Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2004 – ut-chattanooga
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TOSSUPS – ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions mostly by Florida’s Raj Dhuwalia with fellow Floridians Michael Napier and Michael Swick; Georgia Tech’s Saurabh Vishnubhakat; UTC’s Nick Bradshaw, and your genial quizmaster, Charlie Steinhice.1. Of the original 122 vessels, the majority returned safely; four were lost in the North Sea, two were lost after a fireship dispersed the fleet off Calais, and nearly three dozen foundered while rounding Scotland. Led by the duke of Medina Sidonia, it was supposed to function as a landing force in combination with the Duke of Parma’s fleet, but bad weather and other delays led to its failure. FTP, name this fleet which, in 1588, was sent by Philip II to invade England. Answer: the Spanish Armada
Answer: aria 3. The final score of this game was 6-0. Mike Goldberg handled the play by play and the opposing coaches were NFL Hall of Famers Lawrence Taylor and Eric Dickerson. Gwendolyn Osbourne scored the winning points for Team Dream while Team Euphoria, quarterbacked by Angie Everhart was generally considered offensively helpless. FTP, name this 2004 football game appearing live on pay per view during the halftime of the Super Bowl. Answer: Lingerie Bowl 2004 4. This hydrocarbon is often made today through the Monsanto process, in which methanol reacts with carbon monoxide. Useful in making films and textiles, it is a weak acid, and its pure form is referred to as “glacial.” With formula CH3 COOH, name, FTP, this common acid which is responsible for the taste and smell of vinegar. Answer: acetic or ethanoic acid (prompt on “vinegar”) 5. His early works include the poems “Arcades,” “On Shakespeare,” and “Comus, A Mask,” while his late work Samson Agonistes is one of several to deal with blindness. He defended free speech in Areopagitica, and he contrasted mirth and melancholy in “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso.” His best-known work seeks to “justify the ways of God to men” and describes “Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden Tree.” FTP, name this author of Paradise Lost. Answer: John Milton 6. Members of this religious group fall into four classes: novices, formed scholastics, formed coadjutors, and the professed. Early members of the group included Peter Faber and Francis Xavier, and the group was formally approved by Paul III in 1540. Known for their missionary work and rigorous educational standards, the group is often thought of as a “teaching order.” FTP, name this Christian group founded by Ignatius Loyola. Answer: the Jesuits or Society of Jesus 7. This 1963 novel involves Benny Profane, a hunter of alligators in New York's sewers. Herbert Stencil is looking for the character, whom he found in his father's notebooks. This character has been present at every significant event in Europe from 1890 to 1945. FTP, name this Thomas Pynchon novel, with a brief title that has nothing to do with the number 5. Answer: V 8. Its most common form is actually seen when it is divided by 2 pi and renamed Dirac's constant, symbolized as the letter with a bar through the top of it. Its units are of Joules seconds. Found in the Dirac equation, the Schrodinger equation, and the equation relating frequency of an electromagnetic wave to its energy, this is FTP what constant symbolized by an h, and named for the 1918 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. Answer: Planck's constant 9. One source claims that his death in Argos was by a tile thrown by an old woman from a rooftop. He lost to the Romans in 275 BC at Beneventum, but earlier he had conquered Sicily and Macedonia. His two most famous wins were at Heraclea and Asculum, where he suffered enormous casualties despite winning. FTP, name this ancient king of Epirus whose name lends itself to a very costly victory. Answer: Pyrrhus (be exceptionally kind and prompt on “Pyrrhic”) 10. The person who beat University of Florida quizbowl star Kevin Comer on Jeopardy! donated much of his winnings to rebels in this nation. Its city of Trincomalee is a popular tourist site on the coast, but the Jaffna Peninsula has many land mines left over from the civil war. This island is connected to mainland Asia by Adam’s Bridge, a series of shoals in the Palk Strait, and this site of an uprising by the Tamil Tigers was long known as Ceylon. FTP, name this island nation with capital at Colombo, located just off the coast of India. Answer: Sri Lanka (accept Ceylon early) 11. He was called the last person to know everything there is to know. A contemporary of Descartes and Spinoza, he often kept correspondence with them and many other influential thinkers. Most of his philosophy was written in these letters, with no real major works published in his lifetime. It is this correspondence that actually got him in trouble with the Royal Society, after Newton accused him of plagiarism. FTP name this German thinker, also credited with developing calculus. Answer: G. W. Leibniz 12. Being the son of an officer in Napoleon’s army led this man to write about such things as the defense of freedom and a cult of an idealized Napoleon. A member of the Petit Cenacle and Academie Francaise, this man was the author of such works as Cromwell, Lui, and Hernani. However, he is more known for two works, one of which was made into an animated Disney Movie, and the other into a musical. FTP name this French Romantic writer of such works as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. Answer: Victor