Round 4



Round 4

Instructions: During the first 10 minutes of each match, read tossups 1-30, giving 10 points for each tossup answered correctly. Tossups should be answered without stalling as soon as the player has been recognized.

|Tossup Round |1 |2 |

|Tossup #1. Before joining the U.S. Senate in 1821, he established the "Albany Regency," a political organization to run the state in |10 |10 |

|his absence, and in 1828, he ran for and won the post of governor for the state so that he could ensure that Jackson would receive | | |

|that state's electoral vote. FTP, identify this man who in 1836 was elected as President of the U.S. | | |

|Answer: Martin Van Buren | | |

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|Tossup #2. It was this city that lent its name to the laws proclaimed on September 15, 1935 depriving Jewish residents of Germany of |10 |10 |

|the rights of citizenship. Some ten years later, it was the scene of the sensational war crimes tribunal where twenty-four leading | | |

|Nazis were tried and twelve put to death. For 10 points, identify this city in SE Germany. | | |

|Answer: Nuremburg | | |

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|Tossup #3. Born Tafari Makonnen, in 1930 he declared himself 'Might of the Trinity' and Lion of the Tribe of Judah. In 1963, he was |10 |10 |

|instrumental in the formation of the Organization of African Unity, and he helped guide African leaders together in a meeting at Addis| | |

|Ababba. He led the move for the modernization of Africa, and he promoted the advance of technical school s. FTP, name this Ethiopian| | |

|leader, also known as Ras Tafari. | | |

|Answer: Haile Selassie | | |

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|Tossup #4. Owen Wilson's 36 in 1912 is still the single-season record. Sam Crawford holds the lifetime record with 312, but no active|10 |10 |

|major-leaguer is currently in the all-time top fifty. However, Lance Johnson may eventually change this, as he has already led the | | |

|league in this category five times. FTP, what is this type of extra-base hit, considered baseball's most exciting play? | | |

|Answer: Triple or Three-base hit | | |

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|Tossup #5. It started when during a dinner, Mrs. Mashaur, an Englishwoman spilled a glass of water of the Marquis de Torey, a |10 |10 |

|Frenchman. She said it was an accident and he said it was an intentional insult. This led to a series of events that resulted in King | | |

|Louis XIV placing one of his grandsons on a formerly Hapsburg throne.What is this war that was ended in 1713 by the Peace of Utrecht? | | |

|Answer: War of the Spanish Succession [Reader: if player answers with Queen Anne's War, ask for more information] | | |

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|Tossup #6. Treatment of the mother with anti-D antibodies during the sixth month easily relieves this disorder. Occurring rarely in |10 |10 |

|pregnant women, it may occur during the second and subsequent pregnancies, and can be fatal to the fetus during birth. FTP, name this | | |

|disorder that occurs when the mother and the fetus have different blood types. | | |

|Answer: Rh syndrome (or erythroblastosis fetalis) | | |

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|Tossup #7. Which short story begins, "True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am |10 |10 |

|mad?" The narrator is obsessed with one eye of an old man, so he kills the man. Identify this story by Edgar Allan Poe. | | |

|Answer: (The) Tell-Tale Heart | | |

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|Tossup #8. A lesser known class in this phylum is Cubozoa, which consists of about 20 species of sea wasps. They have no circulatory |10 |10 |

|system, a digestive cavity with only one opening, and a primitive nervous system. FTP, what is this phylum of hydrozoans, corals, sea | | |

|anemones, and jellyfish? | | |

|Answer: Cnidaria (grudgingly accept Coelenterata) | | |

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|Tossup #9. This man was a musician by profession and an astronomer by hobby. When he went to buy a telescope he found he could not |10 |10 |

|afford a very good one and after deciding to build his own, ended up with one of the best in the world. For 10 points, identify this | | |

|man who while using his new telescope in 1781 came across an unknown object he initially believed to be a comet but instead turned out| | |

|to be the planet Uranus. | | |

|Answer: William Herschel | | |

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|Tossup #10. Viewed as a minor lunatic fringe group until World War I, they advocated "One Big Union, One Big Strike." Consisting of |10 |10 |

|lumberjacks, cowboys, and other such workers, they were known to throw dynamite at strike breakers. For ten points, name this | | |

|organization, led by Bill Haywood which is best known by its nickname the "Wobblies." | | |

|Answer: Industrial Workers of the World or IWW | | |

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|Tossup #11. Born in 1840, he at first worked in law where as an indifferent Clerk in the Ministry of Justice, he was given to chewing |10 |10 |

|official documents rather than delivering them. After the founding by Rubinstein of the St. Petersburg conservatory, he followed | | |

|Nicholas Zaremba there where he studied music and soon was invited to live with Rubinstein's brother in Moscow. While there he began | | |

|his first symphony, Winter Dreams. For 10 points, identify this man whose sixth symphone is known as the "Pathetique" and who is best| | |

