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UIUC Earlybird Tournament 2005 Round 2
Tossups by UIUC Academic Buzzer Team (Steven Canning, Scott Green, Micah Hodosh, Tom Phillips, Sudheer Potru, Dom Ricci, Mike Sorice, Donald Taylor & Kelly Tourdot)
1. Some scholars have made connections between this city and the Hittite civilization. Located near the modern-day city of Chanak in Turkey, the Roman city Celeia [SUH-LAY-uh] is often called its second version. The more recent excavations of Blegen and Dorpfeld continued the work of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered this ancient site presumably without a horse inside its walls. For 10 points, name this no-longer-mythical city whose namesake war was described by Homer in the Iliad.
Answer: Troy
2. There is a legend that there is a curse on female climbers of this mountain as all of the women who have scaled it have died soon after. First scaled in 1964 by an Italian team, only 200 people have reached its summit. Known locally as “Chogo-Ri”, it is often named for Henry Godwin-Austen, who explored the area directly around it. Located in the Karakorum range on the Pakistan-China border, for 10 points, name the second-highest mountain in the world.
Answer: K2
3. (Computation – 10 seconds) Letting i denote the square root of negative one, find both roots of the following polynomial equation: x2 - 3ix + 10 = 0. Note that, since the discriminant of this equation is negative, its roots are imaginary, but, since its coefficients are complex, its roots are not necessary complex conjugates. Give both roots of this quadratic equation for 10 points.
Answers: 5i and -2i
4. Consisting of 54 chapters, this long work tells of the son of Kiritsubo. Highly superstitious, the title character has an old man named Koremitsu tell him of a certain house before he goes there. That title character also meets Utsuemi at odd hours of the night and makes love to Yugao before she unexpectedly dies. Centering on the love affairs of a certain Japanese prince, for 10 points, name this eleventh-century story by Murasaki Shikibu, considered the world’s first novel.
Answer: The Tale of Genji or Genji monogatari
5. The Poynting one shows the way an electromagnetic field propagates, and the effect of a matrix on an eigen- one is to scale only its length. They are often a stumbling block for students in elementary physics as many physical quantities are this type of object, including position and momentum. Typically defined as quantities wth both magnitude and direction, for 10 points, name these mathematical objects often depicted as arrows.
Answer: vectors
6. A dedicated pacifist, this politician resigned as Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of state in 1915 in a dispute over the handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. The founder of a journal called The Commoner, he ran for president in four different elections, losing every time. Famous for representing the state of Tennessee in a certain trial and asserting that mankind would not be crucified on a cross of gold, for 10 points, name this Populist party candidate and native of Salem, Illinois, the loser of the 1896 presidential election.
Answer: William Jennings Bryan
7. His oldest daughter marries Kenneth Escott, a reporter, and his son Ted elopes with Eunice Littlefield. He himself has affairs with May Arnold and Tanis Judique, and his efforts to rebel against social convention arise from his friendship with Paul Riesling. Ultimately, however, he returns to his business and social circle due to the illness of his wife Myra. For 10 points, name this real estate salesman from Zenith, the title character of a Sinclair Lewis novel.
Answer: George Follansbee Babbitt (prompt on “George” or “George Follansbee”)
8. Myxamoba formation in foraminiferan protists is an instance of this phenomenon, while heterogamy is an analogous process in animals. Uneven polyploidy can easily result from errors at the boundary between the two namesake phases of this process, a fact which may account for plant robustness to this error. For 10 points, name this reproductive phenomenon in plants, whereby the sporophytic and gametophytic cohorts are genetically distinct and switch between one another.
Answer: alternation of generations
9. Usually arising from a failure to understand perspective and occurring more frequently in individualist societies, it is best avoided if one heeds “consensus” information and looks for unseen causes, both of which people are less likely to do if in a state of cognitive load. Examined in the laboratory in a 1967 study by Harris and Jones in which subjects determined the pro- or anti-Castro sentiments of certain speakers, this phenomenon is also known as the actor-observer bias. For 10 points, name this psychological tendency of people to overlook situational factors in determining the behavior of other people.
