Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2004 – ut-chattanooga
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- Dantes
- Great Society
- Ol’ Dirty Bastard or ODB
- Hitler Youth or Hitler-jugend
- Krebs
- Merchant of Venice
- Van der Waals
- Java Man or Homo erectus BONI – ROUND 4 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by South Carolina’s Joe Stanton with Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick, North Greenville College’sJames Washick, Missouri’s Jason Carl Mueller, macon State’s Vida Moultrie, and Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat,1. Danglars, Mondego and Caderousse accuse him of being a Bonapartist. He is locked away in the Chateau D’If and is forgotten. The Abbe Faria accidentally digs to his cell and tells him of a huge fortune. When the Abbe dies, this man escapes, becomes rich, and has his revenge. FTP give either this man’s birth name, or his assumed title, which is also the title of the famous novel about him by Alexander Dumas. Answer: Edmond Dantes, or the Count of Monte Cristo
Answer: Margaret Mead 3. It depends on the geometry of the physical structure that is being measured and the dielectric constant of the material medium in which the object’s electric field exists. It is measured by putting an equal and opposite charge on two plates and measuring the potential between the two plates. FTP, name this quantity measured in farads. Answer: Capacitance 4. It was first outlined in a speech made at the University of Michigan in 1964, and its creator called it “a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents”, among other things. Organizations created under it included Community Action Programs, Job Corps, and Head Start. FTP, name this program of urban renewal created by Lyndon B. Johnson. Answer: Great Society 5. His family was formerly part of the southern aristocracy, but by his birth in 1878, they were close to being in poverty. He went to college when he was fourteen, and it was there that he became aware socialist philosophy, which influenced his work. He was sent by the editors of the socialist newspaper to study the workers of the stockyards and meatpacking plants. FTP, name this author who wrote a book about this experience in The Jungle. Answer: Upton Sinclair 6. The original is in the collection of Wallace College in London. It shows a statue of a cherub looking down from the left side; under it, a man gazes scandalously at the center figure, who is kicking her shoes off. FTP, name this masterpiece of Rococo, which depicts a woman on the title object, the most famous painting of Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Answer: The Swing 7. One of his greatest stunts was getting his welfare check cashed on national TV. In 1998 alone he was shot in the back by a home intruder, had his Range Rover stolen, was kicked out of a Berlin hotel for "lewd behavior," and was charged in separate incidents with threatening a security guard, threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and stealing a pair of Nikes. Born Russell Tyrone Jones, he has performed as Dirt McGirt and Big Baby Jesus, and took his nickname from the fact that his half singing, half rapping style “had no father”. FTP, name this member of the Wu-Tang Clan, whose biggest hits include “Brooklyn Zoo” and “Got Your Money”. Answer: Ol’ Dirty Bastard or ODB [accept McGirt, Big Baby Jesus, or Russell Jones before each is said] 8. One of the three non-degenerate shapes studied by Apollonius of Perga, it has the property that the distance between any point on it and two fixed points called the foci are constant. It can be formed by taking a right cone and intersecting it with a plane that is almost perpendicular to its axis. FTP, identify this conic section with standard equation x^2 / a^2 + y^2 / b^2 = 1. Answer: Ellipse 9. Its parallel organization, the Bund Deustcher Madel, trained girls in physical and domestic tasks. The first stage was finished at about the age of 14, when boys where given a dagger inscribed with the words “Blood and Honor”. In 1936, due to poor attendance, participation was made mandatory and all competing organizations banned. Commanded by General Kurt Meyer, its members were used to defend Berlin from the Soviets in 1945. FTP, name this Nazi organization. Answer: Hitler Youth or Hitler-jugend 10. In the seventh step, Succinate is converted to fumarate. It is also called the TCA cycle, and it begins with a pyruvate dehydrogenase condensate. Occuring in the mitochondria, it yields three molecules of NADH, and a high-energy phosphate bond that is readily transferred to ADP to form ATP. FTP, what is this cycle also known as the citric acid cycle? Answer: Krebs cycle; accept citric acid cycle before it’s read 11. Patrick Stewart found that the famous speech in the third act was not a plea for common humanity, but a stone cold rationalization of revenge. The female protagonist has to marry the man who chooses the correct casket, which Bassanio does, having traveled to Belmont on the coin of Antonio, who in turn borrowed money from the title usurer with a pound of flesh as his collateral. FTP, name this play of Shakespeare, featuring Shylock. Answer: The Merchant of Venice 12. It is cube-shaped one-room stone structure which is washed annually and covered with a dark silk cloth. Prior to the 7th century C.E., it was a pagan holy site and