|known for the "1812 Overture". | | |

|Answer: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky | | |

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|Tossup #12. Dissatisfied with the formlessness and subjectivity of impressionism, this artist together with Paul Signac created a |10 |10 |

|technique based on color theory and optic science, which they called divisionism. His technique, which inspired the neo-impressionist| | |

|movement, became better known as pointillism. FTP, name this painter of "Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte." | | |

|Answer: Georges Seurat | | |

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|Tossup #13. The Phoenicians called it Alube or nthe night watchn, a named which the Greeks corrupted into Kalube, and the English in |10 |10 |

|Calpe. But the name we know it as today comes from a one eyed Moor named Gebal-Tarik who landed on it in 711. FTP, what is this rock | | |

|with its highest point at El Hacho situated between Spain and Morocco? | | |

|Answer: Gibraltar | | |

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|Tossup #14. What ten-letter word beginning with the letter P is a synonym for unimaginative or commonplace? It comes from the Latin |10 |10 |

|word for going on foot, and it is commonly used to describe a person who does so. | | |

|Answer: Pedestrian | | |

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|Tossup #15. He entered Yale in 1803, but was expelled in his third year for a prank. His naval career ended after he became a |10 |10 |

|lieutenant, and he settled down to farm and write novels. His first, Precaution, was a dismal failure. For 10 points, name this author| | |

|of The Pilot, Satanstoe, and The Prairie, part of his Leatherstocking Tales. | | |

|Answer: James Fenimore Cooper | | |

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|Tossup #16. Shell, quick, merge, selection, heap, and bubble. All are types of, for 10 points, what type of computer programming |10 |10 |

|algorithm? | | |

|Answer: sort or sorting. | | |

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|Tossup #17. Conflicting reports identify its largest crater as either Stickner or Stickney. This celestial body has an orbit of |10 |10 |

|approximately 9300 kilometers and its orbital period is 7 hours, 40 minutes. Viking Orbiter 1 gave us our best pictures of this | | |

|terrestrial moon in 1978. For 10 points, what is heavily cratered and dark moon that rises 3700 miles above the surface of Mars? | | |

|Answer: Phobos | | |

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|Tossup #18. Its thin atmosphere's primary component is sulfur dioxide. It's nearly perfectly circular orbit takes approximately 43 |10 |10 |

|hours to complete. With a diameter of about 3,630 kilometers, this moon is most notable for being one of the few objects in the solar | | |

|system to exhibit volcanic activity. FTP identify this moon, the innermost of Jupiter's Galilean satellites. | | |

|Answer: Io | | |

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|Tossup #19. The patron saint of weavers, saddlers, tent-makers, basket weavers, theologians, and workmen's associations, this man's |10 |10 |

|name is invoked as protection against stormy weather and snakebite, both of which he suffered while stranded on Malta. FTP, identify | | |

|this Roman citizen born in Tarsus who became a disciple of Christ when he was converted on the road to Damascus. | | |

|Answer: St. Paul | | |

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|Tossup #20. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! Identify this next-door neighbor of |10 |10 |

|Squidward and close friend of Patrick who has a cartoon show on Nickelodeon. | | |

|Answer: Spongebob Squarepants (accept either half of name) | | |

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|Tossup #21. The son was a playwright who wrote "Le demi monde" and "The Money Question." The father was a prolific writer who has |10 |10 |

|about 1200 volumes to his name and who wrote the wildly successful "Henri III et sa cour" for the Comedie Francaise living until his | | |

|death in 1870 at his estate near Paris which was called Monte Cristo. FTP give the common name and you will have named the author of | | |

|"The Three Musketeers". | | |

|Answer: Alexandre Dumas | | |

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|Tossup #22. Make sure your answer is fully simplified. What do you get when you square the quantity three plus the square root of |10 |10 |

|five? | | |

|Answer: 14 Plus 6 Root 5 (or 6 Root 5 Plus 14) [ ] | | |

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|Tossup #23. The author of this work died before he could finish the third section, but his follower Reginald of Piperno completed it |10 |10 |

|later according to his design. It applies the methodology of Aristotelian logic to problems of Christian doctrine, systematizing and | | |

|quoting from the works of both classical and early Christian thinkers. FTP name this philosophical treatise composed between 1265 and | | |

|1274 by St. Thomas Aquinas. | | |

|Answer: Summa Theologica | | |

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|Tossup #24. Your answer should be a five-letter abbreviation. When you want to shut down a Windows-based computer, you are given a few|10 |10 |

|options. One option is to restart the computer in a mode that does not involve Windows. What five-letter abbreviation is used for this| | |

|mode, which was a major operating system before Windows was developed? | | |

|Answer: MS-DOS (the hyphen is not necessary, the abbreviation stands for Microsoft Disc Operating System) | | |

