2000 Eric Hillemann Singles Tournament Questions by Subash Maddipoti Seeding Round A
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Questions by Subash MaddipotiSeeding Round B (85 tossups, plus 1 extra) B1. Henry Grace was cast as a future president in this movie despite no acting experience. In an odd coincidence Curt Jurgens and Gert Frobe (aka Goldfinger), two future James Bond villains, had roles in this movie along with Sean Connery. Its main stars – Eddie Albert, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Burton – were paid ten times less than headliner John Wayne. FTP, name this epic World War II movie centering on the invasion of Normandy. Answer: The Longest Day B2. Notable features include the Cliff of Bongolava in the west and the Bay of Antongil off its northeast coast. Home to several types of lemurs, it is separated from the mainland by the Mozambique Channel. FTP, identify this fourth largest island in the world once known as the Malagasay Republic with capital at Antananarivo. Answer: Madagascar B3. “Lucifer in Starlight” is less well known than his sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets that analyze the breakup of a husband and wife. This was influenced by his being abandoned by his own wife, the daughter of Thomas Love Peacock. Though he received great praise for that work, Modern Love, his fame came with such novels as The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. FTP, name this Englishman who introduced Sir Willoughby Patterne in his novel The Egoist. Answer: George Meredith B4. He signed the Burlingame Treaty with Anson Burlingame to promote U.S.-Chinese relations. He first came to power by allying himself with Thurlow Weed’s Whigs, becoming governor of New York in 1839. Lewis Powell stabbed this man in the neck during a performance of Our American Cousin in 1865. FTP, identify this secretary of state to Lincoln, whose purchase of Alaska was known as his “Folly.’ Answer: William Seward B5. About a million of them exist in the body, divided into four types of cells, though their C cells have no known function. The delta cells produce somatostatin, which can inhibit the other secretions of these tissues. Their alpha cells produce a product, glucagon, that is antagonistic to their best-known secretion. FTP, identify these patches of endocrine tissue that also secrete insulin, a part of the pancreas named for their German discoverer. Answer: islets of Langerhans B6. The original layout, designed by Douglas Grant and Jack Neville, was recently purchased by the Lone Cypress Company, whose main investors included Peter Ueberroth and Clint Eastwood. Nearby courses Spanish Bay and Spyglass Hill also play host to the annual pro-am that was started there by Bing Crosby. FTP, identify this venue alongside California’s Monterey Bay, the golf course that hosted this year’s U.S. Open Championship. Answer: Pebble Beach Golf Links B7. While staying with the surgeon Hermann Homan, he wrote “Treatise on the Correction of Understanding” and “Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being.” This followed his excommunication after he argued that the author of the Pentatuech was no wiser than any person in physics or theology. The god he described is not a personal creator but more a pantheistic force. FTP, name this 17th century Dutch philosopher and author of Ethics. Answer: Benedict de Spinoza B8. After leaving home for a second time, the title character befriends Izz, Retty, and Marian while working at Talbothays. Later on in the novel, she is staying at The Herons in Sandbourne when her husband has returned from Brazil to find her. Faced by this she stabs Alec, the father of her child Sorrow, to death and briefly reunites with Angel Clare before she is executed for her crime. FTP, name this title heroine of a Thomas Hardy novel. Answer: Tess of the d’Urbervilles (accept Tess Durbeyfield) B9. He resides in the seventh heaven, and his temple translates as “Blue Heaven.” This god, whose name means He of the South, slew his sister and threw her head into the sky creating the moon. He can only be fed by Chalchihuatl, or human sacrifice. After his brothers and sisters decapitated his mother, Coatlicue, he slew many of them. FTP, identify this Aztec god of the sun and war, the chief deity of Tenochtitlan who was represented by a hummingbird. Answer: Huitzilopochtli B10. After entering the studio of Gleyre, he formed a lasting friendship with Bazille and Sisley, often painting with them in the Barbizon district. His early works include The Umbrellas and Judgement of Paris, but he is better known for later masterpieces like The Theater Box. Like Cezanne this man also did a series of Bathers paintings. FTP, identify this