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Related Tossup/Bonus Round

Tossup One. As of December 20,1999, his Unity Party had twenty five point three two percent of the vote, just ahead of the Communist party, which had twenty five point zero six percent of the vote. For 10 points, identify this heir apparent to Boris Yeltsin, the current Prime Minister of Russia.

ANSWER: Vladimir Putin

BONUS. From prospective Russian heads of state to former Soviet premiers. For 10 points each, name the following former Soviet premiers.

• If you think that the behavior at today’s UN is childish and juvenile then this man would definitely fit in. He actually started banging his shoe against the table during a UN session.

ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev

• This former head of the KGB was premier for only fifteen months from 1982 to 1984 before he passed away.

ANSWER: Yuri Andropov

Tossup Two. After his early literary successes such as Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, this author retreated to a less public lifestyle. For 10 points, name this author whose most famous work follows the journey of the confused adolescent Holden Caulfield.

ANSWER: Jerome David Salinger

BONUS. Mark Chapman asked John Lennon to autograph his copy of Salinger’s A Catcher In the Rye before killing the former Beatle. Answer these questions about other chaps named Chapman for 10 points each.

• George Chapman’s translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey inspired this British poet to write “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.”

ANSWER: John Keats

• John Chapman owned 1200 acres of land on which he grew orchards for this fruit.

ANSWER: apples

Tossup Three. The first person to describe in detail the process of making gunpowder, his writings helped spread the ideas of “experimental science” throughout the medieval world. For 10 points, name this English Franciscan friar also known as Doctor Mirabilis or “Wonderful Teacher.”

ANSWER: Roger Bacon [prompt on Bacon]

BONUS. Mmm… pork fat. For 10 points each:

• Thiabendazole seems to be effective in treating patients with this disease caused by the ingestion of parasites from undercooked pork.

ANSWER: trichinosis (TRICK-kin-OH-sis)

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an aborted attempt by the United States to effect political change on this island nation.

ANSWER: Cuba

Tossup Four. A powerful ally, it is to be used for knowledge and defense, never for attack. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together. Life creates it and makes it grow, and the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to its power. For 10 points, identify this energy field created by all living things.

ANSWER: The Force

BONUS. Star Wars isn’t the only place where you’ll find one, all-pervasive force. Some scientists in our world are looking for the same thing. For 10 points each, identify these terms from unification theory.

• The unification of two forces formerly thought to be distinct, this force is theorized to account for both electromagnetism and long nuclear processes such as beta decay.

ANSWER: the electroweak force

• The next force to be unified will likely be the strong nuclear force, which is carried by these quark-binding particles.

ANSWER: gluons

Tossup Five. In 1530, Titian made a woodcut showing three monkeys struggling against serpents. It was a parody of this sculpture, which was created by a collaboration of Hagesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus. For 10 points, name this sculpture which depicts the death of a Trojan priest of the Aeneid and the priest’s sons.

ANSWER: Lacoön Group

BONUS. Name these other ancient sculptures for 10 points each.

• This work by Myron survives only in copies. It is the epitome of classical technique, studied well into the Renaissance by sculptors wishing to depict motion.

ANSWER: Discobolos [or The Discus-Thrower]

• This is the only extant original sculpture from any of the several most revered Greek sculptors. Created by Praxiteles, it depicts the messenger of the Greek gods and the god of wine.

ANSWER: Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus [or Hermes and the Infant Dionysus; or Hermes with the Infant Dionysus; or Hermes and Dionysus]

Tossup Six. “While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free,” is a quotation spoken by this first president of the American Railway Union, who led the Pullman Strike of 1894. For 10 points, name this man better known as the Socialist candidate for President between 1900 and 1920.

ANSWER: Eugene Victor Debs

BONUS. From organizing a strike to striking out, name these famous baseball players contemporary to Debs.

• For 10 points, he won 511 games and pitched 751 complete games; these stats are good reason to name a “best pitcher” award for him.

ANSWER: Denton True “Cy” Young

• For 10 points, he made his mark as a player at second base, the player-manager, and then manager of the Cleveland baseball team which for eleven years was named for him.

