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Related Tossup/Bonus Round

Tossup One. She owned several peacocks on her farm in Georgia. A devout Catholic, a great number of her works reflect her religious background. For 10 points, identify this author of Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, Everything that Rises Must Converge, and A Good Man is Hard to Find.

ANSWER: Mary Flannery O’Connor

BONUS. Identify these other female southern writers from works for 10 points each.

• Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, and The Optimist’s Daughter

ANSWER: Eudora Welty

• Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Square Root of Wonderful, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

ANSWER: Carson McCullers

Tossup Two. Friedrich Wohler began its study when he synthesized urea without an élan vital. For 10 points, name this subfield of chemistry which studies compounds of hydrogen and carbon.

ANSWER: organic chemistry

BONUS. Name these subfields of chemistry for 10 points each.

• The name of this science of balancing chemical equations is derived from the Greek word for “element.”

ANSWER: stoichiometry

• This branch of chemistry determines the composition of unknown substances.

ANSWER: analytic chemistry [accept word forms]

Tossup Three. About 48 million speak it as either their mother tongue or as a lingua franca. It is the official language of Kenya and Tanzania, and is widely spoken in Uganda and Zaire. For 10 points, name this language that is spoken most of Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.

ANSWER: Swahili or KiSwahili

BONUS. For the stated number of points, given the capital of an African nation, name the nation.

• For 5 points, Cairo

ANSWER: Arab Republic of Egypt

• For 5 points, Algiers

ANSWER: Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria

• For 10 points, Kigali

ANSWER: Rwanda

Tossup Four. Fellow students under the instruction of Albertus Magnus at Cologne called this man a “dumb ox”. For 10 points, name this 13th century religious philosopher who attempted to reconcile Christian doctrines with scientific rationalism in his Summa Contra Gentiles, and his masterwork Summa Theologica.

ANSWER: Saint Thomas Aquinas

BONUS. From Saint Thomas Aquinas himself to a certain Saint Thomas Aquinas high school in the state of New York. Answer the following somehow related questions for 10 points each.

• Saint Thomas Aquinas high school is located in this city in New York, the home of Eastman-Kodak.

ANSWER: Rochester

• Rochester is also the last name of the employer and later husband of this title character.

ANSWER: Jane Eyre

Tossup Five. He pioneered the use of canons against fortified walls, a technique which allowed him to take Belgrade in 1521. He had come to power just one year earlier upon the death of his father, Selim, and ruled until 1566. For 10 points, name this sultan of the Ottoman Empire called “The Scourge of Heaven” and “The Magnificent.”

ANSWER: Suleiman I [or Suleiman The Magnificent]

BONUS. Name these contemporaries of Suleiman for 10 points each.

• He was the Holy Roman Emperor for much of Suleiman’s reign. His territory included Spain, Italy, and Hapsburg lands in Austria and elsewhere.

ANSWER: Charles V [prompt on Charles]

• This former slave of Suleiman married him and caused division among his sons.

ANSWER: Roxalana

Tossup Six. It funded Operation Chaos and Radio Free Europe, and its directors have included Allan Dulles and William Casey. For 10 points, identify this executive agency which is forbidden by Congress from exercising “police, subpoena, law enforcement powers or internal security functions”.

ANSWER: Central Intelligence Agency

BONUS. George Bush directed the CIA from 1976 to early 1977. For 10 points apiece, identify these events from his Presidential administration.

• In 1990, Bush refused to allow the Fish and Wildlife Service to put this infamous animal on the endangered species list. Thirty thousand Pacific Northwest loggers who would have lost their jobs as a result of that action applauded; environmentalists did not.

ANSWER: spotted owl [prompt on owl]

• When President F.W. de Clerk of this country repealed its Population Registration Act in 1991, Bush lifted most economic sanctions.

ANSWER: South Africa

Tossup Seven. He called his form of Baroque classicism the Grand Manner. In works like Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces, he would give a historical or mythological veneer to his works. For 10 points, name this portrait painter of late-eighteenth-century England.

ANSWER: Joshua Reynolds

BONUS. Answer these questions about a company founded by Richard Joshua Reynolds, for 10 points each.