Impressionist painter of La Moulin de la Galette and Luncheon of the Boating Party. Answer: Pierre-Auguste Renoir B11. This process was aided greatly by the discovery of the Leblanc method, which provides one of its intermediaries. It can be used to extract sterols through the use of water-immiscible solvents such as hexane or ether. It is specifically the base-catalyzed hydrolysis of an ester, which results in the loss of the alcohol. FTP, identify this type of reaction, whereby an alkali reacts with a fat or vegetable oil to make a soap. Answer: saponification B12. His works include The Foundations of Faith and Morals and Coral Gardens and Their Magic. While teaching at the University of London, he supervised Jomo Kenyatta, and wrote the preface to Kenyatta’s Facing Mount Kenya. However, he is better known for his study Argonauts of the Western Pacific. FTP, name this Polish anthropologist who studied the Trobriand islanders? Answer: Bronislaw Malinowski B13. They first landed at Ebbsfleet in the Isle of Thanet. We know that their early kings were the sons of the Wihtgils, with their first leaders of renown being Hengist and Horsa. According to Bede, they settled in southern Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, after invading the shores of Britain along with the Angles and Saxons. FTP, identify these Germanic peoples who took their name from the Danish peninsula on which they originated. Answer: Jutes B14. This character is the subject of a four-act 1936 opera by Franco Alfano. In real life he wrote such plays as The Pedant Tricked and The Death of Agrippina. In his literary role, he is aligned against the Comte de Guiche and aids the slow-witted Christian despite his own unrequited love. FTP, name this man who loves Roxanne, the subject of an Edmund Rostand play, who is a brilliant poet with an incredibly long nose. Answer: Cyrano de Bergerac B15. After he defeated Omega Red over a battle for the Carbonadium Neutralizer, he was found by James Hudson of Alpha Flight. After the end of his relationship with Mariko Yashida, he would go on to fight such enemies as Cyber and Lady Deathstrike. However, the greatest enemy of Logan will always be Sabretooth. FTP, name this possessor of a mutant healing factor and adamantium skeleton, the most popular member of the X-Men. Answer: Wolverine or Weapon X B16. It tells us that for solids, the six degrees of freedom are three from translation and three from vibrational degrees of freedom along each of three Cartesian directions. It assumed that Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics could be applied even at low temperatures. The key number involved is 6.2 calories of heat to raise the temperature. FTP, what is this statement that the gram-atomic heat capacity of an element is constant, a law named for its two French discoverers. Answer: Law of Dulong and Petit B17. After successfully serving with a Spartan expeditionary force, he was awarded a consulship by his military idol, King Agesilaus II. A literary work by Polycrates was the source for this man’s Memorabilia, but he is better known for his Cyropaedia, a biography of Cyrus the Great, and his Hellenica, a seven-book history of 5th and 4th century BC Greece. FTP, name this author of the Anabasis, a famous student of Socrates’. Answer: Xenophon B18. Along with David Bonior he spearheaded the opposition to the PNTR agreement with China, and was the first to unveil his party’s proposed plan of a Medicare drug benefit of up to 5,000 dollars. His refusal to submit to a background check and his urging of all his party incumbents to stay in their current positions, implied that he would not be nominated for vice president. FTP, identify this Congressman from Missouri, the House Democratic Leader. Answer: Richard Gephardt B19. After studying music with Virgil Thomson in Paris in 1933 and 1934, he founded the literary quarterly Antaeus. His autobiography Without Stopping details how he came to live in the area that would become the primary locale in such novels as Let It Come Down and The Spider’s House. After marrying the playwright Jane Auer, he settled in Tangier, the setting for his best-known work. FTP, identify this American author of The Sheltering Sky. Answer: Paul Bowles B20. The libretto was written by Georges Bernanos, who was inspired by a novel of Gertrud von le Fort. Madame Lidoine becomes the head of the title characters and blesses all of them before her death. When they are rooted out of their home by French revolutionaries, they decide to embrace martyrdom. The heroine Blanche de la Force finally relents and follows Sister Constance to the guillotine. FTP, identify this most famous opera of Nicholas Poulenc. Answer: Les Dialogues de Carmelite or