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TOSSUPS – ROUND ONE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Unless otherwise noted for a given round, questions for this tournament are by:

Principal authors: Quizbowl team members from Case Western Reserve University and Tennessee-Chattanooga

Additional contributors: Cal-Berkeley’s Ray Luo; LSU’s Chris Lin; Missouri’s Jason Carl Mueller; Minnesota’s Ray Anderson; Boston U.’s Jack Brounstein, Anthony Gisonda, and Mark Coen; Baylor U.’s John Solter; Macon State’s Dr. Stephen Taylor; Florida State’s Billy Beyer and Kelly Miskowski; and Rochester’s Micha Elsner

Editor-in-chief: Your genial quizmaster, a.k.a. UTC coach Charlie Steinhice.

1. This man was the first American minister to the Court of St. James before taking on his more famous posts. As a president, his administration rode high on nationalist feelings and strengthened the US navy during a brief quasi-war with the French. The XYZ affair and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts were other significant points of his presidency. For ten points who was the second president of the United States?

Answer: John Adams

2. The first volume of his autobiography, 'Vivir para contarla', was translated in 2003 as 'Living to Tell the Tale'. He started out as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper 'El Espectador', and his first major work was a journalistic piece, 'Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor'. He also drew on real events for 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold', but is better known for his use of magical realism. For ten, who is this author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3. The only planet less dense than water, it has a day length less than half that of Earth. Galileo first thought that it was a triple-planet and Huygens discovered its largest moon. The empty Encke Division appears in the bright A region while the particular Cassini Division appears between the A and B rings. FTP name this sixth planet from the sun that has a Great White Spot and many colorful rings.

Answer: Saturn

4. He made many sacrifices for wisdom, giving up his eye to drink from the Well of Mimir and hanging himself from the world tree. It was he who had the valkyries gather the Einherjar in his great hall. One of our days of the week is derived from his name. For ten points, name this Norse god also known as the Allfather and the king of their pantheon.

Answer: Odin or Woden

5. In May 2004, his painting Garcon a la Pipe was sold for $104 million at auction, thus setting a new record for expensive art. Other works by this Spanish-born artist include the 1937 painting, Guernica, and the Three Musicians. FTP, name this cubist who spent most of his life in France.

Answer: Pablo Ruiz Picasso

6. This man observed that the majority is not always right, and yet, the government is a function of the majority. He argued that the solution in times of conflict is that the people should first follow what is right, and the laws of the government, made by the majority, should come second. He set forth these ideas in Civil Disobedience. For ten points, who is this philosopher, best known for his reflections on solitude and nature as the author of Walden?

Answer: Henry David Thoreau

7. A straw-colored liquid resembling whey in appearance, it includes inorganic components, such as sodium, potassium, chlorine, bicarbonate and phosphate ions. It also contains a wide variety of organic molecules, such as urea, glucose and lipids. Proteins play a critical role, such as fibrinogen, immunoglobulins and albumin. FTP, identify this substance, the acellular component of whole blood.

Answer: Blood plasma [accept serum before “fibrinogen”]

8. EITHER OF TWO ALTERNATE ANSWERS ACCEPTABLE: In contrast to the contemporary image, once it settled into place, music flourished under this dynasty. In 1259 it attempted to take the Song city of Hezhou (hey-joe) in an assault crossing the Yangtze River. This resulted in the death of the empire’s leader, causing a succession crisis. But ultimately, once under their rule, China achieved its greatest territorial expansion. For ten points, name either the Chinese dynasty thus founded in 1260, or the conquering empire that founded it, both of which were led by Kublai Khan.

Answer: accept either Yuan Dynasty or Mongol Empire (do not accept “Mongolian” or “Mughul”)

9. The main characters’ town takes a great interest in American baseball, and in fact, the protagonist’s hero is Joe DiMaggio, who plays an important part in the novel without ever actually appearing. However, very little time is spent discussing the town, as most of the novel’s events take place over three days out at sea, centering around Santiago the fisherman and a gigantic marlin. FTP what is this Hemingway novel set in and around Cuba?

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea

10. He has the social security number 000-00-0002. He must be injected every week with medicine that, according to his most famous employee, makes him sound like Steve Urkel. A man that once tried to block out the sun to boost revenue to his nuclear power plant, for ten points, identify this oldest resident of Springfield.

Answer: Charles Montgomery Burns

11. Although rumored to have existed, it was not confirmed until 1820, when three ships sighted the land within days of each other: those of Edward Bransfield, Fabian von Bellingshausen, and Nathaniel Palmer. In 1820, the first person known to set foot on it was John Davis, a sealer. Today, with a fluctuating population of about 4,000 to 1,000, for ten points, which landmass is the least populated, as well as the southernmost continent in the world?

Answer: Antarctica

12. In 1842, he married Sophia Peabody and suspended his literature. But after 3 years of marriage, he began writing again, producing a child's history of New England titled Grandfather's Chair. He took great pains to promote the idea that he had lived as a hermit in his attic for 12 years in order to become a great writer. FTP name this surveyor of the port of Salem who wrote “The Birthmark,” “Young Goodman Brown” and The Scarlet Letter.

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

13. After failing to become the Democratic nominee for district attorney in his Wisconsin area, he ran for a nonpartisan office and became the youngest circuit court judge ever elected in Wisconsin. In 1950, midway through his first Senate term and facing doubtful reelection, he leveled accusations against the State Department. Even though further investigation found those charges to be fraudulent, he rode a wave of public support for almost four years of similar unfounded accusations. For ten points, identify the man for whom a series of 1950’s Senate hearings is named.

Answer: Joseph McCarthy

14. In geology, this term is used to describe rocks that contain a large proportion of silica. In chemistry, these electrolytes react aggresively with many metals. According to Johannes Brønsted, compounds insoluble in water are examples since they act as a proton donor. For ten points -- identify this term that is used to describe a substance with a pH of less than seven.

Answer: acids

15. The story begins with the main character fleeing his homeland because it had been destroyed by invaders. He wanders around the Mediterranean, meeting interesting people along the way, such as Queen Dido of Carthage. Finally, he arrives in Italy, where he is told he is destined to found a dynasty that will build a great city and empire. For ten points, name this Roman epic, written by Virgil.

Answer: The Aeneid

16. Pencil and paper ready. You will have fifteen seconds to buzz in, but only three seconds after you buzz in. FTP, what is 35% of 720?

Answer: 252

17. After being dismissed from his Prime Minister position by President Kuchma in 2001, this man quickly took up the head position in the opposition party and began his presidential campaign. A popular politician, his greatest hit came weeks before the crucial vote, when he was afflicted with scars and blisters on his face. For ten points, identify this man, the head of the “Our Ukraine” bloc and the winner of the hotly contested 2004 Ukrainian election.

Answer: Viktor Yushchenko

18. On April 25, 1792, the Baron de Dietrich, mayor of Strasbourg, asked his army engineer to write a marching song. The resulting lyrics are written to the tune of Assuérus, by Lucien Grisons. Rouget de Lisle’s song became the

official national anthem in 1879. Originally called “Battle song for the Army of the Rhine,” FTP name the French national anthem.

Answer: La Marseillaise (accept “Battle song for the Army of the Rhine” before mentioned)

19. She could play the piano by ear at age 2 and a half, eventually going on to front a late 80’s pop-rock band before setting off on her solo career in the 90’s. She is still going strong today with her February 22 release of the album The Beekeeper. For ten points, name this singer-songwriter of “Raspberry Swirl,” “Professional Widow,” and “Cornflake Girl.”

Answer: Tori Amos (also accept “Myra Ellen Amos”)

20. It was previously thought to be stable, but is now believed to be capable of very slow decay, with an estimated half-life of at least 1035 years as a result of the matter/antimatter imbalance in the universe. It is classified as a baryon, and is composed of two up quarks and a down quark, held together by gluons. For ten points, what is this particle, holding a positive charge of 1.6 X 1019 coulombs?

Answer: proton

21. Early models of this device were created by David Bushnell, James McClintock, and Horatio Hunley. None of them were particularly successful until hand-powered propulsion could be replaced by steam, diesel, electrical, and eventually nuclear power. They were used with great success by the US in World War II, helping to sink 88% of Japan’s merchant shipping fleet. For ten points what are these oceangoing vessels, best known for their use by the Germans against transatlantic shipping?

Answer: submarines

22. His opera 'Les Troyens' was based on Vergil's Aeneid [aye-nee-id]. His later opera 'Beatrice et Benedict' was based on 'Much Ado About Nothing'. 'The Damnation of Faust' was based on Goethe's [guh-ta's] 'Faust'. This French Romantic composer plainly liked adaptation, but his first major work comes from his own unrequited love affair, hence the misery of its 'March to the Scaffold'. For ten, who is this composer of 'Symphonie Fantastique'?

Answer: Hector Berlioz

23. The oldest known example of this craft was found on the Japanese islands and dated to the 11th century BC. Since then the technology for creating these items evolved into three basic techniques: handwork, wheelwork, and slipcasting. The process of glazing can be applied later to coat the piece with a thin layer of a glassy material and make it impermeable to water. For ten points what is this craft which produces containers from wet clay?

Answer: Pottery

TOSSUPS – ROUND TWO DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. This term comes from the Finnish word for “treeless plain.” The alpine version of it occurs at high altitude, where temperatures regularly drop below freezing at night. Except for dwarf trees, the plant life there is very similar to the arctic version of it, although the permafrost common to the arctic version causes the formation of bogs. Name, FTP, this coldest of the biomes, whose fauna often include caribou, terns, and polar bears.

Answer: tundra

2. Though born in New York City in 1843, this author spent much of his life in Europe and eventually became a British citizen in 1915 after settling down in Rye, Sussex. Some of his short fiction includes The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw. The conflict between new world traits of innocence and naiveté and the wiser and decadent old world is a recurring theme in works such as The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. Not to be confused with his older brother, the psychologist William, FTP name the author of The Europeans and Portrait of a Lady.

Answer: Henry James [prompt on just James]

3. His name seems to be everywhere. Author of the Pensees, he created an eponymous wager to explain that believing in God was a better strategy than not believing. Around the age of 19 he developed one of the first mechanical calculators, the name of which was based on his own. Both a unit of pressure and a programming language have been named after him. FTP name this philosopher and mathematician, namesake of a triangle used in predicting frequency of events.

Answer: Blaise Pascal

4. Even the President didn’t make efforts to uphold this decision until 1957. This landmark Supreme Court ruling overturned one made 48 years earlier, unanimously reinterpreting details of the 14th Amendment. FTP name this 1954 case argued by a young Thurgood Marshall, resulting in the ruling that “separate but equal” facilities were unconstitutional.

Answer: Brown vs. Board of Education

5. Some of its sections call for a full orchestra and a boy’s choir, and its lyrics are composed of Medieval Latin. It was composed based on a manuscript found in the Benediktbeuern abbey. For ten points what is this popular music, with opening work, ‘O Fortuna’, and is written by Carl Orff?

Answer: Carmina Burana

6 .Its chemical formula is C8 H9 N O2. This analgesic lowers pain and fever, yet, unlike aspirin, it does not reduce inflammation or inhibit blood clotting. While safe in low doses, metabolism of the drug in the liver at high concentrations causes a buildup of a highly toxic intermediate. In cases of untreated overdose, it only results in visible symptoms several days later in the form of massive liver failure. For ten points, what is the generic name of this drug, most widely marketed under the brand name Tylenol?

Answer: acetaminophen [accept paracetamol; prompt on Tylenol]

7 .He called his mistress "a cross section of the American public." He met her while in search of his youth, listening to her sing, and stopping her toothache. Believing in love on his own terms, he collected junk and art. He built an opera house for Susan Alexander and resided in Xanadu until his death, a subject of "News on the March." FTP name this Orson Welles film character whose opening line is "Rosebud."

Answer: Citizen Kane; or Charles Foster Kane

8. Irish Gaelic for "we ourselves" this Irish nationalist organization was founded by the journalist and political leader Arthur Griffith and his associates in 1902. Its primary aim was to secure the political independence of Ireland from Great Britain; the society also sought to make Ireland completely self-sufficient economically and to promote Irish

culture and the use of the Irish language.  As the political arm of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, this organization's members have been active in the struggle raging in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.

Answer: Sinn Fein [pronounced "shin fane", but accept anything phonetically plausible. Do not accept IRA; that’s wrong from the 1st clue.]

9. In this novel, the protagonist is driven by his loathing of his father, Unoka, and becomes known throughout Umuofia for his wealth and wrestling prowess. However, he is unable to grapple with the incursion of British colonialism into his sheltered world. FTP, name this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel that focuses on the life and downfall of Okonkwo.

Answer: Things Fall Apart

10. Rising in the Tanggula Mountains of Qinghai Province, this 6300-kilometer-long river is colloquially described as "Long River," the translation of its name in Chinese. Passing through the Three Gorges at Qutang and Wu, this river boasts the world's largest dam. FTP what longest river in China empties into the East China Sea at Shanghai?

Answer: Chang Jiang; or Yangtze River

11. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1954, this politician considered becoming a pianist before becoming interested in international relations. She speaks Russian, French, and Spanish and is a tenured professor at Stanford University. In 2003 she submitted the editorial “Why We Know Iraq is Lying” to the New York Times and in 2004 Forbes Magazine named her the world’s most powerful woman. For ten points who is this cabinet official, confirmed in 2005 as the U.S. Secretary of State?

Answer: Condoleezza Rice

12. With his great prolificacy at 1,348 volumes, many of his contemporaries had doubts that he wrote them himself. In 1845, he was brought to court on the accusation that he ran a “fiction-factory,” but he was acquitted. Regardless of this, for ten points, which man is still regarded a great storyteller of historic romance, with works such as The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers?

Answer: Alexandre Dumas père [they don’t have to specify père, but do not accept fils]

13. A peace plan proposed by Fernando Belaunde Terry before the start of this war was not accepted which led to Admiral Jorge Anaya developing an invasion plan. Lasting a mere 72 days and resulting in approximately 1,000 casualties, Leopoldo Galtieri spearheaded the drive to recapture the namesake land masses in order to distract people from the political realities of economic depression and human right abuses. This conflict was essentially over after the retaking of South Georgia Island and the fall of Port San Carlos. For ten points -- name this 1982 war fought between the United Kingdom and Argentina

Answer: Falklands War (or Malvinas War)

14. It uses oxaloacetate as a catalyst, and during it, three molecules of NAD and one of FADH are reduced, a molecule of guanosine triphosphate is produced, and its initial reactant becomes two molecules of carbon dioxide. In a transition step between glycolysis and it, two pyruvate molecules are turned into two molecules of acetyl coenzyme A. For ten points, this describes what process within respiration which occurs in the matrix of a mitochondrion?

Answer: Krebs cycle (or citric acid cycle)

15. His wife's brothers Laban and Bethuel let her go when she gave his father's servants water for their camels. His son Esau wept bitterly when he blessed an imposter who brought him a savoury dish made by Rebekah, the wife of this son of Sarah, whose birth drove out the slave Hagar and his half-brother Ishmael. Saved on Mount Moriah by an angel, FTP name this son almost sacrificed by Abraham.

Answer: Isaac

16. Its precise origins are lost in time, predating Brother Theophilus’s early 12th century manual by about four centuries. In this art form, color could be created using specialized paints such as a dark enamel called grisaille, or by adding materials such as cobalt and copper. The Bolton brothers established one of the first American studios; other notable innovators included John LaFarge and Louis Tiffany. The methods of creating this art underwent major changes shortly after World War II, when a great deal of it needed to be replaced in Europe. For ten points what is this form of art prominently seen in Sainte-Chapelle and the Cathedral of Chartres?

Answer: Stained Glass

17. A young man murders an old man who is boarding with him because he is creeped out by the old man’s clouded eye. The young man would never have been caught if he had kept his mouth shut, but when the police come, all he can think about is the loud beating of the old man’s heart underneath the floor. For ten points, name this short story by Edgar Allen Poe

Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart

18. Within it you are allowed to choose the venue, such as a party, Club Avalanche, or the Enormobowl. Some of its songs – like Ladies’ Night, Believe, and Bizarre Love Triangle – were later used in the PS2’s Dance Dance Revolution Extreme. For ten points, name this Konami game, for which you must use the bundled-in microphone.

Answer: Karaoke Revolution

19. It was first described by Hideki Yukawa in 1935 and is one of the four fundamental forces of the universe. The strongest of the four forces, it is the reason that quarks form hadrons. For ten points, name the force that is found in between subatomic particles and is responsible for holding them together.

Answer: Strong Nuclear Force

20. His tone-deafness led him to remark, “I only know two tunes. One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’ and the other isn’t.” We The name he’s known by was originally his middle name; he planned to reverse it with his given first name, Hiram, but a paperwork error at West Point assigned him a new middle name. Financially ruined by bad investments late in life, he finished his Personal Memoirs just before his death to provide for his family. Securing Union victories at Fort Henry and Shiloh, he later became president during the Gilded Age. FTP name this general, victor at Appomattox Courthouse.

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

21. According to Henry Adams, "so little is known about [it], whether social, racial, sexual, or heritable -- that history is inclined to avoid it altogether." Marvin Minsky wrote on a society of it, calling it an emergent property of communicating entities. Hegel wrote on its phenomenology while Boaz wrote on that of primitive man. According to Descartes it shares the universe with the body. FTP name this quality some people put over matter.

Answer: the mind

22. Structures resulting from this process are called homoplasies, or analogous structures. The process is responsible for the similarity of the eyes of squids and humans, and the wings of bats and birds. These adaptations were not present in the common ancestors of either group, but arose later to meet their similar needs in the environment. For ten, what is this kind of evolution where similar structures arise in unrelated species?

Answer: convergent evolution

23. Divinity Princeton students were told to prepare a speech and walk to another building to give it. Along the way, each encountered a confederate, who feigned illness, and acted as if he were in need of assistance. Despite assumed dedication of the students to help those in need, students who were told that they were late to the speech were found to be much less likely to help than students who were told that there was extra time before the speech. For ten points, what famous experiment showed that pro-social norms are more likely when it is more convenient to do so?

Answer: Darley-Batson Experiment, or Good Samaritan Experiment

TOSSUPS – ROUND THREE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. This man’s scientific accomplishments include writing “On the Theory of Colors” and discovering the human intermaxillary bone. He also gave us the memorable quotes “When ideas fail, words come in very handy” and “The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.” Associated with the literary movement known as “Sturm und Drang”, FTP name this German novelist, author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.

Answer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced ger-tuh, but accept phonetically plausible answers]

2. He has the unanimous support from the Pardon the Interruption commentators to be the 2005 NBA MVP due to the fact that his team was winless without him. While he’s averaging a double-double for the 2004-05 season, he will probably be better remembered this season for serving a header to an Amare Stoudemire dunk in All-Star weekend. FTP name this Canadian guard formerly with the Dallas Mavericks, now playing in his first year with the Phoenix Suns.

Answer: Steve Nash

3. An epidemic now linked to this disease was found by Dr. Carleton Gajdusek in the Fore [for-RAY] people of New Guinea, who themselves called it ‘kuru’. A similar disease has affected farmed mink populations, while sheep and goats are susceptible to a disease from which it may have originated, “scrapie”. While the link is unproven, it appears that consumption of infected tissue can cause a variant form of the lethal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. FTP what is the common name of this disease, officially named bovine spongiform encephalopathy, that affects the brain tissue of cattle?

Answer: Mad Cow Disease [Accept any of those other names before they’re read; accept “B.S.E.” before “bovine spongiform encephalopathy”]

4. It lasted for 27 years with only a brief truce therein. Causes include the Battle of Sybota and the Megarian Decree. Early victories for the Battle of Pylos and the Battle of Amphphilos lead to the six year long peace of Nicias. The Lacedaemonians eventually achieved victory by besieging their opponent’s city year-round and defeating their navy at the Battle of Aegospotami. For ten points what was this Greek war documented by Thucydides?

Answer: The Peloponnesian War

5. The Kaibab Trail was built as a second path of access because the main route was privately owned. This landmark is asymmetrical in that the north rim is about 300 meters higher than the south rim. Both Proteozoic and Paleozoic strata are exposed by the landmark, both of which can be seen along with sites such as Bright Angel Creek and Phantom Ranch on the popular mule ride tour. Ending at Grand Wash Fault, it is as much as 277 miles long and one mile deep. For ten points what is this feature of Arizona?

Answer: The Grand Canyon

6. This 1791 opera is populated by characters such as Sarastro, Three Genii, Papageno, and Monostatos. Its name is derived from the mythical instrument given to the protagonist for protection. Set in Egypt, FTP name this Mozart opera that details the journey of Tamino to rescue Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night.

Answer: The Magic Flute (also accept Die Zauberflöte [Dee ZOW-ber-fler-tuh]

7. They consist of a weak acid with its conjugate base or a weak base and its conjugate acid and are used industrially to keep stable conditions for sensitive reactions. One important biological example is a combination of carbonic acid and bicarbonate found in blood plasma that carefully restricts the pH level. For ten points what are these solutions that resist changes in pH?

Answer: buffer Solutions

8. Also named Tatanka Iyotake, this man lived from 1831 until he was killed in response to his attraction to the Ghost Dance movement in 1890. Prior to his involvement in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, he was forced to surrender his tribe to the US in Montana after fleeing with them to Canada. For ten points what was the popular name of this Native American leader whose dream prompted the Native American victory at the battle of Little Bighorn?

Answer: Sitting Bull

9. Pencil and paper ready. You will have fifteen seconds to buzz in, but only three seconds after you buzz in. FTP, how much money is five quarters, four dimes, three nickels, and two pennies?

Answer: $1.82

10. When Act 1 opens, George, a history professor at New Carthage University, and his wife Martha, return home at 2 am but are still expecting guests, another couple from the college. In Act 2 the games, which are actually attempts by Martha and George to demean and torture each other, become more vicious when the hosts turn on their guests, Nick and Honey. The last act, “Exorcism,” ends with all four characters’ dirty secrets revealed, and Nick and Honey gone, leaving their hosts to pick up the pieces of their marriage. FTP name this Edward Albee play, whose title suggests that the author of Mrs. Dalloway might inspire fear.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

11. As originally depicted before he started getting bad P.R., this god protected the sun god Ra as he journeyed through the land of the dead and killed Apep, the serpent who attacked Ra each night. He was the husband of his sister Nepthys and the brother of Osiris, whom later stories said he murdered. Earlier sources usually described him as possessing the head of a Jackal, but he eventually assumed the crocodilian appearance of his former foe Apep. Depicted as possessing square ears, a curved snout, and a forked tail, FTP who was this Egyptian god of winds, storms, chaos and eventually evil?

Answer: Set or Seth

12. Its most common 66 variety is made by a condensation polymerization of a six-carbon diamine and a six-carbon di-acid. It was invented by Wallace Carothers at DuPont in 1935, and first went on sale in the form of a toothbrush in 1938. Through World War II, it was in high demand for tents, ropes, and parachutes, leading to the popular image of collection drives. Contrary to popular belief, its name did not come from London and New York, where the material was first produced. FTP name this synthetic fiber, most famously used for women’s stockings.

Answer: nylon

13. When this character, recognizable by his Don King style hair, was asked to allow snow in Southtown, he refused until his mother stepped in and worked out a compromise with his brother. He is most well known for his singing, including the following lyrics: “I'm Mister Green Christmas, I'm Mister Sun, I'm Mister Heat Blister, I'm Mister Hundred and One”. For ten points who was this character from the movie “A Year Without Santa Claus”?

Answer: Heat Miser

14. A writer for such newspapers as the Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune, he used his journalistic style for his first book-length success, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. More recently he was awarded a dubious prize from the Literary Review for poor use of sexual description in his most recent novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. For ten points who is this American author famous for writing The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff?

Answer: Tom Wolfe [grudgingly accept Thomas Wolfe, since that is his name, even though there’s another writer better known by that name]

15. A governor for four years and a senator for three, this man hoped to run for president before he was killed by a gunshot from Carl Weiss. As a senator he created the Share Our Wealth program and was one of the early progenitors of Social Security. For ten points who was this Louisiana politician best known for achieving almost dictatorial power over his state?

Answer: Huey Long

16. He won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in measuring the speed of light, but he is better known for his findings regarding the nature of light. At Case Western Reserve University, using an interferometer, he tried to determine how the speed of light varies. For ten points, name this American scientist, who, along with Edward Morley, showed the non-existence of luminiferous ether

Answer: Albert Abraham Michelson

17. Born in Leeuwarden in 1898, this artist went on to produce over 400 woodcuts, lithographs, and wood engravings in his career, though he is better known for such works as Ascending and Descending and Sky and Water. These works play on perception, experiment with tessellation, and form impossible spaces. For ten points who was this artist whose works include Relativity and Metamorphosis?

Answer: Maurits C. Escher

18. This book was written while its author was imprisoned for preaching against the Church of England. The novel itself takes place on the road from the City of Destruction to the Gates of the Celestial City. Along the way the protagonist makes his way past obstacles such as the Slough of Despond, characters such as Hate-good, and events such as the Vanity Fair. For ten points what is this allegorical Protestant work concerning the everyman Christian?

Answer: The Pilgrim’s Progress

19. His tombstone, located in the town of Kaliningrad, reads “Starry heavens above and the moral law within.” Some of his significant contributions are the concept of a categorical imperative and the suggestion that the solar system coalesced from a cloud of gas. For ten points who was this German philosopher, best known for his three critiques?

Answer: Immanuel Kant

20. Those that supported it included the countries of the European Union, Russia, Canada, China, and Japan. Major countries that did not support it include Australia and the United States. Negotiated in December 1997 in the eponymous city, it came into force in February of 2005. FTP, identify this international global warming treaty designed to reduce the global emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Answer: Kyoto Protocol

21. Important properties of this substance include its high heat capacity and high heat of vaporization, which allow it to act as a heat absorbant and minimize environmental temperature changes. It has a tetrahedral shape and two lone pairs, making it a polar substance. In addition to its cohesive and adhesive properties, its solid form can often be found floating in the ocean because it is less dense than its liquid form. FTP name this substance in which life originated that today covers three-fourths of Earth's surface.

Answer: H2O; or water

22. Dynamic typing, metaprogramming capabilities, an S-expression syntax, and list operations are features of this functional programming language. It became popular in the artificial intelligence community during the 1970s and ’80s, although it had first been specified in 1958. For ten points, name this language developed by John McCarthy, instantly recognizable because of its highly parenthesized syntax, whose name comes from the phrase “list processing.”

Answer: Lisp

23. A true Renaissance man, this Italian chemist published two well known books: The Periodic Table, The Truce, The Drowned and the Saved, and Survival in Auschwitz (originally If This Be Man) detailing his experiences during WWII and his subsequent survival from detachment. He is also accomplished due to his collections of poetry such as Shema and memoirs. FTP, Name this man whose death from falling down a flight of stairs is often considered a suicide.

Answer: Primo Levi

TOSSUPS – ROUND FOUR DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. One of 13 brothers and sisters, he was imprisoned during World War II for trying to help the Axis Powers expel the occupying British. As President, he became known as “hero of the Crossing” because with Syria he began the 1973 Yom Kippur War, though in 1977 he became the first Arab leader to officially recognize the state of Israel. FTP, name this man who succeeded Gamal Nasser to become the President of Egypt.

Answer: Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat

2. He lives with his mother, whom he hates for her ugliness and her inability to speak or think. In the spring, he comes to King Hrothgar’s meadhall to devour people, and meanwhile meditates on the ridiculousness of humanity. For ten points, this is the main character from what novel by John Gardner ,which depicts the story of the titular monster from the Beowulf epic?

Answer: Grendel

3. In Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Stella is scheduled to appear in this opera. The ink was still wet on the paper when musicians played its overture for the first time on its premiere, when Joseph II said that it "is too tough for the teeth of the Viennese." The title character commits two attempted rapes and a murder before the Commendatore returns from the dead to drag him to hell. FTP name this Mozart opera about Don Juan.

Answer: Don Giovanni

4. This process has two major types: catalytic and thermal. In catalytic, various catalysts such as alumina and silica are used to speed the process of splitting large organic molecules into smaller ones. In thermal, high temperatures and pressures are used to split the molecules. For ten points, name this chemical process, the main method by which refineries convert crude oil into separate petroleum products, which in this context does not involve the knuckles.

Answer: Cracking

5. In the Iliad, she was injured when Athena drove Diomedes into battle against her. Her only parent was Ouranos, as she was born from the foam of the sea. This makes her older than her King, Zeus. One time, in a contest against Athena and Hera, she was bestowed a golden apple that had “to the fairest” carved in it, by promising Paris the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen. FTP, name this Greek god of love and beauty.

Answer: Aphrodite [not Venus – she’s not in the Iliad]

6. In the spring of 1861, she was focused on little more than her numerous suitors, including both the Tarleton twins. She marries Charles Hamilton in hopes of hurting the true object of her affection, Ashley Wilkes, who has become engaged to Hamilton’s cousin Melanie. Charles joins the army and dies of measles. After the war she marries Frank Kennedy for financial security, but after she’s killed she winds up marrying the rakish Rhett Butler – while still carrying a torch for that sap Ashley. FTP, name the memorable protagonist of Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind.

Answer: Scarlett O’Hara [accept either first or last name; prompt for first name on any of her three married surnames – Hamilton, Kennedy, or Butler]

7. During this empire’s early years in the 15th century, Sonni Ali brought conquest and wealth, and his successor Askia Mohammad presided over its golden age, bringing political reform and Islamic revival. With its capital at Gao on the Niger River, for ten points, what empire rose from the decline of the Mali to become one of the largest African empires in history?

Answer: Songhai Empire

8. Born in Scotland, he grew up in Wisconsin and studied at the University of Wisconsin, but rather than graduate he left the school and took a trek from Indiana to Florida. He then moved to California, where he moved to the location he is most associated with. He theorized that this location, the Yosemite valley, was formed by glaciation, a theory helped by his discovers of a glacier by Merced Peak. His love of nature led to his work in conservation, including the founding of the Sierra Club, which he served as its first president. Now pictured on the back of the California state quarter, name, FTP, this pioneering naturalist honored with a namesake trail, wilderness, and national monument.

Answer: John Muir

9. According to Rolling Stone, “Between the long reign of ABBA and the short rule of the Spice Girls lies the land where [this group] governed.” The 1993 release of its first album – originally released as Happy Nation -- landed the group with a series of top 10 singles, but later albums The Bridge and Cruel Summer failed to recapture the magic. FTP what is the name of this Swedish pop band whose hits included “Don’t Turn Around,” “All That She Wants,” and “The Sign?”

Answer: Ace of Base

10. It was proposed in the 18th century, but it can be traced back to Ancient Greece, with connected concepts such as hedonism and consequentialism. Jeremy Bentham proposed the “Act” form, which evaluates specific actions and John Stuart Mill proposed a “Rule” form, where actions are indirectly evaluated through some other suitable object of moral assessment, such as rules of conduct. For ten points, identify this philosophy, where the morality of an action or law is defined by its use.

