5/5 Math Science



BHSAT 2008

Packet 13-FINAL

Packet by Ben Colman, Mike Wehrman, Denise Alfonso, Cara Chancellor

1. A treaty he negotiated with Britain in 1806 was rejected by Thomas Jefferson. During his presidency, the Adams-Onis Treaty was negotiated, as was the Missouri Compromise. While in office, the Federalist Party disintegrated, and his terms were mostly marked by an end to partisan fighting and general good will, leading the period to be called the “Era of Good Feelings.” FTP, name this fifth president of the United States.

ANSWER: James Monroe

2. According to Virgil, Aeneas rescues Achaemenides from this monster’s isle, and Ovid comically portrays him as an unrequited lover of the sea nymph Galatea, whose beloved Acis he kills by throwing part of a mountain at him. Such mountain-throwing behavior is common for this Sicilian giant and son of Poseidon who tries in a similar manner to destroy the last remaining ship of the man who blinded him after escaping from his cave. FTP, name the shepherd Cyclops who, according to Homer, was tricked by Odysseus.

ANSWER: Polyphemus (prompt on Cyclops)

3. This period occurred about 354 to 290 million years ago during the late Paleozoic Era. It has been separated into the Mississippian and the Pennsylvanian Period. One of the greater evolutionary innovations of the period was the amniote egg. FTP, name this period that is named for the ideal conditions for the formation of coal deposits.

ANSWER: Carboniferous Period

4. A sickly child, she was healed by the hypnotic philosopher and thinker Phineas Quimby, though she was injured again in a fall in 1866, and was about to sue the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, when she got better unexpectedly. She believed this was a result of reading the Bible, and through years of study claimed to have found the secrets to healthy living, which were published as Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and led to a church based on those teachings. FTP, name this founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist and The Christian Science Monitor.

ANSWER: Mary Baker Eddy

5. Mr. Duvall has severe carpal tunnel syndrome and is upset that he has a nephew named Anfernee. Inventing Toaster Strudel made Gretchen Wieners’s father a wealthy man. The movie’s writer plays math teacher and part-time bartender Ms. Norbury and based the film on the non-fiction work Queen Bees and Wannabes. Concerning Cady Heron’s trying to fit in with and at the same time trying to sabotage the popular girl group known as “The Plastics,” FTP, what is this 2004 movie starring Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan?

ANSWER: Mean Girls

6. Providing support for evolution, it was founded by Edward Tyson and cited extensively by Darwin. It opposed the theory that all animals were designed individually and uniquely. FTP what evidence uses similarity in characteristics due to common ancestry, homologous, and similar environments, analogous, to reinforce the fossil record of evolution.

ANSWER: Comparative anatomy

7. During the rule of the tyrants of Cypselus and Periander, this city founded colonies including Durres in modern Albania and Syracuse in Sicily. A great temple to Aphrodite was the main building in this city’s acropolis, and it also served as the host of the Isthmian Games. In the late nineteenth century, a canal cut across its namesake isthmus, which connects the Peloponnesus to the Greek mainland. Once an ally of Sparta, this city’s early Christian community received two letters from St. Paul. FTP, name this Greek city, formerly a rival of Athens and Thebes.

ANSWER: Corinth or Korinthos

8. A similar principle in economics has name as this chemical principle developed by a French chemist. Conditions that are taken into consideration in this principle are concentration, temperature, and pressure. FTP, name this principle which states that if a dynamic equilibrium is disturbed by changing the conditions, the position of equilibrium moves to counteract the change.

ANSWER: Le Châtelier’s Principle

9. The figure in the painting is wearing clothing from the 1630s rather than the 1770s, which the work’s painter intended as an homage to Van Dyke’s portrait of Charles II as a young boy. It was purchased along with The Cottage Door and Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, also by the artist and taken to California in 1922. A portrait of the young Jonathan Buttall, it is located at the Huntington Library, it hangs opposite a Thomas Lawrence portrait of Sara Moulton known as Pinkie. FTP name this portrait of a young man by Thomas Gainsborough.

ANSWER: The Blue Boy (accept Jonathan Buttall before it is said)

10. Consisting of 132 lyrics, the three Christmas lyrics mark the passage of time, showing that the work is meant to convey three years. The poet wonders how long mankind will last because of “Nature, red in tooth and claw,” and its most famous lines are probably “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”Originally called “The Way of the Soul,” the poem’s inspiration was a 22-year-old poet who died of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna in 1833. Written to commemorate the death of the author’s friend Arthur Henry Hallam, FTP, what is this poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

ANSWER: In Memoriam A.H.H.

