2000 Eric Hillemann Singles Tournament Questions by Subash Maddipoti Seeding Round A



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Questions by Subash Maddipoti


Set D
D1. Her father’s participation in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion sealed her fate. As an eleven-year old she was made a ward of Thomas Seymour, the fourth husband of Catherine Parr. This great-granddaughter of Henry VII fainted when told that she would become queen, but she would quickly be replaced by Mary. FTP, identify this woman, who in 1553, ruled for nine days as queen of England.

Answer: Lady Jane Grey


D2. Originally written in hieroglyphs, it was transcribed into the Roman alphabet in the 16th century. Translating to “book of the written leaves,” it is the source of information on Hun Came, the ruler of Xibalba. It also tells of the creation of the world by such figures as Tepeu and the supreme god, Kukulcan. FTP, identify this Quiche [kee-chay] book found in the Guatemalan highlands, the Mayan book of creation.

Answer: Popol Vuh


D3. One has a surface composed mainly of water frost, the most heavily cratered surface of Saturn’s moons. The other concealed the birth of one of her children on Mt. Dicte in Crete, and gave her husband a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. She was the mother of Hestia, Demeter, and Hades and daughter of Gaea and Uranus. FTP, identify this Greek deity who married her brother Cronus.

Answer: Rhea


D4. Some of them occur in a free state with ions in the form of matter known as plasma. Their intrinsic spin was measured by Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck, and they interact via the electromagnetic, weak, or gravitational forces. Their charge is 1.6 times 10 to the negative 19th coulombs and their rest mass is 9.1 times 10 to the negative 28th grams. FTP, identify this most common lepton, the least-massive electrically charged particle, which was discovered in 1897 by J.J. Thompson.

Answer: electron


D5. An article about a Red Army deserter who hid in a pigsty for over 40 years, inspired this man’s play A Place with the Pigs. He played Dr. Sundesval in The Killing Fields and General Smuts in Gandhi and also acted in Tsotsi, which is the title of his only novel. Works such as Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Road to Mecca are in his best-known genre. FTP, name this author of Blood Knot and Boesman and Lena, a famous South African playwright.

Answer: Athol Fugard


D6. He claimed that his life changed after attending an exhibition where he saw Monet’s Haystacks at Giverny. Among the paintings he actually gave names were Sea Battle and Small Pleasures. After painting Autumn in Bavaria, he left Germany for good in 1933. FTP, identify this man who titled most of his works Improvisations, Impressions, or Compositions and who, with Franz Marc, founded Der Blaue Reiter.

Answer: Wassily Kandinsky


D7. After many of the original ones had capitulated to William Courtenay, a second revival of them was led by John Oldcastle. The first ones were led by Nicholas of Hereford and all of them were named for the Dutch word for “mumbler.” They all denied the notion of transubstantiation and stressed the preaching of Scripture as the primary source of Christian doctrine – just like their 14th century leader. FTP, name these followers of John Wycliff.

Answer: Lollards


D8. She’s “Got what no-one else had,” and she is “Black as the dark night.” “Her weapons were her crystal eyes,” which allow her to make every man a man. She’s also “Burning like a silver flame,” and is described as the “Goddess on the mountain top.” “She’s got it / Yeah, baby, she’s got it.” FTP, name this titular goddess of a Bananarama song.

Answer: Venus


D9. They were first studied in dogs by one of Pavlov’s students, Irina Feokritova. They are mostly mediated by the translation of mRNA and involve phytochrome, which works to keep them constant. The Earth’s magnetic field is one of the zeitgebers, substances that work to synchronize them. They mediate such activities as oxygen consumption, walking, and sleeping. FTP, identify these daily biological cycles.

Answer: circadian rhythms
D10. In the northeast it is bounded by the dead dunes of the Kanem regions, and the lake itself is composed of two basins separated by a ridge known as the Great Barrier. When it is high, the southern basin is diverted near the site of Borkou through a string of basins called Soro. It is primarily fed by the Komadugu Yobe and Chari Rivers. FTP, name this fourth largest lake on the African continent that lies at the conjunction of Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, and its namesake country.

