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Related Tossup/Bonus

Tossup One. Pierre Degeyter composed the music while its lyrics come from a poem by Eugene Pottier [pot-tea-AY], a Parisian transport worker. It begins, “Arise, the wretched of the earth.” For 10 points, name this anthem of three conventions of socialists and communists, as well as the Soviet Union until 1944.

ANSWER: The International [accept L’Internationale]

BONUS. On a slightly less ambitious scale than the International, answer the following about national anthems.

• It was originally entitled “War Song of the Army of the Rhine” by its creator, Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

ANSWER: “La Marseillaise”

• One of the verses in this country’s national anthem goes, “Beneath our radiant Southern Cross/we’ll toil with hearts and hands/To make this Commonwealth of ours/Renowned of all the lands.”

ANSWER: Australia [the anthem is “Advance, Australia Fair”]

Tossup Two. He has been the president of Ford Motor Company and the chairman of the World Bank. In 1995, he expressed deep remorse over past decisions in the memoir In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. For 10 points, name this man, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson.

ANSWER: Robert Strange McNamara

BONUS. Name the current holders of these other Cabinet positions for 10 points each.

• Secretary of Agriculture

ANSWER: Dan Glickman

• Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

ANSWER: Andrew M. Cuomo

Tossup Three. When graphed in complex space, this function has a period of 2πi (two pi i). It is defined for any number x as one half of quantity e to the x minus e to the negative x end quantity. For 10 points, name this function, which describes the y-coordinate of its namesake conic in terms of an angle.

ANSWER: hyperbolic sine [accept sinh (sinch)]

BONUS. For 10 points each, identify these words beginning with the prefix “hyper-”.

• This term describes an economic circumstance in which money is subjected to an immense devaluation in a short period of time.

ANSWER: hyperinflation

• This term describes the four-dimensional universe.

ANSWER: hyperspace

Tossup Four. Anatolia was the center of this empire, and at its height it controlled much of eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. It “taxed” its Christian male subjects by taking them as semi-slaves and training them as either soldiers or administrators. For 10 points, name this empire that ousted the Byzantine Empire six hundred years before being dissolved as a result of World War I, the key city of which was Constantinople.

ANSWER: Ottoman Empire

BONUS. Given clues, identify the now-defunct empire for 10 points each.

• This empire in Western Africa rose to dominance in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE and featured commercial centers such as Timbuktu. Its leadera included Sundiata and Mansa Musa.

ANSWER: Mali Empire

• Ruling Mexico from 1427 to 1519 was this empire known for its bloody sacrifices. Its last leader was Montezuma I.

ANSWER: Aztec Empire

Tossup Five. This quantity was derived from a postulate stating that at any fixed temperature and pressure, equal volumes of any two gasses will contain the same number of molecules regardless of the gasses’ chemical properties. For 10 points, name this number, set in 1811 at six point zero two times ten to the twenty-third power.

ANSWER: Avogadro’s number [prompt on mole]

BONUS. Name the following rules from atomic theory for 10 points each.

• This rule requires that each orbital be filled with both an “up” and “down” electron before the next orbital begins to be filled.

ANSWER: Hund’s Rule

• This rule says that simultaneously measuring the velocity and the position of an electron is impossible.

ANSWER: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Tossup Six. First organized in August 1847, this group’s first recording was made in 1910, and its first radio broadcast produced in 1929. Now it is heard every week on “Music and the Spoken Word” on over fifteen hundred stations around the world. For 10 points, name this three hundred and twenty-five-member choir based in Salt Lake City.

ANSWER: Mormon Tabernacle Choir

BONUS. The Vienna Boys Choir is even older, having been established in 1498, so answer these questions about Austria for 10 points each.

• The car-stickers from Austria are recognized in Europe as the letter “O” because that’s the initial for this longer German name for the country.

ANSWER: Oesterreich

• This is the number of self-governing states that comprise the Republic of Austria.

ANSWER: nine

Tossup Seven. “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” The seminal 1776 work which contains that observation also exalts division of labor and attacks mercantilism. For 10 points, identify this treatise by Adam Smith.

ANSWER: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

BONUS. For 10 points apiece, name these people associated with Adam Smith.

