Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2004 – ut-chattanooga
Questions by Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia, Michael Napier, and Michael Swick; Kentucky’s Chad Money, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, Valencia’s Chris Borglum; North Florida’s Chip Thomas; etc
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Questions by Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia, Michael Napier, and Michael Swick; Kentucky’s Chad Money, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, Valencia’s Chris Borglum; North Florida’s Chip Thomas; etc.1. His death was supposedly caused by news of Napoleon’s win at Austerlitz. He resigned in protest in 1801 after the king rejected his Catholic emancipation proposal in the Act of Union. His financial skills exceeded those of his father, and he helped restructure British finances as prime minister after the American Revolution. Taking the office in 1783 at age 24, name, FTP, this youngest prime minister in British history, whose father is the namesake of a city in Pennsylvania. Answer: William Pitt the Younger (do not accept “Pitt the Elder” or “Pittsburgh”)
Answer: Confucius or Kung-fu-tze (accept alternate transliterations) 3. It is a special case of the equivalent integral form of one of Maxwell’s equations. Faraday’s law of induction is sometimes stated without reference to direction, but this partial formation requires a supplemental statement to be correct. FTP name this supplement which states that the direction of an induced current is such as to oppose the change of flux that produces it. Answer: Lenz’s law 4. This 70's show featured the adventures of lead character Jaime Summers, played by Lindsay Wagner. It was created as a spin-off of "The Six-Million Dollar Man", which was enjoying massive popularity at the time. The show, however, ran into the ground after only two brief seasons, but has experienced a minor revival as part of the Sci-Fi channel. FTP, name this quirky take on cybernetic augmentation. Answer: The Bionic Woman 5. We are told that the title subject’s “wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,/Tell that its sculptor well read those passions.” Around the subject’s “wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch in every way.” Told to the persona by a “traveler from an antique land,” FTP what is this poem whose title subject wants you to “look on his works . . . and despair,”a work by Percy Shelley? Answer: “Ozymandias” 6. This constellation was the location of a 1572 supernova, and the Milky Way passes through it. Located between Perseus, Cepheus, and Andromeda, its five brightest stars form a distinctive “W” in the northern sky. FTP, identify this constellation named for an Ethiopian queen, the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda. Answer: Cassiopeia 7. Five years ago, he gave an impassioned speech in the Senate saying that Bill Clinton’s behavior wasn’t appropriate, going against party lines. While this speech helped him politically four years ago, it didn’t give him an edge in the competition for the Democratic ticket for the presidency in 2004 since the Clinton Loyalists found refuge with the other candidates. FTP, name this conservative Democrat who argues for stronger moral values in society, running mate on the 2000 Democratic ticket with Al Gore. Answer: Senator Joseph Lieberman 8. His first symphony completed in 1925 is a graduation composition. His 15th and final was finished in 1971, four years before his death. He set many of Yevtushenko's works to music, but his success varied with the political climate, even being condemned by Stalin himself for his Katerina Ismailova. Patriotic suites composed after and during World War 2 did gain favor, especially for the Leningrad Symphony. FTP name this Russian composer. Answer: Dmitry Shostakovich 9. With a discharge of 900,000 liters per second, this river is 2,735 km long and passes through Syria before it reaches its destination of Iraq where it forms part of the Shattu I-Arab river way. It receives most of its waters from a set of tributary rivers such as the Karasu, Murat, and Khabur in Turkey. FTP, name this river that merges with the Tigris. Answer: Euphrates 10. The novel traces exactly one year in the protagonist’s life, beginning on his 30th birthday when two strangers appear at his room. Exactly one year later, those same two men take him to an unremarkable spot and shoot him in the head. In the intervening year, the protagonist spends much time fighting his arrest through a dizzying maze of court appearances and correspondence. This vaguely summarizes, FTP, what Franz Kafka novel about the legal case of Josef K.? Answer: The Trial 11. This programming technique is used in functional languages to implement loops. A classic application is to the Tower of Hanoi problem. In order for the program to halt, there must be a base case. For ten points, name this programming construct where a function calls itself. Answer: Recursion (accept word forms) 12. In 1998, Mangosuthu Buthelezi [BOO-te-LE-zee] inaugurated a monument to honor 3,000 soldiers of this tribe killed in 1838 at Blood River. Their most famous leader was the son of Nandi, a member of the Langeni clan, and that leader united several Nguni clans before he was murdered in 1828 by his half-brother Dingane. FTP, name this tribal empire of southern Africa in the early 19th century, led