High School Quizbowl Packet Archive



DENNIS HASKINS OPEN

HIGH SCHOOL QUIZBOWL 2008

COMPLETE SET (unless otherwise noted)

Partially adapted from Sword Bowl 2008

Editor-in-Chief:

Your genial quizmaster, Charlie Steinhice (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Editorial Assistance:

Brendan Byrne and Stephen Wise (Drake University)

Dave Leach (Oglethorpe University)

David John Gagne II (University of Oklahoma)

David Moore and Shane Sawyer (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Jeremy Hixson (Rutgers University)

Stephen Taylor (Macon State University)

Stephen Webb (Stony Brook University)

Principal Authors:

Brendan Byrne, Derek Olson, Ben Urick, Phil VerBeke, Dan Weflen, and Stephen Wise (Drake University)

Charlie Steinhice, David Moore, and Shane Sawyer (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

David John Gagne II, Brian Morrow, Chris Terrill, Matt King, Cliff Marroquin, Tony Hayes, Ted Swang, and Emily Duda (University of Oklahoma)

Other Contributors:

Ahmad Ragab (University of South Florida)

Brice Russ (University of North Carolina)

Brian Hight (University of Virginia)

Bryan Roper (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Daichi Ueda (Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, MD)

Eric Huff et al. (Paul M. Dorman High School, Roebuck, SC)

Glenn Allen Bobo, Mason Portzer, Jonathan Mitchell, Patrick Kilgore, Evan Underwood, Nick Powell, Julia Hosmer, J R Tidwell, Daryl Phelps, and Hannah Goode (Bevill State Community College)

Jacob Bathanti and Ross Williford (Wake Forest University)

Jeremy Hixson (Rutgers University)

Michael Kearney (Vanderbilt University)

Scotti Whitmire and Markus Iturriaga (University of Tennessee)

Shawn Pickrell (George Mason University)

Taylor Kulp (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Tirth Patel, Chris Ngoon, and Seema Ullal (University of California at Los Angeles)

Whitney Richert and Chuck Pearson (Shorter College)

TOSSUPS – ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. This nation’s chief oil-producing region is around the Comodoro Rivadavia, one of several bays and inlets along with the Gulf of San Jorge [HOR-hay] and Gulf of San Matias. Some of its inland cities, such as Tucuman and Mendoza, were founded around oases and settled from Upper Peru in the late 16th century. It contains Ushuaia, considered the world’s southernmost town, and claims a sector of Antarctica as well as the British-controlled South Sandwich, South Orkney, and Falkland Islands. Also including part of Tierra del Fuego and the west bank of the Rio de la Plata, FTP name the second largest nation in South America, with its capital at Buenos Aires.

Answer: Argentina

2. This piece was composed on the back of wheelbarrow while the author was supposed to be working in a boiler room. He said that his technique was merely to expose a single family to flood and fire, but in fact members of the family are also subjected to such tribulations as out-of-wedlock pregnancy, breaking a leg and having it set with concrete, and being sent to an insane asylum. The character who is dead for her monologue watches her son Cash build her coffin and has holes drilled into her face. A series of fragmented narratives by different characters, FTP, name this novel by William Faulkner which follows the Bundren family on its quest to bury its matriarch.

Answer: As I Lay Dying

3. In the formula where it was introduced, it is in the numerator and is multiplied by two times the cube of the velocity. Originally called the "quantum of action" by its namesake, in this physical constant's first appearance, it helped explain away the so-called "ultraviolet catastrophe". Its formulator did not initially realize its significance and thought he was just fudging the math to fit experimental results for the power radiated by a black body until someone else could give a better explanation. Its place in physics became cemented when it appeared in Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect. FTP name this constant that relates the frequency of a photon to its energy, commonly symbolized by the letter “h”.

Answer: Planck’s Constant

4. Portugal’s Alfonso V opposed this ruler’s accession, supporting and marrying the rival claimant Juana la Beltraneja, an action which led to a five-year civil war. Once firmly on the throne, she and her husband revived the hermandades, or municipal security forces, but established a national hermandad and used it to confiscate additional land. She ordered the expulsion of the Jews and forced conversion of the Moors and directed her personal confessor, Tomas de Torquemada, in the founding of the Inquisition. FTP name this queen of Castile, bride of Aragon’s Ferdinand II, whose darker side is obscured by her prescience as patroness of Christopher Columbus’ New World exploration.

Answer: Isabella I or Isabella the Catholic

5. Recorded with a counterpart song "Ice Cream and Cake", this song was the title track to an album by the Buckwheat Boyz in 1998. This song's title has turned up in such unlikely places as a salute to Rich Rodriguez' hiring on Michigan fansite MGoBlog, an in-costume performance by ill-fated American Idol hopeful Sophat Peou, and Brian's futile attempt to cheer Peter up on an episode of Family Guy. The song repeatedly asks "where he at" and answers "there he go", and implores you to engage in the titular dance "with a baseball bat". But we’d know none of this without Ryan Etrata's flash animation viral video in 2002. FTP name this song, usually the soundtrack to a video featuring a dancing banana.

Answer: Peanut Butter Jelly Time (do not accept "peanut butter and jelly time")

6. Depictions of this event include Dante Gabriel Rossetti's stained glass version as well a painting by Carl Heinrich Bloch. Typically divided into 5 sections, the speaker alludes to his followers as the "salt and light" of the Earth, and suggests that one go the second mile, and turn the other cheek. In the first section, after seeing the multitudes, nine blessings are given collectively known as the Beatitudes. Presented in chapters 5-7 in the Gospel of Matthew, for 10 points, name this delivery of Jesus given at the title location.

Answer: Sermon on the Mount

7. Sorgo and Yaffe showed that in the absence of a protein labeled MDM10, these will not divide, but instead will reach unnaturally large sizes. Large enough to be seen with an optical microscope, this organelle is used in the tail of sperm as an energy source and then shed during fertilization. Many scientists believe that a large prokaryote organism engulfed this once small, free-living prokaryote and the two formed a relationship in which the larger organism provided nutrients to the smaller and the smaller organism provided ATP to the larger one. FTP name the organelle with two membranes, often called the powerhouse of the cell.

Answer: Mitochondria [or singular mitochondrion]

8. Modern critics praise his fragmentary last poems, “Judas Maccabaeus” and “Michael Angelo,” but often discount his more successful works for the same reason they were popular: their clear, simple language. His year at Heidelberg and his academic career in modern language brought him influences ranging from German romanticism to the Finnish Kalevala. FTP name this American author whose poetical works include “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, and “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

9. Among his relatively few failures were his advocacy of a unicameral legislative body and a mission with Samuel Chase and Charles Carroll of Carrollton to persuade Canadian colonists to join the Revolutionary cause. He might also list his Loyalist illegitimate son William, the last Royal Governor of New Jersey, and the adoption of the eagle as America’s national bird rather than his choice, the turkey. His successes included reorganizing the postal system, concluding the Treaty of Paris, and inventions such as bifocals and a namesake stove. FTP name this scientist and statesman called “the wisest American.”

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Your genial quizmaster seizes upon any excuse to work his ancestral namesake, Charles Carroll of Carrolton, into a question. It’s harder than finding excuses to mention Chattanooga, though.]

10. Two 19th century works share this title; one by Cabanel shows the title figure on her back with her hand on her forehead, and in the other by Bouguereau she is surrounded by a large group, two of which are blowing conch shells. A better-known work by this title was created some four centuries earlier. In that painting, two figures hover in the left with flowers falling around them, blowing the title figure to shore, and a figure on the right holds a robe for the title woman, who is arriving on a clamshell. FTP name this depiction of an event from Greek myth, painted by Sandro Botticelli.

Answer: The Birth of Venus

11. Its historical setting was shifted to post-colonial Haiti in a stage version directed by Orson Welles and to medieval Japan in the 1957 film Throne of Blood. The classic Star Trek episodes “All our Yesterdays” and “Dagger of the Mind” took their titles from this work, as did Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. Recurring motifs include unnatural weather linked to unnatural behavior, and blood as a recurring symbol of sin and guilt. FTP, name this historical drama by Shakespeare that opens with a trio of witches.

Answer: Macbeth

12. While some officials of lesser prominence were descended from Pir Bux, the principal leaders from this dynastic family descended from his older brother Khuda Bux. Khuda Bux’s grandson, Shah Nawaz, was the leader of Junagadh state who presided over its 1948 accession from Pakistan into India. Shah’s son, Cal-Berkeley grad Zulfikar Ali, succeeded Yahya Khan after India’s victory in East Pakistan that led to the succession of Bangladesh. He then became Prime Minister, where he promoted the general who later ousted him and had him executed. Recently Zulfikar’s son-in-law Asif Ali Zardar and grandson Bilawal have become co-chairs of the Pakistan People’s Party. FTP name this family which also included a two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar’s recently-assassinated daughter Benazir.

Answer: Bhutto

13. Discovered in 1894, this gas is used in incandescent lighting, welding, and other industrial applications. It makes up slightly less than one percent of the earth’s atmosphere, making it the most common gas of its kind on earth. In 2000, researchers at the University of Helsinki discovered the first compounds to include this element. Due to its non-reactivity, it is used as a shield gas or fill gas in many applications and in situations in which low thermal conductivity is required. FTP, name this inert gas, atomic number 18, the most common noble gas on earth.

Answer: Argon

14. His work spanned the range of emotions from the doleful La lugubre gondola to the lighthearted Grand galop chromatique. He left unfinished an oratorio on the life of St. Stanislaus, which would have been his third oratorio along with The Legend of St. Elizabeth and Christus One of his notable works is divided into twelve parts including “Wild Hunt,” “Will–o-the-wisps,” and “Mazeppa.” Other notable works include the piano concertos Malediction and Totenanz, as well as Transcendental Etudes. For ten points, name this prolific Eastern European composer of Les Preludes and The Hungarian Rhapsodies.

Answer: Franz Liszt

15. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP what is the sum of the numbers of faces of the Platonic solids, remembering that the five Platonic solids are the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron?

Answer: 50

16. According to the Caxinaua, these creatures repair the cracks in the sky caused by thunder and lightning. In one story in the Popol Vuh, Hunapu and Xbalanque collect the flowers from the garden of the Xibalba with the help of these creatures.  In the Satatha Brahmana they bite through Vishnu's bowstring, and the gods reward them with the ability to find water in the desert.  In Greco-Roman mythology, these insects help Psyche sort the seeds to win Venus’s help in re-courting Cupid, and they were transformed to replace the plague-infected dead of Aegina of Aeacus as the Myrmidons. FTP, name these eusocial insects, one of which appears in Aesop’s Fables to win a round of Survivor over a grasshopper.

Answer: Ants

17. Her published body of work includes the children’s books Mrs. Cherry’s Kitchen and The It-Doesn’t-Matter Book and a collection of short stories and other prose, titled Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. Only one of her poetry collections, The Colossus, was published in her lifetime, which ended some 18 years before the Pulitzer was awarded to her Collected Works. Other collections include Winter Trees, Crossing the Water, and Ariel. Described in a Tom Petty song as having her “head in the oven”, FTP name this author of one novel, The Bell Jar.

Answer: Sylvia Plath

18. He and Weir Chrisemer performed as “The Ottmar Scheckt Society for the Preservation of Weird and Disgusting Music” before forming a three-person act called Asparagus Valley Cultural Society, which lasted from 1975 to 1981. Due to his strong resemblance, he was chosen to play Henry Gibson’s son in a 1987 TV-movie. Other television roles include Skippy on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Zooty on Babylon 5, and Mr. Boots, a man who believes he’s a cat on Dharma and Greg. He’s written a biography of his father titled, “When I’m dead this will all be yours!”, and owns one of the very few US passports issued in a single name. FTP, name this man, seen at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas as co-star of a magic show with Penn Jillette.

Answer: Teller

19. The Karoo-Ferrar basalt province in southern Africa and Antarctica is linked to an extinction event defining the beginning of this period’s Toarcian faunal stage, while the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province has been linked to another extinction event defining the beginning of this period. The Morrison Formation, large alluvial slate and sandstone beds dating to this period, is a major source of fossils in western North America. The Cimmerian Orogeny which began in this period preceded the later Himalayan episode and also began the process of closing the Tethys Sea which existed in the center of the supercontinent, Pangaea, whose breakup dominated this period. Best known as the heyday of the dinosaurs, this is, FTP, what geologic period, which was followed by the Cretaceous and followed the Triassic?

Answer: Jurassic

20. He died in 1976 of knife wounds suffered in a fight over a card game. He was dishonorably discharged from the Army after spending six months in the stockade at Fort Campbell, and because he took a stolen car across state lines he spent a year in Federal prison. In 1963 he abducted a theater ticket taker, raped her, and then asked her to pray for him. A key point in the case was that the confession he signed had the boilerplate language “with full knowledge of my legal rights”. FTP name this plaintiff of a landmark 1966 Supreme Court decision on informing suspects of their right to counsel.

Answer: Ernesto Miranda

21. The most common causes of the acute inflammation of this can be remembered using the mnemonic “I GET SMASHED,” which include such causes as antibiotics, mumps, and scorpion stings. More commonly this occurs when triglyceride levels increase to greater than 500 mg/dL. When it is working properly, it releases various enzymes, such as trypsinogen, amylase, and lipase, as well as bicarbonate, that all aid in digestion. Acting as both an endocrine and exocrine center, FTP, name this organ where one can find the Islets of Langerhans, the cells that produce both glucagon and insulin.

Answer: Pancreas

22. First settled by its colonizers in 1513 in the Pearl River estuary, it officially began trade with China 40 years later.  It soon established itself as a center of Christianity in East Asia and a center for international merchants.  It experienced population influxes because of the Sino-Japanese war, World War II, and the beginning of Communist rule in China, and it became an official province of its European controller in 1951.  After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, Portugal gave it more political and economic independence.  In 1999, Portugal turned it over to China, which will guarantee its autonomy until 2049.  FTP, name this Special Administrative Region of China. 

            Answer: Macau Special Administrative Region or Região Administrativa Especial de Macau or Àomén Tèbié Xíngzhèngqū

23. He directed the Abbey of St. Martin of Tours, and made numerous contributions to monastic reform, but it is for his political rivalries and successes that he is better known. Although initially favoring his cousin Lothair in a contest for Lorraine, he would later ally with Otto II, leading to a series of bitter conflicts for control of Frankish territory. His earlier friendship with the church gained him a solid political victory when Adalberon, the archbishop of Rheims, convinced a council of nobles to crown him in 987. For ten points, name this tenth century king of France, founder of a namesake dynasty succeeded by the Valois.

Answer: Hugh and/or Capet

BONI – ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Thanks to the New York Giants, there’s still just one NFL team that has the claim on “The Perfect Season”, the 1972 Miami Dolphins. Name some members of that historic, champagne-loving team for ten points each.

[10] Even though back-up Earl Morrall actually led the team to a majority of their wins, this man is remembered as the Dolphins’ starting quarterback. He is now a leading college football analyst; his son Brad is a quarterback with the Bears.

Answer: Bob Griese

[10] As the change-up for power running back Larry Csonka, this speedy back gained exactly 1,000 rushing yards that season. He’s seen today as the loudmouth bashing anybody that gets “close to their neighborhood.”

Answer: Eugene “Mercury” Morris

[10] The Dolphins’ head coach remains the winningest coach in NFL history, and almost everyone younger than your genial quizmaster has forgotten that he coached the Colts to their devastating upset loss in Super Bowl III.

Answer: Don Shula

2. Many physical quantities can be written as quotients. On a 5-10-20-30 basis, given the quotient, give the quantity. We're looking for general answers such as “force.”

A. Change in velocity per unit time

Answer: acceleration

B. Energy per unit charge

Answer: voltage or electric potential [prompt on “potential”]

C. Force per unit area

Answer: pressure

D. Energy per unit time

Answer: power

3. For ten points each, answer these questions about a work of literature.

[10] In this 1913 play, later adapted into the musical My Fair Lady, Col. Pickering makes a bet with Henry Higgins that Higgins cannot turn a Cockney lass into a proper lady.

Answer: Pygmalion (do not, under any circumstance, accept My Fair Lady!)

[10] This is the Irish-born author of Pygmalion.

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

[10] Shaw was probably influenced by a similar play called Pygmalion and Galatea, written in 1871. Its author was this man, who later teamed with a composer to produce such classic operettas as HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance.

Answer: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

4. Answer some questions about the women’s rights movement in the US for ten points each.

[10] This early advocate of women’s suffrage was the principal author of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments, which stated that men and women are created equal.

Answer: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[10] The Declaration of Sentiments was first read at a convention in this city.

Answer: Seneca Falls, New York

[10] This Quaker and friend of Stanton helped to run the Seneca Falls Convention. Her interest in women’s rights came about because the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 refused to seat her or any woman as a delegate.

Answer: Lucretia Mott

5. FTPE, identify these terms that indicate the way in which a composition is to be performed.

a. This phrase, literally meaning “as in church”, refers to vocal music without instrumental accompaniment.

Answer: a cappella

b. This musical term indicates a gradual increase in volume.

Answer: crescendo

c. Meaning “walking,” this word means the speed of a composition should be steady and flowing, but at a tempo of roughly 76 to 108 beats per minute.

Answer: andante

6. FTPE identify these Canadian cities, none of which are provincial capitals:

a. This city at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Answer: Calgary

b. Just across the Detroit River from the city of Detroit, this city paralleled its neighbor as a center of auto manufacturing.

Answer: Windsor

c. This city in British Columbia is Canada’s third most populous, and will host the Winter Olympics in 2010.

Answer: Vancouver

7. Name the gas laws, principles, etc. FTPE:

a. The volume of a gas in a flexible container increases as the temperature of the gas increases. This can be stated as v sub-one times t sub-two equals v sub-two times t-sub one.

Answer: Charles’ Law

b. At the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of different gases contain an equal number of molecules.

Answer: Avogadro’s Law/Principle/Hypothesis

c. Considering a specific volume of gas molecules and predicting critical temperature for condensation, this can be stated as: the quantity P plus a over v-squared, times the quantity V minus b, equals RT

Answer: van der Waals Equation

8. On a 10-5 basis, identify these 19th century American authors from works:

[10] A Minister’s Wooing and Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

[5] Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

[10] May-Day and The Conduct of Life

[5] Representative Men, Self-Reliance, and Nature

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

[10] Tales of the Alhambra and The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

[5] “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Answer: Washington Irving

9. Given a description of an important Supreme Court cases involving reproductive rights, name just the plaintiff FTPE. If you insist on giving the full decision name, you’d better be sure to say the plaintiff’s name first.

[10] Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion in this 1973 case effectively legalizing abortion.

Answer: Jane Roe [accept Norma McCorvey]

[10] Roe drew on the right to privacy inferred from the “penumbras” of constitutional law, set forth by William O. Douglas in this 1965 case over a Connecticut law banning the sale of contraceptives.

Answer: Estelle Griswold [accept with a look of horror Lee Buxton, the co-plaintiff]

[10] This 1992 case, with Gov. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania as the defendant, produced multiple decisions that upheld Roe in part but opened the door for a more limited interpretation.

Answer: Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania

10. It was defined by Andre Breton in its 1924 Manifesto as using “pure psychic automatism” to dictate “thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.” FTPE:

[10] Name this art movement whose other adherents included Max Ernst, Joan [joe-WAN] Miro, and Paul Eluard.

Answer: Surrealism

[10] This Surrealist painted Swans Reflecting Elephants and The Persistence of Memory (the one with melting watches.)

Answer: Salvador Dalí

[10] This Surrealist’s works often featured apples, blue skies with puffy white clouds, and men in bowler hats. His The Treachery of Images has a picture of a pipe, even though the quote underneath it says, “This is not a pipe” in French.

Answer: René Magritte

11. Given a description, name the Platonic dialogue for ten points each.

[10] One of Plato’s earliest works, it chronicles the last speech Socrates gave, defending his actions at his trial.

Answer: Apology

[10] This work chronicles Socrates talking to an old friend that is trying to convince him to escape from jail.

Answer: Crito

[10] This work chronicles the four injustices of government: timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny. As the title suggests, Plato had another idea for government.

Answer: The Republic

12. Given a list of Disney characters, give the order within Mammalia to which they belong for ten points each.  If you need a distinguishing characteristic of the order, you'll only get five points.

[10] Pluto, Winnie the Pooh, Shere Khan

[5] These animals' feet generally have claws and their mouths generally have canine teeth.

Answer: Carnivora or carnivores

[10] Bernard, Remy, Dale

[5] While this order's member have no canine teeth, their prominent incisors grow throughout the animal's life.

Answer: Rodentia or rodents

[10] Bambi, Piglet, Emperor Kuzco (most of the movie, anyway)

[5] These animals have enlarged, weight-bearing third and fourth digits; the order's name means "even toed."

Answer: Artiodactyla

13. There’s only one reason the French monarchy is cool: they give lots of fun names to kings. Name some of these kings with more interesting monikers for ten points each.

[10] This long-ruling monarch of the 17th and 18th century, also known as “the Great”, had such an ego that he thought that France should revolve around him, hence his epithet.

Answer: Louis XIV or Louis, the Sun King (prompt on Louis or Louis the Great)

[10] This first ruler of the Carolingian line, the son of Louis the Pious, probably wanted to keep his crown on at all times.

Answer: Charles II or Charles the Bald (prompt on Charles)

[10] He ruled France from 1226 to 1237, but it took until 1297 for him to receive his nickname. It probably helped that he was a major figure in the 7th and 8th crusades.

Answer: Louis IX or Saint Louis or Louis the Confessor (prompt on Louis)

14. FTPE, answer some questions about an educator featured in a recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

(10) Both in the Massachusetts legislature and as head of the state Board of Education beginning in 1837, he helped establish taxpayer-funded public schools and normal schools and is considered the father of American public education

Answer: Horace Mann

(10) Mann’s brother-in-law was this man, who wrote a truckload of short stories including “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” “My Kinsman, Major Molineaux,” and “The Birth-mark.”

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

(10) Mann served from 1853-1859 as the head of this college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, long known as a center for student activism, which boasts such varied alumni as Stephen Jay Gould, Coretta Scott King, Rod Serling, and John Flansburgh.

Answer: Antioch College

15. FTPE, stuff about an author:

[10] The influence of this Polish exile’s sixteen years as a British merchant seaman can be seen in such novels as Nostromo, Typhoon, and Almayer’s Folly.

Answer: Joseph Conrad

[10] In this Conrad novella, Charles Marlow recounts his adventure down the Congo River to the Inner Station where he meets with the megalomaniacal Mr. Kurtz.

Answer: Heart of Darkness

[10] Marlow also appears in this Conrad novel about a remorse-plagued agent at a remote East Indian trading post.

  Answer: Lord Jim

 

16. Name these men that led the Soviet Union FTPE.

[10] This Ukrainian went toe-to-toe with the JFK and the US by placing medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba.

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

[10] This successor to Leonid Brezhnev had less impact in fifteen months as General Secretary than his preceding 15 years as the head of the KGB.

Answer: Yuri Andropov

[10] This final leader of the Soviet Union helped pave the way out with his perestroika and glasnost reform programs.

Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

17. Name these things that are truly “out of this world” for ten points each.

[10] The gaps in the rings of Saturn were named after this man, the 17th century astronomer that discovered them.

Answer: Giovanni Cassini

[10] This term describes when three celestial bodies are in line with one another. It can also be applied during a new or full moon when the Sun and Moon are opposite one another.

Answer: Syzygy

[10] We have only indirect evidence to support the existence of this collection of comets situated about 50,000 astronomical units from the Sun, on the outermost fringes of the solar system.

Answer: Oort Cloud

18. FTPE, given a description, name the lyric poet:

A. Writing in the 6th century BC on Lesbos, much of her influential work has not survived, and its content as well as her sexuality have been questioned.      

               Answer: Sappho

B. Writing in the first century BC, this Roman poet addressed much of his poetry to a woman named Lesbia, detailing his love – and sometimes distaste – for her.      

               Answer: Catullus

C. This 12th century Persian poet and astronomer was virtually unknown in the West until the 19th century, when some of his quatrains, or rubaiyat, were translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald.

               Answer: Omar Khayyam

19. In honor of the Facebook group, “Baby, I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves,” identify the following men who influenced the development of calculus FTPE.

[10] One might use this man’s namesake rule for evaluating a limit of the indeterminate form zero over zero by taking the derivative of both the numerator and the denominator and then evaluating the limit.

Answer: Guillaume L’Hopital

[10] L’Hopital’s rule was actually proven in a letter to L’Hopital by this man who also introduced the method of partial fractions and came up with the brachistochrone problem.

Answer: John or Jean or Johann Bernoulli (prompt on Bernoulli)

[10] Perhaps Bernoulli’s greatest student and greatest mathematician of the 18th century, he developed a method to approximate solutions of differential equations and invented the modern notation for functions.

Answer: Leonhard Euler

20. Answer some questions about a certain religion for ten points each.

[10] The Harmandir Sahib or Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, is the holiest shrine of this religion.

Answer: Sikhism

[10] Sikhism has had fifteen of these men, the first of which was Nanak Dev.

Answer: Guru(s)

[10] This is the holy book of Sikhism, compiled by Guru Arjan in 1604.

Answer: Adi Granth

21. It notes, among other things, that "good Americans, when they die, go to Paris". For ten points each

[10] What is this collection of humorous essays and poems, set in a New England boarding house during a meal?

Answer: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

[10] Who wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table as well as poetry such as "The Chambered Nautilus"?

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

[10] Holmes had earlier gained fame for what poem written in an effort to preserve a famous battleship?

Answer: Old Ironsides

TOSSUPS – ROUND 2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. This term was coined in the 1950’s by Norodom Sihanouk and referred to an earlier group, one in a series that eventually evolved into its more familiar identification. Efforts to bring them to justice have taken so long that many defendants and witnesses have died of old age, though proceedings against “Brother Number Five” Gen. Kaing Khek Iev finally opened in November 2007. One of its mottos was, "To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss." They maintained a tight communist grip on Kampuchea until their regime was overthrown in 1979 with the help of Vietnamese soldiers. FTP name this deadly communist group headed by Pol Pot that committed massive self-genocide in Cambodia.

Answer: The Khmer Rouge

2. Prolific in fiction, non-fiction and poetry, early in his career he used a pen name to publish the poetry collections Spirits in Bondage and Dymer. His literary scholarship included 1964's The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, while an early foray into science fiction was 1938’s Out of the Silent Planet, followed by two more works that all together comprised the Space Trilogy. FTP, name this noted Christian scholar responsible for A Grief Observed and The Screwtape Letters, still most famous for The Chronicles of Narnia.

Answer: C(live) S(taples) Lewis

3. The first stage in the synthesis of this compound takes a molecule of Acetyl CoA and, through various processes, transforms it into Mavalonate. The rate limiting step in this process is the enzyme HMG-CoA Reductase, which is inhibited by drugs in the “statin” class. After it is completely synthesized, it can be transformed into other essential biomolecules, such as bile salts or Vitamin D. With a generic formula of C27H46O, FTP, name this 4-ringed structure which is also used as a precursor to steroids, as long as it isn’t clogging your arteries.

Answer: Cholesterol

4. This show’s creator, Bryan Fuller, has said that if the writers strike hadn’t ended, this season’s ninth episode would have served as the season finale. Set primarily in the main character’s shop, The Pie Hole, it has been described as somewhere between Tim Burton and Amelie. That main character also works with a private investigator played by Chi McBride and spends time trying not to touch his childhood sweetheart, Chuck. Also featuring the acting and singing talents of Kristen Chenowith, FTP, name this show in which the main character Ned uses his ability to temporarily raise the dead in order to solve murders.

Answer: Pushing Daisies

5. He has been known to travel under the aliases of Vak or Valtam, usually wearing a large hat to avoid being noticed. One of three sons of the giants Bor and Bestla, he once hung from Yggdrisill for seven days, after which he gained the knowledge of magic runes and poetry. On one hand, he wears the ring Draupnir, and he is accompanied by the ravens Huggin and Muninn. Giving one of his eyes to drink from the well of Mirmir, for ten points, name this member of the Aesir and chief Norse deity.

Answer: Odin or Othinn or Woden or Woten

6. For his miseries at the Longwood House, this man accused and denounced Hudson Lowe. He would have been better off had he contented himself with the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau, after which he delivered a speech to the “Old Guard.” His major defeat following the Battle of Ligny was worse than his less known ignominies like his desertion of plague-stricken soldiers after failing to conquer Acre and his fleet’s utter loss at Aboukir Bay. FTP, who is this man, whose Hundred Days away from Elba ended rather badly at Waterloo?

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte (accept either name)

7. There has been debate about whether the two extant examples of this order would in fact be more properly divided into two distinct orders. It is now believed that this order is the result of an early split in the taxonomic class to which it belongs, and that a later split resulted in the placental and marsupial designations. Infants of the species in this order are known as puggles, and the name comes from the Greek for “single hole”, a reference to their cloaca. Found only in Australia and New Guinea, and including the Echidnas and the platypus, this is, FTP, what order of egg-laying mammals?

Answer: Monotremes or Monotremata

8. Born in Eleusis, this Greek playwright was said to have been visited by Dionysus, who commanded him to begin writing tragedies. He penned the earliest surviving tragedy, The Persians, in 472 BC. It is estimated that he wrote a total of seventy to ninety plays, only seven of which survived. Like most playwrights of that time, many of his works were based on mythology, including The Suppliants, The Seven Against Thebes, the Oresteia, and Prometheus Bound. FTP, name this “Father of Tragedy.”

Answer: Aeschylus

9. This composer’s last work, De Temporum Fine Comoedia ("A Play of the End of Time"), premiered at the Salzburg Music Festival in 1983. He also wrote a new score for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which he presented for consideration to the Nazi Party when Mendelssohn’s work was banned. He is best known, however, for a piece that is actually part of a trilogy entitled Trionfi (Triumphs), which includes Catulli Carmina and Triono di Afrodite. FTP, identify this German composer of Carmina Burana.

Answer: Carl Orff

10. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP what is the volume of a sphere with a radius of 6 feet, given that the formula for volume of a sphere is four-thirds pi r cubed?

Answer: 288 pi cubic feet

11. Poems written by this woman include “Stone is Not Stone,” “When We are Lost,” and “Saraband,” but she is better known as a novelist. Later novels by her include The Sojourner, A Domestic Dilemma, and A Flowering Dream. She writes about J.T. Malone in the novel A Clock Without Hands. Other protagonists include Miss Amelia, Frankie Adams, and Mick Kelly. For ten points, name this author of The Ballad of the Sad Café, The Member of the Wedding, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Answer: Carson McCullers or Lula Carson Smith

12. Once serving as the chair of Chevron’s public policy committee, the company honored her by naming an oil tanker after her. Her father, a Birmingham minister, was among the harshest critics of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and was praised by white leaders as one of the “responsible, moderate Negro leaders”; one of her childhood friends, Denise McNair, was killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. A graduate of the University of Denver and Notre Dame, she taught at Stanford, where she also later served as Provost. FTP, name this author of The Gorbachev Era and other Cold War studies, who in Jan. 2005 became the first African-American woman to serve as US Secretary of State.

Answer: Condoleezza Rice

13. This body was originally called S/1978 P 1, but received its more widely known and more picturesque name early in 1986. It was actually seen for the first time in the 1990s, with the Hubble telescope; before then it was detected, originally by James Christy in 1978, as a recurring bulge on the object that it orbits. Its status as a moon has been called into question by some astronomers who think that it should perhaps be classed as one dwarf planet orbiting another. The question is complicated by the debate over the status of the body which it orbits. FTP, name this sort-of-moon of the sort-of planet Pluto.

Answer: Charon

14. This piece of land is only roughly 140 square miles, or twice the size of Washington D.C.; it has no natural waterforms, and relies on irrigation for its modest citrus industry and other farming. Yet it has been the source of conflict for hundreds of years. Mentioned in the Tel el-Amarna letters, it was in this arid land that the Samson toppled the temple of Dagon in the Book of Judges. It passed from Ottoman to British control in world War I, and from 1949 until 1967 its residents were consider Egyptian subjects but not Egyptian citizens. Hamas has seized effective control of, FTP, what Mediterranean coastal region which came under full Palestinian control when Israeli forces fully withdrew in 2005?

Answer: the Gaza Strip [prompt on Gaza, which is technically just one city in it]

15. The 3rd of its four sections reconciles the rest with Christian scripture, while the 4th (“Of the Kingdom of Darkness”) describes errors of other philosophies, especially Catholicism. Its author sees pride as a threat to order, as it leads individuals to think they know better than their sovereign, and part two tells how to construct a state to keep lasting peace. The first part describes the nature, prior to the existence of the state, of human life, which the author memorably describes as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” FTP name this influential 1651 book by Thomas Hobbes.

Answer: Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil

16. The MacAulay Bond duration times the discount rate determines the yield version of this property for bonds. A good for which this property is perfectly manifested is a banknote as any increase in price will result in a demand drop to zero, whereas any decrease in price will cause a substantial increase in demand. For 10 points, name this economic principle which can determine how sensitive or responsive a good is to changes in price.

Answer: Elasticity [accept any type of elasticity]

17. It was initially published anonymously in three volumes, and it was originally named for the two central characters.  Because their father died and left the fortune to the son of his first wife John, those protagonists must relocate to Barton and move in with the Middletons. There, they meet Colonel Brandon, the rakish Willoughby, and Lucy Steele, who we find out is secretly engaged to Elinor's beloved Mr. Ferrars. Published under the pseudonym "A Lady" for 10 points, name this first novel of Jane Austen about the sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood.

Answer: Sense and Sensibility

18. Their existence can only be proved and their characteristics approximated by calculating their effect on other processes, such as electron-positron annihilation, and then comparing the calculations to experimental results. This indirect method of analysis is necessary because these particles never exist naturally in isolation.  Along with leptons, they make up the fermions, and they come in six varieties, typically known as flavors. They were named after a nonsense word found in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. FTP, name these particles which combine in various ways to form protons and neutrons, whose flavors are up, down, top, bottom, charmed, and strange.

Answer: quarks

 

19. One of their symbols was the dark lantern. At their peak they held the mayor’s offices in Washington, DC, and Chicago, and Nathaniel Banks’ brief association with this party led to his selection on the 133rd ballot as Speaker of the House in 1956. Ironically, the only state they carried in that year’s Presidential election was Maryland, the state with the highest percentage of Catholics. Tracing their roots to a secret organization called the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, FTP name this nativist political movement formed in reaction to the immigration influx in the mid 19th century.

Answer: The Know-Nothings [accept American, Native American, or American Republican Party

20. This food was formed by hand until the early 1960s, when Canadian Dan Thompson developed the first efficient mechanical method. It was introduced to North America in the 1880s by Ashkenazi Jews, and between 1910 and 1915 a separate and exclusive union for its bakers formed in New York City. Its European roots date back to the 1600s, and one version of its creation story holds that, similar to the croissant, it commemorates Christian victory in the siege of Vienna – although in this case, it’s supposed to be shaped like a stirrup. Sold on ropes in Russia, where it’s called bubliki, its unique texture and sheen come from being boiled and then baked. FTP identify this popular bread, which one might buy at Einstein Brothers or Bruegger’s.

Answer: Bagel

EDITOR’S NOTE: In this instance, bageling the last question is a good thing.

21. In the opening scene, Barnardo and Marcellus have convinced Horatio to come on their watch with them so that he may see the ghost they claim to have seen. The dead monarch's ghost turns out to be real, and later tells his son that his own brother had murdered him by pouring poison in his ear, inspiring the prince to avenge his father’s death by killing his uncle. Much death and destruction ensues, and the whole royal family of Denmark is killed. FTP, name this tragedy by William Shakespeare.

Answer: Hamlet

22. In contrast to the “fixed action patterns” of Nobel winner Karl Lorenz, this technique was first studied by Edward Thorndike, who noted that cats got progressively better at finding their way out of mazes, leading to his “Law of Effect”. Following the ideas of Ernst Mach, B F Skinner took Thorndike’s work further and devised a “chamber” to modify behavior by this technique. FTP name this type of “conditioning”, distinguished from Pavlovian conditioning in that it seeks to modify voluntary behavior.

Answer: Operant conditioning [prompt on conditioning, or behaviorism, even though it's not a technique]

BONI – ROUND 2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Name the composers of these works FTPE:

(10) The Dream of Gerontius and Pomp and Circumstance

Answer: Edward Elgar

(10) The Red Pony and Fanfare for the Common Man

Answer: Aaron Copland

(10) Spartacus and Gayane which includes Sabre Dance

Answer: Aram Katchaturian

2. Answer these questions about electromagnetic laws FTPE

(10) This law relates the magnetic field to the current density, and can only be correct when the electric field is constant in time

Answer: Ampere’s Law

(10) In vector form, this law is used to obtain both the magnitude and direction of the force on a charge at position, experiencing a field due to the presence of a second charge at a second position.

Answer: Coulomb’s Law

(10) This law gives the direction of the induced electromotive force and current resulting from electromagnetic induction

Answer: Lenz’s Law

3. Identify these 19th century plays FTPE from characters and the author:

(10) Jack Worthing, Algernon Moncrief, and Lady Bracknell; written by Oscar Wilde

Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest

(10) Hovstad, the editor, Captain Horster, and Dr Thomas Stockmann; written by Henrik Ibsen

Answer: An Enemy of the People

(10) Christian De Neuvillette, the Comte De Guiche, and Roxane; written by Edmond Rostand

Answer: Cyrano de Bergerac

4. Some questions about a political party, FTPE.

(10) Founded in 1912, and assuming its current name in 1923, it has been the ruling party of South Africa since 1994.

