Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2004 – ut-chattanooga
Questions by Michael Napier, Michael Swick, Joe Stanton, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Jason Carl Mueller, Gaius Stern, the CWRU crew, Chris Borglum et al., and your genial quizmaster
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Questions by Michael Napier, Michael Swick, Joe Stanton, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Jason Carl Mueller, Gaius Stern, the CWRU crew, Chris Borglum et al., and your genial quizmaster1. He’s mentioned in the first line of the work that introduces him, even though the action takes place 7 years after his death. His name still appears on the sign next to his former partner outside their firm. Cashboxes, padlocks, ledgers, and steel purses are among the trappings he brings with him when he reappers. FTP name this ghost who comes to warn his former partner, Ebeneezer Scrooge. Answer: Jacob Marley
Answer: passenger pigeon 3. Born in Berkeley County, South Carolina, he had his first war experience as a lieutenant of colonial militia in 1761, when he led a successful attack against the Cherokee. At the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775, he helped defend Charleston, South Carolina against a British offensive in 1776. After 1780, he led a small group of guerrillas based on Snow Island in the Pee Dee River of northeastern South Carolina, engaging in ambushes and sudden raids. For 10 points, name this military hero whose tactics earned him the nickname Swamp Fox. Answer: Francis Marion 4. After this god of light and joy died, Hermod went to the underworld to plead for his return, but because one old woman in a cave did not weep, he remained. His mother had dreamed of his death and extracted promises from the natural world not to harm him, but Loki tricked the blind Hoder to throw the killing twig. FTP, name this god who was impervious to all things except mistletoe. Answer: Balder 5. Reputedly discovered in 1427 by Diogo de Senill, settlement began five years later under the direction of Gonçalo Cabral. With the exception of a brief administration by Spain, they had no central government until 1766. Currently they enjoy the as continental districts of Portugal with an administrative capital at Ponta Delgada. FTP, name this North Atlantic archipelago Answer: the Azores 6. In Richard Bowring’s analysis of this author’s primary book, he notes that it was able to succeed in a period of Japan’s literary history when it was still dominated by Chinese literature and ideas. The book analyzed the true determination of power behind the throne, which is to say marriage and all of the politics that surround it. FTP, identify this author, whose main work was The Tale of Genji. Answer: Murasaki Shikibu 7. If a chemical reaction moves to the right, this quantity is positive. If a reaction moves to the left, it is negative. If a reaction is at equilibrium, it is 0. FTP name this quantity, denoted by a capital G, which relates heat and entropy by delta G = delta H delta (TS). Answer: Gibbs Free Energy [prompt on free energy – there’s at least one other type] 8. This political leader was nicknamed “Colossus with a human touch” due to his 6’4 300+ pound stature. He came to power after the parliament passed a no-confidence vote against Helmut Schmidt, then chancellor of West Germany. FTP name this former leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and Germany’s chancellor from 1982-1998. Answer: Helmut Kohl 9. The back of an easel stands in the foreground on the left side of the painting, while the king and queen can be seen in a mirror in the background, suggesting that the viewer is standing where they would be. In the center of the painting stands Infanta Margarita, the daughter of King Philip IV, surrounded by the two ladies for whom the work is named. FTP, name this portrait of the Spanish royal family by Diego Velázquez. Answer: Las Meninas or The Maids of Honor 10. He originally tried to make his way into show business as a playwright, though he had a setback when one of his former bosses gave out a recommendation saying, “Do not hire this man.” Critics first took note of him when he ran the West Bank Cafonstairs Theater bar for eight years where he continued to write screenplays. Eventually he pursued a stand-up career and received the 2001 Funniest Male Stand-up comic from the Viewers Choice awards. FTP, name this “Foremost Commentator on Everything” who makes a weekly appearance on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Answer: Lewis Black 11. Though he entered the University of Basel to study archaeology, his interests changed and he graduated in medicine from the University of Zurich in 1902. He disagreed with Freud about the extent to which sex stimulates human behavior, believing rather personalities of parents are major influences on a child. FTP, name this Swiss psychiatrist who originated the terms “introvert,”“extrovert,” and “collective unconscious.” Answer: Carl Gustav Jung 12. The ex-samurai Kenshin makes a historic trip to the former capitol during this time, but in real life, it marked the beginning of series of reforms to take place throughout Japan. Perhaps the most relevant to this tournament is the idea of compulsory education, established soon after the establishment of basic human rights, including freedom of religion, in 1873. FTP, identify this period in Japanese history in which the power was transferred from the Tokugawa shogunate into the hands of a small group of nobles and former samurai. Answer: Meiji Era (accept Meiji restoration or equivalents) 13. Examples of it include transduction of che [CHAY] proteins in bacteria and activation of flagellar motion toward the nutrients that initiated the transduction. It is, however, more significant and more complex in single cells of multicellular organisms and directs macrophage response to invading pathogens. FTP identify this five-letter term that simply describes a cell’s ability to direct its movement according to chemicals in its environment. Answer: taxis [TACK-sis] (accept “chemotaxis” before “five-letter term”) 14. Gore Vidal once said that this woman’s “self-loving arias” were enough to drive him from any room. This piano virtuoso from Columbus, Georgia failed with the play The Square Root of Wonderful, but scored with her story of a poorly-adjusted tomboy named Frankie, who is desperate become a “member” of her sister’s wedding. FTP, name the gifted alcoholic who also wrote about two mutes in the novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Answer: Carson McCullers 15. The negative log of 0. The tangent function at pi over 2 or cotangent at 0. The function 1 over z at 0, 1 over z minus 1 at 1, etc. FTP, what is this quantity, which is the value of any one of these functions defined at the given value. Answer: infinity (accept undefined, asymptote on an early buzz, or acceptable equivalents, but NOT negative infinity). 16. This man served in Congress for nearly thirty years and partially served as the House Minority leader, only to go on to serve the shortest presidential term which didn’t end with his death. While people at the time said that he had a failed presidency, he said to Bob Woodward that he always carries a slip of paper with him that notes that a pardon is an admission of guilt, which he holds as his own personal justification. FTP, name this former president that pardoned Richard Nixon. 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