according to tradition, this shrine was built by Abraham and Ishmael using the foundations laid by Adam. During the first ten days of the last lunar month of the year, believers will circumambulate it seven times, those close enough to it kissing the Black Stone set in its structure. FTP, name this most sacred sanctuary of Islam. Answer: Kaaba 13. It is relatively weak and easily disrupted, due for the fact that lower molecular-weight hydrocarbons are gases at room temperature. The more atoms are in a given hydrocarbon, the greater the sum of this attraction to another molecule of its kind. So as molecular weight increases, so does this, producing higher melting and boiling points. FTP, what is this molecular interaction of hydrocarbons, in which the electrons of one molecule are attracted to the nuclei of another? Answer: Van der Waals attraction or force 14. The City University of New York’s College of Criminal Justice is named for this man who, as governor of New York, reformed the prison system, limiting the death penalty and abolishing flogging. Other notable accomplishments included hearing the landmark cases Chisolm v. Georgia and Glass v. Sloop, and working with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to negotiate the Treaty of Paris. FTP, name the first man to be confirmed as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Answer: John Jay 15. Born on March 12, 1922, this French-Canadian was educated at Columbia and was expelled from the Navy due to possessing a schizoid personality. He became a merchant seaman and eventually a vagabond. He wrote novels, including "The Town and the City," "Mexico City Blues" and "Dharma Bums." FTP name the author of "On the Road." Answer: Jack Kerouac 16. One of only two men to be described as “God-Like” in the Iliad, he once rebuked a talking horse, Xanthus, for allowing his best friend to be killed. Following his most famous victory, he also defeated Memnon, Cycnus, and Penthelisia, but was later killed by Paris. FTP, name this greatest hero of the Iliad, killer of Hector, who as a child was dipped in the river Styx and made invincible…that is, except for his heel. Answer: Achilles 17. At the age of four he began to study the piano, and when he was eight, he played at a private concert in Warsaw. Born in Poland in 1810, he lived in Paris from 1831 until his death shortly after a major war. The creator of 55 mazurkas, 13 polonaises, 24 preludes, and 4 ballads among others, this man is regarded by some as the greatest of all composers of music for the piano. For ten points, name this composer who had an intimate relationship with author George Sand, and whose works include “Fantaisie in F Minor,” “Sonata in B Minor,” and “Revolutionary Etude.” Answer: Frédéric François Chopin 18. This city contains the oldest synagogue in Europe, and Tycho Brahe is buried here in the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. Mozart dedicated both the opera Don Giovanni and his Symphony #38 to this city, and much later it became the principal filming location for the movie Amadeus. Founded around 800 A.D. on the banks of the Vltava (vol-TA-va?) River, it was established by Charles IV as the seat of the Holy Roman Empire and now FTP, is what capital of Czechoslovakia? Answer: Prague 19. Paper money was used, and a military class was created that ranked higher than any civil servant. The novel became popular as did Wood-cut and block-printing of art. During this dynasty, nautical exploration flourished, with the expeditions of Zheng He sailing the South Seas and the Indian Ocean. Founded by a Han peasant, and having a name meaning “brightly”, FTP, this is what Chinese dynasty that was followed by the Manchu? Answer: Ming Dynasty 20. He was a Neopythagorean and a Platonist, and attempted to reconcile mystical notions such as Platonic solids and musical analogies with physics. Spread out through his voluminous calculations in Astronomia Nova, are laws in which he explained that the planets are held in orbit by the “motive soul”. FTP, name this Austrian astronomer who formulated his three laws of planetary motion. Answer: Johannes Kepler 21. On September 9, 2003, voters in this state overwhelmingly rejected Republican Governor Bob Riley's plan to reform the state's regressive tax code. On November 13, 2003, the Court of Judiciary removed the Chief Justice of the state's Supreme Court for failing to obey a federal court order. FTP, name this state recently divided over whether the state courthouse should feature a monument of the Ten Commandments. Answer: Alabama 22. The official website for it says that the design team included researchers and engineers from “major space and engineering companies” and that it “progressed on an amazingly rapid timescale”. So much for that, as it has failed to make contact with Earth since it was released from the Mars Express on December 19. FTP, name this doomed British Mars Rover, named for the ship Darwin sailed on. Answer: Beagle 2 23. Until his death in 1940, Eugene Dubois continued to assert that Peking Man was fully human and believed that his discovery was the missing link between humans and apes. FTP name this discovery of Dubois, dug up in Indonesia, now known to be an early hominid. Answer: Java Man or Homo erectus BONI – ROUND 4 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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