gram-positive bacteria. For ten points, name this antibiotic first isolated from mold by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain years following the research of Alexander Fleming.
Answer: Penicillin
17. This play's first act ends as the citizenry mourns the death of a cat that was trampled to death. By the middle of the second act, the number of sightings has increased from 7 to 17, including one husband whose wife jumps out a window in order to be with him. For ten points, name this play which ends with Berenger standing alone untransformed, the masterwork of Eugene Ionesco.
Answer: Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.
18. The code name for the 6-mile stretch of beachfront near the fishing village of Courseulles-sur-mer during the D-Day invasion, this name is associated with a dot-com that merged with NetZero into United Online, and an award which is the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy. For ten points, give this name, similar to the name of the sixth month, referring to the sister and wife of Jupiter.
Answer: Juno
19. His tragedy The Death of Agrippine was suspected of blasphemy, while his fictional travel books about the comical histories of the empires of the sun and moon were published after his death. For ten points, name this French satirist who is better known in legend as a writer of love letters, a romantic depicted best in an Edmond Rostand play.
Answer: Cyrano de Bergerac
20. The last war in which foreign troops fought on American soil, it also featured the first large amphibious landing in American history, when General Winfield Scott landed 12,000 troops at Veracruz. Fought between 1846-1848, it paved the way for America's "Manifest Destiny" westward expansion. For ten points, name this border war fought with our neighbors to the south.
Answer: Mexican-American War (or U.S.-Mexico war, or equivalents)
21. After the death of her father, this 18-year-old queen and her 15-year-old king-brother Ptolemy the 13th shared political governance, but quarrels between them led to a civil war, allowing the Romans to step in. For ten points, name this ruler who tried to gain power through her alliances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.
Answer: Cleopatra
22. It enters the Atlantic Ocean near the city of Alexander Bay, and meets with its chief tributary, the Vaal, southwest of Kimberley. Another major tributary, the Fish River, dries up in the summer due to the heart of the Namib Desert. For ten points, what South African river is named for a family of Dutch stadtholders, not the color of its waters?
Answer: Orange River
23. The primitive single-celled organisms that comprise this phylum swarm and combine into a multicellular mass, developing into a stalked sporangium. This sporangium produces spores that germinate into flagella-bearing cells which return to the starting point of this life cycle when taking amoeboid form. For ten points, name these fungus-like protists known because of the slick protective layer produced in its multicellular form.
Answer: Slime mold or Myxomycetes or Mycetozoa
24. He married Mathilde, the sister of his composition teacher Alexander Zemlinsky before moving to Berlin in 1901. He exhibited paintings along with colleagues of Wassily Kandinsky when Mathilde began an affair with his painting teacher. For ten points, name this Austrian-born composer whose premieres of his first two string quartets in 1905 and 1908 resulted in audience riots due to their atonality.
Answer: Arnold Schoenberg
25. While being transported by boat to a slave auction in New Orleans, the protagonist of this novel saves the life of Eva St. Clare, whose grateful father then purchases him. On her deathbed, Eva asks her father to free all his slaves, but he is killed before he can do so. The brutal Simon Legree becomes the new owner and whips him to death because he refuses to divulge the whereabouts of certain runaway slaves. For ten points, these actions occur in what 1852 book subtitled Life Among the Lowly, the most famous work of Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Answer: Uncle Tom's Cabin: Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
26. John Randolph gave them their common nickname, and their numbers included Chairman of the Naval Committee Langdon Cheves, Foreign Relations committee members Felix Grundy and Peter Porter, and Speaker of the House Henry Clay. For ten points, give the common nickname for these congressional figures who adopted antagonistic stances towards England in 1810-11.
Answer: war hawks
27. After spending a week in Caesarea Philippi, Jesus took Peter, James, and John to the top of Mount Thabor where – according to accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke – a vision was revealed to the disciples. For ten points, name this moment in Jesus’ life in which his face shown as the sun, and the prophets Moses and Elijah came to him, the second time in which God proclaimed his approval for his only son.
Answer: Transfiguration
28. One of its largest cities is Ushuaia and visitors can see the U.S. research vessel Hero whenever it is docked at its home port in the Beagle Channel. The home of Chile’s only oil field, for ten points, name this archipelago at the southern tip of South America.
Answer: Tierra del Fuego
29. On this holiday, in the past, the gentry would traditionally give presents of money to servants, trade people, and other people of humble origins. For ten points, what is this legal banking holiday celebrated in England, Wales, parts of Canada, and other areas of the Commonwealth of Nations, on December 26?
Answer: Boxing Day
30. The first of this group is a pale yellow gas and the fourth is a bluish-black solid that produces a violet vapor. The fifth, astatine, is radioactive and does not occur naturally. The third is a reddish-brown liquid and the second is a gas of yellow-green color. Give the common name for the elements that make up group 7A of the periodic table.
ANSWER: Halogens
Reminder! Make sure that if the match is not tied, that the captains initial the scoresheets approving of the outcome of the match!
Bonuses
1. Bonus: For ten points each, name these economists:
This major proponent of laissez-faire economics argued for a guaranteed income in lieu of a centralized bureaucracy overseeing social services in Capitalism and Freedom (1962).
Answer: Milton Friedman
This economist's "impossibility theorem" says that a democracy will never allocate its resources efficiently.
Answer: Kenneth Arrow
This economist's "ratio" divides the portfolio return by the risk taken to achieve that return. Commonly used to compare mutual funds, lower numbers are better.
Answer: William Sharpe
2. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about a big change in Japanese history.
At the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 AD, this leader defeated the armies of Ishida Mitsunari and Toyotomi Hideyori to assume control of Japan and begin a long dynasty.
Answer: Tokugawa Ieyasu (accept Matsudaira Takechiyo)
Tokugawa Ieyasu was appointed to this position, which roughly translates to "barbarian-defeating warlord," by Emperor Goyôzei.
Answer: shogun
The Tokugawa line of shoguns moved the capital to Tokyo, kicking off this historical period of Japanese history, named after Tokyo's old appellation.
Answer: Edo
3. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about an author.
For his allusions to Irish history and mythology, this poet received the 1995 Nobel Prize in literature.
Answer: Seamus Heaney
Heaney recently published his translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic poem.
Answer: Beowulf
In 1991, Heaney also published The Cure at Troy, a verse adaption about this archer with a magic bow who is stranded by the Greeks during the Trojan War because his snake wound became really foul-smelling.
Answer: Philoctetes (play by Socrates)
4. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about the Netherlands.
This currently Belgian port city had a thriving diamond trade in the 18th century.
Answer: Antwerp
This Amsterdam museum is easily recognizable because of its cluster of towers.
Answer: Rijksmuseum
These Keukenhof Gardens, located in the city of Lisse, are the world's largest collection of these flowers.
Answer: tulips
5. Bonus: For ten points each, name animal from art.
This type of horse is being broken in by a cowboy in a Frederic Remington sculpture.
Answer: bronco (Bronco Buster)
This misshapen animal is on the left of Picasso's Guernica
Answer: ox (accept bull)
This flat sea creature sits against the wall as a cat walks among fresh-caught fish in this Jean-Baptiste Chardin painting.
Answer: skate (accept: ray or stingray)
6. Bonus: Answer these questions on the 2002 Oscar films for ten points each. Note: these films have received one nomination, but not necessarily for Best Picture.
Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith received supporting actress nominations in this film about a 1932 party that leads to murder.
Answer: Gosford Park
Alonzo teaches Jake about life on the streets of Los Angeles as a narcotics cop.
Answer: Training Day
A shy Parisian woman returns a child’s hidden treasure box as she tries to spread happiness about others while unsure about her own.
Answer: Amélie
7. Bonus: Identify these Grimm Tales from short clues for ten points each.
An enchantress locks a girl in a tower, who lets down her hair when the witch wants to enter.
Answer: Rapunzel
A princess finally finds a way to get rid of the little man who taught her to spin straw into gold.
Answer: Rumplestilskin
While celebrating an impending wedding, the miller’s daughter pulls out a dismembered finger with a wedding band to her betrothed.
Answer: The Robber Bridegroom
8. Bonus: Identify the state associated with the following people who served as its governor for ten points each.
Orval Faubus (1955-1967) and Bill Clinton (1979-1981, 1983-1992)
Answer: Arkansas
Salmon P. Chase (1856-1860) and Rutherford Hayes (1868-1872, 1876-1877)
Answer: Ohio
George B. McClellan (1878-1891) and Woodrow Wilson (1911-1913).
Answer: New Jersey
9. Bonus: Name these parts of a flower for ten points each.
In the center of the flower is this female reproductive structure.
ANSWER: pistil
On top of the pistil is this receptive surface on which pollen grains are deposited and grow.
ANSWER: stigma
This is the external, usually green or leafy part of a flower consisting of sepals.
ANSWER: calyx
10. Bonus: Identify these unusual units of measurement for ten points each.
Often used in rating air conditioners and furnaces, this unit is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.
Answer: BTU or British Thermal Unit
Although it sounds more like a meaningless grunt, it is one-millionth of a joule.
Answer: erg
This unit measures 5.5 yards; a square 40 of them on a side is one acre.
Answer: rod
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT B: I Know What You Did Last Handout.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT B: I Know What You Did Last Handout.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Greensboro
2. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (words but not spelling must be exact)
3. Metacarpal
4. Indicator
5. Mount Ararat
6. Polka
7. Magnificat anima mea Dominum
8. Ziggurat
9. Dulcinea
10. Mike KRZYZEWSKI (Last name spelling must be exact)
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. A = 2, B = -3 (negative 3), C = 6 (all correct for credit)
12. 3 feet
Round Two Tossups
1. Samuel Johnson called them "harmless drudge[s]," and Ambrose Bierce said they were "pestilent fellow[s] who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, [do] what [they] can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods," and it is unlikely that he would have denied himself the epithet. For ten points, name this profession, which Merriam-Webster prosaically defines as "an author or editor of a dictionary."
Answer: Lexicographers
2. King Frederick II gave him the island of Hven in the Sont where over 20 years he would work in his castle/observatory Uraniburg. Eventually appointed Imperial Mathematician for Emperor Rudolph the 2nd, his observations of the paths of comets placed doubt in the previously accepted Aristotelian universe. For ten points, name this astronomer who trained Johannes Kepler, who lost part of his nose during college in a duel with a fellow student.
Answer: Tycho Brahe
3. It formally became a Roman province in 146 BCE after praetor Cecilius Metellus crushed a rebellion led by Andriscus, the pretended son of Perseus, whom the Romans took to Rome in chains after the Battle of Pydna. For ten points, name this kingdom at the head of the Gulf of Thermai whose leaders before this decline included Philip II and Alexander III.
ANSWER: Macedonia
4. This Sunni Islamic title is equivalent to “caliph,” a successor of Muhammed who has administrative and political but not religious authority. In contrast, among Shi’ite Muslims, this figure has absolute spiritual authority, is divinely appointed (rather than by men), and is free from sin. For ten points, what is this title, also given to trained prayer leaders in a mosque?
Answer: Imam
5. The attan is its national dance, and one of its most unique sports is boz kashi, in which horsemen compete to carry the headless body of a goat to the goal. A week-long celebration at the end of August known as Jashn-i-isteqlal commemorates the nation's independence. For ten points, name this south-central Asian nation that until recently was ruled by members of the Taliban party.
Answer: Afghanistan
6. To make ends meet, he works for a Sicilian named Vizzini, but upon Vezzini's death, he returns to the Thieves' Forest and gets drunk. There, he is reunited with his best friend and told of the existence of a man with six fingers on his hand. Revitalized by the news that his sworn enemy is still alive, he indeed gets the revenge he sought. For ten points, name this Spaniard who killed Count Rugen while repeating, "You killed my father; prepare to die!"
Answer: Inigo Montoya
7. It slows down upon the resumption of aerobic respiration, a condition called the "Pasteur effect." Such enzymes as phosphofructokinase, aldolase, and enolase help the reaction sequence release about 145 kilocalories of energy, primarily in the form of two molecules of ATP, but only at a 3.5% efficiency rate. For ten points, name the four-step biochemical process before pyruvate oxidation, common to both aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
Answer: glycolysis
8. This scientific axiom holds true only in fermions, such as protons and neutrons, but fails to hold in bosons such as photons and gluons, stating that no pair of identical particles can simultaneously occupy the same quantum or energy state. Name this principle, which explains why electrons in the same orbital have opposite spins.
ANSWER: the Pauli Exclusion Principle
9. This man's younger brother Thomas was also a successful playwright who helped create the first French dictionary. He started out as a comic dramatist, and his works (like L'Illusion Comique and Mélite) attracted the attention of Cardinal Richelieu, but their collaboration soon ended inamicably. He moved to Roman-themed tragedy, enjoying successes like Horace and Cinna. For ten points, name this French author of the play Le Cid.
Answer: Pierre Corneille
10. The first occurred on March 31, 1905, as a result of German hostility to France's attempts to make a certain North African colony its protectorate; resulting in the "open door" speech by Kaiser Wilhelm and the eventual Algeciras Conference, the conflict officially ended a year later in 1906. The second occurred when Germany sent the small gunboat Panther to Agadir to again protest French intervention in the colony. It concluded with France and Germany minutely redefining imperial possessions. For ten points, what were these two conflicts that were named for the colony in question, which later belonged to Spain and was united with Western Sahara?
Answer: Moroccan Crises (accept Morocco)
11. A Central Islip native and grandson of Irish immigrants, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire where he earned three varsity letters as a fullback, and earned a master’s in education from New York University at Stony Brook in 1972... except he never played football at New Hampshire and NYU-Stony Brook doesn’t exist. For ten points, name this assistant coach of the Minnesota Vikings who lost his job as head coach of Notre Dame due to persistent inaccuracies in his resume, previously the head coach at Georgia Tech.
Answer: George O’Leary (applaud if someone answers “It’s NOT George O’Leary.”)
12. When developed in France in the 1600's by the Hotteterres from the shawm, it had a loud, harsh tone, appropriate for hunting; today, it is known for its smooth and lovely tone and Henry Purcell began writing compositions featuring it, as did Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. For ten points, name this three-octave range soprano instrument, the smallest double-reed instrument whose name is derived from the words for "high wood."
ANSWER: Oboe
13. Home to Shinshu University, this city was founded around the 12th and 13th centuries A.D. and was formerly called Zenkoji. Famous for the Buddhist Zenkho Temple, which contains one of its country's oldest bronze representations of "the enlightened one," its major industries include silk production, printed materials, and machinery. For ten points, name this city in central Honshu, the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Answer: Nagano
14. When his most famous writing was questioned by those present, he merely replied, “What I have written, I have written.” After attempting to claim that the case which spurned his writing was out of his jurisdiction, he eventually used every method in the book to subvert popular opinion, none of which worked. For ten points, name this political leader who washed his hands as he could not avoid sending his prisoner to death even when the insurrectionist Barabbas was the other option.
ANSWER: Pontius Pilate
15. Established by German botanist Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper in the 1880's, and refined by Lynn Margulis in 1967, this theory attempts to identify the evolutionary relationship between prokaryotic and eurkaryotic cells. Justified by the recent discovery of DNA material in chloroplasts and mitochondria, it still fails to explain the origin of the nucleus. For ten points, name this theory that stipulates that independent prokaryotes had been engulfed into a larger prokaryote to form the primordial eurkaryote, where they lived harmoniously.
ANSWER: Endosymbiosis (accept endosymbiotic theory or the symbiotic theory of cellular evolution)
Score check here!
16. By age 7, he became an altar boy and an organist for the San Michele Arcangelo church, where he was protected from a French army invasion (1814) by his mother, who hid in the church's bell tower with her son in her arms. At age 13, he was the assistant conductor to the Busetto Philharmonic Orchestra. The success of his 1839 opera Oberto resulted in a contract for three more operas, thus beginning his ascent as a composer. For ten points, name the Italian composer of Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and Aida.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Verdi
17. A relativistic effect has been proposed to explain why this element’s 6s electrons are more tightly bound than periodic law predicts. Whatever the real reason, the hypothesis serves as an explanation for many of this element's unusual properties: high reduction potential, smaller atomic radius, and high ionization potential. Traditionally found usage in special alloys known as amalgams, it is associated with Mad Hatter's disease. For ten points, name this element, one of few to exist as a liquid at room temperature.
Answer: Mercury
18. Inspired by women victims of "the disappeared" who dance in the streets with pictures of their missing husbands or sons, this musician declares his objections to the oppressive rule of Chilean president Pinochet in the song "They Dance Alone." His latest song "Until" (off the Kate and Leopold movie soundtrack) won the Golden Globe for Best Song and an Oscar nomination while "My Funny Friend and Me" from The Emperor's New Clothes received a Grammy nomination. For ten points, name this artist who sold 7 million copies of his latest album Brand New Day last year.
ANSWER: Sting or Gordon Sumner
19. In nine years (1959-1968) he went from a lowly stagehand to the resident playwright of the Theater of the Balustrade company, beginning with his first play The Garden Party (1963). His best-known play The Memorandum (1965) is Dilbert-esque as an incomprehensible language imposed on a bureaucracy results in complete chaos. For ten points, name this famous playwright of Audience (1975) and Largo Desolato (1985) who in the Velvet Revolution became elected president of Czechoslovakia.
Answer: Vaclav Havel
20. While influenced by the geometric features of African sculpture, this early creator of collages often glued pieces of cloth and newspaper to his paintings to enrich the texture. His early works, such as Road near l'Estaque, also reflect the influence of Paul Cézanne. For ten points, name this French artist, whose works like Man with a Guitar reflect his status as the co-founder of cubism with Picasso.
ANSWER: Georges Braque
21. At the beginning of the novel, a girl delivers a letter to a rural pastor telling him that his sister Gertrude is very sick. He then travels to Johannesburg, where aids his sister and searches for his son, Absalom. When he finally finds Absalom, he discovers that he murdered a social justice activist named Arthur Jarvis. For ten points, name this Alan Paton novel whose protagonist is Stephen Kumalo.
Answer: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
22. Born in Paris in 1874, he was educated at Canterbury and Heidelberg University before practicing medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, an experience that would later play a major role in his first novel, Liza of Lambeth. After the success of "Rain," he wrote a book based on the real life experiences of artist Paul Gauguin in The Moon and Sixpence. For ten points, name this British author of East of Suez, Cakes and Ale, and The Razor's Edge.
Answer: William Somerset Maugham
23. According to researchers in Georgia and South Carolina, individuals affected with this disease have smaller but more cell minicolumns compared to normal individuals, suggesting the hyperactivity of the cells could be a result of damage to the brainstem during early development. For ten points, name this disease in which those affected have difficulty communicating or relating to people, a condition highlighted in the movie Rain Man.
Answer: Autism
24. Dmitri Pisarev said of it: "It is precisely in the spread-eagled, laboratory frog that the salvation of the Russian People is to be found." Mikhail Bakunin stated its tenants as "the negation of what exists… for the benefit of the future which does not yet exist." For ten points, name this skeptical philosophy, as espoused by Bazarov in the 1862 novel Fathers and Sons, derived from the Latin word for “nothing.”
Answer: nihilism
25. It called for an executive branch to be ruled by more than one leader, that each state represented equally in a unicameral legislature, and that legislative power derived from the states. There was no provision for a judiciary branch, and executive decisions were not subject to veto. For ten points, name this Constitutional Convention plan put forth by William Paterson as a contrast to the Virginia Plan, named for the small state he represented.
Answer: New Jersey Plan (accept early Patterson plan)
26. This conflict began in 1871 when, using as an excuse that the bureau was too involved with the neighboring Poles, Otto von Bismarck abolished the Catholic section of the Prussian Ministry of Worship. The 1873 passage of the May Laws marked the high water mark of the anti-Catholic movement and resistance. For ten points, name this political conflict in which Catholics sought to retain their right for self-governance and worship whose Germanic term translates to “culture struggle.”
Answer: Kulturkampf
27. He entered the Ohio Senate in 1859, but left to fight in the Civil War, becoming a major general. He resigned that commission to enter Congress, and in 1880, fended off John Sherman for the Republican nomination on the 36th ballot. For ten points, name this man who won what is by popular vote the closest Presidential race ever, by less than 20,000 votes against Winfield Scott Hancock that year.
Answer: James A. Garfield
28. This family's Earthbound section consists of a mother and her four children, two of whom, Sandy and Dennis, are twins. Charles Wallace -- who insists on going by two names -- is considered a special talent by all those who know them, while the oldest child is thought of as undisciplined. The father, meanwhile, is stuck somewhere in space-time, being held captive by the shadow of darkness. For ten points, name this family, who eldest child, Meg, provides the perspective through which we are introduced to "A Wrinkle in Time" in Madeline L'Engle's book.
Answer: Murry (prompt on A Wrinkle in Time if early)
29. His first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, concerns a widow facing her fading youth and beauty who becomes involved with a younger man. His first play was based on a real-life incident, focusing on convicts in a Pennsylvania prison who, while engaged in a hunger strike, were roasted to death in a steam-heated cell; yet its compassionate portrayal of blacks and homosexuals prevented Not About Nightingales from being produced until 60 years after it was written. For ten points, name this Southern playwright who found success with Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Night of the Iguana, and The Glass Menagerie.
Answer: Tennessee Lanier Williams
30. James, William, and Drury Doyle were hacked into pieces with spears, and then Allen Wilkinson was murdered. Finally, William Sherman was shot as he slept at James Harris' house. The five killed were all members of the Law and Order party, notable for its pro-slavery stances, but did not actually own slaves themselves. For ten points, name this massacre, led by John Brown, which inflamed Kansas.
Answer: Massacre of Pottawatomie Creek (prompt on “Bloody Kansas”)
Bonuses
1. Bonus: He was accused of selling secrets to a German military attache and was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island on December 22, 1894. For ten points each:
Name this Jewish military officer of the French Third Republic.
Answer: Alfred Dreyfus
The Dreyfus affair precipiated this novelist’s open letter in the Aurore entitled “J’accuse.”
Answer: Emile Zola
While acquitted in a court-martial in 1897, it is thought that this army officer was the real spy rather than Dreyfus as revealed by analysis of his handwriting on the incriminating documents.
Answer: Marie-Charles-Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
2. Bonus: For fifteen points each, answer these related biology questions.
[15] Cladograms are a way to construct the natural evolutionary relationships between creatures. Give the term for such an evolutionary history.
Answer: phylogeny
[15] Scientists use this principle to minimize the number of changes in traits that must be postulated to account for the inferred lineage in a phylogeny.
Answer: principle of parsimony or Occam's razor
3. Bonus: Identify these mapping terms for ten points each.
This word describes the art and science of creation and representation of a map.
Answer: Cartography
This reference section for a map lists and explains the colors, symbols, and annotations used on the map. It could even include a scale bar.
Answer: Legend (prompt on “key”)
This is the term for the north-south lines that measure longitude on a map.
Answer: Meridian(s)
4. Bonus: For each of the following major scales, name the relative minor scale for ten points each:
F Major Answer: d minor
D flat Major Answer: b flat minor (do not prompt on partial answer)
B major Answer: g sharp minor (do not prompt on partial answer)
5. Bonus: For ten points each, give the authors of these literary works of 1860.
He wrote The Woman in White
Answer: Wilkie Collins
She wrote The Mill on the Floss
Answer: George Eliot or Mary Ann Evans
This early aesthete wrote the drama The Queen Mother, five years before his better-known Atalanta in Calydon
Answer: Algernon Charles Swinburne
6. Bonus: Prosecuting the case against this former head of state is Carla del Ponte of Switzerland before a three-judge international tribunal. For ten points each:
Name the defendant who will defend himself, the first former head-of-state accused of genocide.
Answer: Slobodan Milosevic
The most serious charges of genocide arise from the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims near this town in Bosnia by General Radisal Krstic.
Answer: Srebrenica (pronounced “sreb-ruh-neat-zuh”, but be flexible)
The tribunal allowed this former Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson to serve as Milosevic’s legal advisor.
Answer: Ramsey Clark
7. Bonus: Let’s test your knowledge of Utah history for ten points each.
This tribe called themselves Nuciu (the People), and the state is named for them.
Answer: Ute(s)
The ninth child of 11, this Vermont native assumed the leadership of the Mormons following the assassination of Joseph Smith in 1844.
Answer: Brigham Young
A symbol of rainfall and fertility to the Navajo religion, this physical landmark spanning 270 feet was made a national monument in 1910 by President Taft and was the center of controversy with the 1956 authorization of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam.
Answer: Rainbow Bridge National Monument
8. Bonus: Identify these characters from Homer’s Odyssey for ten points each.
Often this goddess assumes the form of Mentor, an old friend, to assist Odysseus.
Answer: Athena
This 20-year-old son of Odysseus forgets to lock the weapons room, making it possible for the suitors to arm themselves against Odysseus.
Answer: Telemachus
This arrogant suitor schemes to murder Telemachus and is himself killed when Odysseus returns.
Answer: Antinous
9. Bonus: Answer these questions on the kidney for ten points each.
There are over one million of these filtration units in each kidney.
Answer: Nephron
This long serpentine or U-shaped part of the nephron helps to recover water and sodium chloride from the urine.
Answer: Loop of Henle
These ducts collect the urine and connects the kidneys to the ureters and the bladder.
Answer: Wolffian or Archinephric Duct
10. Bonus: Answer these questions on Arthurian mythology for ten points each.
After he taught her the secrets of magic in exchange for her love, the student Vivian cast a spell on him and imprisoned him until Arthur ascended.
Answer: Merlin
After his victory over the Irish, Laodegan not only gave Arthur the Round Table but also this daughter’s hand in marriage.
Answer: Guinevere
Upon the death of Pelles, he would become king of the castle Carbonek, that was the site for the completion of the quest for the Grail.
Answer: Percivale
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT C: Lord of the Handouts.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT C: Lord of the Handouts.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Chester Nimitz
2. Tom Joad
3. Hypochondria (accept hypochondriasis and equivalent word forms)
4. Keystone
5. Epiphany
6. Default (accept equivalent word forms)
7. Creed
8. Great Leap Forward
9. Kalevala
10. Richard Reid
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 276
12. The first row of the matrix in order: 8, 6.
The second row of the matrix in order: 13, 24.
(Commas are not necessary, but numbers must be clearly distinct elements in the matrix.)
Round Three Tossups
1. "Metzengerstein." "A Tale of Ragged Mountains." "Thou Art the Man." "A Descent into the Maelstrom." "The Black Cat." For ten points, name the author of these short stories also known for "The Purloined Letter," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Pit and the Pendulum".
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
2. This technique was employed by Scottish Highlanders, American Indians, William Quantrill, Emilio Aguinaldo, the Free French, Fidel Castro, the Viet Cong, the IRA, and the Green Berets, though Mao Tse-Tung is said to have perfected it. For ten points name this type of warfare, which involves stirring up popular dissent and using harassment tactics to overthrow entrenched governments which does not involve the use of large primates.
ANSWER: Guerilla Warfare
3. Unable to come up with an impressive exhortation in his dying breath, he said "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." Born Doroteo Arambula, he was a farmer and a banker before killing one of his ranch hands in 1910. He joined a rebellion against President Francisco Madero six years later, leading a famous raid on Columbus, New Mexico. For ten points, name this Mexican outlaw.
Answer: Pancho Villa
4. A native of Delft, he is recognized for his ability to portray subjects in a strikingly realistic fashion, exemplified by The Little Street, Woman at a Window, and Young Woman Reading a Letter. For ten points, name this Dutch artist, who also painted The Painter in His Studio, The Tempest, and Young Woman with a Water Jug.
ANSWER: Jan Vermeer
5. In June 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra killed himself as well as King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya, and two other members of the royal family of this nation. Though it has slowly been moving towards democracy since a 1990 massacre ordered by Birendra, this Hindu nation has been ruled by the Shah dynasty for over 250 years. For ten points, name this mountainous nation with its capital at Katmandu.
Answer: Nepal
6. His love of Rube Goldberg's contraptions led him to build his namesake "boxes," as an intricate reward system, and he created the teaching machine, a predecessor of computerized self-instruction apparatuses. He wrote two books, both of which outlined the means of creating a utopian society. For ten points, name this author of Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), better known for Walden II.
ANSWER: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
7. In the popliteal fossa, It divides into two branches known as the peroneal nerve and the tibial nerve, the latter of which innervates the hamstrings to effect a standard knee-jerk reflex. For ten points, name this large nerve, the thickest in the body that innervates the muscles of the leg and foot.
Answer: Sciatic nerve
8. First and last name is the same and is required! One was an Irish-born British artist known for his terrifyingly grotesque images and grossly distorted human bodies. Another with the same name is widely considered to be the most versatile writer of the 17th century, addressing such topics as ethics, science, law, and philosophy. For ten points, identify the name shared by the painter of Screaming Popes (based on Velasquez’s painting of Pope Innocent the 10th) and the philosopher/author of Novum Organum and The New Atlantis.
