Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2004 – ut-chattanooga
Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with the BAAL team, the CWRU crew, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and other freelancers
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Questions mostly by Florida’s Michael Napier and Michael Swick with the BAAL team, the CWRU crew, Texas’s Mengmeng Zhang, South Carolina’s Joe Stanton, and other freelancers1. 10 of his books end with a punctuation mark, either with a question mark, such as Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?, or an exclamation point, like I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, or one of his two books for adults, You’re Only Old Once! However, one of the better known such books is available with a cassette of Dustin Hoffman, Horton Hears a Who!. FTP, name this children’s author all these books and his most famous work, The Cat in the Hat. Answer: Dr. Seuss (Accept Theodore Seuss Guisel)
Answer: Shah Jehan 3. It describes a moment on Lenox Avenue in Harlem. Some thirty years after it was published, the author recorded a spoken version with a jazz accompaniment including bass by legend Charles Mingus. Winner of a contest from Opportunity magazine, its second stanza begins “Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor”. FTP, name this poem about “Droning a drowsy, syncopated tune”, which helped launch the career of Langston Hughes. Answer: The Weary Blues 4. The first commercially important use of high pressure in production, it can occur in two directions, since the reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen is reversible. Germany had previously imported nitrates from Chile, but the demand for munitions and the uncertainty of this supply in the war prompted the widespread adoption of this process during World War I. FTP, name this means of producing ammonia, which won a 1918 Nobel Prize for its German developer. Answer: Haber process 5. This German born son of a mechanic emigrated to the United States. In Philadelphia, he began to study art, and became famous for his large scale paintings of historical scenes. FTP, who is the painter of the mural “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” and the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”? Answer: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze 6. This book has been called “the Gospel of the nations” and “the Gospel of the Greeks.” It uses fewer idiomatic Hebrew terms than the other three gospels, and contains seventeen unique parables, including the parable of the Good Samaritain. FTP, name this Gospel that contains a famous account of Christ’s birth, the third book of the New Testament. Answer: Gospel of Luke 7. During the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers of the Order of the Golden Circle adopted this group’s name. Organized by John Lamb and Alexander McDougall in New York, they took their name from a 1765 Parliamentary speech by Isaac Barre. New England members were the most famous, and included James Otis and Samuel Adams. FTP, name this Revolutionary group who among other activities, organized the Boston Tea Party. Answer: Sons of Liberty 8. A member of the New Apocalypse movement in Poetry, one of his notable works is “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.” His odd prose works were collected in Adventures in the Skin Trade, and his radio play Under Milk Wood is well known. FTP name this Welsh-born writer best known for the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night. Answer: Dylan Thomas 9. There are many different ways to prove that it exists between two sets. The first is to prove that the cardinalities of the two sets are the same. The second is to show how for every x, there is only one y where f of x equals y, and there are no y’s that do not have a corresponding x. FTP, name this property which takes one mathematical set and preserves the relationships between members of the set, but changes the elements in the set. Answer: Isomorphism 10. It was introduced in 1935 by two Portuguese doctors, and was performed on a wide scale up until the 1950s, when antipsychotics, antidepressants, and other drugs were introduced that were more effective in quieting mentally disturbed patients. FTP, name this surgical procedure in which nerve pathways in the brain are severed to calm mentally ill patients. Answer: Lobotomy 11. Unlike many African nations, each of the elections since its independence in 1966 has been freely and fairly contested and has been held on schedule. Its lowest geographical point is the junction of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers. Many of its residents are protesting Namibia’s planned construction of the Okavango hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls. Formerly the Brisith protectorate of Bechuanaland, FTP, name this landlocked African nation with capital at Gaborone. Answer: Botswana 12. According to Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 funniest people in America she is number 14. You've seen her on Inside the NFL heckling the football players, and on Seinfield Producer Larry David's Curb your enthusiasm. She got her start on HBO's The Chris Rock show. FTP name this comedienne with her distinctive nasal voice and has her own self-titled show on Fox Answer: Wanda Sykes
