Tossups – round 1 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. Answer the following concerning the poet laureateship of Victorian England from clues FTPE.

a) Widely regarded as the definitive Victorian poet, this author of “Crossing the Bar” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was the longest-serving laureate.

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

b) This predecessor to Tennyson, whose poems included “Daffodils” and “To a Skylark,” originally declined the post due to his age but accepted as a favor to Robert Peel.

Answer: William Wordsworth

c) Before the post was offered to Tennyson, a much-favored candidate was this author of Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[10] Brillo Boxes; The Last Supper Paintings; Marilyn Monroe

Answer: Andy Warhol

[10] Drowning Girl; Grrrrrrrr!; Blam!

Answer: Roy Lichtenstein

[10] Orange and Yellow; Orange and Tan; Red on Maroon

Answer: Mark Rothko
3. FTPE, name these neurotransmitters.

A shortage of this compound, affecting memory, attention, and problem solving, is thought to cause Parkinson’s disease.

Answer: Dopamine

Released from the adrenal glands, it is vital in the fight-or-flight response, raising heart rate and energy release from fat and muscles.

Answer: Norepinephrine

A potent vasoconstrictor based on the amino acid tryptophan, this neurotransmitter plays a key role in the biochemistry of depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety; that’s why inhibiting its breakdown is the objective of some antidepressants.

Answer: Serotonin
4. FTPE, name these communist dictators.

This Romanian president and his equally hated wife Elena were both executed in 1989 on Christmas Day. Ho ho ho.

Answer: Nicolae Ceausescu

This man ruled North Korea from 1948 to 1994, but failed to extend Communism to South Korea. He was succeeded by his insane son Kim Jong Il.

Answer: Kim Il Sung

Thanks largely to the ineptitude of the CIA in the late 50s and early 60s, this man remains the premier of Cuba.

Answer: Fidel Castro
5. Name these rappers turned actors F5PE, and the movie described that features them for another 5:

(5/5) He starred as Craig, the only person known to have been fired on his day off

(5/5) He plays Huggy Bear in a 2004 release, also starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson

(5/5) In this film if you can call it that, the rapper plays Blu, whose get-rich scheme involves stolen cell phones that all operate with the same number and same line.

6. Answer these questions about American diplomacy during the Cold War FTP each.

Answer: Truman Doctrine

(10) This Secretary of State won the Nobel Peace Prize for his post-WWII program of massive aid to Europe.

Answer: George Marshall

(10) This French term was used to describe a thawing of tensions between the USSR and US in the 1970’s.

Answer: détente

30) If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

20) The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world

10) It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

5) He won victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Answer: 1984 by George Orwell

1. This law of thermodynamics states that the amount of entropy in any pure crystal at 0 degrees Kelvin is 0.

Answer: Third Law of Thermodynamics

2. This law of thermodynamics states that if a closed system A is in equilibrium with another closed system B, and the system B is in equilibrium with the closed system C, then A must be in equilibrium with C.

Answer: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

3. It’s much easier to understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics thanks to this theoretical construct, a closed cycle consisting of two isothermal and two adiabatic transformations, named for the Frenchman who postulated it.

Answer: Carnot cycle
9. Given a translation, provide the Latin legal term FTPE.

a) “for this purpose”

Answer: pro hac vice

b) “friend of the court”

Answer: amicus curiae

c) “unwelcome person”

Answer: persona non grata
10. FTPE, name the composer given the work. Hint: all the composers are from the 19^th-century group of Russian composers known as “The Five.”

(10) Scheherezade, The Snow Maiden

Answer: Nicolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

(10) A Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition

Answer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
(10) In the Steppes of Central Asia, Prince Igor

Answer: Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin

This man was the first Prime Minister, serving from 1721-1742.

Answer: Robert Walpole

He began his 12-year stint as PM in 1770. While he had success domestically and helped reform the organization of British rule of India, he’s unfairly tarred as the guy who lost the colonies for Britain during the American Revolution.

Answer: Lord Frederick North

He’s infamous for his appeasement of Hitler, particularly the sellout of Czechoslovakia in the 1938 Munich Pact.

Answer: Neville Chamberlain
12. Name the Shakespearean play from a list of characters FTPE

(10) Paris, Mercutio, Benvolio

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

(10) Regan, Goneril, Cordelia

Answer: King Lear

(10) Priam, Hector, Aeneas

Answer: Troilus and Cressida
13. FTPE, name these astronomical errors in movies and TV pointed out by www.badastronomy.com.

