Drake University Undergraduate Tournament ‘05 Packet written by Quentin Roper Tossups
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Packet written by Quentin Roper Tossups 1. He was the leader of the Nasjonal (Nahs-yon-al) Samling Party. He lived in a mansion that he named Gimle, from Norse Mythology, but did not live in the land of Dwarves. During the invasion of Norway, he attempted to assume power, and unsuccessfully tried to hand the entire country to the invading Nazi army. Name this Benedict Arnold of Norway, whose name became synonymous with “traitor” after World War II Answer: Vidkun Quisling 2. His early works, including Prices and Production, focused on monetary cycle theory. He fought in World War II along with his great rival John Maynard Keynes, and, despite their philosophical and economic differences, were friends. Give the name of this classical economist, who penned Pure Theory of Capital, and Road to Serfdom. Answer: Friedrich August von Hayek 3. He started his literary as a columnist for Il Verri. His novel, The Island of the Day Before follows Roberto, an Italian shipwrecked in the south Pacific in 1643. The Name of the Rose another of his novels, is about Fransiscans suspected of heresy. For ten points, name this author, known for his quirky love of esoteric history, which is personified in his most famous work, Foucault’s Pendulum. Answer: Umberto Eco 4. The contour variety can be computed by summing the values of the complex residues inside the contour. Gauss’ Law relies on the surface variety. The Stieltjes definition has random subintervals, while the Riemann definition has regular subintervals. The improper variety generally has an infinite bound or an undefined part along a piece of the function. Newton and Liebniz independently proved that the definite variety of what operator when acting on a function will give the area under that function within its bounds? Answer: The Integration Operator, or the Integral 5. Although he served as Speaker of the House longer than any other man in history, he never won the presidency the three times he tried. It is, then, perhaps out of bitterness that he remarked, “I would rather be right than President.” Andrew Jackson accused this Whig of entering into a “corruption bargain” against him. For ten points, name this man, the architect of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. Answer: Henry Clay 6. He was the youngest son of King Amyntas III and Eurydice, so he had to outlive two of his brothers for the throne. Influences on his military strategies included Iphicrates, Pelopidas, and Epaminondas. It was he who led his army against the Thebans and Athenians at Chaeronea. For ten points, name this man, whose successor was Alexander the Great. Answer: Phillip II of Macedon 7. In his “Letter to Posterity”, he noted, “In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one.” In this passage, his fictitious love affair refers to a possible ancestor of Marquis de Sade, whom he called Laura. He was crowned poet laureate in Rome in 1341, and was an avid traveller. For ten points, name this early renniasance poet, credited with giving the Rennaisance its name, and for writing Canzoniere, or Book of Songs. Answer: Francesco Petrarch 8. This word itself originates from the Czech word for “labor”. Leonardo Da Vinci had plans and sketches for one in a notebook that was rediscovered in the 1950’s, but no one knows whether he attempted to produce one. Examples include Prospero from the Caliban Trilogy, Kilroy in a song by Styx, and Damon in R.U.R, and the three laws that govern them were created by Isaac Asimov. For ten points, name these often mechanical automatons featured in a film starring Will Smith. Answer: Robots (do not accept androids, automatons, or other equivalents)
Answer: Dorian Gray (Accept “The Picture of Dorian Gray”) 10. He spent most of his early life educated in Europe, where avant-garde Spanish poets inspired him to found the ultraismo movement. His first published poem, “Hymn to the Sea” was written in the style of Walt Whitman, and one of his early stories, “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” was the first work he wrote in the style he became known for, and soon after, published “The Garden of Forking Paths”. For ten points, name this Argentinean poet and essayist, writer of The Aleph and the collection Labyrinths. Answer: Jorge Luis Borges 11. She used to be one of the best detectives of all time, but after an incident with the Prometheus Rock, she turned away from the ACME Detective Agency to evil. “Well she glides around the globe, and she'll flim-flam every nation. She's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery,” at least, so sings Rockapella. Tell me, gumshoe, who in the world is this “sticky-fingered filcher”, featured in multiple geography-oriented Broderbund computer games and a very successful PBS game show. Answer: Carmen Sandiego 12. The painting is currently held on display at Maurishuis in the Hague. A novel of this title was written by Tracy Chevalier, and imagines the circumstances of the painting. The background is black. The title figure wears a towel on her head, as well as a single piece of jewelry, who, according to the movie of the same name, is named Griet, and is portrayed by Scarlett Johansson. For ten points, either name the movie, starring Colin Firth, or name the painting by Firth’s character, Johannes Vermeer. Answer: Girl