TOSSUPS – ROUND N
TOSSUPS – ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia with fellow Floridians Michael Napier and Michael Swick; Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat; UTC’s Nick Bradshaw, and your genial quizmaster, Charlie Steinhice.
1. Of the original 122 vessels, the majority returned safely; four were lost in the North Sea, two were lost after a fireship dispersed the fleet off Calais, and nearly three dozen foundered while rounding Scotland. Led by the duke of Medina Sidonia, it was supposed to function as a landing force in combination with the Duke of Parma’s fleet, but bad weather and other delays led to its failure. FTP, name this fleet which, in 1588, was sent by Philip II to invade England.
Answer: the Spanish Armada
2. Early ones, such as “Lamento” from Monteverdi’s L’Arianne, were typically composed in ternary form, and later varieties include the agitata and cantabile. Famous ones include Ponchielli’s “Cielo e mar” from La Gioconda, Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” from Turandot, and Leoncavallo’s “Vesti La Giubba” from Pagliacci. FTP, give this term for a self-contained song within an opera, deriving its name from an Italian word meaning “style” or “air.”
Answer: aria
3. The final score of this game was 6-0. Mike Goldberg handled the play by play and the opposing coaches were NFL Hall of Famers Lawrence Taylor and Eric Dickerson. Gwendolyn Osbourne scored the winning points for Team Dream while Team Euphoria, quarterbacked by Angie Everhart was generally considered offensively helpless. FTP, name this 2004 football game appearing live on pay per view during the halftime of the Super Bowl.
Answer: Lingerie Bowl 2004
4. This hydrocarbon is often made today through the Monsanto process, in which methanol reacts with carbon monoxide. Useful in making films and textiles, it is a weak acid, and its pure form is referred to as “glacial.” With formula CH3 COOH, name, FTP, this common acid which is responsible for the taste and smell of vinegar.
Answer: acetic or ethanoic acid (prompt on “vinegar”)
5. His early works include the poems “Arcades,” “On Shakespeare,” and “Comus, A Mask,” while his late work Samson Agonistes is one of several to deal with blindness. He defended free speech in Areopagitica, and he contrasted mirth and melancholy in “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso.” His best-known work seeks to “justify the ways of God to men” and describes “Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden Tree.” FTP, name this author of Paradise Lost.
Answer: John Milton
6. Members of this religious group fall into four classes: novices, formed scholastics, formed coadjutors, and the professed. Early members of the group included Peter Faber and Francis Xavier, and the group was formally approved by Paul III in 1540. Known for their missionary work and rigorous educational standards, the group is often thought of as a “teaching order.” FTP, name this Christian group founded by Ignatius Loyola.
Answer: the Jesuits or Society of Jesus
7. This 1963 novel involves Benny Profane, a hunter of alligators in New York's sewers. Herbert Stencil is looking for the character, whom he found in his father's notebooks. This character has been present at every significant event in Europe from 1890 to 1945. FTP, name this Thomas Pynchon novel, with a brief title that has nothing to do with the number 5. Answer: V
8. Its most common form is actually seen when it is divided by 2 pi and renamed Dirac's constant, symbolized as the letter with a bar through the top of it. Its units are of Joules seconds. Found in the Dirac equation, the Schrodinger equation, and the equation relating frequency of an electromagnetic wave to its energy, this is FTP what constant symbolized by an h, and named for the 1918 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics.
Answer: Planck's constant
9. One source claims that his death in Argos was by a tile thrown by an old woman from a rooftop. He lost to the Romans in 275 BC at Beneventum, but earlier he had conquered Sicily and Macedonia. His two most famous wins were at Heraclea and Asculum, where he suffered enormous casualties despite winning. FTP, name this ancient king of Epirus whose name lends itself to a very costly victory.
Answer: Pyrrhus (be exceptionally kind and prompt on “Pyrrhic”)
10. The person who beat University of Florida quizbowl star Kevin Comer on Jeopardy! donated much of his winnings to rebels in this nation. Its city of Trincomalee is a popular tourist site on the coast, but the Jaffna Peninsula has many land mines left over from the civil war. This island is connected to mainland Asia by Adam’s Bridge, a series of shoals in the Palk Strait, and this site of an uprising by the Tamil Tigers was long known as Ceylon. FTP, name this island nation with capital at Colombo, located just off the coast of India.
Answer: Sri Lanka (accept Ceylon early)
11. He was called the last person to know everything there is to know. A contemporary of Descartes and Spinoza, he often kept correspondence with them and many other influential thinkers. Most of his philosophy was written in these letters, with no real major works published in his lifetime. It is this correspondence that actually got him in trouble with the Royal Society, after Newton accused him of plagiarism. FTP name this German thinker, also credited with developing calculus.
Answer: G. W. Leibniz
12. Being the son of an officer in Napoleon’s army led this man to write about such things as the defense of freedom and a cult of an idealized Napoleon. A member of the Petit Cenacle and Academie Francaise, this man was the author of such works as Cromwell, Lui, and Hernani. However, he is more known for two works, one of which was made into an animated Disney Movie, and the other into a musical. FTP name this French Romantic writer of such works as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.
Answer: Victor Hugo
13. Linus Pauling discovered the molecular abnormality that causes this disease. It cannot be cured; the most common treatment is hydroxyurea therapy, which raises the proportion of hemoglobin in relation to other cells, preventing the circulatory problems the disease usually gives rise after it alters the shape of affected red blood cells. FTP, name this circulatory disorder most common in populations of African descent.
Answer: Sickle cell anemia or disease
14. Some of his notable paintings, including El Jaleo, are in Boston’s Gardner Museum, while works like Portrait of Dorothy Bernard and Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose are in the Tate Gallery. An American expatriate, his portraits reflect the influence of Impressionism, including his famous portrait of the wife of Pierre Gautreau. FTP, name this American painter of Madame X.
Answer: John Singer Sargent
15. This Boston native served as a Seaman Second Class in the US Navy during Word War II; one of his jobs after the war was as a staff attorney to a family friend, Sen. Joe McCarthy. Most agree he was transformed by his first serious exposure to poverty, while campaigning for his brother in West Virginia in 1960. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1964 from New York, but was unable to finish his term. US Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, FTP name this man assassinated in June 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President, a younger brother of the thirty-fifth president.
Answer: Robert (or Bobby) Kennedy
16. In A.D. 870, one of its creators was deposed by a synod at Ratisbon and was called to Rome for using the Slavonic Liturgy. Its two creators were brothers from Thessalonika who in the 860s were sent as missionaries to the Dneiper-Volga region and Moravia. To translate the Bible into native tongues, they created an alphabet still in use today in various forms. FTP, name this alphabet deriving from the work of Methodius and his brother, the primary alphabet in which Russian is written.
Answer: Cyrillic (accept Glagolitic; Cyrillic was later derived from it)
17. Deriving its name from the Latin for chalk, it was first proposed by J.B. d’Halloy in 1822. Dinosaurs during the age included the pterosaur and triceratops, while a major transition of lifeforms towards their modern characteristics, took place, including the emergence of placental mammals and marsupials. Following the Jurassic Period, FTP, name this third geological period of the Mesozoic.
Answer: Cretaceous Period
18. This technically continues, approaching its 54th year, as no peace treaty has been signed yet. In an emergency session, by a vote of four to none with one abstention, the UN Security Council resolved to intervene. The fighting stopped when an armistice was signed on June 27, 1953, retaining the original border of 38 degrees North longitude. FTP name this “Forgotten War” immortalized in the movie and long-running television series M*A*S*H.
Answer: Korean War or Korean Conflict
19. Characters include Citizen, Cissy Caffrey, J.J. O’Molloy, Haines, and Buck Mulligan, as well as a schoolteacher who has returned from Paris and an ad canvasser with an unusual fondness for kidney. Featuring one day in the life of Blazes Boylan, Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Leopold Bloom, this is, FTP, what James Joyce novel named for the protagonist of The Odyssey?
Answer: Ulysses
20. They are divided into 15 minute long segments, each given a value between 1 and 6, with 6 being the most invigorating. Developed in 1922 by a military officer as a way of transmitting music through electrical wires, it became popular in the 1930's after it was found to boost productivity in factories. Recent studies have shown that this actually has calming physiological effects. FTP name this kind of music, played in dentist offices and elevators.
Answer: Muzak
21. The Trans-Siberian Railroad is completed. Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities is published. The Olympics are held in St. Louis. Major fires strike Baltimore and Toronto. France and England establish the Entente Cordiale. Japanese forces strike Port Arthur. Incumbent Teddy Roosevelt is re-elected to the presidency over Alton Parker. FTP, all of these events occurred in what year, which was exactly five-score years ago?
Answer: 1904
22. Sir John Franklin and his men first played this game in 1825, but it originated earlier. Thomas Halliburton reported playing the game around 1798 in Windsor using hurley equipment, and games in the Halifax-Dartmouth area began to lengthen the hurley stick and the blade. FTP, name this sport in which the ball began to be replaced by a puck in the 1860s.
Answer: hockey or ice hockey (do not accept “field hockey”)
23. While at the University of Indiana, he invented the Air-Crib, a germ free container that he put forth as the optimal environment for infants. He formulated the principals of programmed learned while teaching animals complex tasks, such as teaching pigeons to play table tennis. FTP, name this author of Beyond Freedom and Dignity, and Walden Two, a leading proponent of behaviorism.
Answer: B.F. Skinner
BONI – ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia with fellow Floridians Michael Napier and Michael Swick; Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat; UTC’s Nick Bradshaw, and your genial quizmaster, Charlie Steinhice.
1. You may want to use pencil and paper for this problem. Answer the following F15P each, and ignore friction. You have 15 seconds per part.
A. A wagon has a mass of 4 kilograms. A box is placed on the wagon, and a 60-newton force then pulls the wagon forward. If the wagon accelerates at 6 meters per second squared, then what is the mass of the box, in kilograms?
Answer: 6 kilograms
B. A 12-kilogram box is placed on a 4-kilogram wagon, and a force is applied to the wagon. If the wagon accelerates at 5 meters per second squared, then, in newtons, what is the magnitude of the applied force?
Answer: 80 newtons
2. Name these William Faulkner novels, FTP each:
A. It is narrated by Benjy, Caddy, Quentin, and Jason Compson, and its title is drawn from Macbeth.
Answer: The Sound and the Fury
B. In it, Thomas Sutpen arrives in Jefferson in 1833 and sets out to build Sutpen’s Hundred; other characters include Ellen, Henry, and Captain John Sartoris.
Answer: Absalom, Absalom!
C. The Bundren family journeys to Jefferson to bury Addie; among the 15 narrators are Darl, Vardaman, and Jewel.
Answer: As I Lay Dying
3. Name these former Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, FTP each:
A. Holding the office from 1977-87 was this Massachusetts representative, known for the motto “All politics is local.”
Answer: Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill
B. Possibly the most powerful of all the Speakers was this Illinois congressman who held the office from 1903-11.
Answer: Joseph G. Cannon
C. This Georgian immediately preceded the current Speaker, Dennis Hastert.
Answer: Newt Gingrich
4. FTPE, given the form Zeus took and the offspring they produced, name these women from Zeus’s little black book:
a) a swan; Helen
Answer: Leda
b) a shower of gold; Perseus
Answer: Danae
c) her husband Amphitryon; Heracles
Answer: Alcmene
[EDITOR’S NOTE: We would say more about Zeus and Danae, but there are JV teams here today.]
5. Name these Spanish painters F10P each:
A. The Black paintings from late in his life include Saturn Devouring His Children, and his earlier cheerful works include The Third of May, 1808.
Answer: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
B. This Catalan painter often painted amoeba-like forms, and he did two large ceramic murals for the UNESCO building in Paris in the late fifties.
Answer: Joan Miró [“ho-AHN mih-ROH”]
C. This surrealist’s reputation was helped as much by his flair for self-promotion as by works such as Sacrament of the Last Supper and The Persistence of Memory.
Answer: Salvador Dali
6. In Dec. 1982 the Cal Bears won a memorable game 25-20, thanks to what’s now called simply “The Play,” FTPE:
A. Name the local rival of Cal which lost the game on the desperation five-lateral kickoff return.
Answer: Stanford
B. This quarterback, who went on to win 2 Super Bowls and lose 3, led a last-minute drive to get Stanford a 20-19 lead. Answer: John Elway
C. In the end zone, Kevin Moen ran over Gary Tyrrell, who played this instrument in the Stanford band.
Answer: trombone
7. Name the modern nation which serves as the primary setting of these 20th-century literary works, FTP each; if you need the author, you’ll get 5.
A. 10 -- The Thief and the Dogs, Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street
5 – Naguib Mahfouz
Answer: Egypt
B. 10 – Confessions of a Mask, The Sound of Waves, and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
5 – Yukio Mishima
Answer: Japan
C. 10 – Burgher’s Daughter, The Conservationist, and the short story collection Six Feet of the Country.
5 – Nadine Gordimer
Answer: South Africa
8. F10P each, answer the following about a certain gas law:
A. It combines three different gas laws relating pressure, temperature, and volume into a single law stating PV = kT, or the product of pressure and volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature. It doesn’t apply when temperatures and/or pressures approach the point where the gas condenses to a liquid.
Answer: ideal gas law
B. Named for a Dutch guy, this equation replaces V with the quantity V minus nb in the ideal gas law, and it replaces P with the quantity P + a times n squared over V squared.
Answer: van der Waals equation
C. In the equation, the constant a accounts for attractive forces. For what does the constant b account, in the term V minus n times b ?
Answer: particle size or particle volume or molecule size or molecule volume (accept variants, including “atom volume”)
9. For ten points each, identify the dictator from clues.
a. He was a History teacher, before leading the Khmer Rouge overthrow of the Cambodian government and killing millions of Cambodians in his attempt to create a communist Utopia
Answer: Pol Pot
b. This Georgian son of a cobbler attended church run schools, briefly served as a clerk for the Tiflis Observatory and edited the newspaper Pravda, before he became part of the Russian Revolution. Later he ruthlessly seized power through force and assassination, and killed millions of his own people.
Answer: Joseph Stalin
c. Holding power for eight bloody years after a 1971 coup, this ruthless former military officer preferred being called “His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor [blank], VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."
Answer: Idi Amin Dada
10. Name these big U.S. lakes, FTP each:
A. New Orleans is on the southern shore of this large lake.
Answer: Lake Pontchartrain [“pont-char-train” or mumbled variants thereof]
B. This clear lake on the California-Nevada border is the site of over a dozen ski resorts, and Carson City is nearby.
Answer: Lake Tahoe
C. Larger than Lake Tahoe, this “sea” in the southern California desert is actually a lake created in 1905 by water escaping irrigation canals.
Answer: the Salton Sea
11. Given some events, identify that Crusade, FTP each:
A. Three rulers, Frederick I, King Philip of France, and King Richard of England, embarked on this crusade, but Frederick drowned.
Answer: Third Crusade
B. Godfrey and friends breached the walls of Jerusalem in 1099 and stayed for a while, and the Crusaders beat the Fatimids at Ascolon.
Answer: First Crusade
C. The crusaders were sidetracked in Venice, racked up huge debts, and sacked Constantinople in 1204 as a result.
Answer: Fourth Crusade
12. Identify these digestive tract parts which you presumably don’t have, FTP each:
A. Named for an Italian guy, these tubules are the part of an insect’s intestinal system that absorbs waste products from the body cavity.
Answer: Malpighian tubules [“mal-PEE-ghee-an”, but accept “mal-FEE-ghee-an”]
B. This muscular second stomach chamber of birds can actually pulverize walnuts, with help from small pebbles the bird eats.
Answer: gizzard
C. The end of the line in bird digestion, this is a small chamber where bird poop and bird pee-pee accumulate before being dumped.
Answer: cloaca
13. Answer the following about the poems of Walt Whitman FTPE:
A. This most famous Whitman collection first sold on July 4, 1855.
Answer: Leaves of Grass
B. A large portion of Leaves of Grass consists of this poem, in which Whitman sounds his “barbaric yawp” over the rooftops of the world.
Answer: Song of Myself
C. Set on a vessel Whitman frequently traveled, this poem begins, “Flood tide below me! I see you face to face!”
Answer: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
14. How much do you know about dinosaurs? Given members of an influential classic rock group, name the band FTPE.
10) Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richard or Richards, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman
Answer: The Rolling Stones
10) Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry, John Entwhistle, and Keith Moon
Answer: The Who
10) Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce
Answer: Cream
15. Give these architectural terms for external structures, FTP each:
A. A slender, lofty tower with balconies, attached to a Muslim mosque; the Blue Mosque of Istanbul has 6 of them.
Answer: minarets
B. In a Gothic cathedral, an arch which transfers the thrust of a vault to a lower support.
Answer: flying buttress
C. A structure attached to a building which consists of a roof supported by piers or columns; notable ones are seen on Monticello and the Pantheon.
Answer: portico (prompt on “porch”)
16. Name these American generals and admirals who fought in the Pacific theatre in World War II, FTP each:
A. Nicknamed “Bull,” this aggressive admiral and advocate of aircraft carriers led the retaking of the Solomons and later commanded the Third Fleet.
Answer: William Frederick “Bull” Halsey, Jr.
B. Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the war, he directed the capture of the Gilbert Islands and Iwo Jima, among others.
Answer: Chester William Nimitz
C. Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific, he left Bataan with the famous words, “I shall return,” and he did.
Answer: Douglas MacArthur
17. Answer the following about circuits, FTSNOP:
A. F5P, for current passing through a resistance, this law has the simple form V = IR or E = IR.
Answer: Ohm’s Law
B. FTP, this circuit element stores charge, and mica is often placed between its parallel plates to increase its rating in microfarads.
Answer: capacitor or condensor
C. F15P, although electrons in a wire move very quickly, their net motion down the wire is very slow under an applied potential. Give the term for this velocity, which is usually around 10 micrometers per second.
Answer: drift speed or drift velocity
18. FTPE identify the programming language:
(10) Developed mainly by Bill Joy and James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, using features from C++ and Smalltalk, this object-oriented language was widely hyped for its ability to create platform-independent applications. It is currently rivaled by Microsoft’s .net (dot-net) platform.
Answer: Java
(10) Edsger Djikstra (DIKS-tra) said: “"The use of [this language] cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." Created in 1957, it is still used in commercial data processing. Every program must contain the four identification, environment, data, and procedure divisions.
Answer: COBOL
(10) Most notably used in the construction of Google, this language was developed in the early 1990s in the Netherlands. Among its features is the extensive significance of whitespace, and it is often used as a scripting alternative to Perl. Contrary to what one might think, it’s named not for a genus of reptiles but for a British comedy troupe.
Answer: Python
19. Answer these questions about collections of tales, FTSNOP:
A. F5P, name the author of the Canterbury Tales.
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
B. FTP, the Canterbury Tales was inspired in part by this 1348 Giovanni Boccaccio collection of 100 tales.
Answer: the Decameron
C. F15P, a work in the same vein is this 16th-century collection of tales by Margaret of Navarre. Unlike Boccaccio’s work, it takes place primarily over 7 days instead of 10.
Answer: the Heptameron
20. Answer the following about an eastern religion, FTP each:
A. Founded by Nanak in the early 16th century in Punjab, this religion rejects pilgrimage, fasting, and the caste system.
Answer: Sikhism
B. Nanak and nine successors were known by this title, the tenth one being Gobind Singh.
Answer: Guru
C. Compiled in 1603 by Guru Arjan, this collection of holy scriptures of the Sikhs took the place of the guru after Gobind Singh.
Answer: Adi Granth or Guru Granth Sahib
21. Answer the following about a South American nation, FTP each:
A. This nation had two emperors in the 1800s, Pedro I and Pedro II, both of whom were from the Braganza family.
Answer: Brazil
B. After gaining power in a 1930 coup, this man tried to establish the Estado Novo in Brazil. He served as president until deposed in a 1945 coup.
Answer: Getulio Vargas
C. In the 1950s, Oscar Niemeyer designed what city which serves as the current capital of Brazil?
Answer: Brasilia
22. Put these five events in order from earliest to latest for five points each with a five point bonus for all correct.
1. Shay’s Rebellion, 2. Whiskey Rebellion, 3. writing of the Articles of Confederation, 4. Constitutional Convention, 5. Beginning of George Washington’s second term as president.
Answer: 3, 1, 4, 2, 5 (Articles, Shay, Constitution, Whiskey, Washington)
TOSSUPS – ROUND 2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with Macon State’s Travis Lightsey, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and your genial quizmaster
1. This well-traveled writer lived in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, and the U.S., but never Szechuan or the Caucasus. In the 1920s, he helped pioneer the concept of “epic theatre” intended to alienate the audience and create critical detachment. For ten points, name this German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer who wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage and Her Children and (with Kurt Weill) The Threepenny Opera.
Answer: Bertolt Brecht
2. This kingdom gained independence in 1956 from France. Last year, the entire country celebrated the birth of a prince by King Mohamed VI. Its annexation of part of the Western Sahara still remains unsolved, and a bicameral legislature was finally established in 1997. FTP name this African country called Al-Magreb in its own language, home to such cities as Tangier, Marrakech and Casablanca.
Answer: Morocco
3. After World War II, returning to his homeland after nearly three decades elsewhere, he declared a Democratic Republic and fought the French for nine years before winning independence for its northern half. When the U.S.-backed government to the south reneged on a promise to hold a 1956 referendum, he developed an independent guerrilla force there, the Viet Cong, which fought to give him control of both halves. FTP name this man, for whom was renamed the former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon.
Answer: Ho Chi Minh (accept Nguyen That Thanh)
4. Russell has one in set theory, and the ship of Theseus is one about personal identity. The solution to Olber's is that the universe must be finite in size and expanding. The EPR one named after three scientists play a big role in quantum mechanics and Einstein had another famous one involving twins traveling at high speeds. FTP these are all what type of problems, mostly associated with Xeno.
Answer: Paradoxes
5. After World War I he experimented with short waves, ad then microwaves in the 1930’s. By the age of twenty-one, using homemade equipment, this graduate of the University of Bologna had already begun developing his most famous invention, in recognition of which he (along with Karl Ferdinand Braun) won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. FTP name this Italian electrical engineer, inventor of the first practical radio-signaling system.
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi
6. He fought in the battle of Marathon in 490 BC and is said to have been a spectator at the battle of Salamis 10 years later. He wrote "The Persians," "The Libation Bearers," and "The Eumenides." FTP name the Athenian playwright, author of "Seven Against Thebes" and "Prometheus Bound."
Answer: Aeschylus
7. They lived in large unitary dwellings, and believed in total equality for men and women.. They had four key principles: Christian Communism, Confession, Separation from the World, and Virgin Purity, the last of which was heavily stressed as all members abstained from sex. Two communities in Maine and New Hampshire still exist today. FTP name this religious sect, known for trembling ecstatically during religious worship.
Answer: Shakers (do not accept Quakers)
8. Only Georgia attempted serious enforcement of this law, while the House of Burgesses passed four resolutions against it. Repealed in early 1766 due to the concerns of British merchants, Parliament reasserted its authority to tax the colonies at the same time with the Declaratory Act. FTP, name this 1765 tax, the first direct taxation of the colonies by the British Parliament.
Answer: Stamp Act
9. The nuclei of these atoms are heavily used in physics research because they can be easily accelerated by cyclotrons and used as “atomic bullets” to transform an atom of one element into another element. First discovered in 1932 by American chemist Harold Urey, these atoms are essential components of nuclear fusion weapons. For ten points, name this stable, nonradioactive isotope with atomic weight 2.01363.
Answer: Deuterium (prompt on “Hydrogen” before “1932”)
10. Recent studies have found that this can govern the stock market fluctuations. In a recent book by Martin Livio, he determines that the Babylonians did not know about it, but the Egyptians may have, especially when looking at the construction of the pyramids. The most exact form of it is the solution to the equation x squared minus x minus 1 equals 0. FTP name this ratio discovered by the Pythagoreans and thought to be the most aesthetic ratio.
Answer: The Golden Ratio (accept reasonable equivalents)
11. She currently teaches at Princeton. Her acclaimed first novel The Bluest Eye was followed by such works as Sula, Paradise, and Song of Solomon. Four of her books have been Oprah's Book Club books, more than any other author, but don’t let that sway your opinion, as she also has the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. FTP name this African-American author of Beloved.
Answer: Toni Morrison
12. This painting was inspired by a poem by Angelo Poliziano and commissioned by the Medici. Zephyrus, the west wind, is depicted blowing from the upper left corner. On the right, a woman holds a cloak billowing in the wind. In the center, the titular character stands in the modest pudica pose. FTP, name Sandro Botticelli’s painting of a naked woman on a cockle shell.
Answer: The Birth of Venus
13. Starting in 1969 as a staffer in the Nixon administration, he was promoted under Ford to Assistant White House Chief of Staff. When he returned home to Wyoming in 1977, he decided to run for Congress, landing a seat in the House and becoming Minority Whip in 1988. One year later, he became Secretary of Defense and stayed there until Clinton took office and he went to Halliburton. FTP name this current Vice President.
Answer: Dick Cheney
14. In 1905, Albert Einstein arrived at a mathematical explanation of this phenomenon, integrating it into kinetic theory. In a quantitative study this phenomenon, Jean Baptiste Perrin made an early estimate of Avogadro's number. For 10 points, identify this constant movement of tiny particles suspended in liquid or gas, discovered in 1827 when a British biologist observed the motion of pollen in water.
Answer: Brownian Motion
15. Ginger Lynn Allen appeared in the third episode as a character that she plays in her other “acting” career, Amber Synn. In an unaired episode, a scandal involving a PAC funding the re-election of Thomas Roam would have implicated Larry Goldman, who had the show’s best-known line; “HIS FATHER’S THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY!” FTP, name this short-lived 2003 Fox series about the forbidden romance of two teenagers, the children of a warring D.A. and a porn czar.
Answer: Skin
16. She survives a typhoid outbreak but loses her friend Helen to the disease. During the next ten years at the charity school, she develops her artistic talent while gaining fluency in French. When her favorite teacher, Miss Temple, leaves Lowood School to marry, she decides to take a position as a governess to Adele Varens at Thornfield Hall. FTP, name this Charlotte Bronte heroine who falls in love with Mr. Rochester.
Answer: Jane Eyre
17. A ruler from 1456-1462, as well as two other times, he was the descendent of Basarab the Great, a 14th century prince who founded the state of Wallachia. His father was among a number of princes whom the Holy Roman Emperor initiated into the Order of the Dragon to defend Christianity and battle the Muslim Ottoman Turks, thus giving this man the nickname “son of the dragon.” FTP, name this ruler who is considered the model for Dracula.
Answer: Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepesch or Vlad Dracul [prompt on early buzz w/ Dracula]
18. Cholangitis, Mirizzi's Syndrome , and cholecystitis all affect this organ. Its inner wall consists of mucous membrane tissue which functions to absorb water and inorganic salts and can be stimulated by the vagus nerve, causing it to discharge into the duodenum through the common duct. The cystic duct serves as an intake from the liver, while the hepatic duct transfers bile from the liver for storage. FTP, name this pear shaped organ, which is usually removed when troubled with the formation of namesake stones.
Answer: Gallbladder
19. He’s not Calvin Coolidge, but his own father, a judge, swore him in on January 8th 2004. Before being elected to office, he owned a small wine shop, but when he entered politics, he led the largest reform of homelessness policy in state history. He justified his actions of February 2004 by saying, "At the end of the day I sleep well, and in life there is nothing more important than that". FTP name this man who allowed gay marriages as mayor of San Francisco.
Answer: Gary Newsom
20. Its title is actually a misnomer, since it is a symphonic poem, not an instrumental prelude to an opera. The composer described it only as "very loud and noisy". It contains elements of the French National Anthem, a Russian peasants’ song, and pieces of works by earlier composers. Premiering in 1882, it was written to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Russian defeat of Napoleon. FTP name this work featuring cannons, composed by Peter Tchaikovsky.
Answer: 1812 Overture (or Overture in E Flat Major Op. 49)
21. Its inventor served two years in prison and later in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Based on the Czech M25, it was introduced in 1951 and immediately was accepted because of its compactness, ease of assembly, and resistance to dust. It was removed from front line use because of limited range in the 1980’s and its tendency to fire when dropped still disturbs users. FTP, name this submachine gun, currently being phased out of use by the Israeli Defense Force.
Answer: Uzi
22. He promised an honest administration, but his Secretary of War, William Belknap was the first Cabinet official ever impeached. His Secretary of the Treasury, Benjamin Bristow, broke up the scandalous Whiskey Ring, but he unfairly forced Bristow to resign from the Cabinet. His Vice President, Schuyler Colfax, was implicated in the Credit Mobilier scandal. FTP name this man, who despite successes as a Union general failed as the 18th President of the United States.
Answer: Ulysses Simpson Grant
BONI – ROUND 2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with Macon State’s Travis Lightsey, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and your genial quizmaster
1. Answer these questions about books by Nathaniel Hawthorne FTP each.
(10) This novel begins with Hester Prynne’s release from prison and follows her husband Roger Chillingsworth’s attempt to seek revenge for her betrayal.
Answer: The Scarlet Letter
(10) Hawthorne first released this collection of short stories with an alliterative name in 1837.
Answer: Twice Told Tales
(10) This Hawthorne novel is based on a story from his own family line and tells of the Pyncheons.
Answer: The House of the Seven Gables
2. Answer the following related biology questions FTPE:
This is the current name given to the picture accepted by scientists as the best way to represent the membrane of a cell.
Answer: Fluid mosaic model
These small organelles are used in protein synthesis and can be found free, or bound to the endoplasmic reticulum.
Answer: Ribosomes
Also called "suicide sacks" are these enzyme containing vesicles which digest small particles in the cell.
Answer: Lysosomes
3. Name these Chinese political leaders from their description FTPE.
(10) This early leader of the Guomindang was the first president of the provisional government appointed after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
Answer: Sun Yat-sen
(10) This last leader of the Republic of China moved the Guomindang to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists on the mainland.
Answer: Chang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jieshi)
(10) This first communist leader ruled China from 1949 until his death in 1976.
Answer: Mao Zedong
4. How well do you know your National Parks? I'll describe a park and you tell me what it is FTP each.
(10) Established in 1899 and located in Washington, this park’s namesake feature is known to Native Americans as Tahoma or "The Great Mountain".
Answer: Mt. Rainier National Park
(10) The easternmost National Park is this island park near Maine’s border with Canada.
Answer: Acadia National Park
(10) Near Moab, Utah, this park’s namesake features include the Broken, Delicate, and Double O. Stay on the trails to avoid disturbing the cryptobiotic crust, a living surface layer which prevents the scarce soil from wind erosion.