Answer: African National Congress

(10) In 1990, this South African President unbanned the ANC and began steps towards peace talks that would end apartheid.

Answer: Frederik Willem de Klerk

(10) Following de Klerk as President of South Africa was this man, who technically was only president of the ANC from 1991 until 1997.

Answer: Nelson Mandela

5. Name these categories of triangles FTPE:

A. Having an angle larger than 90 degrees

Answer: Obtuse

B. Having two equal length sides and two equal measure angles

Answer: Isosceles

C. All sides and angles are different

Answer: Scalene

6. Identify these works of Melville, none of which are Moby Dick, FTPE:

(10) This novella published posthumously is widely interpreted as an allegory with the titular sailor as Christ and his accuser Claggart as Judas.

Answer: Billy Budd (accept Billy Budd, Sailor or Billy Budd, Foretopman)

(10) Subtitled A Peep at Polynesian Life, this was Melville’s first book:

Answer: Typee

(10) Both released and set on April 1, 1857, Melville’s last major novel has a group of travelers on a New Orleans-bound steamboat telling their reactions to the sneaky title character.

Answer: (The) Confidence Man: His Masquerade

7. FTPE, tell how many hydrogen atoms are in a molecule of:

(10) Butane

Answer: 10

(10) Acetic acid

Answer: 2

(10) Toluene

Answer: 8

8. Identify these things related to Islam, FTPE:

(10) This largest branch of Islam accepts the caliphate of Abu Bakr

Answer: Sunni (Accept Sunnah)

(10) Criticized by fundamentalists, this brand of Islam embraces mysticism. Monastic orders within it, called the Tariqa, include the Dervishes.

Answer: Sufism

(10) Often erroneously thought to be a cleric, this is the person chosen by a mosque to summon the faithful for the salat, or five daily prayers, and the adhan, or weekly call to Friday prayer.

Answer: muezzin

9. His first feature length film was 1953’s Fear and Desire, but he came into his own with 1960’s Spartacus. FTPE:

(10) Name this filmmaker who never won an Oscar for best Director, despite being nominated 4 times, including nominations for Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange.

Answer: Stanley Kubrick

(10) One of Kubrick’s nominations was for this dark 1964 comedy starring Peter Sellers in three roles, including the title character and the U.S. President who is unable to stop a nuclear war.

Answer: Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

(10) The remaining Kubrick nomination was for this science fiction classic which features a large black monolith, the music of both Johann and Richard Strauss, and a malfunctioning computer named HAL.

Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey,

10. FTPE, identify these Russian rulers

(10) In 1547 he was crowned as the first Tsar of Russia, or at least the first to assume that title.

Answer: Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible

(10) This tsar nicknamed “the Liberator” emancipated the serfs, but was assassinated in 1881.

Answer: Alexander II

(10) The last tsar of the Romanov dynasty, or any dynasty for that matter, was assassinated with his whole family in 1917.

Answer: Nicholas II

11. Believe it or not, this wasn’t the only bonus submitted on the hit TV show Hannah Montana! FTPE:

[10] This girl plays the double role of Hannah Montana and Miley Stewart.

Answer: Destiny Hope “Miley” Cyrus

[10] This surfing ladies man played by Jason Earles is the comic relief, as well as Miley's older brother in the show.

Answer: Jackson Stewart

[10] This popular and arrogant duo frequently antagonize Miley Stewart.

Answer: Amber Addison and Ashley Dewitt [Editor’s note -- Accept Addison and Dewitt in the unlikely event that anyone who actually watches the show caught the shout-out to All About Eve.]

(Author’s note to reader - you may now mock the person who actually got these questions right.)

12. Time to get mooned. Answer the following FTPE:

(10) This planet’s moons are grouped into categories: for example, Telesto and Calesto are Trojan moons, while Thrymr, Hati, and Fenrir are among its Norse Moons

Answer: Saturn

(10) Close to the size of Earth’s moon, this third largest moon of Jupiter is noted for its volcanic activity.

Answer: Io

(10) In 1787, six years after discovering Uranus, this astronomer discovered its two largest moons, Oberon and Titania.

Answer: William Herschel

13. American poet Elizabeth Bishop wrote a poem imagining the shame and separation anxiety this novel’s protagonist might have felt after returning to England. FTPE

(10) FTP name this novel inspired by the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk, in which a shipwrecked mariner forms a relationship with a native he names Friday.

Answer: Robinson Crusoe [that’s all we need, not the full original 68-word title]

(10) Besides Robinson Crusoe, this man’s works include the novel Moll Flanders and satirical poems such as “The True Born Englishman” and “Him to the Pillory.”

Answer: Daniel Defoe

(10) Even though it was published 57 years after the event it discusses, during which the author was only 5 years old, this Defoe work is often read as a non-fiction, first hand account of life in 1665 London.

Answer: A Journal of the Plague Year

14. Identify these native American groups FTPE:

(10) Once the largest tribe of the southeastern US, they are found primarily today in Oklahoma but have a sizable “Eastern band” in North Carolina.

Answer: Cherokee

(10) This tribe inhabited the western shore of Lake Michigan from the Chicago area northward. Their customary tents were smaller than a modern vehicular namesake might imply.

Answer: Winnebago

(10) This southwestern tribe’s village of Old Oraibi, located on Third Mesa and founded about the year 1100, is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United States. They are noted for their kachina ceremonies.

Answer: Hopi (Or Hopi’sinom)

15. Name the consort of Zeus when given the form in which he appeared to her.

A. Swan

Answer: Leda (also accept Nemesis)

B. Shower of gold

Answer: Danae

C. White bull

Answer: Europa

16. Answer the following about a writer who died not so long ago, FTPE:

A. Although this man’s M.A. thesis was rejected by the University of Chicago, it later accepted his novel Cat’s Cradle in lieu of a thesis. His other works included Slapstick and Breakfast of Champions.

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)

B. This most famous novel of Vonnegut, about Billy Pilgrim who gets “unstuck in time,” was influenced by his witnessing the fire-bombing of Dresden.

Answer: Slaughterhouse-Five

C. The title character of this short story rebels against a society where everyone is equal, but he gets shot by the “Handicapper-General.”

Answer: “Harrison Bergeron”

17. Name these former world capitals from clues FTPE. If you need the country you’ll get five.

(10) This city of 6 million has the most colonial buildings of any city in southeast Asia and is still its nation’s commercial center, but officially lost its status in 2006 when the military junta moved the administrative capital to Naypyidaw.

(5) Union of Myanmar (a.k.a. Burma)

Answer: Yangon or Rangoon

(10) Founded in 1709 on the Neva River, it served as a world capital for over 200 years until 1918, when successful revolutionary forces “temporarily” moved the capital southwest because of its proximity to hostile forces.

(5) Russia

Answer: Saint Petersburg [accept Petrograd but not Leningrad, which was never a capital]

(10) Founded in the early 16th century, it became a capital under colonial rule in 1763, but was replaced in 1960 by a planned city further inland. It is currently its nation’s 2nd largest city, and the 4th largest municipality in the Americas.

(5) Brazil

Answer: Rio de Janeiro

18. FTPE, identify these biochemical cycles:

(10) Also known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle, it is named for the German born scientist who elucidated it.

Answer: the Krebs Cycle (accept Citric Acid cycle)

(10) The incorporation of CO2 into carbohydrate by plants, it involves carbon fixation, reduction, and regeneration of RuBP.

Answer: the Calvin (or Calvin-Benson-Bassham) cycle

(10) Along with CAM photosynthesis and the C3 cycle, this is an alternative pathway to convert carbon dioxide into a form usable during photosynthesis. It’s used by corn, sugarcane, and other plants in areas with low carbon dioxide levels.

Answer: the C4 carbon fixation cycle

19. FTPE answer the following about significant U.S. labor laws:

[10] This 1935 act guaranteed covered workers the right to organize and join labor movements, to bargain collectively, and to strike, and it established a federal board to help oversee its enforcement.

Answer: National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act

[10] In 1947, over President Truman’s veto, Congress passed this bill softening the Wagner act, exempting supervisory personnel from its provisions, prohibiting closed shops and expanding the list of labor practices considered unfair.

Answer: Taft-Hartley Act or Labor-Management Relations Act

[10] Title VII of this act, passed after fierce lobbying by President Lyndon Johnson, created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and barred employment discrimination on basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1964 [prompt on partial answer – there have been others by that name]

20. The question writer recently used his membership to Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts to see Societe Anonyme: Modernism for American. Name these artists from works that unfortunately weren’t in the exhibit, FTPE.

(10) Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2; L.H.O.O.Q.; Fountain

Answer: Marcel Duchamp

(10) View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers, Domburg; Broadway Boogie-Woogie

Answer: Piet Mondrian

(10) The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Shadows; The Lovers; Indestructible Object

Answer: Man Ray (or Emmanuel Radnitsky)

21. Mistakes happen. Answer the following about how to fix them, FTPE

[10] This common algorithm is found in most word processors and works by comparing the letters of each word to a preset dictionary.

Answer: Spell Checker (accept clear equivalents)

[10] This common error detection method varies depending on the specific algorithm, but generally involves calculating a number based on the data to be checked, and verifying that the data still produces the same value after transmission or storage. It is commonly seen in the IP header.

Answer: Checksum (also accept CRC)

[10] This method actually fixes errors by sending extra information that can be used to correct single bit errors in transmission, or to detect two bit errors.

Answer: Forward Error Correction

TOSSUPS – ROUND 3 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. The Treaty of New Echota was used to justify this, although John Ross refused to sign it. The Supreme Court decision Worcester v. Georgia belatedly implied that it was unconstitutional, but President Jackson ignored the decision and reputedly said, “Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” Ultimately it resulted in the death of some 4,000 on their way to Oklahoma. Beginning about a mile from what is now the UT-Chattanooga campus, FTP, what name is given to the forced relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes, most notably the Cherokee?

Answer: Trail of Tears (Accept Cherokee Removal or equivalents before “Cherokee”)

2. One unique order belonging to this phylum is Protura, which is noted for its anamorphic development and which belongs to the paraphyletic class Entognatha. The blood from members of another order of this phylum is extracted to produce Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate, used to detect Gram-negative bacteria. That order, Xiphosurida, is part of this phylum’s subphylum Chelicerata, which in turn is named for the mouthparts they possess, often taking the shape of fangs or pinching claws. Tardigrada and Onychophora are the two phyla thought to be most closely related to this phylum, due to the presence of several morphological similarities, including the segmented body and the presence of many pairs of jointed legs. FTP, name this animal phylum, which includes the crustaceans, arachnids, and insects.

Answer: Arthropoda [or Arthropods; do not prompt on any subtaxons]

3. A work by Giulio Romano depicts his birth amidst nymphs, while Bellini displays him as a cherubic child and Poussin shows him taking a drink while being watched by a goat. Goats again appear, pulling his wife’s cart in a work by Carracci, while in that same work he appears beside her in a cart drawn by tigers. Several works display this god’s “triumph”, including one by Delacroix, which sees him in a cart drawn by lions, and one by Velazquez, which shows him crowning a young man’s head while surrounded by drunkards. Depicted by Rubens as drunk, lazy, and extremely fat, while a youth urinates near his leg, this is, FTP, what Greek god associated with wine?

Answer: Dionysus [or Bacchus]

4. In 1985, the author of this work added a final chapter, “The Aftermath.” When it first appeared in The New Yorker in 1946, Albert Einstein ordered 1000 copies of it. Published as a stand-alone book despite its brevity, it follows the lives of six characters the author actually interviewed, including Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Dr. Sasaki and Reverend Tanimoto. Other chapters include “The Fire” and “A Noiseless Flash.” FTP, what is this article about an event that occurred on August 6th, 1945, written by John Hersey?

Answer: Hiroshima

5. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an expansion of the Deedee Wigmore galleries in The American Wing is devoted to his work. There you can see his painting Snake Charmer at Tangier, reflecting the same fascination with North Africa and the Orient that led him to change his medium of choice. He created a chapel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and also worked on pieces for the White House at the request of President Arthur. His experimentation led to conflict with established art institutions, causing him to co-found the Society of American Artists. Most acclaimed for his favrile glass, for ten points, name this artist familiar for his production of stained glass lamps.

Answer: Louis Comfort Tiffany

6. They have all been directed by Masahiro Sakurai, with the latest now scheduled for a March 9, 2008, release in the United States. This installment will feature the Subspace Emissary, and minor returning characters will include Wabuffet, Freezie and Toad. The second installment retained all the single player mini-games except for “Board the Platform”, but substituted “Wire Frames” for the original “Fighting Polygons.” Lucas, Snake, Pit, Diddy Kong, and Sonic will all be joining as playable characters in, for ten points, what popular Nintendo fighting game series?

Answer: Super Smash Brothers

7. While the West learned a little about him indirectly from prisoners taken during the Portuguese conquest of Cueta, his actions were more fully chronicled by the historian al-Umari. His wealth was due to the salt mines at Taghaza almost as much as the gold mines at Mambuk. He brought in as an advisor the architect Abu-Ishaq Ibrahim-es-Saheli , who designed the still-extant Djingareyber Mosque. He was succeeded by his son Maghan I, who proved as ineffective as the six leaders that preceded him after the death of Sundiata. On a lavish Hajj to Mecca in 1324, he gave away so much gold in Egypt that it took a decade for its price to recover. Ruling from 1312-1337, FTP name this lord of the Mali Empire.

Answer: Mansa Musa

8. Examples of these include a special type of solid-state diode called a varactor and an electrolytic one patented in 1928 by Julius Lilienfeld. The first of these devices were invented independently in 1745 by Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek; the latter’s type is known as a Leyden Jar. Modern commercial ones use metal foil plates separated by mylar, which serves as the dielectric. Typically rated in micro- or pico-farads, FTP, what are these devices which store electric charge?

Answer: Capacitors [accept condensers]

9. Accompanied in an original manuscript by the homilies “Patience” and “Purity”, it is full of complex imagery, including the elaborately explained pentangle and the sash that the hero wears home, possibly a reference to the Order of the Garter. Celtic imagery is also strongly present throughout the poem, as in the beheading game that takes place at the beginning and the hue of the main antagonist. The protagonist takes King Arthur’s place in a New Year’s game and then must resist the seductions of Bertilak’s lady in, FTP, what Middle English poem usually attributed to the Pearl poet?

Answer: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

10. The Liquidator, the arch-nemesis of Darkwing.  Huan, who fought Sauron and forced him to flee.  Riff Raff, a gangster.  Porthos, who was once interrogated by the Ferengi.  Frank, who briefly served as Agent J's partner.  The robotic assistant of Doctor Who.  Vincent, a survivor of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815.  FTP these characters, as well as Fang from Harry Potter, Brian from Family Guy, and Odie from Garfield, are all what type of furry, four legged friend?

Answer: Dogs (or hounds, or any clear knowledge equivalents)

11. In the Ethiopic church, the Qeddase is the sermon used on this occasion, while the Addai and Mani are recited during it by Assyrian celebrants. The astronomical bodies mentioned prominently in Prayer C of the Second Rite of it in the 1979 Episcopal Book of Prayer, earned this observance the derisive nickname “Star Trek”. Debate about its importance prevented Luther and Zwingli from agreeing at the Marburg Colloquy, while Lanfranc developed the idea of its most famous explanation, which was promoted at the Fourth Lateran and Trent Councils. Thomas Aquinas provided the modern definition of transubstantiation for, FTP, what sacrament, celebrated by consumption of bread and wine?

Answer: Eucharist or Holy Communion or Lord’s Supper

12. With West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, this case was cited in Planned Parenthood v. Casey as reason not to revisit Roe in that decision. Footnote 11 of this case’s decision, which refers to Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma and other works, has been attacked for its nonlegal approach, including famously in Clarence Thomas’s concurrence in Missouri v. Jenkins. The decision handed down for this case decided several other cases, including Briggs v. Elliot and Gebhart v. Belton, while another case for the District of Columbia argued with it saw a separate decision, Bolling v. Sharpe. Its decision consisted of two parts delivered a year apart, the latter of which was noted for the phrase “all deliberate speed”. Argued by the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the NAACP, this is, FTP, what 1954 case often seen as the start of school desegregation?

Answer: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

13. In its advanced stages, nitrogen mustard is one of the drugs used to alleviate its symptoms. Persons previously afflicted by the Epstein-Barr virus are more likely to contract this condition, although no definitive link has been established. It was first described by its namesake in 1832, who noticed fevers, itching, fatigue and the characteristic swelling of the liver, spleen and other lymph nodes due to the formation of B lymphocyte tumors. Despite a high cure rate when detected early, it is feared because of its tendency to occur in otherwise healthy young adults, as well as the elderly. For ten points, identify this form of lymphoma, famously afflicting Mario Lemieux.

Answer: Hodgkin’s Disease (prompt on lymphoma before "namesake")

14. In this work, Rudi Block decides to continue forward with Dr. Huld despite being in the process for over five years.  The protagonist, on the other hand, is growing impatient and is about ready to fire him.  Others who prove not-so-helpful include the painter Titorelli, who advises him to prolong the process, and a prison chaplain who explains the idea of fate and the necessity of the judicial system.  Eventually, the protagonist, a bank teller, is taken by two men and murdered in a nearby quarry, his only solace from his problem.  This occurs in--for ten points--what 1925 novel in which Josef K. is charged with an unspecified crime and sent to the titular entity multiple times, a work by Franz Kafka?

Answer: The Trial [or The Process or Der Prozess]

 

15. This city’s historic gardens and Buddhist temples were listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1994. Located near the Tamba Mountains, its former names include Uda and Heiankyo. It was founded by the Emperor Kammu to be his empire’s capital at the beginning of the Heian period, which it remained until being replaced by Tokyo. For ten points, identify this Japanese city, familiar today as the namesake of a series of global warming treaties.

Answer: Kyoto

16. Most performances are unable to fill a request made in its score by the composer for five minutes of silence between the first and second movements. The final movement of this symphony was inspired by a performance of “Aufersteh’n” by Friedrich Klopstock. Its first movement opens with “Totenfeier”, which roughly translates to “Funeral Rites”, and the piece progresses to its last movement, which represents the final judgment. For ten points, name this Mahler symphony, his second.

Answer: Resurrection Symphony [accept Mahler’s Second before it’s said]

17. He served his country’s government as head of its bureau of weights and measures and as an advisor to its nascent petroleum industry. He and Alexsandr Borodin became friends while studying at Heidelberg under Emil Erlenmeyer. In 1869, he was a founding member of the Russian Chemical Society, before which on March 6th of that year he gave a presentation stating that if the elements are arranged by their atomic masses, they exhibit parallel properties and that certain characteristics can be predicted based on their atomic weights. Sharing the 1882 Davy Medal with Lothar Meyer, who had separately developed similar conclusions, FTP, name this chemist credited with formulating the Periodic Table of the elements.

Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev

18. It was preceded by a retreat of allied forces from the Dyle Line and was coordinated by General Alexander, Vice Admiral Ramsay and Lord John Gort. The smallest vessel involved was the Tamzine, now housed in the Imperial War Museum. Propagandists downplayed the massive loss of equipment suffered by the British Expeditionary Force, instead focusing on the third of a million troops successfully brought home from mainland France. Code-named Operation Dynamo, FTP, name this miraculous 1940 evacuation of British and Allied troops during World War II.

Answer: the evacuation of Dunkirk

19. This play begins on the fifth of May, with the title characters discussing their loss and contemplating a return to their hometown of Moscow. Andre has gambling debts, is stuck working for the city council of a small town, and his wife Natasha cheats on him with his boss, Protopopov. The other characters aren’t much better off. Irina marries a man she doesn’t really love, and he’s shot by Solyony, Marsha gets tired of her marriage and has an affair, and Olga ends up a headmistress at a school because she can’t get married at all. For ten points, identify this Anton Chekhov play about the titular female relatives.

Answer: The Three Sisters [or Tri Sestry]

20. The Dottie number represents its fixed point, and adding the square of this function to the square of its derivative always equals one. It can be defined in terms of x as the sum of e to i times x and e to the negative i times x, and the terms of its power series expansion are 1 – x squared over 2 factorial plus x to the fourth over four factorial and so on. It can also be defined as the abscissa at the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative. For ten points, name this function, most commonly defined as equal to the adjacent over the hypotenuse.

Answer: Cosine

21. Characters from this book omitted from the film version include Dolphu Raymond, a wealthy man who pretends to be a drunkard so people will tolerate his relationship with his mixed-race mistress, and Link Deas, the employer who testifies on behalf of Tom Robinson. Aunt Alexandra, Maudie Atkinson, and the domestic servant Calpurnia are the adults who spend the most time with the children, but it is clearly their father who has the greatest influence. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, the novel follows the narrator, her brother, and their friend Dill through adventures that involve the town drunk Bob Ewell and their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. FTP name this novel about Jem and Scout Finch and their father Atticus, the masterwork of Harper Lee.

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

22. He divided the progress of mankind into three historical stages, the Theological, the Metaphysical, and the Positive. In 1849, he proposed a calendar reform that would have 13 months of 28 days each, plus a festival day outside the days of the week cycle for a total of 365 days. With the assistance of Clotilda de Vaux he developed a secular religion he dubbed the Religion of Humanity. Brazil’s flag bears the motto “Order and Progress” from his Positivist statement, “Love as a principle and order as the basis; Progress as the goal"). FTP, identify this French philosopher, often referred to as the “Father of Sociology”.

Answer: Auguste Comte

BONI – ROUND 3 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Consider the number 350. For the stated number of points:

[5] That number is 70 percent of what number?

Answer: 500

[5] For each remaining part, you have ten seconds for computation. What is the remainder when 350 is divided by 6?

Answer: two

[10] What is the prime factorization of that number?

Answer: 2, 5, 5, 7 (can be said in any order)

[10] What is 45 percent of that number?

Answer: 157.5

2. Answer the following about a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald FTPE.

[10] Fitzgerald's most popular novel, it recounts the failed efforts of the title character to woo his childhood sweetheart Daisy who is now married to the snobbish Tom Buchanan.

Answer: The Great Gatsby

[10] This Minnesota-born man narrates The Great Gatsby.

Answer: Nick Carraway (accept either first or last name)

[10] Most of the action is set in two seaside towns on Long Island Sound that share this name. Nick lives in West [blank], while the Buchanans live in the wealthier East [blank.]

Answer: Egg

3. It was effectively nullified within six months of its signing, and the “peace in our time” promised by one of its signatories lasted a whopping eleven months. FTPE:

[10] Name this agreement signed on Sept. 29, 1938 by Germany, Britain, France, and Italy – but not the nation directly affected, Czechoslovakia.

Answer: the Munich Pact

[10] This British Prime Minister who promised “peace in our time” came to realize his policy of appeasement was wrong, and remained in Churchill’s cabinet for a time after his resignation as P.M.

Answer: Neville Chamberlain [prompt on Chamberlain – practically the whole family held high office]

[10] Hitler’s pretext for the land grab was self-determination for the German-speaking minority in this region of Bohemia, whom Hitler ironically claimed had faced ethnic persecution by the Czech majority.

Answer: Sudetenland or Sudetes

4. Answer these bloody good questions FTPE

[10] This question’s author has O type blood. All or nothing, what type or types of blood can he receive in a transfusion?

Answer: Only O [accept O positive and O negative if given as a single answer, but not separately]

[10] The determination of A, B, AB or O is based on the presence or absence of what genetic coding blocks at a given point on a chromosome?

Answer: Alleles

[10] This additional factor specifies whether an individual’s blood contains one or more of a class of namesake antigens, and is denoted as positive or negative.

Answer: Rhesus Factor or Rh D Factor

5. Name these people who, in the words of my Sunday school teacher, were “poned by God” FTPE.

[10] God caused this woman, wife of King Ahab, to be defenestrated and eaten by dogs.

Answer: Jezebel

[10] After questioning her husband for dancing in his underwear in the streets to glorify God, this daughter of Saul was struck barren.

Answer: Michal

[10] After letting the people claim that he had the voice of a god, the angel of the Lord struck this man down, and he died, consumed by worms.

Answer: Herod Agrippa I

6. Name the following involved in Watergate FTSNOP.

[5/5] The two most prominent members of the White House Special Investigative Unit, aka the Plumbers, were these former Federal agents -- one CIA, one FBI. They didn’t personally break in but were in radio contact with the burglars.

Answers: G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt

[10] This deputy director of the FBI, nicknamed "Deep Throat", was one the principal informants used by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to uncover details of the scandal.

Answer: Mark Felt

[10] This man replaced Richard Kleindienst as attorney general after Kleindienst resigned rather than prosecute men he knew. In the “Saturday Night Massacre”, he chose to resign rather than fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Answer: Elliot Richardson

7. Answer these simple physics questions, FTPE.

[10] Turns in highways are banked so that this fairly common and uncomplicated force can help keep the car in a circle.

Answer: Normal Force

[10] The normal force contributes to this minimal force required to keep the car driving in a circle rather than crashing off the road, which would be bad.

Answer: Centripetal Force

[10] The other force that keeps the car from flying off the road and killing you in a fiery crash is this, which always acts to oppose the motion of an object. Its study is referred to as tribology.

Answer: Friction

8. It looks like Hollywood is starting to run out of sequels to put on the big screen, so they’re going to the small screen for ideas. Name these TV adaptations scheduled to premiere in theaters in 2008 for ten points each.

[10] Sarah Jessica Parker returns as Carrie Bradshaw with her three compatriots for more exploits in New York.

Answer: Sex and the City: The Movie

[10] Steve Carrell is set to star as Agent 86, with Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, combating the evil KAOS corporation.

Answer: Get Smart

[10] The Wachowski brothers have gone for something more family-friendly in their adaptation of this anime series from the 60’s with the Japanese title Mach Go Go Go.

Answer: Speed Racer

9. FTPE, identify the composer given a list of their operas.

A. Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

B. La bohème, Tosca, Manon Lescault, and Madame Butterfly

Answer: Giacomo Puccini

C. Lucrezia Borgia, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Daughter of the Regiment

Answer: Gaetano Donizetti

 

10. Name the Shakespeare play from characters FTPE.

A. Mustardseed, Tom Snout, Nick Bottom, Oberon, Lysander

Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

B. Prospero, Caliban, Miranda

Answer: The Tempest

C. Dogberry, Hero, Balthazar, Beatrice, Don Pedro

Answer: Much Ado About Nothing

11. Identify the lab methods and equipment in chemistry, FTPE

[10] This method often uses a buret to gradually introduce one compound into another until an endpoint indicator is triggered. It is most commonly used to determine the pH of a sample using an acid or base of known pH.

Answer: Titration

[10] This device is used to rapidly spin a liquid to pull particles out of suspension.

Answer: Centrifuge

[10] This type of spectroscopy uses the inelastic scattering of photons by a sample to determine rotational and vibrational properties of the sample. It is named for the specific type of scattering observed.

Answer: Raman spectroscopy

12. Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Sorry, lit freaks, this bonus has nothing to do with Coleridge. FTPE:

[10] What is the saltiest body of water in the world, also happening to occupy the lowest elevation in the world?

Answer: The Dead Sea

[10] What is the largest inland body of water, which also happens to be too salty to drink?

Answer: The Caspian Sea

[10] What small lake in the Colorado Desert of California was once the home to a Spanish salt mining operation?

Answer: Salton Sea

13. It’s hard to believe that the next Kidz Bop album will be #14. Let’s go back to 2001, when the original Kidz Bop was released, with no number since who would have dreamed anyone would want another? On a 5-10-20-30 basis, given a song from that album, name the original artist whose work was defiled:

[a] “All-Star”

Answer: Smash Mouth

[b] “Bye Bye Bye”

Answer: N’Sync

[c] “All the Small Things”

Answer: Blink-182

[d] “That Don’t Impress Me Much”

Answer: Shania Twain

14. Name these American presidents and wannabes, FTPE.

[10] You might be a redneck if you think this man was America's first president. Name this first, last, and only president of the Confederate States of America.

Answer: Jefferson Davis

[10] A historically black college in Beaumont, TX, is named for this man, who served as President of the Republic of Texas between Sam Houston's two terms. His nephew Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus was later a Supreme Court justice.

Answer: Mirabeau B. Lamar

[10] This Secretary of State declared himself to be in charge in the White House situation room after the attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan, though both Tip O’Neill and Strom Thurmond were ahead of him in the line of succession.

Answer: Alexander Haig

15. Given major characters, name the Mark Twain novel FTPE:

(10) Tom Canty and Edward Tudor

Answer: The Prince and the Pauper

(10) Muff Potter and Injun Joe

Answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

(10) Morgan le Fay and Hank Morgan, a.k.a. Sir Boss

Answer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

16. FTP each, name these 3 radioactive elements from clues. If you need the element's symbol, you'll get 5.

A. [10] Pitchblende, a common ore of this element, is often mined from sandstone deposits.

[5] Symbol U

Answer: uranium

B. [10] Trace quantities of this element were also found in pitchblende in 1962, 25 years after Carlo Perrier and Emilo Segre “discovered” this first artificially produced element..

[5] Symbol Tc

Answer: technetium

C. [10] This noble gas, given off as radium decays, is the second-leading cause of lung cancer.

[5] Symbol Rn

Answer: radon

17. Name these long-serving twentieth century political leaders FTPE:

[10] This generalissimo held power in Spain under various titles from the Spanish Civil War till his death in 1975.

Answer: Francisco Franco

[10] Considered a god by Rastafarians, this man was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.

Answer: Haile Selassie (prompt on partial answer; accept Tafari Makonnen)

[10] Head of the provisional French government in exile during the latter days of World War II, he served briefly as President of France in 1945-1946 and returned as the first President of the Fifth Republic from 1959 to 1969.

Answer: Charles de Gaulle

18. The horse goes “neigh”! The cow goes “moo”! The rooster goes “cock-a-doodle doo”! FTPE:

[10] Name the eight-legged horse from Norse mythology that Odin rides.

Answer: Sleipnir

[10] This bovine is sent by Anu to cause a plague in the lands around Uruk, but gets killed off by Enkidu and Gilgamesh.

Answer: The Bull of Heaven [accept Bull of Ishtar, as some artworks call it, but don't prompt on Ishtar!]

[10] The crow of the rooster Gulinkambi will begin this Norse equivalent of Armageddon.

Answer: Ragnarok

19. Answer the following about the only extant novel written in Latin from the Roman era to survive, FTPE:

[10] The main character finding himself in Thessaly, a land of magic, his eagerness to see magic leads to him be accidentally transformed into the titular animal.

Answer: The Golden Ass [or The Metamorphoses]

[10] The Golden Ass was written by this 2nd century Romanized Berber

Answer: Lucius Apuleius Platonicus

[10] This is the main character of Apuleius' Golden Ass whose transformation allows him access to the private lives of his owners.

Answer: Lucius

20. Answer the following about the overpriced and badly built buildings of a famous architect, FTPE

[10] This famous building in Racine, Wisconsin, features giant concrete columns topped with mushroom hats that the architect called “lily pads.” It has a tendency to leak, does not allow for expansion, and is difficult to maintain.

Answer: Johnson Wax Building

[10] This eccentric architect of the Johnson Wax Building also built Fallingwater, which also leaks, is full of mold, and has had to be heavily reinforced due to structural flaws.

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

[10] This style of housing was Wright’s attempt to build economic homes for people during the depression, evolving from his earlier Prairie style. Unfortunately, he went over budget even after compressing kitchens and living rooms and removing attics, basements, and garages.

Answer: Usonian Houses

21. FTPE identify these different types of Japanese performing arts:

[10] This popular drama form features singing and dancing, as well as interaction between the actors and the audience. It began as a form of satire, but later extended into a broader range of performance in the 18th century.

Answer: Kabuki

[10] This oldest form of Japanese drama is highly symbolic, and often deal with supernatural events from the Shinto religion, or epics of great warriors.

Answer: Noh

[10] This style of narrative dance may have originating from Korean folk dances, and features careful, geometric movements and masks worn to portray specific characters.

Answer: Bagaku

TOSSUPS – ROUND 4                                 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

 

1. He lived for four years in England, where he edited the Lantern and published three books including Cobwebs from an Empty Skull. A long-time resident of San Francisco, with typical piquancy he called that city “that moral penal colony of the Western World.” His journalistic work for the Hearst newspapers saw him butt heads with the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads and embroiled Hearst himself in a controversy over the assassination of President McKinley, but he is better known today for short stories inspired by his service in the Civil War, and for a book of aphorisms whose title may be a play on his career’s beginnings as a printer’s apprentice. FTP, name this author of The Devil’s Dictionary and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

Answer: Ambrose Bierce

2. While it can be found in such ores as linnaeite and smaltite, this element is usually obtained as a byproduct of lead, copper, or nickel production. It is an essential trace element found in Vitamin B 12. An artificially produced isotope is used as a source for high-energy Y rays, and its salts are used by glassmakers to produce a deep blue color in glass. This element, whose name comes from the German word for “goblin”, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal, with its most common oxidation states at +2 and +3.  FTP, name this element with atomic number 27 and the elemental symbol “Co”. 

Answer: cobalt

3. Ramón Mercader is blamed for this man’s untimely death. He was born Lev Bronstein in 1879, and also used the alias Yanovsky; the name by which he is best known may have been appropriated from a jailer at one of the multiple prisons he saw the inside of. He was head of the Red Army from 1918 to 1925, but after his exile in 1927, his name became a byword for supposed sabotage to the Communist party and collaboration with counter-revolutionary forces. FTP, name this Russian Bolshevik leader, assassinated with an ice-pick in Mexico City in 1940.

Answer: Leon Trotsky

4. According to some Jewish traditions, he was Melchizedek the King of Salem whom Abraham met after the battle of the four kings. More prominent in tradition is his status as the father of Arpachshad, from whom Abraham descended. Still, if Genesis 11:10 is to be believed, this meeting may still have been possible, as he supposedly lived for 500 years after the birth of Arpachsad two years after the flood. FTP, name this man, most often cited as either the first or second son of Noah, the traditional ancestor of all Semitic peoples.

Answer: Shem

5. Stirling’s formula approximates its value for n with [pause] n to the n power [pause] times [pause] e to the minus n power [pause] times [pause] the square root of the quantity two pi n [pause] end quantity. For zero, it is one; for three, it is six; and for nine, it is 362,880. FTP name this math function that is represented by an exclamation mark and for n is equal to the product of the integers from one to n.

Answer: factorial(s)

6. Currently teaching at Bard University in New York, he worked for the radio broadcasting company of his native country until 1966, when he was in danger because some soldiers believed that his novel A Man of the People implicated him in the country's first military coup. His 1975 critique of Heart of Darkness was based upon Conrad’s alleged caricature of Africans; he insists, however, that he only wanted to put the work into perspective. One might also gain such perspective by reading about the tribulations of Umuofia and Okwonko in this man’s masterpiece. FTP, name this author of No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart.

Answer: (Albert) Chinua(lumogo) Achebe

7. An early work of this sculptor was originally titled “The Vanquished,” but the crucial spear in the subject’s hand got in the way of the viewer’s line of vision and was removed. As a result, the statue lacked any apparent theme, and critics were baffled by “The Age of Bronze.” He is more famous for a pair of blocky stone figures embracing, and a smaller portion of a larger bronze work which depicts figures from Dante’s Inferno. FTP, name this French artist who created “The Kiss” and “The Gates of Hell.”

Answer: Auguste Rodin

8. History records only one city that he personally entered after its conquest, Bukhara in 1220. Although he did kill his half-brother Begter and his childhood friend Jamuka, his reputed bloodthirstiness is in large part a later Western construct; he was arguably less so than most of his foes. In fact, his reign was marked by religious tolerance, a ban on torture and kidnapping, and the creation of what may be the world’s first postal service. Born with the name Temujin, FTP, name this 13th century Mongol conqueror.

Answer: Genghis Khan (Accept “Temujin” before given)

9. In the summer of 2005, a man named Brian Jackson pretended to be this man at some local bars in an attempt to pick up women. Even though he redshirted his freshman year in college, he ended up becoming his team’s starting quarterback, eventually leading the Red Hawks to a No. 10 ranking and a win over Louisville in the GMAC Bowl before declaring his eligibility for the 2004 NFL Draft. Suffering a series of injuries after a motorcycle accident, FTP, name this Miami of Ohio alumnus who quarterbacked his Pittsburgh Steelers to a win in Super Bowl XL in 2006.

Answer: Ben Roethlisberger (roth-lis-BUR-ger)

10. His later work included a theory on the origins of cosmic radiation and a model for multiple pion production. Applying the new quantum mechanics to notable issues in atomic theory, he calculated the stopping power of matter for charged particles and did considerable research into beta decay. Observations of different reaction rates in the presence of paraffin ultimately won him a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear reactions by slow neutrons.  His greatest achievement was the creation of the first sustained nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago.  FTP, name the Italian physicist who helped to construct the world’s first nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project.

Answer: Enrico Fermi

11. Lesser villains in this novel include the Templars’ Grand Master, Lucas Beaumanoir ,and Waldemar Fitzurse, who survives but is banished. The doughty commoners Gurth and Wamba are among the relatively few good guys who first appear using their own names --unlike the Clerk of Copmanhurst, the Black Knight, the Palmer, and the Disinherited Knight, the last two both being the titular hero in disguise. Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert dies of his own “contending passions” when forced to fight against the champion of Rebecca the Jewess, knowing that if he wins, she will be executed. Melding the Robin Hood legend and the mythos of Richard the Lion-Hearted, FTP name this novel ostensibly about a disinherited Saxon knight, written by Sir Walter Scott.