Answer: Lake Chad


D11. Of the references she makes, the most erroneous is the one to Ptolemy’s Almagest. She once tore a page out of the book Valerie and Theophraste, causing Jankyn to strike her on an ear, which is now deaf. We also know that she has a gap between her front teeth, she has been married five times, and her real name is Alison. FTP, name this crass character, the most famous of the females in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Answer: Wife of Bath


D12. At this year’s NCAA Championships, West Virginia’s Vertus Jones was defeated by Cael Sanderson, who became its outstanding athlete for the second straight year. The mighty Joe Williams went undefeated in his collegiate career and will be on the Olympic team. Oklahoma State and Iowa, coached for a long time by Dan Gable are the traditional powers. FTP, name this sport in which does not want to get pinned.

Answer: wrestling


D13. The general Callimachus convinced the victorious side to attack, and ironically he was only one of 192 Greeks to die. A contingent of 1,000 Plataeans was able to reinforce the Greek flank and encircle the Persians, leading to victory for the commander, Miltiades. FTP, name this 490 BC battle associated with Phidippides and the distance he ran to announce a Greek victory.

Answer: Battle of Marathon


D14. While serving as editor of a Bamburg newspaper, he wrote the essay “The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate,” which was not published until 1907. He surveyed four kingdoms - the Oriental, Greek, Roman, and German empires. This was part of his linking history to an individual’s journey to der Geist, or the World Spirit. These thoughts can be found in Science of Logic and Phenomenology of the Mind. FTP, name this German philosopher who popularized the dialectic.

Answer: G.W.F. Hegel


D15. The first step involves a conversion to two molecules of 3-phosphoglyceric acid, which is unstable and quickly degrades into two molecules of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate. In that step 12 ATP molecules are produced. After some more crap, 6 more ATPs are produced and you get back to one carbon dioxide and ribulose biphosphate. FTP, identify this series of photosynthesis reactions named for the Brit who discovered them.

Answer: Calvin cycle or dark reactions of photosynthesis


D16. A bookstore owner in this man’s most famous novel remarks, “ The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.” With Fernando Birri he coauthored the screenplay for “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” one of the stories from his La Hojarasca, or Leaf Storm. His famous characters include Bayardo San Roman and the members of the Buendia family. FTP, name this author of The Autumn of the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (do not prompt on or accept just “Marquez”)


D17. Her attorney Whitfield Sharp was unable to show enough discrepancies in the spending of her defense fund. Judge John Roberts ordered a jury to find her parents innocent of defrauding her of 13,500 dollars. This woman returned to England in 1998 after serving 279 days in jail. She was initially in the news for being convicted of the murder of 8-month old Matthew Eapen. FTP, identify this infamous British au pair.

Answer: Louise Woodward

D18. It included themes from an earlier work of the composer, Sirenes, the third of his Nocturnes. The first movement unfolds in 6/8 meter following a very slow intro. The second, scored for solo flute and harp harmonics, includes frequent trills, and the third ends with a sustained forte-fortissimo. Its three parts are titled “From Dawn to Noon,” “The Play of the Waves,” and “Dialogue of the Wind.” FTP, identify this Claude Debussy work also known as “The Sea.”

Answer: La Mer (accept early “The Sea”)


D19. Halton Arp studied red shifts in them, Maarten Schmidt identified the wavelength of radiation emitted by them, and Martin Ryle’s astronomical catalog led to their discovery. They are related to N and Seyfert galaxies but can block both out. 3C273, two billion light years away, is the brightest one. FTP, identify these objects of high luminosity and strong radio emission that are observed at great distances.

Answer: quasars


D20. In 1864 he went to live in the Oneida Community, whose founder, John Noyes, was a friend of this man’s father. His decline began when he contracted syphilis and his wife divorced him in 1874. He blamed James Blaine for his inability to be appointed to a Parish consulship, though his revenge was taken upon Blaine’s superior. FTP, name this man who shouted, “I am a Stalwart and Arthur is president now,” after his 1881 assassination of James Garfield.

Answer: Charles J. Guiteau


D21. Per his request, he was often credited as Maurice Escargot in his early acting days. His film debut was playing the Sex Pistol Sid Vicious in 1986’s Sid and Nancy, unlike his typical roles like drug dealer and pimp Drexl Spivy in True Romance. Similarly, he played villains in both State of Grace and Lost in Space. FTP, name this actor whose best bad-guy roles include Dracula, The Fifth Element, and Air Force One.