for 10 eventful years by Shaka. Answer: Zulu 13. Careful inspection of this work reveals a dog beating his tail in time with the music. The music is being played by constructed figures of simple flat interlocking shapes. With Renaissance perspective gone awry, this piece was a huge contribution to the Cubist movement. FTP, name this 1921 Pablo Picasso work. Answer: Three Musicians 14. The narrator explains that he first heard of her when he was ten, traveling by train to live with his grandparents. She traveled in the car ahead with her Bohemian family, and couldn’t speak a word of English, except “We go Black Hawk, Nebraska.” The narrator is named Jim Burden and then novel’s first chapter is “The Shimerdas.” FTP, name this novel about struggles on the Nebraska frontier by Willa Cather. Answer: My Antonia 15. Clinical signs of this disease include fever and blister-like lesions, but it is usually not fatal. It has not struck the United States since 1929, but over 1,000 cases occurred in Great Britain during a 2001 outbreak. A highly infectious disease among cattle, it reduces their weight and milk output, in addition to affecting the namesake regions. FTP, name this disease which causes lesions between the hooves and on the lips of cattle. Answer: foot and mouth (or hoof and mouth) disease 16. Though born in Switzerland this influential biologist and psychologist spent most of his time in France, eventually becoming the only Swiss to be invited to the Sorbonne. In France he worked at a school created by Alfred Binet and worked on intelligence testing. He is best known for his work on the development of the minds of children, including his own three children. For ten points identify this modern psychologist who categorized development into the sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, the concrete operations stage, and the formal operations stage. Answer: Jean Piaget 17. While just a baby named Katie, her first film appearance came in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Born in Brazil, her real breakthrough came with the role of Marcel on the sitcom Friends. Her most recent role began when she appeared on the Jumbotron at Edison Field on June 6, 2000, in a game fittingly against the Giants, a game the home team came back to win. FTP name this capuchin monkey, mascot of the 2002 world champion Anaheim Angels. Answer: Rally Monkey 18. This brittle, silver-gray metallic element has many industrial uses, and is particularly important in steel production. The element is found throughout much of the Earth’s crust, but only occurs in combination with other elements. First isolated as a pure metal in 1774 by the Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn, this element has an atomic mass of 54.938 amu and an atomic number of 25. For 10 points, name this chemical element whose symbol is Mn. Answer: Manganese 19. Everyone in this novel always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, but he never really thought about it until his fourteenth birthday. Divided into three sections--“The Seventh Day”, “The Prayers of the Saints” and “The Threshing-Floor”–it re-enacts the Christ story through a 24-hour struggle between a father and son, Gabriel and John Grimes. FTP, a triumphant stroll down Lenox Avenue concludes what downbeat, largely autobiographical first novel by James Baldwin, the title of which comes from a folk religious song? Answer: Go Tell it on the Mountain 20. Weighing slightly more than a ton, it bears an inscription from Leviticus 25:10. It has cracked three times in its history, which dates from 1752, when it was purchased from the Whitechapel Foundry for the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly. During the British occupation of Philadelphia, it was hidden in nearby Allentown, and moved to its permanent location across from Independence Hall in 1976. FTP, name this object which last cracked in 1846 when rung to commemorate George Washington’s birthday. Answer: Liberty Bell 21. Its Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay is the world’s largest freshwater island, covering 1,068 square miles. One of its larger cities is Windsor, famous for its casino. Oddly enough, if you enter it from the Detroit area, you would actually be traveling south into the area. FTP, name this province, the second largest in Canada. Answer: Ontario 22. On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed repeatedly in the Kew Gardens section of Queens. While there were 38 people who had either heard or seen the attack, no one came to her aid or called the police. The Genovese Syndrome was reproduced in the laboratory by Darley and Latane, coining, for ten points, what social psychological term, where the larger the group of people, the less likely they will intervene when an individual is in need of help? Answer: Bystander Effect, or Diffusion of Responsibility 23. He was the son of Anaxandridas II and ruled for nine years in the fifth century BC. Though little is known about his life, much is recorded about his death. His bones, taken by Pausanias, were buried north of Sparta, and the burial site was made into a memorial temple to honor all of those who “died at the Hot Gates.” FTP identify this Spartan king who led the defeated armies at Thermopylae. Answer: Leonidas I TOSSUPS – SHOOTOUT #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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