Answer: Ivanhoe

12. Outflanked by two corps under John Sedgwick, who crossed below the town, Lee decided not to follow the book and retreat. Leaving a fairly small force under Jubal Early opposite Sedgwick, Lee instead moved toward the union center, then feinted along the line. Stonewall Jackson then outflanked and routed the surprised Union right; Hooker followed with another attempt by Sedgwick but never attacked with his much larger main force. Called Lee’s last great victory, FTP name this battle of May 1863 along the Rappahannock that proved costly to the Confederates with the death of Jackson.

Answer: Chancellorsville

13. More recently associated with Susan Haack and Richard Rorty, its origins are often tied to two journal articles, “The Fixation of Belief” and “How to Make Our Ideas Clear”, by Charles Sanders Peirce [PURSE]. Often associated with the rise of modern science, it considers that our conception of an object should be defined by our conception of its practical effects. FTP name this philosophy closely associated with radical empiricism, whose leading proponents included John Dewey and William James.

Answer: Pragmatism OR Pragmaticism [some say they aren’t identical, but that’s nitpicking]

14. In engineering, the term refers to any transducer device that converts energy into linear motion. A good example is in the starter relay of motor vehicles, where this object receives the small electric current from the ignition switch and relays the large electrical current from the battery to the starter motor. Of course, it is even more common in physics, where the equation B = μ0*N*I0  [read: B equals mu sub-zero times N times I sub-zero] models its magnetic field. FTP name this coil of wire designed to produce a uniform magnetic field in a certain volume of space when electricity is run through it.

Answer: Solenoid

15. This country has no natural lakes or rivers, so reservoirs and catch basins make up the nation's entire water supply.  A popular island resort off its southern coast, Sentosa, has seen recent development catering to high-end clientele.  Other popular attractions are Mount Faber, which was base to the first cable car system to span a harbor, and the Fountain of Wealth in Suntec City with its famous Botanical Gardens.  To access this country, visitors fly either into Changi International or ride a train across the Johor Strait.  In addition, visitors can stay at the famous Raffles Hotel, a popular resort named after the country's British founder.    For ten points, name this small country/city-state bordered only by Malaysia to its north.

Answer: Singapore

16. The Wagner Companies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, introduced a special line of unadorned aluminum poles with collapsible bases for this observance; according to the founder of the observance, aluminum was chosen for its “high strength-to-weight ratio.” It originated from the episode of Seinfeld called “The Strike”, in which Frank Costanza is said to have come up with the idea for it when he was buying a doll for his son. All those in attendance at the dinner participate in the “Airing of Grievances,” and at least two of them participate in the “Feats of Strength.” FTP, what is this holiday that would not end until the host is pinned to the floor, whose slogan promotes it as being “for the rest of us”?

Answer: Festivus

17. Although they are not usually widely known as such, the four sections that make up this larger work are tone poems, meant to be set to sonnets which may have been written by the composer himself. The first and fourth concertos have a largo movement sandwiched between allegros, while the second and third replace the largo with an adagio. FTP name this set of four concertos, labeled “L’estate,” “L’auttono,” “L’inverno,” and “La primavera,” the most famous work of Antonio Vivaldi.

Answer: “The Four Seasons”[sorry, but can’t accept “Spring” or “La Primavera” – see 1st clues]

18. A vaccine for this disease was introduced to the market by Merck and approved for use in 2006. If it spreads to the trigeminal nerve, it can cause conjunctivitis or even Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, which causes facial paralysis and deafness. The signs of this disease tend to occur on a single dermatome, creating a line of small and usually painful vesicles around the torso. For ten points, name this viral disease which usually occurs years after an outbreak of the chicken pox.

Answer: Herpes Zoster or Shingles (prompt on herpes; do NOT accept Varicella)

19. This man wrote home to his wife from Mexico to say that he didn’t feel disquieted at having shot his first man, but more akin to how he’d felt after having caught his first swordfish. Dismissed in 1945 as governor of Bavaria for perceived leniency toward former Nazis, his subsequent death in Heidelberg after a car crash gave a morbid twist to his nickname “Old Blood and Guts.” FTP, name this general, who turned back the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge but was widely denounced when he slapped a soldier suffering from shell-shock.

Answer: George Smith Patton, Jr.

20. Though many of the events in this book take place in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, summaries often describe it as set in the American South, as the most pivotal events take place in St. Louis and in Stamps, Arkansas. Arguably the most positive influence on the protagonist is Bertha Flowers, who helps her overcome her silence by having her read literature out loud. She had stopped speaking due to the guilt she felt over the death of Mr. Freeman, her mother’s boyfriend, who was killed after raping her when she was only eight. FTP name this book, the first of five autobiographical works by Maya Angelou.

Answer: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

21. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP what is the surface area of a cube with edge length 3 feet?

Answer: 54 square feet

22. Noted hyphenated-Americans born in this county included science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsbach and photographer Edward Steichen. With no navy or air force, this country’s military might lies squarely on shoulders of its approximately 800-man army. Despite its diminutive size, this country’s motto in English -- not one of its official languages -- is "We want to remain what we are." And why wouldn’t they? FTP name this country with the world’s highest per capita GDP, a small landlocked country bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany.

Answer: Luxembourg

BONI – ROUND 4                  DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Oh yes, by all means, tell us more on how to process blubber. FTPE name these characters from Moby Dick:

This narrator opens the book with a self-identification before going on to discourse upon the forces that periodically drive him to sea.

Answer: Ishmael

This harpooner, hailing from the South Sea Islands, is completely covered in tattoos, and allows the reader a brief glimpse into the homoerotic leanings of the author when this character and Ishmael inadvertently cuddle.

Answer: Queequeg

This First Mate of the Pequod, a Quaker, is the sole model of restraint on board the doomed vessel, urging Captain Ahab to abandon his jihad against the White Whale.

Answer: Starbuck

2. FTPE, name these modern primates.

This only great ape of Southeast Asia is split into Borneo and Sumatra subspecies. Its name is derived from a Malay and Indonesian phrase meaning “man of the forest.”

Answer: Orangutan

This large-eyed primitive small primate, forming the family Galagidae, is named for the cries it makes, which sound rather like those of a human child.

Answer: Bush baby

This close relative of the baboon is most interesting in its bright blue and red rump, and in being the largest species of monkey in the world.

Answer: Mandrill

3. FTPE, identify these ancient Greek cities from facts given.

This city built a famous set of Long Walls which were a major part of the militarism leading up to the Peloponnesian War. It founded and led the Delian League, another proximate cause of that war.

Answer: Athens

This city, renowned for its land forces and ascetic style of living, was a major rival of Athens, founding the Peloponnesian League to counter rising Athenian influence.

Answer: Sparta

This city, the most important of ancient Boeotia, was another major rival of Athens and allied with the invading Persians against its Greek adversary.

Answer: Thebes

4. Your genial quizmaster’s daughters, Ansley and Rebecca, are now ages 14 and 11. Mercifully, they don’t listen to Hannah Montana or the Jonas Brothers. Given an album one or the other received this past Christmas, plus a single from that album, name the recording artist or group FTPE:

[10] As I Am, featuring the single “No One”

Answer: Alicia Keys

[10] Riot! , featuring the single “Misery Business”

Answer: Paramore

[10] Them vs. You vs. Me, featuring the single “Paralyzed”

Answer: Finger Eleven

5. FTPE, name these Russian composers.

His repertoire included a ballet with dancing mice and another with dancing swans, as well as an orchestral overture which calls for real cannons. Pretty sweet, yeah?

Answer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

This composer wrote his first piece at five, having it written down by his mother. He carried on in this vein, writing children’s music that included Peter and the Wolf, as well as The Love for Three Oranges.

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev

This Russian composer was denounced for alleged formalism twice by the Soviet government, in 1936 and 1948, but channeled this oppression into such masterpieces as the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Answer: Dmitri Shostakovich

6. FTPE, answer these questions about a British author.

He was actually born in South Africa, but spent most of his life in Oxford, where he taught literature, studied philology, and wrote such fantasies as Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham.

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

This book begins with a description of the protagonist’s burrow, which has a green door with a brass doorknob. It is a quest novel which sees Bilbo Baggins leave his home, and return with the One Ring in his pocket.

Answer: The Hobbit

This Tolkien paper is a major work in the evolution of the study of Beowulf, progressing from an emphasis on language to an emphasis on the piece as a poem, not merely linguistic evidence.

Answer: “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”

7. FTPE, identify these three pariah states of South America from capitals.

1. Paramaribo

Answer: Suriname

2. Georgetown

Answer: Guyana

3. Cayenne

Answer: French Guiana [sorry, but do not prompt on Guiana – see above]

8. Give the rotational equivalent of each linear physical quantity FTPE

1. Mass

Answer: Moment of Inertia

2. Force

Answer: Torque

3. Linear Momentum

Answer: Angular Momentum

9. FTPE, identify this stuff from the Book of Judges.

In exchange for success against the Ammonites, he promised God to sacrifice as a burnt offering the first thing that came out to greet him when he returned home. Unfortunately, it was his daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines.

Answer: Jepthah

This manly man’s exploits included slaying a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass and using 300 foxes to burn down his enemies’ crops, but his love for the comely but treacherous Delilah proved his undoing.

Answer: Samson

The Israelites winnowed out 42,000 Ephraimites for killing based on their ability to pronounce this word. Today it has come to mean a common saying or belief without any real truth behind it.

Answer: Shibboleth [today, variant pronunciations are not only non-lethal, but acceptable]

10. FTPE, identify these American Revolutionary War battles.

British colonel Banastre Tarleton was soundly defeated by American general Daniel Morgan, who used the terrain and his troops’ knowledge of it to great effect, at this battle in South Carolina.

Answer: Battle of Cowpens

Though the battle would come to be known by a neighboring location, this hill overlooking Boston is where the Colonials actually built their defenses and (mostly) held their fire until the British were at point blank range.

Answer: Breed’s Hill

A regimental band famously played “The World Turned Upside Down” as British commander Lord Cornwallis delivered the British surrender here, effectively ending the war.

Answer: Siege of Yorktown

11. FTPE, identify these layers of the atmosphere from descriptions

a) The outermost and largest layer of the atmosphere, it extends from 700-10000 km above sea level.

Answer: Exosphere

b) The layer closest to the earth, it extends from 6-20 km above sea level. Its name comes from the Greek for “turning.”

Answer: Troposphere

c) Most meteors burn up in this layer, the 3rd closest to Earth.

Answer: Mesosphere

12. FTPE, name these Pablo Picasso paintings.

While Picasso refused to allow this work to be exhibited in Spain while Francisco Franco was in power, it now hangs in the Prado in Madrid, where such figures as the triangle-tongued horse and the woman holding her dead child can disturb millions of viewers each year.

Answer: Guernica

This work, painted in the middle of Picasso’s famed “Blue Period,” shows an aged musician hunched over his instrument.

Answer: The Old Guitarist

This piece incorporates cubist elements and Picasso’s fascination with African masks to create a rather unattractive picture of prostitutes.

Answer: Les demoiselles d’Avignon (Accept “The Young Ladies of Avignon” or equivalent.)

13. When the U.S. declares its intentions to bring democracy to the Middle East, you can bet someone will bring up the name Mohammed Mosadegh. FTPE:

Mossadegh was the popularly elected Prime Minister of this nation. His nationalization of the oil industry led the U.S. and the United Kingdom to sponsor a coup that removed him from power and replaced him with Reza Pahlavi.

Answer: Iran

Pahlavi held this monarchical title as he ruled Iran from the 1953 coup until he was overthrown in 1979.

Answer: Shah

This Shi’ite firebrand’s exit took him to Turkey and to Paris, but he spent most of his time in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, before returning to oversee the Islamic revolution that ousted the Shah in 1979.

Answer: Ayatollah Ruhollah Musawi Khomeini

14. You have ten seconds per part. FTPE evaluate these derivatives:

A. Derivative of tan x (read tangent of x)

Answer: sec^2 x ( read secant of x squared)

B. Derivative of e^(x^2) (read e to the x squared)

Answer: 2x e^(x^2) (read 2 x e to the x squared)

C. Derivative of absolute value of x

Answer: x / abs(x) (read x divided by the absolute value of x)

15. FTPE, answer the following about an author.

No One Writes to the Colonel and Autumn of the Patriarch are among the works of this Colombian Nobel Laureate.

Answer: Gabriel García Márquez [prompt on Garcia or Marquez]

This mammoth Garcia Marquez, which charts the madcap travails of six generations of the Buendía family, opens with a description of one character’s first encounter with ice.

Answer: One [or A] Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien Años de Soledad]

Published in 1985, this Garcia Marquez novel tells of the lovers Florentino and Fermina who reunite after a lifetime apart.

Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera [or El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera]

16. Identify the following historical figures who were assassinated. 10 points if you can identify them from the murder weapon, or 5 points if you need an additional clue

a)    (10) This man was killed by three point blank shots from the .38 calibre Italian Biretta of Nathuram Godse.

(5) The assassination took place in New Delhi in 1948.

Answer: (“Mahatma”) Mohandas Gandhi

b)   (10) Officially, the murder weapon was a M91/38 Fucile Corto, known in the U.S. as a Mannlicher Carcano. The Italian Army nicknamed it “the humanitarian rifle” because it never killed anyone on purpose.

(5) Some still doubt that the operator of the Carcano was Lee Harvey Oswald, or that he acted alone.

Answer: John F. Kennedy (accept just JFK; prompt on Kennedy)

c)   (10) This man was shot twice with a .44 caliber British Bull dog five-chambered revolver, but he lasted 2 1/2 months, only dying when he was moved to the Jersey Shore to recover, leading some to deem it the true murder weapon.

(5) Charles Guiteau was the assassin of this President, succeeded in office by Chester A. Arthur.

Answer: James A. Garfield

17. FTPE, name the Roman deities given a description.

A. Originally a god of agriculture, he later became the god of war for the Romans.

Answer: Mars

B. This goddess has a special temple in the Forum in which six priestesses watch over the eternal flame. For the Romans, she is considered the goddess of the hearth.

Answer: Vesta

C. This god has two faces because he is the god of beginnings and ends. His temple is opened during times of war and closed during times of peace.

Answer: Janus

18. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, Hollywood has produced a string of Middle Eastern-themed flops. FTPE:

Brian de Palma directed this 2006 dud about the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and her family by US Marines. The title is a bureaucratic euphemism for “censored.”

Answer: Redacted

Tom Cruise delivers the best performance of this preachy film as an enthusiastic neo-con version of John Edwards. Meryl Streep is a journalist and Robert Redford acts far better than he directs.

Answer: Lions for Lambs

In this 2007 film, Jamie Foxx plays an FBI special agent who teams with a Saudi colonel to track down whoever is responsible for the bombing of a Western housing compound in Riyadh.

Answer: The Kingdom

19. After being tried as an accomplice to Aaron Burr, Philip Nolan curses the United States and as a result is sentenced to live out his life in the US Navy, with no news from home. For ten points each

[10] This describes the plot of what patriotic short story?

Answer: The Man Without a Country [do not accept A Man Without a Country, which is a Kurt Vonnegut collection]

[10] Who wrote “The Man Without a Country”?

Answer: Edward Everett Hale

[10] "The Man Without a Country" was published in 1863 by the Atlantic Monthly, which the year before had published this woman’s poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Answer: Julia Ward Howe

20. FTPE, give the common name for these compounds, all derivatives of benzene rings. Do not use IUPAC names.

1. Benzene combined with a hydroxyl group

Answer: phenol

2. Benzene combined with a methyl group

Answer: toluene

3. Benzene combined with an amino group

Answer: aniline

21. FTPE, identify these works of economist John Maynard Keynes

a) Keynes only spent a few months writing it after returning from the Versailles conference. This work is both biting polemic and decent analysis of the effects of the treaty of Versailles for post-war Europe.

Answer: The Economic Consequences of the Peace

b) Keynes’ master theoretical work, it was a voice of some optimism for the future of capitalism amidst the Great Depression

Answer: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

NOTE: Accept just “General Theory” as that’s a commonly used shorthand, but don’t accept it with any other combination or order of the components except “Employment, Interest and Capital” – apparently one edition used that title.

c) This book details Keynes’ attempts to influence some of the great decision makers in Britain during the Great Depression to pursue a more active governmental role in the economy.

Answer: Essays in Persuasion

TOSSUPS – ROUND 5 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. A small pit at the superior end of this structure is called the fovea capitis, which allows for the connection of the ligamentum teres. At the distal end, there is the intercondylar fossa, which is the connection point for both the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments. Other structures unique to it are the linea aspira and the greater and lesser trochanters, the former of which is the insertion point of the gluteus minimus. FTP, identify this bone, the longest in the human body, which is found in the thigh.

Answer: Femur

2. This man swore that he would devote himself to God if he survived a thunderstorm. Although he initially supported the rebellion of the Swabian peasants, he wrote Against the Murderous and Thieving Hordes of Peasants. His followers, which included Philipp Melanchthon, believed that his relationship with Katharina von Bora represented an ideal form of marriage. In On the Will in Bondage, he attacked Erasmus’s views on the free will, but it was for a different act that he was excommunicated by Pope Leo X. FTP, what teacher at Wittenberg nailed his 95 theses to a door and started the Protestant Reformation?

Answer: Martin Luther

3. In the language of its native inhabitants, it is known as Nunatsiaq, which means “beautiful land.” Originally created as a formal administrative region, it originally comprised most of its present day country, and was until 1999 larger than the nation of India. The Mackenzie River runs through it and it contains the Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake. It is situated south of the Beaufort Sea and its highest point is Mount Nirvana near its border with Yukon. FTP, give the name of this area of Canada situated between the two territories Yukon and Nunavut, with its capital at Yellowknife.

Answer: Northwest Territory (or -ies)

4. The second most quoted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1828, where he joined the secret society called the Cambridge Apostles. His first publication, 1827’s Poems by Two Brothers, also featured work by his elder brother Charles. He held the position of Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death, and one of his most famous works deals with his best friend from college and his sister’s fiance, Arthur Hallem, who died from a cerebral hemorrhage before marrying. FTP, name this English poet best known for In Memoriam, “Ulysses” and “The Lady of Shallot”.

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

5. It was preceded by a game of cat-and-mouse that led to the West Indies and back, and then by the battle of Cape Finisterre; the victor there, Admiral Robert Calder, was court-martialed for his failure to pursue the enemy afterwards. The combined fleet returned to Cadiz, where they were blockaded by a fleet led by Cuthbert Collingwood. While the main British fleet waited some distance away, a line of frigates under Blackwood kept watch and were able to signal when Admiral Villeneuve tried to steer his fleet toward the Mediterranean. Commemorated by a well-known square in London which is home to Nelson’s Arch, FTP name this British naval victory during the Napoleonic Wars.

Answer: Trafalgar

6. This artist stated that “illness, insanity, and death” were always with him, and these pessimistic themes were reflected in paintings such as Anxiety, Melancholy, and Death in the Sick Room. Many of his paintings are part of the series The Frieze of Life, including The Sick Child, which was inspired by his sister's death from tuberculosis. In another painting by this artist, two figures are visible in the background on the left, while under a swirling red sky the central figure has his hands on the sides of his head, his mouth open in the titular action. FTP, name this Norwegian artist who painted The Scream. 

            Answer: Edvard Munch [pronounced moonck, but accept munch etc.]

7. The partial derivative of this quantity for a system with respect to pressure, at constant entropy, is equal to the volume of that system. This state function is the partial Legendre transform of the internal energy that replaces volume with pressure as an independent variable, and a system at constant entropy and pressure will minimize this quantity. The constant pressure heat capacity is the derivative of this quantity with respect to temperature. FTP name this quantity in thermodynamics, which is the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and temperature, and the change in this quantity determines whether a reaction is endothermic or exothermic.

Answer: enthalpy

8. This band sparked a minor controversy in 2007 when the announcement of a new North American tour beginning in September coincided with the removal of a former bass player from the old album artwork on their website. The original artwork was restored the next day, but the bass player himself was replaced by a guy named Wolfgang, the nephew of the band’s drummer. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, the only members in attendance were that ousted bassist, Michael Anthony, as well as a former lead singer. FTP, name this band which opened a reunion tour in Charlotte, with another former lead singer, David Lee Roth.

Answer: Van Halen

9. In 1960 this U.S. Navy veteran was hired as a technical writer for Boeing Aircraft, and that same year he published a collection of short stories entitled “Entropy”. His third appearance on The Simpsons—which, unlike the first two appearances, was a non-speaking cameo—occurred on November 19th, 2006, the Sunday before the publication of his most recent novel, Against the Day. His later works include Vineland and Mason & Dixon. FTP, name this North American writer better known for Gravity’s Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49.

Answer: Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.

10. Undeterred by a loss to Ralph Yarbrough in a 1964 race for the U.S. Senate, he defeated Frank Briscoe to become the GOP’s first U.S. Representative from the 7th district of Texas. After another failed Senate run, he chaired the Republican National Committee and the CIA before a bid for the Presidency in 1980, where a surprise win in the Iowa caucus helped secure the second spot on the ticket with Ronald Reagan,. Key foreign policy events of his own administration included the ouster of Panama’s Manuel Noriega and repulsion of an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, but a sagging economy and the savings and loan scandal led him to break a campaign promise of “no new taxes.” FTP name the 41st President of the U.S.

Answer: George H.W. Bush (Prompt on Bush and do not accept George W. Bush)

11. He is believed to be a blended successor to several gods, including the Etruscan Sethlans and the early Roman Mulciber as well as his better-known Greek antecedent. The father of Caeculus, his festival was celebrated on August 23 each year, when the summer heat placed crops and granaries most at risk of burning. On the eve of Aeneas’ battle with the Trojans, Venus brought Aeneas a suit of armor from this son of Jupiter and Juno. His smithy was believed to be situated underneath Mount Etna in Sicily, and his likeness graces the largest cast iron statue in the world in Birmingham, Alabama. FTP name this Roman god of volcanoes and fire.

Answer: Vulcan [do not accept Hephaestus, which is wrong from the get-go]

12. These components, along with dependent current sources, are used to represent bipolar junction transistors in the Ebers-Moll model. They are subject to avalanching, which actually contributes more to reverse breakdown than tunneling through depletion region via the Zener effect. Varieties include P-I-N and Alone, they can be used in half-wave rectifiers, due to the fact that current will only flow in one direction through them. For ten points, identify these nonlinear circuit components consisting of a single PN junction.

Answer: Diode

13. In one of this writer’s poems, he compares political slogans with empty barrels and declares that they “rattle in cups of beggary”. That poem, “Flowers for My Land” appears in the collection A Shuttle in the Crypt; it was inspired by the author’s political imprisonment, as was his memoir, entitled The Man Died. Better known as a playwright, in one early work he cynically celebrates his nation’s independence with a pageant of political corruption, while in another, a dictator, based on Nkrumah, creates a new holiday. Author of Kongi’s Harvest and A Dance of the Forests, as well as The Lion and the Jewel, this is, FTP, what Nigerian, the first black African to win the Nobel Prize in literature?

Answer: Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka

14. Born in Allabahad on the Ganges, he served as the municipal head of that city for two years starting in 1924. In 1928 he spoke out against a plan calling for home rule and Dominion status, even though it was prepared by his father. He reluctantly agreed to a plan by another resistance leader to give the British two years to grant dominion status, but succeeded in having the deadline dropped to one year. He believed in socialism but did not align his government with the Soviet Union. His highest position in government would be filled later by his daughter Indira and grandson Rajiv. FTP name this head of the Indian National Congress and first prime minister of India.

Answer: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

15. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP how many cubic feet big is a box of width 2 yards, depth 1 yard, and height 3 yards, remembering that there are 27 cubic feet in one cubic yard?

Answer: 162 cubic feet

16. One character compares the paintings of another to the works of Fuseli, and relates that the same character is fascinated by the Vigiliae Mortuorum Secundum Chorum Ecclesiae Maguntinae; other works in his library include several tracts on palmistry. The climax comes as the narrator is recounting The Mad Trist of Sir Launcelot Canning’s Ethelred, with the sounds of the knight’s battle with the dragon occurring in reality. The author’s poem The Haunted Palace is included in this work and attributed to the narrator’s host, who had invited the narrator in a letter detailing his strange malady. That host also has a twin, who suffers from a similar affliction, though hers leaves her in a state of catalepsy. In the end, that sister, Madeline, kills her brother Roderick after she was buried alive in, FTP, what story by Edgar Allan Poe?

Answer: “The Fall of the House of Usher”

17. The two units of its Imagination Station combined form the largest on-site child care facilities in Georgia.   Founded in 1955 by brothers John, Paul, and Bill Amos, it branched into the Southeast and developed “cluster selling” to groups and employers in the 1960’s. Formed into a holding company in 1973, it entered the Japanese market in 1974 and found success through sales of their cancer policies. FTP, name this Columbus, Georgia, based firm often sponsoring mid-game sports trivia questions and employing Gilbert Gottfried’s voice talents.

Answer: AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company), accept American Family Corporation

18. He received piano instruction at Pastor Wetzel’s school in Dresden, where he could not manage a proper scale but preferred playing theater overtures by ear. As music director of a traveling theater at age 22, he conducted his first opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni; at the age of 20 he composed his first complete opera Die Feen, or The Fairies. Some of his less-performed works include Das Liebesverbot, Rienzi, and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. FTP name this German composer of Tristan and Isolde, The Flying Dutchman, and The Ring of the Nibelung.

Answer: [Wilhelm] Richard Wagner

19. Their discovery in 1950 by Rene de Duve [doo-VAY], coupled with his later discovery of peroxisomes, helped earn Duve a share of a Nobel Prize in 1974. Rare genetic diseases related to their operation include Hurler syndrome, Gaucher’s disease, and Tay-Sachs disease. These cell organelles, which freely float through the cytoplasm, are constructed in the Golgi apparatus.  They operate by fusing with vacuoles and then dispensing their contents inside, thereby digesting the contents of the vacuole.  FTP, name these organelles, responsible for the destruction of dead or useless cell materials and the digestion of macromolecules by phagocytosis. 

Answer: lysosomes

 

20. In its aftermath, the state legislature debated a proposal by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, calling for the gradual abolition of slavery on grounds of public safety. Instead, the legislature chose to further limit freedom of movement and prohibit religious services without a white person present. One reason for its initial success was that most adult white males in the area were attending a nearby religious revival; almost all of the sixty white casualties were women and children. Organized by a preacher who saw visions of the heavens red with blood as black and white angels fought, FTP name this 1831 slave rebellion in Southampton Co., Virginia.

Answer: Nat Turner’s Rebellion

21. The name’s the same. It rises in Sumner County Tennessee just south of Portland, and flows generally West Northwest before emptying into the Cumberland near Clarksville. Elsewhere, it is formed by the confluence of the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers, it flows along the Minnesota-North Dakota Border, north to Lake Winnipeg. In New Zealand it is a minor river located on the North Island. Back in the U.S., FTP, it is also the name of a river formed by two branches in the Texas panhandle that forms the border between Texas and Oklahoma before traveling southeast through Louisiana to the Mississippi.

Answer: Red River

22. Attorney Sabu Thomas unsuccessfully sued to have the final chapter of this novel removed, due to its graphic depiction of sex acts across traditional social boundaries. This novel caused additional controversy in the state of Kerala; while the role of women seems confined from a Western perspective, women in Kerala are relatively free compared to most of India. It also showed the lingering effects of India’s caste system through characters such as Babu, Ammu, Sophie Mol, and Verutha Paapan. Centering on fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, FTP, name this Booker Prize winning novel written by Arundhati Roy.

Answer: The God of Small Things

23. Let A be an NxN square matrix. The linear transformation represented by A is both one-to-one and onto. Zero is not an eigenvalue of A. If x and b are N-vectors, the equation A x = b has at least one solution, and A x = 0 has only the trivial solution. The row-reduced form of A has N pivot positions, and the columns of A span N-space and are linearly independent. Connected to these properties by a namesake theorem, for ten points, what type of matrix is A if its determinant is not zero?

Answer: Invertible matrix (accept invertible matrix theorem before “theorem”)

BONI – ROUND 5 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. FTSNOP, given the capital city, name the nation.

(5) Lisbon

Answer: Portugal

(10) Tashkent

Answer: Uzbekistan

(5) Monrovia

Answer: Liberia

(10) Tegucigalpa

Answer: Honduras

2. Name these books from James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, FTPE:

(10) The first of the series chronologically, although the last to be published, in which Natty helps Chingachgook rescue his bride-to-be from the Iroquois at Lake Otsego.

Answer: The Deerslayer

(10) The third book of the series chronologically, which portrays fighting at Fort Oswego where a Scotsman betrays Hawkeye by selling his loyalty to the French.

Answer: The Pathfinder

(10) The last book of the series chronologically, in which Hawkeye uses his remaining skill and strength to defend the rights of some outcast settlers from Kentucky.

Answer: The Prairie

3. Paper and pencil may be helpful. Answer these circuit questions FTPE; you have 10 seconds per part.

(10) What is the total resistance when three 9 Ohm resistors are wired in parallel?

Answer: 3 Ohms

(10) What is the total resistance when three 9 Ohm resistors are wired in series?

Answer: 27 Ohms

(10) How much energy, in Joules, can be stored by two 5 microfarad capacitors in parallel when 500 volts are applied to them?

Answer: 1.25 Joules (E=CV2/2, where C is in Farads 5 x 10 -6)

4. For ten points each, answer the following about a military unit:

(10) Both the official name, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, and this more popular nickname were misnomers, as they effectively became infantry for their combat service in the Spanish-American War.

Answer: The Rough Riders

(10) The only Rough Rider who actually rode a horse was this former New York City Police Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who used the unit’s success at Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill as a springboard to elected office.

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

(10) Roosevelt was not the initial commander, but assumed command upon the promotion of this friend and co-organizer of the unit, who later served with distinction as military governor of Cuba. He is the namesake of a fort in Missouri.

Answer: Leonard Wood

5. FTPE, given a famous philosophical quote, tell me its originator:

[10] “Cogito, ergo sum” – or “I think, therefore I am.”

Answer: Rene Descartes

[10] “Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”

Answer: John Stuart Mill

[10] “Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6. Name these genetic disorders for 10 points each.

(10) Sometimes called 47,XXY syndrome, this condition is an aneuploidy of the X sex chromosome.

Answer: Klinefelter’s Syndrome

(10) This common birth defect is caused by a trisomy of chromosome 21.

Answer: Down Syndrome

(10) Also called le Jeune’s syndrome, this occurs when a piece is deleted from chromosome 5. Its distinctive sound stems from structural abnormalities of the larynx and development issues of the nervous system.

Answer: Cri du Chat Syndrome

7. FTPE answer the following about a noted 20th century American author:

(10) This reclusive author wrote several short works centering on the Glass family, among them Franny and Zooey.

Answer: Jerome David Salinger

(10) In this Salinger story, published in 1948, Seymour Glass commits suicide on his honeymoon in Florida.

Answer: “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”

(10) Salinger’s most popular work is this novel in which Holden Caulfield decries a world full of “phonies.”

Answer: The Catcher in the Rye

8. Identify these prophets from the Bible, for 10 points each.

(10) He called fire down from heaven on top of Mount Carmel.

Answer: Elijah

(10) His name is used to designate literary works that bemoan the sad state of a society and predict its imminent downfall. Tradition suggests that he wrote the Book of Lamentations as well as a namesake book of prophecy.

Answer: Jeremiah

(10) In this minor prophet’s namesake book, his marriage to the prostitute Gomer is a metaphorical representation of the Northern Kingdom’s decline and fall, since “the people of this land have acted like prostitutes and abandoned the Lord.”

Answer: Hosea

9. Given a short description, name the Beethoven symphony for ten points each.

[10] Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he composed this symphony, which concludes with the “Ode to Joy.”

Answer: Symphony No. 9 or Ninth or Choral

[10] This 1804 symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Answer: Symphony No. 3 or Third or Eroica

[10] This symphony is best explained by Beethoven’s note that “No one can love the country as much as I do. For surely woods, trees, and rocks produce the echo which man desires to hear.”

Answer: Symphony No. 6 or Sixth or Pastoral

10. FTPE answer the following about the electoral impact of slavery in mid-19th century America:

a) James G. Birney was the Presidential candidate of this anti-slavery party in 1840 and 1844.

Answer: Liberty Party

b) The Liberty Party combined with antislavery Whigs and the Democrats’ Barnburners faction to form this party which opposed the expansion of slavery in the West. Its nominees were Martin Van Buren in 1848 and John Hale in 1852.

Answer: Free Soil Party

c) The Free Soil Party was absorbed into the Republican Party by 1856. The first Republican nominee, this general appropriated the phrase “free soil” as part of his most recognizable campaign slogan.

Answer: John Charles Fremont

11. Answer the following about former Duke basketball players FTPE:

(10) This son of a Dallas Cowboys running back won a national title with the Blue Devils in 1992. After tremendous early success with the Pistons and several injury-plagued seasons with Orlando, he has made a comeback with the Suns.

Answer: Grant Hill

(10) This man played with Grant Hill on the 1992 national title team and was the only collegiate player on that year’s Olympic “Dream Team”, but had less pro success. He was Duke’s all time point leader until JJ Reddick surpassed him.

Answer: Christian Laettner

(10) This former Duke guard won a national title in 2001. He was drafted 2nd overall in the 2002 draft but a motorcycle wreck after his rookie season has all but ended his career.

Answer: Jason “Jay” Williams

12. Name these amino acids FTPE

(10) The simplest amino acid, it is not chiral. Claims that it has been found in the interstellar medium are unsubstantiated.

Answer: Glycine

(10) Sometimes abbreviated “F”, folks with PKU need to limit consumption of this amino acid.

Answer: Phenylalanine

(10) With a hydroxyphenyl side chain, this amino acid is the starting material for thyroid hormones and melatonin. It is sometimes abbreviated “Y” and its name is derived from the Greek for “cheese”.

Answer: Tyrosine

13. Given a rather dubious bit of advice from Shakespeare, name the pompous gasbag saying it FFPE, and name the play from whence it came for another five.

(5, 5) “This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man”

Answer: Polonius speaking in Hamlet

(5, 5) “The better part of valour is discretion”

Answer: Sir John Falstaff speaking in Henry IV, Part 1

(5, 5) “O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”

Answer: Iago speaking in Othello, the Moor of Venice

14. FTPE, given a Secretary General of the United Nations, name his predecessor:

(10) Dag Hammarskjold

Answer: Trygve Lie

(10) Javier Perez de Cuellar

Answer: Kurt Waldheim

(10) Kofi Annan

Answer: Boutros Boutros-Ghali [prompt on Ghali]

15. FTPE, identify these musical acts who aren’t afraid to bring their thoughts on religion into songs.

This band, known for songs ranging from “Drive My Car” to “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “Helter Skelter” and “Maxwell’s Hammer,” wrote “Sexy Sadie” about the recently-deceased Maharishi Mahesh.

Answer: The Beatles

This singer-songwriter now named Yusuf Islam has long been engaged with spiritual issues; his albums include Buddha and the Chocolate Box and A is for Allah. He’s better known for a hit song from Teaser and the Firecat, “Peace Train.”

Answer: Cat Stevens [if someone’s showing off, accept Steven Georgiou]

Before trashing her cheating boyfriend’s 4-wheel drive, she preached surrender to Christ in “Jesus Take the Wheel.”

Answer: Carrie Underwood

16. FTPE, given some things that occurred on a Greek island, name the island.

A. Daedalus designed the Labyrinth at the order of King Minos to contain the Minotaur.  

               Answer: Crete

B. Birth of Apollo and building of a treasury by its namesake league, meant to protect against the Persians.

               Answer: Delos [accept Dynthos; accept Delios but not Delia or Delian]

C. Birth of Pythagoras; rule of the tyrant Polycrates and his construction of Eupalinian aqueduct.

               Answer: Samos

17. The title character is referred to as “light of my life, fire of my loins” by the narrator. FTPE:

A. What novel, titled for the nickname of Dolores Haze, takes the form of “Confessions of a White Widowed Male?”

Answer: Lolita

B. This synesthetic lepidopterist and chess player wrote Lolita in English, unlike his earlier novels written in Russian.

Answer: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

C. This pervert, not Humbert Humbert, directs the play The Enchanted Hunter and later kidnaps Lolita from the hospital.

Answer: Clare Quilty (accept either name)

18. By the time November ’08 rolls around, we shall have heard quite enough about the executive branch of the government. For 10 points each, answer the following about the U.S. legislative branch.

The Congress and all but one state legislature are of this form, meaning “two chambers.”

Answer: bicameral

Of the pair of senators that represent a state, this is the nickname commonly used for the one who has served the shortest consecutive term.

Answer: junior

In the line of presidential succession, if the Vice President and Speaker of the House somehow cannot take office, this person does.

Answer: President pro tempore of the Senate (prompt on President pro tempore)

19. FTP name these early 20th century art movements

1) From the French for “wild beast”, this art movement which included Andre Derain and Henri Matisse was known for its bold colors and spontaneous approach.

Answer: Fauvism or Fauves

2) Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were members of this movement, which used fragmented images and often employed multiple viewpoints.

Answer: Cubism or Cubists

3) Began in Dresden in 1905, this art movement led by Fritz Bleyl and Ernst Kirchner was influential in the development of German expressionism.