Dialogue of the Carmelites B21. He headed a political coalition against General Philip Schuyler, the father-in-law of his most hated enemy, two years after he became attorney general of New York in 1789. He mistakenly voted for himself in the 1800 presidential election instead of his running mate Thomas Jefferson, under whom he served as vice president. FTP, name this man who was arrested for treason in 1807, three years after a duel in which he killed Alexander Hamilton. Answer: Aaron Burr B22. It was discovered in 1938 by Luis Alvarez. A prime example of it would be the transition from beryllium-7 to lithium-7. * As in positron emission, the nuclear positive charge and hence the atomic number decreases by one unit, and the mass number remains the same. FTP, identify this type of beta decay, named for the atomic shell from which the involved electron is taken. Answer: K-capture or electron capture (prompt on “beta decay” before *) B23. Using a meter borrowed from the Kalevala, this work was based on stories collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. It uses such phrases as the “Moon of Leaves” and “Moon of Strawberries” to describe the months of the year. The title character is the grandson of Nokomis and son of Wenonah, and he leaves his people after his wife, Minnehaha, becomes sick. FTP, name this tale about an Ojibway Indian, a narrative poem by Longfellow. Answer: Song of Hiawatha B24. He was devastated by the death of his son Andre, a brilliant linguist, in World War I. His nephew, Marcel Mauss, followed in his field but paid more attention to symbolism. His first major work, The Division of Labour in Society, came after he had formulated his theory of social disconnectedness, which he called “anomie.” FTP, identify this author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life and Suicide; considered the founder of French sociology. Answer: Emile Durkheim B25. Their great nobles, or orejones [O-ray-ho-ness], were in charge of the ayullu, or clan, which was the central unit of their society. Pachacuti and Topa began the imperial phase of this empire, which traces its origin to Manco Capac. Its downfall began with the conflict between Huascar and his brother, Atahuallpa. FTP, name this culture conquered by Francisco Pizarro, an empire that ruled over Peru til the mid-16th century. Answer: Incas or Incan empire B26. This group’s first two members met at a New Hampshire ice cream parlor. After replacing guitarist Ray Tabano, they had two major hits before bottoming out with such albums as Night in the Ruts and Rock in a Hard Place. However, they returned with a hit 1986 rap collaboration and albums like Permanent Vacation. FTP, name this Boston band, whose hits include “Sweet Emotion” and “Dream On,” with lead vocals by Steven Tyler. Answer: Aerosmith B27. One molecule of it is produced in the conversion from glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate to 1,3-diphosphoglycerate during ATP synthesis. Along with carbon dioxide, one molecule of it is released during the conversion from isocitrate to alpha-ketoglutarate in the Krebs cycle. Its dehydrogenase is the first complex involved in the electron-transport chain. FTP, identify this substance, which along with FADH-2 is a commonly used electron donor. Answer: NADH or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide hydrogenase B28. Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Perpetual Orgy mirrors this novel. By the end of the novel the title character’s daughter is forced to work on a cotton mill for a living. A law clerk, Leon, and a landowner, Rodolphe, refuse to help the title character get out of debt despite their affairs with her, and she poisons herself. Thus, ends the sad story of the wife of Charles, FTP, the title character of what Gustave Flaubert novel? Answer: Madame Bovary B29. It contains such sites as Frozen Niagra and Pillars of Hercules. The Green and Nolin Rivers run through its hilly terrain. In 1972 a passage linking it to the Flint Ridge system was discovered, and all of its passages have a combined length of more than 345 miles. FTP, identify this extensive system of limestone caverns, a national park in Kentucky. Answer: Mammoth Cave National Park B30. The son of a racehorse trainer, he often built upon the works of other artist’s for his own creations, like a study of the screaming nanny from Eisenstein’s Potemkin. A work typifying his style is Second Version of Triptych 1944. FTP, identify this painter of such gruesome works as Three Studies for a Crucifixion and Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Innocent X, an Irishman who share his full name with the author of The New Atlantis. Answer: Francis Bacon B31. In consumption analysis