11. According to , it was “created by combining close to a dozen sounds, including that of a group of monks stamping on a floor.” It was originally developed to sound like a jail door slamming shut, but others have opined that it is actually the sound of a judge’s gavel. FTP, identify this noise, which begins each show of a popular NBC legal drama.

ANSWER: The Law & Order sound, the doink-doink, the thunk-thunk or

equivalents

12. One of his early works told the story of Sonny and Duane in the dying town of Anarene, Texas, entitled the Last Picture Show, and several of his novels, such as Cadillac Jack and Desert Rose, are essentially Westerns set in contemporary Texas. Many of his works were turned into films, such as Horseman, Pass By, which became Hud, and Terms of Endearment. Along with Diana Ossana, he also adapted an Annie Proulx short story into the film Brokeback Mountain. FTP name this author of western epic Lonesome Dove.

ANSWER: Larry McMurtry

13. A story in Boccaccio’s Decameron involves his finding it funny that he was so covered in mud that nobody would recognize him. He designed the freestanding campanile of Florence’s Duomo, and one of his earliest paintings was a large crucifix in Santa Maria Novella. Legend has it that he was a shepherd boy discovered by Cimabue while drawing some sheep on some rocks. His masterwork is usually considered to be the fresco cycles in the Scrovegni, or Arena Chapel in Padua. He may also have painted the frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi depicting that saint’s life. FTP, name this early 14th-century Italian artist, sometimes considered the first painter of the Renaissance.

ANSWER: Giotto di Bondone

14. His movie roles include Thornton Melon, the owner of a chain of “Tall and Fat” stores, who wins his college a diving meet with the famous “Triple Lindy” dive in Back to School. More famously, as Al Czervik, he asked Judge Smails’s wife if she wanted to “earn 14 bucks the hard way,” and played “Any Way You Want It” from his high-tech golf bag. On The Simpsons, he portrayed a native of Waynesport named Larry, who turned out to be Mr. Burns’s son. Larry claimed that he didn’t “get no regard” and “no esteem, either,” a play on his famous catchphrase. FTP name this deceased comedian and star of Caddyshack who couldn’t “get no respect.”

ANSWER: Rodney Dangerfield (also accept Jacob Cohen)

15. One 1721 work is organized in epistolary form, and argues the impossibility self-knowledge, the work in which he wrote, “If triangles has a god, they would give him three sides.” That work, Persian Letters, preceded his most famous book which is a comparative study of republics, monarchies, and despotisms published in 1748. FTP, identify this French thinker who encouraged a governmental separation of powers in The Spirit of Laws.

            ANSWER: Charles de Secondat or Baron de Montesquieu

 

The third estate of its most famous owner, it was not begun until 1768, and it was not completed until 1809 when then dome was erected. Mulberry Row on this estate was the home of many slave workshop, and collections in the house included casts of classical sculpture and artifacts brought back by Lewis and Clark. FTP, identify this estate with a Palladian style house near Charlottesville Virginia designed by and built for Thomas Jefferson.

ANSWER: Monticello

17. Almost seven feet tall, he traveled in disguise to various ports of Europe and worked on the docks, which inspired his love of the West and a desire to build a navy. In his home country, he encouraged nobles to shave their beards and adopt Western-style dress. Early on, he ruled jointly with his invalid brother Ivan V, but became sole ruler in 1696 at his death. Notable events during his reign included the Great Northern War with Sweden and reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. FTP, name this Russian tsar known for his modernization program, who founded the city once named Leningrad.

ANSWER: Peter I or Peter the Great

18. Net torque is equal to this times angular acceleration. It appears in the relationships for the dynamics of rotational motion and must be specified respect to a chosen axis of rotation. For a point mass it is the mass times the square of perpendicular distance to the rotation axis, I = mr2. FTP, what is this measure of resistance to angular acceleration, the rotational analog of mass.

ANSWER: Moment of Inertia

19. Some archeologists place its origin 4,800 years ago. They were discovered in 1899 when proscribed to a scholar as coming from a dragon, a discovery which helped to locate the site of ancient settlements at Anyang, a Shang dynasty capital. Not actually from dragons, most examples are really tortoise shells or scapulae of oxen. Used for divination, they were heated over a fire until cracking. FTP, identify this group of artifacts from China inscribed with the earliest known examples of Chinese character writing.

