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2000 National Scholastics Championship

Question Set 4

RTB 10 (line drawing)

2000 PACE National Scholastics Championship

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Team Captains’ Signatures below

Category Quiz Bonus Topics: Round 4

American History: The Presidents of the United States of America

Biological Science: The Differences Between the Sexes

Current Events: From the West Coast

Fine Arts: The Real World

Geography: The Environment

Mathematics: Counting the Days

Popular Culture: That’s Entertainment?

Social Sciences: Quotations

World History: It’s not easy being Green….

World Literature: Anyone Want to Write Trivia?

Category Quiz Bonus Topics: Round 4

American History: The Presidents of the United States of America

Biological Science: The Differences Between the Sexes

Current Events: From the West Coast

Fine Arts: The Real World

Geography: The Environment

Mathematics: Counting the Days

Popular Culture: That’s Entertainment?

Social Sciences: Quotations

World History: It’s not easy being Green….

World Literature: Anyone Want to Write Trivia?

Opening Round: Related Tossup-Bonus Section

1. (Darren) Undersecretary of the department of finance, a senior member at the organizing conference of the European Recovery Program in 1947, and a vice-chairman of the executive committee of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation from 1948-49, he did not receive world recognition until he became secretary-general of the United Nations on April 7, 1953. For ten points, name this Swede who posthumously won the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize following his death in an airplane crash en route to Zaire.

ANSWER: Dag Hammarskjöld

RELATED BONUS: Given the name of the secretary-generals of the United Nations, name the country of their birth for ten points each.

a. Javier Perez de Cuellar ANSWER: Peru (Lima)

b. Trygvie Lie ANSWER: Norway (Oslo)

2. (Samer) It was created in 1971, and beginning in June 1999, saw a 220% increase, the most dramatic rise in value in history. For ten points, name this market run by the National Association of Stock Dealers.

ANSWER: National Association of Stock Dealers Automated Quotations

RELATED BONUS. As shown in the last few weeks, even NASDAQ fell prey to that old law that what goes up must come down. For 10 points each:

a. A 2 kilogram object is launched vertically with a kinetic energy of 200 Joules. Assuming gravity is 10 meters per second squared, and there is no air resistance, how high will it travel? You have 10 seconds.

ANSWER: 10 m [U = mgh; 200 J = (2 kg)(10 m/s2)(h); h = 200/20 = 10 m]

b. This imaginary “line” marks the distance at which a black hole can pull material “down”, and prevent its escape.

ANSWER: event horizon

3. As the name from the original language implies, it’s simply a preparation of “herdsman’s meat,” which is dried in the sun and packed into bags made of sheep’s stomachs for storage. Then when it’s time to eat, the mixture is reconstituted in water and eaten as a soup. For ten points, name this culinary dish usually served with paprika, known as the traditional stew of Hungary.

ANSWER: goulash (gulyas)

RELATED BONUS: Food, glorious food! Identify these international foods for ten points each.

a. The endosperm of Durum wheat can be cooked to make this wheat-based pasta common in North African dishes.

ANSWER: Couscous

b. If an Italian offers you some agnello, what meat would you be eating?

ANSWER: Lamb (Mutton) [derived from the Latin agnes, meaning lamb]

4. Upon returning from a 1610 trip to Europe, this scholar published in 1619 an English translation of the works of Thucydides in which he warns his countrymen about the dangers of a democratic society. For ten points, name this philosopher who believed that the role of government is to ensure the safety of the people, ruled by a sovreign acting on behalf of his people as part of a “social contract.”

ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes

RELATED BONUS: John Calvin came before Thomas Hobbes. Answer these questions for ten points each.

a. Calvin describes in detail his interpretation of predestination in what treatise originally written in 1536?

ANSWER: Institutes of the Christian Religion

b. Calvin described in a commentary that this short Old Testament prophetic book “is a partly historical and partly didactic” though many people see the part where the title character stays in the belly of a large fish a bit fantastic.

ANSWER: Jonah

5. In this work, "The councilors of kings are so wise that they need no advice from others or at least so it seems to themselves," says Raphael (a sailor and world traveler) to the author and a friend. For ten points, name this novel replete with social and political commentary about a perfect society as written by Sir Thomas More.