• In 1979, R. J. Reynolds Industries merged with this company, formerly the California Packing Corporation. It processes, cans, and distributes food, and is noted for growing pineapples and bananas.

ANSWER: Del Monte Corporation

• In 1985, R. J. Reynolds Industries acquired this company, and in 1986 changed its name in order to represent the merger.

ANSWER: Nabisco Brands Incorporated

Tossup Eight. Among this author’s works are a psychological study of the alleged demonic possession of 17th century nuns, in The Devils of Loudun, and malicious satires such as Point Counter Point, Antic Hay, and Chrome Yellow. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote of a scientifically determined caste system in his distopic novel Brave New World.

ANSWER: Aldous Leonard Huxley

BONUS. The title of Huxley’s Brave New World has its roots in literature. For 10 points each:

• Name the Shakespearean play which is the source for the title of Brave New World.

ANSWER: The Tempest

• Identify the character in The Tempest who utters the words, “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world / That has such people in ‘t!”?

ANSWER: Miranda

Tossup Nine. This festival does not even appear in the Torah and it is extremely insignificant in Jewish tradition. However, the time of year that it occurs has changed it into a secularly important holiday. For 10 points, name this “Festival of Lights” that commemorates a small amount of oil lasting 8 days and nights.

ANSWER: Hanukah

BONUS. For 10 points each identify the two major Jewish “high holidays” that occur within 8 days of each other, one ushering in the Jewish New Year and the other known as the Day of Atonement.

ANSWERS: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Tossup Ten. The existence of these numbers was proved in 1844 by Joseph Liouville. Examples include pi and e but not numbers such as square roots, since square roots are defined by equations. For 10 points, identify this class of irrational real numbers which can never be the solution to an algebraic equation.

ANSWER: transcendental numbers

BONUS. Answer these questions about other “Transcendentalists” for 10 points each.

• Founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, this movement based on the Science of Creative Intelligence uses various Sanskrit mantras.

ANSWER: Transcendental Meditation (prompt on TM or partial answer)

• Living with the Countess d’Agoult (with whom he had three children), this Hungarian composer developed his piano solo works known as the Transcendental Etudes.

ANSWER: Franz (Ferenc) Liszt

SCORE CHECK

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Category Quiz Tossups

Tossup One. Its chemical formula is C257H383N65O77S6 (C 257 H 383 N 65 O 77 S 6). Charles Best, John Macleod, and Frederick Banting first extracted it from a dog’s pancreas in 1921. For 10 points, identify this polypeptide which is essential for the conversion of glucose into glycogen.

ANSWER: insulin

Tossup Two. He survives being ignored by his family and pelted with fruit but eventually dies and is thrown out by the maid. For 10 points, name the traveling salesman who “awoke one morning from uneasy dreams” to find “himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect” in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”.

ANSWER: Gregor Samsa [either name or the full name is acceptable]

Tossup Three. He was born three months late, and his parents tried to sell him to a doctor. He was abandoned at the Chinese Opera School when his parents moved to Australia. For 10 points, name this star of Mr. Nice Guy, Operation Condor, and Rumble in the Bronx, known for performing all of his own stunts.

ANSWER: Jackie Chan [or Chan Kwong Sang; or Sing Lung]

Tossup Four. Never permanently manned, but visited by three separate crews of astronauts, it fell from orbit in 1979 because of a lack of funding from NASA and solar flares that caused atmospheric drag on the spacecraft. For 10 points, name this first and only United States space station, launched in 1973.

ANSWER: Skylab

Tossup Five. Debussy and Scriabin used primitive forms of it. Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck uses it extensively but not exclusively. The best examples are found in Pierrot Lunaire and Suite for Piano No. 25, both by its originator. For 10 points, name this mathematical approach to harmony developed in 1909 by Arnold Schoenberg (SHERN-berg).

ANSWER: atonality [accept pantonality; twelve-tone composition; or serial music]

Tossup Six. Sometimes described as a mini-world war, this conflict began as the Netherlands, Britain, and the German states of the Holy Roman Empire opposed Louis XIV, who eventually sued for peace. For 10 points, name this war brought on by Louis XIV’s grandson inheriting the Spanish throne and ended in 1713 by the Peace of Utrecht.

