John's Complete Questions Packet #8 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. Deciphered 155 years after its last entry, the bulk of this six- volume manuscript was written in shorthand using Shelton's system of tachygraphy, although the parts involving the author's sex life were written in an even more-complicated code invented by the author himself. FTP, identify this work begun on New Year's Day 1660 and abandoned on account of the author's failing eyesight in 1669. Answer: The Samuel Pepys Diary 2. Its first nominee was James Black, who won about 10,000 votes in 1872, and it has run a candidate in every presidential election since, making it by far the most durable third party in American history. However, its popularity has been steadily declining since 1892, when it peaked at about 300,000 votes, and it has been virtually irrelevant since 1919, the year of its greatest political triumph. FTP, name this single-issue party, the driving force behind the Eighteenth Amendment. Answer: The _Prohibition_ Party 3. The first machine to make use of these was the Jacquard loom, an automatic weaving machine invented in 1801, but it was not until the 1890 U.S. census that they were first used to process data. FTP, what are these 7 3/4" by 3 1/4" stiff paper objects, which were used to program the earliest computers? Answer: _Punch cards_ 4. His real name was Erasmus, and there are two versions of how he came by his claim to fame: the first simply says that he liked to preach outdoors in violent thunderstorms, while the second claims that the Romans dipped him in pitch, rolled him in canvas, and lit him up as a human torch. FTP, name this saint whose "fire" is the electrical phenomenon sometimes seen around the masts of ships during storms. Answer: St. _Elmo_ 5. In Italian, it literally means "little worms," a fact that you might not want to think too much about the next time you sit down before a hearty bowl of Rice-a-Roni. FTP, what is this pasta noodle, which is thinner than spaghetti but not quite as thin as capellini? Answer: _Vermicelli_ 6. Discovered in the nineteenth century by amatuer naturalist William Legrand, this insect of order Scaraboeus is about the size of a hickory-nut, is characterized by a glossy yellow color and three black spots which give it the appearance of a death's head, and is perhaps most remarkable for its role in helping its discoverer find the hidden treasure hoard of Captain Kidd. FTP, name this bettle native to Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the title character of an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Answer: The Gold Bug 7. During the 1914 season, the Cleveland's American League franchise briefly changed their nickname from "Indians" to this, and had it stuck, they would have been the only franchise in American sports to be named for a terrorist movement. FTP, name this violent group of Pennsylvania coal miners, an organization that had been crushed by Pinkerton agents in the late 1870s. Answer: The _Molly Maguires_ 8. Invented by Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester, it was first used in 1988 to solve an English rape-murder. It remains controversial, however, owing to alleged flaws such as band shifting and the possibility of VNTR polymorphism. FTP, name this evidentiary tool prominent in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial. Answer: _DNA fingerprinting_ 9. His musical career spanned an unparalleled ten decades, beginning in 1839, when he composed his first piano etudes, and ending in 1921, when he conducted his last concert. FTP, name this very long-lived French composer, whose works in between include the opera "Samson and Delilah," the tone poem "Danse Macabre," and "Carnival of the Animals." Answer: Camille _Saint-Saens_ 10. His first film was "Party at Kitty and Stud's," a 1972 soft- core adult movie, and he made his mainstream debut the next year with an uncredited role as a mugger in Woody Allen's "Bananas." FTP, name this actor, whose pornographic debut was later re- released under the title "The Italian Stallion." Answer: Sylvester _Stallone_ 11. This writer lived in the late fourteenth century, probably in the west Midlands, and may or may not have a written "The Legend of St. Erkenwald." Other than this, the only thing we know about him (or her) is that he wrote four other works that are preserved in a single manuscript, three of which are "Patience," "Purity," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." FTP, name this anonymous poet, known only by the title of his first work. Answer: The Pearl Poet (acc: The Gawain Poet, if answered early) 12. In Spain, they were called Flamencos, because they were thought to have come from Flanders. For similar reasons, they were called Bohemians in France, and in England, they were called Egyptians, from which one of their modern names derives. FTP, name this ethnic, actually from India, which has faced constant discrimination ever since it first wandered into Europe in the early sixteenth century. Answer: _Romany_ or _Gypsies_ 13. According to Dave Barry, the fastest animal on earth is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. Ignoring wind resistance, if it takes ten seconds for the cow to hit the ground, what, FTP, will be the cow's final velocity be upon impact? Answer: 98.1 m/s (accept 98) or 320 feet/sec. 14. After raising an army of monkeys, he conquered Sri Lanka in order to rescue his kidnapped bride Sita from the evil king Ravana, then threw Sita on a bonfire to test her chastity. She survived, though, and everybody except Ravana lived happily ever after. FTP, name this king of Ayodhya and title character of a Hindu epic. Answer: Rama 15. Known technically as an operant conditioning chamber, it is a sealed capsule consisting of an electrified floor, which can deliver shocks to the subject, and a lever, with can dispense food pellets. FTP, name this device for observing the learning process of small animals, invented by and popularly named for the father of behaviorism. Answer: The _Skinner Box_ 16. Parodizing the genre of the didactic elegy, it contains poems on such topics as how to sexually gratify yourself in a crowded stadium and how to keep your mistress' husband from finding out about you, as well an extended discussion on why heterosexuaity is better than homosexuality. FTP, name this sexually graphic how-to book which helped get Ovid banished from Rome for obscenity. Answer: The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) 17. In 1978, representatives of an Arabian corporation known as Abdul Enterprises swept Washington, offering to buy political favors for cash. Six members of Congress took the bait, including Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey, only to be thrown into prison when Abdul turned out to be an FBI sting operation. FTP, name this political scandal of the late seventies, whose name is a contraction of "Abdul scam." Answer: Abscam 18.. Its chemical properties lie between manganese and rhenium, and the first samples of it were produced in 1937 by Perrier and Segre, who bombarded molybdenum with deuterons. FTP, name this radioactive transition element, whose name is Greek for "artificial," and which was the first synthetic element to be discovered. Answer: _Technetium_ 19. Had he died of the mysterious illness that nearly killed him at the age of fifty, it is likely that he would be remembered (if at all) only for the tapestry cartoons he painted for Spain's royal palaces. It was only after his recovery from this illness, which left him deaf and possibly insane, that he produced most of his great masterworks, which include many innovative portraits and a gory series of engravings about Napoleon's invasion of Spain. FTP, name this artist of _Caprichios_, _The Black Paintings_, and _The Third of May, 1808_. Answer: Francisco de _Goya_ 20. The show never really recovered from the infamous "Moldavian massacre" season finale of 1985, in which its lead characters were apparently all killed by terrorists, only to emerge unhurt the next fall. FTP, name this TV ratings champ of the early eighties, which featured Heather Locklear, John Forsythe, Linda Evans, and Joan Collins. Answer: _"Dynasty"_ John's Complete Questions Packet #6 (Medium) Bonuses 30 POINT BONUS 1. Identify the authors. Fifteen points if you can get them from the name of a work, ten if you need a second clue about them. 1. (15 point clue) _A House for Mr. Biswas_ (10 point clue) Born in Trinidad of Indo-Asian descent, he is a perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Answer: V.S. _Naipual_ 2. (15 point clue) _The Great Weaver from Kashmir_ (10 point clue) As of early 1997, this Icelandic novelist is the oldest living winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Answer: Halldor _Laxness_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For fifteen points each, identify these battles lost by the Teutonic knights. 1. Fought near the city of Pskov on April 5, 1240, this battle halted the knights' invasion of Russia and is the subject of the film "Alexander Nevsky." Answer: Lake Peipus or Chudskoye Ozero 2. The battle which effectively finished off the knights as a political force, this crushing 1410 loss to Poland shares its name with another famous battle fought 504 years later. Answer: Tannenberg 30 POINT BONUS 3. For the stated number of points, identify these pioneers of the science of anatomy. 1. 5 pts: His "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" of 1543 was the first textbook on medicine since Galen. Answer: Andreas _Vesalius_ 2. 10 pts: He did important work on cranial nerves and inner ear, but is better known because of the uterine tubes which bear his name. Answer: Gabriello _Fallopio_ 3. 15 pts: The discoverer of the valves in veins, this protege of Fallopio made the first detailed studies of fetal development. Answer: Hieronymus _Fabricius_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Identify the object, 30-20-10. 1. It is mentioned in the _Natural History_ of Pliny the Elder, who reports that it was created by the team of Athenodorus, Polydorus, and Agesander. 2. Lost for over a millenium, it was rediscovered in 1506 by workers excavating the ruins of Nero's Esquiline Palace. 3. Considered the masterpiece of ancient Roman art, this naturalistic marble sculpture shows a large snake strangling a Trojan priest and his two sons. Answer: Laocoon 25 POINT BONUS 5. The academy award for best picture has not always gone to what was actually that year's best picture. Given a great film that did not win the award for best picture, name the less-deserving film that did that year. Five points each. 1. "Citizen Kane" Answer: "How Green Was My Valley" 2. "It's a Wonderful Life" Answer: "The Best Years of Our Lives" 3. "Dr. Strangelove" Answer: "My Fair Lady" 4. "2001: A Space Odyssey" "Oliver!" 5. "Plan 9 from Outer Space" Answer: "Ben-Hur" 30 POINT BONUS 6. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written many of literature's best- ever opening lines. Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote many of the worst. For ten points each, given an opening line that is by either Garcia Marquez or Bulwer-Lytton, identify the novel. (NOT the author, which should be patently obvious in every case). 1. "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera 2. "`Ho, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus to-night?' said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb." Answer: The Last Days of Pompeii 3. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelio Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude 30 POINT BONUS 7. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the end of the Manchu dynasty in China. 1. First, for five: name China's last emperor. Answer: Henry Pu Yi or Hsuan Tung 2. Second, for ten: name the year in which the infant Pu Yi was deposed, or name it within two years for five points. Answer: 1912 3. For five: name the founder of the revolutionary Kuomintang party, who served as the country's provisional leader for one month in 1912. Answer: Sun Yat-Sen 4. For ten: name the first president of the Chinese republic, whose attempted coup and sudden death in 1916 accelerated the disintegration of the country. Answer: Yuan Shih-K'ai 30 POINT BONUS 8. Not counting the prototype _Enterprise_, there have been five American Space Shuttles. For five points each, name them, with an additional five-point bonus for putting them in chronological order according to when they were first launched into space. Answer: (from earliest to latest) _Columbia_, _Challenger_, _Discovery_, _Atlantis_, _Endeavor_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. For the stated number of points, identify these ancient cities which were located in what is now Turkey. (You must give the ancient names, since the author of these questions is too lazy to look up their Turkish equivalents). 1. 5 pts: Located near the extreme southern end of Anatolia's Aegean coast, this home city of Herodotus was the site of a famous Mausoleum. Answer: _Halicarnassus_ 2. 10 pts: the largest city on the Aegean during Roman days, it faces the island of Patmos and is the traditional burial place of St. John. Answer: _Ephesus_ 3. 15 pts: Name any one of the two cities built on either side of the entrance to the Hellespont, between which the mythological lover Leander would swim every night. Answer: _Sestos_ or _Abydos_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Identify the actor, 30-20-10. 1. Born in 1936, his big break came with a role in Broadway's "The Owl and the Pussycat," and his first starring movie role was 1969's "Jenny," in which he played the draft-dodging, wife-beating husband of Marlo Thomas. 2. In recent years, he has made frequent appearances in Woody Allen movies, including "Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Everyone Says I Love You," and "Manhattan Murder Mystery." Other films since 1983 include "Betsy's Wedding" and "Sweet Liberty." 3. He is best known for the eleven years he spent as Hawkeye Pierce on TV's "M*A*S*H." Answer: Alan _Alda_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. This bonus will be about particularly nasty ways to die. For ten points each, name the characters of legend who die in the ways described. 1. At the battle of Roncevalles, he blows his trumpet so hard that his head explodes. Answer: Roland 2. After rejecting the advances of a lusty Roman, this virgin and martyr is given an on-the-spot double masectomy, before being burned, flogged, beheaded, etc. In medieval art, she is often depicted carrying her severed breasts on a silver platter. Answer: St. Agatha 3. Her great-great grandson rips her lower jaw off, then kills her by shooting an arrow down her exposed throat. After her death, her body is ripped in two and used to build earth and sky. Answer: Tiamat 30 POINT BONUS 12. For ten points each, name these shrinking legislative bodies of seventeenth-century England. 1. Summoned in 1640, it remained in power (at least in theory) throughout the civil war and commonwealth periods, and was not replaced until 1660. Answer: The Long Parliament 2. In 1648, Pride's Purge removed the Presbetyrian faction from the Long Parliament, leaving this smaller assembly in power. Answer: The Rump 3. By 1653, even the Rump was showing some signs of independence, and so its members were purged yet again, leaving only this small, mindlessly pro-Cromwell faction. Answer: The Barebones Parliament 30 POINT BONUS 13. Integrate of the following functions, ignoring any constants added to them. Ten points each. 1. tanx dx (tangent of x dx) Answer: ln(|secx|) (natural log of the absolue value of the secant of x) 2. cos2x dx (cosine squared of x dx) Answer: 1/2 x + (sin 2x)/4 3. xsinx dx (x times sine of x dx) Answer: sinx - xcosx 30 POINT BONUS 14. For ten points each, name these characters from the Book of Genesis. 1. The son of Jared, he was the first man after Abel to die. Answer: _Enoch_ 2. He was the father of Abraham. Answer: _Terah_ 3. This son of Judah was struck dead by God for "wasting his seed on the ground." Answer: _Onan_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Time for another exciting round of "geography from hell." For ten points each, identify the following places. 1. It is the smallest but most famous of the Iles du Salut, lying about 27 miles northwest of Cayenne. Answer: Devil's Island 2. The first National Monument in the U.S., this 600-foot-tall natural obelisk lies near the Belle Fourche river in northeastern Wyoming. Answer: Devil's Tower 3. Roughly speaking, it is bounded by the Wallowa Mountains, the Blue Mountains, and the Salmon River Mountains. Also the name of a National Recreation Area, it forms the part of the Idaho-Oregon border. Answer: Hell's Canyon 30 POINT BONUS 16. For ten points each: given the second, third, and fourth lines of an Emily Dickinson poem, supply the more well-known first line. 1. ... From tankards scooped in pearl/ Not all the vats upon the Rhine/ Yield such an alcohol. Answer: I taste a liquor never brewed 2. ... Are you Nobody, too?/ Then there's a pair of us-- don't tell!/ They'll banish us, you know. Answer: I'm Nobody! Who are you? 3. ... He kindly stopped for me./ The carriage held but just ourselves/ And Immortality Answer: Because I could not stop for Death 30 POINT BONUS 17. For five points each, given a modern city, identify the European power that possessed it (or its future site) in the year 1648, after the signing of the Peace of Westphalia. 1. Antwerp Answer: Spain 2. Budapest Answer: Ottoman Empire or Turkey 3. Dubrovnik, Croatia Answer: Venice 4. Philadelphia, PA Answer: Sweden 5. Riga, Latvia Answer: Sweden 6. Smolensk Answer: Poland 30 POINT BONUS 18. For fifteen points each, identify these laws of electromagnetic induction. 1. Essentially a restatement of the Law of Conservation of Energy, it says that an induced electric current always flows in such a direction that it opposed the change producing it. Answer: _Lenz's_ Law 2. The quantitative restatement of Faraday's second law, it says that the electromagnetically induced e.m.f is given by E = -dí/dt, where í is the magnetic flux. Answer: _Neumann's_ Law (accept: _Faraday-Neumann_ Law) 30 POINT BONUS 19. Identify the operatic composer from works, 30-20-10. 1. _Il Furioso_, _Lucretia Borgia_, and _Torquato Tasso_ 2. _Don Pasquale_, _Anna Bolena_, _Maria Stuarda_ 3. _La figlia del reggimento_, _L'Elisir d'amore_, _Lucia di Lammermoor_. Answer: Gaetano _Donizetti_ 20 POINT BONUS 20. After sixteen years, Bryant Gumbel is leaving his job as host of NBC's "Today" show. For ten points, name Gumbel's replacement, and for an additional ten points, name the man whom Gumbel replaced back in 1981. Answer: Matt _Lauer_; Tom _Brokaw_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="07"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="07" John's Complete Questions Packet #7 (Hard) Toss-Ups HTS 1. He wrote detective fiction under the pen name of Nicholas Blake and translated Virgil, but he is best remebered for the propaganda poems he wrote on behalf of the Spanish Republicans and other left-wing causes in the 1930s. Tempering his political views and diversifying his work after World War II, he was made Poet Laureate of England towards the end of his life in 1968. For ten points, name this Angry Young Man, the father of an Academy Award- winning actor. Answer: _Cecil Day Lewis_ HTH 2. The namesake of this event was a 28-year-old member of Parliament and leader of the Protestant Association, a group dedicated to the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act. The problems began when a peaceful political rally by the Protestants turned into a fistfight, and got much worse when the brawl turned into a looting frenzy that did not end until the army recaptured the city from the mob three days later. FTP, name this worst riot in modern English history, which served as the backdrop for Dickens' _Barnaby Rudge_. Answer: The _Gordon_ Riots HTS 3. In 1858, he fell asleep on a bus in London and had a dream about dancing peasants. In 1865, while napping in front of his fireplace in Ghent, he had a dream about a very large snake that was biting its own tail. Though not a trained psychoanalyst, he correctly realized that both these dreams were about organic chemistry. FTP, name this German scientist, who later claimed that his dreams gave him the idea for the ring structure of benzene. Answer: Friedrich August _Kekule_ HTC 4. The son of a poor church bellringer from the Adriatic village of Recanati, he won a scholarship to the conservatory in Rome and made his debut at La Scala when he was only 24. Six years later, he left to become the lead tenor for the Metropolitan Opera of New York, but returned to Italy after a bitter contract dispute in 1932. As a singer, he was perhaps most remarkable for his endurance, and he maintained a demanding schedule into his old age, retiring only shortly before his death in 1957. For ten points, name this opera star, often regarded as this century's greatest tenor after Caruso. Answer: Beniamano _Gigli_ HTT 5. He was the first person to propose a metric system, and in 1761 he coined the utilitarian mantra of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people," a phrase which appeared in his magnum opus, _On Crimes and Punishments_. FTP, name this Italian mathematician, author, economist, and death-penalty opponent, better known as the founding father of criminology. Answer: Cesare _Beccaria_ HTS 6. The entries for October deal with the hero's hopeless romantic fantasies, and in November, it describes how the local dogs have been making fun of him. On "2000 A.D. April 43," the hero discovers that he is actually King Ferdinand VIII of Spain, and by the last entry, on February 34, he has been hauled off to an insane asylum by men whom he mistakes for the Spanish Inquisition. FTP, name this short story by Nikolai Gogol. Answer: _Notes of a Madman_ (accept: _Zapiski Sumaschedshevo_, _Diary of a Madman_, or other reasonable equivalent translations) HTH 7. A distant relative of the emperor Caracalla, he grew up in Syria, where he was the high priest of a local phallus-cult whose rituals included human sacrifice. He was still only a teenager when a dynsastic bloodbath left him as the only surviving member of the Imperial family, and in 218, the Praetorian guard reluctantly accepted him as Emperor. This proved to be a mistake, since his almost unbelievable incompetence and clumsy attempt to make his cult the official state religion hastened the decline of the Empire. FTP, name this man, murdered in 222, who has gone down in history as the most depraved of all Roman emperors. Answer: _Heliogabalus_ or _Elagabalus_ HTS 8. As a youth, he was a runner-up to Edison in the race to invent the light bulb, and as an older man he raised eyebrows by publicy suggesting that scientists should get patents on any cosmological forces they discover. FTP, name this failed inventor but successful chemist, whose heat theorem states that absolute zero cannot be attained in a finite number of steps. Answer: Walther _Nernst_ HTC 9. He spent his entire salary for 1872 to rent the Vienna Philharmonic for a day, as this was the only way that he could get anyone to perform his first two symphonies. When his third symphony premiered five years later, the only person remaining in the audience by the concert's end was a young Gustav Mahler. FTP, name this hard-luck Austrian composer, who finally gained recognition with his fourth symphony in 1880. Answer: Anton _Bruckner_ HTT 10. His pseudonyms have included Raddory Gewe, Regera Dowdy, Waredo Dyrge, and Osgerd Weary, all of which are anagrams of his own name, as well as Edvard Blutig, which is a translation into German. FTP, name this creator of "The Curious Sofa," "The Gashlycrumb Tinies," "The Inanimate Tragedy," and many other mock- Edwardian cartoons. Answer: Edward _Gorey_ HTS 11. Its main thesis is that the switch from Norman to Gothic architecture in the late thirteenth century represented a shift from a masculine to a feminine world-view, and that a similar process was at work in late nineteenth century America, as the electrical dynamo took over the role of the Virgin Mary. FTP, name this work by Henry Adams, which takes as its subject two famous French churches. Answer: _Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres_ HTH 12. Designed by Marshal Foch and commanded by General Pershing, its objective was the French city of Sedan, and it began when nine U.S. divisions drove the Germans from Montfaucon on September 27, 1918. Romange was then captured on October 14th, and by armistice day the Americans had reached Sedan, cutting all German communications. For 25 points, name this battle which effectively ended World War I. Answer: The Battle of the _Meuse-Argonne_ HTS 13. The apocryphal books fourteen and fifteen dealt with solids, book ten with irrationals, books seven through nine with number theory, and books ten through thirteen with conics, but it is beacuse of the first six books, dealing with linear geometry, that this treatise is best known. FTP, identify this work by Euclid. Answer: The _Elements_ or _Stoicheia_ HTC 14. Produced in County Meath, Ireland, its decorations are so intricate that, according to legend, each page took a single monk his entire lifetime to complete. FTP, name this masterpiece of Celtic art, which is generally recognized as the outstanding illustrated gospel manuscript of the early Middle Ages. Answer: The Book of _Kells_ HTT 15. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man. It is, however, possible to build up an immunity to this Australian product, which is an important thing to remember if you ever engage in a battle of wits to the death. For ten points, identify this substance used by Westley to defeat Vizzini in the movie The Princess Bride. Answer: _Iocane_ Powder HTS 16. In the fifth century, this island was visited by the nearsighted Irish missionary St. Mael (My-YELL), who mistook its native birds for short, well-dressed humans and baptized them. After realizing his mistake, Mael miraculously turned the birds into men, and from this point on, the island's history bears a striking resemblance to that of France. FTP, name this fictituous nation whose history is chronicled by Anatole France. Answer: _Penguin Island_ (L'Ile des Pingouins) HTH 17. On February 17, 1912, Evans dropped dead of exhaustion. A month later, Oates killed himself in hopes of preserving food supplies for the others. But this was not enough to save Wilson, Bowers, and the group's leader, who were caught in a blizzard and froze to death, just seven miles from a supply depot. FTP, such was the end of what failed expedition, which lost the race to the South Pole to Amundsen? Answer: The _Scott_ Expedition (Terra Nova Expedition) HTS 18. This special function can be expressed as the summation from n=1 to infinity of 1 over n raised to the s power. It yields trivial zeros at negative even integers, and one non-trivial zero at the line re(z)= 1/2. The Riemann Hypothesis states that no other non-trivial zeros for it exist, and while this has been proved for the first million zeros, the general proof of this hypothesis remains one of the most notoriously unproven of all the Hilbert Problems. FTP, name this function, which is named for the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. Answer: _Zeta_ function HTC 19. This hapless animal was originally a dog, and was invented as a joke, intended as a parody of the nominalist philosophy of its namesake. FTP, what is this hypothetical creature of medieval philosophy, which starves to death because it cannot rationally choose between two equally-distant stacks of hay? Answer: _Buridan's Ass_ HTT 20. Based on an idea by Edward Packard, who wrote many of the early titles, books in this series include "By Baloon to the Sahara," "Your Code Name is Jonah," "Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey," and the debut volume, "The Cave of Time." FTP, what is line of children's books, very popular circa 1981, each book of which contained about 25 alternate endings that would be reached based on decisions made by the reader? Answer: _Choose Your Own Adventure_ John's Complete Questions Packet #7 (Hard) Bonuses 30 POINT BONUS HBS 1. For ten points each, identify these characters who make multiple appearances in Kurt Vonnegut novels. 1. This insane millionaire is the title character of one of Vonnegut's novels, which tells of his attempt to redistribute his family's ill-gotten wealth. In Slaughterhouse-Five, he appears briefly as Billy Pilgrim's roommate at a sanatorium. Answer: Elliot _Rosewater_ 2. Elliot Rosewater's favorite writer, this hapless science-fiction novelist also has a cameo in Slaughterhouse-Five and is one of the two protagonists of Breakfast of Champions. Answer: Kilgore _Trout_ 3. Finally, this Teutonic surname is shared by two Vonnegut characters with different first names: Schlichter is a former Auschwitz camp physician who appears in Cat's Cradle, and Siegfried is the "Beast of Yugoslavia," a dead Nazi general whose ghost is one of the three members of the greek chorus in Happy Birthday, Wanda June. Answer: von _Koenigswald_ 30 POINT BONUS HBH 2. Given a figure from early and medieval church history, identify them as heretical (according to the church's official line today), burned at the stake, both, or neither. 1. Origen Answer: _Heretic_ 2. Jan Hus Answer: _Both_ 3. Arius Answer: _Heretic_ 4. Peter Waldo Answer: _Heretic_ 5. Stephen Langton Answer: _Neither_ 6. Girolamo Savonarola Answer: _Burned_ 30 POINT BONUS HBS 3. For ten points each, give the popular names of these nebulae. 1. It surrounds a star cluster known as the Trapezium, and at thirty light-years across, it is the Milky Way's largest nebula. Answer: _Orion_ Nebula 2. Located next to the star Alnitak in Orion's belt, it is so cold and dense that it completely blots out the light of the stars behind it. Answer: _Horsehead_ Nebula 3. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it is the largest known nebula in the universe, and is home to some of the universe's biggest and brightest stars. Answer: _Tarantula_ Nebula 30 POINT BONUS HBC 4. For five points each, given a famous artist, name the monarch or political figure who served as that artist's most important patron. 1. Titian Answer: _Charles V_ of the Holy Roman Empire (Charles I of Spain) 2. Botticelli Answer: _Lorenzo_ the Magnificent of Medici 3. Van Dyck Answer: _Charles I_ of Britain 4. Goya Answer: _Charles IV_ of Spain 5. Velazquez Answer: _Philip IV_ of Spain 6. Leonardo da Vinci (after 1517) Answer: _Francis I_ of France 30 POINT BONUS HBT 5. Pencil and paper might be needed. In a certain country of people who are especially vivid dreamers, half the population is diurnal and half of the population is nocturnal. If a person is diurnal, everything he believes when he is awake is true and everything he believes while he is asleep is false. If a person is nocturnal, everything he believes while he is awake is false and everything he believes when he is asleep is true. For five points each, given a bit of information about two of these people, tell whether they are nocturnal or diurnal, and whether they are asleep or awake. Fifteen points each. 1. Alice believes that she is diurnal and awake. What is Alice? Answer: _Diurnal and awake_ 2. Bob believes he is diurnal and asleep. What is Bob? Answer: _Nocturnal and awake_ 30 POINT BONUS HBS 6. For the stated number of points, identify these twentieth- century Italian writers from works. 1. For five: _The Island of the Day Before_ and _Foucault's Pendulum_. Answer: Umberto _Eco_ 2. For ten: _The Child of Pleasure_ and _The Flame of Life_. Answer: Gabriele _D'Annunzio_ 3. For fifteen: _The Mill on the Po_ and _The Son of Stalin_. Answer: Riccardo _Bachelli_ 30 POINT BONUS HBH 7. For ten points each, name these would-be imitators of Lenin. 1. Known as "The Lenin of Hungary," he led a commuinst regime in Budapest from March to August of 1919 and invaded Slovakia before being himself deposed by a Romanian invasion. Later the president of Comintern, he was purged and executed by Stalin in 1938. Answer: Bela _Kun_ 2. A sharp critic of Lenin and his dictatorial methods, this Polish-born co-founder of the German Communist party spent most of World War I in prison, and was murdered by right-wing soldiers while under arrest during the 1919 Spartakist revolt. Answer: Rosa _Luxemburg_ 3. The son of one of Karl Marx's associates, he was elected to the Reichstag as a Social Democrat and helped Rosa Luxemburg found the German Communist party. He was arrested and shot along with Luxemburg in January 1919. Answer: Karl _Liebknecht_ 30 POINT BONUS HBS 8. For fifteen points each, identify these influential star catalogues. 1. First published in 1771, its original title was "Forty-Five Objects Not To be Confused With Comets." It was inspired in part by its author's embarrassing failure to detect Halley's Comet fourteen years earlier. Answer: The _Messier_ Catalogue 2. Named for an amateur astronomer who thought up the idea but died before he could do any work on it, the real authors of this landmark catalogue of stellar spectra were E.C. Pickering, Henrietta Leavitt, and Annie Jump Cannon. Answer: The Henry _Draper_ Catalogue_ 30 POINT BONUS HBC 9. For fifteen points each, identify these female composers of classical music. 1. This Scottish opera composer is the only woman who appears on the _Cambridge Factfinder_'s list of eighty-eight significant composers. Her most frequently-performed work is 1977's _Mary, Queen of Scots_. Answer: Thea _Musgrave_ 2. In 1983, her _Three Movements for Orchestra_ won the Pulitzer Prize for Music; she was the first woman ever to win that award. Answer: Ellen Taafe _Zwillich_ 30 POINT BONUS HBT 10. Identify the year, 30-20-10. 1. Owing to a scheduling change from December to January, no Australian open is held in this calendar year. It is the most recent year in which tennis' four grand slam events were not held. 2. Notable deaths include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Genet, Cary Grant, Harold MacMillan, Georgia O'Keefe, Donna Reed, Wallis Simpson, Bernard Malamud, L. Ron Hubbard, and Olof Palme. 3. Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court justice, Portugal and Spain enter the EC, Argentina wins the World Cup, Voyager visits Uranus, and Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France for the first time. Answer: _1986_ 30 POINT BONUS HBS 11. For fifteen points each, identify these short stories by Saki, given a brief synopsis. 1. A bored young boy invents his own pagan religion, in which the central deity is a wild polecat that he keeps in a locked hutch. When the boy's no-nonsense aunt tries to spoil his fun, he prays to his god for deliverance, and the polecat bursts out and tears the aunt to pieces. Answer: Sredni Vashtar 2. Two feuding East European neigbors are stalking each other in the woods when a tree falls, trapping them both underneath. While waiting to be rescued, they talk, discover that they actually have a lot in common, and become great friends. Then they get eaten by wolves. Answer: The Interlopers 30 POINT BONUS HBH 12. For five points each, given the year, name the vice- presidential runner-up. (That is, the man who finished with the second-most votes for VP in the electoral college). 1. 1976 Answer: Robert _Dole_ 2. 1920 Answer: Franklin D. _Roosevelt_ 3. 1948 Answer: Earl _Warren_ 4. 1964 Answer: William _Miller_ 5. 1912 Answer: Hiram _Johnson_ 6. 1928 Answer: Joseph _Robinson_ 30 POINT BONUS HBS 13. For ten points each, identify these people who played a part in the discovery of cosmic background radiation. 1. A professor at the George Washington University, he formulated the "Hot Big Bang" theory, according to which the universe began in a state of extremely high temperature and density. Answer: George _Gamow_ 2. With Robert Herman, he published a 1948 paper proving that, according to Gamow's theory, the universe should be bathed in radiation left over from the Big Bang. Answer: Ralph _Alpher_ 3. For a final ten points, name either of the Bell Labs researchers who experimentally detected microwave background radiation in 1965, a discovery which would win them the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. Answer: Arno _Penzias_ or Robert _Wilson_ 30 POINT BONUS HBC 14. For ten points each, identify these Italian terms which commonly appear in musical notation, given a literal translation of what they mean. 1. Fast, not too much. Answer: _Allegro non troppo_ or _Allegro non tanto_ 2. Going Answer: _Andante_ 3. With motion Answer: _Con moto_ 30 POINT BONUS HBT 15. This is an unrelated-parts 30-20-10 bonus; the subject is American historians. (For those unfamiliar with this type of question: it works like a normal 30-20-10, except that there is a different answer to each clue. But as soon as any clue is answered correctly, the team takes its points and the bonus ends.) 1. For thirty: The first person to write a full-length American history, this career diplomat (and founder of the Naval Academy) spent over forty years on his work, which was completed in 1874. Answer: George _Bancroft_ 2. Arguably the only great Marxist historian of America, his principal work is 1913's _Economic Interpretation of the Constitution_, in which he argued that the Founders' real purpose was to protect the power and privileges of the wealthy. Answer: Charles _Beard_ 3. A professor at Wisconsin and Harvard, he is best remembered for his 1893 essay _The Significance of the Frontier in American History_. Answer: Frederick Jackson _Turner_ 30 POINT BONUS HBS 16. Identify the following two literary characters: fifteen points if you get them from a description of their miserable lives; ten points if you need the name and author of the novel in which they appear. 1. 15 point clue: Enters a seminary, seduces the aristocratic Mathilde in a cynical attempt to obtain social advancement, attempts to murder his ex-lover Mme de Renal, gets arrested and executed. 10 point clue: Stendhal's _The Red and the Black_. Answer: Julien Sorrel 2. 15 point clue: Spends all his money on his two spoiled daughters, Mme de Nuciegen and Mme de Restaud, who treat him like dirt. Dies of apoplexy after pawning his last silver plate; his daughters send empty carriages to the funeral. 10 point clue: He is the title character of a novel by Balzac. Answer: Pere Goriot 30 POINT BONUS HBH 17. For ten points each, identify these kings named Haakon. 1. Born Prince Carl of Denmark, in 1905 he was elected king of Norway when that country gained independence from Sweden. Answer: _Haakon VII_ 2. One of the first Christian kings of Norway, his struggle against his pagan half-brother Eric Bloodaxe was the subject of a late Norse saga. Answer: _Haakon I_ or _Haakon the Good_ 3. This thirteenth-century king brought Norway to its greatest territorial extent when he annexed Iceland and Greenland, but he was killed in an unsuccessful attempt to add Scotland to his empire. Answer: _Haakon IV_ or _Haakon the Old_ 30 POINT BONUS HBS 18. For the stated number of points, identify these men whose discoveries in the nineteenth century made surgery a lot less dangerous. 1. For five: in 1857, this Frenchman proved the connection between putrefication and living micro-organisms. Answer: Louis _Pasteur_ 2. For ten: after reading of Pasteur's work, this English surgeon began treating wounds and surgical instruments with germ-killing carbolic acid, thus ushering in the age of antiseptic surgery. Answer: Joseph _Lister_ 3. For fifteen: a student and assistant of Lister, this Scotsman invented a line of surgical tools that could be boiled between uses, launching the field of aseptic surgery. Answer: William _Macewen_ 30 POINT BONUS HBC 19. For ten points each, identify these female opera characters, given a description of how they die. 1. She is buried alive alongside her true love Radames. Answer: _Aida_ 2. She dies from one of those bizarre strains of tuberculosis which leave the victim's ability to hit high notes unaffected, and perishes just moments after she is reunited with her ex-lover Alfredo Germont. Answer: _Violetta_ 3. Although she survives all three of the Greek tragedies from which her story is adapted, this Richard Strauss title character drops dead without much explanation at the end of her opera. Answer: _Elektra_ HBT 20. For the stated number of points, identify the authors of these classic children's books which the writer of these questions bought for his two-year-old niece last Christmas. 1. For five: "Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?" Answer: Dr. _Seuss_ 2. For ten: "But Not the Hippopotamus," and "Doggies: a Counting and Barking Book." Answer: Sandra _Boynton_ 3. For fifteen: "The Story of Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and was Eaten by a Lion." (from the collection "Cautionary Tales for Children.") Answer: Hillaire _Belloc_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="08"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="08" John's Complete Questions Packet #8 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. The father of Proteus in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." The brother of Leonato in "Much Ado About Nothing." The Sea-Captain in "Twelfth Night." The evil Duke in "The Tempest." The title character in "The Merchant of Venice." FTP, all these characters share what name, the most common personal name in Shakespeare? Answer: Antonio 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen Foster die, and Richard Strauss and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec are born. Montana becomes a territory, and Nevada becomes a state. Prussia invades the Denmark, and Grant and Sherman launch their final campaigns against Richmond and Atlanta. FTP, name the year, in which the United States managed to hold a free election in the midst of a civil war. Answer: _1864_ 3. He could recite the entire _Aeneid_ from memory in Latin, could calculate trigonometric problems of up to fifty decimal places in his head, and was such a prolific writer that new articles by him were still appearing in scientific journals years after his death. Among his more important accomplishments was his proof that e and e-squared are irrational, and that e raised to the i times pi power is equal to negative one. For ten points, name this great Swiss mathematician, who is said to have named the transcendental number e after himself. Answer: Leonhard _Euler_ 4. In 1541, the explorer Francisco Orellana was sailing down a river then known as the Rio Grande when he was attacked by a band of Tapuyas Indians. Because Orellana mistook the male Tapuyas for females, the Rio Grande acquired, FTP, what new name, derived from the warrior women of Greek mythology? Answer: The _Amazon_ River 5. He refused to play for the 1972 Olympic basketball team after being asked to submit to a tryout, and thus probably contributed to the team's failure to win a gold medal. Though the ABA offered to create an expansion franchise in Los Angeles just for him, he signed with the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, with the stipulation that he never be asked to get a haircut. For ten points, identify this center for Portland, the L.A. Clippers, the Boston Celtics, and UCLA. Answer: Bill _Walton_ 6. Born about A.D. 50, he held numerous local offices in Greece, including Pericles' old job of Athenian strategos, but he refused ever offer to go work in Rome, claiming that his tiny hometown of Chaeronea could not afford to be made smaller by ever one citizen. A student of Ammonius best known as a philsopher, his most important serious work was his _Moralia_, but he is better known for a historical study in which he tried to show the essential unity of Greek and Roman history. FTP, name this biographer whose work is known to us as the _Parallel Lives_. Answer: _Plutarch_ 7. [This question was written in 1992] Though it got virtually no international publicity at the time, this country in 1972 experienced what is now believed to be the world's worst genocide since World War II. Trouble began when the majority ethnic group, the Hutu, revolted against the rule of the minority Tutsi, killing over 10,000. Responding in kind, the Tutsi are estimated to have massacred over 150,000 Hutu, and violence between the two groups has been breaking out sporadically ever since. For ten points, this all occured in what tiny nation, which borders Tanzania, Zaire, and Rwanda? Answer: _Burundi_ 8. The patent was first offered to Western Union, who rejected it, writing that "while it is a very interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commerical possibilities." Within just four years, however, over sixty thousand of[*] them had been sold, and it is still the most lucrative patent ever issued. FTP, name this "electric toy" invented in 1876 by Watson and Bell. Answer: The _Telephone_ 9. During World War II, it was the site of the Douglas Aircraft factory, at the time the largest aerospace plant in the world. After the war, it was briefly known as Orchard Airfield, a name that lives on in its three-letter airport code. FTP, what is this airport, now the busiest passanger in the world, located in Chicago? Answer: _O'Hare_ International Airport 10. Touch the stomach once, and you get a light giggle. Touch it again, and you get the words, "Oh boy, that tickles." On the third touch, the doll giggles much louder, and the arms and legs move back and forth. FTP, identify this item of Sesame Street merchandise, the surprise hit of the 1996 Christmas toy season. Answer: _Tickle-Me Elmo_ 11. His first two names are Rodion Romanovich, and his last name can be translated either as "old believer" or "schismatic." His best friend is Razumkhin, and his love interest is a prostitute named Sonia, who follows him to Siberia at the end of the novel. FTP, name this most famous character in Russian literature, the axe murderer of Dostoyevsky's _Crime and Punishment_. Answer: _Raskolnikov_ 12. The first one was custom-built for a man named William Kemmler and was designed by Thomas Edison, who hoped that the public would be scared into believing that a certain invention by George Westinghouse was a threat to human safety. However, the stunt backfired, since it took so long to kill Kemmler that the safety of the AC circuit was proved once and for all. FTP, name this once- popular execution device. Answer: The _Electric Chair_ 13. If n is not divisible by p, then n to the p-1 power minus one is divisible by p. A number of the form 4n -1 is neither a square nor the sum of two sqares. The equation x-squared minus A times y- squared has an unlimited number of integer solutions, where A is a nonsquare integer. And most famously, there are no integer solutions for the equation x to the n plus y to the n equals z to the n for n greater than 2. FTP, these are all theorems proposed by and named for what seventeenth-century French mathematician? Answer: Pierre de _Fermat_ 14. Saki poked fun at this belief in his short story _Laura_, while Plato discussed it more sympathetically in his dialogues _Phaedo_ and the _Republic_, leading some scholars to believe that Plato himself believed in it. A central tenet of Pythagorean cult, it was also one of many alleged heresies that sent Giordano Bruno to the stake. Today, its most famous adherent is probably Shirley MacLaine, who claims that being beheaded by Louis XV forever cured her of stage fright. For ten points, name this particular theory about life after death common to several eastern religions. Answer: _Reincarnation_ (accept _Transmigration of Souls_ or _Metempsychosis_) 15. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, has been indicted for the murder of her younger brother Murtaza; her father-in-law is in prison for bank-fraud; and some forty of her aides have have been arrested for corruption. But true to form, she is nevertheless fighting to regain the office of Prime Minister for the third time. FTP, name this controversial ex-leader of Pakistan. Answer: Benazir _Bhutto_ 16. In order, the victims are Adelmo, Venantius, Berengar, Severinus, and Malachi. The murderer is an old blind monk named Jorge, and the cause of all the killings is a manuscript of the lost second book of Aristotle's _Poetics_. The author was a professor at the University of Bologna, whose next book was a nonfiction "explanation" of his bestseller according to the theory of semiotics. For ten points, name this first novel of Umberto Eco. Answer: _The Name of the Rose_ 17. The first founded of the Order of the Yellow Hats. The sixth was a popular poet of light verse. The third converted the Mongols to Buddhism, while the fifth, known as "The Great," was the first to establish temporal power over Tibet. FTP, these are among the holders of what office, whose fourteenth occupant won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989? Answer: _Dalai Lama_ 18. Essentially a high-efficiency version of the earlier Whimshurt machine, it consists of a series of metal needles, which spray electrical charge onto the bottom of an endless insulating belt, which carry the charge inside a large metal dome. FTP, name this electrostatic machine capable of producing very high voltages, whose effect on human hair has made it a popular part of most science museums. Answer: _Van de Graff_ generator 19. It was founded in 1876 as a showcase for all genres of music by all composers, but since 1883 it has concentrated almost exclusively on the perfomance of operas by its founder. This has left it with a rather limited standard repertoire of fourteen works, perhaps the least-known of which are _Die Hochzeit_, _Die Feen_, _Das Liebesverbot_, and _Rienzi_. FTP, name this annual music festival in Bavaria, founded by Richard Wagner. Answer: _Bayreuth_ Music Festival 20. His acting roles include the lead in _Incubus_, which is the only feature-length movie ever filmed in Esperanto. His TV debut was "Terror at 20,000 feet," which many consider the greatest of the "Twilight Zone" episodes, but he will probably be most remembered for his leading role in what was perhaps the most popular science fiction series of all time. For ten points, name this actor who portrayed Captain Kirk on "Star Trek." Answer: William _Shatner_ John's Complete Questions Packet #8 (Easy) Bonus Questions 25 POINT BONUS 1. In a case of life imitating literature, an upstate New York village voted in December of 1996 to drop its 300-year-old name and officially adopt the fictional name under which it was portrayed in a Washington Irving short story. 1. First, for ten points: what is the literary and now official name of this town, whose most famous fictional resident was Ichabod Crane? Answer: _Sleepy Hollow_ 2. Second, for fifteen: by what name was Sleepy Hollow officially known until 1996? Answer: _North Tarrytown_ (do not prompt on Tarrytown). 30 POINT BONUS 2. Identify the year, 30-20-10. 1. This year saw the first professional hockey league organized in America, the first automobile built by Henry Ford, and the debut of the first American comic strip,"The Yellow Kid." 2. In Europe, a Greek revolt breaks out in Crete. In Asia, China grant permission to Russia to run the trans-Siberian railroad across northern Manchuria. In Africa, the Ethiopians secure their independence by routing the Italians at Adowa. In America, the Supreme Court upholds the precedent of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson. 3. The Olympic games are revived in Athens, Greece. Answer: _1896_ 20 POINT BONUS 3. For five points each, and a five-ponits bonus for all three, identify these very large numbers. 1. It is equal to 6.0221367 times 10 raised to the 23rd power. Answer: _Avagadro's_ Number 2. This number is shorthand for ten raised to the one-hundredth power. Answer: _googol_ 3. It is ten raised to the power of googol. Answer: _googolplex_ 30 POINT BONUS EBC 4. For fifteen points each, identify these traditional arguments for the existence of God.. 1. Let "God" be defined as the most perfect thing imaginable by human reason. Anything that exists is more perfect than something that doesn't exist, and so, therefore, God exists, since a non- existing God would be less perfect than a hypothetical existing God. Answer: _Ontological_ argument 2. Everything in the universe happens because it's caused by some other thing in the universe. Therefore, God must exist, since somebody had to be around before anything else to set the whole universe in motion. Answer: _Cosmological_ or Unmoved Mover argument 30 POINT BONUS 5. For ten points each, identify these well-known things, given information about what they were originally called. 1. The first draft of this book was titled "Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice." Its catchier two-word title was substituted at the suggestion of its editor. Answer: _Mein Kampf_ 2. The first versions of this board game were sold under the brand name of "Criss-Cross." Answer: _Scrabble_ 3. During its first season on TV, this show was known as the "Dodge Dancing Hour." Answer: The _Lawrence Welk_ Show 30 POINT BONUS 6. For five points each, identify the Shakespeare plays, given their opening lines. 1. "Now is the winter of our discontent/ made glorious summer by this sun of York;" Answer: _Richard III_ 2. "In Troy, there lies the scene." Answer: _Trolius and Cressida_ 3. "When shall we three meet again/ In thunder, lighting or in rain?" Answer: _Macbeth_ 4. "Who's there?" Answer: _Hamlet_ 5. "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad." The _Merchant of Venice_ 6. "Noble patricians, patrons of my right/ defend the justice of my cause with arms." Answer: _Titus Andronicus_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Identify the historical figure, 30-20-10. 1. This person's real full name was Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier. 2. In 1792, he led a failed right-wing coup against the Jacobin government. He survived by fleeing to Austria, and eventually lived long enough to play the role of kingmaker during the 1830 revolution. 3. This French nobleman is best remembered for his role in the American revolution, where he fought as a Major General under George Washington. Answer: The Marquis de _Lafayette_ 25 POINT BONUS 8. For five points each and a five-point bonus for all four, give the eon, era, period, and epoch of geologic time in which we all live. Answer: _Phanerozoic_ Eon, _Cenozoic_ Era, _Quaternary_ Period, _Holocene_ Epoch 30 POINT BONUS 9. For the stated number of points, identify the principal architects of the following churches. 1. For five: St. Paul's Cathedral, London Answer: Christopher _Wren_ 2. For ten: Church of the Holy Family, Barcelona Answer: Antonio _Gaudi_ 3. For fifteen: Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York Answer: Ralph Adams _Cram_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Perhaps the most familiar opening title sequences in the history of television belongs to "The Brady Bunch," which features that three-by-three grid of head shots of the leading characters. Name the actors (_not_ the characters) who appear on that grid: you will receive no points for the first three you name correctly, and five for each one after that, for a maximum total of thirty. 1. Robert _Reed_, Florence _Henderson_, Eve _Plumb_, Mike _Lookinland_, Susan _Olsen_ , Chris _Knight_, Maureen _McCormick_, Barry _Williams_, Ann B. _Davis_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Given the plot of a Canterbury Tale, identify the pilgrim who tells it. Ten points each. 1. A rooster named Chauntecleer is captured by a fox named Reynard, but is able to escape by exploiting the fox's pride in his achievement. Answer: The _Nun's Priest_ 2. An elderly carpenter is warned by a clerk of an impending flood, and so builds an ark for safety and gullibly sits inside it, waiting for the diaster. Meanwhile, the clerk runs off and sleeps with the carpenter's unguarded wife. Answer: The _Miller_ 3. A young Christian boy is torn to pieces by evil Jews while singing a church hymn, but he is miraculously able to continue singing even after he has been ripped into a thousand tiny bits. Answer: The _Prioress_ 25 POINT BONUS 12. For the stated number of points, answer these question about last year's presidential election in Russia. 1. For obvious reasons, one of the most interesting parts of the race was the voting in war-ravaged Chechnya. For ten points, name the candidate who carried Chechnya by a landslide margin in the first round of the federal presidential election. Answer: Boris _Yeltsin_ 2. Now, for fifteen points, all or nothing, name the top five finishers in the first round of the presidential election, in any order. Answer: Boris _Yeltsin_, Gennadi _Zyuganov_, Aleksandr _Lebed_, Vladimir _Zhironovsky_, Grigori _Yavlinsky_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Quiz bowl is a stressful game, and like many other victims of stress, Chicago quiz bowl players must often resort to defense mechanisms. For ten points each, given a quote overheard in the hallway between matches, identify the Freudian defense mechanism that the player is employing. 1. Christian: "This game is for geeks. I'm glad I didn't get any Toss-Ups that last game, 'cause if I did, that would make me a geek too." Answer: _Rationalization_ 2. Mike: "0 and 2? What do you mean, 0 and 2? I was 11-0 that last game! Really, I was! What game were you watching?" Answer: _Denial_ 3. Rob: "Mike and Christian really have bad attitudes. How do you expect me to be enthusiastic about this this game when those two are always complaining so much?" Answer: _Projection_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For the stated number of points, identify these American composers from their works. 1. 5 pts: _Billy the Kid_; _Rodeo_ Answer: Aaron _Copland_ 2. 10 pts: _Three Places in New England_, _The Unanswered Question_ Answer: Charles _Ives_ 15 pts: _Four Saints in Three Acts_; _The Mother of Us All_ Answer: Virgil _Thompson_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For five points each, give the lesser-known surnames of these celebrities. 1. Dante Answer: _Aligheri_ 2. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Answer: _Nelson_ 3. Princess Diana (maiden name) Answer: _Spencer_ 4. Tess of the D'Urbevilles Answer: _Darbeyfield_ 5. Titian Answer: _Vecellio_ 6. Krusty the Clown Answer: _Krustovsky_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For ten points each, identify the Tolstoy novels in which one would find the following characters: 1. Pierre Bezukhov, Natasha Rostova, Andrei Bolkonskii Answer: _War and Peace_ 2. Prince Nekhliudov, Katiusha Maslova Answer: _Resurrection_ 3. Stiva Obolensky, Kostantin Levin, Alexei Vronsky Answer: _Anna Karenina_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Name the Roman Emperor, 30-20-10. 1. He completed the construction of the Colosseum and also built another famous landmark, a triumphal arch that depicts the plunder and destrucion of the temple of Solomon. 2. He is the title character of the last dramatic opera ever written by Mozart, in which is described a plot against his life and his clemency towards the conspirators. 3. The son and immediate successor of Vespasian, this conqueror of Jerusalem reigned from AD 79 to 81. Answer: _Titus_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For five points each, and a five point bonus for all five: given a common solid, identify its microscopic structure as either ionic, network covalent, molecular, metallic, or amorphous. 1. ice Answer: _molecular_ 2. a diamond Answer: _network covalent_ 3. sodium chloride Answer: _molecular_ 4. plexiglass Answer: _amorphous_ 5. potassium nitrate Answer: _ionic_ 20 POINT BONUS 19. One of the better films of 1994 consisted of 32 short pieces about a dead Canadian piano virtuoso. For the stated number of points-- 1. First, for ten, name the pianist who was the subject of this film. Answer: Glenn _Gould_ 2. The 32 segments of "Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould" is a reference to Gould's signature work, which consists of a theme repeated twice with thirty variations. For five points each part, name this Baroque masterpiece, and name its composer. Answer: _Goldberg Variations_; J.S. _Bach_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For ten points each, name these pitchers who gave up famous home runs in the World Series. 1. In 1932, this Cub gave up Babe Ruth's alleged "called shot." Answer: Charlie _Root_ 2. This Yankee gave up Bill Mazeroski's series-winning homer in 1960. Answer: Ralph _Terry_ 3. This Phillie did the same against Joe Carter in 1993. Answer: Mitch _Williams_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="09"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="09" John's Complete Questions Packet #9 (Hard) Toss-Ups 1. If you were a shoemaker who lived in Europe during the middle ages, you might have honored this obscure fifth-century martyr as your patron saint. If you were born on October 25, you might know him as the saint on whose feast day your birthday falls. Otherwise, you would have little reason ever to have heard of him, except for the fact that October 25 is also the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt. FTP, name this saint who is repeatedly invoked by the title character in a famous speech from Shakespeare's _Henry V_. Answer: St. _Crispin_ 2. Because he insisted on recording even the most minute details, he could be boring in places- so much so that, according to legend, the Inquisition used to torture heretics by reading aloud to them from his _Description of the Siege of Pisa_. FTP, name this leading historian of the Italian Renaissance, whose _History of Italy_ is a continuation of Machiavelli's _Florentine Histories_. Answer: Francesco Guicciardini 3. As recently as 1991, Stephen Hawking declared that they could not exist, arguing that by definition, light should take an infinite time to escape from them, which would make them black holes. But in 1993, mathematician Matthew Choptuik proved otherwise, and in 1997, Hawking recanted. FTP, what are these theoretical cousins of black holes, defined as points of infinite mass with no isolating space around them? Answer: _Naked singularities_ 4. According to Plutarch, he lived at about the time of the first Olympiad and was never actually the king, but merely acted as regent for the children of his dead brother, Polydectes. Honored in ancient times as one of the seven sages, he was credited with inventing many of his nation's bizarre social customs, including the practice of throwing sickly-looking babies off a cliff. FTP, name this saemi-mythical leader who was credited with turning Sparta into Greece's first barracks state. Answer: _Lycurgus_ 5. Their father, Laszlo, was a psychologist who believed that any child could be made into a genius, and who set out to prove this theory with his three daughters. Despite opposition from their game's national federation, which long refused to allow women to compete in the same division as men, all three sisters were internationally ranked by 1990, although today only the youngest appears to have any chance of ever playing for the world championship. FTP, give the last name these three Hungarian chess prodigies, whose first names are Zsuzsa, Zsofia, and Judit. Answer: _Polgar_ 6. In a 1980 survey, adults were asked to name three famous lines by Shakespeare, and the responses were then ranked by order of frequency. Finishing in ninth place was "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned," which is a little odd, considering that Shakespeare didn't even write that one. FTP, which restoration playwright did write that "Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd" in his tragedy _The Mourning Bride_? Answer: William _Congreve_ 7. Among the dead was Louis Napoleon, the exiled crown prince of France. In all, the army of Cetewayo inflicted over 1,300 British casualties, including fifty officers killed, in spite of the fact that they were armed only with spears and cowhide shields. FTP, name this 1879 battle, the biggest British defeat of the Zulu wars. Answer: _Isandhlwana_ 8. Because the number of mathematical functions is infinite, it has an infinite number of dimensions, and as a result, it is unlike Euclidean, Einsteinian, or Riemmannian space in that it has no relation to geometric reality. In spite of this, it is an important practical tool for quantum physics, since it is the simplest way of representing the changing states of an electron. FTP, identify this type of space where functions take the place of vectors, whose namesake is also famous for a list of twenty-three unsolved mathematical problems. Answer: _Hilbert_ Space 9. As a promising young composer, he became the protege of Wagner, who appointed him the stage manager for the premiere of _Parsifal_, parts of which he may have helped write. The rest of his career was a resounding disappointment, and he is today remembered only for a single work, the musical accompaniment for a children's play adapted by his sister from a Brothers Grimm fable. FTP, name this composer of _Hansel and Gretel_, who is no relation to the pop singer formerly known as Arnold Dorsey. Answer: Englebert _Humperdinck_ 10. He had a small role of about three lines in "A Clockwork Orange," in which he played Julian the bodyguard. This is probably the only film in which the average American moviegoer has seen his face or heard his voice, in spite of the fact that he also had one of the lead roles in three of the higest-grossing films of all time. FTP, name this British actor, who provided the body but not the voice for Darth Vader. Answer: David _Prowse_ 11. He classified his own work under six headings: poetry, poetry of the theater, poetry of the novel, critical poetry, graphic poetry, and cinematographic poetry. Working in such diverse media as posters, glassblowing, pipe-cleaner sculpture, and necktie- design, drama, and experimental film, he suffered from an extreme sense of inferiority to other artists, and consequently is sometimes said never to have developed an artistic style or personality of his own. For ten points, name this Frenchman whose literary works include _Orphee_ and _Les Enfants Terribles_, and whose films include _The Blood of a Poet_ and _Beauty and the Beast_. Answer: Jean _Cocteau_ 12. He had been the Roman governor of Syria during the chaos which followed the death of Herod the Great, and he handled this crisis situation so well that Augustus placed him in charge of the newly- conquered territories between the Rhine and Elbe. Unfortunately, this job required military talents which he simply did not have, which was made clear when he blundered into a trap set by the German renegade Arminius. FTP, name this general whose three legions were annihilated at Teutonberger Wald. Answer: Quintillius _Varus_ 13. Martin, the patriarch of this family, fathered two sets of children-- one with a feeble-minded girl and one with his upper- class wife. Descendants on the respectable side included lawyers, doctors, and bankers, while the illegitimate union produced generation upon generation of alcoholics, criminals, mental defectives, and ugly persons. FTP, name this family, the subject of a bogus 1912 study written as propaganda for the eugenics movement, whose name is Greek for "good-bad." Answer: The _Kallikak_ Family 14. Handel said that this man could write an eight-part motet as easily as most people could write a letter, and the Guinness Book of World Records lists him as history's most prolific composer, with over forty operas, sixteen hundred overtures, and twelve complete cycles of year-round liturgical music to his name. However, although he was considered a better composer than Bach during his lifetime, he was generally forgotten until the twentieth century. FTP, name this man, now ranked as the third-greatest composer of the German Baroque. Answer: Georg Philipp _Telemann_ 15. Two answers required. One leaves his room a mess and makes mother clean it up, but the other keeps his room clean without being told. One plays with the toys in the toy store, but the other looks without touching. One never says "please" or "thank you," the other always does. FTP, identify these two young brothers, the one a personification of evil and the other of good, whose illustrated adventures appear in the magazine "Highlights for Children." Answer: _Goofus_ and _Gallant_ 16. The main character is Zoyd Wheeler, a man who must jump through a plate glass window exactly once a year in order to collect a mental disability check from the state, and the novel's convulted plot revolves around Zoyd's relations with his daughter, ex-wife, and ex-wife's ex-boyfriend. Published in 1990, it received a great deal of advance publicity not so much because of its plot, but because it was the first thing its author had published since his masterpiece of 1973. FTP, name this book, which broke the post- _Gravity's Rainbow_ literary silence of Thomas Pynchon. Answer: _Vineland_ 17. Its independence had been declared in 1932, but until the outbreak of World War II it had only been recognized by two other countries, one of which was El Salvador. A monarchy with its capital at Singkaing, its status was the subject of the League of Nations' Lytton commission, whose findings led Japan to withdraw from the League. FTP, name this short-lived Japanese puppet state in northern China. Answer: _Manchukuo_ 18. After reading Darwin's _Voyage of the Beagle_, he set out on a similar tropical expedition of his own, but lost all of his work when the ship carrying his notes and specimens was destroyed by fire. Undeterred, he then made an eight-year trip to Borneo, where he composed an essay whose conclusions were almost identical to Darwin's still-unpublished _Origin of Species_. FTP, name this naturalist, who independently discovered Darwinian evolution. Answer: Alfred Russell _Wallace_ 19. Two answers required: in Ezekiel, they are the names respectively of a tribe that wages war on Israel, and that tribe's leader. In Chronicles, one is mentioned as being a descendant of Reuben, and in Genesis, the other is one of the sons of Japeth. According to the Koran, they are the two barbarian nations that will overrun civilization at the end of the world. FTP, give these two rhyming entities of evil, which figure prominently in the Book of Revelation. Answer: _Gog_ and _Magog_ 20. A Celtic tribe from Northern Gaul that is mentioned in the _Aeneid_. An Italian renaissance painter who died in 1578 and whose masterpieces are "Portrait of a Tailor" and "Nobleman Pointing to a Flame." The capital of the Comoros Islands. An angel who, in September of 1823, allegedly revealed the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith. FTP, give the common name of all these things. Answer: _Moroni_ John's Complete Questions Packet #9 (Hard) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For five points each, and a bonus five for all five correct, identify the authors of these Elizabethean and Jacobean plays _not_ written by Shakespeare, Marlowe, or Jonson. 1. The White Devil Answer: John Webster 2. The Spanish Tragedy Answer: Thomas Kyd 3. Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding Answer: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 4. Ralph Roister Doister Answer: Nicholas Udall 5. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Answer: John Ford 30 POINT BONUS 2. For fifteen points each, identify these terrorist groups of East European history. 1. An violent outgrowth of the peaceful "Go to the People" movement of the 1860s and 70s, they planted the bomb that killed Russian Tsar Alexander II in 1881. Answer: The _People's Will_ 2. Gavrill Princip was a member of this radical Serb nationalist group, which incited World War I with its 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Answer: The _Black Hand_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For ten points each, identify these people who contributed to the invention of the steam engine. 