13. This man is the title character in the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to ensure his safe passage home, but once he reached home, his wife Clytemnestra killed him. In response, his son Orestes killed Clytemnestra. FTP, name this man, in Homer, the leader of the Greek armies in the Trojan War. Answer: Agamemnon 14. She was born in Russia in 1898, moved to Wisconsin in 1905, then moved again in 1921, this time to Palestine. A signer of the proclamation of Israeli independence in 1948, she served as the nation’s first minister to Russia, and was also elected to the Knesset. FTP, who is this woman who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974? Answer: Golda Meir 15. German physicist Rudolf Clausius coined this term in 1850, and in a simple temperature change, this quantity is the heat capacity of the system at constant pressure. Better known is its existence in a reaction as the heat of the reaction. For 10 points identify this scientific term, represented mathematically as H in the equation H equals U plus P times V. Answer: Enthalpy 16. This man had a difficult time earning a living as a composer, living in a time where private patronage of composers had become outdated, but state supported programs have not gained much popularity. During his college years, he developed an interest in Hindu literature, producing an opera based on the Ramayana. This eastern influence, as well as his interest in astrology and mythology led to the creation of his most famous work. For ten points, who is this composer, who produced “Seven Pieces for Large Orchestra,” also known as “The Planets”? Answer: Gustav Holst 17. On October 3, 2003, his organization reported finding a "clandestined network of laboratories" capable of producing biological and chemical weapons. But then on January 23, 2004, he resigned his position to Charles Duelfer and took a more skeptical line, publicly doubting the existence of prewar stockpiles . FTP, name this former CIA coordinator with the Iraq Survey Group and leader of US efforts to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Answer: David Kay 18. In perhaps his most famous work, he rapturously wrote, “I am become a transparent eyeball,” a nod to his pantheistic belief in all things being part of god. Also a poet, he was much influenced by Indian philosophy, as seen in his poems “Hamatreya” and “Brahma.” FTP name this 19th-century American formulator of the concept of the Oversoul, the author of Nature and the leader of the New England Transcendentalists. Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson 19. In this process, an inducer molecule binds to an activator protein. This protein then binds to the activator binding site of a gene, allowing RNA polymerase to transcribe the gene. In the absence of the inducer, transcription does not occur. For 10 points, name this genetic regulatory mechanism, an example of positive control of transcription. Answer: Induction 20. Its father was a white bull, provided to King Minos as a sacrifice, but when Minos decided to sacrifice something else, Poseidon made Minos' wife fall in love with the bull and through an act of bestiality conceive this creature. It was locked away but required an annual tribute of seven people from Athens until Theseus killed it. FTP, name this creature locked in Daedalus' labyrinth with the head of a bull and the body of a man. Answer: Minotaur 21. Born in Moravia in 1856, this man moved to Vienna at the age of four and was fluent in six languages by the time he was 8. His later life was less pleasant, as he was chased out of Vienna by the Nazis and suffered from mouth cancer due to his cigar habit. He worked on such topics as “the talking cure”, a three part division of consciousness, and defense mechanisms. For ten points name this psychologist famous for his dream theories. Answer: Sigmund Freud 22. Known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, this statesman was responsible for lessening the previous Draconian laws of Athens. He also made a major reform in the way the Greek council was organized, creating the Boule of 500. Another of his popular reforms as sole Archon of Athens; was to remove one of the debt laws of Greece. This made it illegal to hold a person in slavery for not paying off debts. For ten points, name this poetic Archon, who was placed in power in 594 B.C. Answer: Solon 23. It was formulated by Danish physicist Niels Bohr around 1920. It incorporated the Pauli Exclusion Principle and Hund’s Rule, which stated that no two electrons within a particular atom can have identical quantum numbers and that electrons will prefer to enter an empty orbital than one that is already occupied. Declaring the electrons will fill lower energy orbitals first, FTP, identify this important principle in chemistry whose name is German for “building up.” Answer: Aufbau Principle BONI – PLAYOFF ROUND 1 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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