he developed the theory of revealed preference and also of note is his mathematical formulation of multiplier and accelerator effects. His 1948 introductory textbook, Economics, is still considered a classic. Many of this man’s theories and more can be found in his seminal Foundations of Economic Analysis. FTP, identify this winner of the 1970 Nobel in Economics, a famous MIT professor. Answer: Paul Samuelson B32. Despite an initial grant of 600 million dollars and the formation an Inter-American Committee to oversee it, this program had ceased to function by the early 1970s. It was officially established in the Charter of Punta del Este, which was signed by 23 members of the OAS in August of 1961. FTP, name this plan for a partnership in prosperity between the U.S. and Latin America formulated by John Kennedy. Answer: Alliance for Progress B33. The Yoccoz puzzles is the name for a combinatorial method that can be used to study it. *It is generated by iterating “z sub n plus 1 equals z sub n squared plus c,” and it is formed by points in the complex plane that exist in a one-to-one correspondence with the complex numbers. FTP, identify this set, named after the man who coined the word fractal. Answer: Mandelbrot set (also accept “Julia set” before *) B34. When we first meet him, he is holding a “holly bob,” and it is said of him “phantom and faerie the folk there deemed it.” After accepting a guest into his castle, he exchanges a boar’s head for two kisses from his guest on the first night. Following the third night, he takes three swings with an ax at his guest’s neck and reveals that his name is Bercilak. FTP, name this Arthurian figure, whose tale is often told with that of Gawain. Answer: the Green Knight (accept early Bercilak) B35. Shortly before his death, this author began writing stories based on the five senses. The three he completed – on the tongue, ear, and nose – were published with the title Under the Jaguar Sun. His major poems are collected in Invisible Cities, but his unique style is betters seen in such works as Mr. Palomar and Cosmiconics. FTP, identify this Italian author of The Path to the Nest of Spiders and “If on a winter’s night a traveler.” Answer: Italo Calvino
Answer: Linda Fiorentino B37. After coming to power, he created 22 corporations to control all economic activity in his country. He first gained fame by editing the extremist paper Avanti!, and he used that power to force King Victor Emmanuel III to name him prime minister in 1922. Forced to resign by the Fascist General Council in July of 1943, FTP, name this man also known as Il Duce, the leader of Italy during much of World War II. Answer: Benito Mussolini B38. This scientist’s Nobel lecture was entitled “The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge.” Experiments conducted with H.S. Creighton during the 1930s resulted in the article “A Correlation of Cytological and Genetical crossing-over.” Zea mays was the organism on which she did all of her breeding experiments. FTP, identify this American who won a Nobel for her discovery of “jumping genes,” or transposons in corn. Answer: Barbara McClintock B39. This club’s glory ears were in the 1960s under coach Bill Shankly. Defender Christian Ziege has recently opened talks with them. The disappointment of Patrick Berger and injuries to their star player forced forward Emile Heskey and national team player Jamie Rednapp to step up this year. FTP, identify this Premiership side that is spearheaded by the attacking of Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen. Answer: Liverpool FC B40. Some versions of this document have been credited to Alexis Galland, though it is believed that he was only present at its adoption. The phrase, “social distinction may be founded only upon the general good,” is contained in the first of its 17 articles. It stated that liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression were fundamental rights, and it nullified the divine right of the king. FTP, identify this 1789 manifesto adopted by the French National Assembly. Answer: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen B41. William Rainey Harper, later president of the University of Chicago, was one of its early directors and helped organize its assembly, which included a school of theology, a correspondence school, and a publishing house. Its success led to a namesake movement that declined after 1924. It originally began as an assembly for the training of Sunday school teachers. FTP, identify this movement in adult education named for a lake in upstate New York. Answer: Lake Chautauqua movement B42. Among his first designs was the Cranbook Academy of Art in Michigan. After forming a firm with Robert Swanson, he embarked