Answer: fundamental attribution error [accept actor-observer bias early]
10. The idea for this event was conceived eight years prior at an anti-slavery convention in London. The event itself was denounced by religious leaders, but given a positive report by Frederick Douglass. Creating a so-called Declaration of Sentiments, nearly 300 people participated in it, including Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. Taking place in New York in July of 1848, for 10 points, name this meeting spearheaded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, which focused on improving women’s rights.
Answer: Seneca Falls Convention
11. Equal to the time derivative of angular momentum, it arises when forces are applied at a distance from the center of mass. In machines it can be measured with a dynamometer. Also equal to the cross product of the dipole moment and the magnetic field for a current-carrying coil, the net amount of it sums to zero in any kind of statics problem. Defined as the cross product of a force and its lever arm, for 10 points, name this quantity, the rotational analog of force.
Answer: torque
12. Her short stories appear in the collections Monday or Tuesday and A Haunted House, and she argued that women need personal space to write in her essay “A Room of One’s Own”. The daughter of Leslie Stephen, she and her sister Vanessa played host to the Bloomsbury Group. Her childhood provides the background for To the Lighthouse, and the impact of her brother’s death is reflected in Jacob’s Room. For 10 points, name this author of Mrs. Dalloway, played by Nicole Kidman in the movie The Hours.
Answer: [Adeline] Virginia Woolf
13. It was triggered by an election which saw the rise to power of a leftist Popular Front government comprised partially of members of the CEDA. The ouster of Zamora and his subsequent replacement by Azana was a long way from Primo de Rivera’s conception of the Falange, and in May revolutionaries like Jose Sanjurjo began to plot the overthrow of the government. Including Republican and Nationalist factions, for 10 points, name this 1936-1939 war, which resulted in the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Answer: Spanish Civil War
14. The element with an amphoteric oxide has a notable β-emitter 198 isotope. Usually yellow in color, this element is also found in black and red forms. The most malleable and ductile metal, it is also an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. A valuable precious metal often used in jewelry, for 10 points, name this element with atomic number 74 and symbol Au.
Answer: gold [accept Au before the end]
15. His land was not confiscated thanks to the efforts of Asinius Pollio, who gave some of his work to Maecenas. Born near modern-day Mantua, he based one work on a theme of Theocritus and another on Hesiod’s Works and Days, namely Bucolics and Georgics respectively. After these, he began work on a certain famous epic, which tells of Anchises’ son, the legendary founder of Rome. For 10 points, name this Roman author of the Aeneid.
Answer: Publius Vergilius Maro
16. Nikolai Roerich provided much of the background for this piece, whose modernist set design and brutalist musical structure make it an artistic landmark. Composed for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes, its premiere famously caused a riot in 1913 because it shows the various stage of an ancient fertility ritual in old Russian folk culture. For 10 points, name this ballet choreographed by Vaslav Ninjinsky and arranged by Igor Stravinsky
Answer: The Rite of Spring
17. Like Barry Bonds and Lynn Swann, he attended Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California. Drafted 18th by the Montreal Expos in the 1995 draft, he led the University of Michigan to a share of the Big Ten championship in 1998 playing alongside Clarence Williams and Anthony Thomas. But he may be best-known for his exploits in the NFL, where he holds a perfect 9-0 record in playoff wins and three Super Bowl victories in four years. For 10 points, name this current quarterback for the New England Patriots.
Answer: Tom Brady
18. Along with Nanna and Shamash, she comprises a triad of deities representing the sun, the moon, and the earth. Known as Astarte and Inanna in other traditions, she is killed and chained up by the queen of the underworld, Ereshkigal. Known as the lover of Tammuz, she was also the vindictive lover of the half-human Gilgamesh. For 10 points, name this Babylonian and Sumerian goddess.
Answer: Ishtar
19. Purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930, two windows can be seen its background, although one is obscured by a figure in the foreground. The figure on the left wears a purple sweater and a brooch, and a barn can be seen in the upper right side of the painting. Depicting the artist’s sister and dentist in front of a large house with a certain kind of roof which gives this work its name, for 10 points, name this famous Grant Wood painting which has been parodied for over 50 years.
Answer: American Gothic
20. His mental breakdown in 1889 has been hypothesized to have been caused by either syphilis or some hereditary mental condition. Ecce Homo is his autobiography, and he differentiated between Dionysian and Apollonian art in The Birth of Tragedy. Also known for the conception of the will to power and the “ubermensch”, or superman, for 10 points, name this German philosopher, perhaps most famous for asserting “God is dead”.
