Subject: PMV questions
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:34:20 -0700
From: Earl Cahill <cahille@slkc.uswest.net>
To: Rob Hentzel <topquark@dmk.org>, Eric Owens <etowens@WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU>,
     Richard Mason <mason@robby.caltech.edu>,
     David Levinson <dmlevins@uclink2.Berkeley.EDU>,
     Fred <tcarpent@sybase.com>,
     Bryce Avery <Avery_Bryce%pax7@mr.nawcad.navy.mil>,
     Asmin Pathare <avp@mvacs.ess.ucla.edu>

Here they are.  I had to wait for a little while so that R.'s questions
could be used at another tourney.  Sorry these are so late.  I am
including all the packets that were submitted to me.  Some are quite
weak.  If the format doesn't work for some of you just let me know.  I
guess I jacked some of the TechLa questions, but I don't really have
time to fix the underlines and I want to send this out right now, so
there you go.

Thanks for writing questions, coming and playing.

Earl

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PMV - Round
January 1998

BYU Perpetual Motion V Pack (Jan. 30, 31 1998)
by Fred Carpenter and David Levinson, University of California at Berkeley

Tossups
1. Like Fossey and Goodall she was mentored by Louis Leakey into primate research.  She has maintained the longest, continuous study of a mammal in the wild with her specialization in orangutans,  instrumental in the rescue and preservation of the orangutan in Indonesia.  For 10 points name the author of 'Reflections of Eden:  My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo'.

Answer:  Birute M.F Galdikas

2.  His films have included Ghost Fever and Solar Crisis,  In Spetember of 1997 the University of Pennsylvania held a clebrity awards ceremony for this director who received a karate trophy. For 10 points name this pseudonym used by film makers to replace their names on film projects they are too embarassed to have connections with.

Answer:   Allan Smithee (note:prompt for full name)

3.  His poem 'Jerusaleum' was put to music in 1820 by Charles Parry while other admirers such as Samuel Palmer, called themselves the Ancients. This English poet and artist became one of the great figres in English Romanticism with such works as America and Milton  For 10 points name this author of Songs of Experience.

Answer:   William Blake
4.  This author was influenced by Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and the 'Wonderful Adventures of Nils' by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof.  Winner of the Akutagawa prize in 1958, this Japanese writer considers himself on the edge of society he is writing about. For 10 points name this winner of the Nobel in Literature 1994 .

Answer:  Kenzaburo Oe

5. Confined to Dublin, 2000 Irish volunteers and a 200 citizen army seized the General Post Office and called to Germany for help.  Patrick Pearse and James Connolly proclaimed a republic, though it was put down with great loss of life by the British a week later.  For 10 points, what is this rebellion led by Sinn Fein in April 1916?

Answer: Easter Rebellion (Rising)

6.  Highway 61 and U.S. 49, an album by Eric Clapton, and a place where suicides are buried to prevent them from coming back as the undead.  For 10 points name this place where deals with the Devil are made and two thoruoughfares intersect.

Answer:   Crossroads

7. Born in Algiers in 1930 to a Sephardic Jewish family, he immigrated to France and became a contributor to Tel Quel, a philosophical journal.  A key figure in the deconstructionist movement, he has been influenced by Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger.  For 10 points, whose works include "Of Grammatology", "Writing and Difference", "Dissemination", and "Margins of Philosophy"?

Answer: Jacques Derrida

8. He was created by associates and collaborators of famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Said to symbolize the terrors of the atomic bomb, this character's first feature film  was the the most expensive film made in 1954, costing $65 million in today's dollars.  For 10 points name this Toho studio phenom whose several rampages through Tokyo have set the standard for radioactive lizards.

Answer:  Godzilla

10. An effective commander at Antietam, despite being wounded, in January 1863, he replaced Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac.  However, he was defeated by Lee at Chancellorsville, where he was again wounded. After defending Baltimore and Washington, he grew angry at General Halleck and asked to be relieved of command. For 10 points, had a rather regrettable name to begin with and during the Peninsular Campaign earned the nickname "Fighting Joe"?

Answer: General Joseph Hooker

11.  This ancient monument was moved in sections for historic preservation between 1966-1967.  Located in Southern Egypt, this site held two temples built by Ramases II in honor of himself and his wife, Nefertari. For 10 points name the temple site that had to moved for the contrstruction of the Aswan Dam.

Answer:   Abu Simbel

12. Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Van Dyck, Rubens, Velasquez, and Rembrandt in painting,  Puget, Coysevox and Berninni in sculpture, Cortona, Longhena  and Wren in architecture J.S. Bach, Handel and Vivaldi in music.  For 10 points name this art period whose name was coined by Swiss historian Jacob Burkhardt as a perjorative meaning bizarre and irregular.

Answer:   Baroque (prompt on an early buzz of Rococo)

13.  An opera within an opera, this piece by Straus and von Hofmannsthal combines a great opera with a commedia del' arte.  Characters such as Zerbinetta, the Dancing Master and conductor, share the stage with Harlequin and scaramouche.  For 10 points name this opera seemingly about Theseus' rejected girlfriend who is rescued by the god, Bacchus.

Answer:   Ariadne of Naxos

14. With his brother Jacques, he discovered piezo-electricity, which they used to build an electrometer and measure small currents.  He then studied the effect of temperature on magnetism, at a certain temperature, ferro-magnetic properties are lost, a point which is named for him.  Perhaps one of the first people to suffer radiation sickness, he died by falling under cab and being kicked by a horse.  For 10 points name this scientist, who with his wife discovered radium and polonium, and was co-awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics?

Answer: Pierre Curie (1859-1906)

15.  Known as Tammuz in Babylonian and Phoenician mythology he is also identified with Osiris in the Egyptian mythos.  This vegetative god is better known to us in his ancient Greek incarnation as a beautiful youth killed by a boar. For 10 points name this lover of the goddess Aphrodite and the source of the anemone.
Answer:   Adonis

16. The key realization was that holes, quantum mechanical entities that were the absence of electrons, carried current through silicon.  The junction version sandwiched n-type electic laden semiconductor material around p-type positively charged holes.  The point-contact variety was developed by Bardeen and Brittain.   For 10 points name this device, whose junction version was developed by Shockley.

Answer:  The Transistor

17. Including Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, Joseph McCarthy, Gerald K. Smith, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Juan Peron, and Joseph Goebbels, they use oratory to gain power.  For 10 points what is this nine letter term which describes individuals who use crises to promote simplistic solutions to complex problems?

Answer: Demogogue

18.  The only President to have Native American blood in his heritage, he attended Amherst and in 1923 became President with his oath administered by his father.  For 10 points name this President born on the 4th of July 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont, successor to the ignonimous Warren G. Harding.
Answer:   Calvin  Coolidge

19. This trading empire of sub-saharan Africa began in the 1st century AD. Located in the northern Ethiopian highlands, its power rose such that by the 4th century it conquered Meroe, a rival empire, and burned that city to the ground. For 10 points, what is this empire which in the 4th century became Christian, thus legitimizing the Coptic Church?

Answer: Axum or the Kush Empire

20. Some 27 kilometers in circumference, it is located just outside Geneva Switzerland.  It housed an electron-positron collider, and a low energy antiproton ring (LEAR),  and now the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the search for the Higgs Boson.  For 10 points What is this European research center?

Answer: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics

21. Sarcastically dubbed the National Flower by critic Lewis Mumford, it was patented by Arthur Hill in 1916.  The first was constructed in 1928 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, and within a decade it became a standard feature of America's Highways.  For 10 points, name this interstate highway interchange design, which is being replaced by trumpets and diamonds.

Answer:         The Cloverleaf

22. Born Melvin Hesselberg in 1901, he served as a leading man in many Hollywood films.  He later switched to character roles, both on film, where he won two supporting actor Oscars, and in life, as the husband to a famous Representative who lost in a 1950 race against Richard Nixon for the California Senate seat.  For 10 points Name this actor who co-starred in "Being There"?
Answer: Melvyn Douglas

23. It was formed in 1916 in Zurich by a group of disparate artists and poets, including Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco, Trista Tzara, and Jean Arp.  Their name, a cacaphonic nonsense term literally meaning "wooden horse",  was designed to take aim at artistic pretensions.  For 10 points What is this nihilistic group which influenced Surrealism?
Answer: Dada

24. A compound of fatty acids and sugar, it is neither absorbed nor digested by the body, and therefore adds no calories to food.  This synthetic fat substitute was created by Proctor and Gamble, and was recently approved as an additive to snack foods.  For 10 points what is this new food product soon (or never) to be found in potato chips?
Answer: Olestra or Olean

25. When Frederick of Prussia signed this in 1756, the alliances established by the War of Austrian Succession reversed, Austria and France became allied as did Britain and Prussia. For 10 points, what document protected the British Royal Family's domain of Hannover?
Answer: Convention of Westminster

Bonuses

1. At times commercials stay in the memory longer than the company or product it is pushing.  Given the description name the company or product that is being pushed.
A.        An urban setting with a homage to Hitchcock's vertigo in this commercial starring a chiuhua who goes up a fire escape not to the eagerly bow clad female chiuhuahua but to another esident of the building.  Yo Quiero...

Answer:   Taco Bell

B.        From the same people who brought you the Ken and Barbie commercial playing Van Halen, this commercial has another great tune, Vince Guarldi's 'Linus and Lucy', and starrred a dog, a sleeping owner, and a recliner through busy streets.

Answer:   Nissan

C.        This commercial has been called Dilbert meets Tarantino.  An out of control fuel truck is barrelling out of control, a screaming boss and a harried office schlep star in this commercial pushing this company's pentium processor.

Answer:   AMD or Advanced Micro Devices

2. Time for an Asian lit bonus that is not about the Tale of Genji.  For 15 pts. name the work given the description.
A.  Attributed to Confucius, this work is an anthology of 305 poems which range from simple courtship to ritual hymns and includes dynastic legends.  Name this work known in the Chinese as Shi Qing.

Answer:   Book of Songs

B. This allegorical tales was written by Hung Lou Meng in the 18th century.  Consisting of 120 chapters it is the tale of the Jia family and their decline.  Considered by many to be one of the greatest realistic novels in Chinese literature.

Answer:   Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone

3.  30-20-10 Name this conductor.
A.      (30) Born in Budapest on October 21, 1912, his teachers included Dohanyi and Bartok at the Liszt Academy of Music.
B.      (20) In 1936 and 1937 he was an assistant to Toscanini where he was encouraged to become a conductor though he continued to play piano and won the 1942 Geneva Piano competition.
C.      (10) He conducted Moses and Aron and the Ring Cycle for their first performances at the Convent Garden.  In 1969 he became the musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and died September 5, 1997.

Answer:   Sir Goerg Solti

4.  Everyone seems to know Dante's Inferno cold, but let us ask a question on Dante's Paradiso.  Dante is accompanied through Paradise by Beatrice and discovers that Paradise is divided into seven spheres with each representing one of the seven virtues.  You get 5 pts. each for naming 6 of the seven spheres that make up Paradise.

Answer:   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn

5. BONUS Get Pencil and Paper ready.  The volume of a gas at 27 degrees Celsius is 500 milliliters.
A. For fifteen points, find the volume to the nearest integer milliliter at negative 73 degrees Celsius. Note: Degrees Kelvin = Degrees Celsius + 273 degrees.

Answer:  333.33... milliliters (V1/T1=V2/T2:  500ml/300K = Xml/200K)

B. Now whose law did you use to solve this problem
Answer: Charles Law

6.  Cervantes would be pleased that 'Don Quixote del La Mancha' has stood the test of time.  After all, it was a quickly written parody of romance novels that was designed to be a moneymaker.  For a 15 pts each give the actual names of the characters in Don Quixote.

A.      He was a Spanish country gentleman who let his estate come to ruin so he could buy books of chivalry, "until, finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.".  What was the name of the gentleman who became Don Quixote?

Answer:   Alonso Quejana

B.       Don Quixote chose this woman as his lady love,  A buxom country girl famous for her salted pork she became the lady Dulcinea del Taboso in Quixote's delusional mind.

Answer:   Aldonza Lorenzo

7. Identify these Byzantine Emperors (fifteen points each):
A.       Emperor from 1081 to 1118, he restored the crumbling Empire, defending against Norman invasion, containing the Seljuk Turks, repelling an invasion of nomadic Turks, and putting down risings up in Crete and Cyprus. Whose request for aid against the Turks resulted in the First Crusade in 1096?

Answer:  Alexius I Comnenus

B.      Emperor from 527 to 565, his reign saw the expansion of the Empire, the reconquest of Africa from the Vandals and of Italy from the Ostrogoths. During whose reign was the Hagia Sophia  built?

Answer:         Justinian I

8. Complete the following biblical phrases from the given book of the Old Testament, for 10 points each.
A. From the Book of Job, "The price of wisdom is above (blank)."
Answer:         Rubies
B. From the 146th Psalm, "Put not your trust in (blank)"
Answer:         Princes
C. From Proverbs, "Open rebuke is better than secret (blank)"
Answer:         Love

9. Identify the physical units from a description, for 10 points each.
A.       The unit of ionizing radiation that will produce 1/3 * 10^-9 Coulombs of electric charge in 1 cubic centimeter of air under standard conditions.
Answer:         Roentgen
B.       One volt-second per ampere.
Answer:         Henry
C.      The amount of radiation that deposits 10^-2 Joules of energy into 1 kilogram of absorbing material.
Answer:         Radiation Absorbed Dose or Rad

10. For five points apiece and five for all correct, what five nations border Senegal?
Answer: Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau

11. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are two of America's most famous computer pioneers. For fifteen points each identify the following computers they are responsible for (use acronyms please):
A.      At the University of Pennsylvania in 1943, they developed this computer for the army which could operate "Error Free" for over 12 hours
Answer: ENIAC
B.      They went into private industry in 1946, and were bought out in 1950 by Remington Rand where they launched the first large commercial computer which went by this name.
Answer: UNIVAC

12. BONUS Claims of discovery are often erroneous. According to accepted historical research, Who led the parties that really reached the following places first through the following media of transportation for five points each and five more for all correct:
A. North Pole by land
Answer:  Peary Apr 6, 1909
B. South Pole by land
Answer:  Amundsen Dec. 14, 1911
C. North Pole by air
Answer:  Byrd May 9, 1926
D. South Pole by air
Answer:  Byrd Nov 29, 1929
E. North Pole by water
Answer:  USS Nautilus (accept Captain Anderson)

13. BONUS ACF may be the opiate of the intelligentsia.  So answer the following questions about opium for five points each:
Would the following drugs be classified as Naturally Occurring Opiates, Semisynthetic Opiates or Synthetic Opiates:
A. Heroin
Answer:  semisynthetic
B. Morphine
Answer:         Naturally Occurring
C. Codeine
Answer:  Naturally Occurring
D. Methadone
Answer:  Synthetic
E. Now, Give any year in the first and second opium wars respectively, five points each.

Answer:         first Opium War:  1839, 1840, 1841, 1842;  second Opium War 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860

14. Identify the artist 30-20-10.
A.      (30). In 1924, at the age of 42, he married Josephine Nivison, who became his lifelong partner, model, and chronicler.
B.      (20). Born in Nyack, New York, he studied painting at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, and he later formed his studio at 3 Washington Square North in New York City.
C.      (10). His paintings include Cape Cod Morning, Second Story Sunlight, and Rooms by the Sea.

Answer: Edward Hopper

15. BONUS Identify these Mayors of Chicago for ten points apiece:
A.      Frank Nitty, leader of the Chicago Mob, tried to rub out this mayor twice, including the night he actually was killed, only to be foiled by Eliot Ness's Untouchables. However an unemployed bricklayer named Zangara unintentionally killed him in Miami when aiming for President-Elect Roosevelt.

Answer:         Anton Cermak

B.      This boss of Chicago lambasted the students at the 1968 Democratic Presidential Convention, leading what has been called a Police Riot.

Answer:  Richard Daley

C.       He is the current Mayor Chicago
Answer:  Richard Daley Jr.

16.  You knew this quesion was trouble when it walked in the door.  Busting through like a two ton gorilla asking you about noir, film noir.  Given the description of the film, name that film.

A.      Fred MacMurray of 'Absent Minded Professor' and 'My Three Sons' fame plays Walter Neff, an insurance salesman, who is desperate to score figuratively and otherwise with Phyliss Dietrichson played by Barbara Stanwyck in this 1944 Billie Wilder film co-starring Edward G. Robinson.

Answer:  Double Indemnity

B.        This 1958 film is considered the B film of the genre.  Orson Welles was hired originally only to act in it but, under pressure from Charlston Heston, he ended working on the script and directing as well.   Basically a story about a corrupt, violent town cop, a Mexican government  investigator and his new wife involved a murder investigation in a run down border town.  This film boasts the longest continuous shot in cinematic history which lasts 3 minutes long.

Answer:   Touch of Evil

17. Identify this figure from American History 30-20-10

A.      (30). He was born in Berkeley county, South Carolina in 1732.  He had his first experience in war as a lieutenant of colonial militia in 1761, when he led a successful attack against the Cherokee.

B.      (20). After the battle of Camden in August 1780 he could only form a small band of fighters favoring guerrilla tactics; After the war he served several terms in the South Carolina Senate.

C.      (10). He and his soldiers repeatedly darted out of the marshes to attack the British; his shrewd daring raids earned him the nickname of The Swamp Fox.

Answer:         Francis Marion

18.  Proteins in the human body are made from an assortment of 20 basic amino acids.  Answer the following questions about amino acids.
A. For ten points apiece, these 2 amino acids participate in the Urea cycle and are NOT part of the standard set of 20.  One is formed by the hydrolyzation of Arginine; the 2nd is formed by carbamoylation of the first.

Answer:         Ornithine And Citrulline

B.  For a final ten points, this amino acid is often hydroxylated in collagen, in which it appears in abundance; it is also the only one of the 20 amino acids which is actually an imino acid.

Answer:         Proline

19. Identify the following investment and finance terms, 15 points each.
A.      It's the measure of the sensitivity of an asset's return to changes in return on the market portfolio. Mathematically, it is the security's covariance with the market portfolio divided by the variance of the market portfolio.
Answer: Beta coefficient  (or market Beta)
B. It is the difference between the spot price of an asset and the futures price of the same asset.
Answer:         Basis

20. In Hinduism there are three aspects of the Absolute Universal spirit as manifested in three deities.  For 10 points each name the three dieties that compose the Trimurti
Answer:   Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva

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GW Fourth Annual JCV Invitational

Boston University
(Questions by Matt Bruce)

Tossup Questions

1.  On August 16, 1819, a crowd of about sixty thousand people, mostly women and children, gathered at Saint Peter's Field in Manchester to protest unemployment and high food prices.  For ten points, what derisive name did reform advocates give this incident, which the army was sent into to clear the place, killing eleven and wounding 500.

Answer: PETERLOO Massacre

2.  Two coils are either interwoven or connected through a laminated iron core.  The resulting device can, among other things, provide the high voltage levels necessary for a television picture tube.  FTP, what device is used to increase or decrease current voltage?

Answer: TRANSFORMER

3 Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, his friends describe him as a "shabby" dresser who flies coach and owns neither a house nor a car.  To avoid U.S.  tax disclosure, he incorporated his foundations in Bermuda.  For ten points, what businessman has reportedly given over $600 million to charity in the past decade?

Answer: Charles F.  FEENEY

4.  Peter Keating judges his success based on the approval of others.  Ellsworth Toohey, the humanitarian, manipulates other people based on their guilt.  Gail Wynand, the newspaper magnate, manipulates other people based on their fear of him.  Howard Roark, the architect, merely creates.  These characters name the four parts of, for ten points, what novel by Ayn Rand?

Answer: The FOUNTAINHEAD

5.  His best known architectural achievement is the double colonnade of the Piazza of Saint Peter.  His fountains include one at Trevi, and Rome's fountain of the Four Rivers.  For ten points, name this seventeenth-century Italian sculptor and architect whose religious works include the Saint Theresa Group in Rome's Santa Maria della Vittoria.

Answer: Giovanni Lorenzo BERNINI

6.  This future son-in-law of George Clinton arrived in Charleston in 1793.  Before going to Philadelphia to present his credentials, he commissioned four privateering ships and sent them to raid British ships along the American coast.  For ten points, name this French minister, whom Washington's cabinet asked France to recall, but when the Jacobins came to power, gained asylum in the U.S.

Answer: Edmond Charles Edouard (Citizen) GENET

7.  They opposed the use of Oral Law by a rival sect, and did not believe in resurrection or in the immortality of the soul.  Owing their power to political alliance with the Romans, FTP, name this group that played a leading role in the trial of Jesus, who were opponents of the Pharisees ?

Answer: SADDUCEES

8.  It follows from the Condorcet Voting Paradox, which states that majority rule might produce intransitive ordering.  For ten points, name this theorem., which begins with a few plausible assumptions about social welfare functions, and proved that no possible procedure for going from individual preferences to social preferences could satisfy all of them.

Answer: The ARROW Impossibility Theorem, posited by Kenneth Arrow

9.  Robert Tofte gave this name to a 1597 collection of love lyrics.  Lord Byron used the name for the Venetian lady who marries Beppo.  Schiller wrote a series of poems to her.  For ten points, name this lady, who in the church of Saint Claire at Avignon first met Petrarch?

Answer: LAURA

10.  "Global Beat."  "A Multi-Ethnic Society: Is it Better or Worse?" "The Road Ahead."   "Spiritual Values in a Secular Society."  These are seminars that Bill Clinton attended at, for ten points, what annual event held in Hilton Head, South Carolina?

Answer: RENAISSANCE Weekend  (Prompt on Clinton)

11.  The three main islands contained in this lake are Dodi, Dwarf, and Kporve.  It has a north-south orientation with mean length and width of 250 miles and 15 miles.  Created by damming its namesake river at the Akosombo gorge, for ten points, name this prime hydroelectric energy source of Ghana.

Answer: Lake VOLTA

12.  According the full title, she "was born at Newgate, and during a Life of continued Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five time a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, lived Honest, and died a Penitent."  For 10 points, name this Daniel Defoe heroine.

Answer: MOLL FLANDERS

13.  Aratus of Sicyon led it.  In 235 B.C., Cleomenes the Third of Sparta defeated it, but it betrayed Greece by calling in Macedonia.  Philopoemon was one of its last leaders.  For ten points, name this rival of the Aetolian League.

Answer: ACHAEAN League

14.  The Tri-Cities Black Hawks drafted him in 1950, then traded his rights to the Chicago Stags.  When the Stags folded, a drawing out a hat resulted in this player's rights being assigned to the Boston Celtics. For ten points, what NBA hall-of-fame guard played in thirteen consecutive all star games, perhaps the most famous alum of Holy Cross?

Answer: Bob COUSY

15.  While a rich woman and her daughter prepare for the title event, a poor worker dies.  Young Laura brings cakes to the widows and orphans, and discovers the real world.  For ten points, what Katherine Mansfield short story has a similar title to an allegorical Rick Nelson hit?

Answer: The GARDEN PARTY

16.  It is a psychological defense mechanism whereby the aim of a suppressed or repressed instinct is redirected into a more acceptable outlet.  For ten points, what eleven-letter word can also refer to the phenomenon where a solid changes directly to its gaseous state?

Answer: SUBLIMATION

17.  "I have found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.  The dogmatism of metaphysics, that is, the preconception that it is possible to make headway in metaphysics without a previous criticism of pure reason, is the source of all that unbelief which wars against morality."  This is an English translation of part of, for ten points,
what work of Immanuel Kant?

Answer: "Critique of Pure Reason"  (prompt on Kant)

18.  The larger and inner of two satellites discovered by Asaph Hall with the U.S.  Naval Observatory telescope in 1877, it has a very irregular shape, roughly 18 miles by 13 miles by 12 miles, and always keeps its long axis pointed towards its home planet.  Mariner 9 photographed, and the Viking Orbiter did infrared studies of, for ten points, what moon of Mars?

Answer: PHOBOS

19.  Born Helen Scheers, her victims include the unnamed insurance salesman who sexually abused her when she was 16; Henry Pratt, who tried to blackmail her; and Simon, assistant manager of the Holiday Palace hotel.  Matthew Welch, played by Arye Gross, is obsessed with her.  Played by Claudia Christian, for ten points, name this fictional supermodel from
the 1993 movie Hexed.

Answer: HEXINA

20.  Preceded by the word "competitive," it is a principle stating that when two or more species compete for the same resource necessary for their livelihood, they cannot both survive.  For ten points, what is this nine-letter word, which is a principle stating that two electrons in the same orbital cannot have the same spin when preceded by Pauli?

Answer: EXCLUSION

21.  It is the first note of both the "Promenade" of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.  In the former, it is the third note of the scale; in the latter, it is the fifth note of the C minor scale in which the piece starts.  For ten points, what note also gives its pitch to the lowest string of a violin?

Answer: G

22.  House Speaker Joseph Cannon rammed this bill through with 847 amendments, a show of force that prompted Congress to reorganize its Committee on Rules in 1910.  President Taft signed it on April 9, 1909, calling it the best tariff bill ever passed.  FTP, name it.

Answer: PAYNE-ALDRICH Tariff

23.  According to Franz-Johann Long's niece, Long has undergone psychiatric treatment since Long was 3.  Long allegedly dressed in full military garb, claiming to work for the KGB.  An autopsy found that Long had an enlarged bladder, but no terminal illness.  On December 28, Doctor Georges Reding and, for ten points, what more famous associate, helped Long commit suicide?

Answer: Jack KEVORKIAN

24.  Alan Sutherland produced and recorded this song in his home.  Samples include Dorothy, from The Wizard of Oz, asking, "Where are we anyway?" as well as a little girls repeated cry, "Don't leave me."  A 1996 hit from the album "Bundle of Joy" by Land of the Loops, for ten points, what marketplace might you find advertised in newspaper classifieds?

Answer: MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE  (Accept "Land of the Loops" or "Bundle of Joy" before "this song"; prompt on "Garage Sale")

Bonus Questions (by Boston Univ.)

1.  Name these characters from The Aeneid for the stated number of points.
 For 5 : The founder and queen of Carthage, who is cremated on a funeral pyre in Book Four.
Answer: DIDO

For 10 :  The daughter of Latinus, originally betrothed to Turnus, whose marriage to Aeneas helps him become ancestor to Romulus.
Answer: LAVINIA

 For 15:  The constant companion of Aeneas.
Answer: ACHATES

3.  In honor of ACF, for ten points each give these music terms starting with A, C, and F, respectively.
1.  A florid or willowy turn of melody; also the title of piano works by Schumann and Debussy.
Answer: ARABESQUE

2.  A melody from some other work borrowed to serve as the basis for a new polyphonic composition.  Many 19th century examples of this involve the weaving Gregorian Dies irae into macabre compositions.
Answer: CANTUS FIRMUS

3.  A dance from the Provenal region of France, where each participant grasps a handkerchief held by the person ahead.  Bizet's L'Arlsienne contains one in 2/4 time, though most are in 6/8.
Answer: FARANDOLE

5.  For five points per item, name these people, places, and things, each
pair of which may be found near each other in any good encyclopedia.

a.  The first Japanese historical period, of the eighth century and notedfor the flowering of Buddhist art; and the hell of Hindu mythology.
Answers: NARA and NARAKA

b.  Those Muslims who regard Ali as the first rightful Imam, and the password of a secret society or a discredited doctrine.
Answers: SHI'ITE or SHI'A       and SHIBBOLETH

c.  A name for Psalm 130 from the first two words of the Latin version, and an Egyptian hieroglyphic script, developed in the 5th century B.C.
Answers: DE PROFUNDIS and DEMOTIC writing

6.  Name these Lake Poets from works for 10 points each.
a.  The Battle of Blenheim.
Answer: Robert SOUTHEY
b.  Osario
Answer: Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE
c.  The Solitary Reaper
Answer: William WORDSWORTH

7.  Time to play "around the world!"
a.  for five - Dick Rutan and Bertrand Piccard now hope to circumnavigate the globe using, for ten points, what transportation medium?
Answer: Hot-Air BALLOON

b.  For ten points, what millionaire planned to lift off from Morocco in December, only to have the balloon tear off its moorings and sail over North Africa without him?
Answer: Richard BRANSON

c.  For fifteen, what beverage-producing company has offered $500,000 to the first person or team to circle the globe in a balloon, plus $500,000 to the charity of the winner's choice?
Answer: ANHEUSER-BUSCH accept budweiser
(The deadline for the "Budweiser Cup" is December 31, 1999.)