Answer: Gary Oldman


D22. He once killed two monkeys chasing two naked women, only to find out that the monkeys were the women’s lovers. In other exploits he lost a great deal of money playing cards with the abbe of Perigord because he was not cheating. In his travels this illegitimate son of the sister of Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh gains a footman, Cacambo. FTP, name this lover of Cunegonde and friend of Pangloss, the titular character of Voltaire’s most famous work.

Answer: Candide


D23. The name actually derives from the Manchurian for “he who knows.” As a rule, he has several auxiliary sprits at his disposal, but he is not possessed by them. The office can be hereditary, or be gained following a voluntary “quest.” He can capture the soul and treate it to rid the body of disease. FTP, identify this tribal figure, also known as a “medicine man.”

Answer: shaman (prompt on early “medicine man”)



2000 Eric Hillemann Singles Tournament

Questions by Subash Maddipoti

Set E
E1. Following their defeat by the Amorites, they briefly became a dependency of the Mitanni. After defeating the Mushki to their northwest, they moved their capital to Calah and prospered. The Medes finally ended the run that had seen such kings as Tiglath-pileser III, Ashurbanipal, and Sennacherib. FTP, name this ancient people renowned for their cruelty, who had their capital at Nineveh and resided around modern day Syria.

Answer: Assyrians


E2. They set forth their manifesto in “The Natural Constitution of the Government most advantageous to Humankind.” They were opposed by Fernando Galiani, who attacked various members including Victor Riqueti and Samuel du Pont. They believed that land was the source of all wealth, and attacked mercantilism for its emphasis on manufacturing rather than agriculture. FTP, identify this group of 18th century economists led by Francois Quesnay.

Answer: physiocrats


E3. Frederick Griffith was the first to discover them in 1928, but they were not given a name or synthesized for another 24 years. The first one was grown with radioactive isotopes of either sulfur or phosphorus. That first one, T2, was the result of the famed 1952 Hershey-Chase blender experiment and was allowed to infect some E. coli cells. FTP, identify these types of viruses that attach to bacterial cells.

Answer: bacteriophage


E4. Along with Mygdon and Otreus he waged war against the Amazons. Of his wives, the most famous was the daughter of Dymas. He became king after Hercules killed all his brothers, and his prosperity and life ended when, upon an altar of Zeus, he was killed by Neoptolemus. His grandsons include Genger and Astynax. FTP, name this son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and father of Cassandra and Paris, a noble king of Troy.

Answer: Priam


E5. First performed in a six-movement version in 1868, this work had its emotional roots in the death of the composer’s mother three years earlier. The next year a seventh movement was added. The composer set a selection of Bible verses to his native language, avoiding explicit Christian references, and first showed it to Clara Schumann. FTP, identify this work initially called Human Requiem, a famous requiem of Johannes Brahms.

Answer: German Requiem or Ein Deutsches Requiem


E6. The critic A.H.T. Levi said that the turmoil in this author’s adopted country characterizes “The Guest” and the other stories in his collection Exile and the Kingdom. His two posthumously published novels, A Happy Death and The First Man, by definition followed his death in a car crash. Caligula, his only play, was not as well known as the novel that told of Merseault. FTP, identify this author of The Fall, The Plague, and The Stranger.

Answer: Albert Camus


E7. His grandfather was nicknamed “Turnip” and directed British foreign policy from 1721 to 1730. This man was chancellor of the Exchequer in the administration of Pitt the Elder, but assumed full governmental duties upon Pitt’s illnes. Estimating that he could generate a revenue 40,000 pounds, he passed a series of four resolutions in 1767. FTP, name this Brit, whose namesake acts were hated in the colonies.

Answer: Charles Townshend


E8. Robert Graf was “The Ferret,” Nigel Stock was “The Surveyor,” and in a script error, two characters were nicknamed “Tunnel King.” However the central roles are played by “Big X,” “The Scrounger,” and “Cooler King.” Most of them die, but Charles Bronson’s character gets away. FTP, name this 1963 movie starring Richard Attenborough, James Garner, and Steve McQueen as part of a group of World War II POWs who attempt a breakout.

Answer: The Great Escape


E9. His work in atomic physics was furthered by studying under R.H. Fowler, who in turn had studied under Niels Bohr. His wave equations had accurately predicted the electron's motion, spin, and magnetic and other properties. Carl Anderson would verify this man’s prediction of the positron. FTP, name this British physicist who won the 1933 Nobel for his work in quantum mechanics.

