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TOSSUPS -- PLAYOFFS CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999
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TOSSUPS -- PLAYOFFS CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999 1. Confined to a wheelchair since a 1990 auto wreck, he now serves on the faculty of Bard College and has declared himself exiled from his native land. His short stories are collected in The Sacrifial Egg and Girls at War, and he was nomonated for a Booker prize for his 1987 novel Anthills of the Savannah. FTP name the Nigerian-born author who tells of Okonkwo and his life in Umuofia in Things Fall Apart. Answer: Chinua Achebe
Answer: Wernher von Braun EDITOR'S NOTE: Mort Sahl suggested I Aim for the Stars should have been subtitled But Sometimes I Hit London. 3. The primary witness against him was Jim Conley, a black janitor described by one observer as "the most obscene and cold-blooded brute I ever knew." Conley confessed to writing two notes implicating the factory watchman, Newt Lee, but later changed his story to implicate this man instead. FTP name this Jewish manager lynched for the murder of Mary Phagan. Answer: Leo Frank 4. This German civil engineer was born in Holstein in 1835. He entered the Polytechnic Institute of Hannover at age 16. Responsible for many bridges of note, he was also active publishing research papers until age 80. His first paper was published in 1860 and discussed beams, but the paper he is best remembered for today was published in 1882. For 10 points, who was this man whose "circle" describing stresses or strains at a point terrorizes engineering students to this day? Answer: Christian Otto Mohr 5. One of the best passages in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology reads, “Sometimes there are said to have been two... of that name. Certainly two men, Iasus and Schoenius, are each called the father... but then it often happens in old stories that different names are given to unimportant persons. If there were two, it is certainly remarkable that both wanted to sail on the Argo, both took part in the Calydonian boar hunt, both married a man who beat them in a foot race, and both were ultimately changed into lionesses.” FTP name the heroine (or heroines?) described. Answer: Atalanta 6. Some insects take advantage of it to move atop bodies of water. It results from unbalanced molecular action which distorts the customary spherical shape of individual droplets of liquids, and it is one of the forces causing water to rise in capillary tubes. FTP name the force that causes the uppermost part of a liquid to contract. Answer: surface tension 7. This faction favored a continental war and a constitutional government. Members like J.M.R. De la Platiere and Jacques Brissot de Warville were shocked when the faction was betrayed by Charles Dumouriez. Members of this faction had approached Charlotte Corday to assassinate Marat. FTP, name this French Revolutionary group of moderate Republicans. Answer: Girondist or Girondins 8. In 1750, he was contracted by the Drybutter publishers to write a novel. He needed the money, as he was in Newgate Debtor's Prison at the time. Since ribald tales sold best, he decided to write the "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," whom he named Fanny Hill. FTP, name this British author. Answer: John Cleland 9. This man simultaneously earned degrees in law from Harvard and Yale. He served in the Revolutionary War and also courted the daughter of Abigail and John Adams. He eventually became the Chief Justice of the state of Vermont. He is best known, however, for his role in defining American drama. FTP name the author of The Contrast. Answer: Royall Tyler 10. 20th century advocates includes Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, E. J. Mishan, Robert Heilbroner, and Kenneth Boulding, who proposed “an economics of spaceship earth.” They propose it not only for the low-income, less developed 3rd world countries where its effects are more obvious, but also for developed nations whose lower birthrates still strain worldwide resource use. FTP name this goal for humanity prescribed by modern Malthusians. Answer: zero population growth or ZPG; accept steady-state economy or no-growth society 11. The second movement is Andante con moto in A flat, a major key which gives it serenity; the third movement, the Scherzo, switches back to the somber C minor of the first movement. The upsurge of the finale features three instruments -- piccolo, trombone, and double bassoon -- making their first appearance in a symphony of the Classical Viennese school. FTP identify Opus 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven, characterized rhythmically by the “three shorts and a long” pattern of the first four notes. Answer: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony 12. His large body of work ranges from large menacing shapes to tender, intimate forms. A native of Aberdeen, Washington, this abstract expressionist also produced lithographs, etchings, and collages. FTP name this artist, whose works include series such as Je t'aime and Elegies to the Spanish Republic. Answer: Robert Motherwell