8.  This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the union of five boroughs into New York city.  Of those boroughs:
1.  For ten points, which one experienced the greatest population growth from the 1890 census to the 1990 census?
Answer: QUEENS

2.  For ten points all or nothing, as of the 1990 census, which boroughs had the greatest and smallest population?
Answers: BROOKLYN; STATEN ISLAND

3.  For ten points, as of the 1890 census, which borough had the greatest population?
Answers: MANHATTAN

9.
 (5/5/5)     I.  First, for five points each, 20 for all correct, name
these Eric Clapton songs from their lyrics.
.  "If you wanna hang out you've got to take her out."
Answer: COCAINE
B.  "It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear."
Answer: WONDERFUL TONIGHT
C.  "There is nothing that is wrong in wanting you to stay here with me."
Answer: LAY DOWN SALLY
 (10)         II.  For a final ten points, "Cocaine," "Wonderful Tonight," and "Lay Down Sally" are the first three songs of what 1977 album?
Answer: SLOW HAND

10.  These two elements are two of the most difficult to chemically separate because, while one is twice as dense as the other, they have nearly identical chemical composition.  One is often used for reactor rods in nuclear submarines.

a.  For ten points each, what elements take their names from the Persian
for gold and the Latin name for the city of Copenhagen?
Answer: ZIRCONIUM and HAFNIUM
b.  For ten points, give the atomic number of either Hafnium or Zirconium?
Answer: 72 or 40

11.  Given the description of a woman allegedly discriminated against because she was white, name her for ten points and name the state in which
the events took place for five more.
a.  This high school business teacher was fired nine years ago, allegedly because of her race, but accepted a $433,500 settlement in October, after the Supreme Court granted certiorari but before it could rule.
Answers: Sharon TAXMAN; NEW JERSEY

b.  She charges that the sociology department at a state university passed her over for a job, then when it did hire her, paid her $7,000 less than
Johnson Makoba, who holds a comparable position.  University officials allegedly told her it was because "he's black and you're not."
Answers: Yvette FARMER; NEVADA

12.  Tired of questions about 1997?  Try your hand at 1977 for fifteen points each.
a.  On May 1, 1977, 1400 members of the Clamshell Alliance were arrested in this New England town, the proposed site of a nuclear reactor.
Answer: SEABROOK, New Hampshire
b.  On October 31, 1977, former CIA director Richard Helms pled "no contest" to charges that he did not testify "fully, completely and accurately" before a Senate committee investigating the 1973 coup overthrowing this Latin American leader.
Answer: Salvador ALLENDE Gossens

13.  Answer these Bathsheba questions for ten points each.
a.  The Biblical Bathsheba was this man's wife.
Answer: URIAH the Hittite
b.  Bathsheba is a character in Absalom and Achitophel, by this Restoration poet.
Answer: John DRYDEN
c.  Gabriel Oak, William Boldwood, and Sergeant Troy all woo Bathsheba Everdene in this Thomas Hardy novel.
Answer: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

14.  Boned up on your Criminal Law terminology lately?
1.  For five points each, these two two-word Latin phrases refer to culpable mental states and culpable conduct.
Answers: MENS REA and ACTUS REUS
2.  Section 2.02 of the Model Penal code defines four kinds of culpability, one of which is recklessness.  For five points each, name the other three.
Answer: PURPOSE; KNOWLEDGE; NEGLIGENCE
(accept forms of the word)
3.  This six-letter word refers to the common law equivalent of these kinds of culpability.  In the common law scheme, it can be specific or general.
Answer: INTENT

15.  For ten points each name the architects of these buildings, all of
which were designed or completed in 1997.
a.  The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Answer: Frank GEHRY
b.  The Miho Museum
Answer: I.  M.  PEI
c.  The Getty Center, in Los Angeles.
Answer: Richard MEIER

16.  The Mongols took Baghdad in 1258 and absorbed a Chinese empire in 1279.
a.  For ten points each, name the caliphate and the dynasty thus ended.
Answers: ABBASID Caliphate and SUNG or SONG Dynasty
b.  In 1259, Mangu Khan died, and the main armies had to go back to Mongolia.  The small remaining contingent was creamed by the Egyptians. For ten points, what Palestinian site, near Nazareth, marked the Mongols' first clear defeat in half a century of conquest?
Answer: AIN JALUT

17.  Name the goddess, 30-20-10.
For 30: A statue of her bore the inscription, "I am that which is, has been, and shall be.  My veil no one has lifted.  The fruit I bore was the sun."

For 20: Representations of her suckling Horace may have been prototypes of Madonna-and-Child art.

For 10: The patron saint of mariners in Alexandria, she was often identified with the moon.
Answer: ISIS

18.  In July 1995, a Colorado University research team led by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman cooled rubidium atoms to less than 170 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, causing individual atoms to condense into a "superatom."
a.  For ten points each, what two scientists predicted that such a state of matter could exist?
Answers: Satyendra Nath BOSE and Albert EINSTEIN
b.  For ten points, as Cornell stated in the research team's press release, within 25 percent, at what speed, in miles per hour, do atoms normally move in a room temperature gas?
Answer: ONE THOUSAND (1000) (acceptable range: 750-1250)

19.  Ariel is more than just a font.
1.  For 5 points, this American poet wrote the poems collected in "Ariel"
shortly before her 1963 suicide.
Answer: Sylvia PLATH
2.  Ariel is a sprite in, for 10 points, this Shakespeare play.
Answer: The TEMPEST
3.  For 15 points -  this character frees Ariel from a pine rift in which the evil witch Sycorax had imprisoned him.
Answer: PROSPERO

20.  Zambia's former president was released from prison on New Year's Eve, but kept under house arrest.
1.  Ten for one, 25 for both, name the arrested man, who led Zambia to independence and governed for 27 years; and the man who beat him in Zambia's first multi-party elections in 1991.
Answers: Kenneth KAUNDA and Frederick CHILUBA
2.  Kaunda's first destination after leaving prison was, for 5 points, what capital of Zambia?
Answer: LUSAKA

20.  Name these close relatives of England's Henry the Second for ten points each.
1.  His grandmother, the daughter of Henry the First, who fought for the throne against Henry's nephew Stephen.
Answer: MATHILDA
2.  His father, Mathilda's son, whose habit of wearing a broom plant gave the royal line its name.
Answer: GEOFFREY of Anjou or Geoffrey Plantagenet.
3.  His eldest son, borne by Eleanor of Aquataine.
Answer: RICHARD the LIONHEARTed; or Richard the FIRST

21.  For 10 points each, given his character name and the year of its debut, name these television series in which Tom Poston has regularly appeared.
1.  Franklin Delano Bickley; 1978
Answer: MORK AND MINDY
2.  George Utley; 1982
Answer: NEWHART
3.  Mr.  Norton; 1993.
Answer: GRACE UNDER FIRE

23.  Through 1997, there had been four men's figure skating world champions
in the 1990s.  For ten points each, name any three of them.
Answers:
Elvis STOJKO (1994; 1995; 1997)
Todd ELDREDGE (1996)
Kurt BROWNING (1990; 1991; 1993)
Victor PETRENKO (1992)

24.  Pencil and paper may come in handy to jot down the names of these scientists:  T.W.  Engelmann; Jan Ingen-Housz; Joseph Priestly; Nicholas de Saussure; Jean Senebier.  For 15 points each, which one was associated with these experiments?
1.  He demonstrated in 1772 that a plant alone in an airtight jar will die, as will an animal alone in an airtight jar.  But a plant and an animal both placed together will survive.
Answer: Joseph PRIESTLY
2.  This part-time scientist showed in 1782 that plants release carbon dioxide when they produce oxygen.
Answer: Jean SENEBIER

25.  Answer the following about Martinique for ten points each.
1.  This woman was born there on June 23, 1763.
Answer: JOSEPHINE Bonaparte.
2.  This volcano exploded on May 8, 1902.
Answer: Mount PELEE
3.  News of Mount Pelee's eruption prompted the U.S.  Congressional decision to build a canal across Panama rather than across this other volcano-containing country.
Answer: NICARAGUA

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PMV - Round 6
January 1998

Question Set for BYU Perpetual Motion, February 1998
Set #1 of 2 written by Bryce Avery, 1986 BYU team captain

TOSSUPS

1.  Take two wires of different metals, join them at both ends, and measure the voltage created between the ends when one end is hotter than the other.  Congratulations!  You've just built - for 10 points - what
common temperature-measuring instrument whose types include J, K, R and S?

Answer:   THERMOCOUPLE

2.  Near the end of Homer's "The Odyssey", Odysseus arrives home in disguise.  For 10 points, name his dog who recognizes him under the disguise, wags his tail, and then falls over dead.
Answer:  ARGOS (do not accept "Argo")

3.  He became an arms dealer in Africa after he quit literature, where he lost a leg before returning to his native France.  For 10 points, name this poet whose 1873 collection was only published after his death because he never paid the printer, the work being "A Season in Hell."
Answer:  Arthur RIMBAUD

4.  The Biblical works of this court painter to King Philip IV include "Joseph's Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob" and "The Supper at Emmaus" (a-MAY-us).  For 10 points, identify this 17th-century Spanish artist most famous for his portrait of Pope Innocent X.
Answer:   Diego VELAZQUEZ (va-LOSS-kez)

5.  It begins the first name of humorist Mr. Perelman, who wrote the Marx Brothers movie "Horse Feathers" and of author Ms. Hinton who wrote "The Outsiders" and "That was Then, This is Now".  For 10 points, give this letter of the alphabet used in math for Laplace (la-PLOSS) Transforms and in thermodynamics to mean "entropy".
Answer:  S

6.  Its southeastern counties include Isle of Wight and Lancaster.  Its southwestern counties include Patrick and Henry.  For 10 points, name this state whose northern counties include Arlington and Fairfax.
Answer:  VIRGINIA

7.  It is represented by the Greek letter "eta" (the English "n" with an extra-long tail) and is measured in "poise", where one poise equals one dyne second per square centimeter.  For 10 points, give this physical quantity used to describe the amount of internal friction within a fluid, especially motor oil.
Answer:  VISCOSITY (vis-COSS-a-tee)

8.  If Newt Gingrich is elected President in the year 2000, he'll be only the second man to make it by serving as Speaker of the House first.  For 10 points, name the Tennesseean who served as Speaker from 1835 to 1839 and later succeeded John Tyler as the nation's Chief Executive.
Answer:  James POLK

9.  He asked about his wife Sophia on his deathbed but had no desire to see her, preferring to see his secretary Vladimir Chertkov and his daughters Alexandra and Tatyana instead.  For 10 points, name this Russian author who died in 1910, just days after corresponding with the English translator of his work "Resurrection."
Answer:  Leo TOLSTOY

10. Within 9 months of Stalin's death in 1953, this colleague of Stalin was removed from the Soviet encyclopedia and executed on Khrushchev's orders:  a proper end for a man who ordered the executions of so many others.  For 10 points, name this infamous chief of the USSR's secret police.
Answer:  Lavrentii BERIA

11.  She tears a page in her teacher's anatomy book when she's caught looking at one of its naked figures.  But a boy in the class jumps up at the last moment and volunteers to be whipped in her place.  For 10 points, name this fictional girl who later gets lost in a cave with Tom Sawyer.
Answer:  Becky THATCHER

12.  Its first unit had to be hauled 30 miles by oxcart to the nearest airfield.  It could fly nearly 2,000 miles without refueling but was still vulnerable to the vertical power dives and hard right turns of Allied pilots.  For 10 points, name this Japanese aircraft of World War Two.
Answer:  ZERO

13.  It lost its charter between 1879 and 1893 because of its numerous epidemics of yellow fever. For 10 points, identify this Southern city that is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, college football's Liberty Bowl, Beale
Street and pro football's Oilers.
Answer:   MEMPHIS

14.  This country began as a haven for freed and runaway slaves was the 1820 destination of more than 80 free blacks who left the United States.  For 10 points, name this African country that finally became independent from Britain in 1961, neighbor of Liberia and whose capital is Freetown.
Answer:  SIERRA LEONE

15.  James Caulfield described him as a "turtle-eating Alderman with a broad Scottish accent."  William Smellie said the best way of understanding his arguments is to "catch him by the nose."  For 10 points, name this philosopher who died in 1776 at age 65 after writing "Essays on Suicide and Immortality" also author of "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" and "Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding."
Answer:  David HUME

16.  Its first official governor was John Haynes in 1639.  Other governors during the pre-Revolutionary War period included
Gurdon Saltenstall, Joseph Talcott, and Robert Treat.  For 10 points, name this state governed between 1659 and 1676 by John Winthrop.
Answer:  CONNECTICUT

17.  Show pigs get this chemical to develop a high lean-to-fat ratio.  The velociraptors in the novel "Jurassic Park" lacked it, which caused them upon escape to eat lots of chicken.   For 10 points, name this essential amino acid that is now thought, in high doses, to help control human genital herpes.
Answer:  LYSINE (LY-seen)

18.  This man with the two middle names "Horace Greeley" represented Germany at the 1929 Paris conference on World War I reparations and is credited with stabilizing the country's currency during the Weimar (VY-mar) period.  For 10 points, name this financier later acquitted at Nuremberg for his actions as Hitler's economic minister and president of the Reichsbank (RYKES-bonk).
Answer:  Hjalmar SCHACHT

19.  Ruth Atkins is loved by two Mayo brothers.  The one planning to go to sea stays home and marries Ruth, while the other one, planning to stay on the family farm, ends up going to sea.  All three characters wind up deeply unhappy and Ruth's husband ends up dead.  This is the plot -- for 10 points -- of which 1920 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Eugene O'Neill?
Answer:  "BEYOND THE HORIZON"

20.  Organic chemists use it to mean "a chemical where all carbon atoms are attached to no more than two other carbon atoms."  Inorganic chemists use it as one measure of the strength of a solution.  In linear algebra it describes a matrix where the hermetian of the matrix and the matrix commute.  FTP, identify this six letter word also used to mean "Gaussian" or "perpendicular to."
Answer:  NORMAL

21.  Her Oscar came in 1957 for Best Actress in "The Three Faces of Eve."  For a very quick 10 points, name this actress who may be better known today as "Paul Newman's wife."
Answer:  Joanne WOODWARD

22.  He is quoted as saying, "I only met [William Butler Yeats] casually and didn't particularly like him."  In 1939, he came to New York City for a visit,  two days before Yeats' death.  For 10 points, name this British poet who wrote the elegy "In Memory of W.B. Yeats.".
Answer:  W.H. AUDEN

23.  This German went to Russia as an indigo trader, married a Russian woman, and gave his daughters Russian names.  Then he got a divorce, later went to Greece, and died there in 1890.  For 10 points, name this famed archaeologist with a hero's memorial in Athens.
Answer:  Heinrich SCHLIEMANN

24.  In honor of the 50th anniversary of his joining the big leagues, baseball's acting commissioner Bud Selig announced during the 1997 season that his uniform number 42 will no longer be issued to new players.  For 10 points, name this Brooklyn Dodger star and integrator of baseball.
Answer:  Jackie ROBINSON

25.  It is so often used in business that some Hewlett-Packard calculators do not even give a key to its "common" counterpart.  For 10 points, identify this mathematical function beloved by first-year calculus students because it's the only one that equals its own derivative.
Answer:  NATURAL LOGARITHM (accept "natural log" or "ex")

BYU Perpetual Motion 1998
Bryce Avery's Set #1 Boni

1.  For 15 points each, name these men on the 1997 Teamsters Union list of least valuable corporate directors, none of whom work for UPS:
A.  He replaced Caspar Weinburger as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense.
Answer:  Frank CARLUCCI (car-LOO-chee)
B.  He replaced James Baker as George Bush's Secretary of State.
Answer:  Lawrence EAGLEBERGER

2.  During 1997, Mario Lemieux became the 9th man in the NHL Hall of Fame who didn't wait the normal minimum of three years.  For 10 points each, name these others who didn't have to wait, either:
A.  In 1945, soon after a teammate gave him his nickname, this Montreal Canadian scored 50 goals in 50 games.
Answer:  Maurice "Rocket" RICHARD (ree-SHARD)
B.  During 1997, he became the first to play in six different decades by skating one shift with a Detroit minor-league team.
Answer:  Gordie HOWE
C.  He was the only defenseman ever to lead the NHL in scoring.
Answer:  Bobby ORR

3.  For 10 points each, name these U.S. Presidents from the contents of their libraries:
A.  His library near Fremont, Ohio also contains some papers of two contemporaries, author William Dean Howells and cartoonist Thomas Nast.
Answer: Rutherford B. HAYES
B.  This president's library also contains the papers of Sumner Welles, who spent four years as his Assistant Secretary of State and six more as his Under Secretary of State.
Answer:  Franklin ROOSEVELT (1st initial required)
Accept:  FDR
C.  Many of his library's items were saved by his personal secretary Ann Whitman and used to write his memoirs "The White House Years" at his farm near Gettysburg.
Answer: Dwight D. EISENHOWER

4.  Beryl is a colorless mineral that becomes more valuable when it contains traces of other chemical elements.  For 10 points each, identify the name given to beryl when it is:
A.  Blue because of iron in a +2 oxidation state.
Answer:  AQUAMARINE
B.  Pink.
Answer:  MORGANITE
C.  Green because of chromium in a +3 oxidation state.
Answer:  EMERALD

5.  During 1997, his first major painting "Home Sweet Home" was sold to the National Gallery of Art for more than two million dollars.
A.  For 15 points, name this American painter who died in 1910 and was most famous for his seascapes.
Answer:  Winslow HOMER
B.  For 15 points, name the American whose poem "Home Sweet Home" includes the words "'Mid pleasures and palaces, Though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home."
Answer:  John Howard PAYNE

6.  For 10 points each, name the three "Leatherstocking Tales" of James Fenimore Cooper that have two-word titles where the first word is "The" and the second word starts with the letter P.
Answers:  THE PATHFINDER, THE PIONEERS, THE PRAIRIE

7.  For 5 points each and a 5-point bonus for all, name the states where sections of these rivers have been designated by the National Park Service as "wild" or "scenic":
A.  Buffalo
Answer:  ARKANSAS
B.  Loxahatchee
Answer:  FLORIDA
C.  Pere Marquette
Answer:  MICHIGAN
D.  Great Egg Harbor
Answer:  NEW JERSEY
E.  Bluestone
Answer:  WEST VIRGINIA

8.  At the end of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", three of the five Bennet daughters are married.  For 10 points each, give the married name of each sister:
A.  Elizabeth
Answer:  Darcy
B.  Jane
Answer:  Bingley
C.  Lydia
Answer:  Wickham

9.  Name the country, 30-20-10.
A.  During the 1970's, when the country was run by the Colorado (or "Red") Party, it had the world's highest ratio of political prisoners to total population.
B.  In 1930, a hundred years after it formed its first constitution, it hosted the first World Cup soccer tournament and ended up winning the event.
C.  Its military history includes wars with Brazil and Argentina, its only two neighbors.  It's capital is at Montevideo.
Answer:  URUGUAY

10.  Thalassemia (tha-la-SEE-mee-uh)  is a rare inherited disease whose best current method of treatment is monthly blood transfusions.  For 15 points each:
A.   Give the other name for the disease which comes from the doctor who first described it in 1925.
Answer:  COOLEY'S ANEMIA
B.  This is designed to remove iron from the body that builds up with repeated transfusions.  For fifteen points name this eight letter word.
Answer:  chelator

11.  For 10 points each, answer these questions about the 1997 Tony Awards:
A.  Name the creator of "Driving Miss Daisy" who was nominated for "The Last Night of Ballyhoo", a play set in Atlanta during the final night of the Jewish social season.
Answer: Alfred UHRY
B.  Name the traveling companion of Cacambo who was the subject of a Sondheim musical that was revived during 1997.
Answer:  "CANDIDE"
C.  Name the actress who played Velma Kelly in the nominated musical "Chicago" but is more famous for her TV role as Frasier Crane's ex-wife Lilith.
Answer:  Bebe NEUWIRTH

12.  In 1914, the British government appointed Viscount Bryce to head a committee investigating German atrocities at the outbreak of World War I.

For 10 points each:
A.  Name the British Prime Minister who gave Bryce his appointment.
Answer:  Herbert ASQUITH
B.  Name the country where the outrages described in the Bryce Report took place.
Answer:  BELGIUM
C.  Name the nation whose war crimes were also reported by Bryce after its forces killed hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians in 1916.
Answer:  TURKEY

13.  The Reynolds number is a dimensionless quantity used to determine the quality of fluid flow.  For 15 points each:
A.  Give the term describing relatively quiet flow when the Reynolds number is less than 2,000.
Answer:  LAMINAR (LAM-a-ner)
B.  Give the term describing relatively violent flow when the Reynolds number is greater than 4,000.
Answer:  TURBULENT

14.  The soon-to-be-published book "Coined by Shakespeare" contains many of the Bard's additions to the English language.  For 10 points each, name the Shakespeare play where:
A.  Cloten calls Guiderius a "rustic 'mountaineer'" but loses his head in the ensuing fight.
Answer:  CYMBELINE
B.  The murder of Duncan is termed an "assassination."
Answer:  MACBETH
C.  The title character tells his mother Volumnia, "I go alone, like to a 'lonely' dragon."
Answer:  CORIOLANUS

15.  He addressed the International Congress of Mathematicians and outlined 23 problems he thought should be studied during the 20th century.  For 10 points each:
A.  In what year did the speech take place?
Answer:1900
B.  Name this Prussian mathematician whose 10th problem has been proved impossible to solve.
Answer:  David HILBERT
C.  Hilbert's 1899 book dealt with the foundations of what branch of mathematics?
Answer:  GEOMETRY

16.  Reuven Malter is an Orthodox Jew who grows up to be a rabbi.  His friend Danny Saunders is a Hasidic Jew who grows up to be a clinical psychologist.
A.  For 10 points, name the author who created both characters.
Answer:  Chaim POTOK
B.  Now for 10 points each, name the two Potok novels in which both characters appear.
Answer:  THE CHOSEN, THE PROMISE

17.  For 10 points each, answer these questions about the city of Providence, Rhode Island:
A.  Name the religious denomination whose oldest American church is located in Providence and dates from 1638.
Answer:  BAPTIST
B.  Name the mascot of Providence's minor-league hockey team.  A dead cold Boston favorite.
Answer:  BRUINS
C.  Name the religious reformer generally credited with founding Rhode Island who has a Providence park named after him.
Answer:  Roger WILLIAMS

18.  For 15 points each, name these plays by Ibsen that (almost) have a happy ending:
A.  The title character drowns at the end of the first act, but in the end, his parents Alfred and Rita agree to stay together instead of splitting up.
Answer:  LITTLE EYOLF
B.  The title character here dies of a heart attack at the very end, but his death helps bring his wife Gunhild and her twin sister Ella together again.
Answer:  JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN

19.  A normal EKG contains heart waves referred to by the letters P, Q, R, S, and T.
A.  For 15 points, which wave, when abnormal, is the most common sign that you've had a heart attack?
Answer:  Q
B.  For 10 points, which wave is caused as the ventricular myocardium returns to its resting state?
Answer:  T
C.  For 5 points, which letter refers to the highest vertical movement on an EKG?
Answer:  R

20.  Between October 1890 and February 1891, the reigning world chess champion and his challenger played a two-game match by correspondence.
For 15 points each:
A.  Name the world champion at the time who later lost his title to Dr. Emanuel Lasker.
Answer:  Wilhelm STEINITZ (SHTY-nits)
B.  Name the Russian challenger who lost two matches to Steinitz over-the-board in 1889 and 1892 but thumped him soundly in both correspondence games.
Answer:  Mikhail CHIGORIN (chi-GO-rin)

21.  In the winter of 1077, an emperor acknowledged the pope's authority over him by standing barefoot for three days in front of the Italian castle where the Pope was staying until the Pope received him.  For 15 points each, name this emperor and the pope who was staying at Canossa.
Answer: HENRY IV (emperor), GREGORY VII (pope)

22.  The C.S. Lewis tale "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" tells the story of how 4 children met the lion and the White Witch.
A.  For 5 points each, name the two boys and two girls.
Answer:  PETER, EDMUND, LUCY, SUSAN
B.  For 10 points, name the lion.
Answer:  ASLAN

23.  Sir Joseph Banks once wrote of them, "I suppose they live entirely upon fish, dogs, and enemies."  For 10 points each:
A.  Name this group of people indigenous to New Zealand.
Answer:  MAORI
B.  Name the treaty the Maori signed with Britain in 1840 whereby William Hobson became their first British administrator.
Answer:  Treaty of WAITANGI (wy-TAHN-ghee)
C.  Who was the British monarch at the time of the treaty signing?
Answer:  Queen VICTORIA

24.  Genesis 29 tells the story of how Jacob got a wife.  For 10 points each:
A.  Jacob originally served 7 years to marry the younger daughter of which man?
Answer:  LABAN (LAY-bun)
B.  Laban, however, tricks Jacob into marrying which older daughter first?
Answer:  LEAH
C.  This obliges Jacob to serve 7 more years before he can finally marry which love of his life?
Answer:  RACHEL

25.  For 10 points each, answer these questions about Dvorak's
(VOR-zhox) "New World" symphony:
A.  What key was it written in?
Answer:  E MINOR (prompt if "E" is given; do not accept "E
major")
B.  Near the end of his life, Dvorak's symphonies were renumbered.
What
number was originally given to the "New World" symphony?
Answer:  5 or 5TH
C.  What is its generally recognized number now?
Answer:  9 or 9TH

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PMV - Round 7
January 1998

Question Set for BYU Perpetual Motion, February 1998
Set #2 of 2 written by Bryce Avery, 1986 BYU team captain

TOSSUPS

1.  Horses, lances, and gold and silver generals are some of its prominent pieces.  It allows each player to use the men that he captures from his opponent.  For 10 points, name this game played on a 9 by 9 board that contains some pieces similar to chess and is very popular in Japan.
Answer:   SHOGI (SHO-ghee)

2.  Black rhinos can be seen at its Ngorongoro (n-GOR-un-GOR-o) Conservation Area.  Jane Goodall works with chimpanzees at its Gombe Stream National Park. For 10 points, name this African nation that is also home to the Serengeti National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro.
Answer:  TANZANIA

3.  Everyone on the stagecoach is nice to her as long as she shares her food with them.  But while this prostitute plies her trade with a German soldier so they can all escape from war-torn France, the stagecoach passengers all obtain food for themselves and give none to her.  For 10 points, name this title character of a short story by Guy de Maupassant.
Answer: "BALL OF FAT" (Its equivalent French title - believe just about whatever they say)

4.  In your heart's atrium, it may go unnoticed for years.  In your heart's ventricle, it kills you within minutes.  For 10 points, give this medical term for a fluttering heartbeat that normally requires electric shock to revive you.
Answer:  FIBRILLATION

5.  His presidential campaign was literally the stuff of which comic strips are made.  One "Doonesbury" strip showed a woman telling his campaign worker she'd never heard of him, whereupon the worker replied, "He's probably never heard of you, either."  For 10 points, name this Illinois man who received more than 5 million popular votes in 1980 but finished behind both Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
Answer:  John ANDERSON

6.  It celebrated its 15th anniversary during 1997, and its top-selling products that include PhotoDeluxe and FrameMaker show that its name is still definitely not "mud."  For 10 points, name this California software company that has now distributed more than 20 million copies of its Acrobat Reader.
Answer:  ADOBE

7.  In 1334, he designed the bell tower of Duomo at Florence, and his 1310 work "Madonna Enthroned" is in Florence's Uffizi Gallery.  For 10 points, name this Italian artist whose 1305 work "The Lamentation of Christ" is found in Padua's Arena Chapel.
Answer:  GIOTTO (JOE-to) di Bondone