Answer: utilitarianism

11. She lived into 2005, but barely, dying the night of Jan. 1. After obtaining a master’s degree in childhood education at Columbia University, she worked in the daycare field until 1959. However, she is perhaps best known for her political career, which started in 1964, when she served in the New York General Assembly. For ten points, identify this person, the first African American woman to be considered for presidential nomination, in 1972.

Answer: Shirley Chisholm

12. This largely uneducated blacksmith's son was an assistant to Humphry Davy, and he discovered benzene and diamagnetism. He was the first to report inducing an electrical current from a magnetic field, and he invented the dynamo and the electric motor. James Clerk Maxwell built the electromagnetic field theory on his work. FTP, who is this namesake of the SI unit for capacitance?

Answer: Michael Faraday

13. In his Testaments Betrayed he uses discussion of artists ranging from Kafka to Stravinsky to Rushdie to defend the novel as a necessary European art form. His more recent novels, Identity and Slowness were written originally in French, rejecting the Czech language through which he originally became famous. Born in 1929 in Brno, in 1979 he was denied his Czech Citizenship following the publication of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which discussed the Prague Spring and the ensuing Soviet crackdown. FTP name this Czech-French author of Laughable Loves, The Joke, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Answer: Milan Kundera

14. With its 342,000 square miles of landmass, this island separated from Australia by the Torres Strait is the second largest in the world. Historically it has been claimed by the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, and Australia before arriving at its present east-west political division in 1975. For ten points what is this island of which half is owned by Indonesia while the other half is a separate nation with its capital at Port Moresby?

Answer: New Guinea [sorry, but we can’t accept Papua new Guinea]

15. In polar coordinates, it is given as negative 2 times a divided by the quantity 1 plus cosine of theta. While three points uniquely determine two of them, it is defined as the set of all points in a plane equidistant from a line called the directrix and a point not on the line called the focus. For ten points, identify this mathematical construction, of which an example is y equals x squared.

Answer: parabola

16. Though influential, he was known for his inconsistencies. Initially supporting the secession of the South, he later became pro-North and an abolitionist. On August 19th, 1862, he wrote an open letter, defending the actions of John Fremont and David Hunter, and criticized President Lincoln for failing to make slavery the dominant issue in the Civil War. FTP, identify this man, the founder and editor of the New York Tribune and losing Presidential candidate in 1868.

Answer: Horace Greeley

17. Studying under Thomas Hart Benton, he was influenced by Orozco, Rivera, and Native American sand paintings, as seen in The Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle. Marrying Lee Krasner in 1944, he ended his life prematurely in a car crash. Instead of easels and brushes, he put his canvas on the floor and poured paint from a can in an attempt to capture

artistic moods. FTP name this action painter known to some as Jack the Dripper.

Answer: Jackson Pollock

18. The protein dynein undergo changes in tertiary structure, moving one microtubule past another. They rotate in prokaryotes and propagate like waves in eukaryotes. Nine fused doublets form an outer cylinder, in the center of which an unfused pair of microtubules reside, while nine triplets make up their basal bodies. FTP name these whiplike appendages which, in prokaryotes, are assembled from the protein flagellin.

Answer: flagella [or singular flagellum; prompt on “cilia” on the first sentence

19. Before he died from tuberculosis at age 28, this author had not only been hired as a war correspondent for the Greco-Turkish and Spanish-American wars, but he also had already written twelve books including Whilomville Stories, his last. This was despite the commercial failure of his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. For ten points who was this American novelist, best known for The Red Badge of Courage?

Answer: Stephen Crane

20. Its original authorship was the subject of a lengthy legal dispute between publishers Platt and Munk and Grosset and Dunlap, which ironically have since both been bought out by Penguin Books. By the 1955 settlement, Grosset and Dunlap could publish under an alternate title an older version credited to Frances Ford, while Platt and Munk kept the more familiar title listing the author as Watty Piper, a house pseudonym. The moral of the story is that with great enough willpower, even a seemingly insurmountable task may be completed. FTP name this children’s classic, which may or may not have been adapted from Ford’s newsletter article “The Pony Engine.”

Answer: The Little Engine That Could [accept, with an amazed look, early buzz w/ “The Pony Engine”]

21. This name refers to several species belonging to the Coenocorypha or Gallinago genera. Some of the varieties of these are the Wood, Solitary, Jack, Great, and Common. There are eighteen species in total that are characterized by their long, slender bill. FTP, give the name by which this bird is known, more commonly recognized as the false prey used by pranksters to get those unaware to hunt them alone in the dark outdoors.

Answer: Snipe

22. Published in 1990, this work by Eva Hoffman details her journey from Cracow, Poland to Canada in order to escape the impending Communist state. Her work focuses on the gaps of comprehension between languages. She fragments herself, wondering how the Eva who remained in Poland would react to situations. She explores the exile that she feels due to never really belonging in one place. FTP, name this memoir that shares its name with a recent Sofia Coppola film starring Scarlett Johanssen and Bill Murray.

Answer: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

23. The number of lines was limited to 4, 8 or 12. Each line was composed of either 5 or 7 characters. Other regulations also applied, such as a set rhyme scheme, character parallelism, and tone balance. These regulations were requisite for these, which became commonplace in examinations for degrees and positions in office. For ten points, identify this literary form, because of which a Chinese dynasty was named the Golden Age of poetry.

Answer: Tang poems

TOSSUPS – ROUND FIVE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Besides the usual suspects, questions by Macon State’s Brett Norris and Cal-Berkeley’s Chris Nguyen, Paul Reverdy, Lev Trubov, & Larry Wang

1. The writings of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain were preparations for the conquest. One of the first to die in the invasion is astronomer Ogilvy, who only days before denied the existence of those who killed him. After the military is defeated, the population of London flees. The narrator spends fifteen days holed in a house on which one of the invaders' ships landed. Eventually the invaders and the "red weed" they brought with them succumb to Earth's bacteria. First descriptions of chemical weapons and kamikaze attacks occur in, for ten points, what H. G. Wells novel about a Martian invasion of Earth, most famous for its radio adaptation by Orson Welles?

Answer: The War of the Worlds

2. In April and May of 1989, it saw the construction of the “Goddess of Democracy and Freedom”, a 27 ft. polystyrene and plaster statue modeled after the Statue of Liberty. Student activists held hunger strikes here, as well as marched with pro-democracy banners proclaiming, “Give us freedom or give us death”. FTP, name this Peking square made famous in 1989 when Chinese students were fired on by tanks and military personnel.

Answer: Tienamnen Square

3. The equation assumes that the molecules involved have a volume of zero and do not attract each other, which works OK in our relatively low-pressure, high-temperature day-to-day world, but for true accuracy, the van der Waals equation must be used instead. The units most commonly used are liters, atmospheres, moles, and Kelvin, resulting in a value for the constant R of 0.08206. For ten points, this is what law of chemistry derived from Boyle’s, Charles’, and Avogadro’s Laws?

Answer: the ideal gas law (accept ideal gas equation before “law”; prompt on PV = nRT)

4. Aside from the composer's performances at the Foundling Hospital, this piece wasn't played much during his lifetime. Part 1 of the recitative was sung by a boy soprano in a prose-like style accompanied by a cello and organ. It was composed during the rule of George II who stood up at the premiere near the close of Act II to honor the "King of Kings." Often heard during Christmas, for ten points, name this Handel oratorio containing the Hallelujah Chorus.

Answer: Messiah

5. This type of map has become a subject of great controversy, as critics argue it perpetuates Eurocentrism by placing Europe in the center and downplaying the size of nations near the Equator. It is a cylindrical conformal projection, allowing for the spherical Earth to be represented as a rectangle with preservation of angle. For ten points, name this map projection, developed by Gerhard Kremer in 1569.

Answer: Mercator projection [Kremer was his German name]

6. In the movie “Serendipity,” Sara writes her phone number in this book. This book tells of the off-and-on love affair of Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, who in the end are forced to cruise the river after raising the yellow flag representing the titular disease.  FTP name this novel, written by Gabriel García Márquez.

Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera

7. This contains over 95 percent of vitrinite, which is derived from woody plant tissue. The combination of volatile matter and low moisture content make it useful in a wide variety of industrial applications. Most notable among those is the production of coke, an important material in smelting iron ore. Also used in steam production for electricity and boiler plants, burning kinds with medium to high-sulfur content causes acid rain. Also called soft coal, name, FTP, this type of coal which is just below anthracite in carbon content.

Answer: bituminous (accept soft coal up to its appearance in the question)

8. Attempted territorial gains by Christian IV. The imposition of Catholicism by Ferdinand II. Anti-Catholic crusades by Gustavus Adolphus. The usual squabbling between France and the Habsburgs. These are all facets of this series of conflicts, often divided by scholars into five periods including the Bohemian and Palatinate. Leading to the abandonment of the concept of a Roman Catholic empire in Europe, FTP name this war, ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.

Answer: the Thirty Years’ War

9. It teaches that God is completely good and wholly spiritual, and that all his creations are perfect. Because of this, adherents believe that all evils, including disease, result from not being close to God. Therefore, they turn to prayer before modern medicine, often causing its followers to butt heads with the government over the care of minors. For ten points, what is this religion founded in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy?

Answer: Christian Science (or Scientist)

10. Oddly enough, even though he is a star face of the series now, he didn’t appear until the third installment of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. A member of Element Skateboards, he made a name for himself on MTV, appearing in both the stunt reality show and another program. For ten points, name this “insane” skater, the star of “Viva la” himself.

Answer: Brandon Cole “Bam” Margera, or just “Bam”

11. In signal detection theory, it is the name of both the outcome probabilities of hits and false alarms and the payoff table for correct responses. In biology, it is the region enclosed by the inner membrane of mitochondria containing ribosomes and DNA necessary for cellular respiration. The first word in the expansion of the name of the programming language Matlab, it is most famously used in linear algebra, where these structures can be transposed and possibly inverted. FTP name the rectangular array of numbers made into a movie starring Keanu Reeves.

Answer: matrix

12. Lord Wilmore, Sinbad the Sailor, and Abbè Busoni are among the alter egos assumed by the protagonist of this novel. Framed for treason by some neighbors, he is officially arrested on the day of his wedding to his beloved Mercedes. With the help of a priest, the Abbè Faria, the protagonist is able to escape from jail, and somewhere around Chapter 30 even the narrative stops using his real name, Edmond Dantes. FTP name this tale of revenge by Alexandre Dumas.

Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo

13. Clarence Darrow, an attorney for management, was incensed by management's handling of this event that he quit to become an attorney representing labor in future disputes. Clashes that occurred during this included one between Illinois governor John Altgeld and Grover Cleveland when Cleveland brought in federal troops to stop this event. Eugene Debs saw his rise during this event where, for ten points, the American Railway Union went on a strike that resulted in the paralysis of the railway system from Chicago to the Pacific Coast.

Answer: Pullman strike

14. Ironically, Sabina is married to one of the titular figures while the titular figures' sister Camilla was to be betrothed to his opponent. Taken from a story by Titus-Levy, this painting shows the sisters in a state of anguish on the lower left as the three titular figures, one of whom is clutching a spear, reach their hands towards the swords held by the central figure, their father, in, for ten points, what painting by Jacques Louis David [dah-VEED]?

Answer: Oath of the Horatii

15. Gnetophyta contains 70 species, including several types of tropical vine and ephedra, or Mormon tea. The sole species of gingkophyta is its namesake gingko biloba. The best known members, however, are the nondeciduous conifers. For ten points, name this group of plants which includes the four divisions of seedless vascular plants?

Answer: gymnosperms

16. She was a calypso singer before coming to prominence as a civil rights activist in the 1960’s. She read her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the 1993 presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton. But she is most famous for her autobiographical writings. For ten points, name this author, the writer of All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Answer: Maya Angelou

17. It has been used as a basis for both neutrality and federalism, although, in a pure sense, it has nothing to do with either. In its namesake novel, Captain Kirk is court-martialed for causing a nuclear war on a primitive planet. In "Who Watches the Watchers," it is violated when Jean-Luc Picard is seen by the Mintakans and is believed to be a god. In "Patterns of Force," historian John Gill violated it and set up a carbon copy of Nazi Germany on Ekos. Also known as Starfleet General Order Number One, this is, for ten points, what highest law of the Federation that prohibits Starfleet personnel from interfering with a culture that has not invented a warp drive?

Answer: the Prime Directive (accept Starfleet General Order Number One before it is mentioned)

18. Isaac Newton threatened to leave the Royal Society when this man criticized Newton’s discovery that prisms didn’t modify white light, it instead split it. He first developed the inverse square law of gravitation which Newton proved in his Principia MathematicaI without giving original credit to the author. FTP, correctly identify this 17th century scientist whose namesake law describes the relationship between applied force and the change in length of a spring.

Answer: Robert Hooke

19. Planned to be a symbolic 1,776 feet high, taller than the current world’s tallest building, it will have 70 stories and feature 2.6 million square feet of office space. An innovative design of the structure includes the integration of wind turbines, which will generate 20% of the energy for the building. For ten points, identify this future building that will replace the World Trade Center destroyed on September 11, 2001.

Answer: Freedom Tower

20. 1899: The Stanford axe was first stolen at a baseball game in San Francisco. 1920: The murders later attributed to Sacco and Vanzetti occurred. 1989: The Tiananmen Square protests began in Beijing. 1912: The RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, killing 1,523 passengers and crew. 1865: Abraham Lincoln succumbed to the gunshot wound inflicted by John Wilkes Booth. For ten points, give the calendar date shared by these events, hated by many Americans as the day Federal income taxes are due.

Answer: April 15

21. It was thought that the unification of China under the Qin happened because the Qin had more access to this. China remained the only country able to use it to its full capacity until Europe's middle ages, because in its raw form it is not much harder than bronze, and it more brittle. For ten points, what is this metal that despite these shortcomings, succeeded bronze in most non-ornamental use, partly because of the victory of kingdoms such as the Hittites?

Answer: iron

22. Members of this phylum can range in size from having a body width of one millimeter to having a diameter of over two meters. Organized at the tissue level, they possess an internal gastrovascular cavity, a non-cellular mesoglea, and organelles called nematocysts. Mostly radially symmetrical, they have two major body types: the polyp and medusa. For ten points -- name this phylum that includes corals, sea anemones, hydras, and jellyfishes.

Answer: Cnidaria

23. Possibly the first use of a flamethrower occurred in the aftermath of this battle. The men from the tiny city of Thespiae sided with their traditional enemies, and were rewarded by being placed on the left wing and massacred by the Athenian right wing under Pagondas. That didn't help the Athenians, as Hippocrates, using a non-traditional phalanx 25 ranks deep, tore through the Athenian ranks and chased then back into the fort for which the battle is named. Socrates and Alcibiades both participated in, for ten points, which battle, the largest of the Archidamian War, ironically fought by Athens against not Sparta, but Thebes, in 424 B. C. E.?

Answer: battle of Delium

TOSSUPS – ROUND SIX DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Mostly by the usual suspects; additional questions by Chuck Pearson of Shorter College

1. This novel introduces as a minor character Shreve MacKenzie, who later reappeared in Absalom, Absalom! as one of the two main narrators. Shreve is not one of this story’s three narrators, each of whom has a very different point of view reflecting the problems unique to each of them. The novel revolves about one particular event as seen from the view of the mean-spirited Jason, the retarded Benjy, and the delusional Quentin, each with a different obsession with their sister Caddy. For ten points, what is this William Faulkner novel about the stunningly dysfunctional Compson family?

Answer: The Sound and the Fury

2. For his many accomplishments, he was given the island of Hven between Denmark and Sweden by King Frederick II. Some of those accomplishments include the discovery of the star Stella Nova in the constellation Cassiopeia and proving that comets are not objects in our atmosphere. Recent scholarship points to mercury poisoning as the more probable cause of his 1601 death, rather than the alleged ruptured bladder. FTP name this Danish astronomer who cataloged observations later used by Kepler in his formation of laws on planetary movement.

Answer: Tycho Brahe

3. This American political party would periodically make a splash in the first half of the 20th century, most notable with major presidential candidacies in 1924 and 1948. But it self-destructed in 1950 when its executive board condemned U.S. participation in the Korean War. That led many of its members to quit, including their 1948 Presidential nominee, Henry Wallace. FTP name this party, spearheaded in the ‘20’s by Robert LaFollette.

Answer: Progressive Party

4. The earliest depictions of him date to about 800 CE. Among his responsibilities are the reproduction of game animals and changing the seasons. Some assert he evolved from depictions of Aztec traders who carried large sacks on their back. This does not explain, however, the sometimes inhumanly large phallus that, according to legend, he leaves in streams and rivers to impregnate bathing females. FTP, name this symbol of the American Southwest, an Anasazi fertility deity.

Answer: Kokopelli

5. A deadly manufactured strain of the Ebola virus is going to be released during the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. An elite group of anti terrorists led by John Clark attempt to find the culprit and stop them before the attack occurs. For ten points, name this book written by Tom Clancy, or the video game series that inspired the book.

Answer: Rainbow Six (accept “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six”)

6. There have actually been two structures that bear this name. The first one built in the 3rd century BC has been almost totally obliterated today, the exact size and total location are not even known. The second, and more famous, was built beginning in the late 15th century. It is infact not one structure but a series of fortifications that leave the frontier open in places. And, contrary to popular belief, astronauts have confirmed that it is not visible from space. It reaches from Bo Hai in the east to Gansu Province in the West. FTP name this 1500 mile long structure that is the namesake to many Asian Eateries

Answer: The Great Wall of China

7. In the preparatory type, larger quantities of the components of a mixture can be purified. Many apparatus exist, including the paper type, thin layer type, and gel permeation type. For ten points, this describes what chemical separation technique, where analytes separate due to difference in affinity to a stationary and mobile phase?

Answer: chromatography

8. Born in Lubeck in 1875, he was more successful than his older brother and fellow novelist Heinrich, although Heinrich’s Professor Unrat was made into the classic film The Blue Angel. Some of his notable works, such as The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man and Mario and the Magician, were written after he’d been awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature. The citation said the award was principally for his first novel, published 28 years earlier -- Buddenbrooks. For ten points name this German author of Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus, and The Magic Mountain.

Answer: Thomas Mann

9. Though their name is derived from the Turkish term for “free man”, they have spent most of their history under Russian rule. Most of them fought against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution, and in World War II many of them would join the Germans to fight against the Soviet Union. A most tragic event for them occurred near Lienz in Austria where the British tricked their officers into surrendering to the Soviets, who brutally repatriated around 32,000 of them. For ten points who are these people famed for their skills as cavalrymen?

Answer: Cossacks

10. It made several far-reaching pronouncements about the nature of Christianity. Most notably, it defined the Christian God as a Trinity and was able to agree upon a statement of faith which is sometimes used as an alternative to the Apostles’ Creed. For ten points, name this council that established the divinity of Jesus Christ.

Answer: First Council of Nicaea [or Nicene Council]

11. He invented a color-television picture tube and used neutron beams to treat cancer. He also worked on the Manhattan Project, and element 103 was named in his honor. He was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize for inventing the cyclotron. FTP, what physicist's name appears on laboratories in Berkeley and Livermore, California?

Answer: Ernest Orlando Lawrence

12. The stillness in the room and the breaths gathering firm could not keep it from performing its titular action. When the narrator signed away that portion of hers that is assignable, it interposed between the light and her, making a blue, uncertain, stumbling noise that, when the windows failed, the narrator could not see to see. FTP name this insect that went out of control when death is confronted by Emily Dickinson.

Answer: "I heard a fly buzz when I died"

13. They were formed in 1869 by Terence Powderly. They were not to last, however, with their fate sealed when a member, Alan Parsons, killed a police officer in the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago. After Parsons’ 1887 execution, the organization’s image was forever tarnished, though they had already been losing popularity to Samuel Gompers’ American Federation of Labor. FTP, identify this first American labor union.

Answer: The Knights of Labor

14. Whirlwind, PDP-1, Illiac IV, EDSAC, PDP-8, CDC 6600, CLIP-4, UNIVAC, MCM/70, Altair 8800, 8085, Cray-1, Commodore PET, TRS-80, Lisa, Amiga 1000, Commodore 64, ENIAC, Macintosh IIc. For ten points what were all of those devices?

Answer: computers

15. Almost three years after its 1996 premiere, original host Craig Kilborn left the show in part due to a nasty remark he had made about producer Lizz Winstead. Without Kilborn, it went on to win a Peabody award for its coverage of the 2000 presidential election. New episodes air four times a week and end with a Moment of Zen. For ten points name this fake news show which features segments such as “This Week in God”, “Back in Black”, and “Mess O’Potamia”.

Answer: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

16. Bartolomeo Borghesi is considered one of the key figures in establishing it as a science in the 1800’s. Practitioners are defined as a step beyond average collectors, as they are not interested in merely the value of objects, but their place in context with history. While mostly concerned with the study of coins, it may expand to include any of the forms of money. For ten points, what is the name for the scientific study of money?

Answer: numismatics

17. This Argentine-born revolutionary was a Marxist who worked with Fidel Castro to seize power in Cuba in 1959. He left Cuba in 1966 to help spread Marxist revolutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Bolivia, where was captured and executed in 1967. FTP, name this man who, after his death, became an icon of socialist and left-leaning movements throughout the world.

Answer: Ernesto “Che” Guevara [prompt on “Che”]

18. The alpha carbon is asymmetric, allowing these compounds to have L and D optical isomeric forms. At pH values commonly found in cells, both their carboxyl and amino groups are ionized. Different side chains of these 20+1 different varieties give them different chemical properties. Tryptophan, serine, and proline are examples of, FTP, these

compounds with COOH and NH2 groups that make up proteins.

Answer: amino acids

19. Often called a mock epic, it is written in dactylic hexameter and begins with the invocation of the muse. However, instead of a main epic story, there is a conglomeration of independent stories, including Baucis and Philemon, Pygmalion, and Cupid and Daphne. For ten points, identify this work, the famous compilation of mythology by Ovid.

Answer: the Metamorphoses

20. A graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, this man made underground, experimental films like Flesh, Trash, Blow Job, and The Chelsea Girls. He brought brief fame to a cadre of offbeat actresses such as Ondine, Ultra Violet, Edie Sedgwick, and the transvestite Candy Darling. More respectable works include giant, oddly-colored portraits of Mao Tse-Tung and Marilyn Monroe. FTP name this artist who achieved more than 15 minutes of fame by painting Campbell soup cans.

Answer: Andy Warhol; or Andrew Warhola

21. Last name's the same. The maiden name of Virginia Woolf's mother. Missouri's secessionist governor who led a rump assembly that drafted an ordinance of secession from the union in 1861. The frail, gentle being who, to the dismay of her hot tempered second husband, had apparently not yet divorced Lewis Robards. The religious leader and human rights activist who founded PUSH: People United to Save Humanity. The confederate general named Thomas Johnathan who died in Chancellorsville after securing his nickname in First Bull Run by standing erect. FTP it's also the name of Old Hickory, the seventh person to become president of the United States.

Answer: Jackson

22. Jimmy Nichols was their replacement drummer in Amsterdam and Hong Kong because the regular drummer was having his tonsils removed. Pete Best was their first drummer. Stuart Sutcliffe was their first bass guitar player. FTP, name this band composed of Richard Starkey, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon.

Answer: The Beatles

23. Nikolai Tesla once speculated that the Ark of the Covenant was one of these electrical devices. Alternating current can generally pass through them though they eventually cut off the transmission of direct current. Another distinguishing aspect of the devices is the very large unit used to describe them, usually preceded by the prefixes pico-, nano-, or micro-. For ten points what are these circuit elements described by the equation C = Q/V [C equals Q over V]?

Answer: Capacitors

TOSSUPS – ROUND SEVEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Additional questions by U. of Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia and Kelli Barone

1. Strictly speaking, this term refers to the presidency of Amr Bil Maruf, under which Sharia was enforced by the Munkrat, or religious police.  Under this regime, medical practices, the use of music in public spaces, and even personal hygiene were strictly regulated.  FTP name this regime, which took power in 1994 in Afghanistan.

  Answer: Taliban

 

2. It was written by a famous pied-noir, who based the book partly on his own upbringing in Algeria. In it, the main character kills an Arab on a sun-drenched beach. But, the authorities are not concerned with the murder; to them, Mersault’s lack of remorse at his mother’s funeral is more dangerous and worthy of punishment. For ten points, name this book, the work of existentialist Algerian-French author Albert Camus.

Answer: The Stranger or L’étranger

3. After attacking Persia in 547, he was defeated by Cyrus. He made notably generous gifts to the temple at Delphi and was misled by a prophecy that he would destroy a great kingdom. For ten points, identify this last king of Lydia whose lasting claim to fame is as a personification of wealth.

Answer: Croesus

4. The only major substance of abuse that mice will not self-administer, its endogenous ligand is also found in chocolate. Stephen Jay Gould was among those who endorsed it for treating nausea from chemotherapy, but short-term memory impairment, anxiety, and appetite enhancement overshadow its anti-emetic and analgesic effects. Binding of anadamide to cannabinoid receptors produce the effect of, FTP what drug used to treat Glaucoma made from hemp?

Answer: marijuana; accept THC; prompt on cannabis, or any other common euphemisms

5. Pencil and paper ready. You will have fifteen seconds to buzz in, but only three seconds after you buzz in. FTP, what is the value of six factorial?

Answer: 720.

6. A film based on this story, La Rivière du hibou, appeared on “The Twilight Zone” in 1962. First appearing in the author’s story collection, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, the action of the story takes place over the course of just a few minutes. However, the author distorts the reader’s notion of time to allow for an extended escape sequence in which Peyton Farquhar returns to his farm and is reunited with his wife. FTP name this Ambrose Bierce story that ends with a return to reality and the protagonist swinging from the eponymous structure.

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

7. He patented an all-plastic car in 1942, ten years after his last major engineering triumph, the one-piece V-8 engine. In his later years he was convicted of NLRB violations and forced to negotiate a standard labor contract after a 1941strike at his River Rouge plant. This was long after he’d instigated massive profits by improving employee morale with a $5 wage and an 8-hour day. For ten points, name this automotive giant who pioneered the assembly-line system.

Answer: Henry Ford

8. The highest point in this country is the 11,000-foot Njesuthi [in-juh-SOO-thee]. It is home to some of the world’s largest chromium, platinum, gold and diamond mines, and its mineral wealth was a major factor in the Boer Wars. It is the only nation of the world with three official capital cities: Bloemfontein, Cape Town, and Pretoria. For ten points, name this African nation, which struggled with the problems of apartheid for more than forty years.

Answer: South Africa

9. Writing to R. W. Wood, its formulator called it "an act of desperation." Rewriting the law of equipartition of energy so that average energy goes to 0 as frequency goes to infinity, we find that energy density is proportional to the -5th power of wavelength. Replacing the Rayleigh-Jeans theory of blackbody radiation, FTP name this law named after a German physicist that quantizes energy.

Answer: Planck's Law

10. Leonard Washington was a favorite in the World Series of Dice, and was also one of the husbands featured on Trading Spouses. Cornrow Wallace learned how to make crack from a man he shared a prison cell with, Tyrone Biggums. For ten points, these are all characters from what Comedy Central sketch comedy show hosted by the former star of Half-Baked, who you might remember better as Rick James?

Answer: Chappelle’s Show (prompt on “Dave Chappelle” up until “show”)

11. Developed in the 1950’s in Japan, it was modeled after the natural process of learning language. The early stages focus on training by ear, rather than learning musical notation. Although it can be applied to any instrument, literature has been specifically published for the viola, cello, bass, flute, guitar, and most popularly, the violin. Also known as “talent education,” for ten points, identify this method of musical teaching.

Answer: Suzuki method

12. Born Albino Luciani, his sunny demeanor and earnest desire for reform earned him the nickname “Good Pope.” Unfortunately, his was the 11th shortest tenure in that office, only thirty-three days. For ten points, name this pope whose, successor, Karol Wojtyla, remains the current Pope.

Answer: Pope John Paul I

13. Christopher Durang and Wendy Wasserstein’s parody of it includes the chorus breaking out into “Camptown Races” and the conflict being resolved by lobotomizing Jason. In the real play, however, things don’t end so well, with the title character poisoning Creon and his daughter and killing her own sons. For ten points, name this Euripides play set in Corinth.

Answer: Medea

14. Made up of calcite and dolomite, it is usually pure white, but this can be altered through the use of other minerals, like serpentine. There have been major deposits found in the United States, largely in the South, such as Tennessee and Georgia. For ten points, what is this metamorphic rock, made from limestone that is used in such buildings as the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument?

Answer: marble

15. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.  No private property shall be taken for public use without just compensation.  No person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.  FTP name this constitutional amendment, whose most famous provision prevents a person from having to testify in his own defense.

Answer: Fifth Amendment

 

16. He met the fellow writers with whom he is usually linked while attending Columbia University on a football scholarship. However, he dropped out of college his sophomore year and went on to travel extensively. Supposedly, the first draft of his second and best-known novel was typed over the course of three days, on a fifty-foot long roll of paper, while he was high on Benzedrine. For ten points, who is this Beat Generation author of On the Road?

Answer: Jack Kerouac

17. Isolated by the Hall-Heroult process, this metal is often used in power lines because it is cheaper and much lighter than copper. Located in Group 13 of the periodic table, it is extracted from bauxite and is the most abundant metal in Earth's crust. FTP, name this element used in making aircraft parts and soda cans.

Answer: aluminum

18. While primarily French, this movement did gain a minor following in America, primarily practiced by Alfred Maurer and Bob Thompson. This artistic movement of the early twentieth century got its name because critics said they used intense colors in a violent, uncontrolled way. For ten points, name this artistic movement led by Henri Matisse, named from the French for “wild beasts.”

Answer: Fauvism or Fauves

19. Originating in the United States around 2003, the phenomenon has spread worldwide, and has had purposes ranging from none at all, a form of protest, even a experiment in supercomputing. Its existence is made possible by the Internet, as details can be spread wide and anonymously. For ten points, what is the name of this sort of activity, where random people gather at one site at a specified time, perform some sort of random task, then quickly disperse?

Answer: Flash mob

20. The second one occurred at the trial of William Slavata and Jaroslav Martinic. However, neither Imperial governor was badly hurt as they both landed in a pile of manure after being thrown out throw a window. FTP, name this event in Prague which was central to the start of the 30 year’s war.

Answer: The Second Defenestration of Prague

21. Symbiotic relations between plant roots and these organisms are called mycorrhizae. Their body consists of filaments of hyphae which form a mycelium. One division of them, the ascomycetes, includes morels, truffles, ergot, chestnut blight, and many molds. FTP, name this group of organisms which combine with algae to form lichens, and which include mushrooms.

Answer: fungus or fungi

22. After receiving a doctorate in physics at Kiel in 1881, he changed his focus to psychophysics, and later, geography. However, his greatest calling would be anthropology as he laid the basis for cultural relativism, which argued against the evolutionary scale leading from savagery to “culture.” In 1911, he wrote The Mind of Primitive Man, demonstrating that there was no such thing as a "pure" or superior race. For ten points, name this man, often named the Father of American Anthropology.