on such ambitious projects as Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale and the U.S. Embassy in London. Following the completion of the Law School at the University of Chicago, he designed the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. FTP, identify this son of a famous architect, the Finnish designer of the Gateway Arch. Answe: Eero Saarinen. B43. A central event in this novel is a hurricane that results in the death of Dick Sterrett and a rabid dog bite suffered by the protagonist’s husband. Leafy is the mother of the protagonist, who narrates this novel in the process of telling her life story to Pheoby Watson. She tells of her first husband, Logan Killicks; her second husband, Jody Starks; and her true love and third husband, Tea Cake. FTP, name this novel about Janie Crawford written by Zora Neale Hurston. Answer: Their Eyes Were Watching God B44. Hecla, Deer, and Black are just some of the islands within it. It is named for the Cree Indian for “muddy water” and is a remnant of glacial Lake Aggasiz. It is fed by several rivers including the Red, Saskatchewan, and its namesake one. FTP, identify this lake in south-central Manitoba that shares its name with the capital of Manitoba. Answer: Lake Winnipeg B45. Theodore Dwight served as the secretary while George Cabot officially presided, though the minutes indicate that Harrison Gray Otis was the true power. Extremists like John Powell and Timothy Pickering advocated a separate peace, while Nicholas Biddle penned Pennsylvania’s rejection of it. It was discredited by news of a victory at New Orleans and the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. FTP, identify this 1814 meeting of New England Federalists. Answer: Hartford Convention B46. His reward for helping Lord Wilton crush an Irish rebellion was Kilcolman Castle, where he wrote his famous works. After translating the Visions of Petrarch, he wrote a work dedicated to his friend Sir Philip Sidney, The Shepheard’s Calender, but was better known for the sonnet sequence Amoretti and the poem Epithalamion. FTP, name this Englishman who told of the knights of Gloriana in his long poem, The Faerie Queene. Answer: Edmund Spenser B47. In all several versions of this symphony exist, two by the composer and a third he was working on with his friend, Ferdinand Lowe, before his death. This symphony opens with a solo horn call, and ends with an overwhelming fourth movement. The scherzo third movement is also horn-laced and has been dubbed the “Hunt” scherzo. FTP, identify this 1874 symphony termed “Romantic” though not by its composer, Anton Bruckner Answer: Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 in E flat (accept early buzz of “Romantic”) B48. It can only be changed by charged weak interactions, though those that involve the neutral Z particle cannot change it. It is the quantum number that is less well known in its use to differentiate the various lepton types. FTP, identify this property of which there are six for leptons, six for quarks, and 36 for Baskin Robbins. Answer: flavor B49. This company recently unveiled the new customers for its ION or Integrated On-Demand network, which was unveiled a year and a half ago. Though BellSouth Corp. made a late bid, things looked promising after a larger 115 billion dollar deal to buy it out. FTP, identify this long distance carrier famed for its PCS networks, which was unable to go through with a highly anticipated merger with MCI WorldCom. Answer: Sprint B50. His most famous collection of short stories is God’s World, though this author is better known for novel’s like his first, Radobis. His novel The Children’s Alley was banned due to its depiction of figures based on Muhammad and Moses. However, the greatest controversy was generated by Sugar Street, Palace of Desire, and Palace Walk. FTP, name this of the Cairo Trilogy, the Egyptian winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. Answer: Naguib Mahfouz B51. His wife, Mitzi, is a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleader. In his first year in the league, he set a record, now eclipsed by Drew Bledsoe, with 369 passing yards in one game. 1996 saw his first of two Pro Bowl years, and a third was prevented by an injury last year, which saw him replaced by Ray Lucas. FTP, name this player picked first overall in 1987 out of Miami, the current New York Jet quarterback. Answer: Vinnie Testaverde B52. Along with Gordon Allport, he is the only American psychologist to stress the importance of music in self-fulfillment, and he also stressed a correlation between personal happiness and moral values. Toward a Psychology of Being and Motivation and Personality both outline his most famous theory, which explains an individual’s priorities. FTP, identify this humanist, best-known for his theory of a hierarchy of needs. Answer: Abraham Maslow B53. One of his childhood mentors, Acilius Attianus, later served as prefect of his Praetorian Guard. His career was greatly advanced by the patronage of Lucinius Sura and equally hampered by his brother-in-law Julius Servianus. His notable measures include a universal ban on circumcision just after the death of his lover Antinous, and the naming of the senator Antoninus as his successor. FTP, identify this nephew and successor of Trajan, best-known for his erection in Britain. Answer: Publius Aelius Hadrianus