8.  Princess Victoria may soon be the eighth member of its ruling Bernadotte dynasty, which began with King Carl XIV Johan in 1818.  One of its past rulers was King Gustav V, who called Jim Thorpe "the greatest athlete in the world" at the 1912 Olympics.  For 10 points, name this European nation currently ruled by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Answer:  SWEDEN

9.   It is allegedly set in North Bennington, Vermont, where its author lived with her husband Stanley and their four children.  Hundreds canceled their subscriptions to "The New Yorker" in 1948 after they read its ending, in which Tess is stoned to death to save the crops of the village.  For 10 points, name this famous short story by Shirley Jackson.
Answer:  "THE LOTTERY"

10.  In animal feed, it helps keep chickens from getting typhoid.  In clothing, it helps dye leather. It was originally made from the bodies of ants who spray it at their predators.  For 10 points, name this acid with formula HCOOH whose name comes from the Latin word for "ant."
Answer:  FORMIC acid

11.  He lost to George Washington at the battle of Princeton in January 1777, when Washington distracted him in front and then attacked him from behind.  For 10 points, name this British general who also lost to Washington in October 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia.
Answer:  Lord CORNWALLIS

12.  To the Greeks, it was part of the pillars of Hercules.  To the Berbers in 711 AD, it became "Tariq's Mountain."  Now it's a part of Britain that Spain desperately wants back.  For 10 points, name this 2 1/2 square-mile island on the southeast coast of Spain that contains Gorham's cave.
Answer:  GIBRALTAR

13.  Dr. M. Scott Peck uses it to describe people who take too much responsibility upon themselves and who are therefore the most likely to benefit from a therapist.  For 10 points, give this psychological adjective describing people with "an emotional disorder in which feelings of anxiety and obsessive thoughts dominate the personality."
Answer:  NEUROTIC

14.  More than four years after his 1902 election, he was finally seated after a fellow politician said, "We have enough monogamists here who don't monog; I guess we can have a polygamist who doesn't polyg." For 10 points, name this Utah Senator best known now as co-author of a 1930 tariff.
Answer:  Reed SMOOT

15.  He has used the pseudonym Reed Stephens, but his works under his own name are better-known.  These include "Unworthy of the Angel" (a short story that is his personal favorite) and "Gilder-Fire" (which was sold to the Science Fiction Book Club without his consent).  For 10 points, name this British author best known for "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant".
Answer:  Stephen R. DONALDSON

16.  His boat "Commodore" sank off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida in 1897, and the incident later served as a model for his short story "The Open Boat".  Three years later, this American author died of tuberculosis in Germany at age 29.  For 10 points, who wrote "The Red Badge of Courage"?
Answer:  Stephen CRANE

17.  In 97 pairs of lines, it tells of its author's visit to his old home, where he fell in love with his cousin Amy and she claimed to love him too -- before she went and married someone else.  For 10 points, name this Tennyson poem that contains the line "In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
Answer:  "LOCKSLEY HALL"

18.  He arrived in America in 1884 with four cents in his pocket and plans for a flying machine.  By 1896, his machines installed at Niagara Falls were providing electricity to the city of Buffalo. For 10 points, name this inventor whose papers are in a Belgrade museum and whose coils are found in electronics the world over.
Answer:  Nikola TESLA

19.  The name's the same.  It was the ship captained by James Cook that left England in 1767 to visit Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia.  It is also scheduled to be the first space shuttle to carry U.S. hardware to assemble the International Space Station.  For 10 points, give this word that, as a noun, means "an attempt to do something."
Answer:  "ENDEAVOUR"

20.  John Milton's life closely paralleled this subject of his last major work:  wronged by a woman and blinded.  For 10 points, name this Biblical character whose story appears in Judges chapters 13 to 16 and will make you never again look at a haircut in quite the same way.
Answer:  SAMSON

21.  Pencils and paper ready!  The minimum score on a section of the SAT
is 200 and the maximum is 800.  If all questions have equal weight and
there's no penalty for wrong answers,  for 10 points -- what is your
score if you answer three-fourths of the questions correctly?    Answer:
650  (3/4 of the 600-point difference, plus the 200 minimum)

23.  Dorothy Parker died.  Aleksei Kosygin (co-SEE-gun) and Lyndon Johnson had a summit in Glassboro, New Jersey.  Kurt Cobain was born.
These things all happened -- for 10 points -- in what year that also saw
Carl Yastrzemski (ya-STREM-skee) win baseball's Triple Crown and the
Arab-Israeli Six-Day War?
Answer:  1967

24.  Her name sounds very much like the Russian word for "jellyfish", and she was tamed only by the winged sandals of Hermes and the shield of Athena.  For 10 points, name this mythological creature killed by Perseus that turned everyone who looked at her to stone.
Answer:  MEDUSA

25.  A list of its famous people includes Luk Yu (who spent his career studying tea), the Empress Wu (one of the first female emperors), and Han Yu (a Confucian poet who attacked one of its emperors for being a Buddhist).  For 10 points, name this Chinese dynasty in power from 618 to 907 AD that has the same name as an American drink.
Answer:  TANG

26.  It's the term for both a large wine bottle that holds about 1 1/2 quarts and a type of gun.  For 10 points, give this six-letter word that was also the last name of the TV private investigator played by Tom Selleck.
Answer:  MAGNUM

BYU Perpetual Motion 1998
Set #2 by Bryce Avery

BONI

1.  In 1997, TV Guide listed its 100 favorite episodes in the history of television.  For 10 points each:
A.  Name the Shakespeare play whose title named the episode of "E.R" that finished 3rd on the list.
Answer:  "LOVE'S LABOUR LOST"
B.  Name the classic sitcom whose 2nd-ranked episode featured its female title character filming a commercial for "Vita-Meata-Vega-Min."
Answer:  "I LOVE LUCY"
C.  Name the sitcom whose top-ranked episode described the death and funeral of Chuckles the Clown.
Answer:  "The MARY TYLER MOORE Show"

2.  Answer these questions about America's pre-Pathfinder explorations of Mars:
A.  For 10 points, name the twin orbiter/lander spacecraft launched in 1975 that took 10 months to reach Mars' orbit and whose orbiters finally died when they could no longer control their altitude.
Answer:  VIKING (1 and 2)
B.  For 20 points, name the American astronomer credited with discovering Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos in 1877.
Answer:  Asaph HALL

3.  For 10 points each, name these famous Americans buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery:
A.  His musical works include "Chichester Psalms", and "Wonderful Town."
Answer:  Leonard BERNSTEIN
B.  He was lampooned by Thomas Nast and indicted as head of Tammany Hall, but he was convicted only of failing to audit financial claims against the city of New York.
Answer:  William 'Boss' TWEED
C.  When this New York Governor's "folly", the Erie Canal, was done, he celebrated by exchanging two barrels' worth of water between Lake Erie and the Atlantic Ocean.
Answer:  DeWitt CLINTON

4.  Name the country, 30-20-10.
A.  In its native language, its name means "The Land of the Eagle."
B.  It's situated on the Adriatic Sea between Yugoslavia and Greece.
C.  Its capital at Tirana displays the flag as a two-headed black eagle under a red star on a red field.
Answer:  ALBANIA

5.  For 10 points each, name these novels by Frederick Forsyth:
A.  This 1994 title refers to the small nuclear device Saddam Hussein had planned to use during the Gulf War if American troops invaded Iraq.
Answer:  "THE FIST OF GOD"
B.  This title, one of Forsyth's most famous, contains the code name of a terrorist trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.
Answer:  "THE DAY OF THE JACKAL"
C.  This novel features a British intelligence officer trying to avoid forced early retirement by discussing how well he did on several of his old cases.
Answer:  "THE DECEIVER"

6.  For 15 points each, which classical composers wrote the melodies of these Christmas carols?
A.  "Joy to the World"
Answer:  Georg Friedrich HANDEL
B.  "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"
Answer:  Felix MENDELSSOHN

7.  Two chemical elements whose symbols are only one letter have English names that do not start with that letter. For 10 points each, name the elements.  For 5 more each, give their chemical symbols.
Answer:  POTASSIUM (K), TUNGSTEN (W)

8.  For 5 points each and a 5-point bonus for all, who created these characters in children's literature?
A.  Danny Dunn
Answer:  Jay WILLIAMS
B.  Ramona and her sister Beezus
Answer:  Beverly CLEARY
C.  The Hardy Boys
Answer:  Franklin W. DIXON
D.  The Bobbsey Twins
Answer:  Laura Lee HOPE
E.  The Great Brain
Answer:  John D. FITZGERALD

9.  Name the man, 30/20/10.
A.  The current American journal devoted to his philosophy is called "The Owl of Minerva."
B.  His official archive at Germany's Ruhr University probably has the last few manuscript pages of his "The Phenomenology of Mind", which he stuffed in his pocket while escaping Napoleon's army.
C.  Left-wingers who agreed with his "Philosophy of Right" included Karl Marx.
Answer:  Georg W.F. HEGEL (HAY-gal)

10.  Answer these questions from Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities":
A.  For 5 points all or nothing, name the two cities referred to in the title.
Answer:  LONDON and PARIS
B.  For 10 points, name the man who takes Charles Darnay's place at the guillotine.
Answer:  Sydney CARTON
C.  For 15 points, name the Englishwoman that shoots Madame Defarge in self-defense.
Answer:  Miss PROSS

11.  For 10 points each, name these French painters whose works were auctioned during 1997:
A.  His Moulin Rouge painting "Seated Dancer with Rose-Colored Stockings" was sold for more than $14 million.
Answer:  Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
B.  His "Rooftops of L'Estaque" sold for more than $12 million but was only half the price of the painting that featured his wife Hortense Fiquet sitting in a yellow chair.
Answer:  Paul CEZANNE
C.  His 1888 landscape "The Seine at Argenteuil" went for a mere $800,000.
Answer:  Pierre-Auguste RENOIR

12.  Answer these questions about the government-owned amusement park called "Vidam Park":
A.  For 5 points, name the European capital city that is home to Vidam Park.
Answer:  BUDAPEST, Hungary
B.  Vidam Park has not been refurbished in many years, partly because no builder wants to be paid in Hungarian currency. For 10 points, what is Hungary's monetary unit?
Answer:  FORINT
C.  For 15 points, name the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that was based on a Molnar play inspired by Vidam Park.
Answer:  "CAROUSEL"

13.  Len Cariou received one of its 11 Tony Award nominations for Best Actor.  Ron Field got two of its four Tony's for Best Director and Best Choreographer.  For 10 points each:
A.  Name this 1970 Broadway musical partly written by Comden and Green.
Answer:  "APPLAUSE"
B.  Name the sultry actress who won her first Tony for "Applause."
Answer:  Lauren BACALL
C.  Name the production that got Bacall her second Tony in 1981.
Answer:  "WOMAN OF THE YEAR"

14.  Name the poet from his own biographical notes, 30/20/10.
A.  May 31, 1819:  "Born at West Hills, Long Island, second child of Walter and Louisa."
B.  1888:  "Now just printing a little volume of additional prose and verse called "November Boughs."
C.  1855:  "Issues 'Leaves of Grass', 1st edition."
Answer:  Walt WHITMAN

15.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey, all U.S. mountains that have recognized names and are over 14,000 feet high are in one of four states.
A.  For 10 points, which state has more such mountains than any other?
Answer:  COLORADO
B.  Now for 10 points each, name the 2 states that boast such mountains besides Colorado and Alaska.
Answer:  CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON

16.  Name the man, 30-20-10.
A.  Jean-Paul Sartre called him "not only an intellectual, but also the most complete human being of our age."
B. Gabriel Garcia Marquez said of this fellow Hispanic,  "It would take me a thousand years and a million pages to write [his] biography."
C.  He met Fidel Castro in 1955, later serving as president of Cuba's national bank and then as the country's minister of industry.
Answer:  Ernesto "Che" GUEVARA

17.  FTPE name these Shakespeare plays that all have characters named Antonio:
A.  In this work, Antonio is the father of Proteus.
Answer:  TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
B.  This play features Antonio as the title character.
Answer:  THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
C.  This time, Antonio is a sea captain and friend of Sebastian.
Answer:  TWELFTH NIGHT

18.  Name the man, 30-20-10.
A.  He raised a dowry for his daughter (and maybe some money for his mistress Sophie Volland) by selling his large library to Catherine the Great.
B.  His 1749 work, translated as "An Essay on Blindness", contained enough dangerous philosophy in it to keep him in jail for 3 months.
C.  He was chief editor of one of the world's first encyclopedias, the French "Encyclopedie" of 1772 that contained 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of engravings.
Answer:  Denis DIDEROT

19.  For 10 points each, give the brand names of these over-the-counter medications:
A.  The ibuprofen product made by Upjohn that will now be made by Johnson & Johnson because of a 1997 agreement.
Answer:  MOTRIN
B.  The Johnson and Johnson children's cough medicine that will now be made by Upjohn as part of the same agreement.
Answer:  PEDIACARE
C.  The Johnson and Johnson athlete's foot treatment that will now be made by Upjohn.
Answer:  MICATIN (MY-ka-tin)

20.  According to the Scout Law, a Scout is "trustworthy, loyal..." and
has 10 other good qualities.  For 5 points each, name any six of the 10.
Answer:  HELPFUL, FRIENDLY, COURTEOUS, KIND, OBEDIENT, CHEERFUL,
THRIFTY, BRAVE, CLEAN, REVERENT

21.  The year 69 AD saw 4 short-lived Roman leaders:  Nymphidius
(nim-FID-ee-us), Galba, Otho and Vitellius (va-TEL-ee-us).  For 15
points each:
A.  Name the more famous emperor that preceded Nymphidius before
committing suicide and is now thought of as the last of the
Julio-Claudian line of emperors.
Answer:  NERO
B.  Name the more famous emperor who ruled for a decade after Vitellius,
whose son Titus is credited with destroying Jerusalem in 70 AD, and who
built the Colosseum.
Answer: VESPASIAN

22.  For 10 points each, name the cities where these mutual funds are headquartered:
A.  American Century
Answer: KANSAS CITY
B.  Fidelity
Answer: BOSTON
C.  Janus
Answer: DENVER

23.  It's rare that 5 ex-Presidents are all alive at the same time, but it happened in 1861. For 5 points each and a 5-point bonus for all, name the 5 former Chief Executives who were alive on the day Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for his first term.
Answer:  James BUCHANAN, Millard FILLMORE, Franklin PIERCE,  John TYLER,
   Martin VAN BUREN

24.  God healed him and added 15 years to his life.  For 10 points each:
A.  Name this king of Judah who broke Moses' brass serpent after the people burnt incense to it.
Answer:   King HEZEKIAH
B.  Which Old Testament book tells this story in chapters 18 through 20?
Answer:  SECOND KINGS
C.  Name the other Old Testament book that mentions Hezekiah in Chapter
32.
Answer:  SECOND CHRONICLES

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PMV - Round 5
January 1998

Brigham Young University A
(Earl Cahill, Ken Jennings, Dave Sims, Nephi Thompson)

Toss-ups

1.  The light went all the way down to the bottom of a well in Syene, which is now Aswan.  Approximately 87 kilometers due north, the angle of inclination of the sun's rays in a well was about 7.2 degrees.  FTP, who, around 230 BC, from Alexandria, is given credit for using this data to determine the diameter and circumference of the earth?

Answer:  ERATOSTHENES

2.  His brother Leonard was killed in the South African War, likely due to the incompetence of a certain General whom his father had the distinct displeasure of serving, and yet his father acted with dignity.  It is this dignity that this man strove for throughout his career at Darlington Hall, first for Lord Darlington and then later for a retired American senator.  FTP, name this man who appealed to "dignity" in overlooking Lord Darlington's anti-semiticism and perhaps due to "dignity" did not ever ask Miss Kenton to marry him for the Remains of the Day.

Answer:  Mr STEVENS

3.  It is also known as Mytilini, after its chief city.  Located at the entrance of the Gulf of Edremit, west of Izmir, Turkey, it was part of the Ottoman Empire until Greece annexed it in 1913.  It is an important producer of olives, figs, and soap, but is primarily remembered for the group of maidens that the poet Sappho taught there anciently.  FTP name this Aegean island, which gave its name to a select group that includes Margaret Mead, Gertrude Stein and Ellen DeGeneres.

ANSWER: Lesbos

4. He originally fled his Scandinavian home to escape murder charges. He fared no better at his new home in Iceland where some of his followers engineered a landslide to destroy a troublesome neighbor's farm.  Banished from the island by the Icelandic assembly he looked for a new place to settle. In one of the first deceptive advertising campaigns in history he called the rocky barren location he settled, Greenland, to encourage immigration.  FTP, name this adventurer, whose son went on to discover Vinland.

Answer:   Eric the Red

5.  These organic compounds can be separated from each other by chromatography on filter paper and are made visible by spraying the paper with ninhydrin.  They consist of an acidic carboxyl group, a basic amine group, and an organic side chain which is unique to each of these compounds.  They join together by condensation reactions to form peptide bonds.  FTP name the building blocks of proteins.

ANSWER: Amino Acids

6.  A New York City sports-radio talk-show host has named his firstborn son Shea after the stadium where the Mets play their homes games; according to a recent survey by Boating magazine, a married boat owner is more likely to carry a wallet photograph of his boat than of his spouse or children; and a Wisconsin company is marketing--for $395 plus $25 for shipping and handling--a limited edition nine-inch Hydrastone sculpture that "captures the image and memory of Green Bay Packers coach Mike Holmgren riding to practice on a Harley Davidson," are all, FTP, signs that what is upon us, according to Sports Illustrated.

Answer:  APOCALYPSE (accept Signs that the Apocalypse is Upon Us or This Week's Signs that the Apocalypse is Upon Us) (prompt on early Sports Illustrated buzz)

7.  He led a group of followers west to find a place where they could worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp, in the process (it is said) even killing a bear with his bare hands.  Unfortunately, a 1996 exhumation proved that he was actually a German pirate who lost his tongue in a Turkish grog house fight and even tried to kill George Washington.  FTP, name the pioneer who founded the city Newsweek called "America's Crud Bucket," also the hometown of the Simpsons.

ANSWER: JEBEDIAH Obadiah Zedekiah Jedediah SPRINGFIELD

8.  It has since been revised to a more conservative figure, but most Economists claim that the relationship it describes is correct.  FTP, name this economic law, which in its original form states that each 3% drop in real GDP corresponds with a 1% rise in unemployment.

Answer:   OKUN's Law

9.  Born in a semi-autonomous European Bishoprick, this 16th century thinker began as a student of law and medicine in Italy.  He later accepted a church post and dedicated his major work to the Pope.  His project, as he initially envisioned it was to eliminate "equants" from astronomy. This he did, but only by abandoning much of the Aristotelian model of the cosmos.  FTP name this heliocentric author of De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

ANSWER: Nicholas Copernicus

10.  On Star Trek: The Next Generation, after surviving Vico and having his parents die in 2368, Timothy was diagnosed as suffering from this.  In My Best Friend's Wedding Julia Roberts wants to break up the wedding, but the exact opposite occurs.  Stalin claimed to want more civil liberties for the Soviet people, but through his actions the exact opposite occurred and more civil liberties were taken away.  FTP, what term describes all these situations, explicated by Jung as the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time, which literally means conversion into the opposite.

Answer:  ENANTIODROMIA (Note to Earl: Ken wins a Whopper)

11.  Its bizarre composition and disturbing colors are said to reflect the artist's intense fear of open spaces.  He wrote in his diary: "One evening (as) I was walking along a path; the city was on one side, and the fjord below.  I was tired and ill . . . and I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood."  The figure in the painting, however, stands on a bridge, his hands vainly clapped over his ears. FTP name this expressionist masterpiece, the best-known work of Edvard Munch.

ANSWER: The Scream

12. In 1861, he was offered command of the entire Union Army, but turned down the commission.  His life was haunted by tragedy, spending much of his life nursing a desperately ill mother and then an invalid wife.  Through part of the civil war he was a disgraced outsider, called Granny behind his back and relegated to commanding fortification efforts along the Southern coasts.  He did, however have a brilliant military mind, and once he replaced the wounded Joseph Johnston he led the South to numerous victories.  FTP, name this man, the commander of The Army of Northern Virginia who lost the climactic battle of Gettysburg.

Answer:    Robert E. LEE

13.  She was born from the left eye of the primeval being Izanagi. When her brother Susanowo treated her badly, she hid in the cave of heaven, closing the entrance with an enormous stone. Thus, darkness surrounded the world, and evil spirits left their hiding places, causing destruction and grief everywhere. In despair, a conference of the gods decided to induce her come out of the cave by arousing her curiosity. The gods put a big mirror in front of the cave and beautiful jewels on a tree.  Fascinated by her own brilliant reflection in the mirror, she came out of the cave--allowing her light to once again cover the world. FTP name this Shinto sun goddess.

ANSWER: Amaterasu

14. The name's the same.   In the Koran, the third one is titled the Family of Imran, and the Koran contains 114 of them.  Number three is also worn by this player, who left Florida State as their all-time leading scorer with 2,130 points and second in steals to Charlie Ward.  FTP name either the Koran's equivalent of a chapter or the player that was drafted with the seventeenth pick in the 1995 draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Answer:  SURA

15.  Greek for "flute song," it can refer to any work in alternating dactylic hexameter and pentameter, such as Rilke's famous ones written in Duino.  More commonly, the word refers to works like Milton's "Lycidas," Robert Lowell's "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," Shelley's "Adonais," and Housman's "To an Athelete Dying Young," all of which express lamentation. FTP name this poetic form, of which Thomas Gray's most famous was penned "in a country church yard."

ANSWER: elegy

16.  Lying on the Tropic of Capricorn, its climate is affected by the prevailing winds and surrounding mountains.  NASA tested some of its interplanetary vehicles here because the terrain was a good representation of what could be encountered on Mars.  With many craters, rocks, loose sand, and vegetation completely absent due to the lack of precipitation and high mineral content of the soil, it's one of the least hospitable places on Earth.  FTP name this area of northern Chile.

ANSWER: Atacama Desert

17. The first is in C Major and starts with a low left octave, the left hand playing any hint of melody, the right hand playing some of the hardest material written.  The fifth is in G-Flat major and almost keeps to its nickname but then only in the right hand.  The ninth is in F minor and contains large stretches for the left hand.  FTP name this type of piece of which Chopin wrote twenty-seven, with nicknames ranging from "Butterfly," "Winter Wind," "Ocean," and "Revolutionary."

Answer:  ETUDE  (I guess you could accept study since it is just a translation, but that is pretty weak)

18.  The composer said the melody came to him in a flash while he sat in a parked car outside a Hollywood Boulevard drugstore.  It was nearly left on the cutting room floor after the second test screening, because MGM execs felt it slowed down the film, and that it degraded their biggest star to spend a scene singing in a barnyard.  FTP name this Harold Arlen-S.Y. Harburg classic, immortalized by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.

ANSWER: "(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow"

19. In 636 the Byzantine Army was encamped to defend the city of Damascus against the Muslim invaders.  However, when supplies grew short they were forced to either take the offensive against the invaders or disperse to find food.  The resulting battle saw the Arabs surround the Byzantines in a valley and destroy them. This eliminated Byzantine power for over a generation and left the Muslims as the dominant power in the Middle East.  FTP, what was this important battle, named for the river valley in which it ended.

Answer:   Wadi-al' YARMUK

20.  The ruins of the Elamite one at Dur Untash, in Iran, are much larger, and the Nanna, in Iraq, is better preserved, but the most famous one is at Etemenanki, since it may have inspired stories of the Tower of Babel. They were built for 4,000 years out of glazed mud bricks that rose in stepped stages to a small sanctuary at the peak.  FTP name these temple-towers, the principal religious edifices of ancient Mesopotamia.

ANSWER: ziggurats

21.  This physicist was born on July 12, 1913 in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.S. in chemistry in 1934 and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1938 from the University of California at Berkeley where he worked under Oppenheimer.  He went on to teach and research at Columbia, Stanford, Oxford and Yale.  From 1943 to 1951 he worked with the Columbia Radiation Laboratory where he pursued research in particle physics.  FTP name this man, among whose discoveries was the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum which won him the Nobel Prize in 1955.

ANSWER: Willis E. Lamb

22.  When Pisaster ochraceus (a starfish) is removed from the intertidal zone in the Pacific northwest of the United States, the intertidal community changes from one with a high diversity of relatively large bottom-dwelling invertebrates to a virtual monoculture of the starfish's favorite prey--the mussel.  By limiting the population size of a species that would otherwise outcompete other species, the starfish can help maintain high species diversity. FTP give the name for these types of predators that affect not only their prey's population size but also the community's species diversity.

ANSWER: Keystone predator

23.  He was born in the mountains of West Virginia, but when he went to the West he fell in love with the land and never left.  In Damnation of a Canyon he decries the building of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.  An ardent environmentalist, he actively opposed development in the West and even wrote a guide for Eco-terrorists entitled The Monkey Wrench Gang. His collected works, characterized by caustic wit and dark sarcasm tempered with a passion for the earth, have established him as one of the eloquent voices for environmentalism.  FTP name the author of Desert Solitare: A Season in the Wilderness

ANSWER: Edward Abbey

24. This writer, born in Daresbury, Cheshire studied at Oxford, took orders in 1861, and became a lecturer in mathematics. His most famous title character was based on the second daughter of Henry George Liddell.  He wrote a great deal of humorous verse, such as "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and "The Hunting of the Snark," as well as several mathematical works.  FTP, name the author of the "Through the Looking-Glass" and the "Jabberwocky."

Answer:  Lewis CARROLL (accept Charles Lutwidge DODGSON)

Bonuses

1. (30-20-10)  Identify the work of ancient literature.

30 This work was produced around 406 BC.  The main character is arrested by Pentheus, who is later torn to pieces, by among others, his own mother Agave. 20 The main character has been described as "a fellow of androgynous and divine mien." His mother's family refused to believe Zeus was his father when he was born and now he is one angry son of a god. 10 The main character is Dionysius who arrives in Greece from Asia intending to introduce his orgiastic worship there. He is disguised as a charismatic young Asian holy man and is accompanied by his women votaries, who make up the play's chorus.

Answer:  BACCHAE

2. Name the fictional character, 30-20-10. (30) His real name is Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, and he lives at his estate, Quarterdeck. (20) Bernard Lee portrayed him on the screen for 15 years; after his death, he was followed by Robert Brown, Edward Fox, and Judi Dench. 10 Those who work under him include his secretary, Miss Moneypenny, and his most celebrated agent, Commander James Bond.

ANSWER: M

3. Given the Messier Catalog number and a short description, name the deep-sky object. 1. Designated M1 this is a supernova remnant in the constellation Taurus.
Answer: Crab Nebula 2. M44 is a large open cluster in Cancer.
Answer: Beehive 3. An open cluster M45 was named after the seven sisters of Greek myth.

ANSWER: Pleiades

4. Name the American religious figure from clues  for fifteen points each

15 She ran into troubles with the puritans for claiming that she had the

Holy Spirit and that she was of the same substance as Christ, and thereby his equal.
Answer:

Anne HUTCHINSON

15 He founded a city for 12,000 of his followers at Nauvoo, Illinois. He claimed that America was a land of destiny and the Constitution was a tool of God.  He was murdered in 1844 while running for President.

Answer:   Joseph SMITH

5.  His son Ethan was killed when he snuck away from camp to go get something to eat at Burger Bonaza.  The title character writes books about how to travel while seeming to travel as little as possible, and he tries to cope with the loss of his son and the departure of his wife. FTP tell the name of the book, made into a movie staring William Hurt for which Geena Davis won a best supporting actress Oscar.

Answer: the ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

For ten more points who wrote the Accidental Tourist?

Answer:  Anne TYLER

For ten points what is the name of the "accidental tourist," William Hurt's character in the film?

Answer: Macon LEARY

6. Identify the following people associated with mobiles, FTPE. 1.  Name the American sculptor best known for the two modes of sculpture he invented: mobiles and stabiles.
Answer: Alexander Calder 2.  Name the French cubist, artist of such works as "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even," who coined the word "mobiles" for Calder.
Answer: Marcel Duchamp 3.  Name the French avant-garde sculptor of works like "Human Concretion" who sensibly coined the word "stabiles" for Calder's less mobile works.