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
UIUC Earlybird Tournament 2005 Round 2
Bonuses by UIUC Academic Buzzer Team (Steven Canning, Scott Green, Micah Hodosh, Tom Phillips, Sudheer Potru, Dom Ricci, Mike Sorice, Donald Taylor & Kelly Tourdot)
1. Name these technology companies from the clues for 10 points each.
[10] Founded in 1982, this company created the Solaris operating system and the Java programming language.
Answer: Sun Microsystems
[10] This company made its foray into the console gaming industry with 2001's X-box system. This year's X-box 360 is a veritable entertainment supercomputer.
Answer: Microsoft
[10] This maker of DSP chips employed noted UIUC alumnus and Nobel Prize winner Jack Kilby at the time of his creation of the integrated circuit.
Answer: Texas Instruments
2. Name the artists who recorded the following songs, for 10 points each.
[10] “Times Like These”, “Best of You”
Answer: Foo Fighters
[10] “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Answer: Green Day
[10] “Clocks”, “Speed of Sound”
Answer: Coldplay
3. Answer the following about trigonometry, for 10 points each.
[10] This function is equal to the ratio of the cosine to the sine.
Answer: cotangent
[10] The sum of the sine squared and the cosine squared of any angle is this number.
Answer: 1
[10] Trigonometric functions with imaginary parameters become this type of modified trigonometric function. They are often denoted with an “h” at the end of their respective abbreviations.
Answer: hyperbolic functions
4. Answer the following about an author and his work, for 10 points each.
[10] Focusing on a former Ph.D. student, this novel tells of the skeletons in Judge Irwin’s closet and the corrupt maneuvers of the politician Willie Stark.
Answer: All the King’s Men
[10] This man wrote All the King’s Men.
Answer: Robert Penn Warren
[10] The protagonist of the novel, he gave up his studies in history when he realized that he could not comprehend the works of Cass Mastern.
Answer: Jack Burden (accept either)
5. Given a list of moons, identify the planet that they orbit for 10 points each.
[10] Miranda, Umbriel, and Titania.
Answer: Uranus
[10] Rhea, Iapetus, Janus, and Calypso.
Answer: Saturn
[10] Nereid, Thalassa, and Triton.
Answer: Neptune
6. Name these leaders of Russia at one point or another, for 10 points each.
[10] Originally intending to become a priest, this Georgian became leader after Lenin’s death and a power struggle with Leon Trotsky occurred until his death in 1953.
Answer: Josef Stalin
[10] He denounced Stalin and his cult of personality in his 1956 Secret Speech. He was deposed in an internal Kremlin coup by hardliners later on.
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
[10] First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Communist Party in 1976 under Brezhnev, he eventually became president of Russia after Gorbachev. His name is the highest setting on the breathalyzer at Moe’s Tavern.
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
7. Name these artists from listed works, for 10 points each.
[10] The Vampyr; The Scream
Answer: Edvard Munch
[10] The Signboard of Gersaint; Pilgrimage to Cythera
Answer: Jean-Antoine Watteau
[10] The Parasol; The Family of Charles IV
Answer: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
8. Name the following characters from Homer’s Iliad and/or Odyssey, for 10 points each.
[10] This son of Peleus and Thetis dies from an arrow wound inflicted in his vulnerable heel.
Answer: Achilles
[10] This enchantress imprisons Odysseus on her magical island and turns his men into pigs.
Answer: Circe
[10] A princess and failed prophetess, she is taken captive by Agamemnon and is killed with him by his wife and her lover.
Answer: Cassandra
9. Name these scandals from American history that probably provided gossip for old ladies back in the day, for 10 points each.
[10] Oil fields at Elk Hills in Wyoming owned by the federal government were illegally leased to Mammoth Oil by Albert Fall, the Secretary of the Interior.
Answer: Teapot Dome
[10] Occurring in 1872 and resulting in the resignation of Schuyler Colfax, it involved Union Pacific and the namesake bank in collusion to build railways with federal subsidies.
Answer: Credit Mobilier
[10] Grant’s treasury secretary, Benjamin Bristow, ripped apart distillers’ attempts to defraud the government of liquor taxes from the creation of a certain alcoholic beverage.