            ANSWER: Oracle Bones (or jiagupian, or reasonable equivalents).

20. It can be produced via the Strecker Synthesis involving the hydrolysis a nitrile, or from the amino acid serine via tetrahydrofolate. Along with proline or hydroxyproline, it is a major component of collagen, and it also functions as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, though some scientists have claimed to observe its spectral lines in interstellar medium. Unlike the other 19 common amino acids, this most compact amino acid is not optically active. FTP, name the amino acid with a hydrogen side chain, abbreviated with G.

            ANSWER: glycine

BONUSES

1. For ten points each, answer the following concerning the work of a Brazilian modernist architect.

A. This architect and noted communist’s most famous work in the US was a 1947 collaboration with Le Corbusier and others on the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

ANSWER: Oscar Niemeyer

B. Niemeyer also designed many of the buildings in this city, whose airplane-shaped plan was designed by Lucio Costa. It replaced Rio de Janeiro as Brazil’s capital in 1960.

ANSWER: Brasilia

C. In 1988 Niemeyer, along with Gordon Bunshaft, won this prestigious architectural prize, named for the family which owns the Hyatt Hotel chain.

ANSWER: Pritzker Prize

2. Name these prominent individuals from the Third Reich, for ten points each.

A. This head of the Luftwaffe during WWII was to be executed for war crimes at Nuremburg, but he committed suicide by ingesting cyanide before his sentence could be carried out.

ANSWER: Hermann Göring or Hermann Goering

B. This man instrumental in the Holocaust was captured in Argentina in 1960 after 15 years in hiding and taken to Israel. Kept in a bulletproof glass booth during his trial for safety reasons, he was executed in 1962.

ANSWER: Adolf Eichmann

C. After Hitler’s death, this naval leader became German head of state until his arrest in May 1945. After leaving prison, he retired to a small town in northern Germany.

ANSWER: Karl Dönitz or Karl Doenitz

3. Greek gods could be jealous, vindictive and competitive. Identify the following about famous clashes between a god and a lesser being FTPE:

A. This musically talented satyr was flayed alive after losing a flute-playing contest to Apollo.

ANSWER: Marsyas

B. This beautifully voiced nymph was cursed by Hera after concealing Zeus’ affairs so that she could only repeat what others had said.

ANSWER: Echo

C. After becoming pregnant by Zeus, this nymph was turned into a bear by Hera. ANSWER: Callisto

4. Name these authors whose works were the basis of some recent films for ten points each.

A. This winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for The Road also wrote the novel No Country for Old Men.

ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy

B. There Will Be Blood was loosely based on his 1927 work Oil!, though he is better known for such works as Dragon’s Teeth and The Jungle.

ANSWER: Upton Sinclair

C. Films based on spy novelist’s works include 2005’s The Constant Gardener and older films such as The Russia House, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

ANSWER: John Le Carré or David John Cornwell

5. FTP each, answer these questions about the British program Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet.

A. Name the desert where Meerkat Manor was filmed. It is located in parts of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

ANSWER: Kalahari Desert

B. Meerkat’s belong to this order of mammals along with seals, bears, and weasels.

ANSWER: Carnivora

C. Meerkat Manor centers on the lives of this meerkat family.

ANSWER: The Whiskers

6. Answer the following concerning the reign of England’s Henry II for ten points each.

A. Supposedly, Henry’s frustrated cry, something like, “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?” led to the murder of this archbishop of Canterbury in 1170.

ANSWER: St. Thomas (à) Beckett or Thomas of Canterbury

B. Henry sent a delegation asking this pope, the only Englishman ever to hold the office, asking for permission to invade Ireland, supposedly in order to reform church practices there.

ANSWER: Adrian IV or Hadrian IV or Nicholas Breakspear

C. Henry married this powerful woman, whose marriage to Louis VII of France was annulled. She gave birth to future kings Richard I and John.

ANSWER: Eleanor of Aquitaine

7. Answer these questions about the human eye, FTPE:

A. These receptors in the retina are responsible for vision at low light levels.

ANSWER: rods

B. This is the transparent tissue that covers the front of the eye and helps control the amount of light that reaches the lens.

ANSWER: cornea

C. The degeneration of this small yellow spot near the retina severely hinders a person’s vision, as it contributes significantly to clear vision.