• An extreme empiricist, he influenced Smith’s opposition to mercantilism. His philosophical writings include Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

ANSWER: David Hume

• This follower of Smith created the theory of comparative advantage and formed a version of the Iron Law of Wages.

ANSWER: David Ricardo

Tossup Eight. Its two-act format and use of melodrama set the tone for later works in its genre. Supporting characters include Orlofsky, Gabriel, and Rosalinda. The plot revolves around Dr. Falke’s attendance at a party dressed as the title animal. For 10 points, name this 1874 operetta by Johann Strauss the Younger.

ANSWER: Die Fledermaus [or The Bat]

BONUS. Answer the following about bats for 10 points each.

• Bats comprise this order of mammals.

ANSWER: chiroptera

• Microbats navigate in flight using this system of reflected high-frequency sound.

ANSWER: echolocation [prompt on sonar]

Tossup Nine. At age sixteen he lifted the stone that hid the sword of his father Aegeus and journeyed to his father’s court. On the way, he killed Sciron (SKY-ron), Procrustes (pro-CRUST-eez), and Sinis. Later, he wed Hippolyta and Phaedra and was killed in Scyros by Lycomedes (lye-KAH-meh-deez). For 10 points, name this Attican hero who escaped from the Labyrinth.

ANSWER: Theseus

BONUS. Name these other characters who spent time in the Labyrinth for 10 points each.

• This builder and first prisoner of the Labyrinth escaped on wax wings along with his son Icarus.

ANSWER: Daedelus

• This half-man, half-bull creature of the Labyrinth was killed by our hero, Theseus.

ANSWER: the Minotaur

Tossup Ten. An electric field diverges from electric charge, magnetic monopoles don’t exist in isolation, changing a magnetic field can produce an electric field, and changing electric fields and currents can produce circulating magnetic fields. For 10 points, those are layman’s descriptions of his four equations about the nature of electromagnetism. Name this nineteenth-century scientist.

ANSWER: James Clerk Maxwell’s Equations

BONUS. Math time! Ready your pencil and paper to solve the following equations for x as described, for 10 points each. Bounceback, if any, will be immediate.

• Find the positive root of the equation 15x2 + 28x = 32 (15 x squared plus 28 x equals 32). You have thirty seconds.

ANSWER: four fifths or zero point eight

• Find the negative root of the equation 6x3 + x2 - 19x = -6 (6 x cubed plus x squared minus 19 x equals negative 6), where one of the positive roots is one points five. You have sixty seconds.

ANSWER: negative two

SCORE CHECK

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Category Quiz Tossups

Tossup One. After 19 years, ninety-nine point nine seven percent of the population approved this April 1938 referendum that was a goal of Austria’s Social Democrats. For 10 points, name this concept of a “union” between Austria and Germany which occurred with a German invasion prior to the referendum vote.

ANSWER: Anschluss

Tossup Two. Founded by Peter Benenson in 1961, it has well over a million members in one hundred and fifty countries. Its International Secretariat and field research base are located in London. For 10 points, name this organization, which won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to promote human rights.

ANSWER: Amnesty International [prompt on partial answer]

Tossup Three. Walter Kirtland Hancock finished a project here after Gutzon Borglum left to work on Mount Rushmore. For 10 points, name this granite mass, the site of a sculpture of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee on horseback, about sixteen miles east of Atlanta, Georgia.

ANSWER: Stone Mountain

Tossup Four. He founded a community dedicated to “piety, abstinence, and a flavorless mush” he called “root marm”. Legend has it that he killed a bear in a fistfight, but more recent evidence suggests that the bear killed him. For ten points, give the common alias of this silver-tongued ktesic figure, born Hans Sprungfeld.

ANSWER: Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Mariah Springfield

Tossup Five. It must be stabilized by reaction with polyadenylic acid before it moves about the cell. For 10 points, name this single-stranded molecule, discovered by Phoebus T. Levene in 1909, that comes in transfer, messenger, and ribosomal varieties.

ANSWER: ribonucleic acid [accept messenger RNA before “transfer”]

Tossup Six. He slays the giant Humbaba, guardian of the cedar forest. He consults the flood survivor Utnapishtim on the subject of immortality. He finds the flower of immortality but loses it to a serpent. For 10 points, name this friend of the wild Enkidu and King of Uruk, the subject of an ancient Babylonian epic.