Answer: Arches National Park
5. Given a late night talk show, name the show's bandleader, for ten points each.
a. "The Late Show with David Letterman"
Answer: Paul Shaffer
b. "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"
Answer: Kevin Eubanks
c. "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
Answer: Max Weinberg
6. Given the philosophic concept, tell who quite literally wrote the book on it, or at least books titled by it FTPE:
Politics
Answer: Aristotle
The Social Contract
Answer: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Utilitarianism
Answer: John Stuart Mill
7. For ten points apiece answer the following questions about Union Generals during the Civil War.
a. He was twice named the commander of Union forces in the east, and twice removed. In 1864 he ran against Lincoln for the Presidency.
Answer: George B. McClellan
b. He replaced McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac in 1862, but is remembered less for his incompetence than for his distinctive facial hair.
Answer: Ambrose Burnside
c. He replaced Burnside in command of the Army of the Potomac after the Battle of Fredericksburg. He held that position until five days before the Battle of Gettysburg, when Lincoln replaced him with George Meade.
Answer: Joseph Hooker
8. Identify the things determined or discovered by these experiments FTPE:
Using a torsion balance, and two large spheres, Cavendish determined this:
Answer: Universal Gravitational constant
Sir James Chadwick used a source of radiation, some paraffin wax and a magnetic field to detect these subatomic particles.
Answer: Neutrons
Rather than detect the ether, Michelson and Morley actually used their interferometer and light sources to set the experimental basis for this theory.
Answer: Special relativity [prompt on relativity or Einstein’s relativity, etc.]
9. 5, 10, 15, given the list of works, name the Russian author of them.
For 5, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
For 10, The Black Monk, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard
Answer: Anton Chekhov
For 15, My Childhood, The Lower Depths, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
Answer: Maksim Gorky
10. Pencil and paper ready for a math question. 15 seconds per part. Let 3y = 2x + 5
For 15 points, give the equation of a parallel line to this passing thru the point (1,1)
Answer: y = 2/3x + 1/3
For a further 15 points, give the equation of a perpendicular line passing thru (1,1)
Answer: y = (-3/2)x + 5/2
11. For ten points each,
a. Name the island of Napoleon’s birth…
Answer: Corsica.
b. Name the island of his death…
Answer: St. Helena.
c. Name the first island to which he was exiled.
Answer: Elba.
12. Know your world religions? Tell me what religion I'm describing FTP each.
This religion holds that Black people are the true Jews and view Ethiopian king Haile Selassie as a deity. Proponents included Marcus Garvey and Bob Marley; key practices include wearing dreadlocks and smoking marijuana to obtain spiritual enlightenment.
Answer: Rastafarianism
Meaning "the way of the Gods", this Japanese religion is centered around divine beings called Kami, and has two main shrines located in Ise which are dismantled and rebuilt every 21 years.
Answer: Shintoism
Founded in the 19th century by Persian mystic Mirza Ali Muhammad, it preaches the unity of all world religions.
Answer: Baha’i
13. Name the Verdi work from a short clue FTPE:
10. The title character is a hunchbacked court jester.
Answer: Rigoletto
10. This opera about a dying courtesan is based on Alexandre Dumas’s hit novel Camille.
Answer: La Traviata
10. An Egyptian woman and her boyfriend are entombed together and die happily ever after.
Answer: Aida
14. Identify the author of the following roomy 20th century works for 10 points each.
a. A Room of One’s Own and Mrs. Dalloway
Answer: Virginia Woolf
b. A Room With a View and Howard’s End
Answer: E. M. Forster
b. Giovanni’s Room and Go Tell It On the Mountain
Answer: James Baldwin
15. Given Alfred Hitchcock movies, name the blonde female lead F5PE or 30 if you get them all.
Psycho
Answer: Janet Leigh
Vertigo
Answer: Kim Novak
Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, and To Catch a Thief
Answer: Grace Kelly
Marni and The Birds
Answer: Tippi Hedren
Notorious and Spellbound
Answer: Ingrid Bergman
16. FTPE, answer the following about a civil rights group:
It was founded officially at Shaw University, but it was triggered when black students from North Carolina A&T refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service.
Answer: Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee or SNCC or ”snick”
This future NAACP chairman was communications director of SNCC from 1961 to 1965 before election to the Georgia legislature. Though only 28 and thus ineligible, he was nominated for Vice President at the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Answer: Julian Bond
He became SNCC chair in 1966, but his advocacy of “black power” led to dissent within the ranks. He later emigrated to Guinea and changed this name to Kwame Touré.
Answer: Stokely Carmichael
17. For ten points each, identify these moons.
A. With an orbit of around 6 Earth-days, it always faces the same side of the planet around which it rotates, Pluto.
Answer: Charon
B. The only one of Uranus' five largest satellites relatively untouched by geological upheaval, it was named after a "dusky, melancholy sprite."
Answer: Umbriel
C. The innermost Galilean satellite, best known for its violent volcanic eruptions, it has a radius and density almost identical to that of Earth's moon.
Answer: Io
18. For each anion named, give the formula for 5 points and its charge for another 5 points.
Nitrate
Answer: N O3 ; minus (or negative) 1
Perchlorate
Answer: Cl O4 ; minus (or negative) 1
Sulfite
Answer: S O3 ; minus (or negative) 2
19. Name the characters from William Golding’s "Lord of the Flies" given a description, FTSNOP.
(5) The novel’s protagonist, he is elected president of the boys
Answer: Ralph
(5) The novel’s antagonist, he represents the savage instinct present in humans
Answer: Jack
(10) He is the only naturally good character, whose goodness is not imposed on him by society
Answer: Simon
(10) Jack’s lieutenant, this sadistic character is responsible for the murder of Piggy
Answer: Roger
20. FTPE, identify the author of the given work on economics.
(10) Wealth of Nations
Answer: Adam Smith
(10) The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Answer: John Keynes
(10) Theory of the Leisure Class
Answer: Thorstein Veblen
21. Identify the Caribbean nation from clues FTSNOP.
(10) This largest Caribbean island nation currently exports no products to the U.S. due to an embargo in effect since 1961.
Answer: Cuba
(10) This nation consisting of two islands is the southernmost in the Caribbean.
Answer: Trinidad and Tobago
(10) This nation on the South American mainland is the largest to border the Caribbean.
Answer: Guyana
22. Identify the poet from poems on a 30-20-10 basis.
30 - "The Passionate Pilgrim"
20 - "Venus and Adonis"
10 - "The Rape of Lucrece"
Answer: William Shakespeare
TOSSUPS – ROUND 3 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by North Greenville College’s James Washick with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick and South Carolina’s Joe Stanton
1. Charlotte Lucas marries Mr. Collins to escape spinsterhood and poverty. Georgiana nearly marries a man with amoral character—the same rake who later weds with the high-spirited Lydia. Jane pines for and eventually marries Mr. Bingley. Lady Catherine DeBurgh intends for her nephew, Mr. Darcy, to marry her own daughter, but he prefers the charms of Elizabeth Bennet. FTP, name this novel of marital intrigue by Jane Austen.
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
2. Sexual reproduction involves separate male and female individuals that release their gametes into the seawater. All 7,000 species are marine and are divided into six classes including Ophiuroidea (Oh-FEE-Roy-Dea) and Asteroidia and unique to this phylum is the water vascular system, a network of hydraulic canals branching into tube feet extensions that function in locomotion, feeding, and gas exchange. FTP, identify this phylum of animals whose name means “spiny skin,” and which includes sea daisies, sand dollars, and starfish.
Answer: Echinodermata (echinoderms)
3. Her upcoming roles include playing Samantha McKenzie in First Daughter and reportedly a major role in the fifth Batman film. In her first film audition, she won a role in The Ice Storm and has since gone on to appear in Wonder Boys, Phone Booth and The Gift. In Teaching Mrs. Tingle, she again worked with Kevin Williamson, having become a star on the show he created. FTP, name this actress perhaps best known as Joey Potter on “Dawson’s Creek.”
Answer: Katie Holmes
4. A graduate of West Point, he joined the Union army as a second lieutenant and distinguished himself during Bull Run and the Peninsular Campaign; moving swiftly through the ranks, by age 23, he was made brigadier general of volunteers. After the war he sought to command the Mexican cavalry under Juarez but was instead assigned to the 7th Cavalry Regiment to fight the Cheyenne and the Sioux. For 10 points, who is this war hero whose early demise came at Little Big Horn?
Answer: George Armstrong Custer
5. The first modern study of them was by Czech physiologist Johannes Purkinje who developed a system of classification for them, though in the late 19th century Sir Francis Galton created a new classification system which serves as the basis for the current model. The Bengal, India police under Sir Edward Henry were the first to use them to identify criminals, eventually replacing the Bertillon system of body measurements. FTP, name these uniquely identifying characteristics formed by ridges in the epidermis.
Answer: Fingerprint (accept: Fingerprinting)
6. After the title character and the chief peer Naimon are refused permission to go, Ganelon – the hero’s stepfather – is sent as messenger and hostage to the enemy. Seeking revenge, Ganelon becomes a traitor and plots with the Saracen Marsilion to attack the rear guard where his stepson will be placed. The stepson, along with Oliver and the Archbishop Turpin, fights valiantly, but by refusing to blow the horn to call for help, effectively dooms his force. FTP, this describes what French epic poem set in the time of Charlemagne.
Answer: The Song of Roland or Chanson de Roland
7. The native army was pulled away from this site because of the invasion of Harold Hardrada and Tostig on the northern coast, near Stamford Bridge. The English forces set up battle standards five miles away from the battlefield, then marched to meet Norman archers. Most of the Saxon aristocracy was killed, as was Harold the Second. FTP, name this pivotal October 1066 battle in which William the Conqueror…well, conquered.
Answer: Hastings
8. Pencil and Paper ready. Provide all possible solutions. FTP, within 10 seconds, given the equation (x2 – 2x – y = 24), solve for x where y=0.
Answer: x = 6 and x = -4
9. The second youngest of four kids, when he is last seen he has already died in a train accident, though he appears with six other kings and queens on the other side of the stable door. His first appearance is less impressive, as he is in a bad mood as he searches the rooms in Professor Kirke’s home with his brother and two sisters. Having entered the wardrobe after Lucy, he is deceived by the White Witch and is responsible for Aslan’s death. FTP, name this reformed traitor from The Chronicles of Narnia.
Answer: Edmund Pevensie
10. In regard to this, Albert Einstein said, “The universe is not governed by chance, God does not play dice.” It was formulated in 1927 by a German physicist who bears its name, and it was of great importance in the development of quantum mechanics. For ten points, name this theory stating that it is impossible to specify simultaneously the position and momentum of a particle, such as an electron, with precision.
Answer: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
11. Named for the daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the Marquess of Lorne, early explorers of the area which now comprises this province include Henry Kelsey and Anthony Henday, both of the Hudson Bay Company. It now contains five national parks – Wood Buffalo, Elk Island, Waterton Lakes, Jasper, and Banff National Parks – and is home to the annual Buffalo Days Powwow, Klondike Days, and Calgary Exposition and Stampede. FTP, name this Canadian province.
Answer: Alberta
12. In this novel, Tubs Casper uses the money he raises to buy a bracelet for his girlfriend Rita; students dance around wildly when Brother Jacques says “environment”; Roland Goubert dismantles the desks in Brother Eugene’s room; and students buy raffle tickets to direct who will throw what punch in a boxing ring. The most important act in the story, however, is by the one student who dares to disturb the universe. FTP, name this Robert Cormier novel about Jerry Renault’s refusal to take part in a school fundraiser.
Answer: The Chocolate War
13. In some mythology he was exiled by the god of night, while in others he left willingly on a raft of snakes. In addition to being the god of learning, of writing, and of books, he was the patron of the Aztec priests, associated with the morning star, and closely associated with the rain god Tlaloc. FTP, name the major Mesoamerican deity best known as the feathered serpent.
Answer: Quetzalcoatl
14. This group includes all ionic compounds that are soluble in water and some covalent compounds with hydrogen that form ions by reaction with water. In the body they are important because the cells use them to maintain voltages across cell membranes and carry electrical impulses to other cells. In exercise or during illness they can be lost through sweat or dehydration, so they must be replenished. FTP, name these substances often used in promoting such drinks as Pedialyte.
Answer: Electrolytes
15. Five men have held this position since 1958, the beginning of the Fifth Republic; four of the five were members of center-right parties. The only one to be defeated for reelection was Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who lost to Francois Mitterand in 1981. Others to hold this post include Georges Pompidou and Charles de Gaulle. FTP, name this position, currently held by Jacques Chirac.
Answer: President of France
16. Their most famous member was supposedly found masturbating in public, and when reproached for it, answered that he wished he could assuage his hunger by rubbing his belly. They developed no theories in metaphysics, epistemology, or philosophy of language, and preferred to use diatribes and satires to win converts. FTP, name this philosophical system founded by Antisthenes, whose most famous member was Diogenes, who rejected social norms for the satisfactions of basic physical needs.
Answer: Cynics
17. Based upon a novella byProsper Merimee, it was first performed in Paris in 1875. A 1954 film adaptation of this work starred Dorothy Dandridge, while a 2001 hip hop version featured Beyonce Knowles in the title role. Set in 1820s Seville and focuses upon the relationship between a Basque soldier and a gypsy. Although Don José rejects Michaela for a gypsy cigarette girl, his jealousy causes him to murder his new love when she eventually abandons him for a bullfighter. FTP, this plot describes what famous opera by George Bizet?
Answer: Carmen
18. Before the Cassini orbiter was cancelled, part of its mission was to study this moon. Approximately 3200 miles in diameter, it was first discovered by Christiann Huygens in 1655. Its atmosphere – about 60% thicker than the Earth’s – is composed largely of nitrogen, methane, ethane, and acetylene, making it the only satellite with a substantial atmosphere. FTP, name this largest moon of Saturn.
Answer: Titan
19. His only non-fiction novel, News of a Kidnapping, chronicles the capture of journalists by the FARC, a revolutionary group in his native country. His most recent novel Living to Tell the Tale, is the first in a planned trilogy. His fictional town of Macondo first appeared in Leaf Storm, but is more famous for appearing along with the Buendia family in this man’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. FTP name this 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature whose reputation was recently tarnished by being an author of an Oprah's Book Club book.
Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez [prompt on just Garcia or Marquez]
20. Formed in Oakland, CA, this group first attracted attention in 1967 by protesting a bill which outlawed carrying a loaded weapon in public. By the mid-1970s, under the leadership of Elaine Browne, they emphasized community service programs, but they began as a more revolutionary group under the leadership of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. FTP, name this militant African-American organization.
Answer: Black Panthers or the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
21. The first corporate example was created for Highland Spring bottled water. British Airways has one. So do the Suffolk County Police, the Devon Rural Skills Trust, Australia, and the state of Georgia. Balmoral is reserved for the British royal family’s use, but otherwise there are no regulations on the manufacture or wear of any particular pattern. Created by arranging the warp and weft threads at right angles in identical repeating color sequences, what are, FTP, these presumably Scottish textiles?
Answer: tartans or plaids
22. Henry Goddard, who worked at the Vineland Training School for Feebleminded Boys and Girls in New Jersey, coined this term to describe immigrants entering the United States whose intelligence scores were well below average. Coming from the Greek word for foolish, the term was then used as a psychological classification for a person with mild mental retardation having a mental age of 7 to 12 years old. FTP, name this five-letter word, no longer used as a classification for mental abilities, which is defined as “a stupid person” or a “dolt.”
Answer: Moron
23. They became so popular in Rome that they lost their original significance and turned into events designed to enhance the popularity of politicians by their size or lavishness. The tradition came from Etruria, where brave individuals included them in their funeral rites. FTP name this practice which often pitted the Myrmillo (Mur-MILL-oh) against the Retiarius (Ret-ee-ARE-ee-us) or the Samnis.
Answer: Gladiatorial Games (accept equivalents)
BONI – ROUND 3 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
1. Many of the Kings and Queens of England have shared names with their predecessors, so that we end up with two Elizabeths or six Georges. Considering the line of succession to the British throne, give the appropriate number following the name if these people should ascend to the throne, 5-10-20-30.
a) Charles, oldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.
Answer: III or Third
b) Henry, Charles’ younger son
Answer: IX or Ninth
c) William, Charles’ oldest son
Answer: V or Fifth
d) Edward, youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II
Answer: IX or Ninth
2. Given a description name the character from a Dickens novel, FTPE.
a) The orphaned son of Agnes Fleming, he is born in a workhouse, apprenticed to an undertaker, and taken in by a gang of thieves before coming under the care of Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Maylie.
Answer: Oliver Twist
b) A French aristocrat, he renounces his title, marries Lucy Manette, and settles in England before being imprisoned upon returning to France, though his life is spared from the guillotine by a lawyer who looks like him.
Answer: Charles Darnay from A Tale of Two Cities (prompt on St. Evrémonde)
c) Daughter of a murderess named Molly and a convict named Magwitch, she is adopted by a rich eccentric lady who encourages her to treat Pip with disdain before she marries another man.
Answer: Estella Havisham or Estella from Great Expectations
3. Answer the following about a particular composer FTPE:
10) Initially impressed with Napoleon, he originally dedicated his Third Symphony to him, but he soon became disenchanted and retitled it “Eroica.” He made his shift in sentiments almost as clear with his Opus 91, “Wellington’s Victory” or “The Battle of Victoria” Ludwig van Beethoven
10) His only opera, it was almost given the name of its heroine. Leonora.
Answer: Fidelio
10) Beethoven ended this symphony with a chorale movement with text from a Schiller poem often called “Ode to Joy”.
Answer: Symphony #9 or Ninth Symphony
4. FTPE, name the chemical element that appears on the periodic table between two other elements. You will receive only five points if you need the chemical’s symbol.
a-10) Between Boron and Nitrogen
5) C
Answer: Carbon
b-10) Between Nickel and Zinc
5) Cu
Answer: Copper
c-10) Between Sulfur and Argon
5) Cl
Answer: Chlorine
5. Given an example of an arithmetic rule, identify it FTP each
(10) a+b = b+a
Answer: Commutative
(10) a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c
Answer: Associative
(10) a + 0 = a
Answer: Identity
6. Name the food 30-20-10-5:
30) Invented by James Dewar, their name was adapted from a name on a shoe factory sign.
20) Lawyer Douglas Schmidt blamed them as part of his defense for Dan White who had killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.
10) Tests conducted by students at Rice upon this product included a Rapid Oxidation Test, a Turing Test and a Gravitational Response test.
5) Dewar, then manager of Continental Bakeries’ Chicago factory, saw the product as a way to use the company’s thousands of shortcake pans.
Answer: Twinkies
7. Name the 20th century Canadian authors from works, FTPE.
a) Poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee”
Answer: Robert Service
b) Novels: Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon
Answer: L(ucy) M(aud) Montgomery
c) Novels: The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye
Answer: Margaret Atwood
8. Six secretaries of state have become president of the United States. For five points each I'll give you the name of the president under whom each secretary served and you name the secretary who later became president.
a) George Washington
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
b) Thomas Jefferson
Answer: James Madison
c) James Madison
Answer: James Monroe
d) James Monroe
Answer: John Quincy Adams
e) Andrew Jackson
Answer: Martin Van Buren
f) James K. Polk
Answer: James Buchanan
9. From a description, name the disease, FTPE:
a) Named by Jean Martin Charcot, this disease causes scarring and hardening of the motor neurons running down the spinal column, resulting in the wasting away of skeletal muscles. A 1920s and 30s baseball player is most closely associated with the disease.
Answer: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease
b) Marked by the tremors and increased stiffness of muscles, this disease is associated with a deficiency of dopamine in patients. Among those afflicted with the disease have been actor Michael J. Fox and Pope John Paul II.
Answer: Parkinson’s Disease
c) An autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its own central nervous system, gradually destroying myelin, its symptoms differ according to the damage to the nervous system. The disease is intermittent, symptom waxing and waning. Sufferers include former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello and talk show host Montel Williams.
Answer: Multiple Sclerosis or MS
10. Identify these individuals who first appear in the Book of Acts in the Bible, FTPE:
a) Chapter 9 recounts the conversion on the road to Damascus of this former persecutor of the church who will be credited with writing many of the letters of the New Testament, including those to the Roman and the Corinthian churches.
Answer: Paul or Saul of Tarsus
b) In Chapter 6, he is described as among the first seven deacons, but one chapter later he is stoned to death, becoming the first Christian martyr.
Answer: Stephen
c) In Chapter 8 he offers money to Peter so that he might be given the power of the Holy Spirit, leading his name to be used to describe the buying or selling of spiritual things.
Answer: Simon Magus
11. The films of Oliver Stone and other conspiracy theorists aside, sometimes a lone gunman really is responsible for an assassination. FTPE, name the following people generally believed to have be responsible for an assassination:
a) This gunman, eventually killed by Jack Ruby, was accused of killing John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963.
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
b) Though some claim he had an accomplice, he was convicted of killing Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis.
Answer: James Earl Ray
c) He shot Robert Kennedy after a celebration of Kennedy’s win in the 1968 California primary.
Answer: Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
12. Given lines from a poem, name the poem FTPE. You will receive five if you need the author.
a-10) “This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it / Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?”
5) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Answer: “Evangeline”
b-10) “The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, / The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting”
5) Walt Whitman
Answer: “O Captain! My Captain!”
c-10) “Since then ‘tis centuries, and yet / Feels shorter than the day / I first surmised the horses’ heads / Were toward eternity.”
5) Emily Dickinson
Answer: “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” (accept #712)
13. From a brief description name the artist, FTPE:
a) This Barbizon artist’s best known works are of peasants working a fields, including The Gleaners.
Answer: Jean Francois Millet
b) Considered a master of portraiture, he did over 200 portraits including one of the wife of author Richard Sheridan and one entitled The Blue Boy.
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough
c) One of the greatest 20th century American realists, the loneliness and isolation can be felt in such works as People in the Sun and Nighthawks.
Answer: Edward Hopper
14. FTPE, name these things about black holes.
Any object with a radius smaller than this will collapse into a black hole.
Answer: Schwarzschild Radius
This physicist coined the term “black hole” in 1967.
Answer: John Wheeler
This is the infinitely dense center of the black hole.
Answer: Singularity
15. Given a monster who is killed, tell which Greek hero slew him or her, 5-10-20-30
a) Medusa
Answer: Perseus
b) Minotaur
Answer: Theseus
c) Chimera
Answer: Bellerophon
d) Hydra
Answer: Hercules
16. Name the following Russian/Soviet leaders from a description, FTPE:
a) A Nobel Prize winner known partly for his birthmark, he emphasized glasnost (openness) in media and culture and was the last leader of the USSR before the member states voted to dismantle the federation.
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
b) Coming to power in 1958, he is remembered for emphasizing the Soviet space program, approving the building of the Berlin Wall, sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, and memorably beating his shoe on a table at the UN.
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
c) General secretary of the Communist Party from 1964 till his death in 1982, he asserted his namesake doctrine to support the forcible suppression of dissent in the spring of 1968.
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev
17. Identify the following Oscar Wilde works, FTP each.
(10) Basil Hallward paints the title object, and the object, rather than the subject of it, begins to age.
Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
(10) It tells of the hanging of the murderer Charles Thomas Wooldridge and was written while Wilde himself was serving time.
Answer: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
(10) In this play, Jack and Algernon want to marry Cecily and Gwendolyn. Who both want to marry a man with a particular name.
Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest
18. Given terms of classification, identify each group as Kingdom, Phylum, Class, or Order, FTPE.
a) Nematoda, Mollusca, Chordata
Answer: Phylum
b) Primates, Rodentia, Carnivora,
Answer: Order
c) Gastropoda, Amphibia, Aves
Answer: Class
19. Name the album by U2 from songs, FTPE:
a) Where The Streets Have No Name, With Or Without You, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Answer: The Joshua TreeH
b) Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways, One
Answer: Achtung Baby
c) Walk On, Elevation, Beautiful Day
Answer: All That You Can’t Leave Behind
20. Millions will tour Italy every year, seeing the historic churches, the beautiful art, and the stunning architecture. Name the Italian cities in which you will see the following:
1. The Cathedral of Santa Maria with its dome designed by Brunelleschi; Michaelangelo’s David; the Piazza Santa Croce.
Answer: Florence
2. The Basilica of St. John, Lateran; the Trevi Fountain; Michaelangelo’s sculpture of Moses.
Answer: Rome
3. DaVinci’s Last Supper; Galleria Vitorio Emanuele II; La Scala Opera House
Answer: Milan
21. Answer the following questions about Hindu holidays, for ten points each.
[10] The origin of this holiday comes from the triumph of Vishnu over the demon king Hiranyakashipu and his daughter, although it is mostly associated today with colored powder.
Answer: Holi
[10] Held in August or September, generally in the northern part of India, participants rock a cradle during Janmashtami, which celebrates the birth of this cowherd and avatar of Vishnu.
Answer: Krishna
[10] During Navratri, Bengalis celebrate the defeat of the demon Mahishasura by this ten-armed goddess.
Answer: Durga (accept Kali)
TOSSUPS – ROUND 4 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by South Carolina’s Joe Stanton with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick, North Greenville College’sJames Washick, Missouri’s Jason Carl Mueller, macon State’s Vida Moultrie, and Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat,
1. Danglars, Mondego and Caderousse accuse him of being a Bonapartist. He is locked away in the Chateau D’If and is forgotten. The Abbe Faria accidentally digs to his cell and tells him of a huge fortune. When the Abbe dies, this man escapes, becomes rich, and has his revenge. FTP give either this man’s birth name, or his assumed title, which is also the title of the famous novel about him by Alexander Dumas.
Answer: Edmond Dantes, or the Count of Monte Cristo
2. This anthropologist believed that all aspects of human life were connected -- that is, you cannot separate food production from religion and ritual, or politics from childbearing and art. In New Lives for Old, she documented the effect of exposure to a wider world on the people of Manus Island, New Guinea, where she also researched children in primitive society. Her most famous work, however, deals with teenage girls in the title location. FTP, name this American anthropologist, author of the still-controversial Coming of Age in Samoa.
Answer: Margaret Mead
3. It depends on the geometry of the physical structure that is being measured and the dielectric constant of the material medium in which the object’s electric field exists. It is measured by putting an equal and opposite charge on two plates and measuring the potential between the two plates. FTP, name this quantity measured in farads.
Answer: Capacitance
4. It was first outlined in a speech made at the University of Michigan in 1964, and its creator called it “a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents”, among other things. Organizations created under it included Community Action Programs, Job Corps, and Head Start. FTP, name this program of urban renewal created by Lyndon B. Johnson.
Answer: Great Society
5. His family was formerly part of the southern aristocracy, but by his birth in 1878, they were close to being in poverty. He went to college when he was fourteen, and it was there that he became aware socialist philosophy, which influenced his work. He was sent by the editors of the socialist newspaper to study the workers of the stockyards and meatpacking plants. FTP, name this author who wrote a book about this experience in The Jungle.
Answer: Upton Sinclair
6. The original is in the collection of Wallace College in London. It shows a statue of a cherub looking down from the left side; under it, a man gazes scandalously at the center figure, who is kicking her shoes off. FTP, name this masterpiece of Rococo, which depicts a woman on the title object, the most famous painting of Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Answer: The Swing
7. One of his greatest stunts was getting his welfare check cashed on national TV. In 1998 alone he was shot in the back by a home intruder, had his Range Rover stolen, was kicked out of a Berlin hotel for "lewd behavior," and was charged in separate incidents with threatening a security guard, threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and stealing a pair of Nikes. Born Russell Tyrone Jones, he has performed as Dirt McGirt and Big Baby Jesus, and took his nickname from the fact that his half singing, half rapping style “had no father”. FTP, name this member of the Wu-Tang Clan, whose biggest hits include “Brooklyn Zoo” and “Got Your Money”.
Answer: Ol’ Dirty Bastard or ODB [accept McGirt, Big Baby Jesus, or Russell Jones before each is said]
8. One of the three non-degenerate shapes studied by Apollonius of Perga, it has the property that the distance between any point on it and two fixed points called the foci are constant. It can be formed by taking a right cone and intersecting it with a plane that is almost perpendicular to its axis. FTP, identify this conic section with standard equation x^2 / a^2 + y^2 / b^2 = 1.
Answer: Ellipse
9. Its parallel organization, the Bund Deustcher Madel, trained girls in physical and domestic tasks. The first stage was finished at about the age of 14, when boys where given a dagger inscribed with the words “Blood and Honor”. In 1936, due to poor attendance, participation was made mandatory and all competing organizations banned. Commanded by General Kurt Meyer, its members were used to defend Berlin from the Soviets in 1945. FTP, name this Nazi organization.
Answer: Hitler Youth or Hitler-jugend
10. In the seventh step, Succinate is converted to fumarate. It is also called the TCA cycle, and it begins with a pyruvate dehydrogenase condensate. Occuring in the mitochondria, it yields three molecules of NADH, and a high-energy phosphate bond that is readily transferred to ADP to form ATP. FTP, what is this cycle also known as the citric acid cycle?
Answer: Krebs cycle; accept citric acid cycle before it’s read
11. Patrick Stewart found that the famous speech in the third act was not a plea for common humanity, but a stone cold rationalization of revenge. The female protagonist has to marry the man who chooses the correct casket, which Bassanio does, having traveled to Belmont on the coin of Antonio, who in turn borrowed money from the title usurer with a pound of flesh as his collateral. FTP, name this play of Shakespeare, featuring Shylock.
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
12. It is cube-shaped one-room stone structure which is washed annually and covered with a dark silk cloth. Prior to the 7th century C.E., it was a pagan holy site and according to tradition, this shrine was built by Abraham and Ishmael using the foundations laid by Adam. During the first ten days of the last lunar month of the year, believers will circumambulate it seven times, those close enough to it kissing the Black Stone set in its structure. FTP, name this most sacred sanctuary of Islam.
Answer: Kaaba
13. It is relatively weak and easily disrupted, due for the fact that lower molecular-weight hydrocarbons are gases at room temperature. The more atoms are in a given hydrocarbon, the greater the sum of this attraction to another molecule of its kind. So as molecular weight increases, so does this, producing higher melting and boiling points. FTP, what is this molecular interaction of hydrocarbons, in which the electrons of one molecule are attracted to the nuclei of another?
Answer: Van der Waals attraction or force
14. The City University of New York’s College of Criminal Justice is named for this man who, as governor of New York, reformed the prison system, limiting the death penalty and abolishing flogging. Other notable accomplishments included hearing the landmark cases Chisolm v. Georgia and Glass v. Sloop, and working with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to negotiate the Treaty of Paris. FTP, name the first man to be confirmed as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Answer: John Jay
15. Born on March 12, 1922, this French-Canadian was educated at Columbia and was expelled from the Navy due to possessing a schizoid personality. He became a merchant seaman and eventually a vagabond. He wrote novels, including "The Town and the City," "Mexico City Blues" and "Dharma Bums." FTP name the author of "On the Road."
Answer: Jack Kerouac
16. One of only two men to be described as “God-Like” in the Iliad, he once rebuked a talking horse, Xanthus, for allowing his best friend to be killed. Following his most famous victory, he also defeated Memnon, Cycnus, and Penthelisia, but was later killed by Paris. FTP, name this greatest hero of the Iliad, killer of Hector, who as a child was dipped in the river Styx and made invincible…that is, except for his heel.