Answer: Francis Bacon
9. According to legend, after being captured by the Romans, this saint miraculously cured a boy choking on a fishbone. Consequently, he is now the patron saint of throats, and on his feast day priests bless two candles, place them in an X, and touch the throats of the faithful with them to invoke this saint's power. For ten points, name this saint, who shares his name with the first name of French mathematician Pascal.
Answer: St. Blaise
10. Extending southeast from the Grand Canyon to Petrified Forrest National Park, this plateau of colored rock located on the Little Colorado River reaches a length of about 200 miles and covers and area of about 7,500 miles. For ten points, name this area of northeastern Arizona with irregular terrain characterized by buttes, mesas, cliffs, and slopes, whose center contains many Hopi and Navajo reservations and is known for its colorful rock.
Answer: Painted Desert
11. This process can be initiated by blood meals in or withdrawal from a wet diet for flies. From these environmental cues, steroids are released from the prothoracic gland acting upon the epidermis. For ten points, name this process mediated by ecdysteroids that results in discarding of a layer of the exoskeleton in insects.
Answer: Molt(ing) (accept equilvalent forms) or Ecdysis
12. According to Adam Sandler, there are those who claim he was Jewish before his famous conversion. Even though his accounting firm lost a senior partner seven years ago, he has yet to change the sign over his place of business to reflect that. In fact, it is only after he dreams of seeing his own unattended grave that he undergoes an ethical transformation. For ten points, name this man who soon after promotes his secretary to partner in a move that finally fills the vacancy left by the death of Jacob Marley.
Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge
13. First elected to Congress in 1989 to fill Tony Coelho's seat, he was a founding member of the Blue Dogs Coalition, a group of moderate-to-conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives. Now representing California's 18th Congressional District, name this man who recently turned over DNA samples to the FBI because of his involvement in the disappearance of Congressional Aide Chandra Levy, with whom he admittedly had an affair.
ANSWER: Gary Adrian Condit
14. With glacier ice covering over more than one-fourth of the earth, many mammals had become extinct in North America such as the llama, camel, mastodon, and saber-toothed tiger by the end of this period. Sometimes called the "Age of Man," it began 1.6 million years ago and has continued to the present. For ten points, name this period of geologic history, which is divided into the Pleistocene and contemporary Holocene Epochs, following the Tertiary Period.
Answer: Quaternary Period
15. The Brooklyn Eagle wrote that her "mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development," and she responded by calling it a "socially blind and deaf" institution that "defends an intolerable system." For ten points, name this woman who praised the U.S.S.R. and supported Eugene V. Debs as a Socialist Presidential candidate, best known as Anne Sullivan's pupil that was both blind and deaf.
Answer: Helen Keller
Score check here!
16. He was flown into Ramallah by helicopter and scheduled to meet with Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, in hopes that an agreement could be reached to stop the violence in the Middle East. Upon meeting with him, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat proclaimed that his country was willing to accept the United Nations' demands, but asserted that Israel was not carrying out its part of the bargain. Name this broker of the peace talks during the cease-fire between Palestine and Israel, the UN Secretary-General.
ANSWER: Kofi Annan
17. Obsessed with strengthening his ring fingers, he hung weights on them to strengthen the joints, tearing the ligaments and ending his career as a concert pianist. He then turned largely to composing, and his wife Clara assisted him. After 1840, he became increasingly crazy, and tried to kill himself by jumping in the Rhine. He was rescued and committed, and he died in an asylum in 1856. For ten points, name this German composer, author of Symphonic Etudes and Album for the Young.
ANSWER: Robert Schumann
18. "te wo uteba / kodama ni akuru / natsu no tsuki" - roughly translated, "as I clap my hands / with the echoes, it begins to dawn, / the summer moon." A favorite of Americans like Gary Snyder, this example from Matsuo Basho demonstrates, For ten points, what uniquely Japanese poetic style?
Answer: haiku (accept Matsuo Basho early)
19. Warning: Title of work desired. The title character falls deeply in love with his neighbor, who is, unfortunately, engaged. He moves away and immerses himself in his art in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to forget her, and moves back after her marriage and eventually kills himself with her husband's pistol. For ten points, what is this romantic Goethe novel?
Answer: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Lieden des jungen Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
20. Robert Wadlow, Andre Rausumoff, and Charles Byrne are three of the most famous sufferers of this condition, and Akhenaton is believed to have suffered from it. Usually associated with a pituitary tumor, once the bones have calcified, the face is soon affected resulting in jutting jaws and enlarged facial features. For ten points name this hormonal imbalance, involving excess Growth Hormone, manifested by incredible size.
ANSWER: Gigantism or acromegaly
21. By the late 1990s, it had argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any other entity except the Department of Justice, including a major role in litigating Romer v. Evans. For ten points, name this non-partisan public interest law firm and organization founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Albert DeSilver and others, established to protect privileges granted by the Bill of Rights.
Answer: the American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU
22. Abraham and Balthasar mix it up with Sampson and Gregory, starting a large brawl that Escalus finally ends. After this scene, we see the lead character opining over Rosaline to his cousin Benvolio. For ten points, this begins what tragedy of “star-crossed” teenagers from two feuding Verona families by William Shakespeare?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
23. The winner of the 1978 U. S. Intercollegiate singles as a Stanford amateur freshman, this Wiesbaden, Germany-born American won a Grand Slam in mixed doubles in 1977 with Mary Carillo as well as the junior boys singles title. For ten points, name this 1999 enshrinee into the Tennis Hall of Fame famous both for his 1980 Wimbledon defeat to Bjorn Borg as well as his 1990 disqualification from the Australian Open for his abusive language.
Answer: John Patrick McEnroe, Jr.
24. The scene is the woods around noon; most of the background is obscured by trees, though a woman washing something in the stream is prominent in the back center. Two men, both bearded and with the one on the right wearing a hat, are seated and in discussion. Meanwhile, in front of one man is a woman, staring back at the viewer and having inexplicably shed her clothing, which lies beside her to the lower left. For ten points, name this then-controversial artwork first displayed in 1863 which helped to launch the career of Edouard Manet.
Answer: Luncheon on the Grass (Dejeuner sur l'herbe) by Edouard Manet
25. The first announcement of a successful attempt was made March 23, 1989 at the University of Utah. It was virtually demolished at a meeting of the American Physical Society May 1 of that same year. Ever since, the idea has been a realm of "crackpot" science, along with other methods of getting essentially "free" energy. For ten points, name this phenomenon, said to occur when two deuterium atoms collide and bond, forming tritium and releasing excess heat.
Answer: cold fusion
26. It now has three USB ports instead of two, a zippier NVidia GeForce2 MX video card instead of an older ATI Rage chip, two FireWire ports, a SuperDrive, standard networking options, a unique internal power supply, and it has been upgraded to an 800 megahertz G4 processor. Most surprisingly, it has a pivoting swivel which allows the newly incorporated 15" LCD screen to swing around 180 degrees. For ten points, name this recently refreshed product from Apple Computer.
Answer: I-Mac
27. The main route to Greece, this road was more than 350 miles long. It was well constructed, although the present pavement of large hexagonal blocks, principally lava, is probably not the original bed. For ten points, name this road of ancient Italy, the oldest and most celebrated highway of the Roman Republic built in 312 BC by the Roman censor Appius Claudius Caecus.
ANSWER: Appian Way or Via Appia
28. Born in 276 B.C., he developed an algorithm, called to "the sieve for primes", which allowed one to systematically find all prime numbers less than a certain integer n. For ten points, name this librarian at Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, who calculated 25,000 miles as the approximate circumference of the earth.
ANSWER: Eratosthenes
29. A humorous travel narrative based on its author's real-life letters to newspapers while written on board a steamship in 1867, this sarcastically acerbic work satirizes tourists on the steamship Quaker City who learn what they should see and feel by reading travel guidebooks. For ten points, name this 1869 book subtitled The New Pilgrim's Progress written by Mark Twain.
Answer: The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land by Mark Twain
30. There were originally just three: Melete, Mneme, and Aoede. The daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, they started off as nymphs of inspiring wells where they were worshipped. For ten points, name these mythological sissters of the arts and sciences, of which specific examples are poetry, astronomy, history, and comedy.
Answer: Muse(s)
Bonuses
1. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these related chemistry questions.
Dividing the number of moles of a substance by the number of liters of solution yields this measure of concentration.
Answer: molarity
Fifteen seconds for this math question (read numbers slowly): You have a 0.0380 molar potassium permanganate solution. If you want to transfer 0.760 millimoles of potassium permanganate to a new container, How many milliliters of solution must you dispense?
Answer: 20 (20.0) mL
Five seconds for this math question: What is the normality of a 3 molar sulfuric acid solution?
Answer: 6
2. Bonus: Identify these biologists from descriptions of their research for the stated number of points.
[5] This Dutch scientist was the first person to view algae under his microscopes.
Answer: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
[10] In 1898, this Italian cell biologist characterized this set of specialized compartments that play a role in the post-translational modification of proteins.
Answer: Camillo Golgi
[15] One of the pioneers in studying animal behavior, he dedicated his life to deciphering how bees communicate through dance.
Answer: Karl von Frisch
3. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about a poet and his works.
He is best known for his collection Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect.
Answer: Robert Burns
Inspired by John Barleycorn, this poetic character rides his mare Meg right through a witches' coven.
Answer: Tam O'Shanter
This poem is written to a "Wee, sleeket, cowrin, tim'rous beastie"
Answer: "To a Mouse"
4. Bonus: Identify these terms from pottery for ten points each.
This is the primary “oven” that bakes clay to make pottery.
Answer: Kiln
To enhance the color and make the pottery waterproof, this “paint” is applied.
Answer: Glaze
Pottery usually left unglazed that remains porous and coarse can be called this term, which in Italian means “baked earth.”
Answer: Terra-cotta
5. Bonus: For ten points each, name these works by Victor-Marie Hugo.
Esmerelda befriends Quasimodo in this famous novel.
Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
According to legend, the publisher’s response to Hugo’s question on the status of this novel was simply an exclamation point. Name this novel set during the tumult of the French Revolution.
Answer: Les Miserables
The basis for the opera Rigoletto, this play was itself based on the life of Francis I, but reflected the contemporary leader Louis-Philippe. Consequently, the play was prematurely closed.
Answer: The King Amuses Himself (Le roi s’amuse)
6. Bonus: Answer these questions pertaining to psychiatry for ten points each.
People with this eating disorder participating in binge eating and purging behaviors.
Answer: Bulimia Nervosa
Individuals affected by this disorder fall asleep without warning.
Answer: Narcolepsy (accept equivalent forms)
Now in its fourth edition, it organizes mental disorders into 16 major diagnostic classes. For ten points, name this medical reference book published by the American Psychiatric Association.
ANSWER: DSM or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
7. Bonus: Answer these questions about Fenway Park for ten points each.
Since 1947, no paid advertising was allowed on this left field wall.
Answer: Green Monster
The one red seat in Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21, commemorates the 502-foot-long home run hit off Fred Hutchinson (Detroit Tigers) by this Red Sox player.
Answer: Ted Williams
This foul pole is named for this 1950's Red Sox player who hit a home run down the right field line.
Answer: Johnny Pesky (for Pesky’s Pole)
8. Bonus: Identify these "fathers" of inventions and sciences, for ten points each.
This Hungarian-born American physicist is called "the father of the hydrogen bomb" for his work on the H-bomb first tested 1952.
Answer: Edward Teller
This Greek mathematician of the 3rd Century AD who wrote Arithmetica while in Alexandria, Egypt, is known as the "father of algebra."
Answer: Diophantus
This Florentine artist of the High Renaissance was known as "the father of sfumato," because of his technique of using hazy, smoke-like effect in some of his paintings, such as The Virgin of the Rocks.
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci (either name acceptable)
9. Bonus: Answer these questions about murders in 1203, for fifteen points each.
[15] Which oft-troubled king of England stirred up the resentment of his nobles when he murdered his nephew, Arthur of Brittany?
Answer: King John Lackland
[15] In Japan, Tokimasa ordered the murder of much of the rival Hiki clan. What prominent clan of the Kamakura period did Tokimasa belong to?
Answer: Hojo
10. Bonus: Name these parts of the “New Deal” package of legislation for ten points each.
Established by the Wagner Act was this agency that independently mediates and arbitrates conflicts between employees and businesses.
Answer: National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
This agency introduced industry-wide codes to eliminate unfair business practices, reduce unemployment rates, standardize minimum wages and hours, and ensure the right to collective bargaining.
Answer: National Recovery Administration (NRA)
The constitutionality of this agency was challenged in the Ashwander case, but the Court allowed it to coordinate activities to build dams, hydroelectric generating stations, and flood control stations.
Answer: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT D: Requiescant in pace.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT D: Requiescant in pace.
Ten-point Answers:
1. World Trade Center
2. Wormwood
3. Leon Marcus Uris
4. Gamma radiation
5. Hamas
6. Arthur James Balfour
7. Al-Jazeera (be flexible on spelling)
8. The Satanic Verses
9. Edward Jenner
10. Lee Greenwood
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 100π or (100 times pi)
12. 57.5% (accept 57.4 to 57.6%)
Round Four Tossups
1. His first law stipulates that factors governing two different characteristics are inherited separately from one another, while his second law states that two members of an allele pair or pair of homologous chromosomes separate during gamete formations, and each gamete receives only one member of the pair. Name this man whose two laws, respectively known as the Law of Independent Assortment, and the Law of Segregation, were conceived while he was a monk in Austria growing peas.
ANSWER: Gregor Mendel
2. His criticism of the Dreyfus Affair led him to write Monsieur Bergeret in Paris (1901), and he was among the first to sign Zola's manifesto of condemnation. Born Jacques Thibault in 1844, he used his two middle names as the basis for his pen name. The son of a bookseller, he pursued a literary career with works such as The Red Lily in 1894. For ten points, name this Nobel laureate whose works include The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard and Penguin Island.
Answer: Anatole France
3. Though formed in 1994, this alternative rock band's name coincidentally shares its name with an American air force base in eastern Germany where an accident during a 1988 air show killed 80 German spectators. With former Olympic swimmer Till Lindemann on vocals, they became popular for their live shows in Europe with modest success on the American leg of their 1998 Family Values Tour. For ten points, name this band who for a time worked for David Lynch and whose song subjects in albums Herzeleid, Sehnsucht, and Mutter have been the subject of controversy over their depiction of child molestation and catastrophes, most famous for their hit single, "Du hast."
ANSWER: Rammstein
4. This lake is nearer to the Yarmuk River than it is to any other body of water. Located on the border between Syria and Israel, it is only about one-quarter the size of the Dead Sea, its southern counterpart. For ten points, name this lake/sea whose surrounding villages were home to 11 of Jesus' disciples.
ANSWER: Sea of Galilee or Lake Tiberias
5. According to Greek myth, he is the inventor of the saw, the axe, and carpentry in general. Considered a pioneer and innovator in architecture and sculpture, he made a wooden cow for Pasiphae. For ten points, name this man who, to house Pasiphae’s child the Minotaur, built a Labyrinth to contain it.
Answer: Daedalus
6. When American forces destroyed his community at Barataria Bay, he moved to Galveston and declared himself governor of the island. When an American expedition set out to destroy that community, he burned it down before moving out. In 1813, the governor of Louisiana offered $500 for his capture; he responded by offering $1500 for the governor's head. For ten points, name this Louisiana pirate who was temporarily pardoned for aiding American forces in the War of 1812.
ANSWER: Jean Lafitte
7. Frank Spangenberg, a New York City police officer, holds the record for most money earned, with over $200,000 - 100,000 of which was received during the show's Tournament of Champions. The record has stood since 1992, although it is anticipated that with the recent doubling of the scale of money values, the record's days are numbered. For ten points, name this game show, originally hosted by Art Linkletter but revived under the auspices of Merv Griffin as hosted by Alex Trebek.
Answer: Jeopardy!
8. His first three books try to give philosophical justification for his breaking off his engagement. The fourth Philosophical Fragments presents his view of what Christianity is, while the sixth is practically a revision of his first book Either/Or. For ten points, name this thinker, the founder of what is now called existentialism.
Answer: Soren Kierkegaard
9. Partially caused by a deficiency of the enzyme tyrosinase, often it frequently affects humans exhibiting an oscillation of the eyeballs, known as nystagmus. Scientists showed that injections of pituitary hormone can rescue amphibians suffering from this condition. For ten points, what is this medical condition that is directly caused by the absence of melanin, resulting in pink eyes, extremely white hair, and very pale skin?
Answer: Albinism
10. His works describe the anxieties of the average man in modern society. These men feel trapped by the complexity of the world, their domineering wives and their rebellious children, and in order to cope, they resort to alcohol or fantasy. Blind for his last 15 years, he was thus hindered from producing his writings and drawings. Name this writer of such works as "My Life and Hard Times", and "The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze", who co-authored "Is Sex Necessary?" with E.B. White.
ANSWER: James Thurber
11. He was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1995 for his writing career, which started with I, the Jury in 1947. His favorite response to critics is, "Of course it's garbage. But it's good garbage." Readers seemed to agree; by 1965, he had written seven of the world's thirty best-selling books to that time. For ten points, who is this author, who portrayed the dark, seamy side of private investigation via his character Mike Hammer?
Answer: Mickey Spillane
12. Created by an Italian monk in the 7th century, its name is the Latin for "little reward." German immigrants brought the product to America, and the first American to produce them commercially was Julius Sturgis. The Sturgis bakery still churns out what product, whose symbolic use in Swiss nuptials, For ten points, led to the phrase "tying the knot?"
Answer: pretzel(s)
13. When you add Iron (III) chloride, it becomes colored. Although it can be synthesized from benzene via a diazonium salt intermediate, a more direct pathway involves reacting styrene with a peroxide. For ten points, name this compound that will dissolve in a solution of Sodium carbonate, but not in Sodium bicarbonate, consisting of a benzene ring with one alcohol substituent group.
Answer: phenol
14. His Nobel Prize citation recognizes his "(Masterly) technique… [which lets the] animals remain in good health, without any injury to the function of their digestive tract, permitting observation and systematic investigation over an almost unlimited period". Thus, he was able to study the physicological workings of the gastric system and disprove the idea of "specific excitability." For ten points, who posited "conditioned response" after noting that dogs would eventually associate a bell with food, and begin to salivate?
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
15. Called the “white city of the north,” this city founded in 1550 by King Gustav Vasa has many buildings constructed of light-colored granite. The town center was rebuilt according to the designs of German architect Carl Ludwig Engel, though the influence of Eliel Saarinen with the railway station and Alvar Aalto’s concert building can be seen. For ten points, name this administrative center of the province of Uudenmaan, the capital of Finland.
Answer: Helsinki or Helsingfors
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16. After briefly losing his kingdom to Lysimachus, a former general of Alexander the Great, he regained his throne in 295 BC. He terrorized the Macedonian kingdom, defeating Antigonus II in several conflicts. However, he had less success in his battles against Sparta, against whom he lost his life, and Rome. A costly defeat Beneventum in 275 and even more dearly bought victories at Asculum and Heraclea are his most enduring legacy. For ten points, name this king of Epirus, whose name now refers to a victory bought at a heavy price.
Answer: Pyrrhus
17. Immortalized in a song by the British punk band, the Adverts, and remembered by his brother Mikal's book, Shot in the Heart, he was effectively turned in to the authorities by his cousin, who told him, "You commit a murder Monday, and commit a murder Tuesday. I wasn't waiting for Wednesday to come around." For ten points, name this man whose "fight to die" made him the first executed prisoner since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, the subject of Norman Mailer's Pulitzer-prize winning book The Executioner's Song.
Answer: Gary Gilmore
18. It was founded in Switzerland, by Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, and Tristan Tzara. The movement soon spread to Germany, France, and eventually the United States, where Marcel Duchamp displayed Fountain, a marble urinal, at a 1917 exhibition. It did not last long, because in order for its adherents to promote it, they would have had to abandon its nihilistic principles. Name this post-WWI philosophy whose adherents ridiculed every societal value, as exemplified by Otto Dix.
ANSWER: Dada (Dadaism, Dada Movement)
19. According to Stirling's Formula, one divided by this number is equal to the limit of n factorial to the 1/n power divided by n, as n goes to infinity. When raised to the i-pi power, the number is equal to negative one. Usually defined as the limit of 1 over the quantity of n times the sum 1 plus n as n goes to infinity, for ten points, what number might be approximated 2.718?
Answer: e (prompt if “Euler’s constant” is given)
20. Among this man's followers were George of Podebrad, a moderate Ultraquist who became King of Bohemia in 1458, and radical Taborites like John Zizka and Procopius the Great. His "Four Articles" demanded various reforms in the Catholic church, all inspired by English reformist John Wycliffe. For ten points, name this 15th century leader of a proto-Reformation.
Answer: Jan Hus
21. In 1651, he published Cyclometriae, which pointed the flaws of Gregory of St. Vincent's proposed methods of squaring the circle. The discoverer of Titan and nature of Saturn's rings as described in System Saturnium (1659), he worked on a series of pendulum clocks, including one that could be used at sea. For ten points, name this Dutch scientist who postulated the rule that every point on the front of an advancing wave is itself a source of new waves, from which he developed the wave theory of light.
Answer: Christiaan Huygens
22. Charged in 1805 by General James Wilkinson to find the headwaters of the Mississippi River, this New Jersey-born lieutenant didn't find the source. Instead he bought land from the Sioux Natives for the future site of Fort Snelling, around the area that is now Minneapolis. Made a brigadier general in the War of 1812 and dying at the Battle of York, he is also noted for exploring the Arkansas and Red Rivers. For ten points, name this American who explored the region around Leadville, Colordo, and attempted to climb the mountain that he sighted that today bears his name.
Answer: Zebulon Pike
23. The French militia is shown as an abstracted, faceless wall of tyranny, while the Spanish victims' faces contort with terror and disbelief. For ten points, name this painting by Francisco Goya that commemorated the Spanish street fighters who fought Napoleon's military occupation of Spain.
ANSWER: The Third of May, 1808 by Francisco Goya
24. Inducted into the Royal Academy in 1778, he left it shortly after because he strongly disagreed with the aesthetic doctrines of its president, Joshua Reynolds. A friend of Thomas Paine, he is best known for his poetry that combined mysticism and complex symbolism such as in The Book of Urzon and The Four Zoas. For ten points, name this British supporter of the French Revolution, a prophetic writer, illustrator, engraver, and translator, famous for a 1789 book of poetry, Songs of Innocence.
Answer: William Blake
25. The names of the characters from this story are Iranian, but it appears that the story is set near Central Asia or perhaps on some islands in India or China. The context of this collection is a woman’s goal to save the life of her sister Dunyazad, so Scheherazade marries King Sharyar. For ten points, name this collection of stories from Persia, Arabia, India, and Egypt that include the stories of Ali Baba, Aladdin, and Sindbad the Sailor.
ANSWER: Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights
26. This character was created by the New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock. A superposition of the two-letter initial for the place in which it is most often found, it was created on April 1, 1778. For ten points, what is the best known of the world's secular symbols and the mark used to denote the currency unit of the United States?
Answer: Dollar sign
27. It was defeated in battle when Lord Charles Howard ordered ships set on fire to be sent against it, producing panic that broke the formation. For ten points, name this fleet of warships that attempted to destroy the English fleet in 1588.
ANSWER: Spanish Armada
28. Invented by Rene Laennec in 1816, a wooden version of this instrument accompanied his treatise De l’Auscultation Mediate (1819). For ten points, what medical instrument consists of a bell and a diaphragm, useful for listening to low- or high-frequency sounds from the chest of a patient?
Answer: Stethoscope
29. In 1930, he completed a commission for a concerto from the pianist Paul Wittgenstein who lost his right arm in World War I. Colette provided the libretto to his opera L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Enchantments), in which a tempestuous child is punished by the animals and furniture around him. For ten points, name this friend of Russian impressario Sergei Diaghilev, who staged arrangements for this French composer of "Daphne et Chloe" and 1928's "Bolero."
Answer: Maurice Ravel
30. Minister of Education since 1969, this Tory succeeded Edward Heath in 1975 and four years later guided the privatization of state industries such as transportation and steel and fighting the Argentinians. For ten points, name this first female officeholder residing at 10 Downing Street.
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Bonuses
1. Bonus: Give this "p" physics terms for ten points each.
The ratio of work done to time taken.
Answer: Power
The ratio of force on an object to the surface area to which it is applied.
Answer: Pressure
A short, sharp burst of energy, such as of light.
Answer: Pulse
2. Bonus: Name these structural elements for the stated number of points.
[10] One of the most plentiful proteins in the cell is this protein that comes in filamentous or globular polymers to form the cytoskeleton.
Answer: Actin
[5] Present in most skeletal muscle, this bipolar actin-binding molecule comes in light or heavy chains to effect contraction.
Answer: Myosin
[15] This extracellular matrix protein found in connective tissue is the most abundant molecules made in the animal kingdom, with its strength coming from its triple helical structure.
Answer: Collagen
3. Bonus: Identify a Newbery Medal-winning book for each of the following plot descriptions, 10 each:
A family in Germany tries to help their best friend's daughter escape to Sweden during the Nazi regime.
Answer: Number the Stars
A girl and her younger brother run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Answer: The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A boy named Jonas sees the world around him in a new light when he is assigned the title "Receiver of Memories."
Answer: The Giver
4. Bonus: Name these composers from works for ten points each.
Kossuth, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, The Miraculous Mandarin
Answer: Béla Bartók
Le Coq d'Or, Russian Easter Overture, The Flight of the Bumblebee
Answer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Rodeo, Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring
Answer: Aaron Copland
5. Bonus: For ten points, given two places, identify the strait that separates them both.
Australia and Tasmania
Answer: Bass Strait
Italy and Sicily
Answer: Strait of Messina
Corsica and Sardinia
Answer: Strait of Bonifacio
6. Bonus: For ten points each, identify these philosophers who participated in a raucous Cambridge University Moral Science Club meeting in 1946.
The lecturer on that night was this philosopher, who was explaining his new book The Open Society and Its Enemies.
Answer: Karl Popper
This philosopher, who focused on linguistics in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, engaged in a heated argument with Popper, eventually threatening Popper with a hot poker.
Answer: Wittgenstein Ludwig
This elderly pacifist, co-author of Principia Mathematica, looked on with some degree of shock.
Answer: Bertrand Russell
7. Bonus: Given a description of a third party in U.S. politics, name it for ten points each.
Formed from former Liberty Party members, Barnburners, and people who called themselves "Conscience Whigs," it nominated John Hale as their 1852 presidential candidate after their convention in Buffalo, New York.
Answer: Free-Soil Party
This third party was a successor to the Greenback-Labor party of the late 19th century. Politically active in the south and west from around 1890 to 1910, it demanded an end to the national banking system and called for the free coinage of silver.
Answer: Populist Party or People's Party
Originally founded as the U.S. Taxpayers Party, its founder Howard Philips ran for President in 2000. Obviously he didn’t do so well.
Answer: Official Constitution Party
8. Bonus: Name the actor who utters the following lines as James Bond, for ten points each. If you need the line proceeding the Bond line, you'll get five points.
10 - "I must be dreaming."
5 - "My name is Pussy Galore."
Answer: Sean Connery (from Goldfinger)
10 - "One bullet against my six?"
5 - "A duel between titans. My golden gun against your Walther PPK."
Answer: Roger Moore (from The Man With the Golden Gun)
10 - "We're strictly plutonic, now."
5 - "What's the story with you and Elektra?"
Answer: Pierce Brosnan (from The World is Not Enough)
9. Bonus: For ten points each, give these terms used in describing thought for ten points each.
Similar to a metalogical statement, it is any proposition whose negation is self-contradictory. For example, "Socrates is Socrates"
Answer: tautology
According to this "law," every thing either has a given quality or the negative of that quality. This law explains why every number is either even or not even.
Answer: law of the excluded middle
This logician's book An Investigation of the Laws of Thought sets out these terms, in addition to the more specialized terms used in the "algebra" now named after him.
Answer: George Boole
10. Bonus: Given a brief description of a battle from world history, name it for ten points each.
This World War I battle fought in Belgium in 1915 saw the first use of poison gas by the Germans.
Answer: Ypres
This victorious 732 A.D. battle of Charles "the Hammer" Martel helped stave off the invasion of Western Europe by the Muslim Moors.
Answer: Tours or Poitiers
Fought on St. Bartholomew's Day in 1485, this battle saw the defeat of forces led by
Richard III at the hands of Henry Tudor from the House of Lancaster, thus bringing an end to the protracted War of the Roses.