Answer: T.J. Hooker B55. This structure is divided into medial and lateral groups by the fibres of fornix. Frohlich’s syndrome is caused by tumors in this region, causing increased appetite. It contains both a vascular portal to the adenohypophysis and a junction to the posterior pituitary where it sends vasopressin and oxytocin. FTP, identify this control center of the brain that lies below the thalamus. Answer: hypothalamus B56. Many of them contain “scattald,” or designated grazing grounds for sheep. North of the largest one lie Yell and Unst. Fair Isle is also a member, and its largest member, Mainland Isle, contains the cities of Scalloway and Lerwick. FTP, identify this group of about 100 islands lying north of the Scottish mainland and famous for a small breed of horse. Answer: Shetland Islands B57. In the final section Tiresias enters, but decides to leave when he is insulted. The bad news that follows causes Eurydice to kill herself. She does this upon hearing of the death of her son, the prince of Thebes, who had run himself through. The trouble starts when it was decreed that Polynices would not receive proper burial rites. FTP, name this Sophocles play centering on Creon, Haemon, and the titular heroine, a daughter of Oedipus. Answer: Antigone B58. Following his apprenticeship to Coecke van Aelst, he painted such mythological canvases as Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Works like The Procession to Calvary, Triumph of Death, and The Tower of Babel led to comparisons between this man and Hieronymus Bosch. FTP, identify this 16th century Northern artist of such pleasant scenes as Hunters in the Snow and Peasant Wedding. Answer: Pieter Bruegel the Elder B59. In his second voyage to the New World he commanded a fleet of ships to Brazil and returned profitable dyewood to France. On his third voyage he anchored off of Guadalupe, went ashore, and was captured and eaten by cannibals. However, he is most famous for the discoveries of his first voyage. FTP, identify this Italian navigator who first sighted Naragansett Bay and New York Harbor and whose name is remembered in a New York City suspension bridge. Answer: Giovanni da Verrazzano B60. This psychologist’s early theoretical works like New Ways in Psychoanalysis were written at the New School for Social Research. Studying under Karl Abraham, she would set forth her major suppositions in Our Inner Conflict. She claimed that the infant’s experience of basic anxiety is the primary reason for development of neuroses. FTP, identify this German-born psychoanalyst who despised Freud’s theory of penis envy. Answer: Karen Horney B61. As a child, this son of Vayu mistook the rising sun for a fruit and tried to eat it. As a result, he gained influence over all celestial bodies. His most famous exploit might be the use of his physical prowess and intelligence to construct a land bridge to invade Lanka, the home of the demon king Ravana. He is the minister of Sugreeva, who agrees to aid Rama in his quest to find Sita. FTP, identify this monkey god, a hero of the Ramayana. Answer: Hanuman B62. After studying under Wilhelm Ostwald, he would go on to invent a new electrically amplified piano. However, he is best known for his statement that crystalline materials have zero entropy at absolute zero, stating the impossibility of obtaining absolute zero. FTP, identify this German who invented a new electric lamp and also offered the formulation of the third law of thermodynamics. Answer: Walter Nernst B63. He took refuge in Switzerland and taught under an assumed name at Reichenau after he had deserted with his commander, Dumouriez, to the Austrian side. After coming to the U.S. for two years, he reconciled with the Bourbons, returned to France with Louis XVIII, and seized the initiative with the abdication of Charles X. FTP, name this man who came to power in 1830 and ruled as France’s “Citizen King” until 1848. Answer: Louis-Philippe B64. After he finds out that the Human Fund is bogus, Mr. Kruger does not believe in this celebration, so he is invited to dinner. Cosmo quits his job at the bagel