BONI - EMERGENCY BLIND ROUND CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN 1998

1. Let the dissing of Andy Lipscomb begin! Charlie and his tag-team partner Harold Klagstad won READ Chattanooga’s 1998 Great Grown-Up Spelling Bee, while the team from Decosimo & Co. anchored by former Vandy quizbowler Lipscomb finished 3rd. The following are definitions of two words Andy got right and one he missed. Given the definition, give the word for 5 pts. each and spell it correctly for another 5 pts.

(a) The technical term for a nosebleed [rhinorrhagia]

(b) The 3rd stage of development of an insect, especially a moth or butterfly, encased in a cocoon. [chrysalis]

(c) A rhetorical figure in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although its use is grammatically or logically consistent with only one, e.g. “She left in high spirits and a Cadillac.” [zeugma]
2. I once had a bonus, or should I say it once had me. FTPE answer the following about Norwegian history:

(a) Under this 1397 arrangement the three Scandinavian kingdoms were merged under Danish control, and Norway ceased to be a nation-state for several centuries. [the Kalmar Union]

(b) After the Napoleonic Wars Norway was acknowledged as an independent nation in perpetual union with the Swedish crown. In 1905 this body, the Norwegian parliament, voided the union and installed Prince Charles of Denmark as King Haakon VII. [the Storting]

(c) During the Nazi occupation in World War II, while Haakon VII headed a government in exile, power was held briefly by this Nazi collaborator so weaselly that even Nazis didn’t trust him. [Vidkun Quisling]

(1a) ...if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed 1 meter apart in a vacuum, wouldproduce between these conductors a force equal to 2 times 10 to the negative 7th newton per meter of length.

(1b) constant current [ampere]

(2a) ...linking a circuit of one turn, produces in it an electromotive force of 1 volt as it is reduced to zero at a uniform rate in 1 second.

(2b) magnetic flux [weber]

(3a) ...of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 times 10 to the 12th hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.

(3b) luminous intensity [candela]
4. 30-20-10-5, name this man:

(a) After the death of Alexander the Great, he was recalled from exile to lead a fruitless effort to free Athens from Macedonian rule.

(b) He learned law while prosecuting the guardians who had absconded with the fortune bequeathed to him by his father, a cutler.

(c) The fact that his family made swords helps explain the staunch advocacy of war in his greatest orations, the Olynthiacs and the Philippics.

(d) According to legend he overcame a speech defect by practicing speaking with pebbles in his mouth -- the rocks, not the breakfast cereal.
5. FTPE identify these Jack London works NOT about dogs:

(a) This was his 1911 account of his adventures sailing a ketch to the South Pacific. [The Cruise of the Snark]

(b) This 1904 novel told from the point of view of intellectual castaway Humphrey van Weyden focuses on the Nietzschean superman Wolf Larsen. [The Sea Wolf]

(c) This 1907 fantasy of the future gave a chilling anticipation of the rise of fascism. [The Iron Heel]

(1a) “Well, we shot the line, we went for broke/With a thousand screamin’ trucks/And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus/In a chartreuse microbus.”

(1b) C.W. McCall [Convoy]

(2a) “I’m gonna fake it to the left/And move to the right/’Cause Pokey’s too slow/And Blinky’s out of sight.”

(2b) Buckner and Garcia [Pac-Man Fever]

(3a) “Pull out some Fritos corn chips/Dr. Pepper and an old Moon Pie...”

(3b) Larry Groce [Junk Food Junkie]

READER’S NOTE: By know you ought to know where Moon Pies are made...

(1a) 1st poetry collection Sylvan Moon

(1b) The prose work Labyrinth of Solitude and the epic poem Sunstone

(1c) 1990, Mexico [Octavio Paz]

(2a) 1st novel The Great Weaver of Kashmir

(2b) The novels Salka Valka and Independent People

(2c) 1955, Iceland [Halldor Laxness]
8. Well, it’s all right now, in fact it’s a gas. For the stated number of points, given the discover and date, name the gas:

(a) 5 pts.: Karl Wilhelm Scheele discovered it in 1872, but Joesph Priestley published first, in 1874, and thus generally gets the credit. [oxygen]

(b) 5 pts.: Henry Cavendish, 1766 [hydrogen]

(c) 10 pts.: Ferdinand-Frederic-Henri Moissan, 1886 [fluorine]

(d) 10 pts.: Joseph Black, 1755 [carbon dioxide]
9. For the stated number of points, name the author of these works, among the few science fiction works Charlie has actually read:

(a) 5 pts.: The novels Glory Road and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Robert A. Heinlein]

(b) 10 pts.: The novel A Canticle for Leibowitz [Walter F. Miller]

(c) 5 pts.: The story collection Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon [Spider Robinson]

(d) 10 pts.: The story collection Caviar [Theodore Sturgeon]
10. TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: Usually the Travels with Charlie questions aren’t really about geography, but hey, sometimes inspiration is hard to come by. All these 2-digit Interstate or U.S. highways pass through Chattanooga. F5PE, given two other major cities along the highway, name that highway (and do specify whether it’s U.S. or Interstate.)