answer: The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe du Sisiphe) 14. These long, fluted spearpoints were first found in the early 1900's by a cowboy near the New Mexico town for which they are named. In 1926, some were found intermingled with the bones of an extinct species of bison; this caused anthropologists to revise their estimates and conclude that people had migrated to North America by about 8,000 B.C. For 10 pts., name this significant type of prehistoric spearhead, which shares its name with where Johnny Cash said he went because he “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”. Answer: Folsom points 15. He turns 35 in 1999. Since 1964, he has had his thumbnail on the wrong side of his thumb! This makes his form copyrightable, since as the grandaddy of action figures, he has made Hasbro millions. FTP, name this army guy. Answer: G.I. Joe 16. After the assassination of the Roman emperor Pertinax in A.D. 193, the Praetorian Guard offered the throne to the highest bidder at an auction. This man outbid Sulpicianus for the honor, to the tune of 300 million sesterces. For this he reigned as emperor a whopping 66 days before his beheading by his successor, the aptly named Septimus Severus. F10P name this briefest of Roman emperors. Answer: Marcus Didius Julianus 17. A native of Sandersville, GA, his given last name was Poole. He moved to Detroit for an auto plant job in 1923. In 1930 he met Wallace D. Fard (or Wali Farad), founder of the organization this man would head for 40 years after Fard's disappearance. FTP name this racial separatist, longtime principal leader of the Nation of Islam. Answer: Elijah Muhammad 18. They are found in the order of fish called either Dipnoi or Sarcopterygii. Generally paired, in mammals they’re typically separated from the thorax by the mediastinum and subdivided internally into bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli. FTP name these sac-like organs of gaseous exchange. Answer: lungs 19. It replaced the Wheeler-Schebler Trophy, which had been awarded annually, for some reason, to the person leading 80% of the way through; the winner got the L. Straus & Co. Trophy. But, Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor Company became the Marvel-Schebler Products Division of another company, and the new trophy was born. For 10 points, name this trophy, which depicts the 57 winners to date of the Indianapolis 500. Answer: Borg-Warner Trophy 20. There are, in fact, three different title locations. The first is a converted girls school that the Berrys buy and open up for lodgers. The second is in Vienna, where Freud (not the psychiatrist) has invited them to stay and run a hotel. The third is in Maine, where they buy the Hotel Arbuthnot and re-name it. For 10 points, identify this title business of a 1981 John Irving novel. Answer: The Hotel New Hampshire 21. He was the ship's surgeon aboard the Antelope, when the ship was wrecked off Van Diemen's Land. When he gets to shore, the natives think him an agent of Blefuscu. So, they tie him upon the very beach, although they are the small Lilliputians. FT, name this character created by Jonathan Swift. Answer: Lemuel Gulliver TOSSUPS -- FINALS CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999 1. As most of us know, the US Mint is producing a new series of quarters, honoring each of the 50 states. And, being the people we are, we’re all trying to collect an entire set, thereby effectively taking $12.50 out of circulation.. This is a living example of a concept hinted at as early as the 6th century BC by Theognis. For 10 points what law, named after Queen Elizabeth I’s financial agent, states in its simplest form, “Bad money drives out good”? Answer: Gresham’s Law