Answer: Franz Boas

23. Cosmo composed its score by making them laugh. Produced by Monumental Pictures, this imitation of The Jazz Singer turned Dueling Cavalier into Dancing Cavalier. Lina Lemont was dubbed by Kathy Selden, the girl who popped out of a cake, but Don Lockwood sings "Broadway Melody" and makes Kathy a star. Notoriously quoted in A Clockwork Orange, he stamps his feet into a puddle of water, sees a policeman, and hands his umbrella to a stranger, while humming the title tune in, FTP, what Gene Kelly musical?

Answer: Singin' in the Rain

TOSSUPS – ROUND EIGHT DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Besides the usual suspects, questions by Stanford’s Eric Smith et al. with a little help from Bevill State’s Glenn Allen Bobo and Cal-Berkeley’s Chris Nguyen, Paul Reverdy, Lev Trubov, and Larry Wang

1. In 1979, he was the winning pitcher of the finals of the Los Angeles City Baseball Championships, a game that starred Darryl Strawberry as the losing pitcher. His performance led the Kansas City Royals to draft him later that summer. Rather than join the Big Leagues, he decided to attend Stanford, where he earned a degree in economics after a celebrated two-sport college career. For ten points, name this retired NFL quarterback, known for his performances in Super Bowls XXXII (32) and XXXIII (33).

Answer: John Albert Elway

2. After a trip to Iowa he decided his country should grow large amounts of corn, neglecting the difference in climate. He was placed in charge of the Ukraine during World War II, and his rise to power came when he ousted Georgi Malenkov with the assistance of Nikolai Bulganin. During the 20th Party Congress he famously denounced Stalin's excesses--not mentioning his own part in them. For ten points, name this protégé of Stalin who led the U.S.S.R until he was driven from power by Leonid Brezhnev in 1964.

Answer: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

3. It may have been originally used by primitive bacteria to remove oxygen, which was toxic to them. The reaction varies in different species, but in most it occurs when ATP activates luciferase, which enables luciferin. In fish this occurs in organs called photophores. The result is a release of energy with almost no waste heat. Exhibited in over half of animal phyla, for ten points, name this biological phenomenon, exhibited by the foxfire fungus and Photinus Pyralis, the firefly, in which an organism emits light.

Answer: bioluminescence

4. In this novel, the protagonist attends Clongowes Wood school until his family runs out of money. Chapter Two sees the protagonist switch to the Belvedere school after the family's move to Dublin. An encounter with a prostitute unleashes a storm of guilt, and at one point, the protagonist even considers becoming a priest. Eventually, Stephen Dedalus decides to become an artist. For ten points, this is what novel by James Joyce?

Answer: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

5. At over an hour, this symphony, opus number 125, was unusually long, but that novelty was overshadowed by another more striking feature. In 2003, part of its fourth movement, without the lyrics, was chosen as the anthem for the European Union. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a performance was given in which the German word for "freedom" was substituted for "joy" in the fourth movement of, for ten points, what Beethoven symphony which includes soloists and a chorus in a musical setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy?"

Answer: Ninth Symphony in D Minor; or Choral Symphony [they also need to say Beethoven's if it hasn’t been said yet, so prompt on partial answer]

6. The atmospheric methane of this planet absorbs light at the red end of the spectrum, while an unusual magnetic field governs its rotation. William Lassell discovered two of its moons: Umbriel and Ariel, while Gerard Kuiper found Miranda. The only planet with an equator lying on a perpendicular plane, it has 11 rings, the outermost of which is called the epsilon ring. Discovered in England by the German astronomer William Herschel, FTP, name this third largest planet in the solar system that lies beyond Saturn.

Answer: Uranus

7. His brother died in a rebellion in Central Italy, and his sympathy for suppressed people caused him to support the Italians against the Austrians and the Pope. After the death of the Duke of Reichstadt, this man considered himself his family's claimant to the throne. His time as the leader of his country included the Crimean War, the debacle with Maximillian in Mexico, and, worst of all, the Franco-Prussian War. For ten points, name this man who established the Second Repulic after the 1848 outster of Louis-Philippe and who attempted to recapture the glory of his famous uncle.

Answer: Napoleon III; or Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

8. After objects called Laeding and Dromi failed to hold him, dwarves crafted a silken bond called Gleipnir, which the gods attached to a heavy chain run through a hole in a large rock. This setup was finally able to hold him, but in attempting to escape he bit off the right hand of Tyr. For ten points, name this offspring of Loki and Angerboda and brother of Hel and Jormungand, a giant wolf who will remain chained until Ragnarok.

Answer: Fenrir; or Fenris wolf

9. In 1598 he was branded but not executed after killing a fellow actor in a duel. Early satirical works like Cynthia's Revels and Poetaster were the result of a quarrel with John Marston and Thomas Dekker. He often met in the Devil Tavern with poets like Suckling, Lovelace, Herrick, and Carew, who considered him their literary father. Noted for characters like Morose, Kno'well, Surly, Corbaccio, Mosca, and Subtle, for ten points, this is what author of Bartholomew Fair, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Volpone?

Answer: Ben Jonson

10. White-naped and red-crowned cranes are flourishing thanks in part to this unintentional wildlife refuge. Aside from a single village and a few incursions by railway lines, few humans have entered this area for the past 50 years, and natives have to obtain special permission form the government just to go within several miles of it. To date, four tunnels have been found underneath it, penetrating from the North over one kilometer into the region, possibly for a covert invasion. FTP what region, established in 1953, extends for 2 kilometers on either side of Korea's Military Demarcation Line?

Answer: De-Militarized Zone; or Hyujeonseon; or Sampalseon

11. In rotational motion, it can be expressed as the product of the torque and the angular velocity. Although in optics a quantity of the same name can be expressed in diopters, the more common property can be measured in kilogram meters squared per second cubed. Calculated in an electrical circuit as the voltage times the current and measured in Watts is, for ten points, what property, the time rate of doing work?

Answer: power

12. Two of his paintings titled The Lovers show a couple with sheets over their heads and were influenced by the sight of his mother with her dress draped over her head after she drowned herself. His 1926 Le Jockey Perdu shows a horseman traveling perpendicular to a tree-lined road and is considered his first surrealist work. His Betrayal of Images is sometimes called This is not a pipe. FTP, name this surrealist whose recurring motifs include blue skies and bowler hats.

Answer: René François Ghislain Magritte

13. Pencil and paper ready. You will have fifteen seconds to buzz in, but only three seconds after you buzz in. FTP, convert the following number into binary: 33.

Answer: 100001

14. Her attention to her ward is so devoted that it causes the protagonist, Giovanni Guasconti, to ominously wonder whether they are actually sisters. By the end of the story, this suspicion is found to be true, which explains why both of them, and now Giovanni as well, are fatally poisonous. For ten points, name this titular character of a Hawthorne short story with a mysterious connection to the plants in her father's garden.

Answer: Beatrice; accept Rappacini's Daughter

15. This Civil War battle saw 160,000 union troops led by “Fighting” Joe Hooker take on 60,000 confederate troops led by Robert E. Lee. The death toll favored the Confederates, as they lost only 13,000 troops to 17,000 Union dead and even saw Hooker knocked unconscious, but it is remembered better for what the Confederates lost. Occurring from May 1st through 4th, 1863, FTP name this battle which saw Robert E. Lee lose his right-hand man when “Stonewall” Jackson was shot by one of his own men.

Answer: Chancellorsville

16. Of the platinum group, it has the highest melting point and the lowest vapor pressure. In 1803, one year before iridium, it was discovered by Smithson Tennant as residue when crude platinum was dissolved by aqua regia. For ten points, what is this element, one of the two densest in the world along with iridium, with atomic number 76 and symbol Os?

Answer: osmium

17. Anne Marie Vicksey died in it and Julia Hickson got rescued from it, despite looking very much like a doll. Dr. Mariam Kent has devised a new therapeutic technique to be used on the son of a billionaire who went into a coma. Accompanied by his dog Valentine, Carl Stargher captures his victims, bleaches them, then hangs them on rings pierced into the body. Peter Novak and Catherine Deane go inside the mind of Stargher to destroy the evil force that controls him, only to find the child in him dead. FTP name this 2000 movie in which Jennifer Lopez enters the title contraption of the criminal mind.

Answer: The Cell

18. Failing to gain a seat in the Senate in 1894, he became editor of the Omaha World Herald, two years before his most famous public performance. As Secretary of State, he supported the 1914 Mexican intervention but resigned after the Lusitania incident, becoming at odds with the Wilson administration by advocating prohibition of loans to Britain and France to ensure neutrality in World War I. Dying a week after winning a case against a teacher who taught evolution in Tennessee, he fought unsuccessfully to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Running and losing three times for the presidency, FTP, name this Populist-Democrat who gave the "Cross of Gold" speech.

Answer: William Jennings Bryan

19. Transported on an adventure through time and space with her friend Calvin O’Keefe and her brother Charles Wallace, Meg Murry seeks the salvation of her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces on a distant planet that hold him hostage. The plot begins when Ms. Whatsit arrives at the Murry house one night and indicates the existence of a Tesseract in the universe, which would allow Meg and her companions to travel through a fifth dimension to rescue Mr. Murry. FTP, name this book by Madeleine L’Engle.

Answer: A Wrinkle in Time

20. The first rational explanation of these came from Theodoric of Freiberg in 1307. Others to advance theoretical explanations of them include Descartes and Isaac Newton. Alternately, their origins have place in Greek, Chinese, Hindu, Norse, and Irish mythology. Their ultimate cause involves refraction and reflection in raindrops. FTP, name this phenomenon, which, according to the Bible, is a sign of God’s covenant with mankind which was given to Noah.

Answer: Rainbow

21. His opponents included Porus in the battle of the Hydaspes, and Darius III at the battle of Issus. Among his generals were Antigonus the One-Eyed, Seleucus, and Ptolemy. The son of Olympias and Phillip II of Macedon, he supposedly loosed the Gordian knot by cutting it with his sword. FTP, name this conquering Macedonian whose empire stretched from Greece into India before his 323 BC death.

Answer: Alexander the Great or Alexander III Phillipoupou Makedonon Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon

22. Less common ones include Diego, Duffy, Lutheran, and Bombay. They are dictated by glycoprotein antigens, and Karl Landsteiner won the 1930 Nobel prize in Medicine for their discovery. Mismatches can cause an immune response, resulting in renal failure and hemolysis. FTP, what are these biological classifications, the most common of which globally are O-positive and A-positive?

Answer: blood types

23. One way to demonstrate this effect is to ask subjects to repeat words they see, some of which have previously been shown. Reaction times for previously shown words should be smaller, because they have already been processed by implicit memory. FTP name this psychological phenomenon that is taking place as we speak as I get you ready to answer this question.

Answer: priming (also accept prime; or semantic priming; or repetition priming)

TOSSUPS – ROUND NINE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Besides the usual suspects, questions by Macon State’s Travis Lightsey, Valencia C.C.’s Chris Borglum, and Cal-Berkeley’s Chris Nguyen, Paul Reverdy, Lev Trubov, & Larry Wang

1. In this battle, the strong position of the Greeks was undermined when the traitor Ephialtes showed the Persians another pass, causing the Greek line to be turned and forcing a withdrawal. Leonidas I of Sparta ended up using his troops as a sacrificial rear-guard so that the rest of the Greek army could retreat unharmed. For ten points, name this battle in which the retreating Greeks, pursued by the Persians, eventually fled behind the wall built across the isthmus to Corinth

Answer: Battle of Thermopylae

2. Dubula is considered the heart behind the powerful voice of the main character's brother. However, his brother is considered by many as a coward for speaking of radical change, but not implementing it. This cowardice can be seen by his actions in the trial where his son and Johannes Pafuri go free while the main character's son, defended by Mr. Carmichael, is convicted and hung. For ten points, name this Alan Paton novel about Stephen Kumalo's search for his son Absalom, who murdered the South African activist Arthur Jarvis.

Answer: Cry, the Beloved Country

3 .The stereo- forms of these these can be enantiomers, which are non-superimposable mirror images, or diastereomers, such as the cis-trans configurations resulting from the rigidity of double bonds. Most commonly, though, when someone uses this term, they are referring so the constitutional, or structural, type. For ten points, identify this chemistry term for two different molecules with the same chemical formula.

Answer: isomers

4. The name by which he is best known is actually the namesake of a man he killed in Tam Quan for betraying his team. Other aliases he uses include Delta and Cain, but his real name is David Webb. After his author’s death, he reappeared in a sequel written by Eric van Lustbader. FTP name this protagonist of a trilogy of Robert Ludlum novels, played in two recent movie adaptations by Matt Damon.

Answer: Jason Bourne

5. Pencil and paper ready. You will have fifteen seconds to buzz in, but only three seconds after you buzz in. FTP, what is the sine of 90 degrees?

Answer: 1

6. Asher Durand and Frederick Church were prominent members of this movement, which attempted to portray the beauty and grandeur of nature in the American Wilderness. Beginning in 1825 and lasting until the late 1870’s, this movement was founded by Thomas Cole. For ten points name this American school of art, named after the New York Valley in which many of its paintings were set.

Answer: Hudson River School

7. It is not 1984, but it is the namesake of a book. It is not 1939, but it saw a massive invasion of Poland. It is not 1991, but during it, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania became independent. Joan of Arc was canonized, Isaac Asimov was born, and Walther Nernst won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in this year. For ten points, what year also saw Prohibition go into effect, the first meeting of the League of Nations, the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and the election of Warren G. Harding?

Answer: 1920

8. It seemed to him that he and his pain were being thrust into a narrow, deep black sack, but though they were pushed further and further in they could not be pushed to the bottom... And suddenly he broke through... In his death throes, he realizes that the life he has lived was a lie and that the urban society has corrupted him, in contrast to his assistant Gerasim, a peasant boy who understands his suffering and treats him with genuine kindness. For ten points, who is this character, whose death is the titular event of a Tolstoy novel?

Answer: Ivan Ilyich; accept either

9. Utopian writings like those taken from the "Peach Blossom Spring" often had this philosophy's undertones. Most of the sages in the 3rd century B. C. who practiced it were lowly artisans like butchers or woodcarvers who followed Zhuangzi's teachings. One of its major tenets was to live by conforming to the natural way of things which they called wu-wei. Translated as "the Way," for ten points, name this philosophy founded by Laozi in the 5th century B. C.

Answer: Taoism or Daoism

10. Its evolving domination in the mammalian brain involves its reception of wider and wider ranges of sensory information via the thalamus and the emergence of higher neural activities based on that data. Folding of its surface provides a large surface area for activity for the rich concentration of synapses. FTP name this layer of grey matter, also called the pallium, covering the cerebral hemispheres in most vertebrates.

Answer: cerebral cortex (accept early buzz with pallium)

11. Thomas Kyd accused him of treason. William Bradley had a bloody brawl with him. The Queen's secret service probably employed him. Ingram Frizer stabbed him to death by in an argument over a bill. But he is better known for dramatic successes like Tamburlaine the Great and The Jew of Malta. FTP name this English playwright who also wrote Doctor Faustus.

Answer: Christopher Marlowe

12. This folk song is thought to take the melody of a traditional English ballad and the lyrics of a pair of Kentuckians. Its subject is either a drunkard or a gambler and the narrator has different genders according to who is performing it. It has been covered by a wide variety of people, including Dolly Parton, Pink Floyd, and Peter Paul, and Mary, but most famous version single-handedly gave its one hit wonder band entrance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. FTP, name this song, whose namesake building may or may not still exist in the town of New Orleans, a hit by The Animals.

Answer: The House of the Rising Sun

13. When the size of their motion is small, the differential equation governing their motion can be made linear, producing simple harmonic motion. For this approximate case, Christiaan Huygens proved that the period of their motion was proportional only to the object's mass and length, not, as then thought, to the size of the initial displacement, a fact used by many early clocks. For ten points, name this physical object, which comes in gravity and torsion varieties, one of which was used by Foucault in his famous experiment demonstrating the Earth's rotation.

Answer: pendulum

14. He has many names, including Smintheus, the mouse-god, as the bringer of plagues, Musagetes, leader of the Muses, as the god of music, and Loxias, the obscure one, as patron of oracles. His most famous oracle was founded at the site where he killed the serpent Python-- the island of Delphi. For ten, who is this Greek god also called Phoebus, shining, as god of the sun?

Answer: Apollo

15. Justice Story wrote the majority opinion in this 1841 Supreme Court case, which supported freedom for the clients of John Quincy Adams. When the US navy seized this ship, they found most of the crew dead, and presumably at the hands of the Africans on board. Name the ship on which Joseph Cinqué lead the mutiny, before returning to Africa and becoming a slave trader himself.

Answer: United States v The Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad

16. Despite illness, poverty, and an informal early education, he succeeded in high school and then went on to the Olmutz philosophical Institute. 8 years after becoming an Augustinian monk, he was sent to the University of Vienna, where meeting Doppler and Unger stimulated his interest in science in general and botany in particular. For ten points, who is this Austrian monk, famous for his work with peas?

Answer: Gregor Mendel

17. It is the only state whose flag has different pictures on each side. While it is the 9th largest state in terms of area, it’s only 28th by population. Its highest point, at 11,239 feet, is Mount Hood. Its major universities are in Corvallis and Eugene. For ten points, name this 33rd state to join the U.S., nicknamed the Beaver State.

Answer: Oregon

18. Originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, this novel was re-released posthumously under the author’s real name three years later in the UK, though not in America until 1971. It chronicles college student Esther Greenwood’s spiral into depression, suicide attempt, and beginning steps to recovery. For ten points, identify this semi-autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath.

Answer: The Bell Jar

19. It was first outlined in a speech at Khabarovsk.  While affirming the significance of the revolutionary past, it insisted on openly confronting the errors of past regimes in order to pave the way for perestroika, or restructuring.  FTP name this political reform movement launched in 1986 by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

  Answer: glasnost

 

20. His sight-reading ability astounded even Liszt. After he died at the young age of 36, this composer’s student work of Symphony in C Major became extremely popular when it was "discovered" in the twentieth century. Although a brilliant pianist in his time, much of his piano works remain outside the pianist's canon with the exception of his Jeux d’enfants for four hands. The composer of the l'Arlesienne Suites, FTP name this composer most famous for his opera Carmen.

Answer: Georges Bizet

21. Thomasville Furniture recently introduced a line inspired by the places associated with him. Many of his works were based upon his life experiences -- childhood summers in northern Michigan, serving as an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I, and living in Twenties Paris and pre-Castro Cuba. For ten points, name this American writer, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Sun also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

22. It was the first number proven to be transcendental without having been specifically constructed for that purpose. It can be defined as the sum of one-over-n-factorial for n equals 0 to infinity, or as the limit as n approaches infinity of the quantity one plus one-over-n to the power of n. FTP, name this mathematical constant, the base of the natural logarithm, which is approximately equal to 2.71.

Answer: e (accept Euler’s number or Napier’s constant)

23. In anticipation of British attack, General Benedict Arnold ordered this, among others, built at Skenesborough, New York. On October 11, 1776, it was moored southwest of Valcour Island when the British fleet commanded by Captain Pringle attacked, and it was sunk in the ensuing battle. FTP, identify this continental gunboat, found preserved in the cold waters of Lake Champlain in 1934.

Answer: USS Philadelphia

TOSSUPS – ROUND TEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Besides the usual suspects, questions by Stanford’s Eric Smith et al. and Chuck Pearson, Shorter College

1. Their Hausdorff dimension is a non-integer. Iterated function systems give rise to the Koch snowflake, Menger sponge, Cantor set, Sierpinski gasket and carpet. Escape time ones give include Julia sets. They are generally self-similar to infinitesimally small scale, and until 1975 were generally known as “monster curves”. FTP, what are these geometrical objects, named after the Latin for “broken” by Benoit Mandelbrot?

Answer: fractal

2. Its backstory takes up 203 years, and many children, including the question writer, were taught with out-of-date textbooks that excluded it. It was first proposed by James Madison, and automatically became law when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify it, thus fulfilling the three-fourths requirement. For ten points, name this amendment which bans Congress from granting its members pay raises in the middle of their terms and became part of the US constitution in 1992.

Answer: 27th amendment

3. Since it lies at a single characteristic point for a pure substance, the temperature of the cold sink of a heat engine can be determined by measuring the efficiency of the engine when the hot source is set to the temperature at which this occurs for water--a fact which Kelvin exploited in defining his temperature scale. Located on a phase diagram of pure water at 611 Pascals and, by definition, 273.16 degrees Kelvin, for ten points, this is what point at which the solid, liquid, and vapor phases of a substance coexist in equilibrium?

Answer: triple point

4. Although he is a sculptor, printmaker, poet, and playwright, he is best known as a novelist. Born in Danzig, he was a member of the Hitler Youth, was drafted at 16 and wounded in battle, and became a prisoner of war. Cat and Mouse and Dog Years form a trilogy with his first novel The Tin Drum, which made him internationally famous. FTP, name this 1999 winner of the Nobel Prize and the author of Crabwalk.

Answer: Gunter Grass

5. He was once rejected at an American Idol audition for being a month over the cutoff age, but thanks to a rule change, raising the age limit to 28, he was allowed to compete on the fourth season. He auditioned in Las Vegas and was selected to be one of the twelve finalists thanks to his performances of songs such as How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, I Love Music, and Do I Do. For ten points -- name this Bronx crooner who was replaced by Nikko Smith after dropping out on March 13, 2005 due to personal issues.

Answer: Mario and/or Vazquez

6. She was considered the goddess of dates, meat, and wool, and the storehouse doors became one of her emblems. She was also commonly considered the goddess of the storm as the daughter of the sky god. In one prominent myth she travels to the underworld either to overthrow her sister Ereshkigal or to reclaim her dead consort Tammuz. Worshipped through prostitution in her temple, for ten points, name this Akkadian goddess of love.

Answer: Ishtar; accept Inanna or Ashtart or Astarte before "Akkadian"

7. Near the conclusion of this novel, the paranoid Marty held up the dispatch being delivered by Gomez and Andres, but General Karkov intervenes and the message gets to General Golz via a phone call. Unfortunately, he had no way of stopping the attack, thus forcing the gang of Eladio, Primitivo, Fernando, Agustin, Rafael, and Pablo to complete the mission specified to the Ingles [ing-GLAYCE]. Pablo’s lover Pilar gives up Maria to the dynamiter and ex-Spanish professor Robert Jordan, who is left behind after the mission when he injures his leg. FTP name this novel about the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway.

Answer: For Whom the Bell Tolls

8. Michel Aflaq was this movement's early ideological leader. Founded on April 7, 1947, this political movement's name is taken from the Arabic for "rebirth." The party motto - which translates to "Unity, Freedom, Socialism" in English - is somewhat misleading to American ears, because the freedom that is sought is from Western influence, and the unity is unity among all Arab peoples. Early ideology encouraged the peaceful turnover of power, but two nations achieved the greatest success for the party through military coups in 1963. This party is still in rule in Syria; its rule in Iraq lasted forty years. FTP, what was the name of Saddam Hussein's political party, since outlawed by American occupying forces?

Answer: Ba'ath Party

9. In March 2002, a construction crane on floor 56 of this building was knocked off by an earthquake and killed five people. This structure contains an 800-ton tuned mass damper on the 88th floor, a high-speed fiber optic network, and the world's fastest elevators. Opened on December 31, 2004, this is, for ten points, what building, usually considered the tallest building in the world, which has five stories below ground and its namesake number above ground.

Answer: Taipei 101; or Taipei Financial Center; or Taipei International Financial Building

10. Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov received a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his work on this process in higher animals. In animals, it can remove foreign bodies and fight infection, while in protists, it provides nourishment. In amoebae, it takes place by surrounding the target object with pseudopods, and results in the formation of a food vacuole. For ten points -- name this form of endocytosis whose name literally means "cell eating."

Answer: phagocytosis

11. Born on an island off the coast of Asia Minor, this poet eventually married and had a daughter. She is famous, however, for her lyric poetry inspired by her youthful love affairs. Scholars at the Alexandria library arranged her poems in nine books, but only two complete poems remain today. FTP name this tenth muse who celebrated the love of young women for each other, a resident of Lesbos.

Answer: Sappho

12. One of his early roles was as a crew member on the patrol boat in Apocalypse Now. He later worked for Francis Ford Coppola again in The Cotton Club. Then he played Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee’s Playhouse before his breakthrough performance in John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood. FTP, name this actor who played Morpheus in the Matrix trilogy.

Answer: Laurence Fishburne [accept it if you call him Larry, even though he wouldn’t.]

13. He went to Sweden to instruct the Queen but ended up dying of a cold because she would only see him at five in the morning. Dividing all ways to knowledge into the two faculties of intuition and deduction, he proved the existence of God from the existence of the self, and the self from the act of doubting. Most noted for his division of substance into mind and body, he is, FTP, which founder of modern philosophy who declared that "I think, therefore I am?"

Answer: Rene Descartes

14. After being postulated in the 1920’s, it was finally achieved in 1995 by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado. It was produced by subjecting rubidium atoms to laser cooling. It doesn’t as of yet have any practical uses as it is too fragile, but many are optimistic that its ability to slow the speed of light and allowing light to enter but not exit, like a black hole. FTP, name this superliquid form of matter, named for two early 20th century scientists.

Answer: Bose-Einstein Condensate

15. This term may come from the name of a Bodhisattva of whom an important local chieftain claimed to be an avatar. In 1635 that leader's son Abahai adopted the term for his people. Starting from a base north of the Liaodong Peninsula, their rise to power began with Nurhachi, who introduced the Eight Banner system and renamed the capital "Mukden." Proclaiming a "Great Pure" dynasty and capturing Beijing in 1644, for ten points, what people, earlier called "Jurchens," ousted the Ming from power to found China's Qing dynasty?

Answer: the Manchus; accept Manchurians or manjus or man; do not accept "Qing" or "Ch'ing"

16. Its author wrote an epilogue to dispel the belief that its two main characters eventually marry. At its end, the father of one the main characters says he has been ruined by an endowment given to him to lecture on morality. Its action starts when the other main character wagers with a Colonel that he can pass off a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe" as a duchess. For ten points, name this play by George Bernard Shaw about Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, which was adapted for the musical My Fair Lady.

Answer: Pygmalion; do not accept "My Fair Lady"

17. In the 1970s about a million disfranchised tea workers staged a rebellion in the hill country south of Kandy, most of them eventually gaining autonomy as a Tamil-speaking minority state.  Its 900,000 Christians, most of whom live along the west coast north of Colombo, were devastated by a recent tsunami.  FTP name this island nation shaped like a teardrop.

  Answer: Sri Lanka

18. According to Ridolfi, this man had inscribed on his studio wall the motto “The drawing of Michelangelo and the color of Titian.” A student of Titian, his early masterpiece is the Miracle of the Slave (Accademia, Venice, 1548). You can see his love of foreshortening in this painting as well as others such as The Last Supper (S. Giorgio Maggiore) and Susanna and the Elders, and his series of the life of the virgin and the life of Christ in the Scualo di San Rocco. FTP name this mannerist artist, who was born Jacopo Robusti, but is known by a name which alludes to his father’s profession as a dyer.

Answer: Tintoretto (accept Jacopo Robusti early)

19. One of the issues addressed in this treaty was suppression of the slave trade between the United States and England. The treaty specifically discussed issues regarding the import and export of slaves and specific paths of trade. FTP name this 1842 treaty that also settled a Canadian-American border dispute over the border of Maine.

Answer: Webster-Ashburton Treaty

20. The G-protein coupled receptors for this class of drugs can be divided into the delta, kappa, and mu varieties, and are found primarily in the locus coeruleus and the periaqueductal gray. In 1975, neuroscientists found two similar endogenous peptides named enkephalins that mimic its action to relieve pain. Its major active ingredient is extracted from poppy flower seedpods and its artificial derivative is a popular, addictive substance of abuse called heroin. FTP name this class of analgesic drugs whose major active substance is morphine.

Answer: opiates; or opium; prompt on heroin and morphine before they are mentioned

21. Berlioz wrote a two-part opera about them that depicted their destruction. Their existence was confirmed by an excavation and their homes were destroyed by Greeks. They lived in modern day Turkey in a location hinted at by Homer. FTP name this group of people led by Priam whose native city was destroyed by a siege with a wooden horse.

Answer: Trojans

22. This psychologist originally planned to study religion before he changed his mind and became a professor at Johns Hopkins. He is famous for boasting of the ability to shape the futures of infants and for his founding of the behaviorist school of psychology. For ten points name this early psychologist, perhaps best known for conducting the “Little Albert” fear conditioning experiments with a white rat.

Answer: John Watson

23. There are various other ways to achieve the positive effects associated with this action, but none are known to be as discreet and publicly acceptable. It titles a short story by Kate Chopin, a silent film starring Greta Garbo, and a story by Anton Chekov. Although it can be accomplished by a person alone with a mirror, it is best achieved in pairs. Although women are known to enjoy it more than men, Bill Clinton is said to prefer it over sex. FTP name this physical phenomenon accomplished by pressing lips together.

Answer: kissing

TOSSUPS – ROUND ELEVEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Besides the usual suspects, questions by Stanford’s Eric Smith et al., Polk Comm. College’s Aaron Layton, and John Mathews of Central Florida C.C.

1. QUOTE: “Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And ’t will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.” So wrote this author in his first major poem, The True-Born Englishman. His works got him imprisoned twice, once for The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. Other works include the novels Colonel Jack, Roxana, and Moll Flanders. FTP name the prolific author of Robinson Crusoe.

Answer: Daniel Defoe [Accept early buzz with “The True-Born Englishman” before “this author”]

2. 60 years ago this month, a 35-day battle for fought here resulted in the death of 6,821 Americans and more than 20,000 enemy forces. Its tunnel network was so extensive that its last two defenders did not surrender until 1949, more than four years after the end of the war. FTP, what is this eight-square mile volcanic island and site of the bloodiest Marine battle of the Pacific, symbolized by the famous photo of the flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi?

Answer: Iwo Jima

3. Located 431 light years from Earth, it is a Cepheid variable star, showing regular changes in luminosity. It now appears 15 percent brighter than it did in 1900, but is only the 51st brightest star in the sky. Known to the Greeks as Cynosura, or “tail of the dog,” it will gradually give it most noted claim to fame over to Vega. The star on the tail end of the Little Dipper, name, FTP, this star that currently acts as the North Star.

Answer: Polaris or Alpha Ursae Minorus

4. The man on the left is moving a basket of rocks. On the right, a man in a straw hat holds a hammer poised for the downswing. Painted in 1849, this realist work was destroyed in 1945 by the Allied firebombing of Dresden. FTP, name this painting by Gustave Courbet.