Answer: Whiskey Ring
10. Name these British poems from first lines, for 10 points each.
[10] “My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains”
Answer: “Ode to a Nightingale”
[10] “Hail to thee, Blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert”
Answer: “To a Skylark”
[10] “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”
Answer: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
11. Name these economists, for 10 points each.
[10] His long work Principles of Political Economy and Taxation outlined his dislike for the Corn Laws in Britain, his theory of comparative advantage, and his Iron Law of Wages.
Answer: David “Ricky” Ricardo
[10] Perhaps the most famous of the monetarists, this 1976 Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago is best known for his treatise Capitalism and Freedom.
Answer: Milton Friedman
[10] Generally opposed to laissez-faire economics, this man’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money helped convince FDR to embark on extensive spending in the New Deal program.
Answer: John Maynard Keynes
12. Name these things about a periodic table group based on descriptions for 10 points each.
[10] The elements in this relatively inert group all have filled valence shells.
Answer: noble gases
[10] The first known compound containing a noble gas involved this “strange” member of the series.
Answer: xenon
[10] Platinated xenon was made to form a compound with this other gas at extreme conditions.
Answer: fluorine
13. Note the following function: [pic] [“f of x equals x cubed plus four x plus 3”]. State each of the following about this function for the stated number of points.
[5] State [pic] the first derivative of f of x with respect to x.
Answer: 3x2 - 12 [“three x squared plus four”]
[5,5] State the points at which f(x) is critical for five points each.
Answer: 2 and -2
[5] Give the value of f(x) at its local maximum.
Answer: 19
[10] Give the area under f(x) between its critical points.
Answer: 12
14. Given the mythological lover of Zeus, give the form of how he came to him/her, for 10 points each.
[10] Callisto
Answer: the goddess Artemis
[10] Ganymede
Answer: eagle
[10] Europa
Answer: bull
15. Name the architects of the following buildings, for 10 points each.
[10] Farnsworth House; German Pavilion; Seagram Building, with Philip Johnson
Answer: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
[10] Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; Walt Disney Concert Hall
Answer: Frank Gehry
[10] Monticello; University of Virginia
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
16. Name these U.S. national parks from descriptions, for 10 points each.
[10] Located near Moab, Utah, this park is noted for the natural features that give it its name and is also where the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was filmed.
Answer: Arches National Park
[10] This wetland park located in Southern Florida has an area of over 1 million square acres, and is known for its swamps and alligators.
Answer: Everglades National Parks
[10] It contains the General Sherman tree, which is the largest tree on earth and is the second oldest national park.
Answer: Sequoia National Park
17. For 10 points each, name any three of the four emperors who ruled Rome in the year 69 CE.
Answer: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian
18. Name these modern Asian authors from works, for 10 points each.
[10] A Pale View of Hills; The Artist of the Floating World; The Remains of the Day
Answer: Kazuo Ishiguro
[10] The Algebra of Infinite Justice; The God of Small Things
Answer: Arundhati Roy
[10] The Kitchen-God’s Wife; The Joy Luck Club
Answer: Amy Tan
19. Name the following things associated with slavery from descriptions, for 10 points each.
[10] This 1820 deal preserved the balance of free and slave states by admitting Maine as a free state and the namesake as a slave state.
Answer: Missouri Compromise
[10] This last-ditch attempt to prevent the Civil War attempted to extend the area influenced by the Missouri Compromise, but it and its namesake Kentucky Congressman were both eventually defeated.
Answer: Crittenden Compromise
[10] He resided in several free states before he sued for his freedom in a famous 1857 case that went to the Supreme Court. Eventually, Roger Taney ruled that he was only property and couldn’t sue. What a jerk.
Answer: Dred Scott
20. Answer these questions about Sikhism, for 10 points each.
[10} First, name its first guru and founder.
Answer: Guru Nanak
[10] Now, name their holiest city, which is located in the Punjab state of India. It is the home of the Golden Temple.
Answer: Amritsar
[10] Finally, name the sacred text of Sikhism, which was compiled by the guru Arjun in the early seventeenth century. It holds the teachings of the first six gurus.
Answer: Adi Granth or Guru Granth Sahib
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