ANSWER: Gilgamesh

Tossup Seven. In 1998, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon issued a warrant for this man, then recuperating in Great Britain, on charges of human rights abuses during the late 1980s which allegedly resulted in around three thousand deaths. For 10 points, name this man who, in March 2000, was allowed to return to Chile, where he ruled as dictator for seventeen years.

ANSWER: General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte

Tossup Eight. Introduced in an October 1877 magazine story, he supposedly saved his master by shooting a Yankee sharpshooter out of a tree. For 10 points, name this character whose creator changed his persona to a storyteller from the Old South who spun stories about Brer Rabbit.

ANSWER: Uncle Remus

SCORE CHECK AFTER THE BONUS

Category Quiz Boni

American Literature: Death of a Salesman?

Dwayne Hoover, a Pontiac salesman, reads a novel by Kilgore Trout and loses control of himself. The author enters the book as Philboyd Sludge in order to meet recurring character Trout. For 15 points, name this novel by Kurt Vonnegut which was made into an already-forgotten 1999 film.

ANSWER: Breakfast of Champions

Biological Sciences: Ancient History

Called the muktuk by Greenland Eskimos, its scientific name is monodon monoceros. For 15 points, name this sea creature with only one tooth, taking the shape of a long, ivory tusk.

ANSWER: narwhal

Computer Science: Dualistic Programming Terms

They can be “base” or “derived”, “concrete” or “abstract”. Analagous to types in compiled languages, they provide categories for grouping of objects and define the basic and common attributes of member objects. For 15 points, name these files which are essential to object-oriented languages such as Java.

ANSWER: classes

Mathematics: Number Crunching

Ready your pencil and paper and note this set of data: 7, 21, 30, 50, and 92. For 15 points, compute the set’s standard deviation to the nearest integer. Bounceback, if any, will be immediate. You have sixty seconds.

ANSWER: 65

Music: The Tears of a Clown

The title character is a court jester who mocks Count Ceprano’s fatherly indignation at the pursuit of Ceprano’s daughter. Later, the jester hires the assassin Sparafucile to kill the Duke of Monterone, but the assassin kills the jester’s daughter instead. For 15 points, name this 1851 opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

ANSWER: Rigoletto

Physical Sciences: All about Bob

Ready your pencil and paper. A twenty-kilogram bob of an eight-foot-long pendulum displaced ten degrees from vertical has a period of three seconds. For 15 points, the length of this pendulum is reduced to two feet under the same conditions. Calculate the new period of the pendulum. Do not forget to include appropriate units in your answer. Bounceback, if any, will be immediate. You have fifteen seconds.

ANSWER: one point five seconds [or three over two seconds; or three halves of a second]

Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy: Perhaps It Belongs In the X-Files

It tells of how Jesus switched places with another man moments before his crucifixion and fled to the Indus River Valley after “resurrecting” near his grave site, where he led a full life and fathered many children. For 15 points name this apocryphal book which maintains that a false messiah was glorified.

ANSWER: Gospel of Barnabas

U.S. History: Summon the Cowards

On December 29, 1890, a shot was fired within the Sioux camp, and the US army began shooting. What ensued was the massacre of between one hundred and fifty and three hundred and fifty Sioux, mostly women, children, and unarmed men. For 15 points, name this massacre that effectively ended Native American resistance to white expansion in the West.

ANSWER: Wounded Knee

World Geography: Solemn Spots

In 1963, Yigail Yadin excavated this site, where many Israeli soldiers take their service oaths. For 15 points, name this mountaintop fortress where, in 73 CE, nine hundred and sixty Jewish men, women, and children committed suicide rather than be taken by the Romans.

ANSWER: Masada

World Literature: Witness

Warning: Full name required. He witnesses an argument between Dante and Mr. Casey which reveals the breach between Irish nationalism and the Catholic Church. He is unjustly hit with the pandybat by Father Dolan after losing his glasses. After a period of intense religious devotion and a flirtation with the priesthood, he decides to become a writer. For 15 points, name this character of two James Joyce novels.