Answer: Die Brucke or The Bridge

20. Using your knowledge of VSEPR (Vesper) theory, give the molecular geometries of the following, FTPE:

(10) Ammonia

Answer: Trigonal Pyramidal

(10) Sulfur tetrafluoride

Answer: See-Saw

(10) Iodine pentafluoride

Answer: Square pyramidal

21. Identify the following concerning the end of WWII, FTPE.

(10) Named after its pilot’s mother, this is the name given to the B-29 that dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima.

Answer: Enola Gay

(10) This is the name of the pilot and son of Enola Gay:

Answer: Paul Tibbets

(10) This is the name of the plane that dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki.

Answer: Bock’s Car

TOSSUPS – ROUND 6 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Monsieur Morrel awaits the arrival of his ship the Pharaon, and is surprised to see a new captain in charge on the deck. Monsieur Danglars, the purser, is angry at the new captain’s good fortune and accuses him of treason. Aided by Ferdinand Mondego, who covets the new captain’s fiancée Mercedes, Danglars accuses the captain of Bonapartist sympathies; he is convicted by Monsieur de Villefort, and is sentenced to the Chateau d’If. While imprisoned there, the Abbe Faria dispenses wisdom and provides a treasure map by which Edmond Dantes gets revenge on his enemies in, FTP, what work by Alexandre Dumas?

Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo

2. Uspallata Pass is near this mountain, which is relatively easy to climb compared to others of a similar height; in fact, it was recently climbed by Jordan Romero, an 11-year-old from California. The first recorded ascent was made in 1897 by a British expedition led by Matthias Zurbriggen. Claims made by a Chilean team in 1956 that the Chilean peak Ojos de Salado is actually 400 feet higher have not been substantiated, leaving this peak in Mendoza province as the accepted pinnacle of the Andes. FTP name this mountain in Argentina, the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer: Aconcagua

3. Garnierite and pentlandite are among the chief ores of this element, discovered by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt in 1751. Commonly used to color glass green, it can be used as a catalyst in the hydrogenation of oils. It can be isolated through the Mond process, and large amounts of it are concentrated in the Earth’s core. Often combined in alloys with iron and copper, FTP, what is this ferromagnetic metal with atomic number 28 and symbol Ni?

Answer: Nickel

4. He served with distinction during World War II before earning a degree in Business Administration from Alcorn State. After a short time as an insurance salesman, he unsuccessfully applied for admission to the law school at the University of Mississippi. He worked in the Regional Council of Negro Leadership with his brother Charles, who in 1969 became the first African-American mayor of a racially mixed Southern town since Reconstruction. Fatally shot outside of his home on June 13, 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, for ten points, name this leader of the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi.

Answer: Medgar Evers

5. A foundation dedicated to preserving organic seeds for biodiversity is named for him, a reflection of his role as protector of agriculture. With a name roughly meaning “wooden-backed”, this deity is more associated as the overseer of childbirth and the reproduction of game animals such as deer. The influence of Spanish missionaries led to de-emphasis of his once-obvious phallus; scholars debate whether another prominent feature is a substitute phallic image, and/or actually his nose, and/or a pipe for smoking in sacred ceremonies, and/or a musical instrument. Of less dispute is the humpback in which he carries unborn children on his back, giving them to women. FTP name this trickster deity of the American southwest.

Answer: Kokopelli

6. Tom Lehrer added an extra verse to his song “That’s Mathematics” in honor of the man who proved this theorem, but Marilyn vos Savant attacked the proof for its use of hyperbolic geometry, though this statement was later retracted. The proof, given by Andrew Wiles, also heavily relied on elliptic curves. It states that the equation a to the n plus b to the n equals c to the n has no solutions where a, b, c, and n are all integers and n is greater than 2. For ten points, name this theorem, written down in a margin in the mid 1600’s and unproven until 1995.

Answer: Fermat’s Last Theorem [accept Andrew Wiles before “proved this theorem”]

7. Arguably the most famous line from this poem was quoted by Killface in the first episode of Adult Swim’s Frisky Dingo. A poem of the same name, written by Horace Smith, was published in the Examiner, though the two had different rhyme schemes; the more familiar one broke from the Petrarchan form by interlinking the octave and the sestet. Both poems, however, ask the reader to ponder the remnants of a statue located somewhere in Egypt. Describing a “sneer of cold command”, for ten points, name this sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley with the line, “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”

Answer: Ozymandias

8. Jazz works by this composer include the Preludium for Jazz Band  and the Ebony Concerto for clarinet and jazz band. He also experimented with the twelve-tone technique in such works as Canticum Sacrum and the ballet Agon. His neo-classical phase resulted in the Symphony of Psalms and a ballet based on the art of William Hogarth, The Rake's Progess. Some of this composer's most well-known works were commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev; one is about a magical bird and the other drew boos and catcalls at its premier. FTP name this composer, perhaps most famous for the ballets The Rite of Spring and The Firebird.

            Answer: Igor Stravinsky

9. In cephalopods, this structure is derived from the external ectoderm, and processes stimuli directly as the first step in the process of the organ that contains it. In vertebrates, the stimuli must pass through blood vessels and glial cells before reaching the photoreceptors embedded in this structure’s inner surface, such as rods and cones. This part of the eye contains nervous tissue and a pigmented epithelium, which contains vitamin A. When images are seen directly, they focus in this layer at an indentation called the fovea centralis before being sent to the brain. FTP, name the innermost tunic of the eye.

Answer: retina

10. The dispute originated in a New York Court of Chancery, and its ultimate resolution rested on interpretation of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Attorneys for the defendant, himself a former U.S. senator, included former New York Attorney General Thomas Oakley and exiled Irish nationalist Thomas Emmet. The plaintiff had been given a federal coasting license in a 1793 act of Congress, while the defendant later got a license by Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston who had acquired a monopoly on steamboat operation from the state legislature of New York. Plaintiff’s attorneys William Wirt and Daniel Webster argued that the Constitution gave Congress, and not the states, exclusive authority to regulate interstate commerce. FTP name this landmark 1824 Supreme Court case.

Answer: Gibbons v. Ogden

11. He found the sport of football while in a depression, due to his father dying of cancer and his mother being severely injured in an auto accident. He acquired the nickname “Sugar Foot” shortly after the 2002 CaliFlorida Bowl, in which he returned a kickoff for a Miami Hurricanes touchdown. Other nicknames he has acquired have been “Anytime” and “The Windy City Flyer.” For ten points, name this special teams dynamo for the Chicago Bears who broke his own record for touchdowns on special teams in a season with 6 in 2007.

Answer: Devin Hester

12. His accomplishments include concluding an “Eternal Peace” with Khosrow I, while his mistakes include replacing his best general with the eunuch Narses. Although this man’s marriage with his wife, a prostitute and dancer, would have been prohibited by law, he had his predecessor Justin I change it for him. When some rebels attempted to place Hypatius on the throne, that woman urged him to fight, saying “royalty is a fine burial shroud.” In addition to using Belisarius to conquer much of the Mediterranean and creating his name sake Code, FTP, what “Great” Byzantine commissioned the Hagia Sophia?

Answer: Justinian I or Justinian the Great (before it’s mentioned)

13. In the final act of this play, one of the characters describes how a person died in an automobile accident when attempting to avoid a porcupine. Three characters are affiliated with the fictional New Carthage University. This play consists of three acts, titled “Fun and Games,” “Walpurgisnacht,” and “The Exorcism,” and four characters -- the younger couple Nick and Honey and the older George and Martha. For ten points, name this Edward Albee play with only a tangential connection to the titular British author.

Answer: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

14. This rector of Lutterworth lost the patronage of John of Gaunt when he partially challenged the doctrine of transubstantiation, arguing that Christ was present in the bread and not instead of it. He wrote A Treatise of Civil Dominion, but the more famous work associated with his name was more the work of Nicholas Hereford and John Purvey, among others. Over 40 years after his death, his remains were dug up to be burned for heresy. He feuded with Pope Gregory XI, and he strongly influenced the Moravian reformer Jan Hus. FTP name this theologian, a leader of the Lollards best remembered as a translator of the Bible into English.

Answer: John Wycliffe

15. In the 1920’s, Dayton C. Miller, a former colleague of one of its namesakes, claimed that he had disproved the findings of this experiment. Other detractors posited that the experiment was incorrectly conducted by not placing the main apparatus in a transparent container at a high altitude. However, more precise modern versions by Townes, Trimmer, and others have validated the results of the original, which was intended to determine the speed of the earth by deflecting light. Using what we would now call an interferometer, FTP name this 1887 experiment which ultimately disproved the existence of the luminiferous aether.

Answer: Michelson-Morley Experiment

16. Even though he was trained in a seminary in his young adult life, in his political career he became a harsh critic of the Catholic Church. He was governor of the state of Oaxaca [woe-HAH-cah] from 1847 to 1853 before his first period in exile, much of it spent in working in a New Orleans cigar factory. He returned to serve as Minister of Justice and then de facto vice president; later, in his highest office, one of his first moves was to suspend payment of foreign debts for two years, which led to an attempted conquest of his nation by France. For ten points, name this man responsible for restoring the Republic of Mexico, its five-term president between 1858 to 1872, also the namesake of the city across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Answer: Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia

17. It is learned later in this novel that Glints, after falling into a barrel while giving a speech, was shot by Pamphil, who later kills his family with an ax. In another scene, this work’s title character saves a man he had shot, Seroizha, by switching his clothes with those of a nearby corpse. That title character spends his final years with Marina, his de facto wife, before he dies the day that he is to take a job secured by his half-brother, Yevgraf. Before that, the title character flees with his family to Varykino, but he is captured by partisans before returning there to his true love, who leaves with Kommarovsky for Vladivostok. FTP, name this novel, about the title character’s affair with Lara, the magnum opus of Boris Pasternak.

Answer: Dr. Zhivago

18. Her earliest works were completed after studying the paintings of Velazquez and Titian and show a distinctive Spanish theme in such works as Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla and the Toreador. She may be better known for her works after 1877, the year in which she met Edgar Degas and the year she joined the impressionist school. These works show a fascination with women and children—ironic since she had no children of her own. For ten points, name this American painter best known for The Child’s Caress and The Tub.

Answer: Mary Cassatt

19. This company has opened a second facility in Mt. Carroll, IL, and is trying to open a third in California, but is still headquartered in Moyock, North Carolina. Its co-founder and owner is Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL. Author Jeremy Scahill has likened it to a modern-day Praetorian Guard. On the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp it maintains the world’s largest military tactical training facility, but it was largely unknown until the killing of 17 civilians in Baghdad during the Iraq War on September 16th, 2007, at least 14 of them without cause. FTP name this largest of the U.S. State Department’s three private security contractors.

Answer: Blackwater Worldwide

20. They were called Ora by the native population and are also known as buaja darat. Despite their size, they can climb trees, and younger ones often live there – perhaps because they are cannibalistic and make up 10% of each other’s diet. Less than 6,000 of them remain in the world, all of which are found on the islands of Padar, Gili, Montang, Rinca, Flores, or their namesake island. First discovered by Westerners in the early 20th century, they eat a large variety of carrion, often well after they have killed their prey and waited until various bacteria in their saliva cause a deadly septicemia. For ten points, name this member of the monitor family, the largest lizard in the world.

Answer: Komodo Dragon

21. This man’s doctoral thesis was entitled "On the spinal cord of lower fish species"; he also conducted unsuccessful research on the reproductive organs of eels. He intended to specialize in neurology upon completion of his degree, but the influence of mentors such as Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke and Josef Breuer led him towards the study of nervous disorders and brain disorders. Breuer's use of hypnosis with his famous patient Anna O led this man to study hysterics and hypnosis further, and eventually led him to investigate "the talking cure" that would form the foundation of his theories. FTP, who was this author of The Interpretation of Dreams and father of psychoanalysis?

Answer: Sigmund Freud

22. First observed in August 1989 by Voyager 2, it is about the size of the Earth itself. The fastest winds in the solar system were found swirling around it, at a speed of nearly 1500 miles per hour, and it had a southern counterpart much smaller than the one found near the center of the planet. It apparently disappeared in 1994 in a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, but a nearly identical one was seen to the north. FTP name this indentation in the atmosphere of Neptune, thought to be analogous to the hole in Earth’s ozone layer, which causes storms on the planet.

Answer: The Great Dark Spot

23. Aunt Ester appears in several of them, living to be well over 300. The first and last in chronological order were also the last two to be published, The Gem of the Ocean is set in 1904, and Radio Golf is set in the Nineties. Although Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is actually set in Chicago, they are collectively referred to by a name referencing the author’s home town where most of them were set. Two earlier installments won Pulitzer prizes: Fences and The Piano Lesson. FTP, name this series of 10 plays by August Wilson.

Answer: The Pittsburgh Cycle (accept the Century Cycle before ‘name…town’ is said in the question)

BONI – ROUND 6 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Answer the following about an author for ten points each.

[10] The anecdotal tales in his collection Just So Stories include “How the Camel got his Hump” and “How the Leopard got his Spots.” His other works include the poem “Boots” and the novel The Man Who Would Be King.

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

[10] The title character of this Kipling novel is “a poor White, the poorest of the poor” who travels with a Lama during the time of the Great Game.

Answer: Kim

[10] In this poem, a lowly water carrier saves the life of a British soldier who declares, “You’re a better man than I am.”

Answer: “Gunga Din”

2. Name some Egyptian deities given a description for ten points each.

[10] This hawk-headed god always looked like a pharaoh, which is probably why many associated themselves with him.

Answer: Horus

[10] According to the mythos, this ibis-headed deity was also the god of wisdom.

Answer: Thoth

[10] This lover of the sky goddess Nut was himself the god of the earth.

Answer: Geb

3. We just can’t get enough gas law questions. Given the equation, name the law FTPE:

[10] P total equals pressure of first gas plus pressure of second gas, etc.

Answer: Dalton’s law of Partial Pressures

[10] Rate of effusion of the first gas divided by the rate of effusion of the second gas equals the square root of the molar mass of the second gas divided by the molar mass of the first.

Answer: Graham’s Law

[10] Absolute pressure times the volume of the vessel equals the amount of substance in gas multiplied by a constant R multiplied by the absolute temperature.

Answer: Ideal Gas Law

4. FTPE, identify these battles of the American Civil War.

A. This September, 1862 battle in Maryland is remembered as the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.

Answer: Battle of Antietam

B. General Lee’s forces decimated General Burnside’s Union forces in this December, 1862 battle in Virginia. After this battle the Union abandoned their campaign to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond.

Answer: Battle of Fredericksburg

C. General Grant besieged the Confederate forces under the command of General Pemberton in Mississippi. Eventually the Confederate forces surrendered and the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after this battle.

Answer: Battle of Vicksburg

 

5. So far, three performers have won Academy Awards for acting in two different centuries. Name these winners from their first Oscar-winning film FTPE, or from their 21st century win for 5 points:

[10] Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989)

[5] Best Actor for Training Day (2001)

Answer: Denzel Washington

[10] Best Actress for Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

[5] Best Actress for Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Answer: Hilary Swank

[10] Best Actor for My Left Foot (1989)

[5] Best Actor for There Will Be Blood (2007)

Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis [prompt on Lewis, he’s got a two-part surname]

6. It’s better than their cooking. FTPE name these British artists from works.

Robert Andrews and Mary his Wife, Blue Boy

Answer: Thomas Gainsborough

Wreck of a Transport Ship, Calais Pier, Rain Steam and Speed,

Answer: J. M. W. Turner

Harlot's Progress, Marriage a la Mode

Answer: William Hogarth

7. FTP each, name these methods of reproduction found in the animal kingdom.

A. This type of sexual reproduction involves species whose members have both male and female sex organs. In the simultaneous form, such as in earthworms, an organism possesses both types of sex organs at the same time.

Answer: hermaphroditism [accept forms]

B. This type of asexual reproduction occurs when a new organism begins as a protrusion of another organism that eventually separates. Animals capable of it include sponges and hydras.

Answer: budding

C. This asexual form of reproduction involves the development of an embryo in a female without fertilization by the male. It differs from hermaphroditism because the individuals that practice it go through life with only one set of sex organs. An example of this is seen in the all-female species of whiptail lizards.

Answer: parthenogenesis

8. In 1893, one year after Homer Plessy had a similar issue in Louisiana, this man was refused passage on a train due to the color of his skin – only this train was heading from Durban to Johannesburg. FTPE:

[10] Name this attorney-at-law who decided to remain in South Africa to lobby for rights and freedoms on behalf of ethnic Indians like himself who lived there.

Answer: Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi

[10] After returning to his native India, Gandhi and his followers made a 400 kilometer trek to the sea city of Dandi from March to April, 1930, commonly given this name.

Answer: The Salt March or Salt Satyagraha

[10] This World War II hero made a meeting with Gandhi one of his first acts upon his 1947 arrival in India as the last British Viceroy.

Answer: Lord Louis Mountbatten

9. Given a description, name the play by Henrik Ibsen for ten points each.

[10] This manipulative title character is able to convince the poor Eilert Løvborg to commit suicide after she burns his manuscript. After she’s found out and put into a pickle of her own, she shoots herself, too.

Answer: Hedda Gabler

[10] This fantastical play has roles for witches, a voice in the darkness, and the Sphinx. It may be known best for Edvard Grieg’s incidental music, which includes Ase’s Death and In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Answer: Peer Gynt

[10] This play focuses on the idealist Gregers Werle who returns to his home town, screws with a local family that is keeping secrets from each other, and basically destroys the family he was trying to save.

Answer: The Wild Duck or Vildanden

10. He delivered the oration On the Crown, and was known for talking with pebbles in his mouth. FTPE:

[10] Name this ancient Greek orator best known for his verbal assault on a 4th century BCE European king.

Answer: Demosthenes

[10] This is the title by which we know the aforementioned Demosthenes oration. Your genial quizmaster questions Demosthenes’ motivations in calling for war, since he was the son of a wealthy sword maker.

Answer: Philippics

[10] Philip II, the target of the oration, was the father of Alexander the Great and ruler of this kingdom that shares its name with a modern day country with capital at Skopje.

Answer: Macedonia or Macedonian or Macedon

 

11. Name these computer languages for ten points each.

[10] This language was invented by Donald Knuth and is known for its excellent typesetting of mathematical formulae.

Answer: TeX (pronounced TEK)

[10]: This is the first high level programming language, and the 1977 version of it is still in use today.

Answer: FORTRAN

[10]: This language was used to write UNIX.

Answer: C [with no pluses]

12. It is set on the island of Pianosa, which does exist but is much smaller than the novel implies. FTPE:

A. Name this novel, which includes the characters Clevenger, McWatt, Doc Daneeka, and Pfc. Wintergreen.

         Answer: Catch-22

B. This 28-year-old B-25 pilot serves as the main character of Catch-22 as well as its sequel, Closing Time.

         Answer: John Yossarian

C. This character’s mother dies when she discovers his real first name is not Caleb, but the same as his middle and last names as well as his eventual rank.

         Answer: (Major) Major Major Major [Accept either first or last name. Sorry, it had to be said.]

13. You think that this year’s roster of candidates for President of the United States is bad? FTPE:

[10] He may have been great as the Governor of Massachusetts, but he was a public relations eyesore, especially when he appeared at a General Dynamics plant in an Abrams tank and a comically oversized helmet.

Answer: Michael Dukakis

[10] All you really have to know about this man is that he lost three times, in 1896, 1900, and 1908. No “Cross of Gold” or help from above could help him win an election.

Answer: William Jennings Bryan

[10] He only won ONE state in the 1972 election, plus Washington, D.C., netting only 17 electoral votes and failing to carry his home state, South Dakota. I guess he got the last laugh, because Nixon resigned two years later.

Answer: George McGovern

14. Answer these questions about objects that can be found in the Messier Catalog for ten points each.

[10] Listed as M1, it is a supernova remnant found 6,300 light years away in the constellation Taurus.

Answer: Crab Nebula

[10] Also found in the Taurus is M45 in the catalog, an open star cluster a mere 400 light years away. Its nickname “the Seven Sisters” is misleading, as fourteen of its 1000-plus stars can be detected with the naked eye.

Answer: Pleiades

[10] Listed as M104 in the catalog, it is a spiral galaxy found 50 million light years away in the Virgo constellation. Answer: Sombrero Galaxy

15. It’s time to honor one of the greatest voice actors since Mel Blanc: Billy West. FTPE:

[10] West voiced Fry, Prof. Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan on this exceptional Fox comedy.

Answer: Futurama

[10] West made his reputation in part voicing Mr. Horse along with the title characters of this member of the original Nicktoons lineup, created by Jon Kricfalusi.

Answer: The Ren and Stimpy Show

[10] Along with voicing Ren and Stimpy, he voiced Doug on the show of the same name along with this punk rival of his. When Disney took over, we found out he was actually rich.

Answer: Roger Klotz (accept either)

16. Don’t go chasing waterfalls; all you have to do is name the following ones given descriptions for ten points each.

[10] This large waterfall is located on the Zambezi River, and shares its name with the largest lake in Africa.

Answer: Victoria Falls

[10] Known in the indigenous language as Parekupa-meru, this is the name we use for the world’s highest freshwater waterfall, located in Venezuela’s Canaima National Park

Answer: Angel Falls

[10] These falls are located on a namesake creek in southeastern Minneapolis. They share their name with a character from Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha.

Answer: Minnehaha Falls

17. Consider the equation e=mc2. FTPE:

1. What does the ‘c’ in that equation stand for?

Answer: the speed of light or celeritas

2. To the nearest 10 million, how many meters per second is the speed of light?

Answer: 300 million

3. Albert Einstein proposed the equation e=mc2 in 1905, a year where he also explained what effect where electrons are emitted after light hits an object?

Answer: photoelectric effect

18. FTPE name these Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov works from descriptions:

(10) This opera, which shows Rimsky-Korsakov’s fascination with the exotic, includes “The Sea and Sindbad’s Ships.”

Answer: Scheherezade

(10) Perhaps his most familiar work is this passage from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, in which the titular nobleman transforms himself into an insect in order to sting his wicked aunts.

Answer: “The Flight of the Bumblebee”

(10) Censors blocked the premiere of this Pushkin-based work about an astrologer and his magic bird because there were too many similarities between the gluttonous King Dodon and the current Tsar.

Answer: The Golden Cockerel or Le Coq d’Or

19. Name these authors from north of the border for ten points each.

[10] This author’s novel The Penelopiad draws upon Homer’s The Odyssey; other protagonists include Marian McAlpin in The Edible Woman and Offred [of-FRED] in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Answer: Margaret Eleanor Atwood

[10] This Jewish author, associated more with Chicago than his native Quebec, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. His novels include Henderson: The Rain King, Herzog, and Humboldt’s Gift.

Answer: Saul or Solomon Bellow

[10] This author used her native Prince Edward Island as the setting for Anne of Green Gables and its sequels.

Answer: L.M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

20. One of the simplest ways to take power in a monarchical society is to eliminate the competition, and the English are some of the best in the business. Name these people that figured this out for ten points each.

[10] Though he was a good little brother under the reign of Edward IV, he killed his nephews Edward V and his brother of the same name after his brother died to claim the throne in 1483.

Answer: Richard III (prompt on Richard)

[10] Edward IV himself was in a tussle for the throne with this king, whom he deposed twice. He never had a chance for a third try because Richard III presumably killed him, too, while he was residing in the Tower of London.

Answer: Henry VI (prompt on Henry)

[10] Mary I made sure she would be Queen when she had this person killed after less than two weeks on the throne.

Answer: Lady Jane Grey

21. Given Western works, name the author for ten points each.

[10] The Quick and the Dead, Silver Canyon, Last of the Breed

Answer: Louis L’Amour

[10] Riders of the Purple Sage, The Day of the Beast, The Thundering Herd

Answer: Zane Grey

[10] Lady Baltimore, Old Yellowstone Days, The Virginian

Answer: Owen Wister

TOSSUPS – ROUND 7 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. This group is split between two principal factions—the Twelvers and the Seveners – with offshoots such as the Zaydis. A major observance, on the tenth day of Muharram, commemorates a pivotal martyrdom at Karbala. Both believe in the infallibility of the Imams who have passed on their absolute authority to the mujtahids or ayatollahs. This sect rejects the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman as they believe Ali was the rightful successor to Muhammed. Accounting for 10% to 15% of Muslims worldwide, for ten points, name this branch of Islam that is the majority faith in Iran and Iraq.

Answer: Shiism or Shi’a or Shiite(s)

 

2. When reacted with benzoapyrene, this compound produces a 4,5-oxide of BaP, which tests very highly for mutagenicity in the Ames test. The Leighton relation describes its role in the photostationary state of NOx [N O sub-X], while the Chapman reactions describe its steady state concentration. Like other trace constituents, differential absorption lidar can be used in measuring this compound’s concentration, which is measured by a unit equal to 2.687×1016 molecules/cm2, the Dobson unit. Due to polar vortexing, this compound is often broken down at the onset of the Antarctic spring after reacting with halocarbons and CFCs. Found in its largest concentrations in the stratosphere, this is, FTP, what triatomic molecule important for blocking UV-B radiation?

Answer: Ozone or O3

3. A quote by this man, in his original language, prefaces Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie. He was most known during his lifetime for his magazine work, which included criticism and a society column in Le Mensuel, and for a series of literary parodies in Le Figaro titled “L’Affaire Lemoine.” FTP, name this French author of a seven-part magnum opus variously titled In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past, and who gets a shout-out from Frank Ginsberg in Little Miss Sunshine.

Answer: Marcel Proust

4. It began in 1989 as a pilot program funded by Christopher Whittle and expanded nationally under an equipment leasing agreement with clients, although none in New York due to Board of Regents policy. While serving as a springboard for Serena Altschul, Lisa Ling, and Anderson Cooper, and being the recipient of a grant from the Knight Foundation, critics have questioned its reliance on commercial sponsorships and policies requiring viewing. FTP, name this broadcast service that offers daily newscasts for the middle-school and high-school set.

Answer: Channel One Television

5. On the night before, State Commissioner Kahr, General Lossow, and Police Chief Seisser were captured and told that they were to cooperate in a newly formed government. Meanwhile, Ernst Rohm had seized the War Ministry and General Ludendorff was being brought in to lead the march on Munich set for the next day. Unfortunately, General Lossow had ordered the Bavarian Army to crush the advance, and the march that started at the Burgerbraukeller came to a screeching halt when the Army fired on the bands of Nazi Stormtroopers. This describes, for ten points, what November 1923 event in which Adolf Hitler attempted to overthrow the Weimar regime but instead landed in prison?

Answer: Beer Hall Putsch; accept Munich Putsch even though that’s not as much fun

6. Stephen King’s 1995 short story “The Man in the Black Suit” is loosely based on this 19th century work. The protagonist ventures off one night to meet a man to go to a meeting, and as the story continues, the protagonist finds himself becoming more and more fearful of taking part in it. When he arrives, he finds that his wife and others that he thought to be righteous are also taking part in this meeting. From that point on, the protagonist becomes highly cynical of those around him, including his own wife. For ten points, name this 1835 Nathaniel Hawthorne work that is thought to be a criticism of Puritan doctrine.

Answer: Young Goodman Brown

7. This man once appeared on an episode of I’ve Got a Secret, where he performed his piece Water Walk that he composed specifically for television. Born in 1912, one of his most important contributions to music was his invention of what he called the “prepared piano”, a set-up where various objects were placed on the strings or hammers of the instrument. Gaining much acclaim for his Sonatas and Interludes, for ten points, name this avant-garde composer whose most controversial work may be his sonata 4’33” (four minutes thirty-three seconds).

Answer: John Cage

8. They may produce three-pronged Feynman graphs, because the SU(3) gauge theory they mediate is non-Abelian. During the first 10 microseconds following the Big Bang, it is hypothesized that these particles existed in a plasma with quarks and they may form exotic mesons consisting solely of themselves, known as their namesake “balls”. These vector gauge bosons come in eight varieties, have spin 1, and are “bichromic”, having a charge and an anti-charge. Mediators of the so-called “color charge” as well as the strong force, these are, FTP, what subatomic particles responsible for quark interaction and named for causing protons and neutrons to “stick” together?

Answer: Gluons

9. Arrested at an early age along with William Meade, he was denied the right to see a copy of the charges against him, and when the jury overrode the judge’s obvious wishes and returned a not guilty verdict, both he and the jury who acquitted him were put in prison by the Lord Mayor of London. While still in England in 1677, he drafted for a colonial settlement in America a charter of liberties that guaranteed free and fair trial by jury, freedom of religion, freedom from unjust imprisonment, and free elections. He was later granted a large plot of land by King Charles and used the land to establish such a colony in the New World. For ten points, name this champion of democratic ideals whose namesake colony served as a haven for outsiders of all types.

Answer: William Penn

10. Population changes and expected future prices have a positive effect on this, while changes in income can have either a positive or negative effect. Veblen and Giffen goods theoretically break the concepts behind it. A fall in this will result in a decline in both the price and production levels of a good, and its curve generally slopes downward because as price falls, people will buy more of a good. For ten points, name this side of the economy which followers of Keynes believe can be controlled by government spending.

Answer: Demand (Accept demand curve, demand side, etc.)

11. People involved in this incident include Colin Campbell, Henry Havelock, and Henry Lawrence, and William Hodson shot the sons of the emperor. The root causes were tensions caused by the land policies of Dalhousie and Canning and edicts that abrogated traditional dynastic successions. It started in Meerut, but was precipitated by a weapon made in the English city of Enfield. Erupting over the use of cartridges covered in grease with animals sacred to both Muslims and Hindus, for ten points, name this 1857 uprising in India.

Answer: Sepoy Rebellion or Uprising or Conflict, or Indian Mutiny

12. During this event a checkpoint occurs, which causes the inhibition of a complex of proteins known as APC if there are improperly attached kinetochores. The kinetochores of sister chromatids face opposite poles, and each are attached to a microtubule. During this phase, the nuclear membrane disappears completely, the spindle attaches to the centromeres, and the condensed chromosomes align along a line which is midway between the centrosome poles. FTP identify this stage of mitosis which immediately precedes anaphase.

Answer: metaphase

13. In this work, a woman experiences the earth move under her when she is returning from a cave of a warlord with the protagonist. From time to time, the protagonist reminisces about his father's suicide, settling down in Montana, and the Russian General Golz who ordered him on a mission that guaranteed his death. Anselmo meets the protagonist at the beginning of the novel and guides him to Pablo's camp to deposit crates of dynamite. Pilar recounts a gruesome mass-slaughtering she saw in her native village, and Pablo provokes the ire of the protagonist by repeatedly expressing cynicism. Robert Jordan is asked to blow up a fascist-held bridge in, FTP, what 1940 novel about the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway?

Answer: For Whom the Bell Tolls

14. This artist designed the set for the 1949 Burgess Meredith-directed Happy as Larry, and after working in Paris, joined the group Abstraction-Création. An interest with the circus can be seen in paintings like Trapeze Artist, and Fireman’s Dinner was painted for Constantin Brancusi. This artist’s largest work was built for Azteca Stadium, El Sol Rojo, while protest of Franco’s siege of Almadén was seen in Mercury Fountain, which appeared with Guernica at the 1937 World’s Fair. One of his most famous pieces is found in Chicago, Flamingo, and another was commissioned for the MoMA’s stairwell, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail. Jean Arp and Marcel Duchamp named for, FTP, what artist’s sculptures, the stabile and the mobile?

Answer: Alexander Calder

15. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP factor x squared plus 5x minus 36. Both answers are required.

Answer: x plus 9 and x minus 4 (can be said in either order); accept x= -9 , x=4

16. He made his acting debut battling a character played by the late Bruce Lee in 1978’s Game of Death and played co-pilot Roger Murdock in Airplane! He led his team at Power Memorial High School to 96 wins, including a 72-game winning streak. He carried that over to his college career at UCLA, with 3 NCAA men’s basketball titles during his years there, and still holds 7 individual school records. For ten points, name this 7-foot-2 innovator of the “sky hook” born Lew Alcindor, who led both the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers to NBA titles.

Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (accept Lew Alcindor before mention; prompt on Jabbar or Kareem)

17. Tributaries of this river include the Escalante, Dolores, Gunnison, and the interestingly named Virgin River. Cities on this river include Page, Bullhead City, Blythe, Laughlin, El Centro, Needles, and Yuma. It is the location of the man-made Lake Powell and Lake Mead, and their respective dams, Glen Canyon and Hoover. A bare trickle by the time it flows into the Gulf of California, FTP name this river in the American Southwest that flows through the Grand Canyon.

Answer: Colorado River

18. Interlobate types of these are formed by the union of two or more lobes of a continental ice sheet. Medial types of these are found in the center of glacial ice. Terminal types of these are the most prominent types in the Arctic, such as the Giant’s Wall in Norway, which forms at the snout of a glacier. Ground ones are characterized by forming rolling hills and plains, accumulating as glaciers retreat or under the ice. Typically consisting of unsorted and unbedded till, or soil and rock debris, FTP name this term for any accumulation of debris deposited by glaciers.

Answer: Moraine

19. While it has only officially existed under its current name since 1947, this group can trace its roots back to at least 1907 and arguably to a Civil War-era unit headed by Thaddeus Lowe. The 1907 date marked the establishment of a separate Signal Corps division. An executive order in May 1918 removed it from the Signal Corps and established a separate organization, which existed for exactly four days before the Army formed a separate service subgroup that absorbed it. One Signal Corps officer, Henry “Hap” Arnold, remained in its leadership through all those name changes and even after the National Security Act of 1947 established it as a separate uniformed service. FTP name this branch of the U.S. military with its namesake academy in Colorado Springs.

Answer: United States Air Force or USAF (no need to prompt for U.S. after it’s said)

20. One character in this work declares to several nobles that they will “wish for me to help thee curse this poisonous bunch-backed toad,” a reference to the title character. That woman, Margaret, issues many such curses, due to her replacement by Elizabeth. Later two murderers dispose of the Duke of Clarence in a vat of wine after Brackenbury fails to protect him. Clarence is one of two characters to be killed on stage; the second is the title character, whose demise prompts Richmond to announcement that “[t]he bloody dog is dead,” and to promise to “unite the white rose and the red”. Opening, “[n]ow is the winter of our discontent”, this is, FTP, what Shakespeare play about the titular English king?

Answer: Richard III

21. His critical essay, Strindberg and Our Theatre, was first published in the Provincetown Playbill in 1923. After tremendous early success he fell into some obscurity, but remained prolific until his death in 1953 writing such works as A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions. His reputation was boosted posthumously, in part by a successful 1956 revival of one of his plays; that play begins in 1912 as Rocky sneaks Syndicalist-Anarchist a shot of whiskey in Harry Hope's saloon. For 10 pints – er, points – name this American playwright of such works as The Iceman Cometh , The Hairy Ape, and Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Answer: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

22. After crossing the Asopos ridge to have access to freshwater supplies, the Greeks leave themselves vulnerable. Pausanias splits his troops at night, suggesting that political unrest has split the combined Greek city-state forces. Mardonius unwisely starts an attack, counseled against doing so by Artabazos, and the Spartans and Thegians are able to break the left wing and kill Mardonius. Occurring on the same day as the battle of Mycale on August 27, 479 BC, FTP name this battle that effectively ended the Persian invasion of Greece.

Answer: Battle of Plataea

BONI – ROUND 7 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. For ten points each, given their riveting plotlines, identify these plays from Greek antiquity.

[10] In this Aristophanes work, the women of both Athens and Sparta withhold sex from their husbands in order to bring an end to the Peloponnesian War.

Answer: Lysistrata

[10] King Pentheus of Thebes is knocked out of a tree by a band of female worshippers of Dionysus and is beheaded by his own mother who proudly believes it to be the head of a lion in this Euripides play.

Answer: Bacchae

[10] The title character in this play by Sophocles is the last one to figure out that his wife, Jocasta, is actually his mother.

Answer: Oedipus the King or Oedipus Rex

2. Given the name of a polyatomic ion, give its formula for 5 points and its charge for another five.

[Note to reader: Accept just “minus” if the charge is -1]

A. Phosphate

Answer: PO4 (-3)

B. Acetate

Answer: C2H3O2 (-1) (also accept C H2 COOH -1)

C. Permanganate

Answer: MnO4 (-1)

3. FTPE, identify these United States Supreme Court Justices given a short description. You will receive five points if you need to know the President who nominated them.

A.        [10] He is currently the least senior (translation: newest) member of the Supreme Court.

[5] President: George W. Bush

Answer: Samuel Alito

B.         [10] This Associate Justice has been on the Court longer than any other current member.

[5] President: Gerald Ford

Answer: John Paul Stevens

C.        [10] She is the second woman ever named to the Supreme Court and the only woman currently serving.

[5] President: Bill Clinton

Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

4. Name these Asian mountains for ten points each.

[10] This mountain is generally regarded as the second tallest mountain in the world. It straddles the China-Pakistan border, and is located in the Karokoram Range.

Answer: K2 or Mount Godwin-Austen or Dapsang or Chogori or Ketu

[10] This highest mountain in Japan most recently erupted in 1708.

Answer: Mount Fuji (or Fujisan or Fujiyama or Fuji-no-yama)

[10] This Tajikistani peak, the tallest of the Pamirs, has had three official names in the 75 years since it was identified as a separate peak. The first two reflected Soviet themes, but since the Soviet breakup it has been renamed for an ancestor of the Samanid dynasty. Give any one of its three names FTP.

Answer: any one of Communism Peak or Stalin Peak or Ismoil Somoni Peak

5. Sometimes the best place to introduce classical music to youngsters is in cartoons. Name some famous works of music given cameos in Warner Bros. and Disney for ten points each.