ANSWER: Utopia

RELATED BONUS: Given a nearby location, name the utopian community developed there for ten points each.

a. George Ripley’s utopia on a 175-acre parcel of land in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

ANSWER: Brook Farm

b. A spin-off of Brook Farm, this community first settled near Putney, Vermont, before moving to western New York.

ANSWER Oneida Community

6. Divided into seven types, tests have shown that these devices only lose about 17% of the light it collects. Consequently, a light beam can be easily transmitted as far as 20 miles away. For ten points, name this type of lens commonly used in lighthouses, consisting of concentric circular glass prisms.

ANSWER: Fresnel (“Fruh nell”) lens

RELATED BONUS: Identify these lighthouses or their locations for ten points each.

a. In 1996, this lighthouse on the eastern tip of Long Island celebrated its bicentennial.

ANSWER: Montauk (Point)

b. Built in the Cape Cod style, the old Point Loma lighthouse is the centerpiece of the Cabrillo National Monument and overlooks this major California city.

ANSWER: San Diego

7. Designed by Edmund Beckett Denison, its bell was cast by George Mears and traveled for its installation in St. Stephen’s Tower by a 16-horsedrawn wagon. For ten points, what is the popular name for this famous tower clock in London?

ANSWER: “Big Ben”

RELATED BONUS: Name these questions regarding Ben Jonson, for ten points each.

a. In one poem written to her, he asks, “Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine.”

ANSWER: Celia

b. In an epigram to this contemporary of his, he lauds this writer as “the delight of Phoebus and each Muse.”

ANSWER: John Donne

8. The tenor instrument is tuned to B-flat though a coil can be used to change the pitch to F. For ten points, name this brass instrument with a characteristic slide.

ANSWER: Trombone (accept sackbut or posaune)

RELATED BONUS: The trombone is an underrated instrument that someone has written a book transcribing popular music songs into works for solo trombone. For ten points each, given the song, provide the appropriate answer.

a. You too can play “Close to You” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose”, written by this composer who made a cameo appearance in the original Austin Powers movie.

ANSWER: Burt Bacharach

b. You can also practice the melody to this Monica song in which the title character came into the singer’s life as if he were sent from above.

ANSWER: “Angel of Mine”

9. “Oh what is this that knows the road I came?” finishes the epitaph on his gravesite on the top of a hill in Glendale, California. The author of the book trilogy The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (1947) about a ruthless industrialist, for ten points, name this American writer and advocate of the naturalism movement, known for his tragic stories Jennie Gerhardt and Sister Carrie.

ANSWER: Theodore Dreiser

RELATED BONUS: Dreiser based An American Tragedy (1926) on the transcripts of a real murder trial, which occurred in 1906. For ten points each:

a. In reality, this anti-hero was based on the similarly-initialed Chester Gillette.

ANSWER: Clyde Griffiths

b. David Waltham was the governor in the Dreiser book, analogous to this politician who served as the governor of New York at the time of the Gillette trial.

ANSWER: Charles Evans Hughes

10. Examples of this class of organic compounds include adrenaline, tyrosine, and methyl salicylate, and low concentration aqueous solutions are generally used as antiseptics, as first used by Joseph Lister. For ten points, name this group of compounds containing a hydroxyl group bonded to an aromatic ring.

ANSWER: Phenol(s)

HANDOUT RELATED BONUS: Given the functional group formula, identify the class of organic compound.

a. [To the terminal carbon atom is attached a hydrogen atom and a double-bonded oxygen atom.]

ANSWER: Aldehyde

b. [To the terminal carbon atom is attached a double-bonded oxygen atom and a hydroxyl group.]

ANSWER: Organic acid

ENCLOSE HANDOUT!!!

Allow substitutions if any. THEN distribute handout with Category Quiz topics.

Handout for Opening Round Bonus 10

Handout for Opening Round Bonus 10

Category Quiz

1. Once secretly married to James Debarge, she was involved in a second marriage with Rene Elizondo which lasted 13 years in secret. For ten points, name this co-star of the upcoming The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps who is known as the talented Jackson sister.

ANSWER: Janet Jackson (early prompt on “Jackson”)

2. Even though he is the title character, he doesn’t play a major role in the course of the novel, only figuring out at the very end that a switch between two babies had occurred at birth such that a black child had a gentleman’s education and conversely. For ten points, name this eccentric lawyer who specialized in studying fingerprints in a “tragic” book by Mark Twain.