In “Men In Black”, Agent K tells Agent J "You want to stay away from that guy. He's, uh, he's grouchy. A three hour delay in customs after a trip for 17 trillion miles is gonna make anybody cranky." This however is stupid, because the nearest star to our solar system is about 25 trillion miles away. FTP, name that star.

Answer: Proxima Centauri

In “Contact”, while listening to the message from the alien-types, the astronomers get in a tizzy because they are worried that Vega will set. Vega never sets in the northern hemisphere, however, because, like The North Star, Vega is what kind of star that sits almost directly above the North Pole?

Answer: Circumpolar

In “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace”, we only see single shadows of people on Tatooine. This is wrong because, FTP, Tatooine is in what kind of star system, in which Tatooine-ites would cast two shadows?

Answer: Binary System
14. FTPE, with 10 seconds per part, give the prime factorization of each of the following numbers.

1. 210
Answer: (in any order) 7, 5, 3, 2.

2. 462
Answer: (in any order) 11, 7, 3, 2.

3. 1365
Answer: (in any order) 13, 7, 5, 3.

Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak Hollingsworth

Answer: Beatrice (Bea) Arthur

Blanche Elizabeth Hollingsworth Deveraux

Answer: Rue McClanahan

Sophia Spirelli Petrillo Weinstock

Answer: Estelle Getty
16. Name these labor organizations from American history FTPE.

Founded in 1869 by Uriah Stevens, this early labor group was the first to attempt to unionize women on a national scale.

Answer: Knights of Labor

This labor organization’s most famous leader was its founder, Samuel Gompers.

Answer: American Federation of Labor or AFL

Leaders of this radical labor organization, nicknamed the “Wobblies,” included “Big Bill” Haywood and Eugene Debs.

Answer: Industrial Workers of the World or IWW
17. Name the elements from clues for ten points, or by symbol for 5.

(10) The lightest element to be highly carcinogenic, only small amounts can cause lung cancer and tumors throughout the body.

(5) Be

Answer: Beryllium

(5) W

(10) This metal is a main component in many nerve agents, as its oxide is very dangerous. Its atomic number is 76.

(5) Os

Answer: Osmium

[30] This secluded country’s national sport is archery, and the fortress architecture known as Dzong can be found there. In 1990 Taktsang Monastery burned, destroying a famed collection of early Buddhist art.

[20] It no longer has the distinctive dual monarchy with a Dharma Raja (spiritual ruler) and a Deb Raja (temporal ruler)

[10] This tiny country, bordered by China and India, has its capital at Thimphu.

Answer: Bhutan
19. This is going to be a big mess with people dying everyone. FTP, answer these questions about a bloody fight in Norse mythology.

(10) This final battle of the Norse gods and goddesses will be signaled by three consecutive winters and the blast of a horn.

(10) This man will sound his horn to signify the beginning of Ragnarok, and will kill Loki, as well as be killed by Loki

(10) This thunder god will kill the serpent Jormungand, but die from the snake’s venom.

Answer: Wallace Stevens

FTP, The most famous work of Wallace Stevens, it begins: Call the roller of big cigars,/ The muscular one, and bid him whip /In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

Answer: The Emperor of Ice Cream

FTP, this Stevens poem states that “At the sight of [the titular bird]/ Flying in Green light/ Even the bawds of euphony/ Would cry out sharply”.

Answer: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

(10) This form of Japanese poem, usually written in one line in Japan, is in America broken down into lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables.

Answer: Tanka

(10) This poem form consists of three lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables.

Answer: Haiku

(10) This master of the haiku lived as a samurai. In 1644 he took his poetic name from a banana tree that grew near his home in Edo.

Answer: Basho (oh, what the heck, accept Matsuo Kinsaku)
22. Seeing as how we’re using our memories today, answer the following about memory theory FTPE:

(10) This memory strategy involves repeating information in order to transfer it to long-term memory

Answer: rehearsal

(10) This type of memory, more difficult than recognition, involves generating a mental representation of an absent stimulus

Answer: recall

(10) In the fuzzy-trace theory of memory, this is the term used for a fuzzy representation of information that preserves essential content but leaves out the details of verbatim memory

Answer: gist
TOSSUPS – ROUND 5 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA