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BONI -- ROUND 2 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999
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BONI -- ROUND 2 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999 1. In July 1992, Dr. Steven Cooperman reported two paintings stolen from his house, and his insurance company paid him $17.5 million, until the paintings were located in a storage facility, and now Cooperman's off to prison. Identify the executors of those two paintings on a 15 10 5 basis. a) 15) "The Customs Officer's Cabin at Pourville," 1882 (insured for $5 M) 10) "The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil," 1875 5) "Gare Saint Lazare, Paris," 1877 Answer: Claude Monet b) 15) "Nude Before a Mirror," 1932 (insured for $7.5 M) 10) "The Accordionist," 1911 5) "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," 1907 Answer: Pablo Picasso 2. The genius behind Xena and Hercules is at it again, and one can only wonder whether man will still be alive or if woman will survive this one. For 10 points, answer these questions. a) First, name the writer/producer/director of such classics as Army of Darkness, Darkman, and A Simple Plan, who serves as the executive producer for both Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: the Legendary Journeys. Answer: Sam Raimi b) Raimi's next series will have, as its titular star an actress and exotic dancer who is frozen after an accident in 2001, and thawed out in 2525, when evil alien invaders, or maybe robots, or possibly both have overtaken earth, and humans must live underground to survive. Name that heroine, patterned (and named) after a famous historical woman. Answer: Cleopatra (RN: The show will be called Cleopatra 2525) c) Finally, name the Sam Raimi regular who plays Autolycus in both Xena and Hercules, as well as Ash Williams in the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness epic. Answer: Bruce Campbell
1) For five points each, name the three flavors of neutrinos. A: electron, mu, and tau 2) For five points, what is the only force in the present Universe that governs neutrino reactions? A: weak nuclear force 3) For five points, what is the term for the proposed mechanism whereby neutrinos change between flavors? A: neutrino oscillation 4) For five points, what is the radiation emitted by a charged particle traversing a medium faster than light in that medium. This phenomenon can be witnessed in any swimming pool type reactor, like the one on campus at the University of Missouri-Rolla, at a high enough power. A: Cerenkov radiation
A. In the 1824 election, Henry Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams. The supporters of Andrew Jackson called this shady dealing by this two-word phrase. Answer: Corrupt Bargain B. John C. Calhoun's 1832 call for nullification stemmed from this tariff which he felt was inordinately high. Answer: Tariff of Abomination or Abominations C. In September, 1869, Fisk & Gould's attempt to corner the gold market ended on this day when the market collapsed & many were financially ruined. Answer: Black Friday 5. FTPE name the Robert Frost poem from quotes: (a) “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” Answer: Mending Wall (b) “The woods are lovely, dark and deep/But I have promises to keep/An miles to go before I sleep” Answer: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (c) “Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/They have to take you in.” Answer: The Death of the Hired Man 6. Identify the following about Treponema pallidium FTP each. A. What sexually trasmitted disease does it cause? answer: syphilis B. What test is still the most common for determining infection? answer: Wasserman Test C. This German scientist developed a "magic bullet" that aided in the treatment of the disease. answer: Paul Ehrlich
A. In Surah 2:97-98, he is mentioned as a chief fighter for Allah with Mikaeel. He gave Muhammad the Qur'an. Answer: Jibreel (accept Gabriel) B. In Surah 9:40, he is Muhammad's sole companion in the cave. Muhammad's father-in-law, he later became the first caliph after the death of Muhammad. Answer: Abu Bakr C. Surah 12 is dedicated to this son of Yaqoub and his eleven brothers who sold him into Egypt. Answer: Yusuf (accept Joseph)
A. A hydrocarbon that has the general formula C(n)H(2n+2) is called a paraffin or this answer: alkane B. Since alkanes have only carbon-carbon single bonds, they are this kind of hydrocarbon answer: saturated C. This simplest alkane has a formula of CH(4). What is it? Answer: methane
A. This tale describes the survivors of the steamship Commodore.. Answer: The Open Boat B. It details the arrival of Jack Potter's beloved to the frontier and Scratchy Wilson's nostalgia. Answer: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky C. Swede arrives in Nebraska full of a romanticism of Western dime novels, but he has to create the barroom brawl he expects. Answer: The Blue Hotel