ANSWER: Jean Arp

7. Name the mineral FTPE given a description. 1.  This ore of lead has cubic crystals and a shiny, metallic luster.
Answer: Galena 2.  This cubic mineral has a salty taste because it is pricipally composed of salt crystals.
Answer: Halite 3.  This mineral is the standard for a Mohs' hardness of 2 and is pricipally used in plasterboard or sheetrock.

ANSWER: Gypsum

8. Let's suppose: It's Alan Greenspan's worst nightmare.  The sinking economies of Southeast Asia seem to be dragging America down with them. Because of problems with Foreign Banks, Greenspan expects investors to make a run on American banks.  To head this off he decides to require banks to raise the percentage of their assets banks must keep on hand. FTP, what do we call this requirement?

Answer:   the RESERVE REQUIREMENT

The economy is not out of danger yet.  Greenspan decides to stimulate the economy by lowering one category of interest rates, the rate the Federal

Reserve charges member banks to borrow money.  FTP, what do we call this rate?
Answer: the DISCOUNT rate

With the value of the dollar fluctuating wildly and the economy still weak, Greenspan resolves to use the most common Federal Reserve method for regulating the economy.  FTP, what do we call this method in which the FED buys or sells government securities to control the money supply.
Answer:   OPEN MARKET operations

9. Microsoft and another party are squaring off over Microsoft's bundling practices concerning Internet Explorer.  Answer the following for the stated number of points.

5 Who is the other party?
Answer:  the Department of Justice or DOJ

10 Microsoft replied to court requests by offering PC makers one of two options: installing either a current version of Windows 95 with all the IE browser code removed--rendering the operating system virtually useless--or an "outdated, commercially worthless" version of the operating system. This is similar to the offer of what rent-a-horse businessman who offered customers the choice of the horse closest to the wall or no horse at all.
Answer: Thomas HOBSON

15 Name the judge presiding over the Microsoft vs. Department of Justice case. Thomas Penfield JACKSON

10. Many novels feature protagonists who are tourists visiting Italy. FTPE, given an Italian tour itinerary, name the novel described.  If you need the author, you will receive 5 points. 10 Annoy the guests at the Pension Bertolini, lose your Baedeker in Santa Croce, watch some dude get the crap kicked out of him at the Piazza Signoria, enjoy a romantic picnic in Fiesole. 5 The author is E.M. Forster.
Answer: A Room with a View 10 See the Pincian Gardens, flirt with Mr. Winterbourne, tour St. Peter's, flirt with Mr. Giovanelli, arrange to die of the "Roman fever,"

be buried in the Protestant cemetery. 5 The author is Henry James.
Answer: Daisy Miller 10 Take a gondola to Lido, register at the Hotel des Bains, become obsessed with a young Polish boy, go sunbathing, die of the bubonic plague. 5 The author is Thomas Mann.
Answer: Death in Venice

11. Given a description, give the traditional pre-1948 name for the Indian province, FTPE. 1. Including most of the upper Ganges River Valley, this region is home to Delhi.
Answer: Punjab 2. Located in the Ganges Delta, its principal city is Calcutta.
Answer: Bengal 3. This subtropical province was important in the European commercial traffic in India and is located on the south-east coast of the country.
Answer: Madras

12. For 5 points each, give the name of the general that won each of the

following battles:

A. Blenheim
Answer:   the Duke of MARLBOROUGH (acc. JOHN CHURCHILL) B. Saratoga
Answer:   Horatio GATES C. Vicksburg
Answer:   Ulysses S. GRANT D. Issus
Answer:   ALEXANDER the GREAT E. Lodi
Answer:   NAPOLEON Bonaparte F. Plassy
Answer:   Robert CLIVE

13. Identity the following ESPN employees for the stated number of points.

5 He graduated from Brown and was hired by ESPN in 1979, a month after its inception and has become perhaps their most famous employee, spending time hosting Baseball Tonight, NFL GameDay, and NFL PrimeTime.
Answer:  Chris BERMAN

10 He graduated from the University of North Carolina, worked on the NBA 2 Night on ESPN2, and now is a regular co-host of SportsCenter with Rich Eisen, to whom he gave a earpiece as a Christmas gift in a recent ESPN commercial.  He has often asked for a witness from the congregation.
Answer:  Stuart SCOTT

15 He graduated from Maryland and was a first round pick of both the Washington Bullets and the Indiana Pacers.  He later graduated from Harvard Law School, and came to ESPN in 1997 to be a college basketball analyst.  His name is surprisingly close to the author of Run Punch, the

basis for the film Jackie Brown.
Answer:  Len ELMORE

14. Given a bloody Shakespearean tragedy, FTPE identify the FIRST of the

dramatis personae to die during the action of the play.  If you need the

cause of death, you will receive 5 points. 10 Hamlet 5 Stabbed by Hamlet.
Answer: Polonius 10 Macbeth 5 Stabbed by Macbeth.
Answer: Duncan 10 Romeo and Juliet 5 Stabbed by Tybalt.
Answer: Mercutio

15. The following question will test your knowledge of central Asian History.

First for ten points, name the nomadic turks that settled Central Asia in the Caucasus and Black Sea Region about 600 CE.  Under the Ashina dynasty they were valuable allies of the Byzantine in their wars against the Sassanid Persians.  Their khan ruled over an Empire that included Huns, Oighurs, and Slavs.
Answer:   KHAZARS

For ten more points, what was the official religious affiliation of the Khazar Khanate?
Answer:   JEWISH

For a final ten points;  On Christmas, Greek and Bulgarian children await the arrival of what Saint, who is said to come from his legendary home in Khazaria.
Answer:   St. BASIL

16. Answer these questions about a class of organic compounds FTPE. 1.  This class of compounds have a structural formula of ROH
Answer: Alcohol 2.  When alcohols are heated in the presence of an acid catalyst they react to form water and this other class of organic compounds.
Answer: Ether 3.  When an alcohol and an acid react in the presence of an acid catalyst they form water and this class of organic compounds.
Answer: Ester

17. Answer the following about classical music FTP each.

First releasing music in 1987, this music company started by Klaus Heymann in Hong Kong sought to produce quality discount classical discs.  To save money, its catalogue was started with young or unknown artists and orchestras which had had no proper exposure in the world market.  Name this company which was recently named as the classical music label of the year.
Answer: NAXOS

Naxos may have recently set a record in that from receipt of some new music from the composer.  It was just three weeks to the day when a record was on sale for opening night of the music.  The music is the ballet Dracula. Who is the composer?
Answer: Philip FEENEY

A current project of Naxos is to record all the piano music of a certain

composer.  He recorded largely for the piano but also wrote some orchestral works.  Among the recent releases of the eventual 75 disc Naxos set were

recordings of some of his Schubert song transcriptions and the composer's own Transcendental Etudes.  Name the composer.
Answer: Franz LISZT

18. Sometimes pop bands get their names from movie titles.  Given a description of a film, FTPE name the group inspired by the film's title.

 If you need a few song titles, you will receive 5 points. 10 Robert Wagner is the unlikely star of this film based on the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. 5 "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing"
Answer: (All the)  Fine Young Cannibals 10 George C. Scott plays an eccentric old man who believes he is Sherlock Holmes, and Joanne Woodward is an interested psychiatrist who just happens to be named Dr. Watson. 5 "Istanbul, Not Constantinople" and "Particle Man"
Answer: They Might Be Giants 10 This Ingmar Bergman classic tells the story of an elderly professor remembering his life while on his way to accept an honorary degree. 5 "Heroine" and "Fall"
Answer: Wild Strawberries

19. 30-20-10 Name the physicist. (30)  In his book Shadows of the Mind, he suggests that deep problems in artificial intelligence, physics, and the philosophy of mind are closely connected. (20)  He gave a famous series of lectures with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge in 1995 that debated the nature of space and time. 10  In mathematics, he discovered several aperiodic tilings of the infinite plane which were named for him.
Answer: Roger Penrose

(History)

20. Answer the following questions about imperial Germany in the 19th century for the stated number of points

5. The first chancellor of Germany, he is most noted for his hard line absolutism and his phrase, "blood and iron."
Answer:   Otto von BISMARK

10  When Bismark was sacked by Kaiser Wilhelm II, this army general with a distinguished service record became Germany's second chancellor.
Answer:   Georg Leo von CAPRIVI

15 This career naval officer wanted to build a navy to rival Great Britain's. The Kaiser agreed and funded the project.  He is still known as the father of the German Navy and a World War II German Battleship was named after him, though it was destroyed by the British before it was completed.
Answer:   Alfred von TIRPITZ

21. Identify the following religious based questions FTP each.

10 According to tradition, he was the founder of Taoism religion, however many historians don't believe this man even existed.  The Tao Te Ching is the only book he is supposed to have written.

Answer: LAO TZU

10 In 1530, Charles V called upon the Lutheran nobility to explain their

religious convictions, with the hope that the controversy swirling around the challenge of the Reformation might be resolved. To this end, Philip Melanchthon, a close friend of Martin Luther and a Professor of New Testament at Wittenberg University, was called upon to draft a common confession for the Lutheran Lords and Free Territories. What is the name of the resulting document.

Answer:  The Augsburg Confession

10 Given either the speaker of the following quote or the title of the sermon. ``[I]t is not because God is unmindful of their wickedness, and does not resent it, that he does not let loose his hand and cut them off. God is not altogether such an one as themselves, though they may imagine him to be so. The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them.'' Jonathan EDWARDS or SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD

22.  Recently tragedy struck a small Kentucky town when a 14-year old student gunned down three of his classmates with a .22 caliber pistol at a prayer meeting.  This attack has sent ripples through the American heartland and has caused a renewed investigation of violence on television. FTPE, name 1. The boy who pulled the trigger 2. The Kentucky town where the shooting occurred 3. The 1995 film that may of inspired his actions.  It features a scene where actor Leonardo Dicaprio opens fire with a shot gun in a school classroom.

Answer:   Michael Corneal,  Paducah, and "The Basketball Diaries"

23. Name the psychologist, 30-20-10. (30) He was an unsuccessful artist until 1928, when a chance meeting with Anna Freud inspired him to begin studying at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. (20) Studies of American Indian children led to some of his most important theories, such as his coinage of the term "identity crisis." 10 His first book, 1950's Childhood and Society, is a classic in the field of child development.
Answer: Erik Erikson

24. Only one actor in Hollywood history has ever starred in five consecutive $100-million grossing films.  Name, for 5 points, the star with this incredible streak still going.
Answer: Tom Cruise

Now, for 5 points each, name the 5 films that make up Tom Cruise's $100-million streak.
Answer: A Few Good Men, The Firm, Interview with the Vampire, Mission Impossible, Jerry Maguire

25. Identify the painters of the following "large" works, FTPE. 1.  The Large Bathers
Answer: Paul Cezanne 2.  Large Odalisque
Answer: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 3.  The Large Blue Horses
Answer: Franz Marc

26. Identify this mythological figure 30-20-10 (30)  He grew impatient while courting Merope, raped her and was blinded and banished by her father. (20)  In his journeys he met Artemis, who wanted him to be her hunting companion.  Artemis' brother Apollo feared for her chastity so Apollo sent a scorpion to chase him. 10 Finally, Apollo tricked Artemis into killing him with her spear. In her grief she placed him among the stars of the winter sky.

ANSWER: Orion

27. There are five landlocked nations in Africa that lie completely north of the Equator.  FFPE, with a bonus 5 for all correct, name these five landlocked nations.

ANSWER: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic



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PMV 5 - Round
January 1998

BYU B

TOSSUPS

TOSSUP:  1.  Category:  Pop Culture.
She has only performed three times in concert in the USA, each time with the
Chieftains, and now she is often confused with another Irish artist, thanks to
her recent collaboration with James Horner.  She became popular in Europe as a
singer of Nordic folk songs, but you might remember her for singing at
Lillehammer.  FTP, name this pop artist whose Enya-esque vocals against the
score of "Titanic" helped send the soundtrack to the top of the charts.
ANSWER:  SISSEL

TOSSUP:  2.  Category:  History.
On February 27, 1531, 8 German princes and 11 imperial cities joined together
against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and war broke out when the emperor severed
relations with the alliance's Philip of Hesse and John Frederick of Saxony.
Defeated at Muhlberg, the Protestants regrouped under Maurice of Saxony and
drove Charles from Germany.  FTP, name this military league, which forced the
Peace of Augsburg in 1555.
ANSWER:  SCHMALKALDIC LEAGUE (or LEAGUE OF SCHMALKALD)

TOSSUP:  3.  Category:  Fine Arts.
This painting's representation of a cheerful social scene contrasts with the
joyless atmosphere that pervades the elegant setting.  The painter died of
alcoholism six years after the creation of the work, in which he depicts himself
in the background of a Paris bar but directs the eye to the luminescent green
face of a female bar patron.  FTP, name this oil on canvas by Toulouse-Latrec.
ANSWER:  "AT THE MOULIN ROUGE"

TOSSUP:  4.  Category:  Literature.
This poet's _Songs of a Semite_ includes the drama, "The Dance to Death," about
12th-Century Thuringian Jews, and constituted a powerful response to the
persecution of her race in Russia.  FTP, name this 19th-Century author of _By
the Waters of Babylon_ who extended an invitation to "the tired" and "the poor,"
regaining popularity in 1986 with the Statue of Liberty Centennial.
ANSWER:  Emma LAZARUS

TOSSUP:  5.  Category:  Geography.
Constitution River divides this West Indian island, the native land of Tituba in
_The Crucible_.  The easternmost of the West Indies, its population density
exceeds that of Taiwan, the Netherlands, or New Jersey.  FTP, name this
English-speaking ex-colony whose capital is at Bridgetown.
ANSWER:  BARBADOS

TOSSUP:  6.  Category:  Science.
The biggest blow to Lyell's radical uniformitarianism came, not from the
catastrophists, but from this physicist's defense of an evolutionary earth.
With Joule, he helped establish the dynamical theory of heat and the principle
of conservation of energy.  FTP, name this physicist, who formulated the 2nd Law
of Thermodynamics and the concept of an absolute temperature scale.
ANSWER:  Lord KELVIN (Sir William THOMSON and "Baron" Kelvin also acceptable)

TOSSUP:  7.  Category:  History.
After the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, Washington approached the
Schuylkill River, some 20 miles up from its confluence with the Delaware.
Relatively few desertions amid the harsh conditions that ensued have made the
area a national shrine.  FTP, name this site, where the Continental Army camped
during the winter of 1777-1778.
ANSWER:  VALLEY FORGE

TOSSUP:  8.  Category:  Literature.
When General Marvin rules that mule carts may not enter the town where Major
Victor Joppolo is serving, Joppolo's defense for insubordination becomes clear.
Supported by a sergeant named Borth, Joppolo befriends the townsfolk and works
to replace the Sicily town's ancient bell, which the fascists had melted for
munitions.  FTP, name this Pulitzer Prize novel by John Hersey.
ANSWER:  _A BELL FOR ADANO_

TOSSUP:  9.  Category:  Religion-Mythology.
Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, Ephesus, and Smyrna received
considerably more praise from St. John the Divine than the rebellious
Corinthians received from Paul.  FTP, give the collective name of these churches
in western Turkey, for whom the Book of Revelation was originally intended.
ANSWER:  The SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA (prompt on "Revelation")

TOSSUP:  10.  Category:  Social Science.
Its early proponents were called bullionists, as they argued for the prevention
of exporting precious metals.  Based upon the tenet that exports must exceed
imports, this economic system, championed by Thomas Mun, was characterized by
protectionist radicalism.  FTP, name this system, which replaced feudal
economics in Europe and was itself replaced by laissez-faire policies after
_Wealth of Nations_ was published in 1776.
ANSWER:  MERCANTILISM

TOSSUP:  11.  Category:  Literature.
The Gloucester fishing schooner, "We're Here," under the command of Disko Troop,
rescues 15-year-old Harvey Cheyne in the North Atlantic.  At sea, Cheyne matures
from a pampered, arrogant boy into a self-reliant youth.  FTP, name this 1897
novel by Rudyard Kipling, unique for its commentary on the American scene.
ANSWER:  _CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS_

TOSSUP:  12.  Category:  Science.
Known as the Milk Dipper because of its shape and proximity to the Milky Way,
its two brightest stars are Nunki and Kaus Australis.  The central regions of
the Milky Way are represented by its western section, and it includes the
Lagoon, Omega, and Trifid nebulae.  Its "arrow" is aimed at Scorpius, and it
represents the mythological Chiron.  FTP, name this summer constellation in the
shape of a centaur.
ANSWER:  SAGITTARIUS

TOSSUP:  13.  Category:  Fine Arts.
The title character of this 1939 ballet was born in Brooklyn, the composer's
hometown.  Featured in the production are the tunes, "Old Paint," "Great
Granddad," and "Old Chisholm Trail," and the percussion section bangs out a
graphic gunfight.  FTP, name this 20-minute suite and predecessor of Copland's
"Rodeo," based on the life of William Bonney.
ANSWER:  "BILLY THE KID"

TOSSUP:  14.  Category:  Social Science/Current Events.
Tazumal, Uxmal, Joya de Ceren, Piedras Negras, and Copan were among the cultural
centers of this civilization, whose descendants are being blamed for a December
massacre in Chiapas.  FTP, name this civilization, whom the Europeans never
quite exterminated, and whose classic period from 250 to 900 centered around
Tikal and Chichen Itza in the Yucatan.
ANSWER:  MAYA

TOSSUP:  15.  Category:  Sports
Major leaguers Dennis Cook, Geoff Edsell, Butch Huskey, Mike Jackson, Scott
Karl, Mariano Rivera, Jason Schmidt, Mo Vaughn, and Lenny Webster are making
baseball history as the last players to wear No. 42, as the League has decided
not to reissue it in memory of the 50th anniversary of the April 15, 1947 debut
of the Brooklyn Dodgers' No. 42, who broke baseball's color barrier.  FTP, name
him.
ANSWER:  Jackie ROBINSON

TOSSUP:  16.  Category:  Film
Fifty-one years after "Gone With the Wind's" Hattie McDaniel became the first
African American Oscar nominee, this film star became the first black actress
since then to win at the Academy Awards.  Shunning controversy at the 1993
ceremony, she merely sported a change of outfit partway through as the first
woman to host the event.  FTP, name this star of "Soapdish," "Ghost," and
"Sister Act."
ANSWER:  Whoopi GOLDBERG

TOSSUP:  17.  Category:  Fine Arts.
Eight Bells; The Life Line; Long Branch, New Jersey; Searchlight:  Harbor
Entrance, Santiago de Cuba; The West Wind; Northeaster; Undertow; Halibut
Fishers; Maine Coast; The Gulf Stream; and The Fog Warning were all creations of
this artist, who, according to N.C. Wyeth, painted the sea "for the first time
in history as it really looked."  FTP, name this painter of "Snap the Whip."
ANSWER:  Winslow HOMER

TOSSUP:  18.  Category:  Geography.
This Arabic nation's capital straddles the Tropic of Cancer, and most of its
dusty borders with Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates remain
undefined in the Rub-al-Khali.  FTP, name this oil-rich sultanate, which
controls a strategic peninsula on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the
Persian Gulf, and whose capital is Muscat.
ANSWER:  OMAN

TOSSUP:  19.  Category:  Current Events.
He left the Senate for health reasons in the 1980's and re-emerged as one of the
front-runners for the 1992 Democratic nomination, winning primaries in Maryland
and Utah.  However, his best showing was his three-point loss in New Hampshire,
where he proved to be the first (and last) major obstacle to the Clinton
nomination.  FTP, name this candidate with Massachusetts credentials and "Elmer
Fudd" voice.
ANSWER:  Paul TSONGAS

TOSSUP:  20.  Category:  General Knowledge.
>From Thon Buri, founded 1767, radiated this nation's capital.  "A nice country
in a bad neighborhood," this long-independent Pacific Rim tiger avoided the
turbulent colonialism of its neighbors, but could not avoid becoming one of
Asia's biggest losers in the regional financial crisis of late.  FTP, name this
Southeast Asian backdrop to the Broadway musicals "Chess" and "The King and I,"
both set in Bangkok.
ANSWER:  THAILAND

BONUSES (30 pts each)

BONUS:  1.  Category:  Religion-Mythology.
For 5 pts each, give the name of the city or mountain where the following
Biblical figures died.
A.)  (5 pts)  Moses.
ANSWER:  Mount NEBO
B.)  (5 pts)  Aaron.
ANSWER:  Mount HOR
C.)  (5 pts)  Stephen.
ANSWER:  JERUSALEM
D.)  (5 pts)  Samson.
ANSWER:  GAZA
E.)  (5 pts)  Jezebel
ANSWER:  JEZREEL
F.)  (5 pts)  Abner
ANSWER:  HEBRON

BONUS:  2.  Category:  Literature
FTP each, identify the following Thomas Wolfe novels from the descriptions.
A.)  (10 pts)  Eugene Gant is left by his mother, enters college in North
Carolina, and finally breaks with his family on a personal pilgrimage.
ANSWER:  _LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL_
B.)  (10 pts)  Gant studies playwriting at Harvard and goes to Europe, where he
is stunned to discover the homosexuality of his friend, Robert Starwick.
ANSWER:  _OF TIME AND THE RIVER_
C.)  (10 pts)  In this sequel to _The Web and the Rock_, George Webber returns
home from Germany and seeks faith in a corrupt society, which others
fatalistically accept.
ANSWER:  _YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN_

BONUS:  3.  Category:  History.
FTP each, answer the following about the Roman Empire in the years following the
reign of Augustus.
A.)  (10 pts)  First, who was Augustus' successor?
ANSWER:  TIBERIUS
B.)  (10 pts)  A mutiny among the legions along the Rhine was suppressed when
loyalty to Tiberius was reaffirmed by this popular commander, the father of the
Emperor Caligula.
ANSWER:  GERMANICUS
C.)  (10 pts)  This prefect of the Praetorian Guard persuaded the wife of
Tiberias' son and intended heir, Drusus, into killing her husband.  He
accumulated power when Tiberius left for Capri and was finally executed in A.D.
31.
ANSWER:  SEJANUS

BONUS:  4.  Category:  Film.
FTP each, name the films for which the following child actresses won Oscars.
A.)  (10 pts)  Anna Paquin
ANSWER:  "THE PIANO"
B.)  (10 pts)  Tatum O'Neal
ANSWER:  "PAPER MOON"
C.)  (10 pts)  Patty Duke
ANSWER:  "THE MIRACLE WORKER"

BONUS:  5.  Category:  Fine Arts.
30-20-10 Name the opera.
A.)  (30 pts)  The first-act arias, "Una voce poco fa" and "Largo al factotum,"
add to the rising action of this opera buffa, first performed in Rome in 1816.
B.)  (20 pts)  Old Dr. Bartolo becomes interested in the beautiful Rosina, but
Rosina is won by the young Count Almaviva, aided in his efforts by Figaro, the
title character.
C.)  (10 pts)  Rossini adapted the opera from the French play by Pierre de
Beaumarchais, set in 17th-Century Spain.
ANSWER:  "THE BARBER OF SEVILLE"

BONUS:  6.  Category:  Social Science.
FTP each, identify the following 20th Century economists.
A.)  (10 pts)  Born in St. Lucia, this British economist became the first black
person to win the Nobel Prize for economics.  He shared the 1979 Prize with
Theodore W. Schultz for contributions to the field of economics as it deals with
developing nations and the agrictulture- to-industry transition.
ANSWER:  Sir Arthur LEWIS
B.)  (10 pts)  This labor economist and vice president of Duke University became
the first woman Secretary of Commerce, under Jimmy Carter, and the first woman
on the NYSE Board of Directors.  Specializing in the subjects of working women
and the elderly, she authored _Sex in the Marketplace:  American Women at Work_.
ANSWER:  Juanita M. KREPS
C.)  (10 pts)  He developed a computer model of the U.S. economy and is known
for his work with Project LINK, an international attempt to model a world
economy.  He won the 1980 Nobel Prize for pioneering the use of computers in
economic forecasting.
ANSWER:  Lawrence R. KLEIN

BONUS:  7.  Category:  Sports.
Sunday's game is history, but here's a Super Bowl bonus anyway.  For the stated
number of pts, answer the following about the rest of the teams that have had a
shot at an NFL title.
A.)  (15 pts)  For 5 pts each, name the three teams with the most Super Bowl
wins.
ANSWER:  SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (5), DALLAS COWBOYS (5), PITTSBURGH STEELERS (4).
B.)  (15 pts)  For 5 pts each, name the three teams with the most Super Bowl
losses.
ANSWER:  DENVER BRONCOS, BUFFALO BILLS, MINNESOTA VIKINGS (each with 4).

BONUS:  8.  Category:  Religion-Mythology.
FTP each, answer the following about Norse mythology.
A.)  (10 pts)  Give the name of the giant 3-rooted ash tree that supported all
creation.
ANSWER:  YGGDRASIL
B.)  (10 pts)  One root of the tree reached into Nilfheim, another grew to
Asgard, and the third extended into this land peopled by giants.
ANSWER:  JOTUNHEIM
C.)  (10 pts)  Three sisters lived around the base of the tree, controlling
past, present, and future.  FTP, give their common name.
ANSWER:  The NORNS

BONUS:  9.  Category:  History.
FTP each, identify the New York politicians who never reached the White House.
A.)  (10 pts)  This Stalwart served in the Senate from 1867-1861, blocked Blaine
from running on Garfield's ticket, and installed Chester Arthur instead.
ANSWER:  Roscoe CONKLING
B.)  (10 pts)  This Republican served as Governor from 1907-1910 and later
became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
ANSWER:  Charles Evans HUGHES
C.)  (10 pts)  This Republican served as Governor from 1942-1954, and while in
office, was twice nominated to run for President.