Answer: the Opium Wars 5. He died in Malta at age 37, just before he would have received a papal pardon for killing a man in a duel. He shocked contemporaries by representing holy figures with peasant faces and often concentrating on secondary characters like those raising the cross in The Martyrdom of St. Peter. FTP name the pioneer of tenebroso in such works as Bacchus, Supper at Emmaus, and The Conversion of St. Paul. Answer: Caravaggio or Michelangelo Merisi 6. It was the first significant decision interpreting the First Amendment's free speech clause, and its 9-0 ruling is surprising in retrospect, not least because the majority opinion was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes. It upheld the convictions of Socialist Party members who peacefully distributed anti-draft leaflets and were tried under the Espionage Act of 1917. FTP name this 1919 ruling that introduced the "clear and present danger" as a test of when free speech is not acceptable. Answer: Schenck v. U.S. 7. His division of United Aircraft designed land and seacraft that were widely used in commercial and military organizations. In 1913, he successfully built the first multi-engine plane, but emigrated to the United States six years later. FTP, name this Russian whose attempts to design a direct lift machine lead to his 1939 development of the first practical helicopter. Answer: Igor Sikorsky 8. He has appeared in over two dozen luggage commercials, a print campaign for a local taxidermist, and a two- week stint for Michelob, which was pulled off the air almost immediately. His quote to live by is "Life is like a dragonfly.... you've just got to reach out and grab it," and his turn-ons include two-humped iguanas; He is classically chiseled, but Frankie contends that their species just isn't that attractive. For 10 points, identify this former spokes-reptile for Budweiser. Answer: Louie (the Lizard) 9. According to tradition it was founded near Lake Van by Haig or Haik, a descendant of Noah (but then aren’t we all?) Scholars believe a group crossed the Euphrates and invaded the state called Urartu by the Assyrians, with intermarriage leading to a new nation. It had some stretches of independence but was usually ruled by Persia, Macedonia, Syria, Rome, Byzantium, the Turks, and/or Russia. FTP name this region, some of which still lies within Turkey, but most of which was a Soviet republic before winning its independence and its freedom to quarrel with its neighbor, Azerbaijan. Answer: Armenia 10. Interpreting a solar eclipse in late February as a sign from God that he should "slay my enemies with their own weapons," he launched a conspiracy that resulted in the deaths of 51 whites and several hundred slaves. He responded "Was not Christ crucified" when asked by attorney Thomas Gray whether he had any regrets. FTP name this leader of an 1831 uprising in Southampton County, Virginia. Answer: Nat Turner 11. A recent biography of him. His Glassy Essence by Kenneth Ketner, attempts to unravel the mystery of thhis man’s intensely bizarre personal behavior. Widely perceived as an immoral libertine prone to paranoia and wild mood swings, he nonetheless made extensive contributions to epistemology, logic, and metaphysics. But he’s often overshadowed because William James wrote the book on the subject this man first named. FTP identify this American philosopher, author of Reasoning and the Logic of Things,who coined the term “pragmatism.” Answer: Charles S. Peirce 12. One was the mother of Dardanus, founder of the Trojan race; another was the mother of Hermes, and a third married Sisyphus. They and their sisters fled the persistent advances of Orion until Zeus took pity on them and placed them in the sky. FTP name these seven daughters of Atlas, whose new lodgings were in the constellation Taurus. Answer: the Pleiades 13. By the end of the book the reader learns that the narrator and the old Gypsy writer Melquiades are one and the same. It tells the story of the town of Macondo -- its beginnings in a swamp, its decline, and its destruction in a hurricane mirror the fortunes of the family of its founder, Jose Arcadio Buendia. FTP name this 1967 novel, widely considered the masterwork of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude (or Cien anos de soledad) 14. Some of the applications that followed from this law were that nifty little ear thermometer that saves so many anal probings and the ability to estimate the temperature of the sun. One Austrian physicist discovered this law through experimental results in 1879. Another Austrian used the 2nd law of thermodynamics and Maxwell's equations to derive the relation theoretically. The law states that the total radiation emitted by a body is proportional to the absolute temperature raised to the 4th power. FTP, what was this law which combines the names of its two Austrian discoverers? Answer: Stefan-Boltzman law 15. He developed a widely used system for teaching music to children. His stage works, such as the comic operas Die Kluge (The Clever Girl) and Der Mond (The Moon), emphasized rhythm above all and combined instrumental music, singing, gestures, and dance. FTP name the composer who took 13th century songs in three languages as his text for the dramatic cantata Carmina Burana.