Answer: The Stonebreakers

5. In a fictional depiction, Sueleen Gay missed her chance to become a star when Kenny Fraiser shot Barbara Jean at this city's Parthenon. Kenneth Schermerhorn leads its symphony orchestra, but it's better known for the Ryman Auditorium, home of the radio show Grand Ole Opry until 1974. Consolidating with Davidson County in 1963, it's home to Fisk and Vanderbilt Universities, NHL's Predators and NFL's Titans. FTP name the capital of Tennessee, "Music City USA."

Answer: Nashville

6. He planned to invade Richmond, attack the city armory, and arm his cohorts. By August 1800, thousands of slaves had enlisted to serve in his rebel army, and he had mustered an armory of weapons, including guns. The Virginia state militia attacked the rebels, capturing and hanging them. For ten points, name this twenty-four year old slave, instigator and namesake of the first major slave revolt in the southern United States.

Answer: Gabriel Prosser

7. They are low in reactivity, and their carbon-carbon bonds share electrons equally. These organic compounds include one or more planar rings of atoms. The phenyl group is the aryl group of benzene, and benzene is the parent compound of this class. FTP, this class of compounds was first isolated from coal tar and distinguished by its strong odor.

Answer: aromatic compounds Accept: aromaticity

8. It is said that the female characters represent the four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues while the men represent the traditional Greek tripartite of the soul. These ten characters, escaping from the Bubonic Plague, are locked up and tell 100 stories over ten nights. This forms, FTP, the frame narrative of what collection of novellas published in 1353 by Boccaccio?

Answer: The Decameron

9. Born in 1703, he was the only boy out of eleven siblings. He went on to enter Yale at the tender age of thirteen and went on to be a tutor there. In 1727 he was ordained minister at Northampton and set to work explaining the spiritual shortcomings of the parishioners there, sometimes by name. They didn’t take kindly to this, and he eventually found himself as a missionary to local Native Americans instead. However, we are unsure of whether or not he did any ‘crossing over.’ FTP, name this Puritan preacher who began the Great Awakening, famous for his “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon.

Answer: Jonathan Edwards

10. It is recorded that Artemisia advised against this battle and performed admirably during it, but her role may have been exaggerated since she was queen of Halicarnassus. Outnumbered, the Corinthians retreated and the Persians pursued them into the straits. Here Xerxes's fleet had no room to maneuver, and the rest of the Greek fleet under Themistocles attacked, losing only forty ships to the Persian three hundred. For ten points, name this decisive 480 B. C. naval battle of the Persian war.

Answer: battle of Salamis

11. The prevalence of this genetic disorder increases exponentially with the age of the mother. Children born with this disorder rarely have an IQ above 60, and may be at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. FTP, name this genetic disorder, in which 95% of all cases are due to a 3rd copy of chromosome 21.

Answer: Down’s Syndrome (accept trisomy-21 before 3rd copy)

12. Its three formulations--those of Universal Law, Humanity, and the Kingdom of Ends--appeared in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Central to the moral philosophy of its creator, it can be expressed either in terms of universalizable maxims or in terms of treating human beings not as means but as ends. Representing an absolute moral law that must be followed--in every case, not just hypothetically--this is, for ten points, what concept from Immanuel Kant?

Answer: categorical imperative

13. Other than the town of Calama, this region is very sparsely populated, though there are two major observatories and several archaeological sites of note. With the possible exception of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys, it is the second driest region in the world. Rich in copper and nitrate, it’s colder than most deserts, with an average temperature range from 0 to 25 degrees Celsius. For ten points, name this desert in northern Chile.

Answer: Atacama Desert

14. It is the only one of the Modern Library's list of the top 100 English-language novels of the 20th century that was not written in English. The author, a former Communist, used the Stalin show trials of the 1930's as a backdrop. The protagonist uses a letter code to communicate with his neighbor, Number 402, an unrepentant monarchist in, for ten points, what novel with a paradoxical title, a work by Arthur Koestler?

Answer: Darkness at Noon

15. Heir to the Tanzimat reformers of the 19th century, he pushed for replacing traditional Arabic script with the Roman alphabet, outlawed the fez, and drafted a set of secular laws to replace Sharia.  Reputedly linked to the assassination of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, FTP name this leader of the Young Turks and first president of the Turkish Republic.

Answer: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

 

16. It was developed beginning in 1991 as part of the Green Project, by James Gosling and a team of other engineers. The project was spun off from the parent company into the subsidiary FirstPerson, Inc., which not long after was reabsorbed by said parent company. For ten points, name this multi-platform programming language created by Sun Microsystems after engineer Patrick Naughton became frustrated with the limitations of C++.

Answer: Java

17. In 1931, Paul Dirac first suggested its existence, as even one in the universe would explain the observed quantization of electrical charge. Currently, although Grand Unified Theories and superstring theory both predict its existence, none have been found so far. For ten points, identify this hypothetical concept where a particle has a net magnetic charge as opposed to a dipole.

Answer: magnetic monopole

18. The line "Pretty good time in Dallas" was changed to "time in Vegas" when JFK was shot prior to its release. The central crisis began in 1946 when flouridation of water began, leading to loss of essence. Bat Guano is suspicious of a mutiny of preverts led by group captain Lionel Mandrake, who discovered Peace On Earth, or Purity of Essence. FTP name this Stanley Kubrick film featuring Peter Sellers as the title character.

Answer: Dr. Strangelove; or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

19. Based on a drama by Antonio García Gutiérrez, its libretto was completed by Leone Emanuele Bardare after the death of principal author Salvatore Cammarano. Most audiences are confused by its three intertwining subplots revolving around the Count di Luna, his rival the gypsy rebel Manrico, and Leonora, the object of both men’s affection. It’s stayed in the modern repertoire mostly thanks to the popularity of one famous passage, the Anvil Chorus. FTP name this opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Answer: Il Trovatore or The Troubador

20. He was born in Garnet, Kansas, in 1869 and worked as a lawyer for thirty years, as his father did not encourage his literary aspirations. Although he had published poetry before with works such as A Book of Verses and Maximilian, his most famous work came in 1915, which was inspired by people he had known from a nearby village. For ten points, identify this member of the so-called Chicago renaissance, the author of the Spoon River Anthology.

Answer: Edgar Lee Masters

21. It still seeks to have the Kuril Islands restored to its control, though Russia has governed them since the end of World War II. Its lowest point is 4 meters below sea level, and its highest point, a very well-known mountain, is only 3,776 meters high. It has about 1,500 seismic occurrences a year. For ten points, name this Asian country consisting mainly of the islands of Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Honshu.

Answer: Japan

22. Weighing 99 kilograms, it was a hermetically sealed container. On landing in 1966, it sent the first images ever taken from the surface of another celestial body other than Earth. For ten points, identify this Soviet unmanned space mission, the first to soft land on the moon.

Answer: Luna 9

23. Beginning in the Operations Research literature, Edmonds first captured its essence by telling the story of any assistant trying to convince her supervisor. Formally introduced by Levin in a paper on universal search problems, its usefulness was demonstrated by Karp. Timetable, independent set, and knapsack are discussed in a catalog by Garey and Johnson. FTP name this class of problems polynomially reducible to SAT.

Answer: nondeterministic polynomial complete; prompt to give more on NP

TOSSUPS – ROUND TWELVE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Questions almost completely by Georgia Tech’s Stephen Webb with a little help from the usual suspects

1. While a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1878, this author won the Newdigate Prize for his poem “Ravenna.” He later published two collections of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The House of Pomegranates, but it was for plays like A Woman of No Importance that his fame began to grow. Released from prison after being accused of homosexual practices, he went to Paris under the name Sebastian Melmoth, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis being the fruits of his incarceration. FTP name this Irish author of Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Answer: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

2. In its Plano Piloto, or master plan, this city was meant to have three administrative regions: Lago Sul, Lago Norte, and a namesake region. The Piloto Plano was developed by Lucio Costa, and originally it was to have no more than 500,000 residents, though now with satellite towns it has a population over 2 million. Its cost overruns in the early 1960s were in part responsible for the military coup that toppled the Jango Administration, though it had been begun by the previous president, Juscelino Kubitschek. With buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer, FTP name this planned city, the capital of Brazil.

Answer: Brasilia

3. The Prussian forces were commanded by Gebhard von Blücher, whose forces suffered 8,000 casualties, while the French lost some 25,000 men of the 73,000 committed to battle. Taking place on June 18,1815, it the end of the Hundred Days occurred when, FTP what battle saw the Duke of Wellington defeat Napoleon and order him exiled to Saint Helena until his death?

Answer: Battle of Waterloo

4. A series of numbers also called the Euler numbers or zig numbers. A line joining two points on a curve: as one of the points is brought toward the other, the line tends to a tangent line. A trigonometric function whose square is the derivative of the tangent function. In a right triangle, the mnemonic hypotenuse over adjacent applies to, FTP, what function defined as one over cosine?

Answer: secant

5. In animal cells it is most typically produced by oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria, where glucose is broken down into pyruvate and cytosol, with one glucose molecule sufficient to produce two of these molecules. FTP name this nucleotide whose primary purpose is to store and transport energy within a cell.

Answer: adenosine triphosphate or ATP

6. The events that precipitated this joint resolution of Congress involved the USS Maddox, which Robert MacNamara claimed before Congress was the victim of an unprovoked attack, denying that it was aiding the South Vietnamese. Replaced by the War Powers Resolution of 1973, FTP name this resolution which gave Lyndon Johnson the power to escalate US involvement in Vietnam.

Answer: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

7. His The Old Maid and the Thief was the first radio opera, being contracted after the success of his Amelia. Penning the libretti for Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge and Vanessa, he won his first Pulitzer Prize in music in 1950 for The Consul. FTP name this composer whose Amahl and the Night Visitors was the first opera composed for television.

Answer: Gian-Carlo Menotti

8. For three dimensions it is represented by a three by three matrix whose eigenvectors indicate the principal axes of a body. In one dimension, it is calculated by summing up the masses times the distance of the masses from the origin. FTP name this physical quantity, the analog of mass in rotating bodies.

Answer: moment of inertia

9. His influential works The Film Form and The Film Sense are influential books that explain this director's theories of montage. FTP name this Soviet director who was chosen to direct October: Ten Days that Shook the World after the worldwide success of his The Battleship Potemkin.

Answer: Sergei Eisenstein

10. Raising Demons and Life among the Savages are autobiographical and comical descriptions of life with her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, in Vermont. In contrast, many of her stories and novels, such as Hangasman and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, are psychological horror, as is her most famous work. FTP name this author of The Lottery.

Answer: Shirley Jackson

11. It was the focus of the Hay-Herran treaty, which was signed by the two nations involved, but the Colombian Senate failed to ratify it, resulting in US support of a South American revolt. The Hay-Banau-Varilla treaty then cleared the way for its construction, which was completed on October 10, 1913. FTP name this seaway connecting two oceans, which the US took up after the failure of Ferdinand de Lesseps.

Answer: Panama Canal

12. His iron oxide hydrate as a precipitating agent is still the best known treatment for arsenic poisoning, and it was this work that almost killed him, as he suffered arsenic poisoning and lost an eye in an explosion. FTP name this German chemist, whose carbon electrode replaced platinum in Grove's battery and who perfected Faraday's invention of a namesake burner.

Answer: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

13. In their early days, they called themselves Xero (spelled with an “X”), and were frequent faces at the Whisky and other L.A. nightspots. Old-school hip-hop, classic rock, and electronic vibes were the initial factors behind the building of the alternative metal quintet from Southern California. They changed their name to Hybrid Theory, added some more members, but didn’t decide on their current name until after they were signed to Warner Bros. FTP, name this Chester Bennington-fronted band with hits like “Crawling” and “Numb.”

Answer: Linkin Park

14. Upon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and under the influence of a priest named Father Konstantinovskii, he renounced literature and burned the manuscript for the second part of his 1842 novel Dead Souls. While teaching history at Saint Petersburg University, he penned the shorter works Diary of a Madman ,The Overcoat, and The Nose. FTP name this Russian author.

Answer: Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

15. Along with Raquel Welch, he is the only person to have to have a Texas Hold'em hand named for him, the ten and the two in the pocket, with which he won the World Series of Poker two years in a row. A total of nine World Series of Poker bracelets have come his way, and he was the first man to win a $1 million tournament. However, his biggest influence arguably came in a work with T.J. Cloutier, Tom McEvoy and others. FTP name this author and main editor of Super/System, the Bible of professional poker.

Answer: Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson; accept just Texas Dolly ‘cause we’re nice.

16. A phenomenological equation for this state was written down in 1950 by Lev Landau, who based it upon his theory of second order phase transitions. First discovered in 1911 by Kamerlingh Onnes, in 1986 it was discovered to occur at around 35K in LBCO by Bednorz and Müller. FTP name this physical state marked by the transport of electrons without loss of energy.

Answer: superconductivity

17. In 1709 he failed to obtain the Prix de Rome, but in 1712 he tried again and was considered so good that he received full membership to the Academy. A lover of the commedia dell'arte, he executed a painting of Pierrot, while his last masterpiece is the Shop-Sign of Gersaint. FTP name this Flemish-born French painter of the Rococo style whose most famous work is Embarkation to the Island of Cythera.

Answer: Jean-Antoine Watteau

18. William Butler Yeats wrote the introduction to his Gitanjali, and though his influence in the West has steadily declined, he established the "world university" Sanitiniketan, one hundred miles from Calcutta. FTP name this Indian author of One Hundred Poems of Kabir and The Crescent Moon, recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

19. In the later part of his life he took a wife, Euippe, who bore two children, Celeris and Melanippe, who were the origins of the pterippi. Sprung for the blood of Medusa, his name comes from the Greek for spring, as he was responsible for creating the Hippocrene at Mount Helicon. FTP name this mythical animal, on whom Bellerophon rode in his battle with the Chimera.

Answer: Pegasus

20. He was allegedly the last casualty at the Battle of Shiloh, but survived his wounds to lead a brigade of cavalry. Entering the military desiring only to be a private, because he had raised a regiment of Tennessee volunteer soldiers, he was made a colonel, and distinguished himself with cavalry tactics that were emulated by Rommel with the Afrika Korps. FTP name this Confederate general, described by Lee as the best soldier he ever commanded, who went on to become the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest

21. This author’s Fasti is a poetical calendar of the Roman year, though only six months were completed. His Heroides are a series of verse letters written from the points of view of mythological women to their absent lovers. His Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto were written in order to curry favor with Augustus to recall him to Rome from exile on the Black Sea, though he never made it back. Author of Ars Amatoria, or Art of Love, FTP name this Roman who also compiled myths of shape-change in Metamorphoses.

Answer: Ovid

22. His interpretation of Aristotle's works held that religion and philosophy need not be reconciled, as they were not in conflict, a position that likely put this lawyer and physician from Cordoba on the hot seat with the Caliphs. FTP name this Spanish Islamic philosopher of the Middle Ages whose commentaries on Aristotle include Incoherence of the Incoherence and On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy.

Answer: Averroës ibn Rushd

23. The first prime minister was Zheng Xiaoxu, who was succeeded in 1935 by Zhan Jinghui. Only three nations officially recognized the nation in its short existence, and during that short time it was ruled by the last Qing emperor, Puyi. FTP name this nation with its capital at Xinjing, a puppet state of the Japanese carved out of Manchuria in 1931.

Answer: Manchukuo or Great Manchu State

TOSSUPS – ROUND THIRTEEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

Questions by Stanford’s Eric Smith et al., Shorter College’s Chuck Pearson, U. of Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia and Kelli Barone, Rhodes College’s Andrew Willey et al., DePauw’s Stan Jastrzebski and Sarah Mordan-McCombs, South Florida’s “Nap” Napolitano, Polk C.C.’s Aaron Layton, John Mathews of Central Florida C.C., and Iowa State’s Scott Moser, Warren Miller, Sean Kinney, and Liz Carlson – plus the usual suspects

1. Born in 1265 in Florence, this writer began a study of philosophy around 1290 after the sudden death of his wife, Beatrice. About the same time, he began to intensify his political roles in Florence. In 1302, he was exiled by the Black Guelphs. While exiled, he wrote a work in three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. FTP, name this famous Florentine, who wrote The Divine Comedy.

Answer: Dante Alighieri

2. Bernard Courtois discovered this element after adding sulfuric acid to a sample of kelp and observing a purple vapor being release and named it for the Greek word for “violet colored”. Commercial applications include photographic paper and cloud seeding from one of its compounds with silver, and medically it is used to test for thyroid disease treating goiter and was the most common antiseptic for many years. FTP what is this violet-black halogen with atomic number 53 and chemical symbol I?

Answer: Iodine

3. This creature is referred to in Ugaritic mythology where it is usually associated with the god Yam. It is also mentioned in the Old Testament in Psalms, Job, and Isaiah, and Jews include it in their final prayer at the festival of Sukkot. It also appears in several of the Final Fantasy games and in the Sci-Fi series of Farscape as a class of space vessel. Ever since Moby Dick, however, it has been associated with the Sperm Whale. FTP, name this Biblical sea-monster, the title of a book by Thomas Hobbes.

Answer: Leviathan

4. He was born in New Lebanon, NY, on February 9, 1814 and after being educated at Yale started his legal practice. Through this he became rich, and decided to turn his interest to politics as he served as the chairman of the Democratic state committee. He was elected governor, and soon became known for his aggression towards corruption, especially that of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed and other forms of graft. However, this did not stop him being on the short end of one of the most corrupt presidential elections in US history. FTP, name this man who probably should have been president when the House of Representatives gave the office to Rutherford B. Hayes instead.

Answer: Samuel Tilden

5. Tall spindly trees with no leaves are in the foreground, with jutting peaks in the back right corner, and skaters on frozen ponds below. The artist uses atmospheric perspective, typical of northern renaissance paintings, to create distance between the mountains and the houses in the right foreground. Men with spears and dogs trod over a winter landscape in, FTP, what 1565 painting from a series depicting man's activities in different months of the year by Pieter Bruegel.

Answer: Hunters in the Snow

6. Founded in 1885, it proposed economic reforms as well as greater involvement for the indigenous peoples in the political process. By 1907 it had split into a moderate dominion-seeking faction under Gopal Krishna Gokhale and a more staunchly separatist wing led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1920 it began following Gandhi’s urgings and began a path of passive resistance in pursuit of independence. FTP name this group, long headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, the oldest political party in India.

Answer: Congress Party or Indian National Congress

7. It was written for the author’s wife on their 12th wedding anniversary in 1940 and was not released until 1956, after its author‘s death. By the action, the men are nearly passing out as a result of drunkenness. Most of the action comprises infighting among the characters, including morphine addict Mary and tuberculosis-ridden Edmund. For ten points name about the Tyrone family written by Eugene O’Neill.

Answer: Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

8. Jimmy was raised by animals in the Amazon, who taught him how to fight. After many years, he ventured into the real world and challenged local fighters. Eventually, Jimmy ended up in the World Warrior’s tournament, to not only test his skills, but to help discover his origin. He lost to Ken, but his mother recognized him, although his form had been altered. FTP, name this electrified green fighter from the Street Fighter series.

Answer: Blanka

9. Caused by the insufficient specificity of the enzyme that converts ribulose bisphosphate to 3-phosphoglycerate, it can be combated by using the PEP carboxylase or by incorporating carbon dioxide into organic acids at night. C4 and CAM plants thus avoid this process that generates no ATP and siphons off organic material. For ten points, what counter-productive process uses oxygen in place of carbon dioxide in the Calvin cycle and is named for the fact that it occurs in the light and consumes oxygen?

Answer: photorespiration

10. It produced China's most famous historian: Sima Qian, whose Historical Records included a detailed chronicle of emperor Wu Di. Tributary system was inaugurated, paper and porcelain were invented, and Confucian scholars returned to civil service. Emerging with capital at Chang'an, it was interrupted by the reign of reformer Wang Mang. FTP name this dynasty beginning in 206 B.C. that gives its name to the ethnic majority of China.

Answer: Han

11. At first glance it seems like a violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Its explanation is that the information needed to conduct it has its own entropy, and that the increase in entropy of maintenance of this simple memory would more than make up for the decrease in entropy due to the heat flow. It postulates a perfectly insulated container of gas partitioned into two equal sides, each in thermal equilibrium with the other, with a small trap door operated by a tiny mischief maker. FTP name this hypothetical experiment illustrating the concepts of entropy, named for its British creator.

Answer: Maxwell's demon

12. Individuals in the story of this northern community include Prudence Alcott, the leader of a group of Unitarian missionaries who were the first white folk to spend time in the region; Henry Francis Watt, a somewhat misguided member of that group of missionaries who would later return to found New Albion, the community's original name; and Magnus Oleson and Oskar Tollefson, early leaders of the Norwegian community. More recent stories center around characters like Florian Krebsbach, Clint and Clarence Bunsen, Norwegian bachelor farmers, and Father Emil of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility. FTP, what is the name of this Minnesota community, the product of Garrison Keillor's brilliant imagination?

Answer: Lake Wobegon

13. If family decrees had allowed, when the Hapsburg prince Rudolph died, the right of succession would have passed to his daughter Elizabeth. Instead Franz Joseph I’s brother Charles Louis became heir apparent. On his premature death in 1896, next in line was his anti-Semitic and anti-parliamentary eldest son, whose intense zeal for military matters contributed to his unpopularity but also led to his appointment as inspector general of all land and sea forces. This explains his presence in Bosnia to review maneuvers. FTP name this Hapsburg prince, assassinated on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip.

Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand

14. A descendent of indentured servants who immigrated to Trinidad, he studied at the University of Oxford and settled in England. His earliest novels are set in Trinidad including his first, The Mystic Masseur, and the one that won him major recognition, A House for Mr. Biswas. His subsequent work explores the personal and collective alienation experienced in new post-colonial nations. In a Free State won him the 1971 Booker Prize, and he was knighted 1n 1989. FTP, name this novelist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize.

Answer: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

15. This great king and lawmaker was made a judge of the dead after his own death. He fathered Ariadne and Phaedra with his wife Pasiphae, but he did not father the minotaur, her most famous offspring. His mother was Europa, who was spirited, by his father Zeus in the form of a Bull to the island he would eventually rule. FTP, name this Cretan king, who trapped Daedalus, Icuras and Theseus in the Labyrinth?

Answer: Minos

16. Lord Enrico Ashton is outraged to find that his sister is in love with his mortal enemy, Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood. He wants his sister, the title character, to marry Lord Arturo Bucklaw instead, but she pledges herself to Ravenswood. Enrico disrupts their wedding and Raimondo commands that he and Edgardo should fight a duel. Arturo is killed by the title heroine and she, having gone mad and believing herself in heaven, kills herself by falling from Wolf’s Crag Tower. Edgardo hopes the duel will take his own life because of his sister’s betrayal, but, finding out she has died, kills himself in, FTP, what opera by Gaetano Donizetti?

Answer: Lucia Di Lammermoor

17. His zeta function is used to aid in determining the distribution of prime numbers. His mapping theorem states that if U is a simply connected open subset of the complex plane, that there is a bijection from U to the open disk. For ten points, name this mathematician more well-known for his hypothesis and his integral of sums.

Answer: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann

18. It had been weakened by attacks from its neighbors, so in 1863 its king placed it under French protection, which led to full French control by 1887. It became fully independent in 1953. While a ceasefire and democratic elections were mandated by the 1991 Paris Peace, it took till 1999 to remove the last vestiges of Khmer Rouge rule. FTP name this Southeast Asian country, home to the famous ruins of Angkor Wat, with its capital at Phnom Penh.

Answer: Cambodia

19. This substance’s identity was confirmed by Otto Loewi. The experiment to identify the substance involved bathing a beating frog’s heart in it; the resulting decrease in heart rate showed that the release of this chemical by the vagus nerve was controlling the heart rate. This neurotransmitter works with muscarinic and nicotinic receptors and is the primary neurotransmitter involved with muscular contraction. For ten points name this neurotransmitter directly linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

Answer: acetylcholine

20. In the first the hero sets for on a merchant venture, but quickly realizes that the island he landed on is really a whale. The second tells of his adventure with a Roc and a trip into the valley of diamonds. The fifth he is tricked by the old man of the sea into carrying him across a river, but then the old man will not get off, until the hero gets him drunk and kills him. The Seventh tells of the hero’s adventures among men who sprout wings once a year and turn out to be brothers of Satan. FTP name these fantastical voyages recounted in the One Thousand and One Nights, named for the titular seaman.

Answer: The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor

21. There's an island and a sports franchise named after them in California. The elemental one rules over games of chance while the highest ranking one rules over the waters. Their existence was reasserted by John Paul II in 1986. One of them brought Allah's word to Prophet Muhammad, another handed down the Ten Commandments to Moses, and another came down to Earth to tell Mary that she is bearing the son of God. FTP name this supernatural being intermediate between God and humans.

Answer: angels

22. Their atomicity and isolation can be ensured by time-stamping, validation, two-phase locking, and other concurrency control mechanisms. Their durability can be ensured by redo logging, undo logging, checkpointing, and other recovery management mechanisms. For ten points, these are what atomic groups of queries or data manipulation actions--such as withdrawals from ATM machines--that must be executed completely or not at all--and must not be interleaved with other actions on the same data--in a database system?

Answer: transactions

23. Its creator and namesake served on the Economic Policy Advisory Board for both of President Reagan's terms. It helped inspire the Kemp-Roth Tax Cut of 1981, and has a value of 0 for both 0% and 100%. At some point "t-star" between those two extremes, it takes on a maximum value. Those who believe that the current tax rate is to the right of t-star argue that decreasing tax rates will increase government revenue. Important to supply-side economics, this is what eponymous curve?

Answer: Laffer Curve

BONI – ROUND ONE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: You are about to be handed a map of South America. For 5 points each, identify the nation marked with each letter shown. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Colombia; (b) Venezuela; (c) Ecuador; (d) Bolivia; (e) Argentina; (f) Uruguay

2. For ten points each -- give the desired taxonomic classification for the following.

(10) Phylum -- Spider

Answer: Arthropoda

(10) Kingdom -- Dog

Answer: Animalia

(10) Order -- Platypus

Answer: Monotremata (or monotremes)

3. Name the Shakespeare play from characters. Fifteen points if you get the play from the first set, 10 from the second:

a) 15: Cassio, Brabantio, Emilia

10: Iago, Desdemona

Answer: Othello

b) 15: Gloucester [GLAOW-stir], Edgar, Oswald

10: Regan, Goneril, Cordelia

Answer: King Lear

4. We’ll ignore for the moment the fact that both football and track and field had more athletes actually implicated in the BALCO case. In the public eye, it’s the baseball steroids scandal. FTPE test what you know:

a) Whose book, Juiced, details how he used steroids and implicates other ballplayers’ use of them?

Answer: Jose Canseco

b) Canseco claimed that he also injected Mark McGwire with steroids when the two of them played for this team.

Answer: Oakland Athletics (accept either city or title, or “the A’s”)

c) This star of the Baltimore Orioles is considering filing a lawsuit against Canseco’s claim that the two of them shot up when they both played for the Texas Rangers. The accusation lends a sad irony to his endorsement deal with Viagra.

Answer: Rafael Palmeiro

5. Typically the President and Vice President come from the same party, but not always. FTPE answer the following:

a) Before the 12th Amendment, the Constitution awarded the vice presidency to the presidential candidate with the second most electoral votes. Because of this, what man paradoxically served as vice president under his opponent, John Adams?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

b) Officially, only one other time in our history have the president and vice president been from different parties. This is because, for unity’s sake, Abraham Lincoln chose this Democrat as his running mate in 1864.

Answer: Andrew Johnson [prompt on Johnson]

c) For almost his entire career this man was a Democrat. He accepted the Whig nomination for V.P. as William Henry Harrison’s running mate in 1840, but after Harrison’s swift demise he reversed himself and thus alienated both parties.

Answer: John Tyler

6. For ten points each -- name these gas laws.

(10) This law states that the number of molecules in a specific volume of gas is dependent on its pressure and temperature

Answer: Avogadro's Law

(10) This law relates the volume and temperature of an ideal gas held at a constant pressure.

Answer: Charles' Law (or Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac)

(10) This law relates the volume and pressure of an ideal gas held at a constant temperature.

Answer: Boyle's Law (or Boyle-Mariotte Law)

7. For ten points each -- given a ballet, name the composer of its music.

(10) Swan Lake

Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

(10) Appalachian Spring

Answer: Aaron Copland

(10) The Rite of Spring

Answer: Igor Stravinsky

8. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about Islam

(10) What is the most holy city in Islam?

Answer: Mecca

(10) The pilgrimage to Mecca is known as what?

Answer: Hajj

(5/5) Islam is divided into two main sects, whose differences start with whether the first three caliphs were legitimate or were usurpers. Name these two sects for 5 pts. each.

Answer: Sunnis and Shi’ites or Shi’a

9. Name the World War II battles for ten points each.

a) Rather than a battle per se, this refers to a continuous two-month period of bombing by the Luftwaffe.

Answer: Battle of Britain

b) This battle was the turning point of the war in Europe, as the namesake city held out long enough for Zhukov to launch a counteroffensive against the Germans.

Answer: Battle of Stalingrad

c) The turning point in the Pacific, this was the first major American offensive attack on the Japanese forces.

Answer: Battle of Midway

10. Given a work of literature, identify the Russian author for ten points each.

a) The Idiot

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

b) War and Peace

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

c) Lolita

Answer: Vladimir Nabokov

11. FTPE, given the name of an Oscar category, tell who won that Oscar for the recently-bestowed 2004 awards.

a) Best Animated Feature

Answer: The Incredibles [featuring, as the voice of Frozone, Chattanooga’s own Samuel L. Jackson]

b) Best Actor

Answer: Jamie Foxx

c) Best Supporting Actress

Answer: Cate Blanchett

12. Identify the explorers FTPE.

(10) Four years before Columbus hit the Americas, this man first rounded the southernmost tip of Africa sailing for the Portuguese.

Answer: Bartholomeu Diaz

(10) Another Portuguese, he finally reached India in 1498, but gathered few treasures and spices from the natives. Answer: Vasco da Gama

(10) Yet another Portuguese, trying to follow the African coast en route to India in 1500, he got blown so far off course that he discovered and claimed Brazil.

Answer: Pedro Cabral

13. Identify these painters from works for 10 points each.

a) St. John the Baptist, Bacchus and Ariadne, and Venus of Urbino

Answer: Titian

b) Circumcision, Charles IV and His Family, and The Third of May 1808

Answer: Francisco de Goya

c) Milkmaid, View of Delft, and Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Answer: Jan Vermeer

14. Answer these related literature questions FTPE:

a) The unnamed protagonist of this novel has gone underground, literally, and recounts his journey from the South through a Tuskegee-like college to Harlem, where he gets entangled in racial and political activism.

Answer: Invisible Man [do NOT accept The Invisible Man – that’s a different story. Literally.]

b) This Oklahoma native wrote Invisible Man.

Answer: Ralph Waldo Ellison

c) Ellison spent several decades working on his next novel, published under this title five years after his 1994 death to generally unfavorable reviews.