1. In the late seventeenth century, this Dutch physicist attempted to harness power by setting off gunpowder in a closed tube connected to a piston, but abandoned the experiment after he was unable to produce any sustained power. Answer: Christiaan _Huygens_ 2. This French-born student of Huygens modified Huygens' apparatus with the substitution of compressed steam for gunpowder, and developed a steam cycle to ensure continuous motion of the pistons. However, his insufficient knowledge of engineering prevented him from developing any practical applications for his invention. Answer: Denis _Papin_ 3. In 1712, this Englishman adopted Papin's cycle and produced the world's first practical steam engine, a water pump which he set up in a Worcestershire mine. Answer: Thomas _Newcomen_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For ten points each, given a major or minor musical key, give the number of sharps or flats in its key signature. 1. A minor Answer: No sharps or flats 2. G major Answer: One sharp 3. D flat major Answer: Five flats 30 POINT BONUS 5. In an attempt to compete more effectively with PC-based systems, Apple in 1996 announced that it would be buying out NeXT. For ten points each, answer these questions about this event. 1. Name the founder of NeXT, who thus rejoined Apple eleven years after he was forced out in a management dispute. Answer: Steve _Jobs_ 2. Identify the chairman of Apple who engineered this deal. Answer: Gil _Amelio_ 3. The NeXT buyout was prompted by Apple's failure to acquire a different computer company, which had also been founded by an Apple alumnus. For a final ten points, identify this company headed by Jean Louis Gasse. Answer: _Be_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For the stated number of points, identify the Latin American countries that produced the following well-known writers. 1. For five: Pablo Neruda and Isabel Allende Answer: _Chile_ 2. For ten: Rubem Fonseca and Jorge Amado Answer: _Brazil_ 3. for fifteen: Alejo Carpentier and Reinaldo Arenas Answer: _Cuba_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Naming U.S. states was never simple, and in many cases, Congress or colonists tried and rejected several proposals before settling on a final name. For five points each and five more for all correct, given a name which a state almost took, identify the state. 1. "Franklin" Answer: Tennessee 2. "Columbia" Answer: Washington 3. "New Connecticut" Answer: Vermont 4. "Esmerelda" Answer: Idaho 5. "Albania" Answer: New Jersey 30 POINT BONUS 8. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions related to math. 1. First, for five: give the general term for an ordered arrangement of a specified number of objects selected from a set. Answer: _Permutation_ 2. For ten: name the special type of permutation where no element of the set occurs in its original position. Answer: _Derangement_ 3. Finally, for fifteen: give the number of derangements of a set containing four objects. Answer: _9_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Identify these thinkers of the middle ages. Ten points if you can get them from their semi-official nicknames, five if you need a clue about what they actually did. 1. 10 pts: The Invincible Doctor. 5 pts: He is best known for the maxim that entities ought not be multiplied except of necessity, which is a roundabout way of saying that the simplest explanation is the best. Answer: William of _Occam_ 2. 10 pts: The Scholastic Doctor 5 pts: This Archbishop of Canterbury is best known for his quarrels with King William II, as well as his ontological proof for the existence of God. Answer: St. _Anselm_ 3. 10 pts: The Admirable Doctor 5 pts: In his most important treatise, the _Opus Majus_, this Franciscan monk proposed an early ideal of scientific method. Answer: _Roger Bacon_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For ten points each, name the final movies which the following dead actors filmed. Note that this will not always be the same as the last movie featuring the actor to be actually released. 1. Peter Sellers Answer: "The _Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu"_ 2. Raul Julia Answer: "_Streetfighter_" 3. John Candy Answer: "_Wagons East_" 30 POINT BONUS 11. In its Prologue, Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_ introduces thirty pilgrims, twenty-two of whom eventually contribute tales. For the stated number of points: 1. For five: name the only pilgrim to tell two tales. Answer: _Narrator_ or _Chaucer_ 2. For five points each, name the two tales told by Chaucer's narrator. Answer: Tale of _Sir Thopas_, Tale of _Melibeus_ 3. For ten: name the only tale-teller who does not appear in the Prologue. Answer: _Canon's Yeoman_ 3. For fifteen, name any one of the eight pilgrims introduced in the Prologue whose tales Chaucer never got around to writing. Answer: _Knight's Yeoman_, _Second Nun's Priest_, _Third Nun's Priest_, _Haberdasher_, _Weaver_, _Plowman_, _Carpenter_, _Dyer_, _Tapicer_ (accept _Upholsterer_) 30 POINT BONUS 12. For ten points each: identify these explorers of the New World, given the year and unpleasant circumstances of their deaths. 1. 1611; set adrift by mutineers in a body of water later named for him. Answer: Henry Hudson 2. 1517; arrested and beheaded on trumped-up treason charges by his rivals Pizarro and Pedrarias. Answer: Vasco Nunez de Balboa 3. 1527; eaten by natives while exploring the coast of South America for France. Answer: Giovanni da Verrazano 30 POINT BONUS 13. Of the thirty-one brightest stars in the sky, five are in a single constellation. For five points each: 1. First, name this constellation. Answer: _Orion_ 2. Name the brightest star in Orion, whose name comes from the Arabic for "foot." Answer: _Rigel_ 3. Name the second-brightest star of Orion, a orange variable supergiant which is expected to explode into a supernova sometime in the next 200,000 years. Answer: _Betelgeuse_ 4. For a final five points each, name the three stars of Orion's belt. Answer: _Mintaka_, _Alnilam_, _Altinak_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For five points each: given a U.S. city, name the largest river that flows through or by it. 1. Atlanta, GA Answer: _Chattahoochee_ 2.Jackson, MS Answer: _Pearl_ 3. Casper, WY Answer: _North Platte_ 4. Eugene, OR Answer: _Willamette_ 5. Nashville, TN Answer: _Cumberland_ 6. Billings, MT Answer: _Yellowstone_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For ten points each, name these accidental cannibals. 1. In Greek myth, when Tantalus tries to feed a stew made out of his son Pelops to the gods, this goddess was the only one to take a bite without realizing what the food was. As a result of her inattentiveness, Pelops was missing a shoulder when the gods stitched him back together. Answer: _Demeter_ (accept also _Thetis_, according to another version of this myth) 2. In the gory finale to Shakespeare's _Titus Andronicus_, the title character feeds this evil Queen of the Goths a meat dish made from her two sons, whom he had killed in the preceding scene. Answer: _Tamara_ 3. Shakespeare seems to have lifted the preceding plot twist directly from Herodotus, who includes a very similar story in which the King of the Medes has his revenge against a disloyal subordinate. For a final ten points, name that subordinate, who is forced to eat his own son at a royal banquet. Answer: _Harpargus_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Achilles wasn't the only hero who was invulnerable everywhere except for on a small area of the body. Given a literary hero, give the body part where they were vulnerable. Ten points each. 1. Siegfried, according to the _Nibelungenlied_ Answer: _Back_ 2. Orlando, according to _Orlando Furioso_ Answer: Sole of the _foot_ 3. Megissogwon, according to "The Song of Hiawatha" Answer: _Hair_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Although most judicial opinions are (to quote H.L. Mencken) chloroform in print, a notable exception are those written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., many of which contain catchy phrases that are far more famous than the cases themselves. For ten points each, given a memorable Holmes quote, identify the Supreme Court decision in which it was contained. 1. "Three generations of imbeciles is enough." Answer: Buck v. Bell 2. "The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's _Social Statics_." Answer: Lochner v. New York 3. "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man from falsely shouting `fire' in a crowded theater." Answer: Schenck v. United States 30 POINT BONUS 18. For the stated number of points, answer these really exciting questions about the Glashow-Winberg-Salam model of particle physics. 1. First, for ten points all or nothing, name the two fundamental interactions which the GWS model seems to unify. Answer: _electromagnetic_ and _weak_ 2. The GWS model was given an empirical boost in 1984 with the discovery of two intermediate vector bosons whose existence the theory had predicted. For five points each, name these bosons. Answer: _W_ and _Z_ 3. The GWS model also predicts the existence of another still- undiscovered particle, which is characterized by a zero spin and a non-zero mass. For a final ten points, name this hypothetical boson. Answer: _Higgs_ boson 30 POINT BONUS 19. For ten points each, given a list of individuals from Greek mythology, give the collective name by which they are better known. 1. Adrastus, Polyneices, Tydeus, Ampharius, Capanaeus, Parthenopaeus, and Hippomedon; sometimes also Mecisteus and Eteoclus. Answer: the _Seven against Thebes_ 2. Alcmaeon, Amphilochus, Diomedes, Promachus, Sthenelus, Thersandrus, and Euryalus. Answer: The _Epigoni_ 3. Eunomia, Dike, and Eirene Answer: _Horai_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Name the island, 30-20-10. 1. It is the only island in the world with a surviving population of Caribs, that once-powerful tribe which lent its name to the Caribbean Ocean. 2. It gained its independence from Great Britain in 1978, and since 1980, it has been ruled by Prime Minister Mary Eugenia Charles, who is often ranked as one of the most successful heads of government in the West Indies. 3. First sighted by Christopher Columbus on a Sunday, its capital is Roseau. Answer: _Dominica_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="10"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="10" John's Complete Questions Packet #10 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. At the outset, this work was supposed to be no more than a simple translation from English to French of a similarly-titled book by Ephraim Chambers. However, the project took on a life of its own, expanding to a length of 35 volumes over the next forty years, and in the process it became one of the few works ever placed on the Papal Index of Forbidden Books before it was fully published. FTP, name this masterpiece of the French Enlightenment, whose authors included D'Alembert, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Diderot. Answer: The _Encyclopedia_ 2. Franklin Roosevelt called it Shangri-La, and Lyndon Johnson had it renamed "Number Four" for security reasons, but the name that has stuck was given by Dwight Eisenhower, who named it after his grandson. FTP, identify this place in Maryland, the site of a 1978 Israeli-Egyptian peace accord. Answer: _Camp David_ 3. He was a crackpot scientist who once secured a $30,000 federal grant to study animal magnetism, a xenophobic agitator who twice ran for mayor of New York on an anti-Catholic platform, as well as genuinely talented painter who won membership in Britain's Royal Academy. He is best known, however, for an idea which he more or less stole from Joseph Henry in 1831. FTP, name this inventor of the telegraph. Answer: Samuel F.B. _Morse_ 4. Standing about five-foot two inches tall and overweight for most of his adult life, he was known to his friends as "Little Mushroom." The composer of many mostly-forgotten operas, his greatest works are now thought to be his chamber pieces and songs, many of which were based on the works of Goethe, including "Gretchen am Spinrade" and "Der Erlkonig." FTP, name this Austrian composer whose most famous symphony, number eight, was never completed. Answer: Franz _Schubert_ 5. His more serious acting roles include the lead in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," as well as the TV series "Roots," in which he played Kunta Kinte's second owner. He had nothing but contempt for his most famous acting role, which he considered below his dignity as an actor, and this led to a longstanding feud with producer Sherwood Schwartz. However, he eventually agreed to recreate that role in two TV movies filmed shortly before his death from AIDS. FTP, name this actor who played architect Mike Brady on "The Brady Bunch." Answer: Robert _Reed_ 6. He was lying in a coma in 1906 when his nurse told a visiting friend that he seemed to be getting better. Momentarily regaining consciousness, he spoke his last words: "on the contrary," and promptly died. An invalid ever since suffering a major stroke in 1900, his last work was 1899's _When We Dead Awaken_. FTP, name this dramatist whose works include _The Vikings of Helgoland_, _Rosemersholm_, _An Enemy of the People_, and _Peer Gynt_. Answer: Henrik _Ibsen_ 7. He began his political career as a member of the Anti-Masonic party, a group dedicated to the destruction of all secret societies, but ended it as presidential candidate for the American Party, the political front of the clandestine Know-Nothings. FTP, name this thirteenth president of the United States. Answer: Millard _Fillmore_ 8. Completed at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, it had more than 500,000 hand-soldered connections, weighed thirty tons, required about 150 kilowatts of power, completely filled a thirty- by-fifty foot room, and depended on punched cards to store data. FTP, name this bulky invention of John Eckert and John Mauchly, the world's first electronic digital computer. Answer: _ENIAC_ (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) 9. The third movement contains what is thought to be the first-ever duet between an English horn and an oboe. The second movement, which is titled "At a Ball," is the first waltz ever to appear in a symphony. The fourth movement, or "March to the Scaffold," is probably the most recognizable section of the piece, while the fifth movement, or "Witches' Sabbath," contains a parody of Mozart's _Requiem_. FTP, name this programmatic symphony about an opium-imbibing artist, which was allegedly inspired by Hector Berlioz's love for Harriet Smithson. Answer: _Symphonie Fantastique_ 10. Springfield. New York. Soldiers. Commons. Girl Won't You Come Out Tonight. Bill Cody. Bills. Wings. FTP, what single word can be placed in front of all of these to form the names of well-known groups, places, titles, and names? Answer: _Buffalo_ 11. When the periscope was invented, it was denied a patent for lack of originality, on the grounds that the design hardly differed from a device described in one of this writer's science-fiction novels. Born in 1828, he had started out as a playwright but later switched to writing popular adventure novels, the first of which was 1863's _Five Weeks in a Balloon_. FTP, name this Frenchman whose other works include _The Mysterious Island_, _A Trip to the Moon_, and _Around the World in Eighty Days_. Answer: Jules _Verne_ 12. They took their name from a Dominican monastery in Paris, and originally were led by the moderate Mirabeau, but quickly became radicalized as a result of their struggle with the Feuillants. FTP, name this political group founded in 1789, which eventually split into Girondist and Mountain factions. Answer: The _Jacobins_ 13. At the age of twenty, he travelled to the island of St. Helena and built the first observatory in the southern hemisphere. His discoveries include the globular cluster Omega Centaurus, and by comparing his own data with that of Ptolemy, he was able to prove the slow movement of the so-called fixed stars. However, he is most famous for his theory that the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were in fact the same thing, and that it would return again in 1758. FTP, name this English astronomer. Answer: Edmond _Halley_ 14. Although its 3400-mile coastline is one of the longest in Europe, it has just one real river, the 80-mile long Gudenaa, and virtually no lakes. It is also one of the flattest nations in the world, with its highest point rising just five hundred feet above sea level. FTP, name this country which contains the islands of Anhalt, Funen, Moen, and Zeeland, as well as about 450 smaller islands and the Jutland peninsula. Answer: _Denmark_ 15. In medieval England, this word would be stamped on bills of indictment by grand juries to indicate that there was not enough evidence for prosecution. Latin for "We do not know," its use as a derogatory noun dates back to a 1615 comedy by George Ruggles, in which it was the name of the pretentious but extremely foolish title character. FTP, give this term for a woefully ignorant person. Answer: _Ignoramus_ 16. First mentioned in Wace's _Roman de Brut_, there are several conflicting legends about how this object was created. Lazamon writes that it was built by a clever Cornish woodcutter, who designed it so that it could fold out in any direction, while others claimed that it once belonged to Joseph of Arimanthea. According to Malory, the builder was Merlin, and it came to Camelot as part of Guenivere's dowry. For ten points, name this most famous piece of furniture in the Arthurian cycles, which was capable of seating as many as 150 knights. Answer: The _Round Table_ 17. In 1955, her enemies removed her body to Italy, where she was buried in a nondescript grave under the false name of "Maria Maggi." In 1974, she was returned to her native country, and today her tomb in the Recoleta Cemetery is one of the major tourist attractions of Buenos Aires. FTP, name this cultural icon and former Argentine first lady. Answer: Eva (Evita) Peron 18. It is one of the youngest mammalian orders, having diverged from the arboreal insectivores only about 130 million years ago. Dinstinguishing features include a very slow growth to sexual maturity, forward-facing eyes which allow for binocular vision, opposable digits, and a large, well-developed cerebellum. FTP, name this order which includes lorises, bushbabies, lemurs, apes, and humans. Answer: _Primates_ 19. It consists of about 200 minor islands, the largest of which are named Jason and Weddell, and two large ones, known as East Island and West Island. Its highest point is Mount Usborne on East Island, and its towns include Port Howard, Goose Green, Darwin, and Stanley, its capital. FTP, name this archipelago of the south Atlantic, whose disputed ownership sparked a 1982 war between Great Britain and Argentina. Answer: The _Falklands_ or _Malvinas_ 20. Probably the most famous person ever associated with this sport is Boris Yeltsin, who was once a coach for the Soviet women's national team. Invented by William Morgan or the Holyoke, Massachusetts YMCA in 1895, it was made an Olympic medal event in 1964, and persons since associated with it have included Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos. FTP, name this sport whose lone professional tour, sponsored by Miller Lite, is played on beaches. Answer: _Volleyball_ John's Complete Questions Packet #10 (Easy) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each: given a line of nineteenth-century poetry, identify the poet. 1. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to decieve." Answer: Walter _Scott_ 2. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Answer: John _Keats_ c-"I loaf and invite my Soul; I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass." Answer: Walt _Whitman_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. Executive Outcomes, a private mercenary army based in South Africa, has been in the news quite a bit recently. For the stated number of points, identify these countries that have hired EO. 1. 5 pts: EO's first high profile job was in this country, where they protected diamond mines from UNITA rebels. Answer: _Angola_ 2. 10 pts: EO was next hired to prop up the government of Valentine Strasser in this West African country, whose capital is Freetown. They did for a while, but left Strasser to his fate after he ran out of money. Answer: _Sierra Leone_ 3. 15 pts: In 1997, EO was hired by this nation to crush a rebellion on the island of Bougainville. Unfortunately, the public outrage this move created led to the government's collapse shortly afterwards. Answer: _Papua New Guinea_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For the stated number of points, answer the following really fun questions about moles. 1. First, for five: give the name for the number, abbreviated as N lowercase A, which equals the number of objects in one mole. Answer: _Avagadro_'s Number 2. Second, for ten: give the numerical value of Avagadro's Number, to four significant figures. Answer: _6.022 x 10 to the 23rd power_ 3. Finally, in SI units, a mole is defined as the number of atoms in a certain number of grams of a certain isotope of a certain element. For a final five points each, fill in these three blanks. Answer: _12_ grams of _Carbon-12_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Write down the following list of important religious thinkers: Now, choose any three of these, and place them in chronological order according to the date of their birth, all or nothing. [prompt for an answer] Now, for another fifteen points all or nothing, do the same for the other three. Answer: Isaiah (c. 800 B.C.); Zoroaster (628 B.C.); Lao-Tzu (604 B.C.); Buddha (560 B.C.); Confucius (551 B.C.); Socrates (c. 475 B.C.) 30 POINT BONUS 5. Although only Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic were actually accepted, eight other East European countries applied to join NATO in 1997. For five points each, name any six of these rejectees. Answer: _Estonia_ _Latvia_ _Lithuania_ _Slovenia_ _Macedonia_ _Albania_ _Romania_ _Slovakia_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Identify these midwestern writers from their works, 10-5. 1. 10 pts: _Poor White_ 5 pts: _Winesburg, Ohio_ Answer: _Sherwood Anderson_ 2. 10 pts: _A Hoosier Holiday_ 5 pts: _Sister Carie_ Answer: Theodore _Dreiser_ 3. 10 pts: _The Gentleman from Indiana_ 5 pts: _The Magnificent Ambersons_ Answer: Booth _Tarkington_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Name the person, 30-20-10. 1. As commander of the Wurttemberg Mountain Bataillion in World War I, he was one of the heroes of the battle of Caparetto, capturing nine thousand Italian soldiers with a force of just 200. 2. He was severely injured when his car was hit by a British fighter plane in July, 1944; soon afterwards, the German government announced that he had died of his wounds. 3. After the war, it was revealed that this former commander of the Afrika Korps had been forced to commit suicide, owing to his association with a failed plot to assassinate Hitler. Answer: Erwin _Rommel_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Consider a family where the father has type A blood, the mother has type AB, and the oldest child has type B. For ten points each: 1. What are the odds that the second child will also have type B blood? Answer: _1 in 4_ 2. What are the odds that the second child will have type A? Answer: _1 in 2_ 3. Which ABO blood type is the second child least likely to have? Answer: _O_ 20 POINT BONUS 9. As a general rule, wooden rods do not blossom unless they are still connected to a tree. For fifteen points each, name these exceptions to this rule from religion and mythology. 1. In Exodus, this man's staff miraculously blossomed when it was left before the Tabernacle, which was God's way of appointing him to a position of leadership. Answer: _Aaron_ 2. In Germanic legend, the Pope tells this sinful knight that forgiveness is as impossible for him as bearing buds is for the Pope's staff. At that moment, the staff breaks out in bloom, and everybody lives happily ever after. Answer: _Tannhauser_ 20 POINT BONUS 10. For ten points each, name these terms that are used in measuring the size of TV audiences. 1. It is defined as the number of households tuned to a program divided by the total number of households watching television at that time. Answer: _Share_ 2. It is the number of households tuned to a program divided by the total number of households with television. Answer: _Rating_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Name the playwright from works, 30-20-10. 1. _The Suppliants_ and _The Persians_ 2. _Agamemnon_ and _The Libation Bearers_ 3. _Prometheus Bound_ and _The Eumenedies_ Answer: _Aeschylus_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Over the course of its nearly three-thousand year history, Pharoahonic Egypt had many different capital cities. For ten points each, given a ruler of ancient Egypt, name the city that was the Egyptian capital during his or her reign. 1. Ramses II Answer: _Thebes_ 2. Cheops Answer: _Memphis_ 3. Cleopatra Answer: _Alexandria_ 20 POINT BONUS 13. For five points each, name these notable moons. 1. This is the largest moon in the solar system. Answer: _Ganymede_ 2. The largest moon of Saturn, its thick atmosphere and methane surface has traditionally made it a leading candidate for extraterrestial life. Answer: _Titan_ 3. Discovered in 1978, it is the only moon of Pluto. Answer: _Charon_ 4. The only large moon not to rotate around its planet's equator, it is thought to have the coldest surface temperature of any solid object in the solar system. Answer: _Triton_ 20 POINT BONUS 14. The Rhine river flows through or along the border of six countries, one of which is Germany. For five points for two, ten points for four, and twenty for all five, name the others. Answer: _Netherlands_, _France_, _Switzerland_, _Austria_, _Liechtenstein_ 20 POINT BONUS EBT 15. Between 1957 and 1969, the Boston Celtics dominated the NBA, winning 11 championships in 13 years. For ten points each, name the two teams that interrupted the Celtics' dynasty, winning NBA titles in 1958 and 1967. Answer: _St. Louis_ or _Hawks and _Philadelphia 76ers_ 30 POINT BONUS EBL 16. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about the 1837 poem "The Bronze Horseman." 1. For ten, who wrote it? Answer: Alexander _Pushkin_ 2. For five points each part, the title object of Pushkin's poem is a famous statue of what historical figure, which still stands in what former capital city? Answer: _Peter the Great_, St. _Petersburg_ 3. "The Bronze Horseman" tells of an insane young clerk who imagines that the equestrian statue of Peter the Great is chasing him around St. Petersburg. For ten points, name this clerk, whose first name is shared by the title character of another famous Pushkin work. Answer: _Evgenii_ (Eugene) 30 POINT BONUS EBH 17. For the stated number of points, identify these battles which made a national celebrity out of Andrew Jackson. 1. For ten: Jackson's first big win, this 1814 battle crushed a revolt of the Creek Indians. Answer: _Horseshoe Bend_ 2. For five: fought on January 8, 1815, it was the final battle of the War of 1812. Answer: _New Orleans_ 3. For fifteen: in a reprisal against Seminole raids, Jackson invaded Florida in 1818 and captured this Spanish city, nearly setting off a war with both Britain and Spain. Answer: _Pensacola_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, identify these things that appeared on the same page of John's science dictionary. 1. Consisting of a heavy bob attached to a long wire, this device was unveiled in 1851 and used to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. Answer: _Foucault's pendulum_ 2. This series is the expansion of a periodic function as a series of trigonometric functions. Answer: _Fourier_ series_ 3. This shallow depression in the back of the retina contains a large concentration of cones used to detect color and intense images. Answer: _Fovea_ centralis 30 POINT BONUS 19. For the stated number of points, answer these question about the tone poem "The Planets." 1. For five: name the English composer who wrote it. Answer: Gustav _Holst_ 2. For another five, all or nothing: "The Planets" consists of seven movements, each devoted to a different planet. Which two planets did Holst leave out? Answer: _Earth_ and _Pluto_ 3. For ten: which planet, according to Holst's subtitles, is "The Bringer of Jolility?" Answer: _Jupiter_ 4. For ten: Which is "The Mystic?" Answer: _Neptune_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Name the world capital, 30-20-10. 1. Known as Vernyi until 1921, its present name means "City of Apples." In the year 2000, it is scheduled to be replaced as national capital by the city of Akmola. 2. This non-Russian city is the birthplace of Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhironovsky. 3. This city of 1.15 million is home to approximately one out of every sixteen residents of Kazakhstan. Answer: _Almaty_ (Alma-Ata) --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="11"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="11" John's Complete Questions Packet #11 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. The daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court justice, she was a talented painter and the author of one novel, _Save Me the Waltz_, but she is better remembered for her two mental breakdowns and bizarre death in an insane-asylum fire. FTP, name this icon of the Jazz Age, whose troubles inspired her husband's novel, "The Crack- Up." Answer: _Zelda Fitzgerald_ 2. It was said of this conflict that everybody agreed it had to be fought, but that nobody could agree where to fight it. As a result, there was preliminary skirmishing in Finland, Transylvania, Bulgaria, and the White Sea before both sides settled on a theater of battle near the towns of Simferopol, Malakov, and Sevastopol. FTP, name this Anglo-Franco-Turko-Russian war of 1854. Answer: The _Crimean_ War 3. It contains only two phylums, Schizophya and Cyanophta, and it is the Linnean Kingdom with the smallest number of distinct species. At the same time, if you count by total population of organisms, it is the largest kingdom, as over half the life on earth today belongs to it. FTP, name this kingdom of simple procaryotic organisms such as blue-green algae and bacteria. Answer: _Monerans_ 4. His symbol was a disk with three arms, which held up the symbol for "life." His cult does not appear in any records before the fifteenth century B.C. and was brutally supressed soon afterwards, and although the god disappeared without a trace from his native pantheon, it is very possible that the cult exercised a significant influence on pre-exodus Judaism. FTP, name this Egyptian sun-god, whom Amenhotep IV tried to make the centerpiece of a monotheistic state religion. Answer: _Aten_ 5. If you are a skip, your goal is to throw the elusive eight- ender. If you are a team, you might hope to win the Labatt Brier, the most prestigious of all bonspiels, or, since 1992, a gold at the Winter Olympics. FTP, name this sport in which groups of Canadians stand on a frozen lake and rub the ice with a broom. Answer: _Curling_ 6. On one level, it is a parody of _Macbeth_, telling the story of a cowardly, gluttonous imbecile who usurps the throne of Poland. But its plot is ultimately less important than its humor, which is mostly scatological, and its revolutionary misuse of the French language. FTP, name this work by Alfred Jarry that launched the absurdist movement in drama. Answer: _Ubu Roi_ 7. In 1290, Edward I of England became the first medieval European monarch to do this. France followed suit in 1306, Portugal in 1496, Naples in 1510, Milan in 1597, and Russia in 1642, but the most notorious one of all was ordered by Spain's Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. FTP, such were the explusions from Europe of what people? Answer: expulsion of _Jews_ 8. The first expermiental evidence of it came during a cosmic ray experiment by Carl D. Anderson in 1932, two years after it had been predicted by Dirac. Anderson not only coined its name, but also proposed a more correct term for its matter counterpart, and while the former stuck, the latter did not, and as a result the electron continues to be called the electron and not the negatron. FTP, name this first antiparticle to be discovered. Answer: _Positron_ (prompt on antimatter) 9. It is based on Victor Hugo's play _Le Roi s'amuse_, and its title character is the sidekick of the Duke of Mantua, who is forced to take a new view of his master's skirt-chasing when he suspects that his own daughter Gilda may be the next target. Although he tries to kill the Duke, he ends up killing his daughter instead, and everybody lives unhappily ever after. FTP, name this Verdi opera about a hunchbacked jester. Answer: _Rigoletto_ 10. The sensorimotor phase is characterized by egotism. The preoperational child is still egocentric, but develops language skills and rudimentary logic. With concrete operations comes hierarchical thinking, and finally, around age 12, the formal operations stage sets in. FTP, this is a crude outline of whose four stages of cognitive development? Answer: Jean _Piaget_ 11. During the 1980s, this job was held by historian Daniel Boorstin, and it was Boorstin who first performed what is now the office's most prominent function-- the selection of the U.S. poet laureate. By far the most famous person ever to have this title was Archibald MacLeish, and the current office-holder is historian James Billington. FTP, name this government job, the primary duty of which is to supervise the nation's largest collection of books. Answer: _Librarian of Congress_ 12. His first senate race was a mudslinging 1950 contest against Hollywood socialite Helen Douglas, who accused him of being soft on communism-- a bizarre claim to make, considering that it was his impassioned red-baiting during the Alger Hiss hearings that first made him a national figure. FTP, name this California politician, who won his only Senate race and went on to be picked as Dwight Eisenhower's running mate for 1952. Answer: Richard _Nixon_ 13. Probably the most famous alumnus of the University of Ashkabad, he was only in his twenties when he co-invented the Tokamak process for confining a plasma within a magnetic field, and in 1953, he became the youngest person ever elected to the USSR Academy of Sciences. However, his 1975 Nobel Prize was awarded not for his work on theoretical physics, but rather for his work for human rights and disarmament. FTP, name this physicist and dissident. Answer: Andrei _Sakharov_ 14. As a teenager, he got a job as piano tutor for Nadezhda von Meck, the Russian artistocrat who also served as Tchiakovsky's patroness, and it was through her circle that he was able to absorb the new styles of composition that had been developed by the Russian Five. Returning to France, he won the 1884 Prix de Rome for one of his early pieces, a cantata which was appropriately- enough titled "L'enfant prodigue," and this was followed by such works as _Homage to Mr. Pickwick_, _Berceuse Heroique_, and _Sacred and Profane Dances for Harp and Orchestra_, and FTP, name this composer whose only opera was _Pelleas and Melisande_. Answer: Claude _Debussy_ 15. After five years of independence and democracy, voters in this voted overwhelmingly in November 1996 for an effective return to authoritarian rule, placing dictatorial power in the hands on a man who wants the country to return to life as a province of the larger country next door. FTP, name this former Soviet republic, ruled by Alexander Lukashenko. Answer: Belarus 16. He appears more often in the surviving Greek tragedies than any other character, with parts in seven different plays-- or eight, if you count his non-speaking appearance as a baby in Euripides' _Iphigenia in Aulis_. Of his seven other appearances, six are adaptations of the same legend, the exception being Euripides' _Andromache_, in which he is the villain. FTP, name this hero of a trilogy by Aeschylus, whose murder of his mother seems to have been the most frequently-dramatized myth in ancient tragedy. Answer: _Orestes_ 17. Founded around 1120, the charter for this religious order was written up by St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Around 1300, it began putting its fantastic wealth to use as a bank for Europe's crowned heads, but when it tried to collect on a loan from Philip IV of France, the French King sent out his army, confiscated most of its land, and persuaded the Pope to declare it heretical. FTP, name this crusading order, whose last grandmaster was burned at the stake in 1312, and whose rumoured underground afterlife was the plot premise for Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_. Answer: The Knights _Templars_ 18. It was the end-product of a famous experiment that was designed to produce inorganic ammonium cyanate from the heated salts of potassium cyanate and ammonium sulfate. Unexpectedly, this experiment did not produce ammonium cyanate, but instead produced one of its isomers, an organic substance normally produced in the liver. FTP, name this compound whose synthesis by Freidrich Wohler launched modern organic chemistry. Answer: _Urea_ 19. He set the poetry of Walt Whitman to music in his "Ode to Death," while his tone poem "At the Boar's Head" was inspired by Shakespeare's Falstaff plays. Other compositions were adapted from rather unlikely literary sources, including the novels of Thomas Hardy ("Egdon Heath") and the ancient Hindu scriptures ("Rig Veda"). Many of these works have been rediscovered in recent years, a welcome change from the time not long ago when he was remembered only for a single seven-movement tone poem. FTP, name this Anglo-Swedish composer whose most popular work is still "The Planets." Answer: Gustav _Holst_ 20. Beethoven begins his first symphony, and Jacques-Louis David paints The Rape of the Sabine Women. Balzac and Pushkin are born. At Rosetta, a trilingual stone is excavated and the science of Egyptology is born. For ten points, all these events took place in what year, which also saw Napoleon's overthrow of the Directorate and the death of George Washington? Answer: 1799 John's Complete Questions Packet #11 (Medium) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For the stated number of points, identify these members of Germany's "Sturm und Drang" movement, given a title of one of their works. 1. For five: "The Sorrows of Young Werther." Answer: Johann Wolfgang von _Goethe_ 2. For ten: "The Robbers." Answer: Friedrich _Schiller_ 3. For fifteen: "Sturm und Drang." Answer: Friedrich _Klinger_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For the stated number of points, identify these places in ancient Rome. 1. For five: also known as the Amphitheatrum Flavium, it was completed by the Emperor Titus in A.D. 80. Answer: The _Colosseum_ 2. For ten: this open plain outside the city walls was originally used for military training exercises, served as the site of most large public assemblies, and was occasionally flooded for naval exhibitions. Answer: _Campus Martius_ or the Plain of _Mars_ 3. For fifteen: named a mythological traitor, this was the cliff off of which the Romans would throw their condemned criminals. Answer: _Tarpenius mons_ or the _Tarpenian_ Rock 25 POINT BONUS 3. For five points each and a five-point bonus for all five: given an unmanned space probe and the year in which it was launched, name the celestial body which it was sent to observe. 1. Galileo (1986) Answer: _Jupiter_ 2. Mariner 9 (1971) Answer: _Mars_ 3. Surveyor 5 (1967) Answer: _Moon_ 4. Giotto (1985) Answer: _Halley's Comet_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. There are not many great operas that have been written by Americans, but there are a couple of great operas that have been set in America. For fifteen points each, identify these two works which fall into the latter category. 1. This Verdi work revolves around a plot to assassinate the Governor of Boston. In actuality, it is a thinly veiled account of the murder of Sweden's King Gustavus III, with the setting changed at the last minute in order to placate the censors. Answer: _A Masked Ball_ 2. Adapted from a play by American playwright David Belasco, this Puccini opera is set during the California gold rush of 1849. Answer: The _Girl of the Golden West_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. Identify the song, 30-20-10. 1. Selected by Dave Barry as the absolute worst pop song of all time, it was written in 1967 by Jim Webb for the group Fifth Dimension, who refused to record it. 2. It was first recorded by Richard Harris, and reached a peak of number two on the Billboard pop charts in June of 1968. 3. The better-known disco version of this song about leaving cakes out in the rain was released in 1978 by Donna Summer. Answer: "_MacArthur Park_" 30 POINT BONUS 6. John Dryden is usually recognized as England's first Poet Laureate. For five points each and a maximum of thirty, name any six of Dryden's successors. Answer: Thomas _Shadwell_ Nahum _Tate_ Nicholas _Rowe_ Laurence _Eusden_ Colley _Cibber_ William _Whitehead_ Thomas _Warton_ Henry _Pye_ Robert _Southey_ William _Wordsworth_ Alfred, Lord _Tennyson_ Alfred _Austin_ Robert _Bridges_ John _Masefield_ Cecil _Day Lewis_ John _Betjeman_ Ted _Hughes_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Time for another round of obsolete geography, using John's trusty 1940-vintage world atlas. Given an African colony, name the colonial or provincial capital. Ten points each. 1. Southern Rhodesia Answer: _Salisbury_ 2. Belgian Congo Answer: _Leopoldville_ 3. French West Africa Answer: _Dakar_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Time now for a bonus on one of this writer's favorite topics, medieval psychology. You are the local barber, and between haircuts the following ill persons come to you for a vigorous bloodletting. Given a description of their mental ailments, identify which of the four bodily humors you must drain to set them back to normal, according to Galen. Ten points each, but be careful, as a wrong answer will upset their balance even further. 1. "Rob" is extremely apathetic and lethargic. He suffers from fatigue and has difficulty waking up in the morning. Answer: _Phlegm_ 2. "Nitin" is excitable, short-tempered, and violent. At the slightest provocation, he will strike people who irritate him. Answer: _Yellow Bile_ 3. "John" is extremely sad, isolated, and despondent. Having practically withdrawn from the world, he now spends most of his time reading depressing poetry and throwing himself off bridges. Answer: _Black Bile_ or _Melancholia_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. For five points each, given a world river, name the specific body of water it empties into. 1. The Volga Answer: _Caspian_ Sea 2. The Uruguay Answer: Rio de la _Plata_ 3. The Lena Answer: _Laptev_ Sea (prompt on Atlantic) 4. The Ganges Answer: Bay of _Bengal_ (prompt on Indian) 5. The Yensei Answer: _Kara_ Sea (prompt on Arctic) 6. The Hwang Ho Answer: _Yellow_ Sea (prompt on Pacific) 30 POINT BONUS 10. In the history of the world series, there have been only two one-hitters. For five points each part and a total of thirty, identify the pitchers who threw these one-hitters, the teams they played for at the time, and the batters who got the one hit off of them. Answer: Bill _Bevens_ of the New York _Yankees_, broken up by Cookie _Lavagetto_ (1947); Tom _Glavine_ of the Atlanta _Braves_, broken up by Tony _Pena_ (1995). 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify the author from his works. 30-20-10. 1. _Catiline_; _The Devil is an Ass_ 2. _Bartholemew Fair_; _Sejanus_ 3. _Every Man in His Humour_; _Volpone_ Answer: Ben _Jonson_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the first four successors of Mohammed. 1. For ten: by what Arabic name, meaning "rightly-guided," are the first four caliphs known? Answer: _Rashidun_ 2. Next, for five points apiece, name any two of the Rashidun caliphs. Answer: _Abu Bakr_, _Omar_, _Othman_, _Ali_ 3. The Islamic world split into two factions after the death of Ali. For a final five points each, name these two sects. Answer: _Sunni_; _Shia_ or _Shiite_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. For ten points each, identify these people and projects which have tried to make contact with extraterrestrial life forms. 1. Considered the first person to seriously think about attracting the attention of aliens, his idea was that a Pythagorean right triangle should be inscribed on the surface of Siberia in a size big enough to be recognized from outer space. Answer: Carl Friedrich _Gauss_ 2. In 1960, he launched Project Ozma, a private search of two star systems for organized radio signals. Earlier, he had lent his name to an equation which attempts to quantify the probability of extraterrestrial contact. Answer: Frank _Drake_ 3. Finally launched in 1992, this NASA microwave survey of the sky was the proud winner of several "Golden Fleece" awards given by Senator William Proxmire. Answer: _SETI_ (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) 30 POINT BONUS 14. For ten points each, give the geographically-inspired nicknames of the following symphonies. 1. Schumann, 3rd Answer: _Rhenish_ 2. Shostakovich, 7th Answer: _Leningrad_ 3. Mendelssohn, 3rd Answer: _Scottish_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For the stated number of points, identify the straits, given the two land masses its separates. 1. For five: Oman and Iran Answer: _Hormuz_ 2. For ten: Vancouver Island and Washington Answer: _Juan de Fuca_ 3. For fifteen: Corsica and Sardinia Answer: _ Bonuses facio_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For the stated number of points, given a list of neurotic Norweigans, identify the Ibsen play in which they all appear. 1. 5 pts: Nora Helmer, Torvald Helmer, Dr. Rank, Nils Krogstad. Answer: _A Doll's House_ 2. 10 pts: Judge Brack, Eilert Lovborg, George Tesman. Answer: _Hedda Gabler_ 3. 15 pts: Manders, Engstrand, Oswald Alving. Answer: _Ghosts_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For fifteen points each, identify the following popes named "Innocent." 1. Reigning from 1198 until 1216, this masterful politician raised the papacy to its greatest-ever level of temporal power. Answer: Innocent _III_ 2. A weak pope who reigned from 1644 to 1655, his career was notable only for his clumsy attempts to suppress the Jansenists in 1653. He is better known, however, as the subject of famous paintings by Velasquez and Francis Bacon. Answer: Innocent _X_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, identify the element or compound that is synthesized or isolated by each of the following processes. 1. The Haber process Answer: _Ammonia_ 2. The Leblanc process Answer: _Sodium Carbonate_ 3. The Falcounbridge process Answer: _Nickel_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For ten points each, identify these one-hit wonders of opera, given the title of their one and only hit. 1. _Russlan and Ludmilla_ Answer: Mikhail _Glinka_ 2. _The Merry Widow_ Answer: Franz _Lehar_ 3. _La Gioconda_ Answer: Amilcare _Ponichielli_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. In the 1992 movie "Batman Returns," Tim Burton paid homage to a much older (and better) gothic film with his choice of a name for one of the main villains. For the stated number of points: 1. First, for ten points, name the evil developer played by Christopher Walken in "Batman Returns." Answer: _Max Schreck_ 2. Max Schreck was also the name of the lead actor in one of the great horror films of early German cinema. For ten points each part, name this earliest movie treatment of the Dracula legend, and name the director of that 1922 film. Answer: _Nosferatu_; F.W. _Murnau_ --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="12"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="12" John's Complete Questions Packet #12 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. It is, according to its full title, a plan "for preventing the children of poor people from being a burden to their parents or the country, and for making them beneficial to the public." The solution it offers for the problem of Irish poverty is to use babies from poor families as food for the rich, and it concludes with several cannibalistic recipies for that purpose. For ten points, name this very tounge-in-cheek pamphlet tract by Jonathan Swift. Answer: _A Modest Proposal_ 2. Featured in Eugene O'Neill's play _The Hairy Ape_, this group organized over 150 strikes and acts of sabotage between 1905, when it was founded by a group of AFL defectors, and 1917, when most of its leadership was imprisoned under the World War I anti-sedition laws, causing the group to fade permanently from the political scene. FTP, name this only prominent anarcho-syndicalist organization in American history, led by "Big Bill" Haywood. Answer: The _I_ndustrial _W_orkers of the _W_orld (accept: Wobblies) 3. One beam of intense monochromatic light hits the subject, then is refracted onto a photographic film. A second beam goes directly to the film, setting up an interference pattern. The resulting process has been used in everything from movies to seismic exploration to advertising to micrography, and led to a 1971 Nobel Prize for its creator. FTP, name this system of three-dimensional imaging invented by Dennis Gabor. Answer: The _Holograph_ 4. Johann Gottfried abandoned music for law, while Wilhelm was a gifted organist whose career and talent were destroyed by alcoholism. Johann Christoph was a prolific writer of church music, and Johann Christian was once London's leading operatic composer, but the most successful brother of all was Carl Philip Emmanuel, who is even today regarded as the most important composer in the transition from Baroque to Classical. FTP, give the surname of these musical brothers, whose father, Johann Sebastian, was also a composer of some note. Answer: _Bach_ 5. In 1908 he won the world title from the Tommy Burns, and in 1915 he lost it after being knocked out in the 27th round by Jess Willard. Sometimes considered the greatest fighter of all time, he was also one of the most controversial, owing to his flamboyance and defiance of traditional racial roles. FTP, name this man, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion. Answer: Jack _Johnson_ 6. He seems to have been a historical figure, although all we know for sure about him is that his father was named Echecratides, and that he lived in the deme of Collytus during the time of the Second Peloponnesian War. The butt of several jokes by Aristophanes, he is also mentioned by Plutarch, Libianus, Lucian, and Ausonius, and was the subject of Schiller's "Der Menschenfeind." FTP, name this famed Athenian miser and misanthropist, the title character of a minor play by Shakespeare. Answer: _Timon_ of Athens 7. It is believed that one member of the execution team was future Hungarian premier Imre Nagy, who would meet his own death in front of another Soviet firing squad 38 years later. During the execution itself, many of the victims appeared to be bulletproof, although this later turned out to be because of the diamonds they had secretly sewn into their clothing. And there were rumors that some of the children had managed to get away-- a rumor that received a boost when their mass grave was discovered and found to be two corpses short in 1990. FTP, such was the execution of what royal family, killed in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 1918? Answer: The _Romanovs_ (or the family of _Nicholas II_) 8. 6:00 pm, October 24, 3936 B.C., according to Hevelius. Sunday, April 27, 4977 B.C., according to Kepler. 3500 B.C. (no date or month given), according to Isaac Newton. October 22, 4004 B.C., according to Bishop James Ussher. FTP, such were the theorized dates for what event, which is now thought to have occurred sometime between 15 and 20 billion years ago? Answer: _Creation_ of the Universe (accept creation of earth if answered before the word billion) 9. The subject of an 1838 opera by Berlioz, his best-known works include a bronze statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa and a gold salt-cellar commissioned by Francis I. However, he is much more important for his writings, which give a vivid account of life in 16th-century Italy. FTP, name this Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, the author of a celebrated _Autobiography_. Answer: Benvenuto _Cellini_ 10. The first winner was Dick Wilmarth, who took home first prize in 1973. Since then, the race has been dominated by Rick Swenson, who had five victories as of 1992, and Susan Butcher, who had four. FTP, name this race whose winning times have ranged between eleven and twenty-one days, which is run every year between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. Answer: The _Iditarod_ 11. Born Johanna Heusser in 1827, she lived her entire life in a secluded village near Zurich and did not publish her first story until she was 43. Later works of hers include _Mazli_, _Gritti's Children_, _Moni_, and _The Goat Boy_, and while these were all successful, none ever achieved the fame of her debut novel, an 1880 story about a young girl growing up in the Alps. FTP, name this author of _Heidi_. Answer: Johanna _Spyri_ 12. She is the only woman buried in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican-- a posthumous reward for her converision to Catholicism, which caused her to lose her throne in 1654. A generous patron of the arts and one of the most eccentric figures of her age, she is usually held responsible for the death of Hugo Grotius and Rene Descartes, both of whom died of pneumonia after being forced to give her outdoor lessons at five in the morning. FTP, name this monarch, the daughter and successor of Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus. Answer: _Christina_ 13. He was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna in 1771 when he made the revolutionary discovery that if you take an ordinary frog, impale it on a copper hook, and attatch the hook to an iron rod, the legs of the frog will twitch. However, he mistakenly attributed this to "animal electricity," a force which he thought existed in the muscle tissue, and not from the contact between the dissimilar metals, as Volta latter proved. FTP, name this physiologist who is credited with developing the first electric cell. Answer: Luigi _Galvani_ 14. The first man to suggest that Yellowstone be turned into a national park, he was the principal architect for Chicago's 1893 World Fair. Along with his partner Calbert Vaux, he produced many of 19th-century America's most famous urban plans, including the Boston city park system and the campus of Stanford University. FTP, name this landscape architect, whose most famous creation is New York's Central Park. Answer: Frederick Law _Olmstead_ 15. Chekhov and Dvorak die, and Graham Greene, Marlene Dietrich, and Salvador Dali are born. The Abbey Theater and the Rolls-Royce company are founded, and Rutherford postulates the basic theory of radioactivity. War breaks out between Japan and Russia, work begins on the Panama Canal, the world series is canceled, and the Lewis and Clark World's Fair closes. FTP, all this happened in what year, in which St. Louis hosted the Olympics? Answer: 1904 16. The title is (almost) the same: with no article, it is a 1917 poem by T.S. Eliot about the empty relationship of a repressed English couple. With the article, it is the title of a 1881 Henry James novel whose main characters are Gilbert Osmond and Isabel Archer. FTP, give either of these nearly identical titles. Answer: (The_ _Portrait of a Lady_) 17. At the time of his death, he had been the subject of the world's largest statue ever dedicated to a living person- a sixty- foot bronze likeness of himself in the main square of his capital city. This was an appropriately ostentatious self-tribute for a man whose official titles included Beloved Leader, Greatest Genius Mankind Has Ever Known, and the comparatively modest Great Leader. FTP, name this deceased Stalinist dictator of North Korea. Answer: _Kim Il Sung_ 18. This member of order edentata and family bradypodidae is the only mammal not to have seven vertebrae in its neck. Because its limbs are of unequal length, it can crawl only with considerable difficulty, and as a result, it is almost completely arboreal, living most of its life suspended upside-down from tree branches by its hooked, three-toed feet. FTP, name this nocturnal mammal and namesake for a deadly sin. Answer: The _Sloth_ 19. Born in 1844, she was the daughter of a miller named Francois Soubirous. She joined the order of the sisters of Notre Dame de Nevers in 1866 and died at the age of 35, but she is pricipally remembered for a vision she had at the age of 14 in which the Virgin Mary ordered her to build a church and revealed to her a spring, which is today the largest Catholic pilgrimage destination in Europe. For ten points, name this French mystic, canonized in 1933, whose visions took place near the town of Lourdes. Answer: _Bernadette_ 20. In 1971, a woman in Lancashire, England was brutally raped by a gang of teenagers who broke into her house at night. Shortly after, this popular film was removed from distribution in Britain, and has not legally been shown there since. The connection between the two events was that the Lancashire rapists sang a chorus of "Singin' in the Rain" during their crime, apparently in imitation of a notorious rape scene from the film. FTP, name this film which Stanley Kubrick adapted from a novel by Anthony Burgess. Answer: _A Clockwork Orange_ John's Complete Questions Packet #12 (Medium) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. Consider the three great Roland poems of the middle ages and Renaissance: _Orlando Furioso_ by Ariosto, _Orlando Innamorato_ by Boiardo_, and the _Song of Roland_ by anonymous. Now for the stated number of points: 1. First, for ten points all or nothing, place these works in chronological order according to when they were written. Answer: _Song_, _Innamorato_, _Furioso_ 2. For five: in which one of these works does Roland die? Answer: _Song_ 3. For five: name the only major character other than Roland to appear in all three works. Answer: _Charlemagne_ 4. For ten: name the Italian poetic meter in which both _Orlando Innamorato_ and _Orlando Furioso_ are written. Answer: _ottava rima_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For the stated number of points, identify these things from the history of the former Zaire. 1. For five: born Joseph Desire, this notorious kleptokrat ruled Zaire from 1965 to 1997. Answer: _Mobutu_ Sese Seko 2. For ten: Mobutu was able to seize power thanks in part to a secession crisis that plunged the country into chaos in the 1960s. Name the southernmost and wealthiest province of the former Zaire, whose attempt to establish independence was crushed by a young Mobutu. Answer: _Katanga_ or _Shaba_ 3. For fifteen: Mobutu's last serious rival in the 1960s, he was the self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Katanga. Answer: Moise Kapenda _Tshombe_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For the stated number of points, identify these sociological terms for the rules that a society imposes on its members. 1. For ten: from the Latin for "customs," these are the usually- unwritten norms that are seen as central to the behavior of respectable people within society and whose violation might be condemned as subversive. One example is the custom of standing and removing one's hat during the national anthem. Answer: _Mores_ or _Mos_ 2. For five: a proscriptive, or negative mos, this Polynesian- derived word describes a societal rule about what should not be done under any circumstances. One example is the prohibition of incest. Answer: _Taboo_ 3. For fifteen: these describe the conventions of everyday life that define normal behavior, but which carry little or no moral significance. Unlike mores and taboos, the violation of these is unlikely to be punished with anything more than ridicule. Examples include dressing according to fashion and keeping one's lawn mowed. Answer: _Folkways_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For ten points each, given a famous opera and its composer, name the person who wrote the libretto. 1. _Das Rheingold_, Wagner Answer: Richard _Wagner_ 2. _Don Giovanni_, Mozart Answer: Lorenzo _Da Ponte_ 3. _The Rake's Progress_, Stravinsky Answer: W.H. _Auden_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For ten points each, answer these questions about the arcade game "Pac-Man." 1. First, for ten points, all or nothing, name the four ghosts from the original Pac-Man. Answer: _Blinky_, _Pinky_, _Inky_, _Clyde_ 2. Blinky, Pinky, and Inky all returned for Ms. Pac-Man, but Clyde did not. Give the name of the orange ghost which replaced Clyde for the sequel. Answer: _Sue_ 3. While both Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man were very successful, the third Pac-Man game was not. FTP, name this ambitious but hopelessly complicated sequel which combined electronic and pinball elements. Answer: _Pac-Man Jr._ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about Shakespeare. 1. For five: what is the most frequently-appearing name in Shakespeare's plays? (indefinite designations like "attendant," "soldier," "ghost" etc. do not count). Answer: _Antonio_ 2. For an additional five points each, name the five Shakespeare plays in which characters named "Antonio" appear. Answer: _The Merchant of Venice_; _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_; _Twelfth Night_; _Much Ado About Nothing_; _The Tempest_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Identify the year, 30-20-10. 1. An eleven-year-old child prodigy named Niccolo Paganini makes his concert debut. In France, the Louvre opens its doors as a national art gallery, and and David paints "The Death of Marat." 2. Marat is murdered, Poland is partitioned for a second time, and Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. 3. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are beheaded, and Robespierre launches the Reign of Terror. Answer: _1793_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. For ten points each: identify the following commonly-abused substances, given a brief scientific description of its composition and effects. 1. Chemical structure: Diacetylmorphine. A narcotic of greaty potency but shorter duration than morphine, it causes euphoria and severe addiction. Answer: _Heroin_ 2. Chemical structure: Trimethylxanthine. A mild CNS stimulant, taken in large doses it stimulates the heart and skeletal muscles while relaxing all vascular muscles except the brain. Causes diuresis. Answer: _Caffeine_ 3. Chemical structure: Pyridyl methylpyrrolidine. A secondary depressant and CNS stimulant, it mimics acetylcholine, releases epinephrine, and reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of the bloodstream. Answer: _Nicotine_ 25 POINT BONUS 9. For five points each: given the standard-repertoire work of classical music, name the composer. 1. "Birthday Ode to Queen Anne" Answer: Georg _Handel_ 2. The "Trout" Quintet_ Answer: Franz _Schubert_ 3. The "Egmont" Overture Answer: Ludwig van _Beethoven_ 4. The "Scythian" Suite Answer: Sergei _Prokofiev_ 5."Carnival of the Animals" Answer: Camille _Saint-Saens_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For ten points each, identify these significant lines. 1. Also known as the "Western Wall," this German counterpart to France's Maginot Line was built shortly after Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland. Answer: The _Siegfried_ Line 2. This term was coined by George Brett and refers to a mediocre utility infielder for the Pirates and Mariners; in baseball, it is the mythical batting average which separates the merely bad hitters from the truly awful ones. Answer: The _Mendoza_ Line 3. These dark bands in the solar spectrum are the result of the absorbtion of radiation from the solar interior by elements in the corona. Answer: _Fraunhofer_ Lines 30 POINT BONUS 11. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about William Faulkner. 1. 5 pts: name the fictional Mississippi county that is the setting for virtually all of Faulkner's novels and stories. Answer: _Yoknapatawpha_ 2. 10 pts: name the 1927 novel in which Yoknapatawpha County made its first appearance. Answer: _Sartoris_ 3. Before writing _Sartoris_, Faulkner had published two other novels which did not involve Yoknapatawpha County. Name one of these books for five points, or name both of them for fifteen. Answer: _Soldiers' Pay_; _Mosquitoes_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For ten points each, name the non-Russian ethnic groups to which the following Soviet celebrities belonged. 1. Lavrenti Beria (head of the NKVD under Stalin) Answer: _Georgian_ 2. Mikhail Botvinnik (the USSR's first world chess champion) Answer: _Jewish_ 3. Ruslan Khasbulatov (ex-speaker of the Parliament and leader of the failed 1993 uprising against Yeltsin) Answer: _Chechen_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Identify the dead person, 30-20-10. 1. His daughter Lyubov married the great Russian poet Alexander Blok, and is thought to be the model for the character of Sofia in Andrei Bely's novel _Petersburg_. 2. He never managed to be elected to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and shortly before his death in 1906, he lost the Nobel Prize in Chemistry by one vote. As a sort of compensation, his name was later given to element 101. 3. This Russian chemist is most important for devising the modern periodic table. Answer: Dmitri _Mendeleev_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For the stated number of points, identify the following works by Sergei Prokofiev. 1. 5 pts: this piece for narrator, orchestra, and dancers tells a children's story by using a different instrument to represent each character; it is probably the most-frequently performed of Prokofiev's works today. Answer: _Peter and the Wolf_ 2. Prokofiev wrote memorable scores for two films by director Sergei Eisenstein. For ten points, name either of these films. Answer: _Ivan the Terrible_ or _Alexander Nevsky_ 3. Prokofiev also wrote four operas, which are unfortunately only rarely performed in the West. For fifteen points, name any of these. Answer: _Love for Three Oranges_; _War and Peace_; _The Story of a Real Man_; _The Fiery Angel_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For five points each, give the real names of the following actors and actresses. 1. Marilyn Monroe Answer: Norma Jean _Baker_ or _Mortensen_ 2. Nicholas Cage Answer: Nicholas _Coppola_ 3. Redd Foxx Answer: John _Sanford_ 4. Albert Brooks Answer: Albert _Einstein_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For five points each part, given a title from Russian literature, name both the author and the composer who would later write its operatic adaptation. 1. _Boris Godunov_ Answer: Alexander _Pushkin_ and Modest _Mussorgsky_ 2. "The Nose" Answer: Nikolai _Gogol_ and Dmitri _Shostakovich_ 3. _Mozart and Salieri_ Answer: Alexander _Pushkin_ and Nikolai _Rimsky-Korsakov_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Identify these wars of European history, given the names of some distinguished commanders. 10 points on the first clue, 5 if you need a second. 1. 10 pts: Johannes von Tilly, Heinrich Holk 5 pts: Albrecht von Wallenstein Answer: _Thirty Years' War_ 2. 10 pts: Paul von Rennenkampf, Robert Nivelle 5 pts: Ferdinand Foch Answer: _World War I_ 3. 10 pts: Louis de Vendome, Jacques de Berwick 5 pts: Prince Eugen of Savoy, the Duke of Marlborough Answer: War of _Spanish Succession_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For fifteen points each, identify the following parts of the human brain. 1. This large tract of axons connects the two hemispheres of the brain. If it is severed, a person's right hand will literally not know what the left hand is doing. Answer: _Corpus Callosum_ 2. Positioned near the center of the brain, these five large nuclei carry signals from the cortex to the thalamus and are responsible for motor functions. Deficiencies of them often lead to Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases. Answer: _Basal Ganglia_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For ten points each, given a conductor, name the orchestra for which they served as Music Director as of January 1996. 1. Daniel Barenboim Answer: _Chicago_ Symphony 2. Leonard Slatkin Answer: Washington _National_ Symphony 3. Christoph von Dohnanyi Answer: _Cleveland_ Symphony 25 POINT BONUS 20. The topic is "Travels with John Edwards." Given a description, name the place visited by John on his most recent vacation. Five points each. 1. John started off in this city, where he visited Balboa Park and the Mirimar Naval Air Station. Answer: _San Diego_ 2. John then flew to this midwestern city, where he took a stroll down Hiawatha Avenue and visited Augsburg College. Answer: _Minneapolis_ 3. John then borrowed a friend's Jeep Cherokee and drove 470 miles down Interstate 94 to this city and its fashionable Gold Coast neighborhood. Answer: _Chicago_ 4. Next, John traded the Jeep for a Lexus and drove to this East coast state, visiting a Revolutionary War cemetery in the town of Pennsville. Answer: _New Jersey_ 5. Finally, John visited this suburb of Miami, where he admired the mansion of fashion designer Gianni Versace. Answer: _South Beach_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="13"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="13" John's Complete Questions Packet #13 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. The first words of his diary are, "Six days since I entered the clinic. I've had gonorrhea-- from the usual source." Years later, on the eve of his wedding, he forced Sofia Beers, his bride-to-be, to read through this and other accounts of his youthful high living-- probably a mistake, since she made a habit of spying on his private journals for the rest of their married life. FTP, name this sage of Yasnaya Polyana, who later became a fanatical advocate of celibacy, and whose troubled marriage formed the inspiration for his novella _The Kreutzer Sonata_. Answer: Leo _Tolstoy_ 2. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, companies of this name were chartered by the governments of Holland, France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark, but of these only the Dutch version came close to matching the dominance of the British one, which first became powerful as the result of the extraordinary trade privileges granted to it by the Mogul emperors. For ten points, give the common name of these companies, the most successful of which founded a private colonial empire in South Asia. Answer: The _East India_ Company 3. During World War I, he served as chief of Germany's chemical warfare division, and personally oversaw the invention of many of the poison gas compounds used in the war. Because of this, many Western countries refused to grant him asylum in 1933, when he was forced to flee Germany because of his Jewish ancestry. FTP, name this scientist, who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of ammonia. Answer: Fritz _Haber_ 4. According to his haigiography, he was a soldier who converted to Christianity during the reign of Diocletian, then singlehandedly conquered an Islamic kingdom located somehwere near the Holy Land-- apparently oblivious to the fact that the Moslems did not actually appear until about three centuries later. Nevertheless, the Middle Eastern motif made him a favorite for crusaders, and eventually he was proclaimed a patron saint of Venice, Genoa, England, Portugal, and Catalonia. FTP, name this dragon-slaying saint, whose cross still appears on the British flag. Answer: St. _George_ 5. When this product was first marketed in 1929, it was called Bib- Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. As the name suggested, its secret ingredient was Lithium Carbonate, which is now a controlled substance sometimes used to treat manic-depression. Soon afterwards, it was given a shorter name which made reference to the lithium high its drinkers would get, and while lithium was phased out in the 1940s, the name has remained. FTP, name this carbonated lemon-lime beverage. Answer: _Seven-Up_ 6. When his wife Elizabeth Siddal died in 1862, he gathered what he felt were his best unpublished poems and placed them in her casket, destroying all other copies. By 1869, he had found happiness with another woman, and so he ordered Elizabeth exhumed so he could retrieve the poems. These were published as _The House of Life_, the work which established his reputation as an original poet. Of course, by this time, he was already well-known as translator, critic, and painter. FTP, name this man who, along with Ford Maddox Brown, Holman Hunt, and John Millais, founded the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. Answer: Dante Gabriel _Rossetti_ 7. Born in the Soviet Union circa 1952, she made history as the first female in space when she was launched into orbit aboard Sputnik II on November 3, 1957. Unfortunately, technology had not yet devised a way of bringing life forms back to earth, and she died one week later when her oxygen ran out. FTP, name this Soviet space dog, the first live animal launched into space. Answer: _Laika_ 8. As long as you are hungry, all your behavior will be directed toward finding food. Once you have eaten, you start to worry about safety, and once you are safe, you start filling the belonging and love needs. Beyond this is esteem, and beyond esteem, if you get that far, is self-actualization. FTP, name this model of human behavior, named for an american psychologist. Answer: _Maslow_'s Hierarchy of Motives (or Maslow's Pyramid, or Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs) 9. As a historical figure, he is most important for his victory in the battle of Karkar in 853 B.C., in which he led a coalition of states that temporarily blocked the westward expansion of Assyria. However, the Bible portrays him in a highly negative light, in large part because of his court's attempts to promote the pagan cult of Ba'al and his clashes with the prophet Elijah. FTP, name this Old Testament king, the husband of Jezebel and the namesake of the captain of the Pequod. Answer: _Ahab_ 10. It opened on May 21, 1975 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater on Lafayette Street, and two months later it moved uptown to Broadway's Schubert Theater. The winner of nine Tonys and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for drama, it was directed by Michael Bennett and written by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban, and in 1989 it set a record with its 5,960th performance. FTP, name this musical which was recently surpassed by "Cats" as the longest-running show in Broadway history. Answer: A _Chorus Line_ 11. He was not yet famous in 1908 when he launched his first lecture tour, the topic of which was "Walt Whitman, American Vagabond." In 1920 he began combining these lectures with readings of his own poetry and concerts of folksongs, which he published in 1927 as _American Songbag_. FTP, name this poet, author of the poetry collections _Bronze Wood_ and _The People, Yes_, who won 1940 Pulitzer Prize in History for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. Answer: Carl _Sandburg_ 12. An Algonquian-Wakashan people of the Eastern Woodlands, at the time of their first contact with the Europeans, their territory ranged from the Cumberland mountains to South Carolina. Forced to migrate to Ohio in 1756, after a long series of wars they were driven into Indiana, settling on the banks of the Tippecanoe river, where they lost a minor but well-publicized battle in 1811. FTP, name this people led by Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh. Answer: The _Shawnee_ 13. His technique for staining brain cells allowed Santiago Ramon y Cajal to make the first accurate studies of neuron structures, and for this, the two men were co-awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine. FTP, name this Italian cytologist, the namesake for a technique of staining brain cells and of an organelle complex found within the cytoplasm. Answer: Camillo _Golgi__ 14. With 90 percent of its territory covered by the Kara Kum desert, it is one of the most sparsely inhabited countries in the world, and in population, it is by far the smallest of the former Soviet Central Asian republics. FTP, name this newly independent nation which is bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Caspian Sea, and whose capital is Ashkhabad. Answer: _Turkmenstan_ 15. He became a national celebrity as the result of "Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace," a local TV news documentary which exposed the horrible conditions at a state institution for retarded children. Later, he worked as a correspondent for ABC's "Good Morning, America" and "20/20," and in 1986 he hosted the highest-rated syndicated special in history. However, that program also became his greatest professional embarassment, as there turned out to be nothing at all in Al Capone's vault. FTP, name this talk show host. Answer: Geraldo _Rivera_ 16. In the next-to-last scene, the title character kills two bad guys named Demetrius and Chiron, then bakes them into a meat pie. In the last scene, he serves this cannibalistic dish to Tamara, the mother of his victims. In the bloodbath that breaks out a few lines later, virtually all the play's main characters die, including the title character, Tamara, Saturnius, and Lavinia, who has been walking around since Act Two with amputated arms. FTP, name this only one of Shakespeare's Roman plays not inspired by historical events. Answer: _Titus Andronicus_ 17. His most famous pamphlet was "The State of the Rights of the Colonies," a polemic that was published in 1772 by the Committe of Correspondence, a group which he had formed to spread revolution to the less radicalized parts of his home state. A member of the Contenential Congress from 1774 until 1781, he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and he served a term as Lieurtenant Governor and a term as Governor of Massachusetts before retiring from politics in 1797. FTP, name this brewer and patriot. Answer: _Samuel Adams_ 18. This arthropod had a flat, oval body covered by a horny shell, and its body was divided lengthwise by three furrows, from which it got its name. Although its population began to decline after the Ordovician period, it managed to survive for another 200 million years and did become fully extinct until the end of the Permian. FTP, name this commonly-fossilized animal, the dominant form of ocean life during the Cambrian period. Answer: _Trilobite_ 19. He is not Andrew Lloyd Webber, but he did write the score of a musical called "Starlight Express." He is not Verdi, but he wrote a suite called "Falstaff." And he is not Handel, but the bulk of his output was a series of religious oratorios, the best of which are "The Apostles" and "The Dream of Gerontius." FTP, name this Englishman, who is best known for his "Variations on an Original Theme," as well as his seven "Pomp and Circumstance" marches. Answer: Sir Edward _Elgar_ 20. The American YMCA and the _New York Times_ are founded. Sojourner Truth steals the show at the Akron Women's Rights Convention. The sailing ship _America_ becomes the first winner of the Ten-Guinea Cup, afterwards known as the America's Cup. Herman Melville's _Moby Dick_ is published to great critical and public apathy. For ten points, all this occurred in what year, which was also the first full year in office for President Millard Fillmore? Answer: _1851_ John's Complete Questions Packet #13 (Medium) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. Identify the dead white male, 30-20-10. 1. First elected to Parliament in 1831, he served ten years as a Liberal before switching sides to the Conservatives. In 1858, he was appointed Secretary of the Colonies, and it was in that capacity that he founded the new colony of British Columbia. 2. His brother Henry was a British ambassador to the United States, who negotiated an important 1850 treaty which pledged cooperation between Britain in the U.S. in any future project to build a canal across Central America. 3. He is best remembered as the author of _The Last Days of Pompeii_ and _Paul Clifford_, which contains the famously bad opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night." Answer: Edward _Bulwer-Lytton_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. January, 1995 is shaping up to be a bad month for former African rulers. For fifteen points each, identify: 1. A former student at the University of Chicago, this doctor ruled Malawi with an iron fist for thirty years before being ousted in 1994. Though he is estimated to be nearly 100 years old, he is scheduled to go on trial for murdering political opponents. Answer: Hastings _Banda_ 2. Now hiding in Zimbabwe, this former communist dictator is expected to be sentenced to death in absentia by Ethopia's war crimes tribunal. Answer: _Mengistu_ Haile Mariam 30 POINT BONUS 3. For ten points each, identify the following related math things. [MODERATOR: Do not give correct answers after each part]. 1. This name is given to any prime number of the form two to the n power plus one. Answer: _Fermat Prime_ 2. This theorem states that for any integer n and prime p that is not its factor, n to the power p-minus-one is congruent to one modulo p. Answer: _Fermat's Little_ Theorem 3. This theorem states that if n is greater than two, then there are no integers x, y, and z such that x to the n plus y to the n equals z to the n. Answer: _Fermat's Last_ Theorem 30 POINT BONUS 4. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the Sphinx. 1. For ten: within 200 years, when was the Egyptian Sphinx built? Answer: _2532 B.C._ (accept: 2732 to 2132) 2. For fifteen: name the Pharoah who ordered the Sphinx built, and of whom the Sphinx's face is thought to be a likeness. Answer: _Khafre_ or _Chephren_ 3. Finally, a creature known as the Sphinx also appears in Greek mythology. For five, name the hero who killed her. Answer: _Oedipus_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. Identify the baseball team, 30-20-10. 1. This franchise won its first pennant with a team nicknamed the "hitless wonders," because their team batting average was a paltry .230 for the season. In the World Series of that year, they pulled off what is still one of baseball's great upsets, defeating a National League team that had won 116 games. 2. The year of that World Series was 1906, and it is also notable as baseball's first "subway series." 3. This franchise's most memorable World Series appearance was in 1919, when they lost to the Cincinnati Reds. Answer: Chicago _White Sox_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Identify the author from works, 30-20-10. 1. _The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey_ 2. _Shame_ and _Grimus_ 3. _Midnight's Children_ Answer: Salman _Rushdie_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Most military leagues are formed with a specific enemy in mind. For ten points each, given a historically significant military alliance, name the country (or other alliance) which it was originally designed to fight. 1. The Delian League Answer: _Persia_ 2. The League of Cambrai Answer: _Venice_ 3. The League of Augsburg Answer: _France_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Time now for a Linnean version of that old Sesame Street game, "Which of these things is not like the others?" Given some lists of four animals, identify which one is most unlike the others, according to Linnean classification. Ten points each. 1. Tapeworm, earthworm, leech, ragworm Answer: _Tapeworm_ 2. Weasel, raccoon, otter, skunk Answer: _Raccoon_ 3. Mud puppy, newt, salamander, tree frog Answer: _Tree frog_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Given the name of a non-independent (as of 1993) island, name the nation to which it belongs. Five points each. 1. Aruba Answer: _Netherlands_ 2. Montserrat Answer: _United Kingdom_ 3. Niue Answer: _New Zealand_ 4. Norfolk Island Answer: _Australia_ 5. Mayotte Answer: _France_ 6. Svalbard Answer: _Norway_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For five points each, give the name of the family dog in each of the following TV shows. 1. "The Simpsons" Answer: _Santa's Little Helper_ 2. "The Jetsons" Answer: _Astro_ 3. "The Duke's of Hazzard" (Roscoe's dog) Answer: _Flash_ 4. "Married... With Children" Answer: _Buck_ 5. "The Brady Bunch" Answer: _Tiger_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. For the stated number of points, identify these Shakespearean superlatives. 1. For five: this role has the most lines of any Shakespeare part within a single play. Answer: _Hamlet_ 2. For ten: this is Shakespeare's shortest play. Answer: _The Comedy of Errors_ 3. For fifteen: this is the Shakespeare play with the fewest stage directions (the text printed in the First Folio has none at all). Answer: _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Identify the organization, 30-20-10. 1. Its founder was a law professor and former Jesuit named Adam Weishaupt, and it officially dissolved in 1785, less than ten years after it had been founded. 2. Originally known as the Order of Perfectionists, its emblem was a pyramid-and-eyeball design very much like the one on the back of the one-dollar bill. 3. In the 1820s, Russian Tsar Alexander I claimed that this group had orchestrated the entire French Revolution, and still secretly existed, plotting even more mischief-- possibly with the aid of the Freemasons, with whom they were closely associated in many conspiracy theories. Answer: The Bavarian _Illuminati_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. For fifteen points each, identify these things that you might find in a really obsolete science textbook. 1. This substance was once thought to exist in all flammable materials and was supposedly released upon burning. Proposed in 1669 by Johann Beecher, its existence was not conclusively disproven until the time of Lavoisier. Answer: _Phlogestin_ 2. This process was supposed to reduce of one metal, most often lead, into prime matter. Then, by the careful addition of earth, air, wind, and water, the prime matter would recombine into some other material, such as gold. Answer: _Transmutation_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For ten points each, identify these Great Books of social and political philosophy, given their opening sentences. 1. "All states, all dominions that have held and do hold empire over men have been and are either republics or principalities." Answer: _The Prince_ 2. "Nature (The art by which God hath made and governs the world) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal." Answer: _Leviathan_ 3. "Since we see that every city is some sort of partnership, and that every partnership is constituted for the sake of some good, for everyone does everything for the sake of what is held to be good, it is clear that all partnerships aim at some good, and that he partnership that is most authoritative of all and embraces all the others does so particularly, and aims at the most authoritative good of all." Answer: Aristotle's _Politics_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For ten points each, answer these logic-game questions, which all seemed pretty cool to John when he was a sophomore in college. [note: the answers here are not the only possible correct answers, though all correct answers will have to follow their basic pattern]. 1. Ask a (brief) yes-or-no question which may be untruthfully answered yes or no, but which cannot ever be answered truthfully. (In other words: ask a yes-or-no question to which either possible answer will be incorrect under all circumstances.) 2. Ask a yes-or-no question than can be truthfully answered no but not yes, and which can not be untruthfully answered at all. 3. Ask a yes-or-no question which cannot be answered truthfully or untruthfully. possible answers: 1."Will the answer to this question be no?" 2."Will the answer to this question be an untruthful yes?" 3."Will the answer to this question be either a truthful no or an untruthful yes?" or: "Is it the case that the answer to this question will be yes if and only if it is untruthful?" or: "Is it the case that the answer to this question will be no if and only if it is truthful?" 30 POINT BONUS 16. Identify the following Japanese novelists: ten points if you can get them from the title of a work, five if you need a second clue that is related to suicide. 1. 10 pts: _The Temple of the Golden Pavilion_ 5 pts: He committed seppuku in 1970 after the failure of a rebellion led by his paramilitary Shield Society. Answer: Yukio _Mishima_ 2. 10 pts: _The Sound of the Mountain_ 5 pts: His suicide, which was partly prompted by the death of his friend Mishima, took place just four years after he won the Nobel Prize in literature. Answer: _Kawabata_ Yosunari 3. 10 pts: _Rashomon_ 5 pts: Shortly after his 1927 suicide, he became the namesake of one of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes. Answer: _Akutagawa_ Ryunosuke 30 POINT BONUS 17. The four highest-ranking officers killed in the U.S. Civil War all held the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Confederate army. You will receive five points for naming one of these generals, ten for two, twenty for three, and thirty for all four. Answer: _A_lbert Sidney _Johnston_; Stonewall _Jackson_; Leonidas _Polk_; _A_.P. _Hill_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. Pencil and paper ready for this population genetics bonus. You may express your answers either as a percentage or as a fraction. A certain harmless trait is caused by a recessive allele on the x- chromosome which has a frequency of one in a hundred. Assume that the allele is evenly distributed, and assume that all people in the population have a normal number of chromosomes. For ten points each, 1. What is the percentage of persons having the trait among the male population? Answer: 1 percent (1/100) 2. What is the percentage of persons having the trait among the female population? Answer: 0.01 percent (1/10,000) 3. Assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, exactly what percentage of females in the general population carry the gene but do not display the trait? Answer: 1.98 percent (198/10,000) 30 POINT BONUS 19. For five points each and a five-point bonus for all five, identify the religion or religious movement, given the name of its founder. 1.Ann Lee Answer: _Shakers_ 2. Charles Taze Russell Answer: _Jehovah's Witnesses_ 3. George Fox Answer: _Quakers_ or Society of _Friends_ 4. Mirza Huseyn Ali Answer: _Baha'i_ 5. William Miller Answer: Seventh-Day _Adventists_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. The topic is: really boring questions that a writer can dig out of an almanac when he's not feeling creative. 1. For ten points, all or nothing, name the five daily newspapers with the highest national circulation in the United States, as of 1991. Answer: _Wall Street Journal_, _New York Times_; _Washington Post_; _USA Today_; _Los Angeles Times_ 2. Now, for five points each and a maximum of twenty, name any four of the next six. Answer: New York Newsday; The New York Daily News; The Chicago Tribune; The Detroit Free Press; The San Francisco Chronicle; The Chicago Sun-Times  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="14"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="14" JS- Packet #14 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. He is the most recent person buried in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner, and according to Abbey officials, he will also be the last person ever buried there, since there is no more room for new headstones. FTP, name this man who was not enshrined in the Poet's Corner until 111 years after his death, the author of _Barchester Towers_, _The Small House at Allington_, and _Can You Forgive Her?_ Answer: Anthony _Trollope_ 2. Strom Thurmond sets a record with a twenty-four hour speech in a filibuster against a civil rights bill. John F. Kennedy is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for _Profiles in Courage_, and Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. In baseball, the Braves stop the Yankees in seven games, and in college basketball, North Carolina stops Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in double overtime. For ten points, name this year, which also saw the launch of Sputnik. Answer: _1957_ 3. He was studying under Geiger at Berlin when World War I broke out, and because it never occured to him to flee the country, he was arrested and spent four years interned in a racehorse stable. After the armistice, he was given a job as an assistant to Rutherford, and went on to design Britain's first cyclotron. FTP, name this subatomic physicst, who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the neutron. Answer: James _Chadwick_ 4. In his last years, he became a vocal supported of Mussolini, and most of his later works, such as the opera _Nerone_, were commissioned as propaganda pieces for the Fascist regime. Although his best work was probably his second opera, _L'Amico Fritz_, only his first opera is still performed with much frequency today, most often as part of a double-bill with Leoncavallo's _I Pagliacci_. FTP, name this composer of _Cavalleria Rusticana_. Answer: Pietro _Mascagni_ 5. He retired for good at age of ninety-eight, following a stint as kicking coach for Stockton Junior College. He was eighty-one when he was named college coach of the year while at the University of the Pacific, and at the age of 26, he helped James Naismith invent basketball. FTP, name this only person to be a member of both the college football and basketball Halls of Fame, who coached football at the University of Chicago for fifty years. Answer: Amos Alonzo _Stagg_ 6. His first works were anonymous adventure stories written while he was a law clerk in Paris, and it was not until 1829's _Les Chouans_ that he produced a novel good enough to publish under his own name. FTP, name this Frenchman, credited with inventing the naturalistic novel, whose other works include _Cousine Bette_, _La Peau de Chagrin_, _Eugenie Grandet_, and _Pere Goriot_. Answer: Honore de _Balzac_ 7. In 1992, he flew to the Sudan and negotiated the release of a constituent who had been abducted by terrorists, and as a result, he was later given similar missions in Myanmar, Iraq, and North Korea. FTP, name this New Mexico congressman who succeeded Madeline Albright as U.S. representative to the United Nations. Answer: Bill _Richardson_ 8. Take the closed interval from zero to one. Remove from this the open interval from one third to two thirds, and then remove the middle open thirds from each of the closed intervals that remain. If this process is endlessly repeated, it will produce an uncountable perfect set of zero Lebesgue measure that has many important applications in topology. FTP, identify this special set, named for the founder of set theory. Answer: _Cantor_ Set 9. He appears in Plato's dialogue _Parmenides_, where he argues that it is impossible for more than one thing to exist in the universe. Though only fragments of his writing survies, his own ideas are extensively discussed by Aristotle, who criticized him for his habit of carrying arguments to their most absurd conclusions. For ten points, who was this ancient philosopher whose paradoxes attempted to prove that motion is impossible? Answer: _Zeno_ of Elea 10. The original version opened with the dead main character in the city morgue, telling his story. Not only did preview audiences break into laughter during this scene, but they kept on laughing through the rest of the movie, even though it isn't a comedy, and so the opening scene was dropped. FTP, name this film starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, the source for an Andrew Lloyd- Webber musical. Answer: _Sunset Boulevard_ 11. Thanks to the Rosa Keller affair and the Marseilles scandal, for which he was sent to prison in 1772, he was already a notorious figure by the time he started his literary career. He did little to improve his reputation by his writings, perhaps the tamest of which, _Florville and Courval_, was a 1788 novella about incest. FTP, name this inmate of the Charenton lunatic asylum, whose other works include _Justine_ and the aptly-named _120 Days of Sodom_. Answer: The Marquis de _Sade_ (Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade) 12. Because of a local superstition that bizarre clothing deflects bullets, most combatants in this nation's civil war now wear halloween costumes into battle. The one notable exception is the Butt Naked Brigade, which, owing to another local superstition, fights butt naked. FTP, name this West African country which has been in a state of virtual anarchy ever since Charles Taylor launched his rebellion against the late Samuel Doe. Answer: _Liberia_ 13. It most often sets in during late infancy, at a time when the child first becomes conscious of being smaller and weaker than adults. This, in turn, leads to a perception of real or imaginary physical handicaps, which in turn leads to all sorts of unpleasant overcompensation. FTP, name this complex proposed by Alfred Adler, according to which the most arrogant people are really the most insecure. Answer: The _inferiority complex_ 14. This city is a popular Islamic pilgrimage destination both for its famous Qarawiyyin Mosque, as well as for the tomb of the Arab conqueror Mawlay Idris, who founded the town back in the early eighth century. Formerly the largest city of northwestern Africa, it is perhaps best known because of a distinctive type of headgear that was popularized by Ottoman bureaucrats in the nineteenth century. FTP, name this second-largest city of Morocco. Answer: _Fez_ 15. It was the success of this periodical that prompted H.L. Mencken's famous remark that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Seventy years later, it is still going strong, and its circulation is today second only to the publications of the AARP. FTP, name this magazine whose regular departments include "Life in these United States" and "The Most Unforgettable Person I Ever Met." Answer: _Reader's Digest_ 16. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in Grayson, Co., Virginia, where he edited both the local Democratic and Republican newspapers. However, he always continued to be associated with the rural Midwest, which was reflected even in such later works as the autobiographical _A Story Teller's Story_ and _Tar: A Midwest Childhood_. FTP, name this author whose best works include _Horses and Men_, _The Triumph of the Egg_, and _Winesburg, Ohio._ Answer: Sherwood _Anderson_ 17. Born in Tobolsk, Siberia, his real last name was Novykh. After a middle-aged religious conversion, he became a wandering faith- healer, and because he could allegedly cure hemophilia, he was appointed chaplain to the Tsarevich. Before long, he exercised almost complete influence over the Tsar Nicholas II, and was allowed to fill the ministries with his proteges. FTP, name this monk, who was assassinated in December 1917. Answer: Grigori _Rasputin_ 18. Over six hundred of these objects have been discovered, some at distances as great as 10 to the tenth power light years away-- making them by far the most distant objects visible from earth. Appearing as blue points in the sky, they are about a million times brighter than the average galaxy, while their unusually high redshift has yet to be fully explained. FTP, name these starlike bodies, whose name is a contraction of "quasistellar object." Answer: _quasars_ 19. Numerous poems, including the sonnet "On the brink of death." The fortifications for the city of Florence. The paintings _Bruges Madonna_, _Dondi Tondo_, and _The Battle of Cascina_. The Medici family crypt and the Medici chapel. The tomb of Pope Julius II. The sculptures _Day_, _Night_, _Dawn_, _Evening_, _Palestrina Pieta_, _Rondanini Pieta_, _David_, and _Moses_. FTP, all these are works created by what Florentine renaissance man? Answer: _Michelangelo_ Buonarroti 20. He was the author of numerous books on art and gourmet cooking, including "Drawings of Delacroix" and "The Come Into the Kitchen Cookbook." A supporting actor in film noir classics of the 1940s such as "The Long Night" and "Laura," he turned to horror movies, the best of which are "House of Wax" and "The A Bonuses mable Doctor Phibes." FTP, name this actor who preceded Diana Rigg as host of PBS' "Mystery!" series. Answer: Vincent _Price_ JS- Packet #14 (Medium) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about a nineteenth-century British novel. 1. First, for ten: name the novel first published serially from 1847 to 1848, whose minor characters include Jos Sedley, Bute Crawley, George Osborne, and Dobbin. Answer: _Vanity Fair_ 2. For five, name the author of _Vanity Fair_. Answer: William _Thackeray_ 3. For five, name the ambitious, social-climbing heroine of Thackeray's "Novel Without a Hero." Answer: Becky _Sharp_ 4. For ten, name the novel's other central female character, a weak-willed aristocrat whose story alternates and contrasts with that of Becky Sharp. Answer: _Amelia Sedley_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For the stated number of points, identify these important European countries which no longer exist. 1. For five: its last ruler was Constantine Dragases, who died fighting the army of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II. Answer: _Byzantine_ Empire 2. For ten: It achieved de facto independence during the Hundred Year's War, then became a superpower through its annexation of Flanders, but disappeared from the map shortly after the death of its greatest ruler, Charles the Bold. Answer: _Burgundy_ 3. For fifteen: the first Slavic nation to accept Christianity, this early medieval superpower was destroyed by the Magyars in 906. Answer: _Moravia_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For fifteen points each, give the sums of the following infinite series: 1. 1 + 1/1! [read: one over one factorial] + 1/2! + 1/3! .... Answer: _e_ 2. 1- 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 ..... Answer: _Pi/4_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Many of the most celebrated adventures in Greek mythology were carried out not by individual heroes, but by teams. Given a list of heroes, identify the mythological expedition they all took part in. Ten points each. 1. Castor, Pollux, Heracles, Hylas, Tiphys. Answer: _Argonauts_ or Expedition of the_Golden Fleece_ 2. Adrastus, Tydeus, Capanaeus, Polyneices. Answer: Seven Against _Thebes_ 3. Meleager, Castor, Pollux, Theseus, Atalanta. Answer: _Calydonian Boar_ Hunt 30 POINT BONUS 5. Identify the NCAA Division I men's basketball conference, given its champion in 1992. Five points each. 1. Campbell Answer: _Big South_ 2. Georgia Southern Answer: _Trans-America_ 3. Miami of Ohio Answer: _Mid-American_ 4. Murray State Answer: _Ohio Valley_ 5. Robert Morris Answer: _Northeast_ 6. Fordham Answer: _Patriot_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Identify the following Augustan-age British writers from works, 10-5. 1. 10 pts: the poem _The Campaign_ and the tragedy _Cato_. 5 pts: with Steele, _The Tatler_ and _The Spectator_ Answer: Joseph _Addison_ 2. 10 pts: _Windsor Forest_ and _Epilogue to the Satires_ 5 pts: _An Essay on Man_ Answer: Alexander _Pope_ 3. 10 pts: _Know Thyself_ and (with Pope) _Memoirs of Marin Scriblerus_ 5 pts: _The History of John Bull_ Answer: John _Arbuthnot_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the Hegira. 1. First, for five points all or nothing, name the city from which the prophet Mohammed was expelled in the Hegira, and the city to which he fled. You must specify which is which. Answer: expelled from _Mecca_, fled to _Medina_. 2. Name the year of the Western calendar in which the Hegira took place; ten points if exact, five points if within five years. Answer: _622_ 3. For a final final fifteen points, name the camel which carried Muhammed from Mecca to Medina. Answer: al-_Kaswa_. 30 POINT BONUS 8. For fifteen points each, identify these biochemists who made all of those irritating questions about deficiency diseases possible. 1. Along with Frederick Hopkins, he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery that the diseases beriberi, rickets, and scurvy were caused by the absence of certain trace substances. Answer: Christiaan _Eijkman_ 2. This Polish-American biochemist systematized the theories of Hopkins and Eijkman, and later coined the term "vitamin." Answer: Casimir _Funk_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Identify the following Philistine and Canaanite gods, for ten points each. 1. A Philistine version of Ba'al, his name literally meant "Lord of the Flies." Answer: _Beelzebub_ 2. The second-ranking god in the Philistine pantheon, he was half- man, half-fish. Answer: _Dagon_ 3. This Canaanite god had a notorious shrine at Tophet, at which parents would make human sacrifices of their first-born children. Answer: _Moloch_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For the stated number of points, answer these random questions about the NFL playoffs. 1. For five: name the only wild card team ever to win a Super Bowl. Answer: Oakland _Raiders_, 1980. 2. In addition to the 1980 Raiders, three other wild cards teams have reached the Super Bowl. For five points each, name them. Answer: Dallas _Cowboys_, 1975; New England _Patriots_, 1985; Buffalo _Bills_, 1993. 3. For a final five points for each part, name the worst regular- season record ever achieved by a team that went on to the Super Bowl, and name the first team with that record to do so. Answer: _9-7_, Los Angeles _Rams_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. For ten points each, identify these Shakespeare plays, given the place or places where the action is set. 1. Elisnore Answer: _Hamlet_ 2. Messina Answer: _Much Ado About Nothing_ 3. Sicily and Bohemia Answer: The _Winter's Tale_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Given a war with a silly name and the year in which it broke out, name the two countries that fought each other in it, for five points each part. 1. The Soccer War, 1969 Answer: El Salvador and Honduras 2. The War of Jenkins' Ear, 1739 Answer: Great Britain and Spain 3. The Pastry War, 1839 Answer: Mexico and France 30 POINT BONUS 13. For the stated number of points, identify these physics Nobel laureates, given the year in which they won and the specific accomplishment for which they were honored. 1. 5 pts: 1901; the discovery of x-rays. Answer: Wilhelm _Roentgen_ 2. 10 pts: 1949; prediction of the meson. Answer: Hideki _Yukawa_ 3. 15 points: 1967; discoveries concerning the energy production of stars. Answer: Hans _Bethe_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Most nations have just one capital. A few currently have two, while one country holds the record with three separate national capitals-- one each for its legislative, executive, and judicial branches. 1. First, for ten points, name this country. Answer: _South Africa_ 2. Now, name the three political capitals of South Africa. You will receive five points for one, ten for two, and twenty for all three. Answer: _Pretoria_, _Cape Town_, _Blomfontein_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Now that Robert Reed is dead, TV producer Sherwood Schwartz will hopefully give up his twenty-year crusade to bring the Brady Bunch back to prime time. For ten points each, identify these abortive Brady TV comebacks. 1. This 1977 series was a song-and-dance variety show designed to showcase the musical talents of Chris Knight and friends. It was cancelled after only three months. Answer: The _Brady Bunch Hour_ 2. In 1981, Marcia and Jan got married. This spinoff did not survive its first season, but it did last long enough to feature a classic episode in which the Bradys appear on "The Newlywed Game." Answer: The _Brady Brides_ 3. The highest-rated made-for-TV movie of 1990, it ended with the classic scene of Robert Reed being rescued from a collapsed building by the sound of the Brady family singing "O Come All Ye Faithful." Answer: _A Very Brady Christmas_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Identify the author from his works, 30-20-10. 1. The tragedies "Brutus," "Zaire," "Mahomet," and "Tancred." 2. The prose works "Zadig," "Bacbouc," and "The History of Charles XII." 3. "The Philosophical Dictionary." 4. [we lied, this is really a 30-20-10-5] "Candide." Answer: _Voltaire_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For the stated number of points, identify these economic unions of modern Europe. 1. For ten points, name the 1952 organization formed by six continental European neighbors, which became the nucleus for later economic integration. Answer: The European _Steel and Coal_ Community 2. In 1958, the six members of the European Steel & Coal Community entered into two more unions, one with a fairly narrow program, the other much broader. For a final ten points each, name these. Answer: European _Economic Community_ (_EEC_); European _Atomic Energy_ Community 30 POINT BONUS 18. For fifteen points each, identify these extinct birds. 1. A swift runner and fierce kicker, this 10-foot tall bird of New Zealand was extinct by the seventeenth century. Answer: Giant _Moa_ 2. Related to the penguin, this bird of the north Atlantic was hunted to death for its feathers and flesh. The last two were clubbed to death in 1844. Answer: Great _Auk_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. Identify the Platonic dialogue, give a brief description. 10 points each. 1. At a victory party for the tragedian Agathon, Socrates discusses love with Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Alcibiades, and others. Answer: _Symposium_ 2. Socrates discusses justice and "the good life," with the title rhetorician, his disciple Polus, and the hedonist Callicles. Answer: _Gorgias_ 3. The dialogue in which Socrates takes his life by drinking hemlock, which features a discussion of immortality. Answer: _Phaedo_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For ten points each, identify the European countries in which you would find the following non-capital cities. 1. Durres, Vlore, Elbasan Answer: _Albania_ 2. Tartu, Parnu, Narva Answer: _Estonia_ 3. Miskolc, Debrecen, Kecskemet Answer: _Hungary_ --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="15"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="15" John's Pile O'Packets Packet 15 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. As a student at the University of St. Petersburg, he was nicknamed "the American" because of his pro-western, democratic sympathies. In 1852 he was exiled to his estate, ostensibly for writing an inflammatory obituary of Gogol, although the real cause was probably his anti-serfdom novella "A Sportsman's Sketches." FTP, name this "First Love" and "On the Eve," who later broke with the Russian left, which he criticized in "Fathers and Sons." Answer: Ivan _Turgenev_ 2. Sent by the Ottoman Sultan to help defend the Mamelukes against Napoleon in 1798, he helped crush the Mamelukes after Napoleon left, then turned against the Sultan and declared himself the hereditary ruler of a de-facto independent state. However, his numerous attempts to conquer the rest of the empire were blocked by the European powers, and in 1849 he died insane. FTP, name this military adventurer, the founder and first Khedive of modern Egypt. Answer: _Muhammad Ali_ 3. It is thought to extend as far as 200 astronomical units away from the sun, and it is a cause of such phenomena as auroras, geomagentic storms, and the fact that comet tails always turn outwards. Physically, it is a plasma stream consisting mostly of ionized hydrogen, and its speed near the earth is estimated at about 450 miles per second. FTP, give the name for this outward stream of ionized particles emitted by the solar corona. Answer: _Solar wind_ 4. His breasts are the title appendages of a Poulenc opera, and he appears as a character T.S. Eliot's _The Waste Land_. He also is a character in Euripides' _Bacchae_ and Sophocles' _Oedipus_ trilogy, and it is to consult with his ghost that Odysseus enters the underworld in the _Odyssey_. FTP, name this mythological character who lived as both a man and a woman, the blind prophet of Thebes. Answer: _Tiresias_ 5. Based on Martin Caidin's sci-fi novel "Cyborg," it tells the adventures of an astronaut who survives a serious accident and becomes a government agent for the Office of Strategic Information. Also starring Alan Oppenheimer as Dr. Rudy Wells and Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman, its popularity led to a spin-off show, "The Bionic Woman." FTP, name this TV action series which made Lee Majors a star. Answer: _The Six Million Dollar Man_ 6. The title character is Mellors, a simple but honest gardener, who is seduced by Connie, the bored, sexually-frustrated wife of a impotent war veteran. Written shortly before the author's death in 1928, its realistic language and graphic portrayal of sex caused it to be banned in the U.S.A. and Britain until 1960. FTP, name this last great work by D.H. Lawrence. Answer: _Lady Chatterley's Lover_ 7. Although a splinter community still exists at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, the orthodox branch of this religion died along with its last member in Canterbury, New Hampshire, in 1992. Prohibiting all forms of sex and marriage, this religion could only replenish its numbers with new converts, who became increasingly rare after the nineteenth century. FTP, name this religion founded by Mother Ann Lee, which today lives on only as a style of furniture. Answer: _Shakers_ 8. This acromatic salt, which is derived from the condensation of phtalic anhydride, has two major properties, the less important of which is that it makes a pretty effective laxative. Its more important property is that it is colorless when dissolved in a solution of pH 8 or less, but turns any solution of pH 9.6 or greater red. FTP, name this commonly-used acid-base indicator. Answer: _Phenolphtalein_ 9. The set on the north side depicts the life of Jesus, while the eastern set shows ten scenes from the Old Testament. Of their twenty-eight combined panels, the best-known are _Joshua at Jericho_, and _Isaac and Esau_, which was one of the first artworks to use a technique of linear perspective invented by Brunelleschi, the second-place finisher in a famous competition for the commission. FTP, name this masterpiece of Lorenzo Ghiberti. Answer: The _Doors_ of the Florence _Baptistry_, or the _Gates of Paradise_ 10. Because the tribes who lived on its shore had a habit of slaughtering captured sailors in human sacrifices, early Greek naviagators named it "Axenios," meaning "Not Friendly." Later, Greek colonies were founded on its north shore, and in an effort to attract settlers, its name to "Euxenios," meaning "Friendly." FTP, name this body of water, known to the Romans as the Pontus Euxinus, into which flow the rivers Kuban, Pruth, Don, and Danube. Answer: The _Black_ Sea 11. In 1912 he was working as the manager of a paint factory in Ohio when he had a nervous breakdown, abandoned his job and family, and moved to Chicago. His first novel, _Windy MacPherson's Son_, was published in 1916, while his next work, _Marching Men_, followed a year later, but he is best-remembered for his third novel, a collection of interrelated short stories about a fictional midwestern town. FTP, name this author of _Winesburg, Ohio_ Answer: _Sherwood Anderson_ 12. As a child, he could recite the entire Bible from memory, and as an adult, he could write simultaneously in Latin with one hand and in Greek with the other. Thought to have had the highest I.Q. of any American president, he worked as a college teacher before joining the army at the outbreak of the Civil War. FTP, name this soldier and politician, who spent most of his brief administration dying from a bullet wound inflicted by Charles Guiteau. Answer: James _Garfield_ 13. It begins after a full set of chromosomes has formed at each pole end of the original cell, and it involves the formation of a new nuclear membrane around each cell, the formation of new nuclei within the nucleoplasms, and as the disappearance of the spindle fibers. Its completion leaves two new cells separated by a cytoplasm, each fully functional and ready to enter interphase. FTP, name this final stage of mitosis. Answer: _telophase_ 14. His surviving works include the _Letters to Fronto_, which is thought to contain the only treatise on bowel disorders ever written by a major philosopher. In his other writings, he compares the world to a huge vat of dirty bathwater, full of nothing but scum, grease, and sweat- a surprisingly downtrodden frame of mind for a man who was at the time the master of the entire known world. FTP, name this Roman Emperor and author of the _Meditations_. Answer: _Marcus Aurelius_ 15. It was invented by Sammy Davis, Jr., who combined a lapelless jacket, a mandala medallion, and a turtleneck to create what he called a "guru coat." After Pierre Cardin modified the name and design, it became an instant fad and required attire for nightclub culture, and before long, Sears was even selling a children's version with a Winnie-The-Pooh print. FTP, name this short-lived fashion fad of 1968, named for a former prime minister of India. Answer: the _Nehru_ jacket 16. He is the author of several novels written in collaboration with his twin brother and published under the pseudonym "Peter Anthony," but he is better remembered for his plays, nearly all of which center around the theme of self-deception. His first major success was 1958's _Five Finger Exercise_, and this was followed with such works as _Black Comedy_ and _The Royal Hunt of the Sun_. FTP, name this playwright of _Amadeus_ and _Equus_. Answer: Peter _Shaffer_ 17. Major events of this war included the sinkings of the General Belgrano and the HMS Sheffield, the amphibious assaults against Port San Carlos, Bluff Cove, and Goose Green, and the capture and recapture of Port Stanley, which effectively ended the war just two months after it had begun. FTP, name this South Atlantic conflict of 1982. Answer: The _Falklands_ or _Malvinas_ War 18. Euclid proved that a number of this class may be produced by the formula 2 to the (n-1) power times the difference 2 to the n minus 1, where the difference 2 to the n minus 1 is a Mersenne prime: for example, the numbers 6, 28, and 496 can be produced from the Mersenne primes 3, 7, and 31. FTP, give the name for these special numbers that are exactly equal to the sum of their integral factors, including one but excluding the number itself. Answer: _Perfect_ numbers 19. He made his reputation in the early 1920s as the leading stained-glass designer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but a trip to Germany at the end of the decade convinced him to switch to painting in the style of the Northern Renaissance. FTP, name this regionalist painter of "Daughters of Revolution" and "Woman with Plants," who is best known for a 1930's "American Gothic." Answer: Grant _Wood_ 20. It ends with the bride standing before the camera, proudly displaying a gob of semen on her hands. Badly out-of-focus and so eerily quiet that many distibutors found it necessary to overdub it with olympic music, it was nevertheless the top pornographic movie rental of 1994. FTP, name this amateur video about a special night in the life of Mr. and Mrs. Gilooly. Answer: The _Tonya_ Harding Wedding Night Video John's Pile O'Packets Packet 15 (Medium) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each, identify these Ibsen plays, given plot summaries. 1. Mrs. George Tesman obtains and burns the only copy of a manuscript by the brilliant but unstable Lovborg, whom she then goads on to suicide. When she learns that she will be sexually blackmailed by the lecherous Judge Brack, she shoots herself. Answer: _Hedda Gabler_ 2. The vertigo-prone architect Halvard Solness is urged by his young rival Hilda to attempt the impossible project of a castle in the air. He climbs the spire of his new house to begin work, but falls and is killed. Answer: The _Master Builder_ 3. The happily-deluded inventor Hjalmar Ekdal is forcibly brought back to reality by the idealist Gregers Werle, and as a result repudiates his daughter Hedvig. After Hedvig fails to win back his love by sacrificing for him the animal she loves best, she kills herself. Answer: The _Wild Duck_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. Identify these Romans who are featured in Plutarch's _Parallel Lives_. Ten points if you guess them given the name of the Greek with whom Plutarch compared them, five if you need an additional clue. 1. 10 pts: Demosthenes 5 pts: Like Demosthenes, this orator delievered a famous set of political speeches known as the "Philippics." Answer: Marcus Tullius _Cicero_ 2. 10 pts: Alcibiades 5 pts: A successful general who managed to annoy his countrymen with his arrogance, he was the title character of a Shakespeare play. Answer: Caius Marcius _Coriolanus_ 3. 10 pts: Nicias 5 pts: Like Nicias, this member of the First Triumvirate managed to lead an army to annihilation in a foriegn country. In his case, disaster came at the battle of Carrhae against the Parthians in 53 B.C. Answer: Marcus Licinius _Crassus_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. One day Nicholas, a healthy male, meets Alexandra, a female carrier of the hemophilia trait, and the two decide to have lots of children. For ten points each: 1. What are the odds that their first child will be a hemophiliac? Answer: 1 in 4 2. What are the odds that their firstborn son will be a hemophiliac? Answer: 1 in 2 3. Assume that none of their children marry carriers of the hemophilia trait. Without knowing the sex or number of their children, what are the odds that any particular grandchild would be hemophiliac? Answer: 1 in 16 30 POINT BONUS 4. For the stated number of points, given an opera and its composer, identify the author from whose work the libretto was adapted. 1. 5 pts: Mussorgsky's _Boris Godunov_ Answer: Alexander _Pushkin_ 2. 10 pts: Verdi's _La Traviata_ Answer: Alexandre _Dumas, Fils_ 3. Puccini's _La Boheme_ Answer: Henry _Murger_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. Identify the musical, 30-20-10. 1. It opened in 1976 and ran for 2,377 performances, making it the tenth-longest-running musical in Broadway history at the time this question was written. The next year, Dorothy Loudon won a Tony Award for her performance in the title role. 2. In 1982, a film version of it was made starring Albert Finney. This is generally considered to have been the worst movie ever directed by John Huston. 3. Based on a long-running comic strip, this musical about a girl and her dog features the songs "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," "Maybe," "Easy Street," and "Tomorrow." Answer: _Annie_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Contrary to popular belief, our neighbor to the north does produce culture, some of it in the form of literature. For fifteen points each, identify the following contemporary Canadian writers: 1. This poet and novelist is best known for such feminist-themed works as "Edible Woman," "The Journals of Susanna Moodie," and "The Handmaid's Tale." Answer: Margaret _Atwood_ 2. This author of "The Apprenticeship of Dudley Kravitz" and "Joshua Then and Now" is best known for his semi-autobiographical accounts of life in the Jewish slums of Montreal. Answer: Mordecai _Richler_ 20 POINT BONUS 7. For ten points each, identify these utopian socialists of the early nineteenth century. 1. This wealthy British industrialist built a model factory at New Lanark, Scotland, and later founded the commune of New Harmony in Indiana. Answer: Robert _Owen_ 2. Among other things, this Frenchman argued that the ocean should be drained and replaced with lemonade. His followers settled in intricately-planned communities known as phalanxes. Answer: Charles _Fourier_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Answer the following questions about mishaps in the history of space exploration, for ten points each. 1. The first-ever fatality of the space race, this cosmonaut was killed when the parachute of his capsule failed to open during splashdown in 1967. Answer: Vladimir _Komarov_ 2. The goriest accident in space took place in 1971, when this Soviet capsule depressurized in space, instantly liquifying its three crew members. (Five points for giving the mission name, five more for the number). Answer: _Soyuz 11_ 3. In 1970, this American moon mission that had to be aborted after the oxygen and fuel systems both suddenly failed. Against long odds, the crew made it back home safely. Answer: _Apollo 13_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Many of the gods and godesses of Ancient Egypt were represented as humanoids with the heads of animals. Given an Egyptian deity, name the animal which he or she resembled from the neck up, for ten points each. 1. Hathor Answer: _Cow_ 2. Thoth Answer: _Ibis_ 3. Khnum Answer: _Ram_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For the stated number of points, given a list of European cities, identify the river on which they all sit. 1. 5 pts: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest Answer: _Danube_ 2. 10 pts: Nantes, Tours, Orleans Answer: _Loire_ 3. 15 pts: Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana Answer: _Sava_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Write down the following list: Dead, Happily married, Alive but broken-hearted, Imprisoned, None of the above. Now, given a character from a Russian novel, describe that character's status at the end of the book by using one of the terms from the list. 1. Eugene Onegin, from Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin." Answer: Alive/Broken-hearted 2. Chichikov, from Gogol's "Dead Souls." Answer: None of the above 3. Bazarov, from Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons." Answer: Dead 4. Raskolnikov, from Dostoevskii's "Crime and Punishment" Answer: Imprisoned 5. Natasha Rostova, from Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Answer: Happily married 6. The Master, from Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita." Answer: Dead 30 POINT BONUS 12. For the stated number of points, given a World War II-era quisling, name the Nazi puppet state which he nominally ruled. 1. For five: Vidkun Quisling Answer: _Norway_ 2. For ten: Josef Tiso Answer: _Slovakia_ 3. For five: Ion Antonescu Answer: _Romania_ 4. For ten: Emil Hacha Answer: _Czech_ Republic or _Bohemia_ or _Bohemian Protectorate_ or _Bohemia and Moravia_ DO NOT ACCEPT: Czechoslovakia 30 POINT BONUS 13. Identify the following scientists: ten points if you can name them from their accomplishments, five if you need a description of something that is named after them. 1. 10 pts: In 1909, he developed the theory that the earth is divided into concentric layers. 5 pts: The discontinuity line between the earth's crust and mantle is named for this Croatian. Answer: Andrija _Mohorovicic_ 2. 10 pts: This 19th-century director of the Leipzig observatory is considered one of the founders of mathematical topology. His most important books are _Elements of Celestial Mechanics_ and _Barycentric Calculus_. 5 pts: He is the namesake of an object that has only one edge and only one side. Answer: August _Mobius_ 3. 10 pts: A philosopher as well as a scientist, this chair of the Physics department of the University of Vienna argued that laws of nature were all man-made, and anticipated the theory of relativity 20 years before Einstein. 5 pts: His name is given to a unit of velocity equal to the speed of sound. Answer: Ernst _Mach_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For five points each, name the (1993) capitals of the following African countries. 1. Benin Answer: _Porto Novo_ 2. The Central African Republic Answer: _Bangui_ 3. Madagascar Answer: _Antananarivo_ 4. Burundi Answer: _Bujumbura_ 5. Western Sahara Answer: _Aaiun_ 6. Eritrea Answer: _Asmara_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Identify the U.S. states: ten points if you can get them from a silly but official state nickname that was used in the nineteenth century, five if you need a nickname that is in official use today. 1. 10 pts: "The Switzerland of America." 5 pts: "The Garden State." Answer: _New Jersey_ 2. 10 pts: "The Iodine State." 5 pts: "The Palmetto State." Answer: _South Carolina_ 3. 10 pts: "The Puke State." 5 pts: "The Show-Me State." Answer: _Missouri_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For ten points each, identify the authors of the following novels, each of which were adapted into movies in 1993 or 1994. 1. _Schindler's Ark_ Answer: Thomas _Keneally_ 2. _Forrest Gump_ Answer: Winston _Groom_ 3. _The Road to Wellville_ Answer: T. Corraghessan _Boyle_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For five points each, and a bonus five for all correct: given events from Roman history, name the Emperor during whose reign they occurred. 1. The Colosseum is completed, and Mt. Vesuvius blows its top. Answer: _Titus_ 2. Jesus Christ is crucified. Answer: _Tiberius_ 3. Varus loses his legions in at the battle of Teutonberger Wald. Answer: _Augustus_ 4. Rome reaches its maximum territorial extent with the conquest of Dacia and Mesopotamia. Answer: _Trajan_ 5. An edict grants Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire. Answer: _Caracalla_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. Identify the following ancestors of humanity, given a brief description, for ten points each. 1. Living about twenty million years ago in East Africa, this species is thought to be the last common ancestor of all hominoids. It was named for a popular chimpanzee in the London Zoo. Answer: _Proconsul_ 2. It is an ultimate ancestor of all humans, though it is unclear who its own ancestors were. "Lucy" was a member of this species. Answer: _Australopithecus Afarensis_ 3. It is the species of the Taung Child, the first nonhuman hominid fossil to be discovered. Answer: _Australopithecus Africanus_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For the stated number of points, identify these nineteenth- century art movements from their leading members. 1. 5 pts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt Answer: _Pre-Raphaelite_ Brotherhood 2. 10 pts: Theodore Rousseau and Jean-Francois Millet Answer: _Barbizon_ 3. 15 pts: Edouard Villard and Pierre Bonnard Answer: _Nabis_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Washington's traditional Fourth of July celebration made headlines in 1983, when a cabinet official banned the scheduled main attraction from the Capitol grounds, after declaring that the group was a bad influence for America's youth. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about this event. 1. 5 pts: name the Secretary of the Interior who resigned not long after this public-relations fiasco. Answer: James _Watt_ 2. 10 pts: name the pop group whose concert was canceled at the orders of James Watt. Answer: The _Beach Boys_ 3. 15 pts: name the crooner whom Watt selected as a replacement for the Beach Boys. Answer: Wayne _Newton_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="16"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="16" More Proof that John has no Life Packet 16 (Hard) Toss-Ups 1. It takes place in the fictional Latin American country of Costaguana, and it tells of a secessionist revolt by the wealthy Occidental Province against a brutal dictatorship. Its five main characters are the mine owner Charles Gould, Captain Mitchell, the journalist Martin Decoud, Dr. Monygham, and the Italian dockworker Fidanza, whose nickname, meaning "our man," serves as the title for the book. For ten points, name this 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad. Answer: _Nostromo_ 2. A talented poet in her own right, this Duchess of Ferrara, was an important patron of Ariosto, who dedicated several of his works to her. However, this did little to save her public image, badly tarnished by rumors of incestuous adultery with her brother Cesare, as well as her alleged complicity in the murder of her second husband. FTP, name this daughter of Pope Alexander VI, a member of Renaissance Italy's most notorious family. Answer: _Lucrezia Borgia_ 3. After graduating from the London School of Economics without ever taking a course in economics, he went to observe factories in the America, concentrating on the problem of why large firms did not always run small firms out of business, and in the resulting article, _The Nature of the Firm_, he first introduced the concept of transaction costs. FTP, name this author of "The Problem of Social Cost" and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for economics. Answer: Ronald _Coase_ 4. When he was fired from the set of his early opera _Almira_, he demanded a duel with his replacement, the composer Johann Mattheson. This was probably a mistake, since he was a terrible sword-fighter, and he survived the duel only because Mattheson's sword broke on one of his vest buttons. FTP, name this man who went on to become the most successful operatic composer of the Baroque with such works as _Rinaldo_, _Radamisto_, and _Julius Caesar_, but who is better known today for his oratorios. Answer: Georg Frideric _Handel_ 5. Originally a made-for-TV movie, it was reproduced by Hollywood in order to serve as a low-budget tax write-off for the studio. However, this story of an ugly butcher trying to find love became a surprise winner at Cannes, and later swept the Academy Awards, winning Oscars for writer Paddy Chayefsky, director Delbert Mann, and lead actor Ernest Borgnine. For ten points, name this Best Picture of 1955, which is still the only film to have won both the Palme D'Or and the Best Picture oscar. Answer: _Marty_ 6. The Holy Roman Empire's Ottonian dynasty died out in 1024 thanks in part to this woman, who was so pious that she decided it would be a good thing if she (and by extension, her husband Henry II) lived a celibate marriage. Canonized in 1200, her chastity later became the subject of proverbs and jokes, making her a natural choice as the namesake of one of Voltaire's heroines. FTP, give the shared name of this sainted Empress and the love-interest of Candide. Answer: _Cunegonde_ 7. When American abolitionists founded the colony of Liberia in 1822 as a homeland for repatriated slaves, they were repeating on a slightly larger scale a similar experiment carried out by British abolitionists 35 years earlier. Like Liberia, the British colony eventually became an independent nation, and like Liberia, it has experienced a fair amount of political chaos in recent years. FTP, name this West African nation which borders Liberia to the northwest, and whose capital is Freetown. Answer: _Sierra Leone_ (accept _Freetown_ colony on an early buzz) 8. Born in Russia of Danish-Jewish parentage, he accomplished little until he was in his thirties, when he published a proof of the one-to-one correspondence between the sets of integers and algebraic numbers. In his next work, he proposed the theory of infinite ordinals and infinite sets, but his career was shortly afterwards cut short by his insanity. FTP, name this theoretician of transfinite numbers and founder of modern set theory. Answer: Georg _Cantor_ 9. As a child, he watched his father, who was a judge, preside over one of the most spectacular criminal trials in nineteenth-century Naples-- the case of a popular actor who had murdered his unfaithful wife. As an adult, he used this murder case for the plot of an 1892 one-act opera, which would go down as his one lasting hit. FTP, name this composer of _I Pagliacci_. Answer: Ruggerio _Leoncavallo_ 10. It was a financial disaster for promoter Rikki Farr, while the actual music was overshadowed a the riot which broke out when nearly a half-million non-paying fans stormed the gates. Featuring the concert debut of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, it also marked the final public performances by both Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. FTP, name this ill-fated music festival of 1970, Britain's answer to Woodstock. Answer: The _Isle of Wight_ Festival 11. Subtitled "A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life," it is almost entirely set in places which resemble monkey cages, including a New York City prison and the bowels of a steamship. The final scene takes place in a real cage, where the hero, a boorish sailor named Yank, is throttled to death by a gorilla. FTP, name this play by Eugene O'Neill. Answer: _The Hairy Ape_ 12. The one of St. Louis was 1268 law that limited the power of the papacy in France. The one of Bourges was a fifteenth-century French law that attempted to do the same thing. The one of Charles III ordered the suppression of Jesuit activities in Spain, and the one of Justinian dealt with the distribution Gothic property after the reconquest of Italy. FTP, give this two-word phrase, which, when standing alone, usually refers to the 1713 document in which emperor Charles VI tried to secure the succession of his daughter Maria Theresa. Answer: _Pragmatic Sanction_ 13. Take a high-energy photon, and collide it with a free electron. The electron will gain free energy, the photon will lose energy, and the wavelength of the photon will decrease. FTP, identify this physical effect, named for an American physicist and winner of a 1927 Nobel Prize. Answer: _Compton_ Effect 14. He taught Jackson Pollock how to paint-- a move that he may have regretted, since he later became the art world's most vocal critic of abstract expressionism and other forms of modernism. FTP, name this artist of _The Old South_ and murals for the Truman Library, a leader of the regionalist school whose grandfather was a famous senator from Missouri. Answer: Thomas Hart _Benton_ 15. In John Milton's masque _Comus_, it is the name of a nymph who rescues the heroine from the evil title character. In English folklore, it is the name of a princess who is killed by[*] Gwendolen, and in Latin, it is the name of England's River Severn. FTP, give the common name, which is also shared by ABC-TV's Teenage Witch. Answer: _Sabrina_ 16. Characters in this series include Arabella Gresham, Archdeacon Grantly, Septimus Harding, and Bishop Proudie, and the books include _Doctor Thorne_, _The Small House at Allington_, and _The Warden_. FTP, name this collection of six novels about a country church, written by Anthony Trollope. Answer: Chronicles of _Barsetshire_ or the _Cathedral_ Stories 17. Reigning from 786 to 809, he was the last great Abbasid conqueror, adding to the empire the cities of Kabul, Ankara, Ephesus, and Nicaea. He was also a great patron of the arts, and it his rule was later looked on as the Golden Age of early Islamic culture. He is especially well known in the West today for a work attributed to him that was first translated in into English by Sir Richard Francis Burton in 1888. For ten points, name this caliph who is a central character in many of the Arabian Nights stories. Answer: _Haroun_ al-Rashid 18. He was a co-winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine with his supervisor, John MacLeod, but he opted to split his prize money with Charles Best, a graduate student assistant who had been snubbed by the Nobel committee. FTP, name this Canadian physiologist whose experiments on dog pancreases led to the isolation of the insulin. Answer: Frederick _Banting_ 19. His name means "seething clay," and he was created by sparks from the fire-giant Surtr that fell into the Icy Abyss. Luckily for him, these sparks also resulted in another creature, a animal that saved him from starvation; not so luckily, this same animal also brought forth the god Buri, whose descendants would later kill him. FTP, name this companion of the primeval cow Audhumla, whose corpse was used by the Norse gods to create the physical universe. Answer: _Ymir_ 20. Born in Lisbon in 1909, she emigrated to Brazil as a child and there became a prominent samba dancer and occasional film star. After a brief stint in Abbot & Costello's Broadway revue, she broke into American movies with a memorable supporting role in the 1941 Don Ameche musical _Down Argentine Way_. Later films include _Springtime in the Rockies_, in which she sang a memorable version of "Chattanooga Choo Choo," _The Gang's All Here_, and _That Night in Rio_. FTP, 1940s pop culture icon, who is best remembered for her bizzare headgear. Answer: Carmen _Miranda_ More Proof that John has no Life Packet 16 (Hard) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. Identify the work of literature, 30-20-10. 1. Its sequel was 1947's _Another Part of the Forest_, which told of the earlier adventures of its main characters. 2. The composer Marc Blitzstein used this 1939 play as the basis for his opera _Regina_, the title of which refers to the play's main character. 3. Considered the greatest work of Lillian Hellman, it tells of the rise of industrialism in the South and the destruction of the aristocratic Hubbard family. Answer: _The Little Foxes_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. 1830 marks the year in which America officially entered the railroad age. For fifteen points each, answer the following questions about railroading events of that year. 1. In August, Peter Cooper unveiled this prototype locomotive, the first ever built in America. In September, it lost a much- publicized race to a horse. Answer: The _Tom Thumb_ 2. In November, this locomotive began carrying passengers between Charleston and Hamburg, South Carolina. It was the first American locomotive to go into actual service. Answer: The _Best Friend of Charleston_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For ten points each, identify these early forms of photography. 1. Invented by Joseph Niepce in 1826, this highly impractical process was used to make what are today considered the first true photographs. Answer: _Heliography_ 2. This improved version of the heliograph was developed by and named for Niepece's partner, who released his technology to the public in 1839. Answer: _Daguerrotype_ 3. Invented by Fox Talbot and also called the Talbotype, it was the first photographic technology to print from a negative. Answer: _Calotype_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Name the operatic composer from works, 30-20-10. 1. Adelson i Salvini, Il Pirata 2. Bianca i Gernando, Beatrice di Tenda 3. Norma, La Sonnambula Answer: Vincenzo _Bellini_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. One of the most bitter educational controversies in recent years was the attempt by the school board of a major U.S. city to implement its politically correct "Rainbow Curriculum" over the violent objections of many parents. For ten points each: 1. Name the city in which this controversy raged for most of 1992 and 1993. Answer: _New York_ 2. Name the chancellor of the New York school system, who was eventually forced to resign as a result of the controversy. Answer: Joseph _Fernandez_ 3. Perhaps the most controversial part of Fernandez' "Rainbow Curriculum" were three books designed to teach first-graders about homosexuality. For a final ten points, name any of these books. Answer: _"Daddy's Roommate"_; _"Heather Has Two Mommies"_; _"Gloria Goes to Gay Pride"_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each, identify these novels from Proust's _Remembrance of Things Past_. 1. The first of seven novels in the series, its main plot revolves around the narrator's love for Gilberte Swann. Answer: _Swann's Way_ (Du Cote de chez Swann) 2. This is the concluding volume of the series, in which the narrator realizes that his destiny is to turn his memories into literature. Answer: _The Past Recaptured_ (Le Temps retrouve) 3. The second novel of the series, it deals with the narrator's infatuation for a little girl named Albertine. It was the success of this book which led Proust to expand his project from three to seven volumes. Answer: _Within a Budding Grove_ (A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs) 30 POINT BONUS 7. For the stated number of points, identify these prominent officials of the Third Reich. 1. 5 pts: the SS bureaucrat most associated with the genocide, he is the only man ever executed by the state of Israel. Answer: Adolf _Eichmann_ 2. 10 pts: Eichmann's boss and perhaps the worst war criminal of them all, he was assasinated by Czech partisans in 1942. Answer: Reinhard _Heydrich_ 3. 