BONUS:  10.  Category:  Science.
For 5 pts each and a bonus 5 for all correct, from the formulas of the following
organic compounds, give the familiar name.
A.)  (5 pts)  CH4
ANSWER:  METHANE
B.)  (5 pts)  CH3CH3
ANSWER:  ETHANE
C.)  (5 pts)  CH3(OH)
ANSWER:  METHANOL
D.)  (5 pts)  H3CCH2CH3
ANSWER:  PROPANE
E.)  (5 pts)  C27H45(OH)
ANSWER:  CHOLESTEROL

BONUS:  11.  Category:  Entertainment.
FTP each, identify the musical from songs.
A.)  (10 pts)  Wick; Lily's Eyes; Winter's on the Wing.
ANSWER:  "THE SECRET GARDEN"
B.)  (10 pts)  Just You Wait; I Could Have Danced All Night; Wouldn't It Be
Lovely?
ANSWER:  "MY FAIR LADY"
C.)  (10 pts)  The Seven Deadly Virtues; Fie On Goodness; I Loved You Once in
Silence.
ANSWER:  "CAMELOT"

BONUS:  12.  Category:  Literature.
Mind your manors and identify, FTP each, the following estates in British
literature.
A.)  (10 pts) E.M. Forster made it the site of the conflicts between the "outer
life" of the Wilcoxes and the "inner life" of the Schlegels.
ANSWER:  HOWARD'S END
B.)  (10 pts)  The coveted estate in Kenneth Grahame's _The Wind in the
Willows_.
ANSWER:  TOAD HALL
C.)  (10 pts)  The manor in Charlotte Bronte's _Jane Eyre_.
ANSWER:  THORNFIELD HALL

BONUS:  13.  Category:  Science.
FTP each, name the branch of botany from the plants it deals with.
A.)  (10 pts)  Fungi.
ANSWER:  MYCOLOGY
B.)  (10 pts)  Mosses and liverworts.
ANSWER:  BRYOLOGY
C.)  (10 pts)  Ferns.
ANSWER:  PTERIDOLOGY

BONUS:  14.  Category:  Geography.
Five nations now ring the Caspian Sea, where once there were only two.  For 5
pts each and an extra 5 for listing them largest to smallest, name them.
ANSWER:
1.  RUSSIA
2.  KAZAKHSTAN
3.  IRAN
4.  TURKMENISTAN
5.  AZERBAIJAN

BONUS:  15.  Category:  General Knowledge.
FTP each, identify the following examples of the architecture of Frank Lloyd
Wright.
A.)  (10 pts)  Its floating cantilever construction withstood the Kanto
earthquake of 1923.
ANSWER:  IMPERIAL HOTEL
B.)  (10 pts)  It was Wright's Scottsdale home which doubled as a workplace and
institute.
ANSWER:  TALIESIN WEST
C.)  (10 pts)  Give the familiar name of the Kaufman house at Bear Run,
Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
ANSWER:  FALLINGWATER(S)

BONUS:  16.  Category:  Literature.
For 5 pts each and a bonus 5 for all correct, given the poet and the word or
sound significant to the theme, tone, or rhyme scheme of the poem, name the
poem.
A.)  Poe:  The word, "Nevermore."
ANSWER:  "THE RAVEN"
B.)  Poe:  A ticking watch.
ANSWER:  "THE TELL-TALE HEART"
C.)  Keats:  A blithe birdsong.
ANSWER:  "ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE"
D.)  Tennyson:  The word, "Camelot."
ANSWER:  "THE LADY OF SHALOTT"
E.)  Tennyson:  The phrase, "Six hundred."
ANSWER:  "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE"

BONUS:  17.  Category:  Science.
For 5 pts each and a bonus 5 for listing them in order, give the names of the
first 5 Tertiary epochs.
ANSWER:
1.  PALEOCENE
2.  EOCENE
3.  OLIGOCENE
4.  MIOCENE
5.  PLIOCENE (not Pleistocene)

BONUS:  18.  Category:  Fine Arts.
FTP each, identify the following Spanish painters from works.
A.)  (10 pts) The Maids of Honor; Christ on the Cross; The Drunkards.  ANSWER:
Diego VELAZQUEZ
B.)  (10 pts)  The Third of May, 1808; The Family of Charles IV.
ANSWER:  Francisco GOYA
C.)  (10 pts)  The Agony in the Garden; The Burial of Count Orgaz.
ANSWER:  EL GRECO

BONUS:  19.  Category:  General Knowledge.
Name the patron saint of the following countries, for 5 pts each and a bonus 5
for all correct.
A.)  (5 pts)  Scotland
ANSWER:  St. ANDREW
B.)  (5 pts)  England
ANSWER:  St. GEORGE
C.)  (5 pts)  Ireland
ANSWER:  St. PATRICK
D.)  (5 pts)  Russia
ANSWER:  St. NICHOLAS
E.)  (5 pts)  Wales
ANSWER:  St. DAVID

BONUS:  20.  Category:  History.
FTP each, identify the following regions of the Alps from the historical
description.
A.)  (10 pts)  It shares its name with a present-day French province, with its
capital at Marseille.  In history, it was the first Roman province outside Italy
and home to the Babylonian Captivity at Avignon.
ANSWER:  PROVENCE
B.)  (10 pts)  It was split after World War I between Austria and Italy across
the Brenner Pass.  The Austrian half became an Austrian province, with its
capital at Innsbruck, and the southern half, including Trent and Bolzano, has
been granted partial autonomy by Italy.
ANSWER:  TYROL
C.)  (10 pts)  This region along the southwest border of Switzerland was split
in 1860 between France and the Kingdom of Sardinia.  It shares the name of the
ruling house of iItaly which finally lost the throne in 1946 and includes Aosta
and Albertville.
ANSWER:  SAVOY

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Tossup Questions

1. This material includes minerals such as gibbsite and disaspore and is a clay-like material composed mostly of hydrated metal oxides. Its name is derived from the location in France in which it was first found, and major U.S. deposits are in Arkansas and Alabama. FTP, name this material used  for oil filtration, abrasives, refractories, brick, and especially as a
source for alum and aluminum.

Answer: _bauxite_

2. Born in Moscow, the son of a physician, he was for a short time an army officer until his first novel, "Poor Folk," appeared in 1846. In 1849 he was arrested and sent to a penal settlement at Omsk for four years, where terrible conditions aggravated his epilepsy. FTP, name this Russian novelist who is probably best known for his  works The Idiot and Crime and
Punishment.

Answer: Fyodor Mihailovich _Dostoevsky_

3. Its provisions remain binding, as 1960's disputes in Arizona and Baja California over water rights were settled by its provisions. However, Article VIII has consistently been violated by invalidations of land-grants to Mexican Americans. FTP, name the treaty which obligated
the U.S. to pay $15 million to Mexico and assume all claims of U.S. citizens, while Mexico ceded what is now almost the entire American southwest.

Answer: Treaty of _Guadalupe Hidalgo_

4. John Speke and Richard Burton were the first Europeans to see it in 1858. Its only outlet is the Lukuga River which is often silted up, causing varying water levels. Ports include Albertville, Kigoma and Bujumbura. FTP, name this second deepest lake in the world, the second
largest in Africa, famous as the location of the encounter between Stanley and Livingstone.

Answer: Lake _Tanganyika_

5. This author studied archaelogy for a year in Rome, which inspired his works _The Woman of Andros_ and _The Ides of March_ He is most known for dramatic works, and his _The Merchant of Yonkers_, revised to _The Matchmaker_, was the basis for "Hello, Dolly!" FTP name this American who partly adapted Finnegan's Wake to New Jersey for _The Skin of Our Teeth_, while creating the New Hampshire town of Grovers Corners as the setting for _Our Town_.

Answer: Thornton _Wilder_

6. Cerenkov radiation is produced when something moves faster in a medium than light can in the same medium and a sonic boom is produced when an airplane travels faster than the speed of sound.
Both are examples of, FTP, what type of phenomenon, produced when a source of waves moves faster than the waves themselves?

Answer: _Shock Waves_

7. His friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were thrown into a furnace for refusing to worship the statue which Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Also known as Belteshezzar, he rose to prominence
for his ability to interpret royal dreams. FTP, what title character of the only book-length apocalypse in the Hebrew Bible was the target of a conspiracy which landed him in the lion's den?

Answer: _Daniel_

8. As of January 8th, he, David Robinson, and Karl Malone were the only three players who were averaging 20 points and 10 rebounds a game. He has played all five positions and recently scored a career high 49 points in a loss against Washington. FTP, identify this second year small forward from Kentucky, who Rick Pitino has made a priority of resigning for his Boston Celtics after the season.

Answer: Antoine _Walker_

9. It appeared about 1650 and exists in two variants, French and the more prominent German. Valves were added in the early 1800's. The Germanvariety is built in F or in B-flat, and its range extends from the third B below middle-C to the second F above. FTP, identify this
symphonic instrument, a circular hunting horn whose pitch is altered by insertion of the hand into the bell.

Answer: _French Horn_ (yes, there is a French French horn)

10. His thought can be described as nominalism because it holds that universals are simply names. This philsopoher emphasized individuals as the sole reality and that God's power was not bound by physical and moral laws. Tried for heresy in 1324 but not condemned, he was later
excommunicated. FTP, name this "Venerabilis Inceptor" at Oxford who claimed "a plurality is not to be posited without necessity", an argument sometimes called his razor..

Answer: William of _Ockham_

11. At this book's beginning, the evil Dong Zhuo usurps the throne, Lu Bu is the mightest man in the land, the Peach Garden Oath is sworn, and the Yellow Scarves are terrorizing the
countryside. FTP, name this 14th-century historical novel which describes the states led by Sun Quan, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei and the military strategy and tactics of Zhu Ge Liang.

Answer: _Romance of the Three Kingdoms_
(Accept SAN GUO YAN YI)

12. A moderate liberal, he favored a constitutional democracy in a unitary state and free market economies. He entered the international arena during the Crimean War, and got France to agree to help Sardinia if Austria attacked them. His military expeditions led to the Kingdom of
Italy in 1861, and he died a few days later. FTP, name this Sardinian prime minister, the founder of Il Risorgimento.

Answer: Count Camillo di _Cavour_

13. In Great Britain, these are a series of symbols that are stamped on articles of gold or silver to denote conformity to legal standards of alloy fineness. In the United States, we know it as a company which sponsors a Sunday Hall of Fame movie once a month. FTP, identify the greeting card company.

Answer: _hallmark_

14. Despite its name, this creature is quite shy and lies quietly on the bottom of shallow tropical ocean waters. The venom of this creature can cause an irregular heartbeat or can even cause the heart to stop, especially if a person is wounded in the abdomen. FTP, name this large
flat creature which has a long, whip-like tail with a poisonous spine.

Answer: _Stingray_

15. After becoming involved in a relationship, she can no longer condemn Barbara for getting herself pregnant. She unwittingly poisons her mother with what she believed was a sleeping draught in order to meet with her lover, who also killed her brother Valentine under her window.
However, she is saved nevertheless. FTP, name the woman whom Faust seduces in Goethe's tragedy.

Answer: _Gretchen_ (or _Margaret_ or _Margarete_)

16. "The Tiger of Faluja", he was descended from the fellaheen. Anationalist committed to ending British rule, he and General Neguib co-founded the Free Officers' Society after El Alamein to overthrow King Farouk. FTP, name the Pan-Arabist leader responsible for building the
Aswan High Dam and nationalizing the Suez Canal, the president of Egypt from 1956 to 1970.

Answer: Gamal Abdel _Nasser_

17. He was born in Aragon, and was for a time a bullfighter, the subject of some of his etchings. After studying in Italy, he returned to Spain, and was employed on a number of paintings for the royal tapestry factory. FTP, name this man, one of the most famous court painters of Spain.

Answer: Francisco Jose de _Goya_ y Lucientes

18.Made from the mud created by the spittle of Ra, it was created by Isis to end his reign and allow Osiris to take his place. Feared and respected by the ancient Egyptians for the deadly
power it represented, it was worn as the symbol of royalty by the pharoahs. FTP, name the Egyptian term for the first cobra.

Answer: the _Ureaus_

19. Her body was like alabaster, her wings white as snow, and her hair of fiery gold. She was a winged Goddess who flew about the battlefield  choosing the winners and rewarding them with glory and the chance for further battle. FTP, name this Greek goddess who was also called 'Bestower
of Victory'.

Answer: _Nike_

20. Although a pair of hyenas can have offspring by themselves, the number that they can raise is greatly increased by the  presence of siblings who act as helpers. However, the siblings
must sacrifice their own reproduction in the process. The male drones in an ant colony are all genetic clones who work for the queen which produced them, the only ant capable of reproduction.
FTP, what is the biological term that explains this phenomenon?

Answer: _Inclusive Fitness_ (or the _Selfish Gene_)

21. They are numbered, the numbers indicating angle of loft. A standard set includes a brassie, a spoon, a baffy, a cleek, a midiron, a mashie, a mid-mashie, a mashie-iron, a mashie, a spade mashie, a mashie niblick, a niblick, a wedge, a driver, and a putter. FTP, identify these pieces of sporting equipment used by Lee Janzen and Constantino Rocca as well as Tiger Woods.

Answer: _golf clubs_

22.Willy Tan, a prominent businessman, has graciously hosted key Republican leaders like House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, on expensive junkets, in an effort to stop a bipartisan attempt to impose Federal labor law on this territory. FTP identify this island group, a former U.S. Trust
Territory, with a cap ital of Saipan.

A: Commonwealth of the _Northern Mariana_ Islands
(prompt on "Mariana")

23. Its atmosphere is composed of 94% hydrogen and 5% helium. With a diameter approximately 9.4 times that of the earth itself, it is located  888,210,00 miles from the sun, FTP, name this planet whose 17 moons make it the planet with the most satellites.

Answer: _Saturn_

24. Four books in this form were published, in 1846, 1871, 1872 and 1877. The author was also a landscape painter, and his drawing ability provided lively illustrations for his work. Examples of this form are "The Jumblies," "The Dong with the Luminous Nose," "The Owl and the Pussy Cat,"
and various limericks. FTP, name the verse form present in titles of four books by Edward Lear?
Answer: _Nonsense_

25. This type of dog comes in three breeds: standard, miniature, and giant. The miniature breed is classified as a terrier; the other two are  classified as working-dogs. Seen in paintings as early as the 15th century, it was originally used as a guard dog. They have heavily
whiskered muzzles, and hard wiry coats that are either black or salt and pepper. FTP, identify this German dog.

Answer :_schnauzer_

Bonus Questions (by Johns Hopkins A)

1. Name the following areas which Germany once stole that have now been returned to other countries for 10 points each.
a) It was a major industrial area and was taken by Frederick the Great from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession. Its capital, Breslau, is now the Polish city of Wroclaw.

Answer: _Silesia_ (or _Schlessien_)

b) Famously mentioned in Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, this Baltic city is now back in Poland where it began.
Answer: _Stettin_

c) The capital of East Prussia and the coronation city of Prussian kings, and the birthplace of Immanuel Kant, it is now the detached Russian city of Kaliningrad.
Answer: _Koenigsburg_

2. For the stated point values, given the languages, name the language
family:
5: Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew
Answer: _Semitic_
10: Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
Answer: _Dravidian_
15: Kongo, Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Answer: _Niger-Kordofanian_

3. For 10 points each, name the following benzene-derived compounds from a description of their chemical structure or, for 5 points each, a description of how they are used.
a) 10: It consists of a benzene ring with a methyl group and three nitrous (NO2) groups, two adjacent and one opposite to the methyl group.
5: It is used as a high explosive, and is abbreviated TNT.
Answer: _Tri-Nitro-Toluene_ (prompt if TNT is given)

b) 10: It consists of a benzene ring with a carboxyl group and an acetyl group adjacent to each other.
5: It is the active ingredient in aspirin.
Answer: _Acetyl-Salicylic Acid_

c) 10: It consists of two benzene rings, each with a carboxyl group from
which the hydrogen has been removed and the free oxygen atoms are joined
to each other.
5: It's the active ingredient in "Clearasil" and "Oxy 10" products.
Answer: _Benzoyl Peroxide_

4. Name the American poet from work for the stated point values.
5: "Miniver Cheevy"
Answer: Edwin Arlington _Robinson_

5: "The Vision of Sir Launfal"
Answer: James Russell _Lowell_

10: "Anecdote of the Jar"
Answer: Wallace _Stevens_

10: "The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner"
Answer: Randall _Jarrell_

5. For the stated point values, give the better-known one-word names of
the following Italian painters from their real names:
a) 5: Michelangelo Merisi Answer: _Caravaggio_
b) 5: Alessandro Filipepi Answer: _Boticelli_
c) 10: Antonio Allegri Answer: _Correggio_
d) 10: Francesco Mazzola Answer: _Parmigianino_

6. Name the following straits:

a) For 5 points, it connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman.
Answer: Strait of _Hormuz_

b) For 10 points, it separates French Corsica from Italian Sardinia.
Answer: Strait of _Bonifacio_

c) For 15 points, it separates Japanese Hokkaido from Russian Sakhalin.
Answer: _La Perouse_ Strait

7) Identify the following important U.S. Supreme Court decisions
for 10 points each:

a) In 1919, the court stated that freedom of speech and press were not unlimited, but could be restricted if "a clear and present danger" would be created.
Answer: _Schenck_ vs. U.S.

b) In 1967, the court stated that anti-miscegenation laws (law against interracial marriage) were unconstitutional.
Answer: _Loving_ vs. Virginia

c) In 1995, the court stated that federal programs that use racial classifications must be "narrowly tailored" to further a "compelling governmental interest", otherwise they may violate the equal protection clause and be unconstitutional.
Answer: _Adarand_ Constructors vs. Pena

8. Many modern hip-hop songs use the chorus or the music of an older song.
Given a recent hip-hop song, name the group that sang the original version for the stated point values:

5: "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy
Answer : _The Police_ (Every Breath You Take)

10: "Feel So Good" by Mase
Answer: _Miami Sound Machine_ (Bad Boy)

15: "Men in Black" by Will Smith
Answer: _Patrice Rushen_ (Forget Me Nots)

9. 30-20-10 Identify the scientist from clues.

30: He was an Austrian physicist who studied kinetic theory of gases, which explains the properties of gases by reference to the motion of their constituent atoms and molecules.

20: He derived a formula which gives the number of atoms or molecules with a given energy at a specific temperature.

10: He has a constant named after him, whose symbol is "k".

Answer: Ludwig _Boltzmann_

10. Identify the following characters from "The Lord of the Rings" for 10 points each:

a) The heir to the crown of Gondor and the line of Elendil, he isa Ranger.
Answer: _Aragorn_ (or _Strider_)

b) The great wizard, first known as the Gray, then as the White.
Answer: _Gandalf_

d) Originally known as Smeagol, but corrupted by the Ring, he is
instrumental in its destruction.

Answer: _Gollum_

11. Name the member of the Robert Kennedy clan for the stated point
values:

5: This Congressman planned run for governor of Massachusetts was
cancelled. Shattered Faith was a best seller about his first marriage's
annulment.

Answer: _Joseph_ Kennedy II

5: He was arrested in 1983 for heroin possession, but now as a teacher of
environmental law is considered the "green" Kennedy.
Answer: _Robert_ Kennedy Jr.

10: She was dubbed "the Nun" in her youth, and became lieutenant governor
of Maryland in 1994.
Answer: Kathleen Kennedy _Townsend_

10: She works for Amnesty International and wed the son of the former New
York governor in 1990.
Answer: _Kerry_ Kennedy

12. 30-20-10, Name the historical figure.
30: This grandson of John of Gaunt built a famous observatory at Vilo de Infante.
20: In 1415, he led an expedition that conquered Ceuta in Morocco, though a later expedition to Tangier was a failure.
10: He financed voyages to the Canary Islands, the Azores and other destinations until his death in 1460.

Answer: Prince _Henry_ the _Navigator_ (_of Portugal_)
(prompt on "Henry" or "Prince Henry")

13. Name the opera from a description FTP each.
a) Set in Ancient Egypt, it describes the Egyptian captain Radomos who is loved by the title character and Amneris.
Answer: _Aida_

b) This opera tells of the dethroned king Turin and his son Calaf. The title character is a Chinese princess.
Answer: _Turandot_

c) The title character is a poet whose companion is Nicklausse and whose lover is Stella. The first of his stories is about a woman named Olympia.
Answer: _Tales of Hoffman_

14. Identify these dinosaur species FTP each.
a. The first dinosaur eggs and nests indicating nurturing parents were those of this dinosaur,
found in Montana by Jack Horner, named after the Greek word for "good mother."
A: _Maiasaurus_

b. Identify the largest dinosaur species ever exhibited, 75 feet long and 40 feet taul, which are the only sauropods with front legs longer than their rear legs.
A: _Brachiosaurus_

c. Living during the Jurassic, this precursor of the Tyrannosaurs was about 30 feet long. It had large, serrated teeth and curved claws, and may have attacked in packs. It has been found in western North America.
A: _Allosaurus_

16. Name the following figures in the Indian independence movement for the stated point values:

5: This neutralist was the first prime minister of independent India. He was a co-leader of the Nonaligned Movement.
Answer: Jawarharlal _Nehru_

10: Called "The Great Leader" in Arabic, this Muslim Indian was the founder and first governor general of Pakistan.

Answer: Mohammed Ali _Jinnah_

15: This Bengali was the leader of the forward bloc of the INC party, was the commander of the Indian National Army and headed the ProvisionalGovernment of Free India.

Answer: Subhas Chandra _Bose_

16. Identify these Francis's from European History FTP each.
a. First, identify the last Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Austria from 1804 to 1835, whose daughter Marie-Louise became Napoleon's wife in 1810.

b. His full name was Francesco di Pietro di Bernadone. Receiving the stigmata in 1224, he became
the subject of a number of frescoes by Giotto and other early Italian Renaissance artists.

c. He reigned for 68 years, and it was his 1914 ultimatum to Serbia that resulted in World War I.

Answers: a) _Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire_ or _Francis I,
Emperor of Austria_
b) _Saint Francis of Assisi_
c) _Francis Joseph I_ or _Franz Joseph I_, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

17. Name the author from a created character FTPE. You will get five if you need the work.
a) 10: Julien Sorel
5: The Red and the Black
Answer: _Stendhal_ or Marie Henri Beyle

b) 10: Hans Castorp
5: The Magic Mountain
Answer: Thomas _Mann_

c) 10: Saint Mael
5: Penguin Island
Answer: Anatole _France_

18. For ten points each, name the passing, rushing, and receiving leaders in touchdowns for the 1997 NFL football season.
Answer: Brett _Favre_, Karim _Abdul-Jabbar_, Cris _Carter_

19. Answer these questions about the Chunnel for the stated number of points each.
a. First, for five points each, which French and English prime ministers signed a treaty in 1986
which allowed the Chunnel to be built?
Ans: Margaret _Thatcher_ (UK) and Francois _Mitterand_ (France)

b. For ten points within five feet, five points within ten feet, on average, how many feet below the English Channel is the Chunnel?

Ans: 150 feet (145-155 gets 10 points, 140-160 gets 5 points)

c. Finally, for ten points, identify either the English city where the Chunnel begins, or the French city where the Chunnel ends.
A: _Folkestone, UK_ or _Coquelles, France_

20. Identify these scientific terms containing the word "gas" for the stated number of points.
a. First, F5P, symbolized by the letter R, it has a value of 8.3143 Joules per Kelvin-mole.
Ans: Universal _Gas Constant_

b. Secondly, FTP, it is any group of digestive hormones secreted by thewall of the stomach promoting secretion of acid from the gastric glands.

A: _Gastrin_

c. Finally, F15P, it is a method for separation of a gas sample into its components by forcing the sample through a column of a stationary gas or solid.
A: _Gas Chromotography_

21. Identify these recent best sellers based on a plot summary for 15 points each or for 5 if you need the author.
a. 15: It traces two stories, that of Inman, a Confederate soldier who faces a perilous journey
home, and that of his girlfriend Ada, and her attempt with an orphan named Ruby to rebuild the farm her father owned.
5: Charles Frazier
Ans: _Cold Mountain_

b. 15: It deals with Alice Austen and the FBI Reachdeep team as theycombat a weaponized virus
terrorizing New York City made from smallpox and the common cold which causes victims to
cannibalize themselves.
5: Richard Preston

A: The _Cobra Effect_

22. Given the following equation of an ellipse: (1/9)(x-3)^2 + (1/4)(y-2)^2 = 1, find the following for five points apiece:

Length of the semi-major axis : 3

Length of the semi-minor axis : 2

The center of the ellipse: (3,2)

The eccentricity of the ellipse: (1/3){(13)^0.5}

The area of the ellipse: 6pi

The perimeter of the ellipse: 2pi*(6.5)^0.5

23.  For five points apiece and a five point bonus for all correct, name the capitals of the following African countries:
Burkina Faso - _Ouagadougou_
Mali - _Bamako_
Cameroon - _Yaounde_
Angola - _Luanda_
Malawi - _Lilongwe_

24. For 5 points apiece, name the six elements in the last column of the
periodic table.
Answers: Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon

25. For 10 points apiece, name the three countries which border Paraguay.
Answers: Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia

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Tossup Questions

1.  A four year cleaning, completed in 1994, removed grime and 39 coverings that had been added to the original work over the past 450 years.  Commissioned by Clement VII, his successor Paul III insisted that it be completed.  FTP, identify this 43 by 47 foot fresco covered by over 350 tumultuous bodies all surrounding a powerful, beardless Christ in a lapis-lazuli background, completed by Michelangelo in 1541.

        Answer: _The Last Judgment_

2.  In America, it had three incarnations.  The first was concerned with social legislation and the political nomination process,  the second with public ownership of railroads and national resources and tax reduction ; the third version campaigned mainly on foreign policy. FTP, give the common name of this third party, who ran high-profile candidates in the elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948.

        Answer: _Progressive Party_

3.  It can come as a solid-state device, or as a mechanical device, and can be found in televisions, power tools, or anything else that requires direct rather than alternating current.  Depending on the number of current polarities used, their output can be termed as half-wave or
full-wave. FTP, identify these devices that convert alternating current into direct current.
        Answer: _rectifiers_

4. She was married to Cercolas, was known to have a daughter named Cleis,and she was probably of the upper class  Her poetry was composed in the vernacular in different meters, some of her own
invention.  FTP, identify this great Greek poet, whose themes included the loves and hates that flourished in upper class female societies on the island of Lesbos.
        Answer: _Sappho_

5. He graduated from Oregon State College in 1922, and he studied physics under Sommerfield, Schrodinger, and Bohr.  He is the only person to have won the unshared Nobel Prize in two different fields.  He wrote a book entitled "Vitamin C and the Common Cold,"  crusaded against nuclear weapons, developed a formula for electronegativity, studied the nature of the chemical bond, and constructed the first model of the structure of a protein.
        Linus _Pauling_

6.  Born in 1792, this Briton wrote, among other things, that it was impossible that Napoleon could have the ambition he had if he was descended from vegetarians.  This author himself became a vegetarian in 1812, seven years before he penned "O, Wind/If winter comes can Spring be
far behind?"  FTP, who is this Romantic poet, author of "Adonais" and "Ode to the West Wind"?
        Percy Bysshe _Shelley_

7.     This play is best summarized by a speech in Act V, scene ii, when it is described as a story "Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts / Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters / Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause" to Fortinbras and a group of English ambassadors. FTP,
identify this Shakespearian tragedy featuring characters such as Marcellus, Reynaldo, Gertrude, and Laertes.
        Answer: _Hamlet_

8.  This elementary particle is emitted during decay of other particles and was postulated in order to maintain the law of conservation of energy. It has also been found to maintain laws of spin and momentum and is stable.  FTP, name this subatomic particle theorized by Pauli having
little or no mass.
        Answer : _Neutrino_

9.     Its synthesis in 1944 was one of the hallmarks of synthetic organic chemistry.  Secondary uses include pain and fever relief, although prolonged usage may result in deafness.  After World War II, it was replaced by chloroguanadine and primiquine due to its inability to
completely remove plasmodium from the blood stream.  FTP, identify this drug, the first chemical compound successfully used to treat an infectious disease.
        Answer: _quinine_

10.  This Italian's early satirical plays and farces including "Archangels Don't Play Pinball" met censorship from the government. He and his wife, Franca Rame, eventually broke with the Communist party.  His best known works include "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" and "Mistero Buffo."  FTP identify this modern Italian playwright, who gained international attention in 1997 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
      A:  Dario _Fo_

11.     Her 1996 album "Everybody Knows" included hits like the title track, "Believe Me Baby, I Lied," and "I Need You."  Her latest hit is "In Another's Eyes," a duo with Garth Brooks.  FTP, identify the 1997 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, whose version of "How Do I Live?" is
competing with Leann Rimes' for a Grammy this year.
        Answer: Trisha _Yearwood_

12.  This war lasted from 1733 until the Treaty of Vienna on October 5,1735.  It started after the death of Augustus II, and it saw France declare war on the Holy Roman Empire as Louis XV wanted his father-in-law Stanislaus I to bethe next king while Russia vied for Frederick Augustus.  FTP, name this conflict during which Spain took Naples and Sicily and Russia laid siege to Gdansk.
      A:  War Of the _Polish Succession_ (Also accept the War of the Confederation)

13.     Founded in 1531, its cathedral was completed in 1618.  Its governor's palace is considered to be the finest example of Spanish architecture in Mexico. Its rail and highway connections to the United States run north through Nogales, Arizona.  FTP, identify this city,
capital of Jalisco state, one of Mexico's largest.
        Answer: _Guadalahara_

14.  Born in Budapest in 1930, he emigrated to the UK in 1947 where he attended the London School of Economics.  In 1956, he moved to the US and established the Quantum Fund in 1969, which has been one of the best performing funds in its history.  FTP, name this philanthropic billionaire
currency speculator, blamed by some for recent Asian currency woes.
        George _Soros_

15.   This Floridian's birthdate is often disputed, but it is probably between 1891 and 1907. She wrote "Mules and Men" and "Tell My Horse," so FTP, name this author of the line"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board," found in her most famous work, "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
        Zora Neale _Hurston_

16.     In this branch of mathematics, the sum of the angles in a triangle is less than two right angles, and similar polygons of differing areas do not exist.  Also known as Lobachevskian Geometry, it rejects the fifth Euclidean postulate.  FTP, identify this geometry whose basic tenet is that "through a point not on a given line there are at least two lines parallel to the given line."