Answer: Achilles
17. At the age of four he began to study the piano, and when he was eight, he played at a private concert in Warsaw. Born in Poland in 1810, he lived in Paris from 1831 until his death shortly after a major war. The creator of 55 mazurkas, 13 polonaises, 24 preludes, and 4 ballads among others, this man is regarded by some as the greatest of all composers of music for the piano. For ten points, name this composer who had an intimate relationship with author George Sand, and whose works include “Fantaisie in F Minor,” “Sonata in B Minor,” and “Revolutionary Etude.”
Answer: Frédéric François Chopin
18. This city contains the oldest synagogue in Europe, and Tycho Brahe is buried here in the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. Mozart dedicated both the opera Don Giovanni and his Symphony #38 to this city, and much later it became the principal filming location for the movie Amadeus. Founded around 800 A.D. on the banks of the Vltava (vol-TA-va?) River, it was established by Charles IV as the seat of the Holy Roman Empire and now FTP, is what capital of Czechoslovakia?
Answer: Prague
19. Paper money was used, and a military class was created that ranked higher than any civil servant. The novel became popular as did Wood-cut and block-printing of art. During this dynasty, nautical exploration flourished, with the expeditions of Zheng He sailing the South Seas and the Indian Ocean. Founded by a Han peasant, and having a name meaning “brightly”, FTP, this is what Chinese dynasty that was followed by the Manchu?
Answer: Ming Dynasty
20. He was a Neopythagorean and a Platonist, and attempted to reconcile mystical notions such as Platonic solids and musical analogies with physics. Spread out through his voluminous calculations in Astronomia Nova, are laws in which he explained that the planets are held in orbit by the “motive soul”. FTP, name this Austrian astronomer who formulated his three laws of planetary motion.
Answer: Johannes Kepler
21. On September 9, 2003, voters in this state overwhelmingly rejected Republican Governor Bob Riley's plan to reform the state's regressive tax code. On November 13, 2003, the Court of Judiciary removed the Chief Justice of the state's Supreme Court for failing to obey a federal court order. FTP, name this state recently divided over whether the state courthouse should feature a monument of the Ten Commandments.
Answer: Alabama
22. The official website for it says that the design team included researchers and engineers from “major space and engineering companies” and that it “progressed on an amazingly rapid timescale”. So much for that, as it has failed to make contact with Earth since it was released from the Mars Express on December 19. FTP, name this doomed British Mars Rover, named for the ship Darwin sailed on.
Answer: Beagle 2
23. Until his death in 1940, Eugene Dubois continued to assert that Peking Man was fully human and believed that his discovery was the missing link between humans and apes. FTP name this discovery of Dubois, dug up in Indonesia, now known to be an early hominid.
Answer: Java Man or Homo erectus
BONI – ROUND 4 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by South Carolina’s Joe Stanton with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick, North Greenville College’sJames Washick, Missouri’s Jason Carl Mueller, macon State’s Vida Moultrie, and Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat,
1. Answer the following concerning the poet laureateship of Victorian England from clues FTPE.
a) Widely regarded as the definitive Victorian poet, this author of “Crossing the Bar” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was the longest-serving laureate.
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
b) This predecessor to Tennyson, whose poems included “Daffodils” and “To a Skylark,” originally declined the post due to his age but accepted as a favor to Robert Peel.
Answer: William Wordsworth
c) Before the post was offered to Tennyson, a much-favored candidate was this author of Sonnets from the Portuguese.
Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. Given a selection of works of modern art, name the artist, for ten points each.
[10] Brillo Boxes; The Last Supper Paintings; Marilyn Monroe
Answer: Andy Warhol
[10] Drowning Girl; Grrrrrrrr!; Blam!
Answer: Roy Lichtenstein
[10] Orange and Yellow; Orange and Tan; Red on Maroon
Answer: Mark Rothko
3. FTPE, name these neurotransmitters.
A shortage of this compound, affecting memory, attention, and problem solving, is thought to cause Parkinson’s disease.
Answer: Dopamine
Released from the adrenal glands, it is vital in the fight-or-flight response, raising heart rate and energy release from fat and muscles.
Answer: Norepinephrine
A potent vasoconstrictor based on the amino acid tryptophan, this neurotransmitter plays a key role in the biochemistry of depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety; that’s why inhibiting its breakdown is the objective of some antidepressants.
Answer: Serotonin
4. FTPE, name these communist dictators.
This Romanian president and his equally hated wife Elena were both executed in 1989 on Christmas Day. Ho ho ho.
Answer: Nicolae Ceausescu
This man ruled North Korea from 1948 to 1994, but failed to extend Communism to South Korea. He was succeeded by his insane son Kim Jong Il.
Answer: Kim Il Sung
Thanks largely to the ineptitude of the CIA in the late 50s and early 60s, this man remains the premier of Cuba.
Answer: Fidel Castro
5. Name these rappers turned actors F5PE, and the movie described that features them for another 5:
(5/5) He starred as Craig, the only person known to have been fired on his day off
Answer: Ice Cube/ Friday
(5/5) He plays Huggy Bear in a 2004 release, also starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
Answer: Snoop Doggy Dog/ Starsky & Hutch
(5/5) In this film if you can call it that, the rapper plays Blu, whose get-rich scheme involves stolen cell phones that all operate with the same number and same line.
Answer: Master P/I Got the Hook Up
6. Answer these questions about American diplomacy during the Cold War FTP each.
(10) This president announced his namesake doctrine of aid to countries fighting Communism in 1947, promising $400 million to Greece and Turkey.
Answer: Truman Doctrine
(10) This Secretary of State won the Nobel Peace Prize for his post-WWII program of massive aid to Europe.
Answer: George Marshall
(10) This French term was used to describe a thawing of tensions between the USSR and US in the 1970’s.
Answer: détente
7. Given quotes from a novel, name the novel 30-20-10-5
30) If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
20) The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world
10) It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
5) He won victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Answer: 1984 by George Orwell
8. Identify these things about laws of thermodynamics FTPE.
1. This law of thermodynamics states that the amount of entropy in any pure crystal at 0 degrees Kelvin is 0.
Answer: Third Law of Thermodynamics
2. This law of thermodynamics states that if a closed system A is in equilibrium with another closed system B, and the system B is in equilibrium with the closed system C, then A must be in equilibrium with C.
Answer: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
3. It’s much easier to understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics thanks to this theoretical construct, a closed cycle consisting of two isothermal and two adiabatic transformations, named for the Frenchman who postulated it.
Answer: Carnot cycle
9. Given a translation, provide the Latin legal term FTPE.
a) “for this purpose”
Answer: pro hac vice
b) “friend of the court”
Answer: amicus curiae
c) “unwelcome person”
Answer: persona non grata
10. FTPE, name the composer given the work. Hint: all the composers are from the 19th-century group of Russian composers known as “The Five.”
(10) Scheherezade, The Snow Maiden
Answer: Nicolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
(10) A Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition
Answer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
(10) In the Steppes of Central Asia, Prince Igor
Answer: Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin
11. Name these British Prime Ministers FTPE.
This man was the first Prime Minister, serving from 1721-1742.
Answer: Robert Walpole
He began his 12-year stint as PM in 1770. While he had success domestically and helped reform the organization of British rule of India, he’s unfairly tarred as the guy who lost the colonies for Britain during the American Revolution.
Answer: Lord Frederick North
He’s infamous for his appeasement of Hitler, particularly the sellout of Czechoslovakia in the 1938 Munich Pact.
Answer: Neville Chamberlain
12. Name the Shakespearean play from a list of characters FTPE
(10) Paris, Mercutio, Benvolio
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
(10) Regan, Goneril, Cordelia
Answer: King Lear
(10) Priam, Hector, Aeneas
Answer: Troilus and Cressida
13. FTPE, name these astronomical errors in movies and TV pointed out by .
In “Men In Black”, Agent K tells Agent J "You want to stay away from that guy. He's, uh, he's grouchy. A three hour delay in customs after a trip for 17 trillion miles is gonna make anybody cranky." This however is stupid, because the nearest star to our solar system is about 25 trillion miles away. FTP, name that star.
Answer: Proxima Centauri
In “Contact”, while listening to the message from the alien-types, the astronomers get in a tizzy because they are worried that Vega will set. Vega never sets in the northern hemisphere, however, because, like The North Star, Vega is what kind of star that sits almost directly above the North Pole?
Answer: Circumpolar
In “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace”, we only see single shadows of people on Tatooine. This is wrong because, FTP, Tatooine is in what kind of star system, in which Tatooine-ites would cast two shadows?
Answer: Binary System
14. FTPE, with 10 seconds per part, give the prime factorization of each of the following numbers.
1. 210
Answer: (in any order) 7, 5, 3, 2.
2. 462
Answer: (in any order) 11, 7, 3, 2.
3. 1365
Answer: (in any order) 13, 7, 5, 3.
15. Given the name of the character they played on “The Golden Girls”, name the actress, FTPE.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak Hollingsworth
Answer: Beatrice (Bea) Arthur
Blanche Elizabeth Hollingsworth Deveraux
Answer: Rue McClanahan
Sophia Spirelli Petrillo Weinstock
Answer: Estelle Getty
16. Name these labor organizations from American history FTPE.
Founded in 1869 by Uriah Stevens, this early labor group was the first to attempt to unionize women on a national scale.
Answer: Knights of Labor
This labor organization’s most famous leader was its founder, Samuel Gompers.
Answer: American Federation of Labor or AFL
Leaders of this radical labor organization, nicknamed the “Wobblies,” included “Big Bill” Haywood and Eugene Debs.
Answer: Industrial Workers of the World or IWW
17. Name the elements from clues for ten points, or by symbol for 5.
(10) The lightest element to be highly carcinogenic, only small amounts can cause lung cancer and tumors throughout the body.
(5) Be
Answer: Beryllium
(10) Its Latin name is wolfram and it is often found in light bulb filaments
(5) W
Answer: Tungsten
(10) This metal is a main component in many nerve agents, as its oxide is very dangerous. Its atomic number is 76.
(5) Os
Answer: Osmium
18. 30-20-10, name the country.
[30] This secluded country’s national sport is archery, and the fortress architecture known as Dzong can be found there. In 1990 Taktsang Monastery burned, destroying a famed collection of early Buddhist art.
[20] It no longer has the distinctive dual monarchy with a Dharma Raja (spiritual ruler) and a Deb Raja (temporal ruler)
[10] This tiny country, bordered by China and India, has its capital at Thimphu.
Answer: Bhutan
19. This is going to be a big mess with people dying everyone. FTP, answer these questions about a bloody fight in Norse mythology.
(10) This final battle of the Norse gods and goddesses will be signaled by three consecutive winters and the blast of a horn.
Ragnarok
(10) This man will sound his horn to signify the beginning of Ragnarok, and will kill Loki, as well as be killed by Loki
Heimdall
(10) This thunder god will kill the serpent Jormungand, but die from the snake’s venom.
Thor
20. This poet worked at Hartford Accident and Indemnity Insurance for most of his life, while publishing such collections as Harmonium and Owl’s Clover. First, FTP, name this poet.
Answer: Wallace Stevens
FTP, The most famous work of Wallace Stevens, it begins: Call the roller of big cigars,/ The muscular one, and bid him whip /In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Answer: The Emperor of Ice Cream
FTP, this Stevens poem states that “At the sight of [the titular bird]/ Flying in Green light/ Even the bawds of euphony/ Would cry out sharply”.
Answer: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
21. FTPE, name these things about Japanese poetry.
(10) This form of Japanese poem, usually written in one line in Japan, is in America broken down into lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables.
Answer: Tanka
(10) This poem form consists of three lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables.
Answer: Haiku
(10) This master of the haiku lived as a samurai. In 1644 he took his poetic name from a banana tree that grew near his home in Edo.
Answer: Basho (oh, what the heck, accept Matsuo Kinsaku)
22. Seeing as how we’re using our memories today, answer the following about memory theory FTPE:
(10) This memory strategy involves repeating information in order to transfer it to long-term memory
Answer: rehearsal
(10) This type of memory, more difficult than recognition, involves generating a mental representation of an absent stimulus
Answer: recall
(10) In the fuzzy-trace theory of memory, this is the term used for a fuzzy representation of information that preserves essential content but leaves out the details of verbatim memory
Answer: gist
TOSSUPS – ROUND 5 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick, UTC’s John Kilby, Macon State’s Travis Lightsey, and your genial quizmaster
1. It was not this book’s pronounced use of caged or wounded birds to portray bourgeoisie that generated such controversy. The love affair between the protagonist and her husband’s business associate raised a few eyebrows but was mostly harmless, especially considering the pragmatic morals of Louisiana society. However, the protagonist’s decision to reject the control of both her husband and her lover was incendiary at this novel’s publication. FTP identify this 1899 work in which the title act consists of suicide on the part of Edna Pontellier.
Answer: The Awakening
2. Frederick II once referred to her as “my most inveterate and determined enemy.” Born in 1717, she married Duke Francis Stephen in 1736 and tried to set him up as ruler even during the War of the Austrian Succession. FTP identify this woman who would ascend to that post herself by the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction and so would become the only female ruler of the Hapsburg line.
Answer: Maria Theresa
3. Though it has been applied variously since long before, it is said to have formed as a formal field some 176 years ago in Berlin. Thereafter, the first major advance came with the 1874 proposal by Jacobus Van’t Hoff that optical isomerism was a result of three-dimensional sp3 chirality. FTP identify this science which has since mushroomed into a limitless study of the synthesis, catenation, and decomposition of compounds containing carbon.
Answer: organic chemistry
4. Following her flight into Egypt, she gave birth to a son whose marriage to Memphis would consecrate the founding of a city of the same name and the birth of her grand-daughter, Libya. Though Hermes freed her by killing her captor, Argus, she was still not free until she escaped a gadfly sent by Hera to sting her. FTP identify this lover of Zeus and ancestress of Heracles.
Answer: Io
5. He worked for a lithographer in his youth and by age 21 was doing freelance work for Harper’s Weekly and Ballou’s Pictorial. His wartime commissions influenced works such as Sharpshooter on Picket Duty and Prisoners from the Front, earning him sufficient notice to exhibit his 1872 Snap the Whip at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. FTP identify this Boston-born painter of Mending the Nets and Banks Fisherman, both painted at Prout’s Neck, Maine.
Answer: Winslow Homer
6. He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair, because he’s never at the scene of the crime. And he cheats at cards. The subject of a T. S. Eliot poem, he was also in a long-running Broadway hit. FTP identify this “wonder” animal, widely recognized by fans of the musical Cats.
Answer: Macavity
7. Born on a farm near Albany in 1824, he joined a group of several brothers in a migration west following the destruction by fire of his merchant shop. Having made little money as a merchant anyway, he turned to stock speculation in several high-risk enterprises and, after several turns of fortune, he made his fortune on the transcontinental railroad plan. FTP identify this tycoon whose best-known land donation endowed a famous California university.
Answer: Leland Stanford
8. At least 6 forms of this most simple animal are parasitic in humans, and diseases from it occur when food or water are contaminated by human wastes. These protists range from 0.25 to 2.5 mm in size, and their digestion and motion are created via their pseudopodia. For 10 points name these unicellular organisms that can cause dysentery.
Answer: Amoebas
9. The Romans called this city Serdica and made it an important stop on the road between Constantinople and current-day Belgrade. In 1018 it was conquered by the Byzantine Empire, which named it Triyaditza. Its current name is Greek and most likely taken from the Church of Holy Wisdom in the city’s center, next to the Alexander Nevski Memorial Cathedral. Other famous landmarks include extensive public baths, the Ottoman-era Bayna Bashi mosque, and the Black Mosque. FTP, what is this present-day capital of Bulgaria?
Answer: Sofia
10. Born in 1927, he made hi mark as half of a comedy duo with his wife, Anne Meara. While he’s been in television and movies since 1970, he is most famous for his more recent roles. He played Vince Lombardi on a series of Mike commercials, Maury Ballstein in "Zoolander, and George’s dad, Frank Costanza, on "Seinfeld" and He currently plays Arthur Spooner on "King of Queens." FTP, name this actor who is also the father of Zoolander star Ben.
Answer: Jerry Stiller
11. Only reapers reaping early so much as hear her song, and mutter about her as though she were a fairy. Her name is never mentioned, just that this weaver is “half sick of shadows.” FTP identify this woman who is cursed to see the world only through the outside world through a mirror, forever weaving what she sees, and is the title heroine in a late-period poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Answer: “The Lady of Shalott”
12. When he graduated from West Point in 1909 he ranked 46th out of a class of 103. With the outbreak of WWI he was asked to head General Pershing's staff troop. During WWII he fell temporarily from grace after hitting a man in the face for cowardice. He attributed a victory in North Africa to having read Rommel's book. He is perhaps better known for leading the third army and relieving the beleaguered town of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. Name this man who was played by George C. Scott in the 1970 Best Picture.
Answer: George S. Patton Jr.
13. Raised in southern Manhattan, he was steered to science at an early age by his father, Melville, and, although he was a gifted self-taught mathematician, he attended MIT with different plans. While working for the government in his youth, he developed a knack for safecracking and, following the completion of his assignment, managed to steal away all the pertinent classified documents to his work in late 1945. FTP name this man whose romance and marriage to Arline Greenbaum were depicted by Matthew Broderick in the 1996 film Infinity.
Answer: Richard Feynman
14. The Trecento form consisted of two, or rarely three, voices and, due to its primitive construction, was derided as “a raw and chaotic singalong” in 1300 by Barberino. A few centuries later, however, an unrelated form of the same name would take on as many as four to six voices of secular text and, having drawn from the frottola and motet, gave rise to opera. FTP identify this musical setting whose exponents include Philippe Verdelot, Carlo Gesualdo, and Claudio Monteverdi.
Answer: madrigal
15. Pencil and paper ready for a math question. Let f(x) = sqrt(x+5) (Read: Let F of X equal the square root of the quantity X plus five). FTP, and within 15 seconds, what is the domain of this function?
Answer: x >= -5 (X is greater than or equal to negative five)
16. The ethics leading to this condition are the four virtuous attitudes known as the Palaces of Brahma and include loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. This is the ultimate goal in Buddhism, when one is devoid of greed, hatred, and ignorance. FTP, name this enlightened state that shares its name with an alternative band of the early 1990s.
Answer: Nirvana
17. One of the infamous “political generals” of the Civil War, he made his ineptitude known at Shiloh in misdirecting his division so drastically that he almost cost the Union a victory. Fueled by intense guilt, however, he sough to regain his stature through political action in Mexico and even a term as governor of New Mexico. His acclaim, however, came when he drew upon childhood lessons from his mother (whose middle name, on a side note, was French Test) to explore his writing talents, dabbling in poetry and fiction. FTP identify this Indiana-born author of Ben-Hur.
Answer: Lew Wallace
18. A delta Scuti type variable, fluctuating from -0.02 to 0.07 magnitude every four hours and 33.6 minutes, this star was the Pole Star 12,000 years ago and its average brightness is the designated standard for measuring zero magnitude in any wavelength. The fifth brightest star in the night sky, it comprises the Summer Triangle along with Deneb and Altair. FTP, what is this alpha star of the constellation Lyra?
Answer: Vega
19. Before entering public service, he was a bank executive, and it was once joked that both his jobs were among the oldest professions and yet bore a striking resemblance to the very oldest. The son of a trapeze artist and a failed manufacturer of garden gnomes, he became the youngest Prime Minister during the 20th century, but his much-touted dullness led many to disbelieve this. FTP identify this Conservative who was ejected from office by Tony Blair in 1997.
Answer: John Major
20. A judgment call must be made, but it presupposes only “ordinary effort.” Following intense political pressure, it was included as required knowledge by Jimmy Kimmel on The Man Show, but recent polling shows that less than half the show’s polling audience could satisfactorily explain it. FTP identify this baseball regulation which assumes that the defense could, under normal circumstances, catch a batter out and precludes double or triple plays that could result if they let a popup hit the ground.
Answer: infield fly rule
21. On November 9, 2003, the remains of his brother Charlie were found in Vietnam by US military personnel. He took a lot of criticism for his statement that he wants to be the candidate for guys with Confederate Flags on their pickup trucks, and more for the speech dubbed “I Have a Scream” that followed his disappointing third-place finish in the Iowa Caucus. FTP, name this former Vermont governor and unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Answer: Howard Dean
22. Through his sponsoring of the poet Ennius, this man helped to bring Hellinism into Roman civilization. The main opponent of the Scipios in Rome, his political party also ordered the expulsion of Greek philosophers from Rome. His De Agricultura is the oldest surviving Roman prose work and was the main reference source for Roman agriculture. For 10 points, name this 2nd Century B.C. Roman censor known for his quote “Carthage must be destroyed!”
Answer: Marcus Porcius Cato (Elder)
23. QUOTE: “I have been many years training in the Way of Strategy, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time.” With these opening words, an homage to heaven, and a prayer to Kwannon, it is arguably as much an autobiography as it is a study of military theory. Its author entered his first duel at age 13 and steadily defeated the various strategists of his home in Kyushu. FTP identify this 1645 work, known in Japanese as Go Rin No Sho, by Miyamoto Musashi.
Answer: A Book of Five Rings (accept “Go Rin No Sho” on early interrupt)
BONI – ROUND 5 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick, UTC’s John Kilby, Macon State’s Travis Lightsey, and your genial quizmaster
1. FTPE identify the heroes of American folklore from clues.
a) This lumberjack traveled widely with his pet blue ox Babe.
Answer: Paul Bunyan
b) This cowboy of the Old West reputedly tamed every bronco in existence and went on to ride a tornado.
Answer: Pecos Bill
c) Besides his better-known contribution to the Old Northwest, this barefoot wandering hermit reputedly helped save the town of Mansfield, Ohio, during the War of 1812.
Answer: Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman
2. Identify the following biological polymers from clues for ten points each.
a) Edmond Fischer and Hans Krebs were the first to describe the formation of this human glucose storage polymer.
Answer: glycogen
b) Rayon and cellophane are produced when this carbohydrate is treated with alkali and exposed to carbon disulfide.
Answer: cellulose
c) Analogous in cell structure to cellulose, this polysaccharide is the main constituent in the shells of arthropods.
Answer: chitin
3. TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: Let’s combine two of your genial quizmaster’s favorite subjects – roadtrips and sports. If you were at the junctions of the following interstate highways, F5PE, what would be the NFL team with the nearest home stadium?
a) I-85 and I-20
Answer: (Atlanta) Falcons
b) I-55 and I-90
Answer: (Chicago) Bears
c) I-45 and I-10
Answer: (Houston) Texans
d) I-94 and I-75
Answer: (Detroit) Lions
e) I-76 and I-95
Answer: (Philadelphia) Eagles
e) I-66 and I-95… well, technically they don’t meet directly, but I-66 does meet I-495 here.
Answer: (Washington) Redskins
4. FTPE, name these depressing novels by Thomas Hardy.
(10) After discovering a distantly noble lineage, a family sends its eldest daughter to wealthy cousins as a maid. The daughter becomes pregnant by Alec, marries Angel Clare, murders Alec, and is later hung for her crime.
Answer: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(10) While drunk, a man sells his wife and child to a sailor. He then swears not to drink for the next twenty years. He eventually gains wealth and power, only for everything to turn sour when his wife and daughter reappear in town.
Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge
(10) A man from humble beginnings dreams of becoming a scholar. When this fails, he becomes a stone carver, and falls in love with Sue Brideshead. The only problem is, he’s already married and cannot divorce his wife. Much death and misery ensues.
Answer: Jude the Obscure
5. FTP per part, answer the following.concerning John F. Kennedy.
a) In 1943, Kennedy became commander of this vessel in the South Pacific.
Answer: PT Boat 109
b) During his recovery from a 1956 spinal disk operation, Kennedy wrote this Pulitzer-winning anthology of essays.
Answer: Profiles in Courage
c) Kennedy’s undergraduate thesis at Harvard eventually grew into this 1940 study of British response to Germany’s pre-WWII rearmament.
Answer: Why England Slept
6. Identify the following overplayed songs from lyrics FTPE or five if you need the artist.
a) (10) “I could tell she liked me from the way she stared”
(5) Fountains of Wayne
Answer: “Stacy’s Mom”
b) (10) “We’re already wet and we’re gonna go swimming”
(5) Liz Phair
Answer: “Why Can’t I”
c) (10) “My baby don’t mess around because she loves me so”
(5) Outkast
Answer: “Hey-Ya”
7. FTPE answer the following about 20th century Nobel laureates in the sciences:
a) This geneticist received the 1983 Physiology or Medicine prize for her work on transposons.
Answer: Barbara McClintock
b) The 1939 Physics prize went to this American inventor of the cyclotron, namesake of the element with atomic number 103 and a national laboratory in Livermore, CA.
Answer: Ernest O. Lawrence
c) The 1996 Chemistry prize was shared by Robert Curl, Richard Smalley, and Sir Harold Kroto for their combined efforts in describing this allotropic cage form of carbon with formula C60.
Answer: buckminsterfullerene [or buckyballs; accept just fullerene, though we now know there are other fullerenes besides C60.]
8. Identify the following related to post-apartheid South Africa FTPE.
a) This lawyer and Nobel laureate served as president of South Africa from 1989-94.
Answer: Frederik Willem De Klerk
b) De Klerk rose to the presidency upon the resignation of this former guerrilla and later Parliamentarian, who suffered a stroke in 1989.
Answer: Pieter Willem Botha
c) One of De Klerk’s first actions was to lift the ban on this nationalist party headed by Nelson Mandela.
Answer: African National Congress or ANC
9. Name the philosophers from works FTPE:
(10) Spirit of Capitalism, The Spirit of Laws
Answer: Baron de Montesquieu (or Charles-Louis Secondat)
(10) Civil Disobedience, Walden
Answer: Henry David Thoreau
(10) Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Genealogy of Morals
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Name the playwright from works, FTPE.
(10) Major Barbara, Pygmalion
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
(10) Seascape, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Edward Albee
(10) Idiot’s Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Answer: Robert Sherwood
11. FTPE identify the following Italian composers from clues.
a) This native of Pesaro composed the operas The Barber of Seville and William Tell.
Answer: Gioacchino Rossini
b) He earned a post as court composer in Vienna before teaching future composers including Schubert and Liszt. Today his works are overshadowed by his claim, made late in life from an insane asylum, that he poisoned Mozart.
Answer: Antonio Salieri
c) This 20th century composer’s stirring The Pines of Rome was featured in Disney’s Fantasia 2000.
Answer: Ottorino Respighi
12. Expand the following acronyms from physics FTPE.
a) QED
Answer: quantum electrodynamics
b) NMR
Answer: nuclear magnetic resonance
c) MASER
Answer: microwave amplification by stimulated [or stimulating] emission of radiation
13. FTPE given a “second” monarch, identify the royal house of England to which he belonged.
a) George II
Answer: Hanover
b) Edward II
Answer: Plantagenet
c) Charles II
Answer: Stuart
14. Identify the following concerning Neverland FTP per part.
a) Though kidnapped by Captain Hook and his crew, this princess is rescued and returned to her tribe by Peter Pan.
Answer: Tiger Lily
b) Mr. Smee is the first mate on this ship commanded by Captain Hook.
Answer: the Jolly Roger
c) This is the only cannon on the Jolly Roger and has yet to strike Peter Pan successfully.
Answer: the Long Tom
15. Pencil and paper ready. A group of 5 members want to form some committees... 10 seconds per part, FTPE.
10) If the group wants to elect a 3 person committee, how many ways can this be done?
Answer: 10
10) If the group wants to elect a President and a Vice-President, how many ways can this be done?
Answer: 20
10) If the group wants to elect a President and a Vice-President, but 2 of the members do not want to be Vice-President, how many ways can this be done?
Answer: 12
16. Answer the following about a Simpsonian heresy for the stated number of points.
a) (5) Though tempted by Homer, this man affirms that he was born a snake handler and will die a snake handler.
Answer: Moe Syzlak (accept either name)
b) (10) Homer calls his office to take time off for this holiday as dictated by his personal religion.
Answer: the Feast of Maximum Occupancy
c) (15) For five points each, identify the respective religions of Flanders, Krusty, and Apu as described by Reverend Lovejoy in his church invitation to Homer.
Answer: Christianity, Judaism, and Miscellaneous
17. Let’s talk bondage – bond chemistry, that is. FTPE answer the following concerning chemical bonds:
a) About 1/20th the strength of a covalent bond, this type of attraction affects only nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine.
Answer: hydrogen bond
b) In a perfectly nonpolar covalent bond, this is the difference in electronegativity between the two bonded atoms.
Answer: zero
c) Not regarded as a bond in the conventional sense, this type of bond exists between a ligand and a chelating metal.
Answer: coordinate bond
18. Identify the following from photography FTPE.
a) This is the term for the circular opening of the lens.
Answer: aperture
b) Overlapping metal blades comprise this mechanism which controls the radius of the aperture.
Answer: diaphragm
c) The lens and aperture control how much incident light strikes the film in what is described by this 8-letter term.
Answer: exposure
19. FTPE identify the following about a contemporary American writer.
a) The adaption of this debut novel was filmed almost concurrently with American History X, which also starred Edward Norton. However, while Norton played the protagonist, he was billed behind Brad Pitt, who played Tyler Durden.
Answer: Fight Club
b) This 41-year-old from Oregon only briefly helped adapt his novel Fight Club into a screenplay.
Answer: Chuck Pahlaniuk (PAULA-nick)
c) Originally titled Fly the Friendly Skies, this Pahlaniuk work traces the daily life of a medical school dropout and recovering sex addict who fakes near-death experiences and guilt-trips his saviors into supporting him financially.
Answer: Choke
20. FTP per part, answer the following about the years preceding the Mexican-American War.
a) Extending from St. Louis to Chihuahua, this route was inaugurated in 1821 in an effort to encourage trade.
Answer: Santa Fe Trail
b) During the Polk administration, fur trappers and merchants pressed into territory beyond this river that flows through present-day Arizona and New Mexico and which contains the Coolidge Dam.
Answer: Gila River
c) To resolve border disputes, Polk sent this New York City-born diplomat to resolve the conflict as well as negotiate a purchase of California and New Mexico. During the Civil War, along with James M. Mason, he was one of the two Confederate diplomats taken from a British ship by American forces in the Trent Affair.
Answer: John Slidell
21. FTPE identify the initial destinations of each of the following space probes.
a) Mariner 1
Answer: Venus
b) Mariner 3
Answer: Mars
c) Voyager I
Answer: Jupiter
22. FTPE identify the following ancient poets.
a) This 8th century AD Chinese poet flourished during the T’ang dynasty.
Answer: Li Po
b) This 8th century BC Greek poet penned Theogeny.