ANSWER: Napoleon “Larry” Lajoie

Tossup Seven. On July 24, 1948, the Soviet Union began a blockade of certain land routes, isolating two million Germans. The following day, this operation began, eventually delivering over half a ton of food per person. At its height, planes landed every forty-five seconds. For 10 points, identify this relief mission.

ANSWER: Berlin Airlift

BONUS. For the stated points, name these treaties from twentieth-century German history.

• For 5 points, the severity of this 1918 treaty ending World War I led to German nationalism and the rise of Hitler.

ANSWER: Treaty of Versailles

• For 15 points, this 1938 agreement engineered by Hitler and Neville Chamberlain ceded the Sudetenland to the Nazis in exchange for a pledge against further expansion.

ANSWER: Munich Pact

Tossup Eight. This Parisian-born mathematician’s 1692 textbook was the first on differential calculus. For 10 points, name this mathematician, who posited a rule that can be used for finding the limit of a rational function when both numerator and denominator tend towards zero.

ANSWER: Guillaume Francois Antoine Marquis de l’Hopital

BONUS. L’Hopital was one of many who solved the famous brachistochrone (brah-KIH-steh-krone) problem. For 10 points each:

• Name the famous Italian scientist who first posited the problem to find a curve between two points upon which an object acted upon only by gravity will slide in the least possible amount of time.

ANSWER: Galileo Galilei

• For another 10 points, name the curve which was found to be the solution to the brachistochrone problem.

ANSWER: cycloid

Tossup Nine. The ability for certain strains or types of this plant to stick when cooked depends on the amount of amylopectin-to-amylose ratio in the grain, hence making it more of less glutinous. For 10 points, name this staple for which varieties include Jasmine, Della, Arborio, and Basmati.

ANSWER: rice

BONUS. In a January issue of Science, researchers demonstrated that they were able to genetically modify the rice genome to incorporate dietary supplements. Answer these questions on that for 10 points each.

• Scientists were successful in engineering a complete biochemical pathway not native to the rice plant–making the newly engineered rice kernels yellow rather than white–in order to produce this precursor molecule of vitamin A.

ANSWER: beta carotene [prompt on provitamin A]

• The bran husks of the plants could be used to treat dysentery or this thiamine-deficiency disease that translated from Sinhalese means “extreme weakness.”

ANSWER: beriberi

Tossup Ten. His name comes from the French for “sadness.” He was the cousin of King Mark of Cornwall and was exiled from Cornwall for sleeping with Mark’s wife. In the name of Mark, he killed the King of Ireland’s uncle. For 10 points, identify this knight of the round table who loved Iseult.

ANSWER: Tristran [or Tristram]

BONUS. For 10 points each, identify these other knights of the round table.

• This knight is the cousin of King Arthur and the son of King Lot and Queen Margawse. He is known for his trials with the Green Knight.

ANSWER: Sir Gawain

• This knight is the uncle of Sir Launcelot. Along with Galahad and Percival, he saw the Holy Grail.

ANSWER: Sir Bors

SCORE CHECK

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Category Quiz Tossups

Tossup One. He used alienation–a creation of emotional distance between the spectator and event–in establishing the genre of epic theater. For 10 points, name this German writer of The Good Woman of Setzuan; Galileo; and Mother Courage and Her Children.

ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht

Tossup Two. He was the bastard son of an Irish-born Spanish colonial governor and a Spanish settler, but that did not stop him from becoming the father of a nation. For 10 points, name this liberator of Chile.

ANSWER: Bernardo O’Higgins

Tossup Three. This painting depicts a view from Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts, overlooking part of the Connecticut River. For 10 points, name this landscape depicting a fading storm, by Thomas Cole.

ANSWER: The Oxbow

Tossup Four. Damiano, Hypermodern, English, Scotch, King’s Indian, French defense, and Sicilian are all strategies that are employed in it. For 10 points, name this game, whose only American world champion to date has been Bobby Fischer.

ANSWER: chess

Tossup Five. Rheumatic fever is just the latest proposed cause of this composer’s death, with other published diagnoses ranging from syphilis and kidney failure to poisoning and murder. For 10 points, name this man whose Requiem in D minor was found unfinished when he died December 5, 1791, in Vienna.