Answer: Paul Dirac
E10. The city’s main thoroughfare is known as the Canebiere, while its popular seedy district is known as Panier. In its harbor lie the Frioul Islands, and each side of the harbor is guarded by Fort Saint-Jean and Fort Saint-Nicolas. Another landmark of its harbor is the castle Chateau D’if, while the Rove Tunnel connects it to the Rhone River. FTP, identify this Mediterannean seaport, the second largest city in France.

Answer: Marseilles


E11. While in Bukhara, he did much of his reading by gaining access to the vast Samanid library. He attempted to find his own “Oriental” philosophy after writing Book of Salvation and Book of Directives and Remarks late in his life. FTP, identify this man who composed the Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, a famous Iranian physican and philosopher of the 10th and 11th centuries.

Answer: Avicenna or Ibn Sina


E12. When we first meet him, he is praising a book by Goddard, The Rise of the Colored Empires. One day, while out riding with the Sloane’s, he stops at his rival’s house. Earlier we learned that he keeps an apartment in Morningside Heights, where he carries on an affair with a mechanic’s wife. In his college days at Yale, he befriended his wife’s cousin, Nick Carraway. FTP, name this snobbish husband of Daisy in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

Answer: Tom Buchanan (prompt on just last name)


E13. Voyager 1 and 2 saw it at close range in 1979 noting two huge craters, the largest of which was Nergal Crater. Its core of rock surrounded by a thick layer of ice has a bright terrain covered by complex, topographic grooves. It was named by Simon Marius, though it was discovered by someone else. Named after the mythical cupbearer to the gods, FTP, identify this third of the Galilean moons, the largest in the solar system.

Answer: Ganymede


E14. She recently signed her first national ad campaign, with Subaru. Her recent comeback included a loss to Jan Siemerink’s team as her partner, Mahesh Bhupathi lost his serve. While covering the event for TNT, she was attempting to tie her friend Billie Jean King’s career record for Wimbledon titles. FTP, identify this Czech player, the lifetime rival of Chris Evert and openly lesbian tennis player.

Answer: Martina Navratilova


E15. Their name was first used by Robert Caldwell in his discussions about their grammar, but it was Francis Ellis who first recognized their name in 1816. In all this family contains 23 languages and approximately 165 million speakers. Kurukh and Gondi number among its smaller dialects, unlike Kannada. FTP, identify this language family that also includes Telugu and Tamil, mostly spoken in southern India.

Answer: Dravidian


E16. As proposed by its Charter Oath, a series of reforms began under the banner “Civilization and Enlightenment.” The art of woodblock prints died out, a national army was formed, the Gregorian calendar was adopted, and a new cabinet, the Diet, was convened. Directed by Emperor Mutsuhito, FTP, name this period of westernization at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate in late 19th century Japan.

Answer: Meiji Restoration


E17. He has 60 days to appeal to the Council of State the recent decision handed down against him. In a successful argument District Attorney Lynne Abraham convinced the government of Lionel Jospin to have him extradited. He had been discovered three years ago in Bordeaux, after jumping bail and leaving the U.S. FTP, identify this man accused of killing Holly Maddux in 1977 in Phildadelphia, who shares his name with Sean Young’s character in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

Answer: Ira Einhorn


E18. The protagonist of this novel once flirted with Beatrice Wyld, who would marry his younger brother. Near the conclusion, he plots, with his dying mother, to poison his sister, Annie. That mother, Gertrude, is the focus of the first part of this novel, whereas her son and his relationships with Miriam Leivers and Clara Dawes is the focus of its second half. FTP, identify this work about Paul Morel, perhaps D.H. Lawrence’s finest novel.

Answer: Sons and Lovers


E19. After being sent to London, he trained in the art of rococo decoration under Gravelot and Hayman. The end of his training was marked by the canvas The Charterhouse, but it was not until his portrait of Earl Nugent that he established himself. Successive works included his famous portraits Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. FTP, name this Englishman best known for another portrait, The Blue Boy.

Answer: Thomas Gainsborough


E20. In modern medicine this process works along with ultrafiltration in hospital use. Substances from extracted blood like urea are passed into a sterile solution, but red and white cells, platelets, and proteins can not pass through. Once the blood is purified, it is returned to the patient. FTP, identify this process of separation of a solution by diffusion through a semipermeable membrane, a process often used in the treatment of patients with kidney disease.