Answer: Hesiod
c) This 16th century AD Indian poet is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki, the poet of the Ramayana, and himself translated the Ramayana into the Hindi vernacular.
Answer: Tulsidas
TOSSUPS – ROUND 6 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by the writers for the Bay Area Academic League, a.k.a. BAAL (Gaius Stern, Ross Ritterman, Steve C, Derek W, Michael W, Keith L, Doxis E, Lev T, Lev O, Malissa T.) with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick and UTC’s John Kilby, Nikki Poarch, and your genial quizmaster
1. Born to a herring merchant in Vitebsk in 1887, he studied art in St. Petersburg before moving to Paris. He incorporated Biblical stories and views of Paris into some of his works, but he is more famous for scenes of Russian and Jewish country life. FTP name the painter of To Russia, Asses and Others, The White Crucifixion, and I and the Village.
Answer: Marc Chagall
2. Consisting of modified cardiac cells known as myocytes, it possesses some contractile filaments yet does not contract. It naturally discharges action potentials at about 70-80 times/minute and if it cannot function, the heart itself takes over its duties. Positioned on the wall of the right atrium near the entrance of the superior vena cava, this is FTP what structure, also known as the sinoatrial node, which shares its name with an artificial device for certain cardiac patients?
Answer: pacemaker (accept sinoatrial node early)
3. He was exiled from St. Petersburg for his satirical depictions of court life and for the sentiments expressed in his “Ode to Liberty.” Glinka’s He was killed in a duel against George d’Anths on January 27, 1837. FTP name this great Russian poet famous for such works as The Bronze Horseman, The Captain’s Daughter, Boris Godunov, and Eugene Onegin.
Answer: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
4. Punting is illegal. A ball thrown into the end zone off the net is still in play. Everyone except the quarterback, kicker and offensive specialist also plays defense. A drop kicked field goal is worth 4 points. FTP, name this indoor football league that uses 50 yard long fields.
Answer: AFL or Arena Football League
5. Its value indicates whether a quadratic equation will have 0, 1, or 2 solutions. FTP, what mathematical term refers to the B SQUARED + or - 4ac found inside the radical in the numerator of the Quadratic Formula?
Answer: discriminant
6. There were two of this name. One was from Locris and was the son of Oileus. He is not as famous as the other, thus he is best known for the claim that he sexually assaulting Cassandra in Athenas temple. This got him in trouble with Athena who blasted him with a thunderbolt. The more famous man to bear this name was a comerade of the above and a cousin of Achilles who also fought in the Trojan War. FTP provide the common name of these two heroes, the greater of whom wanted Achilles’ armor and went mad when he did not win it in a contest.
Answer: Ajax or Aias
7. He became king after winning a war against two namesake rivals for the throne. The problem was thathe was a Protestant, so he had to agree to convert to Catholicicsm, for which he made a famous statement about the value of a throne. FTP name this French monarch and first Bourbon who also granted the Huguenots the right to practice their religion with his 1598 Edict of Nantes.
Answer: Henry IV Bourbon (Accept Henri Bourbon on early buzz)
8. An interesting property of this particle is that its energy and momentum are real yet its rest mass is imaginary. Curiously as its energy decreases its velocity increases. If one existed and it interacted with ordinary matter causality could be violated. FTP, name this theoretical particle whose existence implies that time travel would in fact be possible.
Answer: tachyon
9. The main character starts his tour of duty in Italy. That following spring, he returns to the front where he meets his friend’s love interest, Catherine Barkley. After his leg wound heals, he tries to plan a trip with Catherine, but she reveals that she is pregnant. FTP, name this novel set during World War II by Ernest Hemingway.
Answer: A Farewell to Arms
10. Discovered in 1799 in a small Egyptian village in the Nile delta, it contains three copies of the same inscription, written in Greek, Demotic, and ancient Egyptian. FTP what is the familiar name for this 2-by- 4-foot slab of basalt, which the French archeologist Jean Franois Champollion (Shahm-pohl-YOHN) used to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphic form of writing?
Answer: The Rosetta Stone
11. With a molar mass of approximately 324.18, this substance was isolated in 1820 by French chemists J. B. Caventou and P. J. Pelletier. It was synthesized by Robert Woodward and William Doering in 1944. Less traditional applications of it include using it to induce contractions during labor and use as a harding agent in treating varicose veins. A natural alkaloid with a formula of C20H24N2O2, this is, FTP, what product of the Peruvian Cinchona tree that is useful in treating malaria and muscle cramps?
Answer: quinine
12. In Act II, scene 3, after he is commended for his honesty, he cajoles his friend into drinking a cup of wine despite being on watch, then sends Roderigo to pick a fight with the man. His wife Emilia finds a handkerchief lost by the wife of the title character, which this man uses to frame Cassio, and which leads to the death of Desdemona. FTP, who is this villian in Shakespeare’s Othello?
Answer: Iago
13. His distinct style is exemplified by the effect named after him in Apple's iMovie that allows the user to use a slow pan and zoom to incorporate a still image into a movie. His first film, 1981's Brooklyn Bridge, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. During the 80's, his documentary subjects included Huey Long, Thomas Hart Benton, and the Statue of Liberty. FTP, name this documentary filmmaker whose PBS documentaries include Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War.
Answer: Ken Burns
14. Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander in charge of this, was convicted and executed by a U.S. Military Commission on War Crimes on April 3, 1946 outside of Manila. The problems continued for the survivors of it at Camp O'Donnell, although the Filipino soldiers were granted amnesty and were released on June 6, 1942. It was the result of the Japanese not having enough trucks to transport all of the soldiers who surrendered on to them April 9, 1942. FTP, name this grueling march carried out by approximately 70,000 soldiers that occurred on a Philippine peninsula during the early days of World War II.
Answer: Bataan Death March
15. Depending on which source you believe, the name is Persian for either “doorway”or "beggar"; either way the term is equivalent to “fakir” in Arabic. Properly speaking, it refers to participants in the sema, a ritual of the Mevlevi, a monastic sect within Sufism. Shedding a black coat which represents the tomb, but still wearing a white robe and skirt symbolizing the shroud, they shed earthly burdens, experience heightened religious exaltations, and feel direct contact with the divine during their ecstatic dance. FTP, name this monastic sect of Islam, which has given its name to a spinning, destructive wind.
Answer: Dervish or (Whirling) Dervishes
16. The novel begins with Gene revisiting Devon years after graduation and proceeds into a flashback. He is named co-leader of the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session by its unconventional founder. They make multiple dangerous jumps from a tree, during one of which the jealous Gene jounces a limb, causing his friend to fall and break his leg. At first Finny refuses to believe that Gene hurt him on purpose, but in the end he tries to run away, breaks his other leg, and dies of complications. This is, FTP, the plot of what work by John Knowles?
Answer: A Separate Peace
17. An itinerant laborer named Arthur Bremer attempted to derail his unsuccessful 1972 campaign for the presidency, partially paralyzing him. He was first elected governor of Alabama in 1962, and also made unsuccessful bids for the presidency in 1968 and 1976. For 10 points name this southern politician who famously blocked the door to the University of Alabama in order to prevent its integration.
Answer: George Wallace
18. Pencil and paper may be necessary. 2 moles of an unknown gas occupy a 1 liter container at a temperature of
1 degree Kelvin. Given that the gas constant has a value of 8.314 (liter)(atmosphere)/(mol) (Kelvin,, FTP determine to the nearest tenth the pressure inside that container. You have 15 seconds.
Answer: 16.628 atm [use ideal gas law PV = nRT, where T = 1, V = 1, n = 2, and R = 8.314]
19. This Baltic Sea port lies at the mouth of the Motlawa River, a tributary of the Vistula. It joined the Hanseatic League in the 13th century and became the capital of Pomerania. After the Treaty of Versailles it was determined that it would be a Free City under the League of Nations however this angered the city’s German population. FTP, name this city in the so-called Polish Corridor that was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1939.
Answer: Gdansk (accept Danzig)
20. Given his lifespan, the only winning Democratic presidential candidate for whom he could have voted was himself. As the reform-minded mayor of Buffalo, he also bucked the statewide influence of Tammany Hall. His reputation as an honest politician was not damaged by his marriage to a family friend 27 years his junior or by his support of an illegitimate child that may have been his. FTP, name this US president, the only one to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Answer: Stephen Grover Cleveland
21. Thanks to a technicality he won an Oscar in 1972 for composing the score of the film Limelight, twenty years after it was made, and one year after the Academy had given him an honorary Oscar.for “the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. He began his career in English music halls where he developed the trademark character he played in both silent movies and talkies. The character only speaks in the final scene of The Great Dictator. FTP name this English comic who played “the Little Tramp” in such films as Modern Times and The Gold Rush.
Answer: Charlie Chaplin
22. He solved the Konigsberg Bridge Problem while at the court of Catherine the Great. FTP name this prolific Swiss mathematician, whose works fill 85 volumes, and who spent the last 12 years of his career in complete blindness.
Answer: Leonhard Euler
23. This movement’s manifestoes, issued by Filippo Marinetti in the years prior to WW I, proclaimed a new aesthetic espousing modern industrial society. FTP, name this movement, which included the painters and sculptors Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni.
Answer: Futurism
BONI – ROUND 6 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by the writers for the Bay Area Academic League, a.k.a. BAAL (Gaius Stern, Ross Ritterman, Steve C, Derek W, Michael W, Keith L, Doxis E, Lev T, Lev O, Malissa T.) with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick and UTC’s John Kilby, Nikki Poarch, and your genial quizmaster
1. Name these literary gems you might find during Breakfast at Tiffany’s from a description FTPE. If you need the author, you’ll only get 5 pts.:
a) 10 pts.: Mathilde Loisel loses the titular item, which she borrowed from her friend Madame Forester, and spends ten years of hard work paying for the replacement – only to find out the original was a fake. Moral: vanity is bad.
5 pts.: Guy de Maupassant
Answer: The Necklace (or [French title])
b) 10 pts.: John T. Unger is fascinated by classmate Percy Washington’s claims of his family’s wealth. He and Percy’s sister Kismine try to steal it to fund their elopement but wind up with rhinestones instead. Moral: greed is worse.
5 pts.: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: A (or The) Diamond as Big as the Ritz
c) 10 pts.: The protagonist, Kino, starts out trying to find a way to pay for medical treatment for his son. When he finds the title object, it sets into motion a series of events that end with him shooting said son. Moral: greed is way worse.
5 pts.: John Steinbeck
Answer: The Pearl
2. The eyes have it. Identify these parts of the human eye, 5 pts. for 1, 10 pts. for 2, 20 pts. for 3 and 30 for all 4 correct.
a. Named for a Greek goddess it contains a stroma and two layers of epithelia and controls movement of light.
Answer: iris
b. Glaucoma primarily affects this part of the eye that contains the rods and cones.
Answer: retina
c. Composed of 5 curved, transparent layers, along with the lens it assists in focusing.
Answer: cornea
d. This clear gel lies behind the lens and in front of the retina.
Answer: vitreous humor [prompt on humor; do not accept aqueous humor that’s in front of the lens]
3. Given deeds done by Portuguese explorers, although not always on behalf of Portugal, name the explorer 5-10-20-30:
A. First rounded the Cape of Good Hope
Answer: Bartholomew Diaz
B. First sailed to India via the Cape of Good Hope
Answer: Vasco Da Gama
C. Discovered Brazil kind of by accident in 1500
Answer: Pedro Cabral
D. Sailed into the Pacific via Tierra Del Fuego; began the first successful voyage around the world but was whacked en route.
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
4. Most classical symphonies are known by unimaginative designations like Beethoven’s Fifth or Brahms’ Second, but some have more familiar descriptive titles. For 5 points each, name the composers of the following symphonies, 5 point bonus for all 5.
A. Pathetique Symphony
Answer: Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
B. Symphony of a Thousand
Answer: Gustav Mahler
C. Clock Symphony
Answer: Franz Josef Haydn
D. Jupiter Symphony
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
E. Symphonie Fantastique
Answer: Hector Berlioz
5. There have been a lot of big moves in the NFL off-season so far. Given the following players' position, old team, and new team, name them FFPE.
5) Running Back; Redskins; Broncos
Answer: Clinton Portis
5) Cornerback; Broncos; Redskins
Answer: Champ Bailey
5) Quarterback; 49ers; Browns
Answer: Jeff Garcia
5) Defensive End; Titans; Eagles
Answer: Jevon Kearse
5) Cornerback; Eagles; Bills
Answer: Troy Vincent
5) Wide Receiver; 49ers; Ravens... scratch that, Eagles
Answer: Terrell Owens (Writer's Note: I'll go ahead and say it since Charlie probably would have... Owens is an alum of UTC.)
6. Answer the following about falling things FTPE:
(10) First, in standard SI units, give the acceleration due to gravity with in .1 meters per second squared.
Answer: 9.8 (accept 9.7 to 9.9)
(10) Even though object will continue to undergo constant acceleration, wind resistance will cause it to have maximum speed. What is the name for this speed?
Answer: Terminal velocity
(10) Lastly, if a ball is thrown from the ground at an angle other than 90 with respect to the horizontal, it will undergo this type of motion.
Answer: Parabolic (or equivalents) or projectile
7. Given members of a mythological trio, name the missing one FTPE. If you need the name the group was collectively known by, you will get five.
(10) Euryale and Stheno
(5) the Gorgons
Answer: Medusa
(10) Lachesis and Atropos
(5) the Fates
Answer: Clotho
(10) Euphrosyne and Aglaea
(5) the Graces
Answer: Thalia
8. Haiti is in the news again. Identify the following leaders from Haiti, past and present, FTPE.
A. This democratically president was forced out in 1991 but returned to power with major U.S. help in 1994. Accused of widespread corruption, he was forced out of office again in Feb. 2004, this time with U.S. pressure against him.
Answer: Jean-Bertrand Aristide
B. This slave led the successful rebellion 200 years ago which led to Haitian independence.
Answer: Toussant De L'Ouverture
C. With the backing of their violent secret police, the Tonton Macoutes, this family Haiti from 1957 to 1986, under father and son dictators nicknamed “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc.”
Answer: Duvalier
9. Name the following Booker Prize winners FTPE.
10) Cowinner in 1992, this Michael Ondaatje novel about a mysterious man who is being nursed in Italy at the end of World War II was also made into a film that won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1996.
Answer: The English Patient
10) Another Oscar winner for Best Picture was Steven Spielberg’s 1993 adaptation of this Thomas Keneally book, a novel based on the real-life story of an Austrian businessman slowly seduced into goodness in the face of the Holocaust.
Answer: Schindler’s List
10) Less successful was the film adaptation starring Gwyneth Paltrow of this 1990 Booker winner by A.S. Byatt about two intertwining romances – one between dead authors and one between two literary scholars researching the former.
Answer: Possession
10. Pencil and paper ready. Answer the following concerning probability FTSNP. 10 seconds per part (Moderator Note: Accept equivalents for all of the following answers.)
5) What is the probability of drawing an ace from a standard deck of 52 cards?
Answer: 4 / 52 (or 2/26 or 1/13 or .08)
10) What is the probability of not drawing an face card, that is an ace, king, queen, or jack, from a standard deck of 52 cards?
Answer: 36 / 52 (or 18/26 or 9/13 or .69)
15) If a pair of dice is rolled, what is the chance of rolling a 7 or an 11?
Answer: 8 / 36 (or 4/18 or 2/9 or .22)
11. Elizabeth II of England is called the "queen regnant" because she reigns in her own right rather than that of her husband. Since the Norman Conquest, England has had six other queens regnant; for 10 points each, identify these 3:
A. The daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, she sought to restore England to the Roman Catholic faith in place of the Church of England established by her father.
Answer: Mary I (accept Bloody Mary)
B. The last monarch of the House of Stuart, she succeeded her cousin and brother-in-law, William III, in 1702. The capital of the state of Maryland is named for her.
Answer: Anne
C. Some include on this list the daughter of Henry I, mother of Henry II. She fought an unsuccessful 20-year civil war against the rival claim to the throne of her cousin, Stephen of Blois.
Answer: Empress Matilda (accept Maud)
12. Man, it must be rough to be Talia Shire. She has two Oscar nominations for performing, but in her family that just won’t cut it. Answer the following FTPE:
A. Talia’s brother, he has five Oscars – three for writing and one each for producing and directing The Godfather Part II, for which his and Talia’s dad, Carmine, also shared an Oscar for Original Score.
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola
B. The nephew of Coppola and Shire, he changed his name to avoid claims of nepotism. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1996 for Leaving Las Vegas.
Answer: Nicolas Cage
C. Talia’s niece, Francis’ daughter, and Nicolas’s first cousin, she won the 2003 Oscar for Original Screenplay and became the first American woman ever nominated for Best Director, all for her second movie, Lost in Translation.
Answer: Sofia Coppola
EDITOR’S NOTE: As if Talia needed more grief, her ex-husband also shared a 1979 Oscar as a songwriter.
13. It’s all relative. Name these literary works with some kinship relationship in the title FTSNOP:
A. 10: Theodore Dreiser’s controversial first novel about a woman who succeeds by becoming a rich guy’s mistress
Answer: Sister Carrie
B. 5/5: F5PE, in either order, name 2 plays premiering in 1899 and 1901, masterpieces by Anton Chekhov.
Answer: Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters
C. 10: The play, written by Tom Taylor, rudely interrupted onstage at Ford’s Theatre in 1865 by Lincoln’s assassination. Answer: Our American Cousin
14. Answer the following about a particular region FTPE:
10: Its annexation by Russia was confirmed by the 1792 Treaty of Jassy. From 1853 to 1856 it was under dispute in a war pitting Russia against the unlikely alliance of Turkey, Britain, France, and Sardinia. Yes, I said Sardinia.
Answer: The Crimean Peninsula
10: This Crimean resort was the site of a pivotal Feb. 1945 conference between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
Answer: Yalta
10: With the demise of the Soviet Union, this nation now controls the Crimea, although they agreed to allow Russia to base its portion of the old Soviet fleet till at least 2017.
Answer: the Ukraine
15. Name the kingdom FTPE:
This kingdom consists of organisms that do not have a membrane bound nucleus that contains genetic material and are typically unicellular
Answer: Monera
This kingdom includes several phylogenetically different groups that are linked because their cells are organized into organelles and their genetic material is enclosed by a nuclear membrane.
Answer: Protista
This kingdom includes organisms with genetic material contained in the nucleus. The cells are not completely divided by cell walls so that cytoplasm and nuclei can flow between cells. The walls are made of chitin, which links this kingdom to the Animalia kingdom.
Answer: Fungi
16. Answer the following about Shakespearean ghosts, FTPE:
A. Whom does Julius Caesar’s ghost visit twice?
Answer: M. Junius Brutus
C. Old king Hamlet urges his son to take revenge upon what new king, Hamlet’s uncle?
Answer: Claudius
C. This English king is visited by the ghost of the boy king he overthrew and put to death in the Tower of London, along with the ghosts of ten others he did in.
Answer: Richard III
17. Identify these naval ships from American history FTP each.
(10) This final battleship commissioned by the U.S. Navy was where the Japanese signed the final surrender, ending WWII.
Answer: Missouri
(10) This first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was commission in 1960.
Answer: Enterprise
(10) This first nuclear powered submarine shares its name with the ship commanded by Captain Nemo.
Answer: Nautilus
18. Who ISN’T a fan of Rodin?!?! FTPE, name the Rodin work based on a short description.
A. This cast bronze monument commemorates a heroic episode during the Hundred Year’s War in which six of
the leaders of a French town offered their lives to save citizens of the city from siege.
Answer: The Burghers of Calais
B. The most famous of Rodin’s work, this bronze sculpture was originally designed to be a small part of the monumental The Gates of Hell.
Answer: The Thinker
C. This marble sculpture depicts a nude couple with the man’s hand innocently placed on the woman’s hip.
Answer: The Kiss
19. FTPE name these possibly related things which Gaius can not tell apart:
A. A cult whose members have been the victims of a crackdown and heavy jail terms by the Chinese government.
Answer: Falun Gong
B. A bit like a Chinese architectural scheme, one uses this to channel energies and align properly the strengths of a house.
Answer: Feng Shui [pronounced fung shway, but be lenient]
C. This "soft style" martial art form translates as Supreme Ultimate Boxing and incorporates many Taoist principles into its practice.
Answer: T'ai Chi Ch'uan
20. Identify the chemicals or elements released or formed by the following processes FTSNOP:
A. Produced by heating limestone; 2 answers - 5 points each.
Answer: calcium oxide (prompt on lime), carbon dioxide
b. Produced by the oxidation of methanol.
Answer: formaldehyde
c. Isolated from bauxite via the Hall-Heroult process
Answer: aluminum
21. 30-20-10 Identify the nation from clues
(30) - At the battle of Adawa, it became one of the few African nations to defeat an invading colonial army
(20) - In 1935, the country was invaded by Mussolini partly to avenge that earlier defeat
(10) - Located in the horn of Africa, its capital is Addis Ababa
Answer: Ethiopia
22. FTPE give the countries that produce these types of coffee:
(10) Blue Mountain
Answer: Jamaica
(10) Mandheling
Answer: Indonesia
(10) Bourbon Santos
Answer: Brazil
TOSSUPS – ROUND 7 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by UTC’s Nick Bradshaw, Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, Macon State’s Travis Lightsey, Missouri’s Jason Carl Mueller, and various other freelancers
1. Its roots can be traced to the Worker’s Defense Committee, originally founded in 1976. Four years later it was officially founded in Gdansk after strikes against rising food prices and unsafe work conditions. Outlawed in 1982, it continued as an underground organization until the party won over 99% of eligible seats in 1989 elections. FTP, name this Polish political party formerly led by Lech Walesa.
Answer: Solidarity [or Solidarnosc if they just want to show off, though if they pronounce it “Solidarnosk” instead of “Solidarnosh” you can give them some grief about it]
2. He fought in the Spanish-American War, and was involved in the Socialist Party in Chicago. The author of the children's book Rootabaga Tales, he also wrote an award-winning life of Lincoln. FTP, name this American folk poet who wrote of the strong shoulders and windy city of Chicago.
Answer: Carl Sandburg
3. WARNING: TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. Pencil and paper may be helpful. Euclid left from Athens at 1 o’clock at 10 miles per hour and Pythagoras left from Athens at 3 o’clock at 15 miles per hour. Assuming they went at a constant rate and took the same straight path, FTP, when and how far away from Athens will they meet? You have 10 seconds.
Answer: 7 o’clock and 60 miles away.
4. It’s filled with references to other films. For example, the same music used for Andy’s prison break in Shawshank Redemption is used for an escape scene here. Characters sing the song “A Whale of a Tale” from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Ships appearing in the movie include “The Surly Mermaid” and “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” while the character Bruce is named after the animatronic shark in Jaws. The names for many of the other characters – Squirt, Gill, Coral, and Marlin – reflect the watery setting. FTP, name this 2003 Pixar film about a clownfish’s search for his son.
Answer: Finding Nemo
5. Its surface is covered by an ocean that’s over 30,000 miles deep, consisting of liquid hydrogen in the top layer and liquid metallic hydrogen below that. This liquid metal helps give it a magnetism that is 20,000 times as strong as Earth’s. The Trojan asteroids precede and follow it in space and its outer four moons, Sinope, Pasiphae, Carme and Ananke, orbit in the opposite direction of its other moons. FTP, name this planet, whose inner moons include the most volcanically active body in the solar system, Io.
Answer: Jupiter
6. While hiding from his former employer, he was discovered after he threaded a string through a shell by tying the string to an ant. Earlier, he was banished from Athens after pushing his nephew Perdix off the Acropolis. In Crete, he built a hollow wooden cow for Pasiphae, and he constructed the labyrinth to entrap the Minotaur. FTP, name this character from Greek myth who also made wax wings for himself and for his son Icarus.
Answer: Daedalus
7. Though born in Caracas in 1783, he spent much of his formative years in Europe, where he was steeped in Enlightenment thought. In 1807 he returned to South America, where on three different occasions he led forces in trying to overthrow the government of his native Venezuela. Over the next 23 years, he was the impetus of revolutionary thought and action on the continent. For ten points, name this man, the liberator of five South American countries
Answer: Simon Bolivar
8. A mysterious footprint, which the title character takes at first to be of the devil, causes him to hunker down in his cave for weeks. He later finds the footprint is a man’s, and he eventually befriends that man and teaches him his first English word: “master.” A freed Spaniard increases the population of his “kingdom” to three, after he and his companion Friday ambush a group of Indians who landed on his island. FTP, name this work, often considered the first English novel, written by Daniel Defoe.
Answer: Robinson Crusoe
9. A member of the halogen group, this element is found in seawater such as the Dead Sea and was once used in antiknock compound in leaded gasoline. Discovered by French chemist Antoine-Jerome Balard in 1826, it is a heavy, reddish brown liquid, the only liquid non-metallic element at room temperature. FTP, identify this element, atomic number 35, whose symbol is Br.
Answer: Bromine
10. The publication of this work earned its author the nickname “the Beast of Malmsbury,” especially from those offended by his defense of religious freedom and attacks on the structure of the Church of England. The book argued that man’s social life was a “war of all against all,” and that a stable authoritarian government was needed to protect people. FTP name this work famous for its formulation of life as “nasty, solitary, brutish and short,” written by Thomas Hobbes.
Answer: Leviathan
11. The composer of this work only allowed it to be published in its entirety after his death, possibly because he thought it might detract from his more serious compositions. Written in 1886, it is scored for two pianos and 11 other instruments. It includes parodies of Offenbach’s can-can from Orpheus, Berlioz’s Valse des Sylphes, a Rossini aria, and the composer’s own Danse Macabre. The thirteenth movement, or the Swan, was later published on its own as a cello solo. FTP, name this orchestral suite by Camille Saint-Saens.
Answer: Carnival of the Animals
12. He held nearly 300 patents, developing infrared heat lamps and a recoilless harpoon gun. His most distinguished scientific contribution came in 1924, and by 1929, his company had been bought by Postum, which renamed itself General Foods. The inspiration for his most famous innovation came from watching the natives of Labrador prepare food in the winter. FTP, name this inventor whose name can be seen on products in the frozen food aisle.
Answer: Clarence Birdseye
13. Although he was the ghost writer for Krusty The Clown’s book Your Shoe’s Too Big To Kick Box God, this real author’s first novel was Poorhouse Fair which was followed by The Centaur, winner of a National Book Award. His other popular works include the short story “A&P,” The Witches of Eastwick, and a series about ex-basketball player Harry Angstrom. FTP, name this Pulitzer Prize winning author of Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest.
Answer: John Updike
14. The world’s first quadruple screw steamer, this Cunard Line ship was launched in 1906 and made its first voyage in September 1907. Because its regular captain was suffering exhaustion, it was captained by William Turner when it sank in May 1915, with 1198 of the nearly 2000 people on board perishing. Torpedoed off the southern coast of Ireland by a German U-20, the ship has long been suspected of having carried munitions to the Allies when it sank. FTP, name this ship whose sinking was instrumental in America’s entry into WWI.
Answer: Lusitania
15. WARNING -- TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: One was born in Chicago, the other in Northampton, England. One received his Ph.D. from the University of Indiana; the other received his from Cambridge University. The American was a biochemist; the Brit was a biophysicist. Along with the aid of British biophysicist Maurice Wilkens, they made a discovery that won them the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. For ten points, name the two men who discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
Answer: James Dewey Watson & Francis Harry Compton Crick
16. A section of it known as the NADW acts as a pulling mechanism to maintain its direction and intensity, but a shutdown of it could greatly impact the climate of northeastern Europe. It is several hundred miles wide in its end section, the North Atlantic Drift, but it travels at 3 miles per hour before passing through the Straits of Florida. FTP, name this warm ocean current.
Answer: the Gulf Stream
17. At 16 he was chosen to lead a choral chant to the gods celebrating the Greek victory over the Persian fleet at Salamis. He first came to fame in 468 B.C., defeating Aeschylus in a drama competition; in his 123 plays he introduced important innovations such as increasing the size of the chorus to 15 and adding a third actor to scenes. FTP, name this Greek playwright of Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
Answer: Sophocles
18. This 1862 American Civil War battle was technically a draw, but a strategic setback for the Confederacy. It saw witness to the single bloodiest day of fighting in the war and it ended Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of the north. Known by the Confederates as Sharpsburg, FTP name this battle fought near a creek in Maryland that allowed President Abraham Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.
Answer: Antietam
19. Francis Wenham built the first in 1871; one at NASA's Langley center has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. The Wright brothers designed and built a 16-inch square model with two fans powered by a gasoline engine. FTP, name this experimental device in which the aerodynamic characteristics of new planes, trains and automobiles can be examined.
Answer: Wind tunnel
20. This immigrant spent much of the early 1970’s in a public battle with the US government to earn the right to live in the United States. In 1976 he was granted permanent residency, but on December 8, 1980 he was assassinated in front of his home in New York City. FTP name this Englishman who should’ve stayed home, a former member of a 1960’s rock band known as The Beatles.
Answer: John Lennon
21. Born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England this man was a professor at Cambridge from 1669 until 1687. He spent the latter half of his life occupying various government posts in London and fighting with Leibniz over which had invented calculus. In 1705 he became the first Scientist ever knighted for his achievements. He died in London on March 31, 1727, and is perhaps best remembered today for an incident with an apple.
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton
22. Although he was only 31 when he died in 1828, he left behind a rich musical legacy including ten symphonies, many chamber and solo piano works, and more than 600 Lieder, or songs. Name this Viennese composer of such works as the song cycle Winterreise (VIN-ter-rye-zeh) or The Winter Journey, the Trout Quintet, and the Unfinished Symphony,
Answer: Franz Schubert
23. These shoes were originally manufactured by BF Goodrich and had their heyday when they competed with Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars in the 1950’s and 1960’s. They’ve recently made a modest comeback (I’m wearing them right now) after being bought by New Balance. FTP name these shoes which are “guaranteed to make you run faster and jump higher.”
Answer: PF Flyers
BONI – ROUND 7 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by UTC’s Nick Bradshaw, Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, Macon State’s Travis Lightsey, Missouri’s Jason Carl Mueller, and various other freelancers
1. FTPE identify the following battles of the Pacific from World War II.
A photo of the raising of an American flag on Mt. Suribachi at the climax of the 1945 battle inspired one of America’s best-known monuments.
Answer: Iwo Jima
In this May 1942 battle, the US lost the Lexington, but the Yorktown escaped to fight in five other major battles against the Japanese.
Answer: Coral Sea
The opposing fleets never fired on or even sighted each other in this battle of June 4th through 7th, 1942, considered the turning point in the Pacific because the Japanese lost all 4 of their carriers.
Answer: Midway
2. Name these non-English speaking Nobel Prize winning authors from works, FTPE.
a) His works include The Magic Mountain, as well as Death in Venice and Buddenbrooks, both of which deal with the conflict between the artist and middle class values.