ANSWER: macula

8. Not everything that Borat tells you is true. Name the former Soviet republic from clues FTPE.

A. This nation with capital at Tashkent is currently ruled by President Islom Karimov, who was named one of 2007’s worst dictators by Parade Magazine.

ANSWER: Republic of Uzbekistan

B. This ninth largest nation by land mass with capital at Astana is the world’s largest landlocked nation.

ANSWER: Republic of Kazakhstan

C. Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Russia, and eight other former Soviet republics form the membership of this organization with headquarters at Minsk.

ANSWER: Commonwealth of Independent States

9. Remember when Nick at Nite broadcast actual old shows instead of endless repeats of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Home Improvement? Identify these old TV sitcoms for ten points each.

A. This show featured Al Lewis as the Dracula-like Grandpa and Fred Gwynne as the Frankenstein-esque Herman. The title family was constantly befuddled as why they weren’t seen as normal and felt bad for their “weird,” cousin, the pretty and blonde Marilyn.

ANSWER: The Munsters

B. Before starring on the Munsters, Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne starred in this police comedy set in New York whose theme song featured such statements as “There’s a scout troop short a child” and “Khruschev’s due at Idlewild,” before asking the title question.

ANSWER: Car 54, Where Are You?

C. Set in Astoria, Queens, this 1970s sitcom was centered around the insensitive, working-class Archie Bunker and his good-natured but dimwitted wife Edith. Episodes generally dealt with Archie’s poor reactions to changing times and fights with his progressive daughter Gloria and son-in-law Michael, better known as “Meathead.”

ANSWER: All in the Family

10. Epistolary novels are generally very boring, but identify these novels written in letter form, anyway, for ten points each.

A. This 1740 novel by Samuel Richardson, subtitled Virtue Rewarded, tells of a maid’s rejecting the unwarranted advances of her employer until he proposes marriage to her.

ANSWER: Pamela

B. This Goethe novel caused thousands of disturbed young European men to don yellow and light blue clothing and contemplate suicide. The title character kills himself because of his unrequited love for Lotte.

ANSWER: The Sorrows of Young Werther or The Sufferings of Young Werther or Die Leiden des jungen Werther

C. This novel opens with lengthy sections from Jonathan Harker’s diary, and also contains letters from his fiancée Mina Murray and other characters. This Bram Stoker work should be way more exciting than it is.

ANSWER: Dracula

11. Answer these questions about the development of the periodic table, FTPE:

A.) This Russian is considered the “Father of the Periodic Table” for all of his research on trends among the elements.

ANSWER: Dmitri Mendeleev

B.) This man rearranged Mendeleev’s table, ordering the elements based on atomic number rather than atomic weight.

ANSWER: Henry Moseley

C.) This man won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with the transuranium elements and suggested the actinide series that is on the current table. Element 106 is named for him.

ANSWER: Glenn Seaborg

12. Name these people from Milan, Italy, for ten points each.

A. This fourth-century bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church baptized St. Augustine of Hippo and for his confrontations with Emperor Theodosius.

ANSWER: St. Ambrose of Milan

B. This pope, born Giovanni Montini, succeeded Pope John XXIII in 1963 and served as pope until 1978. The reforms of the Second Vatican Council were implemented during his reign, and he was the first pope not to wear the papal tiara.

ANSWER: Pope Paul VI

C. This family, whose name means “strong,” ruled the city for much of the Renaissance, and is also the namesake of a large fortress in central Milan. Duke Ludovico employed Leonardo da Vinci from 1482-99.

ANSWER: Sforza

13. Name these noted Shakespearean actors for ten points each.

A. An actor in Shakespeare’s company, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, this celebrated actor originated such roles as Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, and King Lear.

ANSWER: Richard Burbage

B. This 18th-century English actor known for his performances in Richard III, Hamlet, and Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist was the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for 30 years. He helped revive Shakespeare for more modern audiences.

ANSWER: David Garrick

C. Edwin of this famous American acting family was often considered the nineteenth century’s greatest Shakespearean actor and is the namesake of a Broadway theater. His younger brother became infamous during a performance of the non-Shakespeare Our American Cousin.

ANSWER: Booth

14. For ten points each, name these cities in the Appalachian mountains from historical happenings.

A. This city, then in Virginia, was best known as the site of an 1859 raid led by abolitionist John Brown on the federal armory in 1859.