Answer Phyllis Wheatley 18. Patrick Stefan and Andrew Brunette figure to be the young scoring threats, Ulf Samuelsson and Ray Ferraro provide them with some veteran presence, Norm Maracle and Damian Rhodes will probably split time in goal, and Kelly Buchberger is the inaugural captain. For 10 points, name this newest NHL team. Answer: Atlanta Thrashers 19. You know this reaction is going to be cool since it uses a magnesium ribbon for a fuse. After that, the fireworks really begin as aluminum reacts violently with iron oxide (that's right, rust) in a strongly exothermic reaction yielding aluminum oxide and iron. This reaction is used for welding due to its high temperature and iron production, especially in welding railways. FTP, what reaction am I talking about? Answer: Thermite 20. Modern assumptions about the time he allegedly lived were distorted by a pedigree fabricated by 18th century antiquarian Richard Stukely.; he was more likely a disinherited follower from Simon de Montfort’s defeat in 1265. The populist 14th century social impulse that led to his adoption as a peasants’ hero was similarly distorted by postmedieval suggestions that he was a fallen nobleman. For that matter, internal evidence from the early ballads places him in south Yorkshire, not Nottinghamshire. FTP name this misunderstood folk hero. Answer: Robin Hood 21. QUOTE: "A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." These words come from the 1920 publication entitled Woman and the New Race, whose author was imprisoned for disseminating information concerning birth control. FTP name her. Answer Margaret Sanger BONI -- ROUND 1 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999 1. Hail and farewell, Dysfunctional Family Circus. After 5 years, Charlie’s favorite webpage has bowed not so much to the threatened legal repercussions as to the personal wishes of an offended Bil Keane. So how do we work this into a legitimate academic bonus? Well, DFC #500 features little PJ staring at a clown on a TV screen, and the captions accepted include tons of literary references. Name the author from the caption parodying their work FTPE; if you need the title of the work being parodied, you’ll get only 5 pts. (1a) “It was the best of mimes, it was the worst of mimes” (1b) A Tale of Two Cities Answer: Charles Dickens (2a) “...and as I lay my glazzies on that horrible smelly old clown the strains of Ludwig Van's glorious Ninth filled my gulliver, O my brothers, and I viddied myself taking a britva to his horrible smelly clown yarbles. I was cured!” (2b) A Clockwork Orange Answer: Anthony Burgess (3a) “Stop all the clowns, shut up the melonheads/lock the howling doggies in the backyard shed/dispose of the oing, and flush all the crack/the DFC is gone and it won't be coming back.” (3b) “Sonnet: Stop All the Clocks” Answer: W.H. Auden
A. What mathematician articulated this? Answer: Pierre de Fermat (Fermat's Last Theorem) B. This mathematician who also found the natural logarithm provided a shaky proof for when n = 3. Answer: Leonhard Euler C. He later provided a more solid proof for when n = 3, as well as one for n = 4. He also predicted the orbit of the asteroid Ceres by his least squares approximation method. Answer: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
A) The Prussian general whose theories led to the decisive victory over Austria at Koniggratz. Answer: Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke B) The general who based his plan to invade France during World War I on Moltke's theories. Answer: Alfred von Schlieffen C) The colonel whose diligence and attentiveness to detail made Stalag 13 the center of prisoner-of-war escapes in Hogan's Heroes. Answer: Wilhelm Klink
30) In both Greek and Roman folklore, this animal was reputed to change its gender at will. Thus, during the periods when it was male, if you could catch it and cut off its testicles, you could grind them into a fine powder, which would then cure cramps. Yours, obviously, not its. 20) According to medieval Christians, its call sounded so much like a human voice that it would lure men to their deaths at the hands, well, paws, of this carnivorous predator. 10) There are two genera and three species of this animal: the striped and brown are in one species, while the most common, the spotted, is Crocuta crocuta and lives in sub-Saharan Africa, but should not be confused with the African hunting-dog Answer: hyena 8. The last of the Wars of Religion in France was the 1587-1589 War of the Three Henrys. For 10 points each, identify each of the three Henry's, and no, answering "Henry, Henry, and Henry" is not enough information. Answer: King Henry III, Henri I of Lorraine (or the duke of Guise), and Henry of Bourbon (King of Navarre, accept Henry IV) 9. Name the author from works, 30-20-10: (a) The unfinished 10-volume novel, The Days of Florbelle or Nature Unveiled, the two finished volumes of which were burned after his death by his eldest