[10] Probably the most famous selection from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, this powerful piece was featured in “What’s Opera, Doc?” with Elmer Fudd famously singing, “Kill the Wabbit.”

Answer: Ride of the Valkyries

[10] Bugs and Elmer were also scored to this Rossini opera about a Count Almaviva. For added measure, the cartoon short ended with Bugs dropping Elmer into a cake labeled The Marriage of Figaro.

Answer: The Barber of Seville

[10] In Disney’s original Fantasia, this Stravinsky piece was scored to the creation of the earth as well as the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. Luckily for Walt, his cartoons didn’t riot against him!

Answer: The Rite of Spring

6. Answer these questions about characters on NBC’s Heroes for ten points each.

[10] This character is a politician with the power of flight.

Answer: Nathan Petrelli (accept either first or last name)

[10] This character has a split-personality, not to mention super strength.

Answer: Niki Sanders (accept either)

[10] This character lacks superpowers but works for The Company to study those that possess them.

Answer: Noah Bennet (accept either)

7. Name these lap dogs of Greco-Roman lore for ten points each.

[10] This three-headed dog, son of Typhon and Echidna, kept watch over the river Styx but was kidnapped by Heracles.

Answer: Cerberus

[10] This dog waited approximately twenty years while his master Odysseus was traveling and going on adventures.

Answer: Argos

[10] Zeus gave this dog to Europa. This dog was later given to King Minos, and it never failed to capture its prey.

Answer: Laelaps

8. For ten points each, answer some questions about the Crusades, the wars where everybody is an infidel.

[10] Beginning at the end of the 12th century, this crusade had France’s Philip II, England’s Richard I, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I attempt to reclaim Jerusalem from Saladin.

Answer: The Third Crusade

[10] Pope Innocent III called for this crusade with the intent of invading the Holy Land. Instead, his troops ended up sacking Constantinople, the final straw before the Schism between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox.

Answer: The Fourth Crusade

[10] The Crusades were closely tied to this order, known widely for their white armor with a large red cross and answered only to the Pope before being disbanded by Clement V.

Answer: The Knights Templar

9. FTPE, name these effects in physics.

A. This effect, discovered in 1896, occurs when the presence of a magnetic field splits spectral lines. Of its two types, the “normal” type is less common than the “anomalous” one.

Answer: Zeeman Effect

B. This effect, discovered by Henri Becquerel’s father Edmund, is used to convert light into electricity and is the basic principal behind solar cells.

Answer: Photovoltaic Effect

C. Discovered in 1923, this increase in the wavelengths of X-rays and gamma rays when colliding with a stationary particle such as an – behavior not expected of a true wave -- helped to verify quantum theory.

Answer: Compton Effect

10. Ah, existentialism; you either adore it or you abhor it. Hopefully, you at least know something about it. FTPE:

[10] This Jean-Paul Sartre play says “Hell is other people”, and Garcin, Estelle, and Inez demonstrate this to each other.

Answer: No Exit or Huis clos

[10] The hero of this Albert Camus work also goes to jail, but it’s because he killed an Arab for apparently no reason. They tend not to like that in Morocco.

Answer: The Stranger or L’Étranger

[10] This 1927 philosophical work by Heidegger greatly influenced existentialism in its discussion about Dasein along with the two titular concepts about humanity.

Answer: Being and Time or Sein und Zeit

 

11. Answer the following about an American artist and his works for ten points each.

[10] This early 20th century painting shows a diner on a darkly lit street corner with two men in hats, a woman in red, and the bartender in white. Some sources erroneously call the diner “Phillies” because of a cigar ad on the wall outside.

Answer: Nighthawks

[10] This artist, a student of the Ashcan School’s mentor Robert Henri, painted Nighthawks.

Answer: Edward Hopper

[10] In this 1927 painting by Hopper, Ex Lax is being promoted at Silber’s Pharmacy.

Answer: Drug Store

12. FTPE name these fundamental theorems from mathematics:

A. Every polynomial equation with complex coefficients with degree n > 0 has at least one complex root.

Answer: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

B. Every natural number greater than 1 may be written as a unique product of prime numbers

Answer: Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

C. If a function f is continuous on a closed interval [a,b], then the integral of f over the interval is equal to the difference of the function's antiderivative evaluated at the endpoints of the interval

Answer: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

13. For ten points each, answer the following questions about World War II, the African Front.

[10] This Field Marshall got his nickname “The Desert Fox” based on mastery of terrain during battles in North Africa.

Answer: Erwin Rommel

[10] Two battles were fought at this location in 1942 between Allied and Axis armored battalions. The second one finally began to force the Nazis into a general retreat.

Answer: El Alamein

[10] Though the US wanted to call it Operation: Sledgehammer, the Brits and French got their way in giving this name to the Allied invasion of North Africa at Morocco in November, 1942.

Answer: Operation: Torch

14. Lots of authors have won both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer for fiction, but seldom for the same book. On a 5-10-20-30 basis, name the authors of these exceptions.

[5] The Color Purple, 1983

Answer: Alice Walker

[5] Rabbit Is Rich, 1982.

Answer: John Updike

[x] The Fixer, 1967.

Answer: Bernard Malamud

[x] A Fable, 1955.

Answer: William Faulkner

15. Name these hormones FTPE

(10) Essentially the functional opposite of Insulin, this pancreatic hormone raises blood glucose levels:

Answer: Glucagon (Listen carefully! It’s glue – ca – gon)

(10) Secreted by the adrenal cortex, this steroid causes sodium retention and potassium excretion.

Answer: Aldosterone (Al DOSS tur own)

(10) Indoleacetic acid is the most common of these hormones that regulate the amount and direction of plant growth.

Answer: Auxins

16. For ten points each, name these alternatives to your basic Christianity.

[10] This Restorationist sect of Christianity is trademarked by their observance of the Sabbath on Saturdays and their recommendation to practice vegetarianism and avoidance of foods that are declared unclean in Leviticus 11.

Answer: Seventh-Day Adventists [They make Little Debbies just outside Chattanooga – Ed.]

[10] This sect practices spiritual healing outlined by Mary Baker Eddy’s interpretation of the Bible. They believe that sickness is caused by fear, ignorance, or sin, and can only be cured by correcting one of those three states. (Good luck.)

Answer: Christian Science (or Christian Scientists or Church of Christ, Science)

[10] This fast-growing wing of Protestantism isn’t very much different from mainstream denominations, except that baptism of the Holy Spirit is evidenced by glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, as with Agnes Ozman in 1900.

Answer: Pentecostalism

17. Identify the Walt Whitman poems from descriptions for ten points each.

[10] The poet sounds his “barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world” in this poem contained in Leaves of Grass.

Answer: “Song of Myself”

[10] Elegies written by Whitman include O Captain! My Captain!, Drum Taps, and this poem that honors people killed in the U.S. Civil War. It ends, “There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.”

Answer: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

[10] This Whitman poem ostensibly describes a boat ride in New York City.

Answer: “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”

 

18. For ten points each, name some events from 19th century Mexican-American conflicts.

[10] This 1836 battle near the mouth of Buffalo Bayou secured the independence of Texas from Mexico.

Answer: The Battle of San Jacinto

[10] The first amphibious assault in American history took place during the Mexican-American War when Winfield Scott led the assault and siege of this city in March, 1847.

Answer: Veracruz

[10] William Ide was the first and last President of this self-proclaimed Republic formed in 1846 when Anglo settlers in Sonoma, CA, ousted the Mexican authorities – not knowing the U.S. was already at war with Mexico.

Answer: The Bear Flag Republic [accept California Republic but prompt on California]

19. Ask your doctor if the periodic table is right for you. Name these elements used in medical treatments FTPE.

[10] This lightest of the Alkali metals is combined into a carbonate salt to make a drug used to treat bipolar disorders. If it only had a wider therapeutic range…

Answer: Lithium

[10] This precious metal was used in what was termed “Aurotherapy” to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, but then they found it was really toxic to the liver and kidneys.

Answer: Gold

[10] A namesake class of drugs containing this precious metal are currently used, often along with taxanes, to treat cancers of the breast, ovary, and others.

Answer: Platinum

20. A graduate student under Zellig Harris, he coined the phrase, “Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously.” FTPE:

[10] Name this linguist and longtime MIT professor, author of Language and the Study of the Mind and Chronicles of Dissent.

Answer: Avram Noam Chomsky

[10] Chomsky secured his reputation with this 1957 work that describes the titular grammatical constructs.

Answer: Syntactic Structures

[10] Chomsky gained his reputation in part by challenging the behaviorist theories of language set forth in Verbal Behavior, a book by this author of Beyond Freedom and Dignity and Walden II.

Answer: Burrhus Frederic Skinner

21. Identify the Chinese dynasties FTPE

(10) This dynasty lasted from 221BC until 220 AD, with a brief interruption by the usurper Wang Mang.

Answer: Han (Accept Liu)

(10) This 960-1279 dynasty introduced paper money.

Answer: Song

(10) Lasting from 1368-1644, this dynasty is known for its exquisite vases.

Answer: Ming

TOSSUPS – ROUND 8 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. In the Iliad, he saves Achilles from the River Xanthos by starting a conflagration and causing the river to burn itself. One of the best preserved examples of the Doric style is his temple built around 450 BCE; it is elaborately decorated with frescos of Theseus’ exploits, leading many to call it the Theseum. Legend holds that he created the first woman, Pandora, in the likeness of a goddess as a gift to the Titan Epimetheus. Married to Aphrodite, this is, for ten points, what physically handicapped Olympian who served as blacksmith to the gods?

Answer: Hephaestus [sorry, but do not accept or prompt on Vulcan, which is wrong from 1st clue]

2. LIFE magazine chose Stuart Franklin’s picture of this incident as one of the “100 Photos that Changed the World,” and it captured the iconic “Unknown Rebel.” Those involved proudly erected the Styrofoam statue “Goddess of Democracy” made in just four days. Taking place at the same location as a 1976 incident, it was sparked by the death of Hu Yaobang. It is officially known as the July-Fourth Incident for the day the forceful and violent enforcement of martial law by the PLA began. Coinciding with a visit by Gorbachev was, FTP, what event in 1989 that you apparently can’t look up on Chinese search engines?

Answer: Tiananmen Square Incident (Massacre, Riot etc. accept anything appropriate)

3. Properly adding this quantity may require the calculation of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, and the commutator of any two of its components yields plus or minus i h-bar times the third. Kepler’s second law is equivalent to the conservation of this quantity, which in quantum mechanics may be either orbital or spin. Defined as the cross product of the position and momentum vectors, for ten points, what physical quantity is a measure of how much a body will tend to keep rotating?

Answer: Angular Momentum

4. Defying conventions of his time, this author mingled sexual imagery with proto-Biblical phrasing in his early collections including 25 Poems and The Map of Love. In his collection Deaths and Entrances, the cheerful childhood nostalgia of “Fern Hill” contrasts with the more somber “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.” His non-verse works included the play Under Milk Wood and the prose reminiscence A Child’s Christmas in Wales. He died in 1953 after supposedly downing eighteen shots of whiskey in one setting. For ten points, name this Welsh poet who wrote, “rage, rage, against the dying of the light,” in his villanelle, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”

Answer: Dylan Thomas

5. A museum in Burlingame, CA, boasts the world’s largest of these on display, one based on the retired “Snowman B” model. The core product was developed by Austrian Eduard Haas III in the late 1920’s as a means to help people stop smoking, which explains why the original versions were shaped like cigarette lighters. When Haas brought it to the U.S. in the 1950’s, people weren’t as keen to stop smoking, so they went for a younger target audience. Named for the peppermints it originally contained, for ten points, name this candy dispenser for children with the heads of popular cartoon characters gracing its top.

Answer: PEZ Dispenser

6. It has become a prominent symbol of the city in which it resides, appearing on the cover of Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and showing up again fully submerged at the end of Spielberg’s AI: Artificial Intelligence. Designed by William Van Alen, its construction proceeded at a rate of 4 stories a week, but astoundingly caused no construction deaths. In 2005, a group of 100 architects, builders, engineers and critics named it as number one on their list of ten favorite New York skyscrapers. FTP, name this tallest brick building in the world, a monument to art deco design, which opened in 1928, currently the third tallest building in New York.

Answer: The Chrysler Building

7. The mayor was indecisive about demolishing buildings that could have made this event less costly. Poor urban planning was also to blame for this event, because all of the buildings were in very close proximity to one another, including slums and tenements. It started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, and from there spread into the worst disaster the city had ever seen. For ten points, name this 1666 event that caused socioeconomic disaster in Great Britain and that also had religious implications by engulfing St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Answer: Great Fire of London (accept reasonable equivalents)

8. He played viola in the National Theatre Orchestra under the direction of Bedrich Smetana before composing such works as the overtures Carnival and Othello and the symphonic poems The Wild Dove and the Noonday Witch. The aria “O Silver Moon” is contained in his opera Rusalka. He headed the American National Conservatory of Music and wrote American Quartet, and his visits to New York and Iowa influenced his magnum opus. For ten points, name this Czech composer whose Symphony in E Minor is subtitled From the New World.

Answer: Anton(in) Leopold Dvorak

9. Minor characters in this work include Jurfaleu, Margariz, Aelroth, and Blancandrin. More major characters in this work include Marsilla, an Islamic king, as well as the archbishop Turpin and the title character’s very close friend Olivier. Facts changed by poetic license included depicting Charlemagne, who was 36 at the time, as a bearded old man, and changing the Basque attackers to Saracens. For ten points, name this poem focusing on an 8th century battle by the rearguard at Roncesvalles.

Answer: The Song of Roland or La Chanson de Roland

10. It has been speculated that a combination of this disease along with rabies led to both the vampire and werewolf myths. The second stage of an infection may involve inflammation of the eyes, bones, heart, or liver, as well as the skin and mucus membranes. The first stage has no symptoms except some swelling in the lymph nodes and a painless sore, or chancre (SHAN-ker). Left untreated, it can progress years later to cause paralysis, numbness, blindness, and dementia. Caused by the spirochete Treponema Palladium, FTP, name this STD infamously studied in the Tuskegee Experiment.

Answer: Syphilis (accept Treponema Palladium before mentioned, but prompt on Treponema)

11. Among the islands within it are Kindjera, Kofia, Dabouroum, Tebour, and Malal, and it has occasionally fed the usually-dry river Bahr el Gazal. The remnants of a much larger body of water present until around 4,000 BC, its current basin intersects the older basin at the Djourab Depression. Taking up just under 10,000 square miles in the 1960's, its area has since shrunk by over 90%, causing a significant financial and environmental crisis in the region and reviving proposals to divert part of the Ubangi to replenish it. Bordered by Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and its namesake country, FTP, name this rapidly shrinking lake in West-Central Africa.

Answer: Lake Chad

12. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP where are the vertices of the hyperbola x squared over 81 minus y squared over 144 equals 1, given that the hyperbola x squared over a squared minus y squared over b squared equals 1 has vertices at (a, 0) and (-a, 0)?

Answer: (9, 0) and (-9, 0)

13. In his mid-forties he had what we’d now call a classic mid-life crisis, separating from his wife Catherine and entering a protracted affair with the much younger actress Ellen Ternan. His keen social sensibilities were informed not only by his two-year stint in a boot-blacking factory at age ten, but also his work as a political journalist, which also formed the body of his first published work, the collection Sketches by Boz [BOZE]. His capacity for empathy shows when he is equally sympathetic to the aristocrat Darnay and the slum-dwelling revolutionary Defarge. FTP, name this prolific author of Bleak House, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield.

Answer: Charles Dickens

14. By current standards the Federal government’s response to this event involved a clear conflict of interest: Attorney General Richard Olney, who appointed Edwin Walker special federal attorney and successfully sought an injunction against it, was a director of the Burlington and Santa Fe Railroad. After a peaceful meeting at Blue Island, Illinois, organized by the American Railway Union, almost 125,000 railroad workers chose to quit rather than deal with palace cars made by companies like Wagner. President Cleveland used interference with the delivery of U.S. Mail as the pretext for ordering that it be broken. FTP, what is this 1894 strike which led to an antitrust conviction against the leader of the ARU, Eugene V. Debs?

Answer: Pullman Strike

15. This theory of adaptation was most recently propounded by celebrity scientist Trofim Lysenko in Stalinist Russia, where Mendelian Genetics were considered heresy until the 1960s. While it actually dates back to Ancient Greece, it is most popularly associated with a French Naturalist of the 19th century who coined the term. Although fully discredited in its original formulation, geneticists have found that the way in which a genome is expressed actually can change during a lifetime and be passed on. FTP, name this theory which states that changes in physiology acquired over a lifetime will be passed down to one’s offspring.

Answer: the theory of acquired characteristics OR Lamarckianism [prompt on Lysenkoism]

16. Because he thought that his song-writing ideas would clash with the rest of his band, this man released an album of his own recordings, called “Pocketwatch,” that was released under the name “Late!” He has also done other non-mainstream projects, such as playing drums in an all-star lineup for 1994’s “Backbeat,” a movie that chronicled the early years of The Beatles. His first band was called Scream, and he has also worked with Queens of the Stone Age. For ten points, name this drummer of Nirvana and lead singer of the Foo Fighters.

Answer: Dave Grohl

17. His first two books were hardly similar – German Social Democracy and Essay on the Foundation of Geometry. He was still lucid right up till his death at age 97, nine years after he was last jailed for a peace demonstration but 23 years after his last ambitious philosophical work, 1948’s Human Knowledge. He talked about the historical evolution in his foremost field in A History of Western Philosophy and described his religious positions in Why I am Not a Christian. He is one of the few philosophers to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, doing so in 1950. For ten points, name this British philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Albert Whitehead on Principia Mathematica.

Answer: Bertrand Arthur William Russell

18. Lesser-known characters in this work include the druggist Mr. Morgan, paperboy Joe Crowell Jr. and his brother Si, milkman Howie Newsome, and the alcoholic choirmaster, Simon Stimson. The play begins in May of 1901 and concludes in 1913, by which time the bitter Stimson has hanged himself and sits among the dead souls along with Mrs. Soames and Mrs. Gibbs. Joining them after she dies in childbirth is Mrs. Gibbs’ daughter-in-law, the former Emily Webb. Narrated by the Stage Manager, FTP name this deceptively simple Thornton Wilder play set in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire.

Answer: Our Town

19. It was clear that the man who developed this law wasn’t alone in his formulation of it. Two amateur scientists showed him the relationship, but the developer did the experiments and published the paper, so he got the credit. Another man in France, Edme Mariottte, discovered this law independently from its developer 14 years after its publication in 1662. For ten points, name this fundamental gas law that states that in a closed system, an increase of pressure in a gas will cause a decrease in volume, and vice versa.

Answer: Boyle’s Law

20. This man lays out his plan for America to rival England’s industrial capacity by raising the tariff and advancing government subsidies to industries in his Report on Manufactures. He furthermore argued that a way to increase government revenues would be to start an excise tax on distilled spirits—especially whiskey. In the First Report on Public Credit, he states the federal government and not the states should be responsible for repaying America’s war debts while in his Second Report, he asserts the need for a National Bank. For ten points, name this first Secretary of the Treasury, who on July 11, 1804 was shot in Weehawken, New Jersey by Vice President Aaron Burr.

Answer: Alexander Hamilton

21. This city names the syndrome exhibited by hostages who show sympathy toward the criminal, as well as a convention signed in 2001, which limits the use of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Because of its fourteen islands on the border of Lake Malaren and a major sea, it is called Venice of the North. It has the residence of Prime Minister Frederick Reinfeldt and the Riksdag. Descartes died here, while serving Queen Christina. Stadshuset, the city hall of this city, hosts the award ceremony for Nobel Prizes. The second largest city on the Baltic, FTP, is what capital of Sweden?

Answer: Stockholm

22. He fought under his father’s command at Mewar, the Deccan, and Kangra, thus expanding his father’s territory. After fighting the Lodi and securing the southern border of his father’s territory in 1617, he received a title meaning “Lord of the World.” He succeeded his father, Jahangir, in 1627, and under his reign, he suppressed a rebellion in Ahmadnagar and forced Golconda and Bijapur to become tributary states. His son Aurangzeb declared himself emperor in 1658 and condemned him to house arrest. Under him, Mughal art and architecture reached their pinnacle. FTP, name this Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal for his favorite wife, Mumtaz.

Answer: Shah Jahan

23. A seven day battle here between Nazi and Russian forces in 1941 took fewer lives than the more famous battle 129 years earlier. Kutuzov had prepared the site at the tiny village just west of Moscow by building earthworks, including the Bagration fleches, which are still visible today. It was a victory for the Grande Armée in that the Russians retreated, but not the decisive battle Napoleon had hoped for. Still, the French took Moscow one week later. FTP, identify this September 7, 1812 battle, the bloodiest of the Napoleonic Wars.

Answer: The Battle of Borodino

BONI – ROUND 8 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. FTPE name these religious holidays and observances:

[10] In Western Christian tradition, this feast on January 6 following the twelve day of Christmas marks the arrival of the Three Wise Men at Jesus’ birthplace in Bethlehem.

Answer: Epiphany

[10] This “Feast of Lots”, observed on the 14th day of Adar, celebrates Esther’s prevention of the annihilation of the Jews.

Answer: Purim

[10] Properly speaking, this simply names the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, but it has come to mean the daytime fast observed by most Muslims throughout that month until the feast day Eid ul-Fitr..

Answer: Ramadan

2. Name some vitamins that are essential to the body for ten points each.

[10] While this vitamin, along with calcium, helps to build strong bones, it is unique as you don’t really need to consume it to get it. All you need is about 20-30 minutes of sunshine to your skin and you are set for the day.

Answer: Vitamin D

[10] This vitamin is very important in blood clotting. Warfarin, or Coumadin, is an antagonist of this vitamin.

Answer: Vitamin K

[10] This is the more common name of vitamin B9. It is often given to pregnant women to prevent spina bifida.

Answer: Folic Acid or Folate

3. If you are a landmass and you are partially surrounded by water, you might be a peninsula. Name the following peninsulas for ten points each.

[10] This peninsula contains two countries: Spain and Portugal.

Answer: Iberia or Iberian Peninsula

[10] Since it is connected to the mainland, this is the only one of New York’s five boroughs that can be considered a peninsula.

Answer: The Bronx

[10] This Danish peninsula saw the last great battle between battleships in 1916 during World War I.

Answer: Jutland Peninsula

4. Answer the following about an author FTPE:

(10) This British Romantic’s notable poems include “Endymion” and “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.”

Answer: John Keats

(10) This Keats poem opens with the line, “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.”

Answer: Ode to a Nightingale

(10) This Keats poem begins, “Thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster child of silence and slow time.”

Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn [accept “to” instead of “on”, but correct them – many sources repeat that common error]

5. My brother and I weren’t too good at sharing, so it amazes me that some brothers can co-direct movies. FTPE give the surname of the brothers who shared directing credit of these films:

[10] O Brother, Where Art Thou?; No Country for Old Men

Answer: the Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan)

[10] V for Vendetta and the Matrix trilogy

Answer: the Wachowski brothers (Andy and Larry)

[10] Shallow Hal, Dumb and Dumber, and There’s Something About Mary

Answer: the Farrelly brothers (Peter and Bobby)

6. For ten points each, identify the emperors from Edward Gibbon’s list of the “Five Good Emperors”.

[10] The first of the “Five Good Emperors”, he is credited with starting the practice of succession by adoption.

Answer: Nerva

[10] More focused on consolidating the empire than expanding it, this third of the five has a namesake wall in Britain.

Answer: Hadrian

[10] Ruling from A.D. 161-180, this man was the last of the “Five Good Emperors” and wrote The Meditations.

Answer: Marcus Aurelius

7. Answer the following questions related to a certain American scientist for ten points each.

[10] His namesake free energy is the maximum amount of non-expansion work obtainable from an isothermal, isobaric thermodynamic system, and a reaction will not take place unless it is negative.

Answer: Josiah Willard Gibbs

[10] Gibbs invented these popular alternatives to quaternions.

Answer: Vectors

[10] Gibbs’ Paradox deals with the apparent increase when two gases are mixed in the value of this, the amount of energy unavailable to do work and the measure of a system’s disorder.

Answer: Entropy

8. Answer some questions about a novel FTPE.

[10] This novel, narrated by Jim Burden, follows the title character of the Shimerda family as they head to Nebraska.

Answer: My Ántonia

[10] This is the author of My Ántonia.

Answer: Willa Cather

[10] My Ántonia is the final book in Cather’s Prairie Trilogy. Name either of the other two for ten points.

Answer: either O! Pioneers or The Song of the Lark

9. Name the authors of these major philosophical works FTPE:

[10] Summa Theologica

Answer: Thomas Aquinas [prompt on Thomas; accept just Aquinas because this is high school]

[10] Critique of Pure Reason

Answer: Immanuel Kant

[10] Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Answer: Ludwig Wittgenstein

10. FTPE give the major scale that matches the key signature.

(10) One sharp

Answer: G Major

(10) Three sharps

Answer: A Major

(10) Five Flats

Answer: D-flat Major 

11. The US was barely involved in military conflicts in WWI, but it was enough to turn the tide. Answer these questions about our military’s involvement for ten points each.

[10] The American forces in Europe were under the command of this man, also famous for his command of the “Buffalo Soldiers” during the Spanish-American War.

Answer: General John J. or “Black Jack” Pershing

[10] American troops in the war were given this affectionate nickname, possibly due to the shape of their buttons.

Answer: Doughboy or Doughboys

[10] The biggest offensive by the AEF in the war was this last major battle in the war, causing over 120,000 casualties on each side.

Answer: Battle of the Argonne Forest or the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

12. You have ten seconds per part. FTPE factor the following polynomials. (Moderator: Either order is acceptable for all answers; prompt if they give one part and it’s correct.)

A. x squared plus 11x plus 24.

Answer: (x plus 3)(x plus 8)

B. x squared minus 17x plus 52.

Answer: (x minus 4)(x minus 13)

C. x squared minus 5x minus 66.

Answer: (x plus 6)(x minus 11)

13. FTPE, name these Mark Twain short works

This story centers around the gambler Jim Smiley, a mysterious stranger, and the title character, a prodigious amphibian named Daniel Webster.

Answer: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (Accept “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” or “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” other published titles.)

Another story about a stranger, this one concerns a famously virtuous town, and the strife caused therein by the aforementioned interloper with a bag of money.

Answer: “The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg.”

This short novel, concerning the identities of two children switched shortly after birth, pioneered the use of fingerprints in identification, but is not as progressive in its perspectives on race.

Answer: Pudd’nhead Wilson

14. FTPE, answer these questions about things that happened in early Colonial America well before 1776:

[10] This colony was originally set up to do two things: Provide a haven for debtors, and to provide a base for Great Britain to attack Spain. It was established by James Oglethorpe, with colonists arriving in 1733.

Answer: Georgia

[10] This was the area that Jacques Cartier colonized in 1534 from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River when he was trying to find a Northwest Passage. It was eventually given up to Spain and Britain in 1763.

Answer: New France

[10] This place of exploration wasn’t close to being as successful as New France, considering that in 1590, either everybody who was originally there abandoned the colony or completely vanished. One puzzling piece of evidence was the carving of the word “CROATOAN” into a post.

Answer: Roanoke Island Colony

15. For ten points each, answer these questions related to the process of osmosis.

[10] Paying attention in any biology class will let you know that this is a solution that is highly concentrated, with a lower water concentration that the cell, resulting in cell crenation.

Answer: Hypertonic solution [not hypotonic]

[10] This process is used in desalination and purification of water, dialysis, and even maple syrup production. It uses pressure to force a solvent through a membrane, retaining solute on one side, allowing pure solvent to pass to the other.

Answer: Reverse Osmosis [don’t prompt on or accept osmosis – we said that in the lead-in]

[10] Osmosis is one of these, meaning that the property depends on not mass, but number of particles in a given volume of solvent. Others include elevation of boiling point and vapor pressure.

Answer: Colligative Property

16. Answer these questions about 2007 airline incidents not involving any Senators from Idaho, FTPE.

1.Early in 2007, this then AirTran spokesman was detained for a suspicious water bottle with a false bottom. He then blamed AirTran for missing a flight to Washington later in the year. We wonder if he planned to drive from there to Newport News to check on his pets…

Answer: Michael Vick

2. In July, a woman and toddler were refused a flight on this airline after the mother allegedly refused to give her chatty child “a baby Benadryl”.

Answer: Continental Express (accept Continental Airlines)

3. Also last summer, student and Hooters waitress Kyla Ebbert attempted to fly this airline from San Diego to Tucson, only to have a flight attendant dress her down over her short skirt.

Answer: Southwest Airlines

17. Name these African dictators with a minimum of one screw loose for ten points each.

[10] This Ugandan declared himself conqueror of the British Empire and was also called “His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshall Al Hadji Doctor” for radio broadcast purposes after giving himself a doctorate of law.

Answer: Idi Amin Dada

[10] Since this man became head of government in 1980, the once-prosperous Zimbabwe has seen a tremendous decline in the standard of living and a drop in the average life expectancy from over 60 years to around 35.

Answer: Robert Mugabe

[10] This man was the ruler of the Central African Republic and later declared himself emperor of the Central African Empire. He was overthrown in 1979 and later arrested on charges of treason, embezzlement, murder and cannibalism.

Answer: Jean-Bédel Bokassa or Bokassa I

18. For ten points each, name the following works of art where lots of people are dying or just dead.

[10] This piece by Eugène Delacroix features a number of dead people, most of which are nude, after the title character ordered them all killed to accompany his own suicide.

Answer: Death of Sardanapalus

[10] This masterpiece by Géricault shows the last few survivors of the titular vessel on top of a huge pile of corpses.

Answer: The Raft of the Medusa

[10] Dead soldiers and broken lances can be seen in this triptych by Paolo Uccello, especially the presumed central panel “Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Ciarda.”

Answer: Battle of San Romano [accept Rout of San Romano]

19. Scientists have identified 63 moons around Jupiter. Given a description, name the right one of those 63 FTPE:

[10] Of the eight regular satellites of Jupiter, the four inner satellites are grouped together and named for this member, the largest non-Galilean moon.

Answer: Amalthea

[10] This moon has been acknowledged as the most volcanically active body in our solar system.

Answer: Io

[10] This smallest of the Galilean moons has exceptionally thick layer of water and was once called Jupiter II based on where people thought it was in relation to other moons.

Answer: Europa

20. Giants were the central characters in a series of five novels satirizing 16th century French education and military exploits. FTPE:

[10] The first of those books, Pantagruel, is often published in a single volume with this second book, named for Pantagruel’s father.

Answer: Gargantua

[10] This French monk and physician wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Answer: Francois Rabelais

[10] Gargantua’s mother, her name is pronounced the same as the evil sorcerer who seeks to destroy the Smurfs.

Answer: Gargamelle

21. Ben Franklin was more than just a ladies’ man. Name some things accredited to him for ten points each.

[10] Though this phenomenon was first discovered by Ponce de León, Franklin was able to map it and figured out it stretched from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico, affecting climate all along the coast.

Answer: The Gulf Stream

[10] Franklin wrote in his brother’s newspaper under this pseudonym, a middle-aged widow. Nobody’s really sure if it contains a cipher to find a hidden Masonic treasure.

Answer: Mrs. Silence Dogood

[10] Franklin even designed the world’s first submarine, which he lovingly called this.

Answer: The Turtle

TOSSUPS – ROUND 9 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Its presence has been confirmed in minerals in the Onaping Formation near Sudbury, Ontario, but an earlier identification in shungite rocks from the Karelian region of Russia has been disputed. Its existence was predicted in a little-read 1970 article by Eiji Osawa of Japan’s Toyohashi University. The van der Waals diameter of one of these is approximately 1 nanometer, much closer than what occurs in a regular carbon to carbon bond. Even though there are many variations of this molecule, it is different from its counterparts due to the fact that no two pentagons share an edge. For ten points, name this usually 60-carbon molecule that’s named after the architect that popularized the geodesic dome.

Answer: Buckminsterfullerene (Prompt on C60 before 60; prompt on fulllerene or buckyball – there are others)

2. While two of his three muses, Marie Daubrun and Jeanne Duval, were also his lovers, he wrote anonymously to his third muse, Apollonie-Aglae Sabatier. After publishing his only novel, La Fanfario, he discovered and translated the works of Edgar Allan Poe, bringing them greater trans-Atlantic prominence. Remaining in effect until 1949 were the bans against six of his poems, made official in an 1857 trial for “offenses against public and religious morals”. Using unpleasantly realistic details and themes such as ennui and spleen in such poems as “A Carcass” and “To the Reader,” FTP, name this French author of Les Fleurs du Mal.

Answer: Charles Baudelaire

3. This company is currently headquartered in California, but is owned by the Securitas Group of Stockholm after the last heir of the organization’s Scottish founder died in 1967. Having its roots in a stagecoach protection firm, the reorganized company was involved in preventing an 1861 attempt to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and the business quickly expanded across the country, known by its motto “We never sleep”. In addition to violence in its pursuit of Jesse James, the agency gained a harsh reputation after killing eleven people during the Homestead Strike. For ten points, identify this private security and detective group, famous for its actions against labor unions in the late 19th century.

Answer: Pinkerton National Detective Agency [accept Pinkertons]

4. His head floats to the island of Lesbos after he is torn to pieces by the Maenads, the followers of Dionysus. This son of Oeagrus, the King of Thrace, and Calliope, the Muse of epic poem, saves the Argonauts from the Sirens. When his wife is killed from snakebite, he uses a gift he received from Apollo to put Cerberus to sleep and ask Hades to release her. However, Eurydice is lost forever because he looks back. Who is the greatest musician of Greek mythology?

Answer: Orpheus

5. Its fourth and final season was largely animated by Stephen Hillenburg, the future creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. A clip from the episode “Road Rash” depicting a stay at the “No Tell Motel” was cut after the first airing, and a restaurant name was changed from the Chokey Chicken to the Chewy Chicken, but by and large its double entendres survived unscathed. In a town dominated by the Conglom-O-Corporation, the title character works at a comic books shop; besides his loyal dog Spunky, he spends time with his friends Heffer Wolfe and Filbert Shellbach and tries to avoid his obnoxious neighbors, the Bigheads. The B-52’s sang the theme song to, FTP, what early Nicktoons creation centering on a mild-mannered wallaby?

Answer: Rocko’s Modern Life

6. This interval occurs in a descending, linear form on the words "poor heart" on the old slave song "Poor Rosy", as well as the second and third tones in the French reveille "As-Tu Vu la Casquette?" More commonly known songs featuring this descending interval in their first notes include the Nat King Cole standard "You're A Weaver of Dreams", George M. Cohan's patriotic song "Over There", and the Negro spiritual "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen." In its ascending form, its most famous instance in American song is probably the first two notes to "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean". Perhaps its most famous instance in American culture, however, is the opening two tones in the NBC chimes.  FTP, what is this interval, which might be (for example) between the notes G and E, or between C and A?

Answer: major sixth (prompt on "sixth")

7. Before his 28th birthday, he attempted to take over the city of Strasbourg, but was instead exiled to the United States. After he tried the same thing four years later at Boulogne-sur-Mer, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, though he managed to escape in the guise of a laborer. Lucky for him, he was able to legitimately gain power when he was elected president in 1848. Later deposed in absentia after his capture at Sedan in 1870, FTP name this man who decided to dump the whole democracy thing and declare himself Emperor of France in 1852.

Answer: Napoleon III or Louis-Napoleon (DO NOT prompt on Napoleon)

8. It was explained three years after its discovery by Igor Tamm and I.M. Frank, who also derived the formula to quantify it. It is used by the Rich detector and the threshold counter to identify particles based on their speed. Caused when a charged particle passes through an optically transparent medium at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium, it produces a wave in that medium analogous to the wake of a boat on water. Its namesake won a Nobel Prize in 1958 for his characterization of this phenomenon. FTP, identify this form of radiation, sometimes seen as the blue glow in a pool of water around a nuclear reactor.

Answer: Cherenkov radiation

9. This novel is set in Lorain, Ohio at the end of the Great Depression. Cholly was once caught having sex by a pair of white men who forced him to continue for their amusement, and troubled by this he later rapes his own daughter. In spite of the support of Claudia and Freida, the daughter’s pregnancy fails. In her misery, Pecola goes insane and believes her wishes have been granted, meaning she has the titular feature she hoped would make her more like her idol, Shirley Temple. For ten points, name this debut novel by Toni Morrison.

Answer: The Bluest Eye

10. Towns in this region include Socoroma, Isluga, Surire, Caspana, and Parinacota, and this region also contains the Chiu-Chiu Lagoon, and the El Tatio Geysers. Of the streams that enter it, only the Loa River reaches the Pacific. Other notable features in this sparsely populated region include the town of Calama, numerous salars, and the Chuquicamata, and Escondida Mines. After Diego de Almagra crossed it in 1537, it was largely ignored till the mid-19th century, when nitrate and copper mining became important. Served by the port of Antofagasta, FTP, name this long, narrow, and exceedingly dry South American desert.

Answer: Atacama Desert

11. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP what is the value of 7 factorial, given that it is equal to 1 times 2 times 3 times 4 times 5 times 6 times 7, and that 6 factorial is equal to 720?

Answer: 5040

12. It takes its title from the opening verse of chapter 3; the tenth verse of that chapter contains one of its most-quoted passages in which the Lord promises that he will open the “windows of heaven” and pour out blessings upon those who faithfully tithe. Most scholars date it to around 460 B.C.E., shortly before the reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah. The prophet reaffirms the Lord’s love for Israel but chastises negligent priests and decries foreign marriages. Its prophecy of the Day of Judgment is reinforced by the title, which means “my messenger.” FTP name this book of the Bible, twelfth and last of the Minor Prophets and the last book in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament.