15 pts: Known popularly as "the lackey," he was the nominal Supreme Commander of the German armed forces during the war. The presiding officer of the court which condemened the military conspirators against Hitler to death in 1944, he was himself executed for war crimes after Nuremberg. Answer: Wilhelm _Keitel_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Nineteenth-century biologists thought that the so-called higher animals passed through developmental stages in which they resembled their lower ancestors. For fifteen points each: 1. Give the three-word name of this now-disfavored theory, which is also the title of a Stephen Jay Gould book. Answer: _Ontogeny_ recapitulates _Phylogeny_ 2. However, modern biologists now believe that some animals evolve by retaining the juvenille features of their ancestors. For a final fifteen points, name this phenomenon. Answer: _Neotony_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. For ten points each, identify the group of artists, given its members. 1. Kandinsky, Marc, Macke. Answer: _Blue Rider_ (_Blaue Reiter_) 2. Kandinsky, Klee, Jawlensky, Feininger. Answer: _Blue Four_ (_Blaue Vier_) 3. Larionov and Goncharova. Answer: _Blue Rose_ Group (acc: _Rayonists_) 30 POINT BONUS 10. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about Easter Island. 1. Easter Island got its name because a Dutch navigator happened to discover it (for Europe) on Easter Sunday. For ten points, name this explorer. Answer: Jakob _Roggeveen_ 2. For five, name the nation of which Easter Island is currently a territory? Answer: _Chile_ 3. For ten, name Easter Island's territorial capital. Answer: _Hanga Roa_ 4. For a final five points, give the name by which Easter Island's native inhabitants know their homeland; this was also the name of a very bad Kevin Costner movie. Answer: _Rapa Nui_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. In the Middle Ages, you knew you had made it big when even the name of your sword was famous. For ten points each, given a sword, name the character of medieval legend or history who owned it. 1. Durandana Answer: _Roland_ or _Orlando_ 2. Colada Answer: El _Cid_ 3. Arondight Answer: _Launcelot_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about one of the most unsuccessful campaigns in military history. 1. In 415 B.C., Athens tried to break a deadlock its dormant war against Sparta by launching an unprokoved attack on a neutral superpower. For five points each, name the large island which Athens invaded in that year, and name the large city that was the principal target of Athens' aggression. Answer: _Sicily_, _Syracuse_ 2. Shortly after the Sicilian invasion force sailed out, the Athenian assembly decided to change commanders. For ten points, name the original commander of the expedition, a student of Socrates who was fired after it became suspected that he had drunkenly castrated a statue of Hermes. Answer: _Alcibiades_ 3. When Alcibiades was fired, the Athenians replaced him with his worst enemy, a man who had opposed the entire Sicilian adventure from the start. For a final ten points, name this man, whose indecisive leadership contributed to a military disaster (and his own death) at the siege of Syracuse. Answer: _Nicias_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. For ten points each, identify these American symphony orchestras, given the names of a few of their past conductors or music directors. 1. George Szell, Lorin Maazel Answer: _Cleveland_ Orchestra 2. Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy Answer: _Philadelphia_ Orchestra 3. Fritz Reiner, Georg Solti Answer: _Chicago_ Symphony 30 POINT BONUS 14. When cancer strikes the blood-forming organs, it is known as leukemia. For ten points each, identify the terms for cancers which strike these other body parts. 1. The immune system Answer: _Lymphonoma_ 2. Glands and body linings Answer: _Carcinoma_ 3. The connective tissue Answer: _Sarcoma_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. In 1920, it was revealed that the previous year's World Series had been fixed by gamblers, and a result of this scandal, eight stars of the losing Chicago White Sox were banned from baseball for life. For five points each and a maximum of thirty, name any six of these players. Answer: Eddie _Cicotte_ Happy _Felsch_ Chick _Gandil_ Joe _Jackson_ Fred _McMullan_ Swede _Risberg_ Buck _Weaver_ Lefty _Williams_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For the stated number of points, identify these plays by Edward Albee. 1. For five: Albee's first full-length play, this 1962 drama depicts a drunken dinner party in the college town of New Carthage. Answer: _Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_ 2. For ten: the bulk of this play consists of lines from the work of mediocre nineteenth-century poet Will Carleton, which are interwoven with excerpts from the notorious title book. Answer: _Quotations from Chairman Mao_ 3. For fifteen: this 1967 work has no characters and consists entirely of an off-stage monologue, while the stage itself is dominated by a huge cube. Answer: _Box_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Identify the papal name, 30-20-10. 1. It has been the name of thirteen popes and one antipope, the first of whom was made pope in 401 and the last of whom died in 1724. 2. The first pope of this name was canonized, while the fifth and eleventh were beatified. The fourth pope of this name is most famous for bringing about the downfall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in 1254, while the eighth pope of this name was an important Renaissance patron. 3. The most famous pope of this name was the third, under whom papal political power reached its zenith from 1198 to 1216. Answer: _Innocent_ 25 POINT BONUS 18. Identify the historian from his works, 25-10. 1. 25 pts: "The Age of Cosntantine the Great," "Cicerone," "History of Greek Civilization." 2. 10 pts: "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy." Answer: Jacob _Burckhardt_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For five points each, identify these British possessions, given the names of their largest cities. (In every case, the largest city is also the administrative capital). 1. Douglas Answer: Isle of _Man_ 2. Road Town Answer: British _Virgin Islands_ 3. Adamstown Answer: _Pitcairn_ Islands 4. Jamestown Answer: _Saint Helena_ 5. Hamilton Answer: _Bermuda_ 6. St Peter Port Answer: _Guernsey_ or _Channel Islands_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For the stated number of points, identify these engineers who helped bring about the first industrial revolution. 1. 5 pts: In 1781, this Scottish engineer paved the way for locomotives by inventing the piston engine. In honor of this, his name was given to the metric unit of power. Answer: James _Watt_ 2. 15 pts: In 1801, this Cornishman developed the first locomotive capable of pulling a passenger car. Unfortunately, he had absolutely no idea of how to sell this idea to the public, and died poor and ignored. Answer: Richard _Trevithick_ 3. 10 pts: In 1830, this English engineer adopted Trevithick's invention and opened the Liverpool & Manchester, the world's first commercial railway. Answer: George _Stephenson_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="17"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="17" Another Packet by John Packet 17 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. His father-in-law was Lemuel Shaw, the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and arguably the most famous common-law judge of his day. It was Shaw's generosity that saved his family after 1857, when the failures of _Pierre_ and _Confidence-Man_ had ruined his career as a writer. FTP, name this novelist, who during his lifetime was most famous for the early novels _Typee_ and _Mardi_. Answer: Herman _Melville_ 2. In 1915, its newly-elected president, Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, was overthrown, dragged out of the embassy in which he had taken refuge, and torn to pieces by a mob. Less than two hours later a detatchment of U.S. marines landed, appointed a new president, and dictated a treaty by which this country became a virtual U.S. military protectorate until 1934. FTP, name this Caribbean nation whose chaotic politics led to another U.S. intervention in 1994. Answer: _Haiti_ 3. After studying under Robert Liston, one of the inventors of ether anesthesia, he devoted himself to the study of "hospital fever," or the unusually high rate of fatal sepsis that would set in after surgery. In 1865, after reading the theories of Pasteur, he began washing his instruments with carbolic acid, an idea which is credited with saving millions of lives ever since. FTP, name this great surgeon, the inventor of antiseptic medicine. Answer: Joseph _Lister_ 4. He had the misfortune of being an altarpiece-painter in Basle when the Protestant reformation broke out, instantly destroying his livelihood. His career was saved by a letter of recommendation from Erasmus, which instantly gave him access to Thomas More and the highest circles of English society. FTP, name this man who became portrait painter to England's rich and famous, best known for his _Henry VIII_ and _The Ambassadors_. Answer: Hans _Holbein_ the _Younger_ 5. Born Michael Cassevitis, he had several modest hits as a solo artist in the early 1960s, but quickly faded into oblivion, and was working as a studio executive by the end of the decade. However, in 1973, he was lured out of retirement to record a song that ultimately led to a short-lived TV series and has caused his fame to resurface during every subsequent war and hostage crisis. FTP, name this front-man for Dawn and singer of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." Answer: Tony _Orlando_ 6. He served a term in parliament in the 1440s before deciding to quit politics for petty crime, and in 1451 he was imprisoned for rape, extortion, cattle rustling, and church-robbing. While in jail he began a project of translating French chivalric romances, and eventually produced a work that he called "The Book of King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table." FTP, name this writer, whose book Caxton republished as _Le Morte d'Arthur_. Answer: Thomas _Malory_ 7. This word originated in John Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_, where it was the name of a character so intent on his work that he fails to notice the heavenly crown above his head. It entered the political lexicon thanks to a speech by Teddy Roosevelt, who criticized the excesses of sensationalist writers who sought to expose public corruption. FTP, give this name applied to such journalists as Edwin Markham, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffins. Answer: _Muckraker_ 8. One of the few predators that kill for fun as well as food, mothers of this species will instinctively tear apart their children when they are disturbed by loud noises. A subspecies of the water weasel, it is indigenous to both Europe and North America, although for the most part this twenty-inch long mammal today can only be found in fur farms. FTP, identify this small animal with an extremely valuable pelt. Answer: The _Mink_ 9. Also known as Jormungard, this offspring of Loki was thrown into the ocean by Odin, whereupon it grew, encircled the earth, and spent the next few eons chewing on its own tail. It emerged to fight at the battle of Ragnarok, where it was mortally wounded by Thor, whom it then killed with a dying flood of venom. FTP, name this very big snake of Norse mythology. Answer: The _Midgard_ Serpent 10. He is the only the third man to lose and regain the FIDE world chess championship, and the only player ever to win the title by default-- which he has done twice: the first time this happened was in 1975, when Bobby Fischer refused to play him, and the second time was in 1993, when the reigning champion quit to found a rival chess federation. FTP, name this Russian chess grandmaster, most famous for his four title matches against Garry Kasparov. Answer: Anatoly _Kasparov_ 11. His earliest known mistress was a dressmaker named Marie Labay, who bore him the first and most famous of his alleged 500 illegiti- mate children. Famous for his extravagance, he spent his money so freely that he always lived on the brink of bankruptcy, in spite of the commercial success of such novels as _Queen Margot_, _The Forty-Five_, and _The Count of Monte Cristo_. FTP, name this author of _The Three Musketeers_. Answer: Alexandre _Dumas, pere_ 12. Their chief deity was the fire-goddess Arinna, their capital was at Hattushah, their greatest king was named Shubbiluliu, and they were the winners at Kadesh, the oldest recorded battle in world history. FTP, name this anicent people of Asia Minor, a frequent enemy of Egypt and the dominant power of the near east between 1600 and 1200 B.C. Answer: The _Hittites_ 13. The first-ever professor of experimental physics at Cambridge, his lectures were so boring and disorganized that his audiences seldom exceeded four students. He is justifiably more important as a researcher, who proved that Saturn's rings consist of separate particles, and who also devised a kinetic theory of gases which he developed with Boltzmann. FTP, name this founder of the Cavendish laboratory, whose equations unified elecricity and magnetism. Answer: James Clerk _Maxwell_ 14. A village on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest, in the 1820s it became the home of such people as Charles Daubigny, Jules Dupre, and Constant Troyon, who were brought together by their admiration for Constable and the Dutch landscape artists, as well as their rejection of the academic styles then popular. FTP, name this town which lent its name to an art movement founded by Theodore Rousseau, whose most famous residents were Corot and Millet. Answer: _Barbizon_ 15. In _Piers Plowman_, its is a synonym for egg. In the _Canterbury Tales_, its means a spoiled child. In early American slang, it was a derogatory term for any effeminate man, and in later American usage it meant any Englishman. In England itself, it was used to identify any person born within earshot of the bells of St. Mary-le-Bow. FTP, identify this word, now most frequently used to describe an accent found in London's East End. Answer: _Cockney_ 16. After his release from an American POW camp, he studied sculpture and worked as a jazz drummer before establishing himself as a writer. His later works include _Dog Years_, _The Flounder_, _Headbirths_, and _The Rat_, but he is still best remembered for his first novel, a 1959 bestseller about the Hitler years as seen through the eyes of a child who decides to stop growing at the age of three. FTP, name this author of _The Tin Drum_. Answer: Gunther _Grass_ 17. As dictator in 458 B.C., he defeated the Aequians twice on a single day, and in 439 he was brought out of retirement to crush the revolt of Spurius Maelius. On both occasions, however, he almost immediately returned to work on his small farm, which he preferred to politics. FTP, name this legendary hero of early Rome, the namesake of a city in Ohio. Answer: Lucius Quintius _Cincinnatus_ 18. H.L. Mencken called it "one percent platitude and 99 percent nonsense," but this nd other negative reviews did not stop it from becoming one of the best-selling scholarly books ever. It argued that modern society was sharply divided between two classes, with one group doing all of the work and another doing nothing, while justifying itself through "conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption." FTP, name this treatise by Thorstein Veblen. Answer: _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ 19. He began his career as a sculptor and in 1402 tied for first in a competition to design the doors for the baptistery of Florence Baptistry, a project he never had a chance to execute because the Ghiberti refused to collaborate with him. Later, he made a trip with Donatello to study Roman ruins, and this inspired him to become an architect. FTP, name this designer of the San Lorenzo basilica and of the dome for the Florence cathedral. Answer: Filippo _Brunelleschi_ 20. The main channel of a 2,600 river system that also includes the Finlay and the Peace, towns on it include Providence, Fort Simpson, Norman Falls, Good Hope, and Inuvik. Flowing out of the Great Slave Lake, it runs northwest for over 1,200 miles before forming a vast delta which empties into the Arctic ocean. FTP, name this longest river in Canada. Answer: The _Mackenzie_ Another Packet by John Packet 17 (Medium) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. Identify the Nobel-winning writers, 10-5. 1. 10 pts: Works include "The Bluest Eye" and "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." 5 pts: This author of "Tar Baby" is the most recent American to win. Answer: Toni _Morrison_ 2. 10 pts: Works include "Les Solitudes," "La Justice," and "Le Bonheur." 5 pts: This French poet was the first-ever winner of the prize, back in 1901. Answer: _Sully Prudhomme_ 3. 10 pts: Works include "Independent People" and "Christianity at the Glacier." 5: He is the only person from Iceland ever to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Answer: Halldor _Laxness_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. As much as he tries, the author of these questions can never keep all those South Pacific naval battles of World War II straight. For ten points each, here's hoping you can do better. 1. The first major U.S. victory of the war, this battle of May 1942 drove the Japanese fleet back toward the Solomon Islands and prevented an invasion of Australia. Answer: _Coral Sea_ 2. In this battle of March 1943, the U.S. launched a air attack on Japanese convoys carrying troops accross this body of water to New Guinea. This was a huge victory for the Americans, who managed to annihilate an entire Japanese invasion force with virtually no losses of their own. Answer: _Bismarck Sea_ 3. This 1944 battle saw Japan throw virtually its entire remaining naval forces at the U.S. 3rd and 7th fleets, which were protecting the amphibious landings on the Philippines. Answer: _Leyte_ Gulf 30 POINT BONUS 3. For five points each, given an unmanned space probe and the year in which it was launched, name the celestial object which it was sent to observe. 1. Ranger 7, 1964 Answer: _Moon_ 2. Pioneer 9, 1968 Answer: _Sun_ 3. Mariner 9, 1971 Answer: _Mars_ 4. Giotto, 1986 Answer: _Halley's Comet_ 5. Ulysses, 1990 Answer: _Sun_ 6. Magellan, 1990 Answer: _Venus_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For the stated number of points, identify these incredibly violent paintings by Francisco Goya. 1. For five: at right is a faceless military firing squad; at left is a group of civillians who are about to be shot. In the foreground are the corpses of the last group to be executed, the next group is seen waiting in the background. Answer: _The Third of May, 1808_ 2. For ten: a mob armed mostly with clubs and daggers assaults and massacres an outnumbered troop of Arab soldiers on horseback. Answer: _The Second of May, 1808_ 3. For fifteen: a crazed-looking old man holds the corpse of a child whose head he has just bitten off-- much as one would bite off the head of a chocolate easter bunny, only with a lot more blood. Answer: _Saturn Devouring His Children_ (accept reasonable translation equivalents) 30 POINT BONUS 5. For ten points each, identify these adventure comic strips, given a description of the plot line that was running in the summer of 1994. 1. The long-missing thief Mumbles has turned up alive again, and he has information about the whereabouts of a valuable stolen jewel, which has also attracted the interest of the rival gangster Feet Diamond. Answer: _Dick Tracy_ 2. Art dealer Arthur Scamm, Jr., has been selling prints by the famed painter Juan Mirru for an incredibly low price. Turns out, they were actually painted by his father. Answer: _Brenda Starr_ 3. In this 19th-century flashback, the hero's ancestor travels to Texas to arrest a cattleman wanted for the murder of a tribal prince in Africa. Answer: The _Phantom_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For the stated number of points, identify these Kurt Vonnegut works from plot descriptions. 1. 5 pts: Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time, is kidnapped into an extraterrestrial zoo, and survives the firebombing of Dresden. Answer: _Slaughterhouse-Five_ 2. 10 pts: A group of ugly Americans gather on the Caribbean island of San Lorenzo and witness the destruction of the world by a chemical called Ice-Nine. Answer: _Cat's Cradle_ 3. 15 pts: In Vonnegut's only play, a modern-day Odysseus comes home to find his wife Penelope courted by a pacifist doctor and a hero-worshiping vacuum-cleaner salesman. Answer: _Happy Birthday, Wanda June_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For the stated number of points: identify the following powerful families of Renaissance Italy, given the cities they were dominant in and the approximate period of their power. 1. 5 pts: Florence, 1434-1737 Answer: _Medici_ 2. 10 pts: Milan, 1447-1535 Answer: _Sforza_ 3. 15 pts: Mantua, 1328-1708 Answer: _Gonzaga_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. For fifteen points each, identify these influential sociologists. 1. The founder of the structural-functional school of sociology, works by this longtime Harvard professor include "The Social System" and "Politics and Social Structure." Answer: Talcott _Parsons_ 2. In his 1952 work "The Mechanical Bride," this Canadian sociologist argued that modern communication would eventually render the concepts of individual and nation meaningless. He is also known for coining the phrase "global village." Answer: Marshall _McLuhan_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Identify the author from works, 30-20-10. 1. The dialogues _Eudemus_, _Protrepticus_, and _On Ideas_. 2. _On Interpretation_, _Meteorology_, and _On Animal Locomotion_. 3. _Politics_, _Poetics_, and _Nicomachean Ethics_ Answer: _Aristotle_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Now, for a truly miscellaneous bonus. Write down the following list: English metaphysical poet, internet miscreant, Latin American revolutionary, OJ trial witness, Nobel Prize-winning economist, professional bowling hall-of-famer, 18th-century chess grandmaster, cast member of "Mama's Family." Now, for five points each, given a name, tell which item from the list would best describe that person. 1. Andre Philidor Answer: Chess 2. Henry Vaughan Answer: Poet 3. Jake Baker Answer: Internet miscreant 4. Bernard O'Higgins Answer: Revolutionary 5. James Tobin Answer: Economist 6. Ken Berry Answer: "Mama's Family" 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify these modern poets based on clues about their careers for fifteen points, or from clues about their more famous sons for five points each. 1. 15 pts: Poet Laureate of Britain from 1968 to 1972, his best-known poem is "Overtures to Death." 5 pts: His son, Daniel, won an Academy Award for the film "My Left Foot." -Cecil _Day-Lewis_ 2. 15 pts: Winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, his work includes "That Shining Place" and "Good Morning." 5 pts: His son Charles was at the center of a famous TV quiz show scandal, and has been portrayed in the movies by Ralph Fiennes. Answer: Mark _Van Doren_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Identify the people, 30-20-10. 1. Their kingdom disappeared in A.D. 711, when their last king, Roderick, was killed by the invading Moors. However, a remnant of the tribe escaped to the Pyrennes, and it was from them that the medieval kings of Spain and Portugal would later claim descent. 2. In 378, they crossed the Danube and annihilated the army of the Roman emperor Valens at the battle of Adrianople. They then spent the next 25 years ravaging the Balkans before moving west. 3. In 410, this barbarian tribe sacked Rome under the leadership of their greatest king, Alaric. Answer: _Visigoths_ or _West Goths_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. For five points each and a five-points bonus for all five, give the popular names for the following stars, given their formal astronomical names. 1. Alpha Orionis Answer: _Betelgeuse_ 2. Alpha Ursae Minor Answer: _Polaris_ 3. Alpha Aquilae Answer: _Altair_ 4. Alpha Lyrae Answer: _Vega_ 5. Beta Geminorum Answer: _Pollux_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For fifteen points each, given a silly proof of God's existence, name the person who proposed it. 1. God is the being of whom none greater can be concieved, but if it only existed in the intellect, it would not be the greatest, since we can concieve of something having the same characteristics but actually existing, which would be greater. Therefore God exists. Answer: St. _Anselm_ of Canterbury 2. A plus b raised to the n power divided by n equals x. Therefore God exists. Answer: Leonhard _Euler_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For five points each: given a Mexican city, identify whether it lies on the Gulf Coast, the Pacific Coast, the Caribbean coast, the U.S. Border, or none of the above. 1. Monterrey Answer: _None_ 2. Mazatlan Answer: Pacific 3. Veracruz Answer: _Gulf_ 4. Ciudad Juarez Answer: _Border_ 5. Cancun Answer: _Caribbean_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Murderer, eplileptic, both, or neither? Yes, this is a bonus about Dostoyevsky characters. Given a character and the novel in which he appears, identify which of the four choices describes him. 1. Smerdyakov ("The Brothers Karamazov") Answer: _Both_ 2. Rogozhin ("The Idiot") Answer: _Murderer_ 3. Myshkin ("The Idiot") Answer: _Epileptic_ 4. Arkady ("The Raw Youth") Answer: _Neither_ 5. Peter Verkhovensky ("The Possessed") Answer: _Murderer_ 6. Raskolnikov ("Crime and Punishment") Answer: _Murderer_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. British North America was divided into the thirteen colonies, but the mainland part Spain's much larger New World empire was divided into just four viceroyalties on the eve of the revolutions. For ten points each, name any three of these territories, as they were known before indpendence. Answer: _New Spain_, _Peru_, _New Granada_, _La Plata_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about fun things you can do with paper, scissors, and tape. 1. For ten points: cut out a long rectangular shape. Twist it through 180 degrees and join the ends. you now have an example of what one-sided, one-edged surface? Answer: _Mobius_ strip 2. For twenty points: Go to a universe with more than three dimensions and construct a surface that has only one side and no interior, and which yields two mobius strips if it is cut in half lengthwise. For ten points, what is the name of the surface that would meet these specification? Answer: _Klein_ bottle 30 POINT BONUS 19. For five points each, identify these members of the Bach clan. 1. He worked for many years as clavier accompanist to the flute-playing Frederick the Great of Prussia. The author of several treatises on clavier technique, he is considered the father of modern keyboard playing. Answer: _C_arl _P_hilip _E_ Emmanuel Bach 2. After working several years as a violinist and concertmaster at Weimar and Cothen, he was offered the post of cantor at a school in Leipzig only after two other composers had turned the job down. Answer: _J_ohann _S_ebastian Bach 3. The only Bach to gain fame as a composer of Italian operas, he spent most of his life in London and composed such works include "Orione," "Zanaida," and "Adriano in Syria." Answer: _J_ohann _C_hristian Bach 4. The only composer whose works are catalogued by Schikele numbers, most of the serious research on this composer is today carried out at the University of Southern North Dakota. Answer: _P.D.Q._ Bach 5. As Daisy Duke, she wore some of the shortest shorts in the history of network television. Answer: _Catherine_ Bach 30 POINT BONUS 20. For the stated number of points, given a European capital city, name the principal river that it sits on. 1. 5 pts: Warsaw Answer: _Vistula_ 2. 10 pts: Dublin Answer: _Liffey_ 3. 15 pts: Skopje Answer: _Vardar_ --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="18"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="18" Questions by John Packet 18 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. The fourth section is written in the third person, from the viewpoint of the black servants. The narrator of the third section is utterly insensitive to the world around him, while the narrator of the second is an overly-sensitive suicide. The most famous section is the first, which is written in stream-of-consciousness from the point of view of Benji, a severely retarded man who has no concept of time. FTP, name this 1929 novel by William Faulkner. Answer: _The Sound and the Fury_ 2. In 1963, eighteen-year-old Barbara Ann Johnson was raped while walking home from her job at a Phoenix movie theater. At a police line-up three days later, Johnson identified her assailant, who confessed without being told that he could ask for a lawyer, and it was because of this the Supreme Court threw out his conviction three years later. FTP, name this rapist and namesake of a list of rights that police now read to all arrested suspects. Answer: Ernesto _Miranda_ 3. An evergreen shrub of the order rubiales, family rubiacae, this relative of the madder grows naturally to a height of over thirty feet, and has white flowers while in blossom. Although it has been cultivated for its seedlings since prehistoric times, it was not until the middle ages that, according to legend, a Yemenite shepherd named Kaldi first brewed the seeds into a hot drink. FTP, name either this plant or the caffinated beverage made from it. Answer: _Coffee_ 4. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of the titan Pallas and the river Styx. She was closely associated with Athena, and in Athenian religion, the two goddesses were often interchangeable. Her cult was also popular in Rome, and it was to her that a famous temple on top of the Palatine hill was dedicated. For ten points, name this winged deity, the Greco-Roman goddess of victory and namesake of a shoe company. Answer: _Nike_ 5. They were 44-38 in 1977-78-- the worst regular-season record ever for an eventual NBA champion. They also went 44-38 in 1996- 97, which was just barely good enough to end the NBA's longest playoff drought. FTP, name this Atlantic Division franchise, which will be changing its name to the Wizards next year. Answer: _Washington_ or _Bullets_ 6. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982, but did not show up to collect her award, for a rather simple reason-- she had been dead for nineteen years. Her prize was awarded for her _Collected Poems_, which had been edited by her husband, English poet laureate Ted Hughes. FTP, name this poet of _Lady Lazarus_ and _Ariel_, who committed suicide in 1963. Answer: Sylvia _Plath_ 7. The worst procrastinator of all was Thomas McKean of Delaware, who did not get around to the job until 1781, by which time nine of his fifty-five co-signatories were already dead. McKean was the last person to sign, FTP, what document, adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776? Answer: The _Declaration of Independence_ 8. In 1895 he entered a scholarship competition to Cambridge and placed second, but was sent to England anyway after the first-place finisher decided to remain in New Zealand and get married. Just thirteen years later, he was awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry, an award which he personally disowned, since he would have preferred to have been honored for physics. FTP, name this discoverer of the proton. Answer: Ernest _Rutherford_ 9. Also known as the Archipelago de Colon, this island group's better-known name means "island of the tortoises," because it was once inhabited by nearly a hundred thousand of those creatures. In retrospect, a better name might have been "Island of the Finches," since it was the fourteen unique varities of finches found on the island which gave Darwin the idea of natural selection. For ten points, identify this archipelago off the coast of Ecuador. Answer: _Galapagos_ Islands 10. Invented in 1500 by the printer Teobaldo Mannucci, it is allegedly based on the handwriting of Petrarch, and was originally used to indicate editorial extrapolations in ancient texts. FTP, name this rightward-slanting typeface, which is today also used for indicating emphasis and titles. Answer: _Italic_ Type 11. It includes two treatises on marriage and a series of mostly- forgotten stories of the occult, which respectively make up the sections on "Analytical Studies" and "Philosophical Studies." Nearly all of the famous novels are in the "Studies of Manners" section, including _The Country Doctor_, _Eugenie Grandet_, and Pere Goriot_. FTP, name this collection of ninety novels written by Honore de Balzac. Answer: The _Human Comedy_ (La _Comedie humaine_) 12. It was formed in 1847 when the Independent African State of Maryland merged with the Cape Mesurado Colony, but, owing to opposition by the slave states, it was not formally recognized by the U.S. until the Civil War. FTP, name this oldest continuously- independent nation of Africa, which was founded by repatriated American slaves. Answer: Liberia 13. When the first skeletons of it were found in 1857, they were initally thought to be the remains of thirteenth-century Mongol warriors. Within a few years, however, it became obvious that the remains were actually much older, and it was classified as a dead- end branch of homo sapiens. However, recent discoveries suggest that it was a entirely separate evolutionary species. FTP, name this hominid driven to extinction by Cro-Magnons around 35,000 B.C. Answer: _Neanderthal_ man 14. He is the patron saint of sailors, pawnbrokers, children, unmarried girls, merchants, pharmacists, perfume, and Russia. One of the most venerated saints during the middle ages, his most famous legend tells of how he saved three poor girls from prostitution by giving them each a bag of gold, a legend which continues to have a profound effect the economy every December. FTP, name this saint often associated with giftgiving. Answer: St. _Nicholas_ 15. The date was April 6, 1973, the place was Fenway Park, and the batter was Ron Blomberg of the Yankees, who drew a walk, but did not return to take the field in the bottom of the first inning. FTP, such was the debut of what despised American League rule, which was credited with prolonging the careers of people like Don Baylor and Eddie Murray? Answer: The _Designated Hitter_ (_DH_) rule 16. Thought to have been a hexagonal, unroofed wooden structure with a circular central pit and three thatch-covered galleries, this landmark of the Southwark neighborhood was demolished in 1644 by the Puritan government. An earlier version of the same building burned to the ground in 1613, allegedly after a cannon misfired during the premiere of _Henry VIII_. FTP, name this recently- rebuilt theater used by William Shakespeare. -The _Globe_ 17. Aaron Copland and Thomas Wolfe are born. Umberto I of Italy is assassinated, while Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, and Steven Crane die from more natural causes. Paris hosts the world's fair, as well as the second modern Olympiad, and William McKinely is re-elected president of the United States. FTP, name the year. Answer: _1900_ 18. These members of phylum porifera exhibit so little movement that in the eighteenth century, most zoologists classified them as plants. Brilliantly colored while alive, they have a sac-like, formless body, which draws in water through numerous tiny surface holes and expels it through a central cavity. FTP, name these animals, whose soft, dried skeletons have since ancient times been used as household cleaning implements. Answer: _sponges_ 19. Built on the Asian mainland opposite the island of Cos, its queen, Artemisia, was the only female general in the Persian wars, while its most famous native wrote an influential history of the campaign. However, a greater claim to fame was established in the third century B.C., when another Artemisia built a tomb for her dead husband, whose name was Mausolus. FTP, name this bithplace of Herodotus and former location of a Wonder of the World. Answer: _Halicarnassus_ 20. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Miramax Films, Women's Wear Daily, The Anaheim Mighty Ducks, the California Angels, ESPN 2 , Hollywood Records, nine television and eleven radio stations, and Touchstone Pictures are among the among the subsidiaries of, FTP, what evil corporation, which become the world's largest media company following its 1995 acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC? Answer: The Walt _Disney_ Company Questions by John Packet 18 (Easy) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. Identify these British writers from their works, 10-5. 1. 10 pts: _The Sermons of Mr. Yorick_ 5 pts: _The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy_ Answer: Laurence _Sterne_ 2. 10 pts: _Shamela_ 5 pts: _Tom Jones_ Answer: Henry _Fielding_ 3. 10 pts: _The Hypochondriack_ 5 pts: _The Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, LL.D._ Answer: James _Boswell_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. Bill Clinton made it all the way through the first half of his first term without issuing a single veto. For the stated number of points, identify these other presidents who are conspicuous for their use (or lack of use) of this power. 1. For five points, what President issued by far the most total vetoes, with 635? Answer: _F_ranklin _Roosevelt_ 2. For ten points, what other democrat, who issued 584 vetos in just eight years, was the veto champion before FDR? Answer: Grover _Cleveland_ 3. Only one president since the civil war never issued a veto. For fifteen points, name him. Answer: James _Garfield_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For ten points each, identify these following sexually- transmitted diseases. 1. Caused by the bacterium spirochaeta pallida, its high fatality rate is due to the fact that it is very difficult to detect in its early stages. Advanced symptoms include internal and external lesions, baldness, and insanity. Answer: _Syphilis_ 2. An infection of the mucous membrane of the genital tract, it is nearly as contagious as syphilis but much less fatal. Symptoms include pain during urination and urethral genital discharge. Answer: _Gonorrhea_ 3. It is caused by a parasitic mite that burrows in the skin of the human host, most frequently on the penis. The most frequent symptoms are warts, usually caused by an allergic reaction to the mite's feces. Answer: _Scabies_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Because Beethoven only lived to write nine symphonies, a popular superstition arose that no great composer after Beethoven could live to write a tenth symphony-- and indeed, many of Beethoven's most notable successors died soon after completing their own ninth symphonies. For five points each, given a composer who lived after Beethoven, state whether they wrote more than nine, less than nine, or exactly nine symphonies, disregarding any fragments. 1. Franz Schubert Answer: _nine_ 2. Robert Schumann Answer: _less_ 3. Gustav Mahler Answer: _nine_ 4. Johannes Brahms Answer: _less_ 5. Anton Dvorak Answer: _nine_ 6. Dmitri Shostakovich Answer: _more_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak is sometimes considered the most unbreakable modern record in baseball. For ten points each, answer the following questions about this record. 1. First, in what year was this record set? Answer: _1941_ 2. Whose 44-year old record did DiMaggio break? Answer: Willie _Keeler_ 3. The modern-era minor-leauge record hitting streak is 61 games, and it was set in 1933. For a final ten points, who holds this record? Answer: _Joe Dimaggio_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For the stated number of points, identify these women from Homer's _Odyssey_. 1. For five: she spends nearly twenty years fending off the unwelcome attentions of Antinous, Eurymachus, and others. Answer: _Penelope_ 2. For ten: the _Odyssey_ opens with Odysseus' escape from this nymph, who had held him captive for nearly ten years. Answer: _Calypso_ 3. For fifteen: the daughter of King Alcinous of the Phaecians, this girl rescues Odysseus after his shipwreck. Answer: _Nausicaa_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For ten points each, given a list of monarchs from different countries with the same name and number, put them in chronological order. 1. Henry IV of England, Henry IV of France, and Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire. Answer: HRE, England, France 2. Charles I of Great Britain, Hungary, and Spain. Answer: Hungary, Spain, Britain 3. John I of the Byzantine Empire, England, and France. Answer: Byzantine, England, France 30 POINT BONUS 8. The uncommon qualities of the world's most common liquid depend on a trio of forces, one of which is active within and two of which are active between its molecules. For ten points each, identify these forces that hold water molecules together. 1. It links atoms into molecules by shared electrons. Answer: _covalent_ bonding 2. It is a weak electrical link between the nucleus and the electrons of nearby molecules. Answer: _Vanderwaals_ or _London_ forces 3. It is a strong electrical link between the positive charges of certain nuclei and certain electrons of nearby atoms. Answer: _Hydrogen_ bonding 30 POINT BONUS 9. Identify the book of the Bible from quotes, 30-20-10. 1. "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them." 2. "And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." 3. "For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called `Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.'" Answer: _Isaiah_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. In the board game "Clue," there are six ways in which the ever- happless Mr. Body can meet his grisly death. For five points each, name these murder weapons featured in the game. You must be specific. Answer: _knife_, _rope_, _wrench_, _lead pipe_, _candlestick_, _revolver_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify the author, 30-20-10. 1. His minor works include "The Celestial Omnibus," "Two Cheers for Democracy," and "The Longest Journey," which he considered his best novel. 2. His first full-length novel was 1916's _Maurice_, which, because of its homosexual theme, was not published until after his death in 1971. 3. He is best known for novels "A Room With A View," "Howards End," and "A Passage to India." Answer: E.M. _Forster_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Identify the statesman, 30-20-10. 1. In 1969, he reported seeing a UFO, and while in office, he was attacked and injured by a giant swimming rabbit. 2. In one of the more comical mistranslations of the cold war, his interpeter once announced to a crowd in Warsaw that he "sexually desired" the Polish people. 3. Now a perennial Nobel Peace Prize Candidate, his center for world peacekeeping efforts is located at Emory University in Atlanta. Answer: Jimmy _Carter_ 20 POINT BONUS 13. For five points each, given a congential medical disorder, identify it as being most usually the result of a missing chromosome, an extra chromosome, a missing part of one chromosome, an extra part of one chromosome, a recessive hereditary condition, or none of the above. 1. Down's syndrome Answer: _extra_ 2. Phenylketonuria (PKU) Answer: _recessive_ 3. Turner syndrome Answer: _missing chromosome_ 4. Fragile-X sydrome Answer: _extra part_ 20 POINT BONUS 14. The biblical patriarch Jacob had thirteen children, who were born of four different women- two wives and two slave girls. For five points each, name these four mothers to Jacob's children. Answer: _Rachel_, _Leah_, _Zilpah_, and _Bilhah_ 20 POINT BONUS 15. In 1996, Vice-President Al Gore was forced to make a public apology after he called the supporters of a certain political candidate "members of the extra-chromosome right-wing." For ten points each, answer the following questions about this incident. 1. First, Gore made this remark in reference to the supporters of what Virginia Senate candidate, who narrowly lost to incumbent Chuck Robb? Answer: Oliver _North_ 2. Gore did not apologize to North for this remark. Instead, the apology was directed to all people with what chromosomal defect, also called trisomy-21? Answer: _Down_'s Syndrome 30 POINT BONUS 16. For the stated number of points, given a literary one-hit- wonder, name the one hit. 1. 5 pts: Margaret Mitchell Answer: _Gone With the Wind_ 2. 10 pts: Baroness D'Orczy Answer: _The Scarlet Pimpernel_ 3. 15 pts: J.R. Wyss Answer: _The Swiss Family Robinson_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Identify the following cabinet posts from list of former occupants for fifteen points each, or from the name of a Clinton appointee to that office for five points. 1. 15 pts: Harry Daughtery, William Wirt, Edward Levi 5 pts: Janet Reno Answer: _Attorney General_ 2. 15 pts: Patricia Roberts Harris, Margaret Heckler 5 pts: Donna Shalala Answer: Secretary of _Health and Human Services_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, given a metric prefix, give the power of ten to which it refers. For example, if I gave you kilo, you would answer "3." 1. Exa- Answer: 18 2. Pico Answer: -12 3. Giga Answer: 9 30 POINT BONUS 19. Identify the art movements, 15-10-5. 1. 15 pts: The lesser-known artists and architects affiliated with it include Van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, and J.J.P. Oud. 10 pts: Its manifesto was 1920's "Neo-Plasticism." 5 pts: This movement's leading figure was Piet Mondrian. Answer: _De Stijl_ (accept Neo-Plasticism on the 15 only) 2. 15 pts: Lesser-known artists affiliated with it include Andre Derain, Kees van Dongen, and Maurice de Vlaminck. 10 pts: It got its name from a remark made by critic Louis Vauxcelles at a 1905 exhibition. 5 pts: That remark can be translated as "Donatello among the wild beasts." Answer: _Fauvism_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Do any of you have a birthday anytime soon? Well, it doesn't really matter for this bonus. I will wish you birthday greetings in six different languages, and you will receive five points for each language that you can recognize and identify. 1. "Cumpleanos Feliz." Answer: _Spanish_ 2. "Opto tibi felicem." Answer: _Latin_ 3. "S dnem rozhdenie." Answer: _Russian_ 4. "Yom huledet sameach." Answer: _Hebrew_ 5. "Zhu ni sheng ri hao." Answer: Mandarin _Chinese_ 6. "qoSIIj Quchjaj." Answer: _Klingon_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="19"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="19" John's Complete Packets Packet 19 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. In French folklore, he is the brother of Merovee, the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, and in the medievel poem _Huon de Bordeaux_, he is a friendly dwarf who trains the hero in the ways of knighthood. But he is better known for his appearance in Shakespeare, where he is a woodland king whose subjects include Peaseblossom, Mustardseed, and Robin Goodfellow. FTP, name this husband of Titania. Answer: _Oberon_ 2. The English and Turks named it after the French. The French called it the Italian Illness, the Italians called it the Spanish Disease, and the Spanish called it the sickness of Hispanola, beliving that it had been brought to Europe by Columbus' sailors. However, recent evidence indicates that it may have been around much earlier, and that what the sailors brought back was simply a different strain to which Europeans were not immune. For ten points, name this venereal disease. Answer: _Syphilis_ 3. In mineralogy, it is the name of a translucent bright-green semiprecious stone formed from cryptocrystalline silica. In medicine, it is the watery fluid in which the cells of the blood are suspended. In physics, it is an ionized gaseous discharge in which there is no net charge, the number of positive and negative ions being equal. FTP, give the common term. Answer: _Plasma_ 4. According to Dave Barry, its official motto is "Brrrrrr!" and its state bird is covered with oil. In reality, its state bird is the willow ptarmigan, and its motto is "North to the Future." For ten points, name this second-least populated and second-newest of the United States. Answer: _Alaska_ 5. The first modern set was the Rider-Waite deck, which was produced in the late 19th century by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Today, these can be bought not only in the traditional medieval motif, but also in varieties such as the Cat- Lover, the California, the Robot, the Tao, and the Scratch-and- Sniff decks. For ten points, name this popular fortune-telling device, which typically features images of rods, cups, pentacles, kings, lovers, and death. Answer: _Tarot_ Cards 6. She is the beautiful, neurotic wife of George Tesman, a scholar whom she does not love, and out of boredom she destroys the lives of her best friend and her former lover Eilert Lovberg. When Eilert follows her suggestion and kills himself, she finds herself blackmailed by Judge Brack, but decides to take her own life instead. FTP, name this title character of a play by Ibsen. Answer: _Hedda Gabler_ 7. In Colon, Panama, Sherwood Anderson accidentally swallows a toothpick along with his hors-d'oeuvre and dies. In Sussex, England, Virginia Woolf throws herself into a river. In Zurich, James Joyce dies of a ruptured ulcer. In sports, the Bowling hall of Fame opens, and Joe Dimaggio hits in 56 consecutive games. FTP, all this happened in what year, which also saw the World War II battles of Tobruk, Kiev, Benghazi, Orel, and Pearl Harbor? Answer: _1941_ 8. Born in Les Cayes, Haiti, his father was a French sea-captain who had fought at Yorktown, while his mother was a mixed-race servant girl who had wandered aboard his father's ship. Raised in France, he emigrated to America at eighteen, started several failed businesses, and was eventually jailed for debt. While his wife worked to support him, he began preparing a series of nature watercolors, which were published to great acclaim between 1827 and 1838. FTP, name this artist and conservationist, the author of _Birds of America_. Answer: John James _Audubon_ 9. From base to peak, it measures 33,476 feet, making it taller than any other mountain in the world, Everest included. At the same time, it is not close to being the world's highest point, since its first 20,000 feet are underwater. FTP, name this Pacific volcano, the highest peak in the state of Hawaii. Answer: _Mauna Kea_ 10. Herbert Spencer defined it as "that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him." H.L. Mencken called it "the great legalizer, even in the field of morals." Byron called it "the avenger," and to Emerson it was "the surest poison." FTP, identify this four-letter word. Answer: _Time_ 11. His earliest poems are collected in _Empty Mirror_, but these were not published until 1961, when he was already at the height of his fame. Other poetry collections by him include _Angor Wat_, _Mind Breaths_, _White Shroud_, _TV Baby Poems_, _Reality Sandwiches_, and _Kaddish_, but he is best known for his first published work, a 1956 poem that was regarded as the manifesto of the Beat movement. FTP, name this writer of "Howl." Answer: Allen _Ginsburg_ 12. This term was coined by a politician named Rudolf Virchow in 1873, one year after the event had been launched with the passage of the Falk Laws. Although its real goal may have been to suppress the fast-growing Center Party, the government justified it as a response to the claims of infallibility recently promulgated at the First Vatican Council. FTP, give the German name for this political campaign, in which Otto von Bismarck tried to curtail the influence of the Roman Catholic Church over German society. Answer: The _Kulturkampf_ 13. The name's the same: in the _Iliad_, he was the king of Argos, whose more notable adventures include wounding the goddess Aphrodite and making a grossly unequal trade of armor with the Trojan hero Glaucus. In the legend of Heracles, he was a savage king of Thrace whose man-eating mares were the object of one of Heracles' labors. FTP, give this common name of Greek mythology. Answer: _Diomedes_ 14. A lifelong civil servant, he rose to become governor of Chengdu, then Minister for Public Works, and finally Minister for Justice. According to legend, he was so successful at this last job that by the time he died in 476 B.C., there had been no crime in all of China for thirty years. FTP, name this man who also edited a collection of ancient philosophy, and whose own sayings were posthumously published as the _Analects_. Answer: _Confucius_ or _K'ung Fu-tse_ 15. Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher who faked his own death. Las Vegas is a mob town; nobody gets killed there without permission. There was no autopsy, and memorial services in two cities were cancelled. His latest CD depicts him as Jesus Christ, which means that he plans to rise from the dead. FTP, these are just a few Chuck D's "18 compelling reasons," for the theory that what rapper is actually still alive? Answer: Tupac _Shakur_ 16. As a young man, the jobs at which he worked included oyster pirate, seal clubber, gold prospector, and professional hobo, which landed him in jail when he was arrested for vagrancy in Erie, Pensylvania. A member of the Socialist Labor party since 1896, his fifty volumes of novels, short stories, and essays later made him wealthy enough to build Wolf House, his own experimental farm and ranch in the Somona Valley, and it was there that he died of a morphine overdose in 1916. FTP, name this author of _The Iron Heel_, _Martin Eden_, _John Barleycorn_, and _The Call of the Wild_. Answer: Jack _London_ 17. In 1996, Judge Thelton Henderson ruled that it probably violated the Equal Protection clause, and issued a restraining order against its enforcement. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals felt differently, and this law was declared constitutional in 1997. FTP, name this ballot initiative that bans public affirmative action in California. Answer: _Proposition 209_ or the _California Civil Rights Initiative_ or _C.C.R.I._ 18. The first director of the Uppsala national observatory, he spent most of his life taking observations of the Aurora Borealis, though none of his astronomical work was of any lasting importance. In fact, he would be completely forgotten today were it not for a short letter he wrote to the Swedish Academy in 1742, in which he argued for the superiority of a centigrade system of measurement for temperature. FTP, name this namesake of a temperature scale. Answer: Anders _Celsius_ 19. The battle at which he died is variously referred to as Terebinth or Ain Jalut. The Bible describes him as being about six and a half feet tall, armed with a bronze helmet, bronze scale armor, and a bronze scimitar. This weaponry did him more harm than good, however since the weight of his armor wore him down, and his sword was ultimately used to finish him off. FTP, name this Philistine from Gath, who loses his duel with David. Answer: _Goliath_ 20. There are more of them in Southern Chile than any in other place in the world, including the Canal de Messier, which at 4,250 feet is the world's deepest. FTP, what are these steep-sided, deepwater ocean inlets, which are also found in Canada, Scotland, and Greenland, but which are most often associated with the coast of Norway? Answer: _Fjords_ John's Complete Packets Packet 19 (Easy) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each, identify these bad parents of history and fiction. 1. When she learns that her husband is about to abandon her, this Euripides title character kills her children, then flies away in a magic chariot drawn by dragons. Answer: _Medea_ 2. This Russian tsar ordered his only son Aleksei tortured to death in 1718, fearing that the prince would become the center of opposition to him. Answer: _Peter_ I (Peter the Great) 3. This title character of a Prosper Merrime novella has his young son shot after the boy betrays a fugitive to the police. Answer: _Mateo Falcone_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For ten points each, name these places significant in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 1. First, name the upstate New York town near which Joseph Smith received his gold plates in 1827, and from which the first edition of the Book of Mormon was published in 1830. Answer: _Palmyra_ 2. Also famous as the birthplace of Harry Truman, Smith declared a site near this Missouri city to be the "New Jerusalem" in 1831. Answer: _Independence_ 3. Founded in 1839, this city in southern Illinois served as headquarters of the church until 1844, when Smith was lynched by a mob. Answer: _Nauvoo_ 25 POINT BONUS 3. For five points each, given a category of animal life, name the largest (non-extinct) species found within it, by average adult mass. 1. All animals Answer: _Blue whale_ 2. Predators Answer: _Sperm whale_ 3. Insects Answer: _Goliath beetle_ 4. Rodents Answer: _Carybara_ 5. Reptiles Answer: _Crocodile_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For five points each, given a work of classical music, name the composer. 1. "Birthday Ode to Queen Anne" Answer: George _Handel_ 2. The "Trout" Quintet Answer: Franz _Schubert_ 3. Symphony Fantastique Answer: Hector _Berliox_ 4. The "Scythian" Suite Answer: Sergei _Prokofiev_ 5. "Carnival of the Animals" Answer: Camille _Saint-Saens_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the phrase "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" 1. For five: name the TV anchorman who was beaten up in 1986 by a mysterious assailant who uttered these words. Answer: Dan _Rather_ 2. For ten: name the band that later released a popular song based on this incident. Answer: _R.E.M_ 3. In 1997, a decade-old mystery was ended when Rather's assailant was positively identified. For a final fifteen points, name him. Answer: William _Tager_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Name the author, 30-20-10. 1. In 1974, he wrote a sketch about a homicidal doctor that was used in the last-ever episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus." This was the only occasion in the show's history where a non-cast member was given a writing credit. 2. Many readers consider his finest work to be "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency," as well as its sequel, "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul." 3. He is best known for writing a series of sci-fi parodies that began with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Answer: Douglas _Adams_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Not counting FDR, six presidential candidates have received at least ten percent of the popular vote in three different elections since 1820. For five points each, name these six candidates, three of whom won twice, one of whom won once, and two of whom never won at all. Answer: Andrew _Jackson_, Henry _Clay_, Martin _Van Buren_, Grover _Cleveland_, William Jennings _Bryan_, Richard _Nixon_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Since the shuttle program began in the 1970s, NASA has constructed six space shuttles-- one was a prototype, while the others have all been used on space missions. For five points each, name these six spacecraft. Answer: _Enterprise_, _Columbia_, _Atlantis_, _Discovery_, _Challenger_, _Endeavor_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about the novel "All the King's Men." 1. First, for five points, who wrote it? Answer: Robert Penn _Warren_ 2. For another five points, Robert Penn Warren based his novel on the story of what real-life political figure? Answer: Huey _Long_ 3. For ten: Name the novel's central character, a fictional governor of Louisiana who closely resembles Huey Long. Answer: Willie _Stark_ 4. For a final ten points, name the character in the novel who assassinates Willie Stark. Answer: Adam _Stanton_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Nothing dates a bad question like a "Carmen Sandiego" lead-in. Anyway: Carmen Sandiego is running amok in Africa, and it is up to you to stop her. Prove yourself worthy of the Acme Detective Agencyand answer the following questions about her whereabouts, each of which aer worth ten points. 1. Carmen went to the city of Yamoussoukro and stole the world's largest cathedral. In what country did this dastardly crime take place? Answer: _Cote d'Ivoire_ 2. As she was fleeing the Cote D'Ivoire, Carmen was seen glancing through an Amharic-English phrasebook. Towards what country was she most likely heading? Answer: _Ethiopia_ or _Eritrea_ 3. When you arrive in Ethiopia, Carmen is gone, but before she left she was overheard remarking that she would next go to "that country with the blue flag with a white star in the middle?" Which country is this? Answer: _Somalia_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. One of the nastiest and most bizarre controversies in literary history occured in Russia in 1869, when the author of "Oblomov" accused the author of "Fathers and Sons" of stealing one of his ideas for a new novel, and then selling it to a French writer, who used it as the basis for his "The Sentimental Education." For ten points each, identify the three literary giants involved in this dispute. Answer: Ivan _Goncharov_, Ivan _Turgenev_, Gustave _Flaubert_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For the stated number of points, given a member of the 103rd Congress, identify the state he represented. 1. 5 pts: David Bonoir Answer: _Michigan_ 2. 10 pts: Jamie Whitten Answer: _Mississippi_ 3. 15 pts: Gary Franks Answer: _Connecticut_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Identify the chemical element, 30-20-10. 1. Discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, this yellowish metal is found in group IV-B of the periodic table. 2. Its name comes from the Arabic for "gold color," and it is the only element whose name comes from a non-Indo-European language. 3. Its atomic weight is 40 and its symbol is Zr. Answer: _Zirconium_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For ten points each, put the following music-related events in chronologial order. Ten points for each group of three placed in correct order. 1. The deaths of Mendelssohn, Rossini, and Schubert Answer: _Schubert_, _Mendelssohn_, _Rossini_ 2. The premieres of the following operas: Prokofiev's _Love of Three Oranges_, Puccini's _Turnadot_, Strauss's _Der Rosenkavalier_ Answer: _Rosenkavalier, Oranges, Turandot_ 3. The premieres of the following orchestral works: Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," Holst's "The Planets," Orff's "Carmina Burana." Answer: _Planets, Rhapsody, Carmina_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Identify the year, 30-20-10. 1. Ty Cobb made his major league debut, and if you didn't like baseball, you finally could move to Norway, which gained its independence in this year. 2. Einstein published three very important papers, including one on the special theory of relativity, which will earn him a Nobel Prize twenty-two years later. 3. The Russo-Japanese war ends, causing a dress rehearsal of the Russian Revolution to break out in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Answer: _1905_ 25 POINT BONUS 16. Given a famous operatic character, identify which vocal register (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Baritone, or Bass) the part was written for. Five points each. 1. Figaro (from Mozart's _Marriage of Figaro_) Answer: _Baritone_ 2. Figaro (from Rossini's _Barber of Seville_) Answer: _Baritone_ 3. Aida Answer: _Soprano_ 4. Siegfried Answer: _Tenor_ 5. Carmen Answer: _Soprano_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about Russia's Time of Troubles. 1. 5 pts: name the boyar whose seizure of the throne in 1598 is sometimes considered the starting-point of the Time of Troubles. Answer: _Boris Godunov_ 2. 10 pts: in 1604, a royal pretender named Grigori Otropiev led a successful revolution against Godunov. Name the long-deceased son of Ivan the Terrible whose identity was assumed by Otropiev. Answer: _Dmitri_ 3. 5 pts: when the False Dmitri was overthrown and killed, his body was stuffed into a cannon and shot towards what country, whose armed intervention had put him on the throne in the first place? Answer: _Poland_ 4. 10 pts: the Time of Troubles finally came to an end in 1618 with the crowning of what Tsar, the first ruler of the Romanov dynasty? Answer: _Michael_ I 30 POINT BONUS 18. Gold, Silver, Iron, and Lead all have chemical symbols that do not start with the same letter as the English name of the element. Six other elements also share this distinction; for five points each, name them. Answer: _Antimony_ (Sb), _Mercury_ (Hg), _Potassium_ (K), _Tin_ (Sn), _Sodium_ (Na), _Tungsten_ (W) 30 POINT BONUS 19. Identify the large object, 30-20-10. 1. It is named for sir Benjamin Hall, the Commissioner of Works who ordered it built in the 1850s. 2. A symbol of British corporate life, its characteristic sound is used to preface the BBC radio news. 3. It is the name of the largest bell in the clock tower of London's Parliament building, and this name is often used interchangeably with the tower itself. Answer: _Big Ben_ 25 POINT BONUS 20. Pencil and paper may be useful here. Imagine that you are in an insane asylum and meet four inmates, one (and only one) of whom is a pathological liar who always lies. The other three always tell the truth. The names of the inmates are Chichikov, Manilov, Nozdrev, and Sobakievich. They greet you with the following statements: Chichikov: I am not the pathological liar. Manilov: What Chichikov says is true. Nozdrev: Chichikov and Manilov are not both telling the truth. Sobakievich: Manilov is lying if and only if Chichikov is lying. For 25 points, who is the pathological liar? [MODERATOR: Allow 15 seconds for an answer.] Answer: _Nozdrev_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="20"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="20" John's Complete Packets Packet 20 (Hard) Toss-Ups 1. Two men named Peisthetaerus and Euelpides get fed up with Athenian politics, and, after meeting with the tragic mythological character Tereus, they found a new city in the sky. This new city prospers so much that Peisthetaerus decides to start a war of aggression against the Olympian gods, which he wins. FTP, this is the plot of what Aristophanes comedy, which takes place in the city of Cloudcuckooland? Answer: The _Birds_ 2. The original one was a loose alliance of city-states most famous for defeating Frederick Barbarossa at the 1176 battle of Legano. The modern version (which has since been renamed "The Northern League") was little known until 1992, when, under Umberto Bossi, it captured 50 seats in Parliament and sent secessionist shock waves through Italy. FTP, give the shared name of this medieval confederation and contemporary political party. Answer: The _Lombard League_ (acc: _Lega Lombarda_) 3. He was the youngest Lucasian Professor in the twentieth century, earning the prestigious appointment in 1932 when he was only thirty. He was also one of the youngest-ever Nobel Prize winners, winning the Physics award a year later for work that appeared in his _Principles of Quantum Mechanics_. FTP, name this Englishman who devised the mathematical formualtion for quantum physics, work which also led to his prediction of antimatter. Answer: Paul _Dirac_ 4. Her canonization ceremony in 1950 was the first in history for which not only the saint's mother but also her murderer were in attendance. In 1902 she had been stabbed to death after rejecting the sexual advances of the boy next door, Alexander Sernelli, who afterwards claimed to have been forgiven and converted by her ghost while he was in prison, and who became a Capuchin monk after his release. FTP, name this patron saint of teenagers. Answer: St. Maria _Goretti_ 5. His accusers include Clint Smith, a former employee who was fired for embezzlement; a fourteen-year-old hitchhiker who he picked up in 1992; and an unnamed man who had worked at his Tacoma deli as a teenager in the 1970s. FTP, these are among the mounting legal troubles of what popular TV chef and alleged child molester? Answer: Jeff _Smith_ or the _Frugal Gourmet_ 6. Her real last name was Gorenko and her married name was Gumilova, but she chose to publish under the name of her Tatar great-grandmother. Her work after 1920 is dominated by the unhappy events of her later life, most of which were directly caused by the Soviet government, including the execution of her husband, the imprisonment of her son, and the suppression of her own poetry. FTP, name this leading acmeist, the author of "Poem without a Hero," "Anno Domini," and "Requiem." Answer: Anna _Akhmatova_ 7. Fought near the present-day town of Ortega in A.D. 778, this battle was a great victory for the Basques, who ambushed and annihilated the rear guard of the French army, killing the Prefect of Brittany among others. This disaster made enough of an impression on the French that it later became the only historical event included in the medieval chivalry romances, although the Basques were eventually changed to Arabs in the literary versions of the battle. FTP, name this early setback for Charlemagne, which became the basis for the _Song of Roland_. Answer: _Roncevalles_ 8. When olympic athletes are given DNA sex tests, they are tested for the presence of this specific cellular feature, a dark-staining patch of condensed X-chromosome material found in the cell nuclei of most females, but absent from genetically-normal males. FTP, name this inactivated chromosome. Answer: _Barr_ Body or _Sex chromatin_ 9. Although he virtually disappeared from the later versions of the Arthur legend, in the earlier cycles he was one of the most important knights of the Round Table, serving as King Arthur's official cupbearer and governor of Normandy. In the legends of Arthur's death, he is the only knight not to abandon the dying king, and he performs the task of returning Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake. FTP, name this knight, who was portrayed by Terry Jones in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Answer: Sir _Bevidere_ 10. His works, such as 1964's _Human Capital_ and 1981's _Marriage and the Family_ were among the first to apply traditional economic analysis to such fields as sex, crime, and racism, which has led to many controversial conclusions-- such as his argument that women are best cared for in a polygamous society, or that immigration rights should be auctioned off to the highest bidders. FTP, name this sociologist and economist at the University of Chicago, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics. Answer: Gary _Becker_ 11. This American playwright's major works include _Golden Guts_, _Proud Flesh_, and _The Enchanted Hunters_, none of which you will be able to find in any library. Equally unavailable is _My Cue_, the biographical memoir written about him by Vivian Darkbloom, although any good video store should carry the 1962 movie in which he was portrayed by Peter Sellers. FTP, name this non-existent writer and pedophile, who is assassinated by Humbert Humbert in the final chapter of Nabokov's _Lolita_. Answer: Clare _Quilty_ 12. Led by the brothers Hengist and Horsa, they were invited into Britain as mercenaries by the local Celtic-Roman population, which needed help defending itself from the Picts after the departure of the Roman legions. Like many other bad guests, they never left, and eventually they took permanent posesssion of Kent and Hampshire. FTP, name this first of the major Germanic tribes to invade Britain, who never did quite attain the fame of the Angles or the Saxons. Answer: _Jutes_ 13. Born in 1819, he was a co-inventor with Armand Fizeau of the gyroscope and he took the first clear photograph of the sun. Investigating the speed of light, he not only determined its velocity in air but found that its speed in water and other media decreased in proportion to their index of refraction. FTP, name this French physicist whose famous pendulum, used to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, later served as the title of a novel by Umberto Eco. Answer: Jean Bernard Leon _Foucault_ 14. According to tradition, he was born into an aristocratic family in Elis, but was kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Athens, where he was eventually freed by Socrates. After Socrates' death, he founded a school of philosophy in his native city, though none of his many writings today survive, and it is not even known whether he was in fact present for Socrates' suicide. FTP, name this philosopher whom Plato used as the narrator and title character for the dialogue which describes the last hours of Socrates. Answer: _Phaedo_ 15. Late at night on December 10, 1964, he checked in to the Hacienda motel in Hollywood accompanied by a model named Elisa Boyer, and a few hours later, he was shot to death by Bertha Lee Franklin, the hotel's manager. Franklin claimed that he had battered down her door searching for Boyer after she had run away from him, and the death was ruled an accidental homicide, although it was later speculated that he had been killed after a robbery attempt by Boyer and Franklin went awry. FTP, name this rhythm & blues singer, whose "You Send Me" in 1957 was the first major crossover hit by a black musician. Answer: Sam _Cooke_ 16. Fed up with rumors that the real author of his novels was his editor, he fired Maxwell Perkins in 1938 and went to the Pacific Northwest to write alone. There he contracted tuberculosis of the brain and died, leaving his new editor, Edward C. Aswell, with an eight-foot-high stack of manuscripts to sort out. Aswell proved to be worthy of the legacy of his predecessor, assembling the random writings into two last great novels. FTP, name this author of the posthumously-published _The Web and the Rock_ and _You Can't Go Home Again_. Answer: Thomas _Wolfe_ 17. Organized by a St. Louis politician named John McDonald, it managed to defraud the government of over four million dollars in tax revenue before it was exposed by Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow. Among the 239 people indicted as a result of it were many powerful Washington insiders, including several cabinet members and Orville Babcock, the private secretary of President Grant. FTP, name this political scandal of the 1870s, which grew out of kickbacks paid by several midwestern distilleries. Answer: The _Whiskey Ring_ 18. Although de Boisbaudran was able to identify it as a separate element as early as 1886, he was unable to obtain a pure sample of it-- a problem that remained unsolved for another twenty years, when Georges Urbain developed a method for isolating it by fractional crystallization. FTP, identify this rare earth metal lying between Terbium and Holmium, whose name is Greek for "difficult access." Answer: _Dysprosium_ 19. His detractors nicknamed him "Aristotle's Ape," while his official titles were Bishop of Regensburg and Count of Bollstat, and in 1931, he was given the posthumous rank of Doctor of the Church, giving him a status equivalent to Saint. A philosopher, botanist, astronomer, and alchemist, his works include a commentary on Aristotle, a treatise against Averroes, and a _Summa Theologica_, which is much less famous than an identically-titled work written by his most famous student. FTP, name this His greatest importance, however, was probably as a teacher. FTP, name this mentor of St. Thomas Aquinas. Answer: _Albertus Magnus_ 20. Starring Leonard Hicks, John Call, Victor Stiles, and Donna Conforti, it is also notable as the acting debut of Pia Zadora. Its title song, sung by Milton DeLugg and the Little Eskimoes, was "Hooray for Santa Claus," whose memorable chorus was "He's fat and round, but jumping jiminy/ He can climb down any chimney." FTP, name this notoriously bad holiday movie, in which Jolly Old Saint Nick is abducted by space aliens. Answer: _Santa Claus Conquers the Martians_ John's Complete Packets Packet 20 (Hard) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. By the time he was killed in a tavern brawl in 1593, Christopher Marlowe's entire dramatic work consisted of just six plays, at least four of which are today considered masterpieces. You will get five points for each Marlowe play you can name, counting his one two-part play as a single work. Answer: _Tamburlaine_ The Great _Edward II_ _Dido, Queen of Carthage_ _Hero and Leander_ _Doctor Faustus_ _The Jew of Malta_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For fifteen points each, name these German Chancellors of the 1930s who were not named Adolf Hitler. 1. Chancellor for several months in 1932, he later became a notorious Nazi collaborator, even ordering his own Catholic Center party not to resist when it was suppressed by Hitler. Often blamed as the non-Nazi most responsible for Hitler's rise, he was indicted but acquitted at Nuremburg. Answer: Franz von _Papen_ 2. He was Hitler's immediate predecessor as Chancellor, but resigned in disgust when President Hindenberg refused to given him the emergency powers necessary to govern. In 1934, he and his wife were murdered on Hitler's orders. Answer: Kurt von _Schleicher_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. In addition to those named for the Swedish village of Ytterby, there are five chemical elements that are named after cities. For five points each and a bonus five for all correct, name them; and a hint-- some of these element-names are based on archaic names for the cities. Answer: _Berkelium_, _Strontium_ (Strontion, Scotland), _Hafnium_ (Copenhagen), _Lutetium_ (Paris), _Holmium_ (Stockholm) 30 POINT BONUS 4. For ten points each, identify these Greek terms from ancient philsophy. 1. Roughly translated as "test" or "cross-examination," this was the three-stage method that Socrates would use to make his interlocutors aware of their own ignorance. Answer: _Elenchos_ 2. Meaning either "happiness" or "flourishing," this elusive concept was the ultimate end of human activity, according to both Aristotle and Plato. Its precise definition forms one of the central problems of Aristotle's _Nicomachean Ethics_. Answer: _Eudaimonia_ 3. Formed from the Greek words meaning "matter" and "shape," this ontological theory was put forth by Aristotle's _Categories_ and was designed to resolve the paradox of how primary substances can change their properties while maintaining their identities. Answer: _Hylomorphism_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. As of 1992, only eight shows had ever managed Broadway runs of 3,000 performances or more. For five points each and a maximum of thirty, name any six of these Broadway longevity champions. Answer: _Cats_ _A Chorus Line_ _Oh, Calcutta_ _42nd Street_ _Grease_ _Fiddler on the Roof_ _Tobacco Road_ _Life With Father_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each, identify these Scandanavain winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1. In 1909, she became the first woman to win the Nobel in Literature. Answer: Selma _Lagerlof_ 2. He is technically the only person to be awarded the prize twice: in 1918 he was offered the prize but refused it, and in 1931 he was given the award posthumously. Answer: Erik Axel _Karlfeldt_ 3. The only Icelandic nobel prize winner, his works include "The Great Weaver from Kashmir" and "Christianity at the Glacier." Answer: Halldor _Laxness_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. The phrase "going to Canossa" is a pretentious way of saying that a person has made a complete surrender and has thrown himself on the mercy of his opponent. The reference is to a famous event of medieval history, when a German emperor was forced to stand barefoot in the snow for three days while waiting for a pardon from his enemy, the Pope. For the stated number of points: 1. First, for five points each: name the emperor, and name the pope. Answer: Emperor _Henry IV_; Pope _Gregory VII_ 2. Henry and Gregory had been arguing over a seemingly trivial ritual procedure, which masked their real dispute over who would control the German clergy. For ten points, name the controversy of church history which ended with Henry's surrender at Canossa. Answer: The _Investiture_ Controversy 3. Finally: for ten points if within ten years, and five if within fifty, when did this event take place? Answer: _1077_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Imagine that, as a device for raising money, a cash-strapped Quiz Bowl team sells some of its less-talented players to the University hospital for medical research. These players are subjected to a sadistic experiment in which certain parts of their brains are damaged or removed, after which the players are stitched together and returned to the team. For ten points each, given a description of how the players' quiz bowl performances were affected, identify the brain parts that they are most likely missing. 1. When "Ted" holds the buzzer in his left hand, he finds that he is unable to ring in, even when he knows the answer. This problem disappears when the buzzer is moved to his right hand. Answer: _Corpus Callosum_ 2. Although his play is unaffected in other categories, "Christian" becomes completely unable to answer questions about current events. In fact, he can't remember much of anything that has happened since the operation. Answer: _Hippocampus_ 3. Although she can still play well using hand-held buzzers, "Sarah" finds that her performance drops dramatically on the Judge- style buzzers, since she misses every time she lunges for the pedal. Other than this, she still shows good muscle and limb control, and her speech is unaffected. Answer: _Cereberal Cortex_ (accept Posterior _Parietal_ Lobe) 30 POINT BONUS 9. Name the artist, 30-20-10. 1. He spent most of his life at the Andronikov monastery, which is now an art museum named after him-- although it does not actually contain any of his works. 2. His work includes the interiors of the church of the Annunciation in Moscow and the chapel of Trinity monastery in Zagorsk, while his masterpiece is "The Old Testament Trinity." 3. The greatest of the Russian icon painters, he was the subject of a famous film by Andrei Tarkovsky. Answer: Andrei _Rublov_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For ten points each, spell these names that undoubtedly gave many newspaper copy editors great headaches in the early 1990s. 1. The last name of the men's basketball coach at Duke. Answer: _K-R-Z-Y-Z-E-W-S-K-I_ 2. The last name of the Zairean opposition leader who had a brief tenure as Prime Minister before being removed by Mobutu in 1993. Answer: _T-S-H-I-S-E-K-E-D-I_ 3. This pseudo-nation had the longest name of the four black republics set up by apartheid-era South Africa; it was also the only one to violently resist reincorporation into South Africa in 1994. Answer: _B-O-P-H-U-T-H-A-T-S-W-A-N-A_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Name the author from works, 30-20-10. 1. _A View from the Diners Club_, _An Evening with Richard Nixon_ 2. _Live from Golgotha_, _A Visit to a Small Planet_. 3. _The City and the Pillar_, _Myra Breckenridge_ Answer: Gore _Vidal_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For the stated number of points, identify these members of the Adams family. 1. 5 pts: This grandson of John Quincy Adams was the author of the books _Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes_, _Democracy_, and a famous autobiography. Answer: _Henry_ Adams 2. 10 pts: The father of Henry Adams, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the Civil War, and was widely credited with keeping the powers of Europe from recognizing the Confederacy. Answer: _Charles Francis_ Adams 3. 15 pts: This cousin of Henry Adams was also a noted historian, whose most significant work was _America's Economic Supremacy_, published in 1900. Answer: _Brooks_ Adams 30 POINT BONUS 13. Time now for the Carolus Linneaus version of that popular Sesame Street game, "Which of these things is not like the other?" For each list of life forms, identify the one which, by Linnean classification, is most different from the others- For example, if three of them are of one order (or phylum, class, etc.) and the fourth is of another, you would correctly select the fourth animal. Five points each, with a 5-point bonus for all five. 1. Squirrel, rat, skunk, porcupine Answer: _Skunk_ 2. Black bread mold, slime mold, mushroom, yeast Answer: _Slime mold_ 3. Rhinoceros, hippopotamus, pig, deer Answer: _Rhinoceros_ 4. Anteater, sloth, armadillo, hedgehog Answer: _Hedgehog_ 5. Lobster, scorpion, octopus, starfish Answer: _Octopus_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For the stated numer of points, identify these Trojan-War figures who are not mentioned in the works of Homer. 1. 5 pts: The youngest son of King Priam, he was the hero of works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Answer: _Troilius_ 2. 10 pts: Originally the second-ranking leader of the Greek army, he was so clever that a jealous Odysseus framed him for treason and had him executed. Answer: _Palamedes_ 3. 5 pts: The hero of a Sophocles tragedy, this archer eventually kills Paris. He was not, however, a satyr, as the Disney company seems to believe. Answer: _Philoctetes_ 4. Non-Homeric versions of the legend tell of how this Amazon queen entered the war as an ally of the Trojans. Before she was killed, she managed to have a torrid love affair with Achilles. Answer: _Pentistheleia_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Identify these winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: fifteen points if you can get them from the first clue, ten if you need the year and film for which they won. 1. 15 pts: She is the only actress ever to win an Oscar for a role in which she played a man. 10 pts: 1983, "The Year of Living Dangerously." Answer: Linda _Hamilton_ 2. 15 pts: She is the only person to win an Oscar for her portrayal of an Oscar loser. 10 pts: 1978, "California Suite" Answer: Maggie _Smith_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Time now for a bonus on a topic of undeniable importance- the sex life of George Sand. Given a description of how the fling ended, identify the man in the life of the French novelist. 1. While rummaging through his papers, she discovered a letter in his handwriting marked, "Not to be opened until my death." Naturally, she opened it, and discovered a long list of complaints about her. She immediately divorced him. Answer: Casimir _Dudevant_ 2. After he fell dangerously ill, she cared for him for a while, then ran off with his doctor. She quickly regretted this and shaved her head as a token of repentance, but he refused to take her back. Answer: Alfred de _Musset_ 3. In the ninth year of their relationship they quarrelled over whether or not she should make up with her estranged nephew Clesinger. When she complained about his interference, he left her, and died shortly afterwards. Answer: Frederic _Chopin_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Ignoring the independent candidacies of John Anderson and Ross Perot, the third-place finisher among organized political parties were the Libertarians in every presidential election from 1976 to 1992. For five points each and with a five-points bonus for all five, name the five standard-bearers of this party during that period. Answer: Roger _MacBride_; Edward _Clark_; David _Bergland_; Ron _Paul_; Andre _Marrou_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. When Mendeleev first postulated his periodic table he left three blanks in it to represent elements that had not been discovered yet. Shortly afterwards these elements were discovered, confirming his theories. If you can name these elements without any more information, you will receive ten points each. For each one that you miss, you will be given a description of where the gap lay on Mendeleev's table, and can guess again for five points. 1. 5 pts: between Silicon and Tin. Answer: _Germanium_ 2. 5 pts: between Aluminum and Indium. Answer: _Gallium_ 3. 5 pts: Immediately to the right of Calcium. Answer: _Scandium_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For ten points each, identify these notable American art galleries. 1. Founded in 1937 by ex-Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, it is noted for its collection of works by Italian and Dutch Old Masters, most of which Mellon had purchased from the cash-starved Soviet Government. Answer: The _National Gallery_ of Art 2. Chartered in 1879, its early patrons included Mrs. Potter Palmer and Julius Rosenwald, who were among earliest serious collectors of French Impressionist paintings. As a result, its collection of impressionist art is probably the best of any museum outside of France. Answer: The _Art Institute of Chicago_ 3. Located in Merion, PA, this private gallery is noted for its collection of impressionist and post-impressionist works. According to the instructions of its founder, none of its works can be photographically reproduced in color, since he felt that this detracted from the experience of going to the museum. Answer: The _Barnes_ Foundation 30 POINT BONUS 20. For ten points each, given some members of a set, identify the set. For example, if I said Revolution, Mutiny, Wizards, United, you would answer Major League Soccer team nicknames. 1. Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II Answer: Months of the _Islamic Calendar_ 2. Sharjah, Dubai, Khor Fakkan Answer: Members of the _United Arab Emirates_ 3. al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, al-Mutasim Answer: _Caliphs_ of the Abbasid dynasty  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="21"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="21" John's Complete Packets Packet #21 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. In his first novel, "Leaf Storm," he introduced the fictional town of Macondo, a thinly veiled portrait of his birthplace of Arcataca and the setting of many of his subsequent works. The author of two collections of short stories, "Innocent Erendira" and "No One Writes to the Colonel," he is best known for his novels, which include "Big Mama's Funeral" and "Love in the Time of Cholera." FTP, name this Colombian Nobel Laureate and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Answer: Gabriel _Garcia_ Marquez 2. Arthur Radford, Nathan Twining, Earle Wheeler, Lyman Lemnitzer, John W. Vessey, and William Crowe are among the men who have held this office, along with such better-known names as Omar Bradley and Colin Powell. FTP, identify this job now filled until 1997 by John Shalikashvili. Answer: _Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff_ 3. Legend has it that this term was coined by a seventeenth-century French factory-owner named Legendre, who was asked by Finance Minister Colbert what the state could do to help industry, and whose blunt reply was, "Leave me alone." FTP, give the name for this economic philosophy popularized by the physiocrats and championed by Adam Smith, which seeks to limit government interference with the market. Answer: _Laissez-Faire_ 4. When it gained independence on September 21, 1981, it left French Guiana as the only remaining colony on the American mainland. FTP, name this small country with a capital at Belmopan, a nation that was formerly known as British Honduras. Answer: _Belize_ 5. Dan Quayle claims to have seen this movie over a hundred times, and while Vice-President he once delayed a meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia for an hour so he could finish watching it on his airplane. FTP, name this 1986 John Hughes comedy featuring Charlie Sheen, Edie McClure, Alan Ruck, Jeffery Jones, Mia Sara, and Matthew Broderick. Answer: _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_ 6. His original ambition was to be a singer for the Royal Danish Opera, and in his own lifetime he was well-known as the author of such serious novels as "O.T.," "Only a Fiddler" and "The Improvisatore." FTP, name this writer who is today remembered primarily for "The Fir Tree," "The Tinder Box," "The Snow Queen," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Ugly Duckling," and 163 other fairy tales. Answer: Hans Christian _Andersen_ 7. After the Manchus conquered the rest of China in the seventeenth century, a remnant of the defeated Ming government set up a stronghold in this province, where they held out against Manchu and European attacks for another fifty years. History repeated itself three hundred years later, when this same province served as the last refuge of the Kuomingtang after the Communist victory of 1949. FTP, name this island home of the Republic of China. Answer: _Taiwan_ 8. He was cleaning his lab in 1928 when he discovered a culture of staphylococcus germs that had been left uncovered for some days. About to throw the petri dish away, he noticed that some specks of mold had fallen into it, and that the bacteria around each speck had been killed, but that the mold did not harm human white blood cells at all. FTP, name this British bacteriologist famous for his accidental discovery of penecillin. Answer: Alexander _Fleming_ 9. In 1874, a painter Viktor Hartmann died, and as a memorial tribute, a Moscow art gallery presented a show of his paintings, among which were "Gnomus," "Tuileries," "The Catacombs," and "The Great Gate of Kiev." One of Hartmann's friends visited this show and composed his own tribute to the dead artist, a piano suite whose movements were each based on a different Hartmann from the show. FTP, name this musical composition, later orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, which is today the most popular work of Modest Mussorgsky. Answer: _Pictures at an Exhibition_ 10. The San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys have the record for most Super Bowl wins at five each, but either of these teams would have to double its total before it held the record for most NFL championships. FTP, what other franchise currently holds the record for most NFL championships, having won the title in 1936, 1939, 1944, 1961, 1962, and 1965, as well as Super Bowls I, II and XXXI? Answer: Green Bay _Packers_ 11. He wrote one play, _Mulatto_, a collection of short stories, _Simple Speaks his Mind_, and several novels, including _Not Without Laughter_ and _The Ways of White Folks_. But he is best remembered for his poetry, which was pubished in such collections as _The Dream Keeper_, _One-Way Ticket_, _The Weary Blues_, and _Shakespeare in Harlem_. FTP, name this leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Answer: Langston _Hughes_ 12. Supposedly, this word was originally Scottish slang for "cattle brigand," and in politics, it was first used as a derisive term for Catholic sympathizers in the government of Charles II. In the eighteenth century, it referred to the minority pro-monarchy faction in Parliament, and the nickname stuck even after that faction evolved into the modern Conservative party. FTP, give this name for the opponents of the Whigs. Answer: _Tory_ 13. Its weather includes retrograde winds of as much as 1,500 miles per hour, the strongest yet measured on any planet, and its most prominent visual feature is the Great Dark Spot, located in its southern hemisphere. Long thought to have only two moons, six more were discovered by Voyager 2, and these were named Proteus, Larissa, Galatea, Despina, Naiad, and Nereid. FTP, name this planet which is currently the outermost satellite of the sun. Answer: _Neptune_ 14. According to some myths, he tried to steal Zeus' dog. In others, he stole Zeus' nectar, or raped Zeus' cupbearer Ganymede, or killed and ate his own son Pelops. However, all sources agree on his punishment, which was to be placed in a pool of water that dries up whenever he tries to drink from it, underneath a bough of fruit that moves away whenever he reaches for it. FTP, name this eternally hungry and thirsty resident of Hades. Answer: _Tantalus_ 15. Among the rarest and most valuable of these are the Brazilian Bullseye (oldest in the Western hemisphere), the Canadian Bluenose, the Mauritius One Penny, the 1923 German 50 Billion Mark, the 1918 Inverted Airplane, and the very first one of all, Britain's 1840 Penny Black. FTP, what are these objects, whose collectors are known as philatelists? Answer: Postage _Stamps_ 16. After failing to earn his degree in marine biology from Stanford, he moved to New York, but was unable to find lasting work as a reporter. It looked like his literary career would be just as much of a failure after his first three novels, _Cup of Gold_, _The Pastures of Heaven_, and _To a God Unknown_, went ignored. However, he turned his career around with his fourth novel, a phenomenally successful book about Mexican migrant laborers. FTP, name this Nobel Prize-winning author of _Tortilla Flat_. Answer: John _Steinbeck_ 17. The trial was reopened in 1456 by Pope Callistus III, who found several procedural flaws, officially quashed the verdict, and declared that this person had been wrongfully executed. 450 years later, Pope Pius X went a step further by beatifying her, and 1920 she officially became a saint. FTP, name this woman who is not venerated as a martyr, but who is now one of the patron saints of France. Answer: _Joan_ of Arc 18. The son of an Italian father and an Irish mother, in his last years he was an enthusiastic supporter of Mussolini, who gave him both a title of nobility. Born in 1894, his key scientific accomplishment was the discovery that Herzian radio waves would not radiate straight outward, but rather follow the curvature of the earth, and this led to famed 1901 experiment in which he sent a radio signal from the coast of England to Newfoundland. FTP, name this electrical engineer and co-winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics, the central figure in the invention of radio. Answer: Guglielmo _Marconi_ 19. It begins with the ascension of Christ and the election of Matthias to replace Judas, and ends several years later with the arrival of Paul in Rome. FTP, name this fifth book of the New Testament, whose central figure is St. Paul and whose traditional author is the evangelist Luke. Answer: _Acts_ of the Apostles 20. Born in 1943, he has been a contestant on the TV show "I've Got a Secret," a columnist for Boy's Life, and a commercial pitchman for Xerox. After making his tournament debut at twelve, he won the U.S. Open at fourteen, and at sixteen he dropped out of school to compete full-time, a year after becoming a the youngest grandmaster in history. FTP, name this only American world chess champion of the 20th century. Answer: Bobby _Fischer_ John's Complete Packets Packet #21 (Easy) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For five points each part, given a famous Shakespeare line, identify the character who speaks it, and the play in which it appears. 1. "...'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve." Answer: _Mercutio_, _Romeo & Juliet_ 2. "All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players." Answer: _Jacques_, _As You Like It_ 3. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" Answer: _Lady Macbeth_, _Macbeth_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. The most destructive labor unrest in American history took place in a Chicago suburb in the spring and summer of 1894. For the stated number of points, answer the following questions about this event. 1. For five: name the industrial giant which incited this strike in May with an arbitrary 25% wage cut. Answer: _Pullman_ Palace Car Co. 2. For ten: name the leader of the American Railway Union, who was thrown into prison for refusing to call off the strike. Answer: Eugene _Debs_ 3. For fifteen: name the governor of Illinois during these events, who fiercely opposed President Cleveland's use of federal troops to quell the strike violence. Answer: John Peter _Altgeld_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. This is a simple permutations bonus about the TV show "Gilligan's Island." For ten points each, keeping in mind that the seven castaways included four men and three women, and assuming that the Howells had an open marriage, 1. First, assuming that all seven castaways were strictly heterosexual, how many two-person romantic combinations could have arisen? Answer: _12_ 2. Next, imagining that after a while, all seven castaways got bored and decided to experiment with bisexuality, how many combinations would then be possible? Answer: _21_ 3. Finally, after a while of this, Gilligan and the Skipper become strictly homosexual and all of the other castaways revert to strict heterosexuality. Assuming that Gilligan and the Skipper are each capable of overpowering any other castaway, how many sexual combinations (consensual and otherwise) are now possible? Answer: _11_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. In 1878, a British critic was sued for libel by an American artist after publishing scathing reviews of the artist's work, in which he accused the artist of selling unfinished paintings. The court ruled against the critic, who was so devastated that he withdrew into seclusion for the rest of his life, but it also awarded only a farthing in damages to the artist, who had spent a fortune on court costs and was financially ruined. For 15 points each, name the artist and the critic involved in this famous libel case. Answer: James McNeill _Whistler_, John _Ruskin_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For ten points each, identify these notable seconds of world geography. 1. This is the second-longest river in Africa, after the Nile. Answer: _Niger_ 2. This is the second-largest lake in North America. Answer: Lake _Huron_ 3. This is the second-highest waterfall in the world. Answer: _Itatinga_ Falls 30 POINT BONUS 6. Identify the novel from quotes, 30-20-10. 1. "Has it ever occured to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assauge your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assauge my fear of sexual impotence." 2. "Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I felt when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. 3. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause. Answer: _Catch-22_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. December 7, 1941 is remembered as Pearl Harbor day because of Japan's attack on Hawaii, but less well-rembered is the fact that Japan also launched surprise attacks against three other territories that same day. For ten points each, and a total of thirty, name these other targets of Japan's Pearl Harbor-day offensive, all of which were at time Western colonies. Answer: _Hong Kong_, _Philippines_, _Malaysia_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. For fifteen points each, identify these persons who worked to measure the speed of light. 1. The first scientist known to have attempted to measure the speed of light, he placed his assistant Torricelli on a tower with a lantern a mile away and tried to use his pulse to time the flash; the experiment was, needless to say, inconclusive. Answer: _Galileo_ 2. This Danish astronomer had better luck observing the light from eclipses of Jupiter, and with his data he was able to make a reasonable approximation of its speed. Answer: Ole _Roemer_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. For ten points each, answer these questions about pagan-related topics. 1. The chief deity of the Canaanites, in the Old Testament he is presented as the main religious competitor to Yahweh. Answer: _Baal_ 2. The last pagan emperor of Rome, it was his death in A.D. 363 which secured the political triumph of Christianity. Answer: _Julian_ 3. In 1993, this group won a lengthy battle with the I.R.S., and obtained the lucrative status of tax-exempt religious organization. However, they still face problems with the German government, which is trying to supress them, as well as with internet miscreants who have leaked their secret scriptures. Answer: Church of _Scientology_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Given a definition from Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary," identify the word that is being defined. 10 points each. 1. "The noble art of lying for one's country." Answer: _Diplomacy_ 2. "An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." Answer: _History_ 3. "The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making, in all, two." Answer: _Marriage_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Name the writer from his works, 30-20-10. 1. The Book of Ahania; The Book of Los; The Book of Urizen 2. Daughters of Albion; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 3. Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience Answer: William _Blake_ 20 POINT BONUS 12. The summer of 1995 was not a very good time for many Friends of Bill. For ten points each, identify: 1. A former business partner of Clinton and his successor as Arkansas governor, he was indicted on eleven counts of perjury and fraud. Answer: Jim Guy _Tucker_ 2. Another former Whitewater partner of Clinton, this ex-director of the failed Madison Savings and Loan was indicted for fraud along with Tucker. Answer: James _McDougal_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. For ten points each, name these dead white males from medieval European science. 1. He established that the earth is a magnet, and in his De magnete provided a methodical experimental study of the electrical and magnetic properties of a range of bodies. Answer: William _Gilbert_ 2. He introduced logarithms as a computational tool. Answer: John _Napier_ 3. He blended reason, comparative observation, and active experimentation to demonstrate the circulation of the blood in his _Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus_. Answer: William _Harvey_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Identify the artwork, 30-20-10. 1. It may be the most frequently reproduced work in the history of art, since one of its details was copied as the design for the knight in the standard modern chess set. 2. The main subject of this collection is the war between the Centaurs and the Lapiths. Other scenes depict a religious festival and a parade. 3. The bulk of this marble scupture set was removed from its original home in 1802, and ownership of it remains an issue of contention between Great Britian and Greece. Answer: _Elgin Marbles_ or _Parthenon_ Friezes 25 POINT BONUS 15. For five points each, given a television series, name the other series of which it was a spin-off. 1. "Maude" Answer: _All in the Family_ 2. "Good Times" Answer: _Maude_ 3. "Rhoda" Answer: _The Mary Tyler Moore_ Show 4. "The Ropers" Answer: _Three's Company_ 5. "Laverne & Shirley" Answer: _Laverne and Shirley_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For ten points each, name the title characters of these literary works. 1. _The Last of the Mohicans_, by Cooper. Answer: _Chingachgook_ 2. _The Merchant of Venice_, by Shakespeare. Answer: _Antonio_ 3. _An Enemy of the People_, by Ibsen. Answer: Thomas _Stockmann_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For fifteen points each, identify the polar explorers, given the unpleasant circumstances of their deaths. 1. After losing the race to the South Pole in 1912, this Englishman himself got lost on the return trip, and eventually froze to death along with his entire party just eleven miles from a supply depot. Answer: Robert _Scott_ 2. When the Italian aviator Umberto Nobile disappeared near the North Pole in 1928, he chivalrously volunteered to fly a air rescue mission. This proved to be a bad idea, as he then joined Nobile on the list of lost-and-never-seen-again explorers. Answer: Roald _Amundsen_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, identify the internal organ, given a description of its functions. 1. Receives and stores bile from the liver, and releases it when fatty substances enter the duodenum. Answer: _Gall Bladder_ 2. Secretes the digestive enzymes trypsinogen, amylase, and lipase into the duodenum; produces the hormones which regulate blood sugar levels. Answer: _Pancreas_ 3. Produces lymphocytes, stores iron, and regulates the number of erythrocytes in the bloodstream. Answer: _Spleen_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For the stated number of points, identify the composers of these fire-related musical works. 1. 5 pts: "Music for the Royal Fireworks." Answer: Georg Friedrich _Handel_ 2. 10 pts: "The Firebird." Answer: Igor _Stravinsky_ 3. 15 pts: "Ritual Fire Dance." (from "El amor brujo") Answer: Manuel de _Falla_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Given a quote, identify it either as being something actually said by former Vice-President Dan Quayle, or something which I just made up. This will be scored as a binary bonus: no points for the first three right answers, ten points for each right answer after that. 1. "I love California. I grew up in Phoenix." Answer: _Quayle_ 2. "I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate." Answer: _Quayle_ 3. "Bobby Knight told me, `there is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words, a good offense wins." Answer: _Quayle_ 4. "It's a question of whether we are going to go forward into the future, or past to the back." Answer: _Quayle_ 5. "Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, and where there are canals, we believe, there is water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." Answer: _Quayle_ 6. "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history... this century's history. We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." Answer: _Quayle_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="22"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="22" John's Complete Packets Packet #22 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. This CCNY dropout and former Western Union employee was the author of several notable works of nonfiction, including a biography of Rimbaud, _The Time of the Assassins_, as well a travel book about Greece, _The Colossus of Maroussi_. His own colorful life was the subject of Norman Mailer's _Genius and Lust_, and he was one of the title characters of a film by director Philip Kaufmann. FTP, name this longtime resident of Big Sur, California, the author of _Black Spring_, _Sexus, Plexus, Nexus_, and _The Tropic of Cancer_. Answer: Henry _Miller_ 2. This holding company was created by Oakes Ames, who, like most of its other stockholders, was a member of Congress, and its only real function was to skim federal grant money away from the Union Pacific corporation. FTP, name either this dummy corporation or its namesake scandal, which arose out of the building of the transcontinental railroad. Answer: _Credit Mobilier_ 3. This Yale professor published most of his work in the "Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences," a journal so obscure that his major discoveries were not noticed until some twenty years later, by which time most of them had been made independently by Van't Hoff and others. FTP, name this founder of modern thermodynamics, who lent his name to a phase rule and a type of free energy. Answer: Josiah Willard _Gibbs_ 4. In the first act, the title character falls in love with a mechanical doll named Olympia. In act two, he kills Schlemil in a fight over a courtesan, who abandons him anyway. In act three, he loses his true love Antonia to the evil Dr. Miracle. FTP, name this opera adapted from the stories of its real-life main character and set to music by Jacques Offenbach. Answer: The _Tales of Hoffman_ 5. In 1994, he published his first work of fiction, "The Advocate's Devil," whose hero is a lawyer defending a famous but guilty professional athlete. FTP, name this law professor and member of the O.J. Simpson defense team, who previous clients have included Mike Tyson, Leona Helmsley, and Claus von Bulow. Answer: Alan _Dershowitz_ 6. His first works were the plays _The Return of Buck Gavin_, _The Third Night_, and _Welcome to Our City_, all of which were written while he was a student at Harvard. His career changed directions when he began an affair with Aline Bernstien, a woman 18 years his senior who persuaded him to abandon the theater for novels and, just as significantly, introduced him to the editor Max Perkins. FTP name this author, who immortalized his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina in novels beginning with 1929's _Look Homeward, Angel_. Answer: Thomas _Wolfe_ 7. Negotiated in secret by George Chicherin and Walter Rathneau, its public announcement was the death knell for the Allied intervention campaign, which was abandoned shortly thereafter. Calling for the resumption of diplomatic relations and a renuncitation of all war reparations, it also contained a secret military protocol that allowed Germany to conduct weapons research on Russian soil, thus paving the way for Hitler's massive military buildup in the 1930s. FTP, name this 1922 treaty between Germany and the USSR, which ended the diplomatic isolation of both countries. Answer: Treaty of _Rapallo_ 8. In later life, he perfected a system for transporting gases through pipes over long distances and helped ensure the victory of Tesla alternating-current electrical system over Edison's direct- current system. He had made his fortune with an earlier invention, a device that was originally offered to Cornelius Vanderbilt but rejected because the magnate thought it could never work. FTP, name this inventor of the railroad air brake, the founder of a company best known for its sponsorship of a science talent-search competition. Answer: George _Westinghouse_ 9. In both structure and style, it deliberately imitates Galileo's astronomical treatises, and its stated purpose was nothing less than to do for the study of man what Galileo had done for the study of nature. FTP, name this 1651 book, which spends 200 pages on abstract questions of epistemology before it finally gets around to the part about life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Answer: _Leviathan_ 10. Two months after the debut of this television show, its cast reached number-one on the Billboard pop charts with their single, "I Think I Love You." Based on the adventures of the real-life Cowsill family, it aired from 1970 to 1974 and spawned a short- lived cartoon spinoff set in the year 2200. FTP, name this musical sitcom starring Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Shirley Jones, and David Cassidy. Answer: _The Partridge Family_ 11. He had already won awards for his teenage verse by the time he published his first novel, _Hans of Iceland_, but the work which made him a national figure was the preface to his play _Cromwell_, which served as an unofficial manifesto for the French romantic movement. FTP, name this prolific poet, playwright, and novelist, whose later works include _The Man Who Laughs_, _Toilers of the Sea_, and _Notre-Dame de Paris_. Answer: Victor _Hugo_ 12. The largest city on Vardar river, it founded by the Romans as a frontier outpost, and was captured in the twelfth century by the Serbs, who made it capital of their short-lived medieval empire. FTP, name this Balkan city and birthplace of Mother Teresa, now the capital of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Answer: _Skopje_ 13. Its three main texts are the Kojiki, the Nihongi, and the Yengishiki, and it seems to have been originally an animistic religion that centered around benevolent spirits known as kami. Much later, it developed into a more symbolic religion dedicated to the worship of nature, ancestors, national heroes, and the state, and eventually many of its deities were adapted into Buddhist pan- theons, including the supreme sun goddess Amaterasu-o-mi-kami. FTP, name this ancient religion of Japan. Answer: _Shinto_ 14. His father was a Pisan merchant with extensive trading contacts in North Africa, and he was raised by an Algerian tutor who taught his the fundamentals of Arab mathematics. As an adult, he helped spread this knowledge through Christian Europe through his _Book of the Abacus_, which introduced the west to Arabic numbers and the concept of zero. FTP, name this twelfth-century mathematician, who also lent his name to a famous sequence that begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... Answer: Leonardo di _Fibonacci_ 15. Bordered to the south by the Soya Kaikyo strait and to the west by the Tatar strait, its cities include Okha, Poronaysk, and Korsakov. Annexed by Russia in 1875, in 1905 it was partitioned, and the Japanese-occupied southern half was renamed Karafuto. Reoccupied by the Soviets in the closing days of World War II, Japan has since dropped all claims to it in order to concentrate instead on reobtaining its southern neighbors, the Northern Kuriles. FTP, name this large island in the Sea of Okhostsk. Answer: _Sakhalin_ 16. His wife Trina wins $5,000 in a lottery, but refuses to share any of it with him. At the same time, he loses his job after his enemy Marcus Schouler reports him for practicing dentistry without a license. Eventually he murders Trina, is pursued into the desert by Schouler, kills him as they are being handcuffed together, and as the novel ends, he wanders through the desert, tied to Schouler's corpse and dying of thirst. FTP, name this hero of an 1899 novel by Frank Norris. Answer: _McTeague_ 17. Shortly after this southernmost of the Windward Islands was granted its independence, the pro-Cuban New Jewel movement took power, and ruled until its leader was assassinated by even more radical leftists in a military coup led by Gen. Hudson Austin. This led five neighboring islands to ask for military assistance, and on October 25, 1983, the United States obliged them. FTP, name this small island whose Marxist government was toppled by an invasion of U.S. marines. Answer: _Grenada_ 18. This subspecies of the viper is not found outside southern and central Europe, and as such its most famous historical distinction properly should belong to the Egyptian Cobra. Closely resembling the adder in appearance, its venom is among the poisonous of any reptile. FTP, name this snake, which, according to legend, was used as the instrument of Cleopatra's suicide. Answer: The _asp_ 19. Although Genesis does not mention it in such a context, tradition holds that it was the site of the cave of Machpelah, which Abraham purchased as a burial place for his wife Sarah. Later David's capital for seven years, it was occupied by the Israelis in 1967, though its population of 50,000 is still predominantly Palestinian. FTP, name this town nineteen miles south of Jerusalem, whose main religious shrine, the Cave of the Patriarchs, was the site of a 1994 massacre by Dr. Baruch Goldstein. Answer: _Hebron_ 20. Invented in Austria in 1927, its name is a contraction of the German for "peppermint." Introduced to America after World War II, it owed its success to a series of very successful marketing innovations: first, the flavor was changed from peppermint to fruit; later, the lozenges were put into a new kind of dispenser that was modeled on the staple gun; and finally, the dispenser was topped with a plastic head. FTP, name this candy, whose dispensers most frequently feature Mickey Mouse or Santa Claus. Answer: _Pez_ John's Complete Questions Packet #22 (Medium) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. John's library is filled with great books which he tried to read, but on which he gave up after only a couple of lines. For ten points each, given the opening lines of a few of these works, identify them. 1."Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." Answer: _Ulysses_ 2. "We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a `new fellow,' not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work..." Answer: _Madame Bovary_ 3. "A screaming comes across the sky. It's happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now..." Answer: _Gravity's Rainbow_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For the stated number of points, identify these ancient historians, given a description of the historical ground they cover in their major work. 1. 5 pts: Begins with the outbreak of the second Peloponnesian War; ends abruptly with events in the winter of 411 B.C. Answer: _Thucydides_ 2. 10 pts: Begins with Tiberius' succession to the throne in A.D. 14. The entire middle section is missing; the last surviving chapters deal with Claudius and Nero. Answer: _Tacitus_ 3. 15 pts: Begins with treason trials conducted first by and later against Caesar Gallus, then describes several Roman wars against Persia, a handful of civil wars, a few anti-Pagan trials, and ends with the Roman disaster at Adrianople in A.D. 378. Answer: _Ammianus_ Marcellinus 30 POINT BONUS 3. For the stated number of points, name the Soviet Space missions (by name only, not number) on which the following events occurred. 1. 5 pts: Laika the Dog becomes the first living animal in space. Answer: _Sputnik_ 2. 10 pts: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. Answer: _Vostok_ 3. 15 pts: Aleksei Leonov performs the first spacewalk. Answer: _Voskhod_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For the stated number of points, identify these art groups and movements, given the names of some members. 1. 5 pts: Franz Marc, Auguste Macke, Vassily Kandinsky Answer: _Blue Rider_ 2. 10 pts: Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell Answer: _Abstract Expressionism_ 3. 15 pts: Alexander Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, Vladimir Tatlin Answer: _Constructivism_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For ten points each, identify these familiar features of the world map which have less-familiar names. 1. The eastern arm of Lake Huron, it is separated from the rest of the lake by Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninnsula. Answer: _Georgian Bay_ 2. The easternmost part of mainland Russia, this peninsula north of Kamchatka lies directly across the Bering Strait from Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Answer: _Chukotsky_ Peninsula 3. This inlet of the Arafura Sea carves a deep node into the north coast of Australia between the Cape York Peninsula and Arnhem Land. Answer: Gulf of _Carpentaria_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each: given a novel about war, identify the specific war in which the novel is set. 1. "Three Soldiers," by John Dos Passos Answer: _World War I_ 2. "Mother Courage and her Children," by Brecht Answer: _Thirty Years War_ 3. "Waverly," by Sir Walter Scott Answer: The _Jacobite_ or _Forty-Five_ Rebellion 30 POINT BONUS 7. For the stated number of points, identify the following persons involved in the 1994 presidental elections in Mexico. 1. First, for five, who won? Answer: Ernesto _Zedillo_ 2. For ten points, name the third-place finisher, who recently became the first non-PRI mayor of Mexico City since the revolution. Answer: Cuauhtemoc _Cardenas_ 3. For fifteen, name the second-place finisher, the standard-bearer for the conservative PAN party. Answer: Diego _Fernandez_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. For ten points each, name these fundamental theorems. 1. All numbers can be factored uniquely as a product of primes. Answer: _Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic_ 2. A polynomial with real coefficients of degree n has n roots in the complex numbers. Answer: _Fundamental Theorem of Algebra_ 3. The derivative of the indefinite integral of a function is equal to the function. Answer: _Fundamental Theorem of Calculus_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Idenitfy the following English composers from works, on a 10-5 basis. 1. 10 pts: "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day," "Oedipus," "Don Quixote" 5 pts: "Dido and Aeneas." Answer: Henry _Purcell_ 2. 10 pts: "Rig Veda," "At The Boar's Head." 5 pts: "The Planets." Answer: Gustav _Holst_ 3. 10 pts: "The Wasps," "The Lark Ascending." 5 pts: "Sea Symphony," "Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis." Answer: Ralph _Vaughan Williams_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For the stated number of points, given a pair of neighboring U.S. states, name the river which forms part of the border between them. 1. For five: Maryland and West Virginia Answer: _Potomac_ 2. For ten: Illinois and Indiana Answer: _Wabash_ 3. For fifteen: Michigan and Wisconsin Answer: _Menominee_ or _Montreal_ (accept either) 30 POINT BONUS 11. For fifteen points each, identify these European novels, given their last sentences. 1. "His lacerated memory becomes calm, and until the next full moon nobody will disturb the professor: not the noseless killer of Gestas, nor the cruel fifth procurator of Judea, the horseman Pontius Pilate." Answer: _The Master and Margarita_ 2. "As for me, I must esteem myself happy, to have been the first that rendered these famous nonsensical stories of knight-errantry, the object of public aversion: they are already going down, and I do not doubt but they will drop and fall alltogether in good earnest, never to rise again. Adieu." Answer: _Don Quixote_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For ten points each: given an event from nineteenth-century French history, identify under which republic, (eg: first, second, third), empire, or royal dynasty it took place. 1. The French army has a bad very day at the battle of Agincourt. Answer: _Valois_ 2. French troops catpure Algiers and begin their colonial occupation of Algeria. Answer: Restored _Bourbon_ 3. Alfred Dreyfus is falsely accused of espionage and sent to Devil's Island. Answer: _Third Republic_ 25 POINT BONUS 13. For the stated number of points, identify these tests of human personality. 1. For ten: popular in management training programs, this self- administered written test classifies people along four Jungian categories. For example, a score of "ENTJ" means you are extroverted, intuiting, thinking, and judging. Answer: _Myers-Briggs_ Type Indicator 2. Developed by Henry Murray and featured in the movie "A Clockwork Orange," it is a technique in which the subject is given pictures and must tell a story about them. Answer: _T_hematic _A_pperception _T_est 30 POINT BONUS 14. For fifteen points each, identify these world religions from a list of their sacred texts. 1. Kitabal-Aqdas, Haft Wadi, Bayan Answer: _Baha'i_ 2. Siddhanta, Pakrit Answer: _Jainism_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For ten points each, name the second-largest cities of the following U.S. states, according to the 1990 census. 1. Illinois Answer: _Rockford_ 2. Oregon Answer: _Eugene_ 3. South Carolina Answer: _Charleston_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Identify the following authors from their first works for ten points each, or, if you need a second clue, from a more famous work for five points each. 1. 10 pts: Moran of the Lady Letty 5 pts: McTeague Answer: Frank _Norris_ 2. 10 pts: Hanz Kuchelgarten 5 pts: Dead Souls Answer: Nikolai _Gogol_ 3. 10 pts: Scenes of a Clerical Life 5 pts: The Mill on the Floss Answer: George _Eliot_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. In 1356, the right to appoint the Holy Roman Emperor was given to a body consisting of the rulers of what were then the most important states in Germany-- three bishops, one count, one margrave, one duke, and one king. For five points each and a maximum of thirty, name any six of the territories whose rulers made up the seven original Electors. Answer: Archbishops of _Trier_, _Cologne_, and _Mainz_; Margrave of _Brandenburg_, King of _Bohemia_, Count Palatinate of the _Rhine_, Duke of _Saxony_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. Although the family Equidae once contained a considerable number of species, today all but four are extinct. We will assume that you know that the domestic horse is one of the surviving species; for this bonus, name the others. You will get five points for one, fifteen for two, and thirty if you can name all other three. Answer: _Donkey_ or _ass_, _zebra_, _Przewalski's_ horse 30 POINT BONUS 19. For ten points each, idenitfy the Czech composers of the following works of classical music: 1. "Ma Vlast" Answer: Bedrich _Smetana_ 2. "Songs my Mother Taught Me" Answer: Antonin _Dvorak_ 3. "The Makropoulous Case" Answer: Leos _Janacek_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For fifteen points each, name these great chess players who never became world champion. 1. Known for his aggressive style of play, this American held the U.S. chess title from 1909 until 1936. He later lent his name to the leading chess club of New York City. Answer: Frank _Marshall_ 2. In the late 1970s, this Russian lost two title matches to Anatoly Karpov. He is now a citizen of Switzerland, where he claims to play regular matches against the ghost of Hungarian grandmaster Geza Maroczy. Answer: Viktor _Korchnoi_ --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="23"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="23" John's Complete Packets Packet #23 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. Her maiden name in Oblonskaya, her husband is a respected government bureaucrat, and she is the mother of an infant boy named Seryozha. Once a respected member of Petersburg society, she becomes a social outcast after she gives birth to an illegitimate daughter and begins to live openly with her lover. In the end, unable to obtain a divorce and fearing that her lover Vronksy is about to leave her, she throws herself under a train. FTP, name this title character of a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Answer: Anna _Karenina_ 2. In all, there were thrity-seven of these men, including eleven in the twelfth century alone, but there have been none since 1439, when the Council of Basel tried to replace Eugenius IV with Felix V. FTP, by what name do we know these men, who although consecrated and crowned are not regarded by the Church as legitimate Bishops of Rome? Answer: _Anti-popes_ 3. As a high school student, he did so badly at Latin and Greek that his teacher politely asked him to drop out. As a teenager, his entrance into the Zurich technical college was delayed because of his inability to pass the mathematics portion ; as a college student in Switzerland, he cut most of his classes and passed only after copying a friend's lecture notes. FTP, name this most famous employee of the Zurich patent office, who revolutionized modern physics with three papers published shortly after earning his Ph.D. in 1905. Answer: Albert _Einstein_ 4. At the beginning of the Trojan war, he tried to avoid military service by hiding in a harem on the island of Skyros. There he fathered his only son, Neoptolemus, who would later avenge his death by storming Troy's citadel and killing King Priam. FTP, name this Greek hero whose feud with Agamemnon forms the main plot line of the Iliad. Answer: _Achilles_ 5. The three-sided court is called a fronton, the wicker basket is the cesta, and the ball is known as a pelota, which is also an alternate name for the sport itself. FTP, name this fast-paced game of Basque origin, also very popular in Latin America and Florida. Answer: _Jai-Alai_ (accept Pelota on an early buzz) 6. The narrator, who is never named, is a rather nervous traveller who visits his childhood friend Roderick, a man with painfully sharpened senses who buries his sister Madeline alive. Eight days later, Madeline rises from the grave, Roderick drops dead, and a sudden crack in the earth swallows up the siblings and their home. FTP, this is the plot of what short story by Edgar Allan Poe? Answer: _The Fall of the House of Usher_ 7. The grandson of Kenneth II, he was noted for his piety, and in 1050, he became the first monarch in his nation's history to make a pilgrimage to Rome. Although his reign as a whole was unusually peaceful, it ended in violence at the 1057 battle of Lumphanan, where he was killed by the future Malcolm III, the son of his murdered predecessor Duncan. FTP, name this Scottish king, best known as the protagonist of a Shakespeare tragedy. Answer: _Macbeth_ 8. Lasting from 500 to 425 million years ago, it saw the emergence of brachiopodal shellfish, corals, starfish, and the first fishlike vertebrates, as well as numerous species that quickly died out, including sea scorpions, conodonts, and graptolites. The dominant form of aquatic life, however, continued to be the trilobite, a carryover from the preceding Cambrian period. FTP, name this second geological period of the Paleozoic Era. Answer: the _Ordovician_ period 9. While a student at Oxford, he became a disciple of the Anglican mystic William Law, who sent him and his brother Charles to Georgia as missionaries to the Indians. While sailing over, he met a group of German immigrants of the Moravian church, and was so impressed by their ideas and behavior that he abandoned Law's teachings, and after returning home he and his brother began to formualte a new religious doctrine. FTP, name this man whose followers eventually became known as Methodists. Answer: John _Wesley_ 10. In the 1960s, he was sent to do some detective work on the planet Mars, where he had a torrid affair with a space alien and fathered a half-Martian love child. Oddly enough, however, this exrtramarital activity was not once mentioned in 1994, when his wife Tess filed for divorce. FTP, name this comic strip crimebuster created by Chester Gould. Answer: _Dick Tracy_ 11. His nonfiction works include _Bombs Away_, _Once There Was a War_, and _America and Americans_, but he is better known for his fiction, which includes _Cup of Gold_, _In Dubious Battle_, and _Cannery Row_. Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize and the 1940 Pulitzer, the Nobel committee speicifically cited _The Winter of Our Discontent_, which is considered one of his worst efforts, while the Pulitzer was awarded for his most popular work, an epic about the sufferings of the Joad family. FTP, name this California novelist. Answer: John _Steinbeck_ 12. As a young man, he was issued U.S. patent number 6469 for an invention he called "a Device for Buoying Vessels over Shoals." While this hardly revolutionized river transport, it is still notable as the only patent ever issued to a future U.S. president. FTP, name this man from Springfield, Illinois. Answer: Abraham _Lincoln_ 13. The first winner was Jacob Van't Hoff, and subsequent recipients have included Georg Hevesy De Heves, Frederick Sanger, Emil Fischer, Glenn Seaborg, Linus Pauling, Otto Hahn, Fritz Haber, Marie Curie, and Irene Joliot-Curie. FTP, name this annual award, whose 1993 winners were the geneticists Kary Mullis and Michael Smith. Answer: _Nobel Prize in Chemistry_ 14. In an essay entitled "Auto-Icon, or the Uses of the Dead to the Living," he argued that the deceased should be used in every conceivable way for medical research, and afterwards stuffed, mounted, and made into lawn ornaments. His will instructed that his own remains be disposed of in such a way, and although he was duly dissected and stuffed, and to this day his emablmed corpse is occasionally brought out for dinner parties at the University of London. FTP, name this English philosopher and founder of the utilitarian movement. Answer: Jeremy _Bentham_ 15. Bordered by Zambia, the Atlantic Ocean, and the rivers Congo, Kwango, Kasai, and Kubango, it was the source of nearly all black slaves exported to Brazil. The scene of a bloody revolutionary war which lasted from 1961 to 1975, it plunged into anarchy after independence, following the mass emigration of the country's Portugese elites. FTP, name this southwest African nation where civil war still rages between the MLPA and UNITA factions. Answer: _Angola_ 16. Born in New York in 1927, he grew up in circumstances quite similar to those of his favorite fictional alter ego, Eugene Morris Jerome. His first moderately successful play was 1960's "Come Blow Your Horn", co-written with his brother Danny, and this was followed by an almost unbroken thirty-year string of hits, which has made him by far the most commercially successful playwright in history. FTP, name this broadway playwright of "Chapter Two," "The Goodbye Girl," and "The Odd Couple." Answer: Neil _Simon_ 17. His first mistake was to seduce royal maid-of-honor Bessy Throckmorton, an act which led to his first stay in the Tower of London. His last mistake was his hare-brained private invasion of the Guyanas, which exhausted the limited patience of James I and led to his 1618 beheading. FTP, name this historian and adventurer whose most famous failure was the lost colony of Roanoke. Answer: Sir Walter _Raleigh_ 18. It is home to such inhospitable-sounding sites as the Marsh of Epidemics, the Marsh of Decay, the Ocean of Storms, and the Cold Sea. A few locations on its surface, however, have far more inviting names, such as the Bay of Rainbows, the Sea of Clouds, the Lake of Dreams, and the Sea of Serenity. FTP, identify this place that also includes landmarks named for Yuri Gagarin, Tycho, Ptolemy, and Copernicus. Answer: the _Moon_ 19. According to legend, it was built out of melted-down siege engines that had been abandoned by the Macedonian general Demetrius Poliorcetes after an unsuccessful attack on the island. Designed by Charos of Lindos, it took twenty years to build, was 120 feet high, and stood for less than fifty years before it was toppled by an earthquake. FTP, name this wonder of the ancient world. Answer: The _Colossus of Rhodes_ 20. His career looked dead in 1989, after the failure of "Nightingales," his last show ever for the big three networks. In spite of the fact that he has yet to return to ABC, NBC, or CBS, and in spite of the failure of syndicated projects like "Heaven Help Us" and "Robin's Hoods," his career is now more sucessful than ever, thanks to a series of hits which he has produced for the Fox network. FTP, name this man who made his reputation in the 1970s with "Starsky and Hutch" and "Charlie's Angles," and who made a comeback in the 1990s with "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills 90210." Answer: Aaron _Spelling_ John's Complete Packets Packet #23 (Easy) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each, identify the famous literary circles and movements, given a list of members. 1. Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner Answer: _Algonquin_ Round Table 2. Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forester, Lytton Strachey Answer: _Bloomsbury_ Group 3. John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren Answer: _Fugitives_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For five points each, identify the presentday states in which the following battles were fought. 1. Fort Ticonderoga Answer: _New York_ 2. Tippecanoe Answer: _Indiana_ 3. Little Big Horn Answer: _Montana_ 4. Chickamauga Answer: _Georgia_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. The Paleozoic era lasted for about 350 million years and is subdivided into six periods of geologic time-- one named for a place in Russia, four for places in Britain, and one for a chemical material. For five points each, name them. Answer: _Cambrian_, _Ordovician_, _Silurian_,_ Devonian_, _Car Bonuses ferous_, _Permian_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For the stated number of points, given an event from the Old Testament, identify the book of the Bible in which it appears. 1. 5 pts: Joseph is sold into Egyptian slavery after his Coat of Many Colors alienates his brothers. Answer: _Genesis_ 2. 10 pts: The harlot Rahab saves the lives of two Israelite spies, and in return is spared from the destruction of Jericho. Answer: _Joshua_ 3. 15 pts: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but miraculously survive. Answer: _Daniel_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For the stated number of points, identify the countries in which one would find the following wine-growing regions. 1. 5 pts: Napa, Sonoma, San Benito Answer: _United States_ 2. 10 pts: Ahr, Mosel-Saar, Nahe Answer: _Germany_ 3. 15 pts: Barossa Valley, Padthaway, Yarra Valley Answer: _Australia_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Given a well-known Shakespeare line, identify the play from which it is taken. Ten points each. 1. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." Answer: _Twelfth Night_ 2. "[Life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Answer: _Macbeth_ 3. "O brave new world, that has such people in it!" Answer: _The Tempest_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. One difference between the brutal atrocities perpetrated by the Soviets against their own people and those done by their Chinese counterparts was that the Chinese atrocities usually had much cooler names. For ten points each, name these episodes from communist Chinese history. 1. In 1956, Mao asked his country's intellectuals to tell him what they _really_ thought of his regime. Those who gave honest answers were thrown into prison. Answer: The _Hundred Flowers_ 2. In 1958, Mao tried to jump-start the economy by calling for radical land reform and a steel mill in every back yard. As a result of this, the economy crashed and a famine broke out. Answer: The _Great Leap Forward_ 3. In the 1960s, Mao's policies were criticized by the professionals in his bureaucracy. As retaliation, beginning in 1966, Mao turned loose mobs of discontented students, and conducted a massive purge against the less radical members of his inner circle. Answer: The _Cultural Revolution_ 20 POINT BONUS 8. For ten points each, identify extinct consumer products. 1. Introduced by Sony in 1975, it dominated the almost non-existent VCR market for a decade before being wiped out by a cheaper, incompatible rival developed by JVC. Answer: _Betamax_ 2. The design of this 1983 offering reflected IBM's underestimation of how much computing power the average home user needed. Notoriously slow and weak, it disappeared shortly after the introduction of the Macintosh in 1985. Answer: _PC-Junior_ 20 POINT BONUS 9. On December 15, 1996 the largest merger in the history of the aerospace industry was announced. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the event. 1. First, for five points each, name the two industrial giants involved in the transaction. Answer: _Boeing_ and _McDonnell Douglas_ 2. Second, the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas combination would become the world's largest aerospace and defense firm. For an additional ten points, name the previously-largest firm that it will displace. Answer: _Lockheed Martin_ 20 POINT BONUS 10. For ten points each, identify these magazines, given the date of their first issue and the subject of their first cover. 1. March 1923; ex-Speaker of the House Joseph Cannon. Answer: _Time_ 2. April 1953; Desidero Alberto Arnaz IV. Answer: _TV Guide_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify these novelists on a ten-five basis. Ten points if you can name them from their most recent novel, five if you need a more famous work. 1. 10 pts: _The Russian Girl_ 5 pts: _Lucky Jim_ Answer: _Kingsley Amis_ 2. 10 pts: _The Unconsoled_ 5 pts: _The Remains of the Day_ Answer: Kazuo _Ishiguru_ 3. 10 pts: _Mason & Dixon_ 5 pts: _Gravity's Rainbow_ Answer: Thomas _Pynchon_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Identify the dead guy, 30-20-10. 1. Born around 1550, his real name was Wahunsonacock. However, history knows him instead by the far-more-pronouncable name of his capital city. 2. After his death in 1618, he was succeeded by his brother Opechancanough, who reversed his conservative policies and started a war which led to the destruction of his empire, as well as the death of his son-in-law, John Rolfe. 3. This chief of the Tidewater Algonquians is best known for being the father of Pocahontas. Answer: _Powahatan_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. The first four moons of Jupiter were discovered within a week of each other in 1610, but it was not until 1892 that a fifth moon was observed. 1. First, for five points each, name the first four moons, which are also called Gallilean Moons after their discoverer. Answer: _Ganymede_, _Callisto_, _Io_, _Europa_ 2. For an additional ten points, name the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered. Answer: _Amalthea_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Identify the writer, 30-20-10. 1. His last work contains chapters on "Why I am so wise," "Why I am so clever," and "Why I write such good books." 2. A would-be composer as well as a philosopher, several of his piano pieces were issued on CD in 1994. He is better remembered for his theories of musical criticism, which appeared in such works as "The Case of Wagner." 3. Among his best-known works are "The Genealogy of Morals," and "Beyond Good and Evil." Answer: Friedrich _Nietszche_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Name the peninsula, 30-20-10. 1. Its name comes from a Turkish word meaning "mountains." 2. According to a famous statement by Bismarck, all of it is "not worth the blood of one Pomeranian musketeer." 3. This historic quagmire was the namesake of wars fought in 1912 and 1913. Answer: the _Balkans_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Given a work of fiction in which the devil (or a devil) appears, give the name he calls himself, for the stated number of points. 1. 5 pts: _Faust_ Answer: _Mephistopholes_ 2. 10 pts: "Damn Yankees" Answer: Mister _Applegate_ 3. 15 pts: _The Master and Margarita_ Answer: Professor _Woland_ 20 POINT BONUS 17. For five points each, given an unsucessful major-party candidate for president, name the president who defeated him in the general election. 1. Alton B. Parker Answer: _Theodore Roosevelt_ 2. Rufus King Answer: James _Monroe_ 3. John Davis Answer: Calvin _Coolidge_ 4. Wendell Willkie Answer: _Franklin Roosevelt_ 25 POINT BONUS 18. For five points each, given a statistic that economists use to measure the nation's economic health, identify it as a leading indicator, a coincident indicator, or a lagging indicator. 1. Number of persons on non-agricultural payrolls Answer: _Coincident_ 2. New orders for consumer goods Answer: _Coincident_ 3. Index of stock prices Answer: _Leading_ 4. Index of industrial production Answer: _Coincident_ 5. Average duration of unemployment Answer: _Lagging_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. Identify the musical instrument, 30-20-10. 1. Invented in India, it was spread across Europe by the Roman legions, who often marched by it. According to Suetonius, it was Nero's favorite instrument. 2. Because two of its tones are tuned sharp, it cannot be played in concert with any other type of instrument and has never been a part of the orchestra. 3. Consisting of a wind chest, three drones, a chanter, and a blowing pipe, it is the national instrument of Scotland. Answer: The _bagpipe_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. This was originally a bonus on bizarre news stories from 1993. Some of these, of course, have aged better than others... For ten points each, 1. Name the Manassas, Virginia, man who had his penis cut off by his wife, but who after emergency surgery is now expected to be fully functional within two years. Answer: John Wayne _Bobbitt_ 2. Name the Russian autonomous republic in which a wealthy businessman was recently elected president after promising to give each registered voter $100 if elected. His campaign slogan was, "He's so incredibly rich, he can't possibly be bribed." Answer: _Kalmykia_ 3. Give the former name of the pop singer who had his name officially changed to a symbol resembling a cross between a treble clef and a post horn. Answer: _Prince_ --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="25"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="25" John's Complete Packets Packet #25 (Medium) (With contributions by various Chicago alums) Toss-Ups 1. In her later years, she became an extreme right-winger and frequent contributor to the _American Mercury_, and is notable for being the most famous African-American to speak out against _Brown v. Board of Education_, on the grounds that it would destroy black- only institutions. FTP, name this folklorist and Harlem renaissance figure, the author of _Jonah's Gourd Vine_ and _Their Eyes Were Watching God_. Answer: Zora Neale _Hurston_ 2. They set out from Massilion, Ohio, on March 25, 1894, and disbanded on May 1, when their leader and two others were arrested for trespassing on the Capitol. FTP, name this "army" of populists and unemployed war veterans, whose march to Washington was a protest of government inaction in the face of an economic depression. Answer: _Coxey_'s Army 3. The three main arguments of this book were: first, that the economy can reach equilibrium in a state of permanent depression. Second, that all prosperity depends on capital investment. Third, that private investment cannot be a dependable drive for the economy, so the state must fill this role with defecit spending in times of recession. FTP, name this landmark 1936 treatise, the magnum opus of John Maynard Keynes? Answer: _General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money_ 4. Thought to be an illustration of Lucretius Poliziano's poem "La Giostra," it shows a grove of orange and myrtle trees and a procession of gods led by Mercury, Flora, and Zephyrus. The central figure of the painting is Venus, who stands wrapped in a dazzling white robe with Cupid hovering over her as she welcomes the end of winter. FTP, name this second-most famous painting of Sandro Botticelli. Answer: _Primavera_ 5. Outlook good. Outlook not so good. It is decidedly so. My sources say no. Without a doubt. Better not tell you now. Reply hazy, try again. Concentrate and ask again. You may rely on it. FTP, these are among the twenty possible responses of what portable oracle, which is shaped like a billiards accessory? Answer: _Magic 8-Ball_ 6. As the curtain falls, the sound of axes chopping wood can be heard offstage, which represents the destruction of the title object. The action of the play is a conflict between Lopakhin, an unsentimental businessman, and the Ranevskys, a decaying family who hope to keep the title object as a reminder of their past happiness. FTP, name this last play by Anton Chekhov. Answer: _The Cherry Orchard_ 7. Published in four installments between 529 and 565, its main editor was Tri Bonuses an. Its leading contributors were Ulpian, Papinian, and Gaius, all of whom had been dead for more than 200 years. FTP, name this work whose sections include the _Digest_, _Codex_, and _Institutes_, a collection of 4,652 precedents from Roman law named for the Byzantine emperor under whom it was compiled. Answer: The _Justinian_ Code or _Corpus Juris Civilis_ 8. A form of crystalline hydrated calcium sulphate, its chemical formula is CaSO-4 2H-2O. In massive quantities it is known as alabaster, in its fibrous form it is known as satin spar, and its crystals are known as selenite. FTP, name this principal ingredient in Plaster of Paris, which has a value of 2 in Moh's scale of hardness. Answer: _gypsum_ 9. Its name is Aramaic for "Holy," and it was borrowed as the title of a long prose poem written in 1958 by Allen Ginsburg in memory of his mother. A 2,000 year-old doxology in praise of God, it was originally used as the closing benediction for the everyday liturgy, then was used as a prayer for the health of learned rabbis, and only in the middle ages did it become a prayer for the dead. FTP, name this traditional Jewish prayer. Answer: _Kaddish_ 10. The first winner was golfer Bobby Jones, and later winners included basketball stars Bill Bradley and Bill Walton, football players Doc Blanchard and Arnold Tucker, and baseball pitcher Jim Abbott. However, the vast majority of its winners have been track and field stars, such as Bob Mathias, Wilma Rudolph, Carl Lewis, Greg Louganis, and Jackie-Joyner Kersee. FTP, name this annual award presented by the Amateur Athetic Union to the year's outstanding amateur athelete. Answer: The _Sullivan_ Award 11. His first play, _La Chase et L'Amour_, premiered in 1823, and he later enjoyed considerable success with such dramas as _Henry III_, _Christine_, and _Antony_. By comparison, his first prose work, _Nouvelles Contemporaines_, sold just four copies. However, by the 1840s, historical melodrama had fallen out of fashion in the theater, and it was suggested that he turn to fiction instead. FTP, name this prolific writer who is now best remembered for the historical novels _The Black Tulip_, _The Viscount of Brageleone_, _Twenty Years Later_, and _The Three Musketeers_. Answer: Alexandre _Dumas, pere_ 12. It met in secret, could dispense funds for secret purposes, and had absolute supervision over the army, the ministries, public officials, and all other committees. Although it was in theory subordinate to the National Convention, with its members required to stand election each month, in practice its powers were dictatorial, and from September 1793 to June 1794, none of its members failed to be re-elected. FTP, name this driving force behind the French reign of terror, headed by Robespierre. Answer: The _Committee for Public Safety_ 13. Only 21 when he received his Ph.D. from MIT, he was only 26 when he became a full professor of physics at Cal Tech. By this time he had already done groundbreaking work on the problem of the "strange particles," K-mesons and hyperons, and in 1961 devised what he called "The Eight-Fold Way," an organized grouping of subatomic particles, and, much as Mendeleev did with the periodic table, he began to predict then-undiscovered particles to fill in the gaps. FTP, name this winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics, who both postulated and named the quark. Answer: Murray _Gell-Mann_ 14. The literary branch of this movement had its greatest impact in the Soviet Union, where it came to be associated with poets like Velemir Hlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Rejecting nearly everything that was old or classical in favor of machinery, speed, violence, and war, it was embraced by both radical leftists and early fascists. FTP, name this movement founded by Fillipo Marinetti, whose visual branch was led by the painters Giacomo Bella, Gino Severini, and (for a time) Kasimir Malevich. Answer: _Futurism_ 15. Richard was a landscape artist best known for _Shepherds in the Campagna_. Alexander was an 18th-century astronomer who discovered the nature of sunspots. Colin wrote _A Criminal History of Mankind_, Angus wrote _Old Men at the Zoo_, and Edmund edited F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished writings. Harold spent six years as Prime Minister of Great Britain, and George and Martha live next door to Dennis the Menace. FTP, identify the common surname, also shared by the 28th president of the United States. Answer: _Wilson_ 16. Although this folk tale seems to date back to the middle ages, the oldest written version of it was included in Giovan Francesco Straparola's 1550 collection _Le piacevoli notti_. Its most famous version was written by Charles Perrault in 1697, and it was from this that Andre Grety adapted a 1771 opera and Jean Cocteau adapted a 1946 film. FTP, name this old French tale about a woman who gives herself up to a monster in order to save her father's life, which in 1991 was made into a highly successful animated film by Disney. Answer: _Beauty and the Beast_ 17. As a politican, he is most famous for orchestrating trumped-up obscenity charges against the outspoken liberal John Wilkes, which earned him the everlasting hatred of the British public, while his incompetent handling of the military situation in North America greatly contributed to the success of the revolution. His is most famous, however, because his habit of round-the-clock gambling led him to invent a snack food that could be comfortably eaten while sitting at the card table. FTP, name this man whose invention consisted of a slab of beef between two slices of toast. Answer: John Montagu, first Earl of _Sandwich_ 18. This protege of Laplace started out as a military engineer for Napoleon, but later became such a radical monarchist that he refused to live in France after the last Bourbon king was deposed. The author of over 789 treatises, he worked in virtually every area of pure mathematics, but had his greatest influence on integral analysis and number theory. FTP, name this mathematician who originated the theory of complex-variable functions. Answer: Augustin Louis _Cauchy_ 19. In Arabic mythology, she is the wife of Satan and mother of all evil spirits, and in Babylonian mythology, she was a storm demon who caused miscarriages. An allegorical reference to her by Isaiah is the only occasion in which her name appears in the Bible, although she is very prominent in the later Talmudic myths of the creation. FTP, name this first wife of Adam and namesake for Bebe Neuwith's character on "Cheers." Answer: _Lilith_ 20. As a child he made a modest profit organizing a private lottery in Connecticut, and as a young man he edited a weekly newspaper, the _Herald of Freedom_. Real success first came to him in 1835, when he discovered an extremely old-looking black woman named Jenny Heth and put her on tour, claiming that she was George Washington's 160-year-old former nurse. FTP, name this impressario whose later acts would include the Bearded Lady, Jumbo the Elephant, and "General" Tom Thumb. Answer: P.T. _Barnum_ John's Complete Packets Packet #25 (Medium) (With contributions by various Chicago alums) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For five points each part: given a Shakesperean line, name both the character that speaks it, as well as the play in which the line appears. 1. "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." Answer: spoken by _John of Gaunt_ in _Richard II_ 2. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon'em." Answer: Spoken by _Malvolio_ in _Twelfth Night_ 3. "He jests at scars that never felt a wound." Answer: Spoken by _Romeo_ in _Romeo & Juliet_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. Given a European country, name the head of government in that country in 1971, for the stated number of points. 1. For five: West Germany (Chancellor) Answer: Willy _Brandt_ 2. For ten: East Germany (General Secretary) Answer: Walter _Ulbricht_ 3. For five: France (President) Answer: Georges _Pompidou_ 4. For ten: Great Britain (Prime Minister) Answer: Edward _Heath_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For the stated number of points, identify these participants in the recent U.S.-Russian joint space operations. 1. 5 pts: in 1996, this astronaut set an American space endurace record during her long stay aboard the Russian space station Mir. Answer: Shannon _Lucid_ 2. For ten: in 1995, he became the first American to serve on the crew of Mir. Answer: Norman _Thagard_ 3. For fifteen: in 1994, this Russian became the first cosmonaut to fly a mission on the Space Shuttle. Answer: Sergei _Krikalev_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For ten points each, name these characters from Greek mythology. 1. Orpheus made a trip to the underworld in an attempt to bring back this nymph, who had been killed by a scorpion on their wedding day. Answer: _Eurydice_ 2. This King of Mycenae sent his cousin Heracles around the world performing his famous labors. Answer: _Eurystheus_ 3. In the Odyssey, he is Odysseus' second-in-command, whose sacrilige against the cattle of Helios leads to the death of the entire crew. Answer: _Eurylochus_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. Show your good breeding and identify whether or not each of the following situations represents a breach of etiquette, as defined in the first edition of Emily Post's _Blue Book_. Fifteen points for three correct, thirty for all four, and no points for less than three correct. 1. At the Chicago quiz bowl formal ball, Peter is dancing a waltz with his fiancee, Sarah. John wanders by and, struck by Sarah's beauty, decides to cut in. Unaware of the realtionship of the dancers ot each other and without speaking to either partner, John taps Peter on the shoulder, brushes him aside, and proceedes to continue the dance Sarah. Answer: Not a breach 2. A while later, Sarah is sitting on the steps outside the ballroom with a group of female friends when Peter stops by and invites her to dance. She declines, and Peter leaves. Five minutes later, John comes by, makes the same offer, and is accepted. Answer: Breach 3. The next day, Sarah begins to suffer violent foot pains from the previous night's dancing. She then goes to the podiatrist's without a chaperone, to the dismay of the insanely jealous Peter. Answer: Not a breach 4. Later that day, Sarah is sitting by the window in her study when she notices Peter approaching her house for a visit. Although she knows that Peter had probably seen her through the window, she orders her butler to tell him that she is not at home. Answer: Not a breach 30 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each, given a plot description, identify the Thomas Pynchon novels. 1. California housewife Oedipa Maas finds herself caught in the middle of an ancient, deadly, feud between two medieval postal carriers. Answer: _The Crying of Lot 49_ 2. During World War II, an American soldier named Tyrone Slothrop develops an anatomical peculiarity that allows him to predict German missile attacks. Answer: _Gravity's Rainbow_ 3. A pair of caffeine-adicted English astronomers takes a tour through the Age of Reason, encountering such characters as a talking dog and a hemp-smoking George Washington. Answer: _Mason & Dixon_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. The summer of 1966 was a big one of sociopathic killers. For ten points each, identify these crazed lunatics who made headlines just a few weeks apart. 1. On July 13, this ex-convict broke into a townhouse in Chicago, brutally murdering the eight student nurses who lived there. Answer: Richard _Speck_ 2. On August 1, this architecture student climbed an observation tower at the University of Texas with a rifle, killing 15 and wounding 31 before he was brought down by a police sniper. Answer: Charles _Whitman_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Here is a mixed-bag chemistry bonus. You'll get five points for each correct answer and a five point bonus for all correct. 1. The Haber process was invented to produce what? Answer: _Ammonia_ 2. Chemical reactions which liberate heat are of what type? Answer: _Exothermic_ 3. In the ground state of an atom, electrons are distributed within the shells so as to create the maximum number of unpaired electrons. What rules govern the distribution? Answer: _Hund's_ Rules 4. Who stated a law of combining volumes of gas? Answer: Joseph _Gay-Lussac_ 5. Whose principle states that all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules? Answer: Amedeo _Avogadro_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. For ten points each, name these architects. 1. He became famous after finishing second in a competition to design the Tribune Tower in Chicago. His revolutionary entry was one of the most influential designs in the history of architecture, although nothing was ever actually built from it. Answer: _Eliel Saarinen_ 2. His works include the Finlandia Concert Hall in Helsinki, the Finnish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris exhibition, and lots of bent plywood furniture. Answer: Aalvar _Aalto_ 3. He is responsible for what are arguably the two most recognizable airport buildings in the world: the TWA Terminal at New York's JFK Airport, and the main terminal of Dulles Airport. Answer: _Eero Saarinen_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Since 1960, Richard Sylvan Selzer (better known as Mr. Blackwell) has been striking terror through Hollywood with his annual list of the ten worst-dressed women. For five points each and a five-point bonus for all five, identify these members of Mr. Blackwell's all- time worst-dressed list, given a few of the choice comments he has made about them over the years. 1. "`If she could turn back time,' she'd be a bag of tattooed bones in a sequined slingshot." Rated by Mr. Blackwell as the number one worst-dressed woman of all time. Answer: _Cher_ 2. "A tree grew in Brooklyn- dressed in tablecloth and furs. ..Yentl goes Mental: Ringo Starr in Drag." Answer: Barbra _Streisand_ 3."Everything that is out of fashion is in with her... Hail, Victoria! The Stonehenge of style strikes again!" Answer: Queen _Elizabeth_ II 4. "Looks like two small boys fighting under a mink blanket... She should give up looking for a designer and find an architect... makes one think of the rebirth of the zeppelin." Answer: Elizabeth _Taylor_ 5. "She dresses like a twelve-year-old and dates Frank Sinatra." Answer: Mia _Farrow_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify these literary classics on a ten-five basis: ten points if you can get them from the names of the title character or characters, five if you need the author. 1. 10 pts: Mellors 5 pts: D.H. Lawrence Answer: _Lady Chatterley's Lover_ 2. 10 pts: Nikolai Kirsanov, Vassily Bazarov, Arkady Kirsanov, and Evgeney Bazarov 5 pts: Ivan Turgenev Answer: _Fathers and Sons_ 3. 10 pts: Michael Henchard 5 pts: Thomas Hardy Answer: _The Mayor of Casterbridge_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Suetonius' _The Twelve Caesars_ contains biographies of the men who ruled the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. until 96 A.D. For a maximum of thirty points, name the twelve men whose lives are included in this work. You will recieve no points if you can name two or less, five points if you can name three, ten points if you can name six, fifteen points if you can name nine, twenty points if you can name all twelve, and thirty points if you can name all twelve in order. Answer: (in order) _Julius_, _Augustus_, _Tiberius_, _Caligula_ (acc: _Gaius), _Claudius_, _Nero_, _Galba_, _Otho_, _Vitellius_, _Vespasian_, _Titus_, _Domitian_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Given the chemical formula, identify the anion, for 10 points each. 1. C_2 H_3 O_2 - Answer: _acetate_ 2. Cl O_3 - Answer: _chlorate_ 3. C O_3 - Answer: _carbonate_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Name the opera from a list of characters, for ten points each. 1. Leonore, Marzelline, Florestan, Jacquino Answer: _Fidelio_ 2. Prince Shiusky, Pimen, Xenia, The False Dmitri Answer: _Boris Godunov_ 3. Wotan, Brunhilde, Siegfried, Albrecht Answer: _Siegfried_ [prompt on "The Ring of the Niebelungens." This is the only one of the "Ring" operas in which all four of these characters appear.] 30 POINT BONUS 15. Name the dead person, 30-20-10. 1. Though not primarily remembered as an actor, he starred in Steven Spielberg's 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind as an angst-ridden scientist in search of extraterrestrials. 2. In 1966 he directed an adaption of Ray Bradbury's _Farenheit 451_, his first English-language film. 3. His more famous French-language films include "The Last Metro," "The 400 Blows," and "Jules and Jim." Answer: Francois _Truffaut_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. If you are in the middle of reading any of the books that this question is about, you will probably not want to hear any of this. We will spoil the endings of three well-known mystery stories; for ten points each, identify them. 1. The unidentified dead man is really the jewel thief Deacon, who had only faked his death ten years earlier. Thing is, though, nobody actually murdered him: he had gotten locked in the cathedral tower and was killed by the noise from the bell-ringing. Answer: _The Nine Tailors_ 2. The murderer turns out to be the narrator, who had stabbed the title character to death at the end of their last conversation, and then spent the next 200 pages lying about it to both Hercule Poirot and the reader. Answer: _The Murder of Roger Ackroyd_ 3. The two women turn out to have been brutally killed not by any human murderer, but by a razor-wielding Orangautang who is trying to learn how to shave. Answer: _The Murders in the Rue Morgue_ 25 POINT BONUS 17. If Virginia is the mother of presidents, then Indiana can claim to be the mother of vice-presidents, having sent five men to the nation's second-highest office, more than any other state. For five points, name these five Hoosier veeps. Answer: Schuyler _Colfax_, Thomas _Hendricks_, Charles _Fairbanks_, Thomas _Marshall_, Dan _Quayle_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For 15 points each, identify the linguistic term defined. 1. A term used in the study of child language acquisition, it refers to the way mothers talk to their children, although its patterns are also observed in the speech of fathers and others who look after young children. Answer: _Motherese_ 2. The term descrbing the alteration of a foreign expression to fit the speech and spelling patterns of the borrowing language, for example the mutation of the Sanskrit "Jagannatha" into "juggernaut" or the Algonquian word "arahkun" to "raccoon." Answer: _Hobson-Jobsonism_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For ten points each, identify the Platonic dialogues. 1. The setting is a dinner party, the topic is sex, and the dialoguers include Aristophanes, Alcibiades, Agathon, and Phaedrus. Answer: _Symposium_ 2. The setting is Piraeus, the topic is justice and government, and the main dialoguers are Glaucus and Adeimetus, Plato's real-life brothers. Answer: _Republic_ 3. The setting is a prison cell in Athens, the topic is death, and the dialoguers are most of Socrates' closest disciples, who are there to watch him drink the hemlock. Answer: _Phaedo_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For five points each, and a five-point bonus for all five, given an American border town, name the Mexican city that lies directly across from it. 1. El Paso, TX Answer: _Ciudad Juarez_ 2. Calexico, CA Answer: _Mexicali_ 3. Brownsville, TX Answer: _Matamaros_ 4. Laredo, TX Answer: _Nuevo Laredo_ 5. Nogales, AZ Answer: _Nogales_ --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="26"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="26" John's Complete Packets Packet #26 (Medium) (With contributions by various Chicago alums) Toss-Ups 1. His troubles with his country's authoritarian rulers date back to his early satires _A Dance of the Forests_ and _Kongi's Harvest_, and in 1967 he was imprisoned for sympathizing with a secessionist uprising. It was while in prison that he produced some of his best work, including the poetry collection _Shuttle in the Crypt_ and the novel _The Man Died_. FTP, name this exiled poet, playwright, and Yoruba folklorist, the first black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Answer: Wole _Soyinka_ 2. Passed by a Republican Congress over the president's veto, its provisions included a ban on closed shops, gave Congress the power to end strikes, and required that labor unions submit financial reports and refrain from certain political activities. FTP, name this 1947 act whose chief sponsor was a senator from Ohio. Answer: The _Taft-Hartley_ Act or the _National Management Relations Act of 1947_ 3. The son of Charles V's court pharmacist, he first made a name for himself by disproving the biblical notion that men had one rib fewer than women, and he later debunked the Aristotelian theory that the heart is the seat of the mental activity. He is most important, however, for publishing the first comprehensive work on the human body since antiquity. FTP, name this Flemish scientist, considered the father of modern anatomy. Answer: Andreas _Vesalius_ 4. Born about 320 A.D., this Nephite prophet, general, and scribe was entrusted by God with the historical record of his tribe, which he edited and continued down to his own day. This work was later inscribed on gold plates and buried by his son, Moroni, in the hills of upstate New York, where it lay undistrubed until 1827. FTP, identify this person whose work Jospeh Smith claimed to have uncovered and deciphered. Answer: _Mormon_ 5. The name's the same: a CGS unit of magnetomotive force equal to 10/4pi ampere-turns; the butler in Walter Scott's novel _The Fair Maid of Perth_; a knight of the Round Table whose sword had magic curative powers; and Robert Carradine's character in _Revenge of the Nerds. FTP, give this word, which is also the surname of a Victorian librettist who collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan. Answer: _Gilbert_ 6. In his poetry, he often represented himself through the autobiographical character Colin Clout, though it is still unclear which real person (if any) was represented by Colin's unrequited love interest Rosalind. Born in 1552, his verse includes _Complaints_, _Amoretti and Epithalamion_, _Colin Clout Come Home Again_, and _The Shepheard's Calendar_, in which the character of Colin first appeared. FTP, name this poet of _The Faerie Queen_. Answer: Edmund _Spenser_ 7. Although there is some doubt about whether he actually existed, legend has it that he was a village idiot from Leicester who lived in the late eighteenth century. After he lost his job at a textile mill, he lost his mind and began attacking his employer's machines with axe. FTP, identify this mentally disturbed laborer, whose lent his name to a group of anti-industrial machine wreckers in the 1810s. Answer: Ned _Ludd_ 8. The one named for Fermat is defined by the equation r-squared = theta. The equiangular variety, discovered by Jacques Bernoulli, has an equation of r = aek to the power k(theta). The oldest and most famous variety of all has an equation of r = a(theta), and is named for Archimedes. FTP, name these special types of planar curves, whose name is taken from the Greek word for "coil." Answer: _spirals_ 9. In 1829, he became minister of Boston's Second Unitarian Church, but resigned and left for a tour of Europe after the sudden death of his 19-year-old-wife. After meeting Carlyle, he returned home with a new philosophy of idealism, which rejected the concept of evil. His later work is a reaction against 18th-century rationalism and relies on such mystical concepts as nature-worship and the Over-Soul, which he described as a physical union between each individual and God. FTP, name this author of _Society and Solitude_, whose most famous lecture was delivered in 1838 before the Harvard Divinity School. Answer: Ralph Waldo _Emerson_ 10. The fifth largest of the Ionian Islands, its largest city is Vathy, its highest point is Mount Anoi, and it is nearly divided in two by the Gulf of Molo, which does not at all match the geographic description given of it by Homer. It is also the namesake of the seat of Tomkins County, New York, a city which sits at the southern end of Cayuga Lake and is best known as the home of an Ivy League university. FTP, name this homeland of Odysseus. Answer: _Ithaca_ 11. He worked as an advisor to Willy Brandt during the 1969 elections, which formed the backdrop of his 1972 book _From the Diary of a Snail_. Much of his other fiction was based on current events, most notably the play _The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising_, a dramatization of the 1953 East Berlin riots. FTP, name this contemporary German novelist of _Dog Years_, _Rat_, and _The Tin Drum_. Answer: Gunther _Grass_ 12. In the twelfth century, its landmarks included the Golden Gate, Tancred's Tower, the House of the Templars, Flagellation Square, The Street of Vegetables, and the unforgettably-named Street of Bad Restaurants. FTP, name this former stronghold of the Crusaders, a holy city for three major religions. Answer: _Jerusalem_ 13. This plant group of division _Polypodiophyta encompasses over 6,000 distinct species, over 600 of which are to be found on the island of Java alone. Ranging from moss-like plants to towering treelike structures that resemble palms, about 300 species of it exist in North America, including the bracken, the polypody, the maidenhair, and the shield, sword, chain, ostrich, lady, and royal varieties. Botanically, they are most interesting for their mode of reproduction, which includes both a sexual and an asexual phase. FTP, name this common group of flowerless plants. Answer: _Ferns_ 14. In Buddhist literature, this term refers to collections of the Buddha's preachings, while in Sanskrit literature, they are aphoristic manuals on a variety of topics, including Vedic law, ritual, grammar, and philosophy. Composed between 500 and 200 B.C., their name is Sanskrit for "thread," probably in recognition of the fact that most were compiled rather than written intact. FTP, name this genre, the most famous example of which is the _Kama_. Answer: _Sutras_ 15. Jack Dempsey begins fighting professionally, and Charlie Chaplin makes his film debut. James Joyce writes _Dubliners_, Joyce Kilmer writes "Trees," and Bernard Malamud, Dylan Thomas, and Ralph Ellison are born. The U.S. occupies Vera Cruz, the Second Balkan War ends, St. Petersburg becomes Petrograd, and the Panama Canal is opened. FTP, all this took place in what year, which also saw the deaths of Pope Pius X and Archduke Franz Ferdinand? Answer: _1914_ 16. This name means "All-Thirsty," and in medieval folklore, it was the name of a sea-demon who threw salt into the mouths of alcoholics and thereby compelled them to drink. The most famous character to bear this name is a bear-like giant of enourmous strength, who goes on a grand tour of Europe with his friend Panurge and later becomes a student at the University of Paris. FTP, name this title character of Francois Rabelais, the son of Gargamel and Gargantua. Answer: _Pantagruel_ 17. Imprisoned by the British as a Nazi sympathizer during World War II, he was the lowest-ranking member of the junta that took power in a 1952 coup, and until 1969, he was the only member of the original junta who had not yet received a cabinet-level job. Appointed to the mostly ceremonial post of vice president in 1969, he was the surprise winner of the power struggle which followed the death of Nasser in 1970. FTP, name this Egyptian president, who was assassinated less than a year after winning the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. Answer: Anwar _Sadat_ 18. Symptoms include high fever, severe chills, enlargement of the spleen, and occasionally anemia and jaundice, and its three main strains are tertian, aestivo-autumnal, and quartan. Responsible for about a million deaths per year, mostly in developing tropical countries, it is caused by the bloodstream parasite plasmodium. FTP, name this disease most often treated with chloroquine and primaquine, which is transmitted by the anopheles mosquito. Answer: _Malaria_ 19. He lasted just ten days as an apprentice in Titian's workshop, and never really became a part of Venice's art establishment, in part because the exaggerated style of his "St. Mark" series and other works was so much at odds with the traditional aesthetic of the Titian school. FTP, name this artist of "The Baptism of Chlorinda," who was born Jacopo Robusti, and whose nickname means "little dyer." Answer: _Tintoretto_ 20. Now the only country in the world whose flag still contains a hammer-and-sickle, its highest points are named Communism Peak and Mount Lenin. Bordered by Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzia, and China, its longest and most troublesome border is with Afghanistan, which is used as a base by the numerous Islamic rebel groups that have waged a civil war against its communist-led government and the remaining Russian border troops since early 1992. FTP, name this highly unstable ex-Soviet republic with a capital at Dushanbe. Answer: _Tadzhikistan_ John's Complete Packets Packet #26 (Medium) (With contributions by various Chicago alums) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. Imagine that Jerry Springer travels back in time to Elizabethean England, from which he tapes a week's worth of shows. His five topics are: (1) Women who dress as men; (2) Women who love women who dress as men; (3) Innocent women who are framed for adultery; (4) Young couples who elope; and (5) People who were abandoned as infants. Now, given a Shakespeare character, identify which of Jerry's shows they would be most likely to appear on as a guest. 1. Portia, "The Merchant of Venice" Answer: Women who dress as men 2. Imogen, "Cymbeline" Answer: Framed for adultery 3. Jessica, "The Merchant of Venice" Answer: Elopes 4. Perdita, "The Winter's Tale" Answer: Abandoned 5. Rosalind, "As You Like It" Answer: Women who dress as men 6. Olivia, "Twelfth Night" Answer: Women who love women who dress as men 30 POINT BONUS 2. For ten points each, name these leaders of the breakaway Russian territory of Chechnya. 1. Leader of Chechnya from 1991 until his death in 1996, he was best known for being a lookalike of TV's Boris Badenov. Answer: Dzhokar _Dudayev_ 2. In January 1997, this rebel leader was elected president of Chechnya. Answer: Aslan _Maskhadov_ 3. Maskhadov's main rival in the 1997 elections, he is best known for his daring 1995 raid against the Russian town of Budyonnovsk. Answer: Shamil _Basayev_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. A seahorse is not a horse but a fish, and a jackrabbit is not a rabbit but a hare. For five points each and a five-point bonus for all five, given some other misnamed animals, identify them as being either a type of caterpillar, clam, jellyfish, lizardfish, or manatee. [moderator: offer to repeat the list if necessary]. 1. the Bombay duck Answer: _lizardfish_ 2. the woolly bear Answer: _caterpillar_ 3. the geoduck Answer: _clam_ 4. the sea wasp Answer: _jellyfish_ 5. the sea cow Answer: _manatee_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Several different kings named Herod appear in the New Testament. For ten points each, identify the specific Herods who appear in the following stories. 1. Builder of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, he is the bad guy in the Three Wise Men segment of the Christman story. Answer: _Herod the Great_ or _Herod I_ 2. The son of Herod the Great, he is the Herod who appears in the story of Salome and John the Baptist. Answer: _Herod Antipas_ 3. The grandson of Herod the Great, he appears in the Acts of the Apostles, where he orders the execution of St. James and immediately afterwards dies a horrible death. Answer: _Herod Agrippa_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For ten points each, given a list of really terrible films, name the respected actor who appeared in all of them. 1. "Caligula," "Arthur 2 On the Rocks," and the TV miniseries "Scarlett." Answer: John _Gielgud_ 2. "Conan the Barbarian," "Strange Brew," "Needful Things." Answer: Max von _Sydow_ 3. "Bonfire of the Vanities," "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon One," "Surviving the Game." Answer: F. Murray _Abraham_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. One of the few redeeming qualities of the Thirty Years' War was that it inspired several pretty good works of German literature. For the stated number of points, identify these literary treatments of the war. 1. 5 pts: This play by Bertolt Brecht tells the story of a peddler woman whose twelve children each die a horrible death as a result of the war. Answer: _Mother Courage and Her Children_ 2. 10 pts: This trilogy of plays by Schiller recounts the meteoric rise and fall of the Catholic league's bravest but most brutal commander. Answer: _Wallenstein_ 3. 15 pts: Often considered the greatest prose work about the Thirty Years' War, this picaresque novel about a feeble-minded soldier was written by Hans Grimmelshausen, himself a veteran of the war. Answer: _Simplicissimus_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For five points each, given a country, name the monarch who ruled it in the year 1648, at the time of the signing of the Peace of Westphalia. 1. Austria Answer: _Ferdinand_ 2. France Answer: _Louis XIV_ 3. India Answer: Shah _Jahan_ 4. Russia Answer: _Alexei_ I Mikhailovich 5. The Papacy Answer: _Innocent X_ 6. Sweden Answer: _Christina_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Name the physicist given clues, 30-20-10. 1. While an undergraduate student at Munich, he wrote a comprehensive aticle on the theory of relativity hat has become a classic treatment of the subject. 2. In 1931 he predicted that the conservation laws demanded the existence of a particle later discovered to be the neutrino. 3. He is most famous for his principle which state that no two electrons in an atom can have the same four quantum numbers. Answer: Wolfgang _Pauli_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. 30-20-10, name the composer from his operas. 1. Marietta, La Perichole 2. La Vie Parisienne, Bluebeard 3. Orpheus in the Underworld, Tales of Hoffman Answer: Jacques _Offenbach_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Given an African country, name its official language, for five points each with a five-point bonus for all five. 1. Zimbabwe Answer: _English_ 2. Madagascar Answer: _Malagasy_ 3. Ethiopia Answer: _Amharic_ 4. Central African Republic Answer: _French_ 5. Djibouti Answer: _Arabic_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify the author from his works, 30-20-10. 1. Travels with a Donkey in the Cervennes; The Black Arrow; Weir of Hermiston 2. New Arabian Nights; The Master of Ballantrae 3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Answer: Robert Louis _Stevenson_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For ten points each, identify the following local wars that broke out in the United States in the late 1830s. 1. This boundary dispute between Michigan and Ohio, which involved a strip of land less than seven miles wide, resulted in several armed skirmishes in 1835 and 1836 before finally being decided in Ohio's favor. Answer: _Toledo_ War 2. This series of 1838 riots in Harrisburg, Pennsylvnia resulted when Democrats and Whigs each challenged the results of the state elections. It was named for the type of ammunition used by the state militia in restoring order. Answer: _Buckshot_ War 3. This 1839 war broke out when the state of Maine, acting on its own, invaded Canada. Although the war was not ended until the signing of the Ashburton-Webster treaty three years later, no actual fighting ever took place. Answer: _Aroostook_ War 30 POINT BONUS 13. Given a pair of researchers, name the discovery for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize. Ten points each. 1. James Watson and Francis Crick Answer: double-helix _structure_ of _DNA_ (accept reasonable equivalents, but the answer must indicate that they discovered the double helix, not DNA itself) 2. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson Answer: _cosmic_ microwave background _radiation_ 3. Sherry Rowland and Mario Molina Answer: _ozone depletion_ by CFC's (accept reasonable equivalents) 30 POINT BONUS 14. For the stated number of points answer these questions about Egypt's most famous landmark, the Sphinx. 1. For fifteen: the face of the Sphinx is thought to be a likeness of what Old Kingdom Pharoah, during whose reign the monument was built? Answer: _Khafre_ or _Chephren_ 2. For ten: within two hundred years, when was the Sphinx completed? (Taking the year of Khafre's death as the best estimate for this). Answer: _2532 B.C._ (accept 2732-2332) 3. For five: although the Egyptian Sphinx is presumably male, a female creature called the Sphinx also appears in Greek mythology. Name the Greek hero who killed her. Answer: _Oedipus_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Identify the film actors from their roles, 10-5. 1. 10 pts: Clare Quilty in "Lolita" (1962) 5 pts: Dr. Strangelove in "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) Answer: Peter _Sellers_ 2. 10 pts: Philip II of France in "The Lion in Winter" (1968) 5 pts: James Bond in "The Living Daylights" (1987) Answer: Timothy _Dalton_ 3. 10 pts: Alfred de Musset in "Impromptu" (1991) 5 pts: Inigo Montoya in "The Princess Bride" (1987) Answer: Mandy _Patinkin_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Identify the author of these similarly-titled works, for ten points each. 1. Mrs. Dolloway Answer: Virginia _Woolf_ 2. Mrs. Warren's Profession Answer: George Bernard _Shaw_ 3. Mr. Sammler's Planet Answer: Saul _Bellow_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Name the unsuccessful candidates for president of the United States, given his running mate, for ten points each. If you guess incorrectly, you will be given the year and a second chance to name him for five points. 1. 10 pts: Curtis LeMay 5 pts: 1968 Answer: _George Wallace_ 2. 10 pts: Adlai E. Stevenson 5 pts: 1900 Answer: William Jennings _Bryan_ 3. 10 pts: Earl Warren 5 pts: 1948 Answer: Thomas _Dewey_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, identify these concepts from the theory of relativity. 1. The name for the transformation relating an event in one reference frame to the same event as seen in a different inertial frame. Answer: _Lorentz_ transformation 2. This word describes the space-time interval between two events that can be seen by some observer as occurring at the same time. Answer: _space-like_ 3. For five each: these two words describe the two different kinds of four-vectors that differ in the sign of he zeroth component. Answer: _covariant_ and _contravariant_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. Identify the following operas on a 10-5 basis. You will be given 10 points if you can identify it from a plot summary alone, 5 points if you need the name of its composer. 1. 10 pts: The leader of a troupe of wandering actors, tormented by suspicions of his wife's infidelity, kills his wife and lover onstage during a performance. 5 pts: Ruggerio Leoncavallo Answer: _I Pagliacci_ 2. 10 pts: Citizens of the fictional country of Ponteverdia attempt to keep the wealthiest woman in the country from marrying a foriegner, fearing that their nation will thus lose the bulk of its wealth. 5 pts: Franz Lehar Answer: _The Merry Widow_ 3. 10 pts: Tormented by the abuses of his Captain and the sadistic medical experiments of a mad scientist, a hapless soldier kills his mistress, then drowns himself. 5 pts: Alban Berg Answer: _Wozzeck_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Count Chocula still survives on supermarket shelves, but his three friends now live on only in memory. For ten points each, name the three now-defunct monster-themed breakfast cereals which were introduced along with Count Chocula by General Mills in the 1970s. Answer: _Frankenberry_, _Booberry Crunch_, _Yummy Mummy_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="27"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="27" John's Complete Packets Packet #27 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. Crippled for most of her life by the disease lupus erythematosus, she published only three books before her 1964 death, including the novel _The Violent Bear it Away_ and the short-story collection _Everything that Rises Must Converge_. FTP, name this Georgia-born author, best known for her first novel, 1952's _Wise Blood_. Answer: Flannery _O'Connor_ 2. Over the span of its approximately 2,000-year history, this town has existed under nearly a dozen different names, among which are Tatu, Dadu, Nanching, Yenching, Yen, Chi'a, Yuchow, Chungtu, and Khanbaylik, while it was as Cambaluc that it first became known in the West through the writings of Marco Polo. FTP, name this former frontier outpost near the Great Wall, which Kublai Khan made capital of all China in 1267. Answer: _Beijing_ 3. This pyridyl methylpyrrolidine is extremely toxic in large quantities, and is a major ingredient of some insecticides. In small quantities, it acts as a central nervous stimulant for humans, reduces the oxygen capacity of blood, and inhibits hunger. FTP, name this highly addictive chemical, which is found in tobacco leaves. Answer: _Nicotine_ 4. Their name literally meant, "The separated ones," and they advocated a general revival of ancient morals and a strict observance of Mosaic law. Primarily an urban, middle class group, they opposed the collaborationist policy of the Saducees, but at the same time also rejected the violent methods of the anti-Roman Zealots. FTP, name this influential religious group in first- century Judea, most famous for their opposition to Jesus. Answer: _Pharisees_ 5. This country contains over 1600 commonly-spoken dialects, two official languages, and sixteen langauges officially recognized by its constitution, including Kannada, Assamese, Marathi, Gujarti, Oriya, Malayalam, Telugu, Sindhi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. FTP, name this Asian nation of 900 million, which is expected to eventually overtake China as the world's most populous country. Answer: _India_ 6. When George III went mad, this play was banned in England, since it struck a bit too close to current events. Perhaps this was just as well, as the version then in vogue featured a tacked-on happy ending written by mediocre poet Nahum Tate. FTP, name this Shakespeare tragedy, which deals with the madness of a mythical British king. Answer: _King Lear_ 7. His son Richard was a general in the Confederate army, and his daughter Sarah was married to Jefferson Davis. In spite of this, and in spite of the fact that he was himself the owner of a large slave-labor plantation in Louisiana, he was a bitter enemy of the pro-slavery faction in Congress, and once publicly threatened to hang anyone who tried to prevent California's admission to the Union as a free state. FTP, name this twelfth president of the United States. Answer: Zachary _Taylor_ 8. The fifth-largest planet of the solar system, it lies at a distance of 93 million miles from the Sun. It is irregularly shaped, with a slight bulge around its equator, and it plane of rotation is tilted about 23 degrees from its orbital plane. Surrounded by an envelope of gases, mostly nitrogen and oxygen, it has a solid surface, an outer core believed to be liquid, and a solid inner core. FTP, name this third planet from the sun, the only one known to support life. Answer: _Earth_ 9. A worker at a cigarette factory in Seville, she infatuates Don Jose, a young soldier already engaged to the innocent peasant girl Micaela. When she kills a co-worker, she escapes justice with the help of Jose, who is himself thrown into prison. By the time he is released, she has a new lover, the bullfighter Escamillo, and the jilted soldier stabs her to death. FTP, name this gypsy girl, the title character of a novella by Merrime and an opera by Bizet. Answer: _Carmen_ 10. Credited with inventing the film montage, his work combines some of the most powerful visual images in cinematic history with some of the most politically heavy-handed dialogue ever spoken. FTP, name this Soviet director of _Bezhin Meadow_, _Glumov's Diary_, _Strike_, _October_, _Ivan the Terrible_, and _The Battleship Potemkin_. Answer: Sergei _Eisenstein_ 11. His story was first dramatized in Tirso de Molina's 1630 tragedy _El Burlador de Sevilla_, and since then, it has been retold in Pushkin's _The Stone Guest_, Shadwell's _The Libertine_, and in a famous scene from Shaw's _Man and Superman_. FTP, name this title character of works by Moliere, Balzac, Prosper Merime, Alfred de Musset, and Lord Byron, also the subject of a 1787 opera by Wolfang Amadeus Mozart. Answer: _Don Juan_ or _Don Giovanni_ 12. The brother of a famous civil war general, he served as Secretary of the Treasury under Hayes and as Secretary of State under McKinley, but he is most important for his thirty-four years as a Senate leader. FTP, idenitfy this Ohio Republican who in 1890 lent his name to both a silver purchase act and a famous anti-trust act. Answer: John _Sherman_ 13. Upon first emerging from its winter hibernation, this animal, known to zoologists as _marmota monax_, will remain above ground only if it has been sexually aroused; otherwise it will return to its lair. Although German folklore viewed this behavior as a predictor for whether or not it was safe to plant crops, such forecasts are accurate only about 28% of the time. FTP, name this woodchuck relative often associated with the second day of February. Answer: _Groundhog_ 14. The fourth of the major judges, his great accomplishment was to liberate Israel from Midianite rule with an army of just 300 men. In spite of the smallness of his force, he was able to decieve the enemy into believing that he had a much larger army by smashing pitchers and blowing trumpets, and accordingly the trumpet and the water-pitcher became his emblems. FTP, name this figure of the Old Testmanent and namesake for a group that distributes bibles in hotel rooms. Answer: _Gideon_ 15. It started out as the illustrated newsletter for an adult nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, and it became an overnight success in 1976, when it printed the only known nude photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In more recent years, it has been at the center of two major Supreme Court libel cases, in which it was sued by Jerry Falwell and "Penthouse" editor Kathy Keeton. FTP, name this sleaziest of the major pornographic magazines, published by Larry Flynt. Answer: _Hustler_ 16. The real first name of this lawyer is David, while his nickname was given to him by villagers who mistook his eccentricity for idiocy. He is hired to defend one Luigi, who has been wrongfully accused of a murder, and by using the new science of fingerprinting, he not only solves the crime and exonerates his client, but uncovers the switched-at-birth scandal in the murderer's past, which finally earns him the respect and gratitude of his neighbors. FTP, name this Mark Twain title character. Answer: _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ 17. In 1977, he was working as an airborne traffic reporter in Los Angeles in 1977 when he was killed in a helicopter crash. Seventeen years earlier, he had been working for the CIA when he survived a more famous air crash, one that occured near the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk and which earned him instant notoriety as well as two years in a Russian prison. FTP, name this ill-fated pilot of the U-2 spy plane. Answer: Francis Gary _Powers_ 18. Intoduced by S.P. Sorensen in 1909, it is a logarithmic scale whose numeric values are defined as -log base 10 of c, where c is the concentration in moles per cubic decimeter of the hydrogen ions in a solution. At room temperature, a neutral solution will have a scale value near seven, with higher values for basic solutions and lower values for acidic ones. FTP, identify this scale used in chemistry to measure the alkalinity or acidity of a solution. Answer: The _pH_ scale 19. On an April night in 1792, army engineer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle sitting down for dinner when he overheard his host complaining about the need for a patriotic marching song. That night, he composed both the words and the music to fill this void, and his song was immediately taken up by numerous French regiments, most famously one marching north from Marseilles. FTP, name this song, now the national anthem of France. Answer: La _Marseillaise_ 20. Although the idea dates back to 1923, it was not until 1965 that William Carey invented the first practical ones for use in automobiles. Since then, they are thought to have saved 1,500 lives, although they have killed 52 more people in otherwise survivable crashes. FTP, what are these safety devices? Answer: _Air bags_ John's Complete Packets Packet #27 (Easy) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each: identify these short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, given their ending lines. 1."Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!" Answer: _The Tell-Tale Heart_ 2. "Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. _In pace requiescat_!" Answer: _The Cask of Amontillado_ 3. "An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General LaSalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies." Answer: _The Pit and the Pendelum_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For ten points each: identify these explorers of the New World, given the year and unpleasant circumstances of their deaths. 1. 1611; set adrift by mutineers in a body of water later named for him. Answer: Henry _Hudson_ 2. 1517; arrested and beheaded on trumped-up treason charges by his rivals Pizarro and Pedrarias. Answer: Vasco Nunez de _Balboa_ 3. 1527; eaten by natives while exploring the coast of South America for France. Answer: Giovanni da _Verrazano_ 20 POINT BONUS 3. For five points each: given a moon that was discovered by the Voyager missions, identify the planet which it orbits. 1. Pan Answer: _Saturn_ 2. Galatea Answer: _Neptune_ 3. Proteus Answer: _Neptune_ 4. Puck Answer: _Uranus_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For ten points each, given an old master painter, name the Italian city which he called home for most of his career. 1. Titian Answer: _Venice_ 2. Caravaggio Answer: _Rome_ 3. Giotto Answer: _Florence_ 20 POINT BONUS 5. For five points each, given a U.S. state, name its most populous county, according to the 1990 census. 1. New York Answer: _Kings_ 2. Texas Answer: _Harris_ 3. Michigan Answer: _Wayne_ 4. Arizona Answer: _Maricopa_ 20 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each, identify these modern Japanese novelists. 1. The author of such works as "The Sea of Fertility" and "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" he is perhaps best known for commiting ritual suicide at Japan's defense ministry building in 1974. Answer: Yukio _Mishima_ 2. In 1958 this novelist won Japan's prestigious Akutagawa award for his first book, "The Catch in the Shadow of the Sunrise." In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Answer: Kenzaburo _Oe_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. Identify the Greek city, 30-20-10. 1. During the Persian War, it was the most prominent city to "Medize," or collaborate with the invaders. Later, its unprovoked attack on Plataea helped spark the Second Peloponnesian War. 2. In 335 B.C., it was completely destroyed by Alexander the Great, who spared only the house of its most famous citizen, Pindar. 3. In mythology, this principal city of Boeotia was ruled by Cadmus, Creon, and Oedpius. Answer: _Thebes_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Identify the animal, 30-20-10. 1. It is thought to be the only commonly-known animal whose two-word Latin taxonomical name and popular name are exactly identical. 2. Ranging from Mexico to Brazil, it unlike most of its relatives in that it can climb trees, without making use of the vestigal legs along its side. 3. This very large snake is a close relative of the Python. Answer: _Boa Constrictor_ 25 POINT BONUS 9. If there is a central message of ancient Greek theology, it is: don't mess with the gods. For the stated number of points, identify these mythological unfortunates, given a description of their nasty deaths. 1. 10 pts: Because she brags about her family, Apollo and Artemis slaughter each of her fourteen children, then turn her into a rock. Answer: _Niobe_ 2. 15 pts: After challenging Apollo to a music contest and losing, this satyr is skinned alive and made into a drum. Answer: _Marsyas_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. The two baseball expansion teams in 1993, Colorado and Miami, both had relatively successful years, with neither team finishing in last place. For five points each, answer the following questions about past expansion teams in the modern era. 1. Which team finished with the best record ever for an expansion team? Answer: Los Angeles _Angels_ 2. Which finished with the worst? Answer: New York _Mets_ 3. Which was the first expansion team to win a world series? Answer: New York _Mets_ 4. Which went the longest before recording its first winning record? Answer: Seattle _Mariners_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Given the plot of a Canterbury Tale, identify the pilgrim who tells it. Ten points each. 1. Chauntecleer the Rooster is captured by Reynard the fox, but is able to escape by exploiting the fox's pride in his achievement. Answer: _Nun's Priest_ 2. An elderly carpenter is warned by a clerk of an impending flood, and builds an ark for safety. As he gullibly sits inside it, waiting for the disaster, the clerk runs off and sleeps with the carpenter's wife. Answer: _Miller_ 3. A young Christian boy is torn to pieces by them evil Jews, but is miraculously able to continue singing even after he has been ripped into a thousand tiny bits. Answer: _Prioress_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For ten points each, name these people at the center of a bizarre crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. 1. The daughter of a Washington tavern-keeper, she married Jackson's Secretary of War. Because of her questionable social background, the other cabinet wives not only snubbed her, but even left Washington so as to avoid meeting her on the street-- in some cases, taking their husbands with them. Answer: Peggy _Eaton_ 2. Jackson's first vice-president, it was his wife Flora who led the boycott of Peggy Eaton and all who supported her (including President Jackson). Answer: John _Calhoun_ 3. Jackson's Secretary of State, he resolved the crisis by persuading the entire cabinet to resign-- a move which, among other things, eliminated most of his own potential rivals for the presidential succession. Answer: Martin _Van Buren_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. For ten points each, give the social science "-ology" with which you would associate the following names. 1. Ruth Benedict, James Fraser Answer: _Anthropology_ 2. Talcott Parsons, William Julius Wilson Answer: _Sociology_ 3. Cesare Beccaria, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Goring Answer: _Criminology_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. There are six other countries which border the African nation of Chad. For five points each, name them. [Moderator: allow fifteen seconds] Answer: Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Sudan, Libya 30 POINT BONUS 15. Given a baseball statistical category, name the all-time leader in it, as of the end of the 1992 season. 5 points each. 1. Slugging Average Answer: Babe _Ruth_ 2. Walks Answer: Babe _Ruth_ Home runs allowed Answer: Robin _Roberts_ 3. Games played Answer: Pete _Rose_ 4. Total Bases Answer: Hank _Aaron_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Although Sophocles is best known for writing three tragedies about the Oedipus legend, he also wrote two memorable plays about the Trojan war. For fifteen points each, identify these two, given plot descriptions. 1. Odysseus and Neoptolemos go to the island of Lemnos in search of a hero who had been abandoned by the Greek army years earlier because of a stinking foot wound. Answer: _Philoctetes_ 2. After being denied the armor of Achilles, a Greek hero goes insane, kills a flock of sheep, recovers his sanity, and kills himself. Answer: _Ajax_ (_Aias_) 25 POINT BONUS 17. For the stated number of points, identify these major players in the Chechen crisis. 1. 10 pts: A former Soviet air force general, this Chechen president declared his republic's independence in 1991. In early 1996, he was killed in a Russian air raid. Answer: Dzhokar _Dudayev_ 2. 15 pts: This Defense minister was instrumental in Yeltsin's 1993 suppression of parliament, but was fired in 1996 for his bungled leadership of the war against Chechnya. Answer: Pavel _Grachev_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For the stated number of points, identify the following proteins. 1. 5 pts: Found in red blood cells, this globular protein is used by vertebrates to carry oxygen through the blood stream. Answer: _Hemoglobin_ 2. 10 pts: This fibrous protein is used by many vertebrates to form hair, feathers, hooves, and horns. Answer: _Keratin_ 3. 15 pts: this globular protein is soluble in water at normal temperatures, but forms an insoluble coagulate when heated. It is the principal component of egg white. Answer: _Albumin_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. A U.S. state has recently been sued by several foreign countries for violating the World Trade Organization's rules, after it outlawed state trade with any company doing business in a certain Southeast Asian country. For ten points each: 1. First, name the state. Answer: _Massachusetts_ 2. Second, name the country, a military dictatorship ruled by the SLORC junta. Answer: _Myanmar_ 3. Finally, Massachusetts is now considering passing a similar law against another authoritarian country. Name it, the world's fourth-largest nation by population. Answer: _Indonesia_ 20 POINT BONUS 20. Identify the place, 30-20-10. 1. Its native name is Rapa Nui, which diehard moviegoers will recognize as the title of a really bad Kevin Costner movie. 2. Located 1,000 miles from Pitcairn island, which is the nearest spot of dry land, it is possibly the most isolated island on earth. 3. This Chilean dependency is best known for the gigantic stone heads that ancient inhabitants built along its beaches. Answer: _Easter_ Island or Isla de _Pascua_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="28"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="28" John's Complete Packets Packet #28 (Easy) Toss-Ups 1. After several unsuccessful political campaigns as a socialist, he ran as a Democrat for Governor of California in 1934, but lost in a notoriously dirty general election campaign. Many of his eighty novels had contemporary politics as their subject, including "Boston," about the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and "Oil!," about the Teapot Dome scandal, but none had the impact of his first major work, which was almost singlehandedly responsible for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug act. FTP, name this author of "The Jungle." Answer: Upton _Sinclair_ 2. One of the most famous lawyers of his day, he successfully prosecuted Priscus, the corrupt governor of Africa, and his first book, _Dialogue on Orators_, dealt with legal education. However, we know him better as a historian, whose works include a biography of his father-in-law and a monograph on Germany. FTP, name this Roman, the author of _Germania_, _Agricola_, and the _Annals_. Answer: C. Cornelius _Tacitus_ 3. Established by a 1913 act of congress, it consists of twelve regional institutions and is supervised by a central seven-person board of governors, whose members serve staggered terms of fourteen years each. Its responsibilities include buying and selling U.S. securities and setting a credit limit for stock exchanges, but it is most important for its power to set the national discount rate. FTP, name this government body whose current chairman is Alan Greenspan. Answer: The _Federal Reserve_ Board 4. The first Russian composer to write a complete symphony, he completed Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" and Borodin's "Prince Igor," and in his later years, he taught composition to Glazunov and Stravinsky. FTP, name this most prolific and longest-lived member of the Mighty Five whose own works include "May Night," "The Maid of Pskov," "Mlada," and "Scheherezade." Answer: Nikolai _Rimsky-Korsakov_ 5. He spent just nine weeks in high school and graduated from Princeton at the age of ten, but then decided to slow down, spending a full four years at medical school before entering his residency. FTP, name this sixteen-year-old TV doctor played by Neil Patrick Harris. Answer: Doogie _Howser_, M.D. 6. A onetime law student at the University of Paris, he began his literary career as an unsuccessful playwright. In 1863, he took note of the public's fascination with new technologies, and the result was an immensely successful novel, _Five Weeks in a Balloon_. FTP, name this pioneer of science fiction whose later works include _The Mysterious Island_, _A Trip to the Moon_, _A Journey to the Center of the Earth_, and _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_. Answer: Jules _Verne_ 7. In 1990, she was a political neophyte who was given no chance of winning when she was nominated to run against Sen. Bill Bradley. To the surprise of many, she came within a percentage point of victory, and two years later she unseated Jim Florio. FTP, name this governor of New Jersey. Answer: Christie Todd _Whitman_ 8. In chemistry, it is a forced reduction in the rate of an equation by the neutralization or elimination of enzymes. In physiology, it is a nerve impulse sent to muscles to counteract the the automatic stimulation of an adjacent muscle. In psychology, it is the frequent or habitual supression of an urge or drive. For ten points, give the common four-syllable term. Answer: Inhibition 9. When Philoctetes was brought to Troy near the end of the war, it was so he could fulfill a prophecy and kill this man, who had himself only recently killed Achilles. The son of Priam and Hecuba, he had been abandoned as an infant because of a prophecy that he would destroy his native city, and as an adult he fulfilled this by provoking the Trojan War. FTP, name this Trojan prince and abductor of Helen. Answer: _Paris_ 10. Byzantine Emperor Constans II was bludgeoned to death with a soap dish. Orville Redenbacher died of a stroke. King Minos was boiled alive. Jim Morrison had a heart attack, and Jean-Paul Marat had a life-ending enounter with a knife. FTP, in what apparently dangerous household fixture did all these deaths take place? Answer: The _bathtub_ 11. At the beginning of his career, drama was so stagnant in his homeland that his first work, _Catiline_, was the first new play written in his native language in seven years. Although a resounding critical and financial failure, it did earn him a job as stage manager at the National Theater in Bergen, and he was shortly thereafter commissioned to write a cycle of historical plays, which came to include _Lady Inger of Ostrat_, _The Vikings of Helgoland_, and _The Pretenders_. FTP, name this Norweigan who became an international celebrity with _Peer Gynt_. Answer: Henrik _Ibsen_ 12. The list includes: Colonel Waightsill Avery in 1788; Tennessee Governor John Sevier, twice, in 1803; Senator Thomas Hart Benton, who gave him a bullet in the shoulder, in 1813; and Charles Dickinson, whose 1806 death became an political issue in 1824. FTP, these are among the celebrities who fought duels with what frontiersman, soldier, and seventh President of the United States? Answer: Andrew _Jackson_ 13. A dark spot that looks like the word "Yaweh" written in Hebrew. A mountain that looks like the Sphinx. A volcano which looks like the face of Ted Kennedy. And, according to the Weekly World News, a colossal statue of Elvis Presley. These are, FTP, among the things that have been sighted on the surface of what planet, which was recently explored by the Pathfinder mission? Answer: _Mars_ 14. Although he was a genius of orchestration and the author of a "Treatise on Instrumentation," he is practically unique among major composers in that he could not himself play a single musical instrument. A leader of the romantic school, his works include the "Roman Carnival" overture and the "Damnation of Faust." FTP, name this French composer best known for "Symphonie Fantastique." Answer: Hector _Berlioz_ 15. "A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." "I always keep a stimulant handy in case I see a snake- which I also keep handy." "What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" "Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food & water." FTP, all these lines are attributed to what infrequently-sober film comedian? Answer: W.C. _Fields_ 16. This character makes the famous plea to "beware, my lord, of jealously;/ It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." His tragic flaw is that he is unable to follow his own advice, and destroys both himself and his master out of jealousy when he is passed over for promotion in favor of Michael Cassio. FTP, name this ensign, the villain of Shakespeare's _Othello_. Answer: _Iago_ 17. The first is the only saint among the group. Number twelve was the illegitimate son of number eleven. Number twenty never existed, as somebody apparently lost count in the middle ages, causing nineteen to be followed by twenty-one. On the other hand, there were two number eights and two number twenty-threes, since the first man to hold each of those titles was later declared to be an anti-pope. FTP, give this most common name for popes. Answer: _John_ 18. For decades the champion was French naturalist Georges Cuvier at 1830 grams, until he was dethroned by Ivan Turgenev at 2,017. On the other end of the scale, Walt Whitman weighed in at a measly 1282 grams and Anatole France's at only 1017, while a famous mine- is-bigger-than-yours wager between John Wesley Powell and W.J. McGee was posthumously determined to be a tie. FTP, what is this bodily organ, whose measurement was taken very seriously by nineteenth-century crainiometrists? Answer: The _brain_ 19. His pack-animals are carried off by marauders, his sheep are all killed in a hail-storm, his children die in a collapsing building, and then, in the cruelest blow of all, he is smitten with boils. FTP, name this hard-luck man from the land of Uz, the title character of a book of the Old Testament. Answer: _Job_ 20. At one point in the early 1980s, this Ohio-based company was receiving 15,000 calls a month from concerned customers who had heard rumors that it was a fully-owned subsidiary of the Church of Satan. This eventually forced the company to scrap its 103-year- old logo, which had apparently started the whole thing with its suspicious-looking depiction of thirteen stars and a grinning crescent moon. For ten points, name this Cincinnati-based manufacturer of Ivory Soap and other products. Answer: _Proctor & Gamble_ John's Complete Packets Packet #28 (Easy) Bonus Questions 25 POINT BONUS 1. For five points each, identify the characters who do the following things in Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books. 1. The character who explains all of those hard words from "The Jabberwocky." Answer: _Humpty Dumpty_ 2. The character at whose house the Mad Tea Party is held. Answer: _March Hare_ 3. The character who recites "The Walrus and the Carpenter." Answer: _Tweedledee_ 4. The character who recites "Father William." Answer: _Alice_ 5. The character who is on trial at the end of _Alice in Wonderland_. Answer: _Knave of Hearts_ 25 POINT BONUS 2. For the stated number of points, identify these popular revolts of French history. 1. For ten: led by a coalition of opressed peasants and discontented nobles, this series of uprisings attempted to limit royal authority during the minority of Louis XIV. Answer: The _Fronde_ 2. For fifteen: caused by the economic devastation of the Hundred Years' War, this 1358 uprising was started by a group of unemployed mercenaries. Later, it became the generic term for any French peasant revolt. Answer: The _Jacquerie_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For ten points each, identify the authors of these classics in the field of anthopology. 1. _The Golden Bough_ Answer: James George _Fraser_ 2. _The Mind of Primitive Man_ Answer: Franz _Boas_ 3. _The Chrysanthemum and the Sword_ Answer: Ruth _Benedict_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For the stated number of points, given an often-dropped last name, identify these old master painters by their more familiar first names. 1. 5 pts: Buonarotti Answer: _Michelangelo_ 2. 10 pts: Sanzio Answer: _Raphael_ 3. 5 pts: Van Rijn Answer: _Rembrandt_ 4. 10 pts: Vecellio Answer: _Titian_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For five points each and a five-point bonus for all correct: given an NFL great, name the school at which he played college football. 1. Red Grange Answer: _Illinois_ 2. Sammy Baugh Answer: _Texas Christian_ 3. Joe Namath Answer: _Alabama_ 4. O.J. Simpson Answer: _USC_ 5. Joe Montana Answer: _Notre Dame_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each, idenitfy the Shakespeare plays, given their probable sources. 1. Giraldi Cinthio's "Hecatommithi." Answer: _Othello_ 2. Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia Regnum Britanniae," Holinshed's Chronicle, and Book II of Spenser's "Faerie Queen." Answer: _King Lear_ 3. The "Menaechmi" and "Amphitryo," both by Plautus. Answer: _The Comedy of Errors_ 25 POINT BONUS 7. For five points each, and a five-point bonus for all three, name the Union commanders who were defeated by Robert E. Lee in each of the following battles. 1. Chancellorsville Answer: Joseph _Hooker_ 2. Malvern Hill Answer: George _McClellan_ 3. 2nd Manassas Answer: John _Pope_ 4. Fredericksburg Answer: Ambrose _Burnside_ 5. Cold Harbor Answer: Ulysses _Grant_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. For ten points each, identify these physical constants, given their numerical values and units. 1. 1.054 x 10 to the -34 Joule-seconds Answer: _Plank_'s constant 2. 6.022 x 10 to the 23 parts per mole Answer: _Avagadro's_ constant 3. 96,485.309 coulombs per mole Answer: _Faraday's_ constant 30 POINT BONUS 9. One night, John and Lorena decided to play chess. John, as usually happens, had Lorena rather roughly pinned for most of the game, but finally, with a series of sharp moves Lorena cut off the piece that was forking her and in so doing deprived John of most of his mating material. However, in the course of doing this Lorena was forced to sacrifice everything except for her king. Given the pieces that John was left with in addition to his king, tell whether or not John can put his wife in checkmate, assuming that Lorena plays her endgame perfectly. No points for the first two correct answers, ten points for each correct answer above two. 1. One rook Answer: Yes 2. One pawn Answer: Yes 3. One bishop Answer: _No_ 4. One knight Answer: _No_ 5. Two knights Answer: _No_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Given an old name for a corporation, identify the name under which it currently does business. Ten points each. 1. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey Answer: _Exxon_ 2. U.S. Steel Answer: _USX_ Corp. 3. Tabulating Machine Co. Answer: _IBM_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify the novel, 30-20-10. 1. It ends with the words, "My life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no longer meaningless, as it was before, but it has an unquestionable meaning of the goodness which I have the power to put into it." 2. Its second sentence is, "Everything was in confusion in the Oblonsky household." 3. Its first sentence is, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Answer: _Anna Karenina_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For five points each, identify the following wars from world history, given the names of a few of their battles. 1. Ladysmith, Majuba Hill Answer: _Boer_ War 2. White Mountain, Lutzen, Tuttlingen Answer: _Thirty Years'_ War 3. Queenston Heights, Thames River, Bladensburg Answer: War of _1812_ 4. Yalu River, Dairen, Tsushima Straits Answer: _Russo-Japanese_ War 5. Ramilles, Malplaquet, Blenheim Answer: War of _Spanish Succession_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Consider the following human blood types: A, B, AB, and O. For ten points each: 1. Which of the four types of blood can safely be donated to a person with any of the other blood types? Answer: _O_ 2. A person with which type can accept blood from each of the four groups? Answer: _AB_ 3. Imagine that a person with type AB blood has a child with a person of type O blood. For a final ten points, name all of the potential ABO blood types for the child. Answer: _A_ or _B_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Many Christian saints have particular objects which they are almost always shown holding in paintings-- for example, St. Peter is usually recognizable as the guy with a set of keys. For ten points each, given a saintly accessory and its meaning, name the apostle with which it is associated. 1. Either a cup containing a snake, which refers to an incident in he miraculously escaped being poisoned; or an eagle, the symbol of his Gospel. Answer: _John_ 2. A fishnet, signifying the original career of this apostle, or an x-shaped cross, signifying the method of his death. Answer: _Andrew_ 3. This apostle is typically shown with a knife and a human skin, since legend has it that he met his martyrdom by being flayed alive. Answer: _Bartholemew_ or _Nathaniel_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Given an NFL franchise, identify whether its best-ever postseason performance has ended in a Superbowl win, a Superbowl loss, a conference championship loss, a conference semifinal loss, or a wild card/ first-round loss. Five points each, five more for all correct. 1. St.Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals Answer: _Conf. Semifinal Loss_ 2. New Orleans Saints Answer: _Wild Card Loss_ 3. Philadelphia Eagles Answer: _Superbowl Loss_ 4. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Answer: _Conf. Championship Loss_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Although most novels about the American south are set in a fairly easily-identifiable state, many authors either gave the state a fictional name or avoided mentioning the name of the state entirely. For five points each part, given a novel by a southern writer, identify both the real state in which it is apparently set, and the name of the state as it appears in the novel (which may be the state's real name, or no name at all). 1. _To Kill A Mockingbird_ Answer: _Alabama_, _Alabama_ 2. _All The King's Men_ Answer: _Louisiana_, not mentioned 3. _Look Homeward, Angel_ Answer: _North Carolina_, _Catawba_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Given an important event from world history, identify the year in which it occurred. You will receive ten points for getting the year exactly right, five points if you are within five years. 1. The Greeks defeat the invading Persians at Salamis and Plataea. Answer: 480 B.C. 2. Romulus Augustulus, the last western Roman Emperor, is deposed. Answer: A.D. 476 3. Charlemagne is crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III. Answer: A.D. 800 30 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, identify these parts of the cell. 1. Numbering 300 to 600 per cell, these self-replicating energy converters may have evolved from what were originally separate organisms. Answer: _Mitochondria_ 2. This compartment, which comes in rough and smooth versions, produces the cell's membranes, lipids, and secretory proteins. Answer: _Endoplasmic reticulum_ 3. The cell's shipping agent, it adds enzymes to all proteins passing in and out of the cell and directs them to their final destinations. Answer: _Golgi complex_ 25 POINT BONUS 19. Write down the following 20th century architectural styles: Prairie, Art Deco, International, Expressionist, Postmodernist, Chicago School, and Brutalist. Now, for five points each, given a building, identify which of these styles it best represents. 1. The Einstein Tower, Potsdam Answer: _Expressionist_ 2. Robie House, Chicago Answer: _Prairie_ 3. Monadock Building, Chicago Answer: _Chicago_ 4. AT&T Building, New York Answer: _Postmodernist_ 5. The Dessau Bauhaus Answer: _International_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Director Martin Scorsese has often relied on the talents of the actors Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Joe Pesci. For ten points each, given a Scorsese film, identify which (if any) of these three actors were featured in it. (Each part is all-or- nothing). 1. "Taxi Driver" Answer: DeNiro and Keitel 2. "Raging Bull" Answer: DeNiro and Pesci 3. "The Last Temptation of Christ" Answer: Keitel  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="29"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="29" John's Complete Packets Packet #29 (Hard) ( Toss-Ups Only) (UNBALANCED) 1. This army barber is physically tortured by his Doctor, who performs medical experiments on him, and is mentally tortured by his sadistic Captain. When his common-law wife Marie has an affair with a drum major, he goes insane, cuts her throat, and then drowns himself as the Captain and Doctor look on. FTP, name this title character of a play by Georg Buchner and an opera by Alban Berg. Answer: _Woyzeck_ or _Wozzeck_ 2. Led by the brothers Andreies and Marthinius Pretorius, it began in 1835 when a few hundred families left British territory and crossed the Orange river with all their possessions and cattle. >From there they split into three groups, with some remaining in place, some crossing to the other side of the Vaal river, and some invading Zulu territory to the east. FTP, give the name for this large northward migration of South Africa's Boers. Answer: The _Great Trek_ 3. Born in Budapest as Andre Freidmann, he invented his pseudonym as part of a youthful attempt to pass himself off as a glamorous New York photographer. This apparently worked, since many people even today assume that he was an American. FTP, name this great war photojournalist of Life magazine, best known for risking his life to capture the Normandy landings on film. Answer: Robert _Capa_ 4. He began his acting career as the estranged husband of Katherine Hepburn in the original Broadway run of "The Philadelphia Story," and ended it with a small role in the 1981 megaflop "Heaven's Gate." In between, he starred in films such as "Gaslight," "Shadow of a Doubt," and "The Third Man," but is best remembered for his roles in several Orson Welles films, most notably "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Citizen Kane." FTP, name this Mercury Theatre alumnus. Answer: Joseph _Cotten_ 5. The son-in-law of satirist Thomas Love Peacock, his ambition was to be taken seriously as a poet, and for a while it looked like this might happen, following the publication of _Modern Love_, a series of poems he had written after his wife left him. But none of his later collections had much success, and today he is, like Peacock, remembered entirely as a satirist. FTP, name this author of _The Shaving of Shagpat_, _The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_, and _The Egoist_. Answer: George _Meredith_ 6. Wedged between the Malian Gulf and Mount Callidromis, this strategic pass was the site of several important ancient battles, including a decisive 191 B.C. victory of the Achaeans over the Seleucids and a 279 B.C. victory of the Celts over Thebes. It is best known, however, for an earlier battle in which 300 Spartans made a suicidal last stand against nearly 100,000 Persians. FTP, name this site of a major battle fought in 480 B.C. Answer: _Thermopylae_ 7. The first half of it was written about 1150 B.C. by Wen Wang, and is a handbook of fortune-telling for court magicians. We know nothing about the author of the more philosophical supplement, except that he lived about eight hundred later and was not Confucius, as was once widely believed. FTP, identify this most famous of China's Five Classics. Answer: _I Ching_ or _Book of Changes_ 8. He could count to 25, draw the letter "x" with a pencil held between his teeth, and was even housebroken. When he died, his most famous co-star was so saddened that he had him stuffed, mounted, and placed in a museum in Victorville, California. He can still be found there today, along with the similarly-preserved remains of his animal co-stars Buttermilk and Bullet, as well as lots of memorabilia from the career of the Hollywood cowboy who owned him. For ten points, name this horse, who is today arguably the most famous attraction in the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans museum. Answer: _Trigger_ 9. Like Dostoyevsky, this editor of the journal _Sovremennik_ was sentenced to death for anti-government activity, marched out before a firing squad for a mock execution, and at the last moment had his sentence commuted to exile in Siberia. Unlike Dostoyevsky, he was never allowed to return, and never again wrote anything of significance. FTP, name this Russian political thinker and literary critic, whose only novel was the enormously influential _What is to Be Done?_. Answer: Nikolai _Chernyshevsky_ 10. For the first time since the New Deal, the federal government was ruled to have exceeded its constitutional authority, and for the first time since the Civil War, the Supreme Court insisted on a strict and narrow interpretation of the Commerce Clause-- an idea which seems to cast some theoretical doubt on most twentieth- century federal regulation. FTP, name this Supreme Court case of 1995, which involved a congressional ban on guns near schools. Answer: United States v. _Lopez_ 11. Also known as Damastes, according to different legends he was either a giant, a bandit, or a king who preyed on travellers on the road from Athens to Megara. Having decided that everybody in the world should be of the same height, he would stretch his shorter prisoners on a rack and chop off the ankles of his taller prisoners, and many unfortunate travellers were tortured in this way until he was finally killed by Theseus. FTP, name this villian of Greek mythology, who would measure his victims on a notorious bed. Answer: _Procrustes_ 12. According to one count, he has logged more hours on television than any other individual, at over 10,000 hours. Much of these hours were logged in the 1960s, when hosted the game show "Concentration," played the sidekick for Jack Paar on the "Tonight show," and anchored NBC's "Today" show. In the 1970s, he emerged from semi-retirement to co-host "Not Just for Women Only" with Barbara Walters, as well several PBS "Live from the Lincoln Center" telecasts. FTP, name this television personality, who currently is a co-host with Walters of "20/20." Answer: Hugh _Downs_ 13. The son of one of Russia's greatest historians, he was stripped of his acadmic post in 1881 after pleading for clemency for Alexander II's assassins, forcing him to turn to literature to support himself. His work includes one stage comedy, _The White Lily_, and much poetry, including "The Road to Upsala" and "In Memory of A.A. Fet," but he is most important for his philosophical essays, including _A Short Tale of the Antichrist_, _Lectures on Godmanhood_, _Panmongolism_, and _Three Conversations_. FTP, name this philosopher and poet, the founder of Russian symbolism. Answer: Vladimir _Solovyov_ 14. Loyal to the king during the French Revolution, they were massacred by the people while defending the Louvre on August 10, 1792. According to arrangements, they could not be obliged to serve against the Spanish beyond the Pyrenees, against Germany beyond the Rhine and against Italy beyond the Alps. For ten points identify this military company which dates from 1616 and which today only serves in the Vatican. Answer: The _Swiss Guard_ 15. She has three children: Jezreel, Lo-ruhama, and Lo-ammi, each of whom have insulting names that reflect the fact that they were conceived through her extramarital affairs. Eventually, her husband throws her out, only to buy her back from a brothel years later. FTP, name this loose woman of the Old Testament and wife of the prophet Hosea, who is not to be confused with Jim Nabors. Answer: _Gomer_ 16. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, an English couple, sit in their English living-room and have a conversation that consists entirely of non- sequiturs. They are joined by Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who do not recognize each other at first, and finally by the Fire Chief, who recites to them the most boring story ever told. Then, the play repeats itself from the beginning, with the Martins speaking the lines of the Smiths and vice-versa. FTP, name this Theatre of the Absurd classic, the first play by Eugene Ionesco. Answer: _The Bald Soprano_ or _La Cantatrice Chauve_ 17. In 1797, while captain of the H.M.S. Director, his crew muntinied at Nore, England, and he was forcibly put ashore. In 1808, while governor of New South Wales, his anti-alcohol policies led to the great Rum Rebellion, and his former subjects threw him into prison. He is today remembered, however, not as the victim of these uprisings, but as the object of a much more famous mutiny in 1789, which led to his drifting over three thousand miles in an open boat to safety. FTP, name this ill-fated captian of the Bounty. Answer: William _Bligh_ 18. His three major works are "Speech and Phenomena," "Of Grammatology," and "Writing and Difference," and according to Michel Foucault, he "gives bullshit a bad name." His teaching rejects the idea of a `presence' in literature in which authority resides, arguing instead that the signicance of language can never be fully present, since meaning is constantly deferred. For ten points, name this French literary critic and philosopher, the central figure of deconstructionism. Answer: Jacques _Derrida_ 19. His life's ambition is to find the world's most perfect albino pigeon, but he heroically agrees to put this project aside for a while when Snowflake, the 500-poud mascot of the Miami Dolphins, is kidnapped. With his hair swept into a precarious leaning tower and his eyes usually as wide as saucers, he has been compared by at least one film critic to Desi Arnaz imitating Don Knotts on speed. FTP, name this cinematic title character portrayed by Jim Carey. Answer: Ace _Ventura_, Pet Detective 20. He was the author of a play, _The Tragedy of Nan_, several novels, including _Odtaa_ and _Sard Harker_, as well as _Midnight Folk_, which is considered a classic of the children's genre. He is most important, however, for his poems, including "Reynard the Fox," "The Widow in Bye Street," and "Wanderings" much of which was inspired by his childhood as a deckhand on a merchant ship. FTP, name this author of "The Everlasting Mercy" and Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967. Answer: John _Masefield_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="30"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="30" John's Complete Packets Packet #30 (Hard) Toss-Ups 1. In Greek, this word literally means "on the threshhold of the bridal chamber," and in Roman literature, it was the name of a poetic genre whose greatest practitioner was Catullus. In English literature, it is better known as the title of a single poem, written to celebrate the author's 1594 marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. FTP, name this work by Edmund Spenser. Answer: _Epithalamion_ 2. His last residence was an abandoned Cadillac near Aberdeen, Maryland, and towards the end of his life he is said to have become increasingly obsessed with the idea of suicide and with Matthias Rust, the German teenager who flew a single-engine plane into Red Square in 1986. FTP, name this pilot who was killed crashing a stolen Cessna into the South Portico of the White House on September 11, 1994. Answer: Frank _Corder_ 3. Caused by an anaerobic bacterium of the order Clostridium, it can result when non-acidic or slightly acidic foods such as corn, fish, or meat are improperly canned or bottled. Its effects usually set in within 24 hours of when the food is consumed, and can include muscular weakness, rapid pulse, subormal body temperature, and respiratory failure. Of all its varities, probably the most dangerous is type E, which can exist in temperatures as low as -5 degress Celsius. FTP, name this rare but highly fatal form of food poisoning. Answer: _botulism_ 4. According to legend, he was a 17th-century owner of a rent-a- horse business, whose stable contained both fast and not-so-fast horses. When allowed to pick, his customers always took the fast ones, and for some reason, this greatly bothered him. So he instituted a new system of assigning horses, under which each customer would have exactly two choices: he could take the horse nearest the wall, or he could take no horse at all. FTP, name this man who thus lent his name to a type of choice that is not really a choice at all. Answer: Thomas _Hobson_ 5. He made his reputation on stage with the 1961 production of Harold's Pinter's "The Caretaker," and in film with his role as a blind P.O.W. in "The Great Escape." In later years, he frequently played movie archvillians, most notably Heinrich Himmler in "The Eagle has Landed" and Blofeld in "You Only Live Twice." FTP, name this actor who died in 1994, perhaps best known for his role in the "Halloween" series. Answer: Donald _Pleasance_ 6. The villain of this work is a moneylending midget named Daniel Quilp, who seizes the title object after its owner defaults on a gambling debt. The old man and his granddaughter then become wandering beggars in the countryside, and by the time a mysterious would-be rescuer catches up with them, the girl is dead and the old man is dying. FTP, name this depressing novel by Charles Dickens, whose main character is the hapless girl Little Nell. Answer: _The Old Curiosity Shop_ 7. This former French colony underwent six coups within its first twelve years of independence, the last of which brought to power the pro-Soviet Lt. Col. Mathieu Kerekou, who renamed the country after a 17th-century regional kingdom. In 1990, Kerekou repudiated communism and was forced to grant free elections-- the first time any west African dictatorship had ever peacefully reverted to democracy. FTP, name this West African nation, formerly known as Dahomey, with a capital at Porto Novo. Answer: _Benin_ 8. This member of genus Pica is a glossy black bird with a white chest, and its tail feathers are often longer than the entire rest of the body. One of the more intelligent birds in existence, it is easily tamed and can be trained to speak, but it is best known for its reputation as an especially clever and bold scavenger with a habit of carrying off small, man-made objects. FTP, name this relative of the crow, whose name is often preceded by the word "thieving," such as in the title of a Rossini opera. Answer: the _magpie_ 9. Designed by Friedrich St. Florian and loosely based on Bernini's Vatican Piazza, it will consist of a pool with two semicircles of 25 columns each, and will be built entirely below ground level. FTP, name this proposed monumnent scheduled for completion by Veterans' Day of the year 2000, which would lie between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. Answer: The _World War II_ Memorial 10. Roughly translated, its name means "bird of a hundred intelligences," which is also the name of one of its special tiles. Although it was mainly used for gambling in its country of origin, it took on a more middle-class respectability in the United States, becoming the top-selling parlor game of the 1920s. FTP, name this Chinese game, which is played with a set of 148 tiles. Answer: _Mah-Jongg_ 11. The only significant novelist ever born north of the Arctic Circle, his minor works include _The Boat of Longing_, which deals with the death of his son. Although he emigrated to the United States in 1895, all of his later works were written in his native language, including his masterpiece, a trilogy whose last two books are _Peder Victorious_ and _Their Father's God_. FTP, name this Norwegian-American novelist, who wrote about life in North Dakota in his _Giants in the Earth_. Answer: Ole _Rolvaag_ 12. Early in his career, he strongly favored foreign trade, and among his closest advisors was Will Adams, an Englishman. But his fears of the Jesuits led him to change his policy, and in 1604 he outlawed Christianity and expelled almost all foreigners. FTP, name this man who began a 200-year policy of isolation for Japan, the first of the Tokogawa shoguns. Answer: _Ieyasu_ Tokogawa 13. Although he discovered the Pterodactyl and many other well- known Mesozoic species, he never accepted the existence of dinosaurs, and to the end of his life he insisted that all dinosaur fossils were of mammalian origin and belonged to some extinct variety of rhinocerous. FTP, name this founder of comparative anatomy, who introduced the level of phylum into the Linnean system of classification and proposed the theory of catastrophism in an attempt to reconcile the fossil record with a literal reading of Genesis. Answer: Georges _Cuvier_ 14. According to a legend of very doubtful accuracy, he was a king of Ephesus who adbdicated in favor of his brother. Apart from this, absolutely nothing is known of this man's life, and very little is known of his writings, since only about a hundred one- sentence quotations from his work survive. Nevertheless, he was regarded by the ancients as a pioneer of philosophy, and he was credited with inventing the theory of flux. FTP, name this presocratic, who wrote that "the roads leading up and down are one and the same" and that "you can never step into the same river twice." Answer: _Heraclitus_ 15. Originally, its three main islands were called New Hanover, New Mecklenburg, and New Pomerania, but after World War I the names were changed to Lavongai, New Ireland, and New Britain. However, the archipelago itself still retains its Germanic name. FTP, name this island group just northwest of the Solomon Islands, which is now a province of Papua New Guinea. Answer: The _Bismarck_ Archipelago 16. The setting is the English Midlands in the early nineteenth century, and the title character is a young man of stern morals, who loves the beautiful but superficial Hetty Sorrel. After Hetty is seduced and abandoned by Arthur Donnithorne, she kills her child, and when she is arrested and convicted of murder, the title character marries Dinah Morris, a young preacher. FTP, name this novel about a blacksmith, written by George Eliot. Answer: _Adam Bede_ 17. The Supreme Court gutted this act in its controversial _Duplex Printing_ decision, where it held that secondary boycotts by labor unions were illegal, in spite of the fact that the statute on its face seemed to legalize such behavior. Named for an Alabama congressman, this law also prohibited price discrimination, interlocking directorates, and intercorporate shareholding for the purpose of eliminating competition. FTP, name this 1914 revision of the Sherman Act, which attempted to exempt labor unions from antitrust regulation. Answer: _Clayton_ Antitrust Act 18. Although there was a brief outbreak of it after World War I, this disease was little known until 1976, when scientists predicted an imminent epidemic. This led the government to spend $40 million in an attempt to inoculate every man, woman, and child in the country, apparently unaware that while the virus itself was harmless, the vaccine could cause paralysis or death. FTP, name this public health fiasco of the Ford administration, a virus that supposedly could be spread from pigs to humans. Answer: _Swine flu_ 19. He could recite the entire Koran from memory by the age of ten, and by the time he was thrity, he was the world's most famous doctor of the Islamic world. A politician as well as a physician, he was once nearly executed in a coup d'etat, but was spared after the new Shah became so ill that his services were required. As a philosopher, he tried to reconcile Greek metaphysics with Islamic theology, and it was through his translations that the lost works of Galen, Hippocrates, and Aristotle first arrived in the West. FTP, name this scientist and philosopher. Answer: _Avicenna_ or _Ibn Sina_ 20. Since it has an average width of six-and-a-half miles, it had convetional wisdom for centuries that it could never be bridged. But in 1889, a team of Scottish engineers managed to do this anyway, by use of what is probably the world's most famous cantilever bridge. FTP, name this inlet of the North Sea near Edinburgh, whose name you probably can't say three times real fast. Answer: The Firth of _Forth_ John's Complete Packets Packet #30 (Hard) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each, identify these very long and boring poems, given their first lines. 1. "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste/ Brought death into the world..." Answer: _Paradise Lost_ 2. "Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske/ As time her taught, in lowly Shepheard's weeds/ And now enforst a far unfitter taske..." Answer: The _Faerie Queen_ 3. "Tis the middle of the night by the castle clock/ And owls have awakened the crowing cock;/ Tu- whit! --- Tu whoo!" Answer: _Christabel_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the 1992 Presidential primaries. 1. The first (and silliest) scandal of the election season came when a live microphone picked up one candidate telling a really lame joke about Jerry Brown and lesbians, and another candidate laughing at the joke with approval. For five points each, name the two candidates. Answer: Bob _Kerrey_ (told the joke), Bill _Clinton_ (thought it was funny). 2. For ten points, name Jerry Brown's campaign manager, a bald, tattoo-coverd, beret-wearing Frenchman who made even his boss look normal by comparison. Answer: Jacques _Barzaghi_ 3. For five points each, name the first Democratic candidate to officially enter the race, and name the first declared candidate to drop out. Answer: Paul _Tsongas_; Douglas _Wilder_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. Name the person, 30-20-10. 1. When he died in 1978, he left behind eighty still-undeciphered notebooks written in a medieval German shorthand, which are believed to be a treatise on demonology. 2. In 1938, he proved that the Cantor Continuum Hypothesis was consistent with the axioms of set theory, and after emigrating to the USA in 1948, he devised several cosmological theories of the universe. 3. This Austrian logician is best-known for his doctoral dissertation, "On Formally Undecideable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." Answer: Kurt _Godel_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Identify the opera, 30-20-10. 1. Set around 1880, the entire action of the opera takes place within a few hours on the morning of Easter Sunday. Characters include Lucia, Lola, and Santuzza. 2. This one-act opera is most famous for the symphonic intermezzo which precedes the last scene. An excerpt of this was used for the slow-motion fight sequences in Martin Scorcese's film _Raging Bull_. 3. This 1890 verisimo opera was the one hit of one-hit wonder Pietro Mascagni. Answer: _Cavalleria Rusticana_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For the stated number of points, identify these world chess champions. 1. 5 pts: now a French citizen, this formerly Soviet grandmaster is most famous for losing his championship to Bobby Fischer in 1972. Answer: Boris _Spassky_ 2. 10 pts: This German-born American citizen is generally recognized as the first world chess champion. He is also famous for claiming that he regularly played chess against God, and that he had a winning record against the Almighty. Answer: Wilhelm _Steinitz_ 3. 15 pts: easily the most obscure world champion ever, this still- active Russian won the championship from his training partner Mikhail Botvinnik in 1957, but lost it back in the rematch several months later. Answer: Vassily _Smyslov_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each, identify these famous people who died in interesting ways. 1. In 1925, after he ran out of ink in his hotel room, this Russian imagist poet slit his wrists and wrote a last poem in his own blood before dying. Answer: Sergei _Yesenin_ 2. This Greek dramatist was relaxing on the beach of Sicily in 456 B.C. when a seagull, mistaking his bald head for a rock, dropped an oyster onto in. The oyster survived intact, the playwright's skull did not. Answer: _Aeschylus_ 3. The richest man in Europe at the time of his death, this Belgian was flying over the English Channel in 1928 when he mistook the cabin door for the lavatory door, opened it, and was sucked out of the plane. Answer: Alfred _Lowenstein_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For fifteen points each, name these proteges of Mao Zedong who came to unpleasant ends. 1. Mao's original heir-apparent, he took over as Chairman in 1959 after the failure of the Great Leap Forward. Later, he became the principal target of the Cultural Revolution, and was purged in 1968. Answer: _Liu Shaoqi_ 2. As Minister of Defense, he helped Mao destroy Liu Shaoqi and was made heir-apparent in 1969. His death less than two years later is still a mystery, although it now appears that he lost a power struggle and was attempting to flee to the USSR when his plane was shot down. Answer: _Lin Biao_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. What the Bach family was to eighteenth-century music, the Bernouilli family was to eighteenth-century mathematics. For ten points each, identify the Bernouillis responsible for the following: 1. Introduced the idea of "Bernoulli Numbers." Answer: _Jacob_ (Jacques) 2. Discovered the Bernoulli Principle of hydrodynamics. Answer: _Daniel_ 3. Discovered exponential calculus; with L'Hopital, wrote the first calculus textbook. Answer: _Johann_ (Jean) 25 POINT BONUS 9. For five points each, given an obscure figure from Greek mythology, name his much-more-famous father. 1. Astyanax Answer: _Hector_ 2. Hyllus Answer: _Heracles_ 3. Eteocles Answer: _Oedipus_ 4. Neoptolemus Answer: _Achilles_ 5. Demophon Answer: _Theseus_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For five points each, name the actors who provide the voices for the following minor characters on "The Simpsons." 1. Mr. Burns and Smithers Answer: Harry _Shearer_ 2. Patty and Selma Answer: Julie _Kavner_ 3. Krusty the Clown and Moe Answer: Dan _Castellena_ 4. Mrs. Krabopple Answer: Marcia _Wallace_ 5. Police Chief Wiggums and Apu Answer: Hank _Azaria_ 6. Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz Answer: Phil _Hartman_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify the dead person from his works, 30-20-10-5. 1. The operetta "The Blooms of Dublin," the symphony "Dead March," and the chamber work "The Brides of Enderby." 2. The quasimusical novels "M/F" and "Napoleon Symphony." 3. The non-quasimusical works "Honey for the Bears," "Enderby Outside," "Any Old Iron," and "A Dead Man in Deptford." 4. The novel "A Clockwork Orange." Answer: Anthony _Burgess_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. In eighteenth century Europe, nothing could start a multi- national war like a royal succession controversy. In most of these wars, the initial dispute over who would inherit the throne was quickly submerged by deeper territorial fights, and it is often difficult to remember who won on the issue that started the war in the first place. So, for five points each part, given a war of succession, name the monarch and the dynasty that ended up with the throne after all the fighting was over. 1. The War of Spanish Succession Answer: _Philip V_, _Bourbon_ 2. The War of Bavarian Succession Answer: _Charles Theodore_ I, _Wittelsbach_ 3. The War of Austrian Succession Answer: _Maria Theresa_, _Hapsburg_ (accept also: _Francis I_, _Hapsburg-Lorraine_) 30 POINT BONUS 13. For fifteen points each, name these women of astronomy. 1. Her work on Cepheid variables in the early 1900s led to her discovery of the "standard candle" method of calculating a Cepheid's distance from its period of variation. This in turn made possible the first accurate measurements of the distance to other galaxies. Answer: Henrietta _Leavitt_ 2. As an assistant to her more famous brother, she spent every night from 1766 until 1822 recording the position of stars. In 1787, George III awarded her an annual stipend, making her the western world's first professional female astronomer. Answer: _Caroline Herschel_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For ten points each, identify these branches of Buddhism. 1. Meaning "little vehicle," it is the oldest and most conservative of the Buddhist sects, and is practiced mostly in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. Answer: _Hinayana_ or _Theravada 2. Meaning "great vehicle," it is the principal form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, China, and Japan. Answer: _Mahayana_ 2. This subspecies of Mahayana is the dominant branch of Buddhism in Japan, and is the foundation for such cultural practices as the tea ceremony and No drama. Answer: _Zen_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. During a two-week period in 1993, NBC, ABC, and CBS each ran a different made-for-TV movie about the most significant news story of our generation, the Amy Fischer case. However, don't worry if you can't remember the names of the actresses who played Amy in each of these movies. Instead, for ten points each, give the full titles of these three dramatizations. Answer: _"The Amy Fischer Story"_ (ABC); _"Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story"_ (CBS); _"Amy Fischer: My Story"_ (NBC) 30 POINT BONUS 16. For ten points each, identify the following Scandanavian winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1. Now 93, this author of "Christianity at the Glacier" is currently the oldest living winner of the prize. Answer: Halldor _Laxness_ 2. In 1918, this Norweigian poet became the first person ever to decline the prize, claiming that his work was not well-enough known outside his native country. In 1931, he became the first person to be awarded the prize posthumously. Answer: Erik Axel _Karlfeldt_ 3. This author of "The Wondrous Adventures of Nils" was the first female winner. Answer: Selma _Lagerlof_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For ten points each, given a despotic Italian renaissance family, name the primary city over which they ruled. 1. Visconti Answer: _Milan_ 2. Gonzaga Answer: _Mantua_ 3. Este Answer: _Ferrara_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For five points each: given a winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, identify the university with which they were associated at the time of the award. 1. Paul Samuelson, 1970 Answer: _MIT_ 2. Simon Kuznets, 1971 Answer: _Harvard_ 3. Milton Friedman, 1976 Answer: _Chicago_ 4. Herbert Simon, 1978 Answer: _Carnegie-Mellon_ 5. Franco Modigliani, 1985 Answer: _Yale_ 6. Gary Becker, 1992 Answer: _Chicago_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For fifteen points each, identify these compositions by John Cage. 1. A musician sits at a piano with a stopwatch, but does not play. After the time interval specified in title of the piece, she gets up and leaves. Answer: _4:33_ 2. In this 1951 work, twenty-four musicians stand on a stage with twenty-four radios, which are tuned to random stations. The musicians "play" this piece by adjusting the volume controls. Answer: _Imaginary Landscape No. 4_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For five points each, fill in the blanks to complete these Deep Thoughts (per Jack Handey). Note that some of the blanks may contain more than one word. 1. "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to _______." Answer: laugh at that man 2. "Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a ________, just eating and trampling everything they see." Answer: shark riding on an elephant 3. "The face of a child can say it all, especially the __________." Answer: mouth part of the face 4. "It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as __________." Answer: wild dogs 5. "I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of _______." Answer: Popeye 6. "A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to ___________." Answer: get down in the dirt and beg for it  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="31"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="31" John's Complete Packets Packet #31 (Hard) (With contributions by various Chicago people) Toss-Ups 1. The first person to play Shylock as a tragic rather than buffoonish villain, his performaces were compared by Coleridge to "Shakespeare by flashes of lighting." FTP, name this man who dominated the London stage in the early 19th century, and who is still often considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of all time. Answer: Edmund _Kean_ 2. During his first months in office, he raised a million dollars for charity by shaving off his mustache, honored Lorena Bobbitt with a state banquet, and recorded a pop album called "El Loco Sings Songs of Love." But he also apparently stole quite a bit of money, and in February 1997, his legislature voted to impeach him on the grounds of mental incapacity, setting off a short-lived constitutional crisis. FTP, name this recently-ousted president of Ecuador. Answer: Abdala _Bucaram_ 3. Proposed by Bondi, Gold, and Hoyle, it explained the apparent expansion of galaxies with the idea that new matter is continuously being created at all points in the universe. It has lost a good deal of its popularity over the last thirty years, however, in large part because it cannot account for the existence of cosmic background radiation. FTP, name this cosmological rival of the Big Bang theory, which states that the universe has no beginning and no ending. Answer: _Steady-State_ 4. As professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory, his pupils included Ravel and Nadia Boulanger, and later, as director, he was responsible for broadening the Conservatory's curriculum to include both modern and medieval music. Much of his own work bears a strong medieval influence, particularly _La Bonne Chanson_, a song-cycle based on Verlaine's poetry, which introduced ancient church modes to modern music. FTP, name this composer of the opera _Penelope_, whose most famous work is a _Requiem_. Answer: Gabriel _Faure_ 5. An independent nation from 1799 to 1861 and again from 1878 to 1918, it was governed for over 200 years by the Petrovich-Njegosh dynasty, and for most of the 19th century, it was Russia's most dependable ally in the Balkans against Austria and Turkey. FTP, name this former principality which is bordered by Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, and the Adriatic Sea, which is now the smaller of Yugoslavia's two remaining republics. Answer: _Montenegro_ 6. It is the only surviving Greek tragedy which is based on history rather than mythology, and the only Greek tragedy in which none of the characters are Greek. Its central character is the dowager queen Atossa, who sits in her palace and receives progressively worse and worse news about her son's army. Other characters include the ghost of King Darius and Xerxes, whose returns home from his ill-fated expedition at the play's end. FTP, name this play by Aeschylus. Answer: _The Persians_ 7. Entirely uninhabited when discovered in 1456, its present-day inhabitants are of a mixed Portuguese-West African stock. Although it was administratively united with Portuguese Guinea until 1879 and although its official national hero is the Guinea-Bissauan revolutionary Amilcar Cabral, since independence it has rebuffed both military and political attempts by its mainland neighbor towards annexation. FTP, name this archipelago nation off the coast of Africa, with a capital at Praia. Answer: _Cape Verde_ 8. He was still a few months shy of earning his Ph.D. when he made his first major contribution to science, a paper on the molecular structure of organic compounds, and although his work was bitterly attacked by his professors Helmholtz and Kolbe, it was not surpassed until the work of Pauling and others a half century later. Considered the founder of stereochemistry, in later life he did valuable but less original work on thermodynamics and osmotic conductivity. FTP, name this Dutch scientist, who in 1901 became the first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Answer: Jacob _Van't Hoff_ 9. Three elderly men-- Megillus the Spartan, Clinias the Cretan, and an unnamed Athenian-- meet and begin talking about good and bad systems of government. The conversation quickly becomes dominated by the Athenian, who begins describing not an ideal state, but the best possible government that can exist in a world of imperfect men. FTP, name this longest and last dialogue of Plato, the only one in which Socrates never appears. Answer: The _Laws_ 10. Years before Quiz Bowl was even invented, he came up with the basic concept of the "connections" bonus when he took a Rachmaninoff quartet, mixed it with the melody from a Jerome Kern song, and called the result "All the Things You C-sharp." FTP, name this influential jazz composer and legendary bass player best known for "Epitath." Answer: Charles _Mingus_ 11. Derwent is an Emersonian optimist, Mortmain and Ungar are pessimists, Margoth is a materialist, Nehemiah is a mystic, and Vine is an aesthete modeled on the author's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. The title character is a wavering young theological student who leaves the woman he loves to visit Jerusalem with the above-mentioned characters; when he returns, she is dead. FTP, name this long poem by Herman Melville, subtitled "A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land." Answer: _Clarel_ 12. The first was an agreement that settled problems between Britain, Portugal, Spain, and France at the end of the Seven Years War. The second ended an abortive 1785 war between Holland and the Austrian Netherlands. The third and most notorious was a secret pact between Napoleon and Spain for the partition of Portugal which was signed shortly before Napoleon himself invaded Spain. FTP, give the common name of these treaties, named for a famous French castle. Answer: Treaties of _Fontainebleau_ 13. A refugee from Nazi Germany, during World War II he approached the O.S.S. and volunteered to assassinate his former colleague Werner Heisenberg, though his offer was eventually rejected. A member of the Manhattan Project, his most important work was his 1938 explanation of how stars get their energy, and his 1948 paper, co-authored with Alpher and Gamow, on the origin of the elements of the universe. FTP, name this winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in physics. Answer: Hans _Bethe_ 14. A freed slave who had once belonged to Nero's freedman Epaphroditus, his teachings depicted the universe as the orderly and rational work of a benevolent god, and he advised his followers to conform to the world around them and obey unquestionably their rulers. Of his many pupils, the most famous were the historian Arrian, who transcribed and published the eight books of his _Discourses_, and the future emperor Marcus Aurelius, whose _Meditations_ borrow many of his mentor's ideas. FTP, name this last great stoic philosopher. Answer: _Epictetus_ 15. "Greetings my friends. We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable- that is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence based on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incident, the places- my friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty and reward the innocent, my friends. Can your hearts stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?" FTP, this speech begins what 1959 science-fiction movie by Edward D. Wood, often ranked as the worst movie ever made? Answer: _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ 16. He was only twelve when he wrote the poems that would make him famous, and he was only seventeen when he killed himself, frustrated over his failure to get recognition for the poems he wrote under his own name. Even after his death, there was controversy over whether he had actually written works like _Bristowe Tragedie_ and _An Excelente Balade of Charitie_, or whether they had actually been written by a fifteenth-century monk, as he had claimed. FTP, name this teenage poet and forger, the real author of the _Rowley Poems_. Answer: Thomas _Chatterton_ 17. According to Suetonius, when this man became emperor, he celebrated with the most expensive dinner in Roman history, featuring such delicacies as pike livers, flamingo tongues, lamprey milk, and peacock brains. The commander of the powerful Rhine legions at the time of Nero's death, he had captured Rome without much difficulty, but within a few months he himself was defeated and killed by Vespasian. FTP, name this third of the four Emperors of A.D. 69. Answer: _Vitellius_ 18. As an assistant to Koch, he was one of the many laboratory researchers who experimentally confirmed the immunological theories of Behring. His own accomplishments include the invention of vaccines against cholera, typhoid, and tetanus, but his is most famous for his 1906 application of a principle discovered by Bordet towards the detection of a microorganism that had been isolated the year before by Schaudinn. FTP, name this man who lent his name to the most commonly-used test for syphilis. Answer: August von _Wasserman_ 19. He was condemned as a heretic by the church in 1377 and again 1380, but so his popularity was so great that no action was taken against him and he was able to die peaceably in 1384. In 1401, however, he was again declared a heretic, and this time his books were burned, his grave was dug up, and his corpse was ceremonially thrown into the Thames, although it took many years before his followers, the Lollards, were fully suppressed. FTP, name this church reformer and teacher of Jan Hus, the first translator of the Bible into English. Answer: John _Wyclif_ 20. Born Estella Thompson, she was last seen as a litigant on "Judge Judy," where she successfully defended a suit brought by her former pimp over the division of the profits from her brief moment of fame in 1995. In that year, she had found work as a spokesperson for a lingerie company, tabloid columnist, and author, in spite of the fact that she spent about half the year in prison. FTP, name this Hollywood prostitute made famous by Hugh Grant. Answer: Divine _Brown_ John's Complete Packets Packet #31 (Hard) (With contibutions from various Chicago people) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. Identify the work of literature, 30-20-10. 1. The entire work was lost for some 1200 years, until fragments of its text were discovered near Trogir, Serbia in 1652. Although it was originally 24 books in length, today only one intact book and two long fragments survive. 2. Its plot revolves around the adventures of an impotent debauchee named Encolpius, who is constantly persecuted by Priapus, the god of sex. 3. The most famous surviving section of this Petronius work tells of a dinner party hosted by the rich and vulgar ex-slave Trimalchio. Answer: The _Satyricon_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For ten points each, identify these battles from the short but spectacular career of Horatio Nelson. Hint: none of these are Trafalgar. 1. One of Nelson's few defeats, it was during this amphibious assault that he lost his right arm in 1797. Answer: _Santa Cruz_ or _Tenerife_ 2. When his commanding officer gave the signal to break off action in this 1801 battle, Nelson raised the spyglass to his blind eye in order to avoid seeing the idiotic command. He went on to annihilate the Danish fleet in what was probably the second- greatest victory of his career. Answer: _Copenhagen_ 3. Nelson pursued the French navy all the way to Egypt, where a good portion of it was destroyed in this battle of August 1797. He was able to attack with complete surprise, in part because the French adminral believed that no one would dare attempt an inland attack during low tide. Answer: _Aboukir_ Bay or Battle of the _Nile_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. For ten points each: given a geologic or evolutionary development, identify the epoch of the Cenezoic era in which it occurred. 1. An isthmus develops between North America and South America; the first manlike apes appear. Answer: _Pleiocene_ 2. Arabia splits from Africa; the first modern horses, pigs, and dogs appear. Answer: _Oligocene_ 3. Glacial drift reaches its peak; the horse and camel disappear from North America; Cro-Magnon man appears. Answer: _Pleistocene_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For ten points each, identify these Biblical people whose names begin with "Z". 1. This Galilean fisherman was the father of the apostles James and John. Answer: _Zebedee_ 2. This slave-girl bore Jacob two sons, Asher and Gad. Answer: _Zilpah_ 3. This minor prophet of the sixth century wrote the second-to-last book of the Old Testament. Answer: _Zechariah_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. Using a statistic known as Total Pitcher Index, or TPI, Total Baseball has compiled a ranking of baseball's all-time worst career pitchers. For ten points each, identify these players who appear on this dubious list. 1. Ranked as the second-worst pitcher of all time, he is most famous for swapping wives with teammate Fritz Peterson in 1972. Answer: Mike _Kekich_ 2. Number nine on the list, this ex-Padre and Yankee is the most recent pitcher to throw a no-hitter and lose. Answer: Andy _Hawkins_ 3. Ranked number six, he gave up both Ted Williams' last home run and Roger Maris' record-tying 60th. Answer: Jack _Fisher_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Given a line of nineteenth-century English poetry, identify both the poet and the title of the poem, for five points each part. 1. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to decieve." Answer: Walter _Scott_, _"Marmion"_ 2. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Answer: John _Keats_, _"Endymion"_ 3. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp/ Or what's a heaven for?" Answer: Robert _Browning_, _"Andrea Del Sarto"_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For ten points each, answer the following questions about those fun-loving barbarians, the Bulgars. 1. Name the first great Bulgar leader, who invaded the Byzantine Empire in 811 and turned the Emperor's head into a drinking-cup. Answer: _Krum_ 2. Another Byzantine empreror earned himself the official royal nickname of "Bulgar Killer." Name this tenth- and eleventh-century monarch, who is most famous for having the entire Bulgar army blinded, save for one prisoner who had just one eye put out and was ordered to lead everybody else back to their king. Answer: _Basil II_ 3. The Bulgars had two capitals during the middle ages. The first was on the banks of the Danube, and was later so thorougly destroyed by the Russians that today nobody is quite sure where it stood. The second is in presentday Macedonia, and shares its name with a lake on the Albanian border. Name either of these cities. Answer: _Preslav_ or _Ohrid_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Identify the physicist, 30-20-10. 1. Along with William Ramsay, he discovered the element Argon, and for this, he and Ramsay earned the 1904 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. 2. A formula of his, named for him and Jeans, describes the distribution of longer-wavelength blackbody radiation. 3. In 1871, he explained that the blue sky was caused by dust particles scattering photons, and he determined the dependance of scattering on wavelength. Answer: Lord _Rayleigh_ or John William _Struit_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Identify the social philosopher: thirty points if you can get him from one quote, twenty if you need a second quote, and ten if you need the title of the work from which both quotes are taken. 1. "The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel, and act in a complete moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other." 2. "The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." 3. The title of the work is "Industrial Society and its Future." Answer: _Unabomber_ or Theodore _Kaczynski_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For five points each, fill in the blanks with integers to complete the titles of "Schoolhouse Rock" tunes. 1. "My Hero, [BLANK]" Answer: _Zero_ 2. "[BLANK] is a Magic Number" Answer: _Three_ 3. "Naughty Number [BLANK]" Answer: _Nine_ 4. "Lucky [BLANK] Sampson" Answer: _Seven_ 5. "The Good [BLANK]" Answer: _Eleven_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. Identify the writer, 30-20-10. 1.When the government of his country changed hands in 1946, one of its first acts was to give him a "promotion" from Director of the National Library to a post as a provincial chicken-inspector, a job that he was too blind to perform. 2. The descendant of a British settler named Burgess, his first language (and the language of his earliest writings) was English. He is better known, however, for such Spanish writings as "The Aleph" and "Dreamtigers." 3. This author of "In Praise of Darkness" and "The Conspirators" was the first Argentine writer to gain an international literary reputation. Answer: Jorge Luis _Borges_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For ten points each, identify these members of Rome's most dysfunctional imperial family, the Severii. 1. This eldest son of Septimus Severus became sole emperor in 214 after ordering the execution of his brother and until-then co-ruler, Geta. Answer: _Caracalla_ 2. This nephew of Caracalla gained the throne in 218 and tried to make a Syrian phallus-cult the official religion of the Empire. In Answer: _Elagabalus_ (Heliogabalus) 3. This cousin of Heliogabalus became emperor in 222 and had a relatively long and stable reign, during which the empire was ruled by his ambitious mother. However, his assassination in 235 set off a half-century of political anarchy. Answer: _Alexander_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. For ten points each, identify the following terms from abstractalgebra: 1. It is a commutative ring with a multiplicative identity and no zero divisors. Answer: _integral domain_ 2. A group in which the operation is commutative. Answer: _abelian_ group 3. An integral domain in which a division algorithm exists. Answer: _euclidean domain_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Identify the opera, 30-20-10. 1. Its opening number, "Brindisi/ Libiamo ne' lieti calici," recently won a poll as the greatest drinking song in operatic history. 2. It is based on the novel "La Dame aux Camelias," the one hit of literary one-hit wonder Alexandre Dumas, fils. 3. This Verdi work features one of opera's most famous female roles, the tubercular courtesan Violetta. Answer: _La Traviata_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. For fifteen points each, identify the following syndicated television shows, given a few lines of their memorable title songs. 1. "Poor little girls, now you're trapped in this cruel, crazy world/ While others make dates, you make license plates/ Now you're in jail." Answer: _Women in Prison_ 2. "She's fantastic, made of plastic, microchips here and there/ ..and brings love and laughter everywhere." Answer: _Small Wonder_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For ten points, each, name the authors of the following literary works. 1. The 1954 novel "A Fable." Answer: William _Faulkner_ 2. The 1848 poem "A Fable for Critics." Answer: _James_ Russell _Lowell_ 3. The 1899 collection of short stories, "Fables in Slang." Answer: George _Ade_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For the stated number of points, identify these battles from the southern campaigns of the American Revolutionary War. 1. 5 pts: fought on January 17, 1781; American cavalry under Morgan annihilates British cavalry under Tarleton. Answer: _Cowpens_ 2. 10 pts: October 7, 1780; American backwoodsmen rout a British detatchment under Ferguson along the North Carolina-South Carolina border. Answer: _King's Mountain_ 3. 5 pts: March 15, 1781; Cornwallis defeats Greene, but is forced to retreat to Wilmington and end his offensive in North Carolina. Answer: _Guilford_ 4. 10 pts: September 8, 1781; Greene is again defeated, but the British, this time under Lord Rawdon, are once again forced to retreat, effectively ending the southern campaign. Answer: _Eutaw_ Springs 30 POINT BONUS 18. Given a large U.S. corporation, name the city or town where its corporate headquarters are located for ten points each. If you can only name the state, you will get five points. 1. Eastman Kodak Answer: _Rochester, NY_ 2. United Airlines Answer: _Elk Grove, IL_ 3. McDonalds Answer: _Oak Brook, IL_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For fifteen points each, name these doctors who became works of art. 1. He is the subject of Rembrandt's earliest masterpiece, a 1632 portrait which shows him dissecting a cadaver's arm. Answer: Dr. _Tulp_ 2. This friend of Van Gogh sat for a portrait in 1889, shortly before the artist shot himself. At a 1989 auction, it set a record by commanding the highest price ever paid for a portrait. Answer: Dr. _Gachet_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For ten points each, identify the major league single-season record holders in each of the following categories: 1. Hits Answer: George _Sisler_ 2. Doubles Answer: Earl _Webb_ 3. Triples Answer: Owen _Wilson_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="32"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="32" John's Complete Packets Packet #32 (Hard) (With contributions by various Chicago people) Toss-Ups 1. He became an alcoholic at the age of eight, became an I.R.A. terrorist shortly afterwards, and was only sixteen when he was arrested while on a sabatoge mission in London. The prison, political terror and drinking of his youth later formed the background for his literary works, which include "The Hostage," "The Scarpener," and "Borstal Boy." FTP, name this Irish writer best known for his prison drama _The Quare Fellow_. Answer: Brendan _Behan_ 2. It began as an association of law students who felt that all social changes since the eighth century were misguided and sinful, and it later became notable for its fierce opposition to all forms of art, music, and luxury. Operating from their base in Dar'iyya, they had conquered most of their region by 1800, and in the early twentieth century they spearheaded the revolt against Ottoman rule. FTP, name this religious and military sect of the Arabian peninsula, whose leaders founded the modern state of Saudi Arabia. Answer: _Wahhabis_ 3. A close personal friend of Thomas Jefferson, he introduced the guano plant to Europe, was the first to envision a canal through Panama, directed the Prussian public school system, and led the first geologic survey of Siberia. His most notable project, which he did not even begin until he was in his seventies, was his _Kosmos_, the world's first encyclopedia of geography. FTP, name this Prussian naturalist and explorer, considered the founder of geophysics and the namesake of an ocean current off the coast of South America. Answer: Friedrich von _Humboldt_ 4. Used in Corelli's violin sonatas, Handel's sonatas for flute and violin, and most of J.S. Bach's cantatas, it consisted of a solo line that was written out in full with a continuo, or a set of chords around which the bass accompaniment was expected to improvise. FTP, name this early form of musical notation. Answer: _Figured Bass_ 5. Set the first 10 letters of the alphabet equal to the numbers one through ten, and the next 16 equal to the multiples of ten up to 160, and then plug in the letters of Napoleon's name and title (in French, of course). Or: set A= 101, B=102, and so on through Z=126, and plug in the letters for "Hitler" or "Blythe" (Bill Clinton's real last name). Or: set the letters of the alphabet equal to their ASCII values, plug in the full name of the founder of Microsoft, and add three (since he is, after all, William Gates III). FTP, in all these cases, what three-digit "number of the beast" will you get? Answer: _666_ 6. Philaminte is a wealthy housewife who dabbles in philosophy, science, and women's rights along with her like-minded relatives Belise and Armande-- much to the dismay of her daughter Henriette, who holds more traditional views about the place of women. But Henriette gets the last laugh, as Philaminte's neglect of her duties leads to the ruin of the entire family. FTP, name this comedy by Moliere. Answer: _The Learned Ladies_ or _Les femmes savantes_ 7. In 1814 he became an American citizen, and lived in Baltimore, Maryland for the last decades of his life. Made a prince of the empire in 1804, in 1806 his brother appointed him king of Naples and Sicily. Two years later, after the deposition of Charles IV, he was placed upon the throne of Spain, which he ruled for five years before being driven out by Wellington. FTP, name this oldest of the brothers Bonaparte. Answer: _Joseph Bonaparte_ 8. Its existence was proposed in 1669 by Johann Becher, who called it by a Latin term meaning "combustible earth." Thought to be especially abundant in charocoal, it combined with ash to form wood, with calx to form metal, and was given off by burning. FTP, name this nonexistent chemical element once thought to be present in all flammable materials, whose existence was finally disproved by Lavoisier. Answer: _Phlogiston_ 9. Children should not be taken to the doctor except for life- threatening injuries, nor should they wear shoes or be sheltered from any discomfort or physical strain. Boys are not to be taught reading until the age of twelve, when they are presented with a copy of "Robinson Crusoe," while girls are to be trained exclusively to be the servants and pleasure-objects of men. FTP, these are among the theories propounded by what 1762 treatise of education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau? Answer: _Emile_ 10. When he finally got out of the sports business in 1923, he had made a 400 percent profit in just six years, in spite of the fact that his team had gone from best to worst in baseball during his tenure. FTP, name this theater mogul whose cash sales of Herb Pennock, Everett Scott, and most famously, Babe Ruth are a big reason why the Red Sox haven't won a world series after 1918. Answer: Harry _Frazee_ 11. He was married to the former Adele Foucher, but the major love of this author's life was probably the actress Julie Drouet, who played the title role in his tragedy _Lucrece Borgia_ and whom he kept as his mistress from 1833 until her death fifty years later. He kept both women on the barest of financial allowances, even after he had become fantastically rich, and when he rented an apartment for Drouet, he made her sign an agreement under which she was was on the condition that she never leave it and that no other person was to be allowed in other than himself. FTP, name this author of _Cromwell_, _Sunbeams and Shadows_, and _Les Miserables_. Answer: Victor _Hugo_ 12. He was the last chairman of the Chinese communist party, serving in the once-powerful office from 1981 until it was abolished in 1982. Known as the most democratic-minded of Deng's ruling elite, it was probably not until his death that he had his greatest impact on Chinese politics. FTP, name this liberal statesman whose death in April 1989 led to a series of memorial marches that eventually grew into the Tiananmen Square uprising. Answer: _Hu Yaobang_ 13. If you are too relaxed as you hear this question, somebody else will beat you to the answer. But if you get too excited, you are likely to ring in early and take an embarassing neg-five. FTP, this is a simple illustration of what psychological law, which claims that every response has an optimal level of stimulation? Answer: _Yerkes-Dodson_ Law 14. The son of King Lot, he starts out as a dishwasher at Camelot. After being promoted to knighthood, he rescues Lyones from Castle Perilous, but is accidentally killed by Lancelot while standing guard over Guenivere. In Thomas Malory's version of the story, this causes his brothers to take an oath of vengance, setting off a chain of events which ends in the downfall of King Arthur. FTP, name this knight of Arthurian legend, who is most famous for his romance with Lynette. Answer: Sir _Gareth_ 15. This school's basketball team was Southeastern Conference champions in 1959, 1961, and 1962, but each year they rejected their automatic bids to the NCAA tournament, as they refused to take the court against black players. In 1963, they finally accepted a bid to the tournament, and were blown out in the first round by Loyola, a team with four black starters. FTP, name this university, whose athletic teams are nicknamed "Bulldogs." Answer: _Mississippi State_ 16. This 1956 novel begins with a shipwreck and ends with the revelation that the story's only character had died in that ship- wreck, so that everything that had happened in between was either a hallucination or a scene from purgatory. This intermediate action consists entirely of the title character sitting on a bare rock in the middle of the ocean, reflecting on his past life and gradually imagining that he is being eaten alive. FTP, name this second-most famous novel by William Golding. Answer: _Pincher Martin_ or _The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin_ 17. Because of an injury to his horse, he was forced to sit out the battle of the Thames, but this did not stop him from later claiming that he had not only fought, but received twenty-five wounds and personally killed the Indian leader Tecumseh. Possibly the most unpopular vice president ever, his nomination caused the Virginia delegation to walk out of the Democratic convention, and so many electors refused to vote for him that his election had to be thrown to the Senate, even though the presidential election had been won by the Democrats outright. FTP, name this vice-president under Martin Van Buren. Answer: Richard Mentor _Johnson_ 18. Unearthed in 1859, it was vastly different from any early human remains discovered before or since: It was four feet taller than modern man; it was perfectly preserved, even down to the soft tissues; and it was made of mica, a mineral that organic remains do not usually petrify into. And also, unlike most early hominid fossils, it was built in a Chicago warehouse. FTP, name this incredibly clumsy work of scientific fraud, which nevertheless managed to fool many naturalists for a brief while. Answer: The _Cardiff Giant_ 19. His legend is based on the crimes of Gilles de Retz, a 17th- century serial killer, and most versions of his tale tell of how he gives each of his brides a key to his castle, warning them not to open one door. Each of his first six wives opens the door, whereupon they find a room strewn with corpses, and are immediately killed by their husband for disobeidience, but the seventh wife, Ariane, manages to outsmart and bring to justice her murderous husband. FTP, name this title character of an operetta by Offenbach, a play by Maeterlinck, and an opera by Bartok. Answer: _Bluebeard_ 20. "There were only six Democrats in all of Hinsdale County, and you, you son of a bitch, you ate five of them." So began the sentencing (by a Democratic judge) of the first man in American history ever convicted of the crime of cannibalism. For ten points, name this nineteenth-century resident of Colorado. Answer: Alferd _Packer_ John's Complete Packets Packet #32 (Hard) (With contributions by various Chicago people) Bonus Questions 30 POINT BONUS 1. One of the more unusual poems in the history of American literature was "On the Annihilation of Ernie Terrell," which was published over the Associated Press newswire in 1967. For fifteen points each, identify: 1. The co-author of this verse, a poet whose other works include "To a Steamroller," and "When I Buy Pictures." Answer: Marianne _Moore_ 2. The main author of the poem, who really did annihilate Ernie Terrell just a few nights later. Answer: Muhammad _Ali_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For ten points each, answer these questions about current events from the year 1990. 