        Answer: _Hyperbolic Geometry_ (prompt on Non-Euclidean Geometry,
accept "Lobachevskian Geometry" on an especially early buzz)

17. This "Saturday Night Live" graduate would probably rather forget about her roles in "Troll," "Soul Man,"  and "Mannequin."  Having appeared in "Hannah and Her Sisters," "Deconstructing Harry" is her second film with Woody Allen. She's better known for her work on the small screen, though. FTP identify this actress, formerly of "Day By Day," now in her last
season portraying Elaine Benes.
 A: Julia _Louis-Dreyfus_

18.  This native of Iowa entered the first class at Stanford Univeristy in 1890.  He worked as a mining engineer and director of emergency food aid in Europe before becoming Secretary of Commerce.  FTP identify this 31st U.S. President, who had the misfortune of presiding over most of the Great Depression.
        Herbert _Hoover_

19.  In corn, these cause variegations in the color of the kernels. In some cases, they also result in structural instability at the sites of integration, causing chromosomes to break easily at these sites. When they transpose along, or between, chromosomes, they cause inactivation of
neighboring genes. In bacteria, they can move from a plasmid to the main chromosome.  FTP name the genes Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize for discovering.
        _Jumping Genes_  or _Transposons_

20. He is mentioned in ancient texts from Ras Shamra, and his name was sometimes used by writers of the Hebrew Bible instead of "Yahweh." Compared to the Hurrian Kumarbi and Greek Kronus, he is not the central figure of most Canaanite myths. FTP identify this husband of Asherah and
titular head of the Canaanite pantheon.
A: _El_

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21.  This western city has had the largest population growth rate among American cities during the 1990s, as its MSA now contains over one million people.  Recently, it has hosted the computer trade show Comdex, and this year Air Force faced Oregon in a bowl game there.  FTP, name this city which is home to the Luxor, Trasure Island, and MGM Grand.
        _Las Vegas_, Nevada

22.  He painted "The Grand Canal, Venice" and "The Palazzo Dario" in 1908 at age 68.  Other works included "Waterloo Bridge" and "Poplars."  FTP, name this French painter, well known for his works done at Giverny, a founder of the Impressionist movement.
        Claude _Monet_

23.      It may have been used in China as early as AD 200 to reproduce Confucian texts carved on large stones. Today, it is most commonly used to  reproduce artwork or engravings carved on tombstones.  FTP, identify this oldest method of printmaking, made by scouring ink or black wax on top of paper pressed onto an incised surface.
        Answer: _rubbing_

24.  This astronomical phenomenon was discovered by a Serbian in 1941. The varying eccentricity of the earth^s orbit over 100,000 year periods; the changing angle of tilt of the earth^s axis in 40,000 year cycles, and the 22,000 year wobble, or axial precession, are the key components of
this cycle which accounts for the changes in summer solar radiation that explain the recurrence intervals of the ice ages.
       Answer : _Milankovitch Cycle_

25. Its founder curbed Islam's power, insisted that its national language be written with the Latin alphabet, and guaranteed women's rights.  Yet, until 1992, a husband in this country had a legal right to forbid his wife to work. Giving its women the right to vote in 1934, it elected Tansu Ciller as its first woman prime minister in 1993.  FTP, identify this nation, founded by Mustafa Kemal in 1923.
        Answer: _Turkey_

26. Its scientific name is Oryza sativa, and it is thought to exist in over 120,000 varieties. Milling removes the outer hull, bran, and its embryo, leaving its endosperm for consumption.  If the endosperm contains 10-18 percent amylose, it will be soft and sticky, as preferred in the Far
East.  FTP, identify this grain, available in the US in jasmine and basmati strains, among others.
        Answer: _Rice_

27.  This European was born in 1856 and moved to the US in 1884.  He made many advancements in the field of electronics, especially radio  transmission, and invented an arc-lighting system.  However, he is immortalized in the same was as Pascal, Watt, and Weber-- FTP name this
man, whose unit measures magnetic flux.
        Nikola _Tesla_

E.      The proponent of this law was a professor of political economy at the College de France between 1830 and 1832.  The law itself was fundamental to economics until the Great Depression, because it implied that capitalism is self regulating and thus advocated laissez-faire
policy.  FTP, identify this economic law, which simply states that supply creates its own demand.
        Answer: _Say's Law_

E.      Originally Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, he served as bishops of Spoleto and Imola before being named cardinal in 1840.  Originally a supporter the Italian nationalists, his papacy saw the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and the First Vatican Council.  FTP, name this longest serving pope in history, serving between 1846 and 1878.
        Answer: _Pius IX_

Bonus Questions (by Johns Hopkins B)

1.      30-20-10: Identify the common geographical name
        30:     It is the name of a department in southern Uruguay, bounded on the south by the Rio de la Plata in close proximity to Montevideo. It is also the name of a province in west central Argentina separated from Chile by the Andes.

       20:   In the United States, it is the seat of Santa Clara County, and is home to California State University.

        10:  Also the capital of Costa Rica ;  it's unclear to which of these cities that Dionne Warwick was asking directions.

        Answer: _San Jose_

2.      30-20-10: Identify the federal  agency.
 30: Its lending powers were terminated when the Republicans took control of Congress in 1953, and it was abolished in 1957.

 20: It lent over13 billion dollars during its lifetime, and had large military responsibilities during World War II, but because of the  increasing politics involved in its operation, in 1957, its duties were thus turned over to the Treasury Department, the Small Business Administration, and the General Services Administration, among others.

  10: An idea of President Hoover, it was established by Congress on January 22, 1932 ; its purpose was "to provide emergency financing ... aid  in financing agriculture, commerce, and industry."  It made loans when private funds were unavailable for public projects.

        Answer: _Reconstruction Finance Corporation_ or _RFC_


3. Answer these questions about the story of Psyche, each for the stated number of points.

        5:      Whose jealousy did Psyche arouse by her beauty?
              _Venus_

        10:  Venus commanded this mythological figure to inspire Psyche with love for detestable men.  However, this move backfired, and he fell in love with Psyche, later asking Jupiter to maker her immortal.

               _Cupid_

        15:   Finally, what is Psyche most usually depicted as, another meaning of the Greek word "psyche," and a recent Mariah Carey album?

                 _Butterfly_

4.      Identify the three different types of plague given a description FTP each.

        a.      First, it constitutes 3/4th of all plague cases and is usually characterized by a swelling of the lymph nodes
               A: _Bubonic_ Plague.

        b.      Secondly, it is characterized by edema, or a filling of the lungs with fluid. Death occurs within 3 to 4 days.
                A: _Pneumonic_

        c.      Finally, it is the most serious form of the plague, occuring when the bacillus Pasteurella pestis invades the blood stream, causing brain damage and death within 24 hours.

                A: _Septicemic_

5.  5-10-15  Name the authors of the autobiographies from the title and the year of publication.
        5 - "The Story of My Life" (1903)
                Hellen _Keller_
        10 - There are two authors, five points for each.
               "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1949)
                Frank _Gilbreth_ Jr.  and Ernestine Gilbreth _Carey_
        15 - "Speak, Memory"   (1967)
                Vladimir _Nabokov_

6.      Good NFL offensive linemen are now becoming as valued as the quarterbacks they protect.
Identify these Pro-Bowl offensive linemen FTP each.

        a.      FTP each, name the two tackles representing the AFC in the Pro-Bowl this year, one a third year player for Jacksonville whose battles  with the Bills Bruce Smith are becoming legendary, and the other a second year player for Baltimore who was the first  true Baltimore Raven.
      Tony _Boselli_ and Jonathan _Ogden_

        b.      Finally, identify the lineman considered by many to be the best offensive lineman in football.  He recently signed a six year, 24 million dollar contract, becoming the highest paid offensive lineman in NFL history, and will move to left tackle next season.

       Larry _Allen_

7.      Answer these questions about the intrepid John Fremont for the stated number of points.
        a.      First, F5P, under which party was he a candidate for president in 1856?
                 _Republican_
        b.      Secondly, FTP, who was Fremont's father in law, a Missouri Senator whose                influence helped clear the way for Fremont to map the American West?
                  Thomas Hart _Benton_
        c.      Finally, F15P, after the Civil War, Fremont served his country again, this time                 as governor of which territory?
                  _Arizona_ Territory


8.      30-20-10: Identify this classical music form.
        30:     They were written for keyboard and lute in England by Byrd
                and Purcell.  In Germany, the term was often used by 18th century
                composers for keyboard pieces of free improvisatory character.
        20:     In the Romantic period, it is exemplified by Brahms' Opus 116 works of the same                 name for piano.  Arthur Schoenberg wrote one for violin and piano in 1949, and          Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini" is a symphonic one.
        10:     Also used to refer to plays, and at least one animated film, it is defined as a                 composition whose form is governed entirely by the composer. The most famous ones               are Schubert's Wanderer one in C Major and Beethoven's Choral one, opus 80.
        Answer: _fantasia_ (accept fantasy)

9.  Identify the year, 30-20-10.
    30. Socialist Felipe Gonzalez is elected prime minister of Spain and Israeli forces complete        their withdrawal from the Sinai.
    20. Helmut Kohl becomes German chancellor and Canada gets its own constitution.
    10. Argentina invades the Falklands and AT&T agrees to be broken up.
        A:  _1982_

10.  30-20-10  Name the state where these Fortune 500 Companies have their headquarters.
        30 - Honeywell (# 195) and Best Buy (#200)
        20 - Hormel Foods (#437) and General Mills (#264)
        10 - Dayton-Hudson (#27) and 3M (#81)
        _Minnesota_

11. Given the year and director, name the Best Picture Oscar winner of that year.
        A. 1992, Clint Eastwood
          _Unforgiven_
        B. 1988, Barry Levinson
        _Rain Man_
        C. 1978, Michael Cimino
        The _Deer Hunter_

12. For five points each, name the poem and the poet who wrote it given several lines.
        A. "Dying/Is an art, like everything else./I do itexceptionally well."

        Sylvia _Plath_,  _Lady Lazarus_

        B. "April is the cruellest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead
        land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain."

        T.S. _Eliot_, The _Waste Land_

        C. "Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,/And many goodly
        states and kingdoms seen."

        John _Keats_, _On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer_

13.  Given a definition of an SI unit, name the unit, for the stated number of points.
5 : One kilogram-meter per second squared               A: _newton_
5 : One newton-meter                                     A: _joule_
10 : One joule per second                                  A: _watt_
10 : One newton per square meter                        A: _pascal_

14.  Identify the following artists who did work in the 20th century from one work FTP or from an easier work FFP.
        A. 10: William Tell
            5: Persistence of Memory
        Salvador _Dali_

        B. 10: The Blue Nude
            5: The Dance
        Henri _Matisse_

        C.  10: Broadway Boogie-Woogie
             5: Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
        Piet _Mondrian_

15.  For the stated number of points, name the major American city given its mayor.
        A. For five, Willie Brown.
         _San Fransisco_, California

        B. For five, Richard Riordan.
        _Los Angeles_, California

        C. For ten, Dennis Archer.
        _Detroit_, Michigan

        D. For ten, Tom Murphy.
        _Pittsburgh_, Pennsylvania

16. Identify the people and events these items represent in Don McLean's song "American Pie" FTPE given their role in the song and a clue about them.

A. The jester who sang for the King and Queen, he also found time
to release about 40 albums. Bob _Dylan_

B. The girl who sang the blues, she died of a heroin overdose.
Janis _Joplin_

C. They were "eight miles high and falling fast", and many of their hits were remakes of other people's songs.
The _Byrds_

17. Identify the following figures of the French Enlightenment FTPE given short clues.
A. His best known work is "The Spirit of the Laws."
Charles-Louis _Montesquieu_

B. A controversial figure and influence on utilitarianism, his best known work is 1758's "On The Mind."
Claude-Adrien _Helvetius_

C. His 1781 autobiography was entitled "Confessions".
Jean-Jacques _Rousseau_

18. The Nagano Olympics are going to be the first to feature stars from the NHL. However, there has been some controversy surrounding the selection of the teams. Answer the following questions for the stated number of points.

a) F5P, many people were shocked when this captain of the Vancouver Canucks was left off the Canadian team.
A: Mark _Messier_

b) FTP, this former Hart Trophy winner from the Detroit Red Wings will not be on the Russian team because of his contract holdout.
A: Sergei _Federov_

c) F15P, Brett Hull threatened to lead a boycott of NHL players from the U.S. team if this former member of the New Jersey Devils was not included on the roster.
A: Bill _Guerin_

19. Given the main characters in a Shakespeare play, give the name FTPE.
A. Vincentio, Angelo, Isabella, Claudio, and Marion.
_Measure for Measure_

B. Falstaff, Mrs. Page, Mr. Ford.
The _Merry Wives of Windsor_

C. Sir Toby Belch, Viola, Sebastian, Duke Orsino, and Olivia.
_Twelfth Night_

20. Answer these questions about the recent cloning controversy F15P each.
a. First, identify the interestingly-named Chicago physicist turned genetic engineer who recently said that he would like to begin attempts to clone humans as a solution to infertility.
Richard _Dick Seed_

b. Secondly, identify the Scottish institute which produced Dolly after 277 attempts, and has only since produced 20 live clones.
_Roslin_ Institute

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21.  For five points each, name the state in which the national park is located.
a.  Isle Royale                 _Michigan_
b.  Wind Cave                   _South Dakota_
c.  Capitol Reef                 _Utah_
d.  Lassen Volcanic            _California_
e.  Theodore Roosevelt    _North Dakota_
f.  Lake Clark                  _Alaska_

22. Name these musical innovators FTP each.
10 - He "discovered" the 12-tone system and wrote "A Survivor fromWarsaw."
Arnold _Schoenberg_
10 - He invented the "prepared piano" and wrote "4 minutes and 33 seconds"
John _Cage_
10 - He proposed "Gesamtkunstwerk" and wrote "Lohengrin."
Richard _Wagner_

23. Straightforward: name the capitals of these countries FFPE.
A. Oman _Muscat_
B. Mauritania _Nouackchott_
C. Belarus _Minsk_
D. Trinidad and Tobago _Port of Spain_
E. Madagascar _Antananarivo_
F. Laos _Vientiane_

24. Name the poem given lines on a 10:5 basis.
a) 10: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ slouches towards Bethlehem to be born
5: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
A: The _Second Coming_

b) 10: And this gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
5: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
A: _Ulysses_

c) 10: We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/ By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
5: In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo.
A: The _Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock_

25. The decathlon consists of two events over two days. The running events are the 100-m run, the 400-m run, and the 1500-m run. For five points each and five points if all correct, name any five of the seven remaining events in the decathlon.
_Long Jump_, _Shot-Put_, _High Jump_, _Hurdles_, _Discus_
Throw, _Pole Vault_, _Javelin_ Throw

26. 30-20-10. Name the city.
30: It's name is the Huron word for "place of meeting"
20: In January, 1998, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, East York, York and this city were merged to form the fifth most populous city in North America
10: This city is the capital of Ontario
Answer: _TORONTO_

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PMV Ð Round 2
January 1998

University of Pennsylvania A
(Questions by Josh Levy, et. al.)

Tossup Questions

1. Further studies on this substance, discovered accidentally, were made

by Sir H.W. Flovey and E.B. Chain.  Recognizing its potential use in
war, its production and allocation were controlled by the U.S. War
Production
Group which did not lift quota restrictions on civilian supplies until
March, 1945. FTP, name the first widely-used antibiotic.
Answer: _Penicillin_

2. Warning: 2 answers required. "Detection is, or ought to be, an exact
science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the

same effect as if you worked a love story or elopement into the 5th
proposition of Euclid". This was an exchange between two fictional
characters over one's portrayal of the other in "A Study in Scarlet."
FTP, what two Arthur Conan Doyle creations were speaking?
Answer: John _Watson_ to Sherlock _Holmes_

3. It officially recognezed the Roman Catholic church, the seignerial
(sign-uri-al) land tenure system, and French Civil law. Its terms were
largely dictated by Guy Carleton, the territory's governor, when it was
passed in 1774. It set up an appointed council to assist the governor,
extending this territory's boundaries south to the Ohio river, and west
to the Missisippi. FTP, name this act, or its namesake territory, that
is regarded as one of the intolerable acts.
Answer: The _Quebec_ Act

4. It moved in 1889 to the Maryinsky Theater, which was renamed after
the company in 1935. Until 1944, when its chief choreographer and its
prima ballerina were transferred to the Bolshoi company, it was the
preeminent
ballet in Russia. In the 1960s and 70s it lost some of its finest
dancers, among them Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, and Rudolf
Nuryev, who chose to live and work in the West.   FTP, name this ballet
company.
Answer: the _Kirov_ Ballet

5. Claire Rushbrook, Richard O'Brian, Alan Cumming, Roger Moore, Mark
McKinney, Richard Grant, George Wendt, Meatloaf, Victoria Adams, Melanie

Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Melanie Brown all star in this

movie. FTP, name the movie that is hoped by execs to be the Spice Girls
"A Hard Day's Night."
Answer: _Spice World_

6. Pencil and paper might be helpful. It's 1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-0 in
binary, 2-9-A in hexidecimal, 1-2-3-2 in octal, and 3-0-1-2 in base 6.
FTP, what is this number in binary, which in appeared in the Book of
Revelations as the Mark of the Beast?
 A: _666_

7. The poem moves chronologically through various generations, beginning

with Chaos, Earth, and Eros, without a plot. It then proceeds from the
Titans, Cyclops, and Giants to the rule of Cronus, who swallows all his
children out of fear. Zeus survives and supplants him. It finally
describes the creation of the other Olympian deities and the human
offspring of divine parentage, such as Hercules and Achilles. FTP, name
this circa 800 BC work by Hesiod.
Answer: _Theogony_

8. In 1983, she confessed to hacking to death 2 people with a pickax
while in a drug induced rage. She was convicted of the crime and
sentenced to death. However, while in prison, she became a born-again
Christian, thus leading christian conservatives such as Ollie North to
demand for her pardon.  FTP, name this Texas woman who is set to become
the 2nd woman in Texas history to be executed.
Answer: Karla Faye _Tucker_

9. This formerly moribund college basketball program recently cracked
the Top 25 AP poll for the first time in 24 years. Led by coach Riley
Walolace, the teams accomplishments include wins over Tulane, Kansas,
and Indiana. FTP, name the university whose Rainbows are turning the
heads of people like Dick Vitale.
Answer: University of _Hawaii_

10. The author had originally requested that no performance be given of
this autobiographical work until 25 years after he died.  It follows the

course of 18 tortured hours in the life of Edmund Tyrone as he and his
family--a miserly actor father, a delicate mother, an alcoholic elder
brother--vent their guilts and frustrations upon one another.  FTP, name

This autobiographical play, written in 1941 and first produced in 1956,
by Eugene O'Neill.
Answer: _Long Day's Journey Into Night_

11. It refers to what was once a village on the northeastern outskirts
of London where horses were raised before taken into the city for sale
or hire. Most rented horses were old or worn out from usage, and because
of
this the name of the village came to be applied to a broken-down horse.
This name later got applied to anybody who wrote for hire, and hence
unimaginatively, or to any writing loaded with cliches. FTP name this
village.
Answer: _Hackney_ (prompt on: hack)

12. Some schools have degree programs in it, even though it is not
generally accepted in academia.  Fictional character Peter Venkman had a

degree in it. FTP identify this field of study of psychic phenomena, the

ability of the mind to perform psychic acts, mostly extrasensory
perception or psychokinesis.
Answer : _Parapsychology_

13. General Taylor began his attack on the morning of September 21st.
Six companies of Texas Rangers charged up Federation Hill, captured
enemy artillery, and turned the cannon on retreating Mexican forces.
Bloody
street-to-Street fighting began on the 23rd. Mexican general Pedro de
Ampudia soon requested a truce, and removed his forces from the city on
the 25th. These are the events of, FTP, what Battle of the Mexican
American War?
Answer: The Battle of _Monterrey_

14. Norman Mailer publishes _The Executioner's Song_, , the US
Department of Energy is established, "Evita" debuts on Broadway, the
Village People top the charts with "YMCA", the Pittsburgh Pirates defeat

the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series and the Ayatollah Khomeni
seizes power in Iran, all occured--for ten points--in what year, also
the title
of a Smashing Pumpkins hit?
Answer:  _1979_

15. Their animist religion imputed spirits to most animals and important

landscape features. To avoid their hostility, souls of the important
subsistence animals were propitiated through extensive honorary customs
and taboos.  One of the most widespread customs was for the hunter's
wife to offer a dead seal a drink of water as a sign of hospitality when

her husband brought the carcass to the entryway of the house. FTP, name
this
Arctic people.
Answer:  _Inuit_ or _Eskimo_

16. Extending from the Indian Ocean at Eighty Mile Beach inland for
about 350 miles, it's a barren region of sandhills and salt marshes in
northern Western Australia.  A riverless land of scattered grasses and
acacias, it is nearly coextensive with the Canning Basin.  FTP, name
this
Australian desert explored by Peter Warburton in 1873, given one of the
least
imaginative names ever for anything.
Answer: _Great Sandy Desert_

17. Matches in this sport are usually held in small, earthen pits. The
two competitors, specially bred for this event, are released and then
try to kill each other with sharp metal spurs. Originating in Asia over
3,000
years ago, it was popular in Persia, Rome, and parts of Greece. It was
popular among the 16th-century English aristocracy, who would wager on
the outcome. FTP, name this sport, fought with specially bred Fowl and
illegal in America.
Answer: _Cock Fighting_

18. CdCO3 * CdO + CO2. (read cadmium trioxide yields cadmium oxide plus
carbon dioxide) FTP, give the one word description of the above
reaction, which involves the breaking down of a compound into 2 or more
elements or compounds.
Answer: _Decomposition_

19. At $45 per square foot, it was, at the time of its completion, the
most luxurious skyscraper ever built. Everything in this building,
including the lavatory fixtures, was custom-designed. It is set back 90
feet from its site at 375 Park Avenue, and rises in an uninterrupted
38-story column. FTP, name this skyscraper, designed by Phillip Johnson
and Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe.
Answer: The _Seagram_ Building

20. Labeled the "prince of humanists" this Rotterdam scholar was the
leader of the Christian humanist movement in Northern Europe. He was a
friend of Sir Thomas More and his most famous manuscript was the most
widely read document of the 16th century, after the Bible of course.
FTP, name this author of The Praise of Folly.
Answer : _Erasmus_

21. Its name, which means "Five Treasuries of the Great Snow" in
Tibetan, refers to its five peaks, four of which are arranged
symmetrically around the highest summit.  Several attempts to climb the
mountain have
ended in fatal accidents, but in 1955 a British team led by Charles
Evans
almost reached the top.  The party stopped 5 ft below the summit out of
respect
for local religious traditions.  FTP, name this mountain, the world's
third highest.
Answer: _Kanchenjunga_   {kahn-chuhn-jung'-guh}

22. "I do all this work to plow this field, and then this american
tramples all over it." I suppose that the russian peasant quoted had a
good point. After all, having a large hot-air balloon landing on your
crops can really ruin your day. But most disappointed was, FTP, what
American man who had tried to travel around the world in a hot air
balloon, but was forced to make a landing in Russia?
Answer: Steve _Fossett_

23.  Ujima, Ujamaa, Umaja, Imani, Nia, Kumba, Kujichagulia are the names

of the 7 days. Each of them celebrates a different virtue. Each virtue
(and
day) is represented by a candle. These are lit over the seven days of,
FTP, what holiday celebrating the African harvest?
Answer: _Kwanzaa_

24.  To the sadness of many TV execs, she recently turned down cameo
roles on Ally Mcbeal and Dharma and Greg. On Saturday Night Live, she is

played by a man. Appointed to her job in 1993, she is known by Daily
Show fans as the "mighty Kong." Unlike the previous nominees for this
position,
she's never had child care problems. FTP, name this top law lady in the
U.S.
Answer: Janet _Reno_

25.  This is a theorem in probability theory that states that the
average of the outcomes of independent repetitions of a chance
phenomenon must
approach the expected novel of the outcome as the number of repetitions
increases without limit, or approaches infinity. It is also called
Chebyshev's Theorem or Bernoulli's Theorem. Gambling houses, insurance
companies, and other industries base their business practices on this
assurance that the average result of many independent chance trials is
quite predictable--even if the result of one individual trial is not.
FTP, name this theory, popularly known as the law of averages.
Answer: The _Law of Large Numbers_ (Prompt for proper name on the law of

averages)

26.  "We gave the devotchka a tolchock on the listo and the krovy came
out of his mouth" ? The reason that you can't understand this question
is that it's not in English. It is in fact in an amalgam of languages,
principally drawn from Russian, spoken by Alex and his Droogs  in
Anthony Burgess's novel "A Clockwork Orange". FTP, name the language.
Answer: _Nadsat_ (Accept "A Clockwork Orange" if given before the it is
said. )

Bonus Questions (by UPenn.)

1. Name the rivers on which the following world capitals can be found,
ten points each.
a)      Warsaw                                  Answer: _Vistula_
b)      Baghdad                                 Answer:  _Tigris_
c)      Yangon                                  Answer:  _Irrawaddy_

2. Given a description of an oddly named scientific unit of measument,
name it, for ten points each.
a.  This unit is the amount of force necessary to give a mass
of one gram an acceleration of one centimeter per second-squared
(1 cm/sec2).
Answer: _dyne_
b.      This unit of energy, equal to 10-7 joules, is also equivalent to

one dyne acting through one centimeter.
Answer: _erg_
c. This measurement of radioactivity is the amount of energy
deposited per gram of absorbing material, and is equal to 100 ergs per
gram.
Answer: _rad_

3. Given a brief synopsis of a Jane Austen novel, provide the title of
the book, for ten points each:
a. Published in 1814, this Austen novel is centered around Fanny
Price, a self-effacing and unregarded cousin cared for by the Bertramsa
who struggles to gain complete acceptance into their family.
Answer: _Mansfield Park_
b. Catherine Morland,  the protagonist of this novel, is an
innocent abroad who gains worldly wisdom at the title location of this
novel, where she learns not to interpret the world through her reading
of
Gothic thrillers.
Answer: _Northanger Abbey_
c. Austen's last completed novel, it tells the story of a second chance,

the reawakening of love between Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick
Wentworth,
whom seven years earlier she had been swayed from marrying.
Answer: _Persuasion_

4. Given a brief description, for ten points each, provide the name of
the Egyptian pharaoh.
a)      Believed to be the first monotheist in recorded history, he
renounced the worship of the old Egyptian gods and introduced a solar
cult of the sun-disc Aton.
Answer:  _Akhenaton_ (accept: Amenhotep IV)
b)      Rumored to have been killed by a hippopotamus, he united Upper
and Lower Egypt into one kingdom, establishing the capital at Memphis.
Answer:  _Menes_
c)      An enthusiastic builder, he has left innumerable monuments,
among them the great sandstone temples at Abu Simbel.
Answer:  _Ramses II_ (accept: _Rameses II_) or _The Great_

5. Answer the following questions about the 1997 Tony Awards.
I. A British production of a Henrik Ibsen play about a marital
relationship took Broadway by storm during its limited engagement. For 5

points each, name this play, the actor who won the Tony for Best Actor
in a Play for his role as Torvald, and the actress who won the Tony for
her role as Nora.
Answer: _A Dolls House_, Owen _Teale_, Janet _McTeer_
 II. Alfred Uhry became the first playwright to win the triple crown, an

Oscar, a Pulitzer, and a Tony Award for best play.  For ten points, name

his Tony Award winning play about 1920's Jewish Life in Atlanta and a
dance that is currently on Broadway, starring Paul Rudd, Dana Ivey, and
Jessica Hecht.
Answer: _The Last Night of Ballyhoo_
III.  Finally, for five points, name the musical that swept just about
every category that it was nominated, which stars David Garrison from
Married With Children fame, and was helped by a hit motion picture
depicting the same subject which was released in December.
Answer: _Titanic_

6. Given the description, identify the chemical reaction or process, FTP

each.
1. The decomposition of an object due to heat alone, absent of both
oxygen and air.
Answer: _Pyrolysis_
2. A chemical reaction that has water as one of the reactants.
Answer: _Hydrolysis_
3. A liquid is vaporized, then that vapor is collected, condensed, and
collected in a second container.
Answer: _Distillation_

7. Name the subatomic particle from a brief description, ten points
each.
a)      A negatively charged lepton, this particle has a half-integral
spin and a mass nearly 207 times larger than that of an electron.
Answer:  _Muon_
b)      This particle is the largest of the leptons, with a mass 3,700
times larger than that of an electron.
Answer: _Tau_-Lepton
c)      The lightest of the mesons, this subatomic particle is chiefly
responsible for the strong interactions between the protons and neutrons

in atomic nuclei.
Answer:  _Pion_ (accept: _Pi meson_)

8. Given characters from a Shakespearean play, name the play FTP each.
a) Pease Blossom, Mustard Seed
A _Midsummer Night's Dream_
b)Tamora, Lavinia
Titus Andronicus_
c)Rosalind, Orlando
_As You Like It_

9. For ten points each, name the pre-Socratic thinkers from the
description.
a.      Often called the first philosopher of Athens, this mentor of
Socrates is best remembered for discovering the true nature of eclipses.