Answer: Malachi

13. Samuel K. Doe led a coup here in 1980 that killed its president, William Tolbert. Doe then founded the People’s Redemption Council, and he became the president of its Second Republic in 1986. In 1989, a rebel force led by Charles Taylor invaded it, triggering its first civil war that lasted until 1996; after a second civil war from 1999 to 2003, Taylor was exiled to Nigeria. After elections in 2005, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became president of this country. FTP, name this West African republic, founded in 1847 by freedmen, with its capital at Monrovia.

Answer: Republic of Liberia

14. The attrition of the war years is embodied in the characters killed off in this novel, including the death of Roswitha in the Allied invasion of Normandy and Jan during the Nazi invasion of Poland. The protagonist, who fathers a son by his own stepmother Maria, has a voice that can shatter glass and the stunted body of a dwarf, which he claims is because he decided to renounce adulthood and stop growing at age three, Forming a trilogy along with Cat and Mouse and Dog Years, FTP, name this novel narrated from an insane asylum by Oskar Matzerath, written by Gunther Grass.

Answer: The Tin Drum or Die Blechtrommel

15. He was the top name on the list sought by Operation Overcast, which was renamed Operation Paperclip. This man was not a standout in math or physics early in his school years, but was later inspired in that direction by the writings of Hermann Oberth. His defenders cite his arrest and brief imprisonment by the SS as evidence he was not an “ardent” Nazi, but he admitted to seeing slave laborers from Nordhausen at the Mittelwerk plant, and there remain allegations that slave labor was also used in the camp at Peenemunde.  Namesake of a sports and concert arena in Huntsville, Alabama, FTP, name this chief engineer of the Nazi V-2 rocket who became the foremost scientist in the American space program. 

Answer: Wernher Von Braun

 

16. In his 1984 State of the Union Address, Ronald Reagan described it as “a powerful tool against wasteful or extravagant spending.” Both Reagan and Bill Clinton enjoyed this ability as governors of their respective states, but only Clinton was able to wield it in his presidency. From 1996 to 1998 Clinton had employed this power 11 times to eliminate “pork belly spending” from the national budget before it was deemed unconstitutional by a 6-3 vote in the Supreme Court. FTP this is the term for an executive’s ability to nullify specific parts of legislation without vetoing the whole bill.

Answer: line item veto [prompt on veto before “in his presidency”; don’t accept it after that point]

17. He completed a survey of the chief monuments of ancient Rome and designed ten tapestries based on the Acts of the Apostles for the Sistine Chapel. The influence of his teacher Pietro Perugino can be seen in such early works as The Crucifixion, The Knight’s Dream, and Betrothal of the Virgin. Like Michelangelo, he came under the patronage of Julius II; he depicted a subsequent patron, Leo X, in a groundbreaking group portrait along with two of his cardinals. FTP name this High Renaissance artist who incorporated balance and organization to achieve harmonious equilibrium in such works as The Sistine Madonna and The School of Athens.

Answer: Raphael Sanzio

18. The blood pressure 130/80 in senior citizens is considered a demarcation, because the abundance of this is less than 7.0%, if there is a low LDL count.  Levels of this are lower in those suffering from anorexia nervosa.  A main part of the protein forms in the mitochondria through a combination of alpha-ketoglutaric acid and glycine to form a pyrrole molecule.  One of the peculiarities of it is that oxygen is not bonded through valence electrons, but rather, coordination valences.  This makes the bond extremely loose, allowing the molecular, not ionic, oxygen to be easily released to any part of the body.  After this occurs, some people, with the "S" variety, have them stick together, crumpling up the red blood cell.  Sufferers of sickle-cell disease have mutated forms of--for ten points--what blood protein that carries oxygen in blood and makes blood red.

Answer: hemoglobin (prompt on "Hb", but do not accept "heme")

19. It was not invoked for the first time until thirteen years after it was introduced, and the name we know for it only surfaced after forty years. It was extended and amended by the Drago Doctrine of 1902, issued by Argentinean Foreign Minister Luis Maria Drago; the Olney Interpretation under the Cleveland administration; and the Clark Memorandum in which the Coolidge administration reversed the Roosevelt Corollary. Authored by John Quincy Adams and delivered as part of the 7th State of the Union address, FTP name this landmark statement of foreign policy.

Answer: the Monroe Doctrine

20. She roundly denounces clerics and asks her fellows the question “who painted the lion?” Although she is critical of glossing, she does it herself, picking Bible verses to substantiate her beliefs such as the permissibility of marrying more than once. A fight with her last husband Jenkin leaves her deaf in one ear, and her story includes a transformation of a hag into a beautiful fairy, perhaps indicating her desire to be young again. FTP, name this woman who had five husbands and is on the prowl for the sixth, a character in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Answer: The Wife of Bath

21. The Tanite king Psusennes I added this name as a title to show his connections with an earlier dynasty. This was also the original name of a ruler whose reign was marked by the regency of his stepmother Twosre and the usurper Bay, Merneptah Siptah. The last ruler by this name saw his kingdom divided between a priest of Amun, Herihor, who ruled in the south, and Smendes, founder of the 21st Dynasty, in the north. This name was popular with the rulers of the 20th Dynasty, but the most famous ruler by this name defeated the Sherden pirates, before beating the Hittites at Qadesh. FTP, give this name shared by several Egyptian pharaohs, generally associated with the Hebrew Exodus.

Answer: Ramses [or Ramesses; accept Ramesses-Psusennes before “original name”]

22. His doctoral research focused on wave functions for electrons in salt crystals. He was massively paranoid and submitted his employees to lie detector tests when a secretary pricked her finger on a thumbtack, thinking it was sabotage. A group of eight engineers left when he decided the company should stop researching silicon semiconductors. Perhaps he should have tried to keep them, as they went on to found Fairchild Semiconductor and later some of them (including Gordon Moore) founded Intel. A strong believer in eugenics, he repeatedly declared that remedial education was a waste of time, and he also publicly asserted that black people were genetically inferior. For ten points, name the leader of the Bell Labs team with Bardeen and Brittain that developed the transistor.

Answer: William Shockley

23. Born in 1917 to a Boston Brahmin family, his conscientious objector status kept him out of World War II, during which he published his first book of poems, 1944’s Land of Unlikeliness. He worked briefly in the early fifties at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he taught future Pulitzer Prize Winners W.D. Snodgrass, Donald Justice, and Philip Levine. He himself won two Pulitzers in poetry, one in 1974 for The Dolphin and earlier in 1947 for Lord Weary’s Castle. FTP, name this man of impressive literary pedigree responsible for Life Studies and For The Union Dead.

Answer: Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV

BONI – ROUND 9 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Answer the following about music based on Shakespeare FTPE:

[10] This Italian was a big fan of the Bard, writing the operas Macbeth, Falstaff, and Otello.

Answer: Giuseppe Verdi

[10] Prokofiev, Berlioz, Gounod, and Tchaikovsky all composed music based on this Shakespearean tragedy.

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

[10] This man's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream includes the famous “Wedding March”.

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

2. Today’s honoree, Dennis Haskins a.k.a. Mr. Belding, isn’t the only celebrity with Chattanooga roots. FTPE:

[10] An Oscar nominee for Pulp Fiction, this actor’s role as Mace Windu gave Chattanooga a connection to Star Wars.

Answer: Samuel L. Jackson

[10] Chattanooga’s best-known athlete was this late NFL defensive lineman nicknamed the “Minister of Defense.” A standout with the Eagles and Packers, he was a posthumous first-ballot NFL Hall of Fame selection.

Answer: Reggie White

[10] This R&B singer of “You Make Me Wanna,” “Confessions Part II”, and “My Boo” grew up in Chattanooga, and his mother used to work for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee some years before they hired your genial quizmaster.

Answer: Usher [accept Usher Raymond IV]

3. Name the following organic compounds FTPE:

(10) With the formula C3 H8, this alkane is commonly used in barbecues.

Answer: propane

(10) This cyclic compound with formula C6 H6 is carcinogenic and features alternating double bonds between the carbon atoms.

Answer: benzene

(10) Banned in the European Union in 2007, this compound with formula H2 C O is used to embalm remains.

Answer: formaldehyde

4. FTPE, answer the following about American playwright Arthur Miller:

A. Miller insisted that this play about the Salem witch trials had nothing to do with McCarthyism. Yeah, right.

Answer: The Crucible

B. The title character of Miller’s Death of a Salesman, he grows increasingly depressed over the course of the play about his apparent failure to achieve the American dream and ends up committing suicide.

Answer: Willy Loman

C. Willy Loman’s elder son, he was successful during high school but failed to graduate, after which his life gradually fell apart. Seeing his father cheating on his mother caused him to become disillusioned with Willy.

Answer: Biff Loman

5. Identify these treaties FTPE

(10) Negotiating this treaty, which ended the Russo-Japanese war, earned Theodore Roosevelt a Nobel Peace Prize.

Answer: Treaty of Portsmouth

(10) It gave California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of 4 other states to the U.S. in 1848.

Answer: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

(10) This 1929 treaty created the independent Vatican City

Answer: The Lateran Treaty

6. Identify some things about the human heart FTPE:

[10] Oxygenated blood flows into this chamber of the heart through the mitral valve, then this chamber pumps the blood into the aorta.

Answer: left ventricle [prompt on ventricle]

[10] This wall of tissue divides the heart into left and right halves.

Answer: septum

[10] This cluster of cells in the wall of the right atrium generates electrical impulses and acts as a natural pacemaker.

Answer: sinoatrial node or SA node

7. Answer these questions about colonial American writers for ten points each.

[10] This author of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America was the first published American female writer, known for such poems as “To My Dear and Loving Husband”

Answer: Anne Bradstreet

[10] This governor of Plymouth Colony was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and the author of History of Plimouth Colony.

Answer: William Bradford

[10] This fiery Presbyterian minister is best remembered for his widely circulated sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

Answer: Jonathan Edwards

8. FTPE name these unsuccessful Presidential candidates given some information on the running mate they chose:

[10] When he lost the first time, as a sacrificial lamb candidate opposing FDR’s fourth term, he chose Rep. John Bricker; for his more serious attempt in 1948 he chose California Governor and future Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Answer: Thomas E. Dewey

[10] Facing the popular incumbent Ronald Reagan in 1984, this Democrat chose Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, the first female nominee on a major party ticket.

Answer: Walter Mondale

[10] In a skit on Saturday Night Live, this candidate reenacted the process that led him to choose Sen. Joe Lieberman as though the search was done in the style of ABC’s reality series The Bachelor.

Answer: Al(bert) Gore (Jr.)

9. FTPE Name the number set or sequence.

[10] This sequence begins 1,1,2,3,5,8,13, and is recursively defined as each number is the sum of the two previous in the sequence.

Answer: Fibonacci (numbers or sequence)

[10] This set includes 6, 28, and 428. They are defined as numbers that are the sum of their divisors (for example: 1+2+3=6 and 1*2*3=6)

Answer: Perfect numbers

[10] This set of numbers include every number that can be written in the form a+bi (read: A Plus B I) where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of negative one.

Answer: Complex numbers

10. For 10 points each, identify the following bodies of water:

This reservoir behind Hoover Dam has the largest capacity of any man-made reservoir in the U.S.

Answer: Lake Mead

Of the five Great Lakes, this is the only one that lies wholly within the United States.

Answer: Lake Michigan

The International Hydrographic Organization recently declared the waters surrounding Antarctica a fifth ocean by this name.

Answer: the Southern Ocean

11. FTPE, answer these questions about people dying in the Iliad in ways related to Achilles.

A. The Iliad begins with many of the men in the Greek camps being killed by this god, who afflicts them with disease as punishment for Achilles refusing the request of his priest Chryses to return the priest’s daughter.

Answer: Apollo Smintheus or Phoebus Apollo

B. He dies after being mistaken for Achilles, having donned Achilles armor to lead the Greeks into battle per Nestor’s plan while Achilles remained in his tent.

Answer: Patroclus

C. Deceived by Athena into thinking his brother was with him, he stands, fights and dies alone outside of the walls of Troy, killed by Achilles in revenge for killing Patroclus.

Answer: Hektor

12. We wind up asking about those same old battles from the Hundred Years’ War at least once a year, so let’s mix it up this time. FTPE name these noblemen involved in that war:

a) The eldest son of Edward III of England, he distinguished himself at Crecy and Poitiers but died of natural causes and never assumed the throne. His nickname was coined by the French, and in fact there’s no record of its use in England until a century after his death.

Answer: Edward the Black Prince

b) At Poitiers Edward captured this French king, the son of Philip VI.

Answer: John (or Jean) II (or the Good)

c) This was the French king Joan of Arc saw crowned at Rheims in 1429 after she lifted the siege of Orleans.

Answer: Charles VII

13. Answer some questions about particle physics FTPE:

[10] Like quarks, these particles are fermions, and they include the muon and tau particles and the electron.

Answer: leptons

[10] The first evidence of antimatter was Carl Anderson’s 1932 discovery of this particle, the existence of which had been predicted by Paul Dirac in 1928.

Answer: positron

[10] Arnold Sommerfeld first proposed this class of particles traveling faster than light, which would slow down as they gained energy. Their existence would pretty much trash the theory of special relativity, but the general consensus is that they don’t exist and would be too unstable to consider particles even if they did,

Answer: tachyons

14. It shows many people cowered at the base of a hill, while a man in a white shirt stands with his arms raised. FTPE:

[10] Name this painting, which depicts a firing squad and is subtitled “The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid”.

Answer: The Third of May 1808 [accept May 3, 1808, and any prefix like “Shootings of” or “Executions of”—you’d be amazed how many variants you can find in legitimate sources.]

[10] This Spanish painter of The Naked Maja and The Clothed Maja painted The Third of May 1808.

Answer: Francisco Goya

[10] One of Goya's “Black Paintings”, it shows a Roman god taking a bite out of an arm of a headless body.

Answer: Saturn Devouring His Son (or Saturn Devouring His Child, or any clear equivalent – it was never given a name by Goya)

15. OK, we get it, Gloriana = Elizabeth I. FTPE, answer these questions about “The Faerie Queene.”

A. This female knight is the champion of Chastity and is in love with Artegal, the champion of Justice.

Answer: Britomart

B. This character, a beautiful woman who attempts to deceive Red Crosse and was in truth an ugly witch, represents the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer: Duessa

C. Oh, all right. Who wrote “The Faerie Queene”?

Answer: Edmund Spenser

16. FTPE, given the person considered its founder, name the Christian denomination:

[10] John Wesley

Answer: Methodist Church (accept United Methodist, etc.)

[10] Charles Taze Russell

Answer: Jehovah’s Witnesses (accept Watchtower Bible and Tract Society)

[10] George Fox

Answer: Society of Friends, or Quakers

17. An insane religious leader gathers a group of malcontented peasants and tries to overthrow the reigning dynasty, but is stopped by a massive, brutal retaliation. Repeat as necessary. FTPE, identify these Chinese rebellions.

[10] This rebellion at the turn of the 20th century began with the Righteous and Harmonious Fists trying to drive out foreigners, only to be wiped out by international troops.

Answer: Boxer Rebellion

[10] This 19th century rebellion began with the self proclaimed brother of Christ trying to create a utopian society, and resulted in tens of millions of deaths.

Answer: Taiping Rebellion or Rebellion of Great Peace

[10] This 18th century rebellion saw the rebirth of a namesake 500-year-old society founded by a disenfranchised Buddhist monk. It started as a series of tax protests, but then local mystic Wang Lun told everyone he'd give them salvation if they'd overthrow the government.

Answer: White Lotus Rebellion

18. Identify the following from sociology for 10 points each:

The invisible barrier that keeps qualified members of a work environment from promotion because of age, sex, race or ethnicity.

Answer: Glass Ceiling

Karl Marx’s term for the working class in a capitalist society:

Answer: proletariat

Term coined by Ferdinand Tonnies that describes a large impersonal community with little commitment to the group or consensus on values

Answer: Gesellschaft

19. Answer the following questions related to flight FTPE:

(10) In level flight, lift is equal to this quantity of the aircraft.

Answer: weight

(10) This dimensionless quantity is equal to the ratio of the speed of the aircraft to the speed of sound.

Answer: Mach number

(10) This quantity represents the total time that an aircraft can spend airborne without having to refuel.

Answer: endurance

20. Name these Japanese authors FTPE:

A. This author of the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility attempted a coup at the Ichigaya Camp, then commited seppuku when that failed.

Answer: Mishima Yukio (in either order) (also accept Hiraoka Kimitake)

B. The first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, he commited gas suicide in 1972. He’s famous for Snow Country and The Dancing Girl of Izu.

Answer: Kawabata Yasunari (again, in either order)

C. Author of such cheery works as The Silent Cry and The Deluged Soul, this 1994 Nobel winner hasn’t committed suicide… at least not yet.

Answer: Oe Kenzaburo (in either order)

21. Name the following attractions of the Big Easy FTPE.

A. Hurricanes and hand grenades take a totally different meaning on this thoroughfare, which features a high concentration of bars and strip, I mean, gentlemen’s clubs.

Answer: Bourbon Street (Accept Rue Bourbon)

B. At the center of this French Quarter landmark area next to St. Louis Cathedral is a statue of the general who won the Battle of New Orleans.

Answer: Jackson Square

C. This touristy indoor shopping mall north of the convention center shares its name with a much larger outdoor touristy shopping mall of sorts in San Antonio.

Answer: The Riverwalk

TOSSUPS – ROUND 10 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. In one poem by this man, God cries “It’s gunnery practice at our sea” when the narrator “thought it was the Judgement-day,” while in another, he describes “An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small.” “Channel Firing” and “The Darkling Thrush” came after a drama set during the Napoleonic Wars, which he considers his best: The Dynasts. His heroine includes Sue Bridehead, whose children are killed by Father Time, Elizabeth-Jane who marries Donald Farfrae, and Bathsheba Everdene. FTP, what English author wrote Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd, and The Mayor of Casterbridge?

Answer: Thomas Hardy

2. It was patented in 1910 jointly by its principal namesake and Robert le Rossignol; the second name sometimes used comes from the man who commercialized this process. The U.S patent specified osmium as the catalyst, while the commercial version used nickel and the initial method employed iron. It is said that without this process, Germany would have run out of material for explosives by 1916 because the supply of Chilean saltpeter had been totally cornered by the British. FTP, name this process which chemically combines nitrogen and hydrogen over an iron substrate and under high pressure and temperature to produce ammonia.

Answer: the Haber Process or Haber-Bosch Process

3. He was such a popular king that he was honored with a statue on the Pont Neuf in 1614, only 4 years after his death, and after the French Revolution his statue was the first to be rebuilt in 1818. He is quoted as saying, “Paris is worth a mass,” in reference to his being baptized as a Catholic in order to solidify his reign and unify the country. He produced 6 children with his second wife, including Louis XIII, who succeeded him and weakened his most popular reform. FTP, name this popular king of France, married to Marie de Medici, who in 1598 issued the Edict of Nantes.

Answer: Henry IV; accept Henry III of Navarre

4. Its name means “White Mountain,” a reference to its seasonal snow cover during the Northern Hemisphere winter. Its summit’s location is above 90 percent of the atmosphere’s water vapor, and the low population density of the island surrounding it has made it a popular but controversial location for astronomic observatories such as the Subaru Telescope and Keck Observatory. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base to summit, and Pu’u Wekiu, one of the cinder cones on its summit plateau, is the highest point on the island and in the state. FTP, name this dormant shield volcano on the “Big Island” of Hawai’i.

Answer: Mauna Kea

5. Scholars are uncertain whether the solemn third sections reference the catacombs of San Callisto or of San Sebastiano; the latter would technically be more fitting. While it has no connection to a colder climate, it has been used on film at least twice to accompany such a setting, in a TV production of War and Peace and in the Fantasia 2000 sequence with the whales. Beginning with the sprightly theme for the Villa Borghese and ending with a martial march on the Appian Way, FTP name this symphonic poem by Ottorino Respighi.

Answer: The Pines of Rome or I Pini de Roma

6. Among other things, it provided that the U.S. assumed all Spanish claims to the Oregon Territory, which was still also claimed by Great Britain and Russia. Spain needed to solidify power in its western colonies and forestall open revolt, and Andrew Jackson made that more difficult by launching successful and unprovoked attacks on Spanish forts after chasing the Creek Indians into Spanish Territory. Negotiated for the U.S. by James Monroe’s Secretary of State, FTP name this treaty which set boundaries of New Spain west of the Sabine and south of the Red and Arkansas Rivers, and saw Spain cede Florida to the U.S.

Answer: Adams-Onis Treaty or Treaty of Florida (or Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits Between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty of 1819)

7. As a teenager, the 1896 presidential election inspired this man to write the poem “Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan.” His other lesser-known poems include “To Buddha,” “Galahad,” “Knight Who Perished,” and “To Mary Pickford.” Poems left on his dinner table led him to promote the unknown busboy, Langston Hughes. He describes a titular body of water “creeping through the black /Cutting through the jungle with a golden track” in one of his poems, while two others depict post-mortem activities of a religious leader and an American President. For ten points, name this American poet of “Congo,” “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight,” and “General William Booth Enters Into Heaven.”

Answer: Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

8. This graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, earned a doctorate in physical chemistry in 1941 for a groundbreaking study of carbon and graphite microstructures. After significant work on the tobacco mosaic virus, her work on the polio virus was cut short by the ovarian cancer that ended her life at age 37. It fell to biographer Ann Sayre to challenge James Watson’s accounts and open the debate whether she was undercut by colleague/rival Maurice Wilkins. FTP name this biochemist whose x-ray photographs helped Watson and Crick establish the double helix structure of DNA.

Answer: Rosalind Franklin

9. At the Earl of Shaftesbury’s request, this man wrote the never-ratified Fundamental Constitutions for the Carolinas. His close association with Shaftesbury led to two self-imposed and enlightening semi-exiles to France and Holland. He distinguished secondary qualities of material things shaped by sensual perception, such as color and sound, from primary qualities such as solidity and number. Influenced by Avicenna, he thought the mind at birth was a blank slate, or ‘tabula rasa’, that left the individual to learn everything from the material world. FTP name this author of Two Treatises on Government and Essay Concerning Human Understanding, who inspired Thomas Jefferson by asserting the individual’s right to life, liberty, and property.

Answer: John Locke

10. It is the only other Interstate Highway to intersect I-27. It spans eight states, but all of its spurs save three are in either North Carolina or Tennessee. East of Oklahoma City it generally follows the same path as U.S. 70. It crosses I-35 in Oklahoma City, I-95 in Benson, North Carolina, and I-55 in West Memphis, Arkansas, and merges with I-85 between Greensboro and Hillsborough, North Carolina. Running from Barstow, California to Wilmington, North Carolina, FTP name this 2,555-mile long interstate, a replacement for much of old U.S Route 66.

Answer: Interstate 40

11. Lesser characters in this country include Dubula and Tomlinson, two political colleagues of the protagonist’s brother John, and Napoleon Letsitsi, the agricultural expert hired by James Jarvis to help improve conditions in the village of Ndotsheni.  The story follows the protagonist’s journey to the slums of Johannesburg, where he learns that his sister Gertrude has become a prostitute and his son Absalom has committed murderer.  FTP, name this novel by Alan Paton, centered around pastor Stephen Kumalo’s search for racial justice in South Africa. 

Answer: Cry, the Beloved Country

 

12. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP what is i to the 147th power, recalling that i to the n equals 1 if n is divisible by 4, equals i if the remainder when divided by 4 is 1, equals –1 if the remainder is 2, and equals –i if the remainder is 3?

Answer: -i

13. This actually consisted of four separate battles lumped together under one name. The first battle lasted nearly a month, and failed to break the Gustav line, with 80% of the American infantry who fought it eventually becoming casualties. The second battle, Operation Avenger, was preceded by a costly and controversial bombing based on false assumptions on the placement of a Nazi observation post. It wasn’t until round four, Operation Diadem, that the Allies achieved their mission and took Rome. Ending two days before the Normandy invasion, FTP name this series of battles in 1944 on the Italian Front that saw the destruction of a famous monastery in the second battle.

Answer: Battle(s) of Monte Cassino

14. The Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube is a real-life application of this entity and is able to separate molecules by utilizing the conservative nature of angular momentum. Smoluchowski's trapdoor and Feynman's ratchet and pawl are among the hypothetical re-imaginings of this concept. For 10 points, name this thought experiment developed by its namesake Scottish physicist, a creature which attempts to violate the second law of thermodynamics.

Answer: Maxwell's Demon

15. In order to kill his brother Salmoneus, he had children with his niece Tyro, although this plan failed. He was more successful when he marked the hooves of his cattle to prove that Autolycus was stealing it. Since he slept with Anticlea, it’s conceivable that he, not Laertes, may be Odysseus’s father. It was for his telling Asopus of Aegina’s abduction that he received his first punishment, which he thwarted by outwitting Thanatos. He avoided the second punishment by convincing Persephone that his wife Merope had not performed proper funeral rites for him. However, FTP, what smartass was finally caught and condemned to roll a boulder uphill?

Answer: Sisyphus

16. This work was bought in the 19th century by King William I—possibly because it shows the New Church which housed the remains of William’s 16th century ancestor. The painting is an incredibly accurate rendition of its subject, showing the Kethel Gate on the left, the Schiedam Gate in the middle, and the Rotterdam gate on the right. Perhaps the most notable feature of the work is the lighting, as dark clouds hover over the city creating shadows on the Lange Geer canal while sunlight creeps in over the center of the titular city. This is, FTP, what 16th century work by Jan Vermeer?

Answer: View of Delft

 

17. Her $17,500 purchase of Austin, TX radio station, KTBC eventually turned into $150 million investment for the holdings company co-founded with her husband. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford in 1977, as well as a Congressional Medal in 1984. As First Lady she began a capital beautification project, and expanded the scope by advocating a highway beautification project. For 10 points, A White House Diary, recently published, tracks her and her husband's life in the White House after the assassination of JFK.

Answer: Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson [accept "Lady Bird" Johnson]

18. Persons with this condition are prone to heat prostration in hot weather because it causes excessive secretion of salt by the sweat glands. Some of the early signs include lower than average weight as the child ages, along with multiple loose and especially foul-smelling stools. In 1989 scientists identified the abnormal gene causing this autosomal, recessive defect. Because it causes an excess of chlorine in exocrine glands, males affected by this disease are rendered sterile while all persons must take pancreatic enzymes to assist in digestion. Affecting about 30,000 Americans, FTP, name this disease that inflames and alters mucosal glands, eventually rendering the lungs useless.

Answer: Cystic Fibrosis

19. He suggests in one of his works, "quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus," or "even good Homer nods," and that poetry deserves the same attention that painting received at the time. That work, from which the title of an Archibald MacLeish poem was taken, also introduces the concept of in medias res, and was originally titled Epistles to Piso. For 10 points, name this Roman poet and critic of the Ars Poetica.

Answer: Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]

20. Two remixes of a response to this song, including one naming the original songwriters, appear on the Lords of Acid single Loverboy/Lovergirl. A cover featuring “Dr. Winston O’Boogie”, a pseudonym of one of the songwriters, reached #1 for Elton John in 1975. Two covers by Aimee Mann and The Black Crowes appeared on the I Am Sam soundtrack.  Inspiration for this song was long credited to a drawing made by the son of one of the songwriters, Julian. The singer tells us to follow the titular character “down to a bridge by a fountain/ Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.” FTP name this Beatles song from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, often explained as an overt reference to LSD.

Answer: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”

21. Members of this ethnic group may be descended from inhabitants of western Europe from before the arrival of Indo-European languages, as their language, which they call Euskara, is unrelated to other modern languages of Europe. They have historically been strongly nationalistic, and during the Spanish Civil War, they experienced terrible destruction in the cities of Guernica and Bilbao.   The armed separatist organization ETA seeks an independent nation for, FTP, what ethnic group of northern Spain and southern France?

Answer: Basques 

 

22. His most recent novel is 1999’s Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl, and his historical nonfiction works include 2002’s A Storm in Flanders: Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front and The Crimson Tide: An Illustrated History of Football at the University of Alabama, from whence he graduated in 1965. He has written 7 novels, including 1978’s Better Times Than These, and 1983’s Pulitzer-nominated Conversations with the Enemy, which he co-authored with Duncan Spencer. In 1995, he released a sequel to his most famous novel, ostensibly an attempt to capitalize on the success of a recent film adaptation of that work starring Tom Hanks. FTP, identify this author of Gump & Company and Forrest Gump.

Answer: Winston Groom

23. He argued that Descartes had not considered the possibility of insanity, and that this oversight negated the value of his First Meditation. In his History of Madness, despite being a psychologist, he argued that insanity could not be defined absolutely, and hence argued that all attempts to help the mentally ill were really forms of mind control. He believed AIDS to be a fabrication of the medical community to suppress homosexuality, lending a sad irony to his AIDS-related death in 1984. FTP, name this French philosopher, author of Discipline and Punish and A History of Sexuality.

Answer: Michel Foucault

BONI – ROUND 10 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. FTPE identify the law of thermodynamics:

[10] The entropy of the universe tends to increase.

Answer: Second Law of Thermodynamics

[10] If two thermodynamic systems are each in equilibrium with a third thermodynamic system, then they are in equilibrium with each other.

Answer: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

[10] This law is often referred to as the law of conservation of energy.

Answer: First Law of Thermodynamics

2. Given a description, FTPE name these works by Stephen Crane.

[10] Henry Fleming tries to handle the battles of the Civil War in this, most famous, Crane work.

Answer: The Red Badge of Courage

[10] This short story follows a town marshal named Jack as he waits for a train in the titular Texas town.

Answer: “Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” (accept “The Bride…”

[10] This story follows the trials and tribulations of the title prostitute up until her death.

Answer: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

3. The early 1950’s in the United States were, well, kind of bad. Answer the following about a major reason FTPE:

[10] With the help of staff attorney Roy Cohn, this Wisconsin Senator made unsubstantiated accusations about scads of Communists infiltrating Federal agencies, ruining many careers in the process.

Answer: Joseph McCarthy

[10] This CBS newscaster used an episode of his show, See it Now, to criticize the practices of McCarthyism by focusing on the dismissal of an Air Force officer for maybe being a communist.

Answer: Edward R. Murrow

[10] This attorney for the Army basically ended McCarthyism by going right after the Senator during Senate hearings, responding to non-germane character assassination saying, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

Answer: Joseph Welch

4. Name these rivers in South America, for 10 points each:

(10) The chief river of Venezuela and Colombia, its basin is home to one of the rarest reptiles in the world, its namesake crocodile.

Answer: Orinoco River

(10) The second longest river in South America, its tributaries include the Paraguay River. It merges with the Uruguay River to form the Rio de la Plata.

Answer: Parana River

(10) Beginning at the Chilean volcano Tinguiririca, it flows east southeast through Argentina for about 625 miles and forms the border between the Rio Negro and La Pampa provinces. It shares its name with two rivers in the U.S. – one in Texas and another flowing southwest from the Rockies.

Answer: Colorado River

5. Answer the following about a certain polytheistic religion, FTPE:

Adherents of this religious, literally “the Way of the Gods,” worship entities called “kami” which are often imprecisely called spirits.

Answer: Shinto

This Shinto deity, a sun goddess, was born from the left eye when her dad Izanagi washed his face. For your interest, her brother Susanowo was born from Izanagi’s nose.

Answer: Amaterasu Omikami (accept Tensho-Daijin)

This gateway into a Shinto shrine is considered the boundary between the religious and secular spheres.

Answer: Torii

6. Given a short description, name the animal that left this planet far too soon for ten points each.

[10] Though the origin of its name is unclear, this flightless bird was hunted to extinction on its home island of Mauritius.

Answer: Dodo

[10] This former resident of South Africa was distinct for looking very much like your standard horse with the exception of having a zebra-stripe pattern on the front half of its body.

Answer: Quagga

[10] Both the Desert and Pig-footed species of this marsupial met their ends in the mid 20th century, though most never heard of the species until a 1996 Sony video game.

Answer: Bandicoot

7. Don’t bother looking for a connection; we combined parts from three totally unrelated pop culture boni. FTPE:

1. This 2006 release from Fat Joe refers to his ability to perform this with dollar bills when visiting clubs with money.

Answer: Make it Rain

2. Former Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner was paired with former world champion Tai Babilonia on this Fox reality show, where they finished third out of six couples. Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler won the competition.

Answer: Skating With Celebrities

3. Philadelphia Inquirer columnist John Grogan struck gold in 2005 with this bestselling book about his yellow Lab.

Answer: Marley and Me

8. Given a plot description, name the short story by Edgar Allan Poe FTPE.

A. The main character kills an old man because he cannot stand the sight of his eye and disposes of the body beneath the floorboards. His madness becomes complete when he is disturbed by a noise that only he can hear.

Answer: “The Tell-Tale Heart”

B. Prince Prospero and a thousand other nobles take refuge in an abbey to escape the terrible plague that is sweeping through the land. One night, the Prince decides to entertain everyone by throwing a masquerade ball. Much to everyone’s horror, an uninvited guest appears.

Answer: “The Masque of the Red Death”

C. The narrator is a drunken abuser of animals. He hangs his first cat from a tree and tries to kill his second one, but his wife stops him, so he kills her instead and conceals her body inside of a wall. A meowing sound leads the police to discover that the narrator had accidentally walled up the cat along with his wife.

Answer: “The Black Cat”

 

9. Name the following presidents of Egypt for ten points each.

[10] Helping to depose King Farouk I and, in turn, President Muhammad Naguib, he took power in 1954. He advocated a policy of Pan-Arabism during his rule in Egypt, which included the Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War.

Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser

[10] He restored some morale to the Arab world after capturing some territory in the Sinai Peninsula during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. His signing of a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 led to his assassination in 1981.

Answer: Anwar El Sadat

[10] Currently in his fifth term, it’s rumored that this President of Egypt is grooming his son Gamal to succeed him, but he allowed multiple candidates to run against him in the 2005 presidential election.

Answer: Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak

10. The left-most portion of this painting shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the rest deals with sin and its consequences. FTPE:

[10] Name this triptych, whose middle panel depicts many nude men and women frolicking, and whose right-most portion shows a nightmarish vision of Hell.

Answer: The Garden of Earthly Delights

[10] The Garden of Earthly Delights was created by this Dutch painter of Seven Deadly Sins.

Answer: Hieronymus Bosch

[10] This Bosch work shows a group of people, including a nun and a monk, eating, drinking, and singing while their vessel drifts aimlessly. It shares its name with a Katharine Anne Porter novel and a Robert Plant song.

Answer: Ship of Fools

11. You have ten seconds per part. FTPE evaluate these integrals:

A. sin x (sine of x)

Answer: -cos x ( negative cosine of x)

b. x^5 ( x to the fifth)

Answer: x^6 / 6 ( x to the sixth divided by 6)

C. 1/x (one divided by x)

Answer: ln(abs x) ( natural log of the absolute value of x)

12. The US Armed Forces like naming their forces almost as much as they like fighting people. FTPE:

[10] With a constant rotation of inept generals such as Pope, Burnside, and Hooker, this army was the main adversary of Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.

Answer: Army of the Potomac

[10] Nicknamed from their arm patch, this is the unofficial name for the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army.

Answer: Big Red One

[10] Now the informal name of the Vermont National Guard, this was the name of the Vermont militia in the American Revolution led by Ethan Allen.

Answer: Green Mountain Boys

13. Given a definition, identify the chemistry term for ten points each.

[10] This type of mixture contains the same amount of L- and D- enantiomers.

Answer: Racemic Mixture

[10] In this process, a solid completely bypasses the liquid phase and becomes a gas.

Answer: Sublimation

[10] This term is given to an atom or a compound with an unpaired election, making it highly reactive.

Answer: Free Radical

 

14. Answer the following about a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, for 10 points each:

[10] He wrote a series of stories about Jesse B. Semple, but is better known for such poetry as the seminal collection Weary Blues.

Answer: Langston Hughes

[10] Asking a series of rhetorical questions about the title concept, at the end Hughes suggests that it might just explode.

Answer: "Harlem: A Dream Deferred"

[10] Hughes collaborated on the play Mule Bone with this author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Answer: Zora Neale Hurston

15. Name the following masters of Jazz for ten points each.

[10] This contemporary jazz trumpeter has won nine jazz Grammys; he added the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997 for his oratorio “Blood on the Fields.”

Answer: Wynton Marsalis

[10] One of the fathers of the bebop movement, this pianist brought his awkward but inventive improvisational style to such albums as Straight No Chaser. His compositions included “Epistrophy” and “ ’Round Midnight”

Answer: Thelonious Sphere Monk

[10] Though he now features his sons in his quartet, his original crew had the hits “Blue Rondo á la Turk” and “Take Five” from the album Time Out.

Answer: Dave Brubeck

16. FTPE, name these works by Euripides given a description of their titular protagonist or protagonists.

A. After she is betrayed by her husband Jason, she kills her children as well as Glauce, the woman Jason intends to marry, and Glauce’s father Creon.

Answer: Medea

B. Swearing chastity in honor of Artemis, this man is punished by Aphrodite, who incites his stepmother Phaedra to an incestuous lust for him, whereupon Phaedra frames him for rape, leading to his death at the hands of his father Theseus.