ANSWER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tossup Six. According to one tradition, this festival falls on the day which King David died, so traditionally, the book of his ancestor Ruth is read. For 10 points, name this festival of the day on which the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai, falling on the sixth day of Sivan.

ANSWER: Shavout (shah-VOO-oht; accept the Ashkenazi pronounciation Shavous)

Tossup Seven. In 2000, no members of the Supreme Court attended. The War on Poverty, the death of communism, and the Great Society have been proclaimed in it. For 10 points, name this speech, required by article two, section three of the Constitution and delivered by the President to the whole of Congress.

ANSWER: the State of the Union address

Tossup Eight. This computer term describes programs like RealPlayer which add to the functionality of a larger application program like a web browser. For 10 points, give this hyphenated term, describing such accessory programs like Shockwave and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

ANSWER: plug-in

SCORE CHECK AFTER THE BONUS

Category Quiz Boni

American Literature: I Hope They Had That Insured

The narrator visits the odd brother-sister combination of Madeleine and Roderick, noting the gloominess of the title object. For 15 points, name this Poe short story that sees the title object crumble into the black tarn.

ANSWER: The Fall of the House of Usher

Art: It’s all about presentation

This phrase describes works of art depicting Christ as he was presented to the crowd by Pontius Pilate prior to his crucifixion. For 15 points, give this Latin phrase translated as “Behold the man.”

ANSWER: ecce homo

Current Events: The Fugitive

Her twenty-three years of hiding in plain sight ended on June 16, 1999 when she was arrested in Minnesota after being featured on “America’s Most Wanted.” For 15 points, name this woman who was wanted for her suspected role in plotting police car bombings years earlier with Patty Hearst and other Symbionese Liberation Army members.

ANSWER: Kathleen Ann Soliah [or Sarah Jane Olson, her alias while she was a fugitive]

Government: I Want My Freedom

It does not include the right to keep and bear arms or the right to trial by jury but acknowledges entitlements to medical care, food, employment, and housing, as well as “freedom of speech and expression.” For 15 points, name this document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

ANSWER: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights [or United Nations Declaration of Human Rights]

Law: Say It Loud and Clear

In 1966, a fourteen-year-old student was suspended for wearing an anti-war armband to school. As a result of the student’s appeal, the Supreme Court barred such censorship. For 15 points, name this 1968 decision in which Justice Fortas wrote that students “do not shed their rights at the schoolhouse gate.”

ANSWER: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District

Mathematics: Measuring by Eye

Ready your pencil and paper. The angle of elevation from a point on the ground to the top of a vertical tower is sixty degrees. From a point one hundred feet further from the tower, the angle of elevation is thirty degrees. If there is no difference in altitude between the two vantage points, for fifteen points, find the height of the tower. Do not forget to simplify your answer and include appropriate units. Bounceback, if any, will be immediate. You have thirty seconds.

ANSWER: fifty times the square root of three feet

Physical Sciences: More than meets the eye

Ready your pencil and paper. A 12-volt AC source is connected to an ideal transformer through the primary coil. The transformer’s secondary coil has three turns for every two in the primary coil. For 15 points, tell the peak voltage that can be obtained across the secondary coil. Bounceback, if any, will be immediate. You have ten seconds.

ANSWER: 18 volts

U.S. Geography: There’s a Bathroom on the Right

Every seven to eight miles, there are rest stops and shelters for whose cleanliness the hikers along its 2100 mile route are responsible. For 15 points, name this hiking trail that crosses 14 states.

ANSWER: Appalachian National Scenic Trail

World History: Civil Wars that Weren’t Really that Civil

First beginning in 1648, it rose again in 1653 as local magistrates and parliaments demanded autonomy from Louis XIV. For 15 points, name this French uprising which derived its name from the slings that propelled stones through Cardinal Mazarin’s windows.

ANSWER: Fronde

World Literature: Based on a True Story

Written between 1973 to 1975 by an eight-year veteran of the title prison camps, its author fled the USSR at its publication. For 15 points, name this magnum opus of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, covering around 38 years.