Answer: Bosworth Field
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT V: The Handout Strikes Back.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT V: The Handout Strikes Back.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Limerick
2. Personality
3. Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
4. Connecticut
5. Slaughterhouse Five
6. Torah (do NOT accept “Talmud”)
7. Punjab
8. Sun Yat-Sen [pronounced “SOON”]
9. Roger Clemens
10. Trigeminal
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 2 times 7 times 11 times 13 (2 x 5 x 7 x 13)
the order of the factors need not be exactly in that order, as long as it isn’t just a list of factors.
12. 116 cubic centimeters
Round Five Tossups
1. A small portion of it is an alkaline, muscoid secretion from the bulbourethral glands. The vast volume comes from Leydig cells and Sertoli cells, though a fourth (primarily a thin liquid) comes from the prostate gland. For ten points, what is this mixture of protein, fluids, and sperm?
Answer: semen
2. Considered the greatest of the so-called Rubenistes painters, this painter's work violated all then-established academic canons, as his subjects did not conform to any category. To accommodate him, the French Academy invented a new category of art called fetes galantes to fit the artist's scenes of elegant society or comedy actors in park-like settings, such as "Gilles and Four Other Characters from the Commedia dell'Arte." For ten points, name this artist of 1717's "Pilgrimage to Cythera."
Answer: Jean-Antoine Watteau
3. One of this poet's more often anthologized works concerns the unfortunate end of the "the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea". He wrote that poem, "Hyperion," for his future wife Frances Appleton. Unfortunately, she later died from burns incurred after her dress caught fire. For ten points, what Bowdoin professor wrote "The Song of Hiawatha"?
Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (accept early "The Wreck of the Hesperus")
4. Interrupted temporarily from 1808 to 1813 by Napoleon's brother Joseph, and from 1936 to 1975 by and Gen. Francisco Franco, this current ruling house of Spain, has been in power since the ancension of Philip V in 1700 following the war of Spanish Succession. Name this dynasty of King Juan Carlos which has outlived its French counterpart by nearly 150 years.
ANSWER: The House of Bourbon
5. The Gruber-Widal reaction test is used to diagnose for this specific infection caused by a Salmonella bacteria species. Usually entering the body through contaminated food or water, after two weeks, ulcers may develop in the intestines. For ten points, name this communicable disease carried in one famous instance by the cook Mary Mallon in 1904.
Answer: Typhoid (fever), accept Paratyphoid (fever)
6. Constance lives at Wragby Hall in the Midlands and is married to Sir Clifford, a writer, intellectual and landowner confined to a wheelchair who was shipped home from Flanders during the war "more or less in bits." His wife has an unsatisfying affair with a bitter, but successful playwright, Michaelis. This brief liaison is followed by a passionate relationship and subsequent pregnancy with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, the son of a miner and ex-officer of the Indian Army. For ten points, the proceeding makes up part of what controversial 1928 novel by D. H. Lawrence?
Answer: Lady Chatterly's Lover
7. Though the events recorded in this Old Testament book are from the 6th century B.C., scholars believe that the actual book was recorded in the mid 2nd century BC. The title figure’s interpretation of King Balshazzar’s dreams gave us the phrase “the writing on the wall.” For ten points, name this book, whose best known story comes from when the eponymous prophet survives a night in a den of hungry lions.
Answer: Daniel
8. Talha went ahead, while the rest of the party used the road of Madlaj Bakr. They made good time, taking only eight days, and approached from the valley of Al Ackick, in the southwest. To celebrate its end, Abu Bakr married the daughter of Kharija. Marking year one of the Moslem calendar, this event occurred after Muhammad spent three days hiding and meditating in a cave. For ten points, name this journey, undertaken on back of the camel Al Caswa, from Mecca to Medina.
An swer: Hejira
9. On a four-person team, the middle two add stability, raising and lowering their bodies in cadence to maintain momentum. On a two-person team, the front man steers and the rear man brakes. For ten points, name this Olympic sports whose American representatives at Salt Lake City include Jean ("Gene") Racine and Gea Johnson who hopefully won't be running over any rabbits during competition.
ANSWER: Bobsledding
10. The brightest supernova on record appeared in this constellation in 1572. It is distinguished by a group of five stars, in the form of a rough letter W. For ten points, name this constellation named for the mythological Ethiopian queen, the mother of Andromeda.
ANSWER: Cassiopeia
11. In his 1820 treatise Principles of Political Economy, he reasoned the cause of a Depression experienced by Great Britain at that time was due to the fact that capitalists receive too much income than they could invest; his solution was to alter the distribution of income so that landowners got more income. For ten points, name this English economist who concluded that society could never improve is overall economic well-being because there would be a point where not enough food could supply the growing population.
Answer: Thomas Robert Malthus
12. Described as a very lucky man, he wins at every single gambling event, from dog races to cock fights to boxing matches. However, when a traveling stranger comes to compete, he rigs the match by filling up poor old Dan'l Webster with buckshot. For ten points, name this owner of the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County.
ANSWER: Jim Smiley (either name acceptable, prompt if The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County by Mark Twain is given)
13. This pioneering person is a descendent of the 16th century Scottish border raider Kinmount Willie. A fighter pilot by training, he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1955. A Gemini 5 backup, he led Gemini 8. For ten points, who also commanded Apollo 11, the first expedition to the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
14. This creature’s stomping-about opened a rift in Mount Helicon that became the spring Hippocrene – an event which occurred soon after it sprang to life, fully formed, from the neck of Medusa. However, the beast was light enough to carry its rider part-ways up Mount Olympus. For ten points, what steed was ridden by Bellerophon?
Answer: Pegasus
15. Appointed in 1996 to be Consul General after being offered a teaching fellowship at Harvard University, this person began a political career to be a trustee of the Vancouver School Board while finishing course requirements for a law degree at the University of British Columbia. During the 1990-1993 tenure as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, this advocate introduced policies for gun control, abortion rights, and victim's rights in sexual abuse cases. For ten points, name this Canadian politician, the first woman to hold the position of Prime Minister.
Answer: Kim Campbell
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16. The ants in this painting symbolize death, as is true in all of his work. The object in which the ants are held is the only sturdy figure in the picture, which would make sense, considering that time is abstract but death is concrete. For ten points, name the painting by Salvador Dali that features limp watches.
ANSWER: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
17. Lithium's first is the lowest, at 520 kilojoules per mole, and Nitrogen's seventh is the highest, at 71,333 kilojoules per mole. In general, it increases across the periodic table, although Boron's and Aluminum's are two exceptions. It usually decreases down a column of the table, because the atomic radius increases and the nucleus exerts a weaker force on the electrons of the outermost valence shell. Name the property of an atom that determines the energy needed to remove one of its electrons.
ANSWER: Ionization (Energy)
18. The first man who popularized the Aleut word for “the big land” in describing Seward’s purchase as “Alaska,” he delivered a speech on May 20, 1856, on “The Crime Against Kansas,” criticizing fellow Senator Andrew Pickens for his stance on slavery. For ten points, name this Massachusetts Republican who was beaten on the Senate floor by Butler’s nephew Representative Preston Brooks.
ANSWER: Charles Sumner
19. It began in 1831 over Native American opposition to a treaty that had ceded lands in Illinois to the United States. According to the Sauk and Fox Indians, the agreement was null and void because a rival tribe had signed it. Angry natives proceeded to reoccupy the vacant territory, arousing fear within nearby white settlers who feared an attack by a force of Indian "invaders." Name this vicious series of conflicts in which both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis took part.
ANSWER: The Black Hawk War
20. A professor of astronomy at Uppsala, he participated on an expedition to measure the length of a degree of latitude near the poles, corroborating Newton's idea that the earth was flattened near the poles. He was considered important enough by the Swedish government that they built him (and the university) an observatory in 1741. For ten points, name this person who developed a temperature scale with the zero mark based on the boiling point of water, later assigned as 100?
Answer: Anders Celsius
Note: the scale was reversed after his death to be more consistent with other temperature scales.
21. According to the encyclopedia, this term comes from the Arabic word meaning "union". Its name could also be derived from the acronym for a phrase meaning, "Death to the French, Italy forward!" For ten points, name this term that was the phrase of the Sicilian Vespers, applied to terrorists there rather than to members of organized crime.
ANSWER: Mafia
22. The Endicott, Baird, Ray, and Kilbuck mountain ranges are located here, as well as Norton Sound and Bristol Bay. The Cook Inlet, Nunivak Island, Dutch Harbor, and Kenai Fjords National Park are also frequent tourist and sightseeing hotspots. For the points, name this state, home to the Kodiak Bear, the cities of Seward and Nome, and Mount Denali.
Answer: Alaska
23. His sister Fanny, a very talented composer in her own right, helped produce some of the 8 volumes of his 1830-1845 Songs Without Words. While touring Scotland with Sir Walter Scot, he came up with the idea for his piece originally entitled "The Lonely Island" later known as "Fingal's Cave." For ten points, name this noted grandson of a Jewish philosopher, famous for composing at age 17 an overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
24. As a child, he entertained himself with puppets and a toy theatre. When he reached the age of 11, he found work in a tobacco factory, but soon grew disgusted with the job and left his home after stuffing his earnings into a piggy bank. In time, he began to write stories, and his lesser-known works include "The Nightingale," whose title reflects his love for fellow Scandanavian Jenny Lind. Name this author of "The Little Match Girl" and "The Little Mermaid" who saw in himself many characteristics of his most famous creation, the Ugly Duckling.
ANSWER: Hans Christian Andersen
25. With the deepest reaching depths of over 600 feet, they are situated on a region of forested, rolling hills, surrounding vacation spots such as Watkins Glen, and are home to an area rich in grapes for wine making. For ten points, Canandaigua, Keuka, Owasko, Skaneateles, Seneca and Cayuga comprise what group of 10- to 40-mile-long lakes in central New York State, named for the body parts that they resemble?
Answer: Finger Lakes
26. This agreement set out what have become the general political boundaries of modern Europe. Signed three years after the death of Louis the Pious, it ended one of the most bitter periods of internecine conflict in European history. Charles the Bald received modern-day France, Louis the German got the old Frankish Kingdom, and Lothair I became Holy Roman Emperor. For ten points, name this agreement between Carolingian combatants in 843 AD.
Answer: Treaty of Verdun
27. Most famous for his botched plumbing job, he served as a Special Agent of the FBI and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury before becoming an actor. His autobiography, Will, was a best-seller as have his works of fiction Out of Control and The Monkey Handlers; but his current reputation lies in being a conservative talk show host. For ten points, name this Staff Assistant to President Nixon whose blunders led to the disaster at Watergate.
Answer: G. Gordon Liddy
28. A 1968 Nature paper by MacMillan and Takahashi introduced the system of nomenclature for these hormones, for which there are 126 members of around 300-400 dalton molecular weight. The hormone group is actually named for a fungus that also produces a similarly-acting hormone, that occurs in seeds, young leaves, and roots. For ten points, name this family of plant hormone that results in the growth of dwarf peas, the production of seedless grapes, and the elongation of stems.
Answer: Gibberellin or Gibberellic Acid
29. This poet died when his doctors removed four pounds of blood from his body to try to cure a fever; not very heroic, and not nearly so romantic as the more common account of his dying while fighting for Greek independence. For ten points, who is this English author of Manfred and Don Juan?
Answer: George Gordon, Lord Byron
30. The son of a general, his first literary success was the 1830 drama Christine, while his historical drama Caligula raised a furor for its hints of homosexuality. The economic and political intrigues of the de Wittes were the center of The Black Tulip. Left-leaning critics accused him of being associated with the feuilletons, a monarchist group, after he introduced royalist characters like Edmond Dantes and d'Artagnan. For ten points, who wrote The Count of Monte Christo?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas, pere (father, senior) (prompt if just “Dumas” /doo-MA/ is given)
Announcements of Consolation Rounds and Playoff Pairings in Biological Sciences 111 at 1:30 PM unless otherwise mentioned. Do NOT tear down any buzzer systems!
Bracket leaders should compile all the results from the first five rounds and provide the Tournament Director the final win-loss and ordinal placements of the teams in the prelim group. Return all game scoresheets to the Tournament Director in headquarters! All staff should be back at Biological Sciences 111 by 1:20 PM if possible.
Bonuses
1. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these related questions about the immune system.
These protein complexes, which come in types I - III, recognize a being's cells as its own, thus preventing one's own immune system from destroying itself.
Answer: major histocompatability complex or MHC
This autoimmune disease attacks the synovial fluid in joints.
Answer: rheumatoid arthritis (prompt on partial answer)
This monomeric antibody isotype floats free in plasma. It is the most abundant antibody, even crossing into the fetus to provide immunity to it.
Answer: IgG or immunoglobulin G
2. Bonus: Name the American author from works, for ten points each.
The Caine Mutiny, War and Remembrance, The Winds of War
Answer: Herman Wouk
John Barleycorn, The Sea Wolf, The Call of the Wild
Answer: Jack London
Precaution, The Red Rover, The Sea Lions
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
3. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about Norse myth.
There are three roots - on near the spring Hvergelmir, one by the fountain Mimir, and one by the fountain of the Norn Urd - of this world-tree.
Answer: Yggdrasil
The greatest of the peaceable Vanir, and the beloved of Gerda, he was a god of agriculture and plenty.
Answer: Frey
Born of Loki, he eats Odin but is slain by Odin's son Vidar.
Answer: Fenrir or Fenris-wolf
4. Bonus: Identify the following computer languages for ten points each.
This beginning computer language is renowned for "turtle graphics."
Answer: Logo
Created by Bjarne Stroustroup, it is the object-oriented successor to C.
Answer: C++
Because this language stores numbers as lists, it can handle arbitrarily large integers, and exact fractions, but is incapable of handling irrational numbers.
Answer: LISP
5. Bonus: Identify these Democratic Presidents of the United States for 10 points each.
Born in Independence, Missouri, this President dropped the bomb (twice) on Japan.
Answer: Harry S Truman
The last time the United States had a presidential election where neither candidate had been previously elected to either the presidency or the vice-presidency, this man won.
Answer: James Earl Carter, Jr.
His service as Minister to Russia and to Great Britain helped to secure him the Democratic nomination, but his failure to keep the Democrats together over slavery resulted in Abraham Lincoln’s victory in 1860.
Answer: James Buchanan
6. Bonus: Identify the most valuable players in the following all-star games held in February 2002 for ten points each.
NFL Pro Bowl Answer: Rich Gannon
NBA All-Star Game Answer: Kobe Bryant
NHL All-Star Game Answer: Eric Daze
7. Bonus: As you probably know, Argentina is royally screwed up. For ten points each, identify these economic problems they've been having.
Like many nations, Argentina can't keep up with the interest on the $22 billion in payments it owes to this loaning body, which often imposes strict free-market conditions on its loans.
Answer: International Monetary Fund or IMF
The IMF suggested in the early 1990s linking the Argentine currency to the US currency at a 1-1 exchange rate. What is the Argentine currency, recently devalued by President Eduardo Duhalde?
Answer: peso
Many Argentines blame political corruption for their economic problems. Duhalde's party, established by a charasmatic 20th century leader, has been no exception. Name that party.
Answer: Peronist party or Peronists
8. Given a former or colonial name, give the name of that country today, for ten points each. If you need the current capital city of the nation, five points will be awarded.
Siam Answer: Thailand
British Honduras Answer: Belize
Upper Volta Answer: Burkina Faso
9. Bonus: For each of the following scales, indicate the number of sharps or flats that should be included in the key signature:
E flat major Answer: 3 flats
B major Answer: 5 sharps
D major Answer: 2 sharps
10. Bonus: Lewis is a common surname. For ten points each, complete the names of these three Lewises.
This winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature authored the novels Arrowsmith and Babbit.
Answer: Sinclair [Lewis]
The private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, he shared the commandof exploring the Louisiana territory.
Answer: Meriwhether [Lewis]
Initials acceptable! This chemist is perhaps known for the structures that bear his name, simple representations of atoms and how they associate via their electrons.
Answer: Gilbert Newton [Lewis]
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT F: How the Handout Stole Christmas.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT F: How the Handout Stole Christmas.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Henry Fleming (both names required)
2. Moho or Mohorovicic discontinuity
3. New Harmony
4. Angkor (accept if “Angkor Wat” or “Angkor Thom” is given)
5. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both parts of last name required)
6. Marathon
7. Scapegoat
8. Measles or Rubeola
9. Bauhaus
10. Josiah Bartlett (both names required)
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 24π (24 times pi)
12. 173 grams
Round Six Tossups
1. It was published by the U.S. press on March 1, 1917, but it had been read by President Wilson five days earlier, and it was written 39 days before that. British Admiralty intelligence intercepted and decoded it, revealing an offer intended for Venustiano Carranza. For ten points, name this communication that promised Mexico the states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if it would fight alongside Germany in World War I.
Answer: the Zimmerman Telegram/Note
2. Born in Cognac, France in 1494, this man had a lifelong rivalry with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Under the influence of his sister, Margaret of Navarre, he was sympathetic to Protestants during the beginning of his reign, but later became a persecutor. For ten points, name this Valois king of France, famous for bringing Leonardo da Vinci under his patronage and for living in the magnificent castle of Chambord.
Answer: Francis I
3. His 1945 novel Arc de Triomphe focuses on the affair between an émigré doctor Ravic and Joan who eventually dies. The 1931 novel The Road Back describes World War I soldiers who tried to return to normalcy after the war, featuring a character similar to the 20-year protagonist Paul Baumer from his 1929 novel. For ten points, name this writer whose vivid depictions of trench warfare became controversial in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
Answer: Erich Maria Remarque
4. Its second edition makes extensive use of Rosicrucian lore, and uses Sylphs and Gnomes in its spiritual machinery. Its author expanded it to five cantos in 1714 despite the advice of Joseph Addison, who thought its 1712 two-canto form was perfect. At the end of the poem, "the Muse shall consecrate [the title object] to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name." For ten points, identify this mock-heroic centering on stolen hair, a poem by Alexander Pope.
ANSWER: The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
5. She is best known for her portrayals of self-assured women in films of the 1960s and 1970s, winning an Academy Award for best actress for her performance in the film Darling. For ten points, name this British motion-picture actress whose other films include Dr. Zhivago, Shampoo, Hamlet, and Afterglow.
ANSWER: Julie Christie
6. Born near Gzhatsk, he attended vocational and technical schools before graduating from the Soviet air force training center. Despite all of his achievements, he died at age 34 in a plane crash. His most famous, and more successful, voyage lasted nearly 90 minutes while other famous voyage lasted around 1 hour and 48 minutes. For ten points, name this Soviet cosmonaut, the first human to travel in space by orbiting the earth.
ANSWER: Yuri Gargarin
7. Drafted in part with Foreign Secretary William Grenville, it bestowed "most favored status" privileges to England though it did not resolve the debate over American trade with the British West Indies. It provided for a commission to determine America's compensation from Britain for the illegal seizure of ships and impressments, and the payment of prewar debts owed to British merchants. For ten points, name this 1795 treaty that resulted in the evacuation of British posts in the northwest frontier, signed by America's first Chief Justice.
Answer: Jay's Treaty
8. The "grue paradox," which deals with hypothetical green and blue emeralds, expresses some of the problems with this type of argument. It is rigidly defined as any amplitative inference, that is, any inference where the claim made by the conclusion goes beyond the claim jointly made by the premises. For ten points, what type of argument is commonly understood as moving to a generalization from instances, such as in mathematical proofs where a statement is true for 1 and a natural number k?
Answer: induction
9. Her father wanted a son, so when she was born he left her on a hillside to die. She was nursed by a bear and grew up a huntress, taking part in the Caledonian hunt. For ten ponts, name this woman, the swiftest of all mortals whose hand in marriage was won through the use of three golden apples.
Answer: Atalanta
10. Drafted in 1995 by the Montreal Expos to play catcher, he attended the University of Michigan majoring in Organizational Studies. For ten points, name this athlete drafted in the 6th round (199th pick) in the 2000 NFL draft who was named the Super Bowl MVP for the champion New England Patriots.
Answer: Tom Brady
11. When this piece first gained attention in 1959, some critics insisted that it was not jazz because this piece was in five-four time, not four-four. Found on the album Time Out, it was composed by Paul Desmond, who played the featured solo saxophone. For ten points, name this hit by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Answer: “Take Five”
12. Proposed as a hypothesis by its namesake Turin-born discoverer in 1811, it gained acceptance during the 1850s through the work of Stanislao Canizarro. For ten points, what is this fundamental law of chemistry that states that under identical conditions of temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases contain an equal number of molecules?
Answer: Avogadro's Law
13. The winner of its world championship receives $13,140. Developed during the Great Depression, variations on it include Solar Quest, which deals with the galaxy, and many variants for college campuses. In all, the theme is the same: properties become more valuable when combined with those nearby it of the same color. For ten points, name this popular Parker Brothers board game which would be discouraged by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Answer: Monopoly
14. Important steps for the understanding of this disease came from the discovery of the husband and wife team of Drs. Cori of the enzyme phosphorylase, which processes glycogen; Bernardo Houssay's study of the pituitary gland; and the work of James Collip, Charles Best, John MacLeod, and Frederick Banting. For ten points, what disease is marked by the pancreas' failure to produce insulin?
Answer: diabetes mellitus (prompt on “diabetes”; do NOT accept diabetes insipidus)
15. When his brother died, he was compelled by his grief to put even more effort into his writing, and soon after, he finished "The Family Moskat", his first famous work. He produced stories as "Zlateh the Goat", "The Fearsome Inn", and "When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw" on his Yiddish-character typewriter.. Name this Jewish author of children's literature, whose most famous work is arguably "Gimpel the Fool."
ANSWER: Isaac Bashevis Singer
16. His first published book laments what he believed to have been the destruction by insanity of the "best minds of [his] generation." Becoming an influential guru of the American youth counterculture in the 1960s, he was heralded for his collection Empty Mirrors as well as Reality Sandwiches. For ten points, name this Columbia University-educated writer who died in 1997, whose most important work is the confessional poem "Kaddish," and his masterpiece "Howl".
Answer: Allen Ginsberg
17. This painter used a brighter palette than his contemporaries in canvases like Les Femmes d'Algers, inspired by a trip to North Africa in the 1830's. Vaulted into the public eye after the enthusiastic reception of his first painting, he showed nude bodies writhing in the river Styx in The Barque of Dante. For ten points, what Frenchman went on to create canvases like Massacre at Chios and Liberty Leading the People?
Answer: Eugene Delacroix
18. The title page of its first edition mentions neither its author nor its publisher, who were in fact the same person. On the page opposite is engraved a picture of a bearded man wearing a wide brimmed hat and coarse clothing with one hand on his hip and the other in his pocket. In response to its publication in 1855, Emerson wrote the author, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career." For ten points, name this Walt Whitman book that includes the poem "Song of Myself."
Answer: Leaves of Grass
19. School groups and visitors are welcomed at the Leon Lederman Science Education Center near the entrance. Nearby is the Robert Wilson building, where from an observation room one can sees pasture land surrounding Lake Logo and a series of buildings such as D-Zero and CDF. For ten points, name this national laboratory, the home of the Tevatron, a particle accelerator built in Batavia, Illinois.
ANSWER: Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
20. Discovered by Russian scientist Christian Heinrich Pander, and Estonian Naturalist Karl Ernst von Baer, the different types of formation of this germ layer are responsible for the distinction between Schizocoelomates and Enterocoelomates. For ten points, name this layer, the origin of organs such as the heart in vertebrates whose name can be derived from the fact that it is sandwiched between the endoderm and ectoderm.
ANSWER: Mesoderm
21. Criticized by Nobel-Prize winner James Meade because it only holds when there are no transaction costs (certainly untrue of the real world), it is nevertheless one of the most important insights in modern economics. Presented in an article entitled "The Problem of Social Cost," it posits that an efficient outcome will always result in the absence of transaction costs. Often cited by conservatives opposed to such supposed "inefficiencies" as environmental regulation, For ten points, identify this theorem, named after the 1991 Nobel Prize winner in economics.
Answer: Coase theorem (after Ronald Coase)
22. Proposed in the 1862 book Souvenier de Solferino, this organization would become a reality the next year, under the funding of philanthropist - and future Nobel Prize winner - Jean Henri Dunant. The organization itself has won three Nobels, in 1917, 1944, 1963, and sponsored the Geneva Conventions. FTP, name this international relief organization.
Answer: International Red Cross
23. The youngest person ever accepted into the prestigious St. Petersburg Conservatory (age 13), in his tenth and final year, he performed his First Piano Concerto which he premiered the year before) and won the Anton Rubenstein prize as best pianist (1913). He adapted part of his rejected ballet Ala and Lolli into a four-movement orchestral piece "The Scythian Suite" which despite the panning of critics and academics gained international popularity. For ten points, name this Russian composer who by request of the Central Children's Theater wrote in four days the 1936 symphony "Peter and the Wolf."
Answer: Sergei Prokofiev
24. A respected young lawyer living in Georgetown, this amateur poet finished his most famous work in his lodgings at the Indian Queen Hotel. His brother-in-law then took his poem to a printer, and it was circulated for the first time in the Baltimore Patriot on September 20, 1814. For ten points, name this writer whose "Defence of Fort M'Henry" became the lyrics what is now "The Star Spangled Banner."
ANSWER: Francis Scott Key
25. Measured in the pressure unit megapaschals, this value will continue to increase until the osmotic potential is reached. Adding the value of the osmotic potential to it yields the water potential for a cell. For ten points, what pressure is related to the quantity of water in a plant cell, a lack of which results in wilting?
Answer: turgor pressure
26. Translated into more than a dozen languages, this narrative relates how the title character is about to board a ship that will take him back to his homeland after 12 years in a foreign city but is stopped by a group of the city's inhabitants, who ask him to speak to them about the mysteries of life. He does so, discussing love, marriage, beauty, reason, passion, and death. For ten points, what is this 1923 publication, a book of 26 poetic essays, the most famous work of Khalil Gibran?
Answer: The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
27. Famous for its spicy sausages this city was also the home of the first German high school and perhaps the first watch. One of Germany's most important cultural centers, for ten points, name this Bavarian city, better known for a set of anti-Jewish laws passed there and a series of post-World War II trials.
ANSWER: Nuremberg
28. Hanoch, Passu, Hezron and Carmi were his sons. Following the reign of Saul, his tribe occupied the region east of Gilead. When all of his other brothers had decided to kill Joseph, he talked them out of it, and they left Joseph in a dry well instead. For ten points, name this first born of Israel, who shares his name with a popular deli sandwich.
Answer: Reuben
29. This element is obtained from the ore ilmenite by treating the ore with chlorine, then treating it with chlorine baths in the presence of coke. Its most stable oxidation state is +4, which it arrives at by losing both 4s electrons and two 3d electrons. Usually found paired with two oxygen molecules, its "dioxide" form, it has generally replaced lead as a white pigment. Possessing many industrial and aeronautical uses because of its strength and low-density, For ten points, what is element with atomic number 22?
Answer: titanium
30. First sighted by Westerners in 1798 with the whaling vessel Hunter, whose captain John Fearn called it Pleasant Island. The smallest and most remote republic in the world, it is located on the equator some 500 kilometers west of its nearest neighbor of the Marshall Islands. For ten points, name this island nation which is the world's leading exporter of guano and its capital at Yaren.
Answer: Nauru
Reminder: Have the team captains initial the scoresheet!
Bonuses
1. Bonus: For ten points each answer these questions about goings-on in America in the 19-aughts.
W.E.B. Du Bois founded this organization for blacks in June 1909.
Answer: NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
The Socialist party met in Chicago in 1904 and nominated this man, along with Vice Presidential nominee Ben Hanford.
Answer: Eugene V. Debs
In June of 1906, this railroad measure updated the Interstate Commerce Act, allowing the ICC to set prices and accounting methods.
Answer: Hepburn Act
2. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about Russian geography.
Russia is divided into these units, roughly corresponding to provinces.
Answer: oblast(s)
This large eastern island, separated from the mainland by the Tatar Straight, is its own oblast.
Answer: Sakhalin Island
To the north of Sakhalin Island is this sea.
Answer: Sea of Okhotsk
3. Answer the following questions about a Roman war for ten points each.
Romans fought with this King of Numidia until his death in 104 BC.
Answer: Jugurtha
Later a leader of the Optimates faction during the Civil War, this lucky reformer secured Jugurtha's capture by bribing Jugurtha's second-in-command.
Answer: Lucius Cornelius Sulla (his nickname meant lucky)
Sulla would later fight this King of Pontus, who waged war with Rome for nearly fifty years. He finally committed suicide after his army deposed him in favor of his more peaceable son.