Answer: Hippolytus

C. This play describes what happens to various members of the titular group as they are divided up amongst the Greeks, including Hecuba, Cassandra, Andromache and Helen.

Answer: The Trojan Women

 

17. Name the following electrical quantities FTPE

(10) This quantity measures the amount of charge stored for a given potential. Its unit is the Farad.

Answer: capacitance

(10) This quantity is the reciprocal of resistance. Its unit is the siemens.

Answer: conductance

(10) This quantity represents how strongly a material resists electric current. Its unit is the ohm-meter.

Answer: resistivity

18. FTPE, name these dynasties of Imperial China.

A. The first imperial dynasty, it began the Great Wall. 

               Answer: Qin or Chin

B. Sometimes called the Mongol Dynasty, it was established by Kublai Khan and ruled from 1271 to 1368.

               Answer: Yuan

C. The last imperial dynasty, started by foreigners from Manchu, it lasted from 1644 to 1911.

               Answer: Qing or Ching

19. John D. MacDonald and Harry Kemelman were her inspirations for her best known mystery book series.  For ten points each--

[10] This author drew upon MacDonald's recurring color themes and Kemelman's recurring days to help her write the first of the "alphabet books".  She started in 1982 with "A" is for Alibi and has published at an average rate of one book a year since then.

Answer: Sue Grafton

[10] This fictional detective has served as the protagonist in all twenty of her "alphabet books".  She is a private investigator residing in the town Santa Teresa, a fictionalized version of Grafton's place of residence, Santa Barbara,.

Answer: Kinsey and/or Millhone

[10] This is Grafton’s latest work, published in November 2007.  After the protagonist's neighbor, Gus, injures himself, Solana Rojas is hired to care for him -- but is actually a sociopath who stole that identity to become a private caregiver.

Answer: "T" is for Trespass

20. Given a description, name the Jewish philosopher for ten points each.

[10] He described the two paths of religious faith as “turning-toward” and “turning-back” in his book I and Thou.

Answer: Martin Buber [props to Wally Edmondson for dubbing him “the only Jewish Fraggle”]

[10] His Mishneh Torah greatly influenced Judaism from the 12th century onward.

Answer: Moses Maimonides

[10] This Danish author of Ethics was generally condemned for his concept of Pantheism in Judaism.

Answer: Baruch Spinoza

21. It’s late and we’re tired. FFPE and a bonus for all five, name the composers known as Russia’s Mighty Five.

Answers: Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin

TOSSUPS – ROUND 11 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. This author found his earliest successes as an essayist, notably with his "Chinese Letters", which were included in his collection "The Citizen of the World". He is mentioned frequently as a close friend in Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Jonson. His most famous poem begins “Sweet Auburn! Lovliest village on the plain”, and laments that “all these charms are fled” due to the population shifts associated with the early industrial revolution. One of his comedies centers on the Hardcastle family’s attempt to persuade Charles Marlow to marry their daughter by pretending their manor is an inn. For ten points, name this author of She Stoops to Conquer, "The Deserted Village", and The Vicar of Wakefield.

Answer: Oliver Goldsmith

2. The toxic pyran-class of these compounds have inexplicably been found in rainwater samples from Los Angeles, while all macrocyclic musks are members of this class of compounds. Hydronium reacted with alkynes produces these compounds by way of tautomerization and this class of compounds also results from the reaction of a secondary alcohol and Jones reagent. They may be converted to alkanes using either a strong base or acid in the Clemmenson or Wolff-Kishner reactions. They are distinguished from a similar class of compounds by Tollens’ reagent because it does not produce a “silver mirror”. Lacking the hydrogen atoms required for aldehydes, this is, FTP, what class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, the general formula of which is R1COR2 [R-sub-one C O R-sub-2]?

Answer: Ketone

3. The first time this man got a leading role in a film was in 1942’s Border Incident, starring alongside George Murphy. He won a supporting Emmy in 1978 for the miniseries version of How the West Was Won. Although he played the grandfather in the last two Spy Kids films, most of his recent roles have been voicework, not unlike his familiar 1975 commercial praising the Chrysler Cordoba’s “Corinthian leather”. Also playing Victor Ludwig in The Naked Gun, for ten points, name this Mexican actor most famous for his roles as Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island as well as two Star Trek stints as the infamous Khan.

Answer: Ricardo Montalban

4. This conflict included an unsuccessful siege of Fort Nanawa, where Lt. Col. Luis Irrazábal's 5th Division ran out of ammo after flooded roads disrupted supply lines, but small-scale air drops sustained them until reinforcements arrived. The losing side got no favors from their mercenary commander, Hans von Kundt, who was defeated at Boqueron by Gen. Jose Estigarriba. The war saw the first widespread use of air strikes, as well as widespread guerilla combat that helped the smaller country hold onto the namesake region, which was believed to hold oil deposits as well as providing a river route to the Atlantic Ocean via the Paraguay River. FTP name this war between Paraguay and Bolivia during the 1930’s.

Answer: Chaco (or Gran Chaco) War

5. Lesser-known works by this man, who did not follow his father’s rabbinical vocation, include Professional Ethics and Civil Morals and On the Normality of Crime. He wrote Rules of Sociological Method and Elementary Forms of Religious Life, and also founded the journal L’Annee Sociologique. This uncle of Marcel Mauss set forth the concept of anomie, one of four divisions of the titular concept in one of his works along with altruistic, egoistic, and fatalistic. For ten points, name this French sociologist, author of The Division of Labor in Society and Suicide.

Answer: Emile Durkheim

6. German examples of this genre, known as Schelmenroman, include a novel about Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob von Grimmelhausen called The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus. Examples in English include works by such authors as Tobias Smollet, and Alain Lesage's Gil Blas is a French example. An important element in this genre, more prevalent in the Spanish form is the presence of religious redemption from delinquency. Exemplified by Lazarillo de Tormes, for 10 points, name this genre that details the misadventures of a roguish character or anti-hero.

Answer: picaresque novel

7. The Magnuson Act of 1943 relaxed it somewhat, in recognition of U.S. alliances in World War II, and it was effectively ended in 1965 by the Hart-Celler Act . Its principal sponsor was California Sen. John F. Miller, and its leading advocates included Gov. John Bigler and California Workingmen’s Party leader Dennis Kearney. The Geary Act of 1892 not only renewed it after its planned ten-year sunset, but added a requirement for a residence certificate for those who had already immigrated. FTP name this 1882 act in response to the influx of Chinese workers into the western U.S.

Answer: Chinese Exclusion Act

8. This mountain’s massif comprises twelve subpeaks, which combine to give it a base circumference larger than any other mountain in the world. It dwarves the surrounding glaciers of Kluane National Park, and tectonic activity continually forces it upward. Part of the St. Elias range, its proximity to the Gulf of Alaska produces snow storms and some of the coldest temperatures outside of Antarctica. It still bears the name of a geologist and surveyor, after public pressure forced Jean-Louis Chretien to back off his attempt in 2000 to rename it Mount Trudeau. FTP, name this second highest mountain in North America, the tallest in Canada.

Answer: Mount Logan

[Ed. Note: In 2006 Trudeau’s name was finally attached to a mountain, but not that one.]

9. The Bond type of this property applies to astronomical bodies; Enceladus, a moon of Saturn has the highest value in the solar system. The bi-directional reflectance distribution function is a better measure of the scattering properties of a surface than this property, also known as the directional hemispherical reflectance. It is formally defined as the ratio of diffusely reflected radiation to incident electromagnetic radiation. Coming from the Latin word for white, for 10 points, name this property which is the ability of an object to reflect diffused light.

Answer: albedo

10. The theme that pervades this musical work had already been used by its composer in his cantata Herminie, written for the Prix de Rome in 1828. The second movement utilizes two harps, and is a waltz entitled “The Ball”. This is preceded by “Dreams, Passions” which introduces the theme. Near the end of the fourth movement the theme reappears as a clarinet solo and is immediately followed by a short chord representing the fall of a guillotine blade, and that movement, “March to the Scaffold”, is followed by “Dream of a Witches' Sabbath”. FTP name this five-movement work, representing the opium-induced dreams about a man's “Beloved”, composed by Hector Berlioz.

Answer: Symphonie fantastique (or Fantastic Symphony or An Episode in the Life of an Artist)

11. The author of this bill, Rexford Tugwell, opposed the appointment of the man charged with executing it, George Peek, but Peek’s appointment shored up support from conservative factions which supported the earlier, abortive McNary-Haugen bill. An amendment authored by Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma granted the president considerable inflationary powers and helped to propel this act through Congress, just barely in time for the World Economic Conference, the deadline Roosevelt had set. Though later ruled unconstitutional in U.S. v. Butler, it was the first New Deal legislation proposed to Congress. Introducing the concept of “domestic allotment”, this is, FTP, what controversial law which paid farm subsidies to reduce production of certain crops?

Answer: Agricultural Adjustment Act [or Agricultural Adjustment Administration or AAA]

12. It is a type of epicycloid with one cusp that is a plane curve traced by a point on a circle rolling on the outside of a circle of equal radius. Rho equals one plus cosine theta is an example of one. FTP name this type of curve named for its resemblance to a heart.

Answer: cardioid

13. His first poetry collection, The Torrent and the Night Before, included a poem dedicated to a notable influence on his poetry, “George Crabbe”. His later life was taken up with blank verse narratives, such as King Jasper and Dionysus in Doubt, and in 1910, he published his first long monograph, Captain Craig. His most critically successful collection was 1916's The Man Against the Sky, and he also wrote on the legends of King Arthur in works such as Merlin and Tristram. With his best known works found in the collections The Children of the Night and The Town Down the River, this is, FTP, what American writer, best remembered for the poems “Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy”?

Answer: Edwin Arlington Robinson

14. One figure in this work suggests that tyranny, out of necessity, must oppose friendship and the bonds of society, citing the stories of Alcestis, Aristigeiton, and Harmodius. Another character declares that he is unable to ascribe anything untrue while offering praise, and also describes his instruction in appreciation of beauty by a wise woman, Diotima of Mantinea. It includes a description of humanity descended from quadruped hermaphrodites by Aristophanes and concludes with the raucous arrival of Alcibiades, who praises Socrates and describes his attempts to woo him. FTP, name this Platonic dialogue on love, whose name originally referred to a drinking party but now is used for serious discussions.

Answer: Symposium [or Symposion]

15. Some recent research has indicated that the fragmentation of this organelle may advance the aging process.  Their structure includes a fibrillar center, a granular component and rDNA. Though their existence has been known since 1774, when Felice Fontana identified them in eels, their primary function was not identified until the 1960s.  Primarily responsible for the packaging and assembly of ribosome components, for 10 points, name these dense and approximately spherical sub-organelles found in a similarly named organelle, the name of which comes from the Latin for "kernel."

Answer: nucleoli [or nucleolus; do not accept nucleus]

16. His later projects included illustrating poet Frank O’Hara’s book In Memory of My Feelings and creating prints to accompany Samuel Beckett’s Frizzles. One of his first jobs was creating window displays for Tiffany’s along with Robert Rauschenberg, who later helped popularize this man’s works. In the 1950’s, heavily influenced by Duchamp’s The Large Glass, this man invented a new style utilizing simple and familiar subject matter to emphasize the process of painting itself; examples included Target, Number 7, 0 Through 9, and White Over Red. FTP name this American artist most known for his various paintings of the American flag.

Answer: Jasper Johns

17.  Chapter Five of this book warns the rich to mourn their impending doom, going on to urge patience on the part of its hearers in waiting for the Second Coming. It ends with an exhortation to pray in times of trouble and sing songs in times of joy. Comparing the tongue to a rudder and a fire, it warns that said organ is a “restless evil, full of deadly poison.” Immediately preceding the two epistles of Peter, FTP, name this book of the New Testament which says that “faith without works is dead” in Chapter Two.

Answer: The Book of Saint James

18. Its name is often preceded by the word “mass” in order to avoid confusion with another physical property. When preceded by the word “polar,” it is defined as an object’s resistance to torsion. It is directly proportional to the mass of an object as well as the square of the distance between the object’s center of mass and the axis of rotation. It describes how difficult it is to change an object’s angular momentum about an axis. Often confused with the second moment of area, FTP, name this property which plays a similar role to mass in angular mechanics and is represented by the letter I.

Answer: Moment of Inertia

19. The two protagonists of this novel are survivors of a plane hijacking, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha. The Italian and Norwegian translators of this book survived assassination attempts, but Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator, was stabbed to death. The fatwa issued against the author can never be withdrawn, because the issuer, Ayatollah Khomeini is dead. FTP, what is this novel by Salman Rushdie, considered blasphemous to Muslim religion?

Answer: The Satanic Verses

20. People involved in this series of conflicts included Governors Robert Fitzroy and George Grey, as well as Te Rauparaha, Pakehas, and Hone Heke. It is difficult to separate it into distinct phases, but there had already been 25 years of intertribal bloodshed before 1840, when Edward Gibbon Wakefield upped the ante with the first British settlement. Although Governor William Hobson guaranteed protection of indigenous land interests in the Treaty of Waitangi, repeated violations by British settlers led to conflicts in such places as Puketutu and Kororareka. FTP name this series of 19th century wars commonly named for the indigenous people whose undoing started with the settlement at Wellington.

Answer: Maori Wars [or New Zealand Land Wars, or for that matter anything else pairing the words Maori and/or New Zealand with some synonym for conflict. Whatever that phrase is, some source undoubtedly used it.]

21. The leader of this country’s Agrarian Union created the Orange Guard to combat communism; that leader was later ousted when a coup brought the Democratic Concord to power in this nation. The Treaty of Niš was signed with a neighbor by this country’s then-premier, Alexander Stamboliski, resulting in his death at the hands of the terrorist group IMRO. Stamboliski had come to power following the Radomir Rebellion, a soldier’s mutiny which also prompted this country to become the first Central Power to sign an armistice and later the Treaty of Neuilly. It had joined the Central Powers after it was forced to sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War and ceding its claims to Macedonia and southern Dobruja. Varna, Burgas, and Stara Zagora are notable cities in, FTP, this South Slavic nation on the Black Sea with capital at Sofia.

Answer: Bulgaria

22. It was adapted into The Power of Myth, a 1988 documentary for PBS hosted by Bill Moyers, which featured extensive interviews with the author, who died the previous year. Inspirations for the work came from the author’s study of James Joyce, and comparison of various pieces of Native American folklore. Sections in it address the receiving of a boon, the role of mentor, and the call to adventure. For ten points, identify this work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell.

Answer: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

23. Both commanders at this pivotal battle of the French and Indian War were mortally wounded, with James Wolfe dying on the battlefield and the Marquis de Montcalm succumbing to his injuries the next morning. Although a siege had lasted for 3 months, this decisive battle involved fewer than 10,000 total troops and lasted less than an hour. FTP, identify this 1759 battle outside Quebec City with a name reminiscent of the patriarch of the Israelites and Ishmaelites.

Answer: Battle of the Plains of Abraham

BONI – ROUND 11 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Given some information, name these presidential assassins or assassin wannabes for 10 points each; if you need who they shot you will only receive 5 points.

[10] For 10 points, this son of a Polish immigrant was a steel worker and admirer of anarchists like Emma Goldman. He moved to Buffalo shortly before assassinating his target.

[5] For 5 points, William McKinley

Answer: Leon Frank Czolgosz [accept lenient pronunciations]

[10] For 10 points, this man’s last stage performance was as Duke Pescara in the play The Apostate

[5] For 5 points, Abraham Lincoln

Answer: John Wilkes Booth

[10] For 10 points, this young man from a wealthy background became obsessed with the film Taxi Driver, especially one of its stars, Jodie Foster.

[5] For 5 points, Ronald Reagan

Answer: John Hinckley

2. Albert Einstein described the origin of Earth's magnetic fields as only slightly less mysterious than love and hate.  Answer the following regarding a solution, for 10 points each:

[10] Its mysteriousness begins with the fact that the core temperature of the earth is generally higher than this point, whereby materials lose their characteristic ferromagnetic ability.

Answer: Curie temperature or point

[10] One explanation is that the rotation of the earth causes convection of molten iron creating regenerating magnetic fields; the name refers to a type of electric motor which also utilizes mechanical rotation.

Answer: Dynamo theory

[10] The North-South polarization of the magnetic field of the Earth can be explained by using this effect, which is the apparent deflection of moving objects when viewed in a rotating frame of reference; it was named after a 19th century French Engineer.

Answer: Coriolis Effect

3. Given a list of poems they wrote, name the Cavalier poet FTPE:

A. “Upon a Child that Died,” “The Pillar of Flame,” “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time”

Answer: Robert Herrick

B. “The Grasshopper,” “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,” “To Althea from Prison”

Answer: Richard Lovelace

C. “A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme,” “Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell,” “Song; To Celia”

Answer: Ben Jonson

4. He earned his ichthyological nickname while head coach of the New England Patriots.  FTPE:

[10] Called the "Big Tuna," this man won two Super Bowl rings with the New York Football Giants as head coach.

Answer: Bill Parcells

[10] Parcells recently became Executive Vice President of Football Operations for this team that earned the worst record in the NFL in the 2007-2008 season; this should have been expected with a quarterback named Lemon.

Answer: Miami or Dolphins

[10] Many were surprised when Parcells left the Dallas Cowboys after the 2006 season. Succeeding him was this journeyman, usually a defensive coordinator who had head coaching stints with Buffalo and Denver.

Answer: Wade Phillips

 

5. Italian Sculptors and Sculptures FTPE:

[10] This circa 1440 work depicting a victorious biblical scene was the first freestanding nude bronze since antiquity.

Answer: David

[10] This 15th century Italian sculptor of the bronze David is also known for an equestrian statue, the Gattamelata

Answer: Donatello

[10] Almost 500 years later, this Italian futurist sculpted the dynamic freestanding bronze Unique Forms of Continuity in Space; his other works include The City Rises

Answer: Umberto Boccioni

6. Confederate Generals of the Civil War, for 10 points each:

[10] Lee called this man his "Old War Horse," wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness; he predicted the futility of the badly conceived Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.

Answer: James Longstreet

[10] This Confederate General was killed at the Battle of Shiloh, representing the highest-ranking officer to die in the Civil War, either Union or Confederate.

Answer: Albert Sydney Johnston

[10] Upon A.S. Johnston’s death, command at Shiloh passed to this North Carolina-born general, who led a failed invasion of Kentucky, failed to take advantage of his win at Chickamauga, and lost the Battle of Chattanooga.

Answer: Braxton Bragg

7. Brains! Name these tasty parts of the Brain, for 10 points each:

[10] Located within the medial temporal lobes are these almond shaped structures linked to autonomic responses associated with fear along with tracking emotional reactions

Answer: Amygdala

[10] Adjacent to the Amygdala is this horseshoe shaped sheet of neurons that functions in the processes of spatial navigation and long term memory

Answer: Hippocampus

[10] The Amygdala and the Hippocampus are part of this larger system which generally deals with emotions, behavior functions, and memory in the brain.

Answer: Limbic System

8. FTPE, from a brief description, name these creatures Apollo loved:

A. Perhaps his most famous female love, this nymph ran to escape Apollo and was changed into a tree only to have him take her leaves for a crown.

Answer: Daphne

B. She agreed to become Apollo’s lover in exchange for the gift of prophecy. However, when she backed out, he made it so that nobody would believe her prophecies.

Answer: Cassandra

C. This lover was killed by a discus blown off course by Zephyrus, the west wind, who was jealous. Apollo then created a flower from his blood.

Answer: Hyacinth (-us)

9. Give the following poetic forms, for 10 points each:

[10] These fourteen-line poems in iambic pentameter come in two varieties, the Petrarchan and Shakespearean, distinguished by differing rhyming schemes.

Answer: Sonnet

[10] Of many Japanese poetic forms, this form of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables is the one most familiar in the West.

Answer: Haiku

[10] Consisting of eight lines usually in iambic pentameter with an a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c rhyming scheme, Ariosto's Orlando Innamorato and Lord Byron's Don Juan are two works written in this form.

Answer: Ottava Rima

10. FTSNOP answer the following about a mountain range in Africa:

[10] For 10 points, this 2,400 km range in Northern Africa has its highest peak at Jebel Toubkal, and separates the Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines from the Sahara Desert.

Answer: Atlas Mountains

[5/5/ 10] Name the three primary countries through which the Atlas Mountain range runs. You’ll get five each or 20 for all three correct.

Answer: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

11. An example of one is manganese dioxide in the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.  For 10 points each:

[10] This general class of compounds is not consumed by the reaction they participate in and generally seek to speed up the reaction rate.

Answer: Catalysts

[10] Catalysts manage to speed up reactions by lowering this quantity

Answer: Activation Energy

[10] While studying the catalysis of hydrogen peroxide, this 19th century Swedish chemist known for inventing modern chemical notation coined the term "catalyst."

Answer: Jöns Jacob Berzelius

12. Lasting from 218-201 BCE, answer the following about the War against Hannibal, for 10 points each:

[10] This war featured Hannibal Barca's famed overland expedition to Italy and though he eventually lost the war utterly, he attained significant victories at Lake Trasimene and Trebia

Answer: 2nd Punic War [prompt on just Punic War]

[10] This strategy of the Roman armies sought to avoid pitched battles, rather preferring to fight a slow war of attrition.  Named after a dictator of the Roman Republic it has since gained new meanings in the cultural realm.

Answer: Fabian Strategy

[10] This other major defeat of the Romans occurred at this site in Southeastern Italy in 216 BC; having recently dropped the supposedly unsuccessful Fabian strategy, they sent a large force to be slaughtered by Hannibal's double-envelopment strategy.

Answer: Battle of Cannae

13. It was made into an Oscar-winning 2007 film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem. FTSNOP:

[5] For 5 points, name this 2005 novel about a drug-deal gone awry along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Answer: No Country for Old Men

[5] For 5 points, No Country for Old Men was written by this author of The Border Trilogy, as well as The Road.

Answer: Cormac McCarthy

[10] For 10 points, McCarthy took the title from a line of poetry written by this Irish poet of such works as "The Second Coming" and "Easter, 1916"

Answer: William Butler Yeats

[10] For 10 points, give this Yeats poem, from which the title is taken; it is about a man who has arrived in the title city.

Answer: "Sailing to Byzantium"

14. Name these operas of the 20th century, for 10 points each:

[10] This one act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti was first produced for TV and debuted on Christmas Eve, 1951.  It tells the story of a boy with a penchant for tall tales and his encounter with the title group.

Answer: Amahl and the Night Visitors

[10] Composed by John Adams with libretto by Alice Goodman, this 1987 opera depicts the events of a landmark 1972 Presidential visit

Answer: Nixon in China

[10] Based on an unfinished play by Georg Buchner, this depressing story about a jealous guy who stabs his beloved Marie to death and then drowns himself was the first opera by Alban Berg.

Answer: Wozzeck

15. Consider the complex number 5 + 2i (read as: five plus two i). FTPE:

a. What is the conjugate of 5 + 2i?

Answer: 5 – 2i (read as: five minus two i)

b. You have ten seconds for computation. What is the product of 5 + 2i and its conjugate?

Answer: 29

c. You have fifteen seconds for computation. Divide 3 by the complex number 5 + 2i, remembering that the answer must not have an imaginary number in the denominator.

Answer: 15/29 + 6/29i (read as: fifteen twenty-ninths over six twenty-ninths i, or as: fifteen over twenty-nine plus six over twenty nine i) or (15+6i) / 29 (read as: the quantity fifteen plus six i divided by 29)

16. FTPE name these holy texts from a brief description:

[10] Attributed to Lao-Tzu, this is the basic text of Taoism. Its title roughly translates as “The Way and Its Power.”

Answer: Tao te Ching [do not accept I Ching, which is something completely different]

[10] The Samhita contains four of these sacred scriptures of Hinduism, including the Rig and the Atharva.

Answer: Veda(s); accept anything reasonable using the adjective form “Vedic”

[10] Separate from the Hebrew Bible, this compilation of rabbinical teachings is made up of the Mishna, or the oral laws themselves, and a commentary, the Gemara.

Answer: Talmud

17. FTPE, given a brief plot description of a popular anime of the 2000s aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, give the name of the series.

Mugen and Jin accompany Fuu across Japan to find the Sunflower Samurai.

              Answer: Samurai Champloo

Brothers Al and Ed Elric attempt to restore Al's missing body and Ed's missing limbs.

               Answer: Fullmetal Alchemist

Genius student Light attempts to rid the world of evil men with the power of a death god and is resisted by L, M, and N.

               Answer: Death Note

18. In recent years, a few former Soviet republics have experienced revolutions. FTPE:

[10] Corrupt president Eduard Shevardnadze was removed from office in this country during the Rose Revolution, led by current president Mikheil Saakashvili, in 2003. Saakashvili is now facing his own allegations of corruption and inaction.

Answer: Georgia or Sakartvelo

[10] Viktor Yushchenko, leader of the Orange Revolution, alleged that this country’s 2004 presidential election was rigged in favor of opponent Viktor Yanukovych. After protests, its Supreme Court invalidated the election, and Yushchenko won the office in a revote.

Answer: Ukraine or Ukrayina

[10] Perception that Askar Akayev was corrupt manifested itself in parliamentary elections in this Central Asian country in 2005. Protests arose in March 2005, and Akayev fled the country and resigned a month later. Kurmanbek Bakiyev was elected president that July.

Answer: Kyrgyzstan or Kyrgyz Republic / Kirghizia / Kirgiz Respublikasi / Kyrgyzskaya Respublika

19. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Lit, Lit, Lit! Name some stuff about Australian literature for ten points each.

[10] The unofficial national anthem of Australia, this folk song written by Banjo Patterson chronicles a man who commits suicide and then haunts the lake he drowned in.

Answer: Waltzing Matilda

[10] This author of Voss and The Living and the Dead has been the only Australian to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Answer: Patrick White

[10] The 1982 Booker Prize given to this Thomas Keneally work, later adapted into an Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg film, generated some controversy since it was stylistically a novel but factual in content.

Answer: Schindler’s Ark – yes, accept Schindler’s List because it’s been republished by that title

20. Give the following about a neighboring galaxy, for 10 points each:

[10] This member of the Local group, named after a Portuguese Explorer, along with its diminutive partner was the sight of a type II supernova in 1987.  The Persian astronomer Al Sufi called it the White Ox.

Answer: Large Magellanic Cloud [prompt on Magellanic Cloud]

[10] The Large Magellanic Cloud or LMC is this type of galaxy:

Answer: irregular galaxy

[10] Located in the LMC is this Nebula, NGC 2070.  This apparent magnitude +8 nebula is rather luminous and is approximately 1000 light-years across; its spidery appearance gives it its appellation.

Answer: Tarantula Nebula

21. It was precipitated when Charles XII of Sweden ascended to the crown at the age of 14, prompting Norway and Denmark to take advantage of weakened leadership to try to gain more territory. FTPE

[10] What is this 1700 to 1721 war also involving Russia's bid to seize more Scandinavian territory?

Answer: The Second (or Great) Northern War

[10] The actual hostilities began with an invasion begun by this country, which would back out of the war a mere six years later with the Treaty of Altranstadt.

Answer: Poland

[10] This 1709 battle, seen as the starting point of Russia's rise to prominence in Europe, saw the Swedish defeated by the forces of Peter the Great.

Answer: Battle of Poltava

TOSSUPS – ROUND 12 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Its results were contradicted by contemporary experiments by Felix Ehrenhaft; more recently, science historian Gerald Holton accused its creators of fudging the data. First performed in 1909, it uses a uniform electric field consisting of parallel plates with a large potential difference and drops of liquid that move depending on gravity and the voltage. FTP name this experiment that measured the electric charge of the electron and won its namesake the 1923 Nobel for Physics.

Answer: Millikan(-Fletcher) oil drop experiment

2. He studied law at Istanbul University before emigrating to Palestine in 1906; expelled early in World War I as an “enemy national”, he returned with the second aliyah in 1916. He led the Mapai or Labor party from 1930 to 1963, and his assumption of the chair of the Jewish Agency in 1935 signaled a shift in leadership from overseas supporters to actual immigrants. After gaining military expertise as the leader of the paramilitary Haganah (hah-ga-NAH), some critics charged he carried an overly defensive stance into his policy in office. The international airport in Tel Aviv is named in honor of, FTP, this first Prime Minister of the state of Israel.

Answer: David Ben-Gurion or David Grün

3. In 2006, he published The Wicked Son, a call to Jewish pride that attacks both anti-Semites and Jewish self-haters. That year he also published a sarcastic book about business in Hollywood called Bambi vs. Godzilla. Writings about the theatre include True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor and Three Uses of the Knife. He made his playwriting debut with 1970’s The Lakeboat, and his screen-writing debut with 1981’s The Postman Always Rings Twice. FTP, name this winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, most famous in the theatre for Speed-the-Plow, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Glengarry Glen Ross.

Answer: David Mamet

4. Nicknamed Il Furioso for his energetic style, he painted The Deliverance of Arsenoe and The Origin of the Milky Way. His The miracle of the slave depicts a scene where the title character has been saved from the circling mob through the supernatural intervention from the nearly inverted St. Mark. His Last Supper is significantly darker and more dramatic than the mathematically symmetrical one of da Vinci's. Briefly under the tutelage of Titian where he earned his diminutive nickname, for 10 points name this Renaissance painter also known as Jacopo Robusti.

Answer: Tintoretto [accept Jacopo Robusti or Jacopo Comin before mentioned]

5. According to Brun’s theorem, the sum of all their reciprocals converges. Although not yet proven, Euclid conjectured that there were infinitely many of them. Examples of them include 827 and 829; 107 and 109; and 5 and 7. FTP name this type of prime number that differs from another prime number by two.

Answer: twin prime [prompt on prime before “type of prime”]

6. This man began the system of sankin kotai, or alternate residence, which forced the feudal lords to live in the capital, thus allowing him to keep tabs on the lords and their families. After being a hostage for much of his boyhood, he won his first military victory at the Siege of Terabe and was the ruler of the Kai, Mikawa, Suruga, Totomi, and Shinano provinces at the age of forty. As regent, he killed the heir to the throne and defeated a coalition of enemy daimyos who had supported the infant heir at Sekigahara. For ten points, name this man who ruled from Edo and completed the work of unifying Japan in 1600 whilst ushering in his namesake shogunate.

Answer: Tokugawa Ieyasu; accept Tokugawa

7. His lesser known works include Midsummer, The Gulf, and Another Life, and this man’s brother Roderick is also an accomplished writer. His first work was 25 Poems and he described the French Impressionist Camille Pisarro in Tiepolo’s Hound. He received major acclaim upon the publication of In a Green Night, but his collaboration with songwriter Paul Simon, The Capeman, did not fare as well. FTP name this Nobel Laureate and Caribbean author who wrote “Omeros.”

Answer: Derek Alton Walcott

8. In plant cells, this process is a multitude of steps, especially in those that are highly vacuolated, including a step where the nucleus has to migrate to the middle of the cell. Other highlights that happen in this process include nuclear envelope breakdown and movement of centrosomes to opposite ends of the cell. FTP name this phase of mitosis in which the chromatin of a cell condenses into a chromosome, yielding two identical copies of each chromosome in a cell.

Answer: Prophase

9. Apocryphally, they were created in 1912 by cartoonist Aloysius "Gorilla" Koford, featured in 17 newspapers, including the Philadelphia Star-Democrat, the Tampa Telegraph, and the Santa Fe Good-Newser. Time magazine reported that they have “a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to them”. They really had their origin on the 4chan message boards, where they were posted every Saturday. There is an effort to translate the Bible into their language, along with creating a new programming language based on them. They can be found on websites like cuteoverload and I Can Has Cheezburger FTP, name these internet icons that are in your base, killin your dudes, riding invisible bikes, and finding out if you has a flavor.

Answer: LOLcats

10. This book prompted Fabian socialist Herman Faber to publish a lengthy rebuttal warning of the dangers of reactionism, and it was a point of debate between Churchill and Attlee in the 1945 British elections. It argues that one’s profession, wages, thinking, recreation, and even disciplining will eventually be planned by a single party led by a “strong man.” Its sixteen sections concluded that many countries are on a “slippery-slope” to a tyrannical society with then-extant Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union already there. Asserting that increased government regulation of the economy inevitably leads to complete government control, FTP name this landmark economic work by Friedrich Hayek.

Answer: The Road to Serfdom

11. His work as a biographer included 1824’s Vie de Rossini, which is still appreciated for its musical criticism. His two unfinished novels, Lamiel and Lucien Leuwen, were published posthumously in 1889 and 1894. He also left an unfinished novella, entitled The Pink and the Green. Also working as an essayist with works such as On Love and Memoirs of an Egotist, his autobiography was entitled The Life of Henry Brulard. FTP, identify this early 19th century French author of The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and The Black.

Answer: Stendhal (Accept Marie-Henri Beyle)

12. At one point, this man served in both the Delaware and Pennsylvania state legislatures. He gained renown after the passage of the Townshend Acts, arguing that Parliament possessed the right to merely regulate trade rather than tax it for revenue in his series of essays Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. During the First Continental Congress, he was the primary author of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, but he never signed the Declaration of Independence as he absented himself from the vote so it would be unanimous. FTP name this conservative patriot who drafted the basis for the Articles of Confederation and presided over the Annapolis Convention.

Answer: John Dickinson

13. This compound forms an azeotrope with water at a concentration of around 72.5%. This mixture has an indefinite shelf life, but due to its hygroscopic nature, it must be kept tightly capped to avoid auto-dilution with moisture from the air. It contains chlorine in a +7 oxidation state joined to 3 oxygens by double bonds and to a hydroxyl group. FTP, what is this strong acid, with formula HClO4?

Answer: Perchloric acid (Accept Chloric VII acid. In fact, they really deserve 15 if they call it that.)

14. He designed the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, and designed several buildings in India including the Palace of Assembly, the Museum at Ahmedabad, and the Shodan House. He was influenced by his teacher Auguste Perret, and created the Maison-Domino. He designed The Weissenhof House in Germany, and wrote Towards a New Architecture, but his best known works are located In Poissy and Ronchamp. For ten points, name this Swiss born-French architect known for designing Villa Savoye, and Notre Dame du Haut.

Answer: Le Corbusier or Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris

15. In its north lies the Marlborough Fault System, which is found in that namesake region; it continues south to the Puysegur Margin beyond the southern tip of the island. Ecotourism here in The Catlins and in its largest national park, Fiordlands, which lies along its southwestern coast, is accessible from its southernmost city, Invercargill. Its rainy West Coast region, home to the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, is divided from the much drier Otago and Canterbury regions to the east by the Southern Alps, the highest peak of which is Mt. Cook. With its largest city at Christchurch, this is, FTP, what larger yet less populous of New Zealand’s two main islands?

Answer: South Island, New Zealand [prompt on New Zealand until “Christchurch”]

16. A variety of this plant, P. quinquefolius, formed an important early trade link between the American Colonies and Imperial China. But trade in the herb, which comes in several varieties all under the genus Panax, fell to nothing by 1800 after Chinese apothecaries decided it was of inferior quality to the Asian variety. The English word for the root comes directly from the Chinese pronunciation, which was preferable to translating it as “man root.” FTP, identify this herb of questionable medical efficacy currently featured in Full Throttle, Adrenaline Rush, and other energy drinks

Answer: Ginseng

17. He owned six remarkable horses, because he secretly mated his own mares with the divinely-bred stallions of Laomedon. This son of Capys and cousin of King Priam of Troy was lame, having been struck by one of Zeus’ thunderbolts. His mortal wife was Eriopis, but he is best known for his liaison with Aphrodite, who, according to one account, disguised herself as a Phrygian princess and seduced him. Later dying in exile in Sicily only to have to explain Hades to his own son, FTP, identify this mortal whose tryst with an immortal produced his son Aeneas.

Answer: Anchises

18. The first observation of these was made in 1784 by John Goodricke, although their significance was not understood until the early 20th century. Based on observations by the ESA’s Hipparcos satellite in the late 1990’s, Michael Feast and Robin Catchpole have updated and recalculated the work by Henrietta Leavitt and Harlow Shapley on the relationship between period and luminosity; that relationship makes them an important tool for determining interstellar and intergalactic distances. Polaris is a member of, FTP, what class of variable stars with a predictable pattern of brightening and dimming?

Answer: Cepheid variables or Cepheids

19. It sparked a conflict in Wales which had been brewing over the autocratic rule of the 3rd Marquis of Worcester. Because he expressed doubt about it, Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, was twice impeached and removed from power for “traitorously” concealing it. Further stirring up public sentiment was the murder of Sir Edmond Godfrey, who was charged with investigating it. In response to it, the Earl of Shaftsbury drew up the Act of Exclusion, which was intended to bypass the king’s brother, James, in the succession. Contrived by Israel Tonge and Titus Oates, this is, FTP, what fictitious conspiracy against Charles II, which stirred up fervent anti-Catholicism in Britain in the late 17th Century?

Answer: Popish Plot

20. Among his most acclaimed essays are “Ad Marciam de consolation”, addressed to a mother grieving her son’s death, and “De providential”, a discourse on suffering. He was born on the Iberian peninsula but was educated in Rome, from which he was exiled by Claudius in 41 CE. However, he was recalled to serve as a co-administrator along with Burrus and to help tutor the young Emperor. One of his Moral Epistles, On Mercy, gave advice to the young emperor Nero on how to rule; his advice was followed up to a point but his control waned over time. FTP, name this Stoic who was eventually ordered to commit suicide by Nero.