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|Tossup #25. Which cult was a distant offshoot of Seventh-Day Adventists? Its Mount Carmel headquarters were located near Waco, Texas, |10 |10 |

|and it was led by David Koresh. Identify this group that was destroyed by a fire on April 19, 1993 after a long standoff with the | | |

|United States government. | | |

|Answer: Branch Davidian(s) | | |

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|Tossup #26. In 1765 he began showing the symptoms of porphyria, and by 1788 his mental condition had deteriorated so much that he had |10 |10 |

|to be placed in restraints. In 1811 he was finally declared incompetent, and lived the last ten years of his life in seclusion while | | |

|his son George IV ruled as regent. For 10 points, name this British monarch, whose tax policies sparked the American revolution. | | |

|Answer: George III | | |

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|Tossup #27. There are four types of interactions that these particles can typically undergo. One is pair production when energy is |10 |10 |

|turned into an electron and a positron. Another is scattering, which is known as the Compton Effect. A third is the excitement of an | | |

|atom. The fourth is the knocking out of an electron from an atom, which is known as the Photoelectric Effect. Identify these tiny | | |

|pieces of light. | | |

|Answer: Photon(s) | | |

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|Tossup #28. He was this son of an engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. He suffered from poor health throughout his life, but|10 |10 |

|in spite of this was an enthusiastic traveller recording his trips in works such as An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the | | |

|Cevennes. For 10 points, identify this author best known for the novels The Master of Ballantrae and Treasure Island. | | |

|Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson | | |

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|Tossup #29. What organization currently serves seven states and is the largest electric utility in the United States? It also controls|10 |10 |

|Wilson Dam and the Muscle Shoals Center. Identify this organization that was created on May 18, 1933 to harness a river and bring | | |

|electricity to areas surrounding that river. Its headquarters are in Knoxville. | | |

|Answer: TVA (or Tennessee Valley Authority) | | |

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|Tossup #30. In 1810, some workers excavating the city of Aquila in Italy found a vase in which lay a copper plate. The comments on the|10 |10 |

|plate said this man was 1) a seducer 2) seditious 3) the enemy of the law and 4) entered into the temple followed by a multitude | | |

|bearing palm branches in their hands. Identify this man also accused on the plate of falsely calling himself the Son of God and the | | |

|King of Israel. | | |

|Answer: Jesus Christ | | |

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Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus. All answers must be answered without stalling.

|Blitz Round - All 10 Point Tossups |1 |1 |

|Identify the following works by William Faulkner. | | |

|Tossup #31. Many critics believe this work to be Faulkner’s masterpiece. In it we again meet Quentin Compson. Just before he |10 |10 |

|leaves Mississippi to enter Harvard, he becomes involved in the story of Thomas Stupen, who had appeared out of nowhere | | |

|seventy-six years before to erect a great plantation house. | | |

|Answer: Absalom, Absalom | | |

|Tossup #32. This 1942 work mainly has to do with the fortunes of the McCaslin family. It contains ‘The Bear’, one of Faulkner’s|10 |10 |

|most celebrated short stories, and in ‘The Fire and the Heath’, Faulkner introduces Lucas Beauchamp, his great black character. | | |

|Answer: Go Down, Moses and Other Stories | | |

|Tossup #33. This 1954 work retells the story of Christ’s passion as reenacted in the life of a corporal in the French Army in |10 |10 |

|World War I. It is probably his most ambitious work, but many critics felt his desertion of Yoknapatawpha county was a mistake.| | |

|Answer: A Fable | | |

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|Identify the book of the Bible each of these occurs in. | | |

|Tossup #34. The burning bush |10 |10 |

|Answer: Exodus | | |

|Tossup #35. Samson's haircut |10 |10 |

|Answer: Judges | | |

|Tossup #36. The Beatitudes |10 |10 |

|Answer: Matthew | | |

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|Given a famous dam, name the river on which it is located. | | |

|Tossup #37. The Aswan Dam in Egypt |10 |10 |

|Answer: Nile River | | |

|Tossup #38. The Grand Coulee Dam in the United States |10 |10 |

|Answer: Columbia River | | |

|Tossup #39. The Itaipu Dam between Brazil and Paraguay |10 |10 |

|Answer: Parana River | | |

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|Pencils and papers ready. Say I have a sample of gas occupying 1 liter at 10 Kelvin(K) and 1 bars pressure. | | |

|Tossup #40. If I heat the gas to 20K and increase the pressure until it is 2 bars what is the new volume of the gas? |10 |10 |

|Answer: 1 liter | | |

|Tossup #41. If I now further heat it from 20K to 60K and compress it until the pressure is 6 bars what is the volume now? |10 |10 |

|Answer: 1 liter | | |

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|Answer the following questions about our nation's first Constitutional crisis, the presidential election of 1800. | | |