ANSWER: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 [or Arkhipelag Gulag]

Stretch Round

Tossup One. Unlike other organs, the myelinated fibers are on the outside, and the unmyelinated on the inside. When Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens removed it from pigeons, he found that death occurred. It contains several centers of the autonomic nervous system. For 10 points—name this body part, connected by the pons to the midbrain, the lowest portion of the brain stem.

ANSWER: medulla oblongata

BONUS. Answer these questions regarding the Russo-Japanese War for 10 points each.

• The Japanese began the conflict by attacking the Russian naval squadron at this city.

ANSWER: Port Arthur

• The forces of Japanese Admiral Togo Heihachiro destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at this naval battle.

ANSWER: Battle of Tsuchima (Straits)

• President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the final peace treaty ending the war, holding the peace conference in this New Hampshire town.

ANSWER: Portsmouth

Tossup Two. Victor Dandré, her husband, managed her company’s independent worldwide tours, which began in 1914. Having been designated a prima ballerina of the Imperial Ballet in 1906, she collaborated at times with Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. For 10 points—name this famous classical ballerina of her time, best known for her solo dances such as The Dying Swan.

ANSWER: Anna Pavlovna Pavlova

BONUS. Given a defining example, name the property of algebraic equality for 10 points each.

• Simply, a=a (a equals a)

ANSWER: the reflexive property

• If a=b, then b=a (if a equals b, then b equals a).

ANSWER: the symmetric property

• If a=b and c=d, then a+c=b+d (if a equals b and c equals d, then a plus c equals d plus d).

ANSWER: the property of addition

Tossup Three. The L One or primary type is fast but small in capacity, typically sixteen kilobytes, while the L Two secondary type is larger in size, at two hundred and fifty six kilobytes, but slower than the primary type. For 10 points—name the five-letter word which describes a computer or a program’s ability to retain in memory any files, graphics, or other objects without having to re-download.

ANSWER: cache

BONUS. Name the creators of the literary characters for 10 points each.

• Natty Bumpo and Chingachook

ANSWER: James Fennimore Cooper

• Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, and Robert Jordan

ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway

• Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, and Heathcliff

ANSWER: Emily Bronte

Tossup Four. Disagreeing with his mentor Freud, Carl Jung (yung) believed it was the general will to live. In psychoanalytic theory, it is the energy of the id and is responsible for acts of creation. For 10 points—identify this term, Latin for “pleasure”, believed by Freud to be the artistic motivator and sex instinct.

ANSWER: libido

BONUS. For 10 points apiece, name the following disciples of Jesus.

• His former occupation was as a tax collector.

ANSWER: Matthew

• This disciple certainly didn’t coin that many cool catchphrases, but he was referred to by Christ as “the Rock,” upon which the Church would be founded.

ANSWER: Simon Cephas Peter

• Tradition said that this disciple was martyred near Madras, India, near a mountain named for him.

ANSWER: Thomas Didymus

Tossup Five. He believed in “dynamic equilibrium,” the resolved conflict which is the essence of beauty. Spiritual versus material, individual versus society, and male versus female are among the series of opposites whose harmony is symbolized by the horizontal and the vertical. For 10 points—name this painter, who used basic colors and rigid lines as part of the de Stijl movement.

ANSWER: Piet Mondrian

BONUS. 30-20-10, identify the term given clues.

• 30: In Arabic it literally means “uprising.”

• 20: The movement of the same name was characterized by civil disobedience and demonstrations, but then became increasingly violent.

• 10: The term is attached to series of demonstrations, strikes, riots an violence led by Palestinians, that began in late 1987 in the Gaza Strip.

ANSWER: Intifada

Tossup Six. Separated on the north from Taiwan by the Bashi channel, it also forms a part of the Malay Archipelago. Some of its major islands include Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, and Cebu. For 10 points—name this country, whose major cities include Zamboanga, Davao, Baggio (BAGH-ee-oh), Quezon City and its capital city, Manila.

ANSWER: The Republic of the Philippines

BONUS. Following the Persian Wars, Athens founded a league of Greek cities as protection from further Persian aggression. Answer the following about the league for 10 points each.

• Name the league, later exploited by empire-minded Athenians.

ANSWER: the Delian League

• Name the pan-Hellenic conflict which erupted from Athens’s abuse of the Delian League.

ANSWER: the Peloponnesian War

• Name the city-state which led opposition to Athens and emerged victorious from the Peloponnesian War.