ANSWER: David “Puddin’head” Wilson

3. For ten points: what are the three real roots of the following cubic equation: 3 x cubed minus 12 x squared plus 12 x equals zero (3x3 – 12 x2 + 12 x = 0) ? You have 30 seconds.

ANSWERS: 0, +2, +2 (“2 with multiplicity of 2” is acceptable: MUST SAY +2 TWICE)

4. In Japan, this fish of genus Gadus is known as tara, though it is smaller than its Atlantic Ocean cousin – a dark-spotted fish with three dorsal fins, two anal fins, and a chin barbel. For ten points, name this fish of vital economic importance in the northern Atlantic, desired not only as a food source but as a source of oil from its liver.

ANSWER: Cod

5. These items can be classified using the Modified Zurich System in the letter range A to H, while their “activity” (as determined by Wolf) is proportional to 10 times the number of groups plus the number of members per group. For ten points, name these concentrated areas of magnetic flux that result in a vortex of gas on the photosphere of the Sun.

ANSWER: Sunspot(s)

6. This principle from economics is important in considering the factors that affect the economy in treating “other things being equal.” For ten points, what two-word Latin phrase names this concept?

ANSWER: ceteris paribus

7. He was the youngest son of Eurydice and Amyntas III. When his brother died in battle against the Illyrians in 359 B.C., he rose to the throne. He proceeded to conquer Paeonia and Thessaly despite Demosthenes's warnings against him. For ten points name this Macedonian king and father of Alexander.

Answer: Philip II of Macedon

8. He was raised on a reservation by his mother Linda where he learns his ideals from the Combined Works of Shakespeare. Linda was exiled when it was found out she was pregnant because the offspring would have been to embarrassing for the father, a Director of Hatcheries and conditioning. For ten points, name this man who declares his right to be unhappy to Mustapha Mond in Brave New World.

Answer: John the Savage

Allow substitutions if any before beginning the Stretch Round.

Category Quiz Bonuses

American History: The Presidents of the United States of America

(Berkeley) Because a new president usually takes office on March 4, and because that year it fell on a Sunday, the 12th president of the United States was not actually Zachary Taylor, but rather – for fifteen points - what Missouri senator and president pro tempore of the Senate?

ANSWER: David Rice Atchinson

Biological Science: The Differences Between the Sexes

In men, this hormone promotes the development of testosterone-producing Leydig cells. For fifteen points, what gonadotropin is released in mature women following ovulation that aids in the development of the corpus luteum?

ANSWER: Luteinizing Hormone (LH) or Interstitial Cell Stimulating Hormone (ICSH)

Current Events: From the West Coast

Appearing off the Pacific coast of Mexico this week is – for fifteen points – what first tropical storm of the season in the Pacific?

ANSWER: Aletta

Fine Arts: The Real World

(UCLA) This style was the integration of everyday life and actions into artistic works, and introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful. For fifteen points, what Italian word describes this “realistic” genre of opera?

Answer: verismo

Geography: The Environment

This 1987 treaty restricted the atmospheric emissions of chlorofluorocarbons in 24 nations. For fifteen points, name this Protocol named after the city in which it was signed.

ANSWER: Montreal Protocol

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Mathematics: Counting the Days

For fifteen points, using the current calendar system, how many leap days occur between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 3000? You have 30 seconds.

ANSWER: 243

[NOTE: In each century there are 24 leap days, plus leap years occur in 2000, 2400, and 2800.]

Popular Culture: That’s Entertainment?

Scott Farrell and Steve Albert commentate as Challengers take on Warriors named The Sleepwalker, Jake Fury, and T-Money. For fifteen points, name this quasi-wrestling/athetic entertainment program headed by “The Chairman.”

ANSWER: Battle Dome

Social Sciences: Quotations

“In each state there are three sorts of powers: legislative power, executive power over the things depending on the right of nations, and executive power over the things depending on civil right.” This quotation is taken from – for fifteen points – what influential treatise by Charles de Montesquieu?

ANSWER: L’Esprit des Lois or The Spirit of Laws

World History: It’s not easy being Green….

