2000 Eric Hillemann Singles Tournament Questions by Subash Maddipoti Seeding Round A
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Questions by Subash MaddipotiSeeding Round C (70 tossups, plus 4 extras) C1. Following an unsuccessful expedition by Luigi Amadeo, an American team under Charles Houston almost reached its summit via the Abruzzi Ridge paving the way for two Italians sixteen years later. Also known as Chogori and Dapsang, it is also known by the name of its first surveyor, H.H. Godwin-Austen. FTP, identify this peak that lies in China, India, and Pakistan, the world’s second highest mountain. Answer: K2 (accept “Godwin Austen,” “Dapsang,” or “Chogori” before they are mentioned) C2. He portrayed English society of his time in My Life and the three-volume waste of paper, The Caxtons. Pelham and Eugene Aram are about as exciting as a novel he suggested the current ending to, Dickens’ Great Expectations. No less dull are Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings and Paul Clifford. FTP, identify this English novelist who wrote Rienzi and The Last Days of Pompeii. Answer: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton C3. Its synthesis in the body begins with acetyl-Coenzyme A added to acetoacetyl-Coenzyme A. In general this substance makes up approximately 25% of the mass of a gallstone. It is the primary precursor in the body’s synthesis of both bile acids and vitamin D. Since it is insoluble in blood, it is carried around by lipoproteins. FTP, identify this substance with formula C27-H46-O, a steroid that can clog up your arteries. Answer: cholesterol C4. It’s where you can “listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova,” and where “you may find somebody kind to help and understand you / Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand too.” You can “listen to the traffic of the city,” or “linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs or pretty.” FTP, name this place where “You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares,” according to a song by Petula Clark. Answer: Downtown C5. This man served as Attorney General under William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Upon the resignation of Henry Clay, he returned to his home state to take over Clay’s senate seat. In 1868 he served as chairman of the Border States Convention, but he was better known for a proposal made to Congress in December 1860. FTP, identify this namesake of a last ditch piece of legislation aimed at averting the Civil War. Answer: John Crittenden C6. He trained under Robert Henri for six years, but otherwise he did not associate with artists. Among his landscapes are The Mansard Roof and House by the Railroad. His interior scenes include Hotel Room, and Chop Suey, which is reminiscent of his most famous painting. Cape Cod Evening, like most of his works is set in the Northeast, though New York in the 1920s and 30s was his primary setting. FTP, identify this American painter of Nighthawks. Answer: Edward Hopper C7. He was accused of plagiarizing Richard Mead for his doctoral work and eventually left the country on charges of fraud. After settling in Paris, he gained favor with Louis XVI before his business burned down, forcing him to return to Germany. His central tenet, the idea of “animal magnetism,” never caught on in his time, but his name still survives. FTP, identify this early psychologist, the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism. Answer: Franz Mesmer C8. His first play, Baal, was quickly followed by the poems collected in A Manual of Piety. His theory of drama was set forth in “A Little Organum of the Theatre,” a theory that he tried to represent in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. His major works include The Good Woman of Setzuan, The Life of Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. FTP, identify this author of Mother Courage and Her Children and The Threepenny Opera. Answer: Bertolt Brecht C9. One story of his creation states that he was Zagreus, who is entirely consumed by the Titans, except for his heart. Athena saves the heart and gives it to Zeus, who implants it in a woman. In another account his mother is killed by Zeus’ lightning bolts, but he remains alive. FTP, name this cousin of Pentheus and son of Semele, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus and god of agriculture and wine. Answer: Dionysus
Answer: colligative properties C11. In his first year in America and the NBA, 1989, he shared pivot time with Mychal Thompson. He shared the center position with Matt Geiger after being traded to Charlotte before the 96-97 season. He signed with his current team in January of 1999 and his success includes leading all centers in assists last year. FTP, identify this Serbian, a former LA Laker and current Sacramento Kings center. Answer: Vlade Divac C12. Four years after he completed the Hypostyle Hall begun by Horemhemb, he married the eldest daughter of Hattusilis III. His latter years were spent constructing monuments to his wife, Nefertari. His marriage had cemented his relationship with the Hittites following a period of war that culminated with the Battle of Kadesh. FTP, name this 13th century BC king of Egypt, who built statues at Abu Simbel and whose reign saw the Exodus of the Israelites. Answer: Ramses II C13. In the 26th and final chapter of this work the author points to the Spaniards and Swiss as the “foreign barbarians,” that pose a threat to his country. Louis XII’s loss of Milan is discussed in chapter 3, while chapter 20 explains the effectiveness of fortresses. It states that there are two types of governments – republics and principalities – and it is dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici. FTP, name this philosophical tract by Niccolo Machiavelli. Answer: The Prince C14. It occurs when the dimensions of the particles present are larger than the