A) Prior to this year, name the US captain the last time the US won, in 1993. Answer: Tom Watson B) In 1989, there was a draw on what course, which will be hosting the 2001 Ryder Cup, assuming there isn't a boycott...? Answer: The Belfry C) Finally, in what year was the Cup first contested? Answer: 1927
A. This blue-white star lies in Orion's upraised foot. answer: Rigel B. This red star lies in his right shoulder answer: Betelguese C. This star lies in his left shoulder answer: Bellatrix
A. His worship was instituted by Numa; he presided over boundaries and limits. Answer: Terminus B. This goddess of plenty was the wife of Saturn answer: Ops C. This two-faced god was the patron of entrances & of beginnings answer: Janus
A. A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture (1827) answer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy B. Beatrice and Benedict (1862) answer: Hector Berlioz C. Falstaff (1893) answer: Giuseppe Verdi
1) 10) Dottie Lamm 5) Ben Nighthorse Campbell Answer: Colorado 2) 10) Mary Boyle 5) George Voinovich Answer: Ohio 3) 10) Linda Smith 5) Patty Murray Answer: Washington 16. You never knew frat boys had this much talent, did you? Identify the ancient Greek playwrights who wrote the following FTP each. A. The Dyskolos answer: Menander B. The Trojan Women and Medea answer: Euripides C. Ajax and The Women of Trachis Answer: Sophocles
a) The fear of things with wings Answer: pterophobia b) Fear of women or girls Answer: gynephobia c) Fear of the number thirteen Answer: triskaidekaphobia 18. Identify these Nigerian writers from works FTP each. A. Arrow of God answer: Chinua Achebe B. A Dance of the Forests & Kongi's Harvest answer: Wole Soyinka C. The Palm Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts answer: Amos Tutuola 19. FTPE give the economic terms from a definition: a) A business asset, such as goodwill, that has a vaule but no physical existence Answer: intangible asset b) Finance or insurance scheme in which a member’s shares pass on to the other members of a group when the member dies or defaults Answer: tontine c) Person or company that guarantees the success of a share issue by agreeing to buy any securities left over Answer: underwriter
A) Name the president of the Central Indonesian National Committee, who became the independent nation's first President. Answer: Sukarno B) After the revolution, the major political force was this Muslim party. Answer: Masyumi C) The military leader in the latter years of Sukarno's administration, he gradually assumed power well before becoming President in 1968. Answer: Gen. Suharto
1. One advantage of COTKU being so early in the season is we get first crack at writing questions like last year’s “One Week” bonus. Name these seemingly-unrelated persons for 5 pts. each: (a) This supermodel plays Toni Braxton’s lover who dies in the video for “Unbreak My Heart.” Answer: Tyson Beckford (b) Founder of the Sundance Film Festival, his one Oscar is not for acting, but for directing 1980’s Ordinary People. Answer: Robert Redford (c) Apart from filmed versions of operas, his lone attempt at movie stardom was the wretched 1979 film Yes, Giorgio! Answer: Luciano Pavarotti (d) He showed promise in such early vehicles as Once Bitten, The Duck Factory, and especially In Living Color, but managed to become rich and famous off several films that fulfilled little or none of that promise. Answer: Jim Carrey (e) He did indeed play in Fargo, as the little punk who has a date with a woodchipper. Answer: Steve Buscemi (f) Unlike the other five, this Oscar nominee for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? is also mentioned by name in the title of the Blessid Union of Souls song subtitled “She Likes Me for Me.” Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio 2. 30-20-10, name the author from works. 30) His novels include Les Bijoux indiscrets, La Religieuse, Le Neveu de Rameau, and Jacques le Fataliste. His plays include Le Pere de famille and Le Fils naturel. 20) His non-fiction works include Lettre sur les aveugles (which presented his research on how the blind learn), Lettre sur les sourds et les muets (on how the deaf learn), and Pensees sur l'interpretation de la nature (which foreshadowed future discoveries in biology and natural selection). 10) The Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers. Ans: Denis Diderot 3. This is a tribute to our friend and colleague Robert Trent, who contributed about 30 much-needed bonuses to this tournament. This was not one of them. FTSNOP answer these questions about the Trent Affair. 1) Two Confederate commissioners were captured when the British frigate Trent was captured. 5 points each, name these two commissioners. Answer: James Murray Mason & John Slidell 2) For 10 points, name the Union captain who captured the two. Answer: Charles Wilkes 3) When the British government demanded the release of Slidell & Mason, the Union Secretary of State released them, claiming that Wilkes did not bring the Trent into Union waters, thereby violating freedom of the seas. For 10 points, name that Secretary of State, perhaps more famous for a purchase he made. Answer: William Seward