Answer: Mithridates VI Eupator
4. Bonus: Answer the following questions about a Greek goddess for ten points each.
The similarity of her name to the Greek word "foam" has led to the myth of her birth, which says she sprung from the mixture of the sea and Uranus' castrated testicles.
Answer: Aphrodite
These three goddesses, by name Aglaia, Euhrosyne, and Thalia, attended Aphrodite.
Answer: the Graces
The nymph Salmacis fell in love with this son of Aphrodite and Hermes. When he resisted Salmacis' advances, Salmacis asked the gods to make sure they were never separated. In response, their bodies were united, leaving a person which seemed to have "no sex yet be of both sexes."
Answer: Hermaphroditus
5. Bonus: Given a description of a painting, name it for fifteen points.
[15] In the right background of this 1538 Titian painting, a little girl in a white dress is on her knees in prayer as her mother stands over her. In the foreground, the title naked woman is lying in her bed next to a curled up puppy.
Answer: Venus of Urbino
[15] This painting is typical of the expressive and emotional Fauvist style. In it, a blonde haired woman is arranging pieces of fruit and vegetables on a table that is the exact same color as the wallpaper of the room, thus giving the appearance of floating in space.
Answer: The Red Room
6. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these related literary questions.
This Cuban author's works include Explosion in a Cathedral, Music in Cuba, and The Kingdom of This World.
Answer: Alejo Carpentier
Carpentier's last novel, The Harp and the Shadow, was a fictionalized diary of this explorer, whose life was also fictionalized in Pam Conrad's Pedro's Journal and Jane Yolen's Encounter.
Answer: Christopher Columbus
Carpentier is one of the winners of this prestigious Spanish-language literary award.
Answer: Cervantes Prize
7. Bonus: Answer these questions related to movement in physics.
For ten points, these quantities represent direction as well as quantity.
Answer: vector(s)
[10 x 2] You will get 30 seconds for this math question, requiring two answers! Five rabid butterflies exert five different forces upon the 500-kg carcass of Chris Farley. The butterflies exert forces equal to: 20 newtons (N) due north; 30 N directly northeast; 25 N due east; 50 N due south; and 20 N directly southwest. What is the net force and direction (expressed between 0 and 360 degrees) on Farley's corpse, assuming that zero degrees is due north?
Answers (10 each): 39.4 newtons at 324 degrees.
8. Bonus: Answer these questions about an invention for ten points each.
William Einthoven's "string galvanometer" was the precursor to these modern devices, used to create a record of the electric pulses of the heart.
Answer: ECG or EKG or electrocardiograph or electrocardiogram
In the ECG, the time between the P wave and the QRS complex is a good measure of the time of conduction through this structure of the heart.
Answer: Atrioventricular node or AV node
This monovalent cation is responsible for depolarizing the cell membrane from a resting potential of -80 millivolts to generate most of the electrical signals seen on the ECG.
Answer: Sodium
9. Bonus: Identify these pioneers of televised humor for ten points each.
Known as "Mr. Television" and "Mr. Tuesday Night", he starred in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Answer: Milton Berle
He was actually a good violinist, even though his act was based on his being one of the worst.
Answer: Jack Benny
Among his recurring characters were Freddie the Freeloader, San Fernando Red, and Clem Kadiddlehopper
Answer: Red Skelton
10. Bonus: Given a pseudonym of an author, give their real name for ten points.
John Sinjohn Answer: John Galsworthy
Richard Bachman Answer: Stephen King
Pierre Andrezel or Isak Dinesen Answer: Karen Blixen
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT G: O Handout Where Art Thou?
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT G: O Handout Where Art Thou?
Ten-point Answers:
1. International Monetary Fund (no acronyms)
2. Golden Gate Bridge
3. Billy Budd (both names required)
4. Zeitgeber
5. Malcolm X or Malcolm Little or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
6. Kanji
7. Mode
8. Trochee
9. A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum (must be exact)
10. Jean-Francois Champollion
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 9820
12. 10 ounces
Round Seven Tossups
1. Camilla Perichole is transformed from a café singer to a stage actress with the guidance of Uncle Pio. The love interest of Esteban, she becomes the mistress of the Viceroy and bears his three children, but runs to a convent after she is stricken with smallpox. For ten points, name this novel in which Brother Juniper tries to connect the deaths of five Peruvians as an act of divine Providence, an acclaimed story by Thornton Wilder.
Answer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (exact) by Thornton Wilder
2. Derived from Greek for "not knowing" ans based upon Acts 17:23, this doctrine was introduced in the 19th century by the British biologist Thomas Huxley. The basis of the modern form of this philosophy lies in the works of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. For ten points, name this doctrine that only material phenomena can be the basis for real knowledge while the existence of God and other spiritual beings is neither certain nor impossible.
ANSWER: Agnosticism (accept equivalent forms)
3. He fought with distinction during the Seven Years War, and was openly received when he arrived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1778. Before becoming a U.S. citizen in 1783, he sat on the court martial tribunal of Benedict Arnold, took part in the siege of Yorktown, and was appointed as inspector general of the Continental Army. For ten points, name this Prussian-born officer who prepared military tactics to the army, remodeled it, organized an efficient staff, and provided much discipline while under General Washington.
Answer: Baron von Steuben
4. The Heimlich maneuver, squeezing on a tube of toothpaste, and the hydraulic lever all illustrate this physics axiom, which states that a change in pressure applied to an enclosed incompressible fluid is transmitted undiminished to every portion of the fluid. For ten points, name this physics axiom, named for a Frenchman.
Answer: Paschal's Principle
5. Southern farmers opposed it because they feared a growing anti-slavery voice. Northern businessmen opposed it because they thought it would lower property values and reduce the cheap labor supply. For ten points, name this act, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, which provided settlers with 160 acres of surveyed public land after payment of a filing fee and five years of continuous residence.
ANSWER: Homestead Act
6. Naglfar, a ship made entirely out of the fingernails of the dead, sails to Vigrid carrying Hymir and the rest of the frost giants. Fire giants under Surt attack under cover of darkness, caused by the wolf Skoll's swallowing of the sun. Jormungand and Loki lead the attack against the Norse gods in, FTP, what catastrophic event?
Answer: Ragnarok or Gotterdammerung or Twilight of the Gods
7. His novel Watt, written in the south of France as he was fleeing from the Nazis, would be one of the few works he would write in English for many years. The author of novels such as Molloy, the sequel Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, he was cited for his ability to elevate the "destitution of modern man" when we won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. For ten points, name this Irish author who wrote mostly in French, the playwright of Happy Days, Endgame and Waiting for Godot.
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett
8. Bernadette's father was originally a well-off miller, but by the time she turned 14, he was blind from an accident, had spent eight days in jail as a thief, and had fell victim to the steam mills of the Industrial Revolution while Bernadette had been ill with cholera. Soon after Bernadette was sent to a neighboring village to work. She came back intending to make her first communion, but over the next five months she was visited 18 times by an apparition in a nearby grotto. For ten points, name the site of this grotto, now said to have healing water, where Bernadette saw the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Answer: Lourdes
9. The revolt that led to this war was instigated by the British colonial statesman and financier Cecil Rhodes, then premier of the Cape Colony, who desired to bring all of southern Africa into the British Empire. For ten points, name this conflict in southern Africa between Great Britain and Transvaal and Orange Free State, in what is now South Africa.
ANSWER: Boer War
10. His Rococo palace built in 1747 in Potsdam was called Sans Souci, French for "without care." Trained harshly by his father to be a skilled soldier and adroit administrator, he preferred the tastes of his mother Sophia Dorothea of Hanover in courtly life, music, and French literature. At age 18, he attempted to escape to England with his two best friends, but after their plot was unraveled by his father, he was forced to watch his friends executed. For ten points, name this Prussian enlightened despot, longtime friend of Voltaire.
Answer: Frederick the Great or Frederick II
11. When she was 23, she wanted to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend, but his status as a divorced man prohibited the marriage; she remained friends with him until his death in 1995. Near her 30th birthday, she married aspiring photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones who was given the title of Earl of Snowden. For ten points, name this member of the Royal family who passed away last Saturday (February 9), the sister to Queen Elizabeth II.
Answer: Princess Margaret Rose
12. A Mayan temple podium served as inspiration for its design, but this building is unique in its application of the "spherical solution" so that curved ribs support the roof. Originally estimated to cost $7 million in 4 years, this complex at Bennelong Point was built in 14 years with $102 million and consists of five different venues. For ten points, name this theatrical center originally designed by Danish architect Joern Utzon, the architectural icon of Australia.
Answer: Sydney Opera House ()
13. By writing this tossup, the question author violated its first two rules. Among its members was a man whose name was Robert Paulsen, even though he was never referred to by that name. Begun by two men (or maybe not), one of whom had lost his apartment in a fire, its original purpose was to allow people to alleviate their frustrations legally, although it soon became a quasi-apocalyptic cult. For ten points, name this titular group in a Chuck Palahniuk novel and film of the same name, co-founded by soapmaker Tyler Durden.
Answer: Fight Club
14. Combine it with oxygen over a silver catalyst to get the simplest of all epoxides. Dehydrogenate it to get a common blowtorch fuel. If you consume the product of its hydration, you may become drunk. Hydrogenation gives a minor component of natural gas. For ten points, identify this chemical, which stimulates the ripening of fruits in most plants and has the molecular formula C2H4.
Answer: ethene or ethylene
15. Examples of this style can be seen in the Glasgow School of Art, the entry gate to the Castel Beranger, and signs adorning the Paris Metro system. Characterized by flat, decorative patterns and intertwined organic forms such as stems and flowers, it was known as "Modernismo" in Spain, as "Stile Liberté" in France, and as "Jugendstil" in Germany. Embracing all forms of art and design from jewelry, to architecture, to pottery, painting, and furniture, for ten points, name this art movement of Gaudi, Sullivan, and Tiffany in the 1890s to 1910s.
Answer: Art Nouveau (accept early Modernismo or Stile Liberte or Jugendstil)
16. "It must be the Lord himself who will strike him, whether the time comes for him to die, or he goes out and perishes in battle. But the Lord forbid that I touch his anointed!" The man about whom these words were spoken fell from God's favor when he chose not to exterminate the city of Amalek, instead choosing to spare all of the fattened livestock for sacrifice to the Lord. For ten points, name this man, father of Jonathan and victor over the Philistines, the first king of a united Israel.
Answer: Saul
17. Because it is extremely difficult to find a mate in the voids of the deep sea, the tiny males of the deep-water variety of this species of fish attach themselves permanently to the sides of the much-larger females. Their scientific name is Lophius piscatorius, and the shallow-water variety is known as the monkfish. Though the female's repertoire is a bit less varied than Isaak Walton would advise, for ten points, what deep-sea fish use either lifelike or bioluminescent "bait" to hunt for prey?
Answer: angler fish
18. Caroline, Philippine, Scotia, Antarctic, Cocos, Arabian, Eurasian, Nazca, Pacific, Juan de Fuca, and European. For ten points, these are all examples of what huge blocks of the earth's crust that slide around slowly, pulling apart to open new ocean basins and create new, large landmasses?
Answer: Tectonic plates
19. In this poem, it is asked, “What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape / Of deities or mortals, or of both, / In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?” It is then surmised that since there is no sure answer, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” For ten points, name this poem that concludes with the revelation that truth is the purest form of beauty, an ode inspired by an urn by John Keats.
Answer: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (must be exact) by John Keats
20. Beginning as a classified military project known only as Project PX during World War II, it was built at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. For ten points, name the machine that used vacuum tubes for high-speed digital computing.
ANSWER: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
21. Predominantly members of street gangs known as pachucos, they reached their largest numbers in Los Angeles, where their acts of defiance alarmed white residents. This animosity toward them led to a four-day conflict in 1942 in which sailors at Long Beach cut off their ducktails and burned their clothes while the police looked on. For ten points, name this group of Mexican-American teenagers whose loose jackets, baggy pants, and exaggerated watch chains angered their neighbors enough to produce their namesake riots.
ANSWER: Zoot Suit Rioters
22. Research in the 1970's coordinated by pharmacologist John Vane revealed this compound inhibited the release of prostaglandins to affect blood clotting and inflammation. The early sodium salt form produced however caused stomach irritation, so in 1893 German chemist Felix Hoffman synthesized an acetylated form. For ten points, name this drug derived from willow bark that is most commonly used to treat headaches and colds.
Answer: Aspirin or (Acetyl)salicylic Acid
23. The 26th largest island in the world, it is separated from the mainland by a tiny chain of islands called Adam's Bridge. The tallest mountain on this island is Mt. Pidurutolagalo, and Trincomalee Harbor on the Northeastern coast is considered one of the best natural harbors in the world. For ten points, name this nation formerly known as Ceylon, home to the Tamil Tigers, whose capital is Columbo.
Answer: Sri Lanka (accept early Ceylon)
24. After being expelled from the castle of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronck, he sees such sights as a war between the Arabians and Bulgarians, a shipwreck, an earthquake and an execution. He eventually meets his tutor Pangloss, buys the Baron's daughter Cunegonde out of slavery, and the three tend to their garden. For ten points, name this naςve title character of a Voltaire title work.
ANSWER: Candide by Voltaire
25. Born at Casatico near Mantua, he held positions in the court of Pope Clement the 7th as special envoy to Charles the 5th, who referred to him as "one of the best knights in the world." For ten points, name this man whose dictums of the proper etiquette and behavior of the nobility were influential in Renaissance Europe as the four-volume work The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano).
Answer: Baldassare Castiglione
26. It can combine with an adenine nucleotide to form the biological methylating agent, SAM. Its presence in a polypeptide chain can be determined by cyanogen bromide, which cleaves the chain on the C-terminal side of the residue and changes it to homoserine. In translation, it is encoded by the codon A-U-G. For ten points, name this amino acid whose introduction begins the translation of all naturally occurring polypeptides.
Answer: Methionine
27. Writing "Heroic Stanzas" in 1659 for Oliver Cromwell and then "Astrea Redux" in 1682 for King Charles II, he was a lifelong enemy of Thomas Shadwell, who succeeded this man as Poet Laureate of England in 1689 and was the subject of his poem "Mac Flecknoe." For ten points, name this most eminent poet of the Restoration period, famous for "The Hind and the Panther," "Absalom and Achitopel," and "Annus Mirabilis."
Answer: John Dryden
28. His doctors encouraged him to continue his research, even though they felt his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis would kill him before he could earn a doctorate. They were wrong, of course, and even today this man holds the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge University. FTP, name this physicist, author of A Brief History of Time.
Answer: Stephen Hawking
29. This opera begins with one of the characters knitting while singing the folksong "Suse, liebe Suse". Eventually she calms her brother down by singing "Bruderchen kom tanz mit mir" before they are sent by their mother to pick strawberries in the woods. For ten points, name this Englebert Humperdink opera that by Act III involves the two children meeting a witch at her house made of gingerbread.
Answer: Hansel and (und) Gretel by Englebert Humperdink
30. Described as someone who was so devoted to his work that "he refused to give any time to worldly causes, even in the way of dress," this artist was given the moniker "Sloppy." He was innovative in his use of a single-point light source and one-point perspective. In 1427, he abandoned his commissioned work for the Florence Brancacci Chapel to travel to Rome where he died shortly thereafter. For ten points, name this early painter of the Italian Renaissance best known for Expulsion from Paradise and Tribute Money.
Answer: Masaccio (accept Tomasso Cassai or Tomasso di Ser Giovanni di Mone)
Bonuses
1. Bonus: Name these German rulers for ten points each.
Head of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and leader of the Red-Green coalition, he is the current chancellor of Germany.
Answer: Gerhard Schröder
Between the wars, this man revitalized the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Known as "Der Alte", he was chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963.
Answer: Konrad Adenauer
2. Bonus: Answer these literature questions for ten points each.
This American author wrote The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon and occasionally used the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker.
Answer: Washington Irving
In Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, this itinerant schoolteacher - who looked like a "scarecrow eloped from a cornfield" - comes to a bad end.
Answer: Ichabod Crane
Irving worked with James Paulding to create this satirical literary journal, which took its name from a thick, peppery Indian soup.
Answer: Salmagundi
3. Bonus: Name these Indian deities for ten points each.
This fat, elephant-visaged god has one only one tusk.
Answer: Ganesa or Ganesh
This war god, unique for his six heads, rides to battle on a peacock.
Answer: Skanda or Karttikeya
[10 for both] These two deities were the parents of both Ganesh and Skanda. (both required)
Answer: Siva and Parvati
4. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about adaptations for temperature regulation.
This highly vascularized layer of fat, which can comprise up to 54% of the weight of a baby, can produce heat biochemically.
Answer: brown fat/adipose tissue
This gland, located just above the roof of the mouth, helps vertebrates regulate temperature.
Answer: hypothalamus
This term is commonly used to describe hypothermia that lasts for several weeks or more.
Answer: hibernation
5. Bonus: Chances are you were one of the 3 billion people who watched the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. Answer these questions about the 19th Winter Games and ceremonies therein.
[5] Carrying the Olympic torch with his former teammates to the cauldron was this captain of the 1980 Miracle on Ice U.S. hockey team.
Answer: Mike Eruzione
[10] This women’s hockey team captain handed off the torch to Eruzione.
Answer: Cammi Granato
[15] Controversy over the judging of the free-skate in pairs has clouded the gold-medal finish of this Russian pairs team.
Answer: Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze
6. Bonus: Identify the following volcanic items for ten points each.
It is the molten rock underneath the earth's crust.
Answer: Magma
The crater formed by a volcanic explosion
Answer: Caldera
The 1902 eruption of this mountain on Martinique which killed around 38,000 people lends its name to a classification of volcanic eruption. In this case, the volcano blows apart.
Answer: Pelée
7. Bonus: Given a brief description of a mountain, name it for ten points each.
Located about 6 miles southwest of Zermatt, Switzerland, this peak is also called Monte Cervino.
Answer: Matterhorn
This mountain in northern Tajikistan was called Stalin Peak from 1933 to 1962. In the Pamir Mountain Range, it marks the highest elevation in the former Soviet republics.
Answer: Communism Peak (accept Garmo Peak or Ismail Samani Peak)
Rising about 11,000 feet from Owens Valley, this mountain in the Sierra Nevada range in California named for an American geologist is the highest mountain in the contiguous 48 states.
Answer: Mount Whitney
8. Bonus: Name the philosophical grouping from members for ten points each.
Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Jurgen Habermas
Answer: Frankfurt School
Otto Neurath, Moritz Schlick, Kurt Godel, Rudolf Carnap
Answer: Vienna Circle
Desmond McCarthy, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Answer: Bloomsbury Group
9. Bonus: Answer these questions about the career of diva Rosa Ponselle for ten points each.
She and her sister Carmelia performed vaudeville acts until this famous tenor discovered her.
Answer: Enrico Caruso
Ponselle made her debut on the Met stage opposite Caruso playing Leonora in this composer’s four-act opera The Power of Fate (La Forza del Destino).
Answer: Giuseppe Verdi
Ponselle is most famous for her portrayal of this Bellini title character.
Answer: Norma
10. Bonus: Answer these questions about the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas for fifteen points each.
[15] American troops under Daniel Morgan defeated Gen. Banastre Tarleton in this 1781 battle, fought in the middle of the countryside near Spartanburg.
Answer: Battle of Cowpens
[15] This British general retreated to Wilmington after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, beginning a northward retreat that would end on the Virginia coast.
Answer: Charles Cornwallis
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT H: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Handout.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT H: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Handout.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Wheat
2. Pentagon
3. Kaaba or Ka’bah (flexible with spelling)
4. Jack “Ernest” Worthing (either name acceptable)
5. Cuzco (flexible with spelling: Kusco and Qosqo are also acceptable)
6. Remora
7. Great Wall of China
8. Electronegativity
9. Decameron
10. Society for (the) Promotion of Elfish Welfare
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 13 meters
12. 166,650 different committees
Round Eight Tossups
1. This franchise's best hitter was Fred Stanley, who hit .279. The most wins by any pitcher was 13, by Gene Brabender, although Bob Locker led the team in ERA with a 2.18 mark. Don Mincher led the team in home runs with 25 and was their sole all-star, although there were very few positives as they finished with a 64-98 mark. For ten points, name this squad, whose most famous member was pitcher-turned-author Jim Bouton, a team purchased after their inaugural season by a consortium led by Bud Selig and moved to Milwaukee.
Answer: Seattle Pilots (prompt on “Seattle” if "Milwaukee Brewers" is answered, NOT “Mariners.”)
2. After serving as leader of parliament in Bordeaux, in 1734 he wrote Considerations on the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans. His 1721 compilation published under the title Persian Letters was the clever creation of letters written between two fictional Persian travelers to satirize French politics, social customs, the clergy, and contemporary literature. For ten points, name this writer whose Esprit des Lois inspired the American system of checks and balances associated with the balance of powers.
Answer: Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
3. Arguing with philosopher William Paley, this tract expresses anger about state-sponsored churches, the Mexican-American War, political conventions, poll taxes, and slavery. It encourages Abolitionists to "withdraw their support… from the government of Massachusetts". Opening with the line "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'," For ten points, name this 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau.
Answer: Civil Disobedience
4. The Raney form of this metal, activated by aluminum and hydrogen, is a particularly common catalyst because of its cost-effectiveness in the hydrogenation of many double bonds. The element itself can be characterized by the green color of an aqueous solution of its most stable ion; however, it is probably best known for its uses in metallurgy and alloys. For ten points, name this metal, which shares its name with a US coin bearing the likeness of Monticello on one side and Thomas Jefferson on the other.
Answer: Nickel
5. 13.5% of the seats in its House of Representatives are set aside for women; somewhat surprising, since just over 35% of the population is Muslim. A recent resurvey of its boundary with Uganda found a 300-meter overlap that both countries are trying to claim. Plans to move its capital to Dodoma began in the mid 1970s, but only the legislature has moved out of Dar es Salaam so far. For ten points, what is this African country whose primary holiday is "Union Day", celebrating the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar?
Answer: Tanzania
6. Last name is sufficient! He revolutionized Missouri lead mining by digging the first deep shaft in the state and constructing the first reverberatory furnace west of the Mississippi River. He later traveled to San Antonio and got permission to bring 300 families for colonization in Texas. For ten points, name this man who died soon after his plans were approved, allowing his son, Stephen, to become known as the "Father of Texas".
ANSWER: Moses Austin
7. The "Lakers beat the Supersonics" and I "got a call from a girl I wanna dig out, Hooked it up for later." I played some ball, then I "saw the police and they rolled right past me" and I got laid. Better yet, "I didn't even have to use my A.K" and "nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A." For ten points, express your satisfaction and name this Ice Cube hit.
Answer: "Today Was a Good Day"
8. In 1960, one originating from an area around Chile caused 7-meter breakers when it reached Hawaii 15 hours later. In 1883, 30,000 people died when a 40 meter high one occurred simultaneously with the eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. Caused by underwater volcanic explosions or massive seafloor slumping, for ten points, what are these giant seismic sea swells that can move up to 600 mph away from the center of an earthquake?
Answer: Tsunamis (accept tidal wave)
9. This body of water has a thick continental shelf composed of sandy deposits, and unique salt domes located in areas of transition to deeper water harbor significant oil and sulfur deposits. The central Sigsbee Deep is its deepest point, but its most fertile fishing areas are closer to the highly developed shoreline. For ten points, name the body of water connected by the Yucatan Channel to the Carribean Sea.
Answer: the Gulf of Mexico
10. It called for annual meetings of the Court of Election on the second Thursday in April and the following second Thursday in September, whereby Magistrates and other Public Officials sworn to an Oath of Fidelity select a Governor for a two-year term. For ten points, name this 11-point plan, the first written constitution that created a system of government 150 years before the U.S. Constitution was created, applicable to the colony of Connecticut.
Answer: the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
11. An unconventional blend of realism, fantasy, and symbolism, his fiction often deals with the theme of collective guilt. Born in what is now Gdansk, Poland, after serving in the German air force during WWII, he was a political writer for the Social Democratic Party. His early literary success came with "Cat and Mouse," "The Flounder," and "Mister, Mister." For ten points, name this author of "The Tin Drum," the German winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Answer: Gunter Grass
12. An anecdote describes his exclamation to seeing Emperor Napoleon I after the 1806 Battle of Jena as, “I saw the Weltgeist riding upon a white horse!” He expands on the concept of the World Spirit in that it develops from sense perception to absolute knowledge. For ten points, name this German philosopher and author of the 1807 treatise Phanomenologie des Geistes (The Phenomenology of theSpirit).
Answer: George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
13. Its official web site calls it "a complete, systematic, integrated system of thought," while an opposing web site notes that those who oppose this theory "frequently find their character, honesty, and integrity under vicious attack." Though first suggested in its founder's two novels, it was later defined in a non-fiction work. For ten points, name this controversial philosophy in which "man is an end in and of himself", developed by Ayn Rand.
Answer: Objectivism (accept equivalent forms)
14. Andrei marries Natasha, Masha's husband Kulygin is an incompetent Latin teacher, and Irina's hopes to escape provincial life are dashed when her fiancé Tuzenbakh is killed in a duel. For ten points, identify this 1901 Anton Chekhov drama about four Muscovite siblings, only one of whom is a brother.
Answer: Three Sisters (Tri Sestry)
15. When his mother first saw him, she ran away screaming. Yet, his father, Hermes, delighted with his weird son, took him to Olympus. In time, this God would grow to be quite fond of nymphs, including Echo. When the nymph Syrinx changed herself into a reed to escape from him, he made her into the first reed instrument. For ten points, name this Greek God of the wilderness, who was a satyr, or half-goat and half-man.
ANSWER: Pan
16. In the foreground, a black dog stands with its nose to the ground behind a man lounging and smoking a pipe. To the right of the black dog, a brown dog with a ribbon around its neck trots ahead of a crouching monkey. Near the center, two women sit on the grass, one looking at the boats sailing to the left, the other looking at a bunch of flowers in her hand. In the center of the painting, a little girl in a white dress holds the hand of a woman carrying a red-orange umbrella. For ten points, name this Georges Seurat painting that exemplifies the technique of pointillism.
Answer: A Sunday (Afternoon) on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
17. Its backbone is made up of a cartilaginous notochord found in most vertebrates before birth. Its heart is structurally simple, and its kidneys lie on the floor of the abdomen instead of under the backbone. Found in the waters surrounding Madagascar and the Comoros, fossilized versions have been found almost everywhere. For ten points, name this fish, known scientifically as Latimeria chalumnae, first studied in 1938 and thought to be around since the time of the dinosaurs.
Answer: Coelacanth (SEE-la-CANTH)
18. Supported by every prince in Europe with the exception of the English monarch, as well as the sultan of Turkey and the Pope, it may have resulted more from a Russian wish to expand into the Muslim Ottoman Empire than from a desire to spread Justice, Peace, and Christian Charity throughout Europe. For ten points, name this bond formed by Alexander I between the nations of Austria, Prussia, and Russia in order to promote a league of nations governed by Christian ideals
ANSWER Holy Alliance
19. Taking advantage of weather that kept Allied aircraft on the ground, the Germans moved through the hilly and wooded Ardennes region and advanced 30 miles into Belgium and Luxembourg in order to divide the American and British troops and retake the vital seaport of Antwerp. Despite disrupting the Allied lines, the German counteroffensive was halted near the Meuse in early January, after suffering nearly 220,000 casualties. For ten points, many English-speaking troops were cleverly employed during what last German offensive of WWII?
Answer: Battle of the Bulge
20. The FDA has approved medicinal use for the A protein of this toxin as Oculinum to treat excessive muscle spasms near the eye, and cosmetic surgeons are using it to reduce skin wrinkling. But the entire collection of seven toxins involved in this disease are zinc endopeptidases that cleaves fusion proteins involved in the release of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction; it is so potent that one gram could kill over one million people. For ten points, name this disease created by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.
Answer: Botulism (Toxin, accept “Botox”)
21. Born Gerard Kramer in what is now the Flanders region of Belgium, he started his career as an inventor and builder, creating mathematical tools and drawing instruments. Escaping with his family in 1552 to Germany because of his Protestant beliefs, he completed his first terrestrial globe in the same year. Shortly after, he coined the term "atlas" to describe a group of maps. For ten points, name this most eminent map-maker of the Renaissance, whose namesake projection was helpful to sailors because of its straight lines.
Answer: Mercator
22. He is described by the author as "altogether as roystering and swaggering young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in his shoes." However, it is through him that the title character is introduced to a loving quasi-family led by hardluck pickpocket Fagan. For ten points, name this character, portrayed in film by Anthony Newley, who tells Oliver Twist to “consider himself at home.”