Answer: _Anaxagoras_
b.      Although little of the work of this pre-Socratic philosopher has

survived, this Ionian's  view that fire forms the basic material
principle of an orderly universe was often cited by later thinkers.
Answer: _Heraclitus_
c.       This pupil of Thales and founder of astronomy believed that the

world was derived from a nonperceptible substance called the apeiron.
Answer:  _Anaximander_

10. Answer the following questions about the sordid pasts of an
actor/actress from the wholesome Movie "Clueless"
1. Alicia Silverstone starred as a sex symbol in three Aerosmith videos.

for 5 each, name them.
Answer: _Amazing_, _Crying_, _Crazy_
2. The Actress who played Dion starred in a soft-core porn flick. Name
her for 5 points, and the movie she starred in, for ten more points.
Answer: Stacey _Dash_, _Illegal In Blue_

11. Answer the following questions about the 19th century War of the
Pacific,
for the stated number of points.
For 5 Each, What three nations were involved in the war?
Answer: _Peru_, _Bolivia_, and _Chile_
15: What 1883 Treaty ended hostilities between Peru and Chile?
Answer: The Treaty of _Anchon_

12. Of course, we all know about the economic problems that have
plagued SE Asia recently. But do you know the currencies that have
actually hit an economic "rough patch?" FTP each, given a economic
victim, name its currency.
a) South Korea
_Won_
b) Thailand
_Baht_(bat)
c)Indonesia
_Rupiah_(roo-pie-ahh)

13. For 5 each, and 5 points in the correct order, name Ireland's 5
largest port cities.
Answer: _Dublin_, _Cork_, _Limerick_, _Galway_, _Waterford_

14. Name the 20th century American composer from a list of works, ten
points each.
a.  The orchestral works "Three Places in New England,"  and
"Concord Sonata."                   Answer: Charles _Ives_
b.  The minimalist works "Drumming," 'Clapping Music," and "Music
for 18 Musicians"                   Answer: Stephen _Reich_
c. The ballets "Billy the Kid," and "Appalachian Spring"
                                    Answer: Aaron _Copland_

15. Given the definiton of a term from economics, provide the name of
that term, ten  points each.
a.      The average number of times per year that money is spent
in circular flow.
Answer:  _velocity_
b.      "Basically," it's the measure of the money supply of an economy
that includes currency held by the nonbank and bank reserves.
Answer:  _monetary base_
c.      Paper money that is not backed by a commodity in the sense that
people cannot trade it for a particular commodity at a fixed nominal
price.
Answer:  _fiat money_

16. Given a description of a Military unit from old times, name it, FTP
each.
a. In the 17th century, this was a term for soldiers who carried a
certain kind of ammunition. Now, the term is applied to elite troops.
Answer: _Grenadier_
b. A European Light cavalryman, the original unit was part of the
Hungarian army in its 15th century wars with Turkey. The term comes from

the Hungarian for "Freelancer" or "Free-Booter"
Answer: _Hussar_
c. Heavily armed and Armored infantrymen, they fought in phalanxes in
ancient Greece.
Answer: _Hoplite_

17. The Super Bowl is upon us, so lets see what you know about it.
a) For 5 points each, name the 3 teams who were 0-for-4 all-time
in Super Bowls heading into this past season.
_Buffalo_ or _Bills_ , _Minnesota_ or Vikings_, _Denver_ or _Broncos_
b) For five points, when was the last time an AFC team won the
Big Game?
A:    _1984_ or _Super Bowl 18_.
c) For five points each, tell me, in order, the winner and loser of
Super
Bowl 18.
A: Los Angeles _Raiders_ (prompt on "Los Angeles," but rule "Oakland" or

"Oakland Raiders" wrong), _Washington Redskins_

18. How well do you know your muses? For 5 pts each and a 5 pt. bonus
for all 5, name each muse
a)muse of history_              _Clio_
b)muse of comedy                _Thalia_
c)muse of epic poetry           _Calliope_
d)muse of lyric poetry          _Euterpe_
e)muse of love poetry           _Erato_

19.  Earn a round trip on the subway by getting these two tokens.  For
fifteen points each, name the female psychologist from the given
description.
a.      Psychoanalyst who was a pioneer in studying the fears,
anxieties, and desires of young children. She wrote "Normality and
Pathology in Young Children."
Answer: Anna _Freud_    (prompt on: Freud)
b.      She rejected Sigmund Freud's notions of libido and penis envy in

her work The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, suggesting that
people suffer from a basic anxiety wherein environmental and social
conditions determine much of individual personality.
Answer: Karen _Horney_  (hor-nay: grudgingly accept:
hor-nee)

20.  Given a nation, provide its currency unit, five points each
plus a bonus five for all correct.
a)      South Africa                    Answer:  _rand_
b)      Sweden                          Answer:  _krona_
c)      Norway                          Answer:  _krone_
d)      Guatemala                       Answer: _quetzal_
e)      Saudi Arabia                    Answer:  _riyal_

21. Cloning recently reentered the news as a physicist from Chicago
declared that he wanted to start a clinic in Chicago to clone humans:
a)FTP, name the physicist.
_Richard _Seed_
b)for ten more points, name the University of Pennsylvania
bioethicist who mocked Seed in Time magazine when he stated: "he has as
much chance of cloning a human as my uncle Morty does."
_Arthur _Caplan_
c)finally, FTP name the Scottish scientist who began the cloning
furor last year when he created "dolly"
_Ian _Wilmut_

22. For 15 pts each, mane the author of the following works. If you
need a second work from that author, you'll only earn 5 pts.
a)Ghosts(15 pts), Pier Gynt(5pts)-Henrik _Ibsen_
b)The Bald Soprano(15 pts), Rhinoceros(5 pts)- Eugene _Ionesco_

23.        Name these "fathers" FTP each
a)"father of history"-_Herodotos_ or _Herodotus_
b)"father of biology"-_Aristotle_
c)"father of oceanography"-Matthew _Maury_

24. Smallpox has not been totally erased from the earth. There are small

stocks of it in four places. One is the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. FTP,
name the other three countries that hold smallpox samples.
Answer: _GREAT BRITAIN_, _RUSSIA_, _CHINA_

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PMV - Round
January 1998

Tossups

1.      He went on a boating expedition with Edward Hoar on April 30, 1844 during which they cooked some fish for lunch and accidently set fire to the dry grass, burning more than 300 acres.  Oddly, rather than expressing guilt, in his journal he noted, "It was a glorious spectacle, and I was the only one there to enjoy it."  His lecture on "Wild Apples," presented on February 14, 1860 in Lowell, Massachusetts, became his most successful, was published in the "Atlantic Monthly," and first appeared in book form in his 1863 posthumous work, "Excursions."  FTP, identify this Harvard graduate and naturalist, author of such works as "The Maine Woods," "A Yankee in Canada," and "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers."
Answer:  Henry David _Thoreau_

2.      In 1643, the Parliament of England appointed a group consisting of laymen, clergy, and church scholars to draw up a system of doctrine and government, that would eventually become the central creed of this church.  It is considered the dominant creed in Scotland, and worship in the church is based on John Calvin's definition of the essential characteristics of the church.  FTP, name this religion, taking its name from the Greek for "elders."

Answer: _Presbyterianism_

3.      By the time this world leader came to power in 1948, he was already 73 years old.  He was released from prison under an amnesty in 1904, after which he went to the United States, earning a Ph.D. at Princeton in 1910.  After he was forced into exile in 1960, he spent the rest of his life in Hawaii. FTP,identify this Korean statesman, president of the Republic of Korea during the Korean War.

Answer:  Syngman _Rhee_

4.      This philosophy was popular throughout the ancient world, and was spread by the followers of the man who gave the philosophy its name, which included Polystratus, Zeno of Sidon, and Philodemus of Gadara.  In mmore modern times the word has taken on a different meaning.  FTP, identify this Greek philosophy which held that real pleasure is attained through a life of prudence, honor, and justice, and that the end of all morality is pleasure.

Answer:  _epicureanism_

5.      At Columbia University Teachers College he was introduced to the philosophy of John Dewey and began his training in clinical psychology.  He distinguished among five different responses to emotional communications: evaluative, interpretative, reassuring, probing, and reflective.  He was concerned with what he called the "fully functioning person" and "unconditional positive regard."  FTP, identify this humanist psychologist, best known for his method of client-centered therapy, who believed that there are three necessary and sufficient therapeutic attitudes for change: empathy, acceptance, and genuineness.

Answer:  Carl Ransom _Rogers_

6.      Patent number 4063220 was issued on 13 December, 1977, to protect this invention, developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Coming in thick and thin varieties, this invention has become the standard for small Local Area Networks.  Employing a bus topology, this network paradigm is defined by IEEE document number 802.3 as the standard for contention networks.  FTP, name this invention, in which variable-length packets of information are sent at a rate of up to 10 megabits per second the brainchild of Robert Metcalfe.

Answer: _Ethernet_

7.      Originally planned as a novella, this novel describes what was initially planned to be a three-week visit and develops into a stay of more than seven years.  Following an argument, a duel is arranged between Naphta, a Jew converted to Catholicism, and Settembrini, an Italian humanist.  When the Italian refuses to shoot him, Naphta becomes furious and turns his pistol on himself.  The protagonist, a young German of middle-class and commercial background, falls in love with Madame Chauchat, but she refuses him and leaves for Russia for a time, returning with a wealthy, hedonistic Dutchman.  FTP, identify this 1924 novel, chronicling Hans Castorp's experiences in an insane asylum, inspired by the author's own brief stay at one.

Answer:  _The Magic Mountain_

8.      In 1819 he resigned from the Senate to become minister to Spain.  He later served a two-year stint as governor of Georgia and for five more years in the Senate.  In 1834, he became Secretary of State, a post he held for seven years during which his chief concerns were compensation for French piracy during the Napoleonic Wars, the annexation of Texas, the Caroline Affair, and the border dispute between Maine and New Brunswick.  FTP, identify this Secretary of State to Jackson and Van Buren who earned a decidedly negative portrayal in the recent movie _Amistad_.

Answer:  John _Forsyth_

9.      Mysteriously, a great cypress is in the process of rapid growth far above the earth's surface and into the combustion of the sky.  Rather than twinkling pinpoints of light against a deep curtain of blue, there is a representation of the vastness of the universe, filled with whirling and exploding stars and galaxies of stars, beneath which the earth and men's habitations huddle in anticipation of cosmic disaster.  FTP, identify this work, illustrative of the artist's "expressionist" method, which was completed in 1889, the year before van Gogh's suicide.

Answer:  _The Starry Night_

10.     This hormone was first isolated by American Edward Kendall in 1919, and synthesized a mere eight years later by Briton Charles Harington.  It is secreted into the blood after production as a complex with the protein plasma globulin.  Secretion and production are controlled by the pituitary, but this hormone, produced by the combination of Iodine and the amino acid tyrosine, is produced in the thyroid gland.  FTP, name this hormone, which, along with triiodothyronine, control the rate of synthesis and breakdown of proteins in individual cells.

Answer: _Thyroxine_
Accept: _Tetraiodothyronine_ or _T4_

11.     A rich, clever, and beautiful young woman takes under her protection Miss Smith, a seventeen-year-old girl of unknown parentage.  Given to matchmaking and feeing that Miss Smith deserves better, she breaks up the girl's love affair with a worthy farmer and persuades the girl to fall in love with a vicar.  To her dismay, the vicar proposes to her rather than to Miss Smith.  She becomes really concerned when she discoveres that Miss Smith's new interest is in Mr. Knightly, whom she realizes is the man that she has always loved.  Ultimately, matrimonial problems are solved as she accepts Mr. Knightly's proposal and Miss Smith marries her old lover, the farmer.  This summarizes the action of, FTP, what title character of an 1816 novel by Jane Austen.

Answer:  _Emma_ or _Woodhouse_

12.     He served as curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City from 1906 to 1941, and was professor of anthropology at Yale University from 1924 to 1940.  An authority on the American Indian, he is noted especially for his field studies of the Blackfoot and Siouan tribes.  A student of Franz Boas his works include "Relation of Nature to Man in Aboriginal America" and "Indians of the United States."  FTP, identify this American anthropologist who originated the influential "culture area" concept for interpreting ethnographic data.

Answer:  Clark _Wissler_

13.     Based on a story by John Luther Long and a play by David Belasco, it was first performed at La Scala, Milan, on February 17, 1904.  The action includes a scene in which the American Consul, Sharpless, tries in vain to read a letter to the title character from her husband, Pinkerton, that he has taken another, American, wife named Kate.  FTP, identify this opera, culminating with the title character's suicide with a ceremonial sword inscribed with, "Death with honor is better than life without honor," written by Puccini.

Answer:  _Madam Butterfly_

14.     Known as the "Swan of Pesaro," he once bragged, "Given me a laundry list and I will set it to music."  Before he retired from opera composition at the age of 37, he produced 39 of them, including "The Italian Girl in Algiers," "The Siege of Corinth," and his 1816 version of "Otello."  FTP, identify this Italian composer whose highly successful grand finale was the 1829 opera "William Tell."

Answer:  Gioacchino Antonio _Rossini_

15.     Among his notable contributions to criminal law were his arguments in the 1954 Durham Case, which helped broaden the definition of legal insanity, and in Gideon vs. Wainwright, in which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states must assure free legal counsel to the poor in every criminal trial.  A close friend of Lyndon Johnson, he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1965, and his 1968 nomination to become Chief Justice was withdrawn after a filibuster by Republicans and Southern Democrats.  FTP, identify this Supreme Court Justice who resigned in 1969 for alleged financial improprieties.

Answer:  Abe _Fortas_

16.     At Christmas time, he brings presents to everyone who has a lot of fiber in their diet.  He loves everyone, even if only vicariously, but comes to life only if you believe in him.  FTP, name this non-denominational Christmas hero who comes in brown or greenish-brown varieties, a South Park creation.

Answer: _Mr. Hanky_ the Christmas Poo

17.     He gave England peace and strove to continue English traditions by restoring the church to high place and codifying English law after becoming king in 1016.  To forestall dynastic quarrels he banished his wife and their son Sweyn and married the widow of Aethelred.  Upon his death in 1035 he was succeeded by his illegitimate son, Harold Harefoot.  FTP, identify this king of England, who in 1018 also succeeded to the throne of Denmark.

Answer:  _Canute_

18.     He taught at Vanderbilt University from 1914-37 where he was a founder of the "Fugitive," and at Kenyon College from 1937-58 where he founded the respected literary magazine "The Kenyon Review."  He was a leader of the Southern literary movement that followed World War I, and as a critic and teacher he was a powerful figure in the New Criticism movement, which shaped much literary theory from the 1940's to the 1960's.  FTP, identify this 20th century American author, who published his elegant, impersonal verse in such collections as "Two Gentlemen in Bonds," "Chills and Fever," and "Poems about God."

John Crowe _Ransom_

19.     This idea, while espoused in Plato's Republic, did not come into prominence until the second half of the 19th century.  In the United States, under the leadership of Charles B. Davenport, it gained wide acceptance, culminating in the passage of the Johnson Act in 1924, which limited immigration into the U.S. from certain eastern European and Mediterranean nations.  FTP, name this science, which has fallen into wide disrepute, an outgrowth of social Darwinism seen by many as nothing more than thinly veiled racism.

Answer: _Eugenics_

20.     The idea of a clerk whose mental and physical health depends upon a valued possession came from an anecdote the author heard: A young clerk lost the shotgun he had scrimped to purchase and was roused from his grief only when friends purchased him another.  The idea of a ghost stalking a certain important personage originated in newspaper accounts from the early 1830's of two nobles robbed on the street.  The name for the protagonist was apparently taken from the legend of St. Akaky (ah - kah - key), who suffered humiliation, without protest, from his monastic superior till he died.  FTP, identify this 1842 story, centered around an article of clothing, written by Nikolai Gogol.

Answer:  _The Overcoat_

21.     In 1887 he was exiled to Siberia for an alleged attempt on the life of Czar Alexander III, and afterwards joined the Socialists, though he soon subordinated social aims to national emancipation.  During World War I he commanded the Polish Legions under Austrian sponsorship, and afterwards became chief of state of an independent Poland.  FTP, identify this Polish general and politician, virtual dictator of Poland until his 1935 death.

Answer:  Joseph _Pilsudski_

22.     He was the heir to Iolcos, but his cousin Pelias seized the throne and he was taken away and educated by the centaur Chiron.  He returned to the city wearing only one sandal, so fulfilling a prophecy which endangered Pelias.  Pelias insisted that the gods not allow him to become king until he journey to Colchis and return with an object owned by King Aeetes.  With the help of Aeetes' daughter he accomplished the feat and she was instrumental in arranging for Pelias' death.  They went to Corinth, raised a family, and lived happily until he announced his plans to divorce her and marry the king's daughter.  Enraged, his wife killed the princess and managed to escape.  FTP, identify this hero of Greek mythology, who then wandered about for many years and was eventually killed when crushed by his ship, the Argo.

Answer:  _Jason_

23.     Like its southern neighbor, the eastern part of this nation features the swamps and forests of the Mosquito Coast.  The mountain ranges cover over 80% of the country and serve to limit rainfall in the north where the vast banana plantations are.  Though it is the second largest nation of Central America, the short stretch of southern coast on the Gulf of Fonseca is its only outlet to the Pacific.  FTP, identify this nation, home of the Mayan ruins of Copan, and whose capital is Tegucigalpa.

Answer:  _Honduras_

24.     This founder of modern plastics was born in 1863 in Ghent, where he would receive his education.  He immigrated to the United States in 1889, where he would patent several inventions, among them a photographic paper that could be developed under artificial light, known as Velox. [vell-ox]  Among the honors he recieved are the Nichols Medal in 1909, and the Franklin Medal in 1940.  FTP, name this scientist, whose most famous invention, treasured by antique collectors, is the first fully synthetic plastic, Bakelite.

Answer: Leo Hendrik Baekeland [BAKE-land]

25.     This apparatus saw its premiere in 1654 before the Imperial Diet [DEE-yet] at Regensburg.  Crafted from bronze, this apparatus was designed to be fitted to an air pump, and the air removed.  The demonstration involved two teams of eight horses, hitched to opposite sides of the joined apparatus.  Despite the enormous strength, the horses could not separate the vacuum-sealed halves of the sphere.  FTP, name this apparatus, named for the birthplace of its inventor, Otto von Guericke.

Answer: _Magdeburg hemispheres_

Bonus

1.      Identify these forts from a historical description FTP each.

A.       Located in SW Oklahoma, it was named after a minor Civil War general.  Geronimo was imprisoned there, and is buried at the Apache cemetery at the fort.

Answer:  Fort _Sill_

B.      This fort was hastily built in 1754 by George Washington and his Virginia militia at Great Meadows, Pennsylvania, after he learned that the British fort at the forks of the Ohio had been captured and renamed Fort Duquesne by the French.

Answer:  Fort _Necessity_

C.      This fort on the Missouri River in NE Kansas was built to protect travelers on the Santa Fe Trail--it now houses the oldest U.S. military prison.

Answer:  Fort _Leavenworth_

2.      Given a famous Shakespearean quote, identify the work in which it appears, FTP each, or for 5 if you need the speaker.

A.      10:  "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

        5:  Dick

Answer:  _Henry the Sixth, Part 2_

B.      10:  "I pray thee peace, I will be flesh and blood;
        For there was never yet philosopher
        That could endure the toothache patiently,
        However they have writ the style of gods,
        And made a push at chance and sufferance."

        5:  Leonato

Answer:  _Much Ado About Nothing_

C.      10:  "Alas, the storm is come again!  My best way is to creep
                under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout:               misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.  I will here shroud till        the dregs of the storm be past."

        5:  Trinculo

Answer:  _The Tempest_

3.      For 15 points each, identify the following works of Eugene Delacroix from clues.

A.      Byron, whom Delacroix admired, had passionately identified with the cause of enslaved Greece; and yet Delacroix shows, in this 1824 work, an episode from the War of Liberation with a curious ambiguity: the Turks' indifference is as striking as the inertia of their victims.  Fatalistic figures mostly recline in a fresh, brilliant landscape.

Answer:  _The Massacre at Chios_

B.      Completed in 1827, the title character is from Byron's drama of the same name.  Reclining on a superb bed on top of a huge pyre, he orders the eunuchs and palace officers to cut the throats of his women and his pages, and even of his favorite horses and dogs; none of the objects that have contributed to his pleasure must survive him.

Answer:  _The Death of Sardanapalus_

4.      Given the names of Africans instrumental in the pan-African movement, identify the countries from which they were from, FTP each.

A.      James Kenyatta

Answer:  _Kenya_

B.      Kwame Nkrumah

Answer:  _Ghana_

C.      Patrice Lumumba

Answer:  _Zaire_

5.      Life cannot be contained, even if no mechanism is provided for procreation.  Identify these stem modifications responsible for asexual reproduction in plants, for ten points each.

A.  Strawberry plants exhibit these aboveground, horizontal stem modifications.  Every other node on these stems produces a new shoot system, wherever they touch the ground.

Answer: _Stolon_
Accept: _Runner_

B.  These underground horizontal stems may be long and fibrous, as in certain grasses, or thick and fleshy, as in the iris.  Some of these exhibit enlarged portions, called tubers, and each node can produce a new plant.

Answer: _Rhizome_

C.  These are underground stems which lie dorman in the winter, producing new growth in the spring.  The outer surface of these stems are covered by papery leaves, and are best exemplified by the roots of the gladiolus and crocus.

Answer: _Corm_
Do Not Accept: _Bulb_

6.      Identify the following authors from works on a 10-5 basis:

A.      10:  The historical poem "The Bronze Horseman" and an unfinished novel about the author's maternal great-grandfather titled "The Negro of Peter the Great."

        5:  "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" and "The Captain's Daughter"

Answer:  Alexander Sergeyevich _Pushkin_

B.      10:  His sonnets include "When I have fears that I may cease to be" and "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art."

        5:  "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"

Answer:  John _Keats_

C.      10:  "These Twain" and the play "Mile stones"

        5:  "The Old Wives' Tale"

Answer:  Arnold _Bennett_

7.      Identify the capitals of these German states FTP each.

A.      Bavaria

Answer:  _Munich_

B.      Lower Saxony

Answer:  _Hanover_

C.      Brandenburg

Answer:  _Potsdam_

8.      Identify the American, 30-20-10.

30:     He kept busy during World War II, travelling to England, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and China as President Roosevelt's personal representative;  leading the fight to liberalize the Republican party, mainly by attacking isolationism;  and writing two books, _One World_ and _An American Program_.

20:     In 1933 he became president of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, a giant utility program that became a fierce critic of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

10:     In 1940, he received more than 22 million votes but still lost handily to FDR.

Answer:  Wendell _Willkie_

9.      A primary goal of marketing and advertising is to make a product recognizable by a single icon, rather than a long brand name.  Let's see how well these marketers have done by testing your knowledge.  Identify the brand given its brand mark.

A.  A blue sticker placed on its product, with a white silhouette of a Carmen Miranda look-alike.

Answer: _Chiquita_ bananas

B.  An off-center bowtie shape printed primarily in red, with the product's name in white text.

Answer: _Budweiser_ beer

C.  Three letters, printed with either eight or thirteen blue horizontal stripes.

Answer: _IBM_

D.  A black-and-white pattern reminiscent of a Holstein dairy cow.

Answer: _Gateway 2000_ computers

E.  A stripe, composed of two non-identical compound curves, called the "dynamic wave"

Answer: _Coca-Cola_

F.  A blue and gold rectangle, held slightly askew and with one end
appearing like torn paper.

Answer: _Blockbuster_ Entertainment

10.     According to Carl Jung, whereas the personal unconscious is unique for each individual, the collective unconscious is shared.  Within the collective unconscious lie the archetypes or primordial images.  Identify these primary Jungian archetypes from descriptions for 5 points each and a 5 point bonus for all correct.

A.      It is the central archetype and true midpoint of the personality.

Answer:  _self_

B.      A Latin word referring to the masks that actors wore in ancient Greek plays, for Jung it refers to the social role that one assumes in society and one's understanding of it.

Answer:  _persona_

C.      It encompasses those "unsocial" thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that we potentially possess and other characteristics that we do not accept.  It is the opposite side of the persona.

Answer:  _shadow_

D.      This archetype is the feminine side of the male psyche.

Answer:  _anima_

E.      This is the masculine side of the female psyche.

Answer:  _animus_

11.     Identify the following baroque composers from works on a 10-5 basis:

A.      10: "Israel in Egypt," "Zadok, the Priest," and "Radamisto"

        5: "Judas Maccabeus," "Xerxes," and "Acis and Galatea"

Answer:  George Frederick _Handel_

B.      10: "The Indian Queen" and "St. Cecilia's Day"

        5: "The Tempest" and "The Fairy Queen"

Answer:  Henry _Purcell_

C.      10: "Thesee," "Persee," and "Arimide et Renaud"

        5: "Te Deum," "De Profundis," and "Alceste"

Answer:  Jean-Baptiste _Lully_

12.     Identify the year, 30-20-10.

30:     Alan Rogers rediscovers the forgotten research of Roger Jenison on improving the resolution of radio telescopes.  By using Very Long Baseline Interferometry, the resolution reaches 0.01 arc-second.

20:     The tau lepton is discovered, with a mass approximately 3500 times that of a single electron.

10:     The first cooperative US-Soviet space mission is launched on 15 July. In it, a three-man Apollo module docks with a two-man Soyuz capsule.

Answer: _1975_

13.     In 1789 George Washington named John Jay as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. and appointed 5 men as Associate Justices.  FTP each, identify any three of these first Associate Justices.

Answer:  John _Rutledge_, William _Cushing_, James _Wilson_, John _Blair_, Robert _Harrison_

14.     Identify the following "electrifying" concepts from the field of Physics, For ten points each.

A.  This phenomenon causes electrically charged particles to move through a medium as a result of an imposed electric field within that medium.  Common applications include DNA typing and emission reduction.

Answer: _Electrophoresis_

B.  This is a unit of energy that doubles as an expression of mass for very small subatomic particles.  It is defined as 1.60207 times ten to the negative nineteenth Joules.

Answer: _Electron Volt_
Accept: _eV_

C.  This theory is the first step toward a Grand Unification Theory, and was proposed by Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam in the late 1960s.

Answer: _Electroweak_ theory

15.  Identify these philosophical works of Sir Francis Bacon, from a description, FTP each.

A.      This 1605 book suggests ways in which the pursuit of knowledge can be encouraged, and the methods of observation and recording of both natural and human phenomena improved.

Answer:  _The Advancement of Learning_

B.      This 1620 treatise aims to describe a method of gaining power over nature through a complete and correctly founded system of knowledge.

Answer:  _Novum Organum_

C.      This philosophical tale was left unfinished at Bacon's death and published in 1626.  The title is an allusion to the mythical island described by Plato in his dialogue _Timaeus_.

Answer:  _The New Atlantis_

16.     For the stated number of points, answer the following questions regarding related, Italian Gothic sculptors.

The father founded a new school of sculpture in Italy, inbued with the classical spirit.  His first great work was the hexagonal pulpit consisting of scenes from the life of Christ for the Baptistery in Pisa. For the fountain of Perugia he and his son designed 24 statues and twice that many reliefs.  His son was a sculptor and architect who helped his father and also did independent works such as the pulpit for the cathedral at Pisa.