son, and Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man, in which he delcared himself an atheist. (b) The novels Justine and Juliette, which led to his 2nd confinement in the mental aylum at Charenton. (c) 120 Days of Sodom, describing four libertines’ nonstop orgy at the expense of several kidnap victims in such infamy that the author’s name was immortalized in a psychological term. Answer: the Marquis de Sade 10. FTPE answer the following about the Mughul Empire: (a) This prince from central Asia founded the Mughul Empire in A.D. 1526. Answer: Babur (accept Babar) (b) Babur's grandson, he ruled from 1556 to 1605 and not only led the empire to its widest influence but also established its distinctive government structure. Answer: Akbar the Great (c) In the empire's later years, these Hindu warriors of western India revolted and seriously weakened the empire. Answer: Marathas
A. Orson Welles Answer: The Muppet Movie B. Brooke Shields Answer: The Muppets Take Manhattan C. Michael Caine Answer: The Muppet Christmas Carol D. Diana Rigg Answer: The Great Muppet Caper E. Tim Curry Answer: The Muppet Treasure Island F. F. Murray Abraham Answer: Muppets from Space
A. This 1859 tome treats the nature of freedom and how it best achieves itself. Answer: On Liberty B. This 1863 work examines the philosophical doctrines and work of his father James Mill and of Jeremy Bentham. Answer: Utilitarianism C. This 1869 work was written with the aid of his wife Harriet Taylor. Answer: The Subjection of Women
1) Mass number 137. This is a fission product and is often used in calibration sources as well as check sources as a gamma ray standard. It has one gamma emission at an energy of 662keV. A: cesium 2) mass number 60. Another fission product this is the isotope most commonly used for food irradiation. Also used in check sources and calibration devices. It has two equal gammas at 1.17 and 1.33 MeV. A: cobalt 3)Mass number 235. This isotope is enriched to about 4 weight percent in most commercial reactor fuel in the United States. Its an alpha emitter with energy of 4.397 or 4.367 MeV. A: uranium 4)Mass number 239. Use of this element in civilian applications is limited because of proliferation concerns. By the end of cycle, however, most commercial reactors get about 25% of their power from fission of this isotope. It decays via three different energy alphas. A: plutonium 5) Mass number 232. This isotope could be used in a thermal reactor to breed a fissile uranium-233 fuel. Its also used in Coleman lamp mantles. It decays via a 4 MeV alpha. A: thorium
(30) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (20) Martian Time-Slip, Confessions of a Crap Artist (10) We’ll Remember it for You Wholesale, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Answer: Philip K(indred) Dick
A) 10 points - Jean Latour 5 points - Willa Cather Answer: Death Comes for the Archbishop B) 10 points - Mistresses Ford and Page 5 points - William Shakespeare Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor C) 10 points -- Frankie Addams 5 points - Carson McCullers Answer: The Member of the Wedding 17. According to Richie Phillips, General Counsel for the MLB Umpires, these strike/resignation talks are all about “respect”. OK, Richie, fine. For 15 points each, name these umpires, 2 of the 7 enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. a) An AL umpire from 1936-1951, he was the first man to be honored in three different halls of fame. A charter member of the NFL hall of fame, he was named the NFL’s all-time offensive tackle in 1969. Answer: Cal Hubbard b) Generally regarded as the greatest umpire of all time, he served from 1905-1940, at home plate for the first 16 years, due to his superior ability on balls and strikes. In fact, he originated arm signals for balls and strikes, out of deference to hearing-impaired players. Answer: Bill Klem
A. Sacred song and dance answer: Terpsichore B. Sacred poetry answer: Polyhymnia C. Tragedy answer: Melpomene
1) This is the ideal cycle. it is 100% efficient and totally reversible. It is made of a pump, a boiler a turbine, and a condenser. What's this cycle named for a French engineer? A: Carnot cycle 2) This cycle can be thought of as the applied Carnot cycle. It is used instead of a Carnot cycle because pumps can much more easily handle a totally condensed liquid than a mixture of liquid and gas. What is this simple model of a steam power plant? A: Rankine cycle 3) Taking the Rankine cycle and using a single phase gaseous working fluid yields this cycle. Examples are open and closed cycle gas turbines utilizing internal combustion engines. What's this cycle? A: Brayton cycle
a) Chronic inability to decide or act independently Answer: abulia b) Equivalent of the Oedipus complex in a girl or young woman Answer: Electra complex c) Unconscious redirecting of feelings or urges to a more acceptable person or thing Answer: displacement
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