Hugo 13. Linus Pauling discovered the molecular abnormality that causes this disease. It cannot be cured; the most common treatment is hydroxyurea therapy, which raises the proportion of hemoglobin in relation to other cells, preventing the circulatory problems the disease usually gives rise after it alters the shape of affected red blood cells. FTP, name this circulatory disorder most common in populations of African descent. Answer: Sickle cell anemia or disease 14. Some of his notable paintings, including El Jaleo, are in Boston’s Gardner Museum, while works like Portrait of Dorothy Bernard and Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose are in the Tate Gallery. An American expatriate, his portraits reflect the influence of Impressionism, including his famous portrait of the wife of Pierre Gautreau. FTP, name this American painter of Madame X. Answer: John Singer Sargent 15. This Boston native served as a Seaman Second Class in the US Navy during Word War II; one of his jobs after the war was as a staff attorney to a family friend, Sen. Joe McCarthy. Most agree he was transformed by his first serious exposure to poverty, while campaigning for his brother in West Virginia in 1960. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1964 from New York, but was unable to finish his term. US Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, FTP name this man assassinated in June 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President, a younger brother of the thirty-fifth president. Answer: Robert (or Bobby) Kennedy 16. In A.D. 870, one of its creators was deposed by a synod at Ratisbon and was called to Rome for using the Slavonic Liturgy. Its two creators were brothers from Thessalonika who in the 860s were sent as missionaries to the Dneiper-Volga region and Moravia. To translate the Bible into native tongues, they created an alphabet still in use today in various forms. FTP, name this alphabet deriving from the work of Methodius and his brother, the primary alphabet in which Russian is written. Answer: Cyrillic (accept Glagolitic; Cyrillic was later derived from it) 17. Deriving its name from the Latin for chalk, it was first proposed by J.B. d’Halloy in 1822. Dinosaurs during the age included the pterosaur and triceratops, while a major transition of lifeforms towards their modern characteristics, took place, including the emergence of placental mammals and marsupials. Following the Jurassic Period, FTP, name this third geological period of the Mesozoic. Answer: Cretaceous Period 18. This technically continues, approaching its 54th year, as no peace treaty has been signed yet. In an emergency session, by a vote of four to none with one abstention, the UN Security Council resolved to intervene. The fighting stopped when an armistice was signed on June 27, 1953, retaining the original border of 38 degrees North longitude. FTP name this “Forgotten War” immortalized in the movie and long-running television series M*A*S*H. Answer: Korean War or Korean Conflict 19. Characters include Citizen, Cissy Caffrey, J.J. O’Molloy, Haines, and Buck Mulligan, as well as a schoolteacher who has returned from Paris and an ad canvasser with an unusual fondness for kidney. Featuring one day in the life of Blazes Boylan, Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Leopold Bloom, this is, FTP, what James Joyce novel named for the protagonist of The Odyssey? Answer: Ulysses 20. They are divided into 15 minute long segments, each given a value between 1 and 6, with 6 being the most invigorating. Developed in 1922 by a military officer as a way of transmitting music through electrical wires, it became popular in the 1930's after it was found to boost productivity in factories. Recent studies have shown that this actually has calming physiological effects. FTP name this kind of music, played in dentist offices and elevators. Answer: Muzak 21. The Trans-Siberian Railroad is completed. Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities is published. The Olympics are held in St. Louis. Major fires strike Baltimore and Toronto. France and England establish the Entente Cordiale. Japanese forces strike Port Arthur. Incumbent Teddy Roosevelt is re-elected to the presidency over Alton Parker. FTP, all of these events occurred in what year, which was exactly five-score years ago? Answer: 1904 22. Sir John Franklin and his men first played this game in 1825, but it originated earlier. Thomas Halliburton reported playing the game around 1798 in Windsor using hurley equipment, and games in the Halifax-Dartmouth area began to lengthen the hurley stick and the blade. FTP, name this sport in which the ball began to be replaced by a puck in the 1860s. Answer: hockey or ice hockey (do not accept “field hockey”) 23. While at the University of Indiana, he invented the Air-Crib, a germ free container that he put forth as the optimal environment for infants. He formulated the principals of programmed learned while teaching animals complex tasks, such as teaching pigeons to play table tennis. FTP, name this author of Beyond Freedom and Dignity, and Walden Two, a leading proponent of behaviorism. Answer: B.F. Skinner BONI – ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2004 – UT-CHATTANOOGA Directory: 1287 1287 -> France’s Deployed Troops: Antilles (Source) 1287 -> Cover story the Glass Closet Latasha Byears' off-the-bench 'dirty work' helped the Los Angeles Sparks win two wnba championships. Then a sexual assault allegation ended her career Download 411.13 Kb. Share with your friends:
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