A. The Beggar's Opera answer: John Gay B. Dido and Aeneas answer: Henry Purcell; accept Nahum Tate, since he wrote the wretched libretto C. Hugh the Drover and Riders to the Sea answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams [prompt on Williams] 5. This is chemistry to di for. Identify these chemical terms FTP each. A. This is a molecule that has partial positive and negative charges on opposite ends. Answer: dipole B. This is a type of diffusion of water and small molecules and ions, but not large ones, through a membrane answer: dialysis C. This is a property associated with the absence of unpaired electrons in a substance answer: diamagnetism 6. Identify these people and works in the development of logical positivism FTP each. A. This German thinker of symbolic logic published the influential The Basic Laws of Arithmetic, which some philosphers made some assumptions and contradictions answer: Gothold Frege B. After reading Frege, Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead compiled thsi 1910-13 tome that tried to structure science through logic. Answer: Principia Mathematica C. Logical positivism reached a zenith in this 1921 tract by Ludwig Wittgenstein answer: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
(d) 10 pts.: Brackets the FM band both above and below its extremes Answer: VHF or very high frequency
30) Had Dewey in fact defeated Truman, this man would have been Vice-President. 20) Governor of California from 1943-53, he was appointed to the Supreme Court in that year. While on the court, his opinions upheld (in Watkins v. United States) the right of a witness to refuse to testify before a congressional committee, and held, (in Reynolds v. Sims) that representation in state legislatures must be apportioned equally on the basis of population. 10) Of course, his tenure as chief justice was marked by other decisions, such as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. He also served as the chairman of the committee that investigated the assassination of JFK. Answer: Earl Warren 9. FTPE name these psychotic disorders: (a) Some assert its variants, such as simple, hebephrenic, catatonic, and paranoid should be classified as separate disorders.
A. This man finds the infant Tom on his bed. Answer: Squire Allworthy B. This woman, the daughter of Squire Western, becomes his wife. Answer: Sophia C. This high-church divine teaches both Tom & Blifil that men are overwhelmed by original sin and depravity. Answer: Roger Thwackum
A. Born in Armenia, he painted Golden Brown Painting in 1947. Answer: Arshile Gorky B. Born in Wyoming, he painted (or dripped) Blue Poles in 1953. Answer: Jackson Pollock C. Born in the Netherlands, he painted the series called Woman. Answer: Willem de Kooning
a) First, for 5 points, what network led the way with 82 nominations? Answer: NBC b) Second, for 10 points, what HBO series garnered 16 nominations, most for any series? Answer: The Sopranos c) ABC’s The Practice earned Best Supporting Actress in a drama series nominations for three different actresses. For 5 points each, name them. Answer: Lara Flynn Boyle, Camryn Manheim, Holland Taylor
A) Blubber Answer: Judy Blume B) The Handmaid's Tale Answer: Margaret Atwood C) The Chocolate War Answer: Robert Cormier E) Of Mice and Men Answer: John Steinbeck For another 10 points, name the author of either of the two companion books from the same publisher, Daddy’s Roommate and Heather Has Two Mommies Answer: either Michael Willhoite or Leslea Newman 14. In English, they were vintage, fog, sleet, snow, rain, wind, seed, blossom, pasture, harvest, heat, and fruit. For 5 points each, maximum of 30 (of course), give the French names for any 6 of the months of the Revolutionary calendar. Answer: any 6 of Vendemiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Germinal, Floreal, Prairial, Messidor, Thermidor, or Fructidor. 15. For 5 pts. each or 30 for all 5, arrange these nerves as they appear in the human body from highest to lowest: coccygeal, brachial, tibial, maxillary, and sciatic. Answer: maxillary, brachial, coccygeal, sciatic, tibial 16. Identify these Latin American masters of the sonnet form FTP each. HINT: each of them used a pseudonym. A. Felix Sarmiento used this name when writing the "Golden Sonnets" found in Azul (1888), the first major work of "Modernismo." answer: Ruben Dario B. Lucila Alcayaga published Sonnets of Death and Desolation under this name. Answer: Gabriela Mistral C. Neftali Basualto used this name for the sonnets in Canto general and Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair, which was used in the film Il Postino. Answer: Pablo Neruda