Answer: Juneteenth

15. Name the following people involved in the study of the nature of light for ten points each.

a) He explained the photoelectric effect by proposing the existence of photons. Of all his accomplishments, that was the one mentioned most prominently in the citation awarding him the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Answer: Albert Einstein

b) On the other hand, the results of this man’s double-slit experiment can be explained only if light exists as a wave. His other accomplishments range from his description of astigmatism to the coefficient of elasticity known as his modulus.

Answer: Thomas Young

c) Also noted for his namesake diagrams showing the motion of a particle in space and time, this theoretical physicist corrected much of quantum electrodynamics, helping to reconcile the two wave and particle theories.

Answer: Richard Feynman

16. FTPE identify the location in which these wonders of the ancient world were built.

a) The Hanging Gardens

Answer: Babylon

b) The Colossus

Answer: Rhodes, Greece

c) The Oracle

Answer: Delphi

17. Name the Amendment Number for which these amendments correspond for ten points each.

a) The allowed use of the Income Tax

Answer: 16th

b) Direct Election of Senators

Answer: 17th

c) A President is only allowed to have two terms

Answer: 22nd

18. Name these branches of mathematics FTPE.

(10) Analysis of rates of change pioneered by Newton and Leibniz. It studies derivatives and integrals.

Answer: calculus

(10) Quantitative description of uncertainty. It studies distributions and random processes.

Answer: probability

(10) Study of vectors, vector spaces, and systems of equations. It also analyzes matrices and linear transformations.

Answer: linear algebra

19. FTPE answer the following about a literary award:

1. Iris Murdoch, Nadime Gordimer, and A.S. Byatt are among those to receive this annual prize, established by a British food distribution company for the best work of fiction by a British, Irish, or British Commonwealth author.

Answer: the Booker Prize

2. His 1981 work Midnight's Children has been voted "the Booker of Bookers." But he is probably better known for being condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeini following the publication of The Satanic Verses.

Answer: Salman Rushdie

3. This portrait of an English butler just prior to World War II won its Nagasaki-born author, Kazuo Ishiguro, a Booker in 1989.

Answer: The Remains of the Day

20. FTPE, answer these questions on the geography of the moon.

a. There are over 20 maria (ma-REE-uh), which are relatively flat plains, on the moon. They are more commonly known as these, such as the one “of Tranquility,” site of the first moon landing in 1969.

Answer: sea

b. These lunar features are generally named for astronomers. The largest measure up to 150 miles in diameter. Rays that often seem to extend from them were found to be smaller fields of these features, all of which were created by meteorite strikes.

Answer: crater

c. The most prominent range of these on the moon is named for mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebnitz, while others bear the same names as their earthly counterparts.

Answer: mountains

21. Expand these abbreviations defined in my dictionary, FFPE.

(5) A.K.A.

Answer: also known as

(5) ETC.

Answer: et cetera

(5) V.I.P.

Answer: very important person

(5) C.O.D.

Answer: cash on delivery

(5) I.E.

Answer: id est; do not accept "that is"

(5) CF.

Answer: confer; do not accept "compare

Name these men who shared the love of a certain woman for ten points each.

1. The woman, born Alma Maria Schindler, married her first husband, this Austrian composer of Das Lied von der Erde, in 1901.

Answer: Gustav Mahler

2. Alma Mahler's marriage to Gustav was undermined by her affair with this man, the founder of the Bauhaus school of architecture, whom she married in 1915.

Answer: Walter Gropius

3. Though she never married him, Alma had a torrid affair with this young painter, whose "Bride of the Wind" is dedicated to her. When he learned of her marriage to Gropius, he had a life-sized doll of her made to console himself, but he later beheaded it during an orgy.

Answer: Oscar Kokoschka

BONI – ROUND TWO DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: You are about to be handed a page with self-portraits of four noted artists. Name the artist marked with each letter shown, 5-10-20-30. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Rembrandt van Rijn; (b) Vincent Van Gogh; (c) Pablo Picasso; (d) Norman Rockwell

2. FTPE name that disease:

Also known as glandular fever, this illness nicknamed the “kissing disease” is typically caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.

Answer: mononucleosis

This mysterious disease most often found in women aged 25 to 45, also called “yuppie flu,” was erroneously thought also to be caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.

Answer: chronic fatigue syndrome

Caused by spirochetes borne by the deer tick, the general achiness associated with this disease named for a Connecticut town led to some cases being misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome.

Answer: Lyme disease

3. For ten points each, identify the Newbery Medal winning authors from some of their books.

a) The King’s Fifth, The Black Pearl, and Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Answer: Scott O’Dell

b) Jip, His Story, Jacob Have I Loved, and Bridge to Terabithia

Answer: Katherine Paterson

c) Marvin Redpost, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and Holes.

Answer: Louis Sachar

4, Identify these battles from the American Revolutionary War in which the British surrendered substantial portions of their troops FTPE.

(10) In this 1777 battle, American blocked Burgoyne at Bemis Heights. The British failed to break through American defenses and withdrew to the namesake location, where they surrendered in October.

Answer: Saratoga

(10) Cornwallis arrived here from Petersburg in 1781. Washington and French naval forces surrounded the British army and accepted its surrender, ending the war.

Answer: Yorktown

(10) American Daniel Morgan enveloped the British troops under Banastre Tarleton in this classic 1781 South Carolina battle, capturing virtually all British forces.

Answer: Cowpens

5. FTPE, answer the following about 180 degrees. You have 10 seconds per part.

What is 180 degrees equal to in radian measure?

Answer: pi

What is the cosine of 180 degrees?

Answer: -1

What is the tangent of 180 degrees?

Answer: 0

6. For ten points each -- name these songs you've probably heard at the beginning of WB dramas.

(10) This Gavin DeGraw song serves as the theme song to One Tree Hill.

Answer: I Don't Wanna Be

(10) This Paula Cole song served as the theme song to Dawson's Creek.

Answer: I Don't Want to Wait

(10) The mother-daughter duo of Carole King and Louise Goffin sing this theme song to Gilmore Girls.

Answer: Where You Lead (I Will Follow)

7. Figures of the Trojan War FTPE.

(10) The son of Peleus and Thetis, he avenged the death of his friend Patroclus by killing Hector. Dipped in the Styx by his mother, he has no invulnerability but his heel.

Answer: Achilles

(10) Achilles had refused to fight because this man, the leader of the Greeks, had taken Chryseis, angering Apollo. He is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra after the war.

Answer: Agamemnon

(10) The brother of Agamemnon, this king of Sparta lost his wife Helen to abduction by Paris, the event that launched the Trojan War.

Answer: Menelaus

8. Give either the acronym or full name of these New Deal programs from a description FTPE. If you need a second clue, we’ll give you the acronym and you supply the full name for 5 points each.

10) Part of the Unemployment Relief Act, this organization provided jobs on natural resource-related projects for unemployed single young men, who also received housing of a sort from its camps.

5) CCC

Answer: Civilian Conservation Corps [accept CCC on the 10-point clue]

10) Established in 1933, it helped restore public confidence in banks by protecting accounts in the event of bank failure.

5) FDIC

Answer: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [accept FDIC on the 10-point clue]

10) It originally gave benefit payments to encourage farmers to limit the acreage of certain cash crops. After parts of the act creating it were ruled unconstitutional, it switched some emphasis to promote planting of soil-building crops instead.

5) AAA

Answer: Agricultural Adjustment Administration [grudgingly accept “Act” instead of Administration, since that was the name of the bill that created it; accept AAA on the 10-point clue]

9. For ten points each, name the British authors of these works.

a) The Hound of the Baskervilles

Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

b) The Lord of the Flies

Answer: William Golding

c) Brave New World

Answer: Aldous Huxley

10. Given definitions from an acid-base theory, name the theory for ten points each.

a) Acids contain hydrogen and bases contain hydroxide ions.

Answer: Arrhenius theory

b) Acids are the same as in Arrhenius’s model, but bases are defined as being able to accept a hydrogen ion.

Answer: Bronsted-Lowery theory

b) Acids are electron-pair acceptors; bases are electron-pair donors.

Answer: Lewis theory

11. Name these Roman emperors for ten points each.

a) This emperor committed suicide in AD 69, causing the power struggle known as the Year of the Four Emperors. His foibles may have been exaggerated in the writings of the not-exactly-neutral Suetonius and Tacitus.

Answer: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; or Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus

b) Unlike Nero, this emperor’s eccentricities were clearly not exaggerated – he flat-out went insane, prompting his murder in AD 41 by the Praetorian Guard.

Answer: Caligula, or Caius Caesar Germanicus

c) Reigning from 69 to 79, he founded the Flavian dynasty after the wars following Nero's death.

Answer: Vespasian; or Caesar Vespasianus Augustus; or Titus Flavius Vespasianus

12. Name that –ism! FTPE, identify the American or Anglo-American literary movement from some of its authors.

a) Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer: transcendentalism (or –ist)

b) William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James

Answer: realism (or –ist)

c) Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle

Answer: imagism (or –ist)

13. For ten points each, identify these caves of note.

a) The most extensive cave system discovered so far, it includes over 560 km of passages.

Answer: Mammoth Cave

b) Discovered near Montignac, France in 1940, these caves feature approximately 16,000-year old paintings of large animals, particularly of aurochs.

Answer: Caves of Lascaux

c) A series of caves, some of which included libraries with built in shelves, was the hiding place of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Answer: Qumran Caves

14. Imagine, if you will, a 4 kg block sits on a table in a world without friction and where g is exactly 10 meters per second per second. FTPE…

a) First, what is the normal force on the block?

Answer: 40 Newtons

b) How much work is done if the block is moved six meters at a constant velocity of 6 meters per second?

Answer: 0 Joules

c) Finally, suppose that the block, still traveling at 6 meters per second, sails off the edge of the table, which is (strangely) 20 meters tall. How far horizontally will the block travel before hitting the ground?

Answer: 12 meters

15. For ten points each, name the host city of these future Olympic Games.

a) The 2006 Winter Games.

Answer: Turin

b) The 2008 Summer Games.

Answer: Beijing

c) The 2010 Winter Games.

Answer: Vancouver

16. Answer the following about wars in the Middle East FTPE:

a. This war began with a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the air forces of Egypt and Syria. At the end of the war, Israel had captured the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula.

Answer: The Six Day War or the 1967 War

b. The crisis that precipitated this war began with the August 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait by its much larger neighbor. After a January 15, 1991, UN deadline passed, a large, multinational coalition began a counter-offensive from neighboring nations, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar.

Answer: Operation Desert Storm (accept Persian Gulf War I or equivalents)

c. This nation was in a civil war from 1975-1990. Syrian troops entered in 1976 to help Maronite militias, while Israeli forces invaded in 1982 to evict the PLO. A 2005 “Cedar Revolution” seeks the removal of the remaining Syrian troops.

Answer: Lebanon or the Lebanese Republic

17. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions.

5) What is the scientific name for the phenomenon we call the Northern Lights?

Answer: Aurora Borealis [prompt on aurora]

15) What is the scientific name for the Southern Lights?

Answer: Aurora Australis

10) What planet in our solar system has also shown signs of Auroric activity?

Answer: Jupiter

18. Identify the musical instruments from descriptions for ten points each.

a) Similar to a xylophone, it is smaller, higher in pitch, and uses metal bars.

Answer: Glockenspiel

b) This is a small and quiet keyboard instrument. The strings are set parallel to the layout of the keyboard (unlike in a piano) and are struck by brass tangents at the end of the keys (unlike in a harpsichord).

Answer: Clavichord

c) This simple instrument consists of two small wooden boards attached at one end by a hinge. If the maker has been kind there will also be handles attached to the boards to prevent one’s fingers from becoming smashed between the boards.

Answer: Whip or Slapstick

19. For ten points each, identify the following cathedrals from description:

a) Situated on the Ile-de-la-Cité, it was the location in which Napoleon crowned himself emperor.

Answer: Notre Dame

b) This small English cathedral contains the Altar of the Sword’s Point and the tombs of the Black Prince and Thomas á Becket.

Answer: Canterbury

c) This cathedral in Moscow consists of nine chapels topped by domes. Supposedly its creator was blinded so that he could never create anything to rival its beauty.

Answer: St. Basil’s Cathedral

20. (5,10,15) Answer these questions about writers of Soviet Russia:

(5) This prolific author was sharply critical of the Soviet regime in 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'.

Answer: Alexander Solzhenitsyn [sol-zhen-eet-sin]

(10) This man is famous as a poet in Russia, but in the West is better known for his novel 'Doctor Zhivago'.

Answer: Boris Pasternak

(15) This pioneer of Socialist Realism was so influential he had the city of Nizhny Novgorod renamed after him. His short stories include 'Mother' and 'Twenty-six Men and a Girl'.

Answer: Maxim Gorky

21. FTPE, name the crystal system from a description.

a. Axes in this system are of equal length and mutually perpendicular to each other. All crystals in this system possess four three-fold axes of symmetry.

Answer: isometric or cubic

b. This system has three unequal axes. Two are inclined towards each other at an oblique angle. The third is perpendicular to the other two. Crystals demonstrate a single two-fold rotation axis and/or a single mirror plane.

Answer: monoclinic

c. The three axes in this system are mutually perpendicular. The two horizontal axes are of equal length, while the vertical axis is of a different length than those two. Minerals in this class all possess a single four-fold symmetry axis.

Answer: tetragonal

22. Given a famous conductor, identify the city with which he is best associated, FTPE.

(10) Fritz Reiner, whose Reiner's orchestra plays indoor ‘cuz its windy outside.

Answer: Chicago

(10) Herbert von Karajan [CARRY-ON]; his orchestra played when the east side and the west side came back together.

Answer: Berlin

(10) George Szell, whose orchestra rocks.

Answer: Cleveland

BONI – ROUND THREE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: You are about to be handed a page with maps of three Civil War battles. Name the battle for the map identified by each letter, for 10 points each. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Antietam; (b) Gettysburg; (c) Shiloh

2. FTPE, stuff about a particular author:

Forever associated with the 1920’s, his novels included This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nick Carraway is the narrator of this Fitzgerald work about a mysterious wealthy man on the fringes of high society.

Answer: The Great Gatsby

At his death Fitzgerald left unfinished this novel about movie producer Monroe Stahr, loosely based on Irving Thalberg.

Answer: The Love of the Last Tycoon [accept The Last Tycoon; after the movie version with that name, some editions were published under the abbreviated title]

3. Identify the following electrical components for 10 points each.

a) This device allows current to flow through it in one direction but blocks it from flowing in the opposite direction.

Answer: Diode

b) Often seen in large cylinders on power poles, this device is often used to convert electrical signals from high voltage, low current forms to low voltage, high current forms.

Answer: Transformer

c) This simple bridge circuit is used for measuring unknown parameters of circuit components. It consists of three resistors of known resistance, a galvanometer, and the component to be tested.

Answer: Wheatstone Bridge

4. Answer the following about these John Maddens FTPE.

(10) In 2002 John Madden joined this acclaimed ABC play-by-play announcer in the booth for Monday Night Football.

Answer: Al Michaels

(10) After Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown, another John Madden directed this 1998 Academy Award best picture starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola De Lesseps and Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare.

Answer: Shakespeare in Love

(10) Remember hockey? Center John Madden had 19 goals and 22 assists in 2002-2003 for this New Jersey hockey team anchored by Martin Brodeur.

Answer: New Jersey Devils

5. FTPE answer the following about a particular movement:

a) Adherents believe their minds and spirits must be cleansed of negative engrams. Within this church, a secretive body called the Sea Org or organization serves the purpose of enforcing the rules and administering disciplinary procedures.

Answer: Scientology

b) Upon what science fiction author’s teachings is Scientology based?

Answer: L. Ron Hubbard

c) What Hubbard book set out the original beliefs of Scientology in 1950?

Answer: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

6. The U.S. wasn’t their only foe. For 10 points each, identify these enemies of the now-defunct Soviet Union:

a) This nation fought the Soviet Union in a moderately successful war from 1919 to 1921, leaving it in effective control of much of Lithuania.

Answer: Poland

b) What northern nation was attacked by the USSR in 1939, which led to their uneasy 1941 alliance with Nazi Germany?

Answer: Finland

c) This was the umbrella name for loosely allied Muslim guerilla groups fighting the USSR when it invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Once the Soviets were ousted, it split into two warring rival factions, the Taliban and the Northern Alliance.

Answer: the Mujahideen [accept anything that sounds like this – there are half a dozen spellings]

7. For ten points each -- answer the following about a cell layer and its components.

(10) In bacteria, the amount of peptidoglycan in this two-word structure determines whether an organism is Gram positive or Gram negative.

Answer: cell wall

(10) This material makes up the cell wall of fungi. It is also included in the exoskeletons of insects.

Answer: chitin

(10) This material makes up the cell wall of plants. Not digestible by humans, it occurs naturally in almost pure form only in cotton fibre.

Answer: cellulose

8. FTPE, stuff about an author:

(10) Most of his novels, including Nicholas Nickleby and The Old Curiosity Shop, were published chapter by chapter in monthly installments, which explains why he repeated himself a lot.

Answer: Charles Dickens

(10) This novel set during the French Revolution contains two of Dickens’ most famous lines: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done" and the opening line, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities

(10) After poor sales for early installments of this 1844 novel, Dickens sent the grandson and namesake of the wealthy title character off to America, allowing him to take potshots at the gap between American ideals and reality.

Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit

9. For ten points each answer the following about computer design:

a) The Von Neumamn and Harvard architectures are two different ways of partitioning what computer component?

Answer: memory

b) Which component of a computer processor performs math and logic operations?

Answer: ALU or Arithmetic Logic Unit

c) What term is used to describe a bundle of wires that carry information between computer components?

Answer: bus

10. For 10 points each, identify the following Indonesian islands.

a) The most densely populated island in Indonesia, it contains the capital of Jakarta.

Answer: Java

b) This island, the third largest in the world, is split between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei.

Answer: Borneo

c) The world’s sixth largest island, it is the home of Lake Toba. It also contains the area of Indonesia hardest hit by the December 26th tsunami of 2004.

Answer: Sumatra

11. For ten points each, give the most common oxidation state of the following elements.

a) Barium

Answer: 2+

b) Silver

Answer: 1+

c) Oxygen

Answer: 2-

12. Given opening lines, name the poet for 5 points and the poem for 5 more. Hint: All 3 poets share the same first name.

a) “I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o’er vales and hills”

Answer: William Wordsworth; Daffodils

b) “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate”

Answer: William Shakespeare; Sonnet 18 (accept 18th Sonnet, etc.)

c) “Out of the night that covers me / Black as the pit from pole to pole”

Answer: William Ernest Henley; Invictus

13. FTPE answer the following about some of the more popular legislation President Bush has signed into law:

a) Perhaps the most popular bill signed by the president, it was intended to give people some privacy but did not apply to charities, pollsters, or political candidates.

Answer: Do Not Call Bill

b) This educational act was initially popular but has been criticized as being under funded. Criticism was also leveled when the government paid Armstrong Williams to promote the act.

Answer: No Child Left Behind Act

c) In January of 2004 the President proposed that this government agency be given an additional $12 billion for exploratory purposes. The money came through only with the aid of Rep. Tom Delay, in whose district lies one of the agency’s best-known centers.

Answer: NASA

14. For ten points each, answer the following about Medusa.

(10) Medusa was apart of this trio which also included Stheno and Euryale.

Answer: Gorgons

(10) After Medusa copulated in one of her temples, this figure changed Medusa's enticing golden locks into serpents.

Answer: Athena

(10) This figure killed Medusa by cutting off her head while looking at her in the reflection in a mirrored shield.

Answer: Perseus

15. For ten points, identify the following painting techniques:

a) This technique, developed by Caravaggio creates a strong contrast between light and dark.

Answer: Chiaroscuro

b) A phrase literally meaning “trick of the eye”, it refers to the use of optical illusions to portray realistic images.

Answer: Trompe l'oeil

c) Perhaps not a painting technique and not a dignified form of art, this invention of the Craft House company was a favorite of General Eisenhower. Its popularity in America during the 1950’s was seen by many as a symbol of conformity.

Answer: Paint by Numbers

16. For ten points each identify the following journalists.

a) Known for her undercover journalism work, this woman reported on conditions at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell Island and also traveled around the world in 72 days.

Answer: Nellie Bly or Elizabeth Jane Cochran

b) This muckraker was famous for writing How the Other Half Lives.

Answer: Jacob Riis

c) Perhaps the best known US war correspondent, he was killed in 1945 on the island of Ie-Jima [EE-eh GEE-ma] near Okinawa.

Answer: Ernie Pyle

17. FTPE name the colonial power that controlled these African territories during the late 19th / early 20th centuries.

a) Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda

Answer: England

b) Mali, Niger, Chad

Answer: France

c) Angola, Mozambique

Answer: Portugal

18. For ten points each, given some lyrics from a “Weird Al” Yankovic song, name the song.

a) “You can be a coffee achiever; you can sit around the house and watch Leave It To Beaver.”

Answer: Dare to Be Stupid

b) “I admit it’s kind of eerie, but this proves my Chaos Theory, and I don’t think I’ll be coming back again.”

Answer: Jurassic Park

c) “I’m down with Bill Gates; I call him money for short. I get him on the phone and I make him do my tax report.”

Answer: It’s All About the Pentiums

19. For ten points each, answer the following concerning the discovery of Neptune, the 8th planet.

a) Theories that the anomalous properties of the orbit of this planet was due to the gravitational field of another massive body led to the discovery of Neptune.

Answer: Uranus

b) In 1846, this Frenchman calculated and predicted the position of Neptune. He was credited with the discovery of the planet that same year.

Answer: Urbain Le Verrier

c) Although this Englishman independently made the calculations in 1843, before Le Verrier, his work was not accepted by his peers until it was too late.

Answer: John Couch Adams

20. For ten points each identify these classical works commonly heard today:

a) Mozart, Verdi, and Berlioz have composed requiems with this Gregorian chant, meaning “day of wrath.” Places it has been heard include the openings to the movie Battle Royale and the game Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup.

Answer: Dies Irae

b) Originally composed by Richard Strauss in 1896, this symphonic poem was used as the opening for 2001: A Space Odyssey and as entrance music for the wrestler Ric Flair.

Answer: Also Sprach Zarathustra or Thus Spoke Zarathustra [or Zoroaster]

c) Composed by Carl Jenkins, this song was inspired by its namesake architect. It is best known as the song from the De Beers diamond commercials featuring the silhouette people.

Answer: Palladio

21. Name that –ism! FTPE give the philosophical term from a definition:

a) An extension of the egocentric predicament, this theory holds that one can know nothing beyond one’s own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, and by extension everyone and everything else exist only as projections of one’s own mind

Answer: solipsism

b) In opposition to realism, this doctrine prevalent in the Middle Ages held that ideas and objects exist only in the particular instance ,not as abstract conceptions or forms, and that all universals are merely names with no existence of their own.

Answer: nominalism

c) As put forth by John Dewey, this holds that ideas and concepts should be regarded as tools to be used in specific situations, and thus can only be described as “effective” or “ineffective” rather than “true” or “false.”

Answer: instrumentalism

22. For ten points each, answer the following questions about Canadian military history.

a) What Canadian province saw the defeat of American invaders in 1775 and a 4/5 rejection of conscription in 1942 (to which the rest of Canada voted 70% yes)?

Answer: Quebec

b) In what disastrous 1942 raid on a French coastal town were over 800 Canadians killed and almost 2000 captured?

Answer: Dieppe

c) During the Normandy landings on D-Day, while the Americans stormed Omaha Beach, the beach with this code name was assaulted by Canadian forces.

Answer: Juno Beach

BONI – ROUND FOUR DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: You are about to be handed a map of Canada. For 5 points each, identify the province or territory marked with each letter shown. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Yukon; (b) Nunavut; (c) British Columbia; (d) Saskatchewan; (e) Manitoba; (f) Quebec

2. Answer these questions about the tooth, for ten points each.

a) This is the innermost part of the tooth.

Answer: pulp

b) The second layer, it is as hard as the bones of the body.

Answer: dentin

c) This is the exposed part of the tooth and is the toughest surface in the body.

Answer: enamel

3. FTPE, stuff about a particular author:

a) “I, Too, Sing America” and “Dinner Guest: Me” are among the notable poems by this leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

Answer: Langston Hughes

b) Perhaps Hughes’ most famous poem, it includes the lines: “Maybe it just sags / like a heavy load / Or does it explode?”

Answer: Dream Deferred

c) This Lorraine Hansbery play about blacks trying to buy a house in suburbia took its name from a phrase in Hughes’ “Dream Deferred.”

Answer: A Raisin in the Sun

4. FTPE answer the following about rushes for precious minerals.

10) The California Gold Rush began when gold was found at this man’s mill in 1848.

Answer: John Sutter

10) Rabbit Creek was renamed Bonanza Creek after gold was discovered there, triggering the rush to this region of Canada’s Yukon Territory in 1896.

Answer: Klondike Gold Rush

10) This gold rush occurred after gold was discovered near Melbourne in its namesake Australian province in 1851.

Answer: Victorian Gold Rush [accept Victoria]

5. Given a kicker, name the NFL team that the kicker belonged to in the 2004 season for ten points each.

a) David Akers

Answer: Philadelphia Eagles (accept either the city or the team on all answers)

b) Olindo Mare

Answer: Miami Dolphins

c) Morten Andersen

Answer: Minnesota Vikings

6. How much do you know about black holes? FTPE:

a) This is the outer boundary of the black hole where the gravity is strong enough to prevent anything even radiation from escaping.

Answer: Event Horizon

b) This is the distance at which gravitational force is so strong that matter is no longer able to escape thus resulting in black hole.

Answer: Schwarzschild radius

c) This astronomical body usually results in the formation black hole due to it very high density.

Answer: Neutron Star

7. Name the 19th century author from poems FTPE.

(10) "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Eve of Saint Agnes," "Endymion."

Answer: John Keats

(10) "To a Waterfowl," "The Flood of Years," "Thanatopsis"

Answer: William Cullen Bryant

(10) "Evangeline," "Paul Revere’s Ride"

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8. For ten points each, answer the following people connected to the crucifixion of Jesus.

a) The high priest of Jerusalem, Jesus was brought before him after being arrested at the Garden of Gethsemane.

Answer: Joseph Caiaphas

b) The Roman Prefect of Judea, he ordered that Jesus be crucified.

Answer: Pontius Pilate

c) A secret disciple of Jesus, he arranged with the Pilate for Jesus’ body to be taken down and entombed.

Answer: Joseph of Arimathea

9. FTSNOP answer the following about the Russian Revolution, or more accurately Revolutions, in 1917:

5) While it is commonly thought that this man orchestrated the whole Russian Revolution, he was not even in the country for arguably its important moment, the February Revolution which brought about the abdication of the Tsar.

Answer: Vladimir I. Lenin

5) This was the inept tsar they ousted, eventually executed along with his entire family in 1918.

Answer: Nicholas II

10/10) Russian socialism was divided into these two factions, one led by Lenin, the other by Georgi Plekhanov. Until the October Revolution, ironically, the one whose name meant “majority” was smaller than the one that meant “minority.”

Answer: Bolshevik (or -iki or -ism) and Menshevik (or -ism)

10. Consider the following series of numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.

(10) What is their mean? You have 10 seconds.

Answer: 18

(10) What is their median? You have 10 seconds.

Answer: 15.5 or 31/2 or 15 and 1/2

(10) On what TV show were these numbers recently and prominently featured?

Answer: Lost

11. Answer the following questions about Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim line-up for ten points each.

a) This show chronicles the exploits of a milkshake, a box of fries, and a piece of meat.

Answer: Aqua Teen Hunger Force (prompt on partial answers)

b) This man is the next-door neighbor to the Aqua Teens.

Answer: Carl

c) These villains have made repeated appearances on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force and have tried to cash a giant bill they thought was a check, tried to rent a room from the Aqua Teens, and have wielded the mighty “Foreigner Belt.”

Answer: the Moononites (accept Ignignot and Ur)

12. Answer the following about glaciers for ten points each.

a) These bowl or ampitheater-shaped depressions are created by downward pressure of glacier ice as it grows and moves.

Answer: cirque

b) These are low, streamlined hills of glacial deposits that run parallel to the flow of the glacier. Scientists theorize that they are formed either by the ice itself or from rapid flooding underneath the ice.

Answer: drumlin(s)

c) Lateral, medial, and terminal all are modifiers for this term, which designates any form created by deposition of debris carried by a glacier.

Answer: moraine

13. On a 5-10-15 basis, identify these pseudo-related scandals:

5) A sensationalized burglary at the eponymous hotel in 1972 ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon.

Answer: Watergate

10) In 1976, a congressional investigation attempted to link Reverend Moon’s Unification Church to an influence-buying plan on the part of the intelligence service of the eponymous country, and the Japanese Yakuza.

Answer: Koreagate

15) Three San Francisco police officers allegedly attacked two men over a dispute about the eponymous Mexican food product in 2003.

Answer: Fajitagate

14. Identify the Brontes FTPE.

(10) Under the pseudonym Currer Bell, she wrote the novels The Professor and Jane Eyre. After her sisters' death, she married and completed Shirley and Villette.

Answer: Charlotte Bronte

(10) The best poetry writer of the bunch, she wrote "Remembrance" and "The Visionary" under the name of Ellis Bell. She also wrote Wuthering Heights.

Answer: Emily Bronte

(10) She used the pseudonym Acton Bell and wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Answer: Anne Bronte

15. FTPE, given a year, a gallery, and the artist, name the artwork that was stolen.

a . 1911, The Louvre, Leonardo Da Vinci

Answer: The Mona Lisa [or La Gioconda]

b. 2004, The National Gallery of Oslo, Edvard Munsch

Answer: The Scream [or The Cry]

c. 1990, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jan Vermeer

Answer: The Concert

16. Given the following compounds, identify their chemical formula for ten points each.

a) Phosphoric acid

Answer: H3 P O4

b) Sulfuric acid

Answer: H2 S O4

c) Potassium manganate

Answer: K Mn O3

17. Name these French kings named Louis for ten points each. Appropriate numbers are obviously required!

a) The last ruler of the house of Bourbon, he was beheaded during the French Revolution in 1793.

Answer: Louis XVI (16th)

b) A grandson of Charlemagne, he took an oath of alliance with his brother Charles against his brother Lothair in 842.

Answer: Louis II

c) He tried to depose his father on several occasions before eventually taking the throne upon his father’s death in 1461. Nicknamed “the Prudent,” during his 22-year reign he laid the foundations for a strong French monarchy.

Answer: Louis XI (11th)

18. For ten points each, answer the following concerning the origins of Social Darwinism.

a) Coining the term “survival of the fittest,” he applied Darwinian Theory to human development and society.

Answer: Herbert Spencer

b) Predating Spencer, his eponymous catastrophe theory suggested that population grows faster than food supply, which was later interpreted to imply starvation of the weakest.

Answer: Thomas Robert Malthus

c) A strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, his 1907 book Folkways concluded that all forms of social reform were futile.