With a Pearl Earring 13. He was the son of Everes and the Nymph Chariclo, and was turned into a woman when he struck a pair of copulating serpents with his staff. Seven years later, he was returned to his original gender. Zeus and Hera invited him to Mt. Olympus to settle an argument between the two over which gender derived more pleasure from sex. He sided with Zeus, and Hera was so angry, she afflicted him permanently with blindness. His foresight was often sought, even after he died. For ten points, name this prophet, who was visited by Odysseus in the underworld. Answer: Tiresias 14. Although the rigorous military training he had to endure left his health permanently damaged, it wasn’t until a radical wounded him with a bomb in 1881 that he died. He came into power right after the end of the Crimean War, after his father, Tsar Nicholas I, died. FTP, name this Tsar, most noted for his Emancipation Manifesto, 17 legislative acts that ended serfdom in Russia. Answer: Tsar Alexander II (prompt on “Alexander”) 15. Its name comes from Hebrew for “lots”, and the custom of masquerading on this holiday was introduced in the 15th century because of a Roman festival at the same time. Hamantaschen, which are rendered to look like the offender’s hat, is traditionally served on this holiday, whose story is chronicled in the Book of Esther. For ten points, name this Jewish holiday celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, which commemorates the deliverance of the Persian Jews from the extermination planned by Haman. Answer: Purim 16. Its emergence from the archiphallum is most pronounced in primates and Cetacean sea mammals, and it is philogenetically one of the oldest parts of the brain. Drew Barrymore’s character in 50 First Dates and Guy Pierce’s character from Momento both suffered damage to it, causing them to lose the ability to convert short term memories to long term memories. For ten points, name this structure of the limbic system, located inside the temporal lobe, which plays a part in memory and navigation. Answer: Hippocampus 17. He is the lone surviving member of a great civilization that was destroyed when their leader released Chaos upon the world. He was leader of the Chaotix team for a short time. A treasure hunter by profession, he squares off against rival Rouge the Bat on multiple occasions, in order to restore the gem that rests on Angel Island. For ten points, name this echidna, the guardian of the Master Emerald, and often grouped with Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails. Answer: Knuckles the Echidna 18. The ring of numbers of the form a + bi (“a plus b-i) is named for this man. He was the first person to construct a regular heptadecagon with nothing more than a compass and a straight edge, and it was this very problem that prompted him to go into the sciences. His law, in differential form, states that the divergence of the electric field is equal to the charge density divided by the permittivity of free space, and is logically equivalent to Coulomb’s Law. For ten points, name this German mathematician and physicist, the namesake of a unit of magnetic flux density. Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss 19. In Stargate: SG1, this is the name of the supreme commander of the Asgard fleet. He was the son of Odin and Jord, and his wife was Sif. At Ragnarok, this god will be killed while dueling with the serpent Jormungand. For ten points, name this Norse god of war, who wielded the war-hammer Mjollnir. Answer: Thor (accept Tor) 20. He succeeded his predecessor by means of the only successful No Confidence Vote in his country since World War II. He succeeded * Helmut Schmidt in 1982, and he is recognized even by his political adversaries for managing the reunification of his country. For ten points, name this former German Prime Minister, succeeded by Gerhardt Schroeder in 1998. Answer: Helmut Kohl
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope (prompt on HST) Bonuses 1. 30-20-10. Provide the word, given definitions.
Answer: Field 2. Spend too much time and/or money at the track? Then you should have no problem answering these questions about the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. a. This horse might have taken the Triple Crown in 2004, if it weren’t for 36 to 1 Birdstone overtaking it in the last 100 yards of the Belmont Stakes. Answer: Smarty Jones b. This was the last horse to win the Triple Crown was this horse, that did so in 1978. He was later euthanized after falling seriously ill with laminitis. Answer: Affirmed c. This powerhouse of a horse was listed 35th on ESPN’s 100 greatest athletes for winning the Triple Crown in 1973. He mopped the floor at the Belmont Stakes that year by a massive 31 lengths. Answer: Secretariat
Answer: Typhon b. Daughter of Poseidon and Gaia, she flooded lands to augment her father’s underwater kingdom. Zeus tired of this, so he turned her into a water monster that made vast whirlpools in the sea. Answer: Charybdis c. She was originally a sea-nymph, but Circe turned her into a monster with twelve feet and six heads. Odysseus’ men chose to brave this monster over Charybdis. Answer: Scylla
Answer: Aphasia
Answer: Dyskinesia
Answer: Epilepsy 5. It’s time for fun with physics! Given the fundamental force carrier, tell me which of the fundamentals forces it carries. I’ll give you five points for one correct, ten for two, twenty for three, and thirty for all four.