30) It’s interesting that he was played onscreen by Jason Robards in 1980, since his middle name is Robard. 20) He inherited his father's machine tool company, and later expanded into aviation, designing his own aircraft, which broke several world air speed records between 1935-38. 10) However, his most famous plane, a wooden behemoth called the Spruce Goose, flew only one mile. Answer: Howard Hughes
A. Mandela was succeeded as President by this man. Answer: Thabo Mbeki B. The stiffest challenge to the ANC remains this party associated with the Zulu people. Answer: Inkhata Freedom Party C. In retirement, Mandela can spend time with his new wife, who is the widow of the president of Mozambique. Name her. Answer: Graça Machel
A. Cancun answer: Quintana Roo B. Acapulco answer: Guerrero C. Mazatlan answer: Sinaloa
Answer: O,B,A,F,G,K,M BONI -- ROUND 4 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999 1. In 1997 Norton finally issued the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, which includes the most authoritative version of selected spirituals, work songs, blues songs, and folktales. Given more formal works in the collection, name the author FTSNOP: 5) "A Raisin in the Sun" Answer: Lorraine Hansbery 10) "The Weary Blues" Answer: Langston Hughes 15) "Neo-Hoodoo Manifesto," "Mumbo Jumbo," and "Chattanooga" Answer: Ishmael Reed
A. The existence of mesons were postulated by this Japanese physicist. Answer: Yukawa Hideki B. The J/psi is composed of a quark/antiquark pair of this single flavor. Answer: charm C. The J/psi has an integer spin, which means it belongs to this class of particles. Answer: boson
A. Is This Desire? Answer: PJ Harvey B. WhiteChocolateSpaceEgg answer: Liz Phair C. I Bificus answer: Bif Naked 4. FTPE name these Chilean leaders: (a) After playing in key role in San Martin's Army of the Andes, this half-Irish liberator served as an enlightened dictator from 1817 to 1823. Answer: Bernardo O'Higgins (b) This Socialist won a narrow victory in the three-way presidential election of 1970 but was ousted in a 1973 coup, dying in one of the most dubious alleged suicides in history. Answer: Salvador Allende (c) After Allende's ouster this stern general took control for the next quarter century but recently found his retirement interrupted by efforts to prosecute him for atrocities during his reign. Answer: Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
5. Rosetta Le Noire (aka Estelle Winslow on Family Matters) is surely the only cast member from 1972's Fritz the Cat to win a National Medal of the Arts. Ben couldn't figure out how to turn that into a question, so for the stated number of points, identify these 1999 winners of the National Humanities Medal, awarded the same day Le Noire won hers, given titles of their works. A) For 5 points, "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone" and "The Piano Lesson" Answer: August Wilson B) For 5 points, "WLT: A Radio Romance" and "Me: by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente" Answer: Garrison Keillor C) For 10 points, "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years" Answer: Taylor Branch D) For 10 points, "Kick the Can" and "Crown Oklahoma" Answer: Jim Lehrer 6. They are the only parent-child duo to have two different elements named after them. First, for 5 points each, name these mythological figures. Answer: Tantalus & Niobe Now, for 10 points, and in true Remote Control tradition, if they were to name an element after one of Niobe's children, how many choices would they have to pick from? (In other words, how many kids did Niobe have?) Answer: 12 For a final 10 points, name Niobe's presumably fruitful husband. Answer: Amphion 7. How long has it been since we had a legitimate Australian soap opera bonus? Too long! For 10 points each, identify these alumni from the series "Neighbours". a) Beth Brennan Willis on the show, she didn’t earn any American fame until her 1998 album release, Left of the Middle. Answer: Natalie Imbruglia b) After playing Mike Young, his acting career did take off, notably in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and L.A. Confidential. Answer: Guy Pearce c) The show’s Charlene Ramsey Robinson, she had a song hit #1 in the UK (“I Should Be So Lucky”), but is better known in the US for her cover of a Little Eva hit in 1988. Answer: Kylie Minogue
30) Its salicylate, unsurprisingly, is used to alleviate pain. Its stearate is a lubricant, commonly used in baby powder. 20) Its peroxide can be used in toothpastes. Its benzoate has been used in treatments for gout and rheumatoid arthritis. 10) Its chloride, carbonate, hydroxide, oxide, lactate, citrate, and milk have all been used as laxatives. Answer: magnesium