(UCLA) A Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, he organized a municipal bank in Birmingham while serving as its mayor. After serving as Chancellor for the Exchequer, he assumed the British Prime Ministry in 1937. For fifteen points, name this man who spoke with Hitler on three separate occasions, while trying to adhere to a policy of appeasement.

Answer: Neville Chamberlain

World Literature: Anyone Want to Write Trivia?

His interest in “street literature” is apparent in his 1716 long poem “Trivia: Or, the Act of Walking the Streets of London.” For fifteen points, name this poet whose friend Jonathan Swift suggested he write The Beggar’s Opera.

ANSWER: John Gay

Stretch Round: Unrelated Tossups and Bonuses

1. President Kennedy establishes The Peace Corps, the Presidential Commission on the status of women, and the President’s Council. President Johnson makes equal employment opportunity a policy for hiring within the federal government. And President Truman desegregates the armed forces. For ten points, what instrument was used by these Presidents to enact all these policies without the consent and approval of Congress?

ANSWER: Executive Order(s)

BONUS: Expand the following acronyms used in telecommunications for ten points each.

a. ISP ANSWER: Internet Service Provider

b. PCS ANSWER: Personal Communication Service(s)

c. DSL ANSWER: Digital Subscriber Line

2. There will be live coverage of a joint venture between Chinese and Taiwanese navigators as they climb this mountain. For ten points, name this mountain for which people finally reached the top of this mountain also known as Godwin-Austen.

ANSWER: K2 (accept early “Godwin-Austen”)

BONUS: Name these James Baldwin works, 10 points each.

a. The Nov. 17, 1962 issue of The New Yorker was devoted almost entirely to an article on the civil rights movement and the Nation of Islam; it later was published as this book.

ANSWER: The Fire Next Time

b. His first novel, published in 1953, was this semi-autobiographical work.

ANSWER: Go Tell It on the Mountain

c. In this 1965 play, the husband of Sister Margaret Alexander, the leader of a Harlem congregation, comes home to die.

ANSWER: The Amen Corner

3. Famous sufferers of this condition include Samuel Johnson, and, ironically enough, Marc Summers, the former host of Double Dare. For ten points, name this condition marked by persistent thoughts that lead to anxiety, and rituals designed to relieve that anxiety, abbreviated OCD.

ANSWER: obsessive-compulsive disorder or neurosis [accept OCD on early buzz]

BONUS: Answer these questions on business acquisitions in the news.

a. For $11.6 billion, the world’s largest airline is buying out this rival airline, precipitating concerns about potential anti-trust violations. For ten points, name both airlines involved in this purchase.

ANSWERS: United Airlines and U.S. Airlines

b. The European Community has concerns over this proposed $115 billion merger of these two telecommunications firms. For ten points, name both corporations.

ANSWER: [MCI] WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corporation

c. At the Microsoft hearings, it was argued that America Online’s recent $4.2 billion acquisition of this Silicon Valley corporation would not result in an effective competitor to Microsoft.

ANSWER: Netscape Communications

4. Various characters in this book include boyfriend Buddy Willard, a traditionally-minded medical student; Dr. Gordon, who recommends electroshock therapy; and Dr. Nolan, a much more analytical psychiatrist. For ten points, name this book that centers around protagonist Esther Greenwood, a college junior whose struggle with depression reflects a similar struggle by that novel’s creator Sylvia Plath.

ANSWER: The Bell Jar

BONUS: The great literary work Catch-22 by Joseph Heller coined three phrases relating to the theme of three types of vision: the “never seen,” the “almost seen,” and the “already seen.” For ten points each, what two-word phrases taken from French did Heller use to encapsulate these types of vision?

ANSWERS: Jamais vu (never seen), Presque vu (almost seen), and Déjà vu (already seen)

5. (WH UCLA) The name's the same. One was a respected old man who was offered the throne, initially refused, accepted, appointed Florianus as Praetorian Prefect and thus held off an invasion but died after only one year. The other lived roughly 150 years earlier and chronicled the early days of the Roman Empire. For ten points, give this name shared by the successor of Aurelian and the author of the Annals.

Answer: Tacitus

BONUS: 30-20-10. Name the scientist.

[30] The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies was created in 1940 to allow him to pursue his research. His 1944 book What Is Life? prompted Francis Crick to abandon physics for molecular biology.