Answer: The Electromagnetic force (prompt on “light”) b. Answer: The Weak nuclear force c. Gluon
Answer: The Strong nuclear force d. Answer: The Weak nuclear force
a. This young man became emperor under the Qing dynasty at 2 years and 10 months old when his uncle Guangxu died in December, 1908. His life was chronicled by Bernardo Bertolucci’s film The Last Emperor. Answer: Xuantong, or Henry Pu yi, or Aisin-Gioro Puyi b. He started the Xia Dynasty, and is considered the first Emperor of ancient China. He was later deified in the Tao Pantheon as the Jade Emperor. Answer: Yu the Great, Yu-Huang, Yueng Shang-di
a. “I never where buttons, but I gotta cool hat, and my homies agree, I really look good in black.” Answer: “Amish Paradise” b. “From his beard to his boots, he was covered in ammo, like a big, fat, drunk, disgruntled, yuletide Rambo.” Answer: “The Night Santa Went Crazy” c. “I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah/ Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda/ S O D A, soda” Answer: “Yoda”
Answer: Bela Bartok 9. Given the molecule, give its geometric shape according to the VSEPR model FFPE, with a bonus five for all correct.
Answer: Tetrahedral b. Sulfur Trioxide Answer: Trigonal Planar c. The hexafluorophosphate ion Answer: Octahedral
Answer: Tetrahedral
Answer: Seesaw 10.Given a criminal work, name its author 5-5-10-10
Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevski b. Murder on the Orient Express Answer: Agatha Christie
Answer: Alexander Pope
Answer: Robert Lewis Stevenson 11. Don’t you just love Particle Physics? Oh, well, maybe not. Name these British Prime Ministers on a 5-10-15 basis.
Answer: Neville Chamberlain
Answer: Sir Robert Walpole
Answer: William Pitt The Elder (prompt on “Pitt”) 12. For ten points each, name these things associated with the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. a. What religious faction was the target of the massacre? Answer: Huguenots b. Within ten, the year in which the attack occurred. Answer: 1572 (accept 1562 – 1582) c. What soon-to-be monarch converted from being a Huguenot to Catholicism after the massacre? Answer: Henri IV (accept Henri of Navarre)
Answer: Agnes Grey
Answer: The Professor
Answer: Wuthering Heights
Answer: Fransisco Goya
Answer: Diego Velásquez c. Though this man was born in Crete, his name is Spanish for another nationality. He is famous for painting View of Toledo. Answer: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
a. This is the current one. Answer: Jean Cretien b. He won a nobel prize. Answer: Lestor Pearson
Answer: Something McDonald
a. This elder swine is supposed to represent Lenin, and it was he who conceived the idea to rebel against Mr. Jones. Answer: Old Major b. This other pig, representative of Trotsky, and is framed and expelled from the farm by Napoleon. Answer: Snowball c. This horse works hard for the success of the farm, but Napoleon “accidentally” sold him to a glue factory for whiskey money after his health failed. Answer: Boxer
a. Before the second Vatican Councils, many Catholics fasted before this event at church, in which a wafer and a small portion of wine, symbolizing the body and blood of Christ, was consumed. Answer: Communion or Eucharist
Answer: Ramadan
Answer: Yom Kippur
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream b. This other Shakespearian play begins with King Leontes of Sicilia suspecting King Polinexes of sleeping with Leontes’ wife, Hermione. Leontes recruits Camillo to poison Polinexes, but instead they both escape. Answer: A Winter’s Tale c. This Keats ode, full of imagery and lack of persona, was originally written in a letter to his friend Reynolds. Answer: Ode To Autumn
a. This area’s bigger members include Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta. Answer: Asteroid Belt b. Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the three stars referred to by this name. Answer: Orion’s Belt
Answer: Kuiper Belt
a. This man was the head of the house of York during the Wars of the Roses. Answer: Richard III York b. Richard III became monarch after this young king died, possibly by Richard himself Answer: Edward V York c. This monarch took over the throne after he killed Richard III at Bosworth Field. Answer: Henry VII Tudor
a. This is the city-state against which Rome fought in the Punic Wars Answer: Carthage b. This Carthaginian leader crossed the Alps on a pack of elephants during the Second Punic War, but was unsuccessful in destroying Rome. Answer: Hannibal Barca c. Scippio defeated Hannibal in this city in 202 BCE, the decisive battle of the Second Punic War Answer: The Battle of Zama Directory: 1305 1305 -> U. S. & Canada Pakistani national found guilty of conspiring to back Taliban, unlawful firearms possession 1305 -> - 1305 -> Guide to tcp/IP: ipv6 and ipv4, 5 1305 -> Bryan Cooke Analytic – Continental Divide Conference Paper 1305 -> Nonfiction Readings—Forensic Books for High-School Students 1305 -> Montclair State University College of the Arts curriculum vitae personal data debra Bergsma Otte 1305 -> Chapter 3 computer-aided design and drafting test 1305 -> Most Endangered Species 1305 -> Table of Contents Grades k 2 Section 3 Download 47.49 Kb. Share with your friends:
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