1. In 1990, a New York court found Imelda Marcos and a co-defendant not guilty of fraud. Name the co-defendant, a notorious Saudi arms dealer who was also implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal. Answer: Adnan _Khashoggi_ 2. In what midwestern city was a museum director indicted on a criminal charge of obscenity after an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe? Answer: _Cincinnati_ 3. Finally, 1990 witnessed the end of the longest and most expensive criminal trial in history, when the directors of what California preschool were finally acquitted of child molestation? Answer: _McMartin_ Preschool 30 POINT BONUS 3. For ten points each, identify the following special matrices: 1. A square matrix with 1's on the diagonal and 0 everywhere else. Answer: _Identity_ 2. A square matrix that remains the same when its elements are transposed about the diagonal. Answer: _Symmetric_ 3. A square matrix such that the matrix multiplied by its transpose equals the identity matrix. Answer: _Orthogonal_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For the stated number of points, identify these dead superstars of classical music. 1. For five: the most successful violinist of the early nineteenth century, this Italian virtuoso was also a composer whose violin _Capricci_ are considered among the most difficult pieces ever written for the instrument. Answer: Niccolo _Paganini_ 2. For ten: the wife of pianist Daniel Barenboim, she had already established herself as one of the world's great cellists when her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis at the age of 28. Answer: Jacqueline _du Pre_ 3. For fifteen: killed in a 1957 car crash at the age of 36, this Englishman is generally considered the greatest French Horn player of all time, and was the inspiration for concertos written by Hindemith and Britten. Answer: Dennis _Brain_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For the stated number of points, identify these people whose deaths were captured on television. 1. For five: as an estimated two million viewers watched live, he was shot in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on November 24, 1963. Answer: Lee Harvey _Oswald_ 2. For ten: he was killed by Emile Griffith on February 20, 1962, in a boxing match broadcast live as ABC's "Fight of the Week." Answer: Benny _Paret_ 3. In 1971, this nutrition guru bragged to "Tonight" show guest- host Dick Cavett that "I'm so healthy that I expect to live on and on." A second later, he droppped dead of a heart attack. Answer: J.I. _Rodale_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Given a line of popular verse, name the person who wrote it, for ten points each. 1. "I think that I shall never see/ A poem as lovely as a tree." Answer: Joyce _Kilmer_ 2. "All things bright and beautiful/ All creatures great and small/ All things wise and wonderful/ the Good Lord made them all." Answer: Mrs. Cecil Francis _Alexander_ 3. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star/ How I wonder what you are." Answer: Jane and Ann _Taylor_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For fifteen points each, identify these thinkers whose religious opinions got them burned to a crisp. 1. At the council of Constance in 1415, the church reneged on a safe-conduct pledge and burned this Czech thinker, many of whose ideas would later be adopted by Martin Luther. Answer: Jan _Hus_ 2. Catholics weren't the only Christians who liked to roast heretics. In 1553, John Calvin burned this theologian, a refugee from the Spanish Inquisition who had proposed some unorthodox ideas about the trinity. Answer: Michael _Servetus_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. Identify the social scientist, given a work for 10 points each. 1. "The Making of the English Working Class" Answer: E.P. _Thompson_ 2. "Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made" Answer: Eugene _Genovese_ 3. "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" Answer: Emile _Durkheim_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Identify the dance steps, for fifteen points each. 1. Invented in the sixteenth-century, this slow, ridiculously simple step origninated in Padua and was mostly popular with people who couldn't dance. Forgotten for centuries, it was later revived by Faure is today best known because of a Maurice Ravel work about a dead princess. Answer: _Pavane_ 2. Originating in the French town of Gap, this four-beat dance involved a lot of jumping and was a favorite of Bach's. In this century, it has been used by Prokofiev as the third movement of his Classical Symphony. Answer: _Gavotte_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For fifteen points each, identify these notables from the 1994 World Cup. 1. This Colombian defender accidentaly deflected a ball into his own goal against the United States. Because of this, he was murdered the next week in Medellin. Answer: Andres _Escobar_ 2. In an otherwise unremarkable game between two teams that failed to qualify for the second round, this Russian set a World Cup record by scoring five goals against Cameroon. Answer: Oleg _Salenko_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. This is an unrelated-parts 30-20-10 (each part has a different answer, but as with a standard 30-20-10, the question ends as soon as one part is answered correctly); the topic is African writers. 1. For thirty: The author of 1964's "Weep Not, Child," he is the leading novelist of Kenya. Answer: James Thiong'o _Ngugi_ (or Ngugi wa Thiong'o) 2. For twenty: The author of "Ethiopiques" and "Chants d'Ombre," this poet later became the first president of Senegal. Answer: Leopold _Senghor_ 3. For ten: This Nigerian is best known for his 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart." Answer: Chinua _Achebe_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For five points each, identify the last people to hold these extinct political offices. 1. Byzantine emperor Answer: _Constantine XI_ 2. Holy Roman Emperor Answer: _Francis II_ 3. U.S. Secretary of War Answer: Kenneth _Royall_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Name these men who contributed to the study of probability for 10 points each. 1. His name is given to a class of probability models that assume that the future of a system depends on the present, not the past. Answer: Andrei _Markov_ 2. He developed a theory of integration more general that the Riemann theory. His Dominated Convergence Theorem gives condition under which limits and integrals can be interchanged. Answer: Henri _Lebesgue_ 3. His correspondece with Pascal about gambling problems initiated his study of probability. He also helped developed analytic geometry with Descartes. Answer: Pierre _Fermat_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Identify these 19th century thinkers who attempted to rationalize the existence of Christianity and life of Christ, fifteen points each. 1. An influence on Marx, his most well-known work, _The Essence of Christianity_, argues that God is a projection of man's nature corresponding to its human needs. Answer: Ludwig _Feuerbach_ 2. In _The Life of Jesus Critically Examined_, he denied the historical truth of the Gospels and described the development of Christianity through Hegelian dialectic. Answer: David Friedrich _Strauss_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Even Ned Flanders admits that Ann Landers is a boring old biddy. For fifteen points, identify these less-boring advice columnists. 1. Billed as the "World's Most Outspoken Advice Columnist," this Weekly World News writer can be counted on to give an insulting answer to just about any question. Answer: Dear _Dottie_ 2. Billed as "The World's Sexiest Psychic," her column can be found directly beneath Dear Dottie in the Weekly World News. Answer: Serena _Sabak_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Identify the author from her works, 30-20-10. 1. The novels _Heat and Dust_, _In Search of Love and Beauty_, and _How I Became a Holy Mother_. 2. The screenplays for "The Householder," "Heat and Dust," and "The Bostonians." 3. The screenplays for "A Room with a View," and "Howard's End." Answer: Ruth Prawar _Jhablava_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For fifteen points each, identify these serial killers. 1. Beginning in 1915, this Frenchman, later dubbed "Bluebeard," lured women to his country villa, then killed, dismembered, and burned them. After murdering ten women, he was caught when somebody noticed that he always bought round-trip tickets to the country for himself, but one-way tickets for the women. Answer: Henri _Landru_ 2. In 1978, this former law student broke into a Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University, bludgeoning two women to death and strangling two more. Though he caught was executed for this crime in 1989, it is believed that he had killed as many as thirty others in a murder spree that began in 1974. Answer: Ted _Bundy_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, give the following completely unrelated scientific terms from short definitions. 1. Science of freshwater lakes, ponds, and streams. Answer: _Limnology_ 2. Method of solving certain types of physical problems by statistical experiments based on the application of mathematical operations to random numbers. Answer: _Monte Carlo_ Method 3. Apparent change in the position of an object seen against a remote background when the viewpoint is changed. Answer: _Parallax_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. Hinduism enumerates four basic "ends of man". Name these three of from brief descriptions for ten points each. 1. religious duty Answer: _dharma_ 2. earthly, political or economic gain Answer: _artha_ 3. physical pleasure and happiness Answer: _kama_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For ten points each, answer these exciting questions about Finland which John pulled out of his almanac. 1. Helsinki is Finland's capital and its largest city. What is Finland's second-largest city? Answer: _Tampere_ 2. Who is the President of Finland, according to John's 1992 almanac? Answer: Mauno _Koivitso_ 3. And finally: by what name would a Finn call Finland? Answer: _Suomi_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="33"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="33" John's Complete Packets Packet #33 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. The title character is thought to be based on La Chaise, the confessor of Louis XIV, and the name is said to derive from La Chaise's famous weakness for truffles. Although the play had the personal approval of the king, it so enraged the church that all who saw or read it were threatened with excommunication, and the first two versions of it were banned. In spite of this, it has gone on to become the most frequently-staged play in the French language. FTP, name this Moliere masterpiece about religious hypocrisy. Answer: _Tartuffe_ 2. In 1884, the German explorer Gustav Nachtigal discovered that the British Gold Coast and French Dahomey did not border each other, as had been previously supposed, but that there existed a narrow strip of land between the two that neither Imperial power had officially claimed. This territory quickly was declared a German colony, and after World War I its unusual shape became even more unusual when its western half was absorbed into the Gold Coast. FTP, name this needle-shaped country, which is now bordered by Ghana and Benin. Answer: _Togo_ or _Togoland_ 3. A lack of these can result in the condition known as purpura, while a genetic malfunction of them results in hemophilia. Formed as fragments of megakaryocytes, at the site of a wound they release both the enzyme thromboplastin, which in turn transforms fibrin into fibrinogen, as well as serotonin, which causes the veins to constrict. FTP, name these disk-shaped bodies responsible for blood clotting. Answer: _platelets_ or _thrombocytes_ 4. Its manifesto was a 1920 pamphlet titled "Neo-Plasticism," written by its founder, Theo van Doesburg, and the list of painters and furniture-makers who were connected to this movement at one time or another include Hans Richter, El Lissitzky, and Brancusi. FTP, name this highly geometrical school of abstract art, now associated almost exclusively with the work of Piet Mondrian. Answer: _De Stijl_ 5. He got his first break in 1967 as the sidekick on CBS's short- lived "Joey Bishop Show," but plunged right back into obscurity after the show failed. His second chance came in 1983 when a New York station tapped him for a talk show, and he has stayed on the air in that slot ever since. FTP, name this author of the recent autobiography "I'm Only One Man!" and co-host of a morning show with Kathie Lee Gifford. Answer: Regis _Philbin_ 6. The title character is Halvaard Solness, an aging architect who has a morbid fear of hights and an even greater fear that he is about to be surpassed by the younger generation of architects. After meeting the young girl Hilda, he finds a new purpose in life and decides to climbing the tall spire of his house and build a "castle in the air," but he falls to his death after reaching the top. FTP, name this 1892 play by Henrik Ibsen. Answer: _The Master Builder_ 7. Its sections are titled: "Philadelphia: Corrupt and Corrupted," "New York: Good Government to the Test," "Chicago: Half Free and Fighting On," "Pittsburgh: A City Ashamed," "Tweed Days in St. Louis," "The Shamelessness of St. Louis," and "The Shame of Minneapolis." FTP, name this muckraking 1904 expose of urban corruption by Lincoln Steffens. Answer: _The Shame of the Cities_ 8. This Linnean class contains of four orders, the smallest by far of which is Rhynchocephalia, which consists of just a single species, the New Zealand tuatara. The second largest of the four orders is Chelonia, whose main families are Emydidae and Testudinidae; while its largest order is Squamata, which is divided up into the widely diverse suborders Amphisbaenia, Sauria, and Serpentia. FTP, name this class of vertebrates, whose fourth order is Crocodilia. Answer: _reptiles_ 9. An instructor at the Bauhaus from 1922 to 1933, in his later years he founded the Blue Four group, wrote _Point and Line to Plane_, a treatise on the theory of form, and painted a series of brighly colored, geometric paintings that were highly reminescent of Constructivism. His early work includes two plays, _Yellow Tone_ and _Violet_, as well as a series of landscapes, _Improvisations_, the western world's first completely abstract paintings. FTP, name this Russian-born artist and co-founder of The Blue Rider. Answer: Vassily _Kandinsky_ 10. His mother was a singer who performed under the stage name of Lily Harley, but the death of her husband left her unable to perform, and he grew up in the most extreme poverty. His theater debut was in "Eight Lancashire Lads" in 1907, which led to high- profile stage roles in _Sherlock Holmes_ and _Jim, or the Romance of Cocaine_. After joining Mack Sennett's Keystone film company, he made his film debut in _Tilly's Punctured Romance_. FTP, name this actor whose later films include _The Circus_, _Shoulder Arms_, and _The Gold Rush_. Answer: Charlie _Chaplin_ 11. When this Cromwellian soldier got married, he received as a dowry his father-in-law's entire library, which consisted of just two devotional books. But this was all the education he needed to launch his own literary career, and before long, he was turning out religious stories of his own, including _The Holy City_, _The Holy War_, and _The Life and Death of Mister Bad Man_. FTP, name this allegorical poet best known for _The Pilgrim's Progress_. Answer: John _Bunyan_ 12. The capital of France's Loiret Department, it was founded by the Celtic Carnutae tribe, captured by Julius Caesar in 52 B.C., and and and conquered by Clovis in A.D. 498. It was besieged by the English in 1428, but after a series of decisive French victories the siege was broken on May 9, 1429, an event that not only made possible the coronation of Charles VII, but also marked the turning point of the Hundred Years' War. FTP, name this site of Joan of Arc's most celebrated victory. Answer: _Orleans_ 13. Of the 103 objects that it described, 33 turned out to be galaxies, 55 were star clusters, one was a binary star, one was an asterism, one was a section of the Milky Way, one was a duplicate observation, while eleven turned out to be nebulae. Although it is quite obsolete as a scientific document, many of its alphanumeric designations are still in use, such as M1 for the Crab Nebua and M13 for Andromeda. FTP, name this 1771 catalogue of Things Not to be Confused with Comets. Answer: The _Messier_ Catalogue 14. Arabic for "striving," it is never compulsory for any individual believer, although it was traditionally obligatory that enough members of the faithful should be engaged in it at any one time that the territory of Islam would be continuously increased. Its doctrine allows for Jews and Christians to maintain their religion by accepting political submission and the payment of a tribute, although members of all other religions had to either convert or be killed. FTP, give this Arabic term for a holy war. Answer: _Jihad_ 15. His first major project, _Alice in Cartoonland_, was a dismal failure, and it was not until 1927 that he and his parter Ub Iwerks produced their first commercial success, a cartoon short called _Oswald the Lucky Rabbit_. This was soon followed by a popular series of silent cartoons featuring Mortimer the Mouse, who was given both a voice and a new name the next year in _Steamboat Willie_. FTP, name this creator and voice of Mickey Mouse. Answer: Walt _Disney_ 16. Written as an imitation of early Greek poetry, this work is narrated by the dead resisdents of a dreary Midwestern town. The deceased give cynical descriptions of their unhappy lives, often contradicting the banal, cheerful inscriptions on their own tombstones. FTP, name this 1915 collection of "auto-epitaths," the most successful work by Edgar Lee Masters. Answer: _Spoon River Anthology_ 17. He became famous thanks to a four-line poem he wrote in 1556, which described the death of an "old lion" at the hands of a "young lion" by means of a "grevious wound to the eyes" in a "golden cage." When the golden-helmeted Henry II of France died of a facial wound in a jousting contest less than two years later, he was hailed as a prophet, and afterwards became a trusted adviser of the occult to the widowed Catherine de Medici. FTP, name this physician and astrologer. Answer: _Nostradamus_ 18. Also known as calciferol, it has been nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin," since it can be produced internally from choloresterol by the skin cells when they are exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Important in the retention of bodily calcium and phosphorus, its best nutritional sources are fish-liver oils and milk, while a deficiency of it produces a weakness of the bones and the disease rickets. FTP, name this elementary fat-soluble vitamin. Answer: Vitamin _D_ 19. Set in the mythical kingdom of Allemonde, it tells of Price Golaud, a hunter who discovers a mysterious girl in the woods and marries her, and of Golaud's half-brother, who falls in love with the girl after she is brought home. By the end of the play, both title characters are dead: the half-brother is killed by the insanely jealous Golaud, while the girl dies some time later in childbirth. FTP, name this 1892 drama by Maurice Maeterlinck, perhaps most famous because of a 1902 operatic adaption by Claude Debussy. Answer: _Pelleas and Melisande_ 20. Separated from Zambia by the Cuando river and from Zimbabwe by the Zambezi, this republic of roughly a million people is dominated by the majority Tswana tribe. Formerly a part of South Africa, its population is concentrated in the Limpopo basin on its southeastern edge, and nearly all the rest of its territory is taken up by the vast Okavango Swamps and Kalahari Desert. FTP, name this sparsely populated African nation, known until 1966 as Beuchuanaland. Answer: _Botswana_ John's Complete Packets Packet #33 (Medium) Bonus Questions (UNBALANCED) 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each, identify these memorable minor characters from works by Dostoevskii. 1. In _The Brothers Karamazov_, this elderly monk acts as the philosophical mouthpiece of the author, preaching a famous sermon on love and forbearance. Answer: _Zosima_ 2. Known only by his first and middle names, this police inspector spends most of _Crime and Punishment_ playing a cat-and-mouse game with Raskolnikov as the mouse. Answer: _Porfirii Petrovich_ 3. In _The Possessed_, he is the nihilistic philosopher who volunteers to commit suicide in order to protect a group of terrorists whom he despises. Answer: _Kirilov_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. Since the Civil War, there have been nine men who received at least a million votes for president while running on an independent or third-party ticket. Two of these are Ross Perot and Teddy Roosevelt. For five points each and a maximum of thirty, name any six of the other seven. Answer: James B _Weaver_ (1892), Robert _Lafollette_ (1924), Strom _Thurmond_ (1948), _Henry Wallace_ (1948), _George Wallace_ (1968), John _Schmitz_ (1972), John _Anderson_ (1980) 20 POINT BONUS 3. For five points each, given a category of television programming, name the show which produced the all-time highest- rated single episode in that category as of 1994. Unless otherwise indicated, it will not be necessary to give the specific episode- name. 1. Drama series Answer: _Dallas_ 2. Made-for-TV movie (name the movie) Answer: _The Day After_ 3. Sporting event (be specific) Answer: _Super Bowl XVI_ 4. Miniseries Answer: _Roots_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Identify these one-hit wonders of classical music: ten points if you can get them from a minor work or works, five if you need their one really famous work. 1. 10 pts: "Somerset Rhapsody" and "Rig Veda" 5 pts: "The Planets" Answer: Gustav _Holst_ 2. 10 pts: "L'Amico Fritz" 5 pts: "Cavalleria Rusticana" Answer: Pietro _Mascagni_ 3. 10 pts: "Antigonae" and "Der Mond" 5 pts: "Carmina Burana" Answer: Carl _Orff_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. In the fall of 1994, just about everybody was writing questions about the movie "Pulp Fiction." Present company included. So, for ten points each-- 1. Name the book of the Bible which Samuel Jackson misquotes on several occasions in the movie. Answer: _Ezekiel_ 2. A certain public university in California saw a huge jump in its merchandise sales as a result of "Pulp Fiction." For five points each part, name the school and the team name which appears on a T- shirt worn by John Travolta after he changes out of his bloody clothes at Quentin Tarantino's house. Answer: UC-_Santa Cruz Banana Slugs_ 3. Finally, name the TV pilot in which Uma Thurman's character had acted. Answer: _Fox Force Five_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. For ten points each, name the larest-circulation daily newspaper in each of the following U.S. cities, as of 1994. 1. New Orleans Answer: _Times Picayune_ 2. Cleveland Answer: _Plain Dealer_ 3. San Jose Answer: _Mercury_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For the stated number of points, identify these significant decisions from the Burger Court. 1. 10 pts: In this 1977 case, the court ordered that a rejected white applicant be admitted to the Davis Medical College, but upheld the constitutionality of affirmative action programs. Answer: _Bakke_ v. University of California Board of Regents 2. 15 pts: The Supremes gave up trying to define pornography in this 1973 decision, which overturned several precedents from the Warren era and ruled that obscenity should be defined according to local community standards. Answer: _Miller v. California_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. For ten points each, identify the Dr. Seuss works from which the following lines are taken. 1. "I could not, would not, on a boat. I will not, will not, with a goat. I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train..." Answer: _Green Eggs and Ham_ 2. "My brothers can read a little bit. Little words like "if" and "it." My father can read big words too. Like "Constantinople" and "Timbuktu." Answer: _Hop on Pop_ 3. "Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Luke Luck likes lakes Luke's duck licks. Luke's duck likes lakes Luke Luck licks." Answer: _Fox in Socks_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. For ten points each, identify the following things bad things that come in bunches. Each part of this bonus is all-or-nothing. 1. The seven deadly sins, according to the producers of the movie "Seven." Answer: _Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Wrath, Pride, Lust_ 2. The five adjectives that describe life in the state of war, according to Thomas Hobbes. Answer: _Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, Short_ 3. The things represented by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, according to the Book of Revelation. Answer: Conquest (War), Slaughter, Famine (Hunger), Death 30 POINT BONUS 10. With the fragmentation of many countries in the first half of the 1990s, quiz bowlers have had to learn a lot of new world capitals. This bonus will test your knowledge of potential new capital cities. For five points each, given a secession-minded region, name the city that stands to become a world capital if the region ever becomes independent (as of late 1994). 1. Chechnya, Russia Answer: _Grozny_ 2. East Timor, Indonesia Answer: _Dili_ 3. Tibet, China Answer: _Lhasa_ 4. Kossovo, Yugoslavia Answer: _Prishtin_ 5. Basque Provinces, Spain Answer: _Bilbao_ 6. Abkhazia, Georgia Answer: _Sukhumi_ 30 POINT BONUS 11. For ten points each, identify these pre-colonial African empires. 1. Its capital was Kumbi Salih, and it included modern Mauritania, parts of Mali, and Senegal. Answer: _Ghana_ 2. Roughly coterminus with modern Ghana, it was arguably the most advanced culture in pre-colonial Africa and was conquered by Britain in 1901. Answer: _Ashanti_ 3. The world's leading supplier of gold during the middle ages, this Islamic state's capital was Timbuktu. Answer: _Mali_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Identify the following Vice-Presidents of the United States on a 10-5 basis. 1. 10 pts: The only bachelor vice-president as well as the only VP to be sworn in outside the country, he is thought to have been the homosexual lover of James Buchanan. 5 pts: This vice-president of Franklin Pierce also had the shortest tenure of office, dying of tuberculosis just six weeks after his inauguration. Answer: William Rufus Devane _King_ 2. 10 pts: Shortly before his election, this vice-president created a minor scandal by sponsoring a government expedition to Mongolia in search of cave paintings by Jesus Christ. 5 pts: This second vice-president of FDR later ran as a third-party candidate for president in 1948. Answer: Henry _Wallace_ 3. 10 pts: As postmaster general in 1885, this Illinois democrat earned the nickname of "Axeman" after firing 40,000 republican postal employees. 5 pts: This vice-president of Grover Cleveland is less well-known than his grandson of the same name, who ran for president in 1952 and 1956. Answer: Adalai _Stevenson_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Identify these U.S. presidents on a 15-10-5 basis: fifteen points if you identify them from the name of a justice they appointed to the Supreme Court, ten if you need their vice- president, and five if you need the name of the man they defeated in a presidential election. 1. 15 pts: Appointee-- Harlan Stone (as associate justice, not chief justice) 10 pts: Vice President-- Charles Dawes 5 pts: Defeated-- John Davis Answer: _Calvin Coolidge_ 1. 15 pts: Appointee-- Charles Evans Hughes (as associate justice) 10 pts: Vice President-- James Sherman 5 pts: Defeated-- William Jennings Bryan Answer: William Howard _Taft_ 25 POINT BONUS 14. For five points each, and a five-point bonus for all four, name the operas from which the following famous excerpts are taken. 1. Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." Answer: _The Valkyrie_ (prompt on "The Ring") 2. Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" Answer: _Il Trouvatore_ 3. Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances." Answer: _Prince Igor_ 4. Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee." Answer: The Tale of _Tsar Saltan_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. Name the director, given some of his films, 30-20-10. 1. "Isn't Life Wonderful" and "The Struggle" 2. "Broken Blossoms" and "Way Down East" 3. "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance" Answer: D.W. _Griffith_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Time for another round of obsolete geography, using John's trusty 1940-vintage world atlas. Given the African colony, name the capital. Ten points each. 1. Southern Rhodesia Answer: _Salisbury_ 2. Belgian Congo _Leopoldville_ 3. French West Africa Answer: _Dakar_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. From 1953 until 1969, Earl Warren presided over the most high- profile Supreme Court in recent history. While Warren received most of the publicity for his court's activist rulings, many of the justices who shared the bench with him are also worth remembering. For five points each and a maximum of thirty, name any six of Warren's collegaues in the arbitrarily-selected year of 1961. Answer: Hugo _Black_, William _Brennan_, Tom _Clark_, William _Douglas_, Felix _Frankfurter_, John Marshall _Harlan_, Potter _Stewart_, Charles _Whittaker_ 20 POINT BONUS 18. For ten points each, answer these questions about the Reform Party. 1. Name Ross Perot's only rival for the reform nomination in 1996, a former governor of Colorado. Answer: Dick _Lamm_ 2. In 1996, the Reform Party held not one but two national conventions. For ten points each, name the two cities that hosted them. Answer: _Valley Forge_ and _San Diego_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For the stated number of points, identify these dates on the ancient Roman calendar. 1. For five: in some months it fell on the thirteenth, on others (including March), the fifteenth. According to superstition, it was unlucky to conduct business on the morning of these days. Answer: _Ides_ 2. For ten: this was the Roman name for the first day of every month. Answer: _Kalends_ 3. For fifteen: this day fell nine days before the Ides of every month. Answer: _Nones_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. For ten points each, identify the rivers on which you would find the following national capitals. 1. Vientiane, Laos Answer: _Mekong_ 2. Seoul, South Korea Answer: _Han_ 3. Kinshasa, Congo Answer: _Congo_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="34"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="34" John's Complete Packets Packet #34 (Medium) Toss-Ups 1. In Euripides' play _Helen_, it was the name of the King of Egypt. In Vonnegut's _Player Piano_, it is the surname of the protagonist. In Greek mythology, it was the name of a shape- changing sea god, and in Shakespeare, it is the name of one of the Two Gentlemen of Verona. FTP, name this name. Answer: _Proteus_ 2. Condemned to death in absentia by his native city, he became an adviser to Persian king Artaxerxes I and eventually died by drinking a poisoned cup of bull's blood after some failed palace intrigue. In his earlier life, he had done more than any man to halt the growth of the Persian empire, both as architect of the Athenian navy and as the victor of several important battles in 480 B.C. FTP, name this Athenian general most famous for winning the battle of Salamis. Answer: _Themistocles_ 3. He was removed from his post at the Institute of Genetics in 1965-- an event which, appropriately enough, coincided with the centennial celebration of Mendel's laws. Although his attempt to revive the discredited theory of acquired characteristics had little scientific merit, he enjoyed the vigorous support Stalin and Khrushchev, who silenced all his Mendellian critics. FTP, name this scientific charlatan, who is credited with setting Soviet biology back a generation. Answer: Trofim _Lysenko_ 4. Its manifesto was a 1920 pamphlet titled "Neo-Plasticism," written by its founder, Theo van Doesburg, and the list of painters and furniture-makers who were connected to this movement at one time or another include Hans Richter, El Lissitzky, and Brancusi. FTP, name this highly geometrical school of abstract art, now associated almost exclusively with the work of Piet Mondrian. Answer: _De Stijl_ 5. After just eighteen months in office, CEO Robert Holland was forced out in 1995 after a dipute with the company's founders over plans for expansion. His successor will be be chosen by orthodox corporate methods, which means that this company is no longer interested in receiving essays from potential applicants. FTP, name this Vermont-based company, makers of a gourmet ice cream. Answer: _Ben & Jerry's_ 6. He was one Charles Dickens' few friends but a bitter enemy of Tennyson, whom he satirized in his poem _The New Timon_. Elected to parliament in 1831, he was given the title of Baron Knebworth after organizing the Canadian province of British Columbia, but he his best known for his popular historical novels. FTP, name this author of _Ernest Maltravers_, _The Pilgrims on the Rhine_, _Rienzi_, and _Harold, Last of the Saxons_, whose 1830 novel _Paul Clifford_ begins with the words "It was a dark and stormy night..." Answer: Edward Bulwer-_Lytton_ 7. Introduced by the emperor Leo III in 726 and continued by his successors Constantine VI and Leo IV, this theological movement was condemned by the 787 council of Nicaea and died out after the death of the emperor Theophilus in 842. FTP, name this attempted reform of the Byzantine Church, which advocated the suppression and sometimes the destruction of holy images. Answer: _Iconoclasm_ 8. First used in France in 1954, it has since been taken up by virtually all other Western European countries, though its adoption in the United States now seems very unlikely. In practice it is a hidden sales tax, since all the costs it incurs are eventually passed on to the consumer, while it is technically a levy on producers that taxes each stage of a product's improvement prior to its final sale. FTP, name this indirect form of taxation. Answer: _Value added_ tax or _VAT_ 9. One of only three people to win multiple Pulitzer Prizes in music, his early "Symphony in One Movement" was the first work by an American composer ever performed at the Salzburg festival, while his opera _Antony and Cleopatra_ was selected by the Metropolitan Opera for the debut performance at its new Lincoln Center hall in 1966. FTP, name this composer, whose best known work is the _Adagio for Strings_. Answer: Samuel _Barber_ 10. Invented by and named for a Du Pont comapny chemist, this product is notable as the first comercially successful application of polyethylene. Introduced in 1947, in 1951 it was withdrawn completely from retail stores, and instead sold and marketed exclusively through a system where suburban housewives would be hired by the company to host parties feauturing it. FTP, name this line of airtight plastic food storage containers. Answer: _Tupperware_ 11. Set sometime during the Renaissance, it is a poem in the form of a dramatic monologue, and its narrator is the recently-widowed Duke of Ferrara, who is negotiating a prospective marriage. The title refers to the Duke's previous wife, and as the poem develops, it becomes apparent that she had been killed on the orders of her husband. FTP, name this 1842 poem by Robert Browning. Answer: _My Last Duchess_ 12. The Holy City of Sikhism, this Punjabi town was the site of an unarmed march on April 13, 1919 by about 10,000 Indians who were protesting the British government's institution of the repressive Rowlatt Acts. After the crowd tried to gain entrance to the local fort, the British troops opened fire, and 379 people were killed, most as they tried to flee. FTP, name the site of this notorious massacre, which gave considerable momentum to Mahatma Gandhi's noncooperation movement and to the cause of Indian independence. Answer: _Amritsar_ 13. Between 1856 and 1860, the price of steel in Britain dropped 80%, while the total production of steel rose by over 3,000 percent. Most of this was due to a single man, who made the simple discovery that blowing blast of air through molten steel could separate carbon from iron, and that this blast could be manipulated with a tilting converter. FTP, name this British engineer, whose process was the first cost-effective method of producing steel. Answer: Henry _Bessemer_ 14. A professional violinist who used music to support himself during his early years as an painter, it was not until after he already exhibited with the Blue Rider group that he claimed to have "discovered" color, in 1914. The painter of over nine thousand works, including Villa R, Twittering Machine, and Landscape with Yellow Birds, his art was intentionally made to look improvised, and he had a prominent place in the Nazi's notorious 1937 exhibition of "degenerate art." FTP, name this Swiss-born Bauhaus artist best known for his _Pedagogical Sketchbook_. Answer: Paul _Klee_ 15. He left network television in 1961 to become director of the U.S. Information Agency in the Kennedy Administration, and spent the last four years of his life criticizing telivision's emphasis on escapist programming. Arguably the most famous correspondent of World War II, his network television projects included _Person to Person_ and _Small World_, as well as the highly influential _See It Now_, all of which had been cancelled by 1959. FTP, name this CBS journalist and pioneer of television news broadcasting. Answer: Edward R. _Murrow_ 16. As a young man, he published a translation of some plays by an obscure Spanish playwright named Clara Gazul, which he followed with _La Guzla_, supposedly a translation of some medieval Serbian poetry. In reality, he had written both works himself, and when his cover was blown he began to write under his own name, eventually turning out such works as _Columba_ and _Mateo Falcone_. FTP, name this writer best known for _Carmen_. Answer: Prosper _Merimee_ 17. The name of this group is probably a corruption of the name of its founder, Hassan Sabah, although a common legend claims that it has something to do with the drug hashish. Its headquarters were in the Persian mountain fortress of Alamut, from whence it terrorized the Middle East for two centuries until its annihilation by the Mongol conqueror Hulagu. FTP, name this sect, best known because of its talent for murdering political opponents. Answer: The Order of the _Assassins_ 18. It is an odorless, tasteless, transparent liquid that is colorless in small amounts, but has a bluish tinge in large quantities. Because of the hydrogen bondings between its V-shaped molecules, its latent heats of fusion and evaporation, as well as its heat capacity, are all unusually high, and it has the unusual property of self-ionization, being able to react with itself to produce hydroxyl and hydronium ions. FTP, name this most abundant liquid on earth. Answer: _water_ 19. The son of a wealthy industrialist, he was an early patron of the impressionists, and his personal collection later formed the nucleus of the Musee d'Impressionisme. His own artistic reputation is based on such early, realistic works as "The Floor Scrapers," which is one of the few paintings by him that can be seen by the public, since the bulk of his output is held in private collections by his still-prosperous descendants. FTP, name this French artist, best known for "Paris Street: Rainy Day." Answer: Gustave _Caillebote_ 20. This economist and former speechwriter for Pat Buchanan had his first brush with fame in 1990, when he was fired from his job at TRW for writing a virulently anti-Japanese article about world trade. His second brush of fame came six year later, when he was tapped to fill a position that last been held by James Stockdale. FTP, name 1996 running mate of Ross Perot. Answer: Pat _Choate_ John's Complete Packets Packet #34 (Medium) Bonus Questions (UNBALANCED) 30 POINT BONUS 1. Identify the dead person, 30-20-10. 1. A great admirer of Mozart, he had part of his name changed from "Wilhelm" to "Amadeus" after that composer's death. His own musical works include a single opera, "Undine." 2. Better known as a writer, it was on one of his short stories that Tchiakovsky's "Nutcracker" ballet was based. Other works include "The Devil's Elixir," "Night Pieces," "Fantastic Pieces in Callot's Manner," and "Brothers of Serapion." 3. He is the title character of an 1881 opera by Jacques Offenbach that is based on three of his Tales. Answer: Ernst Theodor Amadeus _Hoffman_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For ten points each, given a pair of Roman emperors, name the emperor who ruled between them. 1. Claudius and Galba Answer: _Nero_ 2. Antoninus Pius and Commodus Answer: _Marcus_ Aurelius 3. Justin I and Justin II Answer: _Justinian_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. Identify the scientist, 30-20-10. 1. Origninally a botanist, he first became famous for 1774's _Flore Francais_, which became the definitive handbook for identifying French plant species. 2. He is better known as a zoologist and early supporter of evolution, whose 1815 _Natural History of Animals_ postulated four laws that directed animal evolution. 3. In the 20th century, the Soviet government tried to forcibly revive his discredited fourth law of evolution, which incorrectly states that animals pass on to their children physical characteristics acquired during their lifetimes. Answer: Jean Baptiste _Lamark_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. For ten points each, given a famous work of art, identify the museum to which it currently belongs. 1. Grant Wood's "American Gothic" Answer: _Art Institute of Chicago_ 2. Goya's "The Third of May, 1808" Answer: _Prado_ 3. Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" Answer: _Rijksmuseum_ Amsterdam 30 POINT BONUS 5. For ten points each, identify these provinces of China. 1. China's largest province by area, it is also the most westerly. Answer: _Xinjiang_ or _Sinkiang_ 2. Annexed over forty years ago, its capital is Lhasa. Answer: _Tibet_ 3. China's most economically-reformed province, it borders Hong Kong. Answer: _Guangdong_ 20 POINT BONUS 6. Given a movie studio, name its evil corporate parent, as of 1996. Five points each, with a five-point bonus for all four. 1. Columbia Pictures Answer: _Sony_ 2. Paramount Pictures Answer: _Viacom_ 3. Universal Pictures Answer: _Seagram_ 4. TriStar Pictures Answer: _Sony_ 30 POINT BONUS 7. For ten points each, identify the Chinese dynasties under which the following cultural or religious events tooks place. 1. Mencius, Lao Tzu, and Confucius are born. Answer: _Chou_ 2. A centralized government is established according to Confucian principles, and Buddhism is introduced from India. Answer: _Han_ 3. Chinese painting, sculpture, and poetry experience their golden ages. Among the major cultural figures who live during this period are Li Po, Po Chu-Yi, and Tu Fu. Answer: _Tang_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. For ten points each, name these world countries, given a description of their flags, as of 1996. 1. A gold circle is set against a pale-green background; inside the circle is an arm holding a torch. Answer: _Zaire_ 2. A gold outline map of the country is set against a white background; underneath the silhoutte are two green olive branches. Answer: _Cyprus_ 3. The top half of the flag is red; the lower half, blue. In the middle, in yellow, is a picture of the country's most famous tourist attraction. Answer: _Cambodia_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. Name the character from the book of Genesis from a brief description. Ten points each. 1. He was the first man after Abel to die, and the first human to ascend directly to heaven. 2. This resident of Ur moved to Canaan from Mesopotamia, taking with him his three sons Nahor, Haran, and Abram. Answer: _Terah_ 3. This son of Judah was struck dead by God as punishment for "spill[ing] his seed upon the ground." Answer: _Onan_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. For ten points each, identify the movies from which these quotes are taken. 1. "That's exactly why we want to produce this play: to show the world the true Hitler- the Hitler you loved, the Hitler you knew, the Hitler with a song in his heart." Answer: _The Producers_ 2. "You have just made one of the two classic blunders. The first, of course, is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is: Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line." Answer: _The Princess Bride_ 3. "Someone will touch you on the shoulder and you won't know who it is- they will be from outer space. Can you prove it didn't happen? God help us in the future!" Answer: _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ 25 POINT BONUS 11. Identify the relationships between these pairs of people for 5 points each. 1. Molly Bloom and Blazes Boylan Answer: illicit _lovers_ 2. Biff and Happy Answer: _brothers_ 3. Claudius and Nero Answer: Nero is Claudius' _adopted son_ and _grandnephew_ (accept either) 4. Anna Karenina and Stiva Oblonsky Answer: _brother and sister_ 5. Gargantua and Pantagruel Answer: Gargantua is Pantagruel's _father_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. For the stated number of points, identify these ninteenth- century Prime Ministers of Britain. 1. 5 pts: Prime Minister from 1874 to 1880, he was also the author of the popular novels "Coningsby" and "Sybill." Answer: Benjamin _Disraeli_ 2. 10 pts: According to Barney Gumbel, he was Britain's greatest Prime Minister. During his tenure, Britain entered the Crimean War and crushed the Sepoy Mutiny. Answer: Lord _Palmerston_ (Henry John _Temple_) 3. 15 pts: Serving from 1809 until his death in 1812, he is the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. Answer: Spencer _Perceval_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. The most recent three Prime Ministers of Great Britain are Tony Blair, John Major, and Margaret Thatcher. For five points each, name the next six most recent PMs. Answer: James _Callaghan_, Edward _Heath_, Harold _Wilson_, Alec _Douglas-Home_, Harold _Macmillan_, Anthony _Eden_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. Write down this list of heavyweight boxing champions: Ezzard Charles, Max Baer, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, and Primo Carnera. Now, choose as many of these as you like and place them in chronological order according to when they first became champion. However, if you place one out of order, you will receive no points. If all the ones you choose are in correct order relative to each other, you will receive five points for each one you ranked. You must pick at least two. Answer: _Carnera, Baer, Louis, Charles, Marciano, Patterson_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. 30-20-10, identify the author from his works. 1. The short story collections _Mirgorod_ and _Arabesques_. 2. The short stories "Nevsky Prospect," and "Taras Bulba." 3. The comedy _The Inspector General_ Answer: Nikolai _Gogol_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. Write down the following list of ancient military and political leaders: Themistocles, Jugurtha, Crassus, Caligula, Valerian. Now, for five points each, given a description of a particularly nasty way to die, identify the person from the list who died in such a way. 1. Captured in battle, after which he was killed by having molten gold poured down his throat. Answer: _Crassus_ 2. Forced to commit suicide by swallowing a cupful of poisoned bull's blood. Answer: _Themistocles_ 3. Locked in a small room, given lots of air and water but no food, and slowly starved to death. Answer: _Jugurtha_ 4. Captured, killed, stuffed, mounted, and made into a foot-stool for the king of Persia. Answer: _Valerian_ 5. A refreshingly simple mass stabbing. Answer: _Caligula_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. Name the year, 30-20-10-5. 1. At the academy awards in March of this year, "Theme from Shaft" wins an Oscar for Best Song. 2. Okinawa is returned to the Japanese, and the British impose direct control over Northern Ireland after years of increasing violence. Ireland, Britain, and Denmark join the European Community. 3. _Life_ magazine ceases publication, the military draft is phased out, and capital punishment is ruled unconstitutional. Bobby Fischer becomes world chess champion. 4. Nixon visits China. District of Columbia police arrest five burglars inside the Watergate Hotel complex. George McGovern carries Massachussets. Answer: _1972_ 30 POINT BONUS 18. What is the tallest mountain on earth? Depends on how you measure. For ten points each, given a standard for measuring height, name the mountain that would claim the title of world's tallest under that system. 1. Measured from base to peak. Answer: _Mauna Kea_ (2/3 underwater) 2. Measured from sea level to peak. Answer: _Everest_ 3. Measured from the center of the earth to peak. Answer: _Chimborazo_ (because of a bulge in the earth near the equator). 30 POINT BONUS 19. For five points each part: given a Civil War battle, name the commanders on each side. 1. Fort Sumter Answer: Pierre _Beauregard_ (Confederate), Robert _Anderson_ (Union) 2. First Manassas/Bull Run Answer: Pierre _Beauregard_ (C), Irvin _MacDowell_ (U) 3. Franklin Answer: John Bell _Hood_ (C), George _Thomas_ (U) 30 POINT BONUS 20. For the stated number of points, identify these straits, given the two land masses the separate. 1. 5 pts: Oman and Iran Answer: _Hormuz_ 2. 10 pts: Vancouver Island and Washington Answer: _Juan de Fuca_ 3. 15 pts: Corsica and Sardinia Answer: _ Bonuses facio_  --============_-1326003618==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; name="35"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="35" Packet #35 (Medium) (With contributions by various Chicago types) Toss-Ups 1. He is alleged to be the author of what is possibly the English language's first published children's book, a didactic story about a little girl whose virtue is rewarded with a complete set of footwear, causing her to run through the countryside screaming "Two shoes! Two shoes!". FTP, name this author of "Little Goody Two- Shoes," as well as the poem "The Deserted Village" and the play "She Stoops to Conquer". Answer: Oliver _Goldsmith_ 2. It was ruled by the Heraclian dynasty from 610 to 711, the Isaurian dynasty from 713 to 802, the Amorian dynasty from 820 to 867, the Macedonian dynasty from 867 to 1056, and the dynasty of the Comneni from 1081 to 1185. FTP, name this empire of the Eastern Mediterranean, whose last royal dynasty, the Palaeologi, was toppled in 1453. Answer: _Byzantine_ Empire 3. The majority of species within this genus of bacteria are non- pathogenic and harmless, but owing to the fact that it also contains the micro-organisms responsible for such diseases as diphtheria, bu Bonuses c plague, and tuberculosis, this term is often incorrectly used to denote any type of deadly bacteria. FTP, identify this genus of monerans characterized by their rod-like shapes. Answer: _bacillus_ 4. According to legend, this protege of pope Julius III attended the Council of Trent, where he persuaded the church not to declare polyphonic music blasphemous. A successful fur merchant as well as a composer, his work includes 93 traditional masses and several "parody" masses in which he experimented with new forms of harmony, but it is for his motets that he is best known today. FTP, name this master of Italian renaissance music, the oldest composer whose work is still regularly performed. Answer: Giovanni Pierluigi da _Palestrina_ 5. On the reverse-- diagrams of famous bridges and a flag, set against a silhouette of the continent. On the front-- a ring of stars and a pictures of architectural landmarks. FTP-- such is the (incredibly ugly) design of what new international currency, which fifteen countries plan to start using on January 1, 1999? Answer: The _Euro_ Note or Euro Mark 6. Andrei, the brother of the title characters, marries a woman whom they despise, then squanders the family fortune. Masha has an adulterous affair with Vershinin, while Irina becomes engaged to Tuzenbakh, who is killed in a duel. At the end of the play, the army regiment leaves town, ending the title characters' chances of getting married and moving to Moscow. FTP, name this Chekhov play about the women of the Prozorov family. Answer: _Three Sisters_ 7. Vosges, France, in 1493. Guadelupe, Mexico, in 1531. Paris in 1830. La Sallette in 1846. Lourdes in 1858. Knock, Ireland, in 1879. Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Beauraing, Belgium, in 1932.. FTP, these are among the more famous sightings of what celebrity, who last allegedly appeared near Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, in 1982? Answer: The Virgin _Mary_ 8. Also called a hemicrama, this type of paroxsysmal disorder afflicts females more than males and recurs at intervals from childhood until middle age. Often preceded by vertigo and fatigue, the attack itself usually begins around one eye and is characterized by a sense of blinding light, sharp pain, and wildly distorted vision, and usually results in a chill, drowsiness, and nausea. FTP, identify this unusually severe type of headache. Answer: _migrane_ 9. When he was implicated in a bribery scandal in 1620, he defended himself with the argument that his bribe-taking actually was proof of his superhuman honesty, since none of his decisions were affected by it. In spite of this, he lost his job as Lord Chancellor, and would never again hold an important government office. FTP, name this English lawyer, politician, and writer, who is best known for philosophical works such as _Novum Organum_. Answer: Francis _Bacon_ 10. Enter Baffin Bay through the Davis Strait, then take Lancaster Sound to the Prince Regent Inlet. From there cross through the Franklin Strait, the Victoria Strait, and the Dease Strait, after which it gets pretty simple: Amundsen Gulf to the Beaufort Sea through the Bering Strait to the Pacific. FTP, name this long sought-after but ultimately impractical nautical route, discovered by Amundsen in 1906. Answer: The _Northwest Passage_ 11. Written in 1937 and first performed in 1938, its characters include Jack Armstrong, Mentor Graham, Judge Bowling Green, Stephen A. Douglas, and Mary Todd. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1939, both the original Broadway production and the 1940 film adaptation starred Raymond Massey, who recieved an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the title role. FTP, name this most successful play by Robert Sherwood, which tells of the early years of the 16th president. Answer: _Abe Lincoln in Illinois_ 12. Although he inherited an aristocratic title and his family's ancestral estates of Schonhausen and Kniephof, he was never financially secure until his marriage to the wealthy Johanna von Puttkamer. Created Duke of Lauenburg upon his retirement, he spent the last seven years of his life on his estate in Pomerania, often criticizing his successor, Georg von Caprivi. FTP, name this statesman whose offices included Ambassador to Russia, Envoy to the Frankfurt Diet, Premier of Prussia, and, until 1891, Chancellor of the German Empire. Answer: Otto von _Bismarck_ 13. This process actually consists of two consecutive divisions: in the first, the homologous chromosomes of a cell become paired and exchange genetic material before moving away from each other and forming two daughter cells. In the second division, the two daughter cells each divide by regualar mitosis, so that the net result of the process is the production of four haploid reproductive cells. FTP, name this system of cell division. Answer: _Meiosis_ 14. As composers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gabriel Faure, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, and Johannes Brahms may not have much in common, but each has written an extended musical composition with a virtually identical titles and the same basic text. FTP, name this religious choral work whose customary movements include the Lacrimosa, the Lux Aeterna, the Rex Tremendae, and the Dies Irae. Answer: _Requiem_ 15. He had supporting roles in "Rio Bravo," "The Devil's Brigade," "The Caine Mutiny," "From Here to Eternity," and "How the West was Won," but was best known for his portrayal of Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo in the TV series "B.J. and the Bear." FTP, name this recently- deceased character actor and Aamco pitchman. Answer: Claude _Akins_ 16. One of three surviving Greek tragedies written on the same subject, this Eurpides work turns the traditional roles of hero and villain on their heads: the title character is hysterical, spoiled, and bloodthirsty, her brother is a sadistic coward, and the only sympathetic character is the usurper Aegisthus. FTP, name this tragedy about a woman who persuades her brother Orestes to murder their mother Clytaemnestra. Answer: _Electra_ 17. Sponsored by an Ohio Senator who never bothered to read it, its real author was Senator George Edmunds, who hoped that it would be used against organized labor. Not actually invoked until 1902, when it was used against the United Securities Company, its first effective use came in 1911, when the government broke the American Tobaco and Standard Oil monopolies. FTP, name this legislative act of 1890, later revised by the Clayton Act. Answer: the _Sherman Antitrust_ Act 18. It was first observed in 1827 by a botanist studying pollen samples, who theorized that it resulted from a vital force that somehow remained within the dead cells. FTP, what is this effect which causes miniscule particles to move around when suspended in fluid, whose true explanation helped win a Nobel Prize for Albert Einstein? Answer: _Brownian_ motion 19. Suppose you believe that God doesn't exist, and it turns that you're wrong. As soon as you die, God (being vengeful) punishes you horribly for your disbelief. On the other hand, suppose you believe that God does exist, and you're wrong. Nothing bad happens to you, since non-existent deities aren't vengeful. Therefore, you should believe in God, since it's much safer than not believing. FTP, name this argument for being religious, named for a French philosopher and mathematician. Answer: _Pascal's_ Wager 20. In their issue of October 2, 1995, they became the first newspaper anywhere to publish an interview with convicted child killer Susan Smith. Lest anyone think, however, that they were moving towards serious jouranlism, that same issue also included articles with titles like "Nazi Scientists cloned Hitler in 1989," "My naked husband always chases off my friends," and "I was raped by a space alien." FTP, name this supermarket weekly. Answer: _The Weekly World News_ John's Complete Packets Packet #35 (Medium) (With contributions by various Chicago types) Bonus Questions (UNBALANCED) 30 POINT BONUS 1. For ten points each, given a famous literary character, identify the story or novel in which they first appeared. 1. Sherlock Holmes Answer: _A Study in Scarlet_ 2. Natty Bumppo Answer: _The Pioneers_ 3. Svengali Answer: _Trilby_ 30 POINT BONUS 2. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about an eigteenth-century political figure. 1. For five points, name the English statesman whose writings include _A Vindication of Natural Society_ and _Reflections on the French Revolution_. Answer: Edmund _Burke_ 2. Towards the end of his life, when Burke was purged by his Whig faction, the crown attempted to give him a peerage for the House of Lords. For fifteen points, name the aristocratic title which Burke was offered but declined. Answer: Lord _Beaconsfield_ 3. Eighty years after Burke's death, the title of Lord Beaconsfield was dusted off and given to another prominent writer and politician. For a final ten points, name this Prime Minister. Answer: Benjamin _Disraeli_ 30 POINT BONUS 3. Are you sick of "connections" Bonuses yet? Neither are we. For ten points each, given a descriptions of two titles, give the hybrid title that would result by runing the two together. For example, if I gave you "An Aeschylus-inspired Eugene O'Neill trilogy, and a TV show about two female supereroes in the 1970s," you would respond, "Mourning Becomes Electra Woman and Dyna Girl." Ten points each. 1. A TV series starring Jack Albertson and Freddie Prinze, and a suspense film of which Alfred Hitchcock directed two versions. Answer: _Chico and the Man Who Knew Too Much_ 2. The best-known of Bedrich Smetana's operas, and a 1935 movie sequel starring Boris Karloff. Answer: _The Bartered Bride of Frankenstein_ 3. A 1973 grammy-winning song by Stevie Wonder, and a 1985 film directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Answer: _You are the Sunshine of my Life as a Dog_ 30 POINT BONUS 4. Most autobiograpies have rather dull titles, along the lines of "John Sheahan: an Autobiography," or, at best, "John Sheahan: My Life, Thoughts, and many Invaluable Contributions to the Human Condition." Thankfully, not all autobiographers are this uncreative. Given the title of an autobiography, then, name the author, for ten points each. 1. "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" Answer: Thomas _De Quincey_ 2. "Apologia pro Vita Sua" Answer: John, Cardinal _Newman_ 3. "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners." Answer: John _Bunyan_ 30 POINT BONUS 5. For the stated number of points, identify these civil war battles fought in the year 1862. 1. 5 pts: Fought on September 17, this battle was the bloodiest single day of the war. Answer: _Antietam_ 2. 15 pts: Fought on October 8, this battle between the armies of Don Carlos Buell and Braxton Bragg ended the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. Answer: _Perryville_ 3. 10 pts: In this December 13 battle, the Army of the Potomac under Ambrose Burnside made thirteen suicidal charges against Robert E. Lee's fortifications, then retreated across the Rappahannock. Answer: _Fredericksburg_ 30 POINT BONUS 6. Write down the following units of British currency: Pound, Penny, Guinea, Shilling, Crown, Farthing. Now, for five points each, and disregarding the fact that several of these are no longer in use, place these units in order from least to most valuable. Answer: farthing, penny, shilling, crown, pound, guinea 30 POINT BONUS 7. Identify the author from his works, 30-20-10. 1. "The Inheritors," "Rites of Passage." 2. "The Paper Men," "Pincher Martin." 3. "The Lord of the Flies." Answer: William _Golding_ 30 POINT BONUS 8. On May 5, 1864 Grant crossed the Rappahannock river and launched his invasion of Virginia, a campaign that ground to a halt forty days later with the siege of Petersburg. Not counting the cavalry battle at Yellow Tavern and a skirmish at North Anna, the armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia fought three major battles during those forty days. For ten points each, name these battles. Answer: _Wilderness_, _Spotsylvania_ Courthouse, _Cold Harbor_ 30 POINT BONUS 9. UCLA succeeded itself as the champions of the NCAA men's basketball tournament seven times. Only five other schools ever managed to defend their titles even once. For five points each and a five-point bonus for all five, name these other back-to-back NCAA champions. Answer: _Oklahoma A&M_ (accept Oklahoma State), _Kentucky_, _San Francisco_, _Cincinnati_, _Duke_ 30 POINT BONUS 10. Given a short description, name the Eugene O'Neill play, for ten points each. 1. A stream-of-conciousness play in nine acts, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 and features the emotional and sexual struggles of Nina Leeds. Answer: _Strange Interlude_ 2. This play includes the characters Ephraim Cabot and his new young wife Abbie, who seduces Ephraim's youngest son Eben. Answer: _Desire Under the Elms_ 3. This 1931 trilogy is based on the "Oresteia" of Aeschylus, and is set in Puritan New England. Answer: _Mourning Becomes Electra_ 25 POINT BONUS 11. When they weren't plotting the overthrow of capitalist society, Russia's Bolshevik revolutionaries like to pass the time by thinking up cool pseudonyms for themselves. For five points each, given a translation or source of their names, identify the revolutionary celebrities. 1. "Man of Steel." Answer: Josef _Stalin_ 2. "Man of Stone" Answer: Lev _Kamenev_ 3. "The Hammer" Answer: Vyacheslav _Molotov_ 4. After the last name of one of his jailers. Answer: Lev _Trotsky_ 5. After the long Siberian river along whose banks he was exiled from 1897 to 1900. Answer: Vladimir _Lenin_ 30 POINT BONUS 12. Given a list of movies, name the actor or actress who appeared in all of them. 10 points each. 1. "The Lion in Winter," "The Elephant Man," "Silence of the Lambs." Answer: Anthony _Hopkins_ 2. "Casablanca," "Mr. Moto's Last Warning." "Arsenic and Old Lace." Answer: Peter _Lorre_ 3. "Repulsion," "The Last Metro," "Indochine" Answer: Catherine _Deneuve_ 30 POINT BONUS 13. Can you keep those pesky World War I poets apart in your mind? Let's find out, for ten points each. 1. Killed one week before the Armistice, he wrote "Dulce et Decorum Est" and the lines "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is the Pity." Answer: Wilfred _Owen_ 2. This man encouraged Wilfred Owen to write, while both were patients in the same military hospital. He lived to publish "Counter-Attack and other Poems" and "The Memoirs of George Sherston". Answer: Siegfried _Sassoon_ 3. This man died of septicaemia while in the service in 1915. He wrote the series of sonnets "1914" and the works "Heaven" and "Dust". Answer: Rupert _Brooke_ 30 POINT BONUS 14. For ten points each, given a third-party presidential candidate and a year, name that candidate's running mate. 1. Ross Perot, 1992. Answer: James _Stockdale_ 2. George Wallace, 1968 Answer: Curtis _LeMay_ 3. Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 Answer: Hiram _Johnson_ 30 POINT BONUS 15. By the year 2004, Europe will have hosted the summer olympics fifteen times, the United States will have hosted it four times, and the rest of the world only six times. For five points each, name these six non-European, non-U.S. cities that have hosted or will host the summer games. Answer: _Melbourne_, _Tokyo_, _Mexico City_, _Montreal_, _Seoul_, _Sydney_ 30 POINT BONUS 16. For the stated number of points, given the premise and the author, identify these similarly-themed works of European literature. 1. 5 pts: Three young men and seven young ladies retreat to the country and tell stories for ten days. The author is Giovanni Boccaccio. Answer: _The Decameron_ 2. 10 pts: A group of young men and ladies stop at a flooded river and exchange 72 stories. The author is Marguerite of Navarre. Answer: _The Heptameron_ 3. 15 pts: Four old men, four old women, eight young men, four young women, sixteen boys, and sixteen girls retreat to the country and exchange pornographic stories for approximately four months, taking occasional breaks to rape and murder each other in various nasty ways. The author is the Marquis de Sade. Answer: _The 120 Days of Sodom_ 30 POINT BONUS 17. For ten points each, identify these terrorist groups of recent European history. 1. Also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, this West German group disintegrated after the fall of their East German patrons in 1989. Answer: The _Red Army Faction_ 2. This Italian group is best known for the 1978 kidnapping and murder of Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Answer: The _Red Brigade_ 3. Since 1968, this group has engaged in guerilla warfare against Spain in an attempt to win Basque independence. Answer: _E_uskadi _T_a _A_skatasuna (ETA) 30 POINT BONUS 18. Name the year, 30-20-10. 1. The Bayreuth Festival is innaugurated with the first-ever complete performance of Wagner's "Ring" cycle. 2. The National League is founded, and Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. 3. A world's fair and exhibition are held in Philadelphia. In Montana, George Custer is killed with his entire cavalry column at the battle of Little Big Horn. Answer: _1876_ 30 POINT BONUS 19. For ten points each, identify these secession-minded places in Africa. 1. As of 1995, it is the only African country to achieve independence from another African country, as opposed to a European colonial power. Answer: _Eritrea_ 2. In 1967, the minority Ibo tribe declared the independence of this eastern province of Nigeria. The secessionists were eventually defeated, but only after a brutal three-year war. Answer: _Biafra_ 3. Now known as Shaba, this oil-rich province tried to secede when the Belgian Congo was given its independence. This led to a political crisis which resulted in the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko. Answer: _Katanga_ 30 POINT BONUS 20. Time now to remember those idealistic, exciting days of the 1980s. For ten points each, identify the following from that magical decade. 1. This actress played the old lady who kept on screaming "Where's the Beef?" in a series of Wendy's commercials. Answer: Clara _Peller_ 2. 1983 saw riots break out in toy stores as frantic parents tried to get a hold of this doll, invented by Xavier Roberts. Answer: _Cabbage Patch_ Kids 3. When the media discovered him in 1987, this New Jersey man had not left his bedroom in seventeen years, and was estimated to weigh over a thousand pounds. After a well-publicized crash diet in which he lost 500 of those pounds, he gained everything back and died shortly afterwards of the flu. Answer: Walter _Hudson_