Answer: The Artful Dodger or Jack Dawkins (either name acceptable)
23. Discovered in Germany in 1957 as a remarkably safe sedative, this compound with molecular formula C13H10N2O4 was quickly approved for usage all across Europe, but the American FDA maintained a ban on it until further research had been conducted. While the chiral S form was effective in treating morning sickness, its R form was teratogenic. For ten points, name this drug, whose mention in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" refers to the physically deformed babies born to mothers who took it.
Answer: Thalidomide
24. A 13-member executive committee - led by a President serving a four-year term and three Vice Presidents serving for three-year terms - nominates a General Secretary for a five-year term for the General Assembly representing 178 nations. For ten points, name this St. Cloud, France,-based organized with a budget of over $26 million that facilitates the exchange of information regarding perpetrators of international crime.
ANSWER: Interpol (Accept International Criminal Police Organization)
25. Born in Munich in 1895, this man helped found the famous Gunther School in Germany to train children in music, dance, and gymnastics. His first major work, 1933's Music for Children is noted for its heavy use of xylophones, glockenspiels, and percussion instruments, while he set 13th century secular poetry to music structured around vigorous, pulsating rhythms in his most famous work. For ten points, name this composer of Carmina Burana.
Answer: Carl Orff
26. In response to Germany's invasion of Poland, he wrote the poem "September 1, 1939," which was widely circulated in the September 11, 2001, aftermath. For ten points, name this winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the compilation The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue and the poems "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "In Memory of W. B. Yeats."
Answer: Wystan Hugh Auden
27. After serving as assistant Attorney General in Arizona during the 1960s, she joined the Arizona Senate and became the first woman in the United States to hold the position of majority leader. For ten points, name this moderately conservative jurist who accomplished another first when Ronald Reagan named her as the first woman on the Supreme Court.
Answer: Sandra Day or Sandra Day O'Connor
28. Beginning in 1926 over 50 years, he made all the illustrations for the Boy Scout Calendar. After his first studio in Arlington burned down, he moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where a museum of his work now stands. For ten points, name this painter who created 322 covers for the Saturday Evening Post.
Answer: Norman Rockwell
29. Unlike the other 12 books of the Minor Prophets, this four-chapter book is written almost entirely in a narrative form. The book ends with the title protagonist begging God to kill him after a worm ate the gourd plant under which he found shade. For ten points, name this prophet, who while attempting to flee to Tarsus, rather than going to Nineveh, was swallowed by a great fish.
Answer: Jonah
30. It was discovered in 1827 by a biologist who was attempting to use his brand new microscope to study tiny grains of pollen of a newly discovered flower, Clarkia pulchella. When his attempts to get a detailed look were frustrated, he suggested that the pollen was actually alive! Scientists in the 1860's posited that it was caused by the internal properties of fluids, and by 1905 Albert Einstein used atomic theory to explain, for ten points, what tiny, random fluctuations in fluids that cause diffusion?
Answer: Brownian motion or movement
Bonuses
1. Bonus: Name these Social Darwinists for fifteen points each.
[15] This industrialist and philanthropist wrote The Gospel of Wealth.
Answer: Andrew Carnegie
[15] This Englishman first put for the ideas of Social Darwinism in The Man Versus the State.
Answer: Herbert Spencer
2. Bonus: answer these related questions:
[5 all or nothing] One city is the capital of Austria; the other is the capital of the Czech republic. Name both cities, all or nothing.
Answer: Vienna and Prague (specification is not necessary)
[10] This composer's operas include Cosi van Tutte and Don Giovanni.
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[15] This German author is best known for the novella Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague.
Answer: Eduard Friedrich Morike
3. Bonus: There are questions that never seem to die, but for 5-10-15 points, name these three Biblical figures who did not die.. but were raised directly into heaven.
[5] Although her Assumption is not specifically mentioned in the Bible, the idea that she rose directly into heaven is one of only two assertions ever made by the Pope ex cathedra.
Answer: Mary
[10] His ascension by way of a flaming chariot and a whirlwind was witnessed by his protégé.
Answer: Elijah
[15] His short appearance in the Bible (Genesis 5:18-24) places him as a direct ancestor to Noah through his son, Methuselah. He lived on the Earth for 365 years before "God took him."
Answer: Enoch (not Enosh)
4. Bonus: Answer these related chemistry questions for ten points each.
These substances changes the rate of a reaction without being used up. Enzymes are biological examples.
Answer: catalyst(s)
Iron is used as a catalyst in this famous reaction, which produces ammonia.
Answer: Haber Process
Catalysts work by adding new lower energy pathways, effectively lowering this value, which must be overcome for a chemical reaction to proceed.
Answer: activation energy
5. Bonus: Answer these questions about plans for ten points each.
In 1929, the first Five-Year Plan to spur economic growth in the Soviet Union was drafted by this Soviet State Planning Committee.
Answer: Gosplan (Gosudarstvennyi planovyi komitet)
This plan intended to help Germany pay reparations after WWI. It was moderately successful, and was replaced by the Young Plan.
Answer: Dawes Plan
This Brazilian president introduced his "Real [ray-ALL] Plan" for economic reform in 1994.
Answer: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
6. Bonus: For ten points each, identify these old works of art.
Situated in the middle of the northern walls of Babylon, along the Professional Way, this gate named for a goddess was made of blue-glazed bricks and was the central entryway into the city.
Answer: Ishtar Gate
The words "Pantarkes is beautiful" was scratched onto the finger of this sculpture, indicating that its creator, Phidias, and Pantarkes may have been lovers. The struts of the throne of the main character showed the life of Heracles. This statue, located at Olympia, supposedly laughed when Caligula attempted to haul it away.
Answer: statue of Zeus at Olympia
A pair of statues of deer are currently located at the tips of Mandraki Harbour, where this 70-cubit-high statute, cast in parts by Chares the Lindian, once stood.
Answer: Colossus of Rhodes
7. Bonus: For the stated number of points, name the players in a post-Civil War scandal.
[5 x 2] Five points per answer: These two men attempted to corner the gold market on September 24, 1869.
Answer: Jay Gould and "Jubilee Jim" Fisk
[5] This president would not agree to prevent the government from selling gold on September 24, 1869.
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant
[15] This man, the Treasury Secretary, reacted by selling $4 million in gold, causing the speculative bubble to burst.
Answer: George S. Boutwell
8. Bonus: Baseball stars switch positions all the time. For ten points each, name these specific examples.
On July 15, 1996, he started a third base, ending a streak of 2216 consecutive games at shortstop.
Answer: Cal Ripken, Jr.
In 1991, this Astros catcher made a mid-season transition to second base where he has played like an all-star.
Answer: Craig Biggio
He began his career in 1989 with Saint Louis as a catcher but was moved to third base. He’s now starting at first base for the Mets.
Answer: Todd Zeile
9. Bonus: Identify these terms important in gene transcription for ten points each.
This term describes the coding regions of a specific gene, containing all the relevant information of the composition of a desired protein.
Answer: Exon
This term describes the excision of regulatory elements of the primary mRNA transcript (the introns) before the mRNA exits the nucleus.
Answer: Splicing (accept equivalent forms)
The "lifespan" of an mRNA transcript is related to the length of a tail added at the end of the transcript, made of repeating units of this nucleotide.
Answer: Adenine (accept Adenosine)
10. Bonus: Identify the novel that begins with each of the following lines for 15 points each:
[15] Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Answer: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
[15] In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Answer: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT II: Riding in Cars with Handouts.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT II: Riding in Cars with Handouts.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Incus
2. Indemnity
3. Innocent the Third (III)
4. “Is My Team Plowing”
5. Iseult or Isolde (the Fair)
6. International Workers of the World (no acronyms)
7. ISOSCELES (spelling must be exact)
8. Italy
9. Steve Irwin
10. Intaglio
11. 10
12. 2000
Round Nine (Playoffs) Tossups
1. Its name is derived from the Greek verb meaning "to creep," which describes the general pattern of skin lesions. A scourge to human health for thousands of years, the first form can infect the cornea, the esophagus, and the brain to produce a form of encephalitis. For ten points, name this group of viruses which frequently recurs in those infected, even with the sexually-transmitted type 2 form.
ANSWER: Herpes Simplex Viruses (prompt on "herpes")
2. Published in a revised form by Malcolm Cowley in 1951, in which the events of the storyline are placed in chronological order rather than by using flashbacks, this 1934 novel describes the slow descent into madness of psychiatrist Dick Diver after marrying Nicole, a patient. For ten points, name this novel that may reflect the painful experiences of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his mentally disturbed wife Zelda.
Answer: Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Claimed by Sir William Jones to be composed in 2029 BC, this story - so legend says - was inspired by the cries of an anguished bird whose mate had just been killed by a hunter. Consisting mostly of anustup meter, this work's seventh volume was thought to be a later addition by its attributed author Valmiki. For ten points, name this epic poem about an exiled king who returns to the throne after 14 years, written in Sanskrit.
Answer: Ramayana
4. Despite his recent popularity, few knew that he was actually a bisexual and that he fathered a child out of wedlock before abandoning him to poverty. This and other affairs led to his divorcing Alicia, and they were not married when he won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994. For ten points, name this man, the subject of Sylvia Nasar's book, portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.
Answer: John Nash
5. In The Flagellation of Christ, he used both chiaroscuro and anatomically twisted figures. Primarily known for religious paintings like The Beheading of John the Baptist and Rest on the Flight into Egypt, he also dabbled in Greco-Roman myth, as evidenced by Bacchus, one of the first examples of still life. Name this artist who shares his first name with the painter of the Sistine Chapel.
ANSWER: Michelangelo Caravaggio
6. According to Tennyson’s dramatic monologue, this Roman poet supposedly committed suicide when he went insane after taking some love potion from his wife. His most famous work, supposedly prepared by Cicero for publication after the suicide, is written in dactylic hexameter and spans six books, describing his philosophy based on those of Epicurus and Democritus. For ten points, name this poet best known for On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura).
Answer: Titus Lucretius Carus
7. Two teenage English girls, as a prank, made paper cutouts of fairies and took several photographs of themselves posing with these fairies and sent the results to the local paper. Dubbed the "Cottingley fairies", they quickly attracted national attention after a famous Spiritualist trumpeted the pictures as proof that fairies existed. For ten points, name this English author, not nearly as perspicacious as his creation Sherlock Holmes.
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle (accept Cottingley fairies on early buzz)
8. Their first guitarist was Mick Abrahams, but he left early on, and was replaced by the much more talented Martin Barre. Their other albums include Songs from the Wood, A Passion Play, and Stand Up. For ten points, name this Scottish band, led by the flute-playing Ian Anderson, whose hits include "Bungle in the Jungle", "Aqualung", and "Locomotive Breath," named after the inventor of the seed drill.
ANSWER: Jethro Tull (only prompt on “Tull” if you finish the question)
9. Understandably less than impressed by the marriage offer of Empress Irene, who overthrew and blinded her son Constantine, this monarch vented his anger by utterly destroying the Adriatic port of Fiume. Given the title "Patrician of the Romans" by Pope Adrian I, he saved Adrian's successor, Pope Leo III, from a rebellion. In reward, he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800. For ten points, who was the eldest son of Pepin the Short?
Answer: Charlemagne
10. Founded in Kansas in response to a lack of fervor among Methodists, it was first regarded as a type of "movement," not an organized religion. Today, this faith has spread to mainstream churches with middle-class congregations, no longer considered a sect only espoused by the poor. Common practices include adult baptism and an emphasis on the power given by the Holy Spirit that allows humans to "talk in tongues." Name this sect of Christianity, perhaps best known by the nickname "holy rollers."
ANSWER: Pentecost(al)
Editorial: No offense, but you have problems if you have a lack of fervor among Methodists.
11. While this species is rather unstable and not easily formed, its resultant reactivity can be exploited for the synthesis of other unstable groups. The dibromo-substituted version can be formed by reacting bromoform (CHBr3) with potassium tert-butoxide. Iodomethylzinc iodide, used in Simmons-Smith cyclopropane synthesis, has a similar reactivity. For ten points, what species is characterized by carbon atom with six electrons and no formal charge?
Answer: carbene(s)
12. Article 12 provided for a review of the treaty governing this territory in 1989, Article 5 prohibits nuclear arms tests or waste, and Article 3 allows for the free exchange of plans, scientific data, and personnel among its inhabitants. For ten points, name this fifth-largest continent in the world, as well as the southernmost.
Answer: Antarctica
13. When he escaped from prison in Germany, he left his neatly folded prison clothes on the front stairs with a note saying, "Best wishes to the police," before moving to America and enjoying a comfortable life. However, he was captured when a $10 gold certificate with his license plate number on it led police to find nearly $15,000 more of ransom money he had received. For ten points, name this man who claimed innocence until his death, convicted of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby.
Answer: Bruno Hauptmann
14. The mesoglea lies between the two true cell layers in many members of this phylum, and a specialized sac called the gastrovascular cavity is connected to their mouths. As they evolve from planulae to polyps into medusae, they develop highly recognizable nematocysts, or stinging structures. For ten points, what phylum includes hydrozoans, sea anemones, and jellyfish?
Answer: Cnidaria or cniderians
15. Normally a very fierce woman, she should have been incensed by the intrusion of a man. Yet, she was taken by the sight of one man's muscles, and gladly gave him the object that he asked for. She would have gladly given herself to him as well, but Hera disguised herself and stirred this queen's soldiers into attacking Heracles. For ten points, name this strong, yet lovely woman who was killed in the melee - the queen of the Amazons.
ANSWER: Hippolyta
16. Based on Hermann Goedsche's novel Biarritz, it is divided into chapters like "Economic War" and "Annihilation of the privileges of the Goy-Aristocracy." Created by Tsarist secret police, it was supposedly the minutes of a meeting in the Prague Cemetery of high rabbis, led by Theodor Herzl. For ten points, name this anti-Semitic forgery promulgated by Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent.
Answer: Protocols of the Elders of Zion
17. Created at the behest of Ludwig II of Bavaria, it was organized in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. In its initial configuration, it contained three free cities, thirteen duchies and principalities, five grand duchies, and four kingdoms, including Prussia. For ten points, name the governing arrangement which superseded the North German Confederation on April 14, 1871.
Answer: German Empire or Second Reich
18. Discovered in 1965 by G.D. Searle chemist Jim Schlatter, it has the molecular formula C14H18N2O5. Approved by the FDA in 1981, it was reviewed in 1987 when a warning was added to all products to inform phenylketonurics of the presence of phenylalanine. For ten points, name this methyl ester of the dipeptide aspartate-phenylalanine, an artificial sweetener found in most diet sodas and sugarless gums and marketed under the trade name NutraSweet.
Answer: aspartame (prompt on “Equal” or “NutraSweet” on early buzz)
19. A commercial factory of these items was established in New Jersey by John Campbell, by processing shells from the quahog clam. Up until the end of the 19th century, it was used as currency, especially during the 1700's when New England colonists ran out of money. It was also given for historical purposes or symbols of respect, as was the case with a belt given to Williams Penn. For ten points, name these beads that could be woven together as a gift from the American Indians.
Answer: Wampum
20. One of the co-creators of the online freedom of speech manifesto "Cyberspace and the American Dream," he also took on technological issues in the 1991 book Powershift. He rose to fame with a 1970 book which described the trauma caused by rapid and often unexpected changes, which he called "future shock." For ten points, who is associated with the corporatist vision of the "Third Wave"?
Answer: Alvin Toffler
21. A January 28, 1936, article in Pravda entitled "A Pandemonium Instead of Music" was a two-pronged attack on this composer's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. He quickly bounced back, scoring a hit with his Fifth Symphony, premiered on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. For ten points, whose politicized musical career also hit high points with Song of the Forest and The Age of Gold as well as the Leningrad Symphony?
Answer: Dmitri Shostakovich
22. It is directly to the north of Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf of Carpentaria, bordered by the Arafura Sea to the West and the Coral Sea to the East. The northernmost portion of the Great Barrier Reef juts into it, nearly reaching the country whose capital is Port Moresby. For ten points, identify this body of water, which separates Australia from Papua New Guinea.
ANSWER: Torres Strait
23. Grace Hoyland's restaurant halfway between Topeka and Kansas City provides the setting for this play. At a blizzard-induced stopover at the restaurant, a drunken academic starts hitting on a teenage girl, while cowboy Bo Decker courts the rather seedy nightclub singer Cherie. Later adapted into a movie starring Marilyn Monroe, for ten points, name this William Inge play.
Answer: Bus Stop
24. Born in 1930, he took his mother's last name rather than that of his father, Christian pastor Isaiah Okufo. Despite his postdoctoral studies in London and internship with the BBC in 1956, he believed stories should give a lesson, rejecting the European style for one closer to his African roots. A member of the Ibo tribe, he is often credited as being the first African writer to incorporate the ideas of the European novel into his work. For ten points, name this Nigerian whose works include Anthills of the Savannah and No Longer at Ease, the latter a sequel to Things Fall Apart.
Answer: Chinua Achebe
25. The first states that lives should be directed toward repentance. Number 18 says that those in Purgatory are not out of the reach of the love of those on Earth. Number 40 declares that true penitence desires a punishment. Numbers 62-65 deal with the grace of God as the Church's true treasure. Numbers 81-88 ask questions about the Church's corrupt nature, such as why the Pope cannot use pardons to empty purgatory. For ten points, name this series of sentences entitled "Disputation of upon the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences", where the blank is the name of the author, Martin Luther.
Answer: The Ninety-five Theses
26. If you send a beam of light perpendicular to the earth's rotation and have it reflected back, and send another beam of light the same distance parallel to the earth's rotation and back, the first beam of light will always return first, and the difference in times depends on the speed of the ether wind. This is a simplification of, for ten points, what famous experiment that proved ether was not a medium for light?
Answer: The Michelson-Morley Experiment
27. This catch-all term includes such disparate biomes as the frigid, stony abyssopelagic zone and the relatively well lighted, sandy mesopelagic zone. Most creatures living in this zone are filter feeders, like sea corals, or fishes like halibut. For ten points, name this oceanic zone, composed of the continental slope and deeper areas, and generally referring to the ocean floor.
Answer: benthic zone or benthos
28. This musical instrument appears in paintings by Bartolomeo Vento, Thomas Dewing, Piero Della Francesca, and Orazio Gentileschi. It also appears in classical vase art, often played by either Orpheus or Apollo. For ten points, name this pear-shaped instrument that resembles a guitar.
Answer: lute
29. Pelagia the Penitent, a licentious dancer from Antioch, converted to Christianity and lived as a hermit in a cave at this location. Zechariah predicted that it would split in two during the Apocalypse, and David fled there to escape Absalom's rebellion. For ten points, name this limestone ridge in East Jerusalem, the site of Jesus' arrest.
Answer: Mount of Olives
30. In the September 2000 World Cup qualifier with the US and Costa Rica, the game hinged on this call in the 90th minute. Committing this infraction results in a direct free kick for the opposing team. Inside the penalty area, the result is a spot kick, unless done by the goalkeeper, in which case there is no violation. For ten points, what is this infraction in which a player touches the ball, intentionally or otherwise, with his arms or the part of the body in the infraction's name?
Answer: Handball (accept equivalents)
Bonuses
1. Bonus: For ten points each, name these saints.
She was burned at the stake after restoring French independence from England during the Hundred Years’ War.
Answer: St. Joan of Arc
This Spaniard was the founder of the Jesuit order.
Answer: St. Ignatius Loyola (either name okay)
Though he lived around 300 CE, a 13th-century collection of stories popularized the legend that this patron saint of England rescued a maiden and slayed a dragon.
Answer: St. George
2. Bonus: Name these Rossini compositions for ten points each.
This opera is known for its baritone aria where “Figaro” is repeated quite a number of times.
Answer: The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
The first of his operas produced in Germany, the plot centers around Mustafa’s command to have his wife Elvira marry his slave Lindoro, while he tries to woo Isabella.
Answer: The Italian Girl in Algiers (L’Italiana in Algeri)
This two-act opera is based on Jean Racine’s version of Euripides’ story of Andromache.
Answer: Hermione (Ermione)
3. Bonus: For ten points each, answer the following questions about a congressional bill.
This nicknamed 1828 tariff bill was intended by Jacksonians to be a poison pill with which to discredit President Adams. Instead, it passed and proved quite unpopular.
Answer: Tariff of Abominations
This concept in which a state could determine if a Congressional bill passed was unconstitutional in the South Carolina Exposition and Protest in response to the tariff.
Answer: nullification
This South Carolina Senator engaged in a debate with Daniel Webster and explained the concept of nullification on the Senate floor.
Answer: Robert Hayne
4. Bonus: Identify these sociology words for ten points each.
This term describes any behavior that violates accepted norms.
Answer: Deviance
Robert Michel is known for his "Iron Law" regarding this political system controlled by a small elite.
Answer: Oligarchy
This branch of philosophy focuses on the study of "knowing", including the relationship of the nature of truth.
Answer: Epistemology
5. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about an author.
Katy Maartens dominates The Genius and the Goddess, while this author’s other books include Point Counter Point and Eyeless in Gaza.
Answer: Aldous Huxley
Mustapha Mond and the Savage are some of the characters in this Huxley book.
Answer: Brave New World
A narrator pipes in with his two bits through this book, set after the Third World War. Loola and Dr. Poole are the major characters.
Answer: Ape and Essence
6. Bonus: Name these poems that were not written in English for the stated number of points.
[5] This poem was used as the lyrics for the choral movement to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Answer: Ode to Joy (An die Freude) by Friedrich Johann Christoph von Schiller
[10] The founding of Lavinium is covered in 12 books of hexameter in this epic poem by Vergil.
Answer: Aeneid
[15] In this Stephane Mallarme poem, the title character’s thoughts are described; it would serve as inspiration for a 1912 ballet and an 1894 Debussy composition.
Answer: The Afternoon of a Faun (do NOT accept “Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun”)
7. Bonus: Answer questions about some newly-discovered biological species for fifteen points each.
[15] A deep-water version of this flat fish, order Pleuronectiformes, has been found near Cuba.
Answer: flounder
[15] The recently discovered "bowfin" is a large, almost spider-like version of this creature.
Answer: squid
8. Bonus: Identify the locations of the following sports venues for ten points each.
Pauley Pavilion is located on this campus in Westwood.
Answer: University of California at Los Angeles or UCLA
This city’s new Paul Brown Stadium is five blocks away from its older renamed stadium called Cinergy Field.
Answer: Cincinnati
This city’s NHL hockey franchise plays at the Kiel Center.
Answer: St. Louis
9. Bonus: Identify these puppet kingdoms set up by Napoleon from their ruler for 15 pts or from another clue for 10.
[15] Louis Bonaparte
[10] Known as "King Lodewijk," Louis Bonaparte's implementation of the Continental System ruined the economy of this traditional trading nation.
Answer: Kingdom of Holland (accept Netherlands)
[15] Charles John, aka Bernadotte
[10] Bernadotte was largely independent of Napoleon politically, signing a deal with Tsar Alexander I that allowed his nation to conquer Norway, if it relinquished its claims to Finland.
Answer: Sweden
10. Bonus: Answer these questions on fluid mechanics for ten points each.
This term describes the flow of a liquid devoid of turbulence.
Answer: Laminar
When this dimensionless number has a value below 2000 for a given fluid, the flow is considered laminar.
Answer: Reynolds Number
One of the basic principles of fluid dynamics, his law states that for non-viscous incompressible fluid in steady flow, the sum of the pressure, potential, and kinetic energies per unit volume is constant.
Answer: Bernoulli’s Law
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT J: Attack of the Killer Handouts.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT J: Attack of the Killer Handouts.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Henry the Eighth (VIII)
2. Hans Holbein the Younger
3. Adenosine Triphosphate (no acronyms)
4. Mount Rainier
5. Beatrice
6. Hindu(ism)
7. Yahoo(s)
8. Alpha particle or helium nucleus
9. Midnight appointments or judges
10. Janet Reno
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 6
12. Three and one third (3 1/3) milliliters (I said “mixed fractions” so don’t accept 3.33.)
Round Ten (Quarterfinals) Tossups
1. Third son of the priest Mattathias, he led the revolts against the Greek Selucid kings during the mid-second century, BC. The Catholic Bible contains two books about him; the second is often described as a sequel of the first. For ten points, name this Jewish leader and two apocryphal books, the second of which describes the first Hanukkah, celebrated in 164 BC.
Answer: Judas Maccabees or Maccabeus
2. The Foresaken Merman loses his land-locked lover, The Scholar-Gipsy was only "seen by rare glimpses, pensive and tongue-tied," and the Strayed Reveller was a "spare, dark-featured, Quick-eyed stranger." For ten points, name the English poet and schoolmaster who described all these men, most famous for "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse" and "Dover Beach."
Answer: Matthew Arnold
3. With an area of 500,000 square kilometers, it takes its name from the word for "great thirst". It has large coal, nickel, and copper deposits, the Orapa diamond mine, and several game preserves. Populated mostly by the Kung bushmen, for ten points, what desert covers parts of South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and 70% of Botswana?
Answer: Kalahari desert
4. Similar to the law of Universal Gravitation, it stipulates that the force between two current-carrying wires is proportional to the product of their currents and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. For ten points name this magnetic analogue to Coulomb's law for electric force, named after the man whose name designates the SI unit for electric current.
ANSWER: Ampere's Law
5. The North American variety, Drosera rotundifolia, has modified leaves that possess hundreds of secretory trichomes which release a rich, sugary liquid. Its leaves also have glandular trichomes on the leaf surface which produce enzymes that digest insects caught in the sugary liquid. For ten points, name this carnivorous plant used in herbal medicines to treat asthma, whooping cough and other respiratory infections.
Answer: sundew
6. She made good on her promise to "run through the streets of Atlanta wearing nothing but her gold medal" after the U.S. Women's Soccer Team defeated China 2-1 in the 1996 Olympic Final. A starter for the Atlanta Beat, she lost her starting position on the National Team to Siri Mullinix for the 2000 Olympics after playing in the 1999 World Cup. For ten points, name this goalkeeper who “ran about” to save a penalty kick, allowing the U.S. to win the World Cup.
ANSWER: Briana Scurry
7. Five opinions were written, with Chief Justice Rehnquist writing the majority opinion and Justice Blackmun echoing another famous opinion in his dissent. The case concerned a Missouri state law which required doctors to perform viability testing and prohibited public funds and employees from being used to perform the act in question. For ten points, name this 1989 case, which reversed a lower court ruling throwing the law out, and which has been viewed by scholars as the closest the Court has ever come to overturning Roe v. Wade.
Answer: Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
8. James Adair in his 1775 treatise The History of the American Indians characterizing the rituals of the Chickasaws and Cherokees suggested that Native Americans were descendents. Others considered to be descendents were the Japanese, the Mormons, the Afghans, the Ethiopian Falashas, and the Nestorians. For ten points, name this group of people descended from ten sons of Jacob.
Answer: (Ten) Lost Tribes of Israel
9. She was visited by an old lady and told to take back her boast and ask for forgiveness, but rather than do so she repeated it. While it is true that her work was so beautiful nymphs would leave the woods to admire it, her challenge made her an enemy among the Pantheon. A contest was declared, but before a winner could be named, she was overcome with guilt and hung herself. For ten points, name this master weaver, whose descendants still hang due to Athena's forgiveness and still spin their work in webs.
Answer: Arachne
10. The first article establishing this nation states that Queen Victoria is the sole ruler of the land in question, and that all peoples living there are subject to her. The second article states that the British government will respect those already in place, even though their land is changing ownership. The third states that all those who live on the land are British subjects and therefore have all rights and protections as such. On February 6, 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi established – for ten points – what nation in the Pacific, as agreed upon by Maori delegates?
Answer: New Zealand
11. To the west lie the suburbs of more recent vintage, like Aiea and Ewa Beach. Kailua to the east has among the highest average home prices in the United States, not to mention a fabulous view of Diamond Head. However, the city's most famous neighborhood has a name meaning "place of spouting water." For ten points, in what capital city might you visit Waikiki?
Answer: Honolulu
12. His most famous idea came to him while he was playing Solitaire. He studied in Saint Petersburg and was Chair of the University by age 33. He left that position in 1890 and was appointed to the Bureau of Weights and Measures soon after. For ten points, name this teacher, whose textbook, Principles of Chemistry, contained the first known successful example of the arrangement of elements into groups based on their similarities in reactivity and design.
Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev
13. This type of cell is plentiful in lymphoid follicles where they express the CXC chemokine receptor-5 required for primary maturation in the spleen and in the dendrite-filled component of lymphoid follicles. The drug FK506 was recently shown to interfere with mitogenic signaling, thus conferring immunological tolerance. For ten points, name this type of immune cell that upon encountering a particular foreign antigen, clonally differentiates to secrete antibodies.
