Questions for Penn Bowl VII for Pitt B (History TU) 1. Militia under this man were so successful during the War of 1812 that the American Military Academy at West Point adopted militia-like uniforms for its cadets in his honor. Serving in wars from 1812 through 1861, he fought his way through the ranks from lieutenant all the way through general of the army. FTP, name this American soldier best know for his leadership during the Mexican War and the Anaconda Plan he developed at the beginning of the Civil War. A: Winfield _Scott_ (Current Events TU) 2. A resident at 10 Downing Street for over 8 years, he served during the administrations of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair. His recent disappearance sparked speculation that he had be done away with by the Blairs, well know haters of his type. FTP, name this mouser, the most well known cat in all of Great Britain. A: _Humphrey_ (Pop Culture TU) 3. Mike works at a software development firm, Mark works for National Public Radio, and Lacy is currently suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Mike’s wife ran off with an old flame a couple of years ago but he’s now remarried and living in Seattle. FTP, identify this comic strip whose minor characters have included Mr. Butts and the Hunter S. Thompson-esque Duke, and which has been drawn for over 25 years by Garry Trudeau. A: _Doonesbury_ (Sci. TU) 4. This organic compound that includes sodium, oxygen, and sulfur, was originally used as an anesthetic. Correctly named thiopental sodium, it has shown up in spy movies such as _Jumpin' Jack Flash_ and _True Lies_. FTP, give its common name of this chemical, which allegedly works as a truth serum. A: _sodium pentathol_ (accept: _Thiopental_ sodium before it appears) (Religion TU) 5. The first known Germanic skald, or wandering minstrel, shared this name, leading to speculation that this god and that poet were one and the same. A son of Odin and the giantess Gunlod, he held the position of the chief poet of Odin and many considered him to be the god of poetry. FTP, identify this Norse god who was married to the goddess of spring or rejuvenation Idun. A: Bragi (Lit/Phi TU) 6. A native of Bloemfontein, South Africa, this writer’s Unfinished Tales appeared in 1980, edited by his son Christopher. A professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature at Oxford and a veteran of the First World War, he wrote such stories as "Leaf, by Niggle," and "The Book of Lost Tales." Name this close friend of C.S. Lewis, FTP, who was best known for his own children's books, such as "The Hobbit?" A: John Ronald Reuel _Tolkien_ (Hist TU) 7. They appeared late in the Muromachi period and continued to wander through the Tokugawa shogunate. Unlike ninja, who had never possessed wealth or high rank, this class consisted of samurai who lost their noble patronage, and traveled, casteless, often hiring themselves out as mercenaries. FTP, who were these maverick warriors, whose name meant "wave men," and whose “loyal 47” are the subject of a classical Kabuki play cycle. A: ronin (prompt on: “samurai” until it appears) (Fine Art TU) 8. Originally working as a jewelry case manufacturer in New York City, and later studying under Samuel F.B. Morse, this man later opened a studio in Washington D.C. in 1856. Here he did pictures of politicians and dignitaries until the Civil War caught his attention. FTP, identify this photographer made famous by his scenes of battlefield carnage. A: Matthew _Brady_ (sci TU) 9. Pilons, kaons, sigma particles, protons, and neutrons are all included in this category of matter. Each member reacts through strong nuclear and electromagnetic forces. FTP name this class of subatomic particles which are composed of quarks. A: hadrons (Lit TU) 10. When used by Algernon, it is a perfect excuse to get out of one of the many useless social engagements of nineteenth century upper-class English life. It comes from the name of a non-existent, permanently ill character. FTP name this term that appears frequently in Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Ernest." A: _Bunbury_ing (Relig TU) 11. She claimed to have been transported in a vision back to the Garden of Eden and to have witnessed the first act of intercourse between Adam and Eve. After concluding that that was where the trouble leading to original sin had started, she founded an American religious sect where men and women ate apart, worshiped apart, and were forbidden sexual contact. FTP points name this woman who founded the Shakers? A: “Mother” Ann _Lee_ (History TU) 12. When her first husband died, she was the wealthiest woman in Virginia. She never had any children of her own, but after a courtship of only ten months she married her famous second husband, who adopted her first husband's four children. FTP, identify this eighteenth century woman who is the only first lady ever to have appeared on U.S. dollar currency. A: _M_artha _Washington_ (Geog TU) 13. Originally settled by