ANSWER: Stephen Dedalus

Stretch Round

Tossup Two. An August 1998 bombing in this city claimed two lives at a Planet Hollywood restaurant. Between March 1999 and March 2000, eighty pipe bombs have exploded here, none with any clear political purpose. This city is normally very political, as it s one of the capitals of a country associated with legalized racism. For 10 points—name this city situated on the Cape of Good Hope, one of South Africa’s capital cities.

ANSWER: Cape Town

BONUS. “Know thy Latin” and convert these words into their plural forms.

• Lemma could be pluralized into lemmas, lemmae, or this alternate form.

ANSWER: lemmata

• Numen, a presiding divinity for a place, not the Seinfeld character, is pluralized thus.

ANSWER: numina

• Corpus, like in corpus callosum

ANSWER: corpora

Tossup Two. Originally assigned under Lieutenant Commander DeVriess, ensign Willie Keeler–a rich New Yorker who gets assigned to an aging destroyer-minesweeper at Pearl Harbor–witnesses the breakdown of the new commanding officer as he is relieved of duty by Lieutenant Steve Maryk. For 10 points—name this 1952 Pulitzer-prize-winning Herman Wouk novel made into a 1954 movie about Captain Queeg.

ANSWER: The Caine Mutiny

BONUS. Prepare for a visual aid [located at end of packet]. The works of Shakespeare have provided much inspiration for various artists. Given a painting, its title, and the year when it was painted, identify the artist for 10 points and the play for 5 points.

• The Death of Ophelia, 1843

ANSWERS: The artist is Eugene Delacroix, the play is Hamlet

• Cordelia’s Portion, 1866

ANSWERS: The artist is Ford Madox Brown, the play is King Lear

Tossup Three. The two major phases of this movement started in 1500 and then in 1880. The first phase saw Spain and Portugal colonize most of South America, and the British and French colonizing North America. In the Far East, the British took India and various countries set up trading posts in China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. For 10 points—identify this historical movement, which is best known for its second phase, the carving up of Africa amongst European powers.

ANSWER: imperialism [prompt on colonialism; prompt on expansionism]

BONUS. 30-20-10, name this mythological figure.

• 30: She was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe.

• 20: She angered Hera through her dalliance with Zeus in the guise of a quail.

• 10: She is best known as the mother of Artemis and Apollo.

ANSWER: Leto

Tossup Four. Stories of this animal were circulated by the Pygmies, but it was not discovered by science until 1900. With its brownish-purple coat and black and white striped legs, this creature was originally thought to be a species of zebra. For 10 points—name this close relative of the giraffe, one of the last large mammals to be found.

ANSWER: okapia johnstoni

BONUS. Identify the following British counties.

• For 5 points, with its county at Lochgilphead, this Scottish county is thought to have originated to a diamond-shaped plaid pattern is popular on sweaters and socks.

ANSWER: Argyll

• For 10 points, this Welsh county may be best remembered as the home of the sponsor of Howard Carter’s expedition to find the tomb of pharaoh Tutankamen.

ANSWER: Caernarvon

• For 15 points, this largest English county at one time provided the base of operations for Kings Edward IV and Richard III.

ANSWER: York

Tossup Five. When this collector of customs in El Paso was shot, Wayne Brazel successfully claimed self-defense in an argument over a horse ranch lease. He had been a rancher near Roswell New Mexico and Dona Ana County’s sheriff. For 10 points—name this man who was Lincoln County sheriff when he shot Billy the Kid.

ANSWER: Patrick Floyd Garrett

BONUS. Name these types of subatomic particles for 10 points each.

• This most common lepton has the least mass and an electric charge of negative one.

ANSWER: electron

• This type of quark is the third-smallest in mass and comprises k-mesons.

ANSWER: strange

• Discovered in 1995 is this largest quark, 40 times heavier than bottom, with a charge of positive two thirds.

ANSWER: top

Tossup Six. Originally from Buttenheim, Bavaria, his family moved to New York City when he was 18 years old to meet his stepbrothers, and together they maintained a dry goods store. In 1853, he became an American citizen and set forth for California to make it rich by selling supplies to the prospectors. For 10 points—name this man who became known for his “waist overalls” made with denim.

ANSWER: Levi Strauss

BONUS. Given years and clues, name the Chinese dynasty for the stated number of points.