Answer: William Graham Sumner

19. FTPE, name the French authors of the following works:

a) Madame Bovary

Answer: Gustave Flaubert

b) The Red and the Black

Answer: Stendhal [or Marie-Henri Beyle]

c) Cyrano de Bergerac

Answer: Edmond Rostand

20. For ten points each, identify the music term based on the definition.

a) The most common chord structure in Western music, it consists of a root note, and two other notes, a third and a fifth away form the root note, respectively.

Answer: triad

b) Shifting the positions of the triad so that the root note is the highest note constitutes this.

Answer: first inversion

c) Adding a fourth note to a triad, a third above the fifth of the chord forms this.

Answer: seventh chord

21. Given the descriptions, identify the cell type FTPE.

a) These cells regulate the pattern and duration of the heart beat.

Answer: Pacemaker Cells

b) These cells are responsible for sending stimuli to and from the brain.

Answer: Nerve Cells

c) These cells are striated in appearance and are responsible for most motor muscle activity within the body

Answer: Skeletal Muscle Cells

22. Given some lakes, name the state where they’re found, 10 pts. each:

a) Caddo, Pontchartrain, Catahoula

Answer: Louisiana

b) Leech, Mille Lacs, Winnibigoshish, Itasca

Answer: Minnesota

c) Ossipee, Sunapee, Winnepesaukee

Answer: New Hampshire

BONI – ROUND FIVE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: To paraphrase Jon Stewart, it’s time for famous pictures of naked people. You are about to be given a page with pictures of three noted sculptures on it. Identify by letter each sculpture for 5 points each and the artist for another 5 points. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) David by Michelangelo Buonarroti; (b) Discobolus (or Discus Thrower) by Myron; (c) The Thinker (or Le Penseur) by Auguste Rodin

2. For ten points each, which character says the following lines from Hamlet?

a) “This above all, – to thine own self be true”

Answer: Polonius

b) “Now cracks a noble heart. -- Good night, sweet prince”

Answer: Horatio

c) “There's rosemary, that's for remembrance”

Answer: Ophelia

3. Answer the following from electrical physics FTPE:

(10) Often denoted by Q, this property of matter is measured in Coulombs. The electron is negative in this while the proton is positive.

Answer: charge

(10) Symbolized by C, and usually found as a parallel plate, this circuit element stores charge creating an electric field.

Answer: capacitor

(10) The derivative of the voltage across a capacitor times the capacitance is equal to this.

Answer: current (Q = CV)

4. Remember the Sega Dreamcast? Identify the following for ten points each.

a) This football line that helped push the system was the first to feature online play through the system’s modem.

Answer: the NFL2K series

b) This first-party game was the first to use cell shading as you skated around and spray-painted graffiti in the town.

Answer: Jet Grind Radio

c) Yu Suzuki’s most epic adventure series originally started on the Dreamcast. It featured Ryo Hazuki and his quest for revenge against Lan Di. Name this game.

Answer: Shenmue

5. Name the person on a 30-20-10 basis.

(30 points) The only active-duty US Navy ship named after a foreigner is named after him, though it should be noted that his mother, the former actress Jennie Jerome, was American born.

(20 points) First Lord of the Admiralty during the first half of WWI, he was forced from the government after the Gallipoli disaster, for which he was blamed.

(10 points) He rescued his once-tarnished reputation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of WWII

Answer: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

6. The original dysfunctional family of Western culture: FTPE, stuff about a child of Zeus.

The goddess of wisdom, she sprang fully grown from Zeus' head.

Answer: Athena

Athena’s mother was this woman, Zeus' first wife, whom he swallowed to prevent the birth of the child out of fear that this child would overthrow him.

Answer: Metis

Athena offered wealth and promised to help this mortal lead Troy to a victory over the Greeks in return for him judging her the fairest of the three goddesses. When he took Aphrodite’s bribe instead, she switched to the Greek side.

Answer: Paris

7. Identify the following types of chemical bonds, FTSNOP.

(5) Bonds in which two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons.

Answer: covalent bonds

(5) Bonds formed by electrical attractions between oppositely charges species, as in NaCl.

Answer: ionic bonds

(10) Interactions between an electronegative atom and a covalently bonded hydrogen, as in water.

Answer: hydrogen bonds

(10) Interactions between nonpolar molecules in which random variations in the electron distribution in one molecule create an opposite charge distribution in the adjacent molecule.

Answer: van der Waals attractions

8. Answer these questions about books appearing on the American Library Association’s list of most banned or challenged books for ten points each.

a) The third-most challenged book of 2003, this 1937 John Steinbeck novella tells the story of Lennie and George.

Answer: Of Mice and Men

b) This 1993 work by Lois Lowry, #11 on the banned books list for the 1990s, concerns a boy who attempts to break free from a futuristic dystopian society.

Answer: The Giver

c) This author’s We All Fall Down was #8 on the list of most challenged books during 2003. His other works to run afoul of the book-banning crowd include I Am the Cheese and The Chocolate War.

Answer: Robert Cormier

9. For ten points each, name the band given singles from their respective self-titled albums.

a) “Queer,” “Stupid Girl,” “Only Happy When It Rains”

Answer: Garbage

b) “Darts of Pleasure,” “Michael,” “Take Me Out”

Answer: Franz Ferdinand

c) “Trapped in a Box”

Answer: No Doubt

10. 30-20-10, name the person.

For 30, according to the official accounts of his country, his birth in 1942 on Mount Paektu was heralded by a rainbow. Other sources indicate he was actually born in Siberia

For 20, this world leader is a movie aficionado, likes to wear platform shoes, and has an intense fear of flying. While he has held the same office since 1994, that office did not officially make him head of state until 1998.

For 10, this “ronery" leader of North Korea succeeded his father, Kim Il-Sung, as de facto leader upon his father’s death in 1994.

Answer: Kim Jong-il

11. At 23.5 degrees south, the Tropic of Capricorn crosses most of the world’s southernmost countries at some point. Surprisingly, there are only four independent nations that lie wholly below that line. Name any three for 10 points each. A couple of hints: Al four are fairly small, and only one is an island nation.

Answers: any three of New Zealand, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Uruguay

12. Given a description, name these cell organelles FTPE.

This “power plant” of the cell manufactures ATP which is the basic unit of energy for life. There are normally 1 to 2 thousand of these in a human liver cell.

Answer: Mitochondrion (-a)

This organelle is composed of rRNA and translates mRNA into protein as they float freely in the cytoplasm of cells.

Answer: Ribosome

These are found in both plant and animal cells that process protein and act as the central delivery system for the cell.

Answer: Golgi Apparatus (acc. body and complex)

13. Name the dynasty based on some of its leaders FTPE.

a) Henry VII and Elizabeth I.

Answer: Tudor Dynasty

b) Hong Wu, Jian Wen, and Xuande (shoe-and-ee).

Answer: Ming Dynasty

c) Peter the Great, Catherine I, and Peter II.

Answer: Romanov Dynasty

14. FTPE, give the areas of the following. You have 10 seconds per part.

A circle with circumference 20 pi inches.

Answer: 100 pi square inches

A square with a perimeter of 28 meters.

Answer: 49 square meters

A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 13 feet.

Answer: 30 square feet

15. I'll give you a quote from a work of Romantic poetry, give me the name of the work for ten points each. You'll get five if you need the name of the author.

1. (10 points) "O wind! If winter comes / Can spring be far behind?"

(5 points) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Answer: "Ode to the West Wind"

2. (10 points) "One shade the more, one ray the less, / Had half impair'd the nameless grace / Which waves in every raven tress, / Or softly lightens o'er her face;"

(5 points) Lord Byron.

Answer: "She Walks in Beauty"

3. (10 points) "The winds that will be howling at all hours, / And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; / For this, for everything, we are out of tune; / It moves us not."

(5 points) William Wordsworth.

Answer: "The world is too much with us; late and soon"

16. Name these famous concepts from philosophy FTPE.

A. The namesake of this principle was a Franciscan scholar who promulgated the idea that one should eliminate all unnecessary facts when analyzing a subject.

Answer: Occam’s Razor

B. The French religious thinker and mathematician who postulated this idea felt that you have everything to gain and nothing to lose in believing in God.

Answer: Pascal’s Wager

C. This medieval French philosopher namesake hypothesized that, given free will and placed equidistant between two identical stacks of hay, the animal won’t have any basis for choosing one over the other.

Answer: Buridan’s Ass

17. Given a character from Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, name the instrument that represents the character FFPE:

a) Peter

Answer: strings section or violin or cello

b) Peter’s grandfather

Answer: bassoon

c) Peter’s Cat

Answer: clarinet

d) The wolf

Answer: French horns

e) Duck

Answer: oboe

f) Bluebird

Answer: flute

18. For ten points each, answer the following about prescription drug issues.

a) Give the market name of Rofecoxib, a popular anti-inflammatory which was withdrawn from the market by Merck in 2004 due to findings that it increased the chance of heart attacks.

Answer: Vioxx

b) What similar drug, Celecoxib, marketed by Pfizer was found to have similar effects in December 2004 but was not pulled from shelves?

Answer: Celebrex

c) Frances Kelsey became a hero for her 1960 decision to withhold approval in the US of what birth-defect-causing drug?

Answer: Thalidomide

19. Most Civil War generals had nicknames. For ten points each, given a nickname, name the Union general.

1. Young Napoleon.

Answer: George Brinton McClellan

2. Old Rosey.

Answer: William S. Rosecrans

3. Old Brains.

Answer: Henry Wager Halleck

20. FTPE, name the African-born winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature from given clues

a. This 2003 Nobel winner was born in South Africa. He wrote Waiting for Barbarians, and Dusklands among other works.

Answer: J.M. Coetzeeds the last to join the Canadian Confederation

FTPE.

b. This 1991 Nobel winner was also born in South Africa. She wrote A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, and the Burger's Daughter among other works.

Answer: Nadine Gordimer

c. This 1986 Nobel winner born in Nigeria. He wrote 20 plays, novels, and collections of poetry.

Answer: Wole Soyinka

21. 5-10-15, answer the following questions about the Abu Ghraib scandal.

5 – What Bush administration official took “full responsibility” for the events that occurred at Abu Ghraib?

Answer: Donald Rumsfeld

10 – Who is the female private seen in some of the most well-known Abu Ghraib pictures, grinning and pointing at the genitals of naked Iraqi prisoners?

Answer: Lynndie England

15 – Who was the senior US military officer in Iraq who has been implicated as authorizing some of the torture methods used in Abu Ghraib?

Answer: Gen Ricardo Sanchez

22. Identify the division of FedEx from the color, FTPE.

a) Orange

Answer: FedEx Express

b) Green

Answer: FedEx Ground or FedEx Home Delivery

c) Blue

Answer: FedEx Kinko’s or FedEx Custom Critical

BONI – ROUND SIX DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: You are about to be handed a map of Europe. For 5 points each, identify the nation marked with each letter shown. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Finland; (b) Ireland; (c) Portugal; (d) Austria; (e) the Ukraine; (f) Romania

2. For 10 points each identify the following British authors from works.

a) The Virginians, Vanity Fair

Answer: William Thackeray

b) The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, The Horse and His Boy

Answer: C.S. Lewis

c) The Road Goes Ever On, On Fairy Stories, The Silmarillion

Answer: J. R. R. Tolkien

3. FTPE, name the following oft-repeated Christmas TV specials from clues.

a) The title character meets Hermey the elf, Yukon Cornelius the miner, and the Abominable Snow Bumble. Burl Ives narrates as Sam the Snowman.

Answer: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

b) In this 1970 classic, a mailman voiced by Fred Astaire describes how Santa grew up and thwarted the cruel Burgermeister Meisterburger and the Winter Warlock to deliver presents to the children of Sombertown.

Answer: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

c) One of the feeblest excuses for a holiday TV special, it’s narrated by Elmo Shropshire, who also sang the song it’s based on. The flimsy story line has Santa being framed by the sinister Cousin Mel, who turns out to be a woman?!?!

Answer: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

4. Answer the following questions about the Peloponnesian War for ten points each.

a) What famed Athenian general led Athens until he died from a plague outbreak?

Answer: Pericles

b) Athens sent a large expedition to aid this distant ally against Syracuse in the 17th year of the war.

Answer: Sicily

c) This Athenian general was to lead the Sicilian expedition but defected to Sparta after being charged with religious crimes?

Answer: Alcibiades

5. FTPE, identify the major medical breakthrough given the researchers responsible.

a) Alexander Fleming

Answer: penicillin; also accept lysozyme [he discovered that too]

b) Edward Jenner

Answer: (smallpox) vaccination; accept immunology

c) Frederick Banting and Charles Best

Answer: insulin

6. Given a vice-president, for the stated number of points, identify the president under which he served:

a) (10) Millard Fillmore

Answer: Zachary Taylor

b) (10) Charles Dawes

Answer: Calvin Coolidge

c) (5/5) John C. Calhoun served under two presidents. Name them for 5 points each.

Answers: John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

7. Name the mythological bird from description FTPE.

a) This giant white bird lived on an island where Sinbad was stranded by his crewmates. The bird is said to be strong enough to carry an elephant in its talons.

Answer: Roc or Ruhk

b) This bird of Egyptian mythology ignites itself in flames, and is then reborn from the ashes.

Answer: Phoenix

c) This bird was a trickster god in the myths of the Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest. He supposedly stole the sun and the moon, bringing light to all humans. It also shares its name with a classic American poem.

Answer: Raven

8. FTPE name the French author from works:

a) Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Answer: Victor Hugo

b) La Cousin Bette, The Human Comedy

Answer: Honore de Balzac

c) No Exit, The Flies

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre

9. For ten points each, answer the following about our solar system’s sun.

a) Almost all of our sun’s light comes from this, the visible surface layer.

Answer: photosphere

b) The photosphere is dotted with these cooler, dark splotches that tend to appear and disappear in an eleven-year cycle.

Answer: sunspots

c) This is the outer atmosphere of the sun. Although very hot, its gases are spread very thinly, so it’s only visible during a total solar eclipse.

Answer: corona

10. Identify the following ballet terms from a brief description, FTSNOP:

a) For 5, the numbered position where the feet touch heel-to-toe and toe-to-heel, one in front of the other.

Answer: 5th position

b) For 5, the numbered position where the feet are in line, heels apart and separated by a foot’s length, with the toes pointing outward.

Answer: 2nd position

c) A complete turn on one leg, with en dehors (DE-OARS) and en dedans (DE-DON) types.

Answer: pirouette [prompt on “spin”]

d) A pose with one leg stretched straight out to the back and one arm usually stretched out to the front.

Answer: arabesque

11. Identify these characters from The Crucible for ten points each.

a) This orphaned teen girl is the main accuser in the trials.

Answer: Abigail Williams

b) The church minister is this uncle and caretaker of Abigail.

Answer: Reverend Parris

c) This local farmer is hesitant to reveal Abigail as a fraud for fear of exposing his affair with her.

Answer: John and/or Proctor

12. Answer the following, FTPE:

a) This West African nation was originally colonized by freed slaves from the U.S.

Answer: Liberia

b) Liberia’s capital, it is the only world capital besides Washington, D.C., named for a U.S. President.

Answer: Monrovia

c) What former president of Liberia, deposed in 2003, remains in Nigerian exile despite an international "red notice" issued by Interpol?

Answer: Charles Taylor

13. FTPE, given a structure, name its functional group from chemistry:

[10] R-OH

Answer: Alcohol

[10] R-CO-R

Answer: Ketone

[10] R-COO-R

Answer: Ester

14. Choose your own bonus! Here are two rather specialized pop culture categories to choose from: old school videogames, or sports radio? Choose now. [PAUSE FOR CHOICE]

IF VIDEOGAMES:Final Fantasy Online released their list of top 10 Final Fantasy characters. Name them for FTPE.

(10) At number 7 is this black mage who once asked "How do you prove that you exist?" That isn't surprising because he turns out to be a manufactured clone. Gamers recognize him as Square's homage to the good old days of the early Final Fantasies.

Answer: Vivi Ornitier

(10) At number 2 is this evil doer who proclaims that "[he] will create a monument to non-existence." Having knocked off his boss, Emperor Gestahl, he rules over the World of Ruins with the madness of destruction.

Answer: Kefka Palazzo.

(10) Surprisingly, the number 1 title goes to this character who said "Power is only used for ambition and greed," and "I wish I'd never been born." She is a general programmed to be emotionless and calculating, but a meeting with Locke changed her forever. You may remember her as the soprano in the famous opera scene.

Answer: Celes Chere

IF SPORTS RADIO: Answer the following about sports talk radio FTPE:

(10) Besides being the lead anchor of ESPN’s SportsCenter, this man hosts ESPN’s midday sports talk radio show. Rumor has it that his former cohost, Rob Dibble, was fired for punching out Stuart Scott at a staff Christmas party.

Answer: Dan Patrick

(10) Grab a vine and swing into this man's show, but don't be a clone, don't choke, respect his crew, and if you're "out," deal with it. Beginning his career with XTRA sports 690, name this host of the Jungle who’s also “burning” on TV.

Answer: Jim Rome; or Van Smack; or Van Shmack; or Romey

(10) Host of the largest evening sports talk show in America, this New York native currently works for the Raider nation. The last segment of his Fox sports radio show is a rapid interactive extravaganza appropriately called "Speed Brick."

Answer: J. T. the Brick

15. Pencil and paper ready; you have 10 seconds per part. FTPE, given a function, give the derivative of the function:

a) the natural log of x

Answer: 1/x (one over x or one divided by x)

b) e to the x

Answer: e to the x

c) cosine of the quantity 2x plus 1

Answer: negative two times sine of the quantity 2x plus 1

16. For ten points each, name the following Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers.

a) He maintained that all matter was composed of the four classical elements (water, earth, air, and fire).

Answer: Empedocles

b) Known as “the Obscure,” he believed that everything is derived from the element fire, and that everything is in flux.

Answer: Heraclitus of Ephesus

c) Rather than fire, he proposed that the world originated from the element water.

Answer: Thales of Miletus

17. For ten points each, identify these really tall buildings.

a) Designed by chief architect Bruce Graham, it currently is the tallest office building in the US at 1,450 feet (442 m).

Answer: Sears Tower

b) Replacing the Sears Tower in 1997 is this 1,483 ft (452 m) dual structure in Malaysia, designed by César Pelli.

Answer: Petronas Twin Towers

c) With the destruction of the World Trade Center’s twin towers in 2001, this building regained its distinction as the tallest in New York City.

Answer: Empire State Building

18. Name the current Supreme Court Justice for the stated number of points.

a. For 5 points, nominated by President Nixon as associate Justice, he joined the court in 1972. He was nominated by President Reagan to be Chief Justice, a position he has served in since 1986.

Answer: William H. Rehnquist

b. For 10, he was nominated by President Reagan for an associate justice position, which he assumed in 1986. Recently, this Justice was involved in a controversy centered around a goose hunting trip with Vice President Cheney.

Answer: Antonin Scalia

c. For 15, this justice was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the ACLU, and served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973-1980. Nominated by President Clinton as an associate Justice and assumed the position in 1993.

Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

19. Your genial quizmaster has written roughly this same bonus about once each decade -- and still has trouble keeping them straight. FTPE name:

a) His dramas include The Stars Look Down, Key Largo, Winterset, and the Pulitzer-winning Both Your Houses.

Answer: Maxwell Anderson

b) He won three Pulitzers for drama (for Idiot’s Delight, There Shall Be No Night, and Abe Lincoln in Illinois) and a fourth in biography for Roosevelt and Hopkins.

Answer: Robert Sherwood

c) Some of this influential author’s short stories appear in the collections The Triumph of the Egg and Winesburg, Ohio

Answer: Sherwood Anderson

20. For ten points each identify the following atomic elements whose naming created international controversy.

a) With atomic number 104, this element’s most stable isotope has a half-life of less than 70 seconds. The Russians wished to name it kurchatovium and it was given the name Unnilquadium until 1997.

Answer: rutherfordium

b) With atomic number 105 was given the temporary name unnilpentium until 1997. Americans wished to name it hahnium but it was eventually named after the city containing the Russian Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

Answer: dubnium

c) The 106th element, it was given the name unnilhexium until 1997. Critics opposed its current name on the grounds that its namesake Berkeley scientist was still alive, though he has since rendered the argument moot by finally dying.

Answer: seaborgium

21. For ten points each, name these fad diets, given the description.

a) Divided into the Reversal and Prevention Diets, it is a vegetarian hi-carbohydrate diet, with only 10% of calories derived from fat.

Answer: Ornish diet

b) This diet eliminates carbohydrates and sugar, with an emphasis on a high protein diet.

Answer: Atkins diet

c) This diet eliminates modern processed and cultivated foods in favor of “whole” foods.

Answer: Caveman diet, or Neander-thin

22. Answer the following, FTSNOP:

- FFP, what is the name of the newly-revised college admissions exam, with a score based on 2400 points (as opposed to 1600 previously)?

Answer: The SAT (must be exact; do not prompt on Scholastic Aptitude Test or any variant)

- FTP, What is the name of the non-profit company that produces the SAT, along with other tests?

Answer: Educational Testing Service or ETS (prompt on College Board)

- FFPE, name any three of the six other testing programs that are produced by ETS.

Answer: accept any three of the following (full name or acronym): Advanced Placement (AP); College Level Examination Program (CLEP); Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT); Graduate Record Exam (GRE); PRAXIS; Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

BONI – ROUND SEVEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: We were going to use stills from the movie, but these were easier to find against a plain background as action figures. For 5 points each, for each letter shown, name the character from The Lord of the Rings. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Legolas; (b) Gandalf [accept Mithrandir from the showoffs]; (c) Gollum [grudgingly accept Smeagol from the showoffs]; (d) Gimli; (e) Treebeard; [prompt on “Ent”; accept Fangorn from the showoffs]; (f) Eowyn

2. For ten points each, name the British author given the title of a work

a) Don Juan and Childe Harold

Answer: George Gordon, Lord Byron

b) The Jungle Book and The Light That Failed

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

c) Paradise Lost and “Lycidas”

Answer: John Milton

3. Give the symbols for these elements as found in the periodic table, none of which start with the same letter as the element, FFPE.

(5) Gold

Answer: Au

(5) Sodium

Answer: Na

(5) Potassium

Answer: K

(5) Lead

Answer: Pb

(5) Tungsten

Answer: W

(5) Antimony

Answer: Sb

4. Given the names of their sons, name these figures from the Bible FTPE.

A. Shem, Ham, and Japheth

Answer: Noah

B. Absalom, Solomon, and Amnon

Answer: David

C. The disciples James and John

Answer: Zebedee

5. The English and the French sure do love each other, don’t they? The History Guy’s website lists 32 Anglo-French wars – and that’s without splitting the Napoleonic Wars and the Hundred Years War into separate wars as many do. Given the dates and the name the war was called elsewhere, give the European name for the war FTPE:

a) 1755-1763, known in North America as the French and Indian War

Answer: Seven Years’ War

b) 1702-1712, known in North America as Queen Anne’s War and in India as the First Carnatic War

Answer: War of the Spanish Succession

c) 1744-1748, known in North America as King George’s War

Answer: War of the Austrian Succession

6. Identify the stage of mitosis from a description for ten points each.

a) The chromosomes move toward the center of the spindle. At several points during this phase, the arms unwind from each other.

Answer: metaphase

b) The chromosomes begin to undergo major coiling and the chromosomes no longer occupy a discrete zone in the cell.

Answer: prophase

c) The final phase, the final boundaries form and two cells now exist.

Answer: telophase

7. FTPE, stuff about an author:

a) In 1993 she became the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her novels include Sula, Jazz, and Song of Solomon

Answer: Toni Morrison

b) In this Morrison novel, the former slave Sethe and her family are haunted first by an abusive ghost, then by a manipulative stranger, both of whom they believe to be the returning spirit of the baby Sethe had killed.

Answer: Beloved

c) Morrison’s first novel, it centers around Pecola Breedlove, a girl convinced that whiteness is beautiful and she is ugly.

Answer: The Bluest Eye

8. For ten points each -- given symphonic poems, name the composer.

(10) “Night on Bald Mountain”

Answer: Modest Mussorgsky

(10) “The Pines of Rome”

Answer: Ottorino Respighi

(10) “Ma Vlast”, which includes a movement often performed alone under the name “The Moldau”

Answer: Bedrich Smetana

9. For five points each, name the capital of the given country.

a) Portugal

Answer: Lisbon

b) The Philippines

Answer: Manila

c) Kenya

Answer: Nairobi

d) Bangkok

Answer: Thailand

e) Qatar [KAH-ter]

Answer: Doha [or al-Dawhah]

f) Vanuatu

Answer: also Vanuatu

10. Name the American president, given who he defeated to win his first term in office FTPE or from the year for 5:.

(10) George Bush the elder

(5) 1992

Answer: William Jefferson Clinton

(10) James G. Blaine

(5) 1884

Answer: (Stephen) Grover Cleveland

(10) Both William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt

(5) 1912

Answer: (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson

11. Answer these questions about electrical circuits for ten points each.

a) This law states that the voltage in a circuit equals the current times the resistance.

Answer: Ohm’s Law

b) The current is constant in this type of circuit, in which electricity flows through two resistors in sequence.

Answer: series

c) Conversely, in a parallel circuit, this value from Ohm’s Law has a constant value.

Answer: voltage

12. The University of Illinois men’s basketball team came within 4.9 seconds of finishing the regular season with a perfect record. Answer the following related questions for ten points each.

a) Name the last Division I team undefeated for the full season and NCAA tournament, a Big-10 team that did it in 1976.

Answer: Indiana University

b) Now coach at Texas Tech, this man was the coach of the Hoosiers in 1976.

Answer: Robert “Bobby” Knight

c) Ironically, it was this school, Knight’s alma mater, who dealt the Illini that lone defeat on March 6.

Answer: The Ohio State University

13. For ten points each, name these battles from the Hundred Years’ War from descriptions.

a) During the second English invasion of France, English bowmen unexpectedly clobbered mail-clad French knights in this 1346 battle.

Answer: Crecy

b) In 1356 the English invaded again and their archers won a major victory here under Edward the Black Prince.

Answer: Poitiers

c) After sixty years of war and peace, in 1415 Henry V defeated a much larger French force.

Answer: Agincourt

14. Ah, the ever-cheery Franz Kafka. Twitch with paranoia as you name these Kafka works FTPE:

a) Titorelli, the magistrates’ painter, tells bewildered bank clerk Joseph K. he has three options on how to address unnamed charges: he can try for actual acquittal (which never happens), apparent acquittal (which only brings on other proceedings), or Protraction, where the case is kept at the lowest level but must be watched carefully.

Answer: The Trial (or Der Prozess)

b) K. has been summoned as a land surveyor but is never allowed to do his work and is spied on and treated as a threat to… well, someone or something.

Answer: The Castle (or Das Schloss)

c) The saga of Karl Rossmann, which features lots of beatings and false accusations, is only finished as far as the chapter about the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Kafka told one friend that it would be the last chapter and would end with Karl finding a job and his parents, but his notes indicate that he was also considering ending it with Karl’s execution.

Answer: Amerika (or Der Verschollene)

15. FTPE name the female artist from works:

10) Louise Feeding Her Child, Mother and Child, The Child’s Bath

Answer: Mary Cassatt

10) Making Apple Butter, Sugaring-Off

Answer: Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses

10) Miscarriage in Detroit; The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, and Senor Xolotl

Answer: Frida Kahlo

16. Given the description of a Chinese official, name the official for ten points each.

a) He created the Nationalist government on mainland China during the 1920s. He was later forced to flee to the island of Taiwan.

Answer: Chiang Kai-shek

b) The polar opposite of Chiang, he was the leader of the Communist uprising that overthrew the Nationalist government.

Answer: Mao Zedong [or Mao Tse-Tung]

c) Before Chiang and Mao, this so-called “father of modern China” was the first provisional president of the republic.

Answer: Sun Yat-Sen [or Sun Yixian]

17. For ten points each, answer the following about a particular French author.

1. First identify this prolific short story writer of the late 19th century, who studied law, served in the army, and contracted syphilis before becoming famous with Des Vers (day vair), or Some Poems.

Answer: Guy de Maupassant

2. This Guy de Maupassant story tells the tale of Mathilde Loisel's long struggle to replace a lost necklace of diamonds that, in the end, turned out to be a cheap imitation anyway.

Answer: "The Necklace"; accept "The Diamond Necklace" or "La Parure"

3. This other story with a titular object has the man pick it up and be accused of the theft of a pocketbook by a spiteful harness-maker.

Answer: "The Piece of String"; accept "La Ficelle"

18. Fun with particle physics for ten points each.

a) How many different “flavors” of quarks are there?

Answer: six

b) What spin number do quarks have, making them fermions?

Answer: one-half

c) Because they are fermions, quarks are also subject to what principle stating that no two quarks can occupy the same location in space? It is more commonly associated with the quantum numbers of electrons.

Answer: Pauli Exclusion principle

19. Identify the following figures important to the development of psychology, FTPE.

1. He founded the field of analytic psychology and introduced the ideas of introvert and extrovert as well as the collective unconscious.

Answer: Carl Gustav Jung

2. He studied with Jung and created his theory of "genetic epistemology" which specified a timetable of childhood development.

Answer: Jean Piaget

3. This German-born American psychologist argued that there are identity crises which are necessary to overcome in order to proceed to the next stage psychosocial development.

Answer: Erik Erikson

20. Answer the following about a computer science construct for ten points each.

a) What sorting technique is used when a function looks at an array, 2 elements at a time, and then swaps the elements if they are out of order?

Answer: bubble sort

b) Assume that n is the number of elements in an array. In the worst case, how many swaps will a bubble sort make? Give your answer in terms of n.

Answer: n squared

c) In order for the worst case for a bubble sort to occur, what property must the numbers have before the sort begins?

Answer: they are in reverse order (accept equivalents)

21. Identify the following craft materials for ten points each.

a) This hard, semi-translucent white ceramic is sometimes referred to as china.

Answer: Porcelain

b) This steel alloy was famed for its use in sword making in the Middle East between the 10th and 17th centuries, after which the method of its creation was lost and still has not been rediscovered. Swords made from it can be identified by their distinctive surface patterns.

Answer: Damascus Steel

c) This natural fiber was once a staple of international trade until the secret of its creation spread from China.

Answer: Silk

22. For ten points each, answer the following about the work of social psychologist Irving Janis.

a) Janis coined this term in 1972, the process by which a group of intelligent individuals could make bad or irrational decisions.

Answer: groupthink

b) Indicative of groupthink is this symptom, where the individuals overestimate the degree to which others agree with him.

Answer: false consensus effect

c) One method of preventing groupthink is the institution of this, where one member is assigned to present a counterargument to decisions made. It need not be Al Pacino or Keanu Reaves.