Answer: dialysis


E21. While doing a school report, he learns that he is descended from the Nez Perce and wins a track race. Remarkably he scored a 1500 on his SATs. His window is right acoss from the Spano family’s, whose daughter Jesse is his friend. He competes for the affections of the Kapowski girl with A.C. Slater, and his best friend is Screech. FTP, identify this character played by Mark Paul Gosselar on Saved by the Bell.

Answer: Zach Morris


E22. This Supreme Court case answered the first of two questions by granting that “the sword and purse” are entrusted to the government, interpreting the “necessary and proper” clause of the Constitution. The second question was answered by the claim that “the power to tax is the power to destroy,” thus no state could tax a federal institution. FTP, name this case in which a national bank was deemed constitutional, an 1819 decision that voided a tax levied by Maryland.

Answer: McCulloch v. Maryland (just “McCulloch” is enough after Maryland is mentioned)


E23. This process can be accomplished using packed tower columns or rotating disk contactors, and the various streams involved include the solvent, raffinate and feed. The object is to achieve a high rate of mass transfer by maximizing contact between the phases. It can be used for processes for which the boiling points of two liquids are too close for distillation, and requires that one component has different solubility properties. FTP, name this process that can performed in a laboratory using a separatory funnel.

Answer: Extraction



2000 Eric Hillemann Singles Tournament

Questions by Subash Maddipoti

Set F
F1. His union with Camese resulted in the river god Tiberinus. Afterwards, he became the sole ruler of Latium before his death. Another story goes that he made a hot spring erupt to block the invasion of the Sabines and save Romulus. He was commonly worshipped at the beginning of harvest time, marriage, and birth. FTP, identify this deity represented by a double-faced head, the Roman god of gates and doors.

Answer: Janus


F2. The domestic peace that it sought to achieve had already been in place due to the Treaty of Vervin. Provision 16 allowed for the building of “Places of Exercise,” while provision 9 allowed for maintenance of the places de surete, or armed cities. However, it would be repealed by the Peace of Alais in 1626. FTP, name this law promulgated by Henry IV in 1598, a law that greatly increased the religious liberty of French Huguenots.

Answer: Edict of Nantes or Edit de Nantes


F3. One couple in this play first met due to their mutual passion for the villa of the late Mrs. Falk. It contains mentions of Aunt Rina and Mr. Rysing, though neither has a speaking role. The last pages tell of two suicides both committed with the General’s pistols. Jorgen and Thea are impervious to the deeper plots, unlike Judge Brack and the troubled scholar Eilert Lovberg. FTP, name this Henrik Ibsen play, centering on the deceitful female title character.

Answer: Hedda Gabler


F4. The most powerful weapons in this series were the glass swords, and a computer glitch in the sixth one allowed you to create 255 glass swords at a time. In the fifth one, you must defeat the three Shadowlords to find the King of Brittania, while all of them deal with the Avatar. FTP, identify this series of games by Origin Software, whose early editions centered around Lord British.

Answer: Ultima


F5. One example is the recent change in avirulence of wild flax and flax rust in Australia, while another is the increased frequency of a rare autosomal recessive disorder like Tay-Sachs disease. Since it is random, it can only occur in small, isolated populations. Also known as the Sewall-Wright effect, FTP, identify this change in the gene pool of a population strictly due to chance.

Answer: genetic drift (accept early “Sewall-Wright effect”)


F6. At about 2,000 feet up this geographic landmark, a high semicircular ridge called Mt. Somma begins. Alongside Mt. Somma and is Giant’s Valley. Before its most famous eruption it had only one peak and it has since erupted 29 times, with eruptive stages varying from 6 months to almost 31 years. FTP, identify this volcano on the plain of Campania that rises above the Bay of Naples and in AD 79 destroyed Pompeii.

Answer: Mount Vesuvius or Vesuvio


F7. The general Badr al-Jamali briefly seized power and established a new military title during this dynasty. Their leaders were the heads of the Ismai’li sect, and al-Mahdi was the first of their great imams. Their end came with the weakening of their capital at Cairo and the founding of the Ayyubid dynasty under Saladin. FTP, name this Arabic ruling dynasty in power from AD 909 to 1171 that took its name from a daughter of Muhammad.

Answer: Fatimid caliphate


F8. The character of Selifan, a coachman in this novel, has been compared to Sancho Panza. It opens with the protagonist arriving in town and attending a ball at the Governor’s house, where he meets Manilov and Sobakevitch. The protagonist intends to swindle various landowners of their rights to certain serfs, and then mortgage those rights to a bank for a profit. However the insidious plot of Pavel Chichikov is discovered and thwarted, FTP, in what Nikolay Gogol novel?