Answer: Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger

21. The Usanovich definition is too general and overlaps with concepts associated with redox reactions. The first to distinguish them may have been by Robert Boyle, using characteristics which included a sour taste and slippery feel. The first formal theory was suggested in an 1887 dissertation by a Swedish chemist. Lewis, Bronsted-Lowry, and Arrhenius are three examples of FTP, what often-debated type of definitions?

Answer: acid-base theories or definitions [prompt on acid or base]

22. In British Columbia, just across the border from Mount London in Alaska, lies an unclimbed mountain named for him. This English-born, Scottish-educated Canadian’s autobiography was published in both Harper of Heaven and Ploughman of the Moon. Except for the World War II years he spent his later life in France and Monte Carlo, a stark contrast to the country whose everyday life he described in Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Trail of ’98, and Ballads of a Cheechako. FTP name this author of the ballads The Shooting of Dan Magrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee.

Answer: Robert William Service

23. Co-author of Psychology and Life, he developed a treatment based on the social fitness model and founded a facility in the late 70's to help individuals deal with issues of social anxiety called, The Shyness Clinic. His latest book, published in 2007, is subtitled Understanding How Good People Turn Evil describes issues first encountered in a 1971 experiment. For 10 points, name this author of The Lucifer Effect and director of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Answer: Philip Zimbardo

BONI – ROUND 12 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HS QB 2008 (UT-Chattanooga)

1. Among the works left behind at her untimely death were What Use Are Flowers? and Les Blancs. F10PE:

[10] Name this African-American playwright, who also wrote The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.

Answer: Lorraine Hansberry

[10] Hansberry’s most famous play, this work sees the Younger family come into money and attempt to move into an all-white neighborhood, while Walter runs into financial difficulty.

Answer: A Raisin in the Sun

[10] This Hansberry work, originally written for NBC but never aired, takes its name from a slave nickname for a constellation used for navigation. The protagonist is Hannibal, a slave hoping to escape who is blinded after it is found that he is learning to read from one of the plantation owner’s sons.

Answer: The Drinking Gourd

2. Identify the following delegates to the Constitutional Convention, F10PE.

[10] Though a Maryland delegate, he spent little time at the convention due to illness. As the last Secretary of War under Washington and first under Adams, he was the namesake of a famous fort in Maryland.

Answer: James McHenry

[10] A delegate from Massachusetts, he supported the national caucus actively. He later served as a Senator from New York, a minister to Britain, and as the last Federalist presidential candidate in 1816.

Answer: Rufus King

[10] He served as James Madison’s second Vice President. His name is only remembered today for his time as Governor of Massachusetts, where he made sure electoral districts were drawn to favor his party.

Answer: Elbridge Gerry

3. Answer the following about a form of radiation, F10PE.

[10] This form of radiation consists of extremely high-energy particle streams, generally composed of protons, from extraterrestrial sources.

Answer: Cosmic Rays or Cosmic Radiation [accept subsets such as cosmic background radiation, etc.]

[10] Predicted in 1966 by three namesake scientists, this proposal suggests that no cosmic rays exist above the order of 1019 GeV, because they would otherwise, in interacting with cosmic microwave background radiation, produce pions.

Answer: GZK Limit [or Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Limit; accept similar answers]

[10] If the GZK limit does not hold, it would be a blow to this theory by Einstein, which holds that all photons travel at a constant velocity. Coleman and Glashow assert that it breaks down at extremely high energies, raising the GZK limit.

Answer: Special Theory of Relativity [prompt on “Relativity”]

4. The preface of this work claims that it was written “in the language of the wind that thaws ice and snow”. F10PE:

[10] Name this work, section 125 of which sees a madman come to a crowded marketplace claiming to have seen the murder of god and asking “Do we not now wander through an endless Nothingness?”

Answer: The Gay Science [or Die fröhliche Wissenschaft or The Joyful Wisdom; accept similar]

[10] This man, also the author of The Birth of Tragedy and Beyond Good and Evil, wrote The Gay Science.

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche

[10] Also discussed in section 125, as well as elsewhere in Nietzsche’s corpus, is this concept, which he formulates as necessarily following from the infinity of space-time and the finiteness of matter.

Answer: Eternal Return [or Eternal Recurrence]

5. FTPE identify these iconic singers from the 1960s.

1. ‘It’s Not Unusual’ and ‘She’s a Lady’ are songs by this Welshman, whose “What’s New Pussycat?” is featured prominently in the 2006 animated film Flushed Away.

Answer: Tom Jones Woodward

2. She sang ‘These Boots are Made for Walking’ on her own and sang ‘Something Stupid’ with her father, Frank.

Answer: Nancy Sinatra (prompt on ‘Sinatra’)

3. Author of Aretha Franklin’s hit “Respect”, he died before his hit, ‘Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay’ made #1 on the Billboard charts.

Answer: Otis Redding

6. FTPE name these authors:

[10] This Turkish author of My Name is Red, The Black Book, and The White Castle won the 2006 Nobel in Literature.

Answer: Ferit Orhan Pamuk

[10] This Brit wrote the Barsetshire Novels, as well as a series of novels about the duke of Omnium, Plantagenet Palliser.

Answer: Anthony Trollope

[10] This Frenchman’s most famous novel, Madame Bovary, tells the story of a discontented doctor’s wife and her unsatisfying adulterous escapades.

Answer: Gustave Flaubert

7. This process allows for measurements of heats of combustion to be calculated to within .01%. F10PE:

[10] Name this process, which measures change in enthalpy through a change in temperature. In it, a sample is placed in a sealed chamber and ignited; the resultant heat is then measured within a surrounding, water-filled chamber.

Answer: Bomb Calorimetry [or Bomb Calorimeter] [prompt on calorimeter/-try]

[10] In one variant of bomb calorimetry, a second water-filled chamber encloses the other two and is heated, ensuring less heat loss and illustrating this kind of process in which no heat is exchanged between the system and its surroundings.

Answer: Adiabatic

[10] In opposition to direct measurement, changes in enthalpy can be calculated using this law, which, for a given reaction, allows addition of the changes in enthalpy for each sub-reaction within the larger reaction.

Answer: Hess’s Law

8. Answer some questions about the real-life history behind Charlie Wilson’s War, FTPE

(10) Wilson was responsible for pushing Congress into funding the largest ever CIA covert op, the funding of this organization of resistance groups that was trying to force the Soviet Army out of Afghanistan.

Answer: Mujahideen (or Afghan Mujahideen or Seven Party Mujahideen Alliance or Peshawar Seven)

(10) Wilson first took a vocal interest in international politics with his support of the Somoza government in this country, even threatening to wreck the Panama Canal Treaty if the Carter administration didn’t continue to support Somoza.

Answer: Nicaragua

(10) Somoza’s government was eventually overthrown by this Nicaraguan insurgent group headed by Daniel Ortega.

Answer: the Sandinistas

9. Prominent members of this movement included Georges Vantongerloo, Bart van der Leck, and J.J.P. Oud. F10PE:

[10] Name this art movement, sometimes known as Neoplasticism, which is most associated with the simplification of form to horizontal and vertical lines and limited use of color. Its most famous member was Piet Mondrian.

Answer: “De Stijl” [or “The Style”]

[10] Mondrian broke with this member of “De Stijl” after he advocated the importance of the diagonal line. The publisher of a journal named De Stijl, this man’s works include Counter-Composition V and Arithmetic Composition.

Answer: Theo van Doesburg

[10] Another member of “De Stijl”, Gerrit Rietveld, later designed Amsterdam’s museum dedicated to this artist. Among the works it houses are Bedroom at Arles, The Potato Eaters, and one of the versions of Sunflowers.

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

10. Pencil and paper ready. You will have ten seconds per part for computation. On a 5-10-20-30 basis, answer the following about the number four.

1. What is four times 85?

Answer: 340

2. What is four factorial plus four squared?

Answer: 40

3. What is four to the fourth power?

Answer: 256

4. What is the remainder when 1457 is divided by four?

Answer: 1

11. F10PE, answer the following about the battle around a certain Confederate port city.

[10] This city was protected by several forts including Sumter and Moultrie. Although blockaded since the early days of the war, it only fell in early 1865 when Sherman's march northward cut it off from the rest of the Confederacy by land.

Answer: Charleston, South Carolina

[10] During the blockade, the Confederates made use of this submarine during a night run with a spar-torpedo. It sank the Housatonic, the first vessel sunk by a submarine in history, but itself sank with all hands, shortly thereafter.

Answer: H.L. Hunley

[10] This fortification on Morris Island was unsuccessfully attacked by Union forces twice; the second battle is remembered for the brave but tragic charge of the African-Americans of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Answer: Fort (or Battery) Wagner

12. F10PE identify the following Greek lyric and elegiac poets from clues, none of whom are Pindar.

[10] Apart from “Hymn to Aphrodite”, her poetry survives only in fragments, and translation of those is rendered even more difficult by her use of the less-familiar Aeolian dialect of her native Lesbos.

Answer: Sappho

[10] This Alexandrian, author of the fragmentary Aitia, advocated the creation of smaller, more tightly constructed poetic works, as opposed to epics, and is credited with the phrase, “great book, great evil”.

Answer: Kallimakhos

[10] Regarded as one of the Seven Sages of the ancient world, this man’s trochaic and iambic lines are generally political in nature, with the latter coming close to polemics. This Athenian is better known for reforming Draco’s legal system.

Answer: Solon

13. Of all the nerves. FTPE:

[10] This is the longest of the twelve cranial nerves. Also called the pneumogastric nerve, it extends all the way from the brain stem to the abdomen.

Answer: Vagus Nerve [or Cranial Nerve Ten or CN X]

[10] While the vagus is the longest of the cranial nerves, this one is the largest. Name this mixed, tri-brachiated nerve, which provides sensory information for nearly all of the face and forehead, among other functions.

Answer: Trigeminal Nerve [or Cranial Nerve Five or CN V]

[10] The lowest of the three branches of the trigeminal nerve, which innervates the muscles associated with mastication, is named for this bone commonly called the jaw bone.

Answer: Mandible

14. FTPE, identify these famous trials of Odysseus described in books 9-12 of the Odyssey

a) Often co-opted by allegorists and anti-drug advocates, this brief trial sees Odysseus refusing a narcotic plant that would keep him continually apathetic and thus prevent him from reaching home.

Answer: Island of the Lotus Eaters

b) These giant people destroy every ship in Odysseus’ fleet but his own, providing a negative paradigm for a gracious host.

Answer: Laestrygonians

c) This subhuman beast keeps a flock of sheep in his cave. Odysseus blinds and outwits him, narrowly escaping with his life.

Answer: the Cyclops OR Polyphemus

15. For ten points each, name these bodies of water in the land of the Maple Leaf for ten points each.

[10] This body of water is the largest lake completely within Canada.

Answer: Great Bear Lake

[10] The Great Bear Lake empties into this second longest river in North America. It originates in the Great Slave Lake.

Answer: Mackenzie River

[10] This body of water separates Vancouver Island from British Columbia.

Answer: Strait of Juan de Fuca

16. Beethoven composed piano variations of the duet “La stessa, la stessissima” from this work. F10PE:

[10] Name this opera, with libretto by Carlo Defranceschi, which includes the aria “Or degli affanni i palpiti”. Another operatic treatment of the titular Shakespearean character was composed by Edward Elgar.

Answer: Falstaff, or the Three Jokes [or Falstaff, ossia Le Tre Burle]

[10] Falstaff was composed by this Italian and student of Florian Gassmann. Other works composed by him include Europa riconosciuta, which opened La Scala in 1778, and the symphonies Il Giorno Onomastico and La Veneziana.

Answer: Antonio Salieri

[10] Salieri’s Falstaff has often been compared with this Mozart opera, the overture of which was also written in D major. Mr. Ford has also been compared with this works Count Almaviva and one scene echoes the search for Cherubino.

Answer: The Marriage of Figaro [or Le Nozze di Figaro; do not prompt on Figaro]

17. Well, this used to be science. Name these incorrect theories with funny names for ten points each.

[10]: Fire is really this substance escaping from whatever is burning. It can have negative mass.

Answer: Phlogiston (flow-GIS-ton)

[10]: Light is a wave, right? Well, this is the medium that it waves in. You should be able to measure the speed of the earth with respect to this medium… NOT!

Answer: Luminiferous Ether (or Aether)

[10]: The bumps on your head can be used to determine your personality.

Answer: Phrenology

18. It claimed some 400,000 lives before being settled by the Peace of Utrecht and the Treaty Rastatt. FTPE:

[10] Name this war of the early 18th century, known in the Western Hemisphere as Queen Anne’s War.

Answer: War of the Spanish Succession

[10] The wonder team of the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy met up against Marshall Villars at this 1709 battle near Flanders; it was the bloodiest and least decisive victory of the war against the French.

Answer: Battle of Malplaquet

[10] Marlborough had his first major victory here in 1704 against the French, fought near the Danube it effectively knocked out Bavaria for the remainder of the war.

Answer: Battle of Blenheim

19. Identify the following famous documentaries, FTPE

[10] This landmark silent 1922 documentary by Robert Flaherty involved a lot of manipulation on the part of the director to work around his bulky camera equipment and to get the natives of the Canadian arctic to look traditional.

Answer: Nanook of the North

[10] This Leni Riefenstahl documentary on the 1934 Nazi Party Congress made use of novel techniques such as geometric crowd patterns and aerial shots in an attempt to show just how wonderful Germany's Fuhrer really was.

Answer: Triumph of the Will

[10] This Michael Moore documentary took on the National Rifle Association and other opponents of gun control, using a tragic high school shooting as the frame of reference.

Answer: Bowling for Columbine

20. Women writers were among the most productive and the most famous in Japan during the 10th and 11th Centuries. Answer the following about some of their works, F10PE.

[10] Highly regarded for its depiction of “awar-e” or the “sensitivity” of thing, this work, attributed to Murasaki Shikibu, describes the exploits of the titular courtier, namely his many affairs with women like Lady Fujitsubo and Tamakazura.

Answer: The Tale of Genji [or Genji Monogatari]

[10] A history by Akazome Emon, this work was modeled on The Tale of Genji, paving the way for a more literary turn to Japanese historiography during the period. It is mostly a flattering biography of a famous shogun, Fujiwara no Michinaga.

Answer: The Tale of Flowering Fortunes [or Eiga Monogatari]

[10] Often considered the “okashi” counterpart of The Tale of Genji, this work consists of lists, personal thoughts, poems, and witty observations of its author Sei Shōnagon.

Answer: The Pillow Book [or Makura no Sōshi]

21. Answer the following about ancient writing systems, F10PE.

[10] This syllabary, based on an earlier Minoan script, provides the first evidence of the Greek language and has been found in use separately at Mycenaean and Minoan sites.

Answer: Linear B [grudgingly prompt on Linear; don't accept Linear A]

[10] Sometimes called a “tree language” because all of the letters bear the names of trees, this alphabet used to write several Celtic languages resembles a series of tallies along both sides of a line.

Answer: Ogham Craobh [or Beth Luis Fearn or Beth Luis Nion]

[10] This abjad, which was developed from Aramaic and is believed to be derived from a word for “Parthian”, was used to write several Middle Iranian languages under the Arsacid and Sassanid empires.

Answer: Pahlavi

TOSSUPS – EMERGENCY BACKUP DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HIGH SCHOOL QUIZBOWL 2008

1. It is used, along with Dalton’s Law, for a series of evaporation and condensation cycles to derive a form of the Fenske equation for use in gas chromatography. It is strictly valid only for ideal solutions, and variations from it relate to the strength of intermolecular bonding in solutions. FTP, identify this law, which states that the vapor pressure of an ideal solution is dependent on the vapor pressure of each chemical component and the mole fraction of the component present in the solution.

Answer: Raoult’s Law

2. One of them discusses the poet’s feelings as he buries his dog. Another tells of the title creature walking naked into a bar and being crassly objectified. In addition to those two -- “A Dog Has Died” and “The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks” – this collection contains more representative poems discussing the title subject, such as “I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair” and “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You”. Perhaps the most famous poems in this collection are “Canto XII from the Heights of Macchu Picchu” and the “Song of Despair”. FTP name this collection by Pablo Neruda.

Answer: 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair [prompt on Neruda before “this collection”]

3. This phrase was used by forces opposing Oswald Mosley during the Cable Street Riot in London and has been used more recently by Colonel Emmanual Maurin in Côte d'Ivoire. It was famously uttered by Dolores Ibárruri, “the passion flower”, during the Siege of Madrid and entitles her autobiography. After its first usage, this phrase appeared on propaganda posters made by Maurice Neumont and was worn on badges by soldiers manning the Maginot Line. Although actually said by Robert Nivelle, FTP, what phrase is popularly attributed to Philippe Pétain as his army tried to hold back the Germans at the Battle of Verdun?

Answer: “They Shall Not Pass” (Accept: "Ils ne passeront pas", "Sie kommen nicht durch!" or "No pasarán!")

4. PENCIL AND PAPER READY -- THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You have 10 seconds to buzz in. FTP how many distinct ways can the letters in the word fluffy be arranged, given that it is equal to 6 factorial divided by 3 factorial?

Answer: 120

5. After Carl says his youthful ambition was "to be John Lennon", Dick says he’s watching Carl and his schoolmates “get more and more arrogant." Carl then notes Dick's change from a teaching position "'cause you thought it'd be fun...and then you found it was actually work, and it really bummed you out." This happens after Carl - portrayed by John Kapelos - has basically blackmailed Dick - portrayed by Paul Gleason - out of $50 after catching Dick looking at students’ permanent files. They are waiting out a detention session attended by Allison, Brian, Andrew, John and Claire, which explains what Dick , a.k.a. Principal Richard Vernon, is doing at Shermer High on a Saturday. FTP name this 1985 John Hughes film, starring Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilo Estevez, Judd Nelson, and Molly Ringwald.

Answer: The Breakfast Club

6. Aptly set in Starkfield, Massachusetts, this novel ends sadly, with its two main characters attempting to commit suicide by sledding head-on into a tree.  In the beginning of the story, the protagonist is living in a very unhappy marriage with a hypochondriac named Zenobia.  When her cousin Mattie comes to work as a housekeeper for the couple, the protagonist finds the intimate relationship he had never shared with his nagging wife.  Their affection is eventually exposed after Zenobia’s pickle dish is broken by the cat.  FTP, what is this novel by Edith Wharton named for its ill-fated protagonist?

  Answer: Ethan Frome

 

7. On an inclined plane, it’s equal to the tangent of the angle of elevation. Multiplying it times the normal force of an object moving down that plane gives you the force of its namesake resistance to motion. Represented by μk (mew sub k), it is 10 times smaller in human synovial joints than between two pieces of ice. FTP name this unitless quantity, which is generally smaller than its static counterpart.

Answer: Coefficient of kinetic friction [prompt on coefficient of friction]

8. Because he could not read French, he unknowingly admitted assassinating a man named Jumonville, helping ignite the French and Indian War. He directed a brilliant retreat at the Battle of Monongahela, where his boss Edward Braddock was killed. In a famous speech he warned against political parties and entanglement with European affairs. Some of the legend surrounding him was pure fiction made up by a biographer, Parson Weems, who wanted to use his story to reinforce such virtues as honesty. FTP, who is this man, who never confessed to chopping a cherry tree down but definitely served as the first President of the United States?

Answer: George Washington

9. It stands 647 feet high but only has 37 floors; this is due to the seven story lobby built to contain “The Spirit of Communications,” a 24 foot high statue that had once stood atop the building. Although intended to be a logo for the company commissioning it, the building was bought out by Sony less than ten years after it was finished. Its most famous feature has led the building to be mockingly labeled a "Chippendale highrise". A collaboration between John Burgee and Philip Johnson, FTP, name this skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th and 56th Street, often heralded as the first postmodern building, commissioned by a major telecommunications company.

Answer: AT&T Building (also accept Sony Building before Sony is mentioned)

10. He only earned the fame he had hoped for with his last publication, Parerga and Paralipomena. Plato, Kant, and the Upanishads were the basis of his philosophy, but from Buddhism, he drew the idea that the denial of the will-to-live leads to spiritual salvation. The students of the University of Berlin preferred the lectures of his rival, Hegel, to his. Who is this pessimistic philosopher who wrote The World as Will and Representation?

Answer: Arthur Schopenhauer

11. His first work concerns a poet’s love affair with Corinna. He wrote Letters from the Black Sea in Tomis and explained that “a poem and a mistake” was the reason Augustus exiled him there. Although he did write Sorrows, he is more famous for works like Heroides, Amores and Ars Amatoria or The Art of Love. These works were intensely erotic, as was his most famous work, which told the stories of characters like Daphne, Callisto, and Actaeon, all transformed into an animal or a plant. FTP, who is this Latin poet who wrote The Metamorphoses?

Answer: Ovid (he has a longer name, hopefully no one will use it)

12. This disease, mostly eradicated in developed countries, typically infects the pulmonary system but can spread to areas as far away as the nervous system and skin.  It is spread by mycobacteria of several species and is easily detected by simple skin test.  It pervades many prison systems of the world due to the favorable bacterial growth conditions found there.  FTP, name this disease often referred to in the 19th century as “the red death” or, more simply, “consumption”. 

Answer: tuberculosis

13. In upholding the provisions of the Dingley Tariff, the Supreme Court case Pearcy v. Stranahan cited this document’s fifth article concerning the de facto position of the Isle of Pines. Its official “Root interpretation” was provided to Leonard Wood by Secretary of War Elihu Root, who developed it, although it was officially proposed by a namesake Connecticut senator as a rider to the Army Appropriations Act. Its provisions concerning foreign relations and US intervention were abrogated in 1934 by the “Good Neighbor Policy”, though its provision concerning the lease of Guantanamo Bay was extended. FTP, name this 1901 rider which overrode the earlier Teller Amendment in establishing US relations with Cuba.

Answer: Platt Amendment

14. It killed only 3 people, bizarrely from associated lightning rather than lava flows. This is despite the fact that it grew 1,100 feet in a year, covered more than 10 square miles in ash, and eventually destroyed its namesake village and the nearby San Juan Parangaricutiro. This scoria cone is the youngest of 1,400 volcanic vents in the Michoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field, and farmer Dioniso Pulido is credited with its discovery. Emerging from Pulido’s field in Mexico from 1943 to 1952, FTP, identify this so-called wonder of the natural world which gave scientists their first chance to observe the entire life cycle of a volcano.

Answer: Paricutin

15. This album’s cover art contains arcane foreign-language phrases which include references to “dog-faced apologists.” While publicists of the band that recorded it seem to think that it eschews the “traces” of political sentiment in the album that preceded it, listeners to songs like “Four Winds” and “No One Would Riot for Less” might disagree – the former refers to the US as the Whore of Babylon, while the latter compares soldiers to insects. Critics go overboard, however, when sneering at “If the Brakeman Turns My Way.” FTP, identify this most recent Bright Eyes album, named after a spiritualist-crammed town in Florida.

Answer: Cassadaga

16. As a neighbor of the Roussimoff family in France, this man used to drive the young André the Giant to school.  Some of his lesser-known works include Breath¸ Come and Go, and Eleutheria, while he found more success with Happy Days and Endgame. A reviewer once referred to his most famous work as “a play in which nothing happens, twice.”  FTP who is this winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Waiting for Godot?

Answer: Samuel Beckett

 

17. Dr. David Smith first popularized this term for a class of substances in the early 1970s upon the discovery of fetal alcohol syndrome. They can include alcohol, viruses, chemicals, and prescription drugs such as Accutane and thalidomide. They take effect during certain stages of prenatal development and can seriously harm the fetus. FTP, name these harmful factors that can cause a wide range of birth defects.

Answer: teratogens

18. This cognitive psychologist focused on studying children in order to determine how the mind develops over time. From his studies, he gathered that intellectual growth is driven by a need for cognitive equilibrium, or mental balance. He also categorized cognitive development into four stages, the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. FTP, name this Swiss psychologist.

Answer: Jean Piaget

19. It was composed following three catastrophic events in the composer's life including the death of his daughter, and the discovery of his own heart condition. It contains sections entitled, "Wine in Spring," and "The Lonely Soul in Autumn," based on a Tang Dynasty poem, and the first movement is a "Drinking Song," composed by Li Po, of the title object's misery. Containing six movements, it was composed after his 8th Symphony and despite its form it is referred to as a song cycle to intentionally avoid the Curse of the Ninth. For 10 points, name this Mahler work.

Answer: The Song of the Earth [or Das Lied von der Erde]

20. The main battle of this military conflict was at Gravelines, a part of Flanders on the English Channel . The San Martin, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, was the flagship of the invading force, while the Ark Royal, commanded by Charles Howard, was the British flagship. FTP, name this failed invasion of Britain, called by King Philip II of Spain in 1588.

  Answer: Spanish Armada (accept Invincible Armada)

 

21. This book, first published in 1962, was titled after a line in John Keats’s poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”.  It was the author’s first foray into the world of social commentary after writing natural histories such as The Sea Around Us, and was instrumental in launching today’s environmental movement.  FTP, name this book by Rachel Carson which exposed the danger of excessive pesticide use and contributed greatly to the banning of DDT. 

Answer: Silent Spring

22. Exceptions for it include Learned Treatises, Dying Declarations, Records of Vital Statistics, and Public Records and Reports. Under Rule 802 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, it is generally inadmissible in court except for such specific exceptions. FTP, what is this legal term meaning an out-of-court statement offered for the truth of the matter asserted?

Answer: hearsay

 

BONI – EMERGENCY BACKUP DENNIS HASKINS OPEN HIGH SCHOOL QUIZBOWL 2008

1. Its publication would later result in its author's Ph.D. being revoked by the Nazi administration of the University of Kiel. FTPE

[10] Name this 1911 collection of essays on race that revoked the hypothesis of any pure race of humans.

Answer: The Mind of Primitive Man

[10] This longtime Columbia professor, author of The Mind of Primitive Man is often called the father of anthropology.

Answer: Franz Boas

[10] One of several prominent students of Franz Boas at Columbia, this author of Patterns of Culture gained recognition for her study of Japanese culture, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.

Answer: Ruth Benedict

2. Answer the following questions regarding a short story for ten points each.

[10] The title character, a carrier, is hunted down by the Yakuza before being saved by a gang of people called “Lo Tek.” The film based on the story starring Keanu Reaves and Ice-T was awful, but the pinball machine was good.

Answer: “Johnny Mnemonic”

[10] This author wrote “Johnny Mnemonic” as well as the awarding winning novel Neuromancer.

Answer: William Gibson

[10] “Johnny Mnemonic” is a part of this sci-fi genre, usually set in the not-too-distant future where corporations, many times Japanese, rule the globe. This word first surfaced in a Bruce Bethke short story of the same name.

Answer: Cyberpunk

3. Let’s get your temperature rising by answering questions about different temperature scales for ten points each.

[10] This is the SI unit for temperature.

Answer: degrees Kelvin

[10] Within 5%, this is the average body temperature of a human in Celsius.

Answer: 36.8° C (accept anything from 35.0 to 38.6)

[10] Like the Kelvin scale, this scale has an absolute zero, but the melting point of water is set at 491.67°.

Answer: Rankine scale

4. F10PE, answer the following about political leaders who were assassinated in Africa in the tumultuous 1960s.

[10] Among the numerous leaders assassinated in this central African country,were three prime ministers: Louis Rwagasore in 1961, and Pierre Ngendandumwe and Joseph Bamina in 1965.  Like a neighboring nation, it has been plagued by tensions between the Hutus and Tutsis, but here the Tutsis make up the majority.

Answer: Burundi

[10] This Prime Minister and so-called “architect of Apartheid” was the only South African officeholder to have ever been assassinated, when in 1966 he was stabbed to death in Parliament by Dmitri Tsafendas.

Answer: Hendrick Frensch Verwoerd

[10] The death in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia in 1961 of this Swedish diplomat and UN Secretary-General has often been alleged to be an assassination, variously attributed to such groups as MI5 and the CIA as well as various rebel factions.

Answer: Dag Hjalmar Agen Carl Hammarskjöld

5. For ten points each, answer these questions about volcanoes of note.

[10] Last erupting in 1940, this volcano of Ecuador is also the second highest peak in the country, at over 19,000 feet. It is a stratovolcano that also has a glacier on its peak, at least for now.

Answer: Cotopaxi

[10] Last erupting in Hawaii in 1984, it is the largest volcano in terms of volume on the planet. Its eruptions are very fluid and non-explosive, and at a time early in the 20th century, were occurring every 3 to 5 years.

Answer: Mauna Loa

[10] Even though only 2,667 feet tall, this Indonesian volcano actually erupted just last year. It is best known, however, for a series of explosions in August of 1883, causing tsunamis and volcanic ash to kill almost everybody in its vicinity.

Answer: Krakatau (Most will pronounce this as Crack-a-toe-a)

6. FTPE identify the taxonomic orders of the following animals:

(10) Bats

Answer: Chiroptera

(10) Frogs

Answer: Anura

(10) Moths

Answer: Lepidoptera

7. This character is the subject of a 1599 play by Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, and Henry Chettel. F10PE:

[10] Name this title character of works by Elisa Sotheby and Maria Edgeworth, whose torment in a play by John Phillip, comes at the request of Politik Persuasion.

Answer: Patient Griselda [or Patient Grissel]

[10] In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Patient Griselda is the subject of the tale of this character, who claims as his source Petrarch’s Epistolae Seniles. He is described as a poor student from Oxford, eager to learn and teach.

Answer: The Clerk

[10] Petrarch’s version of Patient Griselda was a Latin adaptation of the final story in this work by Boccaccio, which features 10 refugees of the plague trading tales for 10 days.

Answer: Decameron

8. For ten points each, name the following inequalities:

[10]: The absolute value of a plus the absolute value of b is greater than or equal to the absolute value of a plus b.

Answer: Triangle inequality

[10]: Experiments that violate this inequality demonstrate the impossibility of local hidden variable theories.

Answer: Bell’s inequality

[10]: A dot B squared is less than or equal to A dot A times B dot B.

Answer: Cauchy-Schwarz inequality

9. Stuff from Mesopotamian mythology FTPE:

A. This goddess/monster was the personification of salt water. Her union with Apsu created the genealogy of all gods, but she was later defeated by the same god who defeated her new consort, Kingu.

Answer: Tiamat

B. This god, Patron of Babylon, has fifty names. He defeated Tiamat and used her name to create the Earth and Heavens.

Answer: Marduk

C. The creation myth is described in this epic, written on seven clay tablets.

Answer: Enuma Elish

10. Name these B-B-B-Battles for 10 points each:

(10) This Crimean War battle inspired Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade

Answer: Battle of Balaclava

(10) Also known as “The Battle of the Ardennes,” the US lost nearly 81,000 troops but successfully repelled a German counteroffensive in Dec. 1944.

Answer: The Battle of the Bulge

(10) The British routed American forces under William Winder at this 1814 battle outside Washington, DC, leading to the burning of the White House.

Answer: Battle of Bladensburg

 

11. Given the steric number of a molecule and number of lone pairs of that molecule, tell what geometry the molecule would have under VSEPR theory, 5-10-20-30.

[A] Steric number of 4, no lone pairs.

Answer: Tetrahedral

[B] Steric number of 3, two of them being lone pairs.

Answer: Linear

[C] Steric number of 5, one of those being a lone pair.

Answer: See-Saw (also accept Sawhorse)

[D] Steric number of 6, no lone pairs

Answer: Octahedral

12. Answer some questions about a play FTPE for ten points each.

[10] This play’s protagonist, Konstantin Trepylov is a struggling playwright who loses his mind, kills a bird to give to his love, Nina, and at the play’s end, shoots himself. Nobody seemed to care about any of it.

Answer: The Seagull

[10] The Seagull was written by this Russian, whose fans definitely did not include Leo Tolstoy.

Answer: Anton Chekhov

[10] While The Seagull was a flop when initially produced, it enjoyed a successful revival at the Moscow Art Theatre under this director, remembered in theatrical circles as the creator of his namesake “Method” acting.

Answer: Constantin Stanislavski

13. Identify these baseball games for the NES FTPE.

1. This offering from Tengen was one of the first to have officially licensed player names and inspired a viral video re-creation of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

Answer: RBI Baseball

2. SNK sold this game in which you could earn money for wins and play a full season against teams like the Lovely Ladies, Ninja Blacksox, and American Dreams.

Answer: Baseball Stars

3. Jaleco offered 4 editions of this game, starting in 1988. Features included passwords for full-season play and the occasional brawl if you brushed back the right, er, wrong player.

Answer: Bases Loaded

14. Given a short description, name the Canadian Prime Minister for ten points each.

[10] This man is the current Prime Minister.

Answer: Stephen Harper

[10] On the other side of the spectrum, this man became the first Prime Minister in 1878. He also remains the only P.M. forced to resign due to scandal.

Answer: John. A. Macdonald

[10] She became the first and thus far only female Prime Minister in 1993. Inheriting much of the baggage of her unpopular predecessor Brian Mulroney, she didn’t last the year.

Answer: Kim Campbell

15. One poem describes the conversation between a man and his dead friend, the latter of whom is asking about his sweetheart's well-being, while another wonders why Terrence, the main character, is busy writing gloomy, hastily edited poems. For ten points each:

[10]Name this collection of poems published in 1896 that includes "To An Athlete Dying Young."

Answer: A Shropshire Lad

[10]This English poet wrote "A Shropshire Lad." His other collections are seldom referenced in quizbowl thanks to helpful titles like "Last Poems" and "More Poems."

Answer: Alfred Edward Housman

[10]This first poem in "A Shropshire Lad" says "Be you the men you've been/Get you the sons your fathers got/And God will save the queen."

Answer: 1887

16. Though it may seem like it, not every Roman emperor was assassinated, forced to commit suicide, or killed in battle with a rival claimant. Identify these examples, F10PE.

[10] Though he was killed in battle, this emperor died when he conducted an ill-advised fight against the Goths in 378 at Adrianople. His death brought Theodosius the Great to the throne in the East.

Answer: Flavius Valens Iulius Augustus

[10] This founder of a namesake dynasty died while on campaign to conquer Scotland in 211 and was succeeded by his sons Geta and Caracalla. He rose to power following the brief reigns of Pertinax and Didius Iulianus.

Answer: Septimius Severus [or Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus Britanicus Maximus]

[10] Dying in 270 of plague, this emperor deified his predecessor, Gallienus, whose work of reconquering the empire he continued, but saw his gains in Iberia and southern Gaul counterbalanced by the loss of Egypt to Zenobia and Palmyra.

Answer: Claudius II [or Claudius Gothicus or Marcus Aurelius Claudius Pius Felix Invictus Augustus Gothicus]

17. Characters in this opera include Bob Boles, Ned Keene, and Ellen Orford. For ten points each:

[10] Name this British opera that describes the titular fisherman.

Answer: Peter Grimes

[10] Peter Grimes was written by this composer of Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, and The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

Answer: Edward Benjamin Britten

[10] Peter Grimes was based on a poem titled “The Borough,” written by this British poet who (to our knowledge) was not really a member of Slytherin.

Answer: George Crabbe

18. In its final section, “Village of the Watermills”, “I” arrives in the unnamed village and witnesses a joyous funeral. F10PE:

[10] Name this 1990 film, which consists of eight of the director’s title events, including “Sunshine Through the Rain” in which a young “I” witnesses the wedding of fox demons and is forced to seek their forgiveness or commit seppuku.

Answer: Dreams [or Yume]

[10] This director, better known for films such as Ran, The Seven Samurai, and Rashomon, wrote and directed Dreams.

Answer: Akira Kurosawa [or Kurosawa Akira]

[10] This director of Taxi Driver and The Departed appears in Dreams in the section “Crows” as Vincent Van Gogh, whose works “I” admires, before meeting him and chasing after him through several more of his works.

Answer: Martin Scorsese

19. It states that the log base 10 of initial radiant intensity divided by intensity is equal to the absorption coefficient times the concentration times the light path length, which is also equal to absorbance. F10PE:

[10] Name this law, which states the relationship between concentration of a solution and the absorption of light, and which is named for a German astronomer.

Answer: Beer's Law [or Beer-Lambert Law or Lambert-Beer Law]

[10] Beer's law extends the principle of absorbance to solution concentration that this earlier German mathematician's law had found between absorbance and thickness.

Answer: Lambert's Law

[10] This quantity is equal to the ratio of radiant intensity after it passes through a medium and the initial intensity. It is symbolized T and appears in some formulations of Lambert's and Beer's Laws.

Answer: Transmittance

20. Elements from Confucianism, for 10 points each:

[10] One of the Four Books of Confucianism this works records the words and doings of the great master and was collected and edited by his students

Answer: Analects of Confucius

[10] The differing duties that individuals owe to one another based on the various relational status with regard to one another, such as Father-son and Ruler-subject is encompassed by this set of principal bonds.

Answer: Five Relationships [accept clear knowledge equivalents]

[10] A concept found in both Confucianism and Taoism it describes a state of equilibrium that is described as actionless action, or active passivity

Answer: wu-wei

21. Answer these questions about organic chemistry reactions for ten points each.

[10] Usually when an organic chemical reaction contains hydrogen peroxide, they follow this rule where side chains migrate to a generally less stable configuration.

Answer: Anti-Markovnikov Rule (do NOT accept Markovnikov’s rule)

[10] The classic version of this reaction is taking an s-cis butadiene and ethene and add a small amount of energy to get cyclohexene.

Answer: Diels-Alder Reaction

[10] This type of reaction takes either an aldehyde or a ketone with its namesake reagent, usually a phosphonium salt, to produce an alkene in the Z-configuration.

Answer: Wittig Reaction

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