A. FTP, what was the last name that they shared?

Answer:  _Pisano_

B. For 10 points each, what were their first names?

Answer:  _Nicola_ and _Giovanni_

17.     Identify the following terms from Game Theory, for ten points each.

A.  Checkers and Chess are two examples of games which are said to have this characteristic.  In a game with this characteristic, all moves are known to each of the players.

Answer: _Perfect Information_

B.  In games such as chess or checkers, this may be as simple as declaring a winner.  Name this term referring to the outcome of any game, even if no money is involved.

Answer: _Payoff_

C.  In two-player games similar to the prisoner's dilemma, if each participant chooses the best strategy, given the strategy chosen by the other participant, the game is said to exhibit this characteristic.

Answer: _Nash Equilibrium_

18.     Identify these characters from "Moby Dick" for 10 points each.

A.  Ahab's tall, diabolical, white-turbaned Parsee servant, he dies caught in a fouled harpoon line which is wrapped around Moby Dick.

Answer:  _Fedallah_

B.  The bright, jolly, genial little Negro cabin boy who, after falling from a boat during a whale chase, is abandoned in midocean by Stubb, who supposes that a following boat will pick him up.  When finally taken aboard, he has become demented from fright.

Answer:  _Pip_

C.  The ship's cook, at Stubb's request he preaches a sermon to the voracious sharks and ends with a hope that their greed will kill them.

Answer:  _Fleece_

19.     Given the name of a British monarch, identify the two children of that monarch to become king or queen of Britain, FFP each.

A.      George V

Answer:   _Edward VIII_, _George VI_

B.      George III

Answer:  _George IV_, _William IV_

C.      James II

Answer:  _Mary II_, _Anne_

20.     Identify the following theories from econimics FTP each.

A.      Named after an American economist, this model states that the elasticisty of the ratio of actual to potential output, with regard to a change in the employment rate, is a constant of roughly three.  In other words a three percent decrese in GDP would lead to a one percent increase in unemployment.

Answer:  _Okun's law_

B.      Named after a British economist, this charts the significant relationship between the percentage change in money wages and the rate of unemployment.  Its main implication is that low inflation and low unemployment are incompatible, and so governments have to choose the best combination of both.

Answer:  _Phillips curve_

C.      This argued that an ecomony is self-regulating provided that all prices, including wages, are flexible enough to maintain it in equilibrium.  It was accepted as a major plank in classical macroecomonic theory until John Maynard Keynes challenged its applicability in modern economies. It is most often expressed, "Supply creates its own demand."

Answer:  _Say's law_

21.     30-20-10, identify the literary work.

30:  It is an emotionally driven, personal eulogy for the author's unstable mother, Naomi, who died insane in 1956.

20:  It takes its name from a Jewish hymn of praise to God that traditionally is recited by mourners.

10:  It is a long poem in five parts that was composed in the late 1950's under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs and was first published in 1961.

Answer:  _Kaddish_ and Other Poems: 1958-1960

22.     Identify the following polysaccharides from a chemical description, on a 10-5 basis.

A.      10: This reducing sugar is formed from two glucose units, linked with an alpha bond.
        5:  It is produced by the action of malt enzyme on starch.

Answer: _Maltose_

B.      10: This reducing sugar is formed from a galactose unit beta linked to a glucose unit.
        5:  It is found in small percentages in milk products.

Answer: _Lactose_

C.      10: This non-reducing sugar is composed of a glucose unit linked in a 1 alpha, 2 beta fashion to a sucrose unit.
        5:  Commonly found in the cane and beet plants, this is ordinary table sugar.

Answer: _Sucrose_

23.     30-20-10, identify the collection of short stories.

30:  In the title story, the protagonist, Julian Chestny, is hypocritically disdainful of his mother's prejudices.  His smug selfishness is replaced with childish fear when she suffers a fatal stroke after being struck by a black woman she has insulted out of oblivious ignorance rather than malice.

20:  In addition to the title story, the others include "A View of the Woods," "Parker's Back," "The Enduring Chill," "Greenleaf," "The Lame Shall Enter First," "Revelation," "Judgment Day," and "The Comforts of Home."

10:  Written by Flannery O'Connor, it was published posthumously in 1965.

_Everything That Rises Must Converge_

24.     We know that Sophocles wrote many more plays than the seven that have actually survived, but we can't exactly ask you about the others.  Do you know his extant tragedies?  Identify any six, FFP each.

Answer:  _Ajax_, _Antigone_, _Oedipus the King (or Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannus)_, _Trachiniae_, _Electra_, _Philoctetes_, _Oedipus at Colonnus_

25.     Identify the popes, for fifteen points each.

A.  Elected on the second ballot of the College of Cardinals on the day of his predecessor's death, this pope wrote the essays The Wretchedness of Man's Lot and The Mysteries of the Mass, characterized as learned but unoriginal.  Born in 1161, he ascended the papacy in 1198 following Celestine III.

Answer: _Innocent III_

B.  Fourth son of a count, this longest-serving pope had a very meaningless political papacy, but in terms of his holy works, it is unrivaled.  Founding over two hundred dioceses during his 32-year reign, he established the modern papacy's spiritual authority.

Answer: _Pius IX_

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PMV - Round
January 1998

Tossups by "Escape from LA"
Patrick Friel, Richard Mason, Asmin Pathare, Maribeth Swiatek

1. The common myth of this bishop's life is that he was captured by pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa, from which he later escaped.  The truth is more likely that, upon recognizing the plight of the peasants, he left his job as spiritual advisor to Madame de Gondi and began to work as a minister to galley slaves.  For ten points, name this saint with an uncanny ability to charm wealthy women into donating large sums of money to his orphanages, hospitals, Congregation of the Mission, and Daughters of Charity, which he founded in 1633 with Louise de Marillac.

Answer: St. VINCENT de Paul

2. The main thrust of the problem associated with these objects is that at most 60 percent of the number predicted by theory have been detected.  So either the standard theory of their production is wrong, or, more intriguingly, they undergo oscillating transformations that change them into one of two other types, neither of which traditional apparatus can detect.  However, a new heavy water detector located below Sudbury, Canada, will soon be able to detect tau and muon types in addition to the electron variety.  For ten points, such a detection would demonstrate that what elusive particles must have mass?

Answer: SOLAR NEUTRINOS

3. It contains such delightful songs as the 'Ballad of Sexual Obsession,' the 'Ballad of Immoral Earnings,' the 'Ballad of Good Living,' the 'Song of the Insufficiency of Human Endeavour,' and the 'Procession to the Gallows,' from which the hero is saved by special order from the Queen.  For ten points name this 1928 opera in which Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum, written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht

Answer: The THREEPENNY OPERA or Die Dreigroschenoper

4. He was not English tourist Alexander Duggan.  He was not Danish pastor Per Jensen.  He was not American student Marty Schulberg.  He was not French war veteran Andre Martin.  He was not even Englishman Charles Calthrop, although the first three letters of that man's first and last names spelled out his French code name.  For ten points, identify this professional assassin who attempts to kill Charles de Gaulle in a thriller by Frederick Forsyth.

Answer: The JACKAL or  Le Chacal


5. Unveiled at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, they became the present of choice for GIs hoping to impress British women and had thousands of women lining up outside department stores and even causing riots which forced a San Francisco store to stop selling them. Chemist Julian Hill thought his stretchy organic gunk was worthless, so he didn't mention his 1930 idea to his boss, Wallace Carothers, until five years later.  For ten points, name these products made from polymer 6-6, which saved women from expensive silk stockings forever.

Answer: NYLONS or NYLON STOCKING


6. It is called Aotearoa in the language of its native people.  Its Rangitoto Mountains are the setting of Samuel Butler's book "Erewhon." The only native animals are frogs, lizards, bats, and birds, but Europeans have introduced many others, most notably 60 million sheep which outnumber the human population twenty to one.  Despite its small population, it is a rugby power.  For ten points, what country was the largest in Polynesia before being annexed by the British in 1840?

Answer: NEW ZEALAND


7. Iachimo bets that he can seduce Posthumus' wife, then hides in a chest in order to gain access to her bedroom, where he notes that she has a mole on her breast, memorizes the details of the room, and steals a bracelet.  With this evidence Posthumus is convinced that Imogen has been unfaithful.  Later, Imogen, disguised as a pageboy and believed dead, herself believes that Posthumus is dead when she finds a headless body dressed in his clothes.  Fortunately these misconceptions are cleared up after a battle between the British and the Romans in, for ten points, what play by William Shakespeare?

Answer: CYMBELINE


8. Alcohol abuse and feverish work caused his health to deteriorate, and he died of tubercular meningitis in 1920.  The next day, his mistress, the painter Jeanne Hebuterne, jumped from a window, killing herself and an unborn child.  He painted portraits of Brancusi, Picasso, Soutine, Gris, Cocteau, and many other avant-garde Parisians, depicting many of them with elongated heads, but only one self-portrait.  For ten points, name this Italian painter and sculptor of such works as 'The Servant Girl'.

Answer: Amedeo MODIGLIANI


9. The purpose of the test was to demonstrate that if no power was available from the grid, a coasting turbine would supply enough power to pump coolant through the core until emergency diesel generators came on line.  The system had a positive void coefficient so when pockets of steam began to form in the coolant, the power level went up and created more steam.  Almost all of the control rods had been removed and when they were plunged back in in a panic, all the reactivity was concentrated at the bottom of, for ten points, what reactor which exceeded its designed power level by a factor of 100 on April 26, 1986?

Answer: CHERNOBYL Unit 4


10. At the age of 21, depressed about his lack of literary success, he enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons under the name of Silas Tomkin Cumberbatch.  Within hours it was clear he would be the worst soldier ever to fall off a horse; two months later his brother found him and got him out of the army under an insanity clause.  A few months later he and his new friend Robert Southey decided to establish a commune in New England called Pantisocracy, but it never got off the ground.  For ten points, identify this author of "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan."

Answer: Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE


11. This king was the first one to use the plural first person, the royal "we," to describe himself.  While traveling in disguise through Austria, he was discovered in Vienna and imprisoned by Duke Leopold, who later handed him over to the German emperor Henry IV.  Only after most of a gigantic ransom of 150,000 marks had been paid was he released to return to England.  For ten points, identify this Angevin king who spent only six months of his reign in England, the rest being spent either in Normandy, in prison, or off on crusade.

Answer: RICHARD I or RICHARD the LION-HEARTED

12. His mother, an alcoholic, was found strangled to death in 1958, when he was 10.  The crime was never solved, despite his own later efforts, as recounted in the memoir "My Dark Places." He once said all his novels are variations on the same theme: "Bad white men doing bad things in the name of authority."  For ten points, name this author, whose works include "The Big Nowhere," "White Jazz," "American Tabloid," "The Black Dahlia," and the recently adapted "L.A. Confidential."

Answer: James Ellroy

13. He co-sponsored legislation creating a federal civil-service-commission and introducing competitive examinations, and persuaded Congress to pass additional civil service reform by mocking the "voluntary contributions" levied by Republican leaders upon beholden civil servants.  But he soon lost his Senate seat, as he was blamed for ruining a political patronage system that had also benefited Democrats.  Over 100 years later, his party is once again threatened by his legislation, as campaign finance investigations of Vice President Gore indicate he may have violated the 1883 act named after what Gentleman from Ohio?

Answer: George Hunt PENDLETON

14. This movement began with the founding of the Salon d'Automne and the critic Louis Vauxchelles gave the movement its name as he attempted to describe a conventional piece of sculpture by contrasting it to its artistic surroundings.  Inspirations for the movement included van Gogh, Cezanne, and Gauguin, but its practitioners included Signac, Dufy, Marquet, and Rouault.  For ten points, name this movement, founded in 1905, known for its bold use of colors and associated with the painters Derain and Matisse.

Answer: FAUVISM or FAUVES


15. Warning: more than just one part of the name is required.  Like Nelson Mandela, this man was labeled a dangerous subversive; he was jailed for years and faced death for his beliefs, and he survived to become his nation's leader.  In 1980, the secret diplomatic intervention of President Carter and President-elect Reagan saved his life from the death sentence imposed by the military regime of President Chun Doo Hwan. Ironically, one of his first acts as President-elect was to advocate the release of ex-President Chun, who had been condemned to death himself for corruption.  For ten points, name this newly elected President of South Korea.

Answer: Kim Dae Jung (accept any 2 of 3 names; prompt on just one)

16. She has several other important screen credits on her resume, including Judge Dredd, Batman Forever, Splash, Working Girl, and Remo Williams . . .The Adventure Begins.  She was the object of purity used to battle the villainous Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II.  For ten points, whose most dramatic on-screen appearance occurs opposite Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes?

Answer: The Statue of Liberty (or reasonable equivalents) or Liberty Enlightening the World

17. In its most general form, it states that for a manifold M and a differential form omega, the integral of d-omega ("dee omega") over M is equal to the integral of omega over the boundary of M.  It bears the name of an Irish mathematical physicist who was Lucasian Professor, although it was actually discovered by Lord Kelvin.  For ten points, identify this theorem, which in its usual form equates the integral of a vector field on the boundary of a surface with the integral of the curl of the field on the surface.

Answer: STOKES' Theorem (accept "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" before "Irish")

18. It was elected after the right-wing national assembly tried to disarm the National Guard, and fell when Versailles troops captured the city and massacred approximately 25 thousand people.  For ten points, name this provisional national government, which lasted for only two months during the Franco-Prussian war, but is often considered the first socialist government in history.

Answer: the PARIS COMMUNE


19. The music written for the film Alexander Nevsky.  A cantata marking the thirtieth anniversary of the October Revolution.  Most of the music in Woody Allen's Love and Death.  A 1921 Diaghilev ballet based on Shakespeare.  A 1936 children's piece, based on a Russian folk tale, with libretto telling the story written by the composer himself.  For ten points, all of this music was written by what noted Soviet composer?

Answer: Sergei PROKOFIEV


20. This practice has occurred just about everywhere in the world in the past, and can still be found among Pacific Islanders and Australian Aborigines.  Individuals or clans are associated with
particular animals or plants.  These are not held sacred to the society in general, but only those members of the clan.  Desecration of the plant or animal is forbidden, and usually complicated clan marriage rules are involved.  For ten points, name this practice, which was most definitely practiced by the natives of the Pacific Northwest.

Answer: TOTEMISM

21. He kept a teapot as a pet, and was in favor of what he called "auto-icons," that is, dead people embalmed and used as their own monuments.  Upon his own death, he left a large sum of money to London's University College on the condition that his own preserved body, enclosed in a mahogany case with folding glass doors, be displayed every year at the annual board of directors meeting.  For ten points, identify this philosopher whose proposals for social reform were based on the twin principles that humans are motivated only by self-interest and that reforms should aim at the greatest good for the greatest number.

Answer: Jeremy BENTHAM


22. Although some of her poetry was published during her lifetime, including 'A Godly Meditation of the Soul,' which was translated by Queen Elizabeth I, her best verse was not compiled until 1896 under the title 'Last Poems.' She is most famous for a satirical work whose premise is a group of travelers delayed by a flood on their return from a Pyrenean spa.  For ten points name this sister of Francis I and wife of Henry II of France, the author of the Heptameron.

Answer: MARGARET of Navarre or Marguerite D'Angouleme


23. The word, perhaps meaning "waste paper," was formed from the name of a sidewalk character in a 1960 film about decadence centered on a gossip columnist, Federico Fellini's 1960 "La Dolce Vita."  For ten points, name these people who have incurred the wrath of George Clooney and have been blamed for the deaths of Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana.

Answer: PAPARAZZI

24. In 213 BC he led a book burning campaign in order to sever ties with the past.  He took the throne as a boy while numerous local states were at war and over the course of the first 18 years of his reign managed to reunite most of the country.  His tomb complex is guarded by ten thousand life-size terra cotta warriors.  For ten points, name this Emperor, buried at Xian ("shee-ahn"), the greatest of China's Ch'in emperors.

Answer: SHI HUANG Ti

BYU Perpetual Motion V
Bonuses by "Escape from LA"
Patrick Friel, Richard Mason, Asmin Pathare, Maribeth Swiatek

1. St. Patrick's Day seems to be a bad day for mathematicians.  Name these three for ten points each:

A. (10) This discoverer of the parallax of 61-Cygni introduced the functions named for him in his 1817 study of Kepler's three-body problem. He died on March 17, 1846.

Answer: Friedrich Wilhelm BESSEL

B. (10) This author of 'Hydrodynamica', who died on March 17, 1782, also researched life insurance and health statistics, as well as teaching anatomy, botany, physiology and physics at Basel.  Perhaps the least known of three famous brothers.

Answer: Daniel BERNOULLI

C. (10) This man, who stated his principle relating the change in frequencies of a source to the relative velocities of source and observer in the 1842 treatise 'Concerning the coloured light of double stars', died on March 17, 1853.

Answer: Johann Christian DOPPLER


2. Identify the following pairs of roommates for five points per roommate.

A. (10) Author Erich Segal recently admitted that these two former roommates-- one a politician, the other an actor-- both inspired the character of Oliver in Love Story.

Answer: Albert Arnold GORE, Jr. and Tommy Lee JONES

B. (10) When this star of "Anatomy of a Murder" and this star of "Twelve Angry Men" were starving actors in New York, they called their apartment Casa Gangrene.

Answer: James Maitland "Jimmy" STEWART and Henry Jaynes FONDA

C. (10) This star of "Captain Blood" and this man who played Sir James Bond in "Casino Royale" called their Hollywood apartment Cirrhosis-By-The-Sea.

Answer: Errol FLYNN and David NIVEN

3. Grover Cleveland served non-consecutive terms as U.S. President, but three men had non-consecutive terms as King of England.  Answer the following for ten points each.

A. This man was king from 978 to 1013, and from 1014 to 1016.  He spent the intervening year in exile in Normandy, while the Danish invader Sweyn Forkbeard was accepted as king throughout England.

Answer: Ethelred II or Ethelred the Unready

B. This member of the House of Lancaster was king from 1422 to 1461, and from 1470 to 1471.  The fact that he became king before he was one year old, and later proved weak and subject to fits of insanity, created the anarchy that led to the Wars of the Roses.

Answer: Henry VI

C. This man was king from 1461 to 1470 and from 1471 to 1483.  He supplanted Henry VI and brought the House of York to the throne.

Answer: Edward IV

4. Given a work whose title is a literary allusion, give the work and author from which the title is taken for five points each.

A. (10) "Eyeless in Gaza" by Aldous Huxley

Answer: "Samson Agonistes" by John MILTON

B. (10) "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua ACHEBE

Answer: "The Second Coming" by William Butler YEATS

C. (10) "Arms and the Man" by George Bernard SHAW

Answer: "The Aeneid" by Virgil (also accept: John Dryden as the author (translator))

5. Ahh... the Gershwin brothers!  Given these noted Gershwin lyrics, finish the line for ten points each.  Hint: in each case you need only supply the song title.

A. (10) You say ee-ther and I say eye-there.  You say nee-ther and I say ny-ther.  Ee-ther.  Eye-ther.  Nee-ther.  Ny-ther...

Answer: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

B. (10) Won't you tell him please to put on some speed.  Follow my lead.  Oh, how I need...

Answer: Someone to Watch Over Me

C. (10) Dey tell all you chillum de debble's a villum, but...

Answer: It Ain't Necessarily So

6. Answer the following about blood plasma proteins for ten points each.

A. (10) When your blood clots, this soluble plasma protein is converted by the enzyme thrombin into an insoluble protein that forms long threads which entangle platelets and form the clot.

Answer: fibrinogen (the insoluble protein is fibrin)

B. (10) As a blood clot shrinks, it squeezes out this incoagulable yellow fluid, which is blood plasma minus fibrinogen.

Answer: blood serum

C. (10) Water passes freely through capillary membranes, so you would instantaneously lose all the plasma out of your circulatory system, except that capillary membranes are impermeable to this plasma protein, the smallest in weight and highest in concentration of the plasma proteins.

Answer: serum albumin

7. Name the author from works, 30-20-10.

(30) Low-Lands and Slow Learner
(20) Vineland and The Secret Integration
(10) Gravity's Rainbow and V

Answer: Thomas PYNCHON


8. Answer the following about the Mexican War for ten points each.

A. (10) Name the man sent by President Polk in 1845 to negotiate over the disputed Texas border, and whom the Mexicans rejected when they learned of his instructions to purchase New Mexico and California.

Answer: John SLIDELL

B. (10) Name the February 22, 1847 battle at which General Zachary Taylor's force of five thousand Americans defeated Santa Anna's 14,000-strong army.

Answer: Battle of BUENA VISTA or Battle of Angostura

C. (10) Name the State Department clerk who disobeyed Polk's instructions that he cease negotiations with the Mexicans and signed a treaty for the 15 million dollar purchase of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas and western Colorado.

Answer: Nicholas TRIST

9. The Chicago Bulls have already established themselves as the team of the 90s, winning 5 of the 8 championships played thus far.  For the stated number of points, answer these questions about other dominant teams.

A. (5) The Los Angeles Lakers won more titles than any other team in the 80s.  For five points, how many titles did they win?

Answer: 5

B. (5) The Lakers made it to the Finals three other times in the 1980s.  For five points, what was the only other Western Conference team to play in the finals in the 1980s? Give both city and team name.

Answer: Houston Rockets

C. (5) The Boston Celtics won more titles than any other team in the 60s.  For five points, how many titles did they win?

Answer: 9

D. (5) For five more points, who was the only team other than the Celtics to win a title in the 60s? Give both city and team name.

Answer: Philadelphia 76ers

E. (10) For 10 points, name the NBA's first dominant team, which won five titles between 1949 and 1954.  Give both city and team name.

Answer: Minneapolis Lakers


10. Identify these things from set theory for ten points each.

A. (10) An ordered set is said to have this property if each non-empty subset has a least element.

Answer: well-ordering

B. (10) This is a transitive set which is well-ordered by the epsilon relation.  There is exactly one of these for each set order type.

Answer: ordinal

C. (10) This is an ordinal which cannot be placed in one-to-one correspondence with any smaller ordinal.

Answer: cardinal

11. Identify artists from works for ten points each.

A. (10) "Head of a Man on a Rod", "Spoon Woman", "Invisible Object"

Answer: Alberto GIACOMETTI

B. (10) "The Tempest", "Sleeping Venus"

Answer: Giorgione (also accept: Giorgio da Castelfranco or Giorgio Barbarelli)

C. (10) The Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, and "Christ Walking on the Water" over the entrance to St. Peter's.

Answer: Giotto di BONDONE

12. Given the common name of a religious group, give its official name for ten points each.  For example, were I to say "Mormons," you would say "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."

A. (10) Christian Scientists

Answer: Church of Christ, Scientist

B. (10) Quakers

Answer: Society of Friends (prompt on "Friends")

C. (10) Shakers

Answer: United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing

13. Identify these works by Evelyn Waugh for ten points each.

A. (10) Paul Pennyfeather is thrown out of Oxford for indecent behavior and becomes a teacher at a Welsh school administered by Mr. Prendergast and the one-legged drunkard Captain Grimes.
Pennyfeather gets engaged to the wealthy mother of one of his pupils, but her illicit activities get him sent to prison.

Answer: Decline and Fall

B. (10) Tony Last's wife leaves him but he refuses to grant her a divorce because he fears the alimony will cause him to lose Hetton, his country estate.  Tony goes off to Brazil where he is forced to spend the rest of his life reading Dickens to a mad jungle recluse who saved him from an illness.

Answer: A Handful of Dust

C. (10) Captain Charles Ryder recalls his experiences with the wealthy Marchmain family.  Lord Marchmain deserts his wife to live with his mistress in Venice, but on his deathbed he regains his Roman Catholicism.  The rest of the family also regain their Catholic faith.

Answer: Brideshead Revisited

14. (30) Five men have served at least 8 consecutive years as Secretary of State.  Two became President, and 2 others began their service under assassinated presidents. For five points each, and a five point bonus for all 5, name them.

Answer: James Madison, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Seward, Cordell Hull, Dean Rusk  (Note: James Monroe only served 6 years).


15. Identify the following Supreme Court cases for ten points each.

A. (10) The Court held that the New York State Board of Regents could not compose an official state prayer for the public schools, even if students could remain silent or request to be excused.

Answer: Engel v. Vitale

B. (10) The Court held that Rhode Island could not give state money to parochial schools, even if the money allegedly went only to courses in secular subjects.

Answer: Lemon v. Kurtzman

C. (10) The Court held that an Alabama statute authorizing a one-minute period of silence in public schools was an unconstitutional attempt at government endorsement of prayer.

Answer: Wallace v. Jaffree


16. Music is all about counting, sort of.  Identify the following numbers.

A. (10) The number of black keys on a piano.

Answer: 36

B. (10) The number of violas in a traditional string quintet.

Answer: one

C. (10) The number of strings tuned to E on a normally tuned 12-string guitar.

Answer: four

17. Answer the following questions about glaciers for ten points each.

A. (10) The addition of mass to a glacier is called accumulation.  What is the loss of mass from a glacier called?

Answer: Ablation

B. (10) Most glaciers slowly expand or contract, but occasionally glaciers accumulate at incredibly accelerated rates, in events called what?

Answer: Surges

C. (10) The progressive breaking off of icebergs from a glacier that terminates in deep water is called what?

Answer: Calving


18. Give the shared last name on a 15-5 basis.

A. (15) Sidney was the author of the screenplay to 'Gone with the Wind.'
(5) Leslie played Ashley Wilkes in 'Gone with the Wind.'

Answer: Howard

B. (15) Thomas played Scarlett's father in 'Gone with the Wind.'
(5) Margaret wrote the novel 'Gone with the Wind.'

Answer: Mitchell

19. Answer the following about the Peloponnesian War for ten points each.

A. (10) After Pericles died in a plague that swept Athens, this extreme war hawk become leader of the Athenian democracy.  He is portrayed in a very negative light by both Aristophanes and
Thucydides.

Answer: Cleon

B. (10) After Cleon was killed at Amphipolis, this Athenian rival of Cleon was able to conclude a treaty with the Spartans.  The peace named after him lasted six years.

Answer: Nicias

C. (10) The end of the war came in 405 when the Athenian navy was destroyed at this site by the Spartan fleet under Lysander.

Answer: Aegospotami

20. Identify the writer from works on a 30-20-10-5 basis.

(30) "Music for Chameleons" and "Miriam"
(20) "The Grass Harp" and "House of Flowers"
(10) "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
(5) "In Cold Blood"

Answer: Truman CAPOTE

21. Your bonus:

A. For ten points, give the general term for the ethical theory which holds that pleasure is the main goal of life.

Answer: Hedonism (also accept epicurianism)

In ancient Greece there were two main Hedonist sects.  One held that the pleasure of the moment was the only human good and derived its name from the home city of Aristippus.  The other sect advocated pleasure under the direction of reason and was named for a philosopher.  For ten points each, name them, in order.

Answer: Cyrenaics; Epicureans

22. Given a work, identify the author for ten points each.

A. (10) The Golden Bowl

Answer: Henry James

B. (10) The Cut-Glass Bowl

Answer: F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald

C. (10) Wilson's Bowl

Answer: Phyllis Webb

23. (30) Arrange the following five astronomical objects in order of
least to farthest distance from the Earth, for five points each:
Cygnus X-1; 3C 273; the Magellanic Clouds; M 31; and Wolf 359.  You
will get five bonus points for getting all five correct.

Answer:

Wolf 359               (close star: 2.32 parsecs)
Cygnus X-1                     (first black hole: 8000 lyr)
Magellanic Clouds      (30 kpc)
M 31                   (a.k.a. Andromeda Galaxy: 690 kpc)
3C 273                 (first quasar: 770 Mpc)


24. Answer the following questions about the Tropics.

A. (10) What is the most populous country that lies completely north of the Tropic of Cancer?

Answer: Russia

B. (10) What is the most populous country that lies completely south of the Tropic of Capricorn?

Answer: New Zealand

C. (10) What is the most populous country that lies completely south of the Tropic of Cancer and completely north of the Tropic of Capricorn?

Answer: Indonesia