Answer: devil’s advocate

BONI – ROUND EIGHT DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: Yes, it’s another map, but this time there’s a twist. You are about to be handed a map of the 48 contiguous U.S. states. For 5 points each, for the state marked with each letter shown, name that state’s capital. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Salem; (b) Carson City; (c) Lincoln; (d) Des Moines; (e) Jefferson City; (f) Tallahassee

2. Name the allotrope of carbon given a description, FTPE.

1. Layers of carbon atoms bonded in six-membered rings with pi bonding between layers.

Answer: graphite

2. Sixty carbon atoms covalently bonded in an approximately spherical shape.

Answer: buckminsterfullerenes or buckyballs

3. Repeated tetrahedral units of covalently bonded carbon atoms.

Answer: diamond

3.Given works, identify the American author for 10 points each. If you need a more common work, you will get 5 points.

10) Something Happened; God Knows

5) Catch-22

Answer: Joseph Heller

10) Player Piano; Breakfast of Champions

5) Slaughter-house Five

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

10) Meridian; The Temple of My Familiar

5) The Color Purple

Answer: Alice Walker

4. He was minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives on October 11, 1973. For ten points each.

1. Name this representative from Michigan.

Answer: Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.; accept Leslie Lynch King, Jr

2. The next day, Nixon appointed Ford to the post of Vice President, to replace this man who had pled no contest to a charge of tax evasion.

Answer: Spiro Theodore Agnew; accept Spiro Anagnostopoulos

3. In 1976, Ford became the first sitting president to be defeated for re-election since this man lost in 1932.

Answer: Herbert Clark Hoover

5. The golden age of British art began… OK, so there wasn’t one. Name the British artists from works FTPE:

a) Marriage a la Mode, Harlot’s Progress

Answer: William Hogarth

b) Calais Pier, Rain Steam and Speed

Answer: J.M.W. Turner

c) Salisbury Cathedral, The Haywain

Answer: John Constable

6. Identify the following about a subatomic particle for ten points each.

1. Discovered in 1946 by Carl Anderson, it has an average lifetime of 2.2 microseconds and decays into an electron, a neutrino, and an antineutrino via the weak nuclear force. It has a mass of 106 MeV, 200 times greater than that of an electron but 17 times less than that of a tau.

Answer: muon

2. Muons are one of the six types of this category of particles, which, in contrast to hadrons, are not affected by the strong nuclear force and are not composed of quarks.

Answer: leptons

3. Leptons are themselves one of the types of this broader category of particles, characterized by half-integral spins and obedience to the Pauli exclusion principle.

Answer: fermions

7. For ten points each, which author created.

1. The House of the Seven Gables, about the residence of the Pyncheon family?

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. The House of Bernarda Alba, a play in which only female characters appear on stage?

Answer: Federico Garcia Lorca; prompt on "Lorca"

3. The House of Mirth, about the downfall of Lily Bart?

Answer: Edith Wharton; accept Edith Newbold Jones

8. For ten points each, answer these questions about the United Nations.

a) All nations receive equal representation in this broad-based body, site of most of the public debate within the UN.

Answer: General Assembly

b) Responsible for maintaining peace and security in the world, this smaller 15-member body wields the real power.

Answer: Security Council

c) Headquartered in Paris, this specialized United Nations agency promotes world peace through free exchange of ideas.

Answer: UNESCO [or United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization]

9. Given a description of a snack food from , name the snack cake FTPE.

10) “Chocolate cake rolled around a layer of creme filling and drenched with fudge coating.”

Answer: Swiss Cake Rolls

10) “A delicious yellow cake with creme filling covered in white icing and trimmed with fudge stripes.”

Answer: Zebra Cakes

10) “A chewy cookie topped with caramel and crisp rice then covered in a layer of fudge.”

Answer: Star Crunch

10. I’ll give you a number; on a 5-10-20-30 basis, you give its equivalent in Roman numerals. 10 seconds per part.

1. 555

Answer: DLV

2. 167

Answer: CLXVII

3. 479

Answer: CDLXXIX

4. 2763

Answer: MMDCCLXIII

11. FTSNOP, name the country in which the following Cabinet changes took place in the past 12 months:

1. (5 points) King Gyanendra sacked the entire cabinet and declared a state of emergency. The country is still reeling from the assassination of the previous monarch, Birendra, by his son, Crown Prince Dipendra.

Answer: Kingdom of Nepal

2. (10 points) President Chen Shui-bian chose Frank Hsieh to head the new cabinet after all 20 members of the previous one resigned in January.

Answer: Taiwan; or the Republic of China; do not accept "People's Republic of China"

3. (10 points) Andy Scott replaced Denis Coderre as Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians.

Answer: Canada

4. (5 points) The nine new cabinet members named already in 2005 include Carlos Gutierrez and Alberto Gonzales.

Answer: United States of America; accept either underlined portion, or equivalents

12. Name these living members of family Hominidae for ten points each.

1. Genus Pongo contains the Bornean and Sumatran species of this ape.

Answer: orangutan; or orangutang

2. Genus Pan contains the common and pygmy types of this ape.

Answer: chimpanzee

3. Found in the Congo south of the Congo River, the pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, is known by this six-letter name.

Answer: bonobo

13. Identify the following Canterbury Tales, FTPE.

(10) A knight can only save his life by finding out what it is that women want most of all. When an old ugly widow tells him the secret: that women want power over men, he is forced to marry her for saving his life.

Answer: The Wife of Bath's Tale

(10) The cock Chanticleer dreams of death and speaks fear; his wife the hen Pertelote laughs in his face. Indeed Chanticleer gets abducted by a fox because of his vanity for his voice, but he narrowly escapes.

Answer: The Nun's Priest's Tale

(10) This unfinished tale was broken off because it was so foul. It follows the young prentice Perkin who leaves his master to engage in stealing, gambling, and other jovial activities, marrying a wife who fed herself through prostitution.

Answer: The Cook's Tale; accept equivalents, e.g. chef's tale

14. Name the speakers of these famous quotations for ten points each.

a) “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Answer: Patrick Henry

b) “The Union, next to our liberty most dear! May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the states and distributing equally the benefit and the burden of the Union?”

Answer: John Calhoun

c) “I have not yet to begun to fight.”

Answer: John Paul Jones

15. FTSNOP, name these adversaries of everyone’s favorite mustached Italian plumber, Mario.

For 5: This ghost appears in a great variety of Mario titles, including Paper Mario, Super Mario Kart, and Mario Tennis.

Answer: Boo

For 10: This newcomer is the lanky evil counterpart of Luigi who wears blue instead of green and is Wario’s counterpart in games such as Mario Power Tennis and the Mario Party games.

Answer: Waluigi

For 15: This early enemy appears in Super Mario Bros. when he throws Spinies at Mario from his cloud. He has since helped Mario and gang out by being a camera man in Super Mario 64 and putting fallen players back on the racetrack in Super Mario Kart.

Answer: Lakitu

16. Answer these questions about Nobel prizes in physiology or medicine FTPE:

1. This Russian physiologist won a 1904 Nobel in physiology or medicine -- not for discovering classical conditioning and laying the foundation for behavioral psychology, but for his research on gastric juices.

Answer: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

3. Robert Koch was awarded the 1905 prize for his research into the bacteria that causes this disease, while Selman Waksman won in 1952 for discovering streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against it.

Answer: tuberculosis

3. Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz shared a 1949 Nobel Prize for developing this now-discredited surgical procedure, although he was later paralyzed by a gunshot from patient who had undergone it.

Answer: (prefrontal) lobotomy; prompt on "psychosurgery"

17. Identify the following works of T. S. Eliot from (incomplete) lines, FTPE.

(10) "Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky."

Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

(10) "We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw."

Answer: The Hollow Men

(10) "Weialala leia / Wallala leialala ... Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. / Shantih."

Answer: The Waste Land

18. Answer the following questions about Martin Luther, for ten points each.

a) Luther was a professor at this German university when he posted his 95 theses.

Answer: Wittenberg

b) In 1521, what church conference outlawed Luther’s beliefs?

Answer: Diet of Wurms

c) Luther suffered a loss of popular appeal in Germany for his stout opposition to this 1524-25 war, a revolt that his own spirit of independence had helped to foster.

Answer: Peasants’ War

19. Answer the following questions about the Belgian Congo for ten points each.

a) This famous but ruthless explorer, better known for his successful search for Dr. David Livingstone, was hired by King Leopold to lead the effort to set up the colony, and later became a leading consultant for its affairs and development.

Answer: Henry Morton Stanley

b) Upon independence, the Belgian Congo was renamed this, the French version of the name of a major tributary of the Congo River.

Answer: Zaire

c) This man, notorious for his exploitation of the country and its people to become one of the world’s richest men and elected upon the murder of his chief rival, was the first president and dictator of Zaire.

Answer: Joseph Mobutu, or Mobutu Sese Seku

20. Answer some of these things having to with a certain composer for ten points each.

1. This composer studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and wrote the ballet scores for Petrushka and The Firebird.

Answer: Igor Stravinsky

2. Both Petrushka and The Firebird were written for this organization centered in Paris and run by Sergei Diaghilev.

Answer: Ballets Russes; last "es" is silent

3. Later in life, Stravinsky introduced his student Robert Craft to the twelve-tone serial music of this composer of Pierrot lunaire.

Answer: Arnold Schoenberg

21. Name the following philosophers from works on a 15-5 basis.

1. (15 points) A Theologico-Political Treatise, On the Improvement of the Understanding, Principles of Cartesian Philosophy.

(5) The Ethics, Hebrew Grammar.

Answer: Benedictus de Spinoza; or Baruch Spinoza; or Bento (de) Spinoza

2. (15) Human, All Too Human; Untimely Meditations.

(5) The Antichrist, The Gay Science.

Answer: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

22. Identify these terms related to cellular division, FTPE.

1. This term refers specifically to the process of nuclear division that produces two nuclei each containing a number chromosomes equal to that of the original nucleus.

Answer: mitosis

2. This term refers to the division of cytoplasm between the parent and daughter cells.

Answer: cytokinesis

3. Taken together, the stages of mitosis and cytokinesis are referred to as this stage, the shortest part of the cell cycle.

Answer: M stage

BONI – ROUND NINE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. VISUAL BONUS: Presumably none of you were alive in 1982, but take from your genial quizmaster, the world was a pretty scary place back then. You are about to be handed a page with pictures of six world leaders who contributed to that scariness. Name each person pictured for 5 points each. You have 15 seconds to begin your answer.

Answers: (a) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; (b) Deng Xiaoping [or Teng Tsiao-Ping]; (c) Leonid Brezhnev; (d) Yasir Arafat; (e) Margaret Thatcher; (f) Ronald Reagan

2. For ten points each, identify the following about a certain building.

a) Located on 23rd street in New York City, it became the home of many famous writers, artists and musicians since it became a hotel in 1905. A stay there inspired a Joni Mitchell song, which in turn inspired a future President and First Lady when they chose their child’s name.

Answer: Chelsea Hotel

b) In the 1920’s this man, the author of “The Ransom of Red Chief” would visit the Chelsea Hotel, signing in under a different name each time.

Answer: O. Henry or William Sydney Porter

c) In 1953 this poet uttered the famous quote, “After 39 years, this is all I’ve done” while at the Chelsea hotel, before dying soon after. Apparently that was the most rage he could muster against the dying of the light.

Answer: Dylan Thomas

3. Cryptozoology is fun. Identify the following allegedly real creatures FTPE.

(10) The head and hooves of a horse. The wings of a bat. The tail of a snake. Oh, and the local hockey team is named after it.

Answer: Jersey devil

(10) Huge glowing red eyes which appeared to be set into its chest. Large wings. 2002 movie.

Answer: Mothman

(10) A cross between a kangaroo, a gargoyle, and a space alien, supposedly responsible for the draining of the blood of various farm animals in Puerto Rico in 1995. This gave it its name, Spanish for "goatsucker."

Answer: El Chupacabras

4. Given a definition, name the term from solution chemistry, FTPE.

1. This measurement is the number of moles of solute dissolved in one liter of solution.

Answer: molarity NOT molality

2. This process determines the molarity of a solution by reacting quantities of it with a known concentration of another reactant and monitoring the resulting pH.

Answer: titration

3. This law states that vapor pressure is proportional to the mole fraction of the solvent in a solution.

Answer: Raoult's law

5. FTPE, name the French artist from the given paintings.

1. The Raft of the Medusa and a series depicting mental patients.

Answer: Theodore Gericault

2. Women of Algiers, Liberty Leading the People

Answer: Eugene Delacroix

3. The Death of Marat, The Death of Socrates

Answer: Jacques-Louis David

6. Identify the following people involved in the Battle of Gettysburg for the stated number of points.

5) The battle was this Confederate general’s second attempt (after Antietam) at invading Union territory.

Answer: Robert E. Lee

15) Lee gave the task of attacking the Union’s weak right flank to this one-legged replacement for Stonewall Jackson.

Answer: Richard Ewell

10) This major general led the final, futile Confederate assault on the Union center at Cemetery Hill.

Answer: George Pickett

7. Answer these related questions for ten points each.

a) This novel pits mental patient Randall McMurphy against the tyrannical Nurse Ratchet.

Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

b) Who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

Answer: Ken Kesey

c) What character is the narrator of the novel?

Answer: Chief Bromden

8. Given the following values, identify the constants related to physics for ten points each.

a) 6.67 times ten to the negative eleventh power.

Answer: Gravitational Constant

b) 8.85 times ten to the negative twelfth power.

Answer: Permittivity of Space Constant

c) 8.99 times ten to the ninth power.

Answer: Coulomb’s Constant

9. Russia borders an awful lot of countries. In Europe, it borders 5. Name them, getting 5 points for each correct nation plus a 5 point bonus for getting all of them.

Answer: Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland

10. Given a brief description, FTPE name these X-Files characters who weren’t Mulder or Scully:

a. Played by Mitch Pileggi, he began as an opponent to the X-Files but he eventually became one of Mulder and Scully’s few allies. As Assistant Director, he was able to get the agents out of trouble.

Answer: Walter Skinner

b. Played by Robert Patrick, he joined the show late in its run to help find the missing Mulder. He was briefly in charge of the X-Files. Though he was skeptical of the paranormal, he did what was needed to help Scully. The mystery of his son’s murder was revealed in an episode.

Answer: John Doggett

c. Played by William B. Davis, this nemesis of Mulder and Scully was seen frequently, but until late in the series little was known about him. In fact, actual name was not learned until later seasons; he was identified by a constant prop.

Answer: either CGB Spender or Cigarette Smoking Man (also accept Cancer Man)

11. Answer these questions on parts of a flower:

(10) The flower's pollen is produced by these male reproductive organs, each consisting of a filament and an anther.

Answer: stamen

(10) The outermost part of the flower is the calyx, consisting of these leaf-like projections which are usually tougher and less colorful than the petals.

Answer: sepals

(10) Some flowers secrete this sugary liquid to attract pollinators.

Answer: nectar

12. Name the poem from its opening lines FTPE. If you need the poet, you only get five.

[10] “Though still unravished bride of quietness!” “Thou foster child of silence and slow time”

[5] John Keats

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” [accept but gently admonish them if they say “Ode To a Grecian Urn”]

[10] “It was many and many year ago, In a kingdom by the sea”

[5] Edgar Allan Poe

“Annabel Lee”

[10] “By the shores of Gitche Gumee/ By the shining big sea waters / Stood the wigwam of Nokomis”

[5] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Song of Hiawatha” [sometimes excerpts are published under just “Hiawatha” so that’s OK]

13. The U.S. presidential election of 1948 remains one of the most fascinating. FTPE name these key players:

a) While he’d been defeated by FDR in 1944, this Governor of New York and GOP nominee was considered the sure winner from the outset, so much so that he spent his entire campaign talking about unity and preparing to take office.

Answer: Thomas E. Dewey

b) Democratic incumbent Harry Truman saw some of his likely liberal support – over 1 million votes, or 2.4% of the total popular vote -- siphoned off by this candidate of the Progressive Party, who was still bitter that he’d been dumped after one term as FDR’s Vice President in favor of Truman.

Answer: Henry A. Wallace

c) Truman pulled off the miracle come-from-behind victory despite losing four usually Democratic states in the South by pushing for a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. Their 39 electoral votes and another 2.4% of the popular vote went to this candidate of the States Rights Party, or Dixiecrats.

Answer: Strom Thurmond

14. Answer these related questions on Greek Mythology FTPE.

a) This woman was transformed into a cow by Zeus to help her avoid Hera’s wrath. Hera sent the gadfly to torment her.

Answer: Io

b) Io ran into this Titan while he was chained onto a mountain. He was there by punishment for bringing humans the gift of fire.

Answer: Prometheus

c) Zeus crafted this woman to be man’s punishment. She had a box filled with woes that she accidentally let loose upon all of mankind.

Answer: Pandora

15. FTPE, do the following modulus problems, also known as find the remainder. You have 10 seconds per part.

56 mod 3.

Answer: 2.

127 mod 13.

Answer: 10.

365 mod 7.

Answer: 1.

16. Identify these theologians of the High Middle Ages, FTPE.

(10) This Dumb Ox, the Angelic Doctor, wrote a theological survey of all of knowledge, putting God at the apex of a hierarchy of abstractions and demonstrating that reason and faith could not be in conflict, the Summa Theologica.

Answer: Thomas Aquinas

(10) This Italian wrote Cur Deus Homo? i.e. "Why Did God Become Man?" giving a reasonable explanation to show why the Son of God had been incarnated as a man to save mankind.

Answer: Anselm

(10) This Parisian wrote Sic et Non, i.e. "Yes and No," a collection of inconsistent statements made by Fathers of the Curch, applying logic to show wherein the truth of Christian doctrine really lay.

Answer: Peter Abelard

17. Name these people associated with Charlemagne FTPE.

A. This king of the Franks is noted for introducing European coinage in addition for being the father of Charlemagne.

Answer: Pepin the Short (or Pepin III)

B. After Charlemagne intervened when this pope was deposed, he repaid the favor by making him Holy Roman Emperor.

Answer: Leo III

C. This nephew of Charlemagne fought with him in his conquest of Spain and has a French epic poem named after him detailing his tragic fall to the Moors.

Answer: Roland [accept Orlando]

18. Answer these questions about dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (poh-kuh-LAN) FTPE.

A. Poquelin went by this pen name, under which he wrote The Bourgeois Gentleman and The Imaginary Invalid.

Answer: Moliere

B. Moliere is probably best known for the creation of this title figure, a hypocritical and conniving man of god who tries to take Orgon’s home and daughter.

Answer: Tartuffe

C. The title character of this work is Alceste, who loves Celimene, but eventually quits society to become a hermit.

Answer: The Misanthrope

19. Answer the following about Tupac Shakur, FTPE.

1. The head of Death Row Records was driving the car the night Tupac was shot. Name him.

Answer: Suge Knight

2. His mother Afeni belonged to this militant organization, co-founded by a man referred in Tupac’s songs as “Huey.”

Answer: Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

3. One of his best-known movie roles was as Bishop in this 1992 movie set in Harlem.

Answer: Juice

20. This is an intelligence question FTPE.

(10) Give the two letter term for the measure typically used to try to quantify what we mean when we say someone is smart.

Answer: Intelligence Quotient

(10) This French psychologist developed the IQ in 1904 in response to a request for a measure for predicting which youngsters would succeed and which would fail in primary school in Paris.

Answer: Alfred Binet

(10) Revision of the Binet test for a numerical index was made by Lewis Terman, a psychologist of this university in Palo Alto, California.

Answer: Leland Stanford Junior University

21. Answer the following about an organ, FTP each.

A. What organ of the human body is principally supplied by the renal artery?

Answer: kidney

B. What is the functional unit of the kidney? Its name resembles that of the term for study of the kidney.

Answer: nephron (the field is "nephrology")

C. One filter in the kidney is at the junction of the glomerulus and what structure, which encapsulates the glomerulus?

Answer: Bowman's capsule

22. Name these concepts from quantum mechanics for ten points each.

1. In quantum mechanics, observables are represented by this mathematical construct.

Answer: operators

2. All operators are of this type.

Answer: Hermitian

3. All allowed wavefunctions are elements of this infinite-dimensional vector space.

Answer: Hilbert space or L2

BONI – ROUND TEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. Name these Northern European artists from works FTPE:

b) Laughing Cavalier, Officers of the Militia Company of St. George

Answer: Frans Hals

c) Ghent Altarpiece, Arnolfini Wedding

Answer: Jan van Eyck [pronounced eck but accept ike or other reasonable attempts]

d) Syndics of the Cloth Guild, The Night Watch

Answer: Rembrandt van Rijn

2. FTPE, given a Vice President who served under him, name the 20th century U.S President.

a) James S. Sherman

Answer: William Howard Taft

b) John Nance Garner

Answer: Franklin Roosevelt [accept FDR]

c) Walter Mondale

Answer: James Earl “Jimmy” Carter

3. Your eye is tuned to wavelengths between 400 and 700 nanometers, the optical spectrum. Given a description, identify these other classes of electromagnetic radiation FTPE:

a) Black holes and neutron stars emit in this high-energy band, used to study crystal structures, and for medical scans.

Answer: X-ray

b) Photons in this energy range can break chemical bonds, including those in DNA. Reactions in the stratosphere with oxygen produce ozone.

Answer: ultraviolet or UV

c) They are generated by Klystrons and magnetrons. Devices that communicate using 2.4 gigahertz and 5.4 gigahertz operate in this band. They can heat water through dielectric heating.

Answer: microwave

4. Had enough Shakespeare today? Too bad. Identify the Shakespeare play from quotes FTPE:

a) “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”

Answer: Othello

b) “This day is called the feast of Crispian; / He that outlives this day and comes safe home, / Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, / And rouse him at the name of Crispian.”

Answer: Henry V

c) “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

5. Given the mountain, identify the country of its location for ten points each.

a) Kilimanjaro

Answer: Tanzania

b) Kosciusko

Answer: Australia

c) Aconcagua

Answer: Argentina

6. Name the films FTPE.

(10) Two detectives played by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman capture John Doe, a psychopath who kills people for committing the deadly sins.

Answer: Seven

(10) In this Akira Kurosawa film, four of the title warriors give their lives to save their village, under attack by bandits.

Answer: Seven Samurai; or Shichinin no samurai

(10) A knight plays chess against death while people around them die of the plague in this Ingmar Bergman film. Answer: The Seventh Seal; or Det sjunde inseglet (but I doubt anyone will say this)

7. Answer the following questions about Chairman Mao:

(10) Mao and his forces trekked north through China on this year-long journey to evade Nationalist forces.

Answer: the Long March

(10) This plan to jump-start China as an economic power ordered collectivization of agriculture, and lots of small-scale industrial projects like backyard furnaces for smelting steel.

Answer: the Great Leap Forward

(10) After Mao's death, this group of three Shanghai party bosses and his wife tried to seize power and have Deng Xiaoping purged, but they failed and were given this insulting nickname.

Answer: the Gang of Four

8. FTSNOP name these works by James Thurber:

a) (5 pts.) Mundane events in real life trigger the vivid adventure fantasies of a henpecked husband.

Answer: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

b) (10 pts.) Although considerable literary license is taken, this 1933 collection of stories dealing with Thurber’s youth in Columbus, Ohio, is the closest thing he had to an autobiography.

Answer: My Life and Hard Times

c) (15 pts.) In this 1940 gem, another henpecked husband pretends to have seen a nonexistent animal in order to provoke his wife into calling the guys in the white coats. He then feigns ignorance, she gets hysterical, and she gets carted away instead. This is one of only three times in all of Thurber’s work where a man triumphs over a woman.

Answer: “The Unicorn in the Garden”

9. Answer the following about electron orbitals, FTPE.

(10) No orbital may be occupied by more than two electrons and the electrons must differ in the orientation of their intrinsic angular momentum. This is a consequence of what principle?

Answer: Pauli Exclusion Principle

(10) By this rule, degenerate orbitals are first occupied by one electron each, all of these having the same spin. Answer: Hund's Rule

(10) The process of adding electrons one by one to the orbitals, starting with those of lowest energy, is known as this principle, German for build up.

Answer: Aufbau Principle

10. Answer the following about Ajax for ten points each.

1. Two warriors named Ajax fought for Greece during the Trojan war. They are often called the greater and the lesser but their fathers are also used to distinguish them. Name either of their fathers.

Answer: Oileus; or Telamon

2. Ajax the lesser later raped this woman who had been given the gift of prophesy by Apollo.

Answer: Cassandra

3. Ajax the greater quarreled with this other Greek over the armor of Achilles, going mad after losing the armor.

Answer: Odysseus; do not accept "Ulysses"

11. Name some of these things having to do with the end of the Civil War for ten points each.

1. This bill passed by the Radical Republicans called for the appointment of a provisional governor in the Southern states and required a majority of males to pledge allegiance to the Union. It was pocket vetoed by Lincoln.

Answer: Wade-Davis Bill

2. Originally sponsored by Charles Sumner, this government agency oversaw land distribution to former slaves and established an education system for their children among other things.

Answer: Freedman's Bureau

3. This general who marched with W. T. Sherman and fought at Gettysburg was put in charge of the Freedman's Bureau. A historically black college in Washington, D.C., was named for him.

Answer: Oliver O. Howard

12. Pop music lyrics quiz! Five points for the song, five points for the artist:

a) "My shadow's the only one that walks beside me/My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating."

Answers: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" / Green Day

b) "Finally, some one let me out of my cage/Now time for me is nothin' 'cause I'm countin' no age."

Answers: "Clint Eastwood" / Gorillaz

c) "Wish I could read what goes through your mind/Wish you could touch me with the colors of your life." Answers: "Invisible" / Clay Aiken

13. It may have come and gone rather quietly, but your genial quizmaster really enjoyed Fantasia 2000. Given a composition featured or excerpted in that film, name the composer F5PE or 30 for all 5 correct:

a) Pomp and Circumstance

Answer: Edward Elgar

b) Rhapsody in Blue

Answer: George Gershwin

c) Carnival of the Animals

Answer: Camille Saint-Saens

14. For ten points each, which figure from American poetry:

1. has muscles "as strong as iron bands" in a Longfellow work?

Answer: the village blacksmith

2. "enters into Heaven" in a poem by Vachel Linday.

Answer: General William Booth

3. "lived in a pretty how town" in a poem by e. e. cummings?

Answer: anyone

15. You may know your own genus and species, Homo sapiens, but FTPE, give:

a) Phylum

Answer: Chordata or Chordates [prompt on “Vertebrata” or “vertebrates”]

b) Order

Answer: Primates

c) Family

Answer: Hominidae

16. Time for a general literature question. For ten points each, name the writer of.

1. The Inspector General, 1836.

Answer: Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol

2. The General in His Labyrinth, 1989.

Answer: Gabrial Garcia Marquez; prompt on "Marquez"

3. Canto General (heh-neh-RAAL), 1943.

Answer: Pablo Neruda or Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

17. FTPE, given a list of numbers, name the next number in the sequence. You have 10 seconds per part.

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13.

Answer: 21

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19.

Answer: 23

1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28.

Answer: 36

18. In 1765, he was made governor of Bengal. He consolidated the power of the East India Company, and was later criticized for the wealth he amassed. For ten points each.

1. Name this Britisher.

Answer: Robert Clive

2. In 1756, Clive was sent on an expedition in response to an atrocity in which about sixty men were locked in a stifling hot room, killing all but twenty-one of them. What four-word name is commonly given to that room?

Answer: the Black Hole of Calcutta

3. In response to the Black Hole of Calcutta, Clive defeated Siraj-ud-daula at this 1757 battle. He was given a title in the Irish peerage for his victory.

Answer: the Battle of Plassey; Clive was made "First Baron Clive of Plassey" so accept it if they said "Plassey" for part 1

19. Name these bogus theories of physics for ten points each.

1. The predecessor to the modern concept of momentum, the property was though to be imparted to an object placed in motion. It dissipated as the object moved, and when the object ran out of this, it stopped.

Answer: impetus

2. Discussed by Becher and Stahl, it was thought to be the substance that allowed things to burn. Its existence was shown to be unnecessary by Lavoisier, though Priestley believed in it his entire life.

Answer: phlogiston

3. Invented by Gene Ray, this theory holds that every day is actually four simultaneous days. Humans only experience one of these days because they have been "educated stupid."

Answer: time cube (Google this if you've never heard of it!)

20. Given the description, give the name of the god or goddess found in Hinduism for ten points each.

a) The elephant head God. He is the lord of all existing beings.

Answer: Ganesh (a)

b) The monkey deity known for his power and selfless service.

Answer: Hanuman

c) The goddess of knowledge, music, and the creative arts.

Answer: Saraswati (so-ra-swa-ti or so-ro-so-thi)

21. Given a planet or moon, give the primary component of its atmosphere for the stated number of points.

1. (5 points) Venus.

Answer: carbon dioxide or CO_2

2. (10 points) Titan.

Answer: nitrogen or N_2

3. (15 points) Uranus.

Answer: hydrogen or H_2

22. For the fungus among us: Answer the following about edible, nonhallucinogenic mushrooms FTPE.

a) These mushrooms have spongey, honeycomb-like, pointed caps and hollow stems. Tan, yellow, or black, they are used in many kinds of cooking.

Answer: Morel

b) Color ranges from tan to dark brown with tan gills and umbrella shaped caps. Texture is soft and spongey. They are used in many gourmet dishes.

Answer: Shiitake

c) Reaching up to six inches in diameter, usually white or tan with darker gills, they are used as meat substitutes in vegetarian dishes, among other uses.

Answer: Portabella (Portobelle)

BONI – ROUND ELEVEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. Answer the following questions concerning laws that Gustave Kirchhoff developed for ten points each.

a) Kirchhoff’s 1st law states that the sum of this entering a node is equal to the sum of it exiting a node in an electrical circuit.

Answer: current

b) Kirchhoff’s second law states that the directed sum of the electrical potential differences around a circuit must sum to zero, which is in accordance with this law of thermodynamics.

Answer: First Law of Thermodynamics, or law of conservation of energy

c) Unrelated to circuits, Kirchhoff’s law of this states that at thermal equilibrium, the emissivity of a body equals its absorptivity.

Answer: Kirchhoff’s law of Thermal Radiation

2. Name the winners of these NFL Awards for the 2004 season FTPE:

[10] This Colts quarterback won his 2nd straight league MVP Award, this time not shared with anyone else.

Answer: Peyton Manning

[10] This Pittsburgh quarterback was named Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Answer: Ben Roethlisberger

[10] This linebacker, also from Pittsburgh, was named Defensive Player of the Year.

Answer: James Farrior

3. Thornton Wilder stuff FTPE.

[10] Wilder won his first Pulitzer in 1928 for what novel about the lives of those who died in an accident in Peru?

Answer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

[10] Wilder’s play Our Town is set in which U.S. state?

Answer: New Hampshire

[10] Wilder’s play, The Matchmaker, was turned into what musical?