wavelength of the involved radiation. It arises from the reflection of the shorter waves of incident light by particles situated above the dark layers of pigment, commonly melanin deposits. FTP, identify this scattering of a beam of light as it passes through a colloidal material, an effect named for the Englishman who discovered it. Answer: Tyndall effect C15. After hearing the testimony of Herse, he decides to pursue action. He sells one of his houses, and is only temporarily dissuaded by his wife Lisbeth, whose death spurs him to violence. He pillages several towns in his search for the Junker Tronka but never truly gets justice. FTP, identify this work about a horse dealer who takes the law into his own hands, a novella by Heinrich von Kleist. Answer: Michael Kolhaas C16. Wearing a uniform like a UPS delivery man, he mutters to himself that he “outta smash the Colonel’s teeth out with a Toffee Hammer.” A homing device is placed in his butt, but he eventually gets rid of it. At one point he claims that he has “a turtle head pokin’ out” and “a crap on deck that could choke a donkey.” FTP, identify this extremely large, bagpipe-playing villain played by Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Answer: Fat Bastard C17. Their western border is the port city of Adagir. The Er-Rif is the largest massif within this range, to whose east lie the Aures Mountains. Mount Tidirhine, their second tallest peak, is dwarfed by the tallest, Mount Toubkal. Their northern part is known as the Tell and the southern is known as the Saharan. FTP, identify this mountain range across Algeria and Morocco and named for a mythical titan. Answer: Atlas Mountains C18. During it the confederates established a federal capital at Corfinium. The Marsi and the Samni revolted after their objective could not be gained diplomatically by their ally Drusus, who would be assassinated. Though Strabo, in the north, and Sulla, in the south, massacred many of the rebels, the chief aim of the rebels was achieved, for they gained Roman citizenship. FTP, name this war of 90 to 89 BC fought between the Italians and the Romans. Answer: Social War C19. He utilized Schoenberg’s 12-tone system in the choral Canticum Sacrum and the ballet Agon. His Symphonies of Wind Instruments were dedicated to Debussy, while his Symphony of Psalms was written for the opening of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His operas include The Nightingale and The Rake’s Progress, but he is better known for another genre. FTP, name this Russian composer of Petroushka, The Firebird, and Rite of Spring. Answer: Igor Stravinsky C20. Most of our knowledge of these structures comes from the study of them in Tetrahymena and Oxytricha, while in humans their most common genetic sequence is GGGATT. Their main function is causing their section of the chromosome to be unreactive, though their other hypothesized function has given rise to hope of human immortality. FTP, name these protective caps at the end of chromosomes that are involved in aging. Answer: telomeres C21. Tanngrisni is one of the goats that pulls his chariot. His mistress is Jarnsaxa, and his servant, Thialfi, is also messenger to the gods. His daughter is attractively named Thrud, while his two sons are Magni and Modi. Brok and Etri fashioned his most prized possession, which he can never use in front of his wife, the fertility goddess Sif. FTP, name this son of Jord and Odin, the possessor of Mjolnir and the Norse god of thunder. Answer: Thor C22. He was arrested following the enactment of the Irwin Act. He was criticized for his policy of nonalignment in regard to the Hungarian revolt of 1956, the first attack of this leader of the Bandung Conference. Following a war with China, his final governmental decision before his death in 1964, saw his country kick the Portuguese out of Goa. FTP, identify this father of Indira Gandhi, India’s first prime minister. Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru C23. The woman in its first part is explicitly compared to Ovid’s Philomela. This specific section of a larger work takes its title from two plays by Thomas Middleton. In its second part, between calls of "Hurry up please, its time" from the bartender, two women engage in a conversation about their friend Lil. It precedes “The Fire Sermon” and follows “The Burial of the Dead.” FTP, identify this section of The Wasteland, that could relate to what took place between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. Answer: A Game of Chess C24. His proposal of the laryngeal theory was confirmed by Anatolian language data following his death. His students Charles Bally and Albert Sechehay ensured that the world would see his work. This man introduced the terms parole and langue to identify the speech of an individual person and a systematic language respectively. FTP, identify this author of Course in General Linguistics, a famous Swiss linguist. Answer: Ferdinand de Saussure C25. They were first observed in 1979 at the DESY National Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. They can be exchanged when the condition known as asymptotic freedom is achieved, and they are emitted and absorbed very frequently with a hadron. Like the particles they mediate, they carry a charge known as color. FTP, identify these particles that carry the strong interaction, so named because of the way they hold quarks together. Answer: gluons Directory: 1099 1099 -> Right here: the go-betweens 1099 -> Essential functions for the physical therapist assistant 1099 -> Database Performance Tuning Methods for Manufacturing Execution System 1099 -> Applications select Email. In several versions of Android, this application could be called Mail 1099 -> Bottom of Form Indian j anaesth. 2010 Nov-Dec; 54(6): 508-521 Download 0.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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