Answer: Thomas Mann
b) Though his poetry collections included My Sister, Life, Second Birth, and On Early Trains, he is best remembered for his novel Dr. Zhivago and for rejecting the Nobel Prize.
Answer: Boris Pasternak
c) His interest in Eastern religion can be seen in Siddhartha, which his symbolic and psychoanalytic works include Steppenwolf and Journey to the East.
Answer: Hermann Hesse
3. Name these psychologists from experiments they performed, FTPE:
a) This Russian scientist studied conditioned reflex through an experiment where dogs associated food with a bell such that they would salivate at the sound of just the bell.
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
b) His study of operant conditioning led to the creation of his namesake box, a special chamber in which pigeons were rewarded or punished to teach them certain behaviors.
Answer: B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
c) A pioneer in animal behavior, this Austrian scientist discovered imprinting behavior, showing that goslings would follow him if, during the appropriate phase, he exhibited the necessary traits.
Answer: Konrad Lorenz
4. Name the classic Nintendo game from the given clues TPE.
a. This 80’s game introduced a gun-wielding duo fighting off aliens by blasting everything in sight. It had the same name as the guerrilla force supported by the U.S. in Nicaragua in the mid-Eighties.
Answer: Contra
b. One of the first RPG’s made for the NES, it followed the adventures of a Hyrulian boy named Link on a quest to find heart containers, catch fairies, and save a princess.
Answer: (The Legend of) Zelda
c. Created by Alexei Pazhitnov, this game revolves around the strategic placement of tiles comprised of four squares, hence its name.
Answer: Tetris
5. Given the formula of the polyatomic ion, name the ion FTPE.
a. Cr2O7 -2
Answer: dichromate
b. OH -1
Answer: hydroxide
c. PO3 -3
Answer: phosphite
6. Given the treaty that ended it, identify the war FTPE.
(10) Treaty of Portsmouth
Answer: Russo-Japanese War
(10) Peace of Westphalia
Answer: Thirty Year’s War
(10) Treaty of of Aix-la-Chapelle
Answer: War of Austrian Succession
7. Earlier we asked about books by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Let’s get more specific. FTPE identify these Hawthorne short stories, all of which have title characters:
The title character goes into the woods only to see his wife and the rest of the town practicing witchcraft.
Answer: Young Goodman Brown
The titular character is kept in a garden full of poisonous plants by her father, and her lover Giovanni is killed when he tries to see her.
Answer: Rappaccini's Daughter
A man is waiting to meet this titular character in a New England, Revolutionary era town. Unfortunately when he does meet him, the man is being paraded around town and is in the process of being tarred and feathered.
Answer: My Kinsman, Major Molineaux
8. Given an island or island group, identify the nation that clams it.
a. Greenland
Answer: Denmark
b. Guam
Answer: U.S.
c. Galapagos Islands
Answer: Ecuador
9. Answer these questions about the anatomy of the lung FTP each.
These are the small, elastic sacs of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between the blood and air.
Answer: alveoli
In this respiratory disorder, the alveoli lose their elasticity, thus causing the lungs to be permanently inflated.
Answer: emphysema
This term describes one of the branchings of the trachea into the two lungs.
Answer: Bronchi or bronchus
10. What do the artists in this bonus have in common??? Not much, except their names start with the letter “C.” FTPE, name the artist given the title and year of their work.
A. Untitled (The Constellation Mobile), 1941
Answer: Alexander Calder
B. The Conversion of Saint Peter, 1600-1601
Answer: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
C. Surrounded Islands, 1980-1983
Answer: Christo or Christo Javacheff
11. Everyone has a different idea of fun. FTP each, answer these questions about someone with quite a convoluted sense of fun, John Brown.
(10) In 1856, during the “Bleeding Kansas” period, Brown and his sons decided to get their kicks by hacking 5 proslavery men to death near this rivulet.
Answer: Pottawatomie Creek
(10) In 1859, Brown thought that if he raided the federal arsenal in this Virginia city, it would trigger a slave uprising.
Answer: Harper’s Ferry
(10) After the raid on Harper’s Ferry, this Lt. Colonel led the Marines who took back the arsenal, wounding Brown in the process.
Answer: Robert E. Lee
12. Given a "Saturday Night Live" character, name the actor who portrayed them F5PE or 30 for all 5:
a. Mango
Answer: Chris Kattan
b. The Ladies Man
Answer: Tim Meadows
c. Matt Foley
Answer: Chris Farley
d. The Church Lady
Answer: Dana Carvey
c. Gumby
Answer: Eddie Murphy
13. Answer the following about light for 15 points each:
(15) Always greater than one, is this property, which is defined as the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in that given substance.
Answer: index of refraction
(15) The index of refraction can be calculated with this law, which says the ratio of the sines of the angles of refraction are equal to the inverse ratio of the indices of refraction.
Answer: Snell's law
14. Name the Sinclair Lewis novels from a description FTPE.
(10) Set in Gopher Prairie, this novel depicts Carol Kennicott’s attempts to deal with her new life.
Answer: Main Street
(10) Set in Zenith, this novel explores the life of a middle-class businessman who rebels for a while, then goes back to conformity.
Answer: Babbit
(10) This 1927 novel details the career of a hypocritical Methodist minister who privately drinks and sleeps around.
Answer: Elmer Gantry
15. Given a country, name its national anthem FTPE.
(10) Canada
Answer: O, Canada!
(10) United Kingdom
Answer: God Save the Queen
(10) France
Answer: Le Marseillaise
16. Pencil and paper ready for a math question. For ten points each, given a function, determine its inverse or state that it is not a 1-1 function
a) y = 2x - 3
Answer: y = (x + 3) / 2
b) y = absolute value of x
Answer: not a 1-1 function
c) y = x^3 – 4
Answer: y = cube root of (x + 4)
17. 30-20-10, name the poem from lines.
30: Five miles meandering with a mazy motion / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran
20: But oh! That deep romantic chasm which slanted / Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
10: A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw.
Answer: Kubla Khan
18. They are often depicted with animal heads, usually to represent animals sacred to them or characteristics associated with them. FTPE, name these Egyptian gods from a description:
a) The sun god and creator of the universe, he was often depicted with the head of a hawk.
Answer: Ra
b) The god of the dead, he was often depicted with the head of a jackal.
Answer: Anubis
c) God of sky, light, and goodness, this son of Isis and Osiris was usually depicted with a falcon head.
Answer: Horus
19. Given a king of France, identify the royal house they belonged to FTP each.
(10) Philip II Augustus
Answer: Capetian
(10) Louis-Philippe
Answer: Orleans
(10) Henry III
Answer: Valois
20. Give the SI unit for the following quantities, on a 5-10-15 basis
(5) length
Answer: meter
(10) electrical current
Answer: ampere
(15) luminous intensity
Answer: candela (candle)
21. 30-20-10, name the year from clues:
30) George Cayley successfully flies the world’s first heavier-than-air flying machine, a glider, 500 feet; land now in southern Arizona and New Mexico acquired through the Gadsden Purchase.
20) Commodore Matthew Perry enters Edo Bay and forcibly opens trade with Japan; Second Grinnel Arctic expedition begins under the leadership of Elisha Kane, who will venture further north than any explorer before him.
10) Less than one month after entering office, William King, Franklin Pierce’s Vice President, dies; the University of Florida founded
Answer: 1853
22. Answer the following about your old pal, Washington Irving FTPE.
A. For a time Irving served in Spain as a diplomat, leading to the collection of stories in this work, named for a Moorish fort in Granada.
Answer: The Legends of the Alhambra
B. Irving’s satirical History of New York was written under this pseudonym, explaining a certain NBA team’s nickname.
Answer: Diedrich Knickerbocker (do NOT accept “Knicks” or anything like that)
C. Irving’s most famous tales, including “Rip van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” appeared in this collection under the appropriate pseudonym of Geoffrey Crayon.
Answer: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
TOSSUPS – ROUND 8 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by the crew from Case Western Reserve University: Scott McMichael, Nicholas Liaw, Roger Chang, James Cheng, Erin Salter, Mike Giasondo, Vik Seetharaman, and Jeff Hanson, with Valencia’s Chris Borglum
1. This physical property can be written (nu times rho) or as (tau divided by du dy). Fluids possessing this property are known as Newtonian fluids. When two plates are placed opposite sides of a fluid and the lower plate is moved, it is this property which allows force to be transmitted from the lower plate to the opposite plate. For ten points what is this property of fluids which makes molasses slow?
Answer: Viscosity
2. This event occurred on March 25, 1911, in New York City, prompting the creation of the New York State Factory Commission and massive labor reform. Prior to the event, working conditions there were poor; long monotonous work for little pay. The workers there consisted of young immigrant women and children. For ten points, identify this disaster in which 47 seven workers leapt to their deaths, while another 99 burned to death due to locked fire exits, to prevent workers from leaving early.
Answer: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
3. Originally published as Voyna I Mir, this 19th century novel presents a detailed background of Russian society during the early 1800’s. In addition to telling the story, this 365 chapter novel conveys the author’s philosophy of a deterministic history. The book primarily follows five aristocratic families, the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs, but portrays many other characters as well including the main characters, Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezukhov. For ten points, what is this epic length novel of Leo Tolstoy?
Answer: War and Peace
4. After an 1890 Paris exhibition of Japanese prints, this painter created a series of prints that included the "Coiffure". Originally featuring subjects of groups of women in activities such as drinking tea, this painter's later works included the theme of a mother in child in works such as "The Bath" and "Mother and Child Against a Green Background (Maternity)". FTP, name this friend of Edgar Degas, the daughter of a Pittsburgh businessman.
Answer: Mary Cassatt
5. This Christian denomination has a rather unique history. Its prophet and founder was visited by an angel, who told him of Urim and Thummim. These were seeing stones which were attached to a breastplate and could be used to interpret the gospel written upon two gold plates. However, their prophet met an untimely end in Carthage, Illinois in 1844. For ten points what is this growing American religion, practiced most heavily in Utah?
Answer: Mormonism or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
6. Once known as oil of vitriol, it has uses in fertilizer manufacturing, ore processing, and oil refining. It is the most widely used industrial chemical and is produced through a contact process involving a platinum catalyst. This colorless liquid is one of the chemicals that produces acid rain. For ten points, what is this acid with the formula H2SO4?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid
7. He first began his governmental career as the floor leader in the House of Representatives for the Washington administration. Before taking this position, his Virginia plan formed the basis of our Constitution, and he helped in the writing of The Federalist, a series of essays that promoted ratification of that Constitution. FTP who was this man, also the President of the United States of America from 1809-1817?
Answer: James Madison
8. When he was captured and enslaved while fighting for the Austrian army, his captors got so sick of his failed escape attempts that they were happy when he was ransomed by the Trinitarians. While in Andalusia, he published the second part of his masterpiece well after Avellaneda wrote a sequel to the first part. FTP, name this writer behind Don Quixote.
Answer: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
9. This prolific 18th century composer served the Esterházy family for almost his entire life. He spent most of his time in Vienna where he wrote works such as The Seven Last Words. He composed a number of operas such as Il Mondo Della Luna and Armida, but his operas were never as popular as the rest of his music. Quartets were dedicated to him by Mozart and he was extremely well respected even though his music was old-fashioned compared to Beethoven’s. For ten points who was this composer of The Creation and The Seasons?
Answer: Franz Joseph Haydn
10. In ancient times this nation traded hands between the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and Sicilians. In 1530 it was given to the Knights of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem who fortified it and resisted a Turkish invasion in 1565. They were unable to prevent Napoleon from taking this island in 1798, and the British took it from the French in 1814. It was an important naval base in World War 2 and suffered heavy bombing but survived to gain its independence in 1964. For ten points what is this popular tourist destination located south of Sicily?
Answer: Malta
11. The ability to pick up on these signals is much more acute in mammals than in other species, with the exception of humans. However, if we were able to hone in on these signals, than perhaps mammal sniffing would be as popular as bird watching. FTP, name these chemicals, often released during mating rituals.
Answer: Pheromones
12. Born in 1918 of peasant origin, he joined the British Royal Military in 1938 and was posted to the Sudan. There he helped found the secret anti-British, anti-monarchy Free Officers group, for which the British imprisoned him during WWII. When the Free Officers seized power in 1952, this man helped Gamel Abdel-Nasser take political control. Co-recipient of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Menachem Begin, FTP name this man who succeeded Nasser in 1970 and who was assassinated in Cairo in 1981.
Answer: Anwar el-Sadat
13. First, a lexical analyzer isolates words and punctuation into a sequence of tokens. Syntax analysis turns this token sequence into logical trees, and a semantic analyzer checks that all types match up correctly. An intermediate code generator produces code which is then optimized into the desired program. For ten points, what is this computer program that converts a higher level language into a machine language program?
Answer: Compiler
14. Though first published in 1922 this German novel about finding one’s own truth did not become popular until 40 years later. It tells the tale of the son of a Brahmin and his friend Govinda. While Govinda follows the mystic Goatama, the title character explores a life of asceticism, then moves to a life of hedonism and worldly excess. He later rejects this life and finds meaning with a ferryman and a river. FTP what is this novel on enlightenment written by Hermann Hesse?
Answer: Siddhartha
15. Aired in both an animated version and one using puppets, this show ran for five seasons during the mid 80’s. It documented the adventures of a group of subterranean creatures as they dealt with the gigantic gorges, the industrious Doozers, and the all-knowing Trash Heap. For ten points, what is the name of this show starring Gobo, Red, Mokey, Boober, and Wembley?
Answer: Fraggle Rock
16. At first glance, a series of changes put into effect by the Czar, which included reform in education, justice, free speech, and the military, seemed well intentioned and a sign of liberalization, but later revealed to be statements that were never really intended to create great change. FTP, these were the so-called Great Reforms of which Czar of Russia, whose halfhearted implementation of them led to his assassination in 1881?
Answer: Alexander II
17. Despite being only 40% complete when she was found in Ethiopia in 1974, scientists were able to determine that she stood about 3 and a half feet tall and weighed about 60 pounds. She was a hominid from the waist down and an ape from the waste up, but in fact her designation as a “she” is not known for certain. She has long been thought to be the oldest erect walking human ancestor to be found. Her formal name is Australopithecus Afarensis, but she is much better known by, for ten points, what name that comes from the title of a Beatles song?
Answer: Lucy
18. Unlike most other authors, his self-portrait slash fictional narrative was published in 1999, 38 years after his death. Entitled True at First Light, it was actually written in 1953 after he returned from a hunting trip in Kenya. It is his deemed his “final” book, published after 1970’s Islands in the Stream and 1964’s A Moveable Feast. FTP, name this former American author and ambulance driver.
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
19. A biker, a wrestler, a Hong Kong cop, and an assassin are among those that all come together to compete for a billion dollar prize offered by the Mishima Zaibatsu. Also made into a second-rate animated movie, FTP, identify this fighting game series from Namco whose winner claims the title “King of the Iron Fist.”
Answer: Tekken
20. He rejected all ideas not based in reason, including religious traditions, was an outspoken opponent to all forms of injustice. The ideas of this man, born François Marie Arouet, made him often a celebrity but occasionally put him in exile. FTP, identify this philosopher who was the author of the satirical work Candide.
Answer: Voltaire (accept Francois Marie Arouet before it is said)
21. Romeo and Juliet, Manon, Giselle, David Blaire, Cinderella, Hobsons Choice, Alicia Markova, Don Quixote, La Fille mal Gardee, Still Life at the Penguin Café, Rudolph Nurayev, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Unitard. FTP, All of these are related to what form of dance?
Answer: Ballet
22. Classical cryptosystems, where a letter is substituted for another by some kind of mechanism, were simple to crack even without computers. This is because regardless of the system used, it is always possible to do statistical analysis on the system and discover that there is a strict hierarchy of the frequency in which the letters appear. One letter in particular, once it is known, can lead to the cracking of the system. FTP, what is this letter of the alphabet which does not begin any word of this question?
Answer: the letter e
BONI – ROUND 8 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by the crew from Case Western Reserve University: Scott McMichael, Nicholas Liaw, Roger Chang, James Cheng, Erin Salter, Mike Giasondo, Vik Seetharaman, and Jeff Hanson, with Valencia’s Chris Borglum
1. Identify the following composers from works FTPE:
10) 1725 - The Four Seasons
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi
10) 1924 - Rhapsody in Blue
Answer: George Gershwin
10) 1942 - Rodeo
Answer: Aaron Copland
2. The following commonly used words are actually registered trademarks. FTPE, name the company that originally trademarked it.
A) UNIX, which I’m betting Carrot Top has never pitched for them.
Answer: AT&T
B) Ethernet, but not the act of copying
Answer: Xerox
C. Heroin, which is surprising considering they also make a pain relieving medication.
Answer: Bayer
3. For ten points each, identify these Mark Twain works.
A) Hank Morgan is knocked 1300 years into the past and shakes up society with inventions such as the telegraph, bicycles, and guns.
Answer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
B) Tom Canty switches places with Edward the 6th, but the two go back to their real places in time for Edward’s coronation.
Answer: The Prince and the Pauper
B) This novel full of heavily caricatured travelers is based on letters written by Twain while on an 1867 voyage through Europe, Russia, Africa, and Bermuda.
Answer: The Innocents Abroad
4. Answer the following questions about marine life for 10 points each:
A) What is the phylum that includes snails, clams, squids, and octopuses.
Answer: Mollusks or Mollusca
B) What name identifies a mollusk with two hinged shell halves such as an oyster or mussel?
Answer: Bivalvia or bivalves
C) What name identifies the largest group of mollusks including snails, conches, whelks, limpets, and sea slugs?
Answer: Gastropoda or gastropods
5. Given the year in which it was signed, name the war ended by a Treaty of Paris FTPE.
A) 1763
Answer: French and Indian War
B) 1783
Answer: American Revolution
C) 1898
Answer: Spanish-American War
6. Identify these cloud types, FTP each:
(10) Also called thunderheads, these tall, vertical clouds produce intense thunderstorms.
Answer: cumulonimbus (prompt on “cumulus” or “nimbus”)
(10) Also called mare’s tails, these are high, wispy clouds.
Answer: cirrus
(10) These mid-level clouds tend to occur in puffy rolls, waves, or parallel bands.
Answer: altocumulus (prompt on “cumulus”)
7. For ten points identify these mystery series from descriptions.
A) The detective Qwilleran solves mysteries with the aid of his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. The titles of these novels by Lilian Jackson Braun all begin with the same three words.
Answer: “The Cat Who” series
B) Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Bennie are orphaned children who live in the title object and solve mysteries.
Answer: The Boxcar Children series
C) This children’s series by Donald J. Sobol consists of multiple short stories in the town of Idaville where the title character and his friend Sally solve crimes in exchange for a quarter.
Answer: Encyclopedia Brown series
8. Identify the following Paris landmarks FTPE.
A) Commissioned in 1806 by Napoleon, shortly after his victory at Austerlitz, it was not finished until 1836.
Answer: Arc de Triomphe
B) This landmark was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution.
Answer: Eiffel Tower
C) The origins of this landmark date to 1200 when Philippe August began construction of a fortress on the banks of the Seine, However the original structure comprised less than a quarter of the present day version.
Answer: The Louvre
9. Identify the titles of these American novels by their first lines FTPE.
A) “Call me Ishmael.”
Answer: Moby Dick
B) “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
C) “I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.”
Answer: Ethan Frome
10. Answer the following about Mohandas K. Gandhi FTPE.
A. From 1893 till 1914 Gandhi worked as a lawyer against discrimination against Indians in what country?
Answer: South Africa
B. In 1930 he led what march to the sea in order to fight a government monopoly on the production of a required substance?
Answer: Salt
C. Gandhi used what method of civil disobedience to shame Hindus & Muslims during their 1947 conflicts pre- partition?
Answer: hunger strike (acc. reasonable variants)
11. Name these common polyatomic ions FTPE:
A) C2H3O2-1
Answer: Acetate
B) SiO4-4
Answer: Silicate
C) H3O+1
Answer: Hydronium
12. A list was recently compiled on classicrock. ranking the 500 greatest rock and roll songs of all time. FTPE, answer the following questions about that list.
A) The number one slot went to this 8 minute Led Zeppelin song about “a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold.”
Answer: Stairway to Heaven
B) This group had the most songs in the list, with songs such as “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “Sympathy for the Devil,” and “Brown Sugar” all making Top 100 appearances.
Answer: The Rolling Stones
C) This group had the most Top 10 songs: “Dream On” and “Sweet Emotion.”
Answer: Aerosmith
13. Answer these questions about Dante’s Inferno FTSNOP.
10) What inscription does Dante see on the Gates of Hell?
Answer: “Abandon all hope you who enter here.”
5) Antaeus the giant carries Dante and Virgil to this Circle of Hell, where traitors are imprisoned in the ice of the lake Cocytus.
Answer: 9th
15) At the center of the earth, Dante and Virgil encounter Lucifer, whose three heads are each chewing on one of the three worst sinners. FFPE, name all three.
Answer: Judas, Brutus, Cassius
14. For 10 points each, identify the British king.
A) In 1282, this monarch was surprised by a Welsh revolt and by the April of 1283 he had subjugated the whole of Wales. He also began a massive castle building project that is still rightly seen as one of the wonders of the thirteenth century.
Answer: Edward I or The Hammer of the Scots
B) This man received the throne as heir to Edward the Confessor. The first five years of his reign were spent suppressing English rebellions. He also dealt with the conquest of much of Wales during 1070 to 1085.
Answer: William I or William the Conqueror
C) This king was the second son of Henry II. A majority of time, this king was not in Britain, but fighting in continental Europe. He was present in 1194 to be crowned for a second time however.
Answer: Richard I or Richard the Lionhearted
15. Identify the following theorems from calculus FTPE.
A) Let f(x) be differentiable on the open interval (a,b) and continuous on the closed interval [a,b]. Then there is at least one point c in (a,b) such that f prime of c equals f of b minus f of a divided by b minus a.
Answer: Mean-Value Theorem
B) If f is continuous on the closed interval a, b and g is the antiderivative of f on a, b, then the integral from a to b of f equals g of b minus g of a.
Answer: First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (prompt on Fundamental)
C) If f is continuous on an open interval I and a is any point in I, and if the antiderivative g is defined by g equals the integral from a to x of f of t, then g prime of x equals f of x.
Answer: Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (prompt on Fundamental)
16. FTPE, answer these questions about figures from Genesis.
(10) Judaism, Christianity and Islam all acknowledge this figure, and his name is often invoked to describe the three religions as a group.
Answer: Abraham
(10) In the book of Genesis, Abraham was ordered by God to kill this son, but was stopped by an angel at the last minute.
Answer: Isaac
(10) He was Abraham's son by Hagar, and according to Islamic tradition, the prophet Muhammed was his descendant.
Answer: Ishmael
17. It’s time for fun with physics! Identify the following about types of particles FTPE.
A) Subject to the Pauli exclusion principle, this general type of particle includes electrons, protons, and neutrons.
Answer: Fermions
B) Fermions can only have spin with this number, either positive or negative.
Answer: one-half
C) This type of particle, however, can have an integer spin.
Answer: Boson
18. Given the battle, name the war for 10 points each.
A) Battle of the Marne
Answer: World War I
B) Battle of San Juan Hill
Answer: Spanish-American War
C) Battle of Zama
Answer: Second Punic War (prompt on just Punic War or Wars)
19. 30 – 20 – 10, identify the artist from works.
30) View of Fort Samson, the Colt
20) The Circus, Bathers at Asnieres
10) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte
Answer: Georges Seurat
20. Les Miserables is divided into five books primarily named after the title characters: Fantine, Cosette, Marius, St. Denis, and Valjean, in order. FTPE, given an event from the novel, name which book it occurs in.
A) Jean Valjean is spared by the Bishop of Digne.
Answer: Fantine
B) The attack on the barricades occurs.
Answer: St. Denis
C) Marius and Cosette are married.
Answer: Valjean
21. There are five different ways to determine if two triangles are congruent. FFPE or 30 for all 5, name the five ways.
Answer: SSS, SAS, AAS, ASA, or HL
Note: A = angle, S = side, H = Hypotenuse, L = Leg. accept either the abbreviations or the full definition
22. Identify the full name of the new deal agency given the abbreviation FTPE:
A) CWA
Answer: Civil Works Administration
B) TVA
Answer: Tennessee Valley Authority
C) WPA
Answer: Work (Projects or Progress) Administration
23. Name these films featuring Humphrey Bogart FTPE.
A. In this 1939 weepie starring Bette Davis, Bogart puts on a bad Irish accent as the head of the stables.
A. Dark Victory
B. Bogart won his only Oscar for best actor for his role as a crusty boat pilot in what 1949 classic co-starring Katherine Hepburn?
A. The African Queen
C. Bogie played Sam Spade in what 1941 picture also featuring Mary Astor and Peter Lorre?
A. The Maltese Falcon
TOSSUPS – ROUND 9 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by the CWRU crew with Michael Napier, Michael Swick, and Chris Borglum et al.
1. At the top of this work is a set of cabinets, the doors slightly parted. To the right is an open door with a message on it, a message that also appears on the floor accompanied by arrows. In the center of the picture there stands a washer and dryer, with the dryer door open and also having a message written on it and an arrow pointing into the dryer. A box of detergent sits on the washer, and a cat looks into the open door of the dryer. Adjacent to the washer is a dog standing in the corner thinking “Oh please, Oh please…” For ten points what is the message on the door, floor, and dryer in this classic cartoon from Gary Larson?
Answer: Cat Fud
2. First created in 1958, these small devices are composed of three parts: a source, drain, and gate. The two different varieties, n-type and p-type are created by inserting impurities into silicon surfaces. These devices act as switches, allowing current to flow only when the correct voltage is applied to them. For ten points what are these computer components that are extremely tightly packed on silicon chips?
Answer: Transistors
3. Born Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, this figure was a commander under the Castilian king in 1065. He was the hero in the struggle to liberate Toledo from the Moslems. After a conflict with his king he entered the Moors service. He served the Muslim rulers of Saragossa while preparing to seize control of the Moorish kingdom of Valencia, accomplishing that in 1094. He ruled it until his death, but it again fell under Muslim control afterward. For 10 points, name this somewhat exaggerated Spanish Hero.
Answer: El Cid
4. Rebecca proved extremely useful when she played the piano for you. She only did so for Chris because Jill could play the piano on her own. However, Jill wasn’t able to open locked doors until she met Barry who informed her that she was the master of unlocking said doors. However, the conclusion to both scenarios was exactly the same: Albert Wesker betrayed the STARS team to the Umbrella Corporation. FTP, name this horror game from Capcom.
Answer: Resident Evil (accept STARS before it is read)
5. This ancient group of people last from approximately 3100 BC to 2000 BC in the middle eastern region. They had established complex irrigation and canal networks which would eventually allow them to construct city-states such as Eridu, Nippur, Lagash, Kish, and Ur. They were conquered briefly by the Akkad kingdom in 2340 but recovered to be conquered by Hammurabi of Babylon in at abou 1800 BC. For ten points what was this early Mesopotamian civilization known for its cuneiform writing?
Answer: Sumerians
6. A colorless flammable liquid with a sweet odor, it evaporates easily into air. It is one of the top 20 chemicals in terms of production volume in the US, which is then used to synthesize various plastics and polymers, among other things. Chemically, it has an interesting property of having unsaturated carbons, yet is relatively unreactive. This can be attributed to resonance and electron delocalization around its six carbon ring. For ten points, what is the name of this aromatic compound with the chemical formula C6H6?
Answer: benzene
7. This man rose to military fame in the Franco-Prussian war, and as general in World War I, was forced to direct the retreat of the German Army on the Western Front to his namesake line. Elected the second president of the German Republic, after failing to stop the rise of the Nazi party, he appointed Adolph Hitler as chancellor. FTP who was this man that shares his name with the Zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, NJ?
Answer: Paul von Hindenburg
8. After Mozart, he is perhaps the best know child prodigy ever to writer music. However, unlike Mozart, he was able to write music of a higher quality at approximately the same age, such as his Octet in E-Flat major. FTP, name this composer that founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music, composer of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn
9. This novel has a sequel, Closing Time, published in 1994. The protagonist is haunted by the memory of the death of Snowden, who died in his arms. His squadron’s mess officer, Milo Minderbinder, makes a fortune on the black market, while his squadron leader, Major Major, will only see people in his office when he’s not there. FTP this describes what 1961 novel by Joseph Heller?
Answer: Catch-22
10. He was only a minor god in the Vedas, associated with the then powerful Indra. He became highly revered through his efforts in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana through his avatars Rama and Krishna. Buddha is also one of his ten avatars, the last of which is expected to save the world from destruction. FTP, name this god, second member of the Hindu trimurti, the preserver.
Answer: Vishnu
11. Cells found in this type of organism contain defined organelles, and most importantly, a nucleus. They can be multi-celled or single celled, and each cell is several orders of magnitude greater in volume than in other cells. FTP, what is the term for any organism that is not a bacteria or virus?
Answer: eukaryote
12. In the course of this the reader encounters a faked death, a falsified tale of smallpox, a deadly feud between two southern families, an English duke, the lost dauphin heir to the French throne, and an rescue plan that adds more trouble to the rescue then there ever was to start with. For ten points, name this frequently banned book that follows the exploits of the good friend of Tom Sawyer.
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
13. Consisting of three major goals, its implementation resulted in a dramatic increase level of government involvement in the economy. With a Democratic majority in Congress, within a period of only 100 days, the main components of this huge plan were approved. FTP, what was the name of this plan of national recovery, the platform on which Franklin Roosevelt successfully ran in the election of 1932?
Answer: New Deal
14. This book describes the system of free enterprise, and considers it the most efficient and dynamic economic system ever created. However, it also regards this system as afflicted with flaws that will destroy it through increasingly severe periods of inflation and depression. According to the book, the most serious flaw in the free enterprise system is that it accumulates more and more wealth while becoming less and less capable of utilizing this wealth wisely. For 10 points, name this book, the life’s work of Karl Marx.
Answer: Das Kapital (Accept Capital)
15. Born in Cody, Wyoming, he studied in New York City under Thomas Hart Benton and worked on the Work Projects Administration Federal Art Project. He was deeply influenced by the surrealism, but charted his own path as an abstract expressionist. FTP name this painter, famous for the action-painting style in which he dripped paint from sticks or trowels onto huge canvasses stretched on the floor.
Answer: Jackson Pollock
16. Born into slavery in Maryland in 1820, this historical figure managed to escape to Philadelphia in 1849. Her fame spread quickly, as a $40,000 bounty (“Wanted: Dead or Alive”) was placed on her head by the 1850’s. During the Civil War, she became the first woman in U.S. Military history to lead a unit into combat. For ten points, name this “conductor” in the “Underground Railroad,” personally escorting as many as 300 slaves to freedom and the first African American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.