(a) Detroit and Tampa [I-75] (d) Tallahassee & Fort Wayne [U.S. 27]

(b) Raleigh and Taos [U.S. 64] (e) Green Bay and Miami [U.S. 41]

(c) Nashville and Paducah [I-24] (f) New Orleans and Syracuse [U.S. 11]

(a) 5 pts.: Already in the Hall as a player, he becomes only the second individual named a second time as a coach. While he’s won only one NBA chamionship (in 1979 with the SuperSonics), he’s amassed a record 1,120 wins with four teams. [Lenny Wilkens]

(b) 10 pts.: Regarded as the world’s greatest ballhandler during a 40-year career with the Harlem Globetrotters and the Harlem Magicians, this trick-dribbling specialist was listed in news releases as the first Globetrotter named to the Hall of Fame, apparently by reporters unaware of Wilt Chamberlain’s one season as a Globetrotter. [Marques Haynes]

(c) 15 pts.: A three-time National Coach of the Year, she led Texas to an undefeated season and the 1986 NCAA Championship. Her 709 wins are the most for any coach in women’s college basketball. [Jody Conradt]

(a) Family Elephantidae, elephants [Proboscidea]

(b) Family Orycteropodidae, aardvarks [Tubulidentata]

(c) Family Manidae, pangolins [Pholidata]

(d) Family Cynocephalidae, colugos or flying lemurs [Dermoptera]
13. While providing grist for Scott Adams, they’ve gotten filthy rich by stating & restating the obvious in progressively more clever ways and then giving seminars to say it all again. FTPE name the management guru from works:

(a) First Things First and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People [Stephen R. Covey]

(b) Practice of Management, Managing for Results, and Managing in Turbulent Times [Peter Drucker]

(c) Effective Negotiating and Give and Take [Chester Karrass]

(a) The powerful seer with supernatural origins who is a master of the harplike kantele. [Vainamoinen]

(b) The skilled smith who helped forge the lids of heaven as well as the great sampo [Ilmarinen]

(c) The carefree adventure-warrior and chick magnet who failed to bring back the sampo [Lemminkainen]

(a) 5 pts.: Hungarian Rhapsodies [Franz Liszt]

(b) 10 pts.: Rumanian Rhapsodies [Georges Enesco or Enescu]

(c) 5 pts.: Slavonic Dances [Antonin Dvorak]

(d) 10 pts.: Polovetzsian Dances [Alexander Borodin]
16. For each of the following planets, name the largest moon F5PE:

(a) Jupiter [Ganymede] (d) Mars [Phobos]

(b) Saturn [Titan] (e) Pluto [Charon]

(c) Neptune [Triton] (f) Uranus [Titania]

(a) He headed a 1,400-member British expedition to drive the French out of disputed territory in what is now western Pennsylvania. In 1755 he was killed in an ambush south of Fort Duquesne; the remnants of his force were led back to Virginia by a young colonial officer named George Washington. [Edward Braddock]

(b) One of the two British commanders who recaptured Fort Louisbourg in 1758, he was mortally wounded during his greatest victory, the taking of Montreal in 1760. [James Wolfe]

(c) The other British commander at Fort Louisbourg, he finished out the war as the top British officer. A Massachusetts town and college bear his name. [Jeffrey Amherst]

(a) Things in the world move toward goals,and thus there must be an intelligent designer directing all things to their goals. [the teleological argument]

(b) God is that being than which nothing greater can be achieved. If He exists only in the mind, there must be a greater being that exists in both imagination and reality; to imagine God as existing only in the mind then becomes a logical contradiction. [the ontological argument]

(c) All physical things come into being and go out of existence, but if there were a time when nothing existed, then nothing else would have been caused to exist. Therefore, there must have been at least one necessay thing that is eternal, and that is God. [the cosmological argument]

(a) 5 pts.:Knight Death & the Devil, St. Jerome in his Study, Four Apostles [Albrecht Durer]

(b) 10 pts.: The War, Death, Peasants' War (all series) [Kathe Kollwitz]

(c) 15 pts.: Isenheim Altarpiece, Mocking of Christ [Mathias Grunewald]

(a) 5 pts.: In this 1834 decision involving rival ferry lines, the Court ruled that states could not restrain interstate commerce. [Gibbons v. Ogden]