ANSWER: Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia

B. This Pennsylvania city was flooded three times, most notably in 1889 when the South Fork Dam collapsed, causing water to rush in and destroy much of the city and resulting in more than 2200 deaths.

ANSWER: Johnstown, Pennsylvania

C. This city hosted the 1982 World’s Fair and is the home of the Sunsphere. It is also the home of the main campus of the University of Tennessee.

ANSWER: Knoxville, Tennessee

15. Answer the following concerning a humorist and poet for ten points each.

A. This author in a 1949 baseball poem, “Lineup for Yesterday” included the lines “E is for Evers. His jaw in advance. Never afraid to Tinker with Chance.”

ANSWER: Ogden Nash

B. Alluded to in the poem, Tinker, Evers, and Chance were a famous double-play combination in the early 20th century for which National League team?

ANSWER: Chicago Cubs

C. This is probably Nash’s best-known aphorism, also known as “Reflections on Ice-Breaking,” which notes that sweets cannot compare to alcohol.

ANSWER: “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”

16. Identify these churches located in Rome for ten points each.

A. Rome’s most famous and largest church, the dome of this building in Vatican City was designed by Michelangelo.

ANSWER: St. Peter’s Basilica or Basilica di San Pietro

B. The pope’s official seat as bishop is not at St. Peter’s but instead in this church in the southeast part of Rome’s historic center, near the city walls. Its adjoining palace was the site of a 1929 treaty.

ANSWER: St. John Lateran or the Lateran Basilica or San Giovanni in Laterano

C. This domed, former pagan temple was converted into the church of St. Mary and All the Martyrs in the early seventh century.

ANSWER: the Pantheon

17. We live in a world full of signs, and these guys tell us how they work. FTPE, name these philosophers important to literary theory.

A. His most important work, a Course in General Lingusitics was not written by this man, but compiled by his students.

ANSWER: Ferdinand de Saussure

B. This French philosopher and semiotician who died in 1980 wrote Mythologies, S/Z, and the essay “The Death of the Author.”

ANSWER: Roland Barthes

C. This Post-Structuralist who died in 2004 wrote Of Grammatology in 1967.

ANSWER: Jacques Derrida

18. Identify these minor Simpsons characters for ten points each.

A. Known for his distinguished baritone, this current sidekick of Krusty the Klown offers the following advice on removing gum from one’s hair: “Don’t try to dig it out with a bone, it just makes things worse.”

ANSWER: Sideshow Mel or Melvin Van Horne

B. This smug anchor of Channel 6 News once mistook some footage of escaped ants on Homer’s space mission to be large alien space ants, noting “I, for one, welcome our insect overlords,” and stated that he could help round up others “to toil in their underground sugar caves.”

ANSWER: Kent Brockman or Kenny Brockelstein

C. Principal Skinner’s boss, he grew up in Utica and claims to have never heard the supposed upstate New York term for hamburgers, “steamed hams.” He also thinks it odd that his alma mater Ball State and his vacation destination of Lake Titicaca are the subject of ridicule.

ANSWER: Superintendent (or Super Nintendo) Gary Chalmers

19. Once someone finally got around to investigating it, that investigation was led by a Democratic Senator from Montana. For Ten Points each,

A. Name this scandal for which the executive officer of the Sinclair Oil Corporation received a six month prison sentence.

ANSWER: Teapot Dome

B. As a result of Teapot Dome, this man received the first criminal sentence issued to an active Cabinet member.

ANSWER: Albert Bacon Fall

C. This president during the Teapot Dome scandal also had a gift for inventing words such as “normalcy.”

ANSWER: Warren Gamaliel Harding

20. FTP each, name these genetic diseases.

A. This disorder is caused by an extra 21st chromosome and is characterized by an impairment of cognitive ability distinct facial features.

ANSWER: Down Syndrome

B. This disorder is caused by a mutation to the 4th autosomal chromosome which programs a degeneration of brain cells. It can cause involuntary movement, emotional disturbance, and loss of intellectual faculties.

ANSWER: Huntington’s Syndrome

C. Caused by a deletion of one of the 5th pair chromosomes, this disorder is distinguished by a moon shaped face and a high pitched “mew” like voice.

ANSWER: Cri du chat

FTP each, give the chemical formula for the following chemical ions.

A. Ammonium

ANSWER: NH4+

B. Chromate

ANSWER: CrO42-

C. Thiosulfate

ANSWER: S2O32-

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