ANSWER: B cell or B lymphocyte
(Sources: Ansel et al., Nature (2000) 406, 309-314 and Glynne et al., Nature (2000) 403, 672-676)
14. The singer includes four metaphors for himself, one of which is the title. Included are comparisons to control that he has, debts that his opponent cannot pay, and the pain he will levee. The singer proclaims he will "make you run like a scared little b---- from a smoking gun". For ten points, identify this hard-rock song written and performed by Motorhead whose title serves as an alternate nickname for the wrestler it was written to honor, Triple H.
Answer: “All About the Game”
15. He wrote in one of his works: "What a woman says to a fond lover should be written in wind and running water," a reflection of his disillusionment with women, brought about by his involvement with a Roman matron, Clodia to whom he called Lesbia in his poems. For ten points, name this writer of epigrams (including one ridiculing Julius Caesar), a lyric poet from Verona, who wrote highly personal, passionate, and often obscene poetry.
ANSWER: Gaius Vallerius Catallus
16. When he proposes to his future wife, she responds, "Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England." Although he and his ministers have long been considering invading her nation, the final straw comes when his enemies send him tennis balls in lieu of treasure. On the battlefield, he delivers a speech saying that all present will remember that day, St. Crispin's Day, with pride for the rest of their lives. For ten points, name this English king whose victory at Agincourt is recounted in a Shakespeare play bearing his name.
Answer: Henry the Fifth by Shakespeare
17. His mother, Lady Osburgh, was named Woman of the 9th Century by Country Life magazine. During his reign, he pushed the Danes into a territory north of London and Chester, hence designated as Danelaw. He ordered scribes to translate the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History and write the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that traced the history of England back to Roman times. For ten points, name this British monarch, the first to mandate the writing of laws in the vernacular, and who reigned from 871 to 899.
ANSWER: Alfred the Great
18. "Beatty, he thought, you're not a problem now. You always said, don't face a problem, burn it. Well, now I've done both. Good-bye, Captain." The quote entails the protagonist's battle with his co-workers and a robotic hound before escaping the city and an impending nuclear holocaust. For ten points, name this tale of Guy Montag who was a fireman paid to burn books, a Ray Bradbury novel.
ANSWER: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (accept Guy Montag early)
19. Rare is the opera with a motto, but the aphorism "in every creature a spark of God" provides an interpretive key for the brutal scenes of prison life in this composer's Dostoevsky-inspired From the House of the Dead. He focused on having his operas mirror the sounds of spoken language, and had unusually strong female leads in works like Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen, and Katia Kabanova. Best known for the operatic mystery The Makropulous Case, for ten points, name this brilliant 20th century Czech composer.
Answer: Leos Janacek
20. In its early years after incorporation (April 7, 1902) by Joseph Cullinan and Arnold Schlaet, its corporate headquarters was located in the Temperance Building in Beaumont, and its growth was helped by the discovery of oil nearby at Sour Lake. Over the decades, it has acquired other gasoline refining corporations, most notably the January 14, 1931, acquisition of the Indian Refining Company and all rights to the Havoline brand name. For ten points, name this oil company that on October 9, 2001, merged with Chevron, known for its red star logo.
Answer: Texaco (prompt on Texas Fuel Company, prompt if “Chevron” is given)
21. On the left side of the boat rests a cute little black cat that is attached to a leash. On the right side is a sad-faced man in a red shirt and red striped clown-like hat who is paddling. In the middle, a hopeful-looking youth in a green shirt slouches over a covered hump in the long, flat boat. Everywhere else in the painting the sky and the reflection on the titular namesake river is yellowish, save for a patch of greenish brown leaves. For ten points, name this 1845 painting about merchants sailing down a river by George Caleb Bingham.
Answer: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham
22. In the economic slump following World War I, his family moved to London, and while in school there, he became interested in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. After joining the British Admiralty Research Laboratory during the war, he began working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, investigating the structure of proteins. For ten points, name this scientist who was joined in 1951 by a 23-year-old American biologist, James Watson.
ANSWER: Francis Crick
23. Going to California in 1850, he led an armed invasion of Mexico, whereby he declared himself leader of an independent Baja-Sonora republic. Forced to surrender to U.S. authorities after he ran out of needed supplies, he devised a plan to unite all of Central America after being inaugurated as President of Nicaragua. For ten points, who is this Southerner who fought several financial battles against Cornelius Vanderbilt before being executed in Honduras in 1860?
Answer: William Walker
24. All of the dialogue in this author's play The Investigation was drawn from testimony about Auschwitz. Other works, like Holderlin and Trotsky in Exile, also focused on important cultural or historical events. For ten points, what German is best known for the creepy depictions of the insane in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade?
Answer: Peter Weiss
25. American submarines attacked first, engaging three incoming fleets before Japanese sailors expected any resistance. At a cost of 56 planes, Japanese sank the carrier Princeton, but were unable to take advantage of the unguarded San Bernadino Strait and execute "Operation Victory." An extensive battle line off Hibuson Island repulsed the main attack under General Shima in, for ten points, what massive October 1944 naval battle in the Philippines.
Answer: Leyte Gulf
26. Its aftermath included the "relief war," in which the legislature and judiciary of Kentucky fought over the constitutionality of replevin and stay laws. Contributing factors included mismanagement of the national bank and excess speculation in frontier lands, but its most immediate cause was Congressional legislation that required the resumption of specie payments, passed in 1817. For ten points, name this economic meltdown of the early 19th century.
Answer: Panic of 1819
27. Born in Florence in 1377, this man created complex machinery like mechanical clocks and hydraulic stages for the Church of San Felice. His emphasis on mathematical rigor in its use of straight lines, flat planes, and cubic spaces allowed this sculptor and architect to rediscover the laws of scientific perspective. For ten points, name this Italian who lost the competition for the Florence Baptistry doors to Lorenzo Ghiberti but won for his design of the Dome of the Santa Maria.
ANSWER: Filippo Brunelleschi
28. Niels Bohr hid the Nobel Medals of German Jews Max von Laue and James Franck waited out the Second World War, storing them in this substance. Although it has no standard chemical composition, one common form of it is a concentrated solution of 3 parts hydrochloric and 1 part nitric acid. For ten points, what is the term given to a solution that is able to dissolve gold, translated as “royal water”?
Answer: aqua regia
29. She became the patron saint of miners and artillery men, and her name was often invoked during thunderstorms, because her father, Dioscurus, was killed by a bolt of lightning as he tried to make her renounce Christianity. For ten points, name this popular saint in medieval devotion, symbolized by the tower in which her father imprisoned her.
Answer: St. Barbara
30. Each chapter of this novel is named after a month and begins with a recipe. In the genre of magical realism, the novel follows Tita de la Garza and her quest for love and independence from her domineering mother, Mama Elena. For ten points, name this Laura Esquivel novel made into a 1992 movie directed by Alfonso Arau called Como Água Para Chocolate.
Answer: Like Water for Chocolate, accept early Como Água Para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Bonuses
1. Bonus: Name these mythological characters for ten points each.
Hera had Python prevent this mother of Apollo and Artemis to find rest when she was finding a spot to give birth to the twins.
Answer: Leto
A witness to Zeus’ abduction of Aegina, this Thessaly prince outwitted the gods so many times that for punishment in Hades, he had to roll a stone up a hill to the opposite side.
Answer: Sisyphus
Given the gift of prophecy from licks on the ear by a snake, this daughter of King Priam was locked in a tower with a guard to record her prophecies.
Answer: Cassandra
2. Bonus: Identify these computer items for ten points each.
The capacity of one is 135 minutes, storing up to 10 gigabytes, using MPEG-2 compression that provides visual quality between a VHS tape and a Laserdisc.
Answer: Digital Video Disc (DVD)
Having users independent of developers use a developing piece of software under “normal” operating conditions is known as this type of “test.”
Answer: Beta Test
This standard code consisting of 128 elements (256 for the extended IBM version) is a 7-bit code that is used for text and communication between printer and computer.
Answer: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
3. Bonus: For ten points each, name these foreign NBA players from terse descriptions.
German, Dallas Answer: Dirk Nowitzki
Skinny, Spanish, Memphis Answer: Pau Gasol
French, young, San Antonio, point guard Answer: Tony Parker
4. Bonus: Identify the locations of these historic landmarks of Black America for points.
[5] A memorial to Matthew Henson, Admiral Robert Peary’s assistant in the race to the North Pole can be found on the grounds of the statehouse of Maryland in this city.
Answer: Annapolis
[10] C. Alfred Anderson trained pilots at Moton Field near this Alabama city.
Answer: Tuskeegee
[15] Built with the profits made from Lyrics of Lowly Life is the house of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who grew up a child of former slaves in this Ohio city.
Answer: Dayton
5. Bonus: Answer these questions on related ancient Greek plays.
This Greek tragedian is best known for his three plays Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Answer: Sophocles
Set in the time of the War of the Seven against Thebes is this Euripedean drama about the dysfunctional Oedipus family.
Answer: The Phoenician Women
This French dramatist and screenwriter himself wrote Antigone (1942), an allegory to the rule of France under the Vichy government.
Answer: Jean Anouilh
6. Bonus: Answer these questions on whales for ten points each.
Whales belong to what taxonomic order?
Answer: Cetacea (accept close equivalents)
The most numerous of the large whales is this type of whale made famous by Melville’s Moby Dick.
Answer: Sperm Whale
This particular type of whale uses “songs” to communicate; two “examples” were George and Gracie in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Answer: Humpback Whale
7. Bonus: For ten points each, name the men the following Jane Austen heroines eventually marry:
Anne Elliot Answer: Captain Frederick Wentworth
Catherine Morland Answer: Henry Tilney
Elinor Dashwood Answer: Edward Ferrars
8. Bonus: For ten points each, given a major work of 20th century residential architecture, say where it is located.
Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" was located in this state.
Answer: Pennsylvania
Known as La Pedrera - 'the quarry' - to its residents, but as the Casa Mila to everyone else, Antoine Gaudi's complex, Mediterranean-style apartment building is located in this city.
Answer: Barcelona
Victor Horta's masterpiece at 25 Rue Americaine in this city was his own home, in addition to a showpiece of his ornate design skill.
Answer: Brussels
9. Bonus: Answer these questions on the Korean War, for the stated number of points.
[5] He was appointed commander of U.N. forces in Korea in 1950.
ANSWER: Douglas MacArthur
[10] A tactical screw-up by the North Korean army allowed U.S. troops to maintain a perimeter around this coastal city.
ANSWER: Pusan
[15] This American Vice-Admiral negotiated a truce at Panmunjom.
ANSWER: Turner Joy
10. Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about various treaties for ten points each.
In the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, the Chinese ceded complete control of this port city to the British "in perpetuity."
Answer: Hong Kong
While addressing the issues in building a trans-American canal through the isthmus of Panama, some Americans thought this 1850 treaty nullified the Monroe Doctrine.
Answer: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
As a result of this 1805 treaty signed soon after the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon became recognized as King of Italy and the Holy Roman Empire would later be dissolved.
Answer: Treaty of Pressburg
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT K: Fried Green Handouts.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT K: Fried Green Handouts.
Ten-point Answers:
1. Mother Goose (Ma MΠre l’Oye)
2. Bast or Bastet or Ubasti
3. Passenger Pigeon
4. Golden Bull
5. Aries (the Ram)
6. Copperhead
7. Chippendale
8. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
9. The Wasps
10. Jump(ing) the Shark
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. 24
12. 4 times pi (4π)
Round Eleven (Semifinals) Tossups
1. Its first settlers came from the Marquesas in 650 AD, and the first European reached its shores in 1786. It is the fifth largest of the Hawaiian islands, and has the largest percentage of native Hawaiians, at 40 percent. For ten points, what is this island, home of Father Damien's leper colony?
Answer: Molokai
2. Adopted by the Riigikogu in 1925, this republic's coat of arms consists of three blue lions on a golden shield, which has been historically used during this country's period as a province as well as the capital city's coat of arms. The two largest islands of this country are Saaremaa and Hiiumaa and the second longest river is the Narva, which forms the northeastern border with Russia. For ten points, name this former Soviet republic bounded on the north by the Gulf of Finland and the south by Latvia, whose capital and largest city is Tallinn.
Answer: Estonia
3. Pedro II becomes king of Brazil, James A Garfield is born in Ohio, James Monroe dies in Oak Hill, Virginia five years to the day after John Adams and Jefferson died, the Anti-Masonic Party holds the first 3rd party presidential nominating convention in Baltimore, William Lloyd Garrison first publishes The Liberator, and Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Northhampton, Virginia, all occurred, for ten points, during what 19th Century year?
Answer: 1831
4. Her executioners intended to make her death appear a suicide, but her father witnessed the act, and later told her dead body, "I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee." The fourth member of her family to die, she lost her claim to the British throne, married and became the Queen of France. For ten points, name this woman, the youngest daughter of King Lear.
Answer: Cordelia
5. The Supreme Court case Luther v. Borden dealt with a civil war in this state that arose when Thomas Dorr tried to set up an alternative, progressive government in the 1840s. The state decided to skip the Constitutional Convention, and was the last of the states to ratify that document. For ten points, what contrarian state was founded by William Blackstone and Roger Williams?
Answer: Rhode Island
6. He began his career at age 19 with his brothers Dennis and Carl along with their cousin Mike and friend Al. While they were involved in an Asian tour (1966), he and lyricist Tony Asher used accordions, bicycle bells, kazoos, barking dogs, and a water jug to create the album Pet Sounds. For ten points, name this musician praised by everyone from Rolling Stone to Paul McCartney to the Barenaked Ladies as the subject of one of their songs, best identified with the Beach Boys.
ANSWER: Brian Wilson (NB: His first-ever European tour began in Stockholm on January 20, 2002.)
7. Given BVW number 565, this 1708 composition was meant exclusively for organ, although in the 20th century it was rewritten for orchestra. Intended as part of a church prelude by its author, it has instead become famous due to its association with dark, foreboding structures as used in early horror films. For ten points, name this D-minor work by J. S. Bach, the opening melody of Disney's original Fantasia.
Answer: Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
8. Also called White Monks because of the white or gray habit they wore, they wanted to establish a community that would follow a strict interpretation of the monastic rules set forth by St. Benedict of Nursia for his monks about 540. For ten points, name this Roman Catholic monastic order founded in 1098 at Cîteaux, France.
ANSWER: Cistercians
9. His cult of personality was parodied in Wole Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest. This leader's political career began when he was elected secretary general of the progressive, bi-racial United Gold Coast Convention. As head of the Convention People's Party, he led his country to independence and embarked on ambitious projects like the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River. For ten points, name this long-time president of Ghana.
Answer: Kwame Nkrumah
10 At the age of nine, he was already well-versed in Greek and Latin, and having satisfied the core requirement for admission into Princeton University, he entered the college before his tenth birthday. Later in his life, he became a well-known physician and was called upon to treat George Washington's botulism. Unfortunately, this man was a bit overzealous with his bloodletting, and the former US president never recovered. Name this prominent American of the 18th century whose Philadelphia house is still standing.
ANSWER: Benjamin Rush (do NOT accept “Doogie Howser, M.D.”)
11. Its highest authority is the Universal House of Justice, located in Haifa, Israel, and practitioners fast for nineteen days over the course of a year. In the 1840s, Mirza 'Ali Mohammad predicted the coming of a savior and took a title which meant "Gateway." For ten points, the writings of the Bab, 'Abd ol-Baha, and Baha' Ullah comprise the major texts of what religion?
Answer: Baha'i
12. After three years as Assistant Professor at Harvard University, he joined the firm of Webb and Knapp in New York City, designing the Mile High Center in Denver (1955), the Hyde Park Redevelopment in Chicago (1959), and the Place Ville-Marie in Montreal (1965). After he started his own firm, he received commissions to design the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and the terminals at Kennedy Airport. For ten points, name this architect famous for recent designs of the Dallas Symphony Hall, the John Hancock Building in Boston, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and the glass pyramid entrance at the Louvre.
Answer: Ieoh Ming Pei
13. Heat or electricity produces ions, which travel through a slit into a chamber that contains both an electric and a magnetic field. The particles that find their way through this region will do so because the electric force exerted on them is equal to the magnetic force. The final area includes a magnetic field that pushes the ions in circular paths whose radii are detected by a photographic plate. For ten points, name this instrument that separates ions and molecules by their charge and velocity in a vacuum.
ANSWER: Mass Spectrometer (accept Mass Spec)
14. While this group is rarely found under natural conditions, it is both interesting and useful to chemists because of its bonding strain. Virtually all synthetic pathways to it, including the organometallic Simmons-Smith mechanism, involve the reaction of a carbenoid with a carbon-carbon double bond. For ten points, name this highly strained, three-carbon ring system.
Answer: cyclopropyl or cyclopropane
15. When the reader first encounters this character, he is wearing lavender gloves, a faun-shaded jacket, and "a cravat of the lightest cambric with pink stripes on it." A well-to-do member of the upper class, he is regarded with scorn by the brother of the woman he wishes to marry who thinks he is going to exploit her. For ten points, name this man, who planted a 100-ruble note on Sonia, much to the chagrin of Raskolnikov, a character in Crime and Punishment.
ANSWER: Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin (either name acceptable)
16. Among the memorable minor characters in this novel include a loquacious parrot and a chess-playing photographer. However, the main line of the plot concerns the two courtships, in youth and in old-age, of Fermina Daza by Florentino Ariza. For ten points, what Gabriel Garcia Marquez book includes the character Dr. Juvenal Urbino, the second of a line of physicians concerned with public health?
Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. While a precursor school (the Kobukan) was established in 1931, many consider the school founded in the village of Iwama by Morihei Ueshiba as the first school teaching this martial art, in which practitioners wear pant-skirts called hakama. Stressing grace and requiring flexibility, for ten points, name this non-violent martial art, using flowing circular motions to turn an attacker's momentum against him/her.
ANSWER: Aikido
18. Byron compared modern Rome to her, and Ovid devotes a section of Book 6 of the Metamorphoses to her. Originally her punishment was to be half of what it became, but her grief and stubbornness caused it to come to full term. Her youngest child pleaded for mercy, which may have been rendered had not the arrow already been on its way from Apollo. For ten points, name this mother who, on the day of the festival commemorating Leto, bragged that her children were better than Leto's and paid for it with the loss of all 14 of them.
Answer: Niobe
19. The Reissner-Nordström variety has an electric charge but not spin, while the Kerr-Newman variety has both spin and charge. According to the "no hair" conjecture, these bodies have only three salient characteristics: mass, angular momentum, and electric charge. The Schwarzschild radius determines the size of the singularity of, for ten points, what astronomical bodies from which only Hawking radiation escapes?
Answer: black hole
20. In his analysis of the racial problems in the United States during the 1930's and 1940's, this economist used his concept of cumulative causation to explain the social plight of black Americans, stating that "Discrimination breeds discrimination" in An American Dilemma (1944). For ten points, name this Swedish scholar who became an architect of the Swedish welfare system who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics with Friedrich Hayek.
Answer: Gunnar Myrdal
21. Their symbol is a seven-headed snake, and they published their manifesto on November 6, 1973. President Clinton officially pardoned their most famous member, who made headlines when she was 19 and insisted upon being called Tania. Six members of this group died on May 17, 1974 in a shootout with Los Angeles police. For ten points, name this group, five of whose members were indicted on first-degree murder charges, and who on February 4, 1974, kidnapped and possibly converted Patty Hearst.
Answer: Symbionese Liberation Army or S. L. A.
22. In "Used," this poet complains: "The conspiracy's to make us thin. / Size threes are all the rage, and skirts ballooning above twinkling knees / are every man-child's preadolescent dream." A professor of English at the University of Virginia, she won the 1987 Pulitzer in Poetry for Thomas and Beulah. For ten points, name the poet laureate of the US from 1993-1995, the first black woman to hold the post.
Answer: Rita Dove
23. Native to South and Central America, Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, this member of the dasypodidae family is covered with a layer of horn and bony plates that protect it against predators, and despite its extremely short legs, it moves very quickly. Identify this armored mammal that comes in three, six, or nine banded varieties and includes the giant variety, which measures up to 1 meter in length.
ANSWER: Armadillo
24. He began work painting theatrical scenery, but he turned to topography during a visit to Rome in 1719, when he was influenced by the work of Giovanni Paolo Panini. By 1723 he was painting dramatic and picturesque views of Venice, marked by strong contrasts of light and shade and free handling. For ten points, name this Italian painter of "Stone Mason's Yard" and "Piazza San Marco - Looking Southeast", the most famous view-painter of the eighteenth century.
ANSWER: Canaletto or Giovanni Antonio Canal
25. The members of this animal phylum use a water-based vascular system, a subepithelial nervous system, and a meshwork "skeleton" known as a stereom. They also have a coelom and a nerve system, and while the adult forms possess radial symmetry, the larvae are bilateral. For ten points, name this animal phylum that contains members such as sand dollars, sea urchins and starfish.
ANSWER: Echinoderm(ata)
26. In 1917, Austrian scientist Wagner von Jauregg found a unique way to treat the paralysis caused by the later stages of this disease (technically known as tabes dorsalis) - he injected patients with malaria! Other symptoms of the disease include hard lumps known as "gummas" and festering sores called "chancres." For ten points, name this unpleasant STD, treated by Salvarsan and penicillin.
Answer: syphilis
27. If your underwear doubles as your bathing suit. If you wear a dress that is strapless with a bra that isn't. If you refer to your wife and mother-in-law as dual airbags. If you prefer to walk the excess length off of your jeans, rather than hem them. If you've ever been too drunk to fish. If your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture. If you own a home that is mobile and fourteen cars that aren't. For ten points, if these conditions apply to you, what profile would you fit, according to Jeff Foxworthy?
ANSWER: You Might Be a Redneck
28. Her real name was Jadis, and she hailed from Charn, where she was enchanted until Digory rang the bell. When Polly and Digory accidentally brought her into another world, her strength multiplied, but she ran into hiding after stealing an apple from a garden on a hill. Later, she returned from hiding and set herself up as queen, riding on a silver sledge with a dwarf as her servant. For ten points, name this enchantress who usurped the throne of Narnia and made it always winter but never Christmas.
Answer: The White Witch
29. One of his works, "Illuminations", describes how a clear mind would perceive the world after the Deluge. In another of his famous poems, The "Drunken Boat", he makes a toy boat in a park pool sail through his imagination. His most famous work involves the most tortured moment in his life, where he lost his faith in reality. Name this French poet, who moved to Ethiopia to become an arms dealer and penned "A Season in Hell" to deal with the anguish of his relationship with Paul Verlaine.
ANSWER: Arthur Rimbaud
30. At the age of 12, he watched as his father, Yesugei, was poisoned by Tartars during a meal. After being cheated out of his inheritance, he was deserted by his tribe and left to live in the Kentei Mountains with his mother and brothers. He persevered and eventually escaped, regaining his rightful position of power. Name the leader who presided over the largest empire in history as ruler of the Mongols.
ANSWER: Genghis Khan (accept Temujin)
Bonuses
1. Bonus: Given these ultraconservative political organizations, name their founder.
Ku Klux Klan
Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest
American Anti-Communist League
Answer: John Birch
American Nazi Party
Answer: George Lincoln Rockwell
2. Bonus: Name these computer games for ten points each.
You are God and you train your Avatar in this Peter Molyneux creation.
ANSWER: Black and White
Cataclysm is the sequel to this Microsoft space strategy game.
ANSWER: Homeworld
This game evokes fond memories of the first 3-D shooter. How I love killing Nazis... [sigh]
ANSWER: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
3. Bonus: Identify these sociology terms for ten points each.
A term coined by Dwight Eisenhower, it describes the relationships and mutual interests between the executors of war and those who supply them weapons.
Answer: Military-Industrial Complex
Three word answer! Examples of this type of socially-recognized celebration marking the transition from one social status to another include Jewish bar mitzvahs and bas mitzvahs to indicate one's entrance into adulthood, weddings marking the recognition of a family, and fraternity initiations
Answer: Rite of passage
Coined by German sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies, the relationships in social systems can be summarized by these German words to describe community-based relationships and individual self-interested relationships. Name either term.
Answer: Gemeinschaft (community) or Gesellschaft (self-interest)
4. Bonus. Given a painting, name the expressionist on one clue for 15 or a second for 5 points.
[15] Two Women on the Shore has muted blacks and browns, while a couple waltzes from youth on the left to old age (unfaithful old age for the man) in The Dance of Life.
[5] The Scream is... well, you know what it looks like.
ANSWER: Edvard Munch
[15] He has a round head and severe aspect in his Self Portrait. A blond-haired mustached gentleman dances with a brunette in a red dress while a dark-haired mustached gentleman dances with a blonde in a purple-gray gown in Dancing Bar in Baden-Baden.
[5] Carnival and The Acrobats are set up as triptychs, as was this German’s norm.
ANSWER: Max Beckmann
5. Bonus: Name these New York neighborhoods for ten points each.
This uptown neighborhood, primarily Hispanic and African-American in ethnicity, buts up against Columbia University. It is home to President Clinton's current NYC offices.
Answer: Harlem
Near NYU, this lower Manhattan neighborhood has long been a harbor for musicians, authors, and other artsy types.
Answer: Greenwich Village
Charles Dickens and Davey Crockett commented on the amazing crime rate and powerful gangs of this lower Manhattan Park Street neighborhood, the most notorious slum of the 19th century. However, Irish immigrants there invented tap dancing and the political primary, obviously not at the same time.
Answer: Five Points
6. Bonus: Answer these questions on the anatomy of the eye for ten points each.
Sympathetic stimulation of this ring of smooth muscle controls the size of the pupil.
Answer: Iris
Cone cells are most concentrated at this specialized area of the retina where images are brought into focus.
Answer: Fovea
This pigmented layer of cells lying behind the retina is pigmented and prevents reflection of light back to the rod and cone cells.
Answer: Choroid
7. Bonus: Given the year and description of their work, name the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, for ten points each.
This American who shared the 1951 prize with Edwin McMillan won for his discovery of many radioactive isotopes and elements such as plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, and nobelium.
Answer: Glenn T. Seaborg
This German won the 1918 prize for his elucidation of an economical process of producing ammonia from air and sea water.
Answer: Fritz Haber
This Scottish man won the 1904 prize for his discovery of neon, argon, krypton, and xenon, in addition to his discovery that helium is a product of the atomic disintegration of radium.
Answer: Sir William Ramsay
8. Bonus: Answer these questions on the life and works of French writer Colette for ten points each.
This 1945 story about a Parisian girl’s maturation into society was made into a Lerner and Loewe musical starring Leslie Caron.
Answer: Gigi
Perhaps her most famous book in France, the title character is a pampered young man whose six-year affair with an aging courtesan Lea is drawing to a close.
Answer: Cheri
Under the pseudonym Willy (the name of her then-husband 15 years her senior), Colette was forced to write four novels (1900-1903) about this title teenage girl’s misadventures; the series became a commercial success.
Answer: Claudine
9. Bonus: Answer these questions about the 1732 War of Polish Succession for ten points each.
This Pole, twice King of Poland, was the rightful heir to the throne, but was forced to abdicate by Russian and German forces.
Answer: Stanislaw I Leszczynski
Stanislaw fled to this "free city" during the conflict. It would again serve as a "free city" under the auspices of the League of Nations between 1919 and its capture by Nazis in 1939.
Answer: Gdansk or Danzig
As part of the Treaty of Vienna, settling the war, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI secured recognition of this agreement, by which Maria Theresa would inherit the Hapsburg dynastic lands.
Answer: Pragmatic Sanction
10. Bonus: Answer questions on novels by 1981 Duke commencement speaker and alumnus William Styron (Trinity 1947) for ten points each.
As a major source, he relied upon The Southampton Insurrection’s details about this historical figure’s slave revolt.
Answer: The Confessions of Nat Turner
Along with her boyfriend Nathan, this Auschwitz survivor boards at Yetta Zimmerman’s Flatbush Pink Palace.
Answer: Sophie Zawistowska (either name acceptable; be impressed if the last name is given)
A series of character sketches over the memory of Peyton Loftis provides the framework for this 1951 novel.
Answer: Lie Down in Darkness
Handout Round (150 points possible)
HANDOUT L: Not Another Teen Handout.
Distribute copies to both teams (should be 2 per team). Teams have 2 minutes to complete the handout.
There is an audio question.
At the completion of the time, collect the answer sheets and have them graded (either you may do so, or you can have the coaches or chaperones grade their opponent’s sheets). Please read out the answers.
HANDOUT L: Not Another Teen Handout.
