Tossups finals trevor’s trivia: bob selcer memorial h. S. Quizbowl 1999
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| TOSSUPS -- FINALS TREVOR’S TRIVIA: BOB SELCER MEMORIAL H.S. QUIZBOWL 1999
1. It mentions Chattanooga’s own Lookout Mountain as well as "every molehill of Mississippi", "the curvaceous slopes of California", "the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire", and "the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania", saying to "let freedom ring from" these and other places. For ten points, give the famous 4-word catchphrase used as the name for the speech given at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr. Answer: the "I Have a Dream" speech
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. While defending the citadel of Pamplona from the French in 1521 he was hit by a cannonball. After this event he gave up military and diplomatic life for a life dedicated to the Church. Ordained in 1537, he spent most of the rest of his life in the vicinity of Rome. He practiced a type of prayer that rivaled that of the great mystics, and this form of prayer was later published in a work called Spiritual Exercises. He is best remembered for founding the Society of Jesus in Paris in 1534. For ten points, name this Spanish theologian and founder of the Jesuit Order. Answer: Ignatius of Loyola (accept either Ignatius or Loyola) 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. This soft, silver-white, extremely active metal is used in fertilizers, soaps, explosives, and fireworks and helps to form javelle water, water glass, Rochelle salt, tartar, and alum. The seventh most abundant element in the earth's crust, this element produces a purple color in flame tests. FTP, identify this element, discovered by Humphry Davy in 1807, whose atomic number is 19. Answer: Potassium 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: 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: Philip II of Spain 17. Thomas Jefferson wrote that "the compositions published under her name are below the dignity of criticism." Despite such withering attacks, her best known collection of poems, entitled "Poems on Various Subjects," was widely read and acclaimed in her day, making her something of a celebrity, or at least a curiosity, for white Americans and Europeans alike. Questions of literary merit aside, she was among America's first poets, a role she shared with fellow African-American Ignatius Sancho. FTP name her. 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. 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 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. Those who take part in it try to achieve their maximum turnout. Among the terms used in it are glissade, en pointe, jeté, and plié. For ten points, name this activity with five basic positions, a form of dancing. Answer: ballet BONI -- FINALS TREVOR’S TRIVIA: BOB SELCER MEMORIAL H.S. QUIZBOWL 1999 1. At a recent tournament, Ben overheard someone scoff and say, "Hah. Non-mathematicians writing mathematics questions." Consider this his revenge. For 5 points each, identify these librarians. a) The lead female in The Music Man, played on stage by Barbara Cook and on screen by Shirley Jones. Answer: Marian Paroo (accept either Marian or Paroo) b) The composer of "Symphonie Fantastique", he was a librarian at the Paris Conservatory for 30 years. Answer: Hector Berlioz c) A one-time cataloger at the Library of Congress, this cross-dresser later became head of the FBI. Answer: J. Edgar Hoover d) For 13 years, this man served as the librarian at the Castle of Count Waldstein in Bohemia, presumably coining the phrase "librarians are novel lovers." Answer: Casanova e) 1876 is considered annum mirabilis for librarians, since this man founded the American Library Association, started Library Journal, and opened the first library school in the country that year. Answer: Melvil Dui (ok, well, everyone else spelled it Dewey -- he was just weird...) f) The great Bengali librarian, his Five Laws of Library Science are a classic text in the field. Answer: S. R. Ranganathan 2. Consider the following list of household substances: asbestos, grain alcohol, mothballs, nitroglycerine, lye, and aspirin. Given a chemical formula, F5PE, which of the six is it? a) CH3 CO2 C6 H4 COOH Answer: aspirin b) C2 H5 OH Answer: grain alcohol c) CaMg3 (SiO3)4 Answer: asbestos d) C3 H5 (NO3)3 Answer: nitroglycerine e) C 10 H 8 Answer: mothballs f) NaOH Answer: lye
1a) The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First 1b) Harvey Fierstein Answer:Torch Song Trilogy 2a) The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money 2b) John Dos Passos Answer: U.S.A. 3a) Perestroika, Millennium Approaches 3b) Tony Kushner Answer: Angels in America 4. This bonus’s pretext is... [buzz!] FTPE answer the following about the Crimean War: (a) The disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade took place at this battle. Answer: Balaklava (b) This Tsar, who died during the war, had not really considered the issue of control of the Holy Places in Jerusalem all that important, but he failed to control one of his own diplomats, Prince Alexander Menshikov. Answer: Nicholas I (c) A side effect of the resulting Peace of Paris was that it gave this Sardinian count an opportunity to air the Italian question before the big guys of Europe. Answer: Camillo di Cavour 5. For 10 points each, identify these African-American educators from brief descriptions. A) A 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, he is the namesake of the American Studies Association Publications Prize. Works include From Slavery to Freedom, A Southern Odyssey, and Militant South. Answer: John Hope Franklin B) A 6-term Congressman from Pennsylvania, he left Congress to become head of the United Negro College Fund. In 1994, Clinton appointed him special envoy to Haiti. Answer: William Gray C) Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, she was later a special assistant to the Secretary of War during WWII. In 1904, she founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls, which in 1922 merged with another college and now bears her name. Answer: Mary McLeod Bethune 6. FTPE name these physicists: a) This French physicist coined the term “kinetic energy.” He also described an effect named for him which deals with the apparent force on a moving object when observed from a rotating system. Answer: Gustave Coriolis b) This Swedish phycist and spectroscopist who derived the quantitative relationships for spectroscopic data. He also proposed that the periodic table be listed by atomic number, not by atomic weight. A hypothetical atom of infinite mass is named in his honor. Answer: Johannes Rydberg c) This German-born British physicist is known for his work on the probability interpretation of quantum mechanics. Okay, okay, so he’s also Olivia Newton-John’s grandfather. There, I said it. Answer: Max Born