ANSWER: War of the Spanish Succession

Tossup Seven. Defined as “small unit of light energy or electromagnetic radiation,” its energy is equal to Planck’s constant times its frequency. For 10 points, name this type of particle, which is a quantum of light.

ANSWER: Photon

Tossup Eight. It was incorporated in 1892 by Asa Chandler, who had bought the rights to its flagship product from fellow pharmacist Frank Pemberton for two thousand, three hundred dollars. Its 1999 profit was over eight thousand times that amount. For 10 points, name this Atlanta soft drink manufacturer.

ANSWER: Coca-Cola Company [accept Coke]

SCORE CHECK AFTER THE BONUS

Category Quiz Boni

American Literature: Recent Bestsellers

Supporting characters include African-American attorney Roger White II, dedicated loser Conrad Hensley, and Georgia Tech football player and accused rapist Fareek Fanon. For 15 points, identify this novel about Atlanta real estate developer Charlie Croker by Tom Wolfe.

ANSWER: A Man in Full

Ancient History: We Don’t Take No Stinkin’ Orders

In 49 BCE, the Senate ordered Julius Caesar to return to Rome without his army as bringing the army across this river would constitute an act of war. For 15 points, name this river across which Caesar led his army, saying “alea iacta est”, or “the die is cast.”

ANSWER: Rubicon River

Biological Sciences: The Things They Test in Rats These Days

Scientists at Dow Chemical Company claim that withholding this element from the diet of rats results in increased sperm production and testicle size. For 10 points, name this essential element for which a deficiency in humans can lead to mental retardation from a lack of thyroxine.

ANSWER: iodine

Computer Science: Signs You’re a Really Old Geek

Such now-basic elements as variables and conditional statements made their debut in it, and it is still around in updated versions. Created in the 1950s, it is now considered the first “high-level” language. For 15 points, name this language, developed by John Backus.

ANSWER: FORTRAN [Formula Translation]

Mathematics: Isn’t there a trick to this problem?

For 15 points, calculate the real root of the following equation, expressing your answer as a fraction in lowest terms. The equation is 100-x-cubed minus 9-x-squared plus 300-x minus 27 equals 0 [100x3 – 9x2 + 300x – 27 = 0]. You have thirty seconds.

ANSWER [either of the following]: nine one-hundredths [or nine over one hundred] or 0.09

Sports: Don’t Call Them Rookies

They had only joined FIFA in 1992, and with star Alen Boksic injured, no one expected them to come out of second place in their qualifying group to finish third in the tournament. For 15 points, name the country whose soccer team became, in 1998, the first to advance to the semifinals of its first World Cup.

ANSWER: Croatia

Social Sciences: Cannibal – the Science

Suspected of participating in ritualistic cannibalism, a homo erectus hominid of the Middle Pleistocene period, was found by Davidson Black in 1927. For 15 points, name this skeleton which was lost during World War II.

ANSWER: Peking Man

U.S. History: Running the Family Business

In 1887, he bought the San Fransisco Examiner from his father. By 1927, he controlled twenty-five newspapers across the country. For 15 points, name this Spanish-American war agitator and creator of “yellow journalism.”

ANSWER: William Randolph Hearst

Visual Art: Total Mind Blow

It looks like there’s a mountain in the background. Appropriately the uppermost portion of the painting shows a sky going from blue two white. For 15 points, name this painting with a metal slab to the left and melting clocks hanging on a tree, the corner of a table and some white thing that rests front and center.

ANSWER: The Persistence of Memory

World Literature: I’m a Writer not a Fighter

While fighting at the 1571 battle of Lepanto, he lost the use of his left arm. He was captured by Barbary pirates in 1575, but could not be ransomed until 1580. For 15 points, name this man more famous for his literary works such as La Galatea, and his masterpiece, Don Quixote.