Answer: Dead Souls


F9. Among his famous portraits is that of Bindo Altoviti. His pupil Giulio Romano completed this artist’s Transfiguration, which was placed in his funeral bier. His famous Madonnas include the Small Cowper Madonna and The Alba Madonna. In addition, this pupil of Perugino also decorated the living quarters of Pope Julius II and many of the side walls of the Sistine Chapel. FTP, identify this artist best known for his School of Athens

Answer: Raphael or Rafael Sanzio
F10. He cast molten metal into disks at home to build a telescope but quit after one of the mirror’s broke. He catalogued over 840 double stars, and termed a nebula a central star surrounded by a “luminous fluid.” In addition, he is considered the founder of sidereal astronomy and won the Copley Medal for his most famous discovery in 1781. FTP, identify this discoverer of Uranus, a German-born British astronomer.

Answer: William Herschel


F11. He was able to jump to the majors from Class-A Lynchburg, partly because of his “Lord Charles” curve. As the youngest All Star ever he combined with Fernando Valenzuela to strike out six consecutive batters, breaking Carl Hubbell’s record. This uncle of Garry Sheffield is now in his second stint with the New York Yankees. FTP, identify this pitcher plagued by drug problems, whose wicked fastball of his Mets days has long since left him.

Answer: Dwight Gooden


F12. First set forth in 1951, it only applies under certain conditions of rationality and equality. It states the inability to guarantee a ranking of societal preferences that will correspond to rankings of individual preferences when more than two individuals and alternative choices are involved. FTP, identify this economic theorem also known as the “impossibility” theorem and named for the Brit who discovered it.

Answer: Arrow’s Theorem (accept early “impossibility theorem”)


F13. His son Ted drops out of college and elopes with Eunice Littlefield, while Verona graduates from Bryn Mawr and marries Kenneth Escott, a local reporter. His change begins following the shooting death of Zilla. After his best friend, Paul Riesling, is sent to jail, he briefly rebels against middle class values, but relents when his wife Myra falls ill. FTP, identify this real estate broker from Zenith, the title character of a Sinclair Lewis novel.

Answer: George F. Babbitt


F14. In Paths of Utopia he referred to the settling experiments of his people, while he examined man’s orientation in the world with five dialogues in Daniel. After becoming editor of The World, he founded the monthly Der Jude. The movement he is associated with is the center of The Way of Man and Tales of Rabbi Nachman. FTP, identify this author of I and Thou, a famous hasidist philosopher.

Answer: Martin Buber


F15. Some of the values that it can take on include 1.986 and .08207. It is the same for all types of its state of matter provided that the number of moles are the same. Its dimensions are energy per degree per mole, and it is mostly commonly used as 8.31441. This value can be calculated by taking the pressure times the volume all divided by the number of moles times the temperature. FTP, identify this constant, symbolized by R in equations.

Answer: molar gas constant or ideal gas constant or universal gas constant


F16. He has diabetes, wears a pacemaker, and experienced three strokes within the last 16 months. By a vote of eleven to nine he was denied a request to have doctors examine him, though his shield of congressional immunity still holds. FTP, identify this man currently in Britain, who is trying to escape a trial for human rights violations committed from 1973 to 1990, when he was dictator of Chile.

Answer: Augusto Pinochet


F17. The group includes former Fungo Mungo basist Arion Salazar and former Counting Crows drummer Brad Hargraves. “An Ode to Maybe” and “Never Let You Go” are from their second album, Blue. However, they’re better known for their first album songs like “Losing a Whole Year,” “Graduate,” and “Jumper.” FTP, identify this group with from Stephan Jenkins, a group whose self-titled album contained “Semi-Charmed Life.”

Answer: Third Eye Blind


F18. It was after the surrender of General Benjamin Lincoln, that this man began his own personal war. A daring rescue of Americans at Parkers Ferry made him an official general in the army, though his greatest victory came while aiding Greene at Eutaw Springs. Unlike fellow colonist Thomas Sumter, he favored deceptive guerilla tactics. FTP, name this Revolutionary War general and South Carolinian, who was nicknamed “Swamp Fox.”

Answer: Francis Marion (prompt on early buzz of “Swamp Fox”)



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