Arab colonists, this city was controlled by Portugal until it was occupied by the sultan of Zanzibar. Italy purchased it in 1905 and made it the capital of the colony. FTP give the name of this city in which the U.S. intervened to alleviate gang warfare and mass starvation in the early 1990s. A: _Mogadishu_ (accept: _Muq’Dishu_) (Misc TU) 14. The Sierra Club has condemned this type of vehicle for contributing to the deaths of innocent men, women, and children. This vehicle class has become popular in recent years among yuppies and urbanites FTP name this type of vehicle represented by autos such as Explorers and Broncos. A: _S_port _U_tility _V_ehicles (pop cult TU) 15. In the Boy Scoutz in the Hood episode of The Simpsons, Ernest Borgnine introduces himself as from this film, in which he played “Fatso”. Set in Scoffield Barracks in Hawaii in 1941, it tells the story of a young bugler named Robert E. Lee “Prew” Prewitt. FTP identify this motion picture which garnered a Best Picture Oscar in 1953 and which starred such greats as Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra. A: _From Here To Eternity_ (SS TU) 16. This semi-creole language has about two million speakers. Stabilized in 1880 from a jargon deriving from Samoan Plantation pidgin English, it now has two very observable dialects: urban and rural. FTP, name this official language of Papua New Guinea whose English name is Talk Pidgin. A: Tok Pisin (Art TU) 17. His paintings set a new course for avant-garde painting of the nineteenth century. Emile Zola said of him, "his whole being causes him to see things in splotches, in simple forceful pieces." The public, however, was either shocked by the lack of modeling in his female nudes and disturbed by his large brushstrokes, or called his subject matter mundane. FTP name this pre-impressionist painter who is known for Dejuner Sur L'herbe—a.k.a. The Picnic. A: Eduoard _Manet_ (Science TU) 18. It is an aggregation of flat or curved and hollow dislike structures containing secreted products. It is named for the physician who devised the silver nitrate method of staining nerve tissue, and it provides the name of a song by the band Phish FTP name this organelle also called a dictyosome. A: _Golgi Apparatus_ (also accept _Golgi body_, or dictyosome before “named for”) (Hist TU) 19. In 1879 he attended a parochial school in Hawaii, where he became interested in Western thought. He moved to Hong Kong, receiving a diploma in 1892 from a medical school. In 1905 he organized the T’ung Meng Hui, and his longest term as President of China began 16 years later, in 1921. FTP name this revolutionary. A: _Sun_ Yat-Sen (Geog TU) 20. It is characterized by gullies, steep ridges, and sparse vegetation. Named by American Indians and fur trappers who found the area difficult to cross, this area's name is also a topographic term. FTP, what is the ominous name of this area of South West South Dakota. A: The _Badlands_ (Art TU) 21. The paintings of this genre are often crowded with nude figures whose varied poses present a style of highly artificial composition and spatial effects. The colors are often bright but the light is soft. Not intending to appeal to a mass audience, the artists attempted to present subtle intellectual complexities. FTP name this mid-sixteenth century painting and sculpture genre of which Il Bronzino and Benvenuto Cellini are a part. A: _Mannerism_ (accept: manierismo) (CE TU) 22. The first man to cross both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans by balloon, he later went on to set the world balloon endurance record in 1997, while flying the Solo Spirit. FTP, name this aeronaut whose second attempt at an around-the-world flight ended in failure when he landed in Novokiporovskaya (no-vo-KEY-por-oav-SKY-uh) Russia on January 5, 1998. A: Steve _Fossett_ (Religion TU) 23. She is referred to in literature as the personification of the sacred river that bears her name. Also given credit for Sanskrit, she is worshiped annually by Hindus during the Hindu spring. FTP identify this goddess of learning and arts who also appears in Buddhist and Jaina mythology. A: Sarasvati (lit/phil TU) 24. The scenes of this 1975 novel include Little Roundtop, Big Roundtop, and Pickett’s Charge. Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain are among the major characters used by author Michael Shaara. FTP, this Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War novel which served as the basis for the movie Gettysburg. A: The _Killer Angels_ (Misc TU) 25. An impish child, the expanded tip of a petal, a circle used in an instrument to measure angles, and an extension of a living thing. FTP give the four-letter word that matches these short definitions, and which most commonly refers to a leg, an arm, or a branch. A: limb (Sci TU) 26. In the 1870s he invented a device with which to measure the forces involved in Priestly’s Law. He also researched friction in machines and windmills. However, he is best known for his electrical theories, considered analogous to Newton’s gravitational theories. FTP name this 18th century French physicist, the creator of the Inverse Square Law, after whom the SI unit of charge is named. A: Charles-Augustin de _Coulomb_ (SS TU) 27. Generally attributed to Ragnar Frisch, who also founded its Society, this field of analysis broadened during the 1950s when Lawrence Klien applied Keynesian principles to it. FTP, give the name of this field of economics that expresses theory in terms of mathematical relationships. A: Econometrics (Pop cult TU) 28. One of Branch Rickey’s rare mistakes was not upping his offer to this catcher and sometimes outfielder by $250 in 1942. This man went on to manage two different New York teams to the World Series, and the most famous picture of him shows him looking over the left-field fence in Forbes Field at Bill Mazeroski’s 1960 Game 7 home run. FTP name this Hall-of-Fame catcher, 1951 American League MVP, and purveyor of many a pithy quote. A: Lawrence “Yogi” _Berra_ (Lit TU) 29. In addition to "poet," this man's occupations included pirate and shady businessman. He began writing poetry when he was fifteen years old, and no poems written after he was nineteen are known of. In 1873 he was shot in a drunken brawl by his sometimes friend and mentor Verlaine. He didn't die, however, until 18 years later after a poorly performed amputation of his leg. FTP name this French poet who inspired the symbolists and wrote "Le Bateau Ivre"--"The Drunken Boat." A: Arthur _Rimbaud_ (Arts TU) 30. This Russian composer served as an officer in the Imperial Guard until 1858, and held a clerical position with the Czarist government. His rejection of European standards greatly influenced other composers, and after his death, most of his work was edited by Rimsky-Korsakov. FTP, name the creator of the operas Khovanschina and Boris Gudonov, as well as A Night on Bald Mountain. A: Modest Petrovich _Mussorgsky_ Boni (Lit bonus) 1. FTP each, name the philosopher from their work. a. Human Emotion b. Representative Government c. The Reasonableness of Christianity A: a. Jean-Paul _Sartre_ b. John Stuart _Mill_ c. John _Locke_ (Misc bonus) 2. How up are you on your coffee knowledge? FTP apiece, identify these baristia coffee drinks. a. It differs from cappuccino in that its milk is added to the coffee as opposed to having milk foam on top. b. It is espresso that has hot water added after the coffee has been steeped. c. This sludge-like beverage is basically espresso, but steeped with half as much water. A: a. coffee _latte_ b. espresso _lungo_ (also accept: _americano_) c. _ristretto_ (History bonus) 3. In 1863 Jules Verne published Around the World in Eighty Days. FTP each: a. What American reporter was the first person to attempt to go around the world in less time? b. For what paper did Bly write. c. Within one day, how long did it take Bly to complete her journey? A: a. Nellie _Bly_ (accept: Elizabeth _Cochran_) b. The New York _World_ c. 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes (accept: 71 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes—73 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes) (Religion Bonus) 4. Kings is one of several Biblical book titles of which there are exactly 2. F5P each name the other 6 titles of which there area exactly 2. A: Samuel, Chronicles, Corinthians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Peter (Art bonus) 5. FTP each, identify the artist from his or her quote. a. "For my part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it, but to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" b. "The thing that interests me today is that painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside themselves. Modern painters work in a different way. They work from within." c. "I didn't want a static object that people would just look at, but something they could relate to as a journey, or passage, that would bring each to his own conclusion. A: a. Vincent _van Gogh_ b. Jackson _Pollock_ c. Maya _Lin_ (CE bonus) 6. Microsoft is currently involved in three major lawsuits. a. First, F5P each, identify the three plaintiffs in these suits. b. Now, F5P, what fine per day is the Department of Justice pursuing if Microsoft is found to be in contempt of the 1995 consent decree. c. And F5P apiece, what are the two Java technologies that Sun says Microsoft refuses to implement, violating the Java license. A: a. U.S. _Department of Justice_ (prompt on U.S.), _Sun_ Microsystems Inc., _Caldera_ Inc. b. $1 million c. _J_ava _N_ative _I_nterface and _R_emote _M_ethod _I_nvocation (Geog bonus) 7. FTP apiece, give the names of these New York mountain ranges from their description. (Moderator: do not give answers progressively) a. Good skiing is found in these mountains just north of the Poconos in downstate New York. b. Just across the Hudson from the Catskills is this range which has a major commuter parkway named for it. c. In Northern New