ANSWER: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Stretch Round

Tossup One. After finishing his inauguration speech with the words, “These are not just my goals, and they will not be my accomplishments, but the affirmation of our nation’s continuing moral strength and our belief in an undiminished, ever-expanding American dream,” he unexpectedly walked from the Capitol to the White House. For 10 points—name this president, whose exit from office was much less impressive, as the nation awaited the return of diplomats who had been taken hostage in Iran.

ANSWER: Jimmy Carter

BONUS. Identify these branches of biology, for 10 points each.

• The study of cells.

ANSWER: cytology

• The study of birds.

ANSWER: ornithology

• The study of the drugs and their interactions with living organisms.

ANSWER: pharmacology

Tossup Two. Napoleon III pronounced it “immodest,” and the Empress, deeply embarrassed, looked the other way. This painting exhibited at the Salon des Refuses (sah-LOHN deh reh-foo-ZEH) depicts two men in suits, a figure knee-deep in the river beyond, a picnic basket, and, shockingly, a female seated nude in the center of the painting, staring at the viewer. For 10 points—name this scandalous work by Eduoard Manet.

ANSWER: Luncheon on the Grass

BONUS. Within a couple of hours, two million people accessed the Simon and Schuster web site to download the first novel placed exclusively online by a bestselling author. For 15 points each:

• First, name this author who is recovering from a June 1999 accident in Lovell, Maine.

ANSWER: Stephen King

• Second, name the novel that was released online on March 14.

ANSWER: Riding the Bullet

Tossup Three. A military commission sentenced him to death for advocating Indiana’s secession from the Union during the Civil War. For 10 points—name this subject of a court case that stated, “Martial law can never exist where the courts are open in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction.”

ANSWER: Lambdin P. Milligan

BONUS: Identify these famous operas.

• For 5 points, this nationalistic Rossini opera follows the adventures of the titular Swiss patriot.

ANSWER: William Tell

• For 10 points, this Donizetti opera is based on a similarly-named novel by Sir Walter Scott.

ANSWER: Lucia di Lammermoor

• For 15 points, in a reaction against Wagner, this opera by Ruggiero Leoncavallo presents a play within a play with a rustic actor as the title character.

ANSWER: I Pagliacci

Tossup Four. “Open for the sun, closed for the rain, that’s the poor man’s weathervane.” This plant shares its name with a 1905 novel in which Sir Percy Blakeney smuggles nobles to safety during the French Revolution. For 10 points—name this flower in the primrose family and novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy.

ANSWER: The Scarlet Pimpernel

BONUS. Where in the world is the reanimated body of Gamal Abdul Nasser?

• First for 5 points, in what capital city did Nasser rule as president when he was alive?

ANSWER: Cairo, Egypt

• For 10 points, somehow the undead zombified Nasser finds he can walk straight through whatever barriers he encounters such as waterways or fortifications. If Nasser started in Cairo and walked due south, in what country would he find himself?

ANSWER: Sudan

• Somehow the zombie Nasser continues due south of Sudan in search for that next country’s capital city. For 15 points, name the capital city of the nation located due south of Sudan.

ANSWER: Kampala

Tossup Five. He attended Marshall University on a baseball scholarship to become a major league shortstop… until the baseball program was disbanded the following year. So he transferred to Nassau Community College on Long Island and then NYU Film School. For 10 points—name this actor who played Morty the Mime in This Is Spinal Tap who will be hosting this year’s Oscar ceremonies.

ANSWER: Billy Crystal

BONUS. Identify these words with Arabic roots for 10 points each.

• This mathematical term can be traced back to the Arabic for “bone-setting.”

ANSWER: algebra [from al-jabr]

• This type of book takes its name from the word for “weather.”

ANSWER: almanac [from al-manakh]

• This economic term comes from the Arabic from “a list of prices.”

ANSWER: tariff [from al-ta’rifat]

Tossup Six. In 1966, she attended a lecture by Dr. Louis Leakey in Louisville, Kentucky. She went on to meet with Dr. Leakey, starting her career in Africa. For 10 points—identify this anthropologist, murdered in 1985 for her anti-poaching efforts and famous for her work with primates in Gorillas in the Mist.