store because they will not recognize it as legitimate. The primary ornament is a tall, aluminum pole, and it begins with the “Airing of Grievances” against other family members. Concluding with the “Feats of Strength,” FTP, name this holiday for the “rest-of-us” invented by Frank Costanza on Seinfeld. Answer: Festivus B65. Of these two siblings, one is an actor and English major, while the other is a TV actor. One becomes interested in the “Jesus prayer” and relates this to her boyfriend Lane Coutell. The other’s story is narrated by their brother Buddy, who tells how one uses the story of the “Fat Lady” to calm his sister down. FTP, identify these two members of the Glass family, whose story makes up a book by J.D. Salinger. Answer: Franny and Zoey B66. Frederick Hopkins first isolated it in 1901 from casein. Of the essential amino acids, the requirement for this one is the least, though infants require more than adults. A deficiency of it can case pellagra, as it is a precursor to niacin as well as serotonin. FTP, identify this amino acid that like tyrosine and phenylalanine contains a benzene ring, and which, other than the glutamic and aspartic, is the only one that doesn’t end in –i-n-e. Answer: tryptophan B67. In 1946 he deliberately forfeited the batting title in hopes of allowing Monte Irvin to follow Jackie Robinson to white baseball. He was offered a chance to play for the Browns in 1951, but he was 47 years old at the time. One story says that he hit a baseball up the middle, which struck him as he slid into second, and by his own account, he had 175 steals in a 200-game season FTP, identify this Negro leaguer nicknamed “Cool Papa” Answer: James “Cool Papa” Bell B68. Of the five people in this painting the young girl is the only one with her back to us. The woman on the far right pours coffee into four cups, while the man and woman on the left engage in the title activity. All the light is provided by one oil lamp hanging from the ceiling in this 1885 work. FTP, identify this Vincent Van Gogh painting depicting some people getting ready to partake in a particular kind of chow. Answer: The Potato Eaters B69. Built in 1801, it was originally the home of William Hammond Dorsey, though it now serves as an art gallery. In its halls, Chinese, Soviet, U.S., and British representatives enacted the first important step in carrying out the Moscow Declaration of 1943. Though it did not result in a complete blueprint for the UN, FTP, what fall of 1944 conference in a Georgetown mansion did recognize the need for a postwar international organization Answer: Dumbarton Oaks B70. Their ancestors were represented by the ancient organism Spiriggina. Paradoxides harlani was the largest of these organisms, which had a cephalon, thorax, and pygidium, or tail region. We also know that they were exclusively marine animals. First appearing during the Cambrian period, FTP, identify these extinct fossil arthropods noted for their distinctive three-lobed, three-segmented form. Answer: Trilobites B71. He and his step-brother Philammon inherited special powers, as their mother Chione was desired by both Apollo and Hermes, and slept with both gods. He was a famous thief, who stole the cattle of Eurytus, and he was also supposed to have taught wrestling to Hercules. Though he was not the father of Laertes, he was the grandfather of Laertes’ son. FTP, identify this grandfather of Odysseus, whose name translates as “lone-wolf.” Answer: Autolycus B72. Most translations of his work were done by scholars R.A. Nicholson and A.J. Arberry. He left behind approximately 30,000 verses of poetry including many roba’iyat, or quatrains. His most famous works are his Divan e Shams, or “Poetry of Shams,” and his epic Masnavi, or “Spiritual Couplets.” FTP, identify this 13th century Sufi mystic, a famous Persian poet. Answer: Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi B73. Results of his early researches appeared in The League of the Iroquois. He introduced the term gens into his field, and his students included Adolph Bandelier. This man’s development of the theory of cultural evolution came from his various kinship studies among Native Americans. FTP, identify this author of Ancient Society, a 19th century American anthropologist. Answer: Lewis Morgan $ B74. When they are at a value of a few hundred, the secondary emission coefficient reaches a peak value between two and four. One of them is equal to 23.1 kilocalories per mole or 1.6 times 10 to the negative 12th ergs. FTP, identify this unit for expressing the kinetic energy of subatomic particles, a unit defined as the energy acquired by its namesake particle when accelerated by a potential difference of 1 volt. Answer: electron volt B75. He owns