York is this range, composed mostly of pre-Cambrian rock and containing New York’s highest point. A: a. _Catskill_s b. _Taconic_s c. Adirondack_s_ (pop culture bonus) 8. For the given point total, name the alternative band whose album is named. a. F5P, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness b. FTP, Under the Table and Dreaming c. F15P, When I Woke A: a. _Smashing Pumpkins_ b. _Dave Matthews Band_ c. _Rusted Root_ (SS Bonus) 9. Identify these psychology methods of evaluation, FTP each. a. The method used by Carl Rogers to measure actual and ideal selves using 100 cards inscribed with certain personality characteristics that the subject has to place into personal categories ranging from extremely uncharacteristic to extremely characteristic. b. A test developed by Raymond Catell that evaluates a person's personality in terms of 16 factors. c. A self report scale that is supposed to measure stress by tabulating the life events experienced by a person. A: a. _Q-sort_ b. _16 Personality Factor_ c. _S_ocial _R_eadjustment _R_ating _S_cale (Art Bonus) 10. Identify the Renaissance artist given a work, FTP each. a. Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga b. The Tempest c. The Penitent Magdalene A: a. Andrea _Mantegna_ b. Giorgione (accept: Giorgio da Castelfranco or Giorgio Barbarelli c. _Donatello_ (Lit Bonus) 11. "Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." From this first line name, FTP apiece: a. The novel in which this first line appears b. its author c. the fictional town in which this novel takes place A: a. _One Hundred Years of Solitude_ b. Gabriel _Garcia Marquez_ c. _Macondo_ (Sci. bonus) 12. Computer programs generally relate data into structures for ease of manipulation. FTP apiece, give the common name for the structure from its description. a. A recursive structure that is either nothing, or a piece of data attached to two references to other structures with this definition, which requires roughly the log-base-2 of the number of data in the structure to access any single datum. b. A linked list of similar elements which are inserted in order of their assigned priority and removed from first to last, possibly used to schedule processes. c. A collection of data that have a similar radix, used for hashing and for radix sorts. A: a. _binary tree_ (prompt on: tree) b. _priority queue_ (prompt on: queue) c. _bucket_ (Sci Bonus) 13. FTP each name these physical principles from the definitions a. Pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished to every portion of the fluid and to the walls of the containing vessel. b. A body wholly or partially immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal in magnitude to the fluid displaced by the body. c. The distribution of fermions is restricted to one fermion per state of motion. A: a. _Pascal's_ Principle. b. _Archimedes'_ principle. c. _Pauli exclusion_ principle. (History Bonus) 14. 30-20-10 Identify this ancient Greek figure. 30. He was the eldest of the three generals who led the Athenian campaign against Sicily in 415 BCE. 20. A 421 BCE Athenian-Spartan peace treaty bears his name. 10. His name is derived from that of the Greek winged goddess of victory, now better known as a shoe brand. A: _Niceus_ (Fine Arts bonus) 15. Identify these features of traditional Islamic architecture for the stated number of points. a. F5P, its secular purpose is as a boundary marker, and its religious purpose is as a tower from which the call to prayer is issued. b. FTP, this niche in a mosque is reserved for the imam and points toward Mecca. c. F15P, the Seljuks and Safavids of Iran use an alternate mosque design, the defining feature of which is four of these vaulted hallways leading into a central courtyard. A: a. _minaret_s b. _mihrab_ c. _eyvan_s (pop culture bonus) 16. With Marv Levy’s retirement, only four NFL head coaches were left with more than 5 years of service to their current team. Marty Schottenheimer, with 9 years as Chiefs chief, had the longest tenure of them. FTP each name the other three coaches, each of whom finished the 1997-98 season with 6 years as their team’s coach. A: Bill _Cowher_, Mike _Holmgren_, Dennis _Green_ (misc bonus) 17. Dieting may be one of America’s national obsessions. It’s on the air, it’s in the papers, it’s a question at this tournament. So, with all that health rhetoric flying around, how much to you really know about diet in America? Answer these questions, FTP each. a. Within 3%, what percentage of American women are trying to diet at any given instant? b. Within 3%, what percent of Americans are considered overweight? c. Finally, within a billion dollars and according to the most recent census, how much money do Americans spend of dieting per year? A: a. 50% (accept: 47-53%) b. 75% (accept 72-78%) c. $30.2 billion (accept 29.2-31.2 billion) (Soc Sci bonus) 18. Procedures work differently at the Supreme Court than at many other courts around the nation. Answer these questions regarding the court. a. F5P, in addition to issuing a verdict in a case, what else does the court issue? b. FTP, what is an opinion called if 5 justices cannot reach a consensus? c. F15P, what legal writ does the court issue to take a case from a lower court? A: a. an _opinion_ b. _plurality_ c. _certiorari_ (science bonus) 19. For 5 points each, with an additional 5 for all correct, put the following elements in order of most common to least common, as they appear in the Earth's crust: potassium, calcium, silicon, oxygen, and iron. A: oxygen, silicon, iron, calcium, potassium (Lit/Phi Bonus) 20. 