ANSWER: Dian Fossey

BONUS. The Recording Industry Association of America is upset about a certain document format that can compress songs digitally with high fidelity. For the stated number of points:

• For 5 points, name thia format, capable of twelvefold compression.

ANSWER: Motion Pictures Export Group 1 Audio Layer 3

• For 10 points, what is the common name given to a program which one can use to make MP3s from audio compact discs?

ANSWER: a ripper program

• Last December, the RIAA sued this Internet company for their freeware that makes it easy for people to exchange MP3 files within a matter of minutes. Some college campuses have even blocked its use. Name it for 15 points.

ANSWER: Napster

Tossup Seven. Upon realizing the threat of the Persians, this politician called for a doubling of the size of the Greek navy, despite the costs associated with building a larger fleet. For 10 points—name this politican and naval strategist who oversaw the destruction of the Persian navy at the Battle of Salamis.

ANSWER: Themistocles

BONUS. Given a river, provide the body of water that it empties into for the stated number of points.

• For 5 points, the Mississippi River

ANSWER: Gulf of Mexico

• For 10 points, the Snake River

ANSWER: Columbia River

• For 15 points, the Limpopo River

ANSWER: Delagoa Bay

Tossup Eight. The plot centers on love for Maria, dispute between Pablo and his wife Pilar, and an attempt to destroy a bridge. For 10 points—Robert Jordan cripples a strategic Fascist route by blowing up the bridge, but is killed in the process. Name the novel which describes these events, written by Ernest Hemingway.

ANSWER: For Whom the Bell Tolls

BONUS. For 10 points each, given a trig function, indicate all quadrants in which it is positive. No points will be given for a partial answer.

• cosine

ANSWER: quadrants I and IV

• cotangent

ANSWER: quadrants I and III

• cosecant

ANSWER: quadrants I and II

SCORE CHECK

Tossup Nine. His criminological writings reflected a view of human nature as hedonistic and called for deterrent punishment. He expressed some of these views, as well as economic points, in the 1789 work Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation. For 10 points—name this founder of utilitarianism.

ANSWER: Jeremy Bentham

BONUS. 30-20-10, given some works, name the author.

• 30: Out of the Silent Planet and Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

• 20: The Screwtape Letters and Surprised by Joy

• 10: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

ANSWER: Clive Staples Lewis

Tossup Ten. It never occurs naturally in a free state, but it is found as an oxide or complex salt in minerals such as pitchblende and carnotite. After the discovery of nuclear fission, its uses were at first restricted to the production of nuclear weapons. For 10 points—identify this element whose main isotope is 238 and whose symbol is U.

ANSWER: uranium

BONUS. For the stated number of points, identify the landmark Supreme Court case from a description.

• For 5 points, this 1966 case held that all persons arrested must be informed of their rights.

ANSWER: Miranda v. Arizona [prompt on Miranda]

• For 10 points, in 1819, the Court ruled in this case that states could not interfere with private charters.

ANSWER: Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward

• For 15 points, this 1961 ruling applied the exclusionary rule to the states.

ANSWER: Mapp v. Ohio

FINAL SCORE

Round Seven Category Quiz

Available Bonus Categories

American Literature: Recent Bestsellers

Ancient History: We Don’t Take No Stinkin’ Orders

Biological Sciences: The Things They Test in Rats These Days

Computer Science: Signs You’re a Really Old Geek

Mathematics: Isn’t there a trick to this problem?

Social Sciences: Cannibal – the Science

Sports: Don’t Call Them Rookies

Visual Art: Total Mind Blow

U.S. History: Running the Family Business

World Literature: I’m a Writer not a Fighter

Round Seven Category Quiz

Available Bonus Categories

American Literature: Recent Bestsellers

Ancient History: We Don’t Take No Stinkin’ Orders

Biological Sciences: The Things They Test in Rats These Days

Computer Science: Signs You’re a Really Old Geek

Mathematics: Isn’t there a trick to this problem?

Social Sciences: Cannibal – the Science

Sports: Don’t Call Them Rookies

Visual Art: Total Mind Blow

U.S. History: Running the Family Business

World Literature: I’m a Writer not a Fighter

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