[20] When he saw the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, for which his results laid the foundation, he said “I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I had anything to do with it.”

[10] He is perhaps most famous for his thought experiment involving, to paraphrase one writer, “the superposition of two probability waves, one of live cat and one of dead cat.”

ANSWER: Erwin Schrödinger

6. This football great succumbed to primary sclerosing cholangitis, a disease that results in the destruction of the bile ducts, while awaiting a liver transplant. For ten points, name this running back nicknamed “Sweetness.”

ANSWER: Walter Payton

(FA modified Berkeley) BONUS: Russian music tends to be very nationalistic. Identify the Russian composers of the following works for 10 points each.

a. The Russian Easter Festival Overture, written the same year as his symphonic suite Scheherazade (1888).

ANSWER: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

b. His Second Symphony in C minor is nicknamed the “Little Russian” symphony.

ANSWER: Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

c. His second symphony (1943) was written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union, though his first symphony reflected more his Armenian heritage.

ANSWER: Aram Khachaturian

7. From sundown May 22-23, adherents of this religion commemorate the Declaration of the Bab, the founder of a sister religion. For ten points, name this religion of faith founded in Iran.

ANSWER: Baha’I Faith (accept early “Babi Faith”)

BONUS: Identify these terms from matrix algebra for ten points each.

a. This operation is performed on a matrix such that the resulting first row corresponds to the elements comprising the original first column, and similarly for the other rows and columns.

ANSWER: Transpose (Transposition)

b. This adjective describes matrices that have no inverse matrix associated with it; that is, the determinant is zero.

ANSWER: Singular

c. The solution of simultaneous equations represented as an augmented matrix can be written as an expression of a quotient of two determinants for each variable sought. This is a paraphrased version of who’s rule?

ANSWER: Cramer’s Rule

8. It was completed in AD 82 by Domitian. Measuring 190 meters across at its widest point, it was originally called the Flavian Amphitheatre. For ten points, name this Roman monument which allegedly hosted such attractions as “Lions v. Christians.”

ANSWER: Colosseum of Rome [accept Flavian Amphitheatre on early buzz]

BONUS: Name the Catholic sacraments from clues for ten points each.

a. It is the ceremonial re-enactment of the Last Supper.

ANSWER: Holy Eucharist

b. Priests give this rite to a dying person.

ANSWER: Extreme Unction (Accept Last Rites or Anointing of the Sick)

c. This sacrament is given to those who would become priests.

ANSWER: Ordination or Holy Orders

9. St. Peter, St. Edmund, St. John, St. Hilda, St. Anne, St. Catherine, Magdelen, Jesus, Lincoln, Lady Margaret Hall, Harris Manchester, Nullfield, Corpus Christi, Balliol, Merton, and Oriel Colleges must first admit you before you are affiliated with this institution of higher learning. For ten points, name this institution on the Upper River Thames, one of the most prestigious British universities other than Cambridge.

ANSWER: University of Oxford

BONUS: 1999 marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the California gold rush.

a. [15] James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill on the South Fork of-- for 15 points-- what California river?

ANSWER: American River

b. [10] For 10 points -- what President’s December 5, 1848 message to Congress stated that gold had been found in California?

ANSWER: James K. Polk

c. [5] And for 5 – what capital city of California was incorporated in 1850?

ANSWER: Sacramento

10. One can only choose six possible sizes, the largest of which was a mere 6.5 by 8.5 inches, and you had to see the image from a certain angle because of the mirror-like surface on the plate. For ten points, name this process involving copper plates coated with polished silver reacting to iodine fumes to create the first practical technique of making photographs.

ANSWER: Daguerrotype (prompt on “photograph” or “photography”)

BONUS: Name these characters in the book A Tale of Two Cities.

a. A prisoner for 18 years in the Bastille on false charges, his release and reunion with daughter Lucie begins the work.

ANSWER: Dr. Manette (prompt on “the Doctor”)

b. This solicitor of a long-established London firm (Tellson & Company) is a friend of the Manettes.

ANSWER: Mr. Lorry

c. Keeping Madame Defarge of learning of the escape of the Manettes, this servant struggles with her, and goes deaf when Madame Defarge’s pistol discharges.

ANSWER: Miss/Mademoiselle Pross

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