(1a) “Heat Wave” and “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” (1b) “God Bless America”
(2b) “Begin the Beguine” and “Night and Day” Answer: Cole Porter (3a) “Christmas Time Is Here” (3b) “Linus and Lucy” Answer: Vince Guaraldi 10. FTPE answer the following about the 1759 Battle of Quebec: (a) & (b) Both the French and English commanders were mortally wounded at the battle. FTPE name them. Answer: James Wolfe and Marquis Louis de Montcalm (c) The fiercest fighting took olace on this plateau across the river from the city itself, perhaps because it gave the armies room to deploy in the formal 18th century style. Answer: the Plains of Abraham 11. Identify these title characters or objects from works by Anton Chekhov FTP each. A. Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozorov answer: The Three Sisters (Tri sestry) B. A dead creature at the feet of Nina Zarechnaya answer: The Seagull (Chaika) C. The home of Ivan Gromov & the responsibility of Dr. Andrei Ragin answer: Ward number 6 (Palata nomer shest')
A. This mountain range north of Duluth contains some of the largest deposits of copper in the US. answer: Mesabi B. This is the largest island in the lake. answer: Isle Royale C. This bay lies at the southeastern end of the lake where Sault Sainte Marie is located. answer: Whitefish Bay
A. Three Dialogues between Hylasand Philonius answer: George Berkeley B. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding answer: David Hume C. Two Treatises of Government answer: John Locke
a) Copyright -- "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." Answer: Article I b) Extradition -- "a person charged in any state ... shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered ... to the State having jurisdiction of the crime." Answer: Article IV c) State of the Union address -- "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient" Answer: Article II
A. "Jumping genes" are more formally called these. Genetic material can move around within a chromosome and can show up or not as a visible trait. answer: transposons B. This geneticist's studies of Indian corn led her to postulate the existence of transposons answer: Barbara McClintock C. Many of the contemporary experiments in the nature of transposons are done with this Genus of insect answer: Drosophilia 16. Given their opening lines, identify the following John Keats poems for 10 points each. A) "My spirit is too weak - mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep," Answer: "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" B) "Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen" Answer: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" C) "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" Answer: "Ode to a Nightingale" 17. Seeing as this author often gets in arguments about what programming language rules the known universe, identify the following entries in the contest, for five points each and a bonus 5 for all 5. 1) This common business language is one of the main culprits in the whole Y2K debacle. A: COBOL 2) This is my entry as the best language. First developed in the 1950s, this formula translator was the first high level language. A: FORTRAN 3) This language was designed for beginners to get used to programming. That purpose is obvious from the name. A: BASIC 4) This language is similar to BASIC, but was named for a 17th century French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. A: PASCAL 5) This object oriented language is the main rival to FORTRAN in the contemporary world. Its original form was updated recently and some people swear by it, even though it has the peculiar requirement that a semicolon must be placed at the end of each line. A: C or C++
He was forced to testify while tied to a chair and gagged. When his mutterings were insufficiently specific, he was found in contempt of court and sentenced to eight years in prison. Answer Bobby Seale This seventy-five year old judge presided over the trial. Answer Julius Hoffman When asked about his citizenship, this playful activist replied that he was a citizen of the Woodstock Nation. Answer Abbie Hoffman
30) Paul is an Australian statesman, former rock band manager, who declined the award of Companion to the Order of Australia -- the first former PM to do so. 20) Tom was a 20th century British art restorer, who became famous for forging paintings by Samuel Palmer. Another Tom was a defensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders. 10) John was a professor of English at the prestigious Welton Academy, as portrayed on film by Robin Williams; Charles presided over Lincoln Federal, the biggest of the failed S & L’s of the ‘80’s. Answer: Keating
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