• For 5 points, 1368-1644, it was known for its fine porcelain vases

ANSWER: Ming

• For 10 points, 1279-1368; this was the dynasty of the Mongol conquerors of China

ANSWER: Yuan

• For 15 points, 618-907; this dynasty rose under the leadership of Li Yuan and saw China’s economy prosper and her arts reach new levels. It also saw the era of great poets such as Li Po, and Tu Fu.

ANSWER: T’ang

Tossup Seven. An Englishman from York born into a noble family, by 770, he headed the Cathedral School of York at age forty. He established many scriptoria for the copying of ancient manuscripts and subsequently founded schools at cathedrals and monasteries. For 10 points—name this minister of education for Charlemagne.

ANSWER: Alcuin

BONUS. Name these multiple medal winners of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, for 10 points each.

• The Romanian gymnast who garnered three golds, a silver, and a bronze.

ANSWER: Nadia Comaneci

• The East German female swimmer who won four golds and a silver.

ANSWER: Kornelia Ender

• The American male swimmer who also won four golds and a silver.

ANSWER: John Naber

Tossup Eight. Founded as a seminary in 1853 by William Greenleaf Eliot, the grandfather of Thomas Stearns Eliot, this independent institution’s campus buildings are mainly Collegiate Gothic architecture on its 169-acre Hilltop campus. For 10 points–name this university that was the host to a few events in the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, renamed in 1857 in honor of the first President.

ANSWER: Washington University in St. Louis

BONUS. For the stated points, identify the authors of the following pairs of psychological works.

• For 5 points, Beyond Freedom and Dignity and Walden Two

ANSWER: Burrhus Frederick Skinner

• For 10 points, The Psychology of the Unconscious and Psychological Types

ANSWER: Carl Gustav Jung

• For 15 points, The Theory and Practice of Individual Psychology and The Pattern of Life

ANSWER: Alfred Adler

SCORE CHECK

Tossup Nine. In 1995, it was proved without the aid of a computer for the first time. With computer assistance, it had first been proven by Appel and Haken in 1976. For 10 points—identify this theorem regarding the minimum number of colors with which any map can be colored without two adjoining countries being the same color.

ANSWER: the four-color theorem

BONUS. And now it’s time to name that Secretary of State for 10 points per correct answer.

• In 1974, he accompanied President Ford to discuss strategic arms limitations with General Secretary Brezhnev.

ANSWER: Henry Kissinger

• In 1866, he met with former Mexican President Santa Anna while on a vacation in the Caribbean.

ANSWER: William Henry Seward

• He attended ceremonies commemorating the centenary of Brazilian independence in September 1922.

ANSWER: Charles Evans Hughes

Tossup Ten. Its rules were explained in Johann Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum. Types include strict, free, combined, double, triple, and linear. It is used to add harmony to a melody known as the cantus firmus. For 10 points—name this musical technique in which many voices recite differing but comprehensible parts.

ANSWER: counterpoint

BONUS. Identify these Jane Austen characters for 10 points each.

• He is the target of a love-hate relationship with Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice.

ANSWER: Fitzwilliam Darcy

• In the book Emma, the title character attempts to mold and shape this “friend” to be more suitable for husbands-to-be.

ANSWER: Harriet Smith

• After a failed relationship with Mary Crawford, he finally opens his heart to his cousin Fanny Price at the end of Mansfield Park.

ANSWER: Edmund Bertram

FINAL SCORE

Visual Handout for Bonus Attached to Stretch Round Tossup Two

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Visual Handout for Bonus Attached to Stretch Round Tossup Two

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Finals Category Quiz

Available Bonus Categories

American Literature: Death of a Salesman?

Biological Sciences: Ancient History

Computer Science: Dualistic Programming Terms

Mathematics: Number Crunching

Music: The Tears of a Clown

Physical Sciences: All about Bob

Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy: Perhaps It Belongs In the X-Files

U.S. History: Summon the Cowards

World Geography: Solemn Spots

World Literature: Witness

Finals Category Quiz

Available Bonus Categories

American Literature: Death of a Salesman?

Biological Sciences: Ancient History

Computer Science: Dualistic Programming Terms

Mathematics: Number Crunching

Music: The Tears of a Clown

Physical Sciences: All about Bob

Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy: Perhaps It Belongs In the X-Files

U.S. History: Summon the Cowards

World Geography: Solemn Spots

World Literature: Witness

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