ANSWER: Sparta

Tossup Seven. After his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg, he left New York’s seedy Bohemian underground to find him. He stayed to tend the soldiers, helping them write letters home, bringing them small gifts and writing poetry which was published in 1865 as Drum Taps. For 10 points—name this writer who began the final edition of his most famous collection of poetry stating, “One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.”

ANSWER: Walt Whitman

BONUS. Name these terms from economics for 15 points each.

• This law states that there is a limited number of goods avaiable to consumers, and an unlimited desire for them. It drives nearly all economic decision-making

ANSWER: scarcity

• This resource is defined as one that is produced from other resources. Its types include human, such as learning and labor, and physical, such as natural resources, property, and land.

ANSWER: capital

Tossup Eight. This group’s second album, Paul’s Boutique, tried to be more innovative, but didn’t sell as well as their first, which featured tracks such as “The New Style” and “Hold it, Now Hit it”. For 10 points—name this trio whose other albums include Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty and whose members include Mike Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horowitz, who would “fight for your right to party.”

ANSWER: The Beastie Boys

BONUS. Identify these painters of the Dutch Baroque period, for the stated number of points.

• For 5, this painter’s best known work was once covered with a layer of grim and varnish, causing it to be mistaken for a night scene and to be called The Night Watch.

ANSWER: Rembrandt van Rijn

• For 10, this leading painter of Haarlem painted such group portraits as the Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of Saint Adrian.

ANSWER: Frans Hals

• For 15 points, known for informal scenes of daily life, this painter has had works misidentified as those of Frans Hals. Her paintings were signed with the initials “JL” in a star, since her surname means “Pole Star.”

ANSWER: Judith Leyster

SCORE CHECK

Tossup Nine. Mikrokosmos is a set of one hundred and fifty-three progressively harder piano pieces. The Wooden Prince is a fable of a princess who falls in love with a prince’s walking stick. For 10 points—name the Hungarian composer of those pieces, as well as The Miraculous Mandarin and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle.

ANSWER: Béla Bartók

BONUS. Answer these questions about the Texas War for Independence.

• At thisbattle, Santa Anna was captured by the troops of Sam Houston.

ANSWER: San Jacinto

• After the end of the war, the Texans and American government claimed the Rio Grande as the border of Texas. Name the river which the Mexicans claimed as the border.

ANSWER: the Nueces

• Americans call it the Rio Grande. Give the name which Mexicans use for the same river.

ANSWER: the Rio Bravo

Tossup Ten. The name of this work, first committed to writing in 651 CE, translates to “recitation.” It is divided into 114 suras and generally arranged in order of length. For 10 points—name this book revealed by the angel Gabriel to the Medina businessman Muhammed in 610 CE.

ANSWER: The Koran [accept variations on pronounciation]

BONUS. Given the name of a family or series of elements and a clue, name the second element in that series for the stated number of points.

• For 5 points, halogens; this element forms an ionic bond with sodium to form table salt.

ANSWER: chlorine

• For 10 points, chalcogens; this is a light yellow non-metallic element.

ANSWER: sulfur

• For 15 points, lanthanides, including Lanthanium; this soft, gray metal is the most abundant of the lanthanides, and its atomic number is 58.

ANSWER: cerium

FINAL SCORE

Round Three Category Quiz

Available Bonus Categories

American Literature: I Hope They Had That Insured

Art: It’s all about presentation

Current Events: The Fugitive

Government: I Want My Freedom

Law: Say It Loud and Clear

Mathematics: Measuring by Eye

Physical Sciences: More than meets the eye

U.S. Geography: There’s a Bathroom on the Right

World History: Civil Wars that Weren’t Really that Civil

World Literature: Based on a True Story

Round Three Category Quiz

Available Bonus Categories

American Literature: I Hope They Had That Insured

Art: It’s all about presentation

Current Events: The Fugitive

Government: I Want My Freedom

Law: Say It Loud and Clear

Mathematics: Measuring by Eye

Physical Sciences: More than meets the eye

U.S. Geography: There’s a Bathroom on the Right

World History: Civil Wars that Weren’t Really that Civil

World Literature: Based on a True Story

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