30-20-10, identify the playwright. 30 - Choephori, The Eumenides 20 - The Persians, The Suppliant Women 10 - Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes A: Aeschylus (Hist bonus) 21. 30-20-10, what city is described by the following clues? 30. Ptolemy noted a city on its site 700 years before the Vikings founded a city here in 831 AD, across the river from the native city. 20. It was founded at convergence of four of its country’s five major roads, at a spot whose name translates as "The Town of the Ford of the Hurdle". 10. In 1916, a five year period of revolution began here as the people strove to throw off British rule. A: _Dublin_ (Relig bonus) 22. Identify these rulers who make a cameo appearance in the Old Testament for the given point totals. a. F5P, in 597 B.C. this Neo-Babylonian ruler captured Jerusalem, sending the Jews in exile. b. FTP, this Persian king was persuaded by one of his wives, Esther, to retract an order on the general annihilation of the Jews. c. F15P, he was the pharaoh who caused Moses so much grief by refusing to let his people go. A: a. _Nebuchadrezzar_ II (accept: Nebuchadnezzar) b. Ahasuerus (accept: _Xerxes_ I) c. _Ramses_ II (accept: Ramses the Great) (Pop culture bonus) 23. For 30-20-10, identify the film. 30. Loosely based on the book of the same name it follows the hallucinogenic adventures of William Lee. 20. Some of its strangest characters include Mugwumps and typewriter bugs. 10. It is based on a book by William S. Burroughs. A: _Naked Lunch_ (CE Bonus) 24. California passed a number of controversial propositions in recent years. How familiar are you with them? a. F5P, what proposition opposed affirmative action by banning discrimination on the basis of race? b. FTP, what proposition discontinued public service to illegal immigrants? c. Ron Unz, a Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, is bankrolling an initiative drive similar to the previous two for the November 1998 ballot. F15P, what does this initiative oppose? A: a. Proposition _209_ b. Proposition _187_ c. _bilingual education_ in public schools (Geog Bonus) 25. Russia and Iran are two of the 5 countries which border on the Caspian Sea. FTP apiece, name the other three. A: Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan (Sci Bonus) 26. 30-20-10 Name the animal 30. It is the only currently living species of the lobe-finned fish. 20. This deep-sea fish is known to haunt the waters between Mozambique and Madagascar. 10. Long thought extinct, one of these was caught by a South African Fisherman in 1938. A: Coelacanth (SEEL-o-canth, but no points off for mispronunciation) (Religion Bonus) 27. 30-20-10, name the deity. 30: This Babylonian deity was largely the equivalent of the Sumarian god Enlil. 20: Supposedly the king of the Pantheon, this patron god of the city of Babylon rose to prominence during the reign of Hammurabi. 10: He led the host of younger Gods to defeat the dragon queen Tiamat. A: Morduck (or Marduk) (Lit/Phil Bonus) 28. Historical nonfiction seems to be all the rage in publishing these days. How well do you know this growing field? FTP apiece, answer these questions regarding a current work of historical nonfiction. a. Sebastian Junger has gained acclaim for this 1997 book about Atlantic fishermen. b. What type of fish do the sailors in this book catch? c. What is the name of the ship on which the book focuses? A: a. The _Perfect Storm_ b. _swordfish_ c. _Andrea Gail_ (Art Bonus) 29. 30-20-10, name the composer. 30. He was an organist who taught at the Schola Cantorum and the Ecole normale de Musique in 1931. 20. His music is often based on original scale formulas, his Asian music studies, and bird songs. 10. In 1992 his "Eclairs sur l'au dela" was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra to celebrate its 150th anniversary. A: Oliver _Messian_ (history bonus) 30. As far as court cases go, this was not one of the most exciting in American history, though it was one of the most important. Taking place in 1803, this case the participants in this case were a disgruntled civil servant and a cabinet official. a. F5P, identify this legal decision b. FTP, to what position had William Marbury been appointed? c. F15P, around what type of legal writ was the case focused? A: a. _Marbury_ v. Madison b. _justice of the peace_ in Washington D.C. (also accept: _magistrate_) c. writ of _mandamus_