Answer: Harriet Tubman
17. Born in Canterbury in 1564, he studied at Cambridge University and performed secret service work for the English government. Most well-known as a playwright, his works included Tamburlaine the Great and Edward II. His non-dramatic poems included the unfinished Hero and Leander; translations of the Roman poets Lucan and Ovid; and the pastoral lyric “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” For 10 points, name this Elizabethan writer of tragedy most famous for The Jew of Malta and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
18. Unlike normal dealings with the x and y variables, saying that one of these is bigger than another one has no meaning; after all, they are essentially points in a plane. It is extremely easy to convert them into polar notation as all you need to do is take the absolute value of the number times the quanitity of cosine of theta plus i times sin theta, where theta equals the inverse tangent of y over x. FTP, name these numbers which contain both a real part and an imaginary part.
Answer: Complex numbers (do NOT accept imaginary numbers; imaginary numbers contain only an imaginary part.)
19. Its highest point is Timms Hill at 1,951 feet above sea level with the lowest point being located on the border with Lake Michigan. The impression that it is generally a cold area is pretty accurate, especially noting that the average temperature goes from 82 to 5 degrees F. Bordered by Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, FTP, name this state with its capitol at Madison.
Answer: Wisconsin
20. This quantity is positive when it is done by the system on the surroundings, but is negative when it is done to the system by the surroundings. Assuming adiabatic conditions, it simply equal to the integral of the heat capacity at constant volume with respect to the change in temperature, or simply the change in internal energy. For ten points, identify this thermodynamic quantity, which is defined as force multiplied by distance in classical mechanics.
Answer: work
21. He was born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, Austria. He came to the United States to attend The University of Wisconsin, majoring in business and economics. After graduating, he invested in real estate and a mail order bodybuilding equipment company, making him a millionaire before the age 22. Although his first acting venture Hercules in New York is not too well known, in later years, he became much more popular, starring in movies like Conan the Barbarian, True Lies, and the Terminator series. For ten points, identify California’s current governor as of 2003.
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
22. Clay is a normal lawyer working at the Office of the Public Defender. However, he is soon assigned a case in which a client is given a drug called Tarvan. The case balloons into a lawsuit against one of the most powerful pharmaceutical companies in the world. FTP, name this newest John Grisham novel about a lawsuit that involves, as Webster says, “a wrongful act which does not involve a breach of contract and for which the injured party can recover damages in a civil action.”
Answer: King of Torts
23. It is a solemn ordinance or degree of a head of state, relating to a matter of primary importance and carrying the weight of fundamental law. One famous instance of it was the 1438 one that limited papal authority in France. For 10 points name this ruling device, most famously used by Charles VI of Austria in 1713 to ensure the succession of his daughter Maria Theresa.
Answer: Pragmatic Sanction
BONI – ROUND 9 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by the CWRU crew with Michael Napier, Michael Swick, and Chris Borglum et al.
1. Renaissance art is awesome, right? Well, maybe not, but here’s a bonus on Renaissance art anyway. Given
the title, name the artist FTPE:
A. School of Athens, 1509-1511
Answer: Raphael
B. Mona Lisa, 1503-1505
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci [accept either Leonardo or Da Vinci]
C. Man in a Red Turban, 1433
Answer: Jan van Eyck [pronounced “Eck” but accept phonetically plausible attempts]
2. For ten points each identify these characters from American literature.
A) This backwood hero of James Fenimore Cooper appeared in The Deerslayer and The Last of the Mohicans as well as several other novels.
Answer: Natty Bumppo (accept first or last name; prompt on Leatherstocking, the Pathfinder, etc.)
B) Edgar Rice Burroughs created this man first appearing in 1912. He was given his trademark yell by Johnny Weissmuller in 1932.
Answer: Tarzan
C) Going by the name Lamont Cranston (or Kent Allard, depending on whether you read the comics or heard the radio show), this dark hero used magician’s tricks, hypnotism, two automatics, and an eerie laugh to defeat his foes. He had his film debut in 1994.
Answer: The Shadow
3. Name the acid-base classification system for ten points each:
A) Acid generates H+ in solution, bases generate OH-?
Answer: Arrhenius
B) Acid accepts an electron pair, bases donate them?
Answer: Lewis
C) Acids donate an H+ ion, bases accept an H+ ion?
Answer: Bronstedt-Lowry
4. For ten points each, answer the following about easily overlooked conflicts:
A) What nation initially repulsed the USSR but was eventually overwhelmed in the Winter War going from November 1939 to March 1940?
Answer: Finland
B) The 1839 Aroostook war concerned a border dispute between New Brunswick and a US state. Though the militia was summoned no actual fighting occurred. Which state (which gained statehood in 1820) had this conflict with Canada?
Answer: Maine
C) Lasting 72 days and causing nearly 1000 casualties, what was this 1982 war between Britain and Argentina?
Answer: The Falklands War
5. FTPE identify the companies given the candies that they manufacture:
A) Mike and Ike, Hot Tamales, Marshmallow Peeps
Answer: Just Born
B) York Peppermint Patties, Jolly Ranchers, Twizzlers
Answer: Hershey’s
C) Starbursts, Skittles, Snickers
Answer: M&M/Mars, prompt on M&M or Mars
6. I’ll name a religious figure, and you tell me what Protestant denomination she or he is associated with FTPE.
A. Ellen White
Answer: Seventh-Day Adventist
B. George Fox
Answer: Quaker
C. John Wesley
Answer: Methodist
7. Answer the following about the lead-up to the Spanish-American War FSNOP.
A. (5 pts.) The U.S. declared war on Spain soon after this battleship blew up, though many blame a boiler accident.
Answer: USS Maine
B. (10 pts.) This newspaper publisher fanned pro-war sentiment by blaming the Spaniards for the Maine’s destruction, and supposedly told Frederick Remington, “You supply the pictures, and I’ll supply the war.”
Answer: Joseph Pulitzer
C. (15 pts.) This colorful two-word term describes the partisan, outrageous writing in Pulitzer’s newspapers at the time.
Answer: yellow journalism
8. Identify these 19th century British authors based on works, 10 points each, 5 for more familiar works.
10) The Light That Failed, Stalky & Co.
5) Captains Courageous, Kim
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
10) Catriona, The Wrong Box
5) Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
10) Quentin Durward, The Talisman
5) Kenilworth, Waverly, Ivanhoe
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
9. FTPE, given the name of a common group of animals, name their phylum.
A) sponges
Answer: Porifera
B) flatworms
Answer: Platyhelminthes
C) segmented worms
Answer: Annelida
10. FTPE, identify the locations of these geographic extremes.
A) The lowest elevation in the world, at 35,838 ft below sea level.
Answer: Marianas Trench
B) The lowest land elevation in the world, at 1,330 ft below sea level.
Answer: Dead Sea
C) The country with the lowest ‘highest elevation’ in the world, at a height of 2.4 ft above sea level.
Answer: Maldives Islands
11. Identify the following science fiction writers FTPE.
A) Revolt in 2100, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land.
Answer: Robert Heinlein
B) Oceans of Venus, Extraterrestrial Civilizations, The Neutrino: Ghost Particle of the Atom
Answer: Isaac Asimov
C) Ringworld, Mote in God’s Eye, Saturn’s Race
Answer: Larry Niven
12. FTPE, answer the following concerning ancient India.
A) Northern Indian ruler who established the Mauryan empire, lasting from 321 BC to 232 AD.
Answer: Chandragupta
B) Chandragupta’s grandson, who greatly expanded the Mauryan territory and actively spread Buddhismin his later years.
Answer: Asoka
C) Rising after the fall of the Mauryan empire, known as the “Golden Age of Hindu Culture.” The empire lasted from 320 to 535 AD, when the Huns invaded.
Answer: Gupta Empire
13. Name the image file format from its properties FTPE.
A) This file type sees ubiquitous use as the most popular format for digital photos.
Answer: JPEG or JPG
B) This format features lossless compression using the LZW algorithm, but is limited to 256 colors. Popular for web images and clipart due to the possibility for transparency and animation.
Answer: GIF
C) This format was invented as an alternative to GIF to avoid licensing fees. In its 8-bit form, it is nearly identical to GIF, but also has a 24-bit form, which also allows for alpha channels for 256 levels of opacity.
Answer: PNG
14. Answer the following about Mystery Science Theater 3000 FTPE.
A) For the first four and a half seasons, this character was the man forced to watch really bad movies in a space station orbiting the Earth.
Answer: Joel Robinson (accept either name; do NOT accept Joel Hodgson as he is the actor who played Joel Robinson)
B) For 5 points each, name Joel’s robot buddies that watched the movies with him.
Answer: Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo (accept either Tom or Servo)
C) For 5 points each, name any 2 of the 3 mad scientists that kept Joel and the bots in space for Joel’s tenure on the satellite.
Answer: Dr. Clayton Forrestor, TV’s Frank, and Dr. Erhardt
15. Given the formula, identify the physics law it represents, FTPE.
A) V=IR
Answer: Ohm’s Law
B) F=MA
Answer: Newton’s second law of motion
C) Fg=[pic][read: F sub-g equals negative G m-sub-one m-sub-two over r-squared]
Answer: Law of Gravitation
16. Name the Broadway musical from an earlier work on which it was based FTPE.
A) Romeo and Juliet
Answer: West Side Story
B) Pygmalion
Answer: My Fair Lady
C) Madame Butterfly
Answer: Miss Saigon
17. Name the following locations from Norse mythology for ten points each.
A) The world tree that links all of the worlds in Norse mythology
Answer: Yggdrasil
B). The hall of Odin to which fallen heroes were brought.
Answer: Valhalla
C) The home of the gods, linked to Midgard by the Bifrost bridge
Answer: Asgard
18. 30-20-10, name the world figure.
30) Known for his eccentricities, he declared that green was the color of his revolution and proclaimed what he called the “Third Universal Theory.”
20) Officially a colonel, Ronald Reagan bombed his country in 1986 in an attempt to eliminate him. However, in 1999, he released for trial the alleged perpetrators of the bombing of the flight that crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland.
10) He is the current head of state of Libya.
Answer: Col. Muammar Gaddafi or Qaddafi (accept anything where the pronunciation is close)
19. Answer the following about the engine FTPE:
(10) This hypothetical device is the most efficient engine possible.
Answer: Carnot
(10) This German designed the cycle for the internal combustion engine; it is ironically named after him, and not the vehicle it is most seen in.
Answer: Otto
(10) And this German later made improvements on the Otto cycle, and even managed to build a prototype engine.
Answer: Diesel
20. FTPE, name these Truman Capote works.
(10)This “nonfiction novel” is about the brutal November 1959 slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers.
Answer: In Cold Blood
(10)This is the popular story of Holly Golightly, a call girl, free spirit, and adventurer who captivates her neighbor.
Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(10)Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this work tells the story of an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies, who one day take up residence in a tree house.
Answer: The Grass Harp
21. Answer the following regarding phase changes in matter.
(10) This is the process by which solid is converted to liquid, due to absorption of heat and increases in kinetic energy and entropy.
Answer: fusion (accept melting)
(10) This phase change is characterized by a substantial increase in kinetic energy which allows molecules to gain enough speed to escape intermolecular forces and transition from the liquid to the gas phase.
Answer: vaporization
(10) This is the process by which solid is converted directly to gas, thereby skipping the liquid phase.
Answer: sublimation
22. Identify the Roman Triumvirate member FTSNOP.
5) This man had a son with Cleopatra, Cessarion, and was generous to the Jewish population for helping in a battle he commanded.
Answer: Gaius Julius Caesar
10) This man paid off most of Caesar’s debts. He also was involved in collecting taxes in Asia, however he felt he was cheated out of his money for that job.
Answer: Marcus Crassus
(15) This man of the second triumvirate later became Pontifus Maximus of Africa.
Answer: Lepidus
TOSSUPS – PLAYOFF ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with the BAAL team, the CWRU crew, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and other freelancers
1. 10 of his books end with a punctuation mark, either with a question mark, such as Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?, or an exclamation point, like I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, or one of his two books for adults, You’re Only Old Once! However, one of the better known such books is available with a cassette of Dustin Hoffman, Horton Hears a Who!. FTP, name this children’s author all these books and his most famous work, The Cat in the Hat.
Answer: Dr. Seuss (Accept Theodore Seuss Guisel)
2. His name literally means "King of the World". The grandson of Akbar and the father of Aurunzeb, this emperor tried unsuccessfully to depose his father in 1622 and upon his later accencion to the throne, killed all his brothers to prevent future coups. FTP, name this Mughal emperor so devoted to his wife Mumtaz that upon her death he built, as her tomb, the magnificent Taj Mahal.
Answer: Shah Jehan
3. It describes a moment on Lenox Avenue in Harlem. Some thirty years after it was published, the author recorded a spoken version with a jazz accompaniment including bass by legend Charles Mingus. Winner of a contest from Opportunity magazine, its second stanza begins “Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor”. FTP, name this poem about “Droning a drowsy, syncopated tune”, which helped launch the career of Langston Hughes.
Answer: The Weary Blues
4. The first commercially important use of high pressure in production, it can occur in two directions, since the reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen is reversible. Germany had previously imported nitrates from Chile, but the demand for munitions and the uncertainty of this supply in the war prompted the widespread adoption of this process during World War I. FTP, name this means of producing ammonia, which won a 1918 Nobel Prize for its German developer.
Answer: Haber process
5. This German born son of a mechanic emigrated to the United States. In Philadelphia, he began to study art, and became famous for his large scale paintings of historical scenes. FTP, who is the painter of the mural “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” and the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”?
Answer: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
6. This book has been called “the Gospel of the nations” and “the Gospel of the Greeks.” It uses fewer idiomatic Hebrew terms than the other three gospels, and contains seventeen unique parables, including the parable of the Good Samaritain. FTP, name this Gospel that contains a famous account of Christ’s birth, the third book of the New Testament.
Answer: Gospel of Luke
7. During the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers of the Order of the Golden Circle adopted this group’s name. Organized by John Lamb and Alexander McDougall in New York, they took their name from a 1765 Parliamentary speech by Isaac Barre. New England members were the most famous, and included James Otis and Samuel Adams. FTP, name this Revolutionary group who among other activities, organized the Boston Tea Party.
Answer: Sons of Liberty
8. A member of the New Apocalypse movement in Poetry, one of his notable works is “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.” His odd prose works were collected in Adventures in the Skin Trade, and his radio play Under Milk Wood is well known. FTP name this Welsh-born writer best known for the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night.
Answer: Dylan Thomas
9. There are many different ways to prove that it exists between two sets. The first is to prove that the cardinalities of the two sets are the same. The second is to show how for every x, there is only one y where f of x equals y, and there are no y’s that do not have a corresponding x. FTP, name this property which takes one mathematical set and preserves the relationships between members of the set, but changes the elements in the set.
Answer: Isomorphism
10. It was introduced in 1935 by two Portuguese doctors, and was performed on a wide scale up until the 1950s, when antipsychotics, antidepressants, and other drugs were introduced that were more effective in quieting mentally disturbed patients. FTP, name this surgical procedure in which nerve pathways in the brain are severed to calm mentally ill patients.
Answer: Lobotomy
11. Unlike many African nations, each of the elections since its independence in 1966 has been freely and fairly contested and has been held on schedule. Its lowest geographical point is the junction of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers. Many of its residents are protesting Namibia’s planned construction of the Okavango hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls. Formerly the Brisith protectorate of Bechuanaland, FTP, name this landlocked African nation with capital at Gaborone.
Answer: Botswana
12. According to Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 funniest people in America she is number 14. You've seen her on Inside the NFL heckling the football players, and on Seinfield Producer Larry David's Curb your enthusiasm. She got her start on HBO's The Chris Rock show. FTP name this comedienne with her distinctive nasal voice and has her own self-titled show on Fox
Answer: Wanda Sykes
13. This man is the title character in the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to ensure his safe passage home, but once he reached home, his wife Clytemnestra killed him. In response, his son Orestes killed Clytemnestra. FTP, name this man, in Homer, the leader of the Greek armies in the Trojan War.
Answer: Agamemnon
14. She was born in Russia in 1898, moved to Wisconsin in 1905, then moved again in 1921, this time to Palestine. A signer of the proclamation of Israeli independence in 1948, she served as the nation’s first minister to Russia, and was also elected to the Knesset. FTP, who is this woman who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974?
Answer: Golda Meir
15. German physicist Rudolf Clausius coined this term in 1850, and in a simple temperature change, this quantity is the heat capacity of the system at constant pressure. Better known is its existence in a reaction as the heat of the reaction. For 10 points identify this scientific term, represented mathematically as H in the equation H equals U plus P times V.
Answer: Enthalpy
16. This man had a difficult time earning a living as a composer, living in a time where private patronage of composers had become outdated, but state supported programs have not gained much popularity. During his college years, he developed an interest in Hindu literature, producing an opera based on the Ramayana. This eastern influence, as well as his interest in astrology and mythology led to the creation of his most famous work. For ten points, who is this composer, who produced “Seven Pieces for Large Orchestra,” also known as “The Planets”?
Answer: Gustav Holst
17. On October 3, 2003, his organization reported finding a "clandestined network of laboratories" capable of producing biological and chemical weapons. But then on January 23, 2004, he resigned his position to Charles Duelfer and took a more skeptical line, publicly doubting the existence of prewar stockpiles . FTP, name this former CIA coordinator with the Iraq Survey Group and leader of US efforts to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Answer: David Kay
18. In perhaps his most famous work, he rapturously wrote, “I am become a transparent eyeball,” a nod to his pantheistic belief in all things being part of god. Also a poet, he was much influenced by Indian philosophy, as seen in his poems “Hamatreya” and “Brahma.” FTP name this 19th-century American formulator of the concept of the Oversoul, the author of Nature and the leader of the New England Transcendentalists.
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. In this process, an inducer molecule binds to an activator protein. This protein then binds to the activator binding site of a gene, allowing RNA polymerase to transcribe the gene. In the absence of the inducer, transcription does not occur. For 10 points, name this genetic regulatory mechanism, an example of positive control of transcription.
Answer: Induction
20. Its father was a white bull, provided to King Minos as a sacrifice, but when Minos decided to sacrifice something else, Poseidon made Minos' wife fall in love with the bull and through an act of bestiality conceive this creature. It was locked away but required an annual tribute of seven people from Athens until Theseus killed it. FTP, name this creature locked in Daedalus' labyrinth with the head of a bull and the body of a man.
Answer: Minotaur
21. Born in Moravia in 1856, this man moved to Vienna at the age of four and was fluent in six languages by the time he was 8. His later life was less pleasant, as he was chased out of Vienna by the Nazis and suffered from mouth cancer due to his cigar habit. He worked on such topics as “the talking cure”, a three part division of consciousness, and defense mechanisms. For ten points name this psychologist famous for his dream theories.
Answer: Sigmund Freud
22. Known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, this statesman was responsible for lessening the previous Draconian laws of Athens. He also made a major reform in the way the Greek council was organized, creating the Boule of 500. Another of his popular reforms as sole Archon of Athens; was to remove one of the debt laws of Greece. This made it illegal to hold a person in slavery for not paying off debts. For ten points, name this poetic Archon, who was placed in power in 594 B.C.
Answer: Solon
23. It was formulated by Danish physicist Niels Bohr around 1920. It incorporated the Pauli Exclusion Principle and Hund’s Rule, which stated that no two electrons within a particular atom can have identical quantum numbers and that electrons will prefer to enter an empty orbital than one that is already occupied. Declaring the electrons will fill lower energy orbitals first, FTP, identify this important principle in chemistry whose name is German for “building up.”
Answer: Aufbau Principle
BONI – PLAYOFF ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with the BAAL team, the CWRU crew, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and other freelancers
1. Identify these third parties from American history from clues FTP each.
(10) Running for the first and only time in the 1860 election, this party nominated John Bell and avoided taking a stand on sectional issues such as slavery.
Answer: Constitutional Union
(10) This anti-slavery party nominated Martin Van Buren in 1848, helping to split the vote and elect Zachary Taylor. It later combined with remnants of the Liberty Party to form the Republican Party.
Answer: Free-Soil Party
(10) This party advocated increasing the amount of paper money in circulation, thus their name. Moderately successful in 1878, prosperity drove supporters away from them.
Answer: Greenback Party
2. Answer the following about discovery of astronomical bodies FSNOP:
A. For 5, this English astronomer discovered the planet Uranus.
Answer: William Herschel
B. 5 for 1, 10 for both name the mathematicians who accurately predicted where the planet Neptune would be.
Answer: John C. Adams and Urbain Leverrier
C. For 5, name the amateur astronomer who first photographed Pluto.
Answer: Clyde Tombaugh
D. For discovering Pluto, Tombaugh got a full scholarship to the University of Kansas, where he hadn’t even applied. We wonder if the same offer will be made to any members of Dr. Mike Brown’s team, which last week announced the discovery of a possible tenth planet. They named the planet this, after an Inuit goddess of the ocean.
Answer: Sedna
3. Name these John Maynard Keats poems from lines, FTPE.
(10) Much have I traveled in realms of gold / And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands have I been / Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Answer: On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
(10) Darkling I listen; and, for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme / To take into the air my quiet breath;
Answer: Ode to a Nightingale
(10) When old age shall this generation waste / Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe / Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, / “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Answer: Ode on [accept “to” instead of “on”] a Grecian Urn
4. Name these 80’s cartoon shows from descriptions for 10 points each.
A) The title character and the color kids attempt to keep color in the world and are opposed by murky and lurky.
Answer: Rainbow Brite
B) The telepathic Valorians battle the Rulons using dinosaurs outfitted with futuristic weapons.
Answer: Dino-riders
C) The title character, Grubby, and Newton Gimmick explore the lands of Grundo, Rillonia, and Ying.
Answer: The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
5. Given the name of a country in the 1980s, give its current name FTP each.
(10) Zaire
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo
(10) Kampuchea
Answer: Cambodia
(10) Burma
Answer: Myanmar
6. Authors of a certain letter: FTPE, identify each of the authors by their works.
(10) Wuthering Heights
Answer: Emily Bronte [accept Ellis Bell]
(10) Endgame, Happy Days, Waiting for Godot
Answer: Samuel Beckett
(10) Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked this Way Comes, Fahrenheit 451
Answer: Ray Bradbury
7. Answer the following about the origins of light theory, FTPE.
A) Isaac Newton had originally proposed that light consisted of what?
Answer: particles or corpuscles
B) In direct contrast to Newton’s theory was the notion that light consisted solely of waves. Who had first developed the wave theory of light?
Answer: Christian Huygens
C) Newton’s theory was attractive because it seemingly accounted for everything. However, what physical property of light was corpuscular theory unable to account for?
Answer: diffraction (do NOT accept refraction; Newton’s theory accounted for refraction, even though it was incorrect)
8. Name the philosopher from works, FTPE:
(10) Philosophical Investigations, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Answer: Ludwig Wittgenstein
(10) Why I am Not a Christian, The History of Western Philosophy, and Principia Mathematica
Answer: Bertrand Russell
(10) Fear and Trembling, Sickness Unto Death
Answer: Soren Kierkegaard
9. Name the Mesoamerican Empire given the capital city for 10 points each.
A) Tenochtitlán
Answer: Aztec
B) Tula
Answer: Toltec
C) Teotihuacán
Answer: Olmec
10. Identify the following three-panel Hieronymus Bosch paintings for ten points each.
A) The left contains an image of paradise, the right and image of hell, and the center the title object being pulled by demons. This work shares its name with a much less twisted work by John Constable.
Answer: The Haywain
B) This work includes additional outer shutters depicting the creation of the world. The left picture is The Earthly Paradise, the right is Hell, and the center is the title scene full of animals, nudes, and fruit.
Answer: The Garden of Earthly Delights
C) Another work with outer wings which depict Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and Christ Carrying the Cross. The left panel depicts the flight and failure of the title man, the right depicts him in meditation, and the center depicts the title action.
Answer: The Temptation of St. Anthony
11. Answer the following questions about mitosis FTPE.
A) This is the first stage of mitosis, where chromosomes can be seen visibly condensing in the nucleus
Answer: Prophase
B) In this, the fourth stage in mitosis, sister chromosomes split and are pulled to opposite sides of the cell.
Answer: Anaphase
C) This is the final process, where the original cell physically splits, forming two separate cells.
Answer: cytokinesis
12. Name these plays by Henrik Ibsen from short descriptions FTPE.
A) After the protagonist’s happy marriage deteriorates, she finally comes to acknowledge her independence with an ending that was censored in some theatres when it debuted.
Answer: A Doll’s House
B) This play generated considerable controversy in its time as it explored the taboo subject of venereal disease. In the end, a wife’s attempt to maintain her deceased husband’s false public reputation eventually leads to the ruin of the people in her family.
Answer: Ghosts
C) This play is based around the idea of the “tyranny of the majority,” and follows a doctor’s quest to fix a dangerous situation against the wishes of the majority.
Answer: An Enemy of the People
13. FTPE name the British composer from works:
10) Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance
Answer: Edward Elgar
10) Dido and Aeneas, Trumpet Voluntary
Answer: Henry Purcell
10) Fantasia on “Greensleeves”, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Sea Symphony
Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams [it’s really Vaughan Williams, but we’ll take just Williams]
14. FTPE, identify these books on the New York Times Bestsellers list from the NYT description.
A) “In Clanton, Mississippi, someone is killing off the jurors who sent a member of a powerful crime family to prison for the rape and murder of a young mother.”
Answer: The Last Juror
B) “The murder of a curator at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a centuries-old secret society.”
Answer: The Da Vinci Code
C) “A seemingly harmless game played by Congressional staff members leads to murderous intrigue.”
Answer: The Zero Game
15. Answer these questions about the English Civil War FTPE.
(10) This king was beheaded in 1649.
Answer: Charles I
(10) This leader of the Roundheads led the New Model Army and became Lord Protector of England before his untimely 1658 death.
Answer: Oliver Cromwell.
(10) The supporters of the king were known as this, now the mascot of the University of Virginia.
Answer: Cavaliers
16. FTPE, answer the following about a particular computer scientist.
a) The equivalent of the Nobel in computer science is named after him, as well as a test for artificial intelligence, and a theoretical simple computer. He committed suicide in 1954 in England.
Answer: Alan Turing
b) Turing is credited with cracking what German cipher used during World War II, which allowed the Allies to win the battle in the sea.
Answer: Enigma
c) This type of Turing machine can emulate any computer ever made or will be made.
Answer: UTM or Universal Turing Machine
17. 30-20-10, Name the author from works.
(30) Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons; Player Piano
(20) Jailbird , Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle
(10) Breakfast of Champions , Slaughterhouse Five
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut
18. FTPE, give the common/commercial name of the polymer given the constituent monomers. Poly-(name of monomer) will not be accepted.
A) tetrafluoroethylene
Answer: Teflon
B) hexamethylene diamine, adipic acid
Answer: Nylon 6,6 (accept Nylon)
C) ethylene terephthalate
Answer: Mylar
19. FTPE, identify the following concerning programs developed during the 1912 election period.
A) Theodore Roosevelt proposed that the federal government be given the power to oversee industrial corporations, similar to railroads or public utilities. This was the name he gave his program.
Answer: New Nationalism
B) In response to the New Nationalism, Wilson proposed instead court enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act and countered with this, his own catchphrase.
Answer: New Freedom
C) Wilson’s advisor, the “People’s Lawyer,” later a Supreme Court justice, who helped to develop the New Freedom program.
Answer: Louis D. Brandeis
20. Answer the following questions about the psychology of dreams FTPE
(10) Dreams most often occur during this phase of sleep which is considered the “active” phase of sleep
Answer: REM or rapid eye movement sleep
(10) An estimated ten percent of the population experience this type of dreaming in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming and is able to change the plot of the dream
Answer: lucid dreaming
(10) According to Freud, the manifest content is what the dreamer remembers, however, the true meaning of the dream that is concealed from the dreamer is designated by this term
Answer: latent content
21. FTPE, name these parts of the celestial sphere:
(10) This is the highest point of the sky, directly above an observer’s head.
Answer: zenith
(10) The opposite of the zenith, this is the point directly below an observer’s feet.
Answer: nadir
(10) Represented on Earth maps by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, this is the sun’s path on the celestial sphere.
Answer: ecliptic
22. The bubble boy was right, it is the Moors. Answer these questions about Moorish occupation in Europe FTPE:
(10) In 732, with the Moors looking to take over all of Europe, Charles Martel laid the smack down at this battle in west-central France.
Answer: Battle of Tours or Poitiers
(10) This provincial capital of Spain was the last Moorish stronghold in Europe until it fell in 1492.
Answer: Granada
(10) For five points each, these two Spanish monarchs united their kingdoms and finally kicked the Moors out.
Answer: Ferdinand II and Isabella I
23. FTPE, given a function, give its derivative. (note to reader: they still only get 5 seconds per answer).
A) 2 times e to the 2 x. [2e^(2x)]
Answer: 4 times e to the 2 x [4e^(2x)]
B) negative cosine of x [-cos(x)]
Answer: sine of x [sin(x)]
C) the log of 1 minus x [log(1-x)]
Answer: 1 over x minus 1 [1/(x-1)]
TOSSUPS – PLAYOFF ROUND 2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by UTC with help from Florida, South Carolina, James Washick, South Florida’s Jeremy Rasmussen, the BAAL crew, and various other freelance contributors
1. Paradoxides harlani was one of the largest types of the creatures, growing to 18 inches. Due to developmental changes in their anatomy, they can easily be used for purposes of stratigraphy. There were several varieties, including both eyeless or compound eyed, but all consisted of three body segments, and like all arthropods had an exoskeleton. Appearing fully developed in the Cambrian Period, they persisted until the end of the Permian Period. FTP, name this type of fossil arthropod.
Answer: trilobite
2. A National Book Award was given in 1974 to this novel, whose multiple story threads are all somehow related to the Nazis’ rocket program in World War II. A clandestine military organization called The Firm investigates Lt. Tyrone Slothrop, who sort of investigates himself and gets nightmarish answers. FTP name this novel by Thomas Pynchon.
Answer: Gravity’s Rainbow
3. Engblom v. Carey is the only significant court case in which it has ever been at issue. It has though, been cited in passing in Griswold v. Connecticut regarding the right to privacy. A reaction to a 1774 law which arose from the Mutiny Act, Joseph Story wrote that it was “to secure... that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all military intrusion”. FTP, name this constitutional amendment dealing with the quartering of soldiers.
Answer: Third Amendment
4. Another name for her is Kore. She liked picking flowers in Sicily with her gal pals, but one day her uncle decided he liked the look of that and abducted her. For months he mother searched, unable to find her, all the while the Earth parched and nothing grew. Finally she was returned, but only after having consumed several pomegranite seeds, thus forcing her to return to the Underworld every year. FTP name this goddess, associated with Spring, and daughter to Demeter.
Answer: Persephone (Proserpina)
5. This city served as the capital of its country and the seat of its imperial court from its founding in 794 until the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which among other things, moved the emperor to Tokyo. One-hundred and sixty nations met in this city in 1997 to sign a Protocol to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. For ten points, name this Japanese city with a population of about 2.5 million on the island of Honshu.
