Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2004 – ut-chattanooga
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Answer: Charles I(10) This leader of the Roundheads led the New Model Army and became Lord Protector of England before his untimely 1658 death. Answer: Oliver Cromwell. (10) The supporters of the king were known as this, now the mascot of the University of Virginia.
16. FTPE, answer the following about a particular computer scientist. a) The equivalent of the Nobel in computer science is named after him, as well as a test for artificial intelligence, and a theoretical simple computer. He committed suicide in 1954 in England. Answer: Alan Turing b) Turing is credited with cracking what German cipher used during World War II, which allowed the Allies to win the battle in the sea. Answer: Enigma c) This type of Turing machine can emulate any computer ever made or will be made. Answer: UTM or Universal Turing Machine 17. 30-20-10, Name the author from works. (30) Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons; Player Piano (20) Jailbird , Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle (10) Breakfast of Champions , Slaughterhouse Five Answer: Kurt Vonnegut 18. FTPE, give the common/commercial name of the polymer given the constituent monomers. Poly-(name of monomer) will not be accepted. A) tetrafluoroethylene Answer: Teflon B) hexamethylene diamine, adipic acid Answer: Nylon 6,6 (accept Nylon) Answer: Mylar 19. FTPE, identify the following concerning programs developed during the 1912 election period. A) Theodore Roosevelt proposed that the federal government be given the power to oversee industrial corporations, similar to railroads or public utilities. This was the name he gave his program. Answer: New Nationalism B) In response to the New Nationalism, Wilson proposed instead court enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act and countered with this, his own catchphrase. Answer: New Freedom C) Wilson’s advisor, the “People’s Lawyer,” later a Supreme Court justice, who helped to develop the New Freedom program. Answer: Louis D. Brandeis
(10) Dreams most often occur during this phase of sleep which is considered the “active” phase of sleep Answer: REM or rapid eye movement sleep (10) An estimated ten percent of the population experience this type of dreaming in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming and is able to change the plot of the dream Answer: lucid dreaming (10) According to Freud, the manifest content is what the dreamer remembers, however, the true meaning of the dream that is concealed from the dreamer is designated by this term Answer: latent content
(10) This is the highest point of the sky, directly above an observer’s head. Answer: zenith (10) The opposite of the zenith, this is the point directly below an observer’s feet. Answer: nadir (10) Represented on Earth maps by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, this is the sun’s path on the celestial sphere. Answer: ecliptic
(10) In 732, with the Moors looking to take over all of Europe, Charles Martel laid the smack down at this battle in west-central France. Answer: Battle of Tours or Poitiers (10) This provincial capital of Spain was the last Moorish stronghold in Europe until it fell in 1492. Answer: Granada (10) For five points each, these two Spanish monarchs united their kingdoms and finally kicked the Moors out. Answer: Ferdinand II and Isabella I
A) 2 times e to the 2 x. [2e^(2x)] Answer: 4 times e to the 2 x [4e^(2x)] B) negative cosine of x [-cos(x)] Answer: sine of x [sin(x)] C) the log of 1 minus x [log(1-x)] Answer: 1 over x minus 1 [1/(x-1)]
Questions by UTC with help from Florida, South Carolina, James Washick, South Florida’s Jeremy Rasmussen, the BAAL crew, and various other freelance contributors1. Paradoxides harlani was one of the largest types of the creatures, growing to 18 inches. Due to developmental changes in their anatomy, they can easily be used for purposes of stratigraphy. There were several varieties, including both eyeless or compound eyed, but all consisted of three body segments, and like all arthropods had an exoskeleton. Appearing fully developed in the Cambrian Period, they persisted until the end of the Permian Period. FTP, name this type of fossil arthropod. Answer: trilobite
Answer: Gravity’s Rainbow 3. Engblom v. Carey is the only significant court case in which it has ever been at issue. It has though, been cited in passing in Griswold v. Connecticut regarding the right to privacy. A reaction to a 1774 law which arose from the Mutiny Act, Joseph Story wrote that it was “to secure... that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all military intrusion”. FTP, name this constitutional amendment dealing with the quartering of soldiers. Answer: Third Amendment 4. Another name for her is Kore. She liked picking flowers in Sicily with her gal pals, but one day her uncle decided he liked the look of that and abducted her. For months he mother searched, unable to find her, all the while the Earth parched and nothing grew. Finally she was returned, but only after having consumed several pomegranite seeds, thus forcing her to return to the Underworld every year. FTP name this goddess, associated with Spring, and daughter to Demeter. Answer: Persephone (Proserpina) 5. This city served as the capital of its country and the seat of its imperial court from its founding in 794 until the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which among other things, moved the emperor to Tokyo. One-hundred and sixty nations met in this city in 1997 to sign a Protocol to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. For ten points, name this Japanese city with a population of about 2.5 million on the island of Honshu. Answer: Kyoto 6. Taking up where he left off in 1987, in 2001 he received his B.S. in kinesiology from the University of Central Arkansas. Drafted fifth overall by the Seattle SuperSonics in 1987, he was soon traded for Olden Polynice to the team on which he would become most famous for playing. His 204 career playoff games are the second most all-time. FTP name this basketball player who in the 2003-2004 season returned to Chicago Bulls, where he is best remembered as being Michael Jordan’s “sidekick.” Answer: Scottie Pippen 7. His work became known in Western Europe shortly before the French Revolution, thanks to a summary translation by the French Jesuit priest Father J. J. M. Amiot. He helped King Ho-Lu of the Wu state conquer several neighbors, including his own home state of Chi. [CHEE] Popularized in the U.S. in the 1970’s by Henry Kissinger, this general of roughly 2,500 years ago may now have surpassed both Confucius and Mao as the most quoted Chinese author in history. FTP name the author of the oldest military treatise in the world, The Art of War. Answer: Sun Tzu [or Sun Wu or Sun Tzi – translation is an imprecise art] 8. The first one to be discovered was HinDII (hindy-two), but the most well known one is EcoRI (ee-coh-are-one). Often when they act, they leave “sticky ends” which can be used for putting pieces of DNA together. Recent uses for these have been insertion of genes into E. coli plasmids for cloning. FTP, name these useful DNA cutters, often named for the bacteria from which they are isolated. Answer: restriction enzymes [prompt on just “enzyme”] 9. They appear in the novel Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte, and Byron in 1830 published “A Song for” them. Organized around 1811, they took their name from a stitcher who in a rage smashed two frames of a stockinger, a machine loom. FTP what was this group which saw the products of the industrial revolution as a threat to their way of life, and who went about the countryside destroying machines? Answer: Luddites 10. Its flag has three horizontal stripes of black, white, and green, with a red triangle pointing inward from the mast. In 1537, mapmaker Gerard Mercator published his first map of this area that, except for a reform-filled nine years under Egypt’s Muhammad Ali, was under Ottoman control from 1517 till the early 20th century. A 1937 Peel Commission report suggested it be divided into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a part that was neither. FTP name this land now officially led by Ahmed Qurei, who in September 2003 succeeded Mahmoud Abbas [a-BOSS]. Answer: Palestine 11. Along with Bellini and Rossini, this composer was one of the three great masters of the Bel Canto style, involving florid and flashy vocals. He achieved international fame with the production of his Anna Bolena in 1830, and two other still-performed comedies followed soon after: Don Pasquale and The Elixir of Love. FTP name this Italian composer perhaps best known for The Daughter of the Regiment and Lucia di Lammermoor. Answer: Gaetano Donizetti 12. In Robinson’s “Mr. Flood’s Party,” the protagonist paraphrases this famous work when he says “The bird is on the wing.” Really a collection of short verses rather than a connected long work, its name simply means “quatrains.” Sources disagree on the order of items in its most famous quote, “A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou.” Translated most famously by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859, FTP what is this collection of verse by the 12th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam? Answer: The Rubaiyat 13. Born in San Antonio, this Naval Academy graduate served as a Marine for 22 years. He helped plan the 1982 rescue of American students in Grenada as well as the U.S. raid on Muammar Qaddaffi’s Libyan bases, for which he was targeted by assassin Abu Nidal. He lost a 1994 U.S. Senate race, in which he would have been ineligible to vote has his conviction not been overturned on appeal. FTP name this Lieutenant Colonel, a member of Reagan’s National Security Council, best known for his testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings. Answer: Oliver L. North 14. This device consists of two inductive-capacitive oscillators, loosely coupled to one