Ten-point Answers:
1. [audible, want composer]
2. Democratic Republic of the Congo (accept Zaire)
3. Pumice
4. Fantine
5. Battle of Marston Moor
6. Glycine
7. Homer Adolph Plessy
8. Valhalla
9. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
10. Ray Bourque
Math questions worth 25 points each:
11. %2
12. %223
Round Twelve (Championship) Tossups
1. After the Civil War, this West Point graduate (who finished last in his class) declined offers of command from the king of Egypt and the President of the United States. Somehow, during the war, he courted LaSalle Corbelle, a Richmond debutante half his age, whom he later married. For ten points, name this Confederate division commander, who with Isaac Trimble and Johnson Pettigrew, led an ill-fated charge at Gettysburg.
ANSWER: George Edward Pickett
2. It confirms that a magnetic field caused by an electric current is perpendicular to the current itself and that it falls off as 1 over the distance from the current cubed. Ideally, it deals with a small section of current-carrying wire, which can then be integrated to give the complete magnetic field B at a point P. For ten points, name this law of electromagnetics named for two physicists which states that the magnetic field at a point from a wire is proportional to the cross-product of the length of the wire and the distance from the wire.
Answer: Biot-Savart Law
3. The first chapter relives Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise; both characters have recurring roles, completed in the final chapter when they are together with Alan Turing as well as the author. It reaches the conclusion that artificial intelligence could never truly mirror that of human thought, since humans have the capability to think "outside the box" and jump to conclusions. For ten points, name this book of mathematical philosophy, subtitle An Eternal Golden Braid and written by Douglas Hofstadter.
Answer: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
4. Giemsa banding reveals the presence of as many as 400 alternating light and dark bands, useful in identifying each of these microscopic items for karyotype analysis. For ten points, name this form of highly condensed DNA visualized during cell division.
Answer: Chromosome
5. "The spirit is like an ant, and the body like a grain of wheat / which the ant carries to and fro continually. / The ant knows that the grains of which it has taken charge / will change and become assimilated. / One ant picks up a grain of barley on the road; / another ant picks up a grain of wheat and runs away. / The barley doesn't hurry to the wheat, / but the ant comes to the ant". This beautiful analogy comes from the long poetic collection Mathnavi, written by a close friend of the scholar Muhammad Shem-si Din. For ten points, name this mystic 14th century Afghan poet, whose popularity has grown due to recent events.
Answer: Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi
6. This island, the last of its chain (originally called "Los Tortugas") to be settled, it became British property by the 1670 Treaty of Madrid. Located 150 miles south of Cuba and 180 miles west of Jamaica, it is about 76 square miles. Home to the "Seven Mile Beach" and the territorial capital, Georgetown, for ten points, name the largest and most-visited of the Cayman Islands.
Answer: Grand Cayman
7. The house of Welf, comprised primarily of men creatively named "Welf" or "Henry," married into this other house when Judith, son of Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria, wed Frederick, Duke of Swabia. Frederick's brother Conrad III was emperor from 1138-1152, and Frederick and Judith's son was the famous Frederick Barbarossa. For ten points, name this German family, prominent in the 9th-13th centuries.
Answer: Hohenstaufen
8. Inspired by a Chinese play and a Biblical episode, it features the “people’s judge” Azdak, originally the village recording secretary chosen by the ironshirts. For ten points, what play centers around the custody battle between the Governor’s wife and the maid Grusha over Michael, decided by placing the boy in the middle of title object – one of the most popular plays by Bertolt Brecht.
Answer: The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
9. He gradually assumed the features of the water-god Apsu and the thunder-god Enlil, also known as Bel. He created humanity out of the blood of his ally Kingu, and formed the heavens and the earth out of the gutted body of his great adversary, the saltwater dragon Tiamat. For ten points, name this Babylonian deity.
Answer: Marduk or Bel-Marduk
10. This home-schooled writer was proficient in Latin, Greek, and French by age 14 having most of the 6,000 books his father collected at home; his parents unsuccessfully tried to publish his first volume of poerty Incondita. He wrote no poetry until he was 20, when he anonymously submitted Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession. For ten points, name this English poet known for "Pippa Passes," The Ring and the Book, and Men and Women, who successfully courted Elizabeth Barrett.
ANSWER: Robert Browning
11. In a recent study, it appears that very high amounts of his tetraterpene taken by smokers could actually increase their mortality compared to placebo controls. For ten points, name this compound that is found in the chromoplasts of plants, a precursor to vitamin A that is abundant in carrots.
Answer: (Beta-)Carotene
12. Depicted hieroglyphically as a set of uplifted arms, it originally denoted a spirit protecting a person. Soon it came to denote an “individuality,” specifically the sum of personal and physical qualities that made up a person. For ten points, name this object that survived the death of the person it was attached to and could live in a picture or statue of that person.
Answer: Ka
13. When open, it has 12 pieces, when closed it has 8. There is a nude Adam and Eve figures on the extreme top left and right sides when open. Also when open, the middle upper three panels show the Lord between the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist. The lower panel is the Adoration of the Lamb, symbolizing Jesus' sacrificial death. For ten points, name this monumental Flemish triptych started in 1425 by the Van Eyck brothers.
Answer: the Ghent Altarpiece
14. This silver-haired man now in a New Orleans jail cell wearing a ragged shirt and paggy pants usually cries when he talks about his fifteen years of traveling with his dog before the dog died 20 years ago. “I dance now at every chance in the Honky Tonks for my drinks and tips. But most of the time I spend behind these county bars cause I drinks a bit.” For ten points, name this minstrel popularized in song by Robbie Williams and Neil Diamond, whose name is shared with a Southern chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants.
Answer: Mr. Bojangles
15. This conflict began when some cattle were killed near what is today Bristol, Rhode Island, presumably because the cattle were trampling and eating some corn; a farmer retaliated by killing an Indian. The Wampanoag Federation soon lay siege to Brookfield. For ten points, name this war of New England referring to the "regal" nickname given to Metacom, the leader of the Pokanokets, the son of Massasoit.
Answer: King Phillip's War
16. Fick’s Coefficient relates the quantitative relationship between the number of particles traveling through an specific area and the concentration of particles in space. For ten points, name this non-energy-requiring process in which molecules move from areas of high concentration to low concentration.
Answer: Diffusion
17. His book is never referred to by its proper name as he himself is persona non grata in his homeland. A leader of the Revolution which brought the current government into power, he was condemned to death, but escaped. It is said that he leads a Brotherhood which attempts to overthrow the government, but no one has seen him outside of his image in the Two Minutes Hate. For ten points, name this author of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, the archenemy of Big Brother.
Answer: Emmanuel Goldstein
18. Originally, positions were open only to those soldiers recruited in Italy, but Septimius Severus opened it to soldiers from all of the Roman legions. Divided into nine cohorts of a thousand men each, they received much higher pay than regular soldiers, eventually becoming so powerful that they could overthrow emperors if they so chose until Constantine abolished them in 312 CE. For ten points, name this armed group, the personal guard of the Roman Emperor.
ANSWER: Praetorian Guard
19. Located at a gorge overlooking the Pollat River, running water was provided for all the rooms, including flushing toilets, thanks to a spring located 200 meters above this castle. Its throne room was dedicated to the story of Parsifal, designed in an elaborate Byzantine style. For ten points, name this castle built by Ludwig II that inspired the designs of the Disney World castle.
ANSWER: Neuschwanstein
20. Famous for the line, "When you call me that, smile!" this 1902 classic is a story of natural justice and of the contrast between American East and West. The narrator sees exquisite beauty in the Wyoming landscape that, like the "sublime" in the eighteenth century, makes the trivialities of Fifth Avenue and the like all the more explicit, saying of the townsfolk, "They live nearer nature and they know better." For ten points, name this novel featuring Molly Stark, Trampas, and the nameless titular character, which was dedicated to the author's friend, Teddy Roosevelt, by author Owen Wister.
Answer: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
21. In one particular provocative work, he claimed that the Pope was the Antichrist and the world would soon come to an end. His most famous publication, Canonis Descriptica, was far more important to the development of algebra. For ten points, name this man who came up with an expression that students today know as the inverse of Y = X to the A power, whose name is forever synonymous with the logarithm.
ANSWER: John Napier
22. With a melting point of 29.8 degrees Celsius, the most interesting feature of this element is that it can literally melt in one's hand; however, this is not recommendable because, while it will not react with the skin, the long term effects of prolonged contact are not known. This substance is most commonly obtained by processing a by-product of the refinement of bauxite ore. For ten points, name this element, which shares a group with Boron and Aluminum, named for the old French nation.
Answer: Gallium
23. This Central Michigan alumnus founded the Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea to encourage training in the dramatic arts. In 2000, he appeared on television as George Washington in an A&E documentary The Crossing and Dr. Gerald Plecki (an English teacher who coaches the Steinmetz Academic Decathlon team) in Cheaters. For ten points, name this actor who first received national attention in the movies Terms of Endearment and The Purple Rose of Cairo who recently appeared in My Favorite Martian (1999), Roger on 101 Dalmatians, and Harry in Dumb and Dumber (1994).
ANSWER: Jeff Daniels
24. Written for the solo piano with orchestral backup, this programmatic piece was converted into a ballet by Michel Folkine. Extensively quoting Dies Irae, its 24 variations tell of a musician's dealings with the devil, his love of a woman, his troubles with the church, and his final defeat. For ten points, name this work, based on the life of a great Italian violinist, by Sergei Rachmaninov.
Answer: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini Opus 45 by Sergei Rachmaninov
25. This novel concerns two noble lovers who resort to the services of the title character to further their love. The second most important work in the total body of Spanish literature behind Don Quixote, for ten points, name this novel by Fernando de Rojas [ROH-has] which is less popularly known as the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea.
ANSWER: La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
26. Last August, Volunteer Stadium served as an alternate venue to Howard Lamade Stadium as for the first time the field was expanded to accommodate 16 teams. In instances where three teams were tied in record for a quarterfinals, the team with the best defensive run ratio (runs given up per innings on defense) advances. For ten points, name this event that last year was marred by the controversy over the age of Bronx pitcher Danny Almonte.
ANSWER: Little League World Series (do NOT accept “World Series”)
27. This politician moved to Palestine in 1921, and was the minister of labor in the first Knesset. A major figure in the Mapai Party, and its successor, the Labor Party, this politician was appointed Prime Minister upon the death of Levi Eshkol in 1969. Generally siding with hard-liners with respect to foreign affairs, For ten points, who resigned after Israel was unprepared for the Yom Kippur War which began under her leadership?
Answer: Golda Meir
28. Although he was an upright man, his sons were wicked, demanding of the people choice meat for sacrifices, but then eating it themselves instead of offering it on an altar. For this, an angel of the Lord came to him and prophesized the doom of his household beginning with his sons Hophni and Phinehas. He is better known, however, through his pupil, who was presented to the temple as a young child by his mother Hannah. For ten points, name this penultimate judge, who advised Samuel to reply to the voice in the night: "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening."
Answer: Eli
29. A series of summertime bombings prompted these events, which resulted in the arrests of over 1,000 people - arrests defended by their principal instigator in the essay "The Case Against the Reds." Their climax came when the ship Buford deported 249 leftists, including Emma Goldman, to the USSR. For ten points, what series of 1919 "raids" is named for a U.S. Attorney General?
Answer: Palmer Raids
30. After this artist's suicide in 1970, his estate managers mishandled and embezzled millions of dollars. His earlier, halfway decent work included a series of highly elongated studies of people in the NY City Subway. After dabbling in surrealism, by the 1950s, under the influence of Matisse and Mondrian, he had found his schtick, in which he used large rectangular swaths of color. For ten points, name this Russian-American artist known for his Abstract Expressionist paintings.
Answer: Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz)
Bonuses
1. Bonus: FTP each, answer these questions about a novelist.
This novelist wrote the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion and Tropic of Cancer.
Answer: Henry Miller
Miller's on-and-off lover, she is best known for her extensive, lyrical, and often explicit diary.
Answer: Anais Nin
Miller wrote a book of criticism about this man, his favorite author. The man's novels include The White Peacock and Women in Love.
Answer: David Herbert Lawrence
2. Bonus: Give these psychology concepts from examples FTP each.
John, a patient, starts feeling the same feelings towards Ellen, his therapist, as the he does for Jane, his girlfriend.
Answer: transference
Frank thinks he sees a UFO; as Carl Jung explains, he's actually seen one of these timeless symbols from the collective unconscious, in this case representative of God.
Answer: archetype
Catherine, an 11-year old girl, starts to understand algebra and other abstract concepts much better. According to Jean Piaget, she's entering this state of development.
Answer: formal operational
3. Bonus: Answer these questions on Italian literature for ten points each.
In the commedia del’arte, he is usually a hooknosed, humpbacked character who is quite mean to his wife Judy.
Answer: Punch
Considered by many to be the Italian Shakespeare, this poet and dramatist (1720-1806) singlehandedly crusaded to revive commedia del’arte by writing plays like The Love for Three Oranges (1761) and Turandot (1762).
Answer: Count Carlo Gozzi
He wrote a scripted improvisation in Tonight We Improvise (1930) and created the play-within-a-play concept in Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921).
Answer: Luigi Pirandello
4. Bonus: For ten points each, give these terms from earth science.
This is the fraction of light that is reflected by a body or surface
Answer: albedo
This unit of pressure is equal to the sea-level pressure of Earth's atmosphere, about .987 atmospheres.
Answer: bar
This is the point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the Sun
Answer: aphelion
5. Bonus: Identify these works by Beethoven for ten points each.
Opus 27 Number 2, this piano sonata in c sharp minor is nicknamed for its placid imagery and calm notes reminiscent of night time.
Answer: Moonlight
George Bridgetower premiered this nicknamed ninth Violin Sonata in A major (1802), not the person to whom Beethoven dedicated the work and originally intended to perform the piece.
Answer: Rodolphe Kreutzer
Dedicated to Archduke Rudolph, this 1809 piano concerto in E flat is known by this nickname.
Answer: “Emperor” concerto Number 5
6. Bonus: Name the Australian city from a clue about it for 10, or from a description of the Outback Steakhouse dish bearing its name for 5.
10 - The closest city to Ayer's Rock, it is the only real city in the Outback, though it only has about 22,000 people.
5 - Grilled chicken breast and bacon smothered in mushrooms, melted Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheeses, with honey mustard sauce. Served with Aussie chips
Answer: Alice Springs
10 - Located on the Molongo River, it is home to the National Gallery and Parliament House.
5 - 14 ounces of herb-crusted chicken served with garlic mashed potatoes and grilled veggies.
Answer: Canberra
10 - Home to Australia's biggest beef markets, this city in Queensland is midway between Brisbane to the south and Townsville to the north.
5 - 14-ounce ribeye steak
Answer: Rockhampton
7. Bonus: For ten points each, answer a few questions about a city.
This Alabama town was the beginning point of Martin Luther King's march to Montgomery in 1965.
Answer: Selma
The Selma debacle - especially news clips of white policemen beating peaceful marchers of both races and genders - led to the passage of this bill, quickly signed by President Johnson.
Answer: Voting Rights Act (prompt on: VRA)
The town of Selma took its name from a character in the poems of James Macpherson. The poems were first thought to be the lost verse of what Gaelic warrior, son of Finn MacCool?
Answer: Ossian
8. Bonus: Answer these questions about Jewish funeral rites for ten points each.
This is the 7-day mouring period
Answer: Shiva
This is the period between death and the funeral
Answer: Aninut
This is the prayer recited for the dead
Answer: Kaddish
9. Bonus: Little did you know how much you cared about historical events of 1516. For ten points each:
This blue dye was first introduced to European consumers.
Answer: indigo
The Treaty of Freiburg bound France to a "perpetual peace" with this nation.
Answer: Switzerland or Swiss Confederation
This Ottoman sultan, known as "the Grim," conquered Syria after winning the Battle of Aleppo. Later, he would die of a carbuncle, and be succeeded by his son Suleiman - the only one of his sons he left alive, in a brutal but effective way to ensure a smooth line of succession.
Answer: Selim I
10. Bonus: Answer these questions on liver anatomy and physiology for ten points each.
This brown-yellow component of the bile is secreted into the intestines and gives feces its characteristic color.
Answer: Bilirubin
An excess amount of bilirubin in the blood results in a yellow discoloration of the skin and eye whites, known as this condition.
Answer: Jaundice
These star-shaped cells store hemosiderin, a pigment formed from hemoglobin from destroyed red blood cells.
Answer: Kupffer cells
HANDOUT I: Gone in 120 Seconds
1. In 1957, Strom Thurmond talked for more than 24 hours using this parliamentary tactic to obstruct passage of civil-rights legislation in the Senate.
Answer: Filibuster
2. “The dead. Why can’t the dead die?” The quote comes from this Eugene O’Neill play in which Lavinia is trying to escape the cruel fate of her family’s destiny.
Answer: Mourning Becomes Electra
3. Magnesium lies at the center of the porphyrin ring in this yellow-green pigment.
Answer: Chlorophyll
4. Often seen in Hebrew, Arabic, and Eastern Asian countries is this art of “beautiful writing.” Answer: Calligraphy
5. This amusement park was allowed to shoot fireworks on its 100th anniversary on August 15, 1943, while Copenhagen was still under German occupation.
Answer: Tivoli Gardens
6. This Phrygian king washed himself in the Pactolus River to rid himself of Dionysus’ gift to turn anything he touched into gold.
Answer: Midas
7. A magnitude of 6.0 or greater on this seismic energy scale corresponds to a damaging earthquake. Answer: Richter
8. Solemn acts of homage and fealty were required for this member of a medieval social class to maintain a fief in return for services to his overlord.
Answer: Vassal
9. In this Euripedes play, Jason loses his potential bride (the daughter of Creon) and his children through the evil deeds of his wife seeking revenge.
Answer: Medea
10. Multiple word answer! WSM-650 AM first broadcast country music performances from this Nashville venue on November 28, 1925.
Answer: Grand Ole Opry, do NOT accept “Old”
11. Find the standard deviation of the following set of numbers: {2, 4, 5, 7, 7}.
Answer: 3 ÷ √2 [three divided by square root (radical) 2]
12. Paul deposits $1000 into a savings account with an annual interest rate of 5% compounded annually. If Paul leaves this account alone (and there are no deductions to the account by the bank), how much money will there be in his account after 4 years (round to the nearest cent)?
Answer: A = P (1 + r)t = (1000)(1.05)4 = (1000)(1.21550625) = $1215.51
HANDOUT J (Playoffs): Attack of the Killer Handouts
1. Refer to visual clue on the right. Name the English king featured in this portrait on the right.
Answer: Henry the 8th
2. Refer to visual clue on the right. Last name desired. Name the artist (the namesake of his father) who painted this portrait of the king.
Answer: Hans Holbein the Younger
3. Full name (not acronym) required! Principal enzyme classes (P, F, and V) maintain the ionic concentrations inside a cell by breaking down molecules of this energy unit.
Answer: Adenosine Triphosphate
4. At a height of 14,410 feet, this mountain overlooking Puget Sound is actually an active volcano encased in ice and snow covering 34 square miles.
Answer: Mount Rainier
5. Perhaps a representation of spiritual love, she appears more in Purgatorio and Paradiso as Dante’s guide through the afterlife.
Answer: Beatrice
6. Adherents of this world religion throw colored powder and water at each other every spring for Holi, a festival in honor of Krishna.
Answer: Hindu(ism)
7. In Gulliver’s Travels, these rather dirty, unkempt, human-like creatures are controlled by the stronger Houyhnhnms.
Answer: Yahoo(s)
8. Gold-185 can be reduced to Iridium-181 through radioactive decay in which this particle is emitted.
Answer: Alpha particle or helium nucleus
9. This two-word term refers to the Federalists named by President John Adams between December 12, 1800, and March 4, 1801, to governmental positions near the end of his term in office.
Answer: Midnight Appointment (Judges)
10. A champion debater at Coral Gables High School, this 78th Attorney General of the United States is pursuing the Democratic nomination for Governor of Florida.
Answer: Janet Reno
11. What is the length of the major axis for an ellipse described by the equation
4x2 + 9y2 – 8x – 54y + 49 = 0?
Answer: 6 (equation reduces to (x-1)2/32 + (y-3)2/22 = 1, length is 2(3).)
12. Matt needs 100 mL of a 200 millimolar solution, but he has 2 L of the same solution at a 6 molar concentration. How much of the 6-molar solution does he need to use? Express your answer in mL’s as a mixed fraction in lowest terms.
Answer: 3 1/3 mL
HANDOUT B: I Know What You Did Last Handout
1. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond – students at North Carolina A&T – protested at the South Elm Street Woolworth’s white-only lunch counter in this city for the first sit-in of the Civil Rights movement.
Answer: Greensboro
2. Poem from which the following lines are quoted (lines 7-11).
O powerful western fallen star!
O shades of night – O moody tearful night!
O great star disappear’d – O the black murk that hides the star!
O cruel hands that hold me powerless – O helpless soul of me!
O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.
Answer: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” by Walt Whitman
3. This group of five bones in humans lie flat at the back of the hand, forming a transverse arch that allows the fingers and the thumb to touch.
Answer: Metacarpal
4. Phenolphthalein, phenol red, and litmus are examples of this type of non-reactive chemical that changes color with changes in a solution’s pH.
Answer: Indicator
5. With the higher of two peaks at 16,854 feet, this extinct volcanic massif is the highest peak in Turkey.
Answer: Mount Ararat
6. In The King and I, Anna teaches the King how to do this simple dance in the song “Shall We Dance?” (“one-two-three-and?”)
Answer: polka
7. Found in Luke 1:46-55, this hymn of praise by Mary is known by the first word of its first line in Latin.
Answer: Magnificat anima mea Dominum
8. There are around 25 of these large pyramid-like stepped-temple structures known, mostly distributed in Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer.
Answer: Ziggurat
9. Don Quixote refers to Aldonza Lorenzo by this name as he considers her his ideal lady-love.
Answer: Dulcinea
10. Correct spelling required! Recently awarded a lifetime contract, this Duke coach was also inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame soon after coaching his third national championship team.
Answer: Mike KRZYZEWSKI
11. What are the values for A, B, and C in this system of equations? (No partial credit awarded).
(Equation 1) 3A + 2B – C = -6
(Equation 2) 2A – 3B – 4C = -11
(Equation 3) A + B + C = 5
Answers (no partial credit): A= 2, B = -3, C = 6
12. Wayne (weighs 80 pounds) and Melissa (60 pounds) are perfectly balanced on a see-saw of negligible mass. If Melissa is sitting 4 feet from the fulcrum, how far away is Wayne to the fulcrum?
Answer: 3 feet
HANDOUT C: Lord of the Handouts
1. This commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet coordinated the military troops at the victories at Midway and Coral Sea, and was appointed Fleet Admiral on December 1944.
Answer: Chester William Nimitz
2. First and last name for this character required! After serving four years for killing a man who murdered another, he kills the man who murders his friend, former preacher Jim Casy who was planning to protest the low wages on the ranch they work. Name this character from The Grapes of Wrath.
Answer: Tom Joad
3. A person who is preoccupied or anxious about apparently normal body functions that he/she interprets as a symptom of a serious illness suffers from this “disease.”
Answer: Hypochondria (accept hypochondriac or hypochondriasis)
4. This is the architectural term for the central wedge-shaped stone of an arch or vault.
Answer: Keystone
5. This Christian festival that is held on January 6 commemorates the arrival of the Wise Men to Bethlehem and to Jesus.
Answer: Epiphany
6. This term describes the action taken on a loan by a borrower who fails to repay it, leaving the lender without the money owed.
Answer: Default(ing)
7. Fronted by vocalists and classmates Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti, this band third album Weathered (2001) is following the success of their debut album My Own Prison (1998).
Answer: Creed
8. Multiple word answer! Installation of a small steel furnace in every rural village was an example at this attempt to develop China in the Five Year Plan of 1958-1962. By what three-word name was this experiment called?
Answer: Great Leap Forward
9. Compiled by Elias Lonnrot, the 50 cantos of this Finnish national epic are arranged as unrhymed octosyllabic trochee and dactyls and inspired a namesake composition by Jean Sibelius.
Answer: Kalevala
10. French investigators say information indicates he was connected to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network. Name this British national accused of trying to ignite explosives in his sneakers aboard a trans-Atlantic flight.
ANSWER: Richard Reid
11. Alex wrote a computer program to bubble-sort the total points from 24 teams at a quiz bowl tournament. How many binary comparisons will be made using this algorithm?
Answer: C = 0.5n(n-1) = (0.5)(24)(23) = 276
12. For the following matrices, what matrix results from A x (B + C)?
Answer (in order, must be exact) First Row: 8, 6; Second Row: 13, 24 (commas not necessary)
HANDOUT D: Requiescant in pace
1. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, this six-building complex had nearly an acre of rentable space, 21,800 windows, and 104 passenger elevators in each of its two 110-story-high towers.
Answer: World Trade Center
2. In the book of Revelations (8:11), this is the name of the fallen star that caused one third of the waters to turn bitter. It shares its name with a bitter herb used for making absinthe.
Answer: Wormwood
3. His 1984 book The Haj dealt with the lives of Palestinian Arabs from World War I to the Suez Conflict of 1956. His 1958 book Exodus focused on the struggle to establish and defend the state of Israel.
Answer: Leon Marcus Uris
4. This type of radiation consisting of photons without rest mass or charge can induce mutations in microorganisms to preserve foods and sterilize equipment.
Answer: Gamma radiation
5. This organization’s military wing (Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades) has carried out many suicide attacks against Israeli citizens and opposes the Palestinian Authority led by Yassir Arafat.
Answer: Hamas
6. In a letter dated November 2, 1917, this British Foreign Secretary addressed a letter expressing the government’s favor to establishing in Palestine “a national home for the Jewish people.”
Answer: Arthur James Balfour
7. Founded in 1996 by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, this Qatar-based news organization dubbed the “Arabic CNN” has broadcast videotaped statements by Osama bin Laden. Its name translates to mean “The Peninsula.”
Answer: Al-Jazeera or Aljazerra (flexible spelling)
8. Gibreel Farishta (for 15 years, the biggest star in Indian movies) and Saladin Chamcha (an Indian expatriate returning from his first visit to India) survive the explosion of their hijacked jet before engaging in a battle between Good and Evil in this critically acclaimed yet controversial 1988 book by Salman Rushdie.
Answer: The Satanic Verses
9. From the fresh lesions of dairymaid Sarah Nelmes, this surgeon inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps with cowpox to protect him from the smallpox virus.
Answer: Edward Jenner
10. On April 1, 1996, he opened up an 1800-seat theater in the Smoky Mountains near Sevierville, Tennessee. Name this country singer who in 1985 earned the Country Music Award for Song of the Year with “God Bless the USA.”
Answer: Lee Greenwood
11. Calculate the area of a circle circumscribed about a right triangle with legs of length 12 and 16. (Please leave your answer in terms of pi.)
Answer: 100 pi [The hypotenuse is 20, which is also the diameter of the circle.]
12. Amber predicts the Texas Rangers will win 120 games based on their new pitching rotation, from which 22, 17, 11, 10, and 9 wins will be credited to starters Doug Davis, Chan Ho Park, Kenny Rogers, Dave Burba, and Aaron Myette. Within one-tenth of a percentage point, what percentage of the Rangers wins will come from their starting pitchers?
Answer: 57.5% (accept 57.4-57.6%)
[Both math questions on this page attributed to Detroit Country Day School.]
HANDOUT V: The Handout Strikes Back
1. Usually written in anapest meter, this five-line form of poetry has a rhyme scheme of a-a-b-b-a.
Answer: Limerick
2. This trait can be classified across five factors: neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. Sitting on the edge of the chair, being extremely competitive, and aggression are common traits of those with the “Type A” characteristic.
Answer: Personality
3. Among this composer’s most famous works are the opera The Snow Maiden (1882), the Russian Easter Festival overture (1888), and the symphonic suite Scheherazade (1888).
Answer: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
4. On January 9, 1788, this colony was the fifth to ratify the United States Constitution.
Answer: Connecticut
5. Billy Pilgrim skips throughout time and is captured by aliens in this book by Kurt Vonnegut.
Answer: Slaughterhouse Five
6. This collection of “five scrolls of Moses” also known as the Pentateuch is considered the most revered portion of Judaic literature and law.
Answer: Torah (do NOT accept Talmud, which is made of six books as shown in )
7. The Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej Rivers flow into the Indus in this northwestern region of India, whose name is Persian for “five rivers.”
Answer: Punjab
8. In 1905, he proposed a system of democratic government in China, known as the Five-Power Constitution. Name this leader of the Nationalists and president of the Republic of China (1923-1925).