a production company, Yellow Rose Inc., with actor Brett Cullen. He drove a bus in Spice World and a truck in Black Dog, though he was a sheriff in Crazy in Alabama. Though his real name is Marvin Lee Aday, he is better known under the moniker that released such albums as Dead Ringer and Midnight at the Lost & Found. FTP, identify this rocker, whose Bat Out of Hell II included “I’d Do Anything for Love.” Answer: Meat Loaf (accept early “Marvin Lee Aday”) B76. By the time of his death he had been pontifex for 12 years and an augur for 62. He was made consul for the fifth time after recovering Tarentum, after having lost part of his command to his master of the horse, Minucius. However, he was resurrected by a disastrous Roman defeat at Cannae, which led to renewal of his defensive strategy. FTP, name this Roman general of the Second Punic War nicknamed the “delayer.” Answer: Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator (accept either) B77. The Tiete and Iguacu are two of its important upper tributaries. It used to pass through Guaira Falls, but that has changed with the Itaipu dam complex. After it receives the Salado, this river joins the Uruguay River to form the Rio de la Plata. FTP, name this second-longest river of South America that sounds like it is inhabited by killer fish. Answer: Parana River B78. A supplementary “commentaries” section was added to it around 475 BC. Its symbols were supposedly discovered on the back of a tortoise, though they were not interpreted until the time of its creator, Wen Wang. Eight basic trigrams are used to construct its 64 hexagrams, which can supposedly unlock many of life’s problems. FTP, identify this member of the Five Classics, also known as the “Book of Changes.” Answer: I Ching (accept early “Book of Changes”) B79. This process was first applied to probability by Louis Bachelier. Jean-Baptiste Perrin’s verification of earlier work on it won him a Nobel in 1926. Smoluchowski was experimenting on it at the same time that Einstein offered his quantitative theory of it in 1905, but it is named for the Scottish botanist who first observed it in 1827. FTP, name this continuous zigzagging movement of colloidal particles in a dispersing medium. Answer: Brownian motion B80. After publishing his Precocious Autobiography, he became an expatriate. His play Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty was based on earlier poems about the U.S., and his major poems are collected in Bratsk Station. His childhood home was the setting for his first important narrative poem, Zima Junction. FTP, identify this author of “Babi Yar,” a famous 20th century Soviet poet. Answer: Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Answer: Wars of the Roses B82. This actor’s first role was as David Kessler in 1977’s The Chicken Chronicles. He eventually becomes Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s dad in the sickly sweet It Takes Two, and was Jack Bonner in both the Cocoon movies. However, his first big break came as Eddie in the movie Diner. FTP, identify this actor who starred as one of the “Three Men” opposite a baby, as Newton Crosby in Short Circuit, and as Mahoney in the Police Academy movies. Answer: Steve Guttenberg B83. The shy hero sings of his love for the heroine in “Quanto bello, quanto cara,” while she is telling the story of Tristan and Isolde at the beginning of Act I. Giannetta is the only character other than the main four with a singing role. Threatened by the accepted proposal of Belcore, the hero enlists the help of Dr. Dulcamara. Following “Una furtiva lagrima,” Nemorino wins Adina in, FTP, what Donizetti opera revolving around the fake titular liquid. Answer: Elixir of Love or L’Elisir d’amore B84. In this novel, Sleary, a lisping circus proprietor, helps a robber escape from the hands of Bitzer. The crooked Slackbridge forms a union, which Stephen Blackpool refuses to join; and Mrs. Sparsit helps James Harthouse in his attempted seduction. Like all these characters, Josiah Bounderby is also involved in the lives of Tom, Luisa, and Sissy Jupe, who are the children of Thomas Gradgrind in, FTP, what Dickens novel? Answer: Hard Times B85. Isoprene results after turpentine is exposed to this industrial method. When wood or petroleum are subjected to this process, tar and pitch result, and coke is what remains after coal undergoes it. It is also used in the production of methane and naphtha. FTP, identify this process in which an organic substance is heated in the absence of air to break it down into solid and volatile products. Answer: destructive distillation (prompt on “distillation”) ===== ===== ===== STOP SEEDING ROUND B HERE! ===== ===== =====
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