Answers: Gambino, Bonanno, Colombo, Genovese, & Lucchese EDITOR’S NOTE: If a Mafioso commits suicide, is he a self-made man? 8. If you didn't know this was going to come up, you should have. For 10 points each, identify these works by 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Gunter Grass given brief synopses. A) A German art historian and a Polish art restorer meet in Gdansk and go into business together returning the remains of Germans exiled after the war to Danzig. Answer: Call of the Toad B) It is a collection of stories for each year of our century. Although each story has a different narrator, collectively the stories form a complete and linear narrative in which the individual is the focus. Answer: My Century C) A wildly imaginative yet superbly told novel revives some of Grass's most famous characters, as it tells the story of a female rodent who engages the narrator in a series of dialogues convincingly demonstrating that the rodents will inherit a devastated earth. Answer: The Rat 9. Ben was going to include the great singer Roland Hayes in this question, then he saw that Hayes grew up in a certain nameless Tennessee hamlet, and chose not to. FTPE name these great African-American vocalists. A) She debuted at the Met in 1977 as the Shepherd in Tannhauser, and received critical praise for her 1982 performance as Rosina in The Barber of Seville. In 1994, she was dismissed from the Met following a well-publicized dispute with management. Answer: Kathleen Battle B) She appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic in 1925, but is perhaps best remembered for a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after having been barred from making an appearance at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Answer: Marian Anderson C) A Phi Beta Kappa at Rutgers, he was seen in an amateur play by Eugene O'Neill - this led to his role in Emperor Jones, where he sang on stage for the first time. This led to bravura reviews in Show Boat, Porgy & Bess, and Othello. Answer: Paul Robeson
10. We always thought it was really cool that in mid-century, Soviet scientists who accepted modern genetics theory were accused of the crime of “Morganism.” Answer these questions about the presumed criminal mastermind Thomas Hunt Morgan FTSNOP: 5) What is the scientific name of the fruitfly that Morgan based his research on? Answer: Drosophila melanogaster [PROMPT ON drosophila] 10) In what year did he win the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine? Answer: 1933 15) He put forth the theory of the linear arrangement of genes in the chromosomes in what 1915 classic in genetics? Answer: Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity 11. Arguably, the best baseball story of the year concerns a rookie pitcher. A 35-year-old rookie pitcher, with one of the worst teams in the league. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the story. A) First, for 10 points, name that pitcher, who was coaching high school baseball as recently as April of this year. Answer: Jim Morris B) For 5 points, name the team, who could use Morris out of the bullpen, since the rest of the pitching staff (including Rolando Arrojo and Wilson Alvarez) has been atrocious this year. Answer: Tampa Bay Devil Rays [accept either city or nickname] C) For 15 points, name Morris' high school team, which dared Morris to try out for the Devil Rays if they won the conference championship, which they summarily did. Your hint: It’s the only county in the U.S. which shares its name with the surname of a particular President. Answer: Reagan County (Big Lake, Texas)
A. The pioneer colony was founded by this company. Answer: Hudson's Bay Company B. Most of the Red River Settlement was in this current province. Answer: Manitoba C. Starting in 1869, this man led rebellions against the absorption of Red River into the Canadian dominion. Answer: Louis Riel
A. Exemplary Novels answer: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra B. The Best Mayor, the King answer: Lope de Vega C. Life Is a Dream answer: Pedro Calderon de la Barca y Henao
Originally elected as a moderate, this Governor of Arkansas felt compelled to taek a firm stand against the desegregation of Central High in Little Rock. ANSWER Orval Faubus This Georgia restaurateur chased blacks from his restaurant with an axe handle, replicas of which he later distributed as campaign favors during a successful run for the governor's office. Answer Lester Maddox This 1924 presidential candidate served, at age eighty, as the lead legal counsel for South Carolina and Kansas in Brown vs Board of Education, placing him at a distinct rhetorical disadvantage compared to his counterpart Thurgood Marshall. Answer John W. Davis
This Englishman is widely credited with the cyclical theory of history, though he did not originate it. His most famous work is entitled A Study of History. Answer: Arnold Toynbee This American is widely credited as the co-founder of the so-called Progressive theory of history, in which all processes can be broken down into forward and backward elements. His most controversial work, entitled An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, was published in 1913. Answer: Charles Beard The whole premise of his seminal 1893 work was based on a misinterpretation of a quote from a U.S. Census official, who merely meant that the frontier could not be as clearly delineated in map form. Answer: Frederick Jackson Turner
(d) 1 S 2 2 S 2 2 P 6 Answer Neon (e) 1 S 2 2 S 2 2 P 6 3 S 2 3 P 5 Answer Chlorine (f) 1 S 2 2 S 2 2 P 6 3 S 2 Answer Magnesium
A. forgetfulness answer: Lethe B. fire
answer: Phlegethon C. woe
answer: Acheron 18. Given a precis of a Canterbury tale, name the teller FTP each. A. The vainglorious cock Chanticleer is tricked. Answer: Nun's Priest B. The patient Griselda answer: Clerk C. How the crow has black feathers answer: Manciple
Answer: Hebrew - Tishri 5760 Islamic - Jumaada thaany 1420
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