Answer: Sun Yat-Sen
9. In 1999, this Dayton-born pitcher won his fifth Cy Young Award with Toronto. In 2001, he won his sixth with the New York Yankees.
Answer: Roger Clemens
10. This fifth and largest cranial nerve takes in sensory input from the head and face and directs the muscles that control mastication (chewing).
Answer: Trigeminal
11. The prime factorization of 3000 is 23 x 3 x 53. Putting your answer in similar form as the example, what is the prime factorization of 2002?
Answer: 2 x 7 x 11 x 13 (accept factors listed in any order)
12. Tennyson fills a balloon with a lighter-than-air ideal gas equilibrated at 27 Celsius and 720.0 torr. When the balloon is released, it reaches an altitude of 6000 feet, where it is 17 Celsius and 600.0 torr. If the original volume of gas was 100 cubic centimeters, what is the volume of the balloon when equilibrated at the higher altitude described (round to nearest whole cubic centimeter)?
Answer: 116 cubic centimeters
HANDOUT F: How the Handout Stole Christmas
1. First and Last Name Required! This member of a New York-based Union regiment receives the Red Badge of Courage when he is wounded when struck on the head by a deserter.
Answer: Henry Fleming
2. Named for its Croatian discoverer, this zone marks the crust-mantle boundary.
Answer: Moho or Mohorovicic discontinuity
3. Located on the Wabash River, this Indiana settlement organized by Robert Owen and William Maclure was home to the first trade school, the first kindergarten, and the first community-supported public school.
Answer: New Harmony
4. A UN World Heritage Site, this city served as the capital of the Khmer empire from the 9th to the 15th centuries and is home to two temple complexes built by King Suryavarman II and Jayavarman VII.
Answer: Angkor; the complexes are Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom
5. His 1989 novel El general en su laberinto was a fictional account of General Simon Bolivar during the last months of his life. Name this Colombian writer and journalist.
Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. The Persians lost 6400 while the Athenians lost 192 at this September 490 BC battle.
Answer: Marathon
7. According to Jewish legend, to placate Azazel the evil spirit, one of these animals that symbolically carried the sins of the Jewish people would be sent into the wilderness and cast over a cliff.
Answer: Scapegoat
8. Koplik spots appear about 24 hours prior to the outbreak of a rash and fever in this virally communicated childhood disease.
Answer: Measles or Rubeola, do NOT accept “German measles” or “Rubella”
9. Derived from the German words for “house of building”, this School founded by Walter Gropius consisted of two different academies dedicated to the study of design, architecture, and applied arts.
Answer: Bauhaus
10. First and last name required! This charismatic New Hampshire Democrat wins the White House with his wife Abby by his side along with his numerous aides. What is the name of the President, played by Martin Sheen, on The West Wing?
Answer: Josiah Bartlett
11. What is the total surface area of a cone of radius 3 and height 4?
Answer: TSA = (3)(5)pi + (9)pi = 24 pi
12. Brian’s chemistry experiment uses 120 grams of substance A2 (molecular weight 24) and 120 grams of substance B2 (molecular weight 18) to create final product AB3 (molecular weight 39) with no by-products. How many grams of AB3 should Brian have if the reaction is 100% efficient (round to the nearest gram)?
Answer: [The stoichiometry of the reaction involves 1 mole of A2 with 3 moles of B2 to produce 2 moles of AB3. The limiting reagent is B2, which has 6.67 moles, producing a theoretical amount of 4.44 moles of AB3, or 173.33 grams. Rounding means the answer we want is 173 grams.]
HANDOUT G: O Handout, Where Art Thou?
1. Full name (not acronym) please! Established by the Breton Woods Agreement, this agency helped establish exchange rates and offered members special drawing rights to stabilize their currencies.
Answer: International Monetary Fund
2. After the four-year construction of this 4200-foot-long (main span only) suspension bridge in May 1937, Chief Engineer Joseph B. Strauss wrote the poem “The Mighty Task Is Done.”
Answer: Golden Gate Bridge
3. First and last name for this character required! After having been provoked to beating up his shipmate Red Whiskers on the merchant ship Rights of Man, this youthful-looking 21-year-old is placed into duty on the HMS Bellipotent, under the command of Captain Edward Fairfax Vere.
Answer: Billy Budd
4. This German-derived term describes environmental agents like light or temperature that entrains an animal’s behavior to that environment.
Answer: Zeitgeber
5. At a Harvard Law School forum (March 24, 1961) on “The American Negro: Problems and Solutions” moderated by Professor Roger Fisher, this charismatic civil rights leader debated Walter Carrington of the NAACP.
Answer: Malcolm X, Malcolm Little, or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
6. This Japanese system of writing is based upon Chinese characters. In fact its name is derived from the words translating as “Chinese character.”
Answer: Kanji
7. In statistics, for a given set of data, this is the number that occurs the most frequently.
Answer: Mode
8. A repeating poetic metrical foot consisting of two syllables in a stressed-unstressed pattern.
Answer: Trochee
9. Complete Title Required! When Philia escapes, Miles Gloriosus threatens to kill Pseudolus when Pseudolus yells “Intermission!” to end the first act of this Sondheim musical.
Answer: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
10. This Frenchman is credited with deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
Answer: Jean-Francois Champollion
11. What is the 2002nd term of the following arithmetic sequence: 15823, 15820, 15817, 15814, … ?
Answer: 9820
12. Charles has built a scale but forgot to measure the lengths of the arms. A rock is balanced with 20 ounces of weight when placed on the left arm but only 5 ounces when placed on the right arm. What is the true weight of the rock (in ounces)?
Answer: 10 ounces
HANDOUT II: Riding in Cars with Handouts
Note: All responses in questions 1-10 begin with the letter “I”.
1. Latin for “anvil”, this is one of the bones of the middle ear.
Answer: Incus
2. This type of insurance pays the holder for loss or damages.
Answer: Indemnity
3. Name and number required. This pope (1198-1216) excommunicated John of England for refusing to acknowledge the Archbishop of Canterbury and had Otto IV of Germany deposed. Answer: Innocent the Third
4. Title must be accurate! When a dead man asks his friend how hearty he is, he responds, “I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart. Never ask me whose,” in this poem by A. E. Housman.
Answer: “Is my team plowing?”
5. First name is sufficient. Tristran married another woman by this name though he still loved this wife of King Mark of Cornwall.
Answer: Iseult/Isolde (the Fair)
6. Full name required. Founded in 1905 in Chicago among 200 radical labor activists, this group known as the “Wobblies” strived to be “One Big Union”.
Answer: International Workers of the World
7. Correct spelling please! This word describes a triangle with two congruent sides.
Answer: Isosceles
8. Goffredo Mameli wrote the lyrics and Michele Novaro composed the music to this country’s national anthem. Name this country whose prime minister is Silvio Berlusconi.
Answer: Italy
9. The Director of the Australia Zoo in Queensland, he will soon be involved in an animated cartoon show based on his TV series “The Crocodile Hunter.”
Answer: Steve Irwin
10. This printmaking technique is the opposite of relief printing and requires considerable pressure to emboss a design onto paper. Examples include engraving, etching, drypoint, aquatint, and mezzotint.
Answer: Intaglio
11. How many sides in a regular polygon if the measure of each interior angle is 144 degrees?
Answer: Exterior angle = 360 / n = 180 – interior angle, so n = 360 / (180 – 144) = 10
12. Avi the Accountant received $53,000 in total ticket receipts for the Duke-UNC football game. General admission bleacher tickets cost $22, reserved individual seats cost $34, and box seats were $58. If there were 4 times as many general admission seats sold as reserved seats, and 3 times as many reserved seats sold as box seats, what was the total paid attendance?
Answer: 1500 GA, 375 reserved, 125 box = 2000 total paid
HANDOUT H: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Handout
1. The triticum aestivum variety of this cereal grass is most widely used to make bread, while triticum durum is used to make pastas.
Answer: Wheat
2. Designed by George Edwin Gerdstrom, this world’s largest office building (in 1943) serves as the headquarters of the three military services administered under the Department of Defense.
Answer: Pentagon
3. Considered my Muslims as the most sacred place in the world, this shrine contains the Black Stone of Mecca, believed to absorb the sins of those who kiss it.
Answer: Kaaba or Ka’bah
4. Left as a baby at Victoria Station, he is unable to secure the hand of Lady Gwendolen. Name this central character in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Answer: Jack “Ernest” Worthing (either acceptable)
5. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Western Hemisphere, this city’s name is Quechua for “navel” or “center,” and it served as the capital of the Incan empire.
Answer: Cuzco (Cusco, Kosko, or Qosqo acceptable)
6. These “sharksucking fish” adhere to their host by means of an oval sucking disk on the top of its head, feeding on the leftover pieces from the host shark’s meals as an example of commensalism.
Answer: Remora
7. Meng Tian, a general of the Ch’in dynasty completed the building of this 6700-km-long fortification to subdue nomadic central Asian tribes.
Answer: Great Wall of China
8. Linus Pauling developed a scale in 1932 that describes the ability for an atom to attract an electron pair shared with another atom in a bond. Cesium displays this property the least, while fluorine has the highest.
Answer: Electronegativity
9. Each of the 100 stories in this Boccaccio epic ends with a short canzone (song) for dancing.
Answer: Decameron
10. Multi-word answer (not abbreviation) required. In her fourth year at Hogwarts, Hermione organizes this activist club dedicated for better treatment of the creatures who provide and prepare food for the entire school (but please do not refer to it by its acronym).
Answer: Society for (the) Promotion of Elfish Welfare (not SPEW)
11. Trapezoid ABCD has area 130 square meters. AD is one of the bases, and angle CDA is 60 degrees. If CD is 26/sqrt(3) meters and BC is 7 meters, what is the length of AD?
Answer: 13 meters
12. The Michigan Academic Team wants to establish an executive committee consisting only of a President, a Vice-President, and a Secretary. How many distinct committees can be formed among its 101 members?
Answer: 166,650 [Attributed to Detroit Country Day]
HANDOUT K (Playoffs): Fried Green Handouts
1. Inspired by a collection of stories from Charles Perrault, John Newberry published a series of nursery rhymes as early as 1781, featuring this fictional old woman.
Answer: Mother Goose
2. The festival associated with this Egyptian goddess represented by a lioness or a woman with a cat’s head was among the most revelrous in Egypt, and cults dedicated to her were spread to Italy.
Answer: Bast or Bastet or Ubasti
3. On September 1, 1914, the last known of these birds (Ectopistes migratorius, which once numbered in the billions in eastern North America before being hunted down) died at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Answer: Passenger pigeon
4. Consisting of 31 chapters, this constitution for the Holy Roman Empire created by Charles IV (1356) established the importance of princes and eliminated the role of the Pope in the empire.
Answer: Golden Bull
5. The double star system Mesarthim is located in this constellation, whose “first point” is historically associated with the vernal equinox.
Answer: Aries (the Ram)
6. Formally known as the Peace Democrats, this group led by Horatio Seymour and Clement Vallandigham and which opposed the war policies of President Lincoln was referred to by this pejorative name by the New York Tribune in 1861.
Answer: Copperhead
7. Linked with the English Rococo style, this British cabinetmaker was really not well known for his furniture, but rather for his published collection of furniture designs in Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1753).
Answer: Thomas Chippendale
8. Full name required! With Darzee and Chuchundra, his most famous battles took place in a bungalow in the Segowlee cantonment defending Teddy from Nag and Nagaina.
Answer: Rikki-Tikki Tavi
9. A subtle attack on the exploitation of the subsidized juries of the Athenian justice system, this Aristophanes comedy focuses on Philocleon and his passion to serving on juries.
Answer: The Wasps
10. Coined by Sean Connolly, this three-word term describes the defining moment in a television series or movie when its creativity has reached its climax.
Answer: Jump(ing) the Shark
11. What are the final TWO digits for the quantity 4105?
Answer: 24
12. Consider an equilateral triangle with side length 2√3 that is inscribed in a circle. Calculate the area of this circle.
Answer: 4 pi [DCD question: A triangle connecting the centroid of the original triangle, the middle of one of its bases, and one of its corners, is a 30-60-90 triangle, with the hypotenuse being the radius of the circle. Since the length opposite the 60-degree angle is √3, then the hypotenuse/radius is 2, so the area is 4 pi.]
HANDOUT L (Playoffs): Not Another Teen Handout
1. AUDIO QUESTION! Name of the composer associated with the excerpted selection.
[Audible]
2. This nation’s city of Goma on Lake Kivu that in the mid-1990’s harbored hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees from Rwanda was recently devastated by the eruption of nearby Mount Nyiragongo in January 18, 2002.
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo or Zaire
3. This igneous rock is a porous, froth-like glass usually used for masonry and as an abrasive.
Answer: Pumice
4. After losing her job at Jean Valjean’s factory, she sells herself to support the cost of caring for her daughter Cosette to the Thenardiers. Despite Valjean’s assistance, she dies of a chest ailment.
Answer: Fantine
5. Armies led by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Alexander Leslie surprised Prince Rupert’s pursuing forces. In the end thousands of Royalists were killed and Oliver Cromwell emerged as leader of the Parliamentarians following this July 2, 1644 engagement.
Answer: Battle of Marston Moor
6. This amino acid is released by interneurons in the spinal cord to suppress motorneuron activity by increasing chloride conductance. Name this simplest amino acid.
Answer: Glycine
7. On June 8, 1892, this 30-year-old shoemaker of 7/8ths Caucasian heritage was jailed for sitting in the first-class section on a train to Covington, Louisiana. An appeal to the Supreme Court on the legality of the Separate Car Act determined a policy of “separate but equal” facilities.
Answer: Homer Adolph Plessy
8. Inhabitants inside this palace feast on the flesh of a boar slaughtered daily and made whole again each evening while drinking liquor from the udders of a goat until they march out of the 540 doors to fight beside Odin against the giants at Ragnarok.
Answer: Valhalla
9. The poem (lines 1-4) from which the following lines are taken:
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountain yields.
Answer: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
10. Holding the NHL record for most goals scored in a career by a defenseman, this 20-plus-season veteran of the Boston Bruins retired after finally winning the 2001 Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche.
Answer: Ray Bourque
11. What is the relative rate of effusion for hydrogen gas (mw 2) with respect to that of helium (mw 4)?
Answer: [According to Graham’s law, the ratio v(hydrogen gas)/v(helium) = square root of (MW helium/ MW hydrogen gas) =] Square root (radical) of 2 [to 1]
12. In the triangle shown, side a = 11, side b = 17, angle C = 60 degrees. What is the length of side c?
Answer: √223 [Law of cosines: c2 = a2 + b2 – 2ab cos C = 121 + 289 – (2) 187 (0.5)]
1-1. The preface of this book points to increasing divide between theoretical (dogmatic) and experimental (practical) philosophy, and advocates a reunification of the two. The book goes on to divide four categories of error: the Idols of the Tribe, of the Cave, of the Market-Place, and of the Theatre. Typically read as an early manifesto of empiricism, for ten points, name this major philosophical work by Francis Bacon.
Answer: Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
1-2. His first work, Spanish Guitar Player, won Honorable Mention at an 1861 exhibition, and his Spanish influence is easy to spot in paintings like The Dead Toreador and Le Fifre, which reveal Japanese influences. He left Paris for Spain after receiving derisive criticism of his work Olympia, and in 1867, refused to set up a display at the World Exhibition. Name this artist who created such pieces as Bar at the Folies-Bergere.
ANSWER: Edouard Manet
1-3. The last name’s the same. Bill wrote Western short stores like A Guest at Ludlow, while Gerald, a North Dakota senator, headed a committee that investigated profiteering in the munitions industry in World War I. For ten points, what family name do these two people share with another Bill who appears on television in his persona as the "Science Guy."
Answer: Nye
2-1. A colloquy between a jester, the stage manager, and the poet begins this dramatic poem, whose first part was completed in 1802. The action begins with three archangels, Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel, along with God, discussing the ways in which Reason makes men do strange things. God goes on to make a bet about the ultimate fate of the title character (which he wins, being God and all, in Part II) with the devious Mephistophiles. For ten points, name the central character, an overly ambitious German doctor, and you've named this Goethe play.
Answer: Faust
2-2. The northern area of this city used to be steep hills, but the city government initiated a project in the 19th century, called the Denny Regrade in honor of the city's founders, to level the hills for future expansion. It experienced its first major growth spurt during the Klondike rush of the 1890s, and grew again with the 1916 founding of Pacific Aero Products, later renamed Boeing. For ten points, name this major city on the Puget Sound.
Answer: Seattle
2-3. The first book in this series interweaves the lives of fictional characters with those of historical figures such as Eugene V. Debs. It includes characters like Fainy "Mac" Macreary, Eleanor Stoddard, J. Ward Moorhouse, and an airplane manufacturer who turns up again in the final novel. Charley Anderson is featured prominently in these books, two of which are The 42nd Parallel and The Big Money. Name this set of three stories, written by John Dos Passos.
ANSWER: The U.S.A. Trilogy
3-1. Founded as the Society for the Friends of the Constitution, this club’s members were successful because of their adroit manipulation of public opinion through publications and prominent figures, such as the Comte de Mirabeau. Set up in 1789 and named for its first meeting place, this group had only 3000 members in Paris but over 1200 related societies throughout France. For ten points, what is this group known for advocating the suppression of all opposition through violence that dominated the Committee for Public Safety?
ANSWER: Jacobin Club
3-2. They made decisions about how to protect themselves, issued paper money, created a postal system, formed a Navy, and even set up a system where the government would borrow money from its citizens and pay it back with interest. For ten points, name this organization that met beginning on May 5, 1775, and throughout the Revolutionary War with notable delegates such as John Adams, Ben Franklin, and John Hancock.
ANSWER: The Second Continental Congress
3-3. This structure was discovered by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington. On one end is a motor end plate, which contains chemical gates that allow for the passage of sodium and potassium ions. Transversed by such chemicals as acetylcholine, for ten points, what is this gap between a muscle cell and a nerve cell?
Answer: synapse
4-1. A dancer in the Michael Jackson film Moonwalker, she also danced for Paula Abdul. She got a recurring role as Taylor Clayton in The Norm Show after a stint as Tiffany Molloy on the awful sitcom Unhappily Ever After. For ten points, name the redhead, currently starring in the creatively named Nikki!
Answer: Nikki Cox
4-2. Citrate is isomerised to isocitrate; isocitrate is dehydrogenated and decarboxylated to form alpha-ketoglutarate; alpha-ketoglutarate is dehydrogenated, decarboxylated, and combined with coenzyme A to form succinyl-CoA; succinyl-CoA is hydrolyzed to form succinate; succinate is dehydrogenated to form fumarate; fumarate is hydrated to form malate; malate is dehydrogenated to form oxaloacetate, which is combined with acetyl-CoA to re-form citrate. The entire cycle twice through produces 6 molecules of NADH, 2 molecules of FADH2, and 2 molecules of GTP, all of which can be used to produce ATP. For ten points, name this crucial respiratory pathway that precedes the electron transport chain and follows glycolysis.
Answer: Krebs Cycle or Citric Acid Cycle
4-3. Recorded in New York City in 1939, after its performer returned from several years in Europe, this jazz ballad features on of the most famous solos in the genre. The solo duplicated the popularity of its performers' earlier "Hawk's Blues," but the dynamic phrasing of the lead tenor sax proved revolutionary: its success led to the abandonment of "hot jazz" for the new bebop style. For ten points, name this jazz classic by Coleman Hawkins.
Answer: "Body and Soul"
5-1. This element has more allotropes than any other element does. One interesting form is the polymeric, which is pliable and rubbery, consisting of long, high-molecular weight chains of the atoms, each connected to the next by single bonds. It is formed by gradually heating and rapidly cooling the most common allotrope, which is characterized by 8-atom rings that crystallize in an orthorhombic structure. It is prepared industrially by the Frasch process, and when fully oxidized, it forms the strongest of all diprotic oxoacids. For ten points, name this element, whose ancient name of brimstone is a reflection of its tendency to be detected around sites of geothermal activity.
Answer: Sulfur
5-2. Since taking office in 1998, he has helped turn six cities into one and delivered on his campaign platform of a three-year tax freeze, saving taxpayers $305 million. A strong supporter of his city's bid to host the 2008 Olympics, he helped them get on the IOC's short list. Name this man arguably cost his city the bid when he said, "I can just see myself in a pot of boiling water with natives dancing around me," before a trip to Kenya, the mayor of Toronto.
ANSWER: Mel Lastman
5-3. The director of many film adaptations like Under the Volcano, The Man Who Would Be King, and Moby Dick, during World War 2, he filmed documentaries. His Let There Be Light was suppressed until 1981 36 years after it was produced. For ten points, name this director who gave Humphrey Bogart his start in The Treasure of Sierra Madre and The African Queen.
Answer: John Huston
6-1. Ipswitch, Massachusetts, became the inspiration for Tarbox, the setting of his novel, Couples, which includes philosophical treatments of explicit sexual activity. His 2000 novel Gertrude and Claudius focused on the relationship between the parents and uncle of Hamlet before Shakespeare's play. For ten points, name this author of a series of works about the life of Harry Angstrom, a high school basketball star nicknamed, "Rabbit".
ANSWER: John Hoyer Updike
6-2. One of these people, the legendary hero Bjarki, took the shape of a bear in battle, and was impervious to swords. They "went without coats of mail, and acted like mad dogs and wolves," according to an ancient poem, and their name was probably derived from a phrase meaning "without shirts." The Varangian guards who served as personal escorts to Byzantine king Constantine VII also exhibited their distinguishing trait, often described as being "possessed" by Odin, in which they fought without fear of injury. For ten points, name these feared Norse warriors.
Answer: berserkers
6-3. Yukio Mishima, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Mann, William Stryon, and Thomas de Quincy have all written books using this literary format. In one such book, Jean Jacques Rousseau described his fascination with his mother's silverware; in another book of the same name, we learn that St. Augustine was a hard partier and a follower of Mani in his earlier and crazier years. For ten points, in what autobiographical literary style does the protagonist, real or fictional, "own up" to the events of their life?
Answer: Confessions
7-1. His affair with the ugly opera diva Desiree Artot ended when she married a Spanish baritone, a development that this musician called "amusing." Earlier, he suffered a mental breakdown after finishing his first symphony, subtitled "Winter Dreams." He achieved peace of mind after finding a sponsor for his musical talents in Nadezhda von Meck. For ten points, who then had a stream of hits like the Solemn Overture, the Capriccio Italien, and the Symphonie pathetique?
Answer: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
7-2. If one develops faith in God and ultimately comes to realize that He does not exist, there will be no adverse consequences for his/her error in judgement. However, if one does not choose to believe in God and discovers that He actually does exist, he will be punished for all eternity. So goes the reasoning behind the famous "wager" of the French philosopher who penned Pensees. Name this man, who also lent his name to a computer programming language.
ANSWER: Blaise Pascal
7-3. This four-atom chemical is synthetically quite useful - it is used the synthethis of polycarbonates such as Lexan, as well as in polyurethanes and acyl chlorides. The carbonyl oxygen and two chloride groups bonded to the central carbon atom account for its high reactivity with nucleophiles. For ten points, name this colorless, hay-smelling gas most commonly associated with trench warfare.
Answer: phosgene
8-1. This is caused on a particle basis when hadrons decompose by the strong nuclear force. A phenomenon of the same name can occur on a larger scale when induced by magnetic waves. For ten points, what sympathetic response occurs when an object vibrates in response to an oscillating force?
Answer: resonance
8-2. Although an alleged child with his ex-lover Maria Halpin sullied this man's reputation, his opponents' speech descrying "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion," may have angered Roman Catholics enough to shift public opinion to his side. Supporters of his first opponent, James G. Blaine, mocked him and his campaign with cries of, "Ma, ma, where's my pa?" For ten points, name this man who "went to the White House, ha, ha, ha" following the 1884 and 1888 U.S. Presidential elections.
Answer: Grover Cleveland
8-3. The Gazette bearing the street's name has attracted notables like cartoonist Thomas Nast and diplomat Alfred Milner to its journalistic staff. The famous legal case of Krell v. Henry dealt with the view of the King's procession route along the street, which was named after the ancestor of the game of croquet. In 1807, it became the first lighted road in the world, when it was illuminated by the London and Westminster Gas Light Co. For ten points, name this thoroughfare, south of Picadilly and north of St. James Park.
Answer: Pall Mall
9-1. Originally a writer for Benjamin Lundy, his fierce antislavery attacks led to his jailing in 1828. His strong advocacy of women's rights split the abolitionist movement in 1833. For ten points, name this activist known for his steely determination revealed by his quote, "I will not equivocate, I will not compromise. I will not back down a single inch. And I will be heard" - the publisher of the Liberator.
ANSWER: William Lloyd Garrison
9-2. Often treated as a buffoon in early medieval paintings, this saint was the son of either Heli or Jacob. His first marriage, to a woman called Melcha, Escha, or Salome, lasted forty-nine years and produced six children, including St. James. At the age of 90, he married a 12-year old - thus the Biblical jokes about his being cuckolded. For ten points, name this carpenter, the foster father of Jesus.
Answer: Joseph
9-3. Two answers required (creator and creation). The first begins "O you who hear in scattered rhymes the sound / Of that wailing with which I fed my heart / In my first youthful error." Entirely in the relatively new octave-sestet form and largely aimed at Laura, for ten points, name the format of these poems and their Italian author.
Answer: the sonnets of Petrarch (accept Canzoniere as a complete answer or in place of sonnets)
10-1. Considered to be the greatest music critic of his day, he wrote many music reviews and social commentaries under the pen name Corno de Basseto, coining the term "Wagnerite." A lifelong vegetarian and founding member of the Fabian Society, this writer of "The Millionairess" has an annual summer play celebration at Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario. For ten points, name this Dublin-born playwright, author of Mrs. Warren's Profession, Candida, Man and Superman and Major Barbara.
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
10-2. Because it emits a brilliant red color when burned in open air, it is used in the manufacture of fireworks and road flares. Chemically reactive, ductile, and malleable, this Group 2a element was first discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1808. Ranking about 15th in its natural abundance in the Earth's crust, for ten points, name this silvery alkaline earth metal, with atomic number 38 and chemic symbol Sr.
Answer: Strontium
10-3. He acquired his lifelong loves of writing and wrestling at Phillips Exeter Academy despite being dyslexic, and he studied under Gunter Grass and was mentored by Kurt Vonnegut before becoming a wrestling coach, the main character's profession in his most famous novel Ernie Holm. For ten points, name this author of The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules, and The World According to Garp.
Answer: John Irving
11-1. Formed in response to the "massacre of Marquetalia" by Manuel Marulanda, they merged with the ELN and M19 in the late 1980s. Recently ordered out of the "safe zone" by President Andreas Pastrana after repeatedly skirmishing with right-wing paramilitaries and occasionally attacking government outposts, the peace negations between this group and the government seem shaky at best. For ten points, give the acronym of this Marxist Columbian rebel group.
Answer: FARC
11-2. He had his first major work published under the pseudonym of Johnston Smith, and upon touring the Southwest in 1895, produced stories as The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. He believed that if a story was written exactly as it would appear in real life, it would touch emotional chords within the reader despite lacking artificial sentimentality; fittingly, he penned what is considered the first naturalistic novel. Name this author who wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and the poem "Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind."
ANSWER: Stephen Crane
11-3. Called aqua fortis by medieval alchemists, it is produced in modern times by the Ostwald's Process, specifically by the action of sulfuric acid on sodium nitrate or the catalytic action of ammonia. For ten points, name this chemical which when dropped on the skin leaves a yellow coloration, an acid with formula HNO3.
Answer: Nitric Acid
12-1. Before his assassination by fascist thugs, this literary figure came out with poetic collections like The Book of Gypsy Ballads and Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter, but he's better know for his dramas. He produced a trilogy of plays instantly recognized as classics: Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernardo Alba. FTP, name this Spanish dramatist.
Answer: Federico Garcia Lorca
12-2. In green algae, they can divide mitotically to form either zoospores or gametes. In this phase, green algae tends to attach to a solid object and grow to sizeable proportions. FTP, what phase of the live of protists occurs when there is only one copy of genes in the cell?
Answer: haploid(s)
12-3. Greeted in its premiere with 22 curtain calls and a 45-minute-long ovation, this play is set in a meeting hall of a taxi drivers' union during the Great Depression and places several key actors in the audience to intensify audience involvement. Joe and Edna are too poor to feed their children, an aspiring actor cannot find work, and Fatt the union secretary tries to avoid the strike vote altogether. For ten points, name this 1935 proletarian drama about members of a taxicab drivers union anticipating the arrival of their representative written by Clifford Odets?
Answer: Waiting for Lefty
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