another. Electric current flows from the charged capacitor through the inductor creating a magnetic field. When the electric field is exhausted, the current stops and the magnetic field collapses. As the magnetic field collapses, it induces a current in the inductor in the opposite direction. Such oscillation is what makes this air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents so interesting. FTP name this device, invented by the namesake of the magnetic field unit. Answer: (Nikola) Tesla Coil 15. He was 14 when his mother drowned herself and 24 when he came under the influence of Giorgio de Chirico, especially Chirico’s 1922 painting “Song of Love.” He used an atmosphere of gentility and restraint to offset the irony and the jarring effect of his juxtaposed images. “The Red Model” and “The Treachery of Images” are among his works in the representational branch of surrealism. FTP name this artist, whose most familiar images include blue skies with clouds, floating apples, and bowler hats suspended above suits without an intervening head. Answer: Rene Magritte 16. Paper and pencil ready. (You’ll have 20 seconds.) FTP, had he used hexadecimal notation, what might Jules Verne have called his novel about Captain Nemo and the Nautilus? Answer: 4E20 Leagues Under the Sea (20,000 is 4E20 hex) 17. The author said that this titular protagonist was based on Hitler. He lives on the “far-away Island of Sala-ma-Sond,” where he is monarch. Still, he feels weak, and believes that, as king of all he surveys, if he can get higher up, he’ll see more, and thus rule more. As he rises he becomes king of a cow, a mule, a bush and a cat. His plans, however, are stymied by the belch of Mack, who is at the bottom of the stack on which he sits. FTP this describes what reptilian title character of Dr. Seuss? Answer: Yertle the Turtle 18. Considered revolutionary when it was introduced in 1913, it incorporated new ideas from quantum theory and explained the simple formula for the emission spectra. More complicated variations were applied with some success to larger elements, but the model ultimately failed for any atom other than hydrogen. FTP name this model of the atom in which electrons made circular orbits around the nucleus, named for its Danish developer. Answer: Bohr Model 19. As a youth he threw Amalinze the Cat three times in a wrestling match. He resents the effeminacy of his father Unoka, a talented musician and likeable man but a spendthrift and ne’er-do-well who never took a title in his life. He sees the same qualities mirrored in his own son, Nwoye, who eventually converts to Christianity. FTP, name this main character of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Answer: Okonkwo 20. He dedicated his last main work, the Passions of the Soul, to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, who was in constant correspondence with him. While more famous works came earlier in his life, The Principles of Philosophy is considered to be definitive. The phrase he is best known for did not appear in Meditations on First Philosophy, but rather in Discourse on Method. FTP name this philosopher who penned "I think therefore I am". Answer: Renee Descartes 21. His signature is so rare that the charities he named as beneficiaries of his will sued the state of South Carolina unsuccessfully to get the actual will itself from. This is because he was illiterate, and most of his alleged autographs were signed by his wife. Although he is considered one of the greatest natural hitters in baseball history, you’ll never see his plaque at the Hall of Fame. FTP who was this disgraced Chicago outfielder, banned from the game for conspiring with gamblers to fix the outcome of the World Series in the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919? Answer: Shoeless Joe Jackson 22. It manifests when an antigen enters the body and causes the immune system to produce IgE antibodies. These combine with the antigen to produce strong chemicals such as prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and histamines. Common antigens include ragweed, cats, grass, eggs, dust, dogs, poison ivy, milk, and mold. For ten points what is this medical condition with symptoms of runny noses, watery eyes, itching, and sneezing? Answer: Allergies 23. After the U. S. military action that ousted the Taliban regime from power in Afghanistan in 2001, a council of ethnic and tribal leaders was convened to form a provisional government for the country. FTP what is the name of this body, which means grand council in the Pashto (POSH-too) language? Answer: The Loya Jirga (LOY-a JUR-ga) BONI – PLAYOFF ROUND 2 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA Directory: 1287 1287 -> France’s Deployed Troops: Antilles (Source) 1287 -> Cover story the Glass Closet Latasha Byears' off-the-bench 'dirty work' helped the Los Angeles Sparks win two wnba championships. Then a sexual assault allegation ended her career Download 411.13 Kb. Share with your friends:
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