Answer: Hello Dolly

4. FTPE name the artist from works found at the Art Institute of Chicago:

[10] “American Gothic”

Answer: Grant Wood

[10] “Nighthawks”

Answer: Edward Hopper

[10] “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

Answer: Georges-Pierre Seurat

5. Name these people associated with ridiculously long creek names in American history.

A. Chappaquiddick Creek was the site of this politicians’s car-crash that resulted in the death of his passenger, much to the embarrassment of his famous family.

Answer: Ted Kennedy

B. Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, saw this ardent abolitionist and his sons slay five pro-slavery settlers with broadswords.

Answer: John Brown

C. Okay, so it’s actually a river, but this man was known as Tippecanoe for his defeat of Tecumseh near it before going on to be president.

Answer: William Henry Harrison

6. Biblical scholars divide the New Testament into 4 Gospels, 1 History, 21 Epistles, and 1 Apocalypse. FTPE identify which of the following belongs to which group:

[10] I John [Read: “First John”]

Answer: Epistle(s)

[10] John

Answer: Gospel(s)

[10] Hebrews

Answer: Epistle(s)

7. Answer the following questions about hemorrhagic fevers FTPE

a. This virus, named after a tributary of the Congo River, has five strains. The Zaire and Sudan have mortality rates of 90% and 50%, respectively.

Answer: Ebola Virus

b. This virus was first discovered in its namesake German town in 1967 when animal handlers contracted the disease from Green Monkeys. It is endemic to Western Kenya and Uganda.

Answer: Marburg Virus

c. This fever was first noted in a Nigerian city in the Yeserdam River Valley in 1969. Its fatality rate is about 15-20% and kills about 5,000 people annually. Unlike Marburg and Ebola, it is treatable with ribavirin.

Answer: Lassa Fever

8. FTSNOP, answer the following about one of your question writer’s favorite people, Napoleon Bonaparte.

[5] Who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo?

Answer: Arthur Wellesley or Duke of Wellington (either is acceptable)

[10] On which island was Napoleon born?

Answer: Corsica

[5/15] Napoleon was twice exiled to distant islands. For 5 for 1 or 15 for both, name them.

Answers: Elba and St. Helena

9. Book magazine published a list of what they considered the top 100 literary characters of the 20th century. FTPE:

a) Only this novel had three different characters on the list – Atticus Finch, his daughter Scout, and Arthur “Boo” Radley.

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

b) There were a handful of non-human characters on the list, but I can’t give you an exact count because I’m not sure how to classify Gregor Samsa from this Franz Kafka work.

Answer: The Metamorphosis

c) The only sentient spider on the list is the title character of this classic children’s book by E.B. White.

Answer: Charlotte’s Web

10. Rivers for five points each.

1. (15 points) Name the three rivers that meet at Three Forks, Montana, to form the Missouri River for five points each.

Answer: Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin

2. (15 points) Name the two rivers that meet to form the Ohio River and the city in which they meet for five points each.

Answer: Allegheny, Monongahela, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

11. Given the name of a molecule, identify its shape according to the VSEPR model for ten points each.

a) water

Answer: bent

b) methane

Answer: tetrahedral

c) PF5

Answer: trigonal bipyramidal

12. Although Ira Levin has only written seven novels, three of them have titles that have entered the vernacular. For ten points each, answer these questions about them.

1. An especially devilish child might be referred to by the title of this 1967 Levin book, which was turned into a popular film the following year.

Answer: Rosemary's Baby

2. This term for scarily obedient spouses appeared in the title of a 1972 Levin work.

Answer: Stepford wives; accept Stepford wife

3. Opponents of human cloning often invoke the specter of an army of "boys from" this country, after the title of a 1976 Levin novel about an effort to produce a clone of Adolf Hitler.

Answer: Brazil

13. Name the architect from works, FTPE.

(10) Kaufmann House "Falling Water."

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

(10) The Bauhaus building.

Answer: Walter Gropius

(10) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Answer: I. M. Pei

14. Identify these rebel groups from descriptions for ten points each.

1. Formed in 1962 to oppose the regime of Anastasio Somoza, this Nicaraguan group is named for a guerilla leader.

Answer: Sandinistas

2. It claims to be a harmless spiritual movement with influences from Buddhism and Taoism, but the Chinese Government calls it a manipulative cult.

Answer: Falun Gong; or Falun Dafa

3. Che Guevara was a member of this movement, led by Fidel Castro to seize Cuban power in 1959. It is named for the date of an earlier military action.

Answer: 26th of July movement; or Movimiento 26 De Julio 

15. Given a short description, name the work by Isabel Allende FTPE.

a) This verbose novel follows several generations of the del Valle women from Rosa's poisoning and Clara's decision to become a mute to Blanca's forced marriage and Alba's rape. Name this work deeply rooted in Magical Realism.

Answer: The House of the Spirits (La Casa de los espíritus)

b) Allende wrote this work after her young daughter fell into a coma, hoping that someday she would awaken and read this history of her family.

Answer: Paula

c) In what many consider her greatest work; Allende's fictionalized character narrates her own story of triumphing death by assuming numerous identities, representing the plight of Latin American women as a whole. The titular character must put perspective on her relationships with Rolf Carle and Riad Halabi in order to maintain her independent feminism.

Answer: Eva Luna

16. Answer these questions about functions with recursive definitions:

(10) This function is written as an exclamation point, and defined for numbers greater than one as the product of its argument, and the result of the function applied to its argument minus one.

Answer: factorial function

(10) Each term in this series after the second is equal to the sum of the two preceding terms. The series is named for an Italian mathematician.

Answer: Fibonacci series

(10) The i-th of these geometrically named numbers is the sum of the preceding one, and the number i.

Answer: triangular numbers [note: T(1) = 1, T(2) = 3, T(3) = 6...]

17. Jupiter’s four best known moons, also known as the Galilean moons, are: Callisto, Europa, Io, and Ganymede. On a 5-10-20-30 basis, which of these moons:

a. Is the only one to exhibit active volcanism?

Answer: Io

b. Is considered the smoothest object in the solar system, as its surface of water ice is only marred by long, shallow trackways?

Answer: Europa

c. Is the largest of the four, also the largest moon in the solar system, bigger even than the planets Mercury and Pluto?

Answer: Ganymede

d. Is closest to Jupiter, cutting across the planet’s magnetic field, resulting in ions being swept off the planet and into a belt of radiation around it?

Answer: Io

18. FTPE, identify which of the 10 Amendments to the U. S. Constitution contains the following freedoms, guarantees, rights, or protections:

[10] The right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Answer: 1st

[10] Protections against cruel or unusual punishment.

Answer: 8th

[10] The right to keep and bear arms

Answer: 2nd

19. Name these figures involved in a religion for ten points each.

1. The Gathas, or hymns, of the Avesta are attributed to him. Name this founder of a monotheistic religion.

Answer: Zoroaster; or Zarathsutra; or Zartosht

2. The Supreme God of Zoroastrianism, he is revered and worshipped by followers and opposed by Ahriman.

Answer: Ahura Mazda; or Ormuzd; or Spenta Mainyu

3. Born Farrokh Bulsara and of Parsi descent, this Zoroastrian fronted the band Queen.

Answer: Freddie Mercury

20. For ten points each, identify the classic Chinese novel based on the summary. (NOTE: If the Chinese answer is given, accept reasonable pronounciations.)

a) The monk Tangsan Zhang undertakes a pilgrimage to India to retrieve Buddhist scriptures, with the assistance of a monkey, pig, and fish spirit.

Answer: Journey to the West or Xi You Ji (shee yo jee)

b) At the fall of the Han dynasty, Liu Bei swears brotherhood with two heroes, and together they strive to put down the Yellow Turban rebellion.

Answer: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms or San Guo Yian Yi (yan ee)

c) Set in Beijing, the novel chronicles the downfall of the wealthy Jia family.

Answer: The Dream of the Red Chamber or Hong Lou Meng

21. Identify the following about the process of cloning a gene in bacteria for ten points each.

1. This is the term for the small rings of DNA in the bacteria that carry accessory genes separate from those of the bacterial chromosomes, and into which copies of a gene are inserted.

Answer: plasmids

2. Both the plasmid and the human DNA containing the gene are digested using this general type of enzyme, which can cut pieces of foreign DNA molecules in the bacteria at a limited number of specific locations, allowing copies of the gene to base-pair with the plasmids.

Answer: restriction enzymes; or endonucleases

3. This type of enzyme is then used to covalently bond the gene and plamid DNA strands, resulting in recombinant DNA strands. It is also used in natural DNA replication.

Answer: DNA ligase

22. Name the following sculptors for ten points each.

1. A large portion of the Tate Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall, is devoted this woman, whose works include Contrapuntal Forms, The Unknown Political Prisoner, and Three Monoliths.

Answer: Barbara Hepworth

2. One of Hepworth's classmates at Leeds School of Art, his Knife Edge Two Piece now stands outside the Houses of Parliament in London, and his West Wind relief can be seen at St. James Park Underground Station. He may be best known for reclining, abstract, often-blobby human figures.

Answer: Henry Moore

3. This Romanian's sculpture Bird in Space was initially refused entry into the United States because it was thought to be not art but a means of avoiding customs duties on metal.

Answer: Constantin Brancusi

BONI – ROUND TWELVE DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. Identify the following people related to the Six-Day War FTPE.

(a) This man was president of Egypt at the time and led the Arab coalition that massed to attack Israel.

Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser

(b) Currently Israel’s Prime Minister, as commander of the southernmost of the three Israeli divisions on the Egyptian front, he led the attack on Abu-Ageila which led Egypt’s Minister of Defense to order a full retreat from the Sinai.

Answer: Ariel Sharon

(c) This eyepatch-wearing Israeli general was Defense Minister of Israel, and though he did not take part in much of the planning of the war, he spun it to take a great deal of credit for Israeli success.

Answer: Moshe Dayan

2. Name the artists who executed the following works FTPE.

(a) Impression: Sunrise

Answer: Oscar-Claude Monet

(b) Nude Descending a Staircase: No. 2

Answer: Marcel Duchamp

(c) The Voyage of Life series, a landmark work of the Hudson River School.

Answer: Thomas Cole

3. Identify the following parts of a leaf FTPE.

(a) In angiosperms this is the term for the leaf stem.

Answer: petiole

(b) The epidermis is covered with this waxy layer to prevent water loss.

Answer: cuticle

(c) Guard cells control the opening and closing of these pores in the epidermis that enable oxygen and carbon dioxide to transfer between the leaf and the outside.

Answer: stoma or stomata

4. Given a work, name the science fiction author that penned it FTPE.

(a) Ringworld

Answer: Laurence van Cott "Larry" Niven

(b) I, Robot

Answer: Isaac Asimov

(c) Xenocide

Answer: Orson Scott Card

5. Now for some slightly more real literature; name the Jane Austen work of glorified crap from clues FTPE.

(a) Published posthumously, this work tells of Anne Elliot, and her love for Captain Wentworth, whom she originally spurns at her father's request over his poor breeding, but they meet again with the tables turned.

Answer: Persuasion

(b) The first of Austen's novels to be published, it concerns the story of the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

Answer: Sense and Sensibility

(c) The first of her novels to be completed for publication, it is a parody of Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, having Catherine Moreland expect something dark from the title location.

Answer: Northanger Abbey

6. Given a chemical compound, give the charge on sulfur FTPE.

(a) Sulphate

Answer: +6

(b) Sulfur dioxide

Answer: +4

(c) Hydrosulphuric acid

Answer: -2

7. Identify the following African nations from their capitals for five points each.

(a) Cairo

Answer: Egypt

(b) Tripoli

Answer: Libya

(c) Dakar

Answer: Senegal

(d) Addis Ababa

Answer: Ethiopia

(e) Yaoundé

Answer: Cameroon

(f) Asmara

Answer: Eritrea

8. Identify the following authors associated with the Beat generation FTPE.

(a) This author of A Coney Island of the Mind was the proprietor of the City Lights Bookstore, whose publishing company was responsible for publishing many of the early works of the Beat movement.

Answer: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

(b) His poem Howl was banned for its obscenity, but the ban was overturned as it was found that the poem had redeeming social importance.

Answer: Allen Ginsberg

(c) His obsession with drug use, homosexuality and fantasies of extreme criminal acts can be found in such works as Junky and Naked Lunch.

Answer: William Seward Burroughs

9. Given a record held by someone in the NFL and the year they set it, name the player FTPE.

(a) With 205 career TDs, this wide receiver still active in 2004 has 39 more than newly-retired Emmitt Smith in 2nd place.

Answer: Jerry Rice

(b) In 1990 this now-deceased Kansas City linebacker recorded seven sacks against the Seahawks, setting the single-game record. Ironically, he missed an eighth sack that resulted in the Seahawks winning the game.

Answer: Derrick Thomas

(c) This longtime Detroit Lions running back holds the record for most 100 yard rushing games in a season with 14, and is third for both career and single season yards gained, records he would surely have shattered had he not retired at age 30.

Answer: Barry Sanders

10. Answer the following about a particular war FTPE.

(a) Important battles in this war included Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.

Answer: Hundred Years' War

(b) This English king's victory at Agincourt firmly established as the heir of Charles VI of France, whose daughter, Catherine of Valois, he had married. He sided with the Burgundians against the Armagnacs in the civil war that followed.

Answer: Henry V of England

(c) Triggered in part by dismay over French failures but even more by the hardships caused by taxation to support the war effort, this peasant uprising led by Guillaume Kale broke out north of Paris in 1358, but ended the next summer.

Answer: Jacquerie

11. Given a brief description, identify the particle from the standard model FTPE.

(a) Sometimes referred to as the "God particle," it is the hypothetical particle expected to give other particles mass.

Answer: Higgs boson

(b) First postulated by Wolfgang Pauli, its name was coined by Enrico Fermi, while the particle itself was not discovered until 1956 by Reines, whose discovery earned him the 1995 Nobel Prize.

Answer: neutrino

(c) This hypothetical spin-2 boson of zero rest mass is not treated in the Standard Model, and it has not yet been observed due to the weak nature of the force it mediates.

Answer: graviton

12. Baroque composers from works, FTPE.

(a) Canon in D

Answer: Johann Pachelbel

(b) Dido and Aeneas

Answer: Henry Purcell

(c) The Four Seasons

Answer: Antonio Vivaldi

13. Identify the following people who established colonies in the US FTPE.

(a) In the 1730s he managed to get a royal charter to found Georgia as a debtors' colony.

Answer: James Edward Oglethorpe

(b) The colony of Maryland was founded on March 25, 1634, when this man led the first settlers into the area, which became one of the few predominately Catholic regions in the colonies.

Answer: Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (accept Calvert)

(c) In 1636, after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he established the state of Rhode Island.

Answer: Roger Williams

14. Answer the following about a rather unfortunate woman of mythology FTPE.

(a) This woman, the wife of Amphion, made the horrible error of claiming to be superior to Leto, in that she had fourteen children versus Leto's two. Leto's children, Artemis and Apollo, promptly remedied that.

Answer: Niobe

(b) Niobe was a daughter of this fellow, who attempted to feed his son, Pelops, to the gods before being punished with eternal hunger and thirst.

Answer: Tantalus

(c) This deity, distracted by the abduction of her daughter, was the only one to accidentally dine on Tantalus' tainted meal, eating Pelops' shoulder before replacing it with ivory.

Answer: Demeter

15. Name the Italian authors of the twentieth century from clues FTPE.

(a) This recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature and modern practitioner of the commedia dell'arte penned Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

Answer: Dario Fo

(b) One of the leading semioticians, his fiction include Foucault’s Pendulum and The Name of the Rose.

Answer: Umberto Eco

(c) This poet, who shares his name with a famous Victor Hugo character, received the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature, and penned the collections Oboe sommerso, Erato e Apollion and To Give and to Have or Debit and Credit.

Answer: Salvatore Quasimodo

16. Identify the following about an American soldier of World War I FTPE.

(a) He received the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor, as well as various other medals from the French and Italians, for killing 25 Germans and capturing another 132 with just seven other Americans.

Answer: Alvin Cullum York

(b) Promptly promoted to Sergeant, York actually held this rank at the time of his heroic achievement

Answer: corporal

(c) Cpl. York performed these heroics during this battle that began Sept. 26, 1918, and was cut short by the armistice.

Answer: Meuse-Argonne Offensive

17. FTPE, name these terms related to earthquakes.

a. The location where the fault slips and seismic waves start from is known as this location.

Answer: focus or hypocenter

b. The location on the earth’s surface directly above the focus is known as this.

Answer: epicenter

c. This type of seismic wave is the first to arrive after an earthquake. It can travel through solids or liquids, and propagates at a speed of 6 to 13 kilometers per second. These waves cause the ground to move back and forth as it is compressed and decompressed.

Answer: P or primary waves

18. Answer the following things about a certain Middle Eastern religion FTPE.

(a) Founded between 1400 BC and 1200 BC, this monotheistic Persian religion attributes only the Gathas of its holy book to its founder.

Answer: Zoroastrianism or Mazdaism

(b) This is the holy book of Zoroastrianism, which contains the Gathas, and is written in a language closely related to Sanskrit.

Answer: The Avesta or Zend-Avesta

(c) This "Wise Lord" is revered as the benevolent deity of Zoroastrianism, who stands opposed to Ahriman, who according to some accounts is his twin brother.

Answer: Ahura Mazda or Ormuz or Ormuzd

19. Identify the following pieces of software that may be used to solve numerical problems in the sciences and applied mathematics FTPE.

(a) Recently the fourteenth release has been issued, while this software originates to the 1970s, when it was designed by Cleve Moler, and was picked up by MathWorks in 1984.

Answer: Matrix Laboratory (MatLab)

(b) Developed by Stephen Wolfram, this computer algebra system is considered by some to be a chief competitor of MatLab. Originally released in 1988, it is a Lisp-like program whose symbolic manipulation is greatly superior to MatLab's, but whose numerical abilities are more limited than MatLab's.

Answer: Mathematica

(c) The granddaddy of all numerical programs, this programming language, originally developed in the 1950s by John Backus, included a complex number type made especially for the mathematical types.

Answer: Fortran or Formula Translation or Formula Translator

20. Identify the following authors of early Japan FTPE.

(a) During the Nara period this first great Japanese poetry anthology was compiled by the poet Otomo no Yakamochi, circa 759.

Answer: Man'yōshū or Anthology of a Myriad Leaves

(b) The age of classical literature in Japan occurred during the Heian period, in which this woman wrote her Tales of Genji, and forged a rivalry with fellow court member Sei Shonagon.

Answer: Lady Murasaki Shikibu

(c) His travel book The Narrow Road Through the Deep North is a prose description of his travels, interspersed with the haiku that this poet is widely considered as being the master of.

Answer: Matsuo Bashō (accept either) or Matsuo Munefusa

21. Name the man, 30-20-10.

(30) In 1809 he became Professor of History at Grenoble, having by the age of twenty mastered more than twelve languages as well as his native French.

(20) He identified the importance of the Turin King List, and greatly expanded upon the work of Thomas Young, and it was this work for which he is most famous.

(10) From 1822-1824 he worked towards deciphering the Rosetta Stone.

Answer: Jean-François Champollion

22. Given an operator in the C++ programming language, identify what function the operator does for fifteen points each.

a) Two ampersands (&&)

Answer: and (accept “logical and”)

b) The percentage sign (%)

Answer: modulus (accept “mod”)

BONI – ROUND THIRTEEN DENNIS HASKINS OPEN MARCH 2005 (UTC/CWRU)

1. A woman's 1844 poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" mentions another poet, whom she would later marry. FTPE:

1. All or nothing, name both those poets.

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) (accept either underlined name); Robert Browning

2. For ten points, “Lady Geraldine's Courtship” makes explicit reference to what "blood-tinctured" fruit, paired with "bells" in a Robert Browning work?

Answer: pomegranates

3. The American edition of the volume that included "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" had an introduction by this poet, who may have borrowed its trochaic octameter and trochaic heptameter for his most famous work.

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe (the work is "The Raven")

2. FTPE identify the Russian czar:

[10] This czar ruled from 1682 to 1725, stood nearly 7’ tall, won the Great Northern war against Sweden, and attempted to modernize the backward country he inherited.

Answer: Peter the Great [Accept: Peter I]

[10] This czar ruled from 1762 to 1796, took great interest in the French Enlightenment, corresponded with Voltaire, read the works of Montesquieu, and some say loved horses far too much.

Answer: Catherine the Great [Accept: Catherine II or Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst]

[10] This czar ruled from 1801 to 1825, considered himself an enlightened reformer in the early part of his reign, and attended the Congress of Vienna.

Answer: Alexander I

3. Astronomy stuff FTPE:

In the early 20th century the astronomer Vesto Slipher noted that absorption lines in the spectra of most spiral galaxies were longer than those observed from stationary objects. What is the name given to this 'shift' which appears when galaxies or objects are moving further away from our own galaxy?

Answer: Red Shift

In the 1920’s this astronomer noted that the further a galaxy is from the Milky Way, the faster it was moving away. His namesake parameter tells us how fast a galaxy at a given distance is receding from us.

Answer: Edwin Hubble

Although rarely occurring, there is another type of 'shift' which occurs when a galaxy, instead of moving farther away from the Milky Way, is actually moving closer. Perhaps the most famous example is the Andromeda Galaxy,

which exhibits a shift of this color.

Answer: Blue Shift

4. In Greek myth, Heracles was assigned to perform ten labours, but he did twelve because two didn't count. FTP each:

A. Killing this beast didn't count because of help from Iolas, who used a white-hot brand to keep it from regenerating.

Answer: the Hydra of Lerna

B. Involving the use of diverted rivers, which labor was rejected because Heracles performed it in return for payment?

Answer: cleaning the stables of Augeus (accept wide variety of variants) (prompt on "fifth labour")

C. In his first labour, which did count, Heracles strangled what creature and later wore its invincible skin?

Answer: the Nemean lion or lion of Nemea

5. Answer the following about Jacques Offenbach, FTPE.

(10) Offenbach was one of the leading composer for the operetta form. Name the other notable operetta musician, a Viennese who was inspired by Offenbach to write music for his Waltz-filled dramas.

Answer: Johann Strauss, Jr.

(10) Offenbach's most famous operetta is this mythologically inspired work with an overture by Carl Binder. It famously quotes the catchy can-can.

Answer: Orpheus in the Underworld; or Orphee aux enfers

(10) Offenbach's serious unfinished opera was completed by Guiraud. It boasts of a Barbier and Carre libretto based on a set of famous stories.

Answer: The Tales of Hoffman; or Les contes d'Hoffmann

6. Identify these works by Virginia Woolf, FTPE.

(10) The preparations for a party conjures up the title character's experiences at different times in her life.

Answer: Mrs. Dalloway

(10) Multiple perspectives of different characters reveal their relationship to the dead Percival while ten interludes construct the passage of a single day from morning to night.

Answer: The Waves

(10) This essay examines the history of literature written by women and the famous anecdote of Woolf being forbidden entrance to a university library because she was female.

Answer: A Room of One's Own

7. Identify the following neurotransmitters for 10 points each

a) This neurotransmitter is synthesized from the amino acid Tryptophan and is involved with aggression and anxiety.

Answer: serotonin or 5-HT

b) Adrenaline is another name for this neurotransmitter.

Answer: epinephrine

c) Deficits related to this neurotransmitter are responsible for Parkinson’s disease and is also thought to be associated with feelings of reward.

Answer: dopamine

8. Songs from the “Napoleon Dynamite” Sound Track FTPE:

[10] This song by Cyndi Lauper is played when Napoleon and Deb are dancing.

Answer: “Time After Time”

[10] This is the Bette Midler song that Napoleon signs with the Happy Hands Club.

Answer: “The Rose”

[10] This song by “When in Rome” is played over the closing credits.

Answer: “The Promise”

9. For ten points each, identify the following acts concerning Native Americans.

a) Passed in 1830 and signed by Andrew Jackson, this act provided for the exchange of Native American tribal lands for lands west of the US states.

Answer: Indian Removal Act

b) Enacted in 1887, this act divided up reservations into land given to individual tribe reservation members. Though intended by some to help them it primarily served to open up their lands to white settlers.

Answer: Dawes Act

c) Passed in 1924 as part of the New Deal, this act reversed the privatization of lands created by the Dawes Act.

Answer: Indian Reorganization Act

10. He built Vienna's most utilitarian house, a rectangular, gray, piece of slab, but is more famous for writing a numbered treatise while fighting in World War I espousing the logical commonalities of the external world and linguistic representations.

(10) For 10, name him.

Answer: Ludwig Wittgenstein

(10) For another 10, he claims to be the last working member of what profession, whose daily duties are intermingled with head-scratching, finger-pointing, and dining with chopsticks.

Answer: philosophy; or philosopher

(10) Name the work Wittgenstein sent to Bertrand Russell while a prisoner-of-war, a set of propositions beginning with "The world is all that is the case" and ending with "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."

Answer: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; or Treatise on Logical Philosophy; or TLP; or The Tractatus (you need the "The")

11. Never mind title characters; name these works with title buildings from clues FTPE:

a) In fairness, the would-be owner’s name is also included in this whimsical 1961 V.S. Naipaul novel set in Trinidad

Answer: A House for Mr. Biswas

b) Considered the first Gothic novel, any plot summary of this Horace Walpole work sounds ridiculous even before you note that Isabella’s father, is called the Knight of the Gigantic Saber.

Answer: The Castle of Otranto

c) In this E.M. Forster novel, Mrs. Wilcox wills the title residence to Margaret Schlegel, who never learns this but winds up there anyway as the second Mrs. Wilcox. Bad things happen to poor Leonard Bast so the author can denounce society’s hypocrisy.

Answer: Howards End

12. Identify the following figures related to genetics, FTPE.

1. He published the first textbook on Mendelian genetics in 1905, and he worked with William Bateson to discover some of the fundamental processes of Mendelian genetics. His namesake squares show the probable results of genetic crosses.

Answer: Reginald Punnett

2. Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for doing the same X-ray diffraction work that she did. But she died of cancer at age 37, probably costing her a share in the Nobel Prize received by Wilkins, Watson, and Crick.

Answer: Rosalind Franklin

3. This paleontologist and evolutionary biologist worked with Niles Eldredge to create the revision of Darwinism known as punctuated equilibrium.

Answer: Stephen Jay Gould

13. Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time has some interesting choices, but there were some picks that puzzled your question author. Identify the following artists from the list FTSNOP.

5) Only three songs from the list have been released in the 21st century, including Outkast's “Hey Ya!” and two tracks from this artist, “Stan” and “Lose Yourself”.

Answer: Eminem

10) Although your question author thought it was cool that this band's “Pictures of You” was selected, he didn't think it deserved to be over 200 spots higher than “Just Like Heaven.”

Answer: The Cure

10) One intriguing inclusion was the track “Fake Plastic Trees” from the album The Bends, which was of two songs chosen for this list from this band.

Answer: Radiohead

5) This band had three songs on the list, but each one was in ranked in the 300's. Interestingly, none of the songs came from Dark Side of The Moon.

Answer: Pink Floyd

14. For the stated number of points, answer the following about Niagara Falls.

5) The Niagara River that feeds the falls is not actually a river since it runs between two large bodies of water. For five points, what is the correct designation of such a waterway?

Answer: Strait

5/5) For five points each, which two Great Lakes are connected?

Answer: Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

5/5/5) Niagara Falls is actually composed of three separate falls. Name each of them for five points each.

Answer: Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls

15. Identify these South Korean leaders, FTPE.

1. This founder and first president of South Korea was driven from power after a 1960 student uprising.

Answer: Syngman Rhee

2. This major general seized control in October 1979. Elected president in 1981, he would eventually be pardoned after being given the death sentence for his role in the 1979 coup.

Answer: Chun Doo Hwan

3. In 1997, he became the first opposition leader to become South Korea’s president, and he has the same surname as the leader of North Korea.

Answer: Kim Dae Jung

16. Answer the following questions about photosynthesis, FTPE.

1. An atom of this metallic element is at the center of the porphyrin [pour-fur-in] ring in chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b.

Answer: magnesium

2. Photosynthesis could not occur without this effect which (as we noted earlier) was discovered by Heinrich Hertz, and Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for explaining it.

Answer: photoelectric effect

3. In this path, carbon dioxide is taken in through the stoma at night and converted to organic acids. It is used by some water-storing plants such as cacti.

Answer: CAM or crassulacean acid metabolism

17. Literary terms FTPE.

(10) Espoused by Rousseau, it is a pure and honorable primitive human being uncorrupted by society and social values.

Answer: noble savage

(10) Explained in a poem by Kipling, it is a justification for the imperialist aspirations of European nations, to purify and Christianize primitive cultures.

Answer: white man's burden

(10) Exemplified by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, it’s a novel following the development of a young person.

Answer: bildungsroman; or education novel

18. Let’s say that the statement Q implies the statement P. For ten points each, answer the following.

a) What type of assertion is “NOT P implies NOT Q”?

Answer: Contrapositive

b) What type of assertion is “NOT Q implies NOT P”?

Answer: Inverse

c) What type of assertion is “P implies Q”?

Answer: Converse

19. Given a cult from the 20th century, name its infamous leader FTPE:

[10] Branch Davidians

Answer: David Koresh

[10] The People’s Temple

Answer: Jim Jones (James Jones is acceptable)

[10] The Solar Temple

Answer: Luc Journet

20. Name these ballerinas for ten points each.

1. This Native American from the Osage tribe was briefly married to choreographer George Balanchine. She was honored by the Kennedy Center in 1996 for her contributions to dance.

Answer: Maria Tallchief

2. Born Peggy Hookham in England in 1919, this dancer, noted for her partnership with the much younger Rudolf Nureyev, was the most famous British ballerina of the 20th century. She was knighted in 1956.

Answer: (Dame) Margot Fonteyn

3. This red-haired beauty retired at the age of 27 and was often overshadowed by Fonteyn, but film buffs remember her for starring roles in the classic British films "The Red Shoes" and "Peeping Tom."

Answer: Moira Shearer

21. Name these characters from Crime and Punishment, FTPE.

(10) He was the friend of Roskolnikov whose drinking made his wife Katerina Ivanovna drag him by his hair. He dies after being run over. Roskolnikov helps to pay for his funeral and comforts his family.

Answer: Marmelodov

(10) Along with Kolya and Lida, she is a child of Marmelodov. She resorts to prostitution to support the family. Roskolnikov falls in love with her and they endure Siberia together.

Answer: Sonia or Sofya Semyonovna

(10) Roskolnikov confessed to this man, the explosive lieutenant, who earlier started the rumor that Roskolnikov is the culprit when he saw him faint when the police discussed the murder.

Answer: Ilya Petrovich; either name acceptable

22. Name the musical groups FTPE.

(10) Consisting of Milhaud, Honegger, Poulenc, Auric, Durey, and Tailleferre, they admired popular music, rejected romanticism, and honored the Frenchman Eric Satie.

Answer: Les Six

(10) Consisting of Balakirev, Cui, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov, this mighty handful composed nationalist music for Russia.

Answer: The Five

(10) Consisting of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, this school used the 12-tone method of composition to write atonal music.

Answer: The Second Viennese School

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