|Tossup #42. Name the running mate of Thomas Jefferson, who tried to take an advantage of a quirk in the Constitution to steal |10 |10 |

|the presidency for himself. | | |

|Answer: Aaron Burr | | |

|Tossup #43. In response to Burr's machinations, the nation adopted a new constitutional amendment to simplify the presidential |10 |10 |

|election process. | | |

|Answer: Twelfth amendment | | |

|Tossup #44. Burr's misbehavior has assured that he would be far better-remembered than his counterpart, the Federalist running |10 |10 |

|mate of John Adams. For a final fifteen points, name this South Carolinian. | | |

|Answer: Charles Pinckney | | |

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|Given the following lists of English rules, give the house to which they all belonged, with a five point bonus for all five | | |

|correct. | | |

|Tossup #45. Henry IV, V, VI |10 |10 |

|Answer: House of Lancaster | | |

|Tossup #46. William I, II; Henry I |10 |10 |

|Answer: House of Normandy | | |

|Tossup #47. Mary II and Anne |10 |10 |

|Answer: House of Stuart | | |

|Tossup #48. Edward VII |10 |10 |

|Answer: House of Saxe-Coburg or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | | |

|Tossup #49. Edward IV, V |10 |10 |

|Answer: House of York | | |

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|Given the definition of a biological term that starts with the letter "C," name it for five points each. | | |

|Tossup #50. A symbiosis in which one party is benefited and the other party receives neither benefit nor harm. |10 |10 |

|Answer: commensalism | | |

|Tossup #51. A blind diverticulum usually in the digestive tract that can aid in digestion in lower chordates. |10 |10 |

|Answer: caecum (seek-um) | | |

|Tossup #52. A photoreceptor within the retina that can distinguish colors. |10 |10 |

|Answer: cone | | |

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Round 4

Instructions: During the first 10 minutes of each match, use the tossup-bonus format with 10 points for each tossup and five points for each bonus. The tossups and bonuses are related, so skip the bonus if no one gets the tossup correct. Tossups should be answered without stalling as soon as the player has been recognized. Teams may consult only on bonuses and the team must complete their answer within 20 seconds.

|Tiebreakers |1 |2 |

|TieBreaker - These were first developed in the Renaissance and written about by Andrea Palladio. Two types are the Pratt and the |10 |10 |

|Warren. What is the term for the series of rigid triangles used to support a beam bridge? | | |

|Answer: Truss(es) | | |

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|TieBreaker - Which architect collaborated with Dankmar Adler to design Chicago’s Auditorium Building and Saint Louis’s Wainwright |10 |10 |

|Building? He had a twenty-year quarrel with his most famous apprentice, Frank Lloyd Wright. | | |

|Answer: (Louis Henry) Sullivan | | |

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|TieBreaker - It is produced in the laboratory by the action of a dilute acid on zinc or other electropositive metals, and is obtained |10 |10 |

|industrially by the catalytic reaction of hydrocarbons with steam, as the by- product of some electrolysis reactions, and by the water| | |

|gas process. For 10 points, what is this element used in bubble chambers, rockets, and in the Haber process, that is believed to make | | |

|up about 90 per cent of the mass of the universe. | | |

|Answer: hydrogen | | |

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|TieBreaker - He was said to have very poor memory, yet he was able to use his keen intuition to produce the first stainless steel, |10 |10 |

|develop the first dynamo, and discover butylene and benzene. For 10 points, who was this pupil of Sir Humphrey Davy who formulated the| | |

|laws of electrolysis and who also has a quantity of electric charge named for him? | | |

|Answer: Michael Faraday | | |

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|TieBreaker - After losing interst in his studies at the University of Leiden, he began studying art and by the age of 22 was so highly|10 |10 |

|regarded that he began taking his own pupils. For 10 points, identify this 17th century master of the chiarascuro whose works | | |

|include Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts, The Jewish Brde, and The Night Watch. | | |

|Answer: Rembrandt van Rijn | | |

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|TieBreaker - The quantity of red in the light that is received from them rather than light-years and parsecs are used to measure their|10 |10 |

|distance. This is due to the incredible distance separating us from them, with estimates in terms of billions of light-years. For 10 | | |

|points, what is this class of faint blue celestial objects receding from our galaxy with a large red shift which may be bright cores | | |

|of galaxies? | | |

|Answer: Quasars | | |

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|TieBreaker - Leader of the Hunkpapa Teton Sioux tribe, he successfully fled to Canada but returned in 1881 to surrender. After being |10 |10 |

|held for two years at Fort Randall, South Dakota, he lived on Standing Rock Reservation, where he urged the Sioux to resist giving up | | |

|their lands. He was later shot and killed by Indian police for allegedly resisting arrest during the Ghost Dance. For 10 points, who | | |

|was this person who traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show? | | |

|Answer: Sitting Bull | | |

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