Answer: Kyoto
6. Taking up where he left off in 1987, in 2001 he received his B.S. in kinesiology from the University of Central Arkansas. Drafted fifth overall by the Seattle SuperSonics in 1987, he was soon traded for Olden Polynice to the team on which he would become most famous for playing. His 204 career playoff games are the second most all-time. FTP name this basketball player who in the 2003-2004 season returned to Chicago Bulls, where he is best remembered as being Michael Jordan’s “sidekick.”
Answer: Scottie Pippen
7. His work became known in Western Europe shortly before the French Revolution, thanks to a summary translation by the French Jesuit priest Father J. J. M. Amiot. He helped King Ho-Lu of the Wu state conquer several neighbors, including his own home state of Chi. [CHEE] Popularized in the U.S. in the 1970’s by Henry Kissinger, this general of roughly 2,500 years ago may now have surpassed both Confucius and Mao as the most quoted Chinese author in history. FTP name the author of the oldest military treatise in the world, The Art of War.
Answer: Sun Tzu [or Sun Wu or Sun Tzi – translation is an imprecise art]
8. The first one to be discovered was HinDII (hindy-two), but the most well known one is EcoRI (ee-coh-are-one). Often when they act, they leave “sticky ends” which can be used for putting pieces of DNA together. Recent uses for these have been insertion of genes into E. coli plasmids for cloning. FTP, name these useful DNA cutters, often named for the bacteria from which they are isolated.
Answer: restriction enzymes [prompt on just “enzyme”]
9. They appear in the novel Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte, and Byron in 1830 published “A Song for” them. Organized around 1811, they took their name from a stitcher who in a rage smashed two frames of a stockinger, a machine loom. FTP what was this group which saw the products of the industrial revolution as a threat to their way of life, and who went about the countryside destroying machines?
Answer: Luddites
10. Its flag has three horizontal stripes of black, white, and green, with a red triangle pointing inward from the mast. In 1537, mapmaker Gerard Mercator published his first map of this area that, except for a reform-filled nine years under Egypt’s Muhammad Ali, was under Ottoman control from 1517 till the early 20th century. A 1937 Peel Commission report suggested it be divided into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a part that was neither. FTP name this land now officially led by Ahmed Qurei, who in September 2003 succeeded Mahmoud Abbas [a-BOSS].
Answer: Palestine
11. Along with Bellini and Rossini, this composer was one of the three great masters of the Bel Canto style, involving florid and flashy vocals. He achieved international fame with the production of his Anna Bolena in 1830, and two other still-performed comedies followed soon after: Don Pasquale and The Elixir of Love. FTP name this Italian composer perhaps best known for The Daughter of the Regiment and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Answer: Gaetano Donizetti
12. In Robinson’s “Mr. Flood’s Party,” the protagonist paraphrases this famous work when he says “The bird is on the wing.” Really a collection of short verses rather than a connected long work, its name simply means “quatrains.” Sources disagree on the order of items in its most famous quote, “A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou.” Translated most famously by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859, FTP what is this collection of verse by the 12th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam?
Answer: The Rubaiyat
13. Born in San Antonio, this Naval Academy graduate served as a Marine for 22 years. He helped plan the 1982 rescue of American students in Grenada as well as the U.S. raid on Muammar Qaddaffi’s Libyan bases, for which he was targeted by assassin Abu Nidal. He lost a 1994 U.S. Senate race, in which he would have been ineligible to vote has his conviction not been overturned on appeal. FTP name this Lieutenant Colonel, a member of Reagan’s National Security Council, best known for his testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings.
Answer: Oliver L. North
14. This device consists of two inductive-capacitive oscillators, loosely coupled to one another. Electric current flows from the charged capacitor through the inductor creating a magnetic field. When the electric field is exhausted, the current stops and the magnetic field collapses. As the magnetic field collapses, it induces a current in the inductor in the opposite direction. Such oscillation is what makes this air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents so interesting. FTP name this device, invented by the namesake of the magnetic field unit.
Answer: (Nikola) Tesla Coil
15. He was 14 when his mother drowned herself and 24 when he came under the influence of Giorgio de Chirico, especially Chirico’s 1922 painting “Song of Love.” He used an atmosphere of gentility and restraint to offset the irony and the jarring effect of his juxtaposed images. “The Red Model” and “The Treachery of Images” are among his works in the representational branch of surrealism. FTP name this artist, whose most familiar images include blue skies with clouds, floating apples, and bowler hats suspended above suits without an intervening head.
Answer: Rene Magritte
16. Paper and pencil ready. (You’ll have 20 seconds.) FTP, had he used hexadecimal notation, what might Jules Verne have called his novel about Captain Nemo and the Nautilus?
Answer: 4E20 Leagues Under the Sea (20,000 is 4E20 hex)
17. The author said that this titular protagonist was based on Hitler. He lives on the “far-away Island of Sala-ma-Sond,” where he is monarch. Still, he feels weak, and believes that, as king of all he surveys, if he can get higher up, he’ll see more, and thus rule more. As he rises he becomes king of a cow, a mule, a bush and a cat. His plans, however, are stymied by the belch of Mack, who is at the bottom of the stack on which he sits. FTP this describes what reptilian title character of Dr. Seuss?
Answer: Yertle the Turtle
18. Considered revolutionary when it was introduced in 1913, it incorporated new ideas from quantum theory and explained the simple formula for the emission spectra. More complicated variations were applied with some success to larger elements, but the model ultimately failed for any atom other than hydrogen. FTP name this model of the atom in which electrons made circular orbits around the nucleus, named for its Danish developer.
Answer: Bohr Model
19. As a youth he threw Amalinze the Cat three times in a wrestling match. He resents the effeminacy of his father Unoka, a talented musician and likeable man but a spendthrift and ne’er-do-well who never took a title in his life. He sees the same qualities mirrored in his own son, Nwoye, who eventually converts to Christianity. FTP, name this main character of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Answer: Okonkwo
20. He dedicated his last main work, the Passions of the Soul, to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, who was in constant correspondence with him. While more famous works came earlier in his life, The Principles of Philosophy is considered to be definitive. The phrase he is best known for did not appear in Meditations on First Philosophy, but rather in Discourse on Method. FTP name this philosopher who penned "I think therefore I am".
Answer: Renee Descartes
21. His signature is so rare that the charities he named as beneficiaries of his will sued the state of South Carolina unsuccessfully to get the actual will itself from. This is because he was illiterate, and most of his alleged autographs were signed by his wife. Although he is considered one of the greatest natural hitters in baseball history, you’ll never see his plaque at the Hall of Fame. FTP who was this disgraced Chicago outfielder, banned from the game for conspiring with gamblers to fix the outcome of the World Series in the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919?
Answer: Shoeless Joe Jackson
22. It manifests when an antigen enters the body and causes the immune system to produce IgE antibodies. These combine with the antigen to produce strong chemicals such as prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and histamines. Common antigens include ragweed, cats, grass, eggs, dust, dogs, poison ivy, milk, and mold. For ten points what is this medical condition with symptoms of runny noses, watery eyes, itching, and sneezing?
Answer: Allergies
23. After the U. S. military action that ousted the Taliban regime from power in Afghanistan in 2001, a council of ethnic and tribal leaders was convened to form a provisional government for the country. FTP what is the name of this body, which means grand council in the Pashto (POSH-too) language?
Answer: The Loya Jirga (LOY-a JUR-ga)
BONI – PLAYOFF ROUND 2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by UTC with help from Florida, South Carolina, James Washick, South Florida’s Jeremy Rasmussen, the BAAL crew, and various other freelance contributors
1. Given various battles, name the war during which they occurred, FTPE.
a) First Battle of the Marne, Battle of Tannenberg, Battle of Jutland
Answer: World War I
b) Battle of Crécy, Battle of Agincourt, Battle of Castillon
Answer: Hundred Years’ War
c) Battle of Queenston Heights, Battle of Lake Erie, Battle of New Orleans
Answer: War of 1812
2. Name these guest stars on Friends, FTSNOP:
5) This model had a recurring role as Joey’s roommate, Janine Lecroix, for five episodes.
Answer: Elle McPherson
5) This husband of Jenifer Aniston played Will Colbert, a member of the “I Hate Rachel Green Club.”
Answer: Brad Pitt
10) Before she played Days of Our Lives actress Cecelia Monroe, whose character supplies the brain for Dr. Drake Ramoray’s brain transplant, this actress appeared in Dead Man Walking, The Client, and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Answer: Susan Sarandon
10) Before she played Mindy, the former best friend of Rachel’s who ends up marrying Rachel’s ex-fiancé Barry, she was best known for her work in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and in Dirty Dancing..
Answer: Jennifer Grey
3. Given a description of a stage of embryonic development, identify it for 10 points and a warm fuzzy feeling inside for all three correct.
A. Cleavage produces this intermediate that is a sphere of cells that contains a cavity without an indentation.
Answer: Blastula
B. This intermediate stage is the initial bulb of cells that becomes the blastula when a cavity forms.
Answer: Morula
C. This is a complex 3-dimensional organism with inner, outer, and middle layers formed from a blastula.
Answer: Gastrula
4. Identify the 19th-century French painters of the following on a 10-5 basis.
A. (10 pts.) The Massacre at Chios
(5 pts.) Liberty Leading the People; The Women of Algiers
Answer: Eugene Delacroix
B. (10 pts.) The Absinthe Drinker
(5 pts.) Luncheon on the Grass
Answer: Edouard Manet
C. (10 pts.) The Painter in his Studio (1855)
(5 pts.) The Stonebreakers; Funeral at Ornans
Answer: Gustave Courbet
5. 30-20-10 Name the poet from lines.
A. “Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal”
B. “Miniver loved the Medici,/Albeit he had never seen one;/He would have sinned incessantly/Could he have been one.”
C. “And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,/Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
A. Edwin Arlington Robinson
6. Identify these figures from the books of Samuel in the Old Testament FTPE.
A. This woman, Samuel’s mother, promises he will be raised as a Nazirite if she can conceive.
Answer: Hannah
B. Samuel anoints this man as first king of the Israelites.
Answer: Saul
C. Saul has this sorceress call Samuel’s spirit up for some advice.
Answer: Witch of En-dor
7. Given stars that help to make it, name the constellation FTPE.
a) Bellatrix is one shoulder and Betelguese is the other, while Rigel is the foot.
Answer: Orion
b) The Pleiades cluster marks one shoulder, The Haydes form the head, and Aldebaran marks the eye.
Answer: Taurus
c) Sirius and Adhara are among the stars in this constellation.
Answer: Canis Major (accept: “Greater Dog”)
8. Answer the following about Horace Greeley FTPE.
10) In 1872, he ran for the President and was attacked for being odd and foolish. He ended up losing to this incumbent who won in a landslide victory, and died almost immediately thereafter, leaving the Electoral College in a big mess.
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant
10) Greeley was an editor for this paper, named for the symbol for the Whig party paired in a slogan with “hard cider.”
Answer: Log Cabin [charitably accept Log Cabins]
10) In 1841, Greeley founded this publication that later merged with Log Cabin and The New Yorker.
Answer: The New York Tribune
9. Provide the derivatives with respect to x of the following FTPE.
A. 1/3x3 + 4x2 + 13 [READ: one-third x cubed plus 4 x squared plus 13]
Answer: x2 + 8x [READ: tangent of x]
B. X 3/2 + x ½ + 6 [READ: x to the three-halves plus x to the one-half plus six]
Answer: (3/2)x1/2 + (½)x-1/2 [READ: three-halves x to the one-half plus one-half x to the minus one-half]
C. tan (x) [READ: tangent of x]
Answer: sec2x [READ: tangent of x]
10. Name these important 20th century Jewish-American novelists FTPE.
A. Still kicking at 87, this Canadian-born Nobel Laureate is the author of Humboldt’s Gift, Herzog, and Seize the Day.
Answer: Saul Bellow
B. Author of The Fixer and The Natural, this novelist died in 1986.
Answer: Bernard Malamud
C. Though known more for criticism, like her “Notes on Camp,” this woman wrote the novels The Volcano Lover and 2001's National Book Award winner In America. In a memorable speech in Bull Durham, Crash Davis disses her novels.
Answer: Susan Sontag
11. FTPE, name the singers whose recent hit CD's included:
A. Songs in A Minor
Answer: Alicia Keys
B. Missundaztood
Answer: Pink
C. Escape
Answer: Enrique Iglesias
12. Name the capitals of the following B-initialled countries F5E or 30 for all 5:
A. Belgium
Answer: Brussels
B. Belarus
Answer: Minsk
C. Bangladesh
Answer: Dhaka
D. Belize
Answer: Belmopan
E. Benin
Answer: Porto Novo
13. Answer the following about superconductivity FTSNOP.
A. (5/5) The BCS theory of superconductivity was formulated by and named for three scientists. Name any two F5PE.
Answer: John Cooper, John Bardeen and Robert Schrieffer
B. (10) These coupled electrons condensed into the ground state are named for one of the BCS developers.
Answer: Cooper pairs
C. (10) Cooper pairs display the characteristics of this class of particles which have integer spin and include photons.
Answer: bosons
14. Answer the following about a writing genre usually associated with Latin American authors FTPE:
A. Argument persists over whether this term for juxtaposition of the fantastic and the mundane was coined by German art critic Franz Roh in the 1920s or by writer Alejo Carpentier in his novel The Kingdom of This World.
Answer: Magic(al) Realism
B. Magical realism could also describe several of this non-Latino author’s works, such as Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses.
Answer: Salman Rushdie
C. Another non-Latin American work sometimes associated with the style is Immortality by this man, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Answer: Milan Kundera
15. Name these important pieces of U.S. legislation FTPE.
A. This 1939 act barred federal employees from political activity and set limits on campaign expenditures.
Answer: Hatch Act
B. Also called the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, this act that forbade boycotts and the closed shop is named for two legislators.
Answer: Taft-Hartley Act
C. This 1930 protective tariff helped export the U.S. depression overseas.
Answer: Smoot-Hawley (or Hawley-Smoot) Tariff
16. Answer these questions about a Scottish king who came to the throne in 1040.
(10) Identify this king who came to the throne after overthrowing the previous monarch
Answer: Macbeth
(10) For another ten points, identify the previous king, whom MacBeth killed.
Answer: Duncan (I)
(10) In 1057, MacBeth was killed and this eldest son of Duncan took the throne.
Answer: Malcolm (III) Canmore
17. Answer the following about Theseus FTPE.
He was the son of this man who killed himself when he thought Theseus had been killed
Answer: Aegeus
This princess helps Theseus find his way through the Labyrinth with a ball of string
Answer: Ariadne
This queen of the Amazons was his wife
Answer: Hippolyte
18. F5PE, given a composer, identify them as Baroque, Classical, Romantic or none of the above:
A. J.S.Bach
Answer: Baroque
B. Bela Bartok
Answer: None of the above
C. Robert Schumann
Answer: Romantic
D. Richard Strauss
Answer: Romantic
E. G.F. Handel
Answer: Baroque
19. Let’s talk more bondage – bond chemistry, that is. FTPE:
A. This type of bond holds metals and non-metals together.
Answer: ionic bond
B. The charge that results when the electrons in a covalent bond are assigned to the more electronegative atom, it is the charge an atom would possess if the bonding were ionic.
Answer: oxidation number or state
C. In double and triple bonds, this type of bond is formed from the sideways overlap of p orbitals.
Answer: pi bond
20. Answer the following about the movements for African independence after WWII FTPE.
A. This secret society, headed by Jomo Kenyatta, used violence in order to bring independence to Kenya.
Answer: Mau Mau
B. The poet Leopold Senghor became first president of what nation upon its independence?
Answer: Senegal
C. Kwame Nkrumah was installed as first president of this nation, formerly known as the Gold Coast, in 1957.
Answer: Ghana
21. Answer the following about baseball legend Lou Boudreau FTPE.
10) He played for and even managed for this team. He did both for their 1948 lineup, which was the last World Series winner for this franchise.
Answer: Cleveland Indians (accept either)
10) He devised the defensive shift used to stop this Red Sox player, the last major leaguer to hit above .400 in a season.
Answer: Ted Williams
10) Boudreau, along with five other players, holds the record for number of extra-base hits in a game. What is the record number?
Answer: Five
22. Given a country, give its current majority party FTPE:
Canada
Answer: Liberal Party
United Kingdom
Answer: Labour
Japan
Answer: Liberal Democratic Party or LDP
TOSSUPS – FINALS DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by Michael Napier, Michael Swick, Joe Stanton, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Jason Carl Mueller, Gaius Stern, the CWRU crew, Chris Borglum et al., and your genial quizmaster
1. He’s mentioned in the first line of the work that introduces him, even though the action takes place 7 years after his death. His name still appears on the sign next to his former partner outside their firm. Cashboxes, padlocks, ledgers, and steel purses are among the trappings he brings with him when he reappers. FTP name this ghost who comes to warn his former partner, Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Answer: Jacob Marley
2. Known as Ectopistes migratorius, it resembled the turtledove with a slightly longer body which averaged about 32 centimeters in the adult. Females laid a single egg which would be tended by both parents and the newborn chick would typically be abandoned after two weeks. A monument in Wisconsin's Wyalusing State Park memorializes them, and declares the species became extinct “through the avarice and thoughtlessness of man.” FTP, name this once numerous bird which became extinct when the last of its kind died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.
Answer: passenger pigeon
3. Born in Berkeley County, South Carolina, he had his first war experience as a lieutenant of colonial militia in 1761, when he led a successful attack against the Cherokee. At the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775, he helped defend Charleston, South Carolina against a British offensive in 1776. After 1780, he led a small group of guerrillas based on Snow Island in the Pee Dee River of northeastern South Carolina, engaging in ambushes and sudden raids. For 10 points, name this military hero whose tactics earned him the nickname Swamp Fox.
Answer: Francis Marion
4. After this god of light and joy died, Hermod went to the underworld to plead for his return, but because one old woman in a cave did not weep, he remained. His mother had dreamed of his death and extracted promises from the natural world not to harm him, but Loki tricked the blind Hoder to throw the killing twig. FTP, name this god who was impervious to all things except mistletoe.
Answer: Balder
5. Reputedly discovered in 1427 by Diogo de Senill, settlement began five years later under the direction of Gonçalo Cabral. With the exception of a brief administration by Spain, they had no central government until 1766. Currently they enjoy the as continental districts of Portugal with an administrative capital at Ponta Delgada. FTP, name this North Atlantic archipelago
Answer: the Azores
6. In Richard Bowring’s analysis of this author’s primary book, he notes that it was able to succeed in a period of Japan’s literary history when it was still dominated by Chinese literature and ideas. The book analyzed the true determination of power behind the throne, which is to say marriage and all of the politics that surround it. FTP, identify this author, whose main work was The Tale of Genji.
Answer: Murasaki Shikibu
7. If a chemical reaction moves to the right, this quantity is positive. If a reaction moves to the left, it is negative. If a reaction is at equilibrium, it is 0. FTP name this quantity, denoted by a capital G, which relates heat and entropy by delta G = delta H delta (TS).
Answer: Gibbs Free Energy [prompt on free energy – there’s at least one other type]
8. This political leader was nicknamed “Colossus with a human touch” due to his 6’4 300+ pound stature. He came to power after the parliament passed a no-confidence vote against Helmut Schmidt, then chancellor of West Germany. FTP name this former leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and Germany’s chancellor from 1982-1998.
Answer: Helmut Kohl
9. The back of an easel stands in the foreground on the left side of the painting, while the king and queen can be seen in a mirror in the background, suggesting that the viewer is standing where they would be. In the center of the painting stands Infanta Margarita, the daughter of King Philip IV, surrounded by the two ladies for whom the work is named. FTP, name this portrait of the Spanish royal family by Diego Velázquez.
Answer: Las Meninas or The Maids of Honor
10. He originally tried to make his way into show business as a playwright, though he had a setback when one of his former bosses gave out a recommendation saying, “Do not hire this man.” Critics first took note of him when he ran the West Bank Cafonstairs Theater bar for eight years where he continued to write screenplays. Eventually he pursued a stand-up career and received the 2001 Funniest Male Stand-up comic from the Viewers Choice awards. FTP, name this “Foremost Commentator on Everything” who makes a weekly appearance on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
Answer: Lewis Black
11. Though he entered the University of Basel to study archaeology, his interests changed and he graduated in medicine from the University of Zurich in 1902. He disagreed with Freud about the extent to which sex stimulates human behavior, believing rather personalities of parents are major influences on a child. FTP, name this Swiss psychiatrist who originated the terms “introvert,”“extrovert,” and “collective unconscious.”
Answer: Carl Gustav Jung
12. The ex-samurai Kenshin makes a historic trip to the former capitol during this time, but in real life, it marked the beginning of series of reforms to take place throughout Japan. Perhaps the most relevant to this tournament is the idea of compulsory education, established soon after the establishment of basic human rights, including freedom of religion, in 1873. FTP, identify this period in Japanese history in which the power was transferred from the Tokugawa shogunate into the hands of a small group of nobles and former samurai.
Answer: Meiji Era (accept Meiji restoration or equivalents)
13. Examples of it include transduction of che [CHAY] proteins in bacteria and activation of flagellar motion toward the nutrients that initiated the transduction. It is, however, more significant and more complex in single cells of multicellular organisms and directs macrophage response to invading pathogens. FTP identify this five-letter term that simply describes a cell’s ability to direct its movement according to chemicals in its environment.
Answer: taxis [TACK-sis] (accept “chemotaxis” before “five-letter term”)
14. Gore Vidal once said that this woman’s “self-loving arias” were enough to drive him from any room. This piano virtuoso from Columbus, Georgia failed with the play The Square Root of Wonderful, but scored with her story of a poorly-adjusted tomboy named Frankie, who is desperate become a “member” of her sister’s wedding. FTP, name the gifted alcoholic who also wrote about two mutes in the novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Answer: Carson McCullers
15. The negative log of 0. The tangent function at pi over 2 or cotangent at 0. The function 1 over z at 0, 1 over z minus 1 at 1, etc. FTP, what is this quantity, which is the value of any one of these functions defined at the given value.
Answer: infinity (accept undefined, asymptote on an early buzz, or acceptable equivalents, but NOT negative infinity).
16. This man served in Congress for nearly thirty years and partially served as the House Minority leader, only to go on to serve the shortest presidential term which didn’t end with his death. While people at the time said that he had a failed presidency, he said to Bob Woodward that he always carries a slip of paper with him that notes that a pardon is an admission of guilt, which he holds as his own personal justification. FTP, name this former president that pardoned Richard Nixon.
Answer: Gerald Ford
17. Not only did he graduate from high at age 16, he was such a whiz at math that he also did his parents’ taxes for them. While getting his degree in architecture, he was a radio DJ where he gathered a cult following. However it wasn’t until he started getting his songs such as “My Bologna” played on the Dr. Demento Show did his career take off. FTP, name this Hawaiian-shirt wearing parody artist who released songs such as “Smells Like Nirvana” and “Amish Paradise.”
Answer: “Weird Al” Yankovic (accept either name)
18. Born on March 22nd, 1868, this man produced many scientific achievements in his life. Some of his accomplishments include experimentally proving Einstein’s photoelectric effect, studying of Brownian movement in gases, and discovering laws of motion of particles after entering the Earth’s atmosphere. He is perhaps best known for determining the amount of charge present in a single electron. For ten points, identify this 1923 Nobel Prize winner, who performed the famous oil drop experiment.
Answer: Robert A. Millikan
19. Co-founder and namer of the newspaper The Village Voice, he followed up his successful first novel with the disappointing Barbary Shore. Often involved in politics and issues, his advocacy of freedom for the murderer-cum-writer Jack Henry Abbott led to that man’s release, after which he killed again. Author of the New Journalism landmark Armies of the Night, FTP this is what author of The Executioner’s Song and The Naked and the Dead?
Answer: Norman Mailer
20. He was born to a watchmaker in 1712 in Geneva. He was actually apprenticed to an engraver, tried to become a teacher, and become a composer before he found that he didn’t enjoy any of them. It wasn’t until 1745 when he began to work on his Encyclopedia and began work on the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts. His opera, the Village Soothsayer was produced before he renounced the Protestant religion. FTP, name this author of Emilie, Heloise, and The Social Contract.
Answer: Jean Jacques Rousseau
21. This man was one of the few people ever granted honorary American citizenship by an act of congress. His underground offices in London are still a main tourist attraction. An avid amateur painter and Nobel Prize-winning author, he did not do as well in World War I as First Lord of the Admiralty. FTP, name this British Prime Minister, a direct descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, who served from 1940-45.
Answer: Winston Churchill
22. Known in an equivalent form to Descartes and suggested in a letter to Euler, it has been subject to partial proofs by Vinogradov and Chen Jing-run. A one-million-dollar prize offered by a British publisher for its complete proof was never claimed, though a generalized Riemann hypothesis would prove the three-primes problem for sufficiently large numbers. FTP identify this problem of number theory which states that any even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers
Answer: Goldbach conjecture
23. At the beginning of the 20th century, they were experiencing economic turmoil and had to fend off many revolutionaries who clamored for change. After the dowager empress Cixi died in 1908, the 2 year old boy Puyi was named emperor. Only four years later, the empire collapsed. FTP, name this final dynasty of China, after which China started on its path to becoming a republic.
Answer: Qing (accept Manchu)
BONI – FINALS DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by Michael Napier, Michael Swick, Joe Stanton, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Jason Carl Mueller, Gaius Stern, the CWRU crew, Chris Borglum et al., and your genial quizmaster
1. Name these supporting characters from Peanuts FTPE.
A. This girl has “naturally curly hair” and a boneless cat.
Answer: Frieda
B. This bespectacled girl loves Charlie Brown and calls Peppermint Patty “Sir.”
Answer: Marcy
C. This boy is catcher for the baseball team, an expert performer of Beethoven, and the object of Lucy’s affection.
Answer: Schroeder
2. FTPE, name the authors of these works of anthropology.
10---The Elementary Structures of Kinship, From Honey to Ashes, The Raw and the Cooked
Answer: Claude Levi-Strauss
10---Patterns of Culture and The Crysanthemum and the Sword
Answer: Ruth Benedict
10---Jonah’s Gourd Vine and Mules and Men, as well as the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston
3. Given an affliction, identify which vitamin is deficient in the body FTPE.
(10) scurvy
Answer: ascorbic acid or vitamin C
(10) Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, or beri-beri if the deficiency is severe
Answer: thiamine or vitamin B1 (prompt on B)
(10) Darier’s disease; psoriasis
Answer: retinol or vitamin A
4. Identify the following ancient empires by clues for 10 points or their attributes in the game Age of Empires for 5 points.
A) 1: Prominent in Mesopotamia from 1600 to 1200 BC, this warlike civilization is believed to be the first to work iron.
2: +1 archery range, +4 warship range, double hit points on stone thrower, and catapults
Answer: Hittites
B) 1: Lasting from about 2200 to 1000 BC, this Mediterranean civilization is known for their writing systems Linear A and Linear B as well as their palace at Knossos.
2: -30% ship cost, +2 comp bowman range, +25% farm production
Answer: Minoans
C) 1: Another Mediterranean civilization, they were prominent from about 1200 to 600 BC, they are best known for founding the basis of the European alphabet.
2: -25% Elephant unit cost, +65% Cat Trireme and Juggernaut Rate of fire
Answer: Phoenicians
5. Identify these short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, FTP each:
A. In the third of Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin stories, Dupin finds the title object ‘hidden in plain sight.’
Answer: The Purloined Letter
B. The narrator is creeped out by the Evil Eye of an old man; he kills the old man and hides the body under the floor boards.
Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart
C. In a similar plot to “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the phrenology-obsessed narrator kills a man with a poisoned candle, but the title entity overcomes him and he shouts out his crime.
Answer: The Imp of the Perverse
6. Name the geological period given events that are thought to have taken place during them, FTPE:
a) Occurring between 400 and 350 million years ago, it is called the age of fishes because of their abundance in fossil records. Giant ferns are widespread on the land. Named after the English area sedimentary rocks of that period were studied.
Answer: Devonian
b) The beginning of the Mesozoic Era, this period spanning 240 to 205 million years ago saw Pangaea beginning to split apart, the advent of smaller dinosaurs, and perhaps mammals.
Answer: Triassic
c) The period leading from 1.6 million years ago to today, it has seen the rise of humans, the Ice Age, and the advent of MTV.
Answer: Quaternary
7. 30-20-10. Name the opera.
30: While disguised as his lawyer, Gabriel von Eisenstein gets a confession from his wife, Rosalinda, that she dined with another man. However, earlier in the evening at a costume ball, Eisenstein hit on his wife, who was disguised as a Hungarian countess.
20: The costume ball was the setting for Dr. Falke's revenge on Eisenstein. At an earlier costume ball, Eisenstein had embarrassed Falke by abandoning him in a park drunk and in his bat costume.
10: The name of this opera by Johann Strauss is German for "The Bat."
Answer: Die Fledermaus
8. Answer the following questions about Pac-Man FTSNOP.
20) For 5 points each, name the 4 ghosts from the original Pac-Man.
Answers: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde
10) For 10 points, name the 5th ghost that was added to Ms. Pac-Man.
Answer: Sue
9. For ten points each, identify these works by Maya Angelou.
A) The first in her six volume autobiography, this novel tells of how Angelou grew up in Arkansas and California.
Answer: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
B) This is the last book in Angelou’s autobiography, telling of the years of 1964 to 1968.
Answer: A Song Flung Up to Heaven
C) Angelou’s first collection of poetry with a rather long request for a title.
Answer: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Diiie
10. For ten points each, answer the following questions about the American Revolution.
a. On December 25, 1776, George Washington crossed this river into New Jersey, where the Americans surprised and defeated Hessian mercenaries.
Answer: Delaware River
b. The victory came in this New Jersey town.
Answer: Trenton
c. Forced to retreat north after the victory at Trenton, the commander of the British forces sought refuge in this New Jersey university thinking that the Americans would not fire on an institution of higher learning. He was not aware that the commander of the American artillery had graduated from Yale, and had no qualms about firing on this rival School.
Answer: Princeton
11. Answer these tree questions, FTP each.
(10) Located in California, the General Sherman tree, the largest in the world, is what type of tree named for a Cherokee leader?
Answer: Giant Sequoia (prompt on “redwood”)
(10) In the White Mountains of California is Methuselah, the world’s oldest living tree, at nearly 5,000 years old. It is what type of pine tree?
Answer: Bristlecone Pine
(10) The Southern California desert features a national monument dedicated to what type of twisted tree, also the namesake of a U2 album?
Answer: Joshua Tree
12. FTPE, name these satires. You will get five if you need the author.
10---This work proposes that the Irish reduce overpopulation and starvation by using their babies as food.
5----Jonathan Swift
Answer: A Modest Proposal
10---This work mocks Colley Cibber and features the Goddess of Dullness.
5----Alexander Pope
Answer: The Dunciad
10---This satiric poem is directed against Thomas Shadwell, calling him the successor to the title figure, an Irish priest renowned for his bad poetry.
5---John Dryden
Answer: MacFlecknoe
13. Answer these questions about bays of the Atlantic Ocean FTP each.
(10) This inlet between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia has tides which rise as high as 70 feet, presenting enormous hydroelectric potential.
Answer: Bay of Fundy
(10) This roughly triangular inlet is bounded by France and Spain. The Loire River flows into it and it includes the port cities of Nantes and Brest.
Answer: Bay of Biscay
(10) This arm of the Atlantic extends south from the Artic between Greenland and the island it shares its name with, Canada’s largest
Answer: Baffin Bay
14. For ten points each answer the following about pipe flow.
A) When viscosity is low this type of flow tends to develop, characterized by higher speeds and irregular, random flow patterns.
Answer: Turbulent flow
B) When viscosity is high this type of flow tends to develop, characterized by steady and straight flow.
Answer: Laminar flow
B) What term also related to the guillotine is used to describe energy loss due to friction and direction changes in a pipe?
Answer: Head loss
15. Name these American tribal leaders FTPE.
A. This leader of a confederacy of tribes in what is now Virginia captured the Englishman John Smith, though, in legend anyway, his daughter Pocahantas pleaded for his life.
Answer: Powhatan
B. This son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag waged war against Massachusetts colonists until he was killed. His head was displayed on a pike for 25 years.
Answer: Metacomet (acc. King Phillip)
C. This Shawnee chief, with his brother, called the Prophet, waged war against settlers for years, suffering a crushing defeat to William Henry Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe.
Answer: Tecumseh
16. Given an organic compound, tell how many carbon atoms each molecule of it will contain, FTSNOP:
A. F5P, decanol.
Answer: 10
B. FTP, di-methyl-benzene
Answer: 8
C. F5P, cyclohexane
Answer: 6
D. FTP, sodium stearate, which is a common soap.
Answer: 18
17. Pencil and paper time: Given 10 seconds per part, for 5 points for each possible answer, solve for x.
1. x squared plus 4x plus 3 equals 0.
Answers: x= -3 and –1.
2. x squared minus 2x minus 8 equals 0.
Answers: x= 4 and –2.
3. x squared plus x minus 3/4 equals 0.
Answers: x= 1/2 and –3/2.
18. Answer the following concerning events that took place in the early 1700s.
a) The subsequent treaties of Rastatt and Baden were included in this 1713 agreement that ended the War of the Spanish Succession.
Answer: Peace of Utrecht
b) Primarily comprising as a series of fines to be paid for various crimes, its declaration of a minor civil statute barring daughters from inheriting land led to its implementation in Spain as an injunction against all royal female successions.
Answer: Salic Law
c) A rebellion of the Catalán peoples ended in a 1714 rebel surrender to prevent the destruction by Spanish troops of this Catalonian city.
Answer: Barcelona
19. Answer these questions about a scholar of comparative mythology, FTP each:
A. A longtime professor at Sarah Lawrence College, this author of The Masks of God and The Power of Myth was a strong influence on people ranging from George Lucas to poet Robert Bly.
Answer: Joseph Campbell
B. Campbell’s best-known work is this 1949 book which examines the common elements in hero myths of many different cultures.
Answer: The Hero With a Thousand Faces [accept slight variants, like “of” in place of “with”]
C. Through contact with psychologist John Perry, Campbell noticed similarities between mythic images and the hallucinations experienced by people with this condition.
Answer: schizophrenia
20. FTPE identify the following countrymen who were awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
a) The author of The Flies and No Exit, he declined the 1964 prize.
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre
b) This author of Le Bonheur received the first prize, in 1901.
Answer: René Sully-Prudhomme
c) Twenty years after Sully-Prudhomme, this author of The Garden of Epicurus became only the second Frenchman to receive an unshared prize in literature.
Answer: Anatole France
21. Given the location, give the ancient wonder of the world that was found at that location for 10 points each.
A) Alexandria, Egypt
Answer: the Lighthouse of Alexandria
B) Babylon
Answer: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
C) Rhodes
Answer: the Colossus of Rhodes
22. Given the scientific name of a phylum of the kingdom Protista, give the more common name of bacteria in that phylum, FTPE.
1. Chlorophyta
Answer: green algae
2. Rhodophyta
Answer: red algae
3. Rhizopoda
Answer: amoebas
23. FTPE, name these things from economics.
This curve, graphed on axes of percent of income and percent of households, represents income inequality.
Answer: Lorenz Curve
The Lorenz curve is used to calculate this quantity, the area between the line of perfect equality and the Lorenz curve.
Answer: Gini Coefficient
This curve, named after a British economist, represents a supposed relationship between inflation and unemployment.
Answer: Philips Curve
TOSSUPS – SHOOTOUT #1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia, Michael Napier, and Michael Swick; Kentucky’s Chad Money, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, Valencia’s Chris Borglum; North Florida’s Chip Thomas; etc.
1. His death was supposedly caused by news of Napoleon’s win at Austerlitz. He resigned in protest in 1801 after the king rejected his Catholic emancipation proposal in the Act of Union. His financial skills exceeded those of his father, and he helped restructure British finances as prime minister after the American Revolution. Taking the office in 1783 at age 24, name, FTP, this youngest prime minister in British history, whose father is the namesake of a city in Pennsylvania.
Answer: William Pitt the Younger (do not accept “Pitt the Elder” or “Pittsburgh”)
2. According to legend, he was appointed by the Duke of Lu as the chief magistrate at Chung-tu, and as a result the city became so honest that valuable objects left in the streets would be returned to their owners. After losing favor with the Duke he went on to edit the Record of Rites and write commentaries on the I-Ching. FTP, name this ancient Chinese philosopher whose sayings are recounted in the Analects and cliché fortune cookies.
Answer: Confucius or Kung-fu-tze (accept alternate transliterations)
3. It is a special case of the equivalent integral form of one of Maxwell’s equations. Faraday’s law of induction is sometimes stated without reference to direction, but this partial formation requires a supplemental statement to be correct. FTP name this supplement which states that the direction of an induced current is such as to oppose the change of flux that produces it.
Answer: Lenz’s law
4. This 70's show featured the adventures of lead character Jaime Summers, played by Lindsay Wagner. It was created as a spin-off of "The Six-Million Dollar Man", which was enjoying massive popularity at the time. The show, however, ran into the ground after only two brief seasons, but has experienced a minor revival as part of the Sci-Fi channel. FTP, name this quirky take on cybernetic augmentation.
Answer: The Bionic Woman
5. We are told that the title subject’s “wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,/Tell that its sculptor well read those passions.” Around the subject’s “wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch in every way.” Told to the persona by a “traveler from an antique land,” FTP what is this poem whose title subject wants you to “look on his works . . . and despair,”a work by Percy Shelley?
Answer: “Ozymandias”
6. This constellation was the location of a 1572 supernova, and the Milky Way passes through it. Located between Perseus, Cepheus, and Andromeda, its five brightest stars form a distinctive “W” in the northern sky. FTP, identify this constellation named for an Ethiopian queen, the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda.
Answer: Cassiopeia
7. Five years ago, he gave an impassioned speech in the Senate saying that Bill Clinton’s behavior wasn’t appropriate, going against party lines. While this speech helped him politically four years ago, it didn’t give him an edge in the competition for the Democratic ticket for the presidency in 2004 since the Clinton Loyalists found refuge with the other candidates. FTP, name this conservative Democrat who argues for stronger moral values in society, running mate on the 2000 Democratic ticket with Al Gore.
Answer: Senator Joseph Lieberman
8. His first symphony completed in 1925 is a graduation composition. His 15th and final was finished in 1971, four years before his death. He set many of Yevtushenko's works to music, but his success varied with the political climate, even being condemned by Stalin himself for his Katerina Ismailova. Patriotic suites composed after and during World War 2 did gain favor, especially for the Leningrad Symphony. FTP name this Russian composer.
Answer: Dmitry Shostakovich
9. With a discharge of 900,000 liters per second, this river is 2,735 km long and passes through Syria before it reaches its destination of Iraq where it forms part of the Shattu I-Arab river way. It receives most of its waters from a set of tributary rivers such as the Karasu, Murat, and Khabur in Turkey. FTP, name this river that merges with the Tigris.
Answer: Euphrates
10. The novel traces exactly one year in the protagonist’s life, beginning on his 30th birthday when two strangers appear at his room. Exactly one year later, those same two men take him to an unremarkable spot and shoot him in the head. In the intervening year, the protagonist spends much time fighting his arrest through a dizzying maze of court appearances and correspondence. This vaguely summarizes, FTP, what Franz Kafka novel about the legal case of Josef K.?
Answer: The Trial
11. This programming technique is used in functional languages to implement loops. A classic application is to the Tower of Hanoi problem. In order for the program to halt, there must be a base case. For ten points, name this programming construct where a function calls itself.
Answer: Recursion (accept word forms)
12. In 1998, Mangosuthu Buthelezi [BOO-te-LE-zee] inaugurated a monument to honor 3,000 soldiers of this tribe killed in 1838 at Blood River. Their most famous leader was the son of Nandi, a member of the Langeni clan, and that leader united several Nguni clans before he was murdered in 1828 by his half-brother Dingane. FTP, name this tribal empire of southern Africa in the early 19th century, led for 10 eventful years by Shaka.
Answer: Zulu
13. Careful inspection of this work reveals a dog beating his tail in time with the music. The music is being played by constructed figures of simple flat interlocking shapes. With Renaissance perspective gone awry, this piece was a huge contribution to the Cubist movement. FTP, name this 1921 Pablo Picasso work.
Answer: Three Musicians
14. The narrator explains that he first heard of her when he was ten, traveling by train to live with his grandparents. She traveled in the car ahead with her Bohemian family, and couldn’t speak a word of English, except “We go Black Hawk, Nebraska.” The narrator is named Jim Burden and then novel’s first chapter is “The Shimerdas.” FTP, name this novel about struggles on the Nebraska frontier by Willa Cather.
Answer: My Antonia
15. Clinical signs of this disease include fever and blister-like lesions, but it is usually not fatal. It has not struck the United States since 1929, but over 1,000 cases occurred in Great Britain during a 2001 outbreak. A highly infectious disease among cattle, it reduces their weight and milk output, in addition to affecting the namesake regions. FTP, name this disease which causes lesions between the hooves and on the lips of cattle.
Answer: foot and mouth (or hoof and mouth) disease
16. Though born in Switzerland this influential biologist and psychologist spent most of his time in France, eventually becoming the only Swiss to be invited to the Sorbonne. In France he worked at a school created by Alfred Binet and worked on intelligence testing. He is best known for his work on the development of the minds of children, including his own three children. For ten points identify this modern psychologist who categorized development into the sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, the concrete operations stage, and the formal operations stage.
Answer: Jean Piaget
17. While just a baby named Katie, her first film appearance came in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Born in Brazil, her real breakthrough came with the role of Marcel on the sitcom Friends. Her most recent role began when she appeared on the Jumbotron at Edison Field on June 6, 2000, in a game fittingly against the Giants, a game the home team came back to win. FTP name this capuchin monkey, mascot of the 2002 world champion Anaheim Angels.
Answer: Rally Monkey
18. This brittle, silver-gray metallic element has many industrial uses, and is particularly important in steel production. The element is found throughout much of the Earth’s crust, but only occurs in combination with other elements. First isolated as a pure metal in 1774 by the Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn, this element has an atomic mass of 54.938 amu and an atomic number of 25. For 10 points, name this chemical element whose symbol is Mn.
Answer: Manganese
19. Everyone in this novel always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, but he never really thought about it until his fourteenth birthday. Divided into three sections--“The Seventh Day”, “The Prayers of the Saints” and “The Threshing-Floor”–it re-enacts the Christ story through a 24-hour struggle between a father and son, Gabriel and John Grimes. FTP, a triumphant stroll down Lenox Avenue concludes what downbeat, largely autobiographical first novel by James Baldwin, the title of which comes from a folk religious song?
Answer: Go Tell it on the Mountain
20. Weighing slightly more than a ton, it bears an inscription from Leviticus 25:10. It has cracked three times in its history, which dates from 1752, when it was purchased from the Whitechapel Foundry for the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly. During the British occupation of Philadelphia, it was hidden in nearby Allentown, and moved to its permanent location across from Independence Hall in 1976. FTP, name this object which last cracked in 1846 when rung to commemorate George Washington’s birthday.
Answer: Liberty Bell
21. Its Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay is the world’s largest freshwater island, covering 1,068 square miles. One of its larger cities is Windsor, famous for its casino. Oddly enough, if you enter it from the Detroit area, you would actually be traveling south into the area. FTP, name this province, the second largest in Canada.
Answer: Ontario
22. On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed repeatedly in the Kew Gardens section of Queens. While there were 38 people who had either heard or seen the attack, no one came to her aid or called the police. The Genovese Syndrome was reproduced in the laboratory by Darley and Latane, coining, for ten points, what social psychological term, where the larger the group of people, the less likely they will intervene when an individual is in need of help?
Answer: Bystander Effect, or Diffusion of Responsibility
23. He was the son of Anaxandridas II and ruled for nine years in the fifth century BC. Though little is known about his life, much is recorded about his death. His bones, taken by Pausanias, were buried north of Sparta, and the burial site was made into a memorial temple to honor all of those who “died at the Hot Gates.” FTP identify this Spartan king who led the defeated armies at Thermopylae.
Answer: Leonidas I
TOSSUPS – SHOOTOUT #2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by the CWRU crew with Michael Napier, Michael Swick, John Kilby, and everyone else
1. He left school at age fifteen and went through jobs at a drug store, on a ranch, and as a reporter and columnist for the Houston Press. He was accused of embezzling money from his bank, fled to Honduras to avoid charges, and was convicted when he returned to the US in 1897. He wrote the first of his many short stories in prison: Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking. After getting out of prison he moved to New York City where he produced short stories such as The Last Leaf and The Caballero’s Way. FTP name this writer of The Gift of the Magi and The Ransom of Red Chief.
Answer: O Henry (accept William Sydney Porter)
2. The founding of this nation has its roots in the leader Mieszko’ decision to convert the country to Christianity in 966. This nation became independent in 1024 under its first king, Boleslaw Chrobry. It weathered attacks by the Tartars, Swedish, and the Teutonic Knights and became powerful during the 16th and 17th centuries, culminating when it defeated the Turks at Vienna in 1683. However its power waned after this until it was partitioned in 1772 by Austria, Russia, and Prussia. For ten points what is the European nation whose more successful history has largely been eclipsed by its defeat at the hands of Germany and Russia in World War 2?
Answer: Poland
3. At about 1027 BC, the last Shang ruler was overthrown by the chieftain of a tribe that had settled in the Wei Valley of the modern Shanxi province. The capital of the new dynasty was established at Hao, near present day Xian. In 771 BC, the ruling court was sacked, splitting the dynasty into Western and Eastern periods. For ten points, what Chinese dynasty in its latter periods saw the flourishing of Chinese culture and philosophy, including Confucianism and Daoism?
Answer: Zhou or Chou Dynasty
4. It dilates the pupils, stimulates tear glands, inhibits salivation, increases sweating, dilates bronchi, accelerates heart rate, decreases digestive functions of the stomach, pancreas, and intestines, inhibits bladder control, and secretes adrenalin. FTP, name this part of the autonomic nervous system which activates the body’s energy resources to deal with threatening situations.
Answer: sympathetic nervous system (prompt on nervous or autonomic nervous system)
5. He won Mr. Football Indiana in 1998, after he set state records for season completions, yardage, and touchdown passes. He red shirted in 1999 and the next year beat out the nation’s top quarterback recruit for his school’s starting job and became the first freshman to win MVP honors in the SEC championship game. In 2001 he finished second in Heisman balloting to Eric Crouch and after playing one year for Ron Zook, was drafted by the Chicago Bears. FTP, name this current starting Bears quarterback.
Answer: Rex Grossman
6. This computer language was written in the mid-80's by Bjarne Stroustrup (Be-ar-neh Strov-strup). It adds many syntactical features to its precursor, such as the scope resolution operator and double slash comments, but its major new features resolved around object-oriented programming. FTP, name this computer language that in development was called “C with classes.”
Answer: C++ [sorry, can’t accept or prompt on just “C”]
7. He commented on the Song of Solomon at Fossanova in 1274, shortly after experiencing a sudden change in December 1273 which caused him to leave his magnum opus unfinished. His treatise De veritate [“ver-ih-TAH-te”] contains 253 scholastic disputations, and he defended Aristotle against both Averroists and Augustianians in 1269. FTP, name this student of Albertus Magnus whose most prominent work was the massive Summa Theologica.
Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas
8. In 1897, while studying to be a physician, he wrote his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, a story of London’s slums. Because of the book’s success, he never practiced medicine. One of his best known novels, The Moon and Sixpence, was based on the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. FTP, name this writer famous for the novels Of Human Bondage and The Razor’s Edge.
Answer: W. Somerset Maugham
9. This toxic chemical is produced in the bodies of land animals to neutralize ammonia, a more toxic chemical. High levels of it in the bloodstream are often indicative of kidney problems. FTP, what is this chemical, the first organic compound to be synthesized from non-organic reactants?
Answer: urea
10. Conceived in the 1930’s and first becoming operational one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor, this civil defense organization provided coastal patrol, defense, and rescue operations during World War II. Incorporated by Congress in 1946 as a non-profit, private organization, it was designated as the civilian auxiliary to the US Air Force. FTP, what is this now peacetime organization, whose task today is to provide emergency services, a cadet program, and aerospace education?
Answer: Civil Air Patrol
11. While applications of it have led visual scientists to create the notion of a “background” and a “foreground,” it actually states that objects are grouped according to similar features, and as a result, one that is different items will tend to “pop out” to the human eye. FTP, name this principle that states that the human visual system collectively recognizes similar objects as one large object.
Answer: Gestalt principle
12. An ambitious bourgeois merchant dreams of becoming a nobleman. However, Dorante tricks him into thinking that he has been made into a Turkish nobleman by his daughters fiancé, whom he believes to be the son of a great Turkish leader. The play ends without him ever finding out the truth about either man, though the rest of the characters are able to secure a happy ending for themselves. FTP, what is the name of this Molière play which denounces both the nobility and the bourgeois who want to become like them?
Answer: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme or The Would-be Gentleman
13. This substance has the chemical name of sildenafil citrate. Though it was once the only widely available product of its kind, it now has legitimate competitors such as Levitra. Of course, less trustworthy alternatives to this product have been appearing in spam mail for years. For ten points, what is this drug that comes in a trademarked blue diamond tablet?
Answer: Viagra
14. In 2000, he was overwhelmingly defeated by Vojislav Kostunica in his country’s elections, though he still insisted that the votes were too close and a runoff was needed. His ultimate goal was to create a completely Serbian country, resulting in his attempts to ethnically cleanse his country. FTP, name this ex-president of the former country of Yugoslavia, nicknamed “The Butcher of the Balkans.”
Answer: Slobodan Milosevic
15. When a certain frame of reference is not at rest with respect to the observer’s fixed frame, normal Newtonian laws do not apply. The situation becomes even more difficult if the moving frame is traveling at relativistic speeds. FTP, give the name for the set of operations that are applied to normal Galilean transformations to compensate for length contraction and time dilation at relativistic speeds.
Answer: Lorentz transformations
16. One of this painter’s more famous paintings depicts three figures. The painting is dark, except for a strong light coming in from our left. One figure in the top center holds down a fearsome bearded man, who struggles as a third figure, a woman, wears an expression of determination as she slices off the bearded man’s head, spewing jets of blood. Perhaps one the more graphic depictions of the subject matter, for ten points, identify this female Baroque artist, painter of Judith and Holofernes.
Answer: Artemisia Gentileschi
17. In ancient Rome, she had a temple on the Aventine Hill, where she was worshipped together with Liber and Libera. A Homeric Hymn to this goddess telling of the loss of her daughter is also an explanation for the existence of the seasons. FTP, what is the Roman name for the goddess of agriculture and fertility?
Answer: Ceres [sorry, not Demeter – 1st clue rules her out]
18. In this play, it is hard to tell who is the hero. Supposedly it is the duke, but he behaves rather poorly, and in the end is scorned in his bid for the hand of she whom he sought. Angelo, the Jerry Falwell of the city, certainly receives his comeuppance when he tries to seduce the upright Isabel -- Angelo, a man who has deserted his own wife. But since no one is killed and most ends either happy or unclearly, the play is considered a comedy. FTP, name this Shakespeare dark comedy whose title implies reciprocity.
Answer: Measure For Measure
19. After taking his office, this man vetoed legislation for a national banking act and almost the entirety of the Whig agenda, getting expelled from his own party in only a few months. He was a fervent state’s righter, appointing John C. Calhoun as secretary of state and supporting the secession of the south after his presidency was over. This president is best known for his completion of the Webster-Ashburton treaty and the annexation of Texas. For ten points name this tenth president of the United States who became president after the death of William Harrison.
Answer: John Tyler
20. The characteristic circular motion of these natural phenomena is produced by the simultaneous forces of friction due to wind and gravity. This type of movement may not be observed however, as their properties change when they approach the less deep area where most people will see them. At this area these objects may break in spilling, plunging, or surging forms. They distribute and sort sediments along this area, giving it its distinctive character. For ten points what are these energy carrying objects responsible for creating beaches?
Answer: Waves
21. It’s in the title of four Edgar Allen Poe works, especially where one occurs within one, and they’re frequently used as the basis of his stories. The main character of Invisible Man tells the reader of how a girl told him of one where she lay in the center of a large room. Barbara Kingsolver wrote about ones in animals. Philip K. Dick wrote about their potential in androids. FTP, what is this, the most famous one being Dorothy’s trip through Oz?
Answer: dreams
22. Its name comes from the French for “essential ardor.” The painter Robert Henri was an ardent supporter of this concept, believing that true artists could infuse their brushes with it by sheer force of will. Its primary proponent, author of The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1927. It is a hypothetical force thought to cause the evolution and development of organisms. FTP, name this concept most closely associated with Henri-Louis Bergson.
Answer: Elan vital
23. Despite the general opinion of this ruler, he was quite an open-minded person in his youth. He traveled widely, played the guitar, and enjoyed masked balls. He had many foreign friends, and was close to his daughters and wives. Unfortunately, his instigation of the Spanish Inquisition, problems with the Netherlands, as well as the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 forever marked him as a not so nice guy. For ten points, who is this ruler, the son of Charles V and ruler of Spain from 1556 to 1598?
Answer: Philip II
TOSSUPS – SHOOTOUT #3 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by UTC with help from the CWRU crew, Raj Dhuwalia, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Gaius Stern, and various freelance contributors
1. The U.S. Department of the Navy can be said to owe its existence to this event, as it was funded in 1798 to construct vessels to capture the ships of a certain European nation by order of Congress. The British were delighted and provided shot and shells as well as training by its own officers to help the Americans harass French shipping. All of this was in response to French bribe requests made to a diplomatic party of C.C. Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry, and John Marshall. FTP what name is given to this event in which three French diplomats insulted U.S. agents?
Answer: XYZ Affair
2. This substance is different from epinephrine in that it selectively activates only the beta 2 receptors in the sympathetic nervous system, which avoids the side effect of an elevated heart rate while retaining the desired effect of bronchial dilation. FTP, identify this chemical commonly administered in inhaled form to asthma patients during an attack.
Answer: albuterol
3. Though few of his works survive unaltered, this architect had a significant influence on his contemporaries. His preferred styles were a reliance on classical geometric designs, a lack of exterior decorations, and techniques that exaggerated the apparent size of buildings. Some of his famous works include the Church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie and the Tempietto San Pietro. He was also hired to reconstruct St. Peter’s Church but died before he could implement many of his ideas. FTP who was this Renaissance architect?
Answer: Donato Bramante
4. The first one in the U.S. series was released on October 27, 1998, and featured Hanson’s “MMMBop” and “Zoot Suit Riot” by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. Sheryl Crow and Britney Spears were featured on both the second and the fifteenth; the former appeared in July 1999 and hit #1 on the album chart, ” while the latter will hit the stores this coming Tuesday (March 23, 2004.) FTP name this pop music compilation series.
Answer: “Now That’s What I Call Music”
5. Subtitled “The Unique Magazine,” this publication was first printed in 1923 by J. C. Henneberger, "to give the writer free rein to express his innermost feelings in a manner befitting great literature." Contrary to the “Roaring 20’s” sentiment present at its conception, the publication produced compilations of dark and surreal literature, exploring uncertainties and fear in the human psyche. For ten points, name this pulp magazine, which earned its claim to fame with stories by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft.
Answer: Weird Tales
6. It was developed in 1957 by Canadian chemist R.J. Gillespie. This theory is based on the way that electron pairs try to maximize the distance from each other to minimize repulsions. Examples of structures that can be generated from it include linear, tetrahedral, and trigonal bipyramidal. FTP, identify this theory that can be used to predict the shapes of molecules.
Answer: VSEPR Theory (can pronounce it “vesper”) or Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory
7. From 1951 to 1956 he served as West Germany's foreign minister and earlier he had served as Lord Mayor of Cologne and was a member of the Catholic Center Party in the Weimar Republic. He opposed the rise of Hitler, and in 1944 was sent to a concentration camp for that oppostition. For 10 points name this German Chancellor from 1949 to 1963, under whose rule West Germany became a part of NATO and the European Economic Community.
Answer: Konrad Adenauer
8. Some of its novels include Cesar Birotteau, The Cure (kyoor-ay) of the Village, and In Search of the Absolute. Better known novels in the group are Cousin Bette, Les Chouans (show-ahn), and The Country Doctor. Comprising all the novels by the author written between 1829 and 1850, FTP this is what body of novels that also includes Eugene Grandet and Pere Goriot, all works by Honore de Balzac?
Answer: The Human Comedy (acc. Le Comedie Humaine from smartypants)
9. Addressed to Theophilus "it tells of all that Jesus began both to do and teach..." and it describes how lots were drawn between Justus and Matthias to determine who would take the place of Judas Iscariot. Chapter 2 describes the events of the Pentecost. FTP, name this book of the Bible, which details the exploits of Christ's followers after his death, the fifth book of the New Testament.
Answer: Acts of the Apostles
10. The Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga was the first to study this family of curves, to which the graphs of all quadratic functions belong. FTP what is the generic term for these curves, which include the circle, ellipse, parabola
(pa-RAB-o-la), and hyperbola (high-PER-bo-la)?
Answer: conic sections
11. Born in 1519, this Spaniard commanded the plate fleets bound carrying plundered treasures back to Spain from the “New World.” On one of these missions he also brought Tristan De Luna, the commander of a failed colonization attempt in Florida, back to Spain to be tried for treason, which prompted him to write a letter to King Phillip II telling him that Florida could never be colonized. By 1565 he had changed his mind and led a colonization attempt of his own. FTP name this founder of St. Augustine, who is not related to Lyle or Erik.
Answer: Pedro Menendez de Avilez
12. Research suggests that almost 8 percent of the general population experiences this psychological disorder. Following an automobile accident, the risk of it occurring is 8 to 41 percent, depending on the severity of the accident. FTP, name this anxiety disorder which occurs in some individuals who have experienced or witnesses distressing events, characterized by intense emotional distress, re-experiencing of the event, and avoidance of persons or situations that trigger flashbacks.
Answer: PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
13. Back in 1974, when it was first created, it was pictured only in the sitting position, its head fully facing the viewer. Soon, due to its popularity, the design moved to a standing position in 1976. Quickly after, the design expanded, including more poses, outfits, and new characters. Oddly enough, even though the character was created in Japan, her nationality is actually British. For ten points, name this famous iconic Japanese cat that is currently the trademark of the Sanrio company.
Answer: Hello Kitty
14. Dependent on energy, but not flux, of incident radiation, the core of this principle states that emission energy is directly proportional to frequency of the incident light times Planck’s constant. FTP, what is the name of this effect, for which Albert Einstein earned the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics?
Answer: Photoelectric effect
15. Set in Amsterdam, it follows a conversation between a Frenchman and his newfound drinking partner. The former Parisian lawyer tells the stranger of his successive – and failed – explorations of charity and debauchery in order to win his own self-esteem. FTP identify this 1956 work about the judge-penitent’s title act in forestalling personal judgment, a novella by Albert Camus.
Answer: The Fall
16. His chief literary work contends that comedy is an imitation of characters of a lower type, that beauty depends on magnitude and order, and that perfect tragedy has a complex plan but a single thread of plot. He argues that six critical elements of tragedy are plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song, and he contends that “errors” such as hamartia and hubris are essential to a tragic plot. FTP, name this Greek author of the one of the first works of literary criticism, the Poetics.
Answer: Aristotle (prompt on early “Poetics” despite the pronouns)
17. Commandeered by an aged Nevada senator from a Congressional legislative group including a young Richard Nixon, it called for the fingerprinting and registration of all “subversives” in the United States and authorized the establishment of concentration camps during times of national emergency. Although Truman vetoed it, his veto was overriden with an 89% majority. FTP identify this post-WWII act of Congress.
Answer: McCarran Internal Security Act
18. While working at a Western Union telegraph office in his youth, he took his boss’s advice and wrote a book about messengers, Clipped Wings, a spectacular failure which inspired him to learn about writing as a craft. He was variously supported by his five wives until he established himself at the forefront of the bohemian avant-garde with works such as The Colossus of Maroussi and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. FTP identify this often-banned writer who penned the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy.
Answer: Henry Miller
19. It was first studied in detail after an Austrian ornithologist realized that his wading boots had garnered some very intense attention. The sexual variety formed the basis for a debate between Freud and Westermarck and is closely related to the development of fetishes. FTP identify this general process by newborns come to recognize their biological parents.
Answer: imprinting
20. Studied on the same scale as the Mississippi and the Nile rivers, it originates at Mt. Kailash near the holy lake of Mansarovar and flows some 3000 km, known through most of its route as the Tsangpo river. Twisting back on itself, it forms a gorge still unnavigated to the present day and continues as the Dihong river until it crosses from Tibet into Arunachal Pradesh in India. FTP identify this river which empties into the Bay of Bengal.
Answer: Brahmaputra River
21. Bibles are given a BS designation, while Shakespeare is given a PS designation. Cookbooks can be found in the TX section, and a book about Physics would be located in the QC section. For 10 points, name this cataloguing system for books found in academic libraries that is named for a Washington, D.C. institution.
Answer: Library of Congress system
22. As usual, Robert DeLeo wrote the music. A guitar-driven piece typical of the band’s sound, it demands answers of a significant other and parallels the Marshall Tucker Band with references to abandoning the relationship on a “southern train.” FTP identify this 1994 song, the fourth of eleven tracks on the album Purple, whose name suggests a long